on top republicans at the deteriorating situation at the southern border. lindsey graham is speaking, dip in and listen what was a record number of migrant crossings in a single day this week. the director of the fbi said when asked about blinking lights threats, i see blinking lights everywhere i turn. since october 7th, people need to understand what happened to israel affects you too. we have chosen to support israel because we should, we need to. hamas would kill us if they could, we need to be behind our friends in israel. what does that mean for us? the threat level has gone to a whole other level since october 7th. post october 7th, a rose gallery of terrorist organizations are calling for attacks against us. what does that mean? the people who want to destroy israel are trying to pay us back for helping israel. president biden, you don t need to negotiate with any of us. you have the ability as president to stop this problem now and you choose to use the law that is
in the middle east. john: it comes as we are getting brand-new information about the u.s.s. mason shooting down another drone in the red sea today, the drone fired from the same houthi-controlled area as the ones over the weekend. we will take you to the briefing as soon as it happens. sandra: israel moving into the third phase of ground operations, 138 hostages are still in captivity and hamas has vowed to not release anymore until there is a ceasefire. hello, john, welcome back. john: good to be with you. john roberts in washington, america reports . israel continuing its campaign against hamas hitting the terror group s strongholds in southern gaza overnight. idf engaging in house to house gun battles after entering the second largest city in the strip. sandra: israel s military says it has killed about half of hamas mid level batallion commanders by now and prime minister benjamin netanyahu said moments ago idf forces are encircling the house of a senior hamas le
harris: we begin with a question. what about bob? the house gave republican george santos the boot. now many people are asking why is accused felon bob menendez still in the senate? he is the democrat senator with gold bars and cash stashed inside his home. some dirty details now are coming out and for one exactly where the gold bars came from. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. congress established a new precedent last week by expelling george santos even though he is not convicted of a crime. the case hasn t happened yet. taking the power right out of the hands of the courts and the voters to decide on him. bob menendez has a rather unique legal predicament. he has been indicted before more than once. this time on corruption-related charges. the democrats are in no apparent rush to give bob on the left from jersey the santos treatment except for one liberal senator john fetterman of pennsylvania. fetterman has been the one outspoken dem since the sto
a movement the likes of this country has never seen before. iowa represents this country more than any place and also represents tradition. other candidates have like seven people standing in a farm and they are talking and it s a very nice, it s a very nice thing to watch. john: former president trump basking in his status and taking a shot at rivals at a town hall with sean hannity in iowa last night. another jam packed hour, sandra. sandra: indeed, good to be with you. this is america reports . voters will be caucusing, can you believe this, in just six weeks, and the media, it is fair to say, is starting to freak out over the possibility of a second donald trump term. editors at the atlantic magazine dedicating the next issue, what would the world look like under trump. and some are branding the former president a dictator. i sometimes wonder if trump knows the definition of democracy because he might be getting it confused with another d word, meaning dictator.
breaking tonight, authorities in las vegas say the person who opened fire on the campus of university of nevada at las vegas unlv this afternoon is dead. police report multiple victims have been taken to area hospitals but they are not saying what their injuries are, at least not yet, nor are they talking about a motive for the shooter. chief correspondent jonathan hunt is following this story from los angeles. good evening, jonathan. good evening, bret. we got the first word from las vegas police that there was an active shooter on the campus of the university of nevada las vegas. almost exactly three hours ago. and unlv officials immediately sent aletters to all students, telling them to run if they could. hide if they had to. fight if they must. the all too familiar advice that so many students caught in the middle of so many shootings have previously heard. vegas police also said early on that there were multiple victims and have since confirmed the number to be 3 that