at komodo national park in indonesia. >> i'm lee cowan. please join us when our trumpet sounds again next sunday morning. enjoy the rest of your eekend. i'm robert costa in washington, and this week >> i'm robert costa in washington, and this week on "face the nation," israel fires

back at hezbollah after a deadly rocket strike. plus 100 days until the presidential election with a new candidate. what's next in the race? overnight, the israeli military launched strikes on a series of hezbollah targets, retribution for a rocket strike in israeli territory that killed at least 12 people including children in the country's northern border. the iran-backed terror group has denied it was behind the attack. >> the indication is that indeed, the rockets were from -- or the rocket was from hezbollah. >> we'll get the latest from chairman michael mccall and senator chris van holland who has been outspoken against israel's actions in gaza. chuck schumer will also weigh in in a rare sunday interview. plus -- >> we are not going back! >> new candidate, new energy for the democratic party as vice president kamala harris moves to

formally clench the nomination this week after president biden's departure from the race. >> i'm super excited, and i think her age is great. >> as former president trump tests a tack line against a new foe. >> we have a new victim now, kamala. >> are democrats prepared to withstand the onslaught and compete in november. >> i would love to see a woman in power at some point, i'm just not sure if right now is the time and with this candidate. >> we'll hear from new mexico governor michelle lujan grisham on the campaign advisory board. it is all ahead on "face the nation." ♪ ♪ ♪ good morning, and welcome to "face the nation." we'll get to politics and the presidential race in a moment, but we want to begin this

morning with the middle east and fears that hostilities between israel and hezbollah could spark a broader, regional conflict. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has just returned to tel aviv from his trip to the u.s. and deborah panta has the latest. >> it was mostly children and teens killed in the hezbollah rocket attack. this morning families and friends gathered to bury their dead. every single victim. >> how much will you miss them? >> i wish we could -- i wish we could go back in time and this wouldn't have happened. >> the strike in this remote village in the israeli-occupied golan heights is the deadliest since october 7th. the kids were playing soccer just behind me when the sirens rang out. moments later the rocket hit leaving no time for them to run

to this shelter. >> children were playing soccer here when the sirens rang out. seconds later the rocket slammed into the pitch leaving no time to run to safety. israel and the iranian-backed hezbollah have been trading almost deadly fire along the lebanese border for more than nine months now, but this could escalate tensions. a u.s. official told cbs news there's no doubt it was a hezbollah rocket despite denials from the armed group while the u.s. does not believe it intended to hit the soccer field this is exactly the kind of nightmare scenario it's been warning about that could push the region into all-out war. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu cut short his u.s. trip to fly home and overnight his warplanes retaliated by hitting hezbollah targets deep inside lebanon. the israel defense force is already overstretched in gaza.

over the weekend, the israeli military issued new evacuation orders in an area khan younis designated a humanitarian safe zone, once again up ending the lives of palestinians. there was no warning before the idf hit this school sheltering civilians in central gaza yesterday. in the dust and rubble people scrambled for safety. this woman calls frantically for her loved ones lost in the panic. we were just sitting, playing happi happily says this traumatized young boy. the idf says it was a hamas command center and there were mostly women and children among the more than 30 killed. >> deborah pata reporting in israel. we turn now to senate majority leader chuck schumer. senator, good morning. >> good morning. good to be here. >> senator, what's your response to the latest strikes in the

golan heights? >> well, look, first, we know that iran, through its surrogates, hezbol bell on is really the real evil in this area and israel has every right to defend itself against hezbollah like they do against hamas. it shows you how bad iran and its surrogates are. these were arab kids they sent missiles at and they don't even care who that is, but having said that, i don't think wants a wider war so i hope they will de-escalate. >> sticking with the middle east, senator, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu just in washington. you were part of the formal bipartisan invitation to have him come to washington, yet there was video of you not shaking his hand when he was on the floor on capitol hill. why not? >> why did you not shake his hand? >> well, look, you know, i went

to the speech because the r relationship between israel and america is iron clad, and i wanted to show that, but at the same time as everyone knows i have serious disagreements with the way benjamin netanyahu has conducted these policies. >> your colleague and friend former speaker nancy pelosi tweeted this this week. she said benjamin netanyahu's presentation in the house chamber was by far the worst presentation of any foreign dignitary invited and honored with that privilege in american history. do you agree with her assessment and do you have any regrets at all about the invitation? >> look, no. as i said, i wanted to show our iron clad commitment to israel and that transcends any one prime minister or any one president no matter how much you might disagree with that prime minister. >> senator, on july 13th you went to delaware to meet with president biden. it was a private discussion, and

i know you like to keep your discussions with the president private, but that for history was a very momentous meeting in the sen that you were the senate democratic leader meeting with the president to discuss the presidential race, for history, for the record, did you in any way suggest to the president that he should leave the presidential race on july 13th? >> well, first, let's look at president biden's record. he's had one of the most amazing presidencies we've had in decades passing so many good things. the infrastructure bill, the ira bill, getting the price of prescription drugs down for the first time going against the nra successfully and helping our veterans with burn pits so he's had an amazingly successful record, and he's always done what's right for america, and ri respect him. i respect his patriotism. i respect the amazing things he's done. we worked together on many of

them. >> but for history, though, what was your role -- what was your intention with that meeting with him on july 13th? >> i'm not going to get into the specific, but he can -- president biden will walk away from the presidency with his head held high because of all of the great things he's done and because he put america first. he always has. >> vice president harris now the presumptive nominee, senator. are you encouraging senate democrats including those in battleground states to invite her to campaign with them, to have her in their advertisements? >> yeah. the biden-harris record is just incredible, as i mentioned. all of the specific things that has been -- that they have passed together, working with us. so it's an incredible record and our senators are already talking about it. they're cutting ribbons at new bridges and they're bringing rural broadband, bringing

broadband to rural areas and it's a great, great record and it's helping our senate candidates run on it and let me just say one thing. just compare that to the respect rep record to the trump-vance ticket. it's extreme and the project 2025 shows they will take the rights away from women. it would take away rights of working people and leave only the very wealthy and it would even be a threat to our democracy and one more point about this and that is the addition of j.d. vance to this ticket. it's an incredibly bad choice. donald trump, i know him, and he's probably sitting and watching the tv and every day vance -- it comes out vance has done something more extreme, more weird, more erratic. vance seems to be more erratic and more, treatment than trump, and i'll bet president trump is sitting there scratching his head wondering why did i pick

this guy. the choice may be one of the best things he ever did for democrats. now the president has about ten days -- ten days before the ohio ballot is locked in, and he has a choice. does he keep vance on the ticket where he probably -- he already has a whole lot of baggage. he will probably be more baggage over the weeks because we'll hear more things about him or does he pick someone new? it's his choice. >> has vice president harris reached out about her vice presidential election and do you have a leading contender or two that you believe would be helpful and senator kelly, your colleague is one of the contenders we reported. are you confident that if he goes on the ticket you can hold on to that seat? >> let me say this, i have complete confidence that vice president harris will pick a top-notch ticket and a top-notch vice presidential candidate. we have a lot of good choices and i have confidence in her

choice. >> are you worried about the senate majority? it's a narrow majority for you right now. what is your candid assessment of the senate majority and assessment? >> my assessment is we'll have a chance to pick up a seat or two. our candidates and senators are running on their record of accomplishment and that's why tey're running ahead of even the national ticket because when they show all of the good enough we're bringing to their states through the infrastructure bill, through the chips and science bill with so many good new manufacturing jobs, through bringing broadband to rural areas for the first time where rural areas desperately need it. franklin roosevelt said electricity was a necessity and we're doing the same thing with broadband where the 21st sfrnry was a necessity. >> we have a great record to run on, and it's going to keep us -- it's going to keep us in the

majority. >> finally here, senator, president biden will make a push on the supreme court to reform the supreme court. what's really possible there? what's realistic? give us your real view about whether this can happen this year in a bipartisan way? >> well, first, let's start off. the supreme court is a morass. first, it's an ethical morass. the idea that wealthy individuals, many of them right wing can both pay for cases before the court and at the same time give justices gifts or trips is outrageous, and frankly, chief justice roberts isn't enough to curb it and it's a morass in the worst way. this is a maga right-wing court. it's taken away the right to choose. it could very well go further on that. i fear it will. it's siding with the wealthiest of individuals and the powerful interests over the average working family, and it even threatens democracy when it says

that a president can get immunity even for certain acts in the presidency. so this court is just a morass both ethically and substantively. >> thank you. we appreciate your time. "face the nation" will be back in one minute's time. stay with us. meet mixtiles. smart frames that you can easily hang using their special magnets. it's beautiful, easy to align, and they will leave zero damage to your walls. easily design the photos you love and order your mixtiles today at mixtiles.com.

we now go to republican senator lindsey we now go to republican senator lindsay graham. good morning, senator graham. >> good morning. >> let's start with foreign policy. it's a serious time in israel. are you confident, senator, that u.s. and lebanese efforts to cool tensions between israel and hezbollah will be successful? >> no because i think iran is behind all of this, and until we put iran on notice that we're going to hold you accountable for attacks by hezbollah and hamas against israel, you're going to get more of the same. the attack on october 7th was designed to stop normalization

in my view until saudi arabia and israel. until the iranians agree that they'll get hit and they'll be on the list. whe when it comes to iran in terms of controlling the ayatollah. they've enriched him and israel is paying the price. >> could this conflict spiral and could it open up a second front? >> yeah. what i worry the most about is a sprint to the nuclear weapon. it gave a senate report last week about the status of the iranian nuclear program and the maligned activities helping their proxies like hezbollah and hamas throughout the mideast. it was stunning. not only can you open up a second front, but they can use these three or four months before the election to sprint to a nuclear weapon and we need to put them on notice, that cannot happen. >> you just heard from senator

schumer. he called your colleague j.d. vance, called him weird and extreme and he wondered if your close friend former president trump is sitting there wondering why did i pick this guy? it's not just democrat, senator. let me show you something from "the wall street journal" editorial page, the comment is the sort of smart-aleck crack that gets laughs in certain right-wing male precincts, but it doesn't play well with the millions of women. >> you're close to former president trump. does he in any way regret having vance on the ticket? >> no, not at all because j.d. vance is one of the most compelling stories in american politics. when you look at his background what he's overcome early in life to be who he is, he went to iraq, didn't have to. went to yale law school and became a marine and that's no small deal.

the american first agenda will be in good hands with j.d. no matter who the democrats pick, vice president harris picks to be her runningmate they will buy into her agenda and her agenda is the green new deal and medicare for all. she is the most liberal senator in the united states senate, and there's been enough drugs on her watch as borders are, fentanyl to come in through the border to kill everybody in the world. so that america described by senator schumer where biden did a great job is not connecting with the american people. we're on the wrong track. the american people know it and j.d. vance will help president trump get us on the right track, and if you expect kamala harris, the border czar that's been a miserable fail our that issue to get us back on the right track it would be a colossal mistake. we're in good shape on the republican side. policy matters is an election, if this is a policy election we win. >> senator, understand your

focus on vice president harris, the presumptive democratic nominee, but there are many americans who do not have children. you're also not just a senator, you're a political strategist. you work informally with former president trump and many republicans. you have a political line. is it a mistake for senator vance to keep talking about americans who don't have children when it comes to a national campaign? >> right. yeah. i don't have children, but i'm going to vote for j.d. and trump because i think we'll be safer and more prosperous and more secure. i want to end the biden-harris debacle. you should never say anything to hurt anybody's feelings, but when why look at all these interviews by j.d. he was talking about how the democratic party has abandoned the traditional family. this election will be decided by the american people on who can correct the problems in their lives and here's what most americans are experiencing. having to choose between buying food and gas, a border that is

beyond broken. the largest cause of death among americans and fentanyl poisoning and a world on fire. so this idea of trying to marginalize j.d. and making him a bad person is not going to work. he's not a bad person. he is a good person. he has served his country honorable it will help trump win. >> we're wondering is it small politics. >> is it smart pol? >> does he have the right message or not you like to help him advance message. >> we'll drill for oil and gas that we own and we'll set the world up pretty quickly and address inflation in a very real way. that's the message of the trump-vance campaign is to fundamentally change the problems that you're living

with. if you expect vice president harris to change the course we're on as a nation you're going to be sadly disappointed. she is the most liberal senator in the united states, and there is no liberal horse that she has chosen not to ride. she sponsored the green new deal and medicare for all. at the end of the day, re-casting her is something she's not. she's awe nice person, but she's incredibly liberal. i mean, major league liberal at a time when we need to re-set america she's going to double down on wrong policy choices and j.d. vance and donald trump will change the course of this country and the world. >> senator, president biden will be in austin, texas, tomorrow upon anying to talk about the supreme court, pushing forward a code of ethics for the supreme court. you just heard the majority leader endorse that idea. where do you stand? could you work with president biden, yes or no, on a supreme court reform package this year? >> no because he wants to

destroy the court. they want to pack the court. they want to undercut the conservative court. they've tried to marginalize court and destroy the roberts court. it's brought constitutional balance back to the court and the liberals in this country want to pack the court. they want to destroy the court. so their initiatives coming from biden will be dead on arrival in the senate. they have no desire to make the court better. they're just trying to make it more liberal. >> what about term limits for supreme court justices? put aside the issue of packing justices. >> no, no, no, no, no. they didn't complain any of this when the court was pumping out opinions they liked and only when we brought constitutional balance back from having a conservative court is the court a threat to the country. what's a threat to the country is an out-of-control liberal court issuing opinions that basically take over every phase of american life based on nine

people's judgment. so this roberts court has brought constitutional balance back to the country and one of the issues on the ballot in 2024 is what kind of court do you want. if you left it up to elizabeth war to warren to pick the court you wuld have the most liberal court and kamala harris would be right there with her. >> i want you to listen to this comment from former president trump at a rally. >> christians, get out and vote! just this time. you won't have to do it anymore, four more years, you know what? it will be fixed! it will be fine. you won't have to vote anymore my beautiful, christians. i love you, christians. i'm not christians. get out. you've got to get out and vote. in four years you won't have to vote again. we'll have it so fixed you won't have to vote. >> just a minute, democrats say the former president is trying to take the reins of the entire

democratic system with these comments. you're laughing. what do you believe he's trying to say. what's the truth? >> he's trying to tell the christian community and anybody else who is listening the nightmare that we're experiencing will soon be over. give me four more years and i'm going to right this ship called america and pass it on to the next generation. we will have democracy, god willing, for a very long time in this country, but what president trump is trying to tell people. i did it once, i can do again. these problems can't be solved, but you have to go in a different direction. >> senator graham, we always appreciate your time. many thanks. we'll be back with a lot more "face the nation kwot "stay with us. this portion of "face the nation" is brought to you by simplisafe. they no safe like simplisafe.

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