Good morning. It is Saturday, June the 8th. Today on Velshi, we're following breaking

news out of the Middle East, where just hours ago, the IDF says it carried out a daring daytime

operation in central Gaza and rescued four hostages alive,

among those who'd been held by Hamas since October the 7th.

According to the IDF, those rescued are 25-year-old Noah Argomani,

21-year-old Almagmere John, 24-year-old Andrei Kauslov and 40-year-old Shlomi Ziv. They were rescued from two separate

locations within Gaza. All four are said to be inside Israel now and are in good medical condition.

You might remember one of those rescued hostages, Noah Argomani, who was seen on video. There she is,

being kidnapped on October 7th

on the back of a motorbike, separated from her boyfriend. She was pleading for her life.

New video, just released by the Israeli Prime Minister's spokesman, shows Noah being reunited

with her father today. Her mother, who is terminally ill, had been petitioning various governments for the

release of her daughter. We're watching the story closely. We're going to bring you much more on this

development very shortly, plus the latest on the delicate ongoing talks aimed at ending the war

in Gaza and the latest on turmoil within Benjamin Netanyahu's wartime cabinet. But first, I want to turn to the

turmoil in our own government as we turn the page on a dangerous new chapter in American politics

and the struggle over our fragile democracy. In the nine days since a jury convicted Donald Trump

on 34 felony counts, the Republican Party has made it clear that it will continue to

stand and live by its presumptive presidential nominee, regardless of the dangers that he poses

to democracy itself. Republicans won't just be passive bystanders either. Many are now actively

helping the twice impeached, multiply indicted ex-president

justified the primary self-serving objective of his current presidential bid. Retribution.

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