rachel: breakfast prize goes to pete hegseth who ordered the best breakfast we've had in months. well it was excellent. pete: keep watching football, we'll see you tomorrow. neil: you are looking live right

now at beirut, lebanon,some northern israel -- and northern israel where tensions are rising by the minute. the israeli military says it did, indeed, take out the pleaser -- leader of hezbollah, hassan nasrallah is dead. we are on it with israeli ambassador to theup, danny danon, general jack keane and many, many more. welcome, everybody, i am neil cavuto. developments out of the middle east that are shaking the idea of global stability and perhaps a widening war. let's get the latest from nate foy right now in tel aviv. nate, what can you tell us in. >> reporter: hey, neil. massive breaking news, it is confirmed that the leader of hezbollah for 32 years, hassan nasrallah, is dead after an israeli airstrike tarted the group's headquarters underground in beirut yesterday. israel's defense minister moments ago explained why israel carried out this strike.

>> it was an immediate threat to the life of thousands of israelis and other citizens. to our enemies, i say we are strong and determined. to our partners, i would say our war is your war. and to the people of lebanon, i say our war is not with you. it's time to change. >> reporter: so, neil, nasrallah took over hezbollah in 1999 92. he oversaw the group's integration into lebanon's politics and hezbollah's rise to becoming one of the most heavily armed nonstate militias in the world. we're learning this morning the strike killed not only nasrallah, but several senior is hezbollah commanders and reportedly a deputy commander for iran's irgc. israel followed up the strike with several more targeting the group's weapons facilities. they put out several messages beforehand in arabic telling less residents to evacuate. the class -- collateral damage is yet to be determined but is

sure to be severe. hezbollah's response fired on israel's northern port if city of haifa and several other areas overnight. iran's supreme leader and hamas both say their fight against israel will continue and will actually be strengthened as a result of nasrallah's death. now, iran's president just made comment saying that the united states is complicit in the strike that killed nasrallah. meanwhile, the idf chief of staff said that the idf is at peak readiness across all fronts both in defense and in offense. we'll send it back to you, neil. neil: nate, or i'm curious, you're in tel aviv, and the -- if you think about it, it was the hezbollah missile strike over tel aviv, of course, that houses their version of the pentagon, that changed the math and the equation and got israel to make this concerted attack on hezbollah headquarters. so how are they feeling there in tel aviv? >> reporter: well, tel aviv is

less impacted than other areas in the country, neil, but it is on edge because two times this week tel aviv's been targeted with ballistic missiles and that includes just early yesterday morning by houthi rebels in yemen. thankfully, the arrow missile defense system was able to shoot that down. but you mentioned, mossad's headquarters is on the outskirts of tel aviv, then another military headquarters is right here downtown, so there are several targets that several different groups that are backed by iran could theoretically go after, and they actually have in recent days. neil: all right, be safe, my friend. nate foy in tel aviv. by the way, iran's president has responded to these developments and that the u.s. is not without responsibility, saying that we cannot deny our culpability and in that we were compliant in this atab. now, the u.s. defense secretary, lloyd austin, says we knew nothing of the planning or participation in the attack. reaction at the white house,

lucas tomlinson is there. >> reporter: good morning, neil. the white house is not commenting publicly about the israeli airstrike that killed hezbollah's leader hassan nasrallah. yesterday president biden went wanted the world to know that the united states had nothing to do with the strike. >> reporter: prime minister, do you support israel's decision to try to kill nasrallah? >> still gathering information. i can tell you the united states had no knowledge of or participation in the idf action. we're gathering more information. i'll have more to say when we have more information. >> reporter: as you mentioned, neil, the pentagon says not only did it have no answered -- advanced warning, it had nothing to do with it. and what's interesting, the night before this strike speaking in london, u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin was still urging a diplomatic solution to this conflict. >> israel in lebanon can choose a different path. despite the sharp escalation in recent days, a diplomatic

solution is still viable. a diplomatic solution, not a military solution, is the only way -- i echo the call of president biden and president macron and other leaders yesterday for an immediate 211- day concern 21-day ceasefire. >> reporter: repeat if warnings to netanyahu of israel's conduct that the war in gaza and now lebanon will be some of the weakest and least effective u.s. diplomacy with a major ally we've seen in decades. tom cotton posting hassan nasrallah was a murderous terrorist with the blood of thousands of americans on his hands. we should all be grateful to israel. and only other big -- some other news was three american warships came under missile attack off the coast of yemen in the red

sea. iranian-backed houthi militants took credit for the attack. thankfully, all the american warships were not hit, no sailors injured and all of nearly two dozen drones and missiles incoming were shot down, neil. neil: lucas, i am curious, we claim we did not know anything about this. the iranians are very suspicious that we did. but the fact of the matter is we've known for a while now that israel doesn't run by the united states or the white house more specifically any attacks or strikes against hezbollah or for that matter if anyone else, that it's been kind of going on its own here, and that has been the case for a while. what have you heard? >> reporter: that's right, neil. yesterday in the pentagon briefing room the deputy press secretary made it clear that the united states was not given any head up, that lloyd austin received a phone call from israel's defend minister while the strike was ongoing. there was no advance warning that this strike was taking place but, clearly, with so many u.s. forces in the middle east, a heads up at the moment of the

strike was given because there's no question right now that u.s. forces in the middle east are on high alert, neil. neil thank you, lucas, very much. want to let you know that israel now is restricting large gatherings and is on high alert specifically in and a around tel aviv. this applies to pretty much the entire country right now. aq is going to observe three days of mourning for hassan nasrallah, of course, he the hezbollah leader who was taken out in this attack. a couple of others were as well. in case you're counting, that is sick major hezbollah top officials over the last six weeks in separate airstrikes. meanwhile, hamas is offering its condolences following the the death of nasrallah and saying something must be done. turkey's presidentering wan is condemning israel for this and complicating the peace process in the region. danny danon with us now, the israeli ambassador to the united nations. i don't think any one of those reactions probably surprises you, ambassador.

but now you're hearing retribution and what comes next. what do you think comes next? >> well, first, i feel it is a good a day for democracies. the world is a better day today without nasrallah, you know? we feel similar to american people felt when osama bin laden was can killed. he was a terrorist, he killed americans, israelis, he bombed embassies, kidnapped citizens, and i think it's a great achievement of the idf. you know -- [inaudible] for 11 months, so we are kind of used to it. but we will continue with our lives. schools will stay open in israel tomorrow, but we decided to limit mega events, concerts to see what will happen in the next few days. but i think the message was very clear, he will hunt down those terrorists wherever they are. they can cannot hide. not only we got rid of nasrallah, but we send a clear message to his friends in beirut and other capitals in the middle

east. neil: iran, as you probably know, ambassador, said it will respond. of course, it's still waiting to see what kind of response it would have to taking out a top hamas leader little more than eight weeks ago. but i am curious what you anticipate or what israellys are preparing for. israelis are preparing for. >> as i mentioned earlier, we are watching very carefully. but because we are in a war for 11 months with hezbollah, we've gotten used to it. but, you know, it is the interesting to see the reaction from iran. you know, they take responsibility for hezbollah attacks against israel, so i don't really understand what they had to do with that event. i think today the question is if the lebanese if government will be able to seize the moment and change the linkage that nasrallah did between lennon and gauze. base -- gaza.

nasrallah said we will continue to attack israel to show sympathy to the maas if kerr of october 7th and to support hamas. i think today is an opening for the lebanese government, the lebanese people to realize that we don't have to go for a full war, we can deescalate the situation. they have to make sure that hezbollah is not marrying them the that law. neil: ambassador, i know you can't share certain information, i well understand that, but we are learning that the israelis did the not share any of this information about these counterattacks on hezbollah positions in southern lebanon just as it hasn't some of the other attacking presumably on top hamas and hezbollah officials all over the region if israel was behind those. is that true? is this israel doing all of this on its own without checking at the white house, checking in with the white house, sharing with the white house? >> well, i would tell you with

that israel is a sovereign country. we take our own decisions by the government, by the cabinet, and that's how democracy, works. we speak with our ally, we consult with them, but at the end of the day, i don't think our allies actually want to the call and ask or if their permission. it doesn't work that way. they know in general that we're going to hunt down the terrorists, the leaders as we will find them. and, i think, you know, we killed another terrorist, aqil, who killed hundreds of marines back in the '80s, and same with nasrallah, he killed many americans. so we're fighting the same bad guys. we don't have to coordinate each and every action we take. but in general, we share the same enemies and the same values. neil: we do know as well, sir, that prime minister benjamin netanyahu has arrived back in israel. he left new york early yesterday on the developments that just, of course, transpired over the last few hours. i am curious about this idea of a widening war in israel,

preparing for a widening war. you've got houthi rebels that are continuing to attack israeli and western positions, u.s. commerce if along and outside that area. the biggest naval presence we've had in the region since the early9 1970s. what is next? >> first of all, we have no interest for -- broader war. we are a pieceful -- peaceful nation. since october 88th since hezbollah started to attack our northern perimeter, israelis have fled and you have 70,000 refugees within israel. so we are committed to allow them to go back to their homes. diplomacy will be aless blessing, you know? it's very simple -- [inaudible] for the hezbollah terrorists to to move north exactly like security council resolution 17011 decided in 2006. and everybody is saying that's what will happen at the end.

the question is whether we will have to push back ourselves all the lebanese government and internationality loam diplomacy will provide them the way or the challenge to make the right decision. neil: ambassador, thank you very much. i know these have been crazy hours for you, days, week, almost a year now since the hamas-led attack that started this war that continues to this day. danny danon, the israeli ambassador to the united nations. all right, just letting you know that there are a couple of other developments we're following. if you are struck by the tact we've not seen any global condemnation for these attacks from some of the modern arab states, you're not imagining that. the likes of saudi arabia, jordan, united arab emirates have not had specific reactions to this latest attack. saudi arabia itself is separately helping maybe on the oil price front. they want to get a bigger share of the oil market, and even before this attack that took out

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neil: all right, you are looking live at beirut, lebanon. smoke still rising there, the case over almost the last 24 hours since this israeli strike on a key compound that has taken out hassan nasrallah, the head of the group for the better part of 30 years. he's dead, a number of his accomplice, and all of this as iran's supreme leader is telling lebanese citizens to rise up against israel. we've got general keane with us. what to do you make of all of this? >> i think this is quite remarkable, neil. i don't have a precedent for it. the israeli intelligence has

thoroughly penetrated the entire leadership structure of the hezbollah organization. and as such, they've been systematically decapitating that leadership structure. i mean, they are severely degraded as an organization because their leaders are gone. they still have tens of thousands of fighters, and they've got hundreds of thousands of rockets and missiles, somewhere between 120,000-150,000, so they still have huge military capability, but this is a major setback for them to have lost that entire leadership structure. it's a serious blow to them and also to the iranians. and we've got to emphasize what the ambassador said here, neil. i mean, why is israel doing this? they're trying to get hezbollah to stop shooting into northern israel so they can return 70,000 citizens to their homes. if they don't do that, then iran and hezbollah redefine israel's border, and they're able to do it now because they've about

destroyed the five brigades that have been, hamas brigades that have been operating in gaza. i mean, they've got more work to do, neil, but the hard work has been done, and that's why these last several weeks you've seen them focusing on hezbollah. israel does not want to do a ground campaign to force the hezbollah military forces back. they want them to voluntarily take it, take those forces back and stop shooting into northern israel, and that's what this has been all about. that's why they're killing their leaders, and that's what the airstrikes are all about. get them to do this volpe. tearily. if they don't -- voluntarily. if they don't, israel's prepared to do it. they've moved five divisions, at least elements of five traditions -- divisions, and they're all if in northern israel ready to do a ground campaign if hezbollah doesn't pull back, neil. that's kind of where we are right now. neil: you know it's interesting too what you were saying there, because there have been 100

targets hit in this beirut-concentrated attack. separately, when it comes to hamas, 23 of 24 terror battalions have been troyed there. there are calculated strikes against houthi strongholds, another separate proxy for iran. but they've gotten a lot of work on their hands, and we're told in any and all of these recent operations at least, general, they don't run this by the white house. what do you make of that? >> i don't think they need to. i mean, these are operations, high highly classified timing and everything is sensitive to do that. and let's face it, let's put it right out there, the united states with some exceptions heres has left israel alone far too much. they microcan manage how to -- micromanage how to run their operations in gaza, they pulled back giving them the weapons they needed to cupid of get their attention -- kind of get their attention not to conduct any campaign against hezbollah in lebanon.

they've been pulling them back. i think the united states should have taken the houthis off the board a long time ago. think of this, the houthis have shut down the suez canal for months. they have fired anti-hip ballistic missiles at u.s. navy warships, and what have we done about that? they're still there. iran's targeting ship is feel there, and we haven't taken their navy off the board as a result of it. reagan, when iran was interfering with the persian gulf flow of oil, he took down iran's navy to stop that from happening. we should have at least helped israel by taking the houthis off the board ourselves and certainly within our capability and certainly our justification. and let me just say this, people are worried about what iran is going to do. well, look, i think they've been back on their heels, neil, ever since -- and you mentioned it in the introduction -- ever since some eight weeks ago a. they've promised to do something about that, hasn't happened. i think they may do something here, but they are not going to

expand this war and go to war with israel. why? they'd lose it. they'll lose their regime. there's not -- that is not going to happen. and what's not very well known is the iranian conventional military is not very strong. the strongest part of it is the rocket and missile force, and 40-50 president of those missiles malfunctioned in the april 13th attack. so that's kind of my perspective on, i think, where we are. neil: very telling, general. thank you very much, my friend. general jack keane on all of that. meantime, when we come back, we're going to be a taking a look at that storm closer to home, i'm talking about helene. 45 now known dead. massive flooding. 2-foot water surges in north carolina. we'll have the latest after this.ay or same. discover the power of wegovy®. ♪ ♪ with wegovy®, i lost 35 pounds. and some lost over 46 pounds.

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neil: we are up to 45 americans dead after hurricane helene, this across some five states. massive flooding in most of those states, paragraphly right now in north carolina -- particularly right now in north and south carolina. steve harrigan in gulfport, florida, where a lot of folks are still in a world of hurt. what's the latest, steve? >> reporter: cleanup underway across florida,, just trying to get the water out. we've seen a lot of debris on the streets as well. that death toll has climbed each hour pretty much, now it's up to 45 people killed across 5 different states. one of the deadliest counties has been here in pinellas county in florida, five people killed here at least who two by drowning. and this despite the fact that the storm itself hit 200 mile to the north. that tells you just how big a storm it was and also the storm surge that it carried with it. more than 8 foot here, that's about one floor of a house, and

that wall of water really caught a lot of people here by surprise. >> this is the worst. ain't nothing even come close to it. it floated my house. put iten on my second piece of property. tore down their steel shed they had for, apart from their trailer under it. that's all we got, is their trailer, i reckon. >> reporter: there's been some real desperation for a lot of people here during the night of the storm, in this county alone 7,000 calls for emergency rescue. people terrified when that water was beginning the rise. initial estimates of the damage just beginning, it's roughly figured at about a $15 billion. neil, back to you. neil: steve, thank you for all of that. steve harrigan in florida. want to update you on some real flooding dangers right now in a couple of the states affected by this. in tennessee, a dam seems to be

vulnerable to collapsing outright as the river underneath swells. we're hearing similar reports in the blue ridge mountains in eastern tennessee and else where in asheville, north carolina, the lake lord dam which is about 20 nile west of asheville -- miles west. rick reichmuth, our fox choose chief meteorologist, what a mess, rick. rick: those towns already had the worst flooding they've ever seen, and now you have got potential dam failure. don't need to really talk about what that could do. this is what is left of helene. you see this circulation. we till have flood emergencies going on -- still have flood emergencies where you see this pink here. the southern appalachians took the bulk of all of this flooding. 28 flash flood emergencies were issued. before that we'd had 13 was the most we'd ever had in a single day. we had them in metro atlanta and then up across southern appalachians. atlanta, by the way, a foot of rain. when you get up into the

mountains, neil, some spots had over two and a half feet of rain. imagine if that falls where you are, now grow put that across. mountainous terrain and all that water, gravity pulls it into the ravines, and it floods very, very fast. it's a flash flood in that case. want to show you, this year so far, while it doesn't seem like it's been that active of a hurricane season, we've had four that have made landfall here across the gulf and two right here in the big bend. about sex weeks ago we had -- six weeks ago we had hurricane debby make landfall and how helene -- and now helene. generally, we have about 30 of hurricane activity still ahead of us, but right now it appears to be one of the more active periods we've seen so far this year. we've got two other storms out there that are not going to the impact land, i.c.e. ago act and joyce. this right here -- isaac and joyce with. this is exactly where helene formed a week ago, and we've got another disturbance that maybe seven days from now we may be

watching another storm. neil? neil: as you remind us, the hurricane season really goes til the end of november, right? rick: it does. we're in the bulk of it now til, say, about the 10th of october. right now we're more active than at prior points in the season. neil: thank you, my friend. we're going to outline what they're tryinged to do to rescue folks. but when you talk about road closures and those that are flooded out, main arteries in at least five southern states have been directly affected. and as we speak now in the ohio valley and the tennessee valley, there are still winds in excess of 40, 50 miles an hour, so that might not be the the 156 miles per hour we were looking at when we say helene hit florida as a account choir four storm -- category four storm, but that is something unusual, very powerful and very dangerous. the latest after this. there are x. jen y. and jen z. each planning their future through the chase mobile app.

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florida. the further up you go into south carolina, north carolina, georgia, the more problems you have. now, airports, by and large, are starting to reopen in florida, but what reopens there gets shut down and maybe for a while in south carolina, north carolina. not all of them, but flight delays and cancellations are still rampant though not as rampant as yesterday. we're down to a few hundred more today on top of the thousands yesterday. and we should also report that fedex now has suspended or limited service in five of those southern states. too dangerous to deliver packages. and then who do you deliver them to, especially in florida where a good many of the homes were outright destroyed. let's get the nateest from -- latest from lawrence well,er with the ca june navy. you can see behind him one of the direct hits of this storm, just the impossible work he has ahead of him. lawrence, how are things looking

there today in. >> good morning, neil, thanks for having me. new york noel thank you. >> we're getting recovered here. if you know, as you said earlier, this storm was so huge, this area i'm in from previous experience here, these houses were all built on stilts maybe 15, 20 the feet in the air a, very few survived the surge and the wind from this storm. the devastation's catastrophic. the following -- falling timber, you know, we were here just over a year ago with hurricane idalia that also came through here, and so this is their third round, and it's been tough. steinhatchee south of us is pretty hard, it's almost ceased to exist as well. neil: you know, you're doing the lord's work, lauren, but you never take a bow for that yourself. what do folks need right now? >> think need everything.

they need everything. especially steinhatchee. some of those people lost everything they had, everything. so we are, we're a large organization. a lot of people don't know, you know, who we are or what we do. we're a nonprofit, and right now we have teams in north carolina, we've got teams in south carolina, georgia and florida. actually today we're going to be starting, coordinating air drops with medicine and urgent supplies to a lot of assisted living facilities that are cut off in north carolina and tennessee the of -- tennessee the. the devastation from this storm is very widespread, and we are also spread out doing the best we can to help. we're no -- we're a nonprofit organization. we operate entirely on donations from corporations and private individuals as well, and you can find us on www.united cajun navy.org. if you would like to volunteer,

which we're always short of volunteers, anything from helping hand out supplies to running chain saws, we have airboats, mud boats, you know, anything you would like to volunteer, we're in need of it almost everywhere in this storm's path. neil: duly noted, lawrence. lawrence walker, the united cajun navy. if you want to help, there are various ways you can do it including through my company, fox itself. join fox forward support of the the recovery efforts following hurricane helene. your donation enables the red cross to respond and immediately recover from this disaster. so visit redcross.org/fox forward or scan the qr code on your screen to support these efforts. all of that is up on our web site as well. any help is good help. congressman jared moskowitz, florida congressman, kind enough to join us now. it is a mess, it could have been even a bigger mess, but what do you think thus far from what you've seen and heard in. >> thanks, neil, for having me. i mean, obviously, look, the the

original path thought it would be coming right over tallahassee into a more populated area and, yes, that would have been worse. but i've got to be honest, you're looking at the devastation in areas of florida, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, tennessee. those are all in the same fema region, okay in it's called region four. this is the largest disaster that i can remember that has affected all of these states. so the geographic territory of the disaster is gigantic. and some of these areas where you're dealing with flooding like in north carolina, south carolina, we won't even know until the flood waters go down what we're looking at. and so some of these states are still in swift water rescue i mode where they're still rescuing people, still looking for people, loved ones cannot reach folks in north carolina. i know a couple of friends that are trying to reach folks because, obviously, cell phone service is out. and so i'm praying for the

people out there. i'm still concerned that the death toll in this storm is still going to increase. neil: you know, congressman, you know, homeowner's insurance is impossible to get, and if you can get it in your state, beautiful as it is, you're going to pay through the nose. i'm sure many who were affected by this storm either don't have it or don't have nearly enough of it. and i'm wondering now what happens now. >> well, this is a problem. we've seen this problem in florida, and it's coming to other states. i want to take a moment -- i don't want to take a moment to push a piece of legislation i have, but being the only former emergency management director in all a of congress, i feeled a bill that would create a national -- filed a bill that would create a national catastrophic insurance fund. it would allow the government to buy bonds that would take it off the plate of the insurance company which is driving up 25% of the cost on reinsurance. look, even if my bill doesn't move or go anywhere, i think the

united states government and congress has to start realizing that we have to amortize the risk. we have to spread this risk around. it can't just be on one state or two states to deal with this. just like fema does. when there's a big disaster, fema comes in and helps local cities, counties and the states recover. i think we're going to have to do the same thing in the insurance market, otherwise some of these places are going to become too expensive for the people who already liver there, including seniors who have retired, but the the hoa fees and because the insurance has a gotten a too expensive, they have to leave the communities. neil: while i have you, sir, i'd be remiss if i didn't mention this news about a hassan nasrallah, the hezbollah head, taken out. hezbollah itself as an organization and the iranian president vowing revenge here. we've heard that the chinese foreign dip loo mat -- diplomat criticized the attack and we have to get back to a ceasefire. the russian foreign minister

saying we call on israel to immediately cease hostilities. i was thinking of what's going on in ukraine, but that notwithstanding, what do you think? >> well, i call on russia to cease hostilities, so there we go. what i think is, is hassan nasrallah's responsible for killing american, bombing embassies, and the world is a better place that he's no longer in it. i think on october 77th israel looked like a soft target to a lot of the world and even in the hours and response -- in response looked like a soft target. israel has leery made the decision they are no longer -- clearly made the decision they are no longer going to have these threats, they're reinstalling deterrence to make sure that people don't mess with israel and consider them a soft target. they're telling them what their intelligence intelligence agencies can do. obviously, i'm hoping we don't get regional war, but iran has suffered two plows, one with hamas and one with the command structure of hezbollah doing --

being dismantled. these are huge blows for the for iran, that's good for the middle east and for the world. you know, finally, you know, we have a united nations. bibiwas giving that speech, finally the u.n. doing something good for israel over the last year. neil: congressman, thank you for taking the time, i know you're very busy with the storms. jared moskowitz of the beautiful state of florida, and it is a beautiful state. very quickly, i want to pass along that lloyd austin, defense secretary, has expressed full support for israel's right to defend itself against these iranian-backed terrorist groups even though he made clear that the u.s. did not have a heads occupy or was involved in the planning of those airstrikes on hezbollah. we'll have more after this. tire. voya helps you choose the right amounts without over or under investing. so you can feel confident in your financial choices voya, well planned, well invested, well protected.

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neil: all right, just letting you know we are getting word of sirens sounding in central israel, in tel aviv. we're keeping an eye on that as we were on all of these

developments at the united nations. of course, israel and all that came up, but so did ukraine. two battleground sites where we have the russians coming out with a statement condemning israel's move and saying it must cease hostilities. many would say, well, russia should consider the same for ukraine. griff jenkins has a lot more on all of that. hey, griff. >> good morning, neil. zelenskyy says in an exclusive interview we conducted with him yesterday says he believed his trip saved bipartisan support for ukraine, and a key part of that was meeting with trump. all week long trump signaledded he would not meet with the ukrainian leader, but the two men if at trump tower yesterday, and we asked him about his criticism of trump. you told the new yorker recently that you didn't think trump knows how to end this. did he say anything today to change your view of this. >> no, i said that i think that we understand much more better than everybody really including donald trump what going on in

ukraine, how to stop him. it's difficult to understand. >> zelenskyy met earlier in the week with president biden and vice president harris, presenting his victory plan to all three leaders, seeking there arization to strike deeper into -- authorization to strike deeper into russia. i first sat down with zen eleven sky in kyiv, three years later he's till vowing to defeat putin byou should t, neil, he's -- but, neil, he's downplaying election implications. >> i think it's clever because, to my mind, because i was in utah, and so i had meeting with republicans, and i was in pennsylvania. it's different times, but it was the not about elections. and i don't want to involve us

to election period of the united states. >> neil, i asked zelenskyy if he plans to fire his ambassador after speaker johnson demanded it, you'll have to wait and tune in at noon to find out what he said. neil in. neil: well played, my friend. now, that is a tease. i really look forward to that interview, because you got right to the crux of the matter. that's coming up in the next hour, actually, the noon hour, for his hit show, an interview with president zelenskyy on all of that and what appeared to be some friction certainly with donald trump. many have said they put together whatever their differences, but donald trump has said a number of times he is transactional and both sides have to to find a way to quickly resolve that. that could prove easier said than done. one dating you on some -- updating you on sop developments in israel. sirens sounding after a missile was fired from yemen. i believe this was heard over tel aviv, so again, an interesting development in and of itself because only a few

days ago tel aviv has been spared any of the craziness of this ongoing almost yearlong war with hamas. then hezbollah had these missiles over tel aviv. that is where their pentagon is heatquartered. and the fact of the -- headquartered. that startled a lot of folks. we're told it was the impetus for benjamin netanyahu to take out this compound that has taken the life of hassan nasrallah. if in case you were counting, there have been 100 hezbollah targets hit and at least 4 confidants of nasrallah weren among those killed. in case you're counting, that is nine hezbollah operatives who are now dead as a result of these ongoing attacks. and i stress, ongoing. more after this.

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neil: all right, we're trying to get more details on these sirens sounding off in central israel, in tel aviv. reports are that it's coming via yemen, missiles launched from yemen. if that is the case, you'd think the houthi rebels, their base of operations is there, so another iranian approximate if city responding to an attack -- proxy on a different iranian proxy is, hezbollah, the raid that took out hassan nasrallah who has led that israeli terrorist group -- i'm sorry, that anti-israeli terrorist group for the better part of 30 years. he's dead, a lot of his accomplices, but this is far from resolved. congressman if mike waltz joins u house foreign affairs committee. it is interest, right, congressman, if indeed this latest threat is via yemen, that would imply houthi rebels here. so there are so many proxies to keep track of here. what do you make of this?

>> well, and just yesterday with, neil, the houthis from yemen launched literally dozens of missiles and drones at our navy ships in the red sea and have searchly hut down 90 -- essentially shut down 90% of global shipping through the red sea. and yet the biden administration can't manage to deter this group of rebels. and why? that's because we're busy dealing with iran's proxies and not with the core of the issue, iran. case in point with nasrallah, number one, the iranians have confirmed that one of the irgc senior field generals was in the hezbollah headquarters that was just struck standing right next toes nasrallah. point two, the hezbollah is already kind of telegraphing that the replacement for nasrallah, his son is married to

iran's former field general, soleimani is married to his daughter. so you want to -- bottom line is hezbollah, nasrallah, all of these organizations are basically extension to bees of iran. and -- extensions of iran. and until this administering or hopefully the trump administration shipments back to max a mum pressure and starts imposing costs on iran itself, then this isn't going to stop, neil. i think israel took this bold action, it bought itself some time. this will be a step towards getting its people, tens of thousands israeli citizens, back into their homes in northern israel. but over the long term, until you deal with an iran who does not want peace and right now is flush with cash, this isn't going to top long term. neil: congressman, thank you very much. to that point, the nasrallah killing is sending a clear message to our enemies, that from the israeli defenseea minister. therch plae are

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