playbook. go to cnn zachary cohen. who is helping provide this cover for the former president during these hearings? i suppose it tells you everything you need to know about trump s hold on this party right now? reporter: really does, jim. you mentioned, kevin mccarthy secured trump s endorsement but not secured it for house speaker yet if republicans retake the house. maybe still a chip on the table and encouraging mccarthy there. in addition to mccarthy, we expect at least stefanik to be a key player. she oversees messaging for the gop conference and one of the loudest in the impeachment proceedings and expected to be intimately involved how to push back in realtime. what trump wants. daehlie counterprogramming in realtime. the other is, expected to be involved, jim banks, jim jordan. both supposed to be on the january 6th committee before kevin mccarthy decided he wouldn t let anybody from his party be on the panel. now we re here. all waiting to see what this push looks
test evidence, it s pretty apparent that at some point president trump knew what was going on. obviously. right? having meetings within the white house, having individuals that you re paying out there doing lawsuits, the 64, 65 lawsuits, if you re pushing this libel on twitter and social media, important and the committee will concentrate. look what s happening and the message pushed by president trump himself on social yomedia and other individuals, it s a pipeline that s damaging and pushing things like stop the steal. trump is announcing a counteroffensive expecting his diehards on capitol hill to defend his honor by writing off the hearings as a partisan witch-hunt. joining me now, former white house press secretary during the trump presidency, stephanie grisham. thanks for being with us. just last month you testified for a second time, i believe, in front of the january 6 committee. did their questions give any clues as to what these new revelations might be that are
This. We have to warn here that it is hard to watch. [speaking in a global language] joining me now our correspondents who is live in israel. Nbcs foreign correspondent, molly, hunter is with us as. Well and the nbc security analyst. I want to start with you, rough. What casten what youre seen. Yeah, katie and just the last hour, Israel Security cabinet has formally declared a state of war in response to what tickles the murderous Terrorist Attack of gaza. They are talking about scenes like the one behind me. This is all thats left of what was an Israeli Police station at the heart of the city. It is overrun by gunmen. Katie, everywhere here, you can see debris from the Ferocious Gun Battle that follows. If my Camera Operator turns the camera here, you can see this is the remains of a jacket here. We dont know this belong to one of the hamas militants, or to an israeli soldier. Everywhere, katie, im not going to zoom in on, but in that tree there is still a body of one of these hamas m
hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. we re watching several new developments across the middle east as israel pushes forward with its war against hamas. we re seeing more airstrikes across gaza today, with israeli forces closing in on gaza city. one explosion hit a u.n. run school. that is serving as a shelter for thousands of palestinian refugees. the hamas run ministry of health says the blast killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more. meanwhile, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken met with arab foreign ministers today in jordan for a high-stakes summit, but while the arab officials called for an immediate cease-fire in gaza, blinken says now is not the time. is our view that a cease- fire now would simply leave hamas in place. able to regroup and repeat what it did on october 7th. and you don t have to take my word for it. just a few days ago, the senior hamas official said that it was their intent to do october 7th again and again and agai
november. the president is expected to spooep speak in blunt terms about the insurrection and what he views as president trump s volt in that event. he s also expected to call out political violence saying any candidate running for president should be able to say the political violence should not be tolerated. the president is also expected to draw on the symbolism of the area. we re just a few mile was from valley forge, where george washington and his troop prepared during a long winter for a time of fighting. the president will draw specifically from some of the words that washington used himself to describe the mission and resolve of his troops. the president will say that the fundamental question of this election is whether democracy is still a, quote, sacred cause for this country. he s expected to draw a contrast between washington, who willingly gave up purr after two terms of president, with former president trump, who has refused to accept the results of the