of english soccer team liverpool. rui was killed in the attack, buried this week with the jersey of the team he adored. >> we loved him. we still love him. [crowd chanting] >> reporter: ohad's birthday marked with balloons across israel and in events around the world like this one in london. >> happy birthday dear ohad! >> reporter: family and friends sending balloons skyward, hoping that just maybe a little boy in gaza might see them and know that he is loved. raf sanchez, nbc news, israel. >> we hope and pray the young ohad will be back home to celebrate with his family soon. and on that note, i wish you all a very good and safe night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will steal at the end of tomorrow. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

>> thanks for you at home for joining us this hour. and we happy to have you here. i will say just one note before we get started tonight. i know things might look a little different than usual, that is just because i am doing the show tonight from someplace new. i am in los angeles tonight. i am at what is essentially the midpoint of this book tour that i'm doing for my new book. that's why i'm here. i am not a great traveler -- [laughter] i am not great at this. just before i start the show tonight, i just want to say thank you to all the bookstores and the venues that we've been at so far, and all the moderators who have been onstage with me. thanks in particular to everyone who has come up to one of these events and has been, there is been thousands of people so far, which is crazy. but it's just been really nice to be out there at so many events and so many different cities to meet people who value this show, who love msnbc.

i've heard a lot of love from my msnbc colleagues. so, it's been fantastic. and i do this very, very rarely, and i know that there's a huge amount of work and a pain in the but for everyone involved to make this happen, in part because i personally i am a pain in that bucket. so, it just makes me all the more grateful. ou of the rest of this book tua, again, we are about haway done. only two days left thatstill have faith, and those are events this week, phoenix on wednesday, and tulsa, oklahoma on friday. so, if you want to come to ther of those events this week, phoenix and tuls, those two remaining events, you can still get tickets, everything else is sold out. i just wanted to start with that before we get underway today. i will not mention it again. i just want to say thanks to everybody who has been so kind. thanks to everybody who's been reading the book and coming out to hear me talk about it. >> that is why things look a little bit different in terms of the set. but we have a ton to get to

tonight. it's gonna be a really busy week in the news. tonight, of course, we are coming off on three weeks since republicans fired their own speaker of the house. in so doing, they basically got rid of congress. they barely avoided shutting down the whole federal government, but then, they did shut down the legislative branch of government. the house cannot function without a speaker. republicans fired their speaker. they appear to have no idea how to hire and you want. they also appear to have no real urgency about doing either, so we have we are three weeks into the house of representatives effectively being closed. but they are apparently going to try again for a speaker vote tomorrow. we will talk about that this hour. we will talk specifically about how republicans idea for a plan b, they sort of trick play they've been hinting they might want to pull to avoid having to pick a leader. that is a trick play that will not work. it is something that they really can't do. we will talk about that this hour. but it just with all the more

pressure on them for tomorrow. i'm also, just a heads up, that at the same time that drama is gonna get underway in washington tomorrow, up the corridor in new york city tomorrow, we are going to have drama of a different kind. and this is likely all going to be happening literally at the same time of day tomorrow. former president donald trump, as you know, he is facing more than 90 felony criminal charges in four different jurisdictions. the case that's been actually showing in court already is none of those criminal cases, it is the civil case against him and his business that was filed by the new york attorney general. they do not have to show up for a civil case. former president trump does not have to be there in court for this case. but nevertheless, he has been there. and i am pointing that out because tomorrow, we are expecting live testimony in that trial, testimony against him from his former attorney and his former fixer michael

cohen. both michael cohen and trump are expected to be there in court, in realtime, in person. i am flagging this to you, not just because of the expected interpersonal drama, the spectacle of it all, but because trump's role in this case, including his behavior in the courtroom, has already been a substantive issue in this case. this is the case where the judge imposed the first gag order on trump, after trump attacked a member of the judge's staff. this is the case where the judge hauled everyone back to court and threatened trump with jail, after trump's attacks on thes staff, nevertheless left up on the trump campaign website, this is the case where trump was admonished, basically legally snapped down by the judge, because trump became so enraged and animated during some life testimony from some real estate appraiser that trump could not control himself in the courtroom. he was speaking out loud and

gesturing, and making a scene in the courtroom, which caused the judge to admonish him in the courtroom. so, this case has been a little touch and go so far, in terms of the former president's behavior. he is used to doing whatever he wants without any consequences his whole life. this case in particular seems to be really bothering him. and the judge in this case thus far appears to be quite unimpressed by the former president's behavior. the judge also seems to be unafraid to hold the former president to the same standards any other defendant would be held in a federal court civil trial, including just how you need to physically behave yourself when you are in a courtroom. i am pointing all this out because if trump already got admonished by the judge in this case because he was so overwhelmed by his feelings and his anger about some appraiser's testimony, tomorrow is gonna be sitting there, talking about michael cohen, which is likely to be way more provocative and way more

upsetting to former president trump than anything that has happened in the courtroom before. and he has barely been able to hold it together in the courtroom up till now. and then, there is gonna be cross examination of michael cohen. cohen's lawyers, not likely gonna be a fourth of july fireworks show at the rest of july, gonna be anything to go by. so, that's gonna be tomorrow. that is all gonna happen live in a new york courtroom in front of a judge who does not play. and maybe everything will go smoothly, great, everyone will be calm, cool, and professional. we shall see. but this is the case where the judge has already threatened to jail trump for his behavior related to this case. and so, just a heads up for tomorrow. for that, that will likely be happening at the exact same time that the house is voting, again, on trying to pick a new speaker. it is all worth watching for. >> so, i want to get into tonight's show. i want to start tonight with what feels might be an

important new stage in the war between israel and hamas. now, we don't want to overstate things. i want to be clear, the big picture remains the same. israel in response to the terrorist attack by hamas that killed more than 1000 israeli civilians has continued its air strikes inside the densely populated gaza strip. while there's been so much expectation as to whether israel is going to launch a ground invasion, and when they're going to do that. in the meantime, they have launched these devastating airstrikes day after day after day, and more than 4000 people in gaza are believed to have been killed since the israeli retaliation for the hamas terrorist attacks, which began 17 days ago. civilians cannot leave gaza still, even including the u.s. citizens who are among the civilians over there. but the first trickle of aid has been allowed in, a small convoy of aid trucks was allowed in on saturday. and then, another convoy was

allowed in on sunday. and then another small convoy was allowed in today. and that is good. that is not enough, but that is something. the aid that has come in thus far does not involve fuel. and while fuel might not seem like the most important thing in supplies, when you are talking about humanitarian aid, the u.n. is raising urgent concerns about the remaining hospitals inside gaza, and whether they can keep their generators running, to keep electricity inside the hospital, to keep things like ventilators running, and life support machines for people who are previously ill and also for newborn babies. the u.s. military has moved considerable resources and personnel to the region. there are ongoing worries about the conflict potentially broadening to include other countries, other armed militias in the region. the u.s. embassies both in iraq and in lebanon have sent out new warnings about the safety of u.s. citizens and u.s. diplomatic staff and their families.

so, i mean, all that to say, the biggest picture remains as precarious as ever. but there is a tiny little bit of hope on one piece of it tonight. we saw two hostages who had been taken by hamas, and israeli american mother and daughter get released on friday. tonight, two more hostages have been released. this is to, frail elderly israeli woman, both israelis, both who have been held by hamas for more than two weeks. two of them were released tonight. there had been some reports today about the potential release of a much larger group of hostages, maybe four dozen, or more hostages, potentially set to be released in some sort of arrangement. but nbc has not been able to confirm independently any of those reports. there remains just a glimmer for people who are trying to maintain hope so far, only four hostages have been released. joining us now is nbc news chief foreign correspondent which are dangle, live from jerusalem. richard, thank you so much for being here. i know it's the middle of the,

night for the morning there, we'll appreciate it. >> translator: it's always the middle of the night with you, rachel. no matter where you go in the country is always the middle of the night, and it's always talking about something when. but, yes, how are you? >> it's throw. i'm okay, richard. truly, coming up with some of her other beat that you and i covered. and at better times. richard, let me ask you about the hostage situation. obviously, everybody is overjoyed to see two hostages released on friday, and see two more released today. there was some reporting today, which nbc has not independently confirmed yet, maybe we should expect additional hostage releases in larger numbers. what's your understanding of that? and what do we know about these other woman who released today? >> reporter: so, what we are trying to do is to track these negotiations in realtime through the negotiators. obviously, the negotiators are working with hamas, working

with the israeli authorities. primarily, we are talking about egyptian and qatari negotiations. and it is a very, very difficult process to follow because obviously for security reasons, they don't want to give away too much. but they are actively trying to tread things. hamas once certain things. it once, it took more access for humanitarian supplies in the gaza strip. it once wants to engage in a kind of resumption of a peace process, to have a path towards statehood we are hearing more and more from hamas about specific demands. i spoke to a senior hamas leader tonight about these specific issues. and there is hope that there will be mole. and during the day today, i was one of those people who thought, okay, there's gonna be more, there is room, reports of a potentially larger group that could have come out today.

but these negotiations don't always go well. and even in these, those two israeli woman eventually released, hamas released them but sort of shook complaints, saying we are releasing them, even though israel violated the terms of our agreement eight different times. and there had been, although we did not notice it, a mini cease-fire, a pause for a few hours today, according to hamas, and another pause. they said it was six hours long in the air strikes on friday. they are negotiating things big and small. sometimes, it is just a pause for a few hours, or much larger issues about opening access to the gaza strip, potentially prisoner swap, potentially more than that. this could take some time. and every time there is hope, there is a lot of chance that things could go wrong, and

there are complications, communications are difficult because a senior hamas leader told me tonight that the hostages are held in different places. communication from one place to the other is difficult. so, they are facing some logistical challenges just to gather these people and try and free them if they want. now, hamas could be coming up with excuses. but you said it's a glimmer of hope. yes, at least there is some movement, at least they're not executing these hostages one every hour, or anything like that. there doesn't seem to be some progress. there are lines of communication to hamas, and there are efforts ongoing by friendly nations to try and secure the release of these people. >> richard, it strikes me, incredible thing in its own right that you've been in touch with senior hamas officials about this issue. do they explain, or do they put it to you in any way that you

can convey to us, why they took these hostages? and if they planned from the outset that they would hold these hostages in order to try to extract concessions, cease-fires, or any of the other things that they're asking for, now as just the first four of them have been let go, it almost feels from some of the reporting that i've seen about their hostage taking, that hamas didn't necessarily know what they were meant to do with the civilian hostages coming up. and let alone, these large numbers, more than 200 of them. did they give you any sense, any clarity on what their intention was, or what their intentions are in the long run with these people? >> reporter: my interpretation, and some of this is just my analysis. i have covered this for a long time, covered the middle east, covered hamas for many years. i think they go off more than they can show. and what we are seeing in gaza is a result of hamas not

realizing how far it was gonna get, how devastating it's attack would be, how many people they would take. the group is also hinting at that. there was one statement from their chief military spokesman abou obayda who said that they swept up all these foreign nationals by accident, because people were being dragged over the border, they did not have a chance to verify their identities, that is according to them. and they ended up with too many non-israelis. even they acknowledge that it was a chaotic time, and they ended up with more people than they wanted. on the other question, what do they want to do with them? they clearly intended to take people. they clearly went into kill people and capture people. but probably not this many and probably not this many foreign nationals, bringing the entire world against them. but what they want is concessions. every time they have taken people in the past, they have

been able to secure the release of prisoners. many of the top hamas leaders themselves, the inner circle of hamas who are running the group now wore themselves prisoners in israeli jails who were swapped when other members of hamas grabbed an israeli soldier and then demanded, and then part of their demands was a prisoner release. so the top leadership themselves know this process from personal experience. it secured their own relief. so i think at the end, as we get closer, and more and more hostages come out, and hopefully that will happen, and hopefully that will help soon, larger numbers, i think we're gonna start hearing just demands about more access for humanitarian aid into gaza, more access for fuel and other things. but they will start asking more specifically for the demands of prisoners. and they already said that as

well, one of the hamas leaders said, in order to release the soldiers, they make a distinction between the civilians and the soldiers, although here in israel with hamas, it's quite difficult because a lot of is real israelis, until quite old, could potentially be reservist in this country. so who gets considered a soldier's a little bit up to how masts interpretation but they have set for the soldiers, not specifying exactly who they consider a soldier. if you are active duty, non active duty, serving in uniform, et cetera, they said they want the release of all palestinian prisoners in israeli jails. and there are thousands of them. >> wow. richard engel, chief foreign correspondent for nbc news. this has been a day of real ups and downs, specifically on this issue of the israeli hostages. thanks for keeping us up to date and keeping us honest, richard, on this. appreciate you my friend. we've got much more ahead here

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who was responsible for that attack. there was a group that nobody had previously heard of, that claimed responsibility at the time. the u.s. government did not really seem to know what to make of that claim of responsibility. as late as 2001, the man who had been defense secretary of the time of the attacks said the u.s. still didn't really know who did it. a civil lawsuit was brought by family members of marines who were killed that day in the truck bombing. that court case actually resulted in a finding by a federal court that the group responsible was actually hezbollah. that obscure group that had claimed responsibility back in 1983, they were effectively a front from what we would soon come to know as hezbollah. the court found that since iran is the country that arms and trains and supports hezbollah, then iran as a country should be held responsible for that attack on the marine barracks at the beirut airport in 1983. today, russia's foreign

minister flew to iran, to tehran for consultations with the iranian government. this is at a time when the russian government is waging its own war against ukraine, when iran is not only supplying arms to russia for that war against ukraine, iran is also arming hezbollah. that was nice of russia to do on the 40th anniversary of the beirut barracks bombing, sent their foreign minister to go visit the iranian government. that was nice. iran also of course arms, funds, and trains hamas, the group that committed the terrorist attack against israel two weeks ago, who's killed more than 1000 israeli civilians, and that set of ongoing disastrous war between hamas and israel. what a nice time for russia to be sending its foreign minister to visit with the iranian government! russian dictator vladimir putin just got back from his own trip abroad in which he had his first meeting with any european leader since the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for putin. putin defied that arrest

warrant. he went to authoritarian china, which of course wouldn't observe the arrest warrant. while in china, he took a meeting with the authoritarian leader of hungary, viktor orban. as orban continues to block the admission of sweden to nato and as orban threatens to block further european support for ukraine to defend themselves against russia. viktor orban, as i mentioned, is the authoritarian leader of hunger. now, the front runner for the republican party's nomination for president, donald trump, just gave a speech today in which he warmly praised viktor orban not as the leader of hungary but as the leader of turkey. viktor orban is not the leader of turkey. now, it is possible that hungary and turkey are kind of the same to him, because hungary sounds like hungry. and turkey is like -- i am hungry for some turkey. maybe thinks they are the same, i don't know. but that's the man who republicans appear to put up as their best choice of all people in america for who ought to be

president next year. and that is as news just broke over the weekend that while he was president before, he allegedly told a random australian guy, not only highly classified super sensitive details about our nuclear power, nuclear armed submarines, details which the australian guy himself then told to 45 other people, including multiple foreign government officials and six journalists. now, in addition to that, he also, we just learned, reportedly told this random australian dude sensitive details about his own contemporaneous communications with the president of iraq while the u.s. at the time was in the midst of launching military attacks inside iraq. he is their best idea for who ought to be the next president of the united states. and what we are on the subject of things being screwed up in the world, and really screwed up for us in the world, we

should also perhaps take a moment to be thankful, at least, that we in america are not personally contending with his guy. this is a politician. he is holding a chainsaw, not because he's caught and brush on his ranch for a photo op. he adopted the change though as a political symbol. he brings the chainsaw to rallies. he fires it up and website. he says he's got a chainsaw plan for his country. the associated press profile his election prospects this weekend, noting that one of his final rallies, he not only did his chainsaw thing, even brought the crowd to a screaming ovation by playing a video that just showed bomb blasts and building exploding for a few minutes. that's what he is promising for his country. hat he is promhe was expected te presidency of argentina in elections yesterday. with an endorsement from the trump of brazil, former president jair bolsonaro, with

his supporters wearing baseball hats that say, make argentina great again. the chainsaw guy was expected to win the argentinian presidency yesterday. but he did not win. he lost by six plus points in yesterday's election. that was a loss that surprised everyone. it was still close enough, though, that he has made it to a runoff election next month, so there is still a possibility that argentina -- can we just get a full picture of that -- yes, there is still a possibility that argentina might still get this guy as their president. argentina's trump, the unexpectedly -- he lost this weekend. but this is what he is offering. and he is headed to a runoff next month. all of which to thank, but things could be better right now around the world. i mean, you can start with the war in ukraine. you can start with the war in gaza. but even beyond those terrible, terrible wars, involving some

of our most important allies, things are just fraught right now. and here at home is relatively easy to look at the international challenges we are facing like that, and say, wow, this would be a good time for us to have a functioning congress, for us to have a speaker of the house, so the house of representatives could do stuff as needed. that is absolutely true. this is a bad time for the republicans to not be able to find, find their way out of the paperback and install one of their own member as speaker of the house so we can have the house of representatives. that is absolutely true. but you know what else is true? this is also true. do you notice anything strange in this image? this is not the house which the republicans have lost control of themselves, and we therefore don't have a working house of representatives. this is the senate where democrats are in charge. what do you notice about this picture? look who's on the foreign relations committee in the united states senate, still, as

of today, they took him out of his position as chairman of the foreign relations committee. but, look, he is still there. while today, he was arraigned on a federal felony indictment for allegedly conspiring to work as a foreign agent, as an agent of the egyptian government. he pled not guilty today. he released a statement after his plea, insisting on his innocence. but this is the same you a senator who was already indicted on federal charges of bribery, conspiracy to commit extortion. now, he is charged as an alleged foreign agent. and while he is indicted, under indictment on those charges, he is continuing to serve on the senate foreign relations committee, like this is normal. more than 30 democratic senators have called on new jersey senator bob menendez to resign, even though he too is a democrat. no republican has called on him to resign because that is too awkward for them with their own parties leader indicted on 91

felony charges. but honestly, who cares about whether other people are doing the right thing or the wrong thing? you still have to do the right thing or answer for it. democrats control the united states senate. i understand they do not have enough votes to expel bob menendez from the senate. you need two thirds vote to expel a senator. it almost never happens. it hasn't happened since they expelled confederates during the civil war. i get that about the issue of expulsion, just the practicalities of a. but leaving him on the u.s. and its foreign relations committee right now while he is on trial as an alleged foreign agent in this world, with what we've got going on right now, seriously? i honestly just do not know why democrats don't want to do this. it would not be hard if they wanted to do it, if they wanted to kick him off the senate foreign relations committee, all they have to do is kick him off and put somebody else on in his place. that's it. i have absolutely no idea why

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of representatives and he was absolutely over it. this is what he said. he said quote, as you all know for something like three years and especially the last 19 and a half months, i have been very closely tied to washington. although i have enjoyed hugely being here with you ladies and

gentlemen, i do have the very great desire for a few days sniffing a different atmosphere. this is from the u.s. speaker of the house at the time speaking on the floor of congress a 1941. having a very great desire of sniffing a different atmosphere as opposed to yours which i am sick of sniffing. he then just spelled it even more plainly. he said quote, i am homesick. i want to go home tomorrow. and his colleagues in the house of representatives let him. they allowed him to go home to sniff home they voted in a temporary speaker a speaker pro tem broom so, mr. reverent could go on for a few days and get rested. it happens. a quarter century later in 1966 similar situations. because that is for that time want to leave time for a few days. said he wanted to give a speech to the massachusetts state

legislature. said he would have to be a way to do that so please vote in a temporary speaker in my absence to take care of business. it was no big deal. people apparently didn't even care that while he was on supposedly to talk to the state legislature where he turned up in the papers was at the boston st. patrick's day parade. so really what he meant to ask for was, hey do you mind giving us a new speaker for a few days, i want to go drink green beer in south boston. he didn't put it that way. he asked for a different reason. it happens. 1939 speaker william bank had told his colleagues needed a break because he was quote a little bit tired. they said okay. in 1940 he told his fellow lawmakers a case of the flute was holding on to him quote with great tenacity, and he needed a few days off to handle the flu. and yes for when he was tired and for when you get the flu, we had a temporary speaker of the house. it is not uncommon, at least

it's not unheard of to have the u.s. house of representatives elected temporary speaker for any number of reasons, even sort of cute reasons, even slightly disingenuous reasons about going to parades. but now we are looking at a situation where we are getting i spoke or pro tem apparently indefinitely not because the real speaker is sick because the republican party is sick. and it has no sign of getting better anytime soon. it has been 20 days now, it'll be three weeks tomorrow since republicans fired their own party speaker of the house. that effectively closes the house of representatives. they can't do anything other than trying to elect a new speaker. and apparently they have no idea of how they are going to elect a new one. some people have hoped and dreamed that there might be a trick play way out of this. that may be the existence of this man will provide a kind of safety net, away for them to get around this problem problem

the can't seem to get around. congressman patrick moe henry as been speaking as a temporary speaker ever since kevin mccarthy was fired. at the moment at least he has no real power other than presiding over efforts to try to elect a new speaker. is there is, doing something, there's been talk about republicans might try to invent a new procedure to install him as de facto speaker without anybody having to vote for him. as if this were the moment to start taking with the invasive constitutional structure of our country, because sure this republican country come party wouldn't do anything nefarious with that. for the time being, republican seem to be going about electing a speaker in what passes for a more traditional roots, at least trying to elect a speaker. tonight they heard a candidate is formally closed doors. eight different members reportedly made their case for why they should be speaker. tomorrow 9 am eastern house republicans are met supposed to meeting private to try to

select their new parties nominee. nominees not enough. once you have a nominee, the house has to hold another vote on the floor of the house that. may happen as soon as tomorrow. but at this point who knows? and the idea that you just get to tell the temporary guy that he has to be the speaker without anybody voting for him, it's not going to work. joining us now is the senior national political reporter for nbc news. it's nice to see you. >> thanks rachel. >> do you have any updates for us about what i just explain where we are in the process right now? >> if you updates rachel. house republicans met for well over two hours this evening. they had a candidate formed who made their case one of them dan user of pennsylvania became the first to voluntarily get off the island, floor away in a raft and to be voted off the island, so there are eight candidates left are going to be voted on starting tomorrow.

the way this process is expected to work there will be multiple ballots until somebody gets a majority of the conference, it is half a republican conference. in each ballot, the lowest vote getter will be eliminated until somebody finally gets the majority. there is no guarantee that the person who gets that majority will get 217 out of the 221 republican votes on the house floor. this is the same problem that fell jim jordan and skim steve scalise. the favorite now is house majority whip tom emmer. the next two candidates were washed out. it's unclear peaking at 217 votes. so this process will continue and continue and canyon. rachel your idea about the patrick mchenry the acting speaker of being in power. this is an idea that keeps up coming up again and again. seems irrational, mchenry as well respected on both sides of the aisle, is seen as an institutionalist, seen that he can keep this plane in the air while it finds a permanent pilot. but the reason while it is not

happening. first mchenry is made it abundantly clear that he believes his role is ceremonial. lives are out to be a vote there to empower him before he can make any decisions. and house republicans have made clear they are not gonna do the, they're not gonna look byram, so that would require democrats. and a lot of democrats said they want concessions out of him and that he simply wouldn't go back to running at the way mccarthy ran it, catering to the right. so there's democrats want something out of it. that subjects saw puzzle you have with patrick mchenry. and meanwhile republicans are off to the next segment of this. >> does mchenry seem like he would be open to some sort of majority vote that would require some democrats to given speakership full stop? if democrats are saying we can see a way to install away a speaker that is not a democrat, seeing we get some sort of power sharing agreement some

sort of concessions that are meaningful to us would mchenry stand for the speakership in those terms? >> the short answer is no. mchenry as made it clear he has no interest in that job. he obviously never applied for, never ran for, you happen to be a kevin mccarthy secret list as the person who will be next in line to operate that jobs are emotionally. but look at this gets to a situation where a majority of house members come to him and say we have the votes, we want to empower you at least on some side kind of temporary basis, it's gonna be hard for mchenry to say no to that, especially because we are 20 days without a speaker, but 25 days from a government shutdown. the closer congress gets to this cliff, the more there is going to be pressure to do something to have anybody to put legislation on the floor, so the united states is not floating in creating 11 month to another. not just at all with wards raising in the ukraine and the middle east, there's any pressure for the congress to

act and the closer we get to those deadlines and think the more they mchenry option will keep surfacing but he's may cleary doesn't want that job. >> so hill sahil kapur senior correspondent for nbc news, i can't believe this story still where it is and we haven't got further down the line here. thanks for your time said he'll, appreciate it. >> thank you rachel. >> all right we've got more to come. stay with us. stay with us ( ♪♪ ) the first fda-approved rsv vaccine. arexvy is used to prevent lower respiratory disease from rsv in people 60 years and older. rsv can severely affect the lungs and lower airways. arexvy is proven to be over 82% effective in preventing lower respiratory disease from rsv and over 94% effective in those with these health conditions. ( ♪♪ ) arexvy does not protect everyone and is not for those with severe allergic reactions to its ingredients.

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