israel across the border. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. israeli defense forces expanding their ground operation in gaza overnight. an idf spokesman says the forces are in the field and continue the fighting with infinity and armored vehicles backed by massive strikes from the air and the sea, including the bombing of hamas tunnels. the bombardment also knocking out communications in gaza, creating a near information blackout. and largely cutting off the territory s more than 2 million people from the outside world. until now, israel s military had been conducting targeted raids with forces withdrawing after a few hours. it comes as an israeli ground offensive aimed at seizing and holding significant amounts of territory has been widely expected but does not appear that such a significant operation is under way yet. joining me from israel is cnn correspondent jeremy diamond. jeremy, still not the ground incursion that we had anticipated. reporter: well, at least no
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chairman turner, let me start with you because you both met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. what can you tell us about the meeting and did you express any concerns to netanyahu over his push to overhaul israel s legal system, weaken it, not to mention including extremists in his cabinet? all this has caused tremendous unrest domestically in israel. right. our trip comes just on the heels of speaker kevin mccarthy being here. our focus largely being from the intelligence committee on the relations between the united states and israel and how we can help strengthen the security situation in the area. we also stopped in jordan and egypt and in talking to all three countries all were very much encouraging the united states on a policy basis to have a stronger role thinking there are real opportunities to increase the security situation here but at the same time painting a picture that there are serious threats in the area and that the united states should be playing a rol