Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Live on a rooftop overlooking tel aviv, israel. Its just after 11 00 p. M. Here. Its been 16 days since the horrific Terrorist Attacks by hamas caught this country and, frankly, much of the world by complete surprise. Well start with breaking news. Hamas has released two more of the hostages it kidnapped from israel during the october 7th terrorist attack. Thats according to multiple sources who say the hostages are nurit cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz. The lifshitz family said in a statement the women were handed over to the red cross and will shortly return to israel. We happened to be at the time with Israeli Defense spokesperson Jonathan Con Reek Cass when the news came in. This is part of his reaction. They are differentiating, distinguishing between only israelis and double citizens or perhaps only foreigners which rings familiar for me as a jew and Third Generation holocaust survivor, rings familiar from other types in our history. Israel belie
thank you, ali, for that reporting. that does it for us today. see you back here tomorrow beginning at 10:00 a.m. you can catch our show online around the clock on youtube and other platforms. i m ana cabrera from new york. andrea mitchell picks up our coverage. right now, fright night. the fight night that biden and trump campaigns are gearing up for. their first face off at this week s debate, but the candidates are taking very different approaches to their warm ups. on today s second anniversary of the dobbs decision, abortion is front and center along with the other debate topics the biden campaign is promoting. we look at what they re promoting and the trump campaign and the impact of the landmark decision on abortion on families across america. and the second of three days of hearings in the mar-a-lago documents case critics say are completely unnecessary amid continued questions about delaying tactics and judge cannon s questionable decisions. plus, prime minis
ukraine. please stay safe, my friend. let s bring in senior correspondent matthew chance from london. and matthew, russia claims, and look, we need to point out, obviously. the kremlin lies all the time. they claimed they weren t going to attack ukraine to begin with. they claim it is all an hoax. satellite imagery proves the bodies were there for weeks when the town was still under russian control. how does that kremlin explain this? reporter: well, they used that tried and tested tactic, whenever they re accused of activity. that has been true when it come to killing syrians in syria, the killing of dissidents overseas. meddling in elections in the united states. whatever the allegation, the russian standard defense is to
speeches today. he ll be watching nikki haley and responding more on twitter. surely making some phone calls today. we ll get back to you if the president says anything else. we are not expecting to see the president yet today. all right, kaitlin collins for us at the white house. you are looking at live pictures right now, right now they are going through some business and what happens tis the ambassador nikki haley, will be speaking out. then we ll also hear from the u.s. ambassador of the united nations, nikki haley who has had strong words for russia and the syrians as well. we ll bring you her statements live. we want to go to northern syria. our international correspondent,
all right, you are looking at live picture from an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council speak right now is the russian ambassador to the united nation. he s expected to deliver a scaiviing repute of the u.s. missile strike chemical weapon facility. when he s done, we do expect to hear from the u.s. ambassador of the united nations, nikki haley. she has strong words against the russian and the syrians the last several days. standby for that. i want to bring in brendan boyle of pennsylvania, thank you so much for being with us. let me start with the basic question. do you believe assad s use of