reporter: back now to the death of former secretary of state henry kissinger at the age of 100. msnbc nightly news anchor lester holt reports on the life and legacy of the controversial figure who played a major role in american diplomacy for decades. thank you. nice to see you all. reporter: he was brilliant, ambitious, controversial, and one of the most influential secretaries of state in american history. i think we made for the progress. reporter: henry kissinger served richard nixon, gerald ford, and was consulted by presidents of both parties on international issues throughout his life. henry kissinger has been a friend of mine. reporter: nixon made him a national figure, and together, they reimagined u.s. foreign policy. détente with the soviet union, relations with china, shuttle diplomacy in the middle east. kissinger helped to shape nixon s policy in vietnam and negotiated in the end to the war. famously declaring success prematurely just days before
extend their truce another day? that and a new report from the new york times that israel actually knew the plan for the hamas attack more than a year before it happened. plus indicted congressman george santos could be out of a job in just hours from now. and now he s threatening to take down his own colleagues if expelled from the house. and racism, hazing, sexual assault. what top ranking military officials have been concealing from the public for years. we expose a coast guard cover-up right here tonight. i m pamela brown, and this is the source. and good evening to you. kaitlan is off tonight. just three hours from another truce deadline, what could be the end of the pause in fighting between israel and hamas. negotiations going down right to the wire once again on this seventh day of the truce, as a seventh group of hostages were freed and are now safely back in israel. only eight hostages released in this handover. israel and hamas agreed to count the two
that s about seven hours from now. about midnight your time, eastern time over there. so there s still some time. still a few hours left for a last-minute deal to be hammered out. and i expect that behind the scenes diplomatic efforts are in overdrive to try and make sure that this hostage deal that has gone on for seven consecutive days will go on for an eighth because it s in the interests of all parties. israel is getting significant numbers of its hostages out. and on the palestinian side in gaza they re getting prisoners released. and of course they re getting an important influx of humanitarian aid. every day this pause in the violence, this pause in the israeli military operation continues. and so look, the hope is that this can go on for longer. but at the moment there s no deal. and there s just a few hours to go. seven hours at most, we think, before time literally runs out on bringing the parties together for an extension of this deal, jake. matthew, within the h
by hamas yesterday reuniting with their families for the first time in seven weeks. steve: just watch that, 11 israelis, including nine kids released yesterday, bringing the total to 51 hostages released over the last four days. lawrence: we re expecting the release of 10 more today as limited truce has been extended until wednesday. we ve been seeing dark smoke clouds filling the sky. ainsley: i wonder why. lawrence: this is a ceasefire. brian: they didn t say they couldn t work in the tunnels. trey yingst, do you have any idea, have you gotten reports what it could be? trey: we ve been talking with sources and we don t have clarity on what the black smoke is from inside gaza. there were reports of explosion or gunfire, we have not confirmed any of it. israeli officials are hoping more hostages will be released tonight. 11 taking to the hospital. this is day five of the ceasefire between israel and hamas and should be one more day if this holds thchl is a delicat
over the elgin marbles. it follows prime minister mitsotakis repeated position that the parthenon marbles, as they re known in greece, should be returned. welcome back. plenty of news on ukraine today, notably a statement from the nato secretary general that ukraine willjoin nato alliance after subject to reforms. it s too early to say exactly what will be the decision at the washington summit. all of us agree that, in the midst of war, full membership is not possible. but, of course, we will continue to look into address how we can move ukraine and nato even closer together as we prepare for the washington summit. what decision we make has to be addressed at a later stage when we are closer to the summit. but that does have implications for the way the war might end. would russia be prepared to negotiate a ceasefire knowing that, as part of any truce ukraine was about to join the alliance, putting nato s borders even closer to moscow? not that there is any sign the russians