Speaker Mike Johnson on ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel for his comments on the Charlie Kirk’s assassin: “You don’t have a First Amendment right to stay employed if you’re going to engage in that kind of crazy action online. And in many cases, it really is inciting further violence. It’s a serious problem.”
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee: “This is not genocide. If Israel, which dealt a pretty serious blow to Iran in just 12 days, wanted to commit genocide, they could have done it in three hours — and without losing 700 of their own IDF soldiers.”
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee: “When Emmanuel, Macron, the French President, was talking about demanding a Palestinian state, if he wants one, he can have it, and he can offer the land, maybe right along the French Riviera.”
CBS reports that the U.S. Secret Service is now providing security for White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt following the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Activist Avidan Friedman, who campaigns for the hostages, was detained this morning after blowing a shofar outside the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem.
An Israeli strike on a car outside a hospital in the southern Lebanese town of Tebnine killed one person and injured three others. The IDF has yet to comment on the strike.
