To accept it, the g7 countries just put out a statement yesterday calling on hamas to come to the table, do the deal, get the cease fire, get the hostages home. that s what president biden is focused on. reporter: the president is overseas in france, chris, but he has been getting regular updates and briefings about any developments here, and he has been asking his top officials to make sure he is on the loop on all of that that s happening because as you can imagine, other world leaders, his counter parts throughout these key meetings will be asking about this and also putting international and diplomatic pressure on the u.s. to continue to ask that it do everything it can to see if this hostage negotiation and cease fire deal can come to fruition. that s also why you saw the national security adviser meet with the hostage families of those americans who are still believed to be held in gaza. yesterday it was his ninth such meeting, and these are regular communications that we expect to continue, but the families as you can imagine are just as bracing for any kind of news
Here and hoping for some positive development out of this. and they also still believe this is something that could happen. it s just a matter of when and how, which of course is very complex, chris. so, josh, let me ask you about northern israel, the ongoing clashes between israeli defense forces and hezbollah, which appears to be escalating in recent weeks. now some members of netanyahu s coalition, the same people who oppose a cease fire in gaza are calling for outright war in lebanon. tell us what s happening there? over the last several days, we have seen fires erupting in northern israel. you re seeing the pictures of it right now, as a result of rocket fire coming from lebanon. we should say the back and forth between israel and hezbollah has been going on for months since the start of israel s war in gaza. we have talked about it on the show plenty of times, and there has been a cycle of repeated concern that this could go beyond this tit for tat back and forth into an actual all-out war.
International space station. the last four years, it was spacex, they had a monopoly on getting astronauts to the space station. this is a busy week when it comes to what is slated, what is scheduled for launches this week because we not only had this his historic moment, remember, quickly, chris, i want to mention, starship is supposed to be part of the mission to the moon, so, again, a busy week, but exciting week for space news, chris. marissa parra, thank you, and that does it for this hour. make sure to join us for chris jansing reports, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. our coverage continues with katy tur reports right now. good to be with you. i m katy tur. what will happen if donald trump
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Because what rishi sunak wanted people to be left with is you are going to be to grant worse off under labour because your taxes will go up, and if that is based, as chris has said, on dubious presentation, it is only right that is called out. the political strategy. the conservatives i should also say reckon conservatives i should also say reckon that at least some of their numbers reckon that at least some of their numbers are a under estimate of what the bill numbers are a under estimate of what the bill could be or the cost could be. the bill could be or the cost could be but the bill could be or the cost could be. but when you unpack the whole thing. be. but when you unpack the whole thing. i be. but when you unpack the whole thing, i think it is reasonable to come thing, i think it is reasonable to come to thing, i think it is reasonable to come to that conclusion, and there will be come to that conclusion, and there will be bigger arguments going on in both of will be bigger arguments going on in both of the two big westminster parties both of the two big westminster parties as to whether or not this very parties as to whether or not this very row, parties as to whether or not this very row, who this very rail service because very row, who this very rail service because does it somehow dripped into the bloodstream for the vast majority the bloodstream for the vast majority of people who pay not a vast amount of attention to politics vast amount of attention to politics. there is this thing going on about politics. there is this thing going on about labour and higher taxes.
And also just that whole thing of rishi sunak sort of drawing equal orjust going ahead of keir starmer in one poll might feel like a massive victory to some conservatives because in the other polls they re so far behind labour. so actually, a draw is winning even if we re then looking at other polls which are something completely different. anyway, i have learned over the years that my predictive skills are not very good. i have amongst friends in the pub when things have been happening, i ve predicted something and inevitably ended up being wrong. i m happy to admit it, and that s why i don t make predictions any more. apart from last night. i didn t even stick to my script like a leader performed badly. you have a script? my mental script. what s that? touche, touche. chris has a notepad in front of him. if you re not watching this and just listening, as soon as the labour are going to put up your taxes by £2,000, i said, that is going to become a big deal. i wasn t sure in which direction the deal was going to go, whether it would be disastrous for labour because people would be
And so you wonder if by doing that, as chris said, you know, they ve now got people talking about it for 24 hours. and i don t know what that strategy is and i m not professing to. but you have to have all of that in your mind and it plays into that broader strategy that we ve seen from the conservatives in the last fortnight. it is by now by the way, now two weeks. oh, happy anniversary. cheers, everyone. two weeks done and four weeks to go. not that we re counting, but that s kind of where we are. two weeks ago, when i was getting soaked in downing street. i completely lost my train of thought. any particular garment scott particular? any particular garment particular? no, let s not dwell on that again. i ll pick up from what you were saying there, though, chris. i mean, there s still a bit more of this to run because the office of the statistical regulator is looking into it. i ve seen this sort of thing happen all the time where people get reported to the watchdogs and then a few weeks later the watchdogs go, oh, that wasn t quite an accurate use of stats. and it comes at no cost to the person who said the initial stats. it s water under the bridge. i just wonder though, with this level of scrutiny
Of the other parties have been doing something of this ilk well before something of this ilk. well before the debate, which was quite interesting last night. there is, as i mentioned, this room where all the journalists gather. now, in that room, jonathan ashworth, who is labour s shadow paymaster general, was walking around pre debate with what he called a dossier, so a wad of papers that labour had drawn up and stapled together with what they claimed was outlining all of the conservatives unfunded spending commitments which amounted to billions of pounds. so there is claim and counterclaim on each side. but back to chris point about why this 2000 figure has got such traction today is because rishi sunak repeated it live on air in a debate in front of millions of people for time and time and time again. and i think when something has been given that prominence by one of the players involved, it s only right that you do an examination of of the kind of, you know, the accuracy of the claim that he was making. but other parties are throwing around this kind of stuff as well. and, of course, this argument around unfunded spending commitments
Politician a liar, 0k, that might not seem that big a deal in normal speech, but it kind of political speech it s a big deal. really, really quickly, you ve also just got to wonder as a pull back, as we talk about this, what that claim and counter claim and accusations and figures and whatever thrown around just does to people watching all of this and looking on and thinking, you know, blimey, we re two weeks into an election campaign, i ve got to make a decision about the prime minister of the united kingdom, who that s going to be, and this claim and counter claim is where we re at. alex, thank you very much. pleasure, as always. and chris, thanks to you, too. thank you. newscast from the bbc.
Or spending commitments at all is a hugely key part of this election campaign, which is why you re seeing it from both sides. and the other bit that s chucked round is that parties do point out that other parties have asked civil servants to do costings of their opponents plans in the past. so, you know, it s convoluted, but i think it s important you try and unpick it because you know, what rishi sunak wanted people to be left with was you re going to be two ground worse off under labour because your taxes are going to go up. and, you know, if that is based, as chris has said, on dubious presentation, then it s only right that that s kind of called out. yeah. but then the political strategy you know, from the conservatives. by the way, i should also say on all of this, reckon that at least some of their numbers are a underestimate of what the bill could be or the or the other cost could be. but i think, as i say, when you unpack the whole thing, i think it s reasonable to come to that conclusion.