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Of history. It scared me a little. It should, maybe. How can this happen . It is so topical at this moment. Thank you for writing it in between Everything Else. You are very, very kind to er say so. Thank you, my friend. Much appreciated. And thanks at home for joining us this hour. Ive been happy to have you here. One note before we get started. I know things might look a little different than usual. Fe thats just because im doing the show from someplace new. Ro i am in los angeles tonight. Im at what is essentially the mid point of this book tour for my new book. Thats why im here. I am not a great traveller. I am not great at this. But i just, before i start the e show, i briefly wanted to say thank you to all the book stores and the venues weve been at and all the moderators who have been on stage with me. Thank you in particular to everybody who has come out to one of these events. It has been thousands of people so far which is crazy. But its just been really nice to be out there at so many events and so many cities to meet people who value this show. Who love msnbc. Ive heard a lot of love from my msnbc colleagues. So its been fantastic and i do this very, very rarely. And i know that it is a huge amount of work and a pain in the butt for everybody involved in y making this happen, in part because i personally am a pain e in the butt. It makes me all the more grateful. Out of the rest of this book tour, were about halfway done. There are only two dates left that still have seats. Those are events thiweek. Phoenix wnesday and tulsa, oklahoma on friday. So if you want to come to either of those events this week, phoenix and tulsa, for those two remaining events, you can get tickets. Everything else is sold out. Ls i wanted to start with that before we get underway. I will not mention it again. I wanted to say thanks to everyone had a has been so kind and reading the book and coming out to hear me talk about it. Thats why things look a littlet different in terms of this set. We have a ton to get to. It will be a really busy week in the news. Tonight, of course, we are coming up on three weeks since republicans fired their own partys Speaker Of The House. In so doing, they basically got rid of congress. They barely avoided shutting down the whole federal government but then they did shut down the legislative branch of government. Th the House Of Representatives Cannot Function without a speaker. The republicans fired their speaker. They appear to have no idea how to hire a new one. They also appear to have no real urgency about it eat. So we are three weeks in with government effectively being closed. Theyre apparently going to trye again for a speaker vote tomorrow. Well talk specifically about how republicans idea for a plan b sort of trick play theyve been hinting they might want to poll to avoid having to pick a leader. Thats a trick play that will not work. It is something they cannot do. It puts all the more pressure on them tomorrow. At the same time that drama will get underway in washington tomorrow, up the corridor in New York City tomorrow, were going to have drama of a different kind. This is likely all going to be happening literally at the samee time of day tomorrow. Former President Trump as you know, hes facing more than 90 Felony Criminal Charges in four different jurisdictions. The case where hes been showini up in court already is none of those criminal cases. It is the civil case against him and his business that was filed by the new York Attorney general. You do not have to show up for a civil case. Former President Trump does not have to be there in court for this case. Nevertheless, he has been there. And im pointing that out because tomorrow we are expecting live testimony in that trial. Testimony against him from his i former attorney and his former fixer Michael Cohen. Both Michael Cohen and trump are expected to be there in court in realtime in person. In im flagging this to you not just because of the expected interpersonal drama, the spectacle of it all, but because trumps role in this case, including his behavior in the courtroom has already been a substantive issue in this case. This is the case where the judge imposed the first gag order on trump after trump attacked a member of the judges staff. This is the case where the judge hauled everyone into court and threatened trump with jail after trumps attacks on the judges staff were nevertheless left up on a campaign website. This is the case where trump was admonished, legally smacked down by the judge because trump became so animated during Life Testimony from some Real Estate Appraiser that trump could not control himself in the courtroom. He was speaking out loud and gesturing and making a scene in the courtroom which caused the judge to admonish him in the courtroom. So this case has been a little touch and go so far in terms of the former president s behavior. Hes used to doing whatever he wants without any consequences his whole life. This case in particular seems to be really bothering him. The judge in this case thus far appears to be quite unimpressed by the former president s behavior. The judge seems to be unafraid to held to former president to the same standards any other defendant would be held in a federal court civil trial, including just how you need to physically behave yourself when you are in a courtroom. Im just, im pointing all this out because if trump already go admonished by the judge in this case because he was so overwhelmed by his feelings and his anger about some appraisers testimony, tomorrow hes going to be sitting there through testimony by Michael Cohen which is likely to be way more provocative and way more upsetting to go former President Trump than anything that has happened in the courtroom before. And hes barely been able to hold it together in the cruise missile, in the courtroom. And it is likely to be like the fourth of july. So thats going to be tomorrow. That will happen live in a new n york courtroom in front of a judge who does not play. And maybe everything will go smoothly and everybody will be calm, cool and professional. This is the case where the judge has already threatened to jail trump related to his behavior in this case. So just a heads up for tomorrow. For that, that will likely be happening at the exact same time the house is voting again on trying to pick a new speaker. It is all worth watching for. So i want to start tonight with what feels like it might be an important new stage in the war between israel and hamas. Now, we dont want to overstate things. I want to be clear The Big Picture remains the same. Israel in response to the Terrorist Attack by hamas that killed more than 1,000 israeli civilians has continued its airstrikes inside the densely populated gaza strip. While there has been so much question about when israel will launch a Ground Invasion and when theyre going to do that, in the meantime, theyve launched these devastating airstrikes day after day after day. More than 4,000 people in gaza are believed to have been killed since the israeli retaliation for the hamas Terrorist Attacks began 17 days ago. Civilians cannot leave gaza, even the u. S. Citizens who are among civilians there. The first trickle of aid has been allowed in. A small convoy of aid trucks was allowed in on saturday and another convoy was allowed in on sunday and then another small convoy was allowed in today. That is good. Thats not enough. That is something. The aid that has come in thus far does not involve fuel. The u. N. Is raising urgent concerns about the remaining hospitals inside gaza and whether they can keep their si generators running, to keep Ey Electricity on inside the hospitals to keep things like ventilators running and Life Support Machines for people grievously ill and also for newborn babies. Shothe u. S. Military has moved considerably resources and personnel to the region. There are ongoing worries with other countries and other armed militias in the region. The u. S. Embassies in iraq and lebanon have sent out new ve warnings about the safety of u. S. Citizens and u. S. Diplomatic staff and their families. All that to say, the biggest of big pictures here remains as precarious as ever. But there is a tiny little piece. We saw two hostages taken by hamas, an israeli American Mother and daughter released ond friday. Tonight two more hostages released. This is two frail elderly israeli women. Both in their 80s, both held by hamas for more than two weeks. The two were released tonight. R there had been some reports today about the potential release of a much larger group m of hostages. Maybe four dozen or more hostages potentially set to be z release in the some sort of arrangement but nbc has not been able to confirm independently any of those reports. It remains just a glimmer for people trying to maintain hope here. So far only four hostages have been released. Joining us found, nbc news chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel live from jerusalem. Thank you for being here. I know it is the middle of the night, 4 00 in the morning there. I really appreciate you. Reporter its always the middle of the night with you. No matter where you go in the country, its always the middle of the night and its always ht talking about something grim. How are you . Its true. Im okay, richard. Its true. We need to come one some other beat that you and i cover together and at better times. Let me ask but the hostage situation. Obviously, everybody, everybody is overjoyed to see two hostages released on friday. To see two more released today. There was some reporting today which nbc has not independently confirmed that maybe we should expect additional hostage releases in larger numbers. What is your understanding of that . What do we know about the older women released today . Reporter so what aware trying to do is to track these O Negotiations in realtime through the negotiators. Obviously, the negotiators are working with hamas. Working with the israeli authorities. Were talking about egyptian and qatar negotiators. It is a very difficult process to follow. For security reasons, they dont want to give away too much. They are actively trying to trade things. Hamas wants certain things. The wants the more access for humanitarian supplies into the gaza strip. Hu it wants some of its prisoners to be released. It wants to engage in a resumption of a peace process. To have a path toward statehood. Were hearing more and more from hamas about its specific demands. I spoke to a senior hamas leader tonight about the specific issues. There is hope that there will be more. And during the day today, i was one of those people who thought, okay, there will be more. There are these rumors, reports of a potentially larger group that could have come out today. But these negotiations dont always go well. And even when these two israeli women were eventually released, hamas released them but sort of issued a complaint saying, were releasing them even though israel violated the terms of our agreement eight times. And there had been, although we didnt notice it, a mini ceasefire, a pause today according to hamas. And another pause, six hours long in the airstrikes on friday. So theyre negotiating thing big and small. Sometime its just a pause for a few hours, or much larger issues about opening access to the gaza strip, potentially prisoner swaps, potentially more than that. So this could take some time. And every time that there is hope, there is a lot of chance that things could go wrong. That theres another airstrike, a change in complications, communications are difficult because this senior hamas leader told me tonight, the hostages are held in different places. Communication from one place to the other is difficult so that theyre face go some logistical challenges just to gather these people and try to free them if they want. That could be hamas coming up with excuses. But you said is there a glimmer of hope . Yes. At least theres some movement. At least theyre not executing the hostages every hour or anything like that. Es there does seem to be some progress. There are lines of communication to hamas. And there are efforts ongoing by friendly nations to try to secure the release of these people. Rich, it strikes me as a pretty incredible thing in its own rate that youve been in ha touch with senior hamas officials about this issue. Did they explain or did they put it to you in any way that you xp can convey to us why they took these hostages . If they planned from the outset that they would hold the hostages in order to try to extract conceptions or ceasefire or anything theyre asking for now as just the first four had been let go . It almost feels from some of the reporting ive seen, the hostage taking, that hamas didnt necessarily know what they would do with these civilian hostages when they got them. Let alone in these large numbers. More than 200 of them. Did they give you any sense, any clarity on what their intentions are in the long run with these people . Reporter my interpretation, and some of this is just my analysis having covered this for a long time. Covering the middle east, Covering Hamas for many years. Id i think they bit off more than they could chew. What were seeing in gaza is a result of hamas not realizing how far it would get. How devastating its attack would be. How many people they would take. Theyve also the group has also hinted at that. There was one statement from their Chief Military Spokesman who said that they swept up all these foreign nationals by accident because as people were being dragged over the border, they didnt have a chance, according to them, to verify their identities. And they ended up with too many nonisraelis. Even they acknowledged it was a chaotic time and they ended up with more people than they wanted. On the other question, what do they want to do with them . They clearly intended to take people. To kill people and capture people. But probably not this many and probably not this many foreign nationals bringing the entire world against them. What they want, they want concessions. Every time theyve taken people in the past theyve been able to secure the release of prisoners. Many of the top leaders themselves. They were running the group. They. They were prisoners in israeli jails who were swapped when other members of hamas grabbed an israeli soldier and then demanded, part of that, part of the demands was a prisoner nd release. So the top leadership themselves know this process from personal experience. It secured their own release. So i think at the end, as we get closer and more and more hostages come out, and hopefully that will happen. Hopefully that will happen soon and in large numbers. I think well start hearing notn just demands about more access for humanitarian aid into gaza and more access for fuel and other things, but theyll start asking for more specifically for the demands of prisoners. And theyve already said that as well. One of the hamas leaders i was talking to said in order to release the soldiers, and they make a distinction between the civilians and the soldiers, although here in israel, with hamas, its quite difficult. A lot of israelis, until theyre quite old, can that he tensionally be he rev sifts in this country so who gets considered a soldier is a little up to hamas interpretation. For the soldiers, not specifying exactly who theyo consider a soldier. If youre active duty, nonactive duty, serving, in uniform, not in uniform, they said they want the release of all Palestinian Y Prisoners in israeli jails and there are thousands of them. Richard engel, chief correspondent for nbc news. T this has been a day of ups and e downs specifically on this issue of the hostages. Ta thank you for keeping us up to date on this. I appreciate it, my friend. Sure thing. Te weve got much more ahead tonight. Lots of news going on tonight. Stay with us. Rement, but i wishd more cash. You think those two have any idea . That they can sell their Life Insurance policy for cash . So theyre basically sitting on a goldmine . I dont think they have a clue. 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They were allowed to sleep in a little more than usual on Sunday Mornings and this was a Sunday Morning. October 23rd. And while they were sleeping, a yellow mercedes truck, a multiton truck drove up. It blasted through the not much of a barrier that was supposedly protecting the building. It smashed into the lobby of the building. That truck was driven by a suicide bomber. It had been expertly packed with enough sophisticatedly arranged explosive thats the entire fourstory building was obliterated in one flash. With all the american servicemen sleeping on Sunday Morning inside. Three u. S. Soldiers were killed in that truck bomb explosion. Three u. S. Soldiers, 18 u. S. Sailors, and 220 u. S. Marines. The largest single day loss of life in the u. S. Marine corps since iwo jima in world war ii. It happened october 23rd, 1983. 40 years ago today. Soon after, that Truck Bombing of the Marine Barracks, the u. S. Military left its peacekeeping mission in lebanon. The u. S. Government never made an official conclusion as to who was responsible for that attack. There was a group that nobody had previously heard of that claimed responsibility at the time. The u. S. Government didnt really seem to know what to make of that claim of responsibility as late as 2001. The man who had been Defense Secretary at the time of the attack said the u. S. Still didnt really know who did it. A civil lawsuit was brought by Family Members of marines who were killed that day in the Truck Bombing. That court case resulted in a finding by a federal court that the Group Responsible was actually hezbollah. That that obscure group that had claimed responsibility back in 1983, they were effectively a front for what we would soon come to know as hezbollah. The court found that since iran is the country that arms and trains and supports hezbollah, then iran as a country should be held responsible for that attack on the Marine Barracks at the Beirut Airport in 1983. Today, russias Foreign Minister flew to iran, flew to tehran for consultations with the iranian government. This is at a time when the russian government is waging its own war against ukraine, when iran is not only supplying arm to russia for that war against ukraine. Iran is also arming hezbollah. So that was nice of russia, right . To do on the 40th Anniversary of the beirut barracks bombing, send their Foreign Minister to visit the iranian government. Iran also arms and funds and trains hamas, the group that committed the Terrorist Attack against israel two weeks ago which killed more than 1,000 israeli civilians, and that set off the ongoing disastrous war between hamas and israel. What a nice time for russia to be sending its Foreign Minister to visit with the iranian government. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin just to the back from his own trip abroad in which he had his first meeting with any european leader since the International Criminal court issued an Arrest Warrant for putin. Putin defied that Arrest Warrant. He went to authoritarian china, of course, wouldnt observe the Arrest Warrant. While in china, he took a meeting with the authoritarian leader of hungary viktor orban. As he continued to block the admission of sweden to nato, as orban continues to let the for ukraine to block themselves against russia. Viktor orban is the authoritarian leader of hungary. Now, the front runner for the Republican Partys nomination for president , donald trump, just gave a speech today in which he warmly praised viktor orban, not as the leader of hungary but the leader of turkey. Victor orban is not the leader of turkey. It is possible that hungary and turkey are kind of the same to him because hungary sounds like hungry, and turkey, gobble gobble, maybe he thinks theyre the same. Thats the man republicans appear to be putting up as their best choice for all the people of america for who ought to be president next year. Thats as news broke over the weekend that while he was president before, he allegedly told a random australian guy, not only highly classified sensitive details about our nucleararmed submarines, details which that man told to 45 other people including multiple Foreign Government officials and six journalists. In addition tom, he also, weve just learned, reportedly told this random australian dude sensitive details about his own contemporaneous contentious communications with the president of iraq while the u. S. At the time was in the midst of launching military attacks inside iraq. Hes their best idea for who ought to be the next president of the United States. While we are on the subject of things being screwed up in the world, and really screwed up for us in the world, we should also perhaps take a moment to be thankful, at least, that we in america are not personally contending with this guy. This is a politician. He is holding a chain saw. Not because hes like cutting branches on his ranch for a photoop. This is his political symbol. He brings the chain saw to rallies. He fires it up and revs it. He says he has a Chain Saw Plan for his country. The Associated Press profiled his election process this weekend, noting that one of his final rallies, he not only did his chain saw thing. He then brought the crowd to a Shouting Screaming Ovation by playing a video that showed bomb blasts and buildings exploding for a few minutes because thats what hes promising for his country. He was expected to win the presidency of argentina in elections there yesterday. With an endorsement from the trump of brazil, former president jairo bolsonaro. With his supporters wearing Baseball Hats that say make argentina great again. Chain saw guy was expected to win the arming arch presidency yesterday. But he did not win. He lost by 6 plus points in yesterdays election. That was a loss that surprised everyone. It was still close enough though that he has made it to a Runoff Election next month. So there is still a possibility that argentina, will you drop that chiron there . Yes. There is still a possibility that argentina might still get this guy as their president. Argentinas trump. He unexpectedly lost this weekend. This is what hes offering and he is headed to a runoff next month. All of which to say, things could be better right now around the world. You can start with the war in ukraine. You can start with the war in gaza. Even beyond those terrible, terrible wars involving some of our most important allies, thing are just fraught right now. And here at home, its relatively easy to look at the International Challenges were facing and say this would be a good time for us to have a functioning congress, for us to have a Speaker Of The House so the House Of Representatives could do stuff as needed. That absolutely is true. This is a bad time for the republicans to not be able to fight their way out of a paper bag, and install one of their own number as Speaker Of The House so we can have a speaker. This is also true. Do you notice anything strange in this image . This is not the house which the republicans have lost control of themselves, and we therefore dont have a working House Of Representatives. This is the senate where democrats are in charge. What do you notice about this picture . Look who is on the Foreign Relations committee in the United States senate. Still. As of today. They took him out of his position as chairman of the Foreign Relations committee but he is still there. While today he was arraigned on a federal felony indictment for allegedly conspiring to work as a Foreign Agent, as an agent of the egyptian government. He pled not guilty today. He released a statement insisting on his innocence but this is the same u. S. Senator who is already recently indicted on federal Felony Charges to commit extortion. Now hes charged as an alleged Foreign Agent. And while he is under indictment on those charges, he is continuing to serve on the senate Foreign Relations committee. Like this is normal. More than 30 Democratic Senators have called on new jersey senator bob menendez to resign even though he, too, is a democrat. No republicans have called on him to resign because presumably thats too awkward with their own partys leader indicted on 91 Felony Charges. But honestly, who cares about whether other people are doing the right thing or the wrong thing . You still have to do the right thing. Democrats control the United States senate. I understand they do not have enough votes to expel bob menendez from the senate. It almost never happens. It happened with confederates during the civil war. I get that about the practicalities of expulsion. But leaving him on the u. S. Senate Foreign Relations committee while he is on trial as an alleged Foreign Agent in this world with what weve got going on right now . Seriously . I honestly do not know why democrats dont want to do this. It would not be hard if they wanted to do it. If they want to kick him off the senate Foreign Relations committee, all theyd have to do is kick him off and put somebody else on in his place. Thats it. I have absolutely no idea why they arent doing it. But so far theyre not. Theyret attention Hearing Loss Sufferers do you have trouble keeping up with conversations . Do you listen to tv on max volume . Start hearing better today with rcas micro hearing aids. 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Although i have enjoyed hugely being here with you ladies and gentlemen, i do have the very eadesire for a few days sniffing a different atmosphere. This is from the u. S. Speaker of the house at the time, sam rayburn, speaking on the floor of congress in august 1941. I have a very great desire of sniffing a different atmosphere, as opposed to yours which i am sick of sniffing. He then just spelled it out even more plainly. He said, quote, i am homesick. I want to go home tomorrow. And his colleagues in the House Of Representatives let him. They allowed him to go home to sniff home. They voted in a temporary speaker, a speaker pro tem so mr. Rayburn could go home for a few days and rest up. It happens. A quarter century later, 1966, a similar situation. The Speaker Of The House wanted to leave town for a few days. He said he wanted to give a speech to the massachusetts State Legislature. He said he would have to be away so please vote in a temporary speaker in my absence to take care of business. It was no big deal. People apparently didnt even care that while he was home, supposedly to talk to the State Legislature where he turned up in the papers was at the big boston st. Patricks parade. What he meant to ask for was, hey, do you mind giving as you new speaker for a few days. I want to go Drink Green Beer in south boston. He didnt put that it way. He asked for a different reason but it was no big deal. It happens. 1939. Speaker William Bankhead told his colleagues he needed a break because he was, quote, a little bit tired. They said okay. In 1940 he told his fellow lawmakers that a case of the flu was holding him with great tenacity and he needed a few days off to have the flu. And yes, for when he was tired and for when he had the flu, we got a temporary Speaker Of The House. It is not uncommon. At least, its not unheard of to have the u. S. House of representatives elect a temporary speaker for any number of reasons. Even sort of cute reasons. Even slightly disingenuous reasons about going to parades. But now were looking at a situation where were getting a speaker pro tem apparently indefinitely, not because the real speaker is sick but because the Republican Party is sick. And it has no sign of Getting Better any time soon. It has been 20 days now, three weeks tomorrow since republicans fired their own partys Speaker Of The House. That effectively closes the House Of Representatives. They cant do anything other than try to elect a new speaker. Since they have no idea how they will hire a new one, some people have hoped there might be a trick play out of this. Maybe the existence of this man will provide a kind of safety net. A way to get around this problem that they cant seem to solve. Congressman Patrick Mchenry has been acting as speaker pro tem, temporary speaker ever since Kevin Mccarthy was fired. At the moment, he has no real power other than presiding over efforts to try to elect a new speaker. Hes there. Hes doing something. There has been talk that republicans might try to invent a new procedure to install him as de facto speaker without anybody having to vote for him. As if this were the moment to start tinkering with the basic constitutional structure of this country. Because sure, this Republican Party wouldnt do anything nefarious with that. For the time being, republicans seemed to be going about electing a speaker in what passes for a more traditional route. At least trying to elect a speaker. Tonight they held a Candidates Forum behind closed doors. Eight members made their case for why they should be speaker. Tomorrow House Republicans are expected to meet once again in private to try to select the new nominee. Being a. In 93 isnt enough. Then they have to hold another vote on the floor of the house. That may happen as soon as tomorrow. But at this point, who knows . And the idea that you just get to tell the temporary guy that he gets to be the speaker without Anybody Voting for him, it wont work. Joining us now, the Senior National political reporter for nbc news. Nice to see you, my friend. Thanks for being here. Thanks. Do you have any updates for us in terms of understanding where we are in the process right now . A few updates. House republicans met for well over two hours this evening. They had a Candidate Forum that began with nine candidates who went in the room and made their case. One of them became the first to voluntarily get off the island, float away on a raft before he could be voted off that island. So there are eight candidates left who will be voted on starting tomorrow. The way the process is expected to work, there will be multiple ballots until someone gets a majority of the conference. That is half the republican conference. In each one, the lowest will be eliminated until someone gets a majority. There is no guarantee whatsoever that the person who gets majority will get 217 out of the 221 republican votes on the house floor. This is the same problem that fell steve scalise, that fell jim jordan. The favorite right now, tom emmer. The next in line. Its unclear if he can get 217 votes. So this process will continue and continue and continue. Your idea about Patrick Mchenry, the active speaker Pro Tem Being in power, this is a idea that seems to come up again and again because it seems so rational. Mchenry is well respected on both sides of the isle. Hes seen as someone who can at the very least keep this plane in the air while it finds a permanent pilot. The reason it is not happening, first, hes made abundantly clear that he believes his role is ceremonial. That there has to be a vote to empower him before he can conduct any business, legislation resolutions. Even renaming post offices. And House Republicans, a bunch of them have made clear theyre not going to do that. That would require democrats. And democrats have made it clear, they want concessions out of him in terms of how the place is run. Catering to the right flank. And some democrats that ive talked to, they dont want to be a cheap date on this. So thats the Jigsaw Puzzle you have with pat mchenry. And meanwhile, they are off to the next iteration of their speaker nominee. Does mchenry seem like he would be open to some sort of Majority Vote that included mostly democrats to give him the speakership full stop . I mean, if democrats are saying, we can see a way to installing a speaker who is not a democrat provided we get some power sharing agreements, some other concessions that are meaningful to us, would Mchenry Stand for the speakership on those terms . The short answer is no. Mchenry has made clear he has no interest in that job. He obviously never applied for it. He never ran for it. He happened to be on Kevin Mccarthys secret list of the next in line to operate that job ceremonially. If this gets to a point where members come to him and say we have the votes. We want to empower you on a temporary basis. It will be hard for mchenry to say no to that. Yes, we are 20 days without a speaker but we are 25 days away from a government shutdown. The closer Congress Gets to this cliff, the more there is pressure to do something. And to someone can get legislation on the floor so the u. S. Isnt careening from one cliff to another. Theres going to be a need for congress to act and do something. The closer we get to those deadlines, i think the more the Mchenry Option is surfacing but hes made it clear, he doesnt want that job. Sahil kapur, Senior National reporter, i cant believe this story is still where it is. Weve got more to come. Stay with us. 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Ask your doctor about cabenuva today. Theres something that i think should have received more attention than it has. Among the many things the House Of Representatives cant do right now because republicans cant elect even one of their own number as speaker, among the things the house cant do is it cant take up president bidens request for money for ukraine and israel. There is a third part of that Funding Request, though, which is languishing that has gotten a little less attention. The Funding Request thats on the table right now includes several billion dollars for security at americas southern border as well as services for immigrants who are already here and i who are awaiting immigration hearings. While that money depends on Congressional Republicans getting their act together, there is one change in the Immigration System that is set to go ahead regardless of whether or not they get their act together. It is because it is coming through the courts. A settlement between the federal government and the American Civil Liberties union, the aclu, looks like it will finally bring at least some closure to one of the darkest chapters of the donald j. Trump president ial administration. One of the darkest chapters of our moral lives in this generation. You will recall that under the trump administrations socalled Zero Tolerance immigration policy, we saw thousands of little kids separated from their moms and dads. Taken out of their moms and dads arms. The children were put into government custody. While many parents were deported or prosecuted according to the department of homeland security, even though theres been a Biden Administration task force from day one thats been working on this, as of at least a few months ago roughly 1,000 kids still have not been reunited with their families. This is due in large part that the trump administration, while they were taking these kids away from moms and dads, they didnt bother to keep which parents went with which kids and where different Family Members were sent. But now the Sis New Settlement is signed off by a federal judge, Family Separation will formally be banned in this country. The settlement also provides for Support Services for those separated from their families when trump was president , including thing like housing and medical care and Behavioral Health benefits which you might expect they will need for these immigrant families dealing with the trauma of the u. S. Government coming in and taking the kids away from their parents. The Attorney General Merrick Garland said this. He said, quote, the practice of separating families at the Southwest Border was shameful. This agreement will celebrate the reunification of separated families and provide them with Critical Services to aid in their recovery. It still needs to be approved by a federal judge. But this is a moral wound that can never really be healed. If this happened in your family, it will have multigeneration consequences, right . But at least this, right . At least this thing, which we all lived through that we can never forget happened in our country in our time, which we are all there at some level required to morally answer for, at least this. We can fix it at last. We can fix it at last. There is a better way to manage diabetes. The dexcom g7 continuous Glucose Monitoring system eliminates painful finger sticks, helps lower a1c, and its covered by medicare. Before using the dexcom g7, i was really frustrated. All of that Finger Pricking and all that pain, my a1c was still stuck. Before dexcom g7, i couldnt enjoy a single meal. I was always trying to outguess my glucose, and it was awful. 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Republicans in congress trying again tomorrow to pick a House Speaker that is beyond Everything Else that is going on in the world. I mentioned a moment ago, the amazing story from this weekend. Former President Trump allegedly telling super sensitive, highly classified details about our nuclearpowered nucleararmed submarines to a Random Australian Billionaire who then reportedly told that information to a further 45 people, including Foreign Government officials and half a dozen journalists. Because all the news really is melting into one, here another headline from australia just tonight. Look at this. The australian Prime Minister is getting his long promised visit with joe biden. But americas dysfunction could make everything complicated. Thats how we feature in other countrys head lines now. The australian Prime Minister will be showing up tomorrow for his long promised visit. What timing. If you wanted to address congress, im sorry, we have no congress anymore. Americas political dysfunction. It is complicated. It is evident on a global scale even among our best friends. Stick with the news. Some of it might even get better. Thats going to do it for us tonight. Way too early with Jonathan Lemire is up next. We wasted three weeks and, you know, this was a dumb move, many of them on my committee. L