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The Rachel Maddow Show

Glimmer of hope as Hamas broaches subject of releasing some hostages

The Rachel Maddow Show

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4.534K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

...Plus, Biden hopes to head off any regional expansion of war with trip to Israel: Himes

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0:00.0

there really is a lot going on. We are going to be talking a lot tonight about the latest news

0:04.8

from the Israel-Hamos war. But not only that story, we've had a bunch of important news

0:10.3

breaking today internationally and in the United States. There's just one of those days there is

0:16.2

a ton to get to. On Israel-Hamos, though, obviously this is a huge breaking news within the past

0:22.9

hour that President Biden himself will travel to Israel the day after tomorrow on Wednesday.

0:29.6

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken making that big announcement tonight from Israel.

0:34.7

He announced that President Biden is coming to Israel on Wednesday. He also said

0:38.6

this, which itself, could be a very big deal.

0:42.7

The United States and Israel have agreed to develop a plan that will enable humanitarian aid

0:46.8

from donor nations and multilateral organizations to reach civilians in Gaza and them alone,

0:52.8

including the possibility of creating areas to help keep civilians out of harm's way.

0:58.0

To have the U.S. President heading there himself and then to have what Secretary Blinken

1:04.0

just announced there, the U.S. government announcing that they've got a plan with Israel to get aid

1:09.5

into Gaza. These are both very big developments. So we're going to be talking tonight about what

1:15.2

this could mean for the course of this war, for Israel, for Hamas, for the civilians in Gaza,

1:21.5

who have been put in such an impossible situation. We're going to be talking about the potential

1:26.8

riskiness of the President's mission abroad and what his visit might be able to change,

1:32.4

might be able to shake loose in terms of diplomatic progress. So there's a lot to talk about that

1:39.1

tonight. I will also tell you that tonight we heard from the family of one of the hostages who

1:45.8

is being held by Hamas. This is the mother of a young man who's been held hostage since last Saturday.

1:52.0

We've stayed in touch with her and her family over the past week since her son was taken.

1:57.2

Really interesting. Late today, we heard from her that her family and other families of hostages

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