images of the civilians in gaza in the fallout of the military operation that israel has carried out there inside of gaza, and clearly the u.s. is trying to convey to israel that the images of this being broadcast around the world is having quite an impact on israel's reputation and exactly how people feel about the way that israel is acting in this operation as we speak. so they are trying to strike that balance, and secretary blin ken also talked about the painful images and videos he has seen of the gazan civilians suffering in the bombardments taking place there over the last several weeks. that is the fine line, the balancing act that the u.s. is trying to carry out here in trying to get israel to behave more constrained, but he also went on to say that there are legitimate questions of how any pause in this would take place, and clearly in the last several days, israeli military officials, and political leadership here, they have made no bones about it, that they are driven by dismantling the hamas operation, and even secretary blinken saying this afternoon that they cannot go back to preoctober 7th, political administration where hamas controls them as well. >> and now, back to natasha bertrand about what is happening behind the scenes. what we have heard at the lectern there from the secretary of state, and john and i heard it together, the mechanisms are in place to have fuel reach the hospital, and he spoke to b.b. netanyahu about the concrete steps to reach civilians and talking about a humanitarian pause to allow for the hostages to be released, but the concrete steps, it does not say yet that they are agreed to, but it seems that there is a lot more work that needs to be done be behind the scenes? >> yeah, look, kate. the secretary of state was very shaken up by the images of the attack on october 7th by hamas, and it is very clear that it was a consistent message that the israelis were sending to him in the meeting is that, look, we are not conducting this military operation in a vacuum, and this is what they did to us, and how we have to respond. so blinken is clearly sympathetic to the argument, but the conversations bethe scenes to blinken is that you are going to lose international support and it could happen within weeks and not months if you continue to carry out the operation in this way, and if the international community continues to see women and children pulled from the rubble in the gaza strip, it is going to limit your ability to carry out the mill gar objectives in a consistent way. so the dualing messages here that he is sending not only to the israeli, but to the american public, and the rest of the world is that, look, we stand by israel behind their operation here, but you have to do it right. the bottom line comes down to in this moment, the humanitarian pauses and the pauses that he wants to see in the fighting so that civilians can get out, and that aid can come in, and the hostages are released. now, the complication as we have reported in the last few minutes is that israel made it very clear to blinken, no pause in the fighting, and no pause in the air strike, unless hamas agreed to release more hostages, so they will not be giving up the operation for nothing, because they want some concrete actions taken, and they are frustrated how slowsly hamas is releasing the hostages. the administration is increasingly of the opinion that their position to not call for a cease-fire, and not call for a longer stretch of hostilities to protect civilians is going to be increasingly untenable as this goes on. >> i want to go to our chief security analyst jim sciutto who is not far from the border in lebanon, and jim we were listening to closely to how the secretary of state is speaking, and each word chosen deli deliberately. we did not hear any deliverables, and he was not going to speak on behalf of idz reel, but in past, he would say, we got a commitment to open up the border passing, and get aid in and what we heard is that we are agreeing to talk more about this or mechanisms to get fuel in there. so this is reflective of the united states but not any fruits from the efforts yet. what did you hear? >> on the question of releasing the hostages with a pause, those discussions are under way, and those pieces are not just taking place here in israel, but on the next stop in imman when he speaks to the jordanian leaders to complete the picture. some sort of exchange of the fighting to perhaps get the host hostages but i will say that one commitment that he had, and he used that term "clear commitment" is that israel will address settler violence against the palestinian constituents there, because what is common is the u.s. supporting israel's right to defend iz idz, but at the same time to respect the lives of and that they must take place in gaza and not only in the last several days we have seen the settlers attacking palestine settlers and the solders attacking the israeli soldiers adds well. so he did get an agreement to address that violence, but what are under way are talks, and negotiations, and out of ga and to have some sort of pause in hostilities, but it is clear to your point, they are not there yet. >> there is a key part of this mission bmt and this could be the most important considering what has happened in the last few weeks. over, back to ed lavandera, and control is saying that you have heard blasts behind you? >> well, over the last hour or so, we have been hearing the constant thud of the explosions in the distance. that has generally been the iron dome protection of some type, and it is difficult to discern every individual thud here, but looking off into the distance of northeast tel aviv here in the last few minutes, and we are seeing a large cloud of smoke we don't know what this is, but we have this is the concern that so many have had that are going to a sif developments of the people speaking here in the last minutes, and what is developing, and we are seeing on the ground here. >> everyone in tel aviv, joining us is the democratic congressman ro khanna serving on the foreign services committee, and thank you for jumping on and i know that you had to get away to vote, and you heard a portion of the secretary of state speaking before you had to go away, and i wanted to get your reaction from hearing from tand that we, collectively, we need to do more to protect palestinian civilians, and there needs to be talks for the humanitarian pause. what does this look like for you? >> let me be clear, the bombing of innocent civilian women and children needs to stop. it needs to stop today. this is an emerging sent >> and so it needs to go from senator chris murphy all of the way to the democrats. israel has a right to bring the hamas perpetrators to defense, but when we went after osama bin laden, we did not go after innocent civilians. and when there was the conflicts in the middle east, there was not the bombing of the person is -- what is the difference of how? how is the difference of a cease-fire, and taking out hamas and how quickly they use humans as shields. how do you pause without allowing hamas to take advantage of the pause. these are not easy questions, and in generalitgeneralities, i good, but talking about specific statements, it is more difficult. >> and it is through specific strikes, and it may take time, it took many, many years for us to go after the terrorist responsible for 9/11, but to have vast bombing in and so, if they are using humans as a shield, and so, if you have one terrorist, it is not going to justify a bombing that has women and children by the hundreds as a collateral damage. there are more surgical ways of bringing these people to justice. that is the and not just among republicans, but many, many democrats. >> and congressman, describing in detail and still seeing horrific details of the attacks by hamas, and talking about the father being killed in front of the children, and then watching the terrorist get food from the refrigerator, and it seems that the brutality of the attack has receded for so many around the world, but not in israel, and he added not in the united states. that is an observation that is rooted in fact, because if you are hearing from the comments around the world, you don't hear these days reflectionts on the terror attack itself, and why do you think that terror has receded as a force for so many? >> well, it has not receded in my district. i mean, my district has a significant israeli ex-pat community. we have a lot of technology communities in israel. i personally have had and heard gruesome stories of women, children, brutally murdered in the october 7th attacks. but, that does not mitigate the suffering and the pain that we are seeing today. women and children are being killed, and it is dominating the evening news. what secretary blinken said that i agree with, a two-state solution for a palestinian state, and for too long, america and the world has thought that we can ignore the palestinian issue, and have the abraham acc according bem and so there has to be a peace process that james baker started with the oslo according, i don't believe we will end this cycle of violence. >> let's talk about something that is in your hand, and optimistically, we are working with congress to get more aid to israel, and with your help, the democrats passed a stand alone package for israel bill last night. you voted against it, because it is not going to senate, and the president has said that he would veto it, and so other than putting the blame on this and getting through this to get aid to israel. >> it is shameful what the republicans did to hold the defense package for the iron dome hostage, because if you want to do that, you have to support the cuts in the irs. they have nothing to do with each other, and they put the poison bill in the bill. there are plenty of democrats like me who are calling for the stopping to the bombingsh and we need to continue our aid for the defensive technology, and there are american citizens in and we may need a negotiator between, and i am confident that speaker jeffries and leader schumer will get that done. >> do you know how that happens in a divided congress? >> i believe that the senate is going to move a bill, and it is going to be bipartisan, and prob fwlip and if it is overwhelmingly bipartisan and then and then to get a bill. that is the most direct way to make it happen. >> thank you, senator ro khanna, going to vote and then coming back to um j.p. on with us. thank you. >> thank you. and now, nasrallah, the lead of hezbollah, is going to speak. and there a sign that he has some 150 rockets in lebanon, and some believe he is going to be looking to escalate the war, and i have been looking at the rough edit of the speech which he has been using heated rhetoric, but for and so we will continue to watch this, and much more straight ahead. key testimony in the $250 million civil fraud trial out of new york against former president donald trump, and all of this continuing right now. any minute now, trump's -- trump, one of trump's sons, eric trump is back on both on the stand to wrap up the testimony. he is one of the co-defendants in the case, and yesterday he was pressed about his role in the role of the inflation of the company's value. >> and with us is former assistant prosecutor and former assistant district attorney for the southern district of new york, nick ackerman, and so far, they have been tried by the state, and yet, in their testimony we see. >> yes. >> and how so? >> yo have a double whack. >> and i did not have any idea there were phony financial statements. and the second defense is the butler did it. somebody else did it. the accountants, the lawyer, it was somebody else. we had no idea what was going on. there are major problems with that evidence. and michael cohen being a lawyer said it was a premeditated plan year after year. on top of that, you have also got don jr. who was certified all of the statement. he was basically following what has become a standard practice in law now for the cfo to enshen sh shally and he says seven strings, and what do you do after that. you have my dad's apartment, and it is 30,000 square feet, but it is only 11,000 square. the judge will see through it. >> now, with respect to the other butler involvedp and then that person received $2 million from the trump organization when he left. if you are looking at the $2 million that is what the fine was, and his taxes were and the interest was in terms of his penalty for the criminal case. i mean, that, the government is going to argue was hush money. it is to keep him quiet. this is no different than what nixon did with the burglars back then, and the hush money was $1 million and now it is $2 million and in 50 years, you expect some inflation. >> this is the son, and the defense that you are seeing develop with the sons' testimony, and what does this mean for donald trump? it is a big deal. >> oh, it is a big deal. absolutely. i think that he is not going to be able to hipd bde behind the amendment. >> you don't? >> no. i saw it in watergate, because nixon's aides went in, and they were all charged with perjury because of the false testimony. but what he has to do is to follow this same defense that he is not going to say that he heard any evil or speak any evil and he is going to blame somebody else, the butler, the attorneys and accountants. >> and now s, looking agent bra, and he brought the civil case, and what does trump have to be careful of test fig monday, because presumably, the district attorney is watching saying, i could reopen this case. >> the only way is to take the fifth, and say nothing, but the calculation is this, i am already indicted in criminal cases in four different jurs dk diction, and are they going to bring a fifth criminal case based on these allegation, and the answer is probably not. so, if he is smart, and this is assuming a lot, he going to make the calculation and testify, but basically that he did not see anything, and nobody told him anything, and he didn't know any of this, and weisselberg is the real culprit here. >> nick ackerman, thank you for coming in. >> thank you. on top of all of the news, a short time ago we got new jobs numbers in which reveal a great deal of where this economy is going. good news? 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[ cheers ] yeah! woho! running up and down that field looks tough. it's a pitch. get way more into what you're into when you stream on the xfinity 10g network. >> all right. new this morning the latest jobs report was just released showing 150,000 jobs added in october and still a positive number and continuing a positive trend, but it is a little bit lower than economists were expecting for the last month, and the unemployment ticked higher to 3.8%, and with us now is transportation secretary pete buttigieg, and all things infras infrastructure, so glad to have you both with us. and now a little bit of the deceleration in the jobs growth, and little bit of a chill, and so what does that reflect in the economy and the infrastructure law, and what do you see? >> well, it is difficult to go from one month to another, and the extraordinary fact that unemployment is and remains below 4%. to get to the question about infrastructure, what is exciting is that we are infrastructure launching today that is going to be good through the next decade. there is 31,000 on the transportation side alone, and some them will be done in one construction season, and simple and relatively small projects, but others rebuilding an airport or work on the hudson tunnel will be generating good jobs for years, because they are complex. so it is not an investment in one season and goosing demand, but it is long-term investments in the capacity of the country with a lot of jobs along the way. >> mayor, your gig is to spend the money that was passed as part of the infrastructure law, and the republicans, and the government by the way, as you both know, is going to be shutdown again, and the republicans through the last shutdown would pass some measures to claw back some of the money from the infrastructure bill, and what is that is going to do to affect you? >> well, the president believes that you have to invest in people, and grow the economy from the middle out. so we have 38,000 projects going on rebuilding the bridges, airport, internet, and high speed internet, and we are breaking ground on the hudson tunnel, and the president believes we need world class rail, so it is curious to us that some folks on the republican side, and the house on the hill want to make the rail slower and be less safe and not help people to get to and from where they are going, so we hope they don't try to make the unfortunate decision to try to leverage where we have tried to do. the president has created 14.5 million jobs, and that is a lot of money going into people's jobs to create generational wealth. >> and does it make your job harder? >> yes, and also, the fight against inflation harder. and part of what has helped to reduce inflation is the fluidity of the supply chains, and that is building ports. today, we are announcing 41 ports from the slack harbor on the arkansas river to some of the biggest container ports from newark or long beach, california, but what they voted through the committee and what the house republicans want to do would take $100 million out of the ports programs. i don't know why you would do that and shorts the faam ises and technology by $500 million compared to what the president put forward and i don't know how anybody who has been on the airplane lately would think that this is the time to do less on aviation. >> mayor, i read that you sat down with bloomberg in the discussion they wrote, that in a recent poll 38% of voters said they trust biden to handle infrastructure and 42% trust donald trump. and even though the infrastructure law was passed by president biden? >> well, it is cure, you and a phrase that says the thing speaks for itself. when they see it, they will know who did it, and how it happened, and if people are going to see who is going in the direction, they will understand clearly who is on their side. >> and now, in this file from louisiana, it says that from the mid- to late 2000s, he worked with a group that promoted conversion therapy, and that he worked with groups that are gay can be turned not gay, and this is widely discredited and then said homosexual behavior is something that you do, and not something that you are. and since he has been confirmed as speaker, just last week, he did an interview where he talked about this, and listen to what he said. >> when the supreme court issued the law, they would make lifestyle choices, and regardless of the conversion therapy -- >> i said, if being gay, then it was a choice that was a choice that was way above my lifestyle. the point is i am a father of two, and our family deserved to be protected and supported just like every american family. most americans get that. most americans believe that. i admit it is difficult to be driving the family minivan knowing that the speaker of the house does not believe that my family should exist, but that is why i live under the protection of the supreme court of the constitution which established our right to have that family and serving under a president who believes that everybody, everybody is included and protected including families like mine. >> i don't know if you heard that interview, but to hear that language as someone who is second in line to the presidency, how does that feel? >> well, it is time travel, and most independents and democrats respect things like marriage equality, and if you are pro family, and if you want to support families, then support things like the president's push to have insulin be $35 which we did for seniors and we would do it for everybody if the house republicans didn't block it. if you care about families, take a look at the child tax credit which cut child poverty in this country in half, and let it expire, because people like mike johnson were against it, and then child poverty doubled. talk about child family whether it is lgbtq + individuals trying to get through life, and uall i can do from the seat i am in is to try to support them whether it is the second avenue tunnel or the supply chains that go to how a family is going to put the box of cereal on the table, and i would love for him to help and not hurt those families. >> thank you. we appreciate you announcing the infrastructure projects right here in my neighborhood, and i was hoping it was knocking down a wall. >> and now, the speaker on the way to jordan and his urgent mission to the middle east continues. what are the options on the table, and what is being discussed? we know that leader of hezbollah has just called for a cease-fire. what is happening right now on the ground and the impact and the conversations that the secrcretary of s state is hahav it. we will be right back. secretary of state tony blinken is headed to am manamma jordan, and in his speech, he reiterated that the united states stands with israel. >> and this right to self-defense belongs to every country, and no country should tolerate the slaughter of innocents. it is striking and in some ways shocking that the brutality of the slaughter has receded so quickly in the memories of so many, but not in israel, and not in america. >> also from the secretary of state, he said very clearly, we need to do more to protect the palestinian civilian, and how israel conducts campaign to protect their safety needs to be considered. he said it more than once. and since the attack was carried out by hamas, nasrallah, the leader of hamas has called it a great try allf. also from nasrallah, he said that his fighters are engaged in an unprecedented battle with israel, and saying that the possibility of the leb need front of a broad battle. there is a lot of messaging in this, but a real threat. what do you see in these remarks or see where the red line is for hezbollah? >> well, kate, i think that, you know, for me, the headline in the speech is that he repeatedly said that it is a palestinian-only operation, ie, hezbollah was not involved, iran was not involved and the palestinians keep it secret. now, he will make all sort of rhetorical remarks and this is to be expected, but will he engage in a full scale war is unlikely. and one is that it was a withdrawal in 2006 when they fought hezbollah, and the leader from hezbollah drew praise from the lebanese world, even though they have sustained damage and are in a freefall right now, and this is surely less than it otherwise might, but what could change things is if the gaza war goes on for weeks and months and then the pressure from nasrallah may rise, but there is no definitive that there would be pain due in connection with october 7th. >> and a broader message that this october 7th attack is serving as a boost to terrorist groups. we see that this could serve as an inspiration the likes of which isis launched the caliphate so many years ago, and this is speaking to the need for israel, and allies of taking out not hamas, but taking on the hamas ideology. how hard is this? >> well, it is interesting, kate, because if you are going back to the 9/11 era, bin laden was talking about the public statements, and then, the terrorist groups were receding from anti-shia messages from isis, but clearly as christopher wray testified that it is propaganda statements, and that they are concerned about it, and we have seen a rise in anti-semitic incidents and also islam phobic considerations that could lead to violence as we saw in the stabbing of the 6-year-old boy. >> yes. thank you, john. and now, a search from the fbi on the mayor of new york's home. and how he is responding. getting some new information this morning of the raid at the new york city mayor's chief fund-raiser. it is said to be part of the broader investigation into mayor eric adams 2021 campaign. law enforcement officials are saying they are looking for evidence of illegal contributions to the campaign possibly from foreign nationals. gloria pasmino is covering this for us. tell us what is being said and how the mayor is now responding. >> yeah, john. start with what we know so far. as you mentioned, we know that the home of the mayor's chief fund-raiser was targeted in an fbi raid yesterday morning, and that the fbi have secured phones, computers, tablets as part of that raid. now, why is this raid is the mayor's chief fund-raiser. now, to make it clear, the mayor has not been implicated or anything thus far. what we are told is that they are looking for evidence that the 2021 campaign, the mayor's first campaign, conspired with a foreign national from turkey to get the donations funneled into that campaign. as you know, foreign nationals cannot make so, they are allegings that they used members in the turkish nationals and funneled those funds into the donations. there is a lot that we don't know, but so far the mayor is saying that he is not connect and he is going to cooperate with any investigation. this is what he said. >> all of my campaigns have been held to the highest ethical standards, and any inquiry that is done, we will participate and make sure that it is done correctly, and i have not done anything incorrect, and that is why i am here on the ground to make sure that the proper inquiry is made. >> and he had a very important meeting with the white house to discuss the ongoing immigrant cr crisis, but he returned to the city to deal with this matter. even though there is a lot of people around the camp, there is a lot of political operation throughout the day. >> and let us know if and when you do learn more. thank you, gloria pazmino. and now, on the third leg of the next diplomatic stop. antony blinken is about to tell israel to stop the war on gaza. that is next.