summit, and meeting with xi, the white house likely to face questions what to expect with u.s. and china relations at a tipping point like we have seen over the last several months. and talk about what you have been mentioning at the top of the last hour, the attacks on u.s. and coalition forces across the middle east. now more than 50 attacks. u.s. launching a fresh round of airstrikes overnight, trying to target some of the iranian proxies that have been carrying out the attacks. at least six fighters were killed on the missile strikes, and so far no reports of any injuries to any of those u.s. service members who were carrying out the attack or the attacks the iranian groups fired. a tit for tat, as for president biden, he has not spoken to reporters today. he got back to the white house a little earlier today to welcome the las vegas hockey team in the east room, but also an event later this afternoon with the president of indonesia. see if the president weighs in not onl
[gunfire] dana: heave heavey fighting in gaza around hospitals. welcome to a brand-new hour of america s newsroom. dana perino. mike: i m mike emanuel. israeli forces say troops killed 21 hamas terrorists who opened fire and tried to escape by running to a hospital. there is growing concern the war could spread beyond gaza as fighting escalates on israel s border with lebanon. israel s prime minister saying hamas must be destroyed. if you want peace, destroy hamas. if you want security, dedestroy hamas. if you want a future for israel. the palestinians, the middle east, destroy hamas. we ll do it with as few civilian casualties as we can and with maximum casualties on the hamas terrorists, which we are achieving day-by-day, hour by hour. we ll complete the task. dana: rich edson at the state department. jerusalem deputy mayor joining us here right in new york on set. first let s get to trey yengst live in southern israel. trey, what s the update from there today?
night. bret: jesse, i will wait around for the sloth. jesse: you will wait a long time. bret: good evening. welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, new attacks on u.s. forces in syria by iranian-backed terrorists. that is after the latest u.s. retaliatory strike on sunday. that now brings the total number of attacks on u.s. troops in the middle east to more than 50 since mid october. tonight, the fighting between israeli troops and hamas terrorists is centered around gaza s largest hospital. while fighting increases in northern israel as well against hezbollah fighters, correspondent alex hogan is in northern israel tonight with the latest. good evening, alex. good evening, bret. day 38 of the wariments idf releasing this photo. israeli soldiers say they managed to capture the parliamentary building in gaza city and raised the israeli flag. meanwhile here in the northern part of the country it is an entirely different situation. escalation on israel
How far will this scandal take us . Turbulence and the discount carrier space. We are less than a half hour away from the start of european trading. No sense of direction. The agent session did not give us much. It didnt take us forward. The treasuries were closed yesterday in the United States. Aat we are starting with, is blank piece of paper when it comes to the markets, and a directional story we will talk about. It is going to be interesting to see how we work through the day. Wasstory out of asia interesting in a few ways. The biggest story to me, the big political story coming up is what happens in china this morning. Austria, interesting. The town out of this is that the dollar is weaker. First word bloomberg update. Banks, guy. Catalonia faces a day of reckoning. Barcelonas mayor has said the results of the referendum cannot serve as a basis for secession. Read more companies are leading the region. Three more companies are leaving the region. The u. S. Has blamed turkey for i
Im hoping we get up to six or seven, particularly National Security team in place on day one. Neil the vetting process Senate Leader is referring, consider some of the democrats, argue they are rushing to the confirmation table so quickly, they havent gotten their Financial Disclosure forms out or done, or any conflict of interest therein. They include, betsy devos would be the education secretary, wilbur ross for commerce and general john kelly, homeland security, they are the four not as least filed as of yet their conflict of interest forms, but would not be there for the actual committee hearings. That doesnt necessarily mean those forms wouldnt become available when the senate itself votes on each and all of these individuals, but it does come at a time when there is debate back and forth whether the president elect and republicans in general are rushing these names. There is precedent by the way, both barack obama and george bush before him would have as manials five confirmation