jon: t eric cb cotton, thank yo.ore on all of this was spring christian whiton former senior adviser for strategic communications at the state department former advising the secretary state under trump and former president trump and president george w. bush. christian, we are all rejoicing at the release of these hostages including the little american girl who no longer next to her boss. nobody seems to be remembering that they were taken hostage in the first place in a horrifically bloodied incident. >> at his ranch on it seems like the narrative to use an overused description there has shifted to putting hamas in a magnanimous position is getting credit or we are rejoicing for this but of course if i was a hostage of as a failed member of a hostage happy to see them come out safely but over all needed to remember why this happened in the first place. these savages crossed the border into israel, murdered this a 4-year-old parents in front of her and kidnapped her itself this is worse than al qaeda. this is right up

and cb cotton has the latest on the situation there. hi, cb. >> the commuters can now exit and enter at new york's central terminal. and they surrounded the building and demanded to get inside and the terminal temporarily suspending service. we saw people banging and kicking on locked doors as officers stood inside. at some point, hundreds had gathered outside the terminal many chanting for a cease-fire in the israel hamas war. the iconic transit hub one of many stops called flood manhattan for gaza. and as thousands marched through the city streets, our fox news digital team capturing scenes like this and israeli flag being burned before it's thrown on the ground and stomped on. our team also capturing this group of people ripping up jewish newspapers, throwing them in the thrash. a lot of them accuse israel for committing genocide following the attack on october 7th which killed more than a thousand israelis. when we asked about israel defending itself and the chants heard at the rallies, here is what people told us. >> what's going on

cb cotton has more on that. if you wonder who is printing the posters and organizing this cb has the details live in new york city. good morning. >> hi, martha, good morning. a new report says the money trail behind at least four massive pro-palestinian rallies here in new york city and d.c. leads back to this couple. the free press reporting tech entrepreneur neville singham and his wife gave $20 million to the people's form. they have pro-palestinian signs plastered everywhere the group claiming to advocate for marginalized communities. they organized this november 4th protest in washington, d.c. and this rally thousands flooding times square on october 8th. the free press reporting the deep pocketed couple have long been tied to social justice or marxist movements. a "new york times" investigation linking the tech entrepreneur to at least four nonprofits peddling chinese propaganda. he denies any ties to the chinese communist party but reportedly lives in shanghai. this june his wife had nothing but praise for

cb cotton is live. new york city's upper west side with more on this now.d morning. >> good morning. these flyers of kidnapped israelis are quiet by urgent reminder of the more than 200 families torn apart by hamas terrorists. war of words when people are caught taking them down on city streets. >> don't touch me. no, don't touch me. >> get out of here. >> this group of people appearing to confront a man who police say was ripping down israeli hostages posters in new york city. he is now charged with harassment. disorderly conduct. obstruction. nypd saying the hate crime task force is investigating this as a possible case of bias. one of the latest confrontations in the city. on friday also in new york this man appearing to take down the flyers, the person holding the phone goes after him saying they are kidnapping civilians, women, children, grandmothers. similar scenes happening on college campuses. these three were captured ripping down flyers at nyu. an investigation is ongoing. israeli american citizen who helps put up the flyers says anti-semitism is

cb cotton in new york with how it's going down. cb. >> yeah, the momentum is continuing behind the pro-palestinian rally, several are planned across the country today. some are organized by student groups, others by far left social justice coalitions. the group students for justice and palestine, standing in front of new york governor kathy hochul's office demanding she and other elected leaders call for a cease-fire as they move offense beyond northern gaza. one demonstrators speaking against hochul's support for israel and her efforts to investigate complaints of anti-semitism on college campuses, listen. >> instead of protecting palestinian students and all those in protest with us in solidarity, calling for a cease-fire to end the bloodshed and slaughter in gaza at the hands of israel, with the pockets of the u.s. government and our taxes, governor kathy hochul is facilitating and perpetuating an environment of violence against us in our classrooms, painting us to be terrorists, monsters. >> and we saw this massive crowd in new

thank you very much, cb cotton reporting for us. let's do "the faulkner focus" voters' voices on top issues. 74 days out from the nation's first primary contest, the iowa caucuses. meeting is joe t., sarah a., eddie a. sam s., bonnie give us a shout. there she is and dan b. welcoming everybody. not only will we hear from you, you will be able to ask questions directly to our presidential candidate gop today vivek ramaswamy. welcome to everybody. let's get started. i want to go right away to you. dan, you are a democrat among us today. you want to focus on the israel/hamas war. >> i just want to ask as a person who supports israel's right to defend itself and its right to strike back at hamas for the horrible attack, i haven't seen your positions moderate at all. i wonder if you think there is any limit to the amount of bloodshed that is justifiable on behalf of attacking hamas. >> i appreciate that question, dan. my view is what hamas did to israel was sub human. it was medieval. because of israel's right to national self-defense i

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>> julie: cb cotton. and joining me from florida, i'm just very confused as to how the double standard exists here with the far left basically decrying the violence that has been going on in washington, d.c., but not condemning the violence that has been carried out against police officers. not just in our nation's capital but all over the country. why aren't these people being charged with hate crimes? >> good to see you, julie. i've been asking the exact same question. i find it exceptionally ironic that the very people calling for a cease-fire are the very first to engage in violence. we've seen that in our capital, in cities around the country. i just can't wrap my head around how people are so obtuse that they cannot bring themselves to recognize the 200 plus hostages, the atrocities that have taken place in israel. and yet they want to come at the same time, call for a of an entire nation. from the river to the sea. to pull at the heartstrings of individuals like myself and other leaders who are doi

cb cotton is at new york city's laguardia airport. how is it rolling there?> i can tell you security lines are moving fairly quickly here at laguardia. a similar situation at jfk and newark but we're noticing flight delays. right now more than 1,000 flights across the nation are delayed and 50 flights canceled. this as aaa anticipates near pre-pandemic numbers during the thanksgiving travel period. more than 55 million are expected to head 50 miles or more and 4.7 million catching a flight. 1.5 million taking a cruise, bus or train. weather is expected to throw curveballs for travelers as a lingering storm system brings rainshowers and winds along i-95. new england waking up to sleet and snow leading people to closely watch the forecast. >> our fear yesterday is what if the flight is canceled? >> tsa a expecting to screen 2.7 million passengers and administrator pointing to federal air marshals as the critical piece for safety. >> federal air marshal service and professional element of tsa provides in-flight security and part is paints in joint terrorism task

griff: cb cotton, keeping an eye on college campuses for us. thank you.a: for more on how anti-semitism is affecting students. a student at george washington university in washington d.c. sabrina, thank you for being here. can you tell me, do you feel like your college campus or college campuses around the country are doing enough to protect jewish students? >> hi alicia, thank you so much for having me on the show today to share my story and the story of many jewish students. i'd like to start out by saying my university, the administration has been supportive through statements and the administration has agreed to meet with students in such. unfortunately, other universities have not had the same support. which is very unfortunate. but i don't feel like these rhetorical statements are enough. my friends have been spat on, they have been laughed at for having family members lost in israel and their protesters remain silent. the zbt frat house, there were students who came up and started trying to strike brothers with flag poles. yesterday, right before s

cb cotton is along the marathon roots near the finish line in central park. >> hi eric the energy outof the course to get cheered and congratulated there are no credible threats to the marathon but nypd pulling out all stops to keep people safe ahead of the marathon interest groups within our lifetime sharing flyers the solidarity with gaza to that race bids or their tops people on the sidelines also encouraged to show support for it nypd counterterrorism unit citing fbi director christopher wray's remarks to a senate committee just last week to explain how officers are tracking any sort of thr threat that may pop up. >> he mentioned a state of a propaganda by a terrorist organization that we have been tracking and mentioning four weeks we talk about a heightened threat environment overseas that is what we mean. >> the biggest take away is the run is continuing this morning or this afternoon nypd closely monitoring everything there is no specific credible threats back to you. eric: ethiopian one of the woman's one the limits of our arthel it is always a wonderful spirited event to go

cb cotton is live in new york city with more. >> hi jonathan, officers say two of the students were wearingraditional palestinian scarfs with the shooting happened. the police also say right now they have no details on a possible motive. young men were on their way to a dinner according to the palestinian ambassador, to that uk who wrote about this terrific news on x. investigator said the three students were here walking on prospect street in burlington, vermont on saturday. they are confronted by a white male with a hand on the suspect said nothing but discharge at least four rounds of pistol before running off. two of the victims are struck and their torsos the third in his lower extremities. all were taken to the university of vermont medical center. two of the students are u.s. citizens the third is a legal resident. all are of palestinian descent according to police. it took place to this vermont campus which is now enhancing his security and response. all three students attended different universities and. the victims of families releasing a statement through a nonprofit saying in pa

cb cotton has more on what we're seeing. >> the confrontations are continuing on college campuses nowith calls for accountability after a video appears to show a harvard jewish student getting cornered on campus. the video surfacing this week is from a stop the genocide in gaza die-in demonstration at harvard business school in october. in the video you see a jewish student surrounded by more than half a dozen demonstrators holding scarves, blocking the student's view and movements shouting shame over and over. the student paper says the confrontation started when the jewish student began filming people. hundreds attended the protests following the baptist hospital blast in gaza where hundreds of civilians were killed. the dean of harvard business school calling the confrontation troubling adding police reports were filed with campus police and f.b.i. the videos surfacing coming on heels of a lengthy address by the harvard president to jewish students at a shabbat dinner where she said in part, quote, anti-semitism has a very long and shameful history at harvard. for years this univer

cb cotton is live in new york city with the very latest. >> hi arthel put organize of this pro- pa proweekend referring to their views is there is a stellar state in the middle east for their goal is to protest the entire weekend calling on u.s. to stop sending aid to israel in a permanent cease-fire. we saw hundreds marching and chanting to the upscale mall here in manhattan. part of an effort by organizers to disrupt this weakens holiday shopping and then later we watch a droves of protesters make their way to the american museum of natural history. seminar climbing a traffic light outside but pro pulsing in group one to be able to tour the inside for a quote anticolonial tour of the museum's exhibits but it had closed earlier in the day in anticipation of this protester. demonstrated shouted shame that atpolice officers who barricade entrances. [inaudible] shame on you. shame on you. shame on you. >> during the chanting of protester burning in israeli flag on the museum steps. these weekly protests happening here in the city. come as tensions between pro- israel and pro pulsing voic

cb cotton is live at laguardia. are they expecting -- >> it is calm now.d travel numbers to beef up as we get closer to the holiday. experts tell us remote work has changed how and when people travel for the holiday season meaning some could get to their thanksgiving destination as early as this weekend. >> maybe work from their destination monday, tuesday, wednesday and then spend time with loved ones on thursday and friday. gives people flexibility of coming back not on sunday. sunday is usually a terrible day to be on the road. >> if you can't leave early you are one of the tens of millions traveling during the holiday week. according to aaa this breaks down to 49.1 million getting behind the wheel. 4.7 million hopping on a plane and 1.5 million traveling by cruise, bus or train. more people are trying to beat long security lines than ever before. tsa saying they've hit a record number of pre-check users. coupled with the prediction for near pre-pandemic travel numbers means leave your house early. the average price for a domestic flight is up by about

cb cotton is live with more. >> ivy league and top tier college dreams are dimming for some jewish studentsnd their families who say they are turning to lists of backup schools in hopes to avoid anti-semitism on college campuses and scenes like this unfold at universities across the country. the phrase from the river to the sea echoing during the many rallies. anti-semitic calls for the nation of israel. a jewish student speaking out and hiding his identity walking -- >> the first thought is not if i get into the colleges. if i get into the colleges will i be safe there? a lot of the universities that are ranked highest in the programs i'm interested in are also very anti-semitic. >> harris: well, jewish civil rights groups are now suing uc berkeley's campus over what they call the unchecked and longstanding spread of anti-semitism on that campus. the plaintiffs are citing several disturbing incidents there including the assault of a jewish student at a pro-palestinian protest as well as hate mail to jewish faculty members that called for their gassing. wow. the education department civil r

cb cotton kicks things off with us for the latest here. >> hi, griff. the ongoing conflict continues to drive protests across the country. more pro-palestinian groups and far less justice coalitions, calling for a cease-fire in our nation's capital accusing the biden administration of helping to commit genocide against palestinians, take a listen. >> every single day this government and this institution send millions of dollars to the apartheid state of israel, shame, shame, shame! >> and hundreds gathering in d.c. on friday, blocking the entrance to union station, chanting cease-fire now. and again, reports coming into our news room early this afternoon about vandalism. there, too, others yelling from the river to the sea, condemned by many calling anti-semitic. >> and some are saying we want 48, a reference to the map before united nations formed israel and new york city, traffic was gridlocked as hundreds rallied outside the new york city public library. and similar demonstrations continuing on college campuses and hundreds of pro-palestinian protest

cb cotton has the very latest on what is going on. >> chance for a cease-fire are continuing at cities country today. check out this rally unfolding in nashville this afternoon. if you can't hide your committing genocide. israel, israel, you can't hide. your committing genocide. some caring sides genocide joke using genocide against that thepolicy and people calling one united states to stop sending a mimilitary aid to gaza. but it's illiterate by the minute, by the second and everybody dicing those images especially the younger kids are quick similar scenes unfolding in new york city hundreds marching on eighth avenue causing major traffic congestion during the evening rush hour the crowd stopped in for penn station blocking access to the main train hub and then out of the city over to the nation's capitol hundreds of protesters leaving behind this wall of handprints near union station with the phrase free at pals and on top fox affiliate reporting three people were arrested for the vandalism cleanup efforts are already underway. this morning on fox senior advisor to israeli prime min

a cb cotton following all of the demonstrations what they are calling for and what they don't call for. flex hi eric. here in new york city where monitoring is people start to for another large rally being held today called flood brooklyn for gaza. people watch and wait for israel's ground offensive to move into some southern parts of gaza they are taking to the city streets across the country calling for a cease-fire. this morning on fox israel's opposition leader was called for prime minister benjamin netanyahu to be replaced saying this about the protester erupted across the country listen. >> all of those people marching and sank free palestine and the suggestion for them is an old when it is not mine. if they would lay it down their weapons and stop killing jews they would have a state. if we would lay down our weapons we would be killed until the last one of us. this is why we are protecting. >> over in d.c. hundreds a gathering of blocking the entrance to union station amtrak telling writers to allow for extra time and at one point metro trains temporarily skipping the station b

cb cotton is live in new york city with the latest. hi, cb. >> good morning. protest is happening here in new york city's washington square park. people here calling for a permanent cease-fire in the israel/hamas war. across the country other pro-palestinian organizers calling on people to shut down black friday. this happening right now in boston. we have a live look. people gathering outside the puma store speaking out against the sport company's reported ties to the israeli football association following other pro-palestinian rallies we saw here in new york city yesterday. one interrupting the macy's thanksgiving day parade. police had to step in. watch. and again this massive rally happening, another massive rally happening after the parade. hundreds marching from madison square park to the macy's store in harold square people shouting when you're shopping bombs are dropping. the new york public library was also vandalized. as the rally gets underway we're watching how the hostage release will affect people's interactions here. i can tell you there is a sm

cb cotton live. >> as you said police state's 17-year-old climbed up about 10 feet on this light bowl the p pro pulsing rally in new york city. he heard the crowd cheering as the flags were thrown to the ground. officers telling us a juvenile report was filed for reckless endangerment. thousands turning up for this rally on friday night which temporarily shut down a new york city grand central terminal part our fox digital team capturing this a couple being escorted away from the protest by nypd after expressing support for israel. just this week and resell pro pulsing rallies happening across the country from florida, to los angeles right there on your screen. city gin college campuses the epicenter for these demonstrations. fox news contributor douglas murray sharing his take this morning on fox. >> to a great extent it is. it really is an american education. the british universities do not have the a.doctor nation that led us to see scenes as we have at univers university after uniy in the u.s. after the biggest massacre of jews since the holocaust jewish students at universities a