On mobile and desktop today. Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us in the United States and all around the world. Im bianca nobilo. Im max foster joining you live in london in the coverage of the war. 9 00 a. M. Here in london. And in just the last few hours, Secretary Of State Antony Blinken said the United States is actively working to get the people of gaza out of harms way and get them the assistance they need. Israel has been pounding regions of gaza since the attacks, Tens Of Thousands have new fled gaza. The food and water are at short supply. Hospitals mace imminent shutdown and theres very little fuel to run the generators. And bodies have been piling up on the border crossing. The only viable way in and out of gaza. The Prime Ministers Office has denied any arrangements to open that critical crossing. Joining us from tel aviv is Lieutenant Colonel peter learner, for the intelligence forces. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. We have to ask the key question about the b
already deemed her. the light, you know, that shined bright there, and especially a servant leader of that community. alexis, thank you. thank you so much for having the k courage to speak out. i am so sorry. i am so sorry for your unspeakable loss. if i can have one more opportunity to thank the community. there have been so many people, such outpouring from donations, prayers, condolences that they ve sent our family that s helped empower our family right now get through this situation. i just want to take this opportunity to thank so many people across the world that s reaching out to help us in our time of need. thank you. and next, a man arrested and charged with crimes allege saidly committed at the capitol on january 6th now says he s running for elected office and he is actually campaigning on
firms. and chicago beckoned. two senior partners at a top chicago law firm, saidly and austin, remember when michelle robinson started working for them. when you meet her, even back then, michelle was a winning person. you knew she was as smart as they come, and we certainly were thrilled to have her here. michelle did very well at saidly and austin. she wanted to be part of the firm s life. she helped to volunteer the summer program. the firm was abuzz about this fabulous first year student from harvard. black man. very articulate. i thought, yeah, right, sure. i m sure he s not all that. i m sure he s a black man that can talk straight. the firm was largely white. they wanted saidly and austin to be seen as a progressive place, a welcoming place. a place where a star such as barack obama could be happy. they introduced him to another
star at saidly and austin. it made complete sense to have michelle be his summer adviser. we thought he was quite extraordinary. we thought she was terrific. they took it from there. his first day he came, he was late. so i thought, he s weird and he s trifling. so when he showed up i thought okay, well, he is cute. she was his mentor. and he wanted to date her. and she thought it was kind of like uncouth to be dating the young man in the office. my wife and i are fans of spike lee s movies. do the the right thing was playing at a theater near us. we went one night, and to our surprise as we were getting some popcorn, we spotted michelle and barack together. and we didn t know this at the time. it was their first date. he was charming and funny. and engaging and down to earth. i mean, he was really a surprise.
i think that they made a really great couple. and michelle grounded him in a way that i hadn t seen before. after that summer, barack returned to harvard to finish law school. while michelle continued at the saidly and austin. they maintained a long distance relationship. until a family tragedy brought them together. in 1991, fraser robinson passed away due to complications from m.s. barack went back to support her, to be at the funeral. and he said that as fraser was being buried, he realized that michelle was absolutely central to his life, and he was going to look after her. barack graduated and returned to chicago to be with michelle. and as their relationship deepened, both of the harvard law grads decided to make career moves. determined to pursue his passion, barack turned down a good offer from saidly and austin. well, when he came to tell me, he said, i love you guys, i