for coming on and sharing your story as hard as it was. thank you for sharing that with us. >> thank you. >> bret: amazing story. meantime, eye opening apprehension last night along our southern border. fox news learning two lebanese men in their 20s caught trying to enter our country getting the attention of homeland security and the fbi. griff jenkins has more in eagle pass, texas. griff. reporter: hey, bret, it is getting attention of dhs and in the last few minks, in addition to two lebanese men in their 20s apprehended and one man from egypt apprehended in yesterday and he is in his 40s and he and two lebanese men are currently undergoing serious vetting and finding out who they are and why they're here and what their background is. let you have a quick look behind me you have presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy is now

along the river getting briefed and learning about these app apprehensions and, bret, something else he's learning in just the past one week here in eagle pass, there were more than 10,000 migrant encounters and there were more than 1450 known got aways. meaning they were seen or observed on video cameras but not brought into custody. it comes as there's more than 60 miles of un-patrolled border in this sector alone because 90% of the border patrol agents are busy doing the processing. i can also tell you over in the rio grand rally, bret, where there's been time reporting. i'm just learning in the last few hours they've had some 17 syrians since monday apprehended in that sector as well as 19 migrants from iran. it's all getting a lot of attention because obviously the horrific events playing out in israel and because we're learning that according to our latest fox news polling, nearly 50% of registered voters believe

the situation here at the southern border has regged a "emergency level". those are the numbers and we'll send it back to you but i want to give you a live look. a lot of americans worrying about what's happening here on the southern border. bret, back to you. >> bret: let alone who's already come in over months and weeks. griff jenkins along the border, griff, thank you. >> sandra: this is a fox news alert as we top off a brand new hour and our coverage continues.

a historic warning from israel's defense forces to more than 1 million civilians in gaza. get out now. it comes as thousands of idf troops and equipment are staging near the border. we're in unprecedented ground invasion of gaza could be just hours or days away. welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. i'm sandra smith in new york and, bret, it is great to have you here today. >> bret: good afternoon, sandra. i'm bret baier in washington and john roberts is on assignment. it is busy in these two hours and this hour the american death toll in israel remains unchanged at 27. 27 dead and 14 still missing and may be held hostage. we don't have definitive word there and breaking last hour, israeli forces are now in gaza conducting localized raids as they search for hostages. meanwhile, cities coast-to-coast on edge after hamas' former leader is calling for a day of jihad. >> sandra: new york city taking no chances, boosting

patrols and counter terrorism details. we expect a major pro palestinian rally to be happening in time square. that is expected to get going later this hour. we have a crew there and we will bring you all the developments from it. >> bret: fox team coverage begins now with mark meredith standing by on the biden efforts to bring kidnapped americans home. >> sandra: first to southern israel and greg palkot. greg, what's happening there? reporter: well, sandra, bret, what is happening right now, is sirens are blaring out and we heard and saw about five minutes ago an iron dome interception of a hamas militant rocket, appeared to come over the ash dot and we're hearing explosions and maybe swing us around and we're seeing iron dome intercepts going up in the sky and we're hearing them blast.

camera man randall will get any kind of view we can of this. we're about 20 miles you have the coast from gaza and this place has been a little quiet in the last couple days, but certainly the strikes against hamas militants inside gaza had been absolutely the most -- huge up tick of air strikes and in the back hearing hamas militants trying to strike back. there was again as you noted, bret, new report in the last couple hours of small ashed to - groups of military trying to seek out hamas rockets and seeking them out and look for hostages and there's still 150 kept inside there. this after an extraordinary warning as you noted from the

israeli military that 1 million+ palestinians must leave the northern side of gaza to go south, hamas rejected that. the u n said that wasn't -- the u n said that wasn't practical and un said that wasn't practical and take a look at what we saw and heard earlier today. >> you're looking at israeli military getting in place for action. we're two miles away from the gaza strip, and big trucks are bringing in tanks, armor personnel carriers, other trucks. the artillery blasts in the distance. >> that artillery fire doing more damage to gaza ahead of

land incursion to knock out hamas. throughout southern israel, hundreds of pieces of lethal equipment brought in ready for the cal. along the tens of thousands of soldiers manning the gear and if needed facing off with the militants. think it's going to be strong? >> going to be very strong. reporter: should it be strong? >> very strong. reporter: what do you think of the hamas militants and what they did? >> my english is not very -- reporter: what do you think of hamas, good, bad? >> bad, very bad. reporter: his english maybe not too good but his determination, guys, as you heard, very much so. secretary defense austin in israel today pledging military support and the tolls on both sides, 1300 dead in israel and 1800 dead now inside gaza strip and if this incursion really starts rolling, the fear is casualties on both sides could soar as we watch out for anymore missiles coming from hamas and

the gaza strip tonight here a in ashdod. back to you. >> sandra: we're thinking of you, greg. be safe and we'll check back in with you soon. greg palkot live. bret. >> bret: biden administration continues efforts to support israel and they're searching for concrete details on the americans captured by hamas. starting with just how many are there. mark meredith is live on the white house with more. reporter: we learned from the white house moments ago that president biden spent roughly an hour on zoom. that's that video conference software speaking to the families of those who have been missing trying to reassure them that the u.s. is doing what it can and the president also explained to 60 minutes why he wanted to make those calls and here's what he said last night. >> because i think they have to know that the president of the united states of america cares deeply about what's happening to

them. deeply. this is critical and not even human behavior. it's bar brim and we'll do everything in our -- barbarism and we'll do everything in our power to get them home if we can find them. reporter: saturday the white house has gone to great lengths to show the resources it's willing to deploy to the region and including secretaries of defense and stayed out there and evacuation flights getting underway and americans getting underway in israel and commercial flights disrupted and some lawmakers believe it's moving too slow to save lives and tom cotton sent the president a letter urging him to use special operation forces in a "hands on role in these rescue operations". the senator writing "we have a duty to act including with the use of force if necessary to save the fellow americans. now is the time for bold and audacious action and not timid half measures or bureaucratic constraints". we'll see if the white house pushes back again as we look to

see what may happen in the next 48-72 hours. also members of congress, bret, getting ready to head to israel and chuck schumer getting ready to head by partisan to the region. bret. >> bret: mark, as far as special opportunistics, the -- special ops, the u.s. has a special relationship with israel and they're very good at doing this job. if we see american hostages somehow trotted out by hamas on camera, i know the administration has been reluctant to talk about that moment. the fact that tom cotton and others are saying u.s. special ops needs to get involved. is it changing? is the tide changing in that way? reporter: what i would imagine is those kind of conversations that the white house having with the what it scenarios likely happening behind closed doors and whether or not they'd respond in a press gag like we're expecting later today and it's not necessarily likely because of course it is that what if situation and they don't want to say if we did for person a, what would we do for person b

in a different situation. however, it's possible that the president could tip his hand more and he's on his way up to philadelphia and whether or not this is a definnive this is what the heat house does if that scenario plays out over the weekend. that's yet to be seen. keeping hand close to the vest. >> bret: one more thing on the president's trip to philadelphia. he's not talking about israel, i'm sure he'll have some remarks on the top of the speech, are they thinking they're going to breakthrough with messaging on other topics on that day? >> you know, that's a great question, bret. i was a bit surprised by that too only because of course this is a trip that was likely in the works for several weeks beforehand, but obviously the president's schedule has changed quite a bit this week given the news that happened since last saturday. why this event and why now. that's an interesting question and there's a gaggle happening on the plane on the way and it's only audio and we don't get live

pictures and that's one of the questions reporters asked and after looking away from some of the other news of the day, elements why this trip would be so important. the president is also still going to be doing a few things in dc over the weekend. he's got a dinner tomorrow night he's planning to attend as far as we know, i would imagine when you talk about messaging here, that's maybe why he chose to do 60 minutes.

is >> it's very hard to predict how things unfold in the coming days and they're being held by a terrorist organization in now a war zone. zone the missiles being launched by them in future attacks and putting hamas out of business forever, they do that quickly and with overwhelming force so that the inevitable brutality of war is done quickly to minimize the amount of casualties but also to limit the time in which the hostages are moverring around and kept at ever heightening danger.

>> sandra: can you talk a bit more about the tunnel system that was built quite some time ago and hamas has been using on a regular basis for quite some time. we know they've got leaders that have been hiding in there. this is a huge part of the operation and they've had a lot of time to prepare for this. >> well, control of the ground is only one part of the whole thing and underground tunnels is substantial and they're very deep. it's proven challenging to collapse these with bunker buster bombs in the paths they've been reported on and it's going to take either waiting them out so they come out on their own accord or going in and finding the hamas operatives inside and killing them where they are. but that is a very dangerous and very lengthy operation. i think the more urgent one is control of the surface so the israelis can move air defense and focus those limited supply ammunitions and hezbollah to the north and also potential threat to the west bank.

>> sandra: can you also talk about the evacuation of citizens from countries all over the world and it's a major on going effort on going and the u.s. said fbi and pentagon has people on the ground and they're providing special open ray torrs to recover -- operate torrs to recover -- operators to get people out and this is a massive operation that's ongoing at this hour. >> not as one would expect and an evacuation of the third party civilians of hot active war zone and extremely problem matt and i can challenging and most times in history it's not gone very well. there's been undue casualties and damage that's occurred in the process of trying to do that. the u.s. has moved with a strike group and it does provide the president some options and does provide a platform in which to move helicopters as well as

aircraft to get those americans out quickly at the leisure of american forces and that comes with significant amount of risk. another layer of hamas trying to get to second layer that hamas has built saying they're not bunkingers for gaza civilians and other terrorists they can continue to fire rockets at israel and plan operations to launch terrific rests into israel. we can only imagine what this is going to look like and how sophisticated the planning underway is for this, bret.

>> one way they like to fight is inter-ming and will mix with the population and i don't see that changing and despite some palestinians are able to move to the south out of declared area of the israeli telling them to get out. there's going to be civilians, many probably held against their will and i don't see the threat of hamas using human shields is changing or going away. it's going to be building and fighting when it starts. >> sandra: brent, we really appreciate you joining us and giving us your int insights on . thank you. >> thank you. >> sandra: all right, tensions high on college campuses as we've been discussing and it's been happening nationwide and we have a live view from college in new york and cb, what are you seeing down there at the college? reporter: well, sandra, tensions

continue to rise at college campuses across the country and here at this college and i want to move out of the way and give the viewer as better look and it's a group of 50 or 60 students and some are wearing traditional scarves covering heads and face and others are carrying signs in support of palestine and a prayer is happening right now. signs reading from the river to the sea, palestine will be freeway. i've seen other signs quoting the koran and others referring to israel as a settler state and we're going to try and move in a bit closer. this protest here follows countless others that have happened in the city and across the country this week. hundreds faced off in dualing protests in columbia's campus and one telling me 500 people gathered to support palestine at another protest at a college across town and most standing in solidarity for palestine and one student accusing israel of creating propaganda.

another saying this. >> people are taking sides and i'm taking israel's side and as much as death is tragic, there's no two sides. it's free palestine. whether there's a situation and people are oppressed and not have a right to have their voices heard, they have a choice. reporter: some students calling ha mas martyrs and, sandra, back out live at the protest this is a prayer getting underway and the traditional scarves right now and everyone is silent as the prayer continues. we're told this group is going to march to time square and, sandra, i want to mention this week, dozens of house republicans called on education

secretary miguel car doe that c- cardona going out and monitoring the campuses right now. >> sandra: that's happening live in new york city at this hour. cb, thank you. bret. >> bret: cities across the country, sandra, ramping up security as former leader of hamas as we've been talking about and calls for a day of rage. in new york city, there's no credible threats at this time and they're putting additional officers in place at busy areas like schools and places of worship and nate foy live in time square and a huge propalestinian rally happening in less than an hour there and, nate, what are authorities telling you? reporter: well, bret, that beefed up security presence you talked about but where i am right now, which is right near time square, this entire area within the hour will be full of pro palestine protesters and you'll see palestine flag pole

attached to this truck here and protesters are starting to fill in all sorts of different signs here. many of them saying free palestine and, you know, a whole bunch of things are being yelled at this point and the intensity will only increase as the afternoon continues, bret. but i spoke with special agent in charge of the new york fbi field office today. and he told me exactly what we heard from governor hochul and mayor adams. there's no specific threats they're monitoring and with that global day of jihad that was called for by the former leader of hamas. they are really concerned about what could happen. they say they're prepared for it in terms of how they interment exactly what that means, they declined to tell me today but the former leader of hamas told anybody who supports palestine to show their anger on the streets today and that's the reason for the beefed up security presence and also new york city specifically really

focusing on schools and houses of worship, not only the locations of these protest especially like where we are right now. governor kathy hochul spoke with the white house and department of homeland security last night and she's ready to call in the national guard if needed. >> bret: looking live at air force one landing in philadelphia and president joe biden meeting with officials at the airport as he getting ready to head out and give a speech. we expect he's going to give remarks and one would think in a day like this where all the news is generated out of what's happening on the ground in israel and all the times he's talked about what the u.s. backing up israel. we expect some kind of remarks at this event in philadelphia but that's not the purpose of

the event. and we will see him live later on today. as tensions between pro palestinian and pro israel demonstrators grow around the world, some say they fear anti-jewish rhetoric may only get worse. let's bring in ambassador mark, a former spokesperson for benjamin netanyahu and cassioppi baseball games dorman to the uk. thank you -- ambassador to the uk and thank you for being here. i want to start broadly over what's group of peopled over the past day and a couple of days ago and where you see things standing as of this hour? >> well, we've had a few difficult days in israel and from defense, it took us awhile to clean up the terrorists that infiltrated in our country and hostage situations, and it took us a few days to get control of our own territory.

now we've moved from defense to offense and hitting terrorists in gaza till we continue hitting them hard until we have that's the goal on october 7. >> bret: as hard as it is to believe, anti-semitic re-mashes and posts have gone up some 500%, we're told, since all this began. despite our reporting of the depravity of terrorist on children, terrorist on families, and what we saw from the hamas attack. you see these anti-israel protests here in the u.s., around the worship god, this call to action, this global jihad call, a day of rage was

called for. what's your thoughts about in as you see these images? >> well, maybe your viewers are un-aware and maybe yes, maybe not. i don't know. but everyone knows that hamas is a terrorist organization. everyone knows it's an extremist organization, everyone knows it's a violent organization. that's cameable of the brutality on august 7. people are maybe un-aware it's also an avowed anti-semitic organization. if you read the hamas charter and there's obscene material there about jews that mirror what was written once in europe in the first part of the 20th century about jews. the same sort of terrible anti-semitic stereotypes about jews and the products of the elder zion and conspiracy and evil jews and so forth and so on. there's material there about the

jews causing nay hate jews and want to kill the jewish state and they start this fight and initiated this war and we'll finish it on our terms. >> bret: you've been very complimentary of what you heard from president biden and from secretary of state anthony blinken as he was in your country alongside some of your

navy base and statements early on and what's developed in the re-vent days. >> qatar hosts that leadership and seemingly diplomatic guests and i think the logic is there as you we want to be host isis and give them diplomatic status and give them official treatment and rolling out the red carpet and give them a home and why should one do the same for

hamas. a mas is a blood thirsty, brutal tertian and they rape, behead, burn people alive and take them hostage and day care them back. kidnap them and take them back and sitting in some dark cellar today in gaza. these people deserve to be fought and defeated just as the way isis was defeated. countries that host these people. i think we should continue sanctioning them and a government that has official relation withs hamas. a government that hosts hamas leadership in its capitol.

i think the international community has to think seriously about how we deal with those sorts of governments. >> bret: yeah, am bos dorman, wondering looking through images about people protesting and supporting palestinians and maybe some are anti-israel and if you make a distinction and talking about hamas and the terrorist organization and having to annihilate it and if between hamas and palestinians broadly and explaining to our audience and then secondly as you look at and get ready for what's going to happen likely in days, this battle that's going to go into gaza to try and take out the terrorist threat from hamas. how it may affect the world's perception as those public images go around the world in a minute.

>> she joined his unit down south and as a father, i'm proud. there are -- like my daughter, there are tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of young israelis who are now ready to do what we need to do to protect our country and change the situation in gaza. it's not going to be easy and we could have a lot of difficult house to house fighting ahead of us where unfortunately many israeli soldiers will risk their lives and some will lose their lives. that's a sad fact. this country today, israel, is united in a national effort to change this reality of gaza and change the organization and just

as isis was defeated in iraq or syria, we'll defeat hamas in gaza. >> bret: ambassador, we appreciate your time and know it's a busy time. please come back. >> thanks for having me, bret. >> bret: for the second time in as many days, a high level member of president biden's cabinet is visiting israel in a show of solidarity for the sec stair lloyd austin meeting with several israeli leaders with his trip to tel aviv today. senior national correspondent rich etson live from the meant gone. more shipments from weapons heading that way? >> that's right, bret, a senior state department official says over the past few days the united states has delivered to israel coming off a c17 and did

so at the air base and it's about 40 miles east of gaza south of the west bank. austin's israeli trip follows secretary of state antony blinken's meetings there yesterday with senior israeli officials. he was stairing at evil and takes evil to another level. >> this is no time for neutrality and false equivalence or for excuses of the inexcusesable and there's never any justification for terrorism. >> hamas still holding hostages including americans and the senior u.s. defense official says the u.s. is working to help free them. that american military personnel are in an advising role and that

there's absolutely no intention of putting u.s. forces on the ground. also today, the eisenhower carrier strike group leaves for the gerald r ford strike group. >> bret: thank you. sandra. >> you're dealing with cold-blooded killers. you can make all kinds of excuses where they are, but they are, and his job is to protect this country. anyway, we'll find out what he's made out of. >> sandra: u.s. secretary lloyd austin vowing the u.s. will stand with israel and what other support could the u.s. provide and u.s. security adviser and we keep detailing here and uss ford strike group the u.s. sent in for that

tactically but safe distance off of the northern coast of israel and continuing to kind of point this picture and that's key. we were sending a strong message as we continue to await what is next there in gaza. these evacuation orders are underway. this is gaza down here for the million or so to evacuate and head south. >> our newest and only nuclear powered aircraft carrier arrive on the scene because that comes with extraordinary capabilities. that's where the deterrence comes in. it's an air force base and that's a huge capability and the

hope is that all the bad guys will be sufficient on this and they'll think twice before provoking israel and god forbid us. small bops and interceptors being resupplied and hopefully that's primarily what israel needs. the intercepters for the iron dome and the david sling system for various types of missiles that could come in. they're indeed on the eve of a massive ground invasion of gaza. >> sandra: this is about 5,000 sailers and aircraft carrier and detailing and can hold about 90

aircraft of the length of about three football fields and talking about massive presence that is out there. flipping to the screen and look at putting everything in personnel and gaza here with the northern border of israel and lebanon here and what happens next and what we're learning with the ongoing situation in the exchange of missiles there. the white house said today that it has not seen any indication, victoria, and other actors are joining the widening conflict between israel and palestinian militant group hamas. i'm quoting john kirby and we're not seeing any external actor that's indicated a willingness or readiness to widen and deeping the conflict and, victoria, this is happening as we know. hezbollah has been increasing and raising its rhetoric.

the -- hezbollah leader said today the group would not be swayed by calls to stay on the sidelines of the ongoing conflict between israel and hamas saying the party was fully ready to contribute to the fighting. what does that tell you about what could be happening next in that region? >> with all due respect to admiral kirby, that doesn't pass a smell test and it's a situation created by the ziti lamb ick republic of iran and hamas doesn't know and hamas doesn't have the capabilities to put together an attack like the one mounted on october 7. hezbollah does not have the capability to produce 100,000 precision guided missiles in that war-torn reck of a country that's lebanon. of course iran is behind it and if there were any doubts, iranian foreign minister came out in the last couple days and

if they felt israel's action in gaza were inappropriate and might mean ziti rale doing anything in gaza, they were open to extending the war up to hezbollah and the north. they're saying it. and i don't know what kind of proof. i don't know if they need an engraved invitation or something like that to actually hold the iranian culpables and --->> sandra: earlier this week, israel sending troops and equipment to the border there and as far as overall expectations and military might on the part of israel, how are they deciding to spread that out

cpi real quick final thought on that from you, victoria? >> they'll have to be strategic and they're under the lebanon border too and they have to worry about west bank and this could be very dicey and fast and it's important of the u.s. presence. >> sandra: victoria, appreciate your analysis on that situation as we await to see what happens next. victoria, thank you so much. >> thank you, sandra. >> sandra: where are the, breath bret. >> bret: the white house is not changing the president's schedule amid the on going war between israel and hamas and president biden is now in philadelphia and we saw him land in air force 1 there and he'll tout bidenomics despite obviously poll numbers that show many americans may not be on board and we have the speech put up live and see the sign in the background, bidenomics in the distance. >> sandra: see if he makes remarks on the ongoing conflict. we'll be watching for that but meanwhile capitol hill remains in turmoil as the house is without a speaker at this hour

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mostly behind closed doors. >> >> the president has to do multiple things a the once and he's going to go to philly and continue to talk about bibs and what he's doing to bring back manufacturing to create good paying jobs. that's what you're going to hear from americans. that's something that americans also want to hear from. >> this is a official white

house seventh has hallmarks of political event ahead of an election year. we are in pennsylvania in philly where president biden goes more than anywhere else. there's union leaders and members and elected democrats here and the president is going to have a microphone to say whatever he wants about his own policies. later on this evening, on the way back to the white house, president biden is going to stop for a few hours at his home in wilmington, delaware. officials aren't telling us what that stop is about and we don't know if it's related to monday's interview, sunday and monday's interview with the special council robert hur dealing with classified documents held at that house in wilmington or something else. sandra. >> sandra: keep us posted on the ground in philadelphia and we'll listen to the president shortly. >> bret: exchanging rocket fire with militants in lebanon and there's concern that

hezbollah will fight alongside hamas. we've seen some exchanges already and chief correspondent jonathan hunt has been tracking if. good afternoon. >> good afternoon, bret. there's great concern that hezbollah, the very well organized, very well funded terrorist organization that is based in southern lebanon could enter the fray in this ongoing conflict. hundreds turned out for a hezbollah rally in lebanon and later we saw an exchange of fire between hezbollah forces and israeli forces on the board in northern israel and southern lebanon. if you want to look at the way this conflict could potentially play out, it's good to look back at 2006, the last time hezbollah and israel went to war. then hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets into southern israel, terrifying for the residents of

cities all over northern israel in particular. but hezbollah rockets are more sophisticated now than they were then and they can hit anywhere throughout israel. israel responded in 2006 with devastating air strikes against hezbollah positions in southern lebanon close to the border but also in beirut itself. we were there at the time, bret, it was a terrifying scene at times in beirut and as we traveled throughout southern lebanon, and it is terrifying for those colleagues we have in northern israel. hezbollah, as i say, very much funded by iran, very much run by iran. that is the great fear that they are in many ways a much more organized, much more militarily prepared organization even than hamas so if they enter this war and they've said they will take action if they believe that israel's actions are "inappropriate" whenever that

means so if they enter this war, it's quite literally a game changer in what would go from a conflict between israel and hamas in gaza to a region wide conflict, bret. that's the great fear. >> bret: yeah, jonathan, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: the house is under pressure to select a new speaker as additional aid for israel is on the line. how will the chaos in congress affect our ability to respond to global threats? fox news sunday shannon bream will join us next. because i o many of you have served our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility for a va loan for up to 100% of your home's value. if you need cash for your family, call newday usa. with automatic authority from the va, we can say yes when banks say no. give us a call.

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>> sandra: fox news alert. benjamin netanyahu did just address his nation and the world saying "soldiers are fighting like lions. all security forces, citizens, all united." much will be told about the bravery of our people, he said, on that terrible saturday. "we will not forget" said netanyahu a moment ago. to the families, he said i spoke to several families of those killed. we will never forget what our enemies did and will not let the word forget. netanyahu is saying this is only the beginning. the enemy just started to pay the price. he then said he spoke with the

u.s. president, joe biden, and leaders around the world. that he and his country have the support from them. we will beat hamas. it will take time. but we will win, said benjamin netanyahu just a short time ago. all right. meanwhile there's chaos unfolding on capitol hill as the war in israel heats up, majority leader steve scalise is out of the speakership race now. does jim jordan have enough support to become the next nominee. that's the question at this hour. shannon bream has more on whether congress will take swift action without a leader. first, we head to the hill where aishah hasnie is standing by. she's reporting live on this. what's the very latest, aishah? >> hi, sandra. i just was told that house republicans will take an internal closed door test vote on jim jordan at about 3:10 this afternoon.

so just about 15 minutes they'll get back together inside a conference room and take a test vote to see if he has the 2017 needed to take this to the floor and do an official speaker vote. in the meantime, a lot of pressure is intensifying on house republicans as the israeli hamas war continues to go on. i can tell you house foreign affairs chairman, michael mccaul, was just at the white house. he's now racing back to capitol hill to make this test vote that's about to happen. he was basically discussing with the national security council about a possible aid package for israel, which of course would need a house speaker, if that was going to happen. i'm told that mccaul basically asked to beef up all of the different funds, all of the buckets that the president has the ability to draw down from. that includes increasing the cap to the special defense acquisition fund, which

currently has a cap of $2.5 billion. this would help israel get their hands on more weapons, more parts, more munitions quickly. it could help ukraine and taiwan. we heard the biden administration was going to ask for a large supplemental for israel, ukraine and die want. some backlash about that on the hill here. chairman mccaul is not opposed to the wider package. nothing can move unless we have a house speaker. marco rubio has been saying that there are about $3 billion available previously approved for the president to draw down from. meantime, a lot of pressure on these republicans to come together today and pick a speaker. listen to what congressman garcia said earlier today. >> everyone in the party should realize there's a national security imperative here to fill this seat. put aside your political and personal differences and get on

board for the big win. >> so here we go. the test happens in about ten minutes, sandra. >> thanks. aishah hasnie. thank you. bret? >> as we said, any additional aid for israel up in the air as congress struggles to elect a house speaker. let's bring in shannon bream, "fox news sunday" anchor and chief leal correspondent. it's a mess. the 217 number is the magic up in. it's always about the math. right now it does not seem like jim jordan can get there, at least behind the scenes that's what we're hearing. >> and i reached out to folks from different wings of the gop that would align in different ways. i didn't get any sense that they would come to something that they can coalesce around. as aishah said, around 3:10 they'll try to go to the test vote. we had congressman austin scott. he's not a well known guy.

doesn't make you think he could be somebody to rally the troops and get to the 2017. he seems ernest about this run. >> yeah, he's from georgia. a seven-term congressman, this is a protest vote. he was a mccarthy supporter. mccarthy was on set with me last night. i asked him different ways if he was pulling himself out of consideration. he said it's up to the conference. it could be awhile, right? you think? >> it could be. i mean, this congress surprises us occasionally. i don't think that they have a solution to the speaker issue. they know the external look it is for them. you heard congressman mccaul just over at the white house talking about aid. he said our enemies are watching this. our enemies that don't wish us well and don't wish israel well. it's not a good look for us. we have serious work to handle here. we have these little buckets of people that say i won't vote for

x. how do you get them together? >> democrats saying the only way forward is a bipartisan power share. republicans are not going for that. >> yeah, i don't see them buying that yet. >> we just have heard that north korea has transferred weapons to rush for ukraine. who is on "fox news sunday" this weekend? >> to that point, we have john kirby with us and senator tom cotton to talk about the foreign policy issues. cotton is working with mitch mcconnell to freeze the $6 bill. and ben sasse says it shouldn't be hard to make a statement with a lot of moral clarity about what is happening as we see the protests on campus all over. >> thanks, shannon. >> see you later. >> sandra: just an update here. good to see shannon. nominating speech is over. voting around 3:10 eastern time.

they will call members back and try to hold a vote over the weekend. >> it's a lot happening. i appreciated how much happens from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. sitting in this chair. >> sandra: now you know. just to add to that, biden in philadelphia. this is a live shot. so i believe he is just starting his remarks there. the shot is not great but we'll continue to monitor for anything on the ongoing war. bret, thanks for joining us here. good to have you here today. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith in new york. >> it's great to be here in for john roberts who is on assignment. and "the story" starts right now. thanks, sandra. >> martha: thank you very much, you guys. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york where pro palestinian protesters have taken to the streets and are clogging times square at this moment. you have heard that