Oct. 5 — Sec. Marco Rubio, Speaker Mike Johnson, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Adam Schiff

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🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio reacts to Hamas agreeing to release all Israeli hostages from Gaza. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) weigh in on the government shutdown. Andrea Mitchell, Ryan Nobles, Marc Short and Neera Tanden join the roundtable.

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0:00.0	This Sunday, breakthrough.
0:04.0	Hamas agrees to release all Israeli hostages
0:07.0	and expresses a willingness to accept President Trump's peace plan.
0:12.0	Everybody was unified in wanting this war to end and seeing peace in the Middle East,
0:17.0	and we're very close to achieving that.
0:20.0	Will the plan work?
0:21.6	I'll talk to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
0:24.6	Plus, standoff.
0:26.6	The federal government shutdown drags on after Republicans reject Democrats' demands
0:32.6	to extend health insurance subsidies.
0:34.6	The public knows that Donald Trump and Republicans have shut the federal government down.
0:41.2	Democrats in Congress have dragged our country into another reckless shutdown to satisfy their far-left base.
0:47.1	How long will it last and how many federal workers could face layoffs?
0:52.2	I'll talk to Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson of Louisiana
0:55.7	and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York. Plus, war from within. At a gathering of
1:02.8	the military's top leaders, President Trump warns of what he calls a war from within that he wants to
1:08.7	fight using the U.S. military against American citizens.
1:12.6	We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.
1:17.6	I'll talk to Democratic Senator Adam Schiff of California.
1:21.6	Joining me for insight and analysis are NBC News, foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell, NBC News
1:29.3	chief Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles, Mark Short, former director of legislative affairs
1:35.5	for President Trump, and Mira Tandon, president of the Center for American Progress.
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