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julie: more americans coming home, nearly 80 of the u.s. citizens stranded in gaza making it out safely so far. hundreds more, though, are still trapped. the biden administration meantime pushing for what it calls a humanitarian pause, a stop in the fighting to get aid in and out to foreign nationals to get those out. this is the faulkner focus. i m julie banderas. good afternoon. i m in for maris today. blinken met with president netanyahu today. before the meeting he talked about possible pauses as we mentioned and the concerns around them. watch. we believe that each of these efforts would be facilitated by humanitarian pauses. a number of legitimate questions were raised in our discussions today including how to use any period of pause to maximize the fuel humanitarian assistance. how to connect a pause to the release of hostages and secure hamas doesn t use these to their own advantage. julie: senate majority whip dick durbin, the highest ranking democrat t ....
right now on the story, israeli defense forces on extreme high alert on their northern border where fears of a second front opening up in this war are escalating this afternoon in terms of what could happen with hezbollah on the northern border in lebanon. the terror group s leader made his first statements since the october 7th massacre. he praised those actions as heroic. he called them brave and well-designed. thousands are gathering to cheer him to watch him. listen to the background here. this is the scene in beirut just a few hours ago cheering him on as he calls it something praise worthy. watch this. some say that i m taking us to battle. no. we join the battle immediately following october 7th. what is taking place today is unprecedented since 1948. all israeli military positions are being attacked daily. there s concern that this front may escalate even further or turn in to a full war or that this front may stumble in to a wide ranging war. this is possib ....
they there were only 11. now in the course of a year, 172. how nervous does that make you? oh, it makes me very nervous. especially when you listen to, you know, some of your other reporting here just a couple minutes ago, when you look at how the rest of the world in the middle east has become unfriendly to the u.s. well, those particularly unfriendly to the u.s. can walk into the united states, thanks to joe biden. i m not giving away any state secrets there. that s in the news every day. and they know it. they know it. so, this is a real serious national security failure. it s not a looming problem. it s a past problem that continues to grow. and that s all thanks to joe biden s open borders policies, facilitated by secretary mayorkas. ainsley: ken, thank you so much. big job. at the center of renewing america, we need it. good to see you this morning. we do. ainsley: second hour of fox & friends starts right now. steve: it is 1:00 in the afternoon in i ....
the former president himself is set to testify on monday of next week followed for now by ivanka trump next wednesday. she appealed the judge s decision requiring her to testify. see if that schedule holds. bill: we ll see where it leads today. thank you. dana: house republicans are about to hold a news briefing one week after electing mike johnson as the new house speaker. right now they re ready to vote on a stand alone emergency aid package for israel and then they plan to hold a vote on a bill that pairs u.s. border security with fresh aid for ukraine. we ll monitor what they have to say and bring you the news as it happens. biden administration is under intense pressure to confront hamas one day after f.b.i. director christopher wray warned about mounting terror threats on u.s. soil. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: nice to be back with you. good morning. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. the justice department consid ....
martha: thanks. i m martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. the story now just revealed video of a hamas official saying israel must be finished and he s not ashamed to say that this is their goal. that is gaza hamad making the comments on lebanese television. he also says that the october 7th massacre will happen again and again until the job is finished. watch. israel is a country that has no place on our land. we must remove that country because it constitutes a security, military and political catastrophe and must be finished. we re not ashamed to say this with full force. we must teach israel a lesson and we will do this again and again. this is the first time and there will be a second, a third and a fourth because we have the determination, the resolve and the capabilities to fight. the occupation must come to an end. occupation war? ? the gaza strip? the palestinian lands. does that mean the annihilation of israel? yes. the existenc ....