jackie heinrich at the white house. jackie, what can we expect to hear from the president today?is will be the first remarks since the attacks happened and we expect him to broadly underscore support for israel and condemnation of hamas, he needs to speak to the americans killed in this attack and the untold number being held hostage right now. >> he'll talk about how we will continue to solidly stand behind israel and there's a fresh tran much of israel and the importance of making sure that we continue to find out as much information as we can about american citizens that are in israel. sadly 11 were killed and we expect that number will probably go north, again, sadly. reporter: biden my also address why he appeared to be missing in action as this all was going on. more than 20 hours after the snagsal security council confirmed the first nine americans killed, the president still had not issued a paper statement even. his twitter account was pumping out tweets and jobs and the economy, which may have been prescheduled and on saturday after all this began, there was a barbecue

jackie heinrich is live for us at the white house. >> the white house has three objectives now.t is to show support for israel including military support to prevent this conflict from expanding and also to bring american hostages home. the president speaking yesterday made the point. if you don't hear him talking about it, it doesn't mean it's not happening. listen. >> press shout to me that what you doing to bring these folks home. if i told you i wouldn't be able to get them home. but the idea that i'm going to stand here before you and tell you what i'm doing is bizarre. i hope you understand how bizarre it will be to answer that question. >> yesterday president biden announced military aid that's been given and more on its way and cautions iran and other actors not to take advantage of the situation. positioning u.s. military assets in the mediterranean. he also revealed that he has cautioned israeli prime minster benjamin netanyahu to abide by the rules of war after ue called the israel's siege of gaza illegal. u.s. support is unwavering. he detailed efforts happening now w

joining us, white house correspondent jackie heinrich with more. >> jackie, good morning. good morning to you. president biden is in route to israel to show the u.s. commitment to israel's security, but the second half of his trip, that stop in jordan has been canceled after the hospital was bombed in gaza. as i mentioned, israel says at the hands of islamist jihadists who are now trying to pin it on israel. the israelis say they've got proof of this. they've made it public. but in the meantime, president's meeting with the king of jordan, the president of the palestinian authority, and the egyptian president is canceled. biden was going to push egypt to open the rafah crossing to allow safe passage. palestinian civilians as israel readies its ground operation. >> no refugees in jordan nor refugees in egypt. this is a situation of humanitarian dimension that has to be dealt inside of gaza and the west bank and not to try and push the palestinian challenge and their future onto other people's shoulders. >> the president released a statement on air force one. it reads, i spo

white house correspondent jackie heinrich has more on what they're learning jackie is live on the north lawn. it's unclear how much they've made pushing egypt and other countries to take them in and u.s. quietly pushed israel to buy some time. jack i can reporter: fox learned israel pushed to delay till safe passage for palestinian civilians is secured. >> our focus now is on helping to create safe zones and we're doing that with the leagued international organizations. reporter: the ask in line that israel should abide by the rules of war. >> we can't lose sight of the fact that the overwhelming majority of palestinians had nothing to do with hamas and ha hamas' appalling attacks and they're suffering as a result as well. reporter: the president revealing chief concern after talking bidenomics in philadelphia on friday. >> what worries you about a potential israeli ground invasion in gaza? >> death. reporter: it's an apparent requirety to the administration that the is seen un-waiverringly behind israel and they mount their coming response. >> what israel is doing is defending, it's no

we heard jackie heinrich ask john kirby the message the president sent to the ayatollah.s trying to show strength, you said. the president reaching out to the ayatollah, how do you read that? does that show strength? >> well, we show strength by achieving escalation dominance over iraq, which was one of the reasons why the trump administration launched the attack on irgc leader soleimani years ago. the question is whether the united states can deter iran from using proxy militants, the ones in irrelevant rack, but not exclusively. there is hezbollah and houthis in yemen who can target us and israeli allies. that's the challenge we face. we need to demonstrate we have the capability to launch strikes against iran and achieve that escalation dominance. it's with actions, not words. >> aishah: 20 seconds left. let's pull up the picture. this meeting this week between hamas, they go to moscow, moscow is hosting hamas and iran's foreign minister there and the stated goal of the visit here, dan, was talks on the war in israel and the ways to stop zionist crime support evidence

. >> dana: jackie heinrich at the white house. thank you so much. i want to bring in general keith kellogg. a fox news contributor and very good to have you here. want to read to you this from the wall is journal. the headline is biden's trip to israel carries risks for u.s. policy and his own legacy. the visit raises political and diplomatic stakes for president biden who vowed an end to forever wars. the fact that we have an ideological war with people that want to kill western civilization is not something that the president biden started. but now this is firmly on the oval office and on the resolute desk. how do you think the trip for the president is going so far? >> thank you for having me. look, let's be very clear. 30 americans have been killed so far as a result of the attack 12 days ago. we have 19 or more missing out there has hostages. we're into the game and fight right now. we have to understand that. by moving the carrier strike groups ford and ice -- the message needs to go to iran. don't get involved or support hezbollah coming in f

jack jim jordan heinrich live from the -- jackie heinrich is live from the north lawn white house. where is that funding standing right now? reporter: good afternoon, bill. there's an agreement with kansas city chiefs far to -- qatar to stomp down any disbursement of the previously frozen funds made accessible to iran via withdrawals and that's a notable development because if you recall on tuesday, i asked jake sullivan if refreezing these funds was even underconsideration and he punted entirely on that question, but my colleague at fox business, edward lawrence, just moments ago got this washington report confirmed and saying the deputy treasury secretary told house democrats this morning in a closed door he'll meeting in agreement does exist to prevent the disbursement of the funds to iran for indefinite period of time and ma mirrors what i was told after all senators got a briefing on tuesday that the u.s. planned to leave requests for withdrawals pending indefinitely and essentially achieving the same outcome as if they were to refreeze the funds. the secretary of state was as

we heard it in the white house briefing room from our own jackie heinrich about when will the president respond. secretary of state blinken said the u.s. will be acting and decisively to defend itself, and that's what the pentagon is calling these strikes tonight. self-defense, narrowly tailored strikes, but certainly these iran's proxy forces are scattered throughout the middle east in syria, in iraq. you know, the united states still has 900 troops in syria, has 2500 in iraq. and for a long time, you know, for the white house, for the u.s. government, long time u.s. policy is, if any americans are killed, the united states is going to strike back. and remember that contractor died of a heart attack during one of those attacks in iraq. and that's one of the reasons that was one of the calculus was, listen, the statement from the defense secretary that the u.s. would strike back and mentioned that contractors death. but we'll see if tehran gets the message we'll just. tomlinson live for us in tel aviv. lucas, we'll check back in with you as the news warrants. >> kevin thank you. griffit

and others here at the white house are watching as a ground war appears eminent sources tell jackie heinrichte house correspondent my colleague here at fox news that the u.s. was originally telling israel to sort of tamp down ground war in effort from that respect we don't know exactly how that's all going play out but for our reporter there trey yingst it appears that a ground war is eminent and continue to watch from this angle see what the president has to say at this human right dinner here in washington. jon. jon: david spunt at the white house david, thank you. >> thank you. jon: so both proand anti-israel protest have taken place throughout the united states as war rages on in the middle east. cb cotton live in new york city with more on that. cb. >> good evening jon yeah we watched thowtion of pro-palestinian supporters make their way through times square heading to the israeli cons late and then finally to the united nations. many in the crowd calling for palestinian liberation saying they feel israel is punishing innocent civilians in gaza. they destroy everything in gaza. they des

white house correspondent jacqui heinrich reporting live from the north lawn. hi, jackie>> hi, martha. incredible press conference. the president repeated the warning to iran not to attack u.s. troops or the u.s. would respond. as you know, that already happened. the president did not seem to indicate that any sort of action has been taken by the u.s. to respond. since we got that news, that more than 20 troops were injured by drone and rocket attacks a week ago. listen. >> we have had troops in the region since 9-11 to go after isis and prevent reemergence in both -- anyway, in the region. having nothing to do with israel at all. my warning to the ayatollah was that if they continue to move against those troops, we will respond. he should be prepared. it has nothing to do with i israel. >> biden's critics said the injuries had not been announced when it happened. we just found out about this last night. the u.s. in the time since has not, as we see, responded. as one member of congress stated, what is he waiting for? for a service member to be killed before iran is held

heinrich at the white house. what exactly is the president doing, jackie?billion funding request is effectively in limbo in congress until the house has a speaker. however, the president got an assist from senator mitch mcconnell over the weekend trying to convince some of his republican colleagues in the lower chamber that this funding is necessary, especially because it does include the border but so far it has not been enough to tamp down any opposition to folks on the republican side and weary of humanitarian support and continued ukraine funding. listen to what he said. >> about $90 billion and housing refugees travion green escaped from the war and we're providing more military and they're providing more humanitarian and taking care of people that escaped from ukraine during this. i think the nato countries are by in large carrying their load. >> biden ball languaging careful un-waiverring support with israel with concern for civilians and hostages in gaza. fox broke the news last week that team biden privately urged israelis to delay the ground invas

first we go to jacqui heinrich with what is happening at the white house. president will bring a package today. >> jackie: the white house believes there is support for multiple national security objectives, sending urgent request for $105 million aid package. the president underscoring why this is necessary investment. >> hamas and putin are different threat, share this in common, they want to annihilate neighboring country. it will pay dividends for generations, keep troops out of harm's way, build a world that is prosperous for our children and grand children. >> jackie: money for israel, border security, humanitarian assistance, but bulk of the money would go to ukraine and expected to of coer them for about a year, votes for small packages has become difficult. some in the senate took issue with the president's delivery. >> why is joe biden going on national television and selling people on a ukrainian escalation when joe biden is talking about the terrible tragedy in israel. it is a separate country and separate problem. what the president did is disgraceful. if he wants to sell the american people