hopes there would be good news soon. president biden weighing in this morning. we re now very close, very close. we could bring some of these hostages home very soon. i don t want to get into details. nothing is done until it s done. new numbers from our nbc news poll showing strong bipartisan support for border control far exceeds support to fund wars in israel or ukraine. as holiday travel rush kick into high gear, tom costello looks at the life of the airplanes we fly all day. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. new indications thasrael and hamas could be getti closer to a deal. a deal for the release of 50 women andhildren in exchange for 0 palestinians held in israel. this could you include a halt in fighting to permit fuel and other aid to get in. a key u.s. dend israel s prime minister netanyahu is meeting with his war cabinet. they would need to sign off any deal, which sources say could be imminent. officials in qatar who have been brokering the d
diplomacy, the president meeting with world leaders at the g-7 summit. his message on gaza and ukraine. good morning, it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. let s get right to breaking news on capitol hill where former president trump has arrived in just the last hour, his first visit to the hill since his supporters tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power on january 6th, 2021. a reminder, trump himself didn t go to the capital that day, and he won t be in the capitol building today. instead he s holding meetings with sitting lawmakers nearby. right now he s behind closed doors with members of the house. later he meets with senators. nbc s ali vitali is staking out this meeting and joins us live from the hill. also with us former democratic congressman from new york, steve israel, and former press secretary to republican house speakers john boehner and paul ryan, brendan buck. ali, what have you seen out there this morning, and what should we
impeached him, and as a result, he says he can t be prosecuted. this is a three-judge panel of a federal appeal s court that will hear trump s appeal of that. as you noted, trump is promising to be there in person. john, why is he going to be there? great question, katy. i talked to folks in trump s orbit yesterday. none of them were offering the why. here is a little bit of a surmising based on what we ve seen from president donald trump in the past. he doesn t usually pass up big opportunities to take up a news cycle. i think he wants to go and show the judges as he sits there as a former president of the united states, a unique situation that he, you know, that he is paying attention to this. and, you know, i think the likelihood is that he will walk out of there and make the argument that he has all along that this is a political case. we re hearing joe biden in a few
defense lawyers porn prosecutors all the time, it ll catch of the prosecutor unprepared and it will in a high profile case like this, where d.a. willis took a year or two and this investigation, look, when she indicted this, case she was ready to go. if you are not ready to go, then you shouldn t indict a case like this. and so the defense lawyer that asked for the speedy trial, they re the ones that are significant disadvantage because they re going to have to go through and god knows how much evidence in a short period of time in the trial. in terms of the serve ability and whether all of 19 defendants when the court made the same time, we see an indication for trump s new lawyer today in a filing that he does not, if canisters parole wants to be tried that fast, then trump does not want to be tried alongside him. am i right in surmising that it is all up to the judge whether
hamish harding, suleman dawood and shazshahzada, and paul-henr nargeolet and stockton rush. is there new information about the wreckage seen on the floor that gives them confidence those onboard did not survive? or are they surmising from seeing some pieces of the wreckage there that, therefore, the capsule did fnot survive those depths? reporter: they are surmising that, because of the wreckage they have found that the ca cape itself would not have survived. must have been a catastrophic failure at the moment of the event, and that then led to the debris field which has, you know the the depths and the, and the pressure put on capsuled like that is stunning when you start to talk to these people about just how difficult it is to do this and how technical it is.