[background sounds] pete we begin this hour with the war on israel. A hezbollah senior official now telling hamas that, quote, our guns and rockets are with you. As the Group Claims Responsibility for new attacks of their own on a location called sheba farms in the north of israel. Kayleigh israel entering the second day of a multifront war after hamas invade ised during a major jewish holiday, killing at least 350 israelis, churn included, in the deadliest attack in decades. Children included. Babies, women, the elderly were dragged outside of their homes, were taken hostage. This is our 9 11. Will Israeli Defense forces now going after hamas in gaza city. An idf Spokesman Says they have closed nearly 30 of the entry points hamas used to get into israel. Meanwhile in egypt, at least two israelis and one egyptian were shot and killed in the mediterranean city of alexandria. The suspected assailant, who is an Egyptian Police officer, was detained. Pete trey yingst joins us live from Sou
The worst case scenario, right . You have to have a Foreign Policy to back up our military and diplomatic efforts. The israelis, we worked with them with the Iron Dome Technology and the david sling and operation desert shield, desert storm, we had the Patriot Missile systems taking out the scuds. We had the technology. We just had to increase it. This is a very important tooling to have in your tool box to let them know we have a different course of action we can protect japan, south korea and ourselves. Charles do you think because of the psychology here, it feels like whenever there is additional pressure, the miss isle launches and missile tests increase rather than decrease. Can this push kim jongun into doing something really drastic. Hes a psychopath and not a predictable leader. The south Korean Leader is questioning the systems. As an artillery officer, one of the things we were concerned about are the hardened artillery sites dug into the montana sides. And they have artiller
Were live in jerusalem right now at the end of a sixth day of intense rocket fire directed at israel from hamascontrolled gaza, as well as militants and their supplies. Israeli Officials Say three people are dead, 68 people have been wounded. Officials put the gaza death toll at 104 with 860 people wounded. All the while world diplomats constantly are looking for some way to broker a ceasefire. In a little bit, youre going to hear my conversation with one of top negotiators attempting to achieve a ceasefire, the former british Prime Minister, tony blair. Hes here in jerusalem. I spoke with him today. Youre going to hear the interview. Thats coming up later. Well also hear from our cnn correspondents across israel as well as in gaza right now. Earlier in the day, i went to orbkalon where i saw what was going on firsthand on the israeli side of the border. As soon as we got there, the sirens actually started going on. You could see people running towards shelters. I started running after
Jennifer leaders from israel and gaza met in egypt today to discuss a possible drawdown with u. S. Secretary general. For now, though the fighting continues. Israeli air strikes killed nearly 40 people today, groups in gaza respondented by shooting nearly 100 rockets in israel. And on the israeli side of the border things appeared remarkably calm today. This picture has caused a stir online. It shows israelis watching passively as incoming missiles sail over head. So why to israelis feel so comfortable out in the open as missiles fly above them . Because of something called the iron dome. Its a Defense System that uses radar to detect incoming rockets and determine where they will land. If it is headed towards a populated area the gunner shoots the missile out of the sky. It is particularly good at detecting the smaller, older rockets that the palestinians use. Iron dome has had an incredible 85 successful rate against the 300 rockets the palestinians have fired. The gulf missiles inte
System and stand by israel and hang tough with our best friend. We cant survive without it. I often look back and say that i look back wistfully at the days of the cold war. That was back when they had two superpowers in the world, the ussr and the United States. They knew what they had, we knew their capacities, they had m. A. D. , mutual assured groks. That doesnt work anymore. Now have you these rogue elements out there that are developing weapons that can wipe out an entire United States city and im talking about not just in the middle east but north korea also. So were looking at the middle east, were looking at our only way of defending our allies there and of working to stop the capabilities of countries like iran to have a weapon that would reach the United States of america. So weve got to hang tough with our best friend, israel, and i pray that we do. Thank you, madam president. A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from virginia. Mr. Kaine madam presi