Today on Velshi will bring you the very latest on the ground reporting from Israel and Gaza.

The Palestinian deputy ambassador to the United Nations will join me here on set.

I'll also be joined by Israel's former Vice Prime Minister Zippy Livni.

Plus, the former Marine and FBI special agent in charge of planning and carrying out the rescue

of American hostages for the U.S. government joins us to explain the dangerous and delicate

work of freeing hostages.

But we begin this morning with a bubbling crisis here at home, one that threatens America's

ability to lead in a time of global crisis.

Velshi starts now. Good morning. It is Sunday, October

the 22nd. I'm Ali Velshi, with wars raging now between Ukraine and Russia, Israel and Hamas,

and threatening to spill over into wider conflicts, American leadership on the global

stage is critical, but we're still facing our own crisis of democracy right here at home, one that's

easy to overlook when the news of the world is war. The legal peril facing the twice-impeached

multiply indicted former presidents seemed to increase in recent days with the guilty pleas of two high-level

co-defendants in the election interference case out of Fulton County, Georgia. But the peril for our

own system of governance is increasing, too, as Donald Trump's own behavior continues to push

dangerous lines, and the Republican Party continues to be largely beholden to him. In this moment of global

crisis, Americans in the world are looking to American leaders for guidance, but instead of

inspiring confidence, our Congress is more dysfunctional that it has been in more than 150 years

since the Civil War. And that is because Donald Trump has broken the Republican Party and is now

trying to run the U.S. House by proxy. House Republicans have not managed in 19 days since

ousting their own speaker without a plan for what to do next to elect a replacement to lead the body.

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