palestinians been released, we have the details. plus, a gag order back on the table for donald trump in your new york as judge engoron and his clerk received threats from trump supporters. his minions in congress, meanwhile, doing his bidding behind the scenes. issuing legal threats to a civil trial judge. and later, our power to, poetry are sit down with bestselling author young pablo. this is american voices. hello everyone, i'm alisyn menendez, and we're tracking 17 hostages nearly released by hamas tonight. the israeli defense ministry releasing video short while ago of hostages arriving in israel. you can see right there on their screen. crowds of palestinians are waiting for 39 palestinian prisoners to be released in the exchange. here's a list of the hostages who were released today. this is the second round of hostages expected to be done between hamas in israel. it was done hours later today after hamas -- attacks on civilians and gaza by israeli forces, and the limitations and aid from northern gaza. the white house works with qatar,, egypt and israel to get the deal back on track and more hostages are expected to be released tomorrow. the cease-fire is set to last for a four-day period during which hamas has agreed to release 50 hostages next chance for 150 palestinians being held in israel. the truth started yesterday, prompting hamas to release 24 of those hostages from israel to release 39 palestinians. we learned just minutes ago 39 male and female palestinian prisoners were released from three prisons. after the four-day period, israel plans to resume attacks on gaza for at least the next two months. the health ministry in gaza said that -- 1000 of which were children. nbc's ralph sanchez is in tel aviv. and we seize dave or regret is it with us in jerusalem. david, what can you tell us about the hostages that were released? and i know that we are breaking this news just out we as we come on air. anything you know about the palestinians? that's right, alicia. we can now confirm that both sides of the agreement of day two on the cease-fire have been fulfilled. as far as the israeli hostages, we know that there were 13 israeli hostages in addition to about four ty nationals, the ten astros were released outside the framework of the agreement. when it comes to the israelis, this is a group that included for families, the youngest of the hostages released tonight was three year old yale showroom. most of them have been kidnapped from kibbutz be'eri. the latest we know as of their location is that they're safe in israeli territory, they went through preliminary medical checks, most of them are en route to hospitals outside israel were more comprehensive medical and psychological checks will be performed. those are one of the main pieces of information we're looking at, for we want to know more about their physical and mental condition, alicia? rough who those who are just tuning in, this is a deal that nearly fell apart in the past few hours. talk about the sticky parts, why it is that it almost fell apart, and tell us how it came back together. alicia, this has been a nerve wracking set of hours both here in israel and for the people inside of gaza. the hamas officials said earlier on today that they had two main accusations in which israel was breaching the deal. the first was they said israel was blocking eight trucks from going into the most devastated areas of northern gaza. israel does not want to see palestinian civilians returning to the north where their forces are in control and they're reluctant to see aid going out there. the palestinian red crescent is saying 59 trucks did get through today but hasse saying that that's nowhere near enough, hamas also saying that israel was not abiding by its commitment to release the longest serving palestinian prisoners first. and we do know that the prisoners that were released yesterday, many of them has been inside palestinian presidents only for a short time. we don't know the exact terms of the deal between hamas and israel, but we do know the israeli military said earlier tonight that it is sticking to the agreement and ultimately, it fell to the countries who brokered this deal in the first place to keep things from falling apart tonight. they said with some help from egypt in the united states, they were able to bridge the gaps and get this deal on the road. alicia? the thing i want your help in understanding is what we have watched trends buyer over the last 12 or so hours about the qataris. what does that tell us about the future waves of releases its hat. yes, alicia, the main thing that it tells us is that this is a very hour by hour, minute by minute process with a lot of moving parts. it's extremely fragile, especially after today, everyone understands it to be >> that moment during which hamas was accusing israel of not abiding by the terms of the heel and the delay of the release of the hostages showed us the extent to which we cannot reach any conclusion about this until we watch those conclusions take place. that said, within the framework of the agreement, what we can expect is that over the next two days, we will see the remainder of this group of 50 israeli hostages be released from the gaza strip and the remainder of the group of 150 khalistani and prisoners will be released from israeli military prisons, mostly in east jerusalem in the occupied west bank. there's the possibility that the cease-fire will be extended day by during each one of those days, hamas is expected, if the cease-fire is extended, it's hamas is expected to release and traditional ten israeli hostages and israel is expected to release an additional three palestinian prisoners for each hostage release. again, there is no guarantee that the cease-fire will be extended, but the agreement brokered among others, the qataris in the egyptians, allows for that possibility. alicia? rough, i have less than a minute left, i have to ask, you what are you hearing from these families? so we just heard earlier from the family of ohad monitors secrete, he was the nine-year-old boy, he turned nine in captivity in gaza. he was released yesterday, and we're hearing from a relative a little bit about his experience inside of gaza. he says he wasn't abused, he wasn't tortured by hamas, but he says these were difficult, difficult conditions. and they would go sometimes for days without food. he said that they slept on hard wooden benches, not on the beds. he said that sometimes he would ask his captors whether he could go to the bathroom and it would be hours or more before he was finally allowed to go. but at least, as you can imagine, it is overwhelming relief, it is joy in some cases, but it's also bittersweet. because the vast majority of the hostages remain inside of gaza, and in some cases there are families split tonight. david was talking about [inaudible] that three-year-old, she's out, along with her older brother and mother. but their father, tall, is still a hostage of hamas tonight. and it's not at all clear on what timeline he may be released. alicia? raf sanchez and danny llorico, thank you both. the deal to get the hostages free has been extremely tenuous. our msnbc correspondent -- quote, it took weeks of secret negotiations involving, u.s. israeli, qatari and egyptian officials, the heads of cia and the mossad, and the personal intervention of president joe biden to convince reluctant israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to accept a four-day cease-fire that is expected to free up 50 hostages from hamas. to elaborate on this, ana joins us. now we have two colleagues on the byline. fantastic reporting. how did the initial deal come together? alicia, it's like a spine novel, although i do want to say that because of the gravity for the families that have had excruciating conditions for -- cia burns who was extremely involved. without, him it would not happen. working with mossad head, david baron, and president joe biden, sometimes on a date lee basis calling benjamin netanyahu during a five-day period almost every day, every other day in critical time in late october when the architecture of the deal was coming together. without joe biden's pressure, i don't think this would've happened. because on the israeli side, benjamin yetna who does not want to give a millimeter to hamas. there is no trust there. so he was reluctant to come to any kind of a deal and in fact senior u.s. officials told us that in the early days right after the october 7th attack, qatar immediately got involved with the u.s. saying let's get together, let's orchestrated, sailed let's get these hostages out. and the israelis just weren't ready to talk at that point. once israel started to gain control militarily of northern gaza, that's when they started to become more flexible and willing to negotiate. so it was late october and early november that things really started to come together. so for these families, they were not kept 100% in the loop but some of them were talking to, if they were dual nationals, for example, ambassadors in germany and learning something here and there, traveling to various countries, trying to pressure the eu to put pressure on hamas, so there were fits and starts and days of momentum and setbacks throughout this excruciating weeks long process. to put aside fine point on what you just detailed, a senior israeli official told us it was a, quote, biden deal, netanyahu deal. i wonder watching what has transpired in the past two hours, it's easy to say these deals are tenuous, it's very fluid. we have watched today just how tenuous, just how fluid it is. what would your reporting tell you about what in the initial negotiations could afford shouted what we saw today? the tenuous nature that we saw today just shows how incrediblyrucial qatar has been to making this possible. and their pressure on has. because hummus was saying today, wait a minute, israel didn't abide by the certain -- the letter of the law that we had agreed to. and without qatari pressure and some pressure from egypt, and that went all the way up to president a cc. and we're talking all the way up to the emir of qatar, so we have very senior people in directly involved in this. but i would say that early on, the architecture had been in place for several weeks. but my reporting indicates that president biden, just a few decades ago, within the last week, went to benjamin yahoo and said five-day cease-fire. netanyahu said four-day cease-fire. and that's how we landed on this for days cease-fire. with 50 women and children. however, throughout my reporting indicates israel was always hung up on all the women and children, that's kind of the sticking points. let's get the women and children out. one of the things we're reporting on tonight, is that there were no u.s. citizens among the, release to the extent the white house is putting pressure on making sure that there are american citizens released, the way in which that's factored into the negotiations. look at the power that hamas holds. so the longer that they hold the american hostages, they really have the upper hand because president joe biden has a lot of influence, a lot of sway, he's personally invested but -- with netanyahu specifically? yes, with netanyahu specifically. if you think about the allyship that goes back decades and how important u.s. support for israel's, these two countries are 100% aligned, publicly facing. behind the scenes, there have been some disputes among senior leadership working on this. there have been disagreements. the americans have not been happy with the idea of for example early on israel was public about laying a siege on gaza. and the americans were saying, wait a minute, we are not okay with that. you need to create humanitarian corridors, you need to create pauses so that people can get from north gaza to south gaza. all that pressure has had an impact. you have to understand that from the israelis perspective, after october 7th, they were so shocked and it was such a trauma that for them and for the israeli public, the voting public and netanyahu's always keenly aware, he's a political operator. and so from his perspective, he wanted to just appear strong, not giving an inch. and even to this day, he probably is not really happy about this deal that does give some leverage to hamas. complex and fascinating reporting. i'm so grateful for you, for your time, for being here with us. anna schachter, as always and our colleagues at nbc. and, you stay with us. when we come, back the renewed case for a gag order after a judge in trump's new york trial receives hundreds of new threats in the next few days ago. plus, 39 palestinian prisoners released after hamas released 17 hostages as well. we have more details ahead. but, first richard louis with the other big stories we're tracking this hour at msnbc. richard? thank you, alicia. dawn wreck chauvin, the former police officer convicted of murdering george floyd in 2020 was stabbed in an arizona federal prison friday. prison authorities say chauvin is in stable condition, he's expected to survive. no other prison inmates were employees were injured in that attack. ukraine officials say russia launched its largest drone attack on the capital since the start of the war. at least five people were hurt and many buildings damaged in the hours long attack saturday morning. ukraine's air force chief says they were able to down 71 of the 75 drones launched in different kyiv districts. and pope francis visited a hospital in rome earlier today for a ct scan. forcing the pontiff to cancer his normal saturday activities. the scan ruled out any serious issues with his law -- and case of the flu. the pope is expected to return to his normal schedule tomorrow. more american voices after this break. donald trump is back to attacking his new york judge just days before an appeals court review says gag order. in a two-way imposed on thanksgiving, yes, two a. m. , trump called the judge psycho and accused his court of corruption. trump has been targeting court staff since the new york fraud trial started. the judge already received thousands of threatening messages. trump claims that it is his first amendment right to harass members of the court. new york judges will put that argument to the test on monday when they meet potentially reimpose trump's gag order. joining me now, former federal prosecutor, christopher and msnbc political analyst, he is the host of these strange days podcast, and president of the international. i wonder what you expect the new york appeals court is going to make of trump's two a. m. thanksgiving comments? >> i think the most significant development here is the new york district attorney is likely to present evidence following that tweet that the threats and harassment escalated into seriousness. so what you would have is a case study showing the effectiveness of the gag order in protecting court stuff and also trump's willingness to go ahead and direct his supporters to attack these people in the absence of a gag order. i think the appellate court is likely going to side with the judge, because no criminal defendant has a legitimate interest in attacking court employees. there may be a first amendment issue with other sorts of speech, but not this kind of thing. so i expect them to reinstate the gag order. >> you can draw directly from his comments to the way that his supporters and fans come out naturally to harass people. what strikes me is that trump claims that the new york gag order could harm his presidential bid. it is as though he's telling on himself. >> yeah, he is right. it will harm his bid, because he won't be able to spew two a. m. and six a. m. and 24/7 unhinged tweets the way he does. the difference here is that i think that trump is looking to get this a gag order. he wants this gag order. anything to continue the grievance campaign that he can tell his base that the deep state -- or in this case, the courts are going after him. and to unleash his maga supporters to then say, in spite of the gag order, what he would otherwise say. i think we need to look at trump cynically to do anything in this power to get that gag order. i think it will come down on monday. >> i need not remind you that earlier this week you had a d. c. appeals court hearing arguments on trump's federal gag order. a reminder that we have multiple gag orders here. i wonder, we hear so many of these cases where they are like it could go to the supreme court, it could go to the supreme court, specifically on the federal gag order. do you think that that actually ends up at the supreme court? >> i think that it is unlikely -- what we are probably going to see is an appellate court narrow judge chutkan's order. and if they do that i think that the supreme court will probably take it passed any petition to the supreme court. here -- courts are used to balancing different interests. donald trump argues that he has a first amendment right to be able to attack his prosecution to be able to claim that it is politically motivated and see the motives of the prosecutors. the prosecutor say that we have a justice system that relies on witnesses being free from intimidation. once you are arrested -- you are certain of your rights. so the appellate court is probably going to narrow this to order that trump is not allowed to threaten or harass court employees are witnesses. it may say that with respect to jack smith and the prosecutors in his office, those people to be extended trump wants to criticize them, fall within trump's first amendment rights to do so. the difficulty here is always going to be enforcing it and that is really, i think, where we will see that trump violates the gag order that is reinstated what judge chutkan decides to do in that circumstance. >> just to take a big step back, the reason that we are talking about all of this is because we are talking about a former president, who is running for reelection and continues to undermine the rule of law and institutions across this country or at large to see nothing of democracy. you know, the former white house staff, cassidy hutchinson, still sharing warnings about trump. let's take a listen to one. >> if donald trump is elected president again in 2024, i do fear that it will be the last election where we are voting for democracy. because if he is elected again, i don't think that we will be voting under the same constitution that we would be if we, joe biden, elected in 2024. >> it is cassidy hutchinson, it is bill barr, it is general milley, the list goes on and on and at some point you have to ask yourself, are there enough republicans, or clearly enough republicans just from his own administration that could come out and issue the warning. does the warning land differently from than than it does from other messengers? >> it is the question that one has to ask. who is the warning for? is it for the trump maga base? no. so not going to have any impact. it will land with the thought. however, for independent voters, for what you might call even those frustrated democratic voters by the time that we get to the election in calgary or 2024, i do think that these are the most effective messengers. we saw this and the january 6th hearings. it is a trump appointed and trump selected trump hand picked members of the administration who were saying what many others have been saying for years. trump is the existential threat to democracy. he is a fascist authoritarian who will govern, and in essence, many of the liberties that we've been accustomed to in the last years. i think for those voters, that is who this will be affective to. sadly, this won't have any impact whatsoever on the maga base. >> on the maga base, but to your point it doesn't necessarily need to have an imp