welcome to the beat. i m in for ari. coming up, i ve got neil and melissa murray and donald trump s packed courtroom schedule including his next testimony date. trump can expect to get grilled while on the stand again. but we re going to start tonight s show in the middle east. a series of potentially pivotal developmented today. hamas releasing 11 more hostages. all women and children. in exchange, israel releasing 33 palestinian prisoners. this is the newest video of hostages being released by hamas into red cross custody. they re inside israeli territory right now. this all happening just within the last few hours. the other big development today. hamas and israel agreed to extend the pause in fighting for two more days. the pause was originally scheduled for four days only. now, it will be six. the pentagon says hamas will release 20 more women and children over those two days. officials caution though the details are still being hammered out and the fragile deal could st
what she endured is unthinkable. abigail was among 13 hostages released today from gaza under the brokered and sustained intensive u.s. diplomacy, she is now safely in israel. and we continue to press and expect for additional americans to be released as well. we will not stop working until every hostage has been returned to their loved ones. starting as early as tuesday, this pause in the israeli offensive is set to end and the push into gaza resumes unless the truce is extended. israel put his cards on the table. they are prepared to extend the pause in fighting. the ball isn t the hamas s court. will hamas step up and release an additional ten hostages if they won t, then they are the ones choosing to bring an end to the process in fighting, not israel. that is something we will watch very carefully. coming, up i will be speaking with foreign affairs committee member congressman sydney about the hostage deal and why israel aid should have certain conditions when