good evening. i m bret baier. middle east powder keg as iran seizes control of a tanker in the gulf of imam and iranian backed proxy groups have launched 130 attacks on u.s. troops in the region as the world awaits a response. senior national correspondent hitch edson has the latest from the pentagon, good evening, rich. good evening, bret. this is the same ship that last year the u.s. justice department seized for violating sanctions. it was carrying iranian oil then and iranian state media outlet says bordering the ship today is retaliation for the u.s. seize it s a year ago example of iranian maligned activity threatening security and stability in the reasonable. we call on iran to release the tanker and the crew immediately. the pentagon says the tanker flagged to the marshall islands. for weeks iran backed houthi rebels have been attacking commercial shipping on the red sea. on tuesday they launched their largest, most complex attack yet. the pentagon says f-1s fro
Coverage. America reports thank you for joining us. Im sandra smith in new york. John im john roberts. The story starts right now with martha picking up the coverage. Martha . Martha thanks very much. Good afternoon. Im martha maccallum. Were going to go live to tel aviv in just a moment with israeli Prime Minister netanyahu to get new information on this developing scene. You can see the pictures that have just come in from gaza city and the city where they believe an israeli air strike struck a hospital. Theres a lot of questions about how all of this happened. The Israeli Military says hospitals are highly sensitive buildings and are not idf targets. General petraeus who commanded our troops in iraq and afghanistan will be with us in moments. First, we go to Senior Correspondent mike tobin live in israel with the very latest. Hi, mike. Martha, this development at the hospital in gaza city is taking all the attention right now. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says the civilian casual
She we are following the breaking news out of israel. The Israeli Military and hamas fighters are currently engaged in active battles in the gaza strip and inside israel. Earlier today, Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, declared that israel is in a state of war following a surprise both overnight attack by hamas in what is being called the worst attack in israel in 50 years, since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Overnight, hamas which controls gaza, launched an all out assault by land and see it, Infiltrating Southern Israel with at least 1000 fighters. While gaza based fighters launched more than 2200 rockets into israel. Israel said it responded with air strikes out at least 21 targets in gaza. According to local reports, at least 100 people have been killed inside of israel. We are trying to the Emergency Management services have said there are 70 people who have been killed in israel. Were getting conflicting reports on that. The Gaza Health Ministry says at least 198 palestinians ha
Adams before going to the rose garden today. Quite the treat for those turkeys. Thank you for inviting us into your home today. That is for special report. Fair, balanced, unafraid. The story with ed henry starts right now. Ed breaking this hour, any minute President Trump will take the stage and sunrise, florida. The president bolted new yorks high taxes and proclaimed the Sunshine State is now his permanent presence. On a day the dow scores the close, he will no doubt fire up the supporters and the advisor from a city warning, traffic will be snarled around the arena since its drawing into thousands. You see the arrived hours before hand. They are at odds with the public impeachment efforts ramping up on capitol hill. You will take you to the rally live as it gets under way. Good evening, i am ed henry and
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Kimberly mentions tip together disrupting policy and upsetting the apple cart with what is going on behind the scenes. do you have more of that or is there now this sense that the administration is starting to step up and this is an example of it tonight? i think mike waltz is a defense hawk. this will be welcome news. i don t know that they are going to be saying that this is enough sort of like matthew laid out. they are going to want to see the u.s. take pretty drastic measures in terms of fighting the houthis, which can be kind of very unpredictable group. we knew when hamas invaded israel this would not be isolated conflict area. i think there have been broader criticisms from republicans about what the u.s. is doing more broadly to try to contain sort of these hot bed conflicts that keep arising. bret: we obviously, matthew, have this election that is ongoing. we are days away from the iowa caucuses. our latest poll on this issue