Israel Expands Military Operation, SCOTUS Hears Purdue Pharma Case, Liz Cheney
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Israel says that expanded its ground defensive against tomos to all parts of gaza. This includes the .

occupied territory, southern areas where people fled to in the early days of the war. So what does this mean for the civilians in gaza?

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And former, while in congress women list chain warns, are cohoes ly about the threat of a second trump presidency.

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Israel's military says IT has expanded its ground offensive in gaza and is now targeting him, a strongholds all across the gaza strip.

Israeli forces, as are telling people to flee some areas to avoid those strikes. And that is the hard part. Many civilians have already moved from northern gaza to the south and may now face demands to leave the same areas to which they fled.

Joining us now with more is envious elon's, bierce's, intellivision, elanor. Hello, hello. On the finding resumed on friday after the ceasefire broke down, which you just start by telling us more about. Israel stepped up Operations?

yes. Well, israel says its hit hundreds of hamas targets overnight as its forces pushed deeper in the gaza, and there were multiple strikes in and around the southern gaza city of hang unis, where the top hamas leadership is believed to be located, including yahya sin war, who orchestrated the october seventh attack. Israeli media is recording that any fighting and hang units will be complicated not only by the hundreds of thousands of people who fled from the north, but also by the fact that some of the israeli hostages are believed to be held somewhere around the city. Here's israeli military spokesman, rare animal Daniel hugi.

And SHE has, yes. So he says the israeli .

forces are fighting her most terrorist face to face wherever they are and killing them. The israeli military says that has found eight hundred hamsters nel since the beginning other war, and IT claims to have destroyed five hundred of them.

So on. As we already mention, israel is telling many people in the areas that IT is targeting to leave. But how and where are they supposed to go? We already hearing that this latest of actuation warning is cause a lot of confusion and anger.

Yeah, that's right. I mean, the the israel army is claiming they have published a very detailed digital map online to help people get to safer places. They've also dropped leaflets.

You know, they're urging people to go east or west toward the sea, but you can't go any far themself. So is difficult. Mp s producing gaza anas baaba spoke with gazin s yesterday.

Here's bustle bus uni. He's an engineer and a father. He's putting up a tent for his family in raa. He's just fled hong unis. He says there are no words to describe the horrible conditions .

and what's. Happening.

he says they're more than one hundred families here in the last two nights. We are the most terrible in my life, he told in pr, but uni says he and his five children watched as the sky was lit up with bombing.

Well, what about really what are you hearing is really saying this renewed fighting? Well.

some israelis will tell you that is just time to get rid of homos once him for all. But here in television, the prevAiling sentiment seems to be that getting the hostages out is more important than the war and IT should come first. I was at a massive rally and tellement ve over the weekend for the more than hundred hostages still in gaza, had, as calderon spoke, heard two children aged twelve and sixteen, were kids that from a cabots and just released, here he is.

他， 呀呀， mom.

your life is the first thing my kids said to me, he tells the crowd and her kids thought he had been killed when they were separated in the october seven homes attack. And calderon told the crowd, we can't leave the hostages there in the dark and helpless.

And everything. Owner, you were in the israeli occupyed west bank over the weekend. What are people saying there?

Well, people feel frustrated and there's powerlessness. Ss, over what's happening in gaza. I spoke with seventy year old amad omara jolla in roma. He described how people feel .

that feels so bad about gaza, you know, the effects in everybody, because palestinians, you know, the same people we can do nothing about IT they bombarded is so much. We see little kids. It's hard.

you know. Tensions have risen in the west bank since out cobo seventh, and israeli human rights groups say that two hundred and fifty palestinians have been killed since then. One told me that was a pressure cooker .

ready to explode. That's all. Thank you.

You're welcome.

The supreme court meets the opioid crisis today.

The justice here arguments in a chAllenge to the bankrupcy deal that was meant to compensate victims of the addictive painkiller c cotton.

pr. Legal affairs correspondent nina totenberg is covering the story a good morning. Good morning. What's this case about?

Well, you know, today we know that another farmer actively pushed highly addictive drugs without telling people what they were doing. That's documented in court and in a documentary called the crime of .

the century. This was a new rug carton rug deals wearing suits and lab coat.

By twenty, twenty two farmers are pleaded guilty to three criminal charges, and the company agreed that IT are eight billion dollars in criminal and civil fines, most of which would to be paid to state and local governments handling the fallout from the opioid crisis. And most of that money was conditioned on the company reaching a deal in bankrupcy court that would reimburse .

the victims OK. So i'd heard about all of that is a chAllenge to that arrangement. What the supreme court is now considering corrupt.

The question at the center of the case is whether the bankrupcy court has the authority to release the sackler from liability despite the fact that all three of the original circular brothers who bought perdue and ultimately developed oxi conon where doctors and that six sicker set on the board of the company, including the board chair, Richard sickler, who closely directed the first aggressive and deceptive oxy content marketing strategy OK.

So the question is whether the court had the power, but don't court have a lot of power in these cases?

They do. But the question of releasing from liability a whole category of guilty players, is when is not been decided by the supreme court. In this case, the sickler at first offered four billion dollars for the settled, then moved IT up to six billion. But the justice department trustee who oversees bankruptcy cases in new york connect cut in vermont, still objected to the deal and defending that position today. The biden administration will argue that the bankrupcy law does not authorize bankrupcy cords to approve or released from liability for third parties like the sickler, who have not declared bankrupcy and still have at least half their wealth and probably more if the deal is approved.

okay. So the by administration is taking the view that the sandler shouldn't get away with whatever they still are getting away with. What are the basic arguments on each side?

Those opposing the settlement deal say that the sackler are effectively getting the rewards of a bankrupcy at half Price, but they're still able to keep more than half of their money in assets, and they can't be sued personally, so they'll never have to testify about their mistakes. Georgian law professor adam levine puts IT this way.

Bankrupcy is supposed to provide relief for honest but unfortunate deats. They come clean about their assets and they give up all of their assets to their creditors. Ors and the sacco ers are not doing either those things.

The other side acknowledges that bankrupts can be messy like this one, but it's the only way to get all the players and the victims in one tent and provides some real compensation. And if the supreme court vetos the bankrupt, there's no guarantee that victims will actually be compensated because the sectors have hidden their wealth in foreign banks that are very difficult to access and at best, getting to that money would take years and potentially burn millions, if not billions, of dollars .

in legal fees.

Thank you, Steve.

Former ooman congresswoman liz chain is sounding a warning about former president Donald mp.

yeah he told her colleague laya follow IT would be the end of democracy in this country of trump is elected again. China used to be the number three house republican opposed SHE lost when he turned to against trump for his effort to stay in office after he lost the presidential election in two and twenty.

SHE spoke to lay ahead of the release of her new book, which comes out tomorrow. And layer is with us now to give us a previous good morning, good night. You had a pretty thorough conversation with I know you read her book.

what was your biggest take away? I mean, biggest take away that chinese making at her mission to make sure trump is not reelected. Let's listen to some of our conversation. Are you considering a run for the presidency? And twenty twenty four.

I haven't I haven't ruled IT out. I look at IT though, very much through the lens of stopping Donald trump. And so whatever IT will take to do that is very much my focus. I think the dangers that great that, that needs to be everybody's top priority.

So her warning is stark, SHE says. As Steve said, democracy country is at stake if trump is elected again in her book of the honor is an accounting of what happened inside her party in the weeks before and after the january six attack on the capital by supporters of the former president, and Michelle SHE does not hold back, calling her former colleagues, collaborators and enablers who knowingly went along with a lie that the election was stolen in twenty twenty and a lie that LED to the attack on the capital. SHE writes in her book that trump is the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the oval office.

What about her former colleague? Mean, you said that he doesn't hold back there. What about the republican party writ large? The party itself? As you know.

mi list china is a throne through conservative, but he told me the republican party in its current form is not her party. SHE calls IT an anti constitutional party. And I asked her what he thought when he saw six activate republican White house, hopefully in a debate, raise their hands when asked if theyd support trump as the republican omino if you were convicted of a crime and here's what he said.

if the party goes down the path of of nominating Donald trump, certainly the party itself will have lost any claim to be a party that that is in fact, supportive of the constitution chain.

I was part of the january six committee which investigated the attack on the capital. Does he think her work with that committee accomplished what I needed to?

You know, I asked her that, and he says that work was just the beginning. It's why he wrote this book, he says, in which he calls out the group applying party leadership for being coward who went along with trump interest. The country's institutions is what he wrote. And the danger, he says, is not. In the review mire.

there was an ipad in the wall street journal recently where they suggested that even if Donald trump elected, IT wouldn't be that bad because, of course, we have these institutions and we have these traditions and we have the separation of powers and and that people could some account on that to restrain him. And one of the main messages of my book is, no, you can't. You cannot count on those institutions to restrain him.

Well, looking forward to hearing more of what he said. That's emps little found later. Thank you. Thanks, mi. You can find more of latest interview with less shiny on morning edition and at npr dot org.

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