It's the Brian Larra Show on WNC.

Good morning everyone.

Hope you had an excellent... It's the Brian Larra Show on WNC.

Good morning everyone.

Hope you had an excellent Thanksgiving weekend.

As of right now, we're still awaiting word

on today's fourth and perhaps final hostage and prisoner release and delivery of humanitarian aid in conjunction

with the current pause in the Israel-Hamass war and whether that deal will be

extended. Both Israel and Hamas seem to say they do want more days with more exchanges

though the terms last I saw have not been agreed upon.

We will talk later in the show about the decisions that various parties in the region will now be faced with.

We'll talk now about President Biden's ongoing role in the new Mid East situation

and the domestic politics in this country around that, and also some other Monday morning national politics.

This could even be the week that George Santos is expelled from Congress,

and the scramble to replace him in a special election officially begins in Queens and

Nassau County and with such a slim majority for the Republicans in Congress at the

moment that seat might matter a lot to what gets passed in 2024.

And what's up with that new speaker of the House, Mike Johnson,

as some of his more radical past positions,

continue to come to light, but he just made that short-term

budget deal with the Democrats that has already alienated some of the same

members on his own side of the aisle who brought down Kevin McCarthy's

...