minutes we expected the state department will give an update. and on capitol hill republican submitters will give their first response to president biden s pitch to save medicare by raising taxes. all of that coming up this hour. plus . we bought the elites! we ignored the chatter. we did it our way. the florida way. we won t back down, and i can promise you this. you ain t seen nothing yet. speak to governor ron desantis has his critical rivals on notice there is a whole lot more his team says where that came from the governor gave his state of the state address, spring training swings into florida, baseball lovers but washington post columnist has a major problem with that he is now calling on them to take a stand against ron desantis attack on diversity. the governor s team responded, we will have that coming up with will cain. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into our two in this busy tuesday i m john roberts good afternoon. gillian: good to be with
griff: aishah: you are looking live at tel aviv where thousands are gathering, the hostages still being held by hamas in gaza. this is a big moment as two siblings released from hamas captivity will speak at this demonstration tonight. it comes as israel has resumed strikes in gaza, a big moment. it was partly these protests from families of the hostages that led to the first initial deal. welcome to fox news live. aishah: griff: israel calling its negotiators from qatar, idea forces signaling they will shift their focus to southern gaza. greg palcott has more. reporter: we will listening to ferocious gunfire a mile away from the gaza strip and a temporary cease-fire between israel and hamas. all bets are off. israeli airstrikes, we even heard israeli naval ships off the coast taking away some parts of the gaza strip. the military says it is involving areas it has not been before. that fighting was a week ago. various areas in northern gaza in the hands of hamas. underneath
john: welcome back as america reports rolls into our two in this busy tuesday i m john roberts good afternoon. gillian: good to be with you on gillian turner in for sandra smith state this is america reports. john: compactin competition this is what china says will happen if the united states does not get out of their way. china s foreign minister accusing the u.s. of trying to contain the communist nation as it aims to be the world s top superpower. gillian: military analysts are predicting the possibility of a war with china is on the rise. this is communist party officials just warned the bite and administration if the u.s. won t play by the rules, they are ready to fight. john: meanwhile they may be stepping up in surveillance, they told the wall street journal they are worried china s potentially using not balloons, but cargo cranes to spy on the u.s. gillian: those cranes are essentially giving a bird s-eye view of what is being shipped in and out of u.s. ports.
strategy, china s attempt to become the top superpower. you almost risk being called a nut bringing it up. should we be concerned about? i think so. who would have thought 20 or 30 years ago that china could have a television that could eavesdrop on millions of americans in their living rooms. i think we have not taken china seriously, and we are going to have a number of surprises in the coming year. they have a full court press on the e espionage threat. president trump is putting tariffs on them tomorrow. they don t understand that. they were reassured it could never happen and now it happens in another six hours. this is great cause for
that means a state like virginia where they re focused on jobs in pennsylvania, and i think governor romney has made it clear that making us number one in the economy and having a strong economy is his number one priority, and he s been focused on that, you know, extensively. last night you also saw him, you know, talking about the importance of the military and our strength on foreign policy. so a strong economy, strong national security is something we have to have if we re going to be the top superpower, you know, in the 21st century bill: when you consider specifically in pennsylvania, you have 50% of the registered voters are democrats yeah. bill: only 37 are republicans, what does that say about what s happening around the suburbs of philadelphia or the suburbs of pittsburgh in the west? i think that shows you the people are very concerned about the economy, and i think the governor s message on being focused on the economy is going to resonate with those people because