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Katy tur. Tom emmer, come on down. The third speaker nominee in as many weeks. Does he have the votes . The center of the conference seems to be with him, but what about the flanks . On paper, hes generally a traditional republican, not so conservative. He voted for the stopgap funding measure, for example and is currently a member of Leadership Serving as majority whip, but he also voted to certify the last election and even though President Biden did win and certifying was the constitutional move, that vote could keep him from the gavel and keep the house in chaos. During this mornings round of Secret Ballot Voting to choose a nominee emmer fell short of the 217 he needs to win on the floor. Joining us now republican congressman from colorado, ken buck. Congressman, i know emmer has been on your bingo card for a while. You voted for him multiple times. Do you see him flipping enough votes to actually get the gavel . I think it became more difficult recently. When i say recently i say within the last half hour. President trump posted something on his social media account that was encouraging people not to support tom emmer. In a race where you cant afford to lose more than four votes i think that could be damaging. I think tom is doing his best to talk to each of the people who have questions about him and try to deal with those questions, but i think hes got some hurdles to overcome at this point. What is going on with your party that the person who does a constitutional thing by certifying a vote that somebody won fair and square cant be the speaker . I tell you, i certified the vote also, and i dont want to be speaker and tom has done the right thing consistently. Hes one of the those folks that is very honest, very forthright, and i thought he would have a good chance because of that because you know exactly where he stands on every issue. It is the way it is right now. We have to overcome this issue. Okay. So if it cant be emmer, cant be scalise, cant be jordan, cant be mccarthy. Who can it be . It cant be buck, but it can be perhaps mike johnson, perhaps myron donald. There were a number of people on the ballot that did well. Tom did the best. Well see. Well see if tom is able to get the votes, i just dont know that he can, but i think we go back to the Drawing Board and figure out who the next person up is and then give that person the chance to talk to the folks that are opposing him. Are you confident that come 13 working days from now the government will stay open . That there will be a speaker to put legislation to the player . I am confident of that, and before 13 days from now. What i am confident of is that we will either elect a speaker like tom emmer and tom certainly has my support or we will elect somebody on the temporary basis to make sure we get through this period where we have to deal with a potential government shutdown, where we have to deal with a potential bill coming over from the senate involving ukraine, israel, Border Security and pacific rim supplemental funding. What makes you so confident . Because so far, weve seen nothing that lends to this actually getting results. We keep seeing failed votes and the number of abroad and still fell short of the number of respect reps and there seem Tobacco A Group of holdouts that just refused to go along to get along. Absolutely. So, i dont know if there are a group of people who will block tom emmer so that they get their choice, i dont know. The reason im optimistic is because im optimistic. Im a Glass Half Full kind of guy, and two weeks ago i told everybody that i thought at the end of that week we were going to have a speaker, so i havent been accurate, but i have been optimistic. Let me ask you about the things that need to get done other than funding. There is this package that the white house is sending to package and want aid for both ukraine and for israel. That is going to be stalled because theres nobody to put it to the floor. What do you make of of the delay for those two things . Well, first, i think it can go to the senate. The senate can deal with it. I, personally, am supportive of aid to ukraine and supportive of aid to israel. The question i have is that there are pay fors in that aid. Will President Biden agree to reduce the number of irs agents from 87,000 down to a number so we can help pay for that aid . Will we reduce the number of electric vehicle recharging stations paid for by the federal government so we can pay for some of that aid. I want to pay fors and move forward, but we need a speak tore do that. By the time the senate is finished with this, well have a speaker. You are interested in what french president emanuel mack ron said what should happen next in gaza. Hes talking about convening an International Community to figure out what should happen to gaza and should replace hamas. What do you think of that . I dont think the french have any business in this, and frankly, i dont pay much attention to macron. He was willing to sell ukraine down the road. I think israel will take care of this issue and we would be wise to support israel in how they proceed. So you do not think there should be an International Community to come in and help set up a government . Do you think that israel has the authority to help gaza lead itself . That gazans would accept that . I think that israel when they are finished with their Military Operation and there is not a Military Threat to israel, then i think israel can call for an international tribunal, the u. N. Or some other group to come in and help, but at this point the focus is on the Military Operation, and we should not be distraktded with some ceasefire International Group or anything else. Israel has our support and i am there to support them. Congressman ken buck, thank you very much for joining us. Joining me now is ryan nobles. It appears emmer doesnt have the votes and its not looking good for him. What are you hearing . Likewise, it doesnt appear to be a positive trend line for tom emmer in his hope to become the next speaker of the house. Hes following a very similar path that the two men before him, Steve Scalise and jim jordan followed where they were able to secure more than half of the conference and almost immediately, a relatively sizeable group of republicans said theyre not comfortable voting for him. It certainly doesnt help his case at all that the former President Donald Trump has now gone to his social media channel to make it clear that he is not in favor of emmers candidacy for speaker of the house and this despite emmer trying to reach out to the former president and trying to demonstrate a degree of loyalty to donald trump. Its hard to figure out where they go next, katy. When they have 20 or so republican members right now who say theyre not necessarily in favor of the emmer candidacy i would be hard pressed to see him go to the floor and try to grind this out through a series of public votes. I think hell continue to try to work this to see if theres any breaking of this logjam, but theres a real possibility that well have to pick someone else and as weve said many times that someone else may not have 217 votes, and and this is as big a crisis as weve seen on capitol hill for a long time. I dont know where hes getting the confidence from because so far we havent seen urgency to the electing of anybody. He mentioned Byron Donalds might be able to get the votes and do you think thats a possibility . Byron donalds couldnt even get a majority of the votes in the conference up against eight other candidates. So maybe . Its hard to see a scenario by which if Byron Donalds was the clear favorite and gathered 217 votes that he wasnt able to, and have the majority of vets where you can make the case for 217. You will start to see ined conversation about an a toechlt to empower Patrick Mchenry for a short period of time so that they can deal with this crush of legislation that is just bearing down on them, but even that is a really hard sell. You know, a good chunk of the republican conference is not in favor of that and there are a lot of democrats that are uncomfortable, as well. Every time i try to come up with a solution, katy, even one that you want to draw up with some fan pick, even that is difficult because there isnt a Single Person who can get the 217 points. Do democrats step in at any point . Are they feeling pressure to do so . I was in the Press Conference with pete aguilar who is the third ranking democrat, and he made it very clear that theyre willing to be a part of some sort of bipartisan compromise to elect a new speaker, but thats going to come with real conditions. Its going to come with the elimination of the motion to vacate. Its likely going to come with some guarantee that the house will vote to keep the government open, include a whole other host of provisions that would make it untenable for the vast majority of republicans to get involved in it. So, you know, its one of these things where, yeah, that would be the solution, but actually seeing it play out making it happen in a tangible way just seems very elusive at this point. Very messy. Ryan nobles, thank you very much. Coming up, donald trump has an Attorney Problem from jenna ellis flipping to Michael Cohen testifying to trumps face today. What is happening in that new york courtroom coming up next. Also, what the offduty pilot who allegedly tried to shut off a jetliners engine midflight told police what was going through his mind. We are back in 60 seconds. We ar. Donald trump has a Lawyer Problem. Today in a surprise plea deal ago one flipped on him. Jenna ellis who was part of his socalled Elite Strike Force to overturn the results of the election pleaded guilty in georgia. Fourth alleged coconspirator and third lawyer to trade d. A. Fani willis an admission for documents and testimony. Of course, these lawyers were all preseated by another trump lawyer. Michal cohen infamously flipped on the former president five years ago. Now cohen is coming face to face with his former boss for the first time since, testify against him today in the new york fraud trial. Theres the camera focusing. Joining me is msnbc news senior Legal Correspondent and coanchor of saturday today, laura jaret. Michael cohen, facetoface with donald trump. Whats happening in the courtroom . The most important thing just happened a short time ago where cohen got on the Witness Stand. Hes been there all day and he got on the Witness Stand and essentially said look, i was tasked with trying to cook up a number that would make Donald Trumps assets look bigger than they actually are. Its cohens testimony that jumpstarts this whole thing where he tells congress he was essentially manipulating his assets to get more favorable loan terms and we were wondering if cohen would shed light on it and double down on it today and thats effectively what hes done. He hasnt had crossexamination yet and hes had plenty to be cross examined on, but so far thats his story. How part of the case is Michael Cohens testimony . Its big. Certainly, there are other do you means and there are certain other witnesses, but cohen again, is an insider as you described, right . Hes in the room with alan weisselberg, the chief Financial Officer for a long time, coming up with a way to make the numbers work. I mean, you have a cooperator like that, it gives prosecutors an advantage. However, there are plenty of times where cohen said initially turns out not to be true and thats where he opens himself up there was tension between the two men . Accident. Apparently they did not look at each other and there was tension in the room and donald trump sat there with his arms crossed and they were Trading Barbs outside the courtroom and theyre not talking to each other in the courtroom. He has a Lawyer Problem as ive said a couple of times. You have Michael Cohen who flipped years ago, but down in georgia, we now have the third lawyer flipping on donald trump, jenna ellis. Each one of these lawyer whys, kenneth chesebro, jenna ellis getting Community Service and having to write a letter. Thats not a lot and the worst thing that could have happened to them. What does it say about what theyre handing over . Their back was against the wall, and they chose what was in their selfinterest, any firstyear law student would say this is a pretty good deal, if you can get probation and in return you have to give up the goods on what you know, thats a deal you take. I wonder, what does it mean about how good their goods are . It depends. They all tell different stories and it depends on whos most damaging to whom. I think ellis can certainly speak to the Rudy Giuliani aspect of this. Remember, for people at home, she was the one going state to state with giuliani trying to get State Electors to go for trump and to flip, and she was also standing up before people in the Georgia State Senate Making a host of wild, baseless claims about dead voters in georgia, none of which was true and she all, but admitted today in court and thats a problem for giuliani. A query about how much of a problem it is for trump, powell and chesebro all people in the legal circle, but they all have different stories to tell and its just a question of which one has the one thats most problematic. Other than the three lawyer, another person, another coconspirator has also flipped. That brings the number of defendants down to 15. Could we be seeing more flip in the coming days and weeks . And could that potentially speed up a trial date . Perhaps, but i think the issue is that chesebro and powell sort of had a speedy trial thing already. To start on monday. They had a timing issue. Ellis had been complaining a while she wasnt getting her legal bills paid, perhaps to the extent like other people, like giuliani, who have legal bills who arent getting help from trump are feeling the pressure more than others. It will cost a lot of money in legal bills, housing, airbnb, that will cost you mono pep its expensive to go through a trial like this. Its expensive for the state. Laura jaret, thank you very much. Any time. Yesterday we got word that an offduty pilot riding in the cockpits jump seat tried to shut off the engines of a cheshl jet midflight. Now the criminal complaint alleges that pilot, a father of two who has been charged with Attempted Murder may have been high on psychedelic mushrooms. Tom costello, this is a twist i did not see coming. This is the fbi affidavit. Now in addition to the state charges and you mentioned 83 charges of Attempted Murder on the state level, we now have a federal complaint alleging interfering with a flight crew. Let me walk through some of this with you and im going to ask that we put this up on the screen. These are some of the items that are stated in this fbi affidavit that the suspect here, a 44yearold offduty pilot allegedly said either to the Flight Attendants, to the crew or to the police. Number one, he said he believed he was having a nervous breakdown. He said i dont feel okay. Said he had not slipped in 40 hours and also said he thought hed been depressed for six months and denied taking any medication, but as you said, suggested it was his first time taking psychedelic mushrooms. We do not know the context there. First time that day . Was he allegedly taking those mushrooms because of his depression . We simply dont know. Reminder, he is an offduty Alaska Airlines pilot who was in the cockpit, catching a ride to San Francisco where he grabbed the control switches that killed the engines and therefore shutting off fuel to the engines and shutting down the engines and that resulted in a skirmish. A 30second skirmish in the cockpit before the copilot and the pilot managed to get him out the door. This is weird. He then walked casually to the rear of the plane, talked to the Flight Attendant at the rear of the plane and said you better put me in cuffs or things are going to get bad. She put what we believe are zip tie cuffs on him. He allegedly tried to open one of the exit doors virtually impossible at altitude, but tried and then as you know they declared an emergency and landed in portland and police came onboard and arrested him. So the question now is, of course, is there there appears to be a Mental Health component to whatever happened and there may be some sort of a narcotic component as well, katy . Tom costello, tom, thanks very much. Coming up next, what the idf is offering gazans, not hamas, in exchange for hostages. Hamas, in exchange for hostages. If you struggle. And struggle. And struggle with cpap. You should check out inspire. No mask. No hose. Just sleep. Learn more and view Important Safety Information at inspiresleep. Com at humana, we believe your healthcare should evolve with you, and part of that evolution means choosing the right medicare plan for you. Humana can help. 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I can tell you that even if somebody is willing to provide information these hostages based on what we heard from the two elderly women released yesterday are in these spider webs, quote, unquote, of Underground Tunnels in gaza. We did hear from Yocheved Lifshitz the older of the two ladies released yesterday from gaza, 85 years old explain how she was kidnapped on a motorcycle and went on to describe how she was made to walk for miles in these Underground Tunnels, these wet, dank, Underground Tunnels that she was kept there with several other hostages and that she was given food. That she was given water and they were provided with medical care. Of course, we must remember that the husbands of the two elderly ladies are still in hamas detention. So at this point, this is it would make sense for them at this point to describe the conditions that they were held in as not having been, you know, as difficult as perhaps they were. As far as the hope for the release of more hostages, now there are reports that perhaps there are negotiations ongoing, perhaps even for the release of a larger group of hostages, but one of the sticking points could be on whether or not fuel would be allowed in future aid shipments. We know that the very small amount of aid that made it into gaza did not include fuel and these are some of the reports that were hearing that there are discussions ongoing about whether or not to include at least the amount of necessary fuel that hospitals need to operate in future shipments, katy. What is the hesitation about letting fuel in with medical supplies with food and water . From the israeli side the reservation is that it would be used by hamas, but Aid Organizations on the ground including the u. N. Refugee agency thats operating there says fuel is as important as water and food right now, and we are also hearing from one of the doctors on the ground that hospitals, 12 of them are now totally out of service. So they cannot operate without fuel because they cannot feed the generators. On the one hand, the israelis are saying, listen, were not going to send any fuel and theyre even accusing hamas of holding on to some stockpiles and not distributing them to the hospitals, water and desalination plants in the strip, but the humanitarian agencies are saying this is something that we desperately need at this point because peoples lives are at risk e specially those that depend on life support, incubators and basic Hospital Machinery is not able to function in at least now a dozen hospitals. There are quite a few premature babies that are currently on a version of life support that wont survive if they dont get fuel, as well. Hala gorani, hala, thank you very much. Joining us from cairo is msnbc news correspondent megan fitzgerald. Whats happening on the egyptian side of this . Look, i can tell you it certainly appears to be a struggle to try to get more aid into gaza. We already knew that this was a slowmoving process and its what aid workers on the ground are saying and to emphasize that more, we know there is a convoy of trucks that were seen preparing to go into gaza. They have not yet crossed yet and its past 10 00 at night here in cairo. So, look, theres a need for more aid on the ground. As hala was saying, theres food, theres water and medical supplies. Its not enough. What was agreed upon was 20 trucks moving into gaza. That was just a drop in the ocean compared to what gazans received before the war which was 450 truckloads of aid that went into the enclave. Now as you hear, there are these desperate calls for fuel. Fuel is not onboard. The israelis have not agreed to that and so now the implication of that is that you have the humanitarian Aid Organizations, groups on the ground saying they have 24 hours left before they have to stop operations because they can no longer operate because they dont have fuel. As hala was saying, its already impacted hospitals. 12 hospital, 32 Health Centers that have had to shut down. Of the ones that are still functioning they say time is running out. 24 hours for a doctor who spoke with reuters until his hospital will have to shut down or will be forced because theyll run out of fuel and what that looks like, as You Toucheded on according to this doctor, 55 babies would die in a matter of minutes because the incubators would stop working because theres no electricity. This is certainly a dire situation. There are calling for more fuel, for more aid to move quickly, but at this point, it certainly doesnt appear as though aid is moving fast to get into gaza. Katy . Meaghan fitzgerald, thank you very much. We will talk about that with a palestinianamerican aid worker who has family in gaza but is living here in the states about just how urgence and dire the situation is from his accounts from his own family. Dont go anywhere. Well be right back. Dont go anywhere. Well be right back. I work for the city of new york as a police administrator. I oversee approximately 20 people and my memory just has to be sharp. I always hear people say, you know, when you get older, you know, people lose memory. I didnt want to be that person. I decided to give prevagen a try. My memory became much sharper. I remembered more ive been taking prevagen for four years now. Prevagen. At stores everywhere without a prescription. Why didnt we do this last year . Before you were preventing migraine with qulipta® . Remember the pain . Cancelled plans . The worry . That was then. And look at me now. Youll never truly forget migraine. 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Crack safelite came right to us, and we could see exactly when theyd arrive with a replacement we could trust. Thats service the way we want it. Singers safelite repair, safelite replace. Says that more than 700 people were killed in strikes overnight. Nbc news cannot independently verify that number, but if it is accurate it would be the highest singleday death toll since the start of the war. Joining us now is u. N. Rwa director of philanthropy henny almadoun. Thank you very much. Tell me about your family in gaza . Katy, thank you for having me. I wish we were meeting under better circumstances. Things are not great. You know, every day there is not much food that gets up north to them where they are. They are in my own apartment which you can see it is a safe space to go to. As of now theyre safe, but too bad their neighbors are not so lucky and we talk to them and we hear bombs often and they worry for them and their safety. My sisterinlaw lost Family Members in one air strike. This is not something im waiting for someone to verify. We knew these people and we had celebrations and my heart goes out to them and all innocent people that are losing their life in gaza, and i do work for u. S. Aid, its very tricky, but its the one thing that keeps me sane and keeps me going is were trying to find ways for us to support the folks there, and i hear you talk about the humanitarian aid and how much we need to do more of this. Some aid is getting through, not enough, but some aid is getting through. What needs to happen to make sure that innocent civilians, as few as possible, are caught up in this . I appreciate this. The more and more the u. S. Administration is expressing those sentiments and the attitude is matching the behavior at some point. It is unfortunate. The aid is good, and i welcome in because as we say in fundraising, every Dollar Counts and no amount is too small when youre hungry and this is the definition of that moment where folks are hungry where you have to wait six hours to get bread for their kids or eight hours to get water and it is a big issue. It is a drop in the bucket, but dont get me wrong, any help is needed, and im glad that my sister who is sheltered in a school, two hours after she got to gaza, thats what she had for lunch, some tuna. Obviously, we want the bombs to stop, but at least people have some nourishment as they wait to see what is happening next on the ground and you know, it is unfortunate as we know that without the fuel no amount of trucks matters. You can bring in 50 trucks a day and if you dont have fuel, it doesnt matter. The bakeries are down, the ambulances are not working and hospitals, my uncle is doing dialysis, and can you imagine how you do that without electricity . You talk about the kids in the incubators and these are real people. I just hope that very few people disagree or push back about the safety and they want to make sure fuel goes in and now the mechanism, thats debatable, and they trust the u. N. Agencies which i used to fund raise for and support, but not enough is being done, and i hope that the situation gets better at this point, but it is really not something exciting that we see from gaza. I pray for their safety and i continue to work with my colleagues to give them supplies as they need it. You met with secretary Antony Blinken yesterday. What did he tell you . Yeah. He was i was grateful and there were a lot of conflicted emotions, but we cant discuss what happened, but i asked him to make me a promise if he would talk to my mom after this war is over in the hope that she will still make it, and i just want to talk about that. Obviously, we discussed a number of things, but my impression that more humanitarian aid is needed and the u. S. Government recognizes that and obviously, theres private discourse and Public Discourse and hopefully the u. S. Will start doing the right thing. Theres the quote that the u. S. Is doing the right thing when they try Everything Else and i hope its not too late before they call for the right actions. Yeah. The administration is now calling for more aid and changing their not tune, but calling for more aid now than they were certainly in the past. Hani thank you, katy. Just we need the destinations for fuel is 160 liters, a thousand liters a day and hopefully well start seeing those. Thank you for highlighting this and for having me today. 160,000 liters is what they need a day. Thank you 160,000, thank you, hani, very much. We appreciate it. Good luck to your family and to you. And coming up, what the u. N. Secretarygeneral said today that got israel so angry. Officials there are calling for his resignation. With fastsigns, Brew Signature Flavor into every sip and sign. Fastsigns. Make your statement. upbeat music with the push of a button, constant contacts ai tools help you know what to say, even when you dont. Hi constant contact. Helping the small stand tall. Theres challenges, and i love overcoming challenges. When better money habits® content first started coming out, it expanded what i could do for Special Olympics athletes with developmental needs. Thousands of Bank Of America employees like scott spend countless hours volunteering to teach people how to reach their financial goals. It felt good. It felt like i could take on the whole world. Im sholeh, and i lost 75 pounds with golo. It felt good. I went from a size 20 to a size 6. Before golo, nothing seemed to work. I was exercising for over an hour every day. It was really discouraging. But golos so easy, the weight just falls off. sean i wish for the amazing new iphone 15 pro jason sean do you mean this one the one with titanium . Switch to verizon, and get iphone 15 pro on them. sean wow vo get iphone15 pro, apple tv 4k and 6 months of apple one. All three on us. Only on verizon. Things got heated at the United Nations where the Security Council was debating what should happen in israel with the secretarygeneral Antonio Guterres demanding a ceasefire and arguing israel shoulders a lot of the blame for the conditions that led to The Slaughter on october 7th. It is important to also recognize the attacks by hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian People have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their land steadily evolved by settlements and plagued by violence, their economy stifled, their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing, but the grievances of the Palestinian People cannot justify the appalling attacks by hamas and those appalling attacks cant justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian People. Joining us now, a member of the knesset, former Deputy Defense minister and israels former ambassador to the u. N. , danny danone. Ambassador, thank you for being with us. I know you have called for the secretary to resign over his comments. He did say that what happened on october 7th was horrific. Why are you so angry about that . I would point to secretary guterres, and i know him personally and i spent years in the Security Council and after what we experienced with the atrocity, the secretarygeneral justified the actions of hamas explaining why they did it. There is no explanation to that. Its shameful and he lost the legit mass toy to stay in his position and we are at war. We expected the u. N. To have discussions, but i expected the secretarygeneral to condemn hamas. Period. Not to put that equation between israel and the hamas organization. Its shameful and i hope reshould retract and if he cannot do that he shouldnt be in that position. Is there a way to have a ceasefire, to call on the International Community to come in and remove hamas from power and set up something more stable for gaza without israel flattening the place or having the Ground Incursion . I wish. It is Wishful Thinking what youre describing. Why is it Wishful Thinking . Nobody will come into gaza and asking hamas to go out. If anyone is willing, we are for it. We have no other choice, but to defend our people and you know, it is not easy for us. More than 100,000 israelis moved out of their homes and many palestinians had to move from their homes and move to Southern Gaza and all because of hamas. I dont see anyone coming in and do the job for us. We will have to do that and we will have to eliminate hamas and we are willing to do that. I know its hard to quantify the support from hamas within gaza. They havent had an election in 17 years, but when you speak to gazans theyre not pointing the finger at hamas. Theyre saying israel is making us move and theyre not assuring us that we can go back home. We are not given an assurance that we can go back to our homes and go back to whatever is left and rebuild. Why are they not getting that assurance . Hamas is trying urge them to go back to the northern part of gaza. We do exactly the opposite. We want to minimize the number of civilian casualties after this is over is what i meant, sir. After this is over we have no intention to stay in gaza, period. We left gaza 18 years ago, i want to remind you of that. So basically, they would be able to go back and those that stay in the area it will be a war zone, so i encourage the population that stayed there about 20 that is still there to move out before it would be too late for them. Just to go back to that. You are saying israel has no intention of occupying gaza directly after that, and ive heard that and ive not heard an assurance from israel that gazans will be able to come back even if they leave gaza and go to egypt if that ever happens, that theyll be able to come back. Can you make that assurance as a member of the knesset . I can tell you we have no intengs to stay in gaza. We have no intention to block people of Northern Gaza to move back to where they lived in the past. We have only one goal. The goal is to finish with hamas. Weve had enough. We delayed it for many years and now we realize we cannot stay where we are where hamas has the capabilities to fight with us. We saw the brutality and we saw the pictures and thats why we are determined about that. So, yes, to your answer the people of Northern Gaza will be able to come back to north gaza after we finish the job. Let me ask you about the hostages. The negotiations to get more of them out. Ive heard that there could be a way to get a group of them out if more fuel or any fuel is allowed into gaza. Is that what youre hearing, as well . We know that some kind of negotiators were trying to support the process where every hostage comes home, we feel relieved and we cannot forget the 200 or more are still in the hands of hamas, so thats playing games with us, and we see see more coming back home regarding the issue of the fuel into gaza, i can tell you a lot of fuel, but they are using it for the tunnels. They are not using it for hospitals or supporting the population. So when we are going to fight with hamas, we have to make sure that they dont have the ammunition or fuel to fight against us. 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Where is the exple Sit Condemnation of these horrors . More injustice and more killing will not make israel safer. Our freedom is the condition of shared peace and security. For those actively engaged to avoid and even greater humanitarian catastrophe and regional spillover, it must be clear that this can only be achieved by the putting an immediate end to the israeli war launched against the Palestinian People in the gaza strip. As i said before, debate was emotional, it was heated at the u. N. Today over both what happened and what has been happening in israel and gaza. Opinions are hardening and the question of what happens not now but next seems to be secondary. Joining me is israeli comedian and activist. Thank you for being here. You have written about holding two things in your head at once and your heart. The pain and the suffering of what happened to israelis and others on october 7th, The Slaughter, the murder, the horror, as Antony Blinken was just talking about, but also the suffering of gazaens. Explain. Thank you, katy, for invite ing me. I think were just all sick of seeing men with suits talking over our heads with this war rhetoric, empty words that promise us nothing. People are so thirsty for hope. People are so thirsty for words that go beyond the dichotomies of two sides and the two narratives, and what i was trying to write in this piece is exactly that. Im a comedian. I worked for the u. N. Before. Being a comedian, i couldnt do much. Surprise. I do comedy in front of israeli aud yens, palestinian audiences and also in english. I grew up with palestinians. I have been a jewish israeli activist together with palestinians, doing peace Building Work for many years. And this moment that we are experiencing is very, very harsh and very tough. And we feel like theres a cyber war narrative on top of our heads that ignores the people on the ground and how complex and nuanced everything is on the ground. I want to represent something different. I want to represent a place that can hold the pain of both people for what is happening to us on the october 7th attack, there were also palestinians that were hurt. And they continue to get to be heard. Right now what is happening in gaza and what has been happening is a huge, huge suffering and death toll. Many of the victims and survivors and kidnapped from the october 7th massacres are actually people from my movement, from the movement that seeks justice and longterm solutions. And these are people that are kept now in gaza and people also that were killed. We have a the lot of families who lost their loved ones. My friends who are echoing these messages, do not revenge and go on a campaign of revenge. In the name of our pain, what is really important to understand here, is that we feel like orphans. We were neglected by the government on october 7, and we have been neglected for a really long time for. The israelis in the south going through these horrors, theres no one in sight to help them. And right now, i dont know how many people realized that. The government is not functioning. The government is not supporting the people. We are not being led. Theres no one that is holding the will. Nobody is giving us answers. Its just bombardment on gaza without any strategy, without any solutions. The person who was in charge of this country is a person that we do not trust. We do not believe him. Hes not leading a government. The government is nowhere to be found. And right now, its the civil power in israel that are taking care of the people that were evacuated. It is not the government. My palestinian friends who have israeli citizenship, they are being silenced and arrested for no good reasons. The government is being run by rightwing fascists, and we absolutely do not trust the government. I dont mean to interrupt you. I would love to keep talking but i have 10 seconds left in the show. Im going to have to say goodbye. Well have you back on. Thank you so much for coming. I appreciate that opinion. And the idea that theres a different way. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thats it for me. Deadline white house starts right now

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