of the fraud he perpetuated. regardless of what this report says, is your plan to serve and stay in congress and not resign? like i said before i m staying in office for sure. that last voice you heard was republican congressman george santos of new york before the release of a damning ethics report. we ll go through that and what could come next for the embattled lawmaker. plus, we ll bring you the latest out of the middle east. israel says it has more evidence that hamas was operating out of a hospital in gaza. it comes as the idf recovered the body of a hostage near that facility. and also ahead we ll recap another busy day of diplomacy on the west coast for president biden where he met with the leaders of south korea and japan. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, november 17th. it s friday. we made it. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with some good news. the federal government will stay open at lea
republican congressman george santos, one day after a scathing report alleged he used campaign funds to pay for everything from botox to luxury spending sprees. also breaking this morning, we ll play for you brand-new audio of former president donald trump telling journalist jonathan carl about what he was doing on the 6th of january. could it end up as evidence in his federal elections case? overseas, gaza residents caught in the middle of another communications blackout as israeli forces say they are searching the region s hospitals for hamas. we ll talk to congresswoman madeleine dean, just back from a visit to israel, about what families there are telling her. and humanitarian crisis at the border takes center stage today as president biden meets with mexico s president in california. and we begin this hour with that breaking news on capitol hill, where the house ethics committee chair has filed a resolution to expel embattled republican george santos from congress.
today on inside politics, president biden is wrapping up a four-day trip to california, where he met with some of america s closest allies and its toughest competitor. and we have new cnn reporting this hour about the biden reelection campaign strategy, as they prepare for the probability of another race against donald trump. plus george santos days on capitol hill may be numbered. a growing number of fellow republicans say they are ready to expel him. and it s a list that now includes the chairman of the house ethics committee, which investigated him. so will santos stay or fight or call it quits? sglmpx . and the idf has proof that hamas was operating underneath a hospital complex. israeli forces are raiding in gaza. we re going to go to israel for reporting on that. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start with president biden heading home today from the economic summit. he has one good meeting left with the mexican president, a
we ve got brand new audio. the former president in his own words, what he claims he said. and if you re traveling for the busy thanksgiving weekend, well, psych yourself up, more than 55 million americans expected to be on the move in coming days. one of the busiest holiday weekends in the past 20 years. we re live at the airport with more on what to expect. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin with that new footage from the israeli military as it searches gaza s main hospital. nbc s raf sanchez joins us from tel aviv. what do we know about what this footage shows and what we re not sure it does. so, chris, this new footage shows a senior commander at the al-shifa hospital standing over what israel says is the opening of a hamas tunnel shaft that runs underneath the facility which is gaza s biggest hospital. nbc news cannot confirm that this is, indeed, a hamas tunnel. we can say, because we ve geo located it that this video was
released audio of an interview of donald trump by jonathan carl. it shows the ex-president knew full well the power he had over the mob that stormed the capitol. just take a listen. but if you look a the real size of that crowd, i was never reported correctly. there were the biggest crowd i ve ever spoken in front of by far, really, by far, that went down to the washington that went back to the washington mo. you told them you were going to g up to the capitol. were you just i was going to a the secret service said you can t. and by the time i would have and wanted to go back, i was thinking about going back during doing it myself.top the problem secret service didn t like that idea too much. so i ve done that. and you know what, i would have been very well received. don t forget, the peopl that went to washington that day in my opinion, they went because they thought the election was rigged. that s why they went. trump s desire to go to the capitol was flushed ou