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Right now. Martha good afternoon. Im martha maccallum. This is a huge 180 from the president. The white house is scrambling to spin this afternoon over the move to do exactly what they said they wouldnt do, build a border wall on the southern border. Dhs says there is an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers to prevent unlawful entry. Completely contradicting. This from the president in the oval office a short time ago. Watch this. Border wall money was a pronated for the border while. I tried to get to redirect the money. They didnt. They wouldnt. Meantime, theres nothing under the law other than that they have to use the money for what it was appropriated. I cant stop that. Do you believe the border wall no. Martha no. We have to untangle this. Moments ago, reporters went after Karine Jeanpierre. She said she hadnt seen the memo that was put out. The president is looking at the numbers and realizes something ....
martha: good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. breaking now, a huge moment has just unfolded at the united nations. hillary clinton and new york senator kristen gillibrand rip on progressive reluctance to condemn hamas atrocities against women. all right. you know what? we have something live from the white house. let s listen in. from jake sullivan about this. i can only speak for the president. that s who i can speak for. we ve been clear what hamas did is absolutely reprehensible and full stop. we re going to continue to be clear about that. we think about rape and the use of rape as being used as a weapon. that is also reprehensible. that s full stop. i ll leave it there. that is speaking for the president of the united states. i ve been very clear on that. any comment though congressman jayapal i just laid out what we believe is unacceptable. i know you said you don t want to i want to ask you about reporting about the border talks linking to ukrain ....
virginia senator joe manchin will not seek re-election. will he seek another office? we ll talk to bret baier coming up, a live look at pro palestinian students working out of school and rallying to basically shut everything down for palestine. let s listen to this. [chanting]. martha: some big numbers done there. we have a reporter down there. very big crowd gathering in new york city. we ll keep a close watch. also breaking right now, an interesting story. the department of justice has just announced that they have busted an alleged sex ring operating in massachusetts, boston area, and in virginia that is said to have surfaced many politicians, members of the military and other prominent corporate executives. we re keeping a close eye on that. we ll have more an soon as we get it later this hour. that s coming up. first, our lead story. iran keeps striking our bases. remember when the president said don t? they re not listening. we ve had four more attacks in the la ....
martha: thanks very much, strikes. austin also pushed for more john and aishah. good afternoon. funding for israel, taiwan and i m martha maccallum. breaking right now on the ukraine. he says without american story, a live look at gaza as support, putin will be successful. if putin is successful, he will tensions roil the globe and move on to nato countries and that means american troops will certainly between israel and get involved. gaza to be sure. back to you, martha. now it s spilling in to the martha: a tangled web. thanks, rich. halls of congress today. with that, we bring in four-star secretary of state blinken and secretary of defense austin general jack keane, former vice faced this kind of questioning chief of staff of the arm my and during their senate hearing just chair of the institute for the study of war. a couple hours ago. good to have you with us, general. obviously there s escalation [shouting]. happening in gaza. we re hearing in a moment fr ....
Judiciary next will he appear before congress. that is something we re waiting to see if john durham confirms he will do. trace. trace: that will be my first question. david spunt, thank you. before we get to jim jordan, let s bring in marc thiessen, former speechwriter for george w. bush, an american enterprise institute senior fellow and fox news contributor. mark penn, former clinton adviser and pollster and chairman and ceo of stagwell and the paris poll. mark, was the hillary clinton manipulated in this or you think they went along with it? it s hard to say from where the motivation was. it wasn t just that the fbi used the clinton campaign funded steele dossier, but they used their source, a man under ....