and whether or not nikki haley, her vote increase does go up. and what that means? for republicans. thank you for joining us, santa news night with abby phillip starts now republicans keep trying to prove that there's fire where they he sees smoke. that's tonight on news good evening. i'm abby phillip in new york tonight if at first you don't succeed, dust yourself off, and try again. i'll republicans, okay. >> they may not have leah committed to memory three, but it definitely seems like they've taken that advice to heart and they are perpetually in search of evidence to pin crimes on biden's allies. >> now they're supposed to be proof in the pudding, but republicans can't seem to make jello the gop struck out on the mayorkas impeachment. >> they lift again when they tried to impeach joe biden. and just yesterday, they tried to turn anthony fauci into dr. frank inside. they laid the blame for a monster covid pandemic at his feet and now today, congress gave us the latest example republicans want america to believe that the attorney general merrick garland, is a biden henchmen and that he is the principal orchestrator of a plot to stop joe donald trump. now the problem with that is that it's just not true now, you wouldn't know that if you're judged today's hearing based on the accusations per minute like this from the republican judiciary committee, chairman jim jordan did jack smith, as are not asked me for the job, no. did did he convey through someone else said he wanted the job? >> i would be surprised if that were the case, but you don't know? no, i don't know so he may have i can only tell you what i know. >> i chose him because he had a record of impartial career experience as a prosecutor. that's why he was chosen or there's this from republican matt gaetz financial makes this remarkable downstream career journey from the us department of justice in washington, dc, and then pops up and alvin bragg's office to go get trump and you're saying that's that's just a career choice that was made that has nothing to do with the lawfare coordinated by saying it's false. i did not dispatch mr. colangelo's anywhere well, do you know how he ended up there? i assume he spoke he applied for a job there and got the job. but you know what tell you, i had nothing to do with him or there's this from steve bannon. >> he picked up the ball from gates and is running straight into conspiracy land that's a bold-faced lie. >> you're telling me the number three guy in the justice department, matthew colangelo, just kinda ends up in bragg's office as the architect of this. this is just gaslighting people. this is why people to test you or republican blakemore of utah think we all have a responsibility to respect jury verdicts and the failure to respect jury verdicts, the way that we arrive at the verdict, i think that's the problem and the american people see it, sir. >> and under your watch, the system is losing credibility so if you believe republicans, garland manipulated the justice department into multiple trump prosecutions, he enticed a manhattan jury into convicting the former president and if you ask for evidence, you'll get nothing. >> none. only questions. so what is the cumulative effect of all of this well, here's what garland had to say about that. >> yes the threats to the judiciary, threats to prosecutors, threats to law enforcement agents of have all spiked significantly. and in. some cases have accelerated from threats to actual violence smog democracy cannot continue. if the people who make the democracy run are afraid if they make their decisions based on fear of being threatened or being assaulted so how do republicans respond to that sobering warning? >> well, now they're saying they're going to shut the government down i always think that that should be on the table. i think we should constrain dollars to force change joining me now, miles taylor, he's the former chief of staff to the homeland security secretary, kyrsten nielsen. >> miles. good to see you. i wonder why do you think republicans are so eager? to go into these conspiratorial coldest acts as opposed to say, just winning elections. the old-fashioned way well, abby, i think the simple answer is it seems like political convenience attack the sitting administration go after the president's key lieutenants, but that political convenience yes, i think the worry is could turn into public chaos. >> and merrick garland pointed this out in his opening statement, and that's what was so remarkable about this hearing is his opening statement was primarily about those threats those threats to law enforcement and to judges and to civil servants. those are the non political appointee in ties in the justice department. and he said those threats were coming from conspiracy theories. they were coming from misinformation. they were coming from these politically convenient statements that are being used to paint a picture on the justice department that is inaccurate, and then remarkably in that hearing, as you showed abbe, they then went into more of those conspiracy theories and i want to just quickly put some numbers to that for you tenfold increase since 2016 of death threats to members of congress. >> there has been a fourfold increase in threats to federal judges over the same period, and nearly 40% of election workers in this country say they'd been harassed or threatened in their jobs. >> merrick garland tonight at the justice department is not thinking about protecting joe biden are helping joe biden win reelection. the justice department is focused on those numbers and the extraordinary period of threat we're into public servants. these conspiracy and even went further in a way saying that some of those threats factually become attacks out just because they may or may not be successful, doesn't mean that they're not real and that they haven't happened do you think that most of the republican party actually believes this stuff? i mean, it is it takes quite a conspiracy to think that the entire universe from the federal government all the way down to the manhattan de, is controlled by one man who is also according to republicans, senile well, abby, you know, when i was working for republicans on capitol hill up to an including working in the trump administration the gop standard line here was to back the blue. >> and you remember it there was a multiyear effort to paint the republican party as the party that backed law enforcement at the fed they're all state and local level. what's so alarming to me as a conservative is that the messaging has swung around 180 degrees and now you've got members of congress talking about in their words, detonating the fbi clearing house, gutting the deep deepstate. so it's no longer just one person. it's not just donald trump saying these things his views have been transmuted onto the wider party and on members of congress that were otherwise previously considered mainstream, but now they're talking about going after law enforcement. it's really spread quite substantially. and what i think that means is trump's agenda. he'll be able to advance it if he gets a second term as it relates to going after these institutes putin's trump has continued to float this idea that if he's elected or reelected president, that he's going to go after democrats. he did it again tonight in an interview saying that he's going to seek basically vengeful prosecutions. do you expect that that is going to be on the agenda if he's reelected well, i mean, abby, it feels just banal to say that this is hypocrisy. >> i mean, we're just talking seconds ago about how people that i used to work with are concerned that the biden justice department is being weaponized bite any evidence in support of that. and now their response to this, the remedy is to weaponize the justice department. i mean, that's really extraordinary. i mean, what you would hope to hear out of a republican candidate and his allies, right now if they actually had these concerns, is that they'll restore impartiality, integrity in the rule of law what are the justice department not go back in and push their fingers on the scales in the other direction. but that's what you're hearing about. and it's certainly what was clear to me at the end of the first term of the trump administration is there were a lot of plans to go into a perspective second term to go weaponized those institutions to turn them against political adversaries. the only only thing that's gotten worse since then is they've had for years to systematically and methodically plan that trump was very unprepared to become president of the united states. he did not accept it, or he did not expect it. and now they've had a lot of time to prepare to go after those institutions and political rivals in the meantime the warnings that we've heard from former officials, like you're herself and many others, is they all believe that there will be fewer people to stand in the way. one of the principal reasons why some of this i did not work in the first trump administration. mouse taylor, thanks for joining us tonight. >> thanks abby not tonight. >> it's president biden's turn to have his own time magazine cover the magazine interviewed biden just weeks after trump talking everything from israel to why he says he doesn't get enough credit for his record we're going to get into that in a moment, but on the topic of the concerns about his age, biden says that he never doubted a second run for the presidency. he told the reporter, quote, i can do it better than anybody you know, you're looking at me. i can take you to now that kind of bravado from the former from the current president seems to be a long running theme for him well, make my day pal, you want to check with let's do push-ups wrong, mr. >> missing command, donald. come on, man how many push-ups you want to hear pow, come on and rama three man, i just want to taking for more. let's bring in cnn political commentator and former senior white house communications aid jamal simmons also here with us washington post, national correspondent fill bomb. jamal scranton, joe made an appearance in this time magazine article does that work doesn't work for him to be like, okay, come on. let's go out back. >> it's always there, isn't a joke or is this you've been around as well i think he means it it's always better to lean into strength than it is to lean away from it. >> so i think the president by starts from that position, right? so let's he'll, he'll start there i think he also doesn't just mean look at me physically. i think he means look at my record, look at what i've done is president. and so the strength isn't just that the president of my have might be impressed with his own biceps. the president also has is impressed with his bipartisan legislation. there's a later legislative record, and so he's been able to move all this legislation for the last three or four years from infrastructure to dealing with $35 insulin for seniors to now getting people as a whole. now he's getting people debt relief for students. so he's been able to move a lot of very important piece of legislation and executive actions i have made people's lives better argument is, let us finish the job, but, but look at me when when people do look at him, they see someone who they think is too old to do the job. i mean that can easily backfire yeah. >> i mean, it can i mean, i think that we should this point accepted. that's baked right. everyone knows how old joe biden is. yes, he's getting older literally, but i think in the mind of the electric, he's as old as he is going to be in. people look at him that way. i don't think it's an advantage for him, but i also don't think it's going to suddenly become more bar and barring some catastrophe that said, i also think that part of the region he's him, that he was the choice of the democratic party in 2020, was that he was the guy who could speak the language of the working class white people who have done for freaked out about losing in 2016, he was he was the guy from scratch. he was the guy from the rust belt and he's part of this is just him projecting that same sort of i guess we can call it machismo. it's a la be talking about the present exactly the same way the donald trump goes. >> it shows up a ufc matches, right? this is joe biden style of that. well, still appealing to his core, but it's also this frustration that you see in the interview that he's not getting enough credit for what he thinks he's done. his achievements given you you went through them. but, but but there are a lot of people who disagree with that being a message in a reelection campaign when especially when voters are telling you they're not happy with that record, right? >> remember, campaigns aren't rewards for good behavior than never have been there always about the future, not about the past the presence argument is we're going to fight for your rights, whether it's abortion or whatever awesome. we're going to defend democracy and we have a job to finish now, should he put some more meat on the bone about what does that mean when you say finished the job and talk a little bit more about his plans for the second term absolutely. i want to see some more of that. he also is going to continue to talk about donald trump being convicted felon and so the two of these things for the president is, well, maybe you think i'm old, i'm not a convicted felon. i'm not surrounded by a bunch of other people who've been convicted, two, who've worked for me. >> i mean, what else was striking to you? a feel about this interview. i mean, in a way, it was kind of a litmus test from the way that it was written up from time. there's just sort of like he sat with us for half an hour our there were a lot of references to old stories and joe biden has been telling for a long time some of those old stories are about substance, some of them are about other things. but do you feel like in this interview he conveyed that he understands the challenge of this race and that he actually has the the ability to run and actually serve for another four years. >> yeah. i mean, i don't know if there's any interview could ever give there which could fully convey that impression, right? >> i think i think he did a de a sufficient job. right. that's sort of the bar, the republicans have consistently framed him as being incapable of doing anything. to your point earlier, they senile again, if he does. okay? that's great for him right now. i think this is an okay interview. there are certainly some verbals and so on, so forth. i think this point though, about his obvious frustration in the interview about feeling as though he isn't getting credit for the sorts of things he feels he ought to get credit for some which i think are frankly overstated. but that frustration i think is also born from the fact that he is now present. he's served in public office it's for so long, but since basically 2010, the the way the american looks at the president has shifted. it's become extremely polarized the way we get our information has become extremely polarized and so there are a lot of people who consume information in the media world that says, here's what biden has done and they respond to that positively. the problem isn't that the media isn't necessarily conveying those stories it's that the people who don't believe those stories aren't consuming the media that are telling the stories, right? it's that for joe biden, who has been doing this for a long time. this isn't an age guy, he just has that is a different world. and i think part of his frustration stems from the fact that it's just simply doesn't work the way it used to. and no one really on the left or even on the right has figured out how to bridge that divide we pick a president for judgment at the end of the day. we want somebody who we think is going to sit in the room when nobody is watching him make good decisions for me and my family. i think joe biden's argument is, i've been making good decisions. i'll keep doing it. look at the decisions the other guy's making. he keeps getting himself in trouble. i'm not that guy. i is going to be central to their message. >> so keeps during donald trump and the chaos around him, if they're going to try to make that contrast. philip bump, jamal simmons. thank you both very much. breaking tonight has been by his controversial new border restrictions will go into effect at midnight. i'm going to speak with a democrat who opposes it. plus actor wendell pierce. it says that he was discriminated against while trying to rent an apartment in new york. he joins me ahead and how russia is using tom cruise, deepfakes to disrupt the paris olympics. the disturbing gnuplot. i had, this is new sign and the competition is a nuclear competition, spying is 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doesn't do enough that congress needs to get its act together. but that the policy redesign gives them some more tools to slow a spiraling crisis there's really much people in order. one things that we were talking, what is this really doing? it's keeping people from dying and the desert been people from jumping over the walls and falling. it's keeping people from being exploited. we applaud him for taking action the date because that's what this is as mayors of communities, we don't have the luxury to wait or do standoffs. >> we have to take action, right? and so we appreciate and applaud on the president of taking action today, grateful for the president for taking this step. >> i see this as a viable solution. i wholeheartedly support present biden in this effort. >> it's necessary to have an order to be able to treat people humanely and to be compassionate about the folks that are trying to come into our community 20 me now is. democratic senator from california, alex padilla, senator. thank you for taking time to be with us tonight i wanted to ask you about what the border mayors were saying they're they're saying this is necessary, that it could help in this moment. do you think that biden should just ignore these people who are on the front lines of this crisis oh, of course abby, i think the president should absolutely here mayors when they say we need help, the question is, what type of help to offer? >> we have to be read must be hattan be more thoughtful in how we responding to the situation. but i've been here for mayors, for well more than a year now, is they need the federal government's assistance in yes. dealing with the volume of my recent maybe come into the southern border seeking asylum, which is legal based on our federal law and international law but what we starve book the departments and the agencies like border patrol and ice, but others of the resources they need to handle the capacity that is a problem democrats have put forward additional funding. all it to be shut down by republicans and there's programs in place to assist local government and and non governmental organizations and providing some just temporary emergency shelter of food services to migrants sequence while they're winning that process. >> but what about set as senator, what one of the officials said earlier in the clip that we played, which is deterring people from making this journey in the first place. i mean, he's making the argument and i think it's a reasonable one that there's actually a humanitarian interests in preventing people from crossing the border in this way because it's dangerous. >> but here's one of my biggest frustrations with its executive order. same as it was with the senate bill that was negotiated, that this measure is based off of it doesn't ask the most important question why? our people coming to begin with if the goal is to reduce the numbers of people coming to the southern border seeking asylum. now let's find out who they are rare they're coming from and why they're coming, or they flink persecution are they flink for their very lives? >> or they flee government, senator, that's what our saturday also be cylinder they are being told by smugglers and by criminals that this is the way to do it. i mean, could it also be because there's a whole industry that is incentivizing people to do it this way. on the false idea that it is legal that, that it is that is the right way to do it. >> look, i'm not going to say that doesn't happen or that doesn't occur. but part of that false hope that's is sometimes presents. it as well. if you go this way, this is your mega get to united states. if you're pursuing economic opportunity, a lot of people that come, that's what they claim or when they're asylum claim is turned out. it's because they admit they're looking for jobs and economic opportunity for their families. but listen to this happy every employer, every we initially when i talked, is desperate for more workers. thanks to president biden, we have record low sustained levels of unemployment are hiring needs more workers to keep growing imagine if we brought it into legal pathway opportunities and linked people looking for work with employers, meeting workers that would be more mark and more effective, more thoughtful way to let me ask you this, senator, i want to play for you what your colleague in the house, alexandria ocasio-cortez said about the president's border policy, but also about the political situation that he's facing well, i think it shows that there's concern and that the concerns that that that the right is raising around the border are resonant and a lot of electrodes, but are responsibility is to develop solutions that work and listen. it's not just on the president is also on congress. and this speaks to congress's failure in both parties the actually pass immigration reform that expands a path to citizenship what she's talking about, senator, is the polling, which a recent couldn't be acted poll shows a majority of independent voters, say they would trust trump more than they would trust biden on the issue of immigration is she right? >> that biden is being hurt politically by a border situation that some voters believed if is out-of-control. >> okay. i agreed that congressperson responsibility, but more specifically republicans in congress need to step up. >> i'm a look what happened just a couple of months ago when there was a bipartisan group of senators who negotiated work product, it was ready to be approved by the senate until donald trump said no, no, no wait till i get elected in november, it's a political ploy by republicans. >> they can't have it both ways. they can't say there's the crisis at the border and then start the departments and agencies responsible for for managing the border of the resources senator, that day, my understanding is that this i mean, what biden is doing is a version of what would have been in that bipartisan proposal and you oppose it, but i think should president biden do nothing and wait for congress, which is deeply and as you know, i mean your, they're deeply divided on this issue. i mean, do you really think that doing nothing for president biden, right now is an option? >> look, i said earlier, i'll say again, i'm not in the do nothing camp. i am for doing something, but that something needs to be more thoughtful, something more effective, not something that's been proven to fail in the past and getting back to your previous question, abby, about the polling you know, what are the voters think? you know what pulls most popular. it's yes, a board that secure orderly, inhumane but even more so, let's help the long term undocumented residents of our communities dreamers deserve better than to be left out of this whole conversation. farmworkers, those are put fruit of fruits and vegetables on our tables deserve better than to live in cotton. depot coarctation, because we 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show. we went through some of the credits of your career, but there are many others elisabeth and raising canaan. you're currently filming superman last year you finished a broadway run of death of a salesman two years ago, you were in the jack ryan series. you're famous actor, urine award-winning actor, 30 years of a career behind you what happened with that harlem apartment and what does it say to you about the status of racism in america today well, i gave that antidote about what for me because i wanted to make it a very personal stories so people could understand what i was really incensed about. >> i was motivated to tell the story because of the court case that the 11th circuit blocked yesterday, it ignited something in me, so i wanted to tell the personal story. a young family member that graduated from howard university has his first job in new york. i take him apartment shopping and i wanted to make sure that he got a decent apartment and i was backing him up. we find a department in harlem. i gave them all of my bank statements and employment and all. and then i was denied and i realized that they use the technicality of saying that i did not have steady consistent employment. most actors work in three month periods. three months here, three months there. and because it wasn't a continuum of employment, no matter how much income i showed, i showed welcome i own properties around the country. i showed them all my bank statements i even offered to pay a year in advance the complete rent for a year, and i was denied and i realized that that was by design that the application was designed that way to be discriminatory and that was the antidote that i shared because i wanted to show that the damaging effect of when bigotry this memorialized and law. and when the 11th circuit court of appeal overturned a black firms supporting black women saying that that was discriminatory. i realized that that was the canary in the mine for where we are right now. that we are being attacked and memorializing law that is discriminatory, it called against black folks. their own self-determination. and so i felt as though it was i should use my platform, put out a clarion call. >> yeah. what you're doing here is the fearless fund this is a black-owned of venture capitalist firm that awards grants exclusively to black women it's a fun that exists because of disparity in access to capital for black female entrepreneurs. but the court ruled that it substantially is likely two violate title 42 of the us code that prohibits private parties from discriminating on the basis of race when making or enforcing contracts. the background here for people who are watching is that this isn't just an a vacuum. i mean, this is a part of a long time effort by certain individuals and lawyers to try to attack diversity, equity and inclusion programs in america. how concerned are you about the broader implications? of taking down this particular fund and what it would mean for any other initiatives that are trying to address the racial disparities that exist in this country today. >> first of all it's just private industry saying that they're going to support a private venture and they are using the technicality of a reconstruction loss, section 1981 from the late 19th century, that was protecting black folks who were newly freed out of enslavement to protect them, to turn it around on us. now for many years, the mantra from the right has always been pull yourself up by your bootstraps. so black women put together their own capital venture and are looking for black women to support. and now they say, no, you can't do that. so it is not only ironic, it is insidious and bigoted. what is really insidious about it is edward blum, who is leading that effort. you were talking about going around the country, tried to stop folks from doing it. this isn't public money, this is private money is not a dei, a dei program is actually some black women saying we're going to support each other and making sure 300 billion was spent by capital ventures. and only 1% of it last year went to two black women. so if you don't want to give us the money and we find it within ourselves so that we can exercise our right of self-determination. and you still, after and here's the most insidious thing of all, not one person is presented as being injured by that. we have to make sure that people understand that this insidious, racist decision is a pandora's box that will open up more opportunities to memorialize discriminatory law well, wendell pierce, we know you from all of your actin work, but i think everyone tonight watching, we'll see this is obviously something that is so important to you. >> thank you for sharing your story and for bringing this perspective to us tonight. thanks so much thank you and up next it looks like a real documentary with tom cruise narrating but it's not. there's a new russian plot against the olympics and we'll tell you about it 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undermine western support for ukraine. now that includes a fake documentary featuring tom cruise disparaging france and the summer games. the audio in this clip that we're about to show you, i want to emphasize, was ai generated. take a listen i believe it's my ardent love for sport that makes me so good in action movies. that's why watching how the corrupt officials who sees the sport olympics are gradually turning one of the greatest passions of my life into an instrument for siphoning off money is beyond bearable again, this is not a real documentary and that was not tom cruise's voice. >> joining me now is seen on media analyst and senior media reported for axios. sara fischer, sara, i mean, talk about the perils of ai, but this is just the tip of the iceberg in this effort, apparently by the russians to try to influence the olympic games. huge global event, the french police discovered apparently five coffins with the words french soldiers in ukraine near the eiffel tower it's more than just this stupid ai video. it's also real things that are showing up in paris, a strategic effort, if you will. and the thing is the russians have always gone after the ioc, the olympic committee. this has been a long-standing thing for many years. remember, they were punished for the doping scandal a few years ago. and now some of their athletes are being restricted because of the ongoing war with ukraine. so you can see why they would try to undermine the effort. >> but the key here is abby, they're denying it. we know for a fact that russia metal with our elections. we know that they metal with foreign affairs using ai propaganda all the time. hi, but they will never own up to it. and this is all part of their game. >> yeah. i mean, there they're going to deny that they're a part of something like this. but on the ai part of this, i mean that sounds a lot like tom cruise. it really does. and it just shows the perils. it seems of what is coming this is the tip of the 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by the president, president biden, says that israel's prime minister may be prolonging the war to stay in power. in that time interview, we were talking about earlier, he was asked if benjamin netanyahu was quote, prolonging the war for his own political self-preservation. he responded to that by saying, quote, i'm not going to comment on that. there is every reason for people to draw that conclusion now, hours later, a contradiction from the president. listen prime minister netanyahu, playing politics with the war i don't think so. >> he's trying to a serious problem joining me now to weigh in on this, jonathan dekel-chen, his son is a 35-year-old israeli american named tsugi deco hand and he's been held hostage by hamas since october 7, jonathan, thank you for joining the show. >> again, i wonder what you think the answer is to that question that the president was asked multiple times do you think that netanyahu is prolonging this war for political reasons. and i should know this week marks eight months since that attack on october 7, and those hostages, including kherson, were taken well, thank you for having me abbey in full transparency i've stated publicly both in israel and abroad in the past that indeed, for reasons of his own, the prime minister's judgment has been has been problematic around the conduct the word particularly around the issue of the hostages and getting them back as quickly as possible. >> that being said, israel netanyahu himself has put on the table a proposal to end the conflict, to end the suffering of millions of gazans, and to get our people home. those that are, we hope are still alive and those that we know have already been murdered by hamas. and in truth, the time article goes on to say in that interview that the onus, really for the resolution of the conflict, the ending of conflict is on hamas, and that needs to be stated as well. you can't just cherry pick the part of the statement that works in a given moment for a headline. and that remains true right now given what the president put out there, which is again an israeli proposal, the onus is on hamas to get to yes and thereby not just released my son and another hundred and 24 israeli hostages ripped from their homes as civilians. on october 7 but to fulfill what it says, it wants to do, which is to end this conflict and to end the immense suffering of the people of gaza. so hamas is talked a lot about that. it is time right now for them to come to the table and to end this and only they can make that decision. >> and as you point out, i mean, this has always this has been the case since the beginning. i mean, they could release the hostages at any moment. i wonder president netanyahu has prime minister, but netanyahu has talked about this deal that is on the table, but he throws cold water on it publicly. do you have hope that he really is behind it, that if hamas does say yes, that he's willing to say yes to a path that actually would end the war well, i think two things are important here. >> first is he has to have the political backbone and to put aside any personal interests he might have in retaining his coalition for the good of the country, which would mean ending the war on israel's terms. and most importantly healing this enormous wound in the country that can only he'll, by the return of the hostages that, that's that's something that he must do and luckily for him in the last 24 hours the ultra religious parties that are part of his colon wishing have said very clearly that they are willing to support any hostage deal and really the only obstacle appears to be the messianic very small parties in his coalition who seemed to be determined to prolong the war no matter what. again, for this sort of zealous messianic reasons but again, at the end of the day, the hard the nut to crack here is not netanyahu because israeli public opinion is solidly behind ending the conflict. again, with hamas not as a governing or military authority. that's the important part here but to end this, to stop the offering on both sides, i want to take a minute just to know that obviously 124 hostages remain in captivity, including your son, tsugi was the father of is the father of two girls. his wife was pregnant during the attack, so now you have a seven month old granddaughter that your son has never met. i wonder, how are you holding up with all of this? that's going on. how is the rest of your family doing as well well, it's the daily challenge to sort of get out of bid and to do the work that needs to be done to keep the family together, keeping in mind that we're from kibbutz nir oils small community that was utterly destroyed on october 7 by hamas terrorists and looters from gaza we have been dislocated like many, many other israelis from the southern border by the events of october 7 little shocker sheet. >> she is our joy. she's our little ray of light. a minced, an enormous amount of darkness. and the 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