martha: good afternoon. i m martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. the story happening right now is new reaction coming in about the white house as president biden has said i think we need a pause in the israel hamas war in order to get humanitarian aid in and people being held there out. but others say that that only gives hamas time to reload as the u.s. tries to accomplish those goals. here s john kirby moments ago. localized that would allow us to get aid in and to get our people out is a good thing for the people of gaza, a good thing for the americans that are being held hostage and it s not going to stop israel from defending itself. the security assistance we re providing continues to flow. a temporary pause doesn t mean a general cease fire when the war is over. it means pause for a specific purpose. martha: so let s go to tel aviv now and speak with danny dannon, a former israeli ambassador to the united nations. good to have you with us tod
crossing into egypt. 79 americans including a family we ve spoken with repeatedly on this show made it through. the opals tell us all seven of them, abood who we spoke with yesterday, along with his wife and their 1-year-old, and hanine who we spoke with a couple of weeks ago, her two small children and newborn have all made it out, and they are on their way back home to the united states right now. a blessing. but what they left behind is a horror. another strike on another refugee camp. bread and water lines, the fuel crisis, and a gaza city that is no longer recognizable. the bombing has been so destructive and deadly. the calls for a pause, if not a cease fire, are now coming from the white house. we ll explain where president biden now stands and what got him there. his secretary of state, antony blinken, is in the air, and headed for another round of shuttle diplomacy, with one of the main focuses still on the hostages. on that note, there has been no news, and no known
we will have the latest. then, a federal judge reinstates a gag order against donald trump. what led to these restrictions, and what impact it has in the former president. under fire and under oath, his own words used against him. what happened during today s trial as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday. night good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle, live at msnbc headquarters here at 30 rock center. this is a time for war. we heard those words earlier today from israel s prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. nations troops pushed deeper into gaza. israel s war with hamas is expanding, and the ground offensive is now being carried out along with continuing airstrikes. the escalation comes alongside rising fears about the fate of more than 200 israeli hostages. tonight, another captive is free, rescue during israeli military operation, we gets more on that from nbc s richard engel. this evening in tel aviv, the families of israeli hostages were gathered to pressur
norah: prime minister netanyahu stands firm in his mission to destroy hamas as the situation in gaza grows desperate. despite the near constant heavy bombardment of gaza, hamas has shown itself capable of firing back. this just happened this morning. residents here say a rocket came right through the window from the direction of gaza, caused all this destruction. anti-semitic incidents on the rise around the world. hundreds storm a russian airport looking for israeli passengers. back here at home, online threats against jewish students at cornell. the alarming spike. new details in the maine mass shooting. why police were sent to the gunman s house for a health and welfare check before the massacre that killed so many. the makeshift memorial to the 18 victims are growing as this community starts to heal. norah: tonight, tributes for matthew perry are pouring in, plus why it could take weeks to find out the cause of the sitcom star s sudden death. warning for those w
chutkan reconsidered her decision and her new arguments from the special counsel and donald trump s criminal defense team. trump s attorneys wanted it removed on first amendment grounds, but judge chutkan reiterated in her ruling last night that, quote, as the court hasexained, the first amendment rights of participants and criminal proceedings must yield when necessary to the administration of justice. contrary to defend this argume, the right to a fair trial is not his alone, but belongs austin to the government and the public. defendants repeated appeals to broad first amendmentes, therefore ignore that the court pursuant to its obligations to protect the integrity of these proceedings recognize those values, but and balancing them against potential prejudiced from certain types of statements, found them outweighed. the gag order limits what trump says about potential witnesses in the case, as well as special counsel. it does not stop him from attacking president biden, th