Americas strongest mideast ally is at war. Israel is striking back at Hamas Terrorists in response to a coordinated series of Terror Attacks resulting in the murder of more than 800 men, Women And Children. The u. S. Now confirming at least Nine Americans are among the dead. Good morning to you, im dana perino and bill is off today. Good morning, aishah. Aishah a very tough day as the world wakes up to this horrific attack. This is americas newsroom and here is where things stand at this hour. The combined death toll in israel and in gaza has now surpassed more than 1200 people. There are thousands more wounded and more than 100 israelis kidnapped behind enemy lines. Dana despite israels Retaliation Hamas is still attacking. They have now fired more than 3500 rockets into israel. Aishah the Wall Street Journal is reporting that iran was directly involved in all of this. The paper says tehran worked with hamas for weeks to plan the attacks. This directly after the u. S. Opened up 6 bill
harder to get peace in the end. but absolutely, people are going to criticize him for phrasing things that way. nic robertson and oren liebermann, thank you both. let s bring in a former u.s. ambassador to nato. was also a special representative for ukraine negotiations. in 20 17, he s a seniored a vie or the to the atlantic counsel. ambassador, thank you for being here. you said this war won t end with negotiations. based on what we heard from nic robertson, are you even more sure of that now? yeah. i do not see any prospect for negotiations at this time. putin is clearly driving toward some kind of military victory that he can claim. ideally on may 9th, the victory day they celebrate in moscow. they re not really being serious about negotiating anything. and as nic robertson pointed out, russia is the aggressor here. russia is the country invading somebody else s country.
me tonight and tim berger of the afl-cio of ohio. can republicans be trusted with workers rights? this night sends a message here in ohio that working families of the middle class are fighting back. we are making our voices heard like never before. this will carry from ohio across this country. we are back. do you think you know, lee, when you look at the results that are coming in, if they hold, it s going to be a resounding victory for workers in this state. are you confident that republicans would come back and have a different attitude about negotiating anything when it comes to workers? i m not confident at all. i think one of the things we have to do, ed, we can enjoy tonight, we can celebrate tonight because this is a huge victory. but tomorrow morning we ve got to roll up our sleeves, rededicate ourselves, recommit ourselves. we have to continue this battle and continue this fight. tim, what about getting the
generation of republicans in line. and president obama warns, and i m quoting him now, we are almost out of time, urging all americans to keep the pressure on washington and bring this devastating crisis to an end. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. you re looking at a live picture right now of the house floor, where just a short time from now, we expect to see that critical vote on the gop debt plan. the vote was supposed to happen yesterday around this time, but was abruptly postponed when the house speaker john boehner failed to get the 216 votes it needs for passage. meanwhile, with only days left to solve this unprecedented crisis, wall street is already reeling. stocks posted their worst weekly performance in more than a year while the dow fell about 97 points today. this on the heels of a dismal new economic report out today, showing the country s economic growth has now slowed to a crawl. let s go straight to our congressional correspondent, kate ba
president into weeks of discussion of trillions in possible spending cuts. eric cantor and john boehner, the lead republican negotiators went into those discussions with the vice president and the president with no real experience in negotiating anything this big, anything half as big as this with an opposition party. they forgot the maxim often repeated by participants to the press, nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to, and with some of the democrats at the table doing the smart thing, continuing to smile and nod as the republicans targeted spending cuts they would like, the rookie republican negotiators made the mistake of thinking they had reached areas of agreement with the democrats when, in fact, absolutely nothing had been agreed to, not one dollar, not one spending cut had been agreed to because