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today on "inside politics," a big development on hostage negotiations. president biden said a deal to free the more than 200 hostages held by hamas is, quote, going happen. this comes as a official familiar with the talks tells cnn and israel and hamas are moving closer to a deal. i want to get straight to mj lee, who is in san francisco with the president waiting for him at least. what did the president say? and put this intoen context along with other reporting this you and other colleagues have. >> reporter: yeah, you heard from president biden, who is making his way now here to s...

walk a fine line. gaza is a crowded, urban area. i hold hamas just as responsible, if not more than the idf for civilian casualties in gaza because hamas puts their command and control centers underneath refugee camps, underneath hospitals. hamas told palestinian civilians to disobey the order to evacuate that territory. so it's a difficult road to walk, but israel must destroy and degrade hamas. that's their mission. i'm sure they are determined to go about the mission, put they do walk a fine line. >> secretary johnson, your perspective is invaluable this morning. "cnn this morning...

The chairman, you asked him to do this. here he is. what do you make of -- this is a particularly impressive media strategy. spear headed by abbi lowell, who is for viewers who don't know, he's a very pugnacious defense attorney in washington, who has a reputation for being successful in what he does. this really take it is head on in a way that honestly if i'm the white house, i'm raising my eyebrows. what did you make of the strategy and how it might play down at the other end of pennsylvania avenue, where his dad is try ining to get reelect president? >> i think pugnacious is the best way t...

How successful he's been in florida. i think it's interest ing how he's starting to make some policy differentials. we saw a lot of criticism from over the weekend on the first step act, which is the criminal justice reform law that trump signed into law. one of the big bipartisan accomplishments of his presidency. ron desantis called it a jailbreak bill. that's a really interesting policy differential. you'll see more of that as we go on. >> you'll see try ining to get desantis trying to make it about policy. i get it. because trump blew up the policy apparatus. trump is trying to get to his ...

Deliberate and he's off the path of normal human behavior. he was opening text messages and he googled a restaurant after he ses the lifeless bodies of his wife and son. he was trying to make the point he was try ining to call friend and they have to use his testimony to rebut some of the powerful both the specifics, the time line and that sort of character questions. >> it's called fronting. the durt in your story, these are facts that are bad for him. the defense has to be the one to put them on the record. if you give that to the prosecution and the prosecution controlling the narrative abo...