administration, secretary blinken's message came as the office of palestinian affairs said we urge all sides to refrain from violence. they took that statement down. this afternoon we expect to hear remarks from nick kay haley, remarks from former president trump, he will talk about peace through strength. he will contrast his message, his policies toward iran. his policy of peace accords in israel of that of the current administration, the former president of the united states will speak today. the former speaker of the house will speak today. the current president of the united states joe biden will not. as we watch those explosions in gaza, city gaza and bodies pulled from the rubble of that police station. those families in our prayers. thanks to everyone, now here is america reports.

>> israel is at war. isreali civilians is not something you want to play with. we will demolish every terrorists, we will. >> john: a live look at gaza, isreali forces are launching wide scale air strikes against hamas, launching the deadliest single attack since the hall cost. i'm john roberts in washington. we were not planning sandra on starting a week this way. >> sandra: no, john, good to be with you. our coverage continues

here. i'm sandra smith in new york, this is america reports. this situation continues to deteriorate every hour along the isreali gaza border, trading heavy fire at this hour all the while the white house remains silent. the president's team has just called a lid for the day within the last hour which means we are not expected to see or hear from the president today. the state department meanwhile is confirming at least nine americans were killed by those terrorists. and it remains unknown if any are among the dozens of hostages taken into gaza. >> john: despite the numerous american deaths and growing questions over its handling of the middle east, the white house as sandra pointed out, the president is not expected to come out in public or make any kind of statement for the rest of the day. >> sandra: trey yingst on the front lines in southern israel. trey, what can you tell us is

the latest? >> trey: sandra, john, the efforts of the isreali military continue at this hour to stage their forces along the gaza border ahead of a ground operation. more tanks and apc's, thousands of soldiers preparing for those orders that are expected to come in the hours or days ahead. in the distance loud explosions as the isrealis continue their air strikes along the gaza strip, more rocket fire coming off of gaza targeting communities not just here in the south but larger cities like jerusalem and tel aviv. last hour, amid the rocket fire here in the town of sderot. >> pan up here. i am going to interrupt you. we have iron dome intercept sores. pull it off the sticks. stay with us here. stay with us here. everyone go flat. we don't have time. go up. point up here. you are going to see

some interceptions taking place. there is more fire, rocket fire coming off the gaza strip right now. there are going to be loud explosions, don't be alarmed. >> trey: all right. we're getting more rocket fire right now, a heavy barrage, soldiers and police came through. there is going to be a loud explosion. just wait here, guys. you can see, this is the scene in southern israel. just constant fire. stay down, guys. stay down. just i am going to show you the scene. okay, there is

still more rocket fire coming off the gaza strip. they are firing from multiple directions. i'm trying to get past israel defense system, the iron dome. all of the soldiers and police officers that were here collecting the bodies of the militants and the officers that were inside this building have just taken cover next to us. guys, stay down. i can see rockets coming off the strip. just stand by. just hold on, guys. wait for the explosion. do you hear that explosion? that's interception. what hamas is trying to do here is something that they find effective. they fire rockets from different parts of the gaza strip. in an

effort to overwhelm the iron dome missile defense system. and they did that just there. it's not -- the normal tactic but a tactic if they time it correctly can be devastating for these communities along the border. again these officers continue their work at this hour. there is an in fill station into sderot last night so they have to remain on eye alert, they are armed, have weapons ready in case they have more attempts on the border. this is the scene right now. >> sandra: trey, thank you, john go ahead. >> john: hey, trey. the position that you are in there is one that we have seen you in before. and i'm sure that we are going to see you in it again as the rocket fire comes over from gaza. it really is quite extraordinary, the tenacity that you and your fellow correspondents have to be able to be in the middle of a war zone like that, at risk to

personal life and limb, continue to be on the air covering this live. typically since saturday and the initial barrage, how long do these palestinian attempts to overwhelm the iron dome system last? >> trey: they will often last in sporadic bursts so they'll go for a few minutes at a time, stop and start again. the issue has to do with the timing it takes them to reload. often hours will go by and we don't see that much rocket fire. i am going to put a helmet on here. we don't see that much rocket fire. right now is a different situation. hold that mic for me for a second. right now is a different kit asian, they clearly had time to reload throughout the day. we saw images along the border a few hours ago where the civilians were slaughtered initially when hamas and islamic jihad militants came in and you could

see the black smoke rising up from the border area. that was a result of the isrealis using artillery and also air strikes to hit the rocket launchers that sit along the border. if they hit certain launchers, islamic jihad hit launchers, they are able to do that and continue to fire on is real. >> sandra: trey, as we all watch you, god, just be safe. and we are getting a report now that the isreali prime minister is expected to speak any moment now. this as we get per isreali tv reporting that at least 900 people in the hamas attack in israel. we are also told via reports there could be a ground invasion at any moment now, trey. >> trey: yeah, absolutely. if isreali prime minister benjamin

netanyahu speaks, we've seen preparations over the last 48 hours, the war check ration the first time since the 1970s. and a country that understands what comes next this will not be easy, it will take weeks if not months and there will be casualties as a result. they've already warned the civilians and the eastern and northern part of gaza to move inward to go to un schools in gaza city. so, they are trying to move people out of the way as they bombard these areas before they move in on the ground. in the meantime, isrealis are working to secure every community along the border so they know there is no pal in stan jan militants, the death toll will keep rising, part of the reason we got that number, 900 deaths of civilian olders this is he see more people who were killed. we went with the military before when you saw

those cars that had been shot. the civilians were removed but bodies of militants in the field next to the cars. this is a war zone at a level the middle east has not seen in a long time and it will take precision, it will take tenacity, a coordinated effort by the isrealis to do this in a way that will not only achieve their goals as they laid out, as prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying they intend to completely detroit hamas the group in control of the gaza strip in a way that sets hamas back and does not give the capability to kill more isrealis. the difficulty has to do with the civilian population in gaza. nearly 2,000,000 people live there, one of the most densely populated areas on earth, incredibly challenging to operate. we are looking at weeks and we weeks of violence in the region. >> john: this has to do with the hostages and the potential fate of the hostages. the armed wing

of hamas, brigade has sent out a warning to israel, it will begin executing an isreali civilian captive anytime there is an isreali bombing of a civilian residence without prewarning. now, as we've seen in the past, typically when israel, the idea mounts these bombing raids in gaza, if they are targeting a building, they'll tell people whether it be a text message or some other form of communication to get out and they've warned people to evacuate certain parts of gaza, but what do you make of this warning from the brigade that they will execute a captive if israel strikes any civilian targets without warning? >> trey: it's incredibly concerning. they are isis wanna bees, they did over the past 48

hours. it is horrific but it is indicative of what is to come. both sides will try to leverage the token that they have. israel's military force, captives, it will be difficult for the isrealis and public to distinguish between those who are alive and dead inside gaza. hamas is an organization built around propaganda, making people believe their side of the story and their cause. we know they have the bodies of isreali civilians it will be difficult to tell if they are executing people in gaza or bodies pulled back once they executed them in israel. it is hard to parse through that information, the information war that will run parallel to this conflict. i want to talk about gaza briefly, we spent many times reporting inside the gaza strip, not only in gaza city, further south in

the city of hanunes. we've gone to military parades, we've talked to civilians in gaza, there are nearly 2,000,000 people there. they are not all militants. not members of hamas. israel will need to operate in a way that protects civilian live. we talked with a source that indicated the civilian casualties are rising very well. that will be something to watch as this war continues and something to look at. because there are innocent women and children there that again have been told they need to go to the un schools and other places away from where this initial operation is expected to take place. >> sandra: trey, we're watching that live. trey, last hour we all watched you live outside that -- next to that police station, there were teams that

came to pull bodies from there. did you speak to those people that were doing that? did they say anything to you? >> trey: they didn't. and we found that a lot the images speaking for themselves. what they were doing earlier, they were looking to get all of the bodies out of the police station behind me. and you saw there live on our air as they stacked them into the back of a pickup truck, more than ten bodies. we're told it was a mixture of militants and isreali police officers sorted through and identified at another time when they are able to get away from the active front line here. this is just one scene of many across israel. and we know about that music festival where 260 people were mowed down by hamas militants when they entered southern israel. the scenes from there, we saw some drone video earlier "today showing" what this looked like and it was

clear that people were running for their lives, they ran to their cars, they were trying to get away when the heard gunfire erupt, they saw the rockets in the air but they were not quick enough. hamas coordinated this attack. they were entering from multiple different angles, using grenades, they were firing rockets. and the few police officers that were at that scene were overwhelmed almost immediately as militants worked their way through and executed. people who were simply attending a festival. sandra. john. >> john: you know, trey. a lot has been made of the failure of isreali intelligence to detect the planning of this particularly in light of this wall street journal article that came out yesterday with the revolution that the islamic revolutionary guard air cord of -- sometime in early august. and i heard someone this morning make the case that typically intelligence is geared toward high-tech planning, but that

this -- this attack that occurred on saturday morning was very low tech. it involved pickup trucks, it involved other passenger vehicles, just breaking through a barricade, it involved paraglider whose came into that music festival near the kibuts, it involved rubber boats that landed onshore. the fact that this is so low tech is that how it escaped detection? >> trey: it's hard to tell but it's a great question. because we had been to the gaza border multiple times and also there with the isreali military as they showed us what they called in our interview the most advanced border technology in the world. they have a barrier that goes deep underneath the gaza strip to prevent tunneling into israel. they have a large concrete wall, bashed wire at the top, balloon sensors, wall sensors, drones that hover overhead. the fact that they

were able to infiltrate this area at 20 different locations, it raises questions about how this could have slipped past isreali intelligence. and there are a lot of reports circling around today that we haven't been able to independently confirm indicating that the isrealis received a warn, one specifically from the egyptians, ten days ago that this could happen. and that they were planning an attack. and we were looking back at our reporting from the past two months and a deputy hamas official told the man newspaper in lebanon that they were preparing for an all out war. they said it 35 days ago. and about 40 days ago there were indications that hamas and islamic jihad planned to kidnap isrealis in southern israel and isreali officials put out a warning about it. so, having these little pieces of information trickle in, what the isrealis knew and didn't know, get down everyone. next to the

car. lay down flat. flat, cover your head. more rocket fire. loud explosions coming off. another time they are trying to overwhelm the iron dome again. i can see them coming off the gaza strip in multiple locations. >> trey: so, they tried to do it again. tried to overwhelm the iron dome missile defense system firing from multiple locations along the border, it sound like a few of those slipped past,

more rockets than explosions indicating that it certainly wasn't the 100% success rate. everyone okay? >> yeah. >> trey: stand up. thank you. all right. we are going to get up here. so, this is just a constant scene here in the southern part of the country, sandra and john. >> sandra: yes. >> trey: it is the reality how hamas and islamic jihad are starting this war. >> sandra: update the white house, the white house says the president has directed his team to follow-up on coordination with israel. and to continue work with regional partners to warn anyone who might seek to take advantage in this situation. i say that as the white house has been silent today, trey. with the president and his seem having called a lid in the 11:00 eastern time hour, which means we wouldn't see or

hear from the president. that is crossing per the white house he has directed his team to follow-up on coordination with israel. trey, we are looking at what now is in the thousands thousands of rockets fired by hamas. what can you tell us about what we know about how they are obtaining these rockets? >> trey: yes, they are able to make most of the rockets inside the gaza strip. hamas has gotten better with the help of countries like iran. they've received funding and support and instructions on how to build these rockets. some short range and some long range that they are able to fire from the gaza strip. they also have mortars and antitank weapons and rpg's that they use. the rocket fire have gotten much more advanced over the past several years. we know more than 4600 rockets have been fired over the past 48 hours into israel from gaza. not just from hamas and islamic jihad, the smaller fractions

have rockets. we've talked to them about their production in the past they say that they are learning and getting better all the time, these are the when os they use to choose this war in this ongoing conflict. what we should note is the number of rockets. i was inside gaza in 2014, the war that lasted for 51 days. there were less rockets fired over 51 days in 2014 than have been fired over the past 48 hours. that illustrates just how much of a massive escalation we are facing right now. as people on the ground watching this unfold as people here documenting the stories and it is -- it is a huge escalation, it covers this story for many years, three and four day rounds in 2021, a round between i real and gaza and they often end with a cease fire that is negotiated. efforts put forward by the

egyptians and the quattaris, israel have to give up something, often work permits to the gaza ns they will get peace and quiet. money to officials there. they are able to avoid a much larger war. what is happening today as we speak right now, is truly the nightmare scenario. it is the day everyone hoped would never come. the darkest day in israel's history. >> john: you know, trey, the frequency and the number of rockets that are going from gaza into israel to test the iron dome system, makes you wonder how long israel can continue to fight back with the iron dome system before they run into rockets themselves, which i know is something that the former speaker of the house kevin mccarthy was talking about this morning. i just want to rewind the clock for a moment to

saturday morning, and this was the supernova trans festival which is just east of the gaza strip. this is what happened when those paragliding -- and you can see them there in the sky, paragliding terrorists dropped into the festival. watch this. >> john: there you see the aftermath of that, trey, you were showing the aftermath as well with the -- with the officer from the ivf who was accompanying you. 260 bodies were taken out of that festival. of course a number of other

people probably at least an equal number were injured as well. and -- i guess a lot of people in the west are wondering, what did -- how did hamas hope to garner sympathy by going across the border and executing innocent civilians as they did? >> trey: i've talked with palestinian forces today in east jerusalem. people who live in east jerusalem palestinians find themselves different than those who live in gaza and the west bank, they have more rights, more freedom of movement. one person i talked to, palestinians are starting to change their minds, some of them about hamas, they saw the brutality inflicted on the civilian population. now i will say the mindset of palestinians in gaza is very different than those in east jerusalem. it raises the question what was the purpose,

did they feel it would win over -- what appeared to be progress toward a deal that would give more rights and even possibly state hood to the palestinians. if i could take you back to what it was like saturday morning here, it was something that is hard to describe. it was a moment where the whole world was unsure about what was taking place, and israel was unsure about what was taking place. we arrived in the south as the border incursion was happening. there were hamas and islamic jihad militants in the towns around where we were reporting, and we drove as far as we could toward the battle, got to the safest location possible, and started to report. and we watched as civilians brought victims of the shooting attacks to what turned into be a staging point to get people to better care deeper into israel at

hospitals. and we watched as mothers carried their wounded children who had been shot by hamas militants. the mothers just incomplete shock trying to get their kids into the ambulance and the children crying. we watched as soldiers brought their wounded and dead friends out of jeeps dragging them on to the pavement, trying to resuscitate them and then when they couldn't save one person go on to the next yet another jeep or civilian car was going to pull up with another victim of this attack. it was trauma experienced at a level israel has ever seen. so, the question of what this does for the palestinian people as a whole is an important question, something that will be discussed and studied in the weeks and months and years to come when this conflict that just erupted ultimately ends. but certainly not good and something that should be looked at with a critical eye because there are

millions of palestinians not just here that live in israel, in the best bank and gaza but also in lebanon and jordan. and they don't all support hamas. they don't support the slaughter of civilians that took place. >> sandra: trey, please stand by with us, please be safe. we are also getting this update from the white house that the president is going to be on the phone with our key american allies, that is expected to be happening in the coming hours. we'll look for any update from the white house on that. trey, thank you. >> john: yeah, white house also announcing that the president's traveling to philadelphia on friday to talk about bidenomics in the middle of all this. joining us from israel with very personal story is roz. he lost several friends in the attack on saturday and going door to door to help his community. thank you for joining us, the reason that you are going door to door is to collect samples of dna so that bodies that have been found in

this carnage can be identified and matched to family members. what is the situation there for you on the ground right now? >> hi, how are you doing? thank you very much. situation on the ground now is civilian who is living in the closest community, the gaza strip border, is kind of horrible. most of the people in my community we are -- a thousand people have been evacuated from the community. today it's almost empty. there is nobody there. yesterday as you said we finished identifying, identified bodies, where to go into the victims' houses to collect toothbrushes or hair brushes or any dirty clothes that might have sweat on them or dna sample of any kind. entering houses that were scene

of murder a couple minutes before that, a couple hours or days, talking about areas full of blood still on the ground. animals, dogs that are shot standing there for days rotting. this is a quiet residential community that was my house in -- it is my house, i come back to it. >> sandra: raz, so sorry for everything that you are experiencing and all of your losses and for everything that you all are going through. and it is obviously very difficult to hear everything that you just described. what are you hearing from those people who are there when you go house to house if you do see anyone there? >> you don't hear much because most people are not there. when you go to the house it's because somebody lived there was murdered or still in hospital. and the ones you do see there is the beloved one, son, daughter, parents coming to get the sample and they have to encounter bl

blood, which bodies on the ground. in their worse time of their life. if i can get -- to find somebody, you know, one of my neighbors in his 50s trying to clean the blood of his father from the ground. he couldn't be, literally left the house which left me to do that. have you to stand there in the house of a neighbor or friend, cleaning part of the blood, then you can trace the murder track, whether a victim was sitting on the crouch, tried to run away, shot again in a different spot. can you literally trace that, just horrible. it's horrible talking about civilians, all people in the 70s, people sitting in their houses slaughtered to death, hamas keep being called militants, they are terrorists. nothing more that those i saw a reporter, home town next to

where i live, i was like welcome to my life. i have to go to a school, my kids to go to school which is a bomb shelter, sounds of alarms and bombs landing by is our sound track of our life. >> john: yes, i know living in that area you are under a constant threat. there is no question about that. and i was in israel in 2006 during the war with hezbollah and i was just so taken with the tenacity and the strength that the isreali people show in the face of threats. i remember up in matullah which is where we were staying. a grandmother was the toughest person that you could ever imagine. as the rockets were falling all around and journalists were running for cover, she was still there behind the front desk at the hotel. and she sort of looked at everybody running away and not wanting to stand there in the

face of the threat that was coming our way. in terms of what you were hearing from the leadership there in israel, we are expecting the prime minister benjamin netanyahu to make remarks in the next couple hours in the very least, what do you think about the response so far from the leadership there? are you hearing enough about what's happening and what's to come? >> to be honest, we don't hear anything at all. we feel and you hear is the absence of any official comment as the victim community, the massacre, nobody from the official government have contacted us, they are still -- i am guessing, our leaders, i am hoping our leaders are working on a solution so busy running the war and no mistake it is a war. but i want to hear, i want to hear that

this time it is going to be a whole different scenario. we are not expecting another hit from the air unless, blow down some tours and some buildings, they will fight back. you know, what took us complete surprise on saturday and actually almost broke the spirit of isrealis, just mentioned, we are strong. we've suffered a trauma that has not been at least not my generation, not experienced yet. maybe even being in 73, but it took us through this now we are gaining back our powers, army's well organized back. recruiting reserves, our spirits are high. we are working on our minds and we are starting to be stronger, basically the minds that we have like the old lady mentioned. stand back on our legs and who comes to kill us will be killed first. we are strong. we will

come out of it stronger. and anybody who dares murder jews in their home and slaughter them, you mentioned 260 people murdered, 260 jews slaughtered in the forests, in the woods, those of us second and third generation of holocaust survivor, know what took place, jews were rounded up in the forests and shot over already never again, those images and somebody who traveled a couple times to death camps in poland and herd those stories echoed in my head i cannot do anything but say jews have a state, a land, army, allies, never happen again. victims 260 jews slaughtered solely for being jews will not happen again. this time will not meet the wall to do our job, we have our own army and own people to do it. >> sandra: raz we know we are anticipating as john just mentioned we could hear from the

isreali prime minister anytime now. this as reports that a ground invasion could be happening very soon. crossing the wire as short time ago, hamas military spokesman said it will kill a civilian hostage anytime israel targets sufficient janes without warning. we know what we heard from the isreali prime minister from sunday, the u.s. president biden that israel does not have any choice but to unleash a ground operation in gaza saying, "we have to go in." according to the isreali leader. what do you expect the next couple of hours to look like, raz? >> i feel, i totally feel the next hour. none of the options we have on the table are not good for anybody. in war, nobody wins, there is only losers. but this war was forced on us. and in war we pay prices. and, you know, just in the actually these are the kidnapped soldiers a

couple years ago, released a thousand terrorist for a soldier of ours. now i think its gloves off. ground invasion is not what i would have done. i know the cost. i would say anybody who dare execute an isreali civilian under captivity which is against so many international laws means gloves off on our side. i would expect our leadership to take the gloves off as well. any civilians -- allowed so be. other side, allowed as well. the moment hamas terrorists executes and isreali, civilian i hope i think aer will be unleashed and use all the power it have including every means ground invasion, in my opinion is too racy for us, why risk our people. in a wide risk of people, i would have given the palestinians who think are not part of hamas a warning, get out

of this area, anybody in this area is a -- militants terrorists behind you, you're a fan of death and that is what i would have done. the moment that happens i think we should flip and change our mindset and, you know, they say in the middle east people seek -- we are the only land speaks evil. start speaking arabic as well. >> john: raz we mourn the losses that you and your friends and family have experienced, we thank you for joining us with your personal story. good luck to you. >> thank you so much. >> john: you can imagine sandra, the fear that folks in that area and in gaza have for the days and potentially weeks ahead. how widespread is this war going to be, how widespread might it become. how much loss of life will there be for both sides. >> sandra: we need to restore deterrence in netanyahu. we do expect potentially to hear from the isreali prime minister

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casualties and the potential that there are americans being held hostage. >> he's had staff and spokes people and folks from the different agencies come out to talk about that. but he has not said anything on this. and it was kind of, you know, they talk a lot here at the white house about a split screen, they try to contrast what they are doing with what republicans are doing. well the split screen today was a few minutes ago, trey yingst is doing a live shot, missiles are being intercepted over his head, people in israel are terried, americans are being held hostage in gas a. we got an e-mail from the white house, friday, october 13th the president will travel to philadelphia, pennsylvania, talking about bidenomics, accelerating the transition to a clean energy future and combating the climate crisis. so, no plans to talk about the images that you see on your screen right now at least on camera they are telling us that

the president is going to try to talk about some of our close allies about the latest developments in israel later on. we were told by a confederate spokesman once the date department confirmed nine americans killed so far during this event, "as the administration provides assistance to the isreali defense force, this is a moment in which all americans regardless of political views should stand shoulder to shoulder with one of our closest allies. no one can ever welcome this i had use behavior or try to divide our country." the united states support for israel as it defends itself is rock solid and unwavering. and there is a lot that officials apparently just don't know include be how many american citizens might be captive in gaza right now. >> we don't have solid information about either of the number or where they might be. we'll continue to work through

that with the government of israel as they continue to take back towns in southern israel attacked by hamas. >> don't want to confirm a well sourced squall street journal report that hamas had help planning the assault from iran. >> broad complicit but no -- >> just to press on that. >> both continue to watch,. >> so the report is not correct or you cannot confirm it? >> what i can tell you is we have no direct information to confirm that report. >> there is a lid. i walked by the lower press office a little while ago, the door is closed so they are operating with a skeleton in-person crew here at the white house. we didn't see president biden on camera yesterday. we are not going to see him on camera today. in the statements that officials are putting out there is not about what specifically they might be planning to do to try to free some of these americans that are

reportedly being held hostage that's probably for operational security reasons. but it is missing from 9 the statements that we've seen so far, john. >> john: and now we have this threat of hamas to execute some of their prisoners if israel attacks civilian targets without first warning. peter steve doocy. >> sandra: morgan ortegas, how do you fathom the silence on behalf of this white house. we are not expected to see or hear from the president today, we don't have a white house press briefing lined up, you've got nine americans dead, a possible hostage situation, reporters ducking and covering with rockets being fired every minute. why is this white house not out there? >> well, it's in explicable, i don't know how to he cause them, sandra. we have not heard from

the vice president since friday as well. and so normally when you have the loss of life of americans at the hands of a terrorist attack, at least nine americans, god forbid there is more, the number does go up. so, i can't think of a situation where this many americans have been killed or held hostage and we don't hear from the president or the vice president. of course we heard from the president yesterday but we haven't heard directly from him or the vice president since those nine americans were confirmed. i would also remind our audience, this is a rough estimate i think we have around 200,000 americans living in israel, that includes people that are visiting. and so these are people that -- will have an incredibly difficult time getting out, sandra. in addition to all the things you just talked about, there are potentially hundreds of thousands of americans stuck in a war torn country that are obviously going to want a clear plan for how they get it. >> john: so, we mentioned just a moment ago that you flew in from

quattar this morning. you were supposed to be in israel. >> today. >> but the war broke out. what do you make of this report that apparently nobody in this administration can confirm that iran and islamic revolutionary guard core helped org straight this whole thing giving the green light in beirut. does it surprise you at all? >> these are silly semantics. they are playing games because they don't know how to answer for the fact that iran policy completely failed. it has been certified by administrations that iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. we know that the weapons hamas has aid and funding come from iran. this is not a surprise to anybody, we know this. now, there may be questions of, you know, who was in the room present for the planning. we know that these terror groups, hamas and hezbollah are given credit. under my former boss

mike pompeo. iranians were going after the u.s. embassy through the shiite militias, not just in the palestinian areas, we said pompeo said to iran clearly and explicitly, anything that your proxies do to hurt americans we will hold you accountable for them. i see the administration playing a lot of semantics whether iran was involved or not. this is a joke. they have the weapons. they have the funding. they have the capability. because of iran. it is their prox is here, yemen and iraq, lebanon, because of iran that these terrorist groups have the ability to operate. i also remind you that the heads of alkyds a, sits in iran. mike pompeo way i don't took that information, declassified it and put it out in january of 2020, as far as i know they are still there. this is -- what the administration is doing, instead of playing semantics whether the

6 billion they gave iran a couple weeks ago, has been used or not, we know is -- instead of playing semantics instead of arguing trivial points they need to take a step back and realize over the past three years their iran policy where they not enforced u.s. sanctions on the books. so, now iran is able to sell their oil, they are richer, chased iran for three years trying to apiece them to beg them to cajole them, to plead them to get back into a deal that clearly iran had no interest getting in, the same iran that actively trying to kill former u.s. officials including mike pompeo in -- death to united states, why in the world does anyone need confirmation that they were behind what happened in israel over the weekend? what else do you need? do you want a picture with his finger on the button? give me a break. >> sandra: morgan, former president donald trump spoke earlier today on all of this. and said this about the atrocities, listen. >> the atrocities we are

witnessing in israel would never have happened if i was president, would never ever happened. joe biden betrayed israel. as president i will once again stand strongly with the state of israel and we will cut off the money to the terrorists on day one. >> sandra: in that speech, morgan, we reduced iranian economy. i withdrew from the disastrous iranian deal and imposed a strict travel ban to keep radical islamist terrorists the hell out of the country. joe biden he said undid it. he went on in that speech, the problem was caused in his opinion by his boss barack obama. as we are noting the white house's silence. we noted the silence on the part of the former president barack obama as well. >> yeah, -- >> john: and clinton. >> i can say former president

trump was right in the policies he laid out. what did we see. the abraham according that i was apart of. the first peace deals in 26 years. that's what we handed the biden administration, within 3 months remember hamas was attacking israel already. then we saw the fall of kabul to the taliban. then the russians invade ukraine. now we have seen the most loss of life to the jewish people since the holocaust. this is a day when i'm incredibly concerned about who is in charge, this is not justice real's war anymore. americans lives were lost, nine american lives were lost. there needs to be a policy change and needs to be retribution for the americans that were killed this weekend by terrorists. >> morgan it's great to see you. it's a long time to get from doha to here, appreciate it, thank you. >> john: we are going to take a quick break and be back with the former governor of new jersey,

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>> sandra: fox news alert as we approach the top of a new hour. you are looking live at gaza city where the death toll continues to rise in israel as fighting rages on. we do know at this hour per the white house, the president is expected to be speaking with our american allies although the president is not expected to be seen or heard from for the remainder of the day. we are also awaiting benjamin netanyahu, the isreali prime minister is expected to give an update on the ongoing war. we are told that he is now delayed a bit although we had no official time which he was expected to speak. so, we are waiting that at any moment. meanwhile let's bring in 2024 presidential candidate chris christie. thank you very much for joining us. can you please weigh in on the moment. >> look i think that one of the

things that we're seeing here is that the lack of american strength all around the world has lead to this moment. you know, when you saw the miserable failed withdrawal from afghanistan, it sets a sign of weakness around the rest of the world to our adversaries, then you saw our hand ringing and delay on supporting the fighters in you crane against russia. again, we show weakness in deterrence. now we have israel attacked because if you are iran and you look at what we did in afghanistan, you look at what we failed to do there and failed to do so far in ukraine, you pick this is a time to take a shot. and the fact that the president hadn't been heard from today, to be talking about this hostage crisis that we have now in the middle east with americans not only having lost their lives but now being held captive, this is when the president has to send a

clear and unmistakable message to folks around the world about what our response will be if americans are further harmed. >> john: governor, to that point about the message that we are sending around the world, i thought several statements and tweets were members of the squad of the left of democratic party beared airing out today, an immediate cease fire and deescalation is needed to save lives. corey bush, i urge an immediate cease fire to prevent further loss of life. ilhan omar, deescalation and cease fire. rashida talib. billions to support the apartheid government, this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue. what do you say to that? >> what i say to that these are people who have not business,

absolutely no business being listened to or respected regarding what america's role in the world is and what israel's role is in the only democracy in the middle east. can you not have terrorists like hamas launch an attack against innocent civilians that you saw launched this weekend, time now after those murders for deescalation and a lack of violence. where were their calls for that while this was going on? the fact is that israel has an absolute right and obligation to defend itself and to take out these folks in gaza who have -- who perpetrated this slaughter on civilians, i am sure you have seen the video, john, at the music festival, of innocent young people there to listen to music who are being slaughtered and kidnapped by, you know, terrorists. and so, you know, these folk