here is the spokesman for the idf, the israeli defense forces, real admiral daniel hagari. they were killed together in the area of khan younis in the operation against hamas. the information we confirmed by the relevant bodies after assessing new intelligence that we gathered over the last few weeks. we also informed the family, the paramedic who left his home on october 7th to save lives, he left his home to save lives. he left behind him his wife pregnant and his three children. in the shelter. he left them to save lives, and he was murdered by hamas, and we revealed the remains of the body. reporter: so as you can hear from what admiral hagarai just
125 of our people, meaning the remaining hostages. is he right from a military standpoint? i know from a human standpoint it s hard to ignore, and we shouldn t ignore the parents, but is what he s saying right? what are we really going to accomplish in the next five weeks or so that we haven t already? i think he is very close, and i ll put it this way. if hamas started with, let s say, 60, 70,000 active, capable foot soldiers, my assessment is they re down to maybe 4,000. so let s call it 90 to 95% of their fighting strength has been eliminated. the tunnel complex, chris, 400 miles of tunnels, i d say the israelis are now in possession, until the process of decommissioning, destroying, probably 80% plus of that tunnel
the verdict and legal process. the response from trump was wold world was fast and furious. chris lacivta said, quote, you ended your campaign. and lara trump, the former president s daughter-in-law who controls the funds as cochair went after hogan. he didn t deserve respect of anyone in the republican party at this point, and quite frankly, anyone in the america, that s upsetting to hear that. are you welling to cede the senate seat to the democratic party and not support larry hogan? what i ll tell you is we want to win as a party, but that is a shame and i think he should have thought long and hard before he said that publicly. david jolly is a former republican congressman from florida, so, david, lara trump would not say whether she would pull party resources from hogan, but do you think the rnc is willing to basically throw away, and some people think that s what they re doing, at least a sliver of hope of a senate
i haven t talked to a single senior person who said, oh, it s overblown, don t worry, he ll be fine. dan de luce is author of that report. so, dan, what more can you tell us? there is, chris, just tremendous concern as that, quote, conveyed. it falls into several categories. the first thing that these former intelligence officers are worried about is that america s allies that share sensitive intelligence with us and we with them will scale back what information they share with the u.s., given donald trump s record, track record, in handling classified or sensitive information. and then they re also worried that the intelligence analysis, trump and as allies want to appoint political loyalists, and get rid of the career civil servants across the federal government. you might have intelligence officers under pressure to give
said, they haven t come to an assessment whether it was israeli air strikes that killed the four men. a reminder, 250 people were seized by hamas and allies on october 7th. about half of those numbers were released in previous swaps for some of these hostages and quite a few of them have since died, and the israelis assess that about 85 of those are still alive. we have heard this before where the israelis have come out and said based on their own intelligence, based on their own information, they think further hostages have been killed or died from their wounds that they suffered on october 7th. now, all of this, chris, comes as we re seeing new signs from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who said that he was open to these negotiations that have since been over the past couple of days put forward, and it looks like there was a glimmer of hope in the past couple of days, we could see some kind of hostage swap, some kind of cease fire, and maybe