i m martha maccallum. today the story asks the questions that face our country in a very big way right now. so where will we be if putin can take what he wants in ukraine? will he be emboldened, where will he go next? what happens here at home in the president and congress can t put a stop to this? thousands of people in the country on a daily basis. what happens if we allow anti-semitism to take a deeper hold here? what would that mean? and if we allow i ran to relentlessly hammer our bases and ships aiming at our forces unchecked over a long period of time? what will they do next? and who do americans want to take on these potentially existential issues for our country? that comes down to the 2024 election. so this hour, senator lindsey graham, general jack keane, andy mccarthy, marc thiessen and howie kurtz. first, this. right now just moments ago, you saw it live, president biden met in the oval office in front of a roaring fire with president zelensky of ukraine. ahead
asking the supreme court to immediately step in to decide whether former president trump has immunity from prosecution, relating to his actions seeking to overturn the 2020 election. sandra: remains to be seen whether the highest bench will choose to take the case, but the move appears to be an attempt by smith to keep the march trial back on track and block the former president from delaying the trial in the federal appeals court. john: let s go to david spunt, breaking details for us. david. david: sandra, you are right. jack smith, special counsel, does not want to see any delays in this case. he wants this trial to begin and finish before the election. right now he s asking the nine justices, remember, a body that tries to stay away from politics, he s asking them to essentially enter the nerve center of the 2024 presidential election making an emergency appeal to the high court asking the justices to rule that donald trump is not immune from prosecution. he petitio
kayleigh: hello, everyone, this is outnumbered, i m kayleigh mcenany, with my co-host emily compagno and harris faulkner and rebecca heinrichs and kevin o leary. there has been deafening silence fro progressives and many who claim to champion women. more evidence comes out showing hamas has used sexual violence vile / against women. pramila jayapal was questioned about it and she found a way to spin them, demanding balanced criticism of the war. now her shocking response has left her facing fierce backlash from both sides of the aisle. here is what she said. i ve seen a lot of progressive women quick to defend women s rights and speak out against using rape as a weapon of war. but down right silent on what we saw on october 7 and what might be happening inside gaza right now to the hostages. why is that? i don t know that is true, i ve condemned what hamas has done. specifically against women? absolutely, the rape, of course. frankly morally, i think we cannot sa
[bombing] it was obvious that we ll be back in war. hamas is not for peace. they do not want to co-exist. they want to be, for us to be eliminated. sorry, it s not gonna happen, ever. john: black smoke and explosions filling the skies over gaza as israel resumes the war against hamas. john roberts in washington. so begins a friday afternoon. sandra: good to be with you. sandra smith in new york. after a week-long truce which saw more than 100 hostages released, talks to extend that ceasefire collapsed after israel said hamas launched more rockets toward southern israel and failed to release all of the women and children that were part of the agreement. john: idf appearing to move the offensive to the southern part of the gaza strip, they claim many of the terrorist group senior leaders are alive and hiding in tunnels. strategy is facing opposition from the biden administration. sandra: we have complete coverage for you now. former national security councilmember mic
inside, killing a number of the people who were in the bomb shelter, blew half of herch s lower arm off, so like one of the other israeli hostages, mia shem, who had serious injuries, he was taken captive and brought into gaza with very, very serious injury, and his mother rachel has no idea if he survived that ordeal. if he received appropriate medical treatment, where he is, what his status is. so it has to be awfully difficult seeing these hostages come home known her son, herch, is still in custody somewhere in gaza. sandra: ophelia brightman, 77 years old, also one of the hostages just released, she came to israel from argentina holding argentine citizenship. she s the wife of hector, mother of three children, grandmother of nine children. she had sent her last message to her family asking for help, stating that the terrorists were in her house and since that moment of her that she was taken, john, her contact had been severed and you can only imagine what is happeni