ground. listen. >> they have to win this and they have to destroy hamas. if not we'll see this again in the future. the only road to lasting peace is with the destruction and elimination of hamas. >> secretary of state blinken will testify on capitol hill and asked about this and meet with leadership from saudi arabia in town on wednesday. >> dana: gillian turner, thank you. you are seeing about these families, almost a month. >> martha: they don't want to be forgotten. they're watching the war and the tunnels underneath and where these people are. keep them in your prayers. see you on the "the story." >> dana: your show is must-see tv. "the faulkner focus" is up next. here is harris. >> harris: israel defense forces are on the ground in phase two of the war against hamas

terrorists. the idf in heavy armor and tanks now reportedly taking out hamas targets and terrorists overnight. [explosions] >> harris: as you can see it went on long enough for day break. new video shows israeli troops raising the jewish nation's flag in the palestinian territory for the first time in 18 years. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." prime minister benjamin netanyahu announced the second phase of the war with the israeli forces reaching built-up areas including the outskirts of gaza city. reports on the ground idf blocked a key road linking northern gaza to the south. netanyahu has told his nation to expect a long, hard conflict. >> this is our second

independence war. we are fighting on defending our homeland. we will fight and not quit. we will destroy the enemy of the land and under. we will fight and win. >> harris: here is what an israeli soldier told fox. >> on a regular basis we're worried about rockets, missiles, drones, even people crossing the border, on the border and doing what we can to protect ourselves and civilians. it is not a simple task at this point. >> harris: egypt sent more than 30 trucks carrying food, medicine and other supplies into gaza yesterday. the idf is hoping the additional supplies will encourage more palestinians to head south toward egypt and get more supplies if they can get out now. leave the northern part of the country. that's where the bulk of this war, this phase two is happening. in "focus" lieutenant colonel daniel davis, we begin with

senior correspondent mike tobin in israel. mike. >> with a little bit of daylight that we have left i can show you the after math of an israeli air strike into the northern end of the gaza strip. that one was burning for quite a while in support of the ground forces on their third day now. we have reports from hamas, information a claim from hamas that they have made contact with the israeli forces all the way to the southern end of gaza city itself. the smoke we've seen coming out of the gaza strip doesn't support that. israelis will only say they're expanding the operation in the gaza strip and that they indeed are making contact but with the cells of hamas fighters waiting in ambush for the israeli forces on the ground. they say they take on anti-tank positions and destroying hamas infrastructure. the whole time they're doing it with the support of israeli aircraft. the jets we can hear overhead now and hear the drones.

evidence that social order in the gaza strip is falling apart. u.n. warehouse was ransacked. things like bags of flour were taken from the warehouse as basic supplies, supplies for basic living are very scarce in the gaza strip. beyond that prime minister benjamin netanyahu did back pedaling in the last day or so. saturday night he blamed the intelligence services for the intelligence failure that allowed the october 7th massacre to happen. he since deleted the tweet and issued an apology. you have netanyahu detractors saying he doesn't have the character to lead this nation through this particular crisis. also on social media hamas has released a video of more hostages. we don't relay those videos but the prime minister's office calls it cruel psychological propaganda. harris. >> harris: wow. mike tobin, thank you for setting us up with so many facts for this hour.

appreciate your reporting always. lieutenant colonel daniel davis, retired senior fellow at defense priorities. you have so much experience in iraq and afghanistan and you see some similarities now, i would imagine, between how israel is going in. this phase two, take you can to us about it and what it means. >> after i retired in 2015, i went into iraq into the mosul area in 2016 when the curdish fighters were doing part of the process to take mosul back from isis. a lot of the things that i saw on the ground there are exactly what i see the israel setting up to do here. they are planning on a slow, methodical press. looks like they'll start from the north and move to the south. what you are seeing is lots of basically clearing of zones of operation, clearing attack paths. i've seen some mine sweepers coming in to get rid of the

mines set there. basically setting up an operation when they're ready, the israelis, they'll start moving house to house clearing everything from hamas. >> harris: we're seeing some of the equipment change, too. doing those mini raids last week where they go in on the ground for a short period of time. take out targets and retreat a bit. now they are pushing farther into gaza toward gaza city. we'll see armored tanks. what else can we anticipate at this point? >> those are reconnaissance enforcement trying to paint a better intelligence picture so you know what your following forces will face so they'll clear any obvious obstacles and come back. now based oh than that they are planning on larger formations going in. i expect to see coming up shortly that they'll take the first round of built-up areas and probably start doing some of the really bloody house to house and room to room fighting. it will get ugly.

>> harris: you say it will get ugly. with egypt then offering these supplies trying to pull people to the south. i've understood also that we are just cutting off that movement from north to south -- at least watching that happen. whats the timing on that? will people be able to get out for any particular period of time? how does it work? >> that's a real problem we need to put a lot more emphasis on to help israel do that. not just for humanitarian concerns, that's also but for practical reasons. if the civilians can't get to the southern part and don't have food and water to survive, you could see large numbers of people start to die. i'm telling you, that will be really bad for israel because you already see in egypt the people on the street, arabs, muslims are starting to get angry. you saw what happened in turkey over the weekend where a million people were encouraged by

president erdogan. it could get worse. if the suffering of the palestinian people starts to get to past some degrees it could cause more enemies against israel and why it is crucial. >> harris: they live among killers. i would argue they have been suffering a long time. they were promised a government that would feed and house and do things governments are supposed to do and the palestinian people were let down. if they can get out. we're hoping they can and with the supplies just to the south of where they could still get out potentially. i don't know for how long. >> they need a lot more supplies, too. >> harris: you will see the movement against israel. we're seeing a level of anti-semitism we haven't seen since world war ii. we know that high-level israeli officials, colonel, are coordinating or trying to with the united states. there was a visit, those officials visited doha, qatar to

talk about hostage negotiations. james langford talked about the challenges to get the hostages back safely. >> a lot of the families of the hostages are very worried that the ground incursion might result in them never seeing their loved ones again. is that a reasonable concern do you think? >> yeah, that's a reasonable concern for anyone. the challenge is what's the right way to get them? how do you do that? how long will they be used as a pawn? what will hamas do? we've already seen their ruthlessness. >> harris: associated press with the headline israel says it's war can destroy hamas and rescue hostages. their families are less certain. your take. >> i have a great concern about that. we just got a note. this is a horrible situation in this specifically with the hostages that has every chance to go really south. we saw that it was an express tactic of hamas to immediately

get hostages. one of the first things they did. you know they will use it for this purpose to delay the israelis coming in to try to create shock value. i fear they may use some of these to actually kill them and blame it on israel as it goes along there. which is anguishing and agonizing beyond compare to the families. it will be something that will continue to generate more anger and anxiety among the arab population, which is what hamas wants. they want the arab population to be so angry that they come on their side and we have to avoid that. >> harris: the other possibility do we even know they are fanged these people? the numbers have been to 300, down to two plus. we think they have 239 after the reconnaissance that the ground raids might have been able to bring. it is frightening to think that if no one has food to give them or if they choose to starve them out, there is no way to stop that unfortunately unless they go in.

let's get to this. i mentioned iran. that hostage taking is brand right on for iran. they took them under jimmy carter, our people. americans among the hostages taken this time by iran-backed hamas. iran-backed terrorists over the weekend targeted u.s. bases inside syria and the pentagon said a drone crashed away from one base leaving no injuries or damage. the latest attack comes after the u.s. launched precision air strikes against iranian-backed in retailiation for a series of drone attacks on american bases in the region. there were dozens of them. our national security advisor with this on a wider war. >> if american troops are attacked by iran and its proxies, we'll respond. we did respond. we are taking every measure necessary to protect our forces,

to increase our vigilance and work with other countries in the region to try to keep this conflict that is currently in israel and gaza from spinning out into a regional conflict. the risk is real and our vigilance is high. >> harris: retired general robert abrams who served as the commander of u.s. forces in south korea with the same concerns. >> we can only hope that iran and its proxies don't take this to a much higher level and continue to escalate that sort of portion of this protection of our troops. >> harris: colonel, what starts a wider war faster? president biden's policy weaknesses or hitting hard those iran-backed terrorists who are hitting our men and women? >> i'll tell you, harris, the concerns are valid. we cannot get sucked into another middle east war and those threats are high. you know why this makes me really angry when i hear

sullivan talking about those kinds of things? on your show in 2019 in may of 2019 i was on there when president trump said he wanted to withdraw our forces from syria but it was getting pushback from the pentagon and others. i said at that time that this would just be a point of vulnerability for us. they don't serve any value for us. they should have been withdrawn right then. trump should be been able to get it done. none of this would be a case. iran wouldn't have any access to it. as it is they're there and now we have to defend our troops. the faster we can get those guys out of there and take away the possibility of iran drawing us into a war the better for us. there is no good answers in this right now. >> harris: that's a really interesting point. so what you are saying it's a combination biden's weak policies and i say that because last week i had another colonel tell me that we sent in two planes, the formation would be to send in to planes and hit

targets inside syria. that was the left amount we could have done. what should our portioninality look like? we're counting in tens now. >> we need to be doing a better job of who launched those and destroy them all first point. whether iran was behind it or not is a separate issue. we have to be careful we don't directly attack them that draws us into a war. but we have to destroy anyone who tries to get our troops in. then i'm telling you, i know it's unpopular but we need to get the troops out of their. >> harris: you think we ought to evacuate the basis within those iran-backed proxies reach right now during this conflict between israel and hamas terrorists? >> we should have taken them out in 2019 and it wouldn't be a problem. now that it is problem we have to deal with it. what we can't do is say somebody will say that oh, we're leaving and we're being afraid of them.

look, they will say that for sure. imagine if we don't take them out and americans die, then that will be -- the blood will be on the president's hands for not getting them to safety. >> harris: wow, colonel davis, thank you. that's a lot. chaos at a russian airport. look at this. [shouting] >> harris: this was yesterday. a predominantly muslim region. hundreds of anti-israel protestors looked for people flying from tel aviv. demonstrators can be heard shouting looking for jews, anti-semitic slogans. similar protests taking place around the world. they are happening in major cities, london, madrid, istanbul. thousands of people in the streets over the weekend. jeff paul is in "focus" now. jeff. >> this all happened in the

russian republican, the very southern tip of russia just to the east of the country of georgia. when you watch this footage, it is incredible that nobody who was on that airplane being targeted by these protestors was killed. [shouting] >> that is a small example of the hundreds of people who stormed that airport. some even making it onto the airfield. they were trying to reach an airliner that just landed from tel aviv, israel. some in the crowd can be heard chanting anti-semitic slogan and some shows the mob examining passports looking for anyone from israel. regional government issued a statement supporting palestinians in gaza but urging its citizens to not take part in these type of protests and create panic. local security forces got the situation under control and as many as 60 according to the

local reports were arrested. >> they hit their heads and feet to break through fence and grill. here are the cobblestones that they hurled at us. they have also start evidence to crash everything in customs offices, the booths. >> israeli prime minister netanyahu's office saying they expect russian law enforcement to protect any israelis or those of the jewish faith no matter where they might be. >> harris: that's interesting. i don't know that putin would do that. does anybody think he will protect anybody? after all, the president of ukraine is also of jewish desce. demonstrations, hundreds of demonstrators were arrested on the brooklyn bridge. in chicago thousands of people calling for a cease-fire as they march for a third weekend. they were calling for a

cease-fire. look at this list. the list of colleges holding anti-israel rallies is only getting longer. some jewish students fearing for their lives on campuses. at cornell campus, police had to guard the school's center for jewish living after online posts threatened violence against josh students. jerad kushner on the hate. >> one of the ironies you are safer in saudi arabia than you are on a college campus. >> harris: congress is looking for ways to take action on the anti-semitic threats. they might want to start in congress on the left. republican congressman brian mast of florida, member of the foreign affairs committee, transportation and infrastructure committee and the only congressman to serve in both the u.s. army and idf. i welcome you in "focus." thank you for your service on both continents.

let's talk about the growing hate for jews in america and is it growing or has it always been there and now these college campuses are just bold with it? >> i think what you have more distinctively is anti-semitic terrorism. it is a product of what the administration pushes. i think they feed it every time they say israel should make -- you are feeding that terrorism. when really the emphasis should be on palestinians to prove somehow that they are a very far cry from what hamas actually is. the evidence doesn't show they are that far from that. we're quite the same. the palestinians pay for the families of what they call martyrs and they teach in their schools that the kids should hate jews and hate americans and teach them ways to kill them. the list goes on and on of these things. that in my opinion is what's

feeding anti-semitism that has existed into anti-semitism as a terror weapon now. >> harris: three fridays ago you saw the former leader of hamas who lives in qatar . interesting next to the $6 billion money, the sanctions dollars that are also in qatar. he called, remember, three fridays ago he called for all that mass protesting and anything you think you can do on your own, which i can only guess what he meant by that. my point of bringing him up is when he calls for something like that, does it feed into and stir this up? are they all on the same page, or what? >> it is the fuel for this fire that's raging across the globe. it is not just that, it is when the qatar-owned media of all al-jazeera still holds on the top of their webpages to this day that israel conducted a hospital bombing killing 500

people. that's the fuel. >> harris: today that's still on there? >> it is still on there. you go onto their all al-jazeera app and still find them espousing that israeli killed 500 people at the hospital. >> harris: the hospital is still standing. the palestinian islamic jihad has been known to have hit actually the parking lot, not even the hospital. that's unbelievable they still have that up. florida governor and presidential candidate ron desantis defended his call to ban pro-palestinian groups from florida state colleges. one of his rivals for the republican nomination posted this. >> are the student groups wrong for expressing their views? yes, they are. we won't change their minds if we adopt their methods in return. by telling them they have to disband and can't exist,

especially when it's a government actor doing it. the first amendment violation. you can't recharacterize someone's speech, just their opinion, their statements, as material support for a terrorist group. >> harris: governor desantis hit back. >> this is not cancel culture. this group, they themselves said in the after math of the hamas attack that they don't just stand in solidarity, but they are part of this hamas movement. and so yeah, you have a right to go out and demonstrate but you can't provide material support to terrorism. it's not a first amendment issue. that's a material support to terrorism issue. >> harris: congressman, your reaction. >> it's exactly the same as you brought in rashida tlaib what she was doing with a mob asking them to go into the capitol building and actually do what they were falsely accusing donald trump of doing in the past.

they are conducting this violence, perpetuating the violence. there are things we can do on capitol hill. if vivek wants to say it's their first amendment right to do so he can have the argument. we shouldn't be giving u.s. taxpayer dollars to station allowing these kind of lies to be set out there and perpetuated across the schools whether research grants, national institute of health or national science foundation or take your pick of places. these schools are getting taxpayer dollars coming out of washington, d.c. that should come to an end. >> harris: it is kind of settled already what is protected and not protected speech. when you call for the killing of people and by supporting terrorists that's what you are doing. if you are pro-palestinian the people, tell them please to go south to safety and all those supplies. if you're pro-hamas you support what we saw on october 7th. you support terrorists beheading children and terrorizing and

torturing the elderly and setting people on fire while they are still alive. if that's what they are seeing it's not protected speech. president biden tries to balance war in israel and ukraine and facing rising tensions with china. biden and xi have reached a deal to meet next month. hopefully we can urge china to work with iran and other countries to prevent more middle eastern conflicts. china's foreign minister said a bilateral meeting would not be smooth saying. he met with the secretary of state to try to work on relations and house foreign affairs committee chair mike mccaul with this message to biden. >> so the message is get something out of this meeting for god sakes. they always meet and good to talk but we want lines of

communication between our military and theirs. which we don't have right now. >> harris: congressman, what is your take on all of this? >> my take is that joe biden makes it an issue when it becomes a political issue. when you are talking about xi now and the potential meeting in the future is in reaction to gavin newsom having a meeting with xi and saying why is the american president not doing this? a political reaction to real policy problems and the policy problems stem from him not being strong, him not looking at american advantages in energy or anything else and him spreading us too thin. too much toast and not enough butter in europe, in the middle east and potentially in asia as well. >> harris: it seems like such short sightedness. like somebody who never has been president or vice president or eight years and spent 50 years in politics. somebody completely naive to think our enemies would work together to solve our problems

and the problems of our allies. it didn't work with putin against ukraine. why would biden think it will work in china >> that's what has created the blood in the water that exists on multiple continents and where america is spread thin and a leadership that won't address those places and doesn't have an ability. he has lost the credibility that donald trump had. donald trump didn't have to drop ordnance on north korea, moscow, tehran. he was able to do it with soleimani in iraq or make threats in other places that you either get in line or i'll put you in line and they took the threat credibly and he didn't have to put them in line. they stayed in the right place. >> harris: by the way, i now use iran and hamas simultaneously because we know -- interchangeably because we know they are iran-backed.

doing a deal with hamas or iran is all about the same and why biden thinks that would work and china would do it for us is mind-boggling for all the reasons you just said. thank you for being in "focus." you are seeing it live on the left of your screen. israel pushing into gaza right now taking out terrorist targets. we'll take you live on the ground in israel. also in "focus" israeli prime minister netanyahu's top spokesperson is here to talk about what an endgame might look like in the battle for israel's sovereignty and safety. which have become top targets for ransomware attacks. but there's never been a reported ransomware attack on a chromebook. which is why thousands of schools like the fairfield-suisun unified school district switched to google tools for education. so they can focus on teaching and 22,000 students can focus on learning,

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>> harris: israeli military pushing into northern gaza, the war enters a new phase getting closer to gaza city, 24 days after the brutal hamas terrorist attack on israeli citizens.

netanyahu, the prime minister, also saying idf is prepared for a long and difficult battle to annihilate the terrorist group. trey yengst in israel now. >> good morning. we have breaking news for you as we speak. sirens are sounding in central israel. i want to step out of the frame here and have my cameraman zoom into the skyline. if you look right above where the sun is setting, you can see two black lines of smoke. that's where the rockets just moments ago came off the northern part of the gaza strip despite the thousands of israeli air strikes that have targeted gaza over the past several days, hamas and islamic jihad have maintained their ability to fire on major population centers across israel. i want to show you what it was like earlier today along the gaza border as israeli forces operated inside the strip behind

us. you can see the israelis marking tar guests on the northeastern side of the gaza strip and hear the thud of artillery. as the israelis push deeper into gaza they anticipate there will be more resistance and part of the reason they continue strikes against different positions. the israelis are currently engaging hamas militants in the northern part of the strip. we understand that 20 hamas members were killed in a single israeli strike yesterday with israeli ground troops on the eastern and western side of gaza. a spokesman for the israeli military spoke earlier today about the situation and plans for his troops. >> over the past day we have expanded ground activities with additional forces entering the gaza strip infantry and artillery core. through strikes with the ground forces and iaf dozens of

terrorists were eliminated last night who barricaded themselves in buildings and attempted to attack forces in their direction. we are conducting expanded ground operations in the gaza strip. >> the humanitarian situation inside gaza continues to deteriorate. israelis are striking from both the air and the ground. we have heard artillery units active along the border and the after math in the video of neighborhoods in gaza completely leveled. hamas and islamic jiiad are battling from the neighborhoods. desperate palestinians who live life under hamas control are running low on food and supplies. this weekend they raided a u.n. warehouse inside gaza trying to take whatever aid they could find. >> harris: trey, before i let you go, i had reported earlier that egypt has sent the largest group of trucks carrying aid

that we've seen so far since the war began and on october 7th and i'm just wondering is that enough? have you seen that be enough for people to come from the north, palestinians families and all those people who will be trapped up there with war going on, if they don't start to move south? is that enough to get people on the move again? are you seeing that? >> it is certainly not enough. yesterday 24 aid trucks entered through egypt's rafah crossing. they are quickly running out of food and water. we're hearing horrific stories not just from palestinian civilians but aide workers trapped inside the strip. >> harris: why not go south? why don't the people move? >> they have moved and they are in the south, many of them are there. >> harris: they are running out

of food and water there? >> yes. >> harris: so trey, you say thousands of people. but there are hundreds of thousands of people. >> every day israelis are warning civilians to move south. with a population of more than 2 million people they don't have anywhere to go. we've shown you the videos around the second largest city inside gaza. palestinians are staying in tent cities being built there but in terms of the aid, the food and supplies, there is nothing other than these few aid trucks that entered going into gaza. so people are eating and drinking what they have. the water is being turned on in certain parts of the strip but we're getting reports from palestinians in gaza the water is not clean to drink. so humanitarian situation is developing and it is part of the reason that you have the united states, for example, trying to push to get as much aid into the

strip as possible to insure that doesn't become a whole other parallel story in the tragedy that unfolded in the south of israel on october 7th leading to the war we're seeing today. >> harris: it is unreal. where are saudi arabia and iran? the crown prince and the president of iran talked early on in the conflict for 45 minutes. talked about supporting the palestinians. they don't want to support them with aid? where is jordan, qatar, where are these countries to help their arab neighbors the palestinians that they want to fight us and israel about but they won't help their own people? >> it's a great question and so far the egyptian have been resistant to provide aid to the palestinians in gaza and to insure that crossing is open. you've seen the united nations, officials going to the border and calling for it to open not only to let that aid in but also to let foreign citizens out. there are hundreds of american

citizens, many of them dual nationals trapped inside gaza. i'm texting with a woman who the state department told her to go to the rafah crossings and went with her young son. she lives in utah and gone to the crossing and they haven't let her go into egypt. she has tried so many times she is giving up. when i text her to see if she is okay her response is i am alive. >> harris: god bless her. what is the state department telling her? >> this is a huge part of the story that we're trying to report each and every day but is not being covered across the board. the american citizens currently trapped inside gaza. the state department is really dropping the ball here and we should be very clear about this part of the story. there are many moving parts to this conflict. but it is not just people who are in gaza visiting their families who have american passports in hand and can't get home to the united states, it is also aide workers inside gaza.

american citizens i've talked to over the past 24 hours who told me they're running low on food and supplies. if i could, i know we're tight on time here but i want to read you a text message that i received yesterday from a source who is dealing with this situation and he describes what is happening. he says the water is turned off. when it was on it was dirty. viruses and typical diseases that happen from stagnant water setting in. a lot of people vomiting. low on medicine and treating burns with iodine. they are running out of supplies. we talk about american citizens, aide workers inside gaza describing these difficult and horrific conditions. they can't get home. >> harris: trey yengst your reporting is always eye opening and i appreciate all of it and what you told us about what is happening for those people who actually have made it from the north to the sourth. it didn't help them as much as they thought it would. they aren't in the war zone but nothing to drink or eat. it is not enough aid going in.

again i ask where are the arab nations? where is saudi arabia? really rich country could do something now. trey yengst, thank you as always. the ground invasion as you know is underway phase two. the white house fielding questions and how best to achieve israel's ultimate endgame. jake sullivan. >> they have told us if broad terms that making sure that hamas can never again threaten israel in the way it threatened israel before is their stage object sieve in the convict. in terms of what the specific milestones are that's something that is up to israel. we'll continue to ask the hard questions that we would ask of ourselves in a military operation like this. what exact will i are the objectives? how are the means matched to objectives and how will it evolve over time? >> harris: former u.s. envoy

with a guest essay saying it is imperative to eliminate hamas once and for all. his piece titled i might have once favored a cease-fire with hamas but not now. today it is clear to me that peace is not going to be possible now or in the future as long as hamas remains intact and in control of gaza as hamas did after conflicts with israel in 2009, 2012, 2014 and 2021, the group will almost certainly rearm and restore. the spokeswoman for the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, i welcome you to "focus" today. first of all, how will you know that your objectives are being met? what is the metric on the ground that says you are winning? >> well thank you for having me on, harris. this will be a decision that will be made by our government leadership and the military leadership. but we have defined the objective of this counter offensive against hamas as the

dismantlement of this terrorist organization as a government body and as a military wing. we also said we want to see our sons and daughters, the hostages. we are talking about nearly 240 of them that are being held still in captivity for 24 days now. we want to see all of them back. >> harris: the saudi defense minister will visit the without today days after israel opened the second stage of war against hamas terrorists. saudi defense minister is expected to meet with senior biden administration officials. saudi leaders have condemned israel's move to expand ground operation into gaza. keith kellogg said this about the importance of these meetings. >> it is significant now. remember when president biden came in, he called the saudi arabia a pariah state. it's important when the president talks to the defense

minister of saudi arabia gets the message across that we are with you, saudi arabia. we need you to stay in line with israel and come together on this negotiation having some type of peace agreement. >> harris: is the united states going to end up being alone in this side-by-side support with israel? >> definitely not. we see worldwide support and everyday people are asking how to help and what can we do? they see what is happening here and heard of the october 7th atrocities. that's a situation has been going on for years. we've taken the decision that we can no longer live next to a terror enclave just like a call fate and following that scheme of the international coalition to defeat isis. this is what we intend to do in

gaza. the only reason why we are operating in gaza. in respect of saudi arabia, that you just mentioned, it is definitely not coincidental just as the united states and israel were on the brink of a dloip mat i can breakthrough that could have brought the region an historic peace deal. these terrorists. the worst enemy is peace and stability in the region. >> harris: the united states and 13 other countries voted no to a cease-fire at the united nations. 120 other countries backed a cease-fire. that brings me again to the question you have a wall of opposition now and you know that this is as much a political and public relations battle for israel as it is war on the ground. how do you fight it?

>> it is true but we are not surprised with what has transpired at the united nations, years long double standard against israel in this body that allows a country like iran to chair the human rights council. we have very low expectations from the united nations. calls for a cease-fire is basically taking the pro-hamas position at this point. it means that terrorists blood thirsty racist terrorists can get away what they did. we won't let that happen. pure evil must be eradicated before we can talk of any other opportunities for this region. >> harris: the prime minister who you work for netanyahu sent a warning to other allied arab nations about what happens to them if israel loses to hamas terrorists.

[speaking native language] >> harris: he said humanity versus -- can you tell me more about how israel defines the axis of evil? >> it is very clear that whenever we talk about the axis of evil first and foremost we have to talk about iran because all they do is stable lies the region and they are funding hamas, 100% funding the second largest terrorist organization in the gaza strip the islamic jihad. when we talk about hezbollah in the north in lebanon and houthis

in yemen. this must be addressed. not only prime minister netanyahu addressed the concerns and came out with the call for regional partners and the civilized world at large but president biden said similar things when he was here. there is no daylight between jerusalem and washington in that respect. it is a war of the civilized world against pure evil. >> harris: a quick word on the conversations going on right now with the prime minister with regard to the hostages. >> right now we are talking about nearly 240 hostages. i can tell you personally that a friend of mine his family just today was notified by the idf24 days after that his brother is in fact -- he has been abducted into gaza. can you imagine the sleepless nights and the tears that are no longer what these families have

been going through? that's unfathomable and a torture, a physical torture of mind and we'll get our sons and daughters back. that's one of our top priorities in gaza now. >> harris: bless you in all that you are faced with. it is torture and terror and why they took these people and you don't know what's happening. it is extended terror and punishment from the minds of killers. thank you. i do want to keep the hostages in focus. more than 200 men and women, children, elderly held by hamas killers. each day we show a different few faces and say their names. their posters are hanging in dozens of cities around the world. we have to keep putting them up because protestors take them down. the activists behind this effort asking for help. download and print from their

website and post the images in your community. kidnapped from israel.com. let's say the names quickly. 84-year-old israeli. a 56 year old israeli. a 47-year-old israeli. we'll move to politics now. some democrats and members of the liberal media seem to be losing it completely, their minds flown out the window. congressman dean phillips decision to primary president biden. listen to their take on dean phillips and his run. >> first of all, talk about being an entitled white guy, right? a member of congress, he served 2, 3 terms. decided he will run. the rest of the party has gotten behind joe biden and this guy has no -- has almost no policy differences between him and joe biden.

>> this is 2023 and the last time i looked at the calendar six states that you have to be on the ballot by the end of next month. good luck, mr. phillips. have fun out there. >> harris: congressman pressed on whether he is different from president biden said this. >> personally i admire the president. i voted for those policies because they are good ones and make a difference over time. i'm not running against joe biden, i'm not running against president biden, i'm running for the future. >> you are literally running against president biden. >> i'm not running against president biden, i am running for the majority of americans who want somebody different. >> harris: "politico" said this. the danger for biden, then, isn't that dean phillips is a threat in the primary, it is a phillips candidacy could further expose a major biden

vulnerability at a time when the president is up his poll numbers and cassie -- your take on dean phillips getting into the race. the only difference is that he is younger. >> i can't hear. >> harris: can you hear me now? all right. we'll go to cassie first. same question. your take on i'll run for president and the only thing is that i'm like half your age. >> right because i think his voting record with joe biden is 100%. he may not be a real threat to joe biden's candidacy, logistics don't allow for that but he is emblematic of the issue in the democratic party. biden's poll numbers are in the basement and the sentiment of voters trying to tell their

party leadership we need something different. this isn't working. this leadership isn't working or joe biden is not fit for the job and we don't like the alternative of kamala harris. he represents that. democrats instead of just excusing him away should be paying attention to that and sayings is there something we should do differently. i think it will be a problem. >> harris: we have lost the satellite connection with david car lucci. it happens, difficulties. i do want to ask about the recent visit of california governor gavin newsom. a name that came up so many times about will he run, will he not run? now we know the president and president xi of china will get together after newsom just recently visited -- cassie, sit by. we have our democrat guest back. did you hear my question, david? >> i didn't hear it. sorry.

>> harris: gavin newsom. he says he won't run. went to china and now president biden will meet with president xi of china. and come together on the issue of iran benefiting us in the whole middle eastern conflict. can iran get a peace deal done or cease-fire or whatever? what is your take? is dean phillips alone on the ballot or will gavin newsom join him? >> looks like file phillips is alone. he is not attacking joe biden and democrats are in support behind president biden. i think this is good for democrats in the long run. it is really just a media publicity stunt from dean phillips because as we know, dnc has changed up the calendar and new hampshire will not have delegates at the convention. this is really just the media stunt saying joe biden is old.

we know that. if that's the only challenge, i think the democrats will have a problem. republicans in trying to beat joe biden. >> harris: it's interesting, cassie, when you look at the polling numbers, people agree joe biden, at least in their opinion, is too old. none of this changes that. he is still tied with donald trump in most polling that you look at. look at all the former president is going through. he still can't beat him in the polls. quick. >> he should be out ahead if their policies are working. it is tone deaf. voters are differing from party leadership in washington. a real problem if democrats excuse it away. >> harris: great to have you both and thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." "outnumbered" after the break. for your family? newday usa can help. veterans have earned a lot of va benefits with their service, but the va home loan benefit

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