Department. Lets toss things over to jake tapper and the lead. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We start with breaking news. Two american hostages have been released by hamas. And any moment we expect to hear from the Secretary Of State Antony Blinken after a spokesperson for the Israeli Prime Ministers Office confirmed that Judith Rannan and her 17yearold Daughter Natalie are now back from the gaza strip. Lets listen into Secretary Of State blinken. Held by hamas were released. These two americans are now safely in the hands of israeli authorities in israel. We expect a team from the u. S. Embassy to see them very shortly. Over the coming hours, theyll receive any support and assistance that they need and of course were very anxious to reunite them with their loved ones. We welcome their release. We share in the relief that their families, friends and loved ones are feeling. But there are still ten additional americans who remain unaccounted fo
The jordan forces wanted him to do. They wanted him to vote present but he voted for mccarthy. That is essentially a no vote on jordan. The next vote that were going to be dipping in for will be Congressman Ken Buck, another nay on jordan. His issue also different, kasie hunt, again, not a moderate against jordan, ken buck a very conservative republican from colorado, his issue is elections and whether or not joe biden actually won the election fair and square. Big picture, jake, i just think we are watching the formal installation of donald trump. There have been so many ways in which this has happened, but this is a moment crystallizing it for me, as the current Singular Entity republican the Republican Party, this is an institution whose glass doors were broken. There were gun shots fired outside this chamber. The members had to evacuate in gas masks on january 6th of 2021, when a protrump mob stormed the place and as we were discussing before, jim jordan was and jamie reported abou
need to cut spending anywhere. it s also just a fact, this isn t an opinion, once these opinions go into place, they don t go away. they get more expensive over time. i hope you hang out with us. we re waiting for president biden. chad pergram gets the ins and outs of what everybody is saying. hi, chad. it s interesting to watch these members file in. this is a room in the basement of the capitol. it s called hc 5, this is where the democratic caucus has its meetings. this is the biggest meeting since biden came up several months ago. this is a high profile meeting. president biden is here. he s trying to salvage his agenda. that s why the president heads to capitol hill here in the next couple minutes to talk to house democrats. if the house had the votes to pass the bill, they would have voted by news.
0 will 700,000 the president paused and held memorial, how does he intend to mark this next terrible mile stone and what the president said many times, he feels incredible responsibility for everything happening in the country, including our fight and battle with covid-19. that s why he is focused on this. his number 1 priority since the first day he came into office. i note that we saved according to outside experts tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives because of the actions his administration took including at this point we re 77, 78% of the public having received one vaccine. obviously we ll take a moment to pause when we hit 700,000 that is a striking horrifying number of lives lost to a pandemic. people that lost loved ones, parents, grandparents, children and many cases. in terms of what the president will do, we ll have to get back to you when we have more on that. go ahead. is it the president s way of saying enough is enough? he s going to make the case
times in this room on several occasions earlier this year, kept rank-and-file democrats impact. and mostly huddled at hc 5 in late july following the all the hearing with robert mueller. jared never wanted to forge pelosi rebuffed nadler in this very room. the two pronged approach may satisfy liberals but simultaneously infuriate them if nothing gets done and opens the doors republicans to portray all democrats is dabbling in impeachment. nancy pelosi will get a near full when democrats meet again in coming weeks. there are 540 rooms in the us capital when it comes to impeachment, none more important than hc 5. as they say in the broadway musical hamilton. thank you.