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my colleague katy tur just indicated, we have major breaking news that we re covering. two american hostages have been released by hamas. they have been held by the terror group for nearly two weeks, since hamas stormed into communities in southern israel killing nearly 1,400 people and kidnapping more than 200. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken speaks right now about it. citizens held by hamas since october 7th were released. these two americans are now safely in the hands of israeli authorities in israel. we expect the team from the u.s. embassy to see them very shortly. over the coming hours, they ll receive any support and assistance they need, and of course we re very anxious to be able 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. there are still ten additional americans who remain unaccounted for in this conflict. we know that some of them are being held hos ....
get away from the glass! [background sounds] neil: how would you like to be in the middle of all of that? fox on top of texas after a destructive and deadly storm touch down. thiess seven confirmed dead in the houston area after wind gusts reached more than 100 mile-per-hour. hundreds of thousands still without power, and we re tracking the legal storms as well from the fixation over donald trump s new york hush money trial to the folk on hunter bidens two upcoming trials. will any of it matter to voters in november? and then the storm over my, shall we say, chat with the white house economic adviser jared bernstein after president biden continues to say inflation was 9 percent when he took office. the facts see otherwise, it got nasty, and you ll get to see for yourself. neil: good morning, everybody. happy to have you, i m neil cavuto. let s get right to it with the latest in houston and the fallout from a storm that ended up being a lot worse than earlier thou ....
battle so i need you to fight there s some things i need to die. my ego, my pride, my grip on my life. growing old9 into the fire leave no survivors. survivors. survivors. survivors. growing old into the fire and leave no survivors if. pete: hey! [applause] we just had a chance to listen to jeremy camp perform no survivors off his new album, deeper waters. will: incredible. pete: well done. will: great job. pete: talk about a front row seat to a concert rachel: yeah. and and waking us up at 9 a.m. pete: for sure. he s got a full performance coming up at 9:50 eastern time. see you in a bit. rachel: thank you. pete: well, joe biden is heading to atlanta today for a campaign event just one day ahead of his commencement speech at morehouse college. this comes as former president trump narrows biden s lead among black voters. will: madeleine rivera joins us with the details. reporter: good morning, guys. the white house says the president has been w ....
and again that matters. because the question being raised whether past the point of anger which he s allowed to feel and into something that involves a vendetta where the truth might be sacrificed. or lied about that history. he said he did ask to be president trump s personal attorney, but not a different rule of general counsel. it went on and on like this today, if you will. ke this just like it did the other day. and so it s possible or dilute the larger.defense attorneys are trying to make, but that they are trying to raise. it s possible on the other hand, and i was watching michael cohen go through it, that the cuts can slowly eat away as the key witness to donald trump s state of mind. another way to put this is without the other money guy, allen weisselberg, who is in jail can certainly make trump look bad here in the real world. others can factor that in, the guys have been to jail twice now. without the cfo they needed the other trump aid who knew about ....
continue to stay on top of all of these stories. thanks very much for joining me here in the cnn newsroom. i m wolf blitzer in washington, and i ll of course be back later. tonight s 6:00 p.m. eastern. in this room inside politics with dana bash starts right now welcome to inside politics. i m dana bash as woke just said, we have been listening to president biden speak at the national museum of african-american history in washington i want to start this hour by going straight to cnn s white house correspondents, kayla tausche. kayla tell us about the speech we obviously herded here live with the president delivered, but take us behind the scenes on the intent and the hope that this speech what did achieves pollute politically and also policy-wise well, dana, it is one of a series of events that president biden has hosted this week catering to the black community, that speech, of course, held at the national museum of african-american history street and culture, part o ....