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consider the terms of a temporary truce. what could be an imminent deal to release dozens of hostages. a senior u.s. official and source familiar with the talks in the region tell nbc that would include hamas freeing around 50 women and children in change for 150 palestinian prisoners being held by israel. in addition, fighting would be paused for several days to allow for fuel and other aid to get in. president biden sounding optimist, saying its looking good to bring the hostages hom...

"the story" starts right now. >> martha: thanks, john and sandra. good afternoon. im martha maccallum. theres a lot at stake and going on behind chosed doors at this hour. we have high level meetings among members of the israeli government, possibly deciding if there is a deal that they can pass in their government to free some of the faces and the people behind them that youre seeing right now on your screen. about 50 hostages, women and children, in this first group is what is being ...

For about 50 years, versions of the aircraft, known as the “Angel of Death” for its lethality, have been providing close air support, air interdiction and armed reconnaissance to troops throughout the world.

A weapons modernization initiative is outfitting the Ghostrider with a new cannon.

When it comes to nighttime close air support, there is probably no better friend to American special operators, and no worse foe to their enemies, than the AC-130 gunship.

A C-130 Hercules aircraft, variant H, transferred, free of charge, from the surplus of the United States Government to the Romanian Air Force,...

Intelligence is not perfect, intel, as representative johnson just said, or vice just said, it is never perfect. were not going to get perfection in the world of intelligence. it is probablistic language. we have confidence in intelligence systems, they are not perfect, we have good reason to have confidence in them and that has been expressed in accuracy and precision of the strikes. >> i understand. >> this one strike was bad, tragic, horrible, not to say the intelligence system as i whole is ...

Assessment. when we do have tragedies, be they navy destroyers colliding with merchant ships, we lost 14 sailors a couple summers ago. we had a lot of accountability. we fired a lot of admirals as a result of that. we had an ac-130 gun ship conduct a series of firings in afghanistan. we held a lot of people accountable for that. i think the military in this case is going to have to go through this, point by point. i think there will be accountability. >> what about the growing tension between th...

This kind of environment, you look at the worst-case analysis. you plan for the worst thing the enemy can do to you and then you backward plan from that. >> tucker: right. >> why was our perimeter so close to the taliban? why wasnt the taliban told to stay at least 2,003,000 meters away from the airfield? we had no standoff, where was the ac 130 in the air? why didnt we have some mobile armored firepower on the ground in the form of bradleys or tanks? you can fly them in and fly them out when yo...

Members were. no indication that british service members were killed and also no indications that u.s. state department officials were killed in the attack at abbey gate. but what we -- what is very clear from the general, the mission continues. they will continue evacuations. they ramped up security. this was -- its clear that somehow the bomber got past the so-called taliban security that was on the outer perimeter. theyre going to try to push the crowds back further. but you have overwatch. g...