morning" starts right now. you can see it right there. 84-year-old hostage wheeled to freedom. right now, negotiators are working to extend the pause. breaking overnight, an american osprey aircraft crashing a you have the coast of japan with six people onboard. one person is dead according to japanese coast guard. search crews looking the others who were onboard. plus, liz cheney is naming names for enabling donald trump. which congressman called the former president "orange jesus." good morning. welcome. right now, negotiators are racing to extend that truce between israel and hamas. today could potentially be the final day if they fail. hamas released another round of hostages yesterday with more to come today, the white house saying it remains hopeful that two americans will be among the women and children reloose zbld the family of the young israeli hostage 10-month-old they have been notified that the baby and his 4-year-old will not be freed today. hamas allowed an outside journalist to witness yesterday's hostage turnover yesterday. you see an 86-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair. a masked gunman wheeling to the red cross convoy as a crowd cheers and records on their phone. escorting a 17-year-old while clutching her dog, with her mother, crossing back into israel. some brand-new reporting on the behind the scenes effort at the white house to free additional hostages. phil, what more are you learning. >> new behind the scenes reporting on on that intensive effort. it centers on three crucial pillars. pillars that have been worked on an hour by hour basis. number one, gets the hostages home. in that process, surging humanitarian aid to gaza and what comes next. officials say blunt and candid discussions on the combat operation and longer term efforts in the region to lay the ground work for a post-conflict gaza. what details do we have about the exchange that's set for today? >> reporter: so, it should take place in just a few hours if it follows the pace we have seen over the course of the last several days that has shifted by a few hours, earlier or later, no indication hate the's off today. on this sixth day, right now, the final day of the truce agreement, the release of ten israeli women and children is set to proceed, after that will be a release of 30 palestinian women and children from israeli prisoners and that as of right now marks the end of the truce, there are as you point out intense diplomatic efforts involving, israel, hamas, qatar, egypt and the u.s. it requires the release of more women and children. hamas is holding enough to extend this for at least a few days. they're looking at the future beyond that, israel has promised very much to restart its military campaign in gaza even stronger than before as the white house tries to caution israel against the devastating campaign in northern gaza to carry out that same sort of effort in southern gaza. right now the hostage release set for a few hours from now, we'll keep an eye on that. the movement trying to extend this truce even further it remains a big question, if you want to extend it beyond women and children that might take a new set of negotiations and parameters. one israeli for three palestinian. elderly men as well as soldiers, that may be an entirely different set of negotiations. >> i want to drill in a little bit on those negotiations, in a few hours we expect that final transfer of hostages to begin, counting down to this truce actually ends, what are the challenges to secure a short-term extension here? >> one challenge is that hamas isn't holding all of the hostages, which means it needs to get them from other organizations and militant groups in gaza to be able to carry out these hostage releases, that's one of the big points at the beginning, hamas needs a pause in the fighting and drone overhead to move the hostages around. the 10-month-old isn't actually held by hamas, that's a challenge in and of itself. some have said through their families held underground. getting the terms around that release it remains an enormous challenge, we have seen this truce on thin ice more than once as they try to extend it. we'll see how fragile this agreement gets in the final hours as the agreement was explained to us. we'll see the hostage release tonight. the release of palestinian prisoners held in israeli james. the truce the not extended will expire early tomorrow morning. >> thank you. the major diplomatic breakthrough to secure the hostage exchange, brought in sharp focus that the biden administration has been throughout. at least three calls with the amir of qatar. including a critical call multiple officials to unlock pay jar roadblocks to hostage releases on saturday. arlette saenz over to you on the north lawn. american officials said they've kept a steadfast focus on the two american women. a belief day could be released today. >> reporter: phil the white house is hopeful that those two american women will be released but they have been able to offer any assurances just yet, the white house and president biden have been pushing around the clock to try to secure the release of these hostages, these two women the u.s. has yet to name, unclear where exactly in gaza they're being held. they've been quite frank in saying they don't know the conditions or whereabouts of these hostages but they urge hamas to ensure they are released. there's the fact that there are some other groups beside hamas who are holding some of these hostages, but the white house said so far they're not -- they don't believe that hamas is intentionally holding on to american women, they believe that this is something that could still move forward and it could potentially come today. >> if you want to understand the intensive nation, in the region or heading to the region, blinken set to head to israel this week. a huge effort under way. thank you guys very much. nikki haley getting a fusion of cash. breaking overnight a u.s. military osprey crashes off the coast of japan. . breaking overnight. one person is dead after a u.s. military osprey aircraft carrying six people crashed off a japanese island. live in seoul, south korea, for us this morning. what more do we know, paula. >> reporter: at this point there's no cause known as to what exactly happened with this aircraft. the information we do have from japan's coast guard, they say they received information about the crash just before 3:00 p.m. local time and they immediately sent out a patrol boat and an aircraft to scour the area, they say they saw the wreckage what was believed to be a u.s. military aircraft, now it's just after 8:00 now in the evening, it's dark but that search operation does continue. a number of patrol boats now looking for the other five that were onboard this osprey. we know from officials, the coast guard saying they believed they received an emergency call for an emergency landing at one point during the afternoon. now as i said, the cause of the crash is unknown, there have been a number of crashes of these ospreys over the past two years, in fact just three months ago, three u.s. marines were killed when one crashed in australia during a training exercise and also, just last year, five u.s. marines were killed during a training accident in california. just before that, four u.s. service members lost their lives during a nato training exercise when an osprey crashed in norway, clearly that will be looked at very closely but the focus now is where exactly and what has happened to the other five onboard. as we know, one has been confirmed to have lost their l life at this point. they're continuing the search into the night. erica. >> paula, appreciate it. thank you. this picture we're about to show you of kevin mccarthy, post-january 6th visit to mar-a-lago. you may recall it sparked some intense backlash among some republicans according to liz cheney. why did he do it? you'll have to stick around for that. the christmas tree, the 40-foot norway spruce toppled near the ellipse at the white house. meteorologist eric van dam is tracking the cold weather and knows the science here. what's the latest? >> listen, single digit absolutely bitter temperatures felt right now across the great lakes region with freeze warnings, below freezing, all the way down to gainesville, florida, the lake effect snow. this is what it looked like yesterday in buffalo, new york, over a foot of snow. the good news is, we turn off the lake effect snow taps quickly and focus the potential of a wet weekend for the eastern seaboard. this is going to usher in some more warmer temperatures. speaking of warmth, the florida keys not looking that bad. wish you were here. cnn this morning will be right back. you want to be able to provide your child with the tools or resources they need. with reliable internet at home, through the internet essentials program, the world opened up. fellas, fellas. that's how my son was able to find the hidden genius project. we wanted to give y'all the necessary skills to compete with the future. kevin's now part of this next generation of young people who feel they can thrive. ♪ ♪ i have been underestimated in everything i have ever done. and it's a blessing, because it makes me scrappy. >> republican presidential candidate nikki haley on the campaign trail in new hampshire today. charles koch, the network throwing the influence behind haley. enough to reshape the race with just seven weeks to go until the iowa caucuses. joining us maya wiley and adam kinzinger. shane, is this enough, are there signs that point to it being enough to disrupt it. >> the short answer no, signs to disrupt donald trump. a big disruption in the campaign and the primary, there's a primary inside the primary. trying to be the one anti-trump figure, this is a big part of that, this is a lot of money and an important group coming in and saying we think at this point in time that candidate is nikki haley, it's no longer ron desantis and that's a disruption. now, do either one get a real one-on-one with trump? that's a different question. >> as someone who has been in republican politics, koch, a ton of money, it's a grassroots organization that has a ton of volunteers with it, plus the money, what kind of juice do they have in this primary, can they end ron desantis, can they elevate haley to be the clear number two? >> they're putting their team behind her because, they started telling us earlier this year, anybody but trump, they're really doubling down on that, ron desantis is also not the choice for republicans, looking at the field that's left they chose haley who has the most momentum. her poll numbers have increased after each republican debate, they're putting their money behind it and it's telling as well in iowa, kim reynolds she put her support behind desantis, both of these scenarios didn't choose trump. we have to move beyond this. >> isn't the whole issue, they picked two different people therefore making it more difficult for the anti-trump vote to the extent it exists in. >> it's important to have choices. if we continue to follow along the trump method we'll lose and our democracy will lose. our constitution will lose. the real dangers at play here. they're looking for another avenue but trump. >> part of the memo one of the reasons we think nikki haley is the person to put our money behind because she believes she can bring in some of those independents and moderates. how are democrats looking at this morning? is nikki haley seen as a real threat? >> i'm going to go with shane here, the honorable mention in this campaign, i think it's interesting and one thing that's particularly striking from the standpoint of the statement that they made about the extremism that a donald trump represents and how nikki haley is the counter to that, flies in the history of supporting, getting donald trump not just elected including, you know, some of the work they helped to fund in wisconsin in 2016 and the adds that helped support him, when you go back to the origins of why donald trump has been so dangerous for democracy, his lies about the election in 2020, you know this all goes back to the attack on voting rights that frankly was a signature of the koch brothers that began after 2008. and the efforts to make it significantly more difficult for americans lawfully allowed to vote to vote. and that's the origins of the great denial and the big lie and that's something that we owed frankly to the koch brothers and this danger to democracy is essentially coming from the same folks who are now saying, oh, wait, democracy is in danger. >> to pull a piece of what you said on the top, on the statement of extremism, what's striking, there are a lot of republicans who feel that way, no question about it, yet take a listen to one of those republicans and who he's support between trump or biden. >> so if it comes down to trump and biden, you're going to vote for trump then? >> i'm a republican. >> okay, so you'll vote for trump. >> it's not going to be trump and biden, i'm telling you. >> another republican with biden. >> i mean this quite sincerely the party that moves on from trump or biden wins. >> this isn't a one-off quote, this is at the root of everything, if you're not willing to say if it's not trump i'm going to democrats, doesn't that undercut coalessing behind someone else. >> you have the former attorney general bill barr who said donald trump is not a good president and a danger to this country if presented a choice between donald trump and a democrat, he might go back with donald trump again, look, the koch brothers are doing something pretty notable here, they're swallowing some major disagreements with nikki haley on a slew of political issues. she's hawk and they are not. >> and i think it speaks to bigger issue here, people, voters, don't want to have another matchup between biden and trump. people are very disinterested and unmotivated. unmotivated voters is going to benefit donald trump. they're looking to get somebody else in there. >> guys, stay with us. stick around. an extension of that truce between israel hand mass could come at any moment today. new report tong din low mattic mission by the white house to save more hostages. donald trump bringing his legal fight over the 2020 election back to life, what he wants from the justice department, next. happening now, secretary of state blinken speaking in brussels, he's expected to travel to israel this week as negotiators continue to push for a truce extension. we'll continue to monitor this. phil has some new reporting this morning with behind the scenes efforts on these negotiation and the scale, obviously it's been intensive in the wake of october 7th. significant diplomatic victory to get hostages released, the work that has kbeen critical. pillars are being worked, getting hostages home, surging humanitarian aid into gaza. blunt and candid discussions on the next phase of israel's military efforts. to lay the groundwork for a post-conflict gaza. joining us is robin wright from the new yorker. robin, thanks so much for joining us. i want to start with the third piece of this, the third pillar if you will, in terms of near-term combat operations, when a truce ends, i have been struck over the course of the last couple of days how very candid they are how israel does next is immensely critical in terms of their operations in the south, they can't repeat what they've done in the north, do you think they have a leverage here in. >> probably a little bit. the israelis are hell bent at the moment on eliminate hamas, the u.s. is trying to say, look, you have a just cause in taking on hamas but you really need to think about what happens down the road. israel has not provided any answers yet. the united states is trying to urge israel to think about it a two-state solution, to try to get this moment to bring together all the elements that have been building, better relations with the arab world symbolized by relations with saudi arabia. creating a two-state solution. the mood in israel right now doesn't support a two-state solution and that frankly to me having covered this for half century away further away since 1948 when this crisis began. >> the wider global position when it comes to public opinion, so as we talk about what's happening behind the scenes that's also coming into play, there was talk when this pause started how public opinion may or may not shift in this moment, what are you seeing over the last few days and what does that say moving forward for israel? >> well, we've seen this conflict, which pits a country the size of new jersey against an area the size of philadelphia, a rippling effect across the world and different parts of the world are getting different coverage, perceptions of what's happening on the ground, and that's led to a deep fissure and it makes more difficult for the united states and the west to not do more to try to find a political resolution or provide humanitarian aid or try to get some balance in this conflict. at this point, more than seven weeks in, the death rate is about ten palestinians for every israel killed on october 7th. and that's having an impact, we're seeing it already in the polls that former shows presiden in a hole. we're at a really turning point. the hostage negotiations now get into men and that's going to play out much longer than issues over the women and children, much more complicated as of today. >> robin, what's your sense, the administration's defense when they face attacks from within their own coalition, tell us the alternative, u.s. diplomacy is why hostages is being released, that humanitarian aid is being surged into gaza, was there an alternative here? >> well, i mean, go back in history, a lot of peace efforts, the problem is we've gotten to a point where it's now an existential conflict, hamas wants to destroy israel and israel is to destroy hamas. we don't know what winning is or the perceptions of what winning is very different. we have different interpretations of what defeat is, it's very hard for israel to defeat the idea of resistance or opposition. and hamas has symbolized that more than ever and is actually seeing a surge in the west bank, people are forgetting that there's a lot of violence playing out in west bank as well. the danger is, even if israel is successful against hamas, the west bank finds itself, the government there finds it very difficult to deal with israel down the road. that's where a political resolution has to come. >> robin, thank you. >> thank you. can you guess who called donald trump, quote, orangi us is? liz cheney spills the secret in her new book. plus, could george santos be hours away from losing his job? new information this morning on when the next vote to expel the congressman will happen. we're confronting a domestic threat that we have never faced before and this's a former president who's attempting to unravel the foundations of our constitutional republic. >> i think donald trump is the single most dangerous threat we face. >> that's former congresswoman liz cheney blasting donald trump's second bid for office. new book that cnn has exclusively obtained, that new book comes out december 5th. cheney condemns the actions of her former colleagues, wri writing -- phil, she is naming names. >> you know, i don't think we should be too surprised, cheney pulled no punches here calling out republicans can coward's in the wake of 2020 election in their support of donald trump. now, one particular target of her ire former speaker kevin mccarthy who she said that trump's claims were bogus. trump, quote, knows it's over, he needs to go through all the stages of grief. but later that night, mccarthy went on fox news and pushed trump's lies anyway. >> president trump won this election