How Israel’s ‘never again mentality’ killed Hezbollah’s leader. Fmr. Lebanon Ambassador explains.

Israel’s military continues to pummel Hezbollah in Lebanon after an overnight strike from the IDF killed Hezbollah’s leader. Iran has also signaled it may send troops into Lebanon. Former Ambassador to Lebanon David Hale joins Alex Witt to share his thoughts on the situation in the Middle East.



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[bencopeland]

Good guest. Probably won’t be invited back.

[lisamareeaccary]

The Lebanese side of my family hate Hezbollah

[kewlglamma]

David Hale knows his profession AND history.

[KingoftheJuice]

Hale is very good: smart, no nonsense, aware of the realities.

[rollinwithunclepete]

Cuts right through the baloney. Ambassador Hale is someone I want to hear more from.

[thegroovypatriot]

Very surprised by MSNBC having a legit, cogent interview with a real person with actual knowledge.

[bbkGT]

The Ambassador had delivered the best insights bar far of all the pundits.

[MartynA-zyly]

Hale is the real deal ambassador. Check out his bio, spans decades of service across many administrations. Love it when they interview experts and not talking heads.

[JonNielsen-nf]

Hezbollah should be disbanded immediately and the Lebanese people can live in peace and prosperity without any interference from these terrorist organizations.

[Time_to_Stop_Animal_Cruelty]

Why aren't you showing millions of Arabs celebrating the death of this monster oppressor? Why do you hide that?

Disturbing.

[Leo-dwfx]

Israel let Nasrallah to live 32 years. They were too generous but he became stupid and reckless for the pass 11 months.

[Michael-zth]

Israel...only 8000 sq miles. The Arab nations....250 million sq miles. It's time for the UN to insist that the Arabs leave tiny Israel alone and let them live and worship in peace.

[ryanl]

what are you talking about host??? 70% of lebanon is rejoicing. and nasrallah attacked hundreds of americans - you are sick.

[d.b.]

I know better than to mess with Israel, the Mossad doesn’t play.

[russellsnyder]

The US used to say we cannot negotiate with terrorists. What changed? Just tell Tehran they should know by now Israel is not going away and their best option is to respect Israel even if they can't love Israel. Maybe if they have an ounce of reasoning power left, they will call off their attack dogs.

[GrandFyre]

I'm Israeli, and I was VERY impressed, with how laser accurate and competent this guest was. He understands what's going on, the complexities, the proxy war instigated by Iran against Israel, and you could tell the journalist was just itching to give a one sided bias critisism against Israel, and he didn't take the bait. At one point, she was like "what does Israel want in all of this?", uh.... Israel has had to evacuate 60, 000 residents from the north, because after Iran funded and armed October 7, Iran also funded Hezbolla's joining in on October 8. It's like some of these reporters deliberately block off maasive chunks of the wider context, to distort the narrative. If hypothetically a Mexian cartel terrorist organization, launched missles from Tiuanna apartment buildings into San Diego, forcing all of San Diego residents to evacuate to Los Angeles, would you as a so called "reporter" need to be told why the American Air Force would go carpet bombing Tiunna? It's like, common sense doesnt apply anytime the only Jewish country on Earth is attacked first, and people are so shocked they're actually retaliating. Bravo to this guest. He was absolutely balanced and didn't take sides, he just presented the data in an incredibly candid manner.

[KaelumYodi]

Does this mean that MSNBC is in search of a new CEO? Kind of sounds like it.

[aaronlopez]

I guess the reporter did not see all the hundreds of thousands of Arabs Sunni in the middle East celebrating his departure. Talk about tone deaf.

[jeffspicolli]

I'm surprised MSNBC had this guest on while they are in mourning.

[AuralioCabal]

IDF announced Nazralah death 20hrs before HEZBOLLAH did.I guess Mossad had heart monitors on him and Hez did not.😂