Coverage. America reports thank you for joining us. Im sandra smith in new york. John im john roberts. The story starts right now with martha picking up the coverage. Martha . Martha thanks very much. Good afternoon. Im martha maccallum. Were going to go live to tel aviv in just a moment with israeli Prime Minister netanyahu to get new information on this developing scene. You can see the pictures that have just come in from gaza city and the city where they believe an israeli air strike struck a hospital. Theres a lot of questions about how all of this happened. The Israeli Military says hospitals are highly sensitive buildings and are not idf targets. General petraeus who commanded our troops in iraq and afghanistan will be with us in moments. First, we go to Senior Correspondent mike tobin live in israel with the very latest. Hi, mike. Martha, this development at the hospital in gaza city is taking all the attention right now. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says the civilian casual
Democrats have a two to one advantage that you should ever, if you re the governor of the state, have such a close election. and house seats lost through all sorts of redistricting. it s not worth getting into here. but kept us busy all year. but i think the democrats really have some real dysfunction in new york and many other places. so, you know, matt dowd, you coined the great phrase that i carry into my personal life as well, overreading the mandate, right? something good happens and, hey, guys, don t overread the mandate. what are your concerns in that category? i think the democrats have to understand, if i were advising any democrat today, i would be, practice some humility in this moment, be humble in this moment, understand what this moment meant. this was not an ideological
joins us now live, congressman king, the would be suicide bomber is actually a double agent. what can you tell us about it and about him? i m in a position, i really can t tell you very much at all. i ve been briefed on this and as far as i know this has not been in any way declassified the cia. this could interfire with operations overseas. i really cannot comment on any of those details. i know it s out there, i know it s being reported and i also was had a briefing this afternoon with top officials and there s a really great concern that this got out. this is my understanding that a major investigation is going to be launched because of this. are there any new details that you can say? i don t believe so, anderson. i late to do this to you, i mean yet i did say to you that i was told and i could say yesterday that the bomber, the alleged bomber was no longer of any concern to us and now i guess a different interpretation can be put on that and everyone was reading in
extraordinary details have already been leaked out to a number of publications. the new york times reports the bomb itself was sewn into underwear so that it would have been difficult to detect. even in a patdown. undoubtedly could have brought down a plane according to a senior american official. the congressman peter king of new york is the chairman of the committee and again, there s a lot that cannot be discussed so we re leaving it up to the experts to tell us what they can. congressman king, the would be bomber is a double agent. what can you tell us about him? i can t tell you very much at all. i have been briefed on this and this is not declassified by the cia or the administration. it s really to me unfortunate that this has gotten out because this could interfere with operations overseas. i m sorry to do this i can t comment on any of the details. i know what s out there. i know it s being reported. i also was at a briefing this afternoon with top officials. the