rachel: welcome back. we're going straight to a fox news alert. right now smoke is rising over gaza city after a major blast rocked the hamas terrorist hub, and the idf made sweeping arrests in the west bank capturing at least 68 hamas terrorists. yeah jee and hours ago, aid trucks being the rafah border crossing to deliver humanitarian aid to gaza saw. it's it's unclear if standed foreigners are being allowed to get out. pete: on the heels of hamas releasing two american hostages on friday. the idf says the release is simply a delay tactic as the israelis prepare for a major ground invasion. an idf spokesman joined us earlier on this program and says they're in a battle of good versus evil. >> the unfathomable barbarism of this terrorist organization is really, really beyond any understanding of human nature. and it shocks the souls of e any

decent human being. rachel: now let's go to trey yingst live on the ground in southern israel. trey? what's the latest? >> reporter: yeah, hey, guys, good morning. i want to start with some breaking news here, we are e getting reports of an israeli drone strike in southern lebanon. it appears the israelis have targeted a hezbollah cell that was responsible for an antitank guided missile that was fired into northern israel earlier today injuring at least one person. it gives you a sense of how the israelis are now immediately responding to attacks that are coming from lebanon. we have some video here of strikes overnight. the israelis also hitting differenting positions across the area -- different positions across the the area after rocket, mortar and antitank attacks that occurred last night. i do want to draw your attention south to the gaza strip though. the the israelis are continuing airstrikes, we were with the

israeli military along the border. tensionings very high amid that anticipated ground offensive. i do want you to take a look at what it was like last night along the border just to give you a sense of how that heavy the fire is. thirteen palestinians were killed -- we need to go, because there could be mortar fire here. just stay with me, everyone -- yep, we've got to move. we're very close. that's mortar. get into cover. everyone in? listen to our camera. [background sounds] so what you heard there, the whistle of, of uncoming mortar fire. so those were, indeed, more or tars that were fired at this position. we are so close today gaza border, you have about 10 seconds to get to cover. that plan we just implemented there, we had discussed that beforehand hand; leave the camera, get to a shelter and

hard cover because this is very active here a e along the front. some positive developments today amid this horrific story. we understand that the rafah crossing between gaza and egypt, that southern crossing, allowed for 20 humanitarian aid trucks to enter the strip today. remember, more than 2 million palestinian civilian live theres and these are trucks are carrying both canned food and medicine, we are told. we do understand this is part of the larger negotiations that are ongoing to try and get foreign nationals out of gaza and get aid in along with hostage negotiations that con behind the scenes. i did speak with one american citizen who is currently trapped inside gaza. she went to the border crossing today, can and they did not allow her to cross. guys, back to you. pete: trey, thank you. you know, those 68 hamas members who were detained, you said that's in the west bank. so that's basically israel preemptively or proactively saying we need to dismantle not

just the military arm, but the political arm of hamas as well to prevent other fronts from opening up. what else do you know about that? >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. overnight the israelis carried out a series of raids in the west bank. and when we break down what israel is facing here, just looking at hamas, the second largest proxy of iran in the region, they're not just facing rocket fire threats from gaza and even palestinian factions that exist in southern lebanon or in syria, these people who are sympathetic to the palestinian cause, but deep in the west bank there are thousands of hamas fighters, islamic entry had fighters and also a political wing of hamas. so so literally each and every night since this war began the israelis have been conducting arrest operations in the west bank. a few weeks ago we joined them, and they were engaged in an hours-long fire fight with hamas militants. and so they want to get as many of these mill tans as they can over concerns they could launch similar attacks in the west bank

over israeli settlements but also capture and arrest as many political leaders because they understand it's the second most popular political party among the palestinians outside of the palestinian authority and the fatah party. there are thousands of people who support hamas' political efforts, and they understand these leaders at the drop of a hat could simply tell people in the west bank to go to the streets and put more pressure on israeli security forces. we've seen a little bit of that so far, but they're worried about this third front opening up amid increasing regional tension from iranian proxies across the area. rachel: trey, i understand that the hostage, the two hostages that were released, that was through a negotiation with qatar. what are the other countries are we negotiating with them for the other americans that are being held or just dealing with can qatar? >> >> reporter: the ca qatarties are playing a huge role in this, trying to get all civilians out being held hostage. we received a statement last night from a spokesman for

qatar's foreign ministry, and their focus is on getting everyone out who is a civilian, doesn't matter what their nationality is. that's what the statement said. i will say we've been talking with american intelligence sources and people who are familiar with the negotiations that are taking place. some of the conversations aren't even taking place in the gulf, they're taking place in cairo. but the egyptians and the jordanians want to leverage the situation to insure that aid gets into gaza for palestinian civilian in exchange for taking, a, some of the pressure off the foreign nationals inside gaza, meting them out -- letting them out and, b, getting more hostages released. whether or not the israelis if will push forward with the ground operation and how that will complication -- complicate what's taking place on the ground. they are promoting a peace summit in egypt. we understand there are palestinian representatives and also top egyptian officials. but we don't expect major developments to come how of that summit as they are calling it because israel is still planning

to enter the gaza strip and conduct a massive ground operation to destroy and degrade hamas. and when that happens, there is intelligence and analysis across the region that iran will push proxies like hezbollah in the north from southern lebanon to get more directly involved in this fight, and that's why there are so many evacuation orders taking place. it's why you see airlines across the middle east moving their planes to turkey and other countries not so close to this conflict, because they understand the situation is unraveling quickly. and thin with assets or people -- anyone with as assets or people in the region, they're trying to get them out. ray thank you, trey. joey: thanks, trey. pete: thank you very much for all your reporting this morning. rachel: absolutely. joey: two american hostages will soon be heading back to the u.s. pete: the mother and daughter were released by hamas yesterday after being abducted two weeks ago. rachel: our own peter doocy is live at the white house with the latest on that. peter, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. one of the first things that

happened when these hostages, judith and natalie rah noon -- ranaan were released from captivity the, somebody handed them a phone, and it was pridinn calling from the oval office. and now we are hearing from the husband and father of these two the who were kidnapped from a kibbutz. >> i haven't been sleeping for two weeks. tonight i'm going to sleep good. i spoke with my daughter earlier today. she sounds very good. he looks very good. -- she looks very good. she was very happy and she's waiting to come home. >> reporter: there are still very few details about how hamas handed these two over to the red cross, but we know it was for humanitarian reasons, not because special forces went in guns blazing. they could return to the u.s. as soon as this week. >> natalie is 17, it's her birthday coming up next week. she'll be turning 18 on the 24th.

they were celebrating partially as a graduation gift because she had just graduated with honors from a school in chicago. >> reporter: overnight there was some real confusion here on the biden beat as the president, who publicly supports whatever israel wants to do to hamas, appeared to confirm reports that privately he is telling the israelis to pump the brakes. >> reporter: but, no. the white house says now the president was far away, he didn't hear the full question. the question sounded like would you like to see more hostages released. he wasn't commenting on anything else. and that's kind of a head scratcher because he could apparently hear the first question just fine. it was the second one that

caused problems. the white house has now walked back. we don't expect to see the president today, he's at the beach house in delaware. rachel: of course. pete: of course. you know, peter, you're close to the ongoings of this administration. do you get a sense of how much tension there is between the support of israel which you see and also other staffers? we've heard of resignations of those who don't agree with the policy, who are more pro-palestinian. is there a tension there that you're seeing? >> reporter: no. i don't notice any of that tension. i know up on capitol hill particularly there are some very progressive democrats who want a ceasefire, i don't get any whiff of that from anybody here at the white house. i do think that there is something to these reports that president biden wants the israelis to wait this hostages are released or until civilians, more civilians can get out of gaza before they go in with their ground invasion. and i have a sense of that because last week when i talked to him, i asked him what worries you about an israeli ground invasion is, and his one-word

answer was just death. he's worried about collateral here. i don't think that he has any problem, and i don't think the white house staff generally has any problem with the israelis going in and getting justice for these 1400 israelis who were murdered in cold blood. and i really don't sense much dissension -- pete: good to hear. >> reporter: yeah. pete: peter doocy, thank you very much. rachel: thank you, peter. it's so interesting. i don't often agree with joe biden, but i think that's a reasonable thing, to be worried about a ground invasion after also trying to get hostages and negotiate their exit. i don't understand how all this stuff works. seems kind of logical to me. pete: it could be. you also just don't want a foreign power telling a country like israel, hey, you know, 1400 of your civilians were killed in a brutal way -- rachel: right. but they have hostages too, pete. pete: that's their consideration to make. and as the american president, you should be making -- rachel: we should care about our hostages. joey: 100%.

i agree with rachel, not that we don't all agree, but i've said since the beginning of this, the american president's priority should be getting americans home. rachel: that's right. joey: and that has not been his priority in wars past which for us are months past. we look at afghanistan, what happened in ukraine. if he's finally learned his lesson and that is his priority, i'm not going to knock him for it. rachel: me too. pete: and by the way, so we had that announcement of two americans released overnight, which is great to see, coming home and peter reported on that. we also that had a family on our program earlier at the beginning of the 7 a.m. hour, if you missed it, it was gayle and mika alexander, that's a mother and sister of an american-held hostage. he went to school in new jersey, graduated an american, then went to israel to serve his time in the idf. he was on watch at his post in the israeli defense forces along the gaza border on october 7th ask was taken hostage along with members of his unit. they have hope that because of

the release of the other two americans, he might be released as well. at least that's their hope. we had a chance to talk to them on the couch earlier in the program. here's what they had to say. >> -- days after they told us he's been missing, they came, like, officials from the idf, and toll us that he's hostage by hamas and he's in gaza. like, this is something that confirmed to us. >> i think the release of the two hostages recently just is giving us and a lot of other people hope as well. and, yeah, everyone has just been so supportive. the u.s. has been extremely supportive, i couldn't even imagine -- >> yes. >> and i think, honestly, it gives hope to us and the families of the hostages as well that good things are going to happen in the here to future. rachel: yeah. you know, this was a heartbreaking interview. i asked, you know, them as well, like, you know, what they thought about this whole situation, you know?

the ground invasion versus, you know, securing the hostages and how that might impact that. as americans and what they thought. and they said we're just not even watching the news. all we can think about is our loved one, is our son, and we want him home. and they did seem is very hopeful, i will say. didn't they to you? pete: they did, yeah. and they were very affirming to to of the -- of the administration's attempts, and i think to your point earlier considering what happened in afghanistan, if there's a redoubling to say, hey, we're going to get americans home, that that's a good thing. rachel: yeah. that should be our first priority. pete: a soldier taken from an outmust confirmed alive, wonder how that changes the dynamic because he was wearing the uniform of israel when he was taken. rachel: i thought that too. pete: a young man who grew up in america, fighting and now held by hamas, and whop and pray that he's returned. joey: 19 years old.

graduates high school here in new jersey, and he decides he wants to service recent so, of course, he's a hero, and we look forward to welcoming him home. rachel: sure do. pete: it's a reminder. by the way, as we talk about what's happening in gaza and you heard trey mentioning a third front, he's talking about the west bank should hamas ignite things there. but that second front is heating up also, and that's because hezbollah is warning that it has, it's thousands of times stronger than it was before. it's 100,000 plus army, it's got over 150,000 missiles pointed at israel, half of which are precision missiles. so it is a formidable force that gets 700 million in funding a year from iran. rachel: wow. pete: and an army pointed at the north of israel. something that israel's certainly thinking about as it looks at a ground invasion. we had robert greenway, the director of the center for national defense at the heritage foundation, just breaking down how forbidable -- formidable is

hezbollah. here's what he said. >> since 2006, the last time israel and hezbollah locked horns. they've undertaken a significant campaign to the expand. this is the capability that iran has provided to hezbollah. you mentioned the funding, and the funding is significant. but the equipment and the equipment in large measure comes through syria. so when you see strikes in damascus at the airport, it's the transfer of the kits to make those non-precision missiles into precision missiles. and they've been doing it for so long that the inventory is significant. ultimately, we're leading up to a point in which those missiles could be employed. it's why the presence of u.s. assets in the region could augment and make all the difference for israel. pete: so, guys, i mean, the key is the iranian backing of this organization which brings us to the next aspect of our story, a headline in the ney post that caught all of our -- in "the new york post" that caught all of our eyes. top iranian pentagon aide keeps

her security clearance despite spying for tehran. at least that's the act a sayings, and there's a a lot of evidence there. rachel: her name is arianna. she has her own family member, her father, i believe, is closely tied to the iranian regime. he died recently. finish but, you know, there are very clear evidence that she was pie -- spying for iran, and yet even after that a came out, they've decided, our government has decided to let her keep her security clearance. i mean, you can imagine, okay, maybe because you've got joe biden in and they love this iran deal and they're tryinged to do this, you know, different way of doing things with iran, and she, you know, maybe keeps her job. i don't think she should, but let her keep her security clearance despite that? it's just, it's kind of mind-boggling. it's really frustrating as an american to really try and understand how this administration thinks in the midst of this as we know that iran has so much to do with what is going on with hamas.

joey: no, absolutely. you know, security clearance is a pretty easy thing to put on pause to to get some informatio- rachel: right. are. [laughter] exactly. pete: she was a key aide a to the suspended envoy, robert malley, who was suspended -- rachel: under really weird circumstances. joey: anyone who worked with him should also be put on pause. pete: well, she's not. she's keeping her $150,000 a year salary, her security clearance, and she has said things in the past like iran is too powerful to contain or, you know, we can't can ask iran to give up all missile activity for the future. rachel: right. pete: so if you're sitting across a table and you've got the american side and the iranian side and on the american side you've got someone who's pro-iranian or at least her background, that gives you a sense of -- rachel: but the obama administration was pro-iranian in many ways. and so this is kind of part and parcel with that policy, something that donald trump moved us away from, and when joe

biden came into office, all the obama holdovers and, of course, everybody else in the democrat party wanted to, quick, run right back -- joey: you said keeping her $100,000 salary, that's a drop in the bucket, so i don't know if i'm as upset about that anymore. [laughter] rachel: it's not the salary, it's the security clearance, and it's the lack of alarm and sort of concern on the part of people who should be caring about this, about spying. pete: yeah. all right. our next guest escaped nazi germany when he was 9 years old and says what's happening today in israel reminds him of the horrors he faced over 80 years ago. he'll join us next. ♪ ♪

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pete: survivors of the holocaust speaking out against this month's deadly attack on israel and against the surge of anti-semitism around the world. our next guest was only 9 years old when he escaped nazi germany, joining his father in the united states with his mother and brother in 1939. before their escape, he witnessed the night of broken glass, the horrific and violent

2- day bag ram -- position ram against jews. he sees shockingly similarities to what we are seeing happening today. i win gains joins -- irwin gains joins me now. irwin, thank you so much for being here. your story is one that needs to be told and retold. did you ever imagine -- >> thank you very much. pete: thank you, sir. what we saw on october 7th, two weeks ago, did you ever think we would see something that brought us back to the imagery of what was experienced during the holocaust, sir? >> never. it really upset me when i saw on october 7th what they did as far as the people that died and also the buildings that were then destroyed. this is exactly the same thing that happened in germany in 1938, november 9th, 1938, and and november 10th.

this is what happened during that period of time. now, let me go back a little bi- pete: sure. >> -- what happened in germany. i was, i was 5 years old and ready for school, but i could not go to school because the german people, the government, the nazis, the gestapo said, no, no student, no jewish students can go to school in germany. so my parents had to do, to find a jewish school which was about 35 miles from home. i had to use a train every morning to go to the school in earlierny. now, i have hear my last ticket that i, that my parents purchase for me. you have it on the screen here.

pete: yes. >> here it is. this ticket here is about 90 years old. when i came home, when i came home from the school on november 9th, my mother was waiting for me at the train station, and she had -- which was not the usual. i usually walked a short distance back home from the train station. she had a banana with her, which was strange also. she gave me the banana so that i would not be terrified of what i was going to see. as we walked home, i saw glass on the street and in our front yard. all of our windows were broken. and as i walked inside the house, i saw that the nazi, the

hitler union, the nazi youth, with a hatchet tore up all of our sofas, our chairs, smashed the pictures on the walls and did a lot of damage downstairs. upstairs in our bedrooms, our bedrooms were heated by coal-fired burning ovens. these were ripped from the foundation and thrown onto the beds. i'll never forget that sight as a long as i live. pete: no doubt. your father had already fled, right? and they were -- >> my father, my father, my father, yes, my father -- my grandmother, one of the smartest women, she saw what was coming after hitler was nominated in 1933. anti-semitism was getting worse by the day. and she saw that we had to get out of germany. but the big problem was where could we move to? it was very difficult to come into the united states because

you had to have a sponsor. the sponsor had to put money into the bank so that you would not be a burden to the state. and this sponsor only had enough funds for one person. and it was decidedded that my father should leave. thank god he did. pete: and then he communicated with your mother and eventually you were able to join him. >> eventually. that's correct. now, let me tell you the story the, my, before my father left, he and my mother made an arrangement to tell him what's going on in germany, because every letter that was sent out the gestapo looked at and made sure that there was nothing against hitler. which what he did was snip a lock of -- what she did was snip a lock of my hair and put it

into the envelope that everything was still okay. letters that did not is have this lock of hair told him that things were getting worse, and he'd better get us out of the country. pete: amazing. >> now, let me explain also -- pete: go ahead with. >> yes, i'm sorry. no, i'm sorry, go ahead. pete: no, i think it's a reminder of sheer evil that existed, the targeting of the jewish people for who they were, that we're seeing begin. when you look at these protests that are happening across the country immediately after the terrorist attack effectively siding with hamas, does it surprise you that these viewpoints still exist? >> they still exist, and it's getting worse in this country also. let me go back on crystal knock. that night the gestapo, the nazis destroyed all of the jewish-owned stores. they broke the windows in the

stores, they stole all the merchandise, and then they set the stores on fire. throughout germany. it was a difficult, difficult evening. and also i remember when i went to bed, all of a sudden the door opened downstairs, and two the gestapo men came with their dog. they looked around, and they wanted to find my father. my father, thank god, was already in america. and i also remember that both of them stood at my bedroom door, shone a flashlight onto the bed. but what they did, they turned around and they left. now, at that time they did not take children and women. however, that changed very shortly thereafter where they took everybody. after crystal knot which was november 10th, 90 jewish men

were murdered, and it was a disaster. we could not, we could not walk out of our house because the young jewish -- young jewish boys used to march past our house and make all kinds of comments. next to our house where we lived in -- we moved from frankfurt after hitler came to power, my father lost his job, we moved to a small town which was on the mow zell. and we lived there. and we, at that a time next to our house there was a tavern. and this tavern, at night the gestapo used to go there and

have a good time. and they used to sing songs about killing the jews. now, you can imagine, we were mt. house next door -- in the house next door -- pete: can't imagine if. >> -- and we were very, very, it was just a terrible situation. pete: i can't imagine, erwin. we've got to leave it right there, but the comparison that immediately came to mind while you spoke as a 5-year-old there are the 5-year-olds who were on those kibbutzes in the south of israel who woke up to terrorists in their communities wanting to kill them. the hatred of jews and the destruction of the jewish people, the thread line from the gestapo to hamas is clear and is something the jewish people have had to fight back against and will continue to. and you're a living testament to it, sir. thank you so much for sharing your story with us this morning. >> thank you. pete: god bless you, sir. thank you. all right. right now israeli forces stepping up strikes against hamas targets in gaza city.

we're seeing new explosions about every few minutes at this point. let's go now to mike tobin, he's outside a house in ashkelon that was hit by a rocket overnight. mike. >> reporter: pete, that's exactly what we're looking at here. behind me is a house that took a direct hit last night, you can see the hole in the roof. and what i know about the family here, traditional, they were gathering for the friday night shabbat dibber. however -- dinner. howevers at the last minute, they went to a different house. this house took a direct hit, and everyone in this particular family is okay. some 1189 rockets have been fired here at ashkelon, 189 of them got through. this rocket hit right about the time we were doing our live shots and saw a barrage of rockets come in from the gaza strip. [background sounds]

i don't want to -- i see more launches right now. that is from the gaza area. a big flurry of activity. that one looks like it's coming down, and i don't think it's going to get intercepted. very is well we could get some strikes here. and that was last night. and then we saw, indeed, there were some strikes that came through. if i show you around this neighborhood, it looks like it could be miami or scottsdale with the difference that a lot of israeli neighborhoods will have a bunker somewhere where people can retreat. most houses have a safe room, but there's a gentleman there, his name is rami, his house doesn't have a safe room, so they have moved into the neighborhood bunker. that's just one of the are remarkable things that is happening, the neighborhood pitches in together, they're all happy with him living here, but he also accommodates people in the event you get another rocket incoming. pete many in. joey: thanks, mike.

all right. the people of israel fighting for their very existence in the war against hamas. and america's top brass won't let the biden administration if forget it. more than a hundred retired generals have sign an open letter calling for the president, president biden, and congress to, quote, work together in a bipartisan manner to continue giving israel the support it needs militarily, diplomatically, logistically and with intelligence for as long as it needs to defend itself and eliminate those threats. our next guest was proud to sign that letter himself, retired general david perkins, served as the commander of the army training and doctrine command. he joins us now. general, thank you for joining us. explain to me what this letter hopes to accomplish. >> well, you know, i'll tell you the, i know just about everybody that has signed that letter. that's the first time i've ever signed a letter like this. i, myself like everyone on there, they're very apolitical,

very nonpartisan, but they're all great patriots, and they understand national security as well as anybody else. they've dedicated 30 or 40 years of their life. and we understand well, or most of us have served together in combat and had to fight terrorists, and we understand that if you give terrorists sanctuary, if you give them a place to plan and prepare and if you allow them to be armed as the iranians arm a hamas, it's just a matter of time til they export that terrorism. and we saw that on 9/11 with al-qaeda and the attack on the united states. so we know very much that you cannot let terrorists have a sanctuary. and what we saw hamas do is a result of them having a sanctuary. so those of us that a signed the letter are very concerned, obviously, about israel, but we also understand for the greater global community you cannot give terrorists a free reign, otherwise they will metastasize around the world. joey: general, looking at this

letter, what is the reason for sending this letter if the biden administration says they're already doing these things? was there a catalyst for this, or was this just to reiterate from a community of former leaders? >> i think it's to are reinforce what's going on now. the administration is being very supportive. two carrier groups are there, a lot of other activity is going on intelligence wise. they're getting support in congress. but we know, those who have served and served in what all consider maybe drawn-out campaigns, that attention, energy and support does tend to wane over time. joey: sure, yeah. >> and especially if there's collateral damage. and i will tell you having fought in an urban environment, the idf will work very hard to minimize collateralling damage unlike hamas, but there will be damage. and when that happens, support starts to wane. and so we as professionals who have sort of lived this life just want to reinforce that you really have to be ready for the long haul, and you have to have

that light at the end of the tunnel that you are going to destroy hamas' capability to export terrorism. joey: i look at this list, i see general dunford, general amos, general mattis that i served under and know. these are generals and yourself that won big battles. but maybe politicians have to lose -- helped you lose a war. i think the idea of support waning is really an important part of this, so thank you for signing on to this letter and reiterating it to the administration. >> yeah, my pleasure. joey: thank you, general. all right, coming up, new calls to expel hamas propagandists in congress as our next guest introduces legislation to defund colleges over anti-israel sentiments. plus, 2024 presidential candidate and south carolina senator tim scott, he's going to join us on that next. ♪ ♪ can do more than help you reach your goals. wow...

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where is your outrage? where is your care? for people? rachel: senator tim scott now calling for their expulsion, adding that the u.s. cannot continue funding terrorists by sending money to iran. joey: he joins us now with more. senator, welcome to the show. you're running for president -- >> morning. joey: we need a speaker in our house. we interviewed, actually, a member of congress earlier about that idea that if we had a speaker of the house right now, maybe they could take action. but running for president, as president, would you be calling for members of congress to be expelled? >> listen, certainly the entire american people want those members of the squad expelled, and certainly as a president of the united states i would want them out of congress or at least taken all their responsibilities away. listen, we cannot have people, the squad, as a propaganda, part of the propaganda machine of hamas. you cannot have a palestinian flag flying on american property

especially in the house of representatives. we are sending the the worst message i could think of. you just saw, we saw october the 7th hamas come into israel and burn babies alive. we saw beheadings. we saw grandmothers taken, women raped and the response is to ask israel for a ceasefire? i hope israel wipes hamas off the face of the earth. i'm going to tell you, america's blessings in part come from psalms 122 sln 6 or or -- 122:6, pray for the people of israel. romans 13:4 speaks to of the rath of god brought upon people -- the wrath of god brought upon people who do evil.

i can't think of anything more evil than the pictures of those burned little babies and to have the squad tell people to have a ceasefire, to have the squad keep up a tweet that says that israel was responsible for 500 deaths at a hospital even though it is proven to be a lie, i find their actions despicable. i find their conduct disgusting. i find their presence as a part of the house of representatives antithetical to what we stand for as a nation. not as republicans, not as democrats, but as americans. we stand against hate, and that's exactly why i am leading on legislation that eliminates funding for universities that say it is acceptable for their students to call for genocide. it is acceptable for their students to support terrorism. it's acceptable for their students to support murder. you have free speech, but you

can't be an a idiot. so i think pulling the funding, the pell grants from colleges and universities that support that kind of malignant behavior is in the best interests of every single good american who understands that funding colleges should be for the education of our kids, not for the indoctrination of our kids. pete: yeah. you can be an idiot in america, we just shouldn't have to pay for it. >> exactly. first amendment right. you have the right to finish. pete: to teach these kids, it is amazing to watch the passionate ilhan omar two weeks later when there was no passion when israelis were murdered in their homes. >> and i didn't hear them say a single thing about bringing our hostages home. let american hostages go. i didn't hear anything from the squad telling hamas, the murderous, evil terrorists, to let americans go. i didn't hear a single word from

them telling them to let the israelis go. if you want peace in the middle east, how about have the squad -- rachel: yeah. and i didn't hear those calls to release american hostages from any of the protests going around at the universities. i have to tell you, senator scott, i'm so encouraged that i just think we should defund all these universities. they have all become indoctrination machines. we should stop, you know, we should start taxing those endowments and and giving them all the favors that they get because everything that's bad with america right now whether it's, you know, this situation of, you know, rich white kids, you know, supporting hamas all the way to gender ideology and everything else that's happening in our country, it all starts with these universities, especially our ivy leagues. >> you're exactly right. and one of the things i find challenging is if you believe in a hundred genders, you have freedom of speech. if you want to speak about your faith and your love for jesus on

a college campus, somehow that's called hate and you lose your first amendment rights. we as a nation, there are good people on both sides of the aisle. i frankly -- here's what i believe, i believe that joe biden can't even be honest about any positions because he's beholden to the squad. political power is more important than doing the right thing for the radical left. control is more important than doing the right thing. and, frankly, they'll use race, class and even genocide from the squad in order to hold on to political power. and it is disgusting. pete: senator -- rachel: and they invoke scripture as a well which, you know, coming from these, you know, radical, pro-abortionists, i'm not going to be scripture lectured by them. >> unbelievable. rachel: all good stuff. thank you, senator scott. pete: thank you very much, sir.

>> god bless. rachel: you got it. joey: still ahead, smoke rises in gaza where israeli forces are striking that has -- hamas terrorists this morning. cotowner of save our allies, my friend tim kennedy, joins us live from the ground next. ♪

pete: we're returning in a moment to our breaking coverage of the war in israel, but first some quick headlines including this.the manhunt intensifies for the suspect accused of gunning down a maryland judge in his own driveway. the u.s. marshals are offering a $10,000 reward for information heeding to his arrest. >> the target attack on judge wilkinson, we've identified pedro argute, 49 of frederick, maryland, as a suspect. he is not in custody and is considered armed and dangerous. pete: washington county sir circuit court judge andrew wilkinson was town outside his home thursday hours after the judge ruled against the suspect in a child custody case. and a marine shot and killed at camp lejeune has been identified as a north carolina teen. lance corporal austin schwenk

was killed and shot on wednesday in a barracks room. base officials placed a second marine in custody on suspicion. the victim reportedly joined because he wanted to follow in his marine father's footsteps. sad. joey: the the rafah border crossing opening briefly this morning allowing 20 truckloads of humanitarian aid to enter. pete: but our next guest is on the ground in israel and warns the aid is going straight to hamas terrorists. rachel: are retired army ranger and cofounder of save our allies tim kennedy joins us now. tim, you sound pretty certain that that humanitarian aid is not going to the children and women and hospitals that need it in gaza. explain why. >> after 20 years, you know, during the global war on terror, we've fought nearly every single insurgency on the planet,

al-qaeda, isis, the taliban, hamas, hezbollah, isis-k, the list goes on and on and on, and ultimately, the recipe ends up being exactly the same. they're different feathers of the exact same bird, and anything that comes in or out of gaza is controlled by hamas. hamas is a terrorist insurgency. so that's just how it operates. they are going to use all those ree supplies for their military that's going to be fighting or killing the hostages and civilians that are in that region. joey: tim, you're there to get americans home that want to come home. do you have any idea what number of people that is? are there hundreds, thousands, dozens? >> i mean, that is a great question. on average, you know, if you go to the cia data book, you'll see anywhere from 10-20,000 americans travel to israel per day during peak seasons. so you're going to average that, you have, you know, i think during this time of year there's 12,000 americans traveling here a day. so the day of the attack there's

somewhere between 40-70,000 americans that were here at that time. so the initial five days after the evacuation the number of requests for americans to be evacuated and the available flights, because nobody knew what direction this was going to go. are we talking total world war iii right now, or is this somewhat of a long-term, stable conflict? nobody knew. so it has change radically. with the department of state really stepping up in the past few days to help during the ex-fil, you know, the remaining americans here, they're not in urgency to leave. there are plenty of flights that need to leave that can leave, so there's not, like, the same amount of pressure for americans to get out. pete: so this the has been a different experience for you than what you experienced, obviously, in afghanistan but also in ukraine. it took some time, but the footing is underneath us now to get american, out if they want to get out. >> yeah. it's definitely different, you

know in thank god the taliban's not executing people where with we're seeing babies in barbed wire like we did there. let's be really clear, hamas tortured, raped and murdered 80% of the 1400 victims were tortured, raped or murdered by hamas before they died. every one of those hostages that are in there, every single moment it's torture to be in there. i'm in this beautiful street in tel aviv, there's people walking their dogs, but at any second the cybers could go -- sirens could go off as another rocket is launched. 40% of the rockets launched out of gaza land back in gaza. they're literally killing 40% of the rockets sent land back in gaza. they're killing their own people. hamas does not care. this is an insurgency, they are terrorists, and the damage that they do is indescribable. joey: tim, i know there are americans actually in gaza, have you all been contacted about getting americans out of gaza? >> yeah.

obviously -- that's a great question. for op-sec, the best military units on the planet are here on the ground. joey: yeah. >> let's leave that to the professional as. the ones that we're assisting with are americans that are not hostages, they're american americans that are not going to be refugees, they are there in a war capacity, and, you know, quite frankly, the american government and the department of defense have the heaviest hitters in the world on the ground right now. joey: yeah. >> and let's let the professionals do the professional work. you know, but the longer that we wait, hamas wants to get in a fight. they're waiting for the opportunity. and every second that we stand by as every single world leader is traveling in here, we are stuck, we're giving them time to prepare for the ground assault that they so desperately want to happen. they want it. they want civilians and hostages to die because they want to keep this propaganda streak going. pete: tim or, we've only got about 30 seconds. do you get a sense that ground

invasion is imminent based on talking to the people you're talking to? >> yes. i can't talk, say why it's been postponed. the only way that those hostages are going to see a day of light is the most violent direct action, the most elite military force can wring to the battle -- bring to the battle, that has to happen. i don't want to talk about the dire situation that they're in, but it is absolutely crucial that this is a dog fight like stalingrad, like fallujah. our men and and women and the brave idf soldiers go in there and give them the battle that they do not want which is the fiercest, most scariest type of war they would ever seen. rachel: all right. tim kennedy, army ranger -- joey: appreciate you, brother. stay safe. pete: for more information, save our allies.org is who tim is working with over there. rachel: see you tomorrow morning. bye, even. everybody. david: well, before the ground offensive into g