Steve it is 1 00 in the afternoon in israel. We start this hour of fox friends with a fox news alert. Right now, President Biden is in israel meeting with the Prime Minister there, Benjamin Netanyahu Behind Closed Doors with their staffs. The two leaders met in front of cameras in tel aviv less than an hour ago. Ainsley during brief remarks biden blamed terrorist forces for an explosion in Gaza Last Night that has killed hundreds of people. Listen. Outrage by the explosion at the hospital in gaza yesterday. Based on what i have seen it appears as though [inaudible] people out not sure. Brian yes using closed caption there. Fiercest Protests Explosion as many jumped at blaming israel for, including the rest of the world. Rioters in Lebanon Setting Fire to u. S. Embassy in beirut. Hezbollah calls for unprecedented day of anger. Lawrence while the president is overseas, many in the Jewish Community here at home are feeling the effects of the war. I will be live all morning talking to some
of the fraud he perpetuated. regardless of what this report says, is your plan to serve and stay in congress and not resign? like i said before i m staying in office for sure. that last voice you heard was republican congressman george santos of new york before the release of a damning ethics report. we ll go through that and what could come next for the embattled lawmaker. plus, we ll bring you the latest out of the middle east. israel says it has more evidence that hamas was operating out of a hospital in gaza. it comes as the idf recovered the body of a hostage near that facility. and also ahead we ll recap another busy day of diplomacy on the west coast for president biden where he met with the leaders of south korea and japan. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, november 17th. it s friday. we made it. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with some good news. the federal government will stay open at lea
putin s position was a month ago, fairly certain. i think the other thing you ask, who is talking to the russians? we do talk to the russians. ambassador mcfaul, the people that we put in that russian embassy are incredibly intelligent. their bilingual in russian. i always go ask the political officer or the embassy staff and the station chief, what are these people doing? and they can pick up the phone, meet people in restaurants, although they clamp down on them severely, and find out a good bit of what is going on. never mind the nsa intercepts listening to what they re talking to each other. so, i think this is a vulnerable period for the russians. they re probably going to be more open to finding some and game. the war is not going well for them, and by the way, diplomacy doesn t and wars. some side starts losing and says, we can t do any better than this. we better go cement our losses in place. so, we still need to back the
while a supply chain crisis was exploding and didn t tell anybody and promised commercial airlines and cancellations would improv. we watched a complete meltdown of the same industry over the holidays. he is all foam and no beer. i did not mean say he is the transportation secretary. you talk to people on the ground and as lucas showed us, a basketball coach saying let s move on and get back to work and people are saying i want to leave. i would like to leave but can t sell my home. nobody wants to buy my home. if a different city doesn t want to bring their basketball team to come in and play a different person won t come in and buy real estate right now in east palestine. that impression will stay with this poor town for a long time. wouldn t it do wonders if the president of the united states, the head of the department of transportation went there, sat
fudge on their part. antony blinken confronted his chinese counterpart having talk about the spy balloon. a fighter jet shot it down. i made very clear to him that china sending a surveillance balloon over the united states in violation of our sovereignty and international law was unacceptable and must never happen again. i don t want to characterize what they said. there was no apology. you have president biden promising that he would speak with china s president about the spy flight. we re waiting for that to happen. biden claimed to be tough on xi, says they have a good relationship. but the bottom line here is that conversation has not yet happened. do you think it will happen, dan, in the near future? i think it might happen. i think more importantly than that is how we respond to china. look, diplomacy doesn t do a whole lot to change china s