california. his special hour on the state of defense. a report card on america s military readiness to meet the challenges of an increasingly dangerous world. from the middle east to ukraine the south china sea to the internet, america s armed forces must be ready to meet 21st century challenges to our nation security. israel s war with hamas, the latest conflict to ignite instability turbocharging attacks on our forces in the region from iranian proxies. we will get reaction from national security council communication coordinator jon kirby about the restart of the war the head and lindsey biting white house faces from democrats over conditioning future aid to israel. we want to be so good at what we do that they say not today, not tomorrow, ever forgot joint chiefs chairman are preparing our men and women and uniform for the wide range of security responsibilities across the globe. general cq brown joins me here at the reagan library. and that, before serving on congress
trey: good evening and thank you for joining us, i m trey gowdy and it s sunday night in america. hamas released some of the hostages taken during the october 7 attack on israel including a 4-year-old american child, which may have you wondering what depraved group take as 4-year-old child in the first place? hamas does. the same group that orphaned that child by killing her mother and father. while people of good conscious celebrate the release of that whiled and others, many hostages we main, separated from their loved ones, deprived of food, light, liberty and most likely humanity. hamas did not, of course, release hostages because t the right thing to do. hamas only did so in exchange for plastein january prisoners and a pause in israel s ground invasion in gaza. as fighting resumes, internal medduations are reportedly still on going. so how do you even begin to negotiation with a terrorist group we have former navy seal commander and hostage negotiator dan o shea. th
sean: and welcome to hannity and we are broadcasting live just north of atlanta, georgia, in alpharetta, georgia, where in just a moment, we re going to hear from the republican governor of florida, to the democrat quarter of the great state of california for what is the first ever red state blue state debate on the fox news channel. we will do our best to give equal time to each governor. we will limit answers to 60 questions. we will be flexible as needed but the debate, as needed as long with a 32nd time for rebuttal. let me start by introducing both florida governor ron desantis california governor gavin newsom. thank you both for being here. i really appreciate it. i know both of you personally. i have known you both for a long time. i know you are very busy. are also notice. i know that both of you love your individual states. i know you both have a deep and abiding love for our country as i do. but where we are in the country, we have never kind of been this divi
trey: good evening and thank you for joining us, i m trey gowdy and it s sunday night in america. hamas released some of the hostages taken during the october 7 attack on israel including a 4-year-old american child, which may have you wondering what depraved group take as 4-year-old child in the first place? hamas does. the same group that orphaned that child by killing her mother and father. while people of good conscious celebrate the release of that whiled and others, many hostages we main, separated from their loved ones, deprived of food, light, liberty and most likely humanity. hamas did not, of course, release hostages because t the right thing to do. hamas only did so in exchange for plastein january prisoners and a pause in israel s ground invasion in gaza. as fighting resumes, internal medduations are reportedly still on going. so how do you even begin to negotiation with a terrorist group we have former navy seal commander and hostage negotiator dan o shea. th
drone strike killing five iranian proxy fighters in northern iraq and stopping what would have been another attack on american troops in the middle east. you re watching fox and friends, i m carley shimkus. griff: and i m griff jenkins in for todd piro. severe escalation for proxies in yemen who launched hours long assault in the red sea, drawing the u.s.s. carney into the line of fire. trey yingst is live with the latest on the ground there and more on washington s response to iran s provocations. good morning, trey. trey: good morning. a lot of developments over the past 24 hours. israeli forces are ramping up airstrikes, they targeted 200 different sites, bringing total number of strikes against gaza to 10,000. the heavy air campaign issic spooing, tdeath toll say 700 people were killed over the weekend. israel targeting hamas leadership, this weekend hitting a battalion and the commander responsible for carrying out raids into israeli territory back on october 7. th