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As is relapse war with, stretches into its 15th day, it is 10 00 p. M. In israel where hours ago, members of Benjamin Netanyahus war cabinet towards southern israelites preparations for an expected Ground Invasion are finalized, this as the first aid trucks enter gaza and the us elevates the release of two american hostages held by hamas. We begin our coverage in tel aviv where Lucas Tomlinson is standing by. Reporter is Relapse Top General says his forces are ready to enter the gaza strip and he ordered them to prepare for Ground Combat soon. Translator gaza is complicated. Gaza is densely populated. The enemy is preparing a lot of things but we are preparing for them. All capabilities are for the maneuver. Be brave with that thought. Reporter as you mentioned earlier today, the first 20 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered gaza through egypt. President biden pledged 100 million to gaza, we spoke in tel aviv this week in Israels Defense Forces say hamas launched 550 rockets that misfired and landed and exploded inside gaza including the recent misfire in a parking lot near hospital. We visited an army base in central israel, 1400 israelis killed by hamas have been taken, spoke to reservist who saw a baby cut out of a pregnant woman and beheaded, the mother was beheaded, women raped, their pelvises broken and she said the following. A child of Holocaust Survivors and i grew up Hearing Stories of the camps. I thought those were the worst stories. These stories are worse and i think that that is the hardest thing for me. I never thought i would live to see something worse than the stories i grew up with. Reporter is really forces are on high alert and increasing airstrikes over gaza. Some israeli f15s are only minutes from their target, they have to fly over the mediterraneans properly. Susan thank you. Lets bring in seth jones, Senior Vice President , director of the International Security program at the center for strategic and international studies. Thanks for coming. What do you make of the release of two american hostages. What do you think hamas did that . Reporter hamas said it released these hostages for humanitarian reasons but this is the same group that just killed a group of 1400 israelis and kept 200 hostages. That is hard to stomach. Qatar has been deeply involved in negotiations as has the us, so that was probably a qatari determination and finally i think hamas is trying to influence Public Opinion including in the us. I dont think it will work but thats one of the reasons those hostages. Susan has Ground Operation Preparations go on do you have any doubt that israel will go into the ground and does it have any other choice . Reporter i dont think it has any other choice but to put some boots on the ground. The objective the israelis announced is to destroy hamas in gaza. I dont think thats achievable but a significant degrade, they can to do that from the air. You need infantry on the ground especially in the tunnels to target hamas. On the Ground Component in central and Northern Gaza is critical if the israelis want to achieve those military objectives. Susan what do you make of the argument that israel will be walking into a hamas trap in gaza, the boobytraps, the tunnels, the handtohand combat, building to building combat, and inevitably there will be civilian casualties, this is a Quagmire Waiting to happen. What do you think of that . Reporter looking at Israeli Operations over the past decade, operation protective edge, Israeli Operations in gaza, there were israeli and palestinian casualties, the terrain is very difficult in my time in Special Operations in an urban environment, difficult with snipers shooting at you, suicide bombers, boobytrap, however, the key issue for the israelis is what kind of footprint, large number of forces, they wont do it that way, heavy focus on special Operations Forces to target key hamas locations, infrastructure, weapons depots. And the use of drones as well as robots on the ground in these areas, very cautious in where they go and how they go. Susan weve seen photographs from previous israeli exercises, those cant just be deadly. Is there any way to get into those other than through special forces, men brave enough to go in and take that risk since we suspect some of the hostages are held in those tunnels . This is where intelligence is critical and israelis have done a lot of intelligence collection including some human assets. If there are hostages, that will make it very difficult and it is raleys have to be cautious. Whether they are hostages sort of depends. If they can get in with special Operations Forces they may be able to go in. In some cases they may be able to destroy the tunnel with bombs, but by placing them in, the real issue, whats the intelligence picture say about the location, that will then influence the tactics they use. s susan they have let in humanitarian aid, to let out gazans including women and children to set up Refugee Camps in sinai which has a lot of open space. Why is the egypt and president so reluctant, what can the us do to change his mind . What does he need . Reporter this is the great question about israels neighbors. Most of them talk a good game when it comes to helping palestinians but when it comes to doing something in this case, camps, whether it is the jordanians, egyptians, lebanese, they are reluctant to do anything which is unfortunate but you cant expect israel to do it after being hit the way they have. Egypt, the problem for egypt is it already has an isis terrorist infrastructure across the border in sinai. With there are two problems, in neighboring countries, the second, they may let operatives to get out which increases their own problems in egypt. Thats driving the reluctant of the egyptians. Susan couldnt they just let women and children out, cant you can find them to some extent. Reporter that would be the responsible thing for egyptians to do, to bring in some number of individuals to take biometric data to make sure, you can check with what the israelis are bringing in, terrorists into egypt and set up temporary structures. That would be a wise humanitarian gesture. 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Susan that was President Biden in a rare Primetime Address where he linked to the wars in israel and ukraine and made the case directly to the American Public that supporting our allies in those fights is vital to American National security. Lets bring in Wall Street Journal columnist dan heninger, kim strawser land Mary Anastasia. How effective do you think the president s case was for aid to ukraine and israel . Mary i think he did a good job. He laid out the facts of both cases and i think in particular what jumped out at me he went out of his way to bring in his left flank which is basically very sympathetic to the palestinian cause and he needs those democrats to come over to his side. He seemed to go out of his way to make the case for sympathy for the palestinians, aid for the palestinians, to the point where at some point i became a little bit annoyed because who got attacked here . But he did do that to try to bring both sides together and did a pretty good job. Susan some on the right are saying the president should not have linked the two, much stronger case for israel, these are people who dont want to support ukraine but how effective was he in linking the two as both in american interests . It was indeed a challenge to pool the two of them and jumped back on board, and made a very strong case for helping israel, primary allies, but he made a good case for why we should be supporting ukraine, regards it as a province, he thinks Eastern Poland was donated by the soviet union. This is a speech he should have given a year ago and he has never done that. This ambivalence about ukraine built over the past year bringing us to this point where people now that the hundred billion Dollar Request has been set up to congress they are talking about pulling it apart. We will have separate debates over israel, ukraine, and the border as well. The president finally said the right things about ukraine. The question, will this act of leadership be pushed forward . The president cant do a speech and walk away from it, thats the challenge. Susan i thought the president could have made more detailed connection of the degree to which russia and iran are cooperating in these conflicts and coordinating a lot of their efforts against the United States and those two allies. What do you think . He talked about how this was an Inflection Point and the problem between russia and iran but the support iran has been showing was something he needed to hammer home before. In particular to make the point that we have to face this global disorder in a larger way and thats something i wish he had done more too. I agree that he was talking to his other side but if you are going to make the case for this money, at some point you have to make the case that all democratic ambitions they want are not possible in terms of spending. We have 2 focus on rebuilding us and Military Strength as percentage of gdp those falling over the years and that is something that has to become a priority in this Congress Rather than an afterthought and it might mean they wont have all democratic Spinning Ambitions domestically at home. There was a lot more he could have made the case to his party for and that has to be one of the central things as he goes forward. Susan he said iran would be held accountable and we also know the last couple days that the us had destroyers, intercepted missiles from yemen and the houthis and attacks on american bases in rack and syria. When is the president s going to have to act against these proxies in order to reestablish american deterrence . Kimberly he spent two Carrier Strike groups to the region and the uss Mount Whitney this week and that is a highly super sophisticated surveillance collection ship. I think i would prefer him to speak softly, carry a big stick, get these ships going and start moving in that direction. Thats what people are listening to, not this old man in the white house but our enemies are going to be responding to what kinds of moves we make and of those things are important that he has already done. I agree that he needs to inform the American Public that this is a larger problem than the gaza strip. This is a problem of iran. We have to take it on at some point. Susan it is relevant to the calculation of adversaries, the president s delivery is not as strong as it used to be. It doesnt show a commanding presence, go in conflict with the president you have but how much of a factor is that . Us deterrence is a factor. Our adversaries have been testing us. Putin is in ukraine, hamas went into egypt. We have xi jinping sitting in beijing figuring out is this the time to move towards taiwan. 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It is a smart invent investment that will pay dividends for American Security for generations. Susan he called aid to israel and ukraine a smart investment. The admin astray consented to one hundred 5 million request to capitol hill on friday as the house and did another week without a speaker after ohio congressman jim jordan fell short in his third bid to take a gamble. Jim jordan lost by more. Why so many doubts in the conference . There are divisions in the conference and this began with the single vacancy vote by matt gaetz to remove Kevin Mccarthy and things have not gotten better since that day going forward. They will gotten worse. The speakership has become like another playing card, representatives are dealing because they want deduction included and it has become the sausage factory. Susan they said we wanted to be 20,000, not 10,000. There are 217 republicans, all over the United States, representing different constituencies. The job of the speaker of the house is to bring that together and bring legislation forward. It is not a unitary position. For single thing to the death. You are supposed to get something done and they seem to have lost track of the fact that that is the role of the speaker. They dont seem to know what the role of the speaker is at this point. Susan an interesting observation about the speaker. Jordan was seen by many, particularly in the Swing District as a Faction Leader and Freedom Caucus leader. Is there anyone in the conference now who can transcend these differences and emerge as a leader of the whole body . You are being generous. I dont think the reasons jim jordan didnt when were not that well thought out. The gaetz crowd went against the will of 95 of the conference in wanting Kevin Mccarthy and got rid of mccarthy. The same thing, 90 of the republicans this week voted for jim jordan, the nominee, they were stopped by this faction on the other side that was stomping their feet and wanted their own demands. Now you have new names, byron donalds, to the right of the conference, kevin hearn, unfortunately the dynamic of the past 2 weeks has been set, all it takes is 5 or 6 people and they decide their ego hasnt been stroked enough and they can say they wont go along with this. They have to figure out this is about moving legislation, against these Budget Negotiations and the supplemental requests coming along from the president. None of that can happen when the house is in paralysis. Susan should they go into private session, papal election and one candidate after another until we see the white smoke coming out of the chimney . I dont know how they will do this but i thought jim jordan was a preposterous suggestion. He represents one extreme wing of the party. The parties divided. They have to find somebody who can reach across to both sides and jim jordan was not that person. The person who is the speaker is a fundraiser and a legislator and he was neither one of those things. There are some names. I see mike turner, people on the Republican Study Committee which is a version of the Freedom Caucus. Who could be possible candidates. I dont think you would go with jim jordan if you wanted success. Susan this one hundred 5 billion request by the president has got to get through congress, republicans are already saying it has to be changed. Change the asylum law on the border. Do you think it is going to pass and should it . And aid package, they want to get their hands on it and rewrite it. Not really dead on arrival. We are not going to the niaid to israel and ukraine aid of some sort will pass but unfortunately, both the politics in congress and the fact that the president has been standing back on ukraine means all these issues and the fact that hes done nothing on the border and allow the border and ukraine to metastasize into intractable issues, you have a Democratic Party on the left which is divided on aid to israel. There are a lot of democrats in the house and senate who think we should be doing more for the palestinians and on the republican side, there are divisions over helping ukraine. This aid package wont passed. Susan the border and the aid have to be. To lead, growing fears of a wider middle east conflict as iran backed proxies target us bases in iraq and syria as clashes with hezbollah continue on the israel lebanon border. We have a report from beirut next. Miralax works naturally with the water in your body to help you go. Free your gut. And your mood will follow. 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Reporter fighting has been steady between Israeli Forces on the northern border and across the border into lebanon with hezbollah forces. Israeli military released a Video Showing what they say is the destruction of a hezbollah Terrorist Cell in southern lebanon. They say the response to hezbollah firing more than 20 rockets overnight into northern israel. The Israeli Defense minister. Translator has but has decided to participate in the fighting and is paying the price for it. We must be vigilant and prepare for every possible scenario. The challenges that await us. Reporter hezbollah is making the same claim the israelis are making, that israel will be the one to pay a heavy price for this fighting. Hezbollah officials in lebanon are involved in a part of the fighting, if there is an Israeli Ground offensive into gaza, hezbollah will join the fighting. Back to you. Liz susan cliff may is president of the foundation for the defense of democracy. Good to see you again. Theyve been working very hard to prevent a second front from opening in the north of israel with hezbollah. Any doubt in your mind that iran is the chief decisionmaker here . Iran is the chief decisionmaker. The puppeteer pulling the strings. They are the head of the tentacles, the octopus, and maybe a dozen terrorist groups, the iran will make the decision whether it wants to use essentially its foreign legion, hezbollah, in lebanon against israel at this time. Paul how do you read where iran is coming from this, theres speculation that hamas may have been the first leg of this, the plan is in fact to have israel go in in a Ground Invasion, get bogged down and attack from the north as part of a big attempt to damages real. What do you think . That is a real possibility. The mullahs have been saying death to israel for 44 years since i was a young reporter covering the revolution. It is just a matter of timing. They asked if they have a deterrent to israel which would very much like to come in and take out the Nuclear Weapons Development Program that the Asad Republic has underway. The Supreme Leader needs to decide, am i willing to risk this asset at this time. Hard to know how that decision is made. Paul is President Biden doing enough to deter iran . The Attacks Thiers Reunion Proxies have made unamerican facilities, the interception of the houthi missiles that looked like they were aimed at israel, america is edging into this. Is he doing enough to deter iran . Deterrent means your adversaries recognize your capabilities and your will. I think there is doubt among the arabians about the will of President Biden at this point. You mentioned earlier in his speech, he said he would hold iran accountable, his words were we will continue to hold iran accountable. Over the past two years theres been no way the Biden Administration has held the Islamic Republic of iran accountable for anything. We enriched them. There was prohibition against missile embargo. The us could have snapped back sanctions and not allowed that. We didnt do so. The will is very much in question. Very important this not be another redline in syria a situation where the president says dont dont dont and the iranians say we are going to and see what you can do. Weakness, if you want to stop the war from expanding your enemies have to know it would be bad for them rather than an opportunity to humiliate them and destroy the israelis. Paul how extensive is the interaction between russia and iran in these two theaters, ukraine and israel . Russia and tehran have been getting closer, exchanging weapons, probably exchanging strategies. Theres going to be a meeting between xi jinping from beijing and Vladimir Putin, they have a relationship that they call an unlimited partnership. Tehran is very much the junior partner. There are more junior partners like north korea, venezuela, houthi rebels, the proxies that iran has. President biden may not want a new cold war but a new cold war may have an interest in him. The most important thing is to prevent a hot war and that requires paradoxically that your enemy thinks it is a bad idea to escalate. If a they think you are weak they will come for you. Paul three administrations going back to the obama administration, trump and the first couple years of biden really attempted to disengage the us from the middle east, the idea being china is a bigger adversary and there is no doubting china is a more threatening adversary but is this conflict going to drag us back into the middle east more extensively for a long time to come . Yes, probably so. If we leave a vacuum, our enemies will fill it and thats not a good thing. The middle east is hugely important. Theres a lot of good things in bidens speech but implied theres this axis of tier any, beijing must go, gaza city, beijing, moscow, and tehran is the axis of tyranny, if we decide to lose or not fight on one battlefield, this axis against us led by china, they will take that over. You want to be careful in a war with battlefield you dont fight on. Paul should republicans in your view support the president s request for one hundred 5 billion for ukraine and israel both . Yes. In my view absolutely, thats necessary. Right now there are three places in the world, Vladimir Putin wants to subjugate the people of ukraine, they have to look to the kremlin and take orders, xi jinping wants to subjugate the people of taiwan, they have to look towards the Communist Party Of China and take orders. They dont want to subjugate the people of israel but to exterminate them. We had a small holocaust, on the seventh of october. There will be more of that if the israelis dont fight this and dont understand who the enemies are, we have to understand that as well. Pushing to do a lot more because he hasnt done enough for ukraine. A lot of it is a dollar late, am i saying it wrong . You know what i mean. We do not want to lose the United States and the free world in ukraine. We dont want to lose in the indo pacific. We need to lead the world because the other countries that would take over that role are not good countries are consistent with our values or our interests. Paul President Biden vows to stick with israel among a growing Democratic Party divide as war in the release threatens to upend the 2024 election. President biden, not all americans are with you on this one. You need to understand that. At. Treat it that way with aveeno® daily moisture. Formulated with nourishing, prebiotic oat. Its clinically proven to moisturize dry skin for 24 hours. Aveeno® bye, bye cough. Later Chest Congestion. 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It is not a threat. It isnt. They think we are joking. I think the white house and everyone thinks we are going to sit back and let this continue to happen. No. Paul the Democratic Party divide on israel was on full display as michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib warned President Biden that Palestinian Americans would not forget his support for israel since the hamas terror attack. Kim strasser and Mary Anastasia ogrady. How big a concern do you think this is for the president . How Big A Faction is this antiisrael group . Kim significant and growing but not necessarily new. If you go back during Barack Obamas presidency, you have already seen a faction of the Democratic Party that was more vocally attempting to move the party away from the longtime support of israel. Those voices have only grown. Now you are seeing consequence in part because the white house hasnt necessarily been as forceful up to now as it might have been in trying to tamp that down, you see this democrat on democrat divide over israeli support. The president was trying to fix that somewhat but this is not going away and it will be central in a battling congress over the president s aid package and what actions he takes. Paul this might be a case the president s age and experience coming from the old democratic proisrael Point Of View is helpful to him and the state of israel. He takes for granted that people know the efforts that the west and the israelis have gone to to create peace, to create a negotiated solution in israel. If you had landed from mars this week, you would have no idea that hamas and the palestinian leadership that has been fighting this has the objective of annihilating the jewish people. That doesnt come up anywhere, and going to lay out the history here and make the arguments more clearly and forcefully, and why we are in the situation we are in. And this propaganda war,. Paul where does the new faction come from . Not just palestinians but a strong antiwestern, anticolonial, antiwestern civilization component to it. Did this come out of the university . It came out of the universities but lets throw in for Discussion Progress of prosecutors, the idea we dont prosecute crimes anymore, this is an idea on the left. The Democratic Party at least starting with barack obama has been courting the hard left to bring them into the coalition, Voting Coalition and they have been successful with that. The far left action of the party has gained strength, gained power to the point where it is a presence in the Democratic Party come polls show 25 of democrats support the palestinians rather than the israelis. It came in academia. We had the movement the boycott the best from israeli companies, still exist, ban israeli scholars. This has been suggesting a rolling problem antisemitism for years, we talked about it. People have written about it, life goes on. October 7th, life doesnt go on in israel anymore and democrats make some hard decisions, those that support israel, about speaking out against that attitude. Paul lets talk about the impact on the president ial race. You are hearing from some democrats, allies of the president , that this whole episode, ukraine and now israel, could refocus the American Publics attention on Foreign Policy, take away from bidenomics as the focus which hasnt worked and show him in command and so on. Do you think this is something that could help biden as this goes on . It could if he handles this well. The worst thing for the white house would be if he doesnt come across as a strong leader and do what he needs to do and ends up with those miserable Approval Ratings on Foreign Policy along the likes of what he has had on domestic handling of issues. Are seeing this in the republican race. You have a divide among candidates between those more reaganesque like the mike pences and nikki haleys of the world saying peace through strength versus Rhonda Santos who has been floating more with the isolationist wing of the republican party. Those distinctions are likely to rocket to the top of that the bait. This will have a profound influence on the way the president ial race unfolds. Paul you wrote that this could reshape 2024 along those lines, where Foreign Policy hawkish candidates could demonstrate seriousness. One of the realities at the center of that poll is two questions. Whos going to provide leadership we need that we are seeing now with russia, iran, and china challenging us through parts of the world. The second question, how much more Defense Spending will the United States need to detour those adversaries. We are spending 3 of gdp, up to 5 or 6 . I dont see a democratic president doing that. Theres an opening for nikki haley and mike pence to make that argument. Paul we have to take one more break. Hits and misses of the week. For the last couple of years. I just see myself on video calls all day and i really start noticing the lines. Im still eric and i got botox® cosmetic. Im seeing a lot less prominent lines than i did before, the results have been subtle but noticeable. Botox® cosmetic is fda approved to temporarily make frown lines, crows feet, and Forehead Lines look better. The effects of botox® cosmetic may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms. 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Nikki haley spent most of the week responding to governor desantiss distortions of what she said. There must be ten more important issues we are debating and how we got bogged down in Something Like this, such a waste of time is a sad thing. Paul to santos is worried about nikki haley catching up. The Biden Administration announced sanctions really for venezuela based on a list of promises the dictatorship made about future democratic elections. The regime holds 270 political prisoners, no guarantee the elections next year will be fair. President biden says the unpopular dictator when he loses the election will step aside. Paul kim. Kim call in the department of justice, former irs contractor Charles Littlejohn said he was the man who stole Donald Trumps tax returns and leaked them to the press and years of thousands of returns of wealthy americans, leaked those to the press. Doj has agreed to let him go with a plea deal, he pleads guilty to one count of willful disclosure. This is something with a recommendation of 8 or 14 months, a minimal fine. You think the doj would want to send a harsher message about the worst Tax Violations in history but apparently not. Paul has the irs done anything to enhance its Privacy Protections . Ken griffin, investor, has sued the irs because his tax returns were leaked. They are saying they are doing some more but we need to see the proof in that putting. I would not feel confident myself about safety and information. Paul if you have your own hit or miss, tweet it to us. Thats for this weeks show. Thanks to my panel and thanks to all of you for watching, we hope to see you right here next week