jim sciutto there live for us from tel aviv joining me now, democratic congressman from new york gregory meeks. he is also the ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee. thank you so much, sir, for being with us this morning. i do want to get your assessment because you are on that committee of what is happening in the middle east do you think we have entered into a wider war? for now but i'm very concerned this is what i've been concerned about all along. >> that we could be entering into a wider royal, wider war. i think that iran has made a mistake by shooting the ballistic missiles at israel. unlike what took place before and i think that i know that the united states government is still monitoring the situation and collecting information. and we got to continue and i hope that israel and the united states, we had to work together on this to protect the interest of israel, to protect the interests of the united states of america you've got to stand with israel's right to exist and for me it is important because i want to get 75 years of trying to destroy israel. i want that to

new york congressman gregory meeks. now let's go to michigan. now is democratic attorney general dana. earlier today, vice president kamala harris held a rally in your state. let's take a listen to some of it. >> i keep talking about, somebody just needs to watch his rallies. if you are not really sure how to vote. he spends full time talking about himself and mythical characters. not talking about the working people, not talking about you, not talking about lifting you up. >> attorney general, how well is she resonating with critical michigan voters? >> well, firstly, the vice president has been to the state of michigan so often during the campaign. she might as well take up residence here. we would love to have her. i would say this. i was on the doors all day in detroit today. i saw only two types of folks. people who were ineligible to vote, or people who were voting for kamala harris. there was no third bucket of people out there. i would say this, the people are excited. they are energized. there was a lot of motivation to get out there, a

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from hezbollah in iran have increased in recent weeks, i'm joined now by democratic congressman gregory meeks of new york, the ranking democrat on the house foreign affairs committee. congressman, thanks so much for joining us what do you think of this idea? us service members sent to israel put in potential potentially put in harm's way to help defend israel but of course i want to de-escalation of the situation in the middle east. >> i think that that has to be done. i think i know that the administration is trying to make that happen. >> israel has the right to defend itself. >> and i think that what the administration is trying to do is to preserve and make sure that any attack on israel, these are all defensive weapons defensive to knock down any, any missiles or rockets or drones that may be launched at israel to keep them from killing innocent people on the ground and unfortunately, we need to have americans day to operate those systems because they're israelis dumped and so to protect israeli innocent citizens. that's the reason why the administration is sending that but most importan

joining us now, democratic congressman gregory meeks of new york.is the ranking member on the house foreign affairs committee you just heard the reporting there from our katie bo lillis that there was what appears to be an intentional leak not a hack of highly classified intelligence documents describing how israel's preparing for retaliatory strike on iran. you are ranking member on this committee what can you tell us about this? is there any new information you can share about how they determine this look like it's an intentional leak don't think i have any new information, but i think that the fbi and others are doing the kind of investigation to find out how and who leaked this information. >> i think that's very there. he and this investigation conducted a whoever did leak it should be brought to justice gaza is being fiercely bombarded again by israel after the killing of the head of hamas, yahya sinwar the palestinians, they are living in the worst humanitarian crisis they have ever experienced. >> and there are still 101 hostages who are the

that black men overall in huge numbers for the vice president of the united states, congressman gregory meeks. thank you so much. appreciate your time this morning. a new hour of cnn news central starts right now johnfavorite day of the year, the day he gets to remind all of us of the definition of a fortnight. >> the focus sub for the candidates today and the lawsuits that are already starting to fly right now in israel, america's top diplomat 20, blinken is meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. these talks coming at a news moment of uncertainty as regional stability and a potential ceasefire hanging in the balance and growing calls for an investigation from former republican and officials. why elon musk's plan to give it $1 a day to registered voters might break the law. i'm kate bolduan with john berman and sara sidner for this is cnn new central >> that's it. 14 days? that's all that kamala harris and donald trump have left in this historically tight race, at least in the polls. and this morning, a deluge of brand new campaign details are dropping faster than a mike had an eight