had happened in admiral kirby and antony blinken and jack sullivan. their dedication has just been phenomenal. i'm optimistic about some of the characters that trump has nominated. host: who are you worried about in particular? caller: hegseth for one, and tulsi gabbard. i've called a couple times, i'm a john mccain republican converted to independent, but i'd like to remind congress and our representatives that when matt gaetz was still up for nomination, congress decided should be let all this news come out about him or not, i think we need to remind our representatives that it is not a big boys club that they've got going on up there. they are representatives of the united states and me and all the people that vote for whether it is trump or kamala harris, if there is stuff going around in the background of these people, they need to put that stuff out and not decide whether it should be put out or not because it may be detrimental. that's not a big boys club they've got going up there. it is not a private club. and trump doesn't read the daily bri

well, that's a lot of natural white house correspondent, kimberly how could a jack sullivan that can be sounding much more optimistic than we've heard from the bi demonstration in quite a while. the yeah, but also reminding the reporters that this is a place that the boost ration has been before. and so there is reason for cautious optimism, but telling us what this deal could look like and, and what it is is essentially the framework that was put in place by president vive and worked out by with the negotiators and b as rarely as back in may. of 2024. that phase didn't approach that would allow for the exchange of palestinian prisoners for is really captives. now what we know is that this is something that the president talked to the as really prime minister about on sunday. you also talked to the mayor of cuts are on monday and is discussing with the redemption president cc as well in the coming hours. now, what the national security advisers like solving, also told reporters, is that he is one that would not be shocked if this still doesn't happen. in other words, the missing ingr

kit, who was standing by the kimberly understands that the white house national security advisor jack sullivan is it to speak in the next few minutes. do we have any idea about what he's going to talk about? will the $65.00 do be potentially announced in the next half hour so? well, we know that there is tremendous optimism in the last hour or so. and so we expect that that is exactly what he's going to talk about. we had known that he was going to speak at the press briefing that is set to begin at any time. and so we expect that that is exactly what he's going to talk about. the national security adviser has been intimately involved jake sullivan, in working with the, by the ministrations, very 7 boy breton, a girl who we know has been kept out in the ha, working with the is really mediators and negotiators, as well as the contrary. for administer, we know, but they have been in a flurry of diplomatic telephone calls back and forth, and that there had been a feeling of the last 20 for 48 hours in particular. so things were, in his words, going in the right direction. now the big question had

uh, because on one hand we were hearing from the white house national security advisor jack sullivan, that talks are in the quote advanced stages. but you know, only a couple of minutes after he said that he will. so we don't just say if in 5 days a deal hasn't happened, i will be the person who's probably least shocked by that. so clearly there is still a long way to go before any deal is actually done here. isn't there one, look, i'm not sure that there's a long way to go there. certainly certain details to be hammered and clearly the data is not finished. there's still some details to behind my but my understanding is that all the co show, the important, the red line, 5 issues have been handled. all the major points of conventions between how much and is red have been handled and even going down to the nitty gritty is all the number of hostages for the number of prisoners number of captives when and how at what stage 1st stage 2nd stage. and the idea of withdrawal windows is the withdrawal from wherever that withdrawal, all of these to my understanding have been resolved. no, this

stuart: jack sullivan once again defended biden's withdrawal from afghanistan.tegic call president biden made looking back through years, history judged well and will continue to judge well from the point of view that if we were still in afghanistan today, americans would be fig fightingd dying, russia would have more leverage over us, we'd be less able to respond to the ma jordy strategic challenges we face. stuart: general, do you agree with that? strategic call was right? >> not only do i disagree, it's a false narrative. we weren't fighting in afghanistan since 20146789 and at the end, only 2500 soldiers and that's less than any one of the three 53 brigades in the army and that's how small and the nato countries wanted us to tay and russia, china and iran got out and the united states was willing to surrendered country to the adversary we were fighting and gave up on our ally, who was standing by for 20 years. that's the reality of it. stuart: general, i'm interrupting because karen bass, the mayor of los angeles stepped up to the podium to answer questions

had happened in admiral kirby and antony blinken and jack sullivan.ir dedication has just been phenomenal. i'm optimistic about some of the characters that trump has nominated. host: who are you worried about in particular? caller: hegseth for one, and tulsi gabbard. i've called a couple times, i'm a john mccain republican converted to independent, but i'd like to remind congress and our representatives that when matt gaetz was still up for nomination, congress decided should be let all this news come out about him or not, i think we need to remind our representatives that it is not a big boys club that they've got going on up there. they are representatives of the united states and me and all the people that vote for whether it is trump or kamala harris, if there is stuff going around in the background of these people, they need to put that stuff out and not decide whether it should be put out or not because it may be detrimental. that's not a big boys club they've got going up there. it is not a private club. and trump doesn't read the daily briefin

sullivan defending president biden's withdrawal from afghanistan saying history vindicates that move. the chaotic -- this afternoon biden will give a speech highlighting his legacy in foreign policy. want to bring bring in jackne. when jake sullivan says when we were still in afghanistan people would be dying. that's not the criticism. it was about a decision to withdraw and the way it was done. it is hard to see right now how that looks better in time as history takes its course, sir. >> first of all, americans weren't fighting in afghanistan since 2014. we were there at the end with only 2500 soldiers on the ground and we had three c.i.a. bases as well. and the reality is that 2500, that's less than what would be in one of the 53 brigades in the united states army. and that was a modest commitment by anybody's definition and our soldiers were not fighting and dying as he is describing. that's a false narrative that he is creating there. the six nato nations who were there with us, who had 7,000 troops collectively, they wanted to stay. and listen, yes, the decision to go was an incentive for the aggression that we have seen since that time. what do i mean by that? it wasn't just the chaotic emergency retre

talking with ed sullivan, bob hope, frank sinatra. mike wallace. jack paar, edward r murrow and many more. she even made an appearance on the game show, what's my line? and if you haven't seen that, you can find on youtube. she's there to promote united nations week. but elena's life had so many dimensions that her savvy use of the brand new medium of television has been previously overlooked. the early days of television were profoundly influential on popular culture and early use of tv to advance the causes of peace in the rights of women and the politically marginalized was groundbreaking. however, she also courted relationships with the film industry as early as 1932, writing for fan magazines like photoplay and modern screen son james enlisted her to in the prolog for 1940 anti-nazi film pastor hall, riling the ire of isolationists in the senate on propaganda in motion pictures and radio. but she would also disappoint activists when choosing to cross a picket line protesting segregated cinemas in washington, dc to attend a fundraiser screening of a

sullivan. >> thank you very much. u.s. district judge cannon temporarily barring special counsel jack smith from releasing his report on donaldat's until an appeals court can act on a request from trump's co-defendants in the case. it will lay out how he tried to overturn the election. >>> an investigation after two people were found dead in the landing gear compartment of a jetblue airport after a flight from new york to fort lauderdale last night. they were discovered during a routine post-flight maintenance check. >>> president biden will create two new national monuments in california to protect native american land. the white house said the president will sign the proclamations which will keep drilling and mining away from nearly 850,000 acres in the state. i will see you in a few minutes. >> thanks very much. >>> some breaking news on the ai startup anthropic. >> we hear anthropic is the middle of a funding raise at $60,000 valuation. this is the amazon-backed ai player. it was valued at $18 billion on paper. a major step up, threefold in valuation. the source telling me light speed will be leading the round. no comment

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