The Rachel Maddow Show

President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to speak by phone on Thursday, according to a U.S. official with knowledge of the call. It will be their first direct communication since seven aid workers were killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza this week. The Morning Joe panel discusses.

The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg joins Morning Joe to discuss his latest piece on how Republicans like Rob Portman could have ended Donald Trump’s political career and didn’t.

Protesters on Tuesday reached the front of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Jerusalem, and Israeli police say a molotov cocktail was thrown. Thousands of protesters who had gathered for the third night to call for early elections in Israel and a deal to release the rest of the hostages held in Gaza. President Joe Biden said he was ”outraged and heartbroken” by an Israeli strike that killed aid workers in Gaza, and Chef Jose Andres reacts to the deaths of seven World Central Kitchen humanitarian workers in a new NYT column.

Nebraska’s Republican Gov. Jim Pillen is endorsing switching the state to a “winner-take-all” system for Electoral College votes, a change could tip the 2024 election. The Morning Joe panel discusses.

Donald Trump is leading President Biden in six of the seven most competitive states in the 2024 election, according to new WSJ polling. The Morning Joe panel discusses.

Former President Donald Trump has sued the co-founders of Truth Social, alleging they mismanaged the social media platform early on and should therefore lose their stock in the company, which recently went public.

In 2022, Don Winslow launched the first novel in his crime fiction drama trilogy with “City on Fire”, followed by “City of Dreams” in 2023. Winslow is now out with the final installment and his final novel ‘City in Ruins’. Winslow is retiring from fiction writing to focus on political activism.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is reportedly coming around to the idea of Ukraine aid as long as he can score a political win, according to NYT reporting.

World Central Kitchen has said at least seven of their members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah, Gaza

Just over 30 percent of registered voters think abortion should be illegal most of the time, according to Fox News polling. The panel discusses the polling in light of the Florida Supreme Court’s move Monday to uphold a 15-week ban on abortion in the state while also allowing a proposed amendment that would enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution to appear on the November ballot.