four-times indicted ex-president. nbc news is reporting on potentially game-changing revelation base the former vice president, mike pence. we ll have more on what pence told special counsel jack smith s investigators later this hour. but first, we want to get to the fast-moving developments out of the middle east. at this hour, we are getting our first glimpse of the latest hostages to be released. here are some of the faces of the 12 prisoners released by hamas today, 10 israelis and 2 thai nationals. notably, many are older. among them, a mother and daughter who were kidnapped together. a retired kindergarten teacher. a grandmother of nine. and the 84-year-old founder of one of the kibbutz that was raided on october 7th. this is now day five of the extended truce that for now, barring another extension, is expected to last through tomorrow, for six days in total. as we know, it is a fragile truce and a fluid situation as underscored by the events of just the last 24 hours
week is that he represented all of the great ideals in politics, why we got involved in politics in the first place. it was honor, integrity, patriotism, courage, honor. he represented such a towering figure. so when the news came it hit me hard that we are going to miss the guy. man, are we going to miss his voice. what i do love about all we are celebrating, too, and all the remembrances is i hope it will inspire more to come through in the future. his last vote was his famous thumb s down on the top legislative party which was trying to replace obama. it was because he said this is not how legislation was supposed to work. do you ever see congress governing the way john mccain hoped or have those days passed?
one susan collins from maine joins us right now. senator, thanks so much for joining us on this horrible, horrible morning. you spent more than two decades in the senate with senator mccain and willing to buck your party and work across the aisle as he tried to do. what will the senate be like without him? we will really be missing such an important voice for national unity. john mccain felt very strongly about virtually every issue that he tackled. but it was never based in partisanship. he didn t try to score partisan points as he worked on issues. he would work with anyone who wanted to accomplish the goal that he shared. you senator mur could you ski and mccain voted no last summer on that plan to repeal and replace obama care before he did the famous thumb s down, i think he talked to you and murkowski.
horrible morning. you spent more than two decades in the senate with senator mccain and willing to buck your party and work across the aisle as he tried to do. what will the senate be like without him? we will really be missing such an important voice for national unity. john mccain felt very strongly about virtually every issue that he tackled. but it was never based in partisanship. he didn t try to score partisan points as he worked on issues. he would work with anyone who wanted to accomplish the goal that he shared. you senator mur could you ski and mccain voted no last summer on that plan to repeal and replace obama care before he did the famous thumb s down, i think he talked to you and murkowski. what did you talk about? he did, lisa and i crossed the senate floor to where john was sitting and we knew that he
the future. we re going to talk about that a little later but i want to talk about process and senator john mccain back in july right before he gave that famous thumb s down for the senate proposal for repeal and replace of obamacare, he just returned from treatment for cancer and this is what he said about the process then. the administration and congressional democrats couldn t have forced through congress as massive as obamacare and we shouldn t do the same with ours. shouldn t rush something through. the bill was introduced. people got to read it about 9:00 p.m., the vote was done by 2:00