border bill. johnson said it is dead on arrival as he reveals a bill for israel alone without a cent for the war against putin in ukraine or the border. top senate negotiator, chris murphy joining us coming up. plus, the pentagon fires off a weekend barrage of preemptive strikes against houthis in yemen after friday night s strikes for the deaths of three u.s. service members. we intend to take additional strikes and additional action to continue to send a clear message that the united states will respond when our forces are attacked or our people are killed. secretary of state blinken has arrived in saudi arabia today starting his fifth shutting mission to the region since october 7th to promote a halt in the fighting in gaza in exchange for a release of hostages. and donald trump widens his lead over president biden in our new poll. steve kornacki is here to break it all down. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington. senate negotiators from both parties prod
at least what has been agreed upon at this point does it open the door for a broader or more expansive conversation on other issues? you know that is what a russian general today said. he said, we hope, you know, it s a good document. we hope this will open the door to more discussions about a political settlement. but the united states is saying, wooer not going to join any type of negotiations because we think that your strategy as president obama said, bombing your way to a pieceful solution is not going to work t. americans don t want to look as if they are on the side of the russians bombing in behalf of president assad of syria. so until there is some type of you know that they can solve that, it doesn t mean anything
trace: some say if you re going, go big this. pinprick, some called this, you have rebels fighting and if they realize the united states it not going to back them, they might join up with the bad guys and you have an even worse scenario. there s a lot of those resistance people who are bad guys already. that goes again to whether we have a heavy strike. if we put a heavy strike in there that degraded assad s military and helped the resistance throw him out, the resistance that wins, some of those people are clearly our friends, clearly on our side, but there s an awful lot of them who aren t, and suddenly those chemical weapons, who used to belong to assad, now belong to people who we have no ability to work with to have diplomatics solutions with to get agreements with and are very willing to use it against the israelis and other syrians and other places throughout the middle east and the west and us. colonel good, to see you as always. thanks, trace, thanks for
waiting on orders from president obama. in making the united states case, the secretary revealed horrifying new facts about the chemical attacks. according to the intelligence, at least 1,400,289 1,429 people died, including 400 children. instead of being tucked safely in their beds at home we saw rows of children lying side-by-side, sprawled on a hospital floor, all of them dead from assad s gas. trace: u.s. officials said in the past they would not launch any strike without the backing of the international community. but will britain s parliament pulling that country out of any coalition, it seems the administration is standing firm and willing to go it alone. this matters to us, and it matters to who we are. and it matters to leadership.
have deployed parts of the iron dome defense system after iran said any strike on syria would lead to israel s imminent destruction. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is urging israelis not to change their daily routines but is vowing that israel will do whatever it needs to do in order to protect itself. leland is live in jerusalem. reporter: president assad of syria has also said there will be a retaliatory strike on tel aviv if the u.s. military decides to hit him. as if that is not enough to make israelis scared, look at the front page of the newspaper here. people lining up for gas masks. yesterday thousands of people were in line, many got gas masks, some did not. those who did not get them, they have to wait the weekend, friday and saturday, here in the middle east in order to be able to get some on sunday. no one knows if that will be too late. of course, preparations are also