pause in the war. yesterday, hamas released 24 hostages while israel released 39 palestinian prisoners. and new video is showing dramatic reunions on friday, like nine year old ohad wound or. his mom grandmother ruth e. coming face to face with their loved ones after being held captive. relatives are saying that the former abductees are doing as well as can be expected. what is a good shape for a nine year old after being in some prison cell for nine months? the way i see is, the doctor said that they are exactly where they should be, under the circumstances, okay? so, we have to give them time, of course. but we are optimistic, a lot of love and a lot of patients, you know? recuperating and coming to terms with the new reality that has happened. indeed. well, the ron asher and her daughters, aviv and roz, they were also released and reunited with their loved ones, while relatives of the am still being held or questioning widespread global protests in support of palesti
members of congress believe it, too. well, here s the thing, everything other than core visceral tribalism has been boiled away. that s what this is. let s set aside for a second the fact that what hillary clinton was accused of doing with a private, unsecured email is like a little anthill compared to the empire state building of thif operational security nightmare. but what is plain from all of this testimony is, we know the answer he did it. all of this evidence, this huge accumulation of evidence from highly credible witnesses over and over and over shows us that what we saw initially on that summary of the trump/zelensky call is, in fact, what happened. he pressured zlovolodymyr zelen, a vulnerable new leader of a country at war with russia, under attack by russia, he
kept repeating and i m going to be working for you folks despite this controversy and on everything other, even on the lewinsky stuff, they would try to get all the information out and try to get ahead of the bad news. i do think the president was trying to bait the republicans. felt like bait a little bit. the huge risks for republicans. they have huge demographic problems. blue collar voters in the last election was a big problem. if you re just addressing these kind of issues you re not out there every day addressing those problems, that could be a problem for republicans. michael gerson, ron fournier, two veterans of this. thank you very much. up next, a path to citizenship, equal treatment for same-sex partners? and reuniting children of undocumented immigrants with their families, those are among the thorny issues when the senate is expected to get back to work. joining me is janet mergea, the