at this hour over its response to iran's first ever die. direct military assault on israeli territory. the us is stressing it is standing by its closest ally in the middle east. but that, of course, is not without danger. iran is now warning it will target us military bases in the region if washington backs any retaliate by israel. i'm jonathan hunt, live in los angeles. it is coming up to 11 a.m. now in israel, where they are assessing the damage. the physical damage believed to be minimal. there may be more psychological damage, but israel's air defense systems, along with us military action, took out most, if not all, of the iranian drones and missiles . together with our allies and partners, we are operating at a at we're operating at full force to defend the state of

israel and the people of israel. we will continue to fulfill this mission. the white house is monitoring the situation closely. president biden has been in contact with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu for the very latest. let's turn now to fox news correspondent stephanie bennett, who is live in london. good morning, stephanie. good morning jonathan. yeah, more than 300 drones and missiles were intercepted during that attack last night by the israeli defense system, along with their allies. now, iran has reiterated as well, as you mentioned, a warning to israel that if they fight back, they should not respond to this attack because the next steps would be bigger, they claim should that happen. iran also warning washington that backing israeli retaliation would lead to targeting us bases. this, of course, is the islamic republic's first ever direct attack on the jewish state,

raising the risk of a broader regional confrontation. the idf says 99% of the drones and missiles that were were shot down before they entered israeli airspace last night, some of which, which is interesting, were launched from iraq and yemen. israel's minister of defense praising their international partners, saying our support from international allies was always tight. but tonight it was unprecedented. we're operating at full force to defend the state of israel and the people of israel. we will continue to fulfill this mission. yeah. and the us, jordan and the uk intercepted many of those drones and missiles. world leaders reacting tonight here in the uk, prime minister rishi sunak posting on x that he condemns in the strongest terms the iranian regime's reckless attack against israel. canadian prime minister also saying in part, quote, we stand with israel. these attacks demonstrate yet again the

iranian regime's disregard for peace, stability in the region. the european union's foreign affairs chief called the attack an unprecedented escalation, and the german ambassador to israel saying germany's solidarity is with all israelis tonight, whom iran is terrorizing. with this unprecedented and ruthless attack, the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, posting on x as well, saying, quote, we intercepted, we repelled together we shall win. for now, the un security council, they will convene later today for an emergency meeting. and president biden again calling on the g7 to meet as well. so we shall see what happens in the next few hours. jonathan stephanie bennett, thank you. those will be two very important meetings to watch the g7 one and the un security council. thank you. stephanie president biden, as you just heard, has been very much involved in monitoring all of this. and reacting to it. there has, of course, as you

would imagine, been response to from particular former president and from politicians on capitol hill for more on all of those comments, let's turn now to fox news correspondent chanley painter. hello, chanley. hey jonathan. well, here in the u.s, we did hear from president biden when the white house released a statement where he condemned iran's attacks against israel after the president spoke on the phone with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, to quote, reaffirm americans, america's ironclad commitment to the security of israel. the statement goes on to say the president will convene with fellow g7 leaders to coordinate a united diplomatic response later today. meanwhile, former president trump addressed the attacks at a campaign rally in pennsylvania last night. i want to say god bless the people of israel. they're under attack right now. that's that's because we show great weakness. this would not happen. the weakness that we've shown is

unbelievable, and it would not have happened if we were in office. you know that. they know that. everybody knows that. but america prays for israel. we send our absolute support to everyone in harm's way. iran's actions also led to swift reaction from members of congress on both sides of the aisle, including from the house majority leader steve scalise, announcing that the house will now refocus this week's agenda from themed legislation to an aid package for israel, posting , quote, the house of representatives stands strongly with israel and there must be consequences for this unprovoked attack. also, senate majority leader chuck schumer releasing a statement saying, quote, we stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of israel. iran's regime must take immediate steps to ratchet down their recklessly aggressive behavior. republican senators are. asking schumer to allow a

vote on the house passed israel bill, while senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is advocating the house take action on the national security supplemental, providing resources not only to israel but also ukraine and taiwan. so all in all, it does seem now congress is primed to tackle bipartisan support legislation as soon as possible. jonathan chanley, painter, thank you very much indeed. joining us now, president of iris independent research, doctor rebecca grant. doctor grant, great to have you with us, it was notable, i think, that the iranians implied that they now consider this matter concluded with this attack. i can't imagine for one minute the prime minister, netanyahu, yahoo, thinks, oh, that's the end of this. what do you think israel does next? well, i think the mullahs in iran are going to be a little bit scared waiting for israel's reaction. clearly, iran, what a stupid mistake to launch this strike.

terrible. what they've done. they then tried to just hit those that area around israel where they would not cause casualties. but look, they flew all those missiles and drones right over jordan. i'm so impressed with what jordan has done in joining this response. i think israel now needs to wait for the g7 meeting today, and israel loses nothing by sitting back assessing the damage and then making their next decision about how to contain iran. do you believe that, doctor, that whatever israel does next, there should be a military component to it? really that is israel's decision. and i think they'll weigh a couple of things. they've already done a very impressive military response. they had perfect missile

warning from the minute from pre indications of launch. they were able working with the u.s. and boy we played a big role to pick up the launches of these devices. they were able to get their citizens into the shelters and they shot down 90 or 99. tremendous coordinated efforts that we'll hear more about between their fighter jets and our fighter jets, our f-35s, probably helping our navy, helping with the air defense picture, and also getting at these drones. so they've already carried out some very heroic military actions in the skies over israel. and i think we will hear more about that. and that may weigh in. whatever they choose to do next. yeah, it was an extraordinary demonstration version of the abilities of israel's air defense system. i was interested in president biden's statement, doctor grant, it seemed to me that he,

without saying it directly, was indicating his preference for a diplomatic response rather than a military one. do you believe that is what he will be saying to prime minister netanyahu directly? you don't need to take any action. you've got a victory in the sense of shooting down 99% of those drones and missiles that were sent at you. take the win. let's coordinate the diplomatic response. do you think prime minister netanyahu will listen to that? if that is indeed what president biden says to him, you're probably right. and you know, it's really unsatisfying when you've just watched israel under attack. i'd like to see a little more passion and outrage from the president. but he has done two things. he's left a door open for israel to obviously take action on its own, but no question, biden

wants to go to diplomacy because he is looking long terme still for that ceasefire in gaza and for getting saudi arabia and israel into the abraham accords to normalize relations. and that, of course, is probably the one thing that's going to make the biggest difference. long terme. so biden is absolutely on the diplomatic track. that was a little shaky this week. the telling him, don't do it to iran didn't work, but probably true to form, biden will try to stay on that diplomatic track. but in saying ironclad support for israel, he has left the door open for israel to carry out its self-defense where it needs to. yeah, and on the on the situation in gaza, because obviously these things are all very much connected. we heard this morning from the israelis, from mossad, that hamas has essentially rejected the latest outlines for a ceasefire deal

and hostages released. so where does that particular conflict go now, doctor grant, are we inevitably moving toward this much talked about and still delayed thus far? major israeli ground operation in rafah? hamas is just incredible. just the timing alone. and remember hamas, they don't recognize any international agreements. they do not deal. well. i actually think this attack from iran has strengthened israel's hand in gaza. now, if the move into rafah takes place and let's remember, israel has tried to be as precise and careful as they can, but they, i think, have now more justification since hamas has said no, israel has more justification to keep the military pressure on hamas. that's always been their policy. they know they need to keep that military pressure on israel believes that military pressure is the only thing that

makes hamas negotiate behind the scenes with qatar and others, so they will keep that military pressure on. and i think after last night, they are more justified in doing so. interesting. and what of hezbollah up in the north? the hezbollah sitting in lebanon, not involved in any major way today. there has been the ongoing launch of some rockets from hezbollah, which we've seen pretty much daily for the last six months. but they did not get involved in this particular attack. and as we know, doctor grant, if they had wanted to or perhaps been ordered to by iran, they could have fired hundreds of very powerful missiles towards israel. they didn't do that. what's the significance of that? do you believe? very significant hezbollah is staying out just like they have since last fall. the daily exchange of fire. but basically they have stepped back and

said, oh, we're not getting into this. and i think last night's attack by iran against israel makes hezbollah even more reluctant to really go in in a big way. remember you know, hezbollah, they're not all that fond of hamas, either. and frankly, iran now, although they support these groups becoming very unpopular, even more so with the major states in the region, but very significant that the attack vectors last night were a little bit from yemen, a little bit from iranian militias in iraq. and then, of course, from iran itself, but not from hezbollah in the north. so i predict hezbollah is too smart to get involved in this nasty as they are, and they're going to stay out. interesting. thank you very much, doctor rebecca grant, great to have you with us this early sunday morning. so here's where we are now. now at 414 sunday morning in the united states at 1114 in israel. israel has been

attacked with 300 missiles and drones aimed at it by the iranians and their proxies in iraq and yemen. 99% of those were taken down by israel's air defense system. but now the israeli cabinet and prime minister benjamin netanyahu are weighing what to do next. will there be a military response? the region already on edge, even more so now than it has been over the last six months since hamas attacks against israel? we await the next action

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>> imposter to the united states, 6:00 a.m. there. thank you for getting up with us, or not going to bed. your thoughts about the nature

of these 200 rockets headed in your direction? >> a game changer, a game changer. before people in the middle east could pretend when iran sends hezbollah tissue hundred event sends hamas to buyer thousands of rockets at israel somehow iran is not involved and now that vail has been removed, iran is directly involved. the firing of 200 cruise missiles, fairy big accurate missiles, difficult to intercept caught drones, expressive drones at israel is an act of war, it can't be put on to anybody else so we are in a different ballgame as of tonight. israel responds immediately will be a factor of how much damage was actually caused according to military spokesman. the damage was minimal, and young girl was injured.

we have the final tally but the fact that iran it can fire at us that amount of weaponry and just walk away, that is lala land, that's likely to happen. we are waiting to see what our allies do insight. >> saudi arabia calling for restraint but don't you to answer what you think the consulate was in damascus, a violation of un charter have a better, many boot people believing it's right in damascus make it could be different military headquarters. i come from the policy, once you is your embassy as a military headquarters to carry out acts of aggression in another state,

loses his symptomatic immunity, is just a military headquarters. the military in the building plotting to make attacks on israel from syria, it's got immunity? what world? israel had every right and even a duty to take out both leaders. >> what's it like on the ground? are used to being a regional conflict especially since october 7, what was it like today knowing other be in the world knew this attack was coming? >> we felt as we always feel, we are secure, strength, unafraid. i'm sitting here all night long, my family is not afraid but we take precautions. most of our apartments have a field drink, secure rooms, school has been called off for 48 hours, large event, weddings

call office zero we are not cavalier about it but we are not covered either by any stretch of the amount of nation. iran thinks it somehow.to subdue us or intimidate because even with 200 cruise missiles. >> just going over exchanges tween this administration and your administration and israel, antony blinken said if israel keeps disrupting gaza but they are becoming indistinguishable from hamas. the president of united states and basically lets everyone know he plastic be on the phone today before they give the secretary of state time to speak out against you, how would you characterize your relationship between the u.s. and israel right now? >> on that level, the relationship is strained. united states continues to provide imitation for israel.

tonight the united states helped a great number of these drones and cruise missiles and i completely expected that, regional conflicts like this in the united states by our side, remarks about hamas equating are very painful but also injurious to israel and the united states. why would hamas agree to a temporary cease-fire and release hostages if the message is again and again, hold on? get a couple hundred palestinians were killed in this war because that's what happened when hamas hides be timed civilians even though we are trying to avoid that and the united states and israel will break ranks and imposed cease-fire. the chromatically, it makes no sense. >> you cannot leave the terrorist organization together and headquarters so i think the prime minister made that clear,

hopefully president biden understands that. thanks so much, appreciate it. joining us right now, former foreign policy advisor and genius of israel. this is unprecedented, we've never seen iran attack from their soil and go after with this type of velocity against israel. you heard him say it's a game changer, is that how you view it? >> we've known this circle of fair strategy toward israel, to using proxies around israel. hamas and the south, obviously the houthis, syria on israel's order so this whole strategy of having proxies terrorize israel revoking israel to respond to proxies never respond to erin directly. tonight change that, iran fired

a massive barrage, they intended to hit israeli soil. in that sense i agree with ambassador will warren and puts israel and a new normal because unless israel now, there are encouraging things we saw but with that said, your response some way that's meaningful that runs the risk of normalizing this idea that iran can directly hit israel from its own soil. , now every and being able to launch what they watched tonight without any response would set a new precedent. >> they put out an immediate statement saying essentially iran's military reaction was a response to their aggression against the tip about preside presidents, it can be deemed concluded.

everyone i've talked to set they've not concluded and you said it can't be concluded but it could happen worse. hezbollah started with their hundred thousand rocket arsenal at the same time and what hamas had left in the south and iran over the top, do you agree it could have been worse? >> it could happen but there was one other factor was critical, one that was extraordinary u.s. israeli cooperation in the recent days and have been quite critical including conversation with you on your radio show in recent weeks of the biden f ministrations distancing from israel, politically diplomatically the un, publicly in ways that i think send confusing messages to hamas and to iran that's been unhelpful. however, in recent days the administration has sent a strong message that the u.s. was locking arms with israel, the central command was in israel

yesterday and i think the coordination between the u.s. military and idf has been deep and tight and i think there's a wonderful capabilities providing to israel that were important and the most important factor is we learned in the days ahead about very important and encouraging cooperation between israel and arab countries in the region, i think the damage that was done to israel present as minimal as it was despite the large garage by iran from limited damage was made in part because israel worked closely with saudi arabia, jordan and other countries in the region with real damage. >> the abraham accords were successful but iran was the problem in this a penetration said iran, let's pretend like it's old times and be friends. they locked in our face and

everyone is paying the price. so much on a saturday night. appreciate it. meanwhile, we will monitor breaking news out of the middle east and over israel to see if the rockets have subsided. mark levin will be next, don't move. ♪ reacting this

morning to iran's coordinated attack on israel. some 300 missiles and drones launched by the iranians towards israeli territory. now, we are told by the f that 99% of those missiles and drones were taken

down by israeli air defense systems, along with the united states. there is, though, of course, concern now about what israel will do next, whether its response to this will involve military action and whether all of this. will grow into a much wider conflict at multiple thresholds have been crossed here that have not been crossed before, and, i think it is correct to say that, we're going to be looking at a new middle east in the future. i'm jonathan hunt, live in los angeles. it is now 11:30 a.m. in israel, where they are assessing the physical and psychological damage. the physical damage is minimal with israel's air defense systems, as we mentioned, backed by the us military, taking out 99% of

those iranian drones, ins and missiles. but there are concerns, obviously, about the psychological impact of this on israel and what is going to come next. we are joined now by benjamin ben taleblu. he's a senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracies. benham, thank you very much for being here once again these early hours of the morning as we take stock of what has happened over the past 24 hours. and i wonder, as you listen to president biden talk about this and convene a meeting of the g7 today, as you listen to prime minister netanyahu's response, what you believe comes next, benham well, great to be with you again. that really is the most important question. what does come next? certainly for israel, what must come next is

some way to restore deterrence. an enemy that has been fighting you in the shadows for 45 years, all of a sudden coming out, crossing several red lines, crossing several thresholds, and allegedly all doing so in response to an israeli attack on what is alleged to be a counselor annex where the israelis killed several members of iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps. this is a marked escalation by the regime, not just a mere attempt to achieve parity in relation to that. so for israel, which has long looked to reestablish military deterrence firmly against non-state actors for a state actor to be able to strike israeli territory and now, fortunately, many of these missiles and drones were intercepted. but for a state actor to be able to do this and get away scot free, that would lead to much worse things in the middle east. so certainly i think the israelis have military action at the top of their list of priorities.

thinking about targets, thinking about pathways, but also hopefully working with their international partners and their most important partner, the us, to build a larger coalition to continue to constrain and roll back the islamic republic. and hopefully this can get the world to wake up and realize how serious of a threat tehran actually is. i wonder what is going on in tehran though, right. now. benham, the supreme leader, leader ayatollah ali khamenei said in a post on x in a video that was posted on x last week that, as he put it, quote, the malicious zionist regime will be punished. that was ahead of this attack. in essence, israel was not punished because israel's air defense systems, along with the us support, worked so well, so is iran thinking it has to do more? or are they as they as the islamic

republic leaders hinted overnight, are drawing a line under all of this? now, i think part of the undistributed middle here, or part of what the islamic republic is really banking on, is having been seen as publicly again, crossing that threshold, crossing that red line, not and not only being able to get away scot free, but being able to have america constrain or retain on the israelis from being able to respond militarily or getting a larger coalition together against tehran. that might be the only thing right now giving the regime in tehran confidence. after the performance of some of its missile and drone forces. although i will say tonight, though, this is still not a reason to undervalue and ignore iran's ballistic missile arsenal, which is the largest in the middle east by the way, tonight and yesterday, our days of successes for integrated air and missile defense and partner to partner military cooperation . now, president biden has

called for this meeting of the g7. it's going to happen later on sunday. what do you think the g7 should be aiming to do? and what do you think they will be able to achieve? there is tons of low hanging fruit, particularly on the european side and particularly on the drone and missile issue. that needs to be done. for example, the europeans, which last october retained about 200 missile military and nuclear sanctions that they were supposed to waive pursuant to their continued adherence to the 2015 iran nuclear deal, called the jcpoa. they they retained those, but now they have to build on those. and washington needs to be able to help europe come up with new targets that it itself has already sanctioned. and socialize them across the pond in the atlantic to create a new web of missile sanctions, to put more pressure on the regime's missile, military and drone programs. beyond that,

they need to come up with a strategy at the united nations, particularly at the united nations security council, to snap back and restore older multilateral penalties on iran. that include a permanent arms ban to and from the islamic republic, permanent ballistic missile testing and transfer injunction on the islamic republic. these things used to exist. they lapsed with the 2015 iran nuclear deal and now with russia poised to be iran's lawyer on the security council, essentially until kingdom come, we have only until october 2025 to snap back or reset. that. so a strategy for snapback has to be set as well, as well as for rigorous oral sanctions enforcement with all members of the g7. interesting behnam ben taleblu the on the diplomatic and the military steps that need to and may be taken. benham. it's been great having you with us through these early morning hours here. we really

appreciate you staying up with us and for all your insights, sir. so the breaking news is that israel is at this point weighing its options. now deciding how it responds to iran launching 300 missiles and drones at israeli territory in what is a completely unprecedented attack. the world awaits the israeli response. stay w

now with breaking news on iran's air raid on israel, 200 rockets, missiles and drums together have gone into israel, most of which knocked out of the sky. some of which have mentioned on a military base. trey yingst on the ground, covering it for us all night long. just over 6:00 a.m. there. is it over? >> good evening, it appears to be over for now, there are mixed

reports that the still be iranian drones in the sky headed toward israel but the bulk of the iranian attack is done at this moment. things are across tel aviv, israel's largest population center behind jerusalem appeared to be pretty much normal, people are calm, no one panicking. israel's air defense systems largely did they are intended to do, intercept threat headed toward the jewish state. we could see intersections overhead and the circulating of darrell three system able to match what we saw to those videos. it is significant because this is israel's largest system, the most capable system meant to intercept ballistic missiles and not just focus missiles, cruise missiles and attack drones. the region now waiting to see how israel will respond to this.

israeli cabinet meeting here, israel's version of the pentag pentagon. they ultimately voted to give the power to three people, israel's prime minister, defense minister and another cabinet member to decide how israelis will respond but there are two critical phone calls tonight, one between benjamin netanyahu and president biden at another between israel's defense minister in his american counterpart, secretary lloyd austin. during the short calls, they discussed the initial iranian attack and what is really response will be. the coming hours and days, the region will be focused on two major things i want to see if iranians will attack again and to see how israelis will fund. initial reports and israeli media indicate there will be response, is really looking to send a message to iran in a direct attack from iranian territory will not be accepted and will draw direct israeli response.

>> no one knows better than you, this could happen worse. it has a lot decide to time there rockets on the north at the same time iran close over land from a different direction, hamas has rockets left over in gaza, if they wanted to, they probably could have overwhelmed all the missile systems, is there something to be learned? is there a message we should take from that? >> is a great question and there is something we can take away from decision. iranians have more capabilities than the use tonight. this was a significant unprecedented attack that's plunged the region into truly uncharted territory but iranians did not involve there two major proxies left with significant arsenals in the region and we are talking about iran fact reason yemen and iran fact has a lot in lebanon so that is the x

factor in all of this. if it continues to escalate in the middle east continues to client this escalation flatter, iranians certainly could involve hezbollah directly can a broad attack. >> will check in with you again and hope it's over but as the sun comes up, who was find out. breaking news from the white house, jacqui heinrich is there, i know we had this meeting it o'clock eastern time waiting on the readout, what could you tell us? >> i'll read it to you for the very first time together because we are watching to see if there's any information about how the u.s. counseled israel and what would be an appropriate response. this statement reads from the president, earlier today iran and proxies operating out of yemen, syria and iraq launched unprecedented air attack against military facilities in israel. i condemned the attacks in the strongest possible terms.

at my direction to support the defense of israel, u.s. military moved air defense destroyers to the region over the course of the past week, extraordinary skills and helped israel take down nearly all incoming drones and missiles. i've just spoken with prime minister netanyahu to reaffirm americans ironclad limit to the security of israel. i told him israel demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend and defeat even unprecedented attack sending a clear message to those that they cannot effectively threaten security of israel. tomorrow i will convene my fellow leaders to coordinate a genetic diplomatic response to iran's brazen attacks and engage with their counterparts across the region and we will stay in close touch with israel's readers while we have not seen attacks on our facilities today, we will remain vigilant as to all the threats and not hesitate

to take all necessary action to protect our people so a couple of significant pieces of that, this statement for the first time i believe is confirmation from the u.s. these strikes heading toward israel not just coming out of iran but also coming out of yemen, syria and iraq and also nearly all of them were taken down before reaching israel, we did hear from the israelis before but the line i am paying attention to his i've spoken with netanyahu to reaffirm the commitment because we seen this nbc report saying apparently there's concern within the white house at israel might have taken action that could drag the rest further into regional conflict so we are waiting detail on the. >> a lot in there, thank you so much. we got to take a break here, that was the breaking news. the breaking news in the middle east and dissect what was not

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out of sky thanks to the missile defense system. jordanians have knocked down quite a few drones, fractional the streets down there and talk that egypt might have played a role as well we are reviewing the fact that it looks like rockets have, of yemen as well as iraq iran proper for the first time possibly. moments ago jacqui heinrich related and we heard together the statement from the white house essentially says president biden releasing a statement moments ago thank i will convene my g7 leaders to courtney genetic diplomatic response to iran's brazen attack. my team will engage with counterparts across the region what they are worried about and notice they said in the statement take it military sites, civilian sites will be something israel will probably have to respond to something else coming out nbc report, mark within alluded to this officials

are concerned israel could do something weekly in response without came through a strategy. already it seems they are going in reins on a country, and attack literally from all sides. it seems out of work from their