Thats just a deal breaker for them. They just wont do it. I saw a report, i think on your network, someone said it was a republican, he said it didnt matter, he would do biden. Thats just a reality that republicans have to face up to if we want to win and we saw these losses in the most recent elections, lets give them a fresh america a chance for a fresh start and i think that the results will be very positive for us. All right. 2024 president ial candidate and Florida Governor ron desantis, thanks so much. Hope youll come back and we can talk about all the other issues we didnt talk about today. Thanks for coming on. That does it for us. Will do it yep. We appreciate that. That does it for us this morning. Jose diazbalart picks up the coverage right now. Ahead this hour, our special coverage of israel at war. Air strikes is, bombarding gaza with israels Prime Minister vowing devastation and destruction on hamas strongholds. The Death Toll Climbing as intense fighting continues. Plus,
Dana breaking overnight israel Firing Hundreds of missiles targeting Hamas Terrorists in gaza. This in response to a barbaric series of Terror Attacks targeting children, women and the elderly. The death toll now eclipsing 1,000. President biden is set to break his twoday silence today. Good morning, im dana perino. Good morning to you. Bret im bret baier for bill hemmer. Complicating israels response an estimated 150 people taken hostage by hamas. Americans are believed to be among them and hamas is threatening to kill them onebyone for every time israel strikes gaza. Dana the families of the missing are calling on President Biden to act. Some of them as you can see here are about to hold a News Conference in tel aviv and well take you there live as it happens. Bret Peter Doocy Standing by at the white house. We begin with greg palkot reporting live from israel. Greg. Bret, dana, we are a mile and a half away from the gaza trip. The town of sarot, israel says this town is secure. Lets
Are. Thank you, guys. We will get back to you. And now, to give us more perspective on what we are seeing playing out this morning is major mike lion, and good to see you, major, and so tell us where clarissa and nic and what we are hearing, and this is the sderot and ashkelon, and why these areas to take fire now . Well, through the eyes of h hamas what they want to do is to fire the artillery as close as they can to the iron dome, and they want to survive themselves, and the mobile Rocket Launchers and low tech, but if they can get as close to the border, they can create the chaos and havoc there. The but as we saw, the iron dome was able to intercept it. At the same time, every Artillery Fire, and every rocket has a returned a dress. So as soon as it goes off, they are firing off the Rocket Artillery in that direction. So, again, the hamas militants are trying to survive and fire off the barrages and scoot out of there. The fact, that look, we had thousands of rockets coming from ha
Killing 700 israelis, many of whom were attending an outdoor concert and abducting dozens of people, including children. Israel says it reestablished control of the territory on its side of the gaza border 48 hours after the attack. Although the fighting and the bombings continue. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the country saying the military would intensify its operations against hamas and its attacks on gaza are just the beginning. Israel has ordered a full siege of gaza, pounding the area with air strikes and gathering 300,000 troops ahead of what could become a group operation. More than 1,000 people have been killed so far in the fighting. At least 700 people have died in israel, according to its military. More than 680 people have died in gaza, according to the Palestinian Health ministry. 11 americans have been killed in the conflict, and more may be missing. Amid the hamas attack, more than 100 people have been kidnapped and are being held hostage. Captives
This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start are breaking news. The United States is surging military aid to israel after the devastating surprise Terrorist Attack by hamas which killed at least 900 people, most of them civilians. We have also just learned that number includes at least 11 americans. This afternoon israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that israels response to the horrific attacks is just beginning. Youre looking now at images from gaza where were seeing the response play out as Israeli Forces have fired dozens if not hundreds of rockets into gaza. Hamas terrorists have taken an unknown number of innocent civilians as hostages today, threatening to broadcast their executions if israel strikes homes in gaza without warning. Were hearing continuing reports of rape. Were Hearing Reports of people dragged out of their cars and shot. Cnn crews witnessed mass excuse sites where innocent attendees of a Music Festival spent their last momen