hello. i m sally bundock. we start with breaking news, and within the past few minutes, israel s military has said that a truce israel has agreed to extend its temporary truce with hamas. they said it will continue in light of the mediators efforts to continue the process of releasing hostages, and subject to the terms of the agreement . as you can see, this is a live shot of gozo this morning, as they wake up to the news that they wake up to the news that the truce is still in place. it was due to end just a few moments ago at 7am, local time. on wednesday, the sixth day of the deal, 16 hostages were freed from captivity in gaza. they included two russians, ten israeli citizens and four thai hostages, who were all handed over to the red cross. their release was delayed by what hamas called logistical issues. on wednesday, 30 palestinian women and teenage boys were freed from israeli prisons, in exchange for the hostages. this, as the us secretary of state antony blinken
discourage me to hear you say that. president obama is fair game you can criticize the policies but in the wake of such a so-called october surprise, bottom line, all americans, regardless of party, would and should pull together to stand up for america and put politics by the wayside. will, of course we know that everyone would agree that president obama will not make any decisions as grave as potential military action against iran based on any applications and, also, in fairness to what ford is saying, i don t think ford was saying the president would do so but we saying for a hype note california, if there were to have any sort of military action taking place before the november election, you know how this goes, doug, if people are going to point the political finger no matter how much the president cares what they say or not in terms of the political ramification. doug: with all due respect we had a situation in 1962 where we