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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 th...

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...

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 ...

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 th...

>> 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...