[shouting] >> bill: there was a lot where this came from. last night. chaos in d.c. pro-palestinian protestors on the streets fighting with capitol hill police outside a dnc headquarters. this went on for a while. quite a contrast from the march the day before. good morning, everybody. bill hemmer live in new york. friend and colleague rejoins us today. good morning. >> martha: i'm martha maccallum. dana is off today. this is "america's newsroom." >> bill: she got the invite to go to nashville. we're back home. >> martha: we have a little nashville promo this morning. you see the video of what happened last night and it was pretty disturbing. at least six officers were injured in that melee. one protestor was arrested. the crowd falling for a cease-fire in the israel/hamas war and using the violence eventually last night to try to make their case. >> bill: they were in the faces of police officers shoving them. trying to grab hold of barricades. police trying to keep the peace. there were injuries and arrests. confrontation forcing the evacuation of democratic lawmakers having a meeting in the basement of that building. griff jenkins has the fallout live outside dnc headquarters in washington, d.c. good morning, griff. >> good morning. it's calm today. nothing left here except for trash and police barricades. we can push in on the doors of the dnc here a few blocks behind the longworth house office building. it started, 150 pro-palestinian protestors gathered in front of these doors blockadeing. you can see police barricades still up today. we have only seen a few staffers coming and going. it was, as you mentioned, quite the contrast to what we saw on tuesday. take a look here at your screen. we can show you on tuesday in the pro-israel march i was with nearly 300,000 there and then on the other side of your screen the mayhem that spilled out into the streets. you had literally protestors demanding a cease-fire. the pro-palestinian protestors demanding a cease-fire while punching and cursing capitol police officer forcing the u.s. capitol to lock down. sherman posted this. was just evacuated from the dcn after anti-israel protestors grew violent and pepper sprayed police officers and attempting to break into the building. over in the capitol, locked down, congresswoman luna said she was locked in her office with her husband and newborn baby fearing what she called uncontrolled protestors. in the end, six officers injured, one arrested for assaulting an officer, yet protest organizers out here last night claimed it was peaceful. listen here. >> the folks in that building tonight. the folks in democratic leadership hasn't been listening to the 80% of us to stop the genocide of palestinians. and instead of being met with leaders engaging with us, instead of being met again our protests, we were met by police. >> the protest organizers saying 90 of their protestors were injured in last night's mayhem. we've seen a little bit of the capitol police officers making rounds. no presence permanently here. we aren't aware of any further protest actions. last night's came out of nowhere. we're monitoring the social media of groups involved like the democrat socialists of america and jewish voice for peace action group. >> bill: thank you, back to you when we get more news on what went down. all right, now martha i want to take you to boston, massachusetts. this is near the campus of boston university. there is a bridge there and this from a moment ago. there are what appears to be a couple dozen at least from a group called if not now. that's a jewish group demanding a cease-fire and some of the signs you can see, martha say jews say cease-fire now. others that read let gaza live and free the hostages. >> martha: a multi-million dollar tech mogul is allegedly bankrolling the groups behind several anti-israel protests. he and his wife, an activist, jody evans. are reportedly the primary funders of a left wing organization called the people's forum. the groups behind several protests that caused major disruptions in new york and washington. cb cotton has more on that. if you wonder who is printing the posters and organizing this cb has the details live in new york city. good morning. >> hi, martha, good morning. a new report says the money trail behind at least four massive pro-palestinian rallies here in new york city and d.c. leads back to this couple. the free press reporting tech entrepreneur neville singham and his wife gave $20 million to the people's form. they have pro-palestinian signs plastered everywhere the group claiming to advocate for marginalized communities. they organized this november 4th protest in washington, d.c. and this rally thousands flooding times square on october 8th. the free press reporting the deep pocketed couple have long been tied to social justice or marxist movements. a "new york times" investigation linking the tech entrepreneur to at least four nonprofits peddling chinese propaganda. he denies any ties to the chinese communist party but reportedly lives in shanghai. this june his wife had nothing but praise for china and its political system on this video. >> the idea that ccp controls everything is so crazy. what a crazy notion we've been sold. >> now, we've repeatedly reached out to the people's forum about their ties to this couple but have not heard back. the people's forum is co-organizing another rally to be held this friday called shut it down for palestinian. >> martha: thank you very much. cb cotton reporting from new york. >> president biden: the united states will continue to compete vigorously with the prc but we'll manage that competition responsibly so it doesn't veer into conflict or accidental conflict. >> bill: northern california, president biden talking to reporters for 20 minutes after his high-stakes one-on-one meeting with the chinese president xi yesterday afternoon. the two leaders meeting face-to-face, first time in about a year. that summit in northern california. mike gallagher republican outs of wisconsin, chairman of the house china committee. thank you. they spoke for 3 1/2 hours or so and while this was happening, the chinese foreign ministry put out a statement about taiwan and then at the end of the press conference last night, this is what president biden was asked about president xi still being what he considered a dictator. >> [inaudible] . >> president biden: look, he is. he is a dictator in the sense he is the guy who runs the country that is -- based on a government different than ours. >> bill: before that there were nice words. how did you read it based on the output from california? >> i have to say that president biden is correct, xi jinping is a dictator. when john kerry who was in these meetings was asked whether xi was a dictator he refused to answer and instead said xi is a major decider. i expect the president's handlers will try to clean that up. as for the meeting itself it is important to understand that getting this meeting has been the focus of u.s. foreign policy for the past year. the stakes were very high and thus far all we have are promises of future talks and potentially new pandas coming back to the d.c. zoo. i'm afraid that's very disappointing because we have taken our foot off the gas when it comes to things like sanctioning chinese officials or human rights abuses, pushing back against pressure against taiwan. transparency around the spy balloon orr edge -- origins of covid. the military to military communication channel is good. that won't be enough for taiwan. >> the align answers growing in the world. it is important the united states strengthen its ties australia, japan and other countries in the region. china does not want to see that. that's the meat of where this reconstruction of the geopolitical world is right now. do you think they talked about that at all? >> i don't know if that was a subject of the conversation. a lot of the most important things that happened at apec had nothing to do with biden and xi's conversation but were precisely conversations among the allies, some who you just referenced. a tri lateral meeting between japan, us and south korea. a quad meeting reportedly very constructive. to your broader point, though, we need to push back against ccp aggression in concert with our regional allies. the goal of the ccp to server our treaty alliances in the region and push us out of the pacific back to hawaii as step one in a multi-step effort to achieve global domination and undermine american leadership. all the more reason we need to reinforce existing alliances and create new ones and bring partners more into the camp of the free world. >> bill: what the statement said. while the summit is happening taiwan, the question of taiwan is the most important and most sensitive issue in china/u.s. relations. end quote. move to the tiktok story. we've talked about this all morning. go for it. >> martha: so this disturbing trend on tiktok, congressman gallagher, of mostly young people, the ones i saw, sharing bin laden's letter to america that he wrote the year after 9/11 to sort of describe all the reasons for what he did and try to justify the attacks on 9/11. and these people responding to this letter, which has now been taken down, saying things like he was right. this is mind blowing. my mind is now open. they're so deeply disturbing to me as i watched them this morning and i would imagine as people start to get a look at this they'll be very disturbed as well. let's watch some of this. >> girl, what, they found the letter. >> what letter? >> the letter. >> what letter? >> bin laden. >> i just read a letter to america and i will never look at life the same. >> this is a really good example of narrative control. >> martha: congressman gallagher they say terrorism was sold to the american people as if these terrorists just woke up and said one morning we hate america, let's go kill as many people as we can and they conclude, one of them. it was just our government failing -- 9/11 was just our government failing other countries. what would you say about this, sir? >> well, these people are, of course, massive idiots. i just came from watching the footage that the israeli embassy compiled about the october 7th attack. it is horrific. you are seeing jihadists, hamas in this case but al qaeda was the same kind of organization, kill babies, behead innocent civilians with garden hoes. these images are very disturbing and show the true face of evil. so for someone on tiktok to somehow suggest this is america's fault or that bin laden, who killed thousands of innocent americans, was right is absolutely disgusting and further evidence that we need to ban tiktok or force a sale before a chinese-controlled app before the chinese communist party check mates the free world by controlling the dominant media platform in america that can spread this dangerous disgusting nonsense. it is time for a ban or forced sale before it is too late. >> bill: the letter is 21 years old and people felt like it just came out today. mike gallagher, thank you for your time. i know your feelings on tiktok. we'll see eventually if you get your way. thank you, sir. maybe the best example of what tiktok has done in this most recent middle east conflict is it's 4-1 stand with palestine versus stand with israel. 8-1. the balance is not quite there. for history you have to do the work and you have to put in the time. >> martha: that's the problem. these young people -- most of them i would guess had no 9/11 history class. this is their first understanding most likely of what happened on that day. i don't even want my friends who lost family members that day to be exposed to these young people and what they are saying because it would be so deeply upsetting to them. when you hear people saying he was right. this is america's fault. i mean, this is the question of freedom, do these young people want to wear head-to-toe burqa's every day? do they want the islamist version to take over america? that's what else bin laden writes about in the letter. that's what he says specifically. he says he wants the united states to renounce the culture of hypocrisy and become an islamic nation. so i hope they dig a little deeper. i think these videos will be very problematic for some of these young people as they go through life. i would just warn them to make sure that you know what you are talking about before you put your face on tiktok and start talking about bin laden as some kind of hero. it is absolutely disgusting. >> bill: the guardian has taken it down and issued an explanation as well. back to boston. a group called if not now. if you were with us about three weeks ago, it was a friday night at grand central station in mid town manhattan. there were 1,000 people who shut down the terminal on a friday night. canceled all the trains because they had gathered in their black shirts calling for a cease-fire in gaza. that was long before the idf even got to gaza city, right? if not now is a movement of american jews organizing to end u.s. support for israel's what they call apartheid system and demanding a cease-fire and greater equality. we'll look at that throughout the day moments ago near boston university. downtown beantown. 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(car engine revs) (engine accelerating) (texting clicks) (tires squeal) (glass shattering) (loose gravel clanking) (car engine revs) (engine accelerating) (texting clicks) (tires squeal) (glass shattering) (loose gravel clanking) [gunfire] >> bill: this is the idf moving deeper into gaza, naval commandos taking controlling of a main port from hamas. that operation happening hours after a raid on the largest hospital in gaza city. israeli forces say they found weapons and a laptop and pictures of hostages inside there. they may move further south very soon if they're not there already. alex hogan on the northern border with lebanon now. alex, hello to you. >> hey, bill, sirens sounding off in the north. idf says it is currently striking hezbollah sites in lebanon where we can hear automatic fire. this was video from earlier today whether the idf struck what it says was a hezbollah cell on the other side of the border coming a day after hezbollah fired 20 missiles and rockets toward israel. to the conflict with hamas in the souths. new footage of israeli paratroopers on the ground in gaza. israel says it has taken control of the gaza port where hamas ran a training center and launched its forces by sea especially on october 7th. today the israeli military units are back in the al-shifa hospital and idf destroyed the home of hamas leader. the launch post and well as operational and command center. soldiers are on the ground searching with dogs looking fortune else going block by block in some of these buildings trying to find these hamas cells and right now according to the u.n., two out of three palestinians are currently out of their home because of the fighting. while most of them have fled south. now some palestinians in the south have received word to move further east signaling the fighting could spread to the south as soon as well. there is international growing concern, france today putting pressure on israel to protect palestinian civilians. arguing it is not up to israel to determine who runs gaza. bill, today we just got new footage of soldiers in some of those homes going door by door and found a little girl's room with a bed with storage. they opened up the bed. inside finding it lined with rocket launchers. >> bill: maybe more to come from that. we'll wait on it when it happens. near nightfall in northern israel. alex hogan reporting live. >> martha: back here in new york today the mayor, eric adams will reveal what he is calling extremely painful budget cuts because of a crippling migrant crisis. gerri willis is live in brooklyn where some migrants are refusing to stay in a newly-opened shelter. hi, gerri. >> that's right. we are at floyd been it field. this is 1 of 210 emergency shelters that the city has put together here and the mayor warning that big budget cuts are coming. no department will be spared. public safety, schools, you name it. 15% budget cuts seen over the next six months alone. we have seen at this emergency shelter already today seen migrants leaving. they don't like this place. let me tell you about the cuts. already what we're seeing