This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The dysfunction among republicans in the u. S. House of representatives has now taken on global significance because of the crisis in the middle east. So we are in this hour going to focus a bit on House Republicans meeting a tt this hour. They are hoping to get one step closer to decide who will become their next speaker. No legislation can be passed including any legislation that might address the growing crisis on the ground in israel. So we are following that story, but we are going to begin today in the middle east, where at least a thousand people have been killed in the hamas attacks on israel, most of them civilians. President biden confirming today that 14 of them were americans. The white house says 20 additional americans are still missing, and that number might not necessarily reflect the number of american hostages. Its just 20 americans who are not accounted for right now. Today israel is carrying out air str
Professors yum harvard, yale, and georgetown university. Its an hour and 45 minutes. Thank you for coming. Thank you so much for coming. Let me first say since this a larger event for a conference, im so honored to be here as your president this year. Its really a thrill for me to be working with all of you this year. And i am also so pleased to be working with adrian lynn smith, our Brilliant Program cochairs. So this is just one of the many events. And for the viewers at home on cspan, you sure want to google it on cspan because we do this every year. And im so glad we have a chance to broadcast this program to other viewers. Diplomatic historians traditionally, the sort of the i think of this as the, you know, a classic sort of position thats now i think under contestation within the field. I think the traditional take on law and Foreign Relations history is that this isnt really what drives the policy, that law doesnt play a causal role. Its a feature of an environment thats determ
Professors yum harvard, yale, and georgetown university. Its an hour and 45 minutes. Thank you for coming. Thank you so much for coming. Let me first say since this a larger event for a conference, im so honored to be here as your president this year. Its really a thrill for me to be working with all of you this year. And i am also so pleased to be working with adrian lynn smith, our Brilliant Program cochairs. So this is just one of the many events. And for the viewers at home on cspan, you sure want to google it on cspan because we do this every year. And im so glad we have a chance to broadcast this program to other viewers. Diplomatic historians traditionally, the sort of the i think of this as the, you know, a classic sort of position thats now i think under contestation within the field. I think the traditional take on law and Foreign Relations history is that this isnt really what drives the policy, that law doesnt play a causal role. Its a feature of an environment thats determ
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The officers ambushed by at least two snipers. Two one person in the crowd was also injured. Ialso right now three people inj are i custody afourth person exchanged gunfire with authorities overnight claiming to have planted bombs in the city. Were told that suspect died self sels ago from a inflicked gunshot wound. Wou this morning that city ismorn on edge as is our entirent nation as the front page of pagf the dallas morning news, new ambush, you can clearly see the raw emotion on thatnha officers face. S our maureen umeh is with us inn studio tracking all the latesthl on this tragic situation. Tion mo. Mo thats the only word to wordo describe it really is tragiceal allison and steve. Details are disturbing. Disturb snipers opened fire justireust before 9 oclock last night inig the heart of dallas just as jus the protest was coming to an end. sirens . Reporter you can see that chaotic scene. Scene Officials Say the gunmen intended to injure and kill asrl many officers as possible. Ff