self-defense. the concern tonight about the u.s. being drawn into a wider war. america s opioid crisis. will the supreme court uphold a multibillion dollar with the makers of oxycontin? do you blame the sackler s for ryan s death? i do. i absolutely do. norah: breaking news, an american tourist killed after a shark attack at a popular bahamas resort. and a night of celebration. the kennedy center honors. norah: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for being with us. we begin tonight with a dramatic escalation in gaza as israel and hamas engage in some of the most intense fighting since the beginning of the war. and that is taking place in southern gaza, specifically around khan younis, the city where israel believes the remaining hostages are being held. it s been four days since the cease-fire ended that allowed 100 women and children to be released, and tonight the state department says one of the reason hamas chose to end the truce and not
the concern tonight about the u.s. being drawn into a wider war. america s opioid crisis. will the supreme court uphold a multibillion dollar with the makes makers of oxycontin? do you blame them for ryan s death? i do. i absolutely do. it s been on breaking news, an american tourist killed after a shark attacks at a popular bahamas resort. and a night of celebration. several honors. norah: good evening, and thank you for being with us. we begin tonight with a dramatic escalation in gaza as israel and hamas engage in some of the most intense fighting since the beginning of the war. and that is taking place in southern gaza, specifically around communist, where israel believes the remaining hostages are being held. it s been four days since the cease-fire ended that allowed 100 women and children to be released, and tonight the state department says one of the reason hamas chose to end the truth and not release all the hostages is because the group does not want
the same cities where they ve been telling palestinians to go to flee the danger. one man saying, quote, they ll tell you it s a safe area, but there is no safe area in all of the gaza strip. if donald trump wins his way back into the white house, would he ever leave? the strongest warning yet from former republican congresswoman liz cheney. could american democracy as we know it end in 2024. trump is going on offense. who he says is the real threat to america. a cuban spy busted after spending more than four decades hiding in plain sight. the nearly unevidenceable story of manuel rocca, former u.s. amend arrested and accused of being a covert agent. we ve got those details coming up. we begin inside gaza where right now israel is escalating its ground offensive in the south where many hamas leaders and fighters have believed to have fled. all ofhis creating dangerous confusion on the ground for exhausted, war-wear often very poor people who don t know what they re supped
the 2023 ewing climate conference, also known as cop 28, officially kicked off this week in dubai. it is already mired in controversy. all of that in more ahead in another hour of velshi starting right now! good morning to you it is saturday december the 2nd i am ali velshi, we begin this morning with major new developmts that will have big implications fordonald trump s legal defense for his upcoming cases. new and important rulings from federal judges in d.c. clarify that the former president is not immune from criminal prosecution or nor from civil liability for his actions on january the six. late last night judge tanya chutkan struck down the former presidents attempt to throw out the federal election interference case against him based on his claims of presidential immunity. it was one of four motions to dismiss that his time filed in october. the pull of in history of the constitution and concludes that they, quote, do not support that contention. it goes on, quote,
jamie raskin: umm, you know tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me. my illness won today. look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me, all my love, tommy. umm, so, he didn t have anything in there about take some time off. (laughs) and, uh. crowd: usa! usa! usa! usa! jamie raskin: why is america such an extraordinary country? we are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. we re unified by one constitution and one rule of law, and then the values under our constitution. it is an aspiration. it s a challenge to us. the constitution shouldn t be some kind of fetish document. it should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in service of the common good. that is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. that is the constitution that we ve been fighting for since then. and we ve got to keep fighting for it. crowd: trump! trump! trump! trump! trum