Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in washington with cnns breaking News Coverage of Israel At War. One week after the hamas Terror Attack that triggered this horrible conflict, the israeli Prime Minister netanyahu just posted video of his visit with troops positioned near the gaza border telling them and im quoting him now, the next stage is coming. Theres growing anticipation of a potential ground war as Israeli Forces keep Pounding Targets Inside Gaza from the air. This comes amid new setbacks for efforts to try to evacuate civilians including americans. Egyptian authorities reportedly are not allowing u. S. And other foreign nationals to enter the country from gaza. The United States has expressed hope the crossing might be open to americans today. Tens of thousands of gazans have fled their home after israel urged more than a million civilians in the northern part of gaza to move south. A new window given by israelis for safe passage
Obama-era initiative that allowed more than 700,000 young people known as dreamers to avoid deportation. joining us is jonathan alter, columnist for the daily beast and msnbc political analyst. michael thomasski, special correspondent for the daily beast and the president of the center for american progress. she was hillary clinton s policy director during the 2008 presidential campaign. welcome to all of you. thank you for being with us. not just on a friday night, but a holiday friday night. there s a lot to deal with here. nira, let s start with this. the daca decision, things are not going the president s way in terms of daca. this judge put out a long report in which he agreed that the obama administration may not have had the authority to implement daca, but he did not agree to suspend this, as was requested. absolutely. i think the news here really is that the white house has really
Two major stories breaking on this holiday friday night. one coming from inside the d.o.j. and the apparent sneak attack by jeff sessions and there s a reason it might be leaking out before christmas. he is leake out some of the most disabled immigrants and exconvicts. i have more on that later in this segment. later, from inside the white house and a team frustrated and on edge. politico reporting, a warning. they said that there was tension, tempers flaring, complaints about trump s political operation boiled over. let s get right to it. krystal ball joins us and i m joined by ron reagan, msnbc and
This story happens to be leaking out on a holiday friday. so let s forget the tweets. this is a story about what the trump administration is doing. the new york times reporting, d.o.j. files showing sessions making these reversals on civil rights, rights for the disabled, illegal graents, sessions canceling 25 different policy. the trump administration argues these policies went too far beyond the laws they were based on. that the people behind these policies, like the former, a j. eric holder said they were needed to modernize rules and protect rights. take guy that came out of ferguson where a holder probe did not find the shooting was a crime but it did find police abusing power and forcing citizens into death for nonviolent crimes. they found when ferguson police pulled people over, eight out of ten were black.
Let s bring in the starting panel on this eventful evening. robert costa was the author of that second breaking story on this holiday friday night. jeremy bash, chief of staff during the obama administration and former intelligence committee. a russia expert in her own right, matthew miller, former spokesman for the department of justice, an msnbc justice and security analyst and with me here in new york in our studios, former under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs at the u.s. state department in the obama administration. also the former managing editor of time magazine. home field advantage on this one. i want to start off with your reaction to the first of the two washington post reports tonight. i just want to caveat it by