Last week, a grand jury indicted u. S. Senator bob menendez. This past week, dozens of members of his own party have demanded his resignation. I have been watching along with all of you as it is citizen and also as his daughter. I will not be reporting on the legal case. That said, my colleagues across msnbc and nbc news, they have aggressively covered the story. Theyll continue to do so as they should. Now, to capitol hill in the possibility that a Government Shutdown could be averted despite todays twist from House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy, the clock, still ticking. No less than six hours to keep the government funded. As we speak, the ball is in the senate score to as the Senate Passed a 45day continuing resolution, keeping the government funded through november 17th. It includes money for disaster relief. It does not include further aid to ukraine. Todays vote in the house was overwhelmingly bipartisan. 335 for, 91 against. This outcome, a lastminute development for weeks hardline Re
military truce. u.s. diplomats are scrambling to extend that agreement since a number of hostages are still being held captive. also, the red cross that was supposed to gain access to them, has not had access. we know a key part of the ongoing talks is getting adult males released. it s been women and children so far almost entirely with a few exceptions. we know israeli troops are at the ready, prepared operat operationally, along the truce lines in gaza should this pause expire and military actions resume. let s start here with jeremy diamond. jeremy, you re in israel. we saw people in the street celebrating. they re hoping for the arrival of some more hostages coming from gaza. reporter: yeah, that s true. when we got here earlier this evening, there were just a few people, but word spread quickly that the group of hostages was set to come through here on their way to the air base in front of me. what we saw earlier in the last hour was these scenes of absolute jubilat
Earlier i spoke with matthew schmidt, a professor of national security and political science at the university of new haven in connecticut. i asked him about why the russians would use tactics which are designed explicitly to terrorize the civilian population. what the russian troops are trying to do right now, what they ve been ordered to do is essentially to put so much pain, put so much horror into the civilian population, that that forces zelenskyy to negotiate from a position he may not be ready to negotiate from. on the other hand, it also forces him to act before he s ready, particularly in the donbas right now. so, you know, the new general dvornikov can sit here and use this kind of policy, this strategy of committing war crimes and terrifying the civilian population, to control the negotiating standpoint of his enemy. well, we heard from the russian president, vladimir putin, actually talking about
Population to control the negotiating standpoint of his enemy. well, we heard from the russian president vladimir putin actually talking about those peace negotiations that have been ongoing. he spoke publicly. it s been a while since he has actually made any kind of public remarks, and he said that ukraine had violated agreements which had been reached during those talks earlier by trying to apply security guarantees to areas of ukraine which are under russian control. i want you to listen to a little more from vladimir putin. here he is. translator: now security requirements are one thing and the issues regulating relations over crimea, sebastopol and donbas are taken out of the scope of these agreements. that is we have again returned to a dead-end situation for ourselves and for all of us. so if peace talks, according to putin, are at a dead-end, what does that mean?
Are focused mostly on their economic consequences, his election is two years away so he has no reason really to distract with a war or anything like that, but the fact is he has caught himself in this pickle on one hand and on the other, he played his cards very well, which is a little embarrassing for us from a negotiating standpoint so the thing that i would tell president biden, we have to flip our position on its head where we re in the ones in a position of power and we re portraying military and financial strength and unity by the way, with our international partners, in order to get him to back down. and it is the unty question that i really think is there, unity with europeans, i mean. so one of the things that the defense secretary general austin said today is there is still time for diplomacy. no? he was calm and said we can still get there. is there? there is type for diplomacy in that diplomacy will buy us time, but that doesn t mean that things on the ground are going