as the weather system unleashes fury on the northeast. this is after spawning deadly tornadoes in the south. tennessee was hit especially too hard. thousands are assessing the devastating damage just weeks before christmas. we have been on the ground and we have seen firsthand neighbors helping neighbors. we ve heard stories of combat medics getting out with bags to help people in the middle of the night in the tornado. i ve never been so proud to be mayor as i am right now. a hard time there. all of that plus a vote expected this week in the house to move forward on a baseless impeachment inquiry of the president. i think it s easy to sort of sit and laugh and chuckle at this bungling exercised by house republicans trying to impeach the president based on nothing. there is something more sinister at play here. this impeachment is political retribution. it is political revenge on behalf of president trump. coming up, i m going to speak to judiciary committee member
welcome to the beat. i m in for ari. coming up, i ve got neil and melissa murray and donald trump s packed courtroom schedule including his next testimony date. trump can expect to get grilled while on the stand again. but we re going to start tonight s show in the middle east. a series of potentially pivotal developmented today. hamas releasing 11 more hostages. all women and children. in exchange, israel releasing 33 palestinian prisoners. this is the newest video of hostages being released by hamas into red cross custody. they re inside israeli territory right now. this all happening just within the last few hours. the other big development today. hamas and israel agreed to extend the pause in fighting for two more days. the pause was originally scheduled for four days only. now, it will be six. the pentagon says hamas will release 20 more women and children over those two days. officials caution though the details are still being hammered out and the fragile deal could st
that category, two women and one young child. we have reason to believe that one of those americans will be released today. until we see her out safely from gaza, in the hands of the authorities and ultimately in the hands of her family, we will not be certain. let s get right to nbc news correspondent, eric mclaughlin, in tel aviv, erin, thank you for joining us. what more can you tell us about what s expected to happen today? well, we re waiting for a news, still no word on today s expected exchange. there is this new hope that an american could be among the hostages released. this of course follows last night successful exchange of 13 israeli hostages and 39 palestinians. one of the israeli hostages released is nine year emily hand, she was on october 7th, she had been staying at a friend hamas militants, stormed into gaza and initially she had been reported dead, that s what her father says he was told, that was corrected weeks later. last night, we saw, just a he
hi, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york, i m alicia menendez, in for nicolle wallace. it is a tried and true tactic of the donald trump playbook, turn anything into political score settling. today, lawyers for the ex-president filed a motion for a mistrial in the civil fraud case against him in new york that threatens to bring down the trump organization and tarnish his brand as a business mogul. in the motion, trump s team accused the judge and his staff of bias. the motion is filled to the brim with dramatic language, saying quote, only the grant of a mistrial can salvage what is left of the rule of law. trump s lawyers also took aim at the judge s law clerk, included photos of the clerk, as well as her campaign donation history in their public filing. that is even after the judge placed a limited gag order on donald trump that barred him from commenting on court staff. trump s lawyers were then prohibited from discussing the judge s communications with his staff. the length o
the national mall expected to be flooded in d.c. with up to 100,000 protesters march for israel. the goal of the administration is to show solidarity with the hostages taken as well as condemning anti-semitism. brian: head off to san francisco head-to-head meet with president xi. clean up the house. it was abundantly cleaning because of optics and not security. steve a united airlines flighted headed from los angeles to canada made an emergency landing in san francisco last night after an alleged bomb threat. brian: 148 passengers, 8 crew members. unclear if any of these passengers were arrested. mike ought to know better and republicans thinking about supporting this ought to know better. same government shut down showdown this time with a new speaker. mike johnson unveiled a two step plan to avoid a partial shutdown before friday. steve: holiday huddle for the kelce brothers announcing a christmas album. give it up. when when. [harmonizing] [laughter]