Thats where hamas and israel have agreed to a temporary pause in violence. A 12hour limited ceasefire now in effect through 1 00 p. M. Eastern this afternoon. People in gaza have been using the hours to collect their belongings. Its not a truce, actually. Secretary of state john kerry has promised that he and other diplomats will keep trying. According to reports, kerry had initially proposed a sevenday ceasefire. But that proposal wasnt accepted. Hes in paris today to continue negotiations for a more permanent end to the violence. He told the Associated Press that a more permanent ceasefire quote can be achieved if we work through some of the issues that are important for the parties. With us this morning to talk about this and Everything Else in the news, we have the Court Reporter for the washington post, robert costa. Lynn sweet is the Washington Bureau chief for the chicago suntimes and my colleague chuck todd hosts the daily rundown for nbc news and the white house chief correspo
This, this disease has never had a more worthy opponents. This is looming large over health care, a group of about 20 senators met late last night as they try to forge a path forward on undoing obamacare, good morning, i am sandra smith live on a busy day. Rick all this surrounding President Trump and attorney Jeff Sessions, he never would have appointed sessions if he had known that he would recuse himself from the russian investigation. Live it from the north lawn of the white house, where a lot is going on today. Good morning. That interview with the New York Times, the president pulled a pen on another grenade, if you will, if there is any doubt that he was very upset by a Jeff Sessions decision to recuse himself last spring in the russian investigation. That was laid to rest last night, the president flat out saying that had he known, had he had any inkling that sessions would recuse himself when the going got tough, he never would have given him the job. Sessions it should have n
Characterized the attempt to get ukraine to investigate joe biden as a drug deal. And he described Rudy Giuliani as, quote, a hand grenade. The most senior ranking current member of the Trump Administration to testify so far is right now behind closed doors answering questions. His name is george kent. Hes the Deputy Assistant secretary of state and a key witness to trumps firing of the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. Now hes testifying under subpoena. Lets start with the latest on capitol hill with geoff bennett. From the white house, hans nicho nichols. Jeff, i think one of the most stunning things we learned in the last 24 hours came from fiona hills testimony, that john bolton was so worried about a rogue effort being run by Rudy Giuliani and others that he told hill to notify the chief lawyer for the nsc. As nbc has reported this was seen as a clear counterintelligence risk. How does kents testimony right now play into that Bigger Picture . Reporter ill expl