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-- her twin daughters, emma and julie, were among the hostages released today. a member of the family is going to join me live in just a few minutes. plus were, gonna tell you about a wild news story in the new york times. its quite a read, about a pardon donald trump gave to a very shady character, and how it up ended the federal investigation by his own justice department. mike schmidt of the new york times broke that story and is here to talk about that now. later, how does the bide...

other former first ladies. michelle obama, laura bush, and melania trump. mrs. carter woodland view laid to rest on wednesday. and that is tonights reidout. inside with jen psaki starts now. inside with jen psaki starts now. well, there is a lot going on tonight. 11 more hostages have been freed from gaza, and a pause in the fighting has been extended by two days. -- her twin daughters, emma and julie, were among the hostages released today. a member of the family is going to join me...

And as i look at the terrain in eastern ukraine and think about the russian way of war, looked at that picture with all those trucks pulling artillery, you can just imagine the artillery lined up hub to hub and shelling and shelling and shelling. this is a way war is fought, armored warfare. it was fought this way in world war ii on the eastern front and in the desert by the british against the germans. so its gnawing through. taking that defense, ponding it, pounding it, pounding it, day after ...

Will be fought to prevent kyiv from being encircled. >> and lets talk about the south, as well. i mean we saw the extensive damage in mariupol. the russians have been able to take two towns. but they are not able, still, to completely take and occupy and hold big cities. whats your take on the southern part -- that southern front -- where russia is obviously trying to create a contiguous territory, swath of territory, in the south? >> yeah, mariupol is a real obstacle and they are doing everythi...

Before it hooked around to louisiana. this was going to be sitting there on top of the texas coastal areas. pounding it for days. >> almost unheard of. hard to believe but when you talk about a storm sitting there until tuesday or wednesday, it becomes a little more believable. >> jon: fox weather center, adam. lets check in with rob schmitt. in corpus christi, texas. i hope you can hear me, rob. hows it looking? >> looking bad, jon. the storm is punishing us. we are getting pummeled. major wind...

So not worth it.

Thats what trump did with the fbi report last friday, tied it up. i think the cubs -- hillary, in this case -- has the bats. shes still out there hammering trump with the personal stuff. forget the talk of high road, shes hitting him where hes bleeding. none of this is about the -- none of this about -- remember bern fli saying enough of the damned e-mails. you dont get that from her. when she spots a weakness she pounces and keeps pounding it. she noknows the game, bernie didnt. you have to tel...

College educated white women who dont like donald trump, dont like his rhetoric, dont relate to him but also want to see the first female president. they like the idea of a woman. they understand -- they can relate to hillary. they can see themselves to some degree in hillary, especially the older women and theyve seen her over years and years and years change as they have changed. >> ron, do you have a sense -- everybody does their anecdotal polling, we all do it, my -- i just dont sense any di...

Damned e-mails. you dont get that from her. when she spots a weakness she pounces and keeps pounding it. she knows the game, bernie didnt. you have to tell your troops you want to win more than they do. so even though this contest hasnt gone into overtime, it feels that way. trump got his rally but isnt -- well, isnt she from chicago? shes got the bats. im still looking at her. thats "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. join us tomorrow night at 7:00 eastern. see you then.

Probably a big part of it. another big part of it, though, would seem to be this: so the united states when it comes to how to deal with the castro brothers, when it comes to how to deal with bashar al assad in syria, when it comes to dealing with vladimir putin, the preference has tended to be to deescalate, to lay back for this president. the idea of confronting and coming out and saying what the presidents critics say he should to nay which is we are -- to north korea which is we are not goin...