That israel maintain a military presence in the philadelphi corridor. That s a small buffer zone between gaza and egypt s sinai desert. Mr netanyahu said israel is committed to destroying hamas and bringing the hostages home. He warned of the potential consequences should israel relieve its military pressure on hamas. Our middle east regional editor mike thomson has more on the prime minister s comments from jerusalem. Tonight, benjamin netanyahu double down on his insistence that israeli troops will not be withdrawn from the philadelphia corridor. That is the strip of land separating southern gaza from egypt. Is that it is absolutely vital that they stay that to stop hamas smuggling weapons from egypt into gaza. He said, if we let this happen, we could have another october the seventh all over again. Interestingly though, he had talked in the past about not moving for at least 42 years. This evening he was referring to 42 days early so they may be some wriggle room there. But he has s
Due to mr netanyahu s demand that israel maintain a military presence in the philadelphi corridor. That s a small buffer zone between gaza and egypt s sinai desert. Mr netanyahu said israel is committed to destroying hamas and bringing the hostages home. He warned of the potential consequences should israel relieve its military pressure on hamas. Our middle east regional editor mike thomson has more on the prime minister s comments from jerusalem. Tonight, mr netanyahu doubled down on his insistence that israeli troops will not be withdrawn from the philadelphi corridor. That is the strip of land that separates southern gaza from egypt. He said it is absolutely vital that they stay there to stop hamas smuggling weapons from egypt into gaza. He said, if we let this happen, we could have another october the 7th all over again. Interestingly though, he had talked in the past about them not moving for at least 42 years. This evening he was referring to 42 days only, so there may be some wr
Are still talking. Nbc news has confirmed when former nypd commissioner will meet with prosecutors. What his lawyer told us. A whole lot of questions and a whole lot to talk about. Lets start with reporting. Ryan riley is outside District Courthouse in d. C. Ken dilanian is at the justice department. Here in new york, dasha burns and lisa ruben. Also with us is former prosecutor, david aaron. We know the grand jury broke for lunch. They came back. Now they appear to have left for the day. Bring us up to speed. Yeah. I think the critical takeaway from this is we did not see the grand jury foreperson actually leave the building. I think if you read the tea leaves there, you might be able to ascertain whats happening going forward. We dont have basically we do not have any indications that this grand juror, the foreperson, has been in any courtroom thus far. Were sort of going around checking out the courtrooms to see if theres a hearing going on. What has to happen is this has to be retu
logs for staff and regular visitors into and out of the west wing. president biden for his part not talking about it. deferring all questions to the secret service. listen. [shouted questions] gillian: mark morgan says someone could be intentionally hindering the investigation. he tells the daily mail, quote, they know who comes in and when they come in, they re checked and are video cameras everywhere? are they able to talk to the people they would need to without any roadblocks? let s bring in mark meredith joining us from the white house. tell us what you know. good morning to you. the white house says it is taking this situation seriously but they are also not engaging in hype that calls over who they believe may have brought in the drugs and whether or not anyone should or could face charges. it began on sunday with hazmat teams were called to a lower level of the west wing where they first saw the powder and investigators determined it was cocaine. the white house c
debt ceiling before we default. should be most consequential g7 in years. the bottom line is this should be g7 in which the president projects strength and resolve to our allies. if biden was on the top of his games, he would say we re going to protect our allies and i have a deal with mccarthy. that is what he should be saying, he s not. todd: lucas tomlinson live in washington with more. lucas. lucas: this trip hurts to move beyond that spy balloon. jake sullivan spoke en route to japan. common concerns and issues associated with the policies and practices, the people s republic of china will come up and i think you will see alignment and convergence around the principles of our approach to the people s republic of china. lucas: that is good dc wong speak. china will not be there, but will be focus of the meetings. trip was supposed to include a trip to new guinea. but the president s trip will be cut short. the president seemed optimistic before his flight to jap