Irans Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Five Americans who would be imprisoneded in iran are expected to be leased today as part of a wider u. S. u. U. S. iran deal. The u. S. Government designate all Five Americans as being wrongfully detained. Joining me now is International Diplomatic editor nic robertson. Its a complex deal, isnt it, nic . Reporter it is a very complex deal. And it seems to be open to a variety of interpretations that weve heard from the iranian Prime Minister over the last week. What were hearing from the Iranian Foreign minister today as he says, we wilhopefully and what hes referring to there is 6 billion of frozen iran accounts that are being currently under the control of south korea. And that money would arrive in an account. Now, the Foreign Minister says, in a regional state. But we understand that account, that new account that iran would have access to would be in qatar, but the implications are here that this expected arrangement that would allow for th
great thanksgiving. we ve got a couple of great hours on tape for you of some of our recent, top interviews and great discussions. we begin with the new inside account of working in the trump white house from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson, whose testimony before the january 6th committee last year revealed what went on within trump s inner circle leading up to and during the attack on the capitol. as the president had gotten into the vehicle with bobby, he thought they were going up to the capitol. when bobby had relayed to him, we re not, you don t have the assets to do it, it s not secure, we re going back to the west wing, the president had very strong, very angry response to that. tony described him as being irate. the president said something to the effect of, i m the f-ing president. take me up to the capitol now. to which bobby responded, sir, we have to go back to the west wing. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at
it s tuesday, november 14th. congress has until friday to pass a funding bill to avoid a government shutdown. speaker mike johnson might get support from house democrats on his two-step strategy to avoid that shutdown. we ll explain that plan. plus, special counsel jack smith responds to donald trump s push for cameras in the courtroom in his federal election interference case. meanwhile, the former president s eldest son takes the stand again in the civil fraud trial against the family business. we ll get legal analysis on that testimony. and we ll have the latest out of gaza on the efforts to evacuate patients at the largest hospital, which israel says sits above a hamas command post. you look at the papers today, and that s the headline on so much. it s about the fact that the israel forces in gaza reached the hospital. this is in the wall street journal. talks about, as conditions worsen. the lead in the new york times, hospital shakes in gaza as fights rage
keep pushing forward with this, and there are a lot of other liars. to me, that s the weakness in the defense coming in. to point it out, it s 11:00 eastern, and 8:00 pacific right now. they did bring up the catch and kill yeah, and related it back to cohen. that specifically, duncan, the idea that catch and kill is not illegal. we have talked about that before and that s true. they brought out the testimony and he s bringing in during the argument other catch and kill instances, schwarzenegger, and others, and this is different. the reason it s different is catch and kill is not illegal and maybe it s a questionable journalistic technique but it s not illegal. prior to 2016, the national enquirer and donald trump never engaged in this together, and why is that? this is borne out by the testimony of david pecker, and then they talked to michael cohen about this, and the timing of it and the fact that it was taking place after the access hollywood testimony cam
Issues for the benefit and safety of the american people. By grandstanding and political sizing the investigation into russias actions, james comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to negotiate with russia. James comey is ready to break his silence, seming an invitation to testify in open session before the Senate Intelligence committee at some point after memorial day. Lets go now to riyadh, saudi arabia, where Nbcs Kristen Welker is traveling with the president today. In a few minutes, President Trump will officially be welcomed by the saudi royals. What will that look like . Reporter well, this is going to take place at the royal court palace. It will include the first lady and then a little bit later on the president will have a bilateral meeting with king salman. This is a day thats going to be filled with pomp and circumstance and the president will be meeting with saudi and arab leaders. His goal is to have a bit of a
reset, to send the message hes not antimuslim, des