Israel Retaliates After Rockets Fired From Gaza; Senate Rejects President Trump's National Emergency.
KOSIK: The latest on the breaking news out of New Zealand. Police in the city of Christchurch confirm 49 people were killed in a terror attack at two mosques. Forty-eight more have been wounded. Muslims were gathering for prayer services when the gunman walked in and systematically murdered as many as he could. Police charging one 28-year-old man with murder. Two others remain in custody. Two IEDs were found attached to one of the attacker's cars. Stay with CNN for updates as we get them.</s>BRIGGS: Israel retaliating overnight after rockets targeted Tel Aviv for the first time since the 2014 war with Hamas. Israel hitting targets in Gaza following the attack, and there's reporting in the last few minutes Israel Defense Forces think the attack may not have been sanctioned by Palestinian leaders. CNN's Melissa Bell at the Israel-Gaza border. Melissa, what can you tell us about that reporting?</s>MELISSA BELL, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Dave, what we're hearing -- this is from the Israeli media who are suggesting that that's the IDF's assessment at this stage. And we're really getting a sense that after that flare-up of tensions that you were just talking about overnight, there is a willingness on all sides to really see a de-escalation along this border just behind me at this stage. On one hand, we're hearing from inside Gaza that those weekly Friday protests have now been canceled. They've been going on for a year now. Today, they were due. They've, in fact, been canceled given what happened overnight. We've also been speaking to a spokesman for Islamic Jihad, one of the groups that functions inside Gaza, suggesting that perhaps it was time that the -- there should be some sort of de-escalation to what had happened over the course of the last 24 hours. I think everyone was really taken by surprise by the fact that those rockets should have made their way to Tel Aviv, not intercepted by the Iron Dome system. But no fatalities, no casualties at all. Some surprise, really, that they should have come as quickly as they did when no one had really expected at this stage, Dave, a flaring up of the tensions along this particular border. So on all sides, we're really hearing that there is a sense -- we're getting a sense, rather, that perhaps everyone is looking to put the lid back on this and really keep this flare-up from becoming any more serious than it has been already.</s>BRIGGS: All right. Melissa Bell live for us at the Israel-Gaza border at just about noon there. Thanks, Melissa.</s>KOSIK: Our first glimpse this morning of the final moments in the cockpit of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board. "The New York Times" reports the captain called controllers in a panicky voice three minutes into the flight as the plane accelerated to abnormal speed.</s>BRIGGS: Someone who reviewed air traffic communications tells the "Times" the captain radioed, "Break, break, request back to home" and then asked for a route back to the runway. Controllers saw the new 737 MAX 8 was climbing and plunging hundreds of feet in just seconds, a clear sign something was very wrong. Today is veto day at the White House. President Trump expected to hold a public ceremony to mark the first veto of his presidency after suffering a humiliating defeat in the Republican-controlled Senate. Twelve members of his own party joining forces with the Democrats to reject the president's national emergency declaration for border wall funding. President Trump responding quickly to the vote with a one-word tweet, "VETO!" If the current totals hold, there will not be enough votes to override the president. Let's bring in "Washington Post" congressional reporter, Karoun Demirjian, a CNN political analyst. Good to see you this morning, Karoun.</s>KOSIK: Good morning.</s>BRIGGS: Twelve Republicans -- a stunning rebuke but arguably, it could have been a lot higher. If Thom Tillis had stuck with his words in "The Washington Post", if Ted Cruz would have backed up his rhetoric, if Ben Sasse would have stuck the Constitution, it could have easily been 15 or 16. But what does this rebuke mean for the president's national emergency?</s>KAROUN DEMIRJIAN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST, CONGRESSIONAL REPORTER, THE WASHINGTON POST: It means, basically, that you've seen now play out in real time and in an actual vote the frustration that exists in the GOP about the way that Trump is approaching border security and has been for a long time. There has never been complete support for his strategy of prioritizing the wall. And yes, I know that we've been -- we've heard various descriptions of what it actually is over the last several months as this debate has been playing out in various stages. But the GOP has never been fully behind what the president wanted to do. And yet, when push came to shove, not everybody who had been very critical of him and very critical of this kind of power grab of the authority to be able to divert funds away from Congress. This is kind of the most sacred power that the Legislative Branch has. And they didn't fight back in as large numbers as you might have excepted, listening to the way that members of the Senate, members of Congress, and the GOP were talking about this being an overreach. It's also interesting that of the 12 who voted against the president, only one of them is up for reelection in 2020, and that's Susan Collins who has often broken with what the -- with what the president wants to do, anyhow, in the past. And so that tells you maybe a little bit of something about what the competing motivations are. Trump still wields a lot of power in the</s>GOP -- BRIGGS: Yes.</s>DEMIRJIAN: -- even if people don't like what the policy issues are that he espouses.</s>BRIGGS: It could come back to haunt one Cory Gardner up for reelection in Colorado --</s>DEMIRJIAN: Yes.</s>BRIGGS: -- and now, a very blue state. Thom Tillis also up for reelection. Perhaps that's why he shifted. It now goes to the courts. And you wonder how much the words of the president saying, "I can do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this." You wonder if those words come back to haunt him. We shall see.</s>KOSIK: Yes. Let's completely switch gears and talk about North Korea --</s>BRIGGS: Right.</s>KOSIK: -- because we have Kim Jong Un considering suspending talks with the</s>U.S. BRIGGS: According to his foreign minister.</s>KOSIK: According to his foreign minister -- and rethinking a ban on missile tests. This, despite all the optimism coming from the U.S. So was all that talk about Trump and Kim Jong Un being buddies much ado about nothing?</s>DEMIRJIAN: Well, I think that you've seen this talk about 'oh, we are fine -- it's just the situation around us is not that great' coming from both sides. And I think that that's been -- and both of these leaders have egos that need to be buoyed and the relationship between the two of them is what they've billed this entire process on. They got to the stage of actually having these summits before a lot of the groundwork. It seemed like it was at a point at which you could actually shake hands on a deal. So this bipartisan relationship between the two individuals has been critical for how they've actually tried to sell the potential of there being a deal around North Korea's nuclear weapons. But it's interesting that you see this sort of play right now. I mean, it's been a while since the summit and yet they're saying -- now the North Koreans are coming out and saying yes, we might do all of these drastic steps. I mean, that seems like it's a push to force the United States to make greater concessions or more forcefully back to the negotiating table. The North Koreans were the ones who were left behind in Hanoi and so it seems like this is a calculated move to saber-rattle and get the United States to move closer to their position or to give Kim the same opportunity basically that they have twice before in the original summits, which did buoy his negotiating position and his position at home with his people.</s>BRIGGS: Yes, interesting to see them stroke the president and talk about this wonderful chemistry between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump. A lot to cover. Karoun Demirjian, thanks so much for being here.</s>KOSIK: Thanks so much.</s>BRIGGS: We await a reaction from the president on both North Korea and, of course, the shooting in New Zealand. Thanks, Karoun.</s>KOSIK: We've yet to hear. All right, thanks for joining us. I'm Alison Kosik.</s>BRIGGS: I'm Dave Briggs. "NEW DAY" has breaking news coverage continuing right now.