Bodies of 3 Hostage Found, Insults Fly During Lively Congressional Hearing, Star Wars Movie Turns 25 | May 17

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The bodies of three hostages are recovered in Gaza. A lively scene played out on Capitol hill Thursday night that Pennsylvania Democrats John Fetterman described as worse than “The Jerry Springer Show.” The wife and daughter of the Chief’s owner defends Harrison Butker. “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” turns 25. Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Signal top news for Friday, May 17th.
0:03.5	I'm Virginia Allen.
0:04.5	Here are today's headlines. The bodies of three hostages have been recovered in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces announced today that the bodies of 23-year-old
0:26.6	Sheni Luke, 28-year-old, Amit Busquilla, and 57-year-old Isak-Gilleror were found in a tunnel in the Gaza Strip.
0:36.1	All three were killed on October 7th, but their bodies were taken back to Gaza.
0:40.9	23 year old Chenie Luke's death was confirmed at the end of October, but the other
0:46.0	two recovered hostages had been believed to still be alive. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
0:51.9	Netanyahu wrote on X today,
0:54.0	the heart breaks for the great loss.
0:57.0	My wife Sarah and I grieve with the families.
1:00.0	All our hearts are with them in this hour of grieving.
1:04.3	And Netanyahu added, we will return all our hostages,
1:08.1	the dead and the alive alike.
1:10.8	I congratulate our brave forces who, with determined action, have returned our sons and daughters
1:16.8	home.
1:17.8	USA Today reports that an estimated 129 hostages do remain in Gaza including five Americans.
1:26.3	Of those nearly one hundred and thirty hostages at least thirty seven of them are presumed to be dead.
1:33.0	Turning now to Capitol Hill, a lively scene played out in Congress on Thursday night.
1:39.0	Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Federman described the night's events as worse than the Jerry Springer show.
1:46.1	The House Oversight Committee held a hearing last night on whether to hold Attorney General
1:50.5	Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over the
1:55.2	audio files of President Joe Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert Herr.
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