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>> brian: it's 8:00, wednesday, july 31. this is "fox and friends." middle east on edge as hamas confirms its political leader has been assassinated and is vowing revenge. trey yingst on the ground amidescalating fear of full on war. >> steve: trey gowdy is next. and battling in batbattleground pennsylvania. kamala harris tries to flip the script on her border record. >> donald trump has been talking a big game about the border. he does not walk the walk. >> ainsley: plus golden girl, simone biles leads team usa to a victory and the parents of the pummel horse hero will join us. final hour of "fox and friends" starts now and remember your mornings are better with
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friends. >> brian: this is what we woke up to, hamas confirmed their top leader has been killed inside of tehran. this increases threat of wider war in the region. >> ainsley: the strike in tehran comes hours after israel says it killed a senior hezbollah leader in lebanon. >> steve: trey yingst live from tel aviv. trey, sounds like israel is behind this. they hit this guy in a house in tehran in the country of iran. that is different. when will iran start shooting and what will they shoot with? >> trey: good morning. massive breaking news overnight. political leader of hamas ismail haniyeh is dead following missile strike overnight. israelis have not taken credit
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but are likely behind this strike. this took place inside iranian territory, a rare strike against the iranian capital. we are gathering details about what took place, but know haniyeh was in town for the inauguration of masoud pezeshkian, new iran ian president who is replacing rici. just hours before they met with pezeshkian and hours later haniyeh was dead in thissic stroo. we are getting new information, the supreme leader saying following this bitter tragic incident which has taken place in the republic, it is our duty
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to take revenge. how will iranians respond and use proxieses to do so. this comes in aftermath of another strike that took place with israelis taking credit for taking out a hezbollah commander responsible for that rocket attack in the golan heights on saturday that killed 12 jewish children and teenagers. this is unprecedented moment for the middle east. iranian forces vowing to respond. today there is notice to airmen closing airspace of northern israel in anticipation and concern about the possibility of renewed rocket and missile fire from southern lebanon. >> steve: trey, this guy's death will shake hamas. it will not destroy it? >> trey: absolutely, it will not
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destroy it. look at conaccident it of what this means for the region. hezbollah is largest proxy in the middle east. it has rocketses and drones and precision-guided missiles that could target major population center. hamas is second largest proxy in the middle east and has been destroyed since the october 7 massacre. option for hamas to respond are limited, but iran has a variety of options on the table. after we saw the april strike that took place, iran does have the ability to target israel with ballistic and cruise missiles. they did so this year and threatening retaliation for the strike that took place against beirut targeting that hezbollah commander. iran, like israel, is trying to
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avoid a larger war. given how rapidly both countries are climbing this escalation ladder, it may be out of their control and the defense minister g gallant, says the country is prepared for war but hopes one does not take place. >> brian: status quo does not work, too many hamas soldiers left to go to peace agreement, sinwar still lives and in the north 80,000 people are displaced, sitting in hotels, can't go to school or work. it is not tolerable, they have to get through this. the current situation does not work. it does not seem negotiators are figureing that in. they have never stated this current situation can't come to a conclusion yet. >> trey: great point and talk
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about this week and how rapidly things changed. on sunday, cia director william burns was meeting with qatari and egyptian negotiators. they were hoping for a ceasefire. within a few hours, hamas released a statement saying israelis were going back on their conversations and conversations started to fall apart. days later, leader of hamas, ismail haniyeh, was killed in a tarring elted assassination in tehran. this is ceasefire talks are off the table. the man responsible for a lot of negotiations had an extensive statement and asks an important question. how can mediation succeed when one party assassinates the negotiator on the other side.
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end to war in gaza will not happen in the aftermath after the killing of the top official in hamas. you have prisoners in gaza, no diplomatic solutions on the table to end the conflict. there are tens of thousands of israelis displaced. continuous rocket and drone attacks. an israeli civilian was killed in an attack last night. we were on the ground in tel aviv when an explosion rocked the city killing someone here. you have syrian militia threatening new attacks against israel and american bases across the region and x-factor of iran and how it will respond to strike against capital overnight. talking about seven different fronts, unprecedented moment for a region and country at war for
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past 300 days. forces in israel are tired. we have been talking with gallant and soldiers on the front line in gaza. we were in rafah speaking with soldiers as they battle hamas on the front lines. what comes numbers, israeli forces have to remain on high alert, there is notice to airmen closing the air space in this country. there are three tiers of air defense, lowest tier, iron dome, david sling and arrow missile defense system, we saw all 3 in use when iran attacked iran earlier this year. iran could respond against israel following this attack that killed the leader of hamas in tehran and significant strike, first time since this war began in early october that israel targeted hezbollah in the
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lebanese capital of beirut, striking this neighborhood where hezbollah launches many operations and plans out of the region. >> ainsley: thank you, trey, very strategic. >> brian: what analysis. >> ainsley: he is amazing. this hamas leader is at this inauguration and left qatar. he left qatar and was vulnerable to this attack and this is israeli raid, u.s. military telling fox news u.s. had no involvement in this assassination and this was most senior leader of hamas. >> brian: sinwar was calling the shot and losing the pr war and global pr war and have u.s. officials treat benjamin netanyahu so parleap, they think they are winning by living and we're slow walking weapons at the same time. >> ainsley: didn't you say he
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cheered when he found out -- >> brian: three sons and four grandkids were killed and they were patting him on the back, they are now martyrs, that is mindset we are dealing with. >> steve: interesting to see if the presidents anything from the white house. >> brian: is he even in the white house? >> ainsley: race to the white house, talk about that. busy day of campaigning ahead as former president donald trump will head to pennsylvania for a rally there. >> steve: vice president heading to texas to host a fundraising. the v.p. stakes comes down to the final stretch. we will soon know who the person is. >> brian: lucas tomlinson live at the white house. >> lucas: former president donald trump returning to pennsylvania for the first time since the assassination attempt. yesterday the vice president was asked the question, who is going to be her running mate.
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>> madam vice president, have you chosen your v.p. yet? have you chosen yet? >> lucas: not yet. list of who harris is likely to choose from, mark kelly, former navy pilot and astronaut, josh shapiro, popular governor in critical swing state, tim walz, kentucky senator beshear, pete buttigieg, youngest choice and winner of the iowa caucus in 2020. commerce secretary gina, cut taxes and removed 8000 pages of regulation. now harris will be hitting the campaign trail heading to philadelphia, wisconsin, detroit, raleigh, savannah, phoenix and las vegas. donald trump will begin in chicago and be interviewed by quadry of journalists including
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harris faulkner before going to first trip since the assassination on his life. white house is forgiving another 30 million students from loans bringing total to 170 billion dollars. that was u.s. wa army budget la year. >> steve: where is that money coming from? >> brian: talk about the election. 2024, because it looks as though donald trump has a moving target, he is no longer running against joe biden, not sure he is running against vice president kamala harris, she seems to be changing her positions especially where she failed epically at the border, listen to this ad. >> this is america's border czar and she's failed us under harris over 10 million illegally here. a quarter of million americans
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dead from fentanyl. >> steve: we showed that adyesterday is started running in the battleground states. what is happening, very powerful issue. top two issues are the economy and we've been telling you that for six months now. what harris is doing now is essentially trying to say, i'm on the right side and guy who will not debate me, what she suggested yesterday in atlanta he's on the wrong side. from a big rally yesterday in atlanta. i was attorney general of a border state in that job i walked underground tunnels between the united states and mexico on that border with law enforcement officers. i went after trans national gangs, drug cartels and human traffickers that came into our country illegally.
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prosecuted them in case after case and i won. donald trump -- [cheering] >> donald trump on the other hand has been talking a big game about securing our border, but he does not walk the walk. or as my friend would say, he does not like it like he talks it. when i am president, i will work to actually solve the problem. >> steve: they were eating it up, what she said is not accurate, we have receipts, as the kids say. >> ainsley: i cannot believe, look at people behind her shaking their head. they believe this? under biden? >> steve: border crossings up 232%. ya >> ainsley: eight million
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encounters and under trump 2.4. >> brian: she is in charge. she was in charge of the border and has a president that does not do much. great opportunity to research herself, been an epic fail and her plan b is to pretend she had nothing to do with the last administration and that piece of legislation that may or may not have been good to pass, she said donald trump was against that, she says he's weak on the border. he was president and someone should whisper to her that she is actually vice president. if she wanted to assert herself on the border, she would have done it. she did one visit and a zoom call. >> ainsley: they need to pass out flip flops, now there is an article where her campaign is saying she's flip flopped on four big issues.
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now all of a sudden, she is for fracking, did you hear that, pennsylvania? she wants to increase funding on the border after she said she wants to reimagine ice, she does not want a know mandatory buyback, even though she said she will come to your door and pay for your guns and it is mandatory. >> brian: this is why you have primaries. >> ainsley: no longer supports si single-payer health insurance plans. >> brian: this is why this is so unfathomable and unprecedented. she is unvetted and in power. forced to go back to 2020 when she failed spectacularly and to run again, she has to change everything and -- >> ainsley: she wants us to believe it. most progressive liberal voting
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record more so than bernie sanders. >> steve: i don't know if they need to pass out flip flops like they did with kerry back in the day. i'm sure they will label her as a flip flop. biggest flip flops in american presidential history, first one was george herbert walker bush. he said, no new taxes. he lost. john kerry, ultimate flip flopper, he was for the war in iraq before he was against it and what happened? high lost. will that disqualify her? less than 100 days to find out. >> brian: seven major flip flops and she leaked them to a newspaper and can't wait for the first sit-down interview. >> steve: more flip flops than walmart.
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8:18 in new york city, the suspect charged in the fatal car jacking of 54-year-old woman in virginia was in the country illegally. >> brian: officials say he stole the victim's car and ran her over. >> ainsley: brooke singman has the story for us. brooke. >> brooke: ice confirming happenings he is from el salvador and entered the united states as a gotaways. martinez is charged in connection with the death of melody waldacker. he stole her car and ran her over. the victim's family says a bystander tried to stop the suspect, but was unsuccessful. he is currently being held at detention center and ice put in request asking for him to be
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handed over to immigration authorities. ice commenting on the case say entering the united states without authorization violation of federal law and those who do so may be subject to arrest and criminal prosecution. investigation is still ongoing and officials expect him to face upgraded charges. >> steve: terrible story. >> brian: i thought illegal immigrants don't commit crimes? can both things happen? >> ainsley: he said more people in our country than illegals that come over. >> steve: i'm sure donald trump will talk about this case. will kamala harris? probably not. coming up on 8:20, carley has news from texas. >> carley: this story is unfolding now, police standoff underway in a san antonio neigh
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neighborhood. officers arriving in early morning hours to find a man with several gunshot wounds lying in a driveway. two suspects barricaded themselves inside the house. hostage negotiators are on scene trying to convince those people inside to come out. now to results from arizona primary election, cari lake beating mark lamb and elizabeth ray. lake delivering her victory speech last night describing the election as race between good and evil and preparing for high-stakes showdown against reuben gallago. abe homaday has a lead over blake masters and arizona district eight house primary. that race has not been called. in the olympics, team usa leading all countries with total of 27 medals won so far after an
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amazing day the yesterday. [cheering] >> carley: such a cool moment, u.s. women's rugby team used that last second score to upset australia. first the u.s. has won in rugby seven competition and they were not only american women to win yesterday. [cheering] ♪ [cheering] >> carley: the u.s. women's
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gymnastics team taking gold in the team competition and simone biles is most decorated american j gymnast in american history and pummel horse hero, stephen nedoroscik girlfriends she is loving memes, after she saw the men's team take on br bronze. we'll be joined by stephen's parents to discuss their son. looking forward to that interview. >> steve: i believe the pummel horse guy girlfriend refers to herself as pummel horse king's boyfriend. >> i might do the same thing. >> me, too. >> steve: so far the olympics have been great, next week bring out break dancing, a new sport, who knew. they will take over. >> brian: coco gauff, did lose,
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men's soccer team did win and advance to knock-out round. hamas confirms political leader has been assassinated in tehran, capital of iran. iran is saying the u.s. is to blame? nice. i try to put my arm around any vet that i can. absolutely. at newday usa, that's what we're doing. we put our arm around the veterans. when i think of the veteran out there that needs to refi his home, he may want to purchase and we can help them and provide that financial solution for them and their families. it's a great, rewarding feeling. everybody in the company, they have that deference and that respect and that love for the veteran that makes this company so unique.
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[cheering] >> brian: fox news alert. protesters in israel threatening death to israel and america saying u.s. is responsible for death of senior hamas official in tehran for inauguration of the new president. just hours after israel took out the hezbollah lead er. our own leaders admit they are in the dark. can you confirm if israel is behind the strike that killed senior hamas leader and did you get warning thises going to happen? >> i don't have anything for you on that. we will -- certainly have heard the reporting, i don't have additional information, we'll do everything we can to make sure we keep things from turning into
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a broader conflict in the region. >> brian: jim hanson, u.s. special forces, joins us now. two separate operations, successful, killing one leader tied to the 1980s and one founder of hamas and leader of hamas. what is at stake now? what should israel expect in terms of retaliation? >> i don't think there is a question iran has to retaliate. this is blow to prestige, what kind of terrorist puppet master are you, if a top hezbollah guy get returned to molecules and you invite hamas leader to a party in your city and zionists return him to ambient temperature. they will something, will it be
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a drone attack against israel or will they use terrorist or an attack against israeli civilians? >> brian: how important to take out people responsible for the attack? easy to fight the fighters, better to take out the master mind, that is what israel wants to do. >> 100%, they said, we will not take the pact path of appeasement, we will be victorious and defeat hamas and hezbollah and they made the point both of them are terror proxies of theocracy in tehran, they took it to the spider. >> brian: they blame us. if you are in iraq or syria, how does your posture change? >> you have to go to highest threat level because of fact the
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shia militia have been attacking since october 7 and before. we have to assume that is another possibility. i think if iran was smart, they would not attack u.s., they will stick to israeli targets. not sure if that will help them, israel is ready to deal with the problem at the source, iran, and take it to hezbollah in the north and all the proxies on the ground. >> brian: they are vulnerable, i don't think this new president formed his cabinet, this was inauguration day. guys in air conditioned rooms making terror operations, they should not feel safe today. jim hanson, thank you. vice president harris flip flops on major issues, fracking, guns, border, can voters trust what
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under scrutiny and flip flopping on key issues as leakers tell "new york times" she is changing course on a bunch of them. dana perino joins us live. good to have you. it is not uncommon for politicians to flip flop, it is stunning to see a list leaked to the "new york times." we are changing perfoolicies bee we can't win. >> dana: forget everything i said the last four years. when the sugar high wears off and the honeymoon is over and people focus, do you think people will believe that kamala harris believes in previous position she held or more recent one? the answer will be yes, she does believe those things and knows it is untenable. and working class voter and
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swing voter will not be for those things and has to change. >> steve: she had one position, she's changed it, she could change it in the future, she's a politician. >> dana: democrats are happy with that. republicans don't like that, they want to know what you are for. if you change your opinion, okay, why. she has not done interviews. why are you against fracking? ban on natural gas exports under biden, are you for that? did you tell joe biden you were not for that? if she does any tough interviews, she'll have to answer those questions. >> steve: peter doocy has flown to houston, she is there. peter asked questions, not going to happen. we understand dana perino, she is going to reveal her pick for vice president by tuesday and they'll go across the country standing side by side and saying
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vote for us. those are probably the conventional wisdom contenders, who do you like? who will she pick? >> dana: we have begina romando, on there, i don't think that is a serious pick, circle which does not belong and you have midwestern white governors, and pete buttigieg in there, i think he would be a bad choice for her. i have a hard time telling you who she will pick because i don't feel like we know her, what kind of governing partner does she want and will she put that person in chargeats at the border. do i think she will be smart and pick somebody that can help her? governor josh shapiro would make sense. >> steve: it starts in pennsylvania. >> dana: we're not supposed to read anything into that.
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many kickoff in home state, in this case, it could happen. she needs pennsylvania or she does not have a path to electorol college. >> steve: natesilver still predicting donald trump would win if the election were today. >> dana: i imagine we will start having calls to blowup the supreme court and electoral college. silver says 38% chance kamala harris would win. that is a chance, not a 70% chance. >> steve: i haven it0% confidence know who is going to be on your show. >> >> morgan: will join us, trey gowdy and mark penn all things democratic strategy. >> thank you. >> steve: meanwhile, you love this guy, the pummel horse hero going viral across social media
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>> janice: good morning. take a look at the map and i'll talk to my friends.
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a lot going on. potential for severe weather across midwest and ohio valley. also southwest and this blob is dis disturbance number one, has potential to develop over the weekend. close to florida and gulf coast. monitor this thing, it gets close to u.s., it could get stronger. this will move eastward and that park fire something we have to watch for. hi to my friends. your name? >> eric. >> marsy. >> north carolina. >> mandy. >> sady. from iowa. >> janice: do you want to say hi to anybody? >> hi, nana, hi, pop. >> janice: good fans out here, always better with friends. >> ainsley: catholic advocacy group mobilizing against vice president kamala harris, lauren green joins us to tell us why.
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>> catholic.org, calling vice president kamala harris one of the most anti-catholic politicians ever and mounting an adcampaign in swing states to try to defeat her. catholic vote is reminding the faithful of policies and questioning of judicial nominee brian boozier, the groups she vilified him for membership in knights of columbus saying they had taken extreme position on marriage, positions in line with teachings of the catholic church and campaign reminds voters of her record with planned parenthood. >> kamala harris represents most vile, anti-catholic threat of any leading candidate for president in american history. she is a candidate of the hard
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left and her record and her words demonstrate a gross anti-catholic bias and bigotry. >> harris campaign points out she served as v.p. with only second catholic president in history and catholic voters are not defined by a single partisan organization, . kamala harris will fight everyday to earn their vote. harris introduced the do no harm act which would end religious freedom restoration act and require catholic doctors to perform abortion and trans gender surgery. back to you. >> ainsley: thank you so much. america's poummel horse hero gos vi viral, his parents will join us live from paris. hello, mom and dad.
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>> brian: his prep on the sidelines gone viral. >> steve: joining us live from a cafe in paris are his biggest fans, his mother, cheryl and father, john. good morning and congratulations. >> good morning. thank you. we're so excited. >> steve: how do you feel about the fact your son is being referred to as the clark kent of men's gymnastics? before the event he was wearing his glasses, he took them off for the pommel horse and became superman. >> i love the analogy. it is something he always -- never worn his glasses while he performs. we are used to seeing him that way and that's how he has done it his whole life. >> ainsley: i know you are so proud of your son. degree in electrical engineering, obsessed with puzzles and solve the rubik's cube in 8.6 seconds.
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an athlete and metalist and he is having smart. how did he get to this point? >> he got to this point because he works hard at everything he does. he studied hard. he loves puzzles. been doing rubik's cube for him. it is all on him. >> brian: how did he come to the point where he specialized in just the pommel horse? >> he was recruited in college for his pommel horse skills and when randy took him, the coach of penn state, he decided he was just going to have him be a specialist on the pommels. he still trains the other events for conditioning, but not to compete. >> steve: he sat on the sidelines and let everybody else do the other stuff. he came in for the individual pommel horse. i know you are sitting on pins
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and needles. let's talk about what your son needs glasses. he has a condition called -- one of my kids has it as well. explain why he needs the glasses and, you know, given his challenge, why he takes them off and uses his hands rather than his eyes on the horse? >> well, it is actually a genetic family defect on my father's side and a lot of us have -- it is called -- his pupils don't constrict. they stay dilated all the time and he has a section of his iris has completely missing. with that can come -- you can have sight issues. it doesn't necessarily mean he
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will but in his case as well as i we always had glasses. we're very, very sensitive to light. and some people actually are blind in the eyes when they have this condition. fortunately ours we can see. when he competes he really does not use his eyes to the pommels. it is basically he knows where his hands belong and gets the positioning down right so he can nail routines like he did the other night. >> ainsley: how does your son feel about having all this attention and becoming an american hero? >> i'm sure he loves it. >> brian: what's left for him now, john? >> well, saturday. saturday he is going for the gold in the individuals. >> ainsley: we'll be pulling for him. >> there are only eight
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competitors on the pommels for saturday so that's all that's left. >> steve: have you even -- do you still use your last name or full names? aren't you just i'm pommel horse guy's mom and dad? >> i don't say that. >> we don't. >> maybe when we get back to the states but not here. >> ainsley: how old was he when he started gymnastics? >> four. >> brian: he was jumping around the house and decided to put him in gymnastics. >> ainsley: all of the time you put into this. congratulations mom and dad. >> thank you. >> brian: good luck saturday. >> ainsley: we love you all. go team usa. >> steve: i love his story. >> brian: he stayed within himself. >> ainsley: and got dressed. >> bill: go usa. good morning. to the breaking news happening overnight. major escalations happening in

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