andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," 12 protesters arrested after disrupting the opening of secretary of state blinken's testimony as he and defense secretary austin were trying to get congress to agree to support both israel and ukraine's military funds. [ yelling and chanting ] >> fighting for president biden's request, tieing funds for israel and humanitarian aid into gaza to ukraine, taiwan and securing the southern border. >> many are again making the bet that we are too divided, too distracted at home to stay the course. that's what's at stake with president biden's national security funding request. >> both israel and ukraine democrats are fighting ruthless foes who are out to annihilate them. we will not let hamas or putin win. >>> this as speaker mike johnson right out of the gate challenges the white house supporting military aid to israel but not to ukraine and paying for it by cutting money already approved for the president's irs crackdown on the super rich. >>> the defense secretary responding to more attacks against u.s

andrea mitchell picks up the news right now. >> and right now on "andrea mitchell reports" humanitarian aid is finally rolling into gaza from egypt but the death toll is increasing. this as nbc is reporting the biden administration has been urging israel leaders to delay their ground offensive in order to gain better intelligence, to clear military objectives and more time for negotiators to secure the release of hostages. >> what i can speak to is our icessant efforts from day one to try to get people home, to try to get them out of gaza back with their families and loved ones. that is continuing as we speak. this is something we're engaged in virtually around the clock. >>> plus nine new candidates for house speaker making their pitches at a private conference, the conference meeting this evening after a week of public feuding that is frustrating party insiders. >> this is not a time to play games. this is -- this is embarrassing for the republican party, it's embarrassing for the nation and we need to look at one another and solve the problem. >>> good day, everyone, i'm andrea mitch

andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," israel celebrating the release of two elderly women hostages, with one incredibly courageous 85-year-old describing her ordeal with her daughter translating. >> my mom is telling the horrific stories. while she was being taken, she was hit by sticks. there are a huge network of tunnels underneath. it looks like a spiderweb. my mom is saying they were friendly towards them and they took care of them. >> as top arab diplomats come to the u.n. pushing for a pause in israel's air strikes. secretary blinken tries to find common ground but agrees to the pause for the first time. >> we have to ask. indeed, it must be asked. where is the outrage? where is the revulsion? where is the rejection? where is the explicit condemnation of these horrors? no member of this council, no nation in this entire body could or would tolerate the slaughter of its people. >>> another trump co-defendant takes a plea deal, pleading guilty in the georgia election interference case. >> i believe in and i alue election int

andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. >>> and right now on "andrea mitchell reports," israeli forces pushing deeper into gaza with tanks and armored bulldozers executing what prime minister netanyahu is calling the next phase of their war with hamas. as the death toll mounts for palestinian civilians with survivors sifting through the rubble in a devastated gaza strip where internet and power cut off by israel friday night has now been partially restored after pressure from the white house. president biden also pressing prime minister netanyahu to safeguard americans trying to get out and allow substantially more humanitarian aid into gaza including fuel that israel warns would end up in the hands of hamas. >> the reason those trucks are moving is because of president biden's leadership. that flow of trucks needs to increase and increase substantially so that there is enough food, water, and medicine to get to innocent people in gaza who are badly in need of it. >> and as the fighting rages on, there are growing concerns for the safety of hundreds of hostages. some of them ame

"andrea mitchell reports," our special coverage continuing. secretary blinken in israel, conveying strong concerns from arab leaders over the siege denying gaza water, food and fuel. now staying in the region another day as the one possible escape for gazans is not open, despite promises. president biden canceled his scheduled trip to colorado to stay in d.c., stay at the white house and oversee the crisis. the white house is in touch with iran through back channels, we are told, to hold off any expansion of the war or else. >>> future u.s. aid for israel is on hold until the house republican majority can unite behind a new speaker, with the current frontrunner facing obstacles to securing the gavel. ♪♪ >>> good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington where the humanitarian crisis in gaza is worsening by the day. israeli troops are massed at the border. they are not moving into position for an assault. israel says the number of hostages has increased to 199. secretary blinken in israel today is extending his diplomacy, pressing to open the cros

i'm andrea mitchell in new york.gress is out for a week, but among republicans, the race for speaker is alrea in full ing. house republicans steve scalise and jim jordan are off and running. there are plenty of time for others to jump in. back in january, it took kevin mccarthy 15 roll call votes over four days to win after granting major concessions to the far right, including the one person threshold on the motion to vacate that opened the door to mccarthy's ultimate downfall at the hands of matt gaetz. in an nbc exclusive, jim jordan telling ali vitali, if he became speaker, he would let his fellow republicans decide whether or not to get rid of that controversial one person motion to vacate rule, which could also doom the next speaker. >> i tell you what, if that's the what conference wants to do, then i would support it. the question becomes, you have to all of us on board for that. i wouldn't go to democrats to get votes. they will want something. you have to do that within the republican conference. i do think

andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," manhunt. suspect robert card, wanted in connection to the mass murder of 18 people in maine, still at large. state, local, federal law enforcement chasing down more than 500 tips. so far, none pan out. including last night's dramatic search at his home and extensive property just 15 miles from the murder scenes. >> the safety of our community remains paraunt. i want to assure all that a tremendous amount of law enforcement manpower time and effort is being utilized around the clock in every effort to apprehend the suspect and safeguard this community. >> every minute this goes on, we are more concerned because what's the next thing that's going to happen? >> one big focus today is on the river near where he abandoned his car. he owned a boat and a jet ski. was there a water getaway from the massacre? families, friends and nearby communities are consumed by groove and fear with an accused killer on the loose. >> just innocent people, just innocent people out for a night of bowling. this was a

andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," a power vacuum after kevin mccarthy broke too many promises to both sides of the aisle. >> the office of speaker of the house of the united states house of representatives is hereby declared vacant. >> the first time in u.s. history, the speaker of the house is ousted from his leadership post by his own party. >> i will not run for speaker again. i might have been given a bad break, but i truly still consider myself to be the luckiest man on the face of the earth. >> with a small group of hard right republicans determined to fire mccarthy and his insults against democrats, no one would come to his rescue. >> we heard speaker mccarthy say that he wanted us to bring it on. i guess we did. kevin mccarthy is a feature of the swamp. >> who can bring the fractured republicans together to take the gavel? how will congress avoid a shutdown in a little over a month from now? i will speak to democratic congress member alyssa slotkin slotkin. >>> the judge in donald trump's civil trial issuing a limited

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i'm andrea mitchell in new york. speaker of the house of representatives could be ejected from his leadership post with the house coming back into session right now. speaker kevin mccarthy is in a political fight for his life as a member of his own party, representative matt gaetz, is pushing to oust him and has enough republicans lined up against the speaker to bring him down unless democrats come to the rescue. >> i have enough republicans where at this point next week, one of two things will happen. kevin mccarthy won't be the speaker of the house or he will be the speaker of the house working at the pleasure of the democrats. >> joining me now is garrett haake and former republican governor, congressman and presidential candidate, john kasich. garrett, none of us have seen anything like this. it's chaos up there today with different factions, both parties conferencing and coming out with different points of view. what do we know about whether mccarthy can survive this vote which could come up as soon as an hour f

andrea mitchell reports picks up right now. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports" trump on trial. >> this is what we have, it's a scam, it's a cham. >> the former president in court this hour in new york on a multi-million dollar civil fraud case that has business empire on the line. the new york attorney general may call him as a witness. >> my message is simple. no matter how powerful you are, no matter how much money you think you may have, no one is above the law. >>> also, deeper dysfunctions. speaker kevin mccarthy had to turn to democrats to avoid a shutdown just hours before the midnight saturday deadline. will democrats rescue him from the hard right-wing move to punish him by taking away his gavel? >> if somebody wants to make a motion against me, bring it. there has to be an adult in the room. i am going to govern with what is best for this country. >>> the latest on the effort to end his speakership with congress matt gaetz set to take the house floor at any moment. plus the back story of just how that last minute deal came together at the last minute to keep the gove

andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. >>> and right now on "andrea mitchell reports," game on. house members vying to replace kevin mccarthy will do a televised debate next week, defying advice from many republicans not to air the party's infighting in public. >>> job boom. today's jobs report blowing past predictions. the president set to speak any moment. we'll carry it live. >>> and border battle. the influx of migrants overwhelming border communities and northern cities alike. is that why the biden administration has started building a 20-mile stretch of donald trump's wall? >>> good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. congressman jim jordan, steve scalise, and kevin hern have all signed on for a televised debate monday night, as republicans struggle to find the next speaker of the house. fox news is set to host the debate before the gop's closed door forum on tuesday. it is a very unusual approach, especially following an unprecedented vote to remove kevin mccarthy and the decision to not air their dirty lenin in public. donald trump threw his weight behi

get caught off by this invasion andrea mitchell is next >>> we're back with perhaps the biggest question this hamas attack on israel has raised why didn't israel see it coming? especially given its scale. andrea mitchell now with that part of the story. >> reporter: clearly promoting what they see as a victory, hamas produced and edited a publicity video it says shows their fighters training to use paragliders to attack israel how could the celebrated israeli intelligence services and military be caught completely off guard many tonight calling it a monumental intelligence failure how did israel's vaunted intelligence network and military and the u.s. not see this coming? >> there were a lot of failures that led up to this. clearly, the israelis didn't have the either human or technical sources that gave them insight into this. this clearly was a failure of epic proportions. >> reporter: now questions about whether israel has been distracted by year-long protests dividing the country over the prime minister's controversial plan to overhaul their supreme court. even prompting many army re

andrea mitchell picks up with our special coverage right now. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," desperate hours for the hostages taken to gaza. families in communities holding out hope for the missing after the brutal hamas attack responsible now for more than 1,200 israeli deaths, as benjamin netanyahu forms a new unity government. veteran israeli soldiers describing the brutality they witnessed. >> it's something that i never saw in my life. it's something that we used to imagine as our grandfather and grandmother in europe and other places. >>> another wave of israeli missile strikes slamming gaza today. more than 1,000 have died. all signs point to a ground invasion from israel becoming imminent. president biden announcing the american death toll has risen to 14 and confirming that americans are among the hostages. >> as president, i have no higher priority than the safety of americans being held hostage around the world. >>> secretary austin today reinforcing the president's message. >> the united states continues to stand firm with israel and the israeli people. we will

andrea mitchell picks up our special coverage of the israel-hamas war right now. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," overnight, relentless israeli bombing of gaza in preparation for an expected ground assault. with the death toll mounting on all sides. 25 americans now confirmed dead along with nearly 1,300 israelis and more than 1,400 palestinians. secretary of state antony blinken arriving in tel aviv today, delivering a fervent declaration supporting israel and endorsing its mission to remove hamas from gaza. >> i come before you not only as the united states secretary of state but also as a jew. i understand on a personal level the harrowing echos that hamas' massacres carry for israeli jews, indeed for jews everywhere. hamas has only one agenda, to destroy israel and to murder jews. >> the secretary later comforting survivors of the had a -- hamas attack. >> first priority are our friends and family that are in gaza. we are strong here now in tel aviv and everywhere. [ cheers and applause ] thank you very much. >> we are thinking of them and trying to do everything we can. >>

andrea mitchell picks up with our special coverage right now. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," three strikes for jim jordan. the judiciary chairman suffering his worst defeat yet on the house floor in his flailing quest for the speakership leaving house republicans still searching for a leader. >>> this hour, reaction to president biden's primetime oval office appeal for $105 billion in military support for israel and ukraine. >> history taught us when terror i haves don't pay a price for their terror, when dictators don't pay a price, they keep going. the cost and the threats to america and the world keep rising. >> the president pushing back on congressional critics balking. >> it's a smart investment that's going to pay for american security for generations, keep us american troops out of harm's way. >>> reaching out to muslims at home, feeling the pain of islamaphobia. >> you are hurting. i want you to know, i see you. you belong. i want to say this to you, you are all american. you are all american. >> threats mount to u.s. troops in baghdad. new signs that israel's grou

i'm andrea mitchell in washington where a lot of news is breaking.se republicans are punting after two weeks of failed attempts to find a permanent replacement for ousted speaker kevin mccarthy. the new propoal is to give temporary speaker patrick mchenry the power until january to move legislation to the floor so that bills can be passed, while jordan only suspends his nomination, working over the next few months to try to get more votes. joining us now is nbc senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake and brendan buck, a former senior advisor to house speakers john boehner and paul ryan. garrett, from my understanding of this proposal, which has been kicking around for the last 24 hours, after it became apparent that jordan was not going to go over the top that this would require them getting enough votes to give mchenry that power. the democrats, who are meeting right now, they want to know whether or not the debt ceiling deal that was agreed to by everybody in july, by all the leaders and the white house, would be followed by mchenry rather

andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," more drama on the house floor this hour. louisiana republican mike johnson, an lection denier who helped craft the objections on january 6, he is next in line, chosen last night by the republicans in a private meeting when a more experienced lawmaker, tom emmer, failed just because of donald trump's opposition. >>> in the israel/hamas war, back channel negotiations continue for the terror group to free more of the 200 hostages still being held. international pressure is growing on israel for humanitarian cease-fire to stop air strikes. jordan's foreign minister from a speech at the u.n. will join me as well as israel's government advisor. >>> president biden hosting a state visitor. the prime minister of australia, a major u.s. military and intelligence ally, with a red carpet welcome on the south lawn and a news conference this afternoon. >> we are starting with israel against hamas terrorism. we are standing with ukraine against putin's tyranny. democracy can deliver. ♪♪ >>> good day, everyone

the terrorist attack on israel at the same time, iran's supreme leader praised those behind it andrea mitchell joins us andrea, the u.s. still quite concerned about iran's potential role. >> exactly, lester tonight, the aircraft carrier the "gerald r. ford" is in the eastern mediterranean to warn iran not to widen the war. national security adviser jake sullivan says they still don't have proof that iran was directly responsible. today, iran's supreme leader, the ayatollah khamenei, denied iran was behind the attack, claiming that those saying so are wrong, but he added, "we kiss the hands of those who planned the attack." and whether tehran ordered the attacks or not, most experts agree it's a distinction without a difference iran has armed and trained hamas for 30 years. and without iran, there would be no hamas. lester >> andrea mitchell, thank you. >>> president biden did not mince his words today as he described the terrorist attacks. peter alexander is at the white house, and peter, this was a strong condemnation. >> lester, this was the most forceful we have seen president biden condemn

andrea mitchell picks up with our special coverage right now. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," full house. republican speaker candidate jim jordan takes his chances on the floor with a vote signaling he has picked up support and is getting closer to the magic number of 217 votes to win the gavel. >> reporter: do you think you have the votes on the floor today? >> we feel really good. we need to get a speaker today. we feel really good about where we are at. >> steve kornacki will be with me to break down the vote from the big board. the latest nbc reporting on the breaking news that president biden will leave tonight for israel and jordan to get humanitarian aid moving into gaza, work on releaing the hostages, and how gaza will look if hamas is removed. hamas released a video of a hostage. the question, is it a signal that the terror group might be willing to deal? ♪♪ >>> good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. a big day where the house is in session and ohio congressman jim jordan is the man of the hour. the judiciary chairman's bid for speaker is gaining stea

i'm andrea mitchell in washington. israel warning 5:00 p.m. eastern, midnight in israel. the death toll is staggering. the civil yap is dire. 40 now, palestinians. supplies of food and water are running out. children wounded by shrapnel from the bombings. >> this 10-year-old girl was hit by shrapnel. her brother lies under a tent. they ran out of bed days ago. >> the ferocity of the attack, the number of patients, the children that are brought in are brought in with crush injuries from collapsed buildings or shrapnel or debris. there needs to be a stop to the bombing, and there needs to be a humanitarian corridor. >> nbc foreign correspondent raf sanchez filed this report moments ago from israel. >> reporter: israel today issuing an unprecedented evacuation order for palestinian civilians telling them to evacuate the entire northern half of gaza. israel says that area is full of hamas military targets and that it will be intensively striking there. but that area is also home to more than a million palestinian civilians, and there is nowhere for them to run. the israeli bo

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we get more from andrea mitchell. >> reporter: videos showing jewish students scared inside a cooper union college library, as pro-palestinian protesters pounded on the door, shouting "free palestine. anti-israel slogans projected at night on campus buildings at george washington university in downtown washington a jewish man describes a home invasion in los angeles. he says the attacker was shouting this -- >> "free palestine," "we need to kill the israeli people." >> reporter: an alarming surge in anti-semitic incidents in the u.s. since the hamas terror attack in israel, and israel's air strikes in gaza. according to the anti-defamation league, up 388% over the same period last year to what do you attribute it >> when you dehumanize and demonize israelis and jews, it leads to anti-jewish sentiment around the world and we've seen how anti-semitism has been normalized here in the united states. >> reporter: palestinian groups also reporting incidents against them the most devastating, the murder of 6-year-old wadea a fayoume and stabbing of his mother. chicago police say by their la

andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> that's "nightly news" for this friday. thank you for watching i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night >>> right now on "nbc bay area news tonight," our october heat isn't going away just yet. we're tracking how hot it's going to get this weekend and when we finally will cool down. >>> also, the blue angels putting on quite a show with crowds of people

did it because of interest and curiosity. >> reporter: and the joy of saving millions of lives andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington >> that's "nightly news" for this monday. thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night >> right now, nbc bay area news tonight, a deadly drowning at this daycare. you see the pool there. two children dead. what happened and is the daycare licensed? and the missing swimmer get attacked by a shark? the search continues in the

here's andrea mitchell >> reporter: the nobel prize in medicine, the last thing a pair of scientistsand picked up and was talking to somebody and he just hand it over and said this is for you. >> reporter: did you believe it at first >> not really, you know, because people, you know, can make joke. >> i also thought it was a prank or an anti-vax joke or something. >> reporter: especially surprising because their work had been ignored or ridiculed for decades. theywere working at different departments at the university of pennsylvania when they discovered each other at the copying machine. >> i have to say discovering each other was the real reward >> reporter: we spoke to them two years ago when the covid vaccines were becoming more available. talk to me how skeptical people were about the value of rna. >> i don't know, did we listen to them? not really >> everybody was skeptical we didn't care >> reporter: together they found a way to create a vaccine that got past the body's defenses but still prompted the immune system to make anti-bodies. now their discoveries are leading to vacc

. >>> let's bring in andrea mitchell, our chief foreign affairs correspondent. andrea, there are always tensions in this region, but why did hamas launch this attack now? >> reporter: that's such a good question, jose. u.s. officials have been asked if iran, which funds hamas, may have had a hand in this. the reason, to derail recent momentum which would be an historic diplomatic agreement between israel and saudi arabia. a deal that would have huge impacts in the region. president biden has told prime minister netanyahu he could support it if it protects palestinian land rights. iran, however, very much opposes the deal. iran's president made that clear to nbc's lester holt in an exclusive interview last month, telling him that saudi diplomatic recognition of israel will not create security for iran. a war in the region, of course, will likely slow that down or totally derail that deal, jose. >> and staying, andrea, on iran, republicans are suggesting that the billions of dollars now being returned to iran as part of that prisoner swap may have led to this. >> r

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andrea mitchell reports," southern israel under renewed attack today. hamas firing rockets from gaza into ashkelon. >> in the last couple of minutes, we have seen dozens, maybe more than dozens of rockets fired at this city as hamas said would happen. so far it seems the israeli missile defense systems have been able to contain this attack, at least as far as we can report from what we are seeing. >> richard engel on the front lines. this as the u.s. officials describe the terrorist group's tactics against israelis and american citizens as i.s.i.s. level savagery. >> she was terrified. she was saying, mommy, we are trying to get out of here, but i'm bleeding. we were shot. everybody here was shot. she said, mommy, i'm afraid i will die. i said, no, you are not going to die. then i heard shooting all around very close to the car and started hearing voices in arabic talking to each other, shouts at each other. i was so afraid. >> we are waiting for sagi to come home. we do not know what fate he met along as i said with dozens of other people. so you under

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andrea mitchell, foreign affairs correspondent for nbc news, and peter baker, clues chief white houseondent for the new york times. so i want us to start with this broad question, because i think we've all been trying to make sense of what is different here. we've seen conflicts for decades, we've seen escalating conflicts over the last couple of years. andrea, i want to start with you. i want to understand what is different about the last 24 hours. >> what's different is that this is first of all a ground invasion, air, sea, and land. never before have they gotten beyond the tunnels. they got through the border of the most tightly controlled border anywhere in the region is that border between gaza and southern israel. they got through that. they were re-supplied from the sea, as they have been in the past. but they landed, the paragliders. this was organized, and it is organized without any intelligence being picked up by either israel, or the u.s.. so, arguably, both countries distracted by domestic concerns, political concerns, and morale in the idf, the israeli army, and in the i

i'm andrea mitchell in washington. secretary of state anthony blick ken is in israel after shutting to saudi arabia and egypt over the weekend and giving strong pushback to israel's siege of gaza, denying aid and need to minimize the casualties. gaza residents facing a difficult choice, whether to flee devastated areas for humanitarian corridors that are still not open or stay and risk being caught in the crossfire. president biden canceling a planned trip to colorado to keep the focus on the developments from israel and weighing an invitation from prime minister benjamin netanyahu to visit israel at some point. we're following the other big breaking news in washington. district court judge tanya chutkan has issued a narrow gag order on former president trump and other defendants, prohibiting all parties from targeting prosecutor jack smith and court staff. nbc's raf sanchez is near with israel-gaza border. nbc's matt bradley in lebanon. and chief bureau chief ali arouzi in iran. matt, new comments from a top israeli o

did it because of interest and curiosity. >> reporter: and the joy of saving millions of lives andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington >> that's "nightly news" for this monday. thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night ♪ don't bring me bad news, no bad news i don't need none of your bad news today ♪ you're a sad little boy, anyone can see you're just a sad little boy that's why you're carrying on that way ♪ why don't you burn it all down, burn your own house down burn your own house down ♪ try to kill your own disease and leave the rest of us there's a lot of us leave the rest of us ♪ who want to live in peace to live in peace ♪ i'm going to find me a man, love him so well love him so strong love him so slow ♪ we're gonna go way beyond the walls of this fortress ♪ and we'll grow kindness in our hearts for all the strangers among us ♪ till there are no strangers anymore ♪ don't bring me bad news, no bad news i don't need none of your bad news today ♪ you can't have my fear, i've got nothing to lose can't have my fear, i'm not getting

andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >> that's "nightly news" for this monday.ter holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night. >>> two children drown in the backyard of a day care in san jose. what police and parents are saying about this

special edition of "andrea mitchell reports," israel orders a full siege of the gaza strip poundinghamas with new missile strikes after saturday's shocking surprise attack by air, sea, and ground, described as the first full-scale invasion from hamas into southern israel in history. more than 1,000 people are dead on both sides including at least nine americans. hamas is also claiming to have more than 100 military and civilian hostages including men, women, and children, and some americans who could be used as human shields and bargaining chips. yuni asher is among those pleading for the return of his wife and daughters after they were taken by hamas. >> my wife, my daughter raz less than 5 years old, and my little baby girl, less than 3 years old, they're just little babies. they're not even girls. i don't even know if they ate enough, if they're cold or hot, if they're hurt. >> i'll be speaking to more family members of those taken hostage along with israeli and palestinian officials, military experts, and diplomats, and former cia director john brennan on what was iran's role. h

joining me now is msnbc's andrea mitchell. ael and the occupation. how concerning is this attack on israel for the united states? >> there is no more important issue right now. i was just talking to an utterly official here at the embassy. their main concern is to try to retake the, at least, three villages in southern israel. which have been occupied by hamas. also, to try to recover, of course, the kidnapped israelis, including women and children, she said, who are in gaza. that is the prime concern. the question later asked you how this could've happened, how israel could've been taken by surprise, one of the key components is it with land, sea, in the air. the fact that they were paragliding in. occupying villages in southern israel is completely unprecedented. this is a top concern of the national security council and secretary of state. right now and we do not have a sitting ambassador in israel because the previous ambassador had resign. there was a nominee, former treasury secretary, jack lieu. he has also had major exp

i want to go now to nbc's andrea mitchell. obviously, andrea, the concern along has been a risk of escalation in the region. they were very careful to say with these strikes they are not directly related to the israel-hamas conflict. but talk about the larger concerns and also the ongoing diplomatic efforts to make sure that things do not get worse. >> reporter: that's exactly the point, kris. tonight when the strikes were announced, the secretary of state was in a dinner meeting after all day meetings or afternoon meetings i should say with chinese counter parts, these high level meetings long awaited for high level china official to arrive in washington since the administration took office. and clearly this is aimed at setting up a bilateral meeting next month with president xi coming to san francisco. importantly what secretary blinken said add the united nation on tuesday is when he met with wang yi this week and the meetings will continue tomorrow morning, he wanted to push china to talk to him, to urge him to pressure ira

so that's their defense. >> nbc news chief foreign correspondent, andrea mitchell. rea, thank you so much. >> our coverage of the coverage continues after a quick break. jack jacobs weighs in on the military operations, israeli leaders are weighing in right now. on what could come next. plus, the attack in context, we look at the simmering conflict which led to this very moment. or the amazing new iphone 15 pro! (jason) sean! do you mean this one - the one with titanium? (sean) no way i can trade this busted up thing for one. (jason) maybe stealing wishes from the birthday boy is not your best plan -- switch to verizon and trade in any iphone and get the new iphone 15 pro on them. (sean) what!? (jason) yup, and on an amazing network (sean) and i don't have to ruin anymore birthday parties! (jason) yeah, that ship has sailed... let's go get you the iphone. here we go, come on hon. (vo) trade in any iphone in any condition for a new iphone 15 pro on us. only on verizon. you know that feeling of having to rewash dishes that didn't get clean? i don't. cascade platinum pl

i want to go to the state department where andrea mitchell is there inside the room where we expect to minute now. we know these hostages have been released now, these two women. we know that they are safe in israel at this point. what we don't know is anything else about the negotiations to get them out. i have to imagine that is going to be something that you and the other reporters there will press the secretary of state on. >> that's a great question. that's exactly what we're going to be asking, hallie. the interesting sentence in president biden's release, his statement from the white house, was that qatar, the country of qatar, in partnership with israel, he thanked them in partnership with israel, meaning that this was from the american perspective, at least, both qatar and israel working together to make this happen and just going back a few days, you know, just a week ago or six days ago, the secretary of state was on that shuttle diplomacy, going to qatar. that's what the focus was. he said the primary focus, the top priority for the president and the secretary, one of the c