downtown to testify on the stand himself in his civil fraud trial 10:00 a.m. eastern awaiting that departure at trump tower. there is a possibility we'll hear from the president before he goes inside the courtroom. we'll cover that as it develops. first, however, democrats at each other's throats on israel. america's support for the war fracturing that party. hope your weekend was joyous. i'm bill hemmer live in new york city. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." congratulations on the bengals. >> you have a lovely outfit on today. >> dana: compliments are out of the way. a growing number of democrats oppose president biden's support for the israeli war effort. you can see it in the polling. infighting is even spreading to the president's own re-election campaign. >> bill: also dividing the democratic base. look at this scene in washington, d.c. on saturday. thousands of pro-palestinian protestors flooding the capital wanting the u.s. to pull funding out of israel. they vandalized the white house gates with blood red hand prints. we understand those prints are still there as of this morning, dana. >> dana: that progressive anger is bad news for the president's re-election effort. a new poll shows him losing to former president trump in five ahead of the six swing states. team fox coverage. trey yengst, alexis mcadams. and peter doocy at the white house, hi, peter. >> progressives are concerned that president biden cannot afford to lose key constituents which appears to be happening just because he is so strongly supporting israel's military operation. >> this is the first time that i have felt like the 2024 election is in great trouble for the president. and for our democratic control. which is essential to moving forward because these young people muslim and arab americans but also young people see this conflict as a moral conflict and a moral crisis. and they are not going to be brought back to the table easily with -- if we do not address this. >> there are people working for the biden re-election campaign upset with the president's backing of israel. a high ranking dnc official who asked not to be identified told ox yosemite the president's the battle for the soul of the nation. it seems as though the administration is currently in a battle for its own soul. there were thousands of protestors over the weekend on pennsylvania avenue. they had this message for the president. >> so frankly we'll appalled by the administration's response. >> we need more support from our politicians and president to stop the support for idf and israel support. >> in his younger days he said i'm a zionist. united nations declared it is a racist movement. when the president of the united states is -- >> president biden wasn't home. he was in delaware where he was very briefly talking about talking the israelis into a break in the fighting. >> mr. president, any progress of humanitarian pause? >> president biden: yes. >> president biden's day includes a bidenomics event in delaware before he jets back to the white house after a weekend at the beach. dana. >> dana: peter doocy. thanks. >> bill: harvard aloam and hedge fund manager bill actman, a lot of influence on money and policy on wall street calling for action against anti-semitism in an open letter to that university's president. he says the situation on campus is dire and getting worse. alexis mcadams live in new york city for a follow-up now. what do you say, alexis? >> good morning. a pretty long letter he penned over to the president of harvard university. didn't mince words. he blamed harvard's president for the rise of anti-semitism on campus saying students should be suspended if they continue to take part in anti-semitic events. take a look here. this is a piece of that letter as we talked about from the hedge fund billionaire and harvard alumni. jewish students are being bullied, spat on and in several widely disseminated videos physically assaulted. message boards are replete with anti-semitism. he is not the only anumb neu speaking up. dozens sent a petition called the $1 pledge. they feel the university has lost its way here and has had an inadequate response to the october 7th hamas attacks on israel saying we sign this pledge committing to donate $1 and no more to this university for the foreseeable future not in anger but sadness and hope. >> just last week that incident caught on camera at harvard. a jewish student was harassed by a group of pro-palestinian protestors there. the incident reported to the f.b.i. over the weekend. harvard's presidents released this statement saying harvard won't tolerate any activity that violates the safety of our community members. not just harvard. we have seen the incidents pop up across the country on different college campuses. flied at the university of massachusetts amherst tea was arrested after he spat on an israeli flag and punch a jewish student. that's when that went down. a lot of concern over that, too, bill. >> bill: nice to see you here in new york city. thank you. >> dana: our next guest is a special one. he hears echoes of the past he says in the denial of the terror attack on israel. he is the son of a holocaust survivor. could we begin with a message from your father that we took from 1986 during his nobel peace prize speech. let's listen here. >> we must take sides for neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. silence encourages the torment or not the tormented. sometimes we must interfere. when human lives are in danger, when human dignity is in jeopardy. >> dana: that was 1986 and now you find yourself in -- you are in a leadership position to try to help us understand this moment and to encourage people to do the right thing. >> thank you so much for having me on the show. i chose to write an op-ed in usa today last week bringing to light what my father had written about and encouraging students to ask critical questions about what my father related in the book the unbelievable terrors of the nazi regime inflicted upon the jewish people and to understand there were lies circulating on college campuses about the nature of what is happening in israel. i encourage that critical thinking. my father believed in students. he was an educator. i want them to study. for school districts that about been knight and say why did we do that? let's put that back into the curriculum. the messages are key. i want students to study not only my father's words in night i want them to study his actions. he stood by israel. he believed that israel was the only guarantee against a second holocaust ever occurring and believed in peace for the palestinians in 2006 asking them to pursue the goal of piece. >> bill: night is the famous book he wrote. some of the questions you posed are this. when you chant that palestinian should be free from the river to the sea. what does that mean? you ask what happened after israel got out of gaza in 2005? what's the stated gol of hamas and others. why are these questions so important to answer now? >> the questions are important because facts matter. and you know, to go through life and simply take what you see in a tiktok video or instagram and say oh my god, people are suffering. israel has dropped bombs, therefore israel must be evil is such intellectual shorthand that students deserve better. they deserve better from their teachers and from themselves and their parents and we're encouraging critical thinking to occur in university campuses. >> bill: you cannot get critical thinking by watching a 30-second clip. >> impossible. you have to read a book. that's why put "night". everybody needs to read and learn the history of the region. understand that israel, when it was founded in 1948, was ready to have a second palestinian state alongside it. understand that israel at many times throughout its life has offered the olive branch, offered peace and unfortunately arafat and then abbas turned down deals that would have had 95% of everything that palestinians were asking for. in 2005 when the decision was made to withdraw from gaza, the palestinians in gaza chose to give hamas a majority. they ran on an anti-israel platform to destroy israel and to destroy the josh people and when they did that hamas did a cue and all of a sudden fired rockets for the next 20 years in israel. a lot of facts that need to be absorbed. >> dana: what was the stated reason that people gave for taking "night" off the shelves? >> i don't know. i understand that various school districts where parents have a strong voice decided it was a maturity question. were there students ready to read it? i realize there are many shocking things. terrors in there it is hard to read and stomach. unfortunately i think students need to realize it. it is happening right now. >> dana: rashida tlaib over the weekend said from the river to the sea she is saying it is benign. it just means that the palestinian people really struggle for free development that's it. trying to blow it off. can they get away with that? >> you can't blow it off that easily. to understand the nature of what has happened in israel and surrounding areas you have to understand if you look at all the arab countries in the region and say look, israel has a 20% israeli/arab populations, you will find it's not the case. when the jews have been reduced to a term in islam and reduced to being second class citizens it was brutal for them. all jews had to flee. the concept of there not being a state of israel between the river to the sea, one where the jewish people can thrive and seek their own destiny is unfortunately we know what happens to the jewish people under those circumstances. >> bill: anti-semitism up 398% in the united states. that figure can't stand, to be fair and to be free, that number cannot exist. dana had the honor of meeting your father when she worked at the white house. i had the honor of meeting him in the old city of jerusalem at the holocaust memorial. a remarkable man. thank you for coming in here today. >> thank you so much. pleasure to see you both. >> bill: good luck to you. we have this now on the docket. his sons eric and don junior testified last week. after watching from the sidelines the former president will be today's star witness and there he goes down the east river. taking the stand at his own civil fraud trial. the motorcade on the move and we watch it closely. more coming up in minutes. >> dana: plus a show of military force overseas. the pentagon revealing the position of a nuclear-powered submarine as the u.s. tries to avoid a broader conflict in the middle east. and this. >> bill: this was an active weekend in the gaza strip. the israeli military tightened its net around hamas ramping up the counter offensive. trey yengst is on the ground. general jack keane has military analysis. both are coming up next. >> after world war ii did anybody ask us 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israeli military completely surrounding gaza city. dividing the hamas-controlled territory in two. trey yengst is live in the southern part of israel with the latest. >> breaking news here as we speak sirens are sounding in northern israel. indication the lebanese militant group hezbollah is getting involved in the fight. along the southern front we're watching throughout the day israelis are using artillery units to support infantry troops inside the strip. i will step out of the frame and see the level of destruction in the northern part of gaza. despite the fact israelis have been operating here for more than a week you can see the smoke rising up from air strikes conducted against different hamas positions despite the fact israeli military tells us they believe most of the 241 hostages are being held in the tunnels beneath the northern part of gaza, they are still hitting the tunnels trying to get as many hamas militants as possible. the video we captured along the border last night huge explosions lighting up the sky. israelis using bunker buster bombs trying to get to underground positions. it all comes after fox news was granted an inbed to get a firsthand look at the battles that are ongoing between the israelis and hamas. take a look. you can hear the gunfire in the distance. israelis are trying to engage anyone who tries to ambush their forces and the battle is street by street. it is urban guerilla warfare as they are ambushing israeli troops. we're embedded inside the gaza strip. they've been ambushed and shot at and lost more than two dozen soldiers. bloody urban battle. guerilla fighters trying to kill as many israelis as they can popping out of tunnels. look at this video here. it was released by hamas from the same day in the same neighborhood. as we were embedded with the israelis they were engaging these militants. you can see by this video they are using rounds from rpgs specifically designed to penetrate armor. even having apcs and heavy equipment the israeli forces aren't safe as they push deeper into the gaza strip. the jordanians dropped aid into gaza could order naivetyed with israel trying to get support to palestinians inside the gaza strip. all of this taking place as just seconds ago we got another development out of jerusalem. dana. we have learned that a border police officer who was stabbed this morning in jerusalem during a terror attack has died. another front opening up not only in the north, the south, but also in the city of jerusalem, an attack this morning. >> dana: thank you for all of the updates, breaking news. stay safe. >> bill: let's bring in general jack keane now. good morning. thank you for your time. a lot to cover here and try to get inasmuch as we can. want to show you video evidence that israeli defense forces made public. this was made public on sunday. they believe what it shows, general, is hough this tunnel right there on the ground circled in red leads underneath a hospital. what they're up against when it comes to civilian targets. i want you to comment on that and i want you to tell me in your view does hamas think they are doing well in this battle right now? and do you think they are doing well thus far? or are they on the brink of elimination? >> well first of all there is no doubt they weaponize civilian structures, hospitals, schools, mosques to shield themselves from israeli attacks. they have done this from their inception and their sophistication has likely increased with 300 miles estimated of tunnels that are underneath these facilities. when you look at hamas and where they think they are, a couple of things. they will use the hostages, one to get a cease-fire and two, to get all the israelis out of gaza. they want to fight again and they are using the hostages certainly to protect the lives of their leadership and use them also to protect a lot of their infrastructure. remains to be seen what will happen as a result of those negotiations. that's likely their aims. when they conducted the attack they focused on civilians, bill. the reason, they wanted to undermine the people's confidence in their leadership and ability to protect them. they accomplished that. number two they wanted a violent response. this is sinister and diabolical to think this way but this is the way they think. they wanted the casualties that we are seeing taking place now because of the israeli response despite their attempt to protect civilian casualties, hamas has held in place hundreds of thousands of people refusing to permit them to go because they want them to become casualties. and why? you can see it. they want widespread international condemnation of israel. and that is taking place. it has exceeded anything we've seen in the past. they also want israel to be isolated geo politically and weakened on the world stage. remains to be seen whether that takes place or not. they want to stop the normallyization of relationships with the arabs and israelis. that will be delayed but hopefully it will not end. i think they want to form a political collapse inside of israel with the government because of a loss of confidence of what took place and also how the entire international community is beginning to isolate them. those are some of the strategic goals i think hamas is attempting to achieve. they have obviously achieved some of them. they did not do this operation so the israelis could come in and exterminate them. they will do everything they can to prevent that from happening because hamas always wants to reattack again. they are use those hostages, i think, as a guarantor that will likely happen. there is a lot to take place in front of us. it will take months to work through those tunnel complexes, i believe, to get to a point where you are even close to taking -- dismantling this organization. at that time they will likely play the hostage card. >> bill: let me try to squeeze in a few morehead lines. trey yengst says most of the hostages are still in the same