so the big story right now, president biden and chinese president xi jinping man on man as we all sit. they re behind closed doors right now. all of these issues, ukraine, taiwan, israel, iran all elephants in the room, whether or not they get a head-on part of this discussion today. what about china s burgeoning relationship with iran? that as iranian proxies are attacking our troops. will the president say anything to the chinese president about what he might be able to do to influence that situation? you remember back in march when president xi was handed an unprecedented third term as president. officials here warned this. we assess that during the course of xi s third term, they will put together and attempt taiwan on unification, undercut u.s. influence which they perceive as a threat, drive wedges between washington and its allies and partners and promote certain norms that favor china s authoritarian system. martha: in moments, mike gallagher who is central to our
julie: more americans coming home, nearly 80 of the u.s. citizens stranded in gaza making it out safely so far. hundreds more, though, are still trapped. the biden administration meantime pushing for what it calls a humanitarian pause, a stop in the fighting to get aid in and out to foreign nationals to get those out. this is the faulkner focus. i m julie banderas. good afternoon. i m in for maris today. blinken met with president netanyahu today. before the meeting he talked about possible pauses as we mentioned and the concerns around them. watch. we believe that each of these efforts would be facilitated by humanitarian pauses. a number of legitimate questions were raised in our discussions today including how to use any period of pause to maximize the fuel humanitarian assistance. how to connect a pause to the release of hostages and secure hamas doesn t use these to their own advantage. julie: senate majority whip dick durbin, the highest ranking democrat to back
and welcome to our hannity this friday night. we start with this fox news alert. israel s ground operationsright havel s ground operationsright now expanded. we have large explosions, artillery, tank fire and even possible bunker buster bombs that have been heard and see n nonstop all night long, as the idf has now confirmed the expansion of operations. in other words, the ground no other words, the ground officially begun. now, here with a verciallyy own you know how here is acr description of how things wentin earlier tonight, just how this all got started from our very own yang s. take a listen. clearly, something is happening tonight and we continue to cite the israeli military and what they ve told us, and they ve told us they are conducting expanded ground raids into gazia . we don t want to speculate ors call this for what it could be because we need to wait and we need to be patient here. but this is, unlike any other night we have covered, we ve been out here for t
with pepper spray. the people did not want to shut down the museum. we did not want to inconvenience tourist but engage in a dialogue using our free speech rights. we never got past the metal detectors. security came rushing out. bum rushed us like a line of football players. corralled and pepper sprayed the first round of us. three people were detained. so the occupy movement first took root in lower manhattan three weeks ago. susan candiotti spoke to people who came from near and far to see it for themselves. reporter: eating a bowl of cereal after sleeping under the stars, this retiree and her teenager grandson took a bus from detroit to camp out with occupy wall street. tell me what this is like. you have this tarp. this is home. for a week, choosing to sleep on the ground under a blue tarp, mainly with young people in a public park. why was it important for you to come here and bring your grandson? i felt the need to show support to the movement. the poli