also military analyst retired general mark hertling. and philip mudd. good evening gentlemen. appreciate you joining us. let s start with alex. what are you learning tonight about this mission and how it went down? well don, this was a remarkable and complex mission. we ve got a lot of the details from a senior administration official who spoke to reporters shortly before president biden spoke with the nation. now this was months in the making. it was back in april when president biden s first briefed on the fact that the war was believed to be, not just in afghanistan, but in the afghan capital of kabul. in that city. living there he was told that members, his wife, his daughter, his grandchildren. now the intelligence community believes that he never left the house. that it was only as family members who went out. that is wife and daughter use what this administration called a terrorism trade craft to make sure that they weren t tracked or detect it. now they failed on
[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] will straight to a fox news alert, israel preparing for a full scale Ground Invasion of gaza as the idf confirmed troops and tank it is are already involved inside the hamascontrolled area. Rachel overnight an israeli airstrike reportedly killed a top hamas official believed responsible for last weeks deadly attack. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issuing a stark warning to the terror group. [speaking in native tongue] translator we are pounding our enemieses with unprecedented force, and i stress this is only the beginning. Our enemies have only just begun to pay the price. I will not detail our plans, but i will tell you this is only the beginning. Pete the Israeli Military extending the window for people to evacuate Northern Gaza to 9 a. M. Eastern time, is so just three hours from now. Two routes are currently open to allow Palestinians Safe Passage Out of gaza city to the south. This as the u. S. Off
they there were only 11. now in the course of a year, 172. how nervous does that make you? oh, it makes me very nervous. especially when you listen to, you know, some of your other reporting here just a couple minutes ago, when you look at how the rest of the world in the middle east has become unfriendly to the u.s. well, those particularly unfriendly to the u.s. can walk into the united states, thanks to joe biden. i m not giving away any state secrets there. that s in the news every day. and they know it. they know it. so, this is a real serious national security failure. it s not a looming problem. it s a past problem that continues to grow. and that s all thanks to joe biden s open borders policies, facilitated by secretary mayorkas. ainsley: ken, thank you so much. big job. at the center of renewing america, we need it. good to see you this morning. we do. ainsley: second hour of fox & friends starts right now. steve: it is 1:00 in the afternoon in israel
kabul. time and undermanned area vehicle. a drone. fired two hellfire missiles at that building where is amari was listening. he was on the balcony at that time. he was killed and no one else, we are told by the administration was hurt. it is a remarkably precise strike against the most wanted terrorist in the world, don. let s talk about some of that intelligence. what kind of intelligence would president biden have needed to ultimately give this operation the greenlight? we needed don lemon special on this. let me talk about different categories of intelligence. the first is, human intelligence. that is remember the bin laden right. if he had career or someone within the organization who can identify where your target, in this case so lori lives. so you might have on the ground intelligence, including in a place like kabul, you ve got overhead intelligence. once you identify a potential target, again, remember the bin laden compared. you can use a drone.