four-times indicted ex-president. nbc news is reporting on potentially game-changing revelation base the former vice president, mike pence. we ll have more on what pence told special counsel jack smith s investigators later this hour. but first, we want to get to the fast-moving developments out of the middle east. at this hour, we are getting our first glimpse of the latest hostages to be released. here are some of the faces of the 12 prisoners released by hamas today, 10 israelis and 2 thai nationals. notably, many are older. among them, a mother and daughter who were kidnapped together. a retired kindergarten teacher. a grandmother of nine. and the 84-year-old founder of one of the kibbutz that was raided on october 7th. this is now day five of the extended truce that for now, barring another extension, is expected to last through tomorrow, for six days in total. as we know, it is a fragile truce and a fluid situation as underscored by the events of just the last 24 hours
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Can i ask you, how could he feel as though he has nothing to do with Paul Manafort . A man hes known for 30 years, has been in business with 30 years, political consultant chairman of his campaign, lived in trump tower, how can he feel that way . He feels the charges under review right now in this case have nothing to do with the Trump Campaign of 2016, with the element of collusion. He believes he is innocent, trump does. And he thinks that this is that mueller is going after manafort so aggressively, specifically to try to embarrass the president , to try to take him down, to try to harm his presidency and that the media is complicit, that were going along with it and it bothers him. It has him really angry and hes been telling that to his confidants, theyve been of course telling that to us reporters. I know there is a danger in focusing too much on logic when it comes to donald trump. But
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Has been in business with 30 years, political consultant chairman of his campaign, lived in trump tower, how can he feel that way . He feels the charges under review right now in this case have nothing to do with the Trump Campaign of 2016, with the element of collusion. He believes he is innocent, trump does. And he thinks that this is that mueller is going after manafort so aggressively, specifically to try to embarrass the president , to try to take him down, to try to harm his presidency and that the media is complicit, that were going along with it and it bothers him. It has him really angry and hes been telling that to his confidants, theyve been of course telling that to us reporters. I know there is a danger in focusing too much on logic when it comes to donald trump. But if Paul Manaforts crimes have nothing do with donald trump, why would he be bothered about the fact Paul Manafort i
about donald trump. corrupt, criminal, or crooked, the most common response. liar, dishonest and untrustworthy. what do you make of those numbers? i, for one, am not going to sit here and gainsay the wisdom of the american people. obviously, that s going to be breaking down in a partisan way. you re not getting a lot of people who are inclined to vote for trump with that kind of word association there. but it does point to the general problem that donald trump has, which is that he s extremely popular among the subset of americans that he s extremely popular with. the broader american public, much less so. and as i was saying here the other night, his whole argument since he got into the white house to begin with has always been to sort of feed red meat to his base, always play to his base, never forget his base, with the assumption that somehow that expands his suspect generally. and it s like the salesman who says sure we lose money on every sale, but i ll make it up in
jedediah, there is something serious here though. the whole business that he is giving the fbi, the department of justice and saying you got an issue here and we have to do something about it. jedediah: oh, yeah. you are inclined initially to say okay, you don t want an executive branch that s too powerful. you want to respect the justice department and fbi. then you see the stuff coming out bruce ohr and his wife and gets so ridiculous that the president has to come out and say, look, something is going on here that s not right and if you follow the trail, it s almost scary, actually, that it s happened. the other thing that i will point to though whenever i watch these it s refreshing to see a republican that does these well. for a very long time i have talked about republicans having a hard time with communications and you hear about president obama was this great or tore. this is a guy who gets up. he does feed red meat to the base but he also isn t afraid to bring up controversi