my question to you is there any effort in senate, i know jack lew is in trouble. look in. not a good idea to have iranian spies in state department and defense party one would think. >> it is not, but unfortunately, democrat, will support them until the end. so there is no curiosity on all kinds of issues that need full investigation, but they are not being investigated in senate, helpful to maintain majority in house. larry: senator ron johnson thank you, sir, come back. >> joining us now, tennessee senator marsha blackburn. welcome. we have been -- sure, thank you. larry: we've been talking, this business about palestinian, humanitarian aid. run by hamas, donald trump put an end to it it resurfaces, i fear, and you are ringing the bell on this, this meeting between biden and netanyahu biden will demand quote, more and more humanitarian assistance to palestine, that means hamas. >> that is right. you know, that is what we found out. whether it is the u.n. relief and work agency for palestinian refugees or in any of other entities involved with aid, hamas is getti

they wanted cash. >> jack lew made sure they got it. ievable. >> jack should be the ambassador to iran. >> we need to defund iran. we need to basically put the sanctions that were eased back out there and control them through the banking system. why haven't we done this. maria: krysia, it's been great having you this morning. coming up, ivy league schools face the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in endowment money for how they're handling student responses to the violence in israel. we've got all the details. wait until you what hear this one.you next. se is heading low. [ alert sound ] dexcom g7, the most accurate cgm, can alert you before you go too low. now, that's more peace of mind with dexcom g7. ♪ ♪ (sfx: stone wheel crafting) ♪ the biggest ideas inspire new ones. 30 years ago, state street created an etf that inspired the world to invest differently. it still does. what can you do with spy? ♪ ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance pol

jack lew, least have jack lew in israel. jack lew. now — least have jack lew in israel.assador lew, has a story as a leader in the american government. he isjewish, he is a strong _ government. he isjewish, he is a strong defender of israel, and he is widely— strong defender of israel, and he is widely respected across the aisle. but it's_ widely respected across the aisle. but it's remarkable to me that republicans were actually trying to block _ republicans were actually trying to block us _ republicans were actually trying to block us from moving forward, and it barely— block us from moving forward, and it barely got— block us from moving forward, and it barely got through the senate relations committee, one republican supported _ relations committee, one republican supported it, that was rand paul. they— supported it, that was rand paul. they were — supported it, that was rand paul. they were unhappy that he supported the nuciear— they were unhappy that he supported the nuclear deal that the president for whom — the nuclear deal that the president for whom he worked

if jack lew gets confirmed it will be strictly with democrat votes in my estimation.t will take a lot of time on the floor of the senate when we ought to be doing other things like funding the government and doing a supplemental security package. larry: all right. yes, sir. thank you, senator roger wicker, pleasure to see you. >> thank you, larry, anytime. larry: all right, folks moving right along, with me is brett velicovich, broken expert, former military official. brett, did i get it right. i try so hard? >> you hit it, thanks. larry: thanks for coming on the show. your thoughts on the sort of mysterious slowdown of the israeli ground forces. i mean i'm not, i have cynical political reasons or maybe there are better intelligence reasons or maybe just the issues up in the north in lebanon and hezbollah. what do you think about this, brett? >> yeah, i mean i don't think a ground invasion is out of the question. the only issue i think of the politics of the strategy and what israel is will be up against from more the global opinion. some experts say hamas's senior le

can you tell us a little bit about jack lew?ts want to be the united states representative in israel? >> will short for the first thing americans need to know is this individual is probably more likely to advocate for tehran then he is for jerusalem. in his capacity of the obama administration treasury secretary he was one of the principal negotiators for the ironic deal the jcpoa. he has since provided counsel. on numerous times caught telling congress one thing and doing another. in terms of supporting financial transactions associate the jcpoa, enabling tehran to advance his nuclear program and its regional terrorism paid for that reason there is legitimate opposition to his nomination into his approval. mark: the committee that held hearings the other day and you testified, every single democrat voted for his nomination, did they not? rex they did bric for. >> one republican rand paul, correct? what's that is correct. >> all the other replicas vote against him that's correct question chrissy did that because to do it. mark:

we have approved, with bipartisan support, jack lew to serve as u.s. ambassador to israel. with israel defending itself against hamas, this ambassadorship is as important and timely as any nomination that the senate has confirmed in a long time. mr. lew is the right man for the job of ambassador to israel. he's a capable public servant, a fierce ally to israel, and commands a broad base of trust and respect, and he is a decent and humane man. when my colleagues and i met with the israeli government, we promised to send them an ambassador as soon as possible, and today the senate has kept that promise. having an ambassador in israel means stronger diplomatic ties between the u.s. and israel at a time when these bonds matter most. it means israel's messages will be conveyed appropriately to our government, but it also means our government's messages will be sent appropriately to the israeli government. so it helps the two-way street of communication, so important right now. and having an ambassador ensures america can work with israel and communicate with israel in both direct

iran all they've done is embolden iran >> in terms of ambassador to israel did president nominee jack lewanced out of committee every republican on foreign relations committee imperceptible for rand paul opposed jack lew's nomination chuck schumer said he is going to move to confirm him as soon as possible what are your thoughts >> jack lew has history of advocating for iran coddling iran insult to toils send ambassador from united states to i israel on the side of existential threat that is why republicans voted against has literally populated with some most radical leftists people make no sense jack lew makes no sense as ambassador to israel >> who would you like to see there? >> someone supports israel doesn't support iran, basic there ought to be plenty people very good ambassadors to israel jack lew is not that person. maria: we've been speaking with a lot of house representatives this morning, who say there are getting back to business with new speaker in place iowa senator chuck grassley your colleague sending letter to the fbi saying his office received modification there were at

i believe that jack lew is not the person to be an ambassador from the united states, to a israel.ch a strong promoter of the iran deal he has a relationship with iran that has been i would say on more friendly terms than i want to see from our ambassador to israel. there are others that i think the administration should be looking at, and i hope my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are going to take this nomination was seriously are going to really, really question it, and look at the type of person that should be in that position, and it is not jack lew. then there is this packaging of money that biden wants is not minority leader mitch mitch says he supports packaging aid to ukraine and israel together biden requesting 61.4 billion dollars for ukraine, 14.3 billion for israel senator where do you stand on that? >> well, the administration, they send over supplemental package suggestion i would take it let's remember it is congress who is going to pass the bill, we are going to decide you what thoso is included in that supplemental package, there is a lot under what has b

with everything happening in israel right now, confirming jack lew at this moment will be one of the important and consequential nomination votes the senate has taken in a long time. the need to confirm mr. lew is plain and irrefutable. israel's in crisis. america needs to stand with her. a most urgent and obvious step is to ensure we have an ambassador in place. as the senate takes this important vote later today, i want to applaud the remarkable team at the u.s. embassy in israel, all of whom have done ceptional work under the most difficult circumstances. when i went to israel with my senate colleagues, i got to see the embassy's incredible work up close, especially the outstanding charge d'affaires. i thank them all for their dedication in these hard times. it was clear israel needs an ambassador from the u.s., especially at this time. i hope we will get as large a vote for mr. lew as possible. i want to thank my colleagues on the senate foreign relations committee who approved mr. lew on a 12-9 basis. lew has a strong, long, proven record as a public servant and ferocious ally o

ambassador to israel jack lew could get a vote as early as today. but he is facing republican opposition toward policies to iran under president obama. >> i hope the senate foreign relations stops his nomination. it is not good for us he is our ambassador and not good for israel. he has history of conciliating with iran over and above the nuclear deal which was president obama's deal. bad enough he championed it and implemented it but gave iran a special license to confer $6 billion in foreign currency to dollars over and above the nuclear deal and what we're obligated to do. he broke his promise and lied to congress about it. it is important not to confirm him but stop his nomination to show we have a new approach to iran. that's more urgent than ever today. we just heard iran and proxies have attacked americans more than a dozen times since hamas's savage attack on israel. the secretary of state said yesterday if iran attacks americans we'll respond. where is the response? we should be massively retaliating against iran's proxies and iran itself t

the reality is jack lew has a back ground and the problem with a lot of the republicans is around his work as treasury secretary under the obama administration which involved handling sanction money around iran and the iran deal. and he has been booed at israel events in the past. he has kind of gotten into it a bit with benjamin netanyahu over how netanyahu talked publicly about the iran deal and what the obama administration was doing at the time. this does that seem like it will be smooth sailing for him. >> it won't be. eventually he is likely could be confirmed because democrats are united behind him, but republicans will make it difficult. tom cotton is not on the foreign relations committee which is where the confirmation hearing will be held. however marco rubio is. and he said that while the united states needs an ambassador to israel, it needs to be the right person. so you can read between the lines there. seems like he will endure some pretty tough questioning. and maybe push it down the road, maybe make it late october before there is a con tir nation vote. but certainly

jack lew worked against the trump administration the entire time that trump was in office when he was out of this disastrous nuclear deal with iran, jack lew was working with iran trying to figure out how to move their money around sanctionses. jack lew when he was secretary of treasury lied to congress and signed a special permit to transfer 5.7 trillion -- or billion dollars, $5.7 billion into iran assets to allow you them to start the negotiating when he was underneath the obama administration. he is not someone that should be put in place as an ambassador to israel when iran's the one that is running the proxy war with hamas and hezbollah right now against israel. maria: i mean, it's just incredible to me that this is the person they choose after knowing that they've been appeasing iran from day one, and the money's going to support terrorists. >> you're seeing it the way tthat normal american people see it. you have an administration that's blind and deaf to what's happening around the world. this is why appeasement doesn't work with policies. you need peace through strength. thi

. >>> happening now on capitol hill, the senate is preparing to vote on the nomination of jack lew as u.s. ambassador to israel. last week the senate foreign relations committee voted to advance his nomination, despite some republican opposition over his key role in the iran nuclear deal when lew served in the obama administration. let's take you now live to capitol hill with melanie zanona. melanie, this vote comes at a critical time with israel's war against hamas. what are we anticipating is going to happen when it hits the floor? >> boris, we are expecting jack lew to be confirmed and probably going to happen any minute here on capitol hill. this post, a high profile post, has been vacant since july. president biden nominated jack lew back in september, but the war has sped up the sense of urgency on capitol hill to get this done. now lew has a long history of serving in public service. he was a former treasury secretary, former white house chief of staff, and former director of the office of management and budget under the obama administration, but as you mentioned, he has faced

i want to ask you about jack lew former chief of staff under obama. the israeli ambassador from the united states. jack lew has got a huge problem. he lied to congress about the money. he helped iran go extreme effort to make iran convert their currency in oman to the u.s. currency into euro. he lied about it in front of the senate. are you guys going to let him pass? >> democrats are trying to do everything they can to use this unfortunate situation going on in israel to pass a guy that's not qualified. jack lew secretary of treasury under the obama administration, gave a license, a special license to transfer 5.7 billion u.s. dollars into iranian assets. during the negotiations, with iran, for their nuclear deal. he tried -- he tried to deny it. we exposed it in 2018. he lied repeatedly to congress until we actually found the paper, the license that he signed. how in the world would this guy be the individual we want right now as the ambassador in iran? >> by the way, if you know it, israel knows it. how are they ever going to trust their ambassador

jack lew is a iranian sympathizer, says tom kotten. the senate should not confirm him. the hearing for that said for today. if you want to see that starting at 10:30, you can follow at c-span now. jackie is next in michigan. independent line. >> hello. i think the less congress gets done the better. it is sad to say but that is the state of our country. our country has not been on the right side of a conflict since world war ii probably. in my opinion, there's no honor in the uniform anymore, because iraq, that was immoral and based on lies. afghanistan. that was a failed mission and it was based on a false pretext. i don't want to get into that. what happened to if you are in uniform you are not supposed to follow unlawful orders? if the president tries to send you to war in israel or ukraine and you don't have a vote, you are not supposed to follow an unlawful order. host: one story stemming from the administration. they are drafting a foreign aid package that would include assistance for israel and other security priorities. details on the spending requests are still

>> jack lew should be confirmed tomorrow. he was a spectacular diplomat. he was a spectacular public servant. we switched jobs when we were deputies of state together. i think jack would do a good job. yes, stephanie is doing a great job and more is better than less and jack would make a phenomenal ambassador. >> nides, u.s. ambassador to israel, as of july you are back. thank you. >> i'm honored, thank you. >> up next, a look inside israel's war strategy. we'll go to the wall and talk t to a former defense secretary next. is it possible my network could take my business to the next level? it is with comcast business. powering all your devices with gig-speed wifi. and you get fast downloads and uploads. pick it up! pick it up! oh we got this! because it's powered by the next generation 10g network. more speed for your business? it's not just possible. it's happening. get started for $59.99 a month for 12 months. plus, ask how to get an $800 prepaid card with a qualifying internet bundle. comcast business, powering possibilities. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back to "sta

>> i think you will see strong opposition to jack lew if not unanimous republican opposition at leastion because republicans recognize president biden's actions the last three years president obama's actions for eight years have emboldened and encouraged iran. what we need to do now is not just rubberstamp any west pointt left wing ideologues a sense of the senate but t defeat jekyll's nomination to send a new message to iran that it is a new day and our relationship with the ayatollahs. masue for senator thank you, god bless you keep up the good work. >> thank you mark. mark: we will be right back. this she■s a hero moment. even today, only a quarter of stem graduates are women. they'd go, oh, you don't look like an engineer. there is this preconception. some things are for boys. but diversity drives innovation. my goal is to really flip the script. pick something that you love and go for it. how do we live in space? how do we live on the moon? i want to help figure that out. you can create the blueprint. if you can see her, you can be her. mark: welcome back america we have it dear

>> i think you will see strong opposition to jack lew if not unanimous republican opposition at leastosition because republicans recognize president biden's actions the last three years president obama's actions for eight years have emboldened and encouraged iran. what we need to do now is not just rubberstamp any west pointt left wing ideologues a sense of the senate but th defeat jekylls nomination to send a new message to iran that it is a new day and our relationship with the ayatollahs. marksue for senator thank you, d bless you keep up the good work. >> thank you mark: welcome back america we have it dear friend of my general keith kellogg from national security adviser to the president and the vice president. general kellogg, when you left office with the other focusing trump administration, you had a piece deals with almost half a dozen other countries. you had a peace deal that was on the brink of saudi arabia. iran did not there attack us in fact iran was on its back economically collapsing the people rising up to overthrow the regime which they hate. hamas was in a box. hez

now, jack lew, who had been the budget director, he has been nominated just last month.o that's a pretty quick turning radius. but he is a known quantity to senators. you have had ted cruz, the republican senator from texas, on a few occasions, put holds on various biden administration nominees that have something to do with middle east. the senate, however, because the house has no role in confirmations, they could confirm jack lew lickety split. but there is no planned session right now because the senate is supposed to be out for two weeks and members are spread to the four winds, but they have something in the senate. griff called a hotline where they could go through and say all right, if all 100 senators check the box here and say they're okay with jack lew, they could confirm him as early as next week, but otherwise they might have to take some special steps or that would be held up. griff well, and as we look at it, a live shot of the capitol tonight. what you will think and expect that lawmakers will certainly begin to get more tuned in to this story. as we are

host: i want to ask you about jack lew's senate confirmation hearings and what the processes for that? let's take a look at an between him and republican jim riche from last week. [video clip] >> my problem goes back to your performance previously. to quote from the washington post opinion piece --" lew must explain why in 2015 he promised the same committee he would not allow iran access to the u.s. financial system on the test under the recently announced plan and he secretly tried to do that by turning 5.7 billion in iranian assets into convertible assets. i will pursue that line at this point. i want to ask you first of all if you recall sitting in that very chair in july of 2015 and stating " iran will continue to be denied access to u.s. financial and commercial markets." you recall that? >> i remember that testimony well and i believe we kept iran from becoming part of the u.s. financial system. and i'm happy to discuss the implementation of the jcpoa. you and i may not agree on the policy. >> that's an understatement. >> what we did was we implements a policy that was transpar

host: i want to ask you about jack lew's senate confirmation hearings and what the processes for that? let's take a look at an between him and republican jim riche from last week. [video clip] >> my problem goes back to your performance previously. to quote from the washington post opinion piece --" lew must explain why in 2015 he promised the same committee he would not allow iran access to the u.s. financial system on the test under the recently announced plan and he secretly tried to do that by turning 5.7 billion in iranian assets into convertible assets. i will pursue that line at this point. i want to ask you first of all if you recall sitting in that very chair in july of 2015 and stating " iran will continue to be denied access to u.s. financial and commercial markets." you recall that? >> i remember that testimony well and i believe we kept iran from becoming part of the u.s. financial system. and i'm happy to discuss the implementation of the jcpoa. you and i may not agree on the policy. >> that's an understatement. >> what we did was we implements a policy that was transpar

host: i want to ask about jack lew and his senate confirmation hearings and the process.et's take a look at an exchange between him and republican jim risch from last week. >> my problem goes back to your performance previously. to quote from the washington post opinion piece, it says lew must explain why he would not allow iran access to the financial system, yet secretly tried to do that by working to turn $5.7 billion in a rainy and easily convertible currency via u.s. banks. i will pursue an outline -- that line at this point. you recall sitting in that chair in july 2015, stating, we will continue under the jcpoa, iran will continue to be denied access to u.s. financial and commercial assets. >> i remember that well. i believe we kept iran from becoming part of the u.s. financial system. i'm happy to discuss the implementation of the jcpoa. we may not agree on the policy -- >> that is an understatement. >> we implemented a policy that was transparent that i testified before this committee on in terms of what was being done. we negotiated with iran to have them roll b

jack lew was the treasury secretary under barack obama. one of the critical call point people for negotiating and implementing the obama-iran nuke hard deal. jack lew played a critical point in flowing over $100 billion to iran. that was catastrophically stupid then, it hurt american interests, it cost american lives. and now joe biden has taken the appeasement of barack obama towards iran, has taken it to another level. and he wants to put as the point person for the administration in israel someone who has funded in a very real way the death squads that are attacking israel. i think that's a mistake. this in ordinary times i think there'd be a reasonable chance that some democrats would say, look, this is a bad choice and would vote no. maria: yeah. >> right now the white house is saying, well, if you support israel, you've got to give us an ambassador there. i think it'd be gate to have an ambassador this, it'd be even better to have an ambassador who isn't responsible for funding the theocratic lunatics who are murdering your citizens

tom: i'm glad you brought up jack lew.rtisan support, we just ought to give it up. he is a democrat out of massachusetts. he would take offense that i said that. this is a guy that has massive bipartisan cred. it is a litmus test of a dysfunctional washington. jonathan: we want to get to the business reaction to some of this. a growing number of airlines are suspending flights to israel. some european airlines too. lisa: i believe lufthansa was one of those canceling. a host of others didn't cancel as a number of israeli born people living in other places were coming back to be conscripted into the army as they called up 300,000 troops. that was this morning. they want that kind of force to be prepared to have some kind of offensive and the data come. jonathan: the airlines may need to deal with higher energy prices as well. conflict and israel could affect the wider middle east. crude coming off of its largest weekly loss since march, but tracing some of those losses since the conflict began. the headline of the wall stre

senate republicans are going after biden's pick for ambassador to israel, jack lew.easury secretary during the obama administration, jack lew was a top player in the financial aspects of the international agreement with tehran which lifted sanctions on iran. of course, we're talking about the nuclear deal, and that's not sitting well with senate republicans. watch. >> the problem i have is, is it needs to be filled with the right person. the only thing worse than having it empty would be having the wrong person there, and i have some issues in that regard. this whole thing's about iran, and holding hands with iran under the table doesn't work for me. >> the bottom line is this license was issued, it did exactly what you said we're not supposed to do. then you did the road show, you had people in the state department -- and the report found this too, this is not a partisan report. >> we know this individual, whoever they pick, is going to be a swamp creature. we know that. but they couldn't find anybody who was an abashedly pro-israel swatch creature for this position

now, jack lew, who had been the budget director, he has been nominated just last month.o that's a pretty quick turning radius. but he is a known quantity to senators. you have had ted cruz, the republican senator from texas, on a few occasions, put holds on various biden administration nominees that have something to do with middle east. the senate, however, because the house has no role in confirmations, they could confirm jack lew lickety split. but there is no planned session right now because the senate is supposed to be out for two weeks and members are spread to the four winds, but they have something in the senate. griff called a hotline where they could go through and say all right, if all 100 senators check the box here and say they're okay with jack lew, they could confirm him as early as next week, but otherwise they might have to take some special steps or that would be held up. griff well, and as we look at it, a live shot of the capitol tonight. what you will think and expect that lawmakers will certainly begin to get more tuned in to this story. as we are

and you know what obama administration did with jack lew enthusiastically participating? they orchestrated the u.n. passing that and the tuzar sn s back and allowed it to happen. and at his hearing last week, thati asked jack about it. he said, well, it could have been much worse. i said, well, you could have vetoed it. america has an absolute veto we the security council, but barack obama didn't becauseu the administration wante cdt bea to undermine israel. and we're saying the chickens usinitiatielcoming home to roos >> the consequences, sadly, playing out right now, very ing sadlhomeconsequey. w. >> senator ted cruz, as always, thank you. when we come back, members y. tor ted of the squad, they justoff "t continue to spew pro-hamas talking points. weheuad" lea to disp call it the of congress. we'll discuss the very latest. ssstephen miller, tutor dickson. don't forget. live audience shows tomorrow night. tickets are free. some of our in-studio guestsss s piers morgan, nikki haley, brian greenberg, emily companion. doforget tjason, again, just goo hannity, tor.com to reg

they actually call it the jack lew model. maybe there's a plaque on the door or something. the jack lew model is chief of staff deals with the world basically because there's a whole lot to deal with as it is e alwithouys people in the room they talk to people in the room. we heard a lot of what happened. that doesn't mean we heard everything. what i discovered doing books after, i think that the reporters who are in the press room and during the daily reporting, i say we 5% of it. that my guess. 25, 30% what is really going on in the white house. it's only afterwards forms like this, through archives that have actually come available, you really start to learn a whole lot more. as a reporter, that very frustrating to learn how much we didn't know at the time. i will say that one thing we learned and this is to about the obama white house is much as anything else, when the white house tells you know, that not happening. not only is it happening, it's happening so much more than you thought. no, the secretary of health is not fighting with the secretary of our culture. oh, m

the us senate has confirmed jack lew as a us ambassador to israel. treasury secretary in the united states will talk we will have more on that story and all the latest developments from the middle east on the bbc website. we're running a live page on that story. do stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. the rain in northern ireland has eased, but in 2a hours in county down there was three inches of rain which led to the flooding. there may not be too much rain in northern ireland from storm ciaran as it arrives into thursday. but wet weather elsewhere. saturated ground brings the threat of flooding and the damaging winds are more likely in the far south where we've got an amber wind warning from the met office. more on that in a moment. still some uncertainty, though, because the storm hasn't developed yet. it's going to grow out of this area of cloud streaming in from the other side of the atlantic. ahead of that this area of cloud is arriving in the southwest this evening, bringing some wet weather for trick or treaters. the rain easing in nor

but republicans had concerns over jack lew's role in the controversial iran nuclear deal in 2015. lew has served under the obama administration including white house chief of staff and also treasury secretary. but, in the end, this vote was 53-43 with just two republicans voting to support him, lindsey graham and rand paul. wolf? >> just need a simple majority to be confirmed as the u.s. ambassador. melanie zanona, thank you very much for that report. >>> "outfront" now, democratic congressman seth moulton of massachusetts. he sits on the house armed services committee, and served four tours of duty with the u.s. marines in iraq. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. thanks for your support, your involvement in all of this. if the house does vote on the stand-alone funding bill for israel, do you plan to support it or oppose it? >> from what i've seen right now, i can't support it because the speaker is politicizing aid to israel. he's politicizing our relationship. and, fundamentally, politicizing our national security. we all know that ukraine and israel are both fighting f

and stephanie is doing an excellent job and welcome jack lew. hamas launched this attack and finish reading the tora. jews around the world will chant the first words of the book of genesis will read that in the beginning there was darkness and then there was light and the first person was alone until a partner joined them. i'm standing here along side our israeli friends and all those to help find the glimmers of light even in this moment of deep darkness and make clear as long as the united states, israel will never be alone. with that, i will be happy to take questions. >> first committee. -- question. secretary blinken: president netanyahu has shared what our gruesome photos and have shared them with you and what is your reaction was to those. and if i may and acknowledge the great suffering that has been experienced by israelis and a lot of concern about the situation in gaza as well, people looking for food in light of the cutoff. what was discussed? was there any call for restraint as we expect a ground offensive and one thing that has be

. >> jack lew former secretary under president obama won the nomination in the 12 - 9 vote last weeksenators say his role in spearheading the iran nuclear deal which funneled $100 billion to israel's sworn enemy should disqualify him the senate will hold the first vote at 11:30 a.m. eastern time this morning if they are successful a confirmation vote could happen a few hours after that. disgraced sam bankman-fried will be back on the stand for a third day of testimony in his fraud trial, yesterday sbf blamed former coworkers and friends for the collapse of the exchange which caused investors billions. sam bankman-fried faces up to 110 years behind bars if found guilty on all charges, closing arguments are expected later this week. the kids may get halloween candy and for free today but somebody has to pay for, that is you the price of halloween candy soaring 13% from last year that is on top of the 14% gain the year before that comes from data from data assembly. if you take a look at the most cpi report they showed annually sugar is up 6.5%, candy ups evident have present, cakes, cu

reporter: it is expected the senate will confirm jack lew. how do you see his role having an impact on these negotiations, and can you talk about is there a way -- i know there is concern with israel about fuel. but in terms of other of the services -- you talked about wanting to see restoration. is there some other package that could be moved forward that provides relief to civilians but not undermines israel's military? adm. kirby: not sure what you mean by package but let me try. we look forward to jack lew's eventual confirmation as ambassador to israel. i do not want to get ahead of the process but he is more than qualified to be our ambassador. we are excited to get him over there so that he can get on the ground and start leading our efforts to support israel and their fight against hamas. but also help us integrate and continue to lead the effort to get humanitarian assistance to the people of gaza. our expectation is that he will be taking the lead once he gets on the ground. the question about a package. reporter: i meant some compl

jack lew faced off yesterday against critics of the iran nuclear deal. >> how are we supposed to seehat and somehow confirm you to this very important post when you deliberately in my view misled me and the congress on what was happening behind the scenes to regard to all this. >> do you believe the jewish quarter and western wall are illegally occupied territory? >> senator, i do not believe that -- that it is illegally occupied territory. >> why did you support a u.n. resolution saying it is? >> it was an atm to the writtenian ayatollah. >> gillian: senator rubio joins us now. you accused jack lew yesterday of lying to or misleading you and your colleagues over the core tenets of the iran nuclear deal. is there a potential candidate from biden world who worked on the nuclear deal at all that you might be able to get behind? i ask because if the bar is no one who worked on this deal, it will be very slim pickings. >> well, there are plenty of people who worked on the iran deal or gave it support that are out there serving now in different capacities. i don't think that's the standar

i would just say, by the way, what you heard jack lew say a few minutes ago, i'll get to your question. you him describe an year process in which a chief of staff runs government or helps run the government and a campaign runs the campaign that's happening right now with jeff zients. jeff, tonight, the new chief of staff taking over for ron klain, who chris whipple just talked about and they actually call it the jack lew model. so i don't know if that's, you know, maybe there's a plaque on door or something, but the jack lew model chief of staff deals with the world basically because there's a whole lot to deal with the chief of staff as it without having to worry about a campaign and know about the campaign people deal with the politics of it, but it's you know, it's it's from a journalist point of view covering the obama administration. look there are always people the room i mean, there are always enough people in the room and the people that they talk to, people who are the room that we heard a lot of what happened doesn't mean we heard everything and what i what i discovered in do

what are you looking to hear from jack lew during this hearing? he wants to get confirmed as soon as possible. >> absolutely. so he has got a big problem in that he was one of the people behind the whole iran nuclear deal. iran wants to destroy the staved israel. the largest sponsor of state terrorism including hamas who israel is at war with now. if you look at his record, he has criticized prime minister netanyahu when he spoke in front of congress in 2015 saying it was a provocation. he has opposed moving our embassy to jerusalem. and probably most importantly, he lied to congress and was a part of this whole iran deal and you have to ask yourself the question how did this guy get nominated to be ambassador to israel? they need an ambassador we can trust. >> dana: stand by, the president of the united states speaking in tel aviv. >> president biden: you are not alone. as long as the united states stands and we'll stand forever, will not let you ever be alone. most importantly, the -- i know the recent terrorist assault on the people of this nat

maria: jack lew is going to have a hearing, republican senators are concerned over biden's pick to ber to israel -- ambassador to israel. he'll have his confirmation hearing today. and i spoke with a number of senators ahead of it. they voiced concern, marco rubio, rick scott, ted cruz, watch this. >> in the case of mr. lew, i have concerns he misled and lied to congress in the past in terms of financial arrangements made under the obama administration. this is a dangerous situation. >> i'll do everything i can to prevent him from being the acambassador. he supported the iran deal there is no way he should be in there. he's an appeaser, no different than what biden's been doing. >> democrats have been screaming at republicans that we don't have an ambassador to israel. that is the fault of democrats because they never scheduled a hearing. the democrats control the foreign relations committee they scheduled a hearing, they're screaming at republicans that they wouldn't schedule a hearing on the guy. maria: i don't know how important this is in terms of the war right now. what's your re

and the bidens want to send a pro-iranian ambassador, jack lew are, to israel.art: it's irrational, larry. >> yes. yes, yes. i mean, the one thing that we can do, we the united states, okay? we stand behind israel? i'll give biden some credit for standing behind israel so far. but, but, but, but we should have the maximum sanctions restored to iran. we have to have iran go bankrupt. and when trump left, iran had no oil reserves and no foreign exchange reserves. now they have exploded under biden, and they want with to do the same thing with venezuela. why are we assisting our enemies, stu? stuart: because i'll tell you why -- >> why is this country assisting its enemies? stuart: because biden is afraid of iran, biden is afraid of our enemies, and trump never was. am i right? >> well, you are right, but i will just say you've got all these -- you've got iranian cutouts, stu, in the state department and the defense department. the pro-iranian ambassador, jack lee -- jack lew, he's former treasury secretary under obama, they're serving him in to israel. he was the

jack lew was, of course, the treasury secretary of the united states. aham and rand paul of kentucky broke with their party to join democrats in supporting lew. the senate quickly approving the nomination amid the war in gaza. we have late-breaking developments on the war and much more next. and by the way, back in early september economist neuroyell roubini, aka dr. doom, had predicted a 10% correction in u.s. stocks which happened last friday. a lot has changed since back when he made that prediction. next in a fox business exclusive, he's standing by live. we'll ask him whether the santa claus rally stands a chance against all the headwinds the grinch has been pumping out. and who in their right mind fumbles the greatest job in sports radio by committing securities fraud? losing his on-air gig and ending up behind bars? my in my brand new everyone talks to to liz podcast episode, you will meet him. he's craig harden, formerly of the boomer and harden show, remember that, with boomer esiason? he shares his roller coaster ride and fighting his way back

former treasury secretary jack lew was nominated to be israel 's ambassador more than a month ago. expected to finally hold a confirmation hearing for jack lew sometime next week. joining us now is richard stengel. he is the former undersecretary of state in the obama administration. also with us, robin wright, columnist for the new yorker, and a joint fellow at the u.s. institute of woodrow wilson international center. and peter beinart is with us. he's a professor of journalism and political science in the city of new york. he is also an msnbc political analyst. i want to begin with you, richard stengel, and the local feel that this could have here in new york city where so many friends of mine have relatives and friends in israel now. >> yes, lawrence. at any given time, there's half a million americans in israel visiting or living there. this is the largest population of jews outside of israel and in new york city. so people have a special connection there. i think what has happened to israelis, it's unprecedented. they had been inculcated with a sense of security. these are, t