Americas longtime ally. And get humanitarian aid into gaza and get trapped americans out. Plus, hamas releasing the first video of the Hostage Group saying they have as many as 250 people. We will take you inside the desperate effort to free them. Israel managing to kill a major hamas leader, and israel told palestinians to flee. Then is anybody capable of leading the House Of Representatives . We begin this hour with the latest on the situation on the ground in the middle east. Joining us now, Kelly Cobiella in southern israel, and retired admiral, former nato Supreme Allied Commander and msnbc chief analyst. Israel told palestinians to flee ahead of a expected ground invasion, and what do we know about the efforts to get the humanitarian aid into gaza . Reporter well, they were striking hamas targets overnight. Hamas headquarters as well as a hamas operative, and what we saw on the ground in southern israel is more tragic scenes, people being carried out of crumbled buildings and chi
And netanyahu has a great question, how do you make peace of someone who rejects your very existence? how do you do that? how do you even come together or have conversations? and also something that netanyahu said in the speech, president obama and his administration over the last eight years kept being told over and over again, we ll work together and have the conversations. so for them, this came out of nowhere, even though this was, as they said, they have got real proof this was preorchestrated and planned behind scenes. netanyahu said that yesterday. but i found this interesting with a new chapter beginning. we mentioned this yesterday, maybe a backlash that could happen after and to pick up the pieces, it s donald trump for president-elect. maybe netanyahu praised donald trump and donald trump was on twitter yesterday saying among other things, we cannot continue to let israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect. they used to have a great friend in the u.s., b
Manager, and had to walk this back, they took a lot of heat for it. it was a big gamble if it was preorchestrated. crystal, does this provide the president with political cover, even with some members of his own party who may adhere to some strong religious doctrines and feel like maybe there s a crossing of a line, it s a hard and blurred line for some certainly, because it doesn t change the end result effectively. right. well, it doesn t change the end result in that women will have equal access to health care, women will have access to the birth control pill. na way it doesn t change the end result, but i think you re exactly right. this is the big question with the president, right? is he the master chess player, or was he caught flat-footed and just responded well? either way, i do think that ultimately it played out perfectly for him. you have republicans talking about birth control in a year where people are going, come on, guys, we want to talk about the