Two hostages have been released by hamas. They are Yocheved Lifshitz and nurit yitzhak, two elderly women, according to a source. A Release Falling Mediation By Cutter and egypt. They were taken out of gaza by the red cross. The source telling nbc news that they are in good health. One of the hostages was in dire need of medication. You can see here, according to the times in israel, she was a founder of the of some of the most horrific violence that was inflicted upon israelis and the terrorisattack of october 7 by hamas. Lifshitz is his Peace Activist who readily transported patients from gaza for medical treatment inside israel. Her husband is believed to still be held captive i hamas. The release of two hostages comes days after two americans, judith and natalie were free from hamas on friday. This is where we start the hour with josh letterman. Former cia director, Senior National kersey as, john brennan is back. And then we have john hudson with us. With us at the table, Executiv
So i came up with my own images. here is what i think. frank sinatra and john houston in the greatest story. frnow your picks. laura: w frank sinatra? now your picks. laura: my picks are charlton heston that seems like god. god can t look like the kid in apple commercial, like macintosh versus pc. that s like a millennial thing. like god has skinny jeans, a man bun and he is also a boy. we want a guy with some authority and gravitas but i think we can agree that god does not look like this. laura: these two. george burns and morgan freeman. i never bought either one of those. you want god to sound like him. george burns was hilarious.
Not public information. that s not true. and the ceo of the company has put forth an affidavit saying there was nothing in that e-mail that was not public information. but also the company failed. so there was certainly no insider information that was going to make anyone money. it was just the thought that we had a life-saving drug. we truly did. i truly thought this was going to make a big difference for those with is secondary multiple sclerosis. i you lost everything. never sold a share. we have an affidavit that said in and all information in the e-mail you are referring to was already in the public domain. right now it is is unfortunate. the congressional ethics committee is simply reviewing the report from the oce and they will get to it on their time frame. unform, that could be two years from frnow. thank you very much for
Welcome back to hardball. you don t see many days like this. we got ahold of the i.g. report on the irs scandal. it said the irs used inappropriate tactics in reviewing conservative and tea party groups applying for tax exempt status. it also makes clear many organizations received unnecessary burdensome questions like give us the list of your donors. it says the irs got the idea for this whole program of going after these groups from members of congress. now, that s going to be fascina fascinating. they must have a letter from somebody. we re joined right frnow by michael steele, former chair of the rnc. and ron reagan is an msnbc political analyst. i want to start with you, ron. we were going to talk about benghazi, but this is the hottest story. three points, clearly. i m reading from the report. this is the actual report. early in the calendar year 2010 the irs began using inappropriate criteria to identify organizations applying for tax exempt status for