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why. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. we begin with of it decision 2024. 59 days intellect today and three days before the first presidential debate. vice president kamala harris is on the move, visiting local businesses in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. donald trump is at a rally in full swing in wisconsin. as both sides prepare for the debate, trump's allies feel he could blow the debate begins and the personal attacks against the vice president. will trump launch attacks on vp harris? he did yesterday. >> she is right now practicing. she is in pennsylvania practicing for the debate. she has locked herself in a room, she has a lot to learn. the harris campaign is celebrating new endorsements from a couple of staunch

republicans. >> as we note with cheney and liz cheney, we are going to vote for kamala harris. they say they voted because of the freedom to vote because i do not want to have an assault on our democracy and that is what you're hearing from a number of republicans who might not agree with everything, every single policy, they believe as patriots of this is the most important thing that we uphold the democracy. vice president harris did her first hispanic media interview and focused on her economic plan and plans for small business owners. my plan is to give a $50,000 tax credit to anyone who is starting a new business, to give them the ability to get on the path to actually creating and building a

successful business. our team of reporters are ready to cover the new moments for us. we will begin with aaron gilchrist in pittsburgh. what are we hearing from the vice president today as she prepares to debate trump and has she returned from the debate we saw when she took off from the hotel and had a break going to the spice shop? >> reporter: we believe that she is back in the hotel now, and the lid has been declared at we do not expect to see her anymore. should go a couple blocks away from here to the spice shop where she was able to meet some patrons and folks who are working there, to have a moment . we saw her embrace a number of people, a little girl and others in the shop, the retail politics, if you will, that the harris campaign said they wanted to make sure the vice president had an opportunity to do. she was asked by the press pool traveling with her, a few questions about what she is

doing here in pittsburgh for the last three days. she arrived in thursday hundred has been deeply gives debate preparations. we want to the q&a between vice president harris and our producer the nbc loser who was there with her. >> what is one thing you want to get across to him? >> there is a lot. it is time to turn the page on the divisiveness. it is time to bring our country together. turn a new way forward. >> reporter: the new way forward is what we will hear in detail during the debate. the vice president has been poring over briefing books and we understand from two sources here in the extended debate sessions that she has been holding since arriving in pittsburgh, we understand from sources that she intends to not only make a case for yourself, explain people who she is and what she wants to do in a

harris administration but also being able to stand up to former president trump and any insult you may lob at her during the debate. we go to some of the things over the course of the next several weeks that the former president has made comments and has levied insults against vice president harris. part of the preparation has been to be ready for that and to talk about any lies of the former president may articulate. the vice president said he is unburdened by telling the truth. part of her preparation has been being prepared to be back at him and anything that rises that level of being untrue and also to talk through some of the things that he wanted to do when he was president before that was not able to make happen and some of the proposals that he has suggested this time around and she will talk about how those things will be untenable. >> that is a tough thing to have to prepare for and

pushback lies. there we have it. thank you for that. was go to the pictures of trump's rally in battleground wisconsin. he is set to speak this hour after several legal developments. i have dasha burns who is tracking the campaign for us. we know he has arrived on site. the day after a judge delayed his sentencing. bring us up to speed on what trump is doing in these couple of days before the debate. >> reporter: he has been hitting the pavement on the campaign trail. is not hunkering down, he is here in york i was in north carolina. he is in wisconsin now. he says that's campaigning is debate prep along with some of the informal policy sessions that we discuss it which includes being peppered with questions by his aides. and allies like representative tulsi gabbard and matt gaetz. working with him on how to

outline the policy proposals we've heard from him recently and how to tout his successes that he believes voters will respond to in his first a ministration. this is how he prepares and he seems to take pride in the fact that he is not a candidate that does mock debates or the qaeda prep that harris does. i think we have a sound bite from him talking about that. take a listen. >> she has locked herself in a room. she has a lot to learn. she has locked herself in a room and they have one problem. do you know what the problem is? they have maga people outside screaming, we love trump, we love trump, we love trump. they cannot focus. >> reporter: it has been a busy day for the former president. bring us up to speed on what juan merchan had to say. >> reporter: they said, lisa is

out of the politics and move it till after the election. the sentencing was post to be later this month and it will not be later this year and now it is set for november 26. right before thanksgiving, three weeks after the election and said i want to read something from the ruling. this matter is one that stands alone in a unique place in this nation's history and that he wanted the public's confidence that it would be free from distraction and distortion. saying, let's get past this election and then deal with it. and that trump's legal team has been successful and delayed with neutralizing at least until after the election, all of the cases against him. >> we will see you again soon. thank you. new and alarming information stemming from the u.s. government cracking down on brescia's efforts to interfere with american elections. officials say that is the biggest threat yet to the u.s. and the presidential election. ryan reilly is joining me now to talk about this.

what are u.s. officials accusing russia of doing. are they using new techniques? are they more sinister with a.i.? spreading a lot of information through the secondary methods and teaming up with the established influencers in the united states. this is a severe weather not naming it in the united states. there being vague about what party the talking about. you will see these mentioned in the affidavit like political party 1 even though it's easy to figure out who they are. but they want to take the different stuff that they have left a trail of breadcrumbs for journalists to find a figure out exactly who they are talking about. this is what merrick garland had to say. they continued to use rt to direct propaganda. in the wake of the campaign

come the say they boat, quote, and entire empire of covert projects designed to shape public opinion in western audiences. >> so what we had our rt employees setting up a separate organization. the work with right-wing influencers as we follow the breadcrumbs. talk with people like benny johnson and tim poole, some of the other big influencers were really big on youtube. what they said was in at least two of these individuals did not know that they were being paid massive sums of money that they were getting by the russians. one of them asked simply preliminary questions about where the money was coming from but not a ton there. what you see here is russia sort of feeding a lot of money, whether it is unknowingly or knowingly to these individuals about trying to post their

message and keep defending the message. >> the money that the pro-trump pundits are getting, is it a disproportionate amount they would get, were it not potentially the russians funneling to them? how can they legitimately say we had no idea who is paying us? >> that is a really great question. that's a lot of money and the economics, the mass does not math. the economics don't work out when you talk about the massive sums of money and then basing it upon these views. even though they had large followings, the videos there posting did not track well. often they do not do well even though they had big guests on. the big russian paid for programs, we had a guest including don jr. lara trump, who is the head of the rnc, because she had pre-existing relationships with benny johnson who is a right-wing viral star.

he would almost always be on the facebook pages of a lot of people who stormed the capital. they are feeding these people who promote this narrative that they already want which is getting donald trump elected. that is what they are feeding. it's a lot of money coming in and the math do not make a lot of sense but there were not a lot of critical questions being asked. i should say that all of these people say they are, quote, victims, despite the massive paychecks that they do not know where the money was coming from. the justice department did say that two of them did appear to know where the money came from. >> i don't think i've ever heard anyone say i wonder one getting paid so much money. we will leave it at that. thank you so much. with friends like these, what to make of the latest twist surrounding rfk jr.'s support of donald trump. we will be back right after this.

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i am curious, let's get to the interpretation of that message we just played from governor schapiro. is he trying to lower expectations and then reason for donald trump? >> i think a lot of democrats are concerned enough to happened in the june debate and what we saw, there was a debate among democrats about having the microphones turned off. that was something democrats after the debate with biden had regretted because they had felt like audiences would not hear trump coming in and saying things, the points that he was talking. it will be an interesting dynamic to see how these rules impact harris' performance but i think democrats are lowering expectations and about what

they were also mean for them. >> it made him look more restrained than he normally would from past debates. tell me which candidate you think has the most to lose if the debate does not go their way. >> trump benefited from the debate last time. he knocked his opponent out but this time, i have seen him speak at campaign rallies. he misses running against biden, it seems. talks with biden a lot and i'm interested to see how much he brings up someone who is not running against in this debate. something i'm interested in is how much harris talks about project 2025. it is something that trump has said he has no affiliations with but i was just on the two this week when his vp candidate jd vance stopped at a campaign

office in phoenix and was talking with supporters and one of the volunteers told him, it is something we're hearing a lot from voters.'s or something we can do to combat the message. so i wonder how much aris brings it up. >> you and me both. take about what was about donald trump having knocked out joe biden. is it as much of that as joe biden, unfortunately, with the performance he did, basically take himself out of the game? >> it was interesting because when he muted it and the mics were muted, it seemed like trump was more restrained but we do not see as many personal attacks from trump. that we have seen in past debates from him and i don't know what this debate will bring in terms of how much he brings that out. he has said he will continue to personally attack harris even when it was a gem you should not focus only on policy. she said i think i should still be attacking harris i do not wish to relent. it advantage him that biden did

as poorly as he did in that debate, but also either seeming restrained or he restrained himself worked. >> it did. if he restrained himself, if that was a cognizant thought, it was because he let it all play. he did not need to jump in in that manner. and there's a strong school of thought about that. as we know it begins just over one weekend some states. independent and third party candidates will be on the ballot. how many of these ballots will be in swing state ballots and how my that shape the election? >> we basically reported that rfk jr. is trying to take himself's off the ballot in red states. he's telling supporters, do not vote for me, vote for trump. that is something that trump sees as a good point for him.

he has had some luck in that regard because he now sees that some of the rfk supporters will go towards him. i'm not certain that will have as major of an impact yet. early on in rfk's campaign going to rallies, a lot of what i heard from voters were people who were not satisfied with either biden or trump. they wanted someone different and when kennedy spoke at those events before endorsing trump, obviously, he spoke about how both candidates have not kept campaign promises and he attacked trump a lot. so i have heard from voters at his events who said that they are not committed to voting for trump yet, ever since kennedy's endorsements i don't know that will necessarily hurt harris as much as the aides are hoping. on the other front, joel stein

and cornel west, they have messaged to progressives that the biden and harrison ministration have not done enough on gaza, which has appeal to voters, especially in michigan, so that is one place where we have a watching closely to see if they get on the ballot, cornel west has been in legal issues -- has had some legal issues there. he will be getting on the ballot. >> absolutely. thank you so much for that and for all of you. if my director could put that other video that we have to show that donald trump has deplaned. he has arrive. we will keep watching this in the control booth and bring you any salient points he might make, but there he is. all right. there was no good legal reason to delay donald trump's sentencing. is a headline that almost says it all. we will go over all of this

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now to a head spinning 24 hours of significant developments in the trials of donald trump. judge juan merchan is delaying the sentencing. he attended his e. jean carroll hearing and turned into a campaign event. and judge tanya chutkan spoke. let's get into this because we have first the hush money sentencing where the judge cited the election as one of the reason for the delay. do you agree it should be pushback or is the judge tipping the political skills, as he did not attend to, by withholding a decision. >> good to be back with you.

i don't agree with the decision to postpone until after the election. treating trump different than every other defendant. it benefits donald trump. in this case, the prosecutor, alvin bragg, did not oppose donald trump's choice to push the sentencing until later. because he did not stand up for himself on this one, the judge was like, not going to fight your battles for you. funeral pushback on this, don't look at me. i will not be the bad guy. the judge says we will push it. that is a shame because there's no reason to delay it. in this case, like every case, you have to follow the evidence and the law and ignore the politics and the noise. they listened to the noise and gave donald trump what he wanted. they put judge mershon into

an unenviable bind by agreeing to trump's request to delay sentencing. why would the manhattan d.a. do that? does that support his position that it is all political? even though it works in his political favor. >> it is hard to know why the d.a. did what he did i think it's because the d.a. did not want to look at a more political than he did, but if you choose not to decide, you will still have made a choice, as the letter goes from the band rush. by not taking a position, you have taken a position and are treating him differently, treating better, and laying it all on the judge. that is not fair. the prosecutor has a adversarial role to the defense and when he won't stand up for his position, then he will put the judge in that untenable position and capitulated. i don't blame the judge for this. this to not have to happen i think alvin bragg should have been more aggressive on the timing. >> let's make the point that all of this remains uncharted territory for this country but

are their implications in the judge's decision for independence of the judiciary? have you got to the point where the law and politics are inextricably intertwined? how do we break that, if so. >> you follow the lead of judge chutkan. see what she did. she said in washington, d.c. in the election interference case i don't care about the election. i don't care about politics, we will follow the evidence and the law. and let's get the ball rolling and we will, in fact we will have a hearing in three weeks. we will reveal about donald trump's threats to mike pence. that is opposite of what we saw in new york. that is away to see, even though the supreme court is putting its thumb on the scale and prevented a trial, the judge has the power to say let's get this thing rolling. doesn't matter that there is an

election in november. >> in that particular case, tanya chutkan's case you had the trump attorneys saying we should not get drawn into an election dispute. definitely not getting drawn into an election dispute. that was quite powerful right there. let me ask you about another situation that was an extraordinary one we were talking the news. the father of the alleged school shooter in georgia. if convicted, both parents. in the the mess, which right? >> the prosecutors are right. we've had enough school shootings.

we will stop by them them by threatening kids with life in prison. don't care about that. rarely do they survive the shootings. it is rare that someone turns himself in like this one. but at some point parents have to be responsible. this will not make parents responsible in every case. the only time we have seen parents held responsible criminally have been in the most egregious cases with a had a troubled son and said giving him a therapist, got him a gun and ignored his morning cries and refuse to take him home from school. here in georgia, you have someone similar. because it's worse because in some getting the troubled son a gun, he got him and ar-15s style rifle, even after he was alerted by the fbi that his son wanted to be a school shooter. what kind of parenting is that? he should be held accountable. >> you just said it there. thank you. good to see. there are so many burning questions about tuesday's debate, not the least of which is, what will victory look like? what would the wednesday morning headlines say? the political panel tackles

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three days before the debate between vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump. funds will be turned off when it is not a candidate's turn to speak. the harris campaign argue that it would disadvantage the vice president. >> he lies so much that it is

hard to fact check him in real time, whether you are a moderator or a candidate running against him. i think his handlers worked really hard to make sure that microphones stay muted to put him in a better position to be successful. it creates a challenge that we will not have the ability to go directly at these claims made by president trump or to try to hold him accountable for his own misstatements and frankly offensive tax -- attacks against her. >> next, misha cross and britney packman. welcome to you both. in the debate with president biden, the muted microphones worked to make trump look more restrained. what effect we think it will have on this campaign? >> i think it will still work to keep donald trump a little more restrained. he still going to say crazy

things and kamala harris will be able to hear these things. what will happen is the vp will be on her square and she will fact check him, irrespective of the fact that those microphones are going to be muted. she will roll into her responses as well. donald trump has posed a challenge because he lies and lies so quickly that it can be difficult to keep track of all of them at once. but for kamala harris, it is for her to rise above the muck. twirler story and help america get to know her better. she has to do two things, just to call trump out for the lies he tells and more importantly, showcase who she is and why people should be invested in and supporting her. that can be something that in the time frame they have could be difficult but this a woman who's been practicing and prepping and is more than ready for the debate night. >> what you say about the accusations? the "new york times" says that trump is trying to install doubt to say if he does badly,

it is not his fault. they were ask if he was trying to lower expectations when it comes to the rules and he said no. so what are the expectations and does harris have unfairly high ones placed in her as compared to the overall low expectations on trump? >> absently has higher exultation is placed on her not just because she can string together a sentence without meandering five times and telling four different lies. there are additional expectations on her for quite a few reasons. number one, this has been a short campaign. we have to continue to recognize that just over 100 days, she became the candidate and has been having to reintroduce or introduce yourself to the american people all over this country and in a very truncated campaign that normally would have taken two years to build up.

she has additional work to do and additional expectations placed on her because there are more questions surrounding her. but we have to recognize that as a woman at the podium and as a south asian woman at the podium and certainly as a black woman at that podium, she has a particular line that some people are expecting her to tell that she will show up as lawyerly and prosecutorial but she also has to appease certain people by not crossing into the category of angry black woman. that is an impossible task to do because no one how clearly or eloquently she expressed herself, some people think that anyway. we know there are additional expectations placed on her because of race and class. there should be high expectations for every single presidential candidate yet these are higher than we have ever seen. >> this is interesting because the former white house indications director told investment platform that he expects trump to use racist dog

whistles and viciously try to tear at her and attack her. he said instead of focusing on policy as hillary clinton did, harris should lean into the sparring match and outwit him. how much should she hit back as opposed to appearing calm and presidential? >> i go back to something that britney just said. one of the things that kamala harris is going to have to rise above and one thing every black woman unfortunately has to rise above is angry black woman trope. will be difficult considering that donald trump will use racism. he will use sexism. he will use all of these things that we have seen him use on the campaign trail irrespective of his advisers and the current speaker of house advising him not to do so, he will use as an attack line for her because water to bite back. for kamala harris it is remaining stoic and in the policy wing. and calling out and naming him

for who he is and what he does. she cannot get up there and spark back and forth. i do not think it is fruitful for the american people. it is definitely not fruitful for her or her campaign. she's done an excellent job rising above the muck. even when president trump tried to make her decide what race she could be. kamala harris does not have to prove to donald trump who she is comes to those who she is. she misses stick to her points. just to showcase her policy agenda and also to call him out for the person he happens to be. we will see the prosecutor versus the convicted felon. i think we will see input racism and white supremacy on full display. kamala harris is a smart woman who has been a woman of color her entire life. there's nothing he could say on that states she has not heard. she is risen to the ranks that she has in spite of these things, not because of them. >> former senator liz cheney has joined the ranks of republicans. >> i don't believe we have the luxury of writing in candidate

's names, particularly in swing states. as a conservative and some who believes in and cares about the constitution, thought deeply about this and be because of the danger that donald trump poses, not only am i not voting for donald trump, but i will be voting for kamala harris in this election. >> adding to that her father, former vice president dick cheney is also backing harris calling donald trump the greatest threat to american history saying he can never be trusted with power again. what you think the impact is of endorsements like this from prominent republicans? >> i think the campaign has a responsibility to be very careful here. when it comes to this debate, there are moments that are beneath the dignity of the office and if it comes to those racist tropes or sexist tropes,

that kind of sparring and back and forth says those kinds of questions and that line of thinking is actually worth answering and they are not. their places for her to fight. so if you want to see the kamala harris that we saw in the senate questioning brett kavanaugh on the rule of law, on the things that matter, on the policies that matter. especially, the progressive and younger wing of the party that is looking closely to what the policy answers are going to be. holding the balance between support from moderate republicans all the way to i think dick cheney, someone who is further to the right everyone who is naturally part of the tent on the left feels seen, heard, and respected in her plans is going to be a

place but she will have to occupy. is critically important that the campaign continues to remind people that even republicans are saying this party has gone too far afield. donald trump is a nonstarter and even dick cheney thinks a republican party at this point is out of hand but that should be coming out of the mouths of surrogates. out of kamala harris, she about her plan for the future and progress ahead and why we should invest in her vision for america. give me a sense of what you think the wednesday morning headlines are going to look like. >> i think they will look quite victorious for kamala harris. i want to pass the collection plate around for britney a moment ago because she's able to only prosecute the case against him but showcase what her plans are, which i what the economic agenda and her plan for childcare versus, i don't know what that was what trump did in front of a press conference he of the day. she's able to showcase an america that is not a dark and creepy one but showcases a middle-class that grows and continues to expand. student debt relief which we

have already seen from this administration but there's more to come. in addition to jobs being able to afford those children. to be able to afford housing and electricity and all of the expenses a come along with being an adult in this country. we want to make sure that her message is salient across the country. we think you will be able to have that conversation and is somebody who is the adult in the room. someone who is able to avoid the racist tropes thrown her way and able to remain solid in the face of extreme aggressive. >> good to see both. thank you so much. the u.s. is demanding answers from the middle east. this time after the death of an american. what will the demands yield? we will have a live report next. ve you seen it, by the way?

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was a recent graduate of university washington. drizzle over couple of days before being shot dead and the idf said they will open an investigation and looking into this. they satiate -- they returned fire after several people in the vicinity had been throwing rocks but an activist i spoke with was there and said he was cradling her head as she bled to death, he said that that any violence on their side had been over for more than 30 minutes and they posed no threat to the officers or the soldiers who were there. he said this was a deliberate murder and that they took a kill shot. i want to tell you but what is going on here in tel aviv tonight. israelis in the thousands descending to the streets demanding a peace deal. this the seventh night in a row that we are hearing about this. we are hearing more from the u.s. and british side about these negotiations. the u.s. cia director has been instrumental in trying to get this deal over the line.

he spoke quite candidly recently with his counterpart from britain. here is what he said. >> enough is enough. the time has come, finally, to make some hard choices and difficult compromises. i hope, i hope profoundly, that both of those leaders are going to make that decision, because, as i said, there is an enormous amount at stake here. >> the decision is not been made. >> i think we will make this more detailed proposal i hope in the next several days and we will see. >> so, as the streets in israel not just in tel aviv, but across the country begin to strenuously demand a piece deal that would free the remaining hostages held by hamas in the gaza strip, wearing not so vocal praise for this deal or the same thing we've been hearing for so many months before from the americans that we are so close to a deal. we've been hearing this time and time again.

we heard it last week that there 90% of the deal has been agreed to by hamas and the israelis but it is the 10%, that 1% that is left that is really holding the deal up and that has been holding the deal up for the past but are part of the year versus the last time that there was a week long pause in the fighting that released half of the hostages in november. this deal, while there is an added urgency and imperative behind it to get over the line, none of the diplomats were trying to work on it are necessarily any more hopeful than they have been in the past. >> it is tough. i'm taking it all in. they just want the hostages home. get a deal and stop the fighting, but it seems to be just too difficult of a task at this point. hope springs eternal. thank you. for details about the bombshell plot to influence the u.s. elections uncovered by the doj this week and what vladimir

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putin came out today and he has endorsed kamala harris. i have feeling, i don't know. i don't know exactly what to say about that. i don't know if i'm insulted or if he did me a favor. >> donald trump referencing putin's sarcasm. putin saying, he likes harris's infectious laugh and is hopeful she may lift u.s. sanctions on russia. joining me now, former cia officer and national security analyst. hi, mark. why would he say he wants harris to win? is it because he knows his endorsement could hurt her chances?

>> this is vladimir putin being his own self, or true self. which is an intelligence officer. something he did for many, many years. he's trolling the united states. clearly, he is not endorsing kamala harris. whether it's the opinion of the u.s. intelligence community or people within our world that follow this. it's absolutely clear that putin once donald trump because they share the same policy platforms, which is an end to u.s. aid to ukraine, reducing the strength of nato. this is putin being an intelligence officer. just messing with united states. he does this with a smirk. no one takes this seriously and you would of course expect someone on the right, including former president trump, to take this up. nothing to be seen as a real endorsement. not that an endorsement whatever matter. >> 100%. let's go to this week. the biden administration announcing sanctions and criminal charges against russia to thwart its efforts to interfere in the election. intelligence officials say russia's activities are more

sophisticated than in prior election cycles and the kremlin is using authentic u.s. voices on social media platforms and websites to promote propaganda and divisive narratives aimed at swaying american voters to favor donald trump. how prepared are intelligence agencies to prevent russia from influencing the outcome of this election? the whole concept is not new. >> they did this in 2016. we are better at countering this. it's good to see that the doj actually did something with these indictments in the past they would sit back and watch. now we took action. to me, was really interesting about this is going back to my old world with the cia active measures campaign. look for the effect. what kind of outcome resulted? if you take a look at of the content that was put forth, again, emanating from russian intelligence that is perhaps useful idiot right-wing

influencers, it had to do with things like ending aid to ukraine. so what happens with this? they got former president trump to come on one of their shows. at the end of the day there is an aid package, the $60 billion aid package was stalled in congress for months and months. ukrainians died. i think that was a measure of effectiveness. champagne corks were popping in russian intelligence headquarters. once again, despite us catching this, they come out on top. it's something you have to keep counteracting. illness needs, alex, a war room 24/7 mentality to counteract with the russians are doing. i know the iranians and chinese are doing this too. >> i was going to say the same thing. they can get their foot off the gas pedal for a second on this. nbc news reports the biden administration is considering, mark, cutting a deal with hamas that does not include israel. it would secure the release of the four american hostages it believes are still alive in gaza. the hostage families have been

pressing the white house to make a unilateral deal after the increasing certainty that benjamin netanyahu will not agree to a cease-fire exchange. is a deal like this realistic? the cease-fire negotiations on the brink of what the u.s. is calling a final proposal is a unilateral deal with hamas the best option now? let me add, they would also want the remains of the three americans they have confirmed have been killed while being a hostage. >> we have to certainly acknowledge the frustration of the families of the hostages. pain i can't even imagine. there's also frustration on the part of the biden administration about prime minister netanyahu's -- he does seem to be making blockades to negotiations. but the u.s. has to be careful. a unilateral or separate deal could drive a wedge between the u.s. and israel. it would be campaign fodder for the republicans.