peter welch, democrat of vermont recently hosted a briefing, with chef jose andres, for the center of the world kitchen, which saw several of its workers killed this week from airstrikes. he joins me now. senator, good to have you. first, your reaction to the news we got, the president has a meeting with president, per minister benjamin netanyahu from israel, and this announcement of an additional opening-- into gaza, one that had been closed since october october 7th, what you make of that? >> bottom line, america wants to have nothing to do, facilitating what is happening in gaza. this is a humanitarian catastrophe, and number one, i think it is time for the united dates to say we will not provide any weapons, any bond that are being used in gaza by israel, not second. when we talk about conditions, the bottom-line condition has to be full counter accommodation for the delivery of humanitarian aid to the suffering people in palestine. that is the obligation that is, by international law, being imposed on israel as they are, in effect, occupying gaza. the number one decision that we