I'm John Bachelor with Malcolm Holin Conference of President's major American Jewish

organizations.

We're very pleased to welcome David Shanker, top senior fellow Washington Institute and director of the

Linda and Tony Rubin program on Arab politics. David a very good evening to you.

You tell me that Nasrala, the general secretary of the Hezbollah terrorist organization,

is about to make a speech to do what, to say what.

Good evening to you, David.

Well, good evening to you and to Malcolm.

Hassan Nasrala hasn't opened his mouth since October 7th.

He has been watching.

There have been escalations on the border between Lebanon and Israel.

His well is not standing idly by,

but they have not escalated in a dramatic fashion.

Tomorrow, though, we'll find out what His well, may or may not intend to do.

They are part of the so-called axis of resistance.

They are, like Hamas, loyal to answerable to Tehran and we're going to see how involved Hezbollah may get.

Some of that will depend on how well or how well Israel does in Gaza and its campaign against Hamas.

And part of it may depend on whether it looks like Hamas is going to be wiped out,

but they don't want to be standing idly by as a, you know, a tool of the resistance

gets decimated.

Malcolm?

We have two aircraft carrier groups plus additional destroyer just joined them.

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