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the new york congressman defended himself outside the capitol just minutes ago. a truce extended for now. moments before it was set too expire, israel and hamas agree to continue the pause in hostilities with more hostages set to be leased today. and elon musk with choice words, four letter words, for companies who pulled their ads from twitter while telling disney to go blank itself win hearts and minds. i'm john berman with sara sidner. this is "cnn news central." this morning republican congressman george santos speaking defiantly from outside the capitol where he could make...

Envoy to ukraine volker. perry attended that meeting with ukrainian officials but denied the bidens were ever mentioned. >> i probably have had as expandive a relationshipry ukraine as any in the administration. certainly at the cabinet level. not once, as god is my witness, not once was biden named. not the former vice president or son. never once. if corruption, it was talked about in the country, always a relatively vague term of the oligarchs and this and that and what have you. >> reporter: when it kucomes to perry, reported by axios the president told house republicans he only made that ...

Than ideology, there is a significant number of people that don't want to vote for romney. if they go for one candidate, he might be defeated. if they go to three candidates, he is not going to get defeated. that is why in the long rank terms, gingrich -- long range terms, gingrich has to knock santorum, because he can't let santorum stay in the race if he has a chance at beating romney. >> sean: why do you think, as we watched all the other republicans rise in the polls, then fall back from michele bachmann to perry, to cain to gingrich. now rick santorum is viewed as the more conservative or...

That don't want to vote for romney. if they go for one candidate, he might be defeated. if they go to three candidates, he is not going to get defeated. that is why in the long rank terms, gingrich -- long range terms, gingrich has to knock santorum, because he can't let santorum stay in the race if he has a chance at beating romney. >> sean: why do you think, as we watched all the other republicans rise in the polls, then fall back from michele bachmann to perry, to cain to gingrich. now rick santorum is viewed as the more conservative or the anti-romney, whatever argument you want to use. wh...

Poll, 46 approval, 46 disapproval. not bad at the moment. direction of the country, i think this goes to what we're talking about, 21%, right direction, 74%, wrong track. obviously, we know the unemployment rate is 9.1%. how do you say things are going to get better and acknowledge how bad things are currently if you're the president of the united states? it seems like a very tough line to walk. >> he's trying to walk the line. he's also saying, things were worse before and the other guys would make it worse. those arguments, voters tend not to really register -- >> george bush started it, and...