. thank you for staying with our special coverage of the israel-hamas war. i m andrea mitchell in washington. secretary of state anthony blick ken is in israel after shutting to saudi arabia and egypt over the weekend and giving strong pushback to israel s siege of gaza, denying aid and need to minimize the casualties. gaza residents facing a difficult choice, whether to flee devastated areas for humanitarian corridors that are still not open or stay and risk being caught in the crossfire. president biden canceling a planned trip to colorado to keep the focus on the developments from israel and weighing an invitation from prime minister benjamin netanyahu to visit israel at some point. we re following the other big breaking news in washington. district court judge tanya chutkan has issued a narrow gag order on former president trump and other defendants, prohibiting all parties from targeting prosecutor jack smith and court staff. nbc s raf sanchez is near with israel-gaza
of massachusetts and utah and they did a study looking at half a million kids in massachusetts comparing students three and six feet apart. there are a lot of caveats. in areas of high transmission, they want to keep the high school and junior high school at six feet apart. let s say where there is a choir or singing, you want to increase that. the most important part to mention about these guidelines it depends on a lot of things. first of all, the amount of ventilation in a classroom. if you have a poorly ventilated classroom, even six feet may not be enough, certainly not if you are not wearing masks. also, in terms of getting teachers vaccinated, there is also the issue around level of community transmission as well. we have to be careful not to stick everything at the boiler plate of three feet or six feet. we will be talking to you later, but we wanted to start out with the breaking news and we will update that through the hour. president biden and vice president
What you think is that the chinese communist party will try to interfere in the election of 2024 the. absolutely. they played in the 20022 midterms, christopher wray said china s an unparalleled threat. chinese officials have been charged for interfering in american political processes. the idea that that s not going to continue into 2024 is very unlikely and, again, there s a lot at stake here, and the last thing the chinese communist party wants is a return to the policies that were so off on them during the trump administration. and so, you know, i think that s one of the biggest concerns that we have going forward, is to make sure that china is not influential the in trying to help the biden campaign remain in power. maria: well, these are all their men, antony blinken being funded by communist china, running the penn-biden center. did his wife also work with the