honk the victims, 86-year-old ruth whitfield who stopped for groceries, she had just returned from visiting her husband in the nursing home. her son spoke to omar jimenez. one of the things that we as a family wanted to ensure is that we call it what it is, it is white supremacy, it is hate, it is racism, it is bigotry. we got to call it what it is and stop beating around the bush and take it head-on because it is proliferating, it is not getting better. jasmine wright is for us in washington. and as you just heard, the families are calling for officials to confront racism head-on and it seems like that is what the president plans do today. reporter: that s right, christine. a white house official says that the president is expected to address the racial motivations that led to this shooting and he is expected to condemn them, but also call on americans to embrace diversity, the thing that makes this country really america frankly america here. so we will see the presid
now. good morning to viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, may 17th. i m john berman. brianna is off this morning. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins with me in new york. we have live pictures of the white house this morning, very shortly president biden about to depart for buffalo, to meet with the families of those killed in the racist mass shooting there. moments ago, officials told us the president will condemn, quote, the terrorism motivated by a hateful and perverse ideology that tears at the soul of our nation. and he will call on americans to give hate no safe harbor and to reject the lies of racial animus that radicalize and divide us. he will also call for federal legislation to try to keep guns from the mentally ill. this morning we re getting new details about the suspected shooter. cell phone video taken by an eyewitness at the moment he was taken into custody by police, new evidence shows he spent several month
hour of fox and friends starts right now. todd: new information on the war in israel. the idf says 199 hostages being hold, 14 believed to be americans. steve: we know the idf is evacuating 28 communities in northern israel because of constant strikes in hezbollah near the border with lebanon. ainsley: and now threatening toin join the war and fbi fbi is warning of copycat attacks on u.s. soil. lawrence: we have team coverage of the war. jacqui heinrich has more. but first we ll check in with trey yingst who is on the ground in southern israel. you were traveling, where are you at exactly and what are you learning on the ground? trey: we are at an israeli artillery position. israelis continue to hit gaza strip from ground and air and preparing for days and days of fighting ahead. as they make it to communities along the border, i will show you what we saw yesterday from the israelis. the records cache in southern israel, massive amount of fire the militants brough
emily: hello, everyone, this is outnumbered, i m emily compagno here with my co-host kayleigh mcenany and harris faulkner and former state department spokesperson and host of morgan ortagus show morgan ortagus and former biden campaign surrogate kevin walling. each day we are getting new horrifying reports of what hamas terrorists have done to israeli women during their final moments on october 7. gruesome assaults of rape from eyewitnesses with details too graphic for us to describe on air. hamas released some female hostages, israeli officials believe 18 others are being held by the terrorist group. u.s. state department says hamas may be refusing to release those women in order to keep them quiet. it seems one reason they don t want to turn women over they have been holding hostage, they don t want the women to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody. there is little i put beyond hamas when it comes to treatment of civilians and treatment of wom
harris: the fbi director issued a stark new warning about the elevated threat of terror attack against the united states. israel s war against hamas terrorists is raging on. and so much is happening as a result in even this country. during congressional testimony, wray revealed palestinian terror groups attack that saw 1400 israelis murdered, slaughtered, raped, tortured could be seen as inspiration for lone wolf copycat attacks right here in the usa this is outnumbered, i m harris faulkner. here with my co-host, kayleigh mcenany and emily compagno. fox and friends first co-host carley shimkus and fox contributor dr. marc siegel. here is the fbi director s warning. the reality is that the terrorism threat has been elevated throughout 2023 but the ongoing war in middle east raised threat of attack against americans in the united states to a whole other level. since the horrific terrorist attacks committed by hamas against innocent people in israel, we ve been working a