israel s mossad and qatar have taken place. as crowds demand the safe return of the those still held captive in gaza. heavy rain and strong winds currently battering the state of florida are making their way north. we ll have the east coast forecast. plus they re poisoning the blood of our country, that s what they ve done. donald trump s latest anti-immigrant remarks on the campaign trail and how the biden team was calling him out. we begin with the growing anger and political pushback in israel against benjamin netanyahu military strategy to bring hostages held in gaza back home. translator: without the military pressure, we would not have succeeded in creating an outline that led to the release of 102 hostages and only continue military pressure will lead to the release of all of our hostages. my directive to the negotiating team is based on this pressure, without which we would have nothing. mr. nanhu spoke afterdf troops mistakenly killed three israeli
And also again suggested that there will be an accelerated timetable. for his part zelenskyy is giving no indication that his efforts to join the eu is slowing down and he expected to receive a positive response next month regarding his country s application. the southern port city of odesa in ukraine came under intense russian attack yesterday. a barrage of rockets hit a shopping mall and a warehouse. killing one person, and injuring five others. local officials say at least seven missiles were fired from the russian controlled crimea region. nbc news has so far not been able to independently verify that claim. the attack also forced the european council president who was visiting the city at the time to take shelter. this is the second deadly strike on the crucial port city in as many days. at least ten missiles hit odesa on sunday. destroying several residential buildings as well as an airport
There for the people that went into the trump administration. all right. we ll be looking forward to having that conversation this morning. a lot of really great questions to discuss with former defense secretary esper. let s start in ukraine. the southern port city of odesa once again came under intense russian attack yesterday. a barrage of rockets hit a shopping mall and a warehouse, killing one person and injuring five others. local officials say at least seven missiles were fired from the russian-controlled crimea region. nbc news has not been able to independently verify that claim. the attack also forced the european council president, who was visiting the city at the time, to take shelter. this is the second deadly strike on the crucial port city in as many days. at least ten missiles hit odesa on sunday, destroying several residential buildings as well as an airport runway. in mariupol, while all
Attack, ukrainian officials say the strikes hours later in the neighboring city of mykolaiv are. despite being this close to the bombing and with tears in her eyes, she said she refuses to leave ukraine. she tells me, these people won t get away with it. ed lavendera, cnn, odesa, ukraine. for analysis, i ll joined now by josh roggin, a cnn political analyst. thank you for joining us. you argue that they need better air defense systems. what impact would they have and would they be able to blunt the kind of strikes that we saw happen for example, on odesa on sunday? it is very clear that the ukrainian forces have many different air defense systems