this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we start this hour with breaking news. israel says a new group of hostages has been freed. it includes an american citizen. we saw the red cross convoy leaving gaza and entering egypt. the idf says this group consists of 14 people headed right now to meet up with israeli forces. 48-year-old leat bamin is now the second american released since the start of this pause in the violence between israel and hamas. after we saw 4-year-old abigail edan released earlier this week. let's get right to cnn's oren lieberman who is in save, and cnn's jeremy diamond who is in israel. jeremy, we're learning more about this batch of hostages, including this american dual citizen. tell us more. >> reporter: that's right. among these ten israeli hostages who have been freed, there are four thai nationals who have also been freed. i want to read you the names that we are getting, including the woman you mentioned, the 48-year-old american citizen. she's one of three mamerican citizens that u.s. officials hoped could be released as part of this deal for women and children. the other is abigail edan. there's still one other american woman believed to be held hostage. in addition to that, ryia rotem, ofir angle, and self-others. i want to tell you about two of them. ryia rotem is the mother of heela, released on saturday. they were believed to have been held in captivity until a couple of days before heela was released. israeli officials view that as a violation of the deal that she was released without her mother, but she has now been released and is on her way to israel. the other person is yardin ramen. i have spoke within the family several times. she was taken captive october 7th with her husband, as well as her daughter. but at a moment of opportunity, all three of them decided to jump out of the vehicle that they were in that hamas militants were driving them towards the gaza strip. but she was carrying her daughter initially. when she realized that her husband could run faster, she handed her daughter to her husband. he was able to get her daughter to safety, but she was unfortunately captured. and now after more than 50 days of captivity, she has, indeed, been freed. i want to tell you about the scene behind me. you have dozens of israelis who earlier today greeted those two russian-israeli women who were freed, not as a part of this mainframe work between israel and hamas, but a separate agreement it appears between hamas and the russian government. they are still here, hoping that those now newly freed ten additional israeli citizens will make their way here as they head to this air base in front of us, and then on their way to hospitals in israel. >> so this most recent pause in fighting is set to expire in hours. how likely is an extension looking? >> reporter: the tools and the positions appear to be in place to make that happen, and there is a massive diplomatic effort to get it over the line. secretary of state antony blinken is expected to land here any hour now and will hold meetings to believe on top of the cia director who is in qatar. a senior policy adviser to prime minister benjamin netanyahu was on air earlier this evening. he said they believe hamas has at least 20 more women and children, so it seems they have the numbers to extend this truce for at least another 24 or 48 hours. the countries have expressed some level of optimism it will get there. the egyptians have, as well. hamas has said they're open to extending the truce, but we need a statement, a definitive statement from the israelis and hamas it will remain in place for at least 24 or 48 more hours. israel has waited until the hostage transfer has been completed before making statements like that. crucially, jake, it does not take a new agreement since it's under the agreement that was already approved by the israeli government. the question becomes, if you want to extend it beyond that and include elderly men as well as women and men who served in the idf, does that require a new agreement and how much harder is that to put in place? right now, the focus on the possibility of extending the agreement before us for another day or two, that's where the focus will be. we'll keep an eye on that throughout the evening. >> all right. thanks so much to both of you. earlier, i sat down with five american families who had loved ones taken hostage by washington, kidnapped. they came here to push the biden administration to help get their loved ones back. coming together, they say not only gives them solace, but they said their unity around saving the hostages has changed, at least for now. the trajectory of the war. >> we've been getting the conflict, i think the israeli government was more focused on going after hamas. i think the fact that the families have come together, we each feel collectively that we have 240 new family members. i think the success of the families being together and being able to unite around the hostage issue and getting the people of israel behind us, has changed the perception of the government of israel, understanding that the only topic that the government of israel is going to be judged by the population, is how many hostages, how fast they're able to get them out. i think that perception has changed, and i also think the united states and the people of the united states have completed it. >> joining me now is republican congressman mike lawler from new york and democratic congressman jared moscowitz from florida. congressman, you met with some of the families of hostages. how much sway do you think the u.s. has in these negotiations? >> well, not only have we met with some of these families today here in washington, but of the course of the last 50 days, we've met with dozens of families, including when jared and i were both in israel. i think the families have had a tremendous impact on making sure that this is a priority, both of the israeli government and the united states government. and frankly, i think the administration has done a good job on negotiating with qatar, with israel, to get these hostages released. obviously, we want them all released. we passed a bipartisan resolution yesterday unanimously, call foring for th release of every hostage. so we would like to see that done quickly and efficiently. >> there are some real divisions in your party, the democratic party, congressman, on israel, on aid to israel, whether there should be conditions on aid to israel, whether there should be any aid to israel right now. you disagree with those that want to put conditions on aid to israel. what do you make of the people in not just critics of israel, but there are a lot of supporters for israel in the biden administration, and -- well, a lot of people who think israel needs to do more to curtail the civilian casualties when they go after members of hamas. >> well, first of all, let me say that the reason we're getting these hostages back is because of all of the pressure israel has been having on hamas. hamas didn't just come to the table willingly all of a sund is. also, the good work of the biden administration trying to get these hostages out, working with our foreign allies. so that's important. look, on my party, last night we saw a big bipartisan vote on israel's right to exist, and any calls for israel to be eliminated or anti-zionism, being anti-semitism. so that was a big moment the chamber could come together. look, there are differences on this aid coming forward. i disagree with bernie sanders and i can prove he's wrong. when speaker johnson came forward with his aid package, the white house and chuck schumer told every democrat in the house to vote against that. so now we can't say hold on a second, now we were wrong in the beginning. no, there's going to be no conditions to the aid to israel. and by the way, there should be no conditions to the humanitarian aid to the civilians in gaza. hamas has not just taken israeli hostages, they have taken the palestinian people hostage by using them as human shields. they want palestinians to die. they want those pictures of those babies so they can feed that as propaganda to the rest of the world. and so i'm happy that the hostages are getting out. i'm happy to get as many of them as they can. but at the end of the day, israel needs the tools to continue the mission, which is to eliminate hamas from the gaza strip. >> cnn got an exclusive first look at former republican representative liz cheney's new book, calling her former colleagues and party leaders enablers and collaborators with donald trump, who, after the 2020 election, were willing to violate their constitutional oath because of loyalty to donald trump. she's concerned about what will happen to the party and country if donald trump is re-elected president. >> look, i think as i've said repeatedly in 2020, joe biden won. what happened on january 6th was wrong. and my party needs to focus on the future. they need to focus on the issues that matter to the american people. i won in a district joe biden won by ten points. that has 70,000 more democrats than republicans. that's home to bill and hillary clinton and george soros. why? because i talked about the issues that mattered. affordability, public safety. we have a migrant crisis. people are tired of the petty grievances. they're tired of the interparty squabbles. they're tired of the nonsense. they want us to focus and do our jobs that we were elected to do and deal with these issues. i think all of us have that responsibility. the american people are going to determine who the next president is. but whoever that is, whether it's joe biden, whether it's donald trump or someone else, they need to focus on the future and they need to focus on the american people, and they need to cut the crap. >> so speaking of ndomestic politics, you've been fired up on chairman james comber's rejection of hunter biden's offer to testify publicly. i want to play some sound and get you to respond. >> he'll get a public hearing after he does his deposition. he doesn't get to set the rules. just because he told the doj, the irs, the national archives and every other government agency that's been investigating the bidens for years to stand down doesn't mean he's going to tell the house oversight committee what to do. we have sent him a lawful subpoena. >> his point is that the normal process is behind closed doors deposition. and then maybe he gets to set the rules, then maybe a public hearing. >> yeah. so, listen, you know, comber and i are on our way to becoming fast friends on this subject. he keeps coming up with new adjectives to describe me. he called me a smurf -- >> was there a specific smurf he had in mind? i used to watch it when i was a kid. was it papa smurf? >> i'm like of grumpy surf. >> i don't think there is a grumpy surf. >> so look, let me answer that question directly. at the end of the day, they keep bringing up, this is the regular process. most of the subpoenas that were issued during the trump administration, most of them wouldn't comply. they fought it in court and said congress did have the right to do it. none of them came forward and said i would like to come and do this in a public hearing. hunter biden has come out and said he will come and comply immediately in a public hearing. the chairman doesn't have a lot of faith in the republicans that serve on that committee, because he doesn't want to bring it to the committee. the american people deserve to hear from hunter biden. for a year now, the chairman has gone on newsmax or sean hannity, and he's painted this picture of hunter biden. let hunter talk. bring him to the committee. what is the chairman afraid of? why is he afraid of transparency. trump has asked for cameras in the courtroom. they want to put hunter in the basement so they can come out and tell their side of the story. that's what we have seen in these depositions. by the way, if comer had all the evidence on hunter biden, james would want this in front of every tv camera possible. he would sit down with al jazeera if he had all the evidence, but they don't have the evidence. >> i'm going to give congressman lawler the final word here. >> we saw during the first impeachment of president trump adam schiff using the bunker in the basement to conduct a lot of depositions and then leak a lot of stuff. i have no problem with hunter biden testifying on camera. he should. he should testify in a public setting, and answer questions. there are certainly a lot of questions that have been raised, and a lot of information that has been uncovered. the american people ultimately will be the deciding voice in all of this when all is said and done. if he has nothing to hide, show up and testify. >> will you vote to impeach hunter biden as first son? >> i don't think we can do that, but margely taylor green finds every way to impeach somebody. >> that was a joke. you can't impeach the son. thanks to both of you. coming up, kamala harris dispatched to a major summit after criticism of joe biden not going to the summit. but first, the pushback on congress mam liz cheney's scathing revelations in her book. what some republicans are saying and not saying. also ahead this hour, gayle king and king charles will be here just hours ahead of their new cnn show. charles barkley is who king charles is. stay with us. former republican is congresswoman liz cheney's new memoir has not even been released, but some republicans she writes about in the book are pushing back. oath and honor has gone to number one on amazon since the reporting yesterday. it was obtained exclusively ahead of the release. cheney maintains that donald trump is a major threat to democracy. she calls many in his party collaborators. she names name, one of them kevin mccarthy who she said only went to mar-a-lago after the january 6th attack throwing mr. trump's career a lifeline because donald trump was depressed. he wasn't even eating. we have more details. so jamie, mccarthy and trump have responded to your reporting about what's in cheney's book. i want to note that neither mr. trump nor mr. mccarthy has exactly the best record when it comes to truthfulness and accuracy, but that said, what did they have to say? >> so no surprise, some big-name republicans are not happy with liz cheney's book, which, as you say, has gone to number one in the ratings. >> i hope we're getting a percentage. >> would you stop. so a spokesman for donald trump said that the book belongs in the fiction section of the bookstore, that these are nothing more than completely fabricated stories. he -- >> clever. very original. >> he also said that liz cheney is a loser. >> also original. was that steven chung? >> it was. >> that's like, all of his responses are just that. he just calls the perpson a loser. any way, keep going. >> a spokesman for former speaker kevin mccarthy said for chainy first, it was trump derangement syndrome. now it's mccarthy derangement syndrome. wait, wait. >> apparently a writer's strike when it comes to politics. >> neither one, i would like to note, denied the quotes in the book that we have reported. so kevin mccarthy did not deny that he had said to liz cheney that trump, two days after the election, knew that he had lost. he did not deny your favorite quote that he went to mar-a-lago because he -- trump wasn't eating. >> so two congressmen mentioned in the book have issued denials. tell me about that. >> so there's this very famous scene in the gop cloak room. this is the orange genius quote. >> orange jesus. your own personal orange jesus. >> i've been here too long. and liz cheney writes in the book that congressman green of tennessee said, as he moved down the line, green said to no one in particular that things we do for the orange jesus. >> this is when he's signing his objection to the electoral count. >> correct. we reached out to congressman green yesterday and heard back from him earlier this afternoon. he says -- his spokesman said, sorry and denies making this comment. and jim jordan, who cheney quotes as saying, the only thing that matters is winning. his spokesman says that chairman jordan was always concerned about the legal process for the 2020 election and how state's unconstitutionally changed their laws yus unilaterally. liz cheney draws from this book from meetings and text messages and personal conversations. >> yeah, i know who i believe. coming up next, an alleged murder-for-hire plot in new york city with a lot of similarities to a case in canada. there's a reason for that. stay with us. in order for small businesses to thrive, they need to be smart, efficient, savvy. making the most of every opportunity. that's why comcast business is introducing the small business bonus. for a limited time you can get up to a $1000 prepaid card with qualifying internet. yep, $1000. so switch to business internet from the company with the largest fastest reliable network and that powers more businesses than anyone else. learn how you can get $1000 back for your business today. comcast business. powering possibilities. in our law and justice lead, federal prosecutors charged an indian man in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot, accusing him to kill a sick activist in new york city. in the indictment, it said he paid an undercover officer $100,000 to target a u.s. citizen and critic of the indian government. today, the man believed to be the target of the plot spoke with cnn about the indictment. >> just killing me will not kill my critical opinion. just to kill me critically is not going to work on the contentious issue of the job being associated with india. the question will still remain whether i'm alive or dead. >> cnn reached out to the indian government, the modi government, for a response but has not heard back. today's indictment comes after canadian prime minister justin trudeau said there was credible evidence tying the modi government to the murder of another sikh activist in june. india denies any role in that killing. more on that story later this week. vice president kamala harris in the spotlight, being sent to attend cop-28, a global climate summit in dubai. she is pinch-hitting for joe biden after he denied not to attend. climate change is one of the top priorities cited by progressive voters. let's discuss with our panel. kristen anderson, let me start with you. we have not seen the white house employ vice president harris in too many high profile moments. what do you make of this? >> she has an interesting portfolio, in that she has been handed things like the border, things like abortion, which may be an issue that plays a bit more to her strength. and then this issue, climate, is the one to the extent you're viewing her as someone supposed to be the one that biden is the bridge to the next generation, she's that next generation, it makes some sense. but she has not, i don't think, shown very much. she's not been a rock star in the position of vice president, which is why so many republicans look at joe biden and they think, well, we are excited to run against him next year. but they're also not afraid of what happens if joe biden steps aside and hands the raep reigns her. >> this could be a sink or swim moment for this biden/harris ticket. tell us what a successful outing in dubai would look like? >> progressives, if on paper, they look at it would love. just like student loans. i don't think they're contexting things enough for people to understand a, how much actually democrats agree on paper and like what they're doing. the investments in climate were historic for a president, just like they were for student loan debt, canceling student loan debt. no president has ever made these kind of investments before. so i would like to see both of them contextualiz