we thank you for watching this special edition, elizabeth macdonald is up next my old "wall street journal" buddy. >> that was a great show, good stuff. thank you so much. we got the sound, hamas says it will exploit any cease-fire, the white house wants to destroy israel and more on sam bankman-fried found guilty in one of the worst bras in u.s. history. the biden campaign now is moving to distract voters from that by economics with the tax hunt maga voters. plus the smoke and mirrors and new jobs numbers and hunter biden command d.o.j. robe is x business partner tony bobulinski. house lawmakers signed the as a witness tampering in the impingement inquiry and the new york judge on a trump civil fraud case expanded a gag order two terms attorneys. trump says it will take the fight to the supreme court senators hammered biden judicial nominee for demanding the release of all prisoners in connecticut during the pandemic. also, democrat adam schiff once again misled america. i am elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ >> guys from a we can hear direct impact, a rocket sla

i'm elizabeth macdonald and the evening e did starts right now. okay, to this story, is it a possible deal to release dozens of hostages held by hamas and only cut down at any moment and fox news jeff paul live in southern israel with the story. jeff, good to see you. reporter: yeah, liz, there's a meeting going on involving israeli government officials. it was previously unscheduled and that gives you an idea of how possibly close it could be to agreeing or proving a possible hostage deal and they'd have to vote on that tonight and hamas who's a part of this deal as well, chief of hamas putting out a statement earlier saying if they were close to reach ago "truce". the specific details of this shift as time goes on and as it stands, 50 israelly hostages would be released and local media in israel reporting it could include 30 kids, eight moms and 12 women. in exchange, hamas would receive a group of palestinian prisoners for a multi-day pause in fighting. the u.s., egypt and qatar have been heavily involved in the negotiations and they're all sig

i'm david asman in for elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. former president trump out with a new op ed slamming president biden is new economic policies and trump highlighting a recent nbc poll where he leads president biden 46-42% among young voters age 18-34. some are now asking are young people waking up to what biden's failures are all about? with me now is forbes media chairman and editor in chief steve forbes. steve, great to see you. >> thank you. david: as you well know, you have to do so much fact checking when president biden comes out with his phony stats regarding jobs or inflation or how much of a deficit there is and i'm going to ask whether the same needs to be done and i'm going to read you a bit from donald trump's news week op ed, you aren't my leadership, under trump's leadership, annual incomes went up by more than $6,000 and inflation under 2% and we had gasoline down to $1.87 per gallon, household net worth reaching all time high with a bottom 50% of american households seeing a 40% increase in their net worth. do we hav

i'm elizabeth macdonald and the evening edit starts right now. joining us now, retired lieutenant colonel, she's a former green beret, the colonel served on combat tours in afghanistan and iraq. colonel, great to see you. let's please first get your reaction to secretary of state antony blink r here. watch this. >> i don't hear the un cry for hamas to respect international united law. for hamas to maybe get out of the buildings and hospitals and schools so the civilians aren't in danger. for hamas to surrender. that would help civilians immediately. i'm not hearing anyone say that. elizabeth: colonel, he make as good point about hamas. why is the white house appeasing iran, hamas' biggest backer? they just gave iran $6 billion in a hostage swap, they unfroze $10 billion for iran, idf is now again hitting hezbollah targets in remember anne donovan and israel and -- lebanon and israel and syria. >> thanks, liz, first of all i think the secretary is spot on when he talks about calls for hamas to regulate its behavior and violations of law, land warf

i'm david asman in for elizabeth macdonald and the evening edit starts right now. more hostages handed over to israel earlier this afternoon and harrowing accounts of what life was like for the individuals in captivity, including one freed 12-year-old boy saying he was forced to watch videos of the october 7 attack that whenever another child would cry during the screenings, they'd be threatened with a rifle to keep them quiet. they were beaten for crying out when they were watching these horrific videos. israel now saying hamas is violating the ceasefire agreement. the idf reports three explosive devices were detonated near its troops in northern gaza. joining us now to discuss all of this, retired lieutenant colonel daniel davis, four time combat veteran who served for 21 years including deployments in iraq, afghanistan and qatar and garret exeter. garret is a 14 year veteran of the u.s. marine corp. and marine raider deployed to iraq, north africa, east africa and south pacific. gentlemen, good to see you and very good to have you here. colonel davis, where does

strong dollar, we've done it before, we should be growing at 4, 5% then watching elizabeth mack donnell as we always do -- macdonald as we do every night. elizabeth: thank you, larry. i want that as my wakeup alarm for the morning on my walkup alarm clock. just kidding. larry: we can do it. elizabeth: i want it in my stocking, larry. better deliver. good to see you, my friend. this story, the battle to rescue hostages and israeli mother taken hostage was murdered by hamas. we have the story. why this, why only one protester arrested in the anti-israel riot in dc last night that injured capitol police? peaceful march from israel and antony blinken wincing on camera and china and removal of the homeless for china's visit to "putting socks in the hammer". the news coming in and gag order on trump just temporarily lifted in the new york fraud case and this story irony the randi wiengarten teacher's union called a strike against get this, itself. trump heads to texas border and act of powerful new state law to deport illegal immigrants. i'm elizabeth macdonald and the evening edit starts right now. joining us now, retir

i am elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ joining us now retired u.s.rmy brigadier general anthony, served 28 years. the acting undersecretary of defense also with us retiring u.s. air force brigadier general robert spalding. general welding served 25 years, former top china strategist for the joint chiefs of staff. thank you for joining us. we are showing footage, it looks like it might have been hundreds of thousands, reports are coming in the march for israel, no threats, no talk of violence, no calls for genocide, no death to america, it's a distinction from the other anti- israel protests we are seeing, they are singing the national anthem, what do you think? >> i think it's a great example to contest between judeo-christian principles upon which our country was founded and this served to follow today and the radical islamic principles which extreme progressive left are following and supporting hamas and brutality they inflict upon israel. divisions could not be more clear, it could not be more stark. we need to rally behind israel and in every way

i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ elizabeth: well, look who's here, retiredeneral jerry boykin, former undersecretary deputy of defense, he commanded all of the army's green berets, served our nation for three dozen years. also with us, retired u.s. army lieutenant colonel, he's a current pentagon strategist and foreign affairs expert, colonel bob mcginn mess. gentlemen it's good to see you with. general, what do you make of the breaking news, israel in talks with hamas to release up to 15 hostages in return for a 3-day ceasefire? should they do it? >> only if the united states stays out of it in terms of trying to persuade them to do this. in this has got to be something that the israelis want, and my view ofs the -- of it is, this is not a good idea. that's been my position all the along because you cannot trust hamas, and they are going to take advantage of every opportunity they have. can and i think that this is an opportunity for them to refurbish, to rearm, to redo everything that would put them in a better setting when they the resume. elizabeth: colo

i'm elizabeth macdonald and the evening edit starts right now. joining us back from senate foreign relations and author of the new book un-woke had to defeat cultural marxism in america is senator ted cruz. great to see you, senator. anti-israel protesters marched in delaware near the president's home and protested in grand central station in new york, cop hads to shelter in place. climate activist greta thunburg join n. when you saw this, senator, what was your reaction? >> well, liz, it's great to be with you. seeing what's happening on university campuses across the country is horrifying. you're right, any brand new book, un-woke, explains what's going expugn abed anti-semitism on college campuses and in the house of representatives among the quad. and the reason is simple, this book explains how the radical left has taken over every major institutions of our nation. and in particular the cultural marxist. marxist begin by viewing the entire world as a constant conflict, a battle between oppressors and victims. originally carl marx looked at i

i'm elizabeth macdonald and "the evening edit" starts right now. okay, major fights and chaos in court today between former president trump and judge enderon and former president testified in new york's $250 million civil fraud suit against him and his family business. fox news nate foy has been breaking all the stories on this. he's live outside the courthouse in manhattan with the details. what happened? reporter: liz, it was a contentious day of testimony for former president trump leaving the courthouse about an hour ago saying this is a sad day for america. he called the trial a scam and a disgrace. i mentioned those contentious moments and multiple of them and more recently in the afternoon president trump asked for a jury and this is a bench trial and enderon will have the pull power to decide former president trump's punishment and in the morning session, president trump was very upset with the judge after the judge told trump attorney to get his client under control and the judge said that tram was taking too long in answering the ques que

i'm elizabeth macdonald and the evening edit starts right now. retired u.s. air force four star general phillip breedlove and served as commander of supreme allied command for europe and also with us four-time combat veteran that served in afghanistan and iraq and retired lieutenant colonel daniel davis. gentlemen, thank you for joining us tonight. general, first to you, let's show the video, show the footage, more than 55 members of israel's left in tears and shock and one needed sedation after that closed door screening of hamas' terror atrocities on october 7 where 1400 israelis were slaughtered. general, have you ever seen anything like what hamas did in your career? >> first, thanks for having me on. i would say no, all though close behind this is what mr. putin and his armies did in ukraine and torture of children et cetera. this clearly has reached out to a very new level, and i think already the world's trying to forget this. they're now onto hamas' theme of trying to bring pressure on israel for what it's doing. elizabeth: colonel, what's your reacti

i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ elizabeth: welcome to the show.nks for tuning in. joining us now, retired u.s. army major general deign that petard -- dana petard, also with us 25-year navy veteran and former pentagon official brent sadler. gentlemen, thank you both for joining us now. general, first to you. what's your take on the war now? israel taking control of gaza city. hamas military strongholds as a well. but then we've got a leaked memo politico obtained that a state department staffers are criticizing the president for his pro-israel stance, pressuring the president to call for a ceasefire. is in this now getting bogged down into politics? >> well, i think the israeli defense forces are continuing with their mission, and they've got the support, obviously, of prime minister benjamin netanyahu to the continue operations -- to continue operations. the things that we're hearing as far as dissent from sate department employees or diplomats, that happens all the time. in fact, there is a dissenter kind of online where you can send things and

liz macdonald is up next. elizabeth: david, you're terrific. we love you. happy thanksgiving to you and yours. okay, the update on that vehicle explosion at the new york-canada border, unclear if this was terror, but we talked to people at the northern border, they're as squared -- scared as the southern border due to biden's policies. plus, israel now moving to use a powerful new defense system that will help shut down hamas for good. and the u.s. crackdown on binance, it's the biggest crypto exchange in the world. it was aiding criminals and terrorists like hamas. a new emerson poll, trump widening his lead over biden, plus a key prosecutor subpoenaed for the biden impeachment inquiry, and communist china is now slamming around yen teen that's new free market, anti-big government, libertarian president, the media saying he's a mini trump. i'm macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. let's get you updated on what a authorities are now calling an incident in buffalo, new york, right on the eve of thanksgiving. it's a busy travel day, record travel th

i'm david asman in for elizabeth macdonald and the evening edit starts right now. as i mentioned, 11 more hostages were released from hamas today so far only one american has been released, a 4-year-old girl who was released sunday just discovering both her parents had been murdered by hamas on october 7. as of now, 8-9 americans are still being held hostage by hamas. meanwhile u.s. forces continue to endure iranian orchestrated attacks in the middle east. iran-backed militants attacked u.s. forces iraq and syria over 70 times in the last few weeks and in a clear escalation, houthi rebels fired what's being described as ballistic missiles from yemen towards a u.s. destroyer responding to a distressed israeli-linked vessels laning and he will the missiles missed the ship and landed in the gulf of aid and many asked if and when and how the white house will respond. general boykin is a general force commander and deputy under secretary of defense and great to week with you. >> thanks for having me. me. david: how big an escalation does this ballistic missile attack to

i'm david asman in for elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. well, a sixth group of hostages were freed today. the idf if saying 16 hostages were released to israeli custody including, allegedly, a second american-israeli dual citizen. just last night though it seemed president biden was we'ring in his support -- wavering in his support, quote, to continue down the path of terror, violence, killing and war is to give hamas if what they seek. we can't do that. with me now to discuss from senate homeland security committee, senator ron johnson. senator, good to see you. thank you for being here. so this posting by the president last night seemed to contradict the israelis' intention to wipe out hamas by copping the war. what -- continuing the war. what did you make of that? >> just the start, to continue down the path of terror, did he say? the terrorists are hamas. the brutal slaughter was hamas against innocent israeli citizens. i try and remind people 1400 israelis as a percentage of the population would be like almost 50,000 americans. you ca

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and now i want to promo if liz macdonald just like i always do. elizabeth: you're so nice to me, larry. it's like christmas every day with you, thank you. [laughter] okay. good to see you, larry. this story, the fight over just how many americans are now trapped in gaza. and this, democrats talk tolerance but attack israel. they demand a ceasefire, a two-tate solution. we've got the sound of a top hamas if official saying hamas terrorists will do an october 7 massacre of israelis again and again until israel is destroyed. and new developments in the democrat party tearing itself apart over israel. and president biden just hours ago touted bidenomics, but the fed signals one more rate hike this year to battle inflation. and is we have jewish students, they're going to to the sue elite universities like harvard for not stopping an explosion of anti-semitic protests. plus, donald trump jr. testified in court today, we've got it. and former president trump sues to stop michigan kicking him off the state's 2024 the ballot. there's a wrinkle in this story. we've

macdonald. she's upright now. elizabeth: so good, david. that was a great show. thank you so much.