The United States has been very focused on a core challenge here, which is that Hamas

is using civilians as human shields. They're hiding behind civilians. They're hiding among civilians.

They're putting rockets and other terrorist infrastructure in civilian areas. That creates an

added burden for the Israeli defense forces, but it does not lessen their responsibility

to distinguish between terrorists and innocent civilians and to protect the lives of innocent

civilians as they conduct this military operation. That's true of striking from the air.

It is true of going in on the ground, and this is something that we talk about with the Israelis

on a daily basis. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on the responsibility of Israeli

forces as its troops are moving farther into Gaza this morning, days into its ground operation.

We'll get the latest in a live report from the Gaza border, plus what the new speaker of the

House is saying about aid packages for Israel and Ukraine and how soon the funding could pass

in the lower chamber. Also ahead, there's much more to report on Donald Trump's latest

legal issues. He's back under a gag order this morning in his federal elections case,

and his oldest children are likely going to testify in his civil fraud trial this week. We'll

talk about what that means, and we'll look at the state of the Republican presidential primary.

Now that former vice president Mike Pence is out of the race.

Good morning, and welcome to Morning Joe. It's Monday, October 30th. You all know it's Halloween

tomorrow, right? You're ready? Get your costumes with us. We have the host of Way Too Early,

White House Bureau Chief at Politico, Jonathan Lamar, former aid to the George W. Bush White House

and State Department's Elise Jordan, and president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations

Richard Haas is with us. Also with us this morning, U.S. Special Correspondent for VBC News,

Cadi Kay joins us, and we've got a lot to get to, but we'll begin this morning with Israel,

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