bill burns, does it burn stands out. there's no question that he is the important source within that national security to remember when he was in bassett or to moscow, it was the one who wrote cables back to the state department, saying the expansion of nato is going to hurt us one of these days that's rank and even though the press we'll talk about it. but in terms of the contextualization of what the russians are doing in the ukraine, you can start with february 2022. you have to start with bill clinton. the 19981999 with the outrages expansion of nato that's reached the point in our night and was made up of 32 countries, including virtually every country that borders on russia guaranteeing a terrible cold war situation. yes, and it's, i think burns understood that he's powerless now to do anything about it. and now we're going to have to live with the damage that clinton and george w bush. you brought in, not only east european states, but baltic states in tomato. and this is why you have an intelligence community to

but one of the reasons why i'm so support of bill burns. and actually i wrote the i pads for i write for counter punch and i, i want to build burn street, a secretary of state. actually it'll be almost as secretary state would you look at his diplomatic missions, but when you look at the ca directors before burns, you had people from the military like portrays, lacking jim woolsey, who was lacking gates, who was lacking. and then when you went to the hill, people like puerto kosh and george kind of, uh, they were politicizing and tell it yes you know was do you have tenants who said to george w bush, it would be a slam dunk, mister president, to give you what you want and bush didn't want it from south. he wanted lies to take the american people to support his war. that's right. now to stay with us, we're going to continue our conversation with now goodman, after we take a short break and, and there's a lot to talk about, especially the current state of national security whistle blowing. so state to, we'll be right back the. 2 2 the, the wa

bill burns, the c i a director t as in cairo as well. people are talking, which means there is still some momentum. we also know that bill burns was in israel yesterday meeting with the prime minister with nothing yahoo, as well as other members of the security establishment in the bill burns, was urging them to go ahead and keep talking saying they should not see any ceasefire as an into the war, but rather a pause in the war in which they could then negotiate further. so a lot of pressure still being applied on israel to try to take this very seriously . but when you look at these really media landscape, very unclear where things stand when it comes to the is really government at this hour, rob muhammad jammah zoom in, i'm on. thank you. a sort of head, and i'll just say it up as early as holidays. the demolishing dozens of homes belonging to a veteran family in the negative, reaching the high low. they will head down on the, in just a moment with us to southeast asia and from the satellite image. and you can see the shower called the

let's not forget cia director bill burns is still working on this. question is what happens if israel goes through? israel has given us some assurances, but, according to the administration, not enough. what if there's a catastrophe? really tough times for the administration right now. >> and could trigger a response in the region elsewhere and expand the war. let's conclude with the hostage deal. what makes it so -- i know bill burns is considered one of the stars in this administration. a seen your aide told me over the weekend, if anyone can do it, it's him. it hasn't happened yet. there have been a number of close calls. give us a sense as to what are the challenges to get this done including from the israeli side? >> so, you know, it looks like at some point hamas was going to agree to the demand of the first stage, which is is reeling does not have to say they will stop the war. that was a movement on hamas's part. of course, israel has moved as well with a number of less hostages. ultimately the leader is holed up in a tunnel in rafah. will he

hang on, bill burns was _ proposal that we cannot accept.and did not send. so wasn't the israeli war cabinet�*s mistake that they went to cross the detail out at the critical juncture? the out at the critical “uncture? the last four months i out at the criticaljuncture? iia: last four months we out at the criticaljuncture? tia: last four months we have out at the criticaljuncture? ii9: last four months we have been out at the criticaljuncture? i“i9 last four months we have been trying to negotiate with hamas. there has been a really, to be honest, a quiet cease—fire. there was not real operation, not a real war in gaza. that was in the attempt to do the most important thing that we want and it is to bring back ourfamily members. what is on the table now is not necessarily going to bring back all of them. not the babies, not all of our sisters and brothers and grandparents and fathers and that is our main goal. and the lack of knowing that they are going to be home, this is not necessarily something we can't agree. we are looking through the

and bill burns, the cia chief and a veteran diplomat has been in israel today, trying to get that deal over the line in meetings with the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. in the meantime, we are hearing that inside of gaza, dozens of people have been killed as the israeli military continues its offensive. one of our sources who have spoken to our crew inside of gaza has said that there have been nonstop bombing attacks since this morning there. back to you. >> hala gorani, thank you. >>> in 90 seconds, the judge's warning to donald trump for what he was saying during stormy daniels' testimony, plus, what to expect when the adult film star returns to the stand tomorrow. returns to the stand tomorrow t safelite. this customer had auto glass damage, but he was busy working from home... ...so he scheduled with safelite in just a few clicks. we came to his house... then we got to work. we replaced his windshield... ...and installed new wipers to protect his new glass. >> customer: looks great. thank you. >> tech: my pleasure. >> vo: we come to you for free. schedule now for free

but how is that possible if bill burns - the content of it, so...that possible if bill burns had - the content of it, so... but how is. that possible if bill burns had been there throughout? apparently, from our reporting, he was in qatar today, he has been guiding this process through, so how is it that the israelis feel like they are somehow out of the loop? it the israelis feel like they are somehow out of the loop? it must be somehow out of the loop? it must be some sort of— somehow out of the loop? it must be some sort of fragmentation - somehow out of the loop? it must be some sort of fragmentation within . some sort of fragmentation within the israeli leadership in terms of who saw what, but moving forward, the entire israeli leadership needs to see the agreement, needs to understand deeply in terms of the context especially when it comes to humanitarian support, hostage affairs, as faras humanitarian support, hostage affairs, as far as where we are, the state of the conflict, and reach a ceasefire as soon as possible. we were saying just a s

i think bill burns has been doing an outstanding job. it's the complexity, the fact that you have so many aspects of this deal that need to be synchronized and it should be remembered that there are probably three versions of these proposals going on. arabic, hebrew and english, and sometimes the translations can lead to differences of view or discrepancy, and so these are things getting hammered out now, and hopefully a cease fire that will bring relief to the palestinian people in gaza, and also bring hostages home to israel. >> it was such a breakthrough to hear that hamas said yes, we'll agree to a deal. what do you think was the catalyst for that? was it what's happening in rafah? we talk about the hundred thousand pamphlets that were dropped or dropped to about 100,000 people who were in rafah, telling them it's time to evacuate because of what appears to be an imminent operation there by the israeli forces? >> i think hamas is under a fair amount of pressure, in terms of the pending pressure against rafah that has been heralded ov

agreed to, and there has been pretty frenetic diplomacy over the weekend involving cia director bill burns who started in egypt, flying to qatar, coming here to israel. it is possible that the framework of that deal has changed over the weekend. it is also worth saying that these deals are often structured in terms of first an agreement on a broad framework and then hammering out of the details. as you know, chris, the devil is often in the detail, but there is positive indication for the first time since that last cease-fire deal which lasted only a week, collapsed on december 1st last year. this is the first time we have heard from hamas that they are prepared to accept a cease-fire proposal. we have heard nothing officially from the israeli government. israel is certainly aware of this statement from hamas. they are studying it. we have not heard yet from prime minister netanyahu or israeli officials. fwhu is a potentially positive sign after these many, many months of bloodshed in gaza and these many, many painful months of the hostages staying in hams captivity. >> so without anything

paused, but clearly the us and the other parties are trying to get them going against cia director bill burnsgoing back to europe to revive the talks. i'm told by a us official separately, a qatari official also tells me that there are prime minister is going to be meeting with burns. i know that right now. he's in paris. it's not exactly clear where these talks are taking place, but in the past, jake, the top officials from these main countries israel, egypt, qatar, and the us, have all met in paris, mainly the intelligence chiefs plus the qatari prime minister they're known as the quad. there's no real sense that we're on the cusp of anything immediately. but after the past three weeks where the military operation in rafah, the israeli operation has grown. it does appear that the us is really trying to revive these and these were talks that did appear to be close at hand before they fell apart three weeks you go you reported earlier this week that israel agreed to certain terms and a ceasefire deal. but then egyptian officials quietly changed the terms before presenting it to hamas. even as

it ended, but the cia director bill burns says there was some progress kresse made. mean, it's hard to even understand that notion now when we see this new video, but take us back to what what happened so in terms of these talks that were taking place in paris was cia director bill burns along with his counterparts from israel and also senior officials from carta. >> the egyptians usually involved as well. we understand that their usual point person, their head of intelligence was not there. and so what they're trying to do right? he has resuscitate these talks which would see a number of israeli hostages who were abducted on october the seventh and have been in captivity ever since, see a number of those hostages released in exchange for a truce. and a larger number of palestinian prisoners being freed from israeli jails. now you may recall earlier this month there were hopes that a deal was about to be done. indeed, hamas said it had accepted a deal that have been mediated by the categories and the egyptians, there were celebrations on the streets and parts of gaza

as you mention, we're hoping that the bill burns trip to israel where he met with the prime minister,f the war cabinet, and we are hearing that he has come back to cairo, perhaps this means there is some life in the latest round of talks, hamas, and israel negotiating indirectly with mediators from qatar and egypt, and bill burns, the cia director is also a seasoned diplomat, who served as an ambassador in this region a few decades ago is somebody who's been really capital hopping, trying to get this deal past the lineup because the u.s., as you were discussing with courtney, have employed several tactics now to try to put some pressure on the israeli government, including that suspension of offensive weaponry, the 2,500 pound bombs that israel has been using now for seven months in its offensive on gaza and the biden administration has been clear, they do not want a full scale ground offensive in that part of the gaza strip, where people are literally running out of places to go. they have run out of land, they're up against the border with egypt, and they're absolutely desperate to

final thought, bill burns, if anyone can do it, it's him.areer diplomat, ambassador to moscow, fluent arabic speaker and very smart. tothe degree anyone can pull this together, it will be ambassador burns. >> you have made that statement and he is really supportive of his effort and we will see if they are fruitful but there is suspicion that it will not happen now but maybe incrementally. let's talk about the developments this last week over the conflict in gaza. the chief prosecutor for the international criminal court said he was seeking arrest warrants for israeli and hamas leaders. three countries said they would recognize a palestinian state this week. then the international court of justice ordered israel to end its offensive in rafah. is all of this international pressure making any impact on israel's operations? >> i don't think so directly. let's take those in reverse order. the direction from the international court of justice has no practical effect. it is essentially a recommendation to the security council of the u.n. i think i

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in those close to the talks say director bill burns was so involved in.but they declined to send a team. one israeli official told axios this morning that was a mistake that led to israel to having less visibility on the final stages of the talks. the talks have begun again today in cairo. and the israelis have now sent a mid level delegation. hamas say the ball is in their court. hamas, a prescribed terrorist organisation by the uk and other organisations. translation: we emphasise that the ball is now _ in benjamin netanyahu's and the extremist pillars of his governments court. their behaviour after hamas's approval is an indication that he is insisting on obstructed the efforts of mediators, including the us administration, and also he does not care about the lives of his hostages, who face death everyday. without an agreement, the fighting continues. and things are escalating inside rafah. the americans say they have been assured this is a limited operation designed to cut hamas's ability to rearm. but the israeli's have cut off the main crossing poin

in your corner the situation room with wolf blitzer, week nine to six point in an cia director bill burns has left ceasefire talks in paris saying some progress was made, but no further talks are scheduled the end of the talks come as the world reacts to a ruling from the un's top court ordering israel to immediately halt its military offensive in rafah israeli officials are condemning the ruling, the white house so far has been silent on the ruling except to say that it's position on rafah has been clear and consistent cnn's elliott gucken is in tel aviv, force elliott good to see you so israel essentially is is not respecting that ruling so now what fredricka, the icj, the international court of justice, has rulings are legally binding. but as you say, it can't actually doesn't actually have the power to enforce those rulings. so it's unclear that there's going to be little, if any practical impact from a military perspective on israel's operations in rafah, israel saying it has to go so in there because that is the last readout. this is where the last few battalions of hamas are presen

enough for israel, but at the same time, it's quite difficult to imagine that the c i, a director bill burns, was spend some time now in the middle east, in colorado and, and in egypt, twin who is responsible for negotiating. the steel made a mistake or unclear communication with the is released. so i think everyone knows what it comes down to is the question. if is, what is it gives able and willing to accept in exchange for the hostages, a permanent ceasefire, whatever they may call it. and i think that's the target of the negotiators, and that's why and that's and you always hesitant to agree to it because if he can, if he agrees to a permanent ceasefire and he calls it a permanent sees via then he would not reach his goal to uh, to eliminate him us, and he would not satisfy his the coalition partners. and he would probably have to step down as a prime minister of israel sketchup on a few other stories making headlines around the world right now. authorities have detained to ukrainian security officials for allegedly plodding to assassinate president. lot of means the landscape keys, s b

as has the cia director bill burns and the egyptian head of intelligence, carmela boss. those are all of the key players and certainly they have been traveling to each other over the course of the last several months desperately trying to broker a deal which hundreds of thousands of people in gaza have been waiting for, for seven months now as they have faced this war, we have seen images of them celebrating in the streets tonight. although again, we do not yet have a final agreement between the parties. and then of course wolf of course, there are the families of the israeli hostages. we could see 20 to 33 israeli hostages released in a first phase of this agreement, if that framework that we were talking about last week still stands. so again, enormous promise here, for innocent people on both sides of this conflict up, but also a lack of certainty at this stage about whether or not this will actually lead to a final agreement? yeah, very significant developments indeed, israel, of course, would release palestinian prisoners being held in israel as part of this deal. >

also noting that ca director bill burns, is in the region working on this and well, the state department declined to characterize that. the response by composites as washington believes that a hostage to you is in the best interest of both. he is really and also the posting in people. both the state department late to the white house. once again stressed that a military operation profit would dramatically increase the suffering of the pl listing and people in would lead to an increase in loss of civilian not now israel's been carrying strikes in the guys and city of rafa, even though us the us and other countries had a warrant of a huge risk to palestinian civilians and i that any indication of what the americans feel about israel's insistence. on proceeding with the operation there is indeed frustration, but washington is now still waiting for an official is rarely a response to this new proposal. earlier today, president by judge department is done. it's on yahoo! against launching and offensive in the solvent, gaza city, a for alpha, and the spoke spurs of the national security counci

and you also edit that ca direct a bill burns is in the region working on this, but the state department declined to characterize to take it, position it towards this response that it got from us. but it's that, that it washington believes that a hostage deal isn't the best interest of both. these rainy and also the police 10 people state departments spokesperson stressed that a military operation, roughly right now with dramatically increase the suffering of the posting and people that would lead to increase in loss of a civilian life. and what the reports that we're getting. now it remains to be seen how the us it will react. well we got was in a statement also by the pentagon saying that defense secretary lloyd austin had a tow with a his is rarely counter pausing. israel needs a credible plan to evacuate civilians and maintain many terminate, and their washing has not seen details on that yet. now, president biden also spoke on the phone with benjamin netanyahu to do it today. what do we know about that conversation to this, right? it was a half an hour call, so 30 minutes, the wineh

it's happening below that bill burns level at what we call the working level or that experts who go over the finer points. so these talks are inching along but significant gaps still remain. anderson, i'm in general hurtling in any negotiations. it's odd one, sayyed said they've publicly make a statement saying they've accepted a ceasefire deal. what do you make of hamas saying that? >> well it was fascinating today. i that hamas announced or someone announced that they had accepted the deal that hadn't been coordinated on both sides is alex just said, but here's the important part. i think one of the things that we're overlooking as the element that affects combat and warfare that both tactical and the strategic level is time. since the start of this war, time has been on the side of hamas. it's a critical part of their strategy along with their tunnels and they've wrap themselves around the palestines so that anything that can help create more of a humanitarian crisis our gives israel a bad image is something that they want to do. it isn't just their approach. it's their strategic obje

bill burns has been making the rounds, going to qatar and spent time in cairo and we understand he'sme minister netanyahu. we were close, we believed, to a cease-fire agreement one hamas announced they had agreed and signed onto the proposal. then, shortly afterward, the israeli war cabinet and government said hang on, this proposal was softened without our knowledge. as a result, we are not accepting this proposal that hamas has agreed to abide by. this is where we are right now. we understand that some of the sticking points are that the first set of released hostages could include deceased hostages. that is something israel would not accept. the bigger picture is what thomas wants is complete withdrawal of israeli forces meaning and end to the war. we know the israeli government and the prime minister has said that is not on the cards. there are many sticking points, but we will see if bill burns can pull it off. >> i saw some of the reporting about the status, an enormous difference between hostages alive and those who have tragically passed. there are two things i am confused by

so, there are still many sticking points, but we will see if bill burns can pull it off. >> so, i saweporting also, about the hostages-- an enormous difference to those who are alive versus those who have tragically passed-- there are two things i've been confused by. one of the things is the line from netanyahu, and sometimes " senior administration officials" obviously that is the whole point of contention, if you are saying we will go to rafah either way there's no possibility of a deal, that seems to be happening now. >> reporter: right. and that is why, in terms of road leaders, palestinians, they are saying hang on, we thought we had the framework for a deal, but then we hear from benjamin netanyahu, that regardless we are going into rafah, which would kill any deal. as you mentioned it's something that-- didn't make sense on the face of it. but, it led to accusations perhaps the prime minister was trying to find a way to sabotage the deal. this is the accusation from arab capitals, hamas, and that's weird, that's the explanation that is coming from this part of the world, where

you had bill burns in the region trying to break this impasse that has happened over the past couple of days and you notice that this morning, the president and netanyahu had a 30 minute phone call and the hesitation from anyone in the u.s. government to comment on the statement when it first came out as a very good indication that the u.s. believed nothing was imminent. we will find out more hoarsely shortly. >> gillian: this is julia. have you heard anything since thursday, friday when we first learned that the biden administration was considering ringing palestinians, potentially thousands of them from gaza to the united states as refugees. any updates or more information you are gleaning from your sources? >> nothing yet but we know that any deal to bring palestinians to the u.s. would be complicated because it would require cooperation from egypt. egypt has not until now been eager to take in any refugees and it would also require that the u.s. deem those palestinian refugees are fleeing persecution which would put the u.s. in a very difficult spot because we would have to say a

cia director bill burns to has been a key figure in the talks, was in doha today for meeting with the qatari prime minister also today, israel order the closure of the al jazeera news network inside the country. video shows the authorities removing equipment from its bureau in jerusalem, and it comes just days after the world marked press freedom de, in delete seven months into the war in gaza. it is already one of the deadliest conflicts ever. for journalists, cnn's not a bashir, has a look at reporting on the horror of war in gaza another one what should be a moment of reflection reduced to a hurried memory recorded on an iphone make any large, he then shut a young girl. now, an often pays her last respects a drop in a sea of tragedy marking its witnesses and victims alike. >> but this is the story of the person behind the camera one of many risking their lives for the truth lucky. >> once he now, always remember was in al shifa hospital in november last year. it was during a siege get applied a za'anoun has been documenting the assault on gaza since the war began sending material t

today, cia director bill burns met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to discuss the latestf cease-fire talks as the israeli defense forces continue its operation in eastern rafah. the idf released a statement saying it started to dismantle terrorist infrastructure and underground shafts and we now learned the white house intervened to stop a planned weapons shipment to israel out of concern it would be used in rafah, according to a senior administration official. joining us now from tel aviv is nbc's raf sanchez. you have reaction from israel about this paused weapons transfer? >> reporter: that's right, jose. publicly the israeli government has been playing down any tensions with the u.s. over this decision by the biden administration to at least put on pause the shipment of a number of heavy weapons including some 2,000 pound bombs. an israeli official tells me behind the scenes the israeli government is deeply frustrated by this decision. they feel that any daylight between the u.s. and israel only strengthens hamas' hands at the negotiating table. they believe that hama

there were reports initially that bill burns would then go on to israel today for meetings with prime minister netanyahu that changed late last night. so at the moment egypt has received her master's response safe passed it to the israelis hamas delegation has gone to qatar. the cia chief has gone to cater for seem to be a nature of torques directly between the cia and the qatari officials in qatar where that leads gives a possible trip by the cia director to israel is unclear where that leaves the overall torques is unclear that did seem to be relatively close late saturday, but there seems to be a gap. and if what we're seeing an raffa is the precursor to big military operation it would seem that the talks at this stage of stalled, but we don't know that for sure all right. >> thanks to nic robertson joining us live from london with that report. appreciate it. >> american universities held graduation ceremonies this weekend and made more arrests of pro-palestinian protesters. the university of southern california has reopened. its main campus to students and faculty members after we

but what we're hearing at this point is that bill burns, the cia director, was in cairo on friday. now, the egyptian officials have been key mediators in trying to secure this ceasefire along with the qataris. and we know that hamas was in cairo so on saturday now we heard from the hamas leader saying that they were coming with a positive spirit, saying that they are determined to finalize the agreement now, the onus is on hamas at this point, according to the israelis and the americans, they say that there is a proposal on the table. the us qatari of state, antony blinken has called it extremely generous on the behalf of israel. so at this point, we are waiting for some kind of response from hamas believing that that could come at any time. this we understand would be an agreement on the format, the free teamwork of a deal which would come in stages. now, we understand the latest proposal to be a about 33 hostages. we cannot give an exact number because that is unknown at this point that those hostages would be women. it would be the elderly, the sick, the wounded, and that would

cia director bill burns, also in the region, assisting with negotiations. the idf says it conducted a, quote, very limited counterterrorism operation in eastern rafah that is the southernmost city in the gaza strip. after dropping leaflets in that region asking roughly 100,000 palestinian civilians to leave the area. however, israel says this is not the start of the large scale ground offensive that prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been threatening for months. like here at stanford, the war in gaza is front and center at the san francisco state university campus. that's where university president lynn mahoney yesterday held direct, very public discussions with pro-palestinian students, some of whom set up that encampment a week ago. they are demanding the school disclose investments with companies doing business with israel and then divest last night, students at the encampment were feeling that their voices are being heard. i think, honestly, we're feeling pretty good. we're feeling pretty energized about what happened. i think it's just great that we

warrants for bothand hamas leaders, all of this as israeli officials tell cbs news that director bill burns and the prime minister of qatar today in paris, the goal here is to revive those negotiations for a truce and to secure the release of the remaining hostages. >> certainly, good luck to him, but it seems like an uphill battle bill burns has. thank you so much, megan fitzgerald. >>> you figure it will happen sooner or later, but it was still a surprise when it was announced this week. unced this. , the joy of movement. i don't know how long it's been there. long enough to produce eggs, it seems. it would appear that it has begun moving towards us! visionworks. see the difference. these days everyone is staring at screens, scanning the news, and watching their spending. good vision is more important than ever, but so especially now is saving. that's why america's best includes a free eye exam when you buy two pairs of glasses for just $79.95, that's a savings of at least sixty nine bucks. two pairs for $79.95. includes a free exam. that's not just a better deal, it's america's best. boo

cia director bill burns heading to paris, he's due to meet with the head of the mossad spy agency withy negotiators in these long-running cease fire talks. ana, we have seen this movie before where the cia director heads to a capital in europe, in the middle east, trying to breathe new life into these talks, but they have been stalled since late november, and there isn't a lot of optimism right now, ana. >> still, don't give up. don't give up i think is the message they're sending. raf sanchez, thank you. >>> college students across america are wrapping up their academic year, but on campus, unrest over the israel hamas war is far from over. hundreds of harvard students walked out of their commencement ceremony yesterday chanting free palestine, and at ucla, protesters clashed with police briefly occupying an academic haul after another makeshift encampment was broken up. all this as their chancellor was across the country getting grilled by congress about his administration's response to the violence that broke out on his campus weeks ago. >>> today we're also keeping a close eye on t

>> reporter: yeah, once again, jose, cia director bill burns heading to paris, he's due to meet with the head of the mossad spy agency and the prime minister of qatar and he's trying to jump start these cease-fire talks which have been so badly stalled for so long, you'll remember, jose, the last time there was a cease-fire, the last time hostages were released was the end of november, last year. it is now 231 days since october 7th. 231 days of those hostages being in captivity, 231 days of this intense, intense fighting, causing such misery inside gaza. and i have to tell you, jose, there is not a whole lot of optimism that the cia director or anyone else is going to be able to get these cease-fire talks back over the line again. jose? >> raf sanchez in tel aviv, thank you so much. >>> back here at home, we are also following the latest developments in the race for the white house. for the first time in years, former president donald trump held a rally in new york. the event in south bronx was framed as an effort to reach out to black and latino voters. >> african americans are get

official telling nbc news progress was made saturday as cia director bill burns met in paris with israeli and qatari officials to revive negotiation. but the pressure on prime minister benjamin netanyahu intensified as weekly protests across tel aviv continued, residents demanding a ceasefire to bring the hostages home. hallie, israel's defense minister saying today that efforts to return the hostages are ongoing. meanwhile, israel's war cabinet meeting tonight to discuss next steps needed to reach a deal. hallie? >> meagan fitzgerald, thank you. >>> tough crowd for former president trump, booed at the libertarian convention as he tried to peel off at least some support, all ahead of what could be a pivotal week for his campaign with closing arguments in his historic criminal trial less than 48 hours away. here is julie circuit. >> reporter: it's a long holiday weekend of campaigning for former president donald trump. and today he's hitting the gas pedal, courting vorpts and speed racers at the coca-cola 600. >> you going win north carolina? >> i do believe so. >> reporter: a big nascar c

bill burns is an artist. if anybody can do it, burns can. but at this point, i think the likelihood that these combatants, as exhausted as they are and as battered as the palestinian civilian population of gaza is, even so, i have a terrible feeling that this war is going to go on further. the combatants are not exhausted. one thing the united states could do is to say, "we feel it is time for this war to end. if israel decides it needs to attack rafa, it will do so without u.s. weapons. because we're not comfortable with this next phase of the war." i think the administration is right up at that point. talking with the white house, i know that's on their list. that's a big step, to say, "israel, you'll fight the next battle alone." i don't think they're there yet. the point i'll make, efforts to find a compromise where everybody says they got something acceptable are fading. each side still wants a win. >> yeah. and the one thing that israelis will not allow to happen, and this isn't just netanyahu. this is the israeli people. that is, for

he keeps sending his cia director, bill burns, back. i think from what i hear, bill burns is really acting as the guarantor of this deal, saying to all sides, the united states undertakes to guarantee the basics, the framework that is being negotiated here. the most difficult language, obviously, is about how long this period of cease-fire lasts. is it a permanent end to the war as hamas wants? is it a lull of some weeks, months, as israel has been willing to concede? the phrase they've come up with, sustainable calm, is an attempt to satisfy both sides. it is classic diplomatic language. it allows both to claim victory in a sense. hamas can say, we got a permanent truce. israel says, no, no, it is sustainable calm, that's different. my feeling, joe and mika, is that the one thing that we need to bear in mind is after everything that's happened, israel is not going to settle for a hamas win. anything that really looks like they've capitulated to hamas demands isn't going to fly. they want the hostages back. it's a demand of the israeli

but we know that bill burns was the cia chief. you reflect on this idea that israel did not see this coming? jeremy: well, i think that israel -- this is guesswork of course, but based on the kinds of things that have been said, i think israel's assumption was that the head of hamas in gaza was not interested in doing any kind of a deal, that he wanted to continue with this. and in a sense, that made life a lot simpler for netanyahu who has been under a lot of pressure from his own right to do this operation in gaza. don't forget, these are the right-wings who sustain his government. without them, is government falls, and for him that is a very, very big deal, clearly. the phrase i keep hearing from people, people i speak to, other reports as well, is that now the ball is very much in netanyahu's court. that the bluff has been called. you can take it one stage further and say the ball is also in joe biden's court. because joe biden is the man now who, if the americans have decided that this deal is the deal that israel had agreed

so ca, director of bill burns is uh i to back into hard traveling back to do. i don't know if his plan has touched down. what do we know about that? he's talking back to doha. and this is quite significant because we were expecting the announcement to be made over the brakes to inquire if there was a going to be a breakthrough in the tools that didn't happen. that didn't happen so far. and then he's here. we do understand that this is going to be a moment where he's going to have a friend conversation with the categories about what's next. what i need to do about not this is sandra trying to work out a deal. it could be about the future of the tv itself and katasha involvement as a key mediator. and this conversation is going to be extremely important because todd has made it clear from the beginning of this uh uh, from when they were off to the possible the mid day of the agreement that they have to be a genuine palace broke up. they have to look into, they are supposed to be to look into the demands of both bosses. they'll try to narrow the differences. over

i'm guessing tomorrow they'll say see either to bill burns who was involved in this hostage negotiation deal, he's hamas to everyone's hamas and ask for deception i mean, come on the colonel was a spokesperson for the idf, which has spent the last six months. leyen, abby, your network has debunked the belies that the israeli military has told cnn is jeremie diamonds. i urge all your view is to go and watch your colleague, jeremy diamonds report on ten kids killed in the alma ghazi refugee camp last month. these really said we have nothing to do with it. and yet jeremie interviewing three munitions experts who looked at the evidence said, yeah, israel killed those ten kids. so when we talk about deception we're learning from the masters here. >> lieutenant colonel, the hostage families are urging the government at this 0.2 come forward and release the hostages as part of some kind of deal one of the things that the families have sad is that they feel like they are being abandoned how do you respond to that given that there are opportunities, it seems to take a deal that would stop the fi

cia bill burns is in cairo representing the us in the talks.cials from egypt, cotton and hamas are also taking part. us secretary of state says, what happens next is up to hamas. curious we wait to see whether an effect they can take yes for an answer on the ceasefire and release of hostages and the reality in this moment is the only thing standing between the people of gaza and a ceasefire is a mass small hancocks joins us now with the latest on the negotiation. >> so paul up, bring us up to speed. where do things stand right now? >> well, kim, at this point, we are waiting to hear from hamas itself and official response to this egyptian lead proposal, which was given to her mask well over a week ago now there had been expectations, certainly from the israeli sayyed and the american side answer would come last week at some point, but it hasn't been the case at this point. we know hamas is in cairo. they did arrive on saturday and we also heard from the hamas political leader ismail haniyeh he had spoken to egyptian and qatari mediators and in

a source tells cnn that cia director bill burns is also in cairo joining a gibson mediators and egyptian official told cnn, there was noticeable progress in discussions and israeli source says the latest proposal calls for hamas to release as many as 33 hostages kidnapped from israel in exchange for a temporary ceasefire. us officials believed the proposal has the best chance at ending the violence in gaza democratic rep. henry cuellar of texas and his wife have been charged with accepting nearly he $600,000 in bribes. >> the federal indictment accuses a couple of a years-long scheme to get bribes in exchange for pushing legislation to benefit to foreign entities the indictment says they used bribery money to pay down debt to dine at restaurants, and to buy accustomed $12,000 dress. the cuellar is maintained their innocence if convicted, the couple of faces up to 20 years in prison on the most serious charges, violent crime continued its downward trend through the first quarter of the year. specifically, there were fewer reported incidents of homicide rape, robbery aggravated assault fro