[sirens] >> dana: barrage of rockets fired deep into central israel setting off sirens in tel aviv and surrounding areas. hamas targeting that area for the first time in three days. shrapnel from the rockets injured two people in tel aviv. showing why exactly israel is fighting hamas. i'm dana perino. >> bill: a long week, huh? >> dana: but a good one. >> bill: good one, long one. nice to see you. i'm bill hemmer, good morning. the latest rocket firing coming as israeli ground forces are reportedly pushing closer to gaza city's shifa hospital closing in on believed to be the heart of hamas operations and leadership. thousands of palestinian civilians fleeing south as there are short pauses to fighting to do that. >> dana: trey yengst on the ground in southern israel for us. good morning. >> good morning. i will quickly step out of the frame so you can see what's happening as we speak. you will see some lights there, trails of smoke. those are cluster munitions the israelis are firing right now into the northern part of the gaza strip. it gives you a sense of 35 days into this war how active the front line here remains. as you noted, rocket fire once again by hamas and islamic jihad targeting tell tel aviv. those who participated in the october 7th massacre, israelis killed a commander and the head of hamas's sniper array in the northern part of gaza. as cluster munitions are fired off. you will see it here in a second so i will wait for a second before we toss to this insert package. you'll see once again the sky right here lighting up and these munitions hammering the northern part of gaza trying to hit many of the tunnel entrances in the northern part of the strip because hamas continues to pop out and ambush israeli forces. while all this is happening the israeli navy is shelling from the sea and providing support to the infantry troops operating across the northern part of gaza. we joined them for a look at what that is like yesterday. major nelson lives in miami, born and raised in israel to american parents. he returned to help in the fight against hamas. >> i want to thank people in the united states for their amazing support. talking about the military support we are getting from the united states. talking about the financial support and many other ways that israeli american communities and non-jewish communities are supporting israel in a unique way. >> hamas has continued to target israel. the israeli navy stopped multiple sea infiltration attempts along the coast after october 7th. right now we're with the israeli navy as they patrol the mediterranean sea. not just infiltration attempts but providing critical surveillance and fire power support to the infantry troops fighting inside gaza. while thousands of miles away from home major nelson says he believes israel will win the ground war against hamas and acutely aware of the parallel information war at home. >> there is a lack of understanding across the world especially when we see all kinds of protests and i see this in my hometown in the united states as well. people don't understand hamas is not only the enemy of israel. hamas is the enemy of the palestinians. >> as we speak, israeli forces are operating inside the gaza strip. they are surrounding a number of hospitals. i will step out here to see the cluster munitions as they land on the northern part of gaza. the israelis have surrounded, according to reports, three hospitals. urging civilians to evacuate and just yesterday that critical corridor between the northern part of gaza and the southern part the israelis say 80,000 palestinian civilians took that route to a safer location. bill and dana. >> dana: trey yengst at the border. thank you so much. >> zbl we break it down and give you more intel we get from the israeli defense force, idf. the area trey was describing right there. northern half of the gaza strip. a couple things on this map are important and i will show you something else the idf is putting out as well. see the big circles here? the significant ground fighting that happened over the last week. this goes back to november 9th on the map. the areas you see in blue is the clearing that the idf has done. the blue lines here are these water structures here. this is wadi arabic word for canall or river. this is wadi gaza here. what the idf wants. they want all the civilians south of the area. doing that takes time and it takes a little bit of effort, too and why you get the rolling pauses in the military conflict. this is gaza city. this is the refugee camp. a lot of action in both areas of the gaza strip over the past days. i want to show you a slide that came to us from the idf. what this shows here is what they call the military corridor right there central gaza city. and on the map if you look at these white i cons, 12, 15, those are all openings to tunnels that they have located. now every rectangle or square that you see in red is operated by hamas. that's what the idf is going after now. israelis are quick to point out with the density of gaza, with the higher density of gaza city and tactics of hamas, it is next to a medical clinic and school here and there and a medical clinic up here. a kindergarten on this map as well. so they wanted to make this public and express the difficulty of this terrain operating in the urban warfare and knowing hamas has historically fought and hid among the civilian population. makes it super tricky. got video that we can roll and show you what the idf has put out. an area in gaza city. they went into this apartment, house or home and found all these drones. they are making this public as well because it is the military cache they're recovering in different parts of the city. toward the end of this video, there is a lot in here. it goes into a pink bedroom which is a child's bedroom, and there are hamas military fighters that live in these homes and live in these buildings. there is the bedroom there that you can find what they are using to take down the israelis in that house. jimmie, come back to me here. we talked about the interview with bret yesterday and benjamin netanyahu. here is more of that now and the question whether or not there will or will not be a cease-fire. watch. >> one thing we haven't agreed to is a cease-fire. a cease-fire with hamas means surrender to hamas and surrender to terror and the victory of the iran's axis of terror. there won't be a cease-fire without the release of israeli hostages. that's not going to happen. >> dana: israel's prime minister insisting there would be no cease-fire without the release of hostages held by hamas after israel agreed to a daily pause in military operations for humanitarian activities allowing civilians to flee the war zone and food and medicine to get in. retired u.s. marine corps general lawrence nicholson has served in gaza and fallujah. joins us here. the u.s. air strike in syria is interesting. there are some people who say we are at risk of a dangerous escalation. from my perspective and everything i'm reading is coming from our adversaries, not us. >> i think you are exactly right. happy birthday and 248 to our great marines and happy veterans day. i think the escalation is based out of iran with their proxies forces. the message we'll send is that no proxy force, no nation state, no non-nation actors will be safe. if you go after american forces, we will come after you. >> dana: and you also then have the situation as you understand fallujah and you understand that kind of combat. what do you make of the israelis saying fine, we'll do these four-hour tactical pauses to try to get people out and aid into the actual people of the palestinians but did not agree to a biden-suggested three-day cease-fire. >> i think we heard mr. netanyahu just talk about no surrender, no cease-fire. that's exactly what a cease-fire would be. that's not what this is. the humanitarian pauses allow the humanitarian corridors and people to move. nobody is taking time off. i think the idf will be watching, sensing, listening, using every one of their collection assets to watch. this is also, dana, the most dangerous time for those forces. right now we're entering the hardest, house by house, room by room fighting that is going into gaza city like our soldiers did in fallujah. this is the hard, gritty time right now. it is also a very dangerous time because when you take that pause, again you are surrounded by an enemy that is hiding in plain sight. the enemy may be part of that group of civilians that's moving by and is using those civilians to get ready to attack you. this is a very precarious time. very dangerous time for the idf and i'm sure that they will use every minute of those pauses to continue to collect and prepare for the continuing fight. >> bill: general, you know what's happening with our forces, eastern syria, throughout iraq, all of our bases that appears are under fire by the day. this was an air strike on an outpost in eastern syria from two days ago. the injuries to u.s. service members going back to mid october, 56 injuries, 25 cases traumatic brain injury, all returned to duty and that is certainly good news. the iranian foreign minister comes out and says due to the expansion of the intensity of the war against gaza civilian residents expansion of the war has become inevitable. i don't know how much he is referring to the united states response. maybe some, maybe none at all. how do you characterize the response on behalf of the biden administration thus far? because it seems like we hit equipment sheds twice. is that going to do it? >> i think as the enemy escalates we'll see our own ramping up in escalation. the administration's job, every administration to protect our deployed forces where we serve. absolutely i sense that the biden administration will have to pick it up a little bit and send a more clear message that you do not attack u.s. servicemen. we'll respond in kind. >> dana: general lawrence nicholson, happy birthday to the marines. thank you for being on our show. >> bill: scandal blowing up on the hill. justice department accused of spying on republican congressional staffers while they were probing the agency during donald trump's presidency. got a group of republican senators sending a letter to merrick garland calling it executive overreach. the decision by unelected government bureaucrats to investigate the elected congressional representatives and staff trying to hold them accountable is a true attack on our democracy. what's going on with this? alexandria hoff runs it down now. what do we know? >> all this alleged activity happened back in 2017 during the trump administration. senators want to know what the current department of justice has done about the issue. fox news has obtained a copy of the letter signed by ted cruz, mike lee and chuck grassley accusing the d.o.j. of a vendetta campaign and covert surveillance. an october 23rd freedom of information request a group representing whistleblowers. they wrote the department subpoenaed a senate staffer's private phone and email logs of an investigation of the f.b.i. known as crossfire hurricane. lawmakers want to know who else was targeted? what phone and internet companies were issued subpoenas and if the department still has the private records. the republican senators want to know the extent of former deck tee attorney general rod rosen teens involvement. jim jordan wrote a letter to garland expressing a similar inquiry and concern describing the d.o.j. has sought intel on a staffer of senator grassley and subpoenaed google to obtain personal phone records and emails during a period when senator grassley was conducting vigorous oversight of the department's handling of the so-called steele dossier. a lot in this. a senior d.o.j. official tells fox news the department has received the latest letter and congress should expect a response next week, bill. >> bill: see whether that happens. alex, thank you in washington. 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another level. hate is not the key word in hate crime. actually biases against a person or group of people. law enforcement officials have seen plenty of bias since the israel/hamas war broke out last month. there are active discussions to classify the death of 69-year-old paul kessler as a hate crime, the jewish man was killed in thousand oaks, california after a confrontation after an israel/hamas protest. there he is at the bottom of the screen. eventually fell down on the ground and died. his death is being investigated as a homicide. no arrests yet as police are still working through more evidence. meanwhile attorney general merrick garland and christopher wray met with jewish and muslim leaders this week to hear concerns after violent incidents across the country. looking at some of these crimes that we've seen over the past month or so, as you mentioned the 6-year-old palestinian boy october 26th. a man arrested for threatening a jewish senator and november 1st a sarasota man charged with threatening a jewish organization also after paul kessler died, two days later in arizona a man was arrested for an anti-semitic email threat trying to execute a local rabbi and every other jew i can find is what he said. regarding a rise in anti-semitism across the country the f.b.i. director told senators the jewish community is uniquely targeted by most terrorist organizations across the spectrum. >> when you look at a group that makes up 2.4% roughly of the american population, it should be jarring to everyone that same population accounts for something like 60% of all religious-based hate crimes. so they need our help. >> director wray says he is concerned about possible lone wolf or copycat attacks here in the united states. dana. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: for more on this let's bring in host shannon bream. hello to you, friday meeting with you, our friend. good morning. a couple things here. bias crimes in new york city in october up 124%, anti-jewish up 214%. then you had the v.p. kamala harris talking about islamaphobia ten days ago. watch. >> the strategy will be a comprehensive and detailed plan to protect muslims and those perceived to be muslim from hate, bigotry and violence. and to address the concerns that some government policies may discriminate against muslims. for example, the so-called muslim ban which president biden revoked on our first day in office. >> bill: so you have that. republican tom cotton says after the worst massacre of jews since the holocaust and a breakup of pro-hamas activism on campus the white house is claiming islamaphobia is our top concern. how is that going over in washington, d.c.? what is your read on that? >> i have to tell you, the timing of it didn't go over here and my unscientific polling. the white house announcement on islamaphobia i put it out on x as we do on twitter as we come from announce ferments the administration. it has been a long time since i had the kind of reaction with people saying of course we don't want anybody targeted. ate crimes on anyone. this is so tone deaf when most of what we see now on college campuses and other places is people who of jewish americans are the ones who are being targeted, who are fearful and hiding, who are the subject of a lot of these threats. people agree across the board we don't want anybody targeted by -- they thought it was very tone deaf. >> dana: those are crime statistics. people calling up and there is violence or some sort of crime. but the more suit will anti-semitism. we interviewed a guy this week who has a diner. he put up israeli flags and had three employees resign, fine. he had door dash employees come to him and complain to him. he had his restaurant removed from the app that eventually got replaced. now he was supported by people coming to his diner in order to be patrons there. there is anti-semitism that is happening beyond the crimes. i feel like that is way more pervasive even. >> yeah. it can be more subtle and difficult when you talk about business interests. the f.b.i. director talked about people thinking about walking to their schools and walking the streets. we've heard the anect dotes people worried about a necklace with a star of david they've worn all the time and now thinking twice about doing that. jewish people are bringing kids to jewish day schools or going to synagogues. these are very real things that are everyday walking down the street worries that not everybody has to share but the jewish community feels that. business interests, boycotts. what it does, we have always known there is some level of anti-semitism in the world. but the way that it has been so openly embraced and expressed by some people in recent weeks has been i think shocking to all of us. >> bill: agreed on that. this weekend you have mark warner democrat from virginia. a lot to talk about in the senate with joe manchin's announcement fr