Soft and america has beaten back the unprecedented economic challenges of the global pandemic and the ensuing disruption to the economy. It is proof that the biden economic recovery has been nothing short of miraculous. Especially given the mess he inherited from trump and the u. S. Outperformed every other country on earth. Trump like so many republicans before him has enjoyed a pulling advantage with voters over the economy. That may be changing. Multiple polls in recent weeks suggesting harris is closing the gap and possibly even leading trump on economic issues. Harris has been helped by trumps inability to feign caring about the expenses of americans as he proved earlier this month with that rambling answer to that direct question in New York. It was Word Salad but with one under noticed but toxic ingredient that deserves more attention. If you take it in november, can you commit to making childcare affordable and if so what specific legislation will you advance . Childcare is chi
state antony blinken made two unannounced stops in the middle east. he met with palestinian president mahmoud abbas in the west bank and traveled to bagdad for high-stakes talk with iraq s prime minister. blinken has held a series of top-level talks with arab leaders as israel intensifies its attacks against hamas. cnn s jim sciutto is in northern israel. you have new reporting that secretary blinken is not the only u.s. official visiting that region. reporter: that s right, cia director bill burns is traveling to the mid east as well. a u.s. officials tells me the following, that burns is traveling to several countries in the middle east where he s meeting with multiple intelligence counterparts and country leaders. the u.s. official said they ll discuss support for hostages negotiations and u.s. commitment to continuing to deter state and non-state actors from widening the conflict. that particular message has been a consistent one from when president biden first commente
from msnbc headquarters in new york. welcome everybody to alex reports. we begin with breaking news in former president s donald trump s hush trial. donald trump will sit down via news with a u.s. probation officer. this is according to three sources. we have vance a attorney she s also an mnbc legal analyst. what more do we know about this interview? thank you, alex. nbc news has learned from three independent sources mr. trump will appear tomorrow morning we believe via zoom for his investigative presentencing report. he will be meeting with a probational officer who will be on the tenth floor of 100 center street in manhattan. s that is where he appeared for six weeks for his criminal trial and he will be intervowed. interviewed. this is a highly unusual situation doing this over zoom versus in person. but they found it s the best way possible because of the security involved. we saw the intense security involved during his former trial. that would have to be again if
and fbi officials credit those fbi negotiators for essentially helping save the lives of the four hostages. today s result which was four safe hostages and the situation resolved was really a result of a long day of hard work by nearly 200 law enforcement officers from across this region, the fbi s hostage rescue team. i consider one of the crown jufls our organization. their mission is to conduct deliberate hostages negotiations. in this case we had a necessity for that and they were successful. they proud of them. and jessica, you know, the bottom line is as law enforcement agents continue to finish up their work at the synagogue, all four hostages, we know the rabbi at home this afternoon with his family spending the day. so glad that they can be home with their families and that they are okay. let s go now to nick paton walsh live in london.