today on inside politics, a big development on hostage negotiations. president biden said a deal to free the more than 200 hostages held by hamas is, quote, going happen. this comes as a official familiar with the talks tells cnn and israel and hamas are moving closer to a deal. i want to get straight to mj lee, who is in san francisco with the president waiting for him at least. what did the president say? and put this intoen context along with other reporting this you and other colleagues have. reporter: yeah, you heard from president biden, who is making his way now here to san francisco for his summit with xi jinping, expressing a sense of optimism that a deal could be reached to get the hostages out of gaza. this was echoed in part by a u.s. senior official that i was speaking with earlier, who said that israel and hamas are moving closer to a deal to secure the release of these hostages, but the official, it s important to note, cautioned that it s closer, but it s
it s not just me for things. we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022, norad way that never came. we got trounced last night in 2023. no lie there, of course, true to form, that republican running against trump did not blame him for the losses. no republican on that debate stage on wednesday dared to really take on the albatross named donald trump, not in front of an audience of republican voters. so that is hopeless. good people who like things like respecting election results and rule of law and not attempting coups, now had to assume that republicans cannot or more likely will not step out the threat of trumpism in their party [interpreter] . a red wave never materialized for republicans, which is good news for democracy in the 2022 midterms and republicans really did get trounced this week, which is even more good news for democracy. the leader of the republican party has recently been posting memes of the u.s. capital on fire with the words, i am coming back to clean up the mes
it s not just me for things. we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022, norad way that never came. we got trounced last night in 2023. no lie there, of course, true to form, that republican running against trump did not blame him for the losses. no republican on that debate stage on wednesday dared to really take on the albatross named donald trump, not in front of an audience of republican voters. so that is hopeless. good people who like things like respecting election results and rule of law and not attempting coups, now had to assume that republicans cannot or more likely will not step out the threat of trumpism in their party [interpreter] . a red wave never materialized for republicans, which is good news for democracy in the 2022 midterms and republicans really did get trounced this week, which is even more good news for democracy. the leader of the republican party has recently been posting memes of the u.s. capital on fire with the words, i am coming back to clean up the mes
hopefully. thank you chris. thank you at home for joining us this hour. alex has the night off. if you are someone who is concerned about donald trump becoming the president united states, as a lot of people are, then this weeks been a real rollercoaster. just go back to the beginning of the week, with polling from the new york times showing donald trump leading joe biden in five out of six cuban ground states. that sent a lot of people into a panic. but the democratic presidents chances. but by tuesday, things have changed. voters in ohio, kentucky, and virginia went out to the polls, and they delivered a resounding defeat to the republican party on many issues. those results prove that access to abortion is still a key issue for voters. more than a year after the supreme courts dobbs decision, which was, of course, bad news for donald trump, the man who is singularly responsible for overturning roe v. wade, so much so that he regularly boasts about it to his supporters. h
from all our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late also at the end of monday. e end of monday. if you are someone who is concerned about donald trump becoming the president united states, as a lot of people are, then this week has been a real rollercoaster. just go back to the beginning of the week, with polling from the new york times showing donald trump leading joe biden in five out of six cuban ground states. that sent a lot of people into a panic. but the democratic presidents chances. but by tuesday, things have changed. voters in ohio, kentucky, and virginia went out to the polls, and they delivered a resounding defeat to the republican party on many issues. those results prove that access to abortion is still a key issue for voters. more than a year after the supreme courts dobbs decision, which was, of course, bad news for donald trump, the man who is singularly responsible for overturning roe v. wade, so much so that he regularly