Sandra and thanks to your team and crew. John im john roberts. Thank you. Im Trace Gallagher in for martha maccallum. John roberts will stay with us live from jerusalem. We await the state Department Briefing after hamas releases two american hostages for humanitarian reasons. We have greg palkot live on the Israel Lebanon Border where the israelis are evacuating a town. First we have breaking news coming. Lets go to mike tobin. We have mortar or rockets coming in. Mike . We have a flurry of rocket fire. Weve seen that really since just about every night fall we see them. Tonight it was more intense. If were in cover right now. I see more launches from the gaza area. Big flurry of activity. That looks like its coming down. I dont think its going to intercept. Very well we could get some strikes here. Theres quite a few theres one going across the screen there. So quite a few rockets, quite a few intercepters making the doing their job. Were hearing a great deal of impact. If i shut up,
Direct next steps. Connected with Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss coordination to support israel, deter hostile actors and protect innocent people. We will in the minutes ahead we hope get more of a level of detail whats going to happen. Sandra we are about an hour behind and also anticipating Jake Sullivan to appear at the White House Press briefing with Karine Jeanpierre, that too has been pushed back because we have not heard the president s address yet. As soon as he begins speaking we will get to that. Middle east region is quieter today than in two decades. Sandra and there he is, that was National Security adviser Jake Sullivan speaking last week touting the Biden Administration middle east policy, days later, an attack for the deadliest day since the holocaust. John a lot of signals were missed, im john roberts in washington. We are still waiting for President Biden to address the nation. Speech scheduled to start one hour and one minute ago. Also scheduled this hour, the White H
that this front may escalate even further or turn into a full war. the enemy must calculate carefully. please understand the clock is ticking. my grandmother has no time. we are absolutely focused on getting hostages back. humanitarian pause could help that effort. is this the most complicated time of your presidency so far? thank you so much. thank you. nothing to it? john: secretary of state antony blinken back in israel to meet with that country s war cabinet as fears grow president biden may soon turn his back against israel s fight to defeat hamas. all this as just moments ago a rocket lands near foreign journalists in southern israel. trey yingst among them. john roberts in washington. so starts a friday afternoon. sandra: sandra smith in new york. in his third visit to israel since the start of the war, blinken telling reporters the u.s. stands in solidarity with israel s right to defend itself. also urged prime minister benjamin netanyahu to halt his gro
vowing just hours ago to intensify its activity inside gaza s borders. moments ago hamas released new videos of three of the hostages. also ahead, an emotional night in maine, hundreds gathering to remember those lost in a shooting spree as we learn more about the gunman behind the attack. a big legal week ahead for former president donald trump, a week that could see three members of the trump family testifying in a new york court. brand new nbc news polling on the 2024 republican presidential race with iowa voters weighing in on trump s lead and a new name surging into second place. thanks for joining us. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera. israel vowing to continue and intenify ground operations in gaza. this video put out just hours ago of what shows idf troop movement within the gaza strip, this as israeli jets and drones are continuing to strike gaza by air hitting hundreds of targets on the ground over the weekend they say. inside gaza the death toll is climbing a
briefing? one is the right way and one the wrong way. do an unclassified victory fiction and unclassified nonfiction. steve: there was a general electionn coming up a lot of people on the right said it was a watergate style cover up the president of the united states had been down in charlotte and we heard about al-qaida was on the heels and it would not be helpful to his reelection if people saw al-qaida was alive and well and killing our people. that s the theory of why reference was spiked to terrorism and that s why they are trying to get to the bottom with the deputy s committee. brian: i can t believe you successfully covered up the straws in the background. she double fisted in the morning. she will not be passing out on our watch. steve: the war in the