Number of americans murdered risen to at least 25. Many Airlines Canceling Flights to israel and several countries including the uk mounting Emergency Flights to evacuate the own citizens and the u. S. Is not one yet one of them. Now were hearing from syrian State Media Air Strikes earlier and aleppo and damaged runways and service and using airports to smuggle weapons to hezbollah and eventually make their way into lebanon. Dana Bob Gates Quarterback joining us in a moment. Bill first on the ground, trey yingst. If you want and feel comfortable, where are you and where are you going . Reporter ill tell you more about that location later today. It is certainly sensitive as it lies in the area where there is activity going on. This entire part of Southern Israel is bracing for days and days of fighting to come. Just to give you a sense of what its like here this morning, we saw earlier as a rocket came off the gaza strip. One rocket was intercepted by israels Missile Defense system, the iron dome, and another slammed into the city of sderot right next to a center for medics. Multiple people were injured in sderot and when we got to the scene, you could see a Hole In The Ground and shrapnel on the side of the a building and pieces of metal on the floor and blood. A pool of blood. Someone was injure there had in moderate condition and taken to a local hospital. Thats one scene of many. And those are attacks from the air. On the ground, a soldier just told us about an hour ago they were worried about Infiltration Attempt on the boarder and we know that earlier this morning hamas tried to fire antitank missile on the house in northern gaza and Southern Israel. Theres a Lot Ovactivity and movement here and israelis continue to prepare for eventual ground operation. I want short term orientation talk about that situation in sierra and First Time Since this war began and this massacre on saturday morning that weve seen the israelis strike in syria deep into syria and talking about airport in aleppo and damascus. Some of the reporting i did a few years ago with my producer here and we spoke with western intelligence source that gave us information and theyre guiding precision reseem into the airport and massive airport in aleppo and take the weapons into lebanon and hezbollah and this week hezbollah is trying to get involved in the fight here in the south theyre take on the Northern Boarder and fired rockets, fired antitank missile at group of soldiers and set off Air Raid Sirens in the northern part of the country. This is why israel is bracing for possibility of multifront conflict. If the rocket fire continues from gaza and engaged on the ground here behind me and theyre fight ago war with the Lebanese Militant Group hezbollah with thousands of precision guided missiles smuggled from iran. Its a very, very serious situation and israels defense capabilities are not that advance to handle that much fire at one time. Bill and dana. Bill trey well be back with you when possible. Thanks. Dana A Closer Look at irans role as primary sponsor of hamas in gaza. We have rick gates here this morning and we try to sort it all out. Were talking specifically about what happens in gaza and if we zoom out for a moment, tell us a bit more as where we are in regards to geopolitical concerns with the region, for example with iran. I think iran is involved in supporting, arming, and Training Hamas for this. I think irans strategic interest is Verne Versing The Trend toward reconciliation between israel and arab states in particular, the u. S. One thing theyre in favor of strengthening the relationship with israel, the arab street is not. So i think the longer this goes on, the more likely youll see protests in the streets of putting pressure on the arab governments and thats a win for iran. Bill wow. Council member out a bit further if you could. Hamas connected to iran. Iran is an alie of russia. Publicly tin has a massive war in ukraine and were the biggest supporters of ukraine on behalf of the european allies. Is it possible that putin would be involved in this or at least give his tasks at approval to leaders in teheran . I think probably not. I sympathy that relationship has not advanced that far and theres no question that this is a gift to Vladamir Putin and for no other reason than It Distracts American attention from ukraine and potential to divert resources and military weapons and supplies from israel and its a reminder its a nasty world and russia and ukraine and weve got the war in gaza between israel and the hamas and we have chinese and taiwan and we better get our own house in order here at home so were in a position to deal with all of these challenges that were facing simultaneously. Theres very broad support in the congress for israel. Very broad support for taiwan. And a lot of support for taiwan. Or for ukraine but not translated into getting things done like the Defense Budget and and having good order in the congress. Dana does that concern extend also to what weve had on our southern border, which is so many migrants coming across and this yeartodate, over 150 known people on the Terrorism Watch List apprehend sports grilled not counting the ones we didnt even find. Years and years ago when i was at cia, we were seeing people from dozens of Different Countries come across the border from mexico. It wasnt just people from Central America or mexico and its a real problem. And the only way to deal with it is a bipartisan collusion such as President Bush put forward in 2006 that allows us to have some continuity and put in place policies that will last and get control of the border. Bill sir, i want to play a clip from the commander in chief. This is joe biden from this week on american support for israel. Were sending additional Military Assistance to israeli including interceptors to help the iron dome and move the carrier fleet to the med train sea and fighter jets to that region and made it clear. You think joe biden has been wrong on every major Foreign Policy and National Security issue over the past four decades. Do you stand by that quote there, sir . Well, i do. I do think that the president and the administration have mostly gotten ukraine right. I think that the rallying of the allies to ukraines support, the Military Support weve given to ukraine has all been on the mark. I do think that their approach to iran has had some problems frankly. These guys, you know, i first encountered the iranians six months, eight months of Iranian Revolution in the fall of 1979 and National Security adviser when he met with the new Iranian Revolutionary leaders and algierss, and and every single american president has tried to do business with iran and every single time under every sin l president the hand has been slapped away. This is a regime thats completely hostile to the United States. And the question is how do you contain them and how do you prevent them from spread the kind of violence were seeing under hamas right now. Dana two questions about the region, one, egypt apparently is not going to alaw gazaens to flee into egypt. Is there something then to be said about the americans being able to reach out saying were trying to protect innocent life there. Give them a chance in order to get out of the situation and the area before we see what the israelis do what they have to do . What ive read is the Egyptian Government and the u. S. Are in negotiations actually. The egyptians with the possibility of some kind of Escape Corridor and several hundred americans and others from International Relief organizations and others that have been in gaza to escape into egypt and same token i think that president of egypt has no interest in having hundreds of thousands of gazaens on egyptian soil. Theyre a Security Problem and economic challenge and egypt is reeling economically right now so i suspect that egypts interest in having significant numbers of civilians from gaza come into egypt is very, very low. Dana im sure theyd think it was suboptimal and let me ask you about qatar then because some of the leaders of hamas live in luxury in qatar and im wondering if there should be a conversation there about either giving them umm or giving us a chance to get out. I definitely think there should be a conversation along those lines. You know, we had some issues with qatar in the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration kind of playing both sides of the street in iraq as well as elsewhere in the middle east. I think given the magnitude of whats happened in the attacks on israel that there needs to be pressure on qatar to give access or to turn over hamas leaders who may be in qatar. Bill two more questions for me, sir, and i appreciate your time today. Thank you for coming on. This is really valuable for us and i hope it is for the audience at home as well. Could you freeze that 6 millio, to iran. Could you do that now and whats the harm in doing it . If for nothing else, i mean, americans all over the place and in the middle east wondering why not freeze that money and second question i would have is like hamas is connected to iran so is hezbollah in the north. Why dont you think hezbollah has made a move in the first week just yet. Takerring the second question first, i think hezbollah will try to distract the israelis without getting involved in a full scale war with israel and the israelis have a lot of capacity, their military has not been significant and has not really been armed at all by the attacks that took place a few days ago. So israel has Predominant Military strength and his blah will try to hezbollah will try to distract the israelis and if the war goes on in gaza for a o prolonged period, you may see both the west bank and hezbollah becoming more trouble some for the israelis but for now, hezbollah will hold its fire and try to distract the israelis with minor attacks or distract their attention if you will. Be an all out attack by hezbollah would be a real challenge for israel simply because they have Tens Of Thousands Oval Window missiles. Im sorry, the first part of your question . Bill why not freeze the 6 billion now . I see no reason at all not to freeze the 6 billion. Im one of those that believes money is fungible and 6 billion spent on humanitarian and assistance is 6 billion they dont have to spend to allocate to military and other kinds of activities so id certainly put a freeze on that soon. Dana senator bob gates, thank you for your time. We appreciate you. Thank you. Bill if you have an idea about the geography, that last question about lebanon and hezbollah works out of beirut and Southern Lebanon and a stones throw across the border into certain towns in the northern part of israel where they fought a war there for a good two months during really hot summer, 2006 along here. Well watch this movement here this. Is the gaza strip and a little area here in the southwest along the mediterranean and west bank that has been relatively speaking now, has been somewhat and the problem for the israelis is that theres been an uprising in the west bank over the past several weeks and a lot of Israeli Soldiers that guard here down on the gaza strip moved into the west bank and made israelis and Southern Israel even more vulnerable that past weekend on saturday morning. This is the Israeli Military clearing out tens of thousands of israeli out of kibbutz and local vailages and towns villages and towns to get them out of the area and runs about 36 miles on the border here. About 8 miles down here with the border we script. We were talking with egypt and talking with the secretary about this area. This is the town of rafah, okay. It is one of two crossings in all of gaza. One on the north end and one on the zone end. Hes given work permits to come in and work a job. This is all about the idea of hamas lining the grass and give israeli leadership the idea they have changed and clearly theyve not based on action for the past week. Rafah is a concern because the israelis hit it, hit the gate and Border Crossing going into the Sinai Peninsula into egypt and the Egyptian Government says you cannot come in here. Watch this story in this town because if there is humanitarian aid and if there is a changes to perhaps even rescue hostages, rafah will come into the picture. Thats a little area that was hit the other day here and its a key Crossing Area for all gazaen into and out of the strip into egypt. Just want to share this with you. More from dana now. Dana excellent map there. Breaking news and Alexis Mcadams following that in the news room. Hi, were getting in new video and new information and alarming alert from former leader of hamas calling for day of jihad on friday telling muslims to take to the streets across the world and protest against israel. Also telling people of neighboring countries to join the fight against israel specifically, dana, asking qatar, jordan, syria, lib lebann and the egypt to stand up and fight back. He heads the space hes in qatar and posting a lot on the video tape in the past few days and telling people to head to the squares and streets of the arab and islamic world saying we declare friday, the friday of the flood as a day of general possiblyization rather and our arab and islamic worlds and among the free people of the words. Thats his statement coming in just a short time ago saying its a day to rally and support and offer aid to the people and participate actively. We see some of the areas here in new york city, day narcs with a large jewish population, largest outside of israel trying to harden up the soft targets like the synagogues and nypd going to be all coming in in full june um tomorrow because of all the protests theyre calling for. Well have to see how it all plays out here, dana. Dana a high level of concern about it, alexis, thank you. Bill Business Leadeers are calling for Harvard University to release the names of students Whose Organization signed a letter that blamed israel for the deadly attacks from hamas. Some are withdrawing their signatures and withdrawing from groups that signed it. Mollie is live from harvard today. Reporter good morning, bill. Several harvard organizations looked to retract their involvement in that joint statement initially put out blaming israel for the horrific attacks perpetrated by hamas as Business Leaders contemplate blacklisting some of those Group Members that could potentially seek employment in the future. Billionaire Hedge Fund Founder and harvard alum bill ackman asked ive been asked by a number of ceo f if harvard would release a list of the groups that signed the ledder for the heinous acts to israel so none of us inned a versus frequency taintly hire any of the members. One harvard member with family in israel described the statement as very, very hurtful and disavoixing the pro hamas protest. People are celebrating this as a victory and nothing victory yous about the beheading of children or kidnapping of young women or elderly people. Theres nothing vic torous about that and its sad and people celebrating this as resistance. Lets be clear, this isnt resistance, this is terrorism. Reporter worth noting in the wake of antiisrael statements, pro israel sentiments are also very strong here on harvards campus with posters displayed on the yard showing kidnapped israeli hostages both young and hold. Hold old. This comes as protesting palestinian groups rallied on multicampuses in support of hamas attack on israel and some referring to infiltrators as martyrs and some colleges have spoken out against the most inflammatory statements of varying degrees and the National Department of palestine organizers calling to action a day of resistance and we are monitoring potential protests on campuses across the nation. Bill, back to you. Bill thank you, molly. Molly line in cambridge, massachusetts. If youre one of the schools and you got to get it right now. If you put out the statement and let it linger for a week, cant pull it back. You have to do it now. Accident in Questioner Barywise was on on tuesday. Dana which he was very alarmed and go to her work on the free press, thats where you can find t the point about whats happening at universities, she also has two columns today in the free press but this is what she said tuesday. 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