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
Strohmier live in new york, Iranian State media is reporting there are no signs of life seen at the crash site of a helicopter that was carrying president Ebrahim Raisi and others. News of ruizs death comes nearly 15 hours after the helicopter crashed in a remote part of the country during dense fog. Rescue efforts have been hampered by bad weather and tough terrain. A number of other top officials, including the countrys Foreign Minister, were also on board. That chopper was heading back to the countrys capital when it reportedly went down and this crash does come at a fraught moment in the middle east with the War Raging In Gaza and weeks after iran launched a drone and Missile Attack on israel. In response to a Deadly Strike on its diplomatic compound in damascus, Hardliner Raisi became president in an uncompetitive election in 2021. Irans Supreme Leader is stressing the business of irans government will continue no matter what. Under the iranian constitution. Irans first Vice Presi
going to eke out and get to the war with some aid coming to ukraine, it s hurry up and wait. and that s because of the battle they re having on capitol hill whether it should be tied to border security funding. it s been the battle royale for republicans who insist on it and democrats who say that it shouldn t be part of this. griff jenkins has the latest from eagle pass, texas who are tying this border issue with so many others, griff. griff: neil, good morning. and you know, i am in eagle pass, texas yet again and i have spent more time in eagle pass than any other location on assignment this year because of a border crisis that continues to surge to record breaking levels. let me take you to the drone right here where we are in eagle pass and you can see every day, here we are, you see the buses lining up in the middle there. the migrants. it s actually a group of four or 500, they break them up into groups of about 100 and process them, most of them. i was just over there
fights with hamas terrorists. israel released new video of soldiers taking control of an outpost in gaza. here it is. [explosions and gunfire] harris: the idf is going room to room now inside gaza s largest hospital. they say they are finding weapons and military gear there and they are searching for any information on the some 240 hostages. hamas terrorists took those people during the october 7th attack on israel. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. israel says this is a targeted operation to protect the patients inside that huge hospital, yet go after hamas leadership. and a flip here by the biden administration. remember for days now they ve been criticizing israel over the hospital operation. and then now a change. the pentagon has confirmed what the israelis showed the world yesterday. the terrorists are, in fact, operating inside hospitals. national security spokesman john kirby here. i can confirm that we have information that hamas and the pa
terrorists. the idf in heavy armor and tanks now reportedly taking out hamas targets and terrorists overnight. [explosions] harris: as you can see it went on long enough for day break. new video shows israeli troops raising the jewish nation s flag in the palestinian territory for the first time in 18 years. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. prime minister benjamin netanyahu announced the second phase of the war with the israeli forces reaching built-up areas including the outskirts of gaza city. reports on the ground idf blocked a key road linking northern gaza to the south. netanyahu has told his nation to expect a long, hard conflict. this is our second independence war. we are fighting on defending our homeland. we will fight and not quit. we will destroy the enemy of the land and under. we will fight and win. harris: here is what an israeli soldier told fox. on a regular basis we re worried about rockets, missiles, drones, even people cross