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>> i think it's been a little bit too selective. we hit some ammo dumps. we hit some other targets. i want to go after those who are firing missiles at our troops. make sure they understand that when they fire a missile, they are going to die. >> bill: soft or selective or take your pick. >> i know secretary panetta well and on his policy board while he was secretary of defense. we have to relook at the strategy dealing with iran and the middle east. our policy of attempting to play indicate them and appease them with hostage payments, sanction relief money, reducing the trump sanctions and just recently since october 7th we let the embargo for ballistic missile development curbing iran's behavior in that expire. this is the appeasement strategy. it has failed. the reality is we're not deterring iran. look at europe. we didn't deter putin in europe. president xi is up to his aggression against the united states. middle assets upped aggression against taiwan and upped his aggression against the allies and partners and fishing rights. there is a pattern here. these are our three major adversaries, china, russia, iran. they are all increasing their aggression. they believe they're vulnerable and our leadership is weak and lost the ability to deter with iran and what is taking place in the region. they are increasing their level of aggression with the proxies, inran, syria, hezbollah gradually increasing. not an all-out missile attack fortunately and now with the houthis. we have to respond. centcom made a statement saying the attacks are enabled by iran. i think they are flagging the administration a little bit here. we need to respond and makake se iran understands that we're not going to put up with this kind of increased escalation to try to disrupt commercial traffic through the persian gulf which is the objective here. the other objective is to push us out of the region. we have to hit iran where it matters. it won't escalate into war with iran. they know they loose the regime over that. let's apply common sense here. >> dana: what happened over the weekend. explain what's going on with the houthis attacking the ships including commercial ships. is it just testing what we'll do in response? >> well, what they want to do is flag to the region that they can disrupt the flow of cargo ships and also interfere with oil ships in the region, as they've done in the past and they can do that at will and the united states will defend itself certainly but it is not going to stop them from doing it. so they are showing american weakness in the region and their ability to leverage their interest in that region. their objective stated time and again dominate and control the middle east and control the persian gulf flow of oil. this is all part of their strategic objective. we have to see it as that. >> bill: sooner rather than later, but it's gone on for some time. we'll show you the map later. more than 75 hits so far on our forces? it can't continue. general jack keane, thanks for starting us off on a monday morning. >> dana: have a great week. democratic congresswoman skjei pal under fire for her response to a question about the rape of israeli women at the hands of hamas. >> i have condemned what hamas has done and condemned all of the actions. absolutely, the rape, the -- of course, but i think we have to remember that israel is a democracy, that is why they're a strong ally of ours. >> i'm asking you about hamas. >> i already answered your question. i said it is horrific and i think rape is horrific. sexual assault is horrific. i think it happens in war situations. terrorist organizations like hamas obviously are using these as tools. however, i think we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against palestinians. >> it's horrible but you don't see israeli soldiers raping palestinian women. >> i don't want this to be the hierarchy of oppression. >> what you may not have heard in there, because it wasn't all in there. she said with respect i was just asking about the women and you turned it back to israel. i'm asking you about hamas. good for her for pushing back. >> dana: even in her second response she can't say the rape is terrible. the planning from the israeli have found, hamas had designs on making sure that the women were raped. this was a plan and i don't know if you heard over the weekend some of the reports about a witness that saw terrible gang rape of an israeli woman who was begging to be killed and in the end they did shoot her dead. >> bill: don't lose sight of those videos. they recorded them for a reason and want the world to see it and use it. the further you get from october 7th, the further you get away from again the actions that were committed on that day. anyway, hats off to dana bash trying to get something out of that interview there. there is this from new york. [chanting] >> bill: the pro-palestinian protestors wreaking havoc on a holiday mall in manhattan. in pennsylvania a mob targeting a jewish restaurant. how the governor in that state is responding. >> dana: as the migrant crisis spirals out of control in chicago the mayor taking aim at right wing extremists. >> bill: john kerry getting off the plane and add it again. what he said about coal that has a lot of heads spinning this morning. >> the fastest, simplest. easiest, quickest, cheapest way to be able to make the gains we need to make to reduce the threat to the planet. america. we're taking the best fibers our farm can produce, spinning it at one location, weaving it, then finally into a cut and sewn product. there's value in buying american made it has a real life impact up and down the supply chain. we want our customers to feel how special this product is, right when they open the box. go to redlandcotton.com and receive 20% off your order with code fox 20. we come from people we can be proud of. seeing all the places i come from, i know. if it's a serrano, it's something to be proud of. give the gift of family heritage with ancestry. >> bill: 18 past. protests across chicago. this after the new mayor, brandon johnson on his handling of the migrant crisis. he as a democrat blames republicans for stoking tensions. even life long democrats are turning against him. an interesting relationship for this. garrett tenney has more in the windy city. what happened? >> good morning to you. johnson has faced blowback about his handling of the crisis. when asked he blames republican and right wing extremists. some of the leading voices and found most of those protesting are democrats and folks like linda johnson who say the mayor isn't taking responsibility for his role in this crisis. >> not only did i vote for him i was out there petitioning for him and getting people to the polls and my sons to the polls. i don't know who he is trying to please because you are not pleasing your constituents at all. >> the mayor is facing protests over a large pop-up shelter for migrants even though the site has heavy metals. another long time democrat voted for johnson and was out protesting the city spending $40 million a month on migrants instead of improving the long neglected black neighborhoods. she said the mayor and other democrats need to stop blaming others for the results of their own policies. >> no one in this city's democratic party stood up and stood with us. so when you look at that, i have to stop and say you know what? if the democratic party can't stand up for us, i'm going to need to do something different. >> like others we spoke to they're outraged the mayor and allies on the city council are trying to block a referendum giving voters a say on sanctuary city status and put limits on how much the city spends on the migrant crisis. bill. >> nice to see you, garrett. an interesting relationship. it's just getting going. 20 past the hour. nice to see you. >> we don't need that necessarily to tell us we ought to be transitioning out of coal. there shouldn't be any more coal-fired power plants per misted anywhere in the world. that's how you can do something to help. and the reality is that we're not doing it. >> dana: john kerry at the u.n. climate change conference in dubai driving a stake through the heart of the coal industry putting thousands of jobs at the line as the biden administration pushes its green agenda. let's bring in brian brenberg and david asman. john kerry didn't say that with president xi two weeks ago. >> a lot he is not saying about china in particular. you wonder what, john kerry is saying no more coal plants while we're not only buying all the ingredients for electric vehicles from china, but we're subsidizing them as well. we're buying and subsidizing batteries that are built in china's coal-powered plants, 58% of all their energy comes from coal. they build more coal-fired plants than the rest of the world combined and we are subsidizing those coal-fired plants in order to buy the e.v. ingredients from china. >> bill: every 14 days they open up a new one. they have a ribbon cutting every two weeks. >> we know china is building and permitting coal plants. you look at european countries that suffered under shortages of natural gas. they are consuming more coal now than at any time in the last three years. why? they need reliable energy, too. john kerry is talking about a goal that even his allies in the e.u. can't buy into because it's disconnected from reality. >> the e.u. has designated natural gas as a green energy. the biden administration is saying we have to get rid of natural gas as well. it is not just coal. because of natural gas, we have lowered our pollution levels dramatically over the past 20 years. now they want to get rid of natural gas even e.u. called is green energy. total confusion. >> bill: there was a picture going around from munich where they had a blizzard and jets were going to fly to the summit and they were frozen to the tarmac. the host the sultan, at the cop 28 conference of the parties. >> i hate the name. >> bill: he comes out and says there is no science out there that says the phase-out of fossil fuel will achieve what you want, a reduction of global temperature by 1.5 degrees. he is hosting the thing. >> he also runs the oil company there. so he has a couple different reasons for not wanting to phase out fossil fuels. what he is actually saying is realistic. look, whatever the future is going to be, fossil fuels are part of it. they will have to be. so why don't we think about cleaner fossil fuels? instead of going to coal, twice as dirty as natural gas, why don't we get on board with things like natural gas, maybe nuclear energy. that's why germany and europe are in a bind. they said no to all these things. now they are having to go back and say yes to coal. >> and we could have provided liquid natural gas to the europeans before russia invaded ukraine, before all their natural gas supplies were threatened because of russia turning off the spigots. we had the power and the determination and we had already begun building the ports for liquid natural gas that would lower european pollution levels. instead we buy dirty oil from venezuela and others. >> dana: what it means for job in the coal and other industries and what this kind of mentality what the future is. >> yes. to be very clear, an unrealistic fanciful call like john kerry's to move away from fossil fuels is destructive to the most stable blue collar jobs in america. if you want to make america strong, if you want to help american workers, you would say use our competitive natural advantage. by the way, that's what china is doing and why they are burning coal. it is a natural advantage of theirs. we could outcompete them if we used our natural advantage and advantaged our blue collar workers in the process. >> bill: i don't know the answer to this. maybe you do. nuclear energy has such a bad name, right? which governor in america would have the guts to go ahead and build more nuclear power plants in their state? they get a lot of attention. they've been doing this in france for a long time, david. >> you may have a democrat, something like the democrat governor of new jersey might do something like that to be on the fringe side and providing some helpful suggestion about how to burn clean energy that isn't necessarily something that won't provide the power like solar and wind power doesn't provide enough energy that we need. nuclear power would do that. i would like at new jersey as one potential. >> dana: he is the one that wants to do all the wind power. i think pennsylvania. if you want to pick a governor. >> remember how his backbone got weak when it came to school choice. when he was attacked by the left he bent on that issue. >> bill: thank you. green energy is coming and it will be here when the consumer wants it. we'll look back on our techniques now and laugh at them that we are building turbines in the atlantic ocean to give us green energy. we'll be able to harness something really effective. >> let's not laugh at the way we did it by making ourselves poor. let economics work. >> and save the whales, stop the windmills. >> bill: on the docket in the supreme court a plan that would protect those from future lawsuits talking the filies who lost loved ones from the crisis. florida governor ron desantis visiting all 99 counties in iowa. will it move the needle for him in that campaign? 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