plus donald trump unleashed, a court will now decide how much the former president can say in public about the 2020 federal election case. and attention shoppers, the white house wants to highlight falling prices at the grocery store to counter disappointing poll numbers. good morning. i m kasie hunt. it is tuesday, november 21. 5:00 a.m. in washington, noon in gaza where a hamas official posted overnight that the militant group is close to, quote, reaching a truce agreement, end quote, with israel. that tracks with the white house as ergs is earlier monday that deal for release of some of the hostages is nearing. john kirby was asked whether any americans might be among the hostages that will be let go. obviously we are laser focused on the american citizens that we know are being held loss tap and we want them out. all of them, everyone should be out now. but we re this a negotiation and getting closer to the end. he declined to go into any details on the negotiations