From New York, this is Democracy Now.

Since Pete Huggseth was nominated to head the Department of Defense, his nomination has raised concerns from extremism experts, just based on the things that he's said publicly in podcasts on his Fox News show, on social media, and in his writings, he's published numerous books, including one in which he suggests that

factional violence between the left and the right in the U.S. is inevitable.

Pete Hedgeseth, Trump's Pentagon pick sparks alarm over far-right extremism.

We'll speak with Guardian reporter Alice Herman

on this first day of confirmation hearings

for defense secretary.

Then as Gaza ceasefire talks heat up,

outgoing President Joe Biden defends his foreign policy.

The Palestinian people deserve peace

and the right to determine their own futures.

Isn't it a nurse peace and the right to determine their own futures. Israel deserves peace and real security.

And the hostages in their families deserve to be reunited.

And so we're working urgently to close this deal.

We'll speak with Matt Duss in Jerusalem. Former foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders.

His recent column, Democrats have become the party of war.

Americans are tired of it.

Then global pressure amounts for Israel to release Dr. Hussama Busafia,

the director of the pediatric Kamal-Adwan Hospital.

Some of people who have been recently released, just say something about my father,

and they told that he has been tortured severely by the Israelis,

and he was transferred to another prison.

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