of america s newsroom, i m claudia cowen. mike: i m mike emanuel. the act of retaliation coming after an anti-american sanctioned group launched a drone attack on erbil air base in northern iraq that injured three service members, one critically. former national security member telling us last hour president biden should have taken action sooner. i m glad that he finally hit back, but he should do it earlier in the cycle. his red line seems to be if a u.s. troop or a u.s. contractor gets hit, injured or killed, then the united states will hit back. i would rather us hit hard earlier in the cycle so that we can prevent someone from being injured in the first place. mike: right now black smoke rising over gaza as the idf ramps up attacks on hamas terror targets. israel s prime minister visited troops in northern gaza saying there can be no peace until hamas is destroyed. claudia: bring us up to speed, trey. good morning. overnight president biden ordered the u.s. mi
[the star-spangled banner] ibly1 from the and from which is a tradition every weekend morning on fox and friends we can to the midterms because we are three days away. welcome to fox and friends on november 5, 2022. that is a live shot of capitol hill which could look a lot different in three days. i can t get it back. rachel: it looks like it pete: i ve been talking to myself with honey lemon and listen to you and lost at a diner in phoenix at half my family is sick but i am not sick. rachel: my old stomping grounds. pete: at 3:00 a.m. packed. will: do you like it? wish i always sounded like this? a little musky? a little like sam elliott and a western, feel like you are swaggering around. rachel: sounds like he is 50 going through some changes. pete: i wish i felt like that. that is how it is interpreted. rachel: cowboy or teenager, you decide. we start with this midterm blues which is ramping up. democrats resorting to name-calling and ramping up partisan attacks a
if you can t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with the bull, that, say fedex, is what democrats in washington are doing ahead of the tuesday midterms. gas line, name-calling, fear mongering in order to get voters to ignore the problems they see every day and their inclination to vote for change. this country is on track to repeat what happened in germany when it was the greatest democracy going. a historian will say what was at stake tonight at this week was whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed, we are on the edge of an authoritarian system. will: would love to have that one back. mercy is the kind of message that if it inspires you and
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that s a good question. i met with the chinese ambassador here. i have met with the chinese leadership there. i have raised it consistently. what they have said is two things. one, that they have made some of the precursors, in other words, the chemicals that go into making fentanylf illegal. they have in effect, scheduled them under the way we would do it here. and that they have begun, they say, secondly to crack down on some of these chemical companies producing it. but what they have done has not been effective. it continues to come in.y our investigation indicated that if you send somethinges by the postal service, from china, that it s guaranteed delivery. if you sendt it through one of the other carriers, say fedex or u.p.s. or dhl, a private care yes, it s not guaranteed. why? because after 9/11 we required all the private carriers to provided a advanced electronic data to law enforcement to be able to identify suspect packages and to be able to stop this stuff coming. we di