We are moments away from a very rare primetime Oval Office Address from the president United States. It comes amid a desperate situation in the middle east as the war there between israel and hamas enters its 13th day. Nearly 200 kidnapped civilians, including american citizens, are still being held hostage, surround accounted for. Militants continue to fire rockets into israel, and israel s missile strikes Strike Targets in gaza. A worsening humanitarian crisis leaving people with limited access to food, medicine, and clean water for more than a week. President biden just returned from israel. Is second trumps president to an active war zone. He visited kyiv in february and tonight is expected to make it appealed to the American People to continue supporting ukraine and israel. Likely to take billions of dollars and Military Assistance for the two countries in addition to 100 Million Dollars in humanitarian get aid for gaza in the west bank. This comes as the white house continues eff
Good day to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im kasie hunt. It is friday, october 20. It is 5 00 a. M. Here in washington, noon in gaza where we had thought we would see trucks full desperately needed humanitarian aid rolling through the Rafah Border Cross Buying Nby now. But not yet. This is a live picture. U. S. Officials now believe the first convoy will cross into gaza this weekend. Possibly saturday. Last night President Biden addressed the nation tying israels War Against Hamas In Gaza to ukraines battle against russian aggression. Hamas and putin represent different threats but they share this in common, they both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy. History has daughters when terr has taught us when terrorists and dictatorses dont pay a price, they cause more chaos and death and more destruction. They keep going. And costs to the americans and the world keep rising. The president is trying to build support for a 100 billion foreign aid pa
Ability to fund itself beyond the middle of november. So the president has a real sales pitch to make to the American People, to leadership on capitol hill, north of 100 billion in the coming days. Kaitlan, President Bidens popularity here in israel has soared since this attack began, both for the speech he gave and also for the speech he gave here and the visit here, first time a president visiting during wartime. What are you expecting tonight . Its kind of remarkable how tied he is to everything that is happening here. Well see what that looks like once israel go into gaza, as we expect them to do. Obviously as kayla was noting, this is going to be a bigger speech on multiple fronts, ukraine, taiwan, democracy period, and how the u. S. Helping these countries fight these fights keeps u. S. Troops out of it, keeps the u. S. Out of it to a degree. But he is so closely tied to this. He came here yesterday and sat in on a Cabinet Meeting. Not just any Cabinet Meeting be, ah wartime Cabi
C. As President Biden prepares to address the nation. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. I will be with my colleagues in washington. We are moments away from a very rare primetime Oval Office Address from the president of the United States. It comes amid a desperate situation in the middle east as the war there between israel and hamas enters its 13th day. Nearly 200 kidnapped civilians, including american citizens, are still being held hostage, some unaccounted for. Militants continue to fire rockets into israel, and israels missiles strike targets in gaza, a worsening humanitarian crisis leaving people with limited access to food, medicine, and clean water for more than a week. President biden just returned from israel. Its the second time for the president to visit an active war zone. He visited kyiv in february and tonight is expected to make an appealed to the American People to continue supporting ukraine and israel. Its likely to take billions of dollars in Military Ass