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much. more israeli hostages are to be released after an extension with hamas. remains to be seen if the americans will be part of the next group to be let go. >> sandra: welcome everyone, sandra smith in new york, "america reports". concern growing for the americans now in harm's way for nearly two months after several of the freed hostages describe being held in inhumane conditions with some adding they witnessed hamas physically torturing hostages. >> john: and while the fighting may be paused for the moment in the gaza strip, hamas is claiming responsibility for a deadly attack at a bus stop in jerusalem today. palestinian gunmen pulled up in a vehicle and killed three israelis and wounded at least six others. attack happening as secretary of state antony blinken arrived to meet with israeli and palestinian leadership. we are expecting to hear shortly from blinken about those meetings and whether he pushed

for extended truce and more hostages to be released. >> sandra: as we await that, we have complete coverage, begins now. south carolina republican senator lindsey graham is standing by whether the extended ceasefire is making it harder for israel to restart the war against hamas. but first greg palkot live in tel aviv. what are you hearing about this latest host release, what do you know? >> sandra, what we know is it is now underway, but still, there's a lot of questions about what has happened in the past and what will be coke up in the future. now, remember, after 16 hostages were freed last night, the ceasefire was extended yet another 24 hours, the israeli military now confirms the red cross has transferred two israelis to their forces near the gaza strip. they'll be taken to too air base, brought to care and families. israel says it expects additional hostages to be released in the coming hours. the two freed hostages are identified as 21-year-old mia

shem, full of joy with a huge heart, taken from the music festival. her boyfriend is still being held. and a 40-year-old, she is a lawyer, said with varied interests, she was kidnapped from a kibbutz near gaza. and you are right, no word yet on whether any other israeli americans will be included in this transfer. last night we saw the release of 49-year-old leah, sadly, just in the past hour or so, it was announced by her kibbutz that her israeli husband thought to be captive was actually killed by hamas. and all this amid the terror attack at a bus stop in jerusalem this morning. three were killed, half a dozen injured. two men armed with m-16 automatic rifle and pistol pulled up, opened fire, they were then killed by off duty israeli soldiers and a civilian nearby, hamas claiming responsibility. as, yes, the u.s. back in the region, secretary of state antony blinken meeting with prime minister netanyahu and

other officials, including palestinian authority president abbas, he says he wants to prolong the ceasefire to get more captives out and more aid in. with you final note, we heard from a top official from a children's hospital taking care of many young hostages freed, described unimaginable and surreal accounts the kids are telling of the past weeks in captivity, but he also spoke about their strength to overcome the horror. a lot of bravery all around. back to you. >> sandra: thank god for that part. thank you very much. >> john: bring in south carolina republican senator lindsey graham, hope you had a good thanksgiving with the family. so, hostage releases are a good thing. but every day that this ceasefire is extended makes it more and more difficult for israel to resume military operations. >> yeah this is a strategy by hamas to drag it out. the americans, hope and pray they will get out but the last

to go. as every day drags on, mounting pressure for israel to restrict operations. another day to convince the american people israel has gone too far but what will eventually happen. a point where the war resumes and i would say this, without the destruction of hamas, israel will never know peace and the palestinians will never have a bright future. if you tried to construct a new governoring group in gaza united with the west bank palestinian controlled, if you don't destroy hamas they will kill everybody. they did this before. so the palestinians need hamas destroyed, israel needs hamas destroyed, and every decent person in the world should wish for the destruction of hamas. >> john: you mentioned the american hostages. cia director william burns was in doha, qatar, trying to strike some sort of a deal to get them released. we don't know what would be in

the negotiations. but u.s. policy dictates you don't give quid pro quo. the u.s. government will make no concessions to individuals or groups holding private u.s. citizens hostage. deny the benefit of ransom, prisoner release, policy changes or other acts of concession. i mean, when you take a look at prisoner swaps in the past, iran, for example, seems to have been a quid pro quo. >> $6 billion to get people out of iranian custody. >> what do you do to adhere to the policy and try to get the people out? >> i think we are in a binds here. we have allowed hamas to build up too strong. iran's behind all of this. iran doesn't feel threatened by using their proxies against israel or american forces. so what i would do is up the pressure on iran. i would go to the source of the problem. any more attacks on our troops in syria and iraq, i would hit

iranian targets inside iran. the one thing we are not doing is going to the source of the problem, the iranians. >> dan henninger wrote an op-ed suggests hamas has gained the advantage here by using the hostages as leverage to get a ceasefire. he writes hamas looks likely to survive without personal accountability for the 1200 killed october 7th. instead the burden will fall on israel to ascent to talks with hamas, whose goal remains removing the rest of israel's more than 9 million people. as you pointed out, senator, if hamas survives, is israel ever going to have peace? >> i like dan, he's a smart guy, he's wrong. i have talked to everybody in their government, he's under enormous pressure in israel, to stop the truces, go after hamas now. i support to try to get as many

people released as possible but the idea that israel would not destroy hamas after october 7th is implausible. the idea that hamas still stands after this makes it impossible to give a better life to the palestinians. to the biden administration, quit handcuffing israel, quit trying to restrict their ability to destroy hamas as soon as possible. after world war ii, we destroyed tokyo and berlin. we didn't think twice about destroying the capital cities of our enemy. so, if you told us after 9/11 you need to enter into a ceasefire with al-qaeda, we would have laughed you out of the room or probably done a lot worse. so, october 7th was 30 9/11s for israel. in six weeks the world would call on israel to have a ceasefire with the people who slaughtered 1200 of their citizens is hard for me to get my head around. here is what i do know. israeli people are not going to

allow hamas to get away this. i'm not going to allow american political systems to restrict ability of israel to defend itself. i will oppose any conditions on israeli aid. >> john: one more quick questions speaking of aid, the supplemental, now in the senate. aid for israel, aid for ukraine, also money for border security. ten democratic senators are circulating a letter they don't want the border security money in there, put it up on the screen so folks know who they are. you are suggested greg abbott, the governor of texas should stop sending migrants to new york city, and instead to the ten states of the senators there on the screen. >> i think i'll going to visit texas soon. we have had on average this week, 8500 people show up at the border, yesterday was 9300. i think it gets worse as they see the end of biden's term not knowing if trump is going to make it or not, trump may come back. a run on the border and not about money. we need policy changes.

we need to change the parole law and the asylum law that's a magnet. so the ten senators, what i would say. you don't know what it's like to live with a broken border. the people in texas have gone through hell and a lot of misery. the democratic position is to remain in texas. if i were governor abbott, i would take these ten senators, and i would send thousands of illegal immigrants to their states to let them understand what it's like to live with a broken border. they are opposing legislation to stop this problem. they are not suffering the consequences of the problem. they need to experience the problem and at the end of the day until you can make the problem real, a lot of people will have this attitude. my hope is governor abbott will show the people in rhode island and connecticut and oregon, the people would signed the letter, what it's like to have your community overrun with people who are not here legally. >> john: we'll be watching for that visit to texas. appreciate it.

sandra. >> sandra: thank you. house lawmakers meanwhile holding a hearing on the federal government's alleged role in social media censorship. it comes after fox obtained brand-new internal documents from google showing the biden administration working with youtube workers to crack down on matters related to covid and vaccine misinformation. hillary vaughan is live on capitol hill. tell us about it. >> sandra, internal email show youtube was not immune to the pressure campaign to get social media companies to help them control the covid vaccine narrative online. their efforts were not just focused on false information but also on favorable or skeptical vaccine content. anti-vax, the white house wanted to take it down period. rob flaherty asked youtube about

claims it was pushing content next to "breaking bad" videos, flaherty said i think we had a pretty extensive back and forth to the degree you are recommending vaccination contact. emphatic you were not, this seems to indicate that you are. this is the tweet that triggered the white house. anti-vak content, rand paul talking about covid vaccines and video with rfk, jr. and a youtube employee claimed the white house might do the drop in demand for big tech companies not doing this. the role in tech and vaccine hesitancy, under a spotlight, as the supply of the vaccine will outpace demand. youtube employees were concerned the situation with the white house could spiral out of control if they did not convince them that they were doing enough to crack down on unfavorable

vaccine content that did not break their community guidelines. we don't know what youtube was afraid would happen or what they were worried the white house might do. youtube spokesperson telling us this statement for our story, while we receive input from governments around the world we apply our policies independently, transparently and consistently regardless of the speaker or the political views expressed. we also reached out to the who us for comment about all of this, and we have not heard back yet. sandra. >> sandra: hillary vaughan on that, that is something. thank you. john, that is something the american public has certainly shown interest in wanting to learn more about exactly what was happening behind the scenes and how that information was relayed to the public. >> john: yeah, the intersection of the administration, the white house and big tech seems to be a frequent occurrence and one that is apparently growing.

independent information is very, very important in our democracy and for the government to potentially be meddling in that is troubling. >> sandra: a big deal. >> john: we are awaiting, speaking of government information, a white house briefing with update on how the u.s. plans to bring home roughly 8 to 9 americans still held hostage inside gaza. national security council's john kirby will be joining us karine jean-pierre at the podium. we'll take you to the briefing just as soon as it begins. plus, there's this. >> inflation is down. core inflation is the lowest level in two years that we have had lowest inflation of any major country in the world. >> sandra: there he was again, president biden touting his bidenomics and lower inflation ahead of the holiday shopping season. a brand-new study shows a startling reality of how much more money americans are actually having to shell out just to keep up with their standard of living. we are going to take that one up

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>> our economy is terrible. it's costing me much more every day to live my life. >> i think it's very stressful and money is tight on every family out there, actually. >> sandra: americans feeling the squeeze as they struggle to afford the basics. households will have to shell out, wait for this, thousands more dollars in order to maintain the same standard of living they did just two years ago. let's bring in charles payne, host of making money on the fox business network. thank you very much. >> great to be here. >> sandra: great to have you here. so much news we have been covering and not to be forgotten, number one concern

here at home for the american people is the economy and now we are starting to realize the real true costs of this inflation crisis that the administration is saying prices are coming down, ok. we'll talk about that in a second. but this is the real cost of inflation. this is a u.s. congress joint economic committee, republicans released this. costing the average american over $11,000 a year just to maintain the life they did a couple years ago. that's just the basics, charles. that is real money. >> sandra, i came on this show, every show for the last three years, and after that, $2 trillion covid relief package, you walk in the store, you walk in with 100 bucks, 200 bucks, you used to walk out with two bags, you walk out now with one bag. it's absolutely amazing. when president biden talked about the consumer and wall street talks about the consumer they lump them all together and the aggregate. but the majority, the vast

majority of folks out there are really, really hurting and it's really, really bad. >> sandra: and that's why it is hurting them when they hear this from administration officials. they keep saying everything is just fine, listen. >> the fact is the data shows that the economy is improving. >> real wages are now growing and have been growing not just for a week or two, but 4, 5, 6 months. >> wages surpassed inflation in many ways. >> core inflation, lowest of any major country in the world. >> sandra: core inflation, strips out food and energy, i think people care about that. wages have surpassed inflation in many ways, bernstein said real wages are growing, and data is improving, take your pick. >> start with the wages. two years where wages were down year over year, significantly. we had a couple months this year where they were a little bit

higher year over year, but here is the problem. the work week strength, so the paycheck was still smaller. businesses don't want to let go of folks, because it takes a lot of money to finds good talent and to train them. they are giving them fewer and fewer hours. so, inflation is still high, your wages are just barely nudging, and you work fewer hours. people are earning less money. i'm going to read you something and this from the federal reserve, came out yesterday. you remember the beige book, a few years ago they added community notes and i thought it was corny, it is absolutely fascinating. so, i really did, like community perspective? and new york, let me read, homelessness reached unprecedented levels, because of unaffordable housing and arrival of asylum seekers. atlanta, many reported ongoing

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for the jerusalem post. great to be with you again. let me talk about this latest hostage release. the ceasefire was about to expire. hamas took this up to the deadline of the resumption of kinetic military operations and then said oh, by the way, here is a list of more hostages that we are planning on releasing if you continue the ceasefire. they are making a game out of this, avi. >> that's absolutely right, john. this has been a gut wrenching process for all of israel as every day israelis have been basically waiting to the last second to see who would be released. always initial reports who might be on the list for that day. we don't know until they are delivered who has been released by hamas. we understand that there are about eight more israelis who are set to be released today. hamas has also said it will release three bodies, and we believe those three bodies may be those of the bibas family, two young children and their

mother who hamas said yesterday they had been killed. seems likely those are the bodies that will be handed over. >> john: that would be horrible if that is the case. hamas is also playing mind games with the families of the hostages. listen to what avi heiman, the israeli government spokesman said to martha. >> if it wasn't enough to take 240 hostages, now play with the families, releasing children, leaving the parents, releasing parents, leaving the children. this is hamas, we know who we are up against and until those people are on israeli ground we don't know their fates. >> john: yet instead of provoking outrage against hamas in places other than israel, pretty much universal condemnation of what they have done, they are currying favor with the international community even as they play these games.

>> it's surreal. hamas not only toying with the families themselves but the entire country holding its collective breath since october 7th worrying about the fate of 240 hostages. so as avi said, we are seeing families separated, children taken away from their fathers, mothers being taken with their children but leaving their spouses behind. we don't know where they are kept, in many cases they have been separated. we understand that in the case of the bibas family, the father, the husband may still be alive, held in gaza. at least for now, hamas said they will not release any men. they are focusing on women and children and we expect hamas will exact a much higher price for any man they release. >> john: it would seem, avi, every day the ceasefire continues as hamas plays the game to draw this out, it would seem the more difficult it becomes for israel to resume military operations, benjamin netanyahu has said at some point

we have to start back up again, there is a lot of talk in israel, that if he were to stop the war, the government would fall. so, what do you expect will happen? >> three factors that may ultimately impair israel's ability. the first, military readiness. it was able to sustain several days of the pause, but as it's extended further, one wonders whether the israeli military has the ability to continue operating if it goes on. the second, of course, the international pressure, very, very significant. we know that as the days go on, the international pressure to keep the pause going, turn it into a permanent ceasefire retaining hamas's ability to massacre will intensify, and hamas rearm, regroup. ensuring they are beefing up capabilities under the nose of

the international community and under israel's nose in many cases. israel has considered duty bound, abiding by the ceasefire to get all of its young men and women home. >> john: we'll continue to washington this along with you. avi mayer, appreciate it. >> sandra: newly published email shows a bank investigator flagging unusual and erratic transactions from hunter biden's account in 2018. james comer says $40,000 from the account ended up in president biden's pocket. we are joined, brooke, welcome to you. what is the email? >> nice to see you. house oversight committee james comer chairman released they mail yesterday. as you'll remember, comer has subpoenaed bank records belonging to hunter and james biden in the last several months. it's an email from a bank investigator, a secrecy act

manager, someone who basically at a bank looks into money laundering. so they mail is flagging to an executive at a bank, the name of the bank is redacted, doesn't really matter. flagging the $5 million wire from 2017 from a chinese company into an account belonging to hunter biden. so he's saying there's a $5 million wire that then went into accounts belonging to hunter, then funded more than a dozen separate wire transfers into other accounts belonging to hunter and other entities. so the bank investigator is flagging this for potentially concerning activity, calling it erratic and unusual and warning because hunting is a pep, a politically exposed person, somebody who has high profile relationships could be more susceptible to bribery or corruption. a high alert type of transaction

because it is something concerning based on the fact that the money is coming from china. so, this bank investigator is writing to this bank executive saying we may want to reevaluate our relationship with that client because of the fact that he is this high profile person and the funds come from china, which could be concerning. >> sandra: brooke, excellent reporting as always, very interesting, noting a high risk client, grabbing a lot of attention. breaking news from the white house, john kirby now at the podium, get the news off the top. >> first thing i want to talk about the middle east, extension of a deal now for 7th full day. humanitarian pause now over the first six days has seen more than 1200 hostages released and returned to their families. and a significant surge in humanitarian assistance into gaza, several hundred trucks, which is important. we recognize more needs to be done and get in, but should not discount the incredible work

done on the ground to get more food, water, medicine, and even fuel to the people of gaza over the last week. so we are going to continue our efforts with israel, with qatar. obviously with egypt to support and extend this pause as much as we can and to help secure the release of all the hostages held by hamas terrorists. one of the first questions i'll get is what are the chances of extension. i can't tell you that except that we are working literally by the hour to get the 7th day turned into 8th, 9th, 10th and beyond. but we are glad we got a 7th day out of this. the idf noted, at least the time i came out here, two hostages made their way back. i don't know if there will be more, we hope there will be more, but we are working on this by the hour. and then i think we have all seen the terrible news out of jerusalem, a deadly shooting

attack there where at least three people were killed, hamas has claimed credit. we obviously condemn this terrorist attack, heinous violence. another example of the kinds of threat that the israeli people and the israeli nation are under by hamas. so we certainly extend our condolences and thoughts and prayers to all those affected, family members, additional family members now grieving. if i want to russia and ukraine. last winter russia sought to destroy energy infrastructure and deprive access to heat and electricity at the coldest time of the year. russia tried to break the will of the ukrainian people but of course it failed. as we head into yet another winter, we expect russia will return to this cruel tactic and again try to pursue a campaign to destroy ukraine's critical energy infrastructure. in just the last couple of days we have seen some airstrikes taken by the russians that seem to be going after the kind of defensive systems that the

ukrainians have in place to protect their energy infrastructure. and again over the weekend, a major drone attack against kyiv and elsewhere. we view this as a strike -- a sign of what's to come. for many months we have been working aggressively with our ukrainian partners to prepare for this contingency, and as you recall, it was a major topic of discussion when president zelenskyy visited the white house. ahead of this winter, president biden and national security adviser sullivan prioritized the efforts just as we did last year. so we have been focused on driving forward three key lines of effort. first, strengthening ukraine's air defensive capabilities so that they can shoot down russian missiles and their iranian drones targeting critical infrastructure. that's why we provided ukraine recently and recent packages with patriot batteries, hawk and avenger air defense systems, counter air systems equipment and other critical air defense

assets. second, we have been helping ukraine harden their critical energy infrastructure. extensive amounts of protection, including wire mesh, barriers to protect critical structure and dod and agencies for development have been advising them how to use the equipment effectively. and third, back-up and supplies including high voltage auto transformers, industrial sized generators, and mobile equipment to prevent people from losing heat and electricity if russia's strikes get through and are successful. we are pursuing these signs incoordination with allies and partners. more than 50 countries to provide the security assistance it needs, including patriot batteries, and hundreds of air defense missiles. last winter we stood up the g7 plus energy coordination group

we continue to lead and convene on a regular basis. through this forum and others our allies and partners have provided ukraine with energy equipment and back-up supplies, including power generation equipment, transmission infrastructure, and further passive protection. no easy task, none of this. we have more work to do in support of ukraine and need congress to take action to pass additional supplemental funding to supply ukraine with the air assets, protection equipment and the back-up supplies they need. president putin appears certainly intent on continuing this conflict and taking it directly to the ukrainian people again at the coldest months of the year. we can and we must do more to assure ukraine is in the best possible position to defend itself and its critical energy infrastructure throughout the winter and one more foot stomp on this, supplemental funding is important. we didn't pull the figures out of thin air. we need the funding. we urge congress to pass the

supplemental. the runway is getting shorter and we think we have 'til about the end of the year before it gets really, really hard to continue to support ukraine and the end of the year is coming soon. angola, president biden is hosting the president of angola later this afternoon, he's looking forward to the meeting very, very much, the relationship has flourished over the year, and including in september when lloyd austin was the first to visit. president biden looks forward to capping off a historic year in the relationship to discuss all the things we can do to strengthen the cooperation and relationship with angola, economically, diplomatically as well. a growing voice on issues of peace and security.

grateful to angola for the stand on ukraine, and conflicts elsewhere on the continent, and record speed, including additional investments through the partnership for global infrastructure and investment, sustainable infrastructure that connects angola to global market, and a readout of the meeting when it's over. thank you, appreciate your forebearance. >> the u.s. administration has been clear that they have asked israel to be more targeted in its military operations in southern gaza, but israel has vowed to renew the fighting with full force when it starts again. so, what has the president specifically told netanyahu and how much daylight between what the president wants and what israel wants. >> so obviously we continue to believe that israel has the right and responsibility to go after hamas. they have said, they have spoken for their military campaign and

they have said very clearly that when these pauses are over they intend to go back at it. and as they make that decision they'll continue to find support from the united states in terms of tools and capabilities, weapons systems they need as well as advice and perspectives we can offer in terms of urban warfare. no nation should have to stand for what israel had to experience on the 7th of october. so i won't speak for their operations and i'm certainly not going to get into private conversations the president has had with the prime minister, but he has been clear publicly and certainly in his discussions with the war cabinet they will have united states support as they go after these terrorists. and if anybody is wondering whether hamas has murderous intentions, look at what happened today. >> two american women held, one released, does that mean one

american woman left held, what do we know about her condition, do we think she could be released soon? >> we don't know. we believe that of the unaccounted for americans that we believe there's one other woman that's unaccounted for and that we had believed was taken hostage, so we were hoping to see two women and of course little abigail to come out, we are grateful we have gotten six americans out but i don't have additional information on this individual or where she might be, or what her condition is. i don't know. >> hamas does not know where all the hostages are or something -- >> i can't say what hamas knows or doesn't know. they launched these attacks on the 7th of october with two purposes. one to kill, the other to take hostage. and they did that.

fairly well. we do think that there are some other groups other than hamas that might beholding hostages but that's not to say that hamas doesn't have visibility on that, or doesn't have a way to find out about it. so the onus is on hamas to identify, locate and secure hostages and get them to the red cross so they can get to safety. but i couldn't speak with great certainty about what exactly hamas knows or doesn't know. >> administration officials said yesterday an effort to encourage the israelis in the southern gaza operation to kinds of narrow the target, make sure civilians have a clear idea where to seek refuge. is there a concern that might give a head's up hamas as well to seek refuge and reposition? >> a couple things there. i won't speak for the israeli

military and what their plans and strategies are. they have a right to operational security in terms of what they are going to do, where they are going to doit and how they are going to did it. we don't want to say anything from the podium to put their operational security at risk. secondly, we have been very consistent and clear with our israeli counterparts that we do not support a move to the south unless or until they have adequately accounted for the protection of innocent human life, civilian life, in southern gaza. with the understanding that there's a whole heck of a lot more innocent civilians in southern gaza than there were a week or two ago because the israelis opened up corridors for them to move south. i won't get too far ahead of operations but what we want to see and what we are urging our israeli counterparts to do, make sure there is a proper accounting for that, that there

are -- that there is appropriate safety measures put in place so additional, now hundreds of thousands of civilians are not at greater harm's way than they are right now. >> the father of an american hostage released from gaza said he was invited to come to the white house to speak to biden in person. do you have a date set when that's going to take place? >> no, sir. >> reaction to the death of henry kissinger and any explanation of how he has shaped this administration's foreign policy. i know he's been consulted by jake sullivan and tony blinken and others. >> obviously our condolences go to his entire family over this loss. to his wife nancy and to everybody else in his family, of course. it's a huge loss. this was a man who, whether you

agreed with him or not, whether you hold the same views or not, he served in world war ii, served his country, bravely in uniform, and for decades afterward which i think we can all be grateful for and appreciate just the public service and again, whether you saw eye-to-eye with him on every issue, there's no question that he shaped foreign policy decisions for decades and he certainly had an impact on america's role in the world, so again, our deepest condolences go to the family. >> john, thank you, to follow up on that, is there a reason why the administration hasn't issued any formal statement from the president or this white house with regard -- >> i would not read anything into that just yet. >> and then on the president's comments about conditional aid to israel, and wanting to follow up. because he suggested that if

conditions had been in place, the progress that we have seen so far might not have happened. so, of all the proposed conditions, can you explain how they would hinder efforts, whether it's, you know, reducing the level of civilian casualties or making sure u.s. weapons are used within humanitarian law. how would any of the proposed conditions slow down or prevent the progress that has been ma i had? >> rather than speak to these proposed conditions, let me just take a step back and again reorient the discussion here. israel was attacked on the 7th of october in the most heinous way. the president is clear we are going to support their ability to eliminate that threat, the continued threat that hamas still poses. at the same time, as we have done that, since the early hours, we have been urging our

israeli counterparts to act with as much precision and care and deliberateness as they can in their targeting now again, i'm not discounting the fact that many thousands of innocent people have been killed, many thousands more injured, and hundreds of thousands displaced internally in the country, in gaza, excuse me, gaza. and we continue to again urge our israeli counterparts to factor all of that in as they plan and execute military operations. and as a result of, and this is what the president was talking about, as a result of our engagement with our israeli counterparts, we have seen results. i mean, now a week-long pause. at the beginning of this, the idea of a pause was unthinkable to our israeli counterparts. but now a week long pause. 100 hostages out. hundreds of trucks of aid getting in at the outset, the idea of humanitarian assistance

getting in was not something that was warmly received as an idea. so the president believes that the approach that we have been taking has had results. now again, nobody is discounting or dismissing the loss of innocent life and we continue to work with and share perspectives about urban warfare with our israeli counterparts so they can continue to hone their operations in such a way that there's a reduction, a minimizing of civilian death. but we are going to continue that approach. >> and john, i hear you and i know that's what the president has said repeatedly. in fact, he has supported all of these conditions, these are things he says he believes in. so i'm asking, you know, talk is one thing, but should there be actions that draw a line to say hey, if you don't do what we are asking, there will be consequences. >> we believe the approach we are taking thus far has produced

effective results, and civilian deaths, each is a tragedy and we mourn them all. the approach we are taking thus far is having results and has had a practical effect on the way our israeli counterparts have prosecuted these operations. just look at for instance the ground incursion into gaza. i mean, without getting into too much detail, i'll tell you, we shared with them our own experience in that kind of urban warfare in places like fallujah and mosul, and we send over military advisers and experts to talk to them about lessons learned and they were receptive. and i don't think i'm giving it away for the israeli military but did affect the way they ultimately chose to go into gaza. we are going to keep at that. >> we have to go quickly. we are running out of time. >> what impact has the shooting of the hamas in jerusalem had on

efforts to extend the humanitarian pauses and the u.s. goal to turn the pauses into a more permanent ceasefire. overall trend line the u.s. is going for. >> i don't know and no. so i don't know, i don't think there's been -- i don't think there's been any effect, not that i have heard or seen, effect on the deal by the violence in jerusalem. i've seen nothing that indicates an effect on that. and again, we do not support a permanent ceasefire at this time. we do support the idea of humanitarian pauses and love to see as i said at the outset, we want to see this seven-day pause turned into 8, 9, 10 and beyond, but it's going to take israel and hamas to agree to the parameters of extending. but in the united states, they'll finds an advocate for extension. >> -- assassinate somebody on u.s. soil, how has that affected

u.s.-indian relations, given the president recently hosted modi for a state dinner, trying to tighten the relations, what impact does that not have. >> remind you the state dinner was before we knew about this, and i don't want to talk about the ongoing investigation, but two things. india remains a strategic partner and we are going to continue to work to improve and strengthen that strategic partnership. at the same time, we take this very seriously, these allegations and investigation, take it very seriously and we are glad to see the indians are, too, by announcing their own efforts to investigate this. and we have been clear that we want to see anybody held -- anybody that's responsible for these alleged crimes to be held properly accountable. >> i wanted to ask about today

is the deadline the administration set for the government to make progress on certain things, one of them -- anything about in advance of leaders and elections, wrongfully detained americans. my question is, have you seen any progress and is the u.s. prepared to impose sanctions which was the consequence of not -- >> i have not seen any progress yet. eight hours left in the day, see what the venezuelans decide to do, and i won't get ahead of decisions about sanctions one way or another. >> thank you, a few questions about angola. as you know, this exciting corridor runs through a part of the drc that's been embroiled in violence since 1960. can the corridor work without peace in that region and to that point, how is the white house supporting the president and his work as a peace envoy to bring

about peace and then also, how is the administration engaging bilaterally. >> you know i'm on a time clock here. >> second to the last one. >> i should have written these down. >> bilaterally, multi-laterally with great lakes leaders for peace, and what's the president's message about the poor human rights track record. >> i'm going to try to boil this down, otherwise i'm in big trouble. this is a relationship that has been improving now as i said over the last year, and the president is very much looking forward to this meeting with the angolan president. a lot of ground to cover. we never shy away from talking about human rights, the president routinely brings that up. i won't get ahead of the president and we will have a

readout, he never shies away from talking about human rights with foreign leaders. number two, we welcome the efforts to foster peace, i said that at the opening statement. his efforts on the continent to improve peace and security and stability are welcome. and i'm absolutely certain that the two leaders will talk about that today and the prospects for that and where that's going, including in the drc. and the libido corridor, the president is excited about this, helping lower and middle income countries find sustainable investments in their infrastructure to not only create jobs but open up economic opportunities in this case across the southern part of sub-saharan africa. so it's very exciting and we are going to push forward with it. >> thank you very much, karine, thank you, john. two very brief questions related

to foreign policy. one, has the president had discussions with speaker johnson akin to those he had with speaker kevin mccarthy about the supplemental on ukraine, standing alone, and is the price tag on it 60 billion or 47 billion at this point? >> i have to get back to you on whether there was a specific conversation with the speaker on the supplemental. that said, we have had numerous discussions and briefings and moving on all four of those buckets, israel, ukraine, indo-pacific, and border security, we want to see them act as quickly as possible on that and the total numbers are on the web to see. >> those stand alone on ukraine. >> we want to see all four priorities taken up by congress and all four funded. the reason it's a supplemental, they are all urgent and as i said, earlier we are running out of runway on ukraine and i would tell you the same thing for

israel. we have some exciting appropriations and authorities to continue to support israel but that's -- that well is not, you know, endlessly deep either. >> and will the president send or has he chosen a represent to go to the inauguration on the following sunday? >> not that i'm aware of. >> one of the key provisions of the deal was getting red cross officials in to access the hostages and see their conditions. with the fragility of the truce right now s there any realistic hope the red cross is going to get any access -- >> that's part of the deal, that's, our expectation is that hamas will allow that access. that was part of that -- part of that arrangement. i don't know whether, how much access they have had but part of the deal they signed up to. we'll see if we can get extension on this. i mean -- you know, it's part of the deal for pauses, during the pause whil