raising push in palm beach today where he's expecting to rake in around $43 million which would top biden's $26 million raised at a new york city event last week. the bide with. en campaign slamming trump for doing. the bidding of his billionaire friends as the rematch continues to heat up. welcome to "fox news live, "i am molly e line. hello, griff. griff: hour two, here we go. i'm griff jenkins. trump is expected to continue his events into next week hitting a few swing states with visits to pennsylvania and georgia. madison scarpino is live in palm a beach, florida, with more. hey, madison. >> reporter: hey, griff. trump really ramping up the push to raise more money. you can see paralag go behind me, but tonight's exclusive fundraiser is at a private home here in palm beach with. and there's expected on the some big republican -- to be some big republican donors with big money tonight. hedge fund billionaire john john pall is leading -- paulson is leading the event. the chicago cubs' eco-owner, todd ricketts, and the list goes on and on. some of trump's former arrivals -- rivals will also be there tonight. trump is working to close the big fund raising gap with biden who raised $187 million so far this year. the president also has more cash on hand with $192 million compared to trump's $93 million. and that's the most a democrat candidate has a ever raised at this point in the election are cycle. with just seven months until the november election, experts say both candidates should meet their fund raising goals. enter both of them are on track to raise e what they need to raise. unless the trump spending on lawyers gets so out of hand that his donors can't do it anymore, i think they will both have enough. >> reporter: the biden campaign is slamming trump's fundraiser tonight saying that trump is hiding behind billionaires and struggling to attract grassroots donor enthusiasm. team biden-harris also says it's a way for trump to pay off his legal bills. donations from the fundraiser will go to trump's campaign. the rnc, state gop parties and the political action a committee that helps pay his, that does help pay his legal bills. but a trump campaign if spokesperson if says that pac also covers expenses aside from legal fees. and you mentioned the upcoming events in georgia, florida and pennsylvania. the trump campaign and rnc really ramping up fund raising efforts in those key battleground states. back to you guys. molly: madison scarpino, thank you so much. with more if on the 2024 fund raising, let's bring in our political panel. with us today the is targeted victory vice president matt gorman and democratic analyst arkansas ally air mesh. -- ari air mesh. she laid it out pretty great there. there's a big fund raising gap. pride preponderancen is ahead, way up on president trump, but president trump hoping to beat that one-day record today. how important is this fund raising game at this point? what does the big gap mean particularly for the former president, president trump, at this stage in the game, matt? >> yeah. it's a big gap so far, but i think what you saw are the rnc -- with the rnc and the trump campaign, that'll do a large part to shrink the gap. tonight, if it's $40 some odd million, that'll shrink it even further. i think kind of broadly as you look at that a graphic that you showed before w not all those folks were on trump's e team in the primary p. as -- i used to work for tim scott. know that firsthand. more than anything, folks are coming together, the team's reassembling. and as we get into the general election, folks are pushing in the right direction now. molly: yeah. the biden campaign senior spokesperson slammed the people actually attending this event at mar-a-lago. here's what he had to say. she had to say. oh, sorry about that. here's the statement. if you want to know who donald trump will fight for in his second term, look who he's having over for dinner saturday night, tax tax avoiders, racists, extremists. pretty strong the language talking about who's bringing the money. but we've heard that extremist label from democrats before, so how far ahead president biden is on the fund raising gap and the strategy the of the democrats. >> let's put a aside the colorful cast of characters that they're going to get together tonight at mar a rah a lag go, but talk about money. the last presidential cycle in 2020, that last election cycle, cost about $4.1 billion. that's how much money was spent. these are pretty, pretty expensive campaigns. i remember -- i'm not trying to reveal my age, but back in the gore-bush days when we hit $1 billion total expend hur, we thought, oh, my god, the world was going to end. these are expensive campaigns. candidates need to raise a lot of money. problem with president trump's campaign here is, a a, not a whole lot accounts receivables. he's having a hard time raising money, but his i outgoing is also pretty sort of disproportionate from what he is raising. lee got a lot of legal fees -- he's got a lot of legal fees. he doesn't have much of a campaign. there is no campaign machinery set up. you know, if you're a betting man, probably he's going to have another chaotic campaign going all the way to election day, and t not going to be a coherent, it's not going to be a sort of organized campaign. but, again, money is everything. last but not least, if you see a lot of people betting on biden and giving him a lot more money, chances are even though he's trailing in the polls now, he's the incumbent and a lot of people don't have a lot of good memories from the trump years, covid, chaos, chaos and chaos. they think he's going to win. trump -- molly: -- where things stand and the additional challenges that president trump faces. i want to shift gears here. earlier this week president biden spoke with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and it was vibed -- described as a rather heated and long conversation. he called the strikes, specifically these strikes on the world kitchen workers, unacceptable. and he, in pretty strong words posting about this conversation, said that israel must implement steps to address civilian harm and safety of workers and work towards a ceasefire. so it seems like he's taken a much stronger tone when he speaks about israel. ari, what do you think that means, and is that about a american politics as well? >> you know, friends gotta help friends stay above the fray. israel and the u.s. are critical, intimate allies. since 1947 the jewish state of israel was founded. but when israel makes mistakes, when israel does something wrong, while we are in full support of the state of israel in its defense against hamas, we also is have to call them out. benjamin if netted netanyahu is no popular figure what so far in israel right now. if you held elections, he would lose by a landslide. on top of that, mistakes happen. and when there is the loss of civilian life -- and a lot of civilians have been killed -- any innocent life lost is a tragedy, is a disaster. molly: that is a great point, ari. >> be it westerners or israelis. and again last but not least, we have to focus on hostages. they have to be released, and they have to be released -- hamas is still holding on to a number of hostages, american, israeli, british, so on and so forth. so that is the sticking point -- molly: great point. i definitely would make that point as well as we go to matt. last word on the conversation the president just had. >> this has less to do with us israel than it does primary voters in michigan and wisconsin. just yesterday we had 155 aid a trucks go into gaza, 0 hostages were released. israel is not the ones who up invaded initially, and they're not the ones rejecting ceasefire if offers. that's hamas. this has more to do with biden's political problems among the far-left base than it does with, actually, israel and their conduct. molly: and that's a great point. the political pressure that he's facing here at home. matt, ari, thank you so much for joining us on this saturday afternoon. we appreciate it. >> that many pg thank, molly. griff: meanwhile, president biden visited the site of the baltimore bridge collapse promising federal aid despite a divided congress. madeleine rivera is live9 with the latest. >> reporter: hey, griff, the president not backing down from his ask that the federal government cover the entire cost of rebuilding the francis scott key bridge. here's his pledge. >> we're going to move heaven and earth to rebuild this bridge as rapidly as humanly possible. and we're going to do so with union labor and american steel. [applause] for simple reasons, the best workers in the world with. and if that's not hyperbole. >> reporter: but there could be some friction from hard-line republicans. in this letter members of the house freedom caucus are open to congress appropriating more money on the condition that the funds are fully offset and burdensome regulations are waived. while the time frame is in question, we do know when the channel to the port of baltimore will be reopened. two channels are now open for ships helping to clear the wreckage, and the u.s. army corps of engineers is planning to open a third lane for some commercial traffic by the end of the month, restoring normal capacity to the port by may 3 1st. in the meantime -- 31st. the biden administration is green lighting grant funds to make infrastructure improvements at spare roar's point, the only port up affected by the collapse, that way it can take on more ships. >> they've already started bringing in the car ships through spare if row's point -- sparrow's point. it's not ideal, they have to be smaller ship, but they are getting some cargo through there. >> reporter: congress comes back from its recess in a couple ofties, and maryland senator chris van holland tells fox he thinks emergency legislation could be introduced this week. griff: well, we'll see. our own lucas tomlinson brought to the network it's exactly the same, essentially, of the size of the uss eisenhower. really gives you perspective. maaed runs rivera, thank you very much. molly: the biden administration warning prime minister netanyahu that american aid a may be conditional on israel being more mindful of civilians in gaza following that israeli strike that killed 7 humanitarian workersers. lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with the latest on this. lucas. >> reporter: molly, president biden is demanding prime minister netanyahu conduct an immediate ceasefire in gaza without first demanding the release of the 10 or so hostages $100 or so hostages including some americans. now the pressure's been building. president biden faced questions before leaving for baltimore, but first, here's the top democrat on the house armed services committee. >> the central point here is we want israel to change the way they are conducting this war. now, israel has had a very aggressive approach from october 7th forward. and it's understandable why they reacted that that way. it is not working to their advantage, and it is causing a devastating humanitarian crisis in gaza right now. >> reporter: president biden spoke to reporters here yesterday before leaving for baltimore. >> reporter: did you threaten to stop military aid to's israel? >> i asked them to do what they're doing. [inaudible conversations] >> reporter: it appears the israeli drone strike on a convoy of world central kitchen vehicles monday night was the tipping point. the cities reillys released an investigation four days later and fired two senior officers, three others punished. match city pelosi has joined nearly 40 other democrats calling for biden to halt american weapons shipments to israel after biden's call with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, john kirby sumed up the conversation. >> the president made it very clear to prime minister netten o need to be some changes and if we don't theme, well, we're going to have to make some changes and decisions of our own. >> reporter: american and israeli forces in the middle are on heightened alert after iran vowed are revenge for the number of senior commanders killed in syria by an israeli airstrike this week. molly: lous cat tomlinson from the if white house, thank you. griff: for more on this, are retired colonel joe pacino joins us now on set. kohling knell, thank you for being here. let's go right to the question about whether or not this administration is, as many have said, abandoning israel or going soft on their firm stance. joe, i want to play for you john kim by, admiral kirby talking about changes that they may need to make. listen here. >> the president made it clear that our policies with respect to gaza will be dependent upon our assessment of how well the israelis make changes and implement changes to make the situation in gaza better for the palestinian people. griff: so as someone who understands this, how does hamas interpret that message and that statement? >> well, it's unclear. you know, john kirby's a great patriot, a great mentor of mine, but it's not clear what changes are being call for and what policy changes are on the table for the united states. we haven't exactly signaled to israel what we're going to do, what our softening position is going to mean in terms of aid, in terms of the way hamas views this right now, hamas is going to the table the here in qatar for a possible negotiation, a hostage deal. and so this is kind of a critical moment right now. hamas would look at this as a, like, along this track of time they have the upper hand. they have the superiority in terms of time because they can wait this thing out. griff: let's talk about the strike on the world central kitchen. jose andres, who founded that, is speaking out about the strike. here's some of what he had to say. >> this was not use -- [inaudible] if situation where, oops, we dropped a bomb in the wrong place. what i know is that we were targeted deliberately nonstop the until everybody was dead in this con, soy. griff: what do you make of that a? >> he's right in the sense that the convoy was targeted. they thought it was hamas operatives. israel has obviously condemned this, they've apologized, you know, they've taken action against the officers responsible. and and what i make of it is that war is an ugly business, particularly this kind of war where you have millions of citizens on top of -- literally millions on top of each other. you've got hamas if taking hostages, you've got hamas using citizens as a human shields. it's a tough situation, terrible situation. if you remember, august 2021 we were withdrawing out of afghanistan. we took a strike, the united states took a strike outside of ca a bull, precision strike, killed 10 people. all of them were innocent. one of them was an aid worker, seven children. and just consider every american general involved in that a operation has since been promoted. if mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs, he had no whereupon ward moment. he's got a great retirement is sit on many boards. so, you know, it's maybe a little bit rich for us to go over the top in condemnation here when, you know, these awful a things do happen at war. griff: well, i'm glad you brought the 20211 afghanistan incident up been 2021 because that, obviously, wasn't a game-changer in terms of our policy. but do you see this world central kitchen strike as a game-changer inso far as watching the biden administration sort of shift in their steadfast support of israel? >> i think it's a game-changer in terms of the way the region, the middle east views this and views american support for israel. so i think, you know, politically you just had some political operatives, some political folks come on here and talk about this. i think politically that's the way the white house is view ising this. i don't know that it's a game-changer. i do not anticipate that we will restrict or place restrictions on weapons ask and aid to israel going forward in this war. griff: this morning i was looking at axios, apparently former speaker nancy pelosi now sign signing on to be a letter with 37 democrats that a want to halt sending aid, weapons sales, transfers to israel. do you think there's a bit of a growing fissure in congress of supporting israel? >> there's definitely momentum started with chuck schumer, and i talked about the tract of time with hamas. so the two men here, netanyahu and biden, i feel like their fates are tied together in this. and there's two opposite tracts of time. so netanyahu, he wants this war to continue, okay, because as soon as this war is over, they're going to hold a nap election. benny ganz is already calling for fit, and he'll be voted out of power. he's incredibly unpopular inside of israel. on the other side of that, biden needs this thing to end because his constituents, his voting blocs, they want with, they want us out. they want this thing to end. they don't want us clinging this tight to israel. griff: let's shift gears in the time we've got left, and that is iran now i vowing to potentially some reports said going to retaliate with swarming drones and cruise missiles. are we about to see a widening of the conflict the there? >> no. we've seen this before with iran are. they do not want a widening of the conflict. they know they have to respond. they know their credibility accounts for that. they know that the credibility relies on that. so i think they're going to use their proxies, lebanese hezbollah, to fire drones and rockets into northern israel, and then i think they're going to try to call it good. they do not want a winding of this war. griff: just in the last 10 seconds i've got, i wanted to show one quick thing, and that is the centcom defeat isis mission. you conducted 94 defeat isis missions, killed 19 isis operatives. you actually started that. >> i started this monthly and every three months roll-up. the reason will be i started that is it's important for the american people to know the reason we have hundreds of american troops in syria so defeat isis. isis remains a threat as you saw in moscow, and we have american troops in harm's way conducting those operations every day. griff: it's a great gain for transparency as well so the american people understand. colonel, thanks for coming and and starting that. >> thanks so much, griff. griff: have a great weekend. molly: that was fascinating, great information. two russian strikes in ukraine's second largest city of kharkiv killed at least 8 civilians and injured 10 early saturday. ukraine's national police said the attack was launched by drones and hit residential areas. griff: earthquake aftera shocks in taiwan have halted the demolition of a leaning building. 3 people are dead and hundreds -- 13 people are dead and hundreds remain stranded. hundreds of aftershocks have struck the area since complicating recovery efforts. molly: and we are live on the ground in the path of america's total solar eclipse next. muck. ♪ ♪ all these games on directv— and no satellite on the roof! think about this: blue jays, cardinals, orioles... what's missing? 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