Joe Biden addresses the Situation Room with Kamala Harris after Hamas hostages were found dead

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior Political Reporter

Kamala Harris and Joe Biden will meet with the US hostage negotiating team in the Situation Room on Monday morning.

The meeting comes two days after six hostages, including 23-year-old US citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, were killed by Hamas militants on Saturday.

The Labor Day gathering is closed to the press and comes as the first anniversary of Hamas’ initial invasion of Israel approaches on Oct. 7, 2023, which resulted in the deadliest single-day attack against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.

Goldberg-Polin was among the hostages taken by Hamas militants in the Oct. 7 attack. He and five other Israeli hostages were killed Saturday.

Pressure has been mounting over the past year for President Biden to withhold humanitarian aid and force Hamas to release Israeli and other foreign hostages held by the terror group in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden relax on the beach in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Saturday, August 31.

The distraught parents of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin have broken their silence after learning he was killed by Hamas.

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, was kidnapped by terrorists at the Nova Festival, where he was celebrating his birthday with friends, on October 7 last year, when Hamas launched its attack on Israel. He lost part of an arm in the attack.

Just 12 days ago, her parents, Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, pleaded with Hersh to “stay strong” and “survive” in a heartbreaking speech at the Democratic National Convention in which the couple called for a ceasefire agreement.

But yesterday the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that the bodies of six hostages taken by Hamas have been recovered from Gaza and that Hersh is among the dead.

Hersh’s family confirmed his death in a statement on Sunday, hours after the Israeli military said it had located bodies in Gaza. They said: “With broken hearts, the Goldberg-Polin family is devastated to announce the death of their beloved son and brother, Hersh. The family thanks everyone for their love and support and asks for privacy at this time.”

Following Hersh’s killing, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will sit down with U.S. hostage negotiators today to push for a deal that will “secure the release of the remaining hostages.”

Tim Walz appeared to make a quick getaway on Saturday when asked about the discovery of six hostages killed in the Gaza Strip.

The Minnesota governor was posed the question at the state fair in his home state of St. Paul, hours after the bodies were found in an underground tunnel in the Rafah area of ​​the city.

It is not clear from the footage whether the potential vice president heard the question, but as soon as he said it, he waved goodbye to the audience.

The captives, identified Saturday as Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and Master Sergeant Ori Danino, were among more than 200 captured by militants on Oct. 7.

Five of them were kidnapped at the Israeli music festival that was preparing for the attack and another from a nearby farming community. The IDF said they were all “brutally” killed “shortly” before troops were able to locate them.

Tim Walz’s older brother has warned that the Democratic vice presidential nominee is “not the kind of guy” you want in the White House.

Jeff Walz, 67, took to Facebook last week to share his concerns about his younger brother running alongside Kamala Harris.

“The stories I could tell,” he said in one post, a five-word warning likely to send shivers down the spine of Harris’s headquarters staff.

Other Facebook users urged the married father of two to support Trump’s campaign when he declared Friday night: “I am 100% opposed to his entire ideology.”

Jeff, who lives in Freeport, Florida, with his wife Laurie, followed up that post by responding to others who told him to “speak up… at this crucial time in history.”

A historian who has been called the “Nostradamus” of predicting presidential election winners has dropped a major clue about who he thinks will occupy the White House in 2025.

Allan Lichtman, who has gotten nine of the last 10 elections right, said Thursday in a YouTube livestream that he is getting close to his “final prediction” for the 2024 race.

“You don’t have to be patient much longer. Enjoy your Labor Day weekend… and within a few days the prediction should be ready,” the American University professor said on the broadcast with his son, Sam. “And this will be a final prediction.”

Though he was coy about his final forecast, Lichtman did give a big hint by criticizing a rival pollster, Nate Silver, who recently He said Trump was his favorite.

“I just saw the most absurd prediction today,” Lichtman said, referring to Silver.

The latest polls suggest Kamala Harris has received little to no boost at the convention, showing Donald Trump ahead of the vice president in several key states.

A Trafalgar Group poll of seven of the toughest contests — considered by experts to be Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina and Nevada — shows Trump either leading or tied with Harris.

The Trafalgar poll, which poll aggregators say leans Republican, also shows Harris nearly tied with Trump in Michigan, with the former president leading 47% to 46.6%.