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breaking news in america's escalating trade war. and it's dramatic this morning. the top u.s. trading partners are hitting back at president trump's overnight tariffs. right now out on wall street, investors are weighing this new exchange of tariffs with mexico, canada and china. the dow already down more than 500 points in the markets, just opened. and inflation weary americans could soon feel the squeeze on their wallets big time. prices of food, electronics and big ticket items like cars all potentially going up and up. and there's more breaking news right now. target becoming the latest top retailer to issue a specific warning about the u.s. economy. the ceo just a few moments ago saying sales fell last month. u.s. consumer confidence is weakening and americans will feel the pinch almost immediately. >> the consumer will likely see price increases over the next couple of days. you think about all the fresh produce. you know,

we depend on mexico during the winter. we're going to try to make sure we can do everything we can to protect pricing. but if there's a 25% tariff, those prices will go up. >> for. >> things like what? strawberries, avocados? bananas. what are we talking about? >> you got that list, right? >> is that. >> so those are some of the key items. >> and those prices could change within days in the stores. >> certainly over the next week. >> we're covering all the angles right now with cnn crews in china, mexico and canada. let's begin with our correspondent mark stuart. he's in beijing. mark china responded very quickly. what can you tell us? >> it's good to see you, wolf. there is no question china thought hard about this. these latest tariffs are strategic and full of substance targeting american farmers and people who work in agriculture, industries and sectors that were hit hard by tariffs previously back in 2018. these latest tariffs are now an additional 10 or 15%

depending on the product. among the items on the list, things like beef, chicken, fruits and vegetables. one item that really caught our attention. soybeans. china's pork industry depends on soybeans to feed its pigs. soybeans were the highest value import from the united states last year, but all of this isn't a real surprise. wolf, it fits very much in china's foreign policy of for tat. you heard us. we'll hurt you back. china wolf is fighting back. >> i stand by our correspondent. valeria león is in mexico city for us. valeria. we just heard from mexico's president vowing retaliation. what can you tell us? >> yeah. president shimon announced that mexico will respond to the tariff with tariff and non-tariff measures that she will announce in a public event on sunday. and this means that so far, we still don't know exactly what

measures the government is going to take. but in the end, mexico had no chance for a last minute deal to skirt trump's tariffs. despite all mexicans government's efforts, the tariffs went into effect, leaving a bitter aftertaste. mexico's president, claudia tracey mann, insisted that her administration did its part over the last month by beefing up the military presence along its northern border, which bought a month long pass of the tariffs. wolf. >> all right. stand by as well. our correspondent paula newton is in ottawa for us. paula, canada is the top trading partner with the united states. how are these new tariffs imposed by the trump administration being viewed there? >> as an existential threat. and that comes from the government itself? wolf. now, we want to say canada said it was ready. and at midnight, in fact, 1201. it started to impose retaliatory tariffs. so that's 25% on 30 billion canadian right now. what does that involve? wolf meat and

vegetables, some dairy products. key here though, wolf, is that many provinces, including the largest ontario, beginning to take u.s. alcohol off of its shelves, no longer willing to sell u.s. alcohol in canada. a lot of provinces are going to be signing up to that. right now, we are waiting for more retaliatory moves. we're expecting a press conference from prime minister trudeau in about half an hour. >> we'll see what he has to say. paula, valeria and mark to all of you. thank you very much, pamela. >> all right, wolf, let's continue this conversation. joining us now is democratic senator mark warner of virginia. he is the vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee. senator, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, pamela. >> so target's ceo was out this morning on cnbc talking about how customers are likely to see prices increase within days for fruits and veggies they get from mexico. what do you think the impact will be on americans wallets in the coming days? >> listen, pamela, remember, this was the guy trump that was supposed to lower food prices. instead, he's doing absolutely

the opposite. we've already seen the stock market react. all of the trump gains have been wiped out so far. and the market's still going down. you hear from target and everybody else. consumer prices are going to go dramatically up. so this has taken a big hit on the american economy as well as frankly completely ruining our relations with our two biggest partners canada, mexico. uh, if that was one, that's only one part of the story. the other part of the story, he has paused all military aid to ukraine, completely pulling the rug out from under our ukrainian allies, completely rejecting our alliance with our european allies. and what's kind of remarkable about this is that russia's allies, china, iran, north korea, they're not slowing any of their military aid to russia. so we are kind of kneecapping ukraine at this critical moment as well. this is a double whammy. and now trump's going to come in tonight and try to explain that

to the american people. i hope people realize when they see america weaker internationally. and when your food prices go up where this is coming from. >> just to to continue the conversation on russia and ukraine and the impact again, you were the vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee. president trump, he has aid to ukraine, as you mentioned, that follows the administration conceding at least two major points to russia without negotiation. no nato admission for ukraine and no return of russian held territories. russia says the united states is aligning with it. is the united states on team russia now? >> you know, i don't think the vast majority of americans are. i don't think the vast majority of members of congress, frankly, not just the democrats, but the republicans as well. i wish more of them would find a little courage to stand up. but this has been a, you know, a two week streak. remember a week ago last monday, for the first time ever, america in the united nations voted with with russia, iran, north korea, nicaragua denying

who started the war in ukraine. the whole world knows russia started. now you've got these this effort after the breakout in the white house or in the oval office last week, where they kind of cut the knees out from under zelenskyy pulling this aid. it sure as heck appears that putin and xi and authoritarian regimes around the world are seeing the, at least the american administration side with them more and more often. we've always stood with democracies. i think this is a sad day for democracies around the world. >> do you think the u.s. will stand with democracies? then what? from what you just laid out? >> i think the american people still stand with democracies. i think the american white. >> house does. >> i listen the actions of this white house speak loudly. they have cut off all aid to ukraine, which basically puts them in league with the russian brutal invasion of ukraine. i think it is disgusting. i think it goes against 70 years of bipartisan

consensus that we need to stand up against authoritarian regimes. and i'm not sure how he's going to be able to back his way out of this trump, other than giving up on ukraine. and if putin is successful in ukraine, he won't stop there. it will be a green light for president xi to go after taiwan in, in in asia, in the south china sea. and i think again, at the end of the day, this is going to make america weaker. >> i asked the commerce secretary, howard lutnick, about this, about what the administration is doing here in regards to russia. he talked about how basically it's trying to bring putin to the table. this is what he said. i want to get your reaction. >> we've given $300 billion to ukraine. is it difficult to see what side we're on? give me a break. i mean, this concept of people getting confused is absurd. the president is on ukraine's side, and he said it. he said, i'll give them more military aid. he said it, but he said he'll do it if he can get

to peace. and he needs peace, and he needs president zelenskyy to say, i want peace. and he wants putin to say i want peace. and then the president will bring them together and you'll see the greatest peacemaker, because he knows you got to hit both sides in order to get to the middle. >> a couple of things to note. after that interview, the president decided to pause aid to ukraine. also fact check, according to the kiel institute, a german think tank, the u.s. is actually allocated about $119 billion to ukraine, not the 300 billion that he is talking about there. so important to note that. but what do you think about nick's point that the u.s. has been on ukraine's side, and that trump is just trying to make a deal in his trump way? >> well, listen, the u.s., with 80% support from congress, democrats and republicans have supported this additional assistance to ukraine. we know where this war started, putin's aggression to try to take back the whole soviet union, the old soviet union. i think that's not good for america. and respectfully, you know, this

team, which is if they're supposed to be great negotiators, why do they give in to all these russian demands before you even start a negotiation? that is a negotiation deemed for failure. that is a negotiation that is set up for putin to come out a big winner. putin takes ukraine or gets a terribly favorable settlement. that doesn't help world peace. the next thing putin will look at will be the baltic states, then poland. this is all about reconstituting the old ussr. and again, it's not what most americans believe. it's kind of an embarrassment. it's more than kind of an embarrassment. who will ever count on us again in terms of keeping our word? and again, this is a bad day for democracies around the world. and unfortunately, america's leadership of those democracies is candidly being questioned in capitals around the world. the only winners, putin and russia, xi and china, the islamic leadership in iran. you know, the dear leader in north korea. is that really the team that we want to be affiliated with?

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and the most important, sophisticated bits, we're told, from ukrainian sources that intelligence sharing is not impacted. that's vital for ukraine to know what their russian enemy is doing. but what is going to be affected? possibly running out in a matter of weeks. and we know ukraine counts them day by day. a patriot air defense missiles, they're the only thing that can shoot down russian ballistic missiles that hammer ukraine almost nightly. that is key. and also by may, june, if not earlier, critical artillery ammunition will likely run out as a result of this decision. now, i'm sure the trump administration will defend this and say this is about pressuring zelenskyy towards a peace that's yet to entirely have been defined. and also, two, i think there are other suggestions here that we weren't likely to see a further injection of finance from the trump administration. this is simply biden administration aid being held up, but still a real shock here, wolf. >> and you have to ask, you know, trying to pressure him maybe on on the deal, but also, could this add pressure on

zelenskyy to possibly step aside as ukraine's president? nick. >> yeah, i mean, as we've been reporting the technical aspects of replacing a wartime president here in ukraine basically make it impossible or would render a sense of political chaos that would just make the prosecution of the war by the ukrainians almost impossible. but yes, it adds pressure on zelenskyy and that personal rift. and zelenskyy has a very hard choice now. he essentially seems to be being asked by the trump administration to publicly apologize for the oval office incident, which they consider to have been his fault, to sign a rare earth mineral deal which doesn't contain security guarantees that ukraine needs, but does hand over much of ukraine's wealth, potentially for years, and also commit to an unspecified peace. but from the trump administration, we don't know exactly what peace trump is asking him to sign up to. is it the peace that he is negotiating with moscow, of which we know very little, and which ukraine is not involved? is it the peace plan that the european partners are putting together for trump, or is it a general sense by the president of the united states that the president of ukraine is more willing to talk peace?

that's a very difficult ask for a wartime commander. and on the other side, the plus of acceding to this. well, ukraine would potentially get a continuation of aid that it thinks may run out anyway in the months ahead. it vitally needs those patriots and intelligence, though, wolf. pamela. >> very quickly, nick, before i let you go. have sirens been going off in the capital of kyiv, where you are with russian drones and other attacks coming in? >> yeah. look, this is nightly. i mean, for many nights while we've been here, we hear the air defense working here to shoot the drones down. some nights there are over 200. the last few nights there have been just about 100. but this is attacking all across ukraine. civilians are being killed by this on a regular basis. and that's away from the hundreds that die on the front lines every single day. so be in no doubt the pause in this aid will have very real world consequences on the number of ukrainian lives lost in the months ahead.

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and issue a call to action to republican lawmakers. but vice president jd vance is suggesting president trump will also, and i'm quoting him now, poke a little fun while delivering his message. listen to this. >> i'm going to. >> have fun. >> tomorrow because the president of the united. >> states. >> he's going to make a lot of good arguments. he's going to talk a lot about a lot of the successes that. >> we've had in these first 45 days. he's also going to be himself, which means he's going to poke a little fun and we're going to have a good time tomorrow. so i'm just going to try to enjoy it. >> all right. for more right now i want to bring in trump campaign adviser danielle alvarez. she's currently a senior adviser to the republican national committee. danielle, thanks so much for joining us. what does the president need, in your opinion, to say to reassure very anxious american voters tonight? and do you think this is the right time to poke fun, as the vice president is saying? >> first of all, wolf. congratulations on the new

program, and thank you for having me. tonight is certainly a big night. it's a little different. normally, the first address by the president of the united states is a joint address and not called a state of the union, and that is because it's believed that the president hasn't had enough time in office to really address the state of the union. but the reality is, in the first month in office, president trump and his administration have been sprinting. and so they will have quite a few accomplishments to tout. now, of course, as you teased, there will be two audiences that the president is talking to. first is directly in front of him is those members of congress who need to make sure to respond to the mandate that the american people delivered in november and helped president trump accomplish that america first agenda. but the second, of course, is the american people watching from home and how he talks to them. and i do love what j.d. said. you know, the president likes to go off script at times. and so i do anticipate

that he will have some fun. but that's what the american people love. they love to hear directly from their commander in chief. it's why he has done so many interviews and been so accessible to the media. it's why he posts so much on truth on x, because he likes to speak directly to the american people. so it is important to remember those two audiences that he will be speaking to as he challenges congress to deliver for the american people, and touts the wins so far. >> yeah, and it's true. during this first few weeks, he's been very accessible, answering a lot of questions from the news media. danielle, we're told the president will also hold up elon musk as a leading example of his administration's swift action to try to change washington. but as you know, many gop lawmakers have been confronted by voters very angry about those doge cuts. so is president trump potentially making a mistake by putting a spotlight on that? >> absolutely not. we know that the american people and polling has showed us this support, what

president trump is doing and what doge is doing to cut waste, fraud and abuse. the research team at the rnc is looking into these protesters, these so-called protesters, which are actually democrats astroturfing. and it's really interesting. democrats have had a really hard time getting their footing, understandably, because president trump is talking about 80, 20 issues, issues that the american people support. and democrats playbook has always been about opposition to president trump. but it's really hard to oppose when the american people support shutting down the southern border, support ending waste, fraud and abuse, support bringing peace between israel and the middle east and bringing peace between ukraine and russia. these are very simple things that president trump campaigned on, that he's delivering on. and democrats have just had an incredibly hard time figuring out their footing and figuring out what their messaging is. and that's why president trump and his administration are having so much fun, because they're being

successful and delivering for the american people. >> as you know, danielle, the president will be delivering a speech tonight just a few hours after enacting huge tariffs on canada, mexico and china. america's three leading trade partners, the wall street journal editorial board says. and i'm quoting now from the wall street journal, we've quoted mr. trump's ire by calling for mexico and canada levies the dumbest in history. and we may have understated the point. mr. trump is making friends, not adversaries. close quote. how does he explain these tariffs to americans already suffering from

>> i always trust president trump. i've seen him personally on the campaign trail as he has negotiated. it is impressive to see. obviously we hear what's being reported in the media. but what i can tell you he is a fierce negotiator who will put america first, who will put the american people first. >> and that is what he's doing as he's putting tariffs on canada, on mexico, on china, to make sure that we stop these illegal and illicit drugs. who are the number one killers of americans ages 18 to 40? making sure that we put a stop to that. he has a lot of issues that he is wrangling with all at the same time. of course, he was handed a lot of problems from the previous administration. he is tackling them all at once, and we've already seen whether in negotiations again in the middle east, whether in negotiations initially with colombia, when they were returning the illegal immigrants. we were flying over president trump and the american people came out on top. and that is what i anticipate us to see. >> we'll see what happens. we see the markets, though, going down and down, at least for now.

danielle alvarez, thank you very much for joining us. pamela. >> all right. and we're expecting to hear from the prime minister of canada, justin trudeau, who is obviously talking about canada's retaliation and response and says that less than 1% of fentanyl crosses the the border. just ahead, vice president jd vance making new comments about ukraine. that's next. stay with us. >> united states of scandal with jake tapper returns sunday at nine on cnn. >> this is what joint pain looks like when you keep moving with aleve. just one aleve. 12 hours of uninterrupted joint pain relief. aleve. strength to last 12 hours. >> with allegra. >> i hope. >> you can stop being sneezy without feeling sleepy. get 0% brain interference for fast non-drowsy allergy relief. with allegra, it's a no brainer. see disney's snow white, march 21st rated pg.

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correspondent, manu raju, up on capitol hill. so specifically mana. what did the vice president say? >> well, he was on capitol hill, wolf, to introduce a nominee to be the third number three position at the pentagon. that's elbridge colby. and after he gave those remarks at this confirmation hearing, he came out, he spoke to reporters, and he was asked about that controversial and consequential decision by president trump to halt military aid, suspend military aid to ukraine, and what it would take to release that aid. and he said that if zelenskyy, president zelenskyy of ukraine comes to the negotiating table, then he said all options would be on the table. >> obviously, i'm here to talk about my friend colby. i think he'll make a great, great policy lead at the department of defense. it's why the president nominated him. and i just wanted to be here to give a word of encouragement, a word of approval, and just lend my reputation to bring his confirmation, because i think it's a really, really important person for us to have at the department of defense. we have gone for too long letting our

industrial base get degraded, allowing our troops to not even have the munitions that they need to fight the wars of the future. president trump really believes in peace through strength, but a core part of peace through strength is ensuring that our troops have the weapons that they need in order to fight the next war. if, god forbid, it necessarily comes. so bridge is an important part of that defense policy. i think the senate will confirm him, and i'm glad to be here and speak on his behalf. happy to take a few questions. if you guys have them. >> aid for ukraine. leave ukraine right now and give russia. >> look what the president has said very clearly about our ukraine policy is that he wants the ukrainians to come to the negotiating table. we want the ukrainians to have a sovereign and an independent country. we think the ukrainian troops have fought very bravely. but we're at a point here where neither europe nor the united states nor the ukrainians can continue this war indefinitely. so it's important that everybody come to the table and the president is trying to send a very explicit message. the ukrainians have got to come to the table and start

negotiating with president trump. >> does this have hope for the mineral deal? do you believe that the mineral deal can still be reached with ukraine? >> yeah, i certainly do. and i think the president is still committed to the mineral deal. i think we've heard some positive things, but not yet. of course, the signature from our friends in ukraine. but look, the mineral deal is a really important part of the president's policy. number one. the american people have got to get some payback for the incredible financial investment we've made in this country. a lot of the aid that the europeans have sent has come in the form of money that is getting repaid to them. well, it's really ridiculous and frankly, an insult to the american people that the europeans are getting a better deal than the american people. the president is just trying to assure that the american people get a fair deal, while simultaneously ensuring we have access to some minerals and resources that are very important for the economy of the future. >> and, wolf, there is a lot of pushback on capitol hill from that decision by the trump administration to hold back on that military aid. republicans and democrats alike, people like

senator susan collins of maine, who chairs the powerful senate appropriations committee, objecting to that move. other ukraine supporters as well, including one democratic senator, richard blumenthal, just told me moments ago he believes that that is an illegal move by the president to halt that aid. so expect some more pushback if that is not ultimately released. and wolf, jd vance also was asked about the issue of those tariffs of 25% tariffs going into effect against canada and mexico, another issue that has caused a lot of concern among democrats and republicans members alike. he was referring when he was asked specifically about the issue of the canada tariffs. wolf, he suggested that the issue of fentanyl, he said he said we need to see real engagement on the fentanyl issue, on the drug issue. this is fundamentally the underlying element of these tariffs. he says that we think the canadians have not been serious about stopping the drug trade. so you can see the red line from the administration on that issue. the canadians, of course, have a different view than the vice president of the united states. but that is what where the administration stands as these tariffs have gone into effect.

and is this halting, this military aid has as well. >> certainly has. all right. manu raju up on capitol hill. manu, thank you very much, pamela. >> all right. let's discuss these comments and more now with democratic senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island. he is also a member of the senate judiciary committee. senator, thank you so much for being here. what is your reaction to what we just heard from the vice president saying that the withholding of this aid to ukraine is to send an explicit message, and we should note you voted in favor of sending that aid to ukraine. previously. >> well. >> what it looks like is extortion. by trump of ukraine for russia. all of the pressure in this so-called negotiation is on the ukrainian side. and i see the vice president of the president acting very directly as agents of putin and russia in these so-called negotiations. imagine if franklin delano roosevelt had told winston churchill, we're cutting off lend-lease. you have to negotiate with hitler and be prepared to give up some of your

territory and put no pressure on hitler. that's a pretty good analogy for where we are. and that's why i think people are so concerned. >> those are some strong words to say that that this president and his officials are agents of putin and russia. do you believe that at this point, the united states is is firmly aligned with russia? russia came out just yesterday and said it's looking that way. >> russia has said so itself, using exactly those words so i don't have to use them. let russia use them. they did. mhm. >> the administration has said this is all part of the negotiating technique, that this is what it needs to do to get putin to the table, that what was happening under the biden administration, using tough words against putin wasn't working. this is a new tactic. do you think it potentially could be successful to get putin to the table? >> you don't get a thug and a tyrant like putin to the table by giving him everything that he

wants and trying to crush the freedom fighters of ukraine under putin's heel. i just don't see how this ends anyplace. and the notion that the ukrainians are going to stop fighting while they're still russian occupation of their territory. could you imagine if americans were occupied by russia, if they'd taken over our northeastern states? do you think we would stop fighting because some foreign president wanted a peace deal? of course we wouldn't. and the ukrainians are going to fight on as best they can with whatever weapons they have. >> why should every american care about this right now? >> well, same reason every american should have cared when germany went into poland back in the 1930s and 40s. this is the frontier of freedom. the ukrainians are defending all of us with their lives. and all we have to do is provide munitions to them. and yet we're stabbing them in the back, undercutting them all for whatever this strange relationship is between trump and putin. >> those are some very strong

words. senator whitehouse, we will have to wait and see how this plays out. i want to ask you, because we're expecting to hear from the president tonight in front of a joint session of congress. um, what do you want to hear from the president? >> mm. that the musk is being sent packing, that he will work with congress to pass a serious appropriations bill, that he will follow court orders and not hide behind a fog bank of calculated contempt. i think there's a lot we need to hear from him to put things back on the rails again. but at the moment, i don't see that happening. >> but the bottom line is he's going to be giving the speech because he was elected by the american people to become president. they put him in this position of power and what he is doing right now, a lot of what he is doing is what he talked about on the campaign trail. and it raises questions about the future of your own party. your democratic colleague mark warner

recently told politico that democrats failed in this election to connect to americans on a cultural basis, and that democrats brand is really bad. how are you going to course correct before the midterms? >> well, i think, frankly, we have to show that we've got the fight in us to go after the corruption that is going on around here. the trump narrative machine enabled him to brand everybody else as corrupt. when all the corruption, it seems right now is emanating from the white house and from the cabinet and from the self-dealing of elon musk. so i think we have a very powerful message. >> i just want to be more specific on that saying there's corruption. i need you to be to tell me exactly what you mean by that. what evidence you're pointing to on that. >> well, an example would be an faa contract being steered to a musk company and away from verizon. that's just one. >> all right. senator whitehouse, are certainly concerns about potential

conflicts of interest with the billions of dollars elon musk's companies have before the government and the fact that he is in these agencies doing work there. thank you very much for your time. we appreciate it. >> thank you wolf. >> all right, pamela, coming up. he's the only israeli american hostage in gaza thought to still be alive. up next, i'll speak to the parents of alexander as negotiations for the next phase of a hostage deal remain very stalled. >> are you having any fun? what are you getting out of living? who cares for what you've got? if you're not having any fun. have a little fun. >> to remind you that 60% of sales on amazon come from independent sellers. tracy from lillies of charleston will watch 60 contestants eat 60 hot wings, all covered in lilly's hot sauce. >> ooh, honey, don't touch your face.

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be alive. and adi and alexander are joining us live. they're here in the situation room with us. thanks so much for joining us. how are you both doing? >> good morning. thank you for having us. um, we just witnessed what is the 42 days of the first phase we saw release hostages. >> of the cease fire. >> yes. um, and also the release of hostages. i've been in israel. i just came from there two days ago, and i witnessed hostages. after 500 and more days in captivity. they are still alive. they are walking. they are hugging their family. and i'm just pray and hope that this day will come also to us. that he will come back home. >> i hope so too. >> adi, how are you doing? >> it's really, you know, out of body experience when you are kind of floating and see yourself doing stuff that no parent should be doing. uh, it took too long. um, but we finally there and just looking

forward for the second phase to. >> how concerned are you, adi, that this hostage cease fire deal is supposedly going into a second phase could unravel. >> it's really fragile. no, no doubt about it. but i think the current administration should reshuffle the cards and start over. the deal wasn't perfect, and they. it was left blurry for the second phase. on purpose. so it's just about time to start over. >> tell us a little. >> bit about your son. >> eden. eden is our oldest son and he is so such american kid, full of life, very funny, very friendly. um, love to have, like to host parties just to have fun, you know? and we miss him so much. and i'm crying these days a lot because i miss him. i just, you know, i'm a mom. i just want to hold him again and

to say, eden, you're safe. you're home. >> so are you hoping that the president, in his speech tonight addresses this issue? >> oh, yeah. absolutely. i mean, we heard that, uh, more than more than once that the president doesn't want to restart the old wars. ultimately releasing everybody and with without leaving anybody behind. >> and what's your message to the prime minister of israel? prime minister netanyahu's government? >> i just hope that they will continue to do the phase two negotiations. and just to to to seal the deal, you know, to bring home all the young men that are still there. they're still alive. we have a lot of proof of life from all the people that just released from gaza. they also came to me to say, like stories about iran from the tunnels. you know, it was it's unbelievable when people that you never knew before come to you and tell you,

you, alexander, you had a cake business and this and that, and then i'm asking, who told you that? and he's saying to me, eden told me that. it's like it's unreal. >> do you have any hard evidence that he is, we hope, still alive? >> uh, yeah. first of all, we have, uh, the this hostage video that was released three months ago, and we have additional evidence from the released hostages in this deal and the previous deal a year ago. so we have a lot of a lot of things we done in those tunnels. yes. >> so you're hoping that soon he'll be coming home? >> yes, sure. >> and all of us are hoping that all of the hostages come home very, very soon. thanks to both of you very much. and good luck. >> thank you both. >> appreciate it very much. yeah. and ari alexander, appreciate it. and we'll be right back.

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