Its tuesday, october the 24th. Our main story. Two israeli women, who were taken from their homes more than two weeks ago, have been released from captivity. Yocheved lifshitz and nurit cooper were among more than 200 people abducted by hamas fighters in the attacks of october 7th, and brought to gaza. Hamas, which is designated a Terrorist Group by the uk, said the release was for humanitarian reasons. The women, whose husbands are still being held, were handed over at the rafah Border Crossing between gaza and egypt at around 10 oclock local time last night. Our middle east correspondent Yolande Knell has the details. Freed after more than two weeks in captivity. In a video released by hamas, nurit cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz were handed over to representatives of the International Committee of the red cross. Not before 85 year old Yocheved Lifshitz turns to a masked hamas gunman, shakes his hand and says, shalom, hebrew for peace. Hamas is designated a Terrorist Group by many weste
Shape too. Its pulling the american story. Watch American History tv saturdays on cspan2, and find a full schedule on your Program Guide or watch online anytime at cspan. Org history. Naha about tonight program, are you ready . Okay. Great. So too many people Chris Christie is known as governor, abc news analyst, National Spokesperson also new times bestselling author. Mary pat christie has a crew that extends beyond our borders here having been aee successful career on wall street as well as holding the titley of first lad, with doing a number of programs across thet state and was always very well received. Writing these parts they are simply friends, families, neighbors and fellow coaches. So were pleased to have them in our community. As a matter of fact it was three years ago almost three years ago when Chris Christies first book came out, let me finish him that he was gracious and at a fundraiser on our behalf. We held that across town at the high school, a soldout event on a bris
Hello, everyone. Its high noon here in the east, 9 00 a. M. Out west. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Hes back with a whole lot to say. Mitt romney on todays meet the press, talking about the comparisons between romney care in massachusetts and obama care. And perhaps the most important lesson the president failed to learn was you have to tell the American People the truth. What when he told the American People you could keep your Health Insurance if you wanted to keep that plan, period, he said that time and again, he wasnt telling the truth. I think that fundamental dishonesty has put in peril the whole foundation of his second term. Current Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick was also on meet the press. Heres his take. It does a lot of good for a lot of people. Thats already begun. It will continue. The website isnt perfect. Thatll get fixed. Im confident of that. The website at home in massachusetts when we first started implementing in 2007 was also imperfect. It got fixed. A
With us senior political analyst Mark Halperin. I was going to do a three thumb fight but willie wasnt up for it. Ill beat you that on any day. Msnbc analyst and visiting professor harold ford junior. Good morning. It was funny stuff last night. It was funny except its not fun funny. I guess he had to address all of David Lettermans jokes. I interviewed Chris Christie for my book coming up in may very seriously about his weight and about how much those jokes hurt him. I guess he felt he had to do that to sort of, you know, break the ice with letterman. What do you mean those jokes hurt him . They hurt his feelings. I want to see another clip and see how hurt he is . He handles it very well. Do you have family members who are also heavy . No. Im the guy. You are the guy. Im the guy. How is your health sxwlmpt if you went to a doctor today, what would the doctor say . Startlingly good. How is your cholesterol . My cholesterol is normal, believe it or not. Thats pretty good. What about yo
Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Hes back with a whole lot to say. Mitt romney on todays meet the press, talking about the comparisons between romney care in massachusetts and obama care. And perhaps the most important lesson the president failed to learn was you have to tell the American People the truth. What when he told the American People you could keep your Health Insurance if you wanted to keep that plan, period, he said that time and again, he wasnt telling the truth. I think that fundamental dishonesty has put in peril the whole foundation of his second term. Current Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick was also on meet the press. Heres his take. It does a lot of good for a lot of people. Thats already begun. It will continue. The website isnt perfect. Thatll get fixed. Im confident of that. The website at home in massachusetts when we first started implementing in 2007 was also imperfect. It got fixed. And governor romney was right then when he said that if massachusetts s