israel from the global press? >> why is great question, todd. the "new york times," associated press, politico, "the washington post," cnn, i could go down the line of all these outlets you saw on social media yesterday immediately and definitively say that israel was responsible for that missile hitting that hospital killing hundreds of people with zero verification in that regard. there is plenty of evidence that says otherwise. kudos to president biden for saying that he has seen the evidence that says this was not carried out by israel but by islamic jihad basically who works in league with hamas. here's the problem now. we see embassies all over the world now u.s. embassies being attacked, basically because of this lie. and the u.s. media enabled it. >> carley: we concerned that this hot situation is only going to get hotter. joe, got to leave it there. >> thank you. >> carley: "fox & friends" starts right now.

>> steve: it is 1:00 in the afternoon in israel. we start this hour of "fox & friends" with a fox news alert. right now, president biden is in israel meeting with the prime minister there, benjamin netanyahu behind closed doors with their staffs. the two leaders met in front of cameras in tel aviv less than an hour ago. >> ainsley: during brief remarks biden blamed terrorist forces for an explosion in gaza last night that has killed hundreds of people. listen. >> outrage by the explosion at the hospital in gaza yesterday. based on what i have seen it appears as though [inaudible] people out not sure. >> brian: yes using closed caption there. fiercest protests explosion as many jumped at blaming israel for, including the rest of the world. rioters in lebanon setting fire to u.s. embassy in beirut.

hezbollah calls for unprecedented day of anger. >> lawrence: while the president is overseas, many in the jewish community here at home are feeling the effects of the war. i will be live all morning talking to some of first check in with trey yingst. i know the president is on the ground but everybody is talking about this attack on the hospital. what can you tell us? >> trey: yeah, guys, good morning. today, u.s. president joe biden arriving in israel at the airport just outside of tel aviv. he was greeted in person by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and israeli president isaac herzog. this is not just a visit for support but visit for planning. overnight the ahli hospital saw massive explosion and deaths of

palestinians according to reports. we spent the night talking with gazans, military officials, trying to get a sense of exactly what happened. we know amid the fog of war there can be a lot of misinformation. our goal here is to get as many pieces of evidence as possible and present them to you. this is what we know the play-by-play. last night there was explosion at the al-ahli hospital in gaza city. hundreds were sheltering there. after the explosion hamas the group in control of gaza blamed israelis saying airstrike. we reached out to the israelis. israelis told us they were investigating and gathering information. a short time later they released a statement saying their investigation continued and ultimately they started to release evidence indicating they say this was islamic jihad rocket. islamic jihad second largest faction behind hamas. fired toward israel. went up in the air and fell short in this hospital yard. this morning i have been speaking with sources inside gaza who were at the site of that hospital.

they sent me video minutes long showing the aftermath of this. there is no impact crater. there is a lot of shrapnel and lot of bodies of palestinians that were killed there. again, the latest information we have about that hospital from the israelis indicating it was islamic jihad rocket that fell short inside gaza. behind me you can hear explosions here that's outgoing artillery. traveling with the israeli military toward the site of the gaza border. i want to discuss the response from the arab world following that hospital explosion yesterday. there were massive protests not only in oman jordan at the israeli embassy there. beirut outside the u.s. embassy. istanbul outside the israeli consulate. people taking that initial information and running with it. blaming the israelis for what happened in gaza and it really has ignited an already flammable situation across the middle east. guys, back to you. >> brian: trey, what's pretty amazing to me now that the transcript is out of the intercept. now that video is apparent. it's even on al jazeera, it's

obvious if you go back and forth that this at the very least, hardly a cut and dry situation with the israelis hit the hospital, it's going the other direction. i understand people on the street might not get it how could king abdullah, general el-sisi how could others in the region cancel meetings and quickly assume that israel blew up a hospital? didn't you -- are you surprised by that? >> trey: i'm not surprised by that look, there are politics at play amid the fog of war here. and we know president biden was supposed to have a very important meeting with palestinian president mahmoud abbas. that meeting was canceled in response despite the evidence following this hospital explosion, both the king of jordan and top egyptian leadership in cairo, many countries in the gulf including qatar and bahrain immediately blamed israel. the reality of war, especially in the middle east, is that

people take sides. it's part of our job to gather as much information as we can cut through the emotion, and try to gather the facts on the ground. the facts that we have point to this being a failed launch inside gaza. >> ainsley: trey, when you look at iran ayatollah blames america. merge is responsible for this. u.s. is responsible for the recent crimes. the bombings must stop immediately. iran's foreign minister is declaring time is over for israel. that same message was posted by iran's embassy on one of the social media sites in syria in hebrew. what does that mean? what does it meantime it is over for israel? >> trey: let's go back to president biden's visit. because it's critical. like i said, this is not just a show of support shaking hans ans and hug on the tarmac. this is legitimate planning meeting. understanding when israel enters the gaza strip and according to our sources here, they will launch a ground invasion. it's not a matter of if but

rather when in response to that massacre 12 days ago in southern israel. they plan to go and destroy hamas. when that happens, some analysts believe hezbollah, the largest iranian proxy in the middle east will immediately start firing on israel, not just in the north but across this country. they have thousands of precision guided missiles, they have rockets. they have their own artillery and they have thousands of fighters who could be used in a ground operation. so the americans have to make a decision about how they will support their key middle east ally, israel. that's the question right now about what those plans look like and what the level of american support will be. and that is why president biden is here. it's not just to show support to the israeli people but also understanding that this very quickly is unraveling with the possibility of turning into a regional war. >> steve: that is the big worry, that's why the president is with the israeli war cabinet right now. we understand in addition -- and i'm sure you saw, this trey. while they canceled the meeting in jordan with the president of

egypt and jordan and palestinian authority, apparently, according to john kirby, who is traveling with the president, the president is expected to speak on the phone with the egyptian president and the palestinian authority president on the flight home. so, you know how this works. if the president is going to go somewhere, and today is actually historic because it's the first time a u.s. president has ever visited israel at a time of war. if he is going to go some place, when he leaves, he has got to say okay, i went and i got this. don't you think the deliverable for this will probably be he is going to negotiate some sort of owning of the rafah crossing so that humanitarian aid can get in and that would probably offset some of the anger regarding the hospital hit? >> trey: so i don't want to speculate on what he will come out of this meeting with because everything is changing by the hour and it's unpredictable but i will tell you a little bit about the rafah crossing.

yesterday i spoke with a palestinian american. a woman from utah. you might have heard the audio of that conversation. i got her permission to run it on fox. and i just played it straight into the microphone. she said we are trapped. where is our government? we know according to intelligence source there's are hundreds of american citizens and we are not talking about hostages. we are talking about people visiting gaza. they were visiting family. they were working for aid organizations that are currently stuck inside the strip. this woman, an american citizen told fox news she tried to cross three separate times in coordination with the state department telling her to go to the southern rafah crossing with egypt and she said one of those times the crossing was bombed. so she is very fearful. and she has been talking to me over text message saying they will continue to try to leaf. there are hundreds of americans there and they don't know when they are going to get out. it's a great point. one deliverable could be from president biden is trying to negotiate aid getting into gaza in exchange for that border being opened and at least letting some of the pressure off

the foreigners in the southern part of gaza right now. >> brian: trey, who is bombing? that can't be israel. they are not going to bomb down south at a crossing, are they? >> trey: the israelis. >> brian: the israelis are bombing the rafah crossing? >> correct. >> steve: the access roads. >> ainsley: lawrence, i want to get a question in for you, too. rafah gate. when we keep showing the video of that gate. it doesn't look like there are thousands and thousands of people waiting to cross when they do open the gate like we would expect. we just see that one image. i'm not sure, can you describe what we see when you show that? >> so we were told by this source inside gaza, an american citizen, there are hundreds of americans trying to cross. she said there are other foreign nationals as well. a staging area, a waiting area where people would normally fill out paperwork when they are going to cross the border. she said that's where many families have been waiting. they bring whatever they have them in the morning they get there before 9:00 a.m. like they

are told by the state department and stay throughout the day waiting for the crossing to hope. she is supposed to text me if she is able to cross. she has not yet texted me today indicating they have been able to get into egypt. why the israelis would target the crossing, look, there is act tirst all across the gaza strip. we are not just talking about hamas and islamic jihad. there are smaller palestinian groups that do have rockets and fighters throughout gaza. they are not just in the northern part of the gaza strip. they are in these other major population centers in gaza. and as we saw yesterday, a top hamas commander, likely the highest ranking commander that has been killed by the israelis since this war erupted was hiding in a refugee camp in the middle support of the gaza strip. and we got the video before the israelis knew that this was a successful kill. we spoke with a palestinian inside gaza who confirmed to us they killed this top communications commander from hamas. so, give you a sense of where these guys are inside the strip, and where some of the top

officials are hiding, it is among the civilian population. >> steve: indeed. trey, as folks are looking in at home, the images that you see on the right part of the screen because -- in the aftermath of the hospital bombing, a general strike has been called in the west bank to protest it. shops and banks and universities are closed and protesters are calling for the ouster of the palestinian authority president abbas for not doing enough. trey, thank you very much. let's bring in morgan ortagus former state department spokesperson. lawrence, why don't you lead off the questions for morgan. >> lawrence: thank you, steve. morgan, thank you so much for joining the program. we know that you have been stationed overseas. everyone is reacting though hospital bombing. hamas is leading their disinformation campaign. americans back at home, they are afraid about our embassies. we don't want another bengals. benghazi.what can do to keep th,

americans safe that operate at these embassies? >> well, we do have marines stationed at our u.s. embassies around the world. we have every right to be concerned especially after what we saw happen at the u.s. embassy in beirut and lebanon, also in iraq. during the trump administration, in january of 2020, we actually had many she a militias which are, again, funded and directed by iran, just like they are with hamas and hezbollah that were attacking the u.s. embassy. and under secretary of state mike pompeo and president trump we took decisive action at the time and we sent messages directly to the iranians, lawrence, where we said if any of these she a militias, if any of these people touch the american embassies, kill, hurt an american, we're going to hold you directly responsible. and why does that matter, lawrence? because we have to have deterrence in place again. right now iran knows that their proxies, hamas, hezbollah, whomever, whatever she a militias in iraq and syria are

operating, they know that they can get away now with killing 30 americans and having at least 15 americans hostages. what price is iran paying today for the fact that 30 americans are dead by their funding, by their training and by their equipping, so far, nothing. >> ainsley: when it comes to lebanon there is a do not travel advisory by our state department. you were the spokesperson for the state department. so i want to ask you about that. and there are lots of fires going on around our embassy there or the israeli embassy there as well. and they are calling -- hezbollah is calling for a day of unprecedented anger. lots of people are mad about that hospital bombing and they are blaming the -- they are blaming america but they are saying this is israel that did that. >> well, and what's worse is even there are sitting members of the u.s. congress who immediately treated rushed to blame israel. >> ainsley: the squad. >> of course we later learned that wasn't the fact.

when you look at those tweets from rashida tlaib for example, i found the tweet she issued against president biden to be incredibly threatening. language that i just do not think a member of congress should be using, threatening the president for his stance. furthermore, these members of congress who tweeted this disinformation out, they are directly putting american lives, american diplomats, american marines, they are putting them in harm's way by spreading this disinformation. they should immediately delete these tweets. they should apologize for the disinformation and they should understand that their words have consequences. there are ramifications. and if any american service members or diplomats, god forbid, are in harm's way. part of it is due to the disinformation being spread not just by people in the region, not just by terrorist groups but by some of our own members of congress. it's highly irresponsible. >> brian: morgan, how many billions do we give jordan? how many billions do we give egypt? you got to be kidding me, to

break off a meeting with the president on things that was dicey to begin with and now proven that israel has nothing to do with and to disrespect the president like that? are you kidding? and to not get it back on track now that the transcripts are out. more everyday is there. forget about the street. they could go see the video. it's online. to disrespect the president is disrespecting this country. i mean, there has got to be something you can do to take a hard line behind the scenes to let them know i'm in the air. you cannot cancel this meeting. >> yeah. i feel the same passion as you do about it, brian. it was just sort of unbelievable. like i can't think of an instance where something like that happened, as he is, you know, boarding the plane, canceling a meeting. first of all, i believe it's about $3 billion in aid that we give to jordan. it's probably at least that much for egypt as well. and so they had no problem taking billions of dollars in military aid, economic aid,

humanitarian aid. >> brian: take it back. >> from the united states. i think we should be considering that this morning. we also have to look, i think, brian and say to ourselves why too these leaders feel empowered to disrespect the president of the united states. and i'm truly not trying to be political about this point. but i think while the words that blinken and biden the secretary of state had for israel in the first few days of this war were strong and commendable, john kirby said on the plane last night that they were going over to ask israel some serious questions, tough questions how he paraphrased it. i don't know what that means. we are already in my mind starting to see a slow erosion away from the support that i think that we need for israel. listen, we were told time and time again under pompeo and in the trump administration that our policies were going to cause the chaos that you're seeing on your screens this morning. we were told our policies would cause that. it never did because people knew exactly where we stood. people would have never canceled on mike pompeo or president

trump in the air. and the fact that they can do so shows that they don't respect us. and, more importantly that, they don't fear us. but they should at least respect and fear the american taxpayer there should be ramifications. and if you don't start having ramifications if you don't set up deterrence this will escalate. the policy the biden administration, brian, has this policy of no escalation around the world of appeasement around the world. how is that working out in ukraine with russia? how is that working out in the middle east? stand up, be strong, be tough, use the power of american might because, if you don't, things will escalate. a policy of no escalation only ensures escalation. >> steve: morgan, one of the things the president said when he sat down about b. netanyahu in that limited press ability americans are worried, not worried what comes next. but he is absolutely right.

because americans are worried. everywhere i go people say hey, what is going to happen next? the worry is we are somehow going to get dragged into this. the news a couple days ago that a couple thousand of our service personnel are on standby for stuff like that. what happens next? probably god forbid going to be more depending on what happens to these hostages. take israel and the whole situation out of it. 30 dead americans. at least 15 hostages. we'll see where the numbers go from here. that requires a response from the united states we don't need anybody else to do our work for us. we need to respond when our friends are attacked. what does that response mean? that could entail a number of things. first thing i would do not have the treasury department today for example, issue more sanctions against hamas, fine. sanctions against hamas does nothing. stop playing foreign policy.

you know who to go after to stop. this. >> brian: it's iran. >> you know you have to play tough. the islamic republic of iran. just last night steve. guess what expired at the u.n. last night russian missiles. all of those things are not sanctioned anymore. it's fair game. the united states, the u.n. ambassador to the u.n. did not lift a single finger to stop that arms embargo from expiring because it will require them to be realistic that their iran policy has failed. i can't figure it out for the life of me. >> morgan, you mentioned sanctions and things like that. yesterday in washington 100 members of congress urged the administration to clamp down on hamas and islamic jihad's access to crypto-currency. because apparently they have raised over 100 -- this is according to the "wall street journal." they have raised over

$130 million in donations because crypto is hard to track. sanctions do not apply. hundreds of members of congress are making a good point. cut the cord on crypto for hamas and islamic jihad. >> that's great point. the treasury department where i used to work as financial intelligence analyst is actually pretty good at following the money and chasing these things when they want to be. they are rolling out new hamas sanctions today. i agree with you, how they are going to track that crypto-currency could definitely be in that new sanctions package. >> ainsley: lawrence? >> lawrence: you know, morgan, the bottom line is that the white house is still trying to figure out what their strategy is. you have been in the room before when briefings are happening. part of the job is to brief congress with what ilhan omar is saying. what rashida tlaib is saying, i have to ask the question. should they even be receiving briefings on this type of stuff?

i think they are entitled to unclassified briefings at least. i'm not sure either one of them have the security clearance i know omar was kicked off the foreign affairs committee. thank god kevin mccarthy did that sure would be nice to have the speaker of the house at this moment to determine these things, wouldn't it? >> brian: lastly, real quick, guess who is meeting president xi and vladimir putin today. >> that's right. >> brian: they are talking about their great relationship and growing the belt and road program. do you think we are able to keep our eye on the middle east and china we were shifting once again and once again they brought us back to the middle east. bush wanted to do it. obama wanted to do it and biden wanted to do it and now, guess what? we are back in the middle east. can we do both? >> no. because this administration hasn't even been able to do anything else but focus on russia and ukraine. and, again, as i spoke about earlier, their policy of trying

to get putin not to escalate ukraine, which hasn't really worked. they basically -- i mean, listen, i have been hearing from middle east diplomats for several years now how frustrated they were that they feel like the biden administration was basically completely ignoring the region. in order to focus on russia and ukraine. you are seeing putin and xi jinping to meet today. for the last decade the two of them have met with each other more than they have met with any other world leader. it's a dangerous day, brian. >> brian: those translators have been busy. thank you so much, morgan. happening now, president biden is meeting with president netanyahu behind closed doors. they went in front of cameras earlier. >> ainsley: this as americans are feared to be among the near 200 hostages held by hamas. up next, we talk with a mediator who negotiated a prisoner exchange with the terror group in 2011. and is working to release the current captives as well. stay with us. ♪ ♪

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>> carley: three major international airports in france locked down after receiving bomb threats. no planes taking off. in germany, police are investigating a fire bombing at a synagogue in berlin. faith leaders say two people tossed molotov cocktails at the building overnight.

the complex includes a kindergarten, a richi center. the advocacy group saying words become deeds, hamas' ideology also having effect in germany. happening today joran van der sloot is due in federal court and is expected to plead guilty in an extortion attempt against nooive's: natalie highway. victim impact statements will be heard before sentence going van der sloot takes a plea deal. he is the chief suspect in holloway's 2005 disappearance in aruba. plan is contingent on revealing details how he died. the shows expected to hold another round of voting for a speaker after ohio congressman and ohio judiciary chair jim jordan failed to get the 217 votes needed to land a

leadership role. democrats say jordan is unfit for the office and 20 republicans voted against him. but jordan says he is determined to win the support of all of the republican holdouts. considerations, discussion with our colleague. >> jim jordan is the poster child for maga extremism. >> carley: another round of votes is expected to be held just before noon. those are your headlines. steve, over to you. >> steve: you will see that vote live on fox. >> carley: you sure will. right now in israel, where it is 1:30 in the afternoon, president biden is on a high stakes trip as americans are feared to be among the nearly 200 victims held hostage by hamas terrorists. next guest knows all about hostage tactics after getting idf soldier freed from hamas decade ago in one of the most high profile negotiations of its

kind. bass kin is sculpting on the sculpting on thehostage crisis s now. her shawn, good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> major development in the hostage situation until that hospital has exploded and that has complicated things significantly. >> we were hoping for direct line of communication tween the qatary mediators and the israeli war cabinet. until now what we understand is that the qatarys are talking directly to hamas. the hamas dealership is right next door to doha the capital of qatar. they have been talking to the americans rather than directly to the israelis. the americans have been talking to the israelis, that's a big convoluted when the time is running out and clock is ticking. the window of opportunity is going to close once the israeli ground incursion begins. we need to do everything possible to get as many of the

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♪ >> deeply saddened and outraged by the explosion at the hospital in gaza yesterday. and based on what i have seen it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you. but there is a lot of people out there not sure. >> brian: the team being islamic jihad. admitting he has seen no proof that israel is responsible for deadly hospital bombing that killed about 500 in gaza. but here in the u.s., far left members of the squad disagree. rashida tlaib tweeting out israel just bombed the baptist hospital killing 500 palestinians. doctors, children, patients, just like that. at potus, this is what happens when you refuse to facilitate a cease-fire and help de-escalate and you have others pushing back in their own party. g.o.p. senator markwayne mullen sits on the senate armed services committee wants to respond. senator, your response to the squad's response. >> well, it's sickening. this right here is why kevin mccarthy should still be speaker of the house.

we should be pushing back on tlaib right now. we should be exposing her bias towards hamas and her support for them. and there should be a resolution on the floor right now that is basically silencing her. this is absurd. for her to go out there and defend a terrorist organization, a known terrorist organization that has been recognized by the united states as a terrorist organization go against one of our strongest allies israel and no recourse for this? it's absolutely ridiculous and sad. this is what happens when you don't have leadership in the republican party as the speaker right now. this is why it's disastrous matt gaetz and those eight about by casting out kevin mccarthy. we should be standing strong right now not infighting with each other. >> brian: you don't have this problem in oklahoma. >> no. >> brian: seeing in new york city dueling protest, hamas, israel protest in new york city. happening every day across the country on college campuses. and then if you look around the world in egypt, el-sisi said the

right of -- this has gone beyond the right of self-defense already, israel. you have mbs coming out and saying need to stop the military operations. so these are people that are already pushing israel to stop after the carnage that killed almost 2,000 just 10 days ago. >> this is exactly what we saw in 2014, too. when israel went out and started defending themselves against hamas, it was a matter of days before the international community started coming after israel saying you need to do escalate. none of us, none of us would be wanting to de-escalate if this, brian, would have happened in one of our cities. god forbid this were to happen in oklahoma city there would be a bunch of people in oklahoma to go over there and kick the hell out of hamas. right now this is exactly what we should be doing in supporting israel. israel was attacked brutally. we saw it. we lost over 30 americans in that attack.

they have literally were raping women, deheading elderly and young children. and right now they are saying you should de-escalate. you shouldn't continue to move forward? what else are they supposed to do? we know exactly where the came from it came from hamas in gaza. they should absolutely go out there and eliminate hamas from this earth. >> brian: we hezbollah having daily skirmishes in the north with the israelis. they are calling for a day of rage. we saw what happened friday with wild protests here and around the world. which of what should the president's response be, what should our response be knowing that he is actually in israel right now? >> this wouldn't be taking place right now if president trump was in office. zero chance. because they feared president trump. peace through strength is the only thing that these terrorist organizations understand. appeasement, policy, diplomacy doesn't work with an irrational group of terrorists. and that's exactly what is going on. and don't -- please keep in mind

that iran is the one that's funding these organizations. iran is testing america's resolve around the world right now with the support of putin, with the support of president xi and north korea providing the weapons. they are an alliance that is against a united states and and all aspects of it. to have a president that is weak and we all know that president biden is weak. we saw it from the beginning of his withdrawal from afghanistan. and we continue to see it today. he should be speaking completely clearly, understanding what the consequences are going to be. >> brian: to iran. >> they should be cutting the snake's head off right now and going toward iran and putting sanction on them and cutting out their economic sources and quit this nuclear agreeance they are trying to have with iran. >> brian: allies in the area stand up to the bullies china and russia won't. i want to ask you about jack lew former chief of staff under obama. jack lew is on course to be the

israeli ambassador from the united states. jack lew has got a huge problem. he lied to congress about the money. he helped iran go extreme effort to make iran convert their currency in oman to the u.s. currency into euro. he lied about it in front of the senate. are you guys going to let him pass? >> democrats are trying to do everything they can to use this unfortunate situation going on in israel to pass a guy that's not qualified. jack lew secretary of treasury under the obama administration, gave a license, a special license to transfer 5.7 billion u.s. dollars into iranian assets. during the negotiations, with iran, for their nuclear deal. he tried -- he tried to deny it. we exposed it in 2018. he lied repeatedly to congress until we actually found the paper, the license that he signed. how in the world would this guy be the individual we want right

now as the ambassador in iran? >> by the way, if you know it, israel knows it. how are they ever going to trust their ambassador knowing that his allegiance and his actions. >> that's right, brian. >> brian: senator, thank you so much. thanks for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having me on. >> brian: let's go out to lawrence. >> lawrence: thanks, brian. so dueling protests break out here in new york with a pro-israeli rally in washington square park and nyu student groups accuse israeli of supporting genocide in the middle east. watch. >> israel you can't hide. [chanting] you're committing genocide. >> free palestine. >> lawrence: disgusting stuff happening. here reaction hunter college. israeli activist mom of three.

ben northward college senior along with new york city rabbi stein myths. father of four. we have hamid and issue i can't university senior marmam. thank you all so much for joining the program. been praying for you all. lizzy, when you see people calling for genocide of your community, what runs through your mind? >> you know, when we're being accused of genocide, i find that extremely ironic because the word genocide, i mean, the hamas charter literally says word for word the day of judgment will not come about until muslims fight jews and kill them. so the only genocide that i can think about in this picture is hamas' call to exterminate the jewish penal. this has been despicable display of propaganda leading to jew

hatred on our college campuses. it's ram bid and dangerous. israel values human life to the degree that we even care for the terrorists who raped and murdered our people in our own hospitals in israel. so we value life. they value death. and the word genocide should only be used in reference to hamas' wish for the jews. >> lawrence: do you feel like there is support here in new york city or even on the college campuses? >> college campuses are so scary right now. jewish and israeli students genuinely don't feel safe going to class when there are student groups like the students for justice in palestine that are chanting slogans inat this fat that revolution. calling hamas massacre on october 7th as, quote, awesome. the university has not denounced they have not denounced ten yard

professors. personally i do not feel safe at columbia university right now. >> lawrence: gideon, i was at hunter college and i saw you there. you were walking young jewish girls home because they didn't feel safe. >> no. it's definitely gotten worse. as the hamas misfired a rocket, we are expecting things to get much worse on campus because when something goes wrong and they kill their own civilians because they are terrorists who do not care about palestinians. they are just racist people who want to kill all jews and don't care if they kill their own people in the process we are expecting that hatred to foment more on campus and already seeing that across do you knowies. like columbia, msa at queens college posting videos referencing the hamas charter for people to go find jews and kill them. we have other jews on campus talking about freedom of palestine from 75 years of occupation which necessitates the murder of you a jews in the region. again, the name palestine comes

from the romans when they were trying to surprise the indigenous jewish population israel. we know it from the christian bible and jewish bible that the land of israel belongs to the jews and for the jews first. it's not possible for there to be jewish colonizers. the students don't know what they are say and fomenting hatred. >> lawrence: as i hear all of you guy's commence, with a show of hands, who believes that the people who are protesting the streets what you all did? who believes that? you don't know. expand on that. >> i think it's important to make a distinction between moral perversion and moral confusion when you are looking at students. i mean students right now, what you are seeing, i think, is the result of the decades long effort, specifically in academia to delegitimize the state of israel and dehumanize israelis and jews worldwide. when you do that, and you teach students and indoctrinate

students to view people not as individuals but as members of groups of the oppressed and the oppressor and you attribute morality on those grounds to which group is the powerful one or prosperous is necessarily the villain and whatever group is perceived as the underdog is necessarily the hero, then it justifies the most abhorrent atrocities against from one group to the another. you are seeing that manifest in real time which probably decent, good people, students, are now being morally perverted and confused by willful professors though ho have bad intentions. see students ripping down posters. losing decency. redeemable and incumbent upon us as responsible people to put the message out there and try to redeem them because they are in that student phase of life which their minds are malleable and could be persuaded. but you have to make that difference. and thenth in the meantime prioritize the safety and security of the jewish people.

>> lawrence: rabbi, what do you tell the folks that attend your synagogue when this is hang? because, you can feel hopeless right now. >> i mean, think that a large part of it is that we have to look at the bigger picture. the irony is that the greatest support for hamas outside of iran is found on american college campuses. >> lawrence: wow. >> but, by and large, americans are incredibly supportive of the state of israel. and i think as american, my hope is that there is a consensus around this country against these depraved attacks and a consensus that has been there since the beginning of the state of israel. that the state of israel is a western democracy, is a faithful ally. and that america and israel share their values in completion. and i think that's where i get my hope from. because college students are

college students, as was mentioned, there is this moral confusion, but somehow five years later, they seem to see things much differently. >> lawrence: wow. i will start with you in the next hour. you guys are going to be with us all morning. we appreciate it so much. ainsley, i will send it over back to you in new york. >> ainsley: excellent job. very interesting. thank you so much, lawrence. right now, president biden is meeting with the prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu. we will talk to former deputy national security adviser k.t. mcfarland and retired four star general david petraeus coming up. plus, they were the first responders when hamas attacked and now they are stepping up as the country is at war. we hear from the israeli police with their stories of bravery, next. ♪ it's easy to get lost in investment research. introducing j.p. morgan personal advisors. hey david. connect with an advisor to create your personalized plan. let's find the right investments for your goals okay, great.

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civilian casualties, hamas seeks to maximize civilian casualties. hamas wants to kill as many israelis as possible. and has no regard whatsoever to palestinian lives. everyday.

they perpetrate a double war crime. targeting our civilians while hiding behind their civilians. embedding themselves in the civilian population and using them as human shields shields. we have seen the cost of this -- this terrible double war crime against humanity, that hamas is perpetrating in the last 11 days as israel legitimately targets terrorists, civilians are unfortunately harmed. hamas is responsible and should be held accountable for all civilian casualties. we saw the cost of this terrible war crime yesterday when a rocket fired by palestinian terrorist misfired and landed in a palestinian hospital. the entire world was rightfully outraged but this outrage should be directed not at israel but at the terrorists. as we proceed in this war, israel will do everything it can to keep civilians out of harm's

way. we have asked them and continue to ask them to move to safer areas. we'll continue to work with you, mr. president, to ensure that the minimal requirements are met and will continue to work together to get our hostages out. mr. president, the road to victory will be long and hard. but united in purpose and with a deep sense of justice and the unbreakable spirit of our soldiers and our people israel will prevail. thank you, mr. president. >> thank you, mr. prime minister. in the wake of hamas' appalling terrorist assault, brutal, inhumane, almost beyond belief what they did, this cabinet came together and standing strong, standing united and i want you to know you are not alone.

you are not alone. as i emphasized earlier, we will continue to have israel's back, as you work to defend your people. we'll continue to work with you and partners across the region to prevent more tragedy to innocent civilians. 75 years ago your founders declared that this nation would be one base -- quote, based on freedom, justice, and peace. based on freedom, justice, and peace. the united states stands with you in defense of that freedom in pursuit of that justice and the support of that peace. today, tomorrow, and always, we promise you. [shouting questions]

thank you very much, all of you, thank you very much. [shouting questions] >> thank you very much. >> they don't give up. >> nothing changes. same in washington. ha ha ha. >> same thing. >> ainsley: you are looking at our president, joe biden, in tel aviv with the prime minister of israel. this is the israel war cabinet which war in gaza. consists of the prime minister, the minister of defense, the former chief of the general staff, former army chief of staff, and the former israeli ambassador to the u.s., ron dermer who has been on our show before and close ally of the prime ministers. >> brian: saw that remark at the end they don't give up. historic time when two leaders are together the press should be asking questions. wouldn't mind if we got a few answers it. would have been great. i think lawrence, one thing that was brought up and pretty clear is benjaminy