Learned that several u. S. Citizens among those dead in israel, that is according to a National Security council spokesperson. They say they are continuing to monitor the situation closely, and the State Department is ready to provide assistance to any u. S. Citizens still in the country. Right now, at least 700 israelis are dead, 2300 injured according to israeli officials. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says their death fulsome that more than 400 without least 2300 injured. Israel has come from that forces have taken both military and non military israeli captives. Israeli media says that number is actually at least 100, and includes, women, children and the elderly. Earlier today Family Members of some of those taken by hamas held a Press Conference where they shared their stories, and pleaded for help. Heres one woman 23 old it was a back to saturday night. She called us and said mom, they shot at us, we cannot drive, everybody here is there were four kids and everybody is 30, eve
of the fraud he perpetuated. regardless of what this report says, is your plan to serve and stay in congress and not resign? like i said before i m staying in office for sure. that last voice you heard was republican congressman george santos of new york before the release of a damning ethics report. we ll go through that and what could come next for the embattled lawmaker. plus, we ll bring you the latest out of the middle east. israel says it has more evidence that hamas was operating out of a hospital in gaza. it comes as the idf recovered the body of a hostage near that facility. and also ahead we ll recap another busy day of diplomacy on the west coast for president biden where he met with the leaders of south korea and japan. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, november 17th. it s friday. we made it. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with some good news. the federal government will stay open at lea
presidency and his foreign policy as scary it is, what is happening on the ground in afghanistan. thank you so much for your political analysis this morning. appreciate it. joining me is democratic congressman susan wild of pennsylvania, she is a member of the house foreign affairs committee. congresswoman, thanks for coming on the show this morning. the u.s. embassy is telling americans in afghanistan not to go to the kabul airport. it s not safe, they say. yesterday, president biden said that his administration has quote no indication that americans haven t been able to get to the airport due to taliban checkpoints. what is going on here? why does it seem we are not getting the full picture from the president and the white house. good morning, mehdi, and thank you for having me. that is obviously very concerning and i will tell you my office last night prepared a letter to the administration asking that we stay in afghanistan as long as it takes, that we, that there s artificial
if we don t get this evacuation task accomplished successfully. i m very concerned about the reports that we just heard that americans are being told not to go to the airport, i understand why they re being told not to go but we need to figure out a solution. we should have gotten those americans out of afghanistan before we closed our air base and before we withdrew our troops. now, we ve got the obligation to make sure that they are evacuated successfully. along with our wonderful afghan allies who served with many of my colleagues by the way, right alongside them, in afghanistan. both republicans and democrats. so we ve got to get this job done. and we ll deal with the political fallout later, but i believe that the politics of it are going to be a lot better if we do what needs to be done. indeed. democratic congresswoman susan wild of pennsylvania and house foreign affairs committee, thank you for your time this morning.