If it's Friday, the CIA Director returns to the Middle East in the Biden

administration's latest effort to break the impasse on a ceasefire and

hostage deal in Gaza as tensions and protests on US campuses rage on.

Plus one of the former president's top aides, Ho Pix, takes the stand

as the former White House Communications Director and longtime Trump confidant

testifies about the campaign's scramble in 2016 to contain their

candidates mushrooming scandals. And Democratic Congressman Henry Kweayar has been indicted by the Justice Department

for allegedly taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from foreign entities.

Texas Congressman says that he and his family are innocent. Hi there, happy Friday. Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Ryan Nobles in

Washington where we're tracking a number of developments both foreign and domestic tied to the

war in Gaza amid an ongoing crackdown on college campus protests. But we

begin in the region because right now talks appear to be intensifying on a deal to

free the remaining hostages held by Hamas and Gaza although it's unclear just

how many of those hostages are still alive.

There's also growing pressure on Israel and the US

to secure a temporary ceasefire

to get aid to Palestinian civilians

who risk starving to death.

The source tells NBC News that President Biden's CIA director William Burns

has returned to the Middle East for those talks,

and it comes as U.S. officials say they are still awaiting Hamas's response to a proposed deal which the

Secretary of State described as generous in his latest visit to the region.

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