this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead, everyone. we start with breaking news at any moment a deal could be reached to release some hostages taken from israel by hamas on october 7th. right now, the full israeli cabinet is meeting to give what is believed to be a final approval of the deal. just moments ago israeli prime minister benning anyone netanyahu asked the cabinet to support the deal and reminded the world we are at war and will continue at war. out of 240 people kidnapped by hamas 50 would be release. hostages will be visited by the red cross. three palestinian prisoners in israel will be freed for every civilian hostage released. it also calls for a four to five day pause in fighting. the majority of hostages who would be released in this deal is children. one is a 3-year-old, the youngest american held hostage whose parents were killed by hamas. her great aunt spoke to cnn today and was understandably emotional at the prospect of seeing her niece come h
and worked with european allies to say we have a structure which gives us some controls. let s build on that. and what the president is trying to do is build really kind of side agreements around the iran deal, first of all extending past the sunset clause, right, so to continue the constraints on the nuclear program but also to deal with the blissic missile programs and other things. so if we can get these side agreements, then kelly: i don t want to interrupt you but we re losing time here. the bottom line is you re trying to develop a situation where you re going to deal with a country that you do not trust and that is country that doesn t trust you. so how do you find that middle of the road to get the right kind of compromise, the right kind of deal to mik make sure tt iran s appetite for building nuclear weapons does not become an ongoing conflict? i think there are two things. you pressure the europeans who