that one hope to have her back, embrace her, her birthday is on friday. she's turning 4. >> the great aunt of young abigail edan is one of the countless desperate family members hoping their loved one is among the hostages expected to be freed soon by hamas. but the release will not be happening as soon as everyone hoped. also tonight, elon musk is having trouble facing the truth about the rampant anti-semitic content on formerly known as twitter. the president of that organization will join me. plus, with republican speaker mike johnson likely to push for a national abortion ban, abortion right's activists are stepping up the pressure, seeking to enshrine a woman's right to choose in the constitutions of several more states. but we begin tonight with overwhelming anticipation for the israeli and palestinian families who may reunite with their loved ones in the coming days. israel and hamas have agreed to a breakthrough deal to release 50 women and children who were kidnapped and held in gaza. the plan will also include the release of 150 palestinians from israeli jails. initial reports said hostages held by hamas could be released as soon as tomorrow morning. but late today, the israeli government announced that the release will not take place before friday. it's another devastating blow for the families. what we do know about the deal is that it will allow humanitarian aid and fuel to enter gaza. the deal also includes an option to extend the pause in fighting in exchange for ten israeli hostages per day and a proportionate release of palestinians. today, prime minister benjamin netanyahu addressed his country for the first time since the israeli parliament approved the deal last night. he said the red cross will be allowed to see and treat the remaining hostages. he also vowed that israel's military campaign will continue until hamas is dismantled. the deal comes as the debate over the hamas attack rages on within israel. according to a poll by the hebrew language newspaper, 80% of israelis believe prime minister netanyahu must take responsibility for the security failures exposed by the attack. and his approval ratings have plummeted, beyond israel's border, a wider debate looms over the humanitarian consequences of bibi's war. netanyahu is israel's longest-serving prime menster. he was first elected as a right wing party candidate in 1996. he returned to power in 2009 and has been prime minister for 13 of the past 14 years. notably, for most of the time hamas has been in charge of gaza. for someone whose current mission in life is to eradicate hamas, bibi has actually done a lot to prop up the militant group. it may sound like a head scratcher until you remember that his prime directive has always been a vehement opposition to a two-state solution. bolstering hamas rule in gaza helped undermine the palestinian authority in the west bank. divide and conquer was the plan. as well as empowering israeli settlers in the occupied west bank and the far right and in some cases racist religious parties currently in his governing coalition. that's to say nothing of his current legal problems, pending indictments against him and his wife for corruption and his push to essentially take control of israel's supreme court. and if all of that sounds trump-illy, familiar, an israeli newspaper, haarietz described him as this, for over a decade, netanyahu has lent a hand in various ways to the growing military and political power of hamas. netanyahu is the one who turned hamas from a terror organization to a semistate body, releasing palestinian prisoners, allowing cash transfers with the knowledge that much of the material will be designated with terrorism. all created symbiosis flowering of fundamentalist terrorism and the preservation of netanyahu's rule. joining me now is eamon moi dean and he covered the israeli-palestinian conflict as a foreign correspondent. will bunch, columnist and dr. tonya hodge hassan pediatric intensive care with doctors without borders, co-founder of the social media platform gaza medic voices. thank you both for being here. dr. hassan, i want to start with you just to get your reaction to this deal that will allow the red cross to go in and see israeli and other hostages and will also allow humanitarian groups begin operating and delivering fuel and medical supplies into gaza. give us your take on this deal that hasn't happened yet but seems to be in the works. >> you know, i've been saying since day one, this is one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes that myself and many in the humanitarian sector have seen. and everyday it just gets worse. i think we're at a point right now where humanitarian aid is so desperately needed. and we're still negotiating, letting in drops of what is needed across the gaza strip. i will welcome any humanitarian aid, but what has -- what we have seen on the ground so far has been nominal, hasn't been anywhere near what is needed. winter is coming. there are 1.5 million internally displaced people within the gaza strip. and we can talk at some point about the injured, but i'm at the moment just talking about those who are displaced with no access to clean water, suffering from starvation and all the illnesses that we're starting to see as a result of displacement or unsanitary conditions or water-born diseases. so any amount of aid is welcome, but what is needed is a cease fire so that we can have unhindered humanitarian aid going into the gaza strip. i think there needs to be medical checks, of course, on the hostages, but also on the entire civilian population in the gaza strip of which we know at this point 20,000 are injured and in need of urgent medical attention. >> let me go to you. daniel levi made the point yesterday and it's a smart point that this is a deal that bibi netanyahu had to make. he's facing increasing opposition to himself inside of his own country, protests, people marching against him including families of some of these hostages. the humanitarian catastrophe just described is exploding protests around the world. there's a lot of pressure and i assume the biden administration feels the pressure as the u.s. is owning some of this as well. talk about the imperatives for him to make this deal and what it means to him politically. seems the more hostages that come out, particularly as all the israeli citizen hostages come out, there's no deal for the other nationality hostages. there's no more incentive to stop the bombardment. >> yeah. look, honestly we have known about an offer to release the hostages through negotiations, through mediation really from almost the first couple of days of this war. there was a cell that was created immediately after october 7th to begin the process of trying to diplomatically release these hostages. so it was very early on that the israeli government was presented with what many believe were two fundamentally opposite objectives. one, release the hostages to destroy hamas as they stated, two. those two almost could not have happened in tangent by military force alone. and so from day one, the prime minister of israel found himself in a situation where a lot of critics were saying you are ultimately going to get to this point. yes, the military operation could strengthen your hand in negotiation. it could lessen the demands of hamas. but ultimately in order to secure the release of 200 plus hostages the middle of 2.2 million people that you don't know where they are, you are going to have to rely on negotiations to get them. now he has found himself in somewhat of a dead end road. 5,000 children dead, 13,000, 14,000 palestinians killed overall, 46% of the population either displaced or have their residence or buildings destroyed, the international pressure is mounting the leaders of the security services, the idf, the isa, everybody telling him, you have to release the hostages through negotiations, plus the families. so he ultimately came to this conclusion that the safest way to do it and perhaps the easiest way to do it is through diplomacy. hamas demonstrated early on in this process by releasing those two americans and those two elderly israeli women that they were prepared to release the hostages through diplomacy. so we're back to where we could have been without the casualties, without the loss of life on the palestinian side and with a much better success rate of releasing all the hostages than where we could have been earlier on than where we are today. >> let me ask you a follow-up question ayman because we know that of the hostages that are there, we don't know precise numbers of nationalities but there are a substantial number of migrant workers who work in like land and india and the philippines who are among the hostages. according to nbc news the latest guidance we have gotten, this negotiation is only for israeli citizen and dual-national hostages, mainly american. is there any reporting on the whether the governments of these other countries, some are british nationals but of indian extraction, et cetera, are other governments having separate negotiations to get their people out? again, once the israeli nationals are out, the question is, is there an incentive to stop the bombardment of gaza because the continued bombardment not only obviously creates a humanitarian crisis, it create ascariasis for those hostages, too? >> it certainly does. i think the way to approach this is to think of the hostages in a few different categories. and let's say what we do know is close to 70 are israeli soldiers. those 70 israeli soldiers hamas has made clear they are not going to release under any condition until or unless it is through diplomacy or mediation that requires a complete end of the hostilities. so, even if we release all of the israeli hostages through mediations, the qatari government said it is open to negotiating with any government wanting to get its hostages released. trying to figure out what to do to release those held captive by hamas in gaza. for its part, hamas said clearly they do not want civilians. they do not want women and children and foreign workers. and they're prepared to release them, but their conditions for releasing them require the end of hostilities so they can consolidate these hostages which they say to this day not all have under their control. some have been taken by other palestinian factions and militant groups. >> will bunch, you wrote a couple columns to -- he is a cautionary tale for americans. please explain. >> well, exactly. i mean, you mentioned in your introduction some of the parallels to donald trump. and the fact that he's under criminal indictment just as donald trump is important because a lot of israeli citizens feel that his actions, both before october 7th and maybe to some extent after october 7th have been motivated by his efforts to, you know, stay out of jail, put off these corruption charges. you know, opinion polls in israel have shown the israeli people by and large are tired of his leadership. you know, the polls i've seen it's divided between people who want to leave as prime minister right now and people who are willing to let him finish out this war and then want him to go immediately after. so it's interesting. and you have to wonder today in announcing this deal he said once we first name these exchanges the war is back on. and you just have to wonder again how much of this is self preservation. one reason it's funny is i'm a domestic columnist, i have been writing because he's a cautionary tale for electing donald trump. not just the legal parallels, which are pretty remarkable but also just to form his government, he took a sharp right turn, which, you know, and he's adopted some really extreme ministers, the ones you heard making some of these comments about reducing gaza to rubble. and, you know, here with donald trump in the u.s., he also sees taking a far right turn as his path to returning to the presidency. some of these extreme people like steven miller he's surrounded with and some of his extreme ideas. you know, history in the 20th century has shown that far right authoritarians have very miltistic policies and their policies end up in war. and i think that's something that american voters should look at what's happened with netanyahu and think about what it might mean returning donald trump to the white house. >> i appreciate all of you being here. i wish we had more time, but we are out of time. ayman, will bunch, dr. tawnya hassan, very illuminating conversation. thank you all very, very much. before we go to break, we are following today's developing story from niagara falls where earlier today a car crashed and exploded at a u.s./canada border check point. authorities say two people in the car were killed. nbc news obtained exclusive video of the car appearing to travel at high speed, hitting a median and going airborne. late today new york governor 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safety precautions that would safety protections that would prevent ads from appearing next to harmful content. last week one of their journalists reported that ads for media companies were being placed alongside memes portraying naziism. a spiritual awakening and a hitler quotes. to be clear, media matters did not invent the anti-semitic tweets and didn't falsely place the images side by side, they just pointed out that this was happening. shortly after the media matters report came out, companies like ibm, lion's gate, comcast, our parent company, apple and disney among others decided to pause their advertising on x twitter. according to data from a market intelligence firm, those companies represent 7% of x's u.s. ad revenue this year. the exodus came at the same time that musk was promoting and agreeing with someone who was pushing the notion that jewish people support white genocide. in the texas-based lawsuit x claims that media matters manipulated the x algorithm by following 30 accounts made up of only anti-semitic users and large companies and did so by undertaking excessive scrolling and refreshing. musk's lawsuit was cheered by right wing politicians like right wing texas attorney general ken paxton, you know, the guy who was impeached and later acquitted for abuse of power, bribery and hooking his mistress up with a gig in austin so he could mean her sur uppity shously. he said he would examine the issue closely to ensure the public has not been -- would like nothing more than to limit freedom by reducing participation in the public square. apparently, the attorney general of missouri will do the same. angela, the president and ceo of media matters tweeted, this is a frivolous lawsuit meant to bully x's krit irks into silence. media matters stands behind its reporting and look forward to winning in court. meanwhile the social media platform remains a welcome space for you name it. while musk personally decides seemingly randomly what words, phrases and ideas he will ban that day. it's almost as if his interpretation of freedom of speech is lettingsolute people and bots say what they want as long as elon agrees with them. joining me is president and ceo of media matters, ben collins, nbc news senior reporter. angela, i want to start with you. what is excessive scrolling and was media matters excessively scrolling and faking the symmetry or the close association of content with nazi stuff? >> i think that they're trying to describe just the general use of twitter. that's what you do on twitter. you look at your feed. and then it refreshes. and that's -- just like they use the word manipulate -- that nip late the public, but even in their own statements acknowledge that everything we reported was completely accurate. so, you know, that's what i think they mean by it. they're just trying to make it sound dastardly. the more broad issue, the thing i would point out, this is one of many reports and we're not the only people to have this phenomena. we have been pushing on this issue specifically on pro-nazi and hitler content since august. and, x has been engaging, saying, hey, we're going to fix this. we're ramping up our brand safety stuff, they're the ones making claims that they are supposed to be preventing ads from running alongside adjacent to this kind of extremist content. so it doesn't really matter how we used it, how many times we hit refresh. if ultimately the ads shouldn't be there in the first place because that's the standard that they're setting. and it shows they're not doing the very thing they're saying and that's what the report was designed to illustrate. >> and ben, you check twitter so we don't have to as i describe your job. i mean, you probably do a lot of excessive scrolling. because i can say that just as a former user who has jumped off the platform because of the increasing sort of nazi vibe of it which used to be in the early days, 2008, 2009 when i first got on it was awful and got awful again and a lot of people just don't want to use it anymore. number one, is the phenomenon of increasing sort of nazi-like and anti-semitic content, is that something in your reporting that's real. and number two, how is it that advertisers are only now deciding to get off the platform? it surprised me that it just happened only recently. >> i have no idea why it took so long. i will say it is absolutely real and also there's a reason you have to excessively scroll to do that. i mean that technologically. elon set a precedent where looking under the hood of twitter was turned off. there's a thing called api access where you can basically look at the fundamentals, the technological, the actual amount of stuff that's going through twitter at any given moment. researchers used to be able to look at this stuff. but when elon bought it, for this reason, he made it so you can no longer see behind the scenes like that. a lot of places like facebook sort of fol