about this sort of formative racial discrimination. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, rebecca country here in america and we are essentially split between two large factions. you have a two party system. and so, naturally, there was going to be internal dissent. each political party is made up of millions of different people with lots of different views inside it. it s the nation of coalition politics. but ultimately what defines a party, even with all that in turn all dissent and conflict, and disagreement, is what s lines you can across. these are often called litmus test or, in other context, the party line. one of the common examples is abortion rights. it used to be much more common for people inside each party to have conflicting views on abortion. you would see pro-choice republicans, a lot of them, a lot of antiabortion democrats. but all over the past two decades or so, both parties have increasingly sorted on abortion policy. wh
one of the common examples is abortion rights. it used to be much more common for people inside each party to have conflicting views on abortion. you would see pro-choice republicans, a lot of them, a lot of antiabortion democrats. but over the past two decades or so, both parties have increasingly sorted on abortion policy. what proportion of the abortion rights in the democratic party. it s don trump in his own feral way figured out very quickly. the republican party was able to tolerate his unconventional thinking on trade, of the bush family, or whether john mccain was a war hero. but they would not compromise on abortion. that was the line. and he knew it. right now, we are watching, day by day, the way that river shapes the stone, the same process play out. the formation of a party line of a litmus test on the question of democracy. on the question of the legitimacy of democratic rule and the election of joe biden. there is no better example of how that has happened rig
wherever you are around the, world cnn ongoing coverage of israel s war with hamas, i m john vause in atlanta where it is now one a.m., and seven a.m. in gaza, which is now divided into by israeli ground forces battling hamas militants in the north. for weeks, israeli officials urged palestinians to evacuate relative safety in the, south ahead of a major ground incursion. and as dawn now, breaks the israeli troops have gaza city completely surrounded according to senior idf commanders. in the past few hours, cnn crews reported flares and explosions, lighting up the night sky over northern gaza around the not far from the israeli border. so far, 23 israeli soldiers have beeeen killed dururing this military o offensive, whwhich is fofocused on locatating and destroying hamas t tunnel netwo, as well as senior hamas leaders. our soldiers have been operating in gaza city for the past few, days surrounding it from several directions, deepening the operation. our forces are in