Its monday, October 7, right now on cnn this morning. One year later, israel marks the somber anniversary of the October 7 Hamas Terror attacks the fights a war now expanding to multiple fronts just plain false debunking the rumors, the Fema Administrator setting the record straight about the response to Hurricane Helene as the Trump Campaign pushes false claims and this if you are in evacuation zone, leave in the storms path, Floridas Gulf Coast, preparing for another major hurricane as theyre still reeling from helenes impact. And later families come in all kinds of shapes and forms and their family nonetheless, pushing back Kamala Harris Dismissing rightwing criticism over not having biological children east coast. A live look at Capitol Hill on this monday morning. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us a Sorrowful Anniversary lives lost during the October 7 Hamas Terror attacks, and holding out hope for the safe return of the hostages still in gaza. It was one year ago today a saturday, thousands of people gathered for a Music Festival near a kibbutz. The music, the celebration that joy shattered by the sight of rockets in the sky attendees ran looking for safety and instead found unimaginable violence as thousands of Hamas Terrorists invaded israel from gaza members of hamas and its allies killed 1,200 people, wounded, thousands more hundreds of others. They kidnapped, forcing them back into gaza 12 months later, more than 100 still remain in captivity in the year since that day, israel has sought to destroy hamas airstrikes and Ground Invasion of gaza, leaving more than 41,000 Palestinians Dead Israel is now fighting iran backed Terror Groups on multiple fronts in gaza, in lebanon, and in yemen. The region and the lives of those in it forever alter by an attack that the israeli President Today called a scar on the face of the earth one survivor of the massacre at the Music Festival described what it was like to return to those Grounds Today its been a few times since then. Its like leave the less moment with them again, the Healing Process is no its something that you can finish in One Day. Its that has no magic that can heal that wound and but we are strong. We have Each Other all right. Our panel is here. Alex thompson, cnn political analyst, national political reporter for axios, isaac dovere, cnn senior reporter, Kendra Bark off as secretary to Joe Biden and matt gorman, former senior adviser to tim Scotts President ial Campaign Welcome to all of you. Thank you for being here. I actually want to start with you on this kind of somber incredibly somber anniversary. We obviously speak all the time in terms of you are having worked for the White House and for President Biden, but youve also done so much work with these families of those who were taken into gaza on this horrible day. What are your reflections having gotten to know . So many of these people about what happened that day, what those families are feeling right now, and what happens next yeah. I mean, theyve been living in agony each and every day for all of them, there are seven americans that are still being held hostage in gaza there are more than 101 total that are being held from around the world. Different ethnicities, different races from different countries. And i think the thing that is so remarkable is how these people get up each and every Day And Fight to ensure that their loved one is still remembered. That politicians are still paying attention. You know, they have met with President Biden twice in person. Theyd met with him and zoom. They have regular calls with jake sullivan, with brett mcgurk, and they keep in contact with Each Other. And their number one goal is to keep this in the news because that is the only way in their minds to continue to keep pressure sure. On bibi on qatar, on egypt, because hamas is really something that you know, its sort of an enigma. And in so many ways theyre obviously a Terrorist Organization and they want to ensure that their Loved Ones are brought home and theyd go out there and they do interview after interview, they keep the hope alive which i think is incredible i dont know how they do it to be honest with you and end it as a remarkable thing isaac dovere. This is obviously stretched on this, this war in gaza has stretched on for a year as israel has tried to destroy hamas and there have been times where it seems as though these Hostage Families have, have been very three unhappy with Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of israel, have tried to put pressure on him to do more to bring them home and at this point, of course, were now in a theyre in a three a three front war in the Middle East with the administration backing them up, but not seem to be able to really pressure them to act in any different way that they may want to. I mean, what are your reflections which are reporting about the state of things inside the White House and on this issue Joe Biden has been pretty clear that hes very frustrated with Benjamin Netanyahu and has not been able to get him to agree to evil in come close to agree to a ceasefire or an end to the hostilities last week the White House felt pretty good that they kept the iranian Missile Attack from escalating into so much more but that is the range of victory that were talking about when it comes to how the biden administration is looking at this and its obviously then a difficult thing politically for them, but it is an incredibly difficult thing. National security terms. And what all this is, we are in an unprecedented situation. This war is the longest war that israel has ever been in it. We do not know where things might end up with iran any violence between Israel And Iran is not a good situation. And obviously theres whats going on in lebanon now, this attack on hezbollah and the way we can forget, because its not at the forefront of the news every day that the fighting continues in gaza and that 100 hostages are still being held. And that i dont think its at times the Hostage Families have been frustrated and now i think its almost every day that theyre frustrated and netanyahu and that in some ways that the american political discourse overlooks the fact of how much of israel as opposed to what netanyahu is doing. Yeah, its a very interesting point Alex Thompson of course. We were just talking to David Sanger in the earlier in the show and he was looking at how this is overlapping, right on top of the president ial campaign. This conflict potentially exploding with less than in 30 days to go. I mean, how are each of these camps . I know you cover youve talked to Campaign Aides and operatives every day preparing are thinking about the possibility that this could explode here in the final weeks. Yeah, this issue divides the democratic party. And so what youre seeing is that Kamala Harris is trying to straddle both those sides. The party she met with muslim and arab groups in michigan and a private meeting last week. Shes going to speak out about October 7 this week in her 60 minutes interview. Thats premiering tonight. She has also basically saying that we are allied with the israeli people, but not necessarily allied with netanyahu. Now, Donald Trump has basically said, i want an end yahoo, not only not to deescalate potentially escalate and get it over, as he said quickly, know democrats argue that could then further spiral the conflict know its true. I mean, like for what for how much . Of course October 7 changed the Middle East also changed washington and a lot of ways. I mean alice is right the gop largely aligned behind netanyahu in israel. And were seeing right now that 60 minutes, at least the clips that have leaked out from commentaries is interview they, are tonight, really put those divisions on display in terms of the allied with netanyahu or the israeli people also air answer on whether or not she was able to influence the israeli government i thought were very interesting and somewhat incomprehensible, but really that is stark terms of displaying a lot of it when we talk about electoral politics, result in the michigan vote in other places too, right . Yeah. I think that this can be simplified as Arab Americans in michigan are. They, are, they could be definitive in that way, but theres its also where a lot of jewish americans that are not aligned with netanyahu, israels sterilely some are, some arent but even in the way that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are approaching today, you see this playing out where they are going to be separate. They will not be together. Joe biden is doing a ceremony. The White House, Kamala Harris is doing a separate ceremony at the naval observatory. Hes lighting candles. Shes plan to get tree. They are not together. That is not a mistake. Its really interesting same all right, coming up here on cnn this morning, our coverage of the Oneyear Anniversary of the Hamas Terror attacks on israel continues. Senator Kyrsten Gillibrand is going to join me live to talk about how the year since the attacks have shaped us politics plus backtoback major hurricanes, Floridas Gulf Coast, preparing for another strong storm and in the wake of Hurricane Helene, disaster politics take Center Stage these moments of crisis bring out some of the best of who we are can be a bit of a bad, didnt and you know, its largely a republican area. So some people say they did it for that reason brokers selling your contact details browsing history, even Social Security number. 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Italy july, if you read it penguins streaming exclusively on max unprecedented response we are deeply grateful for the federal resources that we have fema has been on the ground with us the very beginning of this in the wake of Hurricane Helene, at least 232 people have lost their lives across six states North Carolina has taken the brunt of that toll where flooding left at least 117 people dead and many still others still unaccounted for state and local officials from both parties have praised Response Efforts from fema so far. But online misinformation and rumors are swirling about the storm. Some of the rumors also being pushed by Donald Trump on the Campaign Trail Kamala Harris has this is the worst response to a storm or a catastrophe, or a hurricane that weve ever seen, ever probably worse than katrina. And thats hard to be, right President Biden responded to some of these claims online over the weekend, he called Donald Trump a liar and said his administration is quote, Moving Heaven And Earth and quote, to make sure states get what they need Republican North Carolina Senator Thom tillis was also asked about some of trumps comments this weekend about the federal response in his state we have the resources that we need. Were going to have to go back and pass more resources. We can have a discussion about the failure of this administration S Border Policies and the billions of dollars thats costing. But right . Right now, not yet. Is it affecting the flow of resources to western North Carolina it is not an a effector. To be clear. Okay not at this time. Interesting okay,. Panel is back. Matt gorman, i mean, trump is out there saying these things, kind of putting it out there. Officials, republicans and democrats on the ground are saying this is not the case. They are getting what they need. You heard Thom Tillis there again, republicans say that. Now that said the scenes that are still occurring and they are still doing Rescue Operations, parts of North Carolina which is a difficult reality for this sitting administration, terrible, terrible look, and i think the biggest critique of this whole thing is very clear. Joe biden, Kamala Harris failed to recognize that level of the storm at first, right . You had Joe Biden at home and were hope rehoboth, he had Kamala Harris still raising money out in the west coast. They acted kind of physically optically late to recognize what it potentially damaging the storm. This could be. And also, i think that is kind of where my critique lives. It seems like trump beat them there in terms of being on the ground just like youve got to do with East Palestine with the Train Derailment in ohio. A couple of years ago, and it just seems like trump has a little bit more of a Keener Eye for the pure optics of these sorts of things than they do i want to jump in here though because i do think a sitting president and a sitting Vice President , there is something to be said for not taking resources away from those things that are being done on the ground, especially given the fact that they still are doing the critical things that they need to be doing of rescuing. You dont want to get in there too soon, but you want to get in there soon enough . I would also just add that the hypocrisy here that trump is doing you know, he withheld dollars from Puerto Rico until the very end. Fema, theres there was talk of the california wildfires and asking those people, voted for him before he gave money afterwards. I do think theres some major hypocrisy going on with him as well as house the administration looking at this right now, i mean, do they do they feel like this is something that is a threatening them politically. The fact that North Carolina and georgia, these are battleground states. Yeah, why they would like Kamala Harris to win them there approach to it has been largely to focus on the emergency response. I said last week on this program and well repeat it that i do not think that that makes any difference to the actual Rescue Operations to have anybody go and visit. Its just about the theater and the visuals and whatever. It didnt matter that Donald Trump was there, didnt matter Joe Biden was there. It didnt matter. The Kamala Harris was there on saturday. They have to focus on actually rescuing the people on the recovery on getting people things like diapers that they need or the homes that theyre going to need for the next couple of weeks, at least but that they this does get tangled up and other things i mean, i had to store over the weekend that got into how some of this is about the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris dynamics one of the things thats going on here is that Joe Biden went earlier in the week, which made Kamala Harris have to delay her own trip to North Carolina until saturday and that was a point of some tension. During the White House and the campaign because though i can sit here and say this is all theater, it is theater that people pay attention to that matters. Have you been paying attention that dynamic also . Oh, absolutely yeah. I mean, clearly, Joe Bidens still wants credit for like you saw when he came out on friday and he was like, all these things are going great. He made a lessee said like jobs report everything else, and then Kamala Harris, his messages like we still have more work to do and there is tension betw