Everyone, thank you so much for joining us this morning i am maria bartiromo. It is friday october 27. Breaking news 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. United states retaliates striking to facilities in Eastern Syria overnight, these facilities used by the iranian back soldiers, this after 19 attacks against american troops in the middle east. Iran and north korea both accusing israel of genocide also pointed the finger at the United States. The new House Speaker in Place Congress moves on a bill to crack down on antisemitism, that is exploding on College Campuses across the country. Were following the breaking news all morning long, markets this morning are in the green. Take a look at features with the gain of the start of trading, down dahlstrom 73, nasdaq up 136 and s p 500 higher by 22 after the nasdaq hit correction territory after betterthanexpected earnings for big check this week. Were waiting the Federal Reserve favorite reading on inflation this morning, the september pc index is at 8 30 a. M. Eastern, join us into a half hours we have all hands on deck with the numbers cross, there are the expectation. European markets amex, the s p 100 is higher by 12, the cat crown is lower by 32, dax index higher by 35, the markets finished with higher acrosstheboard best performer hong kong, hang seng up better than 2 , the manhattan is still unfolding in maine after police circled the suspects home last night after 18 people were killed and 13 injured in a shooting rampage. We have the latest, joining the conversation on boarding audubon ski Group Founder john lonski and georgia congressman doug collins. Mornings with maria is live right now. Breaking news out of the middle east the military carried out to airstrikes overnight on facilities in syria operated by uranium back forces, Fox News Senior National Correspondent rich edson is live at the pentagon. Good morning a senior military official said the airstrikes a few hours ago were conducted as retaliation for strikes against American Forces in the region in Eastern Syria that is where a pair of f16 fighter jets hit facilities linked to the iranian guard corps and Eastern Syria along the iraq he border, one according to military officials as a weapon storage area and ammunition storage facility, the munitions against american troops over the past week and a half. Officials say the u. S. Did not inform israel ahead of the strikes. Defense secretary lloyd austin says the u. S. Has no intention or desire to engage in further hostilities but, these iranian backed attacks against u. S. Forces are unacceptable and must stop. Iran wants to hide its role in these attacks against our forces and we will not let them. If attacks by the proxies against u. S. Forces continue we will not hesitate to take further necessary measures to protect her people, the pentagon says in the past ten days iranian backed motions have launched 19 attacks on bases housing american troops in iraq and syria, austin says 21 u. S. Personnel have minor injuries and all have returned to duty, the administration is under growing criticism from republicans to respond to these attacks. Marco rubio the Top Republican on the Intelligence Committee and senior number of the Foreign Relations committee tweeted the u. S. Precision strikes against two iran proxy facilities as a direct response to iran back personnel are an important step towards reestablishing against future attacks against americans. Another piece of the supported god has been boosting the american presence in the middle east with Carrier Strike groups, missiledefense systems, jets and also 900 american troops, more are headed or are in the region. Maria are the strikes against u. S. Forces meant to send a message to us, the United States, they are unhappy with u. S. Support for israel or are the strikes meant to taught the United States into this work. Thats a really good question, would you look at whats been going on with the strikes theyve happened before, before the conflict ever begin the United States and iran back malicious have hit American Forces and facilities in syria and iraq that housed american troops, they injured them in the United States has responded before. The question that military Officials Say theyre not sure of is how much of a direct hand to iran the iranian government has and how much planning they have with the malicious but they do know that they are supporting them and supplying them and that much they do no. Maria rich edson at the pentagon. The pentagon is calling this a precision selfdefense. Doug collins and john lonski with me, your reaction. Good morning. But what took so long. One thing that he said somebody watch this, these were going on for a long time over the last 1e attacks and it took us this long to respond. These people respond to one thing, the terrorist groups were not linked to iran. Iran tells the basically what to do, when to get up and go to b bed. We can never detract irans role with iranian backed militia groups we may question why did we take so long because they respond to force and force alone. And glad to see were doing this and take it up for a troops, that many attacks across the board and take it into perspective, can you imagine trying to expand to the American People because the topic reported that much that that many attacks have been on our troops in our bases and we did nothing up until now. Glad to see happening. Yes there trying to address into this battle a little bit more to get a regional conflict and this is what they have been trying to forever. Maria we are seeing the reaction of markets. John lonski take a look at the oil market crewed up about 2. 5 this morning. Irans foreign minister threatening the United States on american soil. Accusing israel of genocide in the United Nations speech. Divided administration is been slammed for granting his visa in the u. S. Troops are targeted again by iran back terrorist groups, your reaction. This makes absolutely no sense how the administration has approached iran, theyre out to get us enough to get israel an ally. As a result we have to put more pressure on iran rather than try to make some sort of peace overture and reduce sanctions, that type of thing read we have to be prepared for the possibility that we will be in a position where we have no choice to cut off the head of the snake, the snake being iran. Maria look at the price of oil, 85. 16, 85. 18, up to and a third , clearly moving on this news, where you think its going and tell us about the impact. Even before we had the major terrorist attack on october 7 you had a lot of analysts that were predicting oil would climb above 100 per barrel. What happened recently of course increases the risk of oil jumping up above the 100 threshold and as a result we will see a resumption of faster Price Inflation that will eventually filter into what you call poor inflation because of higher transport cost and petrochemical cost. Its too early to become complacent about inflation and right now we have to be prepared for the possibility that inflation begins to move higher again later this year in fact if really not last year. Maria the next reading coming up into a half hours, pce index coming up with there is a market reaction. Were just getting started, quick break we stayed on the breaking news as irans foreign minister is threatening the United States and israel, Carlos Gimenez is here on that and the influx of chinese migrants illegally crossing into america via the southern border. 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Im wondering if that was a proportional response, i took the eyes of the world in the eyes of america to actually be focused on the area before the Biden Administration took any action against these terrorists that have apparently been launching strikes against our personnel for some time. Yesterday i thought i heard a squadron of f15s in 16th and now i find out to f16s. Im wondering exactly what damage was done to what and will it deter these terrorist groups from continuing to attack our troops in the middle east. Maria it sounds like youre skeptical congressman . You think, thats because the bitter congressman for three years and nothing the Biden Administration tells me ever pans out. Remember i been telling you never listen to what the Biden Administration tells you, watch what theyre doing. What are the things that we need to do in the Armed Service committee is to get some footage of exactly what was hit and what kind of damage was done to the tears groups. Maria it certainly is getting increasingly dangerous, do you expect the u. S. Will have a bigger footprint and this work . May be, unfortunately so because we should be in the situation, the only reason were in the situation is to continue weakness of the Biden Administration ever since he took office, this administration has to go. The world is a much more dangerous place because of this administration and because of the weakness we have shown ever since President Biden in the secretary of state took power. What happened in afghanistan was just the beginning, now we see a war in ukraine in a war in the middle east and now we see proxies trying to drive us into war and i fear that very much, for me 2025 cannot come soon enough. Maria one of the issues is the readiness of the United States. All of the conversation how this administration has led the military bringing of gender studies, et cetera et cetera, are we ready and should we actually have the situation abrupt because a month ago, the president told the world were running out of ammunition, remember that one. The one problem that we have we have identified big gaps in our Defense Industries here for too long we relied on our stockpiles and we allow the industry to atrophy. We need to revive that and thats why House Republicans want a much bigger Defense Budget to get our defense capabilities up. We need to produce more fighters and do that faster and produce new munitions and weapon systems. For the first time in my lifetime the United States is not leading all advanced weapon systems. Thats very troubling to me. We need to ramp it up and wrap it up quick because the world is getting to be a much more dangerous place, especially when the United States shows the weakness is been showing for the last two and a half or three years. Maria this administration has shown weakness on the wideopen border and we are watching a development happen over and over again. I want to point your attention to what florida Highway Patrol border officials are telling us, they have arrested 17 chinese nationals after they arrived in key largo by boat. The group consisted of 20 total illegal migrants, 11 adult chinese males, 11 adult chinese males, six adult chinese females and three adult men from ecuador, Border Protection sources telling fox in the first 13 days of october agents encounter more than 2000 chinese nationals. This is largely military aged men coming hear from china in the numbers are up 1300 yearoveryear. I know key largo is your district, what can you do about and what is your reaction to the chinese nationals coming into america and now we find that the commenter key largo by boat. The question is these are the ones that we caught, we know that we have over close to 2 million that acrosstheboard or during the Biden Administration and we dont know who they are and where theyre going to why theyre here and how they got here. Again this is the Biden Administration the other disaster that is Biden Administration. It seems like everything that runs counter to American Interest and really interest Biden Administration to do that. Im really concerned, the chinese have established a footprint and a pretty big footprint in central and south america and they establish much greater ties with communist cuba, their Building Infrastructure projects, 50 miles from here in the bahamas so why were the chinese nationals trying to get into the United States, why what are they doing here, what is their purpose theyre all military aged men or most of them are so exactly what is it that they want to do. Maybe some are here for economic reasons but im sure some are here for more nefarious pur purposes. Maria that is a good question. Thats what i want to ask you, china is a communist country, can you just get up and leave . Can they all just get up and leave or do you need permission from the communist government. You need permission to get up out of any communist country you have to have permission to get out you cant just say im taking a vacation. Thats not the way it goes. Maria is this being directed by xi jinping and what is he up to . Is up to no good, thats what is up to, dont believe xi jinping is our friend, he is our number one adversary in the world, he wants china to become the greatest economic and military power by 2049 and hes well on his way. Hes up to no good. There is no question that is up to no good, he is not our fr friend. Maria what can you do about it, we have a newspeak of the house mike johnson in place who sat down with fox with his first interview since being elected wednesday, he discussed where he stands on ukraine funding whether tied to israel funding, here is a clip. I told the staff, the white house today that are consensus among House Republicans we need to bifurcate those issues and we can allow Vladimir Putin to prevail in ukraine and i dont think it would stop. It would encourage and empower china to make a move on taiwan. We have to make sure that the white house is providing the people with some accountability for the dollars. Maria your sense of what you could do in congress and how well you respond to the president s request to tie the money in and aid package to ukraine as well as israel together. I agree with our speaker 100 ive said that before that the package has to be bifurcated in each piece has to be voted on separately, the money that goes to ukraine has to be accounted for even though i do supp