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"the beat" with ari melber starts now. >> hi, nicolle. thank you. the developing news that has been coalescing around the possible replacement for kevin mccarthy to be speaker of the house. it is developing because the people you see on your screen, one of them is the former speaker. the other may or may not become the republicans' pick. he's had more vote than anyone else, but maybe not enough votes. that is a big deal for the united states, for the congress at times like these, so we are going to bring you an update on that story later in our newscast. the news out of israel right now is bleak. there is escalation. there are reports that now 22 americans have been killed in this unfolding israel-hamas war. you're seeing gaza pitch dark because gaza is under a blackout. 17 of those are still unaccounted for and feared held hostage in gaza. the shelling tonight there intensifying. vaez says it has fighter jets that have hit over -- attacks still under way. cameras caught a moment where couples were forced to shelter from rocket fire. [ screaming ] >> the death toll is rising. over 1,200 israelis dead. 2,700 injured. over 1,100 have been killed in gaza. 5,000 injured there in that densely packed area. the humanitarian situation in gaza is worsens ahead of what many see as a planned or potential israeli invasion. there's no electricity there for the 2 million -- roughly 2 million people, and you can see some of the images captured just earlier today in some of these bombed out areas. gaza hospitals are overflowing with people both who need help, who are injured, as well as the bodies of the dead, and these power and supply shortages are not expected to let up any time soon in this war. on the israeli side, the funerals have begun taking place. there was a ceremony for a 24-year-old woman who was at that music festival, peacefully doing what people do in many societies, many countries around the world, when she was killed by hamas terrorists. there are also fears about how this conflict could spread even further. for the fourth day in a row, israeli troops traded fire with forces in lebanon to the north. they also say they have detected rocket launches, they believe, that have come from inside syria. president biden addressing the war again today as he did yesterday, speaking from the white house. >> we're surging additional military assistance to the israeli defense force, including ammunition, intercepters to replenish the iron dome sbmt , and we're sending more fighter jet there is to the region and made it clear -- made it clear to the iranians -- be careful. >> the president referencing iran, which has long backed hamas. although the intelligence is an open question as to how warned that may have been in advance. with all that in mind, we have a special guess to lead off our coverage, john brennan, the senior -- for obama. you are no stranger to tough stories and situations like this. it's tough for everyone involved. what do you see as the state of play right now and when the president references iran, what is he doing there? >> first after all, ari, i think any conversation on this subject needs to start with the strongest condemnation possible of the barbaric attacks that were perpetrated against innocence by hamas. that was just senseless, senseless violence that has led us to this point. clearly the israelis are going to try to eliminate as much as they can the ongoing threat from hamas as rockets continue to rain down on israeli cities and settlements. so therefore i think they're preparing to move in with great force, overwhelming force into gaza to destroy hamas war making and terrorism making capability but also to find and hopefully recover safely those hostages. i think the statement from president biden today was a clear signal of the extent of usa support for israel but also a clear warning to iran that this is something they should have no part of. clearly they have been responsible for empowering hamas' terrorism and warmaking capabilities. they provided training, material support, assistance, and so on. but i do think that they're still looking at whether or not iran did play any type of operational role in these atrocious attacks. >> let's go to that question as you raise it, sir, because we've reported on and mentioned, of course, that sort of alliance, the links there. but there has been sort of initial reporting, leaks really on a wide spectrum. "wall street journal" and others had sources saying that iran was hand in glove on this. there was pushback from some u.s. officials today reporting u.s. intelligence indicates iran ersere actually, quote, surpsed by the hamas attack. sources said the biden administration has not reached definitive conclusions about iran's role in the attack partly due to that intelligence. i'm sure you could take a whole hour to walk us through the complexity a this rapidly evolving intelligence buck what in brief do you think the happening here? is there a strategy behind all the back and forth in this pushback? or do you see this as a genuine search for answers over whether iran secretly furtively actually knew the extent and length of this attack and was involved in it? >> i think we're still in the very early days of this situation, ari, and i know that they have been combing through the intelligence, that they have had access to, both israeli intelligence, u.s. intelligence, and other intelligence services around the globe. so i think they're trying to find out with some type of clarity and certainty whether or not iran was involved in this. but as you pointed out, the fog of war frequently will lead to all different reports coming in. but i think at this point the jury is still out and they're trying to make that determination, because it is critically important. and if iran was in fact operationally involved with this, i do think we're talking about a whole different type of scenario going forward. but i do believe the israelis are doing contingency planning, not just in terms of gaza, but destroying hamas and recovering can captives but also planning to see whether or not they can take additional action outside of that gaza trip region. >> whether or not americans follow this closely or not, everyone remembers the days after 9/11, the questions of intelligence, how something that sophisticated took place inside the country's borders could have come with basically lit toll no warning. and then there was argument about the natures of the warning. walk us through for a generalist audience what many are calling an intelligence failure. they've taken great measures physical and tactical wise to be prepared. was this a great intelligence failure, and why? >> i think it was an intelligence failure as well as a policy failure. clearly hamas engaged in some very sophisticated activities, including a deception campaign. this had to make months and months and months of planning and i'm sure they used to gazans that went back and forth to israel to surveil targets as well as look at what the israeli defensive measures were long that border. but also i think they're engaged in different maneuvers inside the gaza walls and fences that were misinterpreted by the israelis, by analysts and others. i also think maybe hamas has been on to israeli collection efforts, both in terms of human sources and technical collection systems and were very, very careful about trying to avoid that. but we do have reports the egyptians might have prodded warning to israel that something was happening in gaza and they might need to tick a look at it, just in days proceeding the attacks. whether or not it made it up to the policy levels, the defense forces -- intelligence can only go so far, but also policymakers are the ones who have to look at the environment and what measures they should put in place. israel caught very much unaware, not just from an intelligence perspective, but clearly a lot of those israeli and defensive security stations outside of gaza were very fully manned, and they were not ready at all for any type of incursions, much less that massive multidimensional attack that hamas engineered last saturday. >>m-hmm. and finally you have experience here on the u.s. side with the kind of alliances and work that is done. what does this biden administration, the united states get out of sending the secretary of state there? what does that visit do? not only symbolically but operationally, given that you have been involved in these kinds of things in the past? what's supposed to happen in the next day or so there? >> i'm sure it's not just secretary of state blinken but defense secretary austin and cia director burns and director of national intelligence and others that have been in constant contact with the israelis, trying to make sure not just to reassure them but also to understand what their needs are at this point. because the coming days and the coming weeks are going to be very, very difficult, i think for israel, for the palestinians as well as for the region as a whole. and i think they want to make sure that there's no lack of communication and that there's going to be this active discourse between israeli and u.s. officials at the highest levels to make sure we are well prepared for what's coming down the road, but also to make sure the united states is able to meet all of israel's needs at this point, and as president biden pointed out, making sure the rules of law, the rules of war are going to be followed as israel engages in what they have to do in gaza to, again, destroy hamas. >> understood. director brennan, thank you for your time and expertise tonight. we appreciate it. i'll tell folk what's cing up. news out of washington. uncertainty now. some call it another round of chaos. it's a big story that matters for all the reasons that matter when the speaker of house is vacant. we have that coming up tonight with a special guest. and an important look at the peace process when i return with you in one minute. th you in one minute. still disrupts my skin. despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. rinvoq is not a steroid, topical, or injection. it's one pill, once a day. many taking rinvoq saw clear or almost-clear skin while some saw up to 100% clear skin. and, they felt dramatic and fast itch relief some as early as 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grow not only between but also within countries. now, for america, those are something we've experienced in many different ways. they're the echos of iraq and vietnam where you think about not only the lyes lost but enduring strife that up ended decades of our civic and political life. if you think about the conflicts over those wars at a basic level, you might recall there was some passing talk of unitying but then there weren't unity governments. there weren't a lot of bipartisan alliances. if anything, foreign policy droves years of domestic division. so, i mention that tonight as we get into discussion of governing and the peace process because there is news out of israel amidst all that that is pretty striking. there's the new formation today of a unity government. prime minster benjamin netanyahu partnering with one of the opposition figures who is actually seen as his potential alternative, defense minister benny ganz. that's supposed to go for the conflict. that's not something america had happen with politicians over iraq or iran. they also queened an emergency war cabinet over the possible ground incursion. some analysts note this new move today might reflect an internal or political weakness for netanyahu, who faces withering criticism since hamas rampaged through those israeli wns, as "the washington post"reports, and that the idea bh not netanyahu but that opposition politician i jus mentioned r a unity government to be formed. netanyahu may have felt he had little choice as public support grew over the next four days. this reinforces a point a loft people made. there is diversity and a broad range of views within israeli society just as there is within palestinian society. debates about how to govern and certainly about what to do regarding these foreign policy rifts for both societies. netanyahu's approach to both governing and the peace process has been very controversial for a long time inside israel and within israeli civic and political life, and both sides of the conflict as i mentioned have seen foreign policies define safety and policies for a long time. israel's first focus right now, we can clearly see, is this emergency security challenge and the war. but israelis are also concerned, accordingo what they say about egovernment's intelligence failure and potential misal location of military and a so-called level of political chaos spurred, netanyahu's critics say, b his policies and judicial crackdown. some argue withinsrl that that has undercut the cohesion of the country's well known and powerful victory according to a breakdown in the associated press. all of those forces are working on a response to what is the single highest death toll from an attack since israel's founding, in one attack. and they're girding for the kind of war that could, again, upend everything for both societies and for the renal, which could, let's be clear, hearing and seeing no offramp, certain will i no cease-fire on the table for some time. i mentioned the peace process and the history, which is part of our special coverage tonight. veteran middle east peace negotiator dennis ross, who also helped create the oslo accords has previously warned the breakdown of a real durable peace process feeds a dangerous status quo, where you have the occasional cease-fire punctuated by terrible terrorism and violence. >> what comes next? if all we do is go back to the status quo, we're basically biding time until this happens again. so i think there needs to be a strategy not only for a cease-fire, i think there needs to be a strategy for what comes next. >> that was about two years ago. ross has much experience here. we quoted him earlier in our coverage this week. he was a special envoy in oslo, srael and the plo reached a deal. you can see him there near prt inton. he served as a diplomat and peace negotiator throughout that administration as well as in the state department under president bush. there he is with some of the principles. you can see a younger netanyahu. and ross also served in the obama administration. this week politico stated no american diplomat is more familiar with the issue of enmity than professor ross. he is our guest for these issues. er this for being here. >> thank you. good to be with you. >> tough time for everyone as we've taken care to emphasize. you know a lot of needs people. you have been through this. you were someone at the table with both sides trying to get somewhere with progress for both societies as i put it. so, when you talked about the fact that cease-fires and the stalemate should never really quiet down, what did you mean? do you tragically see this as one of those outcomes? >> look, i do. i think -- i didn't remember that i had been on with you saying that two years ago, but i was concerned at the time, if there wasn't something done that was more fundamental as it related to a demilitarization of gaza, marrying it to a condition of reinstruction, we'll do massive reconstruction, but there has to be a mechanism that guarantees demilitarization or my concern remains, we're going to see this all over again. i will say this -- the israelis have had a paradigm since 2009 vis-a-vis hamas. there was a significant conflict then. there was another one in 2012, another one in 2014, 2021, which we were just talking about. every time there was a cease-fire that was negotiated, hamas used that to rebuild and prepare itself for the next round. israelis since that time basically felt they had found a model. they felt that model was one in which they could coexist with hamas, manage periodic conflicts, and it was less expensive to manage periodic conflicts than it was to go back into gaza. they left gaza in 2005100%. one of the things people forget, in the first six months after israel left gaza, hamas attacked the crossing points. there were six crossing points. they moved people and goods in and out. they served palestinian troops. they weren't in favor to israel. as a result they reduced the crossing points from six to two. israel came up with what it thought was, okay, we can manage this and it's less expensive than going into gaza. the problem is what we've now seen shattered those illusions. the price that has been paid, hamas acted just like isis and al qaeda. the scenes we have seen over the last few days are incomprehensible. how do you kidnap women many wheelchairs and take them back to gaza? how do you decapitate babies in front of their parents? there wasn't a shred of monument. this is exactly the kind of behavior we saw from isis and al qaeda. now, within israel from left to right, and we now have a national unity government, from israel left to right, there's an absolute conviction that once and for all we have to remove the threat that hamas poses to us, and we're not going to live it with any longer. so that paradigm of coexisting and managing the conflict, that's over from an israeli standpoint. >> and so was that a foreseeable or even intended objective of hamas in what is now happening? >> i think that hamas miscalculated. because they grabbed the ohio state annals, anticipating, okay, the way we'll deter israel from coming and doing that is by holding these hostages, because we see how sensitive israel has been historically to holding ohio statages. prime minster netanyahu traded over 1,000 hostages, many who were responsible for bombings in israel, a lot of blood on their hands for a leader. hamas mind set was, we know they're sensitive. we'll hold them. that will deter the israelis and will emerge with a great victory. that was the hamas mind set, but i think they fundamentally miscalculated. >> right, and as you say, you remind people, the horrific math, the ratio on that is something where they have achieved, however you want to call it, objectively, tactically those trades before. they've even gotten some of their leadership hiding underground. actually, we're partly released through those kind of deals. so as you say, very close to home. i want to you say with me. i'm going to show something with regard to -- we emphasize the history because there's a lot here. but you've certainly been at the table, and you have been rely on by leadership of the united states in both parties to try to reach peace deals. some have worked. some clearly as you know and said, have not. i want to show for context, 1993, the signing of the first accord. take a look. >> the prime minster of israel and the chairman of the plo, who have spent most of their lives trying to destroy each other here on a common platform of the white house speaking of peace. >> a shorthand shake between two men who had been bitter enemies for decades. >> if the spirit that prevailed here today can be extended finally there's hope for peace in a place where there's been war almost without end. >> hope for peace. the discussion then about an interim agreement. i want to show now from 1995 what then-ambassador ross said. >> those who are here want to deepen the process of peace, expand the process of peace, and build on it in a way that makes it more enduring and stable and ultimately will lead to what i said, which is a comprehensive peace settlement. >> the big question then, sir, what did work out of that? and what didn't? and what do you say to the concern inside israel and from some of its allies in the united states that you and that government were sitting at the table with palestinian leadership that were willing to make more of a deal than certainly -- i say this with quite obviousness -- hamas as a force today? >> a number of things i would say. initial break through was psychologically extraordinary. because the plo denied the existence of israel and rejected it. israel denied the existence of the plo and rejected it. suddenly when you had a mutual recognition you were saying what was an existential conflict could be turn into the a political conflict, so we spent from 1993 to 1999 trying to negotiate an end to that conflict, and in a sense what we tried to do was see how we could meet the essential needs of each side. ultimately what did that in was again the role of hamas. i can tell you, after the assassination of rabin in 1995 when simon perez became the prime minster, he was working under the mantle of the emancipation. one said to me, simon perez lsh able to -- because the publish support what is he does. what happened after the assassination? four bombs in nine days by hamas which effectively undermines what perez was trying to do. the whole idea was perez was able to show, we're creating a peace approach, but the bombs basically brought about a question, is this the peace you're going produce? hamas has been there frustrating the ability to produce peace from the 1990s on. now they acted in my mind possibly because of the breakthrough between saudi arabia and israel -- >> so hold -- that exactly goes as you often do quite logically, to the very playbook here, the escalation of the playbook, the horrific barbaric terrorism, but also that larger geostrategic threat they felt that others who might be credibly tried to what you call the religious aspect or content to this, as well as perhaps advocates for the palestinian society -- that's something that mbs and others in saudi arabia said they saw inroads to make progress, andu saying there's a history of that terror group always going against the progress, being from what you call the israeli left or -- and again i'm simplifying -- or in the case of saudis, call it whatever you want. as we told you, as we set aside time for this tonight, we have a break. the ambassador stays and we'll come back with you after this. m. when occasional heartburn won't let you sleep. 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and are you positing that hamas would do something that would undercut or try to hurt what's within other elements of the society or population in the territories? >> i think there are two factors here. one of the things that hamas understands, if the custodian of the two holy mosques, meaning saudi arabia, the leader of saudi arabia, the most important sunni leader -- 85% of all muslims are sunni. the most important sunni leader makes peace with the nation state of the israeli people you're taking a significant element out of this conflict or greatly reducing it. hamas needs to keep this a religious conflict. when you're talking about a religious conflict, there's no compromise. when you turn it into a national conflict, you're able to find ways to compromise and end it. so on the one hand, saudi arabia breaking through with israel is an enormous transformative move psych lodgically and religiously. on the other, you create a network of states tied to saudi arabia and israel. these are countries that are advancing economies, digitally based, building for the 21st century, capable of coping with the challenges that food security, water security, health security, cybersecurity, all the things related to what we're seeing when they range from climate to health, these are societies that want to be resilient and successful. and the conflict of these societies with iran, with syria, with lebanon, where hamas, where hezbollah is, they represent only oppression and failure. creating what is a very successful alternative is the worst thing in the world for them. it further alienates their own public. makes it harder to maintain their own -- they see the iranian side as a real threat. >> understood. that's important. jumping in because we've put aside the time, but my last question is about another facet to this. there are those who are concerned or critically raising the issue that if israel other than netanyahu and this unity government goes forward with a major and sustained attack on gaza that involves heavy, heavy civilian casualties, that -- however much they say is a security decision at this point, also sets back everything that you have been working on and talking about. what do you say to that? what does it mean in your view to have a proportionate response to what you earlier condemned, the barbarism and terrorism? >> i'd make a couple points. i don't know what proportionalty is when you're looking at people who decapitate debuts and mow down civilians and make it clear violence will always be their tool. i don't know what proportionalty is to that. number two, there's going to be a violence unfolding in gaza. hamas laid bare its responsibility. number threeer were hamas to come out, the whole ideology they represent, this coalition of what the iranians like to call the coalition resistance, this coalition could gain enormous momentum. from an ideological standpoint to say, it works, see? don't go the way of those prepared to negotiate and make peace. we need to have hamas seen as lose -- the price here is terrible, by the way. the price for the israelis will be terrible as well. we can't have hamas look successful. it will have for and the possibility of breakthroughs will disappear, and i think right now that's not the case. i think we can come out of this in a way where hamas has been fully discredited. what it stands for has been discredited and those who want a potential future -- a break through with saudi arabia is in the future, but right now it's on hold. >> understood. ambassador dennis ross, on many facets, thank you. thank you very much. coming up, we turn to the story back here in america, new clashes inside the house republican caucus as they try to find a speaker. the man on your screen could be the replacement. he does not yet have the votes. some are saying they could be heading for another embarrassing vote a rama. we are on the ground in washington as we turn to that story next. on as we turn to tha story next ia. td can be caused by some mental health meds. and it's unlikely to improve without treatment. i felt like my movements were in the spotlight. #1-prescribed ingrezza is the only td treatment for adults that's always one pill, once daily. ingrezza 80 mg is proven to reduce td movements in 7 out of 10 people. people taking ingrezza can stay on most mental health meds. ingrezza can cause depression, suicidal thoughts, or actions in patients with huntington's disease. pay close attention to and call your doctor if you become depressed, have sudden changes in mood, behaviors, feelings, or have thoughts of suicide. don't take ingrezza if you're allergic to its ingredients. ingrezza may cause serious side effects, including angioedema, potential heart rhythm problems, and abnormal movements. report fevers, stiff muscles, or problems thinking as these may be life threatening. sleepiness is the most common side effect. it's nice. people focus more on me. ask your doctor about #1 prescribed, once-daily ingrezza. ♪ ingrezza ♪ i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. thanks to skyrizi, i'm on my way with clearer skin. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months. and skyrizi is just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine, or plan to. nothing on my skin means everything! ♪ nothing is everything ♪ ask your dermatologist about skyrizi. learn how abbvie could help you save. you know that feeling of having to rewash dishes that didn't get clean? 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does he have the votes? >> he does not currently have the votes. the list is about close to 20, i would say, that he needs to went over who said they'd vote for jim jordan or are still saying they're undecided about whether they'd pub luckily support scalise in the floor vote that will decide who the next speaker is. and the strange thing they fall into different factions. it's not like it's a group of 20 of the hard right members who are holding this up. some of the people holding him up are the hard right members who have concerns -- the same kind of concerns about spending bills that they had about mccarthy. they don't support a short-term funding of the government, and they think he would do that. senator mccarthy allies, who are being push -- like mark waller, a moderate republican from new york is staying he's undecided. mccarthy and scalise have a famously tortured relationship for year, and some of them are just wild cards who it's not clear why they're holding this up, like nancy mace of south carolina. some of them all have said the hard right people that mccarthy won over are opposing scalise. so he has a will the of work to do that address all the issues. >> i want to jump in, because going beyond the washington piece of all the little different motivations, big picture, as someone who follows this, are we watching a normal process, politics? or do you feel that what mccarthy struggle with with that very tough and embarrassing round of concessions, created a bit of a new normal where people think anyone for any reason can get a concession, when sooner or later they have to pick a leader of a speaker no matter what? >> yeah, it's not normal at all. the normal process is if you win the party's nominee like he did in a closed door secret ballot, then you go to the floor and everyone votes for you and you become the speaker of house. that's the normal process. this process, where members think it's their way or the highway, they want to hold out this is showing that these house republicans are ungovernable. they don't want to be led. they want to have their own say. we've heard over and over again that, like, this has never happened before. what do we do now? there's a lot of freshman members who are like, what do we do in this situation? a lot of seniors saying, we have never been in this situation. we don't know. i think it's entirely chaotic and absolutely about normal we go for a week and aday without a speaker and it's not clear when they'll call that floor vote. if he doesn't have to votes i think what they really don't want to repeat january, where we had five days and 15 votes to get mccarthy to win the gavel. that was a once in a century event. they really don't want to do that again, so this could drag on for a little while. and meanwhile in terms of abnormalcy, nothing else is happening in the house, can't bring any legislation to the floor, so everything is frozen. >> right, you remind people what affects the reality. if they're making changes to avoid things look, like another mccarthy, it does speak to one of the questions every was asking at the time. was this a reflection of mccarthy, a wobbly speaker, someone james carville likened the a human jell-o construction. a bit unfair. or was it an mccarthy thing, people like this willing to hijack anything, they'll do it to anybody? 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