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Thursday, October 17, 2024
Bob Woodward’s book shares story of former hostage Avigail Idan’s visit to Biden’s Oval Office

White House Mideast czar Brett McGurk pushes former American-Israeli hostage Avigail Idan in a swing at the White House in December 2023. (Screen capture/X)
NBC News anchor Lawrence O’Donnell finishes his evening broadcast by sharing an excerpt from journalist Bob Woodward’s new book on the presidencies of Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
The scene is the visit of former American-Israeli hostage Avigail Idan to the White House after Biden helped secure her release last year.
A tearful O’Donnell, who was among one of the writers of the hit TV series “West Wing,” says the scene pulled at the heartstrings in a way fiction writers could only dream of doing.
WATCH: A Biden West Wing scene that grabs your heart in a way nothing we ever wrote on the fictional “West Wing” ever could.#LastWord pic.twitter.com/uMeD5q9LtI
— The Last Word (@TheLastWord) October 17, 2024