People still being held hostage by hamas. Regular viewers of the lead know weve spoken to e ties parents on a number of occasions. He was the second of three sons he was a former boy scout. He was a fierce Basketball Player or especially computer basketball. Heres how his father, rubi described itay to me back in november a very talented kid. He is saying he dances, so hes typically the life of the party. He has been in the boy scouts until the age of 18. So you meant to see young kids and maybe the most important part, his he and all the border play nba 2k. So i get my whooped by my eldest son, so we needs his youngest younger while that the come back. So he could go back and play with them nba 2k it was just last thursday when ruby and his wife, maggie were right here sitting next to me on set, and ruby shared a dream i actually havent liam two days ago, two nights ago where i saw the vision of husband and biden lets lying to us and saying, well, you kinda tie, hes on a plane back home i still hope that that might be able to happen. Huggies described how the family marked what would have many Thais 20th Birthday in january yeah. Its difficult. I know when its all started. I couldnt imagine it will not be at home when his 20th birthday and he likes to celebrate big alexis birthday like can the answer for a son . And then we just mentioned is birthday with family and theyre good friends came with us in jerusalem to the wall. We put you know, we pray together. Yeah, many people together. The people who love him pray for his return, safely return home. Absolutely heartbreaking our deepest condolences to the family as they grieve and begin this process, etype then was murdered while serving israel in the gaza border on october 7, he was only 19 years old, again, an american and israeli citizen. May his memory be a blessing . Ruby and hagit plan were guests at last weeks State Of The Union brought by both senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and senator joni ernst of iowa. Senator ernst joins us now, and senator ernst this is an american kid. It was a dual citizen, but he was an american citizen in addition to being an israeli citizen its just heartbreaking. What is your response . It is heartbreaking jake and my hope as i had gotten to know ruby and huggy to and the other Hostage Families was but i would be part of that welcome Home Ceremony for all six of our american hostages. And today that hope was dashed. Obviously, for ruby and for huggy with the loss of itay and it is devastating. It is the knowledge now that their son will not come home and we will pray that we say the others returned safe if but again, this familys hopes have been dashed and dashed at the hands of hamas during that horrific october 7 attack. On israel. What more needs to be done to get the hostages home and to get the remains of the hostages or killed while they were in gaza and of gaza, because ive heard some of the Hostage Families and im im sure youve heard this too they say that the netanyahu government is to focused on the, on destroying hamas so not focused enough on doing everything they can to get the hostages home. But what do you want to see happen . Well, i am a fierce advocate for these Hostage Families. As ad whether it is working with the Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu, whether it is additional pressure coming from this administration can then President Biden on egypt, on qatar especially and on those that might have influence over hamas. Im leaning heavily on qatar right now. They really need to bring hamas to the table. They need to push hamas to release not only our american hostages, that is my priority, but absolutely all of those hostages that they are holding, whether they are alive or whether they are deceased, all of them need to come home. Qatar can be a key there were leaning on the Prime Minister. They are a non nato ally. They need to step up and show us that they are a non nato allies. So jake, im going to continue to pressure everyone that i think can be involved in the race the turn of these hostages, its more philosophically im older than you i think i have to say that i remember when there were american hostages being held in the middle east during the iran hostage crisis, 79, 80, 81. And the whole country, no matter what they thought about iran policy or jimmy carter, Ronald Reagan for the ins hola, or whether or not the United States was responsible for the coup. And most sudden the shot, whatever everybody agrees, get the american hostages home, get the innocent people home where is that spirit today . I dont feel it yeah, absolutely. Jake. And this is the sorry. State of affairs right now where we have american hostages being held by hamas in the Gaza Strip Gripp and yet jake, i would guarantee that most up most americans dont realize that we have american hostages being held held by hamas, nor did they realize that over 30 americans were killed on october 7 by hamas and there is this division and that we see across the United States now where people are getting very, very confused about hamas and the palestinians involved so weve got to separate the two. Whether it is hamas, the terrorists that committed these atrocities, we need to condemn that and we need to force them to give our american hostages back and i wish the American Public could decide, you know distinguish between the two we really do need to target hamas and their dastardly deeds, the evil doings. From october 7, moving forward make sure that we are holding them to account. But again, jake, i just think so Many Americans dont realize the tragic loss of American Life on october seven. And the fact that we still have innocent americans that are being held by hamas in the gaza strip republican senator joni ernst of iowa but thank you so much for your time and appreciate you joining us on a sad moment and my condolences coming up next, how not to resign hi from congress, leaving a voicemail on the speakers vote in the republican congressman who surprised capitol hill today and what it reveals about the level of gop dysfunction right now this situation with wolf blitzer didnt night at six cnn. What if all i do for my type two diabetes isnt enough . Or what if once weekly manjaro could help . Mounjaro helps your body regulate blood sugar and can help you eat less food. 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Look this surprised even the speaker of the house who said he did not get a headsup about this before bucks Surprise Announcement saying that he would resign by neck next week effectively tightening that already razorthin republican majority is expected to drop it down to 218, to 213, meaning that mike johnson cannot afford more than two republican defections on any partyline vote. And if theres any absences in the republican side, one republican defections, all they can afford whos shows you the significance of every single seat in the United States house. Now, buck explain his decision, saying that essentially this is a place that is dysfunctional, cant get anything done. Its not a place that many members want to serve. Any emphasize that point and speaking to our colleague, dana bash earlier, listen but a lot of this is personal and thats the problem instead of having the khorram instead of operating in a professional manner, this place has just evolved into this bickering and nonsense and knopp, not really doing the job for the American People is it that bad that youre saying . Im done . It is the worst year of the nine years and three months that ive been at in congress. And having talked to former members, its the worst year and 40, 50 years to be in congressman and hes a member who has increasingly broken with his party on a number of key issues, whether its the biden impeachment, mayorkas impeachment. And of course he was one of eight republicans, jake, who voted out Speaker Mccarthy the end. Some people would say he is part of the problem for thorough plunging the institution into chaos. But nevertheless, the belief amongst so many members that i talked to on both sides of the aisle including ken buck. Is that this place has been absolutely unproductive this year. And whats the point of staying in so many members now rushing for the exits. Chey well, i mean statistically thats accurate. Its the least its at least accomplished Congress Since the 1930s or something. Manu, republican source tells cnn that many republicans in the house are so frustrated with each other, which is a nice way of saying they hate each other. Many of them plan to skip an ap Company Accompanying conference retreat. Whats that about . Yeah, thats right. This taking place about four hours away from dc in West Virginia and many members that we are talking to are really saying that theres really no reason for them to go and large part because they dont really want to even be around each other. This is a conference that has devolved into so much acrimony parties internal bickering. Sometimes private goes out in the public. We saw that all throughout the aftermath of Kevin Mccarthy. And now the inability of just pass simple pieces of legislation. And one big reason why so many members is disrupted each other. They cant even move with simple agenda like they need to approve whats known as a rule, jake, a procedural effort to try to move on to legislation thats typically done along party lines. Now, they cant even pass a rule because of internal divisions and it just shows you how hired members are of even being in the same room. Jake, most of us when we dont do our job, we get fired and we dont get paid. Manu raju, thanks so much. Appreciate it. The other explosive news from capitol hill is todays congressional hearing on President Bidens handling or missing handling of classified documents to hearing featuring former special counsel, robert hur, in many ways that boil down to an exercise and competing partisan agendas. First, there was the republican agenda of attacking President Biden pride and money is why he knowingly violated the rules the oldest motives in the book, pride and money you agree with that, mr. Hur he wrote it in your report, that language end it does appear in the report and we did identify evidence supporting those those assessments then there were the democrats and their agenda of defending President Biden and attacking former President Trump you also repeatedly contrast bidens cooperation with the conduct of donald trump. You say, quote, most notably after being given multiple chances to return classified documents and avoid prosecution, mr. Trump allegedly did the opposite, according to the indictment, he not only refused to return the documents for many months, but he also obstructed justice by enlisting others to destroy evidence and then the lie about it. Have you been able to change your judgment about the differences between President Bidens cooperation in the former president s noncooperation. Know i continue to stand by those words in my report. There was also robert hurs agenda himself. He had an agenda of defending his report. Has integrity, including the damning observations about President Bidens memory my assessment and the report about the relevance of the president s memory was necessary and accurate and fair most importantly, what i wrote is what i believe the evidence shows and what i expect jurors would perceive and believe i did not sanitize my explanation nor did i disparage the president unfairly weve got a lot to talk about with our panel. Lets lets plunge right in. Kristen, let me start with you. So congressman ken buck, he says hes quitting, not just not just retiring at the end of his term, quitting next week because the Distance Function on capitol hill is at an alltime high. Hes over it and he gave his notice to the speaker of the house, apparently by leaving a voicemail 30 minutes before making his announcement public with whats your reaction doesnt sound like a Great Workplace environment these days, like putting it mildly this is a really unpleasant congress to be a part of. He is not the first head for the exits. He will probably not be the last what is a little bit astonishing those normally you expect this when a party is in the minority, being in the minority, especially on the house side is very frustrating. You feel like youre getting nothing done. You feel like youre running into roadblocks. It can feel like look, being in Public Service is not about fun, but it is about service. And if you feel like youre not able to serve, i get why theres that frustration, but i do think its curious to just walk away in the middle of your term, you run for office, telling voters, please give me this two or 46 term, whatever it is. Its very curious if things have gotten so bad that he would walk away and just say, youve got a week yeah, good luck. Well, i mean, former Speaker Mccarthy did the same thing, vote for me, vote for me, vote for me, and then and then just because he wasnt speaker anymore, he was just like all right, citizens of bakersfield smell you later. So whats going on here because as kristen p