All right, everyone find your table, please. You will have time to mingle during lunch. Good afternoon, everyone. And welcome to our annual event, celebrating womens leadership. Can i have your attention . Thank you. Again, thank you. Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to our big annual event celebrating womens leadership. Im lois romano, culture of the board of directors and im going to be brief because we have a pretty full program. On behalf of myself and my cochair, kathy russell, ambassador kathy russell, thank you all for your support and for being here today to honor three phenomenal women for their service to our country and for their contributions to National Security. We all know that with more women at the top and more women at the table, better policy is made. It fosters global democracy, gender equality and peace. Thats our goal here, and its what we do best. I i would like to acknowledge or diplomatic colleagues who are here, both americans have served abroad, ambassado
Good evening and welcome to the source. Im kaitlan collins. Tonight, two more hostages have been free. 17 days after they were kidnapped by hamas. Weve just obtained new video of the two israeli women who were released, taken to a Medical Center in tel aviv tonight. They are 79yearold nurit cooper, who you can see here, and 85yearold Yocheved Lifshitz. They were both kidnapped with their husbands from the kibbutz nir oz near gaza on that deadly day. Their husbands, i should note, were not released tonight and do remain captives of hamas. These women were released to the red cross at the Rafah Crossing between egypt and gaza. This happened just in the last several hours. This news comes three days after the release of judith and Natalie Raanan. That was last friday. Now they are expected to be back on their way to the United States this week. Over 200 hostages do still remain in gaza tonight, a number that we do know includes american citizens. Cnn has now learned that the white house,
reporter: the biden campaign responded to those comments saying that trump is deflecting that this is just his latest desperate attempt at distraction. trump strategy of course is of accusing people of what he stands for being accused of. but those comments as the republican front runner come as warnings as what a second term with trump are coming into clear view. and how the stakes of it will be much higher, according to a report on the new york times that by well funded, outside infrastructure. we will have more on that report with maggie haberman in a moment, including on what the staff of a second trump term could potentially look like. but this is coming out some of his own former cabinet members have warned he should not be president again, including, his vice president. president trump asked me to put him over the constitution. anyone who has someone else to but themselves over the constitution should never be president of the united states again. reporter: w
learned who has made the debate stage for wednesday night, the fourth republican debate. also, george santos already has a new gig days after being ousted from congress. he is now making personalized videos for anyone who is willing to cough up the cash, labelling himself an icon. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. good evening. tonight, we are now just six weeks out from the first votes being cast in iowa and with former president donald trump still holding onto a significant lead in the 2024 gop primary, he s not only sharpening his rhetoric, using the language of autocrats, he also appears to be making a concerted effort to accuse president biden of what he himself stands accused of doing, undermining democracy. but joe biden is not the defender of american democracy. joe biden is the destroyer of american democracy. and it s it s him and his people. they re the wreckers of the american dream. the american dream is dead with them in office. the bide
update from the state department as america s strongest ally in the middle east faces growing calls worldwide to retreat from gaza s largest hospital. sandra: the idf saying troops are still going room by room at al-shifa hospital and have found extensive military equipment belonging to hamas, as well as computers that contain photos of the israeli hostages that could be beneath the hospital in an extensive tunnel network that we have been showing here on the program. we ll take you there live as the briefing begins in moments. the folks and democratic leadership have not been listening to the 80% of us from diverse communities to stop the ceasefire and stop the genocide. sandra: violent outside a dnc headquarters last night, israeli troops inch closer to attacking the tunnels under al-shifa hospitals. i don t know roberts in washington. here we go again, sandra, another busy afternoon. sandra: america reports . more than 150 protestors voicing deep frustration with