the face of the biden family scandal ever since the infamous laptop emerged at the end of the 2020 campaign. ignored by most in the media for a year and a half, his muckraking has been an embarrassment to his father and is now at the center of the impeachment inquiry into the president. hunter is under criminal indictment, more charges may be coming, but he s mounting a more aggressive counteroffensive. he sued rudy giuliani, sued the irs, he s published an op-ed accusing the gop of weaponizing his past drug addiction, painting himself as a victim. the house oversight committee has been demanding hunter s testimony for nearly a year. he s under subpoena, but the president s son in a move that has upset some in the white house said, sure, i ll tell, no problem. but it has to be in a public session. his lawyer, abby lowell, writing: a public proceeding prevents selective leaks, manipulated represents, documented exhibits or one-sided press statements. now committee chairman
israel pulled out of these talks to get another truce possibly going in qatar, what happened? the talks were at an impasse because hamas had not fulfilled its own commitments. there was an agreed list that hamas signed off on and suddenly they couldn t deliver or they wouldn t deliver and we don t want to just talk for the sake of talking. our goal was to get the people out. the truth is had hamas continued to release hostages, we d be in a pause still. we ve only returned to combat because hamas refused to follow through on a list that itself had agreed to. neil: we ll never know all the details, but that sums up for the israeli positions for those coming out of qatar, and a pause in the war similar to what we had for seven straight days before that was broken off the day before yesterday. what we do know they re still working even behind the scenes at getting a pause going. that looks unlikely in the near future. greg palkot following the fallout from that in israel, gr
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from there. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum here at fox news head quarters in new york. a stone s throw away from rockefeller center. a lot of news breaking at this hour. so two new released hostages. we ll have details in just a moment. we re waiting for more. this is the hour where we start to see the vehicles rolling and a whole new day for these individuals who are finally breaking out of a horrific captivity that began for them on the horrible day of october 7th. in new york, on the right-hand side of your screen, they are marking a day of solidarity with the palestinian people. there s been 700 protests since this all happened. we re going to show you what s going on live in the streets as a bigger crowd is gathering near the tree lighting. first, the idf is confirming that hamas has freed this mother and daughter today. a 73-year-old and 50-year-old. they re duel israeli russian citizens. that was a separate get dealt with by those two countries. so so far we have
the row cal protest that continues to put the pressure on israel for a cease-fire, even as the israelis provide proof they say that hamas was using the hospital that was the source of this debate as sort of a weapons center and sort of a military center. having said all of that though, it s not just those outside of israel that are pressuring the government. there s pressure within the government by the opposition leader that wants to get rid of the prime minister for his handling of all of this. we ll be speaking with him shortly. in the meantime, trey yingst with the latest. hey, neil, good afternoon. i want to start with a fresh update from northern israel where the israelis say they intercepted a suspicious object in southern lebanon as renewed fire into northern israel is taking place right now. quite the exchange of fire today as the lebanese militant group hezbollah continues to get involved in the fight. on the southern front, the israelis forces are striking more h