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... Kurmasheva's younger daughter, will celebrate her 13th birthday. Joe Biden: Now she gets to celebrate with her mom. That's what this is all about, families able to be together again, like they should have been all along. Nick Schifrin: For the PBS "News Hour," I'm Nick Schifrin.
... pains to say we're getting 16 people out and the Russians are getting eight back. So it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. Nick Schifrin: And yet Putin did not release other Americans, as Geoff was just highlighting, Marc Fogel included. Why might he withhold some of them ...
... assassins the negotiator on the other side?" Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State: This is something we were not aware of or involved in. Nick Schifrin: In Asia today, Secretary of State Antony Blinken called cease-fire talks the priority. Antony Blinken: The imperative of getting a cease-fire ...
... cost/benefit calculations about escalation. And so, at this point, it's going to really be up to Hezbollah's cost/benefit calculus about escalation. Nick Schifrin: The cost -- the conventional wisdom for that cost/benefit calculus recently, at least, has been that neither Israel nor Hezbollah itself, frankly, nor ...
... they weren't able to discern that on their own. And I would have to imagine that's going on in real time and will continue to go on throughout the course of the Olympics. Nick Schifrin: Javed Ali, thank you very much.Javed Ali: All right, thank you, Nick.
Nick Schifrin: Is he saying enough in public like he's saying to you in private? Jonathan Dekel-Chen: And, look, in full transparency, I have been extremely critical, both in Israel and in the U.S. media, about his seriousness in terms of really completing this deal and rescuing ...
... our common humanity compels us to act. And given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate cease-fire. (Cheering) (Applause) Nick Schifrin: Kirsten Fontenrose, quickly, in the time we have left, Israelis believe Harris would push an end for the war in Gaza more than ...
... in the United States, including people who are deeply committed to the defense of Israel, who have legitimate concerns about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Nick Schifrin: Kirsten Fontenrose, you brought up Vice President Harris. Today, she was not there. Her staff said that she had a scheduling conflict. But ...
... Their boss left the hearing as the villain. Rep. James Comer: This committee is not known for its bipartisan -- its model of bipartisanship. But I think, today, we came together unanimously in our disappointment for your lack of answers. Nick Schifrin: For the "PBS News Hour," I'm Nick Schifrin.
Nick Schifrin: This week, Poland signed a security agreement with Ukraine that includes looking into the possibility of -- quote -- "intercepting in Ukraine's airspace missiles and UAVs fired in the direction of the territory of Poland." Are you, a member of NATO, considering shooting down Russian missiles? Radoslaw Sikorski: Well ...
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