midwest. i started watching more what they did during this legislative session. i thought, man, they ve done an awful lot. maybe it s that florida is the iowa of the southeast. i don t know. florida ron desantis laying it on thick with praise for iowa during a barnstorm trip over the weekend as he takes advantage of donald trump canceling a campaign event in that state, and that comes as there s new polling in several states with hypothetical matchups between president joe biden, trump, and desantis. we ll take a look at the latest numbers. we ll also have an update on the debt ceiling negotiations as the clock is ticking before president biden takes a trip to january for the g7 summit. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, may 15th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. the two front-runners for the 2024 republican nomination were both expected to be in iowa over the weekend, but concerns about extreme weather kept
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Deserves our supporter. General jack keane, thank you so much. Well talk to you soon. Second hour of fox friends starts right now. Steve it is 2 00 in the afternoon in israel. A newly released hamas hostage speaking out for the first time this morning recalling the terrifying moment she was kidnapped by the terrorist group. To tell you the truth, ive been through hell. We never knew that we would come into this situation. Ainsley 85yearold Yocheved Lifshitz still awaiting the release of her husband in hamas custody with around 220 other hostages. Lawrence we heard from the some of those families in the last hour detailing the last conversations they had with their loved ones before they were taken. Brian trey yingst is on the ground in southern israel with the latest. Trey. Reporter hey, guys. Good morning. Israelis ramped up air strike on the gaza strip and more than 400 targets of hamas and Islamic Jihad hit by the israelis and were continuing air strikes on the gaza strip behind me
that the whistleblower or the informant is now missing? well, we are hopeful that we can find the informant. remember, these informants are kind of in the spy business. they don t make a habit of being seem a lot or being filed or anything like that. okay, a little curious. calmer and some other republicans including congresswoman nancy mace also darkly intimated that this informant s disappearance was a result of some sort of nefarious plot. i don t trust the doj or the fbi, they are trying to silence our witnesses. we have people who want to come forward, but on the same area, they fear for their lives. not only are the biden lawyers and the biden white house intimidating him, the media is trying to intimidate and discredit them. and then the missing witness himself, and it s really professor named dr. gonell warped. actually released a kind of
whistleblowers. you have also spoken with an informant who gave you all this information. where is that informant today? where are these whistleblowers? well, unfortunately, we can t track down the informant. we are hopeful that the informant is still there. the whistleblower knows the informant. the whistleblower is very credible. hold on a second, congressman. did you just say that the whistleblower or the informant is now missing? well, we are hopeful that we can find the informant. now remember, these informants are kind of in the spy business, so they don t make a habit of being seen a lot or being high-profile or anything like that. well, it looks like he was on to something, but not about joe biden. because the mysterious missing witness republicans are talking about four months has now been indicted by federal prosecutors on charges of being a foreign