washington d.c., calling for cease-fire of the war and for support for israel. >> i'm alicia acuna. griff: good to see you. president benjamin netanyahu. we have team coverage in rehoe bath beach and mike tobin in southern israel. let's kick it off with mike tobin on the ground. >> griff, you might have heard the artillery firing. as soon as the sun went down we saw the activity pick up out of the gaza strip. we saw a lone rocket usually where we don't see them go. usually they come out in a barrage. but the phone started-- we have rockets coming in right now. stick with us here. . griff: keeping a watch here with mike tobin and his crew. obviously, and an active situation there, artillery either outgoing or incoming, we hope he and his team are safe. we'll check back in with mike as we get that right now. alicia. >> and iran-backed terror group hezbollah, threatening to escalate in the israel-hamas war. warships entering the region will not scare us. chief national correspondent steve harrigan is in northern israel with the latest, steve. >> alicia, it's been three weeks, really, of steady cross-border fighting between hezbollah, about two miles behind me in lebanon and countering hezbollah strikes here. thousands of israelis civilians across the north have left their homes to try to get away from the near daily shelling and many of those who remain say they do so in a climate of fear. >> they always ask questions, whether hamas is going to our home or we are going to evacuate it again in another city. it's not good for everybody. >> much of the fighting has taken place within just a couple of miles of the border, at least 60 hezbollah fighters have been killed by israeli strikes over the three weeks. so far, hezbollah has constrained itself, mainly using the shorter range rockets in the fight, but its leader nasrallah said yesterday all options are on the table and depends how israel reacts in gaza and all he remain on high alert. back to you. >> steve one follow-up question. the secretary of state is in amman, jordan meeting with leaders right now. how much do you anticipate could come out of the meetings on hezbollah? >> i think there's been widespread pressure of hezbollah to stay out of this fight. i think that people were expecting a range of operations from nasrallah yesterday. would he declare major war or hold back? i think right now there's a sense of relief that nez nesrallay for now. >> and they're calling for a humanitarian pause in gaza. they're ramping up, and in delaware, the president is spending the weekend. hey, alex. we have not heard from the president here from rehoboth beach. we heard from antony blinken, he wrapped up a press conference with jordan and egypt. and calling on an immediate cease-fire, and there was something close to that, but they do not want a cease-fire and secretary of state blinken explained why. >> we're still asking for an immediate cease-fire and that israel would stop hindering the delivery of humanitarian aid. >> it's our view that cease-fire now simply would leave hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat what it did on october 7th. >> so this is essentially israel's view against a localized pause in military in gaza. and feels it only benefits hamas. and secretary blinken was in israel speaking to benjamin netanyahu yesterday. president biden was asked yesterday about getting americans out of gaza. >> president biden, your message to americans trying to get out of gaza right now, who are still trapped there? (inaudible) >> can you contain the mideast wa war? >> all right. so the war in the middle east becoming uncontained. it's a major concern for americans and a new poll out of quinnipiac university about the united states being drawn into a military conflict and in that poll, 43% reported that they're concerned 41% somewhat concerned. and 6% say they're not concerned at all and this week, fbi director christopher wray, he says the conflict in the middle east ramps up a terror attack in the united states potentially, but at least that's on a whole other level because of this conflict. remember, president biden is mid campaign right now. americans want to feel safe, griff. >> alexandria hoff live for us in rehoboth. thank you very much. >> if you were watching the beginning of the show, we were receiving a report from mike tobin on the ground in southern israel and for a moment there we understood, mike, that there were rockets going off and then you froze. can you give us an update and let us know? you seem to be okay. is everyone there okay? >> we are okay and this is a drill that gets repeated over and over again, in southern israel. you get the alarm that the rockets are coming, you move to a shelter, and you move very rapidly and in the process of moving it we messed up some of the gear. so pardon the alarm if it looked like the signal froze at once. it happens quite a bit. i don't mean to make light of it because there are deadly rockets coming when it happens. and the interceptors did their job and everybody moved to the shelter. you hear behind me the air strikes going into the northeast side of the gaza strip because the fight continues in the town, and we're talking about the fight in the center of gaza city itself. israeli forces now have gaza city surrounded. hamas seems to have hit and damaged armored vehicles in southern gaza city and the location would indicate that the israeli forces are deep into the population center of the surrounding areas of the gaza city. so, the fight should be very intense at this point. we have seen the israelis claim that they have destroyed command and control structures, tunnels, weapons left behind by hamas and of course, hamas personnel. meantime, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is in the region for some furious shuttle diplomacy trying to keep the war in the gaza strip from spilling over in the region and stopped in israel tried once again unsuccessfully to dissuade prime minister benjamin netanyahu and this time pauses so aid could get to the palestinian civilians. >> mike tobin in southern israel, glad to hear you and your crew are doing okay. we'll check with you later. thanks, griff. griff: new details emerging after a federal grand jury in houston on a palestinian man who crossed in illegally. crossing the border, arrested by ice agents in new york. >> as for the 20-year-old palestinian man who was indicted by a grand jury in houston, the criminal complaint filed upon his arrest says that he was allegedly conducting physical training with weapons to possibly commit an attack. the u.s. attorney's office in the southern districts of texas identified the suspect as an alien, illegally in the u.s., who was in possession of a .9 millimeter pistol and say, quote, he entered the united states on a non-immigrant visa which expired in 2019 and has allegedly been in direct contact with others who share a radical mindset. the fbi is investigating. now, this news comes after the federal immigration authorities october 17th announcement of the arrest of a 29-year-old man in new york city, who was wanted by authorities in senegal for criminal conspiracy in relation to a terrorist organization and acts of preparatory acts, aimed at compromising public safety or causing political troubles. now, there's also growing concerns over unknown individuals possibly slipping into the u.s. by illegally crossing the southern border. people with possibly bad intentions. a caravan of about 5,000 migrants from venezuela, central america, cuba and haiti are heading north to the southern border right now. republican house speaker mike johnson is critical of how the biden administration has tried to deal with this mounting issue. take a listen. >> when you keep the border open and you allow dangerous people to come in, you open yourselves up for that kind of chaos. we have been working with everything we have for the last nearly three years to get that border closed and secured. >> as for the foreign national arrested in new york, who was wanted in senegal for terroristic activities, he'll remain in custody without bond pending removal proceedings, griff. >> christine na coleman live for us with the details. thank you. joining me now for more on this, former acting attorney general matt whitaker. matt, you heard christina's report there and i want your reaction. are you surprised that we're getting news like this? >> not at all, griff, and it's good to be with you today. what i'm seeing, obviously, is that we have millions of people that have come into our country, whether, you know, completely illegally or whether they have filed these bogus asylum claims that are not going to be adjudicated for up to a decade. ultimately, you know, the people that want to do us harm know that we are allowing everybody to enter our country, and that is causing these situations, like you saw in houston, but what's important is that in both of these cases that were just referenced, that means that law enforcement is working and i'm just concerned that they're overwhelmed with the sheer numbers of folk that have illegally entered our country or filed bogus asylum claims, there's not enough fbi agents to do this. you've been to the border and so have i, we have to shut down this border to get operational cell and understand who is coming into the country and congress should have acted and i'm tired of politicians telling they're doing everything they can, when they're doing absolutely nothing. griff: you're right. i did spend the first part of october in eagle pass, texas and in just the 10 days i was there, matt, there were some nine iranians crossed, six syrians, three lebanese, i mean, they're coming from all over and their special interest aliens so they get more extensive vetting. in just the first two weeks of october, the entire southwest border or northern border, at least two hit the terror data, the terror watch list, if you will. that's very concerned, particularly in light of the testimony we saw this week from fbi director chris wray. i think we have a little sound about where he looks at the concern, not necessarily just from border crossers, but from anyone in this country, to carry out attacks in light of the recent situation in israel and in gaza. listen here. >> we assess that the actions of hamas and its allies, will serve as an inspiration the likes of which we haven't seen since isis launched its so-called caliphate several years ago. griff: so, add to that, in my reporting i can tell you accurately, the first 31 days of october, more than 31,000 known got-aways. meaning, they were observed, seen, or detected and not brought into custody, illegal migrants crossing between ports of entry. that's more than a thousand a day. how likely do you think, and this is a very sobering question, how likely do you think that we have potential people with national security threat, terrorist attack intentions, coming in these groups? >> we absolutely do, griff. even if it's one in a thousand or even one in 10,000, that's many, many folks that are coming here with the intention to do harm to the american people. remember, law enforcement needs to be diligent, but i think every american at this point in time is going to have to pay extra attention what's happening in their neighborhoods and their communities with these folks because again, so many, you know, potential terrorists have come in, both known that are on the watch list and those that we didn't even know were preparing for that and i think that's what this houston case really points out is that we have them amongst us right now. we need to pay attention what's going on, griff. and this administration has failed us. >> you're the former acting attorney general and your insight is important on this. my last question, i've only got like 10 seconds, but do you think that it's really more a matter of when, not if, that this country gets hit somehow? >> yeah, well, remember, law enforcement has to get it right. i would immediately pivot the fbi to address these threats is what the first thing i would do. griff: matt whitaker, warmer acting attorney general, thank you for your time. >> thank you, my friend. >> thanks, griff. back to the top story for more on the latest from israel we're joined from speakman for benjamin netanyahu. thank you for being here. fox news confirmed new york times is reporting part of the slowdown of getting some of these foreigners evacuated out of gaza is that hamas, it was discovered, was trying to sneak in hamas fighters under the guise of being wounded palestinians. what is the prime minister's response to this? >> well, we know that this method has been tried in the past by hamas. by the way, it's not only us saying it. even the palestinian authority, president abbas invoked that method in one of the previous speeches in the past. it's a known method and for that reason we're monitoring every movement and for that reason idf is targeting the terrorist movement once we lock in on them and we are-- we have evidence that they are trying to move around the gaza strip sometimes and you know, cynical uses of vehicles as ambulances, serving as taxis, in fact, for their murderous actions. so we're watching every movement. >> it makes it ever more complicated and president biden, the biden administration is calling for humanitarian pause to help get hostages out. prime minister netanyahu, as you've mentioned has rejected that. but this three-hour window today could that be interpreted that israel is willing to pause, if needed? >> well, we are willing to pause, as we said. there will be a cessation of activity as we've had in the past. i think -- oh, so we've had a cessation of activity in the past when hamas released two hostages and two more hostages and we wanted to facilitate from gaza and once they release hostages, we're waiting to see and we want to see all hostages released and we're calling on hamas to do so unconditionally and immediately, but in terms of a bigger cease-fire, it's not something that's negotiable. we said that our goal is to eliminate the hamas regime and to bring back the hostages home. >> how does israel see the distinction between a humanitarian pause and a cease-fire? >> again, a humanitarian pause is something we're willing to discuss once more hostages will be released from the gaza strip. we want to facilitate the safe exit of hostages edges once there will be something of this kind on the table. nobody than us will be more than thrilled if this happens, but it's not something we're discussing. but in terms of humanitarian aid it's something that jerusalem and washington want to see the civilian population in gaza receiving. for that reason we said that we will allow in humanitarian aid and dozens of trucks are coming in every day from the rafah border crossing for safe haven designated for the population in the south. >> as you know, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken meeting with arab leaders in jordan on the heels of his trip to israel. reporting that pushing for humanitarian pause. blinken's message accord to go one u.s. and two israeli officials is quote, we don't want to stop you, but help us help you get more time. i understand that you're limited in what you can say on meetings, is there a concern that there could be daylight peeking through between u.s. and israel. >> there's no daylight between u.s. and israel. we're in lockstep with our counterparts in terms of the goal of the operation, which is to bring back the hostages, as i said, and also to eliminate the hamas terrorist regime as a governance body. a terror military wing and terrorizing us and the population there. everyone wants to see humanitarian aid reaching the palestinian civilians and discussing, by the way, the future of gaza, the day after, future contingencies, discussed right now and we hope once hamas is eliminated this will make the population in israel way more secured, of course, and bring safety to the residents of southern israel, but also bring new opportunities for the palestinian people should they choose differently and understand that terrorism is a dead end. >> tal heinrich, thank you for being with us and providing us with this update. >> thank you. >> protesters beginning to gather in washington for a free palestine rally. we'll take you live to freedom plaza next. with 30 grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. -ahh, -here, i'll take that. woo hoo! ensure max protein 30 grams protein, one gram sugar, 25 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients for immune health. 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