he s a leader of the wagner group, which are soldiers for hire, violent mercenaries with reputation for ruthless violence. they have fought for russia in ukraine and in conflicts across central africa in the middle east. saturday, prigozhin stage in our midst mutiny leading his mercenaries on a march that threatened to reach moscow coming within about 120 miles of the capitol. the crisis ended when prigozhin agreed to pull back his forces in a deal it allowed him to leave russia and avoid arrest. well rebellion appear to be aimed at ousting russia s military leaders, they dealt a massive brew blow to putin strongman image. we ve seen more cracks emerge in the russian facade. it is too soon to tell exactly where they go and when they get there but certainly we have also have new questions that putin is going to be addressing in the weeks and months ahead. this is a challenge coming from within to putin and that s where his focus has been. it s going to unfold over weeks and
climb. we know that a number of those americans are being held hostage right now by hamas. i think that we all need to steal ourselves for the possibility the numbers will keep increasing, and that we may, in fact, find out that more americans are part of the hostage pool. hamas is believed to have taken around 150 hostages, and the group is threatening to execute those hostages won by one. in retaliation for israeli air that hit dozens in their homes. the scale and the brutality of this crisis is without modern precedent. today, israeli troops cleared the sites of hamas attacks near gaza, and the scope of this weekend s violence became clear. soldiers were seen in scores of bodies. 260 people killed, dancing at a music festival, families killed and safe rooms, or at bus stops, just going about their daily lives. today, the u. s. and its highest serving diplomat to israel, secretary of state, anthony blinken in a show of support. president biden addressed publicly the war
terrorist assault on israel this weekend has climbed to at least 22, and that number may rise on top of that, tragic news. the white house announced today another 17 americans remain unaccounted for. and the white house expects the number of known american hostages taken by hamas to we know that a number of those americans are being held hostage right now by hamas. i think we all need to steel ourselves for the very distinct possibility that these numbers will keep increasing and that we may, in fact, find out that more americans are part of the hostage ctpool. hamas is believed to have taken around 150 hostages, and the group is threatening to execute those hostages one by one in retaliation for israeli air strikes that hit gazans in their homes. the scale and the brutality of this crisis is without modern precedent. today m as israeli troops clear the sites of hamas attacks near gaza, the scope of this weekend s violence became clear. soliers were seen recovering score
killed by the hamas terrorist assault on israel this weekend has climbed to at least 22. and that number may rise. on top of that tragic news, the white house announced today that another 17 americans remain unaccounted for. and the white house expects the number of known american hostages taken by hamas to climb. we know that a number of those americans are being held hostage right now by hamas. i think that we all need to steal ourselves for the possibility the numbers will keep increasing, and that we may, in fact, find out that more americans are part of the hostage pool. hamas is believed to have taken around 150 hostages, and the group is threatening to execute those hostages won by one. in retaliation for israeli air that hit dozens in their homes. the scale and the brutality of this crisis is without modern precedent. today, israeli troops cleared the sites of hamas attacks near gaza, and the scope of this weekend s violence became clear. soldiers were seen in sco
i welcome you both. ali, to you first. u.s. officials, confirming americans are among the dead. but, what do we know of any specifics, around those statistics, this hour? yeah alex, this is something that we heard, first mention by secretary of state antony blinken this morning, when he said that u.s. officials were working overtime, to confirm reports that americans were among those killed. since these attacks began yesterday, as well as reports that americans, were among those taken hostage, into gaza, by hamas militants. and tonight, we have a new quote from a national security council spokesperson. confirming that the deaths of several u.s. citizens since this attack began, but also on these reports of americans being taken hostage. they would only confirm that there are americans, quote, unaccounted for. they say in a statement, quote, we are aware of reports of unaccounted american u.s. citizens, and we are working to confirm, we are closely monitoring information of