kayleigh: hunter biden defies congressional subpoena in a brazen move, skipping his deposion and in a shocking turn of events, he took to the mike pence in front of the capitol to defend himself and his father. this is outnumbered, i m kayleigh mcenany, with emily compagno and molly line, fox news contributor leslie marshall and american enterprise institute marc thiessen. hunter biden blamed maga republicans for targeting him and his family and he said his father was not financially involved in his business dealings. i m here today to answer at a public hearing any legitimate questions chairman comer and house oversight committee may have for me. i m here to make sure the house committee illegitimate investigation do not proceed on lies. for six years i ve been the target of unrelenting trump attack machine shouting where s hunter. here is my answer, i am here. let me state as clearly as i can, my father was not financially involved in my business, not as a practicing
democrats. garrett in chicago, thank you. you ve got it. john: fox news alert, waiting to hear from the white house after new attacks on the troops in the middle east. national security adviser jake sullivan will be there to field questions from the assembled white house press corps and with that, begin hour two. john roberts in washington. welcome back to another busy week of news. good to be with you, this is america reports . that attack seen as the biggest escalation yet against u.s. troops in the region. it is sparking alarm that president biden is failing to head off a wider war in the middle east. iranian backed militias are responsible for at least 75 attacks on american troops in the region in just the last six weeks. john: complete coverage now, daniel davis moments away why the biden administration is not doing more to protect american troops in harm s way. sandra: first chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon for us.
home, i m martha maccallum at fox news headquarters in new york. this story is back today, remember jussie smollett? looks like he will land back in prison. nikki haley also joins us. we have a good mix of stories, some politics, some crime and john kirby is here, we ll talk about israel as the war resumes in force in gaza. first, though, that entertaining match up between florida governor ron desantis and california governor gavin newsom was must-see tv with sean hannity last night here on fox. they went at it on a lot of things that are important to americans across the country, watch. governor desantis: california represents biden-harris on steroids. joe biden is in the pocket of the teachers union and so is kamala harris. governor newsom: it is not kamala harris, ron, it is kamala harris. you are troeling folks to outtrump trump. governor desantis: what is that plotting? that app is where they plot human feces found on the streets of san francisco. governor newsom
sandra. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. we re watching images both in the west bank where they are releasing palestinian prisoners and the israeli prisoners, hostages, that were released on the right-hand side of your screen. 12 women who walked their way to freedom just moments ago. they were brought out in the vehicles that we have seen and become familiar with. there were no americans that were released in this latest wave. we think partly because they have committed to releasing women and children first and we believe that the remaining eight to nine americans are all men. so we obviously stay on top of that story as we wait for good news for their families. these ten israelis ranging from 17 to 84. these harrowing accounts that are beginning to trickle in about life, what life was like for these individuals when they were in captivity. the aunt of this now free little boy, 12-year-old ethan, says he was force to watch videos of the october 7th attack. look at this
good afternoon, everybody. i m martha maccallum. we re getting new indications of movement of 11 hostages. this is a huge moment for these people and their families. they re in the hands of the red cross, a huge relief for these people who have been held for more than 50 days. they re finally headed guard freedom. we understand no americans are included in this group. we have followed very closely the one child, abigail adan, that was released. she s an american citizen. she was released during this pause period that we ve been in for several days now. this child went through absolute hell. her smile is testimony to the resilience of children. but somewhere in her conscious is a horrific experience she watched. the terrorists killed her parents in front of her. her father had used himself as a shield to protect his little girl. he was killed. she then had to crawl out, according to this story that has been told, from under his body. she then ran to a neighbor s and then hamas