these are bittersweet moments for israel, and still fragile days for the cease-fire. >> keir simmonsns us now from tel aviv. and keir, , more hostages expected to be released next weekend, and talks are set for the next phase of the cease-fire? >> reporter: that's right, jose. prime minister netanyahu is set to leave tomorrow to meet with president trump in washington. tonight his office said those talks will begin negotiations for phase two of this cease-fire agreement. jose? >> keir simmons in tel aviv, thank you. >>> we're back in a moment with more americans freed this time from venezuela. what we know about how they got out. >>> and diamond in the rough. engagement ring that survived the l.a. wildfires and the couple now bonded by it forever. ir. one strawberry poof, please. oh. enjoy it. oh, poofect. bye waybor. something minty? of course, it's a large. [ gasps ] ♪ ♪ a double. lucky. ♪ wayfair. every style. every home. ♪ when you really need to sleep. you reach for the really good stuff. zzzquil ultra helps you sleep better and longer when you need it most. its non-habit formin

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and joining us now from tel aviv, nbc news chief foreign correspondent keir simmons.w significant is it that netanyahu is first, the first foreign leader to meet president trump in this new term? he didn't have a meeting with president biden for four years. he wanted one. he didn't have one at the white house. he they met in new york at the un. and is this going to help netanyahu at home, where he is under considerable political pressure with israel divided and a lot of people wanting hostages to be emphasized more than continuing or resuming activity in gaza, military activity. >> well. >> i. >> think it is. >> incredibly significant. potentially a pivot meeting. >> i think it is designed. >> to help. >> prime minister netanyahu. >> who. >> as you say. >> is under the pressure, under. >> pressure from. >> the right in his government. i should just mention, andrea, that we have just. >> heard from. >> for the. >> first time, speaking at a news conference. >> from keith siegel's wife, aviva, keith siegel. of course. >> the american. >> released over. >> the weekend. sh

. >> joining us now is nbc's keir simmons. keir.conversations between president trump and putin to deal with the issue of ukraine? >> well, just a quick note. fascinating listening. you listening to you talk to richard haass there and talk about saudi arabia. and then a note, saudi arabia was involved in these negotiations that led to this phone call between president trump and president putin. so while the crown prince of saudi arabia was dealing with all of that, that you were talking about just a moment ago, he was also in negotiations with the trump administration and with the kremlin. that tells you something about how incredibly complex, dynamic and developing the world is right now. and that's true, too, for this ukraine situation. i think one of the things you heard from the secretary of defense there talking about saying, well, it's going to it's up in the end to president trump is that there are many of these pieces that they don't know. but what we did have today was the secretary of defense, and he's talking right now ag

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>> all right keir simmons, thank you for that.al peace and former arab-israeli negotiator at the state department aaron david miller. so if benjamin netanyahu comes to the white house and says, this is what i want to do with iran, is he going to get a friendly ear, a helpful ear from president trump? >> look, i think the. >> thanks for having me, kate. i think. >> the optics. >> of the meeting will. >> be fine. >> i mean, donald. >> trump. >> fashions himself to be the most. pro-israeli president. >> in the history of the. >> relationship. >> and he clearly he. >> cares about israel. >> but he. >> cares more about donald trump. >> and the reality, i think, for benjamin netanyahu. is that on two. core issues, number one, the president's. >> determination to win a nobel peace prize. and if you google donald trump. >> nobel. you end up with a lot of entries. he really does want a. >> nobel for. >> an israeli saudi normalization agreement. that's one. and number two, he does not want to see iran cross the nuclear. >> threshold on his.

. >> reporter: kyle simmons and his team at oklahoma state university are studying how glp-1s may helpggling with alcohol. >> the hope is that by measuring everything from behavior down to genes we may be able to get a better picture of why these medications are working if they are working. >> reporter: kara steenbrook started taking a glp-1 to lose weight a year and a half ago. >> my very first shot i no longer wanted food. >> reporter: but then the self-described daily drinker stopped drinking. >> it took me about a week to realize i wasn't picking up the bottle. >> and you were picking up the bottle every afternoon, every day? >> yes. >> reporter: steenbrook is not part of the osu study. >> how long has that bottle been in that cabinet? >> 19 months. >> reporter: but her experience is exactly what researchers at osu want to understand. study participants look at images of drinks with and without alcohol while getting an mri scan. >> we're trying to look at how their brain responds to these different types of cues. >> reporter: the same is done with near infrared spectroscopy, which

rob simmons set up the pilot project. it takes into account the unusual vision of birds of prey . staples very low contrast ability is 10 times poor, then then you and i. so if you may, if you make it color the raptor is going to see it from a long way off. and if you make it to a high contrast, also they going to see it. and it does seem to be working here 5 days a week. teams visit the turbines to look for carcasses. bills with red bleats, they don't find any casualties. the really good news is from this hope field, when from that in 19 months post treatment we have managed to reach use to pay, tell it to you right to 0. so the no more, no more wrapped us and they was 7 before we started in 2 years and 0 cents despite the fact they're still right to is around back of the excel. so when from one breath species is benefiting, especially from the monitoring. so we see it as highly effective. so the program essentially initially was designed primarily for k fulcher. and we've seen a 100 percent effective in. in other words,

setting around and we will paint a picture of the situation and shed with our allies of phone de simmons if i've been to the entire mission comes after a series of incidents and recent months where under c cables were ruptured often after ships such as this one, which we are traveling to or from russia drug, their anchors on the sea, but some in the region feared the damage could have been caused deliberately. although it has yet to be established. whether these were acts of sabotaged by russia or the result of negligence. but nato countries wants to keep a closer eye on the region. regardless. this is what's in the, i wouldn't say this situation is exception of the tense. but you have notice that nate, us ability to respond and the security of the see are out in the board exceed. i'm the fred and that i'll repeated incidents where the authorship is not entirely clear, but any will he about to be exact in his guns clause, this operations control room is the beating hearts of the ship and of its mission. all the data collected on the monte board surveillance deployment is put together her

cupp jamal simmons, great to have you both here. up next, speaking of elon musk, he is not stopping just at government efficiency. a u.s. prosecutor says that he has given the doj a list of people to investigate this inquiry, that we are trying to figure out more about today. also today at that press conference, i asked trump about his intentions for the fbi and the agents who were assigned to work on the january 6th cases. are you planning to fire the fbi agents who worked on those investigations? >> it's the news. welcome back. but it's also kind of not the news. >> ten dana bash do. >> that. you know, there's three lesbians. >> on this panel. >> am i one of them? >> if you drink tap water and your balls still work, please. >> clap. >> no, michael. we don't fact check it. we don't care, man., once. >> all. >> the information on this show. >> so terrible. >> have i got news for you returns february 15th on cnn and stream next day on max. >> ontario, canada. stable and secure. when the world around us isn't. you can rely on us for e

well, we spoke earlier with serbian war correspondent, daniel simmons, who saves kids efforts to shift blame and russia for atrocities increased as backfired for you. it's hard to say, well, why on full is this a few cream talking to boarding school and so job. because the rest and propaganda in mainstream narrative didn't pay any serious affairs, sent a gruesome crimes committed and called fast as ordered by and captured ukrainian soldiers in the village square for yesterday in the groceries. and in this particular case of her rock at the back on the board, included as to job well known and well marked it with instruction as improvised refugee for uh, your remaining steps into assisting us or for us and for the nation who are unfortunately saved on their occupied the story investor media, we already have traditional suicides. i q is each other narrative. it's customary to 1st publish news, investor and media that is russia to blame and then to size accuse each other. so if this is some try to flight fly with wow, inside of that presence administration, if you wanted to shift focus fro

planning to kill them over the past 2 years, and netanyahu has worked tirelessly to instill in us alice simmons, the belief that we are incapable of achieving our national aspirations. this scene you are witnessing now, that is our direct response to netanyahu telling him, like, you know, we are indeed capable of achieving our goal of state to initially yes, the negotiations were tough and exhausting. and if not for the presence of widespread international and read in a wheel disagreements would never have materialized, nothing. yahoo! and we all notice neither he nor his ruling coalition due to their small and petty political calculations if any, want this war to an very uncommon sentiment. such was also voice lives in the system that so the, to the international folks of justice, the country has just wait something files to join, solve that because genocide case again, stays ro let the i c j and a is also the so called hey, this person think my 9 masons and supposed to take him lessons. ceasefire doesn't mean anything. it doesn't mean to end up to suffering. the end of the genocide doesn't me

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the capital of damascus events as part of that fits to exchange knowledge and create jobs for young simmons as they try to rebuild that country off to the for the best shot at upset sullivan. john, well, it's not from damascus. this is a cluster munitions being detected by a thermal imaging drone. another solution which can check if an unexploded bombs live and pinpoint it's coordinates. it was developed by up to go have a matter who is once serious youngest event. he was given an award when he was a teenager, interested a few days later by the form of vision. because i was told one thing to never think i got like many screens. he fled, turned around his knife from and if he can just send the con valley now he wants to take part in rebuilding the country before syria is in that you add the new generation of us coming out. we're. we're the reason why we're here. we're trying to push the god, bring back square to use the experiences that we have learned overseas to rebuild our country. the way a 100, the syrians in tech have gathered in damascus from all over the world in the 1st of its kind

they're all around 300 simmons i sent as don't sit around the globe. whatever happens behind the high fences surrounding them is on the russian diplomats trying to raise the issue at the un security council. special meeting ability, most the most of what the interest of struggling to voice in various receive mode would be, would be ideal if they do much invitation with most or what the deal is to shop a bunch of them. so i'm just not gonna, i'm gonna dispute the product. notice we're starting a new one because the co boost novel doing if he's giving you the chance of loose points and you guys can just needs squarespace to those starting to put them in any ability to deal like, excuse me, he will not move really interesting. again to book the use of just it was a continuous go for a muslim tequila, is installed or to use solutions or something else in the us and its allies. but on the final resolution. citizens of other countries probably haven't heard of the russians attempt to publish the facts. independent journalist and the results of the investigat

people walk by, they're searching for sources of protein sources of, of bi simmons. searching for fluids and other basic food supplies to help them. but they don't find them to find the other complimentary stuff that they don't think it's it's needed right now. they might consume it once or twice, but what's needed is the other sources that will help their bodies to stay in these difficult conditions. sustan's the, the, the impacts of the mountain nutrition that the stuff or the from in the past 15 months in terms of physical items like the 10s, the more buying homes and, and other items to help those who are staying in severely damaged homes or close to the laptop are not even here to support them or do give them a sense that they are they are they can, they can stay on on this part of the guster and continue their life. honey, thank you very much for that honey. my momentary 14, they live from guys, a city and does honey mentioned as people return to guys, a city in the ruins and they're ruined homes. they're facing, are loc, hasanti, taishan, and basic amenities a

allies international have come out very, very strongly against the idea that you can just move bows simmons out and create some sort of riviera on, on the mediterranean there instead. um, so i think that it does make it clear that you know, dc and pyro really just don't see eye to eye on those. having said that, they haven't really seen eye to eye when it comes to the guys of war. and the last 15 months, generally, i do think that the egyptian president will go to d. c eventually. but i think once to have a plan and the, the joy then in king yesterday said that there are discussions that are undergoing, i think that we'll see coming out of different our partners together, which i think they are really well indoors. right? a plan for the destruction of gaza and then you know, maybe you know, maybe a visit to dc. i mean, i did want to ask you what you think kyra will propose or so. right? yeah, i didn't want to ask you what kyra will propose, but also how long egypt can hold this off for because at the end of the day, egypt has a huge recipients, one of the biggest recipients, in fact, of us

we spoke earlier with the serbian war correspondent, daniel simmons, who stays, keeps efforts to shift blame and russia for atrocities increase has backfired for you think it's hard to say, well, why on, for just a few cream targeted mouldings tool. and so, just because of us and propaganda and mainstream narrative didn't pay any serious if there isn't a gruesome crimes committed and called fast as ordered by captured, ukrainian soldiers in the village, the square footage yesterday, and the groceries. and in this particular case, off her rock at the back on the board included as to job well known and well marks to reduce the scription as improvised refugee for uh, remaining $650.00 off for us and for the nation who are unfortunately saved on there occupied the story, the investor media, we already have traditional suicides. i q is each other narrative. it's customary to 1st publish news invest and media. busy is rasa to blame, and then to size accusing each other. so if this is some try to fly, fly, or play uh inside of that presence administration. if you wanted to shift focus from th

they can just kind of simmons to finally get treatment. the other one, donald jordan, this is obviously a real life though. but you, instead of 700 people have been killed in the democratic republic of congo since sunday, december 23 fighters take over the eastern city of ramadan sconces in the us instead of delta of sending multiple hundreds on 56 people on the something we're doing passively very, substantially increasing. we're not us what's on donald trump, some goods from canada, mexico and china coming to the palestinian and the seriously engine, israel's war on guns of finally getting away out for treatment. the roof of border crossing between egypt and gaza is set to reopen on saturday for the 1st time in 8 months. it will initially be patient for patients needing medical attention and the world health organization says 50 will be allowed to leave on south of a. the crossing serves as a lifeline for palestinians and garza as well as of course the land see an ad blockade. for 18 years, the partial reopening is bought of the sci fi d

and on peters simmons with your school, it's means you could don't, which makes these find the anticipated they do for the los angeles make. cuz only one of the most talked about trade c name b, a history, the less than one mom fault with the sci fi data between as well and how mos came into effect as future seems on session palestinians and garza. so this good of what will happen if the agreement collapses us president donald trump has suggested blessing . how the break house with the strip on this all the remaining is where the captives were released by saturday. so i would say cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out. i'd say they ought to be returned by 12 o'clock on saturday, and if they're not return, all of them not in dribs and drabs, not 2 and one, and 3 and 4 a do saturday at 12 o'clock. and after that, i would say all hell is going to break out. one of his comments came off to him. i said it was delay in the next exchange of captives with palestinian prisoners. it's accused as well, of widespread violations of the do, the fragile all the cx. 5 is still holding anoth

then we heard those steps, son, simmons at codes by the edwardian prime minister, by the jordanian for administrative and former officials, the se, jordan cannot, will not compromise on. it's not well security. it will help, but it cannot be the alternative homeland for palestinians. no, thank you. very much for that node all day with all the laziness, live in amman. is there any prime minister benjamin netanyahu threat to resume the war on gaza? has led to protest some televi. we'll have an ice. hundreds of people came out to condemn whose comments they're demanding the government of home the seas 5 days with him off and show us all of the captives bruce home safely. now to the occupied west banquet, as rarely forces have been telling palestinians to leave the notions refugee camp. the explosions could be heard across the area mass, detentions, of also being seen in the little refugee camp near hebron. 450 people have been killed since, as well launched a large scale military operation in the occupied westbank. 3 weeks ago. the un says the number of people being displaced as escalatin

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>> keir simmons with the latest for us. thank you. >>> here at home, president trump made it official late last night, signing a pair of executive orders that will impose stiff tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. and this move, being met with criticism with leaders from around the world. nbc's senior white house correspondent garrett haake with that story. >> reporter: savannah, good morning to you. look, these new tariffs are keeping with the campaign promise by candidate trump. but they're also likely to raise costs for american consumers and raising fears about retaliation, with canada and the eu already warning they may respond in kind. the president says there is more to come. >> it is a big deal. it's a big deal. >> reporter: with the stroke of his pen monday night, president trump raising tariffs on u.s. allies and adversaries alike, imposing new duties on steel and aluminum imports. >> it is 25% without exemptions. >> reporter: canada is one of america's biggest suppliers of both medals, calling it unacceptable.

a tool like an mri simmons that looks at -- why are you making a face? this has been around since 2010, and all of a sudden when biden gets in their -- everybody gets a six griffin? this was a bailout, jessica, they bailed out "politico" because their clicks went do down -- >> jessica: get over it. so the condoms that weren't, get over it. >> jesse: the condom bonds? >> jessica: karoline leavitt said it today, the people voted for this peered the absolutely thought elon musk was campaigning with him, but there were new numbers, in tennessee, talking about it today, 53% opposed musk playing a key role in trump's administration and his approval rating was at plus 29 in 2016 when he was the spacex guy and it is down to negative 11 now. >> dana: judge jeanine, get in there. >> judge jeanine: 53% opposed musk -- >> jessica: opposed. >> judge jeanine: who the hell was running the government when biden was the president? we don't even know who to oppose. i mean, that's what's crazy about this. they think that elon musk is running the government. on the one hand

. >> chief international correspondent keir simmons.lled hostage. >> square in tel aviv. for us. and keir, what just happened? >> the ripples of cheers and applause across this crowd and hostage square, who have been watching the handover of keith siegel in gaza city, a different location from the other handovers today and in previous days. during this ceasefire. keith siegel looking pretty well, i have to say, wearing a cap. just as you look at these images, let me tell you a little bit about him. his family described him as a peacemaker, a vegetarian, somebody that on his kibbutz learned arabic in order to talk to the workers there. and then they describe the heartache of the past more than 480 days. his daughter shira delayed her wedding because her father wasn't there. his 98 year old grandmother, mother, his daughter's grandmother died while he was in captivity. he wasn't able to be at the funeral, and now we have been watching images of his wife, aviva, celebrating even before this incredible moment when he is putting escorted to

where in that not advocating for the simmons who lost children lake and rylands family, johnson's familyt your priorities straight this is about america start focusing on them. >> noem shared photos of the 2 military flights that took off this week each carrying roughly a dozen migrants who were all gang members according to dhs about u.s. officials say the rap sheets for those on the second flight included crime such as homicide, weapons trafficking, assault, robbery and distribution of dangerous drugs. but noem expanded on that list of crimes today. >> i watch a plane load of people unload that were pedophiles, child pornographers, they were drug dealers in our communities that literally, these cartels are partnering with the chinese to kill our next generation of americans. that is who we are putting down there. >> department of defense is the migrants will be held in vacant parts of the military facility and not alongside terrorism suspects or convicts. president trump a said he has instructed dod to expand the military base to house tens of thousands for the dod has called the housi

joining us now from hostage square in tel aviv, israel, is nbc's keir simmons here?ind you there. and what can you tell us about how the exchange went? >> yeah, yeah. >> let me just explain where we are right now. we're in hostage square, where every saturday evening in tel aviv, there is this gathering, which is a demonstration calling for the release of the hostages, but also has become something of a celebration as hostages have been released during this latest ceasefire. and you're right, today, the first american hostage released for the during this ceasefire, the first american in more than a year, keith seagull. and the people here in the crowd have been watching images of the hostages released, including keith seagull watching him embraced by by his family. we had extraordinary moments today when his wife, aviva, saw him walk free for the first time and just to watch her was incredibly moving because she too was a hostage. she was released back in 2023. keith seagull, when she was released, said to her, i'll just be a few more days. there's a clock here count

joining me now from tel aviv, israel, is nbc's keir simmons. keir my friend. welcome.nt that came home yesterday. and what can we expect from this meeting between netanyahu and trump. >> hey, alex. >> well, we'll get to keith. >> siegel in a moment. but first with jordan bass, who, you'll remember was released but without his wife and two young children. so very bittersweet for him. his family put out a statement saying having jordan here finally allows us to breathe again. they say that he has lost significant weight, but he's feeling well and his physical condition is stable. as he begins his rehabilitation. they say we continue our fight for shuri, his wife ariel, and his his two children. and then in terms of keith siegel, we had the joy yesterday. there's some anger now in the siegel family over the fact that they say hamas terrorists who held keith captive forced him to write them a detailed letter. thank you. letter, just one of the many examples, they say, of cruel and cynical conduct conduct by hamas. that being said, we did get the chance to speak to his neph

scott jennings ana navarro jamal simmons, emily austin and sarah matthews. americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here they do. good evening. i'm abby phillip in new york. the u.s. wants out of the ukraine business tonight. the clearest direction yet for the fate of russia's invasion. and how america sees the world. president trump says he chatted with vladimir putin and what he called the start of peace negotiations. trump even invited the russian autocrat to visit the united states. now remember, u.s. missiles are currently being used by ukraine in its war against russia. but what is notable about this call is who came second, not first. >> but we had a great call and it lasted for a long time, over an hour this morning i also had with president zelenskyy a very good call after that. and i think we're on the way to getting peace. i think president putin wants peace. and president zelenskyy wants peace, and i want peace. i just want to see people stop getting killed. >> the chats come on the same day that defense secretary p

keir simmons is in tel aviv with the very latest starting us off this morning.d morning. >> reporter: laura, peter, good morning to you. we can breathe again is the way this family just described it in a statement. we watched here in hostage square as keith walked to freedom here in israel. you can see him in the video waiving. and then we want to show you video of his wife reacting to these pictures. he was released back in november 2023. they haven't seen each other for more than a year, and this is how she responded to seeing him walk out. he told her when she was released, i will be with you in a few days. it's now been more than 480 days. more video of reuniteing. he was split from them in november of 2023. they were in captivity. they were released. there they are back again. and with his dad and sister, his wife and two children, including his little boy who was just nine months old when they were taken. still missing. really bittersweet moments here in israel. 184 palestinian prisoners have been released in exchange. and there are two americans, guys, st

(laughs) dakota: michael 'whip' simmons was his head of security for january 6th.ter i told his attorneys i would take the stand for stewart. interviewer: why do you think that was? um... you know, i can't say for sure, personally, they probably were trying to keep me from taking the stand. and so they figured if they indict me, i wouldn't take the stand, i mean, if i take the stand while i'm indicted, you give up your right to the fifth amendment. so... ..maybe they thought it was a good move. dakota: whip fits exactly the kind of image that oath keepers wants to present to the world. an all-american boy, wrestling champion, signed up to the us army, served in combat in iraq, and then left feeling betrayed. whip: i'm not a member of the oath keepers. i'm just somebody who stewart brought in to do a job. for me, it just generated income. but i could get behind what the group was doing. i mean, i follow politics, but, you know, i don't vote. i mean, you got to understand, like, nothing ever changes in the neighborhoods or in the ghettos or, you know, what people wou

we will start with keir simmons. good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning to you. mark fogel was convicted by russia of carrying medical marijuana. he was not included in multiple prisoner exchanges.orning, markl this morning, he's finally home. this morning, mark fogel free. >> i feel like the luckiest man on earth right now. >> reporter: after three and a half years, wrongfully detained, the u.s. said, in a russian prison, the american teacher calling president trump a hero and thanking supporters. >> my family has been a force. i think my 95-year-old mother is probably the most dynamic 95-year-old on earth right now. >> reporter: his mother talking to nbc news overnight. >> it just didn't quite sink in right away. >> reporter: fogel flown out on a private jet from moscow belonging to president trump's middle east envoy, punching the air as he stepped off the plane. this morning the kremlin says it is an exchange for a russian prisoner. earlier, the president not sharing details. >> very fair. very, very fair, very reasonable, not like deals you have seen over th

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nbc's keir simmons, thank you so much.eady have so many palestinians there that of course, like egypt, like jordan, like other arab countries, there would be concern about their countries absorbing palestinians. so many palestinians in their countries, that's what two just be politically devastating for any of these arab countries to come out and say that they opposed a two state solution, that they supported the expulsion of palestinians from their homeland, as they've seen it, as their homeland for thousands of years. and their major neighbors see it as their homeland. so if you are, whether you're the king or whether you're, you know, whether you're general sisi, you're you're. you're going to be put in an extraordinarily difficult place here because they can't afford to do what donald trump is telling them to do for purposes of their own domestic politics. >> and be able. >> to retain power. >> and retain. >> power. >> potentially, you know, diplomat in the region told me over the weekend. again, the word remains nonst