Terrorist attacks. Dont go anywhere. Cnn this morning starts right now. Hello, everyone. Were glad youre with us. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. Erin burnett joins us live in israel. Its 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. 1 00 p. M. In tel vooe, where Secretary Of State Antony Blinken is on the ground now as the war between israel and hamas intensifies. Were expecting to hear from him shortly. Hes meeting oneonone with the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as airstrikes continue to gaza. Hostages are still being held captive this morning. This is what it looks like in gaza city right now. Israel is now vowing to keep power, water and fuel cut off to the gaza strip until hamas releases hostages. The International Committee of the red cross is sounding the alarm saying hospitals will turn into morgues with cancer patients, babies in incubators and elderly at serious risk. There are hundreds of thousands of troops massing near the border with tanks and artillery as th
over them. i look at government, government you look at the constitution. our government is supposed to be limited. the constitution was set up all kinds of checks and balances specific powers given to this branch and other branch. and then we have the bill of rights that protects individual and ninth amendment that is really a short restatement of the declaration. you have the 10th amendment that talk about federalism. the whole system is set up to protect the individual. the whole system is set up recognizing that there s a circle of liberty around the individual that the government cannot penetrate that the government is citizens. now i look at the government today citizen jason whit lock massive taxes massive spending, massive controlling, massive redistribution, massive transforming, rewarding certain citizens, punishing certain citizens, but the political parties in my view particularly the democrat party gaining power, holding power, expanding power, trying to penetrat
A look at the days top news and headlines. Because under the guidelines, the Department Of Justice believes you cannot charge a sitting president with a crime. But the talk around here these days is of impeachment. If democrats were to flip 24 seats in november, which is a possibility, they would then control the house and it is the house that would begin impeachment proceedings. Even if the president were impeached, a conviction in the senate is unlikely, that would take a twothirds vote. Nobody could see that many republicans defecting to try to take down the president. Dana also its never happened in americas history. John, thank you. For more, lets bring in james trusty, former d. O. A. Prosecutor. Lets start with what the president told ainslie earhart, if he was paying the money himself that could not have been a campaign violation. What do you make of that . Well im not an expert on Campaign Finance law. There may be . Truth to it. Theres an added layer, just that any Campaign F
in the house and the senate, too. and the midterms are just around the corner yeah. about a year out politico puts it this way. even some house republicans who help work on infrastructure as part of the bipartisan problem solvers caucus might not vote for it early on msnbc, the republican leader of that caucus wading in on what s standing in the way. this second reconciliation is worth the merits it should survive an up or downgoing on its own merits. it shouldn t need to use another bill as ransom it s frustrating to us as far as the gop support, it s largely going to depend on the link to link issue it s very important for a lot of my republican colleagues, because we support the infrastructure bill. and at least what we hear about the second package is not something that we re in favor of so kimberly, the it s important for the progressive part of the democratic caucus. what matters more democratic support or republicans who come along for the infrastructure
statement saying this president who is an unindicted a co-conspirator in a criminal matter does not deserve the courtesy of meeting with his nominee. what is your reaction to that, sarah? secretary sanders: this is a desperate and pathetic attempt by democrats to obstruct a very highly qualified nominee. the hearing date has been set for september 4, and judge kavanaugh will be there. sarah, trade talks between the united states and china are resuming. the president expressed low expectations for those talks. i wonder if that has changed and what you would like to see come out of these discussions? secretary sanders: we re, as you said, these conversations are continuing. i don t have any announcements on them. they re downgoing, what we d like to see is better trade deals for the united states. the president wants to see free, fair, and more reciprocal trade between other countries, particularly china, and we ll continue in these conversations. sarah, does the president