what will trump's eldest son say about allegations of a decade's long business fraud. out of gaza. several americans among those evacuated through a keyboarder crossing as israel ramps up its ground assault. will they be the first of many? plus, a refugee camp where dozens died in an israeli strike. it's hit again as more hospitals run out of fuel they need to function. the latest on a spiraling humanitarian crisis. and breaking news from the federal reserve, there's a new decision on interest rates as the country grapples with a too hot to handle economy. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. first to nbc's lindsey reiser outside the courthouse in new york where where he could see donald trump jr. take the stand. what's the latest there? >> reporter: we have video of don jr. arriving around lunchtime. we have an increased police presence outside the courthouse. yes, we are likely going to hear from don jr. today. first, we are hearing cross-examination of the state's only expert witness, an expert on discouragement. what was gained as a result of illegal trump. saying trump, his adult sons and the trump organization cfo, allen weisselberg, profited on the over valuation on the statement of the financial conditions. they got better terms. this expert is testifying to the fact that about $168 million in lost revenue from interest rates is what cost the banks. remember one of the former presidents, nobody lost money, the banks got their money, and everybody walked away happy. this expert is saying that $168 million were left on the table here, and that's just in has gone over so far.his witness once trump's attorneys are done with the cross-examination, then we can expect the state to call don jr. to testify in his capacity as executive vice president. we can expect a lot of the same documents we have been seeing throughout this trial, the statement of financial condition shown to the banks to get the loans that the attorney general's office says contains the over valuations. during some of his video taped deposition, he was asked about gaap, generallily accepted accounting principles. he said he only knows what he learned in accounting 101 and basically knows that they're generally accepted, and testified in the deposition, chris, that he did not have to use gaap in his daily work. the state is going to try to show in his capacity he was supposed to use that. we can expect in his defense that don jr. will essentially try to shift blame to other members of the trump organization, accountants who had more to do with the valuations, chris. >> lindsey reiser, thank you so much. just breaking, we learned that the federal reserve is keeping interest rate hikes on pause at a time when borrowing costs are at a 22-year high. cnbc's morgan brennan has the latest from cnbc on msnbc, so talk about this decision, and the implications. >> hi, chris, it's good to see you. we just got this decision. the federal reserve leaving interest rates unchanged. this was widely expected, extending the pause at its policy meeting today. this is the second straight time officials have opted to keep rates unchanged. keep in mind, the benchmark rates at elevated levels. up more than 5 percentage points since the fed began hiking in march of 2022. the fed has been very clear in its message of higher for longer for those rates. the key today, though, in this decision was unanimous among the voting members, fed chair jay powell's comments in the press conference which will kick off in just under a half hour, investors will be looking for clues about how the central bank is thinking about the future starting with the next policy decision in december, which will be the last of 2023. markets think the fed is done raising rates, but officials have repeatedly said this will depend on the data. that's the conundrum for the fed, and it's showing up in the release from the fomc today as well. after the worst bout of inflation in four decades, it's come down, but the pace of those price increases, it's still too high, more than 3% higher than the fed's 2% target. meantime, despite the aggressive monetary cycle, most aggressive monetary cycles in a generation, the economy seems to be hanging in there. it's much more resilient than experts thought at the start of the year. labor markets staying relatively strong. consumers continue to spend. you saw that with third quarter gdp of 4.9%. where does powell and the rest of the fed see the economy going from here, especially if the full effect of the previous rate increases hasn't been fully felt yet. the other factor, the bond market, the yield on the ten-year treasury bond spiked to 5% last month. it's come off since then. that's the highest in 16 years. this is the benchmark for loans. it has made mortgages, credit card interests, and corporate debt much more expensive now. and because of that, chris, is arguably going to do some of the work for the fed, meaning cooling demand, which in turn should continue to cool inflation further. we will be watching for the powell comments in a little while. >> i know it literally just happened, but are the markets reacting. >> so far, markets are positive right now. i'm looking at a chart of the s&p 500, it's up about 1/2% now. dow seeing a similar move. we're hanging on to gains after a red october. a rough month for stocks last month. >> morgan brennan, thank you so much. it's good to see you, my friend. in gaza, hundreds of foreign nationals are waiting for their turn to cross into egypt after the rafah border crossing opened for the first time since the october 7th hamas attack. nbc's josh lederman is reporting from tel aviv for us today. i understand a u.s. official has confirmed to nbc news several americans were able to get out. what other details do we know? >> reporter: well, the hope, chris, was that as many as 500 foreign nationals including those americans would be able to get out today. those are the numbers that were on a list that nbc news obtained from the border authorities in gaza. as of the last update we got from those border authorities, about 335 people had managed to start the process of moving from gaza into egypt, and another 76 injured civilians being allowed into egypt for medical treatment. but the american citizens are a small fraction of that. believed to be somewhere between 5 and 10. the hope is that this will be the start. the state department folks and matt miller suggesting just a few minutes ago that more americans could be getting out soon. take a listen. >> in the past 24 hours, we have informed u.s. citizens and family members with whom we are in contact that they will be assigned specific departure dates. we have asked them to continue to monitor their e-mail regularly over the next 24 to 72 hours for specific instructions about how to exit. the u.s. embassy in cairo is standing by to provide assistance to u.s. citizens as they enter egypt. the situation remains extremely fluid, but this has been an important breakthrough. >> reporter: now, hamas has been blamed for weeks by the u.s. and israel of refusing to allow these foreign nationals, including those americans to even get to the border crossing, chris. today, hamas is suggesting they want to see the border crossing now remain open permanently. they are concerned less about the foreign nationalists, as well as aid coming the other direction from egypt into the gaza strip with somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 aid trucks getting into gaza today. hoping that more aid will be flowing in the coming days. chris? >> josh lederman, thank you for that. but inside gaza, a second strike has hit the jabalya refugee camp, a day after the previous strike killed dozens. i want to bring in raf sanchez from ashdod, israel. have we heard anything from the idf about this strike? >> reporter: chris, in just the last couple of minutes, the idf telling us the second strike was targeting what they say is a hamas command and control center, which was deliberately hidden underneath civilian homes in the jabalya refugee camp in northern gaza. they said yesterday they were targeting a senior hamas leader who was involved in the october 7th massacre. today, it was a control center. the question, chris, is about proportionality, and it's a question you're hearing all around the world. is it worth it to successfully kill one senior hamas figure if you also kill dozens of palestinian civilians, which is what we are hearing from the director of a nearby hospital happened in yesterday's strike. we don't have figures about what happened today, but just judging by the images it does appear there was very widespread destruction. the message from the israeli government, from the israeli military is they are laser focused on their mission, which is toppling hamas, which is making sure that this organization is never able to, again, carry out a massacre on the scale that it did on october 7th. a thousand israeli civilian, some 400 israeli soldiers killed. we had a chance earlier. we were taken by the israeli military to see weapons and some vehicles that hamas used during that massacre, and i had a chance to speak to a senior israeli officer there. take a listen to what he had to say. how do you feel as a soldier, as an israeli knowing that these weapons were used on civilians? >> i think this is the hardest part. militaries should fight militaries. soldiers should fight soldiers. knowing that these types of weapons were fired on families inside houses, this is terrible. this is the definition of terror. >> reporter: and, chris, israel says it has no choice but to go into gaza from the air, from the ground, as we're seeing israeli forces encircling gaza city to topple hamas because they need to protect israeli citizens, that it is simply unacceptable to have an organization like hamas controlling the gaza strip, just a couple of miles from those israeli communities, but what you are hearing from a growing number of world leaders and protests around the world is concern about the ever growing toll among palestinian civilians. the death toll, more than 8,000 inside gaza. that's according to the hamas run health ministry. 3 1/2 thousand of those killed are children, according to that same ministry. we are hearing from unicef. they are referring to the gaza strip as a graveyard for children right now. the u.s. so far not pressuring israel to agree to a cease fire, but we did hear from secretary blinken when he was on capitol hill yesterday saying that the biden administration would like to see what he's calling humanitarian pauses, which are pauses in the fighting to allow more humanitarian aid to get into gaza. secretary blinken had already been in israel twice since october 7th. he will be back here on friday. we expect that he will be going to other regional capitals, trying to, at the same time, provide diplomatic cover for the israelis, but also to press israel, to minimize civilian casualties and to allow more humanitarian aid into gaza, chris. >> raf sanchez, thank you. hamas claims it will release a number of foreign hostages in the coming days, as israel claims there is no deal in sight. so what is really going on? i'll ask a current adviser to prime minister netanyahu in 60 seconds. ime minister netanyahu 0 seconds. he hits his mark —center stage—and is crushed by a baby grand piano. you're replacing me? customize and save with liberty bibberty. he doesn't even have a mustache. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ my frequent heartburn had me taking antacid after antacid all day long but with prilosec otc just one pill a day blocks heartburn for a full 24 hours. for one and done heartburn relief, prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. in an extraordinarily rare and potentially historic move, the house could vote today on weather to expel embattled u.s. congressman, george santos. the u.s. house archives shows only five lawmakers have ever been expelled, and if today's vote was to be successful, sanchez would be the first in 20 years to be moved in a motion brought by members of his own delegation. nbc's ali vitali is on capitol hill for us. i know this requires a 2/3 vote of the chamber to expel a lawmaker. what are we expecting how this is going to unfold? >> reporter: it's not clear the math works when they need to get 2/3 of the majority of the chamber to expel santos. we know democrats would be on board for that. the question is how many republicans would also join them. we know, for example, several key new york freshmen, including mike lawler, despacito, all of those lawmakers are the ones who brought this expulsion forward in the first place. they're expected to continue forward, but again, we're not sure they have the numbers on their side to actually expel santos. there's two things here i'm paying attention to, the first is the fact that leadership, all the way back to kevin mccarthy as speaker and probably now for speaker johnson as well, they have been reluctant to move forward on expelling santos. they have been more than happy to let it play out in the court and the ethics committee. that's because the numbers game here for house republicans is a very real one. they're operating with a thin majority, losing santos would make it ever thinner. the other piece of this, though, chris, is the fact that the ethics committee itself released a statement yesterday saying that they have been doing their work since february when they first opened this probe into santos. they have been subpoenaing, they have been getting documents together, and that they will have an update on what comes next from their perspective on or before november 17th. that could be enough to give anyone who wants to vote to expel to give them enough coverage through thanksgiving. >> 40 witnesses, 37 subpoenas, 170,000 pages of documents. we'll wait for that. in the meantime, i think there's going to be another vote expected, right, on censuring potentially. democratic congresswoman rashida tlaib, and republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. what's that about? >> reporter: this is the settling of scores on both sides. republicans came forward with a censure for congresswoman talib, they are calling anti-semitic, in the after math of the attack on israel. talib has been pro palestine and you saw democrats after that censure request come forward and saying they were censuring marjorie taylor greene for similar kinds of statements. we'll watch all of these congressional hr complaints play themselves out on the floor tonight. these are the first votes we'll see in a series of votes this week, and we'll watch to see how this actually works out. i think there's an interesting point of history. i always look to our house producer, kyle stewart for these. he was looking back on what the first censure was over, and a member was censured for speaking ill or in an untoward way. striking how far we've come in the language as censurable, versus not, for house members as they talk about their colleagues, chris. >> ali vitali, thank you so much. republican congressman ken buck announcing here on nbc he will not run for reelection. the colorado lawmaker told my colleague, andrea mitchell, he's disappointed with congress's inability to deal with major issues and also disappointed that the republican party continues to rely on the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. he has broken from his party on a few notable occasions as of late, including the vote to remove kevin mccarthy as speaker. new bipartisan legislation that could reform the way immigration's court system treats children. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. 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