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martha: thanks very much. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum live in washington today for our special coverage tonight of president biden s oval office address on america s role in two wars. now in israel and also in ukraine. we re going live to the pentagon. a very important briefing about to get underway. we ll take you there live as soon as that gets started. in israel, john roberts stays with us this hour in jerusalem. mike tobin in southern israel and israeli prime minister netanyahu s spokesman joins us live. first, the pentagon about to update on the situation as americans have four warships now in the region. our u.s. forces are in the region as well or headed to the region. a huge u.s. commitment is underway and we expect that we re going hear more about that from the pentagon in just moments. a u.s. cargo plane delivered armored vehicles. here s video of that as they rolled off of this c-17 in israel. the israeli defense minister gives his troops the green ....
he is not only focused on one thing. i don t know anybody that s done more to highlight and talk about the border disaster that is underway right now as we speak. i had the privilege of serving here when jeh johnson was secretary of homeland security. i have a very high opinion of jeh johnson. i think he is one of the finest public servants i ever met. he was asked on one occasion to define what was a crisis on the southern border. he said any time you have more than 1,000 illegal entries a day, you have a crisis. we have 10 or 11 times that every single day. in that tide of humanity that s coming across, there is a boatload of fentanyl coming to kill tens of thousands of all of our constituents. there are human traffickers who are taking advantage of young men and young women and, frankly, predators in our own country, and they are bringing them across, not by the tens or 20s or dozens, but by the hundreds and the thousands. there are amongst that flow of people, peopl ....
aviv, where tonight, israel is warning its ground offensive could start at any moment. and i m kate snow in new york, where we re washing efforts by the biden administration to get americans out of the war zone. americans trapped in gaza, trying to get out the egypt. the border there now scheduled to open in just hours. inside gaza, desperation as israel ramps up its attacks. and residents warn they re running out of food and medicine. we are facing a real starvation. the u.s. is sending a ship to evacuate americans from israel. secretary of state antony blinken in the region, trying to head off a broader war. no one should do anything to widen this conflict in any way. a u.s. senate delegation on the ground hearing in israel forced to take shelter when sirens went off. what majority leader chuck schumer said he said directly to israel s prime minister. i wanted to tell is u.s. leaders that we have them back. an american s heading toward, their emoti ....