Breaking tonight, hamas is blinking . Well perhaps. Earlier today two elderly hostages were released. One 79, the other 85. Now tears of joy for sure but still they claim one quarter of their community is either murdered, missing or was abducted. More details on that in moments. Also tonight were going to talk to one muslim scholar who viewed raw footage of all the horrors, murder, torture, all of it that was committed by hamas. Plus a survivor of the festival attack, her startling assessment of americas rising antisemitism later in the show. We are also learning more about other atrocities the terrorists planned to carry out, Cyanide Bombs reportedly coming from al qaeda. Foxs Lucas Tomlinson is standing by. What can you tell us . Reporter laura, moments ago a helicopter delivered the hostages released from hamas to a hospital here in tel aviv. Whats striking one of the hospitals used to volunteer to drive palestinians into israel for better medical care. Israeli Defense Minister toured a navy base today telling his forces to prepare to assault gaza saying it will come soon. Earlier today an air force strike killed five commanders in israel. Supreme court forces vowed to hunt down and kill all responsible for the massacre. A special unit has been formed to carry out the mission. Overthe weekend Israeli Force carried out a rare strike in the west bank followed by a raid by the internal Security Agency what i they said foiled a terrorist plot in the west bank. The idf said the mosque contained hamas Islamic Jihad operatives organizing a quote imminent terror attack. Of course, joining the 200 israeli hostages in gaza are ten americans that john kirby says are not just missing but are presumed to be hostages in gaza tonight. Laura . Laura lucas, thank you very much. Be careful out there, my friend. Weve also seen over the course of the last few days an uptick in rocket and Drone Attacks by iranian backed proxy groups against Military Bases housing Military Personnel in iraq an syria we know irans goal is to maintain deniability here but were not gonna allow them to do that. Laura that lavender tie scares people. Tough words. Is anyone taking the Biden White House seriously . Why should they after they thought it was a good idea to trust iran with billions for that prisoner release earlier this year. Ridiculous. Joining me now the former ambassador at large and counter territory coordinator under trump. Nathan, lets start with you. Knowing whos leading us in this time of international peril, what are our options here . I think the only option is the option that works, and that is peace through strength. We need to show iran that they have a lot more to lose by poking at us than they have to gain. And unfortunately, what we heard from the administration is tough talk but not a whole lot of action to match those words. In the past week i think weve seen eight, honestly laura, i have lost track of how many, about eight attacks by iranian proxies on american forces. One actually resulted in the death of a u. S. Civilian contractor. And the response has been tough talk but no action. That is not going to scare iran off. If we want to avoid being drawn into a major conflict in the middle east, the best way to accomplish that is to demonstrate strength to iran so that they decide theyre going to sit this one out on the sidelines. Laura richard, the biden team gave what seemed to be conflicting answers over the last 24 hours or so about this threat of an escalation. Watch this. We are concerned. In fact, we expect that theres a likelihood of escalation. Escalation by iranian proxies directed against our forces, directed against our personnel. Right now we dont see an indication that a major player is willing to escalate in a major way. Laura theyre clearly at odds with each other here. What kind of message does that send, richard . We see nothing but mixed signals. On the one hand they say they are moving more ships into the area to deter iran. We still have billions of dollars being made available to iran not just in qatar, the 6 billion but 10 billion that was made available previously. We are also seeing Oil Shipments go from iran to china. Nothing to crack down on those. You start leaking over the weekend, the new york time, were going to constrain israel, we dont want escalation. Who is the party thats afraid . Is it iran or the United States . You could say we are trying to deter but as nathan just said, when you dont even respond when your forces are coming under attack and you are signaling sanctions relief will continue, whos being deterred here . Its not the iranians. Its us. Laura one thing, nathan, that we saw today, axis did a big scoop about a marine three star is in israel advising the military there on the ground operations in gaza. Now is that something we should be applauding in the United States or given again the track record of this leadership, with what we saw in afghanistan, is this going to make us feel better or is this a dangerous game thats being played . Well, laura, i think in this case the military deserves the benefit of the doubt. The cooperation between the United States and israel is first rate, particularly when it comes to counter terrorism. I want our intelligence community, i want our military professionals to be talking to the israeli counter parts to help them meet their objective going into gaza to eradicate hamas. Now, its more difficult for them to do better jobs when they hear conflicting signals coming out of the white house. On one hand the white house says we support israel. On the other hand, there are stories about how the white house is trying to slow roll the israelis, delay the on set of the offensive in gaza. That is sending confusing signals to our allies. But just as importantly, its sending confusing signals to iran. Iran is going to try and exploit that to our detriment. Laura richard i want to play a sound bite from Lindsay Graham who has been probably the biggest war hawk out there on whats happening in the middle east and his comments yesterday. We are here today to tell iran were watching you. If this war arose, its coming to your back yard. There wont be two fronts, there will be three. If theres an effort to unleash hezbollah on the jewish state to destroy it, my pitch will be to tehran. The innocent hostages get slaughtered, i hold you, iran, accountable because you could stop it if you chose to. Laura richard, we all want the hostages released immediately. We want israel to be protected and israel to be as strong and democratic as ever. Lindsey graham is not the pentagon chief, nor is he working in the executive branch. This is very confusing for people writing this that Lindsay Graham is writing our military policy. Maybe thats a good thing. But your thoughts on that. I think were doing a lot of showing, a lot of telling and not showing. Usually israel and the United States are good at show instead of tell. In other words, we dont want to just have rhetoric. We dont want to just say, were gonna beat you if you do that. You are hearing that out of the israelis and americans. How about we actually respond when our bases are attacked . How about we snap back the Security Council resolution to restore the embargo the president allowed to expire last week . How about you stop the billions of dollars from flowing to tehran . I dont want to keep talking about conflict in military. I want to restore deterrence. Laura nathan, meanwhile we have the Hostage Negotiations which again im going to get into this in the angle in a little bit. To me, again, we seem like back benchers. When we really either should be really involved and it should be scary to the other side or we should let israel do what israel does best, frankly. Thats right. We know that iran does not lash out in the face of american strength. What we have seen time and again is that iran escalates in response to american weakness. Going back to the trump administration, we drew a red line, one that unlike our predecessor, we enforced. We said to iran, if you harm an american, if you kill an american, were going to make you pay. Thats what President Trump did when he ordered the removal of a terrorist who had the blood of 603 american soldiers on his hands. How did iran respond . We didnt see world war iii break out. We didnt see further escalation from iran. They launched a couple missiles then meekly went back to their corner. 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And now another despicable islamic force holds hostages, including some americans, using them at Bargaining Chips and releasing a few here and there to show goodwill, as if thats going to somehow negate is slaughter of innocent civilians on october 7th. The sad truth is this. With biden as commander in chief, america is neither feared nor respected. It is truly an hour by hour effort here at the white house and the State Department to find out where these folks are and to try to make the effort to get them out, to get them back. We still have about ten unaccounted for americans. Its not exactly clear to us where those ten people are. Laura thats reassuring. A pillar of strength from the white house. Why is he revealing what they know and dont know about the hostages . Its total amateur hour. The world knows it, too. Anyone notice whats happening in the South China Sea . They just rammed a philippine ship. The u. S. Government responded by issuing a State Charging that china had violated International Law by intentionally interfering with the philippines exercise of high seas freedom of navigation. Im sure president xi is sweating that one. The fact is just as the angle preteubgted, china and russia and iran are all taking advantage of the fact that biden is a weak president presiding over a weakened america. American voters, i mean, cant blame them, theyre rightly nervous. More are seeing this biden era is what it is, a slow moving train wreck. I want to thank chuck shumer and senator todd young, representative excuse me representative joe morelli and susan ward. Laura those names can get very confusing. The fundamental problems facing the biden administration, they dont have anything to do with donald trump or speaker race or anyone in the gop at all. Their problems result from the fact that america is getting poorer and weaker. They have no clue, or maybe no desire to change that fact. So their only response is, lets keep Borrowing Money to keep the war machine going. History has taught us when terrorists dont pay a price for their terror, when dictators dont pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos and death and more destruction. They keep going and the cost and threats to america and the world keep rising. Laura well thats true. Because its true, biden should have made sure that america was in a stronger position before this storm hit. Thats not what he did. Instead he and the democrats and some republican senators spent money on things that we didnt need and frankly no one voted for. In addition climate boondogles, more pandemic foolishness. An Infrastructure Bill that some claim only spends 17 , 18 on infrastructure like roads and bridges. It was all a lie. After weve already spent 110 billion for a standoff essentially in ukraine, biden is acting like another 100 billion will cause, what . Our enemies to back off . Just look at these dollar amounts. For ukraine thats 60 billion, 30 billion in direct military aid mostly restocking u. S. Weapons sent to kyiv and billions more in humanitarian aid and just a pittance for our own border, maybe spent on better iphones for the migrants. If it were true that 100 billion would turn the tide, then, yes, it would all be worth it. But instead, with these people in charge, its like pumping air into a leaky tire. Unless you really get it plugged or fixed its going to go flat. The problem is we need real structural change. Fix the military, strengthen the economy, develop a serious plan to manage the debt we already have. But we cant wait for that. I know what youre saying. The establishment will always say that. Theres no time, we got to do this now. To that i say, Making Policy Decision on an Emergency Basis has been a recipe for failure. Look at it. Since 9 11 washington has borrowed money at an obscene rate and has never developed a serious plan to dig our way out of it. We cant do all of the same policies that weve done before and expect different results. So now, welsh biden is seeing the world as it really is when america is growing weaker. China is moving closer to taking taiwan, russias still in ukraine. Now our closest ally, israel, is under siege. Of course, iran is emboldened. It would be great if america would be like bruce lee and able to fight several forces at one time. God i loved him. That would be nice. Because we havent kept ourselves in better shape, our options are few and limited. A company thats 33 trillion in debt is going to have limited financial power. A country that has a military run by woke activists is going to have limited military power. A country that spent two generations teaching our young people to teach our founding and our entire example, thats going to have limited cultural power. Look at our streets over the weekend. Finally biden is seeing the consequences of a weakened america. They still dont propose to make any changes in policy or in personnel. Lets not forget biden still uses the doj to prosecute its political opponents. The Maga Movement is a dire threat to democracy. How many times have we heard that . Now he wants those same taxpayers to answer those calls to open their wallets as he staggers from failure to failure. Fanatic and incompetence. The biden team wont change their policy ors personnel. Knowing this why would republicans keep playing along and driving us further into debt . Do they really think voters in swing states are going to reward them by doing that . The best way to support our allies is to strengthen america, reeu reinvigorate our patriotism. Thats the angle. Joining me victor chance. Victor, america is being played because were weak economically and culturally. To that point, a poll earlier this summer found only 18 of people ages 1834 say they are extremely proud or proud to be american. That figure was 85 . Is there going to be a rally around the flag moment with this culture . No, because young people see all the advantages of being antiamerican. Thats the culture at colleges in the media. They feel they adapt to it rather than reject it and be patriotic, then theyll benefit. You mentioned deterrence. You cant achieve deterrence by talking loudly and frequently and carrying a twig. Its only seldomly and quietly with a club. If you want hezbollah to enter and iran to enter this fray, then you will restrict israel and will tell the world that israel, even the most unimaginable crime of butchering 1,000 jews have no consequences, or you will be Antony Blinken on a fake story about an Israeli Attack on a hospital, you order or suggest embassies in the