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all right. we start this friday night with a foxes alert tonight, retaliatory ai r that began in the middle east. according to the pentagon, the u.s. the military conducted strikes against iranian backed militiass in iraq and syria, striking more than 85 targets. the u.s. says, it had commandmad and control operations and intelligence centers and. t now, this comes after three american soldiers were killed, dozens more injured in a drone strike in a base in jordan this past weekend. wen launched by, of course, iranian proxies. iran is responsiblian proxe preh for all the trouble in the region. here are the very latest on jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. jennifer, any word on whgon. y the targets were not in iran considering? o they are the source of all of these proxy attacks and terror attacks. >> well, sean, officials who ik? spoke to said that they were ruling out striking inside iran an this first set of strikes and they want to messageing to g to iran that they are not trying to go to war with iran. they're hoping iran getsbase

the message based on these strikes against their proxies and against the irgc strikes sitegc striks that they hit ton. the strikes lasted, i'm told, 30 minutes. u.s. central command submitted the targeting listu.s. cen to te house. it's a campaign, i'm told, to maximize pain for the iranian proxy forces that killed u.s. troopiranians a suicide drone hitting their barracks while they slept on sundae y. in a statement, defense secretary lloyd austin said, quote, thitement ds is the starf our response. the president has directed additional actions. to hold the irgc and affiliated militias accountable forr attack their attacks on u.s. and coalition forces. these will unfold at times in places of our choosing. we do not seek conflict in the middle east or anywhere else. but the president and i willor t tolerate attacks on american forces. we will take all necessaryks ono actions to defend the united states, our forces and our stats. t that from lloyd austin. u.s. airstrikes bega

n at 4 p.m.ster eastern at seven locations,n ir three in iraq and four in syria, according to senior u.s.a acco officials. to be one b lancer bombers launched the united states and flew without stopping fromng f the u.s. to take part in thetac. attacks. they refueled in midair along the way, the supersonic warplanes can carry the air force's largest payload.entional u.s. central command said in fostatement, quote, u.s. military forces struckk more than 85 targets.the ai the airstrikes employed more than 125 precision munitions. the facilities that were struck struc included command and control operations centersinclud, , in intelligence centers, rockets and missiles and unmanned air vehicle storages and logisticslc and munitions supply chain facilities of militia groupson l and irgc sponsors who facilitated these attacks on u.ssponsors. and coalition f. the u.s. navy did notdid no participate in these strikes sts tonight, despite having

the ssive presencegh in the red sea and in the mediterranean. u.s. officialsean. have ruled on as we mentioned, striking inside iran at this time, saying at this they do not want a larger war. defense secretary austin was asked what he described as adese multi tiered response days. that could last days. >> i don't think i don't the the adversaries are of a one and done mindset. and so they have a lot of capability. i have a lot more. and so ot more., you know, we as irlie, said earlier, we're going to do as necessary to protect our troops and our interestsct pentagon officials also say that for now, the u.s. does not. to strike inside yemen. that could change if the houthithat cs step up attac. this first round of strikes will be contained to ira strikq syria, sean. well, i would go back and i would remindo people thatrs the first attack against the the houthi rebels did not stop them. as a matter of fact, it

accelerated their attacks eratedagainst flagged ships in n region. one one of the questions i woulm have, jennifer, maybe you can answer tonight as you talkaybeeh to your pentagon sources, is there are almost 200 attacks within iraq and syria against u.s. forces. there was very littles. accountability from the last attack. i think we hit two empty warehouses. i'd like to understand why it took that many attacks and to respond with a lot more firepower tonight. well, as you said, this is a th lot more firepower, but it also has been telegraphed all week. and so most of those sites would have been empty.n empt not many personnel there. cortainly y of the irgc commanders and leaders would into gone back to iran or gone into hiding. so there there certainly wasing it seems, a conscious effort not to try and kill too manyy so people. and certainly some of the leaders we'll havee leader e with the bomb damage assessment whether these sitebombs, you kn,

how destroyed were they, what was the damage assessment . but i will say, sean, this doneot as secretary said, one and done. i sould expect more of thi night, more sites. but the real outlier is the houthis. they have not gotten the message. and if they start firing on shipst gotten theand if t, tn up a whole new front in this this conflict. tin thione key word you mentiond there as they've been telegraphing it all week, and i'm sure that'ey have phingq questioned in detail. we'll have a lot of questions about it tonight, but greaue abe reporting throughout the day. jennifer griffin, thank you. da griffe on the ground in telot aviv tonight, our very own mike told the mic the reaction ? there tonight. >> well, one thing i can tel>> you, sean,yo is iraqis are not o happy about it. we have an iraqi military it the u.s.aying strikes inside of iraq have threatened the sovereignty of that nation. and he said they threatened to, quote, drag the region into unforeseen consequences. intothis despite john kirby sayg that the iraqi government was

indeed warnee iraqd ahead of th5 strikes. now, 85 targets were hiten at seven locations, four of them inside of syria, three ofr. them inside iraq. command and control structures, accordinand and g to u.s. centrl command, were hit. logistics support for the irgcl and the subsequent proxies, as well as logistics, telligen intelligence locations. >> so far, wationse not seen ane of violent response here in israel, althougntre ih nervoe is being kept on hezbollah and hamas, evekept on though, hs ability to fire rockets is greatly diminished. s is greand houthies. but the houthis did fire earlier in the day at israel or at leastaimed they claimed responsibility for a surface to surfacelity for thl fired at israel, taken out with the arrow defense system. . >> john.sean all right, mike tobin, thank you for that repor>> mikt tonig we appreciate it. joining us now with more reaction to tonight's airstrikes with mo, fox news red contributor retired lieutenant is wral keith kellogg is witlieh us. general, maybe i'm justus

a little suspiciou.s one. they waited till we had nearly 200 attacks against our troops. two, i really don't understandsa why they were telegraphing that this was coming and where it was cominnd wheg and that was were sent out. and frankly, i ent ouf you really wanta me to send a message to iran that is responsible e for all oy this, all of these proxy wars, why go for low why hanging fruia in in iraq and syria? because it's safer. cause it why not take on iran directly? in this sense, i don't wanke ont a war with iran. i'll be very clear about that in a minute. but why? whi about thy do we not target refineries and let them know clearly that there will be consequences if they attack u.s. troops nearly 200 times? ho yeah, sean, thanks for having me. great questions. and you'regr absolutely right. look, these were putative targets. they were no thest targets designed go to ensure deterrence.

you know, here's where they should have gone. and this is just my beliefjust f and i'm not one of thoseorld who wants to start world war three in the persian gulf, but i want to reestablish persestablise. rrenc why did they go after kharg island, the largest export gulfinal that the iranians have in the persian gulf? why didn't they sinkdid they the bouchard, which is that iranian spy ship that is targeting all those vehicles going in and into the red sea? wh going y they target all thes ship and drone factories that are in iran. peey could i have found those. they could have gone after personnel as well. they didn't do that.r th they went after you. what? you said the low hanging fruit they madw hangin e it easy.n you've got to make it really hard on the iranians. they neeiranians d to know that you're taking this to a level that makes them very uncomfortable, makes you uncomfortable. but you've got you've got to make them stop. it's theop. same thing we did ws we went after soleimani. we realized in the trump administration that going after soleimani was high risk. we knew there were may be consequences, but we alsoha knew that going that high on the escalation ladder, it

would have them pause and rethink. and that's exactly what happene. d. you're not seeing that right now. i don't think these targets, whil e they may make you feele stri good about all the strikes, they're not going change anything. you're going to see the routes continue to attack and you're cog to see continued attacks there in the middle east. and then the next questioney mae is now, where do you go? and they may have to end up going exactly wher e they needch i to go, which is significant thrgeting within iran. so significant targets that mean something to the iranians. somethinbut the economic, mility and leadership as well, they all make very clear in my monologue, i don't want a war with iran. howeve gue.r if they're going to attack american troops. it's got to be more than taking out two empty warehouses that wasn't effective. the minimal strikes against the houthis, we were told maybee five people died, that only that only made d them more aggressive. to me, if they really want to send a message to iran, takee out their refineries, take out toeir money, take oues and tt their ability to foment terror and fight proxy wars.

htand i think that would be far more effective and do it with the element of surprise, which that means you don'ttelegp telegraph what you're about to do, which they didut t. . yeah. >>k delays, when i look back, i went back and looked at all these times we hit target s in the trump administration even before that. the longest dela that.y i saw was four days. we were heading into our sixth day on this one. this gives y ons one. them all the timel in the world to reset. i'm sure they have thosen targets. well, before you know, when you look at the commanders dow.r centcom and putting those target folders together. almothey do is update and they have them costed. you can launch those forces almost immediately. ediatelyly startyou could actuat to date those targets within targt five, six days down the line. that gives them time to react. time to respon gives tm tid ande to gear up and evacuate personnel. that's exactly what happeneders i would love to see what the media is going to be. the bomb damage assessment, but i don't think it's going to be that significant. i think this is just as theysigc

said maybe part of a campaign, because we don't have to repeat these target s again and again and again until we get really serioul wes and really hard. i o and i know it's difficult and i know there's rich to ie is rist but actually go inside iran. go to where the problem really is? and that's iran. all right. lieutenant general keithat iiran kellogg, as always, thank you. we appreciate your time tonight. now, followingr time tonight th senator linsey graham of south carolina was critical of theh ci administration's response, telling fox, quote, the lapse of time hatheponses lessen the t of deterrence. and by not hitting oilucture i infrastructure in iran or revolutionary guard personnel, well, you will have failed to make the point. by the way, i agre e, senator graham, here, the lapse of time giving. a heads up and a warning that this is coming absolutely the impact. and let me be very clear here. iran not. advocating a war with iran, but there's got to be some certain rules in life that evil nations need to abide, abide by. if you attack american troops

nearly 200 times, there must be and will be severe consequences without any warning. and if you really want to send a strong message to the iraniant mullahs, you need to carry out the strikes inside of iran. hit them where it hurts. that would be their number one source of their economy and revenue. and that would be their oil infrastructure. >> you know, take out their ability to make money.mon. the money used to fund terrorism. and that money would send a clear message, those they were takenthey w out. guess what? the iranian mullahs would be in seg trouble tonighould bt with arkansas senator tom cotton. senator, i love your perspectiverton all this. t i don't like the idea of telegraphing what we're doing. g and i don't like the idea that this is low hanging fruit. doidea thii'd like to see what b response is going to be and i'd like to see what the reall aftermath is. but they've already trietermaths

to pointless attacks that ended up being meaningless. why would they think thiat endes is going to be any different? good evening, sean. those are all good questions and i think a loe all got the ps you make are the points i hear from arkansans like you. they don't wan t a war, but they understand the quickest way to get a warest way is weak, h, timid responses. we've seen from joe biden for three years now. remember, these attacks have accelerated since thr seventh atrocity in israel, but there were almost 100 attacks on our troops before that atrocity our second. and we only responded like something like four ore ti five times. and as you say, hitting empty warehouseshouses.. the way you prevent a war from happening is strong. wacan't find it forceful. retaliation whenever, whenever r enemy nations target your troops. that's what president trump did whentroops he kassim soleimani, iran's terrorist mastermind. that's what ronald reagan didf when he sank half of iran's navy in 1988. nathat start a war that prevents a war. >> i agree.rlier

and i'm just to me again, i gopo back to my my earlier point. they telegraphed it they gave them time to prepare that gave the people responsible, time to escape. toand i don't really think the iranians for one second give a give a a hoot. i'll be pleasant about it about what happens in iraq and syria. i don't thinabout appensk they l and i don't think they care if any of their proxy fighterk s are killed because they're probably figuring and rightly so. iguring , that there's a going to be, you know, a million more volunteers behind the morem that will go ot and do their bidding for them if they supply the weaponry to do it. >> and that's what they've been getting away b with.is right they have shown iran, as it sometimes said, willingto the to fight american israel to the very last arab. but that's what we varab. can't to do. they have a proxy strategy when all we do is hit their proxiesp . it simply validates their proxy strategy. you have to take the fightdatesh pr to the iranians itself and to

telegraph for five days t what we're going to do. so all of iran's key leaders could hightail it back to iran from syria and iraq and then limit ourself to the infrastructure or the command and control centers or syribunkerd s have in iraq and syria. i mean, it's a tactical succes s ,but they can get new bunkers, b they can get new command and control centers. you haveunke to iran where it hurts. you shouldn't be telegraphing it. hurt yofive or six days in advance.d and it shouldn't be saying g all week long,, we don't want to escalate. we don't think iran control these. these oh, by the way, iran's nucleargr program is on ice. all of these leaksis on are dea to send a signal, the exact opposite of what biden actually is sending. he wants to send a signal like, oh, let's have peacesendin, lets have quiet. and all it really does is embolden the ayatollahs i, a continue these attacks. and that'll really be the measure of success here. sean, doess attacks on americano troops and international shipping stoternatiop? well said. senator tom cotton of arkansas, thank you tonight for than us. and well now, sadly, biden's weakness wea and his policy of endless

appeasement that has only emboldened iran and the mullahs, iran. biden has now turned a blind eye to iran, selling oil a abroad. they've made hundreds, hundreds of millions of billions of dollarsthey'vdreds of. remember biden on froze $6 billion for them as a ransom payment and that prisoner swap. and rememberin that biden waives sanctions, allowed a $10 billion payment from iraq to iran for electricitty, againu allowing them to use more funds to foment more terror to fund w more proxy wars. even the white house admitted this was impossibility at the time. take a loothk. >> sin >> who insist the iranian regime won't irani touch the $6 billion of iranian funds being unfrozenlion o. but isn't it true that this frees tehran up to spends more other nefarious goals like supporting terrorism its nuclear program? >> well, to the degree that they continueprogram? and to destabilizing activities and it's you know, i can't predic predictt what they'll dog

forward here, but we already have pressure in place on iran, both through sanctions and through our military on ir presence in the gulf region. we won't hesitate to take additional actions as we see wo further destabilizing activity by iran. further destortant to remember there's a lot of checks and balances on this money. the mullahs will get ths on it. it'll go directly to the iranian people for things like food and waterian peop and medis medical supplies. that's the goal here. the iranian people will not be punisheies.e iraniapeopled b. >> in fact, they'll be aidedided by the us. all right. joinin by g us now is florida congressman mike walters cong us and fox news contributor brad berkovich is with us. congressman, let me start with you. and i think this is a very important. e firs the first policyt that thet th biden administration had was appeasement, and that's where they turned a blind eye to them selling oil and making, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars. then it was, you know, let's let's bribe the the mullahs, iran. we'll do a $6 billion payment for hostages.

then, of course, allowing the 10 billion from from iraq to be paid $10 billion.that that's an awful lot of money.'s n joe biden's policies have he have helped the iranian mullahs get rich again. iraniansnow we have nearly 200 s against american in iraq and syria. they do nothing. and before ira attack, they telegraphed it's coming. they go after they don'tead of t go after the head of the snake. and if they would have taken out their refineries, which again, i don't want a war amth iraes whichn, but i don't t american troops abroad to be attacked. abroad200 times either. and the only way to stop that is the use of fierce force of the united states. show them what we're capable of. hit them where it hurts. this to mehit this to me does n >> yes, john, i share your your skepticism. and senator cotton'sn, i sha, ot became clear that we were once again, you know, the definitions

of insanity is is doing the same the thing over and over again to no effect, that we're once again hitting the proxies us rather than the irgc, the iranians, who are thereht te beside them. they are advising, training, equipping, leadingre the. they're right there beside them. but we gave them plenty of time onceet out of therave theme onct the proxies. i fear i want us to be successful. we all do, but i fear it's not going to b be sue in short, i jt heard tonight from soldiersey ae are downrange right now and they're telling me this is goingellinge equate to nothg more than a multimillion dollar fireworks show, that this is yet another check the box and oh, by the way, journalists who are in the middle east, the bbc and others are rep are reporting that many of those sites were alreadyd. evacuated. everybody in the region knew this waeverybs it knew this coming. so once again, i think we're hitting empty site ares. and then finally, you want

to shut off the cash. house republicanshut offs passed the ship act that would put secondary sanctionacs on chinese brokers, on shipping companies, insurance companies, refineries that are pouring billions into iran through buyinpouring theirt that has been sitting on chuck schumer's feet. on chuhe can take it up and sens to the president's desk tomorrow. if we were serioust about cutting off the cash, that's not only fuelin g terrorism, it's sending drones and missiles to russia that'ss n then hitting ukraine. so this is jus hnet an infuriatg policy, this appeasement policy on ira n is being led by c the same crew that led us into o jcpoa back in 2015. biden, blinken, sullivan and crew. and it's just again, it's the definition of insanity. >> it's the same old thing all over againe ol. to looks to me like i can bring you back in here.

>> lekovic you know, it looks to me like me s wa was a check x moment. it looks to me like this was not a seriou like ths attempt at stopping the iranians. if it was a more serious attempaniansift at stopping the iranians, they would have gone after iranian refinery. that would have sent a message and that would have done some real damaged haveone so and have hit them where it hurts. look, we'll have are in assessmt . >> one person, i can tell you that was not a check wa when suleimanie go got hit on that tarmact by donald trump. w he had no idea it was coming.ng there was no heads up.ther there was no warning. there was no tims noe to escape nothing. he died right there where you belong. t therand to me, that sent a me. they took out the numberterror one terrorist that had been killing american troops in iraq ,and they didn't hesitate doing it. that put them back on their heels that they didn't expect. why wouldn't why woulddid non the biden administration be giving them a heads up? this is comingministra them ang the low hanging fruit not within iran, but ira

q and syria . >> exactly. so let me get this straight, sean. iran murders american soldiers t and so then we decide to just bomb syria and iraq instead. instehow does that make any se? they keep getting away with it, sean. they don't regre with t hurting americans for one second and they're going to continue to do so. e second ill conthow many more soldiers e to die before we do something effective to this before its agi happens again? i just really hope these i es aree start of an actual cohesive strategy and campaign for once to stop the terror that is the iranian regime and their proxy groups. but i douby groupst it will becg anything more than a pr talking point for this administratioalk to the scope and effectiveness in dealing with this problem. eventhe scopiveness today's st. for days, they've beens telegraphing our military wants to the world. iran's media right now, sean, is already claiming that all mea the targets the u.s. struck were evacuated long before the strikes actually took place and the back channeling this administration has done directlyio with iran beforehand for the last few days only legitimizes their their longirane strategy.

and we even apparently informede the iraqi before the strikes. and who do you think iraq's going to call first afterreceiv receiving that message? you know, they're completely infiltratein thd at the highest levels of their parliament. and frankly, sean, do you know how manydo you american right nq of the iraq and afghanistan war are missinof ag or are paralyzed because of iran and iranian made weapons? and so enough's enough. i just fear more americans are going to die because of this administration'san. >> all right, brad, thank you. you.essman walsh, thank we have a lot more coming up tonight. the terrorists abandoned their bases in irat abandoq anda before tonight's airstrike. but as biden broadcasted, w then what he was going to do, well, we know the answer. the question is why? estion >> we'll explain straight ahea . >>wi missin the day you get your it your struggle with missing teeth forever. it changes how you cr smile eatu feel, and how you enjoy life.

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all right. leading up to today's strikes backed militantst iran in iraq and syria, joe biden and his administrationd, we'veml been telling you, spent the entire week pretty much letting the entire world knoeaw that their response was coming. and on wednesday, an iraqi official told cbs newsofficial that some of the islamic resistancetold c had already evacuated the bases in iraq and syria. so it's fair to ask, did they abandon their bases? becausdie joe telegraphede broadcast that basically his entire plan to the entirtel what about the element of surprise? maybe a little old fashionedf, but it works. joining us now, fox news contributor, formeworks.r cia sn chief dan hoffman, former pentagon official colby, as well as dan, start with you. it makes n colo sense to me. to telegraph. it doesn't make sense to me, to mako, to go after targets of proxies when you knowad of th that the head of the snake is over here. k iran i don't think iran really caresa what happens insidree of iraqa a

and syria at all. i think they feel that they'llll ther pro have plenty of other proxies to do their bidding for them. i d unlesso impacted by it, i think that to them, it's just i other day. yeah, you know, i think what we saw here was biden administration seeking just to avoid any escalationtiom and they put that a premium on that as opposed to restart wishing escalation, dominance, deterrence over iran. the one point i would make a little bit of a nuance i'm not so sure it matterswe lau where we launch the strikes. it could be in iran, it could iran.p admini remember that the trump administration killed kazem soleimani and the deputy head of iran's proxy militants in iraq,ilitants abu al-muhandi, at the baghdad international airpor t. interr >> and that. but, dan, let meup interrupt yo. and deterrence that there wasere one big difference and that was the element of surpris a e existed. >> there was no elemen nto elem of surprise here. i tota

i'm getting to that. sean. totally agree with you. there no reason to telegraph what we're doing beforehand. >> als we e doino, we shouldn'tg we shouldn't be taking potential strikes of takingpotef the table. we should never have said we wouldn't strike in iran. why let the iranians strik thin that we won't do that? >> so, look, this could be a cob a senator courtney said, a tactical success, but it's not going to alter iran's strategic calculus about carrying on their proxy war againsn's strat united stat. and elbridge said, actually, play it out. i mean, we've had nearly 200 attacks against u.s. soldiers in irau.s.q and syria. that's an awful lot of attacks . they had one response. they they made a big deal about it about i. it turned out they had hit two empty warehouses. we heard great britain in the u.s. teamed up together and they went after the houthi rebels. there was hope that, oh, well, maybe this is going to be impactfuit was tt thisl. it turns out the houthis were emboldened by that attack,y because it didn't have any impact. and they got more aggressive

to us, flagged ships in the region. sohips it seems to me that the strategy, starting with appeasement, bribin sg the mullahs in iran, that didn't work. now being nice to them and saying, all righthat didnow, we're going to hit all your proxies. don't make us hit make ut you. >> we really don't want to be in conflict with you. that that policynflict w seems n failed dramatically. and i don't think this is going to make a difference tonightmak i hope i'm wrong. i'd like to see the iranians stop, but i don't see itke to s. >> well, look, sean, i think you start from the right point of view, whiche is that we don. want a major war in the middle east for reasons. i mean, we've been there for a long time. exper obviously had a bad experience in a lot of ways. but also we've got bigger problemsiea lot ofave bigg in co but the way you avoid a war el not by just pleading and losing the element of surprise, but i'd put in the veme categore.y being very calculable. the biden administration seems to be bending over backwardsry u to try to make its movese mo as predictable and sort of confine as possible so that the iranians almost would be crazy note to think that they can get away with more. i think they're doing that wrong combinationthey a.

what we actually need is a combination of what you've been talking about anyod. others like tom cotton and mike waltz, which is sometimes so. .eed to hit hard actually, you know, henry kissinger wrote about this famously in the abe context of 3 war. sometimes if you want something to endmes if y, you need to hitt hard, not do this gradual escalation like we've seen, frankld this gry, in ukraine anr vietnam and so forth. but at the same time, i think it's really importanthat tt foro take a step back and look at the situation and say to ourselvese situat, what benet are we as a nation and particular our servicemen and women gettinrticularg for the exposure to be out there? >> what are they doing in placere thes like iraq and s? president trump tried to withdraw them. i think that makes a lot of sensehdraw anat, or at leastz to realign and rationalize. and the thing is, we're not we ae world of 20 yearsz had ago. mike wallace had a great tweet earlier today saying, look, if saf we get into a long campaign our stockpiles are already depleted. we need them. admiral paparo was just up for the paycom commander yesterday, i believe, and he said 2027, the chinese might move beforey s that and we're not as ready as we should be. that's my assessment.

but i think we've got to loo k at this together. >> and if you look at it in that way, you say just kind of boiling the frog and asking the iranians and letting them off the hook saying, heying ther they're not responsible for the proxies. that's not smart. but also sayins. g, let's leave all our forces all over the place. and just mark montgomery of fdr the former retired retired admiral said, we don't have enough air defense to defend all the placesdon't ht have in the middle east. let's be smart. let's not leave him deep in indian countrvey. nt int let's make it more defensible. we do have important interests there. but ate same time,e be firm. >> and to mefirm, the issue is they've had almost 200 attacks against american soldierhad als. here's the question that should have been asked. what is the properhould national response? now, i happen to be maybe a little too school and toooo trained in mixed martial arts. s i'm just a believer of somebody hit you. you hit hiu him back ten times harder. is this really can we say this is proportion? no. to the killing of u.s. troops? because i don't really see thisr

impacting the iranians at all. >>l, actually well, it was after one us contractor had been killed in baghdad that the trump administration decided to target the head of the irgc ,kazem soleimani, and lookok a at what the result of that was . there was no wider war. iran didn't respondr th by targeting us all over the globe and in our own countr y. we reestablished escalation dominance by striking them didn't hard. and we didn't have to target t a number of sites, just took out the leader of the irgc. >> and remember, goinge ir back to the to the beirut embassy bombing and the marine barracksck to th bombings 40 yet that's the irgc. >> they planned those operationd ,those terrorist attacksbe against us. they've been doing it for 40 years. doine never held irann accountable, only rarely. act. hen we don' this is the result. yeah, well said. all right. thank you both appreciateme your time tonight. when we come back. big news out of georgi back,a.

fani willis admitting that she had a personal relationship with thahad at overpaid prosecu, highsn wade, but she denie a conflict of interest. she paid him. a fortune. he didn't really have the best experience. and they took extravagant vacations together with all the money she paid him. we'll check in with gregg jarrett and dershowitz. under at >> they'll break it down right after this. right after this. >> israel is under attack. >> the war against israel began with the murder of hundreds of precious children a vino in, s orphanage bomb shelter. we're praying for god's help, praying to our vinamilk, our fatherost love, our king. rc countless israelis are endurinkg the devastating anguish of lost loved ones. loved ones. thousand have forced over 100,000 israelis to become refugees israelis to become refugees in their own israeli families are in crisis

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that it has not prejudged. trump's case. she also reportedly is refusing to recuse hersel if. and that's not all. today, she was hit with a subpoena from the househouse judiciary committee chair. that's jim jordan. and they have launchedary comm t investigation into her potential misuse of federal funds. iger potenhere with reaction, fs legal analyst gregg jarrett, harvard law professoaction ir alan dershowitz. good to see you both. good. start with you tonight my understanding is now that they've confirmed this relationship, not the biggest surprise in the world. she paid a guyn the that accorg to everything i've read, is not particularly experiencedhing i . like this. a gud more thanpai people that had more experience. a whopping $654,000. and she benefited because she got to take extravagant vacations and trips up to the white house to do god's notwith god knows what with god knows who on biden's team. so i don't know what is thisn'tw case apart where it is fallingpt

apart and will. >> it's finally, after four weeks, had to fess up f and tell the truth. she couldn't keep blaming it on racism because the evidence of her unethical behavior was well documented. >>e of she should be disqualifid from this prosecution. inanci she had a personal financial interest in the case of severe conflictalintere of interest wir subordinate lover and the appearance of and real impropriety. >> i mean, this, sean, is now so tainted that theted judge shouldthat remove it entiy from the d.a.'s office. >> if that happensm th, i suspet fresh eyes would see this fors o what it is a legally unsound indictment. >> it the racket laws and the fact that the boyfriend travels to washington for two eight hour meetings with the white house. i mean, that shows these white charges against trump were politically driven. in now there is a federal

investigation for misusingmisusg public funds, firing of a whistle blower, and tounds investigations examining how she and wadewhistleb personf profited how they used covid money to bringit the case.d to obt they failed to obtain warmission from the county for the cash she was doling out to her lover. >> and, you know, wade tookions actions, including indictments, before he was ever swornuding i. thiso this scheme of there smacks of misappropriation of public funds, honest services fraud. and, you know, willis be removed from office she could face criminal charge s. professor, let's get your take on this. you know, with allget your the pleao this deals leading up to this, in this case, none nobodn thisy pleading guilty to any racketeering charge or rico chargeto, which makes one wondet why that was pursued in thee. first place. not usually used in a case liknr this. ake. let's get your take. what impact will this have oncu

this particular case, these indictments? and what about the plea agreementsca indi about? >> well, you know, i taughtor 30 legal ethics for 30 years, and this is a classic case of conflic t interest by her own standards. she said when she was running fo when r that, you should not a personal relationship with your subordinates. she's supposed to supervise the subordinate. now, is she in a positionperv to supervise him when they have become loverise ts? d we b moreover, why should we believeh the affidavit and the statementa saying that their relationship started only aftert he wasonshp hired? relationships don't operate that way. this is not a summons don'e s gn evening moment. this is a developing relationship oveg ntr started as friends. that happened before he was hirethey stad. oped i then it developed into a relationship. we need a timelinent relati. >> these affidavits cry out for cross-examination. i would love cross-examine both of the people and find out exactly what happened. t? when did the payments start? i'd like to see all the billi'd

find out everything. but the most important thing is tharything.t a defendant is d to a conflict free prosecution in which the chief prosecutor has supervisory poweprosecutr or subordinates, which are supposed to be exercisedatei in a neutral, objective way. that would seem impossible under these circumstances.s. the appearance of justice play thos right into the hands of those who believe that this is another get trump moment,here another attempt to try to just prevent a presidenryt trump, former president trump, from becoming future president trump. this fro is political.dreadf and she made a dreadful mistake by allowing the appearance of injustice to have such an impact on so many americans who will have no faith in the outcome of this case. e and he as long as she and here cottinuing to be involved in i . well said. professor and greg jarrett, thank you both l said. n de i think this case is in deeps trouble as of right now. we'll see how it unfolds right all right.

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s to the washington examiner. meanwhile, in roxbury, massachusett s residents are outraged after a community center was closed to the public in order to shelter illegal immigrants. our very own order t sara cartet to roxbury today to speak with members of that community. take a listen. >> what happens to thehat community when the recreationahl complex gets taken away? well, the bottom line is that we're experiencing taken lin it right now, like the young man at the interview. and righwot now, he has two children. he lives right in the neighborhood. and so and l in the he's talkinw in terms of what he does to work out what his children doo outside now because they were using this complex. so he's a prime example of what you're actually talking about right now and how baard is that for the community when the children have no place to go. >> o no plach, it's horrendous. >> that's what it is. you know, we've been struggling with really finding space and h facilities. and to have one more space takeave on takenn is a huge cha. >> is it a little frustrating to know that they're going to open up a shelter now they fore to u migrants that you might not be able to use even though you're homeless?

>>se yes.r: how how does i dt make you feel? was sad. yeah, because i mean, if i'm homeless, i cannot be an adult like anybody can. and then there is the homeless. well, i just love migrants. i don't meani gu that just fromm of state. a lot of country. you? >> is it surprising to you and kind of surprising that they're coming to roxburypa . >> that's the thing that's surprising because like we are, we don't even have that fovetuf. >> all right. here with reaction, fox news contributor tammy bruce, joe concha. so, tammy, let me see if younderstand this week, what have we learned? that you can be a group of illegal immigrants in the countrn y. you can beat the hell out of cops. you can get out of jai l secondss. ,no bail laws. you c then you can make your way to the sanctuary statean meant of california. and in the meantime, if you have to stay in new yorkimea you stay in a free hotel with a prepaid credit card, courtesy of the federal taxpayers and new york taxpayers. t make t wow. you can't make that up. oe

yeah, look, that's joe biden's america. and this is the democrats. they have complete control over the state of new yor k and new york city. and this is what they do. they can'tyorkat blame it on fis over policy. there are no fights. ththis is what they've created.a it is vea result of policy. by the way, one out of every 83 new yorkers, american citizens are homeless in this city. ers, ametizens,and it is now prr the illegal alien migrantt community that the new new york city will be paying abouityt billion dollars through the summer00 throu of 2025 to te of them. so this is these are choices that are made. we are being told american citizens are they come last, that you don't matter, anc that the women and children living on the streethis of york who are american citizens are secondary. if they even into the equation, they're certainly not getting

money cards. i mean, this is a cover up of huge proportions, sean. rup ofhanding out money, hidingm in huge hotels. no dynamics, feeding them three squares a day. they think they're going to keep it quiet and then you g you get the attack on the the new york police department. etmy question becomes, in all of our question has to be, who were young men? and i would argue that, in facto ,this is af creation of theatti attitude of what they walk into in this countrtudey, contempt, a disregard for human life, entitlement, realizing that nothing will happen to them. ea where did they learn that or believe orrn that they could attack the police and nothing would happen. so a these are these are creations of policy and now as they escape to the southern part, it's calexico. i thint.k the reports are wherel these thugs are going to popr right back over the border and of course, come back in six weeks with new namesth new >> and when you get out on bail

with no charges and get to go to california, you get to flip the bird or a double bird way o at photographers on the way out of jail freeut. you know, how do people live in a place like. chy. there's no law. it's total anarchy. >> it's anarchy short.of and this is one of the biggest, if not the biggest story the b e year and of this election season. and yet, when you look at the cnn homepage. nn right now and ire going did before going on the air tonight, despite there being more than 100 stories on there right now, there isn't one on the illegal immigrant crisis engulfingon american cities in states like texas and arizona. theree is one story on cnn .com, however, titled and for those watching at home, make sureyour you don't have any food in your mouth. the story is titled, quote, wh y whale has massive value, unquote. so they have room for that. bid right. and this is what the bias from omission looks like. and when this massive storadmine is being covered, we see what'sw on the home page of new york times right now. >> a tebow interview with alejandro mayorkas, largely making republicans alheh

villains and the biden team the victims. here was one question asked by orcastimson do you think the united states still wants to be a country of immigrants? i mean, if be try of you're loor an example, coverage of what is the biggest story in the dalltry now, sean, you'll see, i guess, the dallas cowboys playing in februar y before that happens. honest and ample coverage of this stor.y. you really can't make it up. it's really sad. the inmateit'sy sad.s are runnig the asylum. are you ready for november? r nojust 277 days more. hannity next. >> oh, hello there. and welcome to a history of the world in six classes where we take you on a journey through six areas of civilizing excuse me and join me, your host, jon lovett. hey, i'm kevin nealon, and my new book is called i exaggerate. it's available in bookstores everywhere. what's going on here? what? what's the problem? i'm the host here. you guys are all getting into what am i dealing with, as you say. >> but you guys are getting paid. join me in for scene stealing hacks for a history of the world in six classes.

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