>> all right, richard engel for us.rd, we thank you for that. >>> in 60 seconds, as we continue to track the plane crash, there's new concern as the trump administration lays off hundreds of faa workers. why some worry those cuts could be too deep. that's next. on chewy, save 35% and shop all your favorite brands. for any taste, or any diet, at prices you love. delivered fast. for low prices, for life of pets, there's chewy. >>> we're back now with questions on air safety. the trump administration has fired hundreds of faa employees part of it is effort to reshape the federal workforce. here's kelly o'donnell. >> with alarming real world incident, the public safety faces an internal test as the federal workforce is under scrutiny and hit with job cuts. president trump's department of government efficiency and elon musk's doge team continue to make cuts including at the federal aviation administration. close to 300 faa employees terminated this weekend according to a union that represents rkers there. 28-year-old jason k

richard engel is standing by. the white house says president trump floated this idea as a temporary solution. what are you hearing from people in the region? >> reporter: so he may have floated it, but it crashed in the middle east. i spoke to several senior arab leaders, ask they all described it with horror and disgust. one official asking, why was it even necessary? why would you have to even forcibly remove palestinians simply to do reconstruction? they could stay in one part of gaza, while building takes plais in another area. one official said that this proposed plan is really tantamount to ethnic cleansing. jordan and egypt have peace treats with israel. have said they won't be party to depopulating the gaza strip. and at the end of the day, lester, it boils down to trust. palestinians don't believe that if they're forced out, they will ever be allowed to return. >> reporter: richard engel, thank you. let's turn to president trump's federal shake up. with one being placed on leave. and cia employees now bei

richard engel is on the frontlines. >>> single engine planes collided.we are learning about the latest fatal aviation accident. >>> doge employees working inside the pentagon. nbc news reports the defense secretary may dismiss top military generals. the showdown one month into trump's presidency. >>> the winter storm sending temperatures plunging below zero. rescues from freezing water in virginia. parts of the south under states of emergency. >>> just in, new ruling in the idaho college murders. the evidence allowed in. >>> the arrest in a string of burglaries targeting celebrities and pro athletes, including travis kelce and patrick maholmes. >>> good news tonight, the mother/son duo making history on the basketball court. >>> this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. welcome. the world has been virtually turned upside down in the war between ukraine and its russian invaders. with american president trump sharply turning against ukrainian president zelenskyy. in a social media post, trump labeling zelenskyy, who is the democratical

richard engel, kharkiv, ukraine. >>> now to weather. frosty temperatures are still hanging around. but a warmup is on the way. let's go to angie lassman for the weekend outlook. it's going to be warm and balmy, right? >> i was just going to say we should put warm in quotes. it will be warmer. but i don't know about balmy. we've got 72 million people under cold weather alerts extending from the central plains to the southeast. we've got another morning chilly conditions. even the northern plains, you're still into the single digits. minneapolis has been a brutal couple days for you guys. we'll still see single digits. and new orleans, 35 degrees with the wind chill clocking in in the mid-20s. by this afternoon we'll start to see a little improvement. upper 40s for savannah, 37 for dallas, 27 for st. louis. as we get into the weekend, notice this is saturday. we start to get temperatures kind of getting back to normal or even above normal. 50 degrees for rapid city. that's going to feel great. 35 for chicago, big improvement there. 50 for dallas. you see this kind of trend as we get

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richard engel has the latest. >> reporter: president zelenskyy today welcomed president trump's envoy, retired general keith kellogg. ukraine hopes the visit will change president trump's opinions on the war with russia, who started it, and how to end it. but no press conference. it was canceled at the request of the american se, according to a ukrainian official. apparently, to avoid uncomfortable questions about relations between zelenskyy and trump. >> a dictator without elections. >> reporter: president trump this week falsely called zelenskyy a dictator and said he started the war with russia, even though russia invaded ukraine. zelenskyy in turn accused trump of repeating russian propaganda. national security adviser mike walz today called zelenskyy ungrateful. >> it's unacceptable. they need to tone it down. >> reporter: then zelenskyy did tone it down, posting, "i am grateful to the united states for all the assistance," adding, "what's important is that american strength isis felt." but at a school 40 feet below ground, to protect children from russian attacks in the eastern

richard engel reports now from ukraine. >> reporter: president trump went on the attack against ukraine's zelenskyy. he called zelenskyy a dictator without elections, continuing with what seemed like a naked threat. zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a country left. in the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the war with russia. it's a pattern. on tuesday, president trump blamed zelenskyy for starting the war, even though it was russia that invaded ukraine three years ago. >> he should have never started it. you could have made a deal. >> reporter: president zelenskyy isn't taking it quietly. he said president trump is in a disinformation bubble, suggesting he is following russian propaganda. mike pence said, mr. president, ukraine did not start this war. russia launched a brutal invasion, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. the road to peace must be built on the truth. this is far more than just a war of words or a clash of personalities. ukrainian troops depend on american support. to defend against russian attacks. without u.s. help, ukraine woul

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nbc's sahil kapur is reporting from capitol hill, and we'll get a report from richard engel to sahil.st to you, though, we've got one republican senator, thom tillis of north carolina now on the record with a strongly worded reminder about who putin is. it shouldn't be notable. and yet, because of trump's posture towards putin, it is. and here we are. >> yeah. that's right, ali, we're seeing this rare pushback to trump come from a host of spaces on the right, including longtime conservative commentators, right leaning publications like the one you just showed there, as well as republicans in congress, some of them, at least, who don't accept trump's characterization of the situation. they don't accept his comments attacking zelensky as the dictator while taking a light touch to vladimir putin. that includes centrists like susan collins of maine. it includes representatives like brian fitzpatrick and don bacon, who both have a military background themselves. and then there's senator thom tillis, who's generally an ally of president trump. take a listen to how he described this. >> whoe

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richard engel is joining me from lisbon. peter baker is the new york times chief white house correspondent. and elise jordan served in george w bush's white house and state department. both peter. and elise are msnbc political analyst. so, kelly, are you hearing anything from inside the white house that the president is rethinking any of this based on the reaction that's been coming in? >> not so far. he has already said today that, quote, everybody loves it, referring to his idea. i don't know who specifically he's referring to there when he calls it everybody. he did not want to go into greater detail and said he would likely talk about it more later today. we're also waiting on the white house press briefing with caroline leavitt. perhaps we'll have some more insight there. so often this president telegraphs ideas in advance, and the clues were present in what you just played in the oval office, which preceded the press conference, where then the president read his remarks that outlined this idea for the first time public

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richard engel is in kharkiv and joins us now. the u.s. has been one of ukraine's closest allies. have soured so quickly. what are you hearing? how are ukrainians responding? >> reporter: well, there's a reaction from the ukrainian people. the ukrainian people are watching this with deep concern. the u.s. has been the essential ally for ukraine for the last three years. the ukrainian military has fought long and hard battles. the ukrainian population have pulled together. almost everyone here volunteers in some way to help the national cause. you can't go to a shop and they're not selling bracelets or t-shirts to support the army or some volunteer group. without u.s. support, most ukrainians understand they probably would have lost more territory, if not the entire country to russia. russia's a much bigger adversary and has more troops. it's just a larger enemy they're having to fight. they're very nervous that president trump seems to be abandoning ukraine. i spoke to ukrainian civilians today at an underground school here. they still go to school here in shelters because there a

richard engel from jerusalem. >> reporter: this is the moment that she first saw her husband alive afterearly 500 days in gaza. it was like he had returned from the dead. soon, the two were reunited. the last time the israeli american saw his wife, he locked her in a safe room in their home and went off to fight hamas gunmen to captured him. she was pregnant with their third daughter, and he saw her, now 1, the first time today. we attended a viewing party in southern israel, where his friends watched live on israeli tv as hamas fighters handed over three hostages to the red cross. joy and relief as they popped champagne. the hostages looked relatively well, able to walk, not emaciated like some of the other freed hostages. this latest release almost didn't happen. negotiations and threats continued right until the last minute. now that it has, his friends, supporters and colleagues are emotional and excited. last week, hamas announced it wouldn't go ahead with today's hostage release, claiming israel wasn't living up to its end of the ceasefire. president trump said israel should resume

dictator or who said falsely, that it was ukraine that launched the war against russia. >> richard engel, thank you so much. and we just got those new images. >> in of this meeting. >> underway now between. >> president zelensky. and the u.s. envoy to. >> ukraine, general. >> keith kellogg, there. >> and we're told that any remarks that they were. >> expected to make before. >> cameras are not. >> going. >> to happen. >> so these images are what we're left with. will, of course, be. >> on. >> top of any readout that comes after. >> this meeting. >> igor, i. mentioned that new. >> nbc news. exclusive reporting about. >> the tensions. >> boiling over between ukraine. >> and the. >> us, including the private comments from the defense secretary. where does all of this leave ukraine this morning? and what's your biggest. concern about your country's lasting security? >> well. >> i'm obviously concerned. >> and at the same time, you. >> know, we're. >> actually witnessing the opposite in ukraine, witnessing a major rally around the flag effect. i mean, people are uniting behind zelenskyy. and

nbc's chief foreign correspondent, richard engel is reporting on this for us.do we know, richard, about this release? >> so things have moved. >> here quite. significantly in the last 24 hours. >> or so. >> the anticipation as of. >> earlier this week was that the war was going to. >> resume, that the ceasefire was going to collapse. president trump was talking about how israel should go ahead and reinvade gaza resume its military offensive. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, was saying exactly the same. that is because hamas, up until very recently, up until yesterday, was saying that it wasn't going to release any more hostages, as you know, that this this ceasefire deal is quite slow, and it sees hamas releasing hostages in small batches in exchange for aid and in exchange for political negotiations. and hamas and other observers have been saying that israel hasn't been living up to its side of the bargain. israel hasn't been allowing in sufficient aid, hasn't been engaging in the next round of negotiations. israel acknowledged it hasn't started

nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is inside of ukraine for us.rd, how's this going over? >> there? >> well, i. can say. >> that ukrainians are. >> very nervous. >> the ukrainian government officials. >> that. >> i've been speaking. >> to are. >> watching this. >> this is not how they. >> want the. >> peace process to go. they do want a peace agreement, but. they are worried that president trump is stacking. this against them. they look at this delegation that is going to hold. talks with russian officials in saudi arabia. you see them now on your screen, already assembled in riyadh, the capital of saudi arabia. this is president trump's inner circle, marco rubio, the secretary of state, his personal envoy, witkoff national security advisor. walts, the people that trump has tasked with dealing with gaza, people he's tasking now with trying to end this war in ukraine. and the fact that they are first meeting with the russian side, the fact that president trump has already spoken at length with president putin, that the fact that the ukrainians are

. >> joining us now from eastern ukraine is nbc's richard engel. also with us is steven pifer, former us ambassador to ukraine under president clinton. he is also a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institute. richard, what's. >> this back. >> and forth? the president of the united. >> states more than once. >> calling the president of ukraine a dictator. how is that playing out there? >> well. >> ukrainians don't want to be in this fight. ukrainians don't believe that they started this fight. they don't believe that there is a back and forth. the way it's seen here is that president trump has gone on the offensive, that president trump has decided he's trying to harm zelensky. he's trying to take him down a notch. he's trying to perhaps force him to the negotiating table or force him to be more flexible. and what president zelensky's office believes is that this goes down to that deal. you were just talking about that that that mineral deal and a senior ukrainian official described the scene to me. he said that the treasury secretary came

. >> joining us now, nbc's chief foreign correspondent, richard engel in ukraine, nbc's garrett haig from the white house. and kevin tibbles, former nbc news correspondent and the writer and reporter of the new documentary putin's endgame. the stakes beyond ukraine. so, richard, as these talks are set to get underway in saudi arabia, russia continues to attack ukraine's civilian infrastructure. what's the latest where you are right now? >> well. >> there were more attacks in this area overnight. there are widespread power outages all across southern. ukraine because russian forces are using drones. >> they're using ballistic. >> missiles to attack the energy grid here, trying to freeze people into submission. it is one of the tactics that we've seen, seen russia use for the last three years. and it is, particularly in these winter months, a particularly. cruel policy going after the civilian population, because there are many children, there are many elderly people here who suffer greatly when you cut the cut the power, cut the heat, cut the water. so, so this is a place that i think

richard engel in kharkiv, thank you so much for joining us. joel, i want to turn to you now because, you know, we've got trump blaming blaming ukraine for getting invaded, essentially. you know, they're blaming the country that was invaded. but not all republicans are on board. we have actually heard some pushback. i think we've got some sound we're going to show you. >> make no mistake about it, that invasion was the responsibility of one human being on the face of this planet. it was vladimir putin. >> it is quite. >> clear who started the war. >> it was absolutely. >> russia at putin's directive. >> i don't. >> think that there should be. >> any confusion. >> with that. >> putin is a gangster. >> he's a gangster with. >> a black heart. >> and as i've said in another context. >> i wouldn't. >> trust this guy. like i trust gas. >> stations, sushi. >> i mean, leave it to senator kennedy. he always comes up with a sound bite. but look, this is a serious issue. and we've got we've also got senate majority leader john thune saying when it comes t

. >> richard engel. >> also with us, nbc news. >> senior national. >> security correspondent courtneyand joel rubin. former deputy assistant secretary of state. so, richard. russia firing drones into. ukraine overnight as these talks are beginning or set to begin later tomorrow. what do we know about how these separate discussions with russia and ukraine are expected to unfold? >> so it is happening very quickly. president trump had said that he would end this war quickly, that he would quickly enter into negotiations to stop the fighting. and we know that he already had that long conversation with vladimir putin and then these these talks came quite quickly, and we didn't know exactly that they were going to take place in in saudi arabia. we didn't know who would be involved. it was only today that russia finally confirmed that. >> the. >> russian foreign minister, sergei. >> lavrov. >> would be attending. >> and coincidentally. >> president zelensky, ukraine's president, is in the middle east at the moment. >> on a previously. scheduled trip. he is not, however, set to. take part in

. >> joining us now is nbc's richard engel. he is in eastern ukraine.retired four star general and nbc news military analyst, and hagar chemali, former spokesperson for the u.s. mission to the un and the treasury department, as well as the former director for syria and lebanon at the white house national security council under president obama. richard, what's the latest on the ground there? and that soldier or member of the armed forces one way or another? it was an interesting way of describing it, the lesser of two evils. >> so that soldier and i'll give you a little context. he was at a rehabilitation center. he spent much of the last three years in some of the worst battlefields in this country, right along the russian border. places like avdiivka, bakhmut, where there are daily battles. and he's now getting some treatment for ptsd and other, other conditions related to, to the intense combat that he's seen. and he's speaking from a practical point of view. he's seen what the russians can bring to the battle. he's seen how difficult it is for russia

. >> nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent, richard engel, is joining me now from inside ukraine. richard, welcome. so what do we know about this meeting in kyiv? and why did a press conference that was scheduled get canceled? >> well, i. >> think. >> it has. >> to do with. >> exactly the subject you were talking about. there has been a very public fight, mostly a one way fight from president trump attacking president zelensky over the last several days. president zelensky clearly annoyed president trump when he pushed back, and president zelenskyy said that it sounded like president trump was echoing russian propaganda when he said that his words was that president trump is caught in an information space or trapped in an information bubble, depending on how you translate it. and president that that that annoyed president trump. president trump responded with even more attacks, calling him a dictator, saying that he hadn't been properly elected, that he's running through martial law, that he's been conning the united states out of money, billions of dollars over the years. today,

joining us now from eastern ukraine is nbc's richard engel.hard, how are the president's comments resonating there in ukraine? >> hello, jose. >> i'm having a little bit. >> of an audio issue right now, but i can tell you these latest comments reflect a. much worsening relationship between president trump and zelensky. >> and that was. >> something that was to be anticipated, that. president trump, during his inauguration, during his first term in office. never seemed to be impressed with president zelensky, didn't seem to like him. and this is now starting to play out. for a while, president zelensky wasn't pushing back. president zelensky in interviews that i did with him and others, was really trying to avoid taking on president trump was doing his best to flatter the president. but it seems that the way that these negotiations have begun have really made him uncomfortable. and now you're starting to see president zelensky starting to put his foot down, make much stronger statements. and now trump is responding. so the relationship between

richard engel in kharkiv for us, richard, thank you.oining us now, editor of the insider, michael weiss. michael, it's really good to have you. it's not even just ukraine. it's western europe that is suddenly feeling like they've lost an ally. you had that emergency informal meeting with western leaders in paris the other day. what position are they now in with donald trump and vladimir putin negotiating without anybody else involved? >> well. >> i think it's sort of a. >> mixture of. >> emotions and. >> trying to get to the bottom. >> of what's really going on here. i've spoken to european intelligence officials who say. >> you know, look, we're unclear. >> there's a lot of contradictory lines of communication. >> a. >> lot of chaos, and we don't actually see a deal coming together just yet. so we're. in sort of a wait and see mode. that said, i also spoke to european officials who think that the united states is. objectively and subjectively. now on russia's side. i mean, to me. >> the writing. >> has been. >> on the. >> wall for quit

richard engel, thank you very much for the live report. the vatican says pope francis is resting and his condition remains stable as he is battling pneumonia in both lungs. it's going to bbc's claudio lavanga, who is in rome for us, where the pope is hospitalized. claudio. so i think this sounds like at least a bit of good news. give us the latest. >> hey, alex. yes. it sounds like good news. in the last hour, the vatican said that the clinical condition of the pope is now stable. and the blood tests, the latest blood tests reveal that there is a slight improvement, especially when it comes to the inflammatory markers, meaning essentially, that the treatment is working and the pope is responding well to it, to the point that the vatican said in a statement that in the morning he had breakfast and then he went along. he went about working, doing some work with his closest collaborators in the hospital. the statement also said that he received a visit in the afternoon today by the italian prime minister, giorgia meloni, and they spent about

joining us now, historian jeffrey engel. he's director of the center for presidential history at southern methodist university. also joining us, cnn senior political commentator and former republican congressman from illinois, adam kinzinger. kinzinger, congressman kinzinger, let me start with you. why do you think trump is saying these things about ukraine and zelenskyy? >> because, look. >> zelenskyy said something mean about him and because donald. >> trump truly. >> believes this. >> let's be clear. can we get. >> past this idea that trump. >> is playing chess and he's really. >> just getting europe. >> to step up? >> he has said over and over that he is he has an affection. towards russia. he said he has an affection towards vladimir putin. it's time for us to believe him. and the crazy thing here, jake, is russia is losing this war. they've lost. twice as many men, casualty wise, as the u.s. did in world war two, and they have nothing to show for it. and donald trump is giving them a lifeline. >> jeffrey, you were quot

joining now from kharkiv, ukraine, is nbc's chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. richard, is this national security adviser comment that zelensky is going about to sign this agreement with the united states? is that seem like it's possible? >> it does seem like it's possible. we don't know exactly what the deal is going to say, but the ukrainians are indicating that they are flexible to signing some sort of deal. they want an investment deal. when you listen to what president zelensky said last night, he said that security agreements and economic agreements must go hand in hand. so certainly he's not rejecting it outright. and i've been speaking to senior ukrainian officials and they've been saying and listening what president zelensky has been saying. and their main issue wasn't signing a mineral deal with the united states. the issue was that they were being forced to sign it under duress. as you mentioned, they were given an hour to agree to the document, according to an official in zelensky's office. they were told if they didn't sign it on the spot, president

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kelly o'donnell reports from the white house and richard engel on the backlash across the middle eastall as the white house eyes deeper cuts for the federal workforce including at the cia and intelligence community. >>> the new airport scare. one flight nearly slashing off the tail of another when they clip wings in seattle. the investigation tonight. >>> plus -- >> i've been shot in my neck. >> you took the gun away? >> the suspect in custody after a 12-hour manhunt after a workplace mass shooting near ohio state university. we're on the ground. >>> and can those wildly popular weight loss drugs treat addiction? stephanie gosk on the cutting-edge research on the way. >>> and finally, from billboards to the ballroom, how bad bunny's hits are inspiring so many to get up and dance. ♪ >> announcer: this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening and welcome. the question of whether the u.s. could ever really take ownership of the gaza strip was almost secondary today as the world first tried to understand exactly what president trump has in mind. sounding more like the rere

richard engel reports tonight from the war zone. >>> and honoring the black caddies who carried so muchtheir shoulders on one of golf's greatest courses. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> and good evening. i'm tom llamas in for lester tonight. we are coming on the air with breaking news. a delta passenger jet crash landing a short time ago in toronto. here is the stunning image of how it came to a stop. you see the plane upside down on the runway at toronto pearson international airport, one wing gone and no tail left. delta flight 4819 carrying 76 passengers and 4 crewmembers was coming in for a landing from minneapolis when the accident occurred. emergency crews were on the scene in those frigid conditions. deep dark marks visible along one of the engines of the plane. the airport says all on board accounted

richard engel with the very late on his release and the othersrs' releastoday.nk you. >>> back here at home, new information is emerging about that deadly midair collision between a black hawk helicopter and a regional jet late last month. the ntsb now saying that the chopper's black box in fact shows that the military helicopter was flying too high but the pilots may not have known it. nbc's tom costello has more. >> reporter: two weeks after the midair crash killed 67 people, ntsb investigators say the army helicopter's black box indicates its radio altimeter showed 278 feet at the time of the crash. 78 feet above the 200-foot limit for helicopters. but the chopper pilots may not have known because their barometric altimeter may have been feeding bad data. in other words they were at a different amount to do. >> it's possible but we have a lot of work to do. >> reporter: the ntsb also says the chopper crew may not have heard a critical message from air traffic control to pass behind the regional jet. because one of the chopper pilots keyed his mic over the wor

back to you. >> richard engel on the ground in ukraine. thanks so much. >>> now to a major shake-up on capitol hill. mitch mcconnell, who spend more than four decades in the senate announcing on his 83rd birthday that he will not seek re-election. garrett haake has the details and the reaction. >> reporter: good morning to you. mcconnell has had some health scares recently. last year he gave up his leadership post after an unprecedented 18 years as the top senate republican. this announcement wasn't exactly a surprise. after a career reshaping the federal courts, his departure will mark a major pivot point for the gop, toward donald trump's. a changing of the guard for the gop with former senate republican leader mitch mcconnell announcing his retirement next year, after representing kentucky for seven terms. >> representing r commonwealth has been the honor of a lifetime. i will not seek this honor an eighth time. >> reporter: mcconnell says his faith in the senate has not wavered. his speech drawing applause on the floor. mcconnell's lea

chief foreign correspondent richard engel is on the ground in ukraine for us. richard, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, peter. from the hard-hit city of h kherson in southern ukraine, and russia confirmed this morning that it's taking part in high-level talks with the trump administration that are set to begin tomorrow in saudi arabia. for now, the trump administration is meeting separately with ukrainian and russian officials ahead of joint talks, which still need to be scheduled. as diplomacy that could redraw ukraine's borders kicks into high gear, russia is trying to show it has the upper hand, firing 150 drones at ukraine overnight, according to the ukrainian military. russia and ukraine are each trying to show dominance and take as much territory as they can before a peace deal that president trump insists both sides want. today secretary of state marco rubio arrived in saudi arabia to meet the russian side. on sunday, president trump said he will be joining the process soon, meeting directly with russian president vladimir putin. >> i think he wa

nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is on the ground for us inside of ukraine. richard, what's the latest there? >> reporter: well, good morning. out herere in eastn ukraine the pace of the fighting is relentless with those russian drone and missile attacks happening almost constantly, especially on clear days like today. and now ukrainian troops are watching incredulously as president trump seems to be blaming them for starting this war, even though it was russia that invaded ukraine three years ago. promising to end the biggest war in europe since world war ii, president trump is now blaming ukraine for being invaded by russia three years ago, saying ukrainian president zelenskyy should have made unspecified concessions to placate russia and avoid the war. >> he should have never started it, you could have made a deal. i could have made a deal for ukraine that would have given them almost all of the land, everything, almost all of the land and no people would have been killed. >> reporter: president trump has launched a peace process sending his top foreign po

>> richard engel in ukraine.nk you so much. >>> now to the breaking news overnight tied to the war in gaza. hamas has handed the bodies of four hostages back to israel. among them, the youngest taken on october 7th. keir simmons is following this story. good morning to you. >> reporter: savannah, good morning to you. the family of the three of the fallen hostages have described themselves as in turmoil this week. now this morning, these images. the bodies believed to be shiri bibas, her two sons, ariel and kfir. the bodies, carried out in caskets in front of a crowd by hamas. prime minister benjamin netanyahu described today as a very difficult and shocking day for the country. in one of the defining images of october 7th, shiri bibas was seen in a heart wrenching video, taken while having her boys in her arms. her sons were 4, and not even 1. they became a rallying cry with a push for a hostage deal, with many wearing orange in solidarity with ariel and kfir's hair. the dad was released earlier this month. israe

you got paul engel myer in manhattan, george o'toole in boston., i believe, in rhode island going to the first circuit i know totally liberal and get a good ruling there. they have already gotten hosed in one of the appellate court rulings earlier today federal courts? watch. >> if a judge does block one of your policy, part of your agenda, will you abide by that ruling? will you. >> i was always abide by the court and then have to appeal it. then what he has done is slowed down the momentum, and it gives crooked people more time cover under the books. if a person is crooked and they get caught, other people see that and all of the sudden it being becomes harder later on answer is i always abide by the court. we will appeal. appeals take a long time judge kelli is in boston. manhattan, we have seattle with the birthright citizenship is going to be a tougher case for sure just enacting your agenda and looking for waste requires nationwide injunction to stop? congress has got to step in on this nationwide injunction issue. that should bees that righ

you read his marx and engels and and believed in national working class solidarity and class struggle. but as his very biographer, nick salvatore, suggested in, an earlier book, eugene debs citizen socialist, that debs was really formed. his experiences as a young man beginning a political career, beginning a union activism in terre haute, indiana in the late 19th century. and that his quest for democratic citizen worship for a kind of responsible control over own life of every individ vision of what a good society would look like that his socialism and i think when we go looking for for fathers and mothers, that is the tradition we should go and and revisit and see it plays out in the 1960s and especially in the civil movement the women's movement and continues on to the present. so i see these as alternate traditions, as choices that that we can make. and these movements overlap at points. communists, again, were very to the civil rights beginning of the civil rights movement. the long rights movement, starting in the 1930s and 1940s. but they the i think as important and as useful