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	War raging on now, officially declared war against Israel, getting hit by both Hamas, again, Iranian-funded, and Hezbollah, Iranian-funded.
	But no, it has nothing to do with the $6 billion that Biden promised in funds to be released.
	This obsession goes back to Obama and Biden and that horrific initial Iranian deal.
	Remember, there were no American inspectors at all.
	Never mind any place, anywhere, anytime inspections to see if they were standing by their end of the bargain.
	None of that.
	And there's ransom payment for hostages.
	Well, they've got about at least, as we know of this hour, about 100 other hostages that they have taken.
	And we believe there might even be Americans among that list.
	We know nine Americans were killed in this surprise attack.
	What many are now referring to, Israel's 9-11.
	Caroline Glick is with us.
	Now, she is with the Jewish News Syndicate.
	She's their senior contributing editor and host of the Caroline Glick Show.
	And Leel Leibowitz is with us of Tablet Magazine.
	He's been getting a lot of first-hand accounts of the tragedies at the hands of Hamas.
	Leel, let's start with you because you're getting kind of up-to-the-minute information on what's going on.
	Yes, sir.
	Listen, it gives very little pleasure to stories or share them, but especially as the American media is so sanitized when it comes to sharing these stories of victims, I think they need to be told.
	I've been spending the last 48 hours talking to people who have survived this inferno, and the stories that they tell really beckon belief.
	Their act of complete barbarism.
	I've heard stories of people who received videos of their friends raped among the bodies of the dead revelers at that outdoor music festival.
	I've heard from an acquaintance.
	By the way, that music festival is where 260 people died in one place.
	And again, obviously, there were no eyewitness accounts to the most horrendous acts because so many people have died.
	But these animals took videos of their crimes against humanity and then shared them widely on social media.
	I've spoken to some people who have seen them firsthand.
	It is gory and indescribable.
	I've talked to a person who logged on to her grandmother's Facebook account only to see a video of a Hamas terrorist execute her grandmother, filming the execution on the grandmother's own phone and posting it to Facebook.
	Imagine finding out about the death of a loved one like that.
	Yeah, I can't imagine.
	As we know, Caroline, too, you have your sources on the ground, people you've been talking to.
	And it's as brutal as it's been.
	And although we're really waiting for the full force of Israel's response, that has not occurred yet.
	Well, you know, I think that Israel is caught.
	Our IDF was caught with its pants down essentially.
	It was a surprise attack.
	We're going to have to figure out how exactly that happened.
	But they've regrouped and they're priming for a massive offensive.
	We just received word from the Home Front Command that all of us are supposed to prepare for a prolonged stay throughout the country of three days in our bomb shelters, in our protected rooms, and get enough water, batteries, et cetera, food to be able to just sit in our shelters for up to 72 hours at a stretch.
	So I think what that really speaks to is that the assessment of our military is that the Lebanon front is going to be opened.
	It already has.
	I mean, we had a cross-border infiltration today of Hezbollah fighters, and they attacked.
	It's not clear exactly the details, but we do know that seven of our soldiers were wounded, mainly lightly.
	One was critically wounded.
	So that is sort of slowly coming into gear.
	And so we have mobilized 300,000 reservists.
	We have three divisions that either have made it already to Gaza or are going there.
	I know our family has five soldiers that are going, nephews and my husband's son.
	So we have, you know, every family basically does, and members of our community were mobilized.
	They came into our synagogue on Saturday after the initial invasion and started taking people out to go to their units immediately.
	So, you know, there's full mobilization and motivation among our forces is very, very high, very high.
	And we'll just have to see it through.
	So the counteroffensive is beginning now with massive aerial bombardments of Gaza.
	And as you said, Sean, they're threatening us and saying that if we don't stop our bombing, that they're going to start executing the hostages.
	But I mean, this is part of, you know, a very major component of terrorist war doctrine, the jihadist war doctrine, is humiliation, demoralization, and terrorizing your enemy with its own people.
	So what Leo was saying about the stories of rape, especially in child abuse, and just rank Jew hatred of the worst Nazi-like kind being played out on social media, on their postings, on their WhatsApp groups, to inspire people, like-minded monsters, to join them, like-minded Nazis to join them.
	You know, this is a critical element of Hamas's war doctrine, just as it is ISIS.
	And I just want to add one last thing on that, which is that when we think about ISIS, we always think of them as the greatest barbarians in human history and what they did to the Yazidi women and what they did with beheading their prisoners, et cetera.
	What we had on Saturday in Israel was an attack on the Jews of Israel that was much, much larger than anything that ISIS ever perpetrated.
	ever.
	And we have messages on their social media that they intend to take our women and sell them into slavery.
	So everything that the world condemned from Afghanistan, in the Taliban, from ISIS, in Iraq, in Syria, Al-Qaeda, everywhere they feed is happening in Gaza here at our doorstep.
	And so from the perspective of most Israelis, and I think from the perspective of our government, certainly it's the demand coming from the ground, is that the experiment of coexistence with a jihadist regime at our doorstep has failed.
	And this war can only end with the complete obliteration of the Hamas regime in Gaza.
	And anybody who does care about the Palestinians, as so many Jew haters on the streets of America and Europe are claiming.
	America, Europe, Australia, we saw a lot of shocking things this weekend.
	It's for them to be calling for Egypt to open up the border and let the civilians, such as they are in Gaza, leave.
	Because, you know, from our perspective, the perspective of the Israeli people who have just experienced the largest single day of killing of Jews since the Holocaust on our country, on our territory, the people on the streets of Gaza who are cheering that their women were paraded after being raped down the streets of Gaza are terrorists.
	And they should be treated as such.
	You know, we've seen this history that never seems to go away.
	And these problems don't get solved.
	And frankly, to see, even within the halls of Congress, virulent anti-Semitism is beyond shocking, Leal.
	I think it's beyond shocking, but I think there's an even bigger problem here.
	You know, I have two small children, and they asked me when they saw these horrific things, you know, how could this happen?
	I said, look, that's a question that will take a lot of time to answer, how the Israeli intelligence failed in such a way.
	How could a thousand guys with pickup trucks penetrate the billion-dollar fence and subdue the fifth greatest army in the world?
	So while we don't know how it happened, I think we have a great idea of why it happened.
	And here's how I explain it to my kids.
	Imagine you went to the zoo and you opened the lion's cage and then put a bloody steak right outside the lion's cage.
	And then half an hour later, the lion escaped, ate the meat, got a taste for more, and started eating people.
	You know, who would be at fault?
	The answer is obviously the person who opened the cage.
	The Obama administration, insisting on their mad, you know, realignment regional integration position, brought Iran from a state of animosity into a state of being the United States partner.
	The Biden administration tripled down on this disastrous policy.
	They are the ones who sent money to the Iranians.
	They're the ones who sent forth to Iran's proxies, including Hezbollah in Lebanon.
	They're the ones who worked to subdue Israel by forcing Israel to sign a disastrous maritime border agreement with Hezbollah and by repeatedly delegitimizing Benjamin Netanyahu, the democratically elected leader of the state of Israel and intervening in Israel's domestic policy.
	So when you weaken Israel, when you intervene in its domestic policy, when you do everything in your power to call its democratically elected prime minister a fascist, illegitimate ruler, and when at the same time you send money to Iran and signs that they are the key part of America's foreign policy, something like that happening is just a matter of time.
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	All right, we continue our final moments with Caroline Glick and Liel Leibowitz are with us.
	Caroline, you mentioned earlier the intelligence failure.
	I mean, look, the Israelis' intelligence capability is looked at as the gold standard in the world.
	They seemed, as you pointed out, I think you used the term, caught completely off guard.
	How did that happen?
	I don't know.
	There's a lot of information that I don't know and that is not going to come out for a while.
	I'm not sure that the people who need to know know.
	But what I will say on this is that it's very clear that we have outside powers assisting Hamas, not only Iran, Iran clearly coordinating between Hezbollah and Hamas.
	And we saw all of us the Wall Street Journal article yesterday.
	Well, that article suggests they orchestrated the whole thing, the whole planning and execution of it.
	And by the way, I would argue, and I did back in 2006, that actually what we refer to as the Second Lebanon War, which was the first Israeli war with Hezbollah, was really the first Israeli-Iranian war.
	And everybody forgets that that war from 2006 began in Gaza with the cross-border tunnel through which Hamas terrorists came into Israel and abducted one of our soldiers named Gilad Shalid and killed his tank crew.
	And then Hamas proceeded for two weeks to attack Israel with a barrage of missiles and rockets and mortars before Hezbollah launched its initial cross-border assault on Israel on July 12, 2006.
	So we're talking about something very similar today happening, just on a much larger scale, and also directed by Iran.
	And here, too, we have to remember that Iran doesn't operate alone either.
	It has two strategic partners.
	The first, of course, is Russia, that it worked with hand in glove in Syria in order to protect and maintain the Assad regime, even as he carried out genocide against his own people, 800,000 Syrians he murdered with their assistance.
	They are strategic partners, Iran and Russia, as well, of course, we see today in Ukraine.
	And the second strategic partner is the People's Republic of China that signed a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement with Iran, brought Iran into the Chinese economic zone, the Shanghai Cooperation Council, as an observer.
	And Iran, its economy is tied to the Chinese economy.
	And thanks, as Leal said, to the Biden administration, which is refusing to enforce U.S. sanctions against Iran.
	Iran has made a killing selling its oil, even at a reduced price, to the PRC.
	And both of those nations, Russia and China, have massive cyber capabilities.
	And it doesn't seem to me to be an outrageous hypothesis that Israel was subjected to a very sophisticated cyber assault on our defensive systems, which all seem to be paralyzed.
	And I know that there were a lot of failures of understanding on the part of our intelligence corps.
	The same intelligence corps that thought signing a surrender of our maritime waters to Hezbollah was a good idea, win-win, as they said together, haha, with the Biden administration.
	So I know we have significant failures among our top-level officers and intelligence, but I don't think that that explains everything.
	I don't think that it explains 30% of what happened.
	And, you know, Caroline, we're going to continue our coverage, but we really appreciate both of you.
	You both have a lot to offer.
	We'll be checking in, unfortunately, in the sense that I think this is going to be ongoing and it's about to get very fierce.
	And I do believe that Israel will be victorious in the end for sure.
	It's just, you know, how bloody will this get?
	Probably pretty ugly.
	You'll hear what everyone really thinks in D.C.
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	Anyway, Wink and Tony Blinken, you know, he keeps saying this is a false narrative.
	They made a deal, $6 billion, but they think, well, because the money is going to be funneled and approved through Qatar, that somehow that has an impact on the result.
	No, because if the Iranians know they're getting $6 billion and that's going to be spent on infrastructure and other projects, humanitarian, even if it was, which I tend to doubt it will, considering the influence that Iran has on all these countries in the Middle East, that $6 billion that they have freed up that allows them to foment even more terror as the number one state sponsor of terror.
	Yet this idiot Wink and Tony Blinken keeps saying, well, there's a false narrative, unfrozen assets.
	Well, okay, how did this plan work out?
	Well, you pay ransom for hostages.
	What happened?
	What happens?
	You get more hostages taken.
	Listen.
	The facts are these, and should be well known.
	This involved Iranian resources, not American taxpayer dollars.
	These were resources that Iran had acquired from the sale of its oil that were stuck in a bank, in this case in South Korea.
	They have always been entitled to use those funds under our law and under our sanctions for humanitarian purposes.
	And the funds were moved from one bank to another to facilitate that.
	By the way, not a single dollar from that account has actually been spent to date.
	And in any event, it's very carefully and closely regulated by the Treasury Department to make sure that it's only used for food, for medicine, for medical equipment.
	So some who are advancing this false narrative, they're either misinformed or they're misinforming.
	And either way, it's wrong.
	And by the way, the Iranian president on record, Lester Holt, NBC News, saying that Tehran will spend the $6 billion released in the prisoner exchange wherever we need it.
	But even if they do spend it on humanitarian assistance that they were going to spend otherwise, again, that's $6 billion more in terror.
	And what do you think the result is going to be when you reward hostage taking, you're going to have more hostage taking?
	Well, now we've got at least about 100, and Hamas is threatening to execute them on national television.
	Never mind the fact that Blinken can't even get his words straight with John Kirby, who said he couldn't predict if the billion sent to Iran will free money up for terror.
	Of course it's freeing money up for terror.
	You'd have to be an idiot to think otherwise.
	You insist the Iranian regime won't touch the $6 billion of Iranian funds being unfrozen.
	But isn't it true that this frees Tehran up to spend more on other nefarious goals like supporting terrorism and boosting its nuclear program?
	Well, to the degree that they continue destabilizing activities and it's, you know, I can't predict what they'll do going forward here.
	Now, just in case you didn't really want to believe it, but Rolling Stone of all places published an interview with Israel's U.N. ambassador, Elot Erdan, and said that dozens of Americans are being held in Gaza amid this unprovoked attack by Hamas.
	Quote, I quote, unquote, I know that there are dozens, dozens, okay, of Israelis holding American citizenship who are being held hostage in Gaza.
	Fox News has confirmed this report.
	Many Israelis who have American citizenship, we don't have all the names yet, but we're still working to get all the names.
	But yeah, that would be American citizens also being held there.
	But they can't predict if the money sent to Iran will free up money.
	It's just idiotic.
	Now, by the way, the smart thing to do would be, if the funds had not been released to Iran, perfect.
	Let's void the agreement and freeze the $6 billion that Donald Trump kept frozen in Seoul, South Korea, as he should have.
	Anyway, joining us now is Senator Marsha Blackburn of the great state of Tennessee.
	Senator, you're pushing this effort in Washington.
	What's the reception to it so far?
	We are getting some good response.
	As you mentioned, we've got a letter that we're sending over to the White House.
	It is circulating for signatures right now.
	And it calls on this administration to freeze those accounts that are there in Qatar.
	And as you said, that money moved from the South Korean accounts over to Qatar in September.
	We know that.
	We know that that is where the money is.
	And you cannot allow Iran to have access to those funds while they have helped Hamas and Hamas is carrying out this attack.
	Iran is the world's largest sponsor of terrorism.
	You look at what is happening with Hezbollah.
	They're coming out of Lebanon with the rockets in the north, as well as what Hamas is doing in the south.
	And Sean, you cannot allow them to get to these funds.
	You have to rescind the waivers that would allow the Iranians to get this money that is there in Qatar.
	And then you've got to go back into sanctions and look at what to do.
	Wait a minute.
	Isn't it true that the Iranians have a lot more sway with countries like Qatar than is maybe widely known?
	We've known this for a long time.
	So they're going to do the bidding of Iran, and that means there's not going to be a lot of restrictions on the money handed over at all, if any.
	That's right.
	And that's why you have got to rescind this deal and rescind those waivers and disallow this access.
	And with Americans that have been killed, we are hearing Americans are being held hostages.
	You've got the leaders of Hamas sitting in Qatar.
	And Sean, maybe they should be extradited to the U.S. for what they have carried out, these atrocities that are being carried out.
	And we all know under President Trump, what did he do?
	He cut the aid to the Palestinian Authority.
	He made certain that he got rid of that Iran nuclear deal.
	And what has Joe Biden done?
	He's been soft on Iran.
	He did a new deal.
	He has people in his administration like Ms. Tabaraba, who worked for the Iran Experts Initiative.
	Now, she is the chief of staff to a deputy over at DOD, and she has a top secret security clearance.
	And we have the Tennessee delegation called me in a letter saying, you've got to rescind the security clearances because when you see what they have done in Israel, you see them cheering, you see the Ayatollah.
	cheering this, talking about this as part of the plan to take down Israel.
	Israel is our ally.
	We have to stand with them.
	They're our strongest ally.
	They're in the Middle East, and you cannot allow this to continue or to spread.
	Well, it seems to me that it's fairly obvious here that Israel really has a bigger mission here.
	If they're going to get to the root cause of why all this is happening, then you've got to go to where the military strategizing took place.
	And, you know, we've now confirmed unless you're Tony blinking and your eyes are winking and closed or you're just dense and dumb and stupid, you know that the Iranians had a hand in all of this, including military strategies involved with this.
	And the Iranian Revolutionary Guard was involved in this.
	So if you want to cut the, you know, if you want to defeat the snake, you've got to cut the head off the snake.
	The head of the snake here would be Iran, isn't it?
	That's exactly right.
	And you know that Israel is pushing forward.
	They are going to respond in kind to this.
	And I know there's all this talk out there, Sean, with people that are saying, well, we need to figure out where the intel went wrong.
	And of course, those things need to be done.
	But right now, the U.S. needs to support Israel.
	They need to freeze these accounts and this money.
	Anything Israel needs to defend themselves, whatever shoots, sells, flies, or spies, they need to get it to Israel right now.
	Putting that carrier out there in the Mediterranean, that is a good move.
	Getting ammo to Israel, that is a good move.
	But I'm telling you, anything that shoots, sells, flies, spies, and they need it to fight this, what I call the axis of evil, which is Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
	Get it to them today so that they have what they need to defend themselves.
	And this administration needs to realize the world is watching.
	They want to see how we're going to respond here.
	Afghanistan and what happened there did not serve us well.
	And they are watching to see how the United States of America stands with Israel.
	All right, quick break more with Senator Marsha Blackburn, and then we'll get to your calls.
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	All right, we continue now with Tennessee Senator Marshall Blackburn is with us.
	To be very honest, the disaster out of Afghanistan is really only the tip of the iceberg.
	I don't think Joe Biden particularly was smart in his response to Vladimir Putin.
	He's setting up his troops for an obvious invasion into Ukraine, and they didn't lift a finger.
	And Joe's response is, well, let's not raise or escalate this conflict.
	Don't let Poland give the Ukrainians MiGs.
	Yeah, we can't use cluster bombs.
	You know, you're putting handcuffs on the ability of a country to defend itself and a foreign nation.
	The other thing is Europe, you know, we're paying more than they're paying to protect their continent.
	And that's got to stop, too.
	And Joe should have demanded that from day one.
	You're exactly right about that.
	And to say that, well, we don't want to make anybody mad.
	When you start appeasing people and when people see weakness and they detect weakness, that they are going to push you the direction that they want to go because they think you don't have a commitment to your principles and your philosophy.
	And that is what the world is seeing out of this administration and about Joe Biden, is that they're going to go soft.
	And it doesn't matter if it's China.
	And look at the problems that that has caused us or Russia and not selling to Ukraine before they were invaded what they needed to defend themselves.
	You see what it gets.
	There is peace through strength.
	Ronald Reagan was so right about that.
	And having that strong military and focusing on what we need to do to make certain that Americans around the globe are safe and that America as a nation is safe.
	And Sean, I have to say one more thing on that.
	When you look at the fact that we've had 246 known terrorists at our southern border apprehended this year, but out of the 7.6 million that have come in, you've got about 1.3 million gotaways, and you don't know how many bad guys were in that.
	Hey, Senator, let me give a Hannity alert here or a Fox News alert from Hannity.
	I guarantee you, as a result of the nearly 8 million, it'll be 8 million after three years, illegal immigrants that Joe Biden aided in abetting and the lawbreaking entering this country illegally.
	I guarantee you, there are numerous terrorist cells that have been set up right here in this country, plotting, planning, scheming, and just waiting for the call to attack this country yet again.
	And that will mean there's blood on their hands when that happens.
	It's not if, Senator.
	I am convinced it's 100% true.
	How could the maths, the simple math makes it obvious?
	And it is self-frightening.
	People want to make certain that the homeland is secure and that we are going to be there to defend freedom and that we are going to support our allies and that our allies need to know that that is going to be steadfast.
	And when you are not going to be explicit and when people do not know what your policy is and they feel like that they can manipulate you and your response, then they're going to try to do it.
	And this is why we cannot let our guard down and it's why we have to stand with Israel through this attack.
	It is an unprovoked attack.
	And you have Israelis, you have American citizens that have lost their lives, you have thousands that are injured.
	You have people.
	We're waiting for numbers, as you rightly said, of the number of hostages that are there.
	This attack was months in the planning.
	Iran has been a part of this.
	I think they've been the mastermind behind the scenes.
	We're just out of time, though, Senator.
	Keep in touch with us.
	Let us know any updates about what's going on in our nation's capital if they can ever get their act together and get something done.
	We appreciate your time, as always.
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