if that situation does produce itself, then donald trump could face a real challenge in the republican primary, as long as the field is fracture and divided, he has a clear path to the nomination. >> always a pleasure to see you. that wraps up the hour for me. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," a tentative deal has been reached for the release of 50 women and children hostages, in exchange israel would release 150 palestinian hostages and halt hostilities to permit deliveries of fuel and aid. this pending approval by israel's war cabinet and the full cabinet meeting at this hour. prime minister netanyahu says he

hopes there would be good news soon. president biden weighing in this morning. >> we're now very close, very close. we could bring some of these hostages home very soon. i don't want to get into details. nothing is done until it's done. new numbers from our nbc news poll showing strong bipartisan support for border control far exceeds support to fund wars in israel or ukraine. as holiday travel rush kick into high gear, tom costello looks at the life of the airplanes we fly all day. ♪♪ good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. new indications thasrael and hamas could be getti closer to a deal. a deal for the release of 50 women andhildren in exchange

for 0 palestinians held in israel. this could you include a halt in fighting to permit fuel and other aid to get in. a key u.s. dend israel's prime minister netanyahu is meeting with his war cabinet. they would need to sign off any deal, which sources say could be imminent. officials in qatar who have been brokering the deal say it's in the critical and final stage. the president of the international red cross was in qatar to meet with a senior hamas leader mond. that organization brought the four previously released hostages to israel while having no role in the negotiations. we will start with nbc's raf sanchez in tel aviv and senior white house correspondent gabe gutierrez. raf, first to you. >> reporter: as we speak, prime minister benjamin netanyahu of israel is scheduled to be wrapping up the meeting of his war cabinet, the small

three-member committee that is in charge of this war. he is due to sit down with the security cabinet. this is a larger body, but it's not the full israeli cabinet, which is due to begin meeting one hour from now. it's the full cabinet that will need to vote to approve this tentative deal that has been struck between israel and hamas. every indication we have is that prime minister netanyahu has the votes to approve this deal. we have heard from at least one member of the far right in his cabinet, who has said he is not yet committing to voting for this deal. it will depend what's in it. we expect that it will pass through. as we have heard from president biden, from u.s. officials all the way down, nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. it remains a highly fluid situation inside of gaza where fighting continues between israeli forces and palestinian

militants. i can tell you that in the last hour, there has been a large barrage of rockets from gaza here into central israel. counterintuitively, that may be a good sign. what we often see in the final hours before these cease-fire deals come into affect is these palestinian groups, hamas, palestinian islamic jihad, firing increased rockets, trying to get their last punches in before a cease-fire. the broad outlines of the deal, as described to nbc news by a number of sources, is that this would involve the release of 50 women and children in exchange for around 150 palestinian prisoners being held in israeli jails right now. we also believe that israel is agreeing to several days of cease-fire and to allow hundreds more trucks of humanitarian aid to come into gaza.

the release of the hostages, likely to be staggered over four or five days. we expect something like ten hostages every day. hamas has been saying it does not have all these hostages in one place. it needs to get them together as part of any exchange. one element is israel is reportedly prepared to agree to the suspension of overhead drone flights for several hours every day over gaza so that hamas can move hostages around without feeling that it is exposing its senior commanders. as you know very well, these cease-fires are hard to agree. they can be even more difficult to uphold. we have a situation right now where there are thousands of israeli troops inside of northern gaza, just streets away from heavily armed palestinian fighters, and so making sure those two sides do not come into conflict during the course of the cease-fire will be one of the many, many complicated

elements at play here. >> that's terrific reporting from the team. thank you so much. gabe, what are we hearing from the white house? we saw the president earlier, very unusual in that roosevelt room event, i think it was about fentanyl, he would have this statement with careful written points. these are delicate times. >> reporter: exactly right. you played some of his comments off the top. the president saying that we're very close to a deal. quote, things are looking good at the moment. re-emphasizing what the administration has been saying now for several days, that nothing is final until it's final. the president yesterday asked the same question, he said that he believed a hostage deal was near. he crossed his fingers. they are careful not to get ahead of the process in israel right now. he just heard raf lay out the outlines of this potential deal based on several sources. yes, something that the administration has been

emphasizing over the last several days is this idea of getting humanitarian trucks into gaza, in addition to the hostages. we understand from a person familiar with talks in the region that israel would choose which palestinian prisoners it would release, pending a security check. yes, the idea that there would be a suspension of overhead drone surveillance in order to allow the hostages to be consolidated, because as we have been reporting now for several weeks, hamas does not -- may not have all of the hostages within the group. there's another group, palestinian islamic jihad, for example, that could be in possession of the hosthostages. wasn't to mention that right now as all this process is unfolding and the israeli cabinets are meeting, the ones waiting for word with bated breath are the families of the hostage.

i spoke with a great aunt of a 3-year-old hostage. she said that the 3-year-old will soon turn 4. the family has not heard yet from the state department with regard to this potential hostage deal. i want to play some of her interview with lester holt last week, just a reminder of just what's at stake here. >> abigail was in her father's arms. as they ran, a terrorist shot him and killed him. he fell on to abigail. she crawled out from under her father's body. full of his blood, went to a neighbor. they took her in. she went in the bomb shelter with this family. the husband went out to try to protect them. he was injured and didn't come back. the last thing we heard was somebody saw the terrorist taking the mother, the three kids and abigail.

that's all we know. >> reporter: as we are hearing the reports of those potential hostages that would be freed as part of this potential deal, it involves 50 women and children potentially held by hamas, among those that young girl just 3 years old. her family right now is waiting for any sort of word. they have not heard from the state department just yet. >> of course, the state department trying to avoid false hopes, being very, very cautious about anything. as you and raf have been pointing out, and as the president said, nothing is final until it's final. even after it's final, there could be lone wolves firing and setting something off, either side, both sides. >> reporter: absolutely. very tenuous situation at this point. something that we have been hearing and continue to hear this morning from u.s. officials. >> thanks to gabe and to raf. joining us now, david ignatius. you have been reporting

intensively on this, not just recently but you were just there in israel with military officials. you were in gaza. you talked to people there. let's talk about how fragile this is. it doesn't deal with the day after, the future of who is going to run gaza and how they are going to coexist with israel and the u.s. and israel very far apart on that. >> this would be a blessed event, just listening to the hostage family testimony about the one little girl, you realize how meaningful this would be for the families. in no way does it resolve the basic issues in this gaza war, which is going to continue. i would briefly summarize for your viewers the history of the hostage release deal. two days before the ground invasion started on october 27,

the basic elements of this deal were already in place. the ground invasion changed that. hamas pulled back. when i was in doha, about two weeks ago, to meet with the qatari prime minister, again, the basic elements of this deal, the numbers pretty much what we're talking about now, 50 plus israeli women and children in exchange for a like number, probably more, palestinian women and minors, a pause of some days. at that point they were talking three to five. those were in place then. the negotiations then got stalled. the hamas leader drew back, couldn't be reached for some days. now it seems to be very close. the essential deals that israel has been struggling -- details israel has been struggling with is this pause to allow hostages

to be collected and delivered to safety. israel does not want a pause in its campaign to destroy hamas. in this case, it's going to have to. i think for israel, as i have talked to israeli officials, there's a benefit in being seen for a brief period to be really focussed on humanitarian issues. we should expect big aid convoys going into southern gaza to help gazans who have severe problems of malnutrition, medical issues. i think hamas will try to use the pause, but israel will try to use the pause as well, to shore up its public image. i have been told that this announcement could come as soon as the next hour, sources in doha and qatar tell me. we will have to see. it's fragile until the moment it's announced. there's every sign it's going to happen after many weeks of delay.

>> david ignatius, thank you for your superb reporting. fingers crossed about all of this coming together and holding. thank you, david. >> absolutely. high level meetings happening in israel as we have been discussing, with the prime minister and the war cabinet. stay with us. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. a mitchell reports" only on msnbc. t relieves pressure and instantly adapts. sleep better. live purple. right now save up to $900 off mattress sets during purple's black friday sale. visit purple.com or a store near you today. have you ever wondered what an icon,... ...a legend,... ...a legacy,... ...a pop star,... ...and a tight end all have in common? they all got this season's updated covid-19 shot to help better protect them against recent variants.

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the israeli government. thank you very much for being with us. what can you tell us about what is being viewed by the war cabinet? i know it's not final until it's final. the outlines of what we have been reporting. >> we are certainly hopeful the hell that so many of our children have been through will be coming to an end soon. the details of a perspective hostage release deal are being discussed by the war cabinet. as of when it approves that, it will progress so the security cabinet and at 8:00 in the evening here in israel, to the full government. families of any victims of terrorists in israeli jails will be able to present an appeal to the supreme court. they will have 24 hours to do that, to petition against the release of anyone who might be -- any prisoners who might be released in the context. deal.

as soon as we have confirmed details, we will announce them to the world. >> would the hostages be released contingent upon release of the palestinian hostages? would that delay a hostage release in the imminent 24-hour period? >> as i said, the details are under discussion by the war cabinet. we're a democratic country. there are hoops that have to be jumped through before we complete the deal. we are hopeful many of our hostages will be able to come home. we think this vindicates israel's strategy over the last few weeks of putting unrelenting pressure on hamas to release hostages. hamas hasn't suddenly decided to be nice humanitarians and release them because it realizes it's evil to hold a 10-year-old baby for nearly 50 days in a tunnel hostage. it's been begging for a breather because it's getting clobbered.

we plan to continue putting unrelenting pressure on hamas until we secure the release of all of our hostages, all 240 of them. of course, this war will have to continue until the total destruction of hamas so it can never again perpetrate a massacre like it, perpetrated on october 7, and like it's telling us it wants to do again. >> israel would agree to these pauses of as much as four days, perhaps five days in order to get, sounds like, triple the amount of fuel and aid in, 300 to 400 trucks in a day? >> the prime minister is saying throughout the course of this war that we will, of course, be open to a temporary cessation of hostilities to faciliate the release of hostages. as for the specific details, these are being discussed by the war cabinet. we will announce decisions and be able to put them into practice as soon as possible.

>> benjamin netanyahu said his goal is the destruction of hamas and the second is the return of hostages. this frustrated families. in this case, you see the two goals are not in conflict? >> exactly. that's not a prioritization. those are two goals that go hand in hand. destroy hamas and facilitating the release of the 240 innocent hostages, including children, including babies. we want to get them out. we are getting them out by putting pressure on hamas. putting military pressure on hamas and by rallying global opinion to put diplomatic pressure on hamas and on its supporters to release those hostages. the same terror organization that on october 7 burned, butchered, torture and raped its way through southern israel hasn't discovered a conscience. it's begging for a breather. we are putting pressure on hamas and we will continue doing that. we hope to get all of our hostages safe and sound.

>> without diminishing the horror of that on october 7, which i do not, can you respond to pressure and criticism in the u.s. and the u.s. senate importantly, even in democratic senators who are long supports of israel and around the world, the u.n. and elsewhere, about the devastation in gaza, the high number of civilian casualties that this has cost? the world health organization saying it's appalled by the latest attack on the indonesian hospital, protests against the u.n. schools. the u.s. is not -- nbc cannot independently confirm the source of those attacks. i'm just talking about the results. can you respond to that? >> the humanitarian suffering in the gaza strip as a result of hamas' decision to declare war on us and to fight that war from inside densely populated area is

heartbreaking. uninvolved civilians are involved. this is a war. war is ugly. this isn't a war we started. it's not a war we wanted. it's not a war we expected. it's a war hamas declared on us. it's a war that we are trying to end. a war we are trying to end in such a way that hamas can never again perpetrate attacks against us. if this war ends before the total defeat of hamas, you and i will be here in the studios again in six months when hamas attacks us again. the u.s. administration knows that. president biden has said very clearly that he stands shoulder to shoulder with the people of israel in this fight. it must end with the total destruction of hamas. hamas is a genocidal terror group that openly says it wants to perpetrate more and more october 7 massacres. we are doing everything in our power to minimize casualties within the gaza strip. hamas is doing everything it can to maximize casualties by fighting out of densely populated areareas, preventing civilians from evacuating.

we have been urging civilians to get out of harm's way. we have been facilitating humanitarian corridors. we are exposing evidence of how hamas is embedded deep in civilian areas, building tunnels and command centers under hospitals. we revealed an anti-tank missile under a baby's crib. it's hamas, the terror organization that perpetrated the october 7 massacre that bares full responsible for all the suffering we have seen in israel, of course, but also inside the gaza strip. >> let me ask you this. you brought up president biden. it's clear he said the toll on the civilians is too high. other officials have said publically that the war should be accomplished by israel by better targeting, by using smaller munitions, by not using the bunker buster bombs in the

initial weeks in the refugee camp. there is a growing dispute -- it's hurting israel in our congress, with public opinion, and around the world in terms of funding and support and political support is important. for the level of casualties versus the level of hamas terrorists that have been gotten. >> we don't want to see civilians being hurt. we thought too many civilians were hurt on october 7 when hamas massacred 1,200 of our people. before the ground operation, we urged an evacuation of the northern gaza strip. we think it's tragic and outrageous that international agencies, including the world health organization, resisted israel's calls for an evacuation. we were saying, we want to get civilians out of harm's way. international agencies resisted. now they are calling on israel -- >> they said -- sir, in fairness, i watched this happen. i reported it deeply.

the corridors were not always clear. there was a long delay in getting those corridors that were. sending people south when they were still striking in the south. now saying you will move south. where are they supposed to go now? >> we designated special humanitarian safe zones where we have been coordinating to deliver the provision of hugh -- humanitarian aid. hamas has been embedded itself in civilian areas, building its command centers under hospitals, tunnels under people's homes, storing weapons in mosques and schools. hamas's strategy is based on using human shields. their strategy is based on hiding behind women and children so that it can perpetrate attacks against israeli civilians and then retreat behind them and make it difficult for israel to exercise its legitimate and right of self-defense. that's why we have spent so long

urging civilians to get outof harm's way. we surrendered the element of surprise. we could have gone in stronger, faster at the beginning. it's very important for us that civilians not be hurt, because this is a war against hamas. this is the war that hamas declared against us, not against the palestinian people, not against the people of gaza. they know that. that's why israel placed over 30,000 phone calls, individual soldiers calling palestinians, warning them that the ground operation is coming telling them to get out of the way. >> for a good part of that time they didn't have cell service because there was no fuel delivered to generate the telecom companies were down. i take your point about human shields and the embedding and the tragedy on both sides. >> really cynical and twisted. >> we can all pray and hope that this deal holds up and comes through. thank you very much. >> absolutely. we're hoping. thank you very much. follow the money. where do voters want to spend

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dollars spent at the southern border. nbc news senior political editor mark murray is the man with the numbers. not surprising that people want to spend it at home rather than overseas. talk to us about the party breakdown. >> the biggest story, one of the reasons why the border is so po 74% say they want more funding there, is you have majorities of repus, independents and even democrats all supportingthat. that creates that big 74% number. when we actually look back to, do you support humanitarian aid to gaza, our poll shows 58% do. you have a majority, eight in ten democrats say yes. a majority of independents say yes. republicans, a majority are opposed to that. the same dynamic also ends up playing out when it comes to israel. democrats are the ones who are divided.

republicans overwhelmingly support more aid for israel. independents do. democrats are almost split down the middle. >> what about the generic balloting? when you poll the frontrunners, joe biden and donald trump, presumptive leaders for their groups? >> the generic has a big lead. joe biden is trailing a generic republican by 11 points. donald trump trails a generic republican by six. that should not be a surprise given a generic candidate doesn't have a record. there has been -- our poll is not the only one to show that both of these frontrunners, biden on the democratic side and donald trump on the republican, are having -- have some flaws and deficiencies that show big gaps between where they are versus where a generic candidate would be. >> mark, the man with the numbers.

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as we have been reporting, a senior u.s. official and sources in the middle east are telling us that a tentative deal has

been reached to release hostages in gaza. joining us is retired u.s. army lieutenant general steph twitty and former cia director john brennan. director brennan, let's talk about the process of something this complicated actually working, getting hostages out either the north to israel or through soh, depending on where they are, through rafah. getting them out safely. what is the challenge here? >> i think there are many challenges, which is why it has taken quite a while to come to an agreement on this deal. there needs to be a clear understanding on the part of all parties involved on the terms of the deal. not just in terms of the pause in the fighting for the four or five days but especially for the transfer of the hostages as well as from the prisoners from israeli jails. presumably, the international committee at the red cross will

be involved in facilitating the transfer, presumably it will take place incrementally. the timing and sequencing of that deal needs to be understood by all sides. in addition, i think there's concern that there could be some violations of this deal. frequently, that happens in pauses and cease-fires. what are the -- what will be the understanding as far as continuing to follow through on the deal, even if there are minor violations, particularly by some of the rogue hamas units that didn't get word or are trying to scuttle the deal? these are the things that need to be worked out. since the united states, qatar, israel and the palestinian hamas are all involved, it needs to be an understanding about what is going to happen over the course of this deal. >> to follow up briefly, it's also true that hamas doesn't control all the guns. there's also islamic jihad and other groups. right? >> right. it's supposedly responsible for the inadvertent strike against

the hospital in gaza. they also have their own chain of command. whether or not there are going to extreist elements that will try to undermine this, this is something the israelis have to be prepared for. hopefully, it will not prevent the transfer of the hostages in exchange for the prisoners. >> general, talk to us about what happens during the pause and after the pause, not only what john brennan was talking about, israel -- i was talking to a spokesman -- says they are going to proceed in the south. they have to keep hammering hamas. they say this deal would not have come true if they hadn't been so strongly pursuing their offensive against hamas. contradicted, of course, by david ignatius earlier on this program saying this deal was basically in hand without all of the details two weeks ago or

three weeks ago, before the ground -- more than that, before the ground offensive started. that's when everything was paused by hamas. >> yeah. what i will tell you is that with this deal, when we start talking about cease-fire, that's going to put the israeli soldiers under increased risk, particularly as we talk about long-term. is it worth it to get the hostages out? absolutely. we all must understand that it's going to put the israeli soldiers under risk. it will give hamas time to perhaps regroup, rearm, reconsolidate. you are going to have israeli soldiers sitting around, if they don't continue to fight, sitting around in vulnerable positions. i could understand the israelis trying to conduct operations in the south while perhaps the

hostage negotiations continue and the hostages are released. that's going to be quite difficult to do both. i think there will be a complete cease-fire. but again, it's going to put the israeli soldiers under somewhat of risk because it will stop the momentum. plus, it will give hamas time to regroup. >> john brennan, also, what is the situation during the pause in terms of getting fuel in? israel was insisting that hamas was taking -- hijacking the fuel deliveries. red cross and others said they were not. the lack of fuel led to cell outages, the telecom companies, they couldn't run generators. the devastation in the hospitals, the loss of infants in the icu. >> yes. another example of just how complex and complicated the situation is.

hopefully, there will be addition as humanitarian support that will get into gaza strip, including the fuel that's necessary in order to keep some of the generators at the hospitals going. how you are going to monitor and ensure that this humanitarian aid and support is going to go to those who need it as opposed to the hamas militants? which is why the ability to monitor what is happening at that time during this period of pause is going to be important. i do think both hamas and israel are going to try to ensure that this pause is not going to degrade. they're going to i think seize opportunities to try to enhance their position so that once the pause ends -- maybe they can -- maybe both sides and with the united states and qatar's intervention, this can be extended and we don't go back to the wide violence that has been wracking gaza so long. what's happening under the pause is so important. making sure the israelis are not put at greater risk and danger

as hamas tries to regroup its forces during this period of pause. >> john kirby has been briefing reporters and saying that while he won't discuss the details, that they are getting closer to it, but he is talking about as much as 20,000 gallons of fuel. it takes thousands and thousands of gallons to run a hospital. they were shutting down and being evacuated because of the firing around them before that. they did not have power. general, is the goal of getting hamas -- eliminating hamas as the governing organization in gaza a realistic one? what could come after hamas? the president has spoken about some sort of a reinvigorated palestinian authority. they have been wakened by israel and by their own failures of leadership. could they run both gaza and the

west bank after all of the hostility between those two palestinian factions? >> i think it is a realistic goal to destroy hamas within the gaza strip. i think the israelis will continue with the intended goal and press hard to meet that goal. as you know, you have many hamas leaders outside of gaza. so destroying gaza as a whole is pretty ambitius but within the gaza strip i see them able to do that. they have displayed that with the momentum that they have had in northern gaza. in terms of governance afterwards, this is a huge unknown and a hole in israel's plan. i don't see israel staying in the gaza strip to govern long-term there. i think they will be under

tremendous pressure by the arab world. by the way, from the united states as well. i think they're going to have to be an inclusive government, or you turn it over to palestinians that are willing to lead and are willing to not allow terrorist groups to come back in the gaza strip again. there are a lot of unknowns. i do not see the israelis staying long-term. you don't want to create more enemies in this situation. >> john brennan, let me bring you something out of left field that's just been reported out of seoul and elsewhere. we have contacted victor cha, who is an expert on this. north korea has launched a ballistic missile. the first military satellite, a spy satellite. to my knowledge, they didn't have one before. you would know better than i. what victor cha is surmising is

that this comes after the kim/putin meetings, that they failed in previous attempts, and that now that they are getting the fruits of the meeting, where they are helping putin with arms for ukraine, and they are getting the spy technology, the satellite technology from russia. >> it's very possible that the russians are helping the north koreans with satellite technology. this is also just part of north korea and kim jong-un's quest to expand his capabilities, particularly in the air and be able to support his strategic nuclear and ballistic missile programs. having those satellites really will enhance his ability to pose increasing danger and threat to the region. it's possible that the russians traded something with the north koreans to include satellite technology in exchange for the munitions that putin and the russian military badly need.

>> the world is not getting any safer. john brennan, general twitty, thanks to both of you. a day in the life. the inside story of just how flight crews and airline maintenance workers get planes ready for takeoff during the holiday rush. that's from tom costello coming up on msnbc. m costello coming up on msnbc.

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more than 400 delays are being reported this hour by flight aware. 30 million people are hitting the skies as predicted over the thanksgiving holiday. tom costello, who covers aviation for us, got an inside view of what a day in the life of a commercial airplane is like. >> reporter: american airlines has 1500 planes they do 6,000 flights every single day. crews come on, they come off, they rotate in and out. but we decided to stay on board for the entire day. 5:00 a.m. in baltimore, an american airlines first officer is prepping the flight deck. >> every flight around here has to make sure every system works properly. >> reporter: flight crews will come and go, but planes get very little down time. this plane came in last night at 11:00, spent the night in baltimore, and it has got a very long day ahead.

>> biggest priority is being ready for passengers and staying in the pleasant mood. >> reporter: it is still dark as flight 1403 pushes back from the gate. then lifts off the runway just as dawn breaks. thousands of flying miles lie ahead. baltimore washington airport to dallas-fort worth. then dfw to miami, miami to new york laguardia and returning back to miami before the day is done. beating the rush to hawaii. >> a lot of people moving around, a lot of stress. >> reporter: three hours later, we touchdown early in dallas. like clock work, passengers deplane, the crew moves to another flight. and with the clock ticking, baggage handlers start loading up for the next flight. a typical marrow body plane holds 280 pieces of luggage. they have 45 minutes to turn it before it goes back out again.

american's chief operating officer says there is a constantly evolving backup plan should weather delays start to ripple across the system. >> we put a lot of energy, a lot of technology, a lot of things in place to shake sure we can manage the unexpected. >> reporter: 10:25, we're off to miami, while passengers work, watch and rest in the back, the crew encounters heavy rain in florida. we land 11 minutes late. the cleaning staff then catering quickly move in. next stop, new york, with a full flight. every day american goes through a million cans of soda, half a million cookies and 350,000 bags of pretzels. the sun has already set as we land in new york and reboard for the flight back to miami. >> the boarding process is very hectic because of luggage, everyone wants to bring gifts. >> reporter: ail sandro plans to work from her parents' home over

thanksgiving. >> i don't call it a vacation. i will be working from my childhood bedroom. >> reporter: miami is socked in with more rain. >> looks like a whole weather system there. >> reporter: our plane is able to land and in a long day, it all starts again tomorrow. planes make money for the airlines when they're flying and it is a big investment out there, one of those planes. so you got to keep in mind, they have to keep this moving, keep the planes in the air all day. if it is a red eye flight in coast to coast and they go to a normal rotation during the day, it is a very long day with a plane literally flying virtually every hour at some point every hour of the day. andrea, back to you. >> nbc's tom costello. a thorough maintenance check of that boeing happened every 900 hours with more routine checks happening periodically in between. making us all feel a lot safer.

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house speaker mike johnson flew to mar-a-lago last night to meet with republican presidential front-runner donald trump. johnson recently reaffirmed his endorsement of the former president despite trump's increasingly divisive language calling political rivals vermin, who needed to be rooted out. echoing nazi rhetoric. nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake joins us now. do we know anything more about the meeting at mar-a-lago? >> reporter: multiple sources tell me that this was actually a fund-raiser taking place at mar-a-lago for republican congressman named gus bilirakis that johnson was there to attend. he met with trump afterwards.

you're the speaker of the house or any prominent republican, you don't just show up at mar-a-lago and bump into the former president. this is something that was orchestrated to have this meeting between the two men, who johnson has supported trump through his entire presidency, pretty open about the supporting him up until that more formal endorsement we heard about last week. the stylistic difference between the two men could not be more pronounced. the idea that johnson endorsed formally and reported to have been at mar-a-lago at a time when the headlines about trump and his rhetoric are what they are, i think it is the kind of thing that democrats will welcome as they try to present johnson and trump as a united front. johnson poorly known nationwide for democrats who want to tie him to trump, johnson is making it quite easy for them to do that. the difference between johnson's relationship with trump's and kevin mccarthy. mccarthy did everything he could

to help trump along the nomination, he never formally endorsed him. johnson is with trump now and perhaps november and beyond. and we should think about house republicans following that exact same path as well. >> and just in the final few seconds, garrett, just in the last few minutes, john kirby at the white house said the u.s. does not support israel's determination to pursue ground operations and other operations in the south because of the civilian populations there. so a wider breach, which will only widen the gap among those democratic senators and others on the hill were not happy about israel's posture. more to come on that as well. garrett haake, thank you so much. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." "chris jansing reports" starts right now. good day. i'm chris jansing live