Striking back against hezbollah militants along their northern border in lebanon as idf expect to prepare on the ground in gaza. This comes as two american hostages has been released and some humanitarian aid was allowed in today. Im griff jenkins. Gillian hi, griff, good to be with you, im gillian turner. Asking for 105 extrA Billion Dollars for funding for israel, ukraine as well as the southern border. Griff, i understand youve got Breaking News coming into the news room. Griff our focus is the events focused on unfolding in israel. Custom and border released the Migrant Encounters Ending Fiscal Year 2023, the highest ever on record, more than 269,000, bringing fiscal year 2023 to the highest year ever on record, 2,475,000 plus migrant encounters, and it shatters last years record which was at the time the highest on record by nearly 100,000. And it really speaks to the concern ive just come from the last 10 days on the border. Weve had a Record Number of special interest aliens, while i was just in eagle pass. We had six iranians, some three syrians and lebanese migrants coming from countries that we have to look deeper into to vet them to see if they have any potential connections to terror. More on that as we get it, gillian. Gillian thank you for that reporting, griff. Weve got Fox Team Coverage on this, and greg palkot is on the ground at the lebanese border. We begin with trey yinst we found in Southern Israel this afternoon, hi, trey. Gillian, good afternoon, we have some Breaking News, fox news obtained and reviewed an israeli Interrogation Video of a hamas militant who participated in the october 7th massacre. I need to warn our viewers what im about to describe is incredibly graphic, gives new details what took place two weeks ago. In the video you see a hamas militant. Hes in a white cloth jump suit sitting across from an israeli interrogator. Asking him questions. And he was captured outside of a small community, a kibbutz that sits on the border with gaza. In the video he describes the preparation and coordination for this assault on Southern Israel. He talks about a Telegram Group that the hamas fight,had and they were communicating as the massacre took place, sending videos as they got them, as they were killing civilians in their homes. And this interrogator asks him about islam, he acknowledging. In the religion youre not to kill women, children, elderly people, but he describes what the hamas commanders told them to do. Commanders said they could do whatever they felt like doing and that this was a suicide mission, telling them they should not plan on coming back. New details about what exactly was going through the mind of these militants as they entered and slaughtered so many innocent people. He says commanders told them to step on the heads of civilians to behead them and do whenever they felt like and went on to talk about how hamas and isis are being compared, the interrogator asked him about this comparison and he agreed, he said we burned, we slaughter and beheaded people and went on to ask more questions. And this interrogator was pushing this hamas fighter and this militant to get more information from him and he said, we became animals. Things that humans do not do. And when the interrogator asked him, what type of things did you do to these civilians after you killed them. He described them and we cant describe them to you because they are too graphic to explain on television. But it gives you a sense of what exactly took place more than 1400 israelis slaughtered at the hands of hamas militants who entered Southern Israel on october 7th, starting this conflict thats erupted behind us and we do know by this video that we obtained and reviewed, they were given coordinated, specific plans to come into israel and put all beliefs aside with one goal in mind, to inflict as much terror on the civilians population here as possible. Gillian. Gillian trey, important reporting this morning for us. T thank you very much. Griff a harrowing report from trey. Tensions along the israellebanon border, as concerns grow between hezbollah and israeli forces. Greg palkot is at the israellebanon border. It official, the iranianbacked Hezbollah Group is in the fight or at the least, israels defense minister yoav gallant says that. He made a visit to the troops not far from where we are now, confirmed what weve been seeing and talking about the past week that its getting pretty nasty here, take a listen. Hezbollah has decide today participate in the fighting and is paying the price for it. We must be vigilant and prepare for every possible scenario. Great challenges await us. Hezbollah and related shooting from the nearby border, rockets, antitank missiles, mortars, infiltrating with small arms fire. Israel responding with artillery, tanks, antidefense missiles, drones, an idf s f Spokesman Says the past two weeks in this sector 45 members of hezbollah killed along with civilian casualties. Six Israeli Soldiers killed, and one was israeli, omer balva, he was called up and he was killed on a mountain nearby. Its a bit quiet here, griff. The military ordered this and other towns to be evaluated, but as the major Ground Invasion expected to happen looms down south with israel going after hamas in gaza. And expectations are that things will heat up here as well. Griff indeed. Greg. A quick followup. We saw a New York Times article today and some other places reporting about possible efforts on behalf of the Biden Administration to dissuade israel in that their potential actions with hezbollah on the northern border. Do you know anything about that . The New York Times had a pretty wellsourced article saying that israel pretty much at the beginning of this wanted a onepunch against hamas in the south and hezbollah in the north, but white house officials, including secretary blanken and President Biden and others tried to calm israel down not to lurch ahead in the north and however, the acknowledgment is, a mistake, a bigger strike by hezbollah or a reaction to that invasion down south could turn this thing into another caldron as well. Back to you. Griff greg palkot. Great reporting as always. Stay safe. President biden talked yesterday to the two released by hamas, a mother and daughter, and is in Delaware Planning to spend the remainder of the weekend at home. And peter doocy with whats going on over there to try to rescue the remaining honistages. Just to build on, the president and his team are supportive of israel however they want to hit back at hamas, but, he appeared late last night to confirm some of these reports that behind the scenes, he is pressuring the israelis and netanyahu to kind of slow down. A Ground Invasion in the south inaudible . No, the president was far away and he didnt hear the full question. The question sounded like would you like to see more hostages released . He wasnt commenting on anything else. Just before that, President Biden gave credence to theories that hamas attacked in response to talks that israel was having to improve relations with saudi arabia. President biden said in a fundraiser in northwest d. C. , i think one of the reasons they acted like they did, why the folks moved on the hamas hamas moved on israel like they have, they knew i was about to sit down with the saudis who are not my i wouldnt call them the greatest democracy in the world. His team is trying to get aid to palestine rather, into gaza, but theyre saying that theyre going to stop if it is intercepted by hamas. Its important for people to remember what hamas is. This is a terrorist organization. Its not a state, its not a government, though they believe that they are, you know, in terms of governance of gaza, theyre a terrorist organization. They dont abide by the laws of war like israel does or the United States does, two democracies. We know this is a top priority for President Biden, but we dont know exactly what he is doing while hes decamped to the Rehoboth Beach house for the weekend. Gillian all right, peter doocy at the white house with us. Griff for more reaction from capitol hill as the house continues its search for a new speaker. Were joined now by republican congressman from new jersey and the House Foreign Affairs committee, chris smith, also on the Bipartisan Task force for combatting antisemitism. And congressman, thank you for joining us. I want to start with your reaction to the latest of what were seeing out of israel, the release of two hostages and now, of course, tensions simmering, not only in the south of gaza, but baby as you heard from our report maybes as you heard, in the north with hezbollah. Israel is israel, and facing an existential threat for their existence. And every moment of congress, to read the Hamas Charter in 1988 when we doubled down. It called for destroying every jew you can find. If theyre hiding behind a rock, they claim in that horrible document, its a its again, its their blueprint for the eye n anilelation of israel. There will be no israel, they want it to be driven into the sea, but the antisemitic hatred that is increased by the work that u n. R. A. Does. Our president has given A Billion Dollars to the work relief agencies. Ive heard hearings in the past and scheduled one for the second week of november. U unra is an incubator of hate, overflowing with antisemitic hate and passing it on from one generation to the next. Griff you mentioned Members Of Congress. Lets focus specifically on your colleague rasheeda tlaib. And immediately after the bombing, shown that it came from a downed Islamic Jihad missile, not an israeli one. But tlaib put up a message that israel bombed the hospital and then she took to the microphones and had this to say, listen here. People think its okay to bomb a hospital. President biden, you need to understand that, were literally watching people commit genocide and killing a mass majority like this and we still stand by and say nothing. Griff congressman, has she lost, in your opinion, moral clarity on what is happening and should there be some consequences for her . I would add creditability to clarity. And endorsed by President Biden who has looked at it and the Intel Community over here in the United States, it was the rockets that are emanating out of gaza that crashed into or right next to that hospital. Here we go again. The big lie repeated often enough, tlaib owes an apology to the israelis for doing that and her credibility is shot. Griff should she says consequences . There will be no consequences. Never is, unfortunately. The media needs to call her out. Im calling her out, its outrageous to falsely accuse israel of something that they did not do and she did it after the information was clearly and unmistakenly shown. And israel goes out of its way for civilians. What does hamas do . Hide their headquarters, Missile Launchers and implement of terror next know schools and other places almost begging the question, and begging the israelis to take it out and yet, with all of that, the israelis go out of their way, again, to lessen the impact on civilians. Griff congressman i have 20 seconds. Are we any closer on the House Of Representatives on the republican side to get any candidate to 217 votes it become speaker . Why he, i think come tuesday when hopefully there will be a vote in our conference and quickly brought to the floor we will coalesce around one of our members. Weve got a great bench, wonderful, wonderful Members Of Congress who are running. I liked all three that ran before including jim jordan. And of course, scalise a tremendous leader as Majority Leader and kevin mccarthy, a magnificent job. Griff who are you looking at . Theyre all good friends, part of the problem. Griff thank you for your time as always. Thank you so much. Gillian joining us now from the other side of the aisle, joining us from florida, sheila mccormick, on the Veterans Affairs committee, too. And lets pick up where your republican colleague chris smith just left off. There are some republicans running for speaker or plan to, i believe we have a list we could put up on the screen. Is all of this disarray on the republican side making it more complicating the administrations effort to project strength and power abroad during this disrupting middle east war . I think it does. Right now we need to pass a supplemental and make sure were showing our support for israel is unequivocal and iron clad, but we cant do that if were not working as a congress and what were seeing more and more, this republican civil war is hampering us being a good partner, and ally. You mentioned the supplemental President Biden is now asking you and your colleagues for. Take a listen to what j. D. Vance has to say about the president s priorities and i want to get your response. I think what the president did is completely disgraceful. If he wants to sell the American People on 60 billion more to ukraine, he shouldnt use dead israeli children to do it, it was disgusting. Gillian is coupling aid for ukraine with aid to the israelis and palestinians the right way for the president to be pursuing this package sm. Absolutely, especially when we see the cr we didnt have a chance to pass a cr, a shortterm one. We need to replenish our stock piles and make sure that were taking advantage and everything we can to make sure that were safe and secure. We have to be moving forward. I think that harsh language, extreme language is what led to this republican civil war that were seeing right now and the stalemate that were seeing in congress. We have to start focusing on a bipartisan way to move forward and thats going to include looking at our National Security and prioritizing it not just for israel, but ukraine. If theyre getting as much aid as the u. S. Can afford as quickly as possible, isnt attaching more aid on ukraine after trillions of dollars, just complicate the efforts . It seems to undercut the administrations own objectives. Not exactly, because what were looking at is the accumulate cumulative what were in right now and ukraine and we have to help israel. Part of our strength as a nation is we can chew gum and walk at the same time. We have to do the two things we need to do for the entire Security Mission that we have in place. What were seeing in israel, theres definitely a need there to protect israel and to allow israel to defend itself and make sure were finishing the work when it comes to such an evil group as hamas and terrorist organizations, but theres another evil were looking also at which is also russia and ukraine and thats an evil that we have to deal with, also, and we can do to simultaneously. As leaders of the entire world, this is our responsibilities and we must take our responsibilities. I want to ask you this before i let you go. If you can respond to your colleague, congresswoman rasheeda tlaib, shes contradicting the intense against assessment and the president s assessment that she claims that israel is behind the attack on a Gaza Hospital this week and the president says it was not the case, it was a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket. Is anybody among your colleagues trying to sort of talk reason to her about this . Explain how evidence from the Intelligence Community works . Im not sure about the video when that was taken. I know in the beginning when the reports came out we werent sure and slow to move, but i understand that rashida is in a tough place and she has family in palestine. Is that an excuse to saying that israel is behind the attack. No excuse for promoting misinformation, when we look at israel and entire world we have to understand where she is and everyone not in that situation we have a responsibility to make sure its clear. As i mentioned im not sure when that video was taken and when she actually made the statements because i havent seen her make the statements after once it became crystal clear. On wednesday after the president said publicly in israel that israel was not behind the attacks, she went out with other colleagues of yours, joined a protest, an antiisrael protest in front of the house steps and reiterated those comments. Well, you know, those comments being made arent true, but what we have to do is not put ourselves in a position where were fighting each other in Interrin Inte internally, and focus on work. And israel has what it needs, and most of the conversation we need to be having at this moment. How do we get our congress to function and serve as allies. How do we get a speaker elected. How do we make sure we have someone in speakership to help us move forward in a bipartisan manner, that needs to be our focus not targeting our colleagues who are suffering right now and thats what we have been working on. How do we live up to our reputation as americans, being good allies and not a part of this evil and lets focus on the evil. Hamas is a terrorist organization. We saw 14 days ago what they did to children, we saw to people at a, just at an event theyre doing as a family. And thats what we have to focus on and how to we respond t