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Israeli hostages dragged over the border, either from homes or Music Festival. By now, you have seen the truly horrific images of families with small kids, grandparents, and young people being paraded through the streets of some of themcansccording to the u. S. State deparent. In a moment, ill bed by the nfc coordinator of strategic communications, john kirby at the white house. Lets get to the reporting. Richard engel reporting from the border city this afternoon. Stay down, down. Reporter there has been a lot of incoming fire here. We believe that it is mortar fire. Some of them also appear to be rockets. They have been coming in quite close. That is why we are on the ground right now. Joining us now from telaviv is chief correspondent ali velshi, thank you for being with us. In the time that weve spoken since we last spoke, weve seen a number of counter strikes on gaza, smoke in the air. Fires, explosions and whatnot. How does ....
U.s. has called both of their detentions unlawful. secretary of state antony blinken said this weekend that president biden plans to address their imprisonment with putin and suggested a prisoner or may suggest a prisoner swap between the two nations to insure their release. surprisingly, president putin says he s open to it. he told nbc news he is, quote, of course open to the idea of trading prisoners with the united states, potentially releasing those two americans from russian custody. is productivity in this meeting a pipe dream, or could something constructive truly come out of a meeting between biden and putin on wednesday? joining us now, ambassador michael mcfaul, former united states ambassador to russia. he s in geneva tonight ahead of the summit between presidents biden and putin. ambassador, good to see you again. thank you for being with us. just in the last hour, axios is reporting that president biden assembled a dozen or so experts on russia to brief him ahead of his m ....
Welcome. if delegations from north korea and south korea do meet i say if because it s unknown what another missile test could do for any talks even if it s about only the winter olympics, but if they do meet what could come of it? nothing could come of it. last time they talked the talks fell apart because the north thought the south should be sending basically fancier people to meet with them. there is a lot of animosity to get past. if they do start talking it could go in a lot of different directions. i think, you know, the historical norm has focused on thing like low-level economic exchange, cultural exchanges, or trading prisoners or that sort of thing to try to get a dialogue going, try to get trust going. i don t think you are going to see some summit that quickly ....
Legacy than he is worried about our national security. do you think now is the time to be restricting second amendment rights of americans wanting to protect themselves, and same thing with guantanamo bay, releasing 17 bad guys is now the time to be doing that? no, i don t believe that s the time to do it. and i said very clearly that this past week that if i m the president in january 2017, guantanamo will stay open and prisoners will not be released. we won t be trading prisoners for people who go awol. we won t be allowing them to go back out into the fight. 30% of the people whom this president has released from guantanamo, according to his own director of national intelligence, are now back out in the terrorism fight. this is outrageous. and this legacy the president should be worried about is he is leaving the next president and the next generation of americans a dark and dangerous world that we re living in right now and this north korean explosion this morning is just another ....
I think the sheer terror of the way that isis does it by beheading certainly has gotten into the conscience of america. but they ve been engaged in this practice for a very long time. al qaeda as well as isis tactics. so, bob baer brought up in the last hour, former cia operative, he says, look, france is paying not for their hostages and is complicating the entire thing for america and for others. look, i think we ought to step back here. we ve been at this for 13 years and ask simple questions. forget about the national security side. there are families in america who are losing children to beheadings. i m not talking about the potential of paying money to a terror group, but do we want to have conversations, for example, as we did with beau bergdahl and the taliban prisoners. about a swap. about a swap. that s something the white house should consider. when you re talking about civilians, not soldiers. that s correct. bergdahl soldier. correct. the civilians, protect ....