jansing reports." healed, emotional comments from secretary of state antony blinken as he pushes israel for humanitarian pause in gaza saying he can't help but think of his own kids, as palestinian children are pulled from the rubble. a trip to grieve, president biden heading to maine after a gunman's rampage killed 18 people in a year that has already seen 588 mass shootings. plus, the former president's son erik, back on the stand and things get testy, the lacest from the new york civil fraud trial. a jobs report that came in below expectations, and why that may not be a bad thing. our nbc news reporters are following the latest developments. we begin with secretary blinken's visit to israel and a push for humanitarian pause in israel's fight against hamas. raf sanchez is reporting once again from ashdod, israel. i understand blinken has left israel. he's in jordan now. there were comments made about the need to protect civilian lives. tell us more about what he said. >> reporter: this was secretary blinken's third trip to israel since the october 7th terrorist attack by hamas, and he arrived carrying a message both of support but also of restraint for israel. support in the sense he reiterated america's support for israel's overall mission in gaza to topple hamas he said is unacceptable, to go back to what he calls the pre-october 7th status quo, when hamas was able to use that territory to plan this attack. he also said much more needs to be done to protect the lives of negligent palestinian civilians in the gaza strip. take a listen. >> we have been clear that as israel conducts this campaign to defeat hamas, how it does so matters. it matters because it's the right and lawful thing to do. it matters because failure to do so plays into the hands of hamas and other terror groups. there will be no partners for peace if they're consumed by humanitarian catastrophe and alienated by perceived indifference to their flight. i have seen images, too, of palestinian children, young girls and boys pulled from the wreckage of buildings. when i see that, when i look into their eyes through the tv screen, i see my own children. how can we not? >> reporter: and, chris, our unbelievably brave colleagues inside gaza were at a blast site in the south of the gaza strip earlier, and they watched as a 10-year-old girl was pulled out of the rubble. her mother and her four brothers and siblings still under the rubble. they are presumed dead. her father seems to be the only survivor of that strike. there is also some tension between israel and the u.s. coming to the surface now. secretary blinken, as you said, reiterating his call for a humanitarian cease fire, which he said would allow more aid to get into gaza and might create better conditions for the hostages to be released. but just a couple of minutes after he said that, prime minister netanyahu appeared on television here in israel saying there will be no cease fire until those 240 hostages are freed by hamas. chris. >> raf sanchez, thank you, and thank you for your reporting as well. this hour, president biden will take on an all too familiar role, consoler in chief as he heads to maine following last week's mass shooting. nbc's george solis is in lewiston ahead of the president's arrival. george, who will the president be meeting with, and what's on his schedule? >> reporter: yeah, chris, well, the president as you mentioned, reprising that role of consoler in chief, he will be going to the bar and grill where the shooter carried out the heinous act, placing flowers and a wreath, talking to first responders, nurses anyone who had a hand in the early hours of the man hunt. he will come to the bowling alley, which has been a growing memorial with a number of pumpkins and flowers, trinkets paying respects to the victim. he's expected to deliver remarks, paying his respects to the people of maine, of this community. then we're told he will head to a nearby school where he will meet privately with some of the family members of the vtims and offer a lending ear. that's where he will play that role of consoler and chief, as long as they need him there. he along with the first lady, listening to them, listening to a community has not been able to grieve properly since all of this transpired. as you know, this community was on lockdown for several days last week. the first vigils held and massive turnouts here. we're expecting all of that to take place this afternoon. the president's schedule pretty full once he arrives in lewiston, maine. >> george solis, thank you for that. to a visibly nervous and agitated eric trump back on the witness stand in the trump civil fraud trial. nbc's lindsey reiser is reporting from outside the courthouse in new york. walk us through what happened today and what we're looking for next week. >> reporter: well, court is adjourned until monday, chris, but today we did hear from the attorney general's attorney, trying to establish into the record that eric trump knew that one of the properties he oversaw, seven strings in west chester, new york, was valued less than what was on the statement of financial condition shown to the bank. eric trump sounded like his older brother saying he relied on attorneys and accountants to come up with the information. he wasn't digging deep into the details. he says, he was the construction guy. he's now done as a witness on the state's side. he's done for the trial unless the defense calls him as a witness. there was a big back and forth between trump's attorney and the judge and also the attorney general's attorney talking as well about this back and forth with the judge's clerk saying that there was some note passing and chris kice was saying there's an air of impropriety. that led to fireworks right before court adjourned, the judge pounding on the table saying that he had unfettered rights and access to his clerk, that his clerk wasn't deciding the case for him. the attorney general's office is saying this is a distraction, distracting from the issue, dispracticing from the testimony. before eric left for the day, this is what he told cameras. >> we've never missed a payment. we've never defaulted on a loan. we've got some of the greatest properties in the world, you have an attorney general that plays politics with everything, you have seen that time and time again. she's using a broken system. she's used a rigged system, and it's very sad, and i know the truth will come out in the end. we haven't done a single thing wrong. they're trying to disqualify my father for 2024, he's leading in all the polls. >> reporter: he also went a little bit beyond that, chris, a little bit meandering into issues like pot holes and that the state of new york should focus on its infrastructure. what else can we expect? i mentioned the court is adjourned until monday. that is when we are expecting to hear from former president trump. secret service was here getting a lay of the land, and after that, tuesday is a federal holiday, we can expect to hear from ivanka trump on wednesday. she appealed having to testify in the appellate division. >> lindsey reiser, thank you for your reporting there. and meantime, let's talk the economy. that red hot u.s. jobs market finally cooling down after some aggressive efforts by the fed. cnbc's steve liesman joins me now. new numbers from the october jobs report, steve, break it down for us. >> you're right, cooling but not co, if you take a look at the numbers. 150,000 was the number. it was below expeatns, and they did revise sort of the weak parts of it. there was some 33,000 jobs that were not in there because the workers were on strike, both the auto workers and bringing it down. those numbers will get added back. it's probably quite a bit hotter than at least the number we have now. plus the idea, look, 100,000 workers is normal job you should be getting. we are never going to be able to maintain the strong numbers, and these the numbers the federal reserve likes. the reason why the stock market is rallying, yields are falling, as the kind of concern about inflation goes away when we have this kind of weaker numbers in the job market. right now, the stock market sees these numbers as really goldilocks numbers, though they're down from the strong numbers we had in the prior month. >> just right, steve liesman, thank you so much. it's always good to see you. and still ahead, we are finally hearing much anticipated comments from hezbollah's leader. just as tensions flare on the border between israel and lebanon. what he said about the chance of a wider conflict in the region. we'll go live to beirut in 60 seconds. eiruint 60 seconds. we're still going for that nice catch. we're still going for that sweet shot. and with higher stroke risk from afib not caused by a heart valve problem, we're going for a better treatment than warfarin. eliquis. eliquis reduces stroke risk. and has less major bleeding. over 97% of eliquis patients did not experience a stroke. don't stop taking eliquis without talking to your doctor as this may increase your risk of stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. don't take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. while taking, you may bruise more easily or take longer for bleeding to stop. get help right away for unexpected bleeding, or unusual bruising. it may increase your bleeding risk if you take certain medicines. tell your doctor about all planned medical or dental procedures. the number one cardiologist-prescribed blood thinner. we're going for it. ask your doctor about eliquis. . we have some breaking news. the white house just confirming that 100 u.s. citizens and family members left gaza thursday as the humanitarian crisis and fears of a wider conflict escalate. today the leader of hezbollah breaking his silence on the israel-hamas war in a widely watched speech. his message, the lebanese militant group has already entered the battle against israel, and he threatened that things could escalate further. nbc's matt bradley is reporting from beirut, lebanon. what else did we learn from that speech, matt? >> reporter: well learned quite a bit. this was an hour and a half of the hezbollah leader speaking, and you mentioned how he said they were already in that war. that was a comment he made saying that he was responding to people asking, mostly other arab leaders, other arab, you know, heads of state, why haven't you entered the fight, and the ostensible reason for the speech was he was honoring those martyrs, more than 50 hezbollah fighters who have been killed in the last nearly four weeks of fight along the lebanese border with israel. he was talking about these martyrs, these people who have been killed. he described how basically all options were still on the table. he could widen the war, and he could strike further targets deeper into israel. this was part of his congratulatory message to followers, and he was essentially saying that all options were on the table, and he had as much condemnation for israel as he did for the united states. that's something i have been hearing going to all of these hezbollah funerals and rallies. they hold the united states and israel in equal contempt. they see israel as a puppet state of the united states. he said that he was not afraid, and the people of hezbollah and lebanon were not afraid of the air craft carrier strike groups, off the coast, waiting in case hezbollah does make a move. this is something we have heard directly from the u.s. military repeatedly, that the reason so many arms are here in the middle east now, not just that they're always here, they are. but they're here because they're trying to keep this war from internationalizing. that's a big step, and it's one of the things that he was staring down in the speech he delivered today. he's essentially saying that he can do anything he wants but a lot of it is going to depend on what the israelis do in the gaza strip. he spent a lot of his speech describing how his presence or hezbollah's presence at israel's border with lebanon had distracted the idf, they had put asas 30% of their weapons, men and material on the border. weapons and men and other, you know, equipment that he said could be used as part of israel's relentless assault on gaza. this was something, again, he was speaking and i was amongst this crowd of hezbollah supporters. he was throwing red meat to his base. chris, when you zoom out a little bit, go out here in beirut or elsewhere in lebanon or elsewhere in the middle east, there isn't nearly that level of enthusiasm for a region-wide war that i saw in this rally today. this country, lebanon is really on the back foot. they are in their fifth year of an economic crisis. being here for the last four weeks, we have been seeing repeated blackouts all the time. people are getting poor. there was an appetite for war and defeating israel, a lot of this region probably doesn't have it in them. chris. >> matt bradley, thank you so much. i want to bring in senior fellow at middle east institute. thank you so much for being with us. and i just want to ask you, first of all, what you see as the significance of what we heard from the leader of hezbollah. >> chris, it's a pleasure to be on the show. this was a speech where war and peace itself hung in the balance. there had been much anticipation in the lead up to this speech because although israel and hamas has been at it for almost a month, hezbollah, hezbollah secretary general had not said anything. but at the height of that anticipation is only matched by the depth of the disappointment amongst hezbollah supporters that, in fact, there was no sort of inflection point. there was no declaration of war. we saw today, in fact, deterrence continues to hold on the israel and lebanon border, despite ongoing border skirmishes, those remain contained and hezbollah does not have an appetite for an all out war against israel that could engulf the region. >> yeah, without a doubt. those tit for tat skirmishes have not spread. what could make it move in that direction? >> well, mosrola was clear that the pathways continue to exist. there were two of them. one was that should israel move up, and move toward totally dismantling hamas's infrastructure in gaza, that could still be something that caused iran and hezbollah to enter the fight in a much more major way. the second pathway towards escalation, the potential israeli miscalculation on the lebanon-israel border. a mass casualty event on either side of the border that could get violence to spiral out of control. short of that, i think for many of us who were observing, waiting for the speech today, the take away is that because israeli deployment on that border, because of the american aircraft carriers o the coast of lebanon, hezbollah and iran seek to have no appetite for a broader regional war. >> lebanon's care taker prime minister, as you know, has warned that chaos would engulf the middle east if lebanon is dragged into a war against israel by hezbollah for people who don't have an understanding of that part of the world, how much influence do they have compared to the actual government of lebanon, if you call it that, that this is a deeply exhausted and impoverished country? >> the power that hezbollah would bring to bear should they decide to enter that conflict will far dwarf that of hamas. this is the nonstate military actors around the world. the authority of the lebanese state compared to hezbollah is the ability to bring power to bear and affect the rule of law in the country does not compare and pales to that of hezbollah. it really is hezbollah and iran that is the primary supporter, funder and that arms the group that call the shots as to whether lebanon goes to war or peace. and so the prime minister here is really just trying his best to try and avert a confrontation with israel through a diplomatic process. but it really is not his power to wield. and hence the anticipation ahead of today's speech. >> thank you so much. former president trump and his daughter ivanka next up on the witness stand. what their testimonies next week could bring to the civil fraud trial. a legal expert joins me after this. ud trial. a legal expert joins me after this tourists that turn into scientists. tourists taking photos that are analyzed by ai. so researchers can help life underwater flourish. ♪ right now get a free footlong at subway. like the new deli heroes. buy one footlong in the app, get one free. it's a pretty big deal. kinda like me. order in the subway app today. 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