i m martha maccallum. we have two big breaking story at 3:00 p.m. eastern time this afternoon. israeli forces pressing in to the heart of gaza city now. this is the moment that many have been knowing would come in all of this. it is now underway. we assume that hamas terrorists are digging in in many of the tunnels that we have seen uncovered by the idf. this is really being called an unprecedented city-street-to-street battle. civilians, many of whom have been trapped by hamas essentially, can t get out in a lot of these situations. there s hostages, more than 200 of them some where in this space, including americans that we understand are held somewhere in the city. this is an extraordinarily tense situation with a lot of lives at stake. so our coverage will continue as we get new images from the fight in throughout the course of this hour. also, iran continues to attack us at our bases in the region. our u.s. service members. what is our response? john kirby will join us f
times over the years, and every time he joined us, he helped us achieve our main goal, to get better and smarter. that was easy for him. ben white was the very best. i will forever be grateful for the knowledge he shared with us, bought more than anything, for his friendship. this is a hard and competitive business and having a friend in this business like ben was a gift and i will treasure our friendship forever. our condolences go out to his entire family and all those who are grateful to know and love him. thank you, ben. i will miss you and on that note, i wish you all a very safe and good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks at nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. the republican party s presidential front runner was convicted by a jury of his peers on 34 felony counts. that is the reality. the republican party must now grapple with it. if they were into reality. so, that s an issue. what makes this all even more di
the republican party s front-runner was convicted by a jury of his peers on 3 that is4 the reality the republican party must now grapple with, if they were into reality. so that sre an issue. what makes this all even more difficult for the gop is that trump s conviction has precisely zero to do with president biden. trump was convicted by a case brought by a new york city prosecutor whoas does not repor to president biden. facing another ten criminal charges from another local prosecutor in georgia who does not report to president biden. even the two federal cases against trump was brought by an independent special counsel who neither takes orders from nor coordinates with president f bidench so donald trump has reacted in a way he traditionally does when reality does not fit with his preferred reality. he lies about it. he claims without evidence president biden is the one really pulling the strings. he these are all biden trials. they re all biden cases. these aren t cases
the republican party s presidential front runner was convicted by a jury of his peers on 34 felony counts. that is the reality. the republican party must now grapple with that. if they were into reality. that is an issue. but what makes this all even more difficult for the gop is that trump s conviction has zero to do with president biden. trump was convicted in the case brought by a new york city prosecutor who does not report president biden. trump is facing another 10 criminal charges from another local prosecutor in georgia who does not report to president biden. even the two federal cases were brought by an independent special counsel who neither takes orders from coordinates with president biden. so donald trump has reacted the way he traditionally does when reality does not fit his preferred narrative. he lies about it. he claims that president biden is the one who is really pulling the strings. these are all biden cases. this is using the justice department to go af
physical embodiment of america institutions. when he murdered george floyd h was doing to one man what our country has done to all african-americans. many people told us this including joe biden. i just want to say a few words about the horrific killin of george floyd in minnesota, but it sends a clear message to the black community, black live that are under threat every single day. they speak to a nation where too often, just the color of your skin put your life at risk. george floyd s last words spoke to a nation were the colo of your skin dictates the safet and your future. i am a white man. i think i understand, but i can t feel it. george floyd murdered becaus he was black, that s what they told us, they demanded that we believe that and if you doubted it in anyway, if you had any questions about the facts of th case, you were effectively as guilty as the racist cop who killed george floyd. one theology teacher learned what that lesson the hard way during a vir