>> dana: what is it like to be chose en to raise a therapy dog. >> rewarding to see what he does for others. for me to see that and then to witness it on the other side. i was diagnosed with cancer in 2017. my third time it returned and just being able -- having him help me now i see what other people experience. he has always been a great dog. amazing to have. >> maverick, congratulations to you. you have given everyone a big smile this morning. when i say big, i mean big. this is a beautiful dog. >> bill: a big dog. >> dana: thank you for bringing him here today. >> doing great stuff. >> dana: that's it for us. a lot of news as you saw the last two hours. harris faulkner takes you through next. >> harris: breaking news, former president donald trump is on the

stand in a federal courtroom in manhattan today testifying in his own defense. a $250 million civil trial that legal experts have said technically have no victims. everybody got paid. he said that over and over again and consistent with the facts. new york's attorney general letitia james claim trump and his sons committed fraud by inflating assets to get cheaper loans and insurance policies. the former president denying those allegations. >> so while israel is being attacked, while ukraine is being attacked, while inflation is eating our country alive, i'm down here. we'll win the election and make america great again. they have to take it away from the thugs and horrible people that must hate our country to do this. >> harris: we'll bring you any developments out of that courtroom as soon as we get them.

the president we know often will speak and we'll take that as well. the hamas savages are now paying the price. the israeli military has gone after 450 targets of the hostage-taking serial killers in the past 24 hours. the israeli defense force says ground troops gained control of hamas compound. media reports the idf has gaza city surrounded and could enter that city today. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." israel says it is ready for the next phase of the war against hamas terrorists who attacked civilians on october 7th. a death toll among jews targeted since the holocaust not seen since then. the israeli military is adding they are trying to maintain humanitarian corridors for americans, palestinians, and people in northern gaza to escape the war.

they released this drone video showing one of the corridors and urging people to get out now and go south. [speaking native language] >> harris: fox news got a firsthand look at the ground operation inside gaza. trey yengst was among a very small group of journalists allowed inside and escorted by israeli troops. >> you can hear that gunfire in the distance. the israelis are trying to engage anyone who tries to ambush their forces. the battle is street by street. urban guerilla warfare as hamas pops out of tunnels and ambushing israeli troops. >> harris: the biden administration says it hopes to

make diplomatic progress. secretary of state antony blinken wrapped up his middle east blitz in turkey today. iraq and the west bank over the weekend and israel on friday. he has been pushing for support for humanitarian pause in the fighting. fancy for cease-fire. the administration says they have gotten out 300 americans from gaza and that approximately ten of our citizens are still being held hostage by the terrorists hamas. the president yesterday. >> mr. president, any progress on the humanitarian pause? >> president biden: yes. >> harris: in "focus" retired green beret robert greenway. first to our senior correspondent mike tobin on the ground in israel. mike. >> the fighting only intensifies with gaza city surrounded, hamas

run health ministry says the death toll among palestinians has crossed 10,000. 450 targets were part of an intense bombing campaign israel claims in addition to the targets hit two high value hamas operatives were killed in the air strikes. meantime we're shy of a month since the massacre of october 7th. a muslim who lost his wife who hamas gunman shares his perspective. >> on october 7th, my wife was driving me to work. >> hamas attackers did not care that his wife was wearing a hijab. she was driving her husband to work. gunmen opened fire. murdered in cold blood. >> i tried to defend my wife after the first attacker started shooting. but god had other plans. her body had been pierced by 30

bullets. when i looked at her head, i knew she was going to die in a matter of seconds. >> the bloody rampage continued unchallenged with israel caught off guard. >> where was the army, the air force, the border police? how did they come in? >> now a war rages. hamid left to raise nine kids on his own believes it's the fault of an irresponsible government. >> the government waited years letting those terrorists gain so much power. no one took them seriously. they did not know that iran was supporting them. >> israel is getting it from three sides today. 30 launches from lebanon, israel responded with artillery fire directed to the origin of the launches aimed at northern israel and four hamas gunmen were killed in a west bank town.

>> harris: mike tobin, thank you very much. in "focus" now retired army special forces officer robert greenway, director of the heritage foundation center for national defense and former senior director for middle eastern affairs at the national security council. all of that to say you have specific experience on how to deal with the diplomacy that's going on right now and work in the military piece. let me start with this. 32 attacks against u.s. bases and our military men and women since october 17th in the region. only one response reflects the administration's self-deterrence. talk to me about that. proportionality we should be hitting not just iran's proxies with but anybody else we think is trying to kill our men and women. >> thanks for having me on, harris, you are right. we've been attacked 33 times with only one response. all that does is erode our own

credibility. without credibility all the military assets we've placed in the theater and high-level diplomatic engagement is undermined. words without actions will undermine our position and we won't get the desired results and risk will increase correspondingly. iran is trying to force us to face an internal contradiction. either to constrain israel on the fear of war or to be able to reverse course and recognize that our policy of appeasement and accommodation has failed. >> harris: are we still so great a nation or are we getting over our skis to think israel isn't doing exactly what we have done in the past and what we would do potentially if a neighbor hit us the way that hamas terrorists hit their citizens in israel? >> there is no question but ultimately it's the fear of escalation is pushing the administration to a policy that's most likely to get us at

that escalation. they've convinced themselves the easiest path is constrain israel and ultimately it will fail and israel cannot comply nor would we want them to. >> harris: secretary of state antony blinken has been in the region since friday. he sent a warning to iran while he was in baghdad over the weekend. let's watch. >> i made very clear that the attacks, the threats coming from militia that are aligned with iran are totally unacceptable and take every necessary step to protect our people. we aren't looking for conflict with iran. we've made that clear but we will do what's necessary to protect our personnel. >> harris: let's look at this. lindsey graham and his democrat colleague richard blumenthal introduce a bipartisan resolution that puts iran on notice. let's watch. >> if the war expands, if hezbollah opens up a second

front in the north against israel in a substantial way, ire dome, then we should hit the islamic republic of iran. there is no hamas without the ayatollahs. deterrence is critical. iran is the toxic, malign influence. >> harris: i want to get your thoughts on this. the u.s. military has deployed a nuclear-powered submarine to the middle east now in a further show of deterrence. it made the rare move of publicizing the submarine's movements, clearly a warning to iran. what else does that tell us about what's going on right now in the middle east? >> it tells us we're accounting for the risk by putting in the necessary assets the result of military counsel and it makes sense. the problem is you can't have diplomacy without the credible use of military force. iranians we know from 40 plus years of history they pay no attention to our words if they

aren't supported by actions. we've been attacked 33 times. when secretary blinken was meeting with the -- >> harris: they aren't deterred. >> they are not. >> harris: the word from the president was don't and they are doing everything. they ignored don't. talk to me about what should come next if we want to be felt. is pulling a nuclear submarine and announcing it in a public relations release, is that enough? >> no. we have far more effective engagement if we destroyed the individuals conducting attacks against us, hold iran accountable and threaten to withdraw funding we'd get more attention from iran and surrogates in the region if we did. >> harris: you saw saudi arabia, they may come back to the table and talk to israel. we don't know yet. those were indications that were quiet last week. they didn't make a lot of

headlines. why? because of the yemeni support that have hit our men and women and they are on the payroll of iran being bank rolled by them and puts saudi arabia in a vulnerable spot so they come back to the table. interesting. let's move to this. this is a new op-ed right now. how jihadist groups are using the israel/hamas war to recruit lone wolf extremists. it didn't take long for terror groups to flood the internet with praise for the killings. the next time for entities such as al qaeda and islamic state is to capitalize on raging anti-semitism to fuel home grown violent extremist attacks in the west perpetrated by lone wolves and small cells of jihadist sympathizers, all cities and nations should be bracing for that. how can you brace for a lone

wolf? some of these people have lived here for years among us. >> that's exactly right, harris. you can't except for the fact that we have the option to present them with a defeat. right now their narrative is succeeding and gaining traction. it appears as though they are winning and making progress confronting the united states, the world's only super power without consequence. as long as that happens we know historically they'll make hay of it and recruit on the basis of it. open borders gives them fertile ground and population within the united states to draw from. >> harris: 169 people on the terror watch list in 2023. our border patrol is outnumbered. to find a needle in a hay stack is really tough. we'll depend on law enforcement with our lives as we do each day and be grateful for them. robert greenway. thank you for joining me. it can't get much worse than this for president biden. have you seen these numbers?

the new polling shows that former president trump is leading in nearly every single battleground state. and the president is bleeding support from the voters that backed him last time around. he can't even keep the friends he thought he had and now he is not making new friends. it is the loneliest kid on the playground now. anti-israel protestors taking their fury to the white house. [crowd shouting] >> harris: thousands of demonstrators swarmed and some tried to scale the gate. other splashed fake blood on the walls with her hand prints. those walls were protecting the white house. walls do work. those same brand of protests have exploded on college campuses, jewish students are being threatened and harassed. two students at elite schools in "focus" next.

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[crowd shouting] >> harris: you could hear the chants there. anti-israel and those words are ringing out all across this nation including washington, d.c., the seat of our government. some of the thousands of protestors tried to scale the white house gates this weekend. they left behind red haunt prints symbolizing blood, of course it wasn't, thankfully. it represents what they say is blood on the hands of israel and america. similar demonstrations broke out in major cities all over the

world and on college campuses here at home. harvard front and center again in all of this. that's a lot of tuition. wonder what they are actually teaching? no punishment announced for the mob that accosted a jewish student. the school is sure to warn students of penalties for using the wrong pro noun or expressing fat phobia priority. alexis mcadams live in new york city. >> you've been looking into what's going on at a lot of campuses including the ivy league campuses like harvard. it is a big issue so much they say it's abusive that students use the wrong gender pronoun but big powerful alumni are saying the school is not doing enough to stop major issues happening like anti-semitism running freely on that campus according to aloams. this is one of those letters center in the past few days to

harvard. from a hedge fund bill air blaming the university president for her lack of action. on-campus protestors are shouting things from the river to the sea. palestinian shall be free as they knowingly call for violent insurrection seeking the destruction of the state of israel and jewish people. he says that failure to take action puts the school's important sources of revenue at risk. he is not the only one. dozens of harvard alumni signed the petition that called the $1 pledge vowing to not give more than $1 to the school saying the university has lost its way and not done enough to respond to the october 7th hamas attack on israel writing harvard has changed in ways that make it unrecognizable. a campus culture developed where jews feel unsafe. the incident caught on camera at harvard last week. [shouting]

>> investigators say a jewish student was harassed by a group of pro-palestinian protestors yelling and screaming there. that incident was report evidence to the f.b.i. no update at this point. over the weekend harvard's president saying the university will not tolerate any activity that violates the safety of their community members bust it is not just as harvard. a lot of other schools. friday night at the university of massachusetts amherst a student was arrested after investigators saying he punched a jewish student and spat on the israeli flag during a vigil for israelis taken hostage by hamas. with so much going on at campuses across the country including in new york when we've been at columbia and nyu. law firms that are big, important ones will say they offer free services to jewish students who feel they are being attacked, hazed or not supported on campus or facing anti-semitism. that's something we learned in the last few minutes. >> harris: that's great support. alexis, mcadams.

great reporting. a student at columbia university, david. and alison, a student at new york university and co-president of students supporting israel at nyu. how big a job is that today? >> a huge job. we handle hundreds of jewish students at nyu who complained about anti-semitism on campus and experienced feeling unsafe and feeling victims of professors and peers who hate them because they are josh. >> harris: what are some things happening? >> a lot of students that have poor grades on essays they write about israel. they don't feel safe. somebody in my class said death to jews next to me. we don't feel safe on campus at all. >> harris: you were telling me about the call in the chants you

are hearing. >> i've heard hundreds of students chant globalize intifada. it's known to be calling for violence against jews for hundreds of students to just chant this, i want to believe that they don't even know what it means. but it is crazy to me that my peers and professors are chanting this violence. >> harris: david, columbia university, a friend of mine you may recognize meghan mccain tweeted this weekend she is ashamed. can't believe what her alma mater has turned into. >> i can't blame her at all. i want to thank you for having us on and doing this segment. this is something the entire country should be aware of and a national issue. what it turned into is a cess pool for jew hatred and not limited to a small group of people. the faculty and students. radical calls support for hamas.

excusing mass terrorism in israel. justifying it as an act of legitimate resistance. >> harris: they have put together a broad coalition of more than 100 institutions of higher education and i can't even have time to go through all the list here but they include public and private faith-based and historically black colleges and universities that today issued -- have issued a statement standing with israel. the palestinians who suffer under hamas's cruel rule in gaza and all people of moral conscious. how does that help the situation? look, we are scrolling where there are protests on the screen. i want to balance that with some areas where they support israel. >> that's incredibly commendable. in a time like this it is important to show true moral clarity standing against hamas. times in history where you have to take a stand. i think even -- >> harris: can i ask you both a

quick question? when you hear the white house conflate the terms anti-semitism and islamaphobia at the same time that all of this is going on, knowing that jews in this country make up 2.4% of the population but face 60% of anti-semitic threats against them what is your response >> seems to me they're trying to hide behind a politically neutral statement. anti-semitism has become politicized when it is simply hate against a group of people. anti-semitism is not something that we can compare to other sort of hates. yeah, it's hiding behind this -- they are trying to stay neutral. you can't stay neutral on something like hate against any group. >> harris: alison and david, thank you for coming in. god bless you both. appreciate your leadership on your campuses, 18 and 20. the future, ladies and gentlemen. new york federal court, that's

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nearly every battleground state projected with voters. we'll take a deeper look at that in a little bit. new york's attorney general claims trump falsely inflated his wealth to secure loans. adult sons have testified and think e they say if there was any wrongdoing that's on the accountants. nate foye is live outside the federal courthouse. nate. >> hey, harris, it has been a contentious first hour and a half on the witness stand for former president trump. the judge has twice asked trump attorney to control his client because of the length of the answers that former president trump is giving in regards to questions about his involvement in the preparation of financial statements at the trump organization. the judge said quote this isn't a political rally, this is a courtroom. the judge also said, quote, i'm not here to hear what he has to say. something trump's lawyers took

issue with. the attorney said that's what the judge is here to do. to let the defendant to defend himself. trump said it's a very unfair trial and i hope the public is watching and maintained going into the courtroom today that he believes this entire trial is politically motivated. >> these are political operatives i'll be dealing with right now. you have a racist attorney general who made some terrible statements and you see some that came over the wires today. it's a very sad situation for our country. >> speaking of new york attorney general letitia james, she is again at the trial in person today. neither arguing nor briefing the case. she has attended the trial so far on days with high profile witnesses like members of the trump family. she said she has a strong case and she expects more verbal attacks from the former president. >> i am certain that he will

engage in name calling and taunts and race baiting and call this a witch hunt. but at the end of the day, the only thing that matters are the facts and the numbers, and numbers, my friends, don't lie. >> harris, the judge has ordered trump not to speak to the media about the case while he is actively on the stand. he will be free to speak to the media when his testimony concludes, which is expected later today. send it back to you. >> dana: we'll cover all the developments. a former federal prosecutor now as we watch live outside the courtroom where former president donald trump is inside testifying today, andrew, are you with me? >> i am. >> harris: tell me your top line thoughts about where we are in this trial. >> i think we have to appreciate the fact this is not live streamed and we are losing out

on the nuance of what is happening in the courtroom. as we hear about things this morning become heated and the judge telling defense counsel to get ahold of their client. as a nation we all have so much interest in what's going on in the courtroom but we're only getting sound bites and bits and pieces. donald trump as he is trying to defend himself is also having to defend himself through headlines and speeches outside the courtroom when what we really want to know are the answers to the questions and the way in which all of those answers are coming out. >> harris: with what you know about this case, what would you say are the points where the president and his defense team really have to concentrate to protect him? >> they have to focus in on the fact that the numbers weren't correct from an accounting perspective in many regards. now, donald trump has come out and defended himself to say his properties are very difficult to put a value on any one of these properties and that you can't do so until they are actually sold. that each one of these companies

had an ability to do their due diligence and nobody has lost money. when it comes to the numbers as letitia james was talking about. some are inconsistent of what a detailed accounting would reflect. that's something that has to be explained. his degree of knowledge about those numbers and what was being submitted all have to be vasheously defended here. >> harris: would the accountants hold culpability as one of his sons said in court. >> don junior made a strong case for the fact he relied upon the accountants and lawyers. i have to agree with him. i think absolutely these are business people who have professionals that they rely on and very normal. at the end of the day it is the executives in the companies signing these documents and there is responsibility that comes along with that. that line in the sand is something that is a very nuanced legal issue. again donald trump i think has a strong case where there are no victims here and there are no losses as a result of the

numbers or the fraud that letitia james says occurred here. >> harris: thank you very much for your expertise on that always. this is a breaking news situation because at any moment the president has often and we expect to again come out of that courtroom and speak to the media. thank you, andrew, good to see you. the israel/hamas war widening the divide within the democrat party and it could have real electoral consequences. at least four members of the far left so-called squad. they have are so far left they'll tip over, are facing primary challenges now. axios piece says these primaries pit the most progressive lawmakers against more traditional liberals and will offer a clear test of the ideological direction of the democratic party. critics are tearing into michigan congresswoman rashida

tlaib for her latest rhetoric on the war. >> we will remember in 2024. >> harris: an opinion piece in the "washington post" called her out. rashida tlaib attacks biden with a smear. fox news contributor tammy bruce in "focus." when the liberal media have to defend the liberal president against liberals. >> this is fascinating to watch this internal which normally would have been a quiet threat internally now be public. americans look at her and think how is it that you think you know what all americans are thinking right now? americans are united regarding israel and the jewish people. it is american sensibility about freedom and being able to live your lives without being in danger. in this case it's interesting because the squad, like even

aoc, rely on low voter turnout. aoc was elected with 11% of democrats voting. so they are used to having a fringe dynamic control the end result of these elections. with more moderate democrats who are still very liberal perhaps there will be more people coming out to vote. that's the threat. these individuals, it's not been about high voter turnout and reflection of the democratic party in their district. they are under threat and she is mouthing iranian arguments about the election and about what the president of the united states should do. shame on her. >> harris: i want to talk more about congresswoman tlaib's video and what's getting backlash. look at this. tlaib claimed in a follow-up social media post the chant is an aspirational call for

freedom, not death, destruction or hate. does she read? critics say that's not true what she is saying. the group stop anti-semitism explained from the river to the sea refers to the full he -- it's the battle cry of hamas terrorists. jewish democrats called out tlaib. slotkin said none of us, especially elected leaders should amplify language that is a -- she said they is flat out wrong. we must reject extremism no matter which side of the aisle it comes from. >> i'm wondering if they are surprised at this. she has been very up front and the palestinian flag outside her door in congress. and that is a call for the extermination of the jewish people. it is not a call for living together in peace or look, there

was a cease-fire on october 6th. you can see these are people who want to live in peace, blended nicely with the jewish people hardly. that was an attempted genocide if not the actions of a genocide. it is about the extermination of the jewish people. she knows this but she also believes and they have luck with this, people don't know history, that the republicans and democrats have not done a good job at explaining these things and they have gotten away with pretending, with lying, with twisting, with changing language and she thinks she is going to do it again. utter contempt for the voters and utter contempt for mum -- >> harris: five days ago pakistan kicked out palestinians. where are these people? don't they care about the 1.7 palestinians that are being just expelled from pakistan right now? why is that happening?

who is it happening to? who is creating a corridor of safety for them to go where? who wants them? where will they go? protest other neighborhood nations that aren't opening their doors and the 1.7 million getting kicked out of palestinian and people asked to leave war zones for their own safety. >> they support hamas using these individuals as living human shields. so of course they will not say anything about what is happening in pakistan. it has nothing to do with the so-called palestinians who are arabs as much as the jordanian people, the saudi people. this is really about jew hatred. nothing to do with protecting the palestinians. in fact, to erase hamas, to eliminate them is the way that you support the palestinian people. >> harris: amen to that. thank you. always good to have you. we have seen poor polling for the president. the latest round is a disaster.

we'll break down the bad news for biden and whether it could change anything for democrats when it comes to 2024. will they pull him off the ticket? power panel next.

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>> harris: can they fix it? look at these numbers for president biden when it comes to his re-election bid. axios headline sums it up. trump set to romp biden. a new poll shows president biden is trailing former president trump in all but one key battleground state and trump leads in five states. biden only up in wisconsin by a couple of points. if you look down below, that's really just a hair outside the margin of error, 1.8. the president is facing overwhelming concern over his ability to carry out a second term. 71% of voters say he is too old to be an effective president. a majority within his own democratic party agree with that. a "wall street journal" editorial titled a five alarm biden re-election fire. power panel. mark penn, former clinton advisor and polling expert.

david avella, gopac chairman. david, i start with you. too early to probably plan for a different candidate do you think across the aisle? >> certainly president obama is casting his vote. the fact that david axelrod said what he did we know president obama wants someone else as the democratic party nominee. you add to what even the president said this weekend undercutting his own vice president, now president biden's own foreign policy with what has been said. all of that to say, harris, the biggest challenge for president biden is americans believe life is harder and it is his policies that have made it that way. that purchasing power is down. that $1 hundred gallon of gas is 160 because of inflation. the 120 gasoline bill is now up 20%. food bill is now up to $126 over

100. life is harder under biden and americans know it. >> harris: you mentioned the former obama senior advisor david axelrod is now questioning biden's re-election. i want to show everybody what he posted. only joe biden can make this decision. if he continues to run he will be the nominee of the democratic party. what he needs to decide whether it's wise and in his best interest or the country's. mark, that is harsh. is he right? >> look, i was pretty surprised by that post. i think he is right if joe biden continues to run, he is the nominee and only he can make the decision whether or not he wants to make a lyndon johnson-type decision given the world situation. he will devote his time to that instead of election earing. there is no sign of that. despite these numbers, i think they are looking at can they improve the economy, close the

border? he will have to do things to raise these numbers or it is going to be a really tough election. >> harris: 169 people on the terror watch list known to have come into the united states. not just under his watch but in the last fiscal year. all of that with the back drop of two wars. russia going to war against ukraine and now israel having to fight back terrorists and hunt them down after they hunted their citizens, hamas terrorists. key voting groups that backed biden by a landslide in 2020 are now peeling back their support. this is perhaps the biggest sign of a fire in the hole really. biden is leading among young voters by only one percentage point, which means if any of them sits this one out he is in trouble. women still favor biden by a slimmer margin, men prefer trump by double that. those numbers reverse the gender

advantage that has historically fueled democratic victories. biden's lead in urban areas is half of trump's edge in rural region. biden's lead among hispanic voters is down to single digits. 22% of black voters are backing trump. that's a level unseen for a gop presidential candidate in modern times. david. >> this is why the talk of third party candidates is particularly detrimental to president biden especially if he gets into the battleground states of michigan and wisconsin and pennsylvania and arizona and georgia. that it becomes much harder. the path for biden becomes much more narrow. he can't lose any of those states and still get reelected. you made an excellent point about the border, harris, in that as national security becomes more of a concern for voters, until americans believe their nation is secure, that we know who is coming into this country, you add that to the inflation problems that biden

has already caused, and it is a real tough path for joe biden. >> harris: we have to go quick here mark penn. if not biden, then who? >> well look, there are a number of governors out there who are in the wings who would be very effective candidates if biden should make a decision here. california, illinois, elsewhere. >> harris: what about the vice president, kamala harris? she was like a bridesmaid. you wait until the bride sits down. >> she would start out with something of an advantage but i think she would have a tough time against a group of governors here as well. there would be a wide open contest. it's closing right now. >> harris: it makes more sense what dean phillips did on the left to jump in when he did perhaps. we'll watch all of it. great to have you both david and mark. thank you. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." "outnumbered" next. va cash out loan.

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