targeting a safe house and training facilities used by iranian affiliated groups. that s according to the pentagon. we ve got the latest on the significant escalation in the middle east amid rising tensions. plus, on defense, donald trump jr. back on the stand, the first witness for the defense in the new york civil fraud trial calling his dad today a visionary. what impact will his testimony have. and could the qanon shamon go back to washington, after serving 27 months behind bars, he s filing paperwork to run for congress. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to begin in gaza with one doctor in al-shifa hospital saying 600 patients need care, there isn t food and water among other things needed. erin mclaughlin is in tel aviv. you talked to a doctor inside al-shifa this morning. what did he tell you. reporter: that s right, chris. as the israeli military has pushed further and further into gaza city, there s desperation at a numbe
he s trying to sow doubt and undermine the credibility of this newly appointed special counsel. what will matter for his future is what happens in the croom and what we saw last week in atlanta, the former presidents attorneys arguing before three gop appointed judges, two appointed by the former president trump, and he was not appearing to buy the arguments that trump attorneys were making. one corrected a trump attorney for referring to what happened in mar-a-lago as a raid. it was a little bench slap. look, while the former president is making these accusation, calling people names on social media, jack smith, is making filings in court on thanksgiving, he took a moment to fact-check something that trump lawyers said in court during that appeals hearing. a parallel they tried to make between this case, the mar-a-lago, independent third party reviewing the documents and the rudy giuliani investigation in new york. he said look, that s not true. while the former president is doing the
special master. that went in a word, terribly, for donald trump. even chief judge, actually seen as one of the biggest judges he threw up his hand literally said, what are we even doing here? it was in the wake of that argument that donald trump s lawyers made what is called a supplemental submission. a notice of supplemental authority to alert the court to the existence of the special master in the rudy giuliani investigation. and jack, smith as the special counsel, aided by the doj lawyers responded quickly on thanksgiving day, no less. and said, that case has nothing to do with the circumstances governing the mar-a-lago records investigation. that was a search involving an attorney s office, where privileged issues were rampant on the attorney client privilege to mention. and the department of justice consented to the appointment of a special master there. and there was no additional new civil litigation in order to essentially go in search of
disagreement, the government wants this to be wrapped up ipabout five weeks. trump and his team says three months is what they re envisioning, a much bigger delay. and of course the government says trump team should pay the cost of the special master. and the trump team says they should split that cost. the names of the four lawyers that they recommended, former retired judge barbara jones who is doing the special master review of rudy giuliani s investigation, also documents from the rudy giuliani investigation. she also did the michael cohen case. the former retired judge, again, from the district court in d.c. circuit whose name is tom griffith. and on the trump side they re recommending ramon deery, a former chief judge in the eastern district of new york, and paul huck jr. who is a former jones day partner, jones day representative of the trump campaign in 2016.
11,000 seized records from his florida beach club. over 11,000 records that include top secret and classified documents and empty folders. moments ago, the justice department and team trump jointly filed armored motion concerning that special master. judge aileen cannon asked that decides to come together to suggest a list of people to potentially be that special master. and to no one s surprise, the two sides do not agree. this literally just in, hot off the presses. the justice department puts forth to former federal judges, the honor of barbara as jones, and thomas griffith. interestingly enough, they were both appointed by republican presidents, and barbara jones was a special master in the michael cohen and rudy giuliani investigation. meanwhile, team trump has put forth the honor raymond thierry and paul hawk jr.. a reminder, the final decision, if there is a special master, and that is a gigantic if here, because the doj is in the midst of fighting a special master