speaker of the house of representatives for the 118th congress. >> you are going to see this group looking -- working like a well-oiled machine. >> card is considered armed and dangerous. the residents in lisbon to shelter in place. [bell] >> still talking about this, man? it's in the past, man. >> pay a $1,000 fine. >> and write a letter to capitol police saying did he wrong. >> what are we in seventh grade? >> [inaudible] >> bret: busy week. monday on "special report," updates on israel's push into gaza keeps eye on iran and proxies. shannon bream this weekend mike mic call and dallas mayor mike johnson. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight fair, balanced and unafraid. "the ingraham angle" is now. >> pete: i'm pete hegseth in for laura ingraham and this is the ingraham angle live from new

york city tonight. buckle up, we have two breaking stories happening simultaneously. at this hour the manhunt for the maine shooter still ongoing. police have recovered his cell phone and a suicide note addressed to his son. a live report from maine later in the hour. but, first, just hours ago, the israeli military announcing that their ground forces are expanding their operations in gaza. the announcement came as the israeli military pounded away with unprecedented artillery strikes on the gaza strip. now, it should be pointed out that as hamas apologists call for a unilateral cease-fire that's the word you hear everywhere from israel. the terror group continues to fire a barrage of missiles into israel. a majority of them toward the civilian population in tel aviv. a live report from there and all across israel throughout the hour. with a ground invasion by israel

eminent, it's important to note that this is not happening in a vacuum. the decision to expand the effort by the israeli war cabinet came after talks surrounding a possible hostage release they crumble. earlier today mark ragav senior to benjamin netanyahu told our own martha mccallum what all of this is signaling. >> so one of the goals of our operation is to free the hostages and bring them all home. and we believe that is best achieved by hitting hamas and hitting hamas hard. and we have also said very clearly and we have said again tonight, anyone in hamas who is involved in harming one of those hostages, one of those 229 hostages, anyone involved in hurting them, we will find them and we will punish them. you hurt those hostages? you will pay a price. peter. >> pete: sounds like a credible threat to me. joining me now with the latest

on the fighting in the ground in jerusalem is trace gallagher. co-host of fox news at night. trace, you know, we have been hearing imminent, imminent, these incursions into gaza seem different. what do you make of developments tonight. >> trace: we can tell you, pete, the first goal for israeli troops and tanks and heavy machinery is to go across the edge of the gaza border and lay this pathway and the goal there is to try and make it accessible to more and more israeli troops as they come in. in fact, over the past four or five days, israeli air defenses have been also doing that kind of bombing, northern israel, extensively trying to also clear out that pathway. we should note, though, that early going in this -- initial ground incursion, pete, there are reports that there has been some heavy fighting between israeli troops, israeli forces, and hamas. the "times of israel" is reporting that we have no information at all on any

casualties or any injuries so far, but there are reports of some heavy fighting. we expect that to continue. in fact, we expect that each day these ground incursions will likely get bigger and bigger as that pathway gets bigger and they push these hamas forces deeper into gaza. but we also anticipate that in that time, you have got some 300,000 idf forces lined up against the gaza border. and at some point in the next couple of weeks, all of those troops will likely be in gaza at one time or another. >> pete: trace, we are hearing this could take months. what are you hearing as far as expectation setting in israel and what could that mean for the u.s.' role? >> yeah, i mean, one, expectations have not been laid out yet. but the idf did come out today and say, yes, this is not -- this is not a case of hours or days this is a case of weeks or months. i mean, it is urban warfare, so we expect it to be one, very

ugly and, two, we expect it to take quite some time to transpire. then, of course, what happens pete is when this ground war actually starts and ground forces push down into gaza the ground effect. what happens next? do you have hezbollah in the north start pushing and firing more rockets into northern israel? do you have other iranian proxies involved that would determine how much involvement the united states has in this war. and then you also have to look at what kind of impact this push into gaza will have on the whole investigation. we were told we were on the precipice of some negotiations with qatar before the news broke expanding the ground war today and apparently those talks fell apart. >> pete: have to take israel at its word at this point. it forces the hand of terrorists to come back to the table on those negotiations. trace, thanks for your time. we'll be watching tonight. all right, there are reports tonight that israel is testing

out something called sponge bombs on hamas' intricate underground tunnel network. now, the specialized bombs create a sudden explosion of foam that expands rapid lit and then hardens quickly. in an attempt to seal off tunnel entrances. i actually had the chance to go into some of the tunnels, the terror tunnels that are on the israeli side of the border a few years ago, take a watch. >> so here we are just roughly 700 meters from the gaza border. inside a tunnel. >> it's a terror tunnel. hamas a large part of its budget to build military force. >> money they could be using for their people for schools and hospitals are going into something like. this do massive killing inside israel. >> pete: i want to get a sense of what it is like to fight in a tunnel like this. in the infantry, you are usually outside different conflicts. you are under ground, but this is a whole nother level.

>> psychological challenge fighting inside tunnels like this. >> pete: i'm cramping up and sore already and we have been in here, what, two minutes? just imagine the difficulty of fighting in a tunnel like this. but, also the ideological dedication of in a radical islamist enemy willing to spend months and months and months underground picking away at the soil, putting in steel, putting in lights, pumping in air, just so that they can kill innocent civilians. >> use civilian population as a shield for military targets. they want to kill civilian population of israel. >> pete: that was then and it's far more complex now. joining me now is dan gordon, israel defense forces reserve dutycaptain and david bellavia. also author of the book remember the ram rods. dan, you have fought against hamas. you're familiar with their

tunneling and their tactics and their techniques. what should we expect here? >> well, i think that one of the main things that you should expect is that part of hamas' battle plan is as insane as it sounds to a western audience is to inflict as much misery as possible on their own people. that's literally part of their battle plan. so the people who are out there protesting the misery of the palestinian people don't realize they are supporting the very group that is causing that suffering. is there anyone who actually believes that any of this would be going on if hamas hadn't massacre of israeli residents. the israelis didn't wake up on october 6th and say what's on the it next three weeks let's go bomb gaza. it's a plan of hamas. it's a plan to suck snroorl a battlefield they think they can grind up israeli forces and at

the same time to delegit mize israel weaken it internationally what lennon called useful idiots protesting in support of hamas are protesting for the very group that's planning the misery of the palestinian people. >> pete: you see that with the hospital bombing and israel releasing the fact that hamas' honoring are literally located underneath the largest hospital complex in gaza. david, you have been on the front lines of some of the most ferocious fighting americans have seen new jersey. if you were on the front lines of what we are about to see, the initial incursion, what are israeli troops facing? what does urban combat look like about to ensue. >> a lot of chaos. the hardest part here is you want to imagine this like you are a cowboy trying to wrangle cows.

you want to force the enemy where you want them. you want to push them out and smoke them out. they are trying to fix you inside of a building. they want to neutralize israeli technology. you want to dictate the fight. but those tunnels change everything. that sponge bomb that they are talking about, all that is going to do is try to eliminate them from popping up behind them. israel wants to push in and keep the enemy in front what they don't want is hamas to jump behind them and that's where it gets really chaotic. >> pete: dan, did you train and plan for tunnel warfare? there are some reports and just reports that the idf having challenges accessing people who want to be a part of tunnel units. you can imagine how precarious that assignment would be. how do you train for tunnel warfare? >> israel has special units who are -- especially the ones attached to combat engineers who

train for tunnel warfare in one form or another. you are right as far as the challenges that you are talking about. you have got an enemy who hides underground, and what you were just say something true that hamas' pentagon is located underneath the hospital, the largest hospital in gaza. so you have got an enemy that pops up. shoots at you, goes back down. and is trying to suck you into those tunnels to fight you there. and as your other guest just said, israel's objective is going to need to try to get them up out of those tunnels and not go into the viper's nest. >> pete: david, let's promote you from staff sergeant to general. let's set aside the strategic operations of the balance will hezbollah get involved? the chorus of the international community. those are all things we can speculate about but we don't know. but if your job is the eradication of hamas, for now the north of gaza, how long does

this take? how cautious are you? does it surprise you there has been a three-week standoff since the attacks of october 7th? how do you take this on? >> so, the -- you know, one of the things about normandy beach as you had omaha, juneau, all of these multiple foot holds is what normandy was. the campaign of the normandy campaign took 35 days. but the foot hold is what we talked about in d-day. there is going to be a foot hold in the gaza. but what you are seeing right now with these operations over the last four days are just trying to put multiple lanes into that city. you want to clear it of ieds. every time israel drops a bomb, you have created more debris. one of the things that you are seeing is a lot of these bombs are hitting roads, and you are getting all those ieds. everything is wired to blow. they want to kin nell the idf on the roads. they want them to traverse. idf has to make their own roads. if they do it the way u.n. wants.

if this was 1944 why put a kid down there at flame thrower game, set, match. hamas anies they can't win. hamas is going to die. they are fighting a losing fight. and they are there to lose as many israelis as possible. going to be slow. this is going to last over a month. >> pete: israelis will be given the rules of engagement. not loosen vis-a-vis known civilians but ability to beings sacket violence on their enemy. >> i pray to god that israel is allowed to defend their way of life and their country. that's existential. and we fought it for 20 years, pete. let them win. i don't want our grandkids fighting the enemy that you and i had to fight. israel is doing this job right now for the love of god, just let them win. >> there you go. dan divornd, david bellavia, thank you both for your insight tonight. all right the number of attacks in the region u.s. troops has

reached 20. that's what we know of at this point. and they have been late in releasing a lot of those numbers. what we know of now is 20. early this morning in response, two american f-16s took out an iranian weapons and ammunition storage area in syria. so what comes next? a live report in moments. stay there. ♪ this she■s a hero moment. even today, only a quarter of stem graduates are women. they'd go, oh, you don't look like an engineer. there is this preconception. some things are for boys. but diversity drives innovation. my goal is to really flip the script. pick something that you love and go for it. how do we live in space? how do we live on the moon? i want to help figure that out. you can create the blueprint. if you can see her, you can be her.

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>> pete: welcome back. thousands of israelis are still in the process of evacuate franklin county northern israel as the threat of them facing a two-front war continues to mount. here now with the latest from the northern israel border, steve harrigan, chief international correspondent. steve, what can you tell us tonight? >> steve: pete, that threat is about two miles behind me. that's the hills of lebanon and throughout the afternoon we heard explosions in that area. that was the israelis returning fire. hezbollah has been firing about 10 to 20 anti-tank missiles in the israel communities for the past several days. this has kind of been a low level squirmish going on for about two weeks' time. today iran's foreign minister said huz has their finger on the trigger. certainly a grim warning for tens of thousands of israelis here all along the border there have been protests in lebanon in beirut on a daily basis.

people calling for hezbollah to take a more active role against israel in this war. >> there is no doubt that we are in the battle. we are in this war in gaza. but the tactics on who we go to the confrontation are in the hands of les leadership. and to the leadership of the battle. >> of course what hezbollah really does could depend a lot on the ground operation by israel. if there are high civilian casualties, hezbollah could be under a lot of pressure to join the fight, more actively. this despite dire warnings from israel and from the u.s. to stay out, to not create a second front. and as you mentioned, almost 100,000 israelis here, all along the north, leaving their homes, trying to get away from this border out of concern of what might be ahead. pete? >> pete: yeah, steve. that's the hamas specialty trying to create more civilian casualties to get the outcome they want. steve, thank you for that report tonight. well, another kamikaze drone was launched on u.s. forces today in iraq. making that at least the 20th

time over the last 10 days that our troops, american troops in the middle east have been targeted. but the u.s. is now fighting back. striking iranian-backed militia groups. joining me now is retired u.s. army lt. daniel davis, host of the daniel davis deep dive on youtube. colonel, thanks for being here. is the response in your mind, has it been commensurate to maintain the status quo? or will it actually send a signal to iran? >> well, there is two separate issues at play here. any time you have american troops deployed anywhere, and they are attacked, it's a 100 percent guarantee requirement that we strike back against whoever did it in a way that is -- actually stronger than what they did to actually provide a deterrence. so, in this particular case, i don't think that that was the case. we hit a couple of buildings of am bow to send a message. saw hours later another attack on the troops in iraq -- our troops in iraq.

the second issue is why are those troops there anyway? because they are not providing any benefit to our country. haven't for years. and, in fact, when president trump in 2019 said he wanted to get the troops out of there, i wholehearted buy endorsed him on fox news here, actually. i don't care how much iran or their subsidiaries may want to attack troops, that they wouldn't have access to it. we would be at a lot lower threshold to potentially being drawn into regional war. as it is we have troops there both syria and iraq and points of vulnerability for us. it's ironic that our troops, who are supposed to protect our interest now we have to to send more additional force there to protect the troops. and all this just puts us at increased risk. i think the administration needs to lower our risk, not escalate it. >> pete: colonel, it's a fair point.

let's stick with as is right now. because there are reports we're getting that hamas was surprised by the level of support that america has given israel. they discounted the extent of that support. would it surprise you that hamas miscalculated that, that they thought they would drive a wedge between israel and america? >> well, i certainly hope that they miscalculated it. i mean, we have two carrier strike groups on the way in that region. and, man, the -- what the best case scenario for us would be if they stay out. if they don't open a second front. this squirmishing going on there. that talked about a second ago. that is something everybody can handle. here's the important thing. even if hezbollah does open a second front it's important we know that's not a trigger for america to get into the war. israel is strong enough and can defend themselves. they fought a two front war before. they are equipped for it. we have been is supporting them with $3.8 billion for years. their military can handle it. we need to keep supporting them. but that does not need to draw

us into a war. i think that's what some in the middle east want. >> pete: colonel, i call that a fair point and you are right, that if the troops weren't there, they wouldn't be the targets accelerating the cycle in the first place. were we to remove them now, would it send the wrong signal? >> yeah. that's a fair question. it would be characterizing the region oh we forced them out. you can't stop that. that's definitely going to happen; however, we have to make the wise choice. if we say oh, they might say something bad so we are going to leave them there and then if americans are subsequently killed, because we wouldn't bring them out, how is that helping anybody? now that we have to respond even stronger and there will be a lot of pressure for him, biden to strike iran because that's ultimately where their support is coming from. and then we could actually spawn a war. so, the stakes are so high. we have to do what is wise not just what is emotionally satisfying. >> pete: i wish wisdom was driving our strategy right now at 1600 pennsylvania. that doesn't seem to be the case. colonel, thank you for your

time. appreciate it. well, at this hour, the manhunt for maine mass shooter robert card, it continues. as resources from around the country pour. in there have been wild theories about where exactly card could be. those details in moments. stay here. ♪

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♪ >> pete: the manhunt for the maine shooter still ongoing. authorities have his cell phone and a suicide note. and at this hour agents from homeland security, the u.s. marshals and even elite border patrol unit now in an active search. for the latest we go to the fox news national correspondent c.b. cotton who is on the ground in lewiston, maine. c.b., what can you tell us at this hour? >> good evening, pete. well shelter in place orders have been lifted for lewiston

and surrounding communities. and businesses at this point can choose whether to stay open or remain closed. but the key tonight, pete, the key here is vigilance. people are being urged to stay vigilant as the manhunt continues. now, we know dive teams were really zeroing in on the androscoggin river near the boat ramp where card abandoned subaru outback. a rifle was found in that car. right now it's being tested to see whether this was the gun used in the shooting. this gun, one of many the suspect owned, according to law enforcement sources. now, vehicle records also showing us, pete, that card had multiple boats. and the coast guard which is helping in this search says one of them is unaccounted for. documents also indicate the suspect may have access to a motorcycle. now, thursday night, officers were executing search warrants at properties linked to the suspect in his h hometown of bowdoin. this is an area where the suspect has deep roots. he multi generational family in

this area. and some 15, 20 miles east of where the mass shooting took place, law enforcement finding multiple firearms here, according to sources, who are also telling us this is where card left behind that suicide note. and while can you hear an ambulance going past me, we have seen a lot of this movement happening through the day and throughout tonight as the manhunt continues. now, i want to go back to the search efforts i was talking about earlier. while the shelter in place orders have been lifted for this community, the start of deer season begins tomorrow in maine. and hunting is going to be prohibited in the area where officers are searching. and, pete, moments ago we learned who the 18 victims are the youngest among them only 14 years old. one man telling us he knew several of those who died. and that really just shows how tight-knit this community is. now, pete, i also want to mention at this press conference we had earlier today we learned about the timeline of this

shooting. officials here saying uniformed officers arrived on scene within four minutes of the first 911 call. we also know there was a group of plain clothed officers out on the shooting range nearby. they heard what was going on on the scanner. they rushed into action. so there was a really quick response here. but, again, the key tonight is vigilance as this manhunt continues. >> pete: absolutely, c.b., thank you very much for the update. all right, joining me enough to is james fitzgerald, retired fbi supervisor special agent and criminal profiler and paul mauro, former nypd head of intel operations. paul, you watched those press conferences today. that's a quick timeline, quick response team. that could lead to him having -- meaning he had a plan and a plan to move. in watching it all i will just give you my own thoughts. is he either dead in the bottom of the remember. he has had a pretty sophisticated plan to get out. what's your take? >> one of the questions i would have relevant detective to that, what's the last place we know he was, okay?

it looks like the abandoned car that is about four and a half miles away in lisbon, right? so, they brought the dogs, i'm assuming, you know, the dogs contract. the dogs alert. >> when they did alert did they go towards the ramp or into the woods. that might give us some clue. if there is some indication that he went towards the water, is there an abandoned boat trailer there? none of these questions were asked at any of the press conferences, i'm waiting to hear some of these things. i'm also wondering how completely cooperative the family is he said something, the spokesperson said something today in passing about other family connections in a town i hadn't heard about previously monmouth. are all of them being cooperative? apparently pretty night knit family lived on this compound. do they have all of the vehicles from the family accounted for? did they give a consensual for any location so you didn't have to wait for a search warrant you could get right in there? there is are a number of things i haven't heard and a lot of speculation that maybe he is dead some place. the water that would maybe explain if he is dead in the water and i don't know that would be a pretty neat trick but

it's possible. if he is dead on land generally people who do this kind of thing when they suicide they want to be found. it's their last statement to the world. he left a note. i don't think there is anything relative to terrorism or hate crime in the note by the way. because that would have meant federal jurisdiction. i think it's likely just a suicide note. a lot more questions than answers now. the cops are looking at these things, these are questions that i would have. and obviously it's all hands on deck. >> pete: absolutely. james, you profile for a living in many big time cases. based on what you know about the particulars of the case, what should would he be looking at right now? >> well, his preoffense behavior is going to be very important. we profilers look at preoffense, the offense itself and post offense. we don't know a whole lot about the post offense now except the boat by the dock and whatever that means that could be a very clever counter investigative move on his part. or he could have just been lucky and just happened to put it there with all the preplanning kind of falling apart.

what kind of materials he bought. what kind of internet searches he was doing. what kind of places his phone pinged off of in the days and weeks prior to these two different shooting events will tell us a lot about whether a this person doing after the fact and also we are going to be the investigators are going to be all kinds of family members. >> pete: he didn't wear a mask or ballistic vest he wasn't trying to hide himself. >> he isn't. that is very interesting. he wanted everyone to know who this is. i agree with paul, if it's going to be a suicide, is he going to have himself hanging from a tree or propped up against a tree somewhere. is he not going to be 79 to be hidden in the bottom of a lake somewhere. this guy went in possibly as a suicide mission. but he egressed the first one. he went to a second one, egressed there and said hey, this is bonus time. let me see where i can take it from here. he may have a safe house somewhere set up. the unabomber had a shack 10 miles from his cabin back in the woods. eric rudolph knew where to go once identified as suspect in the olympic bombings, very possible this guy could have a

safe house somewhere. since the situation has changed, now is he going to hold himself up there. >> pete: great insight, james. paul, based on what have you seen, does this look like a guy who survived suicide by cop and now trying to figure out what to do next or do you have a sense that he might have preplanned his escape? >> it looks toe me, look, he got out of there for research. we know and c.b. touched upon it frew do you tuesdayly four cops at the range. they got there in 90 seconds. that's faster than a shots fired in new york city. they got their fast. god bless them by the way. those are the four folks running in when everybody is running out. they were able to triage the situation. probably why we didn't have more fatalities. able goat on the phone and tell central get every ambulance you can here. and of course there ends up ache second location. if he wants suicide by cop hangs around and waits to shoot it out with them. i go back to touch on what agent fitzgerald just said to the family. if he has got a safe house some place, if he has got a cabin, guy back to the idea tight

family. they apparently did a lot of shooting. i'm not trying to impugn the family here at all. but they are going to be really important here because if he does have a cabin, if he does have a place that he free markets, they are going to know. and so let's just hope that, you know, they have done everything they can because that would really -- i think that would be real big insight. >> jesse: james, the nashville murder's manifesto was never published. you talked about this. is what he written -- authorities have looked at it. would it help for the public to have a sense for where this goes? >> absolutely. and i'm still waiting for that nashville manifesto to be released to the public. but, in the meantime, let's see the suicide letter. i'm a profiler and a forensic linguist. i live and breathe looking at language and trying to interpret what someone really have meaning behind the lines. we know this guy carried out this horrible activity, actually two of them where at least 18 people killed. and somewhere in that suicide note, it may provide some clues. number one to his motivation but, number two, possibly, where

is he now. eat pooh pete you guys both know what you are talking about. paul mauro and james fitzgerald thank you both for joining us tonight. as the israeli ground invasion looks to be beginning in earnest. we look at how the administration's failures both before and after october 7th could send us into a much more dangerous and destabilizing conflict. stay with us. ♪

>> our efforts to support humanitarian assistance continue. 10 trucks got in today that brings the total to 84. we're glad 10 more trucks got in it's not at all going to meet the need and we are continuing to press our partners for much more. >> pete: we're glad that 10 more trucks got into gaza for hamas. but still no indication who is actually getting the aid crossing into gaza. people who need it or is it falling into the hands of those that control the gaza strip and that would be hamas? joining me now is stephen miller, former senior adviser to president trump and founder of america first legal. stephen, how willfully naive do you have to be to assess the number of trucks. they have no idea who is crossing our border. they know that 84 trucks have made their way into gaza all of

those beans and rice will make it to innocent palestinians, right? we can be sure this administration has got that on lockdown? >> well, of course they have no idea how hamas is going to use and partition these resources. one would presume hamas will use these resources to strengthen and sustain its own fighting force of terrorists in its war against the people of israel. if you want -- in the brutal calculus of war, which you understand well, if you ultimately want to save lives in gaza, then that means you conduct an overwhelming military operation as quickly and devastatingly as possible to achieve a complete victory. you don't do it piecemeal. you don't do it slowly. you don't do it partially. you do it all at once for a mission of completelier rad did i indicating hamas. and then at that point when that mission is accomplished. you can begin the process of trying to deliver and sustain

humanitarian needs. >> pete: how common is the level of involvement or you might say interference of this administration as it pertains to israel's response? hey, hold off, we need to hold off we need to make sure we have that it's my assumption and of course i don't have access to the intelligence. it's my presumption, based on everything i have read and seen and heard, that the biden administration was working aggressively behind the scenes to try to scale back and reduce the israeli response to the aggression. in the intervening time that has taken place, i can assure you that hamas has burrowed its fighters deeper, has hidden them in other countries and has made it infinitely more difficult for israel to complete the mission. let's be clear, this is israel's mission. we're not talking about u.s.

military involvement. we are not talking about a u.s. nation building mission. we are talking about just standing back and moving aside and not micromanaging so that the nation that actually borders the jihadist terror camp can do what it judges is necessary in its own wisdom to defend its people. and the biden administration has been interfering this whole time but even more fundamentally its original sin of funding the iranian regime, knowing full well what would happen. knowing full well those dollars would flow into subsidizing terrorism. and it was that decision more than any other, that has brought us to the tragic moment we are in right now. >> pete: we're getting some reports about an unpreviously reported meeting that the biden administration, president biden himself quietly hosted a meeting thursday for a handful of muslim leaders. this according to four sources familiar with the white house, what is he hearing and how is it influencing how he is trying to influence israel?

>> you hear him and the white house talking over and over again islamophobia this term introduced since 9/11. and, of course, the irony of that is that the united states, much like europe, has, in fact, opened its doors to limitless meteorologist from the jihadist world now since 9/11. and so far from being slack phobic we have thrown out the welcome mat to migrants from the most radical parts of the world where jihadist sympathies are prevalent. as a result of that decision, again not islamophobia but the opposite of that this warm, welcome embrace, we have created a situation that we have seen in our colleges right now where you have extensive and pervasive jihadist sympathies, that is ultimately the long-term threat to our security. hamas can't launch a military strike against us. we can import people who agree with hamas. who can then form the centers of radicalization and extremism. >> pete: we are seeing it now.

stephen, thank you for your time. >> pete: none of the chaos happening at home or abroad is helping biden's approval rating but for interesting reasons. he is just now at 37%. the root of the drop? democrats who are sympathetic to hamas and that's not his only problem. minnesota congressman dean phillips just announced he is challenging biden. joining me now is mark penn, former clinton adviser, pollster, and stagwell ceo. that 37 number is staggering and it comes because a base of his party thinks he is supporting israel too much. add that to the pressure of now dean phillips, congressman from minnesota throwing his hat in the ring and is he going to run up in new hampshire. what do you make of it all? >> well, look, 37, that is a tough number there is a split among young democrats. 85% support israel. only 50/50 to 18 to 24 voter. i think that's definitely an

issue. i don't think that dean phillips is really going to go anywhere. dean phillips is pro-israel. so he is not going to become a eugene mccarthy. look, the question is how is joe biden going to do in managing this war and this international situation? that is what is going to create an up or down here. >> pete: i think that 50/50 number amongst young democrats is generous on your part, considering an 11 pointed drop. didn't they think he went over there, administration has been over there, this was his chance to recapture, you know, moments lost from afghanistan, the perception of this administration? instead, his numbers have gone down. i think we have lost mark penn in that moment. but, no doubt at this moment the panic button inside the white house when they thought israel was a place where the numbers would go up. and in the meantime, it's gone the other direction. all right, i want to shift now to tel aviv, israel, which came under a constant barrage of missile attacks from hamas earlier today. remember, citizens in tel aviv.

while most were intercepted by israel's iron dome, one slipped through and struck a five story apartment building. fox news alex hogan joins us with the latest. alex? >> hi, pete, as you mentioned, we have seen quite a lot happen here in tel aviv today from that rocket attack on an apartment building. we have heard sirens, the iron dome going off. even jets late tonight. really the focus of what we are looking at in israel tonight, again, is the gaza strip. we have repeatedly seen new attacks just right there, the sky really lighting up as the idf says it's widening its attacks on hamas. and we are seeing this footage for hours as the idf says it's not only trying to focus on infrastructure but specifically targeting tunnels and these key senior hamas officials that it says it has been able to take out in recent days. as conditions worsen in gaza for residents who have not fled, this is what the scene looks like there. there are other countries now who are asks forethere to be

some kind of relief, that the conditions simply are not livable for the residents who are still there. the u.n. is overwhelmingly calling for a truist. now, worth noting, that is not binding, but it does hold some significant weight. and, again, back here in tel aviv, we did see a smoik billowing out of that window. one thing worth noting tonight as we look at this conflict, of course, israel says it is scaling up this attack. hamas responding for the first time saying tonight it will meet israeli forces with full force. >> pete: alex, i'm seeing some of those explosions as they play on our screen and you see a lot of secondary explosions which means you are hitting a target which there is explosions there, weapons depots. what is your sense, for our viewers who are just seen the constant coverage of barrage of attacks coming from gaza into israel, is it more or less? is the volume heavier today? is it different places, the

rocket attacks that are coming out of gaza? or have israeli strikes diminished hamas' capability to launch airstrikes across israel? >> no. i think we are still continuing to see those take place and, if anything, some of the residents that i have talked with, they say this is creating even more of a sense of alarm. so, sometimes when they hear the sirens, they might question do i really need to run for shelter? we minding people how crucial this is to get to those shelters because we are seeing some of these rocket attacks coming from gaza not just breaking off a roof. we have seen two buildings here in tel aviv, multiple apartments completely being destroyed and people being hospitalized as the a result of that. reminding everyone how crucial that is. pete? >> pete: alex hogan, thank you for your reporting in tel aviv. >> pete: we want to take you all live to globe life field in

arlington, texas, where in moments former president george w. bush will throw out the first pitch for game one of the world series between the texas rangers, a team he once owned, and the arizona diamondbacks, 22 years ago almost to the day he threw that pitch out at yankee stadium. let's watch. [cheers] [cheers] [cheers] [cheers]

♪ ♪ >> pete: george w. bush throwing out the first pitch game one of the world series. joining me now to react raymond arroyo. fox news contributor. raymond, seeing -- there is something about seeing george bush throw the first pitch for those of us that watched 9/11. >> you'll remember 22 years ago, this was a sign of unity, >> just weeks after the , north 9/11 attacks, derek jeter told him don't let it bounce, they'll boo you. >> he needed jeter tonight. >> also, watching this, i remember the moment of unity, great national result. it all was just the precipice of the iraq war. we have to remember that adventure into the middle east, 20 years, and the heavy cost, not only in blood but in treasure and where it's led, to many of

the forces we see playing out tonight. >> there's no doubt the dynamics at play on our screens right now. they don't emanate completely from there, but there are a lot of echos of 9/11. >> the movements, the dislocation of the middle east. it sprang from that time, whether people can debate whether what we did was right or wrong, it shook things up in the middle east and it is still not a place of peace. >> no doubt. raymond, i want your thoughts on pro-hamas demonstrations on campuses, the latest at tulane university, your backyard in new orleans. i want to show you this clash and get your reaction. watch.

okay. except the pickup truck, that doesn't look a lot like america. >> doesn't look like uptown new orleans, which by the way has a big jewish community. the universities say this is free speech in action. why are we seeing this explosion of it on campuses in this way because universities preselect speech when they accept certain students, so what you're seeing is the fruit of universities giving preferences to activists and certain ethnic groups, religious groups in the application process. so when you overrepresent the activists and ethnic groups, it leads to a lot of this type of speech which sadly is anti-semitic and violent. >> they like to say it is anti-zionism. but it is the same thing. anti-semitism. burning the israeli flag. >> and they learned that behavior. i was struck watching that

robert e. lee statue, this week we have images of it being decapitated and melted down. when young people are taught this is the way we deal with history or individuals or moments in history that are complex or that we don't like, i'm sorry, this is not the way a civilized society operates. this is how isis operates. they start to play it out on the little world on campus and later in your backyard or mine. >> remember the taliban toppling every statue they could. knocking down beautiful shr shrines, the christian ones obliterated. another story, joe biden and his secretary of state met with the chinese foreign minister. what stood out? >> listen to how the chinese foreign minister receives antony blinken's welcome. >> pleased to welcome you

to the united states. i very much look forward to constructive conversations in the next two days. mr. minister. >> he said is that it? is that all you got? the dominance game, pete, that the chinese play. we saw this with gavin newsom. the man spreading and gavin newsom recoils. these are dominant games china plays every step of the way in the south seas or with diplomats. america needs to stand tough and stop this. >> do you think our leaders taking part in that are even thinking about that? >> they should think about it. that's how the chinese are viewing it. and it is how the world views it. pete, for a sense how this summit could go, this is a bit of biden state dinner for the australian pm the other day. >> surely they're prepared

to navigate down under, each one of them was given a manual entitled -- instructions for american servicemen in australia. i would like to read it. at the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them, period. look, folks. >> he is now reading the punctuation, period. the world's on fire, and we've got that. >> a might mayor. thank you, my friend. >> i am pete hegseth. the patriot awards, november 6th, tickets on sale, excuse me, november 16th. go to foxnation.com. jesse watters up next.