coy, thank you. thanks to all of you for joining us. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. so glad you re with us on this monday. this morning, we re watching growing threats of the israel/hamas war spreading to a much wider conflict, new overnight, israeli military ramping up air strikes after announcing it was expanding the ground assault to the entire gaza strip including in south, where so many civilians have fled, the idf say the strikes destroyed 20 on hamas targets. the u.s. navy destroyer came to the rescue of three commercial ships that were attacked by iran-backed houthi rebels. we re also keeping a close eye on israel s northern border with lebanon, where they ve been exchanging fire with hezbollah. three israeli soldiers were hurt by mortar shells fired from lebanon. we have team coverage. let s start with cnn s ben wedeman in jerusalem. expanding it to the entire gaza strip over the weekend, where the civilians who have moeftd to the sout
politics. and that s your reality check. it is so simple, right? it is so simple. and i know in your new digital reality check, you are explaining why americans are finding themselves on two sides of the extremes. . that s right. i tried to dig into the question of the psychology of extremism. what researchers are finding are commonalities between folks on the far right and far left. it s a fascinating conversation with jonathan hite who says this tribalism, teamism, is making us structurally stupid as a nation. go check it out. yeah. that is fascinating. i can t wait to see that. john avlon, thank you so much. new reporting that donald trump is furious after chief of staff mark meadows at his former chief of staff mark meadows. hear why. and the shooter had the gun in his backpack during a school meeting with his parents. the sheriff leading the investigation joins us ahead.
but all of these are the indignant ostrich. why am i not going to watch it tomorrow? it s a threat to the presidency. i don t want to legitimatize it. i m not going to read these transcripts. the whole process is a joke. hiding your head in the sand and refusing to read sworn testimony or watch the hearings. calling the process un-american doesn t make the facts go away. it just shows how much these hearings have become about teamism rather than a search for the truth. and that s your reality check. indignant ostrich. that is well done. i am not listening. i am not listening. i am not listening. one of the many services we provide. thank you, john. so the next impeachment hearing will begin in less than 90 minutes. what will former u.s. ambassador the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine say about president trump s conduct? we ll discuss next. e know that every gift is important. but the most important gift is the one you give to the person who believes in you. .all year l
line is between his ministry and i think the political discourse is also fascinating. warning really about the demise of civilization. there was an interesting flow through with what he was talking about with white evangelicals saying the disagreement is not disloyalty. our politics can t be consumed by teamism. that is very similar almost word for word where he was saying if i go to the senate i will disagree and does not mean i am disloyal to the republican party. this is really something we are confronting. since we have been on tv we learned that roseann has come out with a statement i understand explaining what she said, unclear to me because i haven t seen it yet, whether it is an apology, we will all watch it together next.