Tim Walz under fire for not answering question on murdered hostages

WOULD BE SCHEDULE. >> Dana: MARK MEREDITH, THANK YOU. >> Bill: LET'S GO TO THE REGION NOW. MIDDLE EAST ISRAELI IDF REPORTING RECENT AIR STRIKES TAKING OUT A MASTERMIND BEHIND THE OCTOBER 7TH ATTACK AND SEVEN OTHER TERRORISTS. AN UPDATE FROM TEL AVIV AND TREY, HELLO TO YOU. >> BILL, GOOD MORNING. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE OF HAMAS CONTINUES AND OVERNIGHT THE GROUP RELEASED A STATEMENT FROM ITS TOP MILITARY SPOKESMAN SAYING THAT HAMAS WAS GIVEN NEW INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT WHAT TO DO IF ISRAELI FORCE EAVES APPROACH. THEY INSTRUCTED THEIR MILITANTS IN THE FIELD THAT MORE HOSTAGES WOULD BE KILLED IF THE IDF TRIES TO RESCUE THEM. THAT STATEMENT CAME AFTER A FUNERAL WAS HELD FOR AMERICAN CITIZEN HERSH GOLDBERG-POLIN IN JERUSALEM. THOUSANDS LINED THE STREETS TO PAY RESPECTS AS HIS PARENTS EULOGIZED THEIR SON. >> SWEET BOY, GO NOW ON YOUR JOURNEY. I HOPE IT IS AS GOOD AS THE TRIPS YOU DREAMED ABOUT BECAUSE FINALLY, MY SWEET, BOY, FINALLY FINALLY, FINALLY YOU ARE FREE. >> FOR 330 DAYS MOM AND I SOUGHT THE STONE THAT WE COULD TURN OVER TO SAVE YOU. MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, YOUR DEATH IS THE STONE, THE FUEL THAT WILL BRING HOME THE REMAINING 101 HOSTAGES. >> ONCE AGAIN HAMAS TRIED TO PRESSURE ISRAEL DURING THIS TIME BY RELEASING A NEW VIDEO SHOWING THE HOSTAGES ALIVE. AFTER THE EXECUTION OF THESE SIX ISRAELI HOSTAGES NEW QUESTIONS HOW THE WAR WILL END. ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU SPOKE AT A PRESS CONFERENCE LAST NIGHT AND NOT WILLING TO COMPROMISE ON THE ISSUE OF A STRIP OF LAND BETWEEN GAZA AND EGYPT WHERE ISRAELI TROOPS ARE CURRENTLY DI EMPLOYED AND PROTESTS OUTSIDE OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S HOME IN JERUSALEM AS PEOPLE HERE DEMAND A DEAL TO BRING THE REMAINING HOSTAGES HOME. OVERNIGHT I RECEIVED A LONG STATEMENT FROM A SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIAL BLAMING ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EXECUTION OF THESE HOSTAGES. OF COURSE, THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE PROVIDED BUT GIVES YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE MINDSET OF THIS ORGANIZATION. BLAMING ISRAEL AND AMERICA RATHER THAN SITTING AT THE NEGOTIATING TABLE. >> Bill: OR BLAMING HAMAS. TREY YENGST, THANK YOU IN TEL AVIV. >> Dana: BRING IN A FOREIGN FORMER POLICY ADVISOR IN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND HAS A CALL ME BACK PODCAST. DAN, GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT THE HOSTAGES AND FAMILIES. I KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN VERY CLOSELY WORKING WITH THEM. KNEW THEM PERSONALLY AND YOUR THOUGHTS THIS MORNING. >> SOUL CRUSHING. SIX ISRAELIS SLAUGHTERED, INCLUDING ONE AMERICAN-ISRAELI. TWO OF THE FAMILIES I KNEW QUITE WELL. I WILL SAY IT'S DEPRESSING FOR SO MANY REASONS, NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH THERE WAS A SENSE AMONG ALL THESE FAMILIES THERE WAS GOOD NEWS COMING SOMETIME SOON. COMBINATION OF THE INCREASED TEMPO IN THE RESCUE OPERATIONS BY THE IDF. THEY REALLY ARE LEARNING HOW TO OPERATE INSIDE THOSE TUNNELS AND BEEN INCREASINGLY RESCUING HOSTAGES. TALK OF A HOSTAGE DEALS. ONE OF THOSE TWO PATHS SEEMED VIABLE AND THEN SUDDENLY THIS. I JUST -- EVERY DEATH IS HEARTBREAKING BUT WHEN YOU KNOW THE FAMILIES, IT IS ESPECIALLY SO. >> Bill: HERE IS THE ISSUE. FOR MANY WHO ARE PROTESTING NETANYAHU IN ISRAEL, HAMAS STARTED THE WAR. HAMAS TOOK THEM CAPTIVE. HAMAS KIDNAPPED THEM, HAMAS EXECUTED THEM IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD INCLUDING BULLETS THROUGH THE HEART AND SOMEHOW IT'S ISRAEL'S PROBLEM. HERE IS NETANYAHU ADDRESSING A LOT OF THESE NEGOTIATIONS. >> ISRAEL AGREED TO THE LINES THAT BIDEN OFFERED AND HAMAS REFUSED IT. BLINKEN SAID ISRAEL AGREED TO THE AMERICAN OFFER, NOW HAMAS HAS TO DO SO. THAT WAS FIVE DAYS AGO. WHAT HAPPENED THESE FIVE DAYS? ONE THING HAPPENED. THEY MURDERED SIX OF OUR -- IN COLD BLOOD SIX OF OUR HOSTAGES. >> Bill: WHAT'S THE EXPECTATION FROM THE WHITE HOUSE? IT SEEMS LIKE THE LINE CONTINUES TO MOVE ON NOW THEY ARE TRYING TO PLAY INDICATE DEMOCRATS ON THE FAR LEFT. >> AS THE PRIME MINISTER SAID, SINCE APRIL 27TH THERE HAVE BEEN FIVE TIMES WHERE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, ADMINISTRATION HAS SAID, WHETHER IN THE PRESIDENT'S OWN VOICE OR THE VOICE OF BLINKEN OR THE VOICE OF THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE C.I.A. ISRAEL HAS AGREED TO THE PROPOSAL. WE'RE NOW WAITING ON HAMAS. HAMAS REJECTS THE PROPOSAL. EACH TIME ISRAEL AGREES AND HAMAS REJECTS ISRAEL IS PUT IN THE POSITION DO MORE, DO MORE, DO MORE ESPECIALLY AFTER SIX ISRAELIS ARE SLAUGHTERED DO MORE, DO MORE, DO MORE. WHAT IS ISRAEL SUPPOSED TO DO WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE POSSIBILITY THERE IS ANOTHER OCTOBER 7TH? WHETHER ONE SUPPORTS NETANYAHU INDE ISRAEL OR ABHORS HIM ISRAEL HAS THE PREVENT ANOTHER OCTOBER 7TH HAPPENING. SOME OF THE SECURITY CONDITIONS IT'S DEMANDING ARE ESSENTIAL TO PREVENTING ANOTHER OCTOBER 7TH. ISRAEL CAN'T BE PRESSURED TO LET GO OF THOSE CONDITIONS AFTER IT'S BEEN MAKING CONCESSION AFTER CONCESSION AFTER CONCESSION. >> Dana: I WANT TO PLAY THIS SHORT CLIP FROM VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE TIM WALZ ASKED ABOUT HIS REACTION. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED. >> WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO THE SIX HOSTAGES BEING FOUND DEAD IN GAZA? >> THANKS, EVERYBODY. >> Dana: I DID PRESS. >> I WAS SHOCKED BY IT. LOOK, HE IS NEW TO THE NATIONAL SCENE I GUESS. >> Dana: HE WAS A CONGRESSMAN. >> PRETTY SEASONED POLITICIAN. >> Dana: APPARENTLY SOMEBODY READY ON DAY ONE TO BE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. >> RIGHT. IT IS TRUE IT SOUNDS FROM WHAT I'VE READ ONE OF HIS PRESS HANDLERS SAID WE HAVE TO GO. YOU WON'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION. WHAT WAS HIS VISCERAL REACTION TO THE NEWS THAT THESE SIX ISRAELIS WERE SLAUGHTERED, INCLUDING AN AMERICAN CITIZEN? AMERICAN CITIZEN WAS EXECUTED IN THE DUNGEON OF GAZA IN ONE OF THOSE TUNNELS. WHAT IS YOUR GUT REACTION? WHY DOESN'T THE GOVERNOR WALZ SAY HOLD ON TO HIS HANDLER, I WANT TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION. I HAVE A VISCERAL REACTION, AN EMOTIONAL REACTION TO AN AMERICAN BEING SLAUGHTERED BY THIS TERRORIST ORGANIZATION AND IT WAS UNNERVING. >> Bill: FUMBLED. NEVER HAD POSSESSION OF THE BALL. LEAVE IT FOR ANOTHER DAY. I'LL TALK ABOUT ICE CREAM BUT NOT ANSWER THAT QUESTION. IT'S ABHORRENT. SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED AND THEY BETTER TAKE A BETTER STANCE SOON. >> I WILL SAY THROUGHOUT THESE LAST THROUGH MONTHS BEFORE THE NOMINEE, VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS MADE A SERIES OF STATEMENT VERY CRITICAL FROM ISRAEL SAYING THEY CANNOT GO INTO RAFAH. ADAMANT THAT ISRAEL CAN'T GO INTO RAFAH. SHE SAW THE MAPS. ISRAEL CAN'T GO INTO RAFAH. WHAT WE LEARNED THERE WERE A LOT OF AMERICAN AND ISRAELI HOSTAGES IN RAFAH UNDERGROUND. THE LEADERSHIP OF HAMAS IS IN RAFAH. THE IDEA THAT HARRIS IS SAYING -- DICTATING THAT ISRAEL CAN'T GO INTO RAFAH IS VERY DISCONCERTING. WHEN HER VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE DOESN'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT. >> Dana: HAS THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TAKEN A POSITION ON WHO CONTROLS THE PHILADELPHIA CORRIDOR >> THEY HAVE SAID ISRAEL HAD AGREED TO THEIR PROPOSAL. BRIDGING PROPOSAL WHICH KEPT ISRAEL TO SOME DEGREE IN THE PHILADELPHIA CORRIDOR. BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WOULD LIKE ISRAEL TO GET OUT OF THERE TO THEIR VIEW IT WOULD LUBRICATE THE NEGOTIATIONS. I DON'T THINK HAMAS IS WANTING A DEAL. THEY KEE