we are all celebrating the birthday of you, symone. i m going to light it up for your birthday. happy birthday, symone. thank, you reverend, i love you so much. i love you. and to all of you watching, good evening and welcome to politicsnation, tonight s lead, the clock is taking. lawmakers will return to capitol hill this week with less than two weeks to go. if they hope to pass a military aid bill before christmas. republicans have pushed to add border security to the bill, alongside the politically thorny issues of funding for israel and ukraine. they have so far been unable to find much common ground with the white house. in the middle of it all, how speaker mike johnson is poised to move forward on an impeachment inquiry against president biden. adding to the partisan gridlock. delaware representative lisa blunt rochester joins us shortly as the clock ticks down on 2023. we ve got a real treat for you later, elder statesman of saturday night live, comedian and acto
they are being overseen by the red cross. further releases will occur across a four-day ceasefire that began around midnight eastern time. in total, hamas is expected to release 50 hostages while israel is expected to release 150 prisoners. israel has also said it would extend the ceasefire by an additional day for every ten addion hostages releas. despite these developments, both sides have made it clear the fighting is far from over. joining us live from tel aviv is erin mclaughlin. it is now the time where these hostages are supposed to be released. what s the latest? reporter: we have yet to receive any official word that the process has begun. we are hearing from the egyptian state information service providing more clarity in terms of the hostages expected to be released today. according to egyptian state information, 12 thai nationals will also be released in addition to the 13 israeli hostages, women and children. we re also hearing from a senior white house officia
closing in out. we have to send a great signal and then maybe these people just say, okay, it is over now. trump tries to finish off his gop rivals with nikki haley rising in the polls, is there still time to take him down. plus balancing act. president biden is heartbroken by civilians deaths in gaza. but that it is still not time. they plan on attacking israel again. is he out of step with most democr democrats. and out of order. a new republican speaker grapples with the house in disarray. what could the gop get done. i want my republican colleagues to give me one thing that i could campaign on and say we did. good morning and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m manu raju. everybody could go home. the 2024 primary race is over. that is the message that former trump had for his republican challenges yesterday in iowa. the first in the nation contest is still about two months away. but the runway front-runner said he s ready to ramp it up there and move
capitol hill, the first rule of the d.c. fight club is talking way too much about this d.c. fight club. we ll dive into the political theater turned physical, and what s really happening on the hill. plus, trump trial timeline, judge in the mar-a-lago classified documents trial appears to throw a legal lifeline to the twice impeached, four-time indicted, disgraced one term ex president. pressure sign a least one of trump s criminal trials will be delayed until after the 2024 presidential election. and the santos aga. scathing ethics reports revealed a controversial republican congressman, who can t pay money on botox, luxury items, and only vance. all this and more, coming up. good saturday morning to you all, i m katie phang. we begin today s show in washington, d.c., where despite republican dissension, lawmakers narrowly avoided a government shutdown. again, and for now. thursday night, president biden signed the funding bill passed by both the house and the senate, wi
jansing. israeli soldiers conducting a targeted raid searching the medical complex for hamas, something the idf calls an operational necessity, but it s one that sparked massive pushback from the u.n. and perhaps the strongest statement yesterday from the biden white house. how might what happened inside the hospital today change the face of this war? the victory in the house, a bipartisan group of lawmakers passing a stopgap bill and kicking it to the senate with just days to go before a possible government shutdown, but it is also just a band-aid on a gaping wound. so what will happen after the holidays? and throwing elbows, inside the nasty battles on the hill. with no one backing down, no one apologizing, and other members taking sides. plus, they haven t been face to face in a year, but that s going to change in just about an hour. the eyes of the world now on president biden and president xi jinping today. can anything be done to turn down the heat and find some l