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citing a delay in aid trucks getting into northern gaza. and breaking now, both the israelis and hamas are in ongoing discussions with the qataris to resolve any of these delays as soon as possible. and just last hour israeli spokesman elon levy saying he is hopeful each set of 10 hostages released would result in another day added to this temporary ceasefire. welcome to "fox news live," i'm jacqui heinrich. griff: i'm griff jenkins. here we go, the white house announcing earlier today they don't expect any americans to be part of the next group released. alex hogan is live in jerusa...

Those are both core congressional obligations. the republican attempt period of force us to do them together i think is really just a leverage game. it's a hostage game trying to take our economy hostage for our past spending, the debt ceiling, and trying to use it as leverage to get what they want but they don't necessarily have the support. forget of washington, of the american people. so i don't think the american people, who are closing we worried about the problems of homelessness for example want to see devastating cuts to housing. i don't think our seniors wants to see cuts to social se...

With his own base and also leave him in a position where democrats feel stronger. they feel the pressure is on this president to make a deal to get out of the shutdown. now he is owning it. the large majority of americans blame him for it. democrats feel they're in a strong position and aren't going to play this hostage game with the president where he's taking people in the daca program and tps program, government workers and saying, i will help them if you give me what i want, which is the wall. >> "the new york times" and "washington post" have stories that the president is not the dealmake...

Get a do-over on that. and there is sort of a zen quality here, which is if everything is urgent, nothing is urgent. if everything is a crisis nothing is a crisis. and for the republicans who keep trying to manufacture the crisis to get cuts that otherwise don't exist as you know, consensus positions in the body of politics that have not been ratified by any election, i think this sort of manufactured crisis game has obviously worn thin. and as you pointed out lawrence this one has a little less riding on it than the others. although there are serious jobs at stake, i wouldn't minimize it. but...

We need to develop a kind of doctrine of independent dependence where we realize that we are interconnected in so many ways that every bit of leverage we feel here, they feel there, and vice verse. and, you know, consequences in one area have effects in completely different areas. >> and what do you think of them flexing their muscle because of their economic strength right now? >> well, you know, i think there is always this fact that everybody puts out about how much of a creditor nation china is to us, but the thing we have to remember that is a mutual hostage game. the chinese do not do be...