Well, there is a lot going on tonight.

11 more hostages have been freed from Gaza, and a pause in the fighting has been extended by two days.

Sharon Coonio and her twin daughters, Emma and Julie, were among the hostages released today. A member of

their family is going to join me live in just a few minutes. Plus, we're going to tell you about a

wild new story in the New York Times. It's quite a read about a pardoned Donald Trump gave to a very

shady character and how it upended a federal investigation by his own Justice Department. Mike Schmidt of the New York Times broke that story and he's here to talk about all of it.

And later, how does the Biden campaign pick a lane of attack against an opponent who is promising

to sick the military on American citizens and also threatening to terminate Obamacare?

I'll ask Biden's deputy campaign manager, Quentin Folks, is going to join me here in studio.

But we do want to start tonight in Israel and Gaza, where civilians will soon wake up to day five of what is now a six-day temporary truce, after it was extended for an additional two days just earlier today.

So as it stands right now, that means two more days that hostages will be able to leave

Gaza and two more days that desperately needed aid will be able to make its way in.

It remains to be seen what happens after that later this week.

But Israel did say today that they are willing to further extend the ceasefire by one day

for every 10 additional hostages released by Hamas.

And just hours ago, a group of 11 hostages, including nine children, all from the same

Israeli community, were released from captivity and are now on their way home.

That brings the total number of hostages freed over the past four days to 69.

Many of them, Israeli women and children, finally able to come face to face with their family

members, roughly 50 days after they were taken by terrorists. Now so far, the negotiations around

the release of hostages have been full of some ups and many downs. Families are being reunited,

many are waiting. Children returning home after 50 days of trauma.

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