Today. More than 1,000 have died. All signs point to a Ground Invasion from israel becoming imminent. President biden announcing the american death toll has risen to 14 and confirming that americans are among the hostages. As president , i have no higher priority than the safety of americans being held hostage around the world. Secretary austin today reinforcing the president s message. The United States continues to stand firm with israel and the israeli people. We will continue to ensure that israel has what it needs to keep itself and its citizens safe. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. President biden spoke by phone with israels Prime Minister netanyahu this Morning Again and will meet with Jewish American Community Leaders at the white house this afternoon after promising to stand by israel following the vicious hamas terror attack. The first resupply of u. S. Weapons did arrive overnight. Pentagon officials are confirming the Uss Gerald Ford led by an Aircraft
mckay: this is happening now, if you can possibly believe that. the terrorists are saying theyey ll blow up p the schoo, killing all the children inside. the german police haveve been wawaging a relelentless wawr against the terrorists, capturing some, killing some. man: the british army are the terrorists. francis: no one, even the most powerful, has immunity from these urban guerillas. brinkley: there are 298 people held hostage. those people, they have good ideals, they re just going about them the wrong way. we are ready to go on until martyrdom. mckay: the communiqué ended with the appeal,l, revolutionaries of the world, unite. [ indiststinct shoututing ] [ sirens wail ] terrorist attacks, especially where hostages are taken, have become increasingly common. there have been bombings, shootings, and strikes in northern ireland. arab guerillas fired at an israeli school bus near the lebanese border. the 1970s saw the development of the terrorist repertoire. cronkikite:
correspondent david spunt is in wilmington, delaware tonight awaiting a verdict. david, good evening. david: trace, good evening. jurors will be back tomorrow for day two of deliberations. they deliberated about an hour today before going home. over the past week we saw salacious text messages, pictures in the courtroom. even high profile people sitting in the audience. but, in the end, it s all about this one gun form, hunter biden filled out in october 2018. hunter biden s attorney abbe lowell offered no reason for his client deciding not to testify in his own defense .38 caliber revolver. such a move would have been strategically risky. opening the president s son to likely intense cross-examination. in closing arguments. prosecutor pointed to more than a dozen msnbc of the biden family in the audience saying they don t matter. only the evidence does. which he called, quote: ugly and overwhelming. another prosecutor added no one is above the law. including the presiden
jubilation. what made you think that israel could pull off an operation like this? the entebbe rescue was one of the few bits of good news we had regarding counterterrorism. it was followed a year later by the daring rescue of german passengers that had been aboard a hijacked lufthansa aircraft. it was over in minutes. a blinding flash, a deafening explosion, and gunfire. the plane s passengers and crew were freed in a rescue raid by guncrack commandos at mogadishu airport. there was a sense that the pendulum was swinging away from terrorist efficacy. in other words, if you hijacked a plane, you didn t necessarily get a free run to the press conference. once again, we see terrorism s evolution in the sense that the terrorists themselves often have to change up their tactics if they re going to stay one step ahead of the government. west german industrialist hans martin schrier, a key government adviser, was
what made you think that israel could pull off an operation like this? the entebbe rescue was one of the few bits of good news we had regarding counterterrorism. it was followed a year later by the daring rescue of german passengers that had been aboard a hijacked lufthansa aircraft. it was over in minutes. a blinding flash, a deafening explosion, and gunfire. the plane s passengers and crew were freed in a rescue raid by guncrack commandos at mogadishu airport. there was a sense that the pendulum was swinging away from terrorist efficacy. in other words, if you hijacked a plane, you didn t necessarily get a free run to the press conference. once again, we see terrorism s evolution in the sense that the terrorists themselves often have to change up their tactics if they re going to stay one step ahead of the government. west german industrialist hans martin schrier, a key government adviser, was kidnapped in cologne today.