as the fight goes on in ukraine, the result is already decided. there is no possibility of him winning the war in ukraine. he s already lost that war. and putin getting sharp new criticism from inside his own military ranks. i ll talk to former defense secretary william cohen whether all of this gets us any closer to a possible end game. and a third secretary of state says she s been interviewed by jack smith s investigators about donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. that official, michigan s jocelyn benson joining her counterparts in arizona and georgia as key figures in the federal probe. so what s next? but we begin with the brutal weather scorching the earth right now, records shattering across the globe with temperatures hotter than we have ever seen, and forecasts say there s no end in sight. as the washington post put it, it s as if every alarm bell on earth is ringing for a planet on the brink. in the u.s., more than 82 million people are cu
israel pulled out of these talks to get another truce possibly going in qatar, what happened? the talks were at an impasse because hamas had not fulfilled its own commitments. there was an agreed list that hamas signed off on and suddenly they couldn t deliver or they wouldn t deliver and we don t want to just talk for the sake of talking. our goal was to get the people out. the truth is had hamas continued to release hostages, we d be in a pause still. we ve only returned to combat because hamas refused to follow through on a list that itself had agreed to. neil: we ll never know all the details, but that sums up for the israeli positions for those coming out of qatar, and a pause in the war similar to what we had for seven straight days before that was broken off the day before yesterday. what we do know they re still working even behind the scenes at getting a pause going. that looks unlikely in the near future. greg palkot following the fallout from that in israel, gr
neil: the bombardment is on now that the truce is off a, and it doesn t look like another truce is coming anytime soon. israel just pulled its team of negotiators from qatar after criticizing what it called dead end talks. this as israeli war planes found over 50 targets in gaza. the united nations a says that israel is overdoing it. and now reports even the white house has had enough of it. we ll take you behind the scenes of those reportedly very frank discussions secretary of state annie blinken had with top antony blinken had with top israeli officials this week. we ll ask prime minister benjamin netanyahu s top adviser and reports his nation vows to hunt down hamas if leaders all over the world long after this war. all that and trouble in party paradise. not the republican party, we re talking the president s party. and for democrat dean phillips, that s the season is, it s too much the president s party. why he says he s being iced out in, of all places, the sunshine
more air-conditioning, unable to afford resources that would allow that temperature inside of their homes to get even cooler. as you can imagine, two weeks of this and especially with no end in sight. even at night, those temperatures, those lows in the 90s. that is the low temperature at nightfall, so there s really no relief for phoenix residents. and if you can believe it, the terrifying thing here is that it s expected to get even hotter this weekend, by several degrees, upwards of 118 degrees. in terms of what people are doing, we know the salvation army just around the corner is packing heat relief boxes for residents. we know there are cooling shelters all around the area. now, while phoenix is full of cooling shelters, those cooling shelters in high demand. they re also full of other people, sometimes they re at full capacity. this is really a marathon. we know that one of the things people have been talking about, one of the things that we see is do not stay inside of a hot ca