former president acknowledging he held on to a pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. also the vote that almost did not happen, just hours after it squeaked onto the house floor. and rattling russia. a closer look at the shadowy effort that s getting high-profile results, bringing the war in ukraine onto russian soil. prosecutors investigating the former president s handling of classified material have in their possession a recording from the summer of 2021, in which the former president is telling people around him in a meeting at his resort in bedminster that he has held on to a classified pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. cnn is reporting, this undercuts his argument that he declassified everything. and on the tape, as he spoke, it sounds like he was waving a piece of paper around, raising the question, was he holding the classified document in question. which goes to what kaitlan collins asked him at the town hall earlier this month.
what he says is ahead for them. plus, the images that we ve seen out of the west bank as crowds gather to welcome home palestinian prisoners who have just been freed, all while aid trucks continue to move into gaza. our nbc team is covering all angles of this story, and i want to begin with nbc s chief international correspondent, keir simmons, who s in qatar where a lot of work was done to get the truce extended. what more can you tell us about this new deal? reporter: well, chris, we re waiting right now for the last tranche, if you like, of the last deal, which is, we understand, likely to be 11 hostages released, 33 palestinian prisoners released from israeli jails. that is set to happen in the coming hours. and if it does, in just these coming hours, it s now 10:00 at night here. that would be a little bit earlier than saturday night, when there were some real challenges. didn t happen until midnight. but later than on other occasions, there have been some issues tod
The casualties which according to the palestinian Health Ministry in gaza, 34,000 now. So it was received differently and i think it is more or less and i think it is more or less a prize for israel because inaudible strong way to a Renia Attack to israel and listening to american support and preparing for the rafah operation, so this aid will help israel to carry on its mission, according to Mr Netanyahu. Mission, according to Mr Netanyahu. Mission, according to mr netan ahu. ,. ,. , netanyahu. And yet, you do have israels allies netanyahu. And yet, you do have israels allies including netanyahu. And yet, you do have israels allies including the i israels allies including the us urging Mr Netanyahu not to launch the full Scale Offensive in rifai . Launch the fullScale Offensive in rifai . , , launch the fullScale Offensive in rifai . , ,. , in rifai . There is pressure on Mr Netanyahu in rifai . There is pressure on Mr Netanyahu not in rifai . There is pressure on Mr Netanyahu not to
Under way, and that i have kept it they have kept it quiet? it is difficult to say, sara, but he says that everything that you are seeing right now, the little attacks and everything that you are seeing the cruise missiles shot at russian points where they have ammo dumps over the past couple of days and all of that are precursers to a larger scale offensive, and all of those are what they call a shaping operation for a larger scale. is this the big push that is happening right now. it is difficult to say, because looking at the drone videos that the russians put out with armored vehicles advancing in broad daylight, andle is of the vehicles are hitting mines and some of them destroyed by artillery or something else similar, but it is hard to know how big the losses were and how many soldiers are lost as well. the russians are claiming some
Ability to project force into ukraine itself. [ speaking non-english ] reporter: those remarks caused major outrage on kremlin-controlled tv, as russia s security forces seem unable to prevent cross-border raids. fred, what are you learning from ukrainian officials about the latest round of attacks? reporter: hi there, anderson. they re remaining coy about whether or not the ukrainians are behind a lot of them. one senior ukrainian official told me, when you see such attacks, when you see attacks on oil refineries or even on ammo depots in occupied areas of ukraine that are occupied by the russians, all of those are precursors for ukraine s large scale offensive, which of course they ve been planning for months. w which ukrainians say is imminent and could start at any point. fred pleitgen, appreciate it, thank you. coming up, nasa holds its first meeting on uaps,