signals it may restore donald trump s gag order in the federal election subversion case but loosen some restrictions. we ll tell you why the former president took the green light for some public attacks on special counsel jack smith. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour in israel. the families of hostages held by hamas just made an urgent appeal to the netanyahu government, pushing for action to bring their relatives homes. cnn s nic robertson is following all the new developments from his position overlooking gaza. nic, what is the latest? reporter: there does some to be some optimism around the hostages. the reality is in every sort of hostage family that i ve talked to here reminds me when i speak about the possibility of getting their loved ones home, they say you have to recognize and understand that hamas is not a state actor. it is not a ration
investigation, where do they go now to try to get this other guy? the police honestly believe this guy is somewhere in the local area up there. can i tell you and i have been following the reports overnight. they are actually checking and a lot of these guy s relatives homes. he has relatives in the neighboring states. they are also checking all of those areas. i honestly believe they are going to find this guy today. he is very violent obviously by the attacks they did on this old guy here. they may be armed. the police don t know that they re pulling out every stop to try to find this kid. mike: what are you hearing about the past of these perpetrators? both of these individuals have had run-ins with the law. they are not squeaking clean young men. these are guys that have had run-ins with the law before. they are very familiar with both of these individuals. it didn t come as a surprise. one thing that is a little unusual is the fact that neither one of these individuals have