proxy groups, paid terrorists by iran in the middle east. and finally unleashing a second round of airstrikes, but continued argument that is the lightest thing we can do to the enemy. it is the least amount of effort. the pentagon is calling the latest strike an act of self-defense, after u.s. forces in iraq and syria were targeted staggering 42 times. we hit a couple buildings with ammo in it. this is you'd, i'm harris faulkner here with co-host emily compagno, tammy bruce, culture plus group co-founder and ceo lili gil valletta and former new york congressman lee zeldin. the pentagon says the latest strike took out an ammunition and weapons storage facility located in eastern syria that belongs to islamic revolutionary guard and used to target u.s. military men and women around the region. senior military official said what we blew up were bad things, it could have been rockets, drones, artillery shells, whatever it was, was what was being used against our forces in the region. we're learning more about that attack against our u.s. and coalition services. multi rocket attack targeted iraq yesterday, happened near the baghdad embassy complex and thankfully nobody was hurt. biden administrations israel will implement daily four-hour pause in the gaza strip where heavy fighting has been going oon . john kirby says the united states won't hesitate to launch more attacks in attacks on our troops continue. >> i was concerned about additional attacks from iraq and syria. since the last strikes, there have been additional ones, we sent a strong message last night to the iranian revolutionary guard these are unacceptable. they'll have choices to make. if they continue to choose to hit our troops and continue to launch rocket and drone attacks, we'll do what we need to do to protect ourselves. >> harris: amazing he can say that with a straight face. if somebody hit then 22 times, do you expect them to get hit two times? it is 42 times. >> lee: they don't fear that consequence, it is collateral damage. where you have that depot, it might get attacked. my background is military. >> harris: yeah. >> i'm against war, i don't support war, with regard to iran, if you want instrument of national power to work other than military option, have the military option on the table. iran doesn't fear a strongly-worded letter. you throw out a red line and show you have willingness to enforce that red line, a red line that iran fears, then they start thinking differently on their next act. when we took out soleimani, we were very clear to iran, trump administration was, in what the consequences would be if iran targeted u.s. servicemembers. it was clear we would carry out airstrikes in iran and its iran knowing that president trump meant that, that they didn't actually follow through with their most severe threats. that is off the table right now and shouldn't be. >> harris: with your military acumen, four-hour pause with three-hour heads up, that sounds like you are making it up, it is true, though. >> for hamas strategically, this is a gift. >> harris: everyday, by the way. >> to have that predictability and freedom of movement and to be able to reposition, one of israel's strengths is hamas doesn't know where or when they will get attacked. if you set a few hours of day for them to have freedom of movement, you'll give a gift that allows hamas to gain a strategic advantage it doesn't have now. >> harris: they are hoarding fuel and resources. anybody who is still down there with our hostages, our citizens and citizens around the world, they are doing that. this will give them opportunity to go out of tunnels, potentially regroup, meet their homies and kill more people and strategize against israeli forces. >> emily: you and i were talking about this yesterday. it seems to me erosion of our ability to deter any of our enemies or enemies allies mean yes we have taken military option off the table and projecting weakness. when we're attacked 40 times with u.s. officials confirming it was with intent to kill u.s. servicemen and women, take out a couple rifles and grenades in a warehouse, we are not responding in kind. everything this administration does, they explain it by saying there is fear of escalation. it seems to me this behavior surrounding fear of escalation means we are furthering hamas interests. that is the point. without taking out proxies, without achieving a position of actual -- >> harris: like isis. >> emily: exactly, without all that, we're allowing hamas to further and hoard weapons and supplies and continue to do what they are doing. inch at time, we are giving to the enemy. nothing is strength forward and no fear that we project will move our advancements further. >> harris: lili, how bad is it for biden he would give in to the far left? you saw rashida tlaib, now she's not saying from the river to the sea, she got censored, now big poster we showed last hour, they want a ceasefire now. what does biden negotiate? technically a ceasefire, everything at whatever time, four hours with three-hour heads up so you can get lunch before you kill again. >> lili: these are not tactical military decisions of the moment, the balance of power is at stake. the world is watching every superpower and every attack from iran is emboldening signals to their allies and no longer just hamas, it is hezbollah, isis, it is everyone that is sympathizer of this hate for the west, which is very concerning. what is more concerning to me, when you look at polls and data, america is divided in our sentiment toward retaliating which put the president in diplomacy of which is power and which is strength, but end of the day, for that type of organization, only power with the strongest of force works because words just come and go. >> harris: less conversation, more whack-a-mole. >> tammy: what is fascinating, you have got electric like leaving a tip. you can leave a nickel for a tip and it says something very dramatic to the person you are tipping. worse than not leaving any tip at all, it's a statement, a statement when you leave a nickel for a tip. it is a statement, the nature of actions we're taking and to everyone else, we're too afraid to kill iranians. this administration has now managed to kill more american servicemembers in afghanistan because of their plans, than we have the people targeting our service people in the middle east. that is what the problem is here. it is almost like striking an aspirin factory, or sending a missile into the wrong car, car of an american aide worker because you wanted to show you were busy in afghanistan. that is what this is and will lead to more slaughter, more murder and i don't know, nuclear exchange, we don't know, it is biden's fault. >> harris: i don't say the phrase boots on the ground because of people in the boots, what you just said brings home the fact we see you serving as a person. we are grateful for your service. we see military men and women. i don't know if from high perches of government they see them that way fchl they did, they would be hitting back mighty hard to protect them. >> emily: right. >> harris: coming up, israel got full backing of every candidate at last night's third republican debate. what the candidates had to say next. 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>> training with narcan. >> is there concern more letters are coming our way? >> we know right now they identified total of five, four were accepted out in washington state and one headed toward fulton county election office. who was that addressed to? >> that was not shared to us. we don't know if it will come to the hub? >> this office, this is the receiving address for the election office. can you talk about this ongoing threat, the ongoing threat against election workers not just fulton, all over georgia. that has been a top concern of yours since november of 2020. >> what i would say, anyone who holds election office or wants to hold election office coming through post 2024 election, they are running for high office in this land and they need to contend this stuff. they hear about this stuff and someone asked them, if they don't condemn this, this is domestic terrorism and needs to be condemned by anyone who holds elected office and wants to hold elected office. >> we don't have a motive yet? >> no, but we know we're going to deal with the situation and move on from that and there will be further investigation, which will have federal oversight because it is a federal offense running things across the mail. can you talk about prioritizing the safety of these workers? >> absolutely. it just starts having safe, secure facility and i want to give a shoutout to so many, fulton county has made major investment in this new facility and i want to give salute to county commissioners, they have to authorize funding for the expenses. i've traveled throughout the state, we are doing health checks, we've done 80 now and working on getting balance of those done by the end of the year, 159 counties, it takes a while, the machines are accurate, nothing has been tampered with. in murray or gordon county, totally renovating a building and look at what they have done in the macon mall. law enforcement one section, beautiful layout with the election office. that is county commissioner saying, we understand how important elections are and we'll invest in election infrastructure and election workers are saying, they understand how important elections are and it is a positive thing. >> harris: this is extremely important what he's talking about. he keeps mentioning the word important. think of the fear and concern now among some of the officials at elections offices that anything could happen like this to them. five letters laced with fentanyl sent. one addressed to fulton county georgia election official. i want to stress this point. you may see some reporting on social media this was happening to other states. he did not confirm that. we didn't confirm that. recently, something similar happened with officials in washington state. this is not a one-off, not the first time with this. this is extremely critical timing of all this. you don't have narcan everywhere in our society, he talked about health checks and making sure polling places are safe and his workers now at official offices after what happened with the five letters laced with fentanyl are being prepared and trained on how to use narcan. tammy, i'll come to you. this is really jarring in realtime to watch this happen two nights after an election in this country. >> tammy: it is, we are not unfamiliar with it. i immediately thought of the anthrax letters after september 11th. fentanyl is easier to get than anthrax. we have to be ready and prepared for unique dynamics and also postal workers who then are under threat, as well. the case with anthrax mailings and will be the case here. we don't know how widespread, if you do it, it is like eating potato chips, you will not do one, you will do a bunch >> harris: state authorities are trying to intercept this because human beings will handle the envelopes. >> it hits close to home as somebody who served in elected office for 12 years. if you send me a letter, i'm not opening the letter, it is some intern who is 19 years old in college who is opening up this mail, hopefully there aren't more letters, we can't assume. hopefully law enforcement is able to quickly identify who is responsible and able to bring that person to full justice. i'm grateful they are not having a press conference talking about people opened the letters and they have been harmed and hopefully that is still the case when this is resolved. >> harris: one thing missing for me with that news conference and we pulled back, probably would have been my opening question. how did you figure this out with no one dying? eric johnson in july of 2021, doj established a task force to combat and prevent threats and attacks. there was marketing campaign fbi launched that said threat against an election worker is a threat to democracy. we hope that is the case, that came to fruition, tax dollars and resources were successful here. the fact remains, there is a huge vulnerability with election workers and judges. judge salas, her family was shot. the list goes on. the point is, there is not deterrent happening. the fact fentanyl is easy to get. the fact people feel embolden to arrive at judge's door steps and use election envelopes, tells me task force is not enough. we need deterrence we will not stand for it in a nonpartisan way. we have yet to hear them come out in that way. >> harris, the timing of this -- >> harris: that is what i was talking about. >> election day on tuesday, but ballots are counted on wednesday and thursday. >> harris: two days later. >> we need to deal with this in the moment and anticipate what happens if it is a year from now and counting ballots for a race and this happened day or two after? we can't treat this as isolated event that won't happen again. learn lessons from it. you can't stop a count because someone throws this into the mix during an election. >> lili: harris, what concerns me is not just that instance or the four envelopes, this is a biological weapon you have seen, it has killed 75,000 americans. what are we doing about it? go upstream to root cause. we know the southern border is enabling a lot of this importing of fentanyl. i hope this is taken seriously beyond the one instance. what does this mean for the broader american society when we have to talk to our kids before halloween because they may be given one of these things masked as candy or something else. it is big and we should pay attention to it. >> harris: upstream to china, oh, the president is going there to talk to president xi. emily. >> emily: war between israel and hamas took center stage at third republican debate, the candidates all threw full support behind prime minister netanyahu. >> i would tell prime minister netanyahu not only do you have the responsibility and the right to wipe hamas off of the map, we will support you, we will be there with you, we will stand shoulder to shoulder. you cannot negotiate with evil, you have to destroy it. >> i would say to prime minister netanyahu, pretty simple, america is here no matter what it is you need at any time to preserve the state of israel. >> israel has the right and the responsibility to defend itself, smoke those terrorists on his southern border and i'll smoke the terrorists on our southern border. >> i would say you harm the hair on the head of an american service member and you will have hell to pay. we will not sit there and let service members be sitting ducks. >> first thing i said when it happened, i said, finish them, finish them. we should be supporting them in eliminating hamas. it is not that israel needs america, america needs israel. they are the tip of the sphere when it comes to this islamic terrorism and we need to make sure we have their backs in that process. >> emily: congressman, the comments last night from the candidates are far cry from the rhetoric only tenor of this current administration. >> absolutely, that comes out clearly to all of us, there is no equivocation, there is moral clarity. they want to be brokers and arb arbiters. what happened on october 7 changed ceasefire that was in place the day before. israel has right of self-defense and must defend their own people, wipe hamas off the map and it is great for any of them in israel, looking at this entire republican presidential field, every single one of them with moral clarity is standing shoulder to shoulder with nation's great ally, that is way to do it. you are right about the different with current administration, they won't put the blame on iran the way they needed to. you have this equivocation. asking about antisemitism and they go on rant about islamophobia instead of forcefully condemn antisemitism. they are not stepping up what is happening on college campuses and on our streets. that is not the same case when you look at hopefully one of these republican presidential candidates in this race are going to be in the white house come january of 2025. we don't have to worry about the far left is going to roll our president. that is not going to happen come '25, as long as we have that change. >> emily: lili, your thoughts on this exchange with vivek ramaswamy and nikki haley. high heels were brought up. watch. >> do you want leader from a different generation put this country first or do you want dick cheney in three-inch heels? we have two of them on stage tonight. they are five-inch heels and i don't wear them unless you can run in them. second thing, i wear heels not for fashion statement, they are for ammunition. she made fun of me for joining tiktok and her daughter was using the app for a long time. take care of your family first. leave my daughter o