good to be with you, i'm katy tur. we're watching a couple of stories, incoming an update from the governor of maine on the mass shooting last week. we're going to bring the news out of that. first, there are some major developments out of israel. the idf says it freed a hostage inside gaza. colonel yuri magadesh was e retrieved. she is said to be in good condition. as for the rest of the hostages, prime minister benjamin netanyahu today argued the ground incursion and intense bombardment are helpful. >> our common assessment of all of the not only cabinet members but the security forces and the military is that the ground action actually creates the possibility, not the certainty, but the possibility of getting our hostages out. because hamas will not do it unless they're under pressure. they simply will not do it. >> you'll notice netanyahu was speaking in english there. that was a press conference for foreign media, an acknowledgment that israel needs to convince the world to be on its side of the war. >> calls far cease fire are calls for israel to surrender to hamas, to surrender to terrorism, to surrender to barbarism, that will not happen. israel's fight is your fight because if hamas and iran's axis of evil win, you will be their next target. that's why israel's victory will be your victory. but make no mistake, regardless of who stands with israel, israel will fight until this battle is won. >> with a growing purported death toll, devastating images of bombings and a humanitarian crisis in gaza, international sentiment is fractured, as is support for netanyahu. his confidence polling has nose dived in israel and apart from furious families of hostages who say he's shown a lack of empathy, along with his refusal to take responsibility for the intelligence and security laps on october 7th. in new reporting from the "new york times," based on dozens of intervieithmerican officials, along with israeli government documents, the paper says it's clear the attacks w possible because of a cascade o failures over recent years, includinsonal lapses by nenyahu himself who ignored repeated warnings from israeli security officials that the polica turmoil caused by h domestic policy was weakening the country's security, and emboldening israel's enemies. joining us now from jerusalem tonight is nbc news foreign correspondent raf sanchez. let's start with the news today. what do we know about the effort to get this hostage or how this hostage came to be freed? >> this is a rare moment of hope for israel, three weeks into the country's worst ever hostage crisis. the israeli military saying the young woman, a private in the israeli military was freed inside of gaza by israeli troops. they say she is medically in good condition. they released a photograph of her with her family, smiling. we don't know what she has been through over the last three weeks, what she has sewn. from the outside, she seemed to be in good condition. this is the first time israel has been able to free one of the 239 hostages held inside gaza. four hostages had been released previously by hamas in a time and a place of hamas's choosing. this is giving some israelis perhaps new confidence that there may be a way to free these remaining hostages through israel's ground operation. prime minister netanyahu as you said appearing in a press conference speaking in english, speaking to the international community, and he was making the case that rather than this ground operation spelling the end of the window of opportunity to get these hostages back through negotiation, he argues that hamas will be under renewed pressure because of the presence of israeli forces inside gaza, and that will make it more likely that he will negotiate for the hostages. the term being thrown around in israel right now is an everyone for everyone deal. the families of israeli hostages are calling on the israeli government to release the thousands of palestinians who are being held in israeli prisons right now in exchange for all of the israeli hostages inside of gaza. that politically, for prime minister netanyahu, for his far right government, for people who murdered israelis in the past in order to secure this deal, but that is the clamor from the families. prime minister netanyahu, i guess, tonight has this counter argument that it may be possible it free these hostages by force of arms. >> let me ask you about what has been happening over the past few days. over the weekend, there was the 36-hour phone and internet blackout. what do we know about the purpose behind that? what do we know was happening inside gaza at that time, and what has been happening today? >> reporter: so the israeli military has never officially said that cutting off the internet inside of gaza was a deliberate attack, but israeli officials, including mark regev in an interview with you on friday said militarily makes sense, we don't want hamas to communicate. we don't want people broadcasting our positions. it was an absolutely nerve racking weekend for people inside gaza, unable to communicate with each other, unable to communicate with the outside world. it was a nerve racking weekend for us at nbc, we were unable to reach our crews inside gaza for much of the weekend. the internet did slowly start to come back on send, and the monitoring organization says it appears to be back at least in part now. so we are starting to see new images of the destruction that was carried out in gaza over the weekends by those intensive israeli air strikes. and people inside gaza able to renew their calls once again for more humanitarian aid, and for a cease fire, which they say is the only way to save the lives of palestinians inside the strip. >> thank you very much. joining us now is independent journalist, noga tarnopolsky, who spent two decades covering this. let's talk about benjamin netanyahu, he's under a lot of pressure. it's only increasing. what are the calls inside israeli right now? >> there are increasing calls for him to resign from increasingly prominent people, industry titans from a former head of the shimbit, but i have to say that netanyahu himself appears to be pretty committed to his handle of israeli politics and seems to be planning to remain in power for the long haul. >> he said today that a call for a cease fire is a call to surrender, that they will not do that. he said the idea that israel is at fault for hamas putting civilians in harm's way, he says when the international community repeats that, they only encourage hamas to do that more. i understand that's going to be natural spin from any government. how is that being -- how is that being received inside israel? is that being heard inside israel? is he saying the same to the israeli people? >> he is, although he has barely spoken to the israeli people. i don't think the israelis have heard a lot about, i would say, leaders with influence or significant people calling for a complete cease fire. there are calls for a humanitarian pause. there are very very loud clamorous calls within israel to release all the palestinian security prisoners, talking about some 6,000 in the hope that that would get the hostages back. although, there's no actual evidence right now visible that that is a deal being offered by hamas. that was a quote citing one of the hamas leaders that has not been corroborated that has become a slogan. i don't think anyone has any evidence, and the pressure is just going to grow. >> what about the tweet from overnight, "the new york times" came out with this article, and we detailed a little bit of it at the top, talking about all of the intelligence and security failures, not just in the days or weeks ahead of this, but in the years ahead of this, and also writing that benjamin netanyahu was warned by his security officials, warned that the unrest in israel was leading to a division within the country making them seem weak, where enemies could take advantage, but a also he himself was personally warned or tried to be personally warned about senior fishes about something brewing in gaza, and he ignored those or wouldn't even hear those warnings. what is the deal with the tweet from overnight, blaming security? >> so, you know, i'm not a psychologist. also an incomprehensible tweet. the prime minister of israel at war tweeted an attack upon his own security chiefs, blaming them for the debacle that has happened. the blow back was so harsh that for, i believe the first time in his entire publiclife, which includes having to confess to affairs and criminal indictments, i believe for the first time he apologized for anything. but it's important to note in the apology tweet that you just showed that he doesn't apologize for having blamed the security chiefs. he apologized for posting the tweet. you know, should not have been said, and i apologize for that. so i don't know. netanyahu has spent two days in a very controlled way, visiting the troops, always with full tv makeup on. his popularity appears to be very very low in israel. but i think he is really in a different space, and he seems to be very cautiously, very intentionally shoring up his image as, you know, he used to call himself israel's mr. security before the worst security breach in israeli history happened under his watch. >> noga tarnopolsky, thank you very much. coming up next, we're going to talk about the second phase of war. we're also going to talk about the intelligence failure that led up to this from somebody who has some experience with it. don't go anywhere. e with it. don't go anywhere. he hits his mark —center stage—and is crushed by a baby grand piano. you're replacing me? 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>> that's something i think we're going to talk about after we have destroyed more of the hamas capabilities. the challenging issue i'm in right now is i want to say free the palestinians from hamas. hamas is a very ideological, palestinian-based organization, and they are a horrific terror organization, and in my academic term, i'll call it, that they are a hybrid terror organization, not only a terror organization, and they have been in that expense, again a terror organization doesn't call itself a terror organization. it calls itself resistance, it calls itself in all the terms that we all have seen, freedom fighters and what they did, not just on october 7th, by the way, that's not the first time they have done the attack. the terror attack on october 7th, which was taking isis capabilities, but using them in the palestinian arena, that's taking everyone apart. i'll add in if i'm allowed to say more that they uploaded their exploits, is there a word for it, on saturday, october 7th, and they planned and pre-planned, taking it off social media from that saturday night, so what happens in the palestinian world is that we have to prove that they did what they did on october 7th. but look at what they're doing in the gaza strip. they built it as a military terror fortification to hold the hostages, and used the civilians as their upper ground. >> we're looking at a fire inside gaza from an aptn feed. i don't know what's happening there. we haven't been able to verify, but clearly something is happening. how do you uproot hamas? how do you uproot an idea? how do you not, with this extensive bombing, this ground incursion, create people who are even angrier toward israel, strident toward israel. how do you give them hope in a campaign like this? >> how do you live as the state of israel next to hamas that call for our destruction? how do you live in the state of israel next to hezbollah in lebanon that call for our destruction? there are other people in the palestinian arena. there are other people in the lebanese arena, and in that sense, do that separation between a homicidal, i don't like the terms that i use but the terror organization that calls openly for our destruction. for the last ten years, israel, we were wrong, we were hoodwinked. we thought hamas in their sense, because they said it often, ten years, 20 years, it isn't about, they never said it's not about destroying israel, by the way. all they said is they're willing in the meantime for us to exist. that's not in the cards anymore. what you try and do is you try to be in a clear voice that we're not trying to kill any civilians. we are trying to save their lives. that doesn't make it easier at the moment. i'm completely aware of the humanitarian situation. having said that, we cannot exist here when the terror organization with its capabilities exists next to us. can we take it one step at a time, can we destroy the capabilities, and then with the world, with palestinians, not us. we're for them the worst on earth, try and build something new. the idea that you can leave it to me is worse. it's as if it's your problem, not anybody else's. i want to say one more thing. if we don't destroy the terror capabilities that hamas used on october 7. if we don't show they lost, they are an inspiration, not for the palestinians. they are an inspiration for every terror organization worldwide. that is bad news for the world. >> what about the security lapse that got israel to this point, and "the new york times" did a deep dive into years of failures, this idea that ha mats -- hamas didn't have the capability. wasn't worth listening to the radio commands. this idea that it wasn't really anything that was happening, nothing to rise to the level of waking up the prime minister. how in the world -- >> i'm one of those in that sense, and i take it that i, too, if you had asked me on october 6th if this was going to be happen on october 7th, hezbollah had the exact same plan. for the last decade, we have been preparing for an all out attack against dozens of i communities, conquering, they call it, conquering the galilee. i don't think we were wrong about hezbollah. we ignored and underestimated hamas, but i want to add into this that hamas did an entire program to make us think this erroneously, and at the same that hamas was preparing this, hezbollah was preparing what it did in the north. if i can add one more point, on october 5th, thursday, the night before. israel, 50 years to the 1973 yom kippur war. and that was a huge strategic failure for israel. i, live on tv, on october 5th, was in a panel about the 1973 intelligence failure, and i was asked a brief question. could an intelligence failure like that, a strategic failure happen again, and i'm on tape on october 5th, 2023, thursday night saying it could happen tomorrow morning. and a 9/11 can happen because you're not looking for it. and an october 7th can happen because you're not looking for it, meaning the failure can happen because we're human beings, and we don't expect the horrific atrocities and we were hoodwinked, and we're going to learn. but the counter terrorism aspect is not only about israeli. this is not the palestinians against israel and securing their future. this is about a hamas terror organization succeeding where none of us want them to succeed, where they have to fail and be shown to have failed. >> miri eisen, thank you very much, wow, i appreciate your time. >> i appreciate it too, thank you, kalty. -- katy. coming up, does israel have a ground invasion in gaza. i'll be joined by richard haass in a moment. haass in a moment. that i couldn't do things without losing my breath. i couldn't make it through the airport, and every like 20 or 30 yards i had to sit down and get my breath. every physical exertion seemed to exhaust me. and finally, i went to the hospital where i was diagnosed with afib. when i first noticed symptoms, which kept coming and going, i should have gone to the doctor and told them what was happening. instead, i tried to let it pass. if you experience irregular heartbeat, heart racing, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, or light-headedness, you should talk to your doctor. afib increases the risk of stroke about 5 times i want my experience to help others understand the symptoms of atrial fibrillation. when it comes to your health, this is no time to wait. 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