and some trying to climb over the gates with palestinian flags. meanwhile, israel in israel the idf says its iron dome intercepted a drone coming from lebanon earlier today after taking down rockets from gaza overnight. rachel: iran says u.s. would be, quote, hit hard if washington did not implement a cease-fire in gaza but israel is maintaining a cease-fire is not an option. we re not going to have a cease-fire with hamas it is leak you having a cease-fire after bombing of pearl harbor and cease-fire with isis it is absurd glad to see the administration is not asking for a cease-fire. jonathon hunt is on the ground with the latest. hey, jonathon. hey will rachel, pete good to see you. over the last four hours or so this morning israel paused air strikes to give more civilians in gaza time to head from the north at the center of the war zone down to relative safety at the southern end of gaza and prior to that they made it clear they are not going let up the pressure on h
If we come to the 11th hour and a chance the democrats could take back the senate that this would really create problems for republicans. neil: jessica, we are obviously waiting to hear from maine senator susan collins very focused on the roe v. wade issue and wasn t a given she was a yes vote. it looked increasingly likely. has the equation changed here. it definitely has and we have to wait for new information and heartened to see some senators on both sides of the aisle saying we need to hear from professor ford as well as from judge kavanaugh. susan collins and lisa murkowski were the first two republicans that people were looking to so-to-see what they would say. i would say that s implicitly sexist to looking at the ladies first because it was jeff flake and bob corker who actually came out initially to say we need to hear from professor ford. the equation absolutely changes. i happen to sadly not think democrats are going to take back the senate come november but that would