a very good day to all of you. i m alex witt. our top stories this hour, israel says the war on hamas could last for many months as it carries out new deadly strikes in gaza, including on refugee camps. that s despite growing pressure from the biden administration to change course. michigan s supreme court rejects an attempt to remove donald trump from the 2024 primary ballot. the opposite of a ruling by colorado s supreme court. we will dig into what that means for the former president s campaign. top u.s. officials led by secretary of state blinken set to arrive in mexico to try to tackle the record number of migrants crossing into the u.s. 8,000 moving right now toward the southern border. new storm warnings on the east coast threaten holiday travel plans. a blizzard pounds colorado as more than 6,000 flights are delayed nationwide. we begin this hour with israel and the u.s. at odds over the war in gaza. a top advisor was at the white house to talk about what come
rachel: that s rick. he is making tortillas. these are the aoc style, the ones she wants us, to way she wants us to make it. look at that, he s making to have tee a yas. tortillas. that s my tortilla press, by the way, i brought it in today. people might not know this about rick, he is an excellent cook that specializes many mexican cooking. pete: this is a fact. rachel: he s amazing. pete: he is. let s see what he can do in the green room on a hot plate. rachel: we had that big debate about corn or flour. he s making fresh tortillas for us. pete: you said you can t make electric stove tortillas. i prefer to heat hem over a flame. you have to make them like that when they re fresh on a skillet, but if you want to reheat them, they re nice over a flame. but the point i think you guys said you chose flour over corn. let s see if you try fresh corn tortillas, if you peel the same, because that s what rick is making. will: if i want a straight taco, it s a corn tortilla. if
some clerks? yes. so our amazing supreme court producer bill and i have been on this, obviously, for months, and we have pressed. and we did find out a month ago that there had been a narrowing of the universe of people it could have been. we pressed again for more information this week about what we could find out if there s been even, you know, a winnowing down of that suspect. we can t get anything from the court, and the interesting thing is the chief justice decided to keep it in house, that s his purview, meaning there s no justice department, fbi, outside law enforcement agency that we ve been able to ascertain has any piece of this which, of course, makes it harder to get leaks about the leak because the supreme court has decided to keep it in house. so what we found out in recent weeks and months has been from the justices themselves, justice gorsuch saying, hey, there will be a report at some point. we don t know if that goes to the justices, if it goes to all of us. we had
so, that means that this is something they might continue to winnow down, which i will say is not the promise they made to the american people. that is going to be something that working parents are going to have a big issue with, despite the fact there s all these other billions and billions of dollars in this bill. on the medicare aspect of that, you re going to see some people like bernie sanders have a big issue with that. so, this isn t as if they finished the bill. speaker pelosi said they re at 90%. if they get to 100%, they could still disagree, but they are talking differently about the bill. for the first time president biden is letting us know the conversations he s having instead of saying not negotiating from the podium, giving us information. so, that does indicate they are winnowing down, and we might get a vote possibly on the bipartisan infrastructure bill on wednesday, meaning that whatever framework they ve agreed to for reconciliation,
it just feels like the process has not done any winnowing down, hasn t done much winnowing down in the field. do you think the democrats are running this process properly? i ve been on the record saying the dnc s requirements to make the debate have been very open and clear. to me, they ve done the best job they could with very objective criteria. it s up to the voters to determine who makes the debates. there are many candidates that are in the race that did not make the debate stage, and that s the way it should be. in terms of your plan for universal basic income, obviously other candidates have not been killing you on that. i think i got some endorsements on the stage, didn t i? a number of people said, hey, we should do universal basic income. do you feel like if you don t get the nomination that that is thing you would fight to make part of democratic party politics, try to get the platform? try to get the party to work on it? 100%. i said it on the stage. we re in the