That is all in on this thursday night. Alex wagner tonight begins right now. Thats a hurricane of news. My goodness, well have all of it coming up in the next half hour. Thank tuesday you at home for joining me this hour. President biden just gave what is only the second oval address of his presidency positioning america as a bulwark against the dark forces that are amassing across the globe from ukraine to gaza. Hamas and putin represent different threats, but they share this in common. They both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy, completely annihilate it. American leadership is what hold the world together. American alliances are what keeps us, america safe. American values are what makes us a partner other nations wanted to work with. Put all of that at risk if we walk away from ukraine, we turn our backs on israel. Its just not worth it. Bidens message comes as the world is essentially holding its collective Breath Waiting for what comes next in the middle east.
Islamaphobia. To all of you hurting, i want you to know i see you, you belong, and i want to say this to you, youre all american. Youre all american. You are all americans. That is part of President Bidens address to the nation from the Oval Office Last night. The president also called on all americans as well as congress to continue to support ukraine and israel in the vastly different wars each is fighting. Meanwhile, theres somehow even more republican led chaos on capitol hill. A third vote is now scheduled this morning on jim jordans bid to lead the lower chamber, and this comes as the temporary speaker is now threatening to resign. Well go through all of that just ahead, and were going to get expert legal analysis on the surprise guilty plea for one of the many defendants in the Georgia Election interference case. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, october 20th. Its friday. We made it. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us, and well begin
Ability to fund itself beyond the middle of november. So the president has a real sales pitch to make to the American People, to leadership on capitol hill, north of 100 billion in the coming days. Kaitlan, President Bidens popularity here in israel has soared since this attack began, both for the speech he gave and also for the speech he gave here and the visit here, first time a president visiting during wartime. What are you expecting tonight . Its kind of remarkable how tied he is to everything that is happening here. Well see what that looks like once israel go into gaza, as we expect them to do. Obviously as kayla was noting, this is going to be a bigger speech on multiple fronts, ukraine, taiwan, democracy period, and how the u. S. Helping these countries fight these fights keeps u. S. Troops out of it, keeps the u. S. Out of it to a degree. But he is so closely tied to this. He came here yesterday and sat in on a Cabinet Meeting. Not just any Cabinet Meeting be, ah wartime Cabi
carried out a mass shooting. why wasn t he stopped some. and taking action, the plan to counter anti-semitic threats on college campuses. the president himself saying he is very concerned. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it is tuesday, october 31. h happy halloween. israeli military says they hit some 300 targets on monday including hamas compounds inside tunnels. the idf say their troops killed four prominent operatives. the mmprime minister rejecting calls for a ceasefire saying this is a time for war. i want to make clear israel s position regarding the ceasefire. just as the united states would not agree to a ceasefire after the bombing of pearl harbor or the terrorist attack of th9/11, israel will not agree after the horrific attacks of october 7. calls for a ceasefire are calls to surrender to hamas, to terrorism, to barberarbarbarism. that won t happen. and the number of hostages is updated to 239. freed
smith. john: i m john roberts. the story with martha starts rights now. martha: good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. right now breaking on the story, israel s prime minister saying the fight in gaza is the second war of end. he calls it an existential battle. any calls for a cease fire, he says, would be a surrender as idf expands their ground operation and rescues an israeli soldier who was kidnapped october 7th. a huge development this afternoon. they have vowed to carry out more raids and put pressure on hamas to release the 229 or maybe north of that number remaining hostages that are believed to be in gaza including ten, is the estimate, we think is the right number of americans now being held hostage by hamas. the biden administration has teed up big meetings that could be central to what happens next. senior members of biden s cabinet will sit down with top saudi officials over the next few days. saudi arabia could be very pivotal in the future of the middle eas