about china s role in the health disaster and what dr. fauci knew about it and china has a respiratory illness overloading medical centers. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. bill: how are you doing? dana: great. bill: great. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. we are learning a u.s. health official working for dr. fauci raised serious safety concerns six years ago in 2017 after taking a tour of the lab in wuhan. china s first-ever level four bio safety lab for handling dangerous pathogens. dana: the official was shocked and alarmed after learning the lab was considering plans to reverse engineer the deadly he bola virus. when she told superiors before writing her report she was ordered to delete any reference to ebola. bill: what they knew and what they might want to hide that critical information. good morning, rich. the u.s. health worker toured the wuhan institute of virology as it was about to open its most secure lab. chinese officials they ne
happening now, breaking news. dramatic developments here in the middle east. the first major release of hostages since the hamas attacks on october 7th. 13 israelis and 11 foreign nationals finally free from gaza after nearly seven weeks. i m wolf blitzer live in tel aviv, israel. and i m jim acosta here in washington. president biden is vowing to return every single american hostage even though none were included in today s agreement. as the president says it s unclear if americans will be included in the next release but praised today s hand-off as a promising sign. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. you re in the situation room. the breaking news this hour, an outpouring of emotion here in israel as hamas releases 24 hostages kidnapped back on october 7th. cnn s matthew chance has details including a closer look at the video hamas released of the hostage hand-off inside gaza. they kidnapped and killed, but now hamas is showing
with one source familiar tell nbc news that it is all up to israel right now. that there is a tentative deal in place, which is just waiting on sign off from prime minister netanyahu. we have the details on who would be freed and on what conditions in a moment. after all, it would be a major milestone in this now seven-week war and one that could steer the conflict into a new phase. as we speak, netanyahu is said to be in a sequence of meetings with cabinet ministers waiting on a vote from those ministers. there s also context on why the deal is so close right now. yesterday, netanyahu faced serious pressure from hostage families to make their loved ones a first, not second, priority of this war. we have the details on that tense meeting. his first by the way, along with a shouting match in israel s parliament as a far right minister tried to shutdown pleas from a man whose cousin was kidnapped. let s sort out what we know now. joining us from tel aviv is raf sanchez. let s s
represented, it s far more likely. you are absolutely. right charles, i am going to go. you ve got a show to do. have a good show. indeed i do, thank you so much. i appreciated my friend. congratulations, good job today. thanks, charles. nks, charles good morning, it s sunday november 19th. i m charles coleman junior, filling in this morning for my friend and colleague ali velshi. unfortunately, ali tested positive this morning for covid, and we are wishing him a very speedy recovery. we begin this morning with a litany of legal matters that donald trump faces in the week ahead. less than 24 hours from now, the panel of judges in the court of appeals in d.c. we ll hear arguments regarding the gag order filed against the former president in his federal election interference case. now recall, that order was originally imposed last month by the presiding judge tanya chutkan to stop trump from making incendiary comments relating to the case. these comments included threats
root out the communists, marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. the threat from outside forces is far less sinister and grave than the threat from within. calling your political opponents vermin and the threat from within, we ve heard that before. adolph hitler referred today to jews as vermin worthy of eradication. donald trump is following some appalling and notorious footsteps of the most violent dangerous men of the 20th century or at least some of them. and trump didn t end there. here he was in the very same stump speech talking about the home invasion and the brutal attack on speaker nancy pelosi s husband, an attack that was carried out by a rightwing extremist. nancy pelosi was a crazed lunatic. she s a lunatic. she is a crazed lunatic. what the hell was going on with her husband? let s not ask. let s not ask. i withdraw that statement. by the way, she s got a wall around her house. obviously in th