[gunfire] dana: heave heavey fighting in gaza around hospitals. welcome to a brand-new hour of america s newsroom. dana perino. mike: i m mike emanuel. israeli forces say troops killed 21 hamas terrorists who opened fire and tried to escape by running to a hospital. there is growing concern the war could spread beyond gaza as fighting escalates on israel s border with lebanon. israel s prime minister saying hamas must be destroyed. if you want peace, destroy hamas. if you want security, dedestroy hamas. if you want a future for israel. the palestinians, the middle east, destroy hamas. we ll do it with as few civilian casualties as we can and with maximum casualties on the hamas terrorists, which we are achieving day-by-day, hour by hour. we ll complete the task. dana: rich edson at the state department. jerusalem deputy mayor joining us here right in new york on set. first let s get to trey yengst live in southern israel. trey, what s the update from there today?
Holding up to a million in political education camps in the northwestern region. this is an effort to reprogram people, right? to in many ways eradicate a culture and religion. the chinese ambassador claimed tuesday on special report the facilities are for those who have committed minor crimes and want job and language training. i visited some of the training centers. they are real training centers. they are thought camps. they have open gates. there is no armed guards. people could go home over weekend. according to the state department s most human rights report quote members of the minority uighur ethnic group reported systematic torture and other degrading treatment. survivors stated authorities subjected individuals in custody to electric crucial, waterboarding, beating, stress positions. injection of unknown substances and cold cells. outside the camps, american officials say uighur face pervasive surveillance, checkpoints entering public places like markets and mosques
Started our set of meetings to talk about all the domestic policy agenda, we were in a meeting for over three and a half hours straight in the president was directly engaged in those conversations, had a lot of really good ideas. he wants to build on the success of what we are seeing from this tax cut bill where every day, just today announcing more benefits to their employees. every day we see another company announcing how what we did, but we worked with president trump to pass is actually helping families increase their ability to be a part of the american dream. we want to build on that and the president had a lot of really good ideas of things he wants to get done. martha: michael wolf admitted today that he didn t reach out to any of the cabinet members. he didn t interview them. he didn t interview mike pence, the vice president of the united states. nonetheless, he does quote members of the cabinet, so that must be coming through another party that he talked to who said that