system, which is taking out those rockets one by one in dramatic scenes just like this one. watch. >> at this point last night, nearly half of israel's total population was hiding in bomb shelters. nearly half. and things have not improved much since then. the explosions hitting so close to home that average izraltys are now capturing the iron dome intercepts on their iphones. and after all this, we got a report just a short while ago quoting a top israeli official saying a ground invasion could come at any moment with some 40,000 reservists ready to march into gaza. so with iraq, now an islamic state. syria in a full blown civil war, and our own president's efforts on a peace process between israel and palestine clearly a failure, where is the united states in all of this? mike huckabee just got back from israel a couple weeks ago. he joins us from little rock tonight. governor, where is the united states, and where is our president? >> well, the president is raising funds for the democratic party. what he needs to be doing is dispatching both the defense secretary and particularly the secretary of state to israel and to make public statements. the president himself, saying that because hamas is nothing more than a puppet of iran, that the united states supports israel fully in doing whatever it has to do to shut down these rocket attacks. megyn, i have been all over the southern part of israel. i stood and have seen 4200 katyusha rockets filed up behind the police station. america would never tolerate what the israelis have been asked not just to tolerate but to accept and give land away for. it is absurd, and we need to suggest to the world that they back off, let israel put hamas out of business once and for all, do whatever it takes, including a ground operation in gaza, and stop this nonsense because it's escalating out of control, and nobody wins this except terrorism. >> what the president has done, you know, before he went off to the fund-raisers is he wrote an op-ed. he wrote an op-ed, governor huckabee, in an israeli paper, in which he offered strong praise for the palestinian president and said little about the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. on the very same day, a top white house adviser made some blistering comments about israel during a speech in tel aviv. talking about its occupation of the west bank being wrong, leading to regional instability, the dehumanization of civilization and so on. they have come under fire for not standing firmly with israel, but the entire region is in chaos, the entire region. >> megyn, it's embarrassing to say that our policy has degenerated to something that is let's put our arms around hamas and welcome them to the family. this is a terrorist organization. our own state department says it's a terrorist organization. the fact that the palestinians have now embraced hamas as part of the unity government, what we ought to be saying instead of praising the palestinians, we ought to be saying if the palestinians continue to have a partnership with hamas, they have seen their last american dollar of support. furthermore, we would encourage the israelis to build all of the neighborhoods they can in judea and samaria, and we would say it's time to quit fantasizing about a two-state solution that is no solution whatsoever to peace, and to make it clear that terrorism has no place in israel or the rest of the middle east. this is not something that the united states can be timid about. we've got to be bold. we've got to be clear. we're either for freedom or we're for terrorism. we need to make up our minds what we're for. >> p po in the past has repeatedly said that we stand shoulder to shoulder with israel, that, you know, we will back our partner israel, and so on and so forlth. the chips apparent lay are down. they're talking about 40,000 troops possibly invading in a ground action. they appear to be at war tonight, governor. what should we be doing? what the american public certainly doesn't have the stomach for actual military involvement, but the question is, this is our closest ally. this is one of our only allies in a region that is falling apart. we need a friend over there, a strong one. >> we need a friend, but i'll tell you, israel needs a friend. they don't have any. they've been under pressure from the yoeuropeans over this boyco, which is absurd. what we need to be doing is have a president who will call every leader in nato, every leader throughout the world and the superpowers and say, be very clear. we're going to stand with israel. you better not get involved because we're involved. we're going to be with them whatever it takes for them to be able to protect themselves. and megyn, a lot of people, i don't think understand that israel is not fighting for a little strip of real estate here. they're not fighting for additional rights of the jordan river. they're fighting for their very existence. they have a tiny little sliver of land about the size of new jersey. their piece of real estate in all the middle east is tiny. i have stood in places in the golan heights where just a few hundred meters to one side, you're looking to syria, and a few hundred meters to the north, you're looking into lebanon. they're surrounded by enemies. they're not surrounded by buffers. that's why we have to be very clear that we will stand with them without equivocation. we haven't done that and it's time we do. >> and former ambassador dan gillerman always says we live in a very dangerous neighborhood. >> great to be with you. >> the state department earlier called for both sides to stand down in the middle east, we did not hear anything directly from the president today. he is actually in texas tonight. we have live pictures from dallas where he is raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for the democratic party at two private fund-raisers. the president has been hounded with questions about why he would go to dallas and austin, which as you know are in texas, but not visit the border for a firsthand look at the crisis caused by the recent surge of illegal immigrants crossing. instead, he attended a meeting with governor rick perry and then called on congress to pass immigration reform. >> there is a larger issue that i recognize involves a lot of politics, which is why aren't we passing comprehensive immigration reform? which would put an additional 20,000 border patrol agents and give us a lot of additional authorities to deal with some of these problems, one of the suggestions i had for governor perry was that it would be useful for my republican friends to rediscover the concept of negotiation and compromise. >> texas senator ted cruz will be here to respond to the president just ahead. we also have new developments tonight on our top story from last night that concern the president's trip to colorado where the state's top democrats were apparently too busy to do any public appearances with mr. obama. he went there for a fund-raiser to benefit mark udall, andadol fa failed to show. his story today, he was desperately needed in washington to do his job. to vote for the new secretary of housing and urban development, who, as it turns out, you will be happy to hear if you support him, won confirmation by a margin of 71-36, so it was critical for him to be there. mark hannah to worked on both of president obama's campaigns joins us now. thank goodness he was there to get that 71st vote rather than go to colorado, his own state, where the president traveled to raise money for him. >> president obama in 2008 won by a landslide in the popular vote, but i still went to the polls knowing he was going to be elected president of the united states, gosh darn it. >> but if he showed up in your home town and said i'm going to have an event for mark hannah. i love mark hannah. do you think you would blow him off? even though it was going to happen whether you voted or not? >> late last night, the senate called the vote for today. and why is hud, the secretary of housing and urban development so popular to colorado? there's a legitimate answer for that. >> i'm not going to dispute that, but the votes were there. be honest. he didn't want anything to do with being seen with president obama. >> if he didn't want anything to do with being seen with him, he wouldn't have invited him. >> he wanted him to raise money for him, but he didn't want to be seen with him. >> neither did senator bennett or any of the democratic delegation who was scheduled to fly back to attend the fund-raiser but had work to do in the congress. >> you're making my point. >> what i'm saying -- >> nobody had anything to do with it. >> they have no political liability. >> there's no political advantage for them doing it either. >> all i'm saying is all of the elected representatives in colorado decided, you know what? this congress rarely gets anything done. this is one productive day we're going to have where we can actually do our job. >> yesterday was the day. >> today was the day. >> sorry, today was the day they decided to be productive. that should have been our lead. i don't know why we went with that war in the middle east thing. >> right. he's not ducking the president. he's just not going out of his way. he's in washington. >> mark udall is in a tight re-election battle. even though it went heavily for president obama the last two elections, it went for george bush in 2004. colorado is considered red leaning or at least purple. >> a purple state. >> that's why the president had his convention there back in 2008. >> sure. >> so the question is whether the democrats are scrambling from him just as fast as they possibly can because he's a president with an approval rating in the state of colorado of 38%. >> we see this every two years, four years, the independent minded members of the democratic party distance themselves from the party leadership. because it's an inclusive party and because you have people who might not agree -- when president obama was at udall's fund-raiser, he said senator udall and i don't agree about everything -- >> they may be inclusive, but they were being kind of mean. >> do you think it was rude? bad manners. >> >> all i know is when you put together your resume tape, you should put that part in about me saying how great you were. >> this is a no-win because if he had gone back to the funder and been hobnobbing with people closed doors with the president, the republicans would have gone after him anyway for not doing his job when there was a vote in senate. >> only if he refused to be with him on the tarmac. mark, good to see you. >> i appreciate it. >> a stunning new declaration from the epa as that agency announces it has the power to take part of your paycheck if they think you have been bad. we'll explain. plus, we learned late today how irs employees at the heart of the targeting scandal communicated with each other on an entirely different system than the one congress was told about. forget about e-mails. wait until you hear what we've uncovered, next. >> what i want to know is, why did it take us this long to get these e-mails? we have been after these for six months. and you dump them on us july 3rd. 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