>> if your cat sprays outside the litter box, fights with other cats or scratches the furniture, they could be telling you they are stressed. to help them feel more calm, try file optimal. tonight on 360, the truce ends in gaza, but the question about who knew what and when hamas was planning for october 7th are just beginning for israeli officials. also tonight, two rulings, one civil and one criminal say the president is not responsible for actions he took as president leading up to january 6th. plus, george santos kicked out of the house. good evening, thank you for joining us. we begin with israel and hamas in the first day of fighting after a seven-day truce in gaza. israeli airstrikes resuming and west cause and according to hamas's interior ministry also targeting sites in the southern cities, they dropped a leaflet calling it quote, a fighting zone. hamas, for its part, resumed rocket attacks into israel, as for the hostages, sources are telling us both israeli and american officials believe hamas holds a number of women taken from the music festival on october 7th. an idf spokesman tonight, putting the number of women and children still captive at 17 out of 136 hostages and all. talks to free them continue in qatar, all of this israeli leaders dismissed attack plans for more than a year, leading up to the seventh. in a moment, former israeli president prime minister's take on that and renewed fighting, also sean miller is learning from his sources at the intelligence immunity, first the latest from cbn. >> reporter: this is what israel vowed would happen if hamas stopped releasing its hostages. after a seven-day pause and more than 100 freed, does is being pounded. they will force hamas to release . >> having chosen to hold onto our women, hamas will now take the mother of all thumping's. >> israel says it was hamas that broke the truce, firing rockets out of gaza, striking israeli tanks. but it is inside the gaza strip, where the intensity of this war has resumed. hospitals, already overwhelmed and facing a new flood of casualties. >> we cannot see more children with the wounds of war, with the burns and shrapnel littering their body with broken bones. in action by those with influence is allowing the killing of children. this is a war on children. >> reporter: and to protect civilians, israel has distributed leaflets in gaza, with links to this online map. dividing the entire territory into a grid. israel says it is warning palestinians which blocks to avoid. >> i'm asking you to look at this map carefully, an israeli military spokesman says in arabic. and move from your residence as instructed. but, with unreliable internet access, it is unclear how many gazans will get the message. it is unclear also know when there will be more hostages released. mediators say talks to free more are ongoing, despite the fighting until there is a new pause, relief for so many families may have to wait. >> well, anderson, behind the scenes, negotiations are going to continue to get more hostages released, but tonight, for the first time in more than a week, gaza is once again being shaken by israeli bombs. >> thank you. let's go to jeremy with a view of the fighting your israel's border with northern gaza. so, what have you been seeing this evening? >> well, anderson, it has been relatively quiet over the last hour, but earlier this evening we saw heavy military activity inside of the gaza strip, flares, explosions happening inside of gaza, but also the most significant barrage of rockets being fired from gaza into israel that i have seen in weeks. we saw dozens of rockets being fired from northern gaza into israel, including towards our position in israel. we saw very loud explosions, as the iron dome system intercepted those rockets right about our position. what is most significant about this is the fact that those rockets, we could actually see the rockets coming up from gaza in the northeastern most city, which is a city where the israeli military has been operating on the ground for weeks now, and, despite the fact that the israeli military has said that they are in control of northern gaza, this just goes to show that hamas still has the ability to operate there, still has the ability to fire rockets from there towards israeli towns and cities. it also comes, of course, after a week in which hamas, according to military analysts, may have had the opportunity to regroup and reassess, effectively, move its operations around, and that time period. that was a concern that military analysts out of that fragile truce that we saw over the week. but the israeli military is not only once again carrying out its bombing campaign in gaza but also moving its ground operations further south into southern gaza. that is what israel's military and political leadership has been telegraphing for weeks now and we have watched as that plan has started to move into action today. of course, the result of that, the result of the bombing campaign in particular in southern gaza today, resulting in the deaths of 178 people, according to the hamas -controlled palestinian ministry of health in gaza, and of course once again we are seeing devastating images of people wounded and injured, including women and children. anderson? >> thank you very much. we want to give you perspective from the prime minister of israel, i spoke to him just before airtime. mr. by minister, what is your response to the reporting from "new york times" that israeli intelligence had obtained a blueprint for the hamas attack ye before october 7th? >> it is not true, they had very good sources. it is probably true the investigation committee will find more. >> you believe that a report like that would have gone all the way to the top? to the prime minister's? >> no. i don't think that it could be responsible that there was no kind of early warning or so. that is a huge failure of our intelligence. >> there are high-level members of the military intelligence services who have accepted responsibility for their part in the failures of october 7th. the prime minister has not. do you think that is something he should do at this stage? >> look, in any normal country he would resign on the eighth of october in the morning or the evening. and in the uk they would not have resigned his members of cabinet to call upon him and convince him to resign. but israel is not a normal place. so, he tried to survive in spite of all of the, kind of evidence. he basically once this policy that hamas is an asset and they have been a liability for 5 years and was ready to provide them with protection, the qatari protection money to 1.5 billion over these five years and half of it, about half of it went to equip and prepare this attack. so anyhow, it is a major-- >> what you are saying, which some viewers may not understand, just want to clarify you are pointing out that you are saying that netanyahu was essentially propping up hamas and undercutting the palestinian authority in the west bank the idea of that was that because hamas would be unacceptable in the world stage that there wouldn't be a two state solution, because the palestinian authority was viewed as so we can corrupt and hamas was the only major player, so nobody would accept that, and that was a huge miscalculation. >> yeah, basically he said in his own words that whoever support blocking the path towards two state solution should support his attitude of paying hamas 3 million cash a month. >> there are a lot of people now, hundreds of thousands of people in the south. was it possible to wage war against hamas on the ground in the south, with all of those people around? >> i think that we will see certain differences in style, because of the different nature of the war being felt after all of the cities in the north will move to the south. it is too condensed in population to run the same kind of effect that we had in the north, but there will be a lot of pointing attacks against targets in any other place where we feel hamas culpability. but when we look at the overall picture we should bear in mind when the armed forces got the directive to destroy hamas capabilities, they said please to the political that it would need many months, probably more, and somehow everyone knows that usually you don't give it legitimacy. several weeks or months. so, this contradiction had to be closed. that is the responsibility of the government to make sure that the two cloaks are synchronized. not very complementing to our government. >> the former israel prime minister, thank you. >> thank you. i want to talk about what the prime minister intelligence monitor was here. >> they say the failure of imagination you don't think it is failure of imagination or intelligence? >> no, i think failure of imagination for which is a term coined by 9/11 referred to using passenger airplanes flown by terrorists as missiles. al qaeda engine did, we failed to imagine it before they did and we didn't know about it. you can't say is a failure of imagination when you look at the reporting from the times they say the israelis actually have the 40 page planning book. you don't need to imagine. it was all laid out. >> very detailed. you said it is not a failure of intelligence, but leadership. >> failure of intelligence means your intelligence failed they did. or your intelligence analysis fails. >> the analysts were right on target. >> analysts were pushing this, saying we have got to consider this real. and the leadership. that is where the failure is, the failure is the military intelligence leadership. the burning question that has not been approached yet either in this article or with anyone coming forward to say here's the answer is when they had that intelligence and that analysis, how far up the chain didn't make it? >> didn't yahoo, the prime minister, who saw it? >> yes, this is the prime level, the director of national intelligence and the fbi where we were briefed in the white house regularly. >> you would think a shocking report that says hamas has these capabilities that israel doesn't even realize they have and they are imagining and planning this massive attack, you would think that would go to the minister, benjamin netanyahu? >> you would think that and you would think that if it didn't, right away, because they considered it because of confirmation bias it is not how we are thinking, but it is possible, not likely that when the reservist is on the suspicious activity, men showing up with maps, bulldozers pulled in. >> during the trial run, when they were executing hostages? >> when you saw the actual training happening in camps and communications with a result of that that one thing would be added to another, which would be added to another, which should make, as they said, before 9/11, all of the lights flashing red. we didn't see that here. we saw the opposite. so, there's going to be a reckoning, and it is not between just the public officials and the politicians. anderson you know this, because you've been talking to them nightly for weeks. when the families of those taken hostages when the families of those killed, when the families of those left for dead and raped, those families organize the group, this will be something that the government is going to, you know, probably not survive. >> the-- i mean, what sort of capability, it is impressive that they were able to get this report. i mean, the fact that you know, they had a detailed report by hamas a year ago, shows they do have-- because that was a big question how could this have possibly happened and they didn't know about it? the intelligent people did know about it. >> you've got the report, so that is a paper document you can look through, but you've got the signals intelligence, where they are picking up reports on the training. you've got the witness reports from the reservist seeing activity on the fence line. that is way too much to write off in the spirit of confirmation bias, which is-- it just doesn't fit with our political assessment. >> also to think that they had in one military location six people on duty that day given they knew this plan was at least out there. thank you. next, two court rulings on the former president's claim that he cannot be held legally accountable for trying to overturn the 2020 election as he was acting in his official capacity. and later, somewhere george washington is smiling with a mythical cherry tree in light. while ananother geororge santos expepelled. more now in our breaking news of the federal judge overseeing's indictment has denied his attempt to dismiss charges based on presidential immunity. and one point in the ruling, the judge writes quote, defendant's for your service as commander-in-chief do not facilitate the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that covered his fellow citizens. this the day of the former setback of the former president of washington. an appeals panel says he can be sued related to his actions on the riot at the capitol. they sought to distinguish between campaign speech and official actions of a president. is a victory for the capitol police and lawmakers behind three separate cases affected by the decision was others who may speak seek civil damages. for more, we have peggy, the author of confidence man, the making of donald trump in america, and also carolyn, she is a white-collar criminal defense attorney who also lectures at columbia law school. a big, maggie, of a blow to the former president is this? >> it was always a longshot that this was going to go through or that she was going to real rule on her side, she made clear in previous rulings that claims that trump has been making or what his lawyer has been making, but what this does do is start the clock on an appeal that they will have go through the courts and possibly go up to the supreme court. no one knows how the supreme court will rule if they will even take it up. they have generally not cited with trump on any of his election related issues. they obviously have other issues. if they send this back or rule against him, the clock then starts on the trial, but this buys time for his team. so, this is not a surprising ruling, but it is a very lengthy ruling, and it refers to the nixon pardon, it refers to a number of things that counter what trump's team is arguing. >> what stood out to you in these rulings? >> yeah, look, earlier today, when the dc circuit came out with the ruling with respect to the civil context that was an easier bar to meet. presidential immunity is really anything that has been recognized by the supreme court since nixon versus fitzgerald, trump was trying to push it further in the criminal context, not surprising that she waited for her superiors to come out with the ruling this afternoon, and then immediately i agree with maggie, i think she wants to keep that march 4th trial date. this is the one thing that could potentially throw a wrench in those plans if the case is somehow stayed pending an appeal, i think he certainly will appeal this ruling as well as the dc circuit ruling, and i think it is right for a supreme court review. >> you think likely it would be stayed? >> just as maggie was say, you never know what the supreme court is going to do, they could take it, they could not, they could stay, they could not but i think that is sort of the? year, with respect to that. it is looking more and more like that is going to be the only trial that will get in under the gun before the election. >> it is it clear to you what other arguments the president might make to get this thrown out? >> i think this was a big one. i think getting it thrown out is going to be very, very hard. this was really it, this was the shot. it is possible, someone was suggesting to me today that the supreme court to take up the gag order issue. that seems a little less likely since this is a presidential power issue and it is broader that the other one is specific to trump as a defendant. i think this is it in terms of their shot of getting it thrown out entirely, nice next up it becomes just trying for acquittal or trying for hung jury or trying-- that is their best hope. this is a case that being tried in dc, trump's allies and advisors think is unlikely to go his way, just based on the events and based on what the jury will be, but that is down the road. >> there was also, maggie, the pretrial hearing in the georgia election case, what stood out to you there? >> it was interesting listening to this argument when the trial started, there is some suggestion that it should start in 2029 or something like that, well well down the road. what you've heard over and over again from the trump lawyers is there is such a volume of discovery, this is such an exotic case, and they said this, we need time to go through everything for discovery and time to look at the evidence in the mar-a-lago documents case, there are clearance issues there, there actually are in the january 6th case as well. little less so. it doesn't surprise me that they are talking about a delay, a delay of that much was surprising to me and i would be mostly surprised if it works. >> in georgia, the president's attorneys argue that this violates trump's free speech. >> yeah, and by the way they made that argument today in the motion as well, which she denied as well. but the 2029 date was under the scenario in which the judge asked trump's lawyers well, what would happen if you were to be elected president, essentially it would stop the clock on that time to prosecute, but i have a different perspective, because i'm the defense attorney. i think the august 2024 date is a bit aggressive. there is a backlog in the criminal in fulton county georgia criminal court and, you know, it cuts both ways. any criminal defendant should be not above the law, i think she's trying to push this case through and wants to get it in before the election i think it is pretty apparent. >> maggie, which of these cases do think the former president is most concerned about. >> i think he's concerned about all of them honestly come i think he's more concerned about the federal ones, the documents case in particular concerns them except for the judge in that case, one of his up on appointees and it is a more favorable jury, based on the counties at the courthouse. the january 6th case angers him for a variety of reasons, and you can see it when he talks about the election, as it relates to an event that he considered humiliating, which is having to leave the white house, so i think all of these things tied together, he's angry about the in manhattan indictment for different reasons, and there is no case that makes them feel good here, they are all bad. but they are most concerned right now about the january 6th one, because they think that is one that is likely. >> so you think the humiliation of having to leave the white house and the humiliation of having his supporters break in the congress? >> we've heard him defend that. so, that is not something that i have heard him sound any concession of shame about, publicly, to the point about fairness versus a speedy trial though, i think that you are going to hear that over and over again, and it is the one place where the trump team has a legitimate point about the fact that trump does have the same rights as any other defendant. appreciate it. coming up for the sixth time in u.s. history, he lawmaker was expelled from the house of representatives, the life, the times of george santos returns. you're probably not easily persuaded to switch mobile providers for your business. but what if we told you it's possible that comcast business mobile can save you up to 75% a year on your wireless bill versus the big three carriers? it's true. plus when you buy your first line of mobile, you get a second line free. there are no term contracts or line activation fees. and you can bring your own device. oh, and all on the most reliable 5g mobile network nationwide. wireless that works for you. it's not just possible, it's happening. closed captioning, brought you by feel away optimum, enhanced coming for cats. >> george santos, who was rarely out of the things he claims to be was exposed from congress today for being the one thing he truly is, a liar. tonight the 23 account federally a legend wonder and fraudster says he is now just one of six people would be kicked out of the house. he will be speaking the truth. here's a handyman changing the locks on his old office door shortly afterwards which is probably a wise move. the boat was 311-14. it came on the third try and more than half of the republicans were against his expulsion. the nace included house gop leaders and how speaker, mike johnson, in spite of a scathing ethics committee report accusing sent us of, among many things, stealing from his campaign and spending the money, among other things of botox and the website, only fans. max miller of ohio. >> i, myself, have been a victim of george santos. user, or a crook. >> his campaign, he said, fraudulently charged him and his mother's personal credit cards. is also accused of writing bad checks in both the northern and southern hemispheres, ripping off donations for disabled veterans, lying about being jewish, lying about being the grandson of holocaust survivors and more. >> and my name is anthony. >> i always joke i am catholic, but also jew-ish . >> my mom was a 9/11 survivor. she made it out. >> they sent me to prep school, which was hard with prep. >> i actually went to school on a volleyball scholarship. >> i remember, specifically, i'm into sports a little bit, that he was a star on the volleyball team, and that they won the league championship. what can i tell you? >> did you graduate from there? >> yeah. >> so did i. i did. i graduated from college, in nyu. a republican from south dakota voted yes on expelling sent us. that montage reaffirms your boat in your mind, it certainly would in my mind. were you disappointed that more of your republican colleagues to vote to expel him? >> i was a little disappointed. there are really two camps, anderson, one camp wanted some additional due process protections. i have got no bone to pick with those folks, i think they are wrong, i think there was a lot of due process, but i think their no vote was principled. and there's a whole bunch of folks who just didn't want republicans in the house to lose another vote, and i am pretty disappointed with those folks. >> it's interesting, because previously you said if republicans aren't willing to police their own, how can we possibly look the american people in the eye and tell them that we are willing to police folks on the other side of the aisle? which is a respectable thing to say. it's -- any-- if any political party isn't willing to police their own it is not a good thing. >> i just don't care what the letter behind the sky's name is. he is a crook. he has lied about everything, seemingly he has ever said, and i know there are some folks who wanted a court conviction before we threw him out, but the reality is that so much of what he has been accused of isn't actually against the law. and so at some point we needed to say the facts are not in question, we had an ethics committee that unanimously on a bipartisan basis advanced this report, with a breathtaking finding of wrongdoing. it was clear it was time for the fantastic george santos to leave the building. >> that is interesting, the idea that, because that was one of the arguments to vote to keep him in, which is that he is not being convicted of a crime, but your point is some of these things may not have been actually against the law, but they were wrong? >> right. a certain number of americans are concerned with election fraud, well it seems like election fraud to me when you invent, from whole cloth an entire resume and like to the voters of the district, give them inaccurate information upon which they base their vote, continue to lie, day in and day out while you are in the u.s. house, steal from your campaign accounts. enough was enough. i get it. we are in a very travel time in this country where, i guess republicans are supposed to defend all republican behavior, but for almost a majority of republicans in the house, this was simply too much. >> but also happened was speaker mccarthy's ousting. you think with a new speaker settled in, that the gop may be turning a page? obviously there's the matt gates's of the world, but do you think this is the possibility of kind of a new chapter? >> no, as long as matt gates is running around i guess i wouldn't want to get too optimistic about how well the house will function. republicans still have incredible he tight margins. we have a number of exceptionally colorful members that don't really like to get to yes on anything. so, listen, i wouldn't want to have rose-colored glasses on anderson. it will continue to be a difficult 118th congress, but even given that difficulty, i would say i am proud of a lot of the things we have done, cutting $2 trillion in spending over the next four years, reforming energy siting and will for reform, there's more of that to come as well in the next year or month. >> if republicans lose the sent us seat, will it still have been worth it to govern? >> when you are trying to decide what is right and what is wrong, it is best not to have too much political calculation in your mind. either a guy is guilty or he is not. either those actions are worthy of expulsion or they are not. we can worry about the political calculation tomorrow. >> appreciate your time, thank you. >> thank you. >> have a good weekend. just ahead, three college students shot while visiting family in vermont, thanksgiving weekend one of them has been released from the hospital and i will talk to him next. i'll be home for christmas. you can count on me. right now, all over the country, kids at shriners hospitals for children® are able to go home and be with their families for the holidays. and it's only possible because of the monthly support of people just like you. with your gift of just $19 a month, only $0.63 a day. we'll send you this adorable love to the rescue® blanket as a thank you and a reminder of the care you'll be providing so kids can be with their families. thanks to a generous donor, your gift will go twice as far and help more kids like me. thank you for giving! please call the number on your screen or go online right now with your monthly gift. and when you do, your gift will have two times the impact. the first of three college students and pillion shot last week in vermont have been released from the hospital. according to an uncle, three young men were at a birthday party for an 8-year-old twins when they went for an walk where they encountered an 48-year-old man who allegedly shot all three. he has been charged with three counts of attempted second- degree murder. prosecutors they don't have the evidence yet to pursue this is a hate crime, but they are not ruling it out. two of the young men were still recovering in the hospital, one still has a bullet lodged in his spine. the one who was released earlier this week joins me now. thank you for being with us, first of all, how are you doing, how are your two friends? >> oh, thank you for having me. i'm doing all right, you know, taking a step by step. regarding my two friends, the road for recovery is a bit longer than mine, so i'm hoping everyone can poor moral support towards them. >> can you walk us through what happened initially? you were there for a holiday weekend. when did you see this person? >> usually before we go to his house we go on a walk so we did that a day before and i believe the day before that. so, on our way back from the walk we see this man standing on the porch, looking away from us. and and as soon as he walks towards us, he pulls out a pistol and begins shooting. he shot my friend first and then that is when i ran away. >> did he say anything before? do you think you so you previously? was he waiting? >> i don't like to make any allegations like that right now, but it is definitely a possibility. >> did he say anything to you? >> not a single word not a single word, just went down and pulled out a pistol, extremely quickly. it is definitely-- it seems like a part of a bigger issue. regarding the hatred towards palestinians. >> what did you realize, i mean, did you realize you had been shot right away? >> no. it took me about a minute after jumping the fence hiding behind the houses and then when i ran to the second house to call 911, i only realized i was shot when they sat me down, it was kind of like a sharp pain and then i put my hand on my back lifted up my hand and it was soaked with blood. so-- >> that is where you were shot in your back? >> yes. yeah, exactly here. this is the exit wound. >> and authorities haven't yet said whether they said they don't yet have enough evidence to say if it was a hate crime, but they are not, certainly ruling it out. is that-- i mean, do you have any other-- you have an opinion on that? >> i mean, proving a hate crime in the eyes of the people and the law are very different things. in the eyes of the law it does- - you generally need a lot more evidence but just logically, when all three of us are at the hospital, we all said why do you think, and we all set at the same time probably because we were speaking arabic and english or because we were raring it. it just -- there is no other reason we could think of. he was looking to kill anyone he probably would have done that a while back. so, yeah. >> have you been concerned in the last weeks leading up to this? about safety? given the tensions , you know, the feelings surrounding the war? >> yes, yeah, i am very concerned for the safety of palestinians in the united states and obviously in the west bank and gaza. it is just part of a system that is dehumanizing palestinians, and part of that is murder. i didn't expected to go to this extent so, and having something intellectually known in your head, rather than experiencing it firsthand definitely shatters a new type of low. >> yeah, to have something like this happen to you, you know, one reads about it, you see it, you know, intellectually it can happen, but to actually have it happen, how does it change, does it change you? >> it does change you, and it does change a lot of families in palestine as well. we have a very, very strong sense of community and kind of just ripples throughout, which i believe is a big reason for the international support is our sense of community and the outcry of every palestinian that is hurt. for example, when the other 8- year-old was stabbed we were all hurting as well. it is just a collective thing we have and we are very proud of that. and that is why every palestinian right now is in english for what is happening, because especially now that the cease-fire has ended. >> i'm so sorry what happened to you and to your friends and i wish you a speedy recovery and your friends as well, thank you so much for being with us. >> no, thank you, i appreciate it. >> you take care. coming up next, public health officials have talked about an epidemic of loneliness in this country and countries around the world. in new york, dr. ruth westheimer has been named the state's first loneliness ambassador. i remember well, she is 95 now and she joins me, ahead. dr. right westheimer is best known for her advice on sex, which at 95 is still giving advice on. she's added a new title, new york's honorary ambassador on loneliness. named by the new york governor. there was an advisory warning that isolation is an epidemic that can be as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day and poses a greater risk to longevity than obesity or lack of exercise. i spoke to dr. ruth westheimer earlier. so, tell me about what made you want this job. >> because i do believe that i have some wisdom to give because i'm, after all, going to be 95 -- 95 soon. >> that's amazing. >> -- on june 4th. >> wait a minute. you're june 4th? my birthday is june 3rd. we're gemini twins. >> we should travel together. >> i would totally travel with you. >> and take an extra room for the children so we have some privacy. i like when i make you smile. what i want to do is to use the same method that i have used with my sex education classes and sex therapy practice to teach people how to be of interest so that people don't get bored and to teach people how to be interesting to themselves. and i come up with all kind of tricks to help you to beat loneliness. >> there's so many people who they've lost loved ones or their friends have moved away. it's hard, especially even in a big city. people feel very isolated, even though they're surrounded by many other people. >> it's not enough to say it's hard. you have to find a remedy of helping, how to prevent those people from being so lonely. and you and i together will come up with all kind of tricks and ways of people -- making people be interested in you and making people to be interested in wanting to talk to you. >> well, i would love that. i'm doing something about grief right now. i'm doing a podcast about grief. in grief, in loss, there's also this sense of loneliness. >> yeah, i used to tell people, there are people like anderson, there are people who are experts in grief counseling, and they should find them. i'm more in pleasure counseling. i'm more on the side of what people should do in order to give each other pleasure so that the other person will want to make another date. bye bye, anderson. all the very best. >> okay. >> and come and see me soon. >> i would love to. >> and we'll have a nice birthday party for your boys. >> i will bring my boys over any time you want. >> bye, anderson cooper, my good friend. >> i love you. >> thank you -- oh, say that again. >> i love you. >> oh, that's pretty good. i do want to see you again. bye, anderson. all the best. >> to you too. i like when someone waves at the end of an interview. i mentioned "all there is." it's about grief and loss. if you point your phone's camera right now at a qr code, which i think we're going to put up, right there, you can point your camera at it and a link will show up on your phone for you to click on and listen. grief is the most universal human experiences. we all have or will experience it. it's a bond people share, and yet the loneliness of it is really hard and always has been for me. talking about it is the only thing that helps break that loneliness. hearing from others learning from their grief. president biden is going to be on the podcast next wednesday with a very personal conversation with him about grief. the first episode of the second season is available now, and the entire first season is able now. if you haven't been able to figure out the qr code on the screen, you can get the podcast on apple podcast, spotify, or wherever you get podcasts. coming up next, remembering a trailblazer, sandra day o'connor. tonight retired supreme court justice sandra day o'connor is being remembered as a trailblazer. first woman to serve on the highest court, she died this morning. the court said she died from complications due to advanced dementia. child of texas rangers, went to graduate magna cum laude from stanford, she was appointed to the bench by president ronald reagan back in 1981. as a moderate conservative, she became a swing vote on the court. and during her tenure, justice o'connor upheld abortion rights, affirmative action, and campaign finance rules. her rulings flowed from a philosophy of judicial restraint. at her confirmation hearing, she said, and i quote, judges are not only not authorized to engage in executive or legislative functions, they're also ill equipped to do so. that said, she was also a central figure in one of the court's most argued over examples of judicial activism. she supported george w. bush in the case that swung the 2000 presidential election to him. six years later, after nearly a quarter century as a justice, she retired to take care of her husband, who had alzheimer's disease. she was replaced by justice samuel alito, and abortion and