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i m greg gutfeld along with roseanna scotto and dana perino, it s 5:00 in n.y.c. this is the five. greg: the white house cranking up the spin cycle after a whirlwind 24 hours for america s foreign cash guzzling father-son duo. republicans launching their inquiry into president biden. and hunter playing a risky game of contempt chicken blowing off a congressional subpoena, team biden spewing out the talking points. spewing? wow! they ve come up with not a single shred of evidence of any wrongdoing of any kind by president biden. yet, they re storming ahead with this impeachment stunt anyway to please their far right base and play politics and it really cheapens what a historically grave constitutional remedy of last resort. there s no evidence that the president has done wrongdoing. there s none. absolutely none. they are wasting their time instead of doing the work on behalf of the american people. they go after the president s family. greg: and while they c ....
to be handed back to israeli officials. we know that 13 is really hostages are due to be released and would also be released is separate to that deal. 39 palestinian prisoners who are being held in israeli jails also being exchanged for those hostages. now as we continue to watch those live pictures, joining us now on the line, our correspondent lucy williamson. and the occupied west bank. lucy, we sawjubilant scenes and the occupied west bank. lucy, we saw jubilant scenes there yesterday as prisoners were released by this time yesterday. we ve had these delays, what is happening where you are now? right, this sounds like we are have communication problems here. we can t make contact with lucy at the moment. so we ll keep trying, lucy williamson our correspondent in the west bank. let s head tojerusalem with our correspondent tom bateman. it seems that the problems have been ironed out now, do we know what stage the release process is at? while we know it is due to take ....