gaza? >> what i said yesterday is i'm not in a position to comment on intelligence matters. american intelligence matters, i can't divulge that to you. what i can tell you is we see plenty of open source reporting about hamas's use of hospitals and other civilian infrastructure to store weapons, house fighters, to engage in forms of command and control. beyond that, i'm not in a position to speak specifically to a report about a specific hospital or specific bunker. >> and so when the president says that hospitals must be protected, what does the president, what does the united states want to see done with al-shifa hospital in particular and open source intelligence? >> your question points up the complexity of this complex and the added burden that israel is facing as it goes against murderous terrorists who continue to say their goal is the absolute destruction of the state of israel. you're dealing with a terrorist organization, hamas, that takes civilian hostages, including little children that uses

civilians as human shields, that uses civilian infrastructure, even hospitals, in the most cynical way possible. that is as fighting positions, as military operation centers. and so israel has to confront that while at the same time not wanting to go assaulting hospitals in fire fights that could put innocent people who are getting life saving medical care in the cross fire. so there are not easy answers to this question, but this is the complexity, this is the burden that the israeli defense forces are facing as they conduct their operations. and our position is that israel has the right to go after hamas. but it does face this added burden, and that burden does not lessen its responsibility to act according to the laws of war, and so how that plays out in a particular operational dynamic, ultimately those decisions lie with the military fighting.

even as israel goes after hamas and the tools and infrastructure of its terrorism. >> reporter: do you have any proof of life on hostages, especially the americans in the negotiations that have been going on, has there been anything that could reassure the negotiators, the president, you, that hostages remain alive and potentially could be rescued? >> we have been very transparent about the fact that we have limited visibility into both the whereabouts of the hostages in gaza and their condition. and i said as recently as yesterday, that we have nine missing americans, one missing green card holder, and i cannot tell you how many hostages are alive. we have information, and i'll be careful about how i characterize that, about some of the hostages and a notion that there are a substantial number of hostages who are not just alive, but who could potentially be part of a

hostage release. i couldn't give you a number of exactly how many americans would be included in that. that's something we'll have to work through as we continue these investigations. and of course we won't know for certain until we actually get the release of the hostages and they're safely returned to their families. that's something we're going to continue to work on. >> i might ask about the house spending proposal, that does not include money for national security priorities that the administration has. israel, ukraine. particularly ukraine, what are their next steps for getting funding, if this spending proposal is not an option. >> i will leave it to karine to talk about the professional dynamics and measures put forward in the house, what i will say is the biden administration put forward a funding request for israel, for ukraine, for the indo-pacific and for the border. we detailed exactly what we needed, including for ukraine, and we still need that, and we need it as soon as we can get

it. we are working actively with both the house and the senate, both republicans and democrats to secure the votes and to get the vote to get that funding. and i continue to remain confident that while this has been a winding road since we began the effort to secure additional funding for ukraine, that there is a strong bipartisan majority in both houses to do it, and we will ultimately get it done. how exactly, through what vehicle and what measure, that's something that i will defer to the legislative experts on. i will only say we're continuing to make the case actively. i'm on the phone personally, daily, with members, democrats and republicans to make the case, and we are leaning forward in making it clear that the united states national interest will be deeply harmed if we are not able to secure and sustain funding for israel, ukraine, the indo-pacific and the border. >> if i may ask about the trip, please. what is the president's message going to be regarding taiwan's

upcoming elections? will the president warn president xi directly, for example, against interfering in the elections? >> i'm not going to preview what exactly president biden will say to president xi. i think he should have the opportunity to speak to him directly in person without me proclaiming it from the podium. i will say that the president broadly speaking is going to set out a vision for peace and stability and the maintains of peace and stability across the taiwan strait. he will do that in his meeting with president xi. in terms of the specifics of the conversation, i'll leave that for the president to do person-to-person, face-to-face. >> thank you, jake. how confident are you that the u.s. and china can restore military communications. it's been a year since china suspended the talks. what are the main sticking points from the chinese side? >> i'll refer to china on the sticking points. ultimately they'll have to answer that for themselves. the united states has been ready

for the entire period. you're taking a listen to national security adviser jake sullivan. i'm yasmin vossoughian in for katy tur. national security adviser there reiterating israel's right to defend itself. reminding folks of what they're up against with hamas. after october 7th they would repeat acts like october 7th as jake sullivan put it until israel is wiped off the map. he goes on to say that civilian safety and hospitals inside gaza are of the utmost importance to both the biden administration along with the president as well. and saying hostage negotiations are ongoing. interestingly, while this press conference was ongoing here in washington, d.c., we had another press conference going on in israel held by israeli defense forces. with a spokesperson there providing evidence, not confirmed by nbc news of hamas bunkers located beneath

hospitals inside gaza. i want to play a snippet of that for you. we don't have that as of yet i'm being told. while all of this is going on, we're getting reporting about the hospital situation on the ground there. we are collapsing. that is what a neurosurgeon said from inside gaza at al-shifa hospital. the w.h.o. saying al-shifa is no longer functioning. the facility has gone for three days without electricity or water. three newborn babies died at the hospital over the weekend according to the palestinian health ministry. 37 more had to be removed from their incubators are also at risk of death. why they have yet to be evacuated despite repeated requests from staff to dpet them -- get them to a safer location. amidst the death and desperation, we are seeing a glimmer of hope. yesterday, prime minister benjamin netanyahu hinted at a potential deal to get them out. >> we weren't close at all until

we started the ground operation. putting pressure on the hamas leadership, that's the one thing that might create a deal. >> do you know where all of the hostages are being held right now, mr. prime minister? >> we know a great deal, but i won't go beyond that. >> what the prime minister envisions for gaza after the war and how much worse it could get before it ends. after a new warning from hamas. joining us from tel aviv, nbc news correspondent, raf sanchez. first and foremost, i want you to walk us through what is happening at al-shifa, other hospitals in gaza. babies, stories of newborn babies losing their lives in the hospital, and whether or not the patients will be able to secure safe passage. >> reporter: it is an almost unimaginable situation right now

at al-shifa hospital, the biggest medical facility inside of gaza, and it is nonfunctional, according to the world health organization. they are saying the hospital no longer has food, no longer has electricity, and it cannot function anymore as a medical facility. there are still some 2,000 people there, a combination of displaced people who were seeking shelter at the hospital, but also these gravely ill patients who medical staff feel they just cannot move safely, even if they were able to get through the fight, and which at this point is happening in the blocks, immediately around the hospital. these are people who are too unwell to be moved, and yasmin, there are no cases than these dozens of prematurely born babies. these are tiny gazans, younger than this war, who were being kept in incubators in the knew -- neonatal unit. i spoke to the director of the

neonatal unit. take a listen to what she had to say about the situation with the babies. >> babies were evacuated to the surgical department, the oth department, and all of them are wrapped in towels. okay. not incubators. each in one bed, and we expect all to die because we don't have water to prepare milk for them. we don't have electricity to provide them with warmth. they don't have staff to care for them. even the staff is scared. >> reporter: the stakes she's describing here, could not be starker. she says these newborn babies are going to die in al-shifa hospital if something is not done, and if something is not done immediately. there are two options, one, get the electricity back on, or two, evacuate these babies to another facility where they can be

properly cared for. the israeli military said they tried both, but hospital staff saying these babies, these critically ill people, they cannot be moved. they also say that they delivered 300 liters of fuel to the hospital to try to get the generators running again. hospital officials are saying they weren't able to retrieve it safely. israel is saying hamas blocked hospital officials from getting it. but either way, this is 300 liters of fuel and the hospital apparently needs some 10,000 liters every single day just to maintain minimal operations. >> those images are incredibly hard to see. i want to play some sound that i mentioned a little bit earlier while we were watching the press conference at the white house. the spokesperson for the israeli defense forces was holding a press conference in israel, talking about how they had found evidence of hamas bunkers beneath some of these hospitals. i want to play the sound for you

and reiterate that nbc has not confirmed what it is the spokesperson is sharing. but let's play it. >> underneath the hospital in the basement, we found a hamas command and control center, suicide bomb vests, grenades, ak-47 assault rifles, explosive devices, rpgs and other weapons, computers, money, et cetera. and we also found signs that indicate that hamas held hostages here. this is currently under our investigation, but we also have intelligence that verifies it. >> raf, do you have any reporting on this? >> yasmin, this is the run tc hospital, another one of the hospitals in northern gaza. well within the zone of the fighting. and unlike al shifa, the israeli military is now in full control

at the hospital, and they are claiming that they have found tunnels that run underneath the hospital. they are saying they have found some evidence that would suggest that some of these 240 or so hostages were being held inside of those tunnels at one point, and they are also claiming they found weapons not just in the tunnels underneath the hospital but saying they found some weapons inside of the hospital itself. now, yasmin, nbc news cannot independently verify this. it has been put out by the israeli military in the last few minutes or so. it would not be a surprise to learn that hamas has tunnels underneath the hospital, would not be surprised to learn that hamas's tunnels underneath other hospitals. the tunnel network runs in the hundreds of miles, but what you are hearing from human rights groups is even if there are tunnels underneath these hospitals, it does not absolve israel of its responsibility to

safeguard the lives of these desperately unwell people as well as these prematurely born babies. >> we're thankful for you. i want to bring in former israeli console general in new york, shimon peres. thank you for talking with me again. i appreciate it. a lot to digest there. i want to start with what we heard from jake sullivan who did not address what prime minister benjamin netanyahu said not only about the security of gaza and what will be the security of gaza after the war is over, but also about really the future, and what is ongoing with this war. i want to read from a piece that you wrote, and have you expand on it a little bit, and what you say, netanyahu is gradually setting the stage for a political showdown with the u.s., like the fable of the scorpion and frog, this was inevitable. not only does he offhandedly dismiss any idear request

coming from washington, netanyahu wants the gaza war to go on indefinitely without any political corollary. expand on why you say netanyahu wants this indefinite war to go on. and what the united states should be doing about it. >> mr. netanyahu, yasmin, has since the 6:29 a.m. on that dreadful saturday of october 7th, he's been busy trying to salvage himself from this debacle, from this horrible incident or war on his watch. part of that is the longevity of the war. he thinks that by blaming the military, blaming the general security, blaming the intelligence, blaming lack of early warning would show let him off the hook.

on the other hand or in addition to that, he's trying to frame this in terms of some historic, epic second war of independence, constantly comparing this to and doing it deliberately because that allows him, you know, the more epic, the more historic, the more dramatic the event, the more he sees himself as some kind of a wartime leader, trying to change the architecture of the middle east. all of this in order to shed responsibility and accountability, which is why -- and this goes back to what you said in your introduction, which is why the u.s. is somewhat upset with him. jake sullivan did not allude to that. i expect secretary blinken and president biden to state something about this in the next

place. now, for mr. netanyahu, the longer the war goes on, he believes, i think he's wrong, but he believes, genuinely that this would alleviate the criticism that everyone would be consumed by an ongoing war, and as the days go by, you know, tactical victories will accumulate, and the strategic blunder will be forgotten. i think he's absolutely dead wrong about this. but this is his thinking. >> we know that lloyd austin, secretary of defense had a call with his israeli counter part over the weekend. other reporting saying that there are growing concerns inside the united states of israel's actions along the lebanon border. do you think as if israel is baiting the united states to get into this war? >> that's another difficulty. the answer is it's quite possible. here's the thing. the u.s. from the outset of this

war on the 10th of october, president biden spoke from the white house as you probably remember with vice president kamala harris and secretary of state blinken flanking him, and said that he's sending american reinforcements to the eastern mediterranean in order to deter. he didn't name names but he was referring to iran and hezbollah and says don't. he repeated that word with a high decibel level, don't. and for the u.s., it was all about preventing escalation. what is called horizontal escalation. vertical escalation is what you do in gaza or how intense the fighting is. vertical is when it spreads geographic. what the u.s. is seeing in the last two weeks is gradual escalation with hezbollah,

trying to bait israel into some kind of disproportionate retaliation, and that would, people in washington believe, is where israel is sort of manipulating the u.s. i hope this is not true. i think that the counter forces inside the war cabinet will prevent mr. netanyahu from even contemplating or first timing with such an idea. the concern is absolutely there. >> you ended your piece saying netanyahu has to go. how would you see that playing out? >> you know, i start pieces with that and i end it. and i know i'm like cato the elder, netanyahu must go. there are three ways in which this could happen, one is totally unrealistic, and that is that he takes responsibility and resigns.

the second is through a parliamentary vote, what is called constructive emotion of no confidence. that is when 61 out of 120 members of parliament of the can i -- can i -- knesset vote. and the third is more practical, more feasible one, and that is that immediately after the war ends, whatever we call the end of the war there will be mass demonstrations and public anger and resentment will flood the streets, and the political system will have to get rid-im. and there's a fourth possibility, and that is that it just won't happen. >> ambassador alon pinkas, thank you so much. appreciate it. coming up, we are four days away from a government shutdown. what's house speaker mike

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only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ welcome back, former president trump's eldest son back on the stand today for the second time in two weeks, this time as the first witness for the defense and the $250 million new york civil fraud trial that threatens the empire, joining us outsides courthouse, vaughn hillyard. good to talk to you, two weeks ago, don jr. distancing himself from the day-to-day operations of the trump org. also, pointing the fingers at his accountants. what have we heard so far today? >> he actually just left the courthouse here and spoke to reporters gathered behind me here. just literally about two minutes ago. he just ran back over, and when he exited back towards his vehicle to get in, i was able to get two quick questions to him. number one, why had his lawyers

not filed a motion for a mistrial at this point, which they had repeatedly flirted with just one week ago on the day that donald trump, his father, testified, and he told me there's no reason they can't put forward that motion in the weeks ahead before the defense closes their case. the second question i asked was whether he intends to appeal the judge engoron's decision if he does not change his initial ruling back in september that financial fraud was, in fact, committed because ultimately it's going to be this judge's determination come december. the penalties that are incurred by don jr. who is a defendant, as well as his brother eric and his father and others in the trump organization, and he told me, quote, i will have to. meaning appeal. so don jr. clearly leaving the courthouse frustrated after, again, more than four hours of testimony, which came in

response to lines of questioning from his own defense attorney. was the kickoff of what you could call the second half of this trial here. don jr. was the first witness called to testify by the defense, and answer their questions, and he methodically went through each of the different trump properties and why they were valued at the rates they were. started laying out the case that he was the top executive, he signed off on the financial records and relied on the word of the accountants, and believes there's great stake in the trump organization as a whole. i want to bring in criminal defense attorney and nbc news legal analyst, danny cevallos, and ”the new york times” reporter, david fahrenthold who has covered the trump family and their businesses extensively. you heard the reporting from inside the courthouse and what we heard from don jr. what was your take away there? >> i have been following the reporting online as well. it appears the defense's strategy here, in calling donald trump jr. is now to expand, to give a lot of color commentary

on the history of the trump properties, to make the case through a deep history of all of them that these properties are under valued by the court. that new york real estate, real estate nationwide is worth really whatever it is in the eye of the beholder, and he's essentially making the case that the court got the initial valuation wrong. these properties are of incalculable value, and the defense adding to that the idea that when you add the trump brand to the properties, then it's impossible to ascertain what their true value is. that is the defense's strategy, and donald trump jr. here, instead of letting that out on cross-examination in the state's case in chief, now instead they're bringing it on in their case where they can control the narrative. >> could this be a risk for them, though, this brochure style as it's been presented today. walk through trump org properties. at one point they showed 40 wall

street. referring to it as the 70 two-story land mork. mark. the golf course in doral, do you want to risk a reversal on this one stupid document. why would they go about it this way? >> what they're trying to do is control the information now. they want to put in as much information as they can, and that's why you see testimony about the history of the properties to make their case that there is so much value involved here that didn't come out ithe state'sriginal case. justice engoron is on the side of letting the testimony in. the state has been visly frustrated with this. i think that's the wrong tack. i think the state should let donald trump jr. testify in a way, justice engoron is doing the ag's office a favor, by allowing the defense to put in as much --

>> digging a hole? >> yes, that but by allowing them to put in as much evidence as they want without objection, it's going to be harder on appeal if the defense loses to claim, hay, we weren't given a fair trial. we weren't allowed to put in the evidence we want. i get it. i get being frustrated, but they should take a stop back and realize justice engoron is helping them by allowing the defense to put in as much as they can. there's no danger in clouding the issues to a lay juror. justice engoron has been involved in the case from the start. the ag needs to relax a little bit. >> donald trump jr. described the trump org as a mom and pop shop, an international organization run as a mom and pop shop. what do you make of that description? >> i think that's accurate. the trump organization, it has branches all over the world. it had a few people all over the

world. it was run by one guy, you know, the entire organization was either family members of or sort of lackeys of donald trump. there was no independent decision making, nobody sharing authority. before he went into the white house, he was the one who made all the decisions. even his children brought decisions since trump went into the white house. a little bit, donald trump jr. making those decisions. that's right. this is not a professional organization. and that's what makes the ag's case easier here. all the decisions are basically made by the people on trial. >> earlier during the prosecution, the president making the case during his testimony that no harm was done. they say the banks were paid. the defense also argue that no harm was done to any of these banks. can you unpack that for us? that is certainly something that the judge is trying to drill down on here. >> sure.

so a lot of the accusations about fraud have to do with the representations trump made to banks when he was trying to get loans. he would say i'm a good credit risk because look at the great properties i own, the value i have in these other places. you can give me better terms, a lower interest rate, you know i'm good for it. in the end, the banks give him loans based on those terms. he then goes out and uses the money and pays the loans back. there's been testimony that deutsche bank and other lenders deceived got their money back and made a profit. the difference here is that if they had known, the ag's case is, and the judge went along with this, if they knew the true state of the finances, really the things, they wouldn't have thought he was a great credit risk, and they would have charged him more money. the answer would be is there a harm. it's not that the banks didn't get back the money they lent, they would have made more money because of they would have charged him a higher interest

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congress has just over four days to reach a deal to fund the government. house speaker mike johnson unveiling a two-tiered plan that would fund part of the government operations through january, the other parts through february, giving republicans time to get a permanent plan together. there are several defectors. with the clock running out there's no time to go back to the drawing board. democrats have to step in to get the temporary funding bill across the finish line. joinings us now, ryan nobles it talk about this. same story, different times, six weeks later, what does support look like for this plan? >> yes, i think it's important to point out that any plan that ultimately gets signed into law by president biden is going to require both democrats and republicans to get behind it in some form or fashion. i think the question for speaker johnson is does he take that hit now or take it later, and it seems clear by the number of republican defectors that we have seen already he's likely

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military conducted quote unquote, precision air strikes on iranian sites for the third time in two weeks. it was in response to 52 attacks from iranian-backed militias, sin the israel-hamas war began last month. joining us now, courtney kube to talk more about this. thanks for joining us.

what do we know about the iranian-linked facilities that were struck? >> reporter: so unlike the previous two air strikes, which targeted ammunition and weapons facilities, also in northeastern syria, this strike was a little bit different. they targeted a training site and a safe house. so why that's important is because unlike the other locations which because of the nature of the fact that the u.s. struck them in the middle of the night and what was done there, they were pretty certain that there wouldn't be any individuals present when they carried out the strikes. that's not the case with the two strikes last night. the fact that it was a safe house and a training facility meant it was possible there would have been iranian-backed militia members present at the time of the strikes. they do believe there were people there. they don't know the number. they are saying they don't believe any of them were civilians. they were linked to the militia groups. >> these proxy wars can escalate

fairly quickly. i'm wondering if the pentagon has laid out a red line as to when these proxies become more of a threat, and the fighting becomes more heightened. >> so the big concern here is that one of theseattacks, there have been at least 52 so far, since october 17th. that one of them is successful at killing an american or multiple, a mass casualty situation at one of these bases. that's the real concern here because then exactly what you were just saying here. these sorts of situations can really escalate very quickly, and they're very concerned in the pentagon and the administration about the possibility of a wider regional conflict. now even though they like to say that what's happening in the attacks on the bases in syria has nothing to do with what's going on in israel, the reality is nothing happens in a vacuum. we hadn't seen these sorts of attacks, drones, one-way attack drones, rockets, mortars, we hadn't seen that in months in

iraq and syria, since march. they started to tick up just under a month ago, and they have been consistent, yasmin. we're seeing them just about every day. in some case, four or five in a day. >> iran saying they don't want to get involved in a wider conflict, and activating their proxies to carry out what they don't want to do. thank you, appreciate it. prime minister benjamin netanyahu says israel does not want to occupy or govern gaza. sound like that could be the plan with the israeli leader refusing to let palestinians govern gaza once the war ends. >> i think that the only force right now that can guarantee that hamas, terrific has not reappeared and take over gaza again, as the israeli military. as far as the civilian management of gaza, we need to see the following two things. gaza has to be demilitarized, and gaza has to be deradicalized. i think so far we haven't seen any palestinian force including

the palestinian authority that is able to do it. >> all right. joining us now, award winning palestinian israeli journalist and foreign policy analyst to talk more about this. we essentially heard the prime minister saying indefinitely they want to secure gaza after this war is over, whenever that end comes. they have no confidence in the p.a. they have no confidence in mahmoud abbas, despite the fact the secretary of state met with and shook hand with mahmoud abbas just over ten days or so ago. what do you make of that? to me that sound like a reoccupation of gaza. >> it is a reoccupation with gaza. this has been netanyahu's policies, not only for gaza, the west bank, and east jerusalem, this has been his stated policy for decades. when he talked on video about what's his policy and strategy for the west bank, he always said, israel will always over

see militarily the west bank. basically he's talking about reoccupying. we have videos of soldiers saying resettlements, we have ministers from the most far right government in the history of israel saying, you know, we need ethnically cleansed palestinians. they're implementing their coveted strategy, and it is astonishing that the only people who doesn't hear what he's saying is the biden administration. and bibi netanyahu himself, you know, one of the things -- >> do you think they're not hearing or it's putting them in a difficult position, and they don't know how to approach it. the secretary of state did meet with mahmoud abbas. they wanted the p.a. to be a part of the governing of gaza after the conflict. they have reiterated that, and it was just over the weekend, right, the prime minister came out and said, in fact, essentially secure gaza. >> so there's one thing about

saying things, and another thing about doing things. the world is especially the global south believe in facts, not words. the administration actually vetoed, voted against a resolution two days after president biden talked about two-state solution that holds israel accountable or end israel's colonization of the west bank and stop the settlements. you cannot have it both ways, and say i'm pro two-state solution, and undermine every diplomatic effort to stop the settlements that is the major obstacle to a two-state solution. bibi netanyahu was the man that 13 years ago, and went to the streets and lobbied against another prime minister who talked to the palestinians. he's the one that led the chant, never concede any territory. he's the one that in a famous demonstration against itzak rabin, he's considered a

traitor, because he talked to the palestinian and tried, not in a perfect deal, the oslo agreement, but tried to talk to the palestinians and do something beyond a military option. what he's offering is only military option. >> there are many israelis, israeli analyst, former members of the israeli government, i spoke with ambassador pinkas who believes netanyahu has to go. all that being said, though, there is also this overarching belief that hamas needs to go. they can no longer govern gaza after what they did on october 7 . who should be governing gaza after this conflict is over in the eyes of the palestinians? >> there's multiple solutions. the most important one is to look at america's experience in the war on terror. we cited what the united states is doing today is putting on the table only one option, and it's a military option. however, we remember in iraq, hundreds of terrorists a day, i was there as a correspondent on multiple occasions, and the only

time we ended these kind of attacks is when you put in place a policy that end subjugation of the palestinian, giving them freedom, you will have another hamas in place. the israelis understand that. in 1993 when they invaded -- >> the policy would be instituted by whom? >> the policy will have to be an international policy that we put in place. you had that in lebanon in 2006 after the war between hezbollah and israel. what happened? you have an international body, the unified peace mission that was put in place and guaranteed there will never to never be a full blown war between hezbollah and israel. you have similar arrangement around the world. you have that kind of arrangement that general petraeus put in iraq that ended basically al qaeda in iraq, and the attack went from 100 to row within months.

so without a political option on the table and ending palestinian sub ji indication, we will only be planning for the second war and the second war and the second hamas. >> what about the war extending beyond the borders of gaza and israel? because hahs mass is now essentially threatening. what is happening between these proxy wars, the iran-backed militias, you also have essentially hamas and hezbollah will fully enter the war in hamas is eradicated from gaza. what do you make of that? >> look, he spoke about not wanting to be involved, but he said the target is the united states. around the region, around the world, the fact that president biden gave israel $14 billion without conditionality, without even complying with international law or america's law, the law that suggests nobody should use that weapon to

commit war crimes or violate human rights. the fact that there's no red line on how to use weapons, the fact that they are bombing hospitals and refugee camps, which president biden called it a war crime. in this case, they are ignoring that. it's to judge and to make sure they are complying with international laws. >> it's to save america's standing in the world, to save president biden's legacy and also the whole idea of rule-based international border and not to jeopardize america's national security. what's at stake is not only the survival of palestinians in gaza or israel's security. >> how should israelis reconcile the 1200 israelis that they lost in this terrorist attack on october 7th. how do they reconcile that? >>s it's a horrific attack. it is an atrocity. it's a war crime. and people who committed those war crimes need to be brought to

justice. no doubt about that. nobody is questioning that. what you're questioning is what can we do to prevent other attacks like this from ever happening again and the only way to prevent that is to listen to the security apparatus telling us there's no mill solution. there's only a political option to end this conflict. you cannot end it militmilitari. you can address the underlying questions that feeds these ideologies. killing 12,000 palestinians strengthens that ideology. up next, the fbi investigating eric adams seizing his phones and an ipad. what they are looking for, and how the mayor is responding. we'll be right back. r is respon. we'll be right back. dad and i finally had that talk. no, not that talk. about what the future looks like. for me. i may have trouble getting around, but i want to live in my home where i'm comfortable and my friends are nearby.

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project. according to sources, federal prosecutors seized mayor adamss' electronic devices last week. officials are looking into his text messages after accusations he pressured the city to approve the building on behalf of the turkish government. yesterday in a statement, mayor adams said, i have not been accused of wrong doing, and i will continue to cooperate with investigators. joining us is investigative correspondent tom winter with more on this. give us the latest on this investigation, where we are with this thing and where we're going. >> there's a specific component of it, which is this fire department turkish government, and there's a broad campaign finance investigation that we're still trying to get to the core of, what are they investigating, how big is this? what different entities are involved, did we know there was some searches tied to a turkish firm. this is all tied to individuals with a turkish background or is this bigger than that? we're still trying to understand it. specific to the example you

cited, it's not against the law for somebody to reach out to an elected official and say, hey, could you contact the city agency, i'm having problems with x. maybe you can help me move something along. if that is illegal, we would be building a lot more jails in new york city. that happens all the time. those are representatives doing their job. where it might because obviously nobody has been charged here just because somebody has been searched doesn't mean we're going to get charges, what they could be looking at is whether or not there are any payments or any sort of benefit conveyed to the burr rog president president to get a temporary certificate occupancy for the turkish consulate. >> did adams have a heads up that this was ongoing? >> it's really interesting question because i think when you look at what happened, we would not have known about a

series of searches, including one of his campaign finance ministers, if the mayor hadn't done that complete 180. he was on his way to washington. he put out a video about it. he was going to meet with the white house about the migrant crisis in new york city. and all of a sudden, he turns around, we were initially making calls as there's a threat to new york city or god forbid there was a health issue or anybody in his family. we find out about the searches ongoing in this investigation comes to the forefront. so if it was not for his actions, we wouldn't have known. and those are pretty significant actions to take. so i think there's still more questions to be asked here. i don't file like we have a total arms around what is the core of this investigation. we have to see what happens. >> more to come. thank you. that does it for me. the "deadline white house" starts right now.