Kudlow, im larry kudlow. Day 12 of the barbaric hamas terror attack on israel. The focus on a rocket strike that destroyed a crowded hospital in gaza city yesterday as evidence she is it was caused by an Islamic Jihad missile aligned with hamas, not israel. Fox newss Jonathan Hunt live from los angeles with all the details. Jonathan, this is quite a story. Reporter yeah, larry are, so the question is, do we know with 100 certainty the source of this explosion . The answer is no, frankly, we dont. We might never be 100 certain given the fog of war that surrounds these things but two points i want to make here. One, President Biden was confident enough to weigh in on this and say he believed it was indeed Islamic Jihad. That was based on u. S. Intelligence analysis. And two, hamas while claiming israel carried out the strike has offered no physical evident of such a strike. One would imagine they would be quick to parade pieces of shrapnel for instance from israeli munitions if they had such evidence. Israel on the other hand has offered satellite video and awed quote evidence they say proves this was a rocket fired by Islamic Jihad in gaza. They say the rocket malfunctioned, fell directly onto the hospital, still fully loaded with fuel because it hadnt traveled far, and that is what sparked the huge explosion. Israel also released what Officials Say is audio of a information between hamas and Islamic Jihad members discussing the alleged misfire here. Listen . [speaking foreign language. The] reporter as i mentioned, President Biden after meeting with israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu today said u. S. Intelligence has anized the evidence, and result he President Biden agrees with the is israeli assessment. Listen again. President biden i was outraged and saddened by the enormous loss of life at the hospital in gaza. Based on information we seen today, appears a errant rocket fired by a terrorist group on gaza. Reporter weve seen new video today of the blast area. It is nightable, larry, as you look at this, there is no discernible crater there. You would expect that if indeed was an israeli strike. What you see are a lot of charred vehicles that would also back up the israeli claim this was essentially fireball, rather than a huge israeli missile creating the crimed of crater we would expect. I would also point out, larry, we havent seen any video that would even back the claims of hundreds of dead. We see self people being loaded into ambulances but not hundreds. All of these are things you would expect hamas to show extensively if they had the evidence. Now im not a munitions expert, larry, nor am i on the ground on this occasion but i have been in gaza many times over the last 20 years. Ive witnessed the aftermath of perhaps dozens of israeli airstrikes and i have to say, looking at that video, what we have seen so far, on the face of it, at least, it does not bear the hallmarks of an israeli airstrike, larry. Larry jonathan, just quick, some reports are suggesting it didnt actually hit the hospital but it hit the parking lot and as you suggested the casualty rate is way, way, way lower than originally reported . Reporter yeah, it would, from the evidence that we can see, larry, i have to emphasize that, from the evidence we can see and have seen it doesnt seem that the hamas claim of 500 or so dead has any proof to it at this point. And as you look again what is the parking area outside of that hospital you dont either see any pancaked building f this was israeli airstrike the whole building around there would be pancaked down on itself. Were not seeing that in that video at least, larry. Larry Jonathan Hunt, thank you ever so much, great reporting. We really appreciate it. Reporter sure. Larry just a brief riff tonight because weve got senator tom cotton waiting in the wings, all right . Janet yellens Treasury Department announced today that the u. S. Has issued sanctions aimed at disrupting funding for the Hamas Terrorist Group after its barbaric attack on israel last october 7th. Sanctions include 10 senior members and quote financial facilitators of the Hamas Terrorist Group, as well as roughly 1000 individuals and entities connected to iranian terror financing. The 10 individuals related to hamas are based in gaza, qatar, turkey, algeria and sudan. The sanctions struck hamas, hezbollah, and other terror organizations in the middle east. Senior treasury official labeled them part of a quote, massive financial networks. According to the Treasury Press release, janet yellen says the United States is taking swift and Decisive Action to attack hamass financiers and facilitators following up down shunnable massacre of israeli civilians including children. My first response, okay, thats good, better late than never. My second response is baloney. This is purely a defensive backpedaling manuever after across the board criticism leveled at the administration that it has not beefed up iranian sanctions, not defunded iran, indeed has not even executed the iranian sanctions in years. This is the Biden Administration running scared. Theyre trying to blow smoke at everybody now. The sanctioning thousands of people which is almost like sanctioning no one. There is one country not on the list of sanctions today, iran. Last week janet yellen said iranian sanctions have never been relaxed but Everybody Knows the facts speak otherwise. Over the past three years irans oil revenues, Foreign Exchange currencies, energy sales to china, all of them have skyrocketed. The maximum sanctioning campaign during the donald trump years that bankrupted iran and stopped their Oil Production sales has been abandoned by the bidens. Thats what the facts say. Also, i asked, does iran not qualify as a financial facilitator, really . Id say iran is the financial facilitator. Add to that, Master Planner and chief puppeteer of hamas, hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and the other terror groups that are sponsored by iran. You know, if the bidens ever got serious about maximum economic banking, energy and business sanctions on iran, on iranian shipments, on iranian individuals and entities they would return to bankruptcy which is where donald trump left them. Then the money financing hamas and all the terror groups would dry up. If President Biden truly wants to totally support israel, first up, he should let the idf do what it is going to do and second, bankrupt iran through serious sanction enforcement. I dont want to make this any harder than it needs to be. All right, that is my my riff. Now we turn to the aforementioned senator tom cotton of talk saw. Take a listen, please. So after the news report on the hospital attack which seems to be now pretty clear it came from hamas or Islamic Jihad we go right to senator tom cotton from the great state of arkansas, member of the Senate Armed Services committee. Senator cotton, welcome back to the show. Are you satisfied now, you heard all the evidence i suppose . It seems like it came from the terrorists, do you have any earns concerns about it . Larry i was satisfied yesterday in the immediate aftermath of this strike. Israel doesnt strike civilian targets. Doesnt strike hospitals without clear military necessity. That is the tactics hamas uses. Ones the Israeli Defense forces released video of terrorists in gaza, firing rockets next to the hospital and intercepts of them discussing it, corroborated by american intelligence agencies, there is no question that terrorists in gaza were responsible for the deaths at this hospital, as is often the case because they use hospitals and schools and mosques as military targets or they have total indifference to operate next to those otherwise protected sites. There is no question, larry, that there is two sides of war crimes here. Hamas is committing war crimes in israel and hamas is committing war crimes in gaza. Larry i was going to ask you, hamas has a whole history of this. Rocket launchers right next to schools, hospitals, and so forth. Churches, mosques. The complete disregard for civilians, utter disregard for civilian life of any kind. There is also some talk, senator, that buried underneath the hospital, they have done this with schools, they have various armaments and munitions, they hid them right there in those sensitive civilian areas . Well it wouldnt be surprising, larry, because as you say there is a long history of hamas and other terrorists dedicated to the destruction of israel using the most sensitive civilian sites like hospitals, like schools, like mosques to fire weapons, to cache weapons, use for commandandcontrol facilities. Those are used within that way are legitimate military targets. Here it was simply goes indifference to life terrorists have to rockets meant to be shot in israel in an effort to kill jews that killed many of their own people. Larry senator cotton, let me come back home because youve been a strong spokesperson, you may have legislation, immediate deportation of any Foreign Nationals that support hamas. I dont know how far it goes, whether hamas or other terrorist groups. Can you tell you about that . Is that a piece of legislation . Can it be done by executive order . What are you thinking, sir . No, it is not legislation, larry, because the law already makes support for terrorist activities or groups grounds for inadmissibility in the country, or, deportation for any Foreign National in the country. American citizen has a First Amendment right to make a fool of himself. Were engaged in morally depraved speech but no foreigner here does and we should not allow people who are here by the grace of our country advocating for hamas, defending its massacre of women, children, elderly necessary rail to stay here for another day. Joe biden and the secretary of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas should take immediate action to finding people who are advocating and defending hamas and should remove them immediately. We wouldnt have allowed this kind of fifth column in the cold war, we shouldnt allow it now. Larry senator, speaking of the fifth column would you include other terrorist groups or let me say all other terrorist groups . Of course, larry. We should never allow someone hoe advocates for terrorism or terrorists into our country, again, throughout the cold war support for communism or the communist party was ground for inadmissibility or deportation to the country. The same thing should be the case for advocacy for any kind of terrorist organization or terrorist group. Larry this is, isnt this, senator, isnt this what trump did a couple years back . Well he took various actions to protect the country from terrorism. For instance, imposing bans on travel from countries that have known terrorism problems for which there is no effective government for which we can vet the backgrounds of people entering the country. Or offering, using this exact kind of Statutory Authority to prevent terrorist sympathizers from entering the country. He certainly helped close our border to insure that we didnt have potential terrorists entering our country. Right now we have no clue the risks we might have coming across our southern border. Larry so, senator, lets go back to the middle east problem. The Administration Today announced a whole series of sanctions on hamas, hamas leaders. I think some of it is going into qatar, turkey, and so forth. You know, i just thinking, sir, like, im okay with sanctioning hamas, you know, tough sanctions, maximum sanctions, but they kind of left out a country that has escaped sanctions in the last couple of years. I have guess i will just say it, iran. Why is it theyre going after hamas, okay, fine, im good with that, but why dont they reimpose tough maximum sanctions on iran which is the troublemaker, the financeer, the puppeteer and the Master Planner . I dont get it, senator. Youre right about irans role in supporting hamas. Hamas would not exist as a military and terror entity without iran bankrolling, financing it, training its fighters and so forth. It is not just, larry they dont impose new sanctions on iran, today, believe it or not, is the day that multilateral sanctions on irans Missile Program expired under the failed nuclear deal. Thats right, this day, eight years later, is the day that multihat ral sanctions on iran ace Missile Program which theyre currently using to help russia kill ukrainians expired because joe biden, even after this massacre in israel would not reimpose those multilateral sanctions through the United Nations and the reason they dont do it, larry it would be an indictment of 11 years of the failed obamabiden iran policy. Larry so did you see blinken, the state department put out a long thing about sanctions on the Ballistic Missiles and the u. N. I guess there is u. N. Inspection. I havent read all of it. Maybe you have seen it. My question to you is, they have reupped it today, the last day as you point out. Are you satisfied with it . Does this work . No, not at all, larry, because the sanctions theyre talking about are National Sanctions that we can impose or that european nations can impose. There is nothing to stop those nations to include the Biden Administration from changing their tune later. These multilateral sanctions that could have been imposed under the nuclear deal at the United Nations were one thing that could have bound sanctions, worldwide against iran. So, no, i do not accept that as satisfactory. In fact it is just another example of how President Biden has emboldened iran to think they can get away with backing hamas as they undertake the kind of terrorist atrocity we saw a few days ago in israel. Larry can there be hearings on this, on the flaws in this thing . Because this is a gigantic issu. I dont think most people were aware of it. We discovered it a couple days ago. I asks some of your colleagues about it. This is enormous thing, sanctioning on Ballistic Missiles. Energy and economic sanctions is there some way to have a a partisan, democrats right now are talking a good game, somehow bipartisan reimposition of secondary and primary sanctions on iran . It is the Ballistic Missile sanctions economic and Energy Business sanctions . Iran is the culprit. Hamas, yes of course, but iran stands behind everything as you just said . Larry unfortunately congress in bipartisan fashion could throw the kitchen sink at iran but if President Biden refuses to enforce the sanctions they wont be very effective. We have sanctions in place for iran on the sealed of oil yet the Biden Administration has not vigorously enforced those sanctions for the last three years enriching iran to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. And guess where most of that oil goes, larry . It goes to china, our number one enemy in the world. This all gets back to President Biden east continuation of Barack Obamas failed iran policy which has done nothing but to embolden iran to spread a campaign of terror around the middle east. Larry all right, senator tom cotton we appreciate your time and your point of view, sir. Thank you ever so much. Thank you, larry. Larry you bet. All right, there you have it, coming up President Bidens wheels up on his way to the United States. So is it time for the idf invasion of gaza on the ground . Were going to ask Israeli Specialops veteran aaron cohen when kudlow returns. On. My brother max recommended you. So my best friend sophie says youve been a huge help. At ameriprise financial, more than 9 out of 10 of our clients are likely to recommend us. Our neighbors, the garcias, love working with you. Because the advice we give is personalized, hey, john reese, jr. Hows your father doing . To help reach your goals with confidence. My sister has told me so much about you. 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