President of the united states of america . Venezuela accuses the us of piracy as they confiscate president Maduros Plane claiming it was bought illegally. We start this hour in the middle east, where the israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked for forgiveness from israelis for not being able to bring back alive the six hostages who were found dead in gaza on saturday. We were very close he said we were nearly there. But in a televised address, Mr Netanyahu remained defiant in his demand that israeli troops must continue to control the Philadelphi Corridor in the south of Gaza Something hamas has rejected. The Philadelphi Corridor along the Egypt Gaza Border has emerged as a primary Sticking Point in Gaza Ceasefire talks. Mr netanyahu said its a Life Line for hamas, their oxygen and it will determine israels future. Earlier hundreds of thousands of israelis have joined protests and a general strike demanding that Mr Netanyahu immediately agree a Ceasefire Deal to ensure the
oral arguments on january 9th. that might make the current march trial date for trump s trial untenable, putting his entire 2024 legal calendar in question. so voters may not have a ruling on whether donald trump plotted to overturn the 2020 election until after they cast their ballots in 2024. we should note, if trump wins a second term in the white house, he could and likely would purger himself and charges might not ever see the charges in trial. extra points for coming in on a holiday weekend, so we appreciate that. i guess, to some extent, that might be a bit of a doomsday scenario to say this case may not happen at all in 2024. but what do you think? what are the consequences of this supreme court decision we heard? is it just going to end up back in their laps in a couple months from now anyway? what do you think? the scenario you painted isn t necessarily a doomsday scenario. trump asked to go on bond for the whole circuit to hear. and then he ll have something like
why wouldn t democrats push forward on raising the debt ceiling while they still have the majority in the house? i think we have to. i think if we don t, it s like handing the republicans a legislative nuclear weapon. they ve already made it clear what they re going to do. they re gonna use it to extort cuts in programs. even like redoing some of the terms of social security and medicare. they ve been very explicit about what they re going to do with. weekend with them do that. the debt ceiling has been in place one form or another since 1917. it s an array 78 times since 1916. obviously hasn t done anything to curtail the national debt. we re the only country in the world that does it this way. so to throw this into the political climate particularly in today s political climate. it s absurd. country can t do business this way. my guess is that we re working, we re pushing pretty hard on
effort to have trump administration s succeed. get reelected. sound record and i think it was undone lack of self-control. and his, you know, pettiness, that rubbed a lot of voters. you also praise some of the policies, the former president obviously hasn t read the praising part because the letter he put out is pretty straightforward. he calls you lazy, he says that you are a creature of the radical left. that you should have never believed in the washington media and tried to be swayed by them. it s about three pages long. this is the usual conduct of the president when he falls out with someone and someone doesn t
bret: welcome back to special report. take look at what is happening in the ground in ukraine. we talked about russian forces bombarding the city of kyiv. there is still some bombardment out in the east. the south is largely contained, kherson, again, under russian control. but it hasn t really moved as far as the areas that the russians control. it has been a lot of bombardment from the outside. they are facing ukrainians with javelins, 17,000 anti-tank weapons have flowed in from the u.s. and nato countries just in recent days. what they really want the ukrainians the making 29. this is the jet that they use poland has old making 29s they are willing to give them it the ukrainians, they would like new u.s. jets to replace them. that s a little complicated exactly. they are working on. that was it s possible but it s a bit of three dimensional chess. we talked about the outskirts of kyiv here.