News. The Israeli Military says they rescued a hostage from Southern Gaza. He was found in an underground tunnel by Israeli Soldiers during a special operation. He was abducted more than ten months ago by hamas in the october 7th terror attack. The 72yearold Security Guard is said to be in Good Condition and already has seen family. The white house saying, quote, we will continue to work tirelessly to finalize the ceasefire and Hostage Release deal through ongoing talks in cairo and doha. Meanwhile after a temporary pause, fighting resumed monday night with targeted strikes between hezbollah forces and israel. The escalation in attacks there has heightened tensions in the entire region. Joining us now, nbcs matt bradley in tel aviv and a former Supreme Allied Commander of nato and nbc chief international analyst. What do we know about the latest on the Hostage Release and the escalation . Well that Hostage Rescue will be a huge source of celebration here in israel. We already heard from the organization, the Hostages Forum that represents the families of the dozens still being held in captivity in the gaza strip. They say this is the only the eighth person that has been rescued by the military force, and they called again for those Hostage Negotiations still ongoing in cairo, those negotiations are still essential to not only rescuing those hostages and also appeasing the situation over israel i northern border with lebanon. Heres our report. A region on edge as tensions between israel and hezbollah continue. After israels Worst Exchange of fire with hezbollah after nearly two decades, on monday more fighting. Israeli strikes on the lebanese border and hezbollah later announcing it targeted military equipment with a drone. It comes as hezbollah fired missiles and drones at israel over the weekend. What i believe now sits incumbent on all parties in the region to work towards deescalation and stability. Still, the u. S. Remains wary. Last month israels Assassinated A Senior Hezbollah Commander Near Bay Toot and a hamas leader. They vow srepb skwrupbz. The attacks over the weekend still left northern israeli towns with piles of debris and lingering fears. This 9yearold was asleep when airraid sirens went off. Do you still feel scared . A little but my sister was in the room and took it harder, he told me. I was a little scared but didnt cry. She and the family rushed to the safe room. They are cleaning up the damage but the danger remains. So back, jose, to that just rescued hostage, you know, when we are talking about this man, its important that we also mention that we have a bit of crucial information that is still outstanding here. How many people were killed or what was the situation around his rescue . Because in previous operations, if you remember, the face of the hostages was rescued. Palestinians on the strip said some 200 people were killed during that operation. The israelis said it was about 100 people, and still thats an enormous cost. We dont know the details for this rescue operation. Matt bradley in tel aviv. I thank you so very much. Admiral, lets go into this a little bit. What we know, and again, it is just happening a little over an hour ago where we started to get the information in. Lets start with the 52yearold man rescued in Southern Gaza in the tunnels. What is your interpretation of what that looked like . Kudos to the Israeli Defense forces. These kind of operations are very, very difficult. I conducted a couple of them, in fact, jose, in an area you and i both know, in columbia, they held hostages and the risk is to the hostage, himself or herself as well as, at matt mentioned, the collateral damage, civilians in the vicinity. That in and of itself makes any Rescue Attempt very difficult. Now lets add the degree of difficulty, 9. 9, which is done inside tunnels and closelyguarded areas, and this is a delicate operation. Hats off to the israelis. My thought, by the way, this particular hostage is an arab israeli, and it shows israelis will go after all their citizens wherever they are. Its 320 days since these hostages were taken. 320 days since the massacre inside israel. More than 1,100 People Killed there. Just wondering, admiral, how does the on the one side, the military operational readiness and planning to get the hostages they can find, how does that affect or aid the negotiations to get them out via diplomatically . Exactly the right question to be asking. I would argue that every successful Hostage Rescue, and now the israelis have brought out a handful, a very small number, obviously, and every time they do that, it actually puts pressure on hamas because they say to themselves, the terrorists organization, hamas, hmm, the israelis are showing a capability to do this and perhaps we should come to the ceasefire table in a serious way and negotiate. Lets hope thats how it plays out, jose, and i am concerned as the negotiators come together again in cairo, the strikes you mentioned up front in northern israel, southern lebanon, thats what will have a Chilling Effect on these negotiations if we continue to see the tit for tat back and forth across that border. Admiral, if operation that successfully rescued somebody from the tunnels in Southern Gaza may also be a message to hamas leadership that apparently is in tunnels in Southern Gaza. Very much so. If you are the leader of hamas and you watched the assassination of your organizations leader in the heart of tehran during an inauguration, that went up to exsquidid intelligence, and now you are watching the israelis take away one of the crown jewels, the hostages you are holding. They have to be concerned about that Ticking Clock of israeli revenge, which i think ultimately will find him whether he is in a tunnel or not. Admiral, always a pleasure to see you. Thank you very much for being with us this morning. Thanks, jose. Turning now to Battle Ground georgia where democrats are suing the States Election board after three republican members pushed through new rules, critics argue, conflict with the State Law Mandating Certification of the Election Results. Democrats say the new rules invite chaos. Lisa, what do the new rules do and why are democrats opposing them . Jose, the new rules first, there are a number of rules the Georgia Election boards past recently, and they say its inviting chaos. The lawsuit is just about two of them, both of which allow additional process prior to the act of certifying countylevel Election Results. Thats mandated by law to occur at a time and date certain and thats the concern that democrats and Election Officials are raising in their lawsuit, and they say allowing local officials to examine all electionrelated documentation before certifying, that may, in fact, give them the discretion not to certify at all and put georgias Election Results at risk when it comes to the counting of results nationwide in january, jose. Yeah, critics, by the way, include republicans, and what is behind that . What is behind that is theres a strict deadline under georgias statute. Again, the monday after an election by 5 00 p. M. , all counties have to turn in their Election Results. If the Georgia Election board is telling counties they can conduct a reasonable inquiry prior to certification or if they have the right to examine all electionrelated materials, they are concerned they wont get the county results, he then cant send in the certificate of electors and everything that goes into sending the results are set up to strict timelines and statute and thats the concern that by adding this additional discretion, you are setting up the counties for chaos if there are individual Board Members that say, wait a second, i didnt get a chance to examine all the docum or we didnt do a reasonable inquiry. How likely is this lawsuit able to be settled by the election . They are asking for a declaration the Election Results have to be certified by that date certain and they are asking them to invalidate the rules, but they have not asked for a ruling on a particular time and date themselves yet. They have not asked the court to expedite it yet. I think we could ask the courts to move this litigation along so its well and settled before the november election. We will have to wait and see whether that happens. Lisa ruben, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Up next, special counsel jack smith is taking steps to try and revive Donald Trumps classified case after it was dismissed last month. Where his bid goes next. Plus, a judge stopped the president s Executive Order providing a pathway to citizenship up to half a Million People in the u. S. Later, to build or not to build the border wall. How both sides are weighing in on this issue. Were back in 90 seconds. Youre watching jose diazbalart reports on msnbc. Y with fresh food preportioned for your dogs needs. Its an idea whose time has come. Did you know that 96 of customers recommend the hartford . Boy thats higher than most movie ratings. And those who switched to the aarp Auto Insurance program from the hartford . They saved hundreds. 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In an 81page court filing, and our guests join us. Barbara, how high is the bar for the 11th circuit to reinstate this case . Well, because this is a question of law, the Court Of Appeals uses a standard it resrurs to as denova, which means anew, and they take a look at it. The judge was in the courtroom and had a chance to observe the demeanor of witnesses. Its not a High Standard at all if they disagree with judge cannons review, and i would be hard pressed to see the 11th circuit agreeing with what judge cannon did here. How unusual is this aspect in a completely already unusual case . Its very unusual, jose. As they said, special counsel regulations have been challenged before and have been upheld by every other court that has seen it. I think its important to recognize this is not a decision on the merits of this case. It has nothing to do with the guilt or innocence of donald trump. Its all about whether special counsel jack smith had the authority to begin the case to begin with. I imagine if ultimately judge cannon is proved right, then the remedy for the Justice Department would be to start the case over, filing with doj attorneys or the u. S. Attorney in miami. As i said, its such an outlier from all of the other decisions that i think its very likely that this case will be reversed and be back on flack short order. Vaughn, any reaction or response to smiths appeal by trump world . Trumps attorneys must file their response to the appeal from jack smith by september 26th, which makes it clear that this will not go to trial anytime before this election, even if it were to be revived and sent back to judge cannon here. Effectively, what you have seen is donald trump politicize what he calls vindication from judge cannon that this case never should have been brought against him and we heard this from him from the Republican National convention and from the campaign trail. Kamala harris is a prosecutor herself, and donald trump has admitted to many of the underlying facts that led to the case being brought against him in the first place. Trump is trying to delay the sentencing in his new york hushmoney case. What do you know about those efforts there . 48 hours before that, September 16th, is when the judge is slated to rule on whether the immunity claims brought before the judge are valid or not, and so we could well on September 16th hear this case may be staved off. We should note the sentencing could be pushed off because of the status of the election. Theres a lot riding on this for judge merchan and his decision, and we already heard from Donald Trumps attorney publicly suggesting they would appeal the decision, and at the same time the window would be 48 hours to appeal before sentencing, which would be tight and would lead us to expect that September 18th Sentencing to go forward. Thank you. After a break, a judge now blocked a program of President Biden to provide a pathway to citizenship for up to half a Million People. Where this legal fight goes next. Plus, now that rfk jr. Endorsed donald trump, we will take a look at what he says is his new role on the former President Trumps team. Youre watching jose diazbalart reports on msnbc. Weve invested in our home, weve worked on it, we had a whole lot of equity just sitting there, you paid down the mortgage, invested in your home. I guess, you could say, your home owes you. 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