sullivan: yes. >> will be u.s. support israel intelligence attacks in gaza for as long as it takes until the hostages are free, or until hamas is destroyed? i guess in simple terms, how much retaliation in gaza is the u.s. willing to accept? mr. sullivan: i don't think of it in terms of retaliation. this is about providing support to israel as it seeks to defend its territory and deal with an ongoing, imminent threat from hamas terrorists, who, as i said before, are acting a heck of a lot like isis terrorists in their barbarity and cruelty. that requires going after hamas terrorists in gaza, because even as i speak, even as we stand here, there could be rockets going out to those sites. that is not retaliation. that is israel stepping up to defend itself and ensure safety and security of their people, and we will support them for as long as they need to ensure that israel is safe and secure, and i cannot put a timetable on that. >> are you clear come is the goal and destruction of hamas to guarantee that hamas cann

sullivan: you've seen him now twice. you've heard his voice and this has been a deeply emotional time for all of us. as i'm sure it is for many people in this room who know people or know people who know people who were killed or missing. president biden has a decades-long relationship with prime minister netanyahu and he can hear the pain in the prime minister's voice when he talks to him. i hear the pain in my counter parts' voices when i talk to them. this is personal for disgust it's personal for the american people with their bonds with the israeli people. and so president biden has seen and felt the deep emotional resonance of this but he has also held the conviction that his job is president is to make sure that he has the clarity of mind and purpose to take the actions necessary so that we are standing with israel in its hour of need so they are working to deter a widening of this conflict so we are getting israel the tools that it requires to defend itself. reporter: you just laid out all of the way that is iran

sullivan's assessment obviously was wrong but unfortunately mr. sullivan also was negotiating the original iran deal in 2013 under the assumption that you can give significant concessions to the iranians and they will deescalate and the one thing we know about the supreme leader of iran, you flash weakness, he will escalate and take the region into further bloodshed. >> john: you might have heard the sound bite from jake sullivan, said the middle east region is quieter today than it has been in decades, and lots of questions about how the united states, how israel missed this, planning was in the works for weeks, if not months, did they miss low tech planning expecting they were going to see high-tech attacks. what reuters said in an article, hamas gave israel the impression that it was not ready for a fight, said a source close to hamas. hamas used unprecedented intelligence tactic to mislead israel over the last months by giving a public impression it was not willing to go into a fight or confrontation with israel, the same time, preparing for t

jake sullivan, the u.s. national security adviser told my colleague jake tapper this morning that in terms of them leaving, going out via egypt, that really it is hamas standing in the way, hamas has made demands, not just for the release of hostages, but also to allow them to cross that border, but they're also are questions about what -- egypt's role here. will it allow large numbers of gassan's to leave. who is standing in the way of getting them to safe harbor outside of gaza right now? >> i think it is more complicated than pointing the finger to one or another. i think it is kind of very complicated situation. it is a kind of a joint effort between different parties and stakeholders to get -- to civilians who need. and we are not seeing this only in the gaza strip today. we have been seeing this in many different contexts around the world. so this is why, since the beginning, we've been calling on all of the parties, all of the stakeholders, all of the people would could put pressure on this at the reg

you heard president biden's speech and you heard jake sullivan, as well that the u.s. is offering assistance and israel is trying to negotiate the release of hostages. what do you make of president biden's statements and the support that the u.s. is now offering. >> i am very grateful for president biden. at a time where we are still counting the number of victims, we are very happy to see the support. we appreciate that, and we believe that president biden actually intends to stay to support israel. we don't expect to see american troops on the ground, but the support and the clarity was very strong and we appreciate that. >> president biden did not urge restraint. he talked about operating under rules of war which is what a democracy is supposed to do. he also warned other countries not to try to exploit the crisis. how concern rded are you about potential involvement of hezbollah and others? >> our goal is to punish hamas, to destroy hamas, to eliminate hamas. that is the goal. the picture of babies that were held captive and burned alive. the real problem is punish

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how would you rate the work of the administration, particularly sullivan, and this game?as it is called, how effective it can be. well, this is despite the fact that russia plays chapaev, we know this game, when you just knock down chess pieces, checkers, knock them down with your finger. well, i first concluded from this article that in fact, sullivan, as he really is, is right about himself, he is just an honest broker in the wishes of the president of the united states, joseph biden. there is no sullivan foreign policy and no blinken foreign policy, there is a biden foreign policy, just like the ukrainian conditions, there is no yermak foreign policy, or there is no koleb foreign policy. there is the foreign policy and the domestic policy of volodymyr zelenskyi, volodymyr zelenskyi, as the only person who has a national mandate , is fully responsible for all these decisions made by the ukrainian leadership, the same can be said about the president of the united states, and we understand that the president the united states is afraid of what we have just discussed, that

as a result sullivan and blinken delivered documents to tehran a lot of them. and a rescinded trump era policy the u.n., that triggered so-called snab back mechanism, a move to reimpose international sanctions on iran, and released froz frozen iranian oil funds. the realignment. apeacappeasement. what is this all about? i have been thinking about this. the biden, blinken, obama, sul v sullivan ideology is this. stated by me, weaken the u.s. central role, super power status, we're just another player among many, you have to weaken our power, and empower those we're negotiating with or in a region to spring th bring them up. parity, that is outrageous, with terrorist regimes or china and russia, you deuc reduce america's super power role, this is their view. that is a view that in 1950s the hard left in america, there is nothing nonew, this is what leftists believe today, there is another problem we have. those of us who believe in a foreign policy that should be based on broad prudence. we're not interventionists, in every situation but, we don't believe in sitt

ali bauman caught up with some stephen colbert fans outside of the ed sullivan theater in new york. >'re back on monday with a new monologue. anything happen in the last five months? >> reporter: stephen colbert is back at the desk after a five months long writers strike that dimmed the lights of the ed sullivan theater. a giddy colbert posted this video from the set last week. >> we just had our first all staff meeting and we're ready to go on monday with an all new late show. >> reporter: colbert and the other late night talk show hosts will surely address the strike in their monologue monday night like back in may. >> these are our writers and i'll stick myself in there because i'm wga, too, and they're so important to our show. >> reporter: last week tonight with john oliver returned to hbo sunday and the comedian quickly aired his thoughts. >> i'm happy they got a fair deal and immensely proud of what our union accomplished. i'm also furious that it took the studios 148 days to achieve a deal that they could offered on day [ bleep ] one. >> reporter: here at the ed sullivan theat

. —— jake sullivan. against the war in the middle east. ——jake sullivan.in the middle east. —— jake sullivan. it may set the stage for a meeting between xijinping and set the stage for a meeting between xi jinping and joe biden. lori daniels from the asia society institute stout has told me about the expectations. it has told me about the expectations.- has told me about the expectations. has told me about the exectations. . , ., ., ., expectations. it has a lot of different aspects. - expectations. it has a lot of different aspects. what - expectations. it has a lot of. different aspects. what china is asking has to do with the economic restrictions the us has put on china's high spec —— high—tech industry. china would like to see the us talk about china on the global stage in ways that could work more closely with how china sees its own image. it sees itself as a leader or developing countries, it wants to have respect in that status. the way the us has talked about china, as a challenge to the rules —based order, is something china bristles at and would

and that's the image of sullivan on the screen sullivan, daw and both said it grieves us to the heart to know that a son of ours arrived that so mature and age and so well versed in the laws of his country should be a participant in x calculate to to bring the state into destruction arouse passions which you cannot allay and which, god forbid, produce civil strife attended with bloodshed and murder. we beseech, we pray you to pause before you pass the rubicon and become engulfed in political degradation where our feeble prayers will not avail to save you disgrace and ruin doors. parents really regarded him some ways as a one man bonfire of the vanities. so why rhode island? why 1542 and why thomas this is an image of doors mother lydia from the rhode island that christie so the origins of what became known as doors rebellion, they deepen the state's history. the political culture of rhode island was certainly unique. democracy flourished in rhode island in 1663, colonial charter granted by king charles. the second, however restrictive clauses based on stringent qualifications prevente

jake sullivan touched on it in his comments. thanks very much. good to have all of you with us today. thank you. we're going to our correspondent on the ground, trey yingst. he said imagine the worst things possible that can be done to humans. humans did all of that and more to israeli civilians. babies beheaded. people who were burned alive in their homes. women raped and dragged through the streets. don't look away. trey is live on the ground in israel with the latest. trey? >> martha, good afternoon. we've been trying to get a better sense all day about these atrocities and gather more information about the attack that took place on saturday morning. as we're doing this reporting, hamas fighters are trying to get into southern israel. a few hundred feet from here, there's tanks stages, preparing to go in to the gaza strip. and further towards the sea, in this part of israel, right now to the gaza border, 3 hamas fighters cam in to southern israel and engaged the israelis in another firefight. they're trying to commit more attacks against the i

and they cannot afford to put a blinking or a sullivan or a newland, or that inner circle of joe biden, who clearly was involved in the planning and execution of the attack. they can't put them on the stand. the other thing about victoria newland is that while she's able, she's not very bright. it's as tens of tends to be the case with video cards. so in the uh and uh, after the north stream attack, tony blinking victoria newland, and some of the other neo kinds were going around, basically bragging about it, basically rubbing it into the face of the world. look what we've done. it's a great opportunity for us to go in and pilfer every stinking dime in europe and leave the people in, in uh, you know, and horrible cold and disaster. but we'll make a lot of money and we'll still be in charge. there are free ead number one that she'll be asked questions that will expose their involvement in the north stream attack. and number 2, that she will not have the ability to hide her glee when it comes to that attack. and that she would likely say things that would expose them embarrass them or im

. >> national security adviser jake sullivan appeared to get choked up answer ago question about why neither israeli intelligence for u.s. intelligence saw anything of this scale coming. he also addressed reporting that while there's not yet any direct link to iran in this attack, that they are complicit that that tearist state is complicit in this by funding hamas over years, boosting their military, training people. he gave no clear answer on whether or not the u.s. is considering refreezing the $6 billion in funds that we just unlocked for that country. >> you just laid out all of the ways that iran is complicit in this and facilitated it over years of support for hamas is. that reason enough to freeze -- refreeze the $6 billion that the u.s. helped unlock for them to get in exchange for the prisoner? >> we have not had a dollar of the $6 billion spend. i'll leave it at that. >> officials say the yes was not yes, it's being considered. it was yes, calling on another reporter. but i'm also cautioned it's not a no. >> neil: jacqui heinrich at the white house on that. i want to go to

as the "new york post" says seems likely the biden-sullivan rhetoric amounts to a warning with israel they will hold it, israel, responsible for the results of the hamas war crimes. some additional points today, to this day, to this moment, neither joe biden nor anybody else in his gang has acknowledged iran's direct role in financing, sponsoring, planning the hamas stat tack. biden is still playing footsie with iran. there is no evidence, no evidence that biden is strictly enforcing the economic and energy sanctions on iran and in a a biden has been implicit is specially on the oil sales to china our enemy. also iranian backed terror groups have launched 20 attacks on u.s. military assets. as we talked with john roberts, biden's response pathetic. he launched a couple of missiles at an unmanned ammo depot someplace in syria. here is what should have been done. the strikes against the u.s. come from the islamic revolutionary guard corp which is a wholly own subsidiary iranian corps. as general jack keane told me this weekend on radio, he believes, and i concur, the united states shoul

that is what biden and sullivan and blinken are saying. and as "new york post" says, it seems likely to biden-sullivan rhetoric amounts to a warning to israel. some additional points. to this day, this moment, neither joe biden or anyone in his gang acknowledged iran's direct role in financing, sponsoring and planning the hamas attack, he is still playin playing footsie with iran, there is no evidence he is enforcing the santationtions on iran and sanctions on iran and has been complicit in financing hamas massacre by loosening the iranian sanctions especially on oil sales to china our enemy. >> and also iranian backed terror groups have been attacking our troops. the strikes, against the u.s., come from the islamic revolutionary guard corps. a wholly opened subsidiary of the iranian revolutionary guard corps, it is theti islamic version, it? iraq, as general jack keane told me, united states should have bombed their command and control center in iraq and there is a training center there and that too should have been hit. and that would ha

the, the, the victoria newly and tony blinking and jake sullivan were doing, you know, back flips in the, in zone because they felt that they just scored a touchdown. so if she was involved, right, if she wasn't involved, which i think she was, it doesn't matter because that's the type of play that victoria knew any joy. and if she didn't do it, if she wasn't involved in it, she saw it was involved in the end zone dance afterwards. a political analyst and co host of the critical hour on radio, splitting the garland mix. and thank you so much for weighing in on this very important political figure. thank you very much. i certainly enjoyed the, the interview. all right, that is going to do it for this episode. i'm modus operandi to show that dig deep into foreign policy and current affairs. i'm your host middle, a chance. thanks for tuning in. we'll see you again next time and figure out the m . o. the take a fresh look around his life. kaleidoscopic isn't just a shifted reality distortion by power, tired vision with no real opinions. fixtures designed to simplify all confused. who rea

so this is no, i totally disagree with jake sullivan. this is his was. that's not only is lisles war it say is it's the kinds of outcome it says are also committed because of his protection because of his support this, the fascist government is only the government then as well. that's conduct thing and all the so i'm hoping patients in the, in does the um, cooling thing, the ethnic cleansing and the war crimes that it's good thing. and when this war is over, there wouldn't be many, many trials. and then would it be me getting paid, assuming of all these on volt and these, in this war from all sides, not to expect, not to accept any side all sides. you know, of those out involved in a lot of times and then the crimes against the human at the bombing goal. but i am elizabeth all the new york times. the also the embedded clip you synthetically blend is what i am for that. you know, it's a lot of time that that should be held accountable and then be given, you know that i expect to ask, but when this was over and jake should have been, shouldn't be prepared

they did the victoria newly and tony blinking, and jake sullivan were doing, you know, back flips in the, in zone because they felt that they just score to touch them. so if she was involved, right, if she wasn't involved, which i think she was, it doesn't matter because that's the type of play that victoria knew any joy. and if she didn't do it, if she wasn't involved in it, she sure was involved in the end zone dance afterwards. a political analyst and co host of the critical hour on radio. sputnik garland nixon, thank you so much for waiting. and on this very important political figure. thank you very much. i certainly enjoyed the, the interview. all right, that is going to do it for this episode. i'm modus operandi to show that dig deep into foreign policy and current affairs. i'm your host middle a chance. thanks for tuning in, we'll see you again next time and figure out the m o. the useful email. those are initial scrambling. nick builders and outputs miscellaneous mode that old what came showed mr. barn you still at the georgia nicholas low marquis and read to the doctor and

00:00;00] about the role, well, not only about him, but most importantly, about the role of jake sullivan, adviser, adviser, president of the united states of america on national security, this is this game of chess that he is playing and trying to control everywhere, to build some schemes everywhere, and such a message, i have seen ukrainian experts who say that this game, it is not successful yet , and here we have to resort to other solutions, and to the same words of kuleb, who says that in the united states of america they still do not know what kind. .. there must be a victory for ukraine over russia, what should happen to russia, how do you evaluate the work of the administration, in particular salvan and this game of chess, what is it called, how effective can it be, well, this is with the fact that russia is playing chapayev, well, we know this game, when you just , chess pieces, checkers are knocked down, knocked down with your fingers, well, from this article, i first of all made the conclusion that , in fact, sullivan, as he really is, is correct in talking about himself, he i

maria: senator, you're calling on president biden to remove jake sullivan as national security advisorsay sullivan has routinely misled the government and you point out remarks he made eight days before the hamas attack. 's sullivan back in september. >> the middle east region is quieter today than it has been in two decades. now, challenges remain. iran's nuclear weapons program, the tensions, a amount of time i have to spend with conflicts in the middle east today compared to any predecessor going back to 9/11 is significantly reduced. maria: this from the guy who worked with hillary clinton to push this idea that trump colluded with russia, senator. you also say he has been dead wrong on how to engage with iran since day one. tell us. >> absolutely. going back to the 2015 iran nuclear deal and then this latest hostage exchange and the $6 billion, maria, he is wrong on all of these accounts. and it is not something that benefits the country, our citizens and our allies. when you look at the fact that this $6 billion was released and this is why i h called and 19 republican senators h

sullivan, no. the clerk: ms. murkowski, no. the presiding officer: the ayes are 53, the nays are 43, and the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action. the majority leader. mr. schumer: the senate, i'm proud to say, has now taken an extremely important step in our support of israel. 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. ha

and jake sullivan refused to say they support the way that israel is going about this war.o what does that mean? yeah. >> this is all indicative that the line that president biden has been walking throughout the conflict demonstrating this staunch supreme to support itse questions about how they are approaching this and what their object objectives of an expanded ground objective and what they hope to achieve and you did hear some of that in jake sullivan's interview today. he said that even though hamas is using civilians as human shields that this does not negate the responsibility of israel to protect civilian lives as it goes about this expanded ground invasion. to uphold international humanitarian law. and you did see some of that behind the scenes earlier today over the past several days, i should say as well, as the u.s. i'm told applied pressure on israel to restore connectivity in gaza after cell connections went out and after the internet was out. that was an important priority for the united states as they work with israel in this conflict going forward, fredrick

joining us now, jikake sullivan. when do you expect an israeli ground invasion to start and what might that look like? >> jake, i'll have to leave that to the israeli defense forces, to the idf to answer. they will determine their timetable, and they will determine the scope and nature of that operation. it's not for me to say. i will say, we're in constant contact with them, so we can best understand what they are planning, but i can't sit here and give you any timetable or details on that operation. that's for them. >> what's the ultimate goal of this incursion? is it to invade, to kick out all of hamas, to reoccupy gaza? who's going to take over afterwards? will refugees who escape gaza be allowed to come back? >> well, at the broadest level, the goal is to ensure the safety and security of the jewish people. at the next level down, it's to eliminate the hamas terrorist infrastructure, the hamas terrorist threat so that hamas cannot pose a threat to israeli citizens, to the state of israel, going forward. you've r

their conversation comes as national security adviser jake sullivan warned there's an elevated risk of conflict expanding across the region. the idf said their air strikes hit more than 450 hamas targets in the last day including command centers, observation posts and missile launch sites. sources tell cnn that one strike hit a mosque killing 13 people and leaving dozens of others injured. new video from inside gaza published by an israeli newspaper shows idf soldiers raising israel's flag on a hotel roof. cnn has asked the israel defense forces for comment on the video. an analysis by cnn shows that israeli troops have advanced at least two miles into northern gaza. desperation is sinking in for the civilians still trapped in the enclave. the main u.n. agency in gaza said thousands stole into a critical command post stealing critical supplies. more aid is trickling into gaza. today ten aid trucks were able to pass through the rafah border crossing and communications in gaza have been partially restored. sources tell cnn the u.n. security will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow about i

. >> welcome back to "the big weekend show" biden's national security adviser jake sullivan made that just 8 days before hamas' massacre. >> the middle east region is quieter today than it has been in two decades, amount of time i spent on crisis and middle east today, going back to 9/11, is significantly reduced. >> 8 days before slaughter. heads are shaking here, solesullivan is still sticking to this claim. >> two decades, a civil war in syria and refugee crisis, and invasion an -- in iraq, many other steps that include rise. the terrorist caliphate. >> there you go. he is d doubling down. >> take the l on this one, look things changed. i said that, that is not the case any more, that is what you could say, he was not in the clip, warning it in in a foreboding way, he was boasting, but how they got this under control, that blew up in their faces. it is a humiliation. to try to spin it like, it still true. come on. >> he said he did not spend a lot of time on the middle east. >> perhaps that is the problem. >> he should have. >> national security adviser, maybe she he should have. >

you just heard jake sullivan say the u.s. like what exactly are the objectives. how do you describe what the idf is doing right now in gaza? >> well, i think what idf is doing, is i think the task they've probably been given is destroy the war-making capacity of hamas. so they are going after command and control locations and they're going after logistics equations, headquarter locations and they're going after the likely sites that hamas would use to perpetrate missile strikes or rocket strikes on to israel, so from my perspective it's clear what the israeli military is doing. i think their job is to destroy that war-making capacity of hamas. >> should they stop once capturing gaza city? >> well, again, i think they'll have to make an assessment of their progress. most of the effort now seems to be in the north, northern part of gaza and around gaza city, which i think, as most people who study this will recognize, are the primary areas where hamas operates. they definitely directed their operations against the places where

new gop pressure on the president to fire his nsa jake sullivan. this exclusive, darrell isa joined us on his push to get the fbi to investigate biden's ongoing to iran for compromising u.s. national security. will jim jordan get the speaker gavel? he's not the top house gop pit and a trump again is ahead of biden and more battleground states. top new york times columnist claims democrat socialist backing hamas terrorists and in embarrassment. american lawmakers demand harvard fix academic malpractice. pro- hamas anti-semitism. i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ >> at this hour, israeli infantry and tank units on the move, localized rates to rescue hostages. israel says there will be no let up until all hostages are free. 1.1 million in order to evacuate out of northern gaza and the death toll rises to 4600 dead. 11000 injured, at least 500 american citizens in the gaza strip, many more stranded in israel, the white house working to get americans out. madison all work has the story, she's at newark international in new

we've seen a steady set of efforts for a cabinet officials to head to china. jake sullivan has twice and the recent past met with the chinese leadership. i think there's a sense that we don't want to go down the rabbit full of a new cold war. let's see if we can't find ways of working with the chinese to meet global challenges, even if we may disagree with them about human rights, about democracy, and even about 2 of little issues in these days. let me just ask you finally in political science, we learned about predicting foreign policy, the continuity typically of policies from one administration to the next administration, regardless of political party. but it seems like that world is gone. and particularly when you look at a country like a ron, and if you're basically gonna say in your calculation that we should sit down and talk to a ron, we've had a zigzag and those policies do you think as you look at the fuel situation in america, right now, which is part of that topsy turvy dimension that you started with at the beginning . do you suspect that we're not going to have continui

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>> jen, as i said jake sullivan said, listen.st priority for this administration, not only to help get the americans out, but to help get the israelis out as well. so from all the resources, it be negotiation, military, intelligence gathering, whatever it takes, these are little kids, these are old people, young people, soldiers. this is insane what these people have done and are using them as human shields, which i'm sure to put them in the tunnels. so all the means available to united states, egypt, the emiratis, the saudis, the qataris. whatever it takes, we should use all of the resources to try to do these people out. i think that is what they will do. >> he also spent quite a bit of time at the state department, a very high will there as well, secretary of state tony blinken is on a world when high wire act there through the middle east, trying to accomplish, in his words, getting the hostages home, supporting israel, and addressing the humanitarian crisis. what is a need to accomplish, or what are his goals on a trip like

joining me now is national security adviser jake sullivan. welcome back to "meet the press." >>. >> thanks for having me. >> thank you for being here on a busy day. so, jake, let's just dive right in. overnight the state department confirmed the death of 29 u.s. citizens in this conflict. can the u.s. say whether any u.s. citizens have been killed inside gaza? >> we can't confirm that at this time, kristen, but we are working actively to determine the fate of americans in gaza both those being held hostage and we are also working actively to try to help american citizens who want to leave gaza and have safe passage out through the border crossing with egypt. it has been difficult to execute that operation, to facilitate their passage out. we are continuing to work that and president biden has put a team on it around the clock because it's a high priority for us to get american out of gaza. it is also his highest priority to secure the safe return of those americans being held hostage by the brutal and vicious terrorist group hamas and we are

conversation comes amid a very stark warning from the president's national security adviser, jake sullivan. he says that there is an evaluated risk, his words, evaluated risk of this conflict expanding across the region and quoting him once again now, the risk, he says, is real. and we are now seeing this new remarkable video from the southern russian republic of dagestan. russian authorities say a crowd, some waving palestinian flags, forced their way into an airport after a flight from tel aviv landed earlier today. russian state media says the crowd was protesting the israel/hamas war. i want to bring in cnn's nic robe robertson. he's joining us right now. nic, it's just past midnight in israel where you and i are. tell us what the latest is? what are you seeing? what are you hearing? >> wolf, the day was relatively calm compared to the past two days. still, artillery strikes. still, we were seeing apache gun ships and pairs flying towards gaza and hearing heavy machine gun fire, but not as intense as the previous two days. the air activity, fighter jets over us, that has picked up over

national security adviser jake sullivan today, speaking about the risk of escalation. they are watching closely, nic robertson, good to have you in the south there. thanks so much. >>> well, into that mix has been a growing presence of u.s. forces in the region. there are now two u.s. carrier strike groups in the eastern mediterranean. and also we learned today about the addition of a marine rapid response force to the region. our orrin liebermann is at the pentagon. we should be clear those u.s. forces are not involved in israeli military operations in gaza. they are certainly a warning to others about any potential expansion of this war. but can you describe what the specific role is, the intended role of this rapid response force? >> jim, we have been watching very closely the forces the u.s. has sent into the middle east. that includes the land forces, nearly 1,000 troops, but also the naval forces we have seen two carrier strike groups, one already in the eastern med, and one very close, as well as an amphibious assault group. and that's what we're looking at righ

holding the maurice island salter sullivan's island line was critical. heavy artillery bolstered these foifications and reserves concentrated to shuttle by rail betwee charleston and savaah, georgia, to support ingram's ironclad wooden steamers were acquired. there s already s.s. indian chief, the squadron's receiving and training ship. in january 1863, soldiers captured uss isaac smith, transferring it to the confederate navy as keystone to funnel enemy ships into killing fields. confederate sewed layers of obstructions and underwater mines contemporarily called torpedoes. beauregard also supported constructing torpedo boat prototype ships, specifically the october 1862 proposal by army captain francis lee to build a torpedo room named torch. this small cigar shaped semi-submersible based on the famed whinnying steamer was designed to plant exosive torpedoes on enemy hulls. beauregard sent lee to richmond for government sanctioned, even telling confederate and navy secretary stevenallory he did not mind if the navy commandeered the project as, quote, al

you have national security adviser jake sullivan as a guest. you also have an interview with senator lindsey graham who has very different ideas of what is happening. what do they see happening next with capitol hill, with our involvement with israel? where do we go? >> the interesting thing is they're not that far apart. you have national security adviser jake sullivan who is saying their focus now is on securing the release of the hostages. it's believed that some americans are among the hostages. and also securing the safe passage of civilians, including u.s. civilians who are in gaza right now. that is a top priority for lindsey graham who announced on the show he will be traveling to saudi arabia to be talking to leaders there, to try to get a peace deal that were in the works, back on track. that deal was aimed at isolating iran. and so notably, senator graham said he thinks that biden is doing a good job handling this crisis right now. now, when you talk to senator graham, his language is more forceful when he talks about iran, for examp

we've seen a steady set of efforts for the cabinet officials to head to china. jake sullivan has twice and the recent past met with the chinese leadership. i think there's a sense that we don't want to go down the rabbit full of a new cold war. let's see if we can't find ways of working with the chinese to meet global challenges, even if we may disagree with them about human rights, about democracy, and even about 2 of little issues in these days. let me just ask you finally in political science, we learned about predicting foreign policy, the continuity, typically a policies from one administration to the next administration, regardless of political party. but it seems like that world is gone. and particularly when you look at a country like a ron, and if you're basically gonna say in your calculation that we should sit down and talk to a ron, we've had a zigzag and those policies do you think as you look at the fuel situation in america, right now, which is part of that topsy turvy dimension that you started with at the beginning . do you suspect that we're not going to have continui

. -- the national security advisor jake sullivan confirmed the u.s. is actually in talks with egypt and israel about opening some sort of safe passage so that the civilians inside gaza can get out as that bombardment continues. and it is continuing yet again for a fifth day today in gaza. the number of dead rising on both sides. here in israel as you mentioned families are still trying to search for their loved ones. we've spoken to a number of families over the past several days, another relative just this morning whose family was in -- when gunmen attacked. last night we spoke to the parents of two daughters 22 and 25 years old. they're from l.a. they've been living here for the past 14 years. they were at that music festival. one of their friends survived. she told us that all of them rushed into a shelter when they heard bombs. they then heard gunfire. there was a crush to get into the shelter. the friend who survived was crushed under bodies. she says she then heard grenades, gunfire. the gunmen lit a fire at the front of the shelter trying to ki

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