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but right now a lot of unrest on the streets in Israel tens of thousands there pressuring the Netanyahu government to make a deal to bring the remaining hostages home we want to get out live right now Daniel Cohen is in Tel Aviv monitoring the latest developments on all of these fronts for us Daniel welcome in it's good to have you today yeah it's good to be with you Bianca and hello everyone frustrations are boiling over from here in Tel Aviv where I'm standing and let me just tell you uh this is a huge protest one of that has going on all day they're saying akav Isa in Hebrew they're saying now deal they want to deal right now these are largely anti- Netanyahu uh government protesters here but it's not just that feeling that's going on here in Tel Aviv where there are people trying to make their voices heard but also in Jerusalem as you said a much different and somber scene where the family is laying murdered American Israeli hostage HH Goldberg Poland to rest Goldberg Poland was one of the six more Israeli hostage just killed by Hamas just hours before they could be rescued we have video for you of the procession of family and mourners making their way through the streets of Jerusalem they were waving Israeli Flags paying their final respects today on route to the cemetery the 23-year-old had become a symbol of hope during his nearly year-long captivity in Gaza after a Hamas grenade blew off one of his Hawk arms on October 7th Rachel Goldberg Poland his mother told MERS today it was a privilege to have hirs as her son days amidst the inexplicable Agony Terror anguish desperation and fear we became absolutely certain that you were coming home to us alive but it was not to be now I no longer have to worry about you I know you are no longer in [Music] danger massive protest a it on Sunday they continue today you see where I'm standing right now a continuation of clashes that have happened between police and demonstrators both in Tel Aviv and outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem everyone in Israel is furious over the situation everyone but the country is deeply divided deeply fractured over who is to blame the right blame Hamas for the hostage debts the left blame Netanyahu the people the six say ostes that died yesterday they are part of us and we could save them okay 11 months 11 months they are waiting they they they were alive okay must wake up to bring them home now because this is the last chance for them to survive in a phone call Sunday President Biden offered condolences to the parents of Goldberg Poland president Trump blamed kamla Harris and Joe Biden's poor leadership for hs's death priment Mr Netanyahu spoke on Sunday as well he called Hamas terrible coldblooded uh while reiterating the fact that Israel has agreed to huge concessions in order to try to get the hostages back in Israel that it's the terrorists Bianca who have become intransigent they've turned down over a dozen hostage deals they're the ones who are refusing to make a deal and the tension that you see and the tension that you hear on main streets in Tel are completely shut down and you hear people protesting uh that is spilling over the frustration the tension has boiled over we'll have to see what happens in the next 24 48 72 hours be back to you all right Daniel Cohen uh thank you so much I know it's a very fluid situation there on the street so um I appreciate it and keep us posted on what you're seeing on the ground there please pleased to bring in right now a former US ambassador to Germany former acting Director of National Intelligence and Senior your National Security analyst Rick grenell Ambassador good to see you today thanks for having me Bianca what a day oh it is incredible I'm watching the streets there erupting um but I'm also hearing just the Heartbreak of the families there and my heartbreaks for everyone it just seems that we're in this place here where it it didn't probably have to be this way you have hostages killed 48 to 72 hours before their bodies are recovered and now Harris and Biden are sitting down with a negotiating team and she goes to Michigan where you know that Arab Community there is a voting block that they are desperate to win well look let's start from uh her Goldberg's Mom wearing 332 the number on her chest there and that represents how many days that we've gone in this war without a peace agreement and uh I'm somebody who talks about a peace agreement not a ceasefire because inherent in the idea of a ceasefire is that the war continues or that the war is going on and we just have a pause I want to see total peace agreements and I see in in Israel there's a very healthy democracy and a debate about what to do what I don't see is Joe Biden and KLA Harris looking inward because they funded this war let's be very clear the Trump Administration Donald Trump had squeezed the Iranians they were bankrupt they couldn't pursue a nuclear weapon and they couldn't fund Wars once the sanctions were dropped and sanctions and cash and credit were given to the Iranian regime then we saw hundreds of billions of dollars given to Iran and they funded this war exactly and we're looking at telie in the streets there and compared to what you were just talking about Donald Trump the Abram Accords Middle East stabilization there uh you know ve very different contrast here I want to play a little bit of Tim Walls the vice presidential candidate in Minnesota State Fair he's asked about the the recovery of six bodies of hostages one an American Israel and this is his actual reaction to reporters it's pretty stunning I'll play this for our viewers what's your reaction to the six hes being found um in thanks everybody thanks everybody walks away with a ice cream are smoothie Biden's been on the beach uh here we are you know you talk about a healthy you know democracy you know going on here but at the end of the day none of this needs to be a as where we are today and and I think part of this too is where the media maybe a bit complicit CNN Headline talking about the American hostage who was executed saying oh he has died all of this has sort of led to this you know conflict here where we see the pro Hamas you know radical left pressuring perhaps putting even more pressure on kamla Harris and Joe Biden not to get things done well first of all let's remove the politics for a second and just uh let let me share with you a fact that I learned from being at the UN United Nations for eight years M every single World crisis requires United States leadership doesn't always require United States money or boots on the ground but it requires us to be a leader it requires us to go in and bring all of the sides together to call the meeting to demand that everybody show up to enforce some sort of peace agreement that's what's missing right now from the United States we do not have a Administration that is willing to push hard to find a solution us leadership is completely gone and now if you bring in the politics all KLA Harris can think about is Michigan and Pennsylvania she's concentrating on trying to balance uh the Arabs in Detroit with the Jews in Philadelphia and it's really offensive to think about these crisis hostages and War in terms of blatant politics like that but that is what she and her advisers are doing and so they you see this back and forth someone said to me this morning the Biden Harris Administration doesn't seem to know what the policy is and I said well they know what the policy is and the policy is to try to win Michigan and Pennsylvania so they give one to Michigan one to Philadelphia and and what happens is is it's very confusing for our allies and for Americans exactly it's very advantageous for our adversaries too looking at a a weak leadership here or non-existent who's running the country and they can take advantage of that we had the Kremlin spokesman saying Harris is more predictable than Trump this interview or diit pesov says quote we have no candidate but of course the Democrats are more predictable and what Putin said about Biden's predictability applies to almost all Democrats including Miss Harris so they're on the sidelines looking this and they know if Donald Trump gets back in the White House what the future holds whether it be sanctions or whether it be actually ending some of these conflicts here that started under this administration's watch Rick look there's no question that statement is in support of of the Harris Waltz ticket they would not have said that the Russians are very careful with their words they would not have said that unless they wanted KLA Harris to win and and let's be honest we Americans know that KLA Harris is predictable we know exactly what she's going to do which is all politics say one thing do another and so that's what the Russians want that's what Putin wants that's what our adversaries want is they want a US president who can do exactly what they predict the US president to do y and so that's a scary moment because we need unpredictability we need credibility Donald Trump is a credible threat whether it's sanctions or military uh action or tariffs When Donald Trump says something it's a credible threat and he also knows how to comfort those in a crisis we saw that at Arlington National last week with the gold star families and it was a really uh poignant moment and yet Kamala Harris is trying to attack this moment here um saying it was disrespectful of sacred sacred ground how can she actually go when it was on their watch Abby gate everyone knows that the Fallen service here members that day a sniper could have actually changed the Fate for all of them it seems like a real big misstep for the Harris campaign Rick and gold star families have put out an ad saying no Donald Trump has been there for us comforting us look I was so glad to see President Trump go and be with these families these families have been suffering the United States government including Joe Biden checking his watch hasn't ever given them the time to actually grieve and uh the reasons for why he vacated so fast uh I can tell you I've been in the Oval Office with Donald Trump when uh the experts on the ground in Afghanistan would say Mr President I know you want to get us out but we've got to do it slowly and we've got to have a controlled uh release and so president Trump would reluctantly say okay I'm listening to the experts on the ground I'd like it to go faster I want to get this done I want to uh exit Afghanistan but every single time Bianca he listened to the experts on the ground Joe Biden didn't because the experts on the ground were telling them not now you're going too fast and Biden ignored that and so I think there's a difference between listening to advice and just doing something very political as Joe Biden has done seems like all they're doing now is political as we are 64 days away from the election they're trying to get Victory laps and things that just are alternate realities as you know finally uh like this seems like a political stun here the US is now seizing the Venezuelan president's plane takes it to Florida Nicholas maduro's airplane so there's a violation of sanctions uh so they flew the aircraft so this gets them a little bit of headline here but Venezuela they've sort of been uh in a very interesting predicament with that election as well yeah look the the Biden team uh and the state department under Joe Biden Anthony blinkin state department has been a really inconsistent disaster when it comes to all of the Western Hemisphere we cut a deal with the uh Venezuelans and we said if you allow one person to run against Maduro we will ease oil sanctions and so Joe Biden eased some oil sanctions and then of course they allowed uh Maduro allowed somebody to run against them but Maduro was still counting the votes I think if Jesus Christ was running against Maduro and Maduro was counting the votes there still would be a win for Maduro and so it was a dumb idea a real weak negotiation by the state department they got outsmarted by Maduro but let's be clear on one thing we don't have an embassy in Venezuela all of the work is being done out of our Embassy in bogot Colombia and we now are are faced with the Chinese coming in to take over oil fields the uh Venezuelans are working with the Chinese this has been a total disaster and we need to be able to get this right we need to be consistent when it comes to our policies we sure do well Joe Biden uh will be on the campaign Trail today with Kamala Harris finally emerging after 70 days on the beach as we watch Israel as well the streets are erupting uh with unrest Ambassador grenell always a pleasure to have you thank you so much for your analysis today here on newsline all the best my friend thank you [Music] [Music] [Music]