at some pictures and we can rewrite the video and show it to our viewers again, it looks like tony blinken was a shaking hands with some of the protesters who were sort of aligned his route as he was walking from meeting to meeting their and tel aviv. and it appears that he's shaking hands in greeting some of these protesters who i believe are calling for the release of those hostages being held by hamas at least those are some of the folks who were there. what i can tell in these signs, your assessment as to how blinken his handling this latest round of shuttle diplomacy >> i mean, this has numbers, emperors, you mentor having 66. and before this conflict is done hopefully in the post-conflict stage, maybe some diplomacy secretary states going to shoot pack a few extra shirts in his bag because he's going to be going back and forth. hopefully, if we're lucky, quite a few times, look, i think the main action here, jim frankly, un security council vote today be told by the russians, the chinese, and the algerians. but the main action frankly is not in jerusalem. i think it's in doha because

joining the ongoing talks to secure the release of israeli hostages that have been ongoing and tony blinken says, may be showing that they're getting making gaining some ground let's talk about this un security council resolutions. cnn's richard roth is at the united nations. cnn's oren liebermann is in washington for us richard. >> what are you expecting? what's happening with this resolution today bringing us up to speed? >> well, the us ambassador to the united nations is speaking now, and linda thomas-greenfiel d just said regarding the negotiations over to c's their we believe we're close we're not there yet. there is going to be a vote shortly on a resolution. another resolution regarding the israel conflict. and this resolution produces new language from the us as which wrote up and has written heard on this resolution with other member countries, the big change again in the language is that the united states is agreeing to lighten which says there's an imperative of a immediate and sustained ceasefire to protect civilians on all sides. it's not clear if russia is gonna go along with

for what is being described as an unauthorized trip to hold talks with vice president harris, tony blinkend other top officials. he is seen as a rival to netanyahu. all of this comes as the official death toll in gaza has topped 30,500. for more we go to rafah for an update from akram al-satarri, the gaza-based journalist. your brother was at the aid convoy went israeli soldiers opened fire. what did he explain to you happened, what is now being called the flour massacre, for the flo people wereu coming to get to make breadr? [no audio] [no audio] amy: israeli forces they said did that attacked the convoy but most of the fatalities were caused by a stampede. at the same time the director of the hospital told united nations some 80% of the wounded brought into the hospital had been shot. if you could respond further? >> [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] expecting more of the misery and death and displacement so the international community is failing and i don't think the palestinians trust any statements made by the israeli army about her limited investigation because there were many prelimi

he made the announcement after caribbean leaders, a secretary of state tony blinken, and others heldn emergency meeting in jamaica to discuss the crisis in haiti where armed groups launched in uprising last week against henry. he announced his resignation in a video message posted online. >> after the council of ministers, it is been agreed to set up a presidential transitional council. once chosen, the council will govern over different sectors. haiti wabts peace. haiti needs to rebuild democratic institutions. i'm asking all haitians to remain calm and do everything they can for peace and stability to come back as fast as possible for the good of the country. amy: "the miami herald" is purporting caricom will appoint an interim prime minister who would rule until elections are held. barbados prime minister said the panel would only include patients who support the deployment of a u.n. fact security force. last week prime minister ariel henry travel to kenya, which is slated to leave the security mission. he is been them able to return home and was reportedly -- he has been unable t

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secretary of state tony blinken will travel to the middle east tomorrow, his sixth trip to the regionar broke out. speaking to reporters in manila today, blinken laid out the dire and historic stakes. >> according to the most respected measure of these things, 100% of the population in gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity. that's the first time an entire population has been so classified. >> nbc correspondent matt bradley is joining us now. while this is happening, you have israel confirming it is going to send this delegation to washington at the ask of president biden and their call with bibi netanyahu yesterday to discuss really the plan to invade rafah. which is really opened a rift between the two allies. what can you tell us about the diplomacy that is happening right now? >> it is two parallel diplomatic tracks that are happening right now. you were just mentioning the negotiations in washington. israel confirmed that it will send a delegation to washington to discuss alternatives to a ground invasion of rafah, that city in gaza's southern most edge, well over a mi

>> well, jim, some optimism from key players, including the secretary of state, tony blinken, who said that he believes that gaps are narrowing between a hamas and israel over a potential ceasefire agreement that could see something like a six-week pause in the fighting, the release of dozens of israel kelly hostages. but he also made clear that while he thinks an agreement is very much possible, we've heard from a number of other sources familiar with the talks that there are still major differences that remain between these two sides. and it's not quite clear yet exactly how some of those gaps will be bridged, including the fact that hamas is still pushing for i'm kind a permanent ceasefire, an agreement on a permanent ceasefire once the israeli hostages are released, once this first batch, i should say, of israeli hostages are released. so clearly there is some momentum. there is some progress in these negotiations but key moments still remain to be determined in terms of what the direction will actually be. that's why the secretary of state is meeting today in cairo with key player

governing council is created his resignation under pressure after a crisis meeting secretary of state tony blinken held with caribbean leaders in jamaica late into the night. >> a political crisis, escalating violence, unrest this has created an untenable situation for the haitian people. >> reporter: henry is widely blamed for the worst turmoil in haiti's long troubled history. gangs attacking police stations, breaking prisoners out of jail, leaving the poor and thousands displaced. >> they're selling their stuff to survive. and security crisis has turned into a humanitarian crisis. >> reporter: henry has denied a judge's report he helped plot the assassination of haiti's president in 2021 he promised to hold elections, but never did. a u.s. special envoy in haiti quit to protest u.s. policy there. what do you think is the critical problem >> we have never let them choose their leaders. the u.s. needs to give them space just one time. that's all they're asking >> reporter: in florida's haitian-american community, terry isaac is desperate to rescue his wife and 6-month-old baby with a heart condit

the narrative in the international negotiations over what a post war settlement would look like, tony blinken has been going around, the u.s. secretary of state on his shuttle diplomacy, to try and determine the outcome of this conflict, but it's not up to tony blink, and it shouldn't be up to the united states. the united nations uh, and the quartet are the people who are supposed to be in charge of the negotiations here, because following the 1967 war and the resolutions that were passed at the united nations for a just lasting and comprehensive deal, including a state for the palestinians, the return uh... the return of the palestinian refugees, the end of the occupation, it's supposed to be the quartet, the uh, which includes the united nations, the eu, the united states and russia, who are handling the negotiations for their overall settlement of the conflict in israel, palestine, but instead, the united states continues to try and maintain the narrative and the the discussions over the post war settlement. i give you one example right: now and that's the foolish idea of the united state

rafah was one of the many topics discussed with jake sullivan, tony blinken, lloydusn and bill burns.d to reschedule the meeting dedicated to rafah so we're now working with them to find a convenient date that's obviously going to work for both sides. but his office has agreed to reschedule that meeting that would be dedicated to rafah which is a good thing. reporter: on that note, we hadde prime minister's office saying that netanyahu did not approve the departure of the delegation to washington. so disputing that they ad you t might be going on? karine: i would say we are working to set a date. the prime minister's office agreed reschedule this meeting. you saw that the defense -- israel defense minister was here for two days, extended a day, and added another day to meet with jake sullivan, tony blinken, lloyd austin. and bill burns. so that is the conversation that we're having. we are working to convene that meeting, an important meeting on rafah and when we have a date, certainly we'll share that with you. that is what we know from ourside.o get into specifics of those conversat

wrote that she is going to retire after 35 years of service, she told us about it. her boss is sad tony blinkend that she intends to step down as under secretary of state for political affairs in the coming weeks. it is the influence of victoria in ukraine that diplomats and foreign policy experts will study for many more years. her efforts were essential to resisting putin's full-scale invasion of ukraine, to forming a global coalition, and to helping ukraine reach that day. when it can firmly stand on its feet, democratically, economically and militarily, and this statement, so to speak, consists of two parts, well , there he... more truly written, well, about the last aid to ukraine in achieving the day when she will be able to stand firmly on her feet, no, just thanks to vika, ukraine will no longer be able to stand on her feet at all, because half of her legs are already gone, and she is already standing swaying, because ukraine, well, in general, has already been, this map shows this, in fact, the ukraine that victoria began to study, it no longer exists and will not exist, that’s exactly

country and his hope you get the compensation you deserve, 800 to eight to 44, 44 secretary state, tony blinken, just wrapped up his meeting with his qatari counterpart as israel. the israel hamas ceasefire talks are ramping up. this video is just from a short time ago and in the next hour, blinken is expected to meet with israeli war cabinet member benny gantz, who was also meeting with defense secretary lloyd austin as part of a three-day trip to meet with senior biden administration officials and cnn's chief national security correspondent, alex marquardt joins me now alex, tell us more about these talks. i mean, obviously at a very critical moment a critical moment, and the meetings today here in washington just underscore how important these talks >> are and the figures who are involved in these talks. now, what is clear, jim, is that even though there has been some progress in the past few weeks negotiators are still struggling to get israel and hamas on the same page. and the clock is ticking. the us has repeatedly said that they want to have a ceasefire in place by the muslim holy month

, well, his assistant was there, but no, well, the great diplomat tony blinken is doing everything to of the influence of the diplomatic the united states in the world, which is why the goal of election interference activities, well , formally called election monitoring for... was to influence what lawyers and international experts they call the internal external sovereignty of the state, as for the internal sovereignty of the state, if we talk about russia, we have always been a sovereign power at all stages of our history, that’s what concerns external sovereignty, somehow in the nineties we were drawn into this game, that external sovereignty needs recognition, but it must be confirmed and for this it is not... it is necessary to fulfill a lot of conditions that were formulated for us, and there, say, in the ninetieth year of the csce, then the meeting on security in europe, adopted such a very strange, strange decision , it’s called the copenhagen document, well, essentially it’s a declaration, where three pages are devoted to the standards of democratic elections, where in thesis

i want to go straight to the secretary of state, tony blinken. he is speaking right now about his latest efforts at diplomacy and israel. let's go to that now. >> i also had a chance to meet with the hostage families again, and it's hard to describe what they're going through every single thank we made progress in the last couple of weeks on the hostage negotiations. closing gaps. but almost by definition, when you get down to the last items they tend to be the hardest. so there's still a lot of work to be done hard work to be done, but we're determined to try to get it done >> we >> also talked about the imperative of surging and sustaining humanitarian assistance for the people in gaza 100% of the population of gaza is acutely food and secure 100% is in need of humanitarian assistance. or they've been some positive steps taken in recent days to improve this situation, but it's not enough. and we talked about what needs to happen to get much more assistance to many more people, more effectively? >> we >> also talked about rafah >> we share >> is

you now have benny gantz eating with vice president -- meeting with vice president and tony blinken andhington, d.c. do you see the government falling apart? >> i don't know if the government will fall apart. we need to remember the hamas -- october 7, hamas killed 1400 people, take 254 hostages. they were in their pajamas. the situation in gaza now as well as the hamas doesn't care about the israeli people and doesn't care about the gazan people. i think -- i don't know if the government will fall apart. the prime minister, bringing back the hostages is not his priority. his first priority is to stay prime minister. if the government falls apart, he is in a very difficult situation. [indiscernible] amy: let me go to eman abdelhadi . if you can respond to what she said? we just got this news, according to cbs news, five people were killed friday by an airdrop package when at least one parachute failed to properly deploy and the parcel fell on them. we have just 30 seconds. >> hamas is reacting to a 16 year siege. i'm not promoting what they did on october 7, but to say this whole issue

we've seen tony blinken negotiating for getting aid through the rafah crossing.curity council a responsible posture. do we throw donald trump in there with-- >> can we stop this. >> bombastic and did $. >> can we stop this? can we please stop this? this has nothing to do with donald trump. it isn't responsible to-- >> it's a choice that. >> port for hamas. >> a chase for people to make in november and about having someone responsible. >> you're right. >> flame thrower-- >> that's absolutely, positively no diplomatic tightrope you favor terrorists or don't. favor the burning of babies or you don't and right now the biden administration is saying they do. they're wrong and chuck schumer a wrong and you're wrong, tim, stop it. >> that's the type of rhetoric that we don't want-- >> shame on you. jacqui: on both sides of this issue, that are not going away anytime soon and everything that the president does matters which is why i think the white house should probably clarify their stance because people are looking for answer. appreciate your time, both of you. hope to

tony blinken has morteroneend w testosterone then general milley. i don't understand what the hell is going on here. >> laura: well, mark milley did talk about the chain of command today. watch this. >> one thing that you may take a look at is the law on lead federal agencies with respect to evacuation operations.r who has decision authority anda right now, investor secretary of state commander and control indecision and authority and who was in charge matters. whenll you make these calls matter. so i think that is somethingrt,t believe, by the law but i'm not positive but i think it is. >> laura: lieutenantstat colonel, so the state department we hear made this call, but d obviously, we don't elect is generals.nd be elected president. so he he is the commander in c. presumably, he was on top of all the details, right question rick who is in charge of your question >> well, one of the bie problems iske they want to do something but didn't want to take responsibility so you have this disaster here. and i give just a little bit ofi leewaygi in that th

tony blinken has more testosterone than general milley. i don't understand what the hell is going on here. >> laura: well, mark milley did talk about the chain of command today. watch this. >> one thing that you may take a look at is the law on lead federal agencies with respect to noncombatant evacuation operations. who has decision authority. right now the law is ambassador and secretary of state. command and control and the decision authority and who is in charge matters. and when you make these calls matter. so i think that's something. i believe it's codified in law, actually, about the department -- i'm not positive about that but i think it is. >> laura: lt. colonel so the state department we hear made this call. we don't elect generals. he is the commander-in-chief and presumably he was in the situation room on top of all these details, right? who is in charge here? >> that's really one of the big problems there was a lot of guys that kind of wanted to do something but didn't want to take responsibility so then you have this disast

and i'm highly troubled by the fact that tony blinken and the whole world is getting together but wherere the haitians? come on. >> so why is the u.s. not pressing him to resign? >> i would posit that he was a their choice and they don't want to admit that they were wrong. >> so how do you grow any kind of political system there? i was there when the elections were held and you notice how that ended up. >> i believe -- let's just between 2010. clinton administration put their finger on the scale and got him elected. moise was elected in disputed elections. never legitimate. the u.s. backed him ashe let parliament dissolve. and then we install henri and let him run haiti into the ground. so the hitian people are saying why can't we come up with our own solution. there was a solution. civil society called the montana agreement for an interim agreement and roadmap toward restoring a government and eventually handling elections. the u.s. has ignored that. it has unravelled to a certain extent. but i'm confident if the haitians are in power, that they will reach a political agreement in whic

. >> doesn't tony blinken always look like he lost his best friend by the way.se people couldn't evacuate from afghanistan they are going to restore democracy in haiti? money down a rat hole that we will have to borrow or print again. now, a real leader like glold governor ron stance protects his people first and certainly doesn't waste their hard earned money. he has put his border agents on high alert for refugees to try reach florida. that is good news, look, it's no coincidence that we're seeing chaos break out all across the globe when we have a weak debilitated president at home why would americans support throwing billions to other countries when they see our government sabotage our own country it, don't make sense. it's not that we don't have sympathy for haiti, of course we do. their problems are decades old. and our meddling has usually made things worse. >> we reach countries are produced a lot of food, sell it to poor countries and relieve them of the burden of producing their own foods. may have been good for some of my farmers in arkansas but it ha

doesn't tony blinken always looked like he lost his best friend, by the way?se people couldn't evacuate from afghanistan, but they are going to restore democracy and 80ro? money down a rat hole that we will have to borrow or print again. a real leader like florida governor ron desantis protects his people first and certainly doesn't waste their hard-earned money.or he put his border agents on high alert for refugees who tried to reach florida. that is good news. but will commit is nol coincidence we are seeing chaos break out all across the globe e have a week debilitating precedent at home.ul why would americans support throwing billions to othery se countries when they see this government sabotage our own country? it makes no sense!e it's not that we don't have sympathy for haiti, of course, we do bet their problems are decades old. oursr meddling hase. usually mae things worse.coun >> week rich countries put a lot of food to sell to poor countries and leave them athe f burden with producing their owns foodas. it may be good for farmers in h arkansas, but it

joe biden and tony blinken and chuck schumer rather than blaming benjamin netanyahu and puttiaputtingressure on him sd be helping the her on hamas. not only to win this war but help bring back those hostages some of whom are american hostages it's very disappointing to see joe biden chuck schumer apparently more concerned about placating the anti-semitic faction that helping an outlet like israel. >> more than a million siblings or shelter there as well. many of the left of the parts of there. >> if you are to protect the siblings a simple way would be for hamas to release those hostages and to unconditionally surrender. shannon: for quickly because we've got to go tick to tiktok y bill sitting in the senate seems like it stalled out at this point. >> i agree on this rare occasion with chuck schumer. chuck shaver has had publicly we should force tiktok to be sold to american business but that's what this bill would do. it would force tiktok's a chinese communist influence parent company to divest it but we've done that repeatedly with chinese companies and other companies and processe

tony blinken is in middle east meeting with officials as talks for a cease-fire and a hostage releaseatar. blinken is expected to go to israel on friday. joining us is raf sanchez. a lot going on. hamas had a news conference. there's so much in play. i was told the talks were going. they were not cut off. there are some new offers, a little bit of wiggle room, expectation the prime members, the negotiators might go back next week. raf? >> reporter: yeah, andrea. we heard from a member of hamas' political bureau earlier saying that the talks have taken, from his perspective, a negative term. he says hamas put forward this latest proposal. israel rejected it. there obviously is a lot of briefing on both sides, both sides trying to strengthen their position at the negotiating table, trying to blame the other side for speed bumps. as far as we know, the talks are continuing. they are underway in qatar earlier this week. the head of the mossad, the israeli spy agency was there representing israel in those talks. that's a sign that at least as of monday, israel felt that these negotiations

the secretary of state, tony blinken today emphasizing that it would need to be a feasible plan that the united states would have to see it before the israeli military moves forward with such an offensive jeremy the backdrop of all of this is the ongoing talks to try to exchange hostages for >> prisoners and to do at least a temporary ceasefire fire. a what's the status of those talks now >> well, over the last several days, we've been hearing that we were nowhere near a deal. there was a lot of pessimism about these talks. but today, hamas is providing a new counterproposal, which the israeli security cabinet began reviewing today. and so there is some sense of momentum, but also very clear that these two sides remain very far apart. here are some details that are colleague alex marquardt confirmed from a diplomat familiar with these negotiations under this proposal was all hamas would release israeli women, children, sick and elderly hostages as part of a first phase of this agreement in exchange hamas is asking that israel release he's 700 to 1,000 palestinian prisoners, including

and wasn't a coincidence that secretary thursday, tony blinken happened to be there right around that was having talk about something in your face every inch of the way they didn't using more military force than the united states thought was wise. lots of civilians, tens of thousands of civilians have been killed in addition to hamas fighters, they'd been resisting do what the united states wanted in the way of making i'm sure enough humanitarian aid guide in there. what i just don't see is an effort to bridge the differences. i'm not saying fried. look, i was in government several times working on these issues. states and israel's often disagree. but for the most part, there is a good faith effort to bridge the disagreements that's what i don't see here. >> and you think the bibi netanyahu strategy is fundamentally wrong. you laid out, you had a wonderful wall street journal asieh, we explained it you talked about how there could have been a much more targeted approach, one that took into account humanitarian conditions why do you think they didn't at some less, some of it is bb but

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mike: you are meeting with secretary of state tony blinken tomorrow.ing? >> well, i have to convey the anxieties of people from the eastern flank and lithuania. we're really worried what is going to happen. and just mere narrative it is or wishful thinking is not enough. this is not what we have to do. we cannot tell that ukrainians did some good job is, because they did, but still war is fought from -- far from over and we're still far from winning. and we need to get our act together from both sides of the atlantic. and we're ready to do our part on the eastern flank. we're very serious about this. we're spending 2.77% this year of gdp towards our defense. we have plans to even go beyond 3%. our neighbor, poland, is already at 4%. and we're really doing as much as we can. but we need our allies with us in order to stop putin, to save ukraine and to secure the eastern flank of nato. mike: thank you so much for coming in it's great to have you, sir. safe travels. >> thank you. mike: a long overdue ceremony took place on capitol hill to honor a secretiv

fact, a meeting today with a number of high-ranking us official those like jake sullivan, like tony blinken and john kirby, making clear that in these meetings today, despite that delegation not coming later in the week, us officials are going to be talking about and pressing for alternatives to a major ground incursion into rafah. take a listen >> still believe that we have learned some key lessons about how to dismantle a terrorist network had a decapitate its leadership. how to starve it of resources, and how to put pressure on its fighters on the battlefield and we were looking forward to, and i think you are looking forward to having the opportunity to share some of those lessons and perspectives with the israelis now. >> in other words, a us still urging the israelis to basically skip a major ground incursion into rafah and consider these highly precise and targeted attacks in southern gaza. instead, the big question of course is whether these rayleigh's are going to heed that advice remember initially is really officials had said that they were going to go ahead and go into rafah at

be the only option is quite something it's other other news we're following secretary of state tony blinken is an egypt today meeting with the egyptian president, the state department describes the meeting this way today that they discussed negotiations to secure an immediate ceasefire for at least six weeks. and also the release of all hostages cnn's jennifer hansler has much more on the trip. the negotiations, the long negotiations that they have been working on for quite some time. jennifer blinken said yesterday that the sides are getting close to securing closer, if you will, to securing a ceasefire and the release of hostages. how close is closer? well, >> kate blinken said yesterday that the gaps are narrowing and he believes an agreement is very much possible. he said they are continuing to work with egypt, with qatar and with israel on what he described as a very strong proposal to secure the release of the hostages in exchange for what you described at least a he's six week ceasefire. now we should note that hamas did not accept that initial proposal and blinken said they have com

you're actually moving forward within the committee with possibly holding the secretary of state, tony blinken in contempt for withholding documents related to the withdrawal. i want to ask about that because greg meeks, ranking democrat he's calling this move a stunt and saying that you all are picking a process fight because you don't have the evidence to help your case in your investigation what is the question you think remains unanswered about the withdrawal that's driving this investigation still well, i have a lot of respect for greg friend of mine. that's political rhetoric. i like this is not about you getting heads, you know, this is about getting to the truth all we want for the families of the 13 servicemen and women who were killed. it abbey-gate and quite frankly the afghans who were killed and the americans left behind in our afghan partners left behind and the chaos that afghanistan during that evacuation, we just want the truth that's why general milley, the former chairman of joint chiefs and sitcom commander mackenzie, or they're going to testify before my committee next wee

and he is in dc, he's gonna be meeting with vp kamala harris, as you said, with secretary state tony blinken, national security adviser, jake sullivan, as well as other lawmakers and pro israel lobby groups. and what he's gonna be doing is conveying israeli messages, advocating for israel's war with hamas and its war objectives, namely destroying hamas and getting those 100 or so hostages back home into israel. and also discussing tensions in the north of israel between the iranian proxy hezbollah and israel where things have been simmering. there's for tat fire on a daily basis and where the us is very adamant that there shouldn't be an escalation into full-blown war, but there is a bit of a subplot going in here, going on here as well, because benny gantz doesn't seem to be going with the blessing of prime minister benjamin netanyahu and only seems to have informed the prime minister on friday. and there are a number of comments in the israeli media and also even on x for example, one of netanyahu's justice ministers describing benny gantz as something of a trojan horse on his trip to the

and a secretary of state, tony blinken is now saying that the united states is yet to actually see those plans from israel, and that the feasibility and seeing the details of those plans will be crucial to know whether or not israel should move forward with this operation, will amidst all of this, jeremy has sources now telling cnn that talks on a potential gaza ceasefire are moving and what the source describes as a positive direction. what do we know? >> well, there does seem to be some momentum as hamas has now submitted a new counterproposal that includes some specific numbers of the numbers of palestinian prisoners that it would like to see released as part of this deal in exchange for those israeli hostages but those numbers are still higher than israeli officials would like to see them. and in a statement about this latest proposal, the israeli prime minister's office indicating that it's still finds hamas's demands ridiculous. so there's still clearly a lot of gap to be bridged here. but the israeli government intending to send a delegation to doha, qatar to pursue those negotiat

and the us government, for its part, including secretary of state tony blinken saying that they haven't yet seen those plans from the israeli government, and they are also emphasizing that they do need to see those plans to ensure that it is not only feasible to move that population, but also to know that the accommodations where they will find themselves afterwards will be appropriate. >> and jeremy give us the latest of the first humanitarian aid delivery to gaza by sea >> yeah. well, if the world central kitchen facilitated this operation, nearly 200 tons of food, which would make about 500,000 meals arriving in northern gaza earlier today 100 over 100 pallets of aid were unloaded. and now questions about how exactly that aid will be distributed. we've seen, of course, major security issues surrounding the distribution of that aid in part because of the enormous desperation on the ground. in particular, in northern gaza, working cases of acute malnutrition are rapidly rising, but there is some hope that more aid will soon come in. this maritime corridor, set to be expanded more ships

tony blinken talked a little bit about this in the course of his trip. watch what he said children should not be dying of malnutrition in gaza or anywhere else for that matter 100% a of the population of gaza is experiencing severe levels of acute food insecurity >> we cannot >> we must not allow that to continue i mean i have to say this is the one place in particular where it seems obvious, right? like y, why is the us allowing this to be so bad? i mean, can we not be doing more to prevent this? >> we need to be doing more. and as a jewish american, it's incredibly trump i'm willing to watch this, especially as the passover is coming. easter, it's ramadan, right now. we should not be witnessing starvation and hunger as a policy. and my fear is that the israeli government consistently tries to prevent more aid from getting into gaza and has not set up mechanisms inside gaza. for the certitude of distribution of that food. there are international, there are international agencies. the world food, food programme, for example, is there but they're not gett

. >>> secretary of state tony blinken is in cairo pushing for a gaza cease fire. it's his sixth trip to israel since the war broke out. confirming that the u.s. has submitted a draft resolution to the u.n. security council, which calls for a, quote, immediate and sustained cease fire tied to the release of all remaining hostages. the biden administration has vetoed three previous cease fire resolutions. nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is joining us with more on this. it's good to talk to you, my friend. talk about how this draft resolution is different from the ones that the united states has blocked previously and when it could be put up for a vote. >> it could actually be put up for a vote very quickly, i believe in 24 hours. it's now so-called in blue, so it is ready to go, maybe even sooner. the biggest difference is they even made some last minute changes. it now calls for an immediate and sustained cease fire, and that is a longer cease fire and the language is a little bit modified so that the hostage release is no longer in coo

he is scheduled to meet with secretary of state tony blinken this afternoon and with defense secretaryl be able to have conversations about these alternatives the u.s. would like to put in front of israel. jose. >> aaron gilchrist in washington, thank you very much. i want to go quickly to vaughn hillyard. vaughn, i understand that the recess is over in that trial in new york city. >>> donald trump just walked back into the courtroom, of course, while they were on this recess on this hearing unrelated to the bond that he was going to have to put up today. of course, the appellate court did order that donald trump does not have to put up a bond for more than $450 million. instead, a bond of $175 million. donald trump did just address cameras saying he appreciated the decision of the appellate court. continued to bash judge engoron, who put up the initial decision that he would owe and have to put up this initial bond here. there is a reporter in the room that asked the question of whether he'd turn to a foreign entity to help cover the $175 million bond. there's still serious questions

at the same time, secretary of state tony blinken has been in meetings this morning with the israeli prime minister and his war cabinet in tel-aviv >> and >> cia director bill burns is traveling to qatar to try and push negotiations to secure the release of israeli hostages forward. today, there's a lot going on, so let's get to cnn's paul handcuffed. she's in doha those negotiations are taking place, but all let's start in tel aviv where the secretary of state is, what do we know about what the meetings with netanyahu and the war cabinet, what's happening now? >> okay, this is certainly part of this intensive diplomatic push that we are seeing to secretary of state, as already met with the israeli prime minister. there were concerns it would be a fairly tense meeting. is relations between the two have not been great as of late and uncertain the focus would have been for a secretary blinken pushing more humanitarian aid into gaza. israel has been broadly criticized by countries around and the world, including the united states for not allowing enough in for restricting humanitarian a

desperately needed as far as the humanitarian situation in gaza is concerned, secretary of state tony blinken, arriving in the region today, he is set to arrive in israel on friday to pursue further discussions with israeli leaders as they consider hamas is latest counterproposal and prepare one of their own will >> jeremy diamond and jerusalem. thank you very much. i want to bring you in right now, congressman jim himes of connecticut, he's the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. first of all, on this continued raid of the al-shifa hospital in gaza. do you believe israel is operating in line with international law how do they keep the thousands of civilians trapped there out of harm's way >> well well, if you know the none of us really know exactly what's happening today, right there. but i will tell you this, which is that if hamas, as a military entity is using that hospital to shelter equipment, to shelter, they're menn then the hospital ceases to have the protection that a hospital typically would have would have that does not mea

. >> so that's why he's >> ostensibly there to meet with vp kamala harris, tony blinken, secretary ofte, jake sullivan, national security advisor, as well as other lawmakers and also pro israel lobby groups. but according to israeli media and even tweets from prime minister benjamin netanyahu's own ministers in his broader coalition government. benny can seem so maybe have gone a little bit rho, he didn't go there with the pre-approval of prime minister and yahoo who is set to be fuming at ganzares trip. the justice minister of netanyahu, describing gantz as a trojan horse on his visit to the united states. and i suppose the big concern here for netanyahu is that he may have been a bit outmaneuvered in the sense that poll after poll that has been done for israelis ever since it's october the seventh and the hamas-led terrorist attacks have shown that benny gantz is the most popular person in israel to be the next prime minister. and that if elections were held tomorrow, according to these opinion polls, his party would have more than double the number of seats that netanyahu's party w