NBC News: Israeli cabinet approves hostages swap deal

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: New details about Pres. Biden’s role in the hostage deal. Also, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis argues to revoke a Trump co-defendant’s bail. Plus, Defense Secretary Austin travels to Kyiv to announce a $100M military aid package for Ukraine. And former Trump White House and Trump administration officials say Donald Trump should not be president again. Ben Rhodes, Ronen Bergman, Gwen Keyes, Harry Litman and Timothy Snyder join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening,
0:04.0	Alex. We have many more details now being released by the White House on this
0:09.3	hostage negotiation which apparently President Biden has been engaged in from the start
0:16.0	with the understanding that the only way to get a Israel to agree to a ceasefire
0:21.3	was through this hostage release and so this will be a
0:26.1	ceasefire they now expect to be four or five days and possibly extended beyond that
0:31.9	depending on whether Hamas is going to continue
0:35.0	to release hostages, the White House releasing some details about the Americans
0:39.7	who could be released in the very first group of hostages released.
0:43.6	We're going to get into all of that with Ben Rhodes during this hour.
0:46.4	A lot of hopes pinned on this negotiation.
0:48.9	I will be watching.
0:49.9	A lot.
0:50.9	Thanks, Alex.
0:51.9	Thank you. Our breaking news tonight is of course that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office is telling
0:56.6	NBC news that the Israeli government has agreed to the framework of a deal to secure the release of some of the hostages held by Hamas
1:07.0	and a ceasefire to accomplish that release.
1:11.0	The government of Israel released this statement. Tonight, the government has that release.
1:13.0	This statement.
1:14.0	Tonight, the government has approved the outline of the first stage of achieving this goal,
1:20.0	according to which at least 50 hostages women and children will be released over four days
1:26.3	during which a pause in the fighting will be held the release of every additional 10 hostages will result in one additional day in the pause.
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