Night. Israels Ground Operations have now expanded. We have large explosions, arti artillery, tank fire, and possible Bunker Buster Bombs heard and seen all night long as the idf has now confirmed the expansion of operations, in other words, the Ground Incursion into gaza has now officially begun. Heres a description of how things went on earlier tonight, just how this all got started from trey yingst. Clearly something is happening. We cite the israeli military, they say theyre having ground raids into gaza. Dont want to speculate or call it what it could be, we need to wait and be patient. This is unlike any other night we covered. We have been here the past 20 days as it unfolds. This is a significant development. Also to give you a sense of the phases here, this is indicative of what we expected to come next. Israel told us they would be ramping up strikes against gaza before entering on the ground, this is the next phase of the war. At this moment, i cannot confirm the Ground Operation has begun. We can tell you a new phase is under way right now as we speak. Sean coming up, live coverage on the ground all throughout israel with trace gallagher, steve her began, alex logan and oliver north, former Secretary Of State mike pompeo. His analysis needed more than ever, both their analysis. First, heres what we know. From israels ground inaggr invasion, a key objective has to be for idf to destroy the vast network of tunnels constructed by hamas under gaza city. I have been in there. They have power, ventilation, constructed under International Aid. They used International Aid money. A lot of that happened to be your tax dollars, money intended for the Palestinian People. Keep that in mind when joe biden tries to pitch you on the 100 million in humanitarian aid for the palestinians. Instead the money should have been used for infrastructure, schools, hospitals, instead used by the Terror Group Hamas for shelter, travel, coordination of attacks to capture, kill, kidnap israelis, and they used for storage of their weaponry and many other daytoday operations. Now sadly this underground network was built below residential areas. Why . Of course to use civilians above as Human Shields. Take a look at your screen. This animation shows how hamas built their Terrorist Headquarters directly underneath gazas largest hospital. Wonder if thats the same one blown to Smither Evens by the israelis, this is when the media lied to you and flat out destroyed that, butch erred that story. Most of the Media Outlets never took responsibility. By the way, that hurt israel. They had to show their intelligence gathering capability to prove they didnt do it. This is one of the reasons the idf has been pleading with residents now almost 21 Straight Days in gaza, now to move south of the city. Unfortunately the freedom loving terrorists of hamas, people that have been praised around University Campuses in our country, theyre preventing civilians from actually evacuating. According to a phone call between an idf soldier and resident of gaza, hamas is blocking roads, shooting at people as they flee. Listen for yourself. Hello. [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] sean now the people of gaza will never be free living under the thumb of terrorist group hamas. This is a barbaric group of indoctrinated terrorists, thugs, that will always be terrorists, masquerading as the worlds ultimate victims, convert or die, remember . Death to israel, death to america, remember . We should maybe start listening what did the 9 11 Commission Report tell us, they were at war with us, we were not at war with them. Theyve been Firing Tens Of Thousands of missiles annually into israel, built a network of tunnels to kill israelis, theyre at war with israel. They declared war leading up to the october 7 event. Hamas is about to lose their brutal grip on the people of gaza, whatever is left of gaza. Israel vowed to take them out, now faced with reality for the first time in years, leaders of hamas are not taking it well. Watch this recent bbc interview with a spokesperson for hamas. You say this was a Military Operation but the result of it was that hundreds of civilians were killed. Because the area is very wide, there are many people there, there was clashes, and confrontation. It is not confrontation. You invaded houses. Can tell you we didnt have any intention or decision to kill the civilians. How do you justify killing people as they sleep, you know, families, how do you justify i want to stop this interview. Sean how do you justify beheading babies. Sorry, i dont want this interview. Harder to lie when you dont have a captive audience. Ultimately, israel will eliminate hamas from the earth, they will prevail as their very existence now depends on it. Theyre also prepared to eliminate hezbollah in the north in a Two Front War if necessary, probably even likely at this point. Irans proxy wars. Theyve been very, very active for years, very active this month, but theyre not just attacking israel. The United States, know this and understand it, is also in their sights. Irans proxies launched a series of attacks against american soldiers stationed in the middle east. At least 24 soldiers injured, some with traumatic brain injuries. Last night after weeks of doing nothing, biden finally authorized what turned out to be a small air strike against two warehouses owned by iranian proxies, as senator tom cotton put it, quote, retaliation against expendable proxies, especially unoccupied Proxy Warehouses validates irans strategy to use proxies to attack americans. Theyre laughing at us in tehran and iran and will target and continue to target americans until President Biden gets serious about imposing severe costs on iran. So far iran has suffered no real consequences for any of their actions, quite the opposite. They keep getting rewarded by joe biden. Oil keeps going out, billions of dollars keeps coming in. The mullah sleeps safe and sound. He invited hostility and aggression worldwide, no one has been weaker than this president. He has more fury against ultra maga republicans than the terrorists attacking our soldiers. Well have more on irans hostility coming up tonight. First, take you to the ground in northern develop israel where we expect a possible Two Front War, that would be out of lebanon with hezbollah, and with the latest, steve is near the border. Steve, what can you tell us . Sean, the incursion into gaza might be more powerful than weve seen in the past, the intensity of the strikes, theyre striking from the air, on the ground, from the sea, fighting underground. I think the fact that the internet has been cut out in gaza as well is significant. Just how that ground war does go in gaza depends on what happens here as well. You mention lebanon, it is right behind me, two miles, thats where hezbollah, a terrorist organization, funded by iran carries out their work. For the past two weeks, lobbying shells. Antitank missiles. Number of casualties on the israeli side under 10. 40 to 50 hezbollah fighters taken down, that could ramp up considerably. We have seen protests in lebanon. People want hezbollah to do more. If we see high Civilian Casualties, there will be a lot of pressure on hezbollah to join the fight. They certainly have the rockets to do so, and the goal is to destroy risrael. Irans Foreign Minister says hezbollah has its finger on the trigger. You come here to the north, israelis know it, Tens Of Thousands left their homes, know what could be happening here in the near term. When you drive up north to israel, people say take what you need, bring your own food, because really some of the villages are turning into ghost towns already. Sean, back to you. Sean well check in throughout the night. Regular and steady shelling from the hills of lebanon into israel, return fire from israel into hezbollah positions. Sometimes you can see the shelling or the red glow of a forest fire, et cetera, et cetera. Anyway, joining us on the ground is trace gallagher. Trace . Sean, this is a very scary night for israel because as you note, the 300,000 plus idf soldiers on the border of gaza ready to go in, some have already gone in. Just think about that. Three weeks ago, these people were mostly bankers, accountants, plumbers. Now theyre fighters, prepping to go to war. It is unclear how much training or retraining theyve got. The expanded Ground Operation, sean, was really meant to be at this stage prepping the battlefield, meaning you send in heavy tanks and Big Equipment to go in there and kind of lay a path for more soldiers to get in, in doing that you had idf air force teams going in all week, bombarding Northern Gaza so they, too, could kind of lay that territory flat, make it easier to get a pathway in. We expected this to be exactly that, prepping the battlefield. The times of israel is reporting there have been significant clashes between hamas and Israeli Defense forces. We do not know the extent of the clashes or if there are any casualties, and we dont even know if theyre still going on at this hour, daylight, an hour, maybe two hours away here, sean. We expect these incursions each night to get bigger as the Ground War Kind of moves in, bigger and bigger, move their way from Northern Gaza into Southern Gaza or into central gaza. The question becomes what is the impact of the ground war like Steve Harrigan was talking about. Do the incursions force hezbollah in the north and lebanon to fire into northern israel, how does It Effect Negotiations the hostages. We talked to a lot of families that were hoping they would hold off on the ground war for maybe a few more days or a few more weeks to give diplomacy time to get loved ones out. There was a lot of talk about qatar negotiating some hostage deal to get a significant number of hostages out, but as soon as this expanded Ground Operation became noteworthy, that all stopped. So here we are tonight, a lot of people concerned, sean, that this might slow down the hostage negotiation, and yet you have a top aide to Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu saying they believe the best way to get the hostages out is to go in and smash hamas and take these people out themselves. Sean. Sean all right. Trace gallagher. More on that. Stand by. Trace is on after us with coverage all throughout the night and Early Morning in gaza. We continue to monitor the situation on the ground in israel and gaza, well be doing it all night. Lets turn our attention to the head of the snake, Islamic Republic known as iran. While biden sleep walks through his presidency, we have a new axis of evil between china, russia, iran, can add now north korea. Today, senior delegation from iran actually met with hamas representatives, where . In moscow, with Vladimir Putin. Joe, when will you call out Vladimir Putin for supporting terrorists . You let him shoot down our drones, didnt say a thing. When will you shutdown irans ability to fund their terrorism by you being lenient, allowing their oil sales, tens and tense of billions of dollars. Death to america is more than a catchy slogan for iran, mr. President. Seems like they mean it. I know youre on the beach in delaware somewhere, maybe you should be engaged somewhere with top diplomats and top defense officials planning in the Situation Room what our next moves are. Irans Foreign Minister is threatening our country on our soil after you generously granted him a u. S. Visa. Bad move. Take a look. Frankly to the american statesmen who are now managing the genocide in palestine that we come to expansion of the war in the region, but if the genocide in gaza continues, they will not be spared from this fire. Sean joining us, former cia director and former Secretary Of State, Fox News Contributor mike pompeo. Mr. Secretary, i saw your comments earlier. You think this will be longer than people think. I think you might be right. The one thing that i am reminded of, israel begins the Ground Incursion, it will be very difficult, if it is a Two Front War, it will be more difficult. Rockets from syria makes it more difficult. Rockets from the houthis out of yemen makes it more difficult. Irans threat that they will get into this makes it more difficult. The 9 11 Commission Said they were at war with us and we were not at war with them. Israel has literally been taking in tens and Tens Of Thousands of rockets annually into their border cities. They similarly have watched International Aid money be spent on this network of tunnels. Isnt it clear enough even before october 7 that there has been a war being waged against israel and this is israels opportunity to end that war forever. You can no longer have hamas in the south, hezbollah in the north without massive consequences. Is this their opportunity to fight back and win . Sean, it is absolutely necessary for israel to do precisely what were seeing begin this evening, the destruction of the infrastructure and leadership of a terrorist organization sitting on their border. And your points tonight have been pretty clear. Theyve been at war not only with israel but theyve been Firing Missiles into the kingdom of saudi arabia, theyve been conducting Terror Attacks around the world and we should not forget that in spite of the fact that the Biden Administration denies it, it was iran that killed americans on october 7th. There were several dozen americans, Blue Passport holders killed that day, and there are american hostages still being held by them. I dont think the Biden Administration has taken on board this isnt just about some far away place and demanding a humanitarian pause is not going to solve the problem of the barbaric, evil actors that want to destroy israel, rightful home land of the jewish people and are coming for the rest of the world as well. Sean okay. I have been in these tunnels, well show video again, weve been showing it to the audience. I have to tell you, it is not just the tunnel i was in, mr. Secretary, you know all about them, i went down nearly 100 feet underground, went inside the tunnels. It is a sophisticated bit of architecture, if you will. Terror architecture, but it is what it is. Only designed using International Aid money, including our tax dollars. But the network is all throughout gaza. Even under the largest hospital in gaza. I would have to think one of the top goals is destroy the network of tunnels. Secondly, hamas ability to fire rockets whenever they want using Human Shields and schools and hospitals, that Launching Area must come to an end. How do they achieve that militarily . So sean, it wont be easy and wont be without cost. Two things have to happen. First, i think theyve done good work to prepare the battlefield, but it is an urban fighting environment. I think that will be pretty difficult for them, but they have the capability, theyve been watching this for years, they have a good piece of this map i suspect, but the second thing that has to happen, second two pieces, first, we cannot have the world demanding they stop. That political pressure on them, demanding that they pull back when we have difficult days there will put enormous stress not only on Political Leadership but military leadership as well. Second, and this is a role thats important for the United States, we have to establish deterrence from the other fronts. We have to communicate to the Islamic Republic of iran if you open another front, the cost isnt imposed on somebody in syria or knucklehead in the desert in iraq, it will be imposed on the iranian leadership. If we dont get that right, if the costs arent imposed on iranian leadership itself, youll have the west bank begin to put pressure on israel that direction from the no north, youll see it across the region. Theres nothing humanitarian about giving the iranians opportunity to continue the tro cam h to end this. We did it in 1988 with praying mantis. We can reestablish deterrents. It takes American Leadership to do it, sean. Sean let me ask you about strategy and war and then were going to have other news in a second here. And that is if you go back to iraq, we did no