and decent is an entirely different order. really, truly lost someone special today. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home this evening. california congressman kevin mccarthy, the shortest, serving speaker of the house in over 140 years is ending his extraordinary 2023 by throwing in the towel. now it is time to pursue my passion in a new arena. while i ll be departing the house at the end of this year, i will never, ever give up fighting for this country that i love so much. if you blinked, you might have missed mr. mccarthy s 10-month term as the country s highest public elected official, and that s not because it was so short, it was entirely unproductive. mccarthy bargained away basically everything to win the speaker s gavel, and he got nothing in return for it. that is the lesson for people who court the far right, who do the bidding of donald trump, who look the other way. and right now republicans all across the country are learning that lesson. remember
his past. new allegations coming just minutes before today s vote. the ex-congressman leaving before the vote was finished, getting into a car. the sign and locks already changed on his door. the israel-hamas war and cease-fire shatters after seven days. hospitals filled with the wounded. what that means for the more than 130 hostages, including some americans, still held by hamas. the renewed fighting coming after a stunning report surfaced, claiming israel knew about plans for the hamas terror attack more than a year ago. matt gutman in israel. here in the u.s., the disturbing scene outside the israeli consulate in atlanta. a protester attempting to set themselves on fire. a security guard burned trying to stop it. the warning from the mayor of los angeles. a possible serial killer on the loose. at least three victims murdered since sunday. a major legal blow for the former president. an appeals court ruling donald trump can be sue for the january 6th attack on the
hamas has released 14 more israeli hostages today, the third day of the ceasefire, and no word on the american hostages that the white house had believed could be included today. since bibi netanyahu s war cabinet accepted the deal, hamas has now released 40 israeli hostages and the release of 150 palestinian prisoners. of course, we re very happy for those released and their anguished families. net an ya hue stressed the war will continue. and assure that the day after hamas, there will be no threat to israel. i don t trust hamas to do anything right now. i only trust hamas to respond to pressure. howard: let s stop right there. the media should not fall into the hamas propaganda trap the that a this is some grand humanitarian the gesture blessed by god. they kidnapped the israelis as a bargaining chip, seizing 240 hostages, most of them civilian families including elderly people and infants. think about how barbaric that is. look at that, a 2-year-old, an 85-year-old re
jamie raskin: umm, you know tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me. my illness won today. look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me, all my love, tommy. umm, so, he didn t have anything in there about take some time off. (laughs) and, uh. crowd: usa! usa! usa! usa! jamie raskin: why is america such an extraordinary country? we are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. we re unified by one constitution and one rule of law, and then the values under our constitution. it is an aspiration. it s a challenge to us. the constitution shouldn t be some kind of fetish document. it should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in service of the common good. that is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. that is the constitution that we ve been fighting for since then. and we ve got to keep fighting for it. crowd: trump! trump! trump! trump! trum
there was a press conference at which they confirmed hamas s agreement. israel has denied that it violated the terms of that crucial agreement. under the four day truce, 50 hostages were due to be released in four batches at the ratio of three to one, in exchange for 150 palestinians held in israeli jails. a delegation from qatar, which has been helping to mediate between israel and hamas, has visited israel to discuss a possible extension to the 4 day truce. i want to show these live pictures. the area where i am in central tel aviv, we are told that thousands of people have gathered here outside the tel aviv museum of art in an area that is now known as hostages square. not here to show support but many of the families as well of the hostages are here, too. we will hear from some of them are just a few minutes here on bbc news. they are gathering together to mark 15 days since their loved ones were taken. we will start our coverage this hour of this report from our senior i