Support for territories throughout the region, addressed it through sanctions, Military Force posture, do what we have to do to protect ourselves our troops. Nobody is turning away from that threat or their historic and sustained support for these territory groups. John, just a followup to what peter asked, two questions, i assume when the president said aid is not getting fast enough to gaza that hes not critiquing our efforts to get it there. And without Hanging A Hook On who is responsible, is he saying that more can be done from our end . Is there more that can be done to get the aid to them . I think he was referring to actors in the region. And then the second question, for many years you are going to meet with the Australian Government and they have supported the release of Julian Assange. We have not done so saying there were National Security reasons. For the reasons that he has been charged are basically the same efforts that many reporters use, so is there any Change Of Hear
Good evening. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight two elderly israeli women have been released by their hamas kidnappers and senior u. S. Officials confirm the u. S. Is, in fact, privately urging israel to wait on its expected Ground Incursion to allow for more time to arrange the release of additional hostages. Mike tobin starts us off tonight live from southern israel. Good evening, mike. Reporter good evening, bret. Two israeli women are free from hamas captivity. A slow drip of Hostage Releases as Israeli Military leaders say theyre ready to begin the Ground Invasion. Im not gonna sit here and assume theres going to be some sort of Ground Invasion. Reporter yet for days israels Defense Minister has told forces to be ready. Today speaking to the countrys navy. Translator we are preparing thoroughly for The Next Step Multilateral Operation in the air, ground and sea. Reporter the number of confirmed hostages has risen almost every day. Today israel said 222. The white house says that inc
missiles than focusing on china as an adversary. but they don t want it to tip over into actual fighting or chaos either. i think that after a period in 2017 when the chinese were cooperating to an unprecedented degree with the united states, we re now back to the old pattern where what we re going to hear from the chinese going forward is the u.s. is a big, strong country, north korea is weak, the u.s. should meet them halfway, make some more concessions, phase out those military defense exercises with south korea, take the thad battery that china has always despised out of south korea and you ll put north korea in a better mood and maybe that will lead to denuclearization. sheila, last question to you. where is human rights in all of this? the president said human rights
missile defense systems. china opposes this thad battery to south korea. they say it threatens their own forces. first of all, it can t. the united states shouldn t concealed the argument to them. it s not the cold war. we re going to defend south korea and the united states from the missiles that threaten us and that s north korea. neil: thanks, rebecca. thanks very much. all right. i do have good news for you. stocks are still advancing. stocks are still at records. even if the whole world is gone, you ll be richer.
i want to talk to kirk liphold about this. this is deemed that a provocative act that would agitate the chinese and the north koreans as if what the north koreans have been doing as of late with escalating the weekly tests more in the past year than we ve seen in the past ten years. what do you think of this? you have a difficult situation. obviously the koreans elected a liberal government and the defense has negotiated with the united states for this thad battery to come in. the chinese are worried it could look into china and disrupt things. the problem is now it has to be settled government to government rather than military to military. we need to have thad there. it is incumbent on us to ensure that we re sending a strong signal. north korea, yes. more importantly to china. they re the ones that aided and