The site of an israeli strike in dahieh, hezbollah s stronghold in beirut and it this building was hit and there is nothing left of it. There is still smoke coming from the rubble and heavy smell in the air. You can probably hear the sound of drones flying overhead. The buildings nearby, were also heavily damaged by the attacks and pictures of the late iran leader hassan nasrallah have been set up here. The scale of the destruction it gives you a sense of the power of the attack that happened here. Meanwhile, israeland iran attack that happened here. Meanwhile, israel and iran have aged wanted the other against further attacks after iran launched a massive missile attack on israel. It five 180 missiles on tuesday in a second and largest direct attack ever. The iranian president today said they were not looking for war but pledged a strong response by israel. Iran s most powerful missiles, sending their starkest message last night to israel if you hit us or our allies, we ll hit you.
Of the United States. Its kind of our way, or the highway. Mississippi senator roger wicker on all of that very shortly, In The Meantime, to Mark Meredith on how this is all going down, fueled by not only the president stating that this is the only way to do it, republicans, at a jobs report which might have helped his argument. Mark . Reporter neil, good morning to you right that jobs report is having an impact on the discussions. President biden counting on house and Senate Democrats to pass his 1. 9 trillion Stimulus Package. Republicans want the president to reign in spending but the president made it clear yesterday that hes willing to do this on a Party Line Vote if necessary to fund a few priorit ies like the 1,400 round of stimulus checks that he wants to see go out, more money for Food Assistance programs, as well as extending those enhanced federal Unemployment Benefits. The president making it directly in a speech on friday. Others think that things are Getting Better and we
adjust for inflation price right side not actually at record highs, but what is the white house plan for handling soaring prices and inflation that are affecting americans so severely. joining us is gene sperling, he is currently the white house american rescue plan coordinator and a senior advisor to president biden. he was a national economic council adviser in the clinton administration. gene, let s talk about maybe what can be done to take some of the edge off here. is another release of more barrels from the strategic reserve a possibility here? look, we re trying to do everything we can. you know, when you are talking about looking in real inflation adjusted terms, the day that putin moved troops to the border of belarus gas prices were at $3.31, that was actually below the average that we had over the last decade. as you say, it s now $4.97, that is $1.60 that s over $1.60 tax, putin tax, on the american pu public. little comfort that it s higher for families in
with regard to safety in our cars to just try to make this harder. as we were talking about just a minute ago we also have to focus on the fact that we do have this epidemic of young people who are engaging in suicidal behavior by carrying out these mass shootings knowing they will get the kind of attention that all of this engenders to ultimately die in the process of it. we have to be able to focus resources and attention on how that s building up in communities and leading to these events. bottom line, there is something very significant and important about the idea of congress actually passing something, especially with republican support. even if those measures are relatively limited, they haven t been able to do it before. chris murphy has said out loud that there is value in showing republicans who have not done this in the past that they can do it without losing their political lives. that that could potentially set the stage for more. and that it doesn t just have to be a
through which they see this. i could not agree more. my point is if the parties were reversed republicans would make it a poison pill. the republican party under mccarthy and mitch mcconnell are a threat to national security, at home and the global security arrangements. why isn t that part of the conversation about the economy that democrats are prosecuting aggressively and on the offense for the midterms? it is interesting. i think since donald trump the republican party has been so transformed, he has become such a role model for success for republican politicians and engenders hypocrisy, fraud,