griff: and i'm griff jenkins.health indicators, including mental alertness from one serving. to help keep me sharp. try new neuriva ultra. think bigger. hi, i'm stacey, and i've lost 60 pounds on golo. (guitar music) this belt i used to wear, way down at the first and second notch, it's the only thing i've kept from before losing weight and i'm keeping this because i'm never going back. when you need to prepare for unpredictable adventures... (gasp) you need weathertech. [hot dog splat.] laser measured floorliners front and rear. [drink slurp and splat.] (scream) seat protector to save the seats. [honk!] they're all yours! we're here! hey, i knew you were comin'... so i weatherteched the car! can we get ice cream? we can now. kid proof your vehicle with american made products at weathertech.com. with cirkul, your water is deliciously flavored at the turn of a dial, with zero sugar and zero calories. and cirkul has over 40 flavors, so your water can be as unique as you are. try cirkul. your water, your way. now wit

griff: and i'm griff jenkins. we were just looking live at trey yingst in the middle of rockets firing. trey, what are you seeing there? >> reporter: yeah, griff, molly, right now islamic jihad and and hamas is have haunched a massive barrage into southern and central israel. in the distance i can see some interceptors coming off, my cameraman's going to pan back with here, and and you can see this is israel's missile defense system, the iron dome, in action. they've had to resupply these batteries as much as possible throughout the day, but what hamas is trying to do is overwhelm these systems, so they're firing barrages at different angles and at different times to try and get past the missile defense in the southern part of israel. there are still soldiers right now coming back from the gaza border area, griff. they are engaged in gun battles along the border or with a number of palestinian militants who are till here in southern israel -- still here -- working at this hour, doing everything they can to free th

griff: jacqui, welcome. i'm griff jenkins. and ground oranges operations in gaza, saying they've killed hamas operatives in overnight strikes. and is the conflict expanding to a multi-front. trey yingst in southern israel, we'll begin things. trey, what is the latest? >> yeah, griff, good afternoon. a few seconds ago we saw more rockets coming off the northern part of the gaza strip, despite the thousands of israeli strikes since this conflict began 22 days ago. the factions in gaza maintained their capabilities to fire on major population centers. just last night, about 24 hours ago, the israelis started what they are calling an expanded raid into the gaza strip taking tanks, apc's and also soldiers into gaza in an effort to try and destroy as many hamas and jihad islamic positions. i want to update you on the rockets we saw off the northern part of gaza, my producer tells me that sirens are sounding off in central israel. and you can hear the thuds behind me. the israelis launched the incursion into gaza with troops from the

i'm griff jenkins. gillian: hi, griff, good to be with you, i'm gillian turner. asking for 105 extra billion dollars for funding for israel, ukraine as well as the southern border. griff, i understand you've got breaking news coming into the news room. griff: our focus is the events focused on unfolding in israel. custom and border released the migrant encounters ending fiscal year 2023, the highest ever on record, more than 269,000, bringing fiscal year 2023 to the highest year ever on record, 2,475,000 plus migrant encounters, and it shatters last year's record which was at the time the highest on record by nearly 100,000. and it really speaks to the concern i've just come from the last 10 days on the border. we've had a record number of special interest aliens, while i was just in eagle pass. we had six iranians, some three syrians and lebanese migrants coming from countries that we have to look deeper into to vet them to see if they have any potential connections to terror. more on that as we get it, gillian. gillian: thank you for that reporting, griff. we'v

griff: all right.mcdaniel. thank you with so many political things, obviously, this is the story of the day. always great to have your insight. thank you, ronna. >> thank you, we stand with israel. thank you so much. griff: all right. general jack keane on the surprise attacks from hamas, and we have him coming up and we have his insights. stick with us. when you take it again the next day. so betty can be the... barcode beat conductor. ♪ let's be more than our allergies! and for fast allergy relief with a powerful decongestant, try zyrtec-d. ♪ no. ♪ -no. -nuh-uh. ♪ yeah. oh. yes. ♪ oh yeah. yes. isn't this great? yeeaahhhh!! ♪ yeah, i could do a cartwheel in here. oh hey! would you like to join us? no. we would love to join you. ♪ when my dad would go to work i'd be in his toolbox trying power tools. the only time i got in trouble was when i took his skill saw and wacked the hedges in front of the house. ha ha ha. he didn't like that. like him, i've become a union carpenter and so have my sons. 36 yea

>> well, griff, a u.s. contractor, an american contractor, died as a result of one of those drone strikes. he suffered a heart attack. he was sheltering in place. he was hiding. and while it wasn't directly killed by one of those drones, it's still some blood on the hands of the iranians. and it was notable in the statement from defense secretary lloyd austin tonight announcing those airstrikes, that counterattack against those proxy forces. he mentioned the death of a contractor, as you mentioned for years, the red line for the u.s. military in the white house has always been if any americans are killed and an american did die in this case and by the way, that's exactly what happened earlier this year, back in march when the biden administration launched another pair of airstrikes. also in eastern syria against iran's proxy forces, which is now the second strike this year. but certainly the pentagon does not want this strike to be seen as in any way affiliated with hamas and israel and the war on here. but

griff: griff jenkins. point out in a matter of days or weeks we will soon see pictures out of gaza and they will count the palestinian bodies and israel will begin to be lectured as idf spokesman has said will come in the world may turn on israel. as i pointed out in the last hour with over 700 dead israelis, 1500 wounded it is the largest loss of jewish life because they were jewish is why they were killed. civilians, grandmothers, women and children since the holocaust, the deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocaust. i ask you what is the appropriate response regardless of criticism that is coming. >> it is the same response of the world would have for nazis. i'll use that term again, there arab nazis. palestinians do not wish to live alongside jews they will tolerate living alongside jews until such time that they can kill their babies, kill their elderly, take as many hostages possible. that is the difference, the commitment has to be just as much commitment that you would have two kill th

griff: griff jenkins. out in a matter of days or weeks we will soon see pictures out of gaza and they will count the palestinian bodies and israel will begin to be lectured as idf spokesman has said will come in the world may turn on israel. as i pointed out in the last hour with over 700 dead israelis, 1500 wounded it is the largest loss of jewish life because they were jewish is why they were killed. civilians, grandmothers, women and children since the holocaust, the deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocaust. i ask you what is the appropriate response regardless of criticism that is coming. >> it is the same response of the world would have for nazis. i'll use that term again, there arab nazis. palestinians do not wish to live alongside jews they will tolerate living alongside jews until such time that they can kill their babies, kill their elderly, take as many hostages possible. that is the difference, the commitment has to be just as much commitment that you would have two kill the nazi

griff: hopefully they come upye witht.re getting a lot ofl information fromot the wall strt journal. lisaet: peter, you look at the white house, the amount of timee that they spent defended theth $6 billion the unfreezing ofe te money. what does that tell you aboutel the white house political the issue.is on >> the $6 billion is what people remember from thmembe transacti. i think as time goes on it's not $6 billion for macon hostages. people remember the $6 billion that is the way sometimes these things shake out. like anthony blinken was sayingn an account that has not been used yet, that is not them criticism from republicans on capitol hill and presidential candidates. there criticism the $6 billion since the irania illin bookkeepers no that they can spend it onni humanitarianta goods, it could'e freed up money elsewhere to fund terror attacks. nobody frocks.m the secretary of state nobody going on the sunday show is denying that iran is as state sponsor of terrorist attacks. they just do not, there being very clear an

griff: thank you. coming up this hour, jackie will speak with former israeli prime minister and current leader of the opposition y yachid. jackie: the biden administration urging a pause for humanitarian aid into gaza. mike emanuel is live at the white house with the latest on what they are saying. what are they saying? >> reporter: the white house is making the case the israelis are running their own ground operations but there's criticism coming from the left from congresswoman ilhan omar saying we have to ask what is the end game? does the ground invasion increase security and safety for israelis or palestinians? no. the biden administration has warned that israel does not have achievable military objectives for gaza ground invasion. a key senate republican today says the united states should help the israelis finish the job. >> they can take care of the war in gaza, hold off has blood in the north, do what they need to do but these other proxies shooting long-range missiles at one of the greatest a

griff, good evening.ight now, israeli fighter jets are over the gaza strip and they are striking buildings and hamas targets. but we do not believe this is the full retaliation. this is just the beginning. as you noted, israel has called up hundreds of thousands of reserve troops. they are moving tanks to the border at this hour and they are moving military vehicles, putting them in place next to artillery. it appears the israelis are preparing for a ground operation into gaza in the coming hours and days. will provide more clarity on that. but it comes as israel still has to bury the dead today will be a day of mourning across the jewish state. more than 300 people, according to israeli media, were killed in this cross-border attack conducted by hamas and islamic jihad when they broke through that border fence and wall. this morning, coming into these communities near the border and open firing on civilians at the same time, firing thousands of rockets into southern and central israel. i want to show you

griff: just to pick up on that.as talking to trey he gave us shocking news in his report which was in sderot the largest city there the top northeast corner of the west bank area, they went ten, you know this as somebody on the battlefield, the first order of business is to get operational control. in the idf, obviously was caught off guard. we are about to go 4:00 a.m., 48 hours on and clearly the most skilled technologically advanced military in that neighborhood if you will in the middle east unable to get these militants under control which ashtray was reporting breached defense along the east side of the gaza strip. 15 places in a thousand fighters. it is quite stunning that ivf doesn't have the under control. >> talk about the landmass, seal small compared to the west bank that is where there are a lot of settlements, a lot of politics but you also lebanon. most of the attacks of the gaza strip gaza city be in the home of thomas. we have all of this in the west bank and what's happening in lebanon, that is a c

and i'm griff jenkins on this early, busy friday morning. we're keep an eye also on the middle east where u.s. fighter jets have struck iran linked sites in syria. a short while ago in retaliation for attacks on american troops in the middle east. now the strikes following 19 attacks on u.s. bases in iraq and syria, that's injured at least 21 u.s. personnel. >> just hours ago, president biden ordering two f-16 fighter jets, strike weapons and ammunitions, facilities associated with iran's revolutionary guard in syria. let's go live to fox news correspondent lucas tomlinson, who is live for us in tel aviv. hey, lucas. well, griff, the red line for, the united states for many years has been the death to any americans. that's exactly what happened just a few days ago when american contractor was killed following one of those drone strikes inside iraq. and in the early morning hours, president biden authorizing a retaliatory strike, elderly terror strike in self-defense is what the pentagon is calling it, launching a pair of u.s. air force f-16s

griff, good evening.ight now, israeli fighter jets are over the gaza strip and they are striking buildings and hamas targets. but we do not believe this is the full retaliation. this is just the beginning. as you noted, israel has called up hundreds of thousands of reserve troops. they are moving tanks to the border at this hour and they are moving military vehicles, putting them in place next to artillery. it appears the israelis are preparing for a ground operation into gaza in the coming hours and days. will provide more clarity on that. but it comes as israel still has to bury the dead today will be a day of mourning across the jewish state. more than 300 people, according to israeli media, were killed in this cross-border attack conducted by hamas and islamic jihad when they broke through that border fence and wall. this morning, coming into these communities near the border and open firing on civilians at the same time, firing thousands of rockets into southern and central israel. i want to show you

griff with here. we've been with you for the past several hours, continuing our coverage on two major breaking stories here tonight. obviously, the manhunt continues in maine for robert card, the man suspected of killing 18 and wounding 13 others. meanwhile, major us overseas in eastern syria, a targeted strike, as we are told by the defense secretary in retaliation for attacks on american forces. griff, i want to share a number with you and then get your perspective on what's happening overseas. apparently, the number of hostages is something that we've been able to drill down on. i guess it is north of 200 now. >> what's the number you have? the number we're looking at now is 229. that number just being put out. those families obviously highly anxious as things escalate out there. and as our reporting from lucas and lucas tomlinson and mike tobin overnight, this second ground incursion briefly gaza from idf forces. you know, kevin, it certainly feels like we are on the precipice of that larger groun

all right griff i'll take it from here over here on the maps as i mention griff your question is a key. because while it started here in the gaza strip what a lot of these hamas hoping out of lebanon would join on this and become a multiprong attack so gaza strip where it all emanates from and hezbollah and jihad and hamas have a foothold as with. this was israeli territory for many decades until 2005 when a land for peace deal was reached and it went into the palestinian hands and is effectively become a terrorist staging area to launch attacks against israeli let's zoom into southern part of israel to give a little bit of context of what trey is talking about. it is a small sliver of land that gaza strip but two million people live in this very small strip. again, all aspects of it controlled by hamas at this point. this is these red locations are indications early on by the idf of where rockets struck you've got used to rocket attacks you know who is not used to it jerusalem usually not in range of the hamas militants but their technology with the help of iran, has improved greatly.

this is a real picture of gaza i want to try to use this griff as well as you can.-- it take any direction because i don't know which direction israeli forces may cofreedom but let's say they come in through the road here. all right you see they're passing down for the enemy. this would be what you call a choke point roads comes to a city square, block you know if they're coming down the road entire time it takes them to sweep slow it may take half a day to come down the reed an it might be an id you have to check it out and load up into place and the enemy no matter has a chance to stage create ied. everything, every single city block everywhere there's a road that -- that intersects that's a choke point that's a place where the enemy can predict you'll be and lay rouble in buildings you take out some targets. but now there's camouflage to put things on the ground to put directional charges in a wall that will blow at face level towards you as you walk past it. this is a hornets nest. >> it is similar to fallujah that you saw in 2016 went in with colonel north with

griff jenkins on the crisis straight ahead.itching iemg sorry this dairy queen is ruining reads jr. set to run -- as an independent former congressman jason chaffetz joins us. ♪ ♪ dear moms and dads, we know it's not always been easy... and it's been a lot of hard work. what you have achieved here today is going to help us and our futures. it is why we're coming up on stage to collect your diplomas. mom, love you always. vo: when you graduate, they graduate. visit finishyourdiploma.org to find free and supportive adult education centers near you. how long have you been tracking the value of our car? should we sell it? we hold... our low mileage is paying off. you think we should... hold... hoooold!!! hooold! now!!!! i'm on it. i'm, on it. already sold to carvana. go to carvana and track your car's value today. ♪ ♪ joe biden could be facing serious third party threat as he dealing with a low approval rating and growing competition. rfk jr. will reportedly ditch democrats announce plans to seek the white house as an independent i

. >> carley: griff jenkins has the latest on the power struggle. >> griff: good morning, guys. it isseerily quiet here and house members won't be back until tuesday and history being made, first speaker to be kicked out of his job by a one-man trigger, matt gaetz that brought that to vacate. kevin mccarthy took to the microphone and here is what he had to say. doing the right thing is not always easy, but it is necessary. i don't regret standing up or choosing government over grievance. it is my responsibility. it is my job. i do not regret negotiating, our government is designed to find compromise. i will not run for speaker again, i'll have the conference pick somebody else. i hope you realize everyday i did the job, regardless whether you underestimated me or not -- >> griff: house republicans plunge into chaos without a clear plan. you are looking at eight republicans who ousted mccarthy, crane, matt gaetz, bob good, nancy mace, rosendale. if you break it, you buy it. these eight republicans now own this chaos. the leader matt gaetz, weighing in last night. listen. >> i'm n

thank you. >> bill: thank you, griff. back to the middle east, you're about to meet an israeli soldier, a special opportunistics soldier who volunteered for the war effort to protect his country. his name is nimrod and he's filmed the horrors of the front line battling the hamas terrorists and idf special forces member, we're only using his first name. he's an israeli major and joining us now. sir, welcome to our coverage here. i know you're in the area of jerusalem and we'll play this video that you shot and pictures too. some of the picture haves been blurred out to protect identities. can you explain to us, major, what you saw and what you did in southern israel. >> yair, thank you, bill and san dr. that morning i woke up as a civilian and as a father, professional and realizing what's happening in the south i took my pistol and drove south and realizing people are in desperate need for help. i went there and took part in the fight and i actually found the machine gun of israeli soldier that died in the road and i told

>> bret: griff jenkins along the border, eagle pass, texas. griff, thanks.epublican nominee for house speaker tries to get his fellow g.o.p. members to unite behind him. brit hume joins me to break down the congressional map, next. >> it's going to be hard for some of these moderate republicans do sell jim jordan to their constituency. >> it's one thing to get elected it's another to govern. i realize how difficult it is. it took me 15 rounds. ♪ ♪ 'money managersk that all are pretty much the same, but at fisher investments we're clearly different. (other money manager) different how? you sell high commission investment products, right? (fisher investments) nope. fisher avoids them. (other money manager) well, you must earn commissions on trades. (fisher investments) never at fisher. (other money manager) ok, then you probably sneak in some hidden and layered fees. (fisher investments) no. we structure our fees so we do better when our clients do better. that might be why most of our clients come from other money managers. at fisher investments, we're clearl

. >> lucas, this is griff. i have been following your great reporting you tweeted about threat that hezbollah poses to israel with their missiles which that arsenal that includes ballistic missiles. former dnni under former president trump radcliffe talked about that. >> we're aware of the fact that israel will go in with some sort of ground invasion into gaza, but the greater threat is to the north with hezbollah, instead of homemade rockets which is what hamas has, hezbollah has a fighting force of a hundred thousand and between 75,000 and 130 thousand precisions guided missiles. >> do we fully understand the threat of hezbollah? reporter: notable there, radcliffe mentioned precision-guided missiles, we have reported for years iran has supplied hezbollah with gps guidance kits. to the rockets to potentially be much more deaf stating devastating -- more devastating, you mentioned the missiles and the scud wars, they are not to shoot down cruise missiles. they are to shoot down the ballistic missiles and iran h

back to you. >> sandra: thanks, griff. live eagle pass, texas.ning in a speak of reported domestic threats now linked to the israel hamas war. so with the 0 border surge showing no signs of slowing down, how do with step homeland security up? former fbi assistant director chris swecker joins us now. obviously this is a concern all over the country right now. what should we be doing here at home to defend against these increased reports of threats? >> i think, sandra, we face the greatest threat to the homeland since pre-9-11. we've made ourselves vulnerable, this is self-inflicted. we opened the southern border and nullified all the security measures after 9-11 to protect this country. now we turned our border patrol in to wall march greeters. they're greeting people at the border. as your previous guest pointed out, we have no idea who is coming across those borders. we catch a few, but there's many coming through. we don't know who or what -- who they are or where they came from. we're incredibly vulnerable. we know we have hezbollah cells in t

griff jenkins has more in eagle pass, texas. griff. reporter: hey, bret, it is getting attention of dhs and in the last few minks, in addition to two lebanese men in their 20s apprehended and one man from egypt apprehended in yesterday and he is in his 40s and he and two lebanese men are currently undergoing serious vetting and finding out who they are and why they're here and what their background is. let you have a quick look behind me you have presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy is now along the river getting briefed and learning about these app apprehensions and, bret, something else he's learning in just the past one week here in eagle pass, there were more than 10,000 migrant encounters and there were more than 1450 known got aways. meaning they were seen or observed on video cameras but not brought into custody. it comes as there's more than 60 miles of un-patrolled border in this sector alone because 90% of the border patrol agents are busy doing the processing. i can also tell you over in the rio grand rally, bret, where th

griff jenkins tracking this in eagle pass. griff: good afternoon.terror connections continue to attempt to enter the homeland. that's not a statement from me. that's from the dhs assessment they put out on october 1st when the fiscal year began and that's why they're concerned what's coming across this border, particularly this special interest aliens. here in eagle pass alone, jacqui, on thursday, we had two lebanese men in their 20's apprehended along with an egyptian man. across the entire southwest border since monday, 20 iranians and 27 syrians. they're going through background scrutiny. we don't talk with those countries or intelligence arrangements where we share intelligence with them. we don't know who these people are. and that's the concern as we get group after group, hundreds here every day and had almost 1500 known got-aways just in the sector just this week, jacqui. g.o.p. presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy came down and briefed with and learned how dangerous the situation was. here is a little of what he told us. >> i'm worried a

. >> steve: griff jenkins joins us with the latest. tell us about it. >> griff: college campuses across the country at cornell, yale, harvard have become hotbeds for antisemitism so much so kathy hochul had to go to cornell and demanthose making death threats be prosecuted to fullest extent of the law. look at this social media post, one of many that frightened people, it said jewish people need to be killed. that is cornell. follow them home and slit their throats. the white house, peter doocy pressed karine jean-pierre to label antisemitism as extremists, watch. >> you talk about extremists all the time, what about protesters making jewish students feel unsafe on college campuses, are they extremists? >> i've been clear, we are calling out any form of hate, any form. >> does he think the next generation is doomed? >> there is no place for hate in america. >> hate is not limited to campuses, a jewish owned store had swastikas painted on their sign. we hope the message of hatred serve as reminder of work that needs to be done. join us

pete: thanks, griff. great to see you. appreciate the report. rachel: thanks, griff.s run out of money. you've got to have money to run a presidential race. he ghei some of his own money or he's not an independently wealthy guy, and it just wasn't cracking through in the polls. he said it right, it's not my time. rachel: yeah. i mean, i think last week we reported he had an event where only 13 people showed up, so i think that was probably a low moment and a sign he needed to get out. i think it's interesting that donald the trump, of course, took the opportunity to the say you should endorse me now, mike pence. i don't think that's coming, but funny that he always likes to troll. [laughter] will: meanwhile, dean phillips decides to run for president and says i do not mean to undercut joe biden. [laughter] i think that's the definition of undercutting joe biden. pete: apparently, he tried to call joe biden a couple of times before he announced and the white house -- rachel: didn't take his call? pete: yeah. will: saturday night live mocked joe biden. take a look. >> i

thanks very much, griff.h that, i want to bring in wisconsin republican mike gallagher, chair of the house select committee on china that serves on the intelligence and armed services committee and a retired marine. congressman, good to have you with us. thanks for joining us today. first, i want your reaction to this breaking news from the defense secretary that we have is. "wall street journal" reporting it's about 2,000 u.s. service members that are now told to be ready to deploy to israel. >> i think it shows you how precarious the situation is. though these troops will be providing supporting functions, it's still dangerous. any time you send american troops in to what is now increasingly a war zone at least in parts of israel. that's the job. that's what you sign up for in the days of the all volunteer force. it further should highlight the fact that we in congress and the executive branch as well have a duty to provide the resources our troops need to be able to do a very difficult and dangerous missio

griff, thank you. >> john: sandra, back to crime in a moment, but first a major endorsement in a race for the speaker's gavel in the house. the former president throwing his support behind house judiciary chairman jim jordan. what does this mean for republicans ins 2024. ronna mcdaniel, chair woman of the national republican committee. a lot on your plate lately. >> i know, it's never boring, right, john, right. >> john: and now this. so wednesday and chad pergram said might stretch into thursday, friday, even saturday, they start the votes for house speaker. trump's endorsement of jordan will throw a lot of weight behind him. i mean, i don't want to say who you would prefer personally to see, but in terms of speaker, and then heading into the elections next year, who do you think would be best to lead the house? >> i just -- i more than anything applaud patrick mchenry in this new role, created after 9/11, recognizing we should be having these discussions behind closed doors. that we shouldn't be airi

among other things, professor griff expressed support. for the palestinians. through his work there, cohen became key figure at universal music, where he grew very close to jz, of whom he later remarked, i would have married him. the problem is, he's a man. when edgar brontman jr., the son of israel lobbys and nephew of the founder of birthright, bought one music. he asked kohen to work as his right-hand man, while at warna, cohen was reported to have blocked the album release. of pro-palestinian artist lupe fiasco. cohen sits at the helm of the most viewed video service in the world and his very close friends with universal music heads, lucian grange and khaim saiban who are personally invested in israeli settler colonialism in palestine. within a year of coming being appointed to youtube, israel lobby group, the anti-deformation league was selected to be a trusted flagger on the platform. amar, what would you say to the people say, well, what's the problem with the anti-deformation league being made a trusted flagger on youtube? well, i mean, the adl is a de

thank you, griff jenkins, live at the white house. thanks, griff.reaction, let's bring in today's political panel, vice president of coin, cassie smedley, and capital counsel llc partner jonathan kott. welcome to to both of you. so a first test for new speaker mike johnson is expected to tom this -- to come this week. let's play it. >> well, listen, we are going to move a stand-alone israel funding bill this week in the house. i know our republican colleagues in the senate have a similar measure. we believe that that is a pressing and urgent need. there are lots of things going on around the world that we have to address and we will, but right now what's happening in israel takes the immediate attention. mike: so separating israel funding from ukraine funding, what do you think of that approach, jon hand. >> i don't agree with it. i think the president laid out a good argument for why israel funding, ukraine funding, support for taiwan and border security funding should be brought together in one package. i think ukraine still has an ongoing war. le

griff jenkins live at the sorning border with more on all of that, griff.d evening jon, and suggest homeland threat assessment just put out with a new fiscal year began on november isst notes that individuals with potential terrorism ties attempting to get into the u.s. and let me attack you back to our fox flight team joining sky you can see the live shot jon it appears to be looks like three single males coming up bank feet right behind me. they're going to try to navigate -- negotiate through that razor wire national guard then take them in and border patrol will process them and the reason why they're concerned about the individuals coming in is that in just a single pass area on thursday jon, they apprehended two lebanese men and in their 20s one egyptian man in 40s across the border and 19 iranians and 17 syrians. that is why officials are concerned about coming in and the fact that border patrol spent so much of their time processing migrants it leaves miles and miles unpatrol open border where anybody can come in and we have almost 1500 known got aw

griff jenkins has more, he's in eagle pass, texas for us. griff, where are they coming from on the watch list? >> iran. sandra, good afternoon. and that is a real concern of border officials, cbp sources confirming to fox news that at least two incidences in the past 14 days when the fiscal year began on october 1st, along the southwest border, two incidences of iranian migrants apprehended on the terror watch list, they have potential terrorism ties and to potentially pose a serious national security risk to the homeland. now, you can go to the drone in the sky here behind me, all day long, wave after wave of migrants we are watching a group now coming up the bank, making their way through the razor wire. the state of texas to deter them, and 3:00 a.m., iranian migrant apprehended last week, and last week, two from lebanon. the countries promote terrorism, and behind closed doors, dhs, cbp and border patrol officials are concerned what we see happening in israel could happen here because the border has never been more unsecure and this sect

griff jenkins is at eagle pass, texas with more on that. griff: hey, neil. good morning.rom me or you. take it from dhs's threat assessment they put out last month where they specifically say that terrorists may seek to exploit our border situation here at the homeland and they specifically highlight iran, which is the world's leading terrorism sponsor country. now, since this past monday, there have been nearly 20 iranian migrants apprehended at the border. some 17 syrians, just in eagle pass where we are. on thursday we had two men in their 20's apprehended from lebanon, one from egypt. now, they will all go through extensive scrutiny and hopefully find out who they are, why they came here and crossed illegally, but ultimately we don't know we can get correct information because we don't deal with most of these countries and certainly don't share intelligence with countries leak iran or syria. that poses the dangers that you see. meanwhile, the numbers continue to come day in, day out. our numbers, we have hundreds in large groups every day, we've been bringing it to yo

griff jenkins with us. griff, what is going on here? >> reporter: good morning, stu.- ♪ don't know much about history? ♪ sadly, that's a reality across the country today. listen, 20% of colleges and universities require student toss complete a basic american history course compared to back in 1914 when nearly 90% of schools required it. as we watch these protests across the country chanting from the river to the sea, palestine will be free, it's quite clear many don't actually understand what they're saying. let me show you what that looks like in action. watch. >> what hamas has been doing is they were just, what they're doing right now is they're gathering all their materials, what they need to do to get back our land. so, therefore, i feel like that whatever hamas did was for a good cause, to get back our land. >> reporter: ucla professor says some students are, quote, woefully ignorant, lacking a basic understanding of the complex history between israelis and pal a stint januaries. >> they view -- palestinians. >> they view the conflict in a very kind of simplisti

you heard griff mention this.ember was a record, 265,000 people apprehended illegally trying to get into this country, 230,000 in the month of august. the thing that's concerning about it, they figured out, this was a regional thing, a lot of middle eastern countries, 659 people coming from iran and last year, 151 people on the terrorist watch list. think about that. that is more than the previous six years combined, people figured out we have a porous southern border in a nation based on the rule of law, you can't have that. we got to enforce the law. this president and this administration isn't doing it. that's why we have a crisis on the southern border. national security crisis. stuart: the first 17 days of this month, one hundred 19,000 migrants coming across the southern border. every year, we allow 65,000 h one b visa holders, people we want in our country, 60,000 a year, 108 in the first 17 days illegally this month. i want to point that out because the numbers are staggering. >> totally upside down. legal

talking to griff jenkins earlier today. information from coming from sources with customs and border patrol. that in a moment. let's go back in time. here is where it was in 2016. >> we are going to build a wall. it is going to be built. >> trump campaigned on build that wall. are you willing to tear that wall down? >> president biden: there will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration. number one. number two, what i'll focus on and the fact is somebody in this group written a lot about the border. i'm going to make sure that we have border protection but it is going to be based on making sure that we use high-tech capacity to deal with it. and at the ports of entry. that's where all the bad stuff is happening. >> what about the land confiscations >> president biden: end, stop, done, over, not going to do it. >> bill: that was the campaign from the basement in august of 2020. they had to use the money or they would lose the money, number one. we're hearing that this starr county, which has a population

griff jenkins is live in texas with mark. hey, griff. >> good afternoon, rich.itizens. let me take you to the sky. we have an active group right now coming across. you can see in this group that just crossed the river here into eagle pass they will try to get through this razor wire. texas dps put there to deter them. it is not working. it looks like we have some women in there. some children. we don't know who they are. coming from venezuela. thursday when i was here we had two lebanese men come to this very area. they were in their 20s as well as one egyptian. they will be sent off for heavier scrutiny. look into their backgrounds. i just learned moments ago from sources that it just the first 14 days of this fiscal year, it began on october 1. they encountered across the entire southwest border individuals from 98 different countries. that is why concerned citizens are worried about this open border. let me show you some drone footage of the group that was here. twenty individuals. they stood down on the river there trying to ask the officials what was going

griff jenkins has more in eagle pass, texas. griff. reporter: hey, bret, it is getting attention of dhs and in the last few minks, in addition to two lebanese men in their 20s apprehended and one man from egypt apprehended in yesterday and he is in his 40s and he and two lebanese men are currently undergoing serious vetting and finding out who they are and why they're here and what their background is. let you have a quick look behind me you have presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy is now

griff jenkins is in washington with more on this. >> good morning.ollege campuses across the country but as you mentioned at elite ivy league schools like cornell, yale, columbia, harvard became hot beds for anti-semitism. kathy hochul went to cornell to assure frightened students as police and f.b.i. are investigating threats at cornell calling for jews to slit student's throats. hochul had this message id. >> if you will engage in these harmful actions, hate crimes, breaking our laws, you will be caught and you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. >> at yale, they removed sections of text over unsubstantiated claims that hamas rapes women and beheads men. this is creating fear among jewish students like the young woman you had on in the last hour. >> social media is at least one of the reasons if not the sole reason for why we're seeing what we're seeing. this is what happens when you get your education and information on instagram and tiktok. when we don't get educated we become susceptible to infiltration and i have heard people u

griff, good morning to you on the hill. >> good morning, bill. those twists and turns are puzzling those of us up on capitol hill because just seconds ago behind me in this position just off the house floor the speaker mchenry walked behind us with press saying what are you doing here? unclear what he is doing other than occupying speaker mccarthy's vacant office and trying to meet. because the house is in recess. most members have gone home. we're in uncharted territory here unclear about exactly what's happening and what mchenry may be doing. shortly after getting the boot kevin mccarthy taking to the microphones saying he has no regrets about what happened. watch. >> doing the right thing isn't always easy but it is necessary. i don't regret standing up for choosing government over grievance. it is my responsibility, it is my job. i do not regret negotiating. our government is designed to find compromise. >> he says he won't run for speaker again. here are the people that bounced him. you break it, you buy it. these eight now own it. they were

griff jenkins is more on the city's effort to crack down on crime. good morning. >> bill and sandra, good morning. in the nation's capital it is in a crime crisis. here in this columbia heights area of d.c. the thieves are in charge. we're at that cvs and give you a look. look on the wall. you see the police had a very serious camera set up outside on both sides of the cvs. that isn't stopping thieves from emptying the shelves. look at these photos again inside this cvs. they literally stole everything they could get there. d.c. police say the city has seen a string of retail thefts across the city and they were able to make some arrests. this incident at this cvs arresting seven teenagers. they are working with the cops and have no plans to close the store. d.c. is suffering another typical week of violent crime. up 40% compared to last year starting monday night you remember the carjacking of congressman henry cuellar. since then ten more carjackings, a total of 760 this year, up 100% compared to last year. critics point to the u.s. attorneys offic