border bill. johnson said it is dead on arrival as he reveals a bill for israel alone without a cent for the war against putin in ukraine or the border. top senate negotiator, chris murphy joining us coming up. plus, the pentagon fires off a weekend barrage of preemptive strikes against houthis in yemen after friday night s strikes for the deaths of three u.s. service members. we intend to take additional strikes and additional action to continue to send a clear message that the united states will respond when our forces are attacked or our people are killed. secretary of state blinken has arrived in saudi arabia today starting his fifth shutting mission to the region since october 7th to promote a halt in the fighting in gaza in exchange for a release of hostages. and donald trump widens his lead over president biden in our new poll. steve kornacki is here to break it all down. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington. senate negotiators from both parties prod
state blinken back in israel to deliver president biden s message for humanitarian pause to benjamin netanyahu. we believe that each of these efforts would be facilitated by humanitarian pauses. that was an important area of discussion today with israeli leaders. how, when, and where these can be implemented ultimately we believe this can be a critical mechanism for protecting civilians while enabling israel to achieve its objectives of defeating hamas. israel s prime minister is still unwilling to give an inch without the release of hostages, instead pressing forward with a massive military operation. and in lebanon, a leader of the iran backed hezbollah defends the actions of hamas and threatens an escalation in their rocket attacks on israel, warning all options are on the table. also an update on americans and other foreign nationals making it safely out of gaza and the efforts to free the 242 remaining hostages. plus, we ll recap another week of trump family legal
to get vaccinated. we spoke with two touch tourists earlier that say they know people that are anti-vax. they don t believe they have the privilege to go into a favorite restaurant or cafe or get on a flight is enough to convince some of the people. then they don t have to go to that great restaurant or get on a plane, they can stay home. the fringe can continue to be the fringe. we ll say it one more time. they put this mandate in place, vaccinations went up, and spread went down. that s a win. thank you all so much. coming up in the next hour, secretary of state blinken back in the hot seat after getting grilled by the house foreign affairs committee yesterday. the lawmaker that led that hearing is here next. and we have more breaking news. new inflation report is out signaling the rise in prices may be cooling down. that s welcome news. with shortages on everything from paper to batteries, seems like anything you want now. is the trend going to continue? e
the time. staying there at the airport until we get all the afghans and u.s. citizens out that we can. we it s our moral responsibility to relocate as many afghans as possible. these are people who worked with us on our mission. they believed in our mission. they now have targets on their back. and it s our responsibility to relocate them. i ll tell you what. i mean, look. we have news today that there was a state department assessment sent to secretary of state blinken back in july that they believed this was gonna go ugly, early. so the timing on when they knew that the taliban well, look. we both know that the taliban have been making these encroachments for, like, 18, 24 months now. so it s not like they just came out of nowhere but i take your point about this extreme period of movement. here s my concern. # and just give me a yes/no on this. do you believe that there s a real chance that the taliban will say, no, you ve gotten enough. we hear that you have 4 or 5,000 of you
relocate them. i ll tell you what. i mean, look. we have news today that there was a state department assessment sent to secretary of state blinken back in july that they believed this was going to go ugly early. so the timing on when they knew that the taliban well, look. we both know that the taliban have been making these encroachments for like 18, 24 months now. so it s not like they just came out of nowhere. but i take your point about this extreme period of movement. here s my concern. and just give me a yes/no on this. do you believe that there s a real chance that the taliban will say, no, you ve gotten enough. we hear that you have 4,000 or 5,000 of your citizens here. we re not letting you get them. and that the united states is forced to take military action to get them out? i really don t see that happening. again, i think the taliban recognizes they ve got to run a country now. they re going to need international assistance. they re going to want diplomatic recogniti