>> do you. >> have any information. about his condition? how he's doing anything? >> we know his. >> chances are slim. >> we know. >> and we know that you know, i know that because when i hugged him at the end of august 2023, i felt his older, you know, he's a he's a strong ox, but he was an older strong and a frail. he was injured. he was shot on the 7th of october. he he needs medicine that he has not received for very long. and the conditions in gaza are horrific. >> and. >> alex, as you mentioned, israel released hundreds, the largest number, in fact, of palestinians since the cease fire agreement was signed. there were men serving life sentences. and we talked about the stage management, sort of on the hamas side, the israeli authorities made the men wear sweatshirts with we will not forgive, we will not forget written on them

both in hebrew and in arabic, on both sides. emotional reunions between hostages and prisoners released and big questions. alex, as we've been saying about whether or not this truce can hold going forward. >> yeah, but absolutely heartbreaking listening to that daughter talk about her father and her concern for him, wolf. hala gorani, thank you so much. next, what to make of the trump administration's message to european leaders in moments. senator adam schiff weighs in on what vice president j.d. vance and defense secretary pete hegseth said this week. at the top of the hour. good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone. to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news from a high stakes security gathering overseas. ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy today calling for the creation of a european army. hours after

he sat down with vice president j.d. vance, he warned world leaders that russia is not preparing for dialog, and the u.s. may not always be a reliable ally. >> let's be honest now, we can't rule out the possibility that america might say no to europe on issues that threaten it. we must build the armed forces of europe so that europe's future depends only on europeans. >> a live report in just a few minutes on that also breaking today. emotional reunions as hamas frees three israeli hostages against the backdrop of veiled threats and an ultimatum from president trump. israel's military in return released hundreds of palestinians taken prisoner during its war in gaza. we'll have another live report on that later on this hour for you. and new reaction to justice department moves to dismiss corruption charges against new york city mayor eric adams after an extraordinary internal revolt. seven prosecutors resigned before one litigator

made the tough choice to step up and sign that dismissal motion. here's constitutional law professor laurence tribe. >> it's no. >> profile in courage. >> the fact is that to preserve his pension, purportedly to save the others, he broke ranks. they should all have insisted on being fired. make a meal, beauvais. sign the damn thing himself. >> new concerns over the nomination of kash patel for fbi director. with senate democrats mulling a new strategy to galvanize opposition. >> there are no republicans at this point expressing concerns about him or voting against him. he came out of the judiciary committee last week and is scheduled for floor vote later this week. we're going to push the time as much as we can. >> and the latest lawsuit against elon musk and doge filed by 14 state attorneys general. and it may face some hiccups. judge tanya chutkan says the request for a block on doge was

too broad, and asked the states to clearly define the potential harm. >> what we're alleging is that elon. >> musk and his sort of designation as. >> some super employee violates. the appointments clause, the constitution says if you're going to wield that kind of power as a federal official. >> you've got. >> to be properly. >> vetted and go through a confirmation process. with the united states senate. he's done none. >> of that. he's got access. >> to financial. >> data, personal information. it's dangerous. >> also new today, democrats once again questioning the true motives of doge, tying president trump's mass layoffs and budget cuts to some of trump's tax cuts expiring next year. >> they're not concerned about waste. >> if they were worried about. >> waste. >> they wouldn't have fired all the inspectors general. this is really. a reverse robin. hood strategy. >> stealing from average americans. >> to give to the rich. >> we've got a number of reporters and analysts in place ready to go over these developing stories for us. and we're going to begin at the white house with nbc's yamiche

alcindor. as the trump administration carries out sweeping government layoffs. yamiche, i understand you have some new details on who's been caught up in these firings. so what are you learning? >> that's right. we have this striking situation playing out at the department of energy, dealing with federal employees that oversee the nuclear stockpile. this agency had let a number of probationary employees go. these are people who have been with the government for a year or two. but now that agency is realizing that actually they want to keep those people. so we found we have an email that we obtained at nbc news where the agency, the national nuclear security administration, is saying that he wants they want to rescind those those pushes to terminate people. the problem is that they had already stopped access for some of these employees to their federal email and communication devices, so it's not clear how they're going to get in touch with those people. now, if we zoom out a bit, there's also new reporting from cnbc with the unemployment rate and unemployment filings here in washington, d.c, surging because of these cuts to the federal government. cnbc found

that that for the week of ending in february 8th, the jobless filings surged to 1780. so 71,780, that's a 36% increase from the prior week. now we zoom out even further. there's of course, what's happening here and why this is happening. and that is, of course, because president trump and elon musk say that they want to cut down and slim down the federal government. there are some people who are saying that elon musk is wielding too much power. but president trump just in an interview with fox news, that was a joint interview sitting right next to elon musk, did praise him and celebrate their relationship. take a listen. >> elon called me. he said, you know, they're trying to drive us apart. i said, absolutely no. they said. we have breaking news. donald trump has ceded control of the presidency to elon musk. president musk will be attending a cabinet meeting. >> tonight at 8:00. >> and i say it's just so obvious they're so. >> bad at it. >> i used to think they were good at it. they're actually bad at it because if they were good

at it, i'd never be president because i think nobody in history has ever. >> gotten. >> more bad publicity than me. >> so there you have president trump saying that he is going to stick by elon musk and their goals to slim down the federal government. alex. >> one more question regarding the directive from the doj, which was finally carried out late yesterday to drop charges against new york mayor eric adams, who ended up signing that motion. >> it's a good question because we did see this extraordinary thing play out in new york and washington, d.c, where at least seven federal prosecutors resigned, saying that they were not going to follow through with that doj order to drop the corruption charges against new york city mayor eric adams. but the person who actually ended up signing is a person named edward sullivan. he's a senior litigation counsel with the doj's public integrity section. the other person people that side were the deputy attorney general, amiel beauvais. he's, of course, the one who initially said that the doj wanted these charges dropped. there was also antoinette bacon, who also signed this. she's from the justice department's criminal division. now, beauvais, we

should remind people, said that these charges wanted needed to be dropped because they were interfering both with eric adams ability to run for reelection and with his ability to help the administration carry through immigration tactics. and of course, that's being a big priority for the president. so a lot going on there. the thing we have to note, though, that this isn't final. i was looking this up. the filing does not immediately mean that the case is over, because a federal judge must approve the decision in order to drop the charges. so still watching to see if a federal judge will do that. alex. >> okay. yamiche alcindor, thank you so much from the white house. on the heels of that, let's bring in shelby talcott, a white house correspondent for semafor. it's good to see you again, shelby. so to the point, i was just discussing with yamiche, at least seven federal prosecutors have resigned over this adams decision. did the trump administration expect this level of doj resistance? you know, i don't. >> think they did. this was a dramatic standoff that i think nobody was really expecting. and what's interesting is throughout this entire 48 hours. because it

really has only been over the past two days. >> the president. >> himself has shrugged off this controversy. >> he told reporters. >> that he had nothing to do with it, while. also arguing that, you know, the justice department believes that a dismissal was necessary because the case didn't have merit. and he also reiterated something that we've heard from him before, which is his argument that this case against eric adams, like his own cases, were politically motivated. and so he's consistently tied himself to eric adams in that manner. and he repeated that from the white house this week. >> so in the wake of this decision, mayor adams made an appearance on fox news. and he was alongside trump's border czar, tom homan. let's play part of that. here it is. >> imagine him going inside saying that the only way mayor adams is going to assist in immigration, which i was calling for since 2022, is if you drop the charges. that's quid pro quo. that's a crime. >> if he doesn't come through,

i'll be back in new york. city and we won't be sitting on the couch. i'll be in his office up, up his butt saying, where the hell is the agreement we came to? >> i'm curious how you interpret the optics of this pairing, because it seems unusual considering mayor adams is a democrat and his federal case has absolutely nothing to do with immigration. >> yeah, it is. it is definitely notable and really unusual, i would say. and that appearance, that joint appearance with tom homan and eric adams was a little bit tense, actually, i felt, but you know, what i thought was interesting was the original justice department filing requesting that these charges be dropped. didn't say that they wanted the charges dropped because the case lacked merit or evidence. rather, they argued the case was politically motivated and impeded on the mayor's ability to work with trump on immigration enforcement and was too close to the mayoral election. and so i thought that was really sort of a key part for people to remember when they're when they're weighing why this is all happening. because you're right. it is unusual for a republican

president to be pushing something, you know, with a democratic mayor. >> and speaking of unusual, quite a scene unfolded at the white house this week. elon musk and his four year old son joined president trump in the oval office to announce an executive order giving the tech billionaire more power over the federal workforce. how is this moment being perceived? >> you know, i was actually in the room for that press conference, and one of the things i noticed was this really was an elon musk press conference. and i'm told by white house aides that there were a few reasons for this. first of all, of course, the president was signing an executive order, essentially giving d.o.j. more power to get rid of folks in the federal government. but also, there has been so much drama around doge, and people have been wanting to talk to elon musk himself. and so this was the white house's attempt to do that, but it was really notable. i one of the questions i asked elon was how he is working with agency heads and how closely doge is working with agency heads when they're

when they're deciding on these mass cuts. and elon told me that he's working with these agency heads, but also then quickly pivoted to noting that ultimately he talks to donald trump almost every day and that that essentially donald trump makes the decisions and he follows donald trump's directive. >> okay. but as these thousands of workers are being let go and trump and musk are escalating their employment purge, politico is reporting the cuts are hitting red states, triggering gop pushback. is that having any impact on the cuts, or is doge just barreling ahead? >> doge is just barreling ahead. and now i do anticipate that as these cuts continue, because they are going to continue and they're going to hit virtually every agency. this is a top down effort from every aspect of the federal government. i do anticipate that there's going to be increasing pushback from republicans. we're already sort of quietly hearing about it, and it's only going to continue once republicans realize that this is affecting their districts and their constituents. but from the

presidential side, their argument is this needs to happen. and so far, there hasn't been enough enough vocal pushback from republicans for them to hit pause on anything. and again, i think we talked about this last week. this is sort of how elon musk operates. he comes in and he bulldozes the entire thing, even if it means that things that maybe shouldn't be cut get cut. >> do you think there's a risk of political fallout here? and if it were to happen, what would that look like? >> i think there's always a risk in political fallout, particularly when you're talking about, you know, taking massive cuts to the government and doing these drastic changes very quickly, what that will look like, who knows, because we really haven't seen too much republican pushback in general from this against this trump administration yet. now, of course, we're only a month in. so, you know, we have a long ways to go. and again, as these cuts continue and as doge continues to go through the

government and, and fire people and get rid of agencies and get rid of things that maybe they don't see as important, but lawmakers see as incredibly important. i do think that republicans are going to start to push back on this, and there's going to be not only the legal aspect that doge and the white house is already dealing with, but now you're going to have allies sort of pushing back and saying, hold on, wait a second. we need to slow down with this thing. >> okay. semaphore. shelby. shelby. talcott, thank you so much. we'll see you again soon. overseas now. and breaking news from the munich security conference. peace talks on ending the war in ukraine could soon begin. senior trump officials, including secretary of state marco rubio, will be heading to saudi arabia in the coming days to begin those talks with negotiators. joining me now with nbc's courtney kube once again from the munich security conference with us. so what are you hearing, courtney, about these peace talks? >> yes. so these are what president trump has foreshadowed, saying that he was that they were going to go to saudi arabia and start the

process of peace negotiations. now, this is his comments are really what kicked off just a string of diplomatic flurry all week. and we've seen it play out right here at the munich security conference. alex. so on wednesday, president donald trump spoke with vladimir putin, the russian president, on the phone for an hour and a half, according to officials, and spoke about the possibility of beginning some sort of negotiations that would lead to a peace deal in ukraine. now, after he spoke with president putin, he then spoke with president zelensky. and today at the munich security conference, president zelensky expressed his displeasure at the fact that he was called second after president putin. but he still said that despite that, the conversations that he's had with president trump and with u.s. officials have been positive, and he is hopeful that they can find some way to come to a peace deal. now, we also heard from president zelensky about the need for europe to accept the fact that america is clearly

beginning to pull back from europe, and that europe needs to start assuming more of its own responsibility for peace and for defense here in the continent. in addition to just that warning, he said that europe needs to consider having its own army and really needs to step up when it comes to the defense industrial base, being able to support themselves with building their own weapons systems. now, in addition to that, we've only learned just moments ago, alex, that secretary of state marco rubio spoke with russian foreign minister sergey lavrov today, also discussing the possibility for some sort of negotiations. the very u.s. officials are saying, look, this is the very beginning of this negotiation process here. but the reality is, as president trump forecasted earlier this week, he is intent on getting some sort of a process here that could hopefully lead to some sort of a peace agreement between russia and ukraine. alex. >> and interesting that you mentioned marco rubio. i'm looking at a schedule for planning, and that wasn't on it, that he would be speaking with sergey lavrov. but i will say we

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effects of a speech by vice president jd vance still rippling through the leaders there. the german chancellor today pushing back on vance's scolding of european leaders and vance, his words also being questioned by some from the us contingent there. joining me now from the munich security conference is california senator adam schiff. welcome, senator. it's awfully good to have you on the show. so i'd like first, sir, to get your response to vice president j.d. vance's speech at the conference there yesterday where he berated european leaders on a whole host of issues. what do his comments reveal about the trump administration and our commitment to nato? >> they were really shocking and so disappointing when what i think our allies needed to hear was a renewed commitment by america to nato, to our european partners, a willingness to stand up to the kremlin and make sure that we provide ukraine with all of the help that it needs to

fight this war of aggression by russia. but instead, what europe got was a lecturing condescension, a demeaning speech that really, i think, just attacked our allies. it was greeted, i think, enthusiastically in one place. and that was the kremlin. exactly the wrong message right now. >> well. >> for sure, because president trump, to your point, signaled this week an open mind to vladimir putin ending the war on his terms. trump suggested ukraine could be excluded from his negotiations with putin. you had secretary of defense pete hegseth saying it's unrealistic for ukraine to return to its pre 2014 borders or to expect nato membership. how do you interpret that framing and big picture? where does it leave ukraine? >> well, donald trump likes to pride himself on being a great negotiator, but it's hard to imagine going to a negotiation with a worse posture than the

one that's been articulated by the president and secretary of defense. why on earth would you go into a negotiation conceding things that should never be conceded, so deeply hurtful or harmful in terms of ukraine and nato? that's up to ukraine and nato. russia doesn't get a veto over who belongs to nato, not now, nor should they ever. >> senator, do you find that your colleagues in the senate are supportive of this approach that we're hearing at the munich security conference, or is there bipartisan support for ukraine? >> there is really strong bipartisan support for ukraine. we sat down on a bipartisan basis with zelensky yesterday. and i think all around the table, we expressed our appreciation for the heroic sacrifice ukraine has made, that the fact that we want to maintain a strong level of support for ukraine. so i think zelensky heard that loud and clear from the us senate on a bipartisan basis. and i hope

that we can allay some of the concerns that have been raised by the real mixture of messages that europe, russia and ukraine have been getting from the oval office and from the defense department. >> but do you think that is reaching president zelensky? because, as you know, just today he said that he doesn't think europe can count on the united states any longer, that europe has to create its own army and learn to defend itself better in the wake of potentially losing us support. >> well, i have to think zelenskyy is concerned when he hears, on the one hand, pretty strong bipartisan support for ukraine in congress, but he hears different messages and conflicting messages from the administration. i think he liked the rest of the world is trying to figure out what does that all mean? and where is the center of gravity in this new government? so i can understand the

apprehension that he must feel. i certainly will be working my hardest in the senate, and i'll have a lot of allies in this in fighting for strong support for ukraine and no concessions to the kremlin. >> let's go stateside here, as the attorneys general in 14 states have filed a lawsuit against elon musk, arguing that his unbridled power to dismantle entire government agencies and access sensitive data is unconstitutional. what are your colleagues saying about the authority that's been given to musk and his dodge team without congressional approval? and how do you expect this to play out in courts? >> well, initially, i think the opposition was really just from democrats in the congress concerned about the unlawful nature of these actions, the harmful, destructive nature of these actions. thousands and thousands of americans losing their jobs, but also losing important work that is really central to our national security

interests. the dismantling of usaid, for example, here in munich, we've been talking to our partners about how that just abandons the field around the world for china to move in and secure basing rights and mineral rights, because we're no longer in the development business around the world. so it started out just, i think, mostly democrats pushing back. but now you're starting to see republicans in different parts of the country who are deeply impacted. you've got my colleagues who are losing jobs in the forest service, and you've got other colleagues that are representing farm states and are losing export opportunities. so i think we're starting to see more bipartisan pushback. but one thing i think it's really important for the american people to understand that's really behind all this. why these cuts? why the urgency? why why is the trump administration and elon musk doing this? basically, they need to come up with trillions to fund a tax cut

for wealthy people and corporations. >> democrats are demanding an additional hearing to question trump's pick to lead the fbi, kash patel, alleging that he was involved in recent firings at the bureau and even may have perjured himself at his confirmation hearing. so a lot of his responses to you were not that i recall. well, any of this stall his confirmation. and do you think he's being put in place to take action against agents who may have worked on cases involving donald trump? >> well, we have whistleblower information, according to our ranking member, who that indicate that patel was deeply involved in the firing of these top level fbi agents and officers. and during the hearing, during his confirmation hearing, we asked him about this. did he have knowledge about this? and as you were saying, when i asked these questions in written form, his answers were not that i recall, not that i recall, not that i recall. now would be one thing if these were events that happened years earlier, that these were events that happened hours or days earlier. and for

him to say he doesn't remember was so duplicitous. so we want to bring it back in the committee. there are a lot of unanswered questions. also, about 1 to 5 million in stock options that he has, or a stock investment that he has in a chinese communist party funded company with a terrible record of using child labor and slave labor. so we have a lot of questions that he needs to come back and answer. will the republicans insist on that? probably not. he does seem to be poised to be confirmed, which is going to be a terrible tragedy for the country's preeminent law enforcement agency, but also for the american people, because it means that the fbi director is going to be focused on political witch hunts, not focused on keeping them safe. this is somebody who said he wanted to close down fbi headquarters on day one, who is really more suited as an internet troll than he is as fbi director, but

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>> i'm telling. >> you, it's invisible. >> on the skin. >> it works. >> like a dream. >> why didn't. >> someone think. >> of this sooner? >> today, a new house republican budget plan proposes trillions in tax cuts and potentially major cuts to medicaid and social assistance programs. but it faces an uncertain future in the senate. after the budget committee approved a resolution without addressing tax cuts. joining us now is investopedia editor in chief, our friend caleb silver. welcome, caleb. so this bill is seeing something of a renewal is how it's being seen of trump's 2017 tax bill. big picture. what does this mean for americans wallets and the economy and end goal. does it

benefit americans? >> well we're going to. >> get probably. >> if this goes through or some form of it goes through. >> the extension of the 2017. >> tax cuts. those did. >> favor most. >> income brackets. >> but especially high. >> earning americans. >> probably a lowering of the corporate. >> tax bill. >> good for the bottom line for corporations. probably good. >> for the. >> stock market and investors. but when you look at the. >> the. >> cost of this, is it about $4.5 trillion all in this bill. in tax cuts. and we're talking about, again. >> tax cuts. >> that help everybody. >> across the board, but especially those. >> making the most. >> and you're talking. >> about a more spending on some government services. but big reductions as you mentioned for medicaid and other things. they didn't specify what those reductions would be. but the ballpark figures around $880 billion over the next decade. >> that's a lot of money. >> that's for medicaid. that's the one that they're targeting with that $880 billion. that would be some deep some deep cuts. >> absolutely. >> and that's, you. >> know. >> 72 million. >> americans depending on it today. and the question is what will that mean to services going

forward if those cuts go through? >> okay. this week the president signed off on these new reciprocal tariffs. and that would be on all u.s. trading partners pending reviews. what would these look like? would they be more like the blanket tariffs that we were seeing with mexico and canada? what we see with china? i mean, how does this look. >> yeah. well. >> those in the case. >> of. >> canada, mexico were across the board tariffs 25%. >> they still proposed delayed right until. >> march 1st potentially. but these are reciprocal. >> meaning dollar. >> for dollar tariffs. and that's exactly. >> how president trump. >> described it. >> if they're going. >> to knock a 10% tariff on one of our imports, they're going to. >> 10% back. >> you got to. >> think about those products. >> that we do. >> trade with. >> like. >> europe, especially. >> one of our big trading partners. >> we're talking about fruit. we're talking about nuts. we're talking about steel, high quality. >> steel coming from britain. >> and on the way out. >> us cars and vehicles and a lot of. >> us made products. >> harley davidson's. >> think of things. >> like that, very. >> common consumer products. >> this is dollar. >> for dollar tariffs. >> but we know those.

>> are probably. >> going to come if. >> those companies countries don't back down. >> okay. thursday, donald trump said that he thinks prices could go up for americans before coming back down. but then you have mark zandi of moody's analytics, who predicts slower gdp growth by the end of this year, even slower growth next year, and then price increases for americans in 2025. would that support trump's claims that the prices are going to come back down? >> yeah, he. >> didn't say when. and we know that. >> tariffs are inflationary. >> full stop. >> so when you think about what they do. they pass. >> those mean higher costs. >> to the. >> importer or the importer passing those on to the consumer, the consumer having to pay more for that. and what the feeling is, is that the consumers are. >> going to get tapped out. >> slow down. spending and spending is 70% of gdp. tariffs also have this. >> way of messing up the supply chain. >> because companies don't know. >> how much to import, how much supply they need on hand, and they also have a way of. >> just slowing the overall. economy with uncertainty. and that's what we're seeing. so many announcements of. >> tariffs or. >> potential tariffs that.

>> companies, from. >> auto makers. >> to. >> big manufacturers to small businesses. cannot order inventory appropriately right now and plan. >> out the next. >> 6 to 12 months of their businesses. that slows down the economy as well. >> so the administration also cut thousands of these probationary employees. they also accepted tens of thousands of those who decided to resign in the federal buyout program. we're also seeing a surge of unemployment claims in dc. are there concerns such a large injection of unemployed people would shake the economy? >> absolutely. there's about 3. >> million government employees, give or take, in this country right now. they're not all going to lose their jobs. but when you see these types of cuts or threatened. >> cuts, you think. >> about those. >> that. >> work for the government. >> and that. >> is the dc. >> virginia. >> maryland area. but really across the country, in the south, there's a lot of government. >> jobs, but there's. >> a lot of contractors tied to these jobs as well. so when you think about every government agency, there's some 200,000 government contracting companies working with the government. we don't know what the fate of those is going to be. but when you look at something like a us

aid, which was turned upside. >> down. >> so many corporations and ngos around the world and here in the us were affected by that. that's what you end up seeing. you see this domino effect when you see layoffs in government, they do end up spilling over to other parts of the economy and other, other areas of the labor force. >> so what happens next month is we see the first trump administration, only economic reports. and i'm curious what you're looking for in that and what warning signs trump's economic plan may not be going the way he hopes it would. >> yeah, well, we just had the. >> january unemployment report the other day. 4% unemployment. that is very low unemployment in this country. i think that is going to be the high or the low water mark for that. we're going to see lots of layoffs, mounting layoffs across different sectors. the unemployment level is probably going to rise. we'll see what that does to consumer spending. we know retail spending was lower in january. that's a little bit of the end of the year, you know going into a new year. but the consumer. >> is pretty. >> tapped out right now. so when you hear this drumbeat of layoffs, the announcement of tariffs or potential tariffs, all of that creates uncertainty. uncertainty makes us spend less

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hala gorani is in tel aviv for us, where she's been very closely following today's events. hello. welcome. so describe what we've been hearing regarding the newest releases and how people are feeling after that truce almost fell apart earlier this week. >> there was, alex, a lot of concern that this truce would fall apart and that in fact, fighting would resume. that's what israel threatened when hamas said earlier in the week that israel had broken its promise to allow prefab houses, tents and heavy machinery into the besieged enclave and that therefore they would delay the release of these three hostages. it appears as though mediators made some assurances to hamas. and so the first phase, part of the first phase, the release of these three men, did indeed take place. we spent a big chunk of the day today at hostages square in tel aviv that has become kind of this nerve center for the hostage release movement. here

in israel. there was an american among the three, an israeli american, sagi cohen, 36 years old. horn as well, 46 years old. and there was a russian israeli who was released, sasha trufanov, a 29 year old. you mentioned big concerns going forward about whether or not this truce and this agreement that was hammered out between the two sides in mid january will hold. and what president trump has been saying over the last few weeks really has, has caused consternation, certainly on the palestinian side, this notion that he floated that america would just take over the gaza strip and have 2 million people move out. and then also when he made that comment a few days ago, that all the hostages should be released by noon today. otherwise, you know, israel should be free to do whatever it wants. all of these things are making negotiations, perhaps at the very least, slightly more complicated. alex,

the prime minister of this country, benjamin netanyahu, has said that at some point he will convene a meeting to discuss what the next steps are for israel and the newly minted secretary of state, marco rubio, has arrived in israel. he will. >> be. >> holding talks with the prime minister, presumably about the about the cease fire agreement, but also about iran, which has been very much in the headlines recently. alex. >> hala gorani, thank you so much. appreciate that report from tel aviv. meantime, the backlash against dei and how advocates are fighting back with their wallets. >> safelite repair. >> perfecting your swing is hard. >> nice shot. dad. oh, sleep like replace. >> but replacing your windshield doesn't have to be. go to safelite.com and we can come to you sick. our highly trained techs can replace your windshield where you are, even

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concerned about, if adams actually serves out his term as he says he's going to, and then he decides to run again as a democrat with all of this sitting, you know, in a fox news interview right next to tom homan, the border czar. >> yeah. i think that the public advocate, jumaane williams, has done a good job of trying to balance the conversation between innocent until proven guilty, and now we're starting to see a debacle. this is becoming a circus for the city of new york. and people did not vote for eric adams, who seems to be half, you know, republican, half democrat, maybe with donald trump, maybe not. that's not what folks are looking for. and so when it's time, if he does choose to run for office again, i think he's going to see that a lot of support that he's had, he will lose. >> let's turn to trump's anti-diversity initiatives, just ripping through the private sector as well as companies fearing losing federal contracts. they're they're facing investigations. what do you think is the broader impact

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response will be. but what we can also do in this moment is to look at these corporations and say, how much do we spend with you? and if you are choosing target, being one of the companies that i'm specifically involved in the boycott movement, for them, we can say if how much do we spend with you? and if you don't respect diversity, equity and inclusion, then we can pull our resources back and keep our money in our pockets. >> including spending those no spend days. absolutely don't spend. >> don't spend anything. >> there's one for amazon coming up on a whole week of other ones. let's talk about you and the book. because you've been involved in civil rights since you were, what, 15 years old? >> yes. well, even younger than that, my parents started me out when i was a toddler. >> so it brought you to where you are now in this book. you document in this book your evolution as an activist in this memoir. and i'm curious what you see as the biggest threat facing the american democracy. >> yeah. i mean, i think that what we talked about, everything in this segment is a part of it. but i also want us not to relax

as if this is normal. this is not normal. none of what we're seeing is normal. and we have to fight no matter who would be the president. people like me would have been outside, as they say. so it could have been kamala harris. we would have still been advocating for really, really important issues. but we cannot feel as if we can't win. if we are defeated and go home. we have to strategize. certainly, we're dealing with a much more hostile federal government, and therefore the way that we approach it has to be more strategic, but nonetheless, we don't get to sit down and either allow this to become normalized or just feel so defeated that we don't continue to do the work. so we'll still be out there, we'll still be organizing, and we're going to continue to do that. doesn't matter who's in elected office, all of them have to be pushed to address the issues of the communities that i represent. >> well, it is a book i lived to tell the story. the name indicates a little bit about it, but there are some raw parts. and tamika mallory,

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