floating the idea of a third-party presidential run. new images of idf forces pushing further into southern gaza as u.s. officials are now raising new questions and alarm over why hamas is refusing to release more female hostages. a home in arlington, virginia, blows sky-high. the blast could be felt miles away in d.c. police were there when it happened, trying to serve a search warrant. what were they looking for? details on that investigation ahead. i m sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. major rumblings in and around the republican race for president this morning starting with a huge push to get chris christie out. according to the new york times, republican donors, strategists, and pundits are publicly pressuring mr. christie to follow the lead of tim scott and mike pence and formally end his campaign. many would like to see him throw his support behind nikki haley. republican strategist kevin madden adds, ideally, it would
the children of the corn that you re posing with. [ laughter ] and what was the interview process like? and how many times have you seen the dave matthews band live? [ laughter ] put that photo back up. look at how short mike pence is. was he always that short? i think maybe he shrank from all the bending down to kiss the president s ass over the last year. [ laughter and applause ] in case you were worried the white house isn t white enough, don t worry, it is. the new york times had a bombshell story tonight. they reported that the president ordered white house counsel don mcgahn to fire robert mueller who is running the russia investigation. but then the president backed off, mcgahn said, if you make me do that, i m going to quit. which would have been a disaster, and still might be now that this the information has been released. you can t just fire every guy who investigates you. he s running the white house by the exact same rules of the apprentice. he doesn t under
from out of the country. from other countries? [ cheers and applause ] according to the national travel and tourism office, tourism is down in america since we elected president trump. the u.s. tourism industry lost 40,000 jobs and $46 billion in revenue since the inauguration. don t know why people wouldn t want to come here. we re so welcoming to foreigners. interesting. we don t need a wall, trump is his own wall in a way. not only it is tourism down the price of rooms at trump hotels are also down. significantly over last year, because a lot of people don t want to stay in a place with his name on it. but they have a new marketing push that s aggressive, which i guess is what they need to fill their empty rooms again. trump hotels are the best hotels ever, anywhere. our hotels are winning. and now our deals are better than ever. during mexico pays days. give us your credit card, we ll charge the full amount of your room and mexico will pay you back. who! mexico! g
it s all mississippi night. ( cheers and applause ) they said, how come you don t talk about mississippi? i said, what should we talk about? ooh. okay, yesterday was the north american summit, a meeting between president obama, canada s justin trudeau and mexico s enrique peña nieto. let s see how it went. all right. so what do you think, wave? yeah, wave. waves are always good handshake? ( laughter ) larry: look at obama s face. brothers don t like to butcher handshakes. this would have never happened at the pan-african summit. i m just sayin . ( applause ) nobody blew it up. i m just sayin . but this meeting was not about handshakes. it was about climate change, international trade policy, and global security. all right, media. give us your professional analysis. well, it could be the most awkward handshake in history. the most awkward handshake ever? the whole thing got a little bit awkward. how does this work? things got kind of awkward. i would
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