primary election that pits his candidate against donald trump s. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, may 23rd. i m jonathan lemire. president biden says the u.s. military will defend taiwan, if china invades its island neighbor. speaking in tokyo this morning at a joint news conference, with japan s new prime minister, the president addressed the growing tensions in eastern asia. you didn t want to get involved in the ukraine conflict militarily, for obvious reasons, are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s the commitment we made. shortly after that news conference, the white house seemingly tried to clarify the president s remarks. writing in a statement, quote, the president reiterated our commitment to peace and stability across the taiwan strait. and to provide taiwan with the military means to defend itself. different than military involvement perhaps. and on the island, we
fire at our border, what we re learning about the airborne car that crashed into the u.s. canadian border area as the fbi wraps up its investigation on the ground. and later, campaign cracks, the chaos hitting a super pac for ron desantis, courtesy of a former governor. it is 10:00 eastern, thank you so much for joining us on this thanksgiving. i m ana cabrera, and we want to begin with that breaking news from the qatari foreign ministry, in the last hour about what to expect when the deal between hamas and israel goes into effect tomorrow. the truce critical to release those hostages is set to start at 7:00 a.m. local time. that s midnight eastern. the spokesman says to watch for the first group of captives to be released at 4:00 p.m. local time or 9:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow. david noriega is in tel aviv for us. what more do we know about who exactly will be released? reporter: ana, good morning. here s what we know. there is a confirmed first group of israeli hostages
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake has taken over 2700 lives in Syria and Turkey and. NBC Foreign Correspondent Meagan Fitzgerald and International Rescue Committee’s Elias Abu Ata join Andrea Mitchell with an update on ongoing rescue efforts. “The needs are immense. We've already been talking about having at least 3 million people in need of urgent assistance. And now we're trying to rescue those who are trapped under rubble,” says Abu Ata. “The numbers are just – it's tremendous.”
Who many see as the next goet, mbappe, joining me from doha, nbc news correspondent meagan fitzgerald. it is argentina versus france and if france does this again, if they win on sunday, it will be the second time in a row, which would be a pretty big deal, no? reporter: absolutely. and you know, i can tell you, the fans here are so excited. i mean this is the moment that everyone has been waiting for. first of all, it was who is going to make it to the finals and now who is going to win, and like you said, france trying to defend the world cup title, they won in 2018, led by mbappe and a pretty strong showing i would say on wednesday against morocco. morocco gave them a run for their money. that was a win they had to earn. it was 2-0, but a good-looking match. and france is saying they do have a couple of players on the team that are being isolated because they have a cold. but that they didn t play in the game on wednesday, and again, it
Originally. coming from europe into the united states on a weekly basis. they ve not yet given specifics on when those planes will come after the one that s supposed to come on wednesday, but we do know this is going to be a continuous thing, where we will see more than 100 palettes of this formula coming into the united states. certainly a story we re going to stay on. signs of hope but a long way to go here. it s become a priority for the biden administration. operation fly formula has begun. nbc s meagan fitzgerald, thank you for joining us live from indianapolis. thank you to you for getting up way too early with us on this monday morning. a busy morning joe starts right now. good morning. welcome to morning joe. we have a lot to cover on this monday morning, may 23rd. the president continues his asia trip, and the biggest headline from that trip so far came just a few hours ago when he said the