of america s newsroom, i m claudia cowen. mike: i m mike emanuel. the act of retaliation coming after an anti-american sanctioned group launched a drone attack on erbil air base in northern iraq that injured three service members, one critically. former national security member telling us last hour president biden should have taken action sooner. i m glad that he finally hit back, but he should do it earlier in the cycle. his red line seems to be if a u.s. troop or a u.s. contractor gets hit, injured or killed, then the united states will hit back. i would rather us hit hard earlier in the cycle so that we can prevent someone from being injured in the first place. mike: right now black smoke rising over gaza as the idf ramps up attacks on hamas terror targets. israel s prime minister visited troops in northern gaza saying there can be no peace until hamas is destroyed. claudia: bring us up to speed, trey. good morning. overnight president biden ordered the u.s. mi
& friends with a fox news alert, again. the israeli defense forces say they have raided hamas general security headquarters overnight. they are now surrounding other areas of interest in northern gaza. ainsley: this comes as the israeli government is reportedly considering flooding the terrorist group s tunnels with the mediterranean sea water. brian: you just want to find out if the hostages are there though, right? trey yingst is live in southern israel. trey? yeah, hey, guys, good morning. we are following this report from the wall street journal indicating that israel is considering flooding the tunnel network at least of northern gaza with sea water from the mediterranean sea. they have reportedly placed five large pumps near the camp in the northern part of gaza. and they are waiting to see if they will actually move forward with this plan. but it is significant to discuss because, if they do this, it would destroy the tunnel network but it also risks damaging