Good morning. It's six o'clock on the East Coast. Welcome to Morning Joe. It's Tuesday, November 14th, and Congress has until Friday to pass the funding bill to avoid a government shutdown and Speaker Mike Johnson might get

some support from House Democrats on his two-step strategy to avoid

that shutdown.

We'll explain that plan.

Plus Special Counsel Jack Smith responds to Donald Trump's push for cameras in the courtroom in his federal

election interference case.

Meanwhile, the former president's eldest son takes the stand again in the civil

fraud trial against the family business.

We'll get legal analysis on that testimony and we'll have the latest out of Gaza

on the efforts to evacuate patients at the largest hospital which Israel says

sits above a Hamas command post. And you look at the papers today and that's

really that's the headline on so much it's it's about

the fact that the Israel forces in Gaza reads the hospital this is is on the Wall Street Journal talks about as conditions worsen.

The lead in the New York Times Hospital shakes gazah as fights rage at the doorstep and it really does

really for both sides it feeds into suggestions of what both sides are accusing the others of war crimes on,

whether it's Israel going after that hospital because they believe that Hamas is actually

committing war crimes by hiding behind civilians having a vast network of

tunnels right under these hospitals and other civilian targets that they are certain would not be bombed by Israel.

It makes obviously the situation there so much more complicated for first of all the Israelis who are trying to

root out the terrorists but also to try to figure out what's underneath there. So we're going to be

covering that throughout the morning. Also David Ignatius

posting from Israel that we've heard that deal between Israel and Hamas to free dozens of hostages, maybe up to a hundred women and

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