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 folks are israel zeal

outs, pro palestinian folks who believe any action by palestinian is justified and i ignore what they have to say. >> sandra: a couple things across the wire, a second member has been killed in the isreali shelling on lebanon. and this, governor, christie, hamas official it says they are open to discussions over a truce with israel. that crossing right now. how should that be interpreted and treated considering we are about to hear from benjamin netanyahu who says, we will not negotiate. >> no, look. this is not the moment to gauge that and the reason why, the hamas leaders are saying that is because they sucker punched israel, killed hundreds of people, and now they say, okay, now we would like to go back to play the way it used to be. no, they've changed the

field of play now. and the isrealis have an absolute right to defend themselves and to ferret out and eliminate those people in hamas who perpetrated this horrible attack. and let's not forget, the iranians clearly here were supplying both hardware and strategy. i think the biden white house's denial of that is trying to cover their rear ends because they gave $6 billion over to the iranians a few weeks ago. and this excuse from the administration, that money is only supposed to go to humanitarian aide, let me deal with that directly. money is fungible, it's only on food. any money that the iranians were going to spend on food, they have a fund for that. they can use that money to support terrorism. this idea that somehow the money hadn't left the account, they gave comfort to terrorists and financing to terrorists. money is fungible and there is no question that

money that they didn't have access to before helped in this attack. >> john: you know, whether or not the money was fungible or not, governor i think the fact that iran may have been plotting with hezbollah and hamas to attack israel the same time it was making a deal with joe biden sticks with a lot of people. thank you, governor. >> too naive in washington d.c. both on the hill and at the white house. >> sandra: thank you very much. governor. >> john: thanks, governor. >> sandra: now this.

>> sandra: fox news alert, it is 9:00 p.m. in israel and hamas is threatening to start executing hostages after israel launched air strikes into gaza. we still do not know if any of those hostages are americans. and the white house has already called a lid for the day, we do not expect to see or hear anything from president biden. we are breaking coverage of the war on israel. i'm sandra smith in new york. john. >> john: and i'm john roberts in washington. this is america reports, hour 2. the terror attacks killed at least nine americans and at least 900 isrealis. many of them innocent civilians who were murdered inside their homes in their neighborhoods and slaughtered while dancing at a music festival. at least 500 palestinians have been killed in the fighting. right now major explosions lighting up the sky

as israel's iron dome continues to intercept a series of rocket that get fired every few minutes from gaza. >> sandra: trey yingst, trey, we should be seeing and hearing from netanyahu anytime now although we've been told that's been delayed for whatever reason. what are you seeing there on the ground at this moment, trey? >> trey: yeah, my producer just got word from the prime minister's office we will hear from netanyahu in 30 minutes. he is likely to give a short statement, we don't want to guess what that statement will be. but certainly his soldiers are prepared for their orders, waiting to go into gaza to continue bringing the fight back to hamas. you note the explosions that are taking place along the gaza strip, they come as we are getting some new numbers in from the communities along the border. what we talked about earlier, forces are reaching some of those areas. and we are learning tonight that

in one community, called beri, there are a thousand people that live there. over 100 bodies were just recovered. just devastating news. 10% of the population in this town schradered by militants that crossed into israel. some of those neighbors likely taken back alive or dead into the gaza strip. and that was just one area along the border. so, that death toll that now stands at 900 will keep rising as bodies are recovered. we saw today both militants and isreali officers. their bodies being taken by isreali authorities here in this community of sderot. they are trying to ensure the disease is limited and they can recover the dead before this operation ramps up. there is an understanding that as more fire comes from the northern border with lebanon and the fire continues from gaza that there quickly is going to unravel into a full-scale ground

war in the middle east, john, sandra. >> john: trey, speak to the bulletin, coming from the reuters writer, hamas official says that the organization is open to discussions regarding a truce with israel. i would sake it that a truce is not something that israel wants to consider at this point. >> trey: yeah, truce is not on the table. isrealis are going to enter gaza in some capacity. isreali prime minister benjamin netanyahu has made very clear he is unwilling to negotiate. a source telling fox news this the quattar has mediators calling hamas trying to get women and children free taken into gaza by militants. we reached out to isrealis, they responded with a sun sentence statement saying there are no negotiations. they want to send a clear message even if there are conversations taking place behind the scenes to get hostages and captives

freed that they are not willing to negotiate with hamas. a different standpoint than we have seen in the past, previous rounds of conflict between israel and gaza whether it be 2012, 2014, 2019, 2021, we have seen this over and over but not at this scale and slaughter that includes more than 900 people. and so there are no negotiations on the table. certainly that hamas official and i have actually met him and interviewed him inside gaza. is he simply trying to put out to the world hamas propaganda, they are willing to speak to the isrealis. israel's response is it's easy to say you are willing to negotiate after you have murdered 900 people. john, sandra. >> sandra: just about 23 minutes from now we should hear from the isreali prime minister. that speech will be in english. this as some more -- more is crossing over the wire right now, trey,

hezbollah announcing a third member skilled by the isreali shelling on south lebanon. there is also some -- something crossing according to a hamas official on the isreali captives including those with citizenships including russian and chinese. this is just some of what we are getting in. obviously the communications are farce. trey get your reaction as we await the isreali prime minister. >> trey: yeah, the information continues to flow in. and i want to read something i got from a source a few minutes before we came on air here about the northern border. this crossed the wire now. this was a gun battle in the north, there was clearly an infiltration that took place and a response by the isrealis. the death toll in southern lebanon at three people. we also know in a matter of minutes the isrealis are set to announce the death of one of

their soldiers in the north. they are fighting a gruesome battle expanding to the northern front, not at the level we have seen from gaza. but it is a front that israel is preparing to operate on. and not at a small capacity, there are images circulating online right now showing isreali tanks and artillery units headed toward the northern border. the terrain is quite different than it is here in the south. we've reported up along the border with lebanon. and i want to give you sense of two things, one what it looks like along the border and how hezbollah prepared for the possibility of war with israel and missile capabilities. back when the defense minister in israel we interviewed him. he gave us a classified map that we had to blur before we put on tv, we saw it with our own eyes, the isrealis mapped out all of the missile locations that hezbollah positioned in southern lebanon all pointed in israel. the one

that israel knows about. there were hundreds of them across lebanon, thousands of them. many of them precision guided missiles pointed in this direction. if that front erupts it will be far more deadly and violent and difficult to defend against than what we are seeing from gaza. a separate story we did back in 2018 or 2019 we went with the isreali military as they lowered us hundred of feet underground, as they dug into isreali territory. we could see that they have heavy machinery, that they are using to tunnel into israel. and up to the border. so, that if a conflict erupts they would be able to send fighters in on the ground. so, it is a front that's nothing discussed as much because we are here in the south and we are covering the aftermath of this massacre and the continued thousands of rockets that are flying into isreali air space, but the northern is certainly a concern for the isreali officials. sandra, john. >> john: is israel fought a 33

day war back in 2006. hezbollah, longer range missiles but they were for the most part all dumb bombs. they are much more sophisticated now, as you point out as that front erupts, bar the door. trey, stand by, good to talk to you, we'll let you do some more reporting. we'll hear from you a little bit. midtown manhattan pro palestinian administrators outside the isreali consulate in support of the hamas terror attacks. eric sean has the latest. are officials there in new york city worried about violence breaking out, eric? >> yeah, well there are a lot of police at this site, both sides, john. right now the anger and the anguish flaring on the streets of new york in front of the united nations isreali mission, which is a block from the united nations. take a live look. you can see the pro palestinian protests you are looking at right now, police and

inspectors, they are keeping both sides, there is the pro isreali there in front of that mission basically, those pro isreali protesters as you can see right now with the isreali flags and signs, they are slamming and criticizing the carnage and savagery of hamas terrorists attacking the jewish state and taking hostages calling on the u.s. continue increased support to israel. on the other side of the street, you can the opposite point of you have. pro palestinian terrorists as heros. they are actually we heard them calling for more killing. one of the speakers called the resistance fighters heros for paragliding into that music festival and killing what that speaker called the hipsters, that's actual celebration of the mass murder of 260 young people who are attending that music festival. they are also calling on the u.s. to defend israel, stop

supporting american taxpayer money for israel and actually called for more killing. as we discuss what had police are concerned about, security, there is beefed up security in new york city and across the country, at sensitive sites that includes mosques and synagogues and churches. new york state by the way has the highest number of jewish community than anywhere in the world except for israel. 1.7 million american jews live in new york state. and the city and the state called out antiterrorism squads, police are patrolling around by the synagogues and also at the mosques to make sure there is no threat or any type of violence, part of that operation just passed me now as they go past this synagogue where i am at upper east side of manhattan. protests loud on both sides of this horrible situation. city official says there is no

specific or credible threat against any institution or groups, hopefully that will stay that way and the demonstration you are looking at live now will just continue this afternoon and shouting and free expression of the first amendment and no clashes or anything or even worse, john. >> john: hopefully that will stay peaceful. eric, thank you. >> sandra: south carolina republican senator lindsey graham, as that happening in new york city a couple blocks from here. you've got the isreali rescue service, this is an update on the wire right now, more than 100 body were found in a small farming community that was the scene of a hostage standout. you have hamas in the last hour it is going to begin execute hostages, post videos online for every isreali air strike. your thoughts on this moment, senator. >> well, for every isreali or

american hostage executed by hamas we should take down an iranian oil refinery. the only way to keep this war from escalating is holding iran accountable. how much more death and destruction do we have to take from the iranian regime? i am confident this was planned and founded by the iranians. hamas is a bunch of animals who deserve to be treated like animal the. if i was isreali would go in the ground, there is no truths to be had here. this is the best opportunity israel has to destroy hamas. take it to the iranians. if you harm one american in syria by using your iranian militia against us in syria, urging hezbollah to attack israel in the north. if hamas kills one american hostage we are going to blow up your oil refineries and put you out of business. take it to the eye

toll laugh's backyard. >> john: this is further to the headline that came out a little while ago about hamas saying it's open to negotiations. according to reuters, let me read this here at the wire, "a senior hamas official said the group is open to discussions over a possible truce with israel having "achieved its targets." when you look at what happened saturday that would mean its target that it achieved were killing young people at a music festival, killing children in their homes, killing old people in their homes and kidnapping many and taking them into gaza. your reaction. >> well, hamas is a terrorist group that celebrates the killing of the innocent. iran's regime lead by the eye a toll la is a bunch of religious nazis,

purify -- destroy the jewish state and come after us. this is an effort to kill all the jews. i am urging the world to condemn iran. the biden administration to cloak the white house in isreali flag. you did it for pride month, i want to see the isreali flag over the white house. the brandenburg gate has the isreali flag. sydney music hall -- opera house has the flag. number 10 downing has the isreali flag. small things go a long way. i want this administration to tell the iranians, any escalation, using hezbollah to attack israel or killing hostages we will hold you accountable of the i can only stress this so much, the iranians depend on oil revenue for their livelihood. the money to sponsor terrorism comes from the oil industry owned by t

ayatollah. tell the eye rains you escalate any further we are going to destroy your role industry, deal with this regime by taking this down. i don't want war but i don't want to live like this either. this is hell on earth. this is barbaric. what they did to thesis real is should be severely condemned by all the arab world. i am going to still pursue relationships within saudi arabia and israel. i talked to the saudi ambassador this morning both said there are thousand percent confident this attack launched by iran through hamas was designed to derail the effort of normalizing between saudi and israel. a death blow to iran would have the arab isreali conflict end. they think it's about stopping efforts between saudi and the united states doing a peace deal. i want to let the iranians know we are more intent on doing this

deal more than ever. efforts to undercut saudi arabia and israel is going to fail. they are a legitimate military target. nine americans are death because the ayatollah planned an attack. they are threatening to execute innocent hostages for god's sake tell the ayatollah if you kill one hostage you launch another attack by hezbollah against israel you are going to blow your oil off the map. >> sandra: getting an update, our correspondent checking with the fbi as we continue to report. the fbi and dhs are constantly coordinating, seeing no credible threats to the u.s. homeland following the terrorist attacks in israel and rhetoric we have seen over the weekend and those continued protests on the ground a couple blocks from here. senator, wall street

journal writes on the assault of america's closest middle east ally, a warning how dangerous the world is becoming. as u.s. power and will recede back actors feel empowered to fill the vacuum, wishing to look away, the u.s. cannot dodge the consequences. refugees from social u.s. failure in the americas are flooding over the u.s. border, sooner or later the u.s. will become a military target. the consequences of post cold war complacency are coming fast and furious. do you agree? >> yeah, yeah. spot on. so, to the biden administration, your a piecement policies toward iran is not working. to the squad, shut the hell up. you're emboldening the enemy, you are a disgrace. you are siding with terrorists over democracy. called israel. you have lost your perspective here. i am confident most democrats do not agree with the squad. bottom line is, biden and obama

appeased the iran was to the point where we are today. if you let putin get away with this he will not stop. we will be in a war between nato and russia. defeat putin in the ukraine, dismantle hamas now and tell the iranians if you escalate anymore attacks coming from iran, we are coming after you. anything short of that is going to lead to an invasion of taiwan by china. we live in dangerous times. the biden's administration approach to iran is successful as their border policy. we are exposed to a major terrorist attack by an open border, escalation if we don't tell the iranians quickly stand down. >> john: yeah. senator, good to have you on the program today, thank you so much for your thoughts, appreciate it, we'll see you again soon. >> thank you. >> sandra: thank you, senator. we want to bring in idf spokesperson johnathan, lieutenant colonel fell you and

i will an opportunity to speak yesterday, we were expecting your prime minister to speak too the nation and the world in about 8 minutes. what do you expect that benjamin netanyahu is going to say? >> i expect and open for clear guidance to the on exactly what needs to be achieved. and exactly what the end state against this barbaric organization that we are facing in the south. i hope that will be delivered. i trust that will be delivered. and then our focus, our military, we will continue to focus on getting that job done. currently in southern israel, for the last few hours we've been able to finally reclaim and regain control over southern israel. i know that trey has been doing outstanding work on the ground. >> john: yes. >> reporting to your viewers things that i think nobody else

in the world is seeing. firsthand sight of the gruesome reality left by these hamas -- i want to call them animals. but these terrorists that came in from gaza and what they did to isreali civilians. he has been reporting on that and i know your viewers have seen it. >> john: he has been doing a great job. >> john: for now we have established control. there is still fighting along the fence. and as we speak, terrorists are trying to infiltrate and invade again. we are deployed strongly along the border and defending. we have amassed about 300,000 reservists. they are getting their gear right, preparing, studying their missions. and getting organized in order to implement whatever directives that our government gives us. and i hope it will be a very

significant and unequivocal strike against hamas. we have been striking, our air force has been striking hamas targets in gaza, hamas military targets, and you refer to some report by a hamas spokesperson about something with the word truce. i haven't seen it myself, can i only assume that is -- there is a direct link between the intensity of isreali strikes on hamas' military assets and the fact that they are now 48 -- sorry 62 hours after they butchered our civilians they are now talking about the truce. >> john: trey yingst -- >> is n >> john: trey yingst is thinking that is propaganda,. >> not as far as i am aware, for sure there is no logic to that. hamas has unfortunately shamely

been able to kill the biggest amount of isreali civilians ever killed in isreali history. you have to go back as one of your previous speakers to the dark times of the second world war to find any single day when so many jews were killed in one location. and that is mind boggling for me to say as the representative of the sovereign military of the state of israel, 75 years after we were founded, it's hard to understand but this is our reality and that is what we have to deal with. i think we can all expect hamas to be ruthless, inhumane and bar bark distribute distribute barbaric when it comes to men, women, children, elderly, disabled persons they have taken captive into gaza and i expect nothing less of them. i don't think that they took these people to treat them well and return them safety

to home. i think what they are saying they are going to do that is exactly the level of how deprived they are. and what we will focus on doing is striking hamas and implementing what the isreali government has told us to do and that is to strip away any and every military capability that hamas has. >> sandra: lieutenant, we're hearing more explosions as you are speaking. live look there at gaza city as we have been seeing the night sky lit up by these explosions. lieutenant, we do expect any moment now to hear from the isreali prime minister this as we continue to bring every piece of news on this war including this just crossing, the french foreign ministry has just put out a statement saying that two french nationals have died during the attacks on israel and 14 people are missing. it is likely that some of those who are missing might have been kidnapped including a

child of 12 years old. we do await the prime minister, lieutenant colonel to understand how israel will proceed. >> yes. this is probably by far the most complex and sensitive mission that israel is going to deal with in the coming future. and i still won't be able to say exactly what israel is going to do. i can only say that obviously we are treating it as a focal mission. there is the mission of degrading the military capabilities of hamas and then there is the extremely sensitive and unprecedented situation of all of thesis real is held by terrorists, many of them also with double nationalities. i would like to say, however, that the message coming out of u.s. central command of a battle group making its way in the eastern

mediterranean approaching our shores and sending a strong clear message to any of the other iranian prox is here in the region who might think it's an opportune time to strike israel. it's an important statement, it's a statement that we definitely appreciate and i think it's a statement and an action that can help deescalation and loss of life, it's very very important that that keeps being the line of messaging. and action. >> john: all right. we may get an idea very soon in the minutes ahead how this is going to proceed when the prime minister speaks. thank you for joining us again and we wish you well, sandra. >> sandra: let's bring in mark esper now. mr. secretary, welcome to you. this hamas hostage ultimatum that is happening, what do you expect we are going to hear from benjamin netanyahu any moment now? >> look, it's barbaric that they

would threaten to do that. and i'm convinced they would. and that of course complicates what the mission of the idea will be. i think we are anxious to hear what prime minister netanyahu will say without the hostages. it's unclear what the goal will be. will it be to completely decapitate hamas leadership, get rid of their military capabilities, so fort and so on. or to go further and reoccupy gaz which most people think is unlikely. it's all complicated by the hostage situation as well. and how this might evolve because they, israel, has to be worried about hezbollah to the north, uprising possible in the west bank and of course this all goes back to iran. and what might iran do. and that to me is the big strategic question that is lying out there. >> so, mr. secretary, let me ask you this question. yesterday the wall street journal had the revelation based on sourcing out of beirut from both hamas and

hezbollah that the islamic revolutionary guard core of iran helped in the planning of this, helped in the preparation of this, gave the green light for the go ahead last monday at a meeting between the three in beirut. here is what the "new york times" said about that, a senior biden administration official said just hours after the attacks that the united states did not have intelligence that iran was directly involved in planning the assault on israel. but the official who requested anonymity to discuss diplomatic and military, iran had been deeply connected to hamas. i mean that last part of that statement there, or 59 least the last part of that paragraph, everybody knows that. but this idea that the irrgy may have been in the planning stations of all this and given the go ahead, should there be a consequence for iran in the death of a thousand isrealis?

>> well first it was an outstanding story by wall street journal, a real scoop. they also said the foreign ministry of iran was also present in some of those meetings which means it's more than the irgc acting, i'm kind of surprised that we, the united states government, cannot confirm this what 24 hours after the wall street journal published it. so, unless they got this story completely wrong, i can't help but believe there is a good deal of truth if not entirely accurate. >> john: maybe they don't want to confirm it. maybe they don't want to confirm it. >> well, that's the question, right? because look, i've said the past three days on other networks that all roads back to iran here whether it's hamas, hezbollah, shiite militia groups iran, they've been funding this terrorism, behavior for 40 plus years. and unless you take care

of the iranian problem this is going to happen over and over and over again. >> sandra: mr. secretary, as far as our number one priority right now as a country being the fact that we've had nine americans confirmed killed, and a possible american hostage situation, for many of us it's hard to fathom the silence on behalf of this white house, although a statement did come out that the president would be speaking to our american allies today. but having a lid be called before noon, we are not -- we are told to not expect to see or hear from the u.s. president today. >> john: yeah, i was surprised by that, too. i think now is the time for a continued diplomatic military outreach to our allies and partners in the region and around the world as well. we want more people to stand up for israel and to kind of defend their response earlier or heard earlier very weae finger at

israel and lecturing them how they should conduct the siege of gaza and didn't speak to the atrocities committed by these terrorists in hamas. look i think it's time to reach out and to get everybody standing firmly behind israel as a think through and work through these next few days and this war is going to last for weeks for sure. >> john: mr. secretary, let me come back if i could for a moment just what i interjected there and talking about iranian involvement here, where you said the american intelligence community or maybe it's the administration, has not been able to confirm with the wall street journal reported some 24 hours ago. i said maybe they don't want to confirm it because this administration is desperately trying to get iran back into a nuclear deal. they just cut a deal where they swapped hostages for prisoners and they freed up $6 billion for iran. i mean, you're in the middle of all of this. if you are in the administration, oh, by the way, iran was the

mastermind and gave the green light to the worse attack in israel since the second world war. >> clear, they want a nuclear deal with iran. it doesn't appear iran want as nuclear deal however due to all their continued bad behavior you know the threatening of shipping in the persian gulf which forced the united states military to deploy more troops there in the past few months. well' had any number of actions, the threatening of u.s. forces in the region. you are right, if this is confirmed by the united states government, then really it proves what we all expect and believe that iran is behind this. and so that puts everybody on notice. israel will be forced to act. and not just because of this, but israel rightly is very concerned about iran's nuclear program. we know that iran is very very close to getting enough missile material to make a bomb, isreali officials said it will take 18 to 24 months to build a weapon. they are and

should be and we should be very concerned about iran's continued pursuit of a nuclear weapon. >> sandra: just going to continue to bring updates to our viewers. turkey is making necessary preparations for humanitarian aide for gaza. this crossing, the palestinian president is calling on the un to immediately intervene to stop "ongoing isreali aggression especially in gaza" according to their official news agency, your response to that, mr. secretary. >> that's ridiculous. this all started by hamas, the terrorist attacks that killed 900 isrealis and nine americans over 2000 isrealis probably more injured. i am sure nationals of other coin trees, too, that we continue to learn hour by hour. these are terrorists acts committed by terrorists going on

fore years, for un and others to claim we need to stop isreali aggression is ridiculous. this is all about hamas wanting to eliminate the isreali state, to kill isrealis. forced them -- deal brewing between the united states and israel. a deal by the way that would have severely hurt hamas' power visa vie the palestinian authority in the west bank and of course would have realigned the geo politics of the middle east putting saudi and arab states clearly in line with isrealis against iran. why iran and hamas have acted and supported these attacks, atrocities against the isrealis. this is all driven from -- that's why i think at the right point united nations time we should pick up the ball, pursue normalization talks with saudi arabia, because if iran doesn't like it and hamas doesn't like it it must be the right thing to do.

>> john: one more quick request if i could, israel declared this to be their 9/11. about a thousand people out of a population of 9,000,000 were killed. proportionally for them it's much worse than 9/11 was for the united states. we had 3000 killed out of 320,000,000. does any nation -- does any group have the right to tell israel not to respond to this. can you imagine if what would president bush have said if people said you can't respond to al-qaida even though they killed 3000 of our citizens. >> president bush said clearly, you stand with us or you stand against us. and he was very clear on that. and then acted appropriately. look, israel has the right to self-defense. and they should absolutely take action. this kind of proposal put forward by hamas calling for a truce is just reridiculous. that's why i think it's time to stand behind israel, we need to

provide munition, equipment, means they need to defend themselves and go after hamas. we need to continue to provide them tactical and strategic intelligence. and we need to provide them political and diplomatic support. there are tough days ahead, you are right the size of this is probably far more -- i mean, proportion compared to our 9/11 is probably greater and you know, tragically the 9/11 terrorist attack is foresights, for israel this is 29 sites in towns, cities, bases were attacked. cities are being rocketed and missiles being shot at it. the attacks continue in many ways this is far worse it began with much like with us, a strategic failure when it came to the intelligence. so, look, we have to stand strong with the isrealis at this important moment in -- of course there are americans there as well. nine of which have been killed, maybe taken hostage. tough days ahead

for all of us. >> sandra: former defense secretary mark esper. thank you very much, mr. secretary. >> thank you, mr. secretary. been that min hall joins us now. benjamin you have been watching this take place in israel. the prime minister has been delayed, he was supposed to speak about 10 minutes ago, hadn't come out yet. where do you think this is headed in the days, weeks ahead. >> yes, i don't think john, we have seen atrocities over the last few days, the brutal murder of 900 civilians, women, children, elderly people as well. we've seen isreali the idea pushed them back, take control of the towns again. and now we are waiting to see what the full isreali response will be and that is what prime minister netanyahu will say. there will be a ground invasion, we heard that from isrealis so far. but that is very difficult at this point. because we know it is going to be street to

street fighting, brutal urban warfare. if you look back, when hamas launched rockets at israel, israel held back and they have responded from the air, they've attacked as well but they have not won'ted to go in. i spoke to a number of people on the ground across israel, they wanted israel to go. israel knew the danger of going into gaza. well the atrocities we've seen over the last few days means they have 2340 choice. they are going to go in and hamas will be waiting for them. they will have set traps, there will be traps everywhere and waiting. the hostages are in there as well. and we know full well that gaza and hamas will be using them as hostages. they will be in the tunnel system throughout much of that territory. we know they put them inside places their weapons in hospitals, schools, around other people, widely expected there will be civilian deaths as

well in gaza. it is a very difficult position that israel is in. but one thing they are saying, one thing that israel is totally unified on and that is that this has to change, that the policy whatever has been going on has -- >> john: benjamin netanyahu addressing the nation, addressing the world. >> we expected that the prime minister was going to speak in english, sandra, he may speak in english in the moments ahead. we do not have a simultaneous translation available at this point. we will keep watching this to see if he does switch to

english which we expect he will because sandra, i would expect he is not only addressing his nation as to what's about to happen, but he is addressing the world as well. >> sandra: and what we know is what he said so far, he told president biden yesterday, israel does not have any choice but to unleash a ground invasion, we have to go in, said the isreali leader. he told biden israel had no choice but to respond with force because a country ask not show weakness in the middle east. saying we need to restore deterrence. again, we will not hear from the president today. at least we have been told that so far. but john, it is expected that he will be addressing in english shortly and we'll certainly get to it when he begins. we are going to monitor this. yoshi snyder, fears his family has been taken hostage by hamas. can you please as we await the prime minister's english words here, tell us what is happening with your family,

what you know right now. >> we waked upset morning at 6:00 a.m. to sound 6 sirens and alarms. and israel being bombed by hamas. i tried to reach my family that lives in other places in the gaza, i couldn't reach them. about 10:00 a.m. i went to the telegram to look for information, i went to the news group. then i saw a picture of my cousin with little children being held hostage, kidnapped by hamas. and later on i saw a movie, she's crying and being pushed around by terrorist of hamas. i saw blood on the kids' blanket. blood on the kidnapper's clothes. and since then this is the only information we've got. we tried

to reach mother and husband and my uncle also, and we couldn't reach anybody. and saturday night the military succeeded to -- we understand everybody is missing. all six people are missing. been kidnapped by hamas. >> john: i assume you have no idea where hamas is keeping them at the moment. is anybody in the isreali leadership helping you out here or are you just sort of twisting in the wind here, you have no idea where they are or what the future holds? >> the only thing that we know, little children, one of them is aerial, only four years old, the other one is phil, only nine months old. and they all have been kidnapped by hamas. we don't know about their parents,

we have nothing. we do not know if they are injured, if they are alive. we just waiting for any information from the government, from the idea, from hamas that will be send pictures or something, but in the meanwhile we have nothing. >> sandra: all right. we are -- i'm sorry to cut you off there. we are awaiting -- >> i can tell you that my aunt, she is very sick. she needs lifesaving medicine. she has parkinson's, she has blood issues, she is diabetic, and she won't survive without her mid sin. little baby on the picture, it doesn't have food, it doesn't have diapers, just 9 months years old baby been kidnapped by barbaric, i don't -- they are not people, they are not even animals. they were kidnapped by

barbaric, -- i don't know hamas kidnapped them, jihadist islamic kidnapped them, getting to israel, people have been kidnapped by citizen from gaza. i don't know where they are getting -- where they are right now. and if somebody is keeping them safe and giving them supplies that they need for medicine, food and everything. >> sandra: we are preying deeply for them. yosi, we're getting an update what exactly the prime minister is addressing right now. saying, "hamas is isis and we will defeat it just as the enlightened world defeated isis. we are told he will soon address in english. we will certainly have that for -- we will pray that out. reaction to what we heard him say so far. >> i want to tell america something, all europe, everybody to hear me, i want to tell you something, there is radical

muslims all over the world. some of the -- one day not so far away from now, you will get -- somebody will knock on your door that is happening in israel right now, in u.s., french, paris, berlin, you will see the same sight that we are seeing right now. i think the world should wake up and stop judging israel and stop blaming israel and stop faulting israel. finally we need to kill terrorist organization that exist in the world and be strong with us and let us do right now what with we need to do to win this war. we are isreali people, we are very strong, we are very united. nobody can defeat us. nobody beat us ever. so, just be -- be beside us. don't judge us and don't tell us what -- you will season pictures from gaza from injured civilian and injured kids, this is not our

fault, you know that isreali military -- humanity in the world. we send flyers before we attack. call people to get out of the building before we attack. we are doing everything that we can to not hurt civilians. now the rules of the game are broken. we need to do whatever we can to win this war, to clear from all the terrorists right now, to bring back our civilians, i'm not speaking about soldiers, i am not speaking about warriors. i'm speaking nine year month old babies, needing medicine to survive. nobody cares. nobody cares. >> john: as you well know, yoshi we experienced that in the united states, we had 9/11, this is being described as your 9/11. nine americans were killed by the terrorists on saturday. two

french nationals were killed. the horrific pictures of the woman paraded around in the back of the pickup truck through gaza as she laid dead. she was a german citizen. so, the world is being touched by this, there is no question along with your family who will probably be held hostage in gaza, russianal nationals. chinese nationals. so, the world is experiencing this. we wish you the best. we hope your family comes back to you safe. yoshi, we thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much, thank you. >> john: all right. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon, she watched and got a translation much of what benjamin netanyahu said. in hebrew, there was no translation. >> he outlined how the isrealis must now come together and unite. he called on the opposition parties to join a unity government. he suggested that a ground incursion into

gaza will be eminent. he said that they will secure, israel will secure borders on west bank as well as north where hezbollah has been testing israel this morning, this afternoon. he also said that this, again, to prepare the nation for war. he said that any of the misinformation and he called it fake news, there had been an egyptian warning by egyptian intelligence to him 10 days before this attack, he said that is absolutely not true and that that should not be believed even though it was published in some isreali newspapers this morning so, he pushed back very hard on that. he said he was going to appoint a point person a person in charge of hostages in the gaza strip. he was very firm, very certain that the nation is at war, they need to unify. he is calling for a unity government and he said that israel will secure its borders. john.

>> john: all right. jennifer griffin with the latest from the pentagon on that, general i are, thank you. sandra we are sitting down a couple members of congress the cochairs of the house congress at isrealis caucus, as we watch over gaza for the latest developments there and as our trey yingst has been reporting, sandra, missiles every few minutes, there was a barrage that comes up from gaza, designed to overwhelm the iron dome system. there has been some speculation that hamas is trying to get israel down so low on missiles by using these dumb missiles that fly over and get intercepted by the iron dome, then start using more sophisticated missiles to precisely target specific areas in israel which would be civilian sites, i would imagine, which would then increase the terror of the isreali population. >> sandra: going through the translated words of benjamin

netanyahu a notes ago, gunmen still inside israel calling on parliamentary opposition to form broad coalition government. the air strikes against hamas and gaza are just the beginning, says netanyahu. the hamas atrocities on par with isis. he said palestinian gunmen killed, handcuffed children in the hamas attack on saturday. he also went on in that speech to say, we will do everything for isrealis held captive in gaza. said, benjamin netanyahu a few moments ago. he was expected by some to go into english there. he did not, john. >> john: yes. i know, we do have the translation so we -- we don't have an idea what lies ahead in terms of the military operation, it will be unwise for him to telegraph that. but certainly with him saying that hamas is isis and as the world

did with isis, israel will destroy hamas. let's bring in california democratic congressman, co-chair man of the congressional israel allies caucus. thank you, gentleman for hanging with us. there has been a lot of breaking news. congressman sherman, what can the body across the street do about this at this moment, there is some paralysis in the house right now because we don't have a speaker. congressman mccaul has been calling for and i think gregory meeks as well a resolution on israel that could be passed by unanimous consent without the presence a speaker. what could congress do in the hours ahead. >> i think a unanimous consent resolution should. speaking what we are doing right now is good. if we elect a speaker in a few days we'll be able to proceed by providing supplemental aid that israel will need. we might go

for a temporary speaker and allow us to do critical business. >> sandra: thank you very much for joining us, both of you on this ongoing situation. what do you want to see happen next here? >> well, i think we really have to call out this genocide, united nations yesterday and security council couldn't even issue a statement, which i find appauling. this is a genocide happening right now, this is the logical consequence of unbride ended anti-semitism, i have been working on it all 43 years for my time in congress. this is now where it all leads, massive slaughter, simply because a jewish person happens to be a jewish person. we need to unite, brad and i are working together, republican and democrat alike and speak out with one voice against this terror. because it won't stop there. and iran is -- they are the orchestrate i don't remembers. hamas are like

puppets. who are or show but they are puppets. this is iran's doing and we need to call that out as well and take very effective action. there need to be sanctions, $6 billion needs to be withdrawn immediately. remember, kevin mccarthy pointed out in his fine statement today, he pointed out, 300,000 -- 400,000 barrels of oil flowing out of iran in the last administration, that is up to 3,000,000. they are getting hundred hand over fist to kill people, people mostly isrealis and some americans. >> john: congressman sherman, the reaction on your side of the aisle, it was almost unanimously met with condemnation. a couple of your members, alexandria cortez and ilhan omar, said immediate cease fire and deescalation to save lives. here is what the wall street journal said in response to that. this is a mere age, they will protect hamas and guarantee more

violence. a cease fire would reward those who started the war that by this writing ill asked 700 in israel, we now know it's closer to thousand. probably some americans, we know nine americans were killed, is israel supposed to tolerate this murder and not retaliate against those who planned and executed it. i asked former secretary of defense, mark esper if george bush had listened to people who said don't attack al-qaida, i mean, israel has a right to respond, do they not? >> absolutely. japan was open to a truce the day after pearl harbor, have you to respond, dismantle hamas. they've proven what they have been saying with their words. their position is to ethnically cleanse the entire middle east of all jews. that's their bargaining position. they want to not only destroy israel but to kill or displace every isreali. that being said, there are a few elements in the

democratic party who i think have this wrong. but i think penn said it right yesterday when he said in reference to this, this is what happens when there are major republican leaders who are pushing for a retreat of america on the world stage. i think chris and i have been strong voices for american involvement in the world that's ukraine, that's israel, and that's the entire world. >> sandra: for those who have gotten it wrong to use your word, congressman, congressman sherman, should they be in congress? >> well, 198 republicans vote for a continuing cut israel to 30% percent, they should be members of congress as well because they were elected. >> sandra: congressman, smith, you referenced kevin mccarthy's speech earlier, here is some of it, listen. >> president biden's number one priority must be finding out how many americans have been taken

hostage. and get them home. we cannot repeat what happened in afghanistan. it must be clear that we do not negotiate with terrorists and no american will be left behind. >> sandra: to get you further to weigh in on that, number one priority must be finding out how many americans have been taken hostage, if any. do you get the sense that we are on this? >> it's very good question especially when jake sullivan said 8 days before the invasion that the middle east has never been so calmer in the last two decades, was he not aware, our government and intel folks not aware that iran has been planning this along with hamas. so, i think the priority has to be standing in absolute so date request our isreali allies, but also making sure that the americans -- where is the evacuation plan? i talked to the senator, several people in my district asked, they are there, they want to get out, how

do they get out? we have to do more to effectuate that. we don't want another afghanistan on our hands when we left so many americans and allies behind. >> john: we have seconds left here, congressman. the white house called the lid at 11:46 this morning. nine americans are dead, we haven't herd from president biden on that, should we be hearing from them. >> the president spoke saturday, i am sure he will speak in the next couple days. i don't think it's appropriate for every american to flee israel, the territory of israel is shave. >> thank you for being with us. >> john: thank you thank you for hanging through the breaking new z as well. sandra will be at at this. >> sandra: we are preying for everyone including our only trey yingst and his entire team. thank you very much for joining us. >> john: and the story with martha starts >> martha: breaking coverage continues this afternoon. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. we hav