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effective, now he's got to back out up with actions. it was a blunt warning to the to hezbollah and their iranian backers. evil exists in our world, and the hatred of people, of some people for the jews is a cancer that must be eradicated. >> the administration needs to change, completely change its actions toward iran. we need to stand with israel in the sense of military, but with we also immediate to stand with them by -- need to stand with them by lining up the entire world against the terrorist state. >> whenning? like this happens, there is only one thing to do, and that is to to put every differences aside, focus on the main thing which is saving as much as possible israeli lives and destroying the hamas. >> we have to cut off the head of the snake. where ises all this money and rockets coming from, etc. obviously, iran. right now our government isn't even calling out iran. ♪ ♪ stuart: 11:00 eastern time on wednesday, october the 11th.
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finish more than 1200 now con firmed ted in israel -- confirmed dead in israel including 14 americans. smoke continues to rise in gaza as israeli forces launch counterattack. israel is facing a two-front war after hezbollah launched attacks from lebanon. ammunition arrived from the u.s. overnight. president biden promised to send them whatever is necessary, his words. we'll continue to bring you the latest to -- as the news comes in. back to the markets, dow is up 87, nasdaq is up 88 points. dow is up 90 points now. big tech doing pretty well this morning except for one or two. there's a cop canning exceptions there. -- couple expectations. there are -- the 10-year, treasury yield continues to come down, you're looking at 4.58% on the 10-year treasury. that's the markets and thousand this.
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have these people no shame? as soon as the rockets were ripping into israeli civilian, the new york chapter of the democratic socialists of america organized the now-infamous rally in times square. hatred of jews was the theme, support for hamas was the message. they were cheering the slaughter at that music festival. as the news coverage spread, the left started to back away. it took alexandria ocasio-cortez a full day to put out a statement condemning bigot ottly of the rally -- bigotry but also calling for deescalation and a ceasefire which would simply lock hamas' terror gains in place. another far-left new york congressman jamaal bowman, he said the attack broke international law. that's to strong stuff. then he went on to say we have to get to the root causes of the conflict. in other words, it's the occupation that's doing it. palestinians are victims. then tuesday came conclusive proof that that hamas had
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committed heinous atrocities. we're not going to show you all the pictures, but our own hillary vaughn put the question to the usually outspoken hamas support rashida tlaib. roll the whole tape. >> reporter: -- terrorists have cut off babies' heads and burned children alive. do you support israel's right to defend themselves against this brutality in. >> we're just going to go through there. >> reporter: you can't comment about hamas terrorists chopping off babies' heads? do you condone what hamas has done, chopping off babies' heads, burning children alive, raping women in the streets? stuart: the left has a problem. they just can't condemn their friends. they have no shame. martha maccallum joins us this morning. the left has a problem. what do you to say? >> well, it seems as though at the very least rashida tlaib could say that she supports the palestinian people but not
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hamas, not these terrorists who are committing these atrocities that every human being should be able to reject and condemn out of handment -- hand. you know, this is -- we're going to see a lot of this, right in and in this country we protect people's right to say a what they want to say, right? we have freedom of speech in this country. however, there's also the freedom to be on the very wrong side of history, right? and so all of these people will have to be held account eventually by voters for their stance here. the united states' official policy is strong support of israel. that's what we heard from president biden yesterday. we did not hear him condemn iran, so the question of leadership on this issue is an open one in terms of what he is willing to call out and connect. they say they're having a hard time drawing a clear line between the actions that we saw play out on saturday morning, paragliders, scaling and breaking through the iron wall.
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all of this is hard to believe, that hamas militants could pull off on their own the there inside of the area or where they live. so this is, this is a moment for leadership. it's a moment for -- you know what? if that's, if rashida tlaib wants to come out on the side of hamas -- [laughter] you know, go ahead. you know? if that's where he stands, she ought to be able to answer hillary vaughn ooh's questions in one way or another. stuart: yeah. but it's a dreadfully split democrat party. jewish folks tend to vote democrat, and in that party you have the rashida tlaibs of this world. i don't know how that party can stay together with such opposite extremes inside the party. >> it goes back to the divide we see in this country in many ways, right? you have this very conservative leadership now in israel, and i think that that that has caused a shift in the polling that we see in america. you see 49% support among democrats for palestine, for the palestinians and 38% for israel. so you are seeing a political
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shift on the left that i think has been the result of a very concerted campaign to move those numbers. stuart: okay. i want you the take a look at this. "the new york times" put out a lengthy profile of the vice president. it's titled in search of kamala harris. after nearly three years, the vice president is still struggling to make the case for herself and feels she shouldn't have to, end quote. you know, the timing is intriguing here, and it sounds like they're trying to maybe push her out? >> yeah. and there are suggestions in this piece that there are there's agitation on the democrat side of the equation to call for an open primary process, to have somebody else potentially take, you know, to take her seat, opening the door for the president to choose someone else. i think there's a lot of trepidation across the democrat party in terms of this match-up, right? in terms of the biden-harris ticket. you hear it from david axlerod, jim carville, people speaking
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out and people listened to in this party. and this huge piece in "the new york times" questioning why she has not been able to define herself as a vice president and pointing out that her numbers are the lowest on record for any vice president in this terms of, in terms of support is another marker in this narrative of maybe they're looking for someone new. stuart: the times, they are a-changing, i suspect. martha, i guarantee we'll watch you, 3 p.m. eastern on "the the story." see you later. >> thank you. stuart: back to the markets. tepper's with me for the hour. something unusual's going on. stocks are up, bonds are up, gold is up, everything's up. >> very strange market dynamics over the course of this week, right? obviously with a full-out war going on in the middle east, you would expect at least some sort of a knee-jerk reaction, a selloff. but instead we're getting very mixed signals. on one hand, we're getting risk-off signals when you look at the bond market. investors are flocking to safety. they're buying bondses which is
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why yields are coming down. but then on the other hand, u.s. stocks have been up every single day. stuart: right. >> with regards to the stock market, i think some of that is a technical bounce because we got pretty close to the 200-day moving average last week, and then you had friday's jobs report hoax, okay? stuart: whoa, whoa, whoa. hoax? there were 336,000 new jobs created. >> the that's what they want you to leave -- believe, right? stuart: and you don't? >> the bls, they've got this seasonal adjustment process, they apply window dressings to make everything look better. when you strip out the seasonal adjustments, last month we lost 885,000 full-time jobs. we gained 1.127 million part-time jobs. multiple job holders are at an all-time high. ladies and gentlemen, this is bidenomics. this is what you get with this president's policies. we are looking at an erosion of the quality of life for everyday americans. stuart: wait until you see the cpi number tomorrow.
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>> right. stuart: that comes in hot, that's another downgrade for people's standard of living. >> correct. stuart: stay right there, or thanks very much. looking at the movers, in particular american airlines. what have we got? lauren: they have suspended their flights to israel until early december. why is the stock up 2%? because the domestic travel boom continues. airlines, including delta tomorrow, will start opening their books on the past quarter. do they give any indication that in this travel boon is starting to wane a little bit. stuart: to. earlier we looked at meta that, and we saw it way above $300 a share. is it on track for a new high? lauren: it could be the highest close since january of 2022. and guess what? if mark zuckerberg has an elon musk problem that we spoke about in the 9:00 hour. the european union is sending a letter and an ultimatum to mark zuckerberg and and metathat the, how are you countering disinformation about what's going on in israel with hamas? if you don't answer us in 24
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hours, you can with -- be fined or blacked out in the e.u. stuart: i know we've disagreed about this and maybe the misinformation is serious stuff, but the europeans are acting like censors. lauren: i would say this: correct. and in meta's case, they have a very, very aggressive team of people and machines that do content moderation. x doesn't have that as much anymore. meta certainly does. so they're going after someone who is very well positioned to combat misinformation. stuart: and i like these stories about electric charging stations like chargepoint, for example. why are they down? lauren: 9.25%9. they've got to raise capital. they need $230 plus million, they're not profitable, to support their path to profitability. their aiming -- they're aiming for next year. >> you've got chargepoint, blink, ev go, those are the three big charging station companies, and they've all been just crushed over the last several months.
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i guess -- layoff lauren. [inaudible] >> yep. so i don't know, maybe we're going to rely on tesla to do everything. maybe their going to make -- they're going to the make all the cars, all the chargers. we already know that fords and gms of the world are going to be leveraging tesla's charging capabilities. stuart: and tesla charges a little fee every time some other carmaker charges on their machine. it's like a utility, you've got to milk it. lauren: i think virtually every carmaker with the exception of toyota is using the stations. >> yeah. stuart: treasury secretary janet yellen says refreezing iranian funds is back on the table. details on that for you. the families of loved ones missing in israel pleading for them to return safely. roll tape. >> i'm here speaking today, reaching out to my son. he and many other such young men on the kibbutz are now missing. he was not found. stuart: does that gentleman trust biden to find and bring
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seeing. roll tape. >> reporter: this is the location of the latest rocket strike inside of israel. here is a piece of what's left over, apparently, from the rocket that hit. this is the point of impact. the stone landscaping wall, if you will. if you look in here real close, you can see a little bit of the rocket. i can't pull it out because it's buried in the ground, but it is still hot from the if explosion. you look, the rocket hit here. the force of the blast went this i way, blasted through that fencing, and there's a house there that broke with out all the glass. we've got reports of a couple injuries because of this rocket. it appears right now that the injuries are really just the force of the broken glass that went through the next house over, and the individual -- [inaudible conversations] >> reporter: come on. you can hear off in the distance some of the impacts being made from the rockets. and and this is a drill that, sadly, people in israel repeat over and over again. finish. stuart: now, that is first class reporting, and we will continue to bring it to you as the
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latest, as the news comes in. american families spoke out yesterday. they're pleading for the safe return of their loved ones who are currently missing in israel. watch this. >> i'm here speaking today reaching out to my son. he and many other such young men on the kibbutz are now missing after having tried to repulse the attack by, evidently, hundreds of a hamasists and looters. -- hamas terrorists and loot ors. he was not found. and we have heard or seen no trace of him since then. stuart: jonathan joinses me now. jonathan, were you in contact saturday morning at the kibbutz with your son? tell he what happened. >> well, thank you for hosting me. i personally directly was not. he was in contact with other family members this those early morning hours. he was in contact with,
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telephone contact with other people on the kibbutz and with his wife who was in a secure room with their two daughter. stuart: and his wife, your son and their two daughters are now missing? >> no, no. my son is missing. he's been missing since that very same morning along with dozens of other members of my kibbutz along the border of the gaza strip. dozens were murdered, massacred on site. dozens were confirmed taken hostage by hamas terrorists, and dozens also are considered missing. among them, my son. the intent of that is that no one from the kibbutz could confirm that these people were led away by hamas. but we know they were on the
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kibbutz, these dozens of people, and they -- once the israeli army came and repulsed the terrorists, we could not find any trace of those people. so they are assumed to be in hamas custody as well. stuart: jonathan, did you ever imagine that something like this would happen in israel? >> i don't think anyone imagined it, to be quite honest. this attack came as a total surprise. in my community and the couple dozen communities along the border that were directly affected, we since the disengagement with the gaza strip even earlier have been well worn in rounds of conflict and escalations with rocket attacks, mortar attacks, attack tunnels underground from hamas and jihad terrorists, but no one certainly amongst the civilian
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population had in mind an attack like this. and, clearly, there were not preparations made by our army and intelligence for this kind of scenario. we were caught utterly by surprise. stuart: jonathan, thank you very much, indeed, for being on our program and getting the word out to the world. we appreciate it, and and our thoughts and prayers are very much with you and your son and your family. thanks for being here, sir. >> thank you. stuart: ashley, what are the democrats saying about refreezing those $6 billion in assets for iran? ashley: well, that's a very good question, stu, and one that some democrat lawmakers seem unable to answer. watch this. >> the biden administration says that $6 billion can be frozen. do you think it should be frozen speaker pelosi ors, should we freeze that $6 billion? the biden administration said we have the ability to do that. >> i haven't heard that, you have to --
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>> mr. clyburn, should $6 billion be frozen? the biden administration said they have the ability to do it. ashley: well, there you have it. didn't want to answer that one bit. wouldn't talk to lawrence jones. meantime, a group of senate republicans led by tennessee senator marsha blackburn wrote a letter to biden calling on him to stop the flow of the $6 billion to iran saying it may be earmarked for humanitarian purposes, but it allows the regime to allocate more funds to support terrorism. and treasury secretary janet yellen actually left open the possibility that the u.s. may refreeze the $6 billion. at a press conference in morocco, yellen said the funds have not been touched and nothing is off the table in terms of possible future actions. but democrat lawmakers, they didn't want to the answer that, did they? stuart: no the, they did not. here's another one for you. an israeli mother of two children who were kidnapped by hamas, she scolded an msnbc host after being asked about israel's
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military attack in gaza. take me through this one, ash. ashley: yeah. msnbc's andrea mitchell, whose network, by the way, refuses to refer to hamas attackers as terrorists, pressed the mother of two that had kidnapped children on her feelings about israel's attacks on gaza. watch the irritated here's response. mother's response. >> reporter: what are you feelings about the attacks against gaza right now? >> looking for a symmetrical situation, and i must say it isn't. if you were dealing with a war who is between the two countries, countries don't take children hostages. i can't be sympathetic to animal human beings -- well, they're not really human beings -- who came into my house, broke everything, stole everything, took my children from their bedrooms and took them to the gaza strip. ashley: yeah. i think she made her point very well.
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the comcast-owned channel has come under fire for coverage of the events in israel and gaza. the chairman of the anti-defamation league wondered if, quote, hamas was writing the script for the news channel. stu. stuart: nicely put. thanks, ash. coming up, pro-palestine protests break out on the streets of london. nigel farage says these aren't protests, these are pro-hamas celebrations. he's going to be on the show. it's not just happening in london. pro-palestine demonstrations taking to the streets in cities across the world. matt finn will take us through the latest right after this. ♪ (bobby) my store and my design business? we're exploding. but my old internet, was not letting me run the show. so, we switched to verizon business internet.
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[laughter] getting confused here. okay, let's go with this, you've got stock picks, and you're starting with salesforce. what's so great about them? >> that's our most recent ad to our portfolio. most people -- add to our portfolio. certainly undervalued. weapon you look at -- when you look at what they do, 94% of their revenue is recurring, it's a very customizable software platform with very high switching costs. it's trading around $200 a share right now, i think fair value is more like $300 a share is. if you were to apply just a reasonable historical multiple to this company, it should be over $300. stuart: that would be a nice gain. >> some decent upside there, bud. stuart: assuming you're right. [laughter] astrazeneca. >> so all the buzz when you're looking at big pharmaceutical sustains -- companies, is surrounding the weight loss drugs. these guys, they're in the oncology space.
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cancer's still incredibly important. and when you look at all the big pharma companies out there, you take a look at astrazeneca, they're trading at a very slight premium valuation to their peers, but they're growing earnings twice as fast. so over the next five years, i think you could get some outperformance out of that a one. stuart: okay, i'll take that. salesforce and astrazeneca ca. not bad, young man. >> thank you. stuart: let's get serious. pro-palestine demonstrators have taken to the streets in major cities around the world. matt finn is with us. what's happening the no -- to these protests, matt? >> there is a lot of support for israel, but at the same time there are these pro- palestinian and even pro-hamas rallies happening around the world and in the united states. this week there were organized pro-palestinian events in pakistan, bangladesh along with england and germany and in sid yi -- sydney. a thousand demonstrate theres marched through sydney where there were chants to gas the
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jews. >> gas the jews! >> reporter: and here in the u.s. there were pro-palestinian rallies in places like deer born michigan, new york city, massachusetts and southern california, giving voice to many decades of outrage over israel's mere existence. calm is being urged, but the slaughtering of women and babies has not changed people's minds. >> if you cage up an animal, they're going to fight back. they're going to try to escape. and they finally escaped. they were finally successful. >> reporter: and we shot this video at a massive pro-israel rally here in los angeles yesterday. the demonstration was entirely peaceful and then these agitators in that yellow suv and began to taunt the israeli supporters. ultimately, there was a physical altercation. someone sprayed pepper spray
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into that yellow suv. there was a heavy police presence there yesterday but no arrests were made. and that moment really signified to us, you know, the tension that is in the air right now. back to you, stu. stuart: i got it, matt finn. thanks very much, indeed. there were protests in london too. one person at the protest was seen making what appeared to be a pro-isis gesture with his hands. nigel farage back with us this morning. you say these protests -- you call them pro-hamas celebrations, right? it seems like hamas has got a lot of support in london. >> yes, absolutely. the global media used the word protest. they genuinely were celebrations. it was like your soccer team had just won a big game. everyone was out cheering, thinking it was marvelous. slogans, divisive images, the isis finger was seen on the streets of london. a lot of people, i'm afraid the reason is very simple. we have too many people living
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in the u.k. who are supporters of radical islam. and the irony in all of this, i mean, if i stood outside a mosque tonight and shouted anti-islamic slogans, hateful slogan requests, i would be arrested by the police within 10 minutes and charged with some sort of hate crime. what we're seeing here is outright racism against the jewish people, and at the minute i'm ashamed to say the british police are turning a blind eye. stuart: that that's just not good. i heard there may be some fines levy ised on pro- levied on pro-has ma -- hamas supporters if they said something. is that accurate? i heard a vague report about this. >> yes. i mean, hamas, as with isis, are provibe -- provibed organizations -- proscribed organizations. if you speak up on their behalf, you are supporting terrorism, you are breaking the law.
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now, you know, obviously there's a fine point here. our home secretary has said to the police if you see overt public support for hamas, you just intervene. frankly, a couple of fines here and there isn't really enough. and my fear is, you know, we still have a jewish community living many in north london where now the kids go to school with -- [audio difficulty] stuart: ah, we seem to have -- okay, we just lost the contact there. how unfortunate. nigel was in full scale there on the british problem with radical islam. okay. let's see what we've got coming up here. the first shipment of weapons from the u.s. arrived in israel overnight. president biden promised to give them whatever they need to defend themselves. how far can the administration go? grady trimble will have that story for us. we're nearly a month into the uaw strike, and general motors is sweetening its offer. jeff flock has that story from
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stuart: on the markets, we've got the dow now turning south. we're up 30 -- off 30 points. no clear price trend. general motors sweetening their offer to the united autoworkers' union. jeff flock is in pennsylvania, tell me what gm's offer was and tell me if the union has responded. >> reporter: they have not yet responded, stuart, but they have sweetened the offer, as you report. of they stood firm on the dollar, still looking at 20 the percent increase and and -- 20% and, of course, the union's seeking 36%, but they increased cost of living adjustments, they reinstated the the cost of living adjustments, and they added some money in to the retirement savings. so, you know, we'll see where it goes from here.
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the impact of the strike though continues to be felt at gm particularly more than others. take a look at the layoffs as a result of the strikes. in addition to the people on strike the, about 25, 30,000, 2300 people laid off at gm. ford, almost 2,000 people and stellantis, about 640 layoffs as a result of the strike. it now stretches across 23 states if you count in the mack truck strike that just started this week, and, you know, the support for the strike the, well, democratic politicians continue to come out. john fetterman, the senator from pennsylvania, yesterday out on the picket lines at the mack truck plant, he's also been in detroit at those picket lines. and i asked him yesterday on the line here in pennsylvania whether he's concerned about the demands that the union is making. some people think they've gone too far. take a listen. are you worried about the impact on the companies if they
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negotiate a deal that puts them at a disadvantage? >> no, no. i, i hope these workers make them pay until they pay them what today deserve. they deserve. >> reporter: the national polling on this strike the continues to show support for the strikers. ab 72% of democrats and even half of republicans actually say they sport this backout -- support this walkout. impact though, i'll tell ya, is out there. and at in this point we don't see an end, sir. stuart: no, you don't. jeff, thanks very much, indeed. it looks like the canadian autoworkers' strike has been halted. ashley, have they come to an agreement? >> well, we'll see. reports say gm and unifor, the decade onautoworkers' union, have reached a tentative labor agreement just hours after workers launched a strike at three of the automaker's plants. it has to be ratified, i awe proved -- approved, but the 4300
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members. the strike came after it actually reached a deal with ford. gm's new contract reportedly includes wage increases, improvements to pension plans, retiree income support, additional paid holidays and a process for full-time temporary workers to become permanent employees. so if that gets agreed, that that strike will be over. stu. stuart: got it. ashley, thanks very much, indeed. it's that time when we bring you all 30 of the dow stocks to just to give you a sense of the market. more sellers than buyers, that's for sure. we've got about 10, about one-third of the dow 30 are up, two-thirds down. there's no real price trend on the market this morning. the dow is down 35, nasdaq's up about 30. not much price movement and no clear trend. next, we're learning more about the scale of atrocities committed by hamas. our war coverage continues in just a moment. ♪ ♪
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we make money from ads, but they don't follow you around. join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on mobile and desktop today. stuart: president biden promises to give israel what what it needs to defend itself. grady trimble is with us. how far can can the administration actually go with providing aid? >> reporter: well, stu, the
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first arms shipment has arrived in southern israel, but the biden administration is really drawing a distinction between providing aid or support like that and sending u.s. troops. so far the administration is stopping short of boots on the ground. >> what we are focused on when we talk about sending experts, it is people who can work on intelligence, who can work on overall planning, who can work on coordination with the israeli government. we are not currently sending forces to israel, and if i'll leave it at that for now. >> reporter: in addition to those experts who are advising israel, special ops teams are on standby as is normal. the u.s. could also send more small arms, ammunition, tank rounds, mortars and interceptors for the iron dome defense system. that could be a tough task pause there's already an ammo shortage, and the u.s. doesn't want to risk putting ukraine in a come proto hissing situation in order -- compromising
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situation in order to help israel. and here is more on the uss gerald ford that is now sitting off the coast of israel. another aircraft carrier is on the way. the u.s. military is looking to deter hamas and other terrorist groups from considering more attacks. as part of a 10-year agreement, the u.s. already are provides israel with billions of dollars of military equipment. should the biden administration ask for more, congress would likely have to approve of that, stu. of course, that's a lot more complicated for as long as the house does not have a speaker. stu? stuart: grady, we hear you. thank you very much, indeed. emily austin is back with us this morning. her cousin is in the israeli military, and she's joining us now in new york city. you just heard from your sister, is it your cousin? >> yeah, my cousin's mother. stuart: you just heard from your cousin's mother in israel. what did she tell you? because she's in the military. >> my cousin is actively serving, and i just called her
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to ask if i could disclose what unit's she in, and her mother said we have reason to believe hezbollah's attacking and hung up the phone on me. so that is as of 15 seconds ago. stuart: that's happening as of right now. and she's in intelligence, correct? >> right. stuart: these atrocities which we've been describing, have they motivated israelis? >> i think israeli es generally have that sense of zionism in them, but it's times like this they're reminded why they fight for their country. if they ever forgot for a moment, this is a reason to show them. if hamas put their weapons down, there'd be peace. if israel 's put their weapon down, there'd be no israel. and that's a constant reminder to the israeli e people. if they don't do this, there is no israel to fight for. i don't think they view it as a choice. stuart: we've been hearing there a lot of people in israel. we are told that the mood in israel is one of rage. almost a desire for revenge. would that be accurate? >> i think it would be accurate.
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i personally feel like i've been sitting shea v.a -- shiva, but in israel they're actually losing their brothers, their sisters, their mothers in masses. so any response is more than appropriate. stuart: did your cousin get a call on saturday morning, hey, something's happening, come on in? when did she have to go? >> so friday night during shabbat and a jewish holiday as well well, she was already on duty. she ended up just working 48 hours instead of going home, and most people are on the same boat. she's actively on duty. she was in the reserve, and she just ended up not sleeping for three days. stuart: it seems colleges around the world and in america in particular are siding very much with the palestinians. can you explain that? >> yeah. americans lost their ability to question authority. and whatever they say, they just blindly believe it. and college campuses, which we've discussed before, is now just a haven for brainwashing students.
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i like to engage online with the haters and and say, hey, why is israel an appartize -- appar if tide state? i don't believe this -- why do you believe this? i don't get responses. stuart: you engage actively? >> oh, yeah. they say israel's an a apartheid state. why? answer that question. stuart: do they then come after you in. >> no. they don't have an answer. free palestine is the answer. stuart: i thought you'd been getting a lot of hate messages since you were on television. they're coming at you with hate messages. >> yeah. there is the death threats, the rape threats, i will kill your family threats, the hitler should have done better comments, which i do not engage with, of course. then there's the people who you see that are just veered the wrong way that definitely heard misinformation, many college students saying justice for palestine to which i'll engage ask and say, yes, absolutely from hamas, not israel. stuart: are maybe other people scared of speaking out publicly because of the hate messages you
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receive? >> yes. even pre-conflict i speak to jewish students and say why do you let me get destroyed online, why are you still silent? raise your hand if you feel comfortable if your classmate would post. and they say yes. they need one person to lead them. they're so afraid, they're, like, why should i put myself through that? for what? stuart: jewish students are overwhelmed in colleges these days, aren't they? there's far more islamic students than jewish students. >> population wise, correct. i have a flag hanging on my mirror, my window was shattered and they took the flag out. stuart: okay. i'm going to pause for one moment, stay there, please. i'm going to report this. bill ackman, a billionaire investor, very famous guy, he wants harvard to name the students who came out and blamed israel for the hamas attacks. he wants the names so that he and other ceos don't hire them by accident. mark, i like that. >> i like it too. and it's the very rare that i
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agree with bill ackman, but here, i mean, he's hitting the a nail on the head. anybody that supports raping and murdering women, anybody that supports beheading babies, killing children, abducting them, taking hostages, they are unemploy if bl, without a doubt. stuart: it is astonishing that 31 student groups at harvard came out and said israel's to blame. ackman's doing the right thing, if you ask me. >> absolutely. absolutely. i want to be treated with the same regard. if an more than person was justifying 9/11 or someone were to defend jeffrey dahmer, oh, it's okay because he had childhood trauma, would that be justifiable? absolutely not. treat murderers as murder ors, and those who justify murderer, honestly, as a compliant person to it. they're scary. stuart: anti-semitism has always been a part of america, europe, we all know that. but do you think it's really coming on strong now? and if so, why is it happening? >> i think it's being bred on college campuses. i think that they are using
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israel as an compute to -- excuse to become anti-semitic. when elon and jonathan greenblatt got into a twitter fight, it turned into an excuse foraways of anti-semitism. they wait for that one thing to prey on vulnerability, and it'll create this surge of anti-semitism and say, it's okay, it's because of israel, oh, it's okay, it's because of elon musk, and they'll look for reasons to justify jew hatred. stuart: how do you feel walking around the streets of new york? i notice you're wearing a jewish star. >> i never take it off. my parents are very worried, don't put your life on the line for your ego. i said it's not my ego, it's my identity. if my life is on the line, that's a bigger problem than me just wearing a star. stuart: emily, please come back whenever you like. [laughter] thank you very much. it's the time for the wednesday trivia question. there's a little interesting handle on this. what is the most oscar nominations any movie has ever received? now, that's -- okay, okay.
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what's the most oscar nomination any movie has ever received? 11, 14, 17 or 20? we'll figure out the answer after this. ..
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stuart: i thought this was a
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trick question. it was a trick question. what is the most oscar nominations any movie has ever received a. ashley, europe first. ashley: i am going with three. 17. stuart: 17, says ashley. >> i will go with 14. stuart: i will go with 14 as well. only three movies have received that many oscar nominations. all about eve, titanic, and lala land. titanic is the only one in that group that won 11 oscars. we will see you again soon. israel is urging citizens to take shelter, hostile aircraft entered from lebanon. this is the two front war we are talking about. israel fighting on two front. coast-to-coast starts right now. neil: we are following the two

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