politicsnation. tonight s late, new faces. right now, the next chapter is opening in the israel-hamas war, after a weeklong cease-fire and it yesterday with a few hundred hostages and prisoners released by both sides. but no clear roadmap to pace. there are reports of it writes, sirens in israel and rocket fire over gaza tonight. the white house is urging israel to show restraint as pressure builds on president biden to call for a lasting cease-fire. here in the u.s., the clock is ticking on efforts to pass but military aid bill by christmas. with lawmakers to making new conditions on israel, funds for ukraine, and even border security as part of the plan. and just a minute, i ll talk to the ranking democrat on the house foreign affairs committee, congressman greg meeks. he joins me with the latest on where all these negotiations stand. and my political panel joins me later as crunch time begins in the republican presidential primary. former president trump and florid
Pre-presidency phase. also tonight, the big old mess in texas. the state s gop is changing the rules to remain in power. how long will voters allow them to do that. new details about the president s plan to reinstate trump s remain in mexico policy. and tonight you ll hear from two political organizers finding america s next leaders on snapchat, one snap at a time. let s begin this hour with the never-ending quest to hold trump accountable for his lies and rhetoric that inspired the riot on january 6. signs of what would eventually happen could be seen in the first weeks of the 2016 campaign, when he began his lies about immigrants and now about the election he lost. the former president better stick to the truth tomorrow when he s under oath giving his first post-presidency deposition as ordered by a judge in the bronx, it s tied to a lawsuit by a
Thanks for joining us. i m in tonight for alicia menendez. this hour trump heads to court set to give a deposition this week in legal cases dating back to his prepresidency days. the case he s fighting may reveal the first signs of trumpism. also tonight, big old mess in texas. the gop is changing the rules to stay in power. how long will voters allow them toe do that? new details ahead about the plan to keep immigrants in policy. and we will hear from two organizers who are fighting for rights on snapchat, one senate snap at a time. let s begin withholding donald trump to task for his
Said hold on, a deal s not done until a deal is done. what did president trump win? he won a headline that served the markets. did he serve the country? we certainly don t know yet. with me john harwood. let s walk through this. because at the core, if you talk to people around the country, farmers, for example, even those who will be hurt, they re happy the president is addressing this. but what he s done thus far is created a big old mess. of course he has. and if you wanted to give a name or a true headline to this announcement they had yesterday, it would be that president trump said i ve agreed to stop hurting the economy. this was something created by him and now he is in the face of a lot of resistance, a lot of upset among his constituents as well as his political adversaries, come out and said i m going to stop that and we re going to talk. guess what? the talks that they have agreed to have, and you played that
Judiciary committee is asking about. it refers to, by the way, a west virginia man, a former contractor in iraq who proposed a meeting between russians and the trump campaign on the sidelines of an nra convention. does this sound like a russian covert operation to you? yeah, of course it sounds like the sand box i was trying to play in. any chance you get, you know, to make inroads, you probe, you try here and there and everywhere. so what we got here, when you look at the entire picture, we have with wikileaks a bunch of an arcists who are out to make trouble and you don t know exactly who they re aligned with. you ve got some really, really well trained pralt tifs on the russian side, and you ve got, let s just be very nice to mr. kushner, we ve got somebody very naive who attempted to take advantage of and bite and take that bait. and so we ve got a big old mess. i just don t know where all the investigation is going to lead us.