their community members. but it's not just harvard, right. on friday night, amherst, a student was arrested after he punched a jewish student and spat on the flag. and nyu and columbia, jewish students don't feel safe. >> sandra: seems it's happening every day and continued reaction to it. thank you. >> thank you. >> we have made it clear we are going to continue to support israel against a brutal terrorist organization. we all need to remember who they are fighting, and they are fighting hamas and this is a group that literally para glided in on the 7th of october and started massacring and slaughtering innocent people in their homes, and at a music festival. >> john: national security council spokesman john kirby reiterating president biden's support for israel's eradicating hamas, protests are arriving on president biden's front door. john roberts here in washington, start off another week of war, sandra. >> sandra: more breaking news. sandra smith in new york. president spoke to the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu that happened earlier today. they discussed the potential for "tactical pauses" in the idf ground invasion to wipe out hamas. >> john: on capitol hill, attention turning to iran. a group of senators will have a resolution to warn tehran it will face consequences if they activate hezbollah. >> sandra: fox team coverage from across the war zone in israel. steve, rocket sirens sounding off all day. >> john: first alex hogan live in southern israel. what changes in the gaza strip the last few hours. >> continuing to hear the sound of artillery in the north by the northern strip of gaza but the south the rafah crossing was closed over the weekend, it has now reopened for egyptians and foreigners hoping to flee. united nations says it's a humanitarian nightmare, 720,000 people are sleeping in 150 u.n. shelters. the health ministry in gaza, run by hamas, claims more than 10,000 palestinians have been killed. the numbers are not verifiable, but idf is calling on civilians to head south as the forces press on in the north by land, air and sea. israeli fighter jets struck 450 targets, but the unprecedented war the biggest challenge. >> hamas has the art of tunnel warfare and unprecedented level and has to do with they have been working on the network of tunnels 20 years, finding out new ways to exploit whatever knowledge and know how it has of tunnel warfare. >> this professor said the tunnels are often fortified of cement, levels, small rooms, some feature metal doors, so even if the idf does clear secure an area, still the threat hamas would be able to ambush them from behind. expected 300 miles of these tunnels that hamas has built. to put that in context, the distance from boston to philadelphia. a tunnel just that long. so the concern of course in israel is could hamas build tunnels all the way here. john, sandra. >> john: they call it the metro under gaza. alexis, appreciate it. sandra. >> sandra: continuing coverage in northern israel, threats are rising from iran's largest proxy group, hezbollah, warning idf it will pay for retaliatory strikes against the lebanon border. sirens ring out across israel and troops prepare for escalation. steve is live on the ground in northern israel. steve, what happens there when the sirens go off? >> sandra, because this location is so close to the border with lebanon, when the sirens go off, you have just 15 seconds to get to shelter. so, most people keep their keys, their phones, their shoes ready and some people even in their vehicles, get out of the cars and head to a nearby building to try and get some shelter when the sirens ring out. at least 30 missiles today were fired during a one-hour period from lebanon into northern israel. leader of israel has boasted this cross border fighting is keeping elite israeli forces occupied while they are trying to fight hamas at the same time. israel officials say they prefer not to fight a two-front war, they are prepared to do so if necessary. >> i can tell hezbollah in the north israel is mobilized, watching, and if they are foolish enough, crazy enough to start a war, we are ready to respond. >> for most of the past month the cross border fighting has pretty much been within two miles from the border. but today, many missiles fired went as far as 25 miles, all the way to the suburbs of haifa. the longest since they fought a war with hezbollah in 2006. >> sandra: steve, thank you. john. >> john: alaska republican senator dan sullivan, thanks for being with us, appreciate it. the big fight in the senate is over funding for israel, a stand alone bill for 14. billion something for israel. and so what going to happen in the senate? schumer and other democrats and even some republicans like lindsey graham are saying no, funding for ukraine has to be in there. what should happen? >> look, i think the house, that was a good start. it was a strong bill with regard to israel. the key from my perspective, john, to make sure we are addressing all the national security challenges, what i call the new air of authoritarian aggression. ayatollahs in iran, all working together, interconnected. so the strategy has to be as well. four pillars i think are the key and when you get bipartisan support, israel of course, ukraine, indo-pacific and taiwan in particular and here is the key. the border, the border, that is the lynch pin. i was over at the white house and told jake sullivan, you have to have policy changes on the border, that is a national security threat and a huge way, and if you don't have serious policy changes on the border to stop the invasion of our southern border, you are probably not going to get a lot of republican support. >> john: i think it all needs to be lumped together, not stand alone for israel? >> look, schumer is not going to bring up a stand alone for israel. so the key is bringing together these different pillars and then also a taiwan pillar as well. you know, one of the things the administration put forward a pretty weak taiwan package. i'm hearing it's because they don't want to ruin the mood music when xi jinping visits president biden next month, or actually this month in the united states. we need to have a really strong package with new armaments, but i think the four pillars with the border as the lynch pin, i think that's the key. >> john: we have a tremendous amount of fire power, two carrier battle groups, pentagon released a photo of a boomer submarine in the suez canal. the location of the submarines is usually the highest top secret classified information we have. here is a picture of it transiting. you wonder about military readiness and brought to the fore because alabama senator tommy tuberville because of abortion funding for travelling in the military is holding back. >> we have a dangerous world. a really dangerous world. right now. and to say oh, don't worry, this isn't impacting readiness -- with all due respect to my colleague, that's just wrong. it's not even a close call. >> john: it's really interesting a lot of republicans, including you, are saying to tuberville, what are you doing here? >> a number of veterans came on the flow, i'm against the biden department of defense policy, i worked for senator tuberville for months on this. right now what he's doing is the wrong timing and wrong target. like i said, timing as you just mentioned, we have a very dangerous world right now and his hold is not -- is impacting close to 400 military uniform one star, two star, three star, four star generals. i say let's put a hold on the civilians who make the policy and john it's the wrong target. these are the warriors who have been fighting wars the last 30 years, deploying. the first guy i tried to bring to the floor wednesday night, silver star recipient, purple heart recipient, colonel to brigadier general, it makes no sense. they don't have the power to change the policy, they have nothing to do with it. we need those warriors on the field and this is personal me to me. i'm a colonel in the marines, my peer group, great warriors, we shouldn't be punishing them, not only undermining readiness, it's undermining morale. >> john: no sign he's going to back down. can you convince him? >> we'll see. i still have open channels with senator tuberville, a friend of mine, a colleague, we went at it wednesday night, i feel so personally committed to this, we are going to keep working it. issue of readiness today and the strategic risk to the force. what i'm starting to here is our general officer corps saying 30 years in, seven deployments, i'm going to get out. if we start driving our best flag officers out of the military, this is going to be viewed as a national security suicide mission. >> john: senator, thank you for dropping by. >> sandra: a quick look at the courthouse, former president donald trump you see returning to the courtroom where he will again take the stand here in new york city after a brief break. he'll return to the stand in his new york civil fraud trial and john, all of this after just a few moments before the president entered back into the room. we saw the new york attorney general, letitia james, also returned and arriving there every day. the president is back in the courtroom. >> john: as we were hearing from andy mccarthy, has all the signs of more of a political event than a legal event, despite the fact the judge admonished the former president for making a political speech in his courtroom. when you have an elected democratic judge and elected democratic attorney general who did campaign on a platform of getting president trump because the receipts out there on the video and statements, whatever, that's what she said, despite the fact she tried to walk away from that you have to wonder how much is political and how much is legal. we are told the former president will be talking after court wraps up about 4:30 this afternoon. >> sandra: and the former president's lawyer speaking outside the courthouse in the last hour. said the judge has clear issues with the facts. said her client has done nothing wrong, called what's happening in that courtroom third world stuff. we'll see what happens in the next couple hours. we will certainly keep our viewers posted and we are going to take a quick break and right back with our coverage. ♪ my name is josh sanabria and i am the owner at isla veterinary boutique hospital. i was 5...6 years of age and i knew i was going to be a vet. once alexandra called me to let me know that bank of america had approved my loan... it was important to me. we not only just provide the financing piece, we do everything that we can to surround them with the right people. all you need is a perfect, amazing team that will guide you through the right steps to be successful. and that's what bank of america was for me. 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and the only thing they want are facts that are bad for trump. that's why he's silencing him, telling him short answers, my client has done nothing wrong. his answers should be full and if they try to silence him we'll deal with it on appeal. frankly, i never thought she would bring the case, once you see the actual values, there is no there there. >> sandra: that was alina habba, said the judge has a clear issue with the facts in the courtroom, john. said her client has done nothing wrong, called it third world stuff in there, she said the judge is unhinged, slammed the table and yelled at her and her legal team, the judge admonished the former president said it's not a political rally and demanded his lawyers control him. >> john: she held nothing back in that news conference and we are going to hear from president when the things wrap up this afternoon before he heads down to mar-a-lago, 4:30, 4:45 or so. i expect he'll have a few things to say as well. as kerri kupec was pointing out, the research team have searched through the record and never a case like this brought in new york. >> sandra: it is something. we will bring you the news from the courthouse as it happens. >> the violence of the oppressor is far, far more and intense and ethnic cleansing is taking place under our eyes. i am not going to condemn hamas. >> john: thousands of people marching through washington to demand a ceasefire in gaza and pressure president biden to end all aid to israel. some even accuse the president of supporting palestinian genocide, vandalized the white house gates and left red bloody handprints. still visible this morning. jacqui heinrich on the north lawn, with exception of the lawn equipment, quieter today. >> a little quieter, at least one of those is a pressure washer to get the fake bloody handprints off the north lawn, the press entrance we use. it's not just protestors supporting the president of supporting genocide, coming from congresswoman rashida tlaib. she whipped up outrage online posting a clip that said we will remember in 2024, it had a montage of protest clips and words on screen reading joe biden supported the genocide of the palestinian people. the american people won't forget. biden support a ceasefire now or don't count on us in 2024. and apparently mounting anxiety in the president's re-election campaign also over his backing of israel. a high ranking official saying the president focused 2020 campaign on the battle for the soul of the nation but seems the administration is in a battle for its own soul. deputy national security adviser acknowledged this but held firm in comments this weekend. >> we respect the fact there are people who have deep personal ties to this conflict in a way that may be unusual in terms of recent world events. all of that said, some of the characterizations and the terms used we believe have technical definitions, historical resonance and weight, and that we do not accept their application to this particular war. >> new poll this weekend might make it harder to shrug off. biden loses to trump in five swing states, and abc news poll, three-quarters of americans think the country is heading in the wrong direction. former obama adviser david axle rod went so far to say that he should drop out of the race. >> john: remarkable tweets by axlerod, no question about that. jacqui, we will let you get back inside. i don't know if you saw his tweets today, he put out the "new york times" poll as well, but axlerod saying, you know, it's up to joe biden whether this is about the country or whether it's about him. that was pretty extraordinary. >> sandra: it could be a defining moment. update to the situation at the white house, john, phil wagman has posted pictures moments ago with black curtains now covering the graffiti of the anti-israel protests at the national park services. so this is at the gates of the white house, the pictures we are showing you earlier provided by griff jenkins. black curtains are now covering those. there has been some update to that. all right, meanwhile president biden talking up policies at amtrak station in delaware. but polls show voters are not buying bidenomics. poll shows trump with a substantial lead over biden. robert wolf, now funder and ceo of 32 advisers. bill mcgurn also joining us, wall street journal editorial board and former speech writer for bush 43. welcome, glad to have you both here. how big of a moment is this for the current president? >> you and i have been speaking about polls for a decade. we know they are not predictive, otherwise we would have president hillary clinton twice and president rick perry once and that did not happen. polls are instructive. it is clear there are things this president has to do and make sure his narrative on the economy like he's doing on infrastructure and rail gets out there. there's two book ends into a campaign. national security and i stand both with ukraine and israel, and the economy and happy to debate anyone on the economy. the issue is people don't believe it right now. >> sandra: is it they don't believe it or feel -- >> both, both. >> sandra: and i would be happy to debate you any day. a lot of metrics ignored that are really important. this is going to factor into all of this, right, bill. this is david axlerod, your thoughts on biden's issues, listen here. >> the issue is not for him is not political, it's actuarial and you can see that in this poll. a lot of concern about the age issue. just has to ask himself, is -- is this the best path. i suspect that he will say yes. but time is fleeting here. >> sandra: but it is ultimately up to him, bill. how big of a moment is this for democrats? >> i think it's a big moment. i agree with david axelrod. former president himself this weekend appeared to undermine with attacks on biden's israel policy, saying nobody has clean hands. so i don't think joe biden is inclined to go along with what they say. on the economy, i think the problem the democrats have, i agree with robert, people don't believe him. but there is an implicit message from the democrats to voters saying if you were smart enough, you would realize that you really are benefitting from bidenomics. then they go to the a and p or some, the local su