captions by vitac www.vitac.com good evening. this is the source and i m kaitlan collins. an extraordinary new israeli offensive is underway in the skies of gaza tonight. much of it is playing out right before our very eyes. cnn cameras captured these images that you re seeing here, scenes of flares raining down over the night sky in gaza. there appears to be a smoke screen that is covering the ground, potentially suggesting the possible movement of troops in that area. the israeli military says it has completely surrounded gaza city tonight. all of this is coming as prime minister benjamin netanyahu appeared with israeli troops earlier today saying and i m quoting him now nothing will stop us. that, despite the fact that secretary of state antony blinken is pflying over to isral right now in part to press for a pause, at least a brief one, in the fighting so that hostages can get out and aid can potentially get in. all this is coming as hamas is still firing on i
confirmed in that time are actually hostages? less than 10. that s not a number. i want a number from you. less than 10. why can t you give a number? i ve given you an answer. what is your next question? you ve given an answer. you ve not been responsive. let the record show. the other question has to do with israeli warnings. the israelis have said their objective and they ve been very explicit about it is to destroy hamas. from you and other administration officials, we hear the objective is to ensure that hamas can never terrorize israel again. those are two different objectives are. you having a problem with the israelis in terms of a clear communication here of their objectives or have their objectives appeared to change over time? no and no. how does does the united states support the goal of destroying hamas? we support what israel is trying to do to protect citizens from the threat of hamas. james, you know this. we re not on the ground fighting in
raises a trillion dollars in revenue to help us lower our tax rate. for instance, the tax reform is revenue trut u neutral. we have to pay for those things. that s what our spring budget is going to do. for instance, there is a big infrastructure in this country. whether it s canals, roads, bridges, or rail or airports. that s a real problem. and we re financial to have to come up with ways to pay for that. so nothing s free. so we have to in our bug come up with other spending offsets to pay for those kinds of thingsful that s why we want you to prioritize spending to do that. it s hot here in d.c.. i mean, it is hard, sometimes we make decisions, so you don t think about the youth. cnn is reporting tonight, you need growth in jobs? yes. cnn is reporting tonight that trump officials want your tax reform proposal that congress is working on to include a measure, command by ivanka trump, that
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divided government. spending offsets is probably the best they can ask for. that s interesting because it strikes me we sort of moved past the austerity-era politics in terms of what riles up the base and seems the base right now is much more concerned about the threat of some kind of foreign invasion as it s often being interpreted or communicated in certain sectors of conservative media. well, that s the big problem right now for speaker boehner in the house leadership and other republicans here in washington. is that they believe they re suing the president, trying to show the base that they stand with them. yet at the same time, a lot of conservatives, sarah palin and others, are talking about impeachment and puts boehner and others in the corner because they don t seem like they re going far enough for many on the right. rick perry, governor of texas, had this to offer, what he d like to see in that package. i asked him also to put 1,000 national guard troops, of course, t