You, bret. Bret thank you. Thank you very much. Have a good night good evening welcome to washington im bret baier. Breaking tonight rapidly changing developments in the israeli war with hamas, a warning here. Many of the images coming out of the region are graphic and disturbing. The u. S. Death toll has risen to 27. 14 americans are unaccounted for. The u. S. Government will begin evacuation flights for americans in israel very soon. Some 20,000 of them, its believed. Preparations are continuing for an expected massive Ground Invasion by the israelis into gaza. The Israeli Defense force is pounding what it calls hamas infrastructure inside gaza. At least 2700 people have died on both sides. Terrorists are believed to be holding about 150 hostages. U. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken met with israeli leaders in tel aviv today. He will visit with palestinian president tomorrow. Senior correspondent mike tow bib is in israel right now with the latest. Good evening, mike. Good evening Bret Artillery Thunders into the night, gaza remains under siege and israeli minister promises power, food and water will not be restored until all the hostages are released and the army prepares for the next stages in this war. New video released by the idf claiming to show a comanned 0 unit retaking a Military Post on the gaza border. As the air assault continues, is real has conducted over 2,000 air strikes since saturday. 360,000 israeli reservists have been called up as the Army Mobilizes near the gaza border and preparations for a Ground Assault are under way. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu appearing with Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken issuing a powerful warning to hamas. Hamas is isis, and just as isis was crushed, so too will hamas be crushed. But irans Foreign Minister Warning if israel fails to stop attacking citizens in gaza the region will face new conditions and they cannot put gaza under complete siege and bomb the citizens commit war crimes and expect no response. Hamas continues to use civilians as Human Shields putting civilians in harms way to try to protect themselves or protect their infrastructure or protect their weapons. Reporter hospitals in gaza are inundated with patients of all ages. Morgues overwhelmed with bodies and u n officials warn a humanitarian crisis is emerging with food and water quickly running out. Our colleague trey yingst was caught in a tense situation at the Music Festival sight brutally ambushed by hamas saturday. We heard a gunshot and theyre yelling at people to get out of the air. You can see these soldiers, get down, get down flat. Lay down totally flat. You can see things are very tense here. There were two gunshots and now they have someone on the ground. Go back right now. Reporter a palestinian contact in gaza says a remaining highramping aring Hamas Terrorists have gone into hiding. Lower Level Operators have changed into civilian clothes and slipped back into the population. Bret . Bret mike tobin live in israel. Mike, thank you we are going images tonight of potential us assistance to israel, f18 fighter jets with the u. S. S Gerald Ford Carrier Strike Group in the eastern mediterranean. Also tonight an apparent movement on the effort to make sure iran does not have access to that 6 billion of recently unfrozen assets. The issue of iran funding has become a major piece of the israel hamas war. Another big concern, the Surprise Element of saturdays surprise attacks. White house correspondent Jacqui Heinrich has that part of the story tonight live from the north lawn. Good evening jacqui. Reporter good evening bret. President biden held no Public Events but he did meet with his National Security team as israel right side a Ground Invasion to rule out hamas with a number of Americans Still being held hostage. Hamass Terror Attack on israel also surprised the u. S. The Defense Secretary says. If we had those indications, we would share them with our with israel. But, to my knowledge, we did not see that, so. Reporter 14 americans are still missing. Efforts to bring them home ongoing. Despite at least 29 other countries sending in troops to evacuate their citizens, the u. S. Sees no need to do the same at least for now. If theres a need to do more or to do it differently well, by goodness, well do that. Reporter the administration is, however, quietly telling lawmakers it will block irans use of 6 billion in previously frozen funs leaving any requests that come in pending indefinitely but they wont confirm it in public. Reporter why is it you wont come out and say the u. S. Does not intend to let this money go to iran . Jacqui, weve always had since the beginning, always had the ability to provide overnight some republicans think they know why. What this really is is a cover, a spin for the administration to not reverse course on iran. We can be helping israel isolate hamas and hezbollah right now if we chose to, but instead youve got this big Fictitious Fair Tail Spin going on. Reporter the u. S. Also declining to mirror frances move banning palestinian protests after a call of a call tomorrow. If youre going to celebrate and mock and laugh about the slaughter and butchery of innocent people, innocent jews, then thats just one step removed from saying, and by the way, im going to kill some jews myself. Reporter tonight there are alerts from u. S. Capitol police, the nypd and lapd, that additional measures are being put in place after that global Call To Action from the former hamas chief. The fbi is encouraging the public to remain vigilant and report anything suspicious, bret. Bret Jacqui Heinrich live on the north lawn. Jacqui thank you. Getting americans home who want to leave the region is a top priority for the pavement Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken again in israel where he met with israeli officials including the Prime Minister. He plans to talk tomorrow with palestinian leaders. Senior National Correspondent rich edson is at the State Department tonight with that. Good evening rich. Reporter good evening bret. The Secretary Of State is traveling throughout the region he says to work to free those hostages. Hamas is still holding, and to try to keep this conflict from spreading. Secretary spent the today i in egypt meeting with top israeli officials including Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu. Blinken says the world is seeing evidence of the today paragraphity and the inhumanity of hamas. On a basic human level, how anyone cannot be revolted and cannot reject what theyve seen and what the world has seen, its beyond me. Reporter the secretary also says hes pressing officials in the region to prevent other groups and Terrorist Organizations from joining this fight. Blinken then traveled to a Donations Center to speak with volunteers including a Young American israeli dual citizen who survived the hamas attack at a Music Festival in israel. We celebrated love, and we danced, and it was amazing. And then the rockets started and gunshots everywhere. We managed to escape. But there are a lot of friends that didnt, than are a lot of friends that are kept captive now. Reporter a Senior State Department official says the u. S. Has been in discussions with israel and egypt to try to create a safe rout for americans and others to evacuate gaza into egypt, though egypt has so far refused. As for americans trying to leave israel, the state Department Says tomorrow, the u. S. Government will start arranging Charter Flights to help americans and their immediate Family Members get out. Officials say theyre going to work with carriers to try to get americans to a third country and then they can book their own travel on home from there. Bret. Bret rich edson live at the State Department. Rich, thank you. There is other news. Here in the u. S. The process of selecting a new speaker of the house appears to be struggling tonight t republican nominee for the post, Majority LeaderSteve Scalise may not have the support necessary, at least not at this hour. Senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram tells us where things stand at this minute. Good evening sdmood bret good evening. The house is no closer to electing a speaker than it was before, gop speaker nominee Steve Scalise struggling to garner votes. He failed to close the deal today. As republicans talking amongst ourselves what those issues are. The good news is our support continues to grow. Were continuing to work to narrow the gap. Reporter however, scalise is bleeding support. And a Poe Lena Luna of florida was for scalise but now is opposed. Some gop members are skeptical scalise or anyone ever gets the votes. I dont know who can get to 217 in this conference. I want to be wrong. But if we are he a here until sunday, monday, tuesday next week and we dont have someone we have to come up with another option here. Reporter republicans are glum. Its been nine days since the house had a speaker and was operational. I think that we need to decide whos going to be the speaker and just go on the floor to do it. Theres too many things napping the world right now that need our attention. Reporter some gop members still support the man scalise defeated yesterday, jim jordan. Jordan reiterated his backing of scalise today but that failed to boost scalise. We dont have a governing majority. We have more unreasonably people that put us under 218. These guys want to be in the minority so they can vote no and yell and scream all the time. Reporter some floated the idea of giving speaker speaker pro tell more power on a temporary bases others want former speaker Kevin Mccarthy. Bret chad thank you. Speaking of which we will talk with former House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy here on set in just a few minutes. Consumer prices were up four tenths of 1 in september. That is below the previous months pace of six tenthths. Todays Labor Department also showed year over year inflation was unchanged last month from its 3. 7 figure in august. Stocks were down after that Inflation Data today. The dow lost 174. The s p 500 fell 27. The nasdaq dropped 85. Middle east tension probably a part of that as well. The ideological struggle on college and University Campuses over the israeli war against hamas, thats next. Comparable to isis, comparable to nazis, its said that there are these people here that support that. You guys are associated hamas as a terrorist organization. Its a resistance. Bret the latest fox news poll show President Bidens Approval Rating still significantly under water stands at 41 . His disapproval is at 58 . Only 28 of registered voters surveyed are satisfied with how things are going in the u. S. 72 dissatisfied federal prosecutors in new york have rewritten their indictment against new jersey democratic senator bob menendez and his wife. The couple is now being charged with conspiring to have him act as an agent of egypt, and egyptian officials. There has been no comment so far from menendez or his staff about this rewrite of the indictment. He defiantly pushed back against corruption charges last month saying millions of dollars found in his home, gold bars and cash and a car, were from his personal savings not from bribes. Contract talks of resumed between auto workers and detroit auto makers, uaw staged a snap strike wednesday at fords most profitable factory. Today talks are said to be concentrating on take less than is the, president sean feign is scheduled to update members tomorrow. An update on a story tonight weve been talking about all week. The ideological rug on college and University Campuses over the war in israel. Correspondent mollie is at university in cambridge massachusetts tonight. Reporter dubbed a day of resistance. We welcome you today to stand in solidarity with palestine and palestinian. Reporter nationwide protests called for by the National Students for justice in Palestinian Organization turned into clashes at some universities including Unc Chapel Hill in north carolina. Video captures a jewish professor who joined pro israel counter protest, being pushed. Those people that support people that killed hundreds of people, kids, babies. Reporter the online poster touting the Call To Action features a paraglider, one of the means hamas used to infiltrate israel, Slater Hundreds and take hostages. One young woman attending the Resistance Rally at Arizona State university remained unapologetic in her support. You guys are touting hamas as a terrorist organization. Its a Resistance Movement and we need to stand behind it. Greg several Student Organizations that originally signed on to a joint statement blaming israel are now seeking to retract their support and Business Leaders contemplate black listing students. Billionaire writing, ive been asked by a number of ceos have harvard members issue a List Sighting seoul responsibility for sole responsibility to israel so none of us inadvertently hire any of their members. Today its on display on harvard yard where posters kidnapped israeli hostages as one sophomore la meants the divide. The fact that people are celebrating this as a victory. Theres nothing victorious about the bee heading of children or the kidnapping of young women or elderly people. Reporter more protests are scheduled for tomorrow. Bret. Bret mollie in cambridge, thanks now another followup on the case of a high ranking us official with suspected ties to iran. House republicans are seeking new information on special envoy robert mali. Correspondent david spunt fills us in good seeping. Reporter good evening to you, rob was a top architect of the now defuventh Iran Nuclear Deal negotiate duringed the obama administration. The State Department suspended his Security Clearance in june when fox news confirmed he was under fbi investigation. The bureau is mum tonight on that probe but there are reports, bret, that he mishandled classified information. He has extensive experience when it comes to us iranian affairs. We found some archival footage from a 2009 interview for a documentary that gives perspective of his relationship with hamas. Listen. Theres so much misinformation about that. I mean, i speak to them, and my colleagues speak to them. Now, we may disagree with them, but they have their own rationale. Thats one thing to understand. None are crazies, they may do things that we consider to belong to a different realm of rationaleity but its often very logical. Reporter in june of this year when he was suspended he said in a statement, ive been informed that my Security Clearance is under review, i have not been provided any further information but i expect the information to be resolved favorably and soon. In the meantime i am on leave an fbi source tells fox news the investigation is ongoing, a state Department Spokesman declined to give details on this probe. Bret. Bret david spunt, thank you. Former House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy joins me next to discuss the search for his successor, whether he might still be interested, and how all of this possibly affects the situation in israel. As we go to break, though, newly released Helmet Cam Video of Israeli Soldiers retaking a base overrun by hamas militants and t