Gaza. Minutes ago another strike hitting the area. Secretary of state Antony Blinken arriving in jerusalem again and arriving at the president ial palace as the war in israel enters its ninth day. Lawrence thats right, brian. More explosions rocking gaza this morning as the Israeli Military prepares for a full invasion after the hamas attack last weekend. Ainsley palestinians gathered near the Rafah Crossing hoping to make it over into egypt before the idf launches a Ground Invasion of the strip. Israel announcing Evacuation Plans for its own residents urging 28 communities to leave the region near the lebanon border. Steve thats right. Because of the shooting back and forth there. Now lets get to trey yingst who is live on the ground in Southern Israel where it is 1 00 in the afternoon. All right, trey, what is the very latest . We heard yesterday that ourselves said that it sounds like that gate would be open but here we are 1 00 in the afternoon that gate to israel still closed. Tre
the vaccine that was actually developed under his administration. because that would place him somewhere in the area of lending legitimacy to the biden administration. not the trump has ever done the right thing, but this is the basic explanation, right? and this is why we don t see republicans willing to investigate the january 6th insurrection, in which many of them were physically, personally threatened. because that would lend legitimacy to the current administration. and that s the battle we are in now. how does this battle go, david jolly? because there are more a view than i imagine that there are. people that grew up with conservative principles and probably would have enjoyed debates with liberals on some basic policy issues. but you don t have that freedom anymore. americans don t have freedom. americans who don t believe in conspiracy theories don t have freedom to vote for republicans
even bigger kind of trouble, which is that we have a party that has decided that its goal, its basic platform is that the current administration is illegitimate. everything it does is illegitimate. everything it says is illegitimate. and the only party, the only politicians who represent who legitimately represent the will of the american people is the republican party, the trumpist republican party, right? and everything stems from that premise. so that s the answer to your question why doesn t trump sign on to advocate for the vaccine that actually developed under his administration? because that would place him somewhere, you know, in the area of lending legitimacy to the biden administration, not that trump has ever done the right thing. but this is the basic explanation, right? and this is why we don t see republicans willing to investigate the january 6th
time, they ve been trying to delegitimize the process, call it a hoax and say it s a political employ to overturn the 2016 election. if they do send someone, they re lending legitimacy to the impeachment process. they are validating the process that democrats have laid out. however, if they don t send anyone, then it kind of undermines these arguments that they ve been making and it would perhaps make them seem a little hypocritical before the american people. i personally think that they should send someone. if they have arguments that they want to make, if they have questions they want to ask, they have every right to do so. and they could also show that they re being transparent and putting the president s attorneys out there, making his case, rather than the president just railing against this at rallies and doing name-calling and everything else. and there s even been some speculation, congressman, and adrian, that they might send rudy giuliani, the president s outside attorney.
in the wake of the el paso shooting, renewed attention is being paid to the white nationalist conspiracy theory that white people are being replaced by people of color. this is leading some to believe that president trump s words on immigrants and the border crisis are lending legitimacy to the racist narrative. joining me now to discuss is ruth ben-ghiat, a professor of history at nyu, and cnn presidential historian doug brinkley. so glad to have both of you on. thank you so much. ruth, i m going to start with you because you say the president s racially charged rhetoric is strategic telling washington post, quote, this is a concerted attempt to construct and legitimize an ideology of hatred against nonwhite people and the idea that whites will be replaced by others.