midterms. plus charges against a major company and a guilty plea for financing isis. and actor kevin spacey is back on the stand today defending himself against sexual assault allegations. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. president biden is making a move today to try and put abortion rights back in the spotlight and back on the ballot. with the midterm elections three weeks from today. the president is speaking soon at a dnc event in washington where he is expected to make a promise that his first move in the new year will be to codify roe v. wade, that is if democrats don t lose power. this is one of the many topics that candidates debated last night in key races across country. but let s get to the white house. jeremy diamond is standing by. what is the president laying out in this speech. reporter: well president biden is trying to put an issue that he and his advisers believe is advantageous to democrats front a
border patrol council are toque who art del cueto will join us on that. we began america reports this friday with june unemployment report beating expectation but still below pre-pandemic levels. with inflation still climbing. hello, i am in for sandra smith and rich, hello to you. good afternoon, i am in for john roberts. 372,000 jobs added last month in unemployment rate to study at 3.6% but record number of job openings persist with two jobs available for every unemployed person and there are still concerns over runaway inflation and new jobs report shows rising costs with average earnings. anita: meanwhile the president is taking heat for more than just the economy and some of his own party criticize him for a lack of action on guns and abortion. the president s last hour sending executive order to access to abortion and the move comes two weeks after the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. rich: mark meredith live on the beautiful lawn of the white house, mar
Comi ng up on msnbc a very gool of you from msnbc headquarters in new york. Welcome to alex witt reports. Its one pm eastern, eight pm in israel and gaza. We begin with this Breaking News. Israel says it is evacuating roughly 300,000 people from border towns under Missile Threat from hamas, as well as hezbollah. Idf Officials Say military accidentally struck an Egyptian Division near the israeli border, and new plans for more continuous flow of aid to gaza. Meantime, a convoy of 17 aid trucks rolled into the Rafah Crossing On The Gaza Border today as an addition to 20 trucks that were allowed in saturday. Our expectation and substance of our discussion with all sides is that starting tomorrow, you will be seeing a continuous flow of assistance moving. We want to build that flow up to the levels necessary to begin to meet the causes needs. Also new, we have about five fuel trucks, they were allowed access to a storage area for the First Time Since the october 7th hamas attack. But while
Soon as possible. We need to help israel and get the appropriations process movements so the key elements are funded in the right way and get back to our Committee Work and frankly we need to continue the oversight work that i think is so darn important. Jim jordan failed to get through in two votes to become House Speaker. Taking a run at number three today. Struggling to win over two dozen republican holdouts. It could hold a third vote as early as this morning. Well follow that live as it happens. First. [explosions] rockets over gaza as israel prepares to pull the trigger on a full scale Ground Invasion. As we come on the air with tensions high in the region we see smoke rising on the israel lebanon border. Problems to the north as well. Im shannon bream. Bill and dana are off. Were here. Gillian im Gillian Turner and this is americas newsroom. Israel telling troops to be ready for a Ground Assault on gaza. No timetable on the deployment. Israel continues to scorch hamas Terror Tar
After they were urged to do so by israel, ahead of its Ground Offensive in retaliation for last weeks cross border attacks by hamas. Earlier the un warned that it was impossible to move more than a Million People across a densely populated warzone with no food, water, oraccommodation. The Israeli Army Says its already launched raids inside gaza. Israeli media say the troops have recovered the bodies of some of the hostages seized by Hamas In Israel a week ago. Health officials in gaza say the number of palestinians killed in israeli airstrikes has risen to more than 1900. This is the scene live in gaza where it hasjust gone midday, and as we said, an israeli deadline for palestinians to leave the northern half of gaza ahead of an expected Ground Offensive has passed. And we can show you these live pictures of Israeli Military forces near the gaza border as you see, there are several tanks in the area. The Palestinian Authoritys representative at the un compared the Current Situation to