Politicsnation. Tonight slayed right now, the israelhamas war is intensifying. Three weeks after it started. But israels Military Chief Wanted the war has entered its next stage ahead of a major offensive in the gaza strip. This weekend the idf claims that some of its forces have already begun massing inside the palestinian territory, we are an intense series of israeli airstrikes has knocked out Communication Systems and Internet Access into gaza, effectively cutting off its 2 million residents from the outside world. Back in washington, congress is preparing to take up the white house major multi billion dollar request for aid to israel. One of its first tests under new republican Speaker Mike Johnson. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joins me in a moment. As Congress Works through Big Questions on israel, ukraine, and gun control, after this weeks horrific Mass Shooting in maine, and later, donald trump took the stand for the first time in his new york fraud trial this week and
Kidnapped, dead or just missing in this moment. You even have another connection to this. You were telling my producers about a family who is staying in your home now because they evacuated their kibbutz, and i guess i should say part of a family because their parents have been kidnapped, as well . Yes. So as soon as we realized there was going to be an ongoing event. I have a 5yearold at home, and i felt the urge to flee from home to save her because this was very clear that it was not going to end any time soon. There were dozens or hundreds of armed militants with trucks and motorcycles roaming through israel and nobody knows where they are. So once we did, we immediately tried to make use of our home which was just standing empty and my sisterinlaw a day later called me up and said that there is a family, there are three girls from Kibbutz Behri which is one of the kibbutz that were most affected to the extent that right now people are saying that there is no more Kibbutz Behri, an
democrats. garrett in chicago, thank you. you ve got it. john: fox news alert, waiting to hear from the white house after new attacks on the troops in the middle east. national security adviser jake sullivan will be there to field questions from the assembled white house press corps and with that, begin hour two. john roberts in washington. welcome back to another busy week of news. good to be with you, this is america reports . that attack seen as the biggest escalation yet against u.s. troops in the region. it is sparking alarm that president biden is failing to head off a wider war in the middle east. iranian backed militias are responsible for at least 75 attacks on american troops in the region in just the last six weeks. john: complete coverage now, daniel davis moments away why the biden administration is not doing more to protect american troops in harm s way. sandra: first chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon for us.
martha: good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. breaking now, a huge moment has just unfolded at the united nations. hillary clinton and new york senator kristen gillibrand rip on progressive reluctance to condemn hamas atrocities against women. all right. you know what? we have something live from the white house. let s listen in. from jake sullivan about this. i can only speak for the president. that s who i can speak for. we ve been clear what hamas did is absolutely reprehensible and full stop. we re going to continue to be clear about that. we think about rape and the use of rape as being used as a weapon. that is also reprehensible. that s full stop. i ll leave it there. that is speaking for the president of the united states. i ve been very clear on that. any comment though congressman jayapal i just laid out what we believe is unacceptable. i know you said you don t want to i want to ask you about reporting about the border talks linking to ukraine fund
argument for maybe some more time for joe biden in the white house. yes, i think probably. thank you, my friend. president biden was in normandy today, commemorating the 80th anniversary of d-day. and while he was there, he was asked about something totally unrelated. whether he would issue a pardon for his son, hunter, if a federal jury in delaware convicts the younger biden of felony gun possession. here his out president biden responded. as we sit here in normandy, your son, hunter, is on trial. i know that you cannot speak about an ongoing federal prosecution. but let me ask you, will you accept the jury s outcome, the verdict, no matter what it is? yes. have you ruled out a pardon for your son? yes. pretty clear answer there. but again, this is a yes or no russian. to be honest, shouldn t be that hard to answer. joe biden, as president, with the power to pardon anyone he wants at the federal level will let his son go to prison if he is found guilty by a j