the five people on board. america s crime crisis showing up on the doorstep of one of the navy bases in mississippi. we put up more than 0 shipping con stainers to protect sailors from stray bullets. if you can believe that, that about says it all. you re watching fox & friends first on this wednesday morning. i m carley shimkus. and i m todd pyro. we begin with a fox news alert. lawmakers are meeting to discuss recommendation from special council john durham after his very eye opening testimony on fbi failures in the trump russia probe. lucas tomlin sson is live in washington. hey, lucas. mr. durham, did the government receive a plan to they had tried the plan to rush hawaii yes. was that intelligence important enough for director brennan to go brief the president of the united states, the vice president of the united states, attorney general of the united states and director of the fbi? yes .x was that then put into a memorandum. a referral memorandum? yes
People are on the move getting away from israels northern border in lebanon. Expanded evacuations, citizens leaving overnight in droves with hezbollah terrorists on the north side, that border of israel trying to open up a new war front against israel. President biden still pressing the idf to delay going into gaza on the ground after the october 7 attack. The goal is to try and free the more than 200 hostages that we know of. Of course hamas says 300. Yeah, were going to need receipts on that. They tend to lie. Americans are among however many number there are. We know that for sure. Im harris faulkner, youre in the faulkner focus. I hamas turned over two elderly israeli women. I went through hell and i never knew wed go through this. They stormed our kibbutz and kid mapped me and laid me on the motorbike. They walked for a few kilometers on the wet ground and there are huge network of Tunnels Underneath and looks like a spider web. Harris axios is reporting israel is willing to delay
Scenes from the Israel Gaza Borders as the war in israel rages on. President biden posting on social media less than an hour ago, saying, quote, we must not lose sight of the fact that the overwhelming majority of palestinians had nothing to do with Hurrica Hamas appalling a. This as the idf prepares a full scale invasion of gaza, a newly released recording between a gaza resident and idf intel p Intelligence Officers reveals theyre taking car keys to keep people from leaving. Listen. [speaking. At least 1300 isr2 u. S. Citizens were killed in the savage attacks a week ago. Rachel a second u. S. Aircraft carrier is on the way to the Mediterranean Sea in what lloyd austin calls a show of force as the u. S. Continues to affirm its support for israel. Despite that, iran is now warning israel to stop the fighting immediately, saying any further action that they take will cause a, quote, huge earthquake for israel if their operations in gaza continue. Now, lets get to mike toepin on the gro
their solution is shipping containers and this is the thornhill tore is in mississippi, you got to fix it. you join the navy and say i want to defend my nation and serve my country and get shipped to gulf port, mississippi. and put in tiny bar racks and not make ago ton of money and now dealing with the threat of being killed on american soil. it s just it raises so many questions and so frustrating and we focus so much on other countries and we help the people trying to defend our freedom and shipping containers and later on a concrete wall and solve the problem of gun violence in the communities. scary thing is crime is so random. just a couple days ago there were subway slashings that took place in a really safe area in new york city and never know what s going to happen.
on december 19, 1983, a house republican and a house democrat appeared together before the press to announce something very harsh. two months earlier, a huge mercedes truck bomb had been driven up to and into a marine bar racks in beirut, lebanon, detonated its payload. 241 service members were killed in the ensuing blast. more american marines died in that attack than had died in any other single attack since i iwo jima in world war ii. ronald reagan was the republican president at the too many. the congress was controlled by the democrats at the time. and the democratic speaker of the house, tip o neill, put congress to work investigating that 1983 attack and put them at work to figure out why it happened and how it could be stopped from happening again. the chairman of that inquiry was bill nichols of alabama. the highest ranking republican was larry hopkins of kentucky.