Interference case. How damaging is it for the former president and the new drama in the new york fraud case the social media post that just cost donald trump 5,000 the urgent manhunt after a maryland judge is shot dead at his home the Armed And Dangerous suspect. Was he angry with the judge over his divorce . And the voices of war. The people weve met whose lots are forever changed. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt and good evening im tom llamas in for lester. We begin with the dramatic and positive development in the israel hamas war the release of two american hostages, a mother and her daughter, held by hamas in gaza. Judith and natali raanan, these are the first hostages to be freed among 200 or more captured during that hamas Terrorist Attack on israel almost two weeks ago moments ago, President Biden speaking to those two american women telling them, the government will fully support them as they recover they happen to be Family Members of our longtime Foreign
He saw that first image of them finally freed and what about the more than 200 other hostages hamas still holds . All this as israeli strikes hammer gaza. A church sheltering civilians badly damaged. Lines of trucks carrying aid for gaza stranded at the egypt border. What is Still Holding them up . Also, the house gop dropping jim jordan as their Speaker Nominee after he loses a third vote. The chaos and the new candidates jumping in. The surprise in court, a former lawyer for the Trump Campaign Pleading Guilty in that Georgia Election interference case. How damaging is it for the former president . And the new drama in the new york fraud case. The social media post that just cost donald trump 5,000. The urgent manhunt after a maryland judge is shot dead at his home. The Armed And Dangerous suspect. Was he angry with the judge over his divorce . And the voices of war. The people weve met whose lots are forever changed. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. And good eveni
Harris we begin with a Fox News Alert and continuing coverage. President biden heading to a war zone 11 days into the war, will this help or hinder israel. This we do know, our enemies are watching while our own military is ready to deploy thousands of personnel to support israel. And they may need the immediate attention because lebanon is hitting israel over and over from their northern border with rockets. Thats more than 180 miles from gaza. On the lebanon part of the border next door is syria. The Trump Administration fired Tomahawk Missiles after the syrian dictator used chemical weapons on its own people. I am harris faulkner. You are in the faulkner focus. A look at what israel shares with lebanon. Military analysts are expressing concern. Hezbollah and other iran backed groups could escalate the fight. If they force israel to fight on two or more fronts, that would help Hamas Terrorists that attack families, Concert Goers and so many more in gaza 11 days ago. We are just acros
Moments ago Secretary Blinken speaking about the horrifying photos he was shown by the Prime Minister in netanyahus office today of babies who were murdered and burned. Its hard to find the right words. Its beyond what anyone would ever want to imagine, much less actually see and god forbid experience. A baby, an infant riddled with bullets. Soldiers beheaded, young people burned alive in their cars or in their hideaway rooms. I could go on, but its simply depravity in the worst imaginable way. And the secretary confirming that in addition to traveling to jordan and meeting with palestinians there, the president of the Palestinian Authority and king of jordan, he will also travel to Qatar A Country that in the past has been able to influence hamas to the uae, to egypt and to saudi arabia. Its our determination and that of israel as well that there not be a second front or a third front, and we are working as hard as we can, working with other partners in the region to try to ensure tha
Rally to the israeli people. There are fringe parts of many different parties. There are conservative marches in the south with swastikas all the time. Strsystantisemitism is rampant. I have have had Conversations Cortez has condemned the valley and the hamas attacks. What we are talking about here is terrorism. And what we are emphasizing and what President Biden said so forcefully yesterday and so strongly is that we stand with israel. Our democratic ally. That is what the Democratic Party stands with. You could point to one or two Different Things and i could point to many things on the right that many of my republican colleagues say is ridiculous, that no, i dont agree with that the Democratic Party is in lock step shoulder to shoulder with israel. We support them against terrorism. Strong democratic ally in the middle east. Lawrence congressman. Thank you for take time to be with us. We appreciate you being here and continued prays for your family and i think the whole nation is p