Bombing the Prime Ministers compound and other official buildings. The assault also killed a hamas commander. In israel troops are gathering at the border where many roads into gaza are closed. The military is ready for a ground assault with just an hours notice, and the u. S. Positioned the war ship iwo jima nearby but the location is classified. The egyptian Prime Minister visited gaza yesterday and prepared to mediate a truce. U. N. Secretarygeneral ban kimoon is expected to visit next week. The widening scope of the assault sparking fears of a violent new chapter in the arab israeli conflict. Forces are launching rockets back and forth in the gaza strip and israel. Yesterday one missile was aimed right at jerusalem. Nbc news Foreign Correspondent is live for us in gaza. That jerusalem angle, that had not been seen for quite some time. Lets get to whats happening right now around you. Good morning, alex. Yeah, we can let me bring you up to date on the air strikes here. According to
Oh, man. That could be the daily show. That could be snl. But its actually real. Who is it . Yes, it is congress. Good morning, everyone. Time to wake up, sleepyhead. Its friday, october 4th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set is, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post Eugene Robinson here with us in new york. Thats nice. Msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, haired ford junior and in washington its time to have your corn flakes. Senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the huffington post, sam stein. And John Heilemann is in a gutter somewhere, but hell be here in a moment. Get directv. Knows what hes doing. Well get to the latest on the Government Shutdown in a moment. First, that dramatic scene on capitol hill streets yesterday where a woman who is suspected of trying to run down a white house barricade was eventually shot and killed on the streets near the senate. It all began yesterday afternoon with repor
0 i think that s still beak the way. that tweet first of all, a president tweeting. secondly, saying you know, talking about extremists, calling it the boehner shutdown. do you think the president was on his phone tweeting? it s not the bane irshutdown. he doesn t want the shutdown. but anyway i think that s but i think if you take that all together yesterday, it was not great news for federal employees because it s going to last an highway, but better news for the full faith and credit of the country. i this i so the. because it sounds like, if you put it all together, you can probably find a face-saving way for the republicans to get out. the obviously, a lot of the business leaders of the country were relieved that boehner turned to, you know, his people and said, listen, you guys are not going to screw with the full faith and credit of the united states of america. it showed a profile in courage moment for the speaker. and it was just odd. i think the pres
0 admit this wasn t the best strategy and it wasn t his, by the way but this is where we are right now. let s have coffee today at 11:00 and i believe he s buying. steve: on the stairs of the capitol. is anybody going to show up? we ll find out. not too far from the capitol is the world war ii memorial. we told you here on this channel about how they wound up, because the national park service extraordinarily closed down the memorial with the shutdown. on tuesday, as you can see, screen right, they stormed the barricades. they got in. then yesterday the white house doubled down and erected more barricades and threatened people they would be arrested if they crossed. however these honor flights did get through nonetheless. but we had a split screen there with benghazi. as it turns out, it looks as if more personnel were sent in to the world war ii memorial to keep people out than the state department actually sent to benghazi by two. they sent five people to benghazi. the white hou
0 those are the suvs that likely boehner, mcconnell, pelosi and reid will come out of. let s talk about the deal. what if there s a deal, craig, for, i don t know, say 4 hr $500,000 the threshold of who gets taxes and who keeps everybody under that number keeps their tax cuts. everyone over pays more and there s spending cuts. is that a bad deal? yeah. i think it is. let me tell you why. because you can t get everything out of this deal that you want and frankly, all we re doing is kicking the can down the road. you know as well as i do this does nothing to deal with the $1 trillion plus deficits we have yearly. this is the fifth year in a row, we re going to have $20 trillion worth of debt on top of $48 trillion worth a long-term liabilities by the time mr. obama leaves office. this is the time to deal with this issue. we ve been kicking it down the road ten years. we promised the nation in 2011 under the budget deal with the sequesters we would not let this get away from us. we s