here he is unsparing in his rejection of trump and giuliani s election fraud delusions. i told them that the stuff that his people were shoveling out to the public was bull [ bleep ]. that the claims of fraud were bull [ bleep ], and you know, made a statement about that, but i reiterated that they wasted a whole month on these claims on the dominion voting machines and they were idiotic claims. i specifically raised a dominion voting machines which i found to be among the most disturbing allegations and disturbing in the sense that i saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations, but they were made in such a sensational way that they obviously were influencing a lot of people, members of the public, that there was this systemic corruption in the system and that their votes didn t count and that these machines controlled by somebody else were actually determining it which was complete nonsense, and it was being laid out there, and i told him that it was that it was stuff
i m bret baier. breaking tonight, growing concerns that president biden may not be adequately responding to increasing attacks on u.s. forces in the middle east from groups sponsored by iran. iranian proxy groups, another incident today. that makes 47 since mid october. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin starts us off tonight live from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. today another attempted attack on u.s. troops. a kamikaze drone targeted a u.s. outpost in syria. iran and its proxy forces could not seem to be getting the administration s message to stop trying to kill u.s. troops. the pinpoint attack by a pair of american f-15 warplanes on iranian weapon storage facility in eastern syria wednesday has not slowed the rockets and drones fired by iranian proxies. today, u.s. troops shot down a drone headings toward their base, the fifth attack since the u.s. airstrikes. defense secretary lloyd austin issued another warning to ira
antony blinken is meeting with the prime minister of israel benjamin netanyahu. he touched down in tel aviv a couple hours ago and started shaking hands. ainsley: and in about 15 minutes we expect with the secretary to meet with the israeli president his name is isaac herzog. we will carry it live when it happens. blinken s visit comes as the biden administration pushes for a pause on the war so they can get humanitarian aid in and the hostages out. brian: meanwhile on the battlefield israeli forces come face to face with terrorists and take out a top hamas commander. the idf says forces now have the largest city in gaza surrounded. lawrence: today hezbollah s leader is scheduled to speak for the first time since hamas attacked israel. we have fox team coverage with jonathan hunt live in the west bank with israeli forces have been carrying out raids. but, first, let s go to trey yingst who is on the ground in southern israel. trey, what can you tell us? hey lawrence, go
with prime minister netanyahu. we will sit down with the israeli war cabinet any moment now. you are watching fox and friends first s, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. israeli troops advancing into gaza. [sound of shots fired] todd: idf says it has gaza largest city surrounded and ready to move in. hundreds of americans still inside gaza. united states is working to get them out and the hostages released. trey yingst with the very latest. trey. trey: hi, todd and carley, good morning. significant developments as israel forces say they completed encirclement of gaza city. that was announced yesterday. thousands of soldiers are in gaza pushing through the strip, trying to destroy as many hamas strongholds and tunnels as possible. forces continue to push forward, they are taking heavy losses, this week they lost 23 soldiers inside gaza. they have been ambushed by hamas to try to hold the forces off. the israelis are pushing forward air support, attack ep hel helic
knowledge and their effort to get trump to say something that hewed close to the facts which was the fact of his loss and this separation between stepien and miller and it sounds like kushner walks between both worlds with what we ve seen so far, and then rudy and sidney powell and the others, i mean, are we sort of looking at how trump splits off from anyone with any semblance of adherence to reality? i think what you ll also see in subsequent hearings is the fact that how quickly the former president can go from hearing advice from a trusted advisor and then walking out and saying completely something different. time and time again, he does this. and it really is dangerous, because what we re talking about is a threat to democracy, and overturning a peaceful transfer of power, which is a hallmark of our democratic system. but to your point, we re going to hear more about team crazy vs. team normal and the duelling factions that were in the president s the former