tunnel. and there is desperation of getting aid to people inside. republicans have chosen yet another nominee for speaker of the house. mike johnson won majority, but there is a real warning for him to get the 217 votes. this has been a wasted three weeks. this house republican majority is united. prosecutors don t hang out immunities like begcandy. mark meadows can speak to trump s mindset in a very specific way. good morning, i ll filphil mattingly with poppy harlow. israel once again launching airstrikes on gaza overnight. this video is of a palestinian man bury in the rubble asking if his wife is okay. explosions can be heard in the background and bombardment coming just hours after the head of the united called the airstrikes a collective pu punishment to the palestinian people and demanded a ceasefire. relentless of bombardment, level of civilian casualties and all the destruction of neighborhoods it in-to mount and are deeply alarming. and that drew
into this situation. they stormed our kibbutz, they kidnapped me. bring them home, bring them home. nothing will be the same because at the end of the day our community lost 10% of its population. sandra: begin a brand-new hour breaking moments ago, two security sources telling reuters a rocket attack has targeted an air base in iraq which hosts u.s. and other forces just west of baghdad. an update from john kirby. he is going to be joining karine jean-pierre at the white house press briefing, expected to begin just moments from now. bill: also we ll hear from the pentagon as a new report reveals the u.s. military is stepping up its surveillance now in the middle east. sandra: a lot happening at this hour, over on capitol hill, lawmakers on the house foreign affairs committee are set to receive a classified briefing on the threat from iran. another busy day in our nation s capital and beyond. sandra smith in new york. bill, great to have you here. bill: i don t kn
what started as a field of seven is now down to just one. republicans in congress nominating minnesota s tom emmer as their third speaker designate in the past two weeks. but can he succeed where steve scalise and jim jordan failed and get the votes to become speaker? plus, one by one, members of donald trump s inner circle are flipping on their former boss. today, a fourth trump co-defendant, jenna ellis, pleading guilty to charges in georgia. but the biggest gut punch may be yet to come. just moments ago, trump s former fixer, michael cohen, took the stand in new york and very soon we ll get our first view from inside the courthouse because they re on break right now. and as israel ratchets up the pressure on hamas and pounds targets inside gaza, secretary of state blinken warns the u.n. that the world stands at a crossroads. his plea for peace and a two-state solution. but are other countries, notably israel and iran, willing to listen? but we begin on capitol hill,
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red sea watch they struck multiple commercial vessels earlier today. this comes as yemen s iran-backed houthis had a series of attacks in the weeks. welcome to fox news live. before being shot down. lucas tomlin son is live from the white house with the latest. hello, lucas. mike, pentagon officials say this was a complex attack that lasted over eight hours today in the red sea north of the bobble mendeb straight and links the red sea to the gulf of aid and it s in the middle of yemen and somali and we learn that had multiple commercial vessels were struck and we don t know the fag or if anyone was hurt or crew members killed on board. if you ll rale, uss kearney was active in the red sea in the past month and shot down multiple cruise missiles and drones in israel and houthi rebels, iranian-backed group in yemen claimed credit for the attack. last night at reagan national defense form in simi valley, california, our own bill hemmer asked president obama s former ci directo