Tourists taking photos that are analyzed by ai. And good morning to you all, so researchers can help life underwater flourish. Im katie phang. If youre just turning into msnbc, we are continuing our breaking News Coverage of israel. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared a state of war after what is being called the worst attack there in 50 years. Palestinian Militant Group hamas launching an allout assault by land, air, and sea overnight. A spokeswoman for israels embassy in washington d. C. Has told nbc news that at least three israeli villages in Southern Israel are now controlled by hamas. She also says that there are multiple israeli civilians, including women and children, who have been kidnapped and are now inside gaza. His real Natural Service says that at least 22 people have been killed and hundreds more wounded. Dozens of Israeli Defense forces fighters have reportedly struck a number of targets belonging to the hamas targets organization in the gaza strip. A white house official says the Biden Ministration is quote aware engaged on israel. Linus from germany, france, and the European Union have released statements condemning the attacks and voicing their solidarity with israel. Getting us started in this hour and joining me now with more. John brennan, former cia director, msnbc Senior NationalSecurity Intelligence analyst as well. Hes the author of undaunted, my fight against americas enemies at home and abroad. John, thank you for getting a start at the 8 00 hour. I mean, considering the relations between United States and israel, what does this attack by hamas mean. Well katie, clearly the scale, the scope, the impact of these attacks has been nothing short of breath taken. The fact that hamas is been able to demonstrate almost an unprecedented amount of preparation, coordination, training for this and then a very shocking sense that Israeli Intelligence was not able to detect it on such a auspicious anniversary as the 50th Anniversary of the 73 war. I think what the night states is doing right now is trying to provide to israel whatever type of additional intelligence we might have about any followup plans that hamas has, provide them any type of assistance that they need, but that clearly this is still ongoing. Its still very much a hot battle that is going on, and the fact that the hamas forces were able to come across the border into israel and, as you pointed, out of control some villages there, it just shows how ill prepared the israelis were for something of this scale. And so i think what netanyahu and others are going to be doing is trying to find out again who is behind this. Is there any nonpalestinian actors that have abetted in support of this effort, because the 2200 rockets, that is a vast accumulation of rockets. The fact that they use hand gliders to come into israeli territory another taking captives. So this i think is going to be with us for a while and i think that netanyahu who traditionally is had a very traditional posture when these things happen, i think that this is going to implicate that we are going to have a very forceful israeli response once they do whatever they can in order to prevent further attacks coming out of the gaza strip. Yeah, and john we know that israel has already mobilized. As call that its a reserve forces to join the Israeli Defense for us to be able to respond. Obviously that is going on right now. There are gun battles that are happening on the ground in Southern Israel. We just talked about some of the villages that have been taken over by hamas. In the early hour last hour at 7 00 there was some discussion about some concerns of the northern border of israel. You have the iranbacked hezbollah on the northern border. We obviously have the gaza strip on the southern border. Do you share that as being a possible concern for israel at this time . Well i think that the israelis always have to be quite vigilant about what might happen on the northern border in hezbollah can effective strait some sympathy and support for hamas activities by launching some of their own attacks. But i also am very concerned about the west bank. Obviously, theres very deep militancy within the Gaza Strip My Palestinians who feel that their life is hopeless, but theres also a fair amount of militancy in the west bank that the israelis as well as the palestinian authorities have been able to keep at bay. But if this is going to go on and some type of protected manner that im sure theres going to be a number of palestinians who will be killed as a result of israeli actions there. That could trigger some adverse reaction on the part of the palestinians in the west bank. And they come to support them with the gaza strip. They have to be very concerned what is continue to come across and gaza. What might come across in the northern border. But also they have to keep a very very close eye on the west bank, which is far more populous in terms of the palestinian population. Theres so many jewish settlements throughout the west bank as well as the jerusalem area, so i think we have to be very mindful that there could be some follow on attacks that are going to be coming from that area as well. John, i also was asking last hour about the iron dome. Israels air defense system. Its one thats admired across the world. The United States itself indicating that its incredibly impressive. Are you just as surprised as others and youve indicated that it is kind of a stunning possible Intelligence Failure this Something Like the iron dome was not activated to be able to protect israel from at a minimum the missile attacks, the more than 2000 rockets that were launched into the country. Its minor standing that the iron dome was activated, but 2200 rockets in a short period of time is a lot for the iron dome to be able to prevent from being able to prevent the targets. So i know that the israelis have accepted a fair number of those rockets, but when they get through in the aimed at civilian targets, clearly with a number of dead as well as the Hundreds Of Israelis who have been injured as a result of these attacks, a lot of those rockets were able to get through and penetrate through the iron dome defense. But then also, these choirs that came in and brought in individuals who were engaged in gun battles, i mean this is a multi pronged attack taking place at a very important date, and also the sabbath. Im sure there are some relaxation as far as maybe security measures, but they should have in fact been at the height of their concern given that its the 50th Anniversary of the 73 war. But i think what israel is doing now is mobilizing obviously its reserve forces but also trying to bring to bear all of its capabilities, ground, air and also in the cyber realm to see whether or not they can prevent any further damage and death and injuries from these attacks. We heard from Mark Polymeropoulos in the last hour, john. Hes calling it israels 9 11, indicating that the Shock Surprise and the level of coordinated attack indicates that this is obviously going to historically be something that the country is reeling from from a while to come. Are you surprised by that level of coordination . We talked about the land, sea, and air attacks that were launched by hamas. The fact that it was done, a number of rockets 2000, the fact that no villages have been taken over by hamas in the southern portion of the country of israel. Yes, i am surprised that it was able to develop and this operation was able to mature to the extent that they were able to carry this out, and that the israelis were not able to disrupt it, because the israelis have a very very sophisticated and capable Intelligence Services that usually penetrate these hamas networks, are able to detect these activities before theyre actually brought into fruition, and the fact that this was so broad in scale taking place again in multiple domains, the fact that that was able to happen seems as though Israeli Intelligence was very much caught by surprise, because if they had picked up anything, i think they wouldve augmented their forces. They would have been able to prevent some of these attacks from taking place, particularly coming through the border area there between gaza and israel, which is very thin from the standpoint of infrastructure that prevents any types of encroachment by the palestinians. So clearly, there is a lot of explaining to do and there will be accountability. But i think at this point what the israelis are going to go into is full defense and offensive mode and be able to prevent the hamas forces from continuing to carry out. Because who knows what else they might have planned. And as i said there, there could be some other things that are going to be launched as a way to capitalize on what already has been a very very serious and unprecedented attack against israel. So calling this israels 9 11 i think is pretty apt because this is something that is just going to further embolden netanyahu to come down hard on the palestinians and unfortunately for the last 50 or more years, the palestinians certainly in the gaza strip feel as though they have not been able to advance their fortunes at all in terms of their economic development, Political Liberties and so on. And so that has fueled the forces of militancy in gaza that has led to these heinous attacks by these Hamas Terrorists. John brennan, former director of the cia and in this nbc Security Intelligence analysts, i thank you for being with us. And for more on this joining me now is congressman jim hines, Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee. Congressman, thank you for joining us this morning. I wanted to get your initial reaction to the news of this hamas attack. This sneak attack that has occurred Early Morning hours in israel. More than 2000 rockets there were large into the country, paragliders entering the country, and now weve learned that some villages in the southern part of israel are now occupied and be controlled by hamas. Yeah katie, its obviously a horrendous situation for the people of israel and for the world. This is a brutal, unprovoked attack. Reports are that hamas and other terrorists have taken israeli civilians hostage into gaza. Families, perhaps, which democrats the seriousness of the attack as well as the values of the attackers. And longer term as john barry was saying, Prime Minister netanyahu, his brand is about security and securing the safety of the israelis. And so the reaction that will come from the israelis will appropriately, and of course United States will stand with israel on this will be very very tough. And i think john brennan is right. There are a lot of questions about how an operation of this magnitude could be executed as a surprise, but i think that we are entering a period in which the violence is going to be intent he sort of ask yourself, what is the point . What was hamas trying to achieve here . Because it is almost certainly ending with their eradication in a great deal of suffering to the Palestinian People as well as israeli people as the israelis mobilize to rightly eradicate the [inaudible]. Lets talk about thirdparty actors. That is been a topic that has been raised since last hour since weve been covering this Breaking News. You have iran figuring prominently in this, and ive asked several of the professionals, those that have had experience that have all said consistently that it does not seem like hamas would be able to do this with this level of coordination, 2000plus rockets, et cetera without some type of thirdparty support. Your thoughts . Thirdparty the facts are sk, obviously at this point, but we do know that iran has been supporting, training, and arming hamas as well as any number of others groups that dedicated the destabilization of the region. Destabilizing the region and attacking israel is a core objective of iran, which is one of the many reasons that iran is a pariah state. You would like to believe that in the 21st century that would not be states that are dedicated to creating chaos and murderous violence around the world. Sadly, iran is one of the states that is. But this is a moment for iran. At the region changes, theres talk of an israeli saudi peace agreement. Who knows how these events affect that. But iran is increasingly hopefully going to be isolated in the region as a bad actor. And the iranian people need to think about whether that is a good outcome for their nation. And lets talk briefly about the move towards normalizing relations between israel and saudi arabia. Do you think that that has played some type of undercurrent into maybe what has happened today to israel . I think it is very possible. And of course, this is all speculative. Hamas is a murderous group, period. And so im not sure they necessarily need a catalyst to do the kinds of things that they have done this morning. But starting with the Abraham Accords in which the Persian Gulf Countries in a few african countries normalize relationships with israel, and now with the possibility of this israeli saudi peace, as i said, that isolates iran and it also probably raises questions for the palestinians. You know, are we now going to be out there on our own . And you would hope that most palestinians would say that in that context we should make a genuine effort and really stretch for peace. But that is obviously not what hamas wants or what they will do. My suspicion is that that played into their thinking in terms of the murderous attacks of this morning. It is the fact that we dont have a sitting ambassador in israel right now create any concerns on the part of the United States concerning what is happening right now in israel . It does, katie. And i travel the world quite a bit in my role of Ranking Member of the Intelligence Community and people dont appreciate exactly how bad it is when we dont have a ambassador in a country, and that is true everywhere. It is taken as an affront, and i might even expand this. This is not a moment to talk about u. S. Politics, but crises like this one, and we have been living with the Ukraine Russia worn out for coming on two years. Crises like this one remind us of the cost internationally of political gridlock, political chaos like in my workplace, in the u. S. House of representatives. Americans may not feel that, but the fact is that when our government in washington, certainly our legislature, is in chaos, it emboldens our enemies and a lot of bad actors. Theres many reasons that im sad about the chaos in the house of representatives. Well it doesnt make things easier for anybody. Internationally or domestically, we do have chaos. Congressman jim himes, i wanna thank you for joining us this morning. Thank you so much. Thank you katie. And msnbcs continuing coverage of this Breaking News will take place after we take a quick break. K. Do you mean this one the one with titanium . sean no way i can trade this busted up thing for one. jason maybe stealing wishes from the birthday boy is not your best plan switch to verizon and trade in any iphone and get the new iphone 15 pro on them. sean what . jason yup, and on an Amazing Network sean and i dont have to ruin anymore Birthday Parties jason yeah, that ship has sailed. Lets go get you the iphone. Here we go, come on hon. vo trade in any iphone in any condition for a new iphone 15 pro on us. Only on verizon. We live our lives on our homes fabrics. And though we come and go, our odors stay. 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