city today going street by street. >> carley: gaza strip is split between north and south where they are rejecting calls for a pause. >> todd: you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. the fighting continues and command says snuk lar powered submarine is now in the middle east. >> todd: the military almost never announces their location. trey yingst has the latest. trey. >> trey: good morning, fighting rages on inside the gaza strip, israelis say they surrounded gaza city. the neighborhood behind me is northern part of gaza. israelis are using artillery unit and air force to strike different positions inside. we are talking about thousands of soldiers supporting efforts to go after hamas and look for hostages inside gaza. i want to show you what it was like last night. israeli using heavy bombless to target the strip. take a look. >> trey: israelis are using bunker busting bombs against hamas tunnel network under gaza city. the focus is destroying as many tunnels as possible as the israeli push deepel into gaza. >> trey: israelis say over past 24 hours they have hit 250 hamas targets, getting into a command center last night and they say they killed a number of commanders. there is understanding within the really military 80% of hamas is inside gaza city and this is where the urban battle is expected to take place. over the weekend, we got a first-hand look at the fighting. destruction continue to rise israelis are telling people to go south, they will be able to get more medical aid, food and supplies. overnight the jordan government had approval from israel to get aid to the palestinian people. >> carley: trey yingst, thank you. democrats are divided over congresswoman rashida tlaib defending this antisemitism chant. >> from the river to the sea. >> from the river to the sea. >> palestine will be free. >> from the river to the sea. palestine will be free. >> todd: brooke singman has details. >> brooke: good morning, several members of rashida tlaib's party is speaking out after she defended the pro-palestine chant over the weekend. she says from the river to the sea is call for freedom, human rights and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction or hate, my work is centered in justice and dignity for all people, no matter faith or ethnicity. jackie rosen says from the river from the sea is call for eliminating the state of israel that puts jews in danger, we must reject extremism no matter which side it comes from. and calling on rashida tlaib to remove the statement, i have supported and defending you count lsz times, even when you said the indefensive because i believed you to be a good person thchl is so hurtful to so many, please retract this cruel and hateful remark. other democrats are defending the controversial take. >> rashida tlaib is the only palestinian american woman in the united states congress, i don't think we can say we want diversity of views and not listen. >> what matters more, you have a horrible humanitarian disaster that has to be dealt with right now, call it what you want to call it. >> brooke: president biden is grappling with how to appeal to a divided party, standing firmly behind israel, one official said the 2024 cycle promises to be a long, gruelling campaign and the president is making it even harder. >> todd: biden is in a bind with his party. thank you. >> free palestine! >> justice is our demand. >> todd: anti-israel protest like this one sweeping the country, eight cities from sea to shining sea calling for ceasefire on gaza. president biden called for a pause in fighting to allow humanitarian aid into gaza. israel maintains a pause would only help hamas. this as thousands swarmed the nation's capitol on saturday. some tried to scale the white house fence and waved palestinian flags. only one person arrested. do you condemn hamas or support their efforts? >> do you condemn 75 years of occupation? that is the answer. >> should israel exist? there is no israel. >> israel is a fascismist state and i'm antifascismist. >> hamas will be everywhere when you continue to occupy the people. >> u.s. points to hamas in gaza and say they're terrorists, do you agree? >> that is unacceptable. >> todd: wow, griff jenkins, griff jenkins on the left of the screen, will join "fox and friends first" with more. those anecdotal notes of what it was like walking the streets. when you hear griff jenkins tell it, eye-opening. >> carley: eye-opening protests. that was not a no when asked do you condemn hamas? ron desantis will pick up a major endorsement, but a florida republican is here to explain why he is flipping his endorsement from ron desantis to donald trump. >> todd: the latest "new york times" poll has trump beating joe biden in five out of six critical states, swing states. major day on the campaign trail, we have everything you need to know next when "fox and friends first" rolls along. 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>> the world is on fire and this wouldn't happen if president trump was in charge. president trump is only winning by 10 points in nevada, how could anyone vote for joe biden sdiven the disaster we're in in this country and around the world. >> todd: florida not really a swing state anymore, they are pretty red, do they track what your constituents are telling you? >> absolutely, it is easy. we knew things would be bad under biden, i don't think we knew it would be this bad. wars all over the place, americans being killed and you have have a sandwich for lunch and it is $20. the world has gone crazy and people remember what it was like under president trump. >> todd: trump is going up against ron desantis, your governor, the two of them traded jabs this weekend. take a look. >> you can sit and talk about big game, have rhetoric, do this, make promises, if you are not winning elections and winning big policy fights, it will not matter. in florida, of course, we win elections big now. >> hit him hard and now he's like a wounded falling bird from the sky. it is disloyal, i don't think voters will like that. >> todd: big arguments against each other. why did you switch your endorsement from desantis to trump? 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he was on campus last week, he's been there and his daughter went there and graduated in 2020, he's very involved in that. >> todd: this did not start on october 7, been going on for a while. >> todd: starting to say the quiet part out loud. david axelrod has a message for president biden, it is on the screen, we'll read it and talk about it with joe concha coming up. >> carley: lawrence jones is in new jersey fighting against antisemitism. hi, lawrence. >> lawrence: good morning, family, live we will be talking about what is happening across the country. if you listen to the people in the streets, they tell you what they believe. the rabbi here has sent a letter out letting universities know, if you will not protect students and kids and stand for what is right, we won't send them to your school and you won't be allowed at this school to recruit them, big message being sent to universities. we'll break it down coming up here on "fox and friends." icy hot. ice works fast. ♪ heat makes it last. feel the power of contrast therapy. ♪ so you can rise from pain. icy hot. ♪ if i could be you and you could be me ♪ ♪ for just one hour ♪ ♪ walk a mile in my shoes ♪ ♪ walk a mile in my shoes ♪ we planned well for retirement, but i wish we had more cash. you think those two have any idea? 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>> they have gone off it at this point, todd. let's be abundantly clear, david axelrod would never make such a statement if he didn't get a thumbs up from his former boss in barack obama. that is i got to clear it with the former president before i put this up on x and have millions of people read. this you have to wonder if this is paving the way for a possible michelle obama candidacy. i personally don't think she wants to run. but, again, you look that the tweet. looks at the caps in the end whether it's in his best interest or the country's. don't be selfish, joe, step down. do what you have got do for the good of democracy or something. look, kamala harris, todd, as we know she ain't plan b despite every contrived media attempt, reon behalf of the her image, possible. and poll after poll shows between 70%, 80%, even higher of democrats don't want joe biden, the sea quell. he is losing, as you just showed, in five of six swing states to donald trump, according to that "new york times" poll. you look at plus 10 in nevada. that's really incredible. georgia obviously plus 6. arizona plus 5. michigan, pennsylvania. these are all states that joe biden won in 2020. so you see every democrat out there on x, not every but a lot more and fake republicans like bill crystal saying joe biden should drop out. they are in absolute panic point at this point because they know joe biden isn't a fine wine. is he not going to get better with age. the question doesn't seem to be if joe biden drops out it's when. >> todd: that's a great point about michelle obama. that alleviates at love the concerns you would have bumping kamala harris off the ticket. african-american woman. african-american woman you don't have that same criticism that the democrats would receive if they got rid of kamala. let's focus on this poll. we have had you on talking about poll after poll after poll. this one seems really different to me. that nevada 10-point number really stands out. these are states that trump didn't do great n 2020 can a play jayapal on this poll. we have to do everything we can on electing joe biden the president. you know i have been a extremely strong of joe biden. there is the first time i felt the 2024 election is in great trouble for the president and for our democratic control which is essential to moving forward. >> todd: i mean you hear the panic in her voice, she is scared. obviously you mention michelle obama. david axelrod's comment seems to put it in biden's hands. but you and i well know that the president of the united states, in this case, joe biden doesn't make decisions whether he is going to run or not. this is from the democratic power brokers, joe, do those people, the dnc make a call to the bullpen in light of these poll numbers? >> wow, i wonder if that does happen joe biden himself probably thinks because he's on vacation 40% of the time of his presidency that's an actual stat, an actual number no i can still do this. trying to take the keys away from grandpa when they say you can't drive anymore. ultimately the democratic power brokers decide that msnbc and jen psaki who couldn't be a bigger support of joe biden if she tried saying this on his own turf so to speak. yeah, you got to think at some point the plug will be pulled. the question is if it's not michelle obama for winning emmys and obviously works for netflix and has mansion on the water in martha's vineyard, i don't know if she wants to jump into this. she may be asked politely please to safe the country then i get it's gavin newsom because he is over in china meeting with president xi and making a very public statement i will be president or i can be the nominee if you give me the chance. i guess that is what is happening at this point. who replaces joe biden is the big question. does kamala harris stay on the ticket? 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