three times more likely to die in connection with childbirth. and for too long this has been a crisis in our country and it is time that we recognize the crisis. it is in fact, when i took office, i challenge every state in our nation on this issue because you see, i said, look, we need to extend medicaid postpartum coverage from a measly two months to a full year and i'm proud to report whereas when i issued the challenge, only three states offered a full year of coverage. now 46 states so i say as we work to build a brighter future and to move our nation forward we must also recognize there are those who are trying to take us backward

you may have seen their agenda part of it is called project 2025 now, can you believe they put that in writing 900 pages of it project 2025? a plan to return america to a dark past they intend to cut medicare to repeal are $35 cap on insulin two, eliminate the department of education to end programs like head start which would take away preschool hundreds of thousands of children in our communities let's be clear this represents an outright attack on our children, our families, and our future these extremist want to take us back. >> but we are not going back. we are not going back it's a

fight for the future and hours is a fight for freedom across our nation we are witnessing a full-on assault on hard fought hard won freedoms and rights the freedom to vote the freedom to be safe from gun violence. the freedom to live without fear of bigotry and hate the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride, the freedom to learn and acknowledge our true and full history and the freedom of a woman to make decisions about of her own body and not have government telling her what to do in the face of these attacks. we must continue to stand together in defense of freedom we are going to

continue to monitor of the vice president united states speaking in indianapolis, she's making an important speech of a right now, the house speaker, mike johnson, and the visiting israeli prime minister benjamin, a tiny hours speaking after meeting only moments ago up on capitol hill, setting the stage for the prime minister's address before a joint meeting of the us congress that's coming up this hour. >> very, very soon. but let's listen into mike johnson, the speaker working defeat hamas following of course, the refik massacre on october 7. they're having to ward off hezbollah in the north. they're having to respond to houthi attacks in tel-aviv and they fended off a historic watershed direct attack from iran itself are regime that is allied with russia and china the threats that israel faces are not only kinetic just jerusalem is also combating lawfare, an information wars and double standards from the un and the media today and every day, americans must stand shoulder

to shoulder with israel in its great struggle in this struggle, nearly 300 days after october 7 our hearts remain with 120 men and women, boys and girls who are still in captivity in gaza aidan it'll tie. so g hersch got duty omer keith, and so many others are being held deep in tunnels. we have not forgotten them or their families who so desperately want them home. we of course do as well. >> israel in the united states are united in our mission to bring them home. >> and i have full confidence that we will do just that. i have to say it's providential that but the prime minister is here today after the 17th of tammuz. it was nearly 2000 years ago. at the most powerful nation in the ancient world, laid siege to israel and destroyed solomon's temple. today. >> the most powerful nation in the modern world is standing with our jewish friends and the israeli government i'm certainly eager as we all are

to hear from the prime minister. >> and as we hope that this 17th of two moves marks the last time the jewish people lament destruction so that they can live freely and securely in their ancestral homeland. would defer to the prime minister the new remarks thank you, mr. speaker speaker johnson, you have shown great leadership along with the leaders of the senate and the minority leader in the house i appreciate the fact that you've invited me to address this great assembly. >> the world's great yes democracy the congress of the united states, speaks for the american people. and the american people speak for the entire room i very much value this opportunity when you do to address this august forum you said just now something that resonates throughout the ages,

almost 2000 years ago, the romans breached the wall of jerusalem on this day almost 2000 years ago well our enemies will not breach our walls today and our wall is not made up only of our own soldiers are brave heroes, but also the friendship. and alliance with the united states america that is very much expressed here today. and i thank you for giving me this opportunity and the people are visual. thank you for giving us this opportunity to express our common alive thank you, mr. speaker thank you so much. thank you i'm answering questions. >> the prime minister of israel the speaker of the house, they're getting ready for the prime minister's address before a joint meeting of the us congress. we're going to have live coverage of that. we

want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i will blitzer, oxide, dana bash were both here in washington we are tracking a very consequential day here in washington, dc. the israeli prime minister benjamin ateneo, getting ready to deliver a major address to congress in the next hour. but as the israeli leader seeks to shore up support for the war against hamas in gaza is facing a sharply divided democratic the party here in the united states over his handling of the war, dozens of democrats will not be attending today with some progressives offering counter programming down as those lawmakers protest, netanyahu's speech. so to our scores of people gathered outside the capitol right now, his visit comes a day after president joe biden ended his reelection campaign, the two leaders are set to meet tomorrow. but tonight, the president will give a primetime speech, delivering his first public remarks about his

decision to pass the torch. so let's go to capitol hill and start with manu raju i know what is happening inside the capitol right now as lawmakers prepare for this big speech in about little, little more than 50 minutes. >> yeah, it's a moment of high tension, particularly among democrats. many democrats simply do not want benjamin netanyahu to be addressing congress. we do expect it's more than 50 democrats that we know of, mostly house democrats, but some senators to skip today's joint meeting of congress. there are some prominent democrats to have decided not to attend, namely the former house speaker, nancy pelosi saying today she would meet with hostage families instead, also, the number two democrat in the senate, dick durbin, not attending the speech. patty murray, who's a president pro tem of the senate, someone in line of the presidential success in also deciding not to send. and of course their is the decision by vice president kamala harris, the presumptive democratic nominee, who's at a campaign event in indianapolis decided not to sit behind the benjamin

netanyahu would normally the vice president would do when a rural leader addresses congress, she decided not to do that. instead, and there's opened her up to some criticism from some republican members going after the vice president for her decision not to attend this speech. >> the fact that she's skipping tomorrow's joint session is outrageous. this is our closest ally in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on october 7, prime minister's coming to visit here, whether you agree or like the prime minister or not he's duly elected by the israeli people, benjamin netanyahu has led that region into a complete humanitarian disaster. >> he has put his own personal interests ahead of the interests of the people of his country. and what he has done in gaza is unsafe elizabeth warren, one of those democrats not attending this speech, but also who will not attend is jd

vance, a republican vice presidential nominee, the senator from ohio, who ordinarily would attend a speech like this, given that senators and house members will be in this audience the trump campaign says he has vice presidential campaign duties to attend this speech. >> but overall, the issue is mostly among some democrats who simply do not want him to come here. and now, dana, also in just a matter of minutes that benjamin netanyahu will meet with the big four leaders of congress, not just mike johnson, but also chuck schumer, the senate majority leader, someone who just a couple of months ago all for new elections in israel, but he's also the highest ranking jewish democrat, ultimately agreed to invite him here to congress here just showing you the complicated position that daniels addresses, putting even some prominent members of the democratic party. >> i'd love to be a fly on that wall when new. thank you, manu, we'll see how that goes. right now. i want to go to cnn's brian todd, who's with a group of demonstrators here in washington protesting today's speech upcoming speech by the israeli prime minister benjamin

ateneo, set the scene where you are brian and what are you hearing and seeing? >> well, wolf, we're at the foot of the capitol were between third and fourth streets northwest on pennsylvania avenue. and you know, i heard you say a moment ago, wolf, that's a very consequential day in the nation's capital, you get a real sense of being among this crowd. you get a sense that this is a momentous occasion. they don't they don't obviously want prime minister netanyahu to be here, but they are going to make it their voices heard a lot of very powerful imagery here as well. take a look at these signs we showed these a little bit earlier. these are a signs and pictures of palestinian and israeli children who have been killed during the gaza war. this gentleman and some of you his compatriots have come from new jersey to display these images as we take a walk this way, our photojournalist, jonathan obear in and i are going to give you a sense of the crowd here. it's been very energetic and very peaceful aside from one minor scuffles earlier today in a location that's not here, but close to here where some pro-palestinian

protesters clashed briefly with some pro-israeli protesters. that that class was broken up quickly by police. i want to talk to rabbi lynda holtzman. she has come here from philadelphia. she's been part of other protests in the past you were in the capitol rotunda yesterday afternoon. got yourself arrested what is motivating you, rabbi, to be here and not only the risk getting he arrest, but to bring your message here right now. well, it's really clear that come out most clearly, i think in the story of the arrest where i was leading a prayer and it's called this shebaa. it's like a central jewish prayer that is really the essence of saying that god is one which means that all humanity is one, and that we need to treat each other as if we are all one if that's the case how can we not stand up when there's an attempted genocide? how can we not stand up? what we see palestinians being treated the way they are

treated the prime minister is here to talk about a possible ceasefire israeli and us officials believe they're very close. it's within reach. first of all, do you believe that do you believe that they are within reach? is that does that affect your message? and what do you feel about that? >> yeah. i don't believe it and i don't believe it because i don't believe that the israeli government actually wants a ceasefire. >> i don't believe that it's had yahoo who actually wants a ceasefire. but that doesn't affect my message because my message is more than just about ceasefire ceasefire would be step one. step two would be a government that would honor and keep safe. all israelis and all palestinians. i wants the ceasefire happens and it ends, the war ends. even if some of the torture ends are still living within a system that is unconscionable, that destroys palestinian lives every single day. >> well, thank you very much

for talking to us. rabbi was good to meet you and good luck with the rest of the event here today. thank you very much. we appreciate it. all right, guys. well, one thing, rabbi holtzman wanted to tell me earlier was that she was very much okay with me giving her age. she's 72-years-old. she wanted to put across the point that this is not just a young person's game out here are people of all ages, all persuasions, and many different faiths out here as well as you can see, guys back to you all right, brian, thank you very much. >> lets up these demonstrations. stay peaceful here in washington, but there's another major speech we're all anticipating later tonight. this one from the oval office, cnn's kayla tausche. she is over at the white house for us, kayla, what are you learning about president biden's highly anticipated? primetime address? >> well, president biden has been working on this address since the moment he announced publicly that he would be stepping aside in the 2024 race and officials it's backed him to talk about what exactly led him to that very painful decision for him, as well as what he hopes to complete for his final six months in office. and while there is some

expectation that he will touch upon his legacy both in his three-and-a-half years in office. so far as well as his decades of public service officials also say that the discussion over how to shape biden's legacy is just beginning. now, we know that he's been working with mike donilon, who is one of his closest longtime aides on this speech, donald and having been a very senior hand with him at the campaign at the white house and forth. for the last several decades. and donilon is also a former pollster who helped present some of the information to inform biden's decision over the weekend, he's been with biden for so many of these consequential moments this one, of course, know exclusion. but it's no secret that this is going to be a consequential address for the president. have to look no further than the backdrop where he's going to be making it it's just the fourth oval office address of his presidency. the last one he gave was just ten days ago where he talked about the attempted assassination on his republican opponent he delivered an address from the oval office in the wake of the

october 2023 attack by hamas on israel. and in june 2023, when the us narrowly the avoided a catastrophic default on the national debt now, this is a speech that is going to go down in the annals of history. it is the first time that biden is speaking to the american people since deciding to be a one term president, a decision that he did not take lightly and officials have suggested that because of its consequences he's going to be working on it right up until delivery as he does with most of his speeches. as he tries to gauge the pitch of this moment for the race, for his party pretty and for the country writ large, wolf and dana. >> thanks, kayla, appreciate that reporting and we do have brand new cnn national polling numbers taken after sure president biden bowed out of the race and it shows no clear leader in the likely race between the former president and kamala harris, 46% of the rhetoric i'm disturbed voters polled say harris is their choice for president, 49% say

donald trump, that is well within the polls margin of error let's bring in cnn political commentators, karen finney and maria cardona two very experienced democratic strategists who can really parse these, these numbers and talk about really what you all are seeing because i know each of you is in touch with an part of grassroots organizations that are going to either propelled likely camila harris into the white house or not talk about that enthusiasm. >> so i think that this enthusiasm right now is going to just and you're right, i have been in touch with latino leaders. latino leaders all across the country. younger voters as well. groups that focus on reproductive rights. tonight, there's going to be a massive call of latino leaders similar to the call that she had the campaign had with black women leaders and the

enthusiasm is just palpable. and i think it's only just beginning. i had a younger voter who focuses on getting out the gen z vote she's said, look, maria, just the stats. she said, i know this is going to sound a little dour, but in the last four years, we've had 20 million older voters die and 41 million in gen z voters are coming now into the voting group and latino voters saying there are 6 million new latino voters since the last election. and all of those voters are focused on looking to see who's going to give them the tools to live a better life life for themselves and their families. and right now, what kamala harris has done with joe biden at her side is given these families the tools to do just that. >> yeah. i mean, look, the call actually african-american women that was not a campaign call. 44,000 women. there was the next night african-american men for black men for kamala harris and 20,000 allison. there's

another there's the latina call. there's a call that shannon watts with moms demand action is organizing a cost so just the enthusiasm and the excitement just at the organic level has been really exciting to see. we've seen the fundraising numbers, we've talked about the numbers of people signing up to register to vote. and i think one of the things that's really important and this was talked about in the memo that jen o'malley dillon put out this morning from the campaign part of what we're looking at right now is what voters in different states are going to be available or would be sort of the camila electorate we talked what's the biden electorate? what's the camo electorate? look like? and how do we saw these voters who are coming in, who are maybe weren't planning to vote, who haven't been registered yet, that we can actually register and mobilize to vote in terms of the poll, i'm not surprised and i think the polling that we see in these early days, i'm a little skeptical because it's a little bit of a sugar high let's be honest. i want to see where we are in a couple of weeks when

we've really seen she and trump on the trail back back-to-back, and she's been able to really get out there and make the case for herself up against we know we've got former president trump doing a rally tonight. let's see what he he's saying. now that the situation has changed, i think that'll tell us a little more about where things really stand in this new poll. >> maria, i want to look take a closer look at the numbers as they are broken down by party i harrison trump have overwhelming support within their respective parties, but here we are again, there's no clear leader among registered independents is 43% for harris, 46% for trump, given all the excitement and the huge about money raised by the democrats over the past few days alone. does that surprise you? >> it doesn't surprise me because i think there's still a lot of unknowns within the electorate to karen's point, i think we need to wait a little bit to see exactly where these numbers are going to finally fall but i do think because

donald trump is a known entity, i think this is actually his ceiling. >> and i think that this is the floor for somebody like kamala harris and granted, she has been dinged and deemed in danger from the moment that she was chosen as biden's vp. >> and even before that, so she's used to that. there's a lot of stuff that is baked in for her, but there was a lot that is not known about her that is, when people saw her, when people started focusing on her, i got calls and texts oh, my god. she's so good. i had no idea. i'm so surprised well, the people who have been see her for years and years and years are not surprised. >> so i think this is actually a floor for her and the fact the other number i think is really important, the number of voters who are voting for her as opposed to just to get pence donald trump, i think that is actually a really important thing to continue to take a look at, which is different from the numbers we saw joe biden was at the top of the ticket karen, you have

experience running helping run a another female candidates campaign. >> her name was hillary clinton yeah what are some of the lessons learned from that campaign that if the vice president called you today, you would give her some of them. i might add, say publicly because i also i would also add to the lessons i learned working we'll stacey abrams in her gubernatorial race because we know that when women are running for executive office, in particular, it's different than when you're running for a legislative body because voters tend to see women as being more collaborative. so in collaborative spaces, they think, oh, a woman's going to be able to bring people together look, i think a couple of things. number one, i wanted to be talking about the economy and i want her to be talking about security, both in the sense that we've heard her talk about the rule of law that's important and obviously, she's a former prosecutor. i think that line about against donald trump is going to be a great

one. but this is also someone who i wanted to be reminding people. she was a district attorney. she was an attorney general. she was as well as being elected to the senate and then vice president and in each of those roles mean she's probably the only president running person ran for president who has served at the local state, and federal levels has and to talk about that, talk about what that has at each level. what did that tell you about the american people? and also i would tell her to as she is talking about each of those roles, talking about our values and people want, because as maria said, people we're getting to know her right now. but part of what they want to know is like when she talks about her mother or talking about that experience when they bought their first home because that's something many of us can relate to bring people into your core value so that they understand that you understand them. one of the stories about her that i love is she's goes to the grocery store safeway on wisconsin avenue and shops for

groceries to cook dinner on sunday nights when she can. that means she has a very clear sense of what things are costing when she's going to that grocery. so she knows what we're going through and trust me in dc as we all know, it's a lot higher than another place. so talk about those things that kept kept her connected to in the same way, you know, we hear about scranton joe, right? what's her version of that? >> karen maria. thank you so much. >> and still ahead. fbi director christopher wray is giving new details on the gunman behind the trump administration excuse me, the trump assassination attempt. what he told lawmakers about a drone used by the shooter and the rifle used in the attack that and so many unbelievable details coming out of this hearing, we're going to bring them to you after a quick break this election season, stay with cnn with more reporters on the ground. >> and the best political team in the business, follow the voters follow the results,

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abrasive in these hearings, especially when it's somebody from the fbi or the justice department has testified before them, but director wray, revealing some new details about out the state of this investigation into the assassination attempt of donald trump including what they're finding on the shooter's laptop. and among the new details that he provided today was that they found on the laptop that the shooter research details about john f. kennedy's assassination and specifically how far faraway lee harvey oswald was from jfk when he took that shot. take a listen to what wray told lawmakers today analysis of a laptop that the investigation ties to the shooter reveals that on july 6, he did a google search for, quote, how far away was oswald from kennedy and so that's a searched obviously is significant in terms of his state of mind we that is the same day that it appears that

he registered for the butler rally so the fbi has been trying to build a profile of who this shooter is because he didn't get behind a manifesto or really any clear evidence about motive or political ideology and the web history in the search history in these devices, his cell phones are really what investigators are leaning on to try to understand why the shooter took those shots on july 13. >> zach, we also learned more about the drone that the shooter actually flew the day of the shooting what did he say? >> yeah, the shooter not only doing research ahead of time, but also doing a lot of logistical planning, ending and bringing a drone to the day or two, the rally on the day that he attended it. and it's amazing because wray says that it appears that the drone was not only flown two hours before donald trump took the stage, but that it was in the air for 11 minutes. take a listen to how he described it. >> around 3:50 p.m. 4:00. and that window on the day of the

shooting that the shooter was flying the drone around the area well, ron, 11, that's want to be clear, but when i say the area not over the stage and that part of the area itself, but i would say about 200 yards give or take away so, we've, previously reported that the shooter also visited the rally site before the day of the shooting, and it's clear that he did do a lot of prep work ahead of showing up on that day and firing those shots. how did they not see a drone that is up there so close for 11 minutes, once security, the security plans already in place by the time that drone was in the air to it raising even more questions for sure it's really scary stuff indeed and clearly this guy has obvious intention of what he wanted to do. >> zach cohen. thank you very much thank you. >> and minutes from now, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will address lawmakers he's on capitol hill we already see tensions running high in and around the capital.

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about that is our own fareed zakaria, host of cnn's fareed zakaria, gps three, put this moment into some greater context for all of us within a tiny house, unpopularity at home in israel, the enormous palestinian suffering in gaza and the us optimism, about a possible ceasefire deal. >> how is the prime minister going to balance all of this when he speaks to lawmakers in the next few minutes who are deeply divided over israel's war in gaza you have characterizes it exactly right wolf, it is a controversial speech at a controversial time and the best way i can put it in context is to, as the quote huda merit, a former prime minister of israel breathe assess it to bibi netanyahu, also from the

kay. >> mike johnson in the invitation was later signed onto by democratic leaders. they weren't very happy about it pretty clearly, but they did it given that. and also, i just want you to weigh in on what we've heard from our reporter out on the streets with some people protesting outside, talking about the need for a ceasefire, talking about the need for a partner in negotiating partner that will bring peace and bring a civilized society, if you will, into gaza can you just talk about the reality there? because that might be missing here in this discussion, hamas is still a terror organization, is in charge of gaza so what needs to happen and what does the prime minister need to say today to acknowledge that that is something that he would like to have if he actually might address that you're exactly

right. hamas is still the only power outside of the israeli army in gaza, but let's be honest, gaza is mostly destroyed. 70% of the buildings or schools or hospitals so it's kind of a hellscape. and the question is what can you do now to try to construct a political authority that will marginalize hamas because if you don't want hamas in gaza bombing, another 20% of the buildings isn't the answer. the answer is finding another political authority that will have some legitimacy that we'll be able to take control and this is the argument that many american military experts have been making about israel's strategy, that israel is by using the enormous amount of force it is and an assault and what indiscriminate manner it is losing the opportunity to create some degree of safety and protection for the

population and then provide some kind of alternate political authority. because if you don't have hamas running gaza or gaza, who's going to run it either? israel has to re-occupy gaza which is something that has not wanted to do. or you have to find some kind of palestinian authority, or you have to find an arab force. when none of those seem likely in a situation where gaza, as i said, a hellscape this is why general petraeus has been arguing for a different strategy much more targeted, much more isolated toward hamas, rather than broadly destroying gaza itself. >> and very soon will be hearing for read directly from the prime minister. and presumably, there'll be addressing those very sensitive issues in his remarks. let's see if he does fareed zakaria. thank you very, very much. and still ahead. as we mentioned, nearly 50 members of congress will not attend the speech by the prime minister benjamin at a time. yeah we'll be speaking with one of them that's next

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at the federal courthouse in washington. >> and this is cnn welcome back to our special coverage. >> we're standing by to hear from the israeli prime minister benjamin a tiny out he's about to address a joint meeting of the us congress, dozens of lawmakers though, are actually boycotting this event including our next guest, democratic congressman mark pocan of wisconsin. he's the former chair of the house progressive caucus congressman. why have you decided to boycott the israeli prime minister's address to congress? >> well, first i don't think it's appropriate. will have the prime minister here. he's got work to do in israel right now, i spent an hour this

morning with hostage members, families, talking about a what has happened. there. not happy. he's here. they think he should be back home trying to negotiate the deal that president biden has proposed to have a ceasefire and to return the hostages. and instead, he is on a public relations and political campaign here here in the united states. and i think that's what this is. it's about public relations and politics, not about trying to get those hostages returned and to have a ceasefire and to stop the deaths that are occurring there what's your message? >> congresswoman to your democratic colleagues? the lawmakers who will be in the room listening to the speech and believe it's necessary to show support to a key us ally, namely israel i think there's a number of different reasons why people are there. >> i just hope that we hold the prime minister accountable because what he has done, i mean, the international courts are trying to get an arrest warrant for war crimes, right? this is hardly your normal visit of a world leader and i think what's happened is a

horrific attack on october 7 by a terrorist group, hamas. but the response has been almost equally horrific. 40,000 people, almost 70% women and children killed. this is not a response to hamas. this is a collective punishment of gazans, of palestinians in gaza. and that's wrong and that's not going to bring about peace and that's certainly right now not returning the hostages. so i just think benjamin netanyahu has got his own agenda and it's not the agenda of the people who i talked to in either israel or palestine as you know, the vice president kamala harris, who is also president of the senate under the constitution, will not be presiding over this specie won't be there, which she and president biden are still expected to meet with his time you out during his visit here in washington? >> do you support their handling of this very delicate situation? >> yeah. i mean, obviously this week has been a very busy week for the vice president. i don't think anyone expected that she would necessarily be here, but i think what's important is how we all talk

about this, because benjamin netanyahu again is not here, i think to try to win us support or do anything he's there to take care of himself, which is quite honestly what benjamin netanyahu does. it's best i really wished that we would listen to the vast majority of people in israel and palestine who just want peace. the longstanding us position has been a two-states dilution bedroom. and yet who does not support that? and i don't really think that this is a good idea to have him here today, especially as international courts are literally really trying to get arrest warrants for war crimes. it's a very, very mixed message. >> you think that the ten, has committed war crimes i do. >> in fact, if he had, if the international courts had gotten that arrest warrant i had offered to deliver it on the floor to him. i really think what he's done and killing so many women and children and the over response. this is not bringing peace about in the region, and this is about taking care of netanyahu and i'm way over that on the domestic political front. >> i don't know if you saw our brand new cnn poll just

released last hour, which shows the vice president kamala harris within the margin of error in a match show up with donald trump, higher numbers than president biden's numbers against trump before he left the race. so what do you think she needs to do now to build on that political go momentum? >> yeah. just kidding her. i i am so excited she was in wisconsin yesterday. we had 3,000 people in less than 24 hours showed up in milwaukee. she did amazing job. and i think people watch that to be didn't like either candidate, right? they thought they both where it was kind of like are watching a black and white rerun. well now they've got to spin off with someone with energy, with an agenda that the american people want they don't have to just vote for the same old. they now have this other opportunity. and i think you're going to see those polls keep going in the right direction for kamala harris god is mark pocan. >> thank you. so much for joining us. we'll continue this conversation down the road. but right now i want to go to cnn's brian todd, brian, i understand. there. you're covering these protests here in washington it's been some sort

of confrontation that's right, wolf, this has escalated in the last few minutes here at the corner of louisiana avenue and constitution avenue the protests came up to this line of police wanting to march up constitution avenue short time ago, the police have blocked them and then there was just yelling and confrontations between the protesters and police police started spraying pepper spray and other things at the protesters they fired at least one flash bangs to try to get them to disperse, that it was very, very tense here just a moment. >> but ago, we can show you, we can train our cameras and you can see the police have done gas masks and helmets. it was very, very tense here, just a short time ago it's channel down a little bit now, but you can tell there is still tension here as we try to get closer to the line and there are still some protesters yelling at police including this gentleman right in front of us now, a lot of the protesters have now turned and gone back up this

way is you can see my hands i'm pointing. they are now marching up louisiana avenue more union station but you know, again, this was peaceful up until this moment. but it just turned a little bit tense here, wolf, it's dispersing a little bit here as i speak with more protests starting to march, a little bit towards union station, but pretty tense confrontation here. just a short time ago. >> and the protesters that you're covering over there, brian, these are protesters protesting nick timiraos invitation to come to washington and address congress, right? that is correct. wolf, that is the overwhelming majority, pretty much all of these protesters, they are protesting against prime minister netanyahu's visit. they are very angry that he's seen here this is one of those moments where they are really palpably showed their anger. and that frustration. i mean, a lot of them were saying that the police are denying him their first amendment rights to march a little bit more toward the capital where we know the capital and it's very close environment of been cordoned off fenced off, that we could

see when they were marching up here, if they were not going to be able to get past this point, and they got a little frustrated with that. hence, the confrontation a short time ago, but now they're kind of turned in a marching a little bit further away from the capital towards union station hi brian todd will be in touch with you. thank you very, very much. and we'll be right back with more news just what you put the verbal if you've been paying attention, it's easy to see prices are going up on just about everything. that's why you need to do your wallet a favorite. we call khartiia. now one called car-t shield launching into today's low price. so you can george peace of mind, knowing that you're not only protected did from mechanical breakdowns, but also from those rising rates. if are driving them out of warranty

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special coverage of this israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's address to congress dana bash is here alongside me. >> we're watching all of this unfold any moment now, prime minister and the time yeah, will be delivering remarks as he looks to try to boost us support for the israeli war in gaza, dozens have democrats though, are expected to skip this speech, boycott his presence here in washington. i want to bring in our panel of experts and barak ravid. let me start with you. you've been doing a lot of reporting in this. what about the tone and message we should all anticipate hearing from the primary mr. well, wolf, we all remember that included in 2015, netanyahu came for a very similar speech, but he came to go straight against president obama at the time and his efforts to get a nuclear deal with iran. >> now, netanyahu is coming with a slightly different tone. his people say he's not going to be confrontational with

democrats. all president biden and that his message will be bipartisan i'm i'm a bit skeptical but i don't let see shocking that you're skeptical and back then, the invitation, as you said was maybe to kind of push back. >> that's probably a nice way to say it against the democratic president barak obama. now, this is an invitation that came first from the republican house speaker david and i don't think it is a coincidence that that invitation came as the democrats were as divided as they've ever been on. the question of israel and how it is prosecuting the war. so i think we've talked a lot about the netanyahu politics of this and how he tries to insert himself and tries to help himself at home. his politics, but also help himself here with the election politics but i

think we can't forget that it's the republicans were playing that up as well. >> well, they're hard, but let's also remember that chuck schumer joined in the invitation after calling for netanyahu to leave office. he tells you just how he did it very belatedly. >> yes. quite belatedly, but it has the patina of a bipartisan invitation, which the 20151 did not. let's also just backup to remember that the advice that netanyahu gave the us during the 2015 beach turned out to be pretty backward. >> he said, don't do this deal around the iran nuclear deal. >> obama ignored him and overran congress did do the deal. the iranians were contained for three years and then president trump, who hated the deal from the start, partly because it was an obama deal. he never really articulated what his objections where but he pulled out of it and today we have a bigger iranian

nuclear threat in the midst of everything else we're dealing with than we've ever had before it's true. >> and i've covered baraka be extra to get your thoughts, u.s.-israeli relations for a long time i don't remember a time when i've seen such a serious strain a rupture in this u.s.-israeli relationship i mean, think about it. >> you have ten or 20,000 people outside of the capitol demonstrating against the israeli prime minister. i don't think we ever seen such a thing inside the speech itself. i think between 80 to maybe hundred democrats are not showing up that's if you compare it to 2015, we see that there is an escalation in deterioration. and i think a lot of a lot of israelis are also very much concerned about what the results of this speech will be in. >> you know, it's interesting, david, i want to get your thoughts on this as well. a lot of israelis are blaming the time you for this deterioration. this

confrontation right now in the u.s.-israeli relationship. >> well, that's right in the relationship with president biden has been very contentious. but i think the most interesting thing to look for as a result is does netanyahu tried to go reach out to democrats to those who say that israel has ignored the repeated warnings not to use weaponry that would have lot of civilian casualties or does he just go right past that and say, give us what we need and remember, he knows he's going to mar-a-lago on friday yeah. >> and jamie gangel, look, he has been around for a very long time for a reason. he was educated at mit here in the the united states. he speaks english with almost no accent. >> he grew up and he grew up in philadelphia. >> that might be why he there is a bit of when accent that's a conversation my point is, is

that he is very politically astute when it comes to how to frame arguments in the united states, he's no dummy. he knows how people feel about him, particularly those in the democratic party. so the stakes are incredibly high for him when it comes to his twin goals. number one, he wants to stay in power but number two, he wants to make sure that the united states doesn't stop mean that it won't stop the support of the state of israel anytime soon. you know, probably not ever. but in the short term, the whole question of providing weapons, i think what you just said about his being well politically astute is correct. although it depends on who the audience and you also said he wants to stay in power. that

there are a lot of empty seats and it's not just 80 to 100 any empty seats. vice president kamala harris chose not to preside over this. nancy pelosi is not there on the senate side. dick durbin is not there. patty murray is not there this is a big message when you have senior leadership who don't show up one other thing i just think is worth mentioning about his trip in general, and that is that politically, everybody sort of has a different role here. so president biden would like to see a deal made vice president kamala harris is now running for president. she has to do this balancing act of how she interacts with him and what that means for november 5. and then of course, he's traveling down to mar-a-lago to try to mend his relationship with

donald trump, which has been warm, very cold, we'll see where that is. but the political undertones for all of these politicians is can't be missed in addition to this speech, he's going to try no doubt, to give another side to the story and when i say the story, i'm talking about the protests that we're seeing right now more importantly, the protest all through the spring on college campuses. and, you know, maybe the people who are doing those protests are not going to listen. he might maybe the message will be one thing the messenger might be another, but he's going to no doubt use this platform to try to push back against not just the policies, but when policy turns into ron anti-semitism, yeah, certainly that and anti-semitism certainly should be pushed back against. i think you're going to have a dynamic where both sides are fairly dug in here. we obviously see the

protests here today going on with his appearance. this has fractured in some ways, the democratic caucus i've seen young folks really outraged by what they see as the just enduring support of bombing civilians, right? they talk about the tens of thousands of palestinians who have died in this conflict. and, for kamala harris who will not be there today, she's a different event that i think was previously planned she has to grapple with this, you know how closely is xi tied to biden's legacy? do voters, particularly young voters in states like michigan, for instance, and arab american voters, or do they see her? differently than they see biden can cheat sort of have a different message to this very concerned group of protesters and voters who don't like what they see in terms of america's support of this. >> i want to go to our congressional correspondent, lauren fox up on capitol hill.

so set the scene for us it's up there. give us a sense of what's going on yeah. >> wolf, i just want to point out that the mood up here on capitol hill is a bit tense you have lawmakers who have decided that they want to go into the chamber to listen to this address by netanyahu, who say that they are really on pins and needles knowles as they enter the room, i talked to senator chris coons a few minutes ago and he told me that he really is hoping that benjamin netanyahu avoid the kind of political rhetoric that they saw back in 2015. and he said, he does have some assurances that that will be the case, but he said until the speeches over, there's just a lot of eyes on this moment and a lot of concern about what he says in this room he and a group of three other democrats actually sent a letter to benjamin netanyahu ahead of this address today, really imploring him to do two things to meet with american israeli hostage families while he's in

the united states and also to avoid the kind of fiery rhetoric that could moment they just did the gavel or they've introduced the prime minister of israel. >> i want to listen in a little bit

members of congress. >> i now have the high privilege and distinct honor or presented to you his excellency, benjamin netanyahu, prime minister of israel speaker of the house mike

johnson senator ben cardin minority leader hakeem jeffries senate majority leader chuck schumer senate minority leader. >> mitch mcconnell senators members of congress distinguished guests mr. speaker i want to thank you for giving me the profound honor of addressing this great citadel of democracy for the fourth time. we meet today and across rows of history our world is an upheaval in the middle east. iran is the axis of terror.

confronts america israel, and our arab friends this is not a clash of civilizations it's a clash between barbarism and civilization it's a clash between those who glorify death and those who sanctify life for the forces of civilization to triumph america and israel must stand together because because

when we stand together something very simple happens. we win. they lose my friends, i came to assure you today of one thing we will win ladies and gentlemen like december 7, 1941 and sub debris 11th, 2001 october 7 is a day that will forever land in infamy it was a jewish holiday of simchat to

law it began as a perfect day, not a cloud in the sky thousands of younger israelis we're celebrating at an outdoor music festival and suddenly 6:29 a.m. as children were still sleeping soundly in their beds in the towns and kibbutzim next to gaza suddenly haven't turned into hell 3,000 hamas terrorists stormed into israel they butchered 1,200 people from 41 countries including 39 americans proportionately compared to our population size that's like 29, 11 in one day and these monsters they raped women they beheaded men. >> the burnt babies alive they

killed parents in front of their children and children in. front of their parents they dragged 255 people, both living and dead into the dark dungeons of gaza. israel has already brought home 135 of these hostages including seven over freed and daring rescue operation one of those freed hostages, nor domani is here in the gallery sitting near my wife, sarah on the morning on

the morning of october 7 the entire wolf gnaws look of desperation as she was violently abducted to gaza on the back of a motorcycle i met doors mother, laura a few months ago she was dying of cancer she said to me prime minister i have one final wish i wish to hug my daughter nor one last time before i die two months ago i authorized a breathtaking command or rescue operation our special forces

including a roic officer named our knowns maura, who fell in this battle rescued noah and three other hostages no i think it's one of the most troubling things. were normal was reunited with her mother, laura and are mother's last wish came true know are we are so thrilled to have you with us today. >> thank you many hostage

families are also here with us today including and we all be able abbas. >> and we all be most is the grandfather of those two beautiful red-headed boys to be bus boys, toddlers and they were taken hostage with her mother and gnaws. sorry. and leos son, the entire family was taken hostage two beautiful read her children taken hostage. >> what monsters and with us also is interesting. >> slim, whose son yotam bravely escaped hamas captivity with two other israelis and tragically they were killed making their way back to our lines. we have with us also the families of american hostages they're here these families

have endured its beyond words i met with them again yesterday and i promised them this i will not rest until all their loved ones or home all of them as we speak we're actively engaged in intensive efforts to secure their release and i'm confident

is that these efforts can succeed. some of them are taking place right now i want to thank president biden for his tireless efforts on behalf of the hostages and for his efforts to the hostage families well i thank president biden for his heartfelt support for his role after the savage attack on october 7 you rightly called hamas sheer evil you dispatched two aircraft carriers to the middle east to deter a wider war and he came to his rule to stand with us during our darkest hour, a visit that will never be forgotten. president biden and

i have known each other for over 40 years. i want to thank him for half a century of friendship to his rule and for being, as he says a proud zionist actually says a proud irish american zionists my friends for more than nine months israeli soldiers have shown boundless courage with us today with us today is lieutenant of the file ruven it

is an officer in the israeli paratroopers his family immigrated to israel from ethiopia in the early hours of october 7. i'll behind heard the news of hamas's bloody rampage he put on his uniform grabbed his rifle but he didn't have a car so he ran eight miles to the frontlines of gaza to defend its people you heard that, right you ran eight miles do the front lines

killed many terrorists and saved many, many lives we all honor a remarkable heroism. >> another israeli is whether it's here today and he's standing, stand up right next to right next to have you, kylie. this is master sergeant are shuffled achraf is a bedouin soldier. from israeli muslim community of rods on october 7 achraf two killed many terrorists firstly, defended his comments in the military base, and he then rushed the defend the neighboring communities, including the devastated community of kibbutz be'eri like achraf like achraf, the

muslim soldiers of the idf fought alongside their george drew's christian and other comments and arms with tremendous bravery a third hero, lieutenant, also sulfur is also here with us also flopped as an officer in the tank corps and he was wounded

in battle. he was wounded in battle protecting his fellow soldiers from a grenade he lost his right arm and the vision and his left arm he's recovering an incredibly within a short time also will soon return to active duty as a commander of a tank company i just learned there is a fourth-year over here. lieutenant jonathan jonathan mann kamel, who lost a leg in gaza and continued to fight my

friends these are the soldiers of israel, on both unafraid the bible says, there sharp rise like lions the lions of the lines of israel ladies and

gentlemen the men and women of the idf come from every corner of israeli society that we have to this city every color i we agreed left and right religious and secular all are imbued with the indomitable spirit of the maccabees. >> the ledger jerry jewish warriors of antiquity with us today is you hear lighter the father of one of those maccabees your heels, father escaped the holocaust and found refuge in america as a young man, you feel moved to israel and raise a family of eight children. he named his eldest son, motion to his late father, moshe became an exemplary

officer in one of our elite commando units. you serve with distinction for two decades, while raising six beautiful children of his own on october 7 musharraf volunteered to return to combat for weeks later he was killed when a booby trap mine exploded in a tunnel shaft right next to a mosque it is son's funeral. your heel said, this if the state of israel had not been established after the holocaust the image in graves in our collective memory would have been the photograph of that hopeless jewish boy in the warsaw ghetto holding his hands up in the air with nazi rifles pointed at him but because of the birth of israel, your heel continued because of the courage of soldiers like my son moisture the jewish people are no longer helpless in the face of our enemies your field

please rise so we can honor your son's sacrifice. and i pledge to you and to all the bereaved families of his role, some of whom are in this hall today the sacrifice of your loved ones will not be in vain it will not be very because for israel never again, must never be an empty promise. it was always remain a sacred vow, an

after october 7 never again is now my friends defeating are brutal enemies requires both courage and clarity clarity begins by knowing the difference between good and evil yet incredibly maddening many anti-israel protesters many choose to stand with evil they stand with hamas they stand with rapists and murderers. they stand with people who came in to the kibbutzim into a home the parents had the children to babies in the arctic in a secret attic. they murdered the

families. the parents. they found the secret lots to the hidden attic and then they murder the babies these protesters stand with them. they should be ashamed of themselves they refused to make the simple distinction between those who target terrorists and those who targets civilians.

between the democratic state of visual and the terrorist stocks of hamas we recently learned from the national security director, director of us, director of national intelligence that iran is funding and promoting anti-israel protests in america. they wanted to disrupt america so these protesters burned american flags even on 4 july and i wish to salute the fraternity brothers at the university of north carolina with the american flag the american flag, i guess these anti-israel protests for all we

know iran is funding the anti-israel protests that are going on right now outside this building. not that many, but they're there. and throughout the city well, i have a message for these protesters. when the tyrants of tehran who hadn't gains from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair are appraising, promoting and funding you, you of officially become iran's useful idiots some of these voters that's amazing,

absolutely amazing. some of these protesters hold up signs proclaiming gays for gaza. they might as well hold up signs saying chickens for kfc these protesters chants from the river to the sea but many don't have a clue what river and what sea they're talking about. they're not only get an f and geography they get an f in history they called israel. they call israel a colonial state. don't they know that the land of israel is where isaac and jacob prayed? where isaiah and jeremiah. and we're david and solomon nearly 4,000

years the land of israel has been the homeland of the jewish people. it's always been our home. it will always be our home. it's not only the campus protesters who get it wrong. it's also the people who run those campuses. 80 years after the holocaust 80 years after the holocaust the presidents of harvard, penn and i'm ashamed to say my alma mater mit couldn't bring themselves to condemn the calls for the genocide of jews you remember what they said they said it

depends on the context well, let me give these befuddled academics a little context anti semitism is the world's oldest hatred for centuries. the massacre of jews was always preceded by wild accusations we were accused of everything from poisoning wells to spreading plagues, to using the blood of slaughtered children too big passover mottos these preposterous, anti-semitic lines. let your persecution, mass murderer, and ultimately to history's worst genocide the holocaust now, just as malicious lies were leveled for centuries at the jewish people, malicious lies are now being leveled at the jewish state no, no don't applaud listen the

outrageous slanders that paid israel is racist and genocidal are meant to de-legitimize israel, to demonize the jewish state, and to demonize jews everywhere and no wonder now i wonder we've witnessed in appalling rise of anti-semitism in america and around the world. >> my friends whenever and wherever we see the scourge of anti-semitism, we must unequivocally condemn it and resolutely fight it. without exception don't be fooled when

the blood libel is against the jewish state come from people who wear fancy silk robes and speak and lofty tones about lawn justice here's a case in point the prosecutor of the international criminal court has shamefully accused israel of deliberately starving the people of gaza. this is utter, complete nonsense the complete fabrication israel has enabled more than 40,000 aid trucks to enter gaza. that's half 1 million tons of food and that's more than 3,000 calories for every man, woman, and child in gaza if there are palestinians in gaza warn getting enough food, it's not because israel is blocking it. it's because hamas is stealing it so much for that lie. but

here's another the icc prosecutor accuses israel of deliberately targeting civilians what in god's green earth is he talking about the idf has dropped millions of flyers sent, millions of text messages, made, hundreds of thousands of phone calls to get palestinian civilians out of harm's way. but at the same time, hamas, hamas does everything in its power to put the palestinian civilians in harm's way they fired rockets from schools from hospitals, from moscow they even shoot their own people when they tried to leave the war zone a senior hamas official fat-free common, boasted. listen to this. he boasted the palestinian women and children excel it being human shields

his words excel it being human shields what monstrous evil for israel every civilian death is a tragedy for hamas. it's a strategy they actually want palestinian civilians to die so that israel will be smith appeared in the international media and be pressured to end the war before it's one this would enable hamas to survive another day. and as they vowed to carry out october 7, again and again and again well, i want to assure you no matter what pressure is brought to bear, i will never allow that to happen the vast majority of

americans have not fallen for this hamas propaganda. they continue to support israel. and i want to say, thank you america. and thank you senators and house members who continue to support us continued support is we'll continue to support the truth and see through the lies but as for the minority that may have fallen for hamas's cons, job, i suggest you listen to colonel john spencer john spencer is head of urban warfare studies at west point he studied every major urban conflict i was going to say in modern history. you corrected me know, in history israeli said has implemented more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history. and beyond what international law requires

that's why, despite all the laws you've heard the war in gaza as one of the lowest ratio of combatants to noncombatants casualties in the history of urban warfare and you want to know where it's lowest in gaza it's lowest in rafah in rafah remember what so many people said? >> if israel goes into rafah there'll be thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of civilians killed were last week, i went into rafah i visited our troops as they finished fighting. hamas is remaining terrorist battalions i asked the commander there how many terrorist did you take out in combat? you gave me an exact

number, 1,203 i asked him how many civilians were killed he said prime minister practically, none with the exception of a single incident, were shrapnel from a bomb hit a hamas weapons depot, and unintentionally killed two dozen people. the answer is, practically none you want to know why because israel got the civilians out of harm's way something people said, we could never do, but we did it these heroes here today? their heroic soldiers of visual should not be condemned for how they're conducting the war in gaza. there should be commended for it i want to thank all of you

here today more forcefully oppose the false accusations of the icc and stood up for the truth these lies or not only libelous, they're downright dangerous. the icc is trying to shackle israel's hands and prevent us from defending ourselves. if israel's hands are tied america is next. and i'll tell you what else is next. the city of all democracies to fight terrorism will be imperiled that's what's on the line. so let me assure you the hands of the jewish state will never be shocked israel will always defend itself my friends in the

middle east iran is virtually beyond behind all the tourism all the turmoil, all the chaos, all the killing and that should come as no surprise when he founded the islamic republic i told her home a new pledge. we will export our revolution to the entire world we will export the islamic revolution to the entire world. now asked herself which country ultimately stands in the way of iran's maniacal plans to impose radical islam and the world. and the answer is clear it's america, the guardian of western civilization and the world's greatest power that's why iran

sees america as its greatest enemy. last month we heard revealing comment sounds it will be about the war in gaza, but about something else. >> it came from the foreign minister of iran, proxy hizballah. and he said this this is not a war with israel israel he said, is merely a tool. the main war the real war is with america iranian regime has been fighting america from the moment it came to power in 1979, it stormed the american embassy it helps scores of americans hostage for 444 days since then, iran stores proxies have targeted america in the

middle east and beyond in beirut. they killed 241 us serviceman in africa. they bombed american embassies in iraq they supplied explosives to maim and kill thousands of american soldiers in america in america they actually sent death squads they sent death squads here to murder a former secretary of state and a former national security adviser and as we recently learned, they even brazingly threatened to assassinate president trump. but iran understands that to truly challenge america it must first conquered the middle east and for this, it uses its many proxies including the houthis, hezbollah and hamas yet in the heart of the middle east standing in rounds weigh is one proud pro american democracy. mike country, the state of israel that's why that's why

the obs into iran chanting death to israel before they chant death to america. for iran, israel, his first americans next so when israel fights hamas we're fighting iran. when we fight hizballah we're fighting iran. when we fight the houthis we're fighting iran. and will be fighting iran. we're fighting the most radical and murderous enemy of the united states of america and one more thing. when israel acts to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons that could destroy israel and threatened every american city,

every city that you come from we're not only protecting ourselves we're protecting yo u my friends if you remember, one thing one thing from the speech remember this our enemies are your enemies our fight is your fight, and our victory will be your victory. ladies and gentlemen, that victory is in

sight israel's defeat of hamas will be powerful blow to rawan's access of terror another part of that axis, because butler attacked israel on october 8, a day after the hamas attack it has launched thousands of missiles and drones against us. 80,000 of our citizens in northern israel's evacuated their homes, becoming effectively refugees in their own land we are committed to returning them home we prefer to achieve this diplomatically but let me be clear israel will do whatever it must do to restore security to our northern border and return our people safely to their homes last friday, a

third uranium proxy, proxy, the houthis attack tel aviv with a deadly drone it exploded a few hundred feet from the american consulate killing one person and injuring nine on saturday i authorize a swift response to that attack all our enemies should know this those who attack israel will pay a very heavy price. and as we defend ourselves and as we defend ourselves on all fronts i know that america has, are back and i thank you for it all sides of the aisle. thank you my friends

for decades. america has provided israel with generous military assistance and a grateful israel has provided america with critical intelligence that saved many lives we've jointly developed some of the most sophisticated weapons on earth i choose my words carefully. we've jointly developed some of the most sophisticated weapons on earth that help protect both our countries. and we also help we also help keep american boots. we help keep americans boots off the ground. we're protecting our shared interests in the middle east i deeply appreciate american support,

including in this current war but this is an exceptional moment fast-tracking us military aid could dramatically expedite an end to the war in gaza and help prevent a broader war in the middle east and world war ii as britain fought on the front lines of civilization winston churchill appeal to americans with these famous words give us the tools and we'll finish the job today as israel fights on the frontline of civilization, ai to appeal to america gives us the tools faster and we'll finish the job faster. my dear friends the war in gaza could

end tomorrow. if hamas surrenders, disarm arms and returns all the hostages but if they don't use, you will fight until we destroy hamas's military capabilities and its rule in gaza and bring all our hostages home that's what total victory means. and we will settle for nothing less. the day the day after we defeat hamas. a new gaza could emerge my vision for that day is of a

demilitarized and de-radicalized gaza. israel does not seek to resettle gaza but for the foreseeable future, we must retain the overriding security control there to prevent the resurgence of terror, to ensure that gaza never again poses a threat to israel gaza should have a civilian administration run by palestinians we do not seek to destroy israel. that's not too much to ask it's a fundamental thing that we have a right to the man that do we see and new generation of palestinians must no longer be taught to hate jews but rather to live in peace with us those twin words

demilitarization and deradicalization those two concepts will apply to germany and japan after world war ii. and that led to decades of peace, prosperity, and security following our. victory while we got to victory with the help of regional partners, the demilitarization and deradicalization of gaza can also lead to a future of security. prosperity, and peace that's my vision for gaza now here's my vision for the broader middle east it's also shaped in part by what we saw in the aftermath of world war ii after that war america for

just security alliance in europe to counter the growing soviet threats likewise america and israel today can forge a security alliance in the middle east to counter the growing iranian threats all countries that are peace with israel and all of those countries who will make these with his role should be invited to join this alliance we saw a glimpse. we saw a glimpse of that potential alliance on april 14, led by the united states, more than half a dozen nations worked alongside israel to help neutralize hundreds of missiles and drones launched by iran against us thank you, president biden for bringing that coalition together the eu

alliance in vision would be a natural extension of the groundbreaking abraham accords those accords saw peace forged between israel and four arab countries. and there were supported by republicans and democrats alike we could call i have a name for this new alliance i think we should call it the abraham alliance i want to thank president trump for his leadership and brokering. the historic abraham accords like americans, israelis were relieved that president trump emerged safe and sound from that dastardly attack on him

dastardly attack on american democracy. there is no room for political violence and democracies i also want to thank president trump for all the things he did for israel from recognizing israel sovereignty over the golan heights, to confront again, rounds oppression, to recognizing jerusalem as our capital and moving the american embassy there that's jerusalem are eternal capital never to be divided again my dear friends,

democrats and republicans despite these times of upheaval i'm hopeful about the future i'm hopeful about israel because my people, the jewish people emerged from the depths of hell from dispossession in genocide and against all odds. we restored the our sovereignty and our ancient homeland we built a powerful and vibrant democracy a democracy that pushes the boundaries of innovation for the betterment of all humanity i'm hopeful about america because i'm hopeful about americans i know how much the people of this country have sacrificed to defend freedom america will be continued to be a force for light and good in a dark and dangerous world for free

peoples everywhere america remains the beacon of liberty. it's extraordinary founders envisioned back in 17, 76 working together i'm confident that our two nations will vanquish the tyrants and terrorists with whiteness both as israel's prime minister i promise you this no matter how long it takes no harm, no matter how difficult the road ahead israel will not relent. israel will not bend. we will defend our land. we will defend our people. we will fight until we achieve victory, victory over liberty, rather victory of liberty over charity, victory of life over death victory of

good over evil. that's our solid commitment and we will continue to work with the united states and our arab partners to transform are troubled region from a backwater of repression poverty, and war in to a thriving oasis of dignity prosperity, and peace. in this noble mission as in many others, israel will always remain america's indispensable ally through thick and thin through thick and thin and good times and in bad israel will

always be your loyal friend and your steadfast partner on behalf of the people of israel i came here today to say, thank you, america thank you for your support and solidarity. thank you for standing in israel where there's role in our hour of need together to get other, we shall defend our common civilization together. we shall secure a brilliant future for both our nations god bless israel. may god bless america, and may god bless the great alliance between israel and a mask forever

dana there he is the prime minister of israel

speaking for nearly one hour on the floor of the euro also, representatives, the joint meeting of the senate and the house, making israel strong case for us support. >> and you couldn't help but notice how will you a few dana, he wasn't his praise for both president obama fractures be president biden and the former president donald trump. he was a fuselage in his praise for both it absolutely look, i mean, this was looked like an american president giving a state of the union address even. >> and especially including the guests in the box which i'll get to in a second, but i just want to sort of give thematically what we just saw here was an israeli prime minister trying to reach connect with its biggest ally, its biggest democratic ally in the united states of america and doing it by touching on the most infamous days in american history, like december 7, like

september 11, 2011, that was thrills october 7, and he even said the words. it is a day that will live in infamy, standing in the same spot where franklin delano roosevelt said exactly that after pearl harbor on december 7th. so that was one connection, one of many connections he was trying to make about his, their war is the same as america's war. the other thing is the way that he tried to turn on its head the construct that we have seen emerge particularly on the streets with protesters and college campuses and elsewhere about the oppressor and the oppressor, the idea that israel is the oppressor and the palestinians are the oppressed. talking about the history of the middle east, saying that israel is historic a jewish state, and reminding people that it is with iran's help and funding that iran is trying

to oh, oppress the from his perspective and from histories perspective, the indigenous jews who live in the state of israel, those are just some of the broad takeaways that he is trying to push back on. the narrative that has been going on here in the united states it's interesting, dana, a lot of democrats were boycotting and didn't attend the natatio speech. but the crowd that was there clearly mostly republicans repeatedly gave him various very loud standing ovations from the moment he was introduced. as he was walking in during the course of that entire nearly one-hour speech? >> yeah. i mean, he as we said, going into this, he is a politician through through he knows how to hold a room. he understands united states politics very well. as barack you were saying, he can't do this in the knesset for lots of reasons. >> we wouldn't get that kind of reception, but also they

can't give those kinds of applause the other quick thing i want to mention is, and i know you all are going to get into the really big news. >> here about the security alliance that he proposed is the way that just back to that sort of state of the union address that he gave, the way that he had the israeli soldiers rise one of them was ethiopian born, another one is a better one. again, back to that oppressor versus this is the oppressed construct that he was trying to shatter. >> they're not all white people in israel. >> they're not all jews fighting for israel. certainly mostly jews, but they are also of a, more of a diverse background. and people in the united states who look at jews and look in israel, maybe understand. >> you did say in barak ravid is with us as well. israel will not rest until all the hostages are home. he didn't go into a lot of specifics about these negotiations that have been going on over these past several days and weeks to try to bring those hostages home. but he he said that goal remains priority number one.

>> yes. and but there's a big but here there was an israeli delegation was supposed to go to qatar tomorrow to negotiate over this deal. they're not going the calories play a very important role because they talk exactly loss as well. but this does delegation is not going and going because netanyahu told them don't go yet, they still need to speak to president biden and he's been slow walking this process for some time but, you know and netanyahu didn't only speak to people here in america. he mostly spoke to people back in israel. this now it's 10:00 p.m. in israel, its prime time all the big tv networks were broadcasting this live. and he tried to reassert his image to the israeli people as the one who's the most influential politician in america. why is he doing this? because he came here as a very weak israeli prime minister? 72% of israelis, according to several polls, said that they want him

to resign more or less the same number says he wants early elections. his favorabilities 30% in all the polls, 30, 32% on a good day you know what he did not say in that speech word that he did not say since the beginning of the war, since october 7. he did not say it was under my watch. he did not say i'm taking responsibility. he did not say i will do whatever it takes to repair everything. i've done in my everything my government is done. and a lot of israelis were watching this tonight, know exactly that he used the soldiers as political props. he did a lot of his regular sticks doing speeches. this i could have written this speech five days ago. and to look more or less the same so i think i'm not sure how much this speech will help him back home as he expects. >> yeah, really going to jeremy

diamond in israel in a moment, but david sanger, what was your reaction? >> well, a few things. first, as dana pointed out this did look and feel like a state of the union speech. he played the audience he played the applause lines he did the, the, the bid with the israeli soldiers in up in the upper seat the way ronald reagan did second, he did lay out a group of adversaries, the protesters, on the streets, who he mocked the icc, which of course had declared him the international, international criminal court the college presidents, who he noted said that he, he mocked for their statement that anti-semitic references needed to be examined in their context and then he said, so let me give you some context. and of course you're on what did he not do he didn't explicitly

say that hamas needed to be destroyed he basically suggested that degrading them was enough, which is more the american decision. then his past position. and then of course, he talked about building an alliance out of the group of countries that had come together on that night in april when iran launched its missile attack and turning that into even quite say, a middle east nato. but that was clearly his implication. and then he said, even a name for it it was going to be the abraham alliance building on the accords that president trump's administration put together jury thankful to president trump for those abraham accords which brought diplomatic relations between israel and several arab countries. the united arab emirates, among them buffering, also among them, he did say that those who attack israel will pay a very heavy price and he made it clear that what he was looking to a future in gaza. he said he

said this and i think i thought i think this was significant. gaza should be run by palestinians. he said, but palestinians who are not determined to destroy israel yeah, he's been saying that for awhile. >> the only problem is that when people tell him, okay. we just fought against hamas we want them destroyed. we don't want them to continue to rule gaza. there's another faction in palestinian politics that's called fatale the party of palestinian president mahmoud abbas. let's bring them in their i don't know more moderate, less extremist. any way you want to put it, but he says no, i don't want them. so netanyahu wants in gaza, palestinians that do not exist. that's his problem. i don't know where he wants to bring them from, maybe from norway, switzerland, somewhere else. they do not exist just emphasize where things stand right now. >> we are almost ten months into this war and netanyahu has said that some 14,000 hamas

fighters have been killed even if we take that number to be true. and of course there's almost no way of verifying that's only half the hamas fighting force. when you look at the leadership, there's only one of the top three liters has been confirmed killed. there's possibly a second, likely a second, mohammed deif, the head of the military wing, who's also been killed. yahya sinwar or the overall leader of hamas, remains alive we are ten months into this war and a significant portion of hamas is still on the battlefield. so i think it's very interesting to see that evolution of the netanyahu language there for months and months, he define total victory as the eradication. the erasing of hamas. and now he's talking about it in a way that we've heard some american officials talking about it. degrading them militarily taking away their ability to govern, they are not governing the gaza strip right now. no one's governing the gaza strip. and in fact, us officials believe the yahya sinwar and hamas are ready to relinquish the control

of gaza. but i think one of the greater concerns is going to be in the long run, you are inevitably going to have a strong ideology in hamas that is only growing more popular both within, among palestinians and the arab world because they are seen as resistance and thousands of fighters left on the battlefield and a large pool of palestinians who've been facing what we've, this utter devastation for the past ten months. who will be ripe for recruiting in as future militants? >> which is why he continued to bring it back to iran. the country that is by all accounts, funding and supporting not just hamas in gaza, but hezbollah in the north, in lebanon and the houthis. so this is, this was another really important over arching theme. you know that netanyahu understandably has been obsessed with the growth in the strength and the determination of iran to eradicate israel. and what he

did here was to continue to connect for an american audience. and in israeli audience. but israel doesn't need to be educated on this, but more for an american audience that iran isn't just out for israel. iran is out for american to topple american democracy. now that's right. and he cold the protesters. i iran's useful idiots. he relish going after the protesters, saying that they didn't realized i didn't know the history, know the context, know how old oppressive the iranian regime is. and he relished it. i mean, this was he, you know, he was going after these protesters, going after the leaders of some of these schools. he called them befuddled academics. we're ten months into this conflict. we're hundred days out from a presidential election. in some ways, the conflict has fallen off the radar or of many americans, it's going to start back up, right? if you think about what's happening in the context of some of these campus protesters and they're going to go back to school. there's going to be dnc convention in

chicago expected to be a lot of protesters there. so this is very much going to be top of mind heading into this election. and we don't quite know don't have an idea yet of what trump would really do in office it's something he hasn't really detailed. and we also don't know what a kamala harris administration would do and how that will be different from a biden administration. >> think of that reception he received in the congress. so that was powerful. >> it was powerful. listen, in these are republicans mostly a lot of democrats although some democrats were there and they were standing up and cheering and listen, there is a sense that americans do need to be more educated on what's going on there, on the history of anti-semitism, on the ways in which anti-semitic, semitic tropes led to the holocaust and so there was a teachable moments, right when he was trying to educate people in terms of the history, jeremy diamond is in israel and jeremy, i wanted to ask you you about the hostages. and i talked to right before this speech to the parents of one of

the israeli and american hostages, idan alexander. and there were other day where the parents were there, other family? family members of hostages were there. we didn't we did see the prime minister call out some of them, acknowledged, some of them. and then when it comes to the question that they all have when are my family members going to come home? he did promise that, but just like david and barack were saying, not a lot new that we heard from him about getting to that point with a deal with hamas with the help of qatar and america yeah, that's right. then i think the israeli prime minister paid a lot of lip service to the issue of the hostages. he talked about it during a section of his speech. but if you look at the overall context of the speech, the overall content of what the israeli prime minister said. he talked far, far more about achieving victory in this war against hamas, about destroying

hamas's military capabilities and vowing we will fight until we achieve victory. he said some phrase like that a few different times throughout the speech, he talked about that far more than he did this ceasefire agreement, which us officials, as well as israeli officials have indicated in recent days, is very much within reach. one official actually told me that it's now up to israel that it's now up to the israeli prime minister effectively to decide whether or not he actually wants a deal. and as barak was saying, there, the israeli prime minister has told his delegation to hold off on traveling to meet with the mediators and share israel's latest response until after he meets with president biden tomorrow effectively pushing off that trip by the delegation most likely until after shabbat. so that would probably be on sunday, but i think beyond that, dana, i think what we also need to do here is fact-check a few key things that these really prime minister said because he made

several claims here that attempted to not only defend the israeli military's conduct in gaza, but that also flew in the face of many of the facts on the ground when he was talking about the icc's claim that israel is starving people of gaza. he talked about big numbers of aid getting in, but there is just very, very clear evidence. you talk to any humanitarian organization that actually works on the ground in gaza. the united nations and even when you look at israel in the way that they have turned on and back off the faucet of aid to gaza. there is clear evidence that israel has not always allowed enough aid in that they have not done enough to deconflict militarily to provide safe routes for that aid to get in. and you also have to remember that ministers, members of his netanyahu's own government cold for starving the people of gaza. in the earliest days of the war. then he also made this frankly laughable claim that there are practically no civilians who were killed in rafah. i can think of several strikes in which civilians were killed. that just doesn't even pass the smell test. and then

he once again cited this west point expert, john spencer, claiming that israel has the lowest civilian casualty ratio you talked to any other expert on the conduct of militaries? warfare including how the united states has carried out its campaigns. and they will all say that israel has not taken nearly as many precautions as most modern militaries do in warfare in gaza alright, jeremy, thank you so much. that includes david petraeus former retired general, and former cia director. thank you so much for that, everyone standby joining me now to discuss is ghaith al-omari. he served as an adviser to the palestinian and president mahmoud abbas, and he is a senior fellow for the washington institute for near east policy. thank you so much for being here. what is your reaction to the prime minister? your speech? and if you will specifically, the notion of what he is calling the abraham alliance is that something that is realistic? >> first of? all my general

reaction is nothing really surprising. i'm relieved that he's not tried to do what he did in 2015 to drive a partisan wedge. but as as brock said, this was primarily addressed to an israeli audience led to an american audience to the point of the alliance that is for sure, there is actually in reality now an alliance. we saw on april 13, 14 when when israel, when iran fired the drones and missiles into israel and towards the jordanians, who actually shot down some of these missiles was the saudis who gave a lot of the intelligence. however, what he did not say is the one thing that the saudis and others actually want to hear to formalize this alliance, which is a pathway towards a palestinian state. you know, i was in saudi recently, i talk saudi officials all the time. they said they want to normalize with israel if they want to get into not only security alliances, but also civilian, diplomatic, et cetera but i want something from israel. they want israel to lay out a pathway to a palestinian state. not today, not tomorrow, not next week, but a credible pathway. he did not talk about

that, so yes, it's a nice aspiration, but unless he does the kind of necessary political heavy lifting and frankly, do a deal with his own politics about it. this way. maine simply either an ad hoc notion or just the pie in the sky yeah, that is definitely one of the many main differences that he has with president biden. >> the notion of a palestinian state, at least the aspiration of having england on that. you did, when you were an adviser to mock muda boss and my question for you is the question that netanyahu pose, which is, is it possible? to have a palestinian self-run government at this point in time, given what we're seeing right now, that is committed to the viability the other palestinian people, but not the extinction of the israeli people the palestinian authority right now, if you look at it, it is committed to a two-state solution. >> as we speak, their security coordination between israel and

gaza now this is the main question right now. they are not capable to go into gaza. they're not capable both because of just physical lack of capabilities. what also, they are corrupt. they need to reform they need a lot of fixing up to get to that point. the big question is the following, and i think barak did allude to it well, we start in a process that will say, when the palestinian authority is reformed, escapable, they will run gaza. in which case we can start the process of reform today. and this is by the way, with president biden talked about when he talked about illuminated palestine authority. now this is not only essential for getting the palestinian authority into gaza, but it's also essential about something else that actually bibi himself, netanyahu himself mentioned, which is bringing arab forces and arab countries to help rebuild gaza every arm officials are spoke to in the gulf, jordan, egypt, et cetera. will tell you we will not come in unless we're evolving altered by the palestinian authority. and if we are seen as a step towards bringing in the palestinian authority. so i

think in some ways the precedent for it today cannot do it. but unless we put bringing the palestinian authority back as an ugly, as an objective, unless we start today to reform the palestinian authority to fix it up, to deal with the corruption, but also the combat capabilities. we will not have the regional coalition that will come and rebuild gaza. so this is another point that i suspect will be very much on the gender tomorrow when bbm its way meet with the president, with the vice president, i suspect you're right. ghaith. all amari. thank you so much for being here really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> and stay with cnn special coverage. we'll be right back saturday on the whole story. political who violence has always threatened our democracy after the attempt on trump's life. where does america go from here? the whole story with anderson cooper, political violence, a miracle? because bloody history, saturday at 8:00 on cnn you've got a pepto predicament as you overdid it on the loaded fries, can now

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back to our special coverage. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu just wrapped up his address to congress. it was a nearly one-hour long speech in at the israeli leader emphasized the importance of close ties between the u.s. and israel his goal he said was to shore up support for israel's war in gaza. we also heard him repeatedly defending actions take it in the war, want to discuss the speech with the former prime minister of israel, ehud barak, who is joining us, right now. prime minister. thank you so much for joining us. what was your reaction to what prime minister netanyahu had to say? >> you know, israel table bowery tone in perfect english cannot compensate for the absence of courage and integrity indeed, not just in words and israeli collective expect for visa, little to project calm a big test and

optimism in in deeds, not just in words and under his watch, which he never mentioned, the worst event in the history of the joint joy shape people's eye on already happened followed by world lead strategically lead. wall, in spite of the current devotion and sacrifice in the battlefield. so this gap between deeds and words, cause him to lose totally the trust of the israeli people who, out of five israelis, him as the main responsible will the blunder of october and the woe afterwards for a three out of four things, the tea he has to resign and two out of three israelis believed that his motivations and private has to do with politics the cold case, whatever, not win the interest of israel and the same two out of three believe that he

deliberately torpedoes the hostage hostage deal. is this level of trust he become illegitimate. his legal prime minister, he was elected freely, with no no one stole the election, but he's totally legitimate. he perceived as being patently unfit to keep leading us into the new chapter so prime minister barak, you, you believe the prime and the current prime minister netanyahu is responsible for the failure of the israeli military. >> the israeli intelligence community back on october 7, which resulted in hamas going into israel and killing all those israelis we'll show not he's not responsible for the failure of intelligence to give everyone the last night. >> but he was warned by the same intelligence service moms that he is what he calls judicial reform and vali ended

up to be a judicial coup d'etat. >> and the way he wants the state of israel together with two messianic ms yoni racist jewish supremacy, knots, wants to turn into a fire. the whole middle east, not just the conflict dinner and the palestinians that gives lead to a parent and immediate risk trial security. he was warned once and again, once again, ignore it. he is the father of the idea that hamas is there an asset and the palestinian soldiers liability rather than the other way? he mentioned, fdr. if fdr would have been there final financier of he might be blamed for pedal humble, but he was not of course, netanyahu reached the point where he paid book texture money. in case billion

and a half dollar half of them we found in the tunnels in the personal weapons, of hamas and he ignited a whoa, whoa, we didn't know he calls hundred 50,000 israel, both in the south and either know to live full nine months their own homes. he created that huge divide in vying in spite of all it's called full, working together with america. make this deep divide america and became isolated all around the world to wave of anti semitic it's all started with these fake idea. he has been idea that we can have a breakthrough to all the saudi arabia and the muslim world, while keep ignoring the palestinian issue and that you can navigate israel in a tough neighborhood like the middle east you don't only really tough neighborhood without ever making a decision.

>> he is shuffled form, is strategic, paralyzed from day one general phone was in the cabinet gantz and eisenkot, political leaders now, but forward chips, outset, he could never reach let me prime minister barak, let me interrupt for a moment. >> one final question. i know you've gotta go. i you among those israelis who think that prime minister netanyahu really doesn't want to deal with hamas, a deal that would result in all the hostages being unlocked to come home no, i i'm confident that deepen is his hold. he wants to see them released, but it contradicts his interest as a political player. and he is blackmailed by these two racist michigan a bank with smotrych. even today, smotrych climbed to the temple mount to go to get so vocation netanyahu yields to his weaknesses. and when he faces a

choice between these hostage were still alive, less than half of them are still alive and they need to release them any his personal interest to staying power we because he genuinely believes that he save all of us when we strongly believe the key totally unfit to continue in power. so when he faced those choices, he always wants and again decide for his personal fate and longevity government rather than the and need urgent need to save those hosted before they would come back in. >> i just want to be precise. >> one wolf, let me make one showed president biden, from day one proposed, well, what netanyahu now, after so much damage called to israel, he said from day one, join us in an alliance of moderate soon i

or tacos in the weekend, we will deploy vis-a-vis the u1 yan's day, the proxy and backed by russia, probably china we will be together. we could see the potential of such an alliance in the, in the night of missiles amid a plane and that's exactly what should have been done nine months ago it's unforgivable ever to less than the hour that he has it taken direct it all along might come to it bet after all this damage without being able to bring to life and to correct the damages the cold that's why he had to leave power rather than to make speech within the consortium. >> so what i hear you saying correct me if i'm wrong, prime minister barak what you're saying is that prime minister certainly the time you is more interested in staying in political power than he is at ending this conflict in gaza and seeing those hostages come home, is that right?

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race and pass the torch to vice president kamala harris chris here's what white house press secretary karine jean-pierre, previewing his speech, just said tonight, the president will discuss his historic decision to put the country above all else and about the inflection point we face as a country in this moment and this is one of those rare moments in history when the decisions we make wound now will determine the future of our nation america must choose between moving forward or backward cnn special correspondent jamie gangel is joining us right now. >> what do you expect to hear from president biden tonight? >> well, i think that just justice, as his press secretary, said, this is a speech for history. it's also a speech the president biden wished he didn't have to be giving. it was very hard for him to get here. he fought it for a long time. but now, once

he made the decision, the accolades came in and i think that he also understands how it has changed the dynamics of this race how dramatically it is infused it with energy. and it's also left former president trump having to really scramble to change his strategy. but joe biden has been in public office for most of his life and i think he will be looking back at this from the historic perspective that he gives his primetime oval office address to the nation and deter the world later tonight and then tomorrow he meets with prime minister netanyahu. give us your sense. i know you're doing a lot of reporting on this. what's at stake during that meeting tomorrow. >> so i think there's a tremendous amount let's take because he only has president biden only has a few more months in office and he

desperately wants a deal for what's been going on with israel and the middle east. it's actually going to be an interesting 48 hours because he will meet with netanyahu vice president comma harris will meet. i would like to be a fly on that wall to see how an anxious a lot to negotiate because of the election coming up in november. and states like michigan. and then on friday, netanyahu goes to donald trump. and as we saw in this speech, a lot of his speech was saying, thank you to donald trump he's hedging his bets on what happens in november. also trying to, as you said, i will tell the world and a text to me trying to make up with donald trump. no they had a bit of a rift. yes. we also have with us here, the ceo of the anti-defamation league, jonathan greenblatt jonathan, you came from this address you were in the hall in the house chamber what was your impression of the speech? knowing? that he had multiple

audiences there? >> yeah, it was pretty extraordinary, dana, i mean, to be there in the chamber watching prime minister netanyahu deliver those remarks were a few things that stood out for me. number one, it was a unity message, like literally you had democrats and republicans standing up and applauding you know, i thought there was going to be lots of empty seats there simply weren't. it was a pretty full house and he complimented president biden, embraced him, as jamie said, andy kaufman of president trump abraham accords. so he was sort of finding a way to praise both sides. that's number one. number two, he talked about anti-semitism. he talked about what's happening on our college campuses and what's happening in the streets and how that is not just about protesting policies of the government. you're seeing people going after zionist and jews and literally while he was speaking outside the capitol, you had people burning american flags in front of union station. i saw signs as they came over here to the studio, people saying things like any resistance is justified. i

mean, comparing that those kinds of, that kind of language, when you think about the babies who were burned in the women who were raped so we talked about that, that was important then thirdly, i think he laid out a path forward. he talked about hostage and needs to get them home. they talked about what a future could look like for israel a demilitarized gaza, like a vision of peace that to me was really quite well where there were a lot of debris, dozens of democrats boycotted the speech, didn't show up. a lot of those seats where the democrats would have been seated, were congressional staffer just showing up, sitting there, you know, there may have been some empties, but i watched hakeem jeffries stand and applaud. i watched chuck schumer stand and applaud i watched almost every democratic senator stand and applaud. so i hear what you're saying, but i got to say i saw a unity in that room. i saw him trying to appeal to both sides and i said people from both parties response, but what you do at the adl is tried to stamp out hate, of course, antisemitism, hate against a islamophobia, racism, all of it how do you

think that netanyahu's attempt to do that in his speech is going to play. >> i mean, i was getting a text from one american jew who said, okay, it's fine to paul people useful idiots. but how about like a slight nod to people who are genuinely upset about the what's happening in gaza. >> wael. not end under standing that you're also seeing the signs that you just described toll, which is just plain hate. >> and he talked about the director of national intelligence acknowledging a few weeks ago that iran isn't vault in these protests, something we've been seeing it at all for a long time, but he did something very interesting. dana before the speech really got started or did he called out some of the folks that he had brought over? part of his delegation, including, for example, a better one soldier, which was interesting. i think most americans don't realize there are israeli muslims in the idf. and then he had an ethiopian israeli soldier who ran eight miles on october the seventh. so i point this out

because he demonstrated the diversity of israeli society i think you pointed this out earlier in a way that surprised a lot of people. he could have come with just decorated jewish veterans. he didn't do that. he brought a more diversity delegation and i think that sends a message. >> i just to push back just a little bit about, about all the unity several israelis from both sides of the aisle were texting me during the speech. and what i heard from them is that that was in effect a very celebratory speech that really does not fit and that there is an alternate reality on the ground that's going on both in gaza and in israel, as we know, in the north 60,000 plus israelis are displaced. there has been an extraordinary impact down the economy. and then of course, there is the devastating reality of the number of deaths in gaza palestinians, the humanitarian disaster so he had a welcome

audience there today. but he did ignore what i'm hearing from israelis is a very dire reality on the ground. >> look, there is no question that that is an incredibly difficult situation. and every civilian life i've lost is a tragedy. every palestinian woman or child who was killed inadvertently no matter what the idf tries to do that as a tragedy, we should mourn every pete, one of those deaths. but he talked about, for example, the dire situation in gaza and how they're trying to bring in supplies. he talked about the situation in the north you're pointing out and the need to bring those people back to their homes 60 or 80,000 israelis. and he talked about the need to bring the hostages home. i know at adl, we're focused on fighting eight here at home, but we all aware the dog tags because we want these civilians he's innocent people back, including by the way, doesn't have i think no, maybe it's eight americans at this point so i think he tried to

address that, jamie, but look, if you've lost the child if i think about my friends, the poland's i was with the niches before we came on. there. their sons are both held in gaza. i can't even begin to grasp the unspeakable pain they deal with every day, we have got to get those gets home. so i hope they get a deal very very fast. so we can see omer and we can see hersh back home safe and sound and all the hostages once and for all hope there's a deal that would bring those hostages home as quickly as possible. jonathan greenblatt, thanks very much. jamie, thanks to you as well i wanna go to cnn's miguel marquez he's been covering the demonstrators out there in the streets of washington jamie, give us a sense of what's been going on lots and lots of but demonstrators and protesters throughout the capital around the capitol building. >> but i want to say it's all ended here at union station. this is the remnants of one us flag that was burned here over in the distance there you can

see the ashes there. that's the remnants of another flag. i want to show you sort of the bell over here though that the liberty they'd copy of the liberty bell. that's out in front of the station. that's been covered in graffiti and then the columbus memorial has also been covered didn't graffiti here. and jonathan, if you can show all three us flags on the three flagpoles, massive flag pulls out in front of union station have been pulled down. and palestinian flags. flags have been put up in their place. most of the protesters is a few dozen, maybe 100 or so still gathered here. most of protesters have left. but you can see the number of police it's officers in front of union station. and i'm looking over across the way here and there are lots of police with shields now and heavy vehicles. so it looks like most of protesters believing and police will come back in and bring this place back to order wolf. all right. miguel, let's hope it's peaceful over their biggest marquez reporting for us. thanks very much. dana thank you so much. and with us now is republican senator john thune of south dakota, senator. thank you so much for being

here. really great to see you and to have you here first generally speaking, your reaction to prime minister netanyahu's remarks strong speech and as it's usually the case with the prime minister they're very well articulated and i thought he hit all the right points. dan, i think the one thing that he needs to do for people in this country and for that matter of people all around the world is connect the dots back to iran. and the fact that is real is the only thing standing between iran and the united states, which they consider to be the great satan and so iran is behind all the mine activities isn't that region, whether it's hezbollah in the north or the houthis in yemen, or hamas right there in the gaza strip. but i that he was really effective and that in particular and also articulating a vision of what could like could look like in the future if you had an integrated middle east and de-radicalized, demilitarized gaza and that of course means that you've got to get rid and

eliminate hamas i want to get back to what you were just talking about. >> i'm back to the prime minister's speech in a second. i'm not sure if you were able to hear our reporter, miguel marquez, who was talking about the protesters there's outside specifically, he was reporting on in showing the american flag being lowered, the pellet justinian flag being raised. we even saw some red triangles out showing it. now, i don't know if you can see it, but we even saw some red triangles on some of the statues, what's your reaction to that? >> well, i think it's it's disgraceful it's shameful. and the kind of thing that we shouldn't see in this country. but again, as the prime minister pointed out today, a lot of these activities that are happening here in the united states or ran is behind them they are trying to create to molt and instability chaos. and use in fueling all these protests and these islands, particularly the anti-semitic violence in this country that's a rainy and activity, and that's why they have to be

stopped. and that's why it's so important that we continue to support for israel, including as the prime minister said, give us the tools faster and we will finish the job. they've got to get this thing over with and incentive clear statement to the world that this kind of behavior and the kind of thing that we're seeing right here in the u.s. and right here in the city today. just can't be tolerated one of prime minister netanyahu's predecessors, ehud barak who we understand and we should tell our viewers who might not know is not from the same party as prime minister netanyahu. >> but nonetheless, he has somebody he's somebody who has been intimately involved in trying to get to peace. he almost got there when bell clear and had hit him and yasir era fat in 2000 here in the united states. he said, very, very strongly and very clearly too wolf, that he does not believe that prime minister netanyahu actually wants to end the war because it would mean the end of his own political

viability at home. and that might even mean the hostages stay longer. are you concerned about i mean, you're a politician. you understand what's going on in israel. are you concerned about the notion that bibi netanyahu isn't trying as hard as he can to get this deal because of his own concerns about his own future. >> i don't think that i've met with him in israel. i've met with ii who brock in israel previously as well. and obviously so they have political differences there, but those aside, my sense coming out of this was is he is desperate to end this because this is putting the lives of it israeli citizens at risk every single day. and he talked about in the north, where hezbollah is threatening israeli homes and citizens there and they're just surrounded on every side. he wants to end this what happens? politically in israel after this? i don't think anybody can really speculate about that at the moment, but

the one thing that's clear right now and that is there are still a lot of hostages there, including american hostages that we need to get for aid and released. and hamas could do that tomorrow. this could end tomorrow. but this ends when the hamas is a terrorist threat on israel's border is eliminated and then there is a much brighter, more prosperous, stable, secure future for for the people of gaza. and for that entire region. but the terrorists, the terrorism has to end and iran is behind it and he did a really good job of connecting those dots today. >> senator john thune of south dakota. thank you so much for being here, sir. >> thanks. dana, good to be with you and we'll be back in just a few minutes. >> stay with us this morning

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