got 113 out of 221 in conference, barely a majority so we've kind of taken a step backwards and took out a guy with 96% of the conference support to a guy with barely majority of conference support. i think we're in a worse situation now than we were last week and scalise is going to have to run around and try to garner the support. there's a number of people that are saying they're not supporting him on the floor. i wish we would have stayed in conference yesterday and tried to figure this out instead of breaking conference and everybody going their separate way. >> carley: 20 seconds but does scalise have your vote in >> i supported jordan yesterday and support jordan today and this point i'm supporting jim jordan on the floor. >> congressman greg steube, he has a busy day and with that "fox & friends" begins right now.

>> good morning, everybody. it is thursday, october 12, 2023. 1:00 in the afternoon in gaza and israel and we start with a fox news alert. right now israeli forces carrying out relentless strikes in gaza at the idf ramps up counter attacks against hamas. this is day six of the war, more than 1200 israelis are dead, 22 americans have been murdered. >> the terrorists are holding at least 150 people hostage and idf says they'll not let up if siege of gaza till all of them are freed. >> secretary of state antony blinken is on the ground in israel. you see him there meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and set to speak in

about 20 minutes and of course we'll bring you that live. they've set up the podiums and we're ready for the shot. >> first we're returning to trey yingst near the ground on the israeli gaza boarder and who knows when the encouragement officially begins. trey. reporter: hey, guys, good morning. rocket fire from the gaza strip continues this morning. overnight there was a lull in the fighting and the israelis continue their air strike on the northern and eastern part of the rocket fire. it stopped but started up here again is this morning. here in the city, you can see the rockets slamming into one of the sidewalks. in this shawn community that sits near the gaza strip. the wall in the city of strout if ma'am camera man can recollect if my camera man pans down, you'll see the blood on the sidewalk and that's the

tragic scene all throughout the city. there's no end in sight and israelis say is this is the beginning of their response despite the fact there's thousands of strikes and air strikes and artillery strikes against gather s and israelis are receiving pushback for the amount of civilian casualties in gaza and the health ministry indicate that had 1200 people have been killed in the ziti really response to that saturday massacre. i want you to listen to president isaac herzog with a press conference earlier today. >> this directly about civilians not aware, not involved, it's absolutely not true. they could have risen up, they could have fought against that evil regime that took over gaza in a takeover. reporter: there's women and children dead inside gaza as a result of the israeli response

and it's a complex organization for the israelis and dozens of hostages and civilians and soldiers inside gaza and they'll do everything they can to clear a path and ultimately go in on the ground. i want to show you something else here. israeli forces say they found an isis flags in one of the communities along the border with gaza. we won't get too deep in the history of isis in gaza and traditionally hamas and the islamic state have not worked together. they've been enemies in gaza, and hamas pushed out islamic state fighters into egypt over the past several years and it's interesting that it appears they had this propaganda or even there's a possibility they participated in the attack. again, all we know is israeli forces found an isis flag in one of the border communities, but it gives you a sense of the people they're hanging out with, and they're not good people. back to you. >> trey, when we look at that scene and that wall behind you, when you think about if people were just standing there, it's

that shrapnell that kills and maims people every day. that mortar fire is so deadly. reporter: yeah, absolutely. it's incredibly deadly. i want to bring in a man we met earlier who lives in sderot and told me earlier and told me he's been here for 30 years. what's your name? >> david fandel, i'm a dean of a economy. reporter: you were here when the rocket attack happened. >> another cowardly attack against children near a children's park. never again. gone are the days that jews don't know how to defend themselves. we're going back to the gaza strip andives with a bunch of soldiers and filled with energy and youthful vigor and they're going to avenues the terrible -- avenge the terrible natzi barbaric acts from this past week. never again. reporter: how does this compare to the last 30 years?

>> there's no comparison. this is a nightmare and it's sometimes good that now we see the true. disguised as human beings and we see the natzi beast willing to cup children, rape women, cry as we talk about it. it's not going to happen. we're not going to let it happen. we're all going to have guns and we're all ready. the city will be built up in the most beautiful way. we're going to back to [inaudible]. if they can't see a jew in the gather s strip, they can't see t see a jew in sderot. reporter: david, thank you. from someone that has lived her here 30 yores, this is horrific and that massacre on saturday killed so many civilians and yet today the israelis are finding bodies in the communities along the gaza border. >> tray, the dean of the university and his message is similar to the president of israel, president herzog this morning. we have to fight back, they've

given us no choice. if they're throwing rockets into our kitchens, we have to throw rockets back and defend our nation. i was heard from a lady who lost her husband in #/11 and we've herrera viewed her a few times on fox and she's become a friend. she said to me, we have the best intelligence in israel. how did we know not know this was happening? if we don't know it's happening what could happen in other countries? what could happen in america where we're not aware, and then they just come to us in the middle of the night and do something similar? what are people on the ground saying about that? why wasn't there any intel on this? reporter: obviously there was an intel failure here. it's a great question. look at what took place, it was a coordinated attack by hamas and jihad and other factions inside gaza and supported in part by the iranian regime and not directly this in attack but they've told us in the past we've gone into gaza and

interviewed and asked where are you receiving money and weapons. it's on camera and they say from iran and thanked officials in teheran. in terms of these places along the border and the fear that people have here and how they're feeling, they are terrified about what is to come because what took place, this massacre of civilians in their home has shifted the reality in israel. things will never be the same here. that is something that may take the public and especially the international community time to get used to. they're used to engagement and rules of war, and the israelis are basically saying they're throwing those out. they're going to enter gaza. it's not a question of if but rather when. somsomeone resently described something to me and israel said you're going to take 150 hostages, we're going to take 2 million. that's what is taking place here. there is a complete siege on gaza, israeli officials have been very clear that they are not allowing aid in.

they do not care if civilians there run out of food or water or electricities. they're blocking off the gaza strip and going to go inside and kill every member of hamas they can find. >> do they feel like they have the support of the international community, trey? this is a different strategy now. for so long, and i've talked about this a lot, the israelis have stepped back a little bit because they've been interpreted by the international community as the bully. now with all thanksgiving this bloodshed now, to see the acts of terrorism now do they feel like they have some sort of support from the international community and america? reporter: we were in b'er yesterday, a small community in

a kibbutz and that's what is different about this and there's been a fear and misunderstanding of the people in this area for a long time. when this massacre took place, it was impossible to look away. simply impossible to look away. this was not combatant on combatant yesterday. they engaged israeli fors and went into homes and killed children. a soldier told us yesterday he found the body of a mother and her child and the mother's hands were raised like this in a defensive posture. you joust can't look away and that's changed the perception about that conflict, and i think things in israel will never be the same. l best of my recollections we sit in the south and wait for the invasion. hezbollah had a few skirmishes and the west bank and hamas

calling on supporters in the west bank to storm jerusalem october 13th. multi-front war. one is in their backyard and looming over there syria who they've been going back and forth with for about ten years. reporter: there's concerns of unrest and thousands of palestinians, some support hamas, some watter arkansas support fattah and it's a mix of people and bottom line is it's boiling and it'll be incredible risk all over the country. the northern border is not quiet there either. there's rocket fire from lebanon and lebanese militant group hezbollah has taken credit for a

tank attack. every time there's attacks they don't take credit and want to push it off for the southern fangs and -- faction and don't want the israeli response and now they're saying they did it. we're seeing mortar fire from syria and we were embedded in the west bank city and the hamas engaged israeli soldiers in the fire fight. they're armed and if they get involved in this, israel is not just going to be facing the southern front but a northern front, a northeastern front, an internal front, and it is just incredibly challenging to wrap your mind around what that looks like for a country of 9 million people. >> no kidding. trey, thank you for joining us live. we'll check back in with you in about 20 minutes. ainsley, to your question about how did we miss this, the intelligence failure. one of the top hamas officials a fellow by the name of al ibakari

and planned this for two years and fewer than five ma has leaders knew what they were doing and part of the plan was let's just pretend that we're rational and we're thinking about governing gaza and not planning an attack. they were planning an attack the entire time. that was part of the plan. meanwhile, separately but also part of this report, vladamir putin likes this attack, hamas versus israel because it divide's america's attention and then that means according to putin's logic, it helps russia in the fight against ukraine. i well, president trump said what a difference a president makes. isn't it incredible just a president, what a difference.

best of my recollections yeah, we did a clip last night and it'll be on the radio show for a half hour and takes all this head on as well as house stuff, with this, he's beside himself and you'll be shock what had he says about benjamin netanyahu. >> ainsley: and president biden said i've seen the pictures of children beheaded and something in my lifetime i never thought aide see. >> as you watch this and want to help the people, join fox corporation in supporting the israel emergency fund. in association with the united jewish appeal. scan the qr code there in the lower right hand corner of your tv screen, open up your camera, and you'll see a lited l yellow thing pop up, touch that and

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>> ainsley: we're going to return to breaking coverage on the war in israel but first, there's quick headlines to get to and a possible tornado tearing through clear water, florida, overnight. 60 miles per hour an hour and damaging several homes and much of central homes are under a tornado watch till 9:00 a.m. local time. more on this storm system, download the fox weather app or stream fox weather on any connected tv device. happening today, the house is set to convene at noon, eastern time as republicans push to fill the vacant speaker role and gop conference nominating steve scalise to succeed congressman kevin mccarthy and at least ten

republicans will not vote for scalise despite jim jordan urging them to do so. >> support more back functions as house of representatives need a speaker and steve is the guy for that . i encourage colleagues to do so. we need support and come together and i offer to nominate him, nominate fear on the -- nominate steve on the house floor. >> ainsley: no official date on the vote for scalise in a nomination. there's a surge in polling and polling with the south carolina former government doubling her support in the gop primary and even beating president biden by four points giving her the largest winning margin of the president of all the candidates and that's back down to you. >> steve: thanks, carley. we should hear from antony blinken and bb netanyahu and the audio guys are checking everything out and they've been meeting in the idf headquarters

and mr. blinken according to the times of israel said we're here and we're not going anywhere. we will bring you their comments live in just a couple of minutes and supposed to start 90 seconds ago. >> ainsley: meanwhile pro palestine student groups are being called to meet on college campuses across the country. national students for justice and palestine, sjp, posted a call to action asking students to hold demonstrations on college campuses. >> steve: day of resistance. >> ainsley: yes, uva posted join us at 5:30 p.m. on thursday, october 12 on the rotunda steps. calls for students to hold a protest, disruption or seelings event in support of the palestinians. >> brian: hunter college rally for palestine, we could get over there if we hurry up after the show. nyu palestine resistance at 6:00 and go to both and right after that and a half hour, how long

do you want to stay at nyu, go uptown and go to columbia university, the call to action for palestine. good to know the next generation is all lined up to be anti-israel. >> lawrence: these are important to note, these aren't students substantiating with the palestinian people, they're standing openly with hamas and saying whatever happened in israel was justified because of what's happening with the conflict over the years and you got to wonder, where did these kids get this ideology from? the american people don't feel this way. they didn't get it from their parents. they got this from the college professors that teach them every single day. >> steve: that's right and that's why they're holding demonstrations at rutgers, uva, ohio state university, university of united states maths amhurst, kent state, university of north carolina, university of illinois, butler, per due as well. purdue as well. antiantidefamation league says

there's a pro palestinian going on at your college and day of resistance create as hostile environment for any jewish student on campus and they've got to feel threatened. if you see something like that and you wonder, well, who's got my back here? >> ainsley: if you go to a demonstration, you need to know what you're standing up for and you're condoning what they did to innocent individuals, beheading of babies, raping of women, stripping women down to underwear and throwing them in the back of a truck, parading them around israel and gaza and their parents learned on facebook their kids were dead or grandmother that was posted. they need to know what they're agreeing with and they're in agreement and they want this to happen. michigan congressman renounces now, he's saying, look, this is too much. he is renouncing membership of the democratic socialist of america. he said after the brutal terrorist attacks on israel that

included indiscriminate murder, rape, kidnapping of innocent women and children, i cannot stand with the growth group that's terrorist and hate filled and anti-semitic. >> steve: six members of congress part of the democratic socialists of america, including most of the squad. aoc said he's out. >> brian: took him four days but okay. >> steve: better late than never. >> brian: harvard, there's youth backlash and 30 student unions got together to support palestine. you want to hold that up. >> ainsley: in front of the new york police department. >> brian: yeah, talking about ceos and wall street got together and said let's get the names of the people that signed onto this pro palestinian message because we'd like to not hire them. at nyu the president of the law school, the student union law school, they have -- she had her job rescinded after coming out in support. >> ainsley: great law firm. >> steve: absolutely.

i think they voted on campus to eject that person from that position. >> brian: could this be like -- last night i talked to batya of news week and she said this is beginning of end of woke. this is a turning point because people are dying, the brutality we've seen and people have knee jerk reactions and it's got to be israel's fault and those people are sobering up saying not only is it not israel's fault, you fired. >> lawrence: do you think there's been enough pushback? these people feel open. >> ainsley: it's america, they're allowed to do it. >> brian: we watched kgp push back on other democrats and i was stunned. saying there's no other side to this. >> steve: she said they're wrong. they're simply wrong. >> brian: did dave goldman say that yesterday? >> ainsley: y yesterday walking in the streets of new york, there's star of david in the window standing in solidarity. there's a huge population of

jews here ask they're hiring and they want to know the names of the kids that go to harvard and are apart of this and not supporting israel. the title of new york post this morning: schooled on hate. maybe you're right. maybe this is the beginning of anti-wokeness. >> steve: the other part of the headline is calls to defund anti-semitic colleges. if your college stands for a certain thing, why are people giving them money? why are donors and alumni lining up to give those schools cash? >> lawrence: i think it's so fresh right now, give this war a couple weeks and when the propaganda starts to come out, how will they respond then? i'm helpful, but let's see. hopeful but let's see. >> brian: rashida tafanely lib said i don't support the killing of israels and suggesting others is offensive. >> steve: we watch what had you did when you were questioned. >> ainsley: the president of florida state university sent out a bold and awesome letter to the entire university saying we stand with israel. >> brian: thought that was a given.

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hitting different areas on the boarder and generally targeting the same area multiple times and trying to hit hamas and islamic jihad tunnels and strike at the same location to get that upside ground and we hear these blasts in the distance and hear the fighter jets overhead and the israeli territory and worry about antiaircraft initials and these -- antiaircraft missiles and smuggled in through egypt and incredibly dangerous thing for both fighter jets and for helicopters that strike gaza as they fly around that air space. i do want to show you the scene here and you hear just off in the distance, another one of those strikes but i want to show you here, the wall behind me, this is the scene of a rocket attack that took place just about an hour and a half ago. here in southern israel and the town of sderot and the shrapnel on the ground and blood on the ground and people were here and moderately injured and

thankfully they're next to a medical evacuation point and four or five ambulances in the distance and able to get the injured hook and holder and take them to a local hospital. if you come over here, you actually see where the rockets slammed into the ground. right here, this on the ground, pieces of shrapnel from that rocket fired from gaza. it's littering the area and a scene not unique to southern ziti a real or central israel and the cities of hamas and tel aviv since that massacre on saturday morning. >> brian: has it been essentially rocket strikes now since the weekend? you don't see a lot of physical incursions from hamas fighters? reporter: there's been a few but at minimum 1500 fighters and found the bodies of 1500 militants and terr terrorists tt

crossed into southern israel and what we're starting to understand is there's been fire fights at different locations and they're not always reported and talking to soldiers in that kibbutz and small community of be'er yesterday with the army and while we were there, see the ambulances and medical workers pulling up to the staging point and when we're with the army there, one soldier said in that kibbutz, 12 hours ago they were in a fire fight with hamas mill tesla and metas and gives you a sense they're trying the militants and three hamas fighters in the northern gaza strip and we anticipate and infiltrate again and > hit agai. >> steve: they tried to level a building and continued to pound it with more rockets so they can get into the tunnels.

do they have really good bunker busters orono whether or not there's abscess to those? reporter: they have bunker buster bombs and they use them. even those don't work in gaza. sometimes because the tunnels are so deep and they put these tunnels so far underground and use a bunker buster, they have to hit the same place three or four times often to target the area they're trying to hit. they've had years and years and build this tunnel system and it is one-over the most difficult parts about their job in gaza. remember, they have open fields in different areas and you'll often hear about agricultural areas in gaza pounded by air strikes and that's because these are where the rocket lawn cheryl: congressmans are and systems are underground and they can move rockets, feed them into launchers and fire them in the barrages that land in communities like this. it's part of the reason when we've been in gaza, we stood in craters that are the size of

houses and still they haven't hit the target underneath. >> lawrence: trey, explain to the audience the different targets and what i mean by that is what is hamas striking and what is israel striking? >> the most complex environment and we talk about the mixture of military and civilian. in gaza, it's densely pop lated and 2 million people live there and it's 25 miles long and anywhere from 3-7 miles lopping and it's really striking buildings and they're striking houses and open fields and they have intelligence about these areas in the link to hamas or islamic jihad. >> the publication and sensitive information and it was cleared for the ways they were targeting people inside gaza and any of the massacres on saturday. if they were able to use their

intention and someone on an iphone took a video of someone else committing an atrocity or filming, they would find the person if they had intelligence or hit with an air strike or drone strike and artillery. what we're seeing in gather s and we should describe, the city is complete destruction in the neighborhood blocks and the level of destruction is significant and the worst gaza has seen certainly. >> steve: trey, thank you very much. stand by and stay safe. >> brian: we saw two explosions during this conversation. >> ainsley: look on the right side of your screen, you can see the smoke in the back. >> brian: idf. i'm wondering if they are failing gaza and seeing the hostage movement and the idf are using and they fly a lot of

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the left sides of the screen, we're awaiting the press conference between secretary of state antony blink and prime minister of israel netanyahu. as soon as they take the stage, we'll go live and on the right is gaza city and israeli air strikes filled the sky. once again we've been watching these throughout the day and night as well. nonstop. i attack comes as israel readies a ground invasion. it is presumed, and the first batch of u.s. weapons are now in the hands of the israelis. let's bring in retired navy seal and recon marine veteran. mike cerelli. according to the idf, israeli leader haves not yet decided whether or not there'll be a ground invasion. >> steve, i think the

consequences of not conducting a ground invasion is better than not conducting a ground invasion. what we're probably seeing israel do is setting the condition for that ground offense and i have we've seen them cut essential services like power, cut water and especially telecommunications as they continue indirect fire to make it as hard as possible on hamas and the palestinian citizens. >> steve: sure, mike, there's an arab leader, hamas leader that told hamas station they've been planning for two years. no more than five hamas leaders knew about it but they've been planning for two years and they had to plan, when things get tough, they'll cut the yous and they did -- cut the juice and they did. >> mentally they've been prepared and what make this is worse is gaza is equivalent to the size of manhattan so talking about military operations on urban terrains with the urban combat and statistically from world war ii, waste city and

iraq and afghanistan we've seen the casualties be extremely high. what concerns me is they have prepared defensive positions within gaza, they've laid weapons, cachets and have a plan, which is going to make this all the more brutal for both sides. >> steve: mike, in the last membership or so, lookerring at gaza -- minute or so, looking at gaza city and the air strike and trey yingst adf forces know where the bad guys are and they're knocking down the building, knock it down more and bring in the bug curb busters but sometimes it take as bit to get down to the tunnels if they can. they've been waiting for this day. >> they are very much bunkered in. you can almost count on that. again, they have a plan in place, but don't count israel out to be very resourceful in order to make life as painful on hamas as well. >> steve: indis'd. there's american hostages and about 150 israelis and we are

being told as well being held hostage. as a former navy seal, how do yuppies get them out? how did you get them out? >> steve, hostage rescue is something we don't outsource to other nations. if there's americans amongst them, our special operations will be stationed but this is an intelligence community drill in partnership with israel to find and fix where our hostages are at that point and plan a simultaneous coordinated way to get as many hostages out as possible. what makes this very difficult is that if they're in multiple locations and rescue 60 of the 100 other 40 of the worse situation and it's a bad situation and don't discount our american special operations and pull it off and pull it off. >> steve: fingers crossed on that. up to 150 hostages, would they keep them in one place or would

they put them wherever they needed to as human shields to make sure that the israelis don't bomb that spot. >> the likelihood of the locations and ten+ make it rescue and that's absolutely right. >> steve: mike, thank you for joining us today for your expertise. all right, about ten minutes before the top of the hour and we a more. >> ainsley: we're returning to the breaking coverage of the war on israel but a few headlines. another migrant shelter opening in a busy tourist district in chicago tomorrow and the city's major said the influx of migrants is causing chaos. mayor brandon johnson outlininged a new budget proposal yesterday calling for

at least $150 million for arrival services and brand new fox news poll shows record support among voters for building out the border wall. this after the biden administration announced a new section of wall will be built in texas. and happening today, the ex-girlfriend of sam bankman-fried is set to take the witness stand again. the disgraced crypto founder's legal team is set to begin their cross-examination and caroline ellison, former ceo of hedge fund alameda research said bankman-fried was set to determine fraud on a high scale and has an overwhelming sense of relief now that the truth is out. bankman-fried faces over 100 years in prison if he's convicted. those are your headlines, steve to you. >> steve: carley, thank you so much. you're looking live in gaza city where a barrage of air strikes have hit and we'll get reaction from -- look at the guest coming up, tim, david, pete straight ahead on "fox & friends" but

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>> brian: right now live on your screen, you're watching an active war. huge plume of smoke over gaza after another rocket barrage minutes ago. we're continuing to watch this while inside the prime minister and our secretary of state will have a series of statements and then they're going to open it up to the press and take questions. i tell you, it was a fiery press conference this morning with the president of israel and worldwide media as some are already critical of operation that hasn't legitimately started in gaza. they're saying it's too hard headed to be -- shutting off the power and water prior to this -- prior to to what's supposed to be an invasion. >> lawrence: there was disagreement, ainsley, about the statement that the president of israel said that, you know, people should leave. i think there's some nuance to

it, but i don't think there's any nuance about why are you living in the same building as hamas? why are you breaking bread with hamas? >> ainsley: right. >> lawrence: those are the buildings being targeted by israel right now. >> ainsley: it was really a heated press conference and president herzog and calling for them to free the hostages and one of the reporters asked him, are y'all going to do some sort of deal. look at these, these are live pictures and. >> steve: the support of gaza and interesting when trey yingst was with us and said sometimes you'll see an air strike in what looks like an open field just grassland and as he depicted, that is because there are tunnels underneath it. we don't quite now the strategic value of that location other than we do know that hamas is trying to, you know, get in and out of israel via water. >> lawrence: that looks like a boat. >> ainsley: the president

herzog, the media was asking if he was going to come up with a deal to free the hostages there. a deal, it was very heated. a deal, i'm calling them to free the hostages. they should let our hostages and people go. he is the -- i was reading the difference between a prime minister and the president. president is the head of state and his powers are largely ceremonial. the prime minister, netanyahu, holds the executive power. >> lawrence: we look at live pictures in gaza and looks like they hit a boat. it's important to note that when hamas attacked israel, they came from air, land, and sea. we don't know what's going on right there at the port, but it looks like they struck a boat. >> steve: that could essentially be part of the hamas navy. they don't have a navy but could be the stuff. what we're expecting to hear from our secretary of date blinken when he stands at podium next to mr. netanyahu, he's

going to talk about how the united states continues to support israel and we know that, we've heard from our president saying that he'll be able to bring in ammunition and the other thing is we were talking about this with mike cerelle and how the united states are working on finding americans that are missing or in hiding or taken hostage or killed. so essentially it's like, okay, a bunch of americans are in pearl and we're going to help however we can. >> ainsley: you saw congressman cory mills going over to israel and he took a plane and filled it with 32 americans, they were calling and said they were calling the state department, according to cory mills wasn't helping them and said i'm going to take a plane and i'll rescue these individuals and they were church groups working with a pastor of th