those fights breaking out, not far from where a jewish man died after getting into an altercation. police are investigating paul kessler's death as a homicide. >> a special ops veteran. >> sandra: christina has the latest on the folding there. >> graphic footage from the hamas brutal attack, entitled bearing witness to the october 7th massacre sparked fighting outside of the l.a. museum of tolerance, take a look at this. a witness captured video of the clash between pro palestinian and pro israel demonstrators near this museum, a place dedicated to educating people about the holocaust and promoting peace. inside the museum, audience of

1 150 people, including hollywood executives took place in the screening. compiled by the israel defense forces so journalists and public figures worldwide could view the video and counter the misinformation that's being spread regarding the attacks. the l.a. mayor responded to the fight last night, said we cannot allow current worldwide tension to devolve to this unacceptable violence in our city. this is a time of immense pain and distress for thousands in los angeles. we must stand together. gal gadot, who was born in israel and served two years as a soldier in the idf, has drawn criticism from pro palestine supporters for organizing the l.a. screening of the hamas attack footage and showing her support of israel but she is not backing down. just yesterday gadot posted

video of broadway performance singing "bring him home," caption over 240 hostages, including 30 children, held captive by hamas. a prayer from broadway, bring them home. as for the fight outside the museum of tolerance, lapd has not yet said if any arrests were made. >> sandra: christina, thank you. john. >> john: aaron cohen, he end attended the footage last night, founder of cherries, specializes in counter terrorism training for law enforcement. aaron, you were there. this has been screened before, it was screened in tel aviv for journalists, also screened in new york for journalists. gal gadot put on the screening last night. what was the source, trigger point for the altercation? >> well, i think the trigger point is that there was an

actual screening of this footage. to bear witness to the atrocities that happened on october 7th at that massacre. and we have seen these, you know, tussles around the world, john, and l.a. was no different last night. you could certainly hear the commotion within the auditorium during the speaking event before the screening, a little bit after the screening, and it was apparent that tempers were heightened. but lapd did a fantastic job. diplomatic security operations for the various ambassadors and consul general of los angeles did a fantastic job, everybody was very safe. but it was expected that there would definitely be some tension outside. >> john: i've read a lot of accounts of the screening, i have not seen the footage myself, but graphic and compelling written account came from a canadian journalist, national post up in canada who wrote this, i watched hamas hack

innocents to democrat. the worst part was their glee. streams of blood hacked off arms and legs and an infant missing part of its skull, brain leaking out. i'll never forget the gore but it's the look of it, as if they were the ones cheering at the music festival will haunt me. >> i'm not very squeamish, i've been in the business a long time but affected me, everybody in the room, a very somber feeling. it was a very eerie quiet. i believe it's very important it was shown. clearly some of these hollywood executives in the room, i've been around the hollywood crowd a long time, it was important to

see the footage and bear witness to what they saw. it's a different -- it's a different animal to see it, john. but i will say this, the message was received, the glee in the terrorist's eyes were -- was very apparent throughout the footage. the idf did a fantastic job. gal gadot, a national treasure, did a fantastic job organizing the event and it's important for people to see this material. >> john: anti-israeli protestors say it's propaganda, but we need to remind people this was taken from bodycams predominantly that hamas terrorists were wearing so that they could go back to gaza and glorify their heinous terrorist attacks. and it seems a lot of young people are not armed with a whole lot of information about all of this. there was a protest in london the other day, the campaign against antisemitism, talked to a few people at the pro palestinian rally.

question was asked a couple of young women, when hamas invaded israel october 7th, what was your initial reaction to that. one young woman says i don't think they did that, did they. and the other one said i think i need to be a bit more clued up on everything that's going on. they admit they need to be clued up, they don't know what happened and yet they are out there blindly criticizing israel for its campaign against hamas. >> that's right, john. there's a lot of uneducated people when it comes to this conflict. clearly they have no idea that the only occupation of gaza has been by hamas since 2007 where they forcefully took control of the strip. this footage is very important. this is the fifth front that israel is fighting in this war, besides hamas in gaza, hezbollah in the north, houthis out of yemen, and iraq, not only

israeli assets but against u.s. assets. fifth front is the information war. israel is getting better at it. they realized it's spreading on a more global level and the world needs to understand that israel has been dealing with this level of threat for many, many years and part of my messaging has been to really take audiences back to understand that terrorism goes all the way back to the 60s, that's why special operations units have been formed. israel has been dealing with terrorism for a long time and they are one of the best at dealing with counter terrorism, so this information is critical that the world gets educated and understand the level of threat and it's directed at the west and that this will expound and it's important to get to really educated on exactly what's going on here. this video shows it. >> john: the one thing that israel has come to realize in all of this, it needs to have video of every potentially controversial military move it

makes. aaron cohen, thanks for catching up with us. appreciate it. sandra, i sent you the article, i don't know if you got a chance to read it, tweeted it out on twitter or x, but it's heart-wrenching reading that account by sabrina maddow. >> sandra: and you can put it in the same conversation as to whether or not those who are out there advocating at these pro palestinian rallies, whether they truly either have come to terms or understand or have even sat down and educated themselves on what happened. daily mail is running a headline, i need to be more clued up. they went around and spoke to students at these various pro palestinian rallies and protests. they say it revealed how little they knew about the israel-hamas conflict and not aware in some cases the terror group launched that bloody slaughter on october 7th. and that is really something,

john. >> john: yeah, it is, no question. >> sandra: israeli forces are pushing back on a three-high humanitarian ceasefire and negotiations are underway. white house says israel has agreed to a four -- has agreed to a four hour pause each day to allow civilians to safely free gaza. trey yingst is joining us live on the ground in southern israel for us at this hour. hi, trey. >> sandra, good afternoon. start with some updates out of the gaza strip. palestinian islamic jihad released two hostage videos showing an elderly israeli woman and young boy, both kidnapped, taken into gaza on october 7th where they have been held ever since. and tonight richard heck, the lieutenant colonel, a spokesman for the israeli military described it best. he said this is psychological terrorism. hamas and islamic jihad are

trying to basically bend the arm of israel into getting a ceasefire but we understand that it will be incredibly difficult because israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says they are going to push forward with operations inside gaza until they destroy hamas leadership and get rid of all the weapons inside the strip. they have been operating throughout the day and continue at this hour. i do want t draw your attention to the west bank where the israelis were operating in the city of janine. they say they killed ten militants in different cells that are currently fighting inside the west bank. it gives you a sense of how many fronts the israelis are dealing with as the war enters day 34. and when it comes to the hostages, fox news can report some progress in doha, meeting with the head of mossad and the cia director, official with knowledge of the visit says the talks have been progressing well for a deal over the past few

days. fighting inside gaza escalates, we do know israel's facing other fronts, and that includes a drone attack and ballistic missile attack from yemen. they were able to intercept one of those missiles. >> sandra: trey yingst from southern israel. 9:10 local time. see you shortly. >> john: awaiting an update from the pentagon after the u.s. launched retaliatory strikes in syria. we will bring you the breaking news as we get it. >> sandra: israeli forces say they have breached hamas security centers in gaza. retired army lieutenant colonel darren gobb joins us after the break to talk about israel's progress.

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listen. >> four-hour pause, for instance, will allow potentially to move humanitarian assistance in to that localized area over that span of time. it could also provide enough of a window to help people get out of harm's way. it could also provide brief windows of opportunity for safe passage for those hostages from where they are being held to safer ground. >> sandra: colonel to you, on that. what do you see as the impact of pauses? >> let's call it what it is, it's a ceasefire and only a four hour ceasefire but it's long enough for hamas and people who would sympathize with them to take advantage of that time period to be able to do more things that would cause more difficult for the israeli defense forces to work. >> sandra: you believe it will help hamas. >> absolutely it will help. i guess when you say the pressure is on from the israeli defense forces on hamas in gaza city, the worst thing you can do now is stop unless you have to

for your own reasons. >> sandra: really interesting. yesterday admiral kirby was speaking from the microphone at the white house trying to make clear to the world what they see as the difference between these pauses and a complete ceasefire. this is mike pompeo, he was on this network this morning saying any pause has to include guarantees hostages would be released. listen. >> if it's the case redirecting fires for a few hours or short pause in the attacks would deliver some of these men and women back to their families, sign me up. but a three-day pause with no promise of what you are actually going to get from these guys who will lie to your face, would precisely play to their playbook. >> sandra: do you think that could happen? >> they are going to use any pause to their advantage and i seriously doubt they are going to release the hostages. they are not going to do anything on our terms, but on theirs, that's how they operate. i don't see it happening.

>> sandra: colonel, if we take the big picture look at the conflict right now and where there is all going, there are fears it will escalate, and spread in the region, what are your thoughts on that, how long does this go on, what do you believe the end game is and should be? >> well, i think the end game ultimately should be this fighting needs to cease but needs to cease on israel's terms with the destruction of hamas. and hopefully that is where it actually does stop. we do not need this to spread into bringing hezbollah in full force, ten times large as hamas and by doing so, could spread into syria and iran, and who knows where it goes from there. so, in my picture, in my mind, i would like to see this end with israel in control of the gaza strip, as many of the innocent civilians safe as possible, and then hopefully israel is able to take the gaza strip and build it into what it could be into a peaceful and prosperous area. >> sandra: a final question to

you on the u.s. response to the iranian proxies and these now 46 attacks on u.s. bases in the middle east. are we responding forcefully enough? i mean, we just -- we just had another round of u.s. strikes. i mean, is this enough to deter these iranian proxies from the threat to our u.s. forces overseas? >> it hasn't been yet and it won't be. it's not even close to enough to deter iran and the mercenary arms of hamas and hezbollah and the houthis in yemen. and the message over the last years is america is operating from a position of weakness and the world has seen that, is taking advantage of it, and what we are showing in our response to our own soldiers getting attacked in iraq and syria and other places, we will continue to operate from a position of weakness.

>> sandra: we were at 42 when we launched another round of strikes to fire back, now four iranian proxy attacks on u.s. bases since then. what does that tell us about deterrence for these attacks. appreciate you joining us here on set in new york. >> john: houston police searching for a suspect on the loose after they say he murdered a mother in front of her young son and critics say he should have never been out from behind bars in the first place. >> sandra: plus, john, the u.s. military as where he mentioned carrying out retaliatory airstrikes against iran proxies. what president biden has to say about attacks. delaware senator met with the president and his national security team last night. he will join us what next steps we are taking as a country. >> this is a war, and with all due respect to all international

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monthly car payments. >> why did you strike iran's revolutionary guard? >> because they struck us. >> and president biden, why did -- >> would you hit them again? >> sandra: president biden telling reporters more retaliatory airstrikes against iran proxies could be on the way if more u.s. troops are attacked in the middle east. 46 attacks now on troops in the middle east and u.s. has launched strikes in response just twice. senator chris coons and other lawmakers met the president and his national security team last night on the situation in the middle east and he will be joining us live in just moments. but first, peter doocy, peter, you were there. how does the white house think the strikes are seen in tehran? >> the white house thinks and officials think the iranians are

starting to get the message the united states will continue shooting back. >> i don't think that you could look at the map, look at the force posture in the region, the influence we have across the middle east and be worried that the united states and our leadership is somehow in doubt in that part of the world. i mean, we have sent a strong signal, not just to iran, but other actors in the region we don't want to see this conflict with hamas widen or deepen. >> and they are trying to talk the israelis into four hour hu humanitarian pauses, and rare critique of benjamin netanyahu. >> are you frustrated with prime minister netanyahu he has not listened more with some of the things you have asked him to do.

>> it's taking a little longer than i hoped. >> officials are hoping netanyahu takes their advice. they are not giving israel troops but a lot of tips. from the president on down, no support for a general ceasefire, just these pauses which they insist are different. sandra. >> sandra: we know the president has been speaking there in illinois, a couple things, someone spoke up in the crowd yelling for a ceasefire. we are told that person was removed from the crowd. we did not see another, someone fell and the president made a joke it was not me. >> a person with either the event staff or in the press, but the show went on. >> sandra: indeed. peter doocy live at the white

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>> john: in the hours since the last night retaliatory strikes in syria, proxies have launched four more attacks against

american troops in the region. it would seem iran and proxies do not fear this administration at all. democratic delaware senator, thank you for being with us. we have been striking in retaliation weapons storage facilities, i don't know if they are bunkers or warehouses, but in the days after 9/11 george bush famously said at a meeting i am not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 tent and hit a camel in the butt. but in essence, in response to the attacks against american forces in the middle east, that appears to be what biden is doing. >> john, i don't understand your metaphor. this was not a camel in a tent shot in his butt. it was an irgt munitions depot struck by two fighters, and i think the president is perfectly clear we need to respond, we need to show the willingness and the determination to strike every time that there is a strike that causes injury,

damage, loss of life, to american troops, contractors, facilities. ten of us, a bipartisan group of ten of us, met with president biden for two hours last night to brief him on our bipartisan trip to the middle east to israel, to egypt, to saudi arabia, one of the subjects we discussed was the importance of deterring iran and finding more reliable, stronger, more frequent ways to deter iran, something the president is perfectly clear and large part of why he deployed two u.s. carrier strike groups to the middle east immediately following the brutal attack by hamas terrorists a month ago, to ensure we had the capabilities to deter iran and strike when necessary. >> john: we could quibble whether a small storage facility is equitable to hitting a camel in the butt but certainly the

deterrent factor is about the same, because iran doesn't care. >> well, i'm not concerned with whether iran cares or not. what i am concerned with whether iran continues to strike. john, could you let me finish my sentence, please. if they are taking additional strikes, i fully expect we will respond in kind. promptly. >> john: here is what ron desantis said on that topic last night at the republican debate. listen here. >> i would say you harm a hair on the head of an american servicemember and you are going to have hell to pay. we are not just going to sit there and let our service members be sitting ducks. >> john: that is not the message that this administration is sending to iran. >> well, i disagree. the governor of florida and the president of the united states have different responsibilities

and one thing to bluster on a debate stage, but another to order a strike by u.s. jet fighters and that's what our president has done. he's also deployed more resources ance assets into theater. he's also stood strong alongside ukraine. a global coalition of 50 countries that have delivered more assistance than we have in terms of military aid and operational support and he is challenging us here in congress to continue that support, to push back on putin's aggression, in fact our president has visited two war theaters, both kyiv and tel aviv, not secured by the united states, he's the first president to do so in office in decades and decades. he has been committed to advancing our security by pushing back against hamas and iran, a funder and supporter of hamas, and pushing back against russia. i wish that were true of every one of my colleagues here. >> john: let me move on to another issue, because you just

got back from israel, and that is the censure of congresswoman rashida tlaib over her association the slogan from the river to the sea, palestine shall be free. two staunch democrats penned an op-ed in "new york post," said it's critical our party, by word and deed, disavow the squad and its pro hamas positions and clear their members are unable to police themselves. we implore the democratic congressional campaign commit and outside pacs not to support outliers who contradict the values and country, implore the voters to sends them home. >> i serve in the senate, not in the house, not a member of the -- >> john: if i could finish my question, i know the senate does not like to get involved in the business of the house but this is a bigger issue and wondering where you come down on that. >> i think the bigger issue is one on which i've been very

clear. opposing hamas, opposing israel, denouncing the terrorism and the brutality of hamas, supporting israel and its right to defend itself and making it clear not just by giving floor speeches but promptly going to the region with a strong bipartisan delegation that included senators graham and thune and collins and others as well as senators from the democratic side to stand shoulder to shoulder with israel, and to make it clear we oppose hamas and its brutality. that's what we should follow up by voting to deliver support for israel, for ukraine, for the american servicemen and women who serve in theater and counter china efforts bipartisan here in the senate. >> john: senator coons, good to catch up with you. appreciate your time. >> thank you, john. >> do you want a leader from a different generation who will put this country first or want dick cheney in three inch heels.

we have two of them on stage tonight. >> like to say their five inch heels and i don't wear them unless you can run in them. >> sandra: we will be joined on who had the most memorable moment of the night but first, bryan reporting live from miami. what else happened in the debate? >> sandra, certainly a lot. look, vivek ramaswamy not only attacked former ambassador nikki haley's heels, also went after her daughter in a moment that's been criticized but that was certainly memorable. >> she made fun of me for actually joining tiktok. while her own daughter was using the app for a long time. might want to take care of your family first. >> leave my daughter out of your voice. >> the next generation of americans are using and that's the point. supporters, propping her up, that's fine. here is the truth. >> you are just scum.

>> and with president biden's campaign promising that republicans will lose in 2024 because of the abortion issue, the candidates last night differed on what to do next. >> i have 100% pro life voting record. i would certainly as president of the united states have a 15 week national limit. >> we have had 60 senate votes in over 100 years. we might have 45 pro life senators. no republican president can ban abortions any more than a democrat president can ban these state laws. let's finds consensus. >> while former president trump held a rally last night ten miles away from the debate stage, haley and ron desantis sharpened attacks against trump. >> donald trump is a different guy than he was in 2016, explain why he didn't drain the swamp.

he said republicans are going to get tired of winning. i'm sick of republicans losing. >> i think he's the right president at the right time. i don't think he is now. he put us $8 trillion in debt and our kids are never going to forgive us for that. >> trump called the debate unwatchable, his campaign says he won't participate in the fourth debate, at least for now. sandra. >> sandra: bryan, thank you so much. i will get to more on that in a minute. first fox news alert, just in and crossings, democratic u.s. senator joe manchin says he will not seek re-election in 2024. he's issued a statement via twitter saying to the west virginians, honor of my life to serve you, thank you. then issues a video statement on his political future. he says his goal now will be to fight to unite the middle. cassie smedley, joining us.

richard fowler, also joining us. perfect to have our political panel to react to that breaking news. cassie, you first. >> yeah, breaking news indeed. but i think there's been a lot of talk about does joe manchin see a path to victory, given his state's make-up, increasingly red. you see joe manchin certainly is an outlier in his party in the senate but i think nationally as well. and he just doesn't see the path for him as a democrat on the ballot right now. it's a very telling statement. >> sandra: richard, let me get to more of this. he says i know our country is not as divided as washington wants us to believe. we share common values of family, freedom, democracy, dignity and a belief that together we can overcome any challenge. joe manchin announcing he will not seek re-election in 2024. what is your response to that? >> definitely some big news here, sandra. i spent some time in west virginia during the teacher walkout in 2017 and what i know to be true. i do believe if joe manchin was

on the ballot, no matter what the head winds would have been, probably a good chance of winning the election but also if you know joe manchin well, he's somebody who likes to get things done. he likes to pass bills. and so the idea that he's -- he's in a gridlocked congress, not much getting done at all since we have seen the new gop take over, i think this is part of the reason why he's leaving. same reason why you saw a couple months ago senator mitt romney said he would be leaving the senate. believe there are real problems in the country and work to be done, saying congress is not working and this should be reflection on us as the american voters. what do we need to be doing, what should we send to washington to ensure congress can get things done instead of yelling at each other from 20 miles away. >> i would remind richard that senator manchin serves with the majority of democrats in the senate. so the gridlock is confirmation -- >> gridlock in both houses, cassie.

>> the senate is run by the democrats and he's a senator. >> you need both chambers to pass a bill. >> sandra: news is just breaking and more of the statement from joe manchin, announcing he will not seek re-election in 2024, he says one of the toughest decisions of his life. he's decided that he will not be running for re-election but what i will be doing is travelling the country and speaking out to see if there is an interest in creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring americans together. richard, how do you interpret that? >> listen, i think this is a very interesting -- very interesting move by the senator and comes at a time where even as we saw in the debate yesterday, as nikki haley began to lay out what her position is on abortion and heard kayleigh lay out her position on abortion, republicans talking about what we have to add to this, how we create housing, create food programs, create public education so folks who

decide to give birth to children have the support and the wrap around services they need. that's going to take some spending in washington, that's going to take some bipartisan efforts, and that's going to take the middle saying there is a -- there is a way that brings both sides together on this that requires spending, that requires some tough conversations, and right now in washington, that's not happening. >> sandra: just an update to this, as this is developing right now. there's obviously a lot of reaction pouring in. this is the republican senatorial committee chairman saying in a statement not running for re-election, we like our odds in west virginia. cassie. >> yeah, i think that there was already a pretty good chance of a pick-up there for republicans. i think they are happy about this news today. but again, to get back to what richard was saying and to play on that as you are talking about here, i do they he wants to be a

pragmatist, he does not see it as a productive place, and last night's debate, we talk about nikki haley appealing to a more moderate republican voter. we got to win elections, republicans realize that. and to have both fringes sort of taking over the conversation is not getting either party there so you are seeing an interest in that at the end of the day, it takes a lot of money to win elections and two party apparatuses who have the money. so, time will tell what senator manchin is able to put together. but the people in the middle are crying out for people to talk to them and i'm glad that our national figures are starting to pay attention to that. >> sandra: apparently he was asked about this a few moments ago by another reporter about his decision to not run for re-election and richard, he said when the time is right, the time is right. there's going to be a lot of speculation as to what the road is ahead for him and obviously what this means for the party.

>> for sure, and i think we have to zoom out here, too, sandra, and think about what happened this week. joe manchin preparing to leave the united states senate on one side of the aisle, two different competitions happening. five candidates running for president and then donald trump running for president, likely nominee at this point, and two different channels having two different conversations about who is going to be the nominee for the republican party. on the democratic side, you see some troubling polling numbers for the white house and the same time, you see democratic voters returning the chambers in virginia to the democratic party. in both parties, to cassie's point, you see a lot of division by voters seem to be speaking when they talk to pollsters and actually voting in the ballot box, the real poll. the country is in a unique position and i think joe manchin is saying we need to find a middle and if we don't, then we are going to be doomed as a

country. >> sandra: interesting, cassie, i'll be joining guy benson on the radio, he sent out manchin not running for re-election in west virginia, gop pick-up. >> good news for the gop, and you have to drill down and look at what happened in virginia. a lot of movements with glenn youngkin and his political operation to bring more voters out. they outperformed biden districts from 2020, so there is some good learning silver linings, the bottom line, you have to speak to the broadest part of your electorate and the leaders that are prevailing are learning that. >> sandra: just want t get this in here as well, josh saying big deal, senate need all but guaranteed to flip.

republicans need to net two seats, west virginia puts them at least half the way there already. quick final thought on that from you, richard. >> for sure, i think it's too early to spike the football on any of this. and remember, sandra, so many of these predictions before, the big red wave that didn't come, before we spike the football, important to figure out how the voters feel. we saw what happened in virginia, an utter failure by glenn youngkin and can happen again if the republicans spike the football too soon and don't talk to voters. >> and democrats shouldn't spike the football too soon and think virginia is a sign of the country either. >> no. >> sandra: hey, appreciate you both of you joining us on the breaking news. we will discuss the debate, this just in, and we are getting chad pergram ready on capitol hill. he'll give us all the latest details on this news. thanks to both of you. john. >> john: sandra, also ahead, thousands of veterans are homeless on any given night in our country. next, what the tunnel to towers organization is doing in houston

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>> more on the news that joe manchin just tweeted out that he's not going to run for

re-election next year. let's go to chad pergram. many people might be shocked by the timing. i don't think it's much of a surprise, chad. latest emerson poll has jim justice running 13 points ahead of manchin. manchin has said that he's never lost an election. looks like he wants to keep that record intact. >> yeah, a lot of people thought this was an uphill battle for joe manchin anyway. democrats are on the back foot going into this election cycle because they have to defend so many seats this time. so many vulnerable democrats are up in swing states like west virginia. a lot of people would give john tester a democrat a better chance of re-election and sherrod brown in ohio. that's a real problem for joe manchin in the democrats in a 51-49 senate. we just got a statement from steve daines who is in charge of the republican senate re-election efforts.

he says i like our odds in west virginia, john. >> john: yeah, he was the lone democrat really almost in the state. but jim justice is a popular figure there. looked like trying to beat justice head-to-head i was going to be impossible for manchin. you think that he looked at the writing on the wall and said, again, i don't want to spoil my unblemished record since the 90s rather than facing defeat at the hands of jim justice, i'm going to call it a day. >> there was part of that. he's 76. in his statement, he talked about traveling the country and trying to see if there was a way to mobilize his word of americans around and effort to bring people together. some people have wondered whether or not he might flirt with a third party presidential bid. something else that might be easier for joe manchin to be elected someplace else other than west virginia, which has trended hard to the right. it used to be a very democratic

state. we don't know definitively that it will in fact be jim justice. alex mooney from west virginia, he's running in that primary also slightly to the right of jim justice. that's something to look at as well. >> let's see. no, that was manchin. i'm trying to find a head-to-head against justin and mooney. we'll see how it goes, chad. long time between now and election day. thanks. sandra? >> sandra: john, live pictures. this is bryant park outside the new york public library here in midtown manhattan. it is a pro palestinian rally that seems to be growing in size. middle of the day, middle of the workday, of course. this is already a pretty populated area of the city.

it's being reported that there's a bunch of new york city high schoolers that have linked up at the city rally in bryant park. you can see there's signs demanding a cease fire now, end all u.s. aid to israel. john, obviously this is something that we have been watching. it seems to be growing in numbers. remember, it was a short time ago that these pro palestinian protesters, they took over grand central here in midtown as well. they had to shut it down for anybody to get on their trains and go home. this is live in bryant park in new york city. >> you can see the signs, stand with palestine, end the occupation now. israel pulled out of gaza in 2005. so it's estimated, by the way, that 33,000 u.s. military veterans are homeless on any given night. now as we approach veterans day, tunnel to towers is working to address that crisis. using donations to provide

permanent and transitional housing for veterans in need. jeff flock is outside the newly-opened veterans village in houston, which is an incredible facility. how many veterans are going to get homes in that new facility, jeff? >> it's 161. it's an old hotel that they renovated. it's called the tunnel to towers veteran village in houston. they hope it's a template to what they can do around the country. in addition to the 161, by the way, beds and rooms and they're very nice inside there, they're also building tiny homes like this one that will also be housing veterans. very cool concept. as you point out, there's tens of thousands of homeless vets right now. we talked to the fellow that runs and founded the tunnel to towers foundation along with 1 of his biggest supporters. you'll be interested to see who that is. take a look.

>> 161 rooms for homeless veterans. it's a great way to start this type of structure is going to be done all over the united states. >> these are guys that gave everything for us so we can have the life that we have. they deserve a home. >> yep. they sure do. and, you know, it's been a real interesting project. this is the tiny home that somebody will soon call home. it's a beauty. great cause, john. >> thanks. amazing work that that organization does. sandra? >> sandra: john, great to be with you. another jam packed show. set your dvr. never miss us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: the "the story" with with martha 96. >> martha: democrati