batteries and first aid kit are a good start to learn more, visit safetyactioncenter.pge.com it's good to see you. i'm jeff bennet for president biden. it's a high stakes diplomacy friday. in north korea the world leader is the second leader to meet with president biden. south korea and japan are two of the most critical allies in combatting the rise of china in a nuclear armed north korea. the other act of diplomacy, a ceasefire that seems to be holding now between israel and hamas are hoping they can

possibly end the 12-day air war. and police are surrounding the monument. thousands of israelis came out today marching the streets. the ruler of hamas today declared victory on television. listen to the sound of gaza when that ceasefire first went into effect. >> no more war! >> richard engel is in gaza and

we'll join us in a moment. president biden had been fiercely working the phones, taking a harder line with netanyahu, and biden and his top aides made more than 80 contacts by person or by phone from tel aviv to cairo. neither the u.s. nor israel want to negotiate directly with hamas. it was quiet and relentless diplomacy that got the job done rather than provoking either side with u.s. demands with the high potential to backfire and escalate attacks even further. we're joined now by nbc news chief correspondent richard engel, also shannon pettypiece and nbc anchor omar aldean. richard, what have you been seeing and hearing? >> reporter: so people in gaza are still celebrating but

they're celebrating amid reunions. the city is not destroyed, gaza city is the city in the main strip. it is still a functioning city, there are restaurants that are open, people are walking around. but we're talking roughly 8,000 homes or apartments that were either partially damaged or destroyed, according to local officials, about 150 tall buildings that were completely flattened. 100 miles of roads and critical infrastructure that no longer existing according to the mayor. a significant set back for hamas because hamas uses this area for military operations, as its base of operations, but also to the people who live here, for the 2 million gazans who have a terrible infrastructure to deal with, no way to leave the gaza strip. they are now more than ever dependent on foreign aid to rebuild, and told they are mourning the dead.

they say there are about 240 palestinians who were killed and more than 1,500 injured so far. but you do not get a sense that they are preparing for another round of fighting. the hamas leaders are celebrating. the people here are celebrating their resilience. they are celebrating that they were able to stand up to israel, a vastly superior military force, and keep firing rockets, although those rockets were fired indiscriminately to israeli cities, they kept firing them even onto the heaviest bombardments. so they are celebrating, but they are celebrating in a damaged and partially destroyed region, and there seems to be little appetite for more rockets that would lead a devastating devastation that happened in the last 10 days. i don't think this is over, because i would look at what happens in jerusalem very

closely, because this is what kicked this off. there was tensions in the mosque, and then today we saw very similar images to the ones two weeks ago that started this. the rockets may not be flying, but it doesn't mean the unrest is over. >> hamas is newly emboldened on their home turf, they get to lay claim to standing up to israel more effectively than the palestinian authority. and on top of that you get the fact that there is no two-state solution that exists. >> we're dynamic in this conflict both with the act of social media. according to american officials i've spoken to is the dynamic that hamas is now declaring victory on one important front. and that is what happens in jerusalem, what happens in the west bank, what happens in israel is now connected to what

we saw play out in gaza. this is something hamas has always tried to claim a stake for. it is willing to use its force for whatever happens among palestinians. that is not necessarily accepted by everyone in the region, certainly not accepted by all palestinians, but what unfolded this time and why this ceasefire is so fragile at this moment is as we see these images coming out of jerusalem today, as we see these national calls for protests and strikes inside israel and the west bank, hamas is watching that closely. keep in mind the root of what led to this violence, be it what we saw in jerusalem a couple weeks ago, whether it's the family evictions that were supposed to take place three weeks ago, those issues have not yet been resolved. what happens three weeks ago, what happens a month from now when the israeli supreme court has to make a decision about those families being evicted? will hamas want to, will israel want to, will the palestinian people be able to do what we

just saw in the last couple weeks, and that's what exists in this relationship. you brought up the issue of a two-state solution. i interviewed a man at the heart of the political spectrum saying that he does not necessarily see a two-state solution the way it has been envisioned by american diplomats and the world community for the past 25 years. so you have, on both sides of the spectrum, a deviation which has been widely described as a defunct process. that was the accord that was supposed to bring in fruition in the palestinian state. the biden administration has its hands full if it wants to revitalize the two-state solution. i've been told the two-state solution is in the hospital, it's on life support, all the machines are blinking red.

they don't see how you get a two-state solution out of what they just went through. >> and president biden immediately pivoted, turning his attention to east asia. he's hosting the south korean leader. they'll have a press conference at the 5:00 hour. there doesn't seem to be any indication that the white house has a desire to wade further into this area. >> right, and people involved in this process told nbc news that it was a priority for president biden to end this quickly in part because he wanted to return to his domestic agenda to things like infrastructure and police reform. from the very beginning of this administration, the foreign policy focus has not been on the middle east, it has been on china. that's where the focus of this administration has been, and you can see that represent in who the first people to visit the white house are. it is the president of japan was the first visitor, and now we have the president of south korea there. so the white house trying to shift the focus back there. of course, they're not going to

be able to completely, because as you hear aman and richard, this conflict is not going away. one was talking about brokering peace in the middle east. we're not hearing about a peaceful deal being done in this white house any time soon. >> and the president of hamas said what really ended this most recent conflict was that prolonging it didn't serve the interests of either side. in effect, both sides were ready

to end this. what's your take? >> reporter: i agree. i think that's an astute analysis. here in hamas -- here in gaza, hamas had no interest in driving this further. if they had pushed it further, there would have been a ground assault, and a ground assault would have been much more devastating for this region, it would have been much more devastating for hamas militarily, and i don't think they wanted to push it that far. but they wanted to, as ayman would say, claim leadership of the palestinian cause. any time, anywhere a palestinian is in danger, especially in jerusalem, their rockets are ready to defend them. i think they achieved that. on the israeli side, prime minister netanyahu was in a very weak position. he's facing corruption charges, he's trying to hold a government together, he has to try and form a new government soon in order

to stay in power. he has an interest in staying in power because of the charges against him, and this conflict has been very popular in israel. opinion polls suggest that a vast majority of israelis didn't want to see a ceasefire. they wanted to see more action taken against hamas because if you're in israel and you see the rockets falling on you, you want those rockets to stop, and you want those rockets to stop immediately, and you want them to stop for good. so many israelis wanted a bigger military offensive set back for a long time. many israelis want it set back many years. but it also would have been very costly for israel to extend this further to get bogged down in a land war in gaza. so it seems like the leaders on both sides, the leadership of hamas and the leadership of israel, benjamin netanyahu, did get what they want and had risks pushing it further. >> nbc news chief correspondent

richard engel, we appreciate it. and eamon modine, thank you very much. and shannon pettypiece will stick around because joe biden is meeting with the leader of south korea at this hour. the concern between both these presidents remains north korea and that the weapons stockpile could grow. the leaders are trying find a middle ground between the full embrace and the hands-off approach of the obama era. a senior fellow in korea for international studies is with us. so, shannon, what do we know about the goals of north korea and how they differ from the trump era? >> reporter: certainly the administration is trying to figure out what their strategy is going to be. they need to find a middle ground between the, essentially, hands-off approach, the kind of

patient let's wait and see from the obama administration compared to the bear hug approach-handshake photo op of the trump administration. it's unclear where that is going to fall. officials say they're taking this with modest steps. they're not talking about a grand bargain. they're not talking about a big sweeping change like we heard from president trump talking about tourists coming to north korea. they see interim progress being their goal, at least in the midterm. expect that to be hashed out here. other issues will be china ask getting south korea to step up their counterbalance. the covid-19 vaccine, that's another thing we could hear come up. only a small percentage, around 5% of south koreans have gotten the vaccine because of short supply. the united states indicates they'll be giving more vaccine to foreign countries, so look to see if there are commitments we

see in south korea adds the u.s. doles out where those vaccines are going to go. >> and thank you for being with us. for all the trump focus on north korea, the nuclear power is essentially now an inevitability. they say the best classified estimates are that the north has 45 nuclear weapons and appears headed to an arsenal roughly the size of pakistan's. another nuclear state, the u.s. demanded it must disarm, and have now given up that it will. >> you know, despite all the

diplomacy of the last several years, north korea has been making incredible progress quantiatively and qualitatively. during the summer they're going to talk a lot about how closely they're coordinating on a north korea policy, but i don't believe there is going to be a lot of deliverable when it comes to a north korea policy. and president feels an urgency to make a breakthrough with north korea, but i think it's going to be difficult. >> i was going to ask that, what needs to be done to live with a

nuclear kim regime? >> i don't think they would accept north korea as a nuclear weapons power even though they are nuclear weapons power. what does japan do, what does south korea do? maybe they will not be comfortable under the nuclear weapon umbrella. maybe they feel they should have their own nuclear weapons. so as a policy, we're not going to accept north korea as a nuclear weapons power. practically speaking, the biden administration came out and said -- they have a more practical calibrated approach now with north korea, which means they pretty much gave up on having a breakthrough with north korea. they would try to get interim agreements with north korea to at least freeze or reduce or manage the north korean threat. >> briefly, let me ask you about the dynamic that china poses in

all of this. the president has his first two in-person bilateral meetings with the leaders of japan and south korea. is this aimed at reining in china? >> i think that's part of it. president biden wants to meet with the china prime minister. clearly the u.s. is sending a message that the pacific p region is a priority for us, revitalizing our relationships with china and south korea is a priority, and it's a signal also to china that we'll be coordinating working with our allies in terms of how we go about dealing with china. >> su mi terry and shannon pettypiece, my thanks to you. we could see a vote on the

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the associated press has published new body camera footage before the arrest of andrew green by state troopers. in the 2020 incident, a handcuffed green is ordered to lay down on his stomach even as he tries to roll over, and what the ap says, may have been an attempt to breathe. a warning to our viewers, some may find the disturbing video difficult to watch.

>> sir. >> don't you turn over. lay on your belly. lay on your belly. >> yes, sir. >> at another point in the video, one of the officers involved appears to admit to roughhousing the victim. >> i beat the ever-loving [ bleep ] out of him, choked him to get him under control. all of a sudden he just went limp. i thought he was dead. >> nbc news has reached out to the louisiana police for comment on this video. in the first video they said, the agency said the premature public release of investigative files and video evidence in this case is not authorized and undermines the investigative process and compromises the fair and impartial outcome.

>> jeff, i want to add a note on that audio you just played. that was trooper chris hollingsworth he was speaking to, and after that time he was asked if the body cameras were on and the trooper turns off his body camera. the autopsy report showed that there were head injuries that contributed to green's death, along with the way that he was restrained. now, the autopsy report found that he had cocaine and alcohol in his system and that he also had a broken breast bone and a torn aorta. so it's unclear whether or not those injuries came from the struggle with troopers or from

the car accident and high-speed chase, but according to the ap, the official cause of death listed on that report says, quote, cocaine-induced agitated delirium complicated by motor vehicle collision, physical struggle, inflicted head injury and restraint. it did not specify a manner of death in terms of whether that was homicide, accidental or undetermined. but to your point, we have reached out to louisiana state police about this latest video, and we have not yet received a response. but so far they have said that this is not appropriate for this video to be released while the investigation is still ongoing, but as a reminder, this incident occurred two years ago. so two years the family has been calling for additional information, more release, and we have not seen that happening here. and so the family today is still continuing to call this a cover-up and say that ronald greene was murdered. jeff? >> nbc's priscilla thompson with

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the senate could vote as soon as next week on a bipartisan commission to investigate january's insurrection at the u.s. capitol. that bill needs 60 votes to survive, and more importantly, 10 republican votes and there is no clear path to that number. from the senate to the house which is about to recess for three weeks with no major progress on issues like infrastructure and police reform, it would appear as though the ambitious democratic agenda is coming up against the realities of having a narrow majority. all of this is forcing the biden administration to consider going it alone in order to cross off items on the white house to-do list. joining us now is nbc news capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell and correspondent

peter baker. good to see you both. you have kevin mccarthy who voted to impeach president trump in the second impeachment, but he's going to vote for the insurrection commission. if they can't get even seven, is this bill dead in the water? >> reporter: they were looking for at least seven to support this commission, and you're right, if you don't have seven of those, it's much harder to get to the number of 10. all 50 republicans on the commission, not one has come out rightly for it. there's two, senator collins and senator romney, who have both said they would consider it if there are some changes made, and there's about a dozen more who said they're undecided. there is a large number of senators, jeff, who are taking

the lead of senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and want nothing to do with this commission. so you're right, it looks dead in the water. it's going to be very hard to get those 10 republicans. >> let's talk about infrastructure and police reform. the white house secretary at today's briefing said the white house has offered what they call a reasonable counteroffer to senate republicans coming down from 2.2 billion to 1.7 billion, which is more than, i think, the 800 billion that mitch mcconnell said he's uncomfortable going as high as. >> it's interesting that psaki made that announcement that they've come down on their offer as white house officials are currently meeting with five republican senators virtually. so the fact she said they're still meeting is not a good sign for negotiations. serious negotiations don't usually go public with their offer before they bring it to the other side. and the initial response from republicans on capitol hill,

aides that we're talking to, said there is no way that republicans would support a $1.7 trillion bill. you combine that with the fact that democratic leadership staff met -- again, we're talking reconciliation with the senate parliamentarian, the special position in the senate, last night to talk about how to move forward, should they go alone and only do democratic votes -- so those two things put together don't look that great for an infrastructure bill. as far as police reform is concerned, i'm a little bit optimistic there, although negotiators i'm talking to think they're in a very good place. they know they're not going to meet the deadline of may 25th, of when george floyd was killed, but they think they are weeks away from some sort of deal, that it won't take months, jeff. >> and, peter, when we talk about the white house agenda, president biden explained why he's going big with progressive policies. in a new interview with david

brooks, he said this. he said, i think circumstances have changed drastically. we're at a genuine inflection point in history. then he adds, we've gotten to a point where i think our economic competence has a gigantic influence on our international influence and capacity. joe biden is not progressive in the way that aoc is progressive, but help us understand his embrace of policy. >> he's been a legislative mechanic all these years, 16 years in the senate, eight years as vice president. he's never gone for the grand vision kind of deal. he was the guy that tried to make things happen and get through tomorrow and make as much progress as he could while doing so. suddenly in office, he seems transformed. it's not that he didn't support these policies, he supported these policies for years, it's the scale that's so different. he says he sees himself as

having a mission in history that he hadn't previously seemed to articulate. he sees that a once in a lifetime moment make big progress on things he spent his life pushing for. even though they have high margins in congress, and that's why he's pushing so far so fast, because this is the moment he's got and he may not get it again. >> president biden and his team say they draw heavily from fdr's template of pushing legislation early in his presidency. he got roosevelt pushing a raft of policies after the great depression. fast-forward to today. you've got the covid relief bill infrastructure, police reform voting rights, all of it happening pretty much simultaneously. what's the risk, peter, of these speed bumps in the senate slowing down the momentum? do you think that could possibly

paralyze biden's presidency? >> the lesson he learned when president obama was in office was you can only go so far when you're dealing with republicans. they felt it was too much time in some ways for negotiations that didn't go anywhere and in the end you pay a price. you do lose momentum, you do lose speed, and in the midterms, obama lost control of the house. the initiatives were largely dead. so biden was given a chance for this bipartisan dealmaking, but there is a sense in the house, particularly from his aide, of not going too long. they need to use their power, narrow as it might be, while they can. at a 50% senate, you could lose that majority any moment. you could have one senator all of a sudden having a health issue and you're no longer in control. every day that goes by, joe biden sees his presidency begin to head toward that moment where he no longer has the ability he

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they say when it rains, it pours, and it's practically flooding in trump town right now from three political probes. it was revealed that in addition to the ag's investigation, there will be a criminal investigation. all of that is separate from the federal investigation into former trump attorney rudy giuliani. a judge ruled this week that attorney-client privilege won't be enough to stop investigators from combing through the 18 electronic devices seized in the raids on his home and office last month. joining us now is university of alabama law professor and former u.s. attorney, our friend joyce vance. good to see you, as always. let's start with this new bit of information, those 18 devices we learned from court documents were seized during the giuliani raids. his attorneys have tried to argue that since he's a lawyer,

that should shield him from those devices being searched. federal prosecutors say that doesn't add up. what's your take? >> first, it's amazing giuliani had 18 devices. even for a lawyer, that seems really extraordinary. as a government lawyer, i don't think i exceeded five or six and that seemed extreme. the attorneys that the lawyers have advanced is that somehow attorney-client privilege is a magical shield that protects them from any law enforcement investigation of misconduct and that's just not the case. prosecutors have a better argument there are better mechanisms for protecting attorney-client privilege. in most cases doj uses what's called a tank team or a clean team, a group of lawyers not involved in the substantive

investigation but who sub in to look at material, so if they do stumble across anything that's privileged, the rest of the investigation isn't tainted. here the governors actually offered to have a neutral arbiter, someone from outside to come in as a special master to make the calls about what is or isn't privileged. you can imagine the outcome if you let defendants decide in every case what material the government couldn't see because it was privileged. it would bring all criminal investigations to a standstill. >> here's a question that might be unknowable, but i think if anybody has an answer to this, it would be you. given the case right now with giuliani and the new york attorney general investigation into alan weissselberg, what trouble is donald trump himself right now in? >> you're right, i don't have a better crystal ball than anyone else, but something you don't like to see, no matter who you

are, is a number of criminal investigations under different jurisdictions happening. prosecutors don't just waste their time on investigations. they only proceed with there's strong credible evidence and think they're headed in the right direction. none of this is good news for donald trump. >> joyce vance, great to see you, as always. meantime, according to a new report in the "washington post," donald trump profited off u.s. taxpayers after he left office and he may still be. based on spending records obtained by the "washington post," trump charged the secret service nearly $400 a night to use a room in mar-a-lago this past spring. the grand amount of the bill was $40,000 which ultimately was paid by u.s. taxpayers. joining us now is david ferenthal, also an nbc contributor. you and your team were tracking how he profited from the presidency, and while he was

president, he charged the governors more than $205 million. what came out from this? >> my basic question, was he continuing to do that. he had a huge amount of government money funneled into his pockets, basically doing what he wants and charging them. he charged that amount every single night in the spring starting from when he left office. the same pattern continues, his post presidency, as well as during his presidency. >> we've never had a president who was a hotel owner before or a president who consistently occupied and lived at his own properties. is there a sense that because this is so unprecedented that there is no real parallel for this? like you really don't know how

other past presidents would have handled it. >> we certainly had other presidents where the secret service stayed on the property before, it's a former president charging for that space. the other one, who wasn't even sitting, and he did it as vice president. biden only got $107,000 over six or seven years. trump was over that in the first week. >> do you know how much he spent in the whole government? >> other folks that would come along with trump and pay for things, like when he held the summit in mar-a-lago. but the secret service pays

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anytime soon. for a couple years this could be an annual shot, but right now i'm not seeing any evidence that people need boosters. we have very strong data, at least out to six months. i think it will go much longer than that with these vaccines offering protection. we'll find immunity, we will see boosters. people are just getting vaccinated now. >> one thing i'm worried about now is covid and kids. especially with kids in schools. big concern in my house. you have mask mandates. two governors lifting mask mandates in schools. governor of texas and governor of iowa. listen to governor kim reynolds explaining. >> we have been fully open since february 7th. be have seen the covid numbers going down. our positivity rates go down. we have done it safely and responsibly. it is time to put health care decisions back in the hands of

parents. >> so our team was talking about this this morning. my first reaction was here goes another politician putting politics ahead of public health. the more i thought about it with the transition of kids in schools and if the adults are vaccinated and we know masks are an obstacle to learning. especially for young kids. it inhibits mental and an social development and that is true for kids with learning differences. they need to see your face. what do you think of the lifting of mask mandates? >> there is no doubt about it. the biggest thing we can do to protect kids is get all adults vaccinated. infection numbers drop precipitously. that is true for kids. as infection numbers get very low, mask mandates are less important. i think in places where infection numbers are still high, it is reasonable to keep mandates for kids in schools.

over time, as infection rates are lower, you will be able to lift them. i ultimately think these should be local decisions and states should not ban local jurisdictions from making decisions. >> before we let you go, where do you stand on vaccine passports or vaccine certificates so private businesses know who is vaccinated and who is not when he people walk in the door? >> i think they are inevitable. i think a lot of private companies know who is vaccinated and who is not. i can imagine the airlines and we will see it with stadiums and concert halls. i think this is inevitable. the question is is there a role for government? any role for government should be about privacy and security of the data. other than that, a private sector set of solutions for this. >> dr. jha, i always feel smarter after talking to you. i appreciate your time on this friday. another sign that life is starting to feel more like normal. 25,000 people are expected in miami this weekend for the south

beach wine and food festival. they will be greeted by covid detecting dogs. trained to smell if somebody is infected with coronavirus. joining us from miami is ellison barber. i have been waiting to talk to you all day about the story. how does this work? how are these dogs trained to sniff out covid? >> reporter: they actually started their training by getting face masks from a local hospital to train the dogs on that. researchers at florida international university say they cannot pick up the scent of covid-19, but they are highly effective. they have over a 95% accuracy rate. this is cobra and her trainer to detect covid. he will show us how it works. watch the process. this is what they are doing all day as people arrive. he will say cobra will sniff around people and particularly their feet.

your feet sweat. they can pick up a scent from that. if she detects covid-19 volume volumes, she will sit. florida international university say this has been effective with this training. they just got official certification as a covid-19 detecting dog on wednesday. they are not the only university studying this, geoff. they lookedbeirut. they are finding not only can dogs detect a scent of covid-19, they are good at it. as we move into the world with vaccines and no passports, john here says dogs like cobra can be a safety net for events like the food festival. >> cobra the covid sniffing dog.

ellison, thank you for that great reporting. a lighthearted moment during the white house response team briefing. it happened as senior adviser was making announcement about vaccine badges for dating apps. >> dating sites like bumble, tindr, match, okcupid and blk and badu are announcing a series of features to encourage vaccinations. people who display the vaccination status are 14% more likely to get a match. we have finally found the one thing that makes us all more attractive. a vaccination. >> both andy and dr. fauci getting a bit of a laugh on this friday given the crazy names of the dating apps. all about love in the time of coronavirus. that's it for me today. thanks for spending the hour

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