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[gunfire] . >> dana: heavy fighting in gaza as israel presses ahead with the war against hamas. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. we have hour two. >> bill: how are you doing, good? first hour went quickly. the irony that you had the commercial. >> dana: there is some of that going around on other topics, too. >> bill: the biden administration by passing congress to rush through the sale of military supplies to israel after blocking a u.n. resolution calling for a cease-fire. this is happening as the israeli defense forces push deeper into southern gaza ramping up attacks on remaining hamas strongholds. general jack keane earlier talking about the latest threat by hamas to kill all the remaining hostages unless israel meets their latest demands. >> they are implying they want a cease-fire. if they have a hostage exchange they will go into a cease-fire. israelis have claimed they have killed 6,000 or 7,000 of them or captured, most of them killed, some captured. that is going to continue. that is the pressure point here. they want a cease-fire to stop the military success that israel is having against them. >> bill: trey yengst begins our hour live in southern israel. trey, hello. >> good morning. over the weekend israeli forces pushed deeper into the gaza strip. this time targeting the neighborhood in the northern part of gaza. you can see here in this video an israeli reconnaissance unit operating in that area engaged in close quarters combat. you are looking at the infantry brigades's battalion. 104 israeli soldiers have been killed and the fiercest battles continue across gaza-israel's prime minister netanyahu has this warning for hamas. >> in recent days dozens of hamas terrorists have been surrendering to our forces. they are laying down their weapons and handing themselves over to our heroic fighters. it will take no time, the war is in full swing. this is the beginning of the end of hamas. i say to hamas terrorists, it is over. don't die for sinwar. surrender now. >> he is talking about sinwar, the leader of hamas inside gaza. and while the activity remains high on the southern front, as does it on the northern front. the border with lebanon where the chief of staff visited troops over the weekend. israel has set a deadline for attempts to reach a diplomatic solution with hezbollah. at this point israeli officials say they think the changess of a diplomatic solution are low. all the activity across the region taking place as international focus remains on the southern front with gaza. 137 hostages still being held inside the strip. we've been talking with palestinians today in the southern city of rafah who say things are increasingly tense as the entire part of gaza heads towards a humanitarian disaster. >> bill: here we go. sundown yet again in southern israel. good to see you, trey yengst reporting there. got a couple of things for you. >> dana: so there was a u.n. security council meeting and they tried to call for a cease-fire, got vetoed. here is congresswoman ocasio-cortez. also single handedly vetoing the call for cease-fire and back the indiscriminate bombing of gaza. if we were to do die grappling of the sentences to point out all the things wrong with that it will take the rest of the hour. that's where she is coming from. a lot of people on biden's left, many of them, that's where they come from. >> bill: i think bernie sanders answered her question. >> i don't know how you can have a permanent cease-fire with hamas who have said before october 7th and october 7th that they want to destroy israel. they want a permanent war. i don't know how you have a permanent cease-fire with an attitude like that. >> bill: not wrong, he is not wrong. if you look at national security you have to eliminate the threat and that's what they are trying to do right now. it will take a few more weeks according to everything we're hearing out of israel. if you want israelis to move back into these towns in southern israel they won't do it as long as hamas is still in gaza. so this is the effort that's now underway. see how long it takes. five minutes past the hour now. is this the first domino to fall? u penn president liz mcgill stepping down over the weekend over how she and the leaders at harvard and m.i.t. responded to anti-semitic rallies on campus. not just that but how they testified, too. billionaire bill ackman in two short words, one down. grady trimble live in philly with what may happen next. good morning. >> good morning, bill. what's next here is the university says liz mcgill will stay on until it names an interim president. and also remain a tenured faculty member at the university of pennsylvania. meanwhile, calls are growing this morning for the presidents of harvard and m.i.t. to step down as well. in cambridge, massachusetts, check out this video from fox news digital. anonymous private funder paid to put these two billboard trucks near harvard calling for the firing of the president there. but the school newspaper, the harvard crimson, reports more than 500 faculty members have signed onto a letter urging the university's top governing body to resist calls to remove harvard's president claudine gay. members of congress say last week's hearing on anti-semitism on college campuses is just the beginning. the house has launched an investigation with subpoena power into u penn, harvard, m.i.t. and other elite university. >> we want to look at columbia, cornell and many other institutions. we don't want taxpayers dollars sent to places that have anti-seam advertisement. we'll take the investigation where it leads us and see what happened. >> even after liz mcgill and the board of trustees at u penn resigned over the weekend, some students are saying they still don't necessarily feel comfortable on campus. that is what one jewish student told usa today. another jewish student told the "new york post" that professors and students at the university of pennsylvania are, quote, openly anti-semitic. there are questions about whether changes in leadership at the top level is enough to end the pervasive problem on college campuses. >> bill: grady trimble watching all that in philadelphia. >> dana: joining us now is a u penn student. it's great to have you back with us. we took your statement the other day on capitol hill and had you the next day and this government happened over the weekend. this is the letter from the resignation. u penn says on behalf of the entire penn community thank president mcgill for her service to the university and wish her well. mcgill says it has been my privilege to serve as president of this remarkable institution and an honor to work with faculty. students, staff, alumni and community members to advance penn's mission. no apology or acknowledgement of wrongdoing. she is a tenured professor. she gets to keep a salary. what do you think about this development? >> i think it's just another example of failed leadership. i think leave with some sort of grace and huberous. on the other hand you can leave without acknowledging anything wrong that has been done and you can put out that statement. i think the facts speak for itself of what's happened over the past three months. and people can make their own conclusions as to whether it has been a positive and safe three months for students. >> bill: a law professor at your school wrote this long piece. i will read the headline. to fight anti-semitism on campuses we must restrict speech. in that piece she explains why. do you get a sense this is a turning point on college campuses? >> i love that we are having the free speech conversation. i wanted to have it for a while, even having speakers who on campus might be -- have some what's called reservations towards jews. there is a clear difference between free speech and calls to violence, supporting terrorism, breaking policies. i think -- i do want to make it clear the distinction between the two. there is one penn club who has a history of vandalism. at their last rally they could see them holding a designated terrorist group's flag and they are currently sleeping in the student center and inviting outside members of the community. go to their instagram and see comments people based out of ohio want to fly in to enter our student center. this is not free speech. the building closes at 12:00. you can't sleep there. and so i think people are all of a sudden acting like they are free speech warriors when they don't understand you can't break the rules and then just cite free speech as your excuse for why you shouldn't get in trouble. that's just ridiculous. >> dana: you filed a lawsuit this is before the resignation. does that lawsuit continue now? what do you hope to accomplish? >> just like the examples i stated, there is still a lot of work to be done. you install professors who have classes that are focusing on convicted terrorists and portraying them as -- i mentioned yesterday on fox that there is a professor at penn who compared protestants to al qaeda and said the u.s. and the rest of the west should learn from al qaeda on their human rights, to learn the u.s. and al qaeda about human rights. this is scary stuff if this is what's being taught in the classroom and this is what students are learning, then it is no wonder the mess that you have on campus. because these are the students that they're educating and raising through the years and it is scary. no one should support terrorism. it is crazy this is even a conversation that we need to have in the u.s. after just how many brave men and women have sacrificed their lives so i can go to school and feel safe and yet now the problem for some reason is internal. the "new york post" article said cited a non-jewish student saying that penn, quote, has a serious problem with terrorism. >> bill: well, it's all been exposed now. thank you for coming back. >> dana: great to see you. have a good week. >> thank you so much. >> bill: we'll get to tennessee, the deadly tornadoes ripping through two states. tennessee and kentucky, killing six, destroying a lot of homes. knocking out power. it's a really tough day down there today. get back there in a moment. plus this from sunday. >> i think it is time for the democratic party to turn the election not in a referendum on joe biden but to vividly point out what a donald trump presidency is going to mean. >> dana: democrats voicing alarm as president biden false further behind in the polls. >> bill: also they have to worry about hunter biden after his indictment on nine new tax charges. miranda devine is writing on what this all means and she will break it down only like she can next. >> right on cue our friends in the media remind us biden was suffering from addiction during that time period, which is both true and irrelevant. it's not a defense. not a legal one, at least. is all about presents and shopping and cookies and trees. but we know christmas isn't about something you buy at a store. it's about something so much greater. it is the day we celebrate the incredible truth that god so loved the world that he gave his only son. it's not about presents. it's about jesus. join me this advent in praying every day on hallow. cut through the noise and find god's peace. for the better part of the century, harry and david has been making gourmet gifts that bring people together. to share traditions and make new memories. to bring us all closer, even when we're apart. no matter when and no matter where, life is a gift best shared. harry & david. life is a gift. share more. 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i'm ending where i started. yes or no. >> it's not a yes or no because you want to drill -- of course it's not. in order to file a false return that's actionable, the following things depending on the statute has to occur. it has to be willful, deliberate. hunter was late in filing and paying taxes in certain years. that is a given. as are millions of americans who do the same thing. >> as you point out both republicans and democrats in the senate, the body that once included then senator joe biden from delaware, a member for decades say they are on board with these charges. >> i think hunter biden is going to be held accountable in court for any violations of the law that he has committed. >> if his name were anything other than biden, he wouldn't have been able to bilk millions of dollars from foreign entities. let's start there. >> hunter facing federal charges on a gun purchase from 2018 meaning he could face two trials next year the same year his dad is running to keep his job as commander-in-chief. >> bill: miranda devine has been writing about this story seems like for years now. thank you for coming back. tracking the money, years of wild spending on screen. take your pick. 1.6 million withdrawals, various women, you go down the line, health and beauty, adult entertainment, and on and on it goes. you write today that the reason why joe biden is not mentioned or connected here is because of what the whistleblowers have said. what the whistleblowers have said is every time they took an accusation to a higher superior they were denied and you point out a search warrant of a cottage on joe biden's delaware estate was denied. a plan to search hunter's storage unit was leaked to his lawyers that gave them a heads-up. questions about the big guy not allowed. questions with biden family members were banned. can they do all that? >> well, they did and they got away with it. as well, the most serious charges that would have occurred in the 2014 and 2015 years that had to do with hunter's $1 million a year payments from burisma and which might have ensnared his father, who of course was the vice president at the time and was point man for the obama administration is ukraine, those have just magically disappeared because david weiss and his team in delaware allowed when statute of limitations to expire. so there were just so many ways that the deck was stacked for joe biden and it looks nakedly like an attempt to protect the vice president, the future candidate for president, now president. and so i find it just ironic when the likes of the "new york times" say oh well, look, hunter biden might have been late on his taxes, minimizing the fraud, and -- but it has absolutely nothing to do with joe biden. i mean, it has everything to do with joe biden as some of your clips have just shown. hunter would never have earned any of that money if his father had not been vice president and these favors were being sought by corrupt countries and adversarial countries. >> bill: in all your reporting do you know who was tipping off the biden family? >> well look, numerous people. there is supposedly an f.b.i. mole that tipped off hunter biden to these four sealed indictments in the southern district of new york that named his chinese partners. within the delaware u.s. attorneys office there was a prosecutor who is now been taken off the case, leslie wolf seemed to be the one tipping of hunter biden's lawyers that there was a search warrant coming up of the storage unit of his. somebody in the f.b.i. tipped off the biden transition campaign in december of 2020 that there was an i.r.s. agent and f.b.i. agent in california who were going the next morning to interview hunter biden. needless to say they never got to interview hunter biden. >> bill: the story goes on. thank you so much for coming in today and we'll see what comes next. thank you, miranda, nice to see you today. dana. >> dana: the border spirals out of control, dhs officials making a stunning admission on the number of migrants released into the country every day. texas governor greg abbott is here to react. crunching the numbers on a christmas movie. why the home alone kevin mcallister would need a bigger budget. >> are these microwave dinners any good? 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