so attendance is a huge part of it. >> cnn is all over this story. we'll have continuing coverage not only on the money angle, the f fans, the excitement. king james going home. thank you, everyone, for watching. i'm taking a little vaca for the next few days but you have yourselves a good week. "wolf" starts right now. right now, calls for peace in the middle east are being ig for the. officials say at least 100 people have been killed in gaza since monday. meanwhi meanwhile, the rockets continue to fly in israel. look at this. video shows just one of many attacks that sent people running for cover. right now, germany is running out of patience at american intelligence officers. as relationships between washington and berlin deteriorate. a courtroom battle is brewing between republicans and president obama. the house speaker john boehner says he will sue the president over his signature health care law.

hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting today from jerusalem. we begin with the middle east powder keg. a rocket fired from lebanon lands inside israel. the death toll in gaza passes a grim milestone. and the israeli military calls up 30,000 reservists, raising fears of a possible israeli ground assault on gaza. all the while, there's no letup in the exchange of rocket fire and air strikes between israel and hamas. one rocket from gaza struck a gas station in southern israel, not far from the border. israeli officials say hamas militants have fired 100 rockets at israel today alone, including one that was intercepted over the tel aviv area. at the scene of the gas station attack, and i was there, i spoke with an israeli first responder. and what happened here exactly? >> there was a rocket directly

hit behind me. >> did it hit the truck? >> no, it hit there, where you see, now, the tractor. and of course because of the fire, started from the truck and -- 11 cars were burned totally. >> 11? >> one people -- one guy, it was -- probably he was paralyzed and couldn't get out from the car. all the others ran away. >> who got that person to safety? >> the firefighters. >> the firefighters? >> the station is not so far away so they reached three minutes from here. >> what kind of rocket was this? >> i don't know, i guess it's a grad, a long distance one, a very heavy one. >> air raid sirens warn israelis to take cover when rockets are fired from gaza. my crew and i, we experienced that firsthand as we drove along a highway shortly after leaving that gas station. [ sirens ] you can hear the sirens have

just gone off so we're being told to get to a shelter. so we're running. now we just wait for the all clear. hopefully, that will happen shortly. as israel considers whether to large a ground assault in gaza, israel's navy forces are keeping a close eye along the ed mediterranean coast. looking for excursions along the shore and there was at least one. one rocket landed near an israeli border town. no injuries were reported on either side of the border. observers say the conflict is

unlikely, at least for now, to spread into lebanon. we wanted to get the view from gaza right now, where the mood is clearly very grim. palestinian officials say israeli air strikes have killed at least 100 palestinians this week, including many children and elderly. the health ministry says an 18-month-old baby and an 80-year-old woman were among the dead today. more than 700 people have been wounded. palestinians are deeply worried about a possible israeli ground assault as well. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman is joining us now from gaza city. i understand there have been plenty more israeli air strikes today. what can you tell us? >> we were in northern gaza in the beit hanoun area, and one after the other hit. you mentioned the death toll. we were at one house where a rocket had been fired into that house. apparently they did not receive a warning.

that rocket exploded in the wall, on the wall, next to an alley where there were a bunch of children playing. one 4-year-old boy had his head blown off. we still saw pieces of his skull had been collected by the people in the neighborhood. this is an area that is oftentimes in the firing line from israeli air strikes and retaliatory raids. certainly people there are extremely worried about what's going to happen if israel has a ground incursion. the problem is, as they will quickly tell you, they have nowhere to go. we didn't mean one man right after that strike took place, where the 4-year-old was killed, he was taking away his four children. he said, i'm getting out of here because i don't want them to be killed by a rocket as well. this is an area that apparently local residents have received calls from people speaking arabic with hebrew accents telling them to leave the area

in anticipation of a possible ground incursion. wolf. >> and they're clearly bracing. there's no signs yet, i take it, ben that any israeli tanks or armied vehicles have actually crossed into gaza, are there? >> no, we've heard some reports about limited incursion in southern gaza, but we haven't been able to confirm that. at the moment, this is exactly when the ramadan prayer, the fast ends. so it's gone very quiet and there's very little information getting out. we did hear that one report. we haven't been able to confirm it. wolf. >> ben wedeman in gaza, be careful over there. we'll touch base with you shortly. some of the missiles and rockets fired from gaza have already been aimed here in jerusalem. just a little while ago, i spoke with the mayor of jerusalem about the conflict and about protecting a city that is so sacred to three great religions. joining now, the mayor of

jerusalem, mr. mayor, thank you very much for coming in. you already, what, six rockets, missiles, from gaza, come towards jerusalem. if a missile or rocket is launched from gaza, how much time do the people in jerusalem have to prepare? >> they're prepared at any given moment. we have a minute and a half to take cover. people are educated about what they need to do. from all the rockets around the city of jerusalem. we have excellent protection through iron dome. and very, very well trained people to know how to take cover. so we're extremely safe. >> iron dome is the anti-missile defense system that has really worked when those rockets have launched at populated areas or other sensitive areas in israel. well, why would they -- based upon your intelligence, launch rockets towards jerusalem? because there are holy sites not only for jews and christians but muslims as well, arab holy sites in jerusalem. >> why would they hit cities?

ask themselves, indiscriminate rockets not targeted at a specific person. god forbid when they did hit and murder children and innocent people, they celebrate in the streets that they killed the jew or killed somebody in israel, which is insane. you and i, the western world and israel, if we, god forbid, try and hit militant and somebody innocent gets killed, we're sorry about it. we feel that somebody innocent has lost his life. >> how worried are you, mayor, about jewish extremists? because we saw that 15-year-old american boy, we saw his cousin who was brutally murdered why jewish extremists, maybe even people who live in your city of jerusalem. how worried are you about what's going on among the extreme element, brutal element, within israel's jewish community? >> i'm first to condemn the murder, the brutal murder, of the arab boy. the innocent boy. and with me were 31 council members. all of us, 99% of the population

of israel, condemned the killing of the arab boy. and i spoke to the father and i connected grieving families to jewish families with the family of the arab boy. we believe in life. we -- when we target hamas militants, terrorists, in gaza, we do our best not to hurt innocent people. >> why is this element, this extreme element, emerging among israelis to go out and brutally kill arabs? >> it's terrible, it's race it doesn't happen every day. it happens every decade or so. we will -- by the way, they were caught and they were brought to justice. and every one in the city was appalled by such behavior. so i think that we have -- we feel comfortable enough, if one could say, in such a situation, that we need to target the militants, the terrorists, that

don't recognize israel. their charter, hamas' charter is to wipe us off the map. >> you heard them shout "death to arabs," that's pretty awful as well. >> i agree, there's a small percentage of the population, less than, you know, one digit percentagewise, and we have to educate them and explain to them why that's not the right direction. we do that all the time. so very similar to what you know in america, what you know in your home base of atlanta, it's the same values and the same dna of the western world on the one hand. on the other hand, we will protect ourselves. and interestingly enough, the hamas people have to understand that if they want to fight, fine, let's fight. you don't want peace, you want to fight, you want to kill us, you want to take us off the map, we know how to defend ourselves and strike you as hard as one should to make sure that you understand that wiping israel off the map is not an issue. it will not happen. you want peace, come and chat

with us and we'll be happy to create peace. >> you've been canceling major events that you scheduled in jerusalem this week, an international film festival, some rock concerts. you need tourism here but you're scared. >> well, what we did is responsibly delayed it for a week because it was an open field. all elements of culture and -- kindergartens, schools, are active in small numbers that we can manage if you have 1 1/2 minute to take cover. so responsibly, when it was a big event, an open field, we decided to wait a week. so that's just for making sure that the people coming here from all over the world feel safe and understand that we're reasonable and sensible people. beyond -- besides the big, big events, life is usual here. when the sirens went off -- i saw you in the south, you take cover, you wait ten minutes and move on with life. and that's exactly what's

happening. >> finally, how worried are you about this hamas threat to go after international aircraft, commercial passenger planes coming into ben gueren airport? >> look, no loss of life has happened on the itsraeli side because we know how to protect ourselves extremely well. they talk a lot. they threaten. they commit suicide. they lie. because it's the way of life. and we are committed to maintain peace inside israel, to protect everyone. israelis and visitors. indeed, you know, our tourism is up. crime rates in jerusalem are less than 10% of what you have in atlanta. back home. so when i fly to the states, i pray to come back home to jerusalem. nothing has changed, even through this, you know, this whole crisis we have. so i bet you anything, check it out, we're one of the safest cities in the world. we have 830,000 population. we have five murders a year in

jerusalem. in the last four or five years. so i'd like to -- it's wonderful to host you in jerusalem. come and visit and you'll see people in the street and life is as good as it gets. better than any other city in the world. >> it's a tense time now, but you're right, people are still trying to go about their day to day activityings. mr. mayor, thanks very much for joining us. >> my pleasure, enjoy jerusalem. >> thank you. up next, i'll speak with professor shibley telhami, a major expert on the middle east and we'll get analysis. plus, we have reporters covering the mexico border crisis as only cnn can. "i've still got it" when you think aarp, then you don't know "aarp". life reimagined gives you tools and support to get the career you'll love. find more real possibilities at aarp.org/possibilities

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who is an expert on the middle east. he's a nonresident senior fellow at the center for middle east studies in waushgsshington, pror in maryland, and author of an important book, the world through arab eyes. is there an end game here? what can we anticipate in the days to come? >> we, i still think, wolf, that neither side really wanted to see this situation escalate. but that's how they find themselves, in a situation where it's escalating out of their own control. in part, once it gets to this, and you have all kinds of pain on the palestinian side, the devastation on the israeli side, people have not lost lives but people are, you know, in bunkers. and when you look at that, right now, everybody's trying to make a statement about they can sustain this a little bit longer or they can hurt the other more or less. everyone -- you hear hamas

saying, we can do this for a long time, don't think you're going to defeat us by going in today, tomorrow, the next day, the next day. we have the capacity to fight for the long haul. the israelis can hurt a lot more. we see the devastation, getting close to 1,000 casualties dead and wounded on the palestinian side. here's what the palestinians can do and have been able to do. hamas has been able, essentially, without necessarily hitting any israeli casualty, they're paralyzing the economy up to a point. can see the stock market going down. the alerts in the airport. even the prime minister and security cabinet found they had to go to a bunker in the middle of a meeting. those are the sort of things they're trying to do. they're trying to defeat kind of the anti-missile system that israeli has, iron dome, by going with a lot of missile, all at once. they're trying to disperse the missile attacks across the country to show the range and

paralyze more and more. they know israel's capacity with the iron dome is still limited in terms of the batteries. so that's what's going on for now. but everybody i think at some point knows that there is no military solution to this. they can posture. they can talk about military solution. but in the end, they've been there too many times to know that's not going to happen. and so at some point somebody's going to have to come in and put forth a fig leaf for them to pull out of it. >> who does that? clearly, the united states doesn't even have a relationship, doesn't even talk ton hamas. who can be that broker, especially now the egyptians suffered in terms of their own relationship with hamas. >> it's interesting you mention that. i think at some point both the egyptians, the u.s. and everybody else will become more interested. obviously, one reason why the israelis may not be interested in the short term is they don't want to sound like they're asking or begging the u.s. to intervene. so it has to come at a moment where they think hamas is the

one that needs the cease-fire. this is always the game that each side plays. at some point, even though the u.s. doesn't have a direct relationship with hamas, this could be an opportunity for hamas actually to kind of link up in some ways in directly through some mechanism. and in -- as long as the israelis are supportive of that idea, this might actually be an interesting moment for the obama administration. on the egyptian side, it's the same. surely, the egyptian government, particularly, hamas, you see them connected with the muslim brotherhood it on the other hand, it's hamas' opportunity to create, to give them, to do some favor to them as well and make them look good as way of bridging that gap they need. they will need egypt no matter what. i don't rule these parties out. it's a question of when is the right moment. that right moment hasn't come yet. >> hopefully, it will come soon. because there's a lot of obviously death on the palestinian side.

no serious casualties on the israeli side. but no deaths yet. but that could clearly change. let's hope that they come up with some sort of solution in the coming hours or days. i'm not holding my breath. it looks to me it could get a whole lot worse. >> absolutely. >> thanks very much. we always appreciate your analysis. coming up, we'll have much more on this story. also, another important story we're following. germany is outraged over new allegations the united states has been spying on its government. what the u.s. is doing to try to heal the significant diplomatic wound. also, on a very, very different note, lebron james chooses a new home which is the same as his first home. elation in cleveland. we'll have all the details. that's coming up as well.

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earlier in the week, cleveland got a big nod from the republican national committee, it will host the republican convention in 2016. today they got a perhaps even bigger reason to celebrate in cleveland. that's because the local hero, lebron james, he's coming back

home. the free agent mvp has agreed to rejoin the cleveland cavaliers. joining us now on the phone are cnn rachel nichols. so tell us why he picked cleveland. >> well, first, i'm going to say with absolute certainty that people there are happier about lebron coming back than they were about the republican convention announcement. >> yeah, agree. >> there's real joy we're seeing in cleveland right now. which is really fun for those of us -- he wrote an essay in making this decision. he talked about the fact it was important for him to go back and play where he's from. the streets that he walked on. the places he skinned his knees. the joy he could bring back to the people of his hometown. he said he realized just what rt spos meant to those people, to the community, how much more it

could be. and thinking of all of those things, that was a big factor in why he decided to come back. >> he's going to be back home because he obviously grew up not far away from cleveland. obviously, makes cleveland a powerhouse right now. they didn't necessarily have all that great a year this past season. >> no, but they do have some talented young players. kyrie irving is considered one of the great young talents of the game. they just drafted the number one overall. they're trying to clear space more. perhaps try to lure kevin love. trying to reunite lebron with some of the veteran players he loved playing with in miami. so you'll see some of the band getting back together. another really interesting thing about this essay. you remember when he came to my, not only was there the decision

television special that got so much criticism, but when he arrived in miami, they had this huge event with bright shiny lights and the three of them being introduced in sort of circus-like fashion. lebron came on, got to the mic, said not one, not two, not three, not four, he's talking about all the championships he expected to win. this typime, he says he's learn from his lesson. he wrote a very eloquent essay, this is the only way he's making this announcement, no press conferences, no parties, and he says in the essay, i am not promising a championship. what a huge 180, right. he says, i know it's going to take time. i know it's going to take effort. i hope that one day we can get there. certainly, let's be honest, lebron james would not go to cleveland if he didn't think they had a shot to win a championship. he's making it clear, first of all this is about more than just winning. and second of all, he's being more realistic this time and being more mature. >> it's even a huge story here in israel, rachel, since this past hour or so when we learned about about this. the israelis, a lot of israelis

are celebrating because the new head coach of the cleveland cavalier, as you well know, he was the head coach of macabe tel aviv, the top professional basketball team here in israel, he's now going to cleveland, so they're pretty excited in israel as well. thanks very much for that report. lebron james going back to cleveland. other news, the homeland security secretary jay johnson is visiting immigration detention facilities in texas and new mexico. this of course comes in the wake of that $3.7 billion in emergency funding the white house has requested to try to fix what clearly is a broken system. johnson spoke to the media and repeated a simple message. there's no such thing as a free pass. if you cross the border illegally, he says, you will be sent back. cnn's alina muchado is in a border town and gives us an inside look at what happens along the rio grande river

almost every day. >> reporter: wolf, we've been talking all week about just how much law enforcement presence there is in this area, especially the closer you get to the river. as you're about to see, keeping up with what's going on here isn't easy. this is the rio grande. nearly 1,900 miles long and now the battleground of an immigration crisis hitting the u.s. it's where a flood of undocumented immigrants are crossing into texas every single day. we wanted to get a firsthand look. we headed out on a boat with johnny hart who has lived on the river for more than three decades. >> it's just a routine deal when we're out here touring the river that we see the crossings. >> reporter: it didn't take long for us to find a path used by undocumented immigrants to cross the river. a man in the hemi brush even appears to hide from us. >> it's mainly adults that we see. lately, in the last several month, it's been women and children. >> reporter: you've seen them on this river? >> yes. >> reporter: on rafts? >> yes.

>> reporter: u.s. law enforcement boats, whether state or federal, are never too far away. but when they are, we see this. people on rafts hurrying to cross the river. in this case they seem to be headed back to mexico after a drop-off on the u.s. side. while we can't say for certain what they're up to, it's clear the men on the rafts are not happy to see us. we wanted to see where those rafts were coming from and just a few feet away, look at what we saw on the u.s. side. several border patrol agents, two vehicles and four people who appeared to be detained. not long after, a bus shows up. perhaps suggesting more than just four were now in the hands of u.s. border patrol. locals describe the situation here as a constant battle of wit between mexican smugglers and u.s. authorities. they tell us what we saw on the river yesterday, they see every single day. wolf. >> thanks very much. excellent report. meanwhile, here in jerusalem, nerves are on edge.

fighting between israel and hamas gets even deadlier. can this conflict be dialed back? the possibilities and the challenges. the challenges of a truce. that's just ahead. also, spying on friends. germany says it shouldn't be done and is taking direct action against the united states after the cia allegedly spied on the german government. the rift and the possible remedy. all that coming up. vo: this is the summer. the summer of this.

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welcome back. i'm wolf blitzer reporting today from jerusalem. we're following major developments. the obama administration clearly in damage control after allegations surfaced that the united states is actively spying on its key ally germany. the two cases involve germans. one works for the country's intelligence agency. the other in germany's ministry of defense. both are reportedly suspected of handing over official governments to cia officials. the secretary of state john kerry will undoubtedly try to smooth things over during a meeting this weekend with germany's foreign minister. but germany's anger is clearly palpable. it's expel the cia's top

official in berlin. that's a rare rue bebuke for su close ally but one germany says it needed. >> translator: the decision is the right decision, necessary step and fitting reaction to the breach of trust which has occurred. taking action was unavoidable, in my opinion. we need and expect a relationship based on trust. >> our frederik pleitgen reports it threatens to damage a critical partnership for the united states. >> the topic was supposed to be bilateral relations between germany and moldova. instead, the chancellor, angela merkel, fielding questions about the u.s. spying on her country. >> translator: i have to say from my point of view, spying on

allies is a waste of energy in the end. we have so many problems and i think we should focus on the important things. >> reporter: diplomatic words and germany also quickly announced diplomatic consequences. >> translator: the federal government has asked u.s. intelligence services, representative here in germany, to leave the country. this is in response to a continuous lack of cooperation on investigations into a number of accusations. >> reporter: the latest row could cause a major rift with one of the u.s.' most important allies. germany is europe's largest economy. merkel supports washington's position in the ukraine crisis, and has been trying to negotiate a settlement with putin. germany is key in negotiations over iran's nuclear program and various middle east issues. experts say damaged relations with germany would be a big blow to the united states. the germans and angela merkel in particular, they're the most important partners for america in europe.

this is the biggest economy clearly. also increasingly politically the most important country. this whole row is really poisoning the relationship. >> reporter: relations with germany are already suffering following the revelations of leaker edward snowden, that the nsa had hacked angela merkel's phone. she's already under pressure at home. many germans want her to toughen her stance against the u.s. these latest allegations will make it harder for europe's most powerful politician to justify close ties with the obama administration. fred pleitgen, cnn. >> a lot of people asking why, why would the united states risk damaging ties with such a critically important ally. joining us, bob baer, our cnn national security analyst, a former cia operative. well, what's the answer, why would the u.s. risk damaging a relationship with germany, a nato ally? what would be your answer? >> well, it goes back a couple

decades when iran, for instance, started relations with iran. those were secret from us, there were german companies trading with iran, nonproliferation issues were involved. secondly, wolf, we can't forget that 9/11 was hatched in germany. the germans failed to tell us about this cell in hamburg. it came as a total surprise to us. and there's been an attitude at the cia since that, you know, germany has a large immigrant population, a lot of muslim radicals and that we need to look at it ourselves and the germans aren't capable of it. that's the answer i can give. >> the white house says the president was uninformed about this penetration that the u.s. was actually allegedly running a german spy inside german's intelligence services. why would the cia, if it's true, in fact, we don't know if it's true, why would the cia keep that secret from the president

of the united states? >> i think it's a huge mistake. i mean, as soon as the snowden revelations about merkel's phone came out, they should have immediately gone to the president and explained to them. here's what else we're running in germany, at that point, it could have been cut off, all sorts of remedies. this is a mistake by the cia. when you're putting the president in jeopardy like this, you have to keep him informed. >> how does the u.s. fix this now? >> first of all, wolf, this has never happened. at the worst times in our relations with germany, never has a cia station chief been expelled. so i can't begin to describe what a crisis this is in relations. i think the president's got to get a hold of merkel and they have to sit down and work an agreement out. you could add germany to the same agreement we have with britain. no more spying. that would be the strongest

remedy. >> the cia director, would you say he's in trouble? i assume he knew about this. >> well, he's not in trouble, because he didn't initiate this. this has been going on, spying in germany, since, you know, the beginning of the cold war, 1945, 46. so none of this is new. it's not like the cia is acting in any sort of rogue manner. he's close to brennan. i think he and brennan should sit down and say what do we really need to do in germany, what sort of new agreement can we come to with merkel and let's do it and let's get the germans to stand down on this. remember, they could have thrown the cia chief out quietly. they chose not to. it's an indication of how angry they are and what a big political problem it is. >> yes, it's a huge, huge deal, i must say, when a nato alley publicly expelled the cia station chief from the capital, that is a big, big deal. all right, bob, thanks very much, bob baer helping us appreciate what's going on. still to come, the speaker

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israeli officials say hamas militants fired more than 100 rockets at israel today. the rockets clearly continuing. an israeli air strike hit a three-story apartment complex in gaza. a 4-year-old palestinian boy was killed. the death toll has passed 100. joining us from washington is aaron david miller, a middle east expert, distinguished scholar at the woodrow wilson international center, spent many years at the state department trying to achieve peace between israelis and palestinians. is there an end game? i keep asking this question. do you see anything in the next few days that's going to stop the fighting? >> the '08/'09 went on four three weeks. operation defensive pillar in 2012 went on for a week. this is now on for four days, if you don't count the terror and violence in the west bank. i don't see this ending quickly.

for a couple reasons. number one, neither israel, nor hamas, is done yet. in diffusing a crisis, the ebb and flow is everything. the israelis have not yet satisfied themselves they've done enough damage to hamas infrastructure, particularly in the wake of the launch of those long-range missiles. hamas also needs a political victory. they're not just going to trade quiet for quiet. they want things. they want release of prisoners. they want rafa opened. they want an easing of restrictions. again what gets into gaza and what gets out. so that's part of the problem. the other problem is who's mediating? and the egyptians, that's their traditional role. mr. morsi, who did this in 2012, is in prison. and abu fatah sisi, the former military head, he wants to see hamas weakened, so he's not in a hurry to jump in. then there's washington.

and the real question is, do we have enough leverage. we clearly have leverage over the israelis but we're not going to press them hard until we get some indication hamas is ready to stop. so no, sadly, tragically, this is going to go on for a while longer. >> you've seen this unfold times over these past few decades. here's the question. we know the president of the united states spoke by phone with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. we don't know what they said. but take us into that conversation. what was the main message, do you think, president obama gave the prime minister? >> well, i suspect, and this is usually part of the tenor of their calls. i don't think their relationship is terribly warm or close. i think the president kind of looks at the prime minister and he kind of doesn't believe he's respecting u.s. interests and the prime minister looks at the president and says, you know, this guy really doesn't understand either my politics or

the security predicament of my country. so i think obama probably said, look, we understand you have a big problem here. you need to defend yourself, but be careful, understand, and i know this from experience, my predecess predecessor, getting into these things is a hell of a lot easier than getting out. we'd like to discourage a ground incursion. give us some political time and space. the problem is, it's a compelling message. i think netanyahu wants to climb down. the problem is, i'm not entirely persuaded the other side wants to. again, who does the diplomacy? hillary clinton helped out in november of 2012. but, again, it was mr. morsi and the ejingyptians driving the tr. right now, nobody's driving the train. >> yeah, i fear it's going to get worse in the coming days. we shall see. aaron miller, as usual, thanks very much for you analysis. >> wolf, stay safe.

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claiming he overstepped his constitutional authority on obamacare. the white house dismisses the threatened suit as simply a stunt. let's bring in our white house, correspondent, michelle kosinski, and chief congressional correspondent, dana bash. dana, republicans allege the president was out of line when he utilize unilaterally deployed it, so what's the legal issue here, the basis of this lawsuit from boehner's perspective? >> the basis is the president did it on his own. yes, the house voted to delay. but the whole point, if you listen to republicans, is that this is a constitutional question. that the president unilaterally, decided to waive that employer mandate part of health care. however, the reality is that house republicans have been calling the president the imperial president, things like that, for months and months.

they have been looking at their legal options for months and months and months on everything from health care to the environment to immigration to foreign policy. and they settled on this particular issue, just one singular issue to sue him on. they say it's because this is their best bet legally, but absolutely, i've talked to enough republicans who pretty much admit, it's also the best issue that they have politically, because they say they're hearing it from the republican constituents. but the reality is also that obamacare and fighting the president obamacare really riles up the republican base, and we're just a few months before a midterm election. >> michelle, lawsuits against this president or any president, for that matter, rarely go anywhere. so is the white house expecting this lawsuit won't have any standing, simply tossed out? >> as we expected, they're not really commenting on the legal ins and outs of it. but when i ask specifically, what is the white house stance, at least, on the potential merits of this case going forward, and the press secretary

answered, that's assuming there is some merit to it. so i guess that was their answer to that. but more serious note, they said it will depend on the strategy that is used. and remember this advisory group was assembled by house republicans not that long ago in a precursor to trying to sue him when the administration decided not to enforce the defense of marriage act anymore. they decided to not carry that lawsuit all the way through. could be a different story here. but the white house right now is saying, well, the white house stands behind the president's actions, the decisions made. and this is not going to stop the president from using his power and doing more to help the middle class going forward, wolf. >> very quickly, dana, the house has a republican majority could pass there. does it need senate authorization, as well, where the democrats have the majority? >> no. and because -- i mean, the reality is that house republicans are authorizing this for largely symbolic reasons. they don't want this to be a

john boehner versus barack obama lawsuit. they want this to be a house of representatives lawsuit, which is why they're doing legislation, having approval or authorization on the house floor before they sue. technically, i don't believe they actually would really have to do that. >> all right, dana bash up on capitol hill. michelle co skkosinski at the w house, thank you for that excellent reporting. straight ahead, plans to expand the london array offshore wind farm have been a obstacle in the form of a rare bird. that's coming up next in our "city of tomorrow." f provokes lust. ♪ it elicits pride... ...incites envy... ♪ ...and unleashes wrath. ♪ temptation comes in many heart-pounding forms. but only one letter.

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chipmunk: there's a bad storm comin! narrator: the internet of everything is changing how energy works. is your network ready?" london has become a showcase of alternative sources of electricity to decrease dependence on fossil fuels. the london array wind turbines have run into a small obstacle. rachel crane has the story in today's "city of tomorrow." >> reporter: this is the london array. it's the world's largest offshore wind farm. and this is what it helps power.

the farm has 175 giant wind turbines, capable of generating enough electricity to power half a million homes. and it's quite possibly the answer to london's growing energy needs. >> we expect about 900,000 tons of carbon dioxide to be saved a year that would have otherwise be put into the atmosphere. the equivalent of 300,000 cars a year taken off the road. >> reporter: approximately 8.3 million people live here. and by 2031, that number is expected to climb to 10 million. a growing population means a growing need for energy. london, one of the most historic cities in the world, knows that in order to keep up with future energy demands, they need to update and diversify their energy portfolio. >> it's really about how do we get to a cleaner future, reliable energy source? and that's really what the london array is about, is moving from that old, coal, gas nuclear to more renewable and offshore winds. >> reporter: the uk is one of

the world's leaders in offshore wind power. there are over 1,000 turbines dotting the waters. these things are massive. each turbine is larger than the london eye. and it takes as little as a 10-mile-an-hour gust to spin these. until recently, the array was set to expand by possibly 57 more turbines, but construction was halted to save a rare breed of bird, called the red-throated diver. >> there are a species of birds in the uk, and come down in the winter and feed there. >> reporter: the fear is the construction of the second phase would displace the birds. is that a business of a disappointment that it's not in the near future for you? >> i think as an engineer, i always want to build things. so, of course, i would like things to go ahead. having said that, you've got to be realistic. i work with offshore wind because i care about the environment. >> reporter: the future will present more obstacles than a bird. but one thing is certain. more of these means more of this.

that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in jerusalem. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern, a special two hour "situation room" with a special report on what's going on here in the middle east. that's coming up 5:00 p.m. eastern. "newsroom" with don lemon starts right now. i'm don lemon in for brooke today. are you ready for this? lebron james. he says he's ready to get to work. but in cleveland. you have heard the news by now, probably. he is headed back home after four years away, and winning two championships with the miami heat. here's what he told "sports illustrated." that cleveland is where he walked, where he cried. the city holds a special place in his heart when it it comes to the cavs fans, remember the jersey-burning? remember that? that wasn't that long ago. and a letter from cavs' owner saying he is a coward? they're singing a much different tune now. >> what do you guys do, just ran up here? >> yeah, we just got done with the game, heard about it,