of technology here on earth someday in places where it's not always easy to get a surgeon. phil and poppy think places like really remote rural areas, or maybe even war zones that is such a good point that was absolutely fascinating and also because we have you here, talk to us about spacex scrubbing the launch of that lunar lander. what is significant about that? >> well, poppy, if successful, this would be the first american made spacecraft to successfully land on the surface of the moon. since the end of the apollo program, way back in 1972 and if successful, the company behind this lunar lander accompany called intuitive machines. it would become the first private company the in history to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon. so two big firsts here the mission was scrubbed last night, but they're going to try again tonight. so fingers crossed washington. thank you. cnn this morning continues now

>> we want let's send the message to our friends running the congress these days stopped running around for trump and start running the country the people are watching they want us to start working together. so our message is very clear. either get on board or get out of the way >> morning everyone so glad you're with us, it is a big morning for democrats. they flipped the house seat once held by expelled and indicted new york congressman george santos. what this victory biden tom suozzi means for capitol hill and for the upcoming presidential election and >> overnight ukraine says it destroyed another russian warship in the black sea, but more us military aid it looks unlikely, at least for now, we're going to talk national security council spokesman john kirby about how the us would support ukraine if that package fails to move forward and a high stakes showdown will go in

inside the us military's mission to stop attacks on ships and the red sea. this hour of cnn this morning starts now here's where we start. >> republicans grip on the house, just got even weaker democrats scoring a huge victory and flipping the seat once held by george santos, the gop's already razor thin majority is now getting slimmer and dimming their chances of passing anything without some support from democrats. tom suozzi he says, his win as a clear message that americans are fed up with republicans following donald trump's orders and refusing to work with democrats on border security and other pressing issues. yes. >> it's moved beyond the petty partisan bickering and the finger-pointing. it's time to focus on how to solve the problems. >> yeah. >> it's. time to get to work on immigration on israel can

combating putin on helping the middle class harry. >> enten joins us now to break down his takeaways from last night's special election and look, there's only one takeaway. this means everything. this tells you exactly what's going to happen in november, right? that's exactly right. it tells you everything now. it's just one special election, but i want to put it in sort of some context of what has happened in the, over the last year, which is it's just the latest big win for democrats or liberals candidates, right? they flip the wisconsin supreme court last year, they took control of the virginia general general assembly. they had already hold the senate, they held on with they wanted the lower house there, but she or andy bashir, the kentucky governor, and now we have this big win and new york three, switching this district. so this sort of falls in line with this argument that democrats have been having is yeah, those national polls may be saying one thing, but when voters vote, democrats win, and i want to also just sort of put this in a context of why this suozzi when was far from guaranteed? yes, a lot of people pointed out that joe biden won this district by eight points back in 2020, but

republicans swept it in the 2022 midterms. they want a gubernatorial race. they want the house race basically what george santos and joe pinion who lost by double digits statewide actually won in this district by about four points over chuck schumer and so this win looks a lot more like 2,020.20, 22. and how of course, ditched kwasi. do it, you know, i have watched these ads were a ton of these ants have a choice if you lived here, that's exactly right. i mean, i was just trying to watch football on these ads just coming on and on and on. and he was able to do it actually by leaning into the immigration message, the idea on border security that republicans didn't want to do anything and he would actually go in and trying time the border and folks have been listened to trump too much and perhaps trying to vote against things that a lot of folks actually wanted. >> so it's such a good point because remember, he told manu raja last week he said something when republicans blocked this, it made this a lot easier for me and i thought now we'll see if that plays out a number. it seems like it has to your broader point though, if you're joe biden, you're looking at this, you're saying win after win after win and special in ballot initiatives, governor's races, virginia, state house races

what's happening with my numbers? what do you what's the answer there? >> yeah. you know, essentially, if we were essentially look right now, you know, you hit it this in the intro number of john's, a number of votes that mike johnson, who's shrinking and still have majority. it was three now it's down to two. that was part of the reason i think why that mayorkas impeachment yesterday was rushed through because they had already lost three votes. they could afford to lose the three. now, republicans can only lose two votes. and here's the real thing. this may make the house and the congress at et cetera. it's not working, and it may continue not to work to an even greater degree because look at the bills and resolutions that have become law. it was 39 that was already the lowest compared to 81, which was the prior low in the last 50 years. this 39, this year, we may even see fewer pieces of legislation pass. congress isn't working and it may continue not to work. >> i've heard that there's a bill has just sent by the senate that probably has it's about 300 votes, which would be enough in the house and just

have to put it on the house? yeah. >> that apparently that's a ton of the math guy leave the periods of we appreciate you. thanks, buddy >> all right with us now cnn political commentator, former special adviser to president obama, van jones and scott jennings. our senior political commentator and former special assistant to president george w bush, there good morning, guys. >> good morning. man. >> is the suozzi when the roadmap for biden and democrats to win and nine months, it is just because the republicans have managed to shoot themselves in the foot by taking this issue of immigration, weaponizing it. they're putting migrants on buses, driving up to blue states to get him in blue cities. saying the sky is falling, terrorists are coming. you, we got to do something. and then what democrat say, you know what, you're right. say, never mind. we don't care to now it's the republicans open border. and democrats can run against republicans open border and also still maintain our commitment to being humane, not treat people like footballs and circus animals and all the horrific stuff that republican been doing. but also be tough

on the border. so republicans have literally turned what was their super issue into an issue that we can win on. and we just showed that last night. >> it's not exactly biden's roadmap because suozzi did everything he could to stay away from joe biden and ran away, didn't want biden to come here, ran ads of him on fox news being an immigration hawk. so it can't be it cannot be a roadmap for biden win congressional candidates in swing districts are doing everything they could do to stay away from the mayor. >> but what's interesting is you don't see biden jump on social media and then started beating the crap i've anybody in our party, you can have some flexibility if you want to be close to the president. that's fine. you want i want to move away in your district. that's fine. we don't march everybody off the same cliff with trump. you got to march off the same cliff, even if you've been screaming for months about the border, suddenly trump goes. we don't care about the border until after i'm president and you have to throw your own issue in a garbage can. so our party can be more flexible and biden has his own problems, but there's a roadmap on this issue of immigration. democrats

can win on immigration to that point. biden will be running against trump. and clearly trump motivates an activates a different set of voters and come out and special elections in the republican party. but he also activates the hell out of democrats. and that's consistent over specialist as well. and i thought this is why nikki haley's obviously still running against donald trump for the republican nomination, had a statement last night that made the point. they lost in 18, they lost the house in 20, they lost the presidency in the senate in 22. they underperform the red wave and continued to not have, to have the senate anymore. there's a statement. >> they lose with donald trump, republicans lose with donald trump. >> yeah, except for one time. yeah, 2016. and he still didn't get more votes than hillary clinton that election, but he did manage to back into the president's see something else about the coalition that has formed for both parties here. and i think you saw this last night. >> a lot of the >> former high propensity college-educated voters. we used to rely on in districts like this have gravitated towards the democrats. they show up for elections trump it is true, is actually brought a

lot of new people in the republican party, but a lot of them are lower propensity voters. they made show up for donald trump. they may come out and i suspect he's going to do better in this district than what happened in the special last night in november. but when you're talking about special elections, you've got to get your people out. you want people who have a proven track record of voting. and the democrats crowds right now these college-educated suburban voters, that's where they're going. and you saw it last night. >> it's scott's right on that. that's where democrats can't get too comfortable because these are weird elections. you had a weird dude, santos who made this thing strange. it was a weird. you were boat and in february, the weather is weird. it's like a blizzard and early in its bring time at night. so there's a weird election. and a lot of wealthy, college-educated people came out that may not be the same in november. in november, everybody is coming out, so democrats can't get too comfortable because we keep winning these special elections. once you get to the normal, everyday here it is, is november as a presidential, it will be a different electrode. it just shows there is a

pathway. if we were losing all these specials, we be even more concern. there is a pathway, but it will be different november. >> we look at this video because in his remarks last night, tom suozzi was once again as biden has been many times, disrupted by pro-palestinian protesters, i think we have can we play the sound, guys i listen to this >> he also then made a remark about sort of everyone working together, but the van i asked you this, i'm sure about what happened to him, but what he's going to keep happening to democrats and keep happening to biden. yes. >> unless there's a call for a ceasefire from the white house. >> unless there's i think a change in what the idf is doing. less than uc in this movie before 1968, you had an

unpopular war. vietnam, yet unpopular democratic president johnson, you had a new technology showing a young generation shocking images, color television and are in the convention was a disaster in chicago guy >> yeah, chicago. yeah. >> we've got an unpopular war, unpopular democratic president, at least right now, and a new technology tiktok instagram is showing a generation shocking images and they're reacting. and so you can't pretend that this isn't a dynamic here. and i think if we are still in the summer, i'll see in the same type of images, young people are going to continue to be upset. it's gonna be difficult for biden to give his convention speech. if you have this level of energy from the young part of our party, can i just ask you, i was really struck this week seeing, first of all, the significance of king of bella going to the white house at this moment, saying publicly and those remarks, it has to be a ceasefire biden doesn't say ceasefire, but a couple of days prior he says what israel is doing is over the top, but see

something changing >> but listen that, that ceasefire language, unless, unless you're going to say a bilateral ceasefire, that hamas needs to stop firing rockets. it's not forget, we don't always show it, but hamas is firing rockets today at israeli civilians. that's why there's something called the iron dome. so i think the problem is when you just say ceasefire, it sounds like you're saying one side. yeah the israelis need to stop doing what they're doing. and it seems unfair. so i think that that's why there's tension inside of our party. how do you describe the need to deal with that humanitarian crisis? differently? i agree. i think israel has gone too far, but the real focus needs to stay on hamas. and that movement. and that's why we have this rug burn. >> i suspect the person who rushed the stage last night when they hear ceasefire, they think, oh, israel should engage in a ceasefire and we should be able to continue to her. hamas should be able to continue to do whatever they want to do. nat to me is the push and pull this district, by the way, one of the biggest jewish populations in the country, suozzi, was he wasn't conflicted about this and but,

but biden's got he's got other jurisdictions to be internal torque on that issue. >> i would also note i'd like to thank mayor johnson will have a different approach than their are daily, depending on hopefully >> but i do want scott before we let you go, nikki, haley's super pac has a new ad out. she's still running. yeah, there's still a race. south carolina is the be-all end-all and its next up on the calendar, what's this? >> another. trump did it again, this time attacking nikki haley's husband >> what happened to her husband? where is he's gone up guys on the military deployment is essentially mocking his military service. >> it's a sick pattern visiting military graves and saying, i don't get it. what was in it for them? calling debts? soldiers, suckers, and losers donald trump sick or clueless >> it's true, it's the thing about her husband is a porn and i have no concept of what the thought process was. there even was won that's a powerful ad.

>> yeah. i mean, look, she she has run some ads and said some things that are objectively true that looked like they should be useful political tactics. there are no more persuadable republicans. he's got this thing. now, i'm sure there are people that don't like it and are going to vote for him anyway, i don't i mean, i think what he said about her husband is terrible it's absolutely terrible. i mean, the man serving our country but this thing is on lockdown for him right now. and i don't know how long she's going to keep it going. but there are no ears lift that are listening to this. they think this primary is over and they also think he's going to beat job that republicans think he's going to be joe biden and they're just tired of being told otherwise that's word. i think nikki haley is doing. a great source of the country that there are two people standing between donald trump and the white house. what is joe biden the other nikki haley and i hope that she continues to do what she's doing >> interesting to, watch, particularly if she has to consider endorsing. we've seen this path before. i know number of republicans and i feel like

this, it's a pretzel shape path and we know where it ends up. >> this >> past week might've been a bridge too far. >> i will say scott van, thanks, guys. as always also this morning, we're going inside the fight against tax on commercial ships in the red sea and go aboard a us warship to see how the navy is trying to stop the houthi rebels. >> also this morning, people up and down the eastern seaboard, digging out of what was the biggest snowstorm in years for some cities, starlink traffic knocking out power some places in connecticut, new jersey, pennsylvania yeah, about 15 inches of stone, new york city, central park at just about three inches, but that's the highest we've seen in two years >> united states of scans with jake tapper sunday at nine on cnn everyone sees

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premiere sunday, february 24. they ten on cnn welcome back this morning, we're getting an up-close look at how the us navy is trying to stop attacks against ships in the red sea or natasha >> bertrand went on board a us warship on the frontlines of this fight against iran backed militants capturing how quickly the crews on the ships need to react in order to successfully shoot down an incoming missile. mostly fired by houthi militants in yemen. the us has launched dozens of airstrikes in retaliation, but the houthis have continued to attack these ships, forcing vessels to go around this around southern africa, the cape of good hope, and adding a lot of costs to what it takes to ship this stuff and what you could pay just this morning, the second largest shipping company in the world told cnbc, it does not expect to use the red sea route again, anytime soon. national security correspondent natasha bertrand joins us from bahrain with a lot more, just

remarkable that you were on board. we've been reporting so much on this. tell us what you saw well poppy we were really on the front lines of the us navy's fight against the houthis inside yemen. they're backed by iran. they have been launching dozens of missiles and drones into the red sea targeting commercial vessels as both directly targeting, we are told us and coalition forces who have been stationed in the red sea to try to protect the freedom of navigation there. now it's really hard to overstate just how intense the environment is on the uss dwight d. eisenhower, an aircraft carrier, where we were stationed for two days and we watched dozens of planes take off every single day to circle the skies over the red sea. and of course, to carry out strikes inside of yemen itself to try to prevent the who these from launching these missiles and interrupting commercial vessels. and of course, prevent them from actually hitting these ships, which they have managed to do several times in the past. now, we also had the opportunity the to go onboard a us destroyer, which is really the tip of the spear when it

comes to this fight against the houthis, these are the destroyers that shoot down the incoming missiles. really a regular basis. and we went inside the command center of this destroyer to get a look at just how quickly the crew of the ship needs to respond when they sense an incoming missile new track iss as anti-ship cruise missile embark gravely killed track aides, your with missiles visit screen like msis contract asr i'm so sorry, mrs. away eight-year-old, 306 >> last check as >> i misread now the radars on that warship, they can quickly detect when the houthis launch a missile from inside yemen, and they can >> respond to it again, they only have a couple of seconds if what the most, a couple of minutes to do so, but those systems don't always work. those missile systems on board. these destroyers. and in fact, just a couple of weeks ago, this destroyed that we were on the uss gravely and had a very close call with a hoodie the

missile that was launched in their direction, they had to use one of their last lines of defenses onboard the ship called the phalanx system. in order to successfully shoot that down, that just gives you a sense here of how these sailors are really directly in harm's once way every single day. they are on. >> did you get a sense from them in terms of how long they can sustain trying to repel these attacks well according to the officials that we spoke to you on board, both these shifts, the gravely >> and the eisenhower, they say that they can sustain this mission really for as long as it takes a defeat, the houthis, it is not an easy task because the us doesn't know exactly how much of the houthis capabilities actually remains despite the fact that they've been striking inside there territory. but here's what the commander of carrier strike group to told me about just how long the us can sustain this >> the sustainability >> we can go for a long time. we've got our logistics train already mapped out to stay here as long as the president needs us to stay here

>> so the us confident, obviously they can outlast the houthis that remains to be seen though just how long they're going to have to remain station there in the red sea, the houthis are going to be tough to defeat, according to many of the officials we spoke to. >> one just amazing that you've gotten on board all of that is fascinating. thank you, natasha well, democrats flip the house seat. george santos used to hold. we'll talk to republican congressman mike lawler next about that. the politics of new york and what's happened on the house floor if they're with us >> that's how you may like it never even happened, served >> pro i saw for with short article thrive just since i was want to journey for a really long time to find some relief, placenta ics works for me hello syntax helps real people get real relief from the symptoms of psoriatic arthritis or psoriasis serious allergic

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stopped running around and for trump. and start running the country >> there was ever credit tom suozzi after winning the special election in new york to replace expelled and indicted congressman george santos. present, president biden's campaign, also using the when to check trump's saying, quote, when republicans run on trump's extreme agenda, even in a republican held seat, voters rejected so as he's wearing offers democrats potential playbook in november as they try and win key suburban districts around the country. and this victory, tightens already very narrow majority republicans have in the house to 219 to 213 joining us now to discuss republican congressman mike lawler of new york is one of those outspoken republicans who pushed to expel george santos. and i just want to say this up top so my mother-in-law is not concerned. i will get to mass today for ash wednesday as well. the morning show makes it a little difficult to do it in the morning before work, i will do it afterwards, but i know she will appreciate that you've already done that, congressman i want to start with last night when you're on cnn, i was

watching you said this is gonna be a referendum on democratic leadership. people are upset with the state level, the federal level and the democrat won. so what do you think that tells you about how people are feeling like democratic leadership >> well obviously as you alluded to, this is ashes on my forehead, not crow but look, i congratulate tom suozzi on well-thought campaign. this is a democratic district that the president won by eight points. and you look at the fact that he's been in public office for nearly 30 years, representing most of this district including representing it in congress for six years. and they spent $25 on this race. obviously, i think we all anticipate it would be a lot closer than it was but i think when you look at all of the polling in the race, the top three issues where the border affordability

and crime and i don't think that's changed. i think tom ran a good campaign and in a special election it really is about turnout and democrats came out to vote. >> if those are the top three issues and suozzi, one ran a good campaign name id. obviously, huge part of this spending as well, but doesn't that provide a roadmap them for other democrats who have similar districts, biden won districts you're in a biden-won district from 2022 use in november >> look, i think each races obviously different when you look at a district like mine, which joe biden won by ten points. i'm doing very well in my district. and in part because i show up in every community, people nowhere i stand on the issues they know who i am and at the end of the day when you look at any campaign, it really comes down to the choice between the candidates and so i think certainly democrats can look

at, at this race and see a pathway forward in some of these districts. but it comes down to the candidate, my opponent mondaire jones was the third most progressive member of congress while he was here, he called for defunding the police that doesn't play well in my district. if you note tom suozzi ran away from president biden, didn't want president biden to come campaign forum, right? and really frankly when after the president on the border, so obviously, yes, democrats can learn something from the fact that even their candidate here repudiated the policies that have been enacted by the biden administration. but you had a candidate that had been in office for nearly 30 years in 25 million was spent to prop him up so yeah, i give them kudos. but each race

is going to be different. and like i said, in my particular race, my opponent is a far left radical socialist who moved to brooklyn to go run in 2022, ran away from the hudson valley shutdown his office several months before that is redistrict buyout. >> know. and he was serving at the time is >> reading, but even i understand. but any any reasonable person would but of state and fought for their community. he packed up and left and that's something i would never do. >> i want to ask you the suozzi made an interesting point to our colleague and everybody's friend on capitol hill, my russia earlier in the week when he was in the district saying it got a lot easier on immigration when the bipartisan border compromise crafted in the senate was basically consider you're dead on arrival in the house. i asked kathy hochul, the new york governor about that when she was in here last week because i was little skeptical the actual effect of this is what she said >> if that was ten republican senators, congressman from the

state of new york stood up to their speaker and said, we have to look out for new yorkers our state is being hit hard with this. other states are as well if they banded together, they would have the political clout necessary to deliver for our state do you think the kind of legislative back-and-forth resonated both in this case and will continue to resonate in november >> well, that's rich coming from governor hochul, who easily could go talk to president biden and has failed to do so on numerous occasions. and in fact, we have invited governor hochul to come meet with the new york republican delegation. she has thus far refused to do so so i don't take any lectures from governor hochul, especially when she has enacted sanctuary, city and state policies in new york where the right to shelter is being interpreted to mean that illegal immigrants get housing, where they're taking $2.4 billion in the state budget,

cutting school aid to public schools in new york to fund illegal immigrants in new york city. so i take no lectures from governor hochul on that. but at the end of the day, look, we have a crisis since joe biden took office nearly 10 million migrants have crossed our southern border most of them illegally, 90% of them have been released into our country within 36 to 48 hours of being detained in just the month of december, you had over 300,000 border crossings, right? yes. i would have liked to have seen a bill passed the senate and as much as everybody wants to blame the house, the house passed h.r.-2 back in may of last year senate democrats did nothing. chuck schumer, the senate majority leader from new york. i don't recall kathy hochul ever demanding chuck schumer do anything on the border? until house republicans said that a supplemental would not pass the house without

action on the border. and so the senate finally took some action. they negotiated, but ultimately they could not pass a bill that included a border deal. we can talk pie in the sky about legislation, but you actually have to pass it through your respective chamber. and we were able to do that in may of last year after negotiating within the house, right? senate democrats were not ultimately able to pass a bill. and so, yes, i would like to see action. yes. we do need to take action at the border. and yes, the president and his administration needs to reverse some of the disastrous policies than they have enacted over the last three years. >> i mean, i think we both know that being dead on arrival in the house certainly shrinks and whip count and changes the dynamic of things. but also note that the senate now has given you a bill on the national security supplemental. i do want to talk to you about that. we do have to go right now, but please come back so we can discuss that as it moves forward comes from mike lawler. appreciate your time as always. thank you.

>> thank you >> all right. new this morning, ukraine says it's shank. it's saying a russian battleship in the black sea. national security council spokesman john kirby joins us as a white house pushes to pass aid for ukraine and donald trump threatens to abandon nato allies >> i am an unholy terror, but lately it's just a ruse. >> i can't let them see. i'm

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coordinator john kirby, we appreciate your time. i may have met. i know you have your promotion and all that, kirby, i apologize if your title has shifted, i'll call you admiral as who s appreciate your time this morning. i want to start with the president's remarks yesterday they were very sharp. they were very pointed what led him to decide that he needed to make remarks like that in the wake of what we heard from his likely political appointment opponent november, he wanted to mark, of course, important moment in the senate, which get this bill through, which was an important milestone, hopefully to getting it to his desk and i think he wanted to recognize the moment that we're in right now is the house has to now take this up and make and make a decision about where they're going to stand. and i thought that the president felt it was important to make that case to the american people why this bill needs to go forward, why a lot of hard work went into it, and why it's important for the house to vote on it and get it to his desk i don't think it's any secret. >> some republicans on the house have acknowledged it. if this bill got to the floor, there's more than 218 votes.

it just needs to be put on the floor. have you guys worked through plan bs are other ways to try and get around a speaker who said unequivocally, this isn't happening it's not about getting around the speaker, phil, it's about working. it's about working with him and threw him and he's going to have to show some leadership here. obviously, we're going to keep our consultations in our conversations with congress going. we're we're obviously going to keep engaging them. but the speaker has got a choice to make here. this is a moment for leadership. this is as the president said, an inflection point and it's got to wait and see if the speaker is going to be up to that moment. >> i was struck when connecticut senator chris murphy, obviously a leader in foreign policy in the senate for democrats, not somebody who's prone to hyperbole is saying that the former president's comments related to name, to nato were essentially inviting world war three do you think that's true >> well, again, i want to be careful here. not allowed to talk about things on the campaign trail. but as the president said, i mean, it's, it's quite remarkable that anyone who might have said in the oval office and have been

commander in chief, would actually encourage our enemies to attack our friends. and that's basically what those comments were all about. the president is 100% committed to our, to our nato commitments and to security on the european continent. as you heard him say again yesterday, will defend every inch of nato territory if it comes to that. and anybody that thinks that putin is not serious about those threats need to look a little closer. what he's been thing not just this tucker carlson interview. look at his speeches, look at his writings over recent years. he absolutely bristles at nato on his border. he absolutely bristles at the idea that nato could be stronger and more relevant, which it is right now. and he has threatened some of our nato allies. so we've got to take this seriously because if you think it's cost a lot right now to support ukraine think about the cost to american blood and treasure. if in fact he goes after nato ally and then you've got american troops on the ground involved in combat. >> turning to the middle east, the war that's ongoing in gaza right now, they're part of that has been the hostage negotiations that have also

been an ongoing, a very important meeting in hi row, we've gotten some kind of cursory readouts that it was productive that progress was made, not really clear how much or how wide the gaps are. can you fill any of those blanks in? >> actually not fill, no, i think the less we say about these discussions, the better and i think you can understand that we don't want to torpedo any chances to get these hostages out you start negotiating things in public about the modalities and the horse trading that's going on. and maybe you might somebody in the heard that may may want to break from it. so we're going to keep this nice and tight and close. we do believe kyiv that the conversations have been constructive and it's important that they are still ongoing, that neither side is backed away and said, nope, we're not doing this, right? that's important and we're were involved in this. and again, i think i think we hold out hope that we can actually get there. >> there had been some reporting and my understanding is that one of the sticking points has been kind of the ratio between because there's release that are being held by israel for hostages. the number, and there'd been some reporting the president

actually discussed this with the prime minister in their call over the weekend. can you elaborate on that at all? >> i'm afraid not no fill now, look, i mean, as you remember, in the week long posit we got back in november. certainly part of the modality of that negotiation was how many hostages for how many prisoners that the israelis had of palestinians. that was all part of those modalities. so look, it's obviously that's going to be part of he discussion going forward. but the degree to which that that's an issue or or what the specifics of it are, i really shouldn't be going into that. >> the president talks often about his decades long relationship with bibi netanyahu. their disagreements, they have probably more than agreements over the period of that time, but it is a real relationship and it's one i think president utilized does he believe that he's an honest broker, right now >> he believes that netanyahu is a man as a leader, that he can deal with, that he can talk to that he can be frank with, and then you can disagree with. and obviously there have been disagreements since october 7,

and i suspect that that will continue on certain issues going forward. but these are two men they know what each other for four decades, 40 years, more than that. and they can argue and they can disagree. and they can be just peck, peck with one another if that's what it requires. but that's what you can do with an ally and a friend. you can push, you can prod, and you can disagree. so i think it's more important that we focused on the things that we do agree on and we do agree that israel has a right to defend itself against hamas, an organization that wants to kill all israelis and wipe israel off the map. we do agree that it's important to get humanitarian assistance into the desperate people have gaza and we do agree, quite frankly, and this goes back to your previous question. how important it is to get those hostages home with their families? and that's why we're working together with our israeli counterparts to try to get this deal locked in. >> but just what i asked you know, given the political constraints, the prime minister faces right now is the president's called out behind closed doors and fundraisers, including by name does he believe is an honest broker right now?

>> he's the prime minister, elected prime minister of israel, and the president has known him a long, long time. >> and he believes that he can have >> honest, candid, forthright conversations with prime minister netanyahu and get honest, candid, forthright answers in return. these are not two men that have to furnish their opinions very much with one another. >> yeah. >> they've been very clear about that, that both of them and its value relationship for both of them as well. i think john kirby, we always appreciate your time, sir. thank you very much. >> you bet you >> this morning, russia is responding after sector of state antony blinken said that he spoke with paul whelan, who has been detained in russia since 2018 our intensive efforts to bring paul home, continue every single day and they will >> until he and having gershkovich and every other american wrongfully detained it's back with their loved ones. >> this is at least a third time that blinken has spoken with the former us marine who is detained on espionage

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