Destruction still raging today. Later this afternoon President Biden will hold his first News Conference since hamas carried out the Terror Attacks and escalating threats from iran target u. S. Forces in the region. A bunch of things moving on that front as we say hello. Im bill hemmer. Here we go today. Dana im dana perino and this is americas newsroom. Hamas terrorists also trying to infiltrate israel from the Mediterranean Sea and foiled by the israeli navy. A whos who of top officials of hezbollah, hamas and Islamic Jihad holding talks how to achieve total victory over israel. The pentagon revealing more than 14 attacks, one more than yesterday against u. S. Forces based in the middle east in the last week. The white house trying to connect the dots saying all these militia and all these Terror Groups are working hand in glove with tehran. Iran is certainly complicit here. Without them there is no hamas or hezbollah, without them there is no Militia Groups firing rockets at our troops in iraq and syria. Dana republican congressman Michael Waltz is former green beret is standing by. Lets go to mike tobin live in israel. Good morning, mike. Good morning, dana. Hamas rockets have found a new target today. This is across the negev desert bordering with jordan and egypt on the red sea. Significant because it has not been in reach of most rockets. A lot of israelis have gone there to get away from the rocket fire. You have hezbollah and hamas and now there is no place in the country that gets you out of the rocket fire. Israeli military has released video of that Infiltration Attempt by sea. They described hamas divers attempted to swim and infiltrate a city north of the gaza border. Israel detected them in the sea and killed the divers. At least two killed. They found tunnels they used to enter the sea, blew that up and hit a weapon facility. The situation in gaza grows more desperate by the day. 600 palestinians are seeking refuge in u. N. Shelters. Israel has allowed a trickle of aid into the gaza trip. Food, water, medicine. No fuel because they believe hamas will use that fuel for their war machine. Also there was an air strike in aleppo at the airport there. It was hit. Israel never usually confirms if they hit the airport or confirms those type of strikes but we know that the airport in aleppo and damascus have been used by iran to resupply hamas. Back to you. Dana thank you. Bill. Were concerned about other actors particularly iran looking for a way to widen this conflict beyond israel to other actors who want to take advantage of this conflict, dont. Were the most lethal fighting force the world has seen. Bill Pentagon With Dana and me yesterday talking about iran. The map behind us the level of concern there is on behalf of this administration. This is where most of the action is in gaza. This is iran and tehran way to the east. You see all the red dots on the map behind me . In the last week 14 strikes against u. S. Bases from overseas. You have two here in syria, you have three others here in iraq. When you think about iran and the message this administration is trying to send the tehran. Look at the fire power rolling into the seas here around the region. The gerald ford in the Eastern Mediterranean and In The Red Sea the carney that knocked four Cruise Missiles fired from yemen. Yemen is to the south below saudi arabia. You have the carter, hall and u. S. S. Baton. In October Of 2000 it was in the gulf when the u. S. S. Cole was blown up. Persian gulf not there yet. Eisenhower group is en route. What does that say . You look at that map and say where is iran . Now the message, here is iran. The message is clear that the u. S. Government is saying hold your fire. We heard that repeatedly yesterday. Three Different Administration officials said the exact same thing. Those are their talking points, message to iran leadership now. Why is iran such a menace for israel . These are the routes that we believe are used out of iran. Easy route to smuggle missiles, rockets, armaments across the Northern Edge of iraq, across syria north of beirut. Another easy route to iraq and Central Syria as well. The west bank youll hear about this reporting with mike tobin and trey yengst. This is what we believe from the institute for National Security studies. The west bank on the eastern edge of israel you get the Supply Routes coming into damascus and trickle here to the west side of amman, the capital city of jordan. The best routes for the iranians to cause havoc throughout the area. Dana mentioned this in beirut, lebanon the meeting took place yesterday among those leaders. Michael waltz out of florida served in the middle east and back with us today. Thank you for your time. I mentioned the administration leaders. Here is Antony Blinken after questions with iran and what message you are sending them. Here it is at the u. N. Let me say what weve consistently said to iranian officials through other channels, the United States does not seek conflict with iran. We do not want this war to widen. But if iran or its proxies attack u. S. Personnel anywhere, make no mistake well defend our people, well defend our security, swiftly and decisively. Bill at some point you could deliver that with more gusto but there it is. He is promising essentially assuring iran that we will defend ourselves. Really tough and aggressively. How about we Start Talking about consequences, real consequences. Shutting down their flow of oil thats at a fiveyear high and going after other money on the International Market theyre going after. President Trumps Administration all the proxies were all complaining they werent getting enough funds from tehran. And then you add that, bill, to the mixed messaging the equivocating in the first few days after october 7th whether iran was directly involved just a few weeks ago the administration came before the House Foreign Affairs committee and argued to remove irans proxies from the Authorization Use of Military Force and then the 14 times that our bases have been hit in the last few weeks is on top of 70 to 80 times in the last two years. And there have been 0 consequences for it and to the extent that there is, its only against the proxies. Not against iran itself. And that was the Paradigm Shift under President Trump and mike pompeo. They imposed consequences of iran by taking out their most effective field general and deterrence was restored. We can have all these big, you know, movements of forces but if our adversaries dont believe we have the political will to impose real costs then it will be for nothing. Dana in regards to the fighting on the ground whether there should be a ceasefire or not. I dont know if this is mixed messaging or both. We dont believe that a ceasefire right now is what we would a ceasefire right now with only benefit hamas. We agree to protect civilians. That means hamas must cease using them as human shields. Humanitarian pauses must be considered. Dana what do you understand the policy to be . Then thats on top of the mixed messaging of the president of the United States standing in israel next to their Prime Minister lecturing them about human rights and wagging their finger to make sure you abide by the laws of warfare. There is an absolute distinct difference between targeting civilians and Collateral Damage of civilians. Of course, pointing out the human shields. We arent making that distinction. I think the sighing is nails are playing right into hamass and irans hands that we wont have the Staying Power when the going gets really tough in gaza. Dana can i ask you one last question. Were running out of time. I want to ask you about the president s request for aid for both israel and ukraine and you dont have a speaker yet. Maybe it gets solved today. How does it look in terms of the congressional vote for that money . Im optimistic about speaker, dana. On this 106 billion supplemental we need to talk about the policy. Washington is terrible about just throwing more money at an issue. What does success look like in ukraine . What are the objectives . Is it full expulsion, what is it . On the border if you just throw money at processing more people it will only attract more people. We have to deter the migrants and then we have an iran problem when it comes to israel. Where is the reversal on iran before again we just rubber stamp a huge amount of money which could be i would argue probably is throwing a lot of good money after bad policies. Dana thank you. Thank you. Dana louisianas mike johnson the fourth House Speaker nominee in two weeks after a late night closed door vote. Another floor vote could take place when the house reconvenes at noon today. Chad pergram is watching all of this with great interest to explain it to us. Hi, chad. Good morning. Who is mike johnson . The gops fourth Speaker Nominee after the rank and file burned through the entire Leadership Team and jim jordan and johnson could be speaker by early afternoon. He says democracy is messy. We have a very busy agenda, we have Appropriations Bills to get through the process. You will see this group looking working like a welloiled machine. We owe it to the American People. People have been sent by the people of the country to do this job. We are going to do it well. He defeated Byron Donalds in a late night vote. Hours earlier the gops speaker Nominee Emotioner bested. He was out after four hours. 205 republicans voted by secret ballot. Leading to question whether johnson can win on the floor today. He has his pulse on where the American People are and look, there was a lot of unity in the room. People were absent. It was late. Looking at the list i dont see any serious hiccups there. I dont see any obstacles tomorrow. Gop arizona Representative Crane was one of the eight republicans who voted to oust former speaker Kevin Mccarthy earlier this month creating the impasse. His constituents opposed tom emmer. Change is difficult. When you get yourself there a mess like we got ours in as a country it will be painful to get out of it, right . Im grateful that i think that we got a Speaker Nominee that my voters can get behind, be proud of. So the vote could come shortly after 1 00 p. M. Eastern time. The winner needs an outright majority of all members voting for a candidate by name. Its about the math. Johnson can only lose four votes and still prevail. Dana pretty tight with four votes. Chad pergram, thank you. Well be watching. [shouting] bill thats a city council in the San Francisco bay area passing a resolution blaming israel and ignoring hamass horrific Terror Attacks. Critics are piling on and well show you how. Dana this happened in colorado yesterday, too. Wall street Big Wiggs Gathering in saudi arabia for an investment form. Is it still business as usual with the War Escalating in the middle east . Bill Michael Cohen is back on the stand in Donald Trumps civil trial. His Cross Examination continues for a second day in a matter of minutes. Ou know whats taking ag bite out of Family Budgets . Car loans. Get a newday 100 va cash out loan. Own your car and have no more monthly car payments. This is Spring Semester at fairfieldsuisun unified. They switched to google tools for education because theres never been a reported Ransomware Attack on a chromebook. Now theyre focused on learning knowing that their data is secure. with 30 grams of protein. 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Aishah hosni on that story today live on the hill. Aishah, good morning. Where does this stand . Good morning to you, bill. Were anticipating a Committee Hearing from the Senate ForeignRelations Committee in an hour here as the Senate Democrats on the compaty should have the votes to move lew out of committee to the senate floor acknowledged embattled senator bob menendez voting today. Senate republicans as a minority can delay the process for another week. We wait to see if theyll do that in an hour. Lew is facing stiff gop opposition because he helped ease the sanction on iran to curb Nuclear Ambitions with the Iran Nuclear Deal with the obama administration. He called the deal a big milestone. Today republicans blame the deal for all the iranianbacked chaos in the middle east. If republicans object today it could take another week for the committee to get his nomination to the floor and gop leader Mitch Mcconnell was asked about this and didnt give us a big sense of what theyll do today. Will you be supporting the nomination to be ambassador of israel . I dont have any announcement to make on that today. There is serious concern on the hill about iranian backed groups will Congress Tries to pass a bipartisan global aid package. Others like issa thinks Congress Needs to push back harder. There are a number of actions were looking at. One is to codify historic sanctions into law so that they not be an option for the administration to simply ignore. I will run over to Senate Foreign relations now and update you as soon as we have a decision on lew. Bill the status of jack lew is forthcoming. Dana i bet they have Walking Shoes on today. The annual Global Investment forum. Top ceos sharing a warning on how the with a are in israel could affect the global economy. Jamie dimon said this, please in spite of what happened in israel, i urge you to keep up that effort. It is the only way to get there with some leadership from saudi arabia for all the folks in the middle east. He is talking about that peace deal that was on the march between israel and saudi arabia upended at least for now maybe because of the war. It could have been the trigger for hamas to go into israel when they did on october 7th. It was becoming clear the saudis were interested in getting in on the abraham accords. Thats when we were actually talking about peace in the middle east under the trump administration. I think jamie dimon, ceo of j. P. Morgan has been very aware of the geopolitical risks, the china risk and he is looking at operating his company in a much more dangerous back drop. He called it one of the most dangerous times weve seen. Add to that oil prices have empowered the saudis to do more deals. Wall street wants a piece of those deals. They want to be in on the Infrastructure Projects in new cities the saudis are coming up with. They want to be in on it if the saudis want to take companies public. No surprise that these Wall Street Titans went to the conference despite whats happening. Dana a huge explosion over gaza that you can see on the left side of your screen right now, bill. Bill well watch that and get in touch with trey and mike tobin and find out what the potential target is. I dont know if its looking east, west or south. Its difficult to know from here. When you see this kind of activity that were follo