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. i'm bill hemmer. here we go today. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." hamas terrorists also trying to infiltrate israel from the mediterranean sea and foiled by the israeli navy. a who's 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. let's 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. >> >> we're 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, don't. we're 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 you'll 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 we've 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 we'll defend our people, we'll 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 that's at a five-year high and going after other money on the international market they're going after. president trump's administration all the proxies were all complaining they weren't 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 iran's 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, it's 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 don't 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 cease-fire or not. i don't know if this is mixed messaging or both. >> we don't believe that a cease-fire right now is what we would -- a cease-fire 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 that's 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 aren't making that distinction. i think the sighing is nails are playing right into hamas's and iran's hands that we won't have the staying power when the going gets really tough in gaza. >> dana: can i ask you one last question. we're running out of time. i want to ask you about the president's request for aid for both israel and ukraine and you don't have a speaker yet. maybe it gets solved today. how does it look in terms of the congressional vote for that money? >> i'm 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: louisiana's 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 gop's 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 well-oiled 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 gop's 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 don't see any serious hiccups there. i don't 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? i'm 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. it's about the math. johnson can only lose four votes and still prevail. >> dana: pretty tight with four votes. chad pergram, thank you. we'll be watching. [shouting] >> bill: that's a city council in the san francisco bay area passing a resolution blaming israel and ignoring hamas's horrific terror attacks. critics are piling on and we'll 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 trump's civil trial. his cross examination continues for a second day in a matter of minutes.ou know what's 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 fairfield-suisun unified. they switched to google tools for education because there's never been a reported ransomware attack on a chromebook. now they're focused on learning knowing that their data is secure. 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>> i don't 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 we're 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. that's 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 we've 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 what's happening. >> dana: a huge explosion over gaza that you can see on the left side of your screen right now, bill. >> bill: we'll watch that and get in touch with trey and mike tobin and find out what the potential target is. i don't know if it's looking east, west or south. it's difficult to know from here. >> when you see this kind of activity that we're following here, a war on israel potentially escalating, that will impact the broad economy on the global level. expect geo politics to become part of the conversation for wall street and main street as we watch an economy that is slowing. >> bill: this is edward lawrence, fox business colleague of ours talking about iran funding suggesting the oil money is helping these proxies. watch here. >> the president's current energy policies giving iran enough money to fund terror groups. will the price of oil has gone up under this president. >> wholeheartedly disagree. >> the administration decided to regulate the oil industry here. as the price of oil goes up does it give iran enough money to fund the terror groups? >> there seems to be a big jump. i won't speak into that type of hypothetical. >> either a hypothetical or common sense. >> the jump the oil prices empowered our adversaries, iran. what she blew off in the answer this administration has unfortunately empowered that, empowered iran by lessening, weakening the sings, enabling them to get billions in oil revenue and a reason why 60% of the people in iran live below the poverty level. the leadership is using it for empowering groups like hamas and their nuclear stockpile. >> bill: breaking news now. fox news alert and we have the former president leaving his tower in mid town manhattan. he will make what has become a daily journey down to the lower part of the city where he will go back into the courtroom in about 35 minutes from now and for the second day in a row be face-to-face with his former business partner michael cohen. at the end of the court session yesterday, the cross examination began on behalf of donald trump's lawyers. that will continue today for day two and we'll see how it goes. remember, when the former president goes in, he usually makes comments. ever since the threat of gag orders came out i would suggest some of the comments have been much more brief than we have seen before, dana. stand by on that. >> dana: sound bit. >> bill: we saw it yesterday. israel is calling for the u.n. chief to resign after he said that surprise terrorist attack on israel did not happen in a vacuum. that's not all he said. she reacts to the stunning comments coming up in a moment. california's governor newsom went to china and sat down with president xi. you ask yourself, what did they talk about? 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"the new york times" says the contention by israeli and american intelligence agencies that a failed palestinian rocket launch is to blame remains plausible. but the times analysis does not cast doubt on one of the most publicized pieces of evidence that israeli officials have used to make their case and complicate a straight forward narrative they have put forth. >> bill: what's the piece of evidence? >> dana: video evidence backed up by audio evidence that's backed up by evidence on the ground. it wasn't the hospital but the parking lot next to it. it was not a crater, it was in line with the type of rockets -- >> bill: it was the rocket at night you can see it trace through the night sky. >> dana: several going this way. one goes the wrong way and lands in their own territory. >> bill: did we not report a week ago there were 500 rockets that never made it out of gaza that never left that territory? let's ask someone who might know. u.n. secretary israel wants him to resign saying the deadly terror attacks from hamas did not happen in a vacuum. heinrich spokeswoman for benjamin netanyahu. thank you for your time. we spoke yesterday. i want to go through a number of things. give me a chance to get in here. the times is saying some of the most publicized pieces of evidence don't seal the case. that israel has been using -- used to make their case complicates the straight forward narrative. can you tell us what piece of evidence that is that they seem to be calling into question on the hospital last week? >> you talking about the hospital bombing, that story that should be put to bed by now? >> bill: yes. >> so it is outrageous. this double standard in which israel is being addressed by some in the international media community, you have jewish and democratic state on one hand that can conduct inquiries. we don't shoot from the hip. we conduct thorough inquiries and when we make a mistake, bill, we own it. we own it. we owned our mistakes in the past and then they take the word of a terrorist organization after all the evidence that came out? i mean, this is -- it sounds like insanity to me. we should not believe anything that comes -- >> bill: it seemed to be put to bed. i want to talk about the ground invasion. is the u.s. dictating terms to the idf as to what they can do? >> we're grateful for the united states support. the moral global leadership and material support for giving us the tools we need to defeat this monster called hamas. as for the next stage of the operation, it will happen, it will come. we are consulting the international partners as you know and the united states and foreign nationals also be held captive in gaza right now. israel is a sovereign nation and we'll make the right decisions at the right time. these are the decisions that our military generals and our political leadership, the unity government will make when the time is right, when the conditions are right and once we decide to act, we will act decisively and judiciously. >> bill: here is the idf chief, his quote. the idf is ready for the ground maneuver and make a decision with the political echelon regarding the shape and timing of the next stage. every minute that peace on the other side we strike the enemy more killing terrorists destroying infrastructure and getting more intelligence. reporting on the gaza strip on the israel side that many israeli soldiers are bored in the desert. some are going home and returning. you wonder about a war posture. you want to be on your front foot. when the question came to john kirby at the white house yesterday, does the idf have an effective plan, his answer is that is a question for the idf. so i turn that question to you. >> and i'm not the idf. i'm not a general and can't speculate, bill, about the timing of potential ground invasion. it is not something that we can do. our military brass and the government are looking at all different variables at the same time. as you know, there are very, very complex considerations to bring into account. they are looking at the big picture and once the time is right, once the conditions are right and in israel's favor trust me, we'll act because we will complete the goal of this war that we did it once and was forced upon it. the goal is to dismantle hamas. we'll do it, we, israelis, took this decision as a nation that we are no longer going to live next to a genocidal threat. it is impossible. we will not risk the lives of our civilians any longer. >> bill: last question. we were on the air yesterday when the u.n. secretary general delivered the speech that he delivered at the u.n. i know how you feel about this. because you shared that with me. but knowing the history of the united nations and so many countries and their feelings toward israel, you don't expect him to resign, do you, in any capacity? 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good morning. >> good morning. no big crowds just yet. that's what we are expecting to see in a few hours. nyu is one of the campuses out of several planning a nationwide walk-out. look at the screen. a live look at washington square park. we expect the students at nyu to walk out of class at 12:30, 1:00 and chant and say they will stand in solidarity with the palestinian people. take a look here. these are some of the other protests popping up across the country including at nyu. we have seen it before here. students for justice the in palestinian and other groups at dozens of campuses encouraging students to walk right out of class calling on the u.s. to difficultest from israel -- pro-israel counter protests are expected here at campuses across the country. israeli organizers all columbia university that we talked to tell me these schools need to be more vocal. listen. >> it is shocking because again i understand there is free speech but to me as someone with common sense, this should not be something that is under the free speech. it is still happening. >> from university of chicago to harvard university college campuses have been the epicenter of the massive protests. many big donors are saying we're cutting ties with these schools because you are allowing anti-semitic events on campus. today's annual giving day at columbia was postponed. it usually pulls in big money. last year it raised $30 million in 24 hours. that's not going on today. harvard the school paper said the school is establishing a task force to support students experiencing docsing and harassment against backlash who signed to a statement that held israel entirely responsible for violence happening. back live at washington square park another live look where this will all happen here on this campus to see the large crowds and watching the campus wack-outs across the country and seeing what the schools say when all the students head out. keep you posted. >> bill: that will be a story regardless. nice to see you in greenwich village. >> dana: jewish students say they're terrified for their safety as top universities take minimal effort to keep them safe amid a rise in anti-semitism. our next guest faced these chants that erupted at m.i.t. those are students at one of our country's most prestigious schools calling for an intifada. we have a student joining us now. you sent a letter to the university saying you don't feel safe and unhappy with how they are handling it. a clear, concrete call for terror acts and a demonstration in front of the student house. a large group of people calling out intifada. i experienced two in my life. the first 87 to 93, the second from 2000 to 2005 and expressing not only my concerns but the concerns of many israelis and jewish people on campus. we are truly afraid for our lives. i'm sorry for what you are going through. it is important for people to raise your hand and take a stand, like you. >> yes. thank you very much. >> dana: what is it like on campus today after you had sent the letter? >> so things have been calming down a bit. people are still rallying for palestinian and for hamas, but the calls for intifada were not said again. i am not sure if it won't repeat. the officials of the university haven't stood up and said anything out loud against that. there have been -- they contacted us and told us they are forming committees to discuss what are the headlines of m.i.t. i hope that one of these red lines would be not allowing to people to call for other people to kill me. i am hoping that supporting terror would not be allowed on campus. >> dana: in response to your letter, the administration of the cool m.i.t. i appreciate your outreach and it has our attention. before all this happened, before october 7th, were you aware of any sort of negative feelings towards you or anti-semitism on campus? >> there were always some student organizations here supporting the palestine which were anti-seamites by their nature but no conflict between us. that this sense of october 7th escalated and it is now everywhere. it is not something that you need to go out to see. they go in their rallies just below my office, everywhere. it is not something that you cannot hear every day. >> dana: what do you aspire to do after your education at m.i.t.? >> that's a question that i was hoping to be a professor for mathematics here at the u.s., but now i am deeply concerned that it is probably not the best thing for me and my wife and my kids. >> dana: where would you rather be? >> back in israel where it may not be the safest place but at least the people around me are not calling for my death. >> dana: i think that's a distressing thing for us to hear. we want people like you to come here. raise your children here and have the opportunity and aspiration. but because of the fear and real concern you have you might consider leaving and not being here and that would be a sad thing for us. i understand your concern. if there is anything you would like those other students to know today i will give you the final word here to make your plea to them for tolerance and understanding and more education. >> the first thing that i want to say is that i am -- i cannot believe that any decent student at m.i.t. can actually justify raping women and beheading babies and i think that these people were disinformed and i just hope they will get the right information. and i hope that they will get -- that they will understand what the words that they are using mean and it is one thing for -- that i want to say to anyone, it is not a matter of being offended. it is a matter of our safety and the safety of my kids. the safety of the kids that i send, personally send to campus. i want my kids to be in a place where people are not cheering for their death. >> dana: thank you for sharing your thoughts with us today. i would love to stay in touch. thank you. >> what is the level of concern right now about the rise in anti-semitism in light of everything that's going on in israel? >> those perceived to be muslim have had a number of hate fooled attacks. >> white house press secretary karine jean-pierre on cleanup duty after some criticism over her response to a question about anti-semitism. yesterday she offered moral clarity on the subject at the white house briefing when she led off with this statement. >> i want to make something clear. i understand how important moral clarity is. when jews are targeted because of their beliefs or their identity, when israel is singled out because of anti-jewish hatred, that is anti-semitism. and that is unacceptable. >> bill: that was from yesterday. good for here to clarify the remarks. she shot out a tweet on monday evening saying she misheard the question. >> dana: no reporter in the room pressed her on it at the time and if she had misheard the question but they let it sit for a day. hopefully they will be on the right track. >> bill: john kirby followed that and she came back. the question didn't come up again to your point. >> dana: want to get you to this. donald trump's one time lawyer and fixer michael cohen returns to the witness stand in the president's civil fraud trial. fireworks during his first day of testimony and expect more of the same today. nate foye live outside the courthouse in new york city. hi, nate. >> so the cross examination of michael cohen is set to resume when court picks up here in just a couple of minutes now. former president trump i'm being told is just walking into the courtroom right now and i believe he is speaking. let's listen to him right now. >> it looks like that is going to happen. that will be a wonderful thing. i put out a clip today on him and did one last night so that we can get somebody who will be spectacular and maybe for many years to come he will be very good. we're very happy about that. on the trial here it is going very well. it is the biden witch hunt all comes down to d.o.j. to interfere with the election. our company turned out to be much stronger than anyone could have thought. the financial statements are much lower than the actual numbers. the actual numbers are much higher. we're in the process of proofing that. we have already proved it. they had the mar-a-lago valued at $18 million and working in coordination with the judge and we are worth approximately a 50 to 100 times the amount. a witch hunt. a bad trial. the only time -- doesn't give you a jury or anything. pure political witch hunt but we have the facts on our side so the company is much stronger than they anticipated. much stronger than anyone understood, a private company and nobody understood it. the assets have very little debt and a lot of cash. it's a great company and we're happy with the way it is going. it's a witch hunt, no question about it. getting back to congress, we think mike johnson will do really well. he is popular. he is smart, he is sharp. he will be fantastic. i think he will be a fantastic speaker. i believe that will happen. you will let me know when i come out. i'll be out in a couple of hours. 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