for targeting american troops. is tehran getting the message? is the message from us strong enough as we say good morning. a big two hours coming your way. i'm bill hemmer in new york. >> dana: can you hear me now, iran? i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." we have a big show for you today. united states bombing a weapons warehouse in eastern syria last night. the second time the u.s. struck iranian proxies in the past two weeks. here is what john kirby said just this morning. >> we are sending a strong signal to the revolutionary guard corps and tehran. we'll do what we have to do to protect our troops and forces. >> bill: the strike was in response to a flurry of attacks on u.s. bases over the past 2 1/2 weeks. the bombings have injured more than 40 americans stationed overseas. sources say it is dumb luck that no one has been killed yet. >> dana: those attacks started after the bombing of a gaza hospital october 17th. israel denied responsibility for that deadly blast. u.s. intelligence agrees saying it was likely a palestinian misfire. >> bill: mike pompeo has reaction. mike tobin in southern israel. let's start at the pentagon with jennifer griffin to kick off your morning today. what do we know? >> after more than 41 attacks on u.s. bases and the downing of a u.s. drone over the red sea yesterday off the coast of yemen the u.s. military finally struck. this time a pair of american f-15 fighter jets bombed a weapons storage facility in eastern syria where iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps stores weapons used to target u.s. troops and bases. according to a military official what we blew up inside were bad things. it could have been rockets, drones, could have been artillery shells. certainly whatever it was is being used against our forces. u.s. officials may not rule out there may have been iranians at the facility and some may have been killed. a slightest calation. iran and its proxies did not stop attacks after the u.s. carried out a pair of air strikes in syria october 26th. defense officials said they ramped up the defense of the bases sending patriot missiles and other capabilities to u.s. bases in iraq and syria after 46 u.s. service members were injured with concussions and two cases of traumatic brain injury after an initial two days of strikes in mid october. a senior u.s. military official indicated there is a recovery effort for the m29 drone shot down over the red sea by houthis in yemen. a $32 million unmanned surveillance aircraft that uses cameras, sensors and radar to collect intelligence. the houthis have used surface to aramis ills relallsed the footage of the downing. pentagon is pressed over and over why it was not responding immediately to attacks on u.s. bases to send a stronger deterrent message. >> we don't necessarily have to be tit-for-tat every single time. we're strategic about when we decide to take kinetic action. >> the u.s. has not responded yet to the houthi downing of one of its prized drones. >> bill: more to come on this. leading our coverage at the pentagon. thanks. >> dana: let's get to mike tobin on the ground in southern israel this morning. hi, mike. >> there have been meetings in doha, qatar and the prime minister. the sub creaked of their discussion is a potential of a pause in fighting for as long as three days in exchange for hostage release. discussions could also involve some food, water, aid and even fuel going into the gaza strip. the israeli leadership has been unified with the message there will not be a cease-fire unless hostages are released. the offensive presses on and from that you get this very large and sad exodus of palestinians walking on foot from the northern end of the gaza strip to the south. you see images of donkey carts and people pushing wheelchairs. some 50,000 people made the march yesterday. 15,000, 5,002,000 sunday. they are left with lousy conditions. nowhere for them to stay and not a lot of availability of food. israel presses the invasion going house to house and street to street claiming to have found a weapons storage facility with drones and missiles right next to a little girl's bedroom and using it as an example of hamas using the civilian population as shields as this war goes on. the conflicts are not limited to gaza. west bank town eight palestinians were killed in a clash involving drone strikes and ground forces. 38 israeli soldiers have been killed since israeli forces went into gaza on the ground. dana. >> dana: mike tobin, thank you. >> bill: mike pompeo fox news contributor, former secretary of state. let's talk about this hit on a warehouse in eastern syria. admiral kirby from the white house yesterday called it a strong signal directed at iran. do you strong signal. a hit at night with no one there? >> my experience is this is anything but a strong response. you lay it against the context of 40 plus strikes that were attacking american soldiers and civilians inside these countries and we go after a munitions dump. put that against the context of trying to restrain the israelis, making every excuse for iran refusing to say it was iran that killed 1400 people. that combination of things is sending a message to tehran the green light is still on and we will not have achieved deterrents. i hope i'm wrong. i hope they cease their actions. you saw what happened with the houthis. the group in yemen that this administration said no, the aren't terrorists. those non-terrorists took down a $30 million american aircraft. how about announcing today turns out the trump administration was right. the houthis are terrorists. part of the iranian effort to undermine the nation of israel and america. >> dana: in trying to look at this from all sides and wondering what the biden administration is thinking, is there prudence in trying to take this a little more slowly so that there is not a full scale escalation that we might not be ready for? >> dana, of course the effort is -- the goal is exactly that. de-escalate and deter. but we've lost the handle on that, dana. i lived this, too. we had artillery being fired at in baghdad and tried to deter the iranians. in the end we had to take a serious response. took out the number two official, general soleimani, we reestablished the deterrence we lost. when you get deterrence it is only for a time. it will require a much more serious concerted effort. not just a kinetic effort but diplomatic, economic. today they'll ship 3 million barrels of crude oil and receive cash today as we sit here. these are the kind of things the iranian regime laughs and said we can continue to go after americans and israelis, the united states is not prepared to do its part in deterring our aggression by imposing costs not on some knucklehead in the desert in iraq but on the regime itself. >> bill: what's happening in gaza. you may be aware the u.s., israel, qatar are talking about a pause in fighting. do you welcome that and also there have been various reports over the past 24 hours a hostage deal for a handful, 50 out of potentially 241 if they're all alive. would you encourage a pause in fighting to get aid in there or do you simply not trust hamas enough to be a fair broker on the hostages and be a fair broker when the aid comes in? >> bill, there is no chance hamas will be fair about anything. they are liars, terrorists and barbarians. i met with some families yesterday morning in washington, d.c. it is heartbreaking to hear their stories. we need to do everything we can to get them back. if it's the case redirecting fires for a few hours or a short pause in the attacks would actually deliver some of these men and women back to their families, sign me up. but a three-day pause with no promise of what you are going to get from these guys who will lie to your face would play into the playbook. the reason they have 240 some odd hostages is precisely so they can get the whole world to stop responding to the barbaric attack. i'm convinced the pressure the israeli defense forces are putting on the hamas warriors today, those terrorists hiding in tunnels and taking all the food and fuel from the very civilians that need it, i'm convinced the pressure on them is the thing that's causing them to even contemplate releasing those hostages. israelis should stay at it. >> dana: i wanted to ask you one quick thing. yesterday the spy agency, israel's spy agency issued a rare public knowledgement they worked in cooperation with the brazilian security services to thwart a terror attack in brazil that was planned by hezbollah. the reason i want to ask you about this is to get your perspective on how this is a worldwide issue. and that iran's influence in latin america and south america in particular is growing. it is something we should be paying attention to? >> dana, i think we spoke about this two weeks ago now. the risks not just in israel or gulf is very real. you are right about south america. i went to a synagogue that had been blown up when i traveled to south america. blown up by the same cast of characters. they have had opations in the united states as well where they sought to blow up government officials here. we should all know that the fact that we have a wide open southern border today where hundreds of thousands of people are coming across the border creates an enormous risk there is something plotted for months or a couple of years and i hope our f.b.i. is on top of this and has a handle on it. the risk of taking down some in brazil doesn't surprise me. good work is going on. i hope that we're ahead of the game and we can prevent this from happening but i'm very concerned we could see something here in the united states of america or someplace in europe as well. >> bill: come back soon. mike pompeo, thank you for your time. >> thank you, have a great weekend. >> dana: colleges across the nation are under pressure to address rising anti-semitism on campus and threats of violence. the feds have to get involved. we have more. >> good morning. one session is just beginning now examining how colleges and government can protect students after these repeated anti-semitic incidents on campuses. senator bill cassidy from the senate health committee has jurisdiction over education cite cicite -- colleges are reporting several incidents to congress. >> since october 7th this has skyrocketed. we hear continually of jewish students being assaulted. jewish property being vandalized and students harassed in any number of ways not just on a few college campuses that one might describe as hot spots. >> this week the department of education reminded schools they are legally obligated to protect students from discrimination. in a letter to schools education secretary said the rise of reports of hate incidents on our college campuses in the wake of israeli/hamas conflict is deeply traumatic for students and should be alarming to all americans. anti-semitism, islamaphobia and other forms of hatred go against everything we stand for as a nation. cardona has threatened to withhold federal funding if schools fail to act. republicans on the health committee organized the round table urging committee chair bernie sanders to hold a full hearing on anti-semitism. sanders requested a classified briefing with the f.b.i. on rising incidents of anti-semitism, islamaphobia and racism at schools across the country. dana. >> dana: rich edson. thank you. yesterday we heard some extremely compelling testimony on capitol hill about the rise in anti-semitism happening on college campuses across the country. one university of iowa student who detailed the vitriol she has experienced firsthand. >> i was doxed in a group chat of over 800 students and falsely labeled as a nazi, a token, a white supremacist and bigot. some individuals said i made them uncomfortable and feared i might commit a hate crime against them. >> that student is jasmine jordan. she joins us live next hour. >> do you want a leader from a different generation who will put this country first or do you want dick cheney in three inch heels? we have two of them on stage tonight. >> i would like to say they're five inch heels and i don't wear them unless you can run in them. >> bill: nikki haley fending off pointed attacks last night. the former governor will join us live and where the race goes from here. stay tuned for that. >> dana: house republicans issuing subpoenas for hunter biden and several other members of the president's family. are they expected to comply? >> bill: israel hunting hamas in the streets of gaza. a narrowing in on central gaza city. a lot of calls for a time-out. is that smart for israel or does it only enhance hamas? so many hotels... 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>> you know, it's just this is a serious time in our country and not the time that you need to have these personal hits. my daughter is 25 years old. we've got big issues happening in the world. we have threats facing us around at the united states and our friends and we have to take that seriously. look, it was even though it was a personal shot and it was a shot that wasn't necessary, i think the bigger point is there are big differences between me and ramaswamy. he doesn't think we should be helping israel. he thinks that we should let putin have ukraine. he is fine with using taiwan until we have all the chips we need and then he will give it out. you look at ron desantis. he says that ukraine is a territorial dispute. we have real issues on that debate stage that differentiate us and that's what i wanted to talk about. he threw a petty shot there. it says more about him than it does about me. >> bill: not to continue on the personal but the microphone caught the words. we heard you say you are scum. do you want to continue with that today? do you feel the same way? >> i mean, bill, that was showing a lot of restraint, that's all i'll say. it was showing a lot of restraint. >> bill: okay. down the road last night at around the same time donald trump said this about you. >> you know, i will never run against him. he is a great president. i will never ever run against him said bird brain. i will not run against him. he was one of the greatest presidents in the history of our country and then three months later she goes i have decided to run. this is the craziest business, politics. >> bill: he invoked your name as he say and wanted to give you a chance to respond to that. how is your relationship today with the former president? >> you know, i have said often i think he was a right president at the right time. i agree with a lot of his policies. yes, i said i wouldn't run against him but it was before we had the fall in afghanistan, before we saw inflation go through the roof. it was before we lost the mid-terms. and so look, this is what i will tell you. 3/4 of the country, 75% of the country said they don't want to see a rematch between biden and trump. the country deserves better than a president in their 80s and trump and biden would give us that. it is time for a new generation of leaders. if you look at the polls, i crush joe biden in every single poll. that's what republicans need to focus on is yes we'll talk about a primary but at the end of the day we need to have someone at the top of the ticket that wins governors races and congressional races that allows us to really get our country back on track. that's what i'm trying to do. look, trump can say whatever he wants but at the end of the day he knows that his age is the same as biden's but he also knows he got us into a lot of trouble. look at the $8 trillion that happened on his watch. look at the fact that he is retreating and getting weak in the knees on foreign policy when it comes to helping our friends. look at the fact that when our closest ally, israel, got hit, what did he do? he went and talked about hezbollah being smart and he said had personal vendettas wit