welcome to this special edition of hannity . happy veterans day. i m kayleigh mcenany. and for sean.teran and we begin tonight with newsse from the whitean house. joe biden is set to meet with xi jinping next weeouse. k, but only after china s dictator decided to snub the leaderee of the free world. do you remember this story? march? biden aide speaks with china marcterpart as tensions spikes. here s a quote the biden is looking to arrange a phone call between joe biden arran and china s president, xi jinpingetween prg. u.s. officials had hoped that that would have happened by nowficials , but china at ths so far rebuffed to arrange a conversation. that s right. the dictator china ignoringng the leader of the free world. in fact, it s been almost a year since biden she met. the last time that happened was in bali, indonesiaet. , last november, two months ago. listen to this. ident bi president biden trying to explain away why tryit of china has no time for him. th my m
troops have, quote, advanced to the gates of gaza city. it follows days of heavy fighting between israeli forces ,hamas fighters. the battles inside gaza are blamed for. the deaths of at least 17 idf soldiers since friday. at least nine of them died in one incident after being struck by an anti-tank guided missile. israeli airstrikes also jabalya ,a densely populated and populated area in northern gaza. israel claims the buildings they were housing hamas operatives and that people living there had been urged to evacuate. hamas claims many civilians were killed, but it s not possible to confirm how many have died over the past two days of heavy bombardment. and for the first time since the war began, some foreign passport holders and critically injured palestinians were allowed to leave through the rafah border crossing. a handful of americans have been able to leave, but at least 400 other u.s. citizens stuck in gaza. i won t get into details than to say that we feel confid