former state deroartment— said. -- islamichhad. former state department official, _ said. -- islamichhad. ad. former state department official, thank you - said. -- islamichhad. former state department official, thank you for l department official, thank you for joining us, david. let's bring you some breaking news. from the uk foreign office. which is now advising against all travel to lebanon. it says there is you can see on the tweet from the travel advisory. it's as if you are currently in lebanon we encourage you to leave now while commercial options remain available of course that comes as there has been increased activity at the israeli lebanon border in recent days. the developing news there. the uk foreign office is advising against all travel to lebanon. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. the inquest into the death of manchester arena bomber salman abedi has returned a conclusion of suicide. the record of inquest was published today by the judge—coroner who chaired the manchester arena inquiry. the formal conclusion

official, i would former state department official, iwould imagine former state departmentthey would have had notifications as well as— would have had notifications as well as close intelligence sharing as well as our military as well— sharing as well as our military as well political leaders. this is an— as well political leaders. this is an israeli decision, i know i is an israeli decision, i know ijusl— is an israeli decision, i know iiusl said _ is an israeli decision, i know ijust said that, the biden administration has been very clear— administration has been very clear that they do not advise. you _ clear that they do not advise. you are — clear that they do not advise. you are knotting along there. i think he's got it exactly right. certainly the negotiations that have been led ljy negotiations that have been led by ambassador david satterfield with the israelis, with the egyptians and with hamas to find a way of getting aid into civilians and, of course, we cannot, as americans, forget the hundreds of american citizens that are trapped in gaza. this is something th

one former state department staffer says that he believes the u.s. needs to take more responsibility for the civilian casualties. josh paul worked within the bureau within the state department that's responsible for arms sales. reresigned over america's response to the october 7th attacks. josh, thank you for being here tonight. i was reading your resignation letter. in it, you accuse the u.s. of basically having a blind spot and blind support for israel, of supporting the occupation and rushing into short sided, destructive, and unjust policies. that's what you say in your letter. can you just walk me through what led to this decision for you to resign? >> yes, i've worked in the bureau of political and military affairs for over 30 years, responsible for arms transfers to partners around the world. i have never seen a circumstance before where there is a clear risk of civilian casualties resulting from u.s. arms transfers. we are seeing that manifesting on the ground with thousands of palestinian civilian casualties, and yet no questions asked, not e

i am joined now by former state department negotiator for the middle east aaron david miller. you have a breadth of knowledge about this region and about this particular incursion and war that we're seeing. what is your take on what benjamin netanyahu called the second stage or phase of the war? >> you know, i think the prime minister, who he likes to cast terms in dramatic and historical style, basically has elevated this conflict against hamas to an existential level. he talked quoting hamlet, that a state has two choices. to be or not to be. and by equating this operation with -- as a second israeli struggle for independence, he is clearly identified an extremely difficult objective, which is the destruction of hamas' military capacity and its sovereignty in gaza. the problem that the israelis face, i think, and you're there, you see it, is whether or not they have the means at their disposal to actually accomplish that task and to prevent hamas' resurgence by engaging any number of actors that -- in which they are going to become dependent. palestinian authority. the u.n.

. >> david from the -- a former state department official.ning us now from the washington institute. let's bring breaking news. it has come to us from the u.k. foreign office which is now advising against all travel to lebanon. it says that you can see on the tweet from the travel advisory, "if you are currently in lebanon, we encourage you to leave right now while flights remain open." this comes after increasing activity near the lebanon border. the u.k. is advising against all travel again -- into lebanon. around the world and across the u.k., this is bbc news. let's take a look at other stories making the news. the inquest into the death of manchester arena bomber has turned to suicide. it was published today by the judge corner who shared the manchester arena inquiry. the request was potentially suicide while undertaking a terrorist attack that killed 22 people and injured many others. good prices have seen their first monthly fall in two years but fuel prices have risen. note, cheese, and egg prices all fell -- milk, cheese, and egg pri

joining me now is former state department senior adviser about this. footage from inside the train. the problem is it is unlikely the iranian government will release that footage to show what went o. but you look at the international community and how they view this, right? one year after the death of masa mahsa amini. will the community view this as something that is repeatedly happening against women inside the country of iran? >> the international community just awarded a nobel prize to an iranian woman who is fighting for things like being able to go outside with your hair uncovered. pretty simple freedom we enjoy here in the united states and elsewhere in most of the world, but is against the law in iran. the united states has sanctioned the morality police after last year's killing of mahsa amini and we're waiting to hear what the united states is going to do in this instance. we don't have many more tools left in the toolbox. the united states has sanctioned iran since 1979, multiple sectors, right? we have the energy sector because of the nucle

former state department official steve ganyard says this conflict is unlike any other israel has faced. certainly complacency was part of this huge intelligence failure. >> but there's also deeper systemic failures that the israelis will have to figure out . the 73 war was the only other war where they had this sort of failure. but the 73 war was very different. it was nation states. so israel, egypt, and it was force on force. this is hamas and hamas working in small groups using personal encrypted communications infill training israel. so very different kind of failure, but a failure that is inexcusable nonetheless. remember that gaza, it's a 25 mile strip, a couple of miles wide. it is right on the israeli border. and so this is really israel's backyard. the us focuses more on strategic intelligence, both intelligence agencies are going to have to figure out why they didn't pick up on this attack. i think what's also amazing is the operation security that would have been required here. there were probably thousands of hamas fighters that were involved in the preparation and the prac

. >> joining me now, aaron david miller, former state department middle east negotiator and senior fellow with the endowment. always good to see you, sir. what is your read into the release of the two u.s. ha hostages? would hamas have released them without a deal? >> first of all, thanks for having me. we're in a long, dark tunnel. this is the first light. i'm keeping my expectations pretty low. i think the motivation for the release had to do with pressure on one hand and propaganda on the other. there's a statement from cutter which talks about -- seemed very upbeat -- i want negotiations to try to free the hostages, and to use their words, deescalate tensions. the external leadership has been funding hamas to the tune of anywhere from 3 to $10 million a month, subsidizing in gaza object assumption that hamas was primarily interested in governing and stabilizing the situation in gaza. that's what we're preparing for, but it's certainly not what we saw on october 7th. but it's also propaganda. i mean, it's cruel manipulation dribbling out the hostages, and as you'll know, they released

states. jeremy diamond, thank you so much for that. i am going to go to david who is a former obama campaign adviser and former state department officials well. so, thank you, sir, for joining us at this really tense time in israel, and in gaza. and frankly in the west bank as well with the leadership there. and sir, can you give us a sense of how the diplomacy can work, and whether it is already working to some degree, because for the entire past eight days, nothing has come in and out of the rafah border, the border of gaza and egypt, and now we have learned and seen evidence, video of it, of five different trucks coming in with fuel into gaza from that rafah border that has been effectively closed to people trying to get out. is that part of the diplomacy that is happening here? >> i would expect it is. you know, blinken is doing the shuttle diplomacy here, and going between israel and the gulf states. he is trying to get the gulf states to press hamas to release some of the hostages, and press them to open up the rafah gate and that is super important to move the supplies into gaza and to create a safety valve forsome palestinians

. >> former state department middle east negotiator aaron david miller.hant to start with questions and expansion of this war. israel is now expanding evacuation orders near the lebanese border. they said hezbollah has killed civilians and soldiers. "new york times" reports that the biden administration is urging israel not to launch a large-scale attack against hezbollah. do you think that lasts? that restraint? >> you know, it really depends, i think, with an israel and hezbollah calculation. hezbollah, i think, will feel increasing pressure to involve itself in this if israelis move into gaza with an intent to destroy hamas. they can't let the axis resistance only be comprised of shia members. they need that sunni component. hamas is important to them. i think hezbollah understands that if they get involved in a major conflict with israel, which could involve the united states, we have almost 200 aircraft on those carrier strike groups in eastern med, are likely to suffer a significant defeat and loss of much of their high-trajectory arsenal. i think t

josh paul was a former state department official who resigned over the us response to the war.his reasons for quitting. he walked through his rationale with my colleague caitriona perry earlier. you say in your letter that the biden administration's approach has been an impulsive reaction built on confirmation bias, political convenience, intellectual ba nkru ptcy and bureaucratic inertia. can you explain what you mean by that? surely. so, impulsive — i think everyone was shaken and shocked by the horrific attacks of hamas on october 7 — and let's not make any bones about it, those were absolutely an outrage and should be condemned forthright — but there was an impulse there to say, ok, this something horrible has happened. what is israel asking for? let's do everything we can. i say that there was bureaucratic inertia because, again, this has been the trend for many years, that when israel asks for something, we give it. and rather than pausing to think about what we're doing, that's how we move forward. confirmation bias in the sense that we see an attack, it confirms our bia

with us today is david few farly, former -- defarly, and frank he rose, ohio secretary of state. dave, i want to start with you. and as a former state departments has been messaging abroad. and this is support for israel. there is an assurance that we're trying to work, in the united states, many getting those hostages back but also trying to limit the civilian impact, try to limit how much this war could possibly spread. how does the u.s. thread this needle, and how do we make sure that we can fulfill all those goals if at all possible? >> well, it's a tough job with. we sent e over secretary blinken. he was the right envoy to go to israel. he met with netanyahu, gave him a big hug, and he shows for everyone around the world hat the u.s. supports israel. and he emphasized that this his public discussions. but privately, he's also urging israel to be proportional this their response. they obviously have to go after hamas and bring all of the hamas militants to justice, but they have to be careful about injuring civilians because we don't want the rest of the world to turn on israel. that's what he did next. he went to other arab countries, par

ambassador to israel, edward deregian, former state department negotiator aaron david miller, and cnn global affairs analyst susan glasser. susan, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, says his nation is now at war. this is truly a remarkable moment. give us your sense. >> wolf, the scope and scale of this attack against civilians is absolutely breathtaking. of course people have been seeing these horrifying images all day. there will be more. the fighting appears to be ongoing. and it will have enormous repercussions not only i think in israel where there are already many questions about the surprise attack, what kind of intelligence and military failure led to it. you know, there were hours it appears before there was a response in some areas that came under attack. there are also repercussions in washington, not only this peace deal that the united states had been trying to broker between saudi arabia and israel, the question of whether there would be renewed regional conflict, the question of what role if any iran might have played in stoking or sponsoring this kind of a

aaron david miller, you're there in washington, former state department middle east negotiator. what was your reaction? >> i thought the prime minister framed this in very, very dire terms. two references to the second war of independence, another reference to winning the freedom, presumably from a possibility of other attacks by hamas. i thought the statement that carried interest for me, he talked about the fact that the only clock was the operational clock. and that while we were listen to, quote, our friend, unquote, we will do what is right for and by us. and i think that was an effort to sort of navigate between the advice that the administration is providing and israeli goals and objectives. the only clock is the operational clock means basically that israelis won't be rushed and this is going to be a war of phases, with no single necessarily winning phase, but a collection of phases. he reaffirmed it again, to destroy hamas' capacity to govern and its military capabilities. >> good point. they all basically said the same thing, this is going to be a long war. je jeremy d

. >> former state department spokesperson morgan ortagus joins us now.hat statement we heard a few moments ago, at least those of us in the studio felt like while it shouldn't have been surprising, yesterday i was beginning to wonder how many among the dead are americans, and that's an open question among the dead. it does sort of -- even though unsurprising, changes the equation, doesn't it, especially with the biden administration. >> well, we know that terrorists attacked our best friend, most loyal partner in the middle east. we also know this is a rough estimate but about 200,000 israelis -- or americans that could be dual citizens or americans living in israel so like you said it should not be a surprise, even on 9/11 when thousands of americans were killed, there were plenty of people of other national at thises that were in the mix as well. so we should have seen an attack on our strongest ally in the middle east as an attack on us. because this is what the perpetrators, the founders, the aiders of hamas, whichs is the islamic republic of iran, t

power panel cassie now former rnc deputy communications director, marie harf, former state departmenta. cassie, what is your reaction? >> what a slogan. but that's what i keep saying. who do you believe me or your lying eyes? he has done a great job for us. voters don't think he can do a great job for us, they don't believe his policies are working for them. i think that age issue is actually voters scapegoat to get him off the ballot. in the intro , time is wasting. the logistics of that is not possible anymore. >> harris: marie, let's talk about the reality of that. even if democrats wanted somebody else you have to get names on a ballot. those deadlines are fast approaching. >> that's right. some are coming up in a few weeks. i do think there are a lot of democrats that would prefer someone else on the ballot. >> harris: why do you think it is? >> a lot of democrats are people that never thought joe biden could win four years ago. i think they have always been skeptical of biden. reality is joe biden delivered so much on behalf of the american people. rebuilt this economy, gotten l

. >>> i'm joined by aaron david miller, a former state department senior middle east negotiator. thanks so much for joining us. were you as surprised as i was earlier this morning when i heard that war had actually broken out between hamas and gaza and israel? >> you know, at 4:00 a.m. this morning, i got a call from cnn, wolf, and yes, i was surprised. it reminded me of 50 years ago, this week. being in jerusalem. yesterday, a years ago. basically, witnesses the sort of shock and trauma, and much larger, broader scale. but this is a trauma by any standard. it is a trauma because of the clear massive intelligence alert. it is a trauma because israeli communities, proximate to gaza, obviously were not adequately protected. there was insufficient israeli presence there. and this is going to have a chilling impact it seems to me on any prospects for what the biden administration would like to see in terms of israeli/saudi normalization, because any leverage that the administration thought it had over benjamin netanyahu to make concessions on the palestinians has been reduced to an o

christian wyden former state department official.des european further doesn't that pose a real danger to ukraine? >> it is ukraine's position has been deteriorating across eastern europe and antagonizing poland largely through the grain exports flooding to poland because they cannot get out elsewhere. that is losing the support of an important neighboring country victor or bond that runs hungry declined to send in mission military aid to ukraine although he said is condemned russia's invasion. now slovakia joining that creed is the changing picture in eastern europe for ukraine. stuart: what kind of a threat as opposed to ukraine. could they lose whatever losing means? >> they already sense are lo losing. there was this much counter offensive and that it was pushed to summer. we were told by our military and much of the media that this was going to be the breakthrough that ukraine was going to push through and cut off the russian beachhead that has been formed in eastern ukraine that did not happen and going into winter it is very di

aaron david miller, a seasoned former state department official -- went on record in 2005 saying the tates did not act n impartial mediator, quote, for far too long many american officials involved in arab israeli peacemaking, myself included, have acted as israel's attorney, catering and coordinating with the israelis, at the expense of successful peace negotiations, and quote. recently, mueller looked to the future, and outlined the potential solutions involving multiple stake hope, not limited to the united states, his approach includes the united nations overseeing transnational lectures for palestinian leadership, a process that has been a neglected for over a decade -- solidify their power. additionally, he suspected that saudi arabia should offer significant financial support for reconstruction efforts, while also urging the european union to take on a more active role in advocating for palestinians. this is deeply complex. i want to welcome hush rowley to the show, she's a former official spokesperson for the palestinian delegation to the mid east peace process. she was the fi

the american publicist and also a former state department employee, william bloom, once undertook toook about the cost of the us desire for world domination. if we try to express this desire for dominance in numbers, it should be recalled that since the end of world war ii, the united states has attempted to overthrow foreign governments more than...fifty times, most of which were elected democratically. they grossly interfered with democratic elections in at least thirty countries. they committed more than fifty assassination attempts on the leaders of foreign states, bombed the population of more than thirty countries, tried to suppress popular or popular liberation movements in twenty countries, while the united states took the lives of several million people and doomed many millions more to a life of torment and despair. disgraceful flight from afghanistan, it seems, even at the official level, what are the rules in general, if i may? our western colleagues, especially from the usa, not only establish such arbitrary rules, but at the same time teach who should fulfill them and ho

joining me right now a former state department official during the obama administration and the formerirector of communications and spokesperson for the u.s. mission to the u.n. under president obama. joel, how complicated is it to get these americans and other foreign nationals of gaza through this crossing? >> it is incredibly complicated because they're couple steps that are involved. first and foremost the individuals have to come through and show papers that prove that they are who they are and then -- i feel. meanwhile we have in the best background is as pressure cooker keeping the gates open as allison mentioned. to me the thing that was not open for today and there's a lot around this because egypt, they control the bell and we have seen secretary blinken go to cairo and feeling pressure to try to get egyptians to comply with us on allowing these individuals to get out. then operationally once there through of course, there is an orderly transition but i think the fanaticism of what will take place can be quite daunting and fortunately of course may not be the right way to des

. >>> we want to bring in former state department senior adviser najera hawk.ley's conversation with that member of parliament because, as he was saying, hezbollah is very much a part of lebanon, and they have such influence and impact in syria. this is a group that is different from -- in many ways from what we're seeing in gaza. they are much more powerful. what do you make of those comments? >> here is what they have in common. hezbollah and hamas both backed by iran, and iran never really getting into that direct warfare itself. it spreads its tentacles through organizations like hamas and hezbollah along lines of common issues such as chanting "death to israel." they're relying around what they consider a common en meechlt that's constantly going to be a challenge for israel as it notes its way through the war and the middle east is that it is working with and surrounded by entities that simply do not want it to exist. hezbollah has been around for much longer, but they don't really control a state in any meaningful way because lebanon has been in civil wa

former state department adviser on iran joins me now.ett stevens says israel must destroy hamas and that's in the new york sometimes of all places, what do you make after that? >> well, when you have a group that kills 700 civilians in one day, the israeli leadership can't accept their continued existence and the existence of political leadership and there's a consensus in israel that they have to effectively decapitate hamas leadership. the hard question is what comes after that. who's going to replace leadership in gaza and will israel go back into that region? your viewers may remember, israel left in 2005. they said we just don't don't want to be part of this and governing this area anymore. there are a lot of people who are now saying that was a historic mistake. >> do you think that the administration, the biden administration will fully support israel and give israel what they need to do the job? >> we've seen a troubling pattern in the last couple of years where they say that on day one apheter resistance attack israel, and then

ambassador at large and former state department counterterrorism, nathan sayles.bviously you don't know the negotiations that took place that allowed the two hostages to be released. what do you suspect was happening. who, for example, was there? were third parties involved in these negotiations, et cetera? >> well, david, it's really hard to say, we know that for the united states, nothing is more important than ensuring that any hostages taken by any terrorist group anywhere are brought home safely. now, in order to bring that about, you have to have very quiet and very candid conversations behind the scenes. when it comes to hamas and gaza, the united states has been working with the qataris in order to keep a channel open. there's a lot of criticism of qatar light lately and that's understandable for hamas living at the four seasons and life of luxury in doha at the same time they're orchestrating massacring hundreds of thousands of jews in israel, nevertheless, that diplomatic channel is producing, it seems, some good outcomes for american families. we need i

joining me now, senior fellow at the -- for international peace and former state department middle easttor, aaron david miller. erin, thank you very much for being with us this morning. how critical of a military objective is it for israel to dismantle hamas's ability to use that elaborate underground tunnel system? >> i think it's critical, because it's likely where hamas leaders are hiding. and, you know, i guess no one needs to be reminded of the densely populated nature of gaza city, 20,000 humans per mile. so the israelis have a big challenge, there are instruments that can be used to get to the tunnels. bunker buster toms, small diameter, bombs the u.s. is providing conversion kits to allow bombs to be converted to smoke bombs to deal with the infrastructure. -- the random kilometers or miles of tunneling. originally constructed to smuggle things in from egypt. i think this is the big challenge the idf faces, and it does not help matters in the fact that you've got civilians and communities apartment buildings colocated with these tunnel structures. so this is not a matter of days

assessment there of asher calgary highlanders, former senior adviser to the assistant secretary of the bureau of near eastern affairs at the us state departments to you both, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. we wa nt we want to take you now to take a look of course of the skyline of gaza city, just to let you know it is 3:18 am and there you have it on your screen amid the darkness, you see the flare of orange. we've been seeing that today as we continue to monitor the situation there amid warnings for people to get out of the north ahead of a potential ground invasion there but just some activity there in the skies tonight in the early hours of the morning. we can now go over to laura blummenfelt. —— live now to laura blumenfeld, middle east analyst and seniorfellow at johns hopkins school for advanced international studies. she previously served as a senior policy advisor on the state department's israeli—palestinian negotiating team. great to have you with us, laura. that report we've been hearing, multiple reports, today laying their house saturday's attack by hamas came around and because how it was so unexpected as well. are

joining us former state department spokesperson, morgan ortagus, and army veteran, former n.f.l. player and host of jake bequette podcast, jake bequette. house foreign affairs committee set to receive a classified briefing on iran in just hours, as iran-backed militia groups are planning attack in the middle east stocking fears we'll be dragged into an armed conflict. scary thought. we have seen drone attacks in iraq and syria and fox news has been told there is threat of escalation on u.s. forces and personnel and secretary of state blinken said further action will be met with decisive action. >> if iran or its proxies attack u.s. personnel anywhere, make no mistake, we will defend our people, defend our security swiftly and decisively. to all members of this council, if you, like the united states want to prevent conflict from spreading tell iran, tell its proxies, in public, in private, through every means, do not open another front on this conflict, do not attack israel's partners. we urge members to go a step further. make clear if iran or proxies widen this conflict and put

with us now, former state department official christian white. thanks for joining us. first, can i get your reaction to this growing presence of this jewish group at the capitol right now? there's arrests being made. we just saw one. what is your response to what you're seeing happen there in washington? >> well, be it's disappointing seeing all of these pro hamas protesters, whether it's on campuses or now in the capitol. they come in all flavors. some are dumb students and others are jews that don't have the moral clarity to see that jews in israel are fighting pure evil in the form of hamas. hamas is the worst of the worst of al-quaida, isis, be heading children, killing people, taking kidnappers. we have our own countrymen held hostage by hamas. those people whether they're in favor of hamas or useful idiots doing their bidding turning out in large numbers. >> sandra: all we know about this, it's a jewish group at the capitol calling for a cease fire. we have seen outside the new york university in midtown the cuny school where there's a protest happening outside w

joining me, richard haas, a former deputy national security advisor, former state department officialwell. longtime diplomat. richard, this is a really thankless situation for the u.s. you heard secretary blinken standing emotionally, strongly endorsing israel's posture here and saying that they also endorse the mission to remove hamas, to finally just do it once and for all. the question that comes to mind is, how do you do that? how do you do that with the tunnels, with the hostages? how do you go in on the ground, which they are clearly planning to do? what happens the day after, as tom freedman has been writing and many of our colleagues have been saying? >> look, you hear graphic accounts like that and see these images. the united states' instinct is to stand by israel. we have a strategic interest. we never want terrorists to act with impunity. that's why we did what we did in afghanistan after 9/11. the problem though is that going into gaza is something israel has done several times in the past. gaza, as you know, it's a densely packed piece of real estate. it's not quite clea

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rachel: here with reaction, former state department spokesperson morgan or today gas.this morning. what is the latest that you're hearing? >> well, rachel, obviously we have this unprecedented, worldwide alert that the state department put out. that's kind of post-9/11 type of order that you put out. it's very rare. at the state department -- maybe there's a civil war or some sort of unrest, but a worldwide -- here domestically i'm glad dhs and fbi are on top of it right now, but considering the apprehensions that we have seen over the past the few years, this should have been something, hopefully,, the hs and fbi were looking at over the past three years because we know the statistics are that harrowing. we're in the new fiscal year -- 200 -- [audio difficulty] 2,000 chinese migrants. pete: and from what i understand, it's a thousand known gotaways a day, that's the current clip, a thousand known gotaways at the southern border. trey yingst is talking at the border, you've heard him, about this ground invasion. it's a heart of when, not a matter of if s. and i hate ev

let's bring in morgan ortagus former state department spokesperson. lawrence, why don't you lead off the questions for morgan. >> lawrence: thank you, steve. morgan, thank you so much for joining the program. we know that you have been stationed overseas. everyone is reacting though hospital bombing. hamas is leading their disinformation campaign. americans back at home, they are afraid about our embassies. we don't want another bengals. benghazi.what can do to keep th, americans safe that operate at these embassies? >> well, we do have marines stationed at our u.s. embassies around the world. we have every right to be concerned especially after what we saw happen at the u.s. embassy in beirut and lebanon, also in iraq. during the trump administration, in january of 2020, we actually had many she a militias which are, again, funded and directed by iran, just like they are with hamas and hezbollah that were attacking the u.s. embassy. and under secretary of state mike pompeo and president trump we took decisive action at the time and we sent messages d

joining me polaris national security founder, former state department spokesperson morgan ortegas.gh circumstances. you've been very passionate about this since the, those brutal attacks happened. a lot has happened here in this country, you know from a military point of view to what is happening inside of the nation. before we get into any sort of details your general thoughts? >> well, thank you, charles, for having me on. i wish i was in person, i will tell you it has been a very, very difficult three weeks. the images that we're seeing coming out of israel from october 7th are things that the jewish people thought that they would never see again. you know what really is crazy to me, charles, is to think that some of the holocaust survivors that were either killed or taken hostage by hamas, think about the span of what they have seen in their lifetime, right? they probably were as children either taken away into some of these camps or their family was killed. zoom how they lived through one worst systemic attempts to annihilate the jewish people in our history. so they survived

joining me now is morgan ortagus former state department spokesperson during the trump administration. morgan great to have you tonight. as we read this from the new york times in ways it's unsurprising. there was some suspicion, rightful suspension from the beginning of the involvement of iran. we heard in trey's report morgan that is rally's very well aware diverting resources to gaza a diversion opening yourself up to an attack to hezbollah or other i ran i can't know subsidiaries from syria or wherever it may be. as you look at this new york times report, what's your biggest take away? >> well, first of all, there's no suspicion, there's no guessing, there's definitive proof that the islamic republican of iran is behind the attacks of hamas. how do we know this? they have been funding hamas for years, about 93% of hamas's revenue of their funding comes from iran. they not only fund them, they train them, they equip them with the military equipment that you saw that was used to attack israeli just last weekend. so i'm sort of sick of the administration playing this game of, well, w

as well as former state department senior advisor neera hawk. i welcome you birth.u first, israel stepped up the number of ground forces in gaza over the past 24 hours. the idf says it will gradually be expanding. so, there are pretty deep concerns that a ground invasion might bring israel into a brutal urban battle, and potentially, sparked a broader conflict with the hezbollah in lebanon. is israel pursuing in the best long term plan right now? do you have any concerns about it, and if so, what are they? >> well, my concern is that if you back it up, what's the day after looking like? what happens to all of those people who are caught in the cross fire? and more importantly, as you look at the way the israelis are engaged in this operation, i think it's important to not look at this, based on my understanding of the idf, that it is going to set a massive amount of troops in order to fulfill the nomenclature that there's going to be a ground invasion. i think the israelis are essentially engaged in salami tactics. they're going to do what they can to do nazify, rig

carley: let's bring in morgan ortegus, former state department spokesperson. if morgan, it feels like we're in uncharted territory here even though we're talking about a region that is historically quite volatile. you just heard trey yingst say he's never seen fighting quite like this before. break down the situation at hand from your perspective and how the united states should respond to this. >> first of all, i'm in the middle east right now. i'm coming live to our audience from qatar, and i can tell you the ca qataris and people i'm talkinged today, everybody was caught by surprise surprise. there will be an a assessment of i why that happened, but just to set the bigger context, this is shabbat in us israel right now, a high holy day, we're at the edge of yom kippur. we also know this attack is basically coming on the anniversary, the 50-year anniversary of the yom kippur war where, sadly, as we all remember, us israel was also surprised in the attack on that day. what's really different about this attack, as pete was just describing compared to the yom k

he's also a former us state department official and adviser on arab—israeli negotiations to both republicank on newsday. good to have you. diplomatic efforts have been stepped up, we have heard from the un, eu members have called for pauses to allow humanitarian aid into gaza — is all of this going to have any impact on how israel is going ahead? i don't think so. i think what is going to affect israeli decision—making are several constraints. the most important of which is their own indecision now with respect to the ambitious mass at their objectives. israeli officials for weeks now have been talking about ending hamas's existence in gaza, ensuring that it is no longer sovereign there with no capacity to govern. the task at hand is a brutal and bloodied one. so it is a brutal and bloodied one. so it is the nature of the objective, number one, and then there is ambivalence, i think amanda think there is been an evolving us position with respect to this, stale, great support, natural support from a pro—israeli american president. the americans have been asking very tough questions. they are

this, just look at the results of their work in iraq, syria, libya, afghanistan, one of the former state departmentis book describing the us path to world dominance, provides more detailed statistics: the americans, of course, didn’t get away with it at all, just remember the september 11 terrorist attacks , an attack that was actually carried out by the same radical islamists whom the united states trained for combat in afghanistan against the soviet army, only later they turned against their creators, it is difficult not to notice parallels with the history of the emergence of hamas. incredibly, the israelis liked hamas precisely because they were well aware of hamas's extremist views regarding they were against the two-state solution, and right-wingers in israel were against it too. and so the israelis, to put it carefully, to some extent allied themselves with hamas against the palestinian authorities, first represented by yasser arafat and later by mahmoud abas. they were precisely interested in the creation of two states, so coexistence was beneficial for israel. threat from hamas. in america

for more on the us response to the escalating conflict, i spoke to former us state department seniorha castleberry—hernandez, and president of the middle east policy council. gina abercrombie—wistanley. great to have you both with us. thank you for being with us and taking the time. so, i want to briefly touch on the situation as it stands to begin with and get your take. so, palestinians, of course, we know at this present moment are being warned to get out of southern gaza. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu warning that there is more to come. what do you think that we should be preparing for to see in the hours and days ahead? i want to ask you both, but starting with you first, asha. yes, thank you so much. i think we need to prepare for definitely providing humanitarian assistance as soon as possible, being able to definitely reach out to the local gazans and make sure that they are provided enough safety and security moving forward as israel is continuing their ground offensive moving forward. i also believe that we definitely need to do more outreach to the palestinian

live now to jason blazakis who is a former us state department counter—terrorism official and now atrrorism, extremism, and counterterrorism. thank you very much for being with us today, jason. let's talk about the mission first of all by israel. the stated mission to destroy hamas. how feasible is that? it mission to destroy hamas. how feasible is that?— feasible is that? it is going to be difficult _ feasible is that? it is going to be difficult especially i feasible is that? it is going to be difficult especially in| to be difficult especially in the current climate. the israeli government needs to get access to gaza to be able to do that, where hamas is obviously based on where the architect of the recent attack is located. in terms of the area of focus, the israeli government is going to have to collect a great amount of intelligence that they can leverage to find hamas leadership. that does take some time and at the same time, while the grounding in gaza goes forward, it is going to be very difficult because we have all seen the scenes in gaza, the rubble, it will be very diffi

he's also a former us state department official and adviser on arab—israeli negotiations to both republicanorts from is going to have an impact on how israel goes ahead. i think what is going to affect israeli decision—making are several constraints. the most important of which is their own indecision now with respect to the ambitious of their objectives. israeli officials for weeks now have been talking about ending hamas's existence in gaza, ensuring that it is no longer sovereign there. with no capacity to govern. the task at hand is a brutal and bloodied one, so it's the nature of the objective and then there is ambivalence, i think, objective and then there is ambivalence, ithink, and i think there's been an evolving us position with respect to this great support from a very pro—israeli american president, but the americans have been asking very tough questions. they are also adding the issue of hostages. they've bought time and space from the israelis to allow negotiations, probably with qatar and egypt, to see whether or not they can get large numbers of hostages released. so i think

jason blazakis is a former us state department counter—terrorism official.e where he is director at the center on terrorism, extremism, and counterterrorism. he told us it will be hard for israel to destroy hamas. the israeli government needs to get access to gaza to be able to do that, where hamas obviously is based and where the architect of the recent attack, mohammed deif, is located. in terms of the area of focus, the israeli government is going to have to collect a great amount of intelligence that they can leverage to find hamas senior leadership and that does take some time. at the same time, while the ground game in gaza goes forward, it's going to be very difficult because we've all seen the scenes in gaza, the rubble. it's going to be very difficult to counter insurrection when you have so many areas in which snipers can take advantage. you have hostages obviously on the ground, as well, where there's lack of information about their own location, so it's going to be extremely challenging to destroy hamas. the intent of the israelis to move a milli

diplomacy in the expected war in the gaza strip we can go ahead and talk to erin david miller a former us state department a middle east negotiator and also senior fellow at carnegie and down — us think tank. thanks very much for your time on newsday. there are lots of optics attached to the us president's visit to israel. it is also coming as we are saying after the recent striper dog strike at the al—ahli hospital. how complicated is the situation now for these diplomatic efforts? it now for these diplomatic efforts? , , , efforts? it is very complicated and large _ efforts? it is very complicated and large measure _ efforts? it is very complicated and large measure because i efforts? it is very complicated l and large measure because the united states is not in control of events. we sometimes lull ourselves into believing our leverages unlimited that given the power of military economic rejection of power by the united states that they are very few situations where we cannot somehow fight our way to inaudible _ . us president is appearing inaudible — . us president is appearing in israel during _ . us

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american captives who it released today. pj, it connie is a former us assistant secretary of state and a former spokesman for the state department. thank you very much for joining us. we didn't hear a lot of detail from antony blinking, the secretary of state on what happened today. you have workshop of state department, you know how things work the what would have gone on to secure the release of these 2 american captives as well. first of all i, i do think that the secretary blinking by revealing very few if any details is, is signaling that this is an ongoing effort that has been reinforced by the other players and in this action today. so that we, we now do know that there is an active process underway involving united states israel culture, perhaps others. and that in a sense, we now have an active negotiation among all these parties over the conditions under which more hostages will be released. yeah, we heard from him that 10 americans are still on accounted for, and he said that the us would do everything possible to release every captive from us in a statement that we had a short while ago said he will release all of th

joining me is a former senior state department adviser and former white house senior director under presidentthank you for being here, my friend. the challenge is enormous. because the anger and the rage about this bombing of this hospital, however, whoever did it, isn't one of the challenges here. there isn't really a trusted voice who can answer the question who did it. no one wants to take hamas' word for it certainly. the idf and the israeli military has had issues. there was an american journalist, palestinian american journalist who was killed what they said about it initially turned out not to be true. and there have been bombings of u.n.-related schools, et cetera, in the past. so they're not being believed either. then the u.s. repeated, including president biden, that story about 40 beheaded babies that then the idf could not confirm and was unconfirmed but he said it in a speech outloud and that fanned even more flames. so the challenge here is who are people going to listen to? >>> in this information environment, the first piece of information you get in any intelligence assessme

he's a former top state department official. richard, welcome. want to pose to you a question about this moment the mood and the -- and the actions that follow. because it feels to me like in some ways this is like israel's 9/11 in the sense of the deep sense of outrage and emotional kind of rage that is felt in israel. totally justifiably, given the nature and the brutality of this terrorist attack. i remember americans felt somewhat similarly after 9/11. and you were one of the few people in government at the time saying we need to think this through. we need our responses to be calibrated and think about the day after. you cautioned, i think you're the only senior official to caution against invading iraq. so i'm wondering, do you think this is a moment where a similar logic applies or is there a case where the israelis did just need to demonstrate that this kind of thing cannot be rewarded. >> there are interesting parallels, fareed. if anything, the israeli reaction is even stronger than the american reaction. and in part because of images o