and they make a point to walk out during the speed and compare them to the nazis and isis. u.s. ambassador linda thomas greenfield who has been blocking a security council resolution says the united states has been working behind the scenes with more than 60 diplomatic meetings at the highest levels. >> we have not been silent. infact, i don't think any country is working more urgently and fervently toward peace. >> and just moments ago they convened the security cabinet. we'll have more reporting on

that in just a moment. meanwhile missiles invading the iron dome directly hitting this dome. they have recently ben killed by rocket fire. they say more than 100,000 are displaced from their homes. more than 230 palestinians have been killed. they are making this plate for an end to the violence. >> if there is help, it is the lives of children in gaza today. >> joining me now from tele aviv is richard engel. and from washington, nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli. give us the latest developments from the ground. what have you been seeing today? >> well you would think that our country, two people on the brink

of the cease fire, that is not the mood here. here it is an anticipation that this will keep going. there could be a cease fire in the next few hours, but many are expressing skepticism. and you have very similar attitudes among gazans. they are looking forward to the bombs stopping but they don't think it will create a massive difference in their lives. they are going to be meeting to talk about the targets they have been hitting. still more targets. today it felt like the two sides with all of this momentum toward

a cease fire and the diplomatic pressure, were getting in last licks with that hamas firing more intensely that if it comes to the table and it seems like it is coming relatively soon that it did so on it's own terms and it has weapons and supply that it emerged stronger after all of the destruction in gaza. more strikes and israel says they will continue the operation.

they said repeatedly that there are, you know, numerous terrorist targets that they want to continue to hit but those messages were not being sent as much today. yesterday, and the previous few days. and i think it is an indication that they are talking about a cease fire. as far as what's going on in the security cabinet right now, it is, again, seems like a cease fire is what is being discussed. the terms are still unclear. it's being negotiated by egypt. it was a couple hours ago, and it remains to be seen in what exactly will be occurring. but like richard said they are expecting a lot more rockets. the hours before the cease fire takes hold because that is what

hamas has every time. >> pressure is building up from capitol hill. are there signs the biden administration is feeling it? what can we expect to come next from the white house. >> in one of the hallmarks of this administration. even in the case of fellow democrats. what was put to me today by a leading democrat, we're used to seeing an administration and president trump conducting foreign policy via twitter. they have tried to focus their efforts on intensive diplomacy but quietly believing that that is the best course of action. and we have seen a shift. over the course of now four phone calls over the president and prime minister netanyahu increasingly turning up the heat on the expectation ultimately of

a cease fire. the white house saying today they're now encouraged by the constitutions and the likelihood of a cease fire. i think we have seen a shift as well in terms of the number of phonecalls, the kinds of conversations, that have been happening. the white house saying more than 80, including the president, the vice president now, engagement with foreign leaders. today was the first time that the president mentioned, speaking to the egyptian president. speaking to the king of jordan. that suggests a white house moving beyond the discussions and deescalating the conflict in israel and gaza, but also now looking ahead to what happens next. how they would begin to try to take some steps to further along a process here to get both sides fully deescalated. dealing with some of the humanitarian challenges we're seeing. >> talk about the dynamics and

to mike's point the pressure on capitol hill and the efforts by the white house to get involved. how are they trying to put more pressure on the white house for action? >> it is definitely a shift from what happened in the trump white house. i think that officials knew in the first place that they would be different. and the biden administration was fair with israel and they tried to give israel time to respond to the attack. and so yes, there is increasing pressure, but it is pressure with some flexibility, so to speak. it is pressure where they said we should be moving toward a cease fire. i see my connection was lot. >> nor worries, we have you with

us still. let me get a final thought from you, richard. we saw sectarian pressure play out in various communities inside of israel and among palestinian israelis and jewish. is it after what we saw for the national strike protest that was called by palestinians yesterday? >> things are open back in palestinian areas in jerusalem. so the strike ended, but this is the first time we saw a round like this in the error of social media. and it changed things. there was rounds of violence like this in 2004, 2008, and now this one. sure, there was internet and mass communications, but it was different in this era where they are able to post even from gaza

and reach the the world, and those who have citizenship, it is important for them to realize they can't fully meet up. you can't go to the west bank, you can't go to jerusalem. if you're in israel you have more flexibility to travel but you can't go to gaza. so the way the different palestinian communities have been able to communicate with each other directly in different languages is possibly through social media. many do not support hamas, but they are fighting sympathy with the people of gaza and now, once again, even though it is through rocket fire, and even though it is through this escalation that caused massive damage that the palestinian issue and cause is once again front and center on the world stage and that is different and that is something that israel has to deal with

because 20% of it's population and 20% of its citizens are both expecting more rounds of these to come. >> thank you to the three of you for starting out this hour. i greatly appreciate it. >> joining me now is the cofounder of the palestinian movement and the founding member of the palestinian campaign for the academic and cultural boycott. we greatly appreciate it. as briefly as you can, tell us what you're movement is calling for and what solution is it that you seek. >> thank you very much for having me. the sanctions as a nonviolent race calls for an end to the

apartheid which is to be recognized by israel's largest organization. and the right of palestinian refugees to continue with the biggest majority of palestinians. the first and fore most demand is ending complicity. the united states government is come police sit through militar. the funds, investment funds, that are also come police sit when they invest in company that's are enabling the occupation. so we're calling for ending complicity so that palestinians can achieve our rights under international law. and the right of refugees. >> as you know there are a lot of critics of the boycott sanction movement of israel. i want to read to you what they write about that movement. the drive of the campaign and it's leadership is not criticism of policies, but the

demonization and the legitimazation of israel. presenting this dispute over territorial claims over the fault of only one party, israel. i want to give you a chance to respond to that. what do you say to that charge? >> in any master-slave relationship, only one party is responsible and that's the master. in the apartize situation, as they have today admitted and palestinians have been saying all along, it's not those that have been resisting it. and any oppression, racist oppression, violence starts when oppression begins. so anyone like us who are interested in ending all of the violence, that of the oppressor and the resistance of the

oppressed must work to end oppression. that's the root cause. the movement has manyy jewish supporters. many support the movement. it is non seq. tear and nonracial movement. >> let me ask you this. in just the past few days as we heard our correspondent say there has been several congressional democrats that called for the u.s. to stop selling weapons to israel. they think it is harm for for the broader cause of what they're trying to do. your reaction to what is playing out, trying to help palestinians but don't support bds. >> they don't support yet. they're under way, they're getting there. now they realize israel is an apartheid state. it is a taboo just a year ago. how many members of congress are calling for conditioning.

aide to israel or cutting military funding all together. for example, corey bush connected the palestinian liberation with a black lives matter movement saying that let's not send any military funding. we must be anti-apartheid, period. so those voices are rising. the next logical step is what do you do with apartheid. the u.s. laws themselves, which the u.s. congress hardly ever mention, they say the u.s. should not be selling military funding to a regime like israel and committing who horrific war crimes. the most important demand is end u.s. military funding to israel. and spend it on social and health in the united states.

>> let's talk about the end goal of bds. you said that you advocate and champion the rights of palestinian refugees and those critical will say that is the kind of polite way of saying you want full complete return to refugees that ends israel as a jewish state. what do you sty that? is it a situation where israel does not exist? >> bds does not support any political solution. only what we're saying is that if we stick to international law and human rights for erin, end of their refugee rights and the apartheid regimes, it's a necessity through justice and equality for palestinians. and ending an apartheid regime, why should palestinians care about maintaining an apartheid

regime. did that end the existence of south africans? it was just ending an unjust system. when jim crowe ended, did it end the existence of alabama? no, it ended a very racist institutionalized system and that is what we're calling for. wee appreciate your time. >> president biden signing a new covid bill into law moments ago. we're going to talk to stephanie murphy. and the upcoming battle in the senate over a january 6th commission. senate over a january 6th commission gillette proglide. five blades and a pivoting flexball designed to get virtually every hair on the first stroke. so you're ready for the day with a fresh face for a fresh start. for a limited time get a 5th cartridge free.

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violence but to say there was thousands of armed insurrectionists breaching the capital intent on overthrowing the government is false. there is a number of people, ag day tors with the crowd. >> how are comments like that impacting the debate over the commission? >> it doesn't reflect the reality they lives and ron johnson lived. it's more difficult to say that when you were in the middle of that cay. there was nothing about that day that was a peaceful protest. it show there's are a decent a number of prms, i don't know how many there actually are, but they just don't believe january

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>> all right, we're getting breaking news. the security cabinet that we were discussing reportedly just voted for a cease fire. this comes after calling for an end to violence from president bide enand other international leaders. joining us once again is richard engle. thank you for coming back. that's how quickly things turn around here. do you have any more insight as to how this played out. the inner most senior levels of the security establishment that served with the prime minister, can you tell us about the

outcome of it and how the vote may have gone down? >> so we're just getting the details, this just happened in the last couple minutes. one thing i know is that the idf chief of staff, and the ahead of the shinbet, that we have struck the central targets and we feel like we completed our missions. and that we're bringing more quiet to the coming years. i, the way the security cabinet votes usually go there is secret so they don't necessarily end us a break down of the votes. so i imagine that if you have a strong message from both the idf and the head of the sheinbet that it would be if not unanimous than close to it. >> richard, the reality now on the ground as you were talking on the ground appears to be a decision from the israeli

security cabinet. they indicated they wanted a cease fire, but when we have seen multiple parties and multiple decisions and steps along the way we're not seeing that here, we have not heard specially, but it seems to be a unilateral cease fire. >> reuters put out that hamas has agreed to the cease fire as well. they're well sourced in gaza and other places and it would be a unilateral cease fire taking place at 2:00 a.m. local time. so there are now multiple reports. different media outlets, some very close to the government. you have the report coming from reuters saying that hamas has agreed to the deal. also talking about a 2:00 a.m. deadline.

numerous reports in the arab media saying this is a deal brokers through egypt and they may send monitors into gaza in the short term to try to make sure that hamas does not fire any rockets in an unspecified deescalation era. it's unlikely that we will get a statement describing why they took this. we may get terms, but we will not get all of the terms of the cease fire. a lot of them are very long, they are very complexion, and they involve step and counter step. if this happens the next thing will happen. this will be a process and the main headline is according to multiple reports in israel and now a report from hamas that there seems to be a cease fire that seems to be starting in the next several hours.

where it goes from there the other terms involved, i think, we will learn, learn some of them but probably not all of them. >> we'll get to the politics of all of this in just a moment. i know you have covered multiple rounds of the wars between hamas and israel. given what we have seen playout, how is both the israeli government and hamas likely to spin what happened in the last couple days as a victory for their side? >> 10100%. they have already been declaring victory. the head of the security services here say they set back the military capacity by years. they dug up with their air strikes and artillery strikes. the network of hamas tunnels, hamas spent a lot of time and money putting those tunnels in and it will not be easy to replace the rockets they have fired into israel. about 4,000 of them.

so undoubtedly their military infrastructure has been weakened and israel can take that as a victory and say to the people that we did something. there is a group across the board near has a diminished capacity to fight back now and israel can point back to the iron dome system that protected this country. there was casualties, but a 90% interception rate against 4,000 rockets is something that israel can also tell it's people that despite hamas's best effort, generally israelis were safe. a lot of the injuries that happened on the riz raily side happened when they were running to bomb shelters. hamas has a different story to tell. they can say they emerged as the leader of the palestinian people nap is brought the palestinian cause to the forefront of the

world's attention and mane it will get more access to gaza. but they kept firing rockets to the very end and this is something that the group which has not been talked about for many years and is also now trying to overshadow it's rival in the west bank can say that it achieved something out of all of this. of course the people of gaza have been dealt a very heavy blow. >> talk to us a little about the public sentiment in israel. you reported from there and you live there. talk to us about how this is likely to play out among ordinary israelis. as richard was talking about this was by palestinians in gaza may be a massive set back. it must be equally frustrating that every few years they're living through another war. there was some resports that the public wanted the operation to

continue. >> so i think you it right. this happens every few years, it has been seven years since a major operation with gaza, and you know, israelis, as far as i can tell, feel like this is a never ending cycle. at the same time i don't think they have a stomach or an appetite for a real ground incursion that would truly, you know, uproot hamas from gaza that would have even more casualties. and even more israeli casualties. so on one hand they are frustrated. on the other hand i don't know a lot of people that have great solutions for this problem. it seems to intractable. at the same time there has been all of this violence across israel. mixed jewish-arab towns.

i think people are disheartened and nervous about how things will continue on that front inside of israel. >> so to that point, yesterday i had a chance to interview the head of the party. i asked him about the point that richard just raised. over the cycle of the last several years we have seen hamas rockets become more deadly. become more lethal. they get deeper into israel. should they have continued this type of approach. do you get a sense in the accomplishment and among security officials that people are wondering are asking if this is the continued right approach.

>> i think on the political level, from military and other top security officials, is they feel the real war is with iran and they don't want to waste too much time on gaza and too much attention on them. they want to protect the citizens, of course, and that the big security threat is not from gaza and they're more focused on that. but that is not a solution. >> we talk about this every couple years as well. the root of the problem remains unresolved. that is the israeli and palestinian conflict. it is the occupation that is the root of this violence and yet it is not going to be addressed in the short term. >> certainly it's not. the strategy has been, and if you heard prime minister

netanyahu say it again, it is that if they beat gaza hard enough, they will stop firing. they want to -- the leadership of gaza, to think not once or twice, but 50 or 100 times. they believe that by calling this off they're doing the palestinians a favor. they could have gone in as if they would have solved the problem. they still want more rights, they still want a state and you cannot bet that out of them. there needs to be carrots and sticks. so if they're wondering why this keeps happening time and time again, it's because there seems to be no solution. you can beat people into

submission for so long. we will see if it leads to a new opening. a peace process that leads to hope. and in the land where many israelis were born and want to live. there is such depression. they think it is better to resist and to simply do nothing. >> if i could just make a point about the all sticks and no carrots is that they facilitied the entry of tens of millions of

dollars, but humanitarian aide from around the world and from qatar into gaza. and very little of it much of it is used to build these rockets. they are getting a lot of money from iron as well. it is not to say that the living conditions are good in gaza in between the fighting, and gaza is still run by hamas. >> thank you to the both of you with that breaking news. and joining us now is richard haas. thank you for joining us, let me get your reaction to this news that we are now just, you know, at least according to all of the reports, ap, reuters, there is a

cease fire that has been reached. what is your initial reaction to the news? >> it is a question of when, not if. it would not shock me if there was breaches of it it also made sense because continuation was not serving the interests of hamas. nor the interests of the government any more. there was a certainive -- inevitability to reaching this point. >> so what happens now. because this story will not be in the headlines. it's not front and center in international i did brom si, but for the people of gaza, israel, it's not likely going to change any time soon. >> that is absolutely right, this doesn't change any

fundamentals. they will still have a divided palestinian leadership, a branch in which is not willing to coexist. it is not offering much in the way of inducements or incentives to the palestinians. talking about the situation it is anything but rights. there is nothing for diplomats to work with as things now stand. so we have a temporary cease fire and no one should begin to confuse that with peace or a trajectory towards peace. there is a focus on china, the economy and the global pandemic and we just saw it could be front and center.

>> i don't care how many hours they devoted to it, they could not succeed. i think the focus will be on the rest of the world on china. the focus be on things here at home. but the administration wants to see the middle east more quiet and hopefully this will stabilize a little bit. this administration doesn't want the middle east to insert itself on to the agenda. if they are lucky they will have their way for some time to come. >> thank you for joining us, we want to recap to our viewers the news here in recent days that the war that has been taking place in the gaza strip, any media or associated press that the security cabinet as just voted for a cease fire.

obviously this involved multiple things. on the diplomatic front and arab countries. see how this is playing out, any of the factions responding to it. >> it is something of a cliche of recent years. they have moved on from the palestinian focus. to a certain extent that is true. but when there is bloodshed in gaza the middle east it watching. we're keeping an eye on some of the arabic television channels. the hezbollah affiliated channel here in lebanon, and it has been wall to wall coverage. and there has been great passions here in lebanon in the last week. the refugees going south to the

israel board tore express their furry. we have seen small palestinian factions firing rockets towards israel over the last couple of days. so there will be widespread relief among propalestinians publics in the middle east that is this cease fire has come about and the bloodshed is coming to an end. this has been a very uncomfortable 11 days for israel's new middle east friends, the uae, behrain who signed those treaties just eight months ago and now they find themselves watching extremely uncomfortably as bombs have killed more than 200 people in gaza. it's been a difficult situation for them to be in. you can believe they will be relieved to see the cease fire tonight. >> i was going to say the u.s. secretary of state speaking a short time ago still not getting confirmation about the cease fire.

saying he is hearing the reports, he intends to speak to the foreign minister in a short while to get a update on that. we'll bring you any news that comes out of that. i know you have been speaking to palestinians who live in lebanon. you have a sense of how closely they have been following this. has there been a change in the sentiment given the international response. we heard the reporters talking about how much this is an international story. how much it consumed people on social media. the solidarity that emerged, if you will, among various mall palestinians. >> yeah, the refugees often feel forgotten by the world. sometimes by their fellow palestinians, the leadership, in both the west bank and in gaza. and this conflict that we have seen has really reinvigorated this community. just a reminder there are six

million palestinians. these are the descendants forced from their homes. they are spread across different countries. they have been very energized by what they are seeing. >> okay, thank you. as we follow the breaking news, the people that bear the brunt of this conflict and those left behind when the headlines stop as always are those on the ground with a humanitarian disaster. yesterday the united nations sent out a flash appeal asking for nearly $30 million to help run their operations inside of gaza. more than 66,000 displaced people are now sheltering in 58 u.n. run schools in the region. joining me now, one of the people doing that work on the ground is the director of u.n. uwra. let me get your reaction to the

news of a cease fire on how that will change the situation on the ground for you and your staff. >> thank you and good evening from gaza. first of all, seeing is believing. just two minutes before i came on air there was again a loud bomb that frightened both of my colleagues here with me and myself. we really have to wait and see if it will happen. the sense is that we're probably in for another loud and vicious night. of course we want the cease fire. all of us here on the ground, and most of all the palestinians and the stiflian population have been waiting for this. the price is unbearably high among the 60 plus children that have been killed. 19 went to different schools and to one of our 78 schools. the cost is unbearable and we have to stop this so people can somewhat begin to rebuild their lives and hopefully that can

start tomorrow. >> can you bring us up to speed about the conditions of your operations in terms of the situation for your team and what you are able to do and what you're not able to do given what you just lived through? >>. >> so many my palestinian colleagues, only ten are international. most are palestinian and many have spoken about how they feel this is more vicious than 2014 and where i'm going with this is there have been serious movement restrictions. our primary proudly talks about not having closed one of the health centers for a single day in to 14. the third day in this she said please let us coop the health centers closed. it is too dangerous. you mentioned the 58 schools or

59 i think it is where there's 66,000 plus people. the reason why we are slow to stand them up to be managed and assistance rolling is that our staff are scared to travel. i have never seen terrified population including our own people. security and fear is the main imped. the staff are heroes. we have kept our primary health centers open when we could. today there's 15 of them. we have done garbage collection and now in all of the 58 schools. >> i want to let the viewers know that nbc news confirmed that the israeli security cabinet declared a cease fire in the gaza strip and we hope that will alleviate the suffering you

are going through there. as we now move away from this phase consuming the international diplomatic efforts, what are you going to need in the weeks ahead to rebuild what you just lived through? >> i think there are three things i'd like to say. we have to get our normal services up and running. the children need a sense of normality. we have to focus on the people that lost their home just bombed to the ground and so badly damaged they can't go back. i'm told at least 8,000 in that situation. so they need priority support and then look at what to do to help them rebuild houses and thirdly i think the biggest damage is trauma.

this is another layer of trauma after the two years of great marches returned why the covid year and now this. before that three wars. so people are traumatized and the biggest need to rebuild will be in people's lives, giving them a sense of coping and opening up a new horizon. if as i heard your speakers speak we need a serious new beginning or we'll be back in this a couple month's time. >> all right. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you very much. >> we want to catch up on another breaking story. president biden signing into law the covid-19 hate crimes act. legislation that aims to combat racism. >> the work to address injustice

wherever it exists remains the work ahead. >> but silence is complicity. silence is complicity. and we cannot be complicit. we have to speak out. we have to act. that's what you have done. >> this comes as data from the reporting forum stop aapi hate shows that the number of reported hate incidents nearly doubled in march in 2021. joining me is stephanie murphy, a co-sponsor of the act. thank you for your patience. before the legislation, let me get your reaction to what we heard come out of the at least and the cease fire? >> i'm grateful to hear they agreed to a cease fire. i hope it will hold especially

so that we can end the loss of innocent lives and resume diplomatic conversations to see if they can't move forward from here so glad to hear there's a cease fire in place. >> let's talk about the legislation. it will have an impact but what impact do you think it will have on the rising tide of hate crimes against the aapi community in this country? >> first let me just say as a first vietnamese american woman in congress it was wonderful to be at the white house with president biden as well as vice president harris who is the first asian american vice president for the signing of this bill. the bill provides resources to deter and prosecute hate crime and crimes against asian-american but really beyond the specific things that this

bill provides for it provided the asian-american community the reassurance that our fellow americans have our back. that for the most part americans understand that hate crimes against any community is unacceptable and i was really proud that the bill passed in a bipartisan way and just signed into law. >> passed in a bipartisan way but last month the senate approved the bill 94-1. one no vote is senator josh hawley. there were 62 votes against the bill from republicans in the house. why do you think there's more gop opposition to this bill in the house? what is the argument? >> because the house republicans have been taken over by extremists and no longer interested in working on issues that matter to the american people and they are pushing

forward with political brinksmanship, games, things they think curry favor with the former president. much of the hate crimes that have come out of covid-19 were a direct result of irresponsible rhetoric of the previous administration so i think they didn't vote their conscience. they voted the politics in this case. >> i know that the january 6 commission is front and center. the bill yesterday, 35 republicans broke with leadership to vote for the bill and does face a tougher road in the senate. according to "the washington post" seven republican senators signaled an openness to the commission and one senator marco rubio is possibly one of them. what do you make or say to him to get him in vote in its favor? >> i certainly hope he does the right thing for this country. after foreign terrorists attacked our country we set up

a 9/11 commission to ensure that would never happen again. we had domestic terrorists attack the place of work, the seat of the democracy. one would hope that this would be an easy decision for senator rubio to do the right thing to protect the country and the democracy. >> i know that you have said you might challenge him for his seat next year. nbc news report that is the democratic colleague val demings planning on a possible run. will you run against him and would val demings change your decision? >> i'm considering seriously the prospect of the senate race and haven't made a decision but i'm basing my decision on how i can best serve florida and my condition, and whether i can win. i have won and held a very difficult district in florida and i have taken on and beaten

incumbent republicans in the past and i feel like i could do it again. >> where do you think is the attention of congress next. where do you think it should be put with the other issues on the agenda, whether it be infrastructure, the hate crimes bill that -- excuse me, the police reform bill, where do you think congress should be focused on? >> we have to do all of the above but i'm looking forward to work on a bill to make nstmentes in the infrastructure and enable workers to get back the work and build the economy strong back and i'm proud of the leadership the administration provided. >> all right. congresswoman murphy, i appreciate your patience today. thank you so much for your time. >> great to be with you. >> that wraps up the hour for me. i'll see you back here tomorrow. "deadline: white house" with

niccole wallace starts right now. hi, everyone. breaking news of a cease fire between israel and hamas. associated press reporting that netanyahu's office annoyanced the deal after 11 days fighting. "the new york times" says they appear to be on the verge of a cease fire to take effect on friday morning. after the israeli security cabinet accepted a proposal for a truce. the government announced thursday. news of the israeli decision came as a news channel reported a mutual cease fire had been agreed to beginning at 2:00 a.m. friday. it follows increasing pressure from all across the world for the violence to end including from american president biden telling israeli prime minister netanyahu yesterday he expecte