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You know, there are moments in life, and i mean this literally, when the pure, Unadulterated Evil is unleashed. On this world. The people of israel lived through one such moment this weekend. The bloody hands of the Terrorist Organization, hamas, a group whose stated purpose for being is to kill jews. This is an act of sheer evil. More than 1000 civilians slaughtered, not just killed, slaughtered in israel. Among them, at least 14 american citizens. Killed. Parents butchered using their bodies to try to protect their children. Stomach churning reports of babies being killed. Entire families slain. Young people massacred while attending a musical festival to celebrate peace. To celebrate peace. Women raped, assaulted, paraded as trophies. Families hid their fear for hours and hours, desperately trying to keep their children quiet. To avoid drawing attention. Thousands of wounded. Alive, but carrying with them the bullet holes and the Shrapnel Wounds and the memory of what they endured. You all know these traumas never go away. Theres still so many families desperately waiting to hear the fate of their loved ones. Not knowing if they are alive or dead or hostages. Infants in their mothers arms, grandparents in wheelchairs, Holocaust Survivors abducted and held hostage. Hostages who hamas has now threatened to execute, in violation of every code of human morality. Its abhorrent. The brutality of hamas, this bloodthirstiness brings to mind the worst, the worst rampages of i. S. I. S. This is terrorism. But sadly, the jewish people, its not new. This attack has brought to the surface painful memories, and the scars left by a millennia of antisemitism. And genocide. The jewish people. In this moment, we must be crystal clear. We stand with israel. We stand with israel. And we will make sure, it will have what it takes to defend its citizens, take care of itself, and respond to this attack. After the president spoke, his National Security adviser, Jake Sullivan, held a Press Conference and said this. The president has been deeply engaged in giving direction to his National Security team. To take action, to support israel in its hour of need. At his direction, the United States has surged ammunition and interceptors for iron dome, and the president spoke with Prime Minister netanyahu just a little while ago, to talk about additional capabilities that israel will need. And he pledged that american planes will be landing in israel with those capabilities in the days ahead. Now, at the direction of the president , we are working with congress to make sure that israel maintains supply of its critical assets, to defended cities and its citizens. As well as the many u. S. Citizens who live work and travel in israel. Also at President Bidens direction, the u. S. Military as enhanced its force posture in the region, to strengthen our deterrence. Including the movement of a Carrier Strike group into the east mediterranean. And we are prepared to move additional assets as necessary. Let me be clear, we did not move the carrier for hamas. We moved the carrier to send a clear message of deterrence to other states, or non state actors, that might seek to widen this war. The president is also tasked us with engaging in Contingency Planning for any and all escalation scenarios. Leading off our discussion tonight, is White House Principal deputy National Security adviser, john finer. Thank you very much for joining us on this important night. Do you have any updated numbers for us on the number of possible american dead in this situation . Or the number of possible american hostages . Thanks, lawrence, for having me. I dont have any numbers beyond those that the president and Jake Sullivan used earlier today, 14 americans who have been killed and as many as 20 or more who remain missing, some of whom we believe are likely to be held in gaza as captives. I do believe those numbers are likely to rise, perhaps in both cases just due to the sheer number of americans who are in israel, at any given moment several hundred thousand, upwards of 500,000 at least. So, because a fog of war we havent been able to gather perfect data, it is something we are really focused on, and the president has said, his highest priority, it is to see to it that were doing everything we can, to try to address the situation of americans who are in harms way. The fog of war for the United States in gaza must be especially intense. Because its not clear to us out here, anyway, that you have many Contact Points and Contact Possibilities for whats going on there. What can you tell us, the president and Jake Sullivan talked about working relentlessly, hour by hour, to try to get more information about the hostages, the american hostages, being held in gaza. What can you tell us about how that is being done from the White House Administration . Well, we have a number of areas of focus when it comes to people who may be held hostage in gaza. One of which, we have set up a conduit, an ability for americans whose loved ones maybe missing to contact the State Department, provide information that might make it easier for us to pass to the israelis and work with the israelis to try to help locate them. Second, the president has deployed, as you know, because you talked about it today and Jake Sullivan talked about it as well, a team of experts from across the u. S. Government in hostage recovery, to work with israeli counterparts on what is going to be a very difficult task of trying to locate and ultimately, we hope, be able to secure the release of these hostages, who are in gaza. And the third piece of this, were gonna share every bit of intelligence and other information we can gather through our intelligence capability, with the israeli counterparts, as we quite often do, given our close intelligence relationship with the government of israel. The Secretary Of State is going to israel tomorrow, to point about that. What is his mission in israel . And then secondly, with the Secretary Of State be going, if the United States had a confirmed ambassador to israel in service there now . Well, ill say a few things. One, the Secretary Of State is going to israel first and foremost as a show of solidarity, very much carrying the message that the president conveyed today. The United States stands with israel in its very difficult hour, very difficult moment. We celebrate triumphant occasions, happy occasions together. In this past weekend was a holiday weekend, when Many Americans were celebrating in israel. We also mourn our tragedy together. Secretary blinken will be going to do just that. Hell also be going to engage with our embassy, and with american citizens who are in israel to make sure that theyre getting every bit of assistance they need for those who would like to leave the country, for those have experienced a traumatic situation, our embassies foremost mission is to provide support for americans who live, travel, or work abroad. He would absolutely be going under any circumstance, whether we had a confirmed ambassador or not. Would we prefer to have a confirmed ambassador, absolutely. We urge congress to take action to confirm our ambassador right away. We have, by the way, a very capable charge daffaires who has done an outstanding job in lieu of an ambassador over the course of the past very difficult week. In the president s phone call with Prime Minister netanyahu today, how did the president come out of that phone call confident about the parameters that will be followed in the way israel responds to this . Did the president come out with any concern of a possible overreaction by israel . I guess what id say about that, its not for the United States to set the parameters of the operation that israel is already conducting and has said, quite clearly, it intends to intensify in the coming days. What the president said, he and the Prime Minister had an exchange about the fact that democracies, like the United States and israel, are stronger, are more secure, when they act in accordance with the principles like the rule of law. And that very much goes for the law of war in the conduct of Military Operations, beyond that, im not gonna characterize the president s Confidence Level one way or another. We all, i think, had very deep concerns about both the current environment and the situation going forward. Given how challenging it is going to be, to conduct a Military Operation in a place like gaza. Is it your understanding at this point, that israel is essentially, has essentially, secured its territory, has there been some rocket fire in southern israel today . What is the risk, as you understand it right now, for people in israel . So, ill leave it to the government of israel to characterize exactly the Security Environment in their country. I dont think thats our place to do that. They do seem to have said that they have secured the areas immediately surrounding gaza, which i know is a primary area of focus, and took a number of days after these attacks began, given their complex nature, given the number of fighters involved. So, i wont characterize when one way or another. It does seem to have calmed considerably over the past 24 hours or so. Which is fundamentally very good thing. Has the State Department been involved in Helping Americans who want to leave israel to leave israel . Has that been necessary . So, our understanding is that the civilian airport in israel remains functional, remains operating, there are commercial flights still going in and out of israel. At the moment, that some carriers have suspended those operations, which we believe is making it somewhat difficult in some cases, for americans and others to secure tickets on outbound flights. So, the State Department is going to continue working with american citizens to help make sure that they know all of the options that are available, including flights including Overland Routes into look to provide a potential new options if those become necessary. As you go forward, there are benchmarks that youre looking for in the course of this week or next week, that youre hoping can be achieved, that you could then call progress. So, again, lawrence, it would not be for us for, the United States government, to set benchmarks for the upcoming Military Operation or objectives, or that sort of thing. That would be for the government of israel and the Israeli Military to take that. Set themselves. I do think they have, as a very clear Goal Reestablishing deterrence that can prevent any thing like the sorts of attacks that took place over the past several days. From ever happening again. And, certainly, to reducing, if not ending the capability of hamas. The Terrorist Organization to conduct these attacks. From being able to do this kind of thing to the israeli population. I think we cannot underestimate here in the United States, the degree of trauma that was inflicted, on the israeli populace, by these attacks. This is all still very fresh and also very raw. Frankly, it was a day or some of these are unprecedented in the history of the country. Of israel which is obviously had a very complicated. And recharging hysteria. Times frankly, unprecedented in history of most countries. So, they are going to first and foremost work to prevent that sort of thing, and make it clear that sort of thing cannot happen again and will not happen again. Deputy National Security, john, finer thank you for taking the time to join us tonight. Really appreciate it. Thanks, for having me. Joining us now from tel aviv, is ronan bergman, staff writer for the New York Times magazine. Hes the author of rise and kill first. The secret history of israels targeted assassinations. Thank you very much for joining us, once again tonight from tel aviv. Please tell us what this scene is like for People Living in tel aviv today, and tonight. Well, you know, the sending of rockets and missiles from tel aviv to time to time. This is not something extraordinary. Something that People Living in israel have experienced. But one thing is, unique in a very tragic way, is that there is no family, no one in israel, being a very small place, who is not a relative or friend, who has not lost anyone in this horrifying event. And the stories just piling in. Most of the funeral have not taken place. But people are looking for their relatives, looking for their friends, dont know the fate of the missing people. Crying for those who were killed or, very much concerned. For those who are missing. I think this is the story that the mood is the mood of grief, mood of deep sorrow, and sadness. And people, i think, still far away from absolving what actually happened. You have done deep reporting on israels intelligence operations, including the operations that they might be mounting to try to rescue the hostages. What often that israel have now in trying to make a move to reach those hostages . , the hostages possibly underground. I assume that there is some kind of inquiry into the possibility to rescue them, but this will be at a very high cost. And only after careful learning of intelligence, collection of the details of who is keeping them, who is guarding them, what are the chances that the rescue force and the hostages will remain alive after such an operation and only then will the Israeli Government sent any Prime Minister, not just the current one who lost his brother at the i think that any Prime Minister will have to have a very serious difficult dilemma whether to send a force or fights hamas, thats the main goal of what the idf is doing now. Or at the same time, running a negotiation for a possible exchange of prisoners. What are the prospects in this situation of actually negotiating for the hostages . Well, i think that both sides are now denying having any kind of negotiations. The political leader of hamas says that they will not negotiate at the end of the war. Meaning that hamas wants to have the leverage of the hostages being inside gaza, as a human shield, to protect the gang from israeli bombing. And israel, who is holding a tough position, saying we will not negotiate with these criminals, i think that the reality is more complicated through qatar and possibly the egyptians. There are some first attempts to negotiate a possiblelimited deal. A limited deal that will include the women and children from the kidnapped civilians, just taken to gaza on saturday. And a possible exchange of them with women that are being held and prosecuted and sentenced in israeli prisons. Does hamas distinguish between american hostages and israeli hostages . I would think that this is very unlikely. We saw those horrifying videos of the way they treat children and women, and elderly. They dont have any boundaries. Any limits, no humane consideration. So i dont think that american citizenship would make them suddenly be humane. Ronan bergmann, thank you very much for joining us again, at what is a very early hour for you in the morning in tel aviv. Thank you very much. Thank you, good morning. Coming up, well have more of what President Biden had to say today. Senator them Richard Blumenthal will join us. Thats next. To help get you ready, your Aspen Dental Denture team is celebrating 25 years of Affordable Care with an epic anniversary savings event. Dont miss enjoying a moment with fast repairs in our onsite labs and 20 off your custom dentures. Plus, we have a denture Money Back Guarantee so you can smile with confidence. Aspen dental. Book today. I was stuck. 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We walked outside and that sort of hallway in her office to have some photos. He looked at me and all of this and said, would you like to have a photograph . And so i got up and followed her out. We were standing there silent looking at the press. You could tell i guess that i was concerned. She leaned over and said to me, dont worry senator biden, we have a secret weapon here in israel. My word this is what she said. We have no place else to go. We have no place else to go. Joining us now is senator Richard Blumenthal democrat is thank you very much for joining us tonight in this important night. Gold mayors words, we have no place else to go has always been true of israel. Thank you for having me it is eminently true and it is a fact of life for the jewish people. Is really is israel is unique and have no place else to go but the jewish state. And i think President Biden really expressed so eloquently the sense of outrage, but also anxiety and fear that is widespread in the Jewish Community. Ive been to rallies around the state of connecticut, many of us have a personal connection, cousins of mine are in the idea of. The Israeli Defense forces, and probably on their way to the front right now. They have friends and neighbors who have lost loved ones or they may be missing. And so i think americans have a very direct bond, an unshakable bond, military to military, Intelligence Community to Intelligence Community, but also in terms of culture and heritage. And i talked today to a very senior diplomat, israeli diplomat, who said to me, this statement by President Biden was the strongest statement by an american president that he has seen in his lifetime. And i think that sense of fear, but also moral outrage, was expressed so powerfully by the president. It certainly is the strongest that ive seen, by an american president. You tweeted something that i think speaks for millions of people in this country, and around the world, including myself. With friends in israel, you said im hearing from friends and relatives in israel about neighbors missing sons and daughters, children reporting for military duty, friends lost to murderous brutality. The scope and scale of this tragedy is Heart Wrenching beyond words. I stand with israel. What has been your experience with that . Because ive been hearing the same thing from friends in this country, worried about their relatives there. What can you say to americans tonight who are worried about their relatives and friends in israel . What i can say to anybody who cares about the state of israel is that were going to do whatever it takes to enable israel to win this war. Were going to stand with israel for the long haul, and it will be a long and painful battle. A marathon, not a sprint. Were preparing a supplemental right now to replenish the interceptors that are necessary for the iron dome. Were also providing whatever funding is necessary to restock the Precision Munitions necessary for their aircraft. And also munitions for their artillery. But beyond the direct aid which is flowing, even as we speak, because we have commitments of 3. 8 billion. Were also working diplomatically with friends and partners there to contain the crisis and spare israel a two front war, in effect. And thats been successful so far. The p. A. Seems to recognize that hamas is a Terrorist Organization, its not the palestinian people. And the war is against hamas, not the palestinian people. And hopefully hezbollah will recognize that a broader conflagration and its sponsor iran, the same with syria, that this effort needs to be contained. But support, unyielding, unwavering, as the president expresses tonight, is what ive been saying to people who call my office. People at the rallies that i pretended around the state, ive connected with thousands of people. All races, all religions, coming forward to express their sympathy. And i think thats what i can tell him. No president has ever had more experience with this issue and this region that President Biden, beginning with his meeting with golda meir as a new and young senator, going through his 36 years in the senate. Chairman of the senate for the relations committee, then Vice President of the United States, and now president. With israel being an active concern every day of all of those years and all of those offices, what do you think that experience brings to this moment for the American Government . What i think President Biden brings to this moment is a lifetime of commitment to peace in the middle east, that has been a continuing enterprise, but also to the essential nature of the jewish state, the state of israel. And put aside the emotional, cultural, religious bonds that we may feel, israel is a vital ally in the direct Security Interests of the United States. Our military to Military Relationship is an essential strength of the United States National Security system. I say that as a member of the Armed Services committee with direct access to information about how our military to military Intelligence Committee relates, and provides significant aid to each other. We have no more reliable ally in that dangerous neighborhood, and maybe in the world. So i think President Biden brings to this challenge, and it is a challenge unlike any israel has met in its existence. Never before has it lost this many people, and everybody in israel knows somebody lost. And i would guess many, many in the Jewish Community here in the United States have direct ties as well. President biden knows them well. And he brings as well that personal experience. Democratic senior senator Richard Blumenthal, thank you very much for joining us on this important day. Thank you. Coming, up Nbcs Richard Engel and all with the latest from israel. Our breaking News Coverage continues right after this break. uplifting music nothing is everything im celebrating my clearer skin. My way. With skyrizi, 3 out of 4 people achieved 90 clearer skin at 4 months. In another study, most people had 90 clearer skin, even at 5 years. And skyrizi is just 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses. Serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. Tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine, or plan to. Thanks to clearer skin with skyrizi this is my moment. Theres nothing on my skin and that means everything nothing is everything nows the time. Ask your doctor about skyrizi, the 1 dermatologistprescribed biologic in psoriasis. Learn how abbvie could help you save. We know that u. S. Citizens are among the missing, and we know that u. S. Citizens, as the president just said, are among the hostages. Were working with the Israeli Government and our region partners on every aspect of the hostage crisis, including sharing intelligence and deploying experts from across the u. S. Government to advise the Israeli Government, and coordinate with them, on hostage recovery. As the president just said, there is no higher priority then the safety and wellbeing of american citizens being held hostage overseas. This is a live look at gaza, where it is 5 36 am. The Israeli Government says there are more than 150 hostages currently being held there. Nbc news chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel has more on the situation today. Throughout the night, weve been hearing is really jets flying overhead, carrying out bombings inside the gaza strip. This could escalate. It is possible that israel will carry out a ground invasion, sending in tanks and troops into gaza. Gaza which, is completely cut off. No power, food, medicine, nothing allowed to go in. From what we were able to see tonight, im on the gaza border, it doesnt seem that in an invasion is eminent. It could be launched as a surprise, but the Military Buildup seems to be happening more slowly, while the air campaign is happening quite intensely right now. What we did see, however, is israel is still trying to secure the communities that were attacked on that terrible saturday at 6 30 in the morning, when hamas militants broke out of the gaza strip him. More than 1000 of them, potentially 1500 or more than that, and went on a Killing Spree in kibbutzes at a Music Festival and in several little villages all around the gaza strip. We went into one of those villages today, kafar aza and it looked like a crime scene. All of the people, all of the residents are gone. Or have been killed, or have been taken hostage. Israeli troops were going house to house, looking for any hamas fighters who might still be there. As far as we can tell, they didnt find any. But what they did find were bodies of hamas fighters, hamas flags, hamas fighters still in their body armor, still in camouflage, carrying their weapons. The bodies, just left rotting in the sun, and many israeli bodies as well. The soldiers were collecting them, they were collecting them with great care, putting them in body bags. And each time they do, the death toll here continues to rise. We learned a lot of details about how the attack on this particular town took place. The militants burst through the border fence, surrounding the gaza strip. Crossed a relatively small amount of terrain, because this area, this town is right on the gaza border. Cut through the Perimeter Fence of the kibbutz, and then started executing people, grabbing people, dragging hostages back into gaza. This is not over. This is not over. Hamas is also continuing its rocket attacks, because the israelis are firing into gaza, and the palestinians are Firing Rockets out of gaza into cities. And we were in the city of ashkelon, which is not far from where i am right now, and hamas fired what seemed to be a few hundred rockets at ashkelon, in a timed barrage over the course of about an hour. They fired wave after wave of rockets. We took shelter in a doorway of a bomb shelter, and were able to see the rockets flying overhead. But most of the rockets, nearly all of them were intercepted by israels iron dome defense system. So thats where we are at this moment. The israelis are bombing gaza, they are leveling the place, and the humanitarian conditions in gaza are dire. Israel says its goal is to destroy hamas, to remove it from its position of leadership inside the gaza strip. But how does it do that without causing massive civilian damage, to the civilian population of the gaza strip which is over two million, and how does it do that without killing the hundred or more hostages who are still there, he did in gaza, and held by hamas . Nbc chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel reporting. Joining us now, live from iran, is nbc news correspondent in tehran. Ali, today the white house made it very specific that they do not have intelligence evidence indicating that iran was a prime mover, or seriously involved in the actual planning of this invasion. But certainly, iran is also not in any way stepping forward to take credit for it. Thats right. The state Department Said that there was no smoking gun, but they did say that iran was probably complicit. And thats because iran has supported hezbollah and hamas for so many years. Theyve been their patron, theyve given them a lot of money, a lot of weapons, and a lot of training. But it was quite interesting today lawrence. For the First Time Since that attack, the Top Authority in the country, some he gave his first televised speech since hamas attacked israel. And he denied that tehran was involved, but he did glorify the attacks, saying that israels irreparable military and intelligence defeat was great. He was wearing a palestinian type scarf to show solidarity with hamas, and he went on to say that he kisses the hands of those who planned the attack on the zionist regime. He called the attack a destructive earthquake, that it destroyed Critical Infrastructure in israel that cant be repaired easily. And then he issued a warning to tel aviv. He said that if the Israelis Go On and enforce a Ground Attack on gaza, as he put it, it would unleash a much heavier torrent of anger. Now, even though officials here have denied any involvement, since the beginning of this attack, tehran has openly and enthusiastically supported the attacks by hamas. There was a flurry of senior hamas leaders visiting tehran from june to just a couple weeks ago. They were having meetings with some top officials, including khomeini and other very senior officials in this country. If you take a look at the irgc channels, there was a large share going on and some level of pride over these attacks. And look, basically, ideologically, hamas and iran are not on the same page. One is sunni, the other is shia, they have different interests in the region. Especially in places like syria. But what they do have in common is a shared hatred of israel. And for iran, this isnt so much about wanting hamas to succeed, this is about wanting to hurt israel by any means. And thats why theyre throwing their weight behind hamas. As Secretary Blinken said, hamas wouldnt be hamas without iran. And thats why tehran has been one of hamass major supporters for many years. Providing it with Financial Assistance and vast scores of weaponry, including rockets. And whats also interesting, is that if you go on to khomeinis website, hes boasting about when the general was actively involved in arming palestinians. The website writes Silamani Money being able to fund weapons and all sorts of things into gaza. Circumventing blockades, and they credit him with helping the palestinians go from fighting is real with rocks two rockets. So they take a lot of pride in where hamas is today. They feel like theyve built them up to what they are today, to the point of their sophisticated attack. Which they werent capable of before. The iranians are basically saying weve allowed them to become so sophisticated over all of these years. And of course, iran also wields enormous influence over hezbollah, who have launched some Mortar Attacks on israel. Hezbollah answers to tyrion, so if there was a big attack from hezbollah, i think the United States and israel would clearly see that at the hands of iran. Lawrence . 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And when congress returns, im gonna ask them to take urgent action, former National Security components of our critical partners. This is not about party or politics. This is about the security of our world. The security of the United States of america. Our next guest room and gag as a marine corps combat veteran and on the subcommittee and have intelligence in Michael Herzog t sony is now jos now is democratic congressman Ruben Gallego of arizona, hes a candidate for senate in 2024. Congressman, what can you tell us about your conversation with the israeli ambassador . Well, i can tell you a couple things. Number one, i communicated the deep sorrow that i feel, my family feels, and all americans feel for the atrocity that was committed upon israeli citizens, and citizens from all around the world. What hamas did is a war crime, is a barbaric, and its something that cannot be forgotten. Number two, i want to communicate determination. Determination that we will stand with israel and help them in this fight against terrorism, and that we will be there every step of the way like we have for the past decades that weve been together. And then i also communicated to them my personal feelings about what i fear for some of these young soldiers, going into gaza is very difficult. These young soldiers werent much different from my age when i went into combat in western iraq. I know thats what theyre doing is very difficult, but its difficult because theyre going to abide by the rule of law, abide by the rule of war. Take their time and make sure that they can limit as much out of harm as possible, unlike what hamas did when they were killing, raping, and destroying children and lives. And lastly, i told him that he could count on me and the american public, as well as congress to be there in support, to make sure that we can get whatever supplies, whatever ammunition, whatever support they need from us to make sure that they can continue this fight against hamas. Is the kind of Urban Warfare that we might see in gaza the most difficult, the worst kind of Combat Engagement for combat trained troops . It is. You are dealing with an environment thats 360 degrees of threat. Above you, below, you behind you. And youre also dealing with a very cowardly group of terrorists that will use civilians, and unfortunately i saw this in iraq too, that will use civilians as shields. Where they will have civilians in the same building as they hide their weaponry, as they hide themselves. And will actually shoot sometimes, children behind women, in order for them to kill the Israeli Soldiers or harm them to get away. That is, unfortunately, the nature of Urban Warfare. And if you do Urban Warfare by the rule of war, where you try to limit the amount of civilian casualties, it unfortunately is slow and unfortunately is deadly. And it will cost israel a lot of men and women. This is why its important that we arm them with the intelligence, with the weaponry they need, the sophisticated weaponry that they need to minimize both deaths to Israeli Soldiers, but also even to Palestinian Civilians that will be caught in the cross fire. In your own experience in combat, and on the Sub Committee of intelligence and special operations, what about whats happening there now is improvable at this stage, with better intelligence . We saw a massive Intelligence Failure before this happened. Well, without going into particular details and process and equipment, or platforms, gathering intelligence is very important, but also being able to analyze it. Theres going to be an approach, basically trying to find out where these cells exist. Where are the commanding and control headquarters for hamas . Trying to use different types of Signal Intelligence and Human Intelligence to figure out where the hostages are. And from there, trying to basically put and execute Operation Plans together. And then integrating all types of fire and weaponry to do this. So, what they may not have seen before, which is entirely possible, they will now be able to see more so now, because while youre in active combat, both sides have to communicate. And the side that actually has the capability to listen to someone else is going to be the side that has the upperhand. Congressman Ruben Gallego, combat veteran and the top democrat on the house subcommittee on intelligence and special operations, thank you very much for your invaluable insights tonight. Thank you, lawrence. Well be right back. Despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch. It disrupts my skin with rash. But now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. 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