And now from the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago and CNN audio,

The Axxwiles.

With your host, David Axelrod.

This week marked the anniversary of the horrific devastating October 7th massacre by

Hamas in southern Israel in which more than 1,200 men, women, and

children were killed or taken hostage.

So I wanted to double back with Alana Diane, one of Israel's most celebrated broadcast journalists, almost a year to the day

on which we spoke in the immediate aftermath of that sea.

Here's our conversation. Melana, it is so good to see you.

I think about you often, but we haven't really spoken since almost exactly a year ago.

Yes, it's good to be with you and I know you have us in your thoughts and I hope we'll be able to share them in the coming

down. Well I watched you your interview with Christina I'm on poor a few days ago and you know the thing that distinguishes you among

many things as a journalist is your ability to speak with tremendous clarity, even when that clarity is all about lack of clarity.

But I was stunned, I have to say, a year ago, and it really made an impression on me as you struggle to articulate

your feelings about what had happened on October 7th, tell me what your feelings are now and what you are thinking now a year later and did you

imagine then that we'd be where we are now. I tell you all my day started, David. My day started when my husband got a phone call from his

best buddy who told him that his son was greatly injured in the front, in the battlefield in the north and so we traveled to the hospital immediately

he was after two surgeries already

and Gaddy is going to be okay at 24-year-old reserve soldier.

And then I entered my car, and on the radio,

I read about a terrorist attack in Fadera,

a town just an hour north of Tel Aviv,

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