War between israel and hamas. Israeli forces getting ready for what will be a perilous Ground Invasion. The death toll is mounting too moving throughout the morning. And good morning from new york. Im bill herman, back with my partner here today,. Dana im dana perino and this is americas news room and its good to be with you on your knowledge of the region. 25 americans con if i wered dead in the attack by hamas and Israeli Death toll topping 1200 and palestinian at 1200 and the number wills ration of independence. Bill Antony Blinken was in tel aviv and introduced himself as jew and i shall talked about his jewish and talked about his grandparents in Concentration Camps in europe. Today, he condemned hamas in no uncertain terms. Babies slaughtered, bodies desecrated. Young people burned alive women raped, parents executed in frohn of their children and children in front of their parents. How are we to even understand that . The message i bring to israel is this you may be strong out o
renegotiate it. joining us now to discuss is medal of honor recipient for his actions in the battle of fallujah, staff sergeant and recon marine and veteran who fought in the battle of fallujah and ramadi. thank you for joining us, gentlemen. i fought in iraq in a probably much different way than you all did. it felt very routine to me. david, i want to go to you first. your actions are of legend. but here we are the last thing i talked about was 2011 and the inability to create a status of forces agreement to leave troops there. that was in 2011. by 2013, we had isis. so we can talk about how this war started, but david, when we talk about how it ended, is that why we would say we lost the war in iraq? you know, the biggest problem we have with iraq and veterans of iraq is that we felt that there was always a good war and a bad war. and i think of the lessons that we have learned, we should never
medal of honor, battle of fallujah many leaders taliban were held at guantanamo bay, now released. we can t put on trial the mastermind of 9/11. if you re our enemy, does that look serious to you? rachel: it is not just the war on terror, the islamic threat we have, is a message to china as well how serious we are a nation. will: right now a hearst carrying body of the queen elizabeth ii is expected in edinburgh today. rachel: it allows people to pay final respects of their queen over 70 years. pete: jonathan hunt is live at buckingham palace. jonathan. reporter: pete, will, rachel, good morning, we re having some communication difficulties here
mill burn is training ukrainians to fight the russians. millburn knows what it s like on the front lines. an american who grew up in the u.k., he has served in somalia, libya, afghanistan and iraq. i went through the battle of fallujah. i would rather do that again than confront a 12 hour barrage of the russian military like we re seeing. reporter: having retired from the u.s. military in 2019, he works for an organization to bring in other special forces. after losing the battle of kyiv leaving behind devastation and evidence of atrocities, the russians are turning to the eastern flank of ukraine, what will likely be a series of large scale battles. ukrainian military at large is more adaptive like the u.s. military. reporter: this more open,
milburn knows what it s like on the front lines. an american who grew up in the uk, he has served in somalia, libya, afghanistan, and iraq. you know, i went through the battle of fallujah, but i would rather do that again than confront a 12-hour barrage of russian artillery like the one we re seeing. reporter: having retired from the u.s. military in 2019, milburn runs an organization that brings in other former special forces members to assess the needs of various militaries. after losing the battle of kyiv, leaving behind devastation and evidence of atrocities, the russians are now turning to the eastern flank of ukraine to what will likely be a series of large scale battles. ukrainian military at large is more adaptive than the u.s. military. i think i feel qualified to say that. this more open, less wooded terrain in the east could be more challenging for the ukrainian military, which was able to rely on guerrilla