civilians expected to cause death and injury in civilians and damage. you never target civilians. when the casualties happen and they will, you know they will look to turn everything on you guys. >> i will say something that sounds very bad but reflects reality. today the human rights council are part of the terror machine. why? because when they make all these immoral equations between liberal, law abiding democracies not only israel and others. it is easier for them to put pressure on us. they never counter. the real human rights violators. once they pressure israel, they are incentivizing the terrorists to continue. that's their goal to delegitimize israel. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for being here. praying for israel. >> sirens in israel now. toss it over to dana.

>> dana: the response is unwavering. israel unleashing fire and fury on hamas terrorists. smoke is rising from the gaza strip which is on the verge of a blackout. bill is off today. >> bret: i'm bret baier. this is "america's newsroom." it has been a tough three days. the increase of the depravity we're seeing on the ground has been very tough. you look at what is about ready to happen, it looks like. we could be in for weeks and weeks of this. >> dana: the complexities increase with every hour. you can rest assured they're on top of it. we don't know how it will look a few days from now. >> bret: the israeli death toll from saturday's terror attack by hamas topping 1200. president biden confirming at least 14 americans are among the dead. at least 20 americans are missing. possibly taken hostage by the

terrorists of hamas. >> dana: here are four of the americans confirmed missing. they range in age from 19 to 66. their families fear the worst and urging president biden to do everything in his power to bring them home. >> bret: the images out of israel are horrifying. men, women, children found butchered. some burned alive. the u.s. is backing israel in its pledge to eradicate the hamas terrorists responsible. >> dana: trey yengst is reporting live along the israel/gaza border today. hi, trey. >> good morning. we know that overnight israel continued its air strikes against the gaza strip and today using artillery to strike hamas positions in a variety of locations focusing on the northern and eastern part of gaza where ground troops are expected to go in. i want to show you what it looks like at one of the artillery positions earlier today.

right now the israeli military is shelling the eastern side of the gaza strip. you can see the soldiers behind me. these units are working to clear a path for the ground forces that are staging near the gaza border. right now we're in the car driving to another location. there are israeli troops at all different points along the border preparing, waiting for those orders to enter inside gaza. this country is still reeling from the destruction and death that took place this weekend. more than 1200 people slaughtered by palestinian militants that crossed to southern israel. we spoke to one man today what it was like and what stood out in his mind. take a listen. >> we hurt for the women and children who were slaughtered, butchered. they were beheaded.

it is a shame. the world needs to cry out. it can happen in america, france and anywhere in the world. >> today on israel's northern border there was a strike against a group of israeli soldiers coming from southern lebanon. israel was bracing for this possibility and part of the reason she called up 360,000 reserve forces. the posture remains strong, we spoke earlier on fox live with the international spokesman for the idf, and he told us about the preparations everyone here is waiting for what will happen in the coming days and looking inside gaza to what everything -- where things stand. inside gaza the death toll is over 1,000 people now. i spoke with a hamas official who indicated palestinians will not leave and hamas is saying they plan to stay and to fight

the israelis if they enter the gaza strip. the latest here from southern israel and we expect the numbers to rise as the rocket fire unfortunately continues into southern and central israel targeting tel aviv this afternoon. >> dana: stay safe. >> bret: you are doing a fantastic job. really in difficult circumstances covering this situation you have great contacts with the idf. they are bracing for what they have to do but it seems like it is going to be really tough getting into the ground and on the ground in gaza. >> absolutely. even as recently as last night they're trying to clear these border communities that sit right along the gaza border. we were driving looking at the staging positions of the israeli military last night and came across a few cars that still had the bodies of palestinian militants inside. this is a very active front line. so they have to make sure that

they are able to secure this area and then ultimately move forward. inside gaza it will be incredibly difficult to operate. there are around 2 million people in a 25-mile strip of land from 3 to 7 miles wide. it is one of the most densely populated areas on earth. making this a challenge because when the israelis go in. this is not a question of if, but rather when following the massacre on saturday the equation has changed. this region as changed forever. when they go in, they'll be engaged in fire fights with islamic and hamas militants and roadside bombs and rpgs, all sorts of weapons. a very difficult place to operate and they will try to keep the civilian casualties as low as possible. but the message we're getting from the israelis is not folk oilsed on civilians, it is focused on killing hamas leaders any way possible and described it as taking the gloves off and besieging the gaza strip.

bret and dana. >> dana: thank you and stay safe. >> bret: peter learner is a spokeman for the idf and joins us now. colonel, thank you for the time. we were just talking with our reporter driving along the gaza strip there about the challenges ahead for israeli forces. can you go into how that looks, urban combat in a place like gaza which has miles of underground tunnels, has all kinds of booby-trapped buildings, and presents different challenges perhaps than israeli forces have faced in many years. >> thanks, bret. great question. i was listening in to trey and as you are presenting what is actually going on, the first thing that struck me was that unbelievable number of the amount of people murdered and butchered on saturday, 1,200 people killed, murdered,

butchered in their houses in their beds and kitchens, even if their safe rooms. 1,200 stories of families that have just been torn apart by this huge assault against israel and israeli society. now what we're doing is taking the fight to hamas. we are preparing ourselves, we are making sure that hamas can never, ever do this to us again. the idf has recruited some 300,000 reservists. we are utilizing this force throughout all of our arenas, but definitely many forces accumulated now around the gaza strip. as you can see and as you've reported, we are conducting extensive strikes against hamas terrorist organization, their command and control positions,

the infrastructure, their launching sites. everything that is labeled hamas is a target. they can never be permitted to conduct these attacks against us again. >> dana: peter, i'm wondering about the reaction in israel from president biden's statement yesterday. do you have what you think you need right now from the americans? but also, there are americans who were killed and americans who are being held hostage. how does that figure into the thinking here as you contemplate how to rescue them? >> we are very, very emboldened and strengthened by the international support specifically by the comments of president biden yesterday. when we look at the terrorists, they don't care who they are. they abducted people from

different nationalities as you pointed out, americans as well and israelis obviously and killed and abducted and don't care. they have no regard for human life. women, children, the elderly, this is the threat. so we have to make sure hamas are held accountable for their actions. we demand that they release the captives, the hostages. they have to do it now and they will bear the consequences of their actions in any case. we're working closely with our friends. we received the first shipment of weapons late last night from the u.s. and it just goes to show the level of connection and understanding that this threat is a threat that we cannot accept. >> bret: peter, we really appreciate the time in the midst of what is a horrible situation. how is morale as you talk about

people getting called up, as you are mobileizing really a country against this effort? >> the country is united. we've never, ever recruited reservists of this magnitude. it comes on the backlash of the political instability in israel but everybody is united at this type of threat. doesn't matter where you are politically. you have to report and i would say the society is united. they expect the military to operate and expect the idf to deliver security and people are demanding that. the morale and respect for the military is high. the expectations are also high. we have to stand up and do what we are meant to do in order to restore security to the people of israel. of course there is a lot of shock in the after math of this attack as there is around the world because the images that are so devastating of how a human being can do these things to other human beings is really

unbelievable. so you see that and you understand that society is in a state of shock and stress. but they look towards the military to give that solution so it never happens again. i think there are two sides of this coin that are playing when the society looks at us and when they look internally to where we are. the idf is making its necessary plans and striking hamas where they are hiding. the people of gaza are paying dearly for what hamas has done. i hope that the people of gaza who are not our enemy demand accountability and why did you strategically attack the state of israel? why did you abduct over 100 or so people to gaza? what was the point of this? and what do we have to gain from it? i would say they have nothing to gain from it. only the might of the idf against hamas, who can never,

ever be permitted to conduct these attacks against us again. >> dana: lieutenant colonel peter learner, we appreciate your time very much. he wanted to show you this. call for number two. this is trying to get some answers as to how this actually happened even logistically, about how hamas breached israel's iron wall. you can see that drones dropped explosives. they had the perimeter fence and access to the restricted area booby-trapped with explosives along the fence and widened the gap and gave them the opportunity to get in there and commit these atrocities. >> bret: they had the hang gliders and a bulldozer to the fence and rockets. it was coordinated on a number of different levels. what i was talking to the colonel about is the fighting that's going to happen and they are planning it out. you talk about urban warfare and

how complicated that is. i talked to general keane the other day. we saw some of that in iraq and f fallujah and other places. hidden forces, miles of tunnels underneath and hidden these 150 hostages. it is a complex place that fighting street to street is going to be difficult. >> dana: the other thing interest reading this morning about it is possible the masterminds of this atrocity have fled. so you can see that israel -- right there on your screen. the actual masterminds are still -- will be at large and possibly not even in the country. i want to get now to a woman searching for her daughter who was wounded in the attack and has been missing for five days and she joins us now. thank you. i would love for you to give us

a chance to know a little more about romi. a beautiful smile. she has her mother's smile. tell me a little bit more about her and what it has been like in five days to not hear from her. >> romi is like to have -- she is my third. i have five kids. she is my third one. the big sister. she is so vivid and so smiley. you can see she is almost always smiling. she is beautiful. she has a lot of friends. you have to fall in love with her. once you see it you fall in love with her because she is such a good friend. she loves people and >> dana: you heard from her while she was at the concert.

>> yes. >> dana: tell me about that. >> we heard from her at 6:30 in the morning. i got a phone call from her. she was crying and horrified. she said mommy, i don't know, they are shooting at us. the bombs at 6:30 started and there are bombs here and i don't know what to do or where to run. it is an open space. you don't have any shelter or anything and she doesn't know the area well. and they didn't know where to run. she was with a good friend, and they were crying and looking for a way to escape from there and they didn't know what to do. they decided to stay a little bit and see that maybe the rockets will calm down but it didn't stop. so they decided to go to the car with 1,000 other kids and trying to get out of there. we were talking to her from 6:30

in the morning until two minutes to 11. until approximately 8:830 they were trying to get out of the place and then they started hearing shooting around them. so they left the car and went to hide in the bushes and going from one bush to another since they heard the shooting coming closer and closer. and then a friend of hers, which already went out of this area. he took five kids with him. he came back to rescue them to take them in their car -- in his car and that is what i heard they were going into his car and another boy was coming with them. and the next thing i got a phone call at 10:15 and romi was shouting mommy, they shot at us. we are all wounded. i was struck in the hand. the car is -- cannot go.

it stopped and we cannot turn it on. we cannot start it and we are sitting here and a lot of shooting around us. mommy, i think i'm going to die. we were talking to me and saying call my mom, tell my mom. he gave me his number. i don't know how he could do that. he was very wounded. she kept talking to me. the other two guys didn't talk to us and romi said they aren't speaking. mommy, you have to come and take us out. i knew we couldn't do anything because we already knew there were a lot of palestinian militants around the area. so we knew it is not possible to send anyone over there. i was talking to her and saying romi, you are not dying. you will be safe and healthy. you are coming back home. tell me what is the color of the car. she spoke a little bit, not much. she was wounded. and she heard the shooting

around so she was afraid that somebody will hear and come and kill her. and, of course, talking to her say i love you, we will be okay. we will go out after you will get better and we will go out and sit at the coffee shop and she didn't answer anymore. and i heard the shooting around them and some guys approached. palestinians, i heard them shouting in arabic. i don't understand arabic and somebody tried to start the car but couldn't start it and then somebody closed the talk. >> dana: i'm so glad we had a chance to hear this story and to keep romi in our prayers. i know it has been a long five days for you and you have not given up hope that she will be

found. >> no. >> dana: and rescued. thank you. let's stay in touch. >> thank you very much. >> dana: take care. >> bret: you can hear the stories again and again and again and the amazing part of it is that there are so many of them. so many of these families torn apart and those images and moments that they have all had facing these terrorists head-to-head, one-on-one. >> dana: young people having a great time at a concert in the desert dancing all night and having the time of their lives, their whole lives ahead of them and now nothing will be the same. >> bret: it is hard to hear. we want to support any way we can. please join fox in supporting the israeli emergency fund. your money will go to services like aid for military families, equipment for public hospitals, and trauma counseling for the

thousands living in bomb shh shelters. scan the qr code on the screen if you would like to donate. fox has donated $1 million to the effort. we are hoping that a lot of money goes that way. >> dana: indeed. right now members of the house are getting ready to have a briefing on the war in israel. the u.s. promising to stand shoulder to shoulder with the middle east ally. many democrats are supporting the palestinians. she refused to condemn the savagery on the attacks. hillary vaughn questioned her. she planted a palestinian flag outside her office. >> cut off baby's heads and burned people alive. do you support israel's right to defend themselves against what is happening? >> we are going to go through here. >> you can't comment about hamas

terrorists chopping off babies' heads? congresswoman, do you have a comment on the terrorists chopping off babies' heads? do you condone chopping off babies's heads? do you condone this raping women in the streets and shopping off babies's heads? >> you have no comment about children's heads being chopped off? congresswoman, why do you have a palestinian playing-out side your office if you don't condone what hamas terrorists have done to israel? do israeli lives not matter to you? >> dana: hillary vaughn on the hill and not getting a single

answer. >> if you think about president biden's speech the other day, at one point in the speech he says we're not urging restraint right now. up hold the laws of war. and you hear these messages from different sides, especially that left side of the democratic party and it doesn't track with the moment. >> dana: we should say the karine jean-pierre had a chance to push back very strongly and unequivocally against people like everybody in the squad as we call them. certainly against them. she said it was abhorrent and disgusting and no room for it. >> a terrifying reality as anti-semitism surges in the at tax on israel. matt finn is out and about. what's going on? >> well, bret, there is a lot of support and disgust over the

unimaginable atrocities in israel but at the same time there are pro-palestinian and pro-hamas rallies happening around the world and here in the u.s. this week organized pro-palestinian events are happening in pakistan and bangladesh and germany and in sydney demonstrators had chants saying gas the jews. >> gas the jews, >> here in the u.s. there were pro-palestinian rallies in places like dear born, michigan, new york city, massachusetts and southern california giving voice to many decades of outrage over israel's mere existence. calm is being urged but even the reports of women and babies being slaughtered has not changed people's minds. >> if you kick an animal they

will fight back and they will escape. >> we have this video that i shot yesterday at a massive pro-israel rally in los angeles. demonstration was peaceful and joyful. at one point agitators pulled up in the yellow s.u.v. and began to taunt the israeli supporters. the pro-israel demonstrators asked the jeep to leave. there was a physical scuffle. someone ended up pepper spraying the driver of the s.u.v. police were present but no arrests were made and the jeep and driver took off and there were a lot of sheriffs deputies and police at that rally yesterday. bret and dana. >> bret: thank you. >> dana: i want to check in with mike tobin live from the israel/gaza border with idf is ramping up attacks on hamas terrorists. good morning, mike. >> good morning, dana. what you see off in the distance behind me is the gaza strip. to the north and south of me

israeli troops are awaiting the order to begin what is believed to be an imminent ground invasion. we know benjamin netanyahu and security cabinet met last night. so far we haven't seen any execution of a ground invasion. you may hear booming during the course of my life shot. that is the israeli art riley. it is softening the battlefield. something they would do before rolling armor into the gaza strip. you may hear rocket fire. new warnings just moments ago. we were investigating a rocket strike in ashkelon just to the north of the gaza strip when more rockets came in and an israeli family took us into their safe room for shelter. >> this is a location of the latest rocket strike inside israel. here is a piece of what's left over from the rocket that hit. this is the point of impact, a stone landscaping wall. if you look in here close, you can see a little bit of the rocket.

i can't pull it out because it is buried in the ground. it is still hot from the explosion. you look, the rocket hit here, the force of the blast went this way, blasted through that fencing and there is a house there. it broke out the glass. reports of a couple injuries because of this rocket. it appears the injuries are just the force of the broken glass that went through the next house over and the individuals hurt. come on. you can hear off in the distance some of the impacts from the rockets and this is a drill that sadly people in israel repeat over and over again. >> just a short time ago a rocket reached tel aviv. no reports of injuries from the rocket strike. a contact tells me all the hamas fighters have gone into hiding presumably down in the tunnels they have spent years building. he says these punishing air campaign into the gaza strip has mostly resulted in the

destruction of the infrastructure inside particularly gaza city. he says it is like they are assassinating a city itself. power has been cut off to gaza. gaza does have an independent power generator but it runs on diesel fuel. to the best of our information they're out of fuel. dana and bret. >> dana: bring dan, the author of the genius of israel and a foreign policy advisor from the bush administration. you have family in israel. there is a lot to talk about. can we start on the biden administration saying that seal team six is on there way to rescue american hostages. >> first of all the most important thing president biden said is basically signaled to israel we'll give you space and time to do whatever you need to do. it sometime eid israel in the past dealing the hamas and gaza. the hostage situation is a complete nightmare. israel has never fought a war

with this many hostages. potentially 120 to 150 hostages spread out in the territory they have to fight. women, children, elderly people. so i think the -- it makes the war fighting that much more complex. not clear how they will do it. israel has gone to lengths in all wars to get hostages out. in 2011 israel returned over 1,100 palestinian prisoners in israeli jail for one hostage. so now imagine close to 150. seal team six, israeli special forces working on this. doing this in the middle of an urban warfare situation is hard. >> bret: it seems like forever when we talked in iraq. in gaza, they've planned for this. these tunnels and buildings and these booby-traps. it is a totally different ballgame. >> this is why the israel security doctrine has been to avoid just this. so basically israel did not want

hamas in gaza but knew to remove them they had to do a version of what they are about to do. the reason they didn't do that is for that reason. because the risk to civilian life in gaza and the risk to military life on the ground, israeli life is extraordinary. they don't think they have a choice. the most densely populated place in a world. the size of new york city 2 million people packed in that area and they will have to take this risk. they are preparing the country for it. >> dana: condoleezza rice was talking about that. go back to 2007 and israel saying all right, if this is what you guys want. you want to elect hamas, listen to her. >> you can never go back really and second guess a decision like that. i don't think they wanted to govern gaza any longer. it was in israel's interest to get out. what they got in return was hamas that continued its terrorist activity. that idea the israelis didn't want to achieve peace. you will hear a lot of that this

next weeks. that this is israel's fault, that the israelis never really tried for peace. the israelis tried for peace. >> dana: dan, how can the world learn the truth? there is a lot of misinformation out there about israel now. >> here is the reality. israel withdrew from gaza in 2005. they were trying to negotiate with palestinian leadership to try to create a palestinian state in the west bank and gaza. they never went anywhere. negotiations fell apart and often followed by terrorist waves and campaigns against israel. finally in 2005, sharon said we can't negotiate a bilateral agreement we'll leave. it is yours. israeli army forcibly removed israeli citizens from their homes and removed them in the green line in 1967 israel and dug up graves of israeli

families living there. abandoned greenhouses and all the properties and assets and said this is yours. a piece of land on the mediterranean. you can imagine the potential of this place with serious leaders serious about governing and developing the place. they turned it instead into a launching pad for war. so the question should israel have ever left is the real question. israel couldn't control hamas running for office in the palestinian authority or not. the question should israel had ever left. they just wanted out. you can't blame them. >> bret: trey said imagine the worst things possible to humans. hamas did more to that and israeli citizens. babies beheaded, women raped and dragged through the streets, don't look away. there is this thing about coverage of about moral neutrality and you can't get there really when you are talking about the terrorists and

the baby. and try to put that in context what we're looking at here and how we should look at it. >> so, i've been following israel's wars and arab wars my entire adult life. the 1967 and 1973 wars. the wars were awful but soldiers fighting soldiers. they weren't fighting in civilian territories. israel has experienced its fair share of terrorism. this is a combination of mass warfare with terrorist tactics. i've never seen anything like it. for two reasons. one, the scale of it. so if you look at the numbers it's the equivalent proportion to the u.s. population, israel suffered 10 or 129 leaves in a weekend. the terrorists were roaming around neighborhoods burning babies, cutting off heads and then all the hostages after that. the scale of it is nothing i've ever seen.

what is most unnerving for me. i say this as someone my mother lives in jerusalem. i have siblings in israel and nephews who are called up to the reserves. i'm emotionally -- even as just an american watching from afar. what i find most unnerving is the glee with which, when you watch these videos, the glee with which the hamas terrorists are tormenting and torturing and having fun. there is this one video i posted on twitter of -- or x of this little boy captured and taken into gaza where the other palestinian kids -- they are being egged on to taunt him and poke him and egged on by adults. these kids are being indoctrinated to enjoy the hate. that to me, bret, i'm also the son of a holocaust survivor. that is reminiscent of germany. i see that. on the one hand my wife and i don't watch the kids watching

these videos. every jewish day school is sending out messages get your kids off social media. i don't want my kids to watch it. do i want the world to see it? yes. israel will have to make some really tough decisions in the next few weeks and people need to know what they are dealing with. >> bret: we appreciate your time. >> dana: find more from dan on x but also his podcast call me back podcast. he is keeping everybody up to date. love to stay in touch with you. thank you for being here. >> thank you for staying on top of this, really. >> dana: the first u.s. weapons shipment arriving in israel. america's military moves in the middle east at our coverage continues. we'll be right back. >> we just want all the people all over the world to help us to share our stories, share everyone's stories and get them back. i don't want to give up. i was 5...6 years of age and i knew i was going to be a vet. once alexandra called me to let me know

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>> dana: let's check in with trey yengst in southern israel now. hi, trey. >> good morning. you can hear overhead an israeli drone buzzing along the border trying to get a sense of the targets the israelis are picking out inside gaza. the israeli military indicated 3,000 have been hit since fighting began on saturday

morning following that massacre of civilians. we're getting new numbers from inside gaza that indicate more than 1,000 people have been killed there and thousands injured. many of them militants but there are civilians among the dead. i want to discuss where we were earlier and what we saw. the artillery going off in the background. there has been a lot of artillery fire today and indicates that the israelis are continuing to work their way in on the eastern side of gaza. they haven't yet crossed into gaza. they'll work their way closer to the border trying to clear this area to insure there are no palestinian militants still in israeli territory. then the thousands of soldiers called up with wait for the orders and ultimately go into gaza. the difficulty they face is in the eastern neighborhood and the north of gaza there is a large civilian population. hamas is able to fight within that population. they are able to fire on israelis from there. when the israelis enter on the ground, they will be immediately engaged in a fire fight with

hamas militants, islamic jihad militants and others and face roadside bomb and rpg fire. part of the reason we've seen the strategic patience from the israelis. waiting for that order in southern israel insuring troops are ready, prepared, have the gear they need and understand it will be a long battle. >> dana: trey yengst, thanks for the update. more of a perspective with bret at the board. >> bret: a little bit of a sense of what we're looking at here. this is a map. if you look at the state of israel, the country is roughly the size of the state of new jersey. and as you look here at jerusalem to this little sliver of gaza, that's 265 miles. so let's get closer in to gaza and show you about the size of gaza and what that looks like. now, gaza, you've heard trey. he is driving along the border here.

this is 25 miles across, and right here this area is about 7 1/2 miles. so if you took this, it would be about a little bit bigger than washington, d.c., about 1 1/2 washington, d.c., which is really small. but there are 2.3 million people in here. it is one of the most densely populated places on earth. so when israel is going to be moving in on the ground, that is major challenge as we've been talking about street to street, building to building, and that is what they are facing. now, the u.s. is moving assets and has been moving assets and we've talked about this, the u.s.s. gerald r. ford is the aircraft carrier strike group. the newest, biggest, baddest of the pentagon aircraft carrier fleet. it is designed really to send a message -- it is already doing that. you have 5,000 sailors on board. 90 aircraft.

this is roughly about 1100 feet across, three football fields and it can really send a message and a force projection. they have the sea sparrow, a missile that is a medium range projectile they can use at any time. and you talk about moving. this aircraft carrier group moved quickly. they were south of cyprus on saturday and here they came down and are in position right now right off gaza. there is gaza right here. and to act if called by the israelis to help out. obviously we're talking about the possibility of u.s. special operations forces, maybe seal team six helping the israelis with this hostage situation. what that looks like, if we start seeing americans paraded around in the streets of gaza, what the u.s. would do or

possibly do. joining us now is republican congressman brian mast of florida. thanks for your time. your thoughts on this broadly and what the u.s. is poised potentially to do. >> danger on a number of different fronts. it's one of the more general thoughts from the north. obviously we have the u.s. dealing with -- you hope nothing lights off in the west bank. that's a risk as well. thank god we have these american assets, the most capable anti--- most capable assets to rescue hostages anywhere, seal team six and delta operators. >> dana: i was wondering if you could tell us what you've learned about iran's involvement or non-involvement? i understand the administration is saying they don't see one? >> i can't speak to things that i've heard in classified

briefings. so i have to say this carefully. there is always what's possible and what's probable. i and most of my colleagues consider highly probable. we know they've spoken themselves about involvement and planning that they've taken part in. we know that they are huge supporters of hamas, hezbollah, martyrs brig gate, islamic jihad. this exist just to the point of moving these thousands of rockets the size of suburb answer from where they may be manufactured in iran through syria and lebanon to get them into the gaza strip and likely using the same networks and pray to god it isn't happening, to move hostages and get them out of gaza and into those other places. >> bret: we were talking about a member of the u.s. army and israeli defense forces. that's a unique perspective that you have as israel is calling up

some 300,000 reservists. talk about that and your perspective having served. >> you go back to 2014. i made a pilgrimage to volunteer alongside the idf and put on their uniform. an experience of a lifetime. this is what they train for and deal with. their enemy in so many cases surrounds them, is in a situation where they could travel across the country if not stopped in a matter of 45 minutes across the breadth of israel they could march across. when you look at the effect on every israeli family it's this. every family is waiting for a son, a daughter, a grandson, granddaughter to come home for that shabbat dinner. every family is affected by service. all of these reservists being called up, young, old playing their role. picking up their rifle, pulling out their uniform out of the closet and doing what they can to protect for their very

existence. that's what's on the line. >> dana: earlier on the show we had some video of hillary vaughn, our reporter from fox business trying to get congresswoman tlaib to answer basic questions, why she has a palestinian flag outside her office and not comment on evidence of babies being beheaded. if you could talk about the scope, is it small, getting larger, of anti-israeli sentiment there in the congress? >> i think it's systemic, the scope of anti-israeli sentiment and in many cases people are too naive how they do this. when you hear somebody talking about a two-state solution. i've been a critic. you talk about making a nation out of these very people that just conducted that attack. when you talk about using the palestinian authority and trying to say that they should not be conflated alongside of hamas, this is an entity that we've yet to see that any of them were

working immediately to stop the hamas fighters in that moment from taking hostages or to prevent the attack or that they gave any intelligence to prevent this attack from taking place. and you go back years and years and say what has the palestinian authority done to bring all of the hamas fighters, if you choose to separate them in that way, to any kind of justice. they have not. when you see members of congress stepping up and saying you should make a separate state out of that or saying the palestinian authority is sometimes -- somehow better and not of the same ilk, that is soft on terror, soft on the brutality, that's part of what has allowed this to happen. the camel's nose under the tent. >> bret: we're covering this ball to wall and remiss if we didn't ask you about the speaker's race and what is going on with the republican caucus.

is it coming together? how will you vote? >> i believe it is coming together. you had a heart to heart. people able to get things off their chest. that needs to happen for families to speak to one another. it brought us to a better place. last night you had a candidate forum. representative scalise and jordan both presented their plans to move forward. i think you have the entire republican conference in a place that whoever will get the most votes behind closed doors will be able to secure all those votes on the floor of the house of representatives. i don't think anybody considers any of those candidates unpalatable. you will see a vote probably in the next hour and we work through that and whoever is chosen behind closed doors we'll move to the floor of the house of representatives for a vote. i think we can get that done in one vote in my opinion. i hope it takes place that way.

i'm supporting representative jordan. i have think he has the best plan going forward. also very importantly this is not a slight against representative scalise at all. but the country has a trust in jim jordan. people in my community and across the country have the trust in jim jordan. i see representatives and one of the reasons you can trust this is good policy because jordan supports it. that is one of the things needed to help give the american people trust back into the system that is the house of representatives and congress that it can move forward and do the right thing for the american people. >> bret: brian mast of florida, we appreciate your time. black lives matter grassroots group is defending hamas as it declared support for the resistance in palestinian. eric shawn picks up the story in

new york city. >> black lives matter sparking outrage today supporting radical islamic terrorism. blm chapters across the country celebrating the sickening hamas assault by the parra gliders and bringing death to 260 young people enjoying the music fes festival. the fluttering palestinian flag above the words i stand with palestinian. the comment that is all that is it. blm chapters including louisville, detroit, los angeles showed their support reposting that image. noted theologian posted a social media quote. because nothing has liberation like slaughtering 40 babies in one small community. shame on you for declaring your moral bankruptcy.

another chapter of the blm group calls the attack on israel a desperate act of self-defense that must not be condemned. the israeli ambassador to the united states told me that he is shocked that some pro-palestinian groups in our country have actually been supporting hamas. >> we just saw 700 innocent civilians, babies, mothers, grand parents, holocaust survivors were butchered -- butchered by barbaric hamas operatives and you are standing here supporting them? what can i tell these people? really it makes me cry. >> black lives matter claims its mission is to bring justice, healing and freedom to black people across the globe. critics say the same should apply if you are jewish. bret. >> bret: thank you. >> dana: there is also heart wrenching video this weekend

showing an israeli woman kidnapped from a music festival and taken hostage. >> i don't think anyone can explain what's going on with the people of israel. we don't know what they'll do to her. she is suffering. everyone is suffering. we are talking about 130 people that got kidnapped. i'm shaking right now when i'm speaking about her. it is so difficult to see your friend in this situation, someone that is close to you. >> dana: the family and friends are begging for help getting her and other hostages home. 150 israelis have been taken hostage so far and bret we understand there are probably 20 americans amongst them. noah's father was also on sky news and he had this on his mind, watch. >>

[speaking foreign language] >> dana: is anguish, we all feel it. >> bret: so tough. so many stories. the emotion pours out. you have to cover it, though. >> dana: we'll continue to cover it. our coverage on the war in israel continues after the break. ♪concerns of getting screened faded away♪ ♪to my astonishment.♪ ♪my doc gave me a script i got it done without a delay.♪ ♪i screened with cologuard and did it my way.♪ cologuard is a one-of-a-kind way to screen for colon cancer that's effective and non-invasive. it's for people 45 plus at average risk, not high risk. false positive and negative results may occur. ask your provider for cologuard. ♪i did it my way!♪

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