Sandra for the second straight day, hundreds of devices exploding across lebanon and what appears to be a major attack against members of iranbacked hezbollah appeared today we are hearing reports that handheld radios are detonating just south of beirut. Thats where we find ourselves at the top of the new our here. Hello e and welcome Everyone Frm Sandra Smith in new york. John tried to have you back, im John Roberts in washington, this is americas reports. Israel is behind the simultaneous explosions of pagers that killed 12 people and injured nearly 3,000. Sandra the embassy in Beirut Morning americans in the country to be on high alert and maintain a low profile. Lets get right to it with Nate Foy live on the ground in Tel Aviv for us at this hour, 8 00, there, nate. Has israel said anything about these explosions . Not directly, sandra, but while visiting the countries north, Defense Minister Yoav gallant said minutes ago we are entering the new phase of this war. This as israel mo
if you re sticking with, us we re thankful for that. the u.s. military becoming a political football for the house gop as they unleashed their anti-abortion rights, anti-trans, anti-woke agenda on a spending bill flooding americas fighting forces. instead of focusing on killing people employee stuff up, and having we are focused on dividing people up by race. i don t want someone who doesn t know if they are a man or a woman with their hand on a missile button. i couldn t help but pull out my pocket constitution, i couldn t seem to find anywhere in here where it says we need to fund programs for humanitarian aid for women and children in afghanistan. and one house republican in particular under fire for a shocking racial comment. we are going to dive into that this hour as well. plus, a defying president biden finding a new way to forgive the student loan debt for nearly 1 million people in this country. and as actors hit the picket line i m gonna be talking to thei
congressional committee investigating the january 6th insurrection has reached out to the justice of met with information that donald trump tried to contact one of the witnesses in their probe. that was one of the big new pieces of information that, in yesterday s hearing. the committee also showing how the president tried to make the march on the capitol look spontaneous. he and his supporters have been planning for it for days. cnn jessica schneider has the highlights. reporter: january 6th house select committee revealing details about an unscheduled meeting in the oval office just weeks before the insurrection. what ensued was a heated and profane clash between this group and president tribes white house advisors who treated personal insults, accusations of disloyalty to the president, even challenges to physically fight. reporter: the meeting lasted well into the night. some of his attendees repeated unproven election fraud claims reproaching different ideas to t
communist state, a real danger they ll be arrested and if released their passports confiscated. that s what they did to the poor cardinal joseph zen in hong kong. the reflex to silence opposition voicess in a toll tarn state is one thing but now it s the democrats here. with november on the ropes they re acting like president xi is bill clinton. their new motto seems to be if you can t beat them use your corporate shills to sensor them. the justification is always some horrific shooting or a protest that goes wrong. and if the facts line up just right for them, they tag republicans for it and they did that, of course, with this week in horrific attack in buffalo by a deranged racist. social media platforms that need to be monitored and shut down the second these words are as powsed out there has to stop. obviously pre speech issues but freedom is so important to us but that freedom also carries a public safety with it and we have to balance those. laura: oh, thanks n
again, that s 1807123800 i m jessica schneider at the federal courthouse in washington. and this is cnn president, biden s big move on. immigration offering a pathway to citizenship for some of the undocumented spouses and children of us citizens. a move that could be cheered by hundreds of thousands of families. but a political gamble for his reelection campaign. ad lawmakers have questions boeing ceo is struggling a bit to come up with answers. dave calhoun is on capitol hill. but after a string of safety incidents and an alarming new way so blow report. is there anything you can say to persuade americans that boeing has a handle on its safety issues and just a brutal de from coast to coast. fires in the west and an unrelenting heat wave in the east. and ominous outlook with some are still two days away. we are following these major developing stories anymore, all coming in, right here to cnn news central we re, following major developments from the white house th