hamas, the nightmare is finally over. 13 israeli women and children ranging in rage from 85 to just 2 years old as well as 11 other foreign nationals were freed and now safely are in israel. just in the last hour president biden addressed those releases. he said that the chances of the four-day israeli-hamas truce being extended are real. he added that details about tomorrow s group of hostages, the next group to be released, should be arrived soon. he even said, within the hour. he did note that they the u.s. is not aware of the condition, the health condition of the remains hostages. and he also pointed out that he hopes this works out and he said so far it is working out well. but there is still a lot more work to do. the two sides are now about 15 hours in that planned 96-hour pause in the hostility. the skies silent for the first time since october 7th. we have regional coverage of all of these critical moments. cnn s oren liebermann is outside of the hospital in t
defensive? when you talk to top democrats in private some with others on tration, capitol hill and elsewhere thk the presidentas not taking the fight directly to republicans for some time. last week what did he do? went out and really beat up on john boehner. pushed thi s idea of a choins between republicans and democrats. talked about it before. you saw a fired up president last went in cleveland. friday, pundits ying you didn t say anything new pt the news conference. he did suc tceed in framing thi as, don t hold the middle class host aage. that you need to at least move rward on those tax cuts. 48 hours later john boehner s on cbs s face the nation shifting his position. it s clear that they re not there yet in tes of holding control of congress but the first time found something seizing on the middle class aspect, put republicans on their heels. maybe temp rare terare-tempo