get as much intelligence as they can. you can see them secure those perimeters and that fence line so that hamas cannot leak out and cause any more damage other than via rockets. it could be a trap. you do not want to get sucked in that without a plan. >> thank you for your time, commander. appreciate it. >> i think we'll need to talk to him again in the coming days. >> we shall. we got number of things still to come throughout the day here. we'll on it. >> including remarks from the secretary of state antony blinken possibly within the next hour. >> i thought when he stepped to the microphone early, really powerful comments. >> harris faulkner will take you through the next hour. thank you for being with us. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: we begin with breaking news. the united states secretary of state antony blinken is on the ground in israel today showing solidarity with our key ally.

our good friend, israel. he set to hold a news conference just moments now. you will see it live. i'm harris faulkner. you are in "the faulkner focus." the gruesome war claiming the lives of more than 1200 israelis and 25 americans now. that number has ticked up. wow. 17 more that we know of americans missing. some being held hostage by hamas terrorist. big questions about how the biden administration will respond to all of it, particularly people on the ground who are not hostages who also need to get home. wait until we see the list we have to show you all of the other countries working with israel to go there with pl pland get their home. we are not doing that. secretary blinken meeting with prime minster benjamin netanyahu. the prime minster with a very

clear message. >> hamas shown itself to be an enemy of civilization. massacring of young people in an outdoor music festival, the butchering of entire families, the murder of parents in front of their children and the murder of children in front of their parents. hamas is isis. just as isis was crushed, so too will hamas be crushed. >> harris: israeli forces continuing to prepare for what we're told is an imminent ground invasion. they stand ready for such an order. the sites around gaza showed the magnitude from all of our different points of view, the magnitude of what israel now is doing to the terrorists on the ground in gaza. ♪ ♪

what you see there is how this all started and continues. hamas still able to fire missiles, rockets. of course, hand propelled rockets into israel. this is day 6. the threats are growing on israel's other fronts. let's go to the northern part, border, lebanon and syria. they sparked another major concern. hezbollah another terrorist organization. now serious pro-government media says israeli airstrikes are targeting their airports. israel trying to keep them from targets that they say they want to hit. potentially could inside israel. team coverage now. former secretary of state mike pompeo is with us.

white house correspondent jackie heinrich over the controversy of americans trapped in israel and others who are not hostages who can't get home. let's go to mike tobin on the ground. >> reporter: the sun is setting now over the gaza strip. when the sun goes down, the rockets go up. the airstrikes go back in. we're starting to get video showing the impact of what has happened in the gaza strip since its unprecedented air campaign began. new video of ships in the port of gaza that have been hit. as you robbery, this was a campaign by hamas from air, land and sea. there was a naval component. with that, the israeli defense forces starting to identify some of the personnel they have taken out with their efforts since october 7th. one of them, a naval operative

for hamas with rafa brigade. he was killed by commandos. israeli defense forces, they recovered naval weaponry and underground commando tool. they talk about strikes of islamic jihad personnel up and down the length of the gaza strip. making an effort to connect hamas to isis the whole time. as we look outside of the gaza strip, the israeli forces continue to mass. fuel trucks resupply them. we get the ominous word from the israeli defense force that the next phase of the operation is ready to begin. indicating that this unprecedented ground invasion of the gaza strip is ready. the siege of gaza is absolute. according to israel's energy secretary. he says no light switch will be turned on, no fuel truck will enter the gaza strip. this is despite pleas from the

red cross who says the hospitals in gaza are turning into morgues. >> harris: so far, there are 17 known americans missing or being -- some are unaccounted for. some believed to be prisoners of hamas. families are pleading with the biden administration to do something and do it now. they are short on answers about an efforts to get our people out. >> right now, we think the number that we know -- we believe are held hostage is small. less than a hand full. >> has the presidential ruled out sending any american forces any kind into gaza any time to help secure their release if necessary? >> we haven't made any policy options or operational decisions with respect to hostage recovery at this time. we haven't made any decisions about hostage recovery at this

time. >> harris: brand new fox news polling showing voters overwhelming supporting israel. 68%. jackie heinrich is live for us at the white house. >> the white house has three objectives now. that is to show support for israel including military support to prevent this conflict from expanding and also to bring american hostages home. the president speaking yesterday made the point. if you don't hear him talking about it, it doesn't mean it's not happening. listen. >> press shout to me that what you doing to bring these folks home. if i told you i wouldn't be able to get them home. but the idea that i'm going to stand here before you and tell you what i'm doing is bizarre. i hope you understand how bizarre it will be to answer that question. >> yesterday president biden announced military aid that's been given and more on its way and cautions iran and other actors not to take advantage of

the situation. positioning u.s. military assets in the mediterranean. he also revealed that he has cautioned israeli prime minster benjamin netanyahu to abide by the rules of war after ue called the israel's siege of gaza illegal. u.s. support is unwavering. he detailed efforts happening now within the administration to secure safe passage for palestinian civilians in gaza to egypt. this was the second speech we heard from the president. this time the white house had to walk back one thing. >> i've been doing this a long time. i never really thought that i would see have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children. i never thought i'd ever -- >> reporter: the white house later revealed that the president had not actually seen such photos or independently

verified the photos. he was basing his remarks and the account that he had heard from prime minster benjamin netanyahu who this morning, we saw repeated the same message when he was meeting with the secretary of state antony blinken. >> harris: do we have any other -- what the president being shown? is he seeing these images? i think that's a fair question. it took him almost 72 hours to begin to talk to the nation again after some brief comments on saturday. what does it look like? he spent millions of our taxpayer dollars revamping the situation room. >> reporter: we don't get lot of details what kind of national security conversations he's having. i will say, though, we are aware broadly of an effort that's under way now to make contact with at least 16,000 americans who have contacted the state department that are in israel that may want to leave.

we are told that not ou -- all f them want to leave. there's an effort to secure a way out for those people. we can't report all the details. the state department won't give us the full picture. i don't want to jeopardize operational security. >> harris: understood. i haven't heard lot of examples from the president in terms of that. you have more details when he talks to us. thank you. mike pompeo former secretary of state and fox news contributor. so glad to have you and all your ccia experience coming to bear this hour. i want to start what she was saying. it's important. i understand they can't tell us everything. you led the cia. you wouldn't want us to know everything. what do we need to know that you think we're not being told from the administration? >> well, first of all, it took them too long to get on the

front foot. the fact that deterrence against the iranian regime -- this is the iranian regime that is at war with israel today. they lost the front foot. we lost the deterrence. this is where we find ourselves with americans dead eeriely reminiscent like afghanistan. they won't tell us how many americans there. i remember the work in the worldth reporting you did when they wouldn't tell us how many americans were trapped in afghanistan. this is indecent what happened. this was iranian barbarism. they won't utter those words because it puts them in place where they have to act. the truth is the world needs to react. we need to take this on board. what is happening here is historic. the fact that hamas has now killed not only thousands of israelis but dozens of americans

requires united states serious response. i think the president is right. he doesn't need to tell us what he's doing. he better be getting every asset put in place. >> harris: meanwhile, it has crept up to 25 dead americans and u.s. nationals at this point. i remember a time when former president trump said if iran put his hands and killed one american, they would feel it. paraphrase there. his words much stronger than mine. we have 25. is the response that it's public and there should be one strong enough to indicate that this president might feel the same way about the people who want to kill kill us? >> not at all. this is how we find ourselves. american failed leadership. we did make very clear. i communicate, i wrote about this in my book, i communicated with the ayatollah.

who said if you kill an american, we're coming after you. the perpetrator of the crime against americans. this administration can't say that. they underwritten this. they gave hundreds of millions of dollars to palestinians. they gave billions of dollars in sanctions to the iranians. this administration failed in iran policy. now they got to figure out how to avoid what's coming next. continued iranian effort to the united states of america. >> harris: lot to get to with you today. i want to get to what jackie just reporting. we're thinking 16,000 americans still on the ground in israel. we saw something similar to this when we vacated all of our

responsibility for lives on the ground in afghanistan under this administration. look at foreign governments mounting rescue efforts to israel. nigeria and switzerland. what in the world are we doing with our name not on that list? i don't need to know every detail. we have the best special forces in the world. i know how they're going to do it. what i want to know, where are we on the scroll? >> it's remarkable. the absence of the united states, not only getting our own folks home. we've been the one with the resources. the best special operators on the face of the planet. this administration has underreacted to the moment. i'm glad they're providing armaments to israel. that's fantastic. i credit them for that.

where were they on october 7th, where were they october of last year? they didn't invite president benjamin netanyahu to the white house. this is a failed relationship of our partner and ally in the region. the whole world is watching. gulf arab straights could see we weren't partnering with israel. they hedge their bets. what's happening today is result of iranian activity. but the biden administration's policy set the conditions and the context for what's happening today. >> harris: i want us to hear from americans on the ground, including a former congresswoman from texas maya flores, about what it's like to be there and want to get home. i know the administration, there are some americans who don't want to come home. we heard that in afghanistan too. what about the thousands of people who do? listen to this. watch this.

>> first time i did it was in 2021, where i conducted first rescue of americans. here it is the second time doing the biden administration's work they have no plan no strategy to get the americans out who are trapped. i hope that them being home now and to be in a safe space, has given them confidence that americans won't be left behind. at least those who are elected officials when stand up when it's needed. >> harris: let's roll myra flores. let see what she's tweeted or x. i'm glad you made it home safe. this was a twitter feed an x feed talking with people who not made it and finally getting home. my family is currently abroad in israel and was as told that there are no plans in place to evacuate united states citizens.

with fresh reporting today, they're taking a look at the issue. those families should be told before anybody, we are coming to get you. >> this is pretty straightforward. i remember when we had tens of thousands of people stranded during covid. we moved heaven and earth to get them home. this administration underplays it. they always underreact. they are part of this understanding that it's about the absence of leadership and protecting the american people and our sovereignty. we got land war in europe. land war in the middle east. we got thousands of people streaming across our southern border. the united states is more at risk today than it has been in a long time. in each case it's a set of policies that deliver these outcomes. did not have to be. we have agency here. we could have done so much better. when i watched the horrific

images come out of the middle east. these babies that were killed, these grandmothers that were taken hostage. the united states needs to stay the course. it is going to be difficult in these coming weeks to watch what's happening in israel and the gaza strip. we need to remember october 7th for a long time. we need to not only wipe hamas off the face of the earth, we respond to the primary actor, the iranian regime that held hostages in 1979 for bunch of days. in the end it took ronald reagan to get them home. we need that kind of leadership to get americans out of israel and americans held hostage back to freedom. we build that stable and peaceful and prosperous middle east. >> harris: what we showed you previously it was representative from -- i can't remember which state. i will ask my team. he was from florida. he was talking about how he has gone in and brought 32 americans home. when you have current sitting

lawmakers and of course, willing to go there but able to get to 32 people and you know you have at least 17 and he's not special forces on the ground with geared kit. it is not only unacceptable. it is afghanistan all over again. remember, we were broken over that. we said it wouldn't happen again under in man's watch, it happened twice. secretary of state antony blinken just moments ago, secretary pompeo, met with survivors and victims of families of the hamas massacre. remember, he's on the ground today. he was at a donation center earlier this morning. he's in tel-aviv. here is part of an emotional exchange between antonini blinken and friends. in we have lots of friends. we lost lot of our friends, close friends, lots of family

members. there are lot of people that we know that are kidnapped and now in gaza. we went through horror. i'm 24. i never imagined something like this would happen ever at a music festival. we celebrated love. we danced and it was amazing. then the rockets started and gunshots everywhere. we managed to escape. there were lot of friends that didn't. there were lot of friends that are kept captive now in gaza. there are friends that we loved that -- [ indiscernible ] >> harris: we are with them. it's not enough. we got help them. even when they don't ask, we have to be ready. this is family.

secretary pompeo? >> harris, i was listening to that. we had both grief and horror and love singing in the background. tough, resilient people in israel, living in their rightful homeland, the jud jewish people. there are some great partners and they are wonderful human beings. we have a responsibility to help them get this right. what we'll do our part in the short run. biden administration is now getting that piece right. this is going to take a sustained effort over years. this threat is not going away. this is the hard work of deterrence. when the biden administration called the crown prince pariah and refuse to bring prime minster benjamin netanyahu to the united states. that's a signal to the bad actors. those are connected. we have to get this right. we can do it. the american people will support

government officials. when we get it right, good things will happen. >> harris: i have to let you go. i have to ask this because you brought up saudi arabia and that 45 minute phone call that saudi arabia had with iran, what do you make of that? they are united in supporting the palestinians. i understand that because they're caught in the gap between fighting forces now and terrorists. they can't get out. what do you make of 45 minutes. i wonder if our president had a conversation about that, $6 billion. >> i hope so. i hope that $6 million never sees the light of day. no more money goes to the iranian regime. as for the gulf states we put them in a difficult position. we negotiated with the iranians first two and a half years of this administration. we were cutting deals with them. if you sit in the region, you say, you know what if the americans aren't going to help

us, fight against the regime that wants to kill us too. i got to figure out a way to hedge. i'm very confident that the leaders in the gulf states all want to normalize relationships with israel. i'm certain of that. the timing it was always uncertain. we delivered four of them. they understand israel is going to exist. in this moment, what i'm watching what they do. we'll see statements to try to find their way through this. what we should look for is actions each of these countries take. i'm convinced these people that live in the region will see the jewish people, the israelis. they will come to see them as good friends, good partners and good business colleagues. it will take little time. we can get there. it's going take the united states demonstrating its commitment to israel to help them find their way there. >> harris: god bless you for your optimism and leadership. we need that. that's the songs the hebrew songs they were singing. we know what a himmal sound

like. it's christian. thank you. as the secretary and i were talking about, all of the stories and you saw the secretary of state currently talking with one of the survivors of that music festival where more than 250 died as the paratroopers, hamas terrorists were falling from the sky and killing people on the ground. they were coming down. you see the parachute pictures. as they were coming in, she got out. secretary blinken offering condolences to her for all those see lost at that festival. we saw that. the stories coming in that israelis have faced from hamas, just get more mind boggling everyday. missile sirens waking up a young

israeli woman saturday morning. her small town was under attack. she was forced hide in a bomb shelter for nearly two days as gunman opened fire. she describes that experience. >> we started to hear gunshots. i didn't understand, because not even in the worst dream we would have imagine terrorists come to the city. this was the first time i realized, bad, brutal things are happening. >> harris: hamas believed to be holding at least 150 people hostage. we mentioned that americans are among them. we don't have the number. we know how many americans are missing. this 21-year-old is one of those israelis held captive. he was at a party when he called his mother and said, shooting had started. he gave her repeated updates

until he was kidnapped. the last thing the family saw was video of him and five other men held in a small room. his mother and uncle join me now. blessings to you both. there are no words. have you heard anything at this point? i will come to you, mom first. >> we're having difficulty to talk. we got a phone call saturday morning. >> my son calls me in the morning. says to me, mom, the party is over. bombs all over.

i'm hiding. i call you every half an hour. i love you. i love you. >> harris: i saw you gather yourself and you try to mind your words. just hearing you talk. the world needs to hear you. i'm grateful for you being with us here on the focus. i want to ask you about the kind of support and what you being told is happening for those who are being held hostage by hamas. >> we met her. they are working with us. she told us last monday --

israeli country known it's there. afterwards, we were invited for tomorrow to a meeting of all the parents who are hostage in gaza strip. we try to -- we are starting to feel that the country repping us in a good way. the community repping us very well. now the country gathering together. >> harris: i'm wondering with tomorrow's meeting and thank you

for that immediate detail of something that is so important. tomorrow's meeting with all the israeli parents of hostages that you know of being held now. how does that help you? what would you say at that meeting? >> what's important to me is that my son come back home. i want to know what the plans. i want to know what they are doing for bringing my son back home. >> harris: when we have watch had happened with people taken, we don't have the experience across the world to know where they are. we do know there are tunnels underground. finding the hostages won't be easy. that will be a question that i will have tomorrow. how do they expect to penetrate

that and what kind of help they would accept from the united states. i say that to you because in those moments they may already have the answers. we across the world don't need to know. you do. before i leave you, tell us just a little bit about your baby. >> my son is 21 years old. he finished service in the army four months ago. he's an intelligent, smart and happy child. love life. we are very close. i don't know what to say anymore.

>> harris: you said it all. >> he just went to party friday night. he went to a party. every youngster in the world was going on friday night party. he found himself in a big fight in a big mess and a big chaos. now he found himself as hostage by the hamas. it's something that we can't believe. we really wants all the israel authorities, we ask america authority to try to bring them back safe. not in one week, but tonight. this is what we want. this is our goal. this is what we going to fight for. >> harris: blessings to your family. i pray for your loved one and all those who are missing and

held hostage right now. thank you both. we are with you. >> thank you very much. >> harris: please join us here fox news reporting those affected by the war. fox corporation has made $1 million donation to the united jewish appeal. your donation will go directly to that effort. visit the united jewish appeals website or scan the qr code on the screen if you like to donate. >> we are sending more fighter jets there in that region and made it clear to the iranians, be careful. we want to make it real clear. we're working on every aspect of hostage crisis in israel. >> harris: president biden giving his very first public warning to iran since the hamas

attacks as he announced the u.s. is sending more military assistance to israel. this comes as lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle say iran should be blocked from getting its hans on that $6 billion in frozen sanction funds. that money was released by the biden administration as part of an even prisoner swap. >> not a penny more should go to iran. the 6 bi 6 billion dollars thats made available on september 11th, should not be made available. >> we do agree that iran should not receive any money from the u.s. >> the biden administration needs to speak to iran and tell them, the show is over. the game is done. we will not tolerate them sponsoring these terrorist groups. >> i'm in support of frankly any measure that makes it more difficult for iran to carry out their terrorism.

>> harris: in focus, senator marco rubio of the great state of florida, ranking republican on the senate intelligence committee and member of the senate foreign relages committee. senator, thank you for moment of your time today. secretary of state antony blinken is on the ground in ices. he's set to speak live now. we'll take that live. what do you want to hear from him? >> continued message about how we're going to be there to support israel. hamas seeks to be embedded in all of this. hamas wants to be the dominant palestinian group in the region. that's what they want. to be the dominant faction for palestinians. they think that what they have carried out, the taking of hostages, the ability to exchange them in the future for certain concessions and the brutality that you see on television and cheered on in some parts of the world and country. increase their prestige and

support for them. i think it's clearly important that they be destroyed. that israel do everything they can to destroy them. this is going to be very unpleasant. hamas hides behind civilians and uses them as shields. don't really care about people dying. they view death as a form of worship. it's a very disturbing situation. we don't need to be explicit. we need to make clear to israel's enemies that the united states will continue to supply israel what they need until that job is done. second message is important as this effort moves forward, we have to work very hard to tame the temptation of iran and their proxies in the region from targeting and attacking americans. we know who their proxies are. they can't hide. i think it's important to make clear that an attack against americans in the region by iran or by their proxies will be

considered an attack against the united states and by an iranian state. >> harris: six days later, i don't see that immediate physical response. may be there's a whole lot going on and i'm certain there is. we don't know. i mentioned this earlier, we had a president, donald trump, who said you kill one and he come for them. i'm fair phrasing. we got at least 25 americans dead that we know about now on the ground. at the hands of terrorists. what should the response be? what should we hear from blinken? apparently, i don't know if the president will go there the way he went to ukraine. i don't know if he'll go to israel at this point. >> i think the most important thing for israel is that their enemies understand that u.s. is lock step behind israel. there's not any separation. we're not here 10 days from now saying you done enough and you

killed enough hamas terrorist. that's what it was in 2021. i think there's always that -- it's what they are counting on. these guys in hamas are not saying, we got stop this because too many civilians are dying. they don't about that. what they want to do is emerge from this being able to be viewed as more popular than the palestinian authority, for example over in the west bank. they want to be the dominant group in the region for palestinians. they view this as a great success. they have to be degraded. what they are counting on, when the images stop flowing and atrocities they committed that the world will put pressure on israel and u.s. and elements join in. none of us should be cheerful.

>> harris: you have touched on something that's important. it's all over social media. the former leader of hamas has called for basically a thaw on everybody. everybody just go out and do what you got to do. if you can do something on your own, which sounds like terrorism to me, then do that too. those words are resonating -- i don't know if you've seen it in the state of michigan and across the country here in new york city, those protests going on. if we pop up on the screen the support for israel. it's not 100%, it's not 85%, it's 68%. 18% for palestinians and 7% who say they don't know. they're neither at this point. how should we respond to what we're seeing in the street? should there be concern there? should we harden targets? what's your take?

i want to make this clear, they are not necessarily supporting the terrorists that are killing them on a running basis. this is how it's shaking out in the new fox polling. >> couple of points. i think clearly, i don't need to take a poll, israel is not popular among palestinians. not every palestinian is in support of hamas. not every palestinian is in support of slaughtering babies. it's important to say that. the second point, we always should be vigilant. we have a border. in mexico, we know people are crossing that border. we know that iran and other elements -- we should be vigilant. the greatest risk in my mind based on everything that i know in the short to midterm, it's not some short orchestrated

effort. it's that 100 people who their that message. we had a pilot, saudi military pilot who was training alongside our soldiers who carried out such an attack at one of our air stations. to me that really poses the greatest short-term midterm risk is the lone wolf attack within our country and other parts of the world. the one that's most immediate and worrisome is the lone individual who inspired by this to take action. >> harris: for the people who are already here. they may not be coming across those 1900 miles of border. most of it enough to get people through. they are flowing through like water. >> if you're willing to go out in public and celebrate and mock and laugh about the slaughter and the butchering of innocent

people, innocent jews, then, that's one step removed from saying, by the way, i will kill some jews myself. that is very worrisome. that's hard to identify and spot ahead of time. that is the most immediate and prominent risk. there's always the risk of an organized effort. that's ongoing. >> harris: you isolate the one that's of heighten concern. senator marco rubio, great to have you in focus today. i appreciate your time. we're awaiting secretary of state antony blinken to speak in tel-aviv after meeting with victim's families. we showed you little bit of him meeting with one young woman who was at that music festival where so many died. as far as we know, one of the first places that hamas began its killing. we'll take you there live when he speaks right after this commercial break. his #2s are perfect! he's a brand new dog, all in less than a year.

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there demonstrators on both sides of the conflict we're told. student groups from numerous campuses nationwide are planning to hold pro-palestinian rallies today. harvard students who signed a letter blaming israel for the hamas terror attacks now is backtracking. executives vow not to hire them as well at their companies. keeping a list of who some of these young people are. i wonder how that's going. molly is live in cambridge, massachusetts. >> reporter: this national students for justice and palestine group, the organizers put out this call to action day. now these rallies, protests are expected campuses across the country, kentucky, california, ohio. as you mentioned, unc chapel hill the gathering under way. notable that pro-israel students are on site there on that

campus. this comes as pro-palestinian student have been holding rallies at campuses across the nation. some of them in support of hamas attack on israel. college administrators are reputeuated some of the most statements mad by student. the antidefamation league of new england called the posting attributed to student of justice in palestine for praising paragliding attackers for their creativity. the student president calling at atrocities committed pure barbarism. harvard student organizations signed on that statement placing blame on israel and seeking to withdraw as business leaders consider blacklisting group leaders. i've been asked by number of ceos release a list of members of the harvard organizations.

to ensure none of us inadvertently hire any of their members. pro-israeli sentiments is posting showing kidnapped israeli hostages including elderly and babies. we are monitoring the pro-palestinian slated to take place. >> harris: thank you very much. it is something that we are watching. you're seeing lot of it on the associated press. these campuses are getting in gear and protesting like they were in north carolina. thank you. now this -- >> we will reaffirm the crystal-clear warning that president biden issued yesterday, state or nonstate thinking of taking advantage of the current crisis to attack israel. don't. the united states has israel's back. >> harris: secretary of state antony blinken there addressing

reporters earlier today. we've been telling you he is on the ground in israel and showing you some of his movement there. he has been holding meetings with senior officials and some of the survivors of that music festival. we showed you one young woman moments ago. one of the senior officials is prime minster benjamin netanyahu who had these strong words for the hamas terrorists during that press conference. >> hamas is isis. just as isis was crushed, so too will hamas be crushed. hamas should be treated exactly the way isis was treated. they should be spit out from the community of nations. >> harris: blinking arrives what could be the next steps an israel ground invasion of hamas and palestinian territory there. his threat and specifically gaza. his threat comes as israel

prepares for a possible ground invasion. that threat from netanyahu. he's a former israeli ambassador to the united kingdom. so glad to have you today. i want to get your top line thoughts about the diplomacy that we're seeing walked out. is it strong enough what the americans doing now, what we are doing to show israel support? do you want more? what are you watching? >> i was with prime minster netanyahu today when he was meeting with blinken. the truth is the israeli side is full of praise. the americans have been strong in their words unequivocal. they have steadfast and consistently. they have condemned the hamas attack. saying there's no justification for these atrocities. they not only talked the walk, they have walked the walk. moving of different military assets to the region is a sign

to other possible enemies in the region that they have to watch out. that america is here. america will look after its interest and look after its friends. we hope there's no need. it's quite possible that the meir presence of the americans will help them think twice. >> harris: ambassador, one of the things that we're seeing here, it's happening all over europe, a ramp up of support, each though it's terrorism. they are doing horrific things, support for hamas, the terrorist and for palestinian citizens caught in between all of the fighting, potentially as israel gets ready to go in. we think with a ground invasion. what is your take on how we deal with some of that? free speech, absolutely. when does it tip in the united kingdom. what's being done there? >> i can't talk about the united kingdom. i stopped being ambassador there

like three years ago. i can say this. hamas is internationally designated a terrorist organization. not just by israel and the united states. hamas is a terrorist organization under japanese law, australian law, canadian law, european union law and great british law. anyone who has a doubt that this was a brutal terrorist organization, you have to look at their behavior. we saw these heinous acts of violence against innocent civilians which you broadcast on fox and people understand. this is a group that is not only israel's enemy but it's the enemy of all civilized humanity. you have to understand that hamas is the enemy of peace and reconciliation. they say so. if you read the hamas charter,

they openly say, israel has no right to exist in any borders. they openly say that any ratio -- arab who negotiate peace is a trader to islam. they say every jew, man, woman, child, is a legitimate target for their deadly terrorism. it's not just words because we saw them put that into effect on sat-- saturday morning in a deay way. anyone who justifies hamas doesn't understand what hamas is about. >> harris: i appreciate those words. i know it's been 36 months since you were in that position. you have a lot to teach us and tell us about today. it's seen in the united kingdom. i appreciate that. you said the enemy of a civilized humanity. that's what hamas is. your take on it is important. we're all in this together. ambassador, thank you.

>> my pleasure. >> harris: remarkable image to show you now. the world's tallest digital israeli flag and the enormous electronic words solidarity. spelled in english and hebrew are lighting up the 60-story paramount miami world center skyscraper in downtown miami. obviously after dark, after sunset. we caught it yesterday. the u.s., florida is the third most populous state of jewish people. approximately 620,000. the ceo of the royal palm company said there's sorrow and outrage. we pray for the families and kidnapped hostages we grieve for the victims and we demand justice. we will bring you everything as it happens including that news conference from secretary blinken. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus."

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