On this hour, Outside Agitators. Are they true nce Nce Stagators or not. Talking about fairness, there is a new film talking to us about what trump and the supporters did after the last election. Lets do it. Propalestinian protests spread, there is one phrase that kept popping up. Outside agitators. Those Outside Agitators those Outside Agitators. Outside agitators. Paid Outside Agitator. Law enforcement officials, politicians, have all said that, the socalled Outside Agitator. Accusing professional organizers or foreign actors of hijacking studentled protests and encouraging the participants of more aggressive tactics. Calling on the fbi to investigate those supported shadowy figures, similar sentiment shared on line by the nypd chief of patrol. An unknown entity of radicalizing our students and taking advantage of their young minds. He urged them to follow the money. We should be clear. Some of the hundreds of people arrested at campuses across the country have not been students, inc
Lets show you live pictures from gaza now. The israeli army has asked residents of several different areas across the gaza strip to leave their homes. Move to the city centres or take refuge in shelters in preparation for Launching Attacks against hamas targets. Witnesses told the bbc that dozens of families had started leaving their homes and were sheltering in un schools. This comes as israeli troops are still going house to house to clear communities after the saturday assault. We are hearing there is still fighting ongoing in Southern Israel at this hour. Lets get some reaction now from washington. Us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken spoke with several of his european counterparts. State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller says they discussed and condemned the hamas attacks and underlined the us support for israels right to defend itself. Live now to elliot abrams, who served in the George W Bush and trump administrations. Welcome to you. Thank you for joining us. The Biden Adm
Mister secretary, does the administration know at this point if u. S. Citizens were among the dead or those taken hostage . So, we have reports that several americans may be among the dead. We are very actively looking to verify those reports similarly, weve seen reports about hostages and their again, we are very actively trying to verify them. And we nail that down. Meaning that there could be some u. S. Citizens who have been taken hostage as well, mister secretary. Thats correct. Well be closely following that over the next two hours, also overnight, israel responded, launching huge retaliatory strikes on cars and cities, flattening residential buildings, and killing over 300 people in gaza so far, according to the palestinian mystery of that. Has lebanons Hezbollah Group fired the flames in solidarity with hamas at three is really positions. Were witnessing all of this as israel promises an aggressive response. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed, my vengeance, and sai
War with. Israeli forces launching a counterstrike on lebanon. Will the attack comes after hamas invaded the country during a major jewish holiday killing at least 350 israelis in the deadliest take on israel in decades. Babies, women, the elderly were dragged outside of their homes, were taken hostage. This is our 9 11. Pete Israeli Defense forces now going after hamas forces in gaza city. An idf Spokesman Says they have closed nearly 30 of the entry points hamas used to get into israel. Youve seen the imagery of bulldozers and others used to knock over that security fence. Meanwhile, the conflict could be widening in egypt, at least 2 israelis and 1 egyptian shot and killed in alexandria. The suspected assailant, who is a police officer, was detained. So yesterday we ended our show, guys, kind of obviously talking about the horrific nature and the particulars of whats happening, but the question is would it widen and how quickly. Because one of the things of note is hamas is a terror
Have a look at this new video coming in to the bbc. Explosions boom. Israel was clearly caught off guard by the attacks from hamas, and there will be much analysis in the weeks and months ahead about why no one saw it coming. Michael singh is former senior directorfor Middle East Affairs at the National Security council, and he joined me earlier. To what extent do you think the us might be concerned tonight that it likely had not heard word of the attacks that we had seen from its israeli partners, that there appeared to be a failure of intelligence . There will be tremendous concern, tremendous concern within israel first and foremost because this was a real failure of anticipation, a failure to detect what was the most significant attack on israel for decades, there will be concern within the United States as well not just at the apparent Israeli Intelligence failure but perhaps the United States intelligence agencys own failure to detect this was happening because you have a very cl