the stand. his testimony a day after paul pelosi shared his chilling first memory after the attack, saying quote, he remembers waking up in a pool of blood. plus right now, powerful images are coming out of d.c. tens of thousands of people standing together. a forceful show of support for israel. loved ones of hostages demanding their release today while the idf shares heartbreaking news that a 19-year-old that was being held captive is now dead. what we know about her, the revelation that one israeli peace activist thought to be held hostage in gaza was actually killed on october 7th. and a lot of new developments there. our nbc news reporters are following all of those developments but we begin on capitol hill where we just heard from that senator who stood up seemingly ready to fight a witness before the committee. ali vitali is reporting for us. what did he say, ali? basically, no regrets, chris. he defended his actions that happened during the committee hearing. look