saying at least seven suspects, including four long-standing hamas members were arrested, accused of plotting to attack jewish sites. it comes as president biden urges israel to, quote, be more careful to protect civilians in gaza. israel s defense minister warning today the war will last more than several months. our richard engel in jerusalem. also tonight, the major storm taking aim at the entire east coast. al roker is tracking it. jury deliberations under way in rudy giuliani s defamation claim. for the false claims about georgia election workers. how much could he have to pay? vladimir putin defiant. what the russian president vowed to do to the ukraine in a marathon four-hour news conference. nbc news investigates medicare advantage routinely denying coverage to patients. the dire impact on hospitals in rural america. the tale of a jetblue plane striking the runway as the pilot avoided a head-on collision. what investigators say happened. the bull loose on
democrats, senate republicans a time to work through the weekend in an effort to reach a framework agreement. our republican colleagues who have said action on the border is so urgent should have no problem with continuing to work next week. senate majority leader chuck schumer calling republicans bluff on border security. he s delaying the upper chamber s recess in hopes of hammering out a deal on foreign aid, which includes critical funding on ukraine. meanwhile, the biden administration put more pressure on the israeli prime minister to scale back the country s ground war in gaza. we ll have the latest developments from the middle east. also ahead how the biden campaign is trying to capitalize on the impeachment inquiry into the president. hey, everybody. good morning to you. and welcome to way too early on this friday, december 15th. i m yasmin vossoughian, in for jonathan lemire. there are signs this morning on a potential deal on immigration reform, which could pa
the committee voted unanimously to subpoeana the former president. tonight with the context, former adviser to hillary clinton amanda renteria, bryan lanza who was the communications director for donald trump s transition team, and formerfederal prosecutorjoe moreno. welcome to the programme. this was the ninth public hearing into the assault on the us capitol. probably the last. the committee s focus was donald trump himself his actions, his inaction that day and his central culpability in the riot. notjust the part he played on the day, but the groundwork that was laid before and after the vote. the committee produced taped evidence from two of donald trump s closest supporters, steve bannon and roger stone, who were openly talking about stealing the election before the vote had even been counted. and what trump s going to do is just declare victory, right? he s going to declare victory. that doesn t mean he s the winner. he s just going to say he s the winner. also,
two missing americans in ukraine, on the back of a russian military truck, hands apparently tied behind their backs. where are they now? let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, donald trump was quote, pouring gasoline on the fire. how trump s former white house deputy press secretary describes trump s actions that put pence s life in danger on january 6th. this testimony showed at the january 6th committee this afternoon, rioters came within 40 feet, 40 feet of the vice-president at the capitol. committee showed these never before seen photos of the vice-president and these pictures are of pence at a secure loksz after rioters breached the capitol so when he s in that, you know, sort of rushed into that little back area of attempted safety. including this one that shows pence looking at the video trump tweeted, asking rioters to leave the capitol, the one sent many hours after the violence began, and hours after trump had repeatedly stoked the