a deal to free some captives held by hamas. we are waiting on an announcement by the government and new details on the terms of the agreement. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m pamela brown and you are in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. versus hour, the breaking news out of israel on a high stakes invoke vote that could bring several dozen hostages home within days. covering the story from every angle. first, the israeli cabinet is heading towards a decision on this hostage deal. give us the latest. reporter: the debate in the israeli cabinet has been going on for several hours already and in my continue for another hour or two longer if not more than that. it has already gone through several stages of the legal and political approval process required here. it is through the war cabinet. it s gone through the security cabinet and it now requires the approval of the government and that is where this debate is happening
people often mischaracterize us with people who would prefer to leave with an agreement of the coins that the e.u. offered us but if we can t get that agreement then we ll have to be ready to leave on top of each year term so that s what s happened but i hope you won t mind me saying that since i resigned from the government i ve said time and again that this deal would not go through parliament and that the result would be a crisis so in a sense i m very sorry that we ve reached this point but you know the government was warned that this would not work so what you re saying is theories of may was warned and decided to sort of carry on regardless and you have to look for majorities much earlier in this process well yes of course but you know i sat there is a deck sheet a minister in the department for extremely european union and all of us sat together and told officials we needed to go for a free trade agreement based brics and a few weeks later president offered a matching agreement