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of the middle east. today, a third group of hostages was released as part of a four-day temporary truce between israel and hamas. we learned one of those hostages is american toddler abigail mor edan. who turned just four years old on friday while in captivity. now she is free. as the deal stands right now, 50 total hostages are promised to be released in exchange for 150 palestinian prisoners. this is the first truce after weeks and weeks of fighting. and a rare moment of positive news since the start of the war. tomorrow is day four of this four-day pause, the question is, what hap...

to increase the assistance getting into the gaza civilians who need help, and to facilitate release of hostages. who we know that innocent children in gaza are suffering greatly as well. because this war that hamas has unleashed is such with consequences. thousands have been killed, and from the earliest days of this crisis, i've worked closely with president sisi of egypt. israeli government, killing duel of jordan, and others that the region to expand the delivery of humanitarian assistance, to help innocent palestinians in need, who are not part of hamas. under this deal, in gaza,...

With just over a month left go before eleaves office president obama has been busy in the last 24 hours working on key legacy issues. the president is planning to block sales of new offshore drilling leases in parts of the atlantic and arctic and working on transferring prisoners out of ga guantanamo bay and granted pardons and clemencies to hundreds of prisoners convicted of non-violent offense pms i want to bring in athena jones traveling with president obama in hawaii and we have cnn senior political reporter manu raju as well. so athena, is this president obama's way of trying to cement hi...

Clear in his year-end press conference, if congress doesn't act to close guantanamo bay, that he will. take a look. >> we will wait until congress has definitively said no to a well thought out plan with numbers attached to it before we say anything definitive about my executive authority here. >> but congress has repeatedly prohibited him from transferring prisoners from guantanamo to the united states, and in fact just this november the president signed a defense bill which barred him again. question -- why isn't that the end of the argument? >> maybe you and i just watched a different clip....

>> this kind of political correctness in the way we focus on domestic terrorism is stupid. right? it really is stupid. these are very different groups with very different characters, that have very different threat profiles. >> that's why another position is necessary. the white house referred questions to the justice department and the obama administration is constantly evaluating new strategies to combat vile ent extremism. brett? pentagon officials are scouting sites in colorado as potential homes for prisoners from guantanamo bay. president obama has promised to close the detention facil...