the message to the families of the hostages in gaza, we will not stop until we get them out. lester holt and kristin welker moderating the republican primary showdown in miami with forceful pushback by nikki haley to a familiar foil. do you want a leader that will put this country first? or do you want dick cheney in three-inch heels. i wear heels for ammunition. she made fun of me for using tiktok. her daughter was using it. let my daughter out of your voice. here is the truth. you are just scum. shutdown watch. with a week to go until the money runs out, the house leaves town until monday after the new speaker fails to corral enough votes for a second approachation bill and offers no plan to avoid the government closing ahead of the holidays. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the white house is touting that breakthrough in negotiations with israel to help palestinian civilians in gaza. this is not the one to three-day pause in air
world and an international backlash against israel s proclaimed second phase, with growing concern about the safety of hostages, including ten americans. as the new speaker takes the gavel today, mike johnson is already under fire from senate republicans for removing all new ukraine war funding from the president s emergency spending bill. in favor of $14 billion for israel. the powerful republican house foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccall will join me life. donald trump junior will take the witness stand in the manhattan civil fraud trial one day after his father s appearance at a courthouse in downtown miami. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington with the first escape from gaza through the rafah crossing into egypt for at least a handful of americans since the war began. a small group of americans, u.s. officials say fewer than ten, were finally able to get out after egyptian ambulances crossed into gaza to bring out injured gazans. de
confirmed in that time are actually hostages? less than 10. that s not a number. i want a number from you. less than 10. why can t you give a number? i ve given you an answer. what is your next question? you ve given an answer. you ve not been responsive. let the record show. the other question has to do with israeli warnings. the israelis have said their objective and they ve been very explicit about it is to destroy hamas. from you and other administration officials, we hear the objective is to ensure that hamas can never terrorize israel again. those are two different objectives are. you having a problem with the israelis in terms of a clear communication here of their objectives or have their objectives appeared to change over time? no and no. how does does the united states support the goal of destroying hamas? we support what israel is trying to do to protect citizens from the threat of hamas. james, you know this. we re not on the ground fighting in
the federal safety net and will cost nearly $2 trillion. plus the new york governor digs in. two former aides say andrew cuomo harassed them. the top two democrats in new york s legislature say he should quit. but the governor says no. legislators who suggest that i resign because of accusations that are made against me, the i was elected by the people of the state. i wasn t elected by politicians. i am not going to resign because of allegations. no. there is no way i resign. up first, though, major new information in the covid pandemic fight. just last hour the cdc offering a public health playbook for americans who have received their covid vaccine. a list u might say, of what they can do safely and what they can t. we would like to give the opportunity for vaccinated grandparents to visit their children and grandchildren who are healthy and who are a local. but our travel guidance currently has been unchanged. dr. wallenski there laying out the guidelines and try
China has come down tremendously. Tremendously. China would have superseded us in two years as an economic power. Now theyre not even close. China got rid of their china 25 because i found it very insulting. I said that to them. I said, china 25 is very insulting because china 25 means in 2025 theyre going to take over economically the world. I said thats not happening. And weve gone way up and theyve gone down. I dont want them to go down. Well have a good meeting and well see what we can do but i have to say this, billions of dollars will soon be pour nothing our treasury from taxes that china is paying for us and if you speak to mr. Pillsbury who is probably the leading authority on china. He was on the other day saying he has never seen anything like it and you know who else hasnt, china hasnt. Mr. President well try to make a deal with
china because i want to have great relationships with president xi as i do and also with china. Youre talking about the economic how do you see you