joining me now bobby ghosh and of course my colleague joining me again, andrea mitchell, nbc news chieforeign affairs correspondent. andrea, let's go to this. yesterday there was an assumption that things would get violent, even if it was going to be right before a temporary cease-fire or a truce because israel usually wants to try to set hamas back militarily, but this is not that. this is something more. >> this is israel pressure internally on netanyahu who was the one resisting taking more aggressive action. >> i had somebody describe to me this is local politics for him. he felt like he had to do this for his own politics. >> exactly. the rocket fire coming from gaza, even though from an international perspective the asymmetry of the death toll is so dramatic. 260 some palestinian deaths now and 2 israelis, that one soldier last night and the previous casualty. but that said, serinternally in israel people are living in bomb shelters and sustaining relentless rocket fire. israel doesn't have a handle as they used to when they had better ground troops so their feeling is they have t

. >>> joining me now, bobby ghosh, and indera, senior correspondent. i want to start with you. prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying that israel is ready for anything but also saying it's not clear where this is headed. do you anticipate this a ground invasion is the next step we'll see here? >> remember, this is the first serious outbreak of violence we've seen between israel and hamas since two years ago when there was an eight-day conflict between the two. i do think although israel doesn't want to go all-out with a ground war, i think at this point they are trying to get rid of as much of the hamas arsenal, shall we say, as they can. remember, there is a game-changer which is hamas has now some rockets they didn't have the last time there was conflict between the two sides and these are long-range rockets that are supposedly syrian made and iranian supplied. so i think we can see the possibility tens of thousands of israelis have been called up as reservists. i do think a ground war is possible. i don't think the israelis are looking for a full-fledged reoccupation of ga

bobby ghosh. >>> without immigrants in america, we'll all pay the price, and one specific way that it could cost your family. and plus, russian hackers could threaten american pipelines from thousands of miles away. >> immigration advocates are speaking out a day after president obama said he would go alone with the immigration system. he has asked aids for action that he can take un laterally. today, the afocio called on the president to take bold moves, and others have been pressing for changes to the immigration system. among them are america's farmers because many of the 2.2 million farms depend on undocumented workers to stay alive, and if the workers weren't there, farmers would pay more for labor and american consumers would pay more for groceries. mary snow has the story. >> reporter: from fields of corn to orchards growing apples, half of the workers on america's farms picking crops are undommed. that's the government's estimate. the exact number is difficult to come by, and so is the cost of farmers and consumers should those workers disappear. the american farm bureau feder

bobby ghosh, thank you so much. >>> now to another major trouble spot and the new claims that russia is planning to escalate the conflict. russia is now bombarding ukrainian forces from russian soil and are preparing to shift more heavy weapons, including tanks, across the border. let's get more from mark albert. >> reporter: good morning. in addition to the new weapons, a key ambassador says russia is staging more troops on the ukrainian border after pulling thousands back just two months ago. at a security forum in colorado friday, the u.s. ambassador revealed an apparent russian buildup. >> now up again, over 15,000 russian troops amassed along the border with ukraine. >> reporter: less overt are the large amounts of training funding and support russia has given the rebels. >> this is civil war by proxy, if you will. it's instability generated largely by moscow and by putin. >> reporter: and it may be about to intensify. the pentagon said friday it believes the transfer of heavy caliber artillery systems from russia to ukrainian rebels is imminent. a powerful rocket system is susp

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. >> bobby ghosh, what a great pleasure to have you on this morning. >>> a quick followup to an interview i brought you yesterday. mohamed and shalom live in south florida. they are friends despite the different background. one of israeli dand one palestinian. some of you -- some of our viewers wondered whether we were aware of a powerful hashtag that cut across the language of hatred and deadly violence in what can feel like a never ending conflict. well, we are. we're aware of it. and so are our guests. jews and arabs refuse to be enemies. a great message. they shared it here yesterday. >>> a west coast a tinderbox. 120 wild fires burning now. and the latest threatening a national treasure. yosemite. i'll take you there for a live report. >>> first, over nine years the u.s. deported 129,000 criminals back to central america. we'll look at the connection between street gangs of los angeles and this country's current border crisis. there's a very clear link. we'll be right back. time for the your businesses entrepreneur of the week. ron morris and kent jones got a $500 loan from the paren

managing editor for the news website bobby ghosh and pulitzer prize winning editor and with the "theashington post," eugene robinson. you know what i'm talking about whoopi goldberg and stephen a. smith controversy. they were fighting about this yesterday because of comments made. have you been following that? >> i heard about it. i didn't get to see it but i look forward to it. >> we will lay it all out but it's definitely one of the old debates renewed in a very different way. >>> we begin this morning in the middle east where the crisis between israeli and hamas is now in its fourth week and the hopes for a resolution appear to be dwindling. last night air strikes lit up the sky in the center of gaza city as israeli hit key hamas locations. the targets including a tv station and the home of one of the group's top leaders. the strikes came as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu delivered a national tv address. he warned of an extended conflict and said, quote, there is no war more just than this. israeli and hamas are trading blame for an attack that left nine palestinian chi