In terms of whats going on in gaza and in israel. I also want to talk to him about this whole deadlock in the congress and speakership. Lots to talk to the former chairman about. I think will be chairman again soon. Ranking member weeks in a minute. We will be watching. Take it away. Good to talk to, you as. Always the fabulous simone. Good evening, welcome to politicsnation. Tonights lead, a moment of uncertainty. Right now, the worlds eyes are on israel hamas for. As israel prepares for massive Ground Offensive in gaza. U. S. Secretary of state Anthony Blinken told nbc this morning the administration is increasing its Military Presence in the region. To deter hezbollah and iran from expanding the conflict. Back in washington today, President Biden spoke by phone with several european leaders about developments in the region. Following an earlier call with the israeli Prime Minister. The white house is waiting on the 105 Billion Dollar National Security package, including 14 Billion D
Staff to evacuate gaza. Our coverage continues now in The 11th Hour with stephanie ruhle. Good evening, once again, im stephanie ruhle. There is a major news break out of congress today, where Steve Scalise has dropped out of the race for speaker after being nominated by his fellow republicans. Well have much more on the chaos in the house in just a moment. But first, lets begin our broadcast with israel. Who is continuing its she siege on got a. Launch more airstrikes six days after the hamas terror attacks. The bombing is intensifying, as israel is building up its military forces along the border with gaza for a potential Ground Invasion. At least 1300 people have been killed in israel, and at least 1500 have been killed in gaza. Today, Secretary Of State Antony Blinken was in israel meeting with both Prime Minister netanyahu and israelis who survived the terror attacks. We get more from my colleague, lester holt, in tel aviv. Tonight, israeli airstrikes relentlessly Bombarding Gaza
Clock warning United Nations staff to evacuate gaza. Our coverage continues now in The 11th Hour with stephanie ruhle. Good evening, once again, im stephanie ruhle. Of congress today, where Steve Scalise has dropped out of the race for speaker after being nominated by his fellow republicans. Well have much more on the chaos in the house in just a moment. But first, lets begin our broadcast with israel. Who is continuing its she siege on got a. Launch more airstrikes six days after the hamas terror attacks. The bombing is intensifying, as israel is building up its military forces along the border with gaza for a potential Ground Invasion. At least 1300 people have been killed in israel, and at least 1500 have been killed in gaza. Today, Secretary Of State Antony Blinken was in israel meeting with both Prime Minister netanyahu and israelis who survived the terror attacks. We get more from my colleague, lester holt, in tel aviv. Tonight, israeli airstrikes relentlessly Bombarding Gaza wit
Crossexamination aimed at undermining her credibility into some embarrassing moments for the former president. At one point saying that if she were making up her story about sex with donald trump, quote, i would have written it to be a lot better today also saw testimony from Trump Organization bookkeeper about how closely he monitors the checks he writes detailing the attention he paid two amounts considerably smaller than 35,000 checks. He wrote two Michael Cohen the day ended with judge juan merchan and rejecting another trump motion for for mistrial and denying his request to modify the gag order. He is under so we can talk about Stormy Daniels and capping it all off. Stormy daniels tweet this evening saying this about the former president , quote, real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court. Oh, wait never mind. Back of the panel joining us conservative lawyer george conway, who was in court today what were your takeaways on my takeaway. Was that
Maybe more than dozens of rockets fired at this city as hamas said would happen. So far it seems the israeli Missile Defense systems have been able to contain this attack, at least as far as we can report from what we are seeing. Richard engel on the front lines. This as the u. S. Officials describe the Terrorist Groups tactics against israelis and american citizens as i. S. I. S. Level savagery. She was terrified. She was saying, mommy, we are trying to get out of here, but im bleeding. We were shot. Everybody here was shot. She said, mommy, im afraid i will die. I said, no, you are not going to die. Then i heard shooting all around very close to the car and started Hearing Voices in arabic talking to each other, shouts at each other. I was so afraid. We are waiting for sagi to come home. We do not know what fate he met along as i said with dozens of other people. So you understand, these arent all 35yearold men. These are children. These are aged people and everything in between. Isr