Mitchell reports humanitarian aid is finally rolling into gaza from egypt but the death toll is increasing. This as nbc is reporting the Biden Administration has been urging israel leaders to delay their Ground Offensive in order to gain better intelligence, to clear military objectives and more time for negotiators to secure the release of hostages. What i can speak to is our icessant efforts from day one to try to get people home, to try to get them out of gaza back with their families and loved ones. That is continuing as we speak. This is something were engaged in virtually around the clock. Plus nine new candidates for House Speaker making their pitches at a private conference, the Conference Meeting this evening after a week of Public Feuding that is frustrating party insiders. This is not a time to play games. This is this is embarrassing for the Republican Party, its embarrassing for the nation and we need to look at one another and solve the problem. Good day, everyone, im And
moment, change has come to america. i will discuss barack obama, the first african american president of the united states lasting influence with valerie chair, ceo of the obama foundation. i am jonathan capehart. this is an extended edition of the saturday show. the israel-hamas war continues to rage on this morning. nearly 10,000 palestinians, including 3900 children, have been killed according to the ministry of health. in gaza. overnight clashes between israeli troops and hamas fighters continued as the israeli military says it has cut off all main roads into gaza city. nbc news has not been able to independently confirm that. this comes after america s top diplomat, secretary of state, anthony blinken, met with arab foreign ministers and jordan overnight. this follows the secretary s latest trip to israel where he called for a humanitarian pause in the conflict in gaza. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu s quickly rejected the notion saying it s a real would be
have much of a future, in donald trump s republican party. welcome to tuesday, it is meet the press daily, i m chuck todd. president biden approaches the halfway mark in his first 100 days in office. facing a prior of different crises that s going to test his presidency in different ways, facing tremendous pressure to keep the momentum going on what is clearly an improving covid outlook. to hold the positive trends that we re seeing. cases going down, deaths going down, hospitalizations down, and most importantly vaccinations up, up, up. but health officials continue to urge caution and there s already a bit of brewing confusion over the cdc s recent guidance, which okays a fully vaccinated americans to potentially see their families but discourages the kind of travel required for many to actually see their families, diving into that coming up. and there s biden s signature piece of covid legislation, $2 trillion in relief that he is expect today sign into law this week a
to this whole scenario is that chuck schumer was willing to give not 5 billion but 20 billion dollar to the president for his wall last year when we were talking about this same scenario but in exchange for daca. reporter: not only that opportunity but there s been many opportunities over the last two years when republicans had a chance to vote for $25 billion in border money and they passed up on it. the immigration bill that we talked about had $35 billion in border funding. that bill went down in flames. this has been a problem that s been festering now for two years. that s why conservatives feel so emboel emboldened. this is a neat encapsulation of the last two years of this congress. you have ryan and mccarthy, the more governing wing of the party to the extent there s one and you have jordan and meadows. the president sees jordan and meadows as the keepers of his creed.
group of senators that includes democrats because he decided he does need them if he wants to have bipartisan tax reform. specifically, president trump is targeting three democratic senators up for re-election in 2018 in states that the president carried. they now have to choose between making a deal with him or resisting a deal. that is the bigger story brewing here on both sides. cue the both ciderisms. we know you like to do that on twitter. if our leaders learned anything else in the last few weeks it s that there is a major battle in 2018 that could purge each party of its more moderate governing wing or what s left of it. right now you are seeing signs of a purge on the right. the republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election. that s a brutal fact we have to face. they do not want donald trump s pop you list economic nationalist agenda to be