dr. sebastian gorka was in tel aviv when this unfolded. he'll join us in a moment.first, trace gallagher has new details on the attack. >> reporter: during recent terror attacks in israel with a knife or vehicle, the attackers always stayed at the scene, indicating they wanted to be killed by security forces. but in this case, the suspect used a semiautomatic weapon and escaped, resembling the isis inspired attacks in brussels, paris and san bernardino. so far isis has not claimed responsibility for the attack in tel aviv that killed two people, but it comes just days after the isis leader threatened israel with violence. authorities believe the shooter is a 29-year-old israeli arab with a long criminal history. police found a copy of the koran in his bag. but the suspect's family says he is mentally unstable. listen. >> translator: i heard my son did what he did in tel aviv. i did not educate him this way. i'm sorry for what he did. when i got to know about the incident, i went to the police station by myself and i helped the security forces. >> reporter: it's stil

dr. sebastian gorka is with us. good to see you. let's go to marco rubio's comment. did we now send a message to the world, take an american hostage and you'll get what you want? >> absolutely, sean. we gave away the farm for the starbucks gift card. we sent a very clear message that this nation, which is the greatest state sponsor of terrorism for the last 30 years, has carte blanche. we've removed the red warning, the interpol red warning on 14 people who are probably guilty of one of the biggest terror attacks in recent years. think about the fact that we had hundreds of marines that were killed in beirut by an organization trained by the irgc. in iraq our servicemen were maimed, were killed by ieds that were empowered by quds force, republican guard assistance to the local militias. we've sent a message, iran, you can get away with murder, literally, sean. >> it's really frightening. i'm happy that pastor abedini and i know that jay sekulow has worked for the release of this pastor. i've interviewed the pastor's wife and family. so i'm happy about that. but as a

dr. sebastian gorka is here to help us out with this.embassy what should we take from that, doctor? >> we should take the fact that the war, that the proxy war between the shiites and the muslims that's been going on for decades, even during the cold war, yemen was the site of proxy war between saudis and others, that's now gone out into the open. it's escalated. this is something that needs to be understood in the broader context in the middle east. this is not just -- we are obsessed with isis, with the bad guys, with the jihadties that want to tell us here in america. that's just 35r9 of the much larger war for who's going to control the middle east. is it going to be the shia extremists. the mullahs of iran. or is it going to be the sunni jihadists like al qaeda and isis, and now, saudi arabia's just escalated it. >> so let's give everyone a perspective. between the holidays and 2016 we might have gotten caught up with this. iran attacks diplomatic post, diplomatic post in tie iran, these are the supposedly out-of-control students. t