on msnbc. it's time for american voices with alecia menendez. >> thank you so much. hello everyone. we start with the release of 20 more hostages in gaza. 13 are israeli detainees and seven are foreign nationals. this is the second group of hostages to be released as a part of a cease-fire deal between hamas and israel. hamas delayed the release of this group for hours claiming israel violated the terms of the agreement. ey arrived in israel a short while ago. the alleged violations include continued attacks on civilians in gaza by israeli forces and mitions in aid from gaza. the white house has working with qatar, egypt and israel in implementation of the deal. the cease-fi is supposed to last for four days. the truth started yesterday after the four-day period, israel plans to resume ground attacks on gaza for at least the next two months. the health ministry in gaza said israel has already killed an estimated 14,500 civilians 5000 of which, were children. tell us how this deal nearly fell apart and what we know about how it was then put back together? >> this has been a nerve- racking evening here in israel, and in gaza, a couple of hours ago, hamas announced that it was delaying the release of the hostages, it was slamming on the rakes of this agreement, and they accused israel of breaching this deal in two ways, they said first of all israel is not allowing aid trucks to get it to the devastated regions of northern gaza where the fighting has been most intense, israel has been urging palestinian civilians to leave that area and it's not been allowing them to return during the course of the cease-fire and it doesn't want to do anything that would allow them to return home, so it's been reluctant to allow aid into the area. the second thing is, hamas saying israel failing to abide by a commitment to release palestinian prisoners by order of how long they have been in prison, hamas said the deal was, the longest-serving palestinian prisoners would be released first. now, we don't know the exact terms of this agreement. it is highly secret. we do know that yesterday israel released prisoners who had been serving for less time, the longest-serving prisoners remained inside prison. the israeli military tonight, flatly denying that it in any way breached the agreement and it fell once again to the qatari's, the mediators, who brokered this deal to salvage it because it did look like we might be on the verge of collapse. the foreign ministry saying that would help from egypt and help from the united states, they were able to bridge the gap and a few hours later, we saw the hostages being loaded into those white jeeps of the red cross in southern gaza. it's now a familiar choreography, they were taken through the rafah border crossing into egypt, crossing over . we now have an official list of those 13 israeli hostages, they range from toddlers to grandmothers and i'll tell you just about one family, the youngestages released tonight is three-year- old, she was released along with her eight-year-old brother and their mom, but their father remains a hostage of hamas. for all the joy and all the relief that their extended family will feel, her father is still inside gaza and there's no timeline for when he will be returned. >> absolutely was. i want to pull of the video we were just showing so we can show our audience what it is, it is video from the idf, the van that you see is hostages crossing over into israel. we talked about the hostages that have just been released. what more do we know about who it is that were in the fans? >> according to the israeli prime minister, today, hamas released 13 israeli hostages, as well as for high hostages. of the 13 israeli hostages, the majority of them are children, seven being released, the pictures that you are seeing were children, they also released an official list, identifying the names of the hostages, ranging in age from 3 to 67, they grouped this list by families. the weiss family, sherry weiss, 53 years old, the statement saying the israeli government together with all the security forces will accompany them and their families. now that they have crossed over into egypt, they will be taken to five distinct hospitals in israel for medical treatments, and then they will be reunited with their families. i can tell you, i have been in contact with thomas hand, he is the father, single father of emily hand, she's listed as eight years old but i know that she is now nine, she turned nine in captivity. on october 7th, when hamas militants told -- stormed their cupboards, she was at a sleepover with her best friend and she was kidnapped but days later, thomas was told that emily was dead. and it wasn't until weeks later that he was notified by israeli authorities that she was alive, believed to be a hostage and now, we are seeing images of him being reunited with family inside israel. it's a remarkable story but it's one of many. in terms for the process for tomorrow, we do not know the number of hostages or the timing, there's much we do not know but it is expected that the families, tomorrow, or today, rather, have received a phone call, the remaining hostages, letting them know if their loved ones will in fact be released tomorrow, if they are on the list. it's been described by families we've been talking today, as a harrowing weight, once they get the call, either way they say that each release gives them hope for the next release, and potentially the next release for as long as this goes. >> you hear many of the hostages saying that the hostages have become a family and a unit unto themselves. we have been reminded over and over again today how tenuous these deals are. one of the sticking points has been getting aid into gaza, humanitarian aid into gaza. where does the effort stand tonight? >> it remains the case that even while there are hundreds of eight trucks now crossing over from egypt into gaza, it is just a fraction, an absolute fraction of what people in gaza need, for 49 days, they have been under intense israeli bombardment in retaliation for the october 7th hamas attack. they have been besieged, there has been only an absolute trickle of the basic necessities coming in, most of gaza, still without electricity. many places without running water, and one of the big questions is how does this situation in the north work? we have seen crowds of palestinians gathering on main roads in gaza, during the cease- fire, and they want to go back to their homes in gaza city, in the refugee camp, in the northern areas, they want to see for starters, if their homes are still standing because the un says about half of all the homes in gaza have been destroyed. and they want to go back and get things that they weren't able to carry when they fled in the first place. and the israeli military is for for bidding that. they have effectively do -- divided gaza, we've heard reports of them firing into the air, to, at least two palestinians were killed by israeli fire, after the cease- fire began in one of those confrontations at the checkpoints, and while the cease-fire is holding in the big picture sense that we are not seeing israeli forces exchanging fire with either hamas or palestinian islamic jihad, there's a lot of concern about these crowds of palestinians and the possibility that israeli forces really use live fire to keep them back. >> thank you both. i like to bring in whitehurst -- white house correspondent allie raffa. >> reporter: we've seen that credit even by israeli and qatari officials who credit the president's direct involvement, his continued pressure, for sealing this deal and we know that engagement continue today, before, during and after this hours long caused by hamas in the releasing of these hostages. we know that president biden spoke with qatari leaders about this cause and what obstacles needed to be overcome to continue the release of these hostages, according to an official white house readout, the leaders agreed to remain in close contact, to ensure that this deal is fully implemented according to its terms. we know the security officials were in touch all day with their counterparts, on what needed to be accomplished to be able to see what we are seeing now with the release of these hostages back into israel, and they say it was around 1:30 p.m., eastern time that qatari officials let them know that this deal was back on and the international red cross was in route to pick up these hostages, and bring them back into israel, they say the president continues to be updated on the latest there. but the last few hours, just underscoring how incredibly fluid and delicate these negotiations, this deal in general, has been, that something we heard the president and white house officials say in the weeks following this war, how incredibly fragile it is and how every single piece of this moving puzzle has to fit perfectly for the successes to continue. the president thing yesterday that he continues to be in touch with his counterparts in egypt and qatar, and as the deal has come to fruition, it still not over, they're hoping americans are among the next patches of hostages being released. >> what are you hearing about the american hostages? >> reporter: we know, obviously, that americans were not among the hostages released today, but the president said he continues to be hopeful that at least three, two american women as well as a four-year- old girl, are among the hostages released in the coming days. so the next two days that the cease-fire is set to be in place, the president, in just the last hour, asked by reporters in nantucket, when we could expect to see more hostages released and he said hopefully we will see something soon but at least they were learning tonight from u.s. officials, that tell nbc that there is concern that hamas may be waiting until potentially the fourth and final day to release american hostages, so that the u.s. continues to pressure israel to keep the cease-fire in place. so more aid will be able to flow into gaza but these officials say they don't have an independent official assessment to be able to confirm that. so right now, we continue to hear from the president as well as officials that they are hopeful that they will be released and so far, there's no indication, letting them know that there is less of a chance that they will be released considering the first two hostages released by hamas two weeks after the war began work in american mother and daughter. >> thank you. new developments in donald trump civil trial, after hundreds of thousands of threatening email's are sent to the judge and his court. as trump's trials drag on, will his water carriers step in on his behalf. later, elon musk goes after media matters for its reporting. the company's president is here to respond. first, richard louis with the other big stories we are tracking this hour, richard? 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>> 100%. look, i think , will do whatever it takes to get picked and his vice presidential running mate and so she's going to spend all of her time defending donald trump, doing whatever she can to intimidate the courtroom, as well as she's been doing already within the house to try to get his agenda enacted, so they have no regard for the process, this should be in serious process and trump is out there attacking this judge and all court officials, every single day, the things that you say are beneath any person, let alone a major candidate for the presidency. so the first amendment is one thing, but you can't also put people in danger and what his words are doing is actually putting people in danger, he is setting up something very dangerous if he got reelected president. i think he is basically telling us that he's going to go after his enemies and needs the justices to do so. >> the ethics complaint that elise stefanik filed has nothing in actually to do with the pause on this gag order. we've seen just how dangerous he can be. he has ramped up tax on the judge in the case, meanwhile you've got house speaker johnson recently visiting trump in mar-a-lago even though we could be barreling toward another government shutdown without any specific packages past, the statement of priority seems pretty clear. >> i mean mike johnson, i don't even think he knows what he's doing. he had to go down to mar-a-lago to get his marching orders from trump. he is fully in the pocket like elise stefanik from donald trump, that's what the goal is to try and damage and hurt biden in any way they can and ensure that he is reelected, that's why they are there, that is why trump supported his election to speaker, and he's done everything he can, to align himself from these extreme voices in the party. mike johnson also has no plan, of course we have acr which by the way, democrats are the one that got that across the finish line, he can't control his own caucus, they are already rebelling against him and the main thing on his agenda this week is going to be the expulsion of george santos. so he really has nothing in front of the american people, so we are going to continue to work hard every day and push back but i think like johnson has a lot to answer for. how is he going to solve the budget crisis and save american jobs, how will he save the american economy and what is his position going to be on the expulsion of george santos that will be up this week? a lot of folks are ready to listen. >> that start where you ended because yes, part of this is seeing where the speaker is on the expulsion of punishment santos, there's also just a question as you and i have talked about before of the map, do you feel you now have the numbers? >> i think we do. in fact, besides all democrats that will be united i'm sure, many democrats have voted not to expel him for a variety of different reasons, they have all said they were going to, we've seen an avalanche of republicans come through, particularly the ones that said they would not expel him, they are now saying that they would. george santos himself has said even as early as last night that he thinks he is going to be expelled, and he's right. and what i told him last night, we were on a twitter space together and i told him look, you should do the right thing right now, and resign, why are you putting yourself through this horrible idea but more important, why are you putting your constituents and the american people through this? he owes everyone a huge apology. he should do the right thing tonight and resign. if he does not resign, we are going to expel him next week. >> i want to pull a thread through all of these stories because i think it's easy to see them as bird stories but you and i know there's a through line and we talk about someone like elise stefanik carrying water , when you talk about the santos expulsion and the fact that the speaker is not clear on where he stands on that. all of it is happening along the backdrop of the fact that what everyone should be doing is focusing on governing, should be focusing on permanently funding our government so as we look ahead, putting aside all of that nonsense, if you think the party currently in charge of the house of representatives is going to be able to carry it over the finish line? >> absolutely not, the truth is, our government is largely broken today because of the attacks, relentless attacks on our institution by donald trump. we have george santos today because of donald trump. elise stefanik who used to have a broader worldview of how to help improve the government has completely gone off the deep end as an extremist even within her own party of the one thing that kind of ties all this together is donald trump's grip on his party, on his base, and he has destroyed much of our faith in government, our faith in media. we have to do everything we can to ensure that he does not become president again. his marching orders that he's giving to johnson and those in congress, we will try and fight back every single time. we've got to get a budget passed and into this whole charade of different budget deals passing that will never pass the senate. >> thank you for taking the time to be with us. next, we will breakdown the other recent twist and turns in donald trump's legal sagas plus hamas releases more hostages after threatening to delay the deal. new video of their release, details, straight ahead. and everything ships free! plus, pay your way with the wayfair credit card. shop wayfair's lowest prices of the year during black friday now through nov 27th. ♪ wayfair, you've got just what i need ♪ sleep more deeply. and wake up rejuvenated. purple mattresses exclusive gel flex grid draws away heat. relives pressure and instantly adapts. sleep better live purple. right now save up to $900 dollars off mattress sets during purple's black friday sale. visit purple.com or a store near you today. my most important kitchen tool? 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