morning joe. it is tuesday, december 26th, i m jonathan lemire. alongside me former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments elise jordan and the haass of msnbc s politics nation reverend al sharpton. president biden and first lady jill biden spent christmas eve fielding phone calls for the norad santa tracker. the president posted this picture on social media writing that he spoke to excited young americans worried about santa s whereabouts. then the president and first lady called units from each branch of the military to wish them a merry christmas and thank them for their service. republican front runner donald trump, on the other hand, spent the holiday weekend in a very different fashion, taking on his political enemies. the former president posted several, shall we say, unusual christmas messages on truth social that criticized people like joe biden and jack smith. in one post the channeled home alone kevin mccallister. merry christmas, y
with a story that is very much still developing, very much still unresolved, and very personal to our first guest. this is yair yaakov and myrav. they live on a kibbutz in southern israel. a kibbutz call and yair s sons are 16 and 12 years old. orr is the big brother. he is 16. yagil is the younger son. he is 12. and on saturday morning, at 8:45 a.m. local time, this is just a couple of hours after the hamas terrorist attacks started in southern israel, yair got on the phone with his sister in law from the kibbutz. and he told his sister in law that he and his girlfriend were in a shelter inside their house. they were gonna try to write out these bombings that had just started. he said his two sons, his 12-year-old and his 16 year old, they were now with them. they were with their mother at a different house on the kibbutz. and yair said that the plan was everybody was gonna stay put until the bombings stopped. and then, they would find each other and get back together and
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Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images(NEW YORK) More than four months since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip.The conflict, now the deadliest between the warring sides since Israel s founding in 1948, shows no signs of letting up soon and the brief cease-fire that allowed for over 100 hostages to be freed from Gaza remains a distant memory.Here s how the news is developing. All times Eastern:Feb 19, 12:24 PMIDF strikes Hezbollah weapon storage facilities, terrorist infrastructureThe Israel Defense Forces said its fighter jets hit two Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in Lebanon on Monday.The IDF said this was in response to the unmanned aerial vehicle launched toward northern Israel earlier in the day, and the Israelis believe it was most likely launched from Lebanon by Hezbollah.The IDF also said its fighter jets have struck some Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in Lebanon on Monday.Feb 19, 8:25 AMGaz