Department. Lets toss things over to jake tapper and the lead. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We start with breaking news. Two american hostages have been released by hamas. And any moment we expect to hear from the Secretary Of State Antony Blinken after a spokesperson for the Israeli Prime Ministers Office confirmed that Judith Rannan and her 17yearold Daughter Natalie are now back from the gaza strip. Lets listen into Secretary Of State blinken. Held by hamas were released. These two americans are now safely in the hands of israeli authorities in israel. We expect a team from the u. S. Embassy to see them very shortly. Over the coming hours, theyll receive any support and assistance that they need and of course were very anxious to reunite them with their loved ones. We welcome their release. We share in the relief that their families, friends and loved ones are feeling. But there are still ten additional americans who remain unaccounted fo
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but let me ask the question. there was no misinformation. your network failed to carry. excuse me. let plea ask the questionch because i wasn t trying to point fingers here. my question is how do you break through to the people who are dug in and say they wasn t goat vaccinated and in part because of all of the misinformation that they have been fed? is it too late to reach them? it is never too late and we need to keep trying but i do want to say and you did point a if you fingers. the trump administration was provaccine. we developed warp speed and we sent them out and that was not carried by cnn by the way. we ll all been vaccinated and promoted it. we carry all of the public covid briefings and i have to make sure that we clear the record there. and the other did you cover operation warp speed for our seminar from the white house.
but even if that information had a questionable providence, whether it was coming from russia as we saw in the trump tower meeting with the russians or the dark web in this case whether it was illegally obtained. that is the questionch . so we know robert mueller is interested and whether he interviewed joseph schmitz about this we don t know. thank you. appreciate it. when we come back, more on what a conversation between robert mueller and the president could look like. and the president and his chief of staff disagreeing about whether yet another cabinet member should be fired and you know what always seems to happen on friday. it is not over yet.
already some doubt over some members of law enforcement. right. here you have this perfect example over what was said in the police report according to thofser and the other officer that he was being dragged when clearly that wasn t what happened. it s clear it s a lie. the investigation has revealed that finally and the fact that you know i m definitely for officers wearing camera. sure. no doubt about it because it s going to stop a lot of false allegations against police officers and maybe some bad people doing some bad things and police officers doing some things. president obama called for that, right, not too long ago. it s a great thing. and i hope police departments get the money to be able to do this. that s the questionch. also just again hearing this prosecutor jotting down the notes and watching this saying words like calling it senseless, horrible. he never should have been a police officer. this is the most asinine act i ve ever seen a police officer make