least a half a dozen targets now largely in eastern syria have been picked by u.s. forces right now where the focus seems to be on getting those that were behind the attacks on those u.s. soldiers, killing three of them and injuring better than 40 last sunday. that was then. the attack is on now. we re told it s a widespread attack zone. but there s some wondering about the sites that were included in this. that these proxy sites, again those sponsored by iran, are the oned targeted. so far no such moves in i ran itself as though some expected. let s get the latest from jennifer griffin, what she s hearing at the pentagon. jennifer? i apologize. we have dan hoffman with us first from moscow. what you know of this right now, what can you tell us and what do you think? yeah, you know, syrian media reports that six targets were struck as many as six or seven may have been killed. take that with a grain of salt. this is the initial forray by the united states. they re hitting t
Palestinian, arab, jew, muslim, christian, everyone. You cant give up what makes you who you are. If you give that up, then the terrorists win, and we can never let them win. President biden back at the white house this morning after a jampacked trip to israel where he promised continued support for americas ally and cautioned against ragefilled vengeance. Meanwhile, his administration is working to address the growing humanitarian crisis in gaza ahead of the an expected Ground Invasion by Israeli Forces that could begin any day now. Well go through all of that straight ahead. Plus, another vote on the house floor leads to yet another loss for jim jordan. Well look at where his support stands heading into a third ballot for speaker, which is set for later today. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, october 19th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us, and well begin this morning with president joe bidens historic trip to israel to reaffirm ameri
now we ve kind of changed the wording a little bit. it s not slam-dunk anymore. it s high confidence. the word escalation has to come into the dialogue in all of this. are we sure that there won t be an escalation? are we willing to take this risk? now, i might sound like a neo-con right now, but if you want absolutes here, you want to really make sure that assad doesn t use chemical weapons anymore, you ve got to take him out. but we re not in that business anymore, which is good. this is a civil war. they have not hit the united states. and all this talk about our image in the world, i don t care what the president says. i don t care i care about what the president acts on. and if he hits syria, this is going to explode. there could be a chain reaction, we don t know where it s going. this is not the right move now. and what s kind of scary about all of this, there s a lot of
people don t want us to be the policemen for the world any longer. we ve got 35,000 people already come to our website with more every minute. people are angry about the thought that we d be involved in war again. i agree. i hear the anger on the radio. people cannot believe we re having this discussion with this president. congressman mcdermott, who pays for this? and how do we know it s not open ended? well, you know, ed, i made a suggestion to my staff we ought to get an amendment ready to put a tax on to pay for it. it s going to cost about a billion dollars. why don t we just raise taxes and pay for it right now? we didn t pay for iraq. we didn t pay for afghanistan. we ought to start paying for things now. the sequester is hurting our economy and the budget s coming up. we ve got all kinds of problems and here we are spending more money on a war. makes no sense. and gentlemen, what do you say to those who and the president and secretary kerry
assad s ability to deliver these chemical weapons. but after that, what happens? and i m trying to figure out what is the plan down the road? well, the response to the response to the response is something no one can predict. right. but congressman, how can we assume that the syrian people are going to say that this is not an act of war, that they only hit us with a few citizen missiles, only hit with us 200? we may not view it as an act of war in the is not foreign relations committee and the debate in the house, but who is to say that the syrian people and the arab world isn t going to view this as some, you know, cowboy diplomacy that we ve taken a shot at them and it could inflame the entire arab world against the united states? i got to tell you, ed, this is the argument, the argument that you re making right now is one that i m hearing from my constituents and i know bernie sanders says most of the calls coming into his office were against this effort.