this then what we've been seeing and what you do given the kind of statements that we heard from matt miller about your work. yep. i found, i found the us spokesperson comments about me. so obviously predictable for someone who doesn't have arguments. and even these, you know, is the body language was selling? i don't know what to say, so let me blame her because it's silver convenience. this is our red, it's and so, i mean, he's been, he's been driving, he's been completely lambasted in social media. he's received the letters in the request for for resignation by many to read, including authority off, sorry that the reading to maxwell into scanners. and so, you know, it speaks for itself and is the usual the usual read 3 all but throwing delegations onto them. it isn't as anyone who there's 3 designs, these are a practices or do i have the time to engage with the signs of the behavior? no, i don't at the same time at the same time, the fact that he asked for my for my us of the show by the way it will be shall go to them. it was providing whitford since probably going to be found on police.

what did the state department do right after that report came out, matt miller spokesperson for the state department, came out and said, this moment francesca albany is she's gonna have tests of might we have longs for long standing i, for a long standing period of time to pose the mandate of this special wrapper tour, which we believe is not productive anyway, it comes to the individual who holds that position. i can't help but note um history that i submitted comments that she has made that have been reported it to me that i submitted comments and she has and comments she made in december that appeared to a justify the attacks of october 7th. so i think it's important to take that into account it go throw the whole thing out and she's and that does sound like, can't trust her cancelled. and as some obviously though i did my due diligence, i'm a journalist. so upon hearing his words, i went and checked to see if indeed albany is did have a history of being an anti semitic. so i pulled the place where they have written this, the most times of israel, right. i looked at the newspaper of th

military's killing of the 7 aid workers from world central kitchen. state department spokesman, matt miller says, the strike never should have happened regardless of the circumstances surrounding what israel has called, a case of mistaken identity. it doesn't really matter how they made the mistake. at the end of the day, you have 7 dead aid workers who are there trying to deliver humanitarian assistance . so whatever the reason was that led to this tragedy, whatever the mistakes that happened inside the idea, it's not acceptable and they need to do better. and they need to put measures in place to ensure that it doesn't happen again. miller, so the us is waiting for israel's full investigation into the incident to conclude before passing judgment. he would not acknowledge that previous is really investigations into the killings of 8 workers and journalists has yielded no significant rubber cautions. miller said, israel's offer to establish a situation grands to better coordinate the movements of aid workers is much needed and long overdue world. central kitchens, 7 workers were leaving us

matt miller came out and put a knife on her immediately after she wrote to the golden avenue of genocide and she goes into what you said. the luminous, vito explaining why she believes as a genocide. um, and you can disagree with it, and you can disagree with her, but you should make that disagree of it affecting her if, if somebody doesn't do it, it's just too handy is, i mean, i mean what i mean pretty soon. there's only going to be 2 types of people in the world, people who are or aren't anti semites, which means is riley's and everybody. yeah. right. right, right. what's going on with this app by somebody? it is super weird. i mean, the reality of it is they use it as somebody thing is a way of dodging actual credible plates against israel is what was the state? i'm sorry, it could be criticized like any other state like there really are anti semites in this world. and they're very odd and they really do hate june, but it's better for and it has nothing to do with somebody who disagrees with a foreign policy of any country, whether it's just really or anybody else, right? any foreign

matt miller at the state department earlier this week articulated what the findings of that investigationere, this is what he said. >> it has been the broad conclusion of the intelligence community since march 2023 that it is unlikely a foreign adversary is responsible for these health incidents. it is something the intelligence community has investigated extensively and continues to look at. >> there are also many doubts as to whether or not havana syndrome exists at all. do believe it does and who do you think is behind it? >> absolutely havana syndrome exists, it's a global phenomenon, it's happening to our best men and women in the intelligence community, also in the department of state, also in the department of defense. also i found a clear russian connection. these people worked in the shadows and did extremely well. their work would wind up sometimes on president's desk. for the more i would like to say something else i noticed was that this seemed to be occurring when there were great shifts in relationships with nations who had strategic ties and circle ties to russia. for examp

spokesman matt miller said this in response to a question about a cable secretary blinken sent to the entire diplomatic core. >> a standard government practice to encourage people just to be respectful of others and use the terms with which others are comfortable and talk to people the way that they would like to be addressed and nothing more than that. >> blinken's cable orders officials to avoid using terms like mother/father, manpower, you guys. but blinken himself apparently disagrees with that guidance. listen to this. >> do the secretary or anyone else in the building with ladies and gentlemen >> i don't have problem with the term ladies and gentlemen and the secretary does not, either. >> now a major funding fight over dei is brewing. state requested 83 million to push and promote dei in fiscal year 2024. prompting withering criticism from mike mccaul. state's ideological overemphasize in deia has come to every -- the real price tag for the state department's dei program is likely tens of millions of dollars higher. funds were diversifying the staff is in other programs and har

there is a date to >> today the state department spokesman matt miller iterated at the u.s.es a ground invasion into rafah. >> it would number one harm all the more than 1.4 million palestinians. it would hundred to the delivery of human italian assistance. he made clear we don't want to see the full skill invasion in any event. >> i the last few days israel has opened additional crossings and today more than 415 trucks entered gaza, the largest number since the war began. the u.n. and u.s. are pushing for the number to increase to prewar levels above 500. >> it is not just important they take initial steps to facilitate the increase of humanitarian assistance but the increased flow of humanitarian assistance be sustained over flint -- overtime. >> increased assistance is one of hamas demands on hostage negotiations. regional officials tell me cia bill burns, qatar's prime minister and is really an egyptian spy chiefs have created a new proposal that has gone to hamas in which israel has softened resistance to a hamas request to let gazans returned to northern gaza but not b

now spokesman matt miller said this about a cable on gender pronouns that blinken sent to the dippel a standard government practice to try to encourage people to be respectful of others. and use the terms with which others are comfortable and talk to people the way they would like to be addressed and nothing more than that. >> john: now blinken's cable had ordered state department officials to avoid using certain terms like ladies and gentlemen, "mother and father" "manpower" listen. >> i mean, does a secretary or anyone else in the building of an issue with the phrase "ladies and gentlemen?" >> i do not -- hold on, i do not have any problem with the term "ladies and gentlemen" and i feel confident saying that the secretary does not either. >> secretary blinken to disagree with his own guidance, and $88 trillion di in fiscal year 2024 prompting some withering criticism in mike mccall who told us in a statement states ideological overemphasis on deia has come to penetrate every bureau and embassy under the biden administration. there is a lot of reporting, john, that suggests the true

john: also there was some waffling going on it looked like at the state department as well when matt millerthe state department was investigating israel in much the same way in investigated russia after it invaded ukraine, listen to his answer here. >> we have a number of ongoing assessments but we have not yet at this time concluded that israel has violated international humanitarian law but we have ongoing assessments across a number of different fronts. >> john: this is our closest ally in the middle east, we give them weapons and now the state department will be back channeling an investigation? speak of this is public consumption, you don't think they are taking in the middle east they are taking this around the world to make the case even the united states has deep concerns? >> john: the u.s. knows everything israel is doing. >> you would hope, you would think, but to have this spokesperson from the state department, this is not helpful. that is not an ironclad relationship with israel. contrary to what president biden tries to say publicly. >> john: is this about israel or gaza or mi

liz: breaking news the state department spokesperson matt miller just said at the daily briefing militantnged his commands and the hostage negotiation with israel the talks mediated from egypt and qatar aim to free the 100 hostages including under six americans with two hot wars raging around the world both in israel and ukraine the senate is expected to pass a $95 billion foreign aid package which the house approved this weekend in the senate is expected to do that as early as tuesday and send it to the president's desk and president biden said he will sign it. here's the breakdown $60 billion for ukraine. 26 billion for israel and 8 billion for the indo pacific region. joining me now former commander for u.s. central command general keith frank mckenzie who is the author of a new book the melting point which will be available in june. we are melting right now and if you look at the breaking news i want your reaction hamas says move the goalpost again and israel is the one claimed for the hostages not coming back. >> as we shouldn't be surprised hamas has moved the goalpost again to get

military's killing of the 7 aid workers from world central kitchen. state department spokesman, matt miller says, the strike never should have happened regardless of the circumstances surrounding what israel has called, a case of mistaken identity. it doesn't really matter how they made the mistake. at the end of the day, you have 7 dead aid workers who are there trying to deliver humanitarian assistance . so whatever the reason was that led to this tragedy, whatever the mistakes that happened inside the idea, it's not acceptable and they need to do better. and they need to put measures in place to ensure that it doesn't happen again. miller said the us is waiting for israel's full investigation and to the incident to conclude before passing judgment . he would not acknowledge that previous is really investigations into the killings of 8 workers and journalists has yielded no significant repercussions. miller said israel's offer to establish a situation grands to better coordinate the movements of 8 workers. is much needed and long overdue world. central kitchens, 7 workers were leaving of

so thank you to matt miller, one of our viewers who pointed this out. i said embarrassingly, that it was like, i don't even know how i said it. it's chappell, rhone. that's how you say her name now you know that? >> yeah, now i have. now i do know that i was like chappelle. >> rowan. >> yeah. you really? >> once again, proving my very cool credentials here this morning on abc seven. >> god, i have heard of. thank you. tiktok for that. i do know that person. >> she's very popular. >> she is. she's your artist. favorite artist i think that's it. here you go outside this morning from our east bay hills camera. it's a great start to our april wednesday morning here. right now. temperatures in oakland at 57 degrees. with those overcast skies the light south wind. and pretty much everybody is sitting in the 50s currently. and it's going to be one of those mornings. your jackets just your best friend. we have a lot of cloud cover and that means the warming process is slow. we stay in the 50s all morning long. it's not until this afternoon we start to see some

in fact, there was a press briefing yesterday with matt miller. and he basically said, we don't know if there was an attack on the consulate. so 2 weeks after the fact that a journalist pushed back and said, how long is it going to take you to find out what the, what, what the rest of the world already knows. so i think that's fascinating. now in terms of the sanctions, i think there will be more sanctions. i think they will have an effect, but i don't think that but what's left a sanction anyway, there's so many sections on a ronald right. right. that's what i was getting through with that there's sort of some analysts have been talking about diminishing returns. so you've already done most of what you can do with the sanctions. iran has proven itself to be relatively resilient. they've pivoted to russia and china. so now for instance, iran is exporting about 90 percent of its oil to china, so they've been able to stay at stay afloat, even though they've certainly taken a hit economically. now these new sanctions were like, we have an even smalle

we're hearing much tougher language, matt miller saying the present himself has told is really prime minister. israel's policies need to change or are as well. so tough talks is not actually threatening any consequences, but they are sending the message still that any large scale invasion against the people in rasa would be in there where it's a mistake. okay, thank you for that. patrick, i'll have that for us in washington. okay, uh let's go live to tire a couple of zoom. who is in rafa and southern garza tarik, of course rafa is where this oh, really matches. so we're hearing from benjamin netanyahu this evening. that's pardon me then. now isn't date for rafa operation. i mean what, what sort of reaction when people that have, if, if you know, if this is indeed true, a yes 1000000 in fact. so this is what exactly they use, what the prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been saying for a couple of months regarding a potential military attack and military and cogent for rough districts in order to restore the captives and also to eliminate the remaining balance against for a how much

were held earlier today, both corinne, john, pierre, the spokesperson here at the white house, and matt miller, the spokesperson at the state department, declining to engage on the topic, saying they were aware of reports, but could not comment on the target or the responsible party behind the attack. but of course we know the administration has been working for months to try to keep this conflicts from escalating from widening in the region. and as nick just pointed out, this would be a significant departure from that. if that were to play out that way kayla the white, house goal all along has really been to contain this conflict, to prevent >> escalation to that end today, top biden and visuals tried to talk israel out of invading rafah. what can you tell us? >> well, we know that that meeting lasted for several hours. it was held virtually with a delegation that was supposed to come to washington last week choosing instead to do this meeting virtually. but a us official tells me that it was really seen as a continuation of conversations that have taken place on this topic over the course of

they do not want to see this conflict escalated, not something that state department spokesperson matt miller reiterated earlier today when asked about this and you have some exclusive reporting that's new today about the biden administration close to approving a major sale to israel. what do you know? >> yeah. we're told that the administration is set to approve an 18 billion sale of f 15 fighter jets to israel. that will be the largest for military sale to israel since the war between israel and hamas erupted on october 7. and it comes, of course, at a very delicate moment when us transactions and sales of military equipment to israel or silly under a microscope here. now, these fighter jets would not be sent to israel until about four to five years from now because they need to actually be produced. but really this underscores the fact that the administration is not prepared at this point to start limiting, restricting, or conditioning military aid to israel really at any point, despite the growing calls for them to do so because of all the devastation that we're seeing in gaza as a direct

but importantly, according to state department spokesperson matt miller hello. he said we were always concerned about anything that would be escalatory or cause an increase of conflict in the region. and so the us, of course, does not want to see this escalate and it is important to note that we have seen a dramatic drop-off to the point where they have completely ceased in attacks by iran-backed militants in syria and iraq on us troops who are stationed in those countries. the question now of course, is that as or-awn vows to respond extremely decisively to this attack on its consulate in damascus. will those attacks startup again, is there going to be some kind of dramatic ramification here because of the strike. but again, still no words the israelis, on whether this was a strike carried out by their fighter jets, by their missiles. but of course, the state department continuing to try to get in touch with all of the relevant partners in the region to figure out what happened. >> yeah concerns had somewhat ease that the conflict in gaza would escalate beyond

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