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israeli military now says an additional nine soldiers have been killed inside gaza. they were hit by an anti-tank guided missile while operating in the northern part of the strip for the very latest, chief fox news correspondent jonathan hunt joins us live from jerusalem. jonathan lauren, it is 8 a.m. here in israel. and within the last couple of hours, we got that news from the israeli defense forces that nine soldiers were killed in one incident tuesday day morning. they were fired on by with an anti-tank tank, guided missile fired by hamas fighters. nine un soldiers killed. that is separate to the two soldiers killed that we reported on yesterday. so it brings to 11 the total number of idf soldiers killed in gaza since the ground operation began. now, the israeli defense forces , meantime, put out these videos showing an israeli strike against a vehicle that they said was carrying exactly those kind of anti-tank guided missiles. their ground operations continue. you meanti
money and creating jobs and lowering this 40 year high up inflation. make no mistake, that oil and gas will continue to flow no matter what russia does too ukraine. in fact much of russia, especially germany are dependent on russia oil and gas which is a big part of this problem. last year even america, our country joe biden s first year in office imported a whopping 230 million barrels of oil to russia. putin russia has been begging repeatedly and rejected repeatedly to produce more oil to drive down the price of oil. the price of a gallon of gasoline. we have more than they have. why don t we produce it ourselves, joe? this is madness. this is insanity. many of the world s leaders have been perfectly happy to make putin and russia don t make russia rich again and supply of energy available for all. now in 2018, we will show you an
fiim so don t wait call right now. call 800 people zero two one zero four. i find the leads from behind tries to play phony tough guy with putin. it wasri donald trump who laid out the dangers of europe s dependance on russian oil and of course they lack of paying their fair share for nato and the dangers of europe willingly making russia rich and putin rich again. take a look how the energy is a much different story than normal trade. and you have d a country like poland that won t accept the gas. you take a look at some of the countries that won t accept it because they don t want to be captive to russiaa. germany, as far as i m concerned, is captive to russia because it s getting so much of its energy from russia. so we re supposed to protect germany, but they re getting their energy from russia. r explainus that kind of heavyy flakiness. and as former president trump also warned, china is absolutely going afterer taiwana
epic face to face complete beat down with then president donald trump rebuking european leaders, getting right in their face for their dependents on russia for their energy, helping make russia rich again while we paid the bill for nato to protect them from russia. it is a long clip. it is worth watching. while you re watching, ask yourself do you think joe biden could ever be capable of this level of passionate fighting to what is in our country s best interest? here is the full exchange. it is very sad when germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with russia where you are supposed to be guarding against russia in germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to russia. so we are protecting germany. we are protecting france. we are protecting all of these countries. in the country s go out and make a pipeline deal with russia when