coast 8:00 here in seemy california and this is america s late news fox news at night. and we are live tonight at the ronald reagan library where the reagan national defense forum is in full swing this weekend. the annual event is a gathering of political leaders, defense experts, and some of the u.s. military s top brass and in moments, we will talk to some top military leaders about the biggest military concerns facing the united states and, of course, the biggest threats facing america. but breaking tonight, the ceasefire is now over. the war between israel and hamas is back on with israeli defense forces saying they have conducted more than 200 attacks on hamas targets in gaza just today. it comes in response to hamas firing rockets into southern israel. nate foy is live on the ground in northern israel with more on this. nate. hey, trace, the sun is about to rise here in about 30 minutes for a second day of fighting. as israel announces the deaths of six hostages who w
A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. Admitted to lying about and cheating. It doesnt get more clear than that. Is manaforts bet at this Point Go For Pardon from the president . Or is it what, have people think gates is a worse liar . Whats the strategy . I mean, the pardon play is a lot of moves out here. So i think the strategy seems to be to run down gates to say, you know, i was just a patsy. I wasnt that hands on, which was contradicted by his own bookkeeper and i was the victim of gates nefarious activity. The problem is here, first of all, everybodys dirty. This is only the best people, erin. As we say. Only the best people. But it also really does show the way that the International Political consultant class really has become a grift. These folks, really, they talk about populism, they use it as a political strategy, but they are making more money than most working folks will ever see in their life in a year and still go broke. Thats how corrupt and incompete
i want to ask you before we let you go, we ve talked often about the mutiny of the wagner group mutiny in russia. we haven t heard a lot about president putin. he said y that behind that rebellion doesn t actually oup. he said, wagner does not exist. we do not have a law for private military organizations. it does not exist. what he s saying about the law is factually inaccurate despite what they say. the bigger question right now is what do you make of him saying wagner doesn t exist? it s been a critical component at least of russia s foreign policy influence for years. they certainly did exist during my time as secretary of defense. we were cognizant of their presence in the middle east and african countries and they are still in those places. they exist and they have been supported by putin and funded by moscow. look. i think this is it continues to be another evolution of how putin is trying to play this. wagner he needs a wagner.
they would protect our interest and not worked against them. and that is the angle. arkansas senator tom cotton. senator, this story keeps getting worse right before we went to erica mineta released its own communication with the new york times summed up this way, rush is repeatedly described as a threat to nato in the document by contrast, china is described presenting challenges. and the u.k. summed up further by the terms, diplomacy and engagement the alliance fails to maintain a constructive dialogue with china where possible including the issue of climate change. senator, this is a complete joke. it biden suppose in foreign policy influence which is a bunch of smoke and mirrors, china is now on the cats eat your reaction. so laura, i guess you can say it is good that nato recognized that nato is a challenge but if a threat, china is the threat
makes the case it s the latter, not the former. josh is joining me now. great to see you. likewise. i want to read a graph from your piece for everyone, because it was really enlightening. several u.s. officials and people who have spoken directly to trump since his syria decision tell me, josh rogin, they believe that paul s frequent phone conversations with trump wholly outside the policy process, are having an outsized influence on the president s recent foreign policy decisions. how did this come about? a long-standing concern inside the white house state department, dod, nsc, about the influence rand paul was having over the president s foreign policy thinking, especially with regard to russia. after the syria decision, everyone sort of looked around and analyzed it and said this is the watershed moment where rand paul s foreign policy influence on the president has overpowered that of the entire national security cabinet. the president speaking to rand paul on the phone abo