anti-semitism. that's not who we are. we are better than this. and this is a moment in time that those who are elected to congress should look at one another and understand history will look back at this moment. take your politics aside, your pettiness aside, your own personal ambition aside and put what is best for this nation and a time of crisis and what's best for our allies and freedom around the world. thank you very much. >> here is some of our live coverage on c-span tay 20 presidential candidate be f. kennedy junior is in philadph, expected to drop his bid for the democratic

nomination andsue an independent bid for the white house. that's at noon eastern. philip jefferson, a vice chair of the federal reserve board of governors gives a speech and takes questions on the u.s. economic outlook and monetary policy. all live on c-span today. with -- punch bowl news with reporting on what might be expected in congress this week, even in light of the lack of a speaker of the house, particularly when it pertains to israel. they report this morning, without a house speaker, it will be tricky to pass anything in congress, but a senior g.o.p. source tells us the house needs to act, it may do so regardless of the procedural consequences. this adds the number of americans, nationals, killed or taken hossage by hamas is still unconfirmed by an administration official. on an unclassified call on sunday, they believe at least four americans were killed in the attack. the house minority leader, hakeem jeffries, is working with

the biden administration to schedule an all-member briefing on israel this week, and also top senate democrats are pushing to speed up the confirmation of mr. biden's nominees to ambassador to israel, and the ben cardin is promising a legislative push that will focus on providing israel with what it needs to defend itself. that's from punchbowl. when it comes to the house side, reporting by ax i don't say about a joint resolution being drafted condemning events there in the country. they report this morning that the resolution, a draft copy which was obtained by axios, reaconfirms the u.s. commitment to israel's security through the security assistance and calls for full enforcement of sanctions on iran. it also condemns iran's support of terrorist groups and proxies, including hamas and palestinian islamic jihad, called on all countries to condemn the brutal war. this measure is being led by representative michael mccall and ranking member greg meeks of the foreign affairs can he.

it's being circulated to members of the foreign affairs committee for cosponsors. that's what you might expect to see happen this week when it comes to the washington response to events in israel. we're asking you to what degree should washington respond to those attacks and how she should do that. let us know. on the phone line, it's 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8000 for democrats. independents, 202-748-8002. if you want to let us know by text this morning, 202-748-8003 is how you do that. and as always, post on facebook and on x, follow the show on instagram. it was representative michael mccall on the sunday shows yesterday, chair of the house phoned affair committee, asked about his concerns at this time about events in israel and how washington should respond. here's part of his response. >> can you and your fellow

lawmakers provide more congressional aid to israel when you don't have a speaker of the house? >> well, it's not ideal. it was not my idea to oust the speaker. i thought it was dangerous. i look at the world and all the threats that are out there, and what kind of message are we sending to our adversaries when we can't govern, when we're dysfunctional, when we don't even have a speaker of the house? i mean, how does chairman xi in china look at that when he says democracy doesn't work? how does the ayatollah look at this knowing that we cannot function properly? and i think it sends a terrible message. with respect to funding, we have appropriated $3.3 billion in foreign military financing that is available to the president through a drawdown -- he can draw down that authority, but we have to get a speaker elected

this week so we can get things on the floor, like replenishing the iron dome, get a resolution that ranking member meeks and i have been working on, bipartisan resolution, condemning hamas for what they have done to israel. we want to get that on the floor by unanimous consent. whether we have a speaker in place. because i think we cannot wait. we have to get that message out as soon as possible. host: again, representative michael mccall, chair of the house foreign relations committee, making those comments yesterday. we want to hear from you as well about the washington response to events in israel. phone lines available to you and text us if you wish at 202-748-8003. "new york times" reporting the united states already provides israel with more than $3 billion in military assistance every year, and mr. blinken, secretary of state, said that much of that funding is already in the pipeline to be sent to israel. there's also six prepositioned

stockpiles of american ammunition and arms and locations throughout israel, according to officials, and are designated for use by israel in case of emergency or military operations. the stockpiles include a total of $2 billion in material, and both countries would have to sign off on their use. that's in the "new york times." let's hear from you. we'll start with chris in maine, democrats line on the washington response to events in israel. chris, thanks for calling, go ahead. caller: thank you. i would ask a question this way. imagine if texas was taken over by mexico, and mexico for 50 years held texas under its thumb and controlled all electricity, all towers, it controlled all commerce. and they were randomly building settlements all over texas. and to protect the settlements they had to set up barbed wire, check points all across the entire state, and let's just say

that routinely the mexicans come in and bulldoze down texas, texans' fields and plants and take over the homes bulldoze entire buildings. that's what israel does to the palestinians, and they've been doing it for 50 years. now, if mexico did that to texas, would we tell texans, you know what you need to do? you need to sit back and just take it, just accept the fact that they've taken over your place? we have no response -- host: no response needed from washington in your mind? caller: of course, washington needs to obviously condemn what hamas is doing, because hamas are a bunch of psychopath i can idiots, but they need to put israel on the spot and say you can't keep doing this to the palestinians for the next 50, 100, 200 years, because it's like if you put your foot on a dog's neck, every now and then the dog is going to bite you. you can't blame the dog for doing it. so we need to tell israel stop doing what you're doing. host: ok, independent line, this is from robert in washington,

d.c., you're next up, hello. caller: hey, good morning, happy 7:00 a.m. in d.c. nice to see you, pedro. i actually don't think the white house nor congress should even be getting involved in this anymore. this is what the 150th time that palestine and israel have gone again each other in some type of battle. this is the 150th time we have seen congress, or not congress, the israelis and palestinians go after and kill each other's citizens. i mean, yes, absolutely, is this time more vicious than ever before? of course. absolutely. i don't think anyone is denying that. and should every country call out palestine for the atrocities that are being displayed in palestine and israel? absolutely. but at the same time, when is enough enough enough? i got to agree with the caller before. i think it is time for us to finally take a step back and say these people are going bite

until everyone is dead. it's sad. but i think that's just how it's got to be. howard stern apple. host: florida republican line, cynthia, you're next up, hello. caller: hello. i just to want say i'm really proud of the call that i'm hearing. as a republican, yes, we support israel, but not at the detriment of what they're doing to the palestinians. it's time for us to sit israel down and actually say, hey, you've got to let those people go. they've got to have their freedom. we've got to become a nation of doing the right thing. thank you. host: that's cynthia in florida. again, responding to washington's response to events in israel. several things expected this week, even in several things expected this week even in light of the house

still in the ross of choosing a speaker. christopher in pennsylvania is up next, democrats line. caller: yeah, you know, it's so refreshingly pleasing what is being said. s message or the voice coming out of washington should be doing something about this dual statehood for both nations. we've been dealing with this for decades now. i'm only 50 but this is ridiculous. but the message that i think the presidential candidate from south carolina, nickie haley, that was overboard. she's only doing that for the campaign donations. really, everyone should be speaking about statehood and togetherness.

it's been going on way too long. as it goes on, it seems like israel is basically taking advantage of them. host: two lawmakers reported in israel when those attacks took place, this from axios, two members of congress, representative dan goldman and wife and three youngest children were in israel for an event when the attacks began, congressman goldman and family sheltered from their hotel's interior stairwell until early sunday morning when they were able to leave and depart from new york and goldman received assistance getting out of the country according to his spokesperson. senator cory booker was in the country for planned meetings, a site visit and economic summit when he was scheduled to speak on tuesday. he and his accompanying staffers were in jerusalem when the attacks were launched and sheltered in place. it was on senator booker's feed he posted a video from israel about the events he encountered

towards there and a little to the end on the u.s. response. here's that video. [video plays] >> about this time yesterday i was jogging behind me in the old city when i got an urgent call from my chief of staff telling me to get back to the hotel as quickly as i could that israel was under attack. there were thousands of rockets being launched. when i got back to the hotel i joined others in the bomb shelters or stairwells of the hotel, frightened faces and there were children and elderly families, many americans. there was a sense, a fear and worry and a knowledge to many of us that there were horrific things going on around the country at that time. hundreds of people have been killed. thousands of people have been wounded.

host: we want your sense of what you think -- how you think washington should respond. again, 202-748-8001 for republicans. democrats 202-748-8000, independents, 202-748-8002. sect us your response at 202-748-8003. you're on the air. caller: i'm glad i have this chance. i used to be a democrat and very much respected the party. i'm an independent now.

i have been since clinton because i've seen stuff like this go on and on and on. and my family voted this last time for biden, and we had a dinner yesterday, and they all said -- didn't say they weren't democrats anymore, they just said that they are so embarrassed by this country. but the thing about it is, what's hard for me and my family to understand is how they -- at the end of the obama era, they sent a bunch of money over to iran, ok. get out on biden, except he's ridiculous. he's not -- you know, i don't consider him a president. host: those frozen funds from well assets that were theirs initially and eventually

released from the obama administration and eventually by this administration? caller: yes. and the thing about it is who is discussing this with iran? are they just placating them? but the thing about it is now is we're stuck with all of the problems and the one thing that this country and the world needs to remember is -- and i'm not a real religious person but i remember the fact that the jews are the chosen people, and you can't fight them on this. and a.o.c. and the squad, they embarrass me. host: let's hear from frank from texas, republican line. caller: yes, sir. can you hear me, sir? host: yep, you're on. go ahead. caller: ok. i would just like to say to democrats and republicans and everybody to just read your

bible. in genesis 15: 18-21, it makes it clear that god gives israel to abraham and his descendants. if you'll read your bible like most people need to do, it clearly says that he's given it to the jewish people. again, it says it all in the bible. but another good one is -- host: because of what you said, how does it relate to how washington responds? caller: there's a lot of people on the left and democrats that want to take up for these palestinian killers on the gaza strip. i'll give you another one,

biden, when he came into office, he lifted the sanctions that we had -- that trump had on iran, trump put sanctions on iran and wouldn't let them sell no oil. well, biden, when he come in, he lifted the sanctions and now they're selling three million gather else a day to come to china. host: in light of that, how should washington respond then? caller: well, washington should respond by backing up israel 1000%. host: sue is next in nevada. democrats line. hello. caller: hello? host: you're on. caller: i want to speak about the palestinians. we know a family, got to know them real well.

their family had olive frees that they had them for centuries and their olive trees went way back behind their house, clear up over a mile and they kept those olive trees up and everything. about a week before it was time to pick the olives off of the trees, somebody came down and told them that israel -- they were bulldozing their olive frees and they were completely bulldozed them all out to put in, you know, just taking everything that belonged to them. they had no idea this was even going to happen to build, you know, more places for them to live. host: given your illustration, how should washington respond and what is the appropriate response of washington at this time? caller: i believe that the

palestinians should be recognized and they should have been all along, more so than -- i just don't believe in israel just taking, you know. like they have. host: sue in nevada there, continue to call on the phone lines. you want to post on social media this morning. lori saying why should we support israel, no more tax dollars, hamas is going to demand millions for the hostages they took, adding for president bid ton open this up. scott nordstrom, not our fight or land, if we're willing to do that beshould be doing the same for ukraine. tracy hail from facebook as well saying i'm sick of war, period.

many people brought up iran in the last couple calls, out of dubai, iranian officials helped plan the surprise attack of hamas on israel and gave the green light for assault at a meeting in beirut according to senior members of whether he says blah. another militia group, officers of the iran revolutionary guard corps worked to breach the borders, the worst since the yom kippur war. and there was a power held in shiraz. "wall street journal" has that story and find it at wsj.com. getting your thoughts on this as well on washington's response

and what it should be. maryland, this is robert, independent line. caller: good morning, pedro. you have a date israel was invaded by a terrorist organization and all our politician and news media showed where their loyalty lies. every day in the united states we're being invaded by the drug cartels of mexico, 100,000 a month coming here. and d day there was 150,000 troops that landed on the beaches at normandy, we have 100,000 people coming into this country. it's an invasion every month. we're being attacked by a drug cartel terrorist group, whatever you want to call it. host: that's the issue of immigration but this comes to israel specifically, what should be the washington response? caller: they should concern ourselves with the united states, our border, not ukraine, not israel. their loyalty is with israel. we have the same problems in this country.

but it doesn't ascend the politicians here like it does when they do it in israel. it doesn't offend the news media when we have hundreds dying every year from fentanyl poison every day being injected in our country and doesn't offend the news media or politicians when we have chinese people coming across this border infiltrating the country. host: patricia in ohio, republican line, you're next. caller: biden needs to be removed. the sanctions have to go back on iran. he shouldn't have give them no money. he knows they're a terrorist organization. this is all his fault. host: ok. that's patricia there in ohio. "the washington post" this morning, when it comes to the pentagon and what you might expect to see in the next couple days, according to their reporting saying the u.s. government will be rapidly providing israel defense forces with additional equipment and resources including munitions.

the first security assistance will begin today arriving in the coming days. the defense secretary said sunday in a statement, the gerald r. ford aircraft carrier and the u.s.a. navy's new program with a strike group is being sent to the region and the u.s. will deploy a significant contingent austin said and it will involve thousands of military personnel. more there at "the washington post." carolyn, next up in hawaii. democrats line. hi. caller: yes, i'm particularly calling about the bringing of iran into this topic. israel has been bullying the palestinians for a very long time. and why do they need to do their concert on the border with hezbollah or i think it's called

hezbollah -- no, the hamas border. they try to provoke palestinians and i think they've provoked them pretty much for quite a long time. and it doesn't matter whether you are republican or democrat or independent, but i agree with part of what one of the callers said that we need to tend to our own country and that's not because of the immigrants coming in to our country. host: are you saying iran has no involvement in this, do you think? caller: i don't know but we don't have judge and jury permission and yet we're sending bombs to help out israel. they have enough bombs. they make the bombs, i believe. host: ok. new jersey, independein