close, could bring some of the hostages home very soon, but i don t want to get into details or things because nothing is done until it s done. and we have more to say, we will. but things are looking good at the moment. sandra: at this hour, awaiting updates from both the state department and the pentagon on the war in the middle east of a the president there says a hostage deal with hamas is very close and he is optimistic. and also an update is expected from the pentagon a short time from now after the u.s. military carried out an airstrike last night, killing several militants from iranian proxy group. a lot to learn in the coming minutes and hours. hello, welcome, john, great to be with you. john: good to be with you as well, sandra. john roberts in washington. america reports . an agreement could be announced at any moment but what we know at this hour about the hostages. the deal on the table would free about 50 israeli women and children in exchange for 150 pales
buck, not necessarily win an office. you know, right now i call him a credibility threat. i would wouldn t at this moment call him a serious threat. we know a lot about his politics, personality and skills as a politician, having watched hi as the state party chairman, but right now i call him a credible threat, not necessarily a social threat. a serious threat. julio castro last week ruled on the basically being on a ballot, some told me he s not running for governor. he wasn t be for joaquin. beto o rourke says don t take
i do not think he s much of a credibility threat to alex acosta. i think he did a marvelous job today. he sat there over an hour, he basically answered every question except the ones he couldn t because of privilege issues. i thought he acquitted himself well if you didn t dodge anything. that test will be due the documents, there are a lot of documents in this case. a lot of them are going to be unsealed the next few days. laura: they seem to want that to happen. he seemed to say that the whole record should be read and examined and go at it. the ones i ve read so far, his packet that he said, here i have i have things for people to look at. look at the affidavit. i believe he says he was on this case, the u.s. attorney to hold time, supports him 100% and the fbi agent supports him 100%. laura: this happened during the bush administration right at the very and make of the bush administration, barack obama elected in 2008 but we are goino get in this later but the timing with t
i do not think he s much of a credibility threat to alex acosta. i think he did a marvelous job today. he sat there over an hour, he basically answered every question except the ones he couldn t because of privilege issues. i thought he acquitted himself well if you didn t dodge anything. that test will be due the documents, there are a lot of documents in this case. a lot of them are going to be unsealed the next few days. laura: they seem to want that to happen. he seemed to say that the whole record should be read and examined and go at it. the ones i ve read so far his packet that he said, here i have i have things for people to look at. look at the affidavit. i believe he says he was on this case, the u.s. attorney to hold time, supports him 100% and the fbi agent supports him 100%. laura: this happened during the bush administration right at the very end of the bush administration, barack obama elected in 2008 but we are going to get in this later but the timing with this
for getting out of this. there could be some kind of diplomacy. i think secretary tillerson, even secretary mattis, h.r. mcmaster, they would like some kind of diplomatic option and the credibility threat of military force could have that. but this war of words is not helping president trump, and he s falling for the kind of stuff from kim jong-un that at this point in time is very dangerous now that north korea has nuclear weapons. but something that a lot of times people say, you know, that s the north korea statement, it doesn t really have reality. rebecca, when the president was asked, president said we could also have a bad solution. when he was asked, a bad solution, do you think that could mean war? the president said, i think you know the answer to that. obviously meaning yes. well, right. i mean, he isn t taking a preemptive strike off the table. he isn t taking military intervention in north korea off the table. he is even throwing out there for no apparent reason the id