this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. an american tragedy, that s the focus of tonight s acts gel. all right, shortly after that nightmare attack sunday on u.s. service personnel in jordan, republicans rushed out to demand that biden launch a significant military retaliation against iran. now, the loss of these three patriots is both heart breaking and enraging. and while the impulse to avenge their deaths is understandable, we cannot afford another protracted conflict in the middle east. and even if we could, we can t rely on this woke series of item wits at the biden pentagon to deliver anything resembling victory. after all, is biden s top military brass had success war gaming ukraine? even tracking our munitions there? and how did millie austin manage that afghanistan withdrawal again? to this day, after 13 u.s. service personnel were left vulnerable and then blown to bits, biden has held no one in his administration accountable, no one. but, of course,
is not at war with russia. with ruthis is ukraine s war to figh. uk the second thing we have heard over and over again is that ukraine is winning that wa thar. rave ukrainian troops are brave and noble. russian troops are evil. and incompetent. the ukrainians are beating the russians. ir victo in the end, their victory i is inevitable. now, you re very familiar with these points because you heary day since ever last february. you ve heard them repeated by every power centem repeated , the united states , the pentagon, the white house, the leaders of both partie s in congress, ceos and celebrities, and most insistently of all, m from you ve heard them from virtually every single outlet lyy along the entire spectrum ol our national news media. these are the two essential themes of the war in ukraine and both of them are lies. k we know that they re lies because late last week, leakedea intelligence about the war in ukraine began to appear on social media briefing slides prepare
an explosive report of sex abuse cases inside the southern baptist convention. survivors repeatedly ignored and disbelieved by the largest protestant denomination in the united states as leaders themselves tried to protect their own reputations instead of protecting the victims. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our world lead and top white house advisers caught off guard by this response from president biden when he was asked in a news conference in tokyo if the u.s. would be willing to foe further than it has with ukraine to help taiwan in the event of an invasion. you didn t want to get involved in the ukraine conflict militarily for obvious reasons. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s the commitment we made. now, president biden didn t specify what he meant by militarily, but the question defined the term as the u.s. military getting directly involved as it has not done in uk
inside, killing a number of the people who were in the bomb shelter, blew half of herch s lower arm off, so like one of the other israeli hostages, mia shem, who had serious injuries, he was taken captive and brought into gaza with very, very serious injury, and his mother rachel has no idea if he survived that ordeal. if he received appropriate medical treatment, where he is, what his status is. so it has to be awfully difficult seeing these hostages come home known her son, herch, is still in custody somewhere in gaza. sandra: ophelia brightman, 77 years old, also one of the hostages just released, she came to israel from argentina holding argentine citizenship. she s the wife of hector, mother of three children, grandmother of nine children. she had sent her last message to her family asking for help, stating that the terrorists were in her house and since that moment of her that she was taken, john, her contact had been severed and you can only imagine what is happeni
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