>> bret: all right. see you. >> dana: have great night. >> bret: good evening from washington. i'm bret baier. as the war in israel escalates dire warnings with the people charged with keeping america safe, the director of the fbi says the terror threat against the u.s. is at what he calls a whole other level since the hamas attacks earlier this month. meanwhile, in gaza, an israeli strike has hit a refug camp, israel says that area had been taken over by hamas and the strike killed a senior hamas commander. we have fox team coverage tonight. chad pergram on capitol hill as president biden's top diplomat and defense secretary make their case for more than $100 billion in new aid to israel and ukraine. peter doocy at the white house with increasing pressure on the president by democrats to push for a cease-fire. mike tobin in southern israel with additional details on that refugee camp strike. but we begin with correspondent david spunt on capitol hill and chilling testimony about the dangers right here at home. good evening, david. >> bret, good evening to you. the leaders of the three agencies charged with protecting the united states homeland gave sobering testimony today as concern continued to rise potential repeat attacks here on american soil. >> we also cannot and do not discount the possibility that hamas or another foreign terrorist organization may exploit the current conflict to conduct attacks here on our own soil. >> fbi director christopher wray bluntly telling senators the bureau is involved in multiple investigations of people living in the united states with direct or indirect ties to hamas. christine, the director of the national counter-terrorism center warned that other terrorist organizations are watching and waiting. >> they are seeking to capitalize on this moment, to galvanize supporters and organize for attacks. >> wray told senators the jewish community is, quote: uniquely targeted by most terrorist organizations. >> when you look at a group that makes up 2.4%, roughly, of the american population, it should be jarring to everyone that that same population accounts for something like 60% of all religious based hate crimes. >> this week, authorities in nevada arrested this man, john miller for allegedly threatening to kill u.s. senator jacky rosen who is jewish. >> we know that there's been nearly a 400 percent rise in anti-semitic violence over the same period last year. this is frankly unacceptable. >> from the middle east to the southern border, dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas pressed over record illegal border crossings admitting there were over 600,000 known got-aways in the past fiscal year alone. >> it is a powerful example of a broken immigration system. >> senator mitt romney told me that secretary mayorkas should resign in shame. meanwhile, the fbi director told the senate panel today that the bureau has collected enough fentanyl to kill, bret, 270 million americans. a problem only further complicated by evolving science. bret? >> bret: amazing stats. more on this with the panel. david, thank you. israel, meantime, is not backing down on its offensive against hamas. even after today's strike on a refugee camp in gaza. senior correspondent mike tobin is in southern israel again tonight with the latest. good evening, mike. >> mike: good evening, bret. israel said a powerful airstrike into the northern end of the gaza strip and killed a high value target. that target came at a price. the palestinian red crescent estimates at least 25 others were killed. >> a giant crater in a densely populated refugee camp in the northern gaza strip. israel owns the airstrike but blames the devastation on a tunnel that collapsed and blames hamas for building, operating and fighting from civilian neighborhoods. >> why was the hamas battalion commander literally operating underneath a civilian area? they have no concern for their civilians. >> the israelis say ibrahim was responsible for sending terrorist operatives for carrying out the october 7th attack. his death is just one of hundreds of targets israeli forces have struck in the last 24 hours. while israeli forces engage in the dangerous work of y urban combat clearing one structure at a time, intelligence experts say the combat moves slow, challenged by a shortage of intelligence on the ground and hostages at the mercy of fighters who have already proven themselves ruthless killers. >> i don't any democratic country face something like that, a bunch of unbelievable animals are holding children and -- it's tough. >> the intelligence was effective enough to free israeli soldier ima imagine dish. she has been able to provide information that she is reunited with her family. >> now our prayers are with the rest of the abducted and missing. our hearts are with all the families. >> the white house said today 66 trucks delivered aid to gaza in 24 hours. it's the highest single day delivery so far. but, in light of the devastation in jabaal i can't. express outrage and the united nations is sounding the alarm. >> establishes clear rules that cannot be ignored. it is not an ala cart menu and cannot be applied selectively the fighting continues as israeli soldiers spending fifth night inside of the gaza fence. they have paid a price as well. two israeli soldiers were killed. two injured, bret? >> bret: mike tobin in southern israel, thank you. president biden meantime finds himself in a difficult spot as the war in israel goes on. casualties mount among civilians and protests intensify here in the u.s. some former assistants to his vice president are pressing for a cease-fire and calls are growing for a more aggressive approach to getting humanitarian aids into gaza. white house correspondent peter doocy has details tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. >> peter: bret, president biden is doing his best to try to not let these wars consume his presidency. is he getting briefed behind the scenes. but tomorrow is minnesota talking bidenomics and today it was the east room talking retirement accounts. >> people are tired of being played for suckers. >> peter: updates on the war came from advisers. as israel confirmed it was their airstrike that hit a gaza refugee camp. >> it's not the goal of israeli forces to go out and deliberately take innocent civilian life. >> peter: unsatisfied group of kamala harris for president's alum want their former candidate, now the vice president, to call israel's military plans a genocide. quote: we must firmly and unequivocally reject the israeli government exploitation of these deaths to stage a genocidal campaign against civilians; however, the administration's policy remains support, humanitarian aid to innocence in gaza while supporting israeli strikes against terrorists in gaza. >> right now is not the time for a general cease-fire. it is, however, the time to consider pauses in the fighting. >> a pause in funding to ukraine worries biden officials, hoping $106 billion package covers that war and the one in israel. >> like feeding the alligator and hoping they eat you last. >> the risk of terror inside the u.s. is elevated as cbp warns officers hamas' or hezbollah terrorist could say appear at the southwest border. >> peter: is it possible that somebody who wants to commit terrorist attack during a time of elevated threat crossed the southern border into the united states already? >> i couldn't possibly answer that question, peter. all i can do is tell you that we are -- we have remained vigilant to that potential threat. >> there were a lot of questions about civilian casualties inside gaza based on numbers provided by the ministry of health, which is run by hamas. admiral kirby says they are not taking the numbers put forward by the ministry of health at face value here at the white house. bret? >> bret: peter doocy live on the north lawn. peter, thank you. senior pentagon officials say 300 additional u.s. troops have been deployed to the middle east. that's on top of the 900 announced last week. defense officials say they are not going to israel. also today, there have now been 2 7 a. tacks on facilities housing u.s. troops in the region since october 17th. iranian proxies are being blamed. the biden administration wants to combine -- combine as we have said financial assistance for israel and ukraine into a $106 billion package. there is significant resistance to this on capitol hill. primarily from house republicans. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram shows us tonight from the hill. >> six interruptions. [shouting] >> cease-fire now. >> 12 arrests of anti-israel demonstrators. >> stop the war. cease-fire now. >> as the president's foreign policy team emphasized the need to aid both ukraine and israel. >> elements of this request work together as a package. >> i can guarantee without our support putin will be successful. >> many republicans prefer ditching ukraine money, boosting only israel. house speaker mike johnson crafted a $14 billion aid plan just for israel. it is paid for by diverting money from the irs. >> standing with israel and protecting the innocent over there is in our national interest and is a more immediate need than irs agents. >> some republicans embrace the speaker's approach. >> we're not going to browbeat the house of representatives to doing it the way we want. >> but democrats torched johnson's bill for israel. >> i'm really disturbed that the house is playing political games and the shows debating a measure that they know is dead on arrival in the united states senate. >> republicans are fighting one another about ukraine. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is the biggest g.o.p. champion for ukrainian assistance. >> the threats facing america and our allies are serious and they are intertwined. if we we ignore that fact we do the so at our own peril. >> rand paul accused mcconnell of trying to undercut johnson. >> the speaker could, perhaps, be toppled again by something like this. >> i think it's notable that he is standing with schumer against the republicans. >> mcconnell says he and senate majority leader schumer agree on helping ukraine and israel but mcconnell wants the bill to include border security. the house votes on its bill thursday. bret? >> bret: chad pergram live on the hill. also the on the hill the senate has confirmed the president's choice to be u.s. ambassador to israel. jack lew's nomination was approved by a vote of 53 to 43. today stocks were up ahead of the next federal reserve interest rate decision. the 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iraq and syria since october 17th. now we go to israel's different positions into gaza. challenges dense urban areas. significant water obstacles here. you have civilians obviously in the crosshairs as hamas uses civilians as human shields. earlier israeli strikes hit the jabalia refugee camp, which is up here in the north. significant casualties there, but they say that they targeted a senior hamas commander. israeli troops also are searching for hostages. a lot of effort here in the north. remember, they cro dropped those familiar threats for civilians to get out of that northern section as the intensive was going to start there along with staunch support cease-fire from the united nations, there is all kinds of pressure on israel. they are not stopping. at the u.n. security council meeting yesterday, the israeli delegation actually donned yellow stars, a symbol of nazi persecution of jews during the holocaust. >> we will wear this star until you condemn the atrocities of hamas and 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jewish students at cornell say they are deeply disturbed by the hatred being expressed on their campus. >> even with police, you know, it's still frightening. we are trying to go about our daily lives. we are trying to continue to be proud and stay strong as our jewishselves but it's still scary. >> at the university of california calling attacks on israeli terrorism is making students and community members unsafe writing, quote: we call on the u.k. administrative leadership to retract its charges of terrorism to uplift the palestinian freedom struggle and to stand against israel's war crimes. regent jay sirs fired back your accelerator rife with falsehoods and seeks to legitimize and defend the horrific savagery of hamas massacre of october 7th. at american university in washington, d.c., there are signs of anti-semitism and islamophobia. student sources indicate swastikas have been drawn in freshman hall bathroom. two dorm rooms where jewish students live. and this week a student gave a palestinian professor a threatening note warning go back where you came from and death to all palestinians. university president sylvia burwell sent out email to the a.u. community saying hate either way will not prevail at that university. bret? >> bret: mike, thank you. just getting word from the state department that secretary blinken will travel to israel on friday for meetings with members of the israeli government and then will make other stops in the region. tonight, we give you an in-depth look at measures being taken to protect communities in southern israel. correspondent alex hogan is in ashkelon as the conflict turns normally peaceful communities into war zones. [explosion] >> ashkelon is the last major city along israel's coast before gaza. >> missile fire is the most fired upon city. [is siren] >> more than a thousand fired, even a hospital has taken two direct hits. >> you are fashioning sort of under fire, that's a different kind of word, fork working inside a war zone. we have to be prepared and ready for everything that could come to the hospital. >> with businesses shuttered, the city council is collecting items for those in need and even assembling a unit of armed civilians to protect their own section of the city. >> this is the last line of defense to protect the community from such -- >> today the israeli government released a new map detailing all of the murders and kidnappings of october 7th. from the music festival massacre to the c can i beauty attack. >> i though there will be no next time. if it will we will be proper prepared rescued through the use of force. her mom tearfully thanks the idf. >> we are praying and hoping for the return of all the hostages and our heart is with them tonight the number of hostages has climbed to 240 people. the israeli government says that is because of the number of foreign nationals that have not been accounted for. i am in as can he loan where i am standing alone. these are people of shrapnel from rockets that have exploded overhead. tonight we continue to see flairs light up the horizon falling over northern gaza. bret? >> bret: up next, republican senator ted cruz joins me to talk about his plan to try to gut hamas, financially. ♪ ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ [bell ringing] and doug says, “you can customize and save hundreds on car insurance with liberty mutual.” he hits his mark —center stage— and is crushed by a baby grand piano. are you replacing me? with this guy? customize and save with liberty bibberty. he doesn't even have a mustache! oh, look! a bibu. 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>> good evening. >> bret: i want to talk about your bill. what about this effort the house republicans taking the irs funding to first deal with israel aid. how do you see that. >> i think it absolutely makes sense to break israel aid off and do it separately. what the house is trying to do is really cynical. they know that there is widespread overwhelming bipartisan support for military assistance to israel in the middle of this war. and so what the white house proposed was a massive supplemental that took israel aid and effectively held it hostage to all the other spending priorities of the white house. i think that was wrong. i think tawas cynical. so i have been urging congress to do exactly what the house is doing. break off the israel aid, tee it up and vote on just military aid to israel. that should pass with a big bipartisan vote. now, what the house did additionally is it paid for it. it includes the military aid to israel but it pays for it out of the irs but importantly this is out of the new money for the irs. this is out of the 87,000 new irs agents which democrats are really eager to get. i think that's a very responsible pay-for. so i think i think we need to act. we need to act with bipartisan unity and we need to support israel i hope we do that. >> bret: senator schumer as can you imagine. >> this poison pill increases the deficit. the price for helping israel and abandoning america's responsibilities around the globe making it much easier for the ultra rich to cheat on their taxes. how the heck could that be their highest priority? it's only when the hard right governs republican caucus. >> schumer and the democrats love to demonize the super rich. they ignore the fact that a lot of the super rich are funding the democratic party. these 87,000 irs agents are not going after the george soros and mark zuckerberg's of the world. they 87,000 irs agents are designed to go after small businesses and families in the middle class and target their political enemies. and that is a pattern we are seeing more and more. the democrats are very comfortable using the irs, using the doj, using the fbi to target their political enemy. the house is exactly right to say we are not going to give you 87,000 new agents on top. >> bret: despite this separation, you think that 106 is not going to get through together? >> i don't. i hope we will take up and pass israel aid quickly and do it in a bipartisan manner. after that, you have got a lot of elements potentially in supplemental. one element is aid for ukraine and real divide. people have different views on that question. another element that has been linked to that is so-called border security. now, look, what the house has done on border security is a joke. what they have asked for is nothing to actually secure the border. they want more money to expedite illegal immigration, have more buses, more planes, and fly even more illegal aliens to new york and d.c. and chicago. that ain't going anywhere. i could imagine some sort of deal flying in the house and senate that had some military assistance for ukraine combined with real policy changes to secure the border and, in particular, ending catch and release. and the question is, do the democrats want to fund the ukraine war effort enough that they are willing to finally do something about the open border? i don't know the answer. >> bret: since you brought up the border. the release rate encounters 2.4 million plus. humanitarian release what they call it, 908,000. border terror watch list encounters and you see this fiscal year 2023, 169. to hear the fbi director today talk about the warnings of possible hamas and hezbollah, chilling to hear that but it's been a problem for a long time. we have been reporting on it here. >> sure. it's an enormous problem. i was down at the border last week. i take fellow senators down to the border regularly. i brought five senators down there thursday and friday. we went out on a midnight border patrol. we went to the midnight muster. talked with the border patrol agents. they are very concerned about terrorism. the san diego office of customs and border patrol sent out written guide dance to their agents saying be on watch for hamas and hezbollah terrorists trying to conceal who they are and why they are coming here. >> bret: specifically hamas and hezbollah. >> and palestinian islamic jihads they identified all three. look, i am very sorry to say it, but i believe we are at a greater risk today for a major terrorist attack in the united states than we have been at any time since september 11th. you combine war in the middle east with an open border on our southern border that is an invitation from the biden white house. if you are a terrorist and you want to murder americans, come to mexico and they will let you in. that is dangerous as hell. >> bret: all right. explain this act. hamas will sanctions at. prevents iran from accessing. blocks hamas from finding safe havens, enforces sanctions law human shields. effort to put the screws to hamas? >> that's exactly it. i start from a very simple principle. don't give money to people who hate you. if you look at the biden administration they have flowed roughly $100 billion to iran. iran is the funder, provides over 90% of hamas' budget. iran is the number one funder -- state funder of terrorism on the face of the planet. and the biden administration halls sent hundreds of millions of dollars to gaza that went directly to hamas. that makes no sense. and so this bill cuts all of that off. it cuts off the money to gaza that is going straight to hamas that is funding the death squads, that's funding the rockets. it cuts off the money to iran. it also enforces, requires the administration to enforce the oil sanctions. the ayatollah has made about $80 billion because the biden administration come in. when they came in iran, the economy was on its knees. the regime was teetering and biden so desperately wanted an iran deal that he stopped enforcing oil sanctions. right now today iran is selling 2 million barrels of oil a day. mostly to communist g these murdererrerses that are murdering jews that, are murdering americans and we need to cut off the money off. >> bret: all right. we'll follow it. senator. thank you, senator. >> thanks, bret. >> bret: sam bankman-fried back on the stand. we will take you there. dire warnings, we talked about them here, about terror threats inside the u.s. ♪ at mint mobile, we like to do the opposite of what big wireless does. they charge you a lot. we charge you a little. they put their names on arenas. we put ours on my lower back. so naturally when they announced they'd be raising their prices due to inflation, we decided to deflate our prices due to not hating you. and if this were one of their ads, they'd end it here with a "happy customer". so we'll end ours with an angry goat. oh h-ho, look at the angry goat. 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putting previous sanctions back into place one of these people said. senator cruz earlier on this show reacted to that plan. take a listen. >> what is the white house is trying to do is really cynical. they know there is widespread overwhelming bipartisan support for military assistance to israel in the middle of this war so what the white house proposed was a massive supplemental that took israel aid and effectively held it hostage for all of the other spending priorities of the white house. >> bret: we'll start there with our panel, fox news media analyst host of fox news "media buzz" howie kurtz. byron york and the aforementioned olivia beavers congressional reporter for politico. olivia, you you were working on this and found out how it is going to come to pass. and taking out of the irs funding is really something that is sorts of a hat tip to the right side of the house republican caucus. >> it certainly is. and it's coming after trying to figure out what kind of speaker mike johnson is going to be after he got elected last week. this is sort of throwing red meat to some of the more conservative hardliners in his conference. but it's also the more politically divisive way to approach it. so, senator chuck schumer might house and that could further delay it. as we know, we have a lot coming down the pike in these next two weeks including keeping the government funded. a very busy time on capitol hill. >> u.s. support for israel in the war with hamas does the u.s. have a responsibility to support israel. 52% say it does. 44% does not. as far as support for ukraine funding, fox poll, it has dropped pretty significantly. if you look at this over the months. and that, obviously, is a split in the republican caucus as well. >> yeah. well this war fatigue, obviously. and i'm not sure i grasp what mike johnson in his first official act as speaker is trying to accomplish by putting the money in for israel and saying nah, zip, nothing for ukraine. clearly red meat is a good phrase. he is appealing to the maga wing of the republican party, which i have grave reservations about continuing to throwing money supporting ukraine against the brutal russian invasion. at the same time he said he wants to have bipartisan cooperation. and the democrats is not going to go for this. this could delay or even kill the much needed aid to israel at a time when it's so urgent. >> bret: byron? >> i don't think the idea is zero aid for ukraine. the idea is splitting the two ukraine aid and israel aid apart. they wanted 14, $15 billion for israel and they want $61 billion for ukraine. a lot of republicans thought and i think they are correct. biden saw an opportunity to put these two together with the emergency in israel. and get enough ukraine money so they won't have to ask for any more until the election next year. so there is a political calculation going on. there is very, very strong support for israel on capitol hill. republicans and democrats. and there probably would be enough support to pass a ukraine bill if you add republicans and democrats together in the house and certainly in the senate. so i think these two things are going to pass. in part it's a process argument. these are two different wars and it's not a crazy idea to fund them separately. >> bret: also 106 billion from the white house is border security funding but it's how the white house wants to put it together as far as that funding goes. republicans are very critical of that. that comes as this hearing up on capitol hill really raised some eyebrows today. the fbi director here. >> the jewish community is uniquely, uniquely targeted by pretty much every terrorist organization across the spectrum. and when you look at a group that makes up 2.4%, roughly, of the american population, it should be jarring to everyone that that same population accounts for something like 60% of all religious-based hate crimes. >> bret: talks about anti-semitism but also talks about hamas and hezbollah specifically may have been trying to target our southern border and may already be here. >> yeah. you know, you are hearing republicans talking about the southern border thing. they want to plan as this concern arises before pass anything on ukraine. it's just muddying the waters in terms of how they are going to move forward with legislation. and certainly the southern border has been an issue that we talk about on this show. and republicans have been arguing for a plan but it's going to be very tough as we talked about with a democratic president, democrat run senate and republicans who have a very different way of how to address that issue. >> bret: howie, how about 30,00g so far. netanyahu in the "wall street journal," the battle of civilization, iran has formed axis of terror by arming training and financing hamas and gaza hezbollah and lebanon. houthis in lebanon and other terror proxies throughout the middle east and iran. if the axis of evil win you will be their next target, that's why israel's victory will be your victory. it is a bit of a p.r. campaign here as the street-to-street, building to building fighting is going to be intensely in focus in the world's eyes and on college campuses and every place else. >> that's presistlesly why president biden has been pushing b.b. netanyahu to exercise restraint knowing full well that world opinion and from the poll you cited maybe in the united states as well turn a bit against isr israel' large e. strategy fbi director chris wray absolute unmistakable. and unacceptable rise in anti-semitic incidents raising from violence to harassment. so there are a lot -- there is a lot of maneuvering here to try to win the battle. but the bombing today by israel of the largest refugee camp in gaza is not helping matters. yes israel says it killed a top hamas commander and this is how hamas uses civilians as human shields. a lot of people are just going to look to the number of refugees who died. >> bret: but that is their m.o., byron. they put hamas command centers underneath hospitals, in camps. why it's called a refugee campion. it's a permanent settlement there but, yes, that's part of their -- how they operate and that's what the israelis are saying lee to go south domestically we have seen real divide republicans and progressive left over. this the members of the progressive left began screaming genocide before israel even began to defend itself. on the other hand, howie mentioned the jabalia camp. what went on today and israel said they did attack us. there is no question about that. and they said why they did was to kale senior hamas commander and others. you know, i think that they will begin to lose some support amongst those people who had been previously supporting them up to now. and they do have a very tricky situation with the biden white house because the president has stood with them rhetorically but a lot of democrats are putting pressure on them. >> bret: interesting. nobody was saying to us the restraint was needed after 9/11, you know, after we were going after terrorists and al-qaeda and we maybe blew up with some civilians with drones around the world. but it's interesting. it is a p.r. battle right now. panel, thanks so much. >> thanks, bret. ♪ ♪ >> bret: okay, time for tuesday extras, real tough once this time. john asked have you ever asked about common ground participants back in one year to see if they accomplished anything they talked about. i think it's great idea. we have been doing it almost a year now. that fits. we will have one tomorrow. up next, arizona political asks serious question: what's your favorite halloween candy? all right. so i'm a reese's pieces guy pumpkin ones. i have determined out of our house so like on the porch. finally greg wonders what is my prediction for the world series? tough. texas rangers, maybe? will cain says that is who i should pull for. tomorrow on "special report" our "common ground" segment features democratic senator michael bennett, republican congresswoman maria salazar. we will talk about israel at war and their bill dealing with the southern border. thanks again for all of you who purchased "to rescue the constitution" still on the "new york times" list. appreciate it. remember if you can't catch us live set your dvr 3:00 p.m. in the west and 6:00 p.m. on the east. ingraham angle starts now. happy halloween. ♪ ♪ >> laura: good evening everyone i'm laura ingraham this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. delaying defeat that's