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other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> welcome to today's "washington journal." we'll start with the war in the middle east with the latest news. this is "the new york times" with the headline, "israel launches intense strikes on gaza as u.s. backs delaying invasion." the article says israel said on monday that it struck hundreds of targets on the gaza strip and attacked hezbollah sites. -- anl diplomatic effort. in a joint statement sunday, mr. biden and the in a joint statement the leaders of britain, france, germany and italy urged israel to protect civilians as it defended itself and called for the release of all hostages believed to be held in gaza. more than 4,000 people have been killed in gaza since october 7

according to the hamas run health industry when israel began retaliating by the attack of the militant group that killed 1, 400 people. at what sh mcconnell said about linking aid to israel and ukraine together. >> it requires a worldwide approach rather than trying to take parts of it out. it is all connected. the chinese and the russians said they are now friends forever. iranian drones are being used in ukraine and against the israelis. >> there is resistance among some republicans, including in the senate, about bundling things together. is it possible to pass ukraine aid if it is not tied israel? >> i think that is a mistake. i know there are some republicans in the senate and may be more in the house that think ukraine is somehow different. i view it as interconnected. >> you have said you believe

there is enough oversight of aid to ukraine. why has that not persuaded some members of the republican caucus? >> if you look at ukrainian assistance, a portion of it is being spent in the united states and 38 different states, replacing the weapons we send to ukraine with more modern weapons . we are rebuilding our industrial base. >> that is what president biden seeking to do. >> it is correct. no americans are getting killed in ukraine. we are rebuilding our industrial base. the ukrainians are destroying the army of one of our biggest rivals. i have a hard time finding anything wrong with that. host: wonder what you think about that. he said it is all interconnected and he supports the aid package

that the president has asked congress for for israel and ukraine. we are talking your calls. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002. you can also send us a message on facebook or on x. some news also from over the weekend, the ap is reporting israel says two americans held hostage by hamas have been released. it says that hamas on friday freed an american woman and her teenage daughter, who had been held in gaza, israel said. the first such release from our mung roughly 200 people the militant group abducted. judith ranaan and her 17-year-old daughter natalie were out. hamas said it release them for humanitarian reasons and an

agreement with the qatari government. a few posts from members of congress. representative roger williams says, biden has requested an additional $60 billion for ukraine, yet only allocated $14 billion for our greatest ally, israel. ukraine has received 5 billion, yet we still do not know what that money is being used for. we must pass in a package specifically to israel and this is senator john cornyn. our support rael and ukraine, but without meaningful policy changes that address the biden bcrisis, such aid is in serious jeopardy. no more money should be spent simply to facilitate current boer policy. and rick scott says, ukraine and israel are two sepatissues. any attempt to give additional money to ukraine risks

complicad e pce and prolonging the time it will take to get aid to our ally, israel. destroy hamas and get american hostages home. finally, representative marjoe taylor greene says, you never see the war that you have bn forced to pay for in ukraine on tv like you see war in israel 24/7. where has ouroney gone in ukraine? i think it is a money long -- a money launderi war. ukraine is not the 51st state. stop funding corruption. i wonder what you think about that. before we start taking your calls, i want to show you this article from "the washington times dock" it is on the -- the washington times. it is on the front page. escalation of war looks to be inevitable. israel pounded hamas targets in

the gaza strip and struck militants in the west bank and syria while warning lebanon-based hezbollah of devastating consequences, should it enter the war. fearing escalation of the conflict, which began with the october 7 attack on israel, officials announced the deployment of naval assets and missile defense batteries to the persian gulf region. defense secretary lloyd austin said he was putting more troops on prepared to deploy orders to join at least 2000 u.s. personnel given such orders last week. u.s. forces in the middle east have come under fire by militias linked to iran. late last week, iran backed rebels fired rockets and drones from yemen that officials said were aimed at israel. american warships shot them down . with hotspots popping up across the region almost daily, biden administration concede that

escalation seems all but inevitable. we are taking your calls this morning for this first hour. we will start with jim in new jersey. good morning. caller: good morning and thank you for taking my phone call. you people are doing a fabulous job. ok. that being said, i am for aid to ukraine and israel for the simple fact that they are combating autocracy and dictatorship and terrorism. but at the same time i would hope that the united nations would take this on and be forceful with the belligerents

responsible for the invasion. that is what i have to say. host: liz cheney, the former representative, was on state of the union yesterday. she talked about it would make the u.s. look weak if we stopped supporting ukraine. [video clip] >> as i said before, america is facing four adversaries right now. and major adversaries in china and russia and north korea and iran. what happens with respect to our willingness to defend ukraine has a direct impact on all of those other challenges and conflict we face. the idea that we are now in a situation where you have this growing movement on the part of republicans not to support american aid to ukraine is dangerous, wrong.

anybody today saying they do not support aid to ukraine needs to be asked, and i hope they will be asked in the candidate forum for speaker, why would you be engaged in surrendering to american -- america's adversaries? if you do not support aid to ukraine given the context in which we are living, you are helping america's adversaries. you are demonstrating weakness at precisely the moment when we need to show strength. host: back to your calls, dennis is in new york, independent. caller: in the case of israel, we see only 2% of the population could have a gun and with that gun only 50 rounds, which seems ridiculous. particularly when individuals are next-door to dangerous people, and that is what the

left wants to do here in the u.s.. in new york, they are counting bullets. very dangerous stuff. background checks on law-abiding citizens. host: what do you think about further u.s. aged israel and ukraine? caller: we would not have had this situation because we would have had people fighting back. we would not have lost 1400 people because they would have had guns in their homes to fight back against these individuals. ukraine, i think it is probably we need your up to get involved. we have to count exactly how many dollars we are sending to ukraine and better understand where the money is going. that is all. host: if you are on the line, stay on the line. we will get back to you shortly. first, we will talk to a pollster. mark blumenthal joins us.

let's talk about the poll you recently did on u.s. support or public support for israel and how that is changing. could you give us the high level before we drill into details? guest: yahoo! news does a poll about once a month. we completed our monthly survey with about 20 questions about the conflict between israel and hamas. we found a lot of, but the ones that stood out most were those that -- support for israel, simply for israel rather than the palestinians had increased significantly since a prior poll we did two years ago by about 13 points. sympathy for israel was up from 30% 43% as opposed to 9% for palestinians. it had been 15%. there was an increased number who blamed hamas for the -- and

a greater percentage to consider it important to protect israel in the middle east. host: i was want to drill down on the difference between republicans, independence, and democrats on support for israel as opposed to the palestinians. guest: this is one of the more interesting findings and changing spirit sympathy for israel increased, almost entirely among democrats and independents. there was no increase in republicans. part of that is because republicans have been more supportive of israel two years ago, so a fairly large difference between republicans who had a lot of support and democrats and independents who had less is that the democratic and independent number went up. but it is still a sort of defining feature of this issue

and it is an interesting part of president biden's initiative on it, that in some ways his position is more likely to resonate with republicans than some democrats. host: one of the start says americans back aiding israel but are divided on the best policy toward the palestinians. explain that. guest: i cannot see the chart. host: would you support or oppose the u.s. government providing humanitarian aid to the following? between israel and palestine. and do you think each of the following -- guest: there is -- americans have -- i do not want to say divided.

they have diverse opinions on this issue. we had a question about whether we should be doing -- whether united states should be sending continuing aid we have, sending less, making it conditional. there are pockets of support for all of those positions. and i have seen that on the other surveys as well. host: you asked of participants considered israel an ally or enemy. why did you phrase it that way? guest: this may be a poll done for cbs news, which well you give did it -- while yougov did it i did not, but we try to write questions that are balanced and offer the ability to take whatever opinion they have commit to express it. if the response choices were ally or not, it is because those are two offsetting options there

to be chosen. host: there was a question about president biden's handling of the current situation. how did he do? i will pull that up here in american views on biden's handling of the war. strongly approve among all u.s. adult citizens is 36%. not sure, 25%. then strongly or somewhat disapprove and then you break it down by democrats, independents, republicans. obviously to mike krantz having a higher view of president biden -- democrats having a higher view of president biden's handling of the israel-hamas war. guest: i am fairly certain both surveys have roughly the same question. the results were subtly different. but essentially the same. you have a net negative rating -- what happens with this is

that the rating of biden's policies and rating on all other things, democrats are generally supportive. republicans are generally more likely to say they disapprove. what you have here is, at least on the yahoo! news poll, one of biden's better ratings as opposed to other issues. and there is a little less polarization on this question than on other aspects of his ratings, so there are a small number of republicans who will approve of biden's handling, that he is taking a position that should resonate with what republicans feel, and there are a small number of democrats who disapprove. host: can you tell us about yougov and what you do? guest: yougov is an

organization that does surveys online. it was one of the pioneers of doing surveys online. we recruit americans and people in the u.k. and all over the world who are willing to do surveys online here and there is a sophisticated effort to support -- select respondents so they are representative of the u.s. public, in this case. host: thanks for joining us. back to your calls now. contessa is in florida. caller: thank you for taking my call. the coverage -- i wanted to say that i am independent and a floridian, fourth-generation. i feel the climate is getting -- has been tense. i think that the republicans and

the crazy eight need to come together and decide to work for what is in the best interest of us all and i believe supporting our allies is the way to do that. we should give them what they need to succeed. host: gary is in new hampshire, democrat. caller: thank you for taking my call. i do not know how we can judge how biden is doing because we have a congress that is so inept and refuse to come up with a house speaker. i feel kevin mccarthy did not have a prayer to begin with, which was his own doing. i would like to know, what proof does jim jordan have to prove that biden had something to do with his son dealing with the energy company in the ukraine? i think that is nothing but petty baloney by the republican

party because they are mad because donald trump lost the election in 2020. it is about time they got their heads out of their butts. host: what about aged israel and ukraine? do they supported? -- do you support it? supplemental aid, are you in support of that? caller: i am for it. russia needs to get out of ukraine. at the same time, the house needs to get their act together and get a speaker elected so this can be done and also the government can be prevented from being shut down november 17. host: over the weekend, by sunday at noon, everody who wanted to run for speaker had to put their name in. here they are. there are nine people from the house. this is in alphabetical order.

kevin hern, mike johnsonaustin scott, and pete sessions. they will discuss today at 6:30. they are having their internal meeting and we will keep you updated on that. denny in ohio, democrat. there you are. caller: hello? host: go ahead. you're on the air. caller: i have an opinion on the relationship, the united states relationship with israel. in this scenario -- israel is a little spoiled. and i wonder about israel.

[indiscernible] it may be they are more interested in absorbing the west bank as israel proper. host: the netanyahu government has said they are not supportive of a two state solution. let's take a look at a portion from yesterday's state of the union. this is representative mike turner of ohio on the committee on intelligence. he is the chair and he shows support for a package that addressed national security concerns brought up by the lack of a house speaker. [video clip] >> i do support the package. it is important we move forward to stand up against the authoritarian regimes that are trying to undermine democracies that are our allies. i think we should be more focused on russia as a threat to the united states than we have been because this is not just an issue of ukraine or not ukraine. this is an issue of russia is

our adversary and they intend to do us under allies harm. with israel, this is one that has great clarity. we have all seen and been saddened by the atrocities we have seen and the need for addressing the issue of hamas. with respect to national security, having a house that does not function is a security threat for our country. this aid package is not being delayed as a result of the house. the senate has taken up the aid package. it looks like it will be about two weeks before the package comes out of the senate itself and we all hope we will have a speaker by then. host: we are taking your calls on the topic of if you support or oppose new u.s. aged israel and ukraine. keith is calling from toledo, ohio. good morning. caller: good morning. i think we should give aid to

israel and ukraine. why do we start things that we cannot finish? i always believe you do not start a war or a fight, anything, unless you are committed to finish it. why would you start it if you are going to go halfway through? we have been sporting israel for years. we are just going to stop now? hamas is good for nothing. the palestinians, it is terrible what has happened over there all around, but the palestinians had a chance for their own state years ago. now what do you have? host: as you said, the u.s. has been supporting israel for many years. typically it is in the three to $4 billion range per year. this is now $14 billion. do you agree with that? do you think you should be kept the same? caller: do we realize there is

1000 billion and $1 trillion westmark we are spending trillions like it is nothing. it means really nothing in the big scheme of things. host: do you support continued aid for ukraine? caller: ukraine is a little different. we gave them a lot more. in a short to much of time, so israel is not even a comparison to that. like i said at the beginning, do not start something you cannot finish. do not help ukraine. they have to have an end game. you should always have an end game to what you start. why would you start something if you do not know where it is going to end? host: matt in maryland. caller: as a democrat, i do not

believe the polls, necessarily, that the gentleman presented. i also like to say that i believe that the money we are giving is too much money. i believe israel already gets enough of our money and the palestinians are the people that need our help and i completely am against what the palestinians did but i think the israelis are going overboard and it is just an excuse for them to nudge the palestinians out further from their land, but i think any money that we do gift israel, as long as we are trying to establish peace there, is insist israel does not use it for military purposes and the palestinians need more of our money than israel.

they get enough already. host: tim in pennsylvania, good morning. caller: i am in full support of backing israel, just a tragedy. anything they need to help them out. i am opposed and have been for about a year now for support for ukraine. you're not going to dislodge putin unless nato gets involved and once nato gets involved that is world war iii. you're just not going to move him out of there. i think all of the effort should be an approach to find a peaceful way, a peaceful settlement. he has a long history. they were supposed to give the ukrainians that part of the

country. a lot of ukrainians sympathize and want to be part of russia. zelenskyy should give them a vote on becoming part of russia and he turned around and changed his mind on that. we are giving him all sorts of aid and his wife is dressed to the nines shopping and parents. i think the community should come together and make a settlement. any more money and ukraine i think is cruel at this point. the ukrainians are just getting ground to duster. the young men do not want to serve their they fled to other parts of europe they have to track them down and drag them back to the war, so age to israel -- eight -- aid to israel. host: our previous caller was in support of the u.s. sending

funding to the palestinians, civilians. what do you think of that? would you do that? we support israel and humanitarian assistance? -- would you support israel and humanitarian assistance? caller: from what i read, the polling shows anywhere from 70% to 90% of the palestinians support hamas. i think generally the palestinians -- they elected hamas. they put them in power, so i think the palestinian nation as a whole, from what i read, supports what is going on. they want them wiped off the earth. you get the government you vote for. so if they wanted to go down this path -- host: you know hamas has not had

an election since that first one in 2006. caller: neither has ukraine. the palestinians across the board and go to work just like our southern border with the mexicans. they go to work and they come home. host: got it. let's take a look at what tony blinken said on meet the press yesterday. [video clip] >> i would ask you about the more than $100 billion in a that president biden -- aid that president biden is requesting from congress, currently in a state of paralysis. how can the u.s. deliver on that aid if you cannot get it through the house, where there are also deep divisions? >> we need to see the continuation of strong, bipartisan support for ukraine and israel. we have two friends under attack in different ways you heard the president speak very powerfully

to this the other night, speaking to the american people. if we let would-be aggressors act with impunity, whether it is a state like russia, terrorists like hamas, we open a pandora's box for other aggressors around the world to try to get away with the same thing. so we have to stand strong with our friends, with ukraine and israel. we have to look out for the people of gaza, who are caught in this crossfire. the supplemental budget request, the money the president asked congress for, would do that. it gives us the assistance that ukraine needs and also that the people of gaza need with humanitarian aid, so we need congress to move forward on a strong bipartisan basis we have already seen and i hope the people of gaza. host: that was the secretary of state. we are taking more calls until the top of the hour. robert in california, and

dependent. good morning. -- independent. good morning. caller: right now, going through a lot of stuff in my body. just checking out and listening and i do not understand why we have anything to do with the wars and any kind of money at all going to them when we should be helping ourselves more than anything. if you start something, you have to see it through to the finish. that means you have to know where the finish is. not just running out there and seeing what happens. anyway, i am watching. host: glad you are watching. john in alabama, democrat. >> i support the money for

ukraine because russia is trying to colonial lies. i do not support the money for israel because israel is colonizing or trying to colonize palestine. if i look back over the last 15 years and there has been 6400 palestinians that have been killed by jews and a little over 300 jews that have been killed by palestine, and this war that they say is a war in israel, this is not a war. this is something that is genocide and the united states is supporting israel in their genocide. so that is why i do not agree with the money going to israel.

host: on facebook, we have ja saying no to ukraine. cannot get an accounting of where the money and weapons biden has been urg into the corrupt country have been used so far, although it is reported that.s. citizen is paying for gont pensions. michelle says, i support the money come up the requests should be separated. -- the money, but request should beepated. israel sufferedassacre only two weeks ag morehan 200 hostages are held by hamas. that is the immediate emergency. do not use the beheaded babies in israel to fund something else. it is insensitive. anime -- anna may. caller: i would like to know where biden things we are going to get $100 million to send anywhere. host: it is billion.

caller: i mean billion. but we do not have the money. so where is he going to get it from? we are in debt. ok. host: kim in florida. caller: i want to say that i think the entire idea of us funding israel is silly. they continually champion themselves as being strong and independent, yet america is basically propping up their efforts against a local militia, and i think they are a total disgrace to america. thank you. host: summer is a democrat in illinois. caller: i do not support israel

-- is really -- giving them support. i'm going to have to say america is good at funding genocide. i do not know what that is. we already know that netanyahu is not supportive of a two state solution, so how are you going to back the country with a leader that does not support a two state solution? i am very confused. host: danny in arizona, republican. caller: good morning. a couple things here. first, i support the money going to israel because what hamas did to those families and those babies is reprehensible. i think the biden administration needs to worry about our southern border, which he opened completely.

so far in the month of september, we have had 18 terrorists on the watchlist get caught. that is not counting the got a ways. i'm sure there are terrorists there. on that list. not only that, rashida tlaib and the so-called squad, they are nothing but bad actors. all they are doing is they were -- to leap -- rashida tlaib was confronted in the hallway by hilary vann from fox, trying to get her to answer questions, and she just ran to the elevator. she would not answer about beheading of babies in this and that. all she did was run to the elevator. so did that omar girl. i think the southern border down here, we have a crisis down here. we have the cartels running our

border. biden just opened it wide open for these people. host: take a look at the headline of the washington times about the border. biden hopes border funds sweeten bill. republicans skeptical of approach, saying the request is dead on arrival. david is next in new york, and. good morning. >> i support financial and military aid in the short term for israel and the same for the ukraine because these are wars that if we do not fight them there and get rid of the terrorism and route them out that one day they are going to be here in our backyard. having said that, two state solution side-by-side, socioeconomic and political reform for both is the way to go. if that does not go, then one

state would be the way. perhaps the alternative. the second alternative is to annex gaza to egypt and the west bank to jordan. having said that, it is the islamic republic of iran that has sponsored every terrorist activity in the region and has taken 89 million people of iran hostage for 44 years. whether we like it or not, our policies have been we essence -- acquiescence been supporting them. ideologically, trying to make sure everyone knows their ideology is failing. host: how does that happen from the united states? what do you think the u.s. should do? caller: the u.s. should be clear in terms of protecting the

american ideals everywhere. that is democracy, liberalism, secular government, and social economic and political reforms. host: do you want the united states to fund organizations within iran that are pro-democracy organizations and things like that? caller: that has to be on the table, but at least having a clear message of on one hand not providing rhetoric for human rights and supporting the people but on the other hand cutting a deal with the islamic republic and giving them back their money that really belongs to the people of iran in excess of $6 billion or even during obama's administration something in the order of $100 billion, that is not the way to go. we have to have a clear message. we cannot be on both sides. host: let's talk to shirley, ohio, democrats line. caller: good morning and thank

you for your program. i support them, ukraine, gaza, israel, but only for a certain amount of time. netanyahu is not for peace at all. he is like a donald trump. he wants it all for himself. he was to go in and obliterate gaza and take that little strip of land, all about a little piece of land. he cares nothing about the people. i do support ukraine and israel and gaza. please help those people that cannot help themselves. but do not let netanyahu start running things like trump has ran things over here in america. host: you said you do support it for a certain period of time. what is that time? what is the time limit on the support for israel? caller: give us a year.

give us one year and maybe things would be better in just one year, just support the people. i am not trying to support the dictators. i want to support the people. i was doing pretty good as a black female until -- i have been crying every day, but i was doing pretty good until friday when a young lady was on and was about to be killed. she prayed and she says, god, if i'm going to die, i'm going to die with a smile on my face. that did it for me. that just killed me as a mother. somebody please help those people. host: let's look at what former speaker of the house kevin mccarthy said yesterday about linking ukraine and israel aid together. [video clip] >> we will look at what they put

up. the one thing the ministration has to no from the day i became speaker, they had to stop ignoring the southern border. israel should have their money now. they are at the brink of war. there are more americans dying on our southern border than in ukraine. ukraine has $9 billion right now, so let's sit down and look at what they need. israel -- >> 31 americans -- 31 americans just lost their lives. >> let's make sure our border is secure. >> 31 americans just lost their lives in israel, not something we have seen happen at the southern border. >> let me be very clear. >> would you support linking aid to ukraine to aid for israel? >> i would not want to delay any aid for israel. i would have already sent aid to israel. if i was still speaker, i would have done a number of things. we would not even be talking about it today.

i would have made sure that no longer would we pay for american hostages. there would be consequences for any american and no one is going to get left behind. i would have stood up to the antisemitism and lies being said by the democrats. i would have made sure we had looked at our own border, that we do not have any sleeping cells here, that we would actually stop terrorists coming across our own border and i would have made sure from that perspective going forward that israel had every weapon they needed to defend themselves. then we would have brought up ukrainian aid at the same time we're talking about our own southern border and we would have been able to get the job done. host: that was the former speaker of the house yesterday speaking on nbc. here's the breakdown of the proposal. ukraine is at $61 billion.

israel, 14 billion dollars. border security, $14 billion. humanitarian aid, $10 billion. that is from reuters. brandy is next on the republican line, kentucky. caller: until you played the video of the interview, i was going to say something else. but the lady that was interviewing mccarthy said 30 americans have been killed over there and have not been killed at the border. what is she talking about? we have had hundreds of thousands of people in the united states killed because of that border being open down there. all the killings and murders that the cartels do getting in and out of here and in the black community that they settle in or resettle them in, it is just

really a nightmare. how can she even compare that? that is weird. i was going to say you have a little over 9 billion israeli jews. we have allowed close to that number to cross the border. why don't we just bring israel over here, just bring the whole nation over here? we got room for them. if the palestinians do not want to -- that to happen, maybe we can just trade the homes people in israel have now. host: what about funding? caller: if it takes america, we have to give them america because we will not exist without god's chosen people.

it will be desolation, but ukraine -- that was all our mistakes and our doings. >> let's go to washington, independent line. are you there? caller: i am here. it ok to talk? i am offering a look at this book called the politics of anti-semitism. this is michael newman, a professor, back in 2003. he said, well before the hit era, -- hitler era -- whose very

existence they contrive to ignore. zionist atrocities were not part of the initial plan. they emerged at the racist obliviousness of persecuted people blossomed into the racial supremacist ideology of a persecuting one. we need opposition media cannot not to knock on your particular channel because i think it is one of the relatively few that you can actually get different direct forces on. those are my comments. i will stay on if you want to have a rebuttal. host: john in illinois, line for democrats. caller: i wanted to give a shout out to and rest in peace to michael brooks for the clearest answer i have heard on the situation in israel and

palestine. he passed away a couple years ago. he said there is no symmetry of power between israel and palestine. if you were to put the israelis in a situation that we have in gaza that just had an arab country ruling over them we would all agree it is a messed up situation. obviously we do not condone any arab attacks but analyzing the problem is not the same thing as justifying it. if anyone felt like going out on youtube and looking up michael brooks's name and watching or if you wanted to play it here, it is not that long. michael brooks has the best explanation on how we should look at this situation. host: johnny is next, a republican in kentucky. caller: i think the problem we have is iran. all this is coming from iran.

we should bomb iran, blow up the oil fields, burn their oilfields, shut down the oil industry, bomb their nuclear sites, bomb the uranium arrangement plant, -- enrichment plant, and completely shut them down. i would like to have my congressman -- i would like to have his phone number. i like to bring up a vote on the house floor to expel rashida to leave -- she did to leave -- rashida tlaib and l had omar. -- ilhan omar. we need to attack iran and shut them down and cut down -- cut off the oil they are getting from iran so they cannot -- cut

off their oil. host: we got that point. bill is an independent in texas. caller: good morning. this is the first opportunity i have had to talk to you. i think you do a good job. i would like for somebody to tell me something. about a week ago, i watched -- she said we must stand by israel. why? i would like to know, what has israel done for us? they won't even help ukraine out. they won't send one penny over there. i served in the military. i cannot think of any missions that israel has done for the

united states. it seems like they want our money. i do not want to go off the deranged side of things as some callers does but i noticed a lot invoke god, that we most -- must stand by israel because israel is the chosen people. to lose american lives because israel is committing genocide -- i'm going to ask the american people what is right and what is wrong. when marjorie greene gets on their -- there and says these protests are going to turn into black lives matter protests, no. i say to all those people who hate black lives matter, care for one another. if you're are going to quote the bible, then read the bible.

understand what it says. god wants us to be peaceful. this is the first time i got a chance to talk for a while, so i do thank you. host: from illinois, good morning. caller: i tell a lot of people to watch c-span and washington journal to be educated about what is happening in our country and the world. i have a few questions that other callers may want to come in and answer. number one, what is the government run on? does it run on air? does it run on water? does it run on sand? it runs on taxpayers tax money. that money is reduced. our ability to function is reduced.

when trump lowered the taxes on the rich and the corporations, that took money out of the government to run itself. now, i am going to go to history. when hitler came into power and blamed everything on the jews, the jews were in the arab countries during the bible, before -- during egypt. there were jews there. so why do these people say they do not belong there? did they have a country? no, they were nomads, but they were also trying to establish something. ok. host: let's get to the part

about support of funding. you would be in support of funding israel? caller: israel and ukraine. somebody said something very smart recently. there was an axis part. what is happening now is history being repeated. there was an axis -- you will have to excuse my ability to say certain words. i had surgery on my throat. axis powers at one time during hitler's again, the holocaust, was japan, italy, and germany. now we have an axis power and somebody said it recently, iran, russia, china, and north korea. we are in trouble as a world because those are the bad guys. we are not the bad guys. but the same kind of propaganda has been thrown out there. we have people who are doing it

in our government. just like during hitler's time, we had nazis in our government. host: let's move to ronald. caller: good morning. i want to say wake up to the democrat party. the people going into israel and destroying them and trying to take over, they are the same that brought the twin towers down. wake up. host: same in what sense? same one in what sense? caller: they had it all plotted. they got into our country and got the planes and flew them into our towers. these are the same people people trying to take out israel. host: michael in brooklyn, new

york. caller: we should fund israel, not ukraine. we should make it a condition of the two state country. we basically should -- we basically should make netanyahu agree to peace keepers like we did in north and south korea. host: philip is next. caller: good morning. i think we ought to fund the ukraine not israel. if we are going to do something, we need to give the palestinians

or whatever they call that -- as well. i am not for this jim crow on steroids two story -- two state country. i do not know. i just figured i would give my opinion on that. host: appreciate that and >> live picture from the white house briefing room, where press secretary karine jean-pierre will brief reporters on the state of israel-hamas war and a number of other items. should get underway shortly. live coverage on c-span.

and again, waiting for the start of today's white house press briefing with press secretary karine jean-pierre. she will be briefing reporters on the state of the israel-hamas war and other issues. it should start in just a couple moments. live coverage here on c-span. we are taking your calls on two

things, the house speaker battle and the war in the middle east. take a look at this article from "the hill." "ramaswamy says aid should be contingent on israel's action plan for gaza. presidential candidate said assistance to israel should be contingent on the nation's action plan for gaza amid its war on hamas militants. 'israel is barreling towards a catastrophic round invasion of gaza without an objective.' he said, 'destroying hamas on its own is not a viable or coherent strategy.'" want to know if you agree with that. chuck in manchester, maryland, republican. caller: hello, how you doing? host: good. caller: my comment is simply that i blame the carter

administration, jimmy carter in particular, for its indecisive -- or failure to act decisively in 1979. i believe that that encouraged terrorists around the world, that they clearly understood that they could get away with their terrorist acts based on our inaction in 1979. host: and what happened in 1979? are you talking by the peace agreement between israel and egypt? caller: no, i'm talking by the failure to take decisive action in the terrorist act in tehran in 1979 when the u.s. embassy was overrun and the hostages were held for 444 days. host: ok. and candace is in a nashville, tennessee, independent. hi, candace. caller: good morning, hello.

yes, our government is currently involved in crimes against humanity against us, american citizens, in illegal surveillance. and giving out data and intellectual property over to our supposed enemies, even include terrorists, russia, china. this illegal surveillance that's been going on is a crime against humanity. it is not being talked about openly. everyone knows here that it's happening, but people are under trauma-based mind control and have been corrupted since 2020, which we know through the pandemic rhetoric research at oslo university, that was preplanned bioweapon's on all of us. nobody has been held accountable. we are spending money on a rigged elections. we are actually under fascist

totalitarianism. and to think that any of this government is for us while they are making us intentionally poor so that we can't even escape genocide, and then expecting us to sit and watch them do to other countries with our tax money, expected to work for this kind of society -- host: all right, candace, got it. take a look at the front page of "the washington post" this morning, "rising hezbollah attacks fuel fears of wider conflict. militaries strike and damaged airport runways. fears mounted sunray that the israel -- karine: good afternoon, everybody. good to see everyone. couple things at the top before i turn it over to the admiral. as the conflict between israel and hamas continues, president biden has made it a top priority to ensure that the palestinian people receive urgeny