jansing reports. healed, emotional comments from secretary of state antony blinken as he pushes israel for humanitarian pause in gaza saying he can t help but think of his own kids, as palestinian children are pulled from the rubble. a trip to grieve, president biden heading to maine after a gunman s rampage killed 18 people in a year that has already seen 588 mass shootings. plus, the former president s son erik, back on the stand and things get testy, the lacest from the new york civil fraud trial. a jobs report that came in below expectations, and why that may not be a bad thing. our nbc news reporters are following the latest developments. we begin with secretary blinken s visit to israel and a push for humanitarian pause in israel s fight against hamas. raf sanchez is reporting once again from ashdod, israel. i understand blinken has left israel. he s in jordan now. there were comments made about the need to protect civilian lives. tell us more about what he said. r
clocks that does it on its own. tom, thank you so much. that does it for us this hour. katy tur reports starts right now. good to be with you, i m katy tur. we re watching lewiston, maine, where president biden will pay respects to those murdered in the mass shooting last week. for now, we re going to start in new york city where the trump organization fraud trial wrapped for the week. eric trump is finished testifying now. reporters say he looked uneasy in the courtroom. we have two people who were there to tell us what he said and what they saw. outside the courtroom, eric trump called the case a joke and said the ag was unfair. she s come after my father ruthlessly. every single day a trump is in this court, she shows up. it s a press moment. we haven t done a damn thing wrong. if you can line up as many trumps as you can, she can sit in court for an extra couple of days, and send fundraising e-mails to her donor base saying i m going after trump. now that both b