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order to get a spacecraft around the moon. and we're going farther around the moon than we did during apollo. the kennedy space center transformed a rough patch of swamp into a gateway to other worlds. i believe that the greatest achievements in human history have come out of that particular piece of real estate. and i also believe that the greatest achievements in human history are going to come from that particular piece of real estate. everything about the kennedy space center is super sized. even the american flag is more than 20 stories high. the blue field is the size of a basketball court, and the stars are taller than me. you could almost see it from space. larry: welcome to kudlow. i'm larry kudlow. as israel regroups to defend its
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territory prime minister netanyahu said they would take unprecedented action to clean out the barbaric hamas militants. we'll have our hour with guests from jerusalem, southern israel, capitol hill and washington, d.c. first up, president biden has said, and i quote, the u.s. stands with israel. we will not ever fail to have their back. my administration's support for their security is rock solid and unwavering end quote. this is all for the good in israel's great hour of need. all for the food by biden, but the worst military attack since the yom kippur war 50 years ago, devastating death count including hostage-taking that includes americans hostages taken and americans killed on the ground, hamas barbarism is beyond belief. the administration is briefing congress on providing israel with missiles and artillery with
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patching up the the iron dome and prediction bombing. this president two years would not meet with the israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu, the closest ally in the world. this is the same president biden angling for a nuke deal with iran for three-year. this is the came president who cut and ran out of afghanistan. this same president left $100 billion of weapons at the bagram air force base, yeps quite possibly purchased by hamas own the black market for use in the gaza invasion. this is the same president who negotitated a hostage swap and unfroze six billion dollars for iran. money is fungible. or doesn't the white house understand that? this is the same iran strategizing and funding with hamas and hezbollah. this is the same iran joining russia and china in the modern axis of evil.
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so the question is when will the united states punish iran? incredibly the biden administration is also reportedly involved in an iranian spy scandal they're trying to cover up. now suspended former iran envoy robert malley reportedly brought in iranian spies to the u.s. government. first at the state department, now the pentagon. a woman named aryan tabatabai who was the chief of staff to the assistant secretary of defense for special operations christopher maier. this is part of a widespread iranian spy ring in the u.s. and the state department will still not tell us why malley was suspended. indeed the state department will not comment on any of these or thes from highly credible journalists including "the wall street journal." let's remember, former president donald trump took out isis leader al-baghdadi. and let's also remember that former president trump took out
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cause seem soleimani, the top bad guy in iran. and trump pulled the plug on the useless iranian nuke negotiations and there were no hamas invasions of israel. think of that. in contrast on day two of this war-time crisis president joe biden has yet to address the nation to lay out all of our american plans to defend our great ally israel. the former house speaker kevin mccarthy gave a blockbuster speech today on the floor of the house in support of israel. kind of speech biden should have given. the house needs a speaker to beef up israeli defense funds. well, i suggest kevin mccarthy who should never have been brought down in the first place. mccarthy is demonstrating something called leadership. think about that, republicans. think about that everybody else. that's my riff tonight. let's go right into the show. joining me now is former u.s. ambassador to israel, mr. david
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friedman. david, welcome back. this is a difficult time. just tell us why do you think, why do you think, you were involved in all the negotiations with israel and the middle east and the "abraham accords" why has this terrible hamas invasion happened? >> well there is a few reasons, they're all regrettable and avoidable. i think we have to start with iran. you pointed your finger on it earlier. iran is the head of the snake. this attack would not have been possible without funding planning, assistance, choreography all those things by the islamic republic of iran. as we appease them, as we lift sanctions on them as we enrich them, you look at the number of barrels per day that iran is selling today versus a year ago or two years ago. it is a massive, massive increase. they have got a lot itch richer and a lot more money to burn. they're spending it on their
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proxies which hamas is the most violent, most ruthless and closest to israel. so you gotstart with that. at the same time "wall street journal" did some good reporting on this, at the same time, that we were america was negotiating with iran for a prisoner swap which we unfroze six billion dollars of cash at the very same time iran is working with hamas to plan this annihilation of the jewish people. an attack on jews the likes of which we have not seen since the holocaust. women being pulled out of their homes and raped. babies being killed and taken for hostage. old women, holocaust survivor a woman who was a holocaust survivor was taken out of her home, put in a truck and taken over the border as a hostage. you know she never thought she would have to relive these days. that is what we're going through today. iran is the beginning and the head of the snake. we also restored funding to the palestinian authority which gives you know, which gives
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incentives and stipends for terrorists to kill jewish people. we refunded unrwa, which teaches all those in gaza to hate. they put on these plays where half the kids dress up as terrorists, and half the kids dress up as jews, the terrorists kill the jews and the parents get up and applaud. that is where we're put our money in now. the most avoidable, and regrettable thing we did the way we handled negotiations between israel and saudi arabia. at the end of the day iran wants to do is destroy the potential normalization between israel and saudi arabia. this hurts them greatly. they put that on hold. why is this happening at all? when we did the "abraham accords," when people found out about israel's normalization with the u.a.e., the day they found out about it the day president trump announced it on television. until that day there weren't 10 people in the world that knew
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what was happening. what is happening here? they're advertising it. they're talking about it and if it is a done deal. they're including the palestinians at the table, let them know what is going on. so the palestinians are not getting what they want. they feel aggrieved. they want toe want to show they're relevant and want to attack and iran is only too happy to give them the resources and incentives to do that in order to kill any chance of saudi israel normalization. this was a botched process that didn't have to end this way. it could have been done secretly and discretely the way we did the "abraham accords" and those continue to survive and prosper. larry: ambassador david friedman, stay on the saudi topic for just a moment. what role will the saudis play? they haven't said much about the invasion so far. they haven't said there is going to be any kind of oil embargo like there was back in 1973 and 1974 when they were basically at war with the u.s. what is your expectations?
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will the saudis be neutral in this battle? will they side with iran and hamas or will they, you know, try at least under the table to stay friendly with israel? >> look i think the saudis understand the mentality of hamas. it's the same you know muslim brotherhood, radical islamic factions that threaten saudi, they threaten u.a.e., they threaten bahrain and threaten morocco. this is the same enemy. i don't think they will embrace hamas or boycott the u.s. and raise prices. they have a street decidedly pro-palestinian. they may keep the street under control and may say things that are unfavorable and unhelpful. at the end of day the saudis want to move at the end of the day towards modernity. they are not friends anymore than they are the friends of israel. larry: ambassador david friedman, stay safe as best you
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can. folks much more on this. let's bring in brett velicovich, former intel special operations. brett, we appreciate it. israel's gameplan on the ground with respect to taking back hamas, knocking them out once and for all, what are you thinking, brett? >> well i'm thinking they have already started. they have launched a wave of airstrikes and attacks on gaza in response and it is just the beginning. a ground invasion is likely imminent. there was a formal war declaration issued which is very important for their leaders to latitude to conduct major operations. israel previously carried out previous campaigns in gaza that appeared publicly as wars but they were without formal declaration. this gives the green light for israel to take military steps against hamas. there is no doubt hamas will pay a major price for the terrorist attacks. netanyahu has ordered mobilization of 100,000 israeli forces as it prepares for the ground invasion. that is imminent.
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they have to respond disproportion natalie. they have to respond over the top. this military operation has to focus on restoring deterrents. they need to hammer hamas, punish them to a level that re-establishes deterrence. this will be a bloody battle to get there. israel has to do what they have to do here. we need to let them defeat hamas half all. not pressure them to reduce forces after we do for a knew days going into gaza. they have been holding for years on a full-scale invasion. they don't have the choice. this is what happens without this deterrence. they will have to go in very heavy with a swift response. frankly americans need to get heim them and give them the space and support to do this without condemning any of these actions. larry: brett, as part of a sweep through gaza, can israeli defense forces among other things, brett, take out the tunnel system that hamas has built over the years i'm sure they're using right now? >> i think it is extremely difficult to do that.
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i mean that's how they operated for so long, how they have gotten away with a lot of this. right now hamas has taken a number of hostages as well. sort of as an insurance policy against these retaliatory actions on israelis. i think that is going to backfire. israelis they don't negotiate with terrorists. the hostages i don't think will be able to be used for bargaining chips even though hamas thinks so. we have to really push the israelis to do peace through strength. that is the only thing that works in this region. we adopted previously our own policy not negotiating with terrorists this he have it going with that mind set. i think frankly it will get much worse in the coming days with number of airstrikes. larry: the forces coming on the ground, israeli forces coming on the ground will that begin today, tomorrow? how do you read that story? they're calling up reserves, hundreds of thousands of people, brett. when do they actually come on the ground and invade? >> i think it is tough to tell.
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we'll probably see it when it happens. they're not going to necessarily reveal that, those operational information but i think just what we're seeing in the region is showing that movement is imminent. i think frankly we need to remind ourselves that we can't let our guard down in america against terrorism. we can also be taken by surprise at any to those who wish us harm. this was an intelligence failure at its core. no one saw this. i don't know how western intelligence agencies seemed not to understand this attack was going to occur in israel. people got come place lent, they got over confident, i think the same process may happen in the u.s. when it comes to isis and al qaeda. we need to pay attention to this and not let our guard down on terrorism and focus on supporting israelis as much as we can. larry: brett develop loco very much, thank you very much. the house is preparing a bipartisan resolution to back and fund israel.
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♪. larry: all right, so the house is preparing a bipartisan resolution backing israel but there will be some extra money necessary for israeli defenses. joining us now to talk about it, arkansas congressman french hill, member of the foreign relations committee and financial institutions. french this is a tough time first of all. we have brian mast coming on about the resolution. you're a money guy, french hill. will the money be there? do you need a speaker to plop rate additional funds for weapons, ammunition, to help the defense dome in israel? tell us about that, please. >> larry it is good to be back on. first and i want to importantly say that the house under kevin mccarthy's leadership passed a state and foreign operations bill and a defense appropriations bill. both those bills contain significant money that benefits our defense partnership and strategic partnership with
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israel. $3.3 billion in foreign military assistance financing, $500 million for the u.s.-israel defense cooperation agreement. so there's existing money that we've passed in the house and if the senate could take those bills up that would promptly fund that in this fiscal year of 2024. in addition to the good policies that we have in the national defense authorization bill which we also passed in the house and sent over to the senate which includes making sure that we have a special envoy for the "abraham accords" and that we continue to lead as israel's primary ally and partner in the region. larry: what is the senate waiting for, french? >> well they're in recess this week. i know this is important to them. we hope to get to conference on both the defense authorization bill and these spending bills asap. those are things that they could be doing right now while the house republicans elect a new speaker. and i do support this idea of a bipartisan resolution that shows our firm resolution with our
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ally israel on the house floor and make it the very first thing we do once we have a new speaker elected. larry: do you need, will israel need a larger appropriations? can you amend the existing bills that went through? do you have to open up a new bill? how do you think that is going to work, french hill? >> i think our appropriators will look what we've approved in the foreign ops and the defense appropriations bill and talk to the administration. if they feel like they need any supplemental number that would benefit the defense of israel to defeat this terror invasion of their country. larry: has the administration been in touch with all of you on these subjects yet? >> there is going to be an intelligence briefing tomorrow and another one on wednesday and i think we'll shortly hear from the administration once they fully assess what they think they need to provide israel in the right way to support not only their defense but their eviction of the terror units that are active from gaza. larry: yes, sir, great report,
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french hill. thank you ever so much. >> thank you, larry. larry: joining me now robert o'brien, my dear friend, former national security advisor and importantly in this story a former hostage negotiator. robert, what can be done? now israeli hostages, gosh, american hostages, fewer, but they are american hostages, we have to help them. you have vast experience here. i don't think people understand the ways and means that could be undertaken to help this story. can you help us out, robert? >> sure, larry and the first thing we need 20 do is go to the iranians who according to "the wall street journal," i have got no reason to doubt "the wall street journal"'s reporting, this whole operation against israel was green-lighted by the irgc and the quds force. you know, the arms of the iranian regime which they use it to foment terrorism in the region. need to go to the iranians
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through a third party other directly these are american citizens. they shouldn't harm the israelis either. this just doesn't involve us but them and united states we don't take kindly to our citizens being killed which they have done already and don't take kindly to our citizens being taken hostage. that is the first step that needs to be taken, larry. larry: robert, waiting for iranian help is one thing. but what can americans do if we don't get iranian help? >> one thing we can do refreeze the six billion dollars for the last group of american hostages. like the hostages taken this time, those were dual citizens. they were iranian americans. we have israeli-americans being held. we don't care if they're dual citizens or not they're americans. we want them home. we ought to refreeze that money. tell the qataris not to give it to them. tell the iranian regime we'll be holding them personally
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responsible for being held by their proxy hamas. the problem with paying ransom, larry, this is the problem i said at the time of the deal, i welcome the americans are home. we tried to get them home. president trump got a number of people home from iran with three hostages back during our time in office but when you pay that kind of money, when you call unfreezing of assets, call it a gift, call it whatever you want it is ransom. when you pay a billion two per person. you number one create a new market for hostages being taken. number two, you will take a fund so they can use the money for future terrorism operations. i didn't think we would see both points vividly illustrated as we've seen here. larry: money is fungible, for heavens sakes, money is fungible. books can be kept and rekept, everybody knows that except the biden white house. look, robert, one other thing -- >> i don't think they teach accounting at yale law school, yale law school, forget where i
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went. special-ops, special ops for hostage-taking can you tell us something about that because i don't think we'll get any help from iran, not now, not in the future but do we have u.s. special operations to go after hostages? >> well we have a exquisite capability, larry. i don't want to get into those details right now because the moment american hostages are are taken captive the first call that goes is to wouldn't special operations command in fort bragg. my guess is that they're apprised of this. they're working on it. i don't want to get into those capabilities. let me tell you we have tremendous capabilities. when i was the hostage envoy, first thing i did i changed memo that described our office. the first memo said america will use diplomacy first and military rescue operations second. i said our first option is military rescue. then we'll engage in diplomacy. i hope that is still the policy of the government but we'll make sure that you know, those
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americans are taken care of and hopefully our men and women in uniform are working that problem right now. larry: all right. so last 40 seconds, here's, you talked about iran. okay, when will we, the u.s. government, inflict some damage on iran which is the financeer and the strategist and the backbone of all of these terrorist groups, hamas, hezbollah, islamic jihad, working with russia and china? robert o'brien, when will we inflict some damage on iran? >> well my guess if these hostages are hurt that will happen. under president trump we had maximum pressure on iran and it kept them at bay. and you know, i never thought i would say larry we would look back on the carter years as the good ol' days but jimmy carter after seeing the russians in nicaragua and angola and mozambique, they finally went too far when they invaded
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afghanistan. carter said i was wrong about the russians e he changed policies, he was humble enough to change the american military that started under harold brown in the last year of the carter administration. we need the biden administration to have some humility. say we got it wrong. we tried to appease iran, we gave them a billion dollars, gave them sanctions relief and treated them well and they poked us in the eye. this is bit h bipartisan, non-partisan, we need to protect our country to be safe from these guys. larry: we appreciate it robert o'brien, thank you very much. take care. coming up on "kudlow," senator marsha blackburn wants to agree with mr. o'brien, undo the six billion dollar hostage swap, maybe inflict some damage on iran, period. plus we have john ratcliffe, whatever happened to the intel failures? a bad story both from israel and united states. nobody samed to see this one coming. congressman brian mast will tell us about the bipartisan bill to
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♪. larry: all right, welcome back. joining us you no tennessee senator marsha blackburn. senator black -- blackburn, welcome ma'am. take a listen, please, jake sullivan said this 10 days ago. take a listen, please. >> what we said we want to depressurize, de-escalate, and ultimately integrate the middle east region. the war in yemen is in a 19-month truce. for now iranian attacks against u.s. forces have stopped. our presence in iraq is stable. i emphasize for now because all of that can change and the middle east region is quieter today than it has been in two decades. larry: so senator blackburn, quieter today than in two decades, bang, there is intelligence breakdown.
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we've been playing footsie with iran and exchange of six billion billion dollars, what are you thinking with this crisis? >> they should know you cannot appease and try to negotiate with terrorists. what they understand is strength and under donald trump they knew they would not get by with this. he cut the funding to palestine. he got out of the iran nuclear deal. they knew that donald trump knew who was our adversary and treated them as such and knew who was our ally and our allies knew that they were our friends. they could depend on us and for jake sullivan to say that the middle east is more stable when you look at what happened in afghanistan and what is happening there every day. when you look at the new axis of evil with russia, china, iran, north korea, when you look at iran, with their drones that they are building with russia. by the way china is financing
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that. when you look at the uranium enrichment that is happening in iran. iran making all this money on selling oil because the united states has decided they want to be dependent on others and not be energy independent. larry, it is just foolhardy to think that you have an area that is so volatile that you say is more stable now? and you see how quickly this has eroded and how iran has been instrumental in playing a role in coaching and directing and giving the green light to hamas to carry this out and then the ayatollah says, this is a part of their plan to destroy israel. this is not knowing how to read the signs in the region and not
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paying attention to alliances and people that were beginning to work together, all against us and our allies. larry: senator blackburn, 100% on all counts. i'm on a tight leash today. i just want to add one thing you mentioned trump. trump took out al-baghdadi. trump took out soleimani. trump sent signals to the mullahs. it is funny about that in the middle east, those signals seem to matter. you're, i just wanted to raise that point in support of your -- >> you're right about that. larry: appeasement never works, appeasement never works. >> that's right. larry: senator, we'll revisit. i'm on a short leash tonight. thank you ever so much for coming on the show. we appreciate it very much. >> got it. larry: moving along as we must, joining us john ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence, former prosecutor. john, the intel breakdown, a lot of people are talking about that. nobody saw this coming. the planning was in august, what
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can you tell us, what are you thinking? >> well, clearly there was an intelligence failure both by israel and by the united states. both governments have admitted you know, an element of surprise to all of that. you know i think, you know one of the things that may contribute to that is the fact that as you have talked about, larry, the united states and israel for the first time there has been daylight between our countries because of the approach that this administration has taken in courting iran, in begging iran, pleading with iran, enriching iran and you know, that has filtered down into the relationship between our intelligence communities and you know i hope that hasn't contributed to you know, a lack of sharing important intelligence but it's very clearly something that is in play. larry: we keep playing footsie with iran. i mean, the bidens are i at that saying what they're saying,
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they're backing israel now. i wish i had more confidence in that declaration the we'll see the in the days and weeks ahead but you keep playing footsie with iran. a lot of reports, from reputable journalists this guy malley, robert malley was the special envoy to iran. he was suspended from his post. there is talk about a spy ring and iranian sympathizers or iranian trained people in the defense department, do you know anything about this story? why was malley suspended? they won't ever say. >> well, they won't say and i don't know specifically but we don't have to speculate on this, larry. there's evidence that a chief of staff to an assistant secretary of defense was ghost writing op-eds for the iranian foreign minister. so you know, the fact that iran had a voice within the biden administration and biden policies to iran is really irrefutable and that's where the
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biden administration is just, they put themselves in this box, larry. you and i had how many discussions over the last few years, to your point playing footsie this was dangerous policies that they were taking towards iran. they were trusting iran and that, that would backfire and very clearly that is playing out. their trust was misplaced and now they're doing this mental gymnastics to really even try and minimize iran's role by saying well, you know, we gave them six billion dollars but that really didn't come into play here. in fact we don't have any direct intelligence that iran is even involved here. so they're making excuses because they know they have contributed to what's taking place in israel. larry: john, if you were back in the administration in a position of authority how best to inflict some damage on iran which stands behind hamas, which stands behind hezbollah, which is in bed with china and russia as you know? they are the mastermind of all of the terrorism and malicious
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and barbaric attack on israel, how to inflict some damage on iran? >> well, i think what iran, you know, has done here is, they have created, if you will a window of opportunity that everyone should take advantage of. they have demonstrated that while they were negativing to get $6 billion back with the biden administration, at the very same time they were involved in the operational planning to take more american hostages, an operation to kill more americans and these israelis. they can't be trusted and they can't be trusted and that reflects they shouldn't be trusted to be a member of the nuclear club ever and i think there's justification here, larry, for both israel and the united states to take appropriate responses to make sure that iranian nuclear facilities and personnel that would contribute to them becoming a member of the, of having a nuclear weapon that they not be permitted to do so
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and i think an international coalition around that fact can be built and i don't think that allies of iran like russia and china given the backdrop of what's happening will really be in a position to object or to help. larry: all right. john ratcliffe, as always, i'm running a short leash today, but thank you for your contribution. thanks very much for weighing in. >> you bet. larry: we appreciate it. all right, folks, moving right along joining us now florida congressman brian mast from the foreign affairs committee and house republican israel caucus. brian, i know you're pushing a resolution in support of israel. we just had french hill on about the funding side of this but i just want to ask you, brian mast, you know, iran is behind all this and the question is we heard from john ratcliffe and others, in your view how best, we have to destroy hamas if that were possible, islamic jihad if
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that were possible but what about iran? we're still playing footsie with iran. i don't see anything. in fact, let me, you know what? -- here's antony blinken's tweet. hang on a tech we'll put this up on the full screen. turkish foreign minter and i spoke further on hamas's terrorist attacks on israel. listen to this i encourage turkey's advocacy for a cease-fire and release of all hose damages held by hamas immediately. brian mast, that was blink blink's tweet, all right, x, which he then deleted, okay? so he's in the sees fire camp et cetera. is that inspire confidence? you think that people should be running this operation? >> no confidence whatsoever. i'm a bit more old-fashioned. i believe in being significantly more violent than any enemy that comes against me. i think that is very simply the answer. you're dealing with barbarians. they will take women, children,
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elderly, you name it hostage, everybody sees that at this point. the choice is not about how to best appease them, a word been used many times. it's how to best be more violent than them to destroy that enemy. it looks like the american war on terror and everything that was a part of that, you hunt, you interrogate, you kill, you repeat. larry: and do we have confidence this administration will help israel going after hamas and ultimately iran, brian mast? >> i almost feel like that should be a rhetorical question because we know the answer is no. larry: and you're going to push this resolution? what will it say? these things are not really binding, will it get through the senate? >> this would be binding t helps the house of representatives in that cycle of hunt and interrogate, kill and repeat. it is a big part of that to say listen you need to give these updates on a regular basis, who are the financiers, who are the fighters, who are the planners, so those people can go into that
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system that do get tracked down by the very capable assets that train together between the united states of america and israel and others. larry: brian mast, joe biden essential lip silent for two straight days. i thought he would come out and say a thing. what should he say? what would assure you that the bidens are really 100% behind israel? >> it would look like this. we know that this is not short term. the enemy has to be rooted out in totality and whether there are 5000, 10,000, 15,000 palestinian bodies that stack up, if the job is not done, we're still going to continue to stand beside israel to finish the fight. that's what it looks like because people will get, the u.n., the sympathizers, are going to get weary of this in about 24 hours and start to push israel to back off even more than they already are. larry: that is what worries me too. congressman brian mast, they got me on a tight leash for this
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show, but thank you ever so much for coming on. hope to see you soon sir, thank you. >> all the best. larry: coming up here as i said we've been playing footsie with iran all these years. what did we get for it? we got senator roger marshall, foreign relations committee in the senate when "kudlow" returns and we will have a report from israel. ♪.
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♪. larry: all right, fox news trey yingst joining us on the phone along the front lines of the battle in southern israel. what can you tell us, latest on the ground, trey? >> reporter: yeah absolutely, right now rocket fire has subsided but the israelis are continuing their attacks against the northern and eastern part of the gaza strip. this has been an ongoing battle throughout the day. israelis now using artillery unit near the border. they're using -- to shell gaza and they are facing the possibility of this opening up into a much broader conflict across the region. hezbollah, the lebanese militant group is involved in the fight now. they say they have lost at least nine of their fighters, cross-border attacks they tried to conduct today in israel's north and they have also fired rockets and mortars toward an israeli base they say.
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so this is developing very quickly into a multifront conflict that israel is facing and tonight israeli benjamin netanyahu said this is just the beginning. the real war has not begun. he said hamas asked for a war and a war is what they will get. he spoke about the atrocities committed over the weekend when a massacre took place. more than 900 i israelis were killed civilians and soldiers when they crossed the border across the gaza strip and conducted this widespread attack. back to you. larry: trey yingst, be safe. thanks every much for that report. we have kansas senator roger marshall, an expert of foreign policy and member of homeland security. senator, you heard trey yingst, will be a two front war, two-pronged war. hezbollah from the north and hamas awfulness from the north. the house, the house will be okay. will the senate back it?
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will the administration back israel? will they finance it? will they give their support when the going gets tough and you get horrible hostage stories? what are you thinking, senator marshall? >> house and senate, larry will do what they need to do. it will be a year before the weapons get there the white house has what they need to handle the situation this is exactly the problem. joe biden says he has israel's back but he is the most pro-iran president in the history of the nation. that is what his actions show us. this president since day one promoted iran developing nuclear weapons. you reported the $6 billion he recently released for hostages. just three months before that there was another $10 billion he released to give to iraq to give to iran as well. it goes on and on. he turns his head to sanctions. he releases sanctions. recently he wanted to make the iranian revolutionary guard,
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take them off the terrorist list. this is the group who planned this war. look, we need the president to step forward once and for all and say israel is dead to me. a zebra is not going to change its stripes. how many, what does iran have to do to slap america in the face to say enough is enough? we need a president who is going to stand up and cut the head off this snake. larry: well i want to hear biden give a speech to the country wanted to hear biden give a speech on the mission and possible exit strategy from ukraine. but that is a separate issue. i want to push that aside for a minute. i'm waiting for a biden speech to the country that will absolutely, paragraph by paragraph, defend israel and not only throw hamas, i mean we want to destroy hamas and hezbollah but throw iran under the bus. instead of playing footsie with them as i call it, throw iran under the bus, senator marshall but i never hear that kind of
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speech. >> you got it. this, the president needs to step up and let our enemies know that as my dad would say there will be hell to pay for this. all those other terrorist organizations need to know if they get involved with this, they will have the full wrath of the united states upon them as well. that we're not going to be backing down. instead we have the president yesterday, what did he do? he shut things down about noon or 1:00 and had a barbecue. today we know for sure there were 11 americans that died over there, a thousand israelis and our president shuts things down at noon as bell. that is what i'm talking about. his actions, his actions prove he doesn't care about this. he doesn't have leadership skills. this would have never have happened if 2 hadn't been for afghanistan and how he continues to shed his duties being reactive rather than proactive. again this is the most pro-iranian president america has ever seen. larry: senator, last one here, incredible, the palestinian affairs office in the state department had this tweet.
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we unequivocally condemn the attack of hamas terrorists and the loss of life that has incurred. we urge all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. terror and violence solve nothing. that ain't support for israel. now that tweet was deleted but it was put up there i believe saturday evening. i mean, really, this tweet, the blinken tweet that was deleted also, kind of makes you wonder what the commitment is to israel, to prime minister netanyahu and to the life of the jewish people in general, senator marshall. last point. >> that is exactly what we're talking about here. the president needs to step forward to give a deadline when we want our american hostages back or there will be hell to pay. our president needs to stand up. larry: senator roger marshall, kansas, terrific stuff. talk later. folks i will be right back with my las he hits his mark —center stage—and is crushed by a baby grand piano.
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