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this is the "ingraham angle" from washington tonight. a lot a lot happening here in the united states, of course, in the middle east. rockets flying. looks like israel may have taken out the leader of hezbollah. we'll stay on that. and donald trump is taking the stage any moment for a town hall in warren, michigan. all important michigan focused on the economy and saving the auto industry. and i hope you're sitting down for this. kamala harris has made a trip to the border. yeah, has frozen over. she's going to speak live later this. >> but first, kamala's high crimes at border. >> that's the focus of tonight's angle. so as i said, she's hitting the border, hoping to turn the page on her reputation as an open border zealot. but instead, the book was opened to reveal the stomach truth about the criminal element. she welcomed in in response to a congressional request for information, ice revealed

that more than 13,000 illegal aliens convicted of murder are now the united states. oh, and they're not in custody . more than 1800 have been accused of murder as well. nearly 16,000 have been convicted of sexual assault. >> but the harris campaign is out with a new ad celebre aiding her border cred. >> kamala harris has never back down from a challenge. she put cartel members and drug traffickers behind bars and she will secure our border. >> yes, someone got paid huge money to produce that ad. they really think americans are that stupid? >> yeah, that's what they think. now, her role as ag mostly involves state level crimes, not cartel cases. >> and news nation notes that her claims about jailing jail and gang members for cross-border smuggling also seems inflated because her cases mostly involve local

drug offenses, not international smuggling operations. >> and in the tucson sector, where she's speaking today under and biden customs border protection logged 1.2 million as they call them, encounters since they took office. now, during trump's four years in office, almost 1 million fewer came in or 246,000. >> bill illusion will give us key details and the total coming up. they're truly shocking. now, this is already devastated, cities and towns across america and there's no other conclusion draw except that biden and harris and mayorkas conspire here to intentionally subvert america's sovereignty and the rule law. look, they believe borders are immoral unless. they're ukraine. they want an unending torrent of, cheap labor flooding into the united states. and this is key. they want to change the electorate. yeah. elon is right. now, if this isn't impeachable

conduct, i don't know what is. >> and i said this years ago, by the way. how is not a high crime, high crimes and misdemeanors? >> americans dying because of these policies. and remember, back in 2019, democrats impeach, donald trump, based on what he said on a phone call with zelenskyy . now democrats spent countless man hours, untold of taxpayer money on a sham proceeding meant to hobble his presidency and affect the campaign and the catalyst. let's not forget or ukrainian apologists working in the white yet joe and kamala filling open our borders to millions of foreigners. >> they fast them into our communities. they destroy local cultures. they strain already strained budgets. >> and all along, we find out, they've tried to hide the truth about the criminal that they allowed to walk right in and brutalize us.

again. i ask, how is that not a high crime in and of itself? >> the families of the victims who biden and harris have left behind probably another word for this. i would imagine the word treason on their minds. now, look at these faces. they've been arrested for everything from rape, murder, carjacking, robbery, domestic assault, dwi. none of them should have been here. and harris' empty border rhetoric tonight does nothing to change the suffering endured by these families. >> the horrors that my daughter suffered. and it's because of these open borders. they are nothing but monsters who are predators. and those are the kind of individuals that we so openly let in this country. i believe the biden-harris administration open border policies are responsible. >> the death of my daughter. joe biden, kamala harris,

and every democrat who supports these open border policies are complicit in the deaths of 300,000 innocent americans, including my son weston. >> now, it took ice, by the way, about six months to get back to congressman gonzales when he requested this information. >> but harris has been so intent on keeping this out of the news that won't even speak to her own administration's border chief. and she didn't speak the last border patrol chief either. >> i've never had one conversation with the president or the vice president, for that matter. and so i was the chief of the border patrol. i commanded 21,000 people. >> that's a problem. but pretending there's not a crisis of own making is not a strategy. madam vice president, it's a tacit admission of failure. >> the border patrol, by the way, you know, it doesn't really need more resources. what it needs is a president who believes that it's the fundamental duty,

really the first duty of a president to our borders. and her actions the past three and a half years. that's all we need to know about her in our system and our sovereignty. if stopping fennell at the border was a priority, other nations would have been put on notice by kamala harris. mexico would have been warned of dire trade consequences. they were under trump. if it didn't like stopping human trafficking, if that were a priority for her, if they really cared about children that they now use as pawns, they would have kept remain in mexico in place. but instead, on day one, joe and kamala dismantled every effective trump border policy that was in place and that kept america safe. and by the way, i'm going to say this again. >> the idiotic so-called border bill that jim lankford and company tried to ram through that died in the senate

and harris loves to cite this, it was such a farce that its only sponsors released it on, you know, 48 hours notice. it was 370 pages long, by the way, right before the vote. they finally released the text and all you need to know about that legislation again that kamala harris will cite is gave cbp a paltry $7 billion in initial funding. additional funding. ukraine got 60 billion in the so-called border bill. so are tired of covering politicians in both parties. >> we know that they want solutions. >> and in stark contrast to harris' last minute border choreography that we're going to watch tonight, donald trump is appealing to the pragmatic core of american voters. >> i will send congress a bill to ban sanctuary cities in the first day that i become president. i will end catch and release and i will restore remain

mexico. we will seal the border. we will stop the and we will begin the largest deportation of criminals. >> and he will. immigration should be to our national benefit. >> it should not be used as a political strategy to juice the voter rolls or as a source of cheap labor to drive down american wages. >> so we can't expect americans to keep open up their wallets to, protect the world when leaders refuse to protect us at home. >> and the angle. >> joining me now live from douglas, arizona, is fox's allusion. bill, i mentioned it briefly in the angle, but how i know you found out how many illegals convicted of murder and rape are just roaming free in the united states. and then the overall number of criminals that we know are here. what can you tell us tonight? >> yeah, laura, good evening to you. as we're waiting for kamala harris to speak here in douglas, arizona, tonight, we got these new numbers from ice today. it's one of the first times

we've seen these numbers. pretty stunning. essentially, what they say is that as of right now, ice is able track over 600,000 non-citizens on its detain docket who have either been convicted of a crime or are currently charged with a crime and their case is pending . if you take a look at the break down right here, this is what it shows. 13,000 of those non-citizens have been convicted of homicide and almost 16,000 of them have been convicted of sexual assault. again, these are migrants, noncitizens on ice's non detain ,meaning they're roaming the united states right now. they are not in custody. these are migrants who have potentially crossed illegally and been released with court dates or they're migrants who have already been ordered deported by an immigration judge but are still here in the united states. now, it's important to point out that not all of these numbers would have occurred under. the biden administration, the non detain docket goes back. many administrations potentially to the clinton or bush administrations, but the non detained did add more than

double under president biden since. he took office after president trump. now we've been talking about migrant crime across the country. take a look at some of these mug shots here. these are some recent cases we've been talking about. ice's boston office recently ran an operation on nantucket island in just 48 hours. they arrested four illegal alien sex offenders, two of which were salvadoran illegal immigrants who are both charged child rape of child victims on nantucket island. one of them charged with three counts of aggravated child rape. then there was a brazilian an illegal immigrant who was charged with sexually assaulting a nantucket resident . well, as a guatemalan illegal immigrant who was charged with sexually assaulting a nantucket resident. that's one single ice office, 48 hours and one of the riskiest parts of the country in a sanctuary state law. that's one of ice's biggest frustrations is dealing with those sanctuary states. and just overall, the numbers under the biden administration ,migrants coming into the country have just exploded. take a look at this graphic here. when you look at the encounters

under donald trump's administration, around 2.4 million encounters that has exploded to more than 8 million encounters under the biden administration. and keep in mind, does not account for more than 1.9 million known gateways who have been recorded sneaking into the country under the biden administration. that is according to cbp internal data. back out here live, vp kamala harris. she's at a nearby port of entry right now, meeting cbp officers, talking about disrupting the flow of fentanyl. she was at the border wall earlier meeting with border patrol. she knows the and immigration has been a political vulnerability for her. so she's coming down here to the border, her first trip in three years since el paso in 2021. and she's hoping to chip into some of that polling. donald has a big lead in the polling when it comes to the border and immigration. you can expect when she speaks here tonight to go after donald trump, point the finger at him for having that bipartisan border deal killed. she says if she's elected president, she will sign that bill immediately. we'll send it back to you. bill, what are the border patrol staff officials

that you've talked to, what are they saying about this trip? >> well, the border patrol, the border patrol union blasted her. they essentially said this is all a political, political stunt. they said she's only been ignoring the crisis, that she enabled it. they said her visit, a slap in the face to border patrol agents and americans alike, given that it's just weeks away from an election. and their question for her in their statement is, where has she been the last three years? >> lauren bale, thank you so much. joining now, thom hartmann, former acting ice director, and brandon judd, national border patrol council president. now, trump hit kamala today, guys, over the biden-harris record on the border. >> four years ago, kamala harris inherited the most secure border in u.s. history and borders are. she then set the all time record for illegal immigration into our country every single year.

>> many of these people were stone cold criminals and murderers. >> she will fully and, deliberately erase her own nation's borders, a crime so wicked as to defy description. now, tom, obviously, you served under president trump. you're this choreography play out today. what's your sense about the rank and file on the ground and what they feel, given what they've seen day after day? >> the rank file has no respect for her. look, she broke the border. president trump is right. he had this administration most secure border in my 34 year career, and they broke the border on purpose by abolishing everything we created well under president trump. and let's i'm sick of her talking about the senate bill, but i don't want to talk about six months before the senate bill was even talked about. we had h.r. two which passed the house, which is 100 times stronger than the senate bill. but chuck schumer wanted to put on the floor for a vote. he wanted to put it up for

debate. the white house kept pushing it down. so they're the ones that shut down legislation that could affect the border. but we got to remember, she broke the border she didn't fix it. and she ought to apologize to the men and women of the border patrol, the chaos she created. she will apologize to the families of the 41 board cbp officers who committed suicide under this administration. she will apologize to the horse patrol, comparing them to racists. she all apologize to ice for comparing them to the kkk show all apologize to the men and women in, that green uniform who are giving cpr to babies, talking to girls as young as seven by the criminal cartels because she opened this border wide. >> this is why president trump invoked tom homans name so many times today. as i heard brandon, it's amazing how she's strolling alongside the border wall. >> and the biden administration did everything in its power to ensure that not a foot of it. another foot of it got built. >> your reaction to that? she wanted photo?

yeah, she wanted that photo today that and that's why we saw complete chaos in yuma. >> all you have to do is at that the locations where she refused to enhance all the security measures that we needed. yuma exploded the tucson exploded right there in douglas. it exploded, knocking arizona, which is next to right next to douglas. i saw lowe's. and that exploded. so all of that area has completely and totally gotten out of control simply because it comes down to policy when if this election comes down to policy, which it should come down to. if you look at economic, domestic, if you look at foreign policy and of course, border security policy, if you look at all of those policies, you will grade donald trump much higher than kamala harris. and if it comes down to policy, if we actually vote based upon what is best for this country, it is clear that donald trump is the winner. >> kamala harris is going to the border because she knows it's a liability. she knows that she has to spin it. she knows that she has to try to rewrite history based upon

what she does. she needs to be judged based upon what she has done. and what she did was released. chaos which completely and totally undermined every single border patrol agent, every single time that we wanted to do our jobs. we couldn't do it. we just had to process into the united states and say goodbye. we became essentially the welcome patrol, not the border patrol. >> now, changing diapers

terrorist organization, and one of its founders was eliminated by the idf. together with ali khaki, the commander of hezbollah's southern front, and additional. hezbollah commanders, we understand that this group was meeting in the suburbs of the lebanese capital of beirut, a neighborhood known as dahiya, and this is where not only the initial strikes took place, but also dozens of strikes overnight. you might have seen if you were watching the live camera overnight, dozens of strikes lighting up the beirut skyline and a number of people, according to our reports on the ground evacuating in deeper into the lebanese capital as these strikes were taking place from this position in haifa, a city

that sits about 17 miles from the border with lebanon. we could hear some of those strikes overnight in southern lebanon. the israelis tried to target as many of the rocket launching units as possible, understanding that there would be a response by this iran backed organization. now, look, charlie, there are really two options here as to what happens next. almost the entire leadership command of hezbollah has been taken out in these strikes. and not just the strikes overnight, but also the significant strikes against the radwan forces, hezbollah's elite forces over the past week. and so the two options on the table now are that hezbollah continues the fight without their leadership, including their leader, hassan nasrallah, and they take direction from the iranian regime, their main funder and supporter in the middle east. or they look for an off ramp and try to come to the table and ultimately cut a ceasefire deal that would involve moving their forces back to the litani

river. based on a un resolution that the israelis say they have to have, or they will continue the fight against hezbollah. right now, it appears they are going to continue fighting this organization. at the moment, we know that there are jets over lebanon. the israelis are preparing to strike more of those rocket launching positions. and again, as we are talking, some of those sirens are sounding across northern israel as this iran backed organization, hezbollah responds without its leader tree, without its leader. now, you said two different options. it could go. but this organization has been hounded by israeli airstrikes now for days, for weeks, as you know, as the tensions between the two countries have escalated, surely that has caused quite a dent in their resources in their firepower. what does this mean now, as far as moving forward? are they capable of now retaliating in revenge of the killing of their leader?

it's a great question. and look, the fact that the idf has now confirmed that nasrallah was killed in the strikes yesterday, the entire dynamic of the middle east has changed. the leader of iran's largest proxy is dead as the result of an israeli targeting of the lebanese capital, and beirut had traditionally been a red line. nasrallah, when he would make these lengthy speeches, often said it would be an eye for an eye if the israelis targeted beirut, hezbollah would target tel aviv, the commercial capital of israel, and we've not yet seen that deep targeting today. there was at least one surface to surface missile fired from lebanon, and some sirens were going off in the west bank, and there have been sirens going off across northern israel this morning. but in terms of their capabilities, they're certainly diminished. when we were briefed by intelligence officials last year before the october seventh massacre, it was estimated by israeli officials that this group had around 150,000 rockets and

missiles, many of them precision guided with components that were smuggled from iran to syria and then smuggled into southern lebanon. the israelis have been systematically targeting those rocket launching and missile launching positions over the past several weeks in anticipation that as they took out the top leadership of hezbollah, that the group would start to respond deeper into israeli territory. they certainly don't have the capability that they had at the beginning of this conflict, when they got involved just a day after the october 7th massacre. and so as we look forward to what the response might be, the really number one concern for the israelis and really the entire region is a possible response from iran. and let's think back to what happened over the past several months. you had the israelis, at least behind the scenes, taking out the leader of one of their other largest proxies, the iranian proxies in the region, hamas, the group responsible for the october 7th massacre, a man named ismail haniya, the political leader of hamas, was taken out in the

iranian capital of tehran during the inauguration of masoud pezeshkian, the country's new president. and i do want to just interrupt what i'm saying here because in the distance i can hear those israeli jets overhead, an indication they're headed back to lebanon to strike more of those positions in the south of the country. but when we look at what's happened over these past several months, we understand that the top officials from proxies across the region have been taken out by the israelis. and the iranians largely have not responded. back in april, they did respond to what was the targeting of their embassy in damascus, syria, taking out a top irgc official. but they have not yet responded to the killing of ismail haniyeh, which is considered an open tab for the iranians. and they have not responded to the killing of hassan nasrallah. the leader of hezbollah, their largest proxy in the region, or the strikes that israel has conducted against their other proxy in yemen. the houthis, who this

week launched a ballistic missile at tel aviv. and so if the iranians respond, that's the real concern here, because it could lead to further destabilization across the middle east. and this concept and this phrase that people keep repeating over and over again about the possibility of a broader regional war. now it's a real concern, but the question is, what would that look like? and that would look like missiles coming from iran, possibly ground forces from lebanon. the israelis possibly entering southern lebanon. and as we know, more reserve brigades from the israelis have been called up just this morning because israel is preparing for the possibility that this morphs and it changes into a different type of conflict than we've seen on the ground inside gaza, on the southern front for the past nearly one year. and so a lot of moving parts here and real questions about what comes next in this conflict. we do know the biden administration is urging a diplomatic option, but it's difficult to talk about diplomacy when dozens of israeli airstrikes targeted the lebanese capital overnight. and as we speak, hezbollah rockets are raining down on northern israel. excellent insights there, trey, stand by with me

for a moment. i'm going to bring into our conversation fox news, foreign correspondent mike tobin. also there in israel, mike is joining us over the phone. mike, what can you tell us at this hour? where where are you and what are you seeing if anything? well, i'm also in haifa and listening to the jets go back overhead, obviously flying sorties over the south of lebanon, a clear indication that israel has no intention of letting up. you saw that prime minister benjamin netanyahu cut his trip to new york short to handle the situation out here, and this morning we indeed got that confirmation that hezbollah secretary-general hassan nasrallah, who has been really with the organization since its infancy. and when i say the infancy, he was one of the participants in the 1983 bombing of the marine barracks in beirut that killed the u.s. servicemen there. so hassan nasrallah, as much as he's been

in control of hezbollah, he's really been part of hezbollah as it grew and became this very large, substate actor that we know now. so the elimination o, nasrallah and really the top echelons of the command structure in hezbollah, ibrahim mohammed ali karaki, is possible. he's the one that they missed. but ibrahim akil, it leaves a tremendous power vacuum, not just in hezbollah but also in lebanon. they are this tremendous substate actor that has also a political force in lebanon. so what the israelis have achieved now, at this point is chaos within the structure. trey mentioned the fact that the hezbollah is said to have some 150,000 rockets. we know upwards of 2000 strikes that the israelis have done in the south of lebanon. so it remains to be seen how much of that arsenal they've been able to destroy. but, you know, right now, when it comes to finding the rockets that they hid and executing some kind of

a strike on israel with any kind of strategy that's going to be very difficult right now, particularly when you couple in the fact that the hezbollah ranks can't communicate that effectively, because we know that the israelis sabotaged their electronics right in, in an unbelievable strike there as well. now, speak to me, mike, about the intelligence that goes into this particular type of precision strike targeting nasrallah, the israeli idf. they've been targeting southern lebanon, different military bases and weapons for days, for weeks. why now? why did it happen at this particular moment? was this just the opportune time where they knew where he was? it really does seem to be an opera, a target of opportunity. when you talk about a precision strike, that's all relative. they they let off big bombs. we'll see what what exact type of munitions they use. but they made sure they got him and they went into the in the neighborhood is very, very crowded. anywhere you strike

inside of beirut, it's very similar to striking inside inside of gaza. you accept the fact that collateral damage is going to be part of it. and the israelis knew it. this one, this was a strike that the prime minister himself had had to sign off on. so there's going to be tremendous collateral damage as a result of this. they sent in big bombs to be certain that they got hassan nasrallah. now they're making the confirmation that indeed they got it. and intelligence has been a key part of it, if you really think about it, this has been this level of this stage of the conflict really has been an intelligence battle. they have to know where the weapons are hidden and take those out. and then, of course, they're watching the top echelons of the of the hezbollah command structure and waiting to the targets of opportunity present themselves. and you think about it, too, with the sabotage of their communication system. it's quite possible. and i think we'll find out as as we do the forensics on this stage of the conflict later on that

the hezbollah leadership was forced to do things they wouldn't otherwise do because the communications had been sabotaged. so they started going to all these meetings in the daca neighborhood. and the israelis were tracking them and getting them not really one by one. but we on subsequent days, we would hear about another commander who was hit with several operatives alongside of him when the airstrikes came in. but yeah, that term precise, precise airstrikes is going to be very relative because there's going to be a lot of collateral damage with this. but the point you're getting to there, this really has been an intelligence. war, if you will, for the airstrikes that have been going on in the south of lebanon, because it's all about taking out hezbollah's capability and at this stage, really sowing chaos into hezbollah's ranks. they're still going to have support and financing from iran, and they'll continue. but it's going to be very chaotic going forward. oh, absolutely. we can imagine. i want to bring trey back into this conversation.

chief foreign correspondent trey yingst, i want to speak with you about benjamin netanyahu leaving the united states early. did this have any thing to do with that, by chance? yeah, absolutely. we understand that israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, at a cabinet meeting earlier in the week, according to reports, basically greenlighted this strike along with the rest of the cabinet, including israel's defense minister yoav gallant. and there was a photo circulating of netanyahu in his hotel room in new york getting the final information in. basically, the israelis approved when an operational window was available, they would strike the leader of hezbollah, hassan nasrallah, and that operational window happened to be while the prime minister was in new york, addressing the un general assembly. and he made actually not as bombastic as a speech as previously he's done when he addressed the un general assembly in years prior, he's had maps and large charts following israeli operations

against iran directly. but you could tell that something else was on his mind. and certainly it had to do with the fact that his jets were in the sky over lebanon, about to carry out a strike against the leader of iran's largest proxy in the middle east. the fact that israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, cut his trip to the united states short is incredibly significant because very rarely do israeli leaders fly on shabbat. it is considered an emergency situation to have a jewish leader fly between friday evening and saturday evening. and so he not only cut his trip short, but he flew on shabbat, headed back here due to the security situation on the ground. and i've been texting this morning with a number of israeli officials trying to get some understanding of what they think comes next. and the focus this morning is actually updating the media. now that this is public information that he was indeed killed updating the media about the strikes overnight and what took place, targeting not just the leader of hezbollah, hassan nasrallah,

but also the top of hezbollah's southern command and this is significant because the southern command is largely responsible for much of the rocket fire that's been raining down on northern israel. we're talking about thousands of rockets since october 8th, when hezbollah got involved in this conflict. and so the prime minister will hold security assessments when he returns at the kirya, israel's version of the pentagon that sits in the heart of tel aviv. he also meet with other top advisors and officials, including israel's defense minister yoav gallant, and the name of the operation. the israelis have just informed us was new order, new order, because the israelis are trying to set a new standard for the middle east about the threats that israel faces. we should note here that as we cover this, the strike took place in a residential area of dhaka. the hezbollah stronghold of south beirut. there were likely many civilians killed in the strikes that took place. massive explosions collapsing 4 to 5 residential buildings. and so this is a significant strike and will certainly cover the

death toll among the civilian population. we simply don't have this information now, though. it's been such a fluid story overnight as it's been developing. and the news that hassan nasrallah, the leader of hezbollah, is dead, according to the israeli military, is one of the most significant developments of this conflict since the war began on october seventh with the hamas attack against southern israel. and so now the region waits to see how hezbollah will respond to this strike. they still do have missile and rocket capabilities. they've certainly been diminished since the past several weeks because of this israeli air campaign against the rocket and missile launching positions. but again, the big x factor here is iran and the iranian regime. whether or not there will be a direct response or threats coming from iran. we know there are many open tabs for the regime and they have previously talked about striking israel in response to the country's actions, not just on the ground here along the northern border, but also inside gaza and other locations. jelly tray, you

bring up a point that nasrallah was targeted in a headquarters underground beneath a residential building. you said collateral damage could be grave. what are you hearing from locals there in israel? what is the feel hearing this news? is this portrayed as a victory given the possible civilian cost for this target? absolutely. israeli officials are considering this a victory. and part of our role as journalists on the ground is to remind people the cost of that victory, and that may be the lives of dozens, possibly even hundreds of civilians. but this is not a new equation. similar equations have been made during israeli strikes inside gaza as the war approaches. the one year mark there. but as we look forward to what the israeli people can expect right now, there are no changes in home front command. this is the israeli army branch that is responsible for informing the

public. if there are new threats, if they need to stay close to bomb shelters, if there are restrictions on gatherings. currently, there are restrictions in the city of haifa, where we're reporting from right now in northern israel, there can't be large gatherings of people, but these restrictions went in place when the israelis started this new campaign against hezbollah, sort of an uptick in the strikes over the weekend. and so life goes on as usual here. and even in tel aviv, the second largest city in israel. but as we look forward, there could be new instructions from home front command today if they pick up intelligence that hezbollah plans to launch longer range missiles or rockets into israel. at this moment, there have been no changes in indication that either the organization is diminished or they just haven't yet decided how they will respond to the leader's death following those israeli strikes. yesterday in the lebanese capital of beirut, the idf sending out a statement from the chief of the general staff after the elimination of nasrallah, saying, quote, this is not the end of our toolbox. the message is simple anyone

who threatens the citizens of israel, we will know how to reach them. and i know that mike tobin, we talked about the intelligence it took to do this today as well. you also brought up gaza, and let's kind of shift to how potential ceasefire talks could affect this or how this affects those talks right now that the leader of hezbollah has been eliminated. what is the latest you're hearing as far as that goes? it's a great question. and interestingly, there was a connection between the two. there was a long understanding over the past year that if there was a cease fire agreement between israel and hamas inside gaza, that included the release of israeli hostages, around 100 are still being held there, some of them dead, some of them alive. that it could give hezbollah an off ramp in the region. and what's even more interesting is when you think back just 3 to 4 days ago, there was a french proposal on the table to have a 21 day cease fire separate of

what's going on in gaza between israel and hezbollah. and at the very last moment, israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, when he was flying to the united states to address the un general assembly, he decided to call off israeli participation in that cease fire. and the americans were caught by surprise. we heard from u.s. officials who said they were shocked to hear that the israelis had gone back on their position, but now we know that hassan nasrallah, the leader of hezbollah, was the target for the israelis. and clearly a decision had already been made to take him out during the next operational window. and according to israeli media reports, there were previous operational windows. but the israeli cabinet decided against striking him then. so what does this mean for the ceasefire in gaza? well, unfortunately, there is no diplomatic solution on the horizon, and that means that the fighting will continue in gaza. and really, there are no winners in this war. the israeli hostages remain held by hamas inside the gaza strip. and the death toll, especially among the civilian population in gaza, continues to rise. so both the israelis and the

palestinians are paying high prices as the conflict continues, with no diplomacy prevailing. and as it relates to lebanon, even if there is a ceasefire in gaza at this point, there's now a disconnect because the israelis have targeted the top hezbollah official, hassan nasrallah, killing him, according to the israeli military. and this means that all previous concepts are off the table, all agreements are off the table, and you heard a similar sentiment from the iranian regime just yesterday, as they talked about what they are calling israeli crimes, striking the beirut suburbs, the hezbollah stronghold in the dahiya neighborhood. and so as we look forward, it's really unclear as to what comes next in this conflict. but israeli defense remains on high alert. we understand air defense across this country is prepared because there could certainly be a massive response if hezbollah has the capability to do so. great points there, mike tobin, i believe, is still with us on the phone. i want to turn to him as far as what you believe, mike, the israeli, the

idf, the war cabinet, as trey mentioned, netanyahu are huddled together discussing currently as far as their next steps. right. and they have to i think you're into uncharted territory now as as i remember a general once saying during the first gulf war, everybody has a plan. but once you fire that first shot, the enemy gets a vote. now that israel has done this, the pot has really stirred and you're going to have people. someone is going to assume command, the command of hezbollah to some extent. it's just hard to it's just hard to really figure out what will will evolve out of the out of the chaos right now. but they are certainly the israelis are still at it, and they're picking off the strikes because their primary goal, if you go back to what israel says has been the primary goal, is to safely return residents to the north of israel. the upper galilee is still under fire

from rockets every day, they say now 60,000 people officially, or 60,000 homes, have been evacuated for the better part of a year. and when you think about it, the first job of a government is to make sure that people are safe inside of their homes. so there's been tremendous political pressure on benjamin netanyahu to do something about this. and return the people to their homes while they were still fighting the war in gaza. so this has certainly been a significant step. and the one thing when you talk to people in the north of israel, they want this war. they're tired of being out of their homes, and they think that only force will change the dynamic on the ground. so if it takes, israeli ground forces going into the south of lebanon, once again, the people who live in the north of israel, they're all for it. they've been through hard times for a year now because they've been refugees in their own country, but they want a final solution, part and part of the use of that term. but they want some kind of resolution that will allow them

to go home. they're going to see this as a big victory. the assassination of hassan nasrallah. but with the backing of iran, you know, it doesn't necessarily mean it's over. and despite the thousands of airstrikes that israel has conducted in the south of lebanon, it doesn't mean that you have have diminished the hezbollah arsenal. what you have done is created a lot of chaos. the people in the top are gone. who knew where all the rockets were hidden, and the people who had some sort of strategy for when they were going to be fired. the rockets and drones, a lot of them are dead. so we'll see how this manifests going forward. and i think it will be just much more chaotic. but it doesn't mean that the rockets won't keep coming in on the north. definitely. let's branch out for the region here that obviously the tensions have been escalating since october 7th, which is almost a week away. the one year anniversary of black saturday, as trey yingst always says. but mike, talk about how this will affect

the regional politics of other countries and tensions not only with iran, but other countries surrounding israel. well, i think the one threat that that everyone is concerned about right now is that iran gets drawn into the fight. it's always been quite dynamic that iran doesn't get its hands dirty. you really don't see combat from the iranian revolutionary guard corps. what you see are the houthis getting involved. you see hamas, you see hezbollah. and hamas is kind of interesting because they came to power fiercely independent of any outside influences. but once they ended up strapped for cash, iran was quick to move in because iran wanted to have that kind of influence in particularly in the gaza strip. but in the palestinian territories. so all of the proxies out here, all of the anti-israel actors, are influenced by iran. so when you weaken their number one proxy, really what you could call the forward deployed army of iran

to this extent, it creates that threat that iran gets involved. and then you have the other proxies firing in support of iran. so the threat of a greater, greater regional meltdown is there. and that's something that the world leaders are going to have to contend with at this point. trey yingst, i want to go back to you for the topic of what you believe may be the white house, the biden, harris administration, the leaders here in the u.s. now may be doing or meeting or calling as far as how the u.s. can react and respond to this in these early morning hours. mike makes a great point. the real concern here is the possibility of a broader regional war that would include iran. and that's exactly the concern that was expressed over the past week by biden administration officials. you heard from everyone from u.s. secretary of state antony blinken to defense secretary lloyd austin, to the president himself calling for a

diplomatic solution, saying there's still time for a diplomatic off ramp to avoid a broader regional war. the reality is that the conflict is continuing and it's escalating as these calls for diplomacy are ongoing and so we can expect today more statements from the biden administration urging de-escalation across the region. but right now, the question is, what will the american assets in the middle east look like, not just to assist with israeli defense? if this does expand to a broader regional war, that's one point. the second point is deterrence, because the aircraft carriers in the region and u.s. interests and assets are not simply for defensive or offensive action. they're often just for deterrence to let the iranians and their proxies know that the united states has the back of its key middle east ally, israel. and then the third point to think about here is the possibility of if the israelis go into lebanon on the ground, and it's a big if, it's not a certain reality, because at this point, the hezbollah leadership has been taken out,

including hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah. but if they go into southern lebanon and increase airstrikes against the country, even in the central part of lebanon or the lebanese capital of beirut, you could likely see the evacuation of americans. and that's part of the reason that there are u.s. marines stationed in the region to help with the evacuation of americans and it's not just americans. other countries, key american allies, including the brits, also preparing for the possibility that they'll need to evacuate their civilians from lebanon. just yesterday, once again, the u.k. calling on its citizens to leave immediately. and there are simply very limited flights out of beirut. we also interestingly understand, according to reports at this hour, that an iranian cargo plane was headed toward beirut and the air traffic control told the plane to turn around because they had received a call from the israeli military that the plane would be targeted because the belief is they are trying to get more weapons into lebanon in real time and so as we look at the

situation on the ground, it's very dynamic. it's changing each and every minute. we know earlier this hour we've been able to confirm that sirens were sounding deep into the west bank again, an indication that some long range rockets are being used, or possibly even surface to surface missiles. and hezbollah making clear here that they are still involved in this fight, albeit not at the ability that was previously warned about. i remember last year we received intelligence briefings from israeli officials, and they believed that in the early days of a conflict between israel and hezbollah, that up to 6000 rockets and missiles would be raining down on israeli cities each day. and that's what cities like haifa were reporting from now, were they were preparing for this? well, the reality is that the israelis have systematically targeted the rocket and missile launching systems of hezbollah and greatly reduced the capabilities of the organization. now, it should be noted, they still have many capabilities. the israelis don't have 100% intelligence, and they're not able to target every single position. but

they've certainly reduced the capabilities from a launching standpoint. and they've taken out almost the entire top leadership of hezbollah. this is really an unprecedented moment, and there has been a cost. certainly there are civilian casualties among the hundreds. there have been dozens of children killed in these israeli strikes. but also as a result, the israelis have targeted these, launching positions and this hezbollah leadership. and so it's an equation that they're making as they move forward in this conflict, trying to deter hezbollah from launching more rockets and missiles into northern and central israel. it's really unclear what comes next in all of this. we know that the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, will be back in israel today. he'll hold security assessments at the kirya in tel aviv, israel's version of the pentagon, and then there will be conversations with the united states, according to our sources, in the defense echelon of israel, there are daily conversations between israel's defense minister yoav gallant and his counterpart, secretary of defense lloyd austin, and those conversations are not

usually about diplomacy. diplomatic conversations take place with officials like amos hochstein or jake sullivan. these conversations are about military activity and the posture of the united states and its forces across the region. because remember, iran doesn't just have hezbollah as a proxy, although it's its largest proxy in the middle east. the iranians have the houthis. in yemen, they have hamas and islamic jihad to a different extent in gaza and the west bank. they have iran backed iraqi shia militias and also syrian shia militias that have the capability to launch cruise missiles at israel. and then there's the threat from iran itself that showed back in april. it does have the capability and will to fire ballistic and cruise missiles into israel. and so that's part of the reason that israeli defense is on high alert, not just the iron dome missile defense system, the lower tier system, but also david's sling and the arrow two and three systems, because they have to be prepared to intercept incoming fire. we saw earlier this week a ballistic missile that was fired at tel aviv from the houthis in yemen. sirens sounded across this country. around half a million people

headed to bomb shelters, and these northern cities remain evacuated. tens of thousands of israelis aren't in their homes. they are internally displaced because of the hezbollah rocket fire. and so we're looking at a multi-front conflict that is not only developing, it is taking place. and there are a lot of people who talk about what's happening right now. and they say, well, could this situation on the ground lead to a war between israel and hezbollah? there has been a war between israel and hezbollah since october eighth. thousands of rockets have been fired into northern israel, and israeli airstrikes have taken place across lebanon. this is a war, and it's a war that is rapidly expanding with a real threat of expanding to a broader regional conflict. that's right, trey, and that's what the prime minister of israel said to the un in his address that israel is at war with hezbollah. you. i was going to ask you about the potential of a ground invasion. is that something on the table? because i know it has been speculated for now, days and weeks, even before the confirmation of the killing of

nasrallah this morning. are we hearing anything about the possibility of that as a as a next step from israel? it's a real possibility that the israelis could go into southern lebanon on the ground. and it's for one reason. it's for the reason that they won't be able to clear out these areas south of the litani river with simply conducting airstrikes, because hezbollah also has a tunnel network. my cameraman, david gamliel, and i went into this tunnel network back in 2019. the israeli military lowered us 90ft underground into hezbollah tunnels that were dug actually into northern israel. and this was yet another indication that the iran backed group had prepared for a long, prolonged war with israel. and it didn't just prepare to fire rockets and missiles into israel. it was prepared to enter on the ground and possibly conduct a cross-border attack. well, the israelis are going to want to do two things. they're going to

want to go into southern lebanon and clear out the hezbollah positions there that have been targeting the northern israeli cities, not just with rockets and missiles, but also mortars and anti-tank guided missiles that have been fired not only at israeli soldiers, but also civilians in these communities along the border. and then they're going to want to ultimately go back and ensure that they can build what would really only be referred to as a buffer zone in the area to ensure that hezbollah can't regroup. there and then target these communities along the border, because the real concern here for israel and the promise from the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, and his defense minister, yoav galant, to the israeli people, is that civilians will be able to return to their homes. and there are all these communities along the border from kiryat shmona to metula, to other communities that haven't been evacuated, and they've faced continuous rocket fire since october 8th. and it was so heavy at one point with these anti-tank guided missile attacks along the border that they had to actually evacuate these families to hotels across

the country. and they've been living there ever since. and i just want to give you a quick example of what takes place when these rockets come across the border, because oftentimes we see maybe one house or one area that's hit by a hezbollah rocket. and you see the damage to that house or that street or that car, as we've seen some of the images over the past several days. but i want to just take you back to the druze community in the golan heights of majdal shams. hezbollah fired a heavy rocket that was made in iran at majdal shams, a very peaceful, quiet community in the northern part of the golan heights. very close to the border, but a community that was not evacuated. and i want to warn our viewers. what i'm going to describe is quite horrible. it's graphic, but it's the reality of these hezbollah attacks. this rocket landed on a soccer field where kids were playing, and it blew to pieces 12 children. and we arrived there the next day as some children were still missing. and when you saw the pain in that community following this hezbollah attack, it was a reminder that

these are very real threats that come across the border from hezbollah. these are not small fireworks. these are rockets that have the capability to kill vast amounts of people. and the only reason the death toll is not higher in northern israel is because there is significant air defense across this country. air defense that we have seen active here from haifa, israel's third largest city. just yesterday, we awoke to sirens sounding across haifa, and ten hezbollah rockets were intercepted over the port. and these booms echoed through the city. now, if there was not iron dome spread throughout this area, this air defense system, those rockets would have slammed into civilian areas. and so it is not to say that the israeli strikes are not significant. it's not to say that the rocket fire is not significant, but we have to look at what's taking place here and why the israelis are conducting the operation that they are conducting. now. with that said, we will continue to ask the israelis important questions and hard questions about the damage that they are doing, not only to residential

areas of southern lebanon, where they say hezbollah is embedded also south beirut, but also the civilian population that continues to rise. you may have seen our report yesterday on fox news, where you heard from a lebanese doctor who said his hospital in southern lebanon is overwhelmed at the moment. they are running out of supplies. they're trying to treat injured civilians and they are at capacity. and we have to talk about the damage that is done to lebanon as a result of the israeli air campaign to take out these rocket launching positions that have targeted northern israeli cities. this is not pleasant by any means. this war has been horrific for not only the israeli people, for the lebanese people, and for the palestinian people in gaza. and part of our role as journalists on the ground here is to cover what's unfolding, the exchange of rocket fire and airstrikes along the northern front, but also what's taking place in gaza, because nearly a year into this conflict, following the october 7th massacre, thousands of palestinian civilians have been killed, thousands of hamas operatives have also been killed, and the israeli air campaign has

decimated the gaza strip. and so there are real questions also about the humanitarian situation in lebanon and in gaza. as the israeli campaign against hezbollah in lebanon and hamas in gaza continues, only. trey, i'm glad that you brought up the attack on the soccer field, the druze. i'm sorry that you had to witness that the day after we thank you for your brave reporting. i've been to that area. i met with a lot of druze people there. it is devastating and really was a point, i think, in this conflict that escalated israel's retaliation. i want to bring in mike tobin. tobin, as we approach the top of the hour as well. he's joining us on the phone there, also in haifa, israel, mike, we have confirmation from idf officials of this targeted kill. have we heard anything from hezbollah? the organization itself so far? hezbollah isn't confirming anything. and we saw some statements that came through

hezbollah contacts yesterday. speaking to reuters, saying that nasrallah was not dead. now, of course, we have confirmation from the idf that he was it's in their political interest to say that he is alive as long as they can. so until they, have no other option, they'll probably be silent or will claim otherwise just to try to confuse the ranks or just not admit defeat at this point. so you have such a it really it's a historic time with the rise of this substate actor that we've had in the in, in the south of lebanon and in lebanon as a whole, because they're not just a fighting force, they're a political echelon. they run the they run the, you know, the parliament to a very large extent. and there's a large extent to which they control the people with fear. certainly in the south of lebanon, what we haven't really seen yet is a popular uprising against hezbollah, because they keep

drawing the fight into the south of lebanon, when the 2006 war ended, it ended with a un resolution 1701 saying that hezbollah couldn't rearm south of the litani river. well, clearly now they have rearmed south of the litani river with this complex network of rockets hidden in civilian areas, among other places. and they're able to fire on israel. and they drew another fight into lebanon that has resulted in so many civilian deaths. you won't see the people speaking publicly against hezbollah for drawing that fight into lebanon, because there's a price you pay. if you if you were to speak publicly, you could anticipate you're going to get a visit from someone in hezbollah. and that's how that's how it goes in a very heavy handed control in the south of lebanon, when you have this oppressive substate actor listed as a as a terrorist organization. so and again, i keep i think we keep coming

back to the point that, that it causes chaos here at the end. one of the things i want to i want to correct, we talked before about not knowing if the third in command, ali karaki, had been killed. i see no confirmation that he was part of the strike last night. so when you put up, when you've seen that graphic that the idf has released of the hezbollah command period pyramid, or they've checked all the boxes. so the guys who were at the top of the pyramid, at least according to the idf, are all gone now. so you have this, you have this fighting force in the south of lebanon dominating beirut. and they now have no command structure. so it just keeps going back to the point that what israel has done to this point is they've eliminated any organized fighting force or force in the south of lebanon. they haven't eliminated the fighting force in the south of lebanon. excellent points there, mike. i know you've been on the ground for days, probably weeks now. i've been following you on social media as you highlight really interesting aspects that

we here in the u.s. don't get to see. you're talking with the people as well. what is the feel, what you're hearing on the ground after this attack? well, i think there's a lot of satisfaction from the israeli side of it, from the from the lebanese side of it. we haven't really seen that much. and we can't we can't communicate with those people directly. but if you watch them on social media, even the major attack, they were horrified by it. and they they thought of it as an indiscriminate attack, and they called it an act of terrorism. well, when you have a punishing airstrike and a large airstrike like this, it's going to be less discriminant. so they're going to call that horrified. but people here in the north are going to be pleased with it. mike tobin, we appreciate your time. you're going to stay with us. trey yingst is going to stay with us as we approach the top of the hour. we're going to take a bit of a pause here as we start another hour covering this massive breaking news. and this is a fox news alert. i'm