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right now on "early start," the temporary truce between israel and hamas has been extended by two days. could it go even longer? plus israel has received the list of hostages that could be released today. how many and how soon. and lawyers reveal the final witness at donald trump's civil fraud trial, the former president himself will take the stand last in new york. good day to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm kasie hunt. it is 5:00 a.m. in washington, noon in gaza where israel and hamas have reached a deal to extend the four day truce that began last fr...

Line behind their president-elect? >> we don't know what they're going to do. i mean here, this was a situation, can the republicans stand a 140-character tweet from the president of their own party. obviously they couldn't. this made them look foolish. now, this is over. we'll move on to other things. i disagree tw tom. i think the ethics procedure did work. i think it was set up for the right reason. i was chairman of the caucus rules committee for the democratic party for ten years. we never tried to sneak something in at the last minute. whenever we were going to change the house rules, we...

Country, but because it would be the best for him, the party, and the country right now. maxine waters, that's one charge and has a right to defend that. these charges have been leveled against people, white, black, hispanic, you name it. >> so if there's not a rush to even coming up with these charges, these things have been going on for two years and part of it is the timing. >> but it's interesting to hear you say that charlie rangel ought to step aside because he's already not the chairman of the committee. nancy pelosi has taken him out of that. are you saying that if he runs again that w...

Private discussions about how he might handle this behind the scenes so this does not come out. nancy pelosi said they wanted to drain the swamp. they don't want ethics to be the issue. look at the low esteem congress is held in at the moment. you have enough of this only to have it be exacerbated by somebody who could be a real figure for republicans to use around the country. >> here is an odd catch-22 for the democrats. they are going through with this ethics procedure. pretty tough, showing that they did what they said they were going to do. willing to have it show up in the middle of an e...

So instead of standing up for people, the republican party stood in their way w i hope we will do better on job creation legislation next week. a loft breaking news the last 24 hours, talked about the economy. as ways and means chairman, you have gotten the gavel because of charlie rangel's ethics problems and pressure to turn it over to you, even temporarily at the time they said. what should charlie rangel do now he's faces a public session next week that many democrats feel will give the republicans a huge hammer against democrats in the midterm elections? >> there is an ethics procedure. w...