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Lets return to our top story fears of an iranian attack on israel. The white house says its a real and viable threat, and that theyre watching as closely as they can. Earlier today, a us official told our broadcast partner cbs that strikes could start as early as today although nothing is certain and other outcomes are possible. We can talk to the director of the middle east security initiative. Welcome to the programme. In terms of what we have heard from that us official, what is your take on this . It sounds on the surface, on the face of it, quite concerning, quite alarming . Face of it, quite concerning, quite alarmina . ~ face of it, quite concerning, quite alarmina . , ~ , face of it, quite concerning, quite alarmina . ~ , face of it, quite concerning, quite alarmina . ~. , alarming . Thank you so much for havin alarming . Thank you so much for having me alarming . Thank you so much for having me. Yes, alarming . Thank you so much for having me. Yes, i alarming . Thank you so m ....
in gaza says at least 50 people were killed including women and children. the israel defense forces confirmed it targeted a hamas compound in the area. in its most recent statement, the idf said it killed two senior hamas commanders. in an earlier statement, it said: the us state department says it is aware of the reports and is gathering more information. earlier on sunday, hamas launched a missile attack on israel for the first time in months. the israeli military said at least eight rockets were launched from the rafah area towards tel aviv. all the projectiles were either intercepted by air defence systems or fell in fields. meanwhile, our partner cbs news is reporting that us diplomatic efforts to broker a deal to release hostages held in gaza by hamas and other allied groups are expected to continue soon. negotiators from qatar, egypt and the united states will be part of the talks. cia director william burns last week travelled to paris to revive talks after ne ....
Floating this notion that if bob mueller tread too closely, that he might go ahead and fire him too because he already fired the fbi director and maybe he would risk it. so where we really we were stunned yesterday because the president once again sort of bucked the advice that any lawyer would give him and gave this. so i would not rule out that trump is seriously are considering firing mueller. on sessions, it seems me interesting. it s almost as if he wanted to back sessions into a corner and see if he could get sessions to quit. yeah. rather than being forced to fire him. yaul. and we ll see what happens with that and whether or not he s going to feel like he s going to have to do that at some point. though today he said not. daniel la, take a listen i want to talk about the political aspects of this and how republicans are reacting. take a listen to orrin hatch a little bit earlier today. what s your reaction to that? i mean, he says the fbi director basically works ....
And that s going to require our institutions of government, whether it s the mueller investigation now, whether it is the committee chairs and how they operate with the minorities in this congress, principle and the rule of law and setting kind of norms and ethical standards for how these issues are approached, that tone can t be set by this president because we ve seen that these issues don t matter for him. none of these issues that we re saying cross red lines for the broad public of the united states seem not to cross red lines for him, but they scream out when it comes to the form of democracy we have and we re seeing a fundamental test of the system of checks and balances that the founding fathers built into the creation of this country and how our governance system is going to work. so i think we re at a point where now really you re going to have to begin to see the other institutions of government establish and impose norms on this white house and contain ....