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You for joining us i am trey gowdy and it is Sunday Night In America. There is war in the middle east. The Terrorist Group Hamas launched a massive Surprise Attack on israel killing nearly 1000, injuring thousands more in taking Israeli Soldiers and citizens hostage. Including women and children. It was barbaric an rather than minimize citizen casualties hamas targeted civilians including americans. The attack was launched by land, sea, and air seemed to catch one of the worlds most Battle Ready Countries by surprise. Was really leader Benjamin Netanyahu promise a devastating response israel is in the process of delivering that response. Netanyahu also told his country to prepare for war. Perhaps protracted war as Israeli Defense forces will likely go door to door looking for kidnapped citizens and soldiers. We begin tonight with trey yingst live in israel what is the latest. The Islamic Jihad entered israel fired on the border committees taking some hostage and executing others. This is what took place over the past 48 hours per the israeli response hasnt started though this just appears to be the beginning. Overhead right now their fighter jets in the skies. They are firing on hamas positions along the gaza border. Hamas deals still control some territory in southern israel. Its making extremely difficult to begin the second phase of their operation. They first have to make sure all palestinians are out of israeli territory. Moving forward basically staging on the border thats much of what we saw today. Israeli tanks and apcs soldiers reservists military said more than what her thousand venture guys that when the word doesnt come. Its expected to come in the hours or days but israel will likely in the next few days be inside gaza what a really Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he described as an operation to eradicate from gaza with the military and political wing of this organization. If you put your finger on it. There are Israeli Citizens and soldiers being held and gaza it sounds like we are headed towards a land war. Israel is not going to let it citizens and soldiers be held hostage for they are going to go get them are they not . There will be a ground war in the middle east. It will be plenty and violent and very difficult for Israeli Soldiers to work their way through the gaza strip. Some of the most densely Populated Areas in the world with nearly 2 Million People though have to work carefully romero the hostages that turned into Prisoners Of War are israeli civilians and soldiers. They started this initial assault on southern israel. Noncombatant and innocent bystanders. People living along the Community Women and children can be dragged out of bed and murdered. Those who survived were dragged into gaza a gauze are being hels political tokens that controls the strip. We six before i let you going to say thank you for risk your own personal safety to give us the information we need in the United States and around the world. She brought our own conclusions we cannot do without the information present thank you for putting yourself at risk to give it to us. Thank you. Deputy mayor of jerusalem welcome to you madam mayor. It is disquieting. The nation of israel need special devotion to under attack by Terror Groups from the gaza strip and elsewhere. Given the latest from where you are. Its like wer we are livinga nightmare. I cannot overestimate the terrible feeling we have. Yesterday morning was not just the Sabbath Bujewish Holiday in the jewish calendar. Im jerusalem with sirens but now its very rarely sirens in jerusalem because jerusalem is normally not a place where rockets are landing. The sirens continued all morning. Of course we all know when there are sirens we have o you have oe to run to the shelter. So i got into the shelter of my four children and remain there for the largest part of the morning. We had no idea what we were looking at a massacre. We were looking at a border breach. I cannot begin to tell you how shocked where and traumatize the country is. The irony is a week ago we were all pondering whether it could happen again. That was also a Surprise Attack 50 years ago. And of course different people have different opinions. Little did we know a short week later wed b would be looking at something similar . Trey madam mayor i was in your city a little over a year ago. I can tell you war was the last thing on my mind. And your beautiful city the israeli people are surrounded by enemies. It is a success quite frankly when a neighbor merely agreed to recognagrees torecognize your r. You mention the word traumatize i cannot imagine the eyes of israelis on israel that must shock the israeli people. But not having soldiers at the border from dealing with them the terrorists were saying at onthatwent into peoples homes. They went and massacred and executed people in their homes for their children in their beds. Old ladies in their bed. Randomly put people in this for the 3000 upon this dance party they randomly executed them in this field. Nobody thought we would see images like this in israel ever. You have to ask yourself what happened . How did they get in . How did they manage to do this . Israel has a very secure border. Israel has won the best armies in the world. We have one of the best technologies of defense in the world. What happened . Trey you were the best intelligence communitys Intelligence Agencies in the world. The United States is not a country where we fear rockets and invasions. If theres a siren going off here it is a tornado not a missile coming in. So psychologically i know your country is used to being surrounded by enemies. But psychologically how do you prepare for what looks like it may be a protracted war . X yes look at what circumstances we are preparing for this. We were in the process of making peace with saudi arabia. Unless thelost through soup made with four different arab muslim countries. We have peace with jordan and egypt. Israels hand is always outstretched for peace and in the last three years we have come a long way and to Big Normalize into the region. We were getting excited about saudi arabia at which was peace being broken by the United States. In my big up to this nightmare. We back up to a war. My friends son has been missing for 36 hours. All of my friends children have been called up by two children in the army. It is a nightmare. Trey you mention It Madam Mayor how close you were with peace with saudi arabia. You already had historic peace agreements. At already look at thats going to be peace and a part of the world where it had not known at peace. I makes me wonder who benefits from war and chaos between israel and its neighbors . I want benefits from seeing doing this. What if it might be i wrong to hit the nail on the head for between israel and saudi arabia the uae and bahrain. There already annoyed about this. We must understand hamas and hezbollah are the long arms of a round they are the puppets of iran. I wrong is the big puppetmaster which is in my opinion has coordinated this whole thing. Correct madam maiand with yourm for thank you for joining us under excruciating circumstances. Thank you for having me. Lets bring in Jennifer Griffin Fox News National security correspondent and the person i turned to the very most when that world seems like it is on fire. Thats the way it seems right now. Jennifer, this attack certainly seemed to catch israel off guard. They are not a nation usually itsis usuallysurprised but whau hearing about the attack on israels response what is the latest . Lets try first of all you are right. Not only is shocking the Intelligence Failure the fact is fighting and 22 parts of israel. There are more than 3000 rockets that Hit Jerusalem which rarely gets hit. So the descriptions i called a friend in israel and spoke to him this morning. Had heard Horror Stories about cousins who actually went into their safe room inside their house near the Gaza Strip Wheree they were in an israeli and they were inside with their children in their safe room. And hamas came to the door of the safer of safe room it is al plated door and tried to fire on the door to open it. Somehow they miraculously survived a state in the safe room for 11 hours but the trend to set the house on fire. There was story upon story of this occurring. We just learned for americans have been killed and the attacks. I expect that number will rise. Lawmakers have been told by the National Security council that at least four americans have been killed. What the pentagon has done in recent hours, lloyd austin the defense secretary has had his second phone call with his counterpart his israeli counterpart. The pentagon has begun moving the uss Gerald R Ford Carrier Strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean for easternmedites u. S. Navy Aircraft Carrier as well as a Guided Missile Cruiser Uss Normandy as well as the guided missile destroyer uss thomas. Uss remarks, uss carney and uss roosevelt. Since Comp Officials who ive spoken to said there also sitting air force had a 10 Fighter Aircraft squadrons to the region. The f35 squadron was set this summer for the eye iranian were harassing oil tankers at the golf on the iranian seem to have gotten the message. This conflict could spread and iran could launch proxy fights with hezbollah there are u. S. Troops all across the middle east who are vulnerable positions if it decides to launch with malicious against those troops. You mention iran several times for this reporting today iran played a central role in helping to plan and execute this series of attacks. And integrally involved in playing the attacks and if so theres going to be a response by israel i would imagine. But you are the expert, what do you think . When i was based in israel from 1999 until 2007. 2002 i broke a story that got a lot of attention at the time. It was a shipment of iranian Weapons En Route to the gaza strip. The israeli navy intercepted it In The Red Sea it included 50 tons of small arms weaponry. It was 100 million worth of weapons. I interviewed the captain of that ship was taken into israeli custody still in israeli prison. This funding of hamas by iran the shipment of weapons and the attempt to disrupt any sort of peace in israel has been going on at least in my lifetime since 2002. It really goes prior to that that was the first i saw it with my own eyes. Iran is a huge factor here. Look at what the spiritual leader said last week about the potential deal make the peace deal between saudi arabia and israel. He bowed at that time that deal would not go through. That was a veiled threat that shouldve been taken seriously at that time. Iran has it its Fingerprints Te Funding Of Hezbollah is well documented. The thousands of rockets that are in the gaza strip that hamas has hezbollah has thousands of rockets i could rain down on Northern Israel. When i was in israel as a reporter for fox news in the summer of 2006 Thousands of rockets were fired into Northern Israel during a 34 day war between hezbollah and israel which followed i will remind you two soldiers kidnapped by hezbollah on the border of the north. Now you have more than 100 hostages israeli women, children, elderly women as well as soldiers being held down in the gaza strip. This could go on for some time for the gaza strip i have been there before. Spent months at a time and they gaza strip 2. 3 Million People it is a small alley and finding those hostages is going to be very, very difficult. Israel had one soldier kidnapped back in 2006 it took five years for them to negotiate a release and to find him. This is not going to be easy. Its not going to be fast for that u. S. Aircraft carrier and other strike Group Members of the strike group that are in the Eastern Mediterranean is to send a very strong signal to iran not to launch any more attacks. Not to allow its proxies for any adventurism at this point. Besides i hope they are watching. Or else there is going to be not just conflict in the middle east but full blown protracted war. Jennifer griffin thank you as always for joining us. Especially with all the other things you have going on all of the other shows thank you for joining us On Sunday Night fo f. Thank you trey. 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Plus, ask how to get an 800 prepaid card with a qualifying internet bundle. Comcast business, powering possibilities. Heres why you should switch from chrome to duckduckgo. Duckduckgo is a browser you download to your mobile and desktop devices. Unlike chrome, the Duckduckgo Browser has privacy builtin. It comes with a private alternative to google search, which doesn■t spy on your searches, and it blocks cookies and creepy ads. And theres no catch. Its free. We make money from ads, but they dont follow you around. Join the millions of people taking back their privacy by Downloading Duckduckgo On Mobile and desktop today. Trey welcome back to Sunday Night In America. Israel is repeatedly asked by the rest of the world to trade land for peace and all of that seems to do is bring their enemies closer. Gaza was supposed to be a haven for palestinians. Now it is a Breeding Ground for terrorism. When israel continued to allow gaza to be its neighbor after this was a longterm gaza rejoining us to continue our discussion former member blueandwhite party ruth. Thank you so much for joining us. Let me first get your reaction to the attack itself and the response of some of your neighbors in the middle east but it seems like saudi arabia is having a really hard time between the attackers and the innocent victims release the statements by that country have not one on the brink of peace with saudi arabia. First of all thank you for having me on your program. Think what israel is experiencing at the moment is almost unprecedented. You have known oars, would not attacks god knows weve known a lot of terror and terrorism. What israel is experiencing at this moment the massacre especially with civilians in the south was very extraordinary but actually the United Arab Emirates just came out reprimanding the attackers the other arab countries less clearly, that is very true. What i want to emphasize with your permission is the fact that the perpetrators went into civilian homes. Knocking down doors appeared taking women, children, families hostage sprayed not only in their own homes, actually taking them over the border, kidnapping them. Not to mention raping women, having them naked in the streets. Complete and utter barbarism. This is something israel has never seen before. When i must tell you the hearts and minds of all is really so forget all israelis send their children to obligatory army service. This is very, very difficult time for every single israeli citizen. I want you to give us a sense of what is happening in the government. He says this is war and it may last a long time. You so aptly noted israel is in some parts of the world criticized for targeting hezbollah or hamas sites they hide within the citizen community. They are the ones who put citizens at risk and yet israel is criticized here hamas targeted citizens as you noted they went after citizens specifically. Give us an idea of what is going on with the Netanyahu Administration and the response rate. First of all lets just make sure everyone understands the hamas is holding hostage many of their own people too. In fact this is a very undemocratic cruel, barbaric regime that holds twopoint to million palestinians basically hostage despite a lot of funding brought from international arena. Affect the Current Coalition also it wasn wasnt planning afe holidays to open up and give permits to Working Israel to palestinians in the west bank from gaza as well. In fact qatar is feeding this monster constantly with funding, the most important thing is something the government the current government but other governments previous governments in israel have said again and again the one mastermind between this whole entire thing is iran. It has slowly but surely. This is very important to understand, systematically funded and trained hezbollah in the north. Hamas in the north as Well Hamas In The South and Gossiper Infiltrates jordan very few people speak about it. Jordan is a very important enclave for stability for the United States and the world. Not just for israel. It is also very, very active in the west bank. It is arming, funding, training leaked terrorism in the west bank. Not only hamas but also Islamic Jihad. Whats also trying to reach out to arab Israeli Citizens within israel and it is when citing an arabic Arab Israelis within then israel is trying to encompass israel from all sides fun to really break down this country. There is no issue of negotiation. There is no issue of talking about anything. I hope the world understands this phenomenon. There are very dark very clearly stated they want the destruction of this country. And they are acting accordingly. What we have seen in the last few days i cannot even tell you. It is barbaric. They are dragging Women Old Holocaust Survivor 84yearold women and parading them as if this is something to be proud of. Holding guns they have made them put on their bodies. It is unreal. I cannot even convey it is truly a tragedy. Trey there is another tragedy too. While iran is reeking this in your country there are some in my country who wish that we were talking to them more and engaging with them more. That is another tragedy bred thank you so much for joining us for just know the American People stand in solidarity with israel. And the nation of israel in your right to defend yourself thank you for joining us On Sunday Night. Thank you, thank you so much for your support. Trey yes, maam. We are told by congressman Kevin Mccarthy from california as our coverage of the word israe trey welcome back to Sunday Night In America we are drawn by Kevin Mccarthy who represents bakersfield, california in the u. S. House. Goes to trips to israel for well over a decade. He enjoys a special relationship with israeli leaders. Some of whom he spoke with just last week. He is and has been staunchly pro israel siproisrael since e to congress. When he became Speaker Of The House his very first trip abroad was to israel. That country honored him by having him address. Comps mccarthy thank you so much for joining us. I want to get your reaction when he first heard israel had been attacked and invaded. You are such a staunch supporter of this country. As i noted this is the very first place you at the very first trip abroad when you became the speaker, what was your reaction . It was horrific. We are used to see rockets come from gaza this is much different. This was her plan, sea, air. This had to be planned for quite some time anyone who tells you iran is not involved, they are lying to you. We have never seen anything like this in 50 years but its very concerning to me because the attack on civilians, on children. For americans as we know now have been killed. Others have been kidnapped. Youve got to put this in perspective for those who have not been to israel. It is not a big country for the population is about 9 million is more than 700 israelis have been murdered. That would be the equivalent of about 25000 americans getting murdered. This is my concern. We have to destroy it hamas its a terrorist organization is not something you have to go in and try to beat it back. It has to be destroyed. The buildup to allow this to happen the appeasement from this administration. The shocking nest on those of on the other side of the aisle and may she try to have an anti anc events. I shut down the room she wanted to hold it in part she called israel from eight terrorist states. The other thing she recently did she put out a Press Release today literally saying a part of this is caused because americans provide resources to israel. And you know what . The leader Hakeem Jeffries his comment was no comment. Biden, the president of the United States is not even condemned this neither of them have. This is an Atrocity Happening in america itself. They launched a shared relationship. The only country and what we find in the middle east that has democracy thats been our greatest supporter sitting and being silent about this. Trey congressman erase a fastening point the socalled squad in congress is having a really tough time deciding between the terrorist and the innocent victims who are drug across their country. It is astonishing. Put out a statement she is really sorry about the palestinian loss. What can or should congress be doing . Obviously the relationship very, very close. Youre going to be back next week. Give us a sense of what is or should be happening to support israel. Eight people joined with these democrats. I am no longer speaker so congress can do nothing right now. Except to try to elect. Im an inch of the world would stand with israel. The second thing we would do is have the ammunition and that resources and the technology they are literally fighting back the villages to make sure to get these individuals out. I did israel miss this question at this could happen in america. Our border is wide open people are coming from 160 other countries. Weve got more people in the month of february and the Terrorist Watchlist then we did in the entire last administration. Earlier we caught two people on the Terrorist Watchlist from yemen coming on different days into california. Why are they coming here . Who are they talking too and what do they have planned . There could be cells sitting in america right now based upon what is happening. We watched 9 Million People they from china have been coming across more than 9000. We do not know whats happening in her own country based upon this administration. The first thing they did was start appeasing iran. They paid the money they started paying for hostages. Americans are being taken more often. Iran approach they trained for months with hamas knowing what theyre going to carry out. Now they celebrated whats happening. This is what is wrong with the world. And especially not being strong with the Biden Administration. First we are watching what happened in afghanistan. Some of the weapons left behind we are now finding in the hands of hamas. Congressman hope your rely on your expertise and your connections. There is no one on the republican side that has better connections with the nation of israel then you pretty hope they rely on those connections in the weeks to come i thank you for joining us On A Sunday Night. Thank you. Basics up next if im wrong is why is the United States returning the money and relaxing sanctions question what we are joined by the former National Security adviser to the middle east victoria coates next. From chrome to duckduckgo. Duckduckgo is a browser you download to your mobile and desktop devices. Unlike chrome, the Duckduckgo Browser has privacy builtin. It comes with a private alternative to google search, which doesn■t spy on your searches, and it blocks cookies and creepy ads. And theres no catch. Its free. We make money from ads, but they dont follow you around. Join the millions of people taking back their privacy by Downloading Duckduckgo On Mobile and desktop today. Trey welcome back to Sunday Night In America. As war wages and to israel many are left to wonder what happened . Pieces seemed within reach especially the aftermath of the abraham cord. Now israel has been invaded saudi arabia gave a response that was sympathetic for hamas its war cannot piece in the middle east. Perhaps that is what some wanted all along. Joining is now victoria the former deputy of National Natioy advisor for the middle east. Victoria, thank you so much for joining us. Look, you are an expert in the field i am not. Most of us are sitting here thinking hamas did not like israel last week, last month, the last decade. So why now . What caused hamas to do this act of barbarism now if it was not the fear of peace wit was saudi arabia what was it . Know it was precisely that too. Good to be with you. They key peace deal in the middle east the ones the Abraham Accord Set Up is the deal between saudi arabia and israel. And when you had the crown prince of saudi arabia coming on fox news saying we were close to a deal you had the Prime Minister of israel, neither of them uncontroversial but both a grant we were close to a peace deal. I think you had a panic in tehran. The decision to pull the trigger in this attack they had been planning for some months. Trey when it comes to diplomacy i am naive. Maybe some of our viewers are not wellversed in either. But saudi arabia certainly seem to give it Un Unsympathetic Towd the israeli victims set the because they thought they had to . What do you make of that . That statement leans more toward hamas that it did israel. All the statements at a few ae out of qatar, out of saudi arabia were disproportionately leaning toward the palestinians. That is in some way history. Its also the pressures they are dealing with internally. At the same time you cannot discount the progress that has been made the facts we got to the abraham accordance we got to the point to th the saudis are talking openly about ap still with israel. This is when the iranian in theandtheir Terrorist Proxies we israel felt they had to play their mastercard to try to disrupt this. And so i am disappointed in all three of the statements. Nothing about them makes me happy. But at the same time the bad guys here are the iranians, hamas and hezbollah. We should keep her eyes on that pig quickly raised at tha fsa an is the existential threats to our closest ally and to us by the way. In the region. So people back home are wondering why is the u. S. Seeming to work with and talk with ironic . If they are funding hezbollah and hamas why is he nancy is talking to i wrong . It makes no sense and i do not want to date you but i am old enough to remember 1979. The fact the Iranian Regime when it came into power when it toppled our ally under jimmy carter as the u. S. President at the time took 50 plus american hostages in the American Embassy in tehran for 444 days. Basically tormented our country. Theyve been doing the same thing ever since this notion the Obama Administration presented and the Biden Administration followed up on we can somehow deal with these people is insane. Anyone who has a watch the events of the last 48 hours the carnage and israel the american citizens are killed. The american citizens now being held hostage and the fact that the Biden Administration is not come out and said we will have no further dealings with the Iranian Regime. This is outrageous part you cannot deal with these people. The notion they are somehow going to make good faith diplomatic deal in vienna with the biden people i meet one of whom their lead negotiator has now been discharged for security violation. This is just ridiculous its putting the American People at risk. It is a head scratcher. Why the u. S. Continues to talk to iran is a head scratcher. Thank you for joining us On A Sunday Night and loaning us your expertise. I have a feeling we are going to be talking to you a lot over the next weeks and months. This is going to be a retracted were so thank you. Correct thank you tres. Trey, cap next we have asked the person wants responsible for u. S. Intelligence how this could have happened we were joined by former director of National Intelligence jon Lee Ratcliffe ah, these bills are crazy. She has no idea shes sitting on a goldmine. Well she doesnt know that if she owns a Life Insurance policy of 100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. Even a term policy. Even a term policy . Even a term policy find out if youre sitting on a goldmine. Call Coventry Direct today at the number on your screen, or visit coventrydirect. Com. Trey welcome back to Sunday Night In America the uss has a special different relationship with israel. The beacon of democracy in a ciba port depression. A nation of restraint putting up with an antagonism from neighbors the other countries would not tolerate. The u. S. Is surrounded in large measure biases. Israel is surrounded by countries who promised to push israel into the sea. Israel is asked to trade land for peace but all it seems to do is bring their enemies closer to them. What can and should the u. S. Do to help. Trey former director john Lee Ratcliffe. Two things ive got to get you. How does a country known for its intelligence and facade get caught off guard. After that i need you to help me understand why the United States is talking to iran given the fact none of this wouldve happened without iran. It is a broader question then why did israel and masada miss this but why did u. S. Intelligence mrs. , both have acknowledged an element of surprise to this attack in both are looking at whether this is an issue, if there is a blind spot encrypted communication, did hamas change the Operational Security measures so they were able to communicate in the way that our intelligence both the u. S. And Israeli Intelligence did not pick up that we did previously or is a situation where the intelligence was there in plain sight theres been opensource reporting about meetings with cuts force general with hamas, hezbollah and the palestinian jihad back in april and the iranian president meeting with the same groups in syria in april. To your point i spoke with one of my former counterparts in the mossad yesterday and as a u. S. Relationship with israel has changed from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration in the Biden Administration spent time chording with iran and negotiate with iran and pleading with iran and enriching iran. The intelligence relationship between the u. S. And israel has changed in an element where they may be that were not sharing information as much as we were in the past because of an element of mistrust that the u. S. Is siding with iran more than israel is comfortable with. Trey what is the fascination with iran they fund has blonde and hamas, why does Biden Administration talk to them. Is a great question and is all of this is happening, what is the u. S. Response going to be and will they try to punish iran for what is taken place and possibly the involvement of american citizens and hostages and the problem with the Biden Administration there you have to do a 180 if they want to do that from day one of the administration they have stood closer to iran on many issues that then have israel. So much as been made about the fact that the u. S. Recently gave 6 billion to iran but over the course of the first two years of the Biden Administration the policies of this administration have reached iran by 60 million by lifting the restrictions and Trump Administration had opposed by not enforcing sanctions by allowing iranian oil to increase by 650 . Irans access to Foreign Exchange reserve went from 4 billion in the Trump Administration to 72 billion in the body to administration and it is that type of wealth that iran is using to fund their proxies like hamas, like hezbollah, here and in syria and yemen and other places. I dont have a great answer for because it doesnt make sense. Anytime there is daylight between the United States and israel and our relationship it creates an opportunity for mayhem in the middle east and there is daylight between the relationship immersing the result of it unfortunately. Trey i think it is baffling for most of our viewers and director ratcliffe, iran as you know they fund hezbollah, hamas and for all the niceties if only i could be nicer to my captor if only i could be nicer to my enemy and the result you have soldiers and women being taken across the border tortured, raped and held by hamas. Ill tell you this director, we have to go but heres the bad news were good to be in a protracted war so im going to have you on a lot. I think israel is going to start a land war. Of her lucky itll be limited to a land war in gaza but the going to seek to annihilate hamas. If they decide thi were larger middle east conflict. Trey thank you