Shannon i am a Shannon Brame countdown to the Ground Invasion tens of thousands of israeli troops under Northern Gaza with the stated goal of eradicating the Group Responsible for the worst massacre since the holocaust. As Hundreds Of Thousands of palestinian try to flee the area ahead of the offensive food and water running out fueling fears of a humanitarian disaster. Separatist state en antony blinn meets with saudi crown bridge in an effort to meet with the unrest from spreading throughout the southeast. Works as is an unrelenting agy not knowing the fate of their loved ones. Death toll rise americans unaccounted for a more held hostage as the world watches the catastrophic scenes pour in from the israeli hamas war. Pressure is on the white house to bring the nation own back home. We are working aroundtheclock to secure the release regrets we sit down with National SecurityCouncil Communications coordinator jon kirby on the administrations plan to save those stranded in the middle of war. And. We have not yet have a dollar of that 6 billion spent spurious u. S. Quietly blocking iran from billions in dollars of previously Un Frozen Funds after harsh republican criticism the deal could have paved the way for the hamas attacks but will get reactive republican tom cotton member of the Senate Intelligence committee he was introducing a bill to immediately block a Running Access to those funds. Then. Debate ignites on College Campuses top universities are left at odds with Student Groups over support for either the israeli or Palestinian People. Will ask former senator Current University of florida president Bend Assassin Help education leaders should handle the heated clashes. Im sure my colleagues i withdraw my name as a candidate for speaker Designate Pickwick to search for a new House Speaker takes another twist. The former speaker Belt Bows Out new Leader Of The Pack rallied the support needed to secure the gavel . We will ask our sunday panel about the urgency to elect a speaker as the israel hamas war escalates it. All right now on fox news sunday. Shannon Hello From Foxnews In Washington but its been a week since israel declared war after a series of coordinated deadly Surprise Attacks by hamas. This look at the region it gives you a view into her israel has been in counterattacking brother have been airstrikes all for the gaza strip. But to the north theres been incursions involving hezbollah and into lebanon. Lets take a look. We are talking now about trying to evacuate that area, at least portions of it and get people to move it. This is most densely populated area here to the north, gaza city. Thats going to be a contentious heated part of this battle. The call has been for people to move to the south. Keep in mind for evacuations this is a fully fortified border. Israel is not going to allow passage from the gaza strip into these areas. What does that leave for the people . There is a crossing into egypt theres been much dispute about whether or not people have been allowed to cross there and it what numbers. There are reports this morning that hamas is not among people to leave it is blocking them from being able to get out of these most dangerous areas. In a moment will bring in john kirby from National Secure to counsel and senator tom cotton first lets turn to trade gangs life on the ground in israel. Good morning and date number nine on the war between israel and gaza here in southern israel preparations continue for a massive ground operation. We have seen thousands of israeli infantry troops and tanks apcs all wading along the border for those orders to enter the gaza strip. You can see behind me a large explosion in the northern parts the israelis continued to strike gaza ahead of an expected groud operation. Right now there is a massive Rocket Barrage coming up the gaza strip. You can see one rocket after another appears to be toward the center of israel. Day and night israel continues to hit positions inside gaza for the death toll they are quickly taking up to more than 2300 people many women and children among the dead. We do not functions inside Gaza Including Hamas and Islamic Jihad fire rockets into Central IsraelAir Raid Sirens across tel aviv. This comes as thousands continue to try and fleet south following warnings by the Israeli Military they do plan to enter the gaza strip and he went left and gaza city could be killed or injured. Shifting north we should discuss the Lebanese Militant Group hezbollah along the border today between israel and lebanon there have been five antitank Guided Missile attacks. There are casualties reported. This is quickly turning into a multi front conflict. To give you a sense of the morale of the soldiers in the Israeli Military we have spoken with thousands of them they are scared but ready to fight. We have seen the images what took place last week in the massacre of more than 1300 people in southern israel paid one soldier coming up to our cameras simply sank to help the world we will win. Shannon thank you from so much for your work there trade joining is now National Secure to counsel Communications Coordinator john kirby. Welcome back to fox news sunday. Center having me. Six axials reported this last night about iran sending a message to israel on saturday stressing it just not what further escalation in the hamas israel war but it will have to intervene if the israeli operation and gaza continues. By all accounts that is what is going to happen there talk him intervening, getting involved. What does that say to you . How do you interpret that and you worry about them indirectly on the silence for them right now . Chris its we are worried aboute potential escalation of this conflict we do not want to see in the act to be a state actor like arad or another Terrorist Group like hezbollah opening additional fronts that will distract Israeli Defense forces from their primary fight against hamas less of the present word that uss Gerald R Ford into the Eastern Mediterranean is a strong deterrent message that is all we also recently announced uss Dwight D Eisenhower carrier and her escort ships will be heading that way to be available for regional operations. Shannon that asked a question in that area center tom cotton said should be there they have an obligation to get americans out. Especially those we think may be held hostage. Would we have u. S. Foods on the ground for that or any other operation you could see . What take this in chunks theres no plans or intentions about u. S. Troops on the ground to fight between israel and hamas. We are actively trying to find out exactly where they are shannon, we do not even know how many exactly a small handful we know there could be more than we know where they could be in different groups for they could be moved around. I think you can understand i hope everyone can understand were going to be careful what we say publicly in our efforts to get us hostage as Home Secretary blanket is in the region right now traveling around this is high on his agenda. I can tell you we are working this literally by the hour were not going to get ahead of where we are Policy Options since we do not have necessarily all of the information we need to try to get them home. I will say a last thing i promise i will stop this is obviously high on the president s priority list. Nothing is more important to him the safety and security of americans held hostage overseas. We are not going to stop until we get the back with their families. Shannon would you roll at the possibility of u. S. Forces been becoming ron there . Whats what it will do is rule anything in or out when it comes to your hostages home. We are working on this literally by the hour in order to develop specific Policy Options youve got to have too much contextual information thats a middle to us and we are working at that. Lets talk about irans involvement Wall Street Journal had reported direct involvement Security Officials help plants plansaturday Surprise Attack on israel gave the green light for the response of the meeting in beirut last monday. They cite numerous Defense Sources they talk about multiple meanings in beirut Washington Post says this even if you do not see the direct link yet they quote western intelligence officials if you train people how to use weapons, you expect them to eventually use them. This white house need a link on this to hold iran and someway accountable . Its broadly complicit. The resource theyve given has functioned in and do the Terrorist Attacks have been able to conduct. We have held iran accountable the attacks on our troops have greatly decreased because of our retail tory strikes. The longest saving literally tens of thousands of lives. We have added military capabilities in the gulf region additional shifts to different aircrafts we are bolstering our Military Presence in the Eastern Parade there should be nobody mistaken the fact we continue to hold iran accountable but think about this for the giving to russia and your cane the additional sanctions we put on them for sending drone technology. Of course were holding them accountable. We are looking specifically at the intel stream is much as we can for that work is not happen im sorry it has not stopped it. We have not seen anything the intel we have been looking at directly point Stoop Specific participation by ira arad and hs attacks it doesnt were not looking for it we havent found ive seen the press reported we are not able to cooperate that. Shannon is a holding them accountable you know the push back your get a lot of people say we unfreeze 6 billion of their money giving them access to that that does not look like we are punishing them. Their questions about whether we can even quietly freezing it. If we can do that and eight mccarthy one of our colleagues at the National Review said with the ransom already paid the hostages released what Legal Mechanism does the administration have to compel qatar to return the funds u. S. Control such that they could be frozen, redirected otherwise kept out of toronto conference can you do that . Is there a string attached somewhere . And if not why not what would be open at 6 billion without some kind of string to pull it back if in a situation like this . Not a dime has been spent. Not a dime is meant to access Axis Theiranian regime never ge. The money was never frozen when it was in south korea anymore than it was frozen when it got to qatar it was part of a series of account set up by the Trump Administration but there is no human cry back then went to Secretary Pompeo announce these accounts and the iranian spent down billions of dollars from the other accounts for what was supposed to be human during pusamepurposes but we dont reay know. Is that we cannot account for that i can only account for the 6 billion and it is all still in qatar. None of it has been accessed. Shannon will we ever be able to exit question can you refreeze or whatever terminology like to use they dont have access to it . They have not accessed it we are watching it like a hawk. I am telling you we are keeping tabs on every single dime of that. None of it is being accessed by the iranians. And even if it was. Even if it was it would go to vendors that we approve to buy food, modern medicine and ship it in to i run right to the iranian people to humanitarian aid organizations t regime never sees it. Shannon italys other financial obligations of the know they can get help on these other fronts through money coming in the state Department Says iran gets water billion dollars a year in support to palestinian Terror Groups. Praxis is the Fungibility Argument which is also a Farce Argument too. I sought the iranians are sitting around saying we have 6 billion we can free up to goo find it terrorist we do not have to worry about beating our people but they were never worried about beating their piddly people. There were not worried about assistance to their own population and again they do not have access to it for the other argument is the support to terrorist has been a long stanlongstanding under previous administrations as well. We havent made it easier, Shannon Bream this administration alone just in the two and half years of present has been in office 400 entities sanctions for a range of regions. Thirty additional sanctions just in the last year alone. Again we have increased our Military Presence this idea we are somehow turning a blind eye is around the supports Terrorist Networks is not true. Shannon amassed but the southern Border Office of the chaos there the openness you can argue about that at Record Numbers of people showing up there. Record number of people either on a tear list or associate with somebody who is a family member, an associate we are at Record Numbers for those. How worried are you as somebody it your job is National Security, that we have an issue there somebody who would be a bad actor, a copycat or terrorist cell . We are concerned about potential spill over with the war against hamas with domestic security for that is why days ago. Within a day or two of the attack the president or the National Security team and the department of Homeland Security to work with state and local authorities to make sure we have the intel picture in place to be able to identify potentially disrupt any domestic Terror Threat as a result of what is going on against hamas but i will tell you, even as we are speaking here this morning we simply dont have any specific credible threat to speak too. That does not mean were not looking very hard. Shannon we pursue your time thank you so much. Joining is now arkansas publican senator tom cotton. A republican serves on the Senate Intelligence committee. Senator welcome back. Lets start the conversation about u. S. Boots on the ground but you heard admiral kirby say not ruling anything in or out you call for special operatives to go in. We have specially trained warriors in the army and the navy whose main mission is to rescue american hostages wherever they may be. Of course those decisions have to be made based on the intelligence of the facts on the ground but should never be ruled out that american soldiers will save american lives. This is the worst attack on jews since the holocaust. But so were the worst attacks on people as well. We have 29 americans killed and at latest reporting 14 are unaccounted for. Theres an opportunity for americas late waiters to save american citizens thats responsibility our government thats not the responsibility of the government of israel. Shannon we are all still try and make sense of this. I do not think we can. Hamas operates in a way i dont if its about sheer terror or trying to take jewish lives or what it was. Theres one Opinion Piece of the New York Times has this theory perhaps because hamas knew israel would then respond by inflicting even more suffering on gazans in ways that would make hamas more popular. Do you worry what is happening now will lend credence to the argument hamas makes a disaffected young people that israel is the oppressor it needs to be wiped out . Christ no, shannon. Hamas is a destruction of israel as a nation in the death of the jewish people that is in their charter. Israel has infected no suffering on gaza. Hamas is responsible for the suffering in gaza. They have been in charge there for 16 years but they did not spend billions of dollars hear from countries like iran and things like tunnels and missiles that could have s has been on wd power plants. Hamas their sole responsibili