but i rainian-backed malitia groups. these attacks must stop. it can announce the decision to deploy an additional 300 troops to the u.s. central command region from home stations in the continental united states. these additional troops will provide communications and other support enablers for forces already in the region. neil: under fire, but not israeli troops. try american ones. iranian backed proxies targeting u.s. forces in the middle east. in a moment, republican presidential candidate ron desantis on what the u.s. should do. former vice presidential candidate joe lieberman on what the u.s. and the world should do. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. first to rich edson at the pentagon with more on these latest attacks and how we re responding. rich? good afternoon, neil. the pentagon says they re putting more munitions, more people, more troops in to the region. the 300 you just heard announced there is on top of the 900 the pentagon announced were heading th
martha: thanks very much, strikes. austin also pushed for more john and aishah. good afternoon. funding for israel, taiwan and i m martha maccallum. breaking right now on the ukraine. he says without american story, a live look at gaza as support, putin will be successful. if putin is successful, he will tensions roil the globe and move on to nato countries and that means american troops will certainly between israel and get involved. gaza to be sure. back to you, martha. now it s spilling in to the martha: a tangled web. thanks, rich. halls of congress today. with that, we bring in four-star secretary of state blinken and secretary of defense austin general jack keane, former vice faced this kind of questioning chief of staff of the arm my and during their senate hearing just chair of the institute for the study of war. a couple hours ago. good to have you with us, general. obviously there s escalation [shouting]. happening in gaza. we re hearing in a moment from the