of the fraud he perpetuated. regardless of what this report says, is your plan to serve and stay in congress and not resign? like i said before i m staying in office for sure. that last voice you heard was republican congressman george santos of new york before the release of a damning ethics report. we ll go through that and what could come next for the embattled lawmaker. plus, we ll bring you the latest out of the middle east. israel says it has more evidence that hamas was operating out of a hospital in gaza. it comes as the idf recovered the body of a hostage near that facility. and also ahead we ll recap another busy day of diplomacy on the west coast for president biden where he met with the leaders of south korea and japan. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, november 17th. it s friday. we made it. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with some good news. the federal government will stay open at lea
tahave that dialogue with the united states. that is not something that has been possible in the last few months at all. in fact, the rhetoric is something we haven t seen in years and that kind of continued. we do have a statement now from vice president mike pence. remember, he was at the olympics. came back to seoul. was in seoul when this meeting was going on. back at the olympic sites taking in some events before he heads back to the united states. a statement, nonstatement from his secretary saying the vice president is grateful that president moon reaffirmed his strong commitment to the maximum pressure campaign for his support for continued sanctions. the vice president s office trying to say invitation or no invitation, as far as we re concerned, this is business as usual. they disagreed in terms of actually directly responding to this invitation. you know, george, the united states has been pretty
but we ll take care of them. we ll take care of them very well. but, overall, i think we re doing incredibly well. the economy is doing incredibly well. and many other things. so, we re starting from a really good base. i predict that general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff, one of the great ever and we re going to have a good time. but much more importantly, we ll work hard and we re going to make america great, again. it s all about making america great, again. that s what we re going to do. that s what i said and that s how we won this big election and that s what we re in the process of doing and continuing and, general, it s really great tahave you onboard and thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you very much, everybody. mr. president we ll handle north korea. we ll be able to handle north korea. it will be handled. we handle everything. thank you very much.
the white house. you are well placed to walk us through what moscow is saying and how this all unfolded. these threats from the defense ministry in moscow seem pretty real. what s your take? in the past russia has said that the so-called deconfliction line is closed when they have continued tahave phone calls. this is basically a hot line between two air force colonels making sure that russian jets and coalition jets, many of which are u.s. jets don t have any problems when they re both fighting isis over syria. what happened today the escalation all in response to the u.s. shooting down a syrian regime plane. just earlier this month, they shot down a syrian regime or a regime-backed militia drone. the fact that this was an s u22 fighter aircraft. that is a significant escalation. they did warn the russians ahead of time saying, hey, we re going to do this. let the syrians know. get out of that area. stop attacking our allied forces, the sdf. the syrian democratic forces.
amazon bought the organic grocery chain whole foods for a whopping $13.7 billion. it is the company s biggest venture yesterday and two conventional stores after a series of smaller experiments. not to be outdone, though. one of amazon s biggest brick and mortar competitors walmart expanded its web presence. it picked up an online men s apparel company. yahoo! is no more after verizon closed a deal for the company s core business a few days ago. what is left is now a holding company called altaba. whatever holding company does. a lot to talk about here. let s bring in michael, the head of international growth and development of the digital agency huge. good tahave you with us, michael. good to be here. let s talk, first of all of that banner behind you. whole foods and amazon. i remember when whole foods was just this little store in a strip mall in austin.