infantry units and it's mixed in that sense and rescuing men and women and the commander, the battalion commander was the rank and the commander of the unit and they were deployed in the south area of the gaza strip perimeter and they were deployed in the attack by terrorists and they themselves men and women and it is a whole new stage for us in israel and we have amazing women combat soldiers directly participating in the defense of the country. >> ainsley: wow, you also told our producers that you've heard some incredible stories of women that are serving, one woman had her baby and after two weeks left to go fight. another woman is six months pregnant and fighting that you know of.

you were texting with her when all of this was happening and she was locked in her safe room. thank you, mary, for your service. we're praying for israel. >> thank you so much. >> ainsley: you're welcome. second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. >> brian: we start at the white house, president biden expected to formally take questions today. in a news conference for the first time since hamas' news conference. >> lawrence: comes as secretary of state confirms confirms 33americans were killee terrorist group and more still missing. >> ainsley: family members of israelis held captive in gaza are meeting on capitol hill today. >> steve: i'm in washington as the sun comes up and big news is mike johnson and the new front runner in the race and house

speaker. we could see a vote starting at noon today in that building behind us. trey yingst on the ground in southern israel with the very latest, trey. reporter: good morning, israelis continue their strike against the gaza strip and last night we were along the border watching the flashes of light and tank fire and air strikes into hamas position and israeli authorities and soldiers near the border and there was some level ovcommotion and small arms and back with flairs firing into the air and we learned today that two hamas militants tried to infiltrate through the beach area and going 90 days into the con flick and it's a ground and conflict and last hour a long range rocket and north of hypha in the

northern part of israel and they're able to maintain their ability to fire rockets towards major populations and despite thousands of air strikes and the gaza strip and they continued attempts for the infiltration and drawing them for the missile attacks into israeli territory and striking more hezbollah positions and tried to hit as many of those cells as possible and then overnight in the west bank, the israelis struck a group of militants in the refugee camp of jeanine killing three of them and three of them throwing explosive devices for soldiers and we're looking at three front situation here and the ziti reallies are bracing for what could come next in the entire country on certain on the background of invasion into the strip will be decided. >> brian: netanyahu has to get the go ahead to do that and his

right is frustrated and they're worried why they're waiting and could you get a sense of politics there? reporter: absolutely. we could talk about the politics of americans and other regional players in all of this according to reports and the israelis are not immediately entering gaza and move farred with the stages of israel and thousands of infantry troops and ready to take the battle to hamas. this is for two reasons and one has to deal with the hostages and we haven't yet been freed and 220 people being held by hamas inside gaza and the other with the plan for the future. who will take care of gaza before 2 million civilians and the death toll in gaza is rapidly rising and more than 5700 people have been killed according to local authorities.

he says i'm pleased to say that qatar is becoming an essential party and stake holder and the diplomatic efforts were crucial at this time. clearly the qataris are on scene trying to get as many of the civilians being held inside gaza to safety. >> ainsley: trey, the people you talk to that serve the country and idf, what are they saying? do they want to go in? reporter: they do, the vast majority of soldiers i'm texts and staying in touch with on the border said they're read ready to take the battle to hamas. they saw the massacre that took place on october 7 and understand the trauma israel faced on what's being called the country's darkest day and they're ready not just to de-trade the capables of the organization in the strip, but completely eradicate hamas from the map. they want to get rid of the group that caused the pain and suffering of their people and

they're ready to go in and they're waiting for those orders and that's part of the calculation that the ziti ragaini ellie political echelon -- israeli echelon has to make in all this and go by with the adrenaline and dies down as days pass. >> lawrence: trey, i'm just curious, obviously these folks s are still healing and preparing for war, but there's protests happening all across the country, all across the world in fact, of people that don't support them. and i'm curious, do they feel the support on the ground or do they see what's happening all across the world of folks supporting hamas? reporter: they absolutely see the support and we were at a hospital and we'll bring you the hospital and newborns being delivered in a reinforced maternity ward and held a one hour old baby and a bright

moment amid a really dark story. they see the support and one man actually said tell the people in new jersey, his family was from new jersey. we see the supports and thank you for sending all this love and actual goods to the soldiers on the front lines. and this is probably the most complex story on earth to cover and they see save the children saving more than 2,000 people under 18 has been killed since the war erupted inside the strip and many are innocent civilians and it's caught amid the cross fire and it's incredibly emotional and hard to cover and israelis dealing with this for years and they've lived under rocket fire and lived in bomb shelters for many cases and we have reaction around the world. >> >> steve: iranian-backed

militias launching new attacks in iraq and syria. >> lawrence: mark meredith is live at the white house with more. is there a response yet, mark, from the white house? reporter: lawrence, there is. good morning and, steve, welcome back to washington. u.s. officials say they're closely watching these developments and recent attacks both rocket and drone attacks on u.s. forces serving in the middle east calling them troubling but of growing concern and while these attacks are being carried out by third party groups and iranians have fingerprints all over them and these taking place in iraq and syria and at least one american contractor died after suffering a cardiac incident and basically panicked after the drone attacks were being launched at the base and now the u.s. is warning iran

directly and the militias involved to tread carefully. >> the united states does not seek conflict with iraq and we don't want this war to widen. but if iran or the proxies attack u.s. personnel anywhere, make no mistake, we'll defend our people. we'll defend our security swiftly and decisively. reporter: today we expect president biden to offer his latest reaction to the developments in the middle east and prime minister in the middle east and in the noon hour, on tuesday the president spoke to saudi arabia's crowned prince and keep the conflict from growing larger and widening more than it has. back here in washington, more drama up on capitol hill and another speaker on capitol hill and mike johnson of louisiana, won the most votes overnight after multiple rounds of balloting and he's 51 years

scold served in the house since 2017 and he's the former chair of republican study committee, and while i said there's no guarantee he's going to get the gavel, he appears to get closer than some of the candidates that come before them. see what happens on the house floor later on today. the governor talked about climate change and academic relationship with california and china and some republicans slammed this was delusional and given ongoing state of affairs and back to you guys. >> brian: if he wants to talk solar panels with the president. he looks good, he's a handsome man but in terms of the reverse

side of the baseball card is the issue. so maddening of officials not aligning up the guys and attacks we faced and find out about it days later and all the weapons and assets in the area and we're not allowing it. knock ago drone out of the sky that's about to kill you is not being on the front foot. >> lawrence: i'm sorry, it's so crazy because i remember back in 2018, you have -- in syria the wagner group that are striking a jsoc post and he gets on the phone and calls counter part and said are you guys striking us? his russian counter part said we're not doing it. he gets back on and calls dumb fort and said annihilate them. they took out 250-300 forces in the wagner group. seems like the position of the white house is posture. >> brian: we don't want to fight. we're attacking us and we're

saying we don't want to fight. we give you billions to defend america and the free world and sit in a crouch and fetal position. >> ainsley: yesterday jacqui heinrich was talking and you said in the past, iran was not involved and he sid iran is certainly complicit and without them, there's no hamas, without them there's no hezbollah. 20 were hit -- 20 of our men were injured? syria and four last week in iraq and this is the first we're hearing about this and attacks in u.s. military bases and saw the ma'am of that in the middle east and conducted by rockets rs and conducted by drones, steve. >> steve: they're not in fear of america. >> lawrence: no, they're not. >> steve: they're not and one of the things that kirby said was that any sort of cease-fire only helps hamas at this point. in the meantime, there are some -- there are some americans who want to protest in support of the palestinians and what's going on as you look live at new

york capitol hill in washington and walkouts at college campuses today starting at 9:00 in the morning in new york city and their parents are paying $75,000 a year and how many of those kids say parents are skipping the entire company. >> lawrence: i hope they're watching and counseling the checks.

why they're spewing and talking to people. >> hunter college and brooklyn college and >> brian: going to bat for the people murdering and decapitating infants and they're beating them up and throwing them into tunnels and that's what your stats are going to bat for those people. jewish executives and new hires they're rescinding opportunities for -- to work for their companies because they don't want to hire someone who was pro palestine and all the kids are putting on their facebook pages or instagram and anyone who is hiring any of these individuals, you need to think twice and george washington university and not far from where you are,

steve, the stu students are prot ago pro palestinian activism on the library and it's a pro palestinian vigil and one of the signs says glory to our martyrs and another sign, yeah, there's glory to our martyrs and another sign says gw, blood of palestinians is on your hands and another one says your tuition is funding genocide and gaza and the president ovthe school condemned the terrorist attack on israel and some on x, which used to be twitter, are asking her to expel anyone who was involved in this today. >> steve: the walkouts in new york are happening at 9:00 this morning and look at center screen, you've got capitol hill and that's when the house is going to reconvene and see whether or not mike johnson will be the next speaker or if they're going to have to kick the can down the road a little bit. and at 12:30, you'll see joe biden have a joint availability with the prime minister of

australia because tonight a great big dinner is being held at the white house. >> lawrence: see what type of joe biden we're going to get today. is he going to answer questions and convene? >> steve: he's supposed to. >> lawrence: yeah, but is he going to because he was very evasive yesterday. >> ainsley: it's the first press conference since israel was attacked and he's meeting with the prime minister of australia. university of pennsylvania and harvard and same thing and columbia trying to stop the bleeding. >> lawrence: happening everywhere. carly has headlines. >> carley: off duty pilot is expected back in court next week after trying to shutoff the engine of an alaska airline plane midair on sunday. court documents revealing that joseph emerson told magic

mushrooms and lack of sleep caused him to have a nervous breakdown and aircraft flying from washington to portland, oregon, after the crew was able to subdue emerson and he's pleaded not guilty to 83 counts of attempted murder along with other charges. now to a fox weather alert. hurricane otis making landfall earlier in mexico and residents preparing for the catastrophic damage from the hurricane. the storm that weakening to a category 4 after making landfall as a category 5 hurricane. local governments are preparing shelters in castories don'ts get displaced on their homes with more on the story. the official beer of ufc and dana white joining hannity and that mixed martial arts company is choosing to partner with the

controversial beer brand. >> i know all the controversy and everything else and myself going into a long term deal with another sponsor i want to be with somebody i'm aligned with and they deployed 65,000 americans and they have thousands of vets that, wonderful for them. they spent $700 million a year with u.s. farmers using their comes to make their products and many, many other great things at anheuser-bush and those are the things i'm focused on. >> carley: well, anheuser-bush lost $man $27 billion in market value after partnering with transgender influencer dylan mulvaney earlier this year. this deal with the oc is the biggest sponsorship in the sports history reportedly valued at more than $100 million. so we'll see if this $100 million deal can chip into the $27 billion loss, guys. >> brian: it's a great point, carley. the beer distributers and

farmers and bartenders and those were the people losing their jocks because of this to send a message because dylan mulvaney was not the type of spokesperson they felt good drinking with. >> lawrence: will the company go back to the origin? they got to pivot. >> ainsley: anyone that worked for the company and were so mad and they quit. >> lawrence: i'm not sure. >> brian: i'm sure they're out there. they can go back. maybe dylan mulvaney can referee. >> ainsley: 18 minutes at top of the hour. california governor gavin murrimurrieta newsom meeting wih president xi today. >> brian: our next guest bringing humor to the task and mike colins is live with steve in washington as he brought signs. that story is next. >> steve: he's probably thinking about other women. thinking who can get to 217. ( ♪ )

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>> steve: one lawmaker and next guest channeling jokes and

memes on x and republican from great state of georgia, mike colins joining us here on the roof of the bureau. my kids were showing me the memes you put out on x, used to be twitter. she's looking at him thinking he's probably thinking about other women. he's thinking who can get to 217? the member of congress and members to throwback of the white house and best of the best situation and what are you doing? >> a lot of people have asked me that, we need a speaker and getting back to work and doing the people's business. we do. in all honesty, it's more like a southern thing for a little

levity. we're at georgia with the home of lewis and jeff fox worthy and throwing out a bit of humor. >> steve: from louisiana, he's got enough votes and pretty close. >> let's think about it. since 2016 especially, 70% of the conference and people that were america first agenda candidates and now america first representatives and a lot of what we've been looking for here and they're looking for people here for decades. it's a good fit and he's got a great chains evansville chance of getting in across the finish line. >> steve: the secret ballot vote and we've got another vote and we've got a role call vote.

that one went very well and we had a few members without and it was late at night and others had commitments and we'll shore that up, i think this morning or johnson will. you know, see if we kent have the vote on the floor. >> steve: meanwhile, we're here not on the floor, we're up on the roof and gavin newsom met with president xi there and they talk climate change and stuff like that and what's he up to? >> i think even xi sees the fact that he's probably talking to the democrat candidate for president. he really isn't worried about it. >> steve: this cycle? >> he's talking to the real democrat candidate and joe biden even if he did find out about it, he'd probably forget about it in five minutes. >> steve: you think gavin newsom is running against the republican in about a year?

>> most people think it'll be a different candidate than joe biden. >> steve: do you think joe is going to be pushed or he ultimately that's what he wants? >> i think politics is a tough business now. and i think that democrat party is seeing what's going on there. they're not going to let that happen. they're not going to let just a cake walk for the republicans. that's okay. i will still take back the white house. >> steve: okay, before you go, what are the odds that mike johnson wins speaker today? >> i'd been holding out on getting a haircut till we got a speaker and this weekend, i said i got to get my ears lowered so there's a good chance. >> steve: all right, go back to making your memes, check them out. mike colins on twitter now x. thank you, kongman. >> thank you, enjoyed it. >> steve: it's 7:28 in the east and fox weather alert and first major winter storm could bring up to foot of snow in montana. janice dean is coming up next but first, the un claiming they

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>> ainsley: coming up live, house reconvenes at noon to try and find a new speak 7. at 12:30, we expect president biden to hold first formal news conference since the deadly attack and in new york, the trump civil fraud trial resumes at 10:00 a.m. and live coverage of all of the events on fox news. now, a fox weather alert, nearly 3 million americans are under winter weather alerts this morning as people across the western part of the country are

waking up to snow. waves of snow hitting the northern cascades and rockies with the worst of the storm expected in montana so let's check in with the senior meteorologist janice dean for fox weather forecast. hey, janice. reporter: hello, take a look and a lot going on across the map and much colder air diving into the rocky withs that storm system developing and heavy snow for the mountains today across the northwest and in towards the northern plains over the next couple of days and we could see two feet in some of the areas and little early for this and that's going to be a harbinger of what's going to come in the next couple of days because i know this storm will impact these regions this weekend. heavy rain in the forecast and causing flash flooding for some of the areas and for the eastern u.s., we could hit some record high temperatures and we're going to be 82 over the weekend and then things are going to start to come down in terms of temperatures and i want to talk about her otis real quick. it was a category 5 hurricane that went into the coast of

mexico including combin -- and f the most devastating storms going into the region and keep you up to date on that for the beautiful region in mexico and could be completely devastated, brian kilmeade, and this is the story on foxweather.com and hurricane season is not over unfortunately. >> brian: overnight, israeli defense forces striking back at hamas terrorists defending themselves from rockets firing at ziti reel from gaza. we forget that. they're still coming and comes as un frantically claims they'll be forced to stop delivering aid to gaza unless it gets more fuel and the idf responding with pictures responding and pointing out "these fuel tanks are inside gaza and can take more than half a million litters of fuel and ask hamas who has some"great answer. david freeman is joining us to react. ambassador, should they be

giving them fuel? what do you think about that declaration? >> it's absurd to give them fuel. gaza ruled by hamas. hamas is responsible for the people that live there and as you've said, there's a half a million leader os f fuel and give to their people and horde it to fuel more rocket attacks and normal activity against israel and if they want to give to their people, they can give to their people but israel is not responsible by committing suicide and the means of hamas can attack israeli citizens. >> brian: are you urged the impression that to pause the attacks, the strikes and maybe pause the possibility of land invasion would be okay if you could get some hostages out? >> you know what, i think the hostages are -- have become the critical issue right now in this battle because in a sense, they're in the way. there's 200 of them and that's -- israel never contemplated having that many of its own people held hostages by hamas. it's tearing away at fiber of

the country and if there's a way. i'm not sure there s. if there's a way to get them out, get most of them out, i think that is the priority. but not forever. >> brian: that's the trump card and part of the plan to get hostages and curtail the attacks and i know there's a double edged saturday there because we care about the humanity and we're interviewing the families and there's no place like the biden administration and no nominee till this week. meanwhile, did you see at the un yesterday, the general secretary said something outrageous in my view. watch. >> it's important to recognize the affects by hamas did not happen in a vacuum. the palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of occupation and they've been involved by settlements and plagued by violence and help for a political solution have been applied and vanishing.ing.

>> brian: his focus not on the massacre of 1400 and in the -- in israel and it is on 56 years he said palestinians are frustrated. >> he should resign tomorrow and united states should cut off funding to the un and outrageous and adding insult to extraordinary injury that the israelis suffered. there's no occupation of gaza. not a single you living in gaza or a single israeli soldier in gaza. the reason they're living under adverse circumstances is because of hamas and hamas subject gaits its own people -- subjugates its own people and the meaning of their country. it's not israel's fault. they handed over gaza to the palestinians for free, asked nothing in return and said build a life here. they decided to choose terrorism. >> brian: they have enough money to make like martha's vineyard and could be unbelievable place and chose to make it a terrorist haven. u.s. intel comes tells us

there's a myriad of strikes at our bases in syria and iraq and on the coast of yemen and there's been multiple casualties and most of the people are back at work. we have not answered to this. the americans, us, have not answered this with strength. they said pick a time of our choosing and iran should be warned. is that enough? >> look, joe biden gave a speech ten days ago and looked iran in the eye and said don't. use that had famous word don't and they did, they attacked us in syria and iraq and shooting at ziti ragaini ellies across the border in lebanon. we're not doing anything about it and i would suggest that the u.s. government go back to january 3, 2020. when president trump was given intelligence that kansas city chiefs similar soleimani was attacked and we eliminated

soleimani and know what the iranian response was? curled up into a ball and didn't do anything. they're thugs and respond only out of fear. when they sense fear, we're sensing that right now and makes the whole area a dangerous place. america's fair uroto respond it -- failure to respond is making america more weak in the world. >> brian: ambassador, you left israel and what kind of country did you leave? >> i left a country that's deeply united. deeply committed to win this war. they're seeing the world reaction and the college campuses and the horrible statement of the secretary general of un and rashida tlaib clinging to a false story that they destroyed a hospital in gaza city and killed 500 people. a complete blood liable fermenting violence and like a rape victim going to court to get justice and the defense lawyer said you had it coming

because you did something provactive and it's that kind of pain that the israelis are suffering and we have to support israel. >> brian: most clearly the americans are and not sure what's happening on the cap puss and neither are a lot of donors. you want to columbia and this must really be bothering you. >> it's eliminating the need for me to make anymore doe nayses. >> brian: i don't blame you. ambassador, thank you for your great work. you don't have to but you're still helping out. our next guests, experienced the horrors of hamas firsthand and having family members kidnapped and today they're on capitol hill to meet with lawmakers and demand action to get them released but first they sit down with steve doocy, that's next. big promises. small promises. cuddly shaped promises. each with a time and a place they've been promised to be. and the people of old dominion never turn away a promise. or over promise. or make an empty promise.

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>> steve: happening today, anti-israeli students are planning to join pro palestinians for mass walkouts at college campuses across the united states of america. our next guest experienced horrors of hamas firsthand and lobbying lawmakers to help rescue more hostages. joining us right now, we have assembled a panel here on the roof of our bureau, and some of them are actually missing family members being held hostage right now, we believe, by hamas.

but, let's start talking about the college protests and walkouts starting in an hour and 12 minutes. certain campuses across the country in support of the other side. how does that make you feel? >> it breaks my heart because it's not a political issue, you can be either pro or against israel, pro or against palestine, one thing has to be clear, people that take hostages, people that burn babies alive and put axes in their heads cannot be paraded for and cannot be absoluted for. this is 2023, how can -- saluted for and this is 2023 and how can they say it's about palestinians being oppressed this is a terror organization that beheads people and burns them and they should be condemned and for me, this is america. i'm an american citizen. how can people just look away and justify the fact that my

friends are captive. their family members are captive. this is not a situation to be putting political opinions, innocent people are taken into gaza and every day that i am here, they're over there and they need to be back in their hopes. people cannot absolute and parade this side because right now this is not about two sided war. this is condemning a terror organization, and this should be out there loud and clear. >> steve: maya, you saw with your own two eyes because you were at that music festival, and you made it out by the grace of god to tell your story and you're all going to be up on capitol hill today to tell your story once again to a number of u.s. senators and whatnot. gain -- gabe, you've put this group together and you're based down in florida and once upon a time were the mayor of bar harbor. when you look at anti-israeli protests going on on college campuses, you got to feel for

the students like maya just graduated not long ago. if you're a jewish student where your professor has an anti-israeli view, you feel pretty alone in that classroom. >> let me be clear, they're not anti-israel protests or positions. this is anti-semitism, clear and pure anti-semitism and universities in the united states today especially in the ivies are not safe for -- ivies are not safe for the jewish students and professors are making speeches and saw at columbia university at a business professor and can't keep them safe on the campus and happening from uc berkeley to all the ivy league institutions all over and result of de-humanization of the jewish people all over the worship god. it's not about israel but anti-semitism. >> steve: you're here to tell the american public what's going on. mark, you lost half your family,

your sister, her husband and three kids were kidnapped. you are going here to capitol hill today to plead for their lives. to get something from them but what can they do? >> i will tell you just this, my family, they live near gaza because they believe in coexistence and believe in peace, we believe in peace. we are properly -- more than hamas and the protesters that think they're protesting for the palestinians. they protest against the palestinians because they help the hamas and they're supporters to keep this cycle that hurts and harms the palestinians for many, many years and we want to see the palestinians thrive and prosper and live in safety keeping our families, our children and women and adults in captivity there will not make any progress for palestinians and just hold them back and the protesters think they help

something. they just keep and it's been going on for many, many decades and i'm old enough ho hear that and see that. >> steve: adele, you were in a safe room and luckily they could not get in and you could hear them speaking arabic on the other side of the ball and a number of people in your kibbutz were murdered in cold blood and you're here to tell america what about those people? some people say it never happened. >> you know, i'm american-born, i was an educator for four decades, and i appreciate the education system in america, and i expect the american students to be intelligent enough to listen to the truth and not to be led by propaganda, by pop list ick propaganda because the people in my community captured

and murdered, they were grandmothers, they were children, they were -- this is not a war, these are not soldiers. this is a war crime against civilians. we need our american students and american people to be on the right side of history on this. >> steve: yeah. netta, your parents were kidnapped by hamas. they are somewhere. you're a student, you were staying in a dorm essentially. and you were next door and they took your parents. so for you, when you hear about the protests and everything else going on in this country, you know, on this show, we proudly stand with israel on this against the hamas terrorists. what would you like to tell the people about what happened to your family? >> i want to tell you that i

don't blame them for not believing it. i don't entirely believe it myself. but all this happened and it just happened. i will acknowledge but that you don't judge us and i don't claim to understand what twisted minds think that it somehow is justified because they slaughtered and kidnapped innocent people. this is an act that no human being can do. >> steve: they're your parents. >> and i want them back so bad. i just want my parents back.

>> steve: we all want them back. hamas says they're holding 222 people. >> these aren't numbers. each person kidnapped is a life and a family and a story and someone that loves music and certain foods and has kids they love and they're not just numbers. >> steve: they're not just numbers. >> they're there for no reason at all. >> my friend that's a american citizen who was out walking sunrise walk with her also american citizen husband. the most wonderful, kind hearted woman she was ateacher, she worked with children with special needs. judy [inaudible] and she's gone. she's gone. >> steve: she's gone. >> they just took her. we have no idea. >> steve: you hope they were

kidnapped because then think would be alive. because then the possibility, there's been no proof of life for any of them. >> i don't know because we don't know what they're doing to them if they're kidnapped. the torr meant and torture and -- torment and torture and what they're doing. i don't know what's best. >> steve: thank you for sharing your stories and you're all going to come back in an hour with more stories about what happened. all right. ainsley, back to you. >> thank you. >> ainsley: steve, what -- very touching. yeah, they're not just numbers. they're human beings, individuals, and we love them and pray for them. thank you, steve. our next guest is a palestinian woman whose father was born and raised in gaza and is calling out the rhetoric we've seen slamming the growth index teskying displays -- grotesque displays on campuses and she's the president of free hearts, free minds, and she joins us now. good morning.

>> ainsley: tell us the story of your father and mother. >> my mother and father were two complete opposite people and surprise their marriage didn't last and i haven't spoken to her in around 20 years and not sure if she's one of the people celebrating hamas right now. she's a scholar at the university in egypt and she's viciously anti-semitic. it's quite common to be anti-semitic when you're from egypt or from any other muslim majority countries.

my father on the other hand was not. he was very -- he was a humanist, he was very he was not anti-jew. he had many criticisms of the israeli government, especially netanyahu, but he did recognize of course there is no question that his home of palestine, his home of gaza was under a much more civil government when they were being under the british rule, egyptian and even israeli rule, he recognize things went downhill with yassar afafat and with hamas things have been atrocious. >> ainsley: what is your message for people praising at these pro-palestinian or pro-hamas rallies really? >> we were listening to the

people speaking before this. saying i can't believe it, i can barely believe it myself. i'm in the same position, i'm reading up on georgetown university buildings projected up there saying, you know, glory to the martyrs and all sorts of other statements. it is really shocking to me because up until now i really was very aware of the antisemitism in the muslim and arab world, but the antisemitism here in the west has been qu quietly bubbling under the surface and you don't think you are going to see it so widespread or see people walking in the streets, "gas the jews," and "f the jews," and i'm not

even a jewish people and i'm having trouble comprehending this. there are people going to school and universities and feeling like, we don't feel safe, we don't feel our children are safe. >> ainsley: let me ask you -- >> it is demonic. >> ainsley: how did hamas come into power. they won the election, is that because people were too scared to vote otherwise, they knew they could be killed if they did? explain how they came to power. >> so when israel left gaza, they -- it was up to them now. this is 9000 israelis left, they exhumed the dead and took them off the land and said this land is yours, and hamas came in with all sorts of promises and not like the people of gaza at this point, the secular government of gaza did not get their act together in time. hamas of course is being funded from dee