marc short, a former us _ war, frankly. marc short, a former us security - war, frankly.co—ordinator former us security co—ordinator for israel and the palestinian authority, thank you for joining us —— mark schwarz. thank you. here in the us, the pentagon has ordered a second aircraft carrier group to the eastern mediterranean. according to us officials, the uss eisenhower is part of american efforts to deter hostile actions against israel or any efforts toward widening the war. meanwhile, in the last hour, president biden briefly addressed the situation in israel and gaza at the national human rights council dinner here in washington, dc. gaza, innocent palestinian families who are vast majority have nothing to do with hamas are being used as human shields. yesterday, ispoke are being used as human shields. yesterday, i spoke for over an hour to shields. yesterday, i spoke for overan hourto a shields. yesterday, i spoke for over an hour to a family member of those americans who are still unaccounted for on a zoom call. they've endured an agony of not knowing what happen

i marc short was the director of legislative affairs at the time. yeah. and he also comes to play a role in january six. g so marc short was the director of legislative affairs when i interned in legislative affairs, and then when i was hired full time and the summer of 2000, 19, marc short was became the vice president's chief of staff and right, all right. so let's come back to that question that my friend asked. you know, part of which is how did someone like you who comes through both in person and in this book you've written as honest and decent and loyal and very law abiding. come to basically do anything that was asked of you by a president to is i'm speaking this is an editorial here on my part totally disloyal, totally dishonest, totally deceptive, duplicitous, untrustworthy and so on. so now you have. yeah. how does that happen? that's a remarkable story. and it's an important story for us to understand in democracy. okay. i'm not trying to read the book. everybody. all preface it with when i read the book, i'm so and i love i guess everybody al

marc short, former chief of staff for mike pence, told jake tapper of cnn he doesn't believe gaetz isn congress for the right reasons. >> i think that what's concerning is, we really are $33 trillion in debt, we do have a border crisis, there's a lot of issues that need to be solved. but the people who were masquerading as fiscal conservatives really, really aren't, jake. i mean, matt gaits, to say he came as a fiscal crusader, it's more he came for the teenage interns on capitol hill, to be honest. >> jimmy: wow. they're feeding on themselves. it's like "alien versus sexual predator." [ laughter ] it's unclear whether or not republicans have enough votes to kick gaetz out of their conference. but the hunt for the next speaker is on. the leading candidates are jim jordan and steve scalise. i dont like either one of those guys. why not lauren boebert as speaker of the house? we saw at that beetlejuice musical, she does know how to reach across the aisle. [ rim shot ] [ laughter and applause ] some of the maga wing of the party is floating the idea of donald trump would make a great spe

. >> a hug with joe biden may help in the short term but it's not going to help netanyahu in the long term. >> no. >> marcand i talked about this before the attack. i've been hearing from israeli sources, and i'm sure you have for the past year, about the split. you have the secular military and intel leaders that were protesting netanyahu's attack against the supreme court and the court system. you had them on one side, and you had netanyahu and a bunch of right-wing religious supporters on the other side. i'm talking far right-wing. what we heard for a year leading up to this was, at least i did, and you can confirm if you want to, that netanyahu got a lot of the professionals out. he was surrounded, i'm just using, just quoting what i was told before the attacks, he surrounded himself with a bunch of idealogical clowns that weren't good for the military and weren't good for the intel community. that's why i think so this israels are glad to see this coalition government, where professionals are coming back into the cabinet. when we talk about the intel failures, much of it will have to do with intel fa