morning chill. 27. we did it in charlottesville, virginia. we just about did it in hattiesburg. i don't know what's going on in wilmington. it is cold, it will warm up and we have storms across the northwest. i think i did it in 30 seconds. over to you guys. >> brian: look what's on the channel today covering all these big stories. 9:00 a.m. minutes from now democratic mayors meet with the white house in a plea for help as biden's border crisis rages in their cities. then at 1:00 white house press secretary takes the podium to do a briefing. a lot about the war. at 3:00 house members are expected to hit the floor and debate the gop israel package as a bill biden promises to veto. and today secretary of state antony blinken leaves for israel. watch it all live on fox. >> bill: there is a group of democratic mayors in washington begging the begging the white hp on the border crisis.

that coalition ironically includes the new york city mayor eric adams and the chicago mayor brandon johnson, both mayors of sanctuary cities. they're asking for $5 billion in federal funding to house thousands of asylum seekers. we ex pect to hear from the mayors making the rounds in washington. more as it happens. first this. that was the scene recently on the fight to flee gaza. egypt allowing the first evacuees through the rafah border crossing. at least five americans among them. sources telling fox news 400 americans have been cleared to follow suit. whether that happens today or not is something we await. i'm bill hemmer live in new york city. team is back together. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." it is astounding the mayors have to come begging the white house for help on a problem the white

house is refusing to solve. we'll cover that but also get you to this. the increased fighting in gaza is putting pressure on the white house to get the americans out. we'll hear from a father whose daughter and grandchildren are waiting to evacuate today. >> bill: president biden is calling for a pause in the fighting and that statement seen as a departure from his backing of israel. experts warn any type of cease-fire would give hamas a chance to regroup. >> dana: mark meredith is reporting live from the white house. good morning. >> good morning to you. the president is calling for a pause of israel's military campaign against hamas. the president says a pause would be justified for humanitarian reasons and as they try to get so many foreign nationals including hundreds of americans out of gaza. the decision is also a notable change from some comments we've been hearing from the white house lately. the president was in minnesota yesterday for multiple events. one an economic speech. the other a fundraiser. while at the fundraiser giving remarks that a rabbi with jewish

voice for peace identified as jessica rosenberg shouted at the president heckling him calling for a cease-fire. listen. >> mr. president, do you care about jewish people? as a rabbi i need you to call for a cease-fire right now. >> the president then responded to that person from the print pool with him saying i think we need a pause. a pause gives time to get the prisoners to give time. we'll see if the president clarifies the remarks today. increasing pressure from members of his own party to stop the bloodshed. concerns among democrats the president continued strong support of israel could cost him politically next november. associated press reporting some michigan democrats are warning the white house that he could lose their swing state and at 16 electoral votes if support continues to drop among arab americans. facing growing questions about efforts to get americans held hostage in gaza home.

the white house says it is doing all it can to save the americans being held against their will as well as those trapped unable to leave. some lawmakers telling fox that the lack of detail coming from the white house is unacceptable. >> we've seen the releases of people from other countries but aishah, these individuals need to be out of gaza and it is just frustrating when we can't get a straight answer from the administration. when we can't even find out exactly how many people are being held there. >> we'll see if the white house clarifies later today responding to the senator the president welcoming the leaders of the dominican republic and chile to the white house today. >> dana: confusing to me. no pause is needed if hamas releases the hostages. >> it is confusing. i don't know where it leads us. it's possible we've cut a deal on the side with qatar to get

the cease-fire. we'll hang on throughout the day and see whether or not the 400 americans get out. the region as we know here. looking at it for several weeks, upwards of a month. gaza strip here along the mediterranean sea. the israelis told all people living in the northern gaza strip around gaza city to move to the south and get out of the area. two ways to do that. take the coastal route along the eastern sea. the center route to rafah gate down in the southern part that leads to sinai in egypt. to give you a sense of what we're talking about. 2.2 million people in gaza. the strip along the mediterranean is 25 miles. the fence they cross october 7th is 37.3 miles. northern gate is closed, southern gate is closed. rafah gate is the only way out. when and how do they allow these people to leave caught up in this now? think about the history.

in 2005 the israelis under prime minister sharon pulled all israeli settlements out of gaza. 2006 they held election. one side was hat yeah and one was hamas. hamas won. they fought a war among these groups a year later in 2007. the battle of gaza. hamas won that. hamas has been in charge of these 2 million people now for 16 years. it's their responsibility to govern. you can decide for yourself how well they have done thus far. one other thing here quickly, most of the action northern gaza strip now. this is gaza city you will see a lot of action here. everything in the circle here are areas of significant fighting. these are the israeli ground operations taking place right now. so far in yellow, these are the spots where the israelis claim they have made advances. it will be a long battle and prime minister netanyahu made that clear just this week.

dana. >> dana: joining us now is john roche en berger, his daughter, son-in-law and five grandchildren are stuck in gaza waiting to get out. do you think today could be the day when they get to leave? what do you hear? >> we talked to her -- thank you, dana and bill for being on the show. we probably got 90 to 95% of our information watching fox news. so thank you. a call-out to bill tobin. he helped us connect with my daughter. my daughter is at the border with her five children. they were able to source the lists that are post evidence today. there is a list of 400 americans that they are posted today. she is number 115 on the list. i talked to her at 2:00 a.m. eastern time. she said dad, it is so hard to get a line in or communications at the border. as soon as i have news and update i will call you.

we're on needles and pins to see whether or not she has been able to get into and get processed out. we have not heard from her. our only challenge is her husband, a british citizen, was not on the american list, and there are no u.k. nationals on today's evacuation list. so it looks like she will have to go through the crossing and cross into egypt and then head to cairo without her husband unless he can segue his argument at the border. that's our main concern. she has all five grandchildren. >> dana: they would be able to leave with her if she gets to leave today. >> yes, they're all on the list and u.s. citizens all born in manchester, england, but my daughter was on the spot and they have both u.k. and u.s. passports. they will be using their u.s. passports today. >> bill: we wish the best of

luck and we -- what we don't want to hear is hamas to use americans to add to that list of hostages. i'm sure you are well aware of it and praying four and hang tough. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much. >> dana: thank you, john. we have a stunning reversal from president biden. he is now saying he would support a pause in fighting in israel's war against hamas after a heckler interrupted his remarks during a campaign event yesterday and demanded a cease-fire. we have a senior advisor to former secretary of state mike pompeo. is it possible the president misspoke, mary? >> well, it's great to be back with you, dana. i can't see into the president's mind . i understand his instinct to want to preserve human life. a laudable instinct. unfortunately he is pressuring the aggrieved party and not the aggressor, which is iran and its

proxies in this case hamas. i think unfortunately, too, he is on the defensive. you see antony blinken flying around the middle east trying to make deals to get americans like the family of your last guest out of gaza, d.o.d. frantically sending assets to the region. the president making statements instead of getting on the front foot and saying iran is the problem, here is what we are going to do to you if any american is harmed. and hamas, you need to cease the attacks on israel. aggressor we need to be focused on here not the aggrieved. >> bill: this was in minnesota last night. this is call for number two. watch. >> mr. president, do you care about jewish people? as a rabbi i need you to call for a cease-fire right now. >> bill: that was the question

from the crowd there as she began mr. president. as a rabbi i need you to call for a cease-fire right now. meanwhile you have the leader of hamas doing an interview sometime after october 7th. watch this. >> israel is a country that has no place on our land. we must remove that country. we must teach is rail a lesson and we'll do this again and again. this is just the first time. there will be a second, third, fourth. october 1 million. everything we do is justified. >> bill: that's what they're up against. >> i think there are several lessons to take from those statements and this is what i'm telling our clients. when people tell you who they are, you should believe them. secondly, until the u.s. reestablishes deterrents you will hear more threats like this and see a widening of the conflict. bill, this conflict has the potential to reshape the middle east in the same way that world

war i reshaped the contours of europe. and so we should believe hamas. they have extraordinary support not just from iran but from a terrorist financing network that stretches all the way over to malaysia and throughout the gulf. you have other proxies likes hezbollah in our backyard in portions of latin america. the houthi rebels in yemen and the hezbollah leader make a major speech in lebanon. we'll find out from that speech if he has any fear of real consequences if he opens up a second front. but we have to get off the back foot and we have to -- we have got to exact some consequences on tehran. >> dana: sorry to interrupt. i want to get this before they make us say goodbye to you. take me inside the state department. you have experience there. how is it that hamas is

dictating which americans get to leave? okay? so why isn't qatar, if they're friend and ally, the ones that can talk to hamas for us, how in the world are we in a position where hamas gets to dictate when americans get to leave so somebody like john has to be up at 2:00 in the morning on pins and needles waiting to see if his daughter and the five grandchildren are going to be able to leave today? >> the instinct of the state department, the incentive structure is always to avoid conflict and tough negotiations. it really depends on leadership from the top, not just from secretary antony blinken but from president biden giving them the leverage to force these folks to the table and to force them to give us our hostages. that's just not happening. the bureaucracy of the state department is not going to do that on its own. its instincts are in the opposite direction. >> dana: thank you.

>> great to be with you. >> we have been more people come into system than leaving the system. we need to address that. >> bill: there are mayors of five democratic-run city coming hat in hand to the white house begging for money, a lot of it dealing with a surge of migrants. we expect to hear from those mayors shortly. stay tuned for that. >> dana: israel's defensive war against hamas intensified putting more pressure on the terror group. >> pro-palestinians activist finding a new way to show their hatred toward israel and jewish nation tearing down posters of hostages being held even today by hamas. >> colonize somewhere else. >> shame on you. shame on you. >> free palestinian.ca n't get an because of your credit? here's great news. at newday we've been granted automatic authority by the va to make our own loan

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>> dana: idf advancing further into enemy territory. israeli troops and tanks getting closer to gaza city and reportedly killing dozens of terrorists in fierce battles overnight. mike tobin, an update from him live in southern israel. good morning to you, mike. >> good morning, dana. we're tracking the combat on the gaza strip and tracking the desperate situation of people trying to get out of gaza strip.

the gates of rafah allowed people to escape into egypt. 400 foreign passport holders said to get out. americans are in their rank. british people are not in their ranks. some sick and injured, 60, were allowed to leave the gaza strip today. israeli ambassador is calling for hospital ships to anchor off the coast of gaza to deal with the crushing number of sick and wounded people inside the gaza strip. those people getting out is bittersweet. their safety is being taken care of but all leaving someone behind. >> the war has escalated so fast. a lot of people are dying. a lot of people are under the rubble of buildings. my five attempt to leave. we evacuated our house 19 days ago. right now i'm between fire, i don't know if i will ever be able to see the family i left behind or friends i left behind.

>> israeli forces are now on three sides of gaza city. they made easy work getting through the hamas defensive lines in the north of the country, gaza strip. defense minister describes a dense urban landscape. hamas fighters are popping out of tunnels. israel is paying a price. 18 israeli soldiers have been killed in the fighting, dana. >> dana: yesterday congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez once again accused israel of war crimes. i will get your reaction on the other side. >> israel is part of committing some of those human rights violation? >> i believe bombing of refugee camp is a human rights violation. i believe it's a war crime. >> dana: how does that square with what you are seeing on the ground? >> this is my seventh war. every war i've covered someone raised the specter of white phosphorous. you can't use it in a densely

populated area because it's damaging if you breathe in concentrated amounts. it can be used for smoke. israeli defense force told me they do indeed use white phosphorous to create smoke but in accordance with international law. >> dana: thank you for that clarification. good to know. >> you have my number. >> don't touch me. don't touch me. don't touch me. >> get out of here. >> bill: that's new york city happened this week. pro-palestinian protestors tearing down the flyers that have been put up in various places all throughout the fire areas. people kidnapped by hamas leading to a proxy battle on city streets around the world. cb cotton is live. new york city's upper west side with more on this now. good morning. >> good morning. these flyers of kidnapped israelis are quiet by urgent reminder of the more than 200

families torn apart by hamas terrorists. war of words when people are caught taking them down on city streets. >> don't touch me. no, don't touch me. >> get out of here. >> this group of people appearing to confront a man who police say was ripping down israeli hostages posters in new york city. he is now charged with harassment. disorderly conduct. obstruction. nypd saying the hate crime task force is investigating this as a possible case of bias. one of the latest confrontations in the city. on friday also in new york this man appearing to take down the flyers, the person holding the phone goes after him saying they are kidnapping civilians, women, children, grandmothers. similar scenes happening on college campuses. these three were captured ripping down flyers at nyu. an investigation is ongoing.

israeli american citizen who helps put up the flyers says anti-semitism is motivating people to take them down. >> the evil is to pull down a kidnap sign of a four mott whose parents were killed and your reaction is to pull it down. i don't care where that poster is. it shows a complete lack of humanity. >> as videos continue to surface of the flyers getting taken down the aclu is asking more than 650 colleges and universities to reject investigation of or punishment of student pro-palestinian groups saying they are exercising their free speech rights. >> bill: cb cotton, that beat goes on in new york. >> dana: the auschwitz museum is a drop in followers on x. our account has lost over 6100

followers in october. that's why we continue to ask for your engagement. you create this incredible community and help us all remember. the post comes as anti-israel protests are happening in major cities across the globe. one person wrote this. my father survived auschwitz. his testimony is especially relevant now in the after math of hamas's october 7th attack. watch the video showing young gaza children being taught to worship terror. listen to the words of hamas leaders declaring that gazans seek martyrdom and israel issues warning to prevent civilian casualties. >> bill: one of the times i met him was the holocaust museum in jerusalem. impressive man who somehow came out of the second world war and

managed to find a way and a life of peace and so impressive. we lost him a couple of years ago at the age of 87. one thing to keep in mind that we were just talking about looking at the video here. when these protestors come out wherever they are across the u.s., so many are wearing masks. why is that? why would they not want their faces to be known? >> dana: they say they're being docsed and losing jobs. they don't have the courage of their convictions to actually -- they want free speech. you can have it. wear a mask. figure it out. it's interesting the university at nyu says there is a full investigation going on. the investigation would take me three seconds. i would figure it off quickly and we know what's happening. >> bill: we have bidenomics at the breakfast table. the price of cereal is shocking americans prompting some jitters at the white house. we'll explain why. migrant crisis getting so out of hand forcing democratic mayors

to go to biden's doorstep and tell you what they are demanding in a moment. >> the city of chicago cannot go on welcoming new arrivals safely and capably without significant support. >> i'm hoping everyone understands that new york city has done more than its share.

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let's get to the meeting. the mayors of denver and chicago as well as staff of new york city mayor eric adams are in a meeting right now with senior white house officials according to a source familiar with the meeting. tom perez is also in that meeting. mayor adams was supposed to be in the meeting. he arrived in d.c. and turned around, got on a plane going back to new york city. his staff is here. new york city mayor adams is leading the charge concerned about the burden that illegal migrants put on his city and others. he has also ordered in new york city migrants can only stay in city-run facilities for 30 days. >> it is not forever. you can't come to the city and expect that for as long as you want to stay here, that you can stay here on taxpayers dime forever. that's what the 30 days and 60 days is all about. >> all these mayors in xharj of sanctuary cities are realizing

the cost of the open border policies. the biden administration wants to give migrants work permits and expand the program. a white house spokesperson we look forward to the city and state coordinating appointments for 300 migrants per day allowing migrants to complete the required bio metrics and submit work permit applications. republicans are concerned that additional money in a supplemental request will make things worse. >> well, you actually misquoted him. he would like more money to process migrants. he doesn't want money to solve the problem. we want to send money in the form of security at the border. he wants money in the form of give us more money to process migrants and encourage the rest of the world that our border is open and if you get here we'll show you a path to whatever city in america you would like to go to. >> in 15 minutes i was going to ask mayor adams if they're asking for would make things worse.

we have to see if the mayors from denver and chicago talk to reporters. >> bill: if you're at home having breakfast anybody waking up right now this might make you spit out the breakfast. a box of cereal costing nearly $9 in some states. inflation continues to take a heavy toll on the family budget. dinner and lunch don't get much better. one connecticut mcdonalds raising their price for a big mac to $18. that is a whopper. let's bring in maria bartiromo from fox business. good morning to you. >> that $18 for a big mac includes fries and small soda. $18 for a big mac? what's going on. the under lying components of the big mac and headline news we talk about are still going un. you might see the headline number of the consumer price index or inflation measures going down from the highs of a year ago. but the essentials are still

elevated. the essentials meaning food, fuel, shelter, rent, mortgage payments because the federal reserve is raising interest rates. yesterday the fed took a pause. they took a pause in the rate rising campaign but opened the door for further right hikes. as interest rates go higher it will create more cost for consumers. >> dana: such a fix at the fed. the price hike since president biden took office. food up 3.5, shelter 7.2. childcare 4.8. these are essentials, not like extras you might need. >> exactly. essentials. when you are talking about oil prices, you don't understand that oil prowlss is a component to so many things because whatever food we are talking about, whatever services we are talking about, they have to be transported on a truck and the truck is going to need gasoline and when you are home and it is cold out you will need heating oil. when the price of oil goes up as

it has been. elevated in the $80 a barrel range it will always create the pressure to raise prices. we're talking about largely what we've been talking about is inflation on the producer level. they are passing it on. as their products rise in price, they pass it on and say guess what? big mac went up to $18. >> bill: big mac meal 18 bucks is medium drink and fries. what did the fed say yesterday about their ability to get inflation under control? is there a sign they've been successful? >> they have been successful. things have slowed down. we talked a lot about the potential for recession. that has come under debate. will we get a recession or not? the point is things have slowed down quite a bit because of higher rates. i spoke with one small business owner who said interest payments because of higher interest rates from gone to $2 million to $14 million because of higher rates.

lock in at a level of rates and as rates go higher it is way up. so again, interest rates are the issue and the federal reserve yesterday said inflation is getting under control. not where we want to see it. we'll have to continue to focus on this and get inflation down. but we're leaving the door open to perhaps another rate hike. rate hikes are not done. as they go higher we get a window to how slow the economy is. tomorrow we have job numbers coming out for the month of october. see how strong the economy is. it's weakening. tonight after the closing bell we get apple earnings. that will be important to watch. >> dana: what's the forecast for the holiday season? >> i spoke with the former ceo of toys 'r us. the worst holiday season on record. >> dana: the consumer keeps spending. >> he said one of the worst on record. i want to make sure i qualify. not if the actual worst but

bottom line the former head of toys 'r us is not expecting good news because of higher rates. people are getting squeezed because of things like $18 big macs. >> dana: fascinating. >> we'll see. that's the most important event, the holiday season for the retail sector. retail spending represents 2/3 of economic growth. >> dana: the consumer keeps spending. >> so far the consumer is strong, they have jobs, job market is tight but people are wondering if we will get a recession in the first half of next year. we've been waiting a long time. we'll see. >> dana: thank you. fox news alert. smoke rising in gaza this morning as president biden calls for a pause in the war between israel and hamas. but would that give hamas time to regroup? social media influencers are calling out tiktok. the platform seeing an alarm surge in anti-semitic video as anti-israel protests continue

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>> here when you have professors on specifically on the campus of cornell, that per pet waits the problem we're seeing across this nation. >> from cornell university. cancelling classes on friday, tomorrow. it cites extraordinary stress on campus after a student was charged with making death threats against jewish classmates. a 21-year-old suspect patrick dye denied bail at his first appearance in federal court yesterday. his next court appearance is november 15th. >> dana: president biden calling for a pause in the fighting between israel and hamas. this comes as hamas vows to repeat the terror attacks on israel until the country is destroyed. former national security advisor to president bush steven hadley joins us now. you keep your finger on the pulse of all that's happening. let me start off with the "wall

street journal" editorial board with this headline. how hamas defines cease-fire. they promise more massacres in arabic while asking for humanitarian reprieve in english. it knows that some westerners are gullible enough to fall for it. do you think the president is asking israel to back off right now? >> i don't think so. i think what -- the president has been very smart. been steadfast in his support for israel. he made that unprecedented trip to israel in the middle of all this crisis. i think that has given him some standing to counsel with the israelis about how to conduct their operation in gaza so that it will be most effective but minimize civilian casualties. there is concern about those innocent palestinians who are under the thumb of this crisis who probably don't want hamas and the question is can there be

something that is done to ease the humanitarian crisis of those folks. the israelis have talked about that. they increased the number of humanitarian trucks to go in with supplies to gaza. the notion of a pause is to try to facilitate that. the risk, of course, is in the run-up to the show suggested, it gives hamas some time to regroup. there are tradeoffs between getting the job the israelis think they need to get done but showing due consideration for those truly innocent palestinians who are caught in the middle of this. >> dana: we're watching the story there are apparently 400 americans who are in gaza trying to get out. apparently hamas is going to let them go today. i'm curious about a couple of things. do you think it will happen? two, do we not have more leverage with qatar for example to say the americans will be leaving today. why does hamas get to call the

shots here? >> well, unfortunately hamas gets to call the shots because hamas at this point in control of the situation on the ground. the real question is the egyptians and the egyptians working out some arraignment with hamas so both sides of that exit point can be open. the egyptian controlled side and the side hamas sadly controls so the 400 americans can come out. hopefully that will happen today. it should have happened two weeks ago. >> dana: also the headline in the "new york times" yesterday that raised eyebrows. after years of vowing to destroy israel iran faces a dill emma with israel bent on crushing hamas iran must decide if the proxies and itself will live up to its fiery rhetoric. if you think about that in terms of iran as well as whatever might happen after the israelis finish their mission in gaza, how does that strike you?

what kind of dilemma is iran is? >> the fact the administration has made clear there will be consequences for iran if it directly gets into this fight or if it unleashes hezbollah to attack israel from the north out of their sanctuary in southern lebanon. it was the right thing to do by the administration. hopefully it will give iran pause so that this conflict does not spread and become a multi-front war for israel and israel then is given the time to deal with the problem of hamas in gaza. >> dana: what do you think israel needs to do to be thinking about as they are calling it the day after? >> well, i think that's a question. how much damage can israel do to hamas? if it really can break its hold on gaza, what kind of structure

comes into place in order to replace the hamas administration of gaza. i don't think the palestinian authority have what it takes. i don't think the arab countries will come in. i don't think israel wants to reoccupy gaza. one of the things that americans and israelis are beginning to think about is the day after. i think that will be driven a lot by how this ends, how the operation in gaza winds down, what the situation is like at that point. and what conclusions the people of israel draw from this. is it really they are done with the palestinians and the support for annexation on the west bank goes up or do people conclude that you can't have peace with the arab world without doing something for the palestinians and so the issue of two state solutions comes back on the agenda. interesting to see what the people of israel conclude after this terrible experience they're going through now. >> dana: thank you for coming on the show today.

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of this criticism has come from democratic senators sometimes it change when your own colleagues put you in the crosshairs. we'll see whether or not it changes the story. lower manhattan we have a story now. donald trump junior is about to resume testimony. he just walked into the courtroom moments ago. so don junior is back on the stand today in that civil fraud trial. eric trump will be the witness after him. the two brothers back-to-back. nate foye in lower manhattan outside the courthouse. what's happening? >> bill, good morning to you. just moments ago donald trump junior and his brother eric arrived at the courthouse together. both of them expected to take the stand today. both co-defendants in the trial alongside their father former president donald trump. don junior will kick things off when court resumes in a few minutes with his direct examination. new york attorney general james is seeking a $250 million fine and severe business restrictions

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