force in gaza. the israeli saying they've launched hundreds of missile attacks. hamas is reporting hundreds killed already. and bombshell new reporting nbc news in the new york times that israelis dismissed warning signs of the october 7th attacks for up to a year ahead of time. the times reported broke that story. we'll also speak with the family of a teenager taken hostage in the october 7th attacks. freed this week. in what is to come. who are following other news this hour as well, former president on the campaign trail right now and iowa after suffering a double dose of defeat to his claim that is one term presidency should be a lifetime get out of jail free card. plus, we're live in the district net representative george santos after he was officially kicked out of congress. making history with his expulsion. and we're keeping an eye on an earthquake off the coast of the philippines. that sparked a tsunami warning, the latest on what is going on. that's coming up as well. we want to start this hour in the middle east, where prime minister bibi netanyahu is currently speaking, celebrating the release of hostages this week. even as the hype fighting picks back up in gaza. when you get right nbc news correspondent, david maria, go on the ground for us in tel aviv with more on this. david, good to talk to you. we have netanyahu speaking today. as we have these reports both from us at nbc news in from the new york times as well. that security officials raised alarm bells about this initial attack. what more can you tell us? >> yasmin, this is potentially very consequential reporting that has political reverberations inside israel. we have to consider the context of that, netanyahu himself is extremely unpopular within israel. a lot of people here, the way they talk about him, the sense is the only reason he still in power is because he's prosecuting this war. and they're kind of allowing him to stay in power until the war is over, at least progresses further. he's perpetually or risk of losing members of his coalition, which would force him to go to election. which, at this, point based on the polling that available, he would almost certainly lose. reporting this damaging could have really serious consequences just on the makeup of the israeli government. as far as how israeli authorities have responded to this, from what i've seen, they haven't commented on the specific reporting by the times and nbc news in the past they've said that, while they acknowledge failures on october 7th, the priority right now is to continue the military offensive in gaza. and that they will investigate the failures of october 7th at a later date. he has been? >> also want to talk about what's happening on the ground, there i know the past couple of hours, israeli defense forces saying they have hit over hundred targets inside gaza. since the end of the truce with hamas. give us the latest that you've been seeing there in hearing? >> right, so, one really important factor to this, those 400 targets are all across the length and width of the gaza strip. you know, this has been happening before. but it's significant that more of the military offensive seems to be taking place in the south. about 1.7 million people or people were displaced from the north into the south. they are now penned into the south. the israeli government says that it is not targeting civilians. and that it is giving people detailed orders to evacuate specific safe places within the southern half of the gaza strip that they can go to avoid being killed in strikes that the idf says are targeting hamas. however, what we hear from people on the ground in gaza, many of them have already been displaced once or twice prior to this. they feel like there is nowhere safe to go, and there's a lot of fear that they're essentially being permanently displaced as a result of this conflict. the gaza health ministry says that about 200 people have died since the resumption of the war. that number has climbed. they see that most of those casualties are women and children, again, the idf instance that it does not target civilians. it is targeting hamas militants and infrastructure. yasmin? >> talk to me about potential negotiations happening when it comes to another pause or exchange of hostages. where are we on this as the fighting has resumed? at this moment, yasmin, it does not look good israel has a team of negotiators in doha it pulled them out today. hamas is now saying that they will not resume negotiations until israel stops its attack on gaza. which, from what we're hearing from israeli officials is not likely to happen at this point both hamas and israel do not seem like they are willing to go to the table to continue or begin new negotiations there still pressure from other diplomatic actors, particularly united states, the white house says they're still eight americans captive in gaza. the u.s. is putting pressure on them to try to get negotiations to resume. with the qataris, the egyptians, but as of right now, it does not look like we are likely to see a new cease-fire. or even new round of negotiation, at least not imminently yasmin david by the way we're gonna more of the new reporting on warnings about the hamas attack ignored by as we're coming up with the new piece in the new york tis i want to turn to the house which now has one less member. after george santos was expelled in an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote, santos trying to take some other members of congress down with him. tweeting that he will file ethics reports against former house republicans, want to bring in nbc's erin gilchrist from the white house. in -- new york, part of what was santos's district. aaron, start us off, if you will take us through yesterday's events. and what santos is threatening to do now? yasmin, back up just a little bit here. the santos expulsion really picked up steam with that house ethics committee report that found that he appeared to have broken several federal laws in his 2022 campaign. members of the house were waiting for that report, many of them were before deciding where exactly they stood on whether santos should stay in congress. he saw the writing on the wall as yesterday's vote made its way to the floor, in the, and we know that more than two thirds of the members the proportion need to expel of congressman decided that santos had to go. in pretty dramatic fashion, santos throughout his winter coat, he walked off the floor, as the vote was coming to a close there, 311 members voted in favor of his removal his time in office and it immediately there. his name was removed from his office door at the capitol the locks were changed their former congressman, as you noted, took to twitter pretty quickly yesterday saying that he planned to file ethics complaints against former congressman from his area. nick lalota, mike lawler nicole melia taxis, all of new york and then rob mendez of new jersey as well. we've heard from two of their offices so far calling santos a serial liar. a con man. essentially saying that they are not gonna waste their time worrying about george santos as they continue to do their work now. officially, yasmin, we should know that new york governor kathy hochul, has to schedule a special election at this point. it looks like santos's staff will stay in place. they'll be managed by the house clerk through that office in the house as we wait to see exactly what happens next from new york's third district. >> erin giokos from the white house, thank, you erin. greg, you are there, the district that santos represented. we just heard from aaron as to the special election that will be held by new york's governor. nonetheless, how are folks reacting? >> good afternoon, yasmin. the way the people district are we acting, they are just really looking for a new set of changes. and a new voice they want somebody who's going to be very transparent. of course, harkening back to the fact that, with george santos, there wasn't a lot of transparency with some of the allegations that were put forward. as aaron gilchrist touched on a little bit earlier, this whole process is gonna work to try to fill this vacancy, new york governor kathy hochul has ten days to file a special election that will then be 70 to 80 days after that special election, as far as figuring out when the day will be, as far as when voters will be able to determine who they want to be able to vote for. some of the issues that we've heard from some of the folks here in this district, of what they're looking for, democrat or republican, the representation that they want, is just someone who's gonna be -- . listen to what they had to say a little bit earlier on. >> well, i was radically pleased that he was finally going to be taken out. he should've taken out a weekly. >> i thought he deserved it. at the same time, i almost feel sad for him. you know, going through what is going through. he hasn't shown any remorse at all so it's hard to feel sorry for him. >> i don't think it's a positive thing to have been for this district. it kind of has a stain on history. and it can't be erased. it's unfortunate that this is. what we're known for now. >> one of the interesting things, yasmin, i want to point out, this is a district that, although represents part of new york city here in queens where i'm standing, and also long island, it's a district that, president biden was able to win by nearly eight points in 2020. and prior to santos, it was represented by democratic congressman, tom suozzi. even though democrats have had a history of success in this district, republicans have been able to successfully make inroads, and talking to some of the constituents here living in this district, whether it's democrat or republican, they're just looking for someone, as i mentioned a limit earlier, who's gonna be a bit transparent is gonna be a represent them in a way that they will have to worry about it yasmin? >> greg, do we know the money it's gonna cost for this upcoming race with a special election? >> we're certainly anticipating that there's going to be a beehive of activity from a financial standpoint. we know there are certain super pacs on the house side that it's gonna make it their mantra if they will their gonna do whatever it takes to be where the democrats are looking at this, potential election is that it could become a big inflection. in june -- of 2024, the math runs the house, we expect bipartisan spending on both the democratic side, and the republican side to try to get what should be a very pivotal house he. he has been? >> greg, hi greg, appreciate. coming up to 60 seconds, warning ignored. new bombshell reporting from the new york times, we just talked about this a little bit. israel had the hamas planned for the october 7th attack a year before it happened on a talk about one of the reporters that broke that story later on this hour former president doubled the feed on his claim of presidential immunity. that's coming up. that's coming up he switch. it's your business. it's your verizon. whenever you're hungry, there's a deal on the subway app. buy one footlong, get one 50% off in the subway app today. now that's a deal worth celebrating. man, what are you doing?! get it before it's gone on the subway app. ♪♪ (♪♪) kevin! kevin? 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>> when this document was obtained, it was not hidden. it was not disregarded. because it's seen as an authentic document coming from the inner circles of secret planning of hamas. it was shared with many seniors. both an intelligence, the other military intelligence. the other intelligence agencies. but all the analysts that reviewed the plan, saw that. as a compass for the development of capability. the development of force. so hamas is here, they want to be here, here is what is needed to get to that place. but only one analysts, and you quote your report from before, we also related to this other -- my colleague, and myself, who go to the story. only one analyst in july of 2023 went against the common wisdom, against everybody, against people much senior than her. and said that this is not an imaginative plan. this is a plan not aimed for a raid on a kibbutz. it's a plan calling for war. for all out invasion. for the ability to raid, break the fence in many, many places, and start a massacre. she alerted, unfortunately, there was a major pushback from the southern command intelligence. and it all stayed in a capsule, this debate, in a capsule that did not reach beyond the rank of colonel. the rest, of course, -- >> you also reported, and you just mentioned that, that you are unsure as to whether the prime minister was aware of these plans, along with other top political and military officials. what is the sense that you're getting in your reporting in the conversations that you have continued to have about this document, about this revelation, as to how people are now viewing prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his culpability here. this documents. what was done with the document, the email, the encrypted the email exchange, of that i'm sure there will be taking. a significant part of the report of the investigation committee when this established. benjamin netanyahu was warned many, many times, by the chiefs of the intelligence, verbally and in four different letters throughout the last year, before october 7th, -- judicial overhaul, that he initiated, is portraying a picture of israel being weak, vulnerable, and not capable of countering an attack. the chatter that he was told, between the members of the so-called axis of resistance, iran, hamas, hezbollah, islamic jihad, the chatter is that this might be a chance to attack israel. he completely disregarded all those warnings. this is even beyond the question of whether he got this plan or didn't. but he disregarded all those specific very, very dire warnings. and in some cases, didn't even meet the officials to get the warnings. and continued this process that brought israel on the brink of collapse. >> ronen bergman for the new york times, thank you so much. appreciate it. excellent reporting. still ahead, everybody, the cousin of 16-year-old amid shiny, one of the hostages released this week, joins me with the reaction with a plan to help get him back to some normalcy, and the hopes for the remaining hostages. former president donald trump is out on the campaign trail today, after being denied two motions to dismiss the election interference case against him. up first, breaking news out of the philippines, after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes in southern post. coming up next. coming up next. man: she grew up in this. so when we go to st. jude, she's happy, because that's her home. every time i take her to the doctor, she's excited because she gets to play. and that's all because of saint jude. spokesman: when you call or go online with your credit or debit card right now, we'll send you this saint jude t-shirt you can wear to show your support to help saint jude save the lives of these children. woman: [non-english speech] spokesman: let's cure childhood cancer together. first time i connected with kim, she told me that her husband had passed. and that he took care of all of the internet connected devices in the home. i told her, “i'm here to take care of you.” connecting with kim... made me reconnect with my mom. it's very important to keep loved ones close. we know that creating memories with loved ones brings so much joy to your life. a family trip to the team usa training facility. i don't know how to thank you. welcome back. i'm here to thank you. we're keeping an eye on the fallout from a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked the philippines just about four hours ago. the quake measured at a depth of 20 miles on the east side of the southernmost islands. at this point, no damages, casualties or tsunami have been immediately reported. we're certainly keeping an eye on that situation. we're gonna in dubai right now, hundreds of world leaders, they've come together to take new steps in the climate crisis. this planet is facing. their focus stopping the industrial release of the greenhouse gas methane. a short time ago, a coalition of 15 major gas and oil companies, pledged to shore up the release known as flaring by the e