the massachusetts state police responded to our request and released their report with some reactions. obama was on the scene shortly after he went missing. it also states an unmanned female staffer jumped into the water when he fell off of his board but it was too late he disappeared. we also know the secret service has surveillance footage of campbell from the compound moments before he entered the water. so we will see if we can get that and we may have that for you. we are very sorry for the family of tafari campbell. that was a serious tragedy. we will have more on monday with frankie for fingers. you will not want to miss it. dvr the show and remember i am >>. >> sean hannity: welcome to

hannity tonight to a bombshell development from the biden family business or syndicate if you prefer or if you are in fulton county georgia you might want to call it an enterprise for months the media mob told us joe biden could not possibly be corrupt because he never took any direct payments although that's not what the bribery statute said. we are going to need a brand-new law and excuse because the house oversight committee uncovered a large direct payment to joe biden in the form of a $200,000 check personal check from james a biden marked as a loan repayment this occurred on the same day a struggling company allegedly hoping to use the biden family influence to open doors wired james biden that

same amount of money. what a coincidence. the chairman of the house oversight and accountability committee will join us with details and tonight we are monitoring the house speaker battle byron donald's throws his hat in the ring and we will show you exclusive video of my time in the tunnels built by hamas during my visit to israel in 2014. the money was supposed to be used for schools and hospitals and infrastructure but hamas controls the money and that is what they spent at all. a series of tunnels. joe biden wants to give them $100 million in humanitarian aid and coming up i retired four-star general will join us with analysis but israeli tanks are lined up on the southern border with gaza along what is that imminent ground war with

hamas. the green light has been given a town in northern israel was evacuated after a terrorist group ramped up attacks keep in mind the islamic republic of iran back both with these attacks against israel and israel may be forced to conduct a eight 2 french war with both groups and us soldiers stationed in iraq and syria have repeatedly come under attack in recent days by other iranian backed groups including multiple rocket and drone strikes inside of iraq and another strike in syria where american soldiers were injured and yesterday the us an american destroyer in the red sea shot down multiple missiles and drones headed for israel launched by another iranian backed chair were group in the amand biden and the

democrats who love giving billions of dollars to iran the number one state sponsor of terrorism and easing sanctions. what were you thinking? iran is now funding major terrorist groups in gaza, lebanon, syria, and they have murdered thousands of american soldiers. they have killed an untold number of his ? innocent civilians and have taken americans as hostage including two weeks ago during the worst terror attack in israel's history. thankfully we have some good news tonight. two of the hostages have been released. a 17-year-old girl and her mother from chicago. 10 other americans are being held somewhere in gaza. around 200 others are also being held hostage.none of this would have happened without funding weapons and training from iran.and yet during his week a pretty

pathetic speech joe biden barely mentioned iran and sadly the biden administration doesn't have the resolve to deal with it of course biden himself doesn't have the ability to do much of anything. that was clear this week and he is back at the beach in delaware for a very relaxing time with his beach chair a very challenging few days took it all out of him but thankfully the israeli prime minister does have the moral clarity and he does have the resolve to do what is necessary so mark my words tonight if israel is forced to fight a war against hamas the terror groups ultimately will be destroyed and if i run if they get involved directly i would say all bets are off and this could affect the entire middle east and they will come to regret their decades of death destruction, worldwide terrorism.

but tonight there are only two ways this current conflict between hamas and israel will come to an end. the full and unconditional surrender of hamas with all the hostages returned alive or the complete and total destruction of hamas. the sympathizers on the left in this country and around the world are demanding a cease-fire they are living in a fantasy world. they are detached from reality this war is going to be long and difficult but it is frankly sadly unavoidable. you have good decent human beings and a terrorists of hamas they cannot coexist together. it cannot happen. former secretary of state mike pompeo will join us in a moment. first on the ground in israel with the latest it is 4:05 am. our friend and cohost of american reports john roberts is with us. i know you have been working all week thank you for staying up tonight what's the latest?

speak to the good news that you pointed out the hostages judy and natalie were released last night but it still means there are 10 americans being held hostage along with 200 israelis and the number of people from other countries as well. the secretary of state blinken announced the release today said he urges he demands that hamas demand the remaining hostages without condition and he cautioned the press not to take anything that hamas says at face value. the reason he said that was because he was asked the question as to. >> sean hannity: if i might interrupt you we are going to come back to you but we do have breaking news just happening. the father of the american hostages released his speaking. >> when you realize this was happening your daughter is fine

your ex-wife's is fine what was in your heart? >> big relief. big relief. i thank you god. and i think for the release of the other hostages.i love you i miss you very much. and i spoke to her for a minute or two but it was very emotional. >> what did you say? >> i thanked him for his efforts he told me he knows how i feel. he is working on the release of other hostages. american hostages and that's it. >> the families of the other hostages. >> i say prey at home for good. >> prey and hope for good.

>> it was the best feeling. it was the best feeling. >> can you introduce us to these ladies behind you? >> my wife paula my sister and my stepdaughter. >> did anyone want to speak? >> i'm so happy you are finally coming home. we have missed you so much. we hope you were alive and safe and we know you are so brave and strong and that's how you and your mom made it through this. >> can you spell your name? >>

>> i love natalie so much i have faith in the world.i have faith in peace. i want to thank everybody who was involved in bringing them back safe. i cannot express how happy we are. is the best day of our lives. >> natalie and julie we love you so much only cannot wait to see you and we are going to celebrate ever going to have a big party and hug you and kiss you and this is a small. [indiscernible] in our family but hopefully for the other hostages and families keep praying and hopefully good news will come. >>. [indiscernible] >> sumita the last time natalie

was in israel was four years ago.the last time natalie was in israel was four years ago. she went to celebrate her grandmother's 85th birthday and for the holiday and she was very happy to go to israel and she went to be with her grandmother for three days and then that's when they captured her. >> do you have an indication why judith and natalie are the first? >> i have no idea. >> tafari campbell >> something very minor.

>> no. no. >>. >> reporter: moments where to some degree. [indiscernible] might be. [indiscernible] >> i think it is a matter of luck. i have no idea. >> reporter: have they been reunited with any family there? >> just with the idf. >> reporter: [indiscernible] >> i think so. i am not positive. >> reporter: have you been in touch with other hostage families? >> i have been in touch with one grandmother whose son was held captured. she lives close by and we have been talking a couple of times. and praying for their return. >> reporter: do you know where they are right now? at the us embassy?

>>. >> reporter: what message would you send to other hostages families? >> just to keep praying and hope for the best. >> reporter: [indiscernible] >> i do not know.i have other family in israel. rule two sisters and cousins. i have other family. thank you very much. >> the family of the hostages released today a mother and a daughter from chicago that is their family that was their father they are now free. we go back we continue with john robertson israel reporting for us.

before we get back to report and the update on the news is something we were chatting about earlier the things that we know the things that we have seen that the american people have not saying we know there are many images and videos put online of hamas terrorists holding babies that they have taken hostage and hostage videos that they have released we have also seen these are images you can ever get out of your head of some of them beheading including beheading babies and burned babies, this is the agony that every one of these 203 confirmed families are going through one bit of good news tonight and we can only hope it happens to the other families as well. >> john roberts: let's not forget that judith and natalie were near next door to gaza. right next to the fence you could throw a baseball hit the fence from their house 100 people were massacred there so

the fact that they were taken hostage was a miracle and not killed in the fact that they have gotten out of gaza is a miracle as well but there are still 10 americans being held in 200 israelis and a number of others. this has driven a push on israel to delay the ground operation in hopes that negotiations through qatar might bear more fruit this gained an extra measure of momentum as biden was leaving washington he was walking up the stairs to air force one a reporter shouted out should the ground invasion be delayed

while negotiations continue to try to get more hostages out and the president said yes which caused at the white house to backpedal a few minutes later and said the president was not saying yes the ground invasion should be delayed the president misheard the question and was saying yes more hostages should be released as we have been chatting off-line this ground invasion likely is imminent.we don't know exactly the timing we thought it might happen today but it is shabbat today. maybe later on after the sun goes up and back down is another opportunity for them to invade. by the way one other piece of news that came out of the president's fundraiser in washington d.c. was that he believes at least part of the reason why hamas launch this terror attack was to derail the negotiations between saudi arabia and israel over the normalization of relations. the president said that hamas knew that he was about to sit down with the saudi's. that is something else for us to chew on tonight. >> sean hannity: i think that

was a big part of it but i think you raise a good point. was this release of hostages of these hostages was this designed to delay what is inevitable which is the ground war? clearly it is eminently just don't know exactly when. i am not a big believer in ransom payments for hostages. one of my biggest criticisms about the $6 billion of the president was willing to give iran in exchange for five american hostages to me ransom payments result in more hostagetaking however there might be incentives that israel can offer if they want the lights turn back on and they would like the water turned back on and other utilities turned on maybe that would be something you could negotiate for the release of all hostages the president wants to give $100 million in aid to the palestinian people i don't believe a penny of that will

get to the people and i believe that money will be in the pockets of hamas but perhaps they could insist on the release of hostages on that point is not my policy but clearly it is his. any thoughts on that? >> john roberts: the reason why hamas took the hostages was for this reason. hamas knew the israelis are about to go and so they dangled a carrot. wait a minute. let's muddy the waters by releasing a couple of hostages and it's great it's fantastic that they were released but at the same time hamas still has 200 some bargaining chips left to go so the next time they are poised to go in we are going to release a couple of more hostages. watch for this tactic to be repeated that's why blinken said at the news conference today announcing the release of the hostages don't put any stock into anything that hamas says.

>> sean hannity: all right great reporting all week. thank you as always for staying up late with us. we appreciate it. here with reaction former secretary of state mike pompeo i have a lot of questions for you tonight please be patient let's get your reaction to the release of these hostages in principle i am against ransom payments for hostages. because i think it will result in more hostagetaking. however. joe biden did make that offer to iran and i think that worked out terribly and thought it was a bad idea however i think israel might have some negotiating room they could turn the water back on in the lights back on and services back on if they released hostages without being area you might support? >> mike pompeo: well to listen to that man talk about his family coming home is a joy.

it's love. it's wonderful to hear it just brought me to tears it's been a long two weeks for the families who have been held hostage and those who lost loved ones as for the decision about when israel will go and thus their decision to make and i have begun to hear a lot of americans talk about this would be something we should discourage them from doing. this is very necessary if we are going to prevent them from having another 10 american hostages you will have to take out hamas and then the united states is going to have to go after the primary actor last night president biden said we are going to continue to hold iran accountable. it will be laughable if it wasn't so darn dangerous. dangerous for everyone of us every american every israeli every saudi, everyone in the region. this is the world's largest sponsor of terror they killed

30 americans on october 7 and they raped grandmas and killed babies of this cannot be the case the defeat of hamas stops would happen. it's a case that they are held accountable we have the capacity to do that and president biden has a responsibility if he is going to deter aggression and hostages being taken it's not going to be by writing big checks it's going to be by imposing real costs on them and we know how to do it. >> sean hannity: i think you will agree with me that the goal has to be that gaza can no longer be a launch zone for what has been tens and tens of thousands of rockets fired into neighboring israeli cities i have been there i have seen the damage that the city has had 10,000 rockets by the time i went there a number of years ago fired into that city in 10 years 10,000 rockets and only takes 13 seconds from the minutes fired to land and it

doesn't ? major objectives have to be to prevent that from becoming a launching pad again? >> mike pompeo: it is they are duty it is the israeli government's duty to prevent that from happening i heard you say you had been in the tunnels they need to eliminate the tunnels and prevent them from being rebuilt. it's pretty clear when the israelis pulled out in 2006 hamas had no intention of making life better for anyone. they had the singular intention of continuing to build along with the patron to build a system that could wipe out j--if we had those missiles landing in the united states i promise you the president would have responsibility from ever letting it happen again and we would not take it from any other country.

>> sean hannity: prior to becoming secretary of state you were head of the cia you do know a thing or two about intelligence i have never been. [indiscernible] but i came to have a meeting with you and it was actually very eye-opening i felt like i was in a real jason bourne movie but on a serious note when the media in this country and worldwide and i am talking about all of the media abc, nbc, cbs, cnn, fake news the new york times, the "washington post". when they all came out quoting hamas propaganda saying israel was responsible for the attack on this hospital that killed 500 people didn't even hit the

hospital hit a parking lot and took out a couple of cars but that went worldwide and israel was put in a horrific position of having to defend itself and prove to the world that it was not true and in doing so they had to reveal their intelligence methods and capabilities to the entire world obviously the terrorists that they had on tape likely didn't know they were being taped and now that the world knows this they gave up a very important piece of national security and i can't even calculate the damage that the media did to israel. your thoughts. >> it's a very real, they should be ashamed of themselves but we know that seldom the case with the new york times and the "washington post" we saw what they did with the laptop we know what they did with the russian hoax narrative. they never bother to correct themselves they collect their prizes and move on.they did to terrible things. in this case by. [indiscernible] think about that they put blood on their hands. people were injured, there were riots. embassies were under assault and they haven't even fixed it

and now israel is said to go out and share a set of information and some tools that they had that will change how they were able to collect to save lives. it was reckless it was dangerous and i hope everyone of them will go right and say we got it wrong we apologize it was our fault and put processes in place from presenting this kind of misinformation from being hoisted around the world we had no reason to believe there was any evidences was in there israeli weapon system that executed a strike inside gaza. >> sean hannity: let's assume this becomes mr. secretary eight 2 front war. let's assume they are battling hezbollah in the north and gaza in the south. also we have to add this, the iranians are saying your time is up. they have threatened their own involvement in this conflict if i might add to all of that we

have iranian rockets and drones targeting us troops in iran and syria. so iran is involved in the plodding planning and scheming they are providing weaponry there fighting proxy war after proxy were there and threatening direct involvement and they are directly involved in the attacks against americans. what should the us role under president biden be?what should that doctrine be based on what they are responsible for? he doesn't seem to want to talk about it very much. >> mike pompeo: first fantasy of appeasement needs to be disabused from anyone working in the united states government. the idea that somehow you're going to appease your way out of this conflict resulted in 30 dead americans and still almost a dozen americans being held so real simple, first you would go re-opposed economic sanctions you would impose an economic price on the islamic republic of iran and if you go back and take out the knuckleheads who have been paid to kill if

that's all you do and the ayatollah and the president in tehran will be laughing. they will kill americans with proxies and americans will kill proxies we can't let that be the case. he talked about my time at the cia we have many tools with which to respond to this. there's a wide range of options that can be presented to make it very clear that you can't continue what you have been doing instead of giving them $6 billion we should have told them if you don't give the hostages back we will begin to impose costs less the way we got hostages back without paying a nickel. it works we can protect america we can restore deterrence but we have to be clear that this will never get us to the place where we can be safe and secure in the middle east can be safe and secure and prosperous. >> sean hannity: how damaging has the biden policy on energy been to rely on the lifeblood of the world's economy on countries many who don't like

us? why did joe biden and one of the consequences of his decision to allow iran to once again be able to sell their oil on the open markets? can you explain to this audience in any reasonable way the thinking behind giving billions of dollars to the number one state sponsor of terror i have a hard time understanding the thought process behind that what part of the acts of terrorism that we are witnessing in the wars that they are fighting are they not understanding? >> mike pompeo: i can't explain it. i wish i could. i can't articulate this is completely unexplainable to me. today while we have been sitting here 4 million barrels of iranian crude oil were sold on the open market generating hundreds of millions of dollars for the iranian regime after they have killed 30 americans per that's today forget what

they did last week or six months ago our year ago this policy remains in place. you have to get serious about protecting america we have two wars that have been started in the last two and half years this wasn't something that had to be we need to prey and work for peace but most of the united states needs to demonstrate its resolve and when we do we could deter these folks from doing these horrific things. evil runs on the earth it requires good people to stand up and defend their own sovereignty. >> sean hannity: what happens if iran evolves that soften this conflict? to me that would be a moment where all bets are off and the entire middle east could be engulfed in a full fledged war and what should the response be of israel and the us? i will give you three.

>> mike pompeo: the united states should do what it does best support actors to push back against ira and i would argue that iran is already in this war and israel will do its part they will continue to defend their sovereignty and i am convinced there will be rockets and missiles all across the middle east. all of the power that can be brought to bear some of it sitting in the persian gulf some of it sitting at the air force base american power throughout the region will be used and i am convinced our partners will see the threat themselves and collectively i'm confident that we can make it so significant that his own people will demand that they change their behavior. >> sean hannity: secretary mike pompeo thank you for being with us. and we will take you inside the hamas tunnel spread the ones that i saw with my own eyes

after going down a very steep hill to get there. it's kind of breathtaking. money that should have been used for humanitarian purposes. first the squad and therefore left allies have made a big show about calling for a cease-fire this week. now on its face maybe that sounds innocent but just calling for an end to all violence think about it a cease-fire now would mean israel gives up the right to defend itself over the single worst mass murder terrorist attack in history israel did not want this war. israel did not start this war but i will tell you i predict with a lot of confidence a high degree of confidence that israel will win this war and put an end to hamas and their use of gaza as a rocket launching site where the fire tens and thousands of rockets into israel small towns and cities alike. congresswoman omar does not care about any of that. take a look. scrimmage you think israel should just lay down their arms?

how could israel have a cease-fire with terrace whose entire mission is to wipe out . [indiscernible] how can they have a cease-fire if they are trying to wipe out. [indiscernible] >> sean hannity: later in the day congresswoman omar said this. >> where is your humanity? how do you look at one atrocity and say this is wrong? but you watch as bodies pile up as neighborhoods are leveled. israel has dropped more bombs in the last 10 days that we dropped and a whole year in afghanistan. where is your humanity? where is your outrage? where is your care?>> sean

hannity: where was that speech when israel had the worst terror attack and children were beheaded and burned and women were raped and all the israelis lost their lives and the others taken hostage where was the outrage from you? i ask when the squad is doing nonstop hatred like that is it any wonder that more progressive jewish americans are starting to realize that the left is not frankly and has not been on their side. here with more congressman dan crenshaw and jason let's get your reaction to that not only to congresswoman omar but to rashida tlaib after all of the evidence came out that israel had no responsibility at all whatsoever with all the proof you could ever want she was still accusing israel of killing 500 and bombing vet hospital it doesn't matter what the evidence shows. >> they have never been tethered to truth and justice and that's just not who they

are. they are totally fine with killing juijews and israelis. if they throw the first punch and started this war and israel stands up for itself of course they should.that's what any decent human being would do to protect their populations but these people the squad they hate jews. their whole expression in front of rashida tlaib office she flies a palestinian flag next to an lgbt q flagged a gay pride flag no one has explained to her that hamas and the palestinians would prosecute and persecute somebody because

they are lgbt q. these people don't understand the basis of reality. >> sean hannity: congressman crenshaw there is no more clarity but it's clear that you have fellow members of congress that are part of the hamas supporting caucus in the house is that a fair statement? >> dan crenshaw: let's not forget what omar said a few years ago when she showed up and how she referred to the 9/11 hijackers as the people who did something. she is going to downplay terrorism.she is going to downplay anything from islamic extremism and she will vilify her own country the united states as an oppressor or israel as an oppressor. and you can be na?ve when

you're calling for a cease-fire in the midst of a situation like this a lot of people are na?ve they don't understand what it takes what is necessary. they are not in the na?ve category they have been in this category of hamas apologists and terrorism apologists and is sickening. i don't know how she keeps getting elected in this country. i don't know how people look at that and say oh she has a point. there is a moral point. there is not. you have to extinguish hamas operational capability. the israelis have no choice. they have hit their 9/11 and they have no choice. do we wish civilians didn't die? absolutely. they told them to leave and then hamas stops the civilians from leaving. that's what has been going on for this is going to be ugly but it has to be done you have to extinguish this threat just like we would if that was just a few miles away from our home

territory. >> sean hannity: last word. jason. >> israel needs to do what it needs to do and i'm glad the united states will back them up but the world needs to understand the terrorism that is invoked on jews and israel has to stop they have a right to live and exist in the world had better stand behind them. >> sean hannity: thank you both. the house of representatives has no speaker about the investigations that began under mccarthy are continuing house oversight committee chairman james macomber has released more evidence into the biden family syndicate and this is a bombshell. take a look at this. that is a check from jim biden joe biden's brother to joe for a whopping $200,000 and this check was written on the exact day that he allegedly got a loan from a failing hospital company for the exact same

amount of money. we did reach out to the parties involved and shockingly we did not hear back but clearly this news is creating some panic inside the biden white house in one of the press underlings rush to make sure everyone knows the click clearly said it was a loan repayment from jim to joe but if that's true it unlocks a whole new host of questions why did joe loan jim 200 grand in the first place? how did joe admittedly one of the poorest members of the senate a career public servant how did he have how was he able to afford to give that amount of money to his brother and why did jim need to be paid by someone else before he could repay joe? here with the details on the house oversight and accountability chair, james, is with us. correct me if i am wrong. maybe i am jumping ahead. you have other evidence that will show something similar?

hezbollah we found a lot of suspicious checks and we will talk about that as we move on and we are tracing the money is not that they just got a $200,000 payment it's where the money came from and the money came from jim biden where he influenced a company in the united states and he went and said he could help through his contacts get capital from the middle east so he convinced his company to give him $600,000 and they did it in increments. that $200,000 went to his personal account and it was a loan according to the way he deposited it and then he wrote on the same day a check to joe

biden for a loan repayment. they are playing the loan card a lot. remember what we identified it was addressed to joe biden's house they said that was a loan and what you are going to be hearing out of the white house over the next few weeks is loan. and if joe biden did give his brother a loan which i don't believe he did the fact that his brother defrauded a company that is bankrupt and all the creditors lost all their money that they loan to this company but joe biden got $200,000 before they went bankrupt because jim biden was selling the brand, was selling the biden name end. >> sean hannity: which you have to have a record of when you gave the loan it with that bank record exist as well? >> we just announce the check

today we asked the white house to produce documentation of the loan in the terms of the loan and we want to know from joe biden if he was aware when he took that $200,000 that it came from a company his brother defrauded in the name of joe biden that he could come in and save the day with his contacts in the middle east. that's where this influencing came from we talk about china, romania, russia and ukraine and now we are talking about the middle east. we talked about hunter and we are continuing to follow the money but more and more suspicious activity is popping up to the tunes of millions of dollars and now we have evidence that joe biden benefited directly from this. if his brother had not defrauded that company he never could have paid him back that $200,000 assuming he really loaned him $200,000 which i'm

not convinced that he did. >> sean hannity: will be a fair assessment that there will be a cascading amount of devastating evidence that proves that by following the money that everything that joe biden said about his involvement is false is that a fair statement? >> i think we continue to produce evidence we have produced a lot of evidence but the media said you have to have a payment to joe. here is the first payment stay tuned.>> sean hannity: all right congressman james comber. we will take you inside the hamas tunnels as a looming ground invasion is going to circulate and stay with us on this busy friday night. >>

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>> sean hannity: reports to my a ground invasion by israel is imminent into gaza. watch exactly with this ground war look like? hamas has a network of tunnels that they claim a total of 300 miles and could complicate a ground operation. i have seen these firsthand. here i am inside one of them. look at the level of sophistication. you have these walls and blocks all the same size. built out and pieced together. the construction overall very solid.this is not going anywhere. they work their way through. >> it takes years. >> a lot of money. this is some method is

incredibly valuable and this is going towards tunnels. >> sean hannity: they excavated 100 feet down to find them and they have a network of these tunnels throughout israel from gaza into israel and that is to be used for infrastructure for hospitals and schools that here with more on the invasion and a retired four-star general david petraeus is with us. they are very difficult and i am of the mindset that the way we fight wars with new military technology that we have to

fight them differently. do you agree with that assessment and what challenges do you see for the israeli army? >> david petraeus: i do agree with it and it will bring a number of tools and intelligence surveillance reconnaissance assets. robotics. all kinds of enhancements but at the end of the day it's hard to imagine a more fiendishly difficult set of circumstances than the idea faces and i fear they have to do that if the mission is to destroy hamas they are literally going to have to go into every high-rise, floor, room, celery rib tunnel and clear them and at the end of the day there's only so much you can do with technology. there has to be someone at a certain point with a weapon who goes through the door. you might send a dog first something else through but this is very intensive in terms of

soldiers and when you have cleared a building you can't leave it and go onto the next when you have to leave a sizable number of soldiers behind because if you don't they will re-infiltrate behind you the terrorists will do that and of course there is the threat of being swarmed by what looks like civilians but are actually hamas. they don't wear uniforms they hide within populations they will use these hostages as human shields and if you get swarmed you will end up as a hostage as well the challenges are enormous it doesn't mean that they can't do it. but is going to have to be done at a very methodical careful and thoughtful way because you're also trying to minimize any injury or loss to innocent civilians at the end of the day hearts and minds do matter in a situation like this following that horrific, barbaric attack that took place saturday two weeks ago.

>> sean hannity: is it a viable option to remove as many civilians as possible and just obliterate the place so it is uninhabitable for hamas in the future considering over the years tens of thousands of rockets have been fired from that location into israel? >> david petraeus: i don't think so. it certainly is advisable and israel wisely is doing this their asking civilians to leave this area. that's complicated because you have hundreds of thousands of innocent palestinians crammed into the southern part of gaza and then you can have a humanitarian crisis on your hands but you are not going to get all of them to leave them by the way you have to rebuild this infrastructure at some point and i think one of the big issues is something we

learned sometimes the hard way during the fight to baghdad and toppling that regime i was a division commander at the time you have to have very rigorous post-conflict plans what is next the day after a plan and all the rest of that and that is particularly difficult given that the palestinian authority that you would like to take in and administer they don't want to ride in on the backs of israeli tanks they are discredited to some degree as that is not that effective unsupported by the palestinians, even the west bank but you need a palestinian authority of some kind supported by the gulf states and others with their sources and others with security forces because you have to have a counterinsurgency campaign when this is done to make sure that hamas in the islamic jihad remnants cannot come back and they will turn hi to do that even after they they will try to do that after they destroy hamas in the terra state as entities.

>> sean hannity: may be gaza needs to cease to exist because hamas will mix in with the innocent general population and that still remains a threat no matter what. general, good to see you again. it's been a long time. we come back the war with israel, the fighting in the us and the rest of the world are on high alert for potential terrorist acts senator tom cotton reacts when we come back. straight ahead. >> the people of israel need immediate help. rockets have us squarely in the crosshairs. our people are targets in their own homes. many have lost everything and fear for their lives. the international fellowship of christians and jews has launched an urgent response to rescue those affected by this violent attack. our teams are on the ground across israel delivering lifesaving aid. your urgently needed gift of only $45

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>> despite the importance of protecting or homeland, biden wants to send 10s of billions more to ukraine and hundreds of millions to gaza which we know will go to hamas. senator cotton says the aid passage doa, dead on arrival. senator is that a hundred per cent certain it's doa? >> sean if i have anything to do with it it will be dead on arrival.

i think that's the emerging position among republicans. mcconnell said we will work for our proposal. i think we need to support israel. we need to control the southern border reinforce taiwan and provide military aid to ukraine but that's not what joe biden's proposals do. they provide $3.5 billion so-called humanitarian aid to gaza which we know under current conditions is little more than resupply for hamas terrorists or it provides billions of dollars to relocate illegal aliens into our country put them up in hotels addressing the symptoms of the border crisis so we need to undertake effort to support israel. what we don't need is joe biden's proposals which is a long standing democratic wish list. >> the tlaefd the humanitarian assistance is never going to

reach the people to need it, they have a network from gaza into israel. that was all money meant for infrastructure school and hospitals. they didn't spend it right in the past. what would make one think it's going to change now? >> well, of course it's not going to. when aid goes to gaza it's not diverted by hamas. it's delivered to hamas. hamas is the governing entity of gaza. of course it uses all aid to fulfill its priorities when it gets cash it uses things like building tunnels but even when it get food and water do you think that goes to suffering orphans? we heard a report today the administration pressured israel to allow that aid in even though hamas had not released hostages. israeli defense minister was

asked why did you allow aid in before release of hostages he said the americans insisted. it's the same play back from 2014, 2021, whenever a democratic administration puts standards on israel that we would never accept for ourselves. we didn't provide humanitarian aid to japan or germany in world war ii. israel shouldn't have to do that now. >> that's all our time this friday evening. save on dvr live audience shows wednesday thursday tickets free go to hannity.com. hope you'll join us. let not your heart be troubled. greg gutfeld standing by to put a smile on your face. >> the family member