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Streets of cities all over the globe as well. Former leader of hamas, the terrorist, put out his own call, an allcall for people to support those killed in a day of jihad. He said he wants all of those Hamas Terrorists to know that they are supported. He has asked they protest all over the world and then anything they can do on their own. Not really sure yet what that could be but the world is tightening its security. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Israel has offered palestinians a way out before they move in and invade gaza and hunt down the monsters who attacked them. Reports, though, that hamas is telling those more than 1. 1 million civilians, their own people, the palestinians, not to evacuate Northern Gaza and get to safety. Dont do that, which puts them critically in the middle to die. Secretary of state Antony Blinken overwhelmed after seeing the images of the brutality by hamas that sparked the war. Images so horrific, too horrific for us to show. Its beyond what anyone would ever want to imagine, much less actually see. An infant riddled with bullets. Soldiers beheaded. Young people burned alive in their cars or in their hideaway rooms. It almost defies comprehension. Harris Hamas Terrorists are still hiding in the areas of southern israel after the Music Festival massacre. Our own trey yengst was at the site during the dramatic and dangerous incident breaking out while he was there. Watch this. You can see the soldiers. Get down, lay down flat. Lay down totally flat. You can see things are very tense here. There were two gunshots and now they have someone on the ground. Go back right now. Very tense right now as these soldiers appear to be arresting a palestinian man. They have him in handcuffs right now. You can see they have blindfolded him and they are taking him away. You can see here they are leading him away and blindfolded this man and it appears they have captured yet another militant who entered from the gaza strip. It gives you a sense of how unpredictable all of this is. They dont know where people are hiding. Harris i want to take a moment there to slow down a bit. That was yesterday with trey yengst doing important journalism and he talked about the popup nature, the unexpected nature. They are now going into areas that they believe to be pretty much cleared of terrorists because it has been several days since they were in that area killing people from the sky, dropping by parachutes. Like the kibbutz he was in a couple of days ago. They think those areas are cleared. They are finding all the bodies of the family members, so on and so forth. But as you can see not all of them leave. That could be part of the plan. You continue to draw in the Israeli Forces and weve had generals on this very show say this. Is there a plan b with these terrorists . Why would they tell their own people to ignore the Israel Defense forces telling their people get out of the way. Were moving in. Givings them a healthy headsup and showing them the corridor to evacuate the area that they want to concentrate on. Why would hamas tell its own people to ignore that . Why would a few stay behind, to kill more . And so you see our reporter there, trey yengst, in the middle of all of that. And it continues to happen from place to place. Remember, more than 30 places where these thirsty monsters permeated the wall, permeated into the areas across gaza, across that border to kill israelis. So they have a lot of areas to clear. We call it softening the ground from above with those flights, or rather with those rockets from Israeli Forces. But then they have to soften the ground on the ground, too. Look at what they are running into. Great reporting by trey. God bless you and please wear a helmet. Team coverage of all of it. Former National Security advisor ambassador Robert Obrien in focus. Rich edson on the plan of action for americans who now are trying to get out of israel. First i do want to go straight to trey yengst with the latest on the ground. You heard my admonition, wear a helmet at all times roaming with them. That video was unreal. God bless you, my friend. Thank you, good morning. We have some new reporting for you this morning. I spoke with a dip low mate being source who indicated hamas is preventing civilians from leaving their homes when they are warned about an israeli air strike on the horizon. The israelis have a way to text people inside gaza before they strike a house telling people to get out. This source indicated to me a wellplaced source that inside gaza they are preventing civilians from leaving those homes. I checked with someone in gaza city who confirmed the information. And then went to hamas, the group in control of the strip and posed the question to them. That is absolutely wrong. It is also technically impossible. How can you prevent 1. 1 million palestinians from leaving their houses or homes from side to side if they want to do it . This is impossible. I also pressed this official on the civilian casualties in southern israel and he wouldnt comment on them and tried to explain this was not the mission of hamas fighters. So clearly some of these top officials will lie about what is taking place on the ground. But it is a Significant Development and a separate development from the news that we learned about overnight. The israelis warning all of the palestinians in the northern part of the strip they must evacuate over the next 24 hours because it appears they are laying the ground work for a Ground Operation to be conducted by the israelis. We have been looking at the scenes and images along the israel gaza border for the past week. You talked about the Music Festival. You saw while we were there soldiers caught hamas militant who was either hiding in that area or he recently infiltrated. I do want to show you what the scene looked like at the site of that massacre. You can see here in the parking lot of this Festival A Motorcycle that was used by hamas militants when they entered from the gaza strip into southern israel. The cars are filled with things you would bring to stay over, shoes and bags, hair brushes, makeup. This was supposed to be a joyous occasion and it turned into a nightmare for so many. More than 260 people were gunned down here before those militants went on to the next village slaughtering Women And Children. We are going to bring all the warriors of israel through this festival that was supposed to be love and music. They will pass through here and see the massacre. They will know what they are fighting for. We are taking now the cameras from all the cars and we will see what faces, everyone that was part of this massacre, we will reach them, he will be dead. That was the spokesman for the idf. You could see the pain in his eyes, you could hear it in his voice. Theyre bringing the fight back to hamas. That Group Continues to fire rockets into southern, central and Northern Israel today targeting the city of haifa. I want to show you the scene quickly here, harris, of a Rocket Impact in the Southern City of ashkelon sits in between the border. A direct hit into the side of the building and debris everywhere. This is not an area that doesnt have civilians in it. The sun is going down and people are starting to mark the day of shabbat, the sabbath. Because of the war declaration israel will have a special Radio Station to inform those observing the sabbath and they will not be able to get air alerts or rocket sirens. The Radio Station will give them that critical information and keep it on throughout the entire weekend until the Sun Goes Down on saturday. An important way to inform many of the people in the jewish state about what is taking place with this ongoing war. Harris. Harris you talk about that sabbath. I have been communicating with people inside israel. I wont be using names or whereabouts for those people. But 5 40 is when they mark that. They are in sabbath now, which is 10 40 a. M. Our time and almost ten after 11 now. Were firmly in sabbath. We are starting to see some of the changes. They are planning to fly on sabbath. The Israeli Airline trying to get people out. How they balance their faith along with what they know they need to do. There will be exceptions made. Were already hearing as i just gave you one. What are you hearing on the ground absolutely. The morning we went to a hospital in the city where we interviewed a Police Officer who responded to that shooting at the festival and talked to his entire unit that was there supporting him along with his wife and got his heroic story of how they rushed into the gunfire. While we were there with a police spokesman, A Guy Named Dean that i know well as a source in israel is an observant jew. I said i will talk to you after the sabbath. Thank you for your help this week. He said bro, were at war. He will be ready to give information to the press. They cant operate as they normally do here in israel. The country is bracing not just for war from gaza but also from lebanon. We do know there was an incident on the northern border. Were trying to collect more information for you and have it later today likely in the next hour. The Lebanese Militant Group hezbollah is trying to get involved in the fight. Israel is not just facing a war from gaza and rocket fire from Islamic Jihad and hamas but lebanon. They have precision guided missiles. If they get fully involved israel doesnt have the air Defense Systems to handle that kind of fire. Harris the mayor of ashkelon i had read had quite a bit to say about telling the military to hurry up. You talk about what is hitting that city and now you get farther and farther away from we know there was concentrated hits on the kibbutzs. Lebanon can hit targets from what ive seen and what we saw last hour on americas newsroom maybe as far as jerusalem and tel aviv. Yeah, absolutely. They are firing on a variety of cities. I want to see if my cameraman can pan up and get the helicopter. There are a variety of Attack Helicopters going back and forth from the gaza strip and see if you can get it on camera. Weve heard loud explosions throughout the day. We showed you what the rocket looked like. A big piece of shrapnel after being intercepted. The helicopters going back and forth and occasionally they fire off flares. They do that because the groups inside gaza have antiaircraft missiles and fired on a variety of aircraft, including the fighter jets going over gaza since the began on saturday morning. I remember about 24 hours into this conflict we got a note from the idf saying that four Attack Helicopters actually were hit by antiaircraft fire. They were able to return to base. None of the soldiers were injured but this is part of the reason they will go into the gaza strip and fire on the targets that have been located normally by drones or Israeli Intelligence and fly back into the area where you see this one fly and wait for their next orders. Its a very active zone. Explosions happen in the distance. Air strikes, targeting of different rocket launching units. The israelis say more than 6,000 bombs have been dropped on gaza. We should talk about that side of the border. We have talked with civilians inside gaza today and palestinian journalists. You can hear the explosion in the distance. They say it is a scene of chaos inside gaza city. There is a hospital in the center part of gaza and it is overflowing. The morgue is overflowing. Thousands of injured patients. Many civilians waiting for assistance. The israelis say they wont allow aid into gaza despite the death toll rising and neighborhoods completely leveled. There are ongoing conversations and reports today about the possibility of the border with egypt opening to maybe allow some aid in. Allow some at least foreign citizens out. It is a dynamic, fluid situations and updates by the hour. Harris we havent heard much about hostages. We hope for updates. We know there is a meeting scheduled for today and a couple of the parents of one young man who was Hostage Yesterday were on with me this week. And what those parents were saying about the meeting was that this was their opportunity to find out how exactly they were going to negotiate, if there were any negotiations going on. When you mentioned no aid, no electricity. Theyve told them it all stays off until they get to the hostages. They have got to release those more than 150. So it is a standoff on that issue at this point. I saw a huge israel flag when your photographer pulled out. I saw lights on. I dont know how many people are still in these areas. The ashkelon mayor earlier was saying they need help already. You have shown us today the damage of the building you are standing in front of. Those are normally pretty occupied areas by tenants and residents. Trey yengst, always great reporting. I appreciate it. Well come back to you as the news warrants. You gave us so much good information and detail. Appreciate it. You took it all over the country. Thank you. Thank you. Harris seven days into the war now. Big focus now as i mentioned on getting hostages home, away from the hands of those blood thirsty terrorists. Among them, of course, are american hostages and there are other americans who were there visiting during the High Holy Days a couple of weeks ago. Yom kippur, rosh hashanah, stayed with family members. Others may be working contractors. A host of people, were told a number like 16,000. I have not been able to confirm that fully with the State Department but people who were there who are working have been saying that on this very program. That number is about right. National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby said there is still no firm plan to put troops on the ground there. Defense secretary lloyd austin is in israel right now. Will you be willing to exercise your force and join the fighting . I ordered additional assets to the region to bolster deterrents. And again, the message that we would send to any country or group thinking to take advantage of this situation and widen the conflict, dont. I wont speculate on anything that could happen in the future. Harris i hope were looking at lebanon and hezbollah. Those terrorists as they continue to engage on the northern border with israel. He doesnt want to give details and of course he could not and should not. That would be a concern right now. As you heard the iron dome wont take rockets coming from there that hit tel aviv and jerusalem and protect in gaza and protect people from the rockets from gaza. Biden administration finally arranging Charter Flights to get americans out of israel. Those flights start evidence this morning. However, no answers on whether they will be able to get onto those flights. And if they do, will they have to reimburse the federal government . Thats right. Thats a policy thats been in place since 1944. Will they be enforcing that now . Ive had families tell me yeah, they were doing it in afghanistan. This is part two of that. They need to look at that policy. 1944, Senior Correspondent rich edson is live at the pentagon. Rich, anymore answers about that . I understand people are being told if they can get to haifa, thats a hikinging from jerusalem you can get on a boat to cyprus with the United States government. You have to sign a Promissory Note to do that. You have to sign an agreement before you take a u. S. Government evacuation and charter flight or any type of u. S. Government paid for transportation out of an area. You have to sign a note saying you will pay the government back. This is something that the state Department Says that it did waive during afghanistan during the evacuation a couple of years ago. But the idea here is if you cant get out on your own, you have to sign that note. You get on a flight, you go to a third country and have to arrange our own travel home. As americans are looking to leave israel Top Administration officials are heading to israel. You have the defense secretary lloyd austin there now, Secretary Of State Antony Blinken was there yesterday. Senior u. S. Offense official says a high priority for the United States is assisting with freeing those hostages that hamas is still holding. We will continue to coordinate closely with israel to help secure the release of the innocent men, Women And Children in the clutches of hamas, Including American S citizens. There is no intention of putting forces on the ground. The Eisenhower Carrier Strike groups is going there for scheduled grills. A senior u. S. Defense official said the u. S. Has already given israel more interceptor missiles for the Iron Dome System and more will be on the way. Harris that was great detail. So glad you talked about afghanistan. You know, there will always be reports that will be different than what we learn from the government. If youll recall, the government did not give escort, did not send in anybody to get our americans Behind Enemy Lines at that point. So youve just said they waived that you have to pay back the government for via that Promissory Note then. They must be willing to do that now. That isnt part of the reporting yet but lets hope that happens. In the meantime you will have people like what i just described. How will they get to the transport points . The country is at war. Once they go in, if they will hit them from the north and they are in war in gaza in the south, how are people going to be able to traverse those . There is no uber taking you to the boat to cyprus. A lot depends on where you are. When you sign the form the federal government has on the u. S. Embassy website. A form you fill out. This is all according to harris it might be flight, cyprus, greece, germany. Ive seen it. There are still some flights getting out of tel aviv. That system is very tenuous right now. You click on a flight and it disappears. If you go to the International Airport it has some flights leaving and has some flights arriving. The u. S. Government prefers you try to find your own way out. As a way of last resort, they will try to help get you out and they say hey, federal law citing federal law. Maybe the federal government comes out and says well waive it. Ned price two years ago said from the State Department that because of the extraordinary circumstances that were ongoing in afghanistan, that they were going to waive the reimbursement as really the only business in town at the International Airport in kabul, were government aircraft. Now you get some private commercial aircraft going in and out of the International Airport. Harris republican candidate ron desandt is sending planes from florida and on with us late this hour. Some of these politicians are getting their resources in hand. You saw with what happened Corey Mills Giving escort to people to get away from the enemy as targets from Hamas Terrorists knocking rockets over. Great information. Well check back with you. If you learn anything new, as always, rich. Thank you. Harris israels armed forces releasing dramatic footage of an Elite Force Retaking A hamas military post rescuing 250 hostages. Dozens of israeli families remain missing. With the fate of the remaining hostages that we know of, that 150 or more originally that included americans and still does, were nearing the anticipating the beginning of gaza. 1. 1 Million People are being told to evacuate the north ahead of this. Israel has promised to wipe hamas off the face of the earth. In focus now Florida Republican congressman mike waltz. He is a former Green Beret Commander and sits on the house on the house armed services, Foreign Relations and intelligence committees. Lets talk intelligence. Lets start there. In terms of moving the Human Shields that hamas would use those 1. 1 million potential evacuees for, you know, idf is telling them, the Israeli Forces saying get out of the way. Is that part of the strategy of being able to go in unfettered . What does that make hamas do to its own people. They are saying dont evacuate. Yeah. Harris, the fewer civilians in this urban maze the better for the israeli military. But these militants are going to use Human Shields. They are going to use hostages and literally chain them to military targets. In my fights with isis, al qaeda and taliban, they would literally put on burqas or Womens Clothing and blend in taking shots or hide behind civilians as they take shots. So the less civilians the better. My question is, if egypt is reluctant, it is understandable they want to control their border, but where are the gulf states . The gulf states can pay for refugee camps, the u. N. Can step in from a humanitarian standpoint, we should be pushing them to step in to help egypt out whose economy is in real trouble. And who has had a militant problem in the sinai itself. So we understand their reluctance but these other entities could step in and thats what we should be pushing for. Again, the more civilians on the battlefield the better for hamas. They dont care about their lives. And the less civilians the better for the israeli military. Harris you bring up such an interesting point about how those gulf states and even, i mean, other nations in the world can be people who can help those refugees that they now become because they will be running from war even though the terrorists tell them to sit down and be shields. Maybe not in those words. Maybe they are proselytizing at the same time. What hamas and iran knows, the more civilians that die at the hand of this fight, which is clearly iranian back militants that have initiated but the more civilians die you will see the u. N. , antiseamites in the u. N. Start to chirp in and european leaders get weakkneed and eventually sadly quickly, i fear, this administration will start saying enough is enough. Israel, back off. Lets settle down and i mean thats the game plan of how hamas and iran want this to play out. Harris congressman, before i let you go, how fast can they move then . Thats a lot of pressure on israel and they were wore eft about boobytraps. We dont know if there is a plan b with Tens Of Thousands of Hamas Terrorists. How fast can they move . Well, you know, what i hope is also happening behind the scenes, harris, is egypt has always been the intermediary between israel and these groups. I hope you see some type of i hate to say this, but some type of palestinian for at least the Women And Children in the hostages some type of swap. The more civilians, more hostages we can clear out of there, the better, even i hate i hate giving in to any kind of demands. The more civilians we can get out the better for israel and the better for the destruction of the hamas fighters and military wing in the long run. At the end of the day we cant lose sight of who is calling the shots. 100 iran. They put the guns, and training in hamass hands. For the administration to say we didnt see them pull the trigger is a bunch of garbage and they know it. Harris thank you. Thanks. Harris i want to get to a guest now, ambassador Robert Obrien, former National Security advisor and special president ial envoy for hostage affairs. You have been credited with bringing a lot of people home. Thank you and welcome to the focus. Good to be with you. Harris what are your thoughts . I dont know if you could hear congressman waltz. That is the first time i heard anybody dealing with hamas to get their own people out of harms way and then the hostages. The first thing i want to say. We have a lot of friends in israel. Shalom to our friends in israel. Were standing with them and need to stand with them for the long term. Let me address the Hostage Questions in a moment. Mike talked about it being a long slog. We need to make sure every civilian death that takes place in the gaza strip is a result of the Serial Killers that rampageed, the monsters who went to the cities. Thats on them. They are holding their own palestinians hostages and making them shields. Every innocent civilian who dies in this invasion their blood is on hamass hand not idf. Thats the first thing. Harris can i interrupt for something . The way you put that the civilians have become hostages. Absolutely. Harris how can terrorists do this to their own people . Where are the gulf states . I saw for 45 minutes the crown prince and president of iran were talking on the phone for the first time those two leaders had talked and coming to the agreement that they were going to support palestinians. Where are they . Where have they always been with the palestinians and giving them a place to go . Only lebanon has allowed the palestinians to come in as refugees and some in jordan. This is whats happening, its a direct result of our appeasement of iran. Congressman waltz was right iran armed, trained. Hamas wouldnt shoot a b. B. Gun at israel without the okay of air ran. The appeasement of after what happened in afghanistan and ukraine they may have thought they would get away with it. They didnt count on the people of israel. They are saying never again. They wont have their people butchered. Israelis who were killed werent civilian collateral damages. They were targeted and killed by monsters. Israel is saying never again and take out hamas. They cant do. They cant live next door to them. You cant have ted bundy living at your next door neighbor. We have to stand with israel like we stood with ukraine for a year and a half in response to that brutal invasion by putin. We have to stand two years, five years, whatever it takes the israelis to dismantle hamas. Harris i brought up that call between iran and saudi arabia and i would no more expect iran to create a corridor and refugee camp for 1. 1 Million People as i would for unicorns to past my front lawn. I might expect saudi arabia doing that. What do you think of them coming together at this point . I dont think the saudis or sunnis, the custodians of the two holy places in saudi arabia to All Of A Sudden become friends with iran. But i think what they are doing is hedging their bets. We paid 6 billion in ransom to iran. Thats just the tip of the iceberg, harris. Weve turned a blind eye to sanctions enforcement. When the Trump Administration left office iran had 4 billion in foreign currency reserves. They now have 70 billion. We shut down our Keystone Pipeline and encouraged tehran to pump more oil. Harris the United States has reached they call this a quiet understanding with qatar and to prevent iran by tapping onto that 6 billion in sanctions that you just referred to. And that was part last month part of last months Prisoner Swap which that deal was a 5 or 5 and sweetener cash is what ive been calling the 6 billion. Lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle are calling for the funds to be formally refrozen. There is concern if iran could find a way to use that money to bolster hamas efforts after questions about the countrys possible involvement in saturdays hamas attack. The white house facing another round of questions on this. Lets watch together. Why is it that you wont come out and say that the u. S. Does not intend to let this money go to iran . Jacque, weve always had since the beginning weve always had the ability to provide oversight over the disbursement of these funds. Weve always had the option. If we wanted it, to look at transactions and to make a call about whether we found it valid or not. That has not changed. And even now as you and i are speaking, none of that money has been accessed by anybody. It is still all there. Harris he said that like ten times. What is the point . The point is we paid ransom to iran and you can call it whatever you want. Unfreezing of sanction money, a gift, call it whatever but were trying to buy irans love. Their respect, their friendship. Were not going to do it. The mullahs arent into us and we have to realize that. It started with obama. It continued with biden. And what were doing is putting our allies in the region at risk. One of the reasons the saudis got on the call and qatarys are worried about freezing the money theyre across the gulf from iran and they dont believe the Add Min Is Freshen will come to their defense. Weve had this idea if we have iran our on side they would be a good neighbor. The largest State Sponsor of terrorism and we have seen the face of it. This Ransom Payment was made what i said is it will create a market for future hostage taking. Now its a billion 2 per passport. We travel over seas a lot. Now A Billion Dollar price tag on your head. How many ukrainians will die from iranian drones built from the money they get from the Ransom Payments . Iranians have said it is not for humanitarian purposes. Well use it however we want. What i didnt expect when i said this three weeks ago about why this was a bad deal is i didnt expect those two points future hostages and terrorism attacks would take place so quickly and vividly as weve seen with hamas. Its a shame. Harris as were sharing the screen now we are taking a look at gaza city live. The sun is setting across israel right now and you can see a fire burning in the center of the city. We know they are being hit from the air by Israeli Forces. We know that there are Israeli Forces on the ground, 360,000 of them waiting to move in. But ambassador, as youve just been saying and i want to thank you for being with me as ambassador obrien has been saying weve created now we havent, Hamas Terrorists have a situation where you dont just have 150 or more hostages that were taken in that blood thirsty attack on saturday morning. Now youve got 1. 1 million of them. Hamas is willing to make those people their own people hostages to bargain with, perhaps. Or just to get them killed. Just as a buffer to slow down the idf. What you are looking now at what their city, the price they are paying already from the sky. Imagine when those idf forces move in. They are trying to get civilians out of the way. For our very own latest now from the ground i want to bring in Senior Correspondent mike tobin in ashkelon, israel. As you may have been able to hear i was telling people what they are seeing in gaza city. Whats the latest where you are . What im hearing about gaza city talk about getting people out of the way. The exodus from gaza city is indeed taking place. There is 1 primary road that runs south out of gaza city toward the next Population Center further south, the town of rafah. One road that runs along the beach. You have to get 1. 1 Million People over that road. I cant tell you that all of the people are leaving gaza city but what im hearing from sources in gaza city is that a lot of people are making the exodus trying to brave this traffic jam and get out of harms way as the israeli Defense Forces made it clear they will be coming in soon anyway. The rockets continue to come out of gaza. We have new video of a Rocket Making Impact in the town much ashkelon, israel. I spoke with the mayor there and he is exasperated and im patient with Israeli Defense force saying the army needs to get to gaza and do what is necessary to stop the rocket fire. Too bad the army is not hitting them in a meaningful way. I do not see a normal country letting this happen. Civilians are being hurt. We saw the atrocities that started a week ago. They are continuing. The Israeli Air Force hit some 750 targets overnight and continue to hit targets throughout the day. One of the remarkable things that came down over gaza was a load of leaflets were dropped over gaza. Thats how the israeli Defense Forces are communicating with the people of gaza that they need to evacuate. They need to flee and head south for their own safety. There were some reports that hamas leadership was preventing them from leaving. That doesnt appear to be the case. People are indeed leaving. They got messages hamas leadership didnt want them to go but it looks like they are going anyway. A lot of confusion and panic. People are heading south but dont know where they will go and stay in this time of crisis. Harris as you mention the leaflets, thats something we have seen americans and western allies do in other conflicts, drop those try to get civilians out of the way. It is a blessing those people arent listening to the killers that would use them as Human Shelties. There are 1. 1 million and only 24 hours. Watching to see if they get enough help to move out of the zone where they need to go. My question for you now, though, what has changed in the last couple of days in terms of what you can see as the rampup to a Ground Invasion . All you really see in terms of change is more and more. There are more soldiers piling up. More armor at the ready. I think the soldiers are ready to go. We cant stay at the locations where they are massing the armor very long. Someone will run us off. They are there. A Massive Force here along the gaza strip. In terms of the air strikes and artillery they continue to soften the battlefield in preparation for what now appears to be an imminent Ground Invasion. They gave them 24 hours to evacuate. There is a timeline right now where were not going to see the Ground Invasion begin. As the Sun Goes Down, usually when the Sun Goes Down the rocket fire comes out of the gaza strip. Now are the rocket teams heeding the order to evacuate and blending with the civilian population . Well probably know it in a short time. Harris when you say blending in with the population i dont think you could hear ambassador obrien responsible for bringing many people out of Hostage Situations under the Trump Administration around the world. He was saying that what theyll do is he has seen al qaeda put on Womens Clothing and do whatever they could to blend in. Hamas has tunnels. They dont have to do that. They can just go down below and leave the people to die up above them. Well, what im hearing is the high value targets are going down in the tunnels and all in hiding. That means the higher ranking hamas members, the leadership is all in hiding. The lower level guys have just slipped into civilian clothes and blending with the population. You talk about using them as Human Shields. That indeed appears to be the case. So they very well could have slipped into the civilian and be part of this population moving south. So the people who think they are fleeing hamas in terms of being used as Human Shields are still being used as humans shields. Harris excellent reporting. I appreciate you being where you are. I do want because my team has told me i have a little extra time with you. I want to i hear so much noise in the background with you i just want to be cautious. If you need to step away just say it. But what i am curious about now, though, is we have now americans in israel and as we talk about getting them out, people may not understand that the targets now are going to be places like tel aviv and jerusalem from the north. I have had viewers even on social media asking why are we so worried getting americans out . They arent in harms way. Can you speak at all to that . Really the whole country is now in range particularly with iran supplying the weapons to hamas. In the old days when i was here only towns where i am now were in range of palestinian rockets. They were just pipe bombs now that they have the support of iran and Smuggling Tunnels to the south they can reach to tel aviv from here at the gaza strip. As you saw in the hezbollah war of 2000 of they can reach all the way to tel aviv from the north. The whole country is now in range. That is primarily due to the sponsorship of iran, harris. Harris thank you very much. The Secretary Of State is in qatar now. Qatar has been a close partner to the United States on a broad range of issues that are crucial to both of our countries and to this region. Working together on evacuating americans, afghans and others from afghanistan and theyre responding to the humanitarian emergency like the devastating earthquakes in turkey and in syria. Were meeting today at what is a difficult but ain the wake of te appalling attack that killed 1200 israelis and people from more than 30 countries. The United States and qatar share the goal of preventing this conflict from spreading. We discussed in detail our efforts to prevent any actor, state or nonstate, from creating a new front in this conflict. We are also working together to secure the release of hostages including american citizens being held by hamas in gaza. I have had an opportunity to meet with some of those being held hostage from hamas. Their anguish is profound. They are desperate to bring their loved ones home and we are working urgently on that effort. We are doing that with qatar and our allies and partners across the region. As israel continues to respond to hamass attack the United States will insure it has what it needs to defend its people. Secretary of defense is working closely with the israeli to provide them what they need and well be able to do that on an ongoing basis. Estimate, were in constant communication with israeli officials and with Multilateral International organizations including the United Nations agencies and icrc to get aid to civilians in gaza. As i said in tel aviv israel has the right and the obligation to defend its people and to insure hamas can never repeat what its done. We continue to discuss with israel the importance of taking every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians. We recognize that many palestinian families in gaza are suffering through no fault of their own and the Palestinian Civilians have lost their lives. We mourn the loss of every innocent life. Israeli, palestinians, jew, christian, muslim, as well as civilians of every faith and nationality who have been killed. Lets not lose sight of why this is happening. Israel is conducting operations in gaza because hamas carried out Terrorist Attacks that killed in the most horrific way 1300 of its people. Hamas terrorists slaughtered, raped, mutilated, tortured, burned innocent civilians. From babies to the elderly, men, women, boys and girls. Now efforts to get humanitarian aid into gaza are complicated by the fact hamas continues to use innocent civilians as Human Shelties and is reportedly blocking roads to prevent palestinians from moving to Southern Gaza out of harms way. We know the situation is urgent and engaged with partners including qatar to get aid to those who need it. Your excellency thank you for todays good discussions and all the work our countries have done together. Thank you. [speaking native] harris were told there is not immediate translation of this right away. We have just heard from the United States Secretary Of State Antony Blinken. Well monitor it. Now i want to bring in republican president ial candidate and governor of florida, ron desantis joining me now. Governor, thank you for being with me. You know, i first of all just want to get your reaction to what you just heard from the Secretary Of State. Well look, harris, i think that the Secretary Of State is right to recognize israels right to defend itself. He appropriately characterized what hamas did as brutal Terrorist Attacks. The rubber will meet the road as we get further along the line. You are already seeing pressure on israel, people are starting to attack israel, and that is likely going to continue. That has been a cycle weve dealt with through the terror attacks israel has had to face. Its important they are in this for the long haul and israel has to deal with this problem. You have to go into gaza and uproot all the infrastructure and eliminate hamas as a functioning force. If you dont do that you will face these attacks in the future. Harris as a former member of Navy Seal Team one you were jag for them, attorney. From your experience what kind of urban sort of war content will they face with many of these people being able to go underground in tunnels they built . Look, thats i think when we were in iraq and you saw similar things in afghanistan. The enemy was blending with the population. You could walk down the street in fallujah and that in part of the world they could carry an ak47. How do you know who is a civilian versus who wants to blow you up . Its a very difficult thing. I would say that israel is providing warnings. I dont think that hamas should be able to use people as Human Shields. But in some respects i think this is going to be much more Extensive Urban warfare than what was done during the iraq and afghanistan campaigns because i think that at that point it was basically all u. S. Forces wanted to do is just stop the terrorism, they wanted to have a post saddam government. So there was no real desire to just totally decimate all the infrastructure in the country. This one, though, they want to up root all this infrastructure that has been embedded in gaza for many years and just what the folks have been doing in hamas. They put terrorism and their hatred for israel over the wellbeing of their own people for many years now. Harris i know you were helping out with flights from florida to bring americans home. We need to go back to the ambassador but i wanted the talk with you about that. Well bring you back but need to get back to the ambassador now. So grateful for your time and expe expertise. They should not be the target of military operations. They arent the target of Israeli Operations but deliberately the far get of hamas. I mentioned as well were actively engaged with u. N. Relief agencies, icrc, others to address the acute humanitarian needs for the people in gaza to protect them from harm and make sure that they have the ability to get what they need. We need to insure, for example, there are safe areas in gaza. Civilians working through the details on that. And more to be said in the days ahead. Thats a priority for us. Were discussing this with the government and others in the region. [speaking native language] harris all right. The opportunity now to talk with the governor of florida as we go back and forth again sometimes they will do these in such a way it is more readily easy to understand what is going on as they pingpong back and forth. As we get back to Secretary Blinken well return to him. Governor desantis, thank you for staying with me. I so want to hear about basically what you learned that got you to the point where you said my state is sending flights now to israel. Well, harris, people werent able to get out. You heard that and then the administration finally yesterday said we can maybe fly you to europe and dump you there. People want to come back to the United States. Our state of florida, weve got really strong ties with israel. The second largest israeli american population. We have a strong jewish population. We also have a lot of folks who visit israel as part of their Church Congregations and people on trips there. There are definitely hundreds of floridians stranded there. I dont want to see them dumped in europe. I want to bring them back to the state of florida. So we have planes ready. Were working with the Israeli Government now to be able to land those in israel. Then take people back to the safety and security of the state of florida. Look, we deal with crises in florida all the time. We deal with hurricanes, other things. This is just something that we do. Were ready and i think were going to be in a situation where well be working with the israeli leadership to get it done. Harris drill down on the details for people who can watch and listen around the world. Were in the holy Sabbath Friday after dark there. The use of technology might only be among the military members, trey yengst and i were talking about that earlier. There is a lid on all of that until sundown on saturday each week for sabbath. For those who will hear and learn about it tomorrow, what types of planes . Are these Army National guard air national guard, commercial airlines . How will it work . Even the government hasnt been able to do what you are doing. Its a variety and we have different vendors and we contract with different people. Also the case that israel may limit the size of the plane that can go into the airport. You may have to do a short flight out of the country and get people on bigger planes. We are working through the details. We wanted to get a flight lifted off prior to the sabbath. We didnt do it. But there are people there from florida who are not jewish at all who dont observe the sabbath. If were able to do something over the next 24 hours, while they are in sabbath we can take people willing to travel. Sundown saturday night we will see a lot more. If the planes are ready people can be brought back relatively quickly. We have all hands on deck. Once in a generation type thing. For the state of florida to step up. It is the least we can do. Harris for those people who are there now, are you able to communicate with people . Are they able to communicate with you . How will you know who you are picking up . Right now were in a lull with israel. They havent had a Ground Invasion yet. I would imagine that the need to get out of the country will change. Look, so we through our department of Emergency Management they are in contact with as many people as we can. There are groups over there and people here in communication and were getting that information. Then other folks throughout the state of florida. There are so many connections. Family members, friends, people are plugged into who is offer there. Unfortunately we have a lot of floridians no People Killed and missing. Some escaped the hamas basharism. We hope to have liftoff soon. Harris Ron Desantis Making A difference in israel. Appreciate your time telling us about that and being with me for the breaking news. Thank you. Thank you. Harris lets go back to Secretary Blinken in qatar now. I really thank qatar for the work theyre doing to try to help secure the release of hostages. This is something that we deeply appreciate. I know other countries do as well and something were actively pursuing. I have also been making it clear in all of my conversations throughout this trip that there can be no more Business As Usual with hamas. Murdering babies, burning families to death, taking little children as hostages, these are unconscionable acts of brutality. Every country in our judgment needs to condemn these actions. Needs to hold them accountable and well continue to make that clear. When it comes to providing for civilians in gaza, both insuring that they can be out of harms way and that they can have access to the support that they need, the humanitarian assistance, the food, medicine, water, our focus now is on helping to create safe zones and we are doing that with the leading International Organizations and doing that with engaged with israel and working with other countries to that end. Thats where our focus is. We think this is the best way to make sure that civilians who are caught in a Crossfire Hamas is making can be safe and receive the assistance they need. Thank you. Mr. Secretary, i know the situation in israel is highly charged and fluid. Are you wore eft about the medium and longterm consequences of what is unfolding in gaza . Are you worried that israeli may be retaliating because of the whore en dose nature of the attacks and not have a medium or Long Term Plan and secondly how worried are you about a second front. Hezbollah have made threats in an attack on civilians continues. What would the u. S. Response be if hezbollah ramps up its attacks in response to a Ground Invasion . The u. S. And israel are struggling with the tragic and fluid Hostage Situation that the secretary was talking about and have looked for qatar to help navigate it. Can you tell us about your engagements with hamas and are you optimistic about getting these people back alive given reports that some of them may have already died in israeli strikes on gaza . Secondly there is ridesing criticism and protests across the arab world as israels retaliation continues. Are you also worried about the potential for long term consequences . Thank you very much. First part of the question, no country no country can tolerate having Terrorist Group come in, slaughter its people in the most unconscionable way and live like that. What israel is doing is not retaliation. What they are doing is defending the lives of its people and as i said trying to make sure that this cannot happen again. And i think any country faced with what israel has suffered would likely do the same thing. Imagine if this had happened in the United States. Thats what is happening. Of course its important to think about, as one might put it, the day after and where this goes. I believe that is very much part of israels thinking as well as our own and the thinking of many other countries in the region. Because one thing is for sure, we cant go back to the status quo that allowed this to happen in the first place. So that has to be part of the thinking. And it is. But the immediate focus again is on making sure that israelis are protected, defended, and

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