Maria good friday morning, everyone. Thanks so much for joining us this morning. Im maria bartiromo. It is friday, october 20th. President biden addressing the nation in a prime time speech from the oval office yesterday, where he announced a 100 billion budget request for congress to provide security for israel, while keep funding ukraine without interruption. While he drilled on hamas and vladimir putin, he made no mention of the china threat or any as expect of American National security and antisemitism in the United States. Meanwhile, israel says it has been given the green light to launch a Ground Invasion on the gaza strip. Well have a live report coming up right here. Markets this morning are under selling pressure on the final trading day of the week. After Federal Reserve chairman jay powell suggests the fed will likely extend the pause in rates although inflation remains high. The dow industrials right now down 71, nasdaq down 44, s p 500 lower by 10 andahalf, extending loss
There are many, many more out there that we need to start coming to the reality that we should have a state of war, whether its kinetic or not inside every branch of government. Lawrence there was a report yesterday saying a lot of folk in the administration are mad at the president s response and theyre gonna resign as a result of this because they feel like that he is bashing muslims. I would suggest that the peaceful muslims stand with the president and stand with our ally, israel. Doctor, thanks so much for joining the program. The second hour of fox friends starts right now. Ainsley this is a Fox News Alert. Right now humanitarian aid is sitting on the egyptian side of the rafah Border Crossing. As the United Nations plans to pave roads to get trucks into gaza. It remains unclear if that will happen today. Brian this comes as the idf says it made sweeping arrests at the west bank, capturing 20. Known Terror Operatives and killing another 12. This as President Biden calls on congre
IsraeliLebanon Border. Evacuations are underway in one city in the northern israel. As this after days of hezbollah rocket fire. This as President Biden calls on congress to send more aid to israel, oh, and by the way, ukraine, too. That came out of last nights 15 minute oval office address. Hamas and putin represent different threats. But they share this in common. They both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy. Completely annihilate it. Ainsley around the same time as that address u. S. Military bases in iraq came under fire in another series of drone attacks. Lawrence unbelievable. This just in u. S. Officials confirm that a Rocket Attack on u. S. Coalition forces Near Baghdad International Airport just minutes before bidens speech. Brian all right. Were also learning more about the u. S. Navy ship that intercepted several missiles fired near the coast of yemen. Look up houthi rebels. Pentagon officials saying the missiles were potentially heading towards targets in
Kevin mccarthy needed 15 rounds. Ainsley Kevin Mccarthy said i will not run, Steve Scalise said im out. Jim jordan cant get votes. Who else is there . Newt gingrich or lee zeldin. Lawrence mccarthy is saying to give jim jordan some grace here. Hes only been at this for a couple days, i had three months to prepare and get a consensus and it took me 10 rounds. Ainsley what dont they like about jim jordan . Lawrence i had a representative on and i try to get representatives to say what about jim jordan do you not like . Go on record. They keep saying, we want to handle this Behind Closed Doors. Part of the method they are talking about, they want to do it Behind Closed Doors in the caucus and jim jordan wants them on the record to face constituents. Brian couple of things going on. Number one, the reason why Appropriations Bills were not done, moderates have a different view than conservatives and he said before you become speaker, wo out things that stopped us before and get a consensus
As you make up your own mind. Campaign 2024 on cspan network. Cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. Next, more about the death toll of americans killed and held hostage. We will hear from john kirby and kareem john pierre. Danger. These reports are devastating. Were hearing the reports of entire families, innocents, who were killed in the safety of their homes. We know that so far 22 americans lost their lives and 17 remain unaccounted for. We know that these numbers are likely to increase in the days ahead. As the president said this , this attack has brought to the surface painful memories and the scars left by millennia of antisemitism. People. And solarte this afternoon, the president so later this afternoon the president will stop by a round table with Jewish Community leaders, along with the second gentleman, National Security advisor jake sullivan, Homeland Security advisor dr. Randall, and steve benjamin, Senior Advisor to the president for public engagement. This round tabl