today on "inside politics," four-hour pauses. the white house says israel agreed to stop its attacks on hamas for four hours every day to allow aid to get in and civilians to get out of gaza. plus fighting for second place, five republican candidates make their case to voters on the debate stage. they trained most of their fire on each other rather than the far and away front runner. can anyone breakthrough? and a cnn exclusive, kevin mccarthy is speaking out. his message to aid republicans responsible for removing him as speaker, we'll give you a hint. it's not friendly. i'm dana bash. let's g behind the headlines and "inside politics." i want to start with a major development? in the israel-hamas war. the white house says iz rattle will begin four-hour daily pauses in gaza. this announcement came minutes before prime minister benjamin netanyahu release d a statement saying there would be no cease-fire without the release of hostages held by hamas. jeremy diamond is live in tel aviv. what are you hearing? >> reporter: the white house's national spokesperson saying that israel will begin implementing four-hour pauses in areas of northern gaza in order to allow for humanitarian assistance to flow in and to allow civilians to flee the area. he said that israel would i announce the timing of these pauses three hours ahead of time, and also this comes as the u.s. has brought significant pressure to bear on israel to increase its focus on the humanitarian situation in gaza and to take more care as it relates to civilians in the gaza strip. but the israeli prime minister's office, i just got off the phone with a spokesman who is reiterating that statement. there will be no cease-fire until a significant number of hostages are released. what the israelis are saying is they are establishing these evacuation corridors for civilians. also four hours, but these corridors have been already going on since sunday. for the last five days, we have watched as israeli troops have established these evacuation corridors for civilians to flee from northern gaza to the south and these corridors have lasted about four hours. they have been extended yesterday as well as today for some additional hours. yesterday about 50,000 civilians fled from the north to the south using these court torts according to both the military as well as u.n. monitors. so we have to kind of read between the lines here and some of the politics that are at play. the israeli prime minister does not want to use the term cease-fire. dehe doesn't want to use humanitarian pauses he has expressed an openness to little tactical pauses, as he has termed them. the white house wants to show that it is acting as it relates to these humanitarian pauses and also believes that talking about humanitarian pauses will help the negotiations that are happening in qatar over these hostages to be released. they believe this will help those negotiations along. and so at the end of the day, what seems clear is for the last several days, israelis have been pausing their military operations in gaza to allow civilians to flee. it appears they will continue to do that. perhaps there's a formalization of that as the white house characterizes these pauses. either way, they are essentially talking about the same thing. >> they are. and appropriately for a show called "inside politics," you just described the domestic politics for both the united states for president biden and prime minister quite well. thank you for doing that. appreciate it. turning now to what is happening in the 2024 race. last night's republican debate, nikki haley, ron desantis, vivek ramaswamy and tim scott were there. donald trump was once again not. one big issue, how to talk about abortion. tuesday's election results showed once again that most americans do not want abortion bans. so does the gop need a better message? has nikki haley cracked the code? or will any amount of messaging change the fact that many just don't like that abortion policy. >> i don't judge anyone for being pro choice, and i don't want them to judge me for being pro life. some states are going on the pro choice side. i wish that wasn't the case, but the people decided. lelgts focus on how to save as many babies as we can and support as many moms as we can and stop the judgment. we don't need to divide america over this issue anymore. >> so that was nikki haley. we also want to hear from what her rivals said on that issue, there wasn't consensus. >> we're better off when we can promote a culture of life. you have to do a better job on these referendum. all the stuff that's happened, they have been caught flat footed. they have been losing the referendums. >> we need a 15-week federal limit. i would challenge them to join me at a 15-week limit. it's in our nation's best interest. >> i want to bring in our panel to discuss cnn's david chalian, leigh ann caldwell of "the washington post," and ramesh of the national review. thank you for being here. i'm going to start with you from the point of view of you and obviously you come from the national review. what was sort of your overall take away of what you saw last night? >> the overall debate was another crabs in a barrel kind of debate. everybody wants to be the rival to donald trump, and everybody wants to stop everybody else from being that rival. the abortion division was revealing of a party that was not quite figured out how to respond to the post dobbs political environment. i think that nikki haley had a tone on this issue that a lot of republicans are probably thinking that's the right tone to strike. but whether the particulars are there, whether she can go on dodging on some of the policy specific ises, that's another question. >> i'm glad that you mentioned that that was probably one of the biggest understatements that i have heard in that republicans haven't figured out how to talk about abortion. it is a big difference on abortion policy. it was really striking about what you heard from ron desantis. basically going after the pro life movement for not getting it. i talked to tim scott after the debate, asked him about what ron desantis had said. listen to his reaction. >> governor desantis was pretty tough on conservative activists. he called it the pro life community, saying that the pro life community asleep at the switch. and that is in part whys and those antiabortion are losing these ref rent da. do you agree? >> i don't agree. i don't understand why he said what he said. there's no reason to insult the pro life voter unnecessarily. >> it was a head scratching moment and obviously an opportunity for tim scott, who was out there competing in iowa to take advantage of. i would just note it's particular odd because of ron desantis' path and strategy for the nomination, which is it's iowa or bust for him. that's a largely evangelical-driven electorate. this is a very important issue part those voters. so to say the pro life movement is flat footed on this stuff and they have to gt their act together, it seems discourted. >> go ahead. so that's one of the big issues, abortion. another is just the dynamic of seeing nikki haley and ron desantis, in particular, trying to battle it out and find their footing to be in police to be number two to donald trump. it really showed up on the issue of china. >> then we will go and end all formal trade relations with china until they stop murdering americans from fentanyl. >> nikki haley said i wasn't doing. she welcomed them into south carolina, gave them land near a military base, wrote the ciao these ambassador a love letter saying what a great friend this were. >> i brought a fiber glass company to south carolina, but you are the chair of your economic development agency that as of last week, said florida is the ideal place for chinese businesses. >> is that -- talk about why this. >> well, there's a movement around the country and conservative states to pass lus or do something to prevent chinese investment in those particular states. that was the crux of the conversation. but it is an attempt to outtalk each other within the republican party on this issue of china. and so taking a step back if this debate there's two primaries that are hpg in the republican primary. you have the donald trump primary, where he's all alone, and then you have this other primary happening, where they are doing normal things like campaigning in early states, debating on issues. but they are not intersecting. and so the challenge for these candidates is to try to enter into the donald trump primary. they haven't been able to. one of the most telling things about the biggest thing that came out of this debate was howdy provided the republican party is on issue, and that was going to a moment, even if these people aren't the republican primary candidates, that democrats are going to continue to use. >> no question about that. vivek ramaswamy, i think, was kind of try ing to do that, but also trying to appeal to the youth voters when he really went after nikki haley, not her, but by doing so, invoked her daughter. listen to what happened and then my question to him afterwards. >> the last debate she made fun of me for joining tiktok. her own daughter was using the app. >> leave my daughter out of your voice. >> the next generation of americans are using it. that's actually the point. you have supporters propping her up. that's fine. here's the truth. >> you're scum. >> why bring up somebody's family member. isn't that a little bit of a blow below the belt? >> no, because it's not a sin for a young person to be on tiktok. the error is somebody lecturing the rest of the country about the perils of it while failing to set an example of leadership a little cloerz to home. >> i think that we can easily identify the two candidates on the stage who dislike each other the most. i think that people under normal circumstances would react negatively to the name calling that haley engaged in, but under these circumstances a lot of people are going to understand it. >> we have to talk about what you mentioned, which is there is a front runner. his name is donald trump. he did have an event at the same time, approximately, in southern florida. let's listen to what he said. >> it's time for the republican establishment to stop wasting time and resources trying to push weak and ineffective never-trumpers that nobody wants and nobody is going to vote for. they are not watchable. the last debate was the lowest rated debate in the history of politics. so therefore, do you think we did the right thing by not participating? >> now you might ask what were the candidates who were on the stage saying a about him? >> i'll say this about donald trump. anybody who is going to be spending the next year and a half of their life focusing on keeping themselves out of jail and courtrooms cannot lead this party or this country. >> i can talk about president trump. i can tell you that i think he was the right president at the right time. i don't think he's the right president now. >> he owe it is to be on this stage and explain why he should get another chance. >> i assume that you agree, there's two pearl universes. >> the 2024 primary is settled, but the 2020 election isn't. there's something particularly ridiculous about this pop list say ing we don't need the peopl to vote. >> i think also we just have to realize because of the nature of how these two universes are not intersecting, these debates are not going to be helpful in bringing that together. and i don't think a lot of the traditional back and forth of messaging on the trails. we're coming to a point 67 days before iowa, where it's like mainly the desantis and haley campaigns have to prove themselves on the ground organizing voters, to see if they can overtake trump or get close enough to alter the dynamics of this race. that's the phase of this cam pain we're in now. >> before we go, i just want to play another moment, very interesting moment from last night during the debate. vivek ramaswamy came out hot. he went after the rnc chair saying she should resign and she's responsible for the gop losing. also criticized her for even holding the debate with some news organization other than a conservative one. i asked her about that. >> i have to ask you first about what vivek ramaswamy said. he went after you personally. >> he did. i'm not going to do that. i'm always going to focus on the democrats. i will say this. this republican on republican infighting, i'm not running for president so i'm not in the primary, it isn't helping our party. if you can't take a tough question, you probably shouldn't be running for president. >> mic drop emoji. >> with a spiel and in heels. everybody standby. pretty soon joe biden is going to arrive in illinois hoping to drum up momentum for his reelection campaign. can he beat back the political head winds? we'll talk about that next and see what he saysys about thahat questition. a short time ago, president biden addressed for the first time a string of recent polling that set off alarm bells among democrats showing him trailing donald trump in multiple swing states . >> obviously, the chopper was very loud. he was less loud. he blew it off in saying he's not worried about it. he made the comments before heading to illinois, where he will be working to sell weary americans on his economic agenda. he's going to be at analongside union workers. priscilla alvarez is live in belle va deer with more. you have been talking to your josources about how they are really dealing with the struggles that it he's having on the political front, despite what they are saying publicly. >> reporter: that's right. they are remaining confident. they point to the strong showing on tuesday, where they had a lot of wins and gains. and also, pointing to the fact that polls are polls. here in illinois, the president is going to be selling his economic agenda before a friendly crowd. that's union workers. union workers buoyed the president's bid in 2020. that's who he is appealing in the months to come. notably, the president is going to meet with the uaw president. they have not endorsed anyone yet, but recall, the president went to the picket line during the uaw strike, and sources i talked to say that the president's actions are moving in the right direction for that possible endorsement by going to the pickett line, by administration actions that led to the reopening of plans. and also that standing with the president today is support in and of itself. so that is what the president is going to be focusing on today. but zooming out here, this is illinois. it's a state that the president won and it's also where political head winds are converging and border security, where tensions have flared up as migrants have been arriving to chicago. >> illinois, not a swing state. thank you so much. appreciate it. our panel is back with us. it is interesting to see that he does need to really court union workers, really court voters, i should say, who are more and more going the donald trump route. they came back a bit when he was on the ballot in 2020, but they are concerned about it. >> they are absolutely concerned about it. given the polls, they should be concerned about it. what's interest ing is what happened on tuesday, where democrats did relatively well, especially in some swing states. virginia, even some placess in new york, kentucky, and why there's such a disconnect between president biden's polling and how voters have performed in this midterm election. democratic sources i talked to said voter when is it comes down to it, when they have to push that button in the voting booth, they like the democratic policies and like the democratic ideas. they can take out their frustration in polling k questions, but they are not necessarily going to do that when they vote. we'll see how that stands next year when boiden is at the top f the ticket. >> along with a guy named donald trump on the top of the ticket for the other party. biden team is relying on that contrast opinion t. they think it's going to be sufficient enough to heal a lot of these woes. they point to the fact what you see in the polling, he's experiencing diminished support among democratic base constituencies. african-american voters, young voters, latino voters, and they think they will have an easier time trying to bring them back into the fold than if they are on some huge campaign to convert people that would otherwise be not be included. it's a lot of ifs. president biden's tone in response to the polling was quite different than vice president harris when she went before microphones and cameras, which they are doing more this week. she said, we have our work ahead of us to get out there and make this case. she was not dismissive of it. she was acknowledging of it. it's interesting he took a different approach. >> i think that the optimistic gloss on the elections shows that these polls about boiden ae misleading about the actual outcomes. but the pessimistic way of looking at it for biden is, no, it shows there's a problem personalized to joe biden. it's not the democratic party is in bad shape, it's that he personally is in bad shape. >> i totally agree with that. i think clearly, it's not just tuesday night's results that's the latest evidence. special elections this year, the better than expected performance in the midterms last year, this is a democratic party that is not having a brand problem with the american people. that's pretty clear from how people are voting. but joe biden does have a problem with him standing with the american people. in addition to the angst about the economy, which is a big part of it, it's also his age. we see that there. that's something he can't do anything about. >> there's nothing he can do about that. but what they are trying to do inside his world is try to amp up the argument, the message that the vice president talked about, which they believe is getting lost about all of the policies that he has in place that workers should like. listen to what the illinois governor said about that. >> jobs have been saved, jobs have grown as a result of what the president did to help reach an agreement. uaw with the auto makers, we're very pleased. i must say the workers there, the families have benefitted from the fact that we have the most pro worker president probably in history, but certainly in my lifetime. >> he's not wrong. every single democrat i talk to say in their state, they are seeing job growth. they are seeing plants opening. there are all sorts of things that the congress and president have signed into law that is coming online, but politics is also about perception. and voters don't see that. they don't feel that. when they still go to the grocery store and it's still more expensive, that's what it comes down to. >> which is 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