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I think there's a good chance we have a deal with Hamas during the week, during the coming week, pertaining to quite a few of the hostages.

You know, we've gotten a lot of the hostages out, but pertaining to the remaining hostages, quite a few of them will be coming out.

We think we'll have that done this week. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's in Washington for

a third visit with President Trump this year. Netanyahu tells Trump, Israel's nominated him

for the Nobel Peace Prize and applauds what he calls Trump's vision for the relocation of Palestinians out of Gaza,

what he calls their freedom of choice with no mention of a Palestinian state.

We'll speak to Peter Beinert of Jewish currents, but first to Congress.

Trump's new budget law includes a massive expansion of immigration enforcement

and may kick 17 million Americans off Medicaid. We'll speak to Arizona Congress member

Yasmin Ansari elected last year. She's the first Iranian American in Congress. She led a read-in

of students, union members, and others of the

thousand-page bill.

We have to push back against this.

We have to hold these Republicans accountable for their votes.

We can't let them get away with it.

I'm not going to let them get away with it because they're ruining lives.

We'll also speak with Professor John Bellamy Foster on the Trump doctrine and the new MAGA imperialism.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now. Orr, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

President Donald Trump welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House Monday,

where the two leaders promoted a plan to expel thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Over dinner with Trump, his Mideast

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