we didn t want to be in gaza. when we agreed to the cease fire a week ago, no one with all due respect i m not talking about that. i m talking about now. the ground action. i understand what you re saying. we that s what i m telling you, we took the ground action because they rejected the cease fire. you made your point. okay. secretary kerry was caught by hot mic yesterday sarcastically pinpointing the missile strikes. i want to you take a listen. a hell of a pinpoint operation. it s a hell of a pinpoint operation. we ve got to get over there. thank you, john. i think john, we ought to go tonight. i think it is crazy to be sitting around. what do you make of that mole? i don t know what he was saying. i personally spoke to the secretary. we ve been in touch with him every day. you heard his public comments about israel s right to defend itself. he understands that. he made a large he point as
hannity . it s a hell of a pinpoint operation. secretary of state john kerry s true feelings on the israeli ground invasion caught on an open mic. coming up next, reaction from the israeli ambassador to the u.s. and later tonight lieutenant colonel oliver north and sarah palin will be here with their analysis. and the latest from the texas border as governor perry puts 1,000 national guard on the border to do obama s job. that s all coming up tonight straight ahead. you ve reached the age where you ve learned a thing or two.
are learning he may have tipped his hand over the weekend when a hot microphone caught some comments he was making to an aide before an interview with our own chris wallace. that may reveal his true position on israel s supposedly precise attacks on hamas and how the u.s. should react. listen to this. it s a hell of a pinpoint operation. it s a hell of a pinpoint operation. just underscored the meaning for cease-fire we ve got to get over there. thank you, john. i think, john, we ought to go tonight. i think it s crazy to be sitting around. brooke goldstein director of the law fair project. that supposedly john kerry caught by surprise while he was sitting for round robin interviews with all the sunday talk shows. our own chris wallace is the only one to confront him with it. he said it while the cameras were on him while his microphone was on him. and then people started to question why is he criticizing israel.
kerry is not having a relaxing summer. putin supplying arms to terrorists in ukraine. 298 dead there. iran continues to flimflam the world. arms negotiations extended. hamas blowing the hell out of israel and gaza. caught on open mike about this comment on israel. it s a hell of a pinpoint operation. it s a hell of a pinpoint operation. it s escalating significantly and underscores the need for a cease-fire. we have got to get over there. thank you, john. i think, john, we ought to go tonight. i think it s crazy to be sitting around. that was kerry talking to state department official john finer, he didn t know he was being recorded in television. he was off on a break. joining us from washington to assays mr. kerry s performance. fox news chief political analyst brit hume. all right. i m not going to say what i think until after you say what you think. are you talking about help that sewed on sunday.
here s how he explained it on fox news sunday later. i think it s very, very difficult in these situations, obviously very difficult, chris. you have people who have come out of tunnels. you have a right to go in and take out those tunnels. we completely support that. we support israel s right to defend itself against rockets that are continuing to come in. yeah. it s tough. it s tough to have this kind of operation. i reacted obviously in a way that anybody does with respect to young children and sieve i can t be civilians. let s get the latest from nbc news correspondent richard engel and michael crowley. that was the question raised by john kerry s comment saying that s a hell of a pinpoint operation. we have news of the hospital in the attack there. the news is how pinpoint is this? can we give a definitive answer on that?