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CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta August 28, 2024

Belong in the History Books is cnn Breaking News . Good morning you are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We begin this hour with Breaking News out of the middle east israels military says it has rescued a hostage held in gaza since the hamas Terror Attacks on october 7 of last year, this man, a father of 11, had spent the last 326 days because as Prisoner Areas in the hospital, a short time ago, reuniting with his brother cnns Jeremy Diamond is following this Breaking News for us. Hes live in tel aviv. Jeremy what can you tell us whats the latest . Its a remarkable story and the details just coming in without a doubt, jim, and were only just starting to get some of the details, but they are indeed remarkable. The Israeli Military, its Special Forces carrying out an operation in southern gaza, rescuing this man caught eid farhan alqadri, a 52yearold father of 11, from a tunnel in some other gaza. This is the first time that the Israeli Military has successfully rescued a hostage alive from a tunnel beneath the gaza strip. It is the fourth Rescue Operation in the gaza strip that has successfully returned hostages alive. And he is the eighth hostage to be returned from a bike Israeli Military operations. Since coming back to israel alive, these, this operation was carried out by the Israeli Military equivalent of the navy seals known as shayetet 13 alongside several other Israeli Military brigades and intelligence gathered by israels shin bet, the Domestic Intelligence service. He was then taken he can by helicopter to soroka medical center. That is a hospital in the southern israeli city of beer sheva. He is in stable medical condition. Were told and is getting medical checks as we speak, several of his Family Members have been able to see him already, have been able to hug him for 300 326 days of captivity, 326 days of absolute anguish for them and uncertainty as they didnt know whether or not he was actually alive and whether he would ultimately returned to israel alive now, the hostage and family forum is noting fact that his recovery is quote, nothing short of miraculous. But they do also underscore this critical point. And that is to say that the majority of hostages who have been released so far alive from gaza, and those who could be released in the future happen through negotiated settlements. And so they note that while that is really military operations alone cannot free all of the remaining 104 hostages who were taken Captive On October 7 and remain captive in gaza that will have to happen through a deal. Jim alright. Jeremy diamond, keep us posted on any new developments will take him. Thanks so much. Lets discuss now with democratic congressman Jared Moscowitz of florida. He is on the Foreign Affairs committee, congressman. Thank you so much for being with us this morning obviously, some very dramatic news coming out of israel. Whats your reaction to this . What can you tell us . Thanks, jim, obviously its great news for the family. Its great news for the state of israel. Obviously, israel is continuing to show that if they had actionable intelligence, they will go and get their hostages but obviously reminds us how many families are still waiting for sinwar to release the remaining of the hostages. And so you know, its great that israel has the capability to do that if they have actionable intelligence to go and get hostages. But we have to eventually get to a deal. And get sinwar put the pressure on sinwar to release the remainder of the hostages and congressman, i mean, to that point, is enough being done on all sides. What are your thoughts on where that process stands right now . Well, jim, i mean, look good, doesnt appear to me that weve made dramatic progress. It doesnt mean that there arent negotiations going on and that were not getting closer, right. But we just dont know how close its not clear to anybody whether sinwar is interested in a deal at all. And it doesnt appear to me that pressure has worked, whether its International Pressure or local pressure. In fact, it just appears to me all the pressure continues to be on Israel Sinwar is a single individual whos now the both political and military head of hamas who can end this war and the suffering bring of the Palestinian People get to a ceasefire and return the hostages. Its all up to him this idea that its up to israel. Its just not accurate. Israel can agree to allow hamas to remain as the government power. And if that is what sinwar wants, where he remains in charge, then i dont know so that were ever going to get going to get to a deal which is why israel is continuing when they have actual intelligence to go and rescue the hostages, which show israel is focused on getting the hostages back. But we also cant give in to sinwar. And so we need International Pressure on the hamas leader to end this war. For end the suffering of the Palestinian People and release the hostages. And i do want to switch gears because i know youre a part of the task force investigating last months attempted assassination. Former President Trump yesterday, you and some of the other lawmakers i believe were in butler, pennsylvania touring the site of the shooting. Can you tell us about that visit which does but out to you what can you tell us what you everyone is red obviously that this building where the shooter was on the roof was close to the stage, but i gotta be honest and tee you go there, jim, and you dont actually realize how close it was, yes. Which makes it more outrageous, quite frankly, that he was able to get on that proof that that that roof was not within within the perimeter. And so for me that was the most stark issue that i saw. And it leads me to believe that there were multitude of failures that day, not one specific fair. I mean, we were inches obviously from an american catastrophe. So the taskforce on a bipartisan basis is obviously going to examine all of the failures and figure out what corrective actions need to be taken. So thats Something Like that never happens again forgive me for asking something. Maybe you can answer, but were you given access to the roof . Were lawmakers able to get on top of the roof. Did you just get a i look at it from down on the ground. Can you tell us about that because that seems to be really at the heart of this you know, folks are just thinking that this is inexcusable, that this area was left unguarded yes. So we were able to get on the roof. So i went on the roof myself. We were also able to go inside the building where agents were incited the inside that building. We were also told able to walk from where the perimeter ended to this building to see how close it was, there were some interesting things that we learned. One was the park that is next to this building was closed off the cars, but it wasnt closed off the people. So people just walked in. Right. And were able to get up to this fence line where the perimeter was. I mean, youre talking that its a clear shot to the stage, both from the perimeter and from the elevated position. Of that stage. I mean, it just an outrageous failure by the Secret Service to have allowed this to not be in the perimeter or to not have it better guarded, to keep people from the public while we dont have direct evidence of yet, jim, i mean, it just appears to me theres no doubt that the shooter twitter had known this facility had had cased. It may be a day before because he entered the roof on the farthest side of the building and then walked to the closest side of the structure, closest to the stage. He had the know these buildings had the proof connecting and the only way you can see that is from being on top. And so while we have not been provided evidence that hes done that, he had to have known that he jumped on a air handler and thats we got on to the building and as you know, former President Trump is resuming these outdoor rallies obviously there are some who say that this is maybe not a safe thing to do given what took place last month, what are your thoughts on that should should president ial campaigns have these outdoor rallies or is that just too dangerous . Thats interesting question many of the Task Force Members on a bipartisan basis, were discussing what is the role between Campaign Democrat or republican and Secret Service. Does Secret Service get to veto a specific site if they deem it too dangerous. And we dont believe that they have that authority not something that we could discuss for the future. And so yes, were looking at whether or not this site should have been picked at all. Its Kind A Learning Lesson for the future, but Secret Service says theyve taken corrective actions, but we want to see those corrective actions. So one of the things tasked members were talking about is accompanying the campaigns on the road so to see these corrective actions in place, trust, but verify and so there are a multitude of investigations going on and inspector general, a special panel, homeland security, fbi, Secret Service. The task force and congress and committees in the senate. And so we got to get to an answer and we got to tell the Public Information as soon as possible to stop these theories that are both on different sides of the spectrum. That one it was an inside job or the other that the whole thing was staged and thats the agencies are not sharing information in real time while i was going to ask you about that because theres just been a lot of rhetoric flying around about who the shooter was and what his motivations might have been. Have you gotten anywhere in terms of that no weve not been provided that information. And i get why people are using their imagination because it also want to imaginable that someone could get on a roof, have a clear line of shot. Two are former presence so close to the stage. And sometimes jim, 20 test these areas of government, like in my high school but marjorie stoneman, douglas in the shooting, we saw a multitude of failures that day that led to that horrific event. At my high school, there wasnt one thing that went wrong. It was dozens of things that went wrong, right . I think the same thing as is the case here. Dozens of things were wrong that day, but until we until something gets tested, you dont know what how whats going to happen. Its going to fail and so this failure is so unimaginable that people are saying, well, thats not possible without, you know, maybe it was this or maybe it was that, but thats why its incumbent upon these agencies to share this information so that the vacuum doesnt get filled with misinformation all right. Congressman moskowitz, thank you very much for your time. We appreciate it and keep us posted on any developments from that very important investigation. Thanks so much. All right. Coming up, dueling campaign ads while harris is Kamala Harris is focusing on the economy, donald trump is on the attack plus the wondering is over put. Theyre putting their family feud aside, least. Thats what we think at this point, oasis is reuniting after a 15year break. Whats behind the Gallagher Brothers Change Of Heart . Thats coming up. 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