larry: we appreciate it robert o'brien, thank you very much. take care. udlow," senator marsha blackburn wants to agree with mr. o'brien, undo the six billion dollar hostage swap, maybe inflict some damage on iran, period. plus we have john ratcliffe, whatever happened to the intel failures? a bad story both from israel and united states. nobody samed to see this one coming. congressman brian mast will tell us about the bipartisan bill to defund hamas, maybe inflict some damage on iran. i'm kudlow. you got this. let's go. gobble gobble. i've seen bigger legs on a turkey! rude. who are you? i'm an investor in a fund that helps advance innovative sports tech like this smart fitness mirror. i'm also mr. leg day...1989! anyone can become an agent of innovation with invesco qqq, a fund that gives you access to nasdaq-100 innovations. i go through a lot of pants. before investing carefully read and consider fund investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and more in prospectus at invesco.com. ♪ ♪ every day, businesses everywhere are asking: is it possible?

larry: we appreciate it, robert o'brien. appreciate it very much, take care. udlow," she wants to agree with mr. o'brien, undo the six billion dollar hostage swap, maybe inflict damage on iran period. we have john ratcliffe. whatever happened to the intel failures? this is a bad story, both from israel and the united states? nobody seemed to see this one coming. congressman brian mast will tell us about his bipartisan bill to defund hamas, maybe inflict damage on iran. i'm "kudlow." we'll be right back. ♪. your brain is an amazing thing. but as you get older, it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription. unlock gold's potential with west red lake gold mines with 3 million ounces of resources, $350 million invested, and strong leadership. th

special courses as robert o'brien suggested you do?he special forces hostage team to the region? we don't know the answer to that question. >> dana: at the very least i imagine you will see a photo released today of the president in the situation room or on the phone with somebody doing something like that. i just want to show this call for number one, what peter doocy wa was describing is the crises around the world. every president has them but this is an urgent crisis. you have a lot of things going on. afghanistan, iran, china, problems in africa. ukraine, israel. a lot on his plate. this from the fox news poll saying 58% of those polled disapprove of the president on foreign policy. now a lot of elections are never necessarily hinge on foreign policy but how do you think this plays into the overall question about republicans and democrats going into 2024? >> if there are american hostages at play it could be another afghanistan moment. you are right. typically the economy frames approval ratings. as axios said it is impossible to

larry: we appreciate it robert o'brien, thank you very much. take care. p on "kudlow," senator marsha blackburn wants to agree with mr. o'brien, undo the six billion dollar hostage swap, maybe inflict some damage on iran, period. plus we have john ratcliffe, whatever happened to the intel failures? a bad story both from israel and united states. nobody samed to see this one coming. congressman brian mast will tell us about the bipartisan bill to defund hamas, maybe inflict some damage on iran. i'm kudlow. we'll be right back.r thine no. the hottest stocks? (fisher investments) nope. we use diversified strategies to position our clients' portfolios for their long-term goals. (other money manager) but you still sell investments that generate high commissions for you, right? (fisher investments) no, we don't sell commission products. we're a fiduciary, obligated to act in our client's best interest. (other money manager) so when do you make more money, only when your clients make more money? (fisher investments) yep. we do better when our clients do better. a

joey: robert o'brien former national security council advisor. thank you very much.ey: as were wages in israel the brutality show disturbing similar test isis tactics. former congressman ron mass will join us next. to support cognitive health in older adults. it's one more step towards taking charge of your health. so every day, you can say, ♪ youuu did it! ♪ with centrum silver. meet gold bond daily healing. a powerhouse lotion that moisturizes, heals, and smooths dry skin. with 7 moisturizers & 3 vitamins. and... new gold bond healing sensitive. clinically shown to heal & moisturize dry, sensitive skin. gold bond. lauren: hamas merely following the tactics of isis as they unleash horror on the israeli people, terrifying video shown by hamas showed bodies of civilians dumped on the side of the road. elderly forced away on motorbikes, women, children brutally kidnapped from their homes. at least 260 bodies had been removed from a music festival in southern israel who reportedly shot dead by hamas who descended on the festival in bands. we bring in florida congressman

joey: robert o'brien former national security council advisor. thank you very much.joey: as were wages in israel the brutality show disturbing similar test isis tactics. former congressman ron mas ♪ we're not writers, but we help you shape your financial story. ♪ we're not an airline, but our network connects global businesses across nearly 160 markets. ♪ we're not a startup, but our innovation labs use new technologies to help keep your information secure. ♪ we're not architects, but we help build stronger communities. ♪ we're not just any bank. we are citi. ♪ lauren: hamas merely following the tactics of isis as they unleash horror on the israeli people, terrifying video shown by hamas showed bodies of civilians dumped on the side of the road. elderly forced away on motorbikes, women, children brutally kidnapped from their homes. at least 260 bodies had been removed from a music festival in southern israel who reportedly shot dead by hamas who descended on the festival in bands. we bring in florida congressman brian mast. thank you for joining us. p read evil the s

joining us now, robert o'brien, national security adviser, welcome to the show.t biden did mention 32 american citizens were slaughtered or part of the slaughter of the original invasion. there are i don't know how many, 10 or so and accounted for. i would have thought with so many americans getting killed, the president would have devoted a little time to that. my question more broadly, israel wants to wipe out hamas. i know israel is at war with hamas and iran, is the united states at war with hamas? is the united states at war with iran? why does the united states tolerate 30 to americans getting killed and who knows how many being held hostage? i don't get this. robert:when we had a major hostage attack on americans, one of the biggest attack we have ever seen, 30 dead, 10 to 15 held hostage, two came home today. for us not to go after the terrorists, what happened to ronald reagan, you can't run but you can't hide, if you attack americans, not just about israel and hamas, this is about hamas and the united states of america and the message out to be every am

joining me now is someone who has been deeply involved in all of these issues ambassador robert o'brien who served as u.s. special envoy for hostage affairs and was also a national security adviser for president trump. given your experiences negotiating for hostages, obviously this is even more complicated because there is this active war underway. how does the u.s. get these hostages home? >> a large number of american hostages -- i was very pleased to see that secretary blinken is traveling there and that he has dr. carson with him. he is a criminal military officer and i worked with him when i was national security office. he is confident. i am glad we are seeing these things being undertaken. that's important but we also have to look at another tool and those tools are moving our hostage extraction and rescue elements forward. we need to look at how we deal with the regional powers. >> if there was calm -- some type of expression, what would that look like? israel is striking gaza right now with airstrikes. we are told this hostages, u.s. intelligence says they are not altogether an

robert o'brien thank you for your time and expertise. we hope we get those americans home. >> thank you for having me with you. >> massive pro-palestinian rallies across the u.s. and around the world coincide with hamas leaders called for a global day of jihad a day of rage that had global leaders on alert for low-level attacks in the fears materialized friday after french schoolteacher was killed and the staff at the israeli embassy in beijing was stabbed. is there still concern for homeland security here in america let's bring in former coordinator counterterrorism at the state department nathan sales, thank you for being here tonight. one thing i noticed with the pro-palestinian rallies we've been seen around the country, we see a few hamas flags inserted in their and the pro-israel rally you see an american flag flying you don't see the same at the pro-palestinian rallies and given how open the border is in iran has proxies all over the world, do you have concerns about islamic terrorism again rearing its head here at home. >> i do,

these are not america first warriors. >> larry obama's secretary of defense, robert o'brien, i mean,efense, said that joe biden has been wrong on every major foreign policy decision for the last 40 years. he said the exact same advisors that record continues. larry: yes, sir. >> robert gates. larry: it was bob gates. senator johnson, thank you, sirr we appreciate your time very hey david. connect with an advisor muchlize.larra rhode islander i, we need larry: bring back donald trump is they've america. that's my view. liz macdonald up next. she's going to save america too. she always does. elizabeth: thank you, larry. we'll see you in a bit. you'll be up in the first half of the show. we've got a lot to

ambassador robert o'brien knows a thing or two about hostage negotiations from 2018 to 2019.ld leading secret negotiations that directly brought 25 distressed americans home and out of harm's way. ambassador o'brien then served as the 27th national security adviser to the president, united states and the nixon today benefits immensely from his strategic guidance as chairman of the board of directors. please welcome ambassador o'brien. all right. i would never have agreed to speak this order following john wayne, jimmy stewart and bob hope. had you told me that jim, i would have gone earlier in the program. but thank you. and tricia and melanie. thank you. i feel like we're your guests. and i see you're your father and your grandfather. it must be bittersweet. i grew up at the time when. we saw him on tv every night. you know, the three networks. and you're in that distinctive voice. and it's one of the great things about the nixon foundation. the nixon library is the families. julian, tricia and chris and melanie and the other members of the nixon family. and i'm just gratefu

former national security advisor ambassador robert o'brien in focus. rich edson on the plan of action for americans who now are trying to get out of israel. first i do want to go straight to trey yengst with the latest on the ground. you heard my admonition, wear a helmet at all times roaming with them. that video was unreal. god bless you, my friend. >> thank you, good morning. we have some new reporting for you this morning. i spoke with a dip low mate being source who indicated hamas is preventing civilians from leaving their homes when they are warned about an israeli air strike on the horizon. the israelis have a way to text people inside gaza before they strike a house telling people to get out. this source indicated to me a well-placed source that inside gaza they are preventing civilians from leaving those homes. i checked with someone in gaza city who confirmed the information. and then went to hamas, the group in control of the strip and posed the question to them. >> that is absolutely wrong. it is also technically impossible. how can you pr

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robert o'brien, national security advisor who specializes in hostage recovery said we have to get involvedy. that was before he thought americans were there. for these families to band together to get our administration's attention is embarrassing. >> the idea of 200 targets overnight. dozens during our show. i'm sure more in "america's newsroom."

jon: you mentioned your on the armed services committee, former national security advisor robert o'briennder president trump. you might've heard or suggested that we should have hostage rescue military team standing by as well as fbi hostage rescue teams and get them on planes and get them over to israel right now, what do you think of that idea. >> i think that is a good idea. if american citizens are being held hostage by hamas and gaza. it is the duty of americans to rescue them. if our israeli partners can do that, fine but i think they will have their hands full so i don't think it's a bad idea to have our own personnel and delete teams over there to help rescue americans because that is the duty of government and the duty of government is to protect us whether we are here or abroad. i think that is a good idea. jon: you would be okay with american boots on the ground in gaza. >> in order to save americans and rescue americans, absolutely. i would be okay with american boots and gaza not to fight a war for israel i think israel could take care of itself but if israel needs assistanc

jon: you mentioned your on the armed services committee, former national security advisor robert o'briennder president trump. you might've heard or suggested that we should have hostage rescue military team standing by as well as fbi hostage rescue teams and get them on planes and get them over to israel right now, what do you think of that idea. >> i think that is a good idea. if american citizens are being held hostage by hamas and gaza. it is the duty of americans to rescue them. if our israeli partners can do that, fine but i think they will have their hands full so i don't think it's a bad idea to have our own personnel and delete teams over there to help rescue americans because that is the duty of government and the duty of government is to protect us whether we are here or abroad. i think that is a good idea. jon: you would be okay with american boots on the ground in gaza. >> in order to save americans and rescue americans, absolutely. i would be okay with american boots and gaza not to fight a war for israel i think israel could take care of itself but if israel needs assistanc

i spoke with robert o'brien pr preimminent hostage negotiator that said if he was in the administrationnits would be in israel. i asked keith kellogg yesterday if that has happened and he said no. what could be the possible explanation for not deploying the forces? >> i think biden is trying to manage the message rather than solve the cries. i want to hear who are the americans, this is our problem now, go get our people. what is the plan to back up the israelis and i want to know what the president will do to protect the united states. we have seen protests across college campuses of people supporting hamas and being supportive of what just happened in israel. my jewish friends are frightened. what is he doing to make sure they are safe? >> kayleigh: rebecca, we watched people say my relative is an american citizen, we saw this on america's newroom, they are a hostage and first-hand account of this and john kirby says it is likely, but we cannot confirm? you have family members saying this is happening, they are hostages. >> we know they are unaccounted for, i don't know what facts tha

i am still hot on this john ratcliffe and robert o'brien have given powerful testimony yesterday, last night on the show and friday evening on the show, americans were kill, rob, americans were killed. they have been taken hostage. and the iranians or puppets have been shooting at american assets in the middle east, now these are actions of war, i don't understand, united states has not declared war, clea clearly and plainly against them they still have this fiction, that is driving me crazy that iran was not directly involved in the hamas operation. how do you defend that view? >> you don't. in the end of the day there are too clever by half, everyone knows, they are publipublicly saying they are responsible for it we all know it. only one that does not seem to recognize the fact is admiral kirby, this is a an awkward position to be in, that is the case you have chaos, and the conflict will with dire consequences, you are right, there is no way to defend iran and claim they are not responsible, they are behind it all. >> going into this battle, israel's battle, yes, we have warned hez

. >> martha: with regard to the americans, hugh, we spoke with robert o'brien yesterday. we know there's negotiations with the egyptians and qataris usually there's a proof of life or proof that they're held. then the conversation starts. i asked john kirby yesterday, he said no, we have no proof of life for tern americans that they're calling unaccounted for right now. what do you think of that? >> proof of life is usually a necessary metric. we have hostage cases that we tonight have proof of life but we assume they're alive. there's a lot of other circumstantial evidence right now that would tell us these people are alive. i believe that hamas realizes these individuals are worth more as hostages as human shields. because as hostages, they offered them a chance to perhaps do some type of tri-angulated situation. >> martha: we've seen in axios that israel and the biden administration wand to get the hostages out of gaza. if israel has a big package, we will do things in return. is that the kind of deal you can imagine? a large scale handover in terms for delaying the gr

. >> brian: i had robert o'brien on and he said it is time to get our hostage team and fbi into country and that is before we knew americans like -- next to the border. saturday morning updating us and he was active in the field but contact was lost and we received an official notification from the idf that our son is defined as missing in action. what does that mean? it means since then nobody has been able to physically identify him in the field. he is not in one of the hospitals and he's not one of the deceased. basically saying we don't know where they are at the moment. >> brian: when is last time anyone saw your son? had eyes on them? >> saturday morning 6:30 a.m. before the missiles started. >> brian: we know one of their evil goals was to have hostages and do an exchange, that is something we could hear about shortly. have you talked to other families that maybe could help you piece together where they might be? >> we are not professionals or experts. united states has cia, fbi, other organizations that are more specialized than us in this matter. we are simple folks, want to go

numbers continue to get worse and morgan, our colleague, robert o'brien, fair to say, premiere hostage negotiator in our country or the world, responsible for releasing dozens of hostages through his work said saturday, get fbi and j-soc in there. what do they do? land in israel, what are they doing to secure release of people like a nine-month-old baby? >> morgan: great question. negotiators can only be as effective as who empowered them. that ties into the conversation about need for deterrence, need for credible threat. john kerry talked about this no credible threat of force which made it hard to negotiate. they have to know the united states is serious and there will be retribution. even for terrible loss of life in israel, we have 22 dead americans now. we have to respond to that, this is a massive terror attack that has affected our country. in order to negotiates, people on the other side, heinous terrorists need to know there will be ramifications. when they say we are not going in, that is not deterrence message. you will want to defer to the israelis because they know gaza.

former ambassador robert o'brien served as special presidential envoy for hostage affairs for presidentonald trump. he joins us to react. ambassador o'brien, i remember walking the halls of the west wing, one of the things i heard often is ambassador o'brien is the preeminent hostage negotiator responsible for freeing so many americans. what would you do right now if you knew dozens of americans were held hostage. >> we have to return with strength. that starts with mobilizing our military elements, jsoc, we have hostage r rescue teams in specil forces. they need to be shipped immediately and fly to israel to prepare to rescue american citizens. we need the fbi hostage team deployed to israel. i recommended this last night to save israelis, we need to do it to save americans now. we're not paying a billion dollars per hostage like we did last week. there's a correlation between taking americans hostage and ransom payments. that has to end. we need to get american service men who are trained to rescue hostages we need them on the ground in israel right away. >> our former boss, former pr

kayleigh: i worked with adam, he, jared kushner, robert o'brien all key to getting those accords. what he said was key, crystallize the true enemy e for the region, and that is iran. not just a threat to israel, but to the broader region at large, and that pushed these peace deals through. will: we talked about the response here back home in america, we talked about the response from the squad. pete, you brought up the comparison to some of your college classmates who called for peace in the wake of 9/11 while there's still smoke coming up from downtown manhattan. here's ilhan omar, congresswoman from minnesota and member of the squad, i condemn the horrific acts we are seeing unfold in israel against children, women, the elderly and unarmed people. such senseless violence will only repeat the back and forth cycle we've seen. we need to call for a deescalation and ceasefire. i will keep advocating for peace and justice throughout the middle east. pete: the old ceasefire when only one shot's taken -- side's taken a shot so far. here's her fellow squad member, the socialist from the

. >> martha: let's bring in robert o'brien, former national security adviser and special envoy for hostage affairs under president trump. during the trump administration, he oversaw the release of several hostages back to the united states. robert, good to have you with us. what goes through your mind as you hear this back and forth on qatar and the role that they're playing? yes, they have been an allied to the united states. they're also harboring the leadership of hamas who is living in great comfort in qatar. >> i think there's two points, martha. the first is on the hostage front, qatar has helped us many years. they helped me bring hostages home. when the crisis broke out, i said there's two options one is a military rescue and two is use to get qatar involved. they've done that with four hostages. we appreciate their diplomatic eninter intervention. the issue of the hamas leadership, the political leadership being in doha, keep in mind that qatar is across the gulf from iran. they're just a few score miles away from them. qatar is small, iran is big. they're in a difficult neighborh

robert o'brien, national security advisor who specializes in hostage recovery said we have to get involved directly. that was before he thought americans were there. for these families to band together to get our administration's attention is embarrassing. >> the idea of 200 targets overnight. dozens during our show. i'm sure more in "america's newsroom." >> dana: breaking overnight israel firing hundreds of missiles targeting hamas terrorists in gaza. this in response to a barbaric series of terror attacks targeting children, women and the elderly. the death toll now eclipsing 1,000. president biden is set to break his two-day silence today. good morning, i'm dana perino. good morning to you. >> bret: i'm bret baier for bill hemmer. complicating israel's response an estimated 150 people taken hostage by hamas. americans are believed to be among them and hamas is threatening to kill them one-by-one for every time israel strikes gaza. >> dana: the families of the missing are calling on president biden to act. some of them as you can see here are about to hold a news conference in tel aviv a

is playing a role as robert o'brien suggested over the last two days because we have experts that area and americans are said to be among those taken. >> israel, absolutely thinks that this is a serious matter. it's appointed a general to head up its side of the operations. we do not know about any direct conversations between israel and hamas but we do know, yes, that's right. not just 11 dead in this scene but several numbers of hostages from the united states of at least partial united states citizenship being held inside there. and this is a big concern. the state department is talking about that. and they are lending any kind of help that they can right now behind the scenes as well as countries in the area, including egypt saying they would like to step in and try to help the negotiations. but, right now, it's a very tense situation, guys. >> ainsley: thank you so much, greg. if you read the "new york post" this morning it says pure evil and has the pictures of its two little girls. we have been talking about these little girls the last few days. the mother was taken. the father

this is robert o'brien. when asked what he would do in this situation, watch. >> we have hostage rescue teams in our special forces. they need to be shipped immediately, get on the c-17th and fly to israel to prepare to rescue these american citizens that have the fbi hostage rescue team also deployed to israel. i recommended this last night. wu need to do it to save americans now. >> sandra: >> we have the best rescue hostage teams in the world. are they on their way to israel? >> what i can tell you, we've been in close contact about hostage recovery efforts about everything. certainly including hostage recovery efforts. we're talking to them about resources and capabilities and needs that they might have to be able to help them with. that's about as far as i'm able to go today. we're focused on this problem no question about it. >> martha: all right. the president -- the white house called a lid on the president at 11:46 a.m. this morning. given what is going on, john, why would that be? >> well, a lid me

joining us now, formerrists natr security adviser robert o'brien is witiah us. when bibi netanyahu says that they will strike with arcet force that will be remembered for generations, as i've known prime minister netanyahu now for almost three decades, i'm prettyetty much 100% certait he means what he says when he says the middle b east will e reconfigured as a result of this. hou know, evil attack on their homeland. nd, i bei believe he means it. >> what are your thoughts? i well, i know bibi will also sign and i think he means what he sayshe's got. look, he's got no choice.r i mean, if anyone who wantsevil to know whether evil exists in the world just needs a look at the top of your monologuemonk and hear about the babies being killed, i mean, what kind of person n? bab house to house and beheads babies. and these aren't civilians who were civ collaterally in a in aattak military attack. 't these were civilians who are wanted. they slaughtered. this isn't war. thisar is barbarism. and the israelis have no choice but to go in. it's goingnbarism to be hard. figh

robert o'brien over the weekend told me he's like, i get him in right away immediately to work throug h the israelis with the israelis or lead the israelis. but that could worwoulk. i also heard that they've been turned over to islamic, which would be more complex becausen o we don't really have a line of communication, nor do the israelisr he with them. having said that, at the same time, you've got to getti your operators ready to go in. does time matter or does iter te matter? getting the strategy work right when it comes to finally penetratinn itg into gazaund? on the ground? brian, i think this is these entire problem with this administration in the scope. raticope wg everyone wantss to n to negotiate, make coffee. you had no problem. you knoweg you, three years agn was at the economic level of haiti. nohe economic levew they've gotn that was on negotiation. negoeant to bring hostag negotiations. these people lop their heads off of infants. ions.they lthey're out there woe if the biden administration wants to negotiate and you can negotiate with that form of evil, i'll make the c

. >> brian: robert o'brien said this saturday night and sunday.e for the hostage teams to get in there i wanted that before i knew americans were americans were taken. we have to work with them. we also understand that president biden got direct requests from benjamin netanyahu about what they need and this woman this is an example of a woman being taken hostage what they need. and evidently he is rushing to get them the weapons they need right away gave support to palestinian terror group. they celebrated this at the highest level. grand ayatollah khamenei was celebrating about this. yesterday they said no, no. we had nothing to do with it meeting in beirut with these guys they plotted and planned my question is did they just plot and plan saturday or did they plot and plan and anticipate the israeli reaction? the worst yet to woman? >> ashley ash. >> ainsley: they are celebrating that you will carnage that happened on saturday and the days after. >> brian: did they orchestrate it. >> ainsley: they showed parliament members rising from seats and

and we heard some discussion about this in the last week from ambassador robert o'brien our hostage negotiatormuch of the trump administration, the u.s. has to take care of its citizens, we have two carrier strike groups in the region with a massive show of force sends a signal we're in this this protect american citizens and stand with our ally best friend, in the region. israel. jon: we know what seal team 6 did in taking out osama bin laden. they had months to rehearse and you know they built a model of his c compound. they would not have that kind of preparation in a situation like this. which does give you pause, as to whether or not american forces could or should be involved. >> and also, in in addition to what you said there is the issue of tunnels and where are the people, this is a very difficult situation, let me shift a little bit, i think you know a lot of people are looking too far down the game tree fbefore israel has even puts it offe offensive forward, let's give this time, let's not make decisions for israel, i heard president of united states on 60 minutes say israel should