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good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 8th. glad it s friday, but we do have a lot to get to this morning, willie. president biden is putting more pressure on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to allow additional aid into gaza. we ll have more details on the first conversation between the two leaders in 11 days. a lot of questions. meanwhile, the president s son is facing several new tax charges. we ll break down the allegations against hunter biden. plus, a recap of donald trump s day in court for his civil tax fraud trial. he was there as the former president is now expected to be the last person to take the stand. that should happen next week. also ahead, a rare ruling in a post roe world. a judge in texas granted an emergency request for an abortion, but the state s attorney general is threatening to prosecute any doctor who treats the woman. we ll talk about that. with us, we have the host of way too early, white hou ....
coming up this hour, home free. the emotional homecoming as the first group of hostages released by hamas are united with loved ones. a second set of hostages is expected to be released any moment now. we will have a live report of what is happening in the region and whether this fragile truce between israel and hamas can continue to hold. shock and awful. congress prepares to return next week, and nearly reach revealed interview highlights the extreme and shocking views of knew how speaker, mike johnson. even comparing abortion to an american holocaust. we ll have more on that in his mar-a-lago meeting with donald trump. later, sounding the alarm. a call for conservative leaders to stand up for donald trump s assault on the constitution. judge michael bedyk joins me live to a new legal movement to counter the danger of a second trump presidency. all of that and more is coming up. any moment now we are expecting news of yet another release of hostages by hamas in exchan ....
hello, again, everyone. thank you so much for joining us. i m fredricka whitfield in atlanta, alongside wolf blitzer in tel aviv. we re monitoring breaking news. cnn has learned a convoy of egyptian ambulances and a bus are now moving toward the gaza side of the rafah border crossing. they are set to transport 20 hostages expected to be released by hamas. the exchange is set to happen at any moment now. these late developments follow an anxious hours-long dispute that delayed the transfer of the second group of hostages. officials say the group will contain 13 israelis, including eight children and five women. qatari officials say an additional seven foreign nationals who fall outside the framework of the agreement between the two sides, will also be released. we re learning qatar, the u.s. and egypt helped to smooth over tensions, after hamas disputed the amount of aid being delivered from gaza and the selection of the 39 palestinian prisoners set to be released by is ....
anxiety-inducing riddled time, and these families have been watching through the public reports of the talks and how close they are been the deals have fallen apart, and then watched a couple of days ago, the process was delayed 24 hours and now finally, perhaps a point to get to embrace their loved ones, at least the families of the 13 hostages released today, and providing some hope for the families of those in gaza that a deal is possible to release them, and hamas can indeed deliver on its side of the bargain to deliver these hostages to the red cross into egypt and eventually and hopefully soon into israel. and jeremy a testament to the selflessness, because we have heard from so many of the hostage families that even though it is not their loved ones coming home, because they got a call from the israeli government yesterday telling them whether or not it is their family members, they are saying they are still so happy for the 13 families who are getting their fa ....
tonight, the temporary pause in the israel hamas war now delayed. israel says no hostages in gaza will be released before friday, as families eagerly await to hear if their loved ones are among them. then, the judge who critics say is slow walking one of donald trump s biggest criminal cases, and what that could mean for the 2024 election, and all the thanksgiving dinner our panel brings to the facts on these stories you will be talking about all weekend as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. the deal for us hostage release has brought hope but now new worries to families of those kidnapped by hamas. many of those families were anticipating reunions with their loved ones after initial reports suggested at least some hostages could be freed as early as tomorrow morning. but late today israel s government said there will be no release before friday. my colleague here simmons has all the details. tonight a ....