President Biden speaking live at the White House right now this is a press conference

called on short notice the president making brief remarks and taking a series of

questions from a very animated press corps, a lot of cacophony in the room, but the

president doesn't often take questions at live press events.

And so making news there, including right up until the last moment, Chris Hazel

actually want to go to you on that the president's remarks on Israel there at

the end, going some distance further than he has previously in terms of describing what's been happening in

Gaza. He was about to exit the room he came back to answer a question

specifically about Israel so he was he wanted affirmatively to talk about it.

He used the phrase over the top to

respond to characterize the Israeli campaign in Gaza.

He had used the word indiscriminate

to describe the bombing in a private event in a fundraiser.

And this was by far the most forwardly critical of the Netagnanhu governments approach in Gaza, he has been on the record and in public.

He talked at length about the reporting that we've seen that there are intense talks for negotiations for an exchange that would essentially be a pause or

ceasefire in hostilities in exchange for hostage releases, the hostages to be released.

This is the latest iteration of the deal. Benjamin

Niau rejected yesterday in a long speech that he gave both to the Israeli

public and then in English publicly. But he clearly is pressing on that. He's

pressing on humanitarian aid it was very interesting

it was it was the most striking pivot the president has made in public in his criticism of

the net and yahoo and Unity Cabinet war cabinets management of the war effort

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