Monday, October 23, 2023
The 7
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🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Monday briefing: Freed American hostages; Kenneth Chesebro plea; speaker race; toddler milk; talking plants; and more
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| 0:00.0 | My head always been in Israel, lots of phone calls in Israel, lots of TVs. I've been |
| 0:07.7 | glued to the TV for two weeks hoping for any good news, finally it can. |
| 0:14.0 | Two American hostages were freed from captivity and Gaza. |
| 0:18.0 | That is where we're starting today's show. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Jeff Pierre and this is the 7th from the Washington Post. It's Monday, October 23rd. |
| 0:27.0 | Let's get you caught up with today's 7 stories. |
| 0:30.0 | The Palestinian militant group Hamas released Judith Rennan and her mother Natalie on Friday. |
| 0:39.0 | The two were from Illinois and they were on a trip to Israel when they were captured during Hamas's attack on October 7th. |
| 0:46.0 | Yuri Renan, who you heard from at the top of the show, spoke to the press Friday about the release of his teenage daughter and ex-wife. |
| 0:53.0 | I've been waiting for this woman for a long time for two weeks. |
| 0:58.0 | I haven't been sleeping for two weeks. |
| 1:01.0 | Tonight I'm going to sleep good. I spoke with my daughter |
| 1:05.5 | earlier today. She sounds very good. She looks very good. She was very happy and she's waiting to come home. |
| 1:15.3 | Her mother has a little scratch on her hand, |
| 1:19.3 | but she told me it's nothing. |
| 1:20.7 | She's okay. |
| 1:22.2 | More than 200 other hostages are still being held |
| 1:25.2 | captive in Gaza. President Biden said that U.S. officials were working around the |
| 1:29.7 | clock to free the other American hostages. The Biden administration has also worked to |
| 1:34.4 | delay Israel's expected ground invasion of Gaza. It's worried that an invasion would |
| 1:39.6 | worsen the territory's humanitarian crisis. |
| 1:43.0 | Over the weekend, the first few trucks carrying aid entered Gaza from Egypt, |
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