244,000 people seeking unemployment insurance last week. as americans struggle with the rising costs of everyday goods. new details about former president trump allegedly trying to call a witness involved in the january 6th committee s investigation. we begin this morning with what appears to be a stark difference between the president of the united states and israel over how to deal with iran. during a joint news conference with israeli s prime minister in jerusalem, president biden defended his efforts to restart an international agreement aimed at preventing iran from building a nuclear weapon. this is a vital security to both israel and the united states. and i would add for the rest of the world as well. i continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this outcome. and we ll continue to work with israel to counter other threats from iran throughout the region. but the israeli leader said diplomacy will not work and that the international community
to the region and quite frankly the whole world. the israeli leader also talked about the president s visit to the saudi kingdom. giving him a message to pass on to the leaders he will be meeting there in his trip. mr. president, you will meet with the leaders of saudi arabia, qatar, kuwait and oman and iraq. i would like you to pass them all a message from us. our hands are outstretched for peace. with that talk more about this nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander and jane harmon and president emeritus of the wilson center and author of insanity defense while why the failure makes us less safe. so peter, what more do we know about what president biden s expected to do and talk about when he is in saudi arabia? it s quite an accomplishment, a president of the united states going from israel to saudi arabia. reporter: yeah, that really says as much about the changing landscape here in the middle east as it does about anything else. the first u.s
dangers the men and women in the capitol faced that day. the perils that our nation faced as a whole and the former the president s justification for what happened. i went to washington because they were angry with an election that they think was rigged. a very small portion went down to the capitol. a very small portion of them went in. but they were angry from the standpoint of what happened in the election because they are smart and they see and saw what happened. among the crowd that day, far right extremists like the proud boys and oath keepsers welcome the focus of tomorrow s hearing along with trump s role encouraging them to march on the capitol. the president tweets on the wee hours of december 19th to be there and be wild. it was a siren call to these folks. and we ll talk in detail about what that caused them to do, how that caused them to organize as well as who else was amplifying that message. the committee member who will lead tomorrow s hearing says th
it is international bacon day. tailgating day, international banking today. will: today is international bacon day not to be confused with national bacon day which is december 30th. rachel: what is your favorite food that involves bacon? will: favorite food that involves bacon? i opt for sausage a lot. i default to sausage, bacon on a cheeseburger, so this past weekend i was in texas, we are talking about what we like to hunt, i loved of hunting, dove hunting started across the nation. i love to eat them. the way you prepared of traditionally is a piece of jalapeno and tacos, you can wrap the beer bottle in bacon. to answer your question to pete, anything with bacon taste amazing. rachel: dove might be your favorite. will: one of my favorite rachel: i will it is simple and good. crisp tomato. will: i didn t know people 8 doves. seems almost wrong. rachel: isn t the dove the symbol of the holy spirit you just wrapped in bacon? will: one of the most fun hunting game that ex
when he compared this to watergate. the real target of this investigation isn t trump, the real targeted this investigation is you. and alarming new reporting from nbc news on right-wing violence in defense of donald trump, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m elise jimenez in for chris hayes. 24 hours after the unprecedented fbi search of donald trump s florida home, one of his coup plotting allies in congress, scott perry of pennsylvania said he was stopped by fbi officers while traveling with his family. they presented a search warrant, and confiscated his cell phone which they tended. in a statement, the congressman said my phone contains info about my legislative and political activities, and personal slash private discussions with my wife, family, constituents and friends. none of this is the government s business. perry is the hood of the far-right house freedom caucus, and he has been a major proponent of trump s big lie. following the 2