everybody all right? everybody make it through okay? yes we did. good evening, welcome to our special coverage of the third republican presidential primary debate which was held today in downtown miami, florida. the debate just wrapped up seconds ago, after two hours onstage. you can see there, the debate hall, some of the candidates, the five candidates who participated, still milling there. people in the audience the milling there. just finishing up within the last few moments. i am rachel maddow, here at msnbc headquarters, with my colleagues, michael wallace, joy reid, stephanie ruhle and lawrence o donnell. tonight s debate in miami was a home game for one of the candidates, ron desantis. of course, it s the governor of florida, a heck of a lot good that is doing him. a poll out just before the debate shows governor desantis losing his home state, at least as far as the polling says by 39 points against his constituent, florida man and former president donald trump, who
the story? brian: jim brown at height of the controversy, people talking about him kicking his son and throwing stuff. he said, if my son played basketball, he would play for him, he never bends the rules and his programs never got in trouble. he was trying to get the best out of players. ainsley: he was known for his outbursts, what a coach, three national championships, five final fours and inducted into hall of fame. steve: legend bobby knight dead at the age of 83, god rest his soul. ainsley: third hour of fox and friends starts now. steve: fox and friends first ed, it is 2:00 in the afternoon as you look at the rafah crossing. 400 americans are still stuck in gaza. country of egypt is allowing limited number of foreign nationals and wounded to go through the crossing. brian: dozens killed overnight, number of israeli troops killed going up to 18. ainsley: at home, vice president kamala harris announces we will fight while antisemitism is surging. lawre
backing up those that we have seen going in over the last 72 hours or so. and what the israeli forces appear to be doing is trying to surround gaza city. they ve gone down the western edge of gaza city. that would be along the coast. they re moving in from the north. we ve also seen reports that they are coming in from the south and east. so it would seem to indicate to us that they intend to surround gaza city and if you like, trap the hamas fighters who are still there both above ground and in those tunnels that we have talked about so much in the meantime, the idf also very happy yesterday to have freed one of their own, an idf soldier who was taken hostage. she has now been reunited with her family, that another small victory bringing the number of hostages still held by hamas down to, we believe, 238 at this point. prime minister netanyahu spoke to the nation once again today and he said he will not support at this point any talk of a cease fire. he says it would be lik
harris: combat troops engage troops into northern and central gaza, second phase of ground operation now. prime minister netanyahu is set to give a briefing on this stage of the war 1 p.m. eastern. watch for that. israeli troops advance and new video showing changing nature of the battlefield. idf raising the israeli flag in gaza. this is outnumbered, i m harris faulkner. my co-host emily compagno, fox news contributor lisa boothe and morgan ortagus and former georgia congressman colonel and u.s. air force reserve and host of doug collins podcast, doug collins himself. we begin with trey yingst live in israel. trey. trey: harris, good afternoon, lot of activity here along the southern front. i want my cameraman to zoom in. israelis are launching flares and lighting up the gaza skyline, in part to illuminate the area where there are ground forces working at this hour and to, matargets that you can hear overhead. i want to discuss the situation inside gaza as forces are o
we will bring you more from our correspondent outside a hospital in a moment. a leading think tank, the institute for fiscal studies, has accused the main political parties of a conspiracy of silence over the economic reality behind plans set out in their election manifestos. the ifs analysed how the policies could impact the public finances and what that could mean for household incomes, public services and taxation. in its scathing assessment it said the parties were ducking the issues, by relying on faster growth to deliver more tax, which it said was far from guaranteed. it also warned the next government faced having to find new ways to raise taxes, or leave some public services exposed to billions of pounds worth of cuts. this a flavour of what the director of the ifs, pauljohnson, had to say. low growth, high debt, high interest payments mean we need to do something quite rare over the next few years just to stop debt spiralling ever upwards we need to run primar