night. do you think more people would pay attention to the price of the eggs if you gave the good economic news in an ugly christmas sweater? possibly. i just i was remarking i don t know where that sentence was going to end. i have never seen hris hayes with an over the shoulder monitor that says tiz the season. and the holiday cheer people want to see you in the santa hat. i m going to be in an ugly christmas sweater doing this throw before the holiday season is out. whatever it takes to get people to pay attention to good news. america, you are owed that. thank you, my friend. thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. we are beginning with some breaking news this evening. the israeli government has voted to accept a deal that would free 50 hostages currently being held by the terrorist group, hamas. that is according to the office of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu. what we do know is that the 50 hostageerize all women and children, and they
about support for taiwan in the event of a piercy attack. clifford hart, national security council s china and taiwan director formally, thank you for speaking to us. we will find out very soon if us presidentjoe biden talks about taiwan and the south china sea in remarks he is expected to deliver after talking to china s president, xijinping. they talked forfour china s president, xijinping. they talked for four hours at an estate near san francisco, they took a nice stroll in the garden afterwards as well. this of course is the first meeting between the two leaders for a year and a day. they last met in bali at the 620 last year. and we may be seeing. no, not president bidenjust and we may be seeing. no, not president biden just yet. you are looking at pictures of the press conference, where we are expecting us presidentjoe biden to deliver remarks after his meeting with china s resident, xijinping. this meeting comes after a year, the first face to face meeting they ve had
after months of deliberation and long conversation with my family, i believe in my heart of hearts that i have accomplished what i set out to do for west virginia. i have made one of the toughest decisions of my life, and decided that i will not be running for reelection to the united states senate. but what i will be doing is traveling the country and speaking out to see if there s an interest this creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring americans together. sure sounds like a presidential announcement. after all, it s the middle that says they re most unhappy with the state of things, the ones who don t like either the republican front runner or democratic incumbent, so what happens now? joining us is nbc news national reporter, sahil kapur, political analyst, cornell belcher, and former republican congressman charlie dent. sahil, did you see this coming? it s been something people have been wondering about. i think a lot of people expected that maybe joe
but i know what i do know, i know how to tell the truth. cheering. and i know like millions of americans know, when you get knocked down, you get back up. cheering. our north america correspondent, nomia iqbal, was at the rally and described whether it will make a difference for voters come november. well, bear in mind we ve got another debate potentially in september. i think for a lot of people here just listening to what the supporters were saying, they view it as a bad night what happened last night. they don t try and sugar coat it. i say it wasn t great. one woman said to me i was very upset by the reviews and wanted to come here to support him. they believe we re injune, that the election is in november, we ve got some time to go. people will forget. but i don t think, or we will have to see, it will quell the fears that we are seeing in the democratic party because president biden will be doing more appearances. there will be another debate in september which he said