that will do it for me for now. on this new hour of "ayman", trump and his boss, elon musk, go to washington as democrats have proved they have

not learned a big lesson from the election. the absurdity of fort wright mitch mcconnell as the new face of the anti-trump movement. internet sensation above and below the new york city streets, subway takes creator is here in studio to answer all of the pressing questions. i'm ayman mohyeldin . let's do it. >> he is not even sworn in yet and yet, donald trump and his apparent boss, elon musk, able to bring chaos back to washington this week previewing what is to come in the new year. all i can say is, buckle up. congress started this week with bipartisan funding ready to roll, speaker johnson and leaders of both parties but elon musk and donald trump derailed it in the middle of the week and threatened to primary any republican that voted for. that is because they wanted a funding bill that extended or

abolished the debt limit in order to make way for trump's agenda next year. speaker johnson listened to the bosses and brought a bill with those demands to the floor. massively embarrassingly failed. speaker johnson got the house to past three month funding extension without the debt limit demands. in short, trump and musk lost. the senate approved it this morning, president biden signed it today keeping the government funded through march. there is the obvious question of, who is the boss, musk or trump? we will be asking that months or years, trump gets tired of musk stealing his spotlight. the question this hour, what about democrats ? to be clear, they had nothing to do with this week's chaos involving the funding bill, not at all. the party did face a big test how willing it is to propel the next generation of democrats. congresswoman alexandria r causey o cortez, one of the popular that outperform kamala

harris in her own district, it is a big appointment, one that will be in the spotlight holding trump's administration accountable. aoc has been a member of the committee five years and has made a name for herself by grilling witnesses like michael cohen in 2019. after nancy pelosi built in opposition he gets aoc, democrats voted naming 74-year- old 74-year-old gerry connolly as the ranking member of house oversight. the congressman was on with jonathan capehart a short time ago. >> i think that there has been a lot of nonsense, frankly, on the generational change. what the democratic caucus did was try to put their best generals in the battleground, who is qualified, who has proved their mettle. who has the skill set, does not matter how old, do they bring

capability, can they function? >> not to demean congressman connolly's decades of service, time and time again, democrats push aside demands for a fresh start in lieu of norms, loyalties, statesmanship, and experience, to be clear, aoc has. scoffing at embracing new faces of the party often comes back to bite democrats in elections but not always just elections. take what happened with late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. democrats raised concerns about her thing on the bench into her 80s instead of stepping down. president obama met with her in 2013 ahead of midterm elections, if democrats lose control of the senate, he would lose the chance to appoint a younger liberal judge who could hold the seat for decades. that effort, as we all know, failed, just as early attempt made by senator patrick leahy, the vermont democrat who was then judiciary committee chair as well, jens burke left obama

with the impression she would continue her work on the court, which she was until the day she passed away in 2020. she was replaced by a trump pick, amy coney barrett solidifying the court with 6-3 conservative majority. late senator dianne feinstein, in 2023, her ongoing health issues prompted calls from democrats for her to step aside as her lengthy absence from the senate imperil democrats ability to confer more judges through the judiciary committee. instead of resigning, she asked to be temporarily replaced on the committee which was blocked by senate republicans. she passed away later that year. there is president biden who resisted early calls to step out of the race before ultimately doing so late july. the timing of his exit and its outcome on the election will always be debated, no doubt about it. what happened in november's election has happened, time to shake things up, time to evolves to be the very thing the party prides itself in being

. if the house oversight vote was a test for democrats, in my opinion, they failed it. as my colleague hayes brown puts it, rejecting aoc's bid, democrats committed major unforced error in the parties's struggle to define its future. here with me on set, the man that wrote the article, hayes brown and nbc daily writer and editor, julie --, democratic strategist and author of the salty politics newsletter. it is great to have you with us. hayes, your piece argues the democrats with unforced error, lay it out for us, what was the core mistake they made? >> the core mistake was, in keeping with the tradition of making it so that the person with the most seniority has first dibs on the top spot on any committee. the oversight committee of the 17th standing committees, is the most overtly political committee in the house at this point. its main function is to conduct oversight of the executive branch, make sure the boss and congress has been duly followed.

because of adversarial nature at times with the white house, becomes a political round of power, to launch investigations into opposing party's president. in the case of when you see unified government, as we will see in january, a chance to run cover for the president. that is when minority step up and step in, guys, all these issues committee chair is not willing to cover, we will go out and talk about them to make them public. major grounds for the best communicators, the ones that the party sees as the most effective communicators, the ones best at getting the messaging out and across. if you look at, nothing against gerry connolly, if you look at the energy he brings versus the energy aoc brings, the amount of people who are interested in listening to her and her ability to push a message, to hammer home points during debates, during committee meetings, this was a major miss. >> not to mention her outreach,

consider something like social media loan, the ability to speak to an audience i would argue gerry connolly cannot reach, not saying he is not an effective communicator, he will not reach the masses in the same way someone like aoc is, and somebody, that may be a critique of the media environment that we live in, some of the draws attention. aoc, ultimately when she speaks, people cover her, watch her, listen to her, that is what you need to mobilize the spotlight from a minority position in the oversight committee. >> absolutely. someone that can grab onto the megaphone and speak to the masses and let people know what is happening within the administration, the administration does not want you to know about. this specific income thing trump administration, that will be extremely important. gerry connolly, not that he is a bad choice to be ranking member at any other given time, given the energy that we will see with republicans trying to do their best to bolster trump's agenda, especially

things that don't have to go through congress, the things that will not be debated in legislation, that is going to be where the oversight committee , ranking member will be crucial to making sure the american people know what is going on within the trump administration. >> julie, this seems like self- inflicted win for democrats, we all saw the results coming out of the elections, there was a critique that young voters were not as enthused about the democratic party and now you have somebody who is a prominent member of the democratic party, someone who resonates and appeal to young voters in this country and she is not elevated. >> no, i said, the day after the election, the democrats have a massive messaging problem. aoc is part of solving that problem, i can't think of any messenger on the democratic side, nobody leadership, the house or senate, who has the ability to communicate the way she does. you may not always agree with what she says but she knows how

to make her point, make it well and make it across mediums where democrats traditionally outcome indicated by republicans. do not put her on the committee, probably the most important messaging committee, especially this next year with comer as the chair. such unforced error, such a mistake it makes me wonder if democrats on the hill have learned any lessons from our loss. we were supposed to get the house back this year and nobody paid the price for that not happening. state leadership in place, nancy pelosi, who i have a lot of respect for, still continues to call the shots, worked very hard against aoc to not have the ranking membership of the oversight committee. at the end of the day, you still wonder what lessons did they draw, the fact that we are once again not in the majority in the house other than to say, we are doubling down with the same failed strategies and the same people who got us into this mess in the first place.

i have a lot of respect for congressman connolly, not to say he is incapable member, he is very capable. you have someone with the talent aoc has in the ability to communicate the way she does and someone that can show millennial's and gen z voters, not only that she is paying attention but that they pay attention to her in the way they don't pay attention to hakeem jeffries, do not pay attention to jerry connelly, or jamie raskin what he chair that committee. why in the world would you not give her the megaphone and let her run with it, especially because we have no just done a good job, because her cross- examination on this committee has gone viral and broken through in ways no other member has been able to break through. it boggles the mind. >> let me pose that question you and ask why, why do you think she was not given that position? you think of that issue of age when it is brought up with people like ruth bader ginsburg or dianne feinstein, joe biden, the immediate knee-jerk reaction from some democrats suggesting age, at what point

do democrats, julie, get serious about the demands for new blood in the party and not only younger voices but new priorities as well, why do you think they did this to aoc? >> i will speak some truth to the my party, i worked on the hill, no happens when you get down there, there is a sense of institutionalism and doubling down on strategies that don't work where you are in a bubble. listen, i have been at this over 30 years, i have been party to it, i get it, i understand how it works. the reality is, they need to break out of this institutional bubble, institutionalism has failed us, it failed us when democrats lie with the iraq war, george bush, failed as one barack obama did not bring hostages on the tarmac in 2008 after the financial crisis, which also happened to push's watch. failed when democrats covered up joe biden's mental state or physical state until we saw

what happened at the debate. constantly, there is this trust me mentality coming up leadership the rest of us are supposed to trust what they are saying. part and parcel of the same problem, i say this to somebody that was institutionalist my entire career, yet, now i'm here, belatedly to say, it is time to turn the page, time to stop trusting people who have continuously told us to trust them. what has that resulted in lex resulted having a rump base, working people of this country abandon the democratic party, black men and latinos abandoning the democratic party. it is not working, stop trusting the people that got us into this mess and start giving opportunity to others that know how to meditate and step up to do the job. >> there is a bit of an irony, aoc sometimes criticizes being too far left, two out of touch with mainstream and all of this other and the the rhetoric used

against nancy pelosi in 2006 and she became speaker of the house, worked to her advantage, embraced that call of being to the left, if you will. now you have nancy pelosi, who is reportedly in opposition to aoc. it makes you wonder why you are seeing this position, by somebody who came up the ranks, a woman who fought her way to the top of the political echelon in this country and someone who embraced being from san francisco, so-called san francisco values. >> the only two real reasons to keep nancy from the top spot, one is that she is too far left of the party, turn off people who otherwise would be engaged to put her in leadership. she will be attacked by republicans, much as he said, nancy pelosi has been there done that during a lot of the end of the bush administration, the face of the democratic party, the one that put up the fundraising emails and every

thing like that. aoc fits the bill much in the same way. the other argument against aoc, she is not put in enough time to really have earned her stripes, basically, to get up there, the leadership role. there's a reason why jamie raskin, the outgoing member, made aoc his vice ranking member, to make sure that she was someone that could be right beside him at the forefront of leading the committee, someone who could see how leadership works, see how the committee runs, and basically be ready to fill that role at some point. i think that nancy pelosi saw jerry connelly, someone passed over twice, loyal to the democratic party, the democratic caucus, taking the votes, et cetera, et cetera, thought to herself, basically it is his time, we have to make sure the seniority system stays roughly in place to make sure that people who are put up in the chair of these spots do so based on seniority because they have been here the longest. on the one hand, i get why the

system worked for a lot of people for a long time, black lawmakers in the safer districts that worked their way up to become committee chairs at a time it was more difficult to climb the ranks. that is why the congressional black caucus pretty much in favor of the seniority system. but for them to say, put that into place with aoc is to say, we will focus on this one detail versus the bigger strategy and that is where their falling down. >> hayes and julie, take a breath. senator mitch mcconnell wants you to believe he is the champion of the anti-trump resistance. really, i'm being serious. symptoms can sometimes hold you back. but now there's skyrizi, so you can be all in with clearer skin. ♪things are getting clearer♪ ♪yeah, i feel free to bare my skin♪ ♪yeah, that's all me.♪ ♪nothing is everything♪ with skyrizi, you can show up with 90% clearer skin.

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including donald trump macconnell says that america will not be made great again by those who simply want to manage its decline. his remarks garnered praise not just from democrats and republicans but media attention with headlines per train him as part of the new anti-trump gop resistance. the idea is absurd, no one has helped trump's rise more than mitch mcconnell, the same macconnell that stole supreme court seats from democrats, from january 6th, prevented him from running again and endorsed trump after he launched a series of races attacks against macconnell's wife, elaine chao. we are where we are today thanks in part to mitch mcconnell and should not forget that. julie and hayes are back with me, mitch mcconnell will be that anti-trump resistance that

some republicans and democrats want? >> you forgot the part mitch mcconnell refused to convict donald trump after he threatened mitch mcconnell's life and everybody else's life on the hill during january 6th, told his mob to go get them and told his advisers in louisville, don't worry about it , the democrats will get that son of a you know what, guess what, nobody got him, he is back in control. the last person donald trump cares about is mitch mcconnell, i'm curious to see what mitch mcconnell does, if he will vote for pete hegseth, tulsi gabbard, kash patel, all of these people will effectively be doing wittingly or unwittingly vladimir putin's will in the sense that they are all committed to the decline of america's strength in the world, the decline of pox americana, which served this country in the nation in the world well since 1945. i will be serious to see if mitch mcconnell, foreign affairs

magazine, read by -- in washington and a few people by new york and not by donald trump for sure, nobody that matters in terms of making decisions that affect this country area >> what you think this is about, hayes? mitch mcconnell trying to stay relevant, no longer in leadership position, within the party, not somebody that carries a lot of ideological weight, does not represent the ideological shift trump has been trying to pursue, even though very subservient to trump and trump loyalist doing his bidding, what is the play mitch mcconnell is trained to position himself as? >> i will say something semi- nice about mitch mcconnell, not trying to rehab his image, trying to get one more bit of good stuff before he leaves, considering he does not care about that at all his entire time in the senate, he does not care about his image per se. mitch mcconnell cares about three things, the acquisition and accumulation of power. he cares about the primacy of the republican party and he

cares about america being the top gun on the world stage. those are the three things i feel like he cares about. him being unfettered by being the minority or majority leader , he gets to vote how he wants, very ironic considering how mitch mcconnell, during his time as leader, very much, oh no, you guys, we are putting together as a wok, that is how we have power. for him to be putting this out there, don't withdraw from the world, he wants to keep ukraine funding going, keep defensive money flowing. this is something mitch mcconnell, i really do think cares about in as much as he cares about anything that can be considered a policy, purely how you obtain political power type. >> we have four years of trump in office with mitch mcconnell by his side. in the first term, you had trump's embrace of isolationism

when it came to foreign policy, cozying up to dictators like latimer putin and kim jong-un. it was not a secret and mitch mcconnell went along every step of the way, never complaining about the things trump was doing his first term. yet here he is now, trying to be relevant. >> i don't know if he is trying to be relevant, he cares about something much more than anything else that hayes mentioned, that is judges. he really cares about stacking that federal bench so that after he is long gone and trump is long gone, those judges will still be able to do the same policies mitch mcconnell and donald trump espoused. the reality is, in exchange for the judges, having republican president nominate those judges, mitch mcconnell has given up everything else he cares about including foreign policy, i strongly believe he does actually care about them i believe every word he wrote in the foreign affairs article. yet, i don't think it matters to him as much to have a

republican, regardless of who that republican is, in the white house. he knew exactly who was endorsing earlier this year, he could not bring himself to mention trump's name, i'm a republican, support the republican ticket understanding trump would be the nominee after super tuesday. he knows exactly what he is getting and yet, he supported him and supported exactly what comes along with supporting donald trump, a man who bends the need to vladimir putin, who by the way, right now, is shielding bashar al assad, a man that nominated tulsi gabbard, a man that pal around with bashar al assad. a man that pelzer and sends "love letters" to kim jong-un. everything he cares about from a policy perspective is something donald trump wants to destroy, yet the judges are so important, he subsumed all of his other beliefs in change for getting that through and that is the legacy mitch mcconnell is leaving. >> broadly speaking, is there room for anti-trump resistance

within the gop when you look at why would any republican risk their political life when you have seen what has happened to the liz cheneys of the world, adam kinzingers of the world, why as a republican with the political future, you want to take trump on? >> i don't think there is, i think there is room to go after trump directly, there is not room to directly criticize him. as we saw with the house vote, they had to pull the bill with the debt ceiling that he wanted, there is room to disagree with him on specific issues, there's room to go after people around him to say that they're giving him bad advice. there is room to take the way he is doing things and saying, okay, we should try to turn him this way through flattery without judgment. there are ways i think to try to influence trump as republicans. but i don't think there's any room for what it would take to

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introduced when the new legislative session begins next month. hayes brown and julie roginsky are back with me. hayes, i want to start with your reaction to the bill, criminalizing abortion as homicide and considering an embryo at any stage of development a person, the abortion ban enacted in the state and those in places across the country as highly restrictive, this legislation, by any measure would be extreme . >> absolutely. what is interesting is they feel confident enough to reintroduce this after going nowhere in the last legislative session. last legislative session when it was introduced, the version of the bill they had, republicans including, i know she is up-and-down on all the issues, nancy mace, spoke out against it. she was not for that particular bill because of its lack of exceptions for incest and rape. the new version includes that

language that might have more of a chance of passing, which is how we have seen antiabortion legislation work over the years. you see the most gung members put forward the most extreme versions. those get one note down until they find something palatable enough to pass and they keep pushing it further. the question is going to be, how many votes this bill will get in the south carolina legislature this time around compared to last time? if it fails, how will they tweak it to make it a little more palatable but with the same goal in mind? >> julie, what do you think the take away should be, the same south carolina lawmakers support the finding abortion with few exceptions as killing a person under the criminal code or something else? state lawmakers who oppose this fear a miscarriage could lead to murder charges for women. >> anybody who has ever had a

miscarriage or fear of a miscarriage, take yourself to the hospital and hope to doctor can save your baby and the one thing you don't have to worry about is a doctor turning you in for potential murder or crime of some sort. all you want to do is save your baby. this goes further, the one issue often raised, any stage of development means from the start of fertilization. what that means effectively, if you undergo ivf, as i did to have my son, that is murder. if you discard those embryos you are not using after you are done. that goes to the heart of how so many people, including very pro-life people in south carolina have their children. for people to understand how extreme this is, this is not just criminalizing potential death consequences, abortions, life-saving termination of their pregnancy because they may die and wait until they go

into sepsis to physically end their life for a doctor to touch them. we know tragic laces in georgia and texas, doctors are wary of doing anything to jeopardize legally, including saving people's lives even when they have to. this includes preventing people from having children, desperately want their ivf. these are bills introduced by men who have never gone through any of this, never experienced any of this, probably don't know people that experience this or never had conversations to know someone that experience less. life is messy, life is complicated. to have this completely sadistic piece of legislation out there, what is there to say other than we are living in some bizarre world i think that none of us recognize anymore. there is a consequence to because look who we elected to make this happen by putting those justices on the court. >> bizarre world to pick up on julie's point, the world might

get darker because of the supreme court agreeing this week to review south carolina's efforts to defund planned parenthood by disqualifying it from providing non-abortion services to medicaid patients. it is even expanding this attempt to crack down on planned parenthood what kind of impact could a ruling in that case have? >> in theory, the reason why planned parenthood is arguing this line of law is unconstitutional does not work is because it violates a part of federal law that says, if you are a recipient of medicaid, you can choose qualified healthcare provider that accepts medicaid. south carolina said, except for planned parenthood. but there is already federal law saying that planned parenthood can be reimbursed for their abortion activities. this is going further to say no, you cannot do that with medicaid funding.

in theory, in a sane world, this is a privacy clause issue, the federal law supersedes what south carolina is doing here, this provision is junk, get rid of it because they are trying to limit the access to healthcare and violation of federal law. but because of the court that we have, that is not a guarantee. it could very well say, well yes, the state has a right to do what it needs to protect the health or welfare of people including abortion now that the power to regulate abortion has been given back to the states. that is something i could see john roberts writing just to get through the day, honestly. >> hayes brown, julie roginsky, thank you for joining us throughout the evening and happy holidays to the both of you . >> coming up, have seen his viral videos on subways in new york city cabs, -- finds himself in our studio next. this ?

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what is your take? >> at some point in the modern era, either start to get trained by corporate consultants and they start to say this one phrase that i find disgusting. >> what is it? >> how is everything tasting? >> i think that couples should have separate beds. >> 100% agree. >> they should have separate bedrooms. >> restaurants should be fined or shut down or post a disclaimer in the window. >> 100% agree. you don't go for the vibes. >> hit tiktok series, keep the meter running, kareem rahma turning awkward moments and of viral goal. this time he hit the subway where most people hope to avoid conversation at all cost. his idea for subway takes was simple, skip the full podcast, make the clip, ask one question, what is your take? the twist, his guests range

from popstars like charli xcx to comedians like -- and anthropologists like jane goodall. with hundreds of millions of views and over a million followers, subway takes has blown up. in so in demand, even turning down celebrities. thankfully, he did not turn down our show because here on set in new york, kareem rahma. the seal . >> i would never turn down -- >> we feel like we were there in the beginning of your creative genius so we feel like you owe us . >> that is how i feel too. of course. cannot pass it down. >> we will flip the script on you a little bit, tell me a little bit about why you think, this is not a subway set, tell me why you think subway takes has taken off? >> i think that everybody has an opinion that they want to share but they can't,

especially to an audience of millions of people so people clamor at the opportunity to do it. i think that when you're on the train, there is a captive audience of people sitting around, i wonder what that guy is thinking or what that person is doing, what that woman is on her way to and this is a way to reveal that information. >> have to be honest, i ride the subway a lot in new york, the subway in new york is a special kind of place. people don't have patience. a crew filming celebrities, to get anyone, i'm just trying to get to work, can you get out of my way? >> no. honestly, it is like a free taco, it is a live show, jane goodall, --, this is amazing. >> do you have security? >> no, i'm a man of the people. i don't need security. >> what about the celebrities? >> the only person that had a lot of people with her was gwen

stefani, she had a lot of handlers and such. >> why do you think celebrities want to come on the show? what about the format of the conversation is so appealing? you say that you're turning down celebrities now, can you tell us you turned down? >> i can't tell you that there is a lot. we get like 50 emails a day for pictures. it is more of a vibe based approach. people can have 100 million instagram followers, the take is not there, not good enough. it is a hot seat, it has become this kind of, especially comedians at the core of the show, out of every 10 episodes, five of them are local comedians, up and comers, also successful ones and i think that is what makes the show truly incredible. they are the ones that make it happen. i think that people clamor at the opportunity to get on there because it is a pit stop on the press, it is like going on

jimmy fallon or whatever . >> really quick sidebar, how do you decide what chains to take, where to get on and off? >> it is a science and an art. sometimes, it depends on the day, i will say that i usually shoot between 11:00 and 2:00, don't look for me, people. usually i shoot between 11:00 and 2:00, the train depends on the feeling. >> is comedy getting better or worse? >> i think that comedy has never been better. >> really? i 100% agree. why do you think it is getting better? >> it is really accessible, a lot of new voices. it is more widely distributed, i think that comedians, there was an era where they were like rock stars and that when away but now comedians are back to being rockstars, which is really great. >> i like the accessibility, accessible to the people you watch on tv, certainly the comedians, it feels more

authentic and real. who is the best guest since you started the series? >> this is a crazy one, shout out this young lad, --, he was recently on wild and out, i think he is 20 years old but he is so funny. his take is a metaabsurdity, andy kaufman character. it is too crazy to say on air but it is very funny. >> we will tell the viewers to catch that one. which politician embarrassed themselves the most in 2024 this past year? >> kamala harris, easy. >> why so? >> we did the subway take, let's say we discussed doing a subway take that i thought was really good, funny strong, would connect with people. when i got there, the subway take was about bacon. this is not good . >> what is wrong with bacon likes >> a lot of people don't eat

it. >> was a turkey bacon? >> no, it was real. a lot of people don't eat bacon, a lot of people i know don't eat bacon. it did not seem like a good way to help promote anything. and i don't eat bacon. i don't know anything about this subject. i had it once, i had to test it, play a little bit with the devil and try it out. i don't eat bacon . >> you don't know how to connect with it. it was an awkward interview. it was neutrally agreed-upon it was probably not to release it . >> maybe that is why she lost the election. on subway takes, if you rent -- >> that is why i did not want to participate, now that it is over, maybe i will release it. did not want to sway the election. >> what is your take on sustaining 2024 and what should we bring into 2025? >> what do we need to leave

behind? in 2024 and the dust, history . >> goodness, probably genocide. that is a good one. >> important one. >> and bring peace into 2025. >> 100% agree, as you say on subway takes. we will do this the same time next year . >> i will be there. >> thank you so much, kareem rahma. next up, we shift gears and head overseas, speaking of genocide, shifting to gaza and the story of a palestinian grandfather who the world must never forget.

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ask your gastroenterologist about skyrizi. last november, a video surfaced online of a palestinian grandfather named --, saying a heartbreaking goodbye to his 3-year-old, granddaughter, after she was killed by israeli air strike alongside her 5-year-old brother. >> [ speaking in a global language ] >> in that clip, you can hear calling, the soul of my soul as he holds her lifeless body and mourns her death. that expression of utter despair over the loss of this lively,

sweet little girl who had captured his heart, who he had adored so much resonated with hundreds of thousands of people around the world, the video went viral and recognized as an embodiment of the agony of the palestinian people in gaza. this is what he told al jazeera of his granddaughter -- >> translator: special place in my heart, she used to hug me every day, now i go to hug her spiritually in her grave. today i was at her grade and spoke about her situation and cried a lot, i cried alone to myself. >> earlier this week, nearly 13 months after -- was killed, was also killed by israeli tank shell at a refugee camp. here, you can see the immense outpouring of grief over his killing. this was a man beloved by his community and people far from gaza alike, even after the devastating losses of his grandchildren and forced displacement of his own family,

continuously cared for his loved ones and fellow palestinians. videos of him shared over the past year capture his giving spirit. his son told al jazeera he had turned into one man's relief agency and worked continuously to provide for his family, even starving himself to make sure that they had enough food. he gathered and distributed winter clothing to children, giving kids living in refugee camps hats, scarves, blankets with a warm smile on his help. he helped cook and serve food to fellow gazans who had also been displaced. he play tug-of-war and games with kids, he made them laugh, he flew a kite with young children gathered around him looking above at the blue sky to he cared for his elderly mother, cooking meals for her and sharing bread in her tent. in one video, he surprised her with a red rose. he showed that same affection to stray cats putting out cans

of food for them on the street to eat. he looked out continuously for his neighbors and surviving family members alike, documenting moments of joy, rare joy like the arrival of a baby granddaughter. equal parts the oppression and violence of israeli attacks in gaza like the destruction of his brother's house. here is what he said in an interview before he was killed. >> [ speaking in a global language ] >> his killing is a grim, full circle moment as some wrote in their tributes on social media, he has gone to join his beloved granddaughter. this gentle, bearded man, who in some western media, might be presented as a menacing threat

based on how he looks, was in fact, just the opposite in the eyes of gazans and millions around the world, he became a universal symbol of the incomprehensible pain of the palestinian people coupled with enduring hope, resilience, and love. that does it for me tonight. come back tomorrow, i will be speaking to one of the palestinian american plaintiffs suing secretary of state antony blinken over accusations about washington continuing to send military aid to israel despite its human rights violations. that and more starting at 7:00 p.m. on msnbc. until then, i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york. have a good night . it's the first iphone built for apple intelligence. that's like peanut butter on jelly...on gold. get four iphone 16 pro on us, plus four lines for $25 bucks. and save on every plan versus the other big guys. what a deal. that's a lot if you ask me. ya'll giving away too fast t-mobile, slow down.

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