Tonight on the reidout we dont have food, we dont have nothing. Nothing, no life here. No life here. When i close my eyes, i see bombs. I see a lot of houses down. Its not fair. Its not fair. Its not fair. Families including americans like that man, wait at egypts border, hoping to escape the hell that is gaza. As israeli troops amass for the expected gaza invasion. Also tonight, trump loses again. As judge Tanya Chutkan slaps a partial gag order on him, limiting the vile that hes allowed to spew. Plus, jim jordan has never passed a single piece of legislation, and john boehner calls him a legislative terrorist, yet, jordan appears to be on the verge of becoming the next republican speaker. But we begin tonight with israel and gaza on the brink. Thousands of Israeli Forces continue to amass on the gaza border in the wake of the deadly Terrorist Attack by hamas more than a week ago. Approximately 2,000 u. S. Troops have been told to prepare for possible deployment in the middle east if given orders. They will go to a nearby country to be prepared to support israel. These troops have not yet been activated and the u. S. Government insists it does not mean american boots on the ground. The number of americans killed in the hamas attack is at least 29. Israeli Defense Forces updated the number of people being held hostage by hamas to 199. The Military Wing of hamas claimed to be holding between 200 and 250 hostages. In tel aviv today, Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken was warned by israels Defense Minister that the upcoming war would be, quote, long and the price for peace, quote, high. That israel would win. Blinken later met for more than six hours with Prime Minister netanyahu and his war cabinet, that followed visits to five Gulf Arab States and egypt over the weekend. It appears the rafah crossing from Gaza To Egypt would be opening today, allowing humanitarian aid in and thousands of dual nationality palestinians to leave. However, that crossing remains closed. U. N. Officials have told reporters that civilians in gaza are Drinking Sea Water because clean water has run out. And that the entire Health System in gaza has collapsed, with acute shortages of body bags, pain medication, and power generation. The u. N. Aid chief is set to travel to egypt on tuesday, and also plans to visit israel. The u. N. , w. H. O. , and World Food Program are ready to deploy assistance. President biden canceled a planned trip to colorado this morning so he and Vice President harris could receive a briefing from their National Security team on the conflict. And to hold calls with the leaders of egypt, iraq, and germany. Biden, who is said to be considering a trip to israel in the coming days, spent the weekend urging calm and warning it would be a mistake for israel to reoccupy gaza. Hamas and the extreme elements of hamas dont represent all of palestinian people. And i think that it would be a mistake to for israel to occupy gaza again. Do you believe that hamas must be eliminated entirely . Yes, i do. But there needs to be a palestinian authority. There needs to be a path to a palestinian state. Meanwhile, israelis across the political spectrum are seething at the netanyahu government for what happened more than a week ago. A prominent israeli host accused netanyahu of being a war criminal for his security failures. Late this afternoon, the spokesperson for the Military Wing of hamas issued a statement saying that hamas would release foreign prisoners, quote, if the necessary conditions are available for that. He said hamas militants had taken a number of people of different nationalities hostage without having, quote, the opportunity to verify their identities. A former hamas official called for the release of the roughly 6,000 palestinians in israeli prisons in exchange for the israeli hostages who include infants, toddlers, and elderly people. Lets bring in nbc news Foreign CorrespondentJosh Lederman in israel. Please give us the latest from there. Reporter joy, for people who are trapped in humanitarian crisis that is the gaza strip, today was supposed to be a day when maybe things would get a little bit better. Today was the day that we were told as of last night by the palestinian representative present at the rafah Border Crossing between the gaza strip and egypt that there was a deal in place and that 9 00 a. M. Today, there was going to be an opportunity for foreign palestinian nationals who are in the gaza strip to cross over the border into egypt, and for humanitarian aid to go into the gaza strip to deal with the exact kinds of issues that you were talking about, the lack of food, water, medicine, medical supplies. Yet that time came and went, and things were not going in, and people were not going out. And one of the reasons, we learned, was both hamas and israel said in fact there was no deal in place for the kind of ceasefire, the kind of cessation of air strikes that would be needed to carry that out safely. So that was a real blow to hopes that perhaps the humanitarian aspect of this could be somewhat ameliorated even as were awaiting this expected Israeli Ground incursion into gaza. And as we are hearing more and more reports about the desperation coming out of the gaza strip, this is really setting the stage for that potential visit that you mentioned from President Biden here to israel. U. S. Officials tell me that biden is strongly considering that trip as early as this week, and that officials are already on the ground here in israel making the preparations for that visit. But this is going to be very complicated and difficult, eving aside the Security Implications of bringing the president of the United States to a country that is now at war, where theres so much uncertainty. There are all kinds of political optics around actions that the Israeli Military might take while President Biden was on the ground here that could look like the u. S. Was green lighting some type of israeli activity as well as what concessions the u. S. Might have been able to get from israel in exchange for granting this visit that netanyahu had requested. Nbcs Josh Lederman, thank you. Thank you very much. Please stay safe. Joining me now is daniel levy, who has served as an israeli negotiator during the israel palestine peace talks, and an executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for responsible statecraft. Thank you both for being here. Mr. Levy, i want to start with you. Just to go back a little bit, you heard joshs reporting, but i was very interested in having you respond to the conversation thats happening inside of israel in which Prime Minister netanyahu is under some pretty sharp criticism from his own people for his handling of things and for the Intelligence Failure and presumably at least in some quarters for what is happening in gaza. What deyou make of that conversation thats happening . Well, its a very important variable in how this plays out, joy, because i think Prime Minister netanyahu is curbing his enthusiasm for the morning after whenever this Military Escalation ends, because that is when the accounting will begin really in earnest for what happened on october 7th, this huge systemic deterrence, intel, Military Failure heaped on years, i would argue, of mishandling the entire situation. Netanyahu knows that when that happens, its really a fools errand to eulogize politically benjamin netanyahu, hes the comeback king, hes been around for so long, but i think when that happens, netanyahu is going to be in a hard spot. That means i think netanyahu, who has been a little risk averse militarily, despite all his bad politics in other ways over the years, i think he has the incentive to not reach that morning after. I think that means this american and other efforts to try to pull this back from the brink are really going to have to be redoubled and they might require working quite deftly with other elements inside the israeli cabinet, inside the Israeli Security establishment, right now, theyre unified but youre going to have to probably tease out differences between them. Let me bring you in and ask about the american angle of this. Because to add to what mr. Levy has said, you have now got the american president who came out with full throated support for the Israeli Government initially. He softened his tone somewhat and is talking more about the idea of some kind of reproachment. What do you make of his role and the prospect of a potential visit . What do you think that then adds to the situation . I think youre quite right that the president has focused primarily on showing tremendous support for israel. In the last 48 hours, we have seen an increase in the language of trying to Couch Everything in terms of international law. But what were not seeing is very clear statements that say that israel, despite the fact it obviously has a right to defend itself, its defense nevertheless has to be within the confines of international law. We have seen the president use the Term International law in the same passage, but not in the sense of strongly publicly requiring israel to abide by that. I fear that the absence of stronger language is going to be problematic because its not going to be sufficient to deter the israelis and the request or the effort by the United States to make sure that the iranians and hezbollah doesnt get involved in this cannot work if its only based on the deterrence against them without seeking restraint on the israeli side. And then to add to that, daniel, there is a hostage situation. To all that both of you have talked about. I want to play for you lester holt of nbc news did an interview with a hamas hostage negotiator. And hes from the International Communities organization. Let me play a little clip of that interview. What is the low Hanging Fruit in terms of a deal that could be made . Right, this is what i have been putting forth since sunday or monday. There are 43 palestinian women in israeli prison. There are 190 minors. People 15, 16, 17yearolds that are defined as minors. To the best of my knowledge, theyre all from the west bank. To the best of my knowledge, none of them have murders israelis. Thats the low Hanging Fruit of what israel has to offer hamas for them to claim something in exchange for women, children, elderly, and sick. Thats the humanitarian part of this. We could add civilians in general, but i know hamas treats All The Young Men as soldiers whether theyre soldiers or not. Daniel, can you envision benj nn netanyahu making that kind of deal . Well, another Development Today has been that hamas release of the first Video Footage of one of to israelis being held in gaza with the permission of the family, apparently. If this can come forward as a more prominent part of the conversation, you just today have the confirmation of the number of israelis held, what we need first of all is for those people to let go. I do think what we just heard about the prospect of a Prisoner Exchange is more likely than simply a release, although hamas has spoken of a release of foreign nationals. If we can get that dynamic moving, if we can get the dynamic of humanitarian assistance getting in, and therefore just be on the beginnings of a deescalatory cycle, that may be a way that starts to pull back and addresses the very issue of the people being held because right now, the path down the abyss is not going to bring security for israelis and of course its going to bring huge suffering for palestinians. And if President Biden goes, the way this discourse is going thats really dehumanizing, i would urge the president when he wraps his arms around the israelis, shows empathy, speaks to their humanity, he does not commit the sin of a mission of forgetting the humanity and to show empathy to whats happening to the palestinians right now as well. We need to get on that Deescalatory Path and talk of a Prisoner Swap of Letting Prisoners go could be part of that. And the last question to you. Talk about being unhelpful. Lindsey graham, United States senator, has threatened u. S. War with iran. He said if hezbollah launches an attack on israel, he said if you escalate the war, were coming for you. A senator cannot commit the United States to war, but thats the way Lindsey Graham is talking. That cannot be helpful. Well, i hardly know of any situation in which Lindsey Grahams response is not to go to war with iran. That seems to be his standard response to everything. It is a really dangerous situation. Part of the reason why i think its important for the United States to also ask for restraint from the israeli side is precisely if this ends up becoming a larger regional war and the iranians get dragged in, there will be tremendous pressure on biden to enter militarily in the conflict. Then were suddenly in yet another unnecessarily and senseless war in the middle east. And the United States cannot afford that. In the midst of the crisis in ukraine, in the midst of a potential crisis with china over taiwan, thats why the deescalation and ceasefire measures are so important. Please come back, i really enjoyed talking with you. Its been very illuminating for our audience. Up next on the the reidout, the violence in the middle east spills over into the u. S. As an illinois man is charged with stabbing a 6yearold boy to death in an alleged antimuslim hate crime. The reidout continues after this. aidyl hi, im aidyl, and i lost 90 pounds on golo. 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Detectives were able to determine that both victims were targeted because they were muslim and due to the current conflict involving hamas and the israelis. Threats and threatening language are rising against both muslim and jewish communities. On sunday, fbi director Christopher Wray said there is an increase in reported threats inside the u. S. Amid the war. Jews and muslim alike as well as their institutions and houses of worship have been threatened. Joining me is mehdi hasan, host of the mehdi hasan show, and elle goldberg, columnist for the New York Times. Her latest piece, the massacre in israel and the need for a decent left, touches upon these complexities. And she writes about the progressive jewish community, quote,hese are jews who share the lefts abhorrence of the occupation of gaza and of the enormities inflicted upon it, which are only going to get worse if and when israel invades. The way Keyboard Radicals have condoned war crimes against israelis have left many Progressive Jews alienated from political communities they thought were their own. A great duo to speak with today. So i want to come back to that column and sit with that column for a moment because it is excellent. I hope everyone reads it. I want to get back for a moment to the 6yearold boy, mehdi. I want to play the dad, and this is what he had to say. Oh, okay. Actually, its not translated. Im going to read the translated version. Im going to tell you what he said. Im here because im the father of the boy, not because im a political person or religious person or anything. Im here as the father of a child whose rights were taken from him. The it issue of hamas and gaza are world issues not pertaining to individual countries. Im not big enough to speak of these things and i hope my son can be a means where this issue can be fixed. Mehdi, talk about it a moment. It does feel in some ways like were in a post9 11 moment. Your thoughts on that and