the american embassy in jerusalem! the stakes are extremely high. and the move fraught with peril with iran already bitter over the u.s. pullout of the jcpoa. the rocket attacks from syria on the golan heights this week and israel s retailation for them is a sign of the hair trigger conditions right now. to that point, saudi arabia has announced that if iran proceeds with its nuclear weapons development, saudi arabia will embark on its own nuke program, potential nuclear escalation in the world s hottest spot. julie? julie: and those attacks raising questions as well, doug, about the safety of the u.s. delegation attending the embassy s opening. is the president attending? he will not be. state department spokeswoman heather noward announced who will be going. we are pleased that our deputy secretary of state john sullivan will be leading the delegation. jared and ivanka trump are
the president, first of all, is very happy with what he s accomplished in the past few days and even some of his critics are acknowledging that. but it s also clearly a campaign. he talked about the 2020 campaign, he talked about his 2020 campaign slogan keep america great. says he couldn t very well use make america great again after he s already done that. it was kind of a 2020 oriented speech as well as campaigning for mike brown, the senate candidate and others in these upcoming midterms. bill: good deal. thank you, have a great weekend. speaking of those midterms, a democrat from indiana who is a senator that a lot of republicans think they can knock off come november. we shall see as she goes down in the hoosier state. julie: sleeping joe. as he was talking about. bill: apparently. the nickname. julie: all right. new reaction now from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu defending his country s counterstrike against iranian forces in syria.
defense minister, said much of iran s military infrastructure in syria was destroyed. the defense minister is urging syria s president bashar el-assad not to allow iranians to have a military presence in his country. he s calling the claims fabricated and baseless. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says iran crossed a red line and israel reacted accordingly. let s come back live here now and you can see, as i said at the outset, the situation here has escalated. off in the distance, over my shoulder, a number of the palestinians have in the past few minutes actually approached the border fence. we have heard what sounded like live ammunition being fired. i am now told that as many as 36 palestinians have been wounded. 15 of them by live fire. four of them critically. this is usually the pattern we see. things start off relatively quiet but as the afternoon progresses and more
iran hasn t been provided to congress. we haven t read it. the american public hasn t read it. but some of it has been reported that iran collects some of their own soil samples and inspects some of their own nuclear sites. so there are some serious flaws in the verification regime. and that s just part of it. the fact that the sunset provision a few years from now that iran has allowed to break out and in the meantime, continue to work on some of their advanced centrifuges and meanwhile, what we re seeing as a result of the nuclear deal is they continue to work to finance terror, to support assad in syria and hezbollah, to build the land bridge across the middle east towards the mediterranean. all of these other illegal test firing intercontinental ballistic missiles put the rhetoric aside. bill: there s a lot going on. her point about north korea, are you sending the right signal to kim jong un? absolutely. it shows you we re serious and not going to agree to a bad deal and not g
joining there as well. we re very proud and pleased at president trump s accomplishment in doing this. it s something he promised and now something that he is fulfilling. in advance of the ceremony, israel s defense minister is urging syrian president bashar el-assad to force iranian soldiers out of syria. their presence will only cause problems and damages . and julie, you know that the israeli defense forces will be on high alert for the embassy ceremony. julie: oh, i bet. all right, doug, thank you. bill: we certainly here at fox news have you covered on that. on monday, make sure you tune in for the historic opening. harris faulkner will be live in jerusalem for the big day. very significant day as well. lots of angles to cover coming up monday with harris and the rest of the channel. julie: for sure. first came the lava and growing fears that hawaii s volcano could see a massive explosion. first in a century. bill: think that first pitch is an easy one? check it out, fo