do their dangerous and difficult jobs. >> dana: homeland security secretary mayokas facing tough questions in a senate hearing underway defending president biden's border policy after illegal policies have hit record highs. they want an additional $14 billion to support operations along the border including temporary detention and processing centers and money for cities to expedite work permits for non-citizens. senate republicans are calling for solutions including resuming construction of the border wall and asylum reform. a full report coming up for you later this hour. also on capitol hill the house judiciary committee is holding a hearing on free speech on america's college and university campuses along with the rise of anti-semitism and violence against students supporting israel. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. >> bill: good morning. nice to be with you. i'm bill hemmer, good morning at home. today's house hearing happens as reports of anti-semitic incidents across the country jumped sharply higher since the start of the war with hamas and israel. today's hearing features testimony from students and professors as many of these schools struggle to balance first amendment rights and campus safety. alexis mcadams has more in the newsroom in new york. let's start there a brand-new hour. >> we've seen a variety of anti-semitic things on campuses, violence against jewish students and pro-palestinian professor glorifying these attacks by hamas. many jewish students we talk to on campuses don't feel safe and the house judiciary committee looking at the current state of the first amendment at american colleges and universities. that's happening right now this morning. students and recent graduates are expected to speak what they have experienced on these campuses. this comes as protests and rallies at colleges across the united states have continued for weeks. we have oh he seen it live. large crowds of students marching on both sides. pro-palestinian groups chanting from the river to the sea. palestine will be free and pro-israel demonstrators call for hamas to release the hostages. as the war continues to rage on the tension leading to violence on many of these campuses like here at tulane university in new orleans that you are looking at. investigators say a physical fight when a palestinians student tried to light an israeli flag on fire. cornell university in new york 21-year-old patrick dye arrested by the feds after he threatened to shoot up the jewish student center and kill jewish people on that campus. many people felt unsafe then. these incidents leading the president of israel to write a letter demanding change saying free speech is of the highest value but speech promoting violence against individuals or groups and calls for the elimination of a whole country of israel are unacceptable on these campuses and the president of israel wants to see action taken. according to the anti-defamation league since the october 7th attack on israel there has been a 400% surge in -- that includes harassment, vandalism and assault and continue to see it on campuses. jewish students will speak in the hearing and they want the schools to take action immediately. >> bill: we're watching. thank you very much live here in new york city on that. >> dana: meanwhile qatar and other arab donors are pumping billions into american colleges. schools have accepted at least 8.5 billion from 1986 to 2021. that's according to the american israeli cooperative interprice. lydia lou live with the latest. >> i had a chance to speak with betsy devos this morning on this topic. she says it is likely much more foreign money is flowing into american colleges and universities undetected because universities have not complied with laws that mandate disclosure. she says this is just the tip of the iceberg. we're getting a new report from the network contagion research institute that shows more than 200 american colleges and universities withheld information on roughly $13 billion in contributions from foreign governments between 2014 and 2019. much of that coming from authoritarian countries according to the report. the country of origin for most of the undocumented foreign funds qatar. more than 2.7 billion came from qatar over five years. the country is also home to leaders of hamas. other countries from which undocumented funds flow include china. you can see here 1.2 billion. saudi arabia, a billion, uae half a billion dollars. hundreds of colleges are taking the foreign money. cornell coming in second behind carnegie-mellon seeping 1.2 billion. yale taking in half a billion. the reports author with correlation of acceptance of foreign money and on campus anti-semitism writing this. a massive influx in foreign concealed donations, much of it from authoritarian regimes with notable support from middle eastern sources reflects or supports heightened levels of intolerance toward jews, open inquiry and free expression. the report found that schools accepting money from middle eastern donors had on average about 300% more anti-semitic incidents than schools that did not. i'll send it back to you. >> dana: fascinating numbers. thank you for putting that together for us. new video just in ivanka trump is entering the courtroom now. she is there. just from a few moments ago. she has been in the courthouse for 25 minutes and now entering the courtroom. she will take the stand in the new york attorney general's $250 million civil fraud trial against the trump organization. >> bill: we'll watch that. back to the middle east and what's happening with u.s. forces, those stationed in eastern syria and iraq. this is about three weeks ago, not quite three weeks ago. you see every red dot there in syria and a few in iraq? those were the initial hits by drones and various rockets on u.s. military forces. just the 19th of october. today is the eighth of november. come to the 29th of october and see how the map changes. the dots appear more frequently throughout eastern syria and the northern part of iraq. this is today now, okay? we are talking about a series of 2 1/2 to 3 weeks. at least 40 attacks on u.s. military bases and possible the number is considerably higher. what has been the u.s. response so far? it doesn't appear to be much. hezbollah leadership is saying it's sending a message to israel, meanwhile, that there will be consequences if the conflict expands with hamas. what happens now? alex hogan live in northern israel to bring us up to date on that. hello. >> hi, bill. we've seen three rocket attacks from hezbollah here to israel today and as many as two israeli soldiers have been wounded. you spent a lot of time here but to set the stage for viewers to give you context. we're in the northern tip of israel. the hillside behind me on the border, other side of that is lebanon. we're also just on the borders of syria and of jordan. a lot of these small northern towns have been either completely or partially evacuated. civilians have been replaced by soldiers, large settings of military presences here. and in lebanon civilians are also starting to evacuate some of those border towns as well. the idf says in the last 24 hours its forces have taken out targets like anti-tank positions, this video is an overnight israeli strike in lebanon after hezbollah fired more than a dozen rockets at this region alone yesterday. major protests across the border in lebanon after officials an israeli woman killed a woman and three granddaughters. a senior advisor to president joe biden travel to beirut urging caution and restoring calm here is of the utmost importance. >> united states does not want to see conflict escalating and expanding into lebanon. >> unlike what we're seeing in southern israel by hamas, the rockets that are being fired here are much larger. they are shorter range but they do have an explosive head. when they are sent here, the damage is much, much bigger. and because of the proximity of where we are when sirens sound off there are only ten seconds before impact. >> bill: let's keep it peaceful as much as we can. alex hogan near the border with lebanon. >> dana: the head of the f.b.i. updating a house intel committee on the recent spike in terrorist threats against the u.s. following the hamas attack on israel. he warned the risk of a terrorist attack on u.s. soil is at its greatest level in a decade. mike turner is chairman of the house intelligence committee and people are very concerned about this especially when the southern border has been open for so long. we know about all the gotaways, but we also know that over 170 people on the terror watch list have been caught this fiscal year alone. do you believe that the administration has a good handle on this in order to keep americans safe? >> absolutely not. director wray is doing a great job in trying to respond to the increased threats and get the word out. he appeared before the senate last week indicating that the terrorist threat was the highest in a decade. yesterday he briefed members of my committee the intelligence committee in the house. what he said is there are individuals who are affiliated with international terrorist groups and organizations that are here that pose a risk for attacks in the united states. he also cited lone wolf potentials of people sympathetic with hamas, hezbollah and isis but these organizations and groups are calling for attacks. he did specifically cite that the border situation itself the open border people are coming across represent a national security threat. that has not been controlled and that those individuals are not located within the united states pose a risk and threat for international terrorist organizations and attacks right here in the united states. >> bill: so, sir, we listened to fwo brothers yesterday. they have a family member held hostage. i will quote him. a wake-up call not only for israel but for the united states and for israel. he said you are next. we got it? okay. hang on one second, sir. we have it queued up. we'll roll it now from yesterday. >> this is a wake-up call not only for israel, not only for the jewish community, this is a wake-up call for all of you here, all of america, all of europe. you are next. you are next. >> bill: is he right? >> bill, certainly the threat is the highest that it has ever been. when we around 9/11 our problem was our intelligence communities weren't communicating. we didn't see the threat. after 9/11 we put in place counter terrorism efforts. had our intelligence communities tracking and communicating among each other. what we have today, though, because our border is open, so many people who are a national security threat have come into the country that it's really almost impossible for everyone to be tracked and all the threats to be followed. director wray is doubling his efforts with the f.b.i. and working with homeland security trying to track down the people to thwart efforts to execute an attack. the risk is high especially with what hamas has done in israel and conflict that's going on there. the outrageous attack that occurred really has spurred, i think, an unbelievable level of hate and calling for attacks in both europe and the united states. >> dana: are they able to keep up with social media posts that are -- there are so many of them and we know that's where a lot of this anti-semitism is flourishing. if you post one video on tiktok that gets a lot of like, the likelihood of you posting another one goes up. there is so much of it out there. are they able to get a handle on the bad stuff? >> they attempt to track those that represent a threat. as you just pointed out it is difficult because of the volume and really the prevalence today of this hateful and threatening speech that is occurring online. the other aspect is we have people here in this country who came illegal who represent a national security threat. just trying to track them down and understand what they are doing and thwart their efforts to hurt people in the united states, to undertake a threat in the united states, that's where they are really struggling. >> bill: what wray said the f.b.i. has quote multiple ongoing investigations into people affiliated with hamas. so it's on. >> absolutely. >> bill: and where it pops up is something we await. thank you for your time. mike turner, republican from ohio. thank you. on this note now, dana. heavily armed rival drug cartels fighting each other over control of our u.s. southern border. wide open for 2 1/2 years. we'll take you to the most dangerous area in the u.s. in minutes. >> dana: a graphic video showing atrocities committed by hamas during the surprise attack on israel and she is facing backlash. is she about to be canceled by hollywood? >> bill: president biden facing pressure to drop out of the race in 2024. what some prominent democrats 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rich edson is live with the latest. >> this all ties in here governor youngkin tried to hold the house, flip the senate. they did neither. a few hours ahead of polls closing youngkin told us the issues would carry over into next year and on to the 2024 presidential election. that's the point democrats are making. >> i think that we are going to continue to take advantage of republicans being extremely out of step with the american public when it comes to these issues. we also saw glenn youngkin in virginia campaign against the president's economic agenda. fell flat on its face. these are things the american voters are paying attention to. >> youngkin and republicans focused on public safety, education and pledged to pass limit on abortion after 15 weeks. what youngkin called a reasonable compromise. democrats hammered that issue. after the election the national organization responsible for electing statewide democrats said of the new democratic majorities that this new era of leadership in virginia will insure that abortion remains legal and that republicans maga agenda is stopped in its tracks. youngkin personally campaigned in the closest districts across the state. political director tweeted last night we hoped for a stronger outcome this evening but proud of the effort all of our candidates put into these extremely competitive districts. we're waiting to hear from governor youngkin himself today as he now faces a democratic senate and house and questions over his agenda and national political future. dana. >> dana: everyone is thinking about that future, too. >> bill: get analysis now. an aei scholar and mark penn also with me. you just wrote a book called where have all the democrats gone? after last night was that pre-mature? >> well, where have all the democrats gone would not be a problem for the democrats if all elections were relatively low turnout elections that hinged on abortion rights and election denial. for them i don't think that's the case. i do think these results do underscore the potency of the abortion rights issue. the democrats could run abortion rights against trump in 2024. they probably do very well indeed. >> bill: mark, how do you see the results of last night? sometimes you need to take a step back and wait for the weekend and go home and think about it. or have you already made up your mind, mark? >> well look, i don't think the results were a surprise but i think the surprise was that republicans didn't romp and democrats held their own. when you look at the national polls now republicans are doing really well in the national polls on key issues. i think there is an issue not abortion rights, not marijuana, it is personal freedom. i think democrats now have gotten on the right side of personal freedom which people of all ages, i think, more or less agree with and this is going to be a potent issue. personal freedom trumps inflation and immigration. >> bill: like don't take it away from me, right? it's kind of what you are saying. you all have seen "the new york times" poll from over the weekend and everybody was saying the house was falling until today. amazing how things change. call for one, trump leading in five of the battleground states that they looked at. it's pretty interesting, right? nevada, georgia, michigan, arizona, pennsylvania, biden up two in that poll in wisconsin. karine jean-pierre