>> israel is a wasted state. >> we want 48. we don't want -- two state. >> shame, shame, shame, shame. >> john: pro palestinian protests spilling over from college campuses and on to city streets as demonstrators in new york city marched through midtown manhattan accusing israel of genocide. this is the scene last night and as we head into the weekend,

expecting more protests to get underway a few hours from now. that sets the scene for our second hour, welcome back as "america reports" rolls on. i'm john roberts, good to be with you today. >> gillian: good to be with you, john. interestingly, john, i have to tell you, the protests have spread here, too. covering the state department, walked out, was greeted by 100 protestors who were very rowdy, yelling as officials as they came out of the building, shame on you, even at the nation's capital. and students walked out of classrooms to show solidarity for palestinians. and anti-israel is spreading to others, and calling for a national day of walkouts and the white house is facing criticism from the other side that he is not curtailing hate speech. >> john: hillary vaughn with more there, but first alexis

mcadams kicks things off live in new york city, quite a protest yesterday. >> hi, john, that's what we have seen. starts with a few dozen and then expands to hundreds and move across the city, mostly blocking traffic and calling on the united states to stop helping israel. it's going to happen again tonight, here i am right now in columbus circle in new york city. this is just some of what we are seeing in columbus circle in manhattan, that's a heavy presence of nypd officers on stand by as pro palestinian protestors call for a ceasefire tonight. watch. >> run, run, you can't hide. we charge you with genocide. >> why do you start bombing if you are concerned about the hostages, why was bombing started day one and then nonstop. >> in some of the protests, they have led to arrests across the country. check this out. ♪ i will build this world from

love ♪ ♪ ♪ an a student arrested at brown university after students walked out in handcuffs. 20 arrested after a five-hour long sit-in. the group demanding the ivy league school divest from companies who have ties to the jewish state and listing them out on instagram handles. and tulane, even physical fights during duelling protests on their campus, leaving one jewish student with a serious injury, i guess a broken nose, according to some reports. more than 40% of the students at the school are jewish, many say they don't feel safe and university of pennsylvania, antisemitic slogans on campus buildings, facing a civil rights complaint, accusing the prestigious university for being a magnet for antisemitism, and leading to issues there, and the

university president responding saying they are going to take action, saying this in part, projecting hateful messages on our campus is not a debate, it's cowardice and no place at pen. it comes after a lot of the jewish students felt there was too much silence, now some statements from the president, nypd will remain on high alert and waiting to see the protestors show up here in new york in the next couple of hours. >> john: when powerful alumni vote -- >> gillian: we have anti-israeli protestors accusing the biden administration for failing to stop the ground war, the white house is also facing backlash from the other side, people say officials are not doing nearly enough to combat rising antisemitism. hillary vaughn is live from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. what are you hearing from inside those walls over there today? >> hi, gillian. the white house is calling out

and rejecting a specific phrase that has popped up at the protests, from the river to the sea, they are saying that phrase is antisemitic and they reject it. >> when it comes to the phrase that was used from river to the sea, it is divisive, it is hurtful to -- many find it hurtful and also many find it anti-semitic. >> congresswoman tlaib censured is embracing it, she says it's a call for freedom, human rights and peaceful co existence, and not death, destruction or hate. but from the river to the sea is a chant we have heard at the protests and israel is very aware of what exactly that phrase means and calls for and they do not see it as a call for freedom for them. >> from the river to the sea means there's no israel. what this congresswoman is

calling for is genocide, elimination of the jewish state. >> three biden administration officials also told axios they were shaken up by the protests right here outside the white house gates that left bloody handprints behind and were very surprised by a lot of the silence from their democratic colleagues about it. gillian. >> gillian: hillary vaughn, thank you. john. >> john: bring in dave rubin, host of the rubin report, one thing to have a rally in support of somebody, but so many are permeated with antisemitism and saw in california, a jewish man died in an altercation at a protest. >> yeah, let me be clear, john. i speak for myself, not for fox. rashida tlaib is a hamas supporter, and elimination of

jews, and kill 2 million arab muslims and christians and other, just fine for her and for many of these people protesting. they are also calling for the end of the occupation, which they claim began in 1948, that means they want to bring the british empire back, i suppose we could go back 250 years and bring back the ottoman empire, there was not a state of palestine. look, this is the rabid genocide movement of our time. it is just true, it's hard to say, but it is just true there is nothing israel can do other than lay over and die that would take care of the hamas caucus, cory bush, tlaib, or those people on the streets. there was no occupation of gaza the day before all of this on october 6th, not one jew lived there, not one israeli lived there, hitler would have loved the place. every year or so they would lob

rockets over and israel responded to the rockets. they went in, killed 15,000 people, barbaric, horrific torture, still have 200 people, they have 12 americans at least, why is nobody in america calling for unconditional release of american hostages, if you don't at least care about the israelis. look, the enemy is in our borders. we all know it and until we all level up and figure out how we are going to fight this properly it is just going to get worse and worse. we have video, it's the white house, they have video of who desecrated the white house and put the paint on the walls. why haven't they done anything about this. new york city, where i used to live, when they are going after cop cars and painting free gaza all over the cop cars, do they not have video of those people? we have facial recognition software and everything else. we have every tool to deal with this. do we have the political will is what this is all about. >> john: vandalism is getting a pass these days, it would seem. and a lot of rallies, a lot of people who conflate the palestinians and hamas.

a protest in london, people were openly supporting hamas, calling them freedom fighters, and then one organization did some interviews with people there and didn't seem to be a whole lot of knowledge about what hamas is really all about. listen to this sound bite here. >> hamas invaded israel the 7th of october. your initial reaction. >> i think so. i -- honestly, i think i need to be a bit more conclude up on everything that's going up. >> john: i'm at the rally but i don't know what the heck is going on and need to get clued up on it. what does that tell you? >> well, it tells you the rallies are a strange conflation. you have the people in line cognitively with rashida tlaib and then the intersectional leftist, the remnants of blm, and it was a complete fraudulent organization that never sent a

black kid to college or opened a black business, they have just ripped the mask off literally and they are a pro hamas organization. the college kids, notice there are not families out there, not generally speaking middle aged well dressed people who seem like functional members of societies, it's young single people who have their brains mashed by tiktok and by modern academia, and have no idea. you don't think the jews have something to do with israel, how about learn the story of hanukkah, you know where jesus was called, from judea. >> john: i don't imagine the people at the rallies have seen the video footage that israel put together, unedited video that was taken mostly by hamas of the october 7th attacks. >> they simply would not care.

wouldn't care. >> john: this description from sabrina, a reporter from the national post would watched this, she said i watched hamas hack innocents to death. glee. literal streams of blood, hacked off arms and legs and infant missing part of its skull and brain leaking out. i'll never forget the goal. but the look of pride in the terrorists' eyes cheering for the cameras as if they were the ones partying at the music festival that will haunt me. how can a normally functioning human being not look at that and say what an un-godly act of terror and why would you support the people behind it? >> john, in the 1930s, they hid it. they were filming it for their own records but hiding it from the rest of the world, had the

rest of the world known more quickly they might have stopped it. hamas reason, cause for existence, to try to kill as many people as possible, not only israeli, though, but also palestinian because as we know they use palestinians as human shields and shoot from kindergartens and from mosques and u.n. facilities and everywhere else. they want utter mayhem and destruction. nothing the israelis can do other than die that would make the people happy. history of the jews, a lot of people get killed in the history of the jews but they are still here and that's what hamas will ultimately find out at the end of this thing, unfortunately. but i would say to the average american watching this and maybe does not care about the middle east or particularly care one way or another about jews, just fine and everything else. if you think the people marching in times square and d.c. and brussels and paris, london, etc., if you think they will be done, they will magically be done with their quest once they eliminate the jews, no, that will be the beginning of the

quest because the real quest is to take out america, it is to take out every western civilization. if they can disconnect the jews from the ancient land of israel, what do you think they are going to think about america and our 250-year-old history? you don't have to ask you or, just listen to them. >> dave rubin, good to get your thoughts. troubling though they might be. appreciate it. thank you. >> gillian: the nypd is investigating two separate attacks as hate crimes. the first took place on monday, a woman in new york made anti-islamic statements at a man in a park allegedly and threw her cell phone and coffee at him. the other incident happened yesterday when a woman confronted two people who she saw tearing down kidnapped israeli posters. those two women attacked her, one of them even ripping a star of david necklace off of her neck.

>> john: it's stunning the degree to which this is escalating in america and the idea of ripping down the posters of the hostages, to a large degree little children are held, held since october 7th, old people, 85 years old. >> gillian: as a secular jew, that act strikes me as antisemitism, like anti-humanity move there. i mean, somebody who doesn't value the sanctity of human life. you don't think those people deserve to have their lives given back to them? >> john: and that's where we are in america today. now this. >> john: missile attacks in gaza as israel begins an humanitarian pause in fighting. is hamas looking to take

advantage of the situation? live on the ground in israel in just moments. >> gillian: president joe biden and benjamin netanyahu are at odds over the prospect of a days' long ceasefire in gaza. deputy national security adviser will join us to dig into that disagreement next. >> people have to understand it. it is a matter of life and death to israelis. we will not accept any kind of talk -- talking about a ceasefire, we don't have this privilege. veteran homeowners, need to save money every month? call newday. pay off your high rate credit cards and car loan with an affordable va home loan from newday. you can save $500 every month. rates on credit cards have gone up to 22%. for late payments, as much as 30%, more than three times higher than a newday va loan. pay off your credit cards and car with a newday100 va loan and save. my mental health was much better.

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border as israel begins a daily pause in military operations along humanitarian activities along the gaza main highway. it will allow civilians to flee the war zone and aid supplies to make its way into gaza. meanwhile, the israeli military tightening its grip on gaza city, working to root out hamas terrorists in the maze of tunnels beneath gaza city. jeff paul is live in israel. shabbat, but they are not taking time off from the bombardment, jeff. >> no, they certainly are not. and on the same day the humanitarian pauses started, we are still seeing rockets being fired from gaza into central and southern israel. as we stand out here, you can hear the booms of the outgoing artillery into gaza. the most intense fighting happening in and around gaza city, near the city's main hospital. that's the shifa hospital. israel considers this as a strong hold utilized by hamas.

the idf targeted that area, but heavy fighting is forcing thousands more to pick up what they can and flee. 80,000 civilians moved south today utilizing the six hour evacuation corridor on the gaza main highway. the israeli defense minister explained why they are striking near the shifa hospital. >> these terrorists underneath the shifa hospital with hear the bulldozer that pounds the ground, they can hear it underground. they hear it and tremble with fear. >> tomorrow marks five weeks since more than 200 innocent civilians were kidnapped and taken to gaza. there are high level talks, still no developments as far as getting any of those 239

hostages freed and back into israel. john. >> john: not to give away your position, obviously, but we are seeing a lot of flares that are being fired there to illuminate the ground. what area of gaza is that and how far into the city center would that represent? >> yeah, we think this is obviously all happening in northern gaza. it's really hard to tell. we are hearing the booms, not seeing them from our advantage point. but they are fairly close. probably just outside of gaza city where a lot of that main fighting is happening right now, john. >> john: and in terms of al if i sha hospital, the israeli defense force, the defense minister gallant and others have been talking about hamas using it as a headquarters. and we now for more than a week have been suggesting that that would seem to be a predicate for launching a full on direct assault against a hospital which

likely would draw a lot of reaction from the international community. do you have any idea what israel might be planning in terms of trying to root out hamas when they are living underneath a hospital? >> yeah, i mean, i think it's a very delicate balance. obviously a hospital is someplace that people go to, when they are injured and that's obviously a lot of people are being injured and hurt, innocent civilians caught in the crossfire of all this. i think that's why israel is pushing so many people, so many of these civilians not involved in hamas to take advantage of these humanitarian corridors. john, we are learning that they have actually opened up another road, a coastal highway because the demand is so high right now. 80,000 people just today alone, tens of thousands earlier this week, and we don't expect that number to slow down any time soon. >> john: we do know, jeff, too, as we watch these incredible pictures over gaza, that hamas, according to reports from gaza,

were preventing people from moving south. they were encouraging them to stay in their homes which obviously would up the casualty count when you talk about collateral damage from bombing runs. is this an indication now that maybe hamas does not have the control over the population it did a few days ago? >> well, i think, john, just like you would with your family, if things were blowing up around you or you were seeing your friends or family being killed, i think you would make decisions in that moment that need to be done to take care of your family and as you see those images of those scores of people carrying the white flags and leaving, you see a lot of families, kids, a lot of men and women making that tough decision to just grab a bag, grab whenever they can. life is so precious. any allegiance or fear of another group goes out the window when you are literally

trying to survive. >> john: jeff paul, just outside gaza for us, jeff, keep up the good work, thank you. appreciate it. >> frustrated with prime minister netanyahu that he has not listened more to some of the things you have asked him to do? >> it's taking a little longer than i hoped. >> it's taking a little longer than i hoped, i had hoped we could do it very fast. but battle conditions on the ground, safety of our forces, hostages we want to get out and the humanitarian corridors we want to effect. >> gillian: president biden said a cause in fighting should have come sooner, he and netanyahu disagree over a call for a ceasefire. victoria coates, let's start with this area of disagreement or they now agree they are

implementing four hour long pauses along certain corridors in gaza. seems the israelis did come to that somewhat reluctantly. is it a major concession that they have agreed to i am -- implement those. >> i think it's unfortunate the administration is so blatantly prioritizing the well-being of the palestinians over the israelis and americans either killed or held hostage. the role of the united states is to advocates strongly for their return. we should have seen hamas give up hostages before any humanitarian corridor was considered. i think they really have a problem. we have an open letter today from the employees of usaid, 1,000 of which sign that letter demanding the administration end the war in gaza. so you've got a rebellion in their own ranks going on, puts them in a tough position, too.

>> john: so we do know, john, good to be with you, that biden was trying to convince netanyahu that a three-day pause would be beneficial. netanyahu rejected that. listen to what he told bret baier on special report last night in an exclusive interview. >> the fighting continues against the hamas enemy, the hamas terrorists, but in specific locations for a given period of a few hours here, there, we want to facilitate a safe passage of civilians away from the zone of fighting and we are doing that. >> john: he's saying no way no how a three-day pause, but also kind of shows i think, victoria, a realization on the part of israel that the plight of the palestinian people is beginning to affect the way they are prosecuting the war, particularly when you see the pressure that's on the u.s. president to pressure israel, to

change the way it's prosecuting this campaign. >> no, absolutely, john. and i think this is a symbol of the political pressure president biden feels from, you know, from his own base, to do something favorable to the palestinians. but one thing we should watch very carefully, as jeff is just reporting, even during these humanitarian pauses, whatever they are calling them, you are still getting rockets out of gaza. so, guess who isn't observing the humanitarian pause, hamas. the same people who are trying to pressure folks to stay in the war zone and israel is trying to get them out. but you know, honestly, washington, the american administration can't want to protect them more than their own government does. we are not going to be able to do anything there. i think we would do better than to stand strongly with israel, speak up for what they are doing to try to protect these civilians, put the blame, for

heaven sake on hamas. >> gillian: take a look at this, victoria, john's point about the white house beginning to feel pressure from the other side, a mash-up of republicans and democrats speaking against a ceasefire. >> i don't want to hear anything about a ceasefire until these hostages come home. >> point out that those who want a ceasefire need to understand that as long as the hostages are held, no democratic government in israel could possibly agree to a long-term ceasefire. >> demanding that israel ceasefire against hamas would lock in these gains for iran. it would grant amnesty for both the terrorist and their sponsors. >> not a time to be talking about ceasefires, pauses. >> those people calling for a ceasefire need to realize there was a ceasefire. it was october 6th, and hamas has chosen this path and their

path is brutality. >> reality remains today a month after this conflict started that should hamas release the hostages, americans and foreigners tomorrow, the ceasefire would ensue in the region. >> at least it would be more possible and more viable, and i do think it's interesting that there is bipartisan support for israel here towards having them finish this job so that we are not back here in another 18 months talking about another horrific attack with, i would think it's important to always note significant numbers of dead and captured americans. this is what we have to prevent. and pouring money and humanitarian aid for the last two and a half years into gaza did not result in peace. it did not result in a change of mindset of the palestinians living there. it resulted in 3,000 terrorists coming out of gaza and slaughtering innocents. and so i think that reality is something we have to take a good hard look at in washington, what

is our aid actually doing before we try to force israel to accept more of it. >> john: all right, well, we'll continue to watch this bombardment going on live in gaza, 9:30 p.m. there israel time. victoria coates, good to have you with us. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> john: a pro life activist suing the fbi for using excessive force when agents arrested him last year for allegedly shoving somebody outside of a planned parenthood location. he has since been acquitted. >> let's get something straight, we know each other well, we are not old friends. it's just pure business. >> gillian: president biden in 2021 talking about his relationship with xi jinping. they will meet face-to-face next week. is it likely to yield any

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>> gillian: the white house is confirming president biden will meet with chinese president xi jinping this wednesday on the san francisco bay area. the second face-to-face meeting since biden took office and new low in u.s.-china relations. shannon bream is here, first, jacqui heinrich joins us from the white house. jacqui, what's the priority for this meeting coming out of the white house? >> gillian, the u.s. and china don't have military to military communications and with wars in the ukraine, middle east, and

tensions in the taiwan strait, and they talk about the need to maintain open lines of communication and good stability. but they say china has resisted multiple calls from the administration to restore those communications and they point to the spy balloon incident. biden's critics have pushed him to take a harder line against china, and military aggression in the taiwan strait, but the approach so far and looking to next week will be quieter. administration thinks china is alarmed at the relative strength of the u.s. after covid, and bring manufacturing away from china and back to the u.s. and deepening alliances in the region, and then the china economy is worse than they let

on. >> i think china has a difficult economic problem right now for a whole range of reasons. i don't think it's going to cause china to invade taiwan, as a matter of fact the opposite, probably doesn't have the same capacity that it had before. >> china's broadcasting its participation in this summit as a chance to tell the world that it's open for business. the foreign ministry said today president xi jinping's trip to apec upon invitation reflects the importance china attaches. also likely to raise the issue of tariffs in this discussion, but we are told not to expect any big deliverables out of the summit. however, they say a lot of value in stabilizing the u.s.-china relationship. >> gillian: jacqui heinrich, thank you. >> john: fox news sunday anchor

shannon bream, and chief legal correspondent. let's talk about fox news sunday, politics. talk about international relations. nikki haley, i know you'll have on the show this weekend. >> we do. >> john: we'll talk about that in a second doesn't think a lot of the xi-biden meeting. what she said this morning. >> i think you have seen biden has begged for this meeting, he sent four cabinet members to china to go and try and court the chinese, and so now they are going to grant him a meeting. the one thing i can promise you will come out, a conversation about the weather and talk about the environment and how they are going to work together on that. he's not going to call them out on anything else. that's why president xi is willing to meet with him. they are not scared of joe biden. >> john: we do know they are going to reestablish military to military contacts, a good thing, but as jacqui pointed out, no deliverables other than that. >> and what can you get in a meeting like this, we all know about the numerous cabinet

secretaries and top officials from the u.s. have gone to china, have gone to them and been unable to walk away without any like reestablishing communications. there is a house select committee on china, a number of them signed a letter to the president saying we need you to come back with measurable deliverables, something to point to the meeting to say you have gotten tough. they accuse the president of going soft on sanctions and things to get china as attention, so they are among those like nikki haley pressing for something real to come from this meeting. >> reestablishment of the military to military would potentially be, and the first time they have come face-to-face in about a year. they saw each other in bali. they have not spoken since then. a lot to do in the year end review. >> think about the incursions,

and weeks ago, a chinese fighter jet and b-52 bomber, they deserve an answer about what's going on there. that's something that is going to have to be pressed on by our president because those are not the things we can allow in the region. a lot of concern in the region, secretary blinken and secretary austin are both spending time in asia to reassure the japanese and others there, but the folks of taiwan are very worried. they think the u.s. is being pushed out, or trying to push us out of the region and we have to measurably push back. >> john: you heard nikki haley say china is not afraid of biden, and you have not been hearing the language much at all that they are the victim, gives you a sense there is this air of dismissiveness about the you state, well, it's not even really a problem so we don't have want to be belligerent or

whatever. >> almost like they are not your worth or time to be sassy with them. we talk about all the people when did have meetings, high level meetings, and other meetings that china refused to show up, would not even see secretary austin. there are other places they pushed us back and said you are like a bothersome gnat. and the middle east is a distraction for us, too, and good news for them. they want us away from the ability to protect taiwan should that happen and into another major foreign policy issue. >> gillian: the debate, big picture, ticket items, what surprised you. >> i think when you have five, you have a little more clarity and time to hear from everybody. all five have claimed victory, very subjective. what we are hearing from desantis and nikki haley's camps, good measurable fundraising bumps. that's objective to look at the

numbers, is an audience for a trump alternative. they both want to be the alternative. early state polling shows she is surging into the territory, desantis is alone as the number two, so now they have to duke it out. >> john: i wonder if there is going to be a beer summit between nikki haley and vivek ramaswamy? they need one. >> i would not hold my breath on one. >> and senator mark warner to talk about all the foreign policy issues and the fact we run out of money next friday. >> gillian: john and i were talking about this last segment, can you ask him why we are allowing the ccp to promote the misinformation about the israel-gaza war on tiktok. >> there's been bipartisan movement to try to get rid of it. i'll ask him why that has not moved forward. >> john: and the virginia car tax as well. we hate that. >> gillian: our laundry list of

grievances. >> john: fox news alert, new video of israeli defense forces operating in the northern gaza strip, this is obviously from earlier today. idf says 401 brigade has killed 150 hamas terrorist in this area. israeli forces say they have taken control of underground tunnels, rocket launching stations and weapons storage areas as well. we brought you these pictures earlier in the hour, what's going on in the last few minutes, rockets and flares lighting up the night sky over gaza as israel tightens its grip on hamas. >> gillian: google is under internal pressure to stop doing business with the israeli government. a group of google staffers are demanding they cancel the $1.2 billion contract with the government. kelly o'grady is live in los angeles. how is google responding? >> they are not backing down on

the contract. i will note, muslim, palestinian, arab and anti-zionist jewish employees published an open letter, and accused them of supporting genocide with the contract. google shared this, they said the contract is for work loads on the commercial platform by israeli government ministries. not at highly sensitive or classified military work loads. amazon has also faced similar backlash in the same $1.2 billion contract but the letter also accuses leadership of targeting those who sympathize with palestinians at google. and alleging the executives are trying to get them fired. our collective grief is exacerbated by campaigns of hate, retaliation inside google. and they have allowed it to continue speaks to the culture that has developed. a source in google said the company has censored, and elon

musk has backlash for offering starlink as aid in gaza, and republican lawmakers for the rampant antisemitism. as big tech is taking stands on the issues, more trouble with employees and perhaps even washington as well. back to you. >> gillian: kelly o'grady in l.a., thanks. john. >> mark hauck arrested at his home in front of his family. that decision to use that force, was that by the book? >> a whole lot of things what is the way to conduct arrests safely and securing. >> john: fbi director chris wray defending his agency for arresting a pro life activist in front of his children. he has since been acquitted of

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>> john: a federal investigation underway after election offices in at least five states received suspicious letters this week. authorities say some of the letters contained fentanyl and it's now causing some ballot counting delays at local races. dan springer is live in washington, outside an election office which received one of the letters. dan. >> yeah, and john, it did stop the count for about three hours here. these election workers in king county were among the first in the country on wednesday to open one of these suspicious letters and it did test positive for trace amounts of fentanyl, like a similar letter in august during the primaries. workers knew what to do, the office was evacuated, hazmat teams brought in, a field test confirmed fentanyl, after three hours they were brought back and counting resumed. the office is resolved and defiant. >> it's certainly saddening to

know that folks want to cause us harm and i think we all know here they are trying to break us, break us enough to stop elections and that's not going to happen. >> letters like this showed up at five county election offices in washington state, at least one in spokane, county also tested positive for fentanyl. one sent to pierce county postmarked in portland, oregon and had the words end election now. along with the symbol for antifa and a pride flag. and letters were mailed to election workers in four other states, georgia, nevada, california, oregon, were sent through u.s. mail. some were intercepted. in fulton county, georgia they are on high alert for this. no word on any suspects or motive or where they originated or all connected. the good news is, nobody has

been hurt by this. john. >> john: that's a comfort. scary stuff, dan, thank you. gillian. >> gillian: take a listen to this. pro life activist accused of interfering with clinic workers is cleared against the charges against him. he is now suing the federal government. says the fbi we want too far during his arrest. he's going to join us coming up next. ♪ my name is josh sanabria and i am the owner at isla veterinary boutique hospital. i was 5...6 years of age and i knew i was going to be a vet.

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million in damages. talk to me about what you hope to achieve with this counter suit. >> sure. i have seven faces that i look at every day. i see the pain and horror in their face to this day. we want justice. and justice for all, anywhere. we hope this suit will prevent these types of attacks on future americans. >> sean, the biden administration says that mark violated the face act and says that he denied other americans their rights i guess by blocking access by clinicians and patients to this facility. what do you say to that? >> well, mark was acquitted in less than an hour by biden's doj. it was an embarrassment for the doj. we work with the doj closely. there's many great men and women

in the doj. they know how compromised the doj is more than any of us. we have abortion facility vigils in 1600 cities across the country. we worked with george bush through obama, trump and even the first year of biden. but the doj has had this bigotry and hatred of pro life americans and it's ever since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. >> mark, has going through the last year changed anything in your perspective, anything about the way you look at the government or folks on your side here? >> well, sure, yeah. of course. your government comes after you and now you're wondering who is next. again, my wife and i have spent 15 years trying to preserve the innocence of our children. we home school our kids.

when the government -- we have an offer to the government to bring ourselves in freely. they don't take us up on that offer and decide to now terrorize little children that are affected till this day. that tells me we have a government that is a tyraanical government. that's why we're running for congress now. >> thanks, gentlemen, for joining us. we appreciate it. >> john: see how that resonates with voters. >> very much on the ballot. >> john: there's an unfairness in how he was treated. >> and they went way too overboard on an abortion issue. >> john: that will be big, i think, next november. good to be with you. >> thanks for having me. >> john: i'm john roberts. >> i'm jilgillian turner.. "the story" starts right now. >> martha: i'm martha cc