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forward? >> sandra: we will put that question to mark regev, a senior adviser to benjamin netanyahu in moments. but first, to nate foy, he's live on the ground in northern israel for us right now. nate, what are you hearing at this hour? >> well, sandra, it's actually been relatively quiet for the past two hours or so, but the sights and sounds of war are certainly back in israel, gaza, also lebanon, we did have significant action earlier today or earlier tonight local time. israel hit 200 terrorist targets in gaza. hamas has launched rockets and missiles across southern and central israel, tel aviv specifically, but the air defense, the iron dome system was able to shoot down all of those missiles and here on the northern front with hezbollah terrorists in lebanon, they made two launches across the border and israel's iron dome intercepted them. take a look at this.

so sandra, after this happened for more than an hour we just constantly heard israeli artillery going over the border into lebanon, israel also announces as we take a look at the next video that the idf struck a terrorist cell near zarit, on the israeli side of the border. this on the lebanon side of the border, very close to where we are where people have been evacuated. the idf chief of staff said people will not be coming back here until the security situation is very different than it was on october 7th. and take a look at this next video when it became clear this pause in the fighting was over. i mentioned 200 terrorist targets, hamas terrorists hit in gaza, including in the south, in khan younis where leaf lets were dropped to warn palestinians to

move to evacuation zones. unfortunately, john and sandra, we are seeing that many of them did not and the cost to property and life is extensive. meanwhile, 130 hostages remain in gaza, in hamas captivity. israel also announcing the deaths of four hostages today. we know that 20 women, according to the idf are still in hamas captivity. idf says that is why the truce broke down is that hamas would not release the final 20 women. so, the mission continues for israel to push deeper into gaza and eradicate hamas. meanwhile, back out here live, negotiations are back on with qatar, egypt and the united states, to now strike possibly a new deal to go back to a pause in the fighting, but based off what we have seen today it does not appear to be close. we'll send it back to you. >> sandra: nate foy on the

ground in northern israel. john. >> john: a new poll shows more than half of president biden's own party is against israel's military action in gaza. some left wing organizations are even lashing out at the president publicly over his pro israel policies. peter doocy is live at the white house. how is the administration reacting to this criticism? >> john, the administration is reacting by basically saying they only support future military operations in gaza if they can figure out a way to be less disruptive. >> we do not support a move to the south unless or until they have adequately accounted for the protection of innocent human life, civilian life, in southern gaza. with the understanding that there's a whole heck of a lot more innocent civilians in southern gaza than there were a week or two ago. >> antony blinken said basically the same thing and now care is mad with this statement.

hours after secretary blinken claimed israel had made concrete plans, benjamin netanyahu made a mockery, killing palestinians. and republicans say they want president biden to ignore that and be more supportive of israel's overall aims. >> this is not going to be let's just be peaceful and not do anything assume hamas out of the goodness of their heart will release it. they have to have pressure aplayed to them. the best hope for the hostages is more pressure. >> for the first couple weeks of this conflict after october 7th, president biden was in front of the cameras all the time explaining what exactly he wanted, what exactly he was doing, the first week he's taken things almost entirely behind the scenes, including today, nothing on camera. john. >> john: peter, a big concern among israelis and supporters of

israel that the president is going to start going a little wobbly over support for israel, particularly as they move into southern gaza. in an email to me yesterday, john kirby insisted the president is not going wobbly but what are you hearing there? >> we are hearing that they don't support a permanent ceasefire but that they really like these pauses and they would like the pauses to continue because they think that is the best way to get hostages out. and so it's one of those things, they want a pause, they are not saying how long of a pause they want. it sounds like they would like one that lasts weeks or even months but the word permanent is not attached to any of that. >> john: ok, peter doocy with the latest. thank you, peter. from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. sandra. >> sandra: thank you, john. top national security leaders are gathering in simi valley, california, for the reagan defense forum.

at least 74 times the forces has been attacked since the war began, and russia and ukraine war shows no signs of ending. the focus this year is on china, and artificial intelligence. jennifer, what is the mood out there at this year's defense forum? >> well, sandra, 38 years ago ronald reagan during the state of the union reached out to congress and the world's democracies with an olive branch and promise. >> i want to work with you to support the democratic forces whose struggle is tied to our own security. >> this year's reagan national defense forum now in its 10th year begins tomorrow. it will be streamed online, and panel discussions with head of the navy, marine corps, air force and cyber command. defense and commerce secretaries will be here, the new chairman of the joint chiefs, the

admirals, and the focus this year on china, a.i. and new technologies that will position the u.s. military in race with china. 38 years after president reagan promised security assistance to the world's democracies, willing to fight that are their own freedoms, those values long espoused by the republican party are under attack by populus ideas and those who want the u.s. to look inward. survey found most americans do want the u.s. to remain engaged in the world, providing military support to ukraine, israel, and taiwan. the survey found 73% of americans are concerned about a potential invasion of taiwan. 59% military aid to ukraine, 47% say the u.s. is not doing enough to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon. three-quarters worry about china surpassing the u.s. as the world's top superpower.

77% favor increasing military spending, nearly two-thirds think it's wrong to block military promotions to protest pentagon social policies. half say they would encourage military service, a third would discourage it. 70% of americans are not aware of a major new security agreement between the u.s., australia and britain, to develop technologies like nuclear subs. eight in ten are worried about the u.s. falling behind china technologically. all of this at the heart of the discussions at the 10th annual reagan defense forum over the coming two days in simi valley. >> sandra: we'll be watching what comes out of that. thank you so much. >> prime minister, referred to a decade fraught with danger. we can hope today that in meeting those dangers we have transformed this decade into a turning point, a turning point for our age and for all time. >> john: president ronald reagan and margaret thatcher created a

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>> qatari officials are working for a truce after a week long pause in fighting. israel says more than 130 hostages still remain captive in gaza at this hour. and, just moments ago, we just got word from the idf, the idf has announced the death of a fifth hostage now, a 75-year-old man from kibbutz nir oz.

let's bring in mark regev, senior adviser to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and former ambassador to the u.k. and welcome to you, sorry to lead in to you with the horrific news. first, your reaction to that. >> so it's clear that hamas is brutal and that we are extremely worried about how they are treating the hostages that have remained behind. we are thankful that we got 81 israelis out, 81 israelis who were in hamas's dungeons, they are out. unfortunately, as you said just now, there's more than 130 still left behind, and that's a problem. we have been hearing stories from the medical teams that have been dealing with the hostages come out and they are saying that the hostages went through a very difficult time. the ones that are now out and can talk, abuse after abuse

after abuse. children suffered abuse at hamas's hands. but maybe we shouldn't be surprised. we saw the way hamas behaved when they invaded israel on october 7th, when they butchered our people, burned families eye life, machine gunned the young people at the open air music concert. we know what we are dealing with. hamas are brutal killers. we can have no illusions. >> sandra: ambassador, just reading through the update from the idf spokesperson here about this now, a fifth hostage pronounced dead, through the idf, the name of that hostage we are told, he is 75 years old, and his daughter was released last night. to clarify, and reading directly from the note from the idf, the

bodies of five people, these hostages, are still being held right now by hamas in gaza. they are still being counted in the total number of 136 hostages, we believe that to be the case, at least. we are waiting for an exact response from the idf on that. what can you tell us about the negotiations now that this week long ceasefire is over? why did they fall apart? >> well, hamas took a decision that they did not want to honor the understandings that were reached, and as you know, the united states played a key role in reaching those understandings and hamas was supposed to release hostages and for releasing hostages, more hostages, we were willing to extend the humanitarian pause. but for its own reasons. hamas not only didn't follow through on its commitments about hostages, but hamas also opened fire and this morning at about

5:30 a.m. local time there was rockets being fired from gaza into israel and so they broke the quiet by attacking us and the same time were not following through on their commitments under the understandings, and so they -- they, they jettisoned the pause and if the people of gaza are now in once again in a war zone, they have no one to look to except for hamas who has deliberately in a premeditated action started the war once again. >> sandra: just reading through some updates from the white house's john kirby who is speaking right now to this, answering that very question, ambassador, why the negotiations fell apart, his response, because of hamas that this pause has ended. some other things he's saying right now, and reaction from you as i read these, it's more than plausible, kirby says, that

hamas has more women and children hostages who could qualify for an exchange. he also says in these remarks, gaza must remain palestinian land and cannot be reduced. i'll get your thoughts both of those items as they are now coming across the wire, ambassador. >> so we agree. we believe there are more women and children that hamas could have returned and we agree that israel doesn't want to occupy or rule gaza, that we are only in this war to protect our people, we are only in this war to create a situation where israelis who live on the southern frontier no longer have to live in fear of terrorist, murderers crossing the border in the middle of the night and butchering their children. we are only in this hamas says given the capability and opportunity they would do the october 7th massacre again and

again and again. their words, and not mine. so our action is defensive and the goal is, and it's shared with the united states, we have to create a new reality in gaza, where that territory is no longer ruled by a territory group. and model is what the united states did and destroy isis in syria and iraq. isis had what they called the caliphate, controlled territory they could inflict pain on others from their territory. just as isis was destroyed in syria and iraq, we will destroy hamas in gaza. >> sandra: ambassador, we appreciate your time today. mark regev, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> together our nations have faced the challenges of our time and have not flinched. thanks to your courage and your leadership, the fire of individual freedom burns more brightly, not just in america,

not just in the west, but right across the world. >> john: that was then british prime minister margaret thatcher along with ronald reagan 1988, alliance on full display as they tackled the communist threat from the soviet union. liz truss says america would benefit from more of that leadership today and joins us now. good to be with you, nice to see you. >> good afternoon. >> john: as the world becomes a more dangerous place with wars in israel and ukraine, china with designs on taiwan, iran causing instability in the middle east and pursuing a nuclear weapon, you write this in "wall street journal," for as long as most of us can recall, the u.s. has led the free world. during the cold war, american power held off the communist threat. president reagan was unflinching calling soviet union an evil

empire. and america would benefit from that leadership today. how would you assess the biden policy and the application of it. >> we have to ask why president putin felt emboldened to invade ukraine. why is it president xi is lauded when he comes to america and american ceos, and hamas commits atrocities in israel essentially backed by iran, and the reason that we are in this position is the west is not being strong enough, and in particular, the u.s. leadership, whether it's by trying to get a nuclear deal rather than getting tough on iran, not acting strongly enough back in 2014 when putin took

various parts of ukraine and the donbas, or whether it's allowing china to have access to western technology which now they are using against us. i think we have to ask, why is all this happening. >> john: ronald reagan had a simple philosophy, peace through strength. does this administration not project strength anymore? >> i think things like the withdrawal of afghanistan gave authoritarians around the world the green light. the green light that if you push the west, if you push the united states, might not be the resistance than there was in the past and this is why i want to see conservative american leadership. i want to see the kind of alliance we saw in the 1980s of peace through strength, increase defense spending on both the part of the united states and european partners, economic

policies that are coordinated to actually hold china to account, hold iran to account and russia to account and what we know, these regimes are working together. we saw hamas go to moscow. we saw beijing helping iran and russia evade the sanctions. so we can't just treat these as three separate things. this is a threat to our way of life in the u.s. and the u.k. and i frankly don't think we have that much time to take a different position. >> john: the idea of looking outward but also suggest in the op-ed we need to look inward as well. write we must halt the rot we have allowed our own societies, whether anti-capitalist, woke agenda promoted in the schools and campuses, we urgently need to counter ideologies that

undermine our way of life and give sucker to our enemies. reaction across europe with some politicians in parties, italy, finland, sweden, slovakia,s holland, hungary as well. mele just elected in argentina. do you see it as being a reaction that may go too far? >> what i see is on the streets of london. i see people demonstrating in favor of terrorists. and that being allowed to happen. and you've got the trans extremist, ecoextremists, degracer, and what they are about, they are about saying the way of life that we have in britain or america, that's not the right way of life. actually, we would rather support terrorists, we would rather support authoritarians.

people are proud to be british, proud of our history, proud of our alliance with america. and what they are frustrated by is that ideology is not being taken on enough by conservatives. and that does lead to people thinking i'm going to wait for the alternative here because i'm so frustrated that conservatives aren't taking this on. so, this is why we need conservative leadership to actually take on the leftists, show strength in the face of aggressors abroad, so that we can revive the values that most people in our societies are desperate for. they believe in family, they believe in freedom, they believe in anglo american values. the debate is dominated by the woke left and you can see that here in washington, d.c., see it in london, you can see that across europe. >> john: and while we see that

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>> john: breaking right now, chairman james comer and jim jordan responding to attorney abbe lowell about hunter biden's offer to publicly testify. in a letter, they say they expect hunter biden to sit for a deposition behind closed doors as early as december 13th. david spunt live in washington with the breaking details. did not expect them to take the debate. >> bickering continues. house republicans have wanted to sit down with the president's son hunter biden since before they took the gavel of power last january. earlier this week, abbe lowell, the attorney said great, but in public, in front of millions of people on television. james comer and jim jordan originally issued a subpoena for hunter biden to sit behind closed doors in a deposition. they say today that's what they are sticking to. they say they want this to be a

closed door deposition but they also added we appreciate your confirmation that mr. biden is willing to testify at a public hearing. we look forward to his public hearing in a hearing at the appropriate time. it says mr. biden's attempt to avoid sitting for a deposition pursuant to the terms of the subpoenas by offering instead to testify at a public hearing amounts to a demand he receive special treatment from the committees. mr. biden will not succeed in attempting to dictate to the committees how they conduct their investigation. again, john, republicans have wanted to talk to hunter biden about his business dealings in this impeachment inquiry into president biden but right now things seem to be a little bit more at a standstill. giving abbe lowell, the son of the president's attorney until monday to answer but we suspect abbe lowell will hold firm and say hunter biden will appear but only appear in public. john. >> john: all right, the disagreement will continue and see if the doj does anything

about it. david spunt for us, thank you. >> he has no business running for president and you know, gavin newsom agrees with that. he won't say that, but that's why ease running his shadow campaign. >> one thing in closing that we have in common, neither of us will be the nominee for our party in 2024. >> sandra: ok, those were a couple big moments from last night, fireworks during that debate between florida governor ron desantis and california governor gavin newsom. jessica anderson, president and former executive director of heritage action, and kevin walling, democratic strategist and former biden campaign surrogate, wholly qualified to say about the last comment. >> i loved it. i thought it was a great debate. we were talking before. i thought sean hannity did a fantastic job, they covered so much ground, from abortion, to immigration, to the state of the

economy, comparing red states, blue states, florida, california, fantastic. >> sandra: kevin makes a great point, a win getting them on the stage together. a conversation that did not happen prior to last night. >> we know where the democratic left is on issues like crime, parental rights, immigration, abortion, it was clear. and newsom was charming. pulled out the charm, the good feels. >> flashed those pearly whites, the great hair. >> every single time sean put up a graphic, a statistic from the cdc, from biden's government, there was no way for newsom to credibly defend his record in california. so who won, florida won. desantis won because of the record, how he governed, and newsom's father in lou relocating and moving to florida for a better life. >> sandra: and that was brought up, the population migration comparison, desantis pushed this

idea, migration into florida, 454,000 people and out of california, 750,000. highlighted many times. some more highlights from last night. watch. >> only person -- >> one at a time. >> ron desantis, for the tens of thousands of lives that died unnecessarily because he played to the fringe of his party. >> he's imposed restrictions on his own people while exempting himself from those restrictions and going to the french laundry. >> fifth largest economy in the world. we dominate, number one manufacturing state. >> you have 6 or $7 a gallon gas. >> working people pay more in your state than the state of california. >> he's the first governor to lose population. they actually at one point ran out of u-hauls in the state of california because so many people were leaving. >> sandra: there were some good stuff there, and the price of a gallon of gasoline in california, we all know, sky

high, down from where it was but still almost $5 a gallon compared to florida where a gallon of gasoline is 3.16. so, was this an opportunity for ron desantis to really highlight some of his policies economically? >> listen, i think governor desantis did a pretty good job. more on the line for him as an active candidate for president, probably a potential match-up we'll see in 2018. gavin newsom's line, both of us are not going to be the nominee come next november, effective. i think he held his own. we are 44 days out from iowa, a lot of structural leadership issues with his super pac, campaign, dynamics at play. he picked up governor reynolds' endorsement in iowa, evangelical leadership there as well. we'll see if anything changes. again, a lot on the line, 44 days, and all governor desantis's eggs are in the iowa basket. >> sandra: multiple

opportunities for them each to highlight who went wrong during the covid pandemic. you heard newsom hitting desantis for the lack of shutdown, saying thousands of lives were lost unnecessarily. desantis highlighting that moment that for voters brought back the memory of that picture of newsom sitting down at the fancy french restaurant, french laundry in the middle of major shutdowns in newsom's state at that moment. >> yeah, the hypocrisy of newsom's governing agenda in california i think was on full display last night and a lot of gaslighting by him. he tried to zoom past his background how he handled covid, on the schools, 90 days plus students were out of school in california because of the lockdowns, he wanted everybody to forget about that and look at the charm. but i think what the american people and the people i talked to after the debate saw, they actually saw a stronger desantis

standing up with the truth on his side, talking about his record, and actually articulating, ok, what i've done, now what i need to do to turn this country around and if you notice, desantis actually went back and forth between targeting newsom and biden, because i do think even though it was a governor verse governor debate, the point of this was to show he could do this against biden on the main stage next year. >> sandra: fair enough, see what happens with the polls after all this happened. and to set the record straight, back and forth on taxes, these are taxes per capita, california exceeds florida, over $10,000, in florida, $5,400 and the deficit in california is way more than florida, it's 31.5 billion, versus florida, 17.7, if we are keeping the facts in the picture there. >> keeping them honest. >> john: speaking of the lingering effects of lockdowns, hundreds of thousands of government employees are still

working from home while taxpayers shell out billions of dollars on mostly empty office buildings. the white house dialing up the pressure on federal employees to get back to the office. grady trimble is here. what's the president saying about all this? >> he wants the workers back in the office. it's a rare situation where the president actually agrees with congressional republicans. they all say federal workers should be back in federal office buildings. the latest report from the government accountability office finds 17 of the 24 federal agencies it reviewed are using 25% or less of their h.q. building's capacity. for some agencies, it's even less than that. taxpayers are footing a massive bill to maintain, operate and lease federal buildings that in many cases remain largely vacant. the gao says it costs $7 billion a year, house oversight subcommittee held a hearing this week on government employee remote work.

>> the president himself is telling federal employees to please get back to work and they simply are not coming. but i cannot say that i'm confident the biden administration has a handle or even control over that. >> axios is saying the chief of staff is calling and meeting with cabinet secretaries to push them to get their teams back into the office. so far, it's not successful. >> john: you know where president biden is supporting the move to come back to the office, he doesn't have to be out on the road. it's a joke here in d.c., if you want to come into work easily, do it monday or friday because that's when the telecommuters are still working from home. a lot of them come into the office tuesday through thursday. so -- they should just sell the buildings. why not? >> better for the taxpayer. >> john: make some money off of them. >> sandra: a fox news alert as we continue to watch the ongoing

situation there, these are flares over gaza in the night sky as the fighting has resumed there. 9:42 p.m. local time, this is happening live on your screen. so, john, obviously something we are going to continue to monitor as that brief truce has come to an end. we see this happening right now in front of us. we'll keep monitoring this and we'll have more for you after the break. >> john: that was a quick break. learning a fifth hostage has been pronounced dead. idf spokesman confirming 75-year-old man from kibbutz nir oz. the idf says it's targeting hamas in southern gaza but secretary of state antony blinken has warned israeli leaders to be more cautious with their attacks and said destruction we saw in northern gaza could not be repeated in

the south. also reportedly told israel it does not have unlimited time. that has sparked alarm that president biden may be laying the ground work to pull back from israel. listen here. >> i think president biden is trying to drip drip drip the israelis into a permanent ceasefire which would leave hamas standing. hamas is the winner and promised publicly to do october 7th over and over and over again. >> john: morgan ortagus, former state department spokesperson, listen to what antony blinken said yesterday, morgan, in tel aviv, appeared to telegraph to the israeli leadership what they wanted to hear. >> israel has the right to do everything it can to ensure that the slaughter hamas carried out on october 7th can never be repeated. hamas cannot remain in control of gaza. cannot retain the capacity to repeat that carnage. that was only under scored by this morning's appalling terrorist attack on people w

waiting at a bus stop in jerusalem. >> john: saying the right things in public but the concern is the back-up from the biden administration may not be there in the future. >> what we are seeing happen, many of us were afraid of, they would stand by our ally in the days and weeks after october 7th but as the fighting began that it would sort of start to be death by 1,000 cuts and i think you are seeing the democrats on the left fall for the propaganda put out by hamas and starting to see especially in the leaked audio from the meeting blinken was in, it's bizarre that was leaked, but what you saw whenever blinken said i'm not sure that you have the credit in order to continue to destroy hamas, that undermines israel entire objective. our objective in afghanistan after 9/11, we wanted to destroy

al-qaeda and make sure that afghanistan was not a place from which america, the american homeland could be attacked again. and they have similar goals obviously for hamas. israeli people cannot live in fear of terrorist groups that are like al-qaeda or like isis. groups that we fought so that they could not attack americans as well. so i would say today, and i don't say this lightly, i have worked with a lot of secretary of state, john, i try to be careful of the criticism with the current secretary of state and his team but some of the stuff he is saying behind the scenes i consider it shameful and selling our ally down the river, saying one thing publicly, and it's a communications exercise, we are going to say one thing but not necessarily going to back it up in actions behind the scenes. and so this, you know, israel is left in a predicament. i don't recall blinken flying to ukraine every other week in order to micromanage their war.

the way that he is doing to israel, and this is a sovereign state. not a satellite state of america. this is a sovereign state. the micromanaging from the biden administration, especially when they can't even get all of the american hostages back is too much. it's gone too far. >> john: let me come back to the point you were making there about what's said behind closed doors and add context and perspective to it. you mentioned a transcript that was leaked. this transcript of the closed door meeting between antony blinken and the war cabinet was leaked to channel 12 in israel and then reported on by the times of israel. listen to this exchange, the one that you alluded to. the defense minister gallant says the entire israeli society is united behind the goal of dismantling hamas even if it takes months. antony blinken's response, i don't think you have the credit for that. as a former state department employee and spokesperson for

the former secretary, decode that for us. what's he saying? >> it's hard to know what he means by the credit, but i think he is essentially saying that you don't have the political capital on the international stage to be able to actually destroy hamas and if that's what this administration thinks behind the scenes, that is a massive problem. you know, we have all been worried that it would be death by 1,000 cuts and when things got really tough for israel in the fight against hamas, that the administration would not stand behind him. i'm also concerned how politics may be playing into this, john. we know the president is underwater in his approval ratings, we know that he is losing to former president trump, michigan is going to be a critical state, reportedly democrats in michigan, especially those pro-palestinian are not supportive of the president's actions towards israel. so part of me wonders if the administration is starting to play politics because they are

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