Welcome to the beat, I'm Ari Melber. It is great to be back with you as well.

Tonight we're tracking this new reporting on what former Vice President Pence told

DOJ prosecutor Jack Smith about Trump's coup plotted later how right-wing nationalists are winning from South America

to parts of Europe where some find that surprising this new election sending shock waves

about so-called magg-populism and Trump's echoes abroad. It's an important story that we have for you and then even later

We got a fun item of interest to what the New York Times dubbed MS- NBC Moms. Shout out to Rachel right there with Seth.

Now you could be the judge, but I promise

we will have this for you and I'll explain why we think it's a good thing

by the end of the hour.

So all that is coming up.

While our top story right now are the signs

of incremental progress in this Mideast conflict,

tonight marking the fifth day of the sixth day

ceasefire or pause, Hamas has released ten more hostages

including two Thai hostages all part of the project, the terrorism, the attack, the surprise, where Hamas kidnapped so many innocent

civilians in that devastating attack in October, violating international law.

Israel is part of this same deal releasing 30 Palestinian prisoners.

So here are the facts and the numbers tonight.

There have been over 15,000 deaths in total, over 14,000 in Gaza, which is born the brunt of these attacks and

airstrikes in that dense area, and over a thousand in Israel, you see the numbers there.

As for the hostages, which are so crucial to this incremental diplomacy, 86 total hostages released

in the conflict.

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