To try to prepare and potentially record high temperatures and humidity expected to smother the midwest this week the heat so dangerous. Some schools are being forced to close just days into the new year. Im sara sider with john berman, kate bolduan is out. Cnns new central starts right now this morning. Cnn is reporting on the debate about donald trump. But Kamala Harris boils down to one simple question why, why did donald trump just tell voters once again that he may not . Show up to a debate. He already agreed to listen to trumps latest if he shouldnt say this, because if theres a debate it would be nice to surprise her with that one so is he skipping or is he bluffing because the new reporting from cnns Alayna Treene this morning as Donald Trumps team recognizes, they do need to have a debate with harris, Alayna Treene joins us. Now with the very latest you are talking to the folks around him saying, yeah we know we need to have this debate so what is happening with him sort of co
News. The Israeli Military says they rescued a hostage from Southern Gaza. He was found in an underground tunnel by Israeli Soldiers during a special operation. He was abducted more than ten months ago by hamas in the october 7th terror attack. The 72yearold Security Guard is said to be in Good Condition and already has seen family. The white house saying, quote, we will continue to work tirelessly to finalize the ceasefire and Hostage Release deal through ongoing talks in cairo and doha. Meanwhile after a temporary pause, fighting resumed monday night with targeted strikes between hezbollah forces and israel. The escalation in attacks there has heightened tensions in the entire region. Joining us now, nbcs matt bradley in tel aviv and a former Supreme Allied Commander of nato and nbc chief international analyst. What do we know about the latest on the Hostage Release and the escalation . Well that Hostage Rescue will be a huge source of celebration here in israel. We already heard fro
Already in. Meantime of course the president refusing to concede the election repeating his baseless claims that the election was a fraud. Lets go to carol lee standing by for us in washington. Welcome to you. What did the president say today if anything on this . He made a number of very familiar being aing could yaccud that wont sound new to you, but he continues to make them. He also vented a range of frustrations on everyone from his own Justice Department to the governor of georgia who is a republican and ale lie. T ally. The president said he was ashamed that he endorsed him. And he took aim at the Judicial System Making Unfounded accusations of unfairness there. Take a listen. They dont want to take the affidavits. Then they say we dont have proof. I wanted to file one suit, donald j. Trump president of the United States against, you know and put everything into one simple suit and they say sir, you dont have standing. I say i dont have standing. You mean as president of the Uni
News chief white house correspondent, peter alexander. Nbc news foreign correspondent, matt bradley in eastern ukraine, jonathan la mir, Politico White House bureau chief as well as host of Way Too Early here on msnbc. And he lane cooper, the New York Times pentagon correspondent. Both jonathan and helane are msnbc contributors. Peter, what more can you tell us about the president s decision to u. S. Moves troops already on standby to europe . Reporter thats exactly right. We have now learned that its a total of 3,000 u. S. Troops who will be moving, about a thousand of them already in europe will be going to romania, a native member nation. Another 2,000 presently here in the u. S. Will be going to germany and to poland, as well. This comes, according to a Senior Administration official at the president s direction, and following the recommendation of the defense secretary, Secretary Austin. I think youre going to hear this officially from john kirby, the Press Secretary at the pentag
In beijing can and cant say. Live from our studio in singapore. This is bbc news. Its newsday. Welcome to the programme. We start with the latest on the ukraine crisis and the news that President Biden has approved the deployment of 3,000 troops to bolster nato allies in the region. This would be the first Major Movement of us forces in russias Military Standoff with ukraine. 2,000 will be sent to poland and germany, and a 1,000 strong squadron will be redeployed from germany to romania. A pentagon spokesman said the deployments were a signal that america was ready to defend its allies but he was keen to stress the troops were not going to fight in ukraine. The United States stands shoulder to shoulder with our nato allies. The Current Situation demands that we reinforce the deterrent and defensive posture on nato s eastern flank. President biden has been clear that the United States will respond to the growing threat to europes security and stability. Our commitment to nato, article f