but i did want to say what i just articulated. >> homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas gets tonight 's last word. 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. >> tonight, the deadly strike at a refugee camp in gaza, amid an increased offensive by israeli forces, and the new warning from the fbi about threats here in the united states. then, the stunning prediction from a former white house lawyer as the former president continues to lash out online. and the house speaker, mike johnson, setting the stage for a showdown. his first major move since winning the gavel, as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. greetings, i am symone sanders townsend, in for stephanie ruhle. tonight israel's war with hamas moves closer to some of gaza's most crowded areas. the israeli militaries why ground operations are underway along with continuing airstrikes. today they confirmed one of those strikes had refugee camp in gaza. israel says the target was a key hamas lead over the attack also reportedly under deadly impact on civilians in the area area. nbc's richard engel has the story. >> israel devastated part of a refugee camp on the edge of gaza city, carrying out what it called a large the scale strike in one of the most densely populated areas in the world. and nearby hamas one hospital tonight said dozens were killed and hundreds injured. nbc news can't independently confirm those figures. the camp is full of apartment buildings and people can be seen carried away wounded and dead and digging through rubble. israel said it was targeting one of the leaders of hamas's october 7th massacre of 1400 israelis and that its strike collapsed a subterranean structure. israel blamed hamas for the civilian deaths, saying hamas uses civilians as human shields. perhaps the only thing not in dispute in this war is that civilians in gaza are suffering and that the hospitals needed to care for the growing number of injured are barely functioning. >> this has been a massacre that has been unfolding, but now we are getting to the final chapter of this massacre, where even the wounded won't be spared. the world needs to intervene. now. >> unicef today calling gaza a graveyard for thousands of children. israel has rejected a cease fire, saying it would be a surrender to hamas. everything we are seeing here in southern israel indicates that this ground offensive is still ramping up, with more and more troops heading into gaza. israel says it struck 300 hamas targets today, and that it is hunting hamas commanders. it claims the strike killed an architect of the mass murder of israelis in two coutts is near gaza. >> this is a critical time for the u.s. israel alliance. not in a largely party line vote the senate confirmed jack lieu's ambassador to israel. biden nominated him back in september. the israel hamas war has ignited anger and hatred across the middle east and across the region. fbi director is now warning that the conflict could inspire terror attacks against americans. nbc's garrett haake has more. >> on capitol hill tonight a stark warning about going threaded home from the devastating war abroad. >> the ongoing war in the middle east has raised the threat of an attack against americans in the united states to whole other level. >> fbi director chris wray signaled the u.s. was in a dangerous period. >> we assess that the actions of hamas and its allies will serve as an inspiration the likes of which we haven't seen since i. s. i. s.. >> as jewish college students are facing threats on u.s. campuses, cornell university officials today confirming the rest of a suspect in connection with online threats of a mass shooting and other violence there. >> to see my own campus targeting specifically the building that i live in, sleep in, was just unbelievable. >> a las vegas man also charged with threatening to kill nevada senator jackie rosen, who is jewish, after leaving a series of antisemitic profanity laced voicemails. >> fbi director wray also warned of the alarming rise in antisemitism, saying it had reached, quote, historic levels. today nevada senator jackie rosen, who was the target of antisemitic threats, spoke out about her own concerns. >> i'm feeling the same as jews are feeling all around the world, under attack in a threat. i have full confidence in our department of justice and law enforcement to work on this case. but frankly, students across the country, k through 12, our college campuses, look at the protests around the world. jews are feeling under attack. >> with that, let's bring in our lead off panel, huma abedin, top aide and longtime adviser for former secretary of state hillary clinton. frank figliuzzi, assistant director for counter intelligence for the fbi, and ravi agarwal, editor in chief of foreign policy and host of live. huma, i'm going to start with you. tonight we are learning the secretary of state anthony antony blinken is actually heading back to israel later this week. i believe it's on friday. the new york times reports that this about the president, while he continues to declare unambiguous support for israel, mr. biden and his top military and diplomatic officials have become more critical of israel's response to the terrorist attacks, and the unfolding humanitarian crisis. that's from the new york times. so, huma abedin, how will secretary blinken's trip this time be different than when he went immediately after the october 7th attack? >> i think after the first trip it was a response to the shock of the attack by hamas, going in and expressing solidarity. with the israeli government and people obviously the victims in the hostages and since then, three weeks since his last visit, we had the visit by president biden, and as you might remember, that trip had to be caught short by the explosion at the hospital in gaza. and so i think now things have shifted. the world has been watching for the last few weeks as the israeli incursion and this humanitarian crisis, you've got u. n. agencies on a regular basis calling for more aid, origin, to urgent aid getting to palestinian people. and i think today, in particular, i think one of the reasons they probably announced this trip today, is seeing the images from the refugee camp explosion, to say they were targeting a particular hamas leader and say that they had a successful hit, if you will. but at the same time seeing images of palestinians pulling wreckage from the rubble. that is something that i think they have to talk to the israeli government. about what is the plan for the attack? because increasingly we've already heard the last couple of hours, the saudi government has criticize that particular operation today. the qatari foreign foreign minister is saying this, it undermined their mediation efforts. they've been helping to negotiate some of the hostage release. so it's a tricky balance. and frankly not he hasn't announced other countries he's gonna go to, but i'm sure biden will want to visit other leaders in the region because the support, the anger on the arab streets, as we all know, is only going to increase with these images. >> you know, ravi, this underscores how difficult this conflict could become for the biden white house, does it not? the israeli government is saying this will be a long war. we are heading into an election year. talk to me a little bit about the tightrope. because oftentimes what happens in foreign policy does not necessarily affect domestic affairs when it comes to elections. but this is an issue that is absolutely broken through. >> yeah, exactly right. as huma was saying, the biden administration stands has changed. and recent days and weeks. on october 7th and immediately afterwards, it was a very clear sign of, we stand with israel, come what may. 9/11 has been invoked again and again, and that invocate invocation has been more poignant because as much as this was, israel's worst attack in its history, i think american officials are increasingly trying to point out israel, don't make the same mistakes american made after 9/11. america, after 9/11, essentially embarked on a war on terror, not two wars in two countries, and it lost its standing, internationally, which had an immense degradation for american soft power. and i think america wants to tell israel to not repeat those same mistakes. in recent days, it has become clear that israel's appetite for what it is willing to do, because of the horrific attacks of october seven, it is willing to lose a fair bit of soft power. that has ramifications for israel. and as you were saying, it has ramifications for the united states as well. because if it is seen to support israel, and if that support is blind, then in the rest of the world, america also tends to lose some support among its allies in the muslim world, and then, finally, you have how that plays out in domestic american politics, in terms of muslim americans. we've talked about antisemitism. there's also islamophobia to worry about american campuses across this country. people are riled up. these are tense times. it's really important, in this visit, for secretary of state blinken to try and calm tensions down, to try and, somehow, let the israelis know that there are ramifications to overstepping in the next few days. >> so, frank, secretary blinken is going to israel, but here at home as ravi just alluded to there, have been truly unsettling things happening all over this country, particularly on campuses, when it comes to the cornell case, when it comes to antisemitic threats, the against jewish students, the suspect in that case is now in custody. he's facing federal charges, he is a 21-year-old junior at the school. how do you see this war fueling future threats, and just what should people be looking out for. what else should institutions schools and institutions be doing? >> yeah, it was helpful, of course that this young man confessed to the most vile and graphically detailed threats that were made to cornell jewish community students and faculty. i won't repeat all of them. but suffice to say that it is going to put him in prison. it's a level of detail. plus, his confession. the message here is, look, the fbi is going to come down on you. you are going to get put in handcuffs for these kinds of hateful threats. we have got to listen to the fbi director today. i'm telling you, symone, i'm fluent in fbi speak. and what we heard today was the strongest language you see it by an fbi director since the beginning of the war, and israel, with hamas. when you hear an fbi director use references like historic levels of threat, when he reminds us that both al-qaeda and i.s.i.s. have now called for attacks against the u.s. and the west, when he says this is a time for concern, and that multiple terror groups are now threatening americans, it is time for us to be incredibly vigilant. he also -- it was not lost on him that, on top of all that, if not alarming enough, domestic violent extremists are seeking to exploit this time filled with hate and their antisemitism -- he told us this startling fact that you assure americans compose about 2.4% of our population. if they are targeted in 60% of religious hate crimes here. so, the actions by israel today are likely to -- not to get into the military strategy. i'm not a military strategist. but rather i am a national security contributor. so, i can tell you, we should expect an even greater increased threat in the days ahead. so, college campuses are a hotbed right now. we have to protect the civil liberties, free speech, freedom of assembly, let people express themselves. but we also have to condemn hate and we have to condemn terror. and the fbi, more than ever before -- working with state, local, police to really make sure they have covered this like a blanket. it's a time, i'm telling you, of a great challenge for law enforcement. law enforcement has to get it right every single time. threat actors only need to get it right once, so we are constantly playing catch-up. >> frank, my one follow-up for you here is, how prepared is the fbi when it comes to tracking some of these outside groups like hamas, right? and what they might try to do here in the united states. because in the past few years, especially since january 6th, not none during the trump administration, the fbi focused on more homegrown terror, white supremacists, some of the most terrible things that we have seen over the past couple of months. this is now a different kind of threat. >> yes, importantly, they can't take their eyes off the ball and focus overly on white supremacist threats. but here is the important emphasis today that the director made. this is about inspiring terror here, so, not that hamas necessarily possesses any capability of any significance here at home, they never have, to hurt us here, what he is concerned about is that all of the groups together calling for action are going to inspire violent individuals or small groups, he said, here. and that is incredibly hard, harder than monitoring the actual organizations themselves abroad, because you know how to get intel, there. but the lone actor here is what concerns want enforcement, the inspired actor, the lone wolf, so to speak. that is very challenging to get ahead of. >> as we have this conversation, i am thinking about how this conflict is going and oh my, i huma abedin, i am wondering about the hostages. do you see negotiations to release the people still being held by hamas and gaza more difficult, now? >> symone,, -- americans is stunning for all of us. but i think just adding to that, we know that hate crimes against muslims spiked in 2001 post 9/11, and then again in 2015 and 2016, and a very significant thing has changed and has added the burden on our law enforcement, making it much more significant, as we did not have social media. we did not have a lot of these videos, a lot of this proliferation of this hate speech, certainly not in 2001, and the trauma people had to go through, and the acceleration in 2015, 2016, when obviously that kind of violent speech was being monitored on social media. i remember very specifically as somebody who was on that i.s.i.s. target list in the mid 2000s, to exactly frank's point, it was one thing to be on i. s. i. s.'s list, not law enforcement saying we don't know their capabilities actually to do anything in this country -- it was actually inspiring, bad intentions, by, frankly in my case, it was somebody in new jersey. so, these are every single thing to frank's point, they can't get it wrong one time. so, incredible to see the what they are doing. in terms of the hostage negotiations, i think that is one of the reasons stopping stop qatar in continuing to engage with the qataris who have the relationships with hamas, and to keep them at the table. it will be, to ravi's point earlier, it's going to be incumbent upon secretary blinken, really, to take the tension down in a situation where it seems almost impossible to do it, but that is frankly the job with our secretary of state, is to push the diplomacy. one of the things i am certain he's going to bring up with the israelis -- i had not caught this until a few hours ago, but, the israeli finance minister not transferring the tax revenues over to the palestinian authority. anyone who is talking about a final two state solution, which i know for many people seems like a pipe dream in this moment, has to be, for those of us who are optimists in the possibility of democracy and people having their own state and living in peace, both israelis and palestinians, the palestinian authority is that alternative. and so, you have to think about all of these conversations. >> huma, you are absolutely right. but i think that for so many people, it is just a weight of what is happening, and these images coming out of gaza, the attack of october 7th, it is a two state solution for some folks being far away. but we will continue to discuss it. huma abedin, frank figliuzzi, and ravi agrawal, thank you very, very much. coming up, folks, we will talk to a spokesperson for the israel defense forces as they push deeper into gaza. later, why one former white house lawyer thinks -- donald trump could be jailed in his federal election case, as the former presidents adult children get ready to take the stand in the civil fraud investigation. the 11th hour, just getting underway on a tuesday night. on a tuesday night. attention hearing loss sufferers! do you struggle to hear loved ones? do you have trouble keeping up with conversations? do you listen to tv on max volume? hearing loss affects your life. you miss out on important moments... you feel alone. start hearing better today with rca's all new, advanced hearing aids. these aren't cheap amplifiers that don't really work, and you'll never have to pay thousands again. the fda now allows us to bring true, 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this moment, you are exactly right. that would simply consolidate what hamas has been able to do and allow it to remain where it is. >> ahead of his trip to israel friday, secretary of state antony blinken spoke before congress about the ongoing israeli military operations in the gaza strip. his remarks were interrupted by protesters who called for a cease-fire before being removed by security. nbc's ellison barber joins me now from the israel gaza border. -- yes >>, symone, we have heard just the constant sound of artillery, rockets strikes inside of northern gaza. you may hear a little bit right now. military helicopters overhead, we are on the israel gaza border, that is the north. we are just directly north of gaza, so that back there past the treeline is gaza. israel has repeatedly said they have three primary goals in this war. the main one being to make sure hamas can no longer operate, govern, or operate in any sort of military capabilities. so, they don't have the capability of carrying out an attac