>> we laid it out very clear and told them that this year they are not going to be visited by santa. >> the police rarely got inside the home. eventually one of the 12-year-olds, the boy, escaped mal nourished and bound with tape. part of the 911 call. >> has he told you where his mom or dad are? >> i don't know where my mom is but my dad is not here. >> giving him something to eat and water because he is hungry and he is here in his stocking feet. so he escaped. >> she blames her business partner, a family apist, for isolating her from her family and creating a distorted sense of morality. facing 15 years on each count.

with the plea deal she will likely get less. >> bill: thank you very much. >> dana: israeli military forces pounding hamas targets in southern gaza while expanding operations throughout the north. as we await a news briefing in tel aviv with defense secretary lloyd austin we have new details on a massive terror tunnel discovered on the northern edge of gaza a quarter mile from israel's border. i'm dana perino. >> bill: how was the weekend? >> dana: great. >> bill: so was mine, so much going on. non-stop, right? are you tired yet? >> dana: i'm great. i'm great. just keep saying great and you'll be fine. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. hamas diverting millions of dollars meant for civilians to build hundreds of miles of tunnels that snake below gaza. some of those tunnels are big

enough for trucks loaded with rocket launchers and other weapons with access points located near schools and hospitals and houses of worship. trey yengst live in tel aviv with more on the tunnels and the war with hamas and where we are now as we begin here a brand-new week. trey, hello. >> bill, good morning. we're here at israel's version of the pentagon awaiting the press conference between israel' defense minister and lloyd austin expected to discuss a variety of issues about the war and broader regional threats. day 73 of the conflict between israel and hamas. israelis releasing new video of what they say is the largest tunnel discovered to date in northern gaza. it is 150 feet underground at one point and equipped with electricity and ventilation but does not enter israeli territory. forces continue to operate

around gaza. troops located $1.3 million worth of israeli currency and this was in a suitcase in a senior hamas leader's house. hamas-run palestinian health ministry reports dozens of gas answer were killed in strikes over the weekend. troops working at a number of sites in the city of khan younis locating a sniper position in a separate compound. the ground activity comes as lloyd austin visiting not only his counterpart but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in israel. the press conference is expected to start in minutes. it will be an opportunity for these two men to discuss the situation on the ground in gaza. what comes in the next phase of the war and also the broader threats from iranian-backed groups not just inside gaza but in lebanon and yemen. >> bill: we'll watch it together. trey yengst, thank you, nice to see you. >> dana: idf paratrooper is

joining us. thank you. you said to us you were in gaza four days ago. we're just getting a look at the footage of this massive tunnel. is it something that you have witnessed, that you know about and maybe describe for us? >> thank you for having me. we haven't seen this specific one. we found dozens of tunnel entrances in northern gaza, southern gaza, some of them were outside in the bushes, some were in schools and kindergartens, and mosques. i have a friend in a months being in a tunnel that blew up and killed four of his threat. they are a massive threat and we have to go in by foot. >> bill: we were talking earlier this morning. we have a lot of questions for you. i don't know how many you can answer. here is the next one. hostage warning about the idf going into tunnels telling people like you don't do it. don't go in the tunnels. they are moving around in advanced numbers, colossal danger to soldiers and hostages.

i don't know if we know the answers about october 7th and how hamas pulled it off. if that tunnel is so large where you can drive a vehicle through it, you can in theory then get i think it was within a quarter mile of that wall that separates israel from gaza. so you could literally drive vehicles through this tunnel, pop up less than a quarter mile from that fence and now they are on top of idf soldiers immediately without them seeing them coming. is that what we're led to believe as what was part of hamas's strategy in early october? >> yes. the tunnels are a big part of the strategy. they wanted to pull a much bigger attack using these tunnels as much as hard to say because the atrocities are horrible and the numbers are so bad. this could have been much worse. if they could put everything they planned through the tunnels and one of the main reasons why we can't have a cease-fire now.

if we cease-fire. hamas will regroup and do october 7th again and again until someone in the world or israel insures it never happens again. insures that the education system, the jihadist education system that grow us up more terrorists is eradicated. we can't stop. no one can insure we can stay in israel. israel didn't have the idf to protect it and didn't exist. we have to do what we have to do and cease-fire is not an option now. the hostages and troops are there to make sure hamas is eradicated. if we're successful the palestinians will have a much better life. no one wants to live under a terrorist regime. >> dana: you think how expensive it was to make tunnels like that and that money could have been being invested in the people there and it wasn't. that is an outrage. >> bill: they had years to do that, too, by the way.

>> dana: friday night there was news about the idf this tragedy of three of the hostages being shot by the idf who mistook them for terrorists. our hearts broke for all of you that that happened. can you just maybe speak to that a little bit to explain what it's like from your perspective a member of the idf? >> it was a heartbreaking incident. it could have been the happiest weekend since the beginning of this war. it is a two-parter if i may. one part the soldiers that killed them went against the rules of engagement of the idf. they went against the code of conduct and values. but we're transparent military force that we take ownership and responsibility for our mistakes. the second part is these soldiers have been in there for almost two months fighting the most horrible conditions against a barbarism terrorist organization. they took baby dolls and speakers and just put speakers

with israeli voices of kids to lure soldiers in and then kill them and blow them up. this is what they did. they took people outside like wearing clothes and under the clothes they had suicide bombers. they have experienced the most horrible way of a terrorist organization that fights a military force. this is not a fair fight. it is good versus evil. when this happened they went against the rules of engagement and against the code of conduct but also they've been through an immense amount of pressure and had hundreds of terrorists in this specific neighborhood and 48 hours before that they lost nine members and commanders from their specific brigade. >> bill: amazing story. the same question play the clip from the general about the idf. watch. >> if it's two gazans with a white flag to surrender would we shoot at them? absolutely not. that's not the idf.

>> bill: you hear that comment and we've been thinking about it all weekend about how you get into these dark places and you don't know who is whom. you are about to go back there, okay? you will be there back in gaza. how does it end? >> it ends when hamas is eradicated. it ends because we as israel and just like any other country in the world, we can't allow ourselves to go back to living next to an organization that says and admits they will repeat it again until there is no jew in israel or across the world. people need to understand israel is the first line of defense. if we're not there europe and the u.s. is next. it ends when somebody, probably us, eradicates hamas and with an international force make sure they never rise up again and the education system changes in a way that these people will have a real chance to live in peace, to work, to learn math and english and history and not to learn through the jihadist

education system. it makes them back jihadists. this is where they are. they idolize heroes. they are the biggest terrorists. they demon eyes israel and americans. if you grow up knowing the best cause and outcome of your life is tock a jihad and kill jews and your family will be taken care of and get money you will become a hero. you have no other option. on top of it you have no hope. you have been living under the rule of a terrorist regime that took everything from you. they stole your dreams, hope. took all the money and instead of building things they build a massive terrorist infrastructure. we're now in gaza making sure they can live in peace and bring safety not only back in israel but back in the streets of gaza as well. >> bill: thank you for being here. >> dana: great to have you here. have a safe trip back.

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>> bill: a press conference in israel. we expect in tel aviv with lloyd austin to talk about the u.s. position as we are now framing the war with israel and gaza. many on the left who have urged israel to stop the war, to call a cease-fire. that hasn't been the case.

israel firmly believes there is plenty of work to do in gaza to continue its, quote, elimination of hamas. so when that begins we'll bring it to you live from tel aviv shortly. dana. >> dana: breaking this morning pope francis says the catholic church will allow priests to bless same sex couples. we have the story. >> it's called declaration. how pope francis is reconciling the church's doctrine on marriage which the church recognizes is only between a man and woman, with being caring and loving to people in same sex relationships. pope francis has approved allowing priests to bless couples because they shouldn't have exhausted moral analysis to receive the blessing. there is a question of blessing of same sex couples and

irregular relationships. during its recent synod meetings in rome in october it was the subject of intense debate and discussion. the document makes clear the church is not calling it the sacrament of marriage saying in part therefore, rights and prayers that could create confusion what constitutes marriage, the exclusive stable union between a man and woman naturally open to the generation of children and what contradicts it are inadmissible. the document lays out specifics of what it is to bless the unions. but the bottom line the pope is hoping the change will help people increase their trust in god. dana. >> dana: thank you for that breaking news out of the vatican. >> bill: 20 past the hour. republican led investigation in the biden inquiry. andy mccarthy has the legal analysis. let's start with the reporting and david spunt live in

washington with more on that. nice to see you, good morning. >> good to be with you. james biden is the president's younger brother. house republicans believe he is sitting on some important information. unlike hunter biden, they say james is being cooperative and expect him to talk eventually. we have a picture of james biden, the president's younger brother. looks a little like the president. he has remained close to the president over the years. he once worked at a d.c. consulting firms. republicans believe he has plenty of knowledge of hunter biden's business dealings and how those dealings may be related to the president. house oversight chairman james comer recently subpoenaed him for a closed door interview. >> we are communicating with his attorney. we expect to see him soon. i will hold off criticism of the president's brother. he has due process and we have heard from his attorney. we're trying to make that work and i feel like that will happen soon. >> turns out james biden was

swept up in part of an f.b.i. investigation into a mississippi attorney. according to a post the f.b.i. secretly recorded conversations with scruggs. biden was not the subject of the investigation and never charged or accused of any wrongdoing but involved peripherally in the appropriate. his nephew, hunter is fighting a congressional investigation and two court cases, one in delaware and tax charges in california where he has lived since 2018 and yet to be arraigned and enter an initial appearance there. ignored a subpoena to testify behind closed doors last week. house republicans want to move forward with contempt of congress. likely james biden will come in after the new year given the house is out until then. bill and dana. >> bill: david spunt tees that up perfectly.

>> dana: let's bring in andy mccarthy. you wrote about this not too long ago. i remember seeing it and thinking i need to make sure i read that. so everybody understands, what did you pick up on that is now being made more widely public? >> >> the story of cefc, which was this basically chinese regime intelligence operation that was kind of masqueraded as a global energy conglomerate but part of china's initiative, they had dealings with the bidens that went back to 2015 while joe biden was vice president and the information that has been reported that's come out about that is that they started to trade on the biden name while joe biden was vice president. right after he got out of office in march of 2017 there was a $3 million payment, $1 million of which went to the bidens. then they discussed this deal

that was going to involve the biden family. not just hunter but jim and joe as well where they were going to pay them $10 million a year for introductions or go into the energy infrastructure business, which might be much more lucrative and have a 50/50 split. that's where we heard the famous stuff about 10% to the big guy in connection with those transactions. the same transaction where hunter biden has the whatsapp message where he says i'm sitting with my dad and where is the money? within a few days the chinese pay $5 million and in that connection the hunter takes a $4 hundred thousand slice of that and 10% gets to the big buy. he pays part of it to jim biden and in a short time a check for $40,000 gets written to

president biden. >> dana: that's where in the memo line of the check she writes loan repayment to joe biden. >> right. which mirrors a second transaction where jim biden is trying to get a business arrange arrangement in the middle east with a troubled healthcare company and gets them to pay $2 hundred thousand and on the same day he writes or his wife writes a check for the same amount, $2 hundred thousand that goes to joe biden it says loan repayment in the memo line. >> dana: pretty interesting. i want to ask you about this because we were just talking with david spunt about the fact that hunter biden did this stunt last week. jen psaki wants president biden to win again and what she said about hunter over the weekend. >> if you are sitting in the white house. please, hunter biden, we know

your dad loves you, please stop talking in public. it is not helpful for him to be out there. sement the president loves his son and takes precedent over anything else. >> dana: does the legal strategy and the political strategy, legal for hunter biden and political for joe biden are they on a collision course? >> yeah, i think they've already collided. the time to worry about what jen psaki is talking about was before hunter got indicted when they were trying to make that whole case go away. now obviously he is indicted and not one but two cases. he will be out there publicly, as is his lawyer, speaking and excruciating for the president. the thing i think about the "washington post" report that david was speaking about is i would be very concerned about that. there is a confluence of events we've seen. david axelrod says maybe biden

shouldn't run. a "wall street journal" report it seems like obama is saying the same thing. >> dana: i saw that. >> and two indictments. this report what astonished me was not only the details but it's a 4,000 word report. they spent weeks on it and dropped it at any time and it dredges up stuff that has been kind of vaguely known for years and that joe biden must have thought that he had survived that long ago, and here it is again right at a time when a lot of top democrats are saying maybe time for him to get out. >> dana: what lies beneath scenarios. andy mccarthy, thank you. good luck to your son calling the high school hockey matches. >> bill: the negative polling numbers piling up for president biden. could it prompt him to rethink a re-election bid? don't count on it. last minute concert tickets cost a pretty penny.

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>> bill: migrants flooding new york city shelters. the story hasn't gone away. 67,000 living off of new york city resources. more than three times as many as this time a year ago. the mayor, eric adams, calling out the administration. if you are a homeowner and you have budgeted yourself for rent, electric trisy and your roof caved in and insurance policy should pick up on that. our insurance policy was the federal government. they're not paying us. end quote. he is preparing to make extremely painful budget cuts in

2024 to try to cover the cost of the crisis. it will affect a lot of people. schools and the police department and a lot of others. we'll see how far he goes coming up very shortly. >> dana: down south u.s. customs and border patrol cutting off major access points for migrants and smugglers entering the country. this hour they are suspending operations at two international railway bridges in texas and sending workers to busy ports of entry days after video captured thousands of migrants waiting on a train hours south of eagle pass, texas. >> mr. president, why are you losing in trump in the polls? >> they are the wrong polls. >> bill: president biden refusing to believe the new polls show him trailing or tied with the top three republican candidates. you see trump up four from over the weekend. haley up six and desantis and

biden even at 47/47 from our fox news polling. matt bennett and doug high. great panel. matt, go ahead and address where the pressure points are right now for president biden. >> nobody likes to see these polls on the democratic side. it is worrying. there is a lot of work to be done. but we are 11 months from the election and what these polls are reflecting right now is the referendum on joe biden. when you are asked about the presidential election, the natural response is to think about how you feel about the current president. when they are asked to vote in november voters have to make a choice between joe biden and donald trump and that will be after about a billion dollars of advertising reminding them of why donald trump was a failed president last time and would be a catastrophic choice for next time. so i don't think these polls

reflect what will happen next year. i think they reflect this moment in time and there is no question that we have a lot of persuasion to do between now and then. >> bill: the argument he is making there is plenty of time to reshape the story now surrounding president biden's first three years. what do you think? >> 11 months or 11 days is a very long time in politics. there is also a lot of work that needs to be done here. if you look at issue after issue it is not just prices and the economy. other than the issue of abortion republicans are overwhelmingly either leading democrats or democrats are under performing on issues where they are typically ahead in dibble digits or higher. you have a lot of problems there go to the direction of the country. how voters feel about things and ultimately biden as commander-in-chief as well. cbs poll showed only 7% of voters thought that joe biden had the strength and stamina to be the commander-in-chief. that is the most troubling

number i have ever seen for a candidate incumbent or challenger in presidential politics. >> bill: i have more for you, matt. you won't like this. when democrats were asked whether or not they like biden or someone else, 54% said someone else. i don't know, gentlemen, we would have to go deep into the lockbox to figure out when that number was that high for an incumbent. here is another 1 "wall street journal." former president barack obama has concerns who knows it will be a close race, feels democrats could lose. that according to a person familiar with his thinking. what do you think, is that his wife or is that david axelrod talking again? what do you think of both of those, matt? >> he could lose. the last election was super close. next election will be close. polls aren't great. of course he could lose. that isn't news. i think democratic dissatisfaction with the current choices that they are presented

with is not terribly surprising. that often happens with reelects. the fact of the matter is that joe biden is old but so is donald trump. these two guys were both in high school at the same time. they are functionally the same age. when this choice is presented to voters the biden team will make clear that you can either age into consist re wisdom & empathy or age into chaos, anger and resentment. that is the choice before voters. >> bill: that was very good. that was very good prose, well done with that, matt. doug, what would be the republican answer on that? >> well look, when i was a freshman i looked at the people seniors in high school thought they were really old. you go to reunions now i think wow, they're really old. i try to think i'm young even if i'm not. this is the real challenge for biden here. if you think about all the things that donald trump says and does that are controversial and there is a lot as we saw just this weekend. donald trump's age is not in

that top five or top ten of issues for voters. there is a whole lot of other issues there. for joe biden again, 7% in the "wall street journal" said that joe biden has the strength and stamina to be president. that has to be a number one troubling issue for democrats. maybe he can turn things around on perceptions of the economy. a tough one to turn around as we saw with the press conference with zelenskyy last week. >> bill: you both did great. right now you're both right. thank you matt and doug. thank you for coming back. >> thank you. ♪ >> bill: ready for this? the most expensive last-minute concert ticket was not t-swifty's tour. we just gave it away. today's hemmer celebrity news. adele holds that honor. the median price for her vegas

residencies was $1 thousand. what accounts for that? i don't know other than to think that her fans are richer and they could wait until the last minute to buy a ticket. adele had the top spot. >> dana: a smaller venue. taylor swift is selling out stadiums. the venue in vegas is smaller and i think people, when they go to vegas they think the money is fake, right? it is just -- it's just -- it's not real money, i think. >> bill: not even bitcoin, whatever that is. >> dana: honestly, i do not know. don't ask me about bitcoin. want to get you over to this on hockey. why the crime crisis in the nation's capital may cost the city not just the hockey team but the other one as well. a teacher fired for refusing to use a trans student pronoun will get his case in court. a live report on that case coming up. u can't get a home lon

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>> bill: we've been waiting for this. lloyd austin with his counterpart in tel aviv talking about the war. a lot of calls for cease-fire by israel is full steam ahead in eliminating hamas.

lloyd austin makes a headline and we'll bring it to you shortly. >> dana: game over for crime ridden cities as major sports teams move from the nation's capital. driving their business and fan base to a republican state instead. >> there must be something there that -- something that they see in virginia. we will be a place that they can live and work and raise a family. you want your employees to be safe. look, we are bringing two -- not one, but two major league franchises at one time. that's never been done. >> dana: joining us live from his show on fox news radio show is brian kilmeade and author of the book teddy and booker t. i loved it. everyone else is loving it, too. brian, you follow sports and cities. d.c. mayor bowser last week on the loss of these two teams. >> experience with crime is a blip. it is a phenom none and we can

look back over the last several years and see a lot of contributing factors. but we will drive it down. >> dana: not in time to save these teams from leaving. what kind of a gut punch is this for that city? >> huge. bill hemmer and i have something else in common. we started in sports and never lost our passion for it. i was fascinated by the sports business portion of it. that interests me the most. when i saw these two teams lift themselves seemingly. a lot can go wrong still. out and into virginia i tho it's a moment for the city of d.c. to realize when washington commander running backs get carjacked or others get shot you realize when you take a sitting member of congress and his car gets carjacked, you realize nobody is safe. so if i'm with the capitals trying to get free agents and trying to get fans and with the wizards, why would i stay in that city when a suburban community in northern virginia wants me and they are willing to maybe split the difference.

they have a lot of money but you can be part of that investment in the area. and then when you see what's happening, guys, in the city of washington and see the mayor says this is a blip. are you kidding me? we have watched this crime go out of control for the last six years. you have looked the other way and blamed trump. now you are facing it down and you are losing a team and saying this is temporary? not when you defame and defund the cops. >> bill: you know, this northwest quad rant of washington, d.c., which we spend a lot of time there because of our jobs. hasn't been the same since covid. then you had all the george floyd protests and you set up black lives matter in that boulevard today and on and on. you remember all those kids going through those stores breaking the windows night after night after night. it's a hard thing to recover from. michael berman hones a downtown holiday market. takes the energy out of downtown.

you lose a leg of the school it could fall over if you don't replace it. what is going to turn downtown around? do they even have a vision? the other side argues don't use our tax dollars to pay for big-time sports teams. i ask you this. when you lose them, how do you feel about it then? >> yeah. bill, when you do that, you bring people in theory to the community if you do it right. if you cut a good deal you just don't sell your soul to a billionaire owner, you get part of that revenue that brings in concerts and the parking and part of the concessions. you figure in that becomes a source of revenue if you cut a good deal. my sense is glenn youngkin can do a good deal with his business background and military background. my sense he will do it. i think what's going on in san francisco. when you have the best player in sports pound for pound here in baseball say i thought about

going to san francisco, but the city was so overrun with homeless and so out of control with crime i end up going to los angeles. when you lose the oakland raiders and the oakland athletics to las vegas simply because the city has no money to finance them, it is falling apart around them, they couldn't rebuild the place, and it's a hard place to go to. nobody wants to go to the games. >> dana: incredible. a big loss for d.c. i have think the holiday market owner's point is a good one. if they don't have a plan to replace that. all that redevelopment was for nothing because you didn't focus on the crime element? that's a same. >> brian: nice to see you guys. >> bill: thank you, brother. got a teacher in get his day in court as part of his lawsuit against the school board that fired him. he got the axe for failing to use a transgender student's preferred pronouns. mike emanuel is on that story for today.

where does it go today? hello. >> good morning. the teacher offered some accommodation to the transgender student but was fired after being ordered to use masculine pronouns. peter is a former french teacher who says he couldn't refer to a transitioning student who was born female by masculine pronouns because of his religious beliefs. he used the student's new chosen male name in class but told it was not enough. his lawsuit argues the west point virginia school board violated his right to free speech and religious freedom. >> he offered to accommodate the student by avoiding pronouns all together. the school said that isn't good enough. you have to affirmatively speak these messages about human identity and biology you don't believe or else you are fired. the school fired him for that decision and for his convictions and beliefs. >> the supreme court reversed a circuit court decision to dismiss the teachers lawsuit

against the west point school board. it says he has a legally vie able claim tore free excise of religion and contract with the school was breached. he says each person's biological sex can't be changed and lying if he used the student's chosen pronouns. he has been black listed from getting other teaching jobs in public schools. >> bill: more to come on that. thanks, washington, d.c. thank you. dana. >> dana: the u.s. finally cuts funding to that lab in wuhan, china. engulfed in the debate of the origins of covid. why did that take so long? hm? you! your business bank account with quickbooks money, now earns 5% apy. 5% apy? that's new! yup, that's how you business differently. - bye, bye cough. - later chest congestion.

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>> harris: 28 days to go until the iowa caucuses. republican presidential candidates are showing up there. president biden thirsty for a second term had better pay attention to this. new fox polling with good news

for former president trump and ambassador haley. not good news for biden. terrible timing, too, as the president is facing an impeachment inquiry. new report that his brother was tied to a decades-old f.b.i. bribery investigation. matt whitaker, tammy bruce, raymond arroyo, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> bill: thank you, harris. see you in a couple minutes. the word from tel aviv moments ago. u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin talking about the urgent action to stabilize the west bank but hamas should never be able to project terror from gaza to israel. that aligns perfectly with what benjamin netanyahu has been saying for the past two months. so at least based on that statement, dana, there appears to be no separation as to the objective for hamas in gaza.

>> dana: then maybe the administration should stop backgrounding and suggesting otherwise in the press anonymously. >> bill: you could do that. that's what he said a moment ago and it was one of the many headlines we were waiting on. >> dana: israelis were glad to hear it. the biden administration claimed your tax dollars are no longer bankrolling the chinese lab at the center of the covid origins debate. the money only stopped going to the wuhan lab thanks to a republican senator's legislative action. >> no one knows how much taxpayer money is going to chinese labs looking at viruses and infectious diseases. nobody in the federal government is keeping track. there is a group of lawmakers now saying they are trying to get the number down to 0. senator joni ernst just pushed through an amendment in the annual pentagon spending bill touting a major victory, quote, dod dollars will now be

forbidden from supporting the wuhan institute of virology and by the shady organization eco health alliance that steered more than a million bucks in taxpayer dollars to chinese institutions for dangerous experiments on coronavirus viruses. they funded and led research on enhanced sars viruses in wuhan, china, prior to and even during the pandemic. i'll close it on this note, dana. an independent monitor group says between 2020 and 2023 the u.s. sent $48 million to eco health alliance alone. >> dana: that's a lot. thank you so much. >> a lot of money. >> bill: we had a before we go but we have to go. we'll see you tuesday. >> dana: harris faulkner is here for the next hour. here she is. >> harris: we'll begin with a fox news alert. republican candidates are beating president biden an