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A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Trump administration must fully fund SNAP benefits amid the government shutdown, giving officials until Friday to secure the money. Meanwhile, as the shutdown continues, 40 major U.S. airports—including Los Angeles International, John F. Kennedy International, and Chicago O’Hare—will face a 10 percent reduction in flights starting Friday.
President Donald Trump, just one day after Supreme Court arguments on his sweeping global tariffs in a case he called “one of the most important cases in the history of our country,” is doubling down—emphasizing that his tariff threats against Beijing were a national security lifeline that forced Xi Jinping to the negotiating table. The president is also set to meet with the leaders of all five Central Asian countries Thursday night as the United States works to expand its influence in a region increasingly courted by China.
Trump also announced new agreements to expand access to and reduce the cost of weight loss drugs. The deals with pharmaceutical companies Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly will broaden coverage for Medicare and Medicaid recipients and lower the prices paid by the federal government.
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04:18 Judge: Snap Benefits Must be Fully Funded by Friday
05:04 Dem Senators Mull Over GOP Offer to Reopen Government
07:36 10% Flight Reduction Starts Friday
09:24 Nancy Pelosi Announces Retirement From Congress
12:41 Former DOJ Employee Acquitted of Assault
13:56 VA Teacher Awarded $10M After Being Shot in Classroom
16:43 Fifth Circuit Removes Block on Texas Drag Ban
18:12 SCOTUS Allows Block on Transgender Passport Mark
19:23 Russia Close to Biggest Capture in Ukraine Since 2023
22:17 Israel Strikes Hezbollah Targets in Southern Lebanon
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President Donald Trump, just one day after Supreme Court arguments on his sweeping global tariffs in a case he called “one of the most important cases in the history of our country,” is doubling down—emphasizing that his tariff threats against Beijing were a national security lifeline that forced Xi Jinping to the negotiating table. The president is also set to meet with the leaders of all five Central Asian countries Thursday night as the United States works to expand its influence in a region increasingly courted by China.
Trump also announced new agreements to expand access to and reduce the cost of weight loss drugs. The deals with pharmaceutical companies Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly will broaden coverage for Medicare and Medicaid recipients and lower the prices paid by the federal government.
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05:04 Dem Senators Mull Over GOP Offer to Reopen Government
07:36 10% Flight Reduction Starts Friday
09:24 Nancy Pelosi Announces Retirement From Congress
12:41 Former DOJ Employee Acquitted of Assault
13:56 VA Teacher Awarded $10M After Being Shot in Classroom
16:43 Fifth Circuit Removes Block on Texas Drag Ban
18:12 SCOTUS Allows Block on Transgender Passport Mark
19:23 Russia Close to Biggest Capture in Ukraine Since 2023
22:17 Israel Strikes Hezbollah Targets in Southern Lebanon
25:11 Witkoff Says New Country Joining Abraham Accords
26:03 Kazakhstan Will Join the Abraham Accords With Israel
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00:00Welcome to NTD Evening News, our top story tonight, President Trump defending his tariff
00:06threats on Beijing as a national security lifeline. This comes one day after the Supreme
00:12Court heard arguments over his sweeping tariffs and the president unveiling deals to slash obesity
00:17drug prices amid a national health crisis. Mario Tzu at the White House. House Speaker Mike Johnson
00:23says he refuses to make backroom deals with Democratic leadership and hopes Democrats will
00:28take the off-ramp and help reopen the government. Luis Martinez has the latest from Capitol Hill.
00:34Many major U.S. airports will be affected by a decrease in flights starting tomorrow.
00:39And Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy comments on what Thanksgiving travel could look like.
00:44Jason Blair reports. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not seek re-election.
00:49A video announcement from the first female House Speaker concluding her four-decade political career.
00:58This is NTD Evening News, live from our global headquarters in New York City. Here's Tiffany Meyer.
01:14Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. President Trump just one day after Supreme Court
01:20arguments on his sweeping global tariffs is doubling down, labeling the case the most important in the
01:25history of our country and spotlighting his tariff threats against Beijing as a national security lifeline
01:31that forced Xi Jinping to the bargaining table. And the president announcing fresh deals to expand coverage
01:37and reduce prices of weight loss drugs. We now go live to NTD's Washington correspondent Mario Tzu at the White House.
01:43Good evening, Mari. What is the president's latest take on his tariff case?
01:47Tiff, good evening to you. When asked by a reporter in the Oval today if he has a plan, if the Supreme Court
01:56ultimately does not rule in favor of his global tariffs, President Trump says that he'll have to develop
02:02a game to plan. However, the president also says that he doesn't want to discuss the possibility of
02:08that quite yet with the press and emphasizes that it will be, quote, devastating if he loses that ruling,
02:14having called it a case of life or death for the U.S. Let's take a look at what the president has to
02:19say. Watch. I think it's the most important case maybe in the history of our country.
02:24President Trump, a day after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments considering the legality of
02:29his global tariffs, emphasizes the relationship between economic strength and national security.
02:34So much evolves around tariffs as a defensive mechanism for our country, as national security for
02:41our countries. Repeatedly citing his recent use of 100 percent tariff threats levied against Beijing
02:47as instrumental in getting Xi Jinping to ease rare earth export controls. If you look at China,
02:53by putting a large 100 percent tariff over and above the tariffs they already paid,
02:58they came to the table with 100 percent. I was able to do it instantaneously when we were
03:03threatened by the rare earths. It was a matter of seconds. We would have had
03:08not nearly the defense that we had. It would be somewhat catastrophic for our country.
03:14Meanwhile, President Trump unveils a deal to lower costs on obesity drugs ZepBound and Wegovi.
03:20The American public, because of this agreement, will lose 125 million pounds by this time next year.
03:27It is going to have dramatic effects on human health in this country.
03:30The deal with the drug companies Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly also broadens the coverage of the drugs
03:36for those on Medicare and Medicaid.
03:38Co-pays for Medicare patients will be as low as $50. Now you're talking about from $1,350 to $50.
03:48This is tremendous news for the American seniors.
03:50And on foreign affairs, President Trump is set to meet with all five leaders of the Central Asian
03:58countries to talk rare earths and security issues. This is as the U.S. seeks to gain
04:02influence in the Central Asian region, which is increasingly courted by China. And during this
04:08meeting, the president of Kazakhstan is expected to announce that his country will now be the latest
04:12to join the Abraham Accords. Tiff, back to you.
04:16All right, Mari, thanks for those updates.
04:17The Trump administration will have to fully fund SNAP benefits amid the government shutdown.
04:23This is according to today's ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island.
04:27U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell Jr. ruled that the Trump administration must find the money
04:32by Friday. Last week, the Department of Agriculture agreed to cover 65 percent of SNAP benefits using an
04:39emergency fund. This came after two judges ordered the government to pay at least partial benefits.
04:45Today's ruling means the USDA will have to spend $8 billion on food stamps for November.
04:51The judge said that there are consequences if the Trump administration only partially funds SNAP
04:56and that those who rely on the benefits might be harmed. Food stamps reach 42 million people or one
05:02in eight Americans. Republicans offer several off ramps to Democrats in order to end the government
05:09shutdown. But Democrats insist on their maximalist demands despite being in the minority.
05:13Our Washington correspondent, Louise Martinez, has more on the story.
05:18I think talks continue to be productive and hopefully we can get to a resolution. I think we need to get
05:25government back up. We need to make sure that people are getting their benefits so they can continue to
05:30eat. We need to make sure that airports are open and air traffic controllers are getting paid.
05:35Moderate Democratic senators had shown optimism on a potential deal to end the government shutdown.
05:41A vote on a continuing resolution through early next year, a vote on a tree of appropriations
05:46bills and the promise of a vote on the permanent extension of the Affordable Care Act health care
05:51subsidies. We're ready. We're willing. We're able to sit down with our Republican colleagues any time,
05:56any place in order to reopen the government to find a bipartisan path forward.
06:01Despite the initial optimism, Democratic leadership is still demanding guarantees to extend the Affordable
06:07Care Act health care subsidies. I can tell you honestly I'm less optimistic this morning than I was yesterday
06:13because we were hearing that there were some common-sense centrist Democrats who were talking to
06:18Republicans. But what I understand is that Chuck Schumer has pulled them back from that.
06:23Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has made it clear that he will not guarantee the passage of any
06:28bill through backroom deals or circumvent the regular appropriations process.
06:33Settling for some kind of vague promise about a vote in the future on some indeterminate bill
06:39without any definite inclusion in the law, I think is a mistake.
06:45I'm not promising anybody anything. I'm going to let this process play out. I'll tell you what they wanted.
06:50I'll tell you what Schumer and Jeffries wanted. In fact, Chuck Schumer said it publicly
06:53and decried that Thune and I would not go in a backroom with them and make a Four Corners agreement
06:58on Obamacare subsidies. Democrats have openly argued that the government shutdown is their only
07:03leverage to force their policy priorities on Congress. Democrats will tell you that they're
07:09feeling emboldened. They're feeling emboldened because they had a few blue state election results.
07:13It does not change the fact that they have walked their party off a cliff with no parachute and
07:18no path forward. Republicans have also offered to rehire all federal workers that were laid off
07:24during reductions in force during the government shutdown. But Democrats maintain their maximalist
07:30demands. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Luis Eduardo Martinez, NTD News.
07:36As the government shutdown continues, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago are among the 40 airports that
07:42will be affected by a reduction in flight starting on Friday. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says that
07:48if air traffic controllers continue to be unpaid, holiday travel could get rough. NTD correspondent Jason
07:54Blair has more. Starting Friday, 40 airports will be affected by a 10 percent reduction in flights.
08:02Most major airports made the list, including here at Reagan, Washington National. Some others include
08:08Los Angeles International, John F. Kennedy International in New York, Denver International in Colorado,
08:14Harry Reid International in Las Vegas, Chicago O'Hare in Illinois, and Dallas-Fort Worth in Texas.
08:21The FAA has already been delaying flights at times when airports or other FAA facilities are short on
08:28controllers. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy tells Fox and Friends that after looking at the data,
08:34the department decided that a reduction in flights would be best.
08:38Taking 10 percent of the flights out will reduce that pressure, which is what we want to do. Now,
08:43does that mean there's going to be no delays? No, Brian, there's potentially still going to be
08:46delays. Duffy says that air traffic controllers are not getting paid and, quote, they've all told me
08:52it's really hard. He says that if things don't change with the shutdown, there could be travel
08:56disruption moving into the holidays. And as we come into Thanksgiving, if we're still in the shutdown
09:01posture, it's going to be rough out there, really rough. Some airlines have said that they will be
09:07working to try to minimize traveler impact. United Airlines said that it would focus the cuts on
09:12smaller regional routes that use smaller planes. Some travelers could be notified about cancellations
09:19as early as Thursday. Jason Blair, NTD News.
09:24After decades in Congress, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces she will retire in 2027.
09:29While Democrats hail her legacy, President Trump says she's done great damage to the country.
09:35NTD's Iris Tao takes a closer look at the milestones and controversies that defined her career.
09:41I will not be seeking re-election to Congress.
09:45Capping her career at 20 terms. 85-year-old former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announces
09:51she will not seek re-election in 2027. Pelosi's departure will mark the end of an era in Congress.
09:58She's first elected in 1987. And in 2007, she became the first female Speaker of the House.
10:05Today, we have broken the marble ceiling.
10:08As Speaker and House Democrats leader, Pelosi was known for her ability to unite conflicting
10:15factions of Democrats to pass legislation, including stimulus bills and the Affordable Care Act.
10:20She also has a long history of calling out the Chinese Communist Party over its human rights abuses.
10:27Whether by unveiling a banner on Tiananmen Square two years after the regime's 1989 massacre of student protesters.
10:34Freedom of speech in China.
10:35Or by regularly opposing China's hosting of the Olympics and pushing to link China's trade status with its human rights record.
10:43In 2022, she became the first speaker in 25 years to visit Taiwan, defying warnings from Beijing.
10:59The world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy.
11:04Pelosi's long career, however, was not without controversy.
11:08She had a contentious relationship with President Trump.
11:10There are no votes in the House, a majority votes for a wall, no matter where you start.
11:16If I needed the votes for the wall in the House, I would have them in one session would be done.
11:22Let two ultimately failed impeachments against him and created the House Select Committee on January 6th.
11:29To peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
11:33President Trump on Thursday called Pelosi's retirement a great thing for America.
11:38I think she was a tremendous liability for the country.
11:42Who cost the country a lot in damages and in reputation.
11:46I thought she was terrible.
11:48That's while former President Biden calls Pelosi the best speaker of the House in American history.
11:53And House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says.
11:56Her tenure has been iconic, legendary.
11:59Meanwhile, echoing President Trump's comments that Pelosi's rapidly losing control of her party.
12:05House Speaker Mike Johnson says Pelosi's announcement shows.
12:08The old guard has been repudiated and the radicals are taking over the Democratic Party.
12:13And now Pelosi's San Francisco-based House seat is opening up for the first time in decades.
12:18Among the current contenders are California State Senator Scott Weiner, who is openly gay and calls himself one of the nation's strongest advocates for LGBTQ rights.
12:27And Sycat Chakrabarty, a former chief of staff to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who calls himself an architect of the Green New Deal.
12:36Reporting by Irish Tao, NTD News.
12:40A Washington, D.C. jury has acquitted a former Justice Department employee of a misdemeanor assault charge.
12:46The ex-employee had been caught on video throwing a sandwich at a federal agent in August.
12:52On the night of August 10th, Sean Charles Dunn approached a group of customs and border protection agents in the nation's capital.
12:58He allegedly called the officers fascists and racists and chanted shame before throwing a sandwich at an agent's chest.
13:06Dunn fled but was apprehended.
13:08Lawyers for Dunn had argued the throw was a harmless gesture during an act of protest protected by the First Amendment.
13:15Prosecutors had said Dunn knew he did not have a right to throw the sandwich at the agent but did it anyway.
13:21Coming up nearly three years after being shot in her classroom, a Virginia elementary school teacher has been awarded $10 million.
13:30She says the attack left her with lasting injuries and changed her life.
13:34Christina Corona brings us more on the case.
13:37And an appeals court throws out a lower court's block on a Texas law that bans drag performances in the presence of children.
13:44Charlie Richards has that story when we come back.
13:46Welcome back.
13:56I'm Tiffany Meyer, a teacher in Virginia has been awarded $10 million after a student shot her in class nearly three years ago.
14:03The jury found that the school's assistant principal played a key role in the tragic situation.
14:10And today's Christina Corona tells us more.
14:12The jury found that the student had a key role in the case.
14:13The jury found a key role in Virginia.
14:14The jury found a key role in Virginia.
14:15The jury found the assistant principal Ebony Parker grossly negligent.
14:28The complaint alleged that she failed to act despite repeated warnings from staff throughout the day that the student had a gun.
14:35Zwerner was seriously wounded with the bullet passing through her hand and lodging in her chest.
14:40I thought I had died.
14:41I thought I was either on my way to heaven or in heaven, but then it all got black.
14:57I see two coworkers around me and I process that I'm hurt and they're putting pressure on where I'm hurt.
15:11The defense argued that Parker had followed procedures and couldn't have predicted the shooting.
15:16But Zwerner's attorneys argued there were multiple opportunities to investigate and to act immediately.
15:22That's three times somebody is asking her to do this.
15:29Three times.
15:31Countless times where we're talking about the boy throughout the day and the gun and where it is.
15:35But three times to search the boy.
15:38That should be flashing at you.
15:42Flashing at you to act.
15:45That gun could have been popping up and down in his jacket and gone off.
15:50Handed it to a friend and gone off.
15:54Showed it to a friend and a book hit it and gone off.
15:57Dropped on the floor and gone off.
16:00Zwerner now lives with the physical and emotional aftermath and hasn't returned to work while recovering from her most recent hand surgery.
16:09I do struggle with things, doing things.
16:13Parker did not testify during the trial.
16:16Both she and Zwerner resigned after the shooting.
16:19Parker now faces eight felony child abuse charges, one for each bullet in the gun, with her criminal trial scheduled to start this month.
16:27Police say the student brought the gun from home.
16:30His mother, Deja Taylor, was sentenced to two years in state prison for child neglect in connection with the shooting and is currently serving that sentence.
16:39Christina Corona, NTD News.
16:43The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals today canceled a lower court's block on a Texas law that bans drag performances in the presence of children.
16:51The case was sent back to the lower court for further review.
16:54NTD's Arlene Richards has more.
16:57The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday canceled a lower court ruling that blocked a Texas bill from banning drag performances for children.
17:05A panel of three judges ordered a narrower review of the bill and found that only one of the plaintiffs had standing to challenge it.
17:12The San Antonio-based 360 Queen Entertainment had standing because it conducted performances that, quote, exaggerated sexual characteristics, which likely fell under the statute in question.
17:24The bill, called Senate Bill 12, was signed by Governor Greg Abbott in 2023.
17:29It makes it a crime to host or perform a sexually oriented performance in public or in the presence of minors.
17:36A lower court struck down the bill on grounds that it violated free speech rights.
17:40The Fifth Circuit majority disagreed and stated that most of the plaintiff's conduct didn't fall within the constraints that the bill intended.
17:48For example, it said a vendor handing out condoms is not a sexual performance.
17:53The panel dismissed the claims of several plaintiffs and ordered that only the attorney general could be sued by the remaining plaintiff.
18:00Then it sent the case back to the lower court to apply a different test to assess whether or not the bill violates the First Amendment.
18:08Arlene Richards, NTD News.
18:11The Supreme Court majority today has allowed the Trump administration to block transgender and non-binary identifying Americans from selecting an ex-gender marker on passports.
18:22In its decision today, the court lifted a lower court's block on the Trump administration's policy.
18:27A lower court had temporarily blocked the policy and an appeals court declined to overturn the block.
18:33The highest court said in a short order that, quote, displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth.
18:42Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson, Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan dissented from the decision.
18:50Coming up, Russia says it's on track to complete the biggest capture of a Ukrainian city since 2023.
18:56Aryan Pazdar has how the fall of one Ukrainian city could lead to the loss of the entire Donetsk region.
19:03Israeli forces increased strikes against the Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon.
19:08Meanwhile, a newly released hostage opens up about abuse while in captivity.
19:12Jason Perry reports.
19:14Welcome back.
19:23I'm Tiffany Meyer.
19:24Russia says it's on track to complete the biggest capture of a Ukrainian city since 2023.
19:29Meanwhile, the U.S. continues calling on allies to stop Russian energy imports, which fuel the fighting in Ukraine.
19:36NTD's international correspondent Aryan Pazdar has more.
19:41Fighting between Russia and Ukraine continues to intensify more than three years after the start of the war.
19:49Both sides are currently battling for the strategic eastern Ukrainian transport hub of Pokrovsk.
19:55Russian media is calling the city the gateway to the Donetsk region.
19:59Moscow's forces have long tried to take control over Donetsk.
20:03On Thursday, Russia's defense ministry said its forces had advanced in Pokrovsk.
20:08They're now fighting house-to-house battles in a bid to eject Ukrainian forces from the city.
20:14Russia reports capture in 64 buildings in the city over the past 24 hours, saying assault groups of the Second Army continue to destroy the encircled formations of the Ukrainian armed forces.
20:26But Kyiv denies those reports, saying Ukrainian troops are still withstanding the ongoing Russian attacks.
20:32Ukraine spent years before the 2022 invasion reinforcing a fortress belt in various cities.
20:39A senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment highlights the importance of Pokrovsk, saying if Pokrovsk falls, so does Myrnorod and the pocket closes.
20:49In order to weaken Russia's war effort, the U.S. continues pressuring its allies to stop importing Russian energy.
20:56Senior U.S. officials urged European allies on Thursday to speed up their two-year phase-out of Russian gas.
21:04Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is suggesting that EU climate regulations are hampering the progress.
21:10I have great concerns, and I think the United States has great concerns about the EU in general, about the regulatory state that is just putting an overburden on it.
21:20The U.S. has also been calling on India and China to stop buying oil from Russia.
21:26President Trump now says the pressure has been successful.
21:39And Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy announces sanctioning Russian companies engaged in resource extraction in the Arctic.
21:47We are working with partners so that, just as measures have been implemented against the tanker fleet and Russia's oil companies,
21:58similar actions will be taken by them against all the volumes of resources the Russians sell from the Arctic.
22:06The sanctions imposed by Ukraine align with the 19th sanctions package recently adopted by the European Union.
22:13Arian Pasdar, NTD News.
22:16In the Middle East, Israel issued evacuation orders in southern Lebanon before striking targets belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist group.
22:23Meanwhile, a newly released hostage opens up about the treatment he endured while in Hamas captivity.
22:30Entities' Jason Perry has the story.
22:33On Thursday, Israeli forces reported striking a series of targets in southern Lebanon,
22:39including terrorist infrastructure and several weapons storage facilities belonging to Hezbollah's elite group, also known as the Radwan Force.
22:52And smoke was seen rising in southern Lebanon as emergency crews responded to the scene of the strikes.
22:58Israel said they issued evacuation orders to residents prior to the strikes.
23:03A local official shared his thoughts.
23:05We are in a very dangerous situation.
23:09If things are heading this way and continue like this, then all hope is lost.
23:14No one knows where the consequences of these matters will lead.
23:19Israel's government spokeswoman explained.
23:21We will not allow Hezbollah to re-arm themselves to recover, build back up its strength to threaten the state of Israel.
23:30And after the strikes, Israeli tanks were seen near the Lebanese border.
23:35This comes as Lebanon's president recently instructed the Lebanese army to confront any Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon.
23:44In another development, Israel confirmed the identity of a hostage body returned from the Gaza Strip to beat Tanzanian citizen Joshua Malal.
23:54He was a student studying agriculture in Israel, and he was there just about two and a half weeks before he was killed on October 7th.
24:03Meanwhile, former hostage Ron Brozlowski, who was recently released, explained what it was like in Hamas captivity.
24:10They stripped me of all my clothes, underwear, everything.
24:13They tied me up with when I'm not wearing anything, like I'm torn, dead, without food, praying like to God, save me, take me out of this already.
24:21You're saying like, dang, what went wrong?
24:23Brozlowski was held for two years until he was released last month.
24:27And in the West Bank, Israeli police released footage on Thursday of the arrest of a suspected terrorist.
24:34Israel said the suspect is believed to be responsible for multiple shooting attacks against Israeli communities and security forces.
24:43And about 14 miles away, residents in Bethlehem are preparing for tourists to visit the city for Christmas.
24:50It's believed by many to be the birthplace of Jesus.
24:54The city did not see many tourists during the two year war between Israel and Hamas.
24:59But now that the war has ended, Bethlehem is expected to return to its normal festivities during Christmas time.
25:06Jason Perry, NTD News.
25:10Special envoy to the Middle East Steve Wyckoff says a new country will be joining the Abraham Accords.
25:15Wyckoff touted the agreement during a business forum in Florida.
25:19Well, look, Abraham Accords are big.
25:22I'm flying back to Washington tonight because we're going to announce tonight another country coming into the Abraham Accords tonight.
25:29Wyckoff declined to say which nation would be joining the peace agreement, but a senior White House official said Kazakhstan would be the latest country to join.
25:37Kazakhstan's president is scheduled to meet with President Trump alongside four other Central Asian leaders at the White House today.
25:43The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain normalized relations with Israel in 2020 under the Abraham Accords established by President Trump.
25:51Morocco normalized ties with Israel later the same year.
25:54Trump has repeatedly said he wants to expand the accords that he brokered during his first term in the White House.
26:01And joining us now to discuss is David Wormser. He's a Middle East affairs analyst at the Center for Security Policy.
26:08David, thank you so much for joining us as always.
26:10Now, this is seen as a mostly symbolic move given that Kazakhstan has had diplomatic relations with Israel since 1992.
26:17But what do you make of this announcement?
26:20Well, first of all, it does build a little bit of momentum.
26:23I wouldn't say it's a massive amount of momentum, but it's good. It's good. It's the right direction in the Middle East.
26:29If anything goes the right direction, it's a good day.
26:32But I put a little more importance to it than simply validating something that was done already in 1992.
26:38I believe that there is a block emerging.
26:42The last day that J.D. Vance was in Israel, about two weeks ago, he said something about hopefully Israel can expand the Abraham Accords.
26:51And with the expansion of the Abraham Accords, we form a strategic block that then begins to anchor American and Western interests and allow us to disengage from the area to some extent.
27:02And I think now when you're seeing Kazakhstan as an important country in terms of energy, in terms of all sorts of things, and it's a big country, I think that you see the block that J.D. Vance is talking about is expanding and it's beginning to gain real anchor.
27:19And digging into that, officials said Kazakhstan's participation in the Abraham Accords would enhance their bilateral trade and cooperation with Israel.
27:27That is similar to what the Wilson Center said happened to the other countries that signed on to the Abraham Accords before.
27:33Talk to us about how the Abraham Accords have boosted people-to-people relationships in private and civil sectors.
27:40Yeah, there's no doubt Israel is one of the hotbeds of innovation and industrial capability in terms of the new economies, in terms of what makes a new economy, namely high tech and so on and so forth.
27:56And yet in a lot of these countries, you have either pockets of interest in that or you have money coming from other sources like oil and so forth.
28:05And they're looking to hook up with Israel so that they can get synergy to leverage the money they make with raw materials and other assets to essentially kick their economies up to a higher level.
28:18And on the private sector, private basis, people want to make more money with the money they have.
28:23So Israel is becoming a real sort of incubator for the whole region.
28:28And Kazakhstan's a different region, it's Central Asia, but it's really bordering the Middle East.
28:33And it also is the same.
28:36It's also a lot of old trade patterns.
28:38Kazakhstan's a very strategic relation.
28:40It's on the Silk Road.
28:42These are sorts of large scale corridors that really are to our advantage if they fall to peace and begin to establish a basis.
28:52And finally, it's a blocking maneuver to China.
28:55On that note, looking ahead in your view, what other countries could we see sign on to the Abraham Accords during President Trump's second term?
29:04Well, Indonesia.
29:05Indonesia is the big one right now.
29:07If Indonesia joins, it's the most populous Muslim country in the world.
29:12It's a country Israel trusts to some extent, which means they could form a real good basis for peacekeeping forces that the Israelis trust to put into Gaza or elsewhere.
29:23So Indonesia, I think, is the big one.
29:25But I think Indonesia also could provide cover for the other big one.
29:29And the other big one is Saudi Arabia.
29:33Saudi Arabia doesn't want to lurch into peace without the Palestinian issue moving a bit further.
29:40It doesn't want to feel alone and holding the bag.
29:43But if Indonesia joins as the largest Muslim country in the world, this kind of gives Saudi Arabia cover and could help nudge them across the finish line.
29:54And David, in terms of the Gaza Strip, we are seeing multiple reports that a number of Hamas terrorists are stuck in a tunnel network behind Israeli lines and that the Trump officials are proposing that Israel use this crisis to develop a model to have Hamas disarmed.
30:08Now, Israelis have yet to accept an entity cannot independently verify these reports.
30:13But what are your thoughts on this issue?
30:16It's a tricky issue because clearly the Israelis, under an Egyptian proposal, would allow the 200 or so terrorists to depart from the tunnels and out to where Hamas is or out of the area.
30:33But they would have to give up their weapons along the way.
30:35But for Israel, this is tough because these are these are deadly killers, many of whom tortured, raped the hostages, killed many of them, held these hostages.
30:46The Israelis want to bring them to justice.
30:48There's a lot of pressure on that.
30:50There's also the other issue pressure in the other direction on Israel.
30:53There may be dead hostages in those tunnels still.
30:58And Israel is afraid that if they just, say, fill the tunnels with concrete and kill the terrorists, they may lose those those dead hostages forever.
31:08So there's a lot of cross pressures.
31:11But there is a model here, true, where I think the administration is pushing it, which is let them go to outside the area.
31:19But they give up their weapons.
31:21And that's a good model for the rest of Hamas to give up and go into exile without their weapons and give the weapons up to an international force.
31:29Well, David Wormser, as always, thank you so much for joining us.
31:36New concerns about China's reach in suppressing unfavorable media coverage.
31:41The Epoch Times and NTD to American media companies known for exposing human rights abuses by the Chinese Communist Party were recently denied access to key Asia summit events.
31:52NTD's Daniel Monaghan has more on the incident, which happened at the recent ASEAN and APEC summits.
31:57An Epoch Times reporter traveling with the White House encountered repeated roadblocks in accessing key press events in Asia, the latest in a pattern of interference linked to communist authorities in Beijing.
32:10Epoch Times as NTD's sister media, they were the only outlets denied access despite having received pre-approved press credentials.
32:18This occurred after a series of twists and turns involving communications discrepancies, unlikely tech glitches, failed promises of press credentials, sudden reversal of statements, and passing the buck.
32:31Epoch Times editor-in-chief Jasper Fackert said in a statement, the Chinese Communist Party is an enemy to freedom of the press.
32:38He called it deeply concerning that the regime could influence international bodies like the United Nations and ASEAN to block access for what is now America's fourth largest newspaper.
32:48Headquartered in New York, the Epoch Times has long been a target of the Chinese regime, from threats and intimidation of advertisers to physical obstruction of reporters.
32:57In 2000, its first journalists in China were arrested, with several sentenced to a decade in prison.
33:04More recently, UN officials barred its reporters from entry in September.
33:08The campaign has intensified.
33:10Hackers impersonating Epoch Times staff have threatened US agencies.
33:14The paper has received bomb threats, and an envelope containing white powder arrived at its headquarters in October.
33:21Travis Gilmour, White House correspondent for the Epoch Times, arrived in Malaysia two days before President Trump joined the ASEAN summit.
33:29Gilmour had pre-approved media credentials.
33:31However, when embassy and White House staff went to retrieve the credentials for media personnel, ASEAN officials informed them that Gilmour's profile needed updating.
33:40Repeatedly, Gilmour said he found himself in the same cycle, being told to come back and pick up the press pass later, only to find nothing when he returned.
33:49On October 26, the ASEAN staff told Gilmour he got a pass approval, but the credentials never materialized.
33:56Mari Otsu and Chen Lei, White House correspondent and videographer for NTD, faced a similar situation when they arrived at their hotel in South Korea ahead of the APEC summit.
34:07Inside the hotel, a reserved media table at the press filing center bore the NTD logo, but APEC staff members restricted their access and stated they didn't have the pair's credentials.
34:18The media liaison team blamed a mix-up for what happened and told Otsu they had found her media pass, only to walk back the statement within minutes, saying the earlier message was sent in error.
34:29Neither APEC nor ASEAN returned the Epoch Times request for comment on the article about the incidents.
34:35Daniel Monaghan, NTD News.
34:38Coming up in the NFL, tragedy strikes the Dallas Cowboys as one of their own players passes away.
34:44Dave Martin joins us to discuss when we come back.
34:47Welcome back.
34:56I'm Tiffany Meyer.
34:57The world's richest person could become the world's first trillionaire.
35:01Tesla shareholders overwhelmingly approved a pay package for CEO Elon Musk today that has the potential to be worth $8 trillion.
35:09But there are hurdles to clear to reach that milestone.
35:12The approved package comes in the form of a stock grant that would give Musk as much as 423 million additional Tesla shares over the next 10 years.
35:21Those shares could be worth about a trillion dollars.
35:24That's assuming the company reaches the 8.5 trillion market cap needed to have Musk qualify for the full potential payout.
35:32That's nearly five times what it's worth now.
35:35Also, Tesla needs to achieve a series of either operational or financial targets for him to get the full number of shares.
35:59And now for your sports news, we're joined by NTD's Dave Martin.
36:02Dave, plenty going on today.
36:04But let's turn into the NFL as Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Neyland died this morning from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
36:12What do we know about the situation?
36:14Yeah, not a whole lot at this point.
36:16Now, state troopers in Texas tried to stop a car.
36:19Neyland was driving for traffic violations about 1030 local time last night in Texas.
36:25Police say he refused to stop, leading to a pursuit.
36:28He was able to evade them, though, before crashing his vehicle.
36:31He then fled the scene on foot.
36:33Now, after a search, he was found dead, though, of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
36:41Now, during the search for him, officers received information that Neyland expressed suicidal ideations.
36:48This is according to the police report here.
36:50Now, meanwhile, Neyland was just 24 years old, playing in his second season after the Cowboys took him in the second round of the 2024 NFL Draft.
36:58He actually just scored his first career touchdown last week after recovering a blocked punt in the end zone.
37:04Now, his team, the Cowboys, are actually off this week.
37:07They've got a bye week.
37:08Their next game isn't until November 17, but a very sad story here.
37:12Definitely quite tragic.
37:14Shifting gears to hockey, though, Alex Ovechkin extended his own record with his 900th career goal last night, but he almost didn't get his historic puck back.
37:23Yeah, it's too bad. Almost too bad.
37:25Now, Ovechkin scored on St. Louis Blues goalie Jordan Binnington becoming the first hockey NHL player ever to get 900 goals in his career.
37:34Of course, it was a big celebration afterwards.
37:36But meanwhile, the puck they scored off the course was a very valuable item.
37:41So, of course, what happened to it?
37:42Well, Binnington, the goalie here, during the celebration, was caught on camera taking the putt out of the goalie net and then putting it into his own pants.
37:52Now, a little later on, Binnington was seen talking to an official.
37:56They reached into his pants and handed the puck back to him.
37:59Now, Ovechkin posed for pictures with the puck afterwards.
38:04Binnington, meanwhile, was later pulled from the game.
38:06His team, the Blues, lost 6-1 there.
38:09Now, Ovechkin was made aware of what happened but had no comment.
38:13Binnington said today he had full intention to give it back to Ovechkin.
38:19So, I don't know about you, Tiff, but I would probably ask them, you know, wash, maybe disinfect it before handing the puck to me.
38:25You know, if it was me, even then, I'd probably be holding it like this or something if I was posing for it.
38:30But he didn't, you know, he wasn't aware of it at the time or it didn't seem to bother him.
38:36Ice isn't sterilizing?
38:38No, that's a good point, I suppose.
38:41I'd still probably wouldn't be taking that.
38:43I'd still be taking the precaution, just mainly.
38:46Alright, thoughts?
38:47Looking at baseball news, though, today is the deadline for players to accept qualifying offers from their respective teams.
38:53What is the significance of this, though?
38:55Yeah, this is for those players who could become free agents.
38:59Now, if they accept the offer, which is a one-year, $22 million offer,
39:03one-year, $22 million offer, then that's their contract for next season,
39:08and they're no longer a free agent, they go back to their old team.
39:10Now, most players reject the offer.
39:13If they reject it and sign as a free agent elsewhere,
39:16the team that sizes them then has to give up one or more draft picks through not their highest pick.
39:21So, this system is in place mainly because baseball has no salary cap,
39:25and there's a big difference between the big market teams and the small market teams.
39:29And it gives compensation, then, to those small market teams that can't afford, you know, their best players.
39:34Now, just to give you an idea, on opening day this season,
39:37both the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers had payrolls just over $320 million,
39:42that was most in the big leagues.
39:44Meanwhile, at the bottom end, though, five teams had payrolls under $100 million,
39:49so they had four times the payroll of some of those other teams.
39:52This is the baseball ways of trying to counter it.
39:55I mean, those teams that lose their best players in the free agency can at least get a draft pick back,
40:00but it doesn't really seem to help that much, to be honest with you, though.
40:04It's their effort, anyway, trying to have some kind of balance in the system.
40:08Well, A for effort.
40:10Looking at tonight's sports schedule, though, the Broncos host the Raiders in an AFC West battle.
40:15Yeah, Denver hosts Las Vegas tonight.
40:18Broncos lead the AFC West with a 7-2 record.
40:21That's actually a bit of a surprise.
40:22I mean, the Chiefs have won this division nine straight seasons.
40:25Chiefs are actually in third right now.
40:27Vegas, though, is in last.
40:29Denver, a very good young quarterback in Bo Nix,
40:31and they've got a very good defense,
40:33allowing the third fewest yards in the NFL.
40:36Vegas' offense, meanwhile, averaged the fourth fewest on offense.
40:41So, good on you if you've got the Broncos' defense.
40:44This certainly looks like a good setup for them.
40:47Denver, meanwhile, nine-and-a-half point favorites tonight.
40:50The game starts at 8-15 Eastern Time, and it'll be on Amazon Prime.
40:55So, you have Denver on your defense and your fantasy football team there, too?
40:59I'll have to check.
41:00But I do have Amazon Prime.
41:02Well, that's one out of two.
41:04Not bad.
41:05Not bad.
41:06Dave Azaz, thanks for joining us.
41:07Thank you, Tiff.
41:08And that's all for today's news.
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