today. secretary of state antony blinken meeting with the chinese counterpart and then china's foreign minister has a sit-down with president biden. we're monitoring that today. first, however, want to get to this now. the center of israel and its commercial capital under attack again. a rocket fired out of gaza slamming into an apartment building in tel aviv. that's where we start. good morning, everybody. it's friday. you've almost made it, america. i'm bill hemmer. welcome back, aishah in washington. >> aishah: i'm in for dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." let's get right to it. the u.s. retaliating carrying out air strikes against iranian-linked sites in syria after drone and rocket attacks against america forces there and iraq. israeli tanks and troops briefly enter gaza in a second raid ahead of a larger ground invasion. now time could be of the essence. >> i think it needs to be immediate. they need to understand what is going on in israel is going on in israel. you won't attack our u.s. troops. they need to be protected. our diplomat ickx facilities need to be protected. if you let it go on you'll see another benghazi if you aren't careful. >> let's go to mike tobin. >> u.s. war planes have struck in the region. two bases in syria. to the east of syria near iraqi border, bases operated by the iranian revolutionary guard in response to the menacing attacks to u.s. forces in the region. 19 attacks from drones and missiles resulting in 21 injuries of u.s. forces. there was a fatality of a u.s. contractor scrambling to safety and suffered a heart attack. lloyd austin was deliberate in pointing out it does not represent a shift in u.s. policy as it relates to the israel/hamas wars. as it relates to that war, israeli forces have been busy, something we haven't seen yet is an incursion by the israeli navy. part of the hamas military structure supported by aircraft and ships at sea as the forces went on ground. they came backrest cued by ships at sea and taken away about naval vessels. incursion on the ground the second night in a row that we have seen israeli forces go in on the ground. one of the things we know about this particular incursion is they were accompanied by combat engineers who helped to support whatever is going on on the ground there. speaking to the notion that this is preparation for the looming ground invasion. there was a rocket. we've seen several long-range rocket launch eaves today out of gaza. one got through and hit an apartment building in tel aviv. since that time at the border of the gaza strip we've noticed artillery fire has picked up. >> bill: mike tobin, long day there. back with you with developments as they happen. thank you. >> aishah: it is day three in the manhunt for the suspect in the maine mass shantey. a raid on robert card's home last night. it ended with no arrests and no sign of him. the 40-year-old army reservist is the prime suspect right now in the shooting spree that killed at least 18 people and hurt more than a dozen others. lawrence jones is live in lewiston, maine with the latest from the ground. good to see you. >> lawrence: how are you doing? i've been talking with sources over the night. as you know the bortek unit is on the ground. they hunt fugitives and swat teams. this guy has military training and marksman and knows how to use a weapon. high power weapons as well. not something your everyday police officer will have the vest equipped with that level three vest to protect them. a lot of these swat teams are going door-to-door of known places where he could be or residence that he owns. a tough investigation. praying for the law enforcement officers going door-to-door. >> next time tried and lost his life trying to help his friends and his customers and standing up and being a man that he felt he had to be. >> lawrence: that's my interview earlier with the dad. it's unbelievable what he did. his son actually went into harm's way. not only did he protect the folks in this restaurant but the employees as well. they are saying that he may have delayed the shooter and got that shooter out of there. aishah. >> aishah: thank you so much. keep us updated if you find out anything more. >> bill: joey jones is a retired bomb technician and fox news contributor. you have been watching this from afar. i want to tap into your perspective what we are learning from the family. hearing voices in his ear over the past six months or a year. hearing aids attached to them as well. made threats against people on his own base over the summer. spent two weeks in a mental hospital. i don't know where he went after that but it sure seems like the ball was dropped somewhere, joey. how do you try to piece this together? >> this is really tough situation especially for people like his family who from what i've read tried their best to report local law enforcement and army. saying we need to get him help and tragic for the people murdered by this man. whatever his reasoning or led him there, they are the victims and we care so much about them. listen, i served in the military. i spoke to a lieutenant colonel in the air force with a reserve unit locally yesterday. there isn't -- when it comes to mental health. this mandated or even common. that might be a problem or may not. we have a balance between your constitutional rights as an individual and what is best for the public interest. as much as i love to advocate for the second amendment, i think it is the problem that needs to be addressed rather than how to limit the rights of law abiding sane individuals. how do we pinpoint and attack issues like this. look at every mass shooter over the last several years. how many weren't suffering from mental health issues? very few. i think that commonality is really important. >> aishah: this was planned so well. i want to talk about this guy's skill level if we can pull out the full screen showing his military record. sergeant first class, petroleum supply specialist in the army reserve. no combat deployments but received a couple awards for his service. you and i have been talking about his skillset that he might be using to avert authorities. what does he know and what does he not know that could make this a tougher job for local law enforcement? >> i really want to push back on the public's perception that it is a jason born character who had severe or extensive training in the military to avert police. there is nothing that has been told about him that proves that to be the case. i'm not saying that isn't the case. he could have gone to training schools that an officer has the opportunity to go to. he didn't have pre-deployment combat training or infantry training. very basic skills training to do the job he did. that's what i know for a fact. if he had anything beyond that they aren't saying. the reason why i bring that up. he lives in maine. maine is a wilderness, mostly untamed wilderness under snow for months out of the year. the people there hunt bear and moose almost predators -- a bear is a predator. lifestyle of an outdoorsman in maine is more applicable to what this man can do to avert police than any of the army training. i'm not belittling or talking down what the service trains but this belief that because someone served in the military they have a supernatural ability to avert police and go on the run simply isn't true. you can learn more on the internet or in a gun club when it comes to surviving in the wilderness and hunting and being stealthy than you can in basic training. i want to calm people a little bit in thinking that anyone who served in the military might have gone to combat and had ptsd is a super soldier that can wreak havoc and not proven true by any of the incidents in the country. i want to make sure people understand that. serving as a reservist you are a citizen soldier. you spend more time in society than on base and learn as much being an outdoorsman when it comes to this situation. it's important for people to understand. >> bill: we are in content yesterday and you were talking about the title of a firearms specialist described to us. explain to our audience what that might mean? >> firearms instructor. i don't know if that's certified by an organization like the national rifle association or if he took an online course and was a firearms instructor at a local gun range. you can see video after video of a certified firearms instructor doing dumb things. i only bring that up. i don't want an incident like this and these labels slapped so quickly to demonize and stoke fear in a community of people. whether or not he is a well-trained marksman relies more on what he has done as a civilian on his own time than in the military or even obtaining a very general certain i have indicate that says firearms instructor. he went into a building for very, very vulnerable targets and took advantage of that situation with a weapon. that is something you don't have to be any type of expert to do. we saw it over and over again, we've seen it. it is a problem that needs to be fixed. places need to be fortified and people need to be vigilant but very inexperienced people do similar things. i just want people to understand what these terms mean, why they are or not applicable. right now he is averting police in maine. the chances are the fact that he spent so much time outdoors is why he is able to do that. not because of any extensive firearms training or time in the army. that's important. more than 100 million people own guns. more than 20 million a.r.s in the country, tens of millions of people that enjoy the outdoors. one person going absolutely crazy does not demonize the subsets of people or make those sk skillsets negative for our society. >> do we like the fact he is on u.s. soil? no. do we hope others of the u.n. take the opportunity to ask tough questions of him and what his country is doing? >> iran's foreign minister came to new york city and then he went on to deliver a fiery speech against the u.s. at the united nations. should he have been here in the first place especially with ties to hamas? >> aishah: anti-seam advertiseing spreading on campuses across the country and now lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are taking action. republican senator and presidential candidate tim scott will join us next. >> bill: you can add another primary challenger to president biden. we'll tell you all about him and what's about to happen in 45 minutes. >> i think it's time for a new generation and time to pass the torch. i say now. i think the time is now. i think four years from now it might be too late. might be too late. there's challenges, and i love overcoming challenges. ♪ when better money habits® content first started coming out, it expanded what i could do for special olympics athletes with developmental needs. thousands of bank of america employees like scott spend countless hours volunteering to teach people how to reach their financial goals. it felt good. it felt like i could take on the whole world. this is spring semester at over 13,000 us school districts, which have become top targets for ransomware attacks. but there's never been a reported ransomware attack on a chromebook. which is why thousands of schools like the fairfield-suisun unified school district switched to google tools for education. so they can focus on teaching and 22,000 students can focus on learning, knowing that their data is secure. 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not just money but training. where is it coming from iran? a hezbollah recruiting video showing how iran provides combat skills, firing techniques and technical expertise. how to build ieds, shape explosive, manufacture rockets, drones and booby-trap billions. two decades fighting in iraq, syrian civil war. yemen and afghanistan. iran trains fighters at its university in tehran and military camps in iran and lebanon. 500 hamas fighters trained in iran in september. training it also teaches palestinianian engineers how to resemble and manufacturing drone and missile components in iran. >> you will have more advanced weapons and facilities and train on them in iran. it may be harder to say move a particular model of missile or drone. if you want to have a guy move the stick it may be better to do it with the guys who pioneered that technology. >> experts say iranian tactics were evident in the ambush in israel. the use of motorcycles, small unit fighting. hit and run raids. civilian targets and taking hostages. interrogation escape toured hamas gunman said they followed orders to kill men and take women, children and elderly as hostages. recruiting videos promote iran's revolutionary mindset. a world free of u.s. and israeli forces. >> these groups are coming in iran and spending time in camps in military training and in terms of training to help them build and manufacture it inside of the region. >> u.s. designated iran as a state sponsor of terror 40 years ago. we've sanctioned more than 1,000 individuals and companies that finance groups like hamas and hezbollah. clearly it is not enough. >> aishah: not working. william la jeunesse, thank you. >> i say frankly to the american statesmen who are now managing the genocide in palestinian that we do not come to expansion of the war in the region, but if the genocide in gaza continues there will not be spared from this fire. >> bill: that was a warning from iran's foreign minister to the united states delivered on u.s. soil yesterday. happened at the u.n. coming as the white house threatens swift retaliation to any tampering by iran in the israel/hamas war. presidential candidate tim scott joins me now. senator, good morning to you. it has been a week. good morning, thank you for your time. what would you do about iran? >> number one, let's go back a couple months when we had the president of iran on our soil calling for the death of members of president trump's administration, number one. number two, we now have the foreign minister threatening america. they would not be allowed back on our soil. they did it while being guarded by our secret service. they should have a swift reaction from this administration. if i were president, one thing i would say you threaten my country there will be consequences in your country. we know that 90% of the money hamas has used to butcher israelis and americans came from iran. we should make sure that while we can see their fingerprints, iran's fingerprints on this war, the blood from americans and israelis are on their hands. the consequences must be steep and they should be met swiftly. we should never say when we'll do it. but without any question there should be targets in iran that we've already chosen to tell iran a clear message, you threaten our lives, it will cost you yours as well. >> bill: maybe that's happening behind the scenes but publicly, anyway, it seems like this administration is embracing tehran to a degree. why has this relation persisted this way, do you think? >> that's a great question. no good answer comes to mind. i can tell you, though, that this relationship pre-dates october 7th. you think about the fact that in this administration, biden's administration, wanted the russians to negotiate with the iranians on our behalf for a new nuclear deal. the hostage negotiation that brought another $6 billion to iran. i don't know what this administration does not understand that you cannot make a good deal with a bad actor and you certainly cannot make it with the world's greatest sponsor of terrorism. i don't understand joe biden. we need to fire joe biden and hire me. that's how we make the change that we need. >> bill: let's get to that in a moment. russia hosted leaders from iran and hamas. extraordinary . you can see it in plain sight. nobody is hiding their feelings and relationship on this. >> not at all. that's why we should take people at face value in this situation. we know that hezbollah and hamas train with iran. we know back in april of this year we saw "wall street journal"'s article that they were already planning some kind of attack. all the information and the evidence is clear. reacting to it is necessary. having ten plus attacks on our military personnel since october 7th before this administration responded with precise attacks in syria, it took too long. if you want to stop bad behavior, hit it immediately. that doesn't just slow it down, you hit them hard enough it will stop. >> bill: you know, the rise in anti-semitism is prevalent. >> yes, disgusting. >> we see it all over new york city every day. on college campuses, it seems to be perhaps maybe the impetus for a lot of this. listen to a student columbia university upper west side of manhattan. said this on fox business. >> tone has been extremely unpleasant to put it mildly. it is full of discord. it has not gotten better. every day i attempt to start new, to move forward, to look for some source of positivity and each day i see a new form of demonstration, a new form of hate, a new form of anti-semitism and it is just absolutely disheartening. >> bill: you will be on a college campus later today in oxford, mississippi. will you address this today there? >> absolutely. one of the things i've been saying since 2016 we need to codify a definition of anti-semitism for our college campuses. the eruption of anti-semitism started several years ago but it continued to go unchecked. we cannot be surprised when we allow for this behavior to continue to spread like a cancer. now we see ourselves with foreign students on college campuses and our own students joining together calling for jewish genocide. they are advocating for mass murder and encouraging terrorism. those universities and colleges that will not bring them and hold them accountable should lose their pell grant funding. >> bill: we'll see whether or not it gets to that point. senator, we'll follow your speech later today. thank you for your time this morning. >> god bless. >> bill: tim scott, thank you. >> aishah: president biden has a new problem now facing a challenger from within his own party. as troubles continue to mount for his re-election bid. the gunman in the deadly maine shooting remains on the run and we expect a news conference in the next hour here. we'll take you there live. >> they get trained to deal with someone with mental illness and someone psychotic or socio- path. when you add that di mention of fire power and marksmanship it goes beyond a normal officer's capability typically. capability typically. credit cards and car loan with an affordable va home loan from newday. you can save $500 every month. rates on credit cards have gone up to 22%. for late payments, as much as 30%, more than three times higher than a newday va loan. pay off your credit cards and car with a newday100 va loan and save. liberty mutual customized my car insurance and i saved hundreds. with the money i saved, i started a dog walking business. oh. 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gallup found earlier this year in its polling that for the first time ever, more democrats had sympathies towards palestinians than israelis. >> no reason to think the white house plans to soften their stance on a cease-fire. they're sympathetic to israel's plans not to anybody blaming israel for october 7th. >> we believe they are wrong. we believe they are repugnant and disgraceful. our condemnation belongs with terrorists who have brutally murdered, raped, kidnapped hundreds of israelis. there can be no equivocation about that. >> president biden will talk to the chinese foreign minister today and go to a campaign fundraiser and then go to delaware. >> bill: so you have another challenger entering the race to try to knock joe biden off the ticket in 2024. next hour minnesota democratic congressman dean phillips will file to run in his party's primary in new hampshire. he says he is running for the future of our country. give this a listen here. >> i think president biden has done a spectacular job for our country but it is not about the past. this is an election about the future. i will not sit still and be quiet in the face of numbers that are so clearly saying that we will be facing an emergency next november. >> bill: he represents the west side of minneapolis. he joins the author and spiritual advisor mary anne williamson to challenge joe biden. >> aishah: we'll hear from maine state police on robert card who continues to evade authorities there. state, local and federal authorities working round the clock to trace his digital footprint prior to the deadly shooting. getting help from cbp and special forces. let's bring in bill braten. i want to start off with what happened last night. it seemed like we were getting close to finding him. they were at his home in maine. we were hearing about flash bangs being heard at the house, police screaming at somebody to come out. and then nothing. they left. how do you read that? >> what you saw last evening was the extreme caution which law enforcement is going to approach this individual if and when they locate him particular life if he is in a building. what you heard last night, the flash bangs, the search, the slowness of that process is something you should expect. officer safety, safety of the public or if this individual were to be holding hostages, which is a potential. they have to take all of that into consideration. so focus today is moved from the house, naturally, and the search area is probably expanding. the longer this goes on, the potential for him to move farther away from the incident location is greater. >> bill: one of the sister-in-law's was talking with some reporters and talked about this crisis he had over the past year hearing voices in his head. had hearing aids put in. i don't know where it led him but to a mental facility in july for a period of two weeks and well documented now. in addition, you have a neighbor for card's parents who said this to the "new york post." talked about it's a stomping ground. he grew up here and knows the area well, capable of hiding for a long time. there are a lot of places in the woods and never be seen. you can never see something like that from an airplane or helicopter. in a way it's what they are up against now, right? a lot of woods throughout the entire state of maine. >> exactly. lewiston, the second largest city in maine and in many other places would be a village. it is not a city in the sense of how we think of a city. maine is just huge woodlands, this individual, hunter, evidently and grew up in the area knows it well. also the issue of a boat. did he take his boat and go up and down that river? there is a connection to a lot of other waterways. so the search area is going to continue to expand. the number of personnel involved is extensive. only 2500 police officers in the whole state of maine. the longer this goes on, additional stress and strain on those officers. plus the economic and psychological impact of this second day of a lockdown. people not working. stores closed. the paranoia and fear that is increasing. we've seen this before in these circumstances. let's hope law enforcement with all the multiple investigations underway, phone records, where has he been in the run-up to the shootings. is he working with a phone. the whole social media situation. reporting in the last 24 hours the motivation might have been a breakup with a girlfriend. he and she frequented the two locations of the shootings. was he looking for her? she is under police protection at the moment. that might have been a motive. it's all speculative now as to what his motive might have been whatever is going on in this man's mind. >> aishah: they have to believe he is still alive, right? abc was reporting about a possible suicide note he wrote to his son. all indications point to indication else he is still alive. >> the note has been described as a suicide note. we have not seen the content. we have bits and pieces. as to what he have is planning to do, has he already done it, the idea of suicide, all speculation on our part. the law enforcement and residents of that area have to assume that he is still alive. that's the reality of it. one of the reasons they have to lockdown is they don't want large gatherings of people similar to what was occurring at the bowling alley and restaurant. they want to effectively keep the population thinned out if god forbid he showed up. you don't want him showing up at a church service or school. the longer this goes on also. maine is a hunting state. i don't know when hunting season begins. it might have already gun. you will have thousands of people roaming through the woods of maine and something they have to take into consideration if this thing continues much longer. >> bill: we'll talk again soon. stand by for the news conference 19 minutes from now. >> issued a warning to the ayatollah this morning, how was that warning delivered? 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if you think about yesterday alone, they carried out strikes in gaza, in the west bank, in syria, and in lebanon. so you've got four different fronts they are watching throughout the area. what will iran do? we'll find out soon. back to aishah now in d.c. >> aishah: so the u.s. fighting back conducting air strikes against two sites in eastern syria used by iranian-backed militias. the pentagon says the strikes are in retaliation for the drone and rocket attacks against u.s. forces in syria and iraq in the past ten days. more than 20 soldiers injured by those attacks. joining us now is dan hoffman, former c.i.a. station chief. fox news contributor and good friend to the channel. the air strikes the u.s. conducted overnight to hit these iranian proxy groups in syria, what do you know about these locations and how important they are to iran? >> those are reportedly administered by the irgc, iran's revolutionary guard corps and we're waiting to lose what damage was done and whether any irgc personnel injured or killed. the u.s. is trying to deter iran's proxy militants from launching further attacks. i'm quite sure the u.s. intelligence community will be providing reflections on how iran viewed these strikes and whether the strikes will achieve their purpose. but frankly i doubt it. i think iran wants to carry on this indirect proxy war against the united states. >> aishah: that would be my follow up. there is a great sense of fear on capitol hill, definitely in washington, that this will get out of hand and turn into a regional war if iran chooses for its other proxies in the area and region to get involved. we heard jackie heinrich ask john kirby the message the president sent to the ayatollah. the white house is trying to show strength, you said. the president reaching out to the ayatollah, how do you read that? does that show strength? >> well, we show strength by achieving escalation dominance over iraq, which was one of the reasons why the trump administration launched the attack on irgc leader soleimani years ago. the question is whether the united states can deter iran from using proxy militants, the ones in irrelevant rack, but not exclusively. there is hezbollah and houthis in yemen who can target us and israeli allies. that's the challenge we face. we need to demonstrate we have the capability to launch strikes against iran and achieve that escalation dominance. it's with actions, not words. >> aishah: 20 seconds left. let's pull up the picture. this meeting this week between hamas, they go to moscow, moscow is hosting hamas and iran's foreign minister there and the stated goal of the visit here, dan, was talks on the war in israel and the ways to stop zionist crime support evidence by the united states and west. we have talking about the emerging axis of evil. give me your read into this meeting. >> this is an axis of terror and vladimir putin's -- russia doesn't have leverage to pull or assist with dealing with this crisis. they are doing iran's busy and rely on iran for drones and china is relying on iran for oil. they're intertwined together. russia for sure was seeking to make iran look more powerful in this case holding a meeting with the iranian deputy foreign minister and hamas leader in moscow. that's why they are doing it. they are just -- today's axis of terror where russia belongs. >> aishah: dan hoffman live for us. thank you. >> bill: thank you, aishah. minutes away we'll hear from law enforcement in the state of maine. update on the search for the prime suspect in wednesday's mass shooting, 40-year-old robert card. searching for the army reservist for nearly 40 hours. where are they now? 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