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let's grit straight to our war coverage as the idf moves a deeper into gaza at this. edward lawrence and jeff paul standing by with a bunch of details on breaking stories. let's go first to jeff paul in tel aviv, israel. welcome back. what can you tell us tonight? >> reporter: larry israeli forces are showing no signs of slowing down. they continue to engage with hamas militants in and around northern gaza as they tighten their grip by the day in gaza city. as as a result, the idf is discovering and destroying tunnels used by amass fighters. they have destroyed 130 shafts. own the surface they killed key weapons maker during strikes. this is forcing more civilians from their homes in the north. tens of thousands this week were said to have taken advantage of the humanitarian corridor set up

by israeli forces but very little progress has been made regarding more than 200 hostages taken back on october 7th. israel's defense minister gallant addressing that during his more most recent update today. >> translator: more pressure on islamic. >> gnawed, the greater chance we bring the abductees back home. >> reporter: tonight thousands of protesters gathered here in downtown tel aviv to essentially protest the red cross. they are calling on them to get inside of gaza, check on these hostages because right now, larry, their families have little information where they are, but if they're okay, if they have the medicine they need. larry? >> jeff, can i ask you another story running in the papers this morning? israel eliminating 130 hamas tunnels in gaza. you know we had aaron cohen, the

special-ops advisor on the show last night saying that israel was moving in and accomplishing their goals faster than a lot of people thought. the story caught my eye. i wondered when you could tell us about it? >> reporter: yeah, and we were talking about that off the top how they are tightening their grip around nongayssa every time they move into a different areas and get into different buildings they're finding these tunnel shafts as you mentioned they have blown up more than 130 of these tunnel shafts recently. sometimes they find the tunnel shaft openings in really interesting spots. most recently they found one at a childrens amusement back. in the background, i'm sure you have seen the video, you can see a ferris wheel. where they're finding these is almost as interesting as what they find inside of them. a crucial part of their efforts in gaza especially when it comes to tracking down the hamas fighters. larry?

larry: jeff, thank you very much for your reporting be safe. let's turn to our own edward lawrence at the white house? edward, what can you tell us? we have a couple of breaking stories? >> reporter: number of things going on. nsc spokesperson john kirby agreed to four hour paws per day of the ground offensive. they will give three hour notice beforehand before the pause happens. president joe biden would like to see a longer pause, advocated for a longer pause to this. the president admitted today he wanted just that. listen to this. president biden: i've been asking for a pause a lot more three days. >> did you ask him to pause three days to get hostages out. president biden: yes. i asked for even longer pause. >> reporter: on the hostages there is no guarranty that hostages will be released in the hostages. nsc spokesperson says negotiations are continuing.

critics say that the pause only helps hamas. look at this map here. 46 attacks on u.s. troops and contractors by iranian proxies since october 17th. at least 46 americans injured. overnight the president authorized a second strike on a warehouse. senior defense officials said that could have had drones in it or rockets or artillery in it. retired colonel darren gab says this is too maul of small of a pause is too late. >> there is frustration the messages we're sending from america is weakness. if they hit us a little bit we'll only hurt them a little bit. that is not how deterrence works. we need to send a bolder stronger message they need to stop doing this or they will pay a heavy price. >> reporter: overnight there were four other attacks by iranian proxies on u.s. targets. they're clearly not getting this message, larry. larry: can i just clarify?

mr. biden in recent days has been reported wanted a three-day pause which is a cease-fire. i don't distinguish between pauses an cease-fires. that is political semantics. >> reporter: yeah. larry: has anyone contacted hamas? is hamas going to pause? do we have assurances on that? >> reporter: so i can tell you the president today confirmed he actually asked for a three-day pause. no, we do not have any response from the hamas side of this. we just know the israelis have agreed to stop their offensive but israeli prime minister, he will tell bret baier later on today in one of the released, interview parts that he did, israeli prime minister said it will only be localized in certain areas. you will have a four hour pause in a certain square footage of gaza city. battle will continue in other areas. larry: yes indeed. edward lawrence, thanks for the great reporting. edward, be safe.

you're in the white house area, be safe. very tricky business. let me weigh in on this in a moment. after iran terrorist proxies launched over 40 attacks on u.s. military assets last night the u.s. responded again with two f-15 fighter jets dropping several bombs on a weapons storage facility in eastern syria. no terrorists were there, so no terrorists were killed. now then, this is important to me at least, according to reports right after our response iran-barked terrorists mounted four more attacks on u.s. bases, three in syria and one in iraq, which brought the total now to 46 attacks by iran-backed proxies. three u.s. servicemembers suffered minor injuries and are now gratefully back to duty. this is after the houthis last night downed an american mq 9 reaper drone near yemen.

so, so the biden administration lob ad couple more missiles at an unmanned ammo depot someplace in the middle of syria. iran hits back with four more attacks and the biden administration did nothing, nothing. this is not a strong response. correct that. this is in fact a very weak response. now general jack keane and distinguished former secretary of state mike pompeo will be here in just a few moments to talk about this and other related matters but i would say for all the times that joe biden and antony blinken and john kirby keep telling us how they will hold iran accountable for their terrorism i believe any objective observer would say they are not holding iran accountable for anything. by all accounts as joe biden continues his iranian appeasement strategy it objective looks like he is more afraid of iran than iran is afraid of united states and that

is a very bad place to be anytime but especially during wartime and we are at war with iran as well as their terror proxies, hamas, hezbollah, the rest of the murderers. how many times do the bidens have to hear that appeasement never works? how long until we have to wait until the bidens develop a serious policy of deterrents. general keane said bidens should take out iranian proxicom manned and control centers, take it out. send a message. people will be killed. the enemy will be killed. the casualties would not be civilian casualties. they would be terrorists. that is the cost of a war and this is a just war. these namby-pamby biden responses to iran so far i believe are doing far more harm than good in terms of americans security. not just israeli security. we need to be deterring iranian warfare in order to protect

american national security interests along with the security interests of israel and our allies around the world. putin's russia, xi's china, kim jong un north korea, are watching namby-pamby responses in the iranian war. what do you think they are thinking? hamas murdered 1400 innocent civilians on october 7th but since iran was the master planner and paymaster they were entirely and directly complicit in killing 1400 innocent civilians. joe biden and his gang should be furious at what is going on in all of these areas but most especially in these attack on u.s. military assets. the bidens should be expressing fury on a daily basis at americans were killed and taken hostage on october 7th.

they should be furious u.s. military assets are being attacked nightly but they respond in the weakest, lowest common denominate tore milquetoast way. i make this final thought. save america, retire joe biden. he is most certainly not a war-time president. all right? that is my riff. i take responsibility for it. joining me know mentor and dear friend general jack keane, retired four-star general, chairman of the institute for the study of war, fox news strategic analyst and presidential medal of freedom recipient. i was in the room when he got it many years ago. general keane, it is always wonderful to see you, sir. quickly, general, this is what aaron cohen, this special-ops advisor is a very smart chap, this is what he said on our show last night. i want you to react to it please. >> now i can tell you from my

sources that israel is getting very close to wrapping up the little hamas birthday present and ending it for good. larry: i thought that was an interesting comment. you know is a tough hardened guy. he wouldn't say that if he didn't have evidence. that is why i raised the point a second time about the 130 tunnels and so forth. they seem to be doing better let's say the idf. want to get your take on that general? >> certainly, the last time they consequence was 2014 and they have gone to school on these tunnels. they have trained on them. they have a sense how extensive and comprehensive they are. they have all sorts of technology to assist in this. so i mean, he has got sources inside and that's wonderful. let's applaud the fact that they have taken down 130 out of about 300 miles of this thing. good news there. certainly if the israelis can end it sooner that's good on all

sides of this thing. they cannot give up on the new aim that the national leadership assigned to their military and that is is to dismantle hamas' effective military organization, take that effectiveness away from them, and dismantle the governing aspect of hamas as well. that is a new aim. they have to stick with it until it is accomplished. larry: do you think, i think it is a mistake probably to raise expectations too high about rapidly doing the job in this, that, the other thing. you still think it will take a while to get this job done using this new mission, this new aim you spoke about, this will take a while? >> what they can't do is leave like they have done before where they set hamas back a number of years because they killed some leaders and fighters and infrastructure. to dismantle an organization, the effectiveness of the entire network takes time and we've had

some experience doing that ourselves in our 9/11 wars but, listen, we're behind the israelis 100% here. if they can do it faster than expected we're all all for it. larry: let me turn to the issue of appeasement versus deterrents. i don't know, look, you're the general, i'm not. i grow weary. i think these are inadequate responses. i just saw another fox contributor, former military man say the same thing. why aren't we hitting harder? why aren't we hitting terrorists? >> yeah, well a couple things here. we've got to recognize, iran's strategic objective is to dominate and control the middle east and the flow of persian gulf oil. they have said that since the early '80s, 43 years. to accomplish that they got two very specific objectives to accomplish that goal. one is to drive the united states military out of the middle east and they began that in the early '80s, when

islamic jihad, forerunner of hezbollah, blew up the marine barracks and blew up our embassy ies in the same year. i'm not relitigating that decision ronald reagan made. they continue to do that to reduce our military presence. the second objective is to destroy the state of israel. you have their instrument hamas conducting a a brutal savage attack they have as a goal and proxies in iraq and syria to include houthis working on the other goal getting the military out of the region. what they want people in the united states to question why are we still in iraq? why are our troops at risk? i thought we did that in a few years ago? they want that growing up inside of the american political system. that is to their favor. but what, to stop those attacks, to prevent the loss of life what our goal should be these

measured, deliberator strikes are not accomplishing anything. you just reported very accurately. if there is stillscapability there in iraq and syria that we can deal with and take that capability out, in other words the instruments that they're using to attack us and we can get access to it do it but if we can't do that, i would tell the iranians, then i've got to put at risk the irgc, which is the organization that is controlling these proxies, that directed hamas, supported hamas, et cetera, and these iraqi and syrian proxies, they train in the irgc training center in iran. we should tell them we'll take that training center down. 500 hamas were there in september. we should also tell them we'll put that at risk if you don't stop. the irgc bases that support their activities are going to be at risk as is the irgc headquarters. larry: some bases in iraq? >> all in iran. larry: oh, okay. >> they're all in iran.

larry: can i ask you sir, i don't mean to interrupt but you know this, look, the word don't is all we've really gotten from the president and i don't think don't conveys the clear message that you yourself just conveyed. why not finish the sentence if you really believe that? >> i don't know what they have told the iranians privately. sometimes i understand public declarations have connotations to them. i'd give them a pass if they were telling them privately what i just said. so our audience understands, the reagan team learned from what took place in the early '80s. larry: yes. >> so when the persian gulf interruption campaign began by the iranians, remember they wanted to take control of persian gulf oil, they started to disrupt it. reagan hit their oil platforms, iranian oil platforms and hit irgc bases, shut them down. when the iranian proxies again were hitting our bases in iraq

and syria and doing damage to our people, president trump as opposed to just dealing with the proxies themselves, he went after the man in charge of the irgc who was directing it and had him killed. that put the iranians back on their heels. now why don't we take these actions? why doesn't the administration do what we're suggesting? because they fear that by taking a strike at iran, even though it is the irgc and they are directly connected to the proxies, because it is on iranian soil that that could provoke the possibility of a war with iran. if you put that under a microscope, that kind of escalation, war with iran makes no sense. why? for 43 years they have been using these proxies to fight a war for them, for what reason? so they don't have to fight it themselves. they know full well if they ever got into direct conflict with the united states, they don't

just lose a war, they lose their regime. larry: good. >> that's not what they're going to do. would they hit us back if we hit them at home? yes of course, they would, like they did with president trump. larry: general they have been waging war against us. they're waging war against us right now. >> i agree. larry: they're in effect killing our american civilians and taking hostages. i mean october 7th was, iran. i know -- >> savage. larry: it was hamas but it is iran. >> of course it is iran and all the other proxies they're using in the region all to accomplish their goal, destroy the state of israel, make it vulnerable, politically isolated and also drive us out of the region. so all of these proxies where they don't directly conduct the attack themselves, this has been a brilliant strategy when they started it because never before did a country hire other people in another country to make an attack on their adversaries the way they have done it consistently for 40 something

years. every president that steps into power seems to have to learn this lesson again what is really going on here. iran is behind all of it. this administration has enough evidence to know what to do here. they, they are paralyzed by the fear they believe that their actions will escalate and we'll be at war with iran. i don't believe the evidence for 40ears supports that. larry: we'll leave it there. >> good as always talking to you, larry. larry: terrific stuff. next up, former secretary of state mike pompeo will talk more about these subjects, iranian appeasements by joe biden. why is obama's hands especially dirty. when obama said the other day everybody is complicit in this it just drove me crazy. i wrote a piece about it. we'll distinguished former secretary of state mike pompeo. we always thank

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♪ larry: joining me now, mike pompeo, distinguished former secretary of state, fox news contributor, author of never give an inch, fighting for the

america i love. mike pompeo, i just want to continue this conversation. thank you for coming back on the show, we appreciate it. i want to continue this conversation we had with general keane about the lack of deterrents and what i think is a continued appeasement of iran. they hit us with their proxies. we don't seem to hit back. we don't hit their command-and-control centers. we don't hit their training centers. we don't want to take out, seems like we fear them more than they fear us. you have talk fought and spoken and written about this. there is a war going on. seems like no way to run a war but what say mike pompeo? >> it is great to be back with you. i think the facts speak for themselves. we have americans held hostage. we have 220 plus people still being held hostage by iran. 1400 people killed a bit over a

month ago, many more americans killed by iran and they continue to pound our forces in the middle east. so whatever one thinks in theory or some academic institution, a practical matter, someone who has to stop evil from roaming the earth, i think it is pretty clear the biden administration has failed and whether it is striking an empty ammunition facility or issuing a sharply worded demarche from the state department, it is simply failing to protect america, and larry, i think you and general keane hit it exactly right. when you respond a way that is beneath the line, doesn't get that deterrence, you're actually accelerating risk. you're convincing nasrallah in lebanon or houthi leadership or their proxy forces sprinkled throughout the world, preparing themselves to conduct campaigns in europe or assassination efforts here in the united states, all those people in the iranian leadership read that as a green light. that creates enormous risk of escalation when you fail to

respond to serious threats from the iranian regime. we've seen this for decades, larry. larry: mr. secretary, just last night, last 24 hours, whatever it is, 36 hours, they hit us, we hit them, you know, hitting ammo depots, unmanned ammo depots somewheres in the eastern part of syria. so we do that, all right? we fly a couple f-15s in, hit them. they hit back, same night. as i understand the sequence here, that night, last night, they hit back. four targets. we didn't do a thing, not a thing. that should have been a big blow with a statement from the president, you know? this is the kind of thing i'm looking for. i think it is the kind of thing that our former boss would do. i think it is the kind of thing you yourself would do. i'm losing patience because you know, mike, here's the thing, it is not just, israel's security is important. our friends in the middle east very important, but this is about american security, isn't

it? this is really fundamentally about american national security? >> you nailed it. this is about protecting americans. it is certainly about supporting our partner, our friend, rightful homeland of the jewish people there in israel but this is about american security. the iranians made pretty clear, larry, they have not attempting to stop with the little satan there in israel, they're coming after us. to the extent we're unprepared to defend the things that matter. we created a enormous amount of risk for the american people in the homeland. i think everyone saw the last 48 hours, a plot taken down in brazil, hezbollah operatives, israel mossad and brazilian intelligence services took it down. this will continue to expand. iran will continue to press like they always do until the thrust is made, until a real cost is imposed on the regime the iranians will continue to expand their footprint, not only build out their terror operations,

larry we should never forget they use the terror operations as an umbrella to continue working the nuclear program. that in order for to us continue our march toward a path toward a nuclear weapon. today, larry, iranians sold 3 1/2 million barrels of oil on the open market and received cash forpit. that is crazy for that to be permitted to happen. larry: yes. i talked about all your statements about sanctions, in 2019, 2020, not being observed, not being enforced. you're exactly right. 3 1/2 million plus. picking up on foreign exchange. money is the coin of terrorism. we're not doing a thing about it. last one, we're always running out of time, mike, what peeved me also, you and i we're pals, obama saying everybody is complicit in this, everybody is complicit in this. i'm sorry, i beg to differ. he started this thing with all the opening up of the money, hundreds of billions of dollars

that he forked over cash, gold, unfrozen assets, rearming and then biden took it to the next level unfortunately. i mean really? this didn't have to happen because we had interrupted that. the trump administration had interrupted this iranian attack. >> there is a reason this didn't happen on our watch, larry. could be good luck. could be good fortune, could be the lord, maybe all those things but the iranians understood we're serious about protecting america. you're right, when i heard president obama it was infuriating that included all of us. this obama appeasement policy created a context we have now 1400 dead israelis. it is tragic. president obama should be ashamed saying everyone is complicit when it was his set of policies created a backdrop which set this cohappen. his idea of american policies on american policies, causing

anti-semitic hatred flourish today, that i didn't think could happen in america, larry. larry: thank you, mr. secretary. >> you have a good weekend. larry: take care. moving right along, here they come up again, schumer democrats pushing not one, but two massive omnibus, spending, borrowing and debt bills, no pay-fors. no pay-fors. we have senator eric schmitt of missouri to talk about it when "kudlow" returns. you know president obama, i'm sorry with all due respect, sir, you're more complicit than anybody i can think of. that's the reality of what's happened in the middle east. i'm kudlow. we'll be right back. ♪ the biggest ideas inspire new ones. 30 years ago, state street created an etf

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♪. >> i implore speaker johnson and our house republican colleagues to learn from the fiasco of a month ago, hard-right proposals,

hard-right slashing cuts, hard-right poison pills that have zero support from democrats will only make a shutdown more likely. i hope they don't go dune that path in the week to come. larry: okay, there you have it, that was the imminent senate majority leader chuck schumer. joining us missouri senator eric schmitt, former missouri attorney general. senator schmidt for you. i know you love hearing that. hard right, poison pills, speaker johnson is a terrible guy and he is mostly terrible because democrats won't go along. i want to ask you, we have several potential omnibus spending bills, we could spend a whole lot of money and borrowing. what do you make of it? what is going to happen here, senator? >> he file like i'm watching the movie groundhog day. here we are 40 days later with another deadline next week. chuck schumer you heard on that

clip spent no time at all debating appropriation bills. we have to get to a place where we have separate appropriation bills, senators can offer amendments. only thing we did this week, vote on liberal judges. chuck schumer spent no time. it is disingenuous to talk about what the house might be doing, how about here in the senate we spend time actually talking about the priorities? you know we take in five trillion dollars. joe biden wants to spend seven trillion dollars, larry. this is unsustainable. we're spending about a trillion dollars a year now on debt. that is more than we spend on our military. so at some point i think the adults in the room have to wrangle control of this process, have real reform and stop kibbling the can down the road with these crs that 30, 45 days that don't do anything to control spending. larry: it strikes me, senator, this is exactly what you all didn't want to happen, regular order, what speaker johnson doesn't want. the other thing i find so

pernicious here, besides too much spending and borrowing and federal debt the border, the collapse of the border, the crime, the drugs, the loss of sovereignty, people are furious. it is like become the number two issue after the economy and inflation. and so all of these omnibuses, you know correct me if i'm wrong, the omnibus light, or continuing resolution slash omnibus avoids any major national discussion of the border and what needs to happen to solve the border. do you follow my logic? it sort of gets hidden in there? >> yeah, look, i think that is chuck schumer's design here, is, if you, if you delay any real discussion on the senate floor, here is my prediction, larry. we'll get to mid next week and chuck schumer is going to come out of his office having written this bill with just a couple people and tell everybody you need to support this or you support a government shutdown. i think the american people

deserve more than that the american people think we're debating real legislation up here, appropriations bills. we're not doing any of that. that is chuck schumer. larry, underscores the importance of handling these issues one by one. the same is true for the supplemental. the israel issue is different than the ukraine issue and other issues. these need to be talked about, amended and voted on separately, separately. for example, larry, we ought to take up the, house passed israeli package. it is paid for. we ought to take it up, senate republicans ought to withhold for cloture, and unless we. he threatened to veto it. i dare him to do it. he is not going to do it. those are the kinds of things as republicans we need to stick together on so we're not side offing with chuck schumer and joe biden and supporting house. larry: cloture means you end discussion, you you have to go h a vote if the republicans pick up couple democrats that rule

will not pass and you force a vote on israel alone, right? >> that's right. larry: israel plus the pay-for, the irs, irs pay-for. >> you need 60 votes to proceed. we've got you know, so, if republicans stick together on these things they won't end debate. you need 60 votes to end debate. that is the power you have in the senate as the minority party we are, it is 51-49, that is how we force a real discussion. take up the house israeli package, send it to joe biden and dare him to veto it. by the way we can move on to other topics but what chuck schumer wants, larry, bundle all of this stuff together and tell everybody, you have the mainstream media be sympathetic to the cause, how come republicans want to shut down the government. it is a total false choice. we have to get back to regular order where we handle these things one by one. larry: senator eric schmitt as always appreciate it as always.

folks moving right i have a long, switching gears, why is hamas leader kissing a cnn and ap photographer? you know just curious here in the ways of war, kissing, really? joe concha, media and politics columnist for the messenger, fox news contributor, mark simone, wor radio host, top, top of the line. joe, you're the media guy, kissing. i guess we're not allowed to show the kiss because it hasn't been cleared by legal but the kiss has been around. this hamas guy kissing -- it was a local strippinger but he worked for cnn. he worked for ap, "new york times." >> sure. larry: this is not good. can we say this is note good? >> we can say this is not good. major news organizations, they have to depend on people on the ground over there that know the lay of the land in the gaza strip and so on, so they hire these stringers to get photos in places that we can't just send people over there, say, okay, go here, go there. they have to rely on local resources which you do in war in

many cases. the problem here is that these photographers, not just one, but several were perfectly positioned on the morning of october 7th, quiet saturday morning on the israeli side and got some photos that unless they were given a heads up that this was going to happen, it is hard to believe, we don't know this is exactly true but you can speculate hard to believe they were in the proper positions at the proper times. in one case you see one of the photographers in front of an israeli tank that is burning and hamas fighters cheering behind him and he didn't have anything saying he was with the press. he should have been executed on the spot i would think, and that didn't happen. you have to wonder if any conversations happened beforehand. if so, are these news organizations by extension culpable as a result of what happened? larry: they fired him. they got rid of him today? >> they said we don't know him. never heard of him. we fired him. we got rid of him. i don't trust them. they have been all over the map

on think, down think, it is an important point. he was embedded. it looked very friendly. i don't know if they were personal friends or not. you think this photographer, there were other photographers too. >> several embedded. larry: you think they knew didn't tell the rest of the world because they were so prohamas? >> this would be too much after significance. remember the awful raid on roger stone's house? whole crew with satellite truck ready to go in the middle of that raid horrible. larry: just happened to be there at the time. >> the kissing photo we don't know if it is real with a.i. or ways you manipulate photos. until it is confirmed. if it is confirmed. i mean that's damning right there. that is just something these news organizations should have vetted in some way because it is on social media of the question who owns it and is it real. larry: did you have a good time watching the republican debate last night, mark simone?

>> oh -- larry: huh? >> i think joe just told me 7.6 million. >> i got the number wrong. i read it quickly. i apologize to everybody at home. it is worse than we thought. okay. so i just read a story quickly because numbers just came out. the country music awards on cbs got 7.5 million viewers roughly. the gop debate on nbc, didn't even get five million. we're talking two million less. put it in context by the way. fox business drew 9.3 million for the gop debate, this was the second one. this had almost half that on nbc. what does that tell us about the candidates and interest at this point, take it away sorry. >> lowest debate in history. donors, consultants, they're the only ones who were watching it. they love nikki haley. to me she is the republican hillary clinton as vivek called her dick cheney in heels. the donors, consultants well

waste all their time and money -- larry: we said this after the last debate, i couldn't say it was a fox debate but therefore was very exciting. the reality nominations, get behind trump. i want to make another point here, the republicans were disappointed in kentucky and virginia, not in new york by the way. they did great in new york. they swept suffolk county and suburbs because they're not using trump, okay? that was the problem in virginia. the governor did not use trump. and in kentucky the guy who was endorsed by trump two years ago did not use trump. trump would have tripled turnout, given republican as chance to win. larry: trump would have talked border, drill, baby, drill, going after iran, hammer and tong. what is it, institutional gop is the worst. >> kentucky is on mitch mcconnell that was his guy. >> can't kind of get a girl pregnant and can't kind of use

donald trump. put him out there fully or not. larry: that's a great point. in kentucky, aiming at kentucky. >> by the way he was going to get reelected anyway, not a big upset. in 2022, 28 governors ran for re-election, 27 won. virginia has been a blue state for 20 years. glenn youngkin can't come in a year-and-a-half completely red. ohio in abortion, kansas passed a dim similar referendum deep as kansas. larry: if you want to, bring trump in and trump is running on issues. why he is winning so much in the polls. i have to get out of here. joe concha, mark simone and a little peck on the cheek from hamas, i guess what we're talking about. coming up folks we'll have a little report, american colleges, raking in billions from middle east countries. i think that is going to have to

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larry: peace and strength means strong deterrence, okay. not appeasement. they've got to stop appeasing aran and other -- iran and other terrorists. nobody appeases liz. they all look to liz for information. liz: only you can, larry