[explosions] >> dana: happening today intense fighting across gaza as israeli special forces launch a raid into gaza city's largest hospital. they found weapons and hamas stockpiles inside. soldiers searching the hospital found no sign of the hostages kidnapped and held by hamas terrorists. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. israeli forces are going room to room and underground tunnels as intense fighting rages across the gaza strip. israeli forces extending their control across the northern part of the strip finding weapons and eliminating fighters in government buildings, schools and homes. the hospital is a huge come flex with multiple buildings and a key target in the conflict where thousands of palestinian civilians took shelter. in addition to the all the patients be treated as we speak. idf spokesman said they took extreme care to protect civilians during this operation. >> we went in because we understand the sensitivity of going in there. after we did everything we can to tell the people to leave we brought medical teams and special units inside a specific area to the hospital to do what we needed to do. >> dana: alex hogan with the latest on the ground in northern israel as fighting escalates on multiple fronts this morning. it feels like pressure is increasing? >> it really does, dana. right now we can hear the sound of machine guns on the border between israel and lebanon. earlier hezbollah fired 20 missiles toward the northern part of the country, 15 of them landing oh than the hillside behind our crew. we ran for the bomb shelter. this is what it is like when you hear the sound of the incoming attack. [sirens] [gunfire] >> right now we're able to watch what's happening. this is the smoke, shots. we can hear the loud booms of artillery overhead. >> down south israeli soldiers are currently inside the al-shifa hospital in gaza. new photos of what they found inside after a lengthy stand-off. israeli forces this was all a targeted operation, that they brought in arabic speaking soldiers with them as well as paramedics specifically trained for this mission to prevent the loss of life of patients inside. so far they say today they have found weapons and military gear. israel has long said that hamas uses a lot of these medical facilities as under ground tunnels and places to conceal military operations. the pentagon confirmed that this week. as this is all playing off the idf delivered much-needed medical supplies and equipment like incubators, stretchers, food and baby formula for the babies still there inside that hospital. the u.n. today is warning that it's lost touch with a lot of workers inside that facility. 49 israeli soldiers have been killed since ground forces moved in on gaza. we're learning about a potential new hostage negotiation that would be brokered between egypt and qatar. what would need to happen for all of this if it comes to fruition israel would be to return some of the women and children that are being held. israel would increase aid going into gaza. a three-day cease-fire according to hamas and then it says it would release 50 hostages. that is potentially giving a lot of hope to the families here in israel. right now the families are marching from tel aviv to jerusalem to raise awareness about their fight. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: alex is on the northern border of israel with lebanon. back in gaza we showed you the images the last couple of days. the satellite shot of that hospital. we described it as a sprawling complex, it is. and there could be hundreds or thousands of people sheltering there. some with legitimate medical needs. others perhaps hamas fighters because of the advance at one time this is what the idf says is there. there are tunnel complexes, command and control. we don't know if they've been able to get it all cleaned out yet based on the interview last hour. that's the military operation underway now for that mission. >> dana: yesterday the administration came out and said our intelligence as well says hamas uses the hospital as a shield. john kirby on that. >> we have information that hamas and the palestinian islamic jihad use some hospitals in the gaza strip, including al-shifa, and tunnels underneath them to conceal and support their military operations and to hold hostages. >> dana: i don't know when they got the confirmation they felt they could say something. maybe it was just yesterday and they got the information out. this question about is the hospital really a hospital only has been out there for a long time and fueling a lot of the anti-semitism. >> bill: that's right. have they been perhaps more definitive like that a month ago maybe we wouldn't have seen the rallies on so many streets across america? but we have. it is what it is and there it is now in audio. here is lindsey graham talking about iran. check this out. >> the root of all evil here is iran. there is no hamas without iran, 93% of the budget comes from the iranian ayatollah. hezbollah is a complete subsidiary of the iranian ayatollah. at the end of the day the houthis survive on money from the ayatollah. >> bill: we learn the administration green lighted $10 billion for iran. they insist it's for humanitarian aid. sounds familiar, does it not? gillian turner is following the money to explain this. gillian. >> good morning to you, bill. the biden administration is renewing a sanctions waiver going to allow the iranian regime to access $10 billion in frozen funds being held inside iraq. this is a decision that comes as iranian-backed forces are continually attacking u.s. forces inside the middle east. despite i think a total we're looking at 56 strikes now in 29 days. state department officials insist they are unconcerned about the prospect of that money being used to fund terrorists. listen. >> we don't worry about optics. we worry about reality. the reality is that these funds, as i said, can only be used for humanitarian and other non-sanctionable purposes. >> this waiver allows iraq to pay iran for electricity going through european banks. iraq imports 40% of its power supply from iran. two months ago the biden administration released $6 billion of frozen iranian funds as part of a prisoner swap deal. republican lawmakers are calling for increased sanctions against tehran. listen. >> there is a whole suite of things we can be doing right now as a country to weaken iran and choke them off. this is just good old fashioned hard reimposition of serious sanctions. >> iran's ayatollah bragged should the regime gain sack cess to billions of dollars in unfrozen funds they'll spend the money however they see fit including funding hamas terrorists. the state department tells us, bill, by way of defense, that they have indeed applied 400 new sanctions against iran since they've been in office. back to you. >> bill: a hamster wheel, gillian and it is a lot of money. thank you, live at the state department. >> dana: iran has a long history of using hamas and other armed groups as puppets umping financial and political support and propping up an alliance of armed militias to wage war against israel and the west. our next guest knows it well. an iranian girl and activist and you've seen her on 60 minutes and on or air as well. gillian's report. in your experience what does humanitarian aid look like in iran? >> i really don't know whether i laugh or cry when it comes to even the biden administration saying that they are using for humanitarian purpose. i'm here to tell you that for the islamic republic eliminating israel is humanitarian cause and killing teenagers in iran who show their hair is actually saying that we are doing humanitarian cause because they are spreading corruption on earth. that is very clear for us. the money immediately goes to hamas, to hezbollah. it is very clear the money goes to the proxies, not only in the middle east, here on u.s. soil for their trans national repression. that is why i get furious when i hear the word humanitarian purpose and the west buying that. >> bill: could you help explain -- i'm trying to triangulate this, right? there is a piece in reuters today that says iran supreme leader told the head of hamas you told us you weren't going to do this. the leader of hezbollah in lebanon is -- hezbollah has not taken a lot of that. we've seen a little but not a ton. the houthis in yemen are firing or trying to reach israel along the way. can you put this into some logical explanation as to what you think the truth is between who knew what and maybe what happens next? >> you know, ayatollahs are really good at misleading the rest of the world when they are failing. if they were very successful, if their retaliation was successful right now they would have proudly stated yes, we were behind that. but now they lost it and that's why instead of admitting that they knew about the retaliation, they knew about the attacks, the terrorist attacks, they're trying to hide themselves behind ordinary civilians, palestinians. so that is why i'm fierce. a woman coming from the middle east i know very well that hamas, hezbollah, they aren't speaking for iranian people or for people in palestine in gaza and they are using this human shelter to hide themselves behind it. hezbollah was always loud in saying without the money from islamic republic we cannot do anything. the ayatollahs very clear saying although you are suffering from sanctions we give money to hamas and hezbollah. they had a meeting in iran right before the terrorist attack, they had the person from hamas had a meeting with khomeini october 4th. four days before the attack. >> bill: given all that, why are we afraid to cut off their money? >> i mean, to be honest, i am very confused whether it's because of the money, oil. or they want to be politically correct. i don't really get it. hamas and hezbollah and islamic republic are not only a threat for people in the middle east, they are the ones sending drones to putin to kill innocent ukrainians. they are the ones targeting the dissidents abroad like beyond their own borders. i myself am the victim of trans national repression. the islamic republic agents are in canada as well. 700 agents of the islamic republic. can you believe that? 700 agents are living luxury lives in canada. there are more than 300 properties belong to islamic republic agents just in toronto. president biden, your allies, you must get united. first designation the revolutionary guards as a terrorist organization. third ice loll the islamic republic and treat them like warmongers. they need to address the way putin is addressed by europeans. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: thank you so much for having me. we've been watching this hearing throughout the morning on worldwide threats. it is underway in the house homeland security committee meeting now. the f.b.i. director there warning israel's war in hamas has raised the threat of an attack at home. secretary mayorkas addressing the chaos at the southern border going on for 2 1/2 years. aishah hosni is listening on the hill. what are the headlines as of now? >> good morning to you, bill. well right out of the gate here chairman greene started peppering wray with questions about the open border and how easily a hamas terrorist could slip into the country. watch this? >> can the f.b.i. guarantee the american people that known or suspected terrorists, including any from hamas or other terror groups, are not amongst those gotaways? >> well, certainly the group of people that you are talking about are a source of great concern for us. >> he is very, very concerned about it. we'll see house republicans also really spar with secretary mayorkas over this. the first time mayorkas comes face-to-face with marjorie taylor greene two days after she tried to impeach him. in fact, he is testifying the very committee who could pull the trigger on the impeachment. i tried to ask him about that this morning. are you worried about the house impeaching you? would you resign if the house im peaches you? chairman greene doesn't have the vote to impeach yet but he thinks the committee will have some kind of conclusion to their investigation to mayorkas by the end of the year, maybe early 2024. some members like marjorie taylor greene will just have to wait. >> bill: we'll see where the hearing goes. aishah hosni on the hill. >> dana: a town in massachusetts sparking outrage allowing the palestinian flag to fly in a public park. >> bill: fire and ice and a lot of shaking. thousands of earthquakes rattling the country of iceland. scientists warning a volcano is about to blow and we'll show you what's up live coming up. >> dana: tempers flaring on capitol hill as battles threaten to boil over into physical confrontations. ♪ ? 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(music ends) >> dana: check this out. a volcano eruption in iceland is imminent. residents were given minutes to flee after a massive spike in cosmic activity. we sent bryan llenas there. he has the latest. hi, bryan. >> dana and bill, good morning. we're just outside of the downtown area of the main city a half hour or so. iceland's meteorologist office said there is a significant likelihood of a volcanic eruption at any moment. it threatens to wipe out the town of the blue lagoon that so many people come to visit. there have been some 1,000 earthquakes in the last 24 hours. normally iceland sees 60 earthquakes. this is not your typical eruption event you see from a single volcano. the eruption could take place at any point along a ten mile stretch of land. a dike or crack in the land has formed where mag ma is moving closer to the surface. this morning we sat with the scientist in iceland who laid out there are two worst case scenarios, one an eruption in the center of town. the other at sea. >> we could have ash because and we could have large ash clouds that could disrupt air traffic. >> what happens is in the explosion is in the town. >> lava can throw over the houses and damage people's property. >> would it completely destroy the town? >> depending on the size of the lava coming out and how long it will last, it could do that. >> all 3700 people have had to evacuate the town over the last few days and given as little as five minutes to grab everything they can. gone in with polices courts. sulfur dioxide levels are reaching dangerous levels there. >> we are getting home and trying to save a few things of our property. we have a home there, we have a company, and we are about to lose everything. and that is the situation we are facing now. >> the scientists tell us they have a 2 or 3 hour window when they can warn all of iceland this volcanic eruption will happen. they call it the beginning of the new normal. more seismic activity here. if that happens at sea low likelihood it could form a cloud of ash and smoke to affect travel. that's the lowest of the possibilities at this point as we await this eruption. >> dana: fascinating bryan, thank you for being there. >> a green ceo who pretends he is self-made. quit the tough guy act in the senate hearings. you know where to find me any place, any time, cowboy. >> sir, this is a time and place you want to run your mouth we can be two consulting adults and finish it here. >> that's fine, perfect. >> stand your butt up then. >> you stand your butt up. >> stop. sit down. calm down. you are a united states senator. >> you know something up when bernie sanders is a peacemaker in all this. these verbal threats in the middle of the senate hearing. oklahoma republican markwayne mullin challenging the teamsters president after he attacked the senator on social media repeatedly. mull-in defending his reaction last night with sean. >> i'm a guy from oklahoma first. oklahoma you don't do this. maybe you run your mouth in new jersey. i don't know. he got suspended by his own teamsters for intimidation and in trouble multiple times. in 2022 he said he wanted to bring the mob mentality back to the teamsters. maybe that's true but you still aren't going to run your mouth at me and expect me to just sit there. >> bill: we heard about this and thought this guy was the perfect guest. trey gowdy host of sunday night in america. you also had the thing from tennessee said kevin mccarthy elbowed him in the kidney, burchett. you could dismiss this as childish verbal sparring, or you might suggest there is something that's running deeper in congress now. you were there. how do you see it? >> congress is like more dangerous than chicago now. we have to do something about all this white on white republican violence. here is what i would say, markwayne mullin never claimed to be cicero. he grew up using his hands. not words, not debating society. if you are going to attack someone on twitter and go after someone you have to know a little something about them. james langford, the other senator from oklahoma, he will pray you to death. great guy. he will pray for you. mark wayne is going to beat your bee behind. you need to know that before you start attacking him. mccarthy, i want to put a little context on this. first of all, bill. sean duffy walked by me one time when i was doing a live interview and hit me so hard i almost like had a punctured lung. i didn't turn him into ethics. i went to dinner with him that night. he is a friend. what's happening now is the residue, if you will, of what has been going on for 12 months. this congressman from tennessee said that kevin attacked his religion if you recall. he voted against him for speaker because he said kevin attacked his religion. others accused kevin of being bought and paid for. i'm pretty sure that's a crime. if you make personal attacks against your fellow members, don't be shocked when they respond in a personal way. >> dana: did you ever want to stuff a congressman in a locker? >> well, i'm not big enough to do it. i would have to get mark wayne or kevin to do it for me. no. there are better ways to fight with people other than with your fists. >> dana: and you have charm as well. wanted to ask you about this. there were some people that probably wanted to stuff senator tuberville into a locker. he has had these military holds and now the republican senators are making some moves working with democrats to change that. tuberville says he has a principled stand on abortion and taxpayer dollars shouldn't go to pay for abortion. the pent