julie: more americans coming home, nearly 80 of the u.s. citizens stranded in gaza making it out safely so far. hundreds more, though, are still trapped. the biden administration meantime pushing for what it calls a humanitarian pause, a stop in the fighting to get aid in and out to foreign nationals to get those out. this is the faulkner focus. i m julie banderas. good afternoon. i m in for maris today. blinken met with president netanyahu today. before the meeting he talked about possible pauses as we mentioned and the concerns around them. watch. we believe that each of these efforts would be facilitated by humanitarian pauses. a number of legitimate questions were raised in our discussions today including how to use any period of pause to maximize the fuel humanitarian assistance. how to connect a pause to the release of hostages and secure hamas doesn t use these to their own advantage. julie: senate majority whip dick durbin, the highest ranking democrat to back
have a cease-fire that serves hamas s goals to rearm, and attack us again and perpetrate another massacre. anyone calling for a cease-fire is serving the pro-hamas position. that means that they could get away with what they did and do it again and again. there was a cease-fire on october 6th. hamas broke it on october 7th and will be a cease-fire against once hamas terrorist threat is eliminated and once we get back the hostages. dana: one of the things antony blinken was asked about. i don t know details on it. apparently in the meeting earlier blinken brought up some concerns expressed about they said extremists in the west bank attacking palestinians there. and he said that he was reassured that the israeli government is on top of that. is there any more you can say on that? i can say that we are on top of that as the secretary said. it is a marginal phenomenon. we will address it. when we do something wrong on the israeli side we conduct inquiries and address the iss