sullivan: here's what will i say. characterizing, offering qualitative judgments like more this, less that is just something i'm going to be very hesitant about doing. what i would prefer to do is state facts as i see them. the facts i see is israel has identified a very specific area, has asked people to leave that area. israel has coordinated the commencement of its military operations on the ground in the south with that kind of notification. now, what i can't judge is how many of the people in that area as of right now have received that communication, because i'm not on the ground. what we have indicated to the israelis is they need to use every means and tool they have available to be sure when they actually move in in force into an area in the south, that they do so with some confidence that people have actually gotten safe passage out of that area. that's an ongoing conversation we have with them. all i can tell you is that from our perspective one of the key lessons from the north was to ensure that as you co

sullivan: i will not speculate on that. only to say they have not done it and we are gravely concerned about that. i will not speculate on their reasoning. >> provided israel with guided missiles. many of the bombs have been dropped on gaza more than ukraine. is there a way to monitor how the weapons are being used? and if not, why not? where do you agree and disagree? mr. sullivan: first, our defense department and the israeli defense forces are in constant communication about the scope and nature of israel's military operations. that is a conversation that happens at every level and it involves the way in which the u.s. assistance is deployed in this conflict. with respect to the arabs, the arab foreign ministers who are coming, there's a lot we agree on about a long-term vision and the work we can all do together to come out of this conflict in a way that produces greater peace and prosperity for all of the countries in the region, and produces a political horizon for the palestinian people rooted in the two state soluti

he's going to be wanting assurances from the americans from sullivan, the sullivan can actually put the pressure on these riley's to stop, for example, right on towns, villages, and cities across the west bank to stop set level violence. and to ensure that. busy what sullivan seems to say, well, the americans won't go calls us just to avoid civilian casualties and for it to scale down the boss is going to want to hit that kind of thing too. but as far as the level of trust and focus on general palestinians, the general palestinians population in places like janine right the way across the board was fine. there's very little fights that much can come out of this meeting. so now you're engineering where the longest rates since the war broke, it has actually just finally ended once being the result. and all of that lot of all, it's not able to pass around to show you, for example, up the street out what you're looking at. there is the, the level of destruction that could be caused by one of these homage pull those is that have been used to such devastating affected rates like janine basica

known as �*big ron,�* 0'sullivan�*s dad ran a chain of sex shops in soho.cion of murder following the death of a man at a bar in the king's road in london. bruce bryan had been stabbed twice and died on the pavement outside. ronniejunior was told once he arrived in thailand for a competition. to get that phone call when i was in thailand, i was so far away from home and i just didn't want to be there. so, that's when i first found out that my dad had got involved in whatever had happened. so, yeah, ifound that really hard, you know — 15 years of age, away, you know, ijust struggled so, yeah, that was tough. when he got sentenced for 18 years — you weren't in the courtroom — but he was being led out of the courtroom and he looked up, and he said something very particular to someone that was there and i know that has stayed with you. what is it he said? yeah, he just said to the woman — i think she was, like, working on his case. hejust looked up to her and just said, "just tell my son to win." that was it. has that stayed with you? well, yeah, it's more of l

it will take. sullivan is talking about the idea of captives. he said you the meeting with the head of most sides on thursday evening at that meeting he says was due to last 45 minutes, but it's lasted much longer than not twice as long. he said he's neither optimistic or pessimistic about the position of the captors, but he's aware that at the moment most sides are not going to contact to be involved in any sort of discussions that benjamin netanyahu, the is really prime minister. and you'll go on the really defense minister i came to the military pressure and i'm asked believing they will get a much better deal if they continue with their offensive and gaza itself. as far as the 2 soldiers, that's just be the nice in the last order. so the bodies of 219 year old soldiers have been recovered from gaza. they were taking captive on october, the 7th. they saved in the guise of both the police station, which is very close to the guys a border as you would expect, that their families have been informed and elia on friday. we also have the dent, if i

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if we start with the arrival of a jake sullivan in if we start with the arrival of ajake sullivan insrael today, what can we expect? what is the region wants from the visits? i is the region wants from the visits? ~ ., , ., , visits? i think it wants to see a another — visits? i think it wants to see a another truce _ visits? i think it wants to see a another truce at _ visits? i think it wants to see a another truce at least - a another truce at least because a ceasefire is now out of the agenda. america also does not support them. we are trying to reach a truce because it seems as if now between abidin and netanyahu because joe biden is seeing israel is losing support inaudible more than 80,000 people die so far, healed, because of the bombardment. jake sullivan is trying to get the two sides together, especially afterjoe biden that the families of american hostages, detained by hamas in gaza. there is pressure on israel to stop the discriminant barden ridge for gaza in order to open the way for negotiation for a lasting peace or ceasefire because a truce is now practical... ceasef

he national security adviserjake sullivan? , ., ,,., sullivan?will fly in from saudi arabia, sullivan? he will fly in from saudi arabia. on — sullivan? he will fly in from saudi arabia. on a _ sullivan? he will fly in from saudi arabia, on a regional— sullivan? he will fly in from saudi arabia, on a regionaltrip - sullivan? he will fly in from saudi arabia, on a regional trip and - sullivan? he will fly in from saudi arabia, on a regionaltrip and he. arabia, on a regional trip and he will meet here over the course of two days with israeli leaders especially members of the war cabinet. we understand it will ask israel to be more precise and targeted in its strikes against hamas in gaza after the us president joe biden said earlier this week that the indiscriminate bombing from israel in gaza had led to a drop in global support for its operations against hamas. we are told he will be looking at how to speed up the flow of aid into gaza and he will be talking possibly, according to israeli media, about the prospects of having a mother release deal f

and you would expect that from dig sullivan. he's a very experienced operator. he's not going to speak to anything other than what the boss has been saying, and the boss, of course being joe biden. and he talked about how he enforced his idea on israel and forces may be too strong, but he puts his forward this idea that they need it to do more to avoid civilian casualties. he said, these really is where the, where it wasn't just take you mind a tv and thing. it was also a moral thing. it was a strategic thing as well. and he said they are doing the best they can. but what was really interesting is what he said just before he's never going to meet muck with a bus in ramallah. and he talked about how there can be a 2 state solution. but one state, the palestinian state has to guarantee the security of israel that we've had from the president have sold all the way done. these really present has of all the way done. so they're not in a position at the moment that they want to accept the 2 state solution and check sullivan knows that the american position. so what he

mr sullivan spoke to the media early on friday.asic level, we do believe the palestinian authority needs to be revamped and revitalised, needs to be updated in terms of its method of governance, its representation of the palestinian people and that will require a lot of work by everybody who is engaged in the palestinian authority, starting with the president, mahmoud abbas, who i will go see. and ultimately, it is going to be up to the palestinian people to be up to the palestinian people to work through their representation and it will be up to those leaders of the palestinian authority to work through the types of steps that they need to take to reform and update the authority for the situation we face today. the united states will be a partner in that with them, respectfully. jake sullivan went to meet with palestinian leadership including palestinian leadership including palestinian president mahmoud abbas. we have photos that have been released of the two of them posing for pictures and we are getting a few lines from that me

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mr sullivan spoke to the media early on friday.inian authority, i will not i will say is that we do believe that the palestinian authority needs to be revamped and revitalised. updated in terms of its method of governance, its representation of the palestinian people. it will require a lot of work by everyone who is engaged in the palestinian authority, starting with the president, mahmoud abbas, who i will go see. ultimately, it will be up to the palestinian people to work through their representation and it will be up to those leaders of the palestinian authority to work through the types of steps they need to take to reform and update the authority for the situation we face today. the united states will be a partner in that with them, respectfully, you know, and we will be there to try to support respectfully, you know... there was no let—up in israel's bombing of gaza through the night. this was the scene in northern gaza, as seen from southern israel, on friday morning. palestinian sources are reporting air strikes on khan you

what was that with a jack sullivan meeting, a boss? obviously, the us wants the palestinian authority to have a role and what if it happens next and in the war. but how realistic is that given? just the promising support that we have seen for a boss and the palestinian authority. it's a, it's, it's could be realistic if the americans are associated with to empower the percent of 40 and give it some piece of evidence. meaning, i mean, jack sullivan is the to visit the newsletter to discuss the future if it goes up. mm hm. what about the supplements extension come to americans, but i should this lady still threes and stuff, supplement expansions, the immediacy now on sunday. so it's out the entire mess now and then. okay, parts kind of stuff. they can, they can commit to this. somebody can for something for something. this light has been with somebody since will say when it will go. yes, it seems that the perceived that sort of the is actually in power. exactly. and the jumping to see and is that's being engaged with them, the medic on t

jake sullivan says no, they're not contradictory. there is an expectation that at some point in the future that the war will transition from what they're calling a high intensity phase to a low intensity phase. the white house made clear they hope that happens in the near future, conditions-based without laying out exactly what the conditions are. we have reported that u.s. officials are hoping that that is going to be in the next few weeks. not in the next few months. and so we could see these heavy operations continuing now for several more weeks until the end of the year and then that lower intensity phase starting next year. but israel making clear they are not putting a public timeline on it, their ultimate goal is to eradicate hamas. u.s. officials are not clear on what exactly that means. guys? >> that is an important point. alex, appreciate it. thank you. >>> joining us now former defense secretary for the trump administration mark esper. secretary esper, good to have you this morning. let's start where alex left off ahead of

must stop . jake sullivan is in rome. a lot of the meetings with israel's prime minister and the wall cabinet in tel aviv a bass also called on the us government to force as well to stop a tax on palestinians in the west bank and jerusalem on that spring. and now it's smith in tel aviv, so the earliest sullivan had meetings with his radiate officials, a very different line from what we're hearing from the palestinian officials. they have and 9 meetings with jake sullivan. right. or yeah, and we know that before jake sullivan arrived in israel, he had said that he was coming here looking for a time table towards an end of his rails. this intense intensive, foaming comm, payneham wall that they've launched on gaza and he was expecting stay within the within weeks is where i would move on to some sort of 2nd phase of the roll with more targeted operations against thomas's leadership. well, at the end of his visit here in the press conference is the sullivan's been giving is risk is shied away from a reference to any sort of

alex, you asked the critical question of jake sullivan this morning.t more are you hearing about that meeting with israeli leaders? >> reporter: well, kate, it's clear that the administration is trying to make it seem like sullivan came here to, as they say, ask hard questions, to get a status update on where israel's head is in terms of where the war stands right now and where they see things going forward, but clearly there are significant american concerns about the way that this war is being waged, this humanitarian crisis, the civilian death toll and a major question, i think, that sullivan had for his israeli counterparts how much longer do you think this heavier phase of the fighting is going to continue. the expectation from the american officials we speak to is that they have been urging israeli officials to transition this war from what they're calling a higher intensity phase which is this heavy bombing, heavy assaults, the intense fighting with hamas militants to a lower intensity phase. sullivan did not put a timeline on that, he said it i

these are some of the latest pictures coming in of jake sullivan, his meeting there with israel's defence mr and as i was saying, president biden only a couple of days ago making his strongest comments yet of camera but talking about the indiscriminate bombing and his concern about the numbers of civilian casualties and we know that jake sullivan going there again to tel aviv with that message and also a message about what america sees as the timeline for this war compared to what israel apparently once. also, that area in the last 36 hours hit by a terrible weather that is making everything so much more difficult distressing pictures there but these are the scenes around khan younis where people are struggling with the weather as well as all of the displacement. there you see just what the conditions are like for people who have been displaced, asked to move three, four or five times now to the south of khan younis. those are some of the latest pictures. those displaced people in gaza have been speaking to the bbc about their struggles, gaza have been speaking to the bbc about theirstrug

but that was not being echoed by jake sullivan today.arly he doesn't want to be seen on israeli soil as pressuring or telling israel what to do and there is also the possibility that the timeline slides. so they don't want to put any kind of date on it. you heard him say it is conditions-based. i asked him what the conditions would be and he didn't specify. but there is a belief that, for example, if the top leadership of hamas was killed, that that could speed up this timeline and can move into the lower intensity phase. so he's claiming that there is no contradiction between israeli leadership and what the u.s. is saying. we heard the defense minister saying yesterday this will take more than several months, and jake sullivan saying there that, yes, it could take many more months, but it could be in that lower intensity phase, where they're doing those more targeted counterterrorism operations, assassination attempts against top hamas leadership. poppy and erica, i asked sullivan about our exclusive reporting about all the dumb bombs t

they are going to go ahead and do it jake sullivan. we also point to the survey that we're reporting on that shows the support for how mazda is actually going significantly in the west bank and also in guys a, since the war started. and so if these really goals is to destroy how much it's going to become a lot harder if people are actually supporting. now, he's also going to talk about the possibility of a 2 state solution. and he won't be consent of statements from benjamin netanyahu saying the palestinian authority cannot play any part as in what happens in gaza in the future. and also comments from the u. t. i'm positive israel's, and best to go to the u. k. who said there is not going to be a palestinian state after the war. all of these comments in big contradiction to what we've had from the united states in some of the senior officials like the president, the vice president. of course, the national security advisor, jig sullivan and ellen, there are reports out the inside. these reading whole cabinet has blocks the head of most

so lies is, will be on what jake sullivan has to actually offer. and how much influence he's going to have over the is raised when it comes to this particular decision. posterior, of course you have to remember been very critical about the americans implants over as well, particularly when it comes to the intensity of the bum, boardman, the because the strip is placing and wrong con, how does that remo? yes. present terabyte and has once again called on israel to focus on protecting civilian lives. as it continues, it strikes on garza, the president is facing growing. chris doesn't move, hasn't ministration support for the is riley will white house correspondents company healthcare reports from washington, dc under pressure raven, israel's war on gaza. you as president joe biden on thursday called on israel to do more to protect palestinians from want to be focused on how to say civilian lives. not stop going to have to remind people, okay, more than 18000 palestinians civilians. mostly women and children have been killed in israel's current glass

national security adviser neighboring sullivan has been meeting with israeli leaders in the midst of a growing rift between the u.s. and israel. sullivan conveying president biden's escalating message about the importance of protecting civilians at the same time the israeli military tries to smash hamas. >> do you want israel to scale back its assault on gaza by the end of the year, do you want them to tone it down, move to a lower intensity phase? >> i want them to be focused on how to save civilian lives. not stop going after hamas, but be more careful. >> be more careful. sullivan met with prime minister netanyahu yesterday and this morning he met with president he herzog. and cnn asked him about the time line that the u.s. is pushing for israel to shift from high intensity warfare to lower intensity intelligence driven fighting. >> in-it is really important that those conversations take place first in the spirit of partnership. we're into the here to tell anybody you must do x or y. we're here to say this is our perspective as your partner, as your friend, this is the way we beli

it comes as us national security adviser, jake sullivan, is the region today, meeting the palestinianmahmoud abbas. and russia responds to the eu's decision to open membership talks with ukraine and moldova, saying it's a politicised action that could destabilise the bloc. we'll hear from moldova's president maia sandu. but first — prince harry has called on police to open a criminal investigation after a court in london ruled he had been the victim of phone hacking by a major newspaper group. mirror group newspapers has apologised. welcoming the decision, prince harry called it a "great day for the truth". thejudge awarded him damages of a hundred and $80,000. piers morgan, who edited the daily mirror between 1995 and 2004, has refused to accept the judge's assertion that he was aware certain stories were based on information hacked from prince harry's phone. here's our media editor katie razzall. a significant victory. in 15 articles about prince harry in all three mirror titles the newspaper group has been found to have intercepted five voicemails and gathered other information. ——

not from a ton of a great deal to listen to as far as the drake sullivan is concerned. we also have some messages full these by the government and the whole cabinet of the object sullivan is bringing a message from preston by and in the united states. remember, abide and as whether the incredible faith international criticism, but his unequivocal support as well by and then the us administration doesn't feel the time is right for a cease fire, for example, a bite and says us assistance to israel will continue until i'm us is around to, to put 5, that's also said the public opinion could shift in to in grave ways. israel security and jake sullivan is bringing up message. and he's also, you know, who says he's here to discuss a time table to end of the war. and he says, the israel should be ready to move to a different phase from the kind of high intensity operations we're seeing now. but looking at the meetings we've had so fall with senior leaders and as well as government, there's no indication that they all ready to adhere to some sort of time. table adults, a time ta

have benjamin netanyahu. sullivan is in tennessee for me. things with his rouse will cabinets and will hold. discussions with, as well as president on friday earlier is reading defense minutes. so you don't have go on stressed to sullivan, but it'll take more than a few months. and garza to dismantle her mouse. but it's swift jones is now from television. i suppose we are just waiting to hear what came out of those meetings and how it will impact the situation on the ground, both in gauze and the political implications. both in the middle east and also in the us so so we've been hearing lots of come out of those meetings. remember that the jag sullivan was carrying a message, messages from joe biden, us president as whether in times international criticism phase on waving support of israel is it prosecute prosecution as will against thomas on the d 5. and still doesn't believe they also have ministration to doesn't believe the time is right for a ceasefire. and he says, for us to continue it support as well. i don't how much is route said, b

sullivan, no. the clerk: mr. tuberville, no. the clerk: mr. wyden, aye. the clerk: ms. murkowski, aye. the clerk: mr. heinrich, aye. mr. ricketts, no. the clerk: ms. stabenow, aye. the clerk: mr. booker, aye. the clerk: mr. crapo, no. the clerk: ms. butler, aye. the clerk: mr. durbin, aye. the clerk: mrs. murray, aye. the clerk: mr. markey, aye. the clerk: mr. schumer, aye. the clerk: mr. reed, aye. vote: the clerk: mr. fetterman, aye. the clerk: mr. whitehouse, aye. the clerk: mr. vance, no. mr. sanders, aye. the clerk: mr. lujan, aye. the presiding officer: the khweis are 49, the nays are 18. the motion is agreed to. of under the previous order, the postcloture time is expired. the question is on the nomination. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be o the clerk will call the roll. vote: the clerk: ms. baldwin. mr. barrasso. mr. bennet. mrs. blackburn. mr. blumenthal. mr. booker. mr. boozman. mr. braun. mrs. britt. mr. brown. mr. budd. ms. butler. ms. cantwell. mrs. capito. mr. cardin. mr. carper. mr. casey. mr. cassidy. ms. collins. mr. coons. mr. cornyn.

sullivan: you make a very good point.ident biden who put forward a supplemental funding request that included a substantial amount of funding for the border to enable us to have an effective and humane border security policy. and that should have bipartisan support. democrats and republicans should be able to come together around commonsense measures to ensure that our border policy is rational, effective and humane. democrats are ready to do that. it turns out that what the republicans are putting forward is a take it or leave it proposition. they are not prepared to have a serious discussion at this time. hopefully that will change, about border policy. and as a result they are holding ukraine funding hostage. two of their demands on the border. our view is that it is in america's core national security interest to fund ukraine against russian aggression. we can work together on the border, but ukraine should not be held hostage to the border. that would be a great mistake for our own national security and global stabil

i believe sullivan is pushing for an end to what he calls the high intensity phase in the war. but as well as defense minister told sullivan, it would take more than a few months to dismantle, how much the mox begins. are coverage the outside, the apple yusef on the job hospital in rough or to dominate the scene. the sound track kit is ceaseless grief. i beg you this woman cries, i want to see her for the last time. those here moan for them mothers, the assistance and best sons, but no amount of tears will change this reality. not measuring the ma about the image of all of a sudden the roof came down on a head. the whole family was gathered. my mother and brother with his wife and children. the house was hit by miss. so we did not feel anything of that. my mother was killed, the medical stopped race to respond despite risk to the safety. and then again, the it is difficult to get any way to get the wounded people because of the buttons being dropped, one off to the other, their wounded people every way. and the injury is a serious even like a. we reach one location and it's tal

sullivan, no. the clerk: mr. warner, no. ms. hassan, no. the clerk: mr. van hollen, no. mr. trump braun, aye. mr. padilla -- the clerk: mr. braun, aye, mr. padilla, no. vote: the clerk: mrs. capito, no. the clerk: ms. baldwin, no. mr. cotton, no. mr. schumer, no. ms. cinema, aye. ms. sinema, aye. mr. thune, no. the clerk: mr. casey, no. the clerk: mr. murphy, no. the clerk: mr. markey, no. ms. cantwell, aye. mr. marshall, aye. the clerk: ms. murkowski, no. mr. lee, aye. mr. moran, no. the clerk: ms. ernst, no. mr. boozman, no. mr. fetterman, aye. the clerk: mrs. fischer, fische the clerk: mrs. murray, no. the clerk: mr. sanders, aye. mr. scott of south carolina, no. the clerk: mr. lankford, no. mr. fetterman, no. the clerk: mr. rounds, no. the clerk: mrs. blackburn, no.t. vote: the clerk: mr. menendez, no. the clerk: mr. young, no. the clerk: mr. cassidy, no. the clerk: mr. warnock, no. the clerk: mr. kelly, aye. mr. crapo, aye. the clerk: mr. hoeven, no. the clerk: mrs. britt, no. the clerk: mr. carper, no. the clerk: ms. klobuchar, no. the clerk: mr. kennedy, no. mr. grass

in kind of a mr. sullivans and he is round to discuss a time table for ending the fighting. why fast and sadly bumps of war between each round on her master and as soon as possible, israel's defense minister told mister sullivan of the conflict is likely to last for several months. meanwhile, the humanitarian situation for people and cause it continues to was had to view an agency help him. palestinian refugees has just returned from his 3rd trip to the territory. and reports of widespread hung up in desperate conditions in a frenzy and rough uh as a trucks arrive and the gaza strip. people time been the grab bags of food before they can be properly distributed. the hunger here is widespread and punishing people are stuffing it. it trucks taking the food and eating it the right to wait. and this is how desperate and hungry so yeah. so supplies are running severely, no old model, but wanted to, to feed as many people as he can. he used to work as a cook in a restaurant before the war began. almost half of gauze population has now moved to the southern city of philadelphia. an

i mentioned jake sullivan met with his relapse president today, he met with the war cabinet yesterdaysullivan pledged continued us support for israel to laminate hamas but also spoke about israel transitioning to a more targeted phase of the war with less civilian casualties. sullivan met with the palestinian authority president as the us tries to establish a plan for what will happen in gaza after the war. israel rejects the idea of the palestinian authority governing gaza but that is what the united states is pushing for after certain changes are made. here is sullivan outlining those changes. >> we do believe the palestinian authority needs to be revamped and revitalize and updated in terms of its method of governance and representation to the palestinian people and that will require a lot of work by everybody who is engaged in the palestinian authority starting with the president, mahmoud abbas. >> reporter: it was significant after israel opened a crossing today, the second crossing open to gaza. previously documented area and it went through egypt. this will certainly help but n

and that is also the subject of jake sullivan's meetings with officials and players in the region. they want the to try and restart those hostage negotiations to try to look for another potential truce between israel and hamas to get more of those hostages at least eight of whom are believed to be americans out of gaza. >> appreciate all your reporting there. and now here in washington to capitol hill, where senators cannot go home for the holidays, not just yet. instead, senate negotiators were meeting today with president biden ease homeland security secretary. they are try ing to tie restrictions to aid. majority leader chuck schumer delayed the recess to give lawmakers more time to negotiate. lauren fox is capitol hill. what are you hearing from your sources about where those negotiations stand? >> reporter: i am just coming from standing right outside of that meeting, where we understand he has just left the capitol. senators are still in the room having those hard-fought conver conversations about if any middle ground to be found between republicans and the democrats on this

well, sullivan, i just finished one of his meetings. he's met with a nice lead ahead of the national security council. i'm the defense minister. you're delilah salon, wasn't offering a time table running the vegas of time tables. he said in front of sullivan, this more is going to take a long time. we need a few more. busy months to get read in order to get rid of hama, so that is what these riley defense minister has been saying. sullivan is now with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and we already know he has said it doesn't matter about international pressure. we will continue prosecuting this war in our own way, and the lights of what lights are on. towards the end of the day, he'll meet with the whole of the will cabinets. sullivan is also hoping to persuade these riley's to open. a crossing from is riley, is a gauze that will allow, in greater quantities, a few minutes a or an 8. and then is, what do we hearing about divisions within these, by the war cabinet. over the issue of sending negotiates is back to a call to as well have

reporter: state department and white house briefing here and jake sullivan national security adviser and two big themes and the criticism of the u.s. and at min strait and about 90 minutes ago, the state department addressed what the u.s. shown about the atrocitied committed on weapon for october 7. >> we've been briefed on a number of findings and we don't of course have our own independent assessments to make and no people on the ground conducting the assessments and hamas has committed atrocities both on october 7 and since october 7 and we only condemn those atrocities and support israel's actions to hold hamas accountable for them. reporter: iran poking the eye of the united states again. uss kearney shot down -- uss carney shot down drones in the red sea and at least 75 times u.s. troops in positions have been attacked since october 17 and national security adviser jake sullivan says the u.s. is discussing ways on how to respond. >> we have every reason to believe that these attacks while they were launched by the houthis in yemen were fully enabled by iran. we have seen this u

sullivan: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. mr. sullivan: mr. president, i want to begin my offering my sincere thanks to the chairman of the finance committee, my friend senator wyden of oregon. i'm honored to be on the floor with him today to talk about these housing issues and this really important bill, the workforce housing tax credit act. as he already mentioned, bipartisan and bicameral. now, as senator wyden already mentioned, our country's facing a lot of challenges right now -- inflation, fentanyl coming through our borders, national security threats all over the place overseas -- but it's very obvious, anyone reading the paper knows we're also experiencing in rural and urban america a severe housing cr crisis. everywhere i travel in the great state of alaska, i hear from alaskans reeling from the scarcity of housing, and it is everywhere -- anchorage, fairbanks, sit ca -- sitka, kodiak, every rural village in my state. it's everywhere, mr. president. i know it's a big challenge in oregon, but it's a big challenge all over the country.

hello, i got looks like on this, jake sullivan has made some progress. we remember on wednesday, joe biden met with family members of the h us captives that are currently being held by hamas. and he's conveyed a message to netanyahu that he wants. so as hostages, once we're to release those clusters, to continue now until the last couple of weeks, these rarely positions fitting that there's no real opportunity for negotiations after the cease fire and did a couple of weeks ago now and then. yeah, i was administrations come out and said they do have a plan to restart in negotiations. they just not ready to execute it yet. but they believe they can do it next week when they believe it, or i will be in a stronger position in terms of his relationship with how much. so an indication that the families who have accused these really governments of playing russian roulette with our relatives lives, that that could be something happening next week. and the time sort of re stop negotiation to look to any possibility of responses. but a thank you, bonus smith, inte

the israeli prime minister after his meeting with jake sullivan did say that a main goal of this wart is to secure the return at the release of those hostages. so we will see if there's any traction after jake sullivan's visit to the region. >> definitely a threat to keep an eye on their. jeremy diamond, thank you so much. >>> still to come on news central, jury deliberations are underway in rudy giuliani's defamation trial. an attorney for the two georgia election workers is asking the jury to, quote, send a message with their verdict. we will take you live to the courthouse. >>> and -- telling cnn that it's highly doubtful that a deal on ukraine and israel will get done by the end of the year. however, we heard minutes ago that there might be a change to their holiday plans. we will have more details on that just ahead. >>> turn deliberations are underway in the defamation trial against rudy giuliani. this comes after the former trump attorney decided not to testify in the case. >> in a final pleated the jury, the attorney for the two former georgia election workers said giuliani s

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sullivan that that needs to take place. first, it is the right thing to do.the humanitarian aid that has to get in. there has to be humanitarian corridors. they have to be much more protect double of civilians in the area. it is the right thing to do but it is also the smart thing to do. i fully appreciate their absolute right to try to dismantle and destroy hamas. they never will completely. but while you are attempting to dismantle hamas, you don't want to recruit future hamas shoulders. it is not just of military force, it is a movement. so the manner in which they do this will impact a great deal the challenges they face in the coming years. >> congressman, i want to pivot now to ukraine, we originally invited you want to talk about the stalled status of negotiations over sending aid to eastern europe. cnn has also learned that there is serious concerns among not just u.s. officials but officials in europe as well. without significant aid, ukraine could quickly fall to russian forces. given that your republican colleagues have been calling for a more well

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national to adviser jake sullivan. he national to adviserjake sullivan.nt of the palestinian authority man with a bass, and yesterday he had meetings with the israeli leadership. i think the message from the biden administration was that he was trying to tell the israeli military to change tactics in gaza and to move to a phase that he described as a more targeted and precise tax to target the hamas leadership in gaza. this obviously amid international pressure on the israelis as they have been concerns about mounting civilian casualties in gaza and also the worsening humanitarian situation. fighting in gaza continues and actually about 30 minutes ago we heard the air raid sirens here injerusalem, which is really unusual, and we actually heard the iron dome intercepting rockets here over the city. reports say that three rockets were intercepted by the country's military. the first time that jerusalem came under attack in several weeks. so again, jerusalem came under attack in severalweeks. so again, it jerusalem came under attack in several weeks. so agai

sullivan the war would last more than several months.aeli prime minister bennett you not ya oh is -- benjamin netanyahu is vowing absolute victory against hamas, designated a terrorist organization by several governments including the u.k. and u.s. arrest of hamas members in northern gaza. they are accusing israeli forces of preventing medical staff of providing care at the same hospital, causing two patients to die. in gaza the phone and internet networks are down again as the committed carried situation continues to deteriorate. the head of the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees says they do not have the ever structured to host the growing numbers of refugees headi to it. joining us now is our middle east correspondent who was in jerusalem. hugo, this message from the u.s. that it has told israel to mov to a lower intensity military operation, has the message been received? hugo: we had two messages from the israeli authorities, one from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who again said the war is going to continue until w

you have to go on say, just because it's a sullivan. so, you know, this is going to take many more than just a few months from us, has been years building up its capabilities. and it's going to take us a long time to come about how much in the way that we want to do the speculation. and tools, but it's about what's going on within the wall cabinets and how to move forward either with operations or with mediation. what, what were you hearing about this as well, we know that the families of the cap saves a very, for straight, said the not hearing anything about negotiations at the moment. they've said a statement of earlier on today that they fail to come to playing russian roulette . so they want to update dues, the faithful fries and tools. while it seems that the war cabinet is in agreement, that there's no points. and i'm also i've had traveling to cap it at the moment because these are eligible cabinet police. how about the trip and gaza has lost touch with lost contact with almost his leadership in doha. so there's no point going to

let's just stick with jag sullivan's trip to, to the region to begin with. i mean, the americans have reiterated that they want to as well to lower the intensity of it's more and guides a bit, as well as pushback, time and time again saying that going to continue until they have court does not netanyahu's court, absolute victory. it doesn't appear at this stage no matter what the u. s. is that israel is going to listen. i'm going to continue doing whatever they want. is that how you say? is it? yes to me. i mean, obviously both is it under us are still united over the same goal, which is pulling down from us. and that's a, that's a big goal that she, i mean my perspective it's, it's under, at a single. i mean, let's just imagine the scenario. i mean, minutes only, of course, i mean is our last drop of hands. i mean, it will take the more time you know that the minute to conduct the presenting might be a softer in the next coming months, but eventually they put in promise minutes. and that's that, how much is an idea? how much is the political ideology? so th

we expect a jake sullivan to head to ramallah in the coming hours. what are you bringing with him and what kind of reception can you expect as well, he means of the palestinian president about ready to boss at a $1300.00 local time. we'll see bringing with him when he's talking about a revamped palestinian authority and concerns over the buttons. visa, really settlers, it's the revamped palestinian authority that is going to be of key interest here. no one really knows what that actually means. now it's something that the us have been talking about for a few weeks now. they want the palestinian authority to take over. and the goal is a strict once the shooting stumps. that's something israel says cannot happen. israel has been very clear on its position, but it says the deals low quote, the piece price that was signed in 1993 has been a failure and that one's a military occupation of the goals are stripped once the shooting will actually stops. however, um the palestinian or far as he has been very keen to take part in tools, but they haven't actuall