Dates in all of it. Trump says he will negotiate a deal to end the war on ukraine that will be good for both sides but what is he talking about? hurricane helene has left a trail of destruction across the southeastern united states. Dozens are dead and millions without power and there are two other storms during tonight in the atlantic. I am ayman mohyeldin and let us do it. We are tracking the pollen across the middle east after hezbollah confirmed earlier today it's a leader, hassan nasrallah, was killed by an israeli airstrike in southern beirut the israeli military has india strikes across lebanon with evacuation orders for neighborhoods and cities southern suburbs. Amid the ramped up attacks hospitals in beirut are filling up with the exact death toll from yesterday's attack and subsequent airstrikes remains unclear but at least 1000 people have been killed since september 17th. The day thousands of pager exploded simultaneously across the country. Around 200,000 residents have been displaced. I running proxies have large retaliatory missiles into israel from both lebanon and yemen. Iran condemned the strike that killed nasrallah as a, quote, blatant war crime and called for plans to send troops to lebanon. Hours ago benjamin netanyahu gave remarks from tel aviv saying in part, quote, nasrallah's assassination was an essential condition to achieving the goals we set he said that this killing is the key to restoring power balance. If we look at today's offensive through an historical lens that might be wishful thinking. Almost 33 years ago than it israeli prime minister assassinated nasrallah's predecessor, abbas almusawi. Expecting the move to weaken hezbollah. That did not stop the organization by watching attacks by israeli troops for decades. When nasrallah took over, hezbollah became more powerful and influential as he built the organization into a demonic domestic political force and a top military player in the region. He was a wellknown rising politician at the time. Of course, he witnessed all of this. The killing of nasrallah is a blow to hezbollah and an inflection point for lebanon but is it a tactical shortterm win for israel or a longterm solution? joining us now are romney, the american university of beirut. And senior news editor at dell monitor, who have decades of experience covering the middle east. You have been sounding the alarm for a few months about what was taking place in lebanon. This kind of path to this point, if you well. Back in june netanyahu said publicly he was going to shift his focus from gaza to lebanon let me get your reactions to what has played out given what i laid out the predecessor from nasrallah was also and israel has assassinated almost 32 years ago. Good to be with you. What you said about assassinating leaders of these movements only leads to more militant people taking their place and the movements growing and becoming more lethal is absolutely correct. This is not just a lebanese thing. This is universal. It is all over the world. When the french captured the leaders of the algerian resistance movement in the 1950s on a hijacked plane, the resistance got bigger and eventually the french were thrown out of algeria. The reality of hezbollah is that it is a lebanese anchored social justice military resistance and nationalist movement but is part of a web of other similar movements around the middle east. This build up of hezbollah over last 30 or 40 years has given it special importance at a regional level with the access of resistance. Which iran heavily helped to shape. The big question for me, what is going to happen to the access of resistance. Not just what will iran do but what will the other members do and how much will hezbollah be able to take military action against israel? the answer to all of those is that most of this will continue but there may be some slight tactical shifts in the short term. In the long term, this is an historic process. The resistance of people to live freely on their own land is probably the greatest force in the history of humankind. In terms of nationalism and politics. The israelis will be confronted for a long time with lebanon and palestine. They were in other places with the occupied land. I see this as a big jolt for hezbollah but a temporary one. We will need to wait and see what is the condition of hezbollah , which we won't know for a couple weeks. They are still firing rockets and those rockets come from yemen and they should worry the israelis. The bottom line is that this kind of mutual military attack makes people feel good but will not resolve the conflict. You also may have a political resolution. Joyce, let me get your thoughts and what it means in terms lebanon's political scene. Hezbollah i was the a paramilitary force and consider an organization here in the west but it is also political party that has members of parliament and ministers in the current government in lebanon. Some saw hezbollah as a kingmaker, if you will or a major power broker in internal lebanese politics. Given what has happened to the leadership and its, you know, source of power, if you will, inside the country what is it mean for lebanese policies and politics in the country? this transformation you are talking about for hezbollah from a militant organization they entered the government in 2005 that was, in big part, the legacy of hassan nasrallah. He could get them to be a fighting group to the most powerful, not just political party in lebanon but also the military structure in lebanon. Today hezbollah has more weaponry and is more powerful than the lebanese army. This is the legacy that hassan nasrallah leaves the party with. Now looking ahead, i agree with romney that these are really tough times but not just for hezbollah but also for lebanon. They cannot seem to catch a break. We have been an economic collapse in 2019. We have seen an explosion in 2020. And forward to the october war we are now in a lebanon/israel conflict that could turn into an allout war. People i speak to on the ground today, they are terrified. They are in shock. Saturday in lebanon, as people going out and doing their things, people are not leaving their homes. The streets are clear. Airstrikes continue. People are in shock. They do not know what will come next and they are preparing for the worst. What can happen in the long run i think there are three major factors. One, what does iran decide? iran, as you know, is a powerful player when it comes to shia bring do they decide to retaliate or do they decide to come to the table? we have seen signals in new york during the u. N. General assembly that they are willing to turn to the nuclear negotiations. Number two is the ceasefire that the u. S. Has put on the table. This is a 21 day ceasefire supported by the u. S. , france, arab countries. Does this, the killing of a hassan nasrallah, give way to benjamin netanyahu to declare victory ahead of october 7 and come to the table? he did not do it this week. I know that from u. S. Officials and others that diplomatic efforts continue. Three, this is very important. It is the political scene inside lebanon. This is a country with an acting government and traditional government, no president and an economic collapse. Doesn't lebanon opted for a way forward to at least elect a president and move ahead with elections and stabilize internally with dialogue with hezbollah it remains to be seen but it is these three factors that would determine what would happen in the long run. Tell us a little bit about what you think iran might do. If it has seen its major source of strength in the region. You know, at least at the very least now part of the leadership of decimated in the last 10 days or so. This is a big blow but a temporary blow. These moments are set up based on experience. Knowing that their leaders are targeted and many of them will die. They have to be replaced. They have a system in place to admittedly replace someone who is killed. And the continuity of the work goes on. Iran, may have a big decision to make and it will not make it quickly. The iranians take their time. They have had 3000 years of civilization in the region. Gauging their relations with people and they have a lot of legacy to build on and to think about as they make their decisions. They do not make hasty emotional decisions. Hezbollah was i ron's most successful middle east venture for the islamic resolution of 1979. It was the main success story across the middle east it has taken a blow. This is what iran has to calculate. Does this damage of the whole axis of resistance? is the axis of resistance a serious group or if it is just a nice label? we will have to wait and see. The think about the members of this group is there all territorially anchored. As well as inhome lebanon, hamas and palestine. They are all nationalists local institutions grounded in their own society, reflecting the sentiments of their own citizens. Deeply in touch with sentiments locally and willing to confront forward aggression whether it israeli, american or somebody else. That gives up a lot of power. That is why hezbollah has achieved no arab country or government has ever achieved, the kind of international resistance, power and respect of the people across many people across the arab world. Iran has to figure out whether it's role centrally to end this region of operation has to continue on the scenes or really get directly involved in the work. Let me jump in there because i'm almost out of time and i wanted to give joyce one more question about the replacement for hassan nasrallah or other leaders. Obviously, maybe a little too early to know. Do you know how this decisions happens? who is a likely successor for nasrallah? as you know there is the counsel in hezbollah that would determine who would be nasrallah's successor. To be quite honest and put it bluntly, no matter how hezbollah will try it, it will be impossible to find somebody like hassan nasrallah, who took power at age 32. As i mentioned he transformed the party. The big name that is being talked about is the man that nasrallah mentored. He is also very close to iran. He happens to be 's son happens to be married to the daughter of he is also the maternal cousin of hassan nasrallah. This is the name that is being floated. There is others and other clerics in the country. But he is the most likely to inherit the position. Rami and joyce, thank you so much. 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They stated joe biden said nasrallah was responsible for killing hundreds of americans over four decade reign of terror. His death is a massive measure of justice for his many victims. With me now our director of the kevorkian center for near eastern studies and professor of journalism at nyu and ben rose, political richard ritter and ashes are pretty smart and author of after the fall: being american in the world we have made. Ben, i will start with you. Obviously the united states signaling that it had no prior knowledge to this. You have been in these situations before. There are these high level intelligence operations, if you will. With the united states have been tipped off in any way or had any of its own indication that something this massive or consistent nick consistent could take place given it may have directly impacted america? it just feels more and more like the israeli government is ignoring because not only are they not providing much advance warning, this is against the objections of the in my biden administration were they were urging the deescalation months ago. They were negotiating a 21 day ceasefire at the u. N. And then yahoo authorize the strike from the u. N. It does seem to be like there is a bit of separation in terms of the political objectives of the u. S. And the israeli government. Normally, there is a tactical channel where the israelis give a heads up. This is a bigger question, political and geopolitical question. It feels to me like israel wants to allow the united states to be able to say that we did not know this would happen the united states does not want to seem to be a part of this operation. That said, globally i think what people see is that these were u. S. Bombs. The bunker buster bomb is a u. S. Bomb. Whether we agree with the decision or not, ultimately the united states was a part of it through weapons we provide to israel that carried out the attack. I am sure there trying to figure out what the next steps what is the next move? thus far, i think israel has been confident doing it's on its own. Let me follow up. Is there a little bit of egg on the administration's face. They came out and told the world that they were working on this 21 day ceasefire. They do not want to see escalation or the widening of this war. We have a picture of then yahoo, whose office put out this picture of him, ordering the strike while he was on u. S. Soil. It is suggested as part of his diapers and packet to loll nasrallah out of hiding or make them feel comfortable enough to operate that he is in the united states. He is doing that here from the united states while he was addressing the united nations. If you look at u. S. Administration policy, it reached a dead and in terms of the gaza ceasefire negotiations which has been hostage for ceasefire deal that is unraveled. And then the other play was to try to get saudi normalization of relationship with israel tied to the ceasefire talk. Well he went out just a week or so ago and said, that is off the table so long as they're not a palestinian state. The u. S. Is urging de escalation and trying to negotiate a 21 day ceasefire and then yahoo orders is airstrike from american soil. It is pretty clear that the u. S. Is not dictating events. In fact, the israeli government under prime minister netanyahu that is driving this escalation across the region in gaza and the west bank. Clearly, the israeli government, including security officials who have been in odds with that yahoo kind of feel this is a time to press the accelerator in terms of trying to decapitate hezbollah. Again, tragically. There is hundreds of thousands of lebanese who are caught up in that as well. I want to ask the professor about. I wanted this is happening at the end of the week when you wrote on monday, israel expanded the brutal tactics of its gaza war. Massive bombardment as a placement of civilians into lebanon. You say that the u. S. Cannot allow israel to turn lebanon into gaza. It seems like they are starting to in the southern part of beirut as wells in the southern part of the country. Is what you have seen right now suggestive of that? what is the u. S. Role in contributing to the escalation here? i wrote that right before the attack yesterday i would say they are turning lebanon into the next gaza. Certainly seven beirut and southern lebanon. The most brutal tactics in the massive bombardment. You also have the tactic that they developed in gaza for months now. They are trying to shift people massively move the populations out. We saw that in beirut last night. It spread fear throughout the population but you have people moving at 2:00 and 3:00 a. M. In the morning after receiving the socalled warnings from the idf to evacuate certain areas. You have massive movements of people from southern a route into central beirut. People were sleeping on the beach. People were sleeping in a martyr square. And just everything that israel has done in the last two weeks has been intended to spread panic among civilians and we are not just talking about hezbollah. The term of hundreds of thousands of lebanese civilians. Let me get your thoughts about the expansion. The maga transiting have lost a michelle. What do you think we will hear from hezbollah or running proxies? in terms of just operationally, how much of a setback is this to be able to engage. We are still laying hezbollah firing rockets into northern israel. Which is a state of objective of the israeli government to return the citizens to their homes in northern israel. And that is not going to happen at least in the immediate short term. What is left of hezbollah leadership is trying to convey to netanyahu and israel is the objective, they're not going to allow them to achieve that objective. We have not seen hezbollah use is more precise weapons. It's bigger missiles. Missiles that nasrallah had promised that if israel attacked seven beirut, that he would hit tel aviv with precise muscles, not just the rockets they have been firing on a daily basis. It seems that hezbollah's capability has been degraded severely in the last two weeks. Starting with the pager attacks and walkietalkie explosions. We do not know how effective or successful the israeli strikes on the various parts of the south. Potential missile launching sites. They also killed many civilians. They did 550 civilians, the highest death tolls in lebanon since the civil war. Ben, a final thought to you for the implications of the political race in this country. That is what happened today put kamala harris in a bit of a bind? it seems, as most analysts have suggested, netanyahu favors president trump. This puts the vice president in a difficult position. She wants the word to end and she is signal that time and time again that netanyahu is not listening to this administration. No. There should be no question about netanyahu's preference in the selection. It is clearly donald trump. There is many factors that go into the timing. Clearly there is an intelligence factor. The israelis, clearly have had the mark on the location of not just nasrallah but a whole range of hezbollah commanders. As it relates to our election the challenge is , just scenes of chaos and escalation and its ability and violence. That is never good for kamala harris. I am the strong man, i will get in there and make the wars end. I think the second determination may be that netanyahu may ssc is less likely to be criticized by anyone in american politics in the october before an election. Essentially, there has been it may feel like there is even less likelihood of any pressure and highly sensitive political times. We will never know the exact causation of the timing. Insofar as you can make a guess or a connection to our electorate, those are the kinds of factors i think we enter into. Professor, thank you so much. Ian, stick around. We will talk to later on in the show. Right after the break, congressman john, a member of the house armed services committee is here to weigh in on all these developments. Stay with us. He s ambles into te to get that new iphone 16 pro on us. 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Hit it again, gen! benjamin netanyahu's is contingent on 21 day ceasefire proposal from united states and its allies as is military pushes forward with intensive strikes across lebanon. The proposal which was outlined this week would allow for negotiate which israel and hezbollah house republicans are praising the attack at attacking the biden administration for trying to restrain israel and is david dave mike johnson said in part, quote, we call on the biden/harris administration to end its calls for a ceasefire and ongoing diplomatic pressure campaign against israel. Jenny met his democratic congressman john of california. A member of the house armed services committee. Great to have you back on the show. Let me get you have speaker johnson there. And saying that calls for a ceasefire counterproductive. What do you make of that statement? i think it is the wrong thing to do. I am disappointed in him. And wanting to have more people killed and for this war to expand. It seems to me that the policy of the united date as put forth by the president is to rent this thing down instead of the exhalation that is now ongoing. We ought to be backing away the ceasefire and put this on hold. Otherwise this could really spin out of control. And it is rapidly doing that and speaker johnson is just wrong. How many people are going to die in this whole process? it is an important question. You probably saw when i was talking to deputy security riser ben rhodes about this, you also have the democratic minority leader hakeem jeffries reiterating of the united states while support for israel continues will also support president biden's efforts at de escalation. Do you believe that the israeli prime minister has gone rogue? he is not even listening to the u. S. ? the u. S. Is saying things like we are working towards a cease fire deal getting allies on board and he comes to america and orders a strike with american bombs, american planes and undercutting, not just president biden but the democratic nominee, vice president harris. The political issue is front and center. Beyond that, but consider what netanyahu has done. Israel does have a right to defend itself but what are we looking at? 40,000 civilians or 30,000 civilians killed in gaza and still no end to that. Now the widening of this war into lebanon. I don't know, a couple thousand already in lebanon. Where is netanyahu going to go with this thing ? it seems to me he is just plain determined to wage war rather than to seek a peaceful settlement. One more thing we need to keep in mind is the role of iran in all of this. Iran is not likely to sit back and just allow this to happen. United states needs to develop a policy to deal with the problem that iran is creating in the entire region. That is a long discussion but we have to have that discussion. To your point, we have new nbc news reporting that says two u. S. Officials saying the pentagon is again option for increasing the number of u. S. Troops and equipment in the middle east after nasrallah's assassination. 40,000 troops are already in the region. Do you worry that the biden administration's intended goal of deescalation is made more complicated by netanyahu's actions that we are being dragged into a war that we can no longer control? that has been going on for eight or nine months now. With the houthis , with hezbollah and now in gaza. The reality is that netanyahu is running rogue here. He is on his own mission. That mission is going to bring about or is already moving towards a much wider war in the region. Consider perhaps a year and a half ago there was a strong possibility that we would see an improved relationship between the saudi's and the emirates and israel. All of that is off the board now. The bottom line is that the president is going to, i suspect, simply tell netanyahu, it is over. You stop or else. That is a message i believe you should be giving. Dancing around has simply not worked. Netanyahu needs to understand that if he is going to wage war, he may be doing it on his own and he will not have 2000 pound bunker buster bombs. Let me ask you about that. You say or else and you are member of the armed services committee. Do you support restrictions of u. S. Arms sales to israel until it complies with international law as well as with u. S. Domestic law or at least with that u. S. Political objectives in the region. Absolutely. Has been my policy for the last eight months. Yes, i think we ought to restrict that. They can have defensive weapons. They can do what they need to do to protect themselves. The situation in gaza is outrageous. Now it appears netanyahu is broadening this into lebanon in a way that may very well result in civilian deaths much greater than already has happened. What is the end result of all of this? if you take a look at the history, israel has attempted before to take up the leadership of hezbollah , has waged war in lebanon, and it has only led to a reoccurrence four, five, 10 years later. The bottom line of all of this, i would go back to what i said a moment ago but all of this emanates from iran. Until the united states gets a policy together to deal with iran and the political unrest that does exist in iran. Keep in mind that iran is now missing in the united states domestic presidential election. Exactly what they are doing, we share this and we hear that but we know they are messing around. Maybe we ought to be messing around in their country. John garamendi, thank you so much. We appreciate your time and insights as always. 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It made for some awkward moments as the expresident everything in his power to avoid condemning vladimir putin. Watch. We have a very good relationship and i also have a very good relationship, as you know, with president putin. More good relations. Yeah but it takes two to tango. It should stop. And the president wanted to stop. I am sure president putin wants it to stop. Ben rhodes is back with the and also join the conversation is stanley, author of the new book erasing history how fascists rewrite the past to control the future. Jason, this is a weird moment we find ourselves in. You have donald trump refusing to condemn russia for the aggression that it is doing and barely making the critical statement about what vladimir putin is doing to ukraine. What you think vladimir putin was thinking as he was watching this week unfold with volodymyr zelenskyy and donald trump side byside? putin, a war criminal, wanted war criminal was very pleased. Trump, his friendship for putin is very important to him. And when you really want someone to be your friend, they can manipulate you. Putin's friendship is too important for trump to sacrifice. This is what harris said in the debate and this is what we're seeing here. I thought it was a strong point from vice president that she outlined all these objectives and said those are the objectives that vladimir putin wants. Think of the brazenness of zelenskyy going to trump. He cares more about his own people that he cares about himself. He does not mind going to trump , who obviously has insulted him. Trump called him a salesman. Zelenskyy is jewish. That was antisemitic. Clear antisemitic slur. He puts his people above his own feelings. Ben, this is the first time that trump and zelenskyy met. It was during his first impeachment when he tried to extort ukraine for dirt on joe biden. He is still suggesting situations that would harm ukraine more than russia. I just want to pause with the fact that zelenskyy is president of a country whose people are bombarded every day i russian missiles sent there by vladimir putin. They have been blowing up the power grid. They have bond residential buildings and hospitals. I say that because donald trump has to stand next to this guy and say vladimir putin is his friend. Imagine what zelenskyy was feeling. Imagine whatever ukraine's were feeling inside. The offensive that is. And then for him to come back and say, everyone has to make concessions. And i'm saying i'm sure putin wants a war to stop. Clearly, trump is letting substance from the outrage of the situation. He is setting up zelenskyy to be weakened in any negotiation if trump wins. Might ukraine have to make territorial concessions? perhaps, at some point. You don't start the negotiation from the negotiating patient that she position of the average azeri. I will choose that goes unseen to, russia gets to keep everything they have now and you never get to have security relationships with the west. You do this in a way that kamala harris is saying, we need to show that we have a longterm commitment and any negotiations will take their concerns, their views are fully into account and that is what the u. S. Will bring into a negotiation. There could not be a bigger choice before the united states and the world in terms of the election as a way of the war in ukraine. You and i have talked about this. It is not what trump does, the rest of the publican party while the super you have mike johnson demanding zelenskyy fire the ukrainian abbasid to the u. S. , accusing her of election interference for organizing zelenskyy's visit to an ammunition factory in pennsylvania. Let me play for you interviewers his response to that this morning on fox. I am the president of ukraine. I cannot discuss our ambassadors, only with those in my country. I cannot discuss it with speaker johnson, with all respects. Your reaction. It is a very bizarre dynamic we are seeing play out. Ahead of state is bring brought to america. Under publican party from trump onwards is basically humiliating him, interfering in his country's own domestic affairs. Basically asking him to acquiesce to russian demands and republicans are all partaking in it. Russia represents an aggressive fascist dictatorship. Those who kill its own opponents, putin killed his own journals and political opponents. We have the entire republican party, not just trump, j. D. Vance has been very clear about this. And now, mike johnson and the republican party is going in its hat with a fascist dictatorship that kills political opponents and journalists. This is very indicative of the direction in which the republican party is going. House oversight committee chair has joined in on this as well. The gop circus. He wants to launch an investigation into the pennsylvania visit, he is doing the bidding for trump just to keep the pressure on ukraine and whip ukraine into shape for a possible second trump administration. It is totally disgusting. First of all, volodymyr zelenskyy can choose where he wants to go. If you want to go to musician factors, american jobs by the way, making munitions that are going to the frontline. Why can you not visit there? who is a bunch of republicans in congress to tell zelenskyy. In an actual war going for the survival of his country. He has no sovereignty. It seems to me like putin's. These overlords and republican committee say. The second thing because i talked about this in the past. They have no problem election interference when they are writing netanyahu to speak before the united states congress to either attack them or to rile up the right wing in this country. They have no problem having republicans go to meet with benjamin netanyahu and get the fact of endorsements from him. If anyone has been engaged in this game of trying to secure foreign support for political objectives in the country, it has been the republican party time and again. A good point as well about the hypocrisy of republicans when it comes to other foreign leaders including viktor orban when he is excited to come to maralago. Thank you so much and appreciate you. An update on hurricane helene next. What makes it possible is unmatched connectivity and 5g solutions from tmobile for business. Tmobile connects 100,000 delta airlines employees. Powers tractor supply stores nationwide with reliable 5g business internet. And helps red bull revolutionize coverage of live events. This is how business goes further with tmobile for business. Known as a loving parent. Known for lessons that matter. Known for being a free spirit. 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