Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

It is Eric Erickson here, live from Las Vegas, Nevada.

I hope you're having a great day. I'm here for Monday night football, among

other things. Should be a good night tonight. And I want to just take a moment and thank the

fine folks at our Las Vegas affiliate, KX&T, for having me here today in studio with them.

As I'm here for the game, here to hang out with them for the day.

There is a lot to discuss, as you might be aware, too much to discuss.

So here's the thing.

We're not going to answer phones for the next hour because I just, I want to talk to you for the next hour and explain to you first. Let's do the news as opposed to just diving in and giving you my opinion on stuff because I got a lot to say on this. But my view in particular is that I should allow you the information

before I dive in and start making the points I want to make, just so you understand,

beginning Saturday in Israel, 800 to 1,000 Hamas terrorists entered Israel through roughly 80 gaps in border fencing

between Israel and Gaza and attacked 20 communities and 11 Israeli defense force bases.

They took hostages, including children.

They killed a lot of people.

They invaded houses and killed whole families.

In one case, they targeted the editor of an Israeli newspaper whose children were hidden in a safe

room for 10 hours without power making no sound as the Hamas terrorists waited for the

family to show up and instead the father of the editor drove from Tel Aviv took command of the Israeli defense forces there because of his rank, and they stormed the house and killed the terrorists.

There are a lot of dead Israelis.

There are a lot of dead children.

There was a music festival in Tel Aviv.

Hamas targeted the music festival and killed hundreds of people.

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