American. Welcome to the week today. Cho chaos continues to ripple throughout the middle east. S 22 americans now confirmed dead with 17 Americans Still unaccounted for, assumed under captive. The death count in israe l is now at over 1200. 189 of them. Israeli soldiers. So its only going to get worse from here. An get wor israeli seeks retribution against hamas as israel does terror cells like hezbollahs in lebanon are now flanking israels Northern Borders with missile strikes northers ws hezbollahs artillery Pummels Northerntiller israel not continuously but erratically. Hamas continues their barbaric shelling of israeli civilians in the southth. The israelis are living a nightmare and its not goinggn away and its not ending soon. One woman spen t 36 hoursn huddled in a bomb shelter as radicalized jihadistsa marched down the neighborhood, tetchering anyone in sighth on you cant imagine terrorist in your city. Rrthe terrorists were posting proudly pictures of the people they killed just in my neighborhood. My friends told me that terrorists are outside of their home trying to get in, and we dont know how many. Of them are retired. You just hear the gunshots and you know this. Every gunshot kills someonevery its a person killed, murdered, butchereped. Their communities are savagely torn apart. Fox reporter trey yanks saw the brutality up close and personal. You can see the blood stained patio of this home. Patipeople were resting at thei time. It was early in the morning on saturda y when hamas militants stormed into their homes slaughtering womenat and children. The soldiers here tell us they founs d bodies that were decapitated, people with hands tied behincapitated their back n executed. The Kitchen Floors are staineds with blood. Mothers holding their small children. Bodies decapitated. Sorrific, horrific scene in southern israel. But the israelis havent nt hope in the pastndred 24 hours. Over50 450 airstrikes and its rocked gaza here in gaza. In gaza, Hundreds Of Airstrikes have already taken a toll, of killing at least two members of the alleged thought to be masterminds, Family Members, Mohammed Dief. On top of that, 300,000report israeli troops are reportedly amassing on gazas bordeed r, just waiting and theyre coming. They are fully armed at this hour. Wer e talking a lot of tanks, lights on. Now, today, the first shipmentl. Of us weapons arrived in israel. They already had a lot they. On at any moment, israel will launch a full scale invasion of gaza. We believe israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu vowse to not stop until everygh member of hamas is dead. Every hamas member, they are isis. They will be destroyed. The way we destroy they world destroyed isis. We will dtho that wite h ham so what does this siege lookk like . Its about to stare . T. Minute could start any minute. Lets bring in brad filipovic. Hes a drone experlets t and a former Army Special Ops intel analyst. Spent a lot of time in ukraine of latl anover in e. And chuck devore, retired Army Intelligence officer. Ill start with yoi startu if a chuck. When this actually starts in the Siege Beginrts ege begis its not the first time, but this will be the first timel obstac wantsough. To go all the way in and through. Do you believe that toe that. Well, i certainly do believe that, brian. But we have to look at the Scalto Look E of the operation. I if you compare it, for example, to the Second Battle Of Fallujah in iraq, what were looking at with gaza is a population about eight timesandt that of fallujah. And that took six weeks. It generated from some 1200 to 2000 enemy casualties with that operation. The so youre likely to see the scale and the time be a loth greater with this operation, even though israels bringin ts significantly more forces to the table than we did with thethan we second battlel of fallujah. Brad, do you believe the Battle Plan Stil L being sketched out . I think so, but i think its very clear. Land or Ground Invasion is imminent. I mean, hamass surprise incursion, though, frankly, in israel, its going to backfire. They had this one day of glory, but its is ov over. Israel is going to hammer them. And this time, when they go into gazbea, its going to be a lot different than before. Their forces are going to take their time. Theyre going to go block by block. This is a Military Operation that has to focuisperations on g deterrence. They need to hammer hamas. They to a to punish them level that reestablishes deterrence. And frankly, its going to get veryt very b bloody. But, you know, for quite some time, they basically, you know, let hamas gain the strength. Theyve beens ga a bit complace. They cant do that anymore. You know, theyve declared this this war on hamas and they need to go in there and they need to respond. Grossly disproportionate over the top so that Thisroportio D cant happen again. Chuck, does it bother you that hamas wants this . To the they planned the siege. Well s, executed in their owney evil way. And they take hostages to make sure ostage israel goesr does the unknown worryry you as a military man . Yes. So, brian, as an intelligence officer, youre taught to brief to things to the commander the most likely course of action in the most dangerous in tngerous. F ac the most likely courseti of action is that the Hamas Atrocitiess and the brutality that weve seen is just Business As Usual with hamas expecting that as israel starts to go in, therell be Increasinthey Wilg Internatik pressure on them to back off its it will be busines off as usual. An the most dangerous course of action is something that im quitone concerned about, and it involves hezbollah in lebanon with their 100,000 plus missiles supplied by the Islamic Republic supplie of iras it involves iran itself and itra involves Entitien S Likederati the Russian Federation and the peoples republic of china. And soon ands my concern is that as israel begins to commitbe some of those 360,000 reservists that have been called uent callp, does that thn that that hezbollah in the north will see their opportunity to come in . And lastly, brian, is our stocks in precision guided Mun Munitions become further depleted afterher helping properly . I think helping ukraine and then helping hand th israel . Will that be seen as a window ac opportunity for other actors like iran or china to Taketi Action . And wer yeah, we are. Our Weapons Manufacturers have to pick up the pace, ive been hem, them. Wha pay just do it. En brad, i want you to heart what President Trump told me in an intervietrumw thats goinr to air tomorrow. I believe what he believes in this case, that thishere wouldnt happen if he was president. Heres what he isaid said, his take at this moment. But we havemome to protect israel. There is no choice. And do we have to do it . Tohe has been hurt very badlyhaa because of whats happened herpe. He was not prepared. He was not prepared and israel was not prepared. Had t and under trump, they wouldnt have had it be prepared. Prs the Prime Ministerwo describing what their intelligence would have been able to pick this up . Thousandsul been abo pick the involved. Thousands of people knew about it and they le hert this slip b. That was not a good thing for him or for anybody. And when he says him, he means Prime Minister netanyahu. He was not prepared for this and court blindsided. And its hard for me to believeh with the Reputatiot Blinieven or intelligence services. Yeah, i mean, its clearly it wasnt an intelligence failure, but i dont think its the time right nont thw to necessarily n fingers. I also want to echo the other comments about hezbollah coming into this. Theyve been a bit of a wild card and strategically very dangerous and a problem if they get involveitsd, if it stc happens on a larger scale, theres going to be a lot more death and destruction. Its going to be tenfold iftu they get involved. And this is a conflict that could spread to the west bank and ten this is nflictn and israels bs with lebanon, where hezbollah formally operates. It could trigger a multifront war on israels northern border that would also include iran. And so thats why i think the u. S. Potentially needs to get Involvetht Involvd here d a clear message to hezbollah, to iran, to not to continue their involvement in this this that the u. S. Needs to help here. They need to act quickly, dete rct them from entering the conflict, make these Aircraft Carriers moving into the region these agettin more more than jo a show of force. Make it extremely clear that if they get involved any further, the u. S. Government is going to conduct a strike becausolvedh e we cannot have these other groups coming in here forcefully, you know, Conductingother Grg is and making already the death and destruction worse. He gave one word. To he said, dont. I dont know if thats going to be enough to deter iran fronm financing, supporting and urging and cheerleading hezbollah and hamas. Thanks, guys. Great analysis. Appreciate it. Yesterday, the Whitellah Andicaa House announced 14 americans had been killed during hamass attack on israel. Lled ksand today, president bidr increased that figure to 22 confirmed deaths, a number that may continue to rise thntinued. Es are identifie and the fighting continues with Terrorist Groups like hamas. Sheer not only terrible sheer evil, sheer evil to the world, evil that echoes the worst and matches in some cases exceeds the worst atrocities of oasis. More than 1000 civilians slaughtered in israel. Mize among those who have been victimized, this evil, who and who have been killed, or at least 22 american citizens now known figure, though,e held is how Many Americans are currently being held hostage in gaz h in ta. White house Officials Say that at least 17 americans remain unaccounted7 americ for, but didnt specify how many are currently being held agains are curt their will by h. The president said hes working to bring our people homeing our but wouldnt get into specifics about what the administrationmit plans to do to get theram home. We want to make it realas clear were working on every aspect of the Hostag Ine Crisis in israel, including deploying experts to advisg dee and assist with recovery efforts. Now, the press are going to shout to me, and many of you are, that, you know, what are you doing to bring these you get these folks home. If i told you, i wouldnt be abl hoe to get them home. Re is folks, theres a lot more to do. Ita we are. A lot more to do it. I have not given up hopeinging t of bringing these folks home. But the idea that im going to stand here before you and dog tell you what im doing is bizarre. E so i hope you understand how bizarre i think it would be to try to answer that questioe too answern. And while biden is apparently working in the background s wor, u. S. Officials are trying to coordinate with egypt and other countries surrounding Israelr CountrTo Pe Safe Passage For Americans from gaza. But before those but americanse able to make their way out of gaza, they need to sit ther e a set free from their captors. And how do they do that . How exactly caw can the presidet or Special Operators pull it off . Or can is the israelis pull ito off . Well our Special Forces go in there guns blazing. S be an all out assaultt or a more delicate operation or through talks . Here to explain how those hostages might be freed, Medal Of Honor recipient and authorwe of remember the ram rods, as well as house to house david bellavia. David, when you talk about urban warfare, knowing our american Tk About Rfar eyes, somewhere, possibly there, how does that complicate any, pb maneuvers . Oh, its its a meat grinder. I mean, you just heard fromyst a your analysts that came before i did. And when you listemen to what theyre talking about, look at syria jumps in this thing, lebanon. But as gaza stands right now, were talking about a piece wer of properte tay a 20 miles wide and nine miles deep. 2 Million People live there. His we compare this to the battle of fallujah. But, brian, that Civilian Population was gone and the november battle of fallujah, s you start putting civilians on that battlefield. Youre making everyoneeld thin. Twice about every shot. Seal team six is elite. Our delta boysseal are elite. But you got someone behind a door with a Machine Gusomeone i dont care if youre the marvel avengers, youre going to get shot. This is clos, youe quarter. Its unforgiving. Its grueling. And theres a lot of reservist s in the idf that are going to be going door to door, house to house. They dont have the traininghoun as the elite Boys And Girls do. But i dont want to send seals and delta into something that we have no Situational Awareness of. Whats wl going on, where. Our people are. Thots thats not the way to g about it. Unless they have their iphone on where we coulunlessd ping it, which is not likely. End t really Human Intelligenc . Is it knowing the box and the Thnd Wheretwhere they migh be even before this operation took place . Look, heres the deal. We have battle drills for when, you know, its like an audible in football. You see the linebacker cheat. You know exactly where to go. Our battle drill s are thee area same way. This entire area knows an invasion is coming knows tha. They are ready. We saw what happened in mariupol, in ukrain nee. S were it didnt matter of buildings. Were still standing. They went subterraneantill. And in gaza, they will go subterranean. Everywhere theres rubbly go s theyll be a sniper. And when theres snipers, theres going to be obstacles. Ers,and ieds. This is a quagmire to get into. We are all about saving american lives, but theres got to be a plangot to and i undersd the president doesnt want to get in xs and os. He at least owes the American People a scope, intent. What are we going to do and how are we going to do it . The time for negotiations is long gone. But dont you have a military and a Hostage Negotiator . S expt and i know the fbi has experts in that area. Robert obrien over the weekend told me hes like, i get him in right away immediately to work throug h the israelis with the israelis or lead the israelis. But that could worwoulk. I also heard that theyve been turned over to islamic, which would be more complex becausen o we dont really have a line of communication, nor do the israelisr he with them. Having said that, at the same time, youve got to getti your operators ready to go in. Does time matter or does iter te matter . Getting the strategy work right when it comes to finally Penetratinn Itg into gazaund . On the ground . Brian, i think this is these entire problem with thiS Administration in the scope. Raticope wg everyone wantss to n to negotiate, make coffee. You had no problem. You knoweg you, three years agn was at the economic level of haiti. Nohe economic levew theyve gotn that was on negotiation. Negoeant to bring hostag negotiations. These people lop their heads off of infants. Ions. They ltheyre out there woe if the Biden Administration wants to negotiate and you can negotiate with that form of evil, ill make the coffee. Well stay up all night. This evil needs to be pacified t. And the way to do that is with firepower. And im saying that israelsis leading the charge. This is israels fight. Were stand by there on the Eastern Mediterranean with a Carrier Group to help them out. If Lebanon Geton that a littlss and syria wants to jump into this. Ty andtoweve got 10,000 troops in syria. Were fighting everyone. Ne all aall across the spectrumo i just dont know when thiw S Administration wants to talk,o e when thiS Administration wants to give money away and when were goin and wheoingg to star terrorists, which is what we do in war and for 20 years weve been doing it. And for whatever reason, the Biden Administration reason uipmen and now were fighting against our own equipment in in gaza. This makes nt thiso sense to me. Youre talking about the equipment left behind in afghanistan . Yes, sir. You, in your book ended up in house to house with literally handtohand combat to in a highly sophisticated technical world. Thats what its going to come down to in house to house as they go building to building, tt itbuil . Well, look, thats what, you know, sea