. >> bret: let's bring in intelligence expert dan hoffman. an, we can look 30,000 feet at this operation, we can talk about intelligence. when you hear these stories firsthand it is really unlike anything we've seen in decades. >> it is. it's heartbreaking and it is deliberate. look, hamas is a terrorist organization. their aim is to wipe israel off the face of the earth and they are committing bloody murderous atrocities on purpose. they want this ground assault to take place. they don't care much about their own people and they certainly don't care about palestinian civilians but they want israel to spill blood and treasure and they want to destroy israel's reputation as a result of a ground offensive in gaza and they want to do everything that they can do to insure that the reconciliation that was starting to take hold between israel and saudi arabia never materializes. that's a goal that hamas has, lebanese, hezbollah's goal as well as iran's. >> dana: dan, the president of the united states will -- he has not spoken to the public in two d

larry: dan hoffman, thank you very much.oming up in a few moments newt gingrich now have a anti-semitism problem and they don't want to talk about it. plus, why does the liberal media automatically buy into the hamas reports, all right? joe concha writes about it in the messenger today. he will tell us all about it all when "kudlow" returns ♪ ♪ be ready for any market with a liquid etf. get in and out with dia. - they get it. they know how it works. and more importantly, it works for them. - i don't have any anxiety about money anymore. - i don't have to worry about a mortgage payment every month. - it allowed me to live in my home and not have to make payments. - linda, dinah, joanne, very different people, but they do have a couple of things in common. they love their home and they know their stuff. they all talked about the counseling they got so they knew how reverse mortgage worked and how it could be a real financial solution for their retirement. - [advertiser] if you are 62 or older and own your home, find out how yo

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dan hoffman, thank you dan. >> thanks. eric: we are just learning at the white house the president says -- make this president spoke with benjamin netanyahu earlier this afternoon no details at the moment about exactly what the details were on that phone conversation but one can imagine. this comes as a president also reportedly talked with the head of the palestinian authority david spotts with more on the situation there. >> hi eric we are working to confirm the report the president spoke with has a palestinian counterpart. we have some information about the phone call from his call with president netanyahu and israel the biden and netanyahu spoke for the fifth time. netanyahu think biden for unwavering support helping israel to defend itself also secretary of state blinken and defense secretary lloyd austin. the priority for the white house for the president, the president has been at the white house today presumably working on the situation, has been to get those americans that are in danger out of danger and home safe

joining us now is dan hoffman, former c.i.a. station chief.tor and good friend to the channel. the air strikes the u.s. conducted overnight to hit these iranian proxy groups in syria, what do you know about these locations and how important they are to iran? >> those are reportedly administered by the irgc, iran's revolutionary guard corps and we're waiting to lose what damage was done and whether any irgc personnel injured or killed. the u.s. is trying to deter iran's proxy militants from launching further attacks. i'm quite sure the u.s. intelligence community will be providing reflections on how iran viewed these strikes and whether the strikes will achieve their purpose. but frankly i doubt it. i think iran wants to carry on this indirect proxy war against the united states. >> aishah: that would be my follow up. there is a great sense of fear on capitol hill, definitely in washington, that this will get out of hand and turn into a regional war if iran chooses for its other proxies in the area and region to get involved. we heard jackie he

you know, i'll ask you this, dan hoffman. you know, if sara carter wasow, askingsara people at this new york protest tonight at times square, you knowuare, what is the solution? whenonly solution i sewhe here, when you're dealing with such radicalism and people that, you know, are so, you know, so radicalized that they think they're doing god's will, killing innocent men, women and children or flat out denying reality and evidence that proves such. the only solution in that case is to defeat and destroy the terrorists. orists. i've got to imagine that inin in light of the advancement of military technology, that that has got to be the key component. hat thatyou know, a massive grod incursion, you know, just reeksi of the potential of a long, protracted conflict and waalr. and i would imagine military technology is advanced to the poin d t that we have better options in that. do you agree? well, i think it's very it is difficult to d do that, to sweep through gaza without a ground force and the missionlish of destroying hamas.

we go to dan hoffman next. the intelligence failure got us here and could it happen inside america?e you seen our border lately? don't move. one nation. ♪ he who is new video of iran celebrating thousands of rockets hamas launched into his ribs but kept them celebrating. a little twisted. it gets worse, iraq burning american flag, israeli flags in the streets. one of the place served as chief of station there and in russia. he joins us now. dan, how would you characterize horrific attacks today? what stood out about the way they did it and the way they pulled it off in israel? in. >> we have compared this attack to 9/11 and talked about the yom kippur war from 1973. to me it harkens back to pearl harbor. this was a massive incursion attack on israel's border, land, air and sea with thousands of missiles, some of which penetrated the iron dome. palestinian terrorists pending the perimeter and israeli citizens. there will be time for forensics to determine where the failure took place in life but right now is rough have to take the fight to the enemy. the question is whether intellige

joining us now is dan hoffman a former cia station chief and fox news contributor. coming on with us. what should we know about that. he's intelligence failures. what sort of evidence is there that this could have been known. that this was going to happen. >> this was a massive unprecedented attack where you had hamas terrorists abruptly a thousand of them crossing over that 37 mild border. roughly 15 miles into southern israel. they combined air, land and sea attacks against israel. they must've been planning these operations for months so there was opportunities to collect intelligence. from the defense forces, the security services. as well as -- but israel was unable to do that. intelligence exists to detect threats way out left so they can be preempted before any harm is caused. that is where, unfortunately israel is unsuccessful. they are deterring lebanon and syria from those fronts. but they failed to deter. >> there will be a postwar reckoning with what went wrong. right now it is all hands on deck to prosecute the war. >> they most certainly are inside of

we go to dan hoffman next. the intelligence failure got us here and could it happen inside america?t move - [narrator] are you looking for more in this world? then we are looking for you. we are the peace corps. with volunteers in more than 60 countries. living together. working together. transforming lives. together. join us. is new video of iran celebrating thousands of rockets hamas launched into his ribs but kept them celebrating. a little twisted. it gets worse, iraq burning american flag, israeli flags in the streets. one of the place served as chief of station there and in russia. he joins us now. dan, how would you characterize horrific attacks today? what stood out about the way they did it and the way they pulled it off in israel? in. >> we have compared this attack to 9/11 and talked about the yom kippur war from 1973. to me it harkens back to pearl harbor. this was a massive incursion attack on israel's border, land, air and sea with thousands of missiles, some of which penetrated the iron dome. palestinian terrorists pending the perimeter and israeli citizens. there wil

david: here is station chief officer dan hoffman. great to see you.lot of peace movement in the 1980s. since then, i've never seen anything like this. we saw what was happening in beirut, lebanon. in turkey, the source of a lot of this misinformation and the massacre itself, jordan, iran, baghdad, air rack, and the hospital explosion whether that came from israel and good evidence it didn't come from israel. also misinformation after the massacre after eyewitness accounts and video evidence saying it never happened. >> actually, it's fertile ground for the latest touch of disinformation. in the region and beyond, there such predisposed bias against israel. that is what we are seeing, this bombing of the hospital is a harbinger of things to come. if israel takes the fight to gaza and we see a blood ground offensive it doesn't matter what the facts are. that will be lost in translation and we will see massive protests across the region and that is why egypt and saudi arabia, no love lost between those countries and hamas which is an offshoot of the musl

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let's bring in dan hoffman, former cia station chief, also a fox news contributor. retary blinken spoke earlier this morning about some of the machinations going on behind the scenes. take a listen, and i want to get your response. >> actions are what what speak, not words particularly coming from hamas. but we've been engaged, as i said, with partners. one of the first things that i did after the horrific attack of october 7th and is hostages were taken, men, women, young children, elderly people, it's extraordinary, was to the talk to everyone we could who might have influence with hamas in terms of releasing them. gillian: so, dan, what is the intelligence community doing now to kind of help in this effort? i imagine the first thing you have to do is identify these people, and then they have to locate them. >> it's extraordinarily difficult. and remember that this is in the wake of israel's most significant intelligence failure since the yom kippur war. so israel didn't have the human sources that they would have maded to warn them of that attack -- needed to warn

. >> one of the things that dan hoffman said this morning was that one of his former cia supervisor saidu have hostages out there, the longer they are out there, the harder it is to solve. any plans or ideas come up possibilities of getting the hostages safely out of the gaza strip. >> he makes a great point. the israelis and the americans have no idea where these hostages are right now. they have a network of tunnels that they have no way to surveilled, deep deep underground in places that the israelis may have an idea they are tumbling in certain parts o the strip, they simply can't identify where these people would have been taken in with a 25-mile strip of land anywhere from 3-7 miles long there are a lot of places where they've had to hide these hostages and it's not accounting for the high-ris buildings that there are in gaza , 1.9 million people a heavy populated area in multiple different population areas. they could be anywhere. even if the israelis launch thi ground war into gaza and they take territory they will be engaged right along with hamas militants. we've seen it happen

that is how they should win this fight. >> sean: i will ask you this, dan hoffman.now, sara carter was asking people at this protest in times square, what is the solution? the only solution i see here when dealing with such radicalism and people that are, you know, so radicalized that they think they are doing god's will can it vilma killing innocent men, women and children and flat out denying to prove such. the only solution in that case is to defeat and destroy the terrorists. i have got to imagine in light of the advancement of military technology that that has got to be the key component. a massive ground incursion, you know, reeks of the potential of a long protracted contract in war. and i would imagine military technology has advanced to the point that we have better options than that. do you agree? >> well, i think it is difficult to do that to sweep through gaza without a ground force and accomplish the mission of destroying hamas. make no mistake, that is exactly what israel has to do. it is going to be extraordinarily challenging, and i think intelligenc

dan hoffman. so a stunning report in the "new york times," dan, there we go, there is dan, and couple with that reports in the israeli media the former defense minister back in 2016 put out 11-page classified report detailing almost to the t what it was that hamas did on october 7th yet everybody ignored it. what's going on? >> yeah, well, the scale of the hamas attack and the brutality of that attack where so many innocent civilians were killed i think makes it impossible to ignore this extraordinarily costly intelligence failure, and it happened at three stages. the collection phase, israel did not have the collection on hamas. i'm not sure whether it was the push to talk radios, service temperature more than that. human sources inside hamas would have given them the warning they needed. analytical failure as well, and executive decision-making, the third stage where ultimately responsibility is going to rest with the prime minister, netanyahu, who created a lot of disturbance, pilots, israeli pi

brigadier general spalding, dan hoffman, chad wolf, a lot to dig into as things are developing. we are waiting an update from the state department how the biden administration plans to bring home americans held hostage by hamas, an israeli soldier have been released, we'll bring you that briefing when that begins. >> john: israeli forces slowly pushing their way into gaza city deploying tanks and troops at the edges of gaza's northern border. what is their plan to take out hamas? tracking israel latest movements coming up next. >> they have modified the tactics here quite dramatically because of civilian casualties and also trying to preserve casualties from their own forces. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. yay - woo hoo! ensure, with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. (♪) this is american infrastructure, a prime target for cyberattacks. but the same ai-powered security that protects all of google also defends these services for everyone who lives here

with that, we bring in dan hoffman a former cia operative and station chief. he's a fox news contributor. great to have you with us today. thanks for joining us. we see this aerial shot of new york city's times square or south of times square. a fair number of protesters out there. we just heard from one of them. i think she gave us the gist of the sentiment that they are professing there. your thoughts on what's going on after the leader of hamas and founder, former leader and founder called for a day of rage and jihad across this country. >> yeah, watching the protests in new york, i had a few thoughts. first, you know, that's counter to u.s. government policy. those sorts of protests would never happened in iran. they wouldn't happen in gaza. but they can happen in a democratic country like ours or frankly israel. secondly, some of the comments from the young woman, a little bit dystopia to acknowledge the facts. it's similar to what we used to hear from holocaust deniers. that's what iran is famous for. we should acknowledge and sadly many don't that this

i think what dan hoffman said earlier about the longer you wait to solve this problem the harder it is to solve is really on my mind as we finish out this show today. >> bret: i actually think the talk with bari weiss was really something. she articulated how you can't look away from these images. you can't look away from the stories. we need to embrace them because it shows the depravity and basharism. >> one of the details in here many of the hamas leaders were unaware this was even happening. this is how sophisticated it was and when you listen to president biden two hours from now, listen what he says just not about hamas and helping israel. what they say about iran or don't say about iran. we'll have to pay close attention to this. the sophistication was definitely supported by the iranian revolutionary guard. >> bret: we know that 11 americans so far have been killed and we know from those families that talked today they believe there are american hostages. john kirby is not saying that but the families are. there are other nations from around the world who are making those annou

let's bring in dan hoffman now, i want to get your reaction to the release of two hostages. does this mean possibly we will see more released? >> well, with he could only hope so. i have to tell you, it's so unbelievably unexpected. i did not hold out much hope we would gain any releases whatsoever, so this is certainly a result of some outstanding diplomatic work on the part of the united states government and secretary blinken should be applauded for his steadfast work with the qataris, kudos for saving two lives, and hope it's the first of many releases. >> sandra: walking over to the touch screen so you can sort of take us through the geography of the moment. we obviously just talked to steve harrigan, checking with greg palkot, the northern border of israel with lebanon, obviously a key focus here. as you look to the north, we have been watching that. but israel is surrounded with these iran proxies and you look at the map here and you realize that they are surrounded, israel. what does this mean for the ongoing war and possible escalation, dan. >> i think that's a real

here with reaction, former cia station chief dan hoffman. florida congressman mike walz.more about this congressman? >> sean, let me be clear here, this was an absolute intelligence failure. we need to call it for what it is. my concern, my fear is that actually we were picking things up. and that you've got so many iran sympathizers in the biden administration that they were simply looking away. not only do you have robert oh, mallly the chief negotiator for the iran deal under biden and obama that was essentially running a spy ring, you have the chief of staff in the pentagon of our special operations office in the pentagon read on to all kinds of department of programs, she is still on the job. she still has access to all kinds of class as fewed systems, she was calling the iranian foreign ministry before and after briefing toss congress about their nuclear program. so, you're right, we haven't heard much about it, it's being suppressed by the media and certainly by the administration. republicans in the house have to get to the bottom of, who how far did this go, how

the united ed s states.ief da here with reaction, former cia station chief dan hoffman florida congressmanltz. why have we not heard much n more aboutot hea this, congress? >> yeah,ongr you knoessmw, seans was let me just be clear here. this was here, a absolute nee intelligence failure. we need to call it ford to what. but my concern, my fear is thaty we were picking things up and that you've got so many iran sympathizers in the biden administrationadminist thy were simply looking away. not only do you havet oh o'mall, who was the chief negotiator for the iran deal under a bidena and obama that was essentially running a splla y ring. pen you have the chief of staff in the pentagon of special operations office in the pentagpentagon read on to all k of compartmented programs. she's stilhel the job. she still has access to all kinds of classifiedems, s systems. yet she was calling the iraniane foreign before and after after briefings of congress, briefings, congress, about their nuclear program. so you're right, we haven'tcert heard much about it. it's being suppressed by the media and certa