we've got brand new audio. the former president in his own words, what he claims he said. and if you're traveling for the busy thanksgiving weekend, well, psych yourself up, more than 55 million americans expected to be on the move in coming days. one of the busiest holiday weekends in the past 20 years. we're live at the airport with more on what to expect. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin with that new footage from the israeli military as it searches gaza's main hospital. nbc's raf sanchez joins us from tel aviv. what do we know about what this footage shows and what we're not sure it does. >> so, chris, this new footage shows a senior commander at the al-shifa hospital standing over what israel says is the opening of a hamas tunnel shaft that runs underneath the facility which is gaza's biggest hospital. nbc news cannot confirm that this is, indeed, a hamas tunnel. we can say, because we've geo located it that this video was shot on the grounds of the al shifa complex. and israel has been releasing a steady stream of these videos now after initially coming under a pretty intense global criticism, one, for raiding the hospital while patients and displaced people were sheltering inside, and for ultimately turning up that first day, sparse evidence of the presence of militants they found. assault rifles, bullets, some grenades, but nothing so far that points to what israel and the u.s. are both saying is a hamas command center underneath al shifa. the israeli military has also in the last day said it has found the bodies of two hostages in a building adjacent to al shifa. one is a 19-year-old israeli soldier. the other, a 65-year-old woman who was kidnapped from a kibbutz in the south of israel on october 7th. her husband was murdered during that same attack. meanwhile, inside of gaza, palestinian civilians have been fleeing south for weeks heading for the relative safety, but today people have been getting leaflets dropped from the air by the israeli military telling them to evacuate that area because israel is planning to carry out operations in the south also, which, chris, just really underscores the deep, deep dilemma facing palestinian parents right now, trying to keep their children safe in gaza. where do you go when nowhere is safe? the only good news we're getting out of gaza right now is officials at the rafah border crossing are saying diesel trucks are crossing over, carrying fuel, which is destined for palestinian telecommunications companies, which last night said that they were forced to shut down their phone and internet service because they had simply run out of fuel. we are occasionally to reach people inside of gaza, either by phone or over the internet. but for the most part, it is a near communications blackout. here in israel, the families of israeli hostages are marching from tel aviv to jerusalem. they're expected to reach jerusalem tomorrow, and they say when they get there, they are going to demand answers from the israeli government about these back channel negotiations that we know are going on between israel and hamas, over the fate of the hostages. these families say they want to know what's happening, and they want to know that the israeli government is doing everything they can to bring their loved ones home, chris. >> raf sanchez, thank you. the israeli military not only conducting searches at hospitals in gaza but also in the occupied west bank. nbc's matt bradley is in beirut for us. there are images from a hospital there of medics, as i understand it, walking out with their hands up. what happened there? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, this is part of a raid that's been going on the better part of the last 24 hours. this was in the early part of the day. a raid from the city of janine, not just that hospital. this is becoming kind of a tale of two hospitals. you've got al shifa hospital where there's this controversial israeli attack against the hospital, which raises all sorts of questions about international law. now we're seeing a similar thing, much less violent, much less death, and not part of the same scale of an attack like is going on in the gaza strip, but still, we're seeing this, an attack on a hospital, medics according to some aid groups, medics were asked to be searched and ambulances were searched. this is something that, again, raises questions of international law. hospitals, medics, ambulances, they're all thought to be out of bounds when it comes to armed conflict. it's not just questions of international law. we're talking about the possibility of the west bank where violence has been soaring ever since october 7th could get drawn into the conflict, not just in the way we're seeing in the past couple of weeks. a full on that we have seen twice before. it would really complicate the whole situation for just about everybody. there's a lot of people in the west bank, a lot of militant groups, according to the idf, and hamas. they were fighters who were attacking, you know, israeli defense forces troops, and that they retreated to the hospital, and that's when the israelis went in and tried to raid this hospital. again, janine hasn't been a hot spot since october 7th since the hamas terror attack started. this has been a hot spot for the better part of the past year. we have started to see a lot of violence in the west bank. it's not just about the hospital. it's about the potential that this could start another fresh fight in an entirely new location, chris. >> matt bradley, thank you. now to the brand new audio of donald trump talking about his interactions with secret service on january 6th. nbc justice reporter, ryan reilly is following this story, author of the new book, sedition hunters, how january 6th broke the justice system. walk us through the audio nbc news contained, and what's the significance here. >> this is all a really important audio, it speaks to donald trump's influence on the crowd and what he knew about how he could actually impact the crowd at the capitol on january 6th itself. and, you know, he obviously put out that video hours after the attack went by, crawling the group very special. telling him to remember this day forever. in this discussion with jonathan, here, take a listen. he gets into the power that he thought he had over the crowd. >> if you look at the real size of that crowd, it was never reported correctly. it's the biggest crowd i've ever spenn front of by far. that went back to the wasngton n monument. >> you told them you were going to go upo the capitol? >> i was going to and the secret service said you can't, and then by the time i would have, and then when i got back -- i wanted to go back. i was thinking about going back during the problem to stop the problem, doing it myself. secret service didn't like that idea too much. i could have don that, and you know what, i wldave been very well received. don't foet, the people that went toashington that day in my opinion, they went because they thought the election was rigged. that's why they went. >> so this really goes to what cassidy hutchinson testified about before the january 6th committee, speaking about this can idea that donald trump wanted to go by. and in fact, what she heard from a member of the secret service that trump grabbed the driver of the car. he's sort of confirming he did want to go down to the capitol that day, and talk about even going afterwards to bring an end to the violence. it speaks to this notion that could come up in the trial set to start in march that he knew he had power over the crowd, despite not really doing too much while sitting out for the critical moments while he was at the white house, while this brutal attack was happening at the capitol. >> ryan reilly, thank you. a wildly busy holiday travel week is ahead, projected to be way up over last year, and actually it's already gotten started. george solis joins us from the airport in philadelphia. i'm hoping things aren't too bad yet, but we know they're going to get crazy. >> that's right. it's sort of the beauty of working remotely. people can begin their extended stay over the vacation for the holiday getting away. they can stay later. this is an assignment that makes me hungry. we talk about travelers going to their families, and what they're going to cook. people really on team sides this year. more than the actual turkey. more on that a little bit later. bottom line here, the story at the airport seems to be pre-check right now. 17 million americans registered for pre-check. i have to tell you, it makes a huge difference at airports. here at philadelphia international, the pre-check line, four to six minutes. it's been as high as half an hour when we start seeing some of the incoming and departing flights. 55 million americans expected to travel. the bulk driving. that's about a 2.3 increase from last year, and the highest forecast since01 a number of records expected to be broken. the tsa expecting to screen about 30 million passengers starting today. and that is because people are leaving earlier because they can work remotely. earlier we caught up with travelers aside from asking them what their performance is about the benefits of pre-check. here's what they told me. >> get here early. don't wait until the last minute. register for tsa well in advance. >> it just removes a lot of the stress of travel. >> it's a lot easier. >> makes me feel better about what time we need to get to the airport and all that. >> the big picture for travel is pretty good. car rentals are down. gas, actually cheaper, about $0.40 cheaper than it was this time last year. before i go, i have been asking people, i have to ask you, are you more of a turkey or sides person? >> i love it all, and i'm going to eat it all. bread, mashed potatoes, all the sides, turkey, lots of gravy. thank you, george solis. >> lots of grave. about four, five, six more days. coming up, why osama bin laden's letter to america is going viral 22 years after the september 11th attacks. we're back in 60 seconds. 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>> it seems, chris, that this 21-year-old letter came back to life thanks in part to a post on x from a journalist who essentially posted a compilation of a handful of people on tiktok who had been posting about this letter. at that time, there wasn't an enormous amount of traction. from there, huge traction began, and in just the four days between monday and thursday this month, we saw the searches for bin laden and references to him on x, increased by about 4,000%. we saw searches on you tube go up by about 400%, and across tiktok, millions of views have been racked up by a handful of videos. as you mentioned, tiktok has taken it down. all the major platforms have a pretty clear policy on not allowing content that glorifies terrorism, and this certainly falls dead smack in the middle of that. as people have begun posting reaction videos in some ways, condemning the original videos and also editing in snippets of them. they have remained alive. and so at this hour, it is easy to find this rhetoric ongoing on tiktok, in spite of its efforts to take it down. >> with so many people sharing this letter, how does the fbi, how do other government agencies monitor what could or probably won't develop into a real threat. how do they determine which way this might go? >> well, the short answer is with great difficulty. we don't have a government that is big brother monitoring everybody's interactions and postings and what they're downloading. but they are concerned that american young people seem to be getting history lessons off of tiktok, and from osama bin laden and his language that lives on, and you'll remember the big brew ha ha over the so called, you know, fbi twitter gate, the notion that now the fbi should not be communicating or working with social media platforms to try and point out what's happening. so that's kind of been put on hold, and i'll note to viewers, tiktok is china controlled. now, they claim they're privately and independently owned by a company called bytedance. the reality is there's no such thing as privately and independently owned because the chinese government has right of first refusal telling their companies what to do, and woe be unto them, any chinese company that doesn't follow instructions. china is very happy to kind of poison our young people. if you go to china, and look at their tiktok, they put limits on it for their young people. anyone under 18 is limited only to a youth version of tiktok and limited to only 40 minutes a day. but not us, they're giving us our history lessons. >> it's czy how fast things can go in this day and age, right, and "the washington post" interviewed a specialist, an islamist militant af and he said he was frankly quite surprised at the respoeo the letter. he described it as a kinof core doctrinal test of al qaeda and the islamic state terrorist group. he said it's not the letter that's going viral. it's a selective reading of parts of the letter. is that what you think is going on here. why do you think it's caught on in this way? >> is that for me, chris? >> yeah, i'm sorry, frank. >> yeah, sure. look, so absolutely true. the portions of the disturbing portions of bin laden's letter, that actually call for genocide of noncombatants. in fact, specifically, he says we should be killing anyone who supports democracy. right? that's being left out, conveniently or not from what young people are spreading around to each other. so we've lost control of social media. it is what's fanning and fueling flames of terrorism, bad misinformation, conspiracy theories and now we're in an environment and have been now for several years where everybody's willing to accept what's being spoon-fed into them without doing any homework themselves, and the extremist sides of issues, right, this was a complex issue, the palestinian issue, the israeli hamas thing, all extremely nuanced, layered, you've got to figure it out yourself. but yet we've seen so poised and primed to grab anything that's a simple solution. this is bad, that's good. i'll point to the simple solution. i'll take whatever i'm told is good. >> frank figliuzzi, and jake ward, thank you so much. the federal government is now offering colleges and universities expert help in combatting anti-semitism and islamophobia which have been on the rise since the october 11th attack on israel. campuses have been roiled by pro israel and palestinian protests, the education department is investigating islam phobic incidents at half a dozen colleges and universities. julie ainsley is covering this story for us. what is the federal government doing to get involved? >> it's escalating across the lo -- a lot of colleges including elite colleges. they can't infringe on free speech. the department of education is using the title 6 authority. i spoke to officials from cisa inside dhs who says they are offering free services to campuses to try to help them prepare and come up with security plans should things turn even more violent. and i've recently went and spent time with students, jewish and muslims on the university of connecticut, to get their take and experience firsthand of what they're experiencing. >> reporter: at the university of connecticut, jewish students say they have seen anti-semitic flyers which administrators took down. jewish student groups now training students for extra security. what do you think people should know about what it's like to be a jewish college student in america right now? >> it's scary. you know, it's very hard, i think. >> reporter: yana is a junior. >> i hide my star of david just because, you know, i feel more secure that way. >> reporter: while members of pro palestinian groups at uconn are also worried. lena says she received this threatening voice mail. >> you're supporting baby killers, people who rape grandmas, i can't wait to see you dead. how did you feel? >> it makes you feel what else are they capable of doing if they're going out of the way to get your number. >> reporter: the school unequivocally condemns islamophobia, as it condemns anti-semitism. cisa is offering to put stronger security plans in place. >> we have seen an uptick in requests for our support. >> do you have enough people to do this work. >> the demand is going to outstrip the supply. >> yeshiva university among the colleges speaking out. >> this is a scary time certainly on college campuses. >> you can see it's a tough time here. the biden administration has to decide how they get involved, and we saw just last night, the governor of connecticut met with 40 schools to talk about their security plans, and he included people from the justice department in that conversation to see what they can do about hate speech and also to try to keep things from escalating into more violence, chris. it's a tough time to be a college administrator, let alone a college student right now. >> julia ainsley, thank you for your reporting. what happens now after a jury could not agree on a verdict for a kentucky officer charged with violating the civil rights of breonna taylor. and hunter biden interviewed by the special counsel. we'll tell you why later in the hour. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. y on msnc rsv can severely affect the lungs and lower airways. but i'm protected with arexvy. arexvy is a vaccine used to prevent lower respiratory disease from rsv in people 60 years and older. rsv can be serious for those over 60, including those with asthma, diabetes, copd, and certain other conditions. but i'm protected. arexvy is proven to be over 82% effective in preventing lower respiratory disease from rsv and over 94% effective in those with these health conditions. 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