today, breaking news on the war on israel, the very latest in this exclusive interview coming up with house foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccaul. plus, former secretary of state mike pompeo on the road ahead for israel and the middle east peace that the trump administration tried to broker. brus -- plus, the policies that got us here as many are fearing we are now living in the midwest dangerous time the world has seen in decades. here's ted cruz. >> i think the risk of a major terrorist attack in the united states is higher today than it has been at any time sip september 11th, 2001. maria: coming up, exiled former iranian crown prince reza paf love i have is here on the forces behind the that maas terrorist group. plus, with an unprecedentedded member of terrorists on the march, former senate candidate kari lake is here on the view from arizona. then, the unthinkable is happening during chaos washington as the speaker's race remains unresolved. former speaker of the house and california congressman kevin mccarthy is here on the week ahead expected to resolve the gop speaker debate with one month until the government faces yet another shutdown. all of the breaking news right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ maria: and we begin this sunday morning with breaking news from israel. over 1,300 israelis are dead this morning while more than 2,3900 palestinians are dead as well as 29 americans as the war in israel enters a ninth day and israel fights hamas terrorists' unprovoked attacks. israel dropped leaflets over the weekend and friday advising citizens to move south. they suggested it was readying a ground assault on gaza to retaliate for the worst terrorist attack on israel since 9/11. hamas is reportedly holding 150 hostages including american citizens right now. here now with the very latest in this "sunday morning futures" exclusive is the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, or congressman michael mccaul. mr. chairman, thank you very much for joining us this morning, and i want to get to this message sent to israel over the weekend. but before we get there, you have been given a briefing in the situation room. can you assess where we are in this war right now? >> well, it's getting very dangerous. i think the concern, maria,ing is an escalation beyond the gaza strip. right now we're trying to contain it, trying to get the innocent civilians south towards egypt and open up egypt so they can go in. but thes escalation from hezbollah is real, the role of iran is very real in this. you know, hezbollah has 100,000 rockets that could overload the iron dome itself in israel. we do not want that two-front war. and so that is a great concern. in addition to isis and syria and iran-backed militias in iraq and the taliban is making noise about coming in as well. we don't want a global jihad in jerusalem. maria: unbelievable. let's get to this message that iran sent to israel on saturday night stressing that it does not want further's changes in the war -- escalation in the war, and it says if it sees israel go in in this ground attack which we are expecting, they will have to intervene, and israel will face a, quote-unquote, earthquake. >> frightening. this is the nightmare scenario we've always been worried about. israel, there's no question they're going to go into gaza. it's their 9/11. they want justice. they're going to go in and take out hamas which is like isis. you know, i went to that kibbutz where they killed all the little children and decapitated them. it's going to happen. so what is iran going to do? are they just going to help their proxies like hezbollah and others, or are they going to get directly involved in this conflict? either way, maria, you know, my committee's charged with war and peace. my committee has the power to declare war. or issue an authorized use of military force. we don't want to do that, but if this escalates, that's what worries me the most. maria: tell me what you're referring to. are you saying that the united states will have to get involved? >> well,ing if we want to stop, say, israel from obliterating iran, yes. and that would be a question for the american people. do we want to get involved to defend israel. right now we're provide providing weapons and training. we're not involved, we're not firing our missiles from our destroyer ships in the mediterranean. but the minute that happens, it does drinking trigger the war -- it does trigger the war powers act. that's why we have to be so careful and pray that it does not's escalate to that level because what would follow after that would be very blood key. maria: -- bloody. maria: congressman, i want to get your take on how we got here as well. i know that this rocket malley is under investigation for mishandling classified information. he was one of the leaders within certainly, what, the obama administration and biden administration negotiating with iran to get back into an iran deal? >> yeah. this is what -- you can't make this kind of stuff up, maria. this is our top negotiator to iran. mr. , you know, special envoy mr. malley. he's now under investigation by the fbi for mishandling of classified information. well, what did he do with that classified information? we don't know exactly yet, but we do know that he was in, you know, in talks and negotiations with iran over their nuclear weapons program. meanwhile, there's this independent think tank, the iranian expert initiative, can which he was in association with this think tank that interfaced with the foreign minister of iran. again, one of these three associates is currently the chief of staff to the assistant secretary of defense for special operations at the pentagon. who was a part of this independent think tank that interfaces with the foreign minister of iran. this is getting a little too close, and i'm getting a little too nervous with this coziness between iran and this administration and state department and defense department. i would view it as an infiltration or an opening of the gates of iran into our government. maria: and you have talked about the appeasement that the biden administration has given to iran from day one. i think you said it was something like $30 billion that this administration allowed iran to generate by relaxing sanctions on oil sales. is that a right? >> $30 billion of unenforced sanctions on oil, right? i mean, that has helped them build their war machine, their nuclear weapons program. and guess what else it helped? it helped them give $150 million to hamas and a bunch of weapons that they used to invade israel last saturday and and conduct this massacre on the ground. in addition, maria, you know this hostage negotiation giving, you know, getting five innocent americans out in exchange for six very culpable iranian prisoners, or culpable of espionage for lack of a better word. that was an unfair trade in and of itself. but then you throw $6 billion on top of that wired from south korea to doha, they say it's going to be for humanitarian purposes only. president of iran says i'm going to do whatever i want with the money. well, on monday i'm introducing a bill to put secondary sanctions on the doha bank so that it freezes those, that $6 billion not rarely, but forever. not temporarily, but forever. i do not want to see $6 billion more going into iran to feed their terror operations throughout the middle east. maria: this is incredible. and do you have confidence that that bill will be able to move, congressman? i know you're going to be introducing that bill tomorrow morning, but, you know, the administration is trying to message out to the world that it has some kind of a quiet agreement with the qataris. i read earlier that the former head of hamas was in qatar talking with qatari officials. should we be trusting qataris on this, and should we be trusting the biden administration on whatever efforts it says it's taking around that money? do you believe that there's a quiet with agreement? >> i don't trust them. i mean, i think there is what a quiet agreement in exchange for the $6 billion. they said that they would, in a self-regulatory way going back to 60% enrichment just on their own, voluntarily. this is the most naive foreign policy or they're just doing downright disingenuous which is the lack of trust here. the reason why i don't trust them is the reason why i'm introducing this bill, to make sure that it's permanent. i think there's enough votes in the senate to get this done, and if anything, maria, it's going to put a heck of a lot of pressure on the administration to stop this nonsense. we don't need to be sending $6 billion into iran, for god sakes, after what they just did to israel. i think that is just egregious. maria: real quick, connect the dots to china because i know you've spoken a lot about the aggressiveness coming out of communist china. does china support iran? >> oh, of course. china supports putin, they support ran and the eye tole -- iran and the ayatollah. china and russia want to be, their narrative is we're helping the palestinians and the arab nations against the little satan, the occupier, israel, and against the bigger satan, the united states. that's essentially, you know, their narrative. and both mr. putin and china are both involved in this. in fact, hamas representatives were just in moscow just a couple weeks ago. god knows what they were talking about before the invasion. but they're all complicit in this, they're all in bed together, china, russia, iran and, you know, we don't want to see this escalate to that level, but that is the real picture. maria: yeah. it sounds like you expect this escalation to happen. >> i think the hezbollah one will as soon as they, israel goes into gaza. that's the nightmare scenario i talked about in the situation room, is how can hezbollah not go in when these, the narratives come out? hamas is very good at propaganda, as you've seen, and they're going to blame this all on israel even though they took, they drew first blood with. they were the ones that went into this massacre 9/11-style. it's their fault, not israel's. but when israel responds, they get blamed for it. and then hezbollah gets involved with all their rockets, and then if iran gets in there, we're talking about issues of war and peace. maria: right. congressman, thank you. we're going to be watching, and your leadership is so important right now. we appreciate your time. chairman, congressman michael mccaul. thank you, sir. >> thanks, maria. maria: -- >> we have real concerns he has misled and lied to congress in the past in terms of some of the financial arrangements that were made under the obama administration. maria: and that was senate foreign relations committee member marco rubio with me on "mornings with maria" on fox business on friday with questions for president biden's nominee for u.s. ambassador to israel. jacob lew will have his confirmation hearing this coming week, he served as treasury secretary under the obama administration as the war in israel enters the ninth day. last week "the wall street journal" reported that iran helped plan the attack with the iranian revolution their guard giving the final go ahead last month in beirut, or and yet the biden administration says it has yet to see direct evidence that iran was involved even though tehran is the main financial supporter of hamas. joining me right now is former secretary of state and fox news contributor mike if pompeo with. secretary, thanks very much for being with us on this important day, and it certainly feels like things are getting more dangerous by the moment. how do you assess things? >> i think that's true. i think that's true for multiple reasons, that the risk is greater today than it was even eight days ago that we'll sees calculation in large part because the context that was set by the biden administration creates an incredible conundrum, and when they can't simply acknowledge this is iran as the correct address to solve this problem. second, we know that the ayatollah has been planning this effort. i saw today reporting that qassem soleimani, the man that we actually took off the playing field, was involved in planning this operation back in 2019 and 2020. and yet the administration still i says there's no direct evidence. i suppose they need a video of the ayatollah actually pulling a trigger on an artillery round for them to admit there was direct evidence. we know who did this, this was iran. the response must be against iran, and this will continue whether from the houthis in yemen or the shia militias in iraq or sleeper cells in denver or houston, this terror will continue to emanate until iran is put in its place, and that's the task in front of all of us. i'm confident israel will do its part in the gaza strip, but we've got to get this right at this moment. maria: but iran is you are pursuing nuclear weapons -- pursuing nuclear weapon, and we've been hearing how close they are to that prospect now for many years. i don't know how close they are, but how does that fit into your thinking? >> so the iranians are very close to having sufficient enrichment capability. they still don't have a weapons program, there's work to do there, for sure. but, maria, here's the deal, if we permit the iranians to get a nuclear weapon, there'll be multiple nuclear weapon states in the middle east. that is really bad for america. our administration told the houthis in yemen, you're no longer terrorists. we had designated them as a terrorists. these proxies aren't terrorists. they then said we're not going to enforce oil sanctions because we have a green climate agenda, and we're going to have oil prices and gas prices through the roof, so we're going to let the iranians ship their oil across the world. they were about 400,000 barrels a day being shipped when i left office, there are 3.5-4 million being shipped as we sit here this morning. that's a lot of money to build out your weapons program. when jake sullivan said eight days before the attack, hey, the middle east is pretty stable, it's pretty quiet, he now has to say turns out we were wrong. we took our eye off the ball, we played footsie with the iranians trying to get back in a deal. we underwrote them by funding the pal the stint januaries through unrah, we gave money to the very terror itselfs who killed 29 americans. 29 americans, maria, are dead. a dozen or more held hostage as we sit here today. that is indecent, and the biden administration needs to move away from its policy of appeasement to iran and immediately invoke snapback on jcpoa. next week or the week after iran will lawfully be permitted to develop their weapons program. we need to reimpose enforcement of the very sanctions that worked to cripple the iranian rejean's capacity to do harm. we have many tools we can use, maria. this administration's just chosen not to do that. maria: why? why not? >> you know, i can't answer that question. they'll have to live with this themselves. what took place there that day, the indecency, the horror, the barbarism that took place with these hamas terrorists under the direction of iran killing thousands of people. they'll have to explain why they decided that what had been built, greater peace, greater prosperity in the region, partnering with our friends in the kingdom of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and bahrain where they decided, nope, we're going to call the crown prince of saudi arabia a pariah, we're not going to invite prime minister netanyahu to the white house, we're going to take up a leftist agenda somehow sawing that the palestinians have been wrong, that israel's an occupying nation. that was biden administration policy for its first two and a half years, and the responsibility is iran's'. but the conditions that were set were certainly enabled by an administration that didn't understand who our friends were and who our enemies were in the region. maria: this is incredibly disturbing k and this morning it is underlined with this scoop from axios that is saying iran has barnedded israel -- warned israel through the u.n. against any ground offensive in gaza. israel has been very clear, they're dropping leaflets, they're telling the citizens to get out of the way, it's coming. and yet iran says if it does come, you will face an earthquake. what does that mean? how should we read this iranian message? >> no, i hear folks on campuses across america and the left, often anti-semitic folks saying stop the darn imagine the. sign me up. -- the darn carnage. i agree with that. the way to stop the carnage is to eliminate the terrorists, to eliminate those who beheaded babies, raped grandmas, who took holocaust survivors as hostages and apparently have already killed some of them. sign me up for stopping the carnage. one must stop the carnage by acknowledging that there is evil in the world, that evil today emanates from the ayatollah and his theocrats in today -- tehran. israel needs to eliminate the threat inside of gaza. the united states needs to do its part, and when the iranians say if you go take down terrorists, if you actually protect and defend your own nation, your own nation's sovereignty, we're going to double down, the united states has the capacity to speak directly to the iranian regime and make clear that is unacceptable. i know that, maria. i know that can be done. we did it in our administration. when they began to threaten american lives, we were very clear about what we would do. not 29 american lives, as we've lost, but a single american life. we were very clear, and when we did, the iranians understood real power, american power, and that's what the biden administration needs to demonstrate. maria: yeah. unfortunately, by the time joe biden got settled the oval office, you weren't even allowed to murmur the words abraham accords. very quickly, secretary, before we go, much of what you just said based on history the administration's not going to do. give us a realistic expectation of what we should think about this war and how it unfolds. >> well, i think we're going to see the israelis do what they need to do to defend themselves, and i am, i'm hopeful. i hold out hope that the biden administration combined with some very wise folks in the middle east will find a way to prevent this from escalating into something even worse. it's in no one's interest for this to escalate. not in the people of lebanon where hezbollah resides, it's not in the interest of the gulf states to see this begin to move across borders in ways that present risks to their own people as well. i i am hopeful that the biden administration can find a foothold in a way it simply has not been able to do so far so keep this from spiraling into a place where you could see things not just in the middle east, but islamic countries around the world and, indeed, we all know this, we had someone killed in paris yesterday, perhaps it was the day before. we could see violence all around the world. this can be stopped. this is not inevitable. the iranians are not 10 feet tall. we know how to address this with real power, and that's the task that lays ahead for american leadership. maria: secretary, thank you. former secretary of state mike pompeo. >> thank you, maria. have a great day. maria: with two major wars taking place across the world, the united states finds itself without a speaker of a house 12 days later. former house speaker kevin mechanic car think is here with now one month until the government runs out of money yet again. stay with us. ♪ ♪ so ace benefits... and retirement savings. with voya, considering all your financial choices together... can help you be better prepared for unexpected events. voya. well planned. well invested. well protected. you're in a hurry. i'm off to america's best i heard what you said about not overpaying for glasses. two pairs and a free, quality eye exam starting at just $79.95? the exam alone is worth... 59 bucks. i mean, people deserve breaks, right? yeah, brakes...! [out of control] book an exam today at americasbest.com. my a1c was up here; now, it's down with rybelsus®. his a1c? it's down with rybelsus®. my doctor told me rybelsus® lowered a1c better than a leading branded pill and that people taking rybelsus® lost more weight. i got to my a1c goal and lost some weight too. rybelsus® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't take rybelsus® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if allergic to it. stop rybelsus® and get medical help right away if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain, or an allergic reaction. serious side effects may include pancreatitis. gallbladder problems may occur. tell your provider about vision problems or changes. taking rybelsus® with a sulfonylurea or insulin increases low blood sugar risk. side effects like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may lead to dehydration, which may worsen kidney problems. need to get your a1c down? you may pay as little as $10 per prescription. maria: welcome back. more now from the middle east this morning as iran is reportedly threatening israel not to attack gaza in retaliation for the heavy attacks to hamas, while in washington the congress has essentially ground to a halt. on friday jim jordan, the chairman of the judiciary, won the majority of support of members of the house republican conference. however, he still falls sort short of the necessary votes to secure the speakership on the house floor. the conference is expected to reconvene tomorrow to see if there's enough support to send jordan's nomination to the floor of the house. joining me right now on where things stand at this hour is former house peek congressman kevin mccarthy. congressman, thanks very much for being here this morning. you saw the news of the morning. iran is warning israel against a ground offensive in gaza, and you don't have a leadership set in the house of representatives. can you assess es the situation? >> it's a terrible situation we're in because with we're at a critical time. probably just in my lifetime, we could be on the precipice of having another world war. the biggest challenge could be think for a moment, maria, if government was shut down as well, that our troops were not being paid, that these air force strike teams were ready in battle there but wondering whether they're going to be able to pay their rent or not. what i did was right, and i've lost my job over that. that's okay, because we cannot have this gates doctrine continue -- gaits doctrine continued any further. look, i think jim jordan can get there. i understand how difficult it is. i did walk in with more support during this time, but i believe at the end of the day jim can get there, and i'm doing everything i can to help him become speaker. maria: right now does jim jordan have the votesesome. >> as we walked away, he did not, but that's why we have time, walked away this weekend. i talked to jim last night. he's talking to every single member, assessing what their challenges are. but we've got to be able to work together. the real challenge here is eight republicans did something no one thought, that they worked with every single democrat to disrupt this nation, to remove me as speaker. so it has taught people now that why don't you just go work with democrats and disrupt government. this go down in history as one of the biggest mistakes these eight have made in the process. maria: what about you? i mean, do you have support to get back in there? are you telling me you can't find eight democrats who will believe you? >> the democrats made a political decision thinking that's their place to be, but they've created as much chaos. every single democrat chose to create this chaos. i want to put the country first. i'm going to help lead regardless of whatever title i have. i have the responsibility. and what i see the most important thing here is what's happening in israel. this is something that's very personal to me. i was just in israel recently speaking at the knesset for their 75th anniversary. that kibbutz where we asked these babies get with slaughtered and beheaded, i was just there in february of last year. maria: yes, i know you were. >> i understand the difficulties we have here. we've got to speak with one voice. it's also as you listen to your show here, very intelligent show, we realize it's not just hamas that has to be destroyed. this is iran providing the resources. this is, this is the axis of evil with iran, russia and china. this looks a lot like the 1930s, and we want to make sure history does not repeat itself. so what we do at this moment in time is very critical. we know the past mistakes of the biden administration. you just hook at the foreign currency reserves. when biden came into office, iran had $4 billion. they have $70 billion today. iran is stronger financially. they can fund terrorism more, they're closer to russia and china, they're working together. we have war in ukraine, war in the middlest east, we have five embassies that had to be evacuated, we have inflation like we haven't, it's a lot like a jimmy carter moment in time in american history, and this is where we need to speak with one voice being very strong with american freedom and understand what it means around the world. maria: in terms of that one voice, is there a consensus candidate that could get e the votes if jim jordan does not? what about mike johnson, kevin hearn? >> i don't think either of them could, would come very short. i think jim jordan can get the votes. maria: let me get your take on what happens next in terms of israel, because right as soon as this conflict started when hamas first attacked israel last saturday, you came out with a five-point plan. the first issue being make sure to get these hostages freed. how are you proposing this administration do that? >> well, first of all, i would reverse course on what this administration did when they took over. they started paying for american hostages, so more americans are being taken. that's where the $6 billion came into play with iran. secondly, i would put our very best units there assisting israel to make sure those hostages get back. i would tell the rest of the world if one american is harmed as a hostage, we will take due course to make sure that punishment comes directly to whoever we see involved in it. you've got to be strong in this situation, stop being weak in what we've watched this biden administration do. it's brought us americans being held hostage. 29 americans were killed in this. is that enough americans for america now to be strong and change the course? sanctions are already on iran's oil production, but when biden took office, they were only producing 400,000 barrels a day, today they're producing 3 million. maria: wow. >> with a price of about $100 a barrel. we're providing billions of dollars to iran to fund terrorism around the world and actually help russia in their fight with ukraine. maria: yeah. >> this is a biden administration if created, that's why they have to reverse course. the other ones i talked about, i'm worried about our own country, what he's done to our borders. what we found just on friday, individuals coming from the middle east on the terrorist watch list. we've watched this. maria, you have focused on this more than anybody else. you broke early on that in 2019 there were no people being caught on the terrorist watch list. this year, more than 151. maria: that's right. unbelievable. congressman, thank you. congressman kevin mccarthy, thank you, sir. coming up, protests are breaking out across the world and despite the riches of oil and the billions generated from it, regular iranians struggle for everyday, basic necessities as the ayatollah uses the oil money to fund his nuclear program and terror campaign after the biden administration relaxed enforcement of those sanctions. his royal highness, the exiled prince of iran, reza pahlavi, is here to assess the war and iran next. ♪ ♪ dvisors. hey david. connect with an advisor to create your personalized plan. let's find the right investments for your goals okay, great. j.p. morgan wealth management. providing for your family is a top priority. but what happens when you need affordable health care? christian health care ministries could save you up to 40% today. as a member, you can choose your provider without network restrictions. sign up at your convenience with our anytime enrollment. join a christian community that supports each other's medical expenses, offering peace of mind as you prioritize what's most important. enroll now at your chm dot org - [narrator] power outages are unpredictable, inconvenient, and disruptive to your life. posing a real threat to your comfort and safety. when the power goes out, you have no lights, no refrigeration, no heating or air conditioning. your well or sump pump won't work. your modern daily electronics are rendered useless. and what if the power's out for days or weeks? are you prepared? you can be with a generac home standby generator. - with the generac, it powers our well or refrigerator, and my cpap machine, which are all things that we need to survive on a day-to-day basis - [narrator] when a power outage occurs, your generac home standby generator automatically powers up so your life goes on without disruption. you and your family are comfortable, safe, and secure. generac generators run on your home's existing natural gas or propane and generac's mobile link remote monitoring system keeps you posted on operating status, maintenance updates, and more. generac generators are designed, engineered, and purpose-built in the usa. generac is the number-one manufacturer of home standby generators in the world. eight out of 10 home generators are generac with thousands of satisfied customers. - we chose generac because we see 'em everywhere. after the hurricane, i looked at my wife and said, "thank god we have a generac." we were safe. - [narrator] and owning a generator is easier than ever. special financing is available with low monthly payment options. act now and you will also receive a free seven-year warranty valued at $735. call or go online now to request your free quote with one of generac's 8,000 nationwide dealers. the call is free, the quote is free, and there's no obligation to buy. call or go online now so the next time there's a power outage, your home powers up. power your life with generac. call or go online to request your free quote today. - [female narrator] five billion people lack access to safe surgery. thousands of children are suffering and dying from treatable causes. for 40 years, mercy ships has deployed floating hospitals to provide the free surgeries these children need. join us. together, we can give children the hope and healing they never thought possible. it's a mission powered by love, made possible by you. give today. maria: welcome back. israel is expected to launch a ground offensive on the gaza strip any day now in retaliation to hamas terrorists. the biden administration relaxed sanctions on iran, enabling its brutal regime to make at least $12 billion in oil -- $112 billion increasing oil production to 3 million barrels a day in august from 2.6 million in april. the ayatollah khamenei has directed the oil money towards terrorist proxies in the region instead of on its people, many of whom now live below the poverty line. joining me now with more is the exiledded crown prince of iran, reza pahlavi, who this past spring met with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. thank you very much for joining us this morning. can you assess the most recent threat from iran, warning that if israel goes ahead with this ground assault, israel will face a, quote-unquote, earthquake? >> first of all, let's understand why we are at the stage that we are now facing. from the get go, this regime was not of a mindset of prosperity if and development. it was, rather, in a mindset of expansionism and exporting an ideology at the expense of its own citizenry. that means utilizing every resource at its hand to continue repression at home and a campaign of terror and instability abroad as a means to their e ends. so everything that you see as a consequence of that is the result or the symptoms of this cancer that a started in tehran to begin with. and obviously, as the regime sees weakness and as a result is boller in pushing the envelope -- bolder in pushing the envelope, it is now testing the resolve not just of israel, but the rest of the world as to how far they can push it. it certainly is not peace, it is certainly not stability. they were severely threatened by the prospect of the saudis and israeli peace relation, and all you can say this is sabotage by the very worst trying to, again, foment terror and instability. maria: what do you believe the proper response from the united states should be right now? >> well, first is and foremost, actually implement the sanctions that have been called for. we have forgotten about maximum pressure. i think the time has come to not only freeze the assets that were supposed to be unfrozen because we all know that the iranians will have additional money that they're going to, of course, spend on this campaign of terror by their proxies. but most importantly, increase even more the sanctions. one of the chief operatives behind all these proxies happens to be the irgc, and we're still questioning why europe, for instance, america's allies have not actually put the irgc on the terrorist list. this is a way to cripple the regime as opposed to empower it. and furthermore and the ultimate solution, and this is something i've been arguing for years, you have today the biggest war going on between the iranian people and this regime, a fight for liberation, a fight for freedom. and why is that important? because unlike this regime which celebrates martyrdom, which likes terror, we as a nation espouse the very values of liberty and human rights as you would in america or france or in sweden. and we are your natural allies, but we are being totally forgotten in this. if you want to solve and cure the cancer, you have to take the eye of the octopus out and not just fight the tentacles. the solution ultimately is tehran and regime change. maria: i understand that. but what about these other regional groups? you just heard former secretary of state mike pompeo talk about how close iran is to having enrichment for a nuclear hard weapon. we also heard michael mccaul, the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, talk about hezbollah currently having 100,000 rockets. can you assess the strength of hezbollah? >> well, again, reason her to ultimately take the -- more to take the eye of the octopus out. because the funding, the support, the strategic partnership that iran has with a couple of very important lots of power, meaning china and russia, in the balance will determine the outcome of what we see in the middle east today. so regardless of what tehran is trying to do vis-a-vis its approximate cities or -- proxies or perhaps trying the challenge and push further for opening a second front to this conflict, we have to see how they will respond to today's campaign of israel defending itself and retaliating towards this act a but also what the rest of the region and the world will respond like. look, there is terrorism going on right now. it's a war of terror, and everybody in the world of sane mind understands that as long as you have these elements in play, we will never see a peaceful region of stability. this is a problem that afflicts all. it's not just an israeli problem, it's not just an iranian problem. it's a regional and, ultimately, international from problem. there's no other way to look at this. so it's a matter of the coalition of willing who want to fight this, and the time has come for us to be clear in our positions. you cannot straddle the fence. you are either on this side of the fence or on the other side of the fence. i am on the side of the fence that calls for sol dir darety with all piece -- solidarity with all peace-loving nations who know together they can bring stability and peace, and we know clearly who our enemies are. i hope the world understands that and clarify clearly which al qaeda -- side of the fence they stand today. maria: has been you tell us about qatar and the qataris here? here we have this so-called quiet agreement that the biden administration claims it has made to freeze that money, the $6 billion, temporarily. and and yet we just heard michael mccaul say that, of course, all of this appeasement has a led to this. but do you believe that the qataris really would agree to hold money back from iran? >> well, as far as i know as of yesterday, the information that i had was that the qataris had rejected the notion that the $6 billion was refrozen. so that's not the case. therefore, $6 billion of money released to iran not to mention all the points that were made earlier about how much access iran has to revenue, at least $90 billion, it's a little bit more than speaker mccarthy indicated. he mentioned 70, i think it's more than that. as well as the production and all those things. that has gone unchecked. and, therefore, i think if you want to go to the specifics of this particular freezing of assets, it's really a drop in the ocean vis-a-vis so many other fronts that the regime could have access to. and that's really the big picture, the way that if the regime is getting fueled, it can, this far, continue its campaign of supporting its proxies. maria: of course, of course. >> obviously, they're not going to spend it on the starving people of iran, they're e going to spend it as i have called many times before on funding their campaign abroad and, of course, their nuclear program at home. maria: you've made this point before. we so appreciate your time this morning, reza pahlavi joining us this morning. up next, the other national security threat this america with more than 1.5 million foreigners entering the country undetected, the gotaways who disappear without a trace under the biden administration. arizona senate candidate kari lake with a firsthand account of the continuing crisis at the southern border. stay with us. ♪ ♪ maria: welcome back. sources within customs and border protection telling fox news that over the last two years thousands of people from middle eastern countries who the united states government has deemed a potential security threat have been arrested by border patrol while attempting to cross into america through the southern border. meanwhile, as china ramps up espionage activity in the country, at least 26,000 chinese nationals have illegally crossed the border into america over the same time frame. we are told they are largely military-aged men coming in. this, of course,s does not account for the more than 1.5 million so-called gotaways, those people who have evaded detection and disappeared into the united states during the biden administration. joining me with more kari lake who just announced her bid for the u.s. senate seat, and she had been battling biden's border policy for years. kari, congratulations on entering the senate race. >> oh, well, i'm happy to be in it because we've got a lot of problems that need to be fixed and, frankly, right now, you know, besides having president trump's end end endorsement, which i appreciate so much, aye got the people of arizona behind me because they're tryed -- tired of what they're seeing on the border. if this is not a wake-up call to the people of arizona and america that that's happening in israel, this attack from terrorists, won't happen here, then people have got to pull their head out from the sand a because we have seen thousands of crossings. you just showed some of the figures, illegal immigrants with ties to these terrorist countries. it's not a matter of if it happens, it's when it happens. it's a national security risk. maria: yeah. i'm going to get to your senate campaign in a moment, but let's talk about the activity at the border because we just showed a graphic of thousands of so-called special interest rail yens -- aliens have been stopped at the southern border since to 2021 data is telling us these people were stopped because they were either on the terrorist list or questionable according to border sources. what can you tell us from the ground in arizona in terms of the gotaways and in terms of the breach on our southern boarder? >> well or, maria, you have to remember that all of these data points and facts that we're getting from border patrol while it's accurate from their assessment, the gotaways are thousands upon thousands of people, and they don't even know how many are coming in. we've seen independent journalists go down there and show video of literally groups of hundreds of men from god knows where pouring across, running across our border into arizona. of arizona is the place where most of the gotaways are coming through, and, you know, there are people coming across who do not love america. there's no doubt about it. and joe biden reversed the effective border policies of president trump. and the two people i'm running against, kyrsten sinema and rubin, they were constantly voting for joe bide on's -- joe biden's terrible policies. and i know that fox news recently put out a poll that shows the majority of americans, i think 71 of voters, say the border is not secure -- 71%. we even are seeing democrats come to that conclusion and voters as well. maria: we know it's not secure for fact. kari, i want to talk about your opponents in this race as well, and we're monitoring the war on israel as we speak. more with kari lake when we come right back. stay with us. dude? dog food in the fridge? it's not dog food. it's freshpet. real meat. real veggies. real weird. he was bad luck anyway. f-r-e-e. oh. yeah. free. get a free eye exam when you buy two pairs of glasses starting at just $79.95. book an exam today at americasbest.com. maria: welcome back. i am back with arizona senate candidate kari lake are. we've been talking throughout the program this morning about the democrat policies that have gotten us here to war on israel. and the appeasement of iran for the two and a half years we've seen joe biden run-innings in washington. run things in washington. i want to ask you about your main opponent here, ruben gallego. he was eric swalwell's campaign chairman when he ran for president, isn't that right in. >> you can't make this stuff up. i know everybody thought fang fang was his campaign manager, but it was a congressman from arizona who sits right in the heart of his district in phoenix, he has the fastest growing homeless population in the country. he has done nothing except rubber stamp joe biden's agenda, and joe biden's agenda is serving us to hell in a hand basket. kyrsten sinema is now a chameleon acting like she's not a democrat anymore, acting line she's an independent or but just look at their voting records. they've both voted with biden almost 100 percent of the time. they've been in congress for about two decades combined, and what do we have to show for it? higher gas price, inflation is hitting arizona the hardest of any place in the country. phoenix, arizona. we can't afford gas and, you know, this is joe biden on day one, think about what he did. he peeled back president trump's effective border policy which was keeping us safe. maria: right. >> and that hurt us when it comes to national security. and at the same time, he stopped our energy drilling and the laying of the pipelines. he cut all of that out, and now we are in a world of hurt. we've got to vote these people out and vote some people in that are going to put america first and that's, frankly, why i'm running. i hope people will help are our campaign. it's going to be a $300 million campaign, i'm told, with the three of us in it, and so i need people to go to kari lake.com and help out. we can win this race -- maria: yep. okay. >> we can with win this race, a new up e dependent poll that just came out this week shows i win in a three-way, or if it's just me versus gallego, i can still win, but i'm going to need people's help. maria: that'll do it for us on "sunday morning futures." i'm maria bartiromo. don't forget to stay with fox news, i'll see you on "mornings with maria" 6-9 a.m. eastern tomorrow. have a good sunday. (vo) sure you can get data everywhere but do you have to use it all the time? that's not really you. with tracfone, you get great coverage all on nationwide 5g. for a lot less. plans start at $15 a month no-contract. tracfone. - [narrator] what will you do when the power goes out? power outages can be unpredictable and inconvenient, but with a generac home standby generator, your life goes on uninterrupted because you'll have power when you need it the most. - with the generac it powers our well, the refrigerator, and my cpap machine, which are all things that we need to survive on a day-to-day basis - [narrator] get the security and peace of mind your family deserves with a home standby generator from generac. eight out of 10 home generators are generac with thousands of satisfied customers. - it's the peace of mind to get the generac generator. that was the best investment that we could have ever made. - [narrator] and owning a generator is easier than ever. special financing is available with low monthly payment options. act now and you will also receive a free seven-year warranty valued at $735. power your life with generac. call or go online to request your free quote today. ♪ ♪ howe the journalists wh