any hostages come home? that's tonight on news night. good evening. i'm in washington. just hours from now families were hoping to welcome their loved ones that were held by hamas and instead they are waiting anxiously at least for one more day. possibly much longer. at this point the fighting has not stopped in gaza. there is no truce. israeli officials have not given a reason why the deal approved by israel's cabinet last night is now on hold. we start in tel aviv and kaitlan collins is there. what do we know about what might be causing this delay? >> reporter: i think it just speaks to how fluid this entire agreement, this entire negotiation has been. it's something they've been working on for so long. and officials are not surprise that had it is delayed. it is a little surprising because we did hear from the prime minister netanyahu talking about how difficult it was to sign off on this agreement. to come to this agreement, to exchange 50 israeli hostages for 150 palestinian prisoners. we heard from the israeli national security council saying until friday at the earliest, no hostages are going to be released. that means no pause in the fighting that we are seeing happening even today in gaza. we just spoke to an israeli official. the former israeli ambassador to the united nations. he said in part that israel still has not received the names from hamas of those first initial hostages. that was part of agreement. that israel is going to provide hamas with a list of names of people that they are going to release and vice versa. hamas was going to provide the names of the people they were expected to release. that still has not happened as of yet. the other thing that he told me which is notable as well, they say hamas has not yet signed off on this agreement. it is a multipage agreement. something that the qataris have been the mediating force in all of this. so that's just part of it. ultimately, officials on the ground in israel are still hopeful that this deal will happen. i think there's a bit of caution around this to ensure that it is going to happen because certainly, you know, hamas does not trust israel. israel certainly does not trust hamas here. >> and there are so many moving parts of this deal that would have to all line up for it to work. thank you for staying up with us. up next for us, the hold-up now equals disappointment for these families that are waiting for word from the israeli government about if their loved ones are among hostages who are potentially part of this exchange. joining me now, his nephew is believed to be held by hamas. amir, thank you for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. this is a tense time for you and all the other families. your nephew, i should note, is 19 years old. he's right on the edge of that age cut-off. not quite a minor. this deal would not necessarily apply to him. it applies to children and teenagers. so for you and your family, what is going through your mind tonight as we are on the cusp of some progress but perhaps not necessarily progress that might apply to your nephew? >> we're certainly happy to hear that there is a chance to see them. 50 of our brothers and sisters. hamas has experience for years now, just a terror organization. this delay is not a surprise. it's just trying to terrorize us, and you know, putting us through this emotional turmoil. but we're hopeful. we're sure that he will get back home together with his brothers and sisters, the babies, the mothers, those elderlies, they'll all come back. i think that our president is on it. he's on it and he will put the pressure on. my next su a young man. the way he acted that day. just inspiring to hear the stories of his braveness and caring for others. so i'm sure he's strong and we'll see him back home. we're hoping. we're praying. >> we are all hoping for that as well. as you mentioned, your nephew acted heroically. he later carried two girls to safety when he was shot in both arms. you can see a little bit of an image there. what can you tell us about what kind of person he is? >> well, you know, anything i would say would be a cliche. just hearing the story of what he did. a second to choose to run away or to help. he decided to help. we know this from a survivor that said should their young kid came up to me in this midst of aer howific time and all you see is smoking and blood and such a scary thing. and this kid comes and says, i'll protect you. i'm hear for you. it's inspiring. i remember myself at 19. soldiers and leaders at 19, how do you make a decision like that to go out and save a young girl, take her to safety and go back again. and then on the third time, it was the last time. so yeah. it took a second. that's what makes people different, you know. what do you choose to do? help others or how can i get away? that's the kind of guy he is. he'll do a favor to a friend. you want him on your team. that's the guy he is. loyal. i hope he can hear or see me now to say, we're sure that he's coming back. he's coming back. we want him in our life. it's just crazy times. it's surreal. we're hoping and praying. >> i hope he is hearing you tonight. and you're doing such an extraordinary thing by speaking out on his behalf. i do want to ask you, this is the potential beginning of larger amounts of hostages. being let out of gaza. what do you think it would take for all of these hostages to be brought home? what do you want to see the israeli government putting on the table to bring your nephew and the hostages home? >> that's a very good question. the simple answer is just impossible. these people are looking to terrorize and scare the israelis, the jewish people. and they'll do any trick. the government is doing the best they can. and i think that me living in the u.s., our president, joe biden, just like he said to hezbollah. one word. he said don't. i say to joe biden, do. keep on the pressure. the israeli government will do as much as they can to bring them back. i don't think the beginning, i heard that hamas is not trustworthy. they don't trust the israelis and the israelis don't trust them. but we have every reason not to trust them. and every time in the history of the jewish nation, you can see that if we give you a ready would, we stand by it. i think our government is doing the best they can, and i'm sure they're all coming back. whoever is alive. whoever is alive will come back. and the price, it's something for the coalition. the coalition between israel and the allies and the united states pressure on hamas. it works. we know that. we know that. whatever pressure that our president will put on will work. he's going to bring live buses of hostages to israel and that will make the whole planet, i think, happy. the whole world will be a better place when we see them back. >> and we absolutely share that optimism that something will work. thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. and i really appreciate this opportunity. really great of you. and i appreciate it. and to whoever sees us now, just pray for our brothers and sisters. we want them back. >> thank you. these negotiations have been a consistent point of contention and cooperation between president biden and prime minister netanyahu. israel here to share his perspective with us, a columnist for the "new york times." nick, thank you for joining us tonight. what do you think is going on with this delay? israel is anxious to get their hostages back. we thought it would be thursday. now friday. what do you think is going on here? >> as you suggested earlier, there is just so much that can go wrong. and it's doubly complicated because the hamas people are underground tunnels. it is difficult for them to communicate. the messages are going through qatar, in some cases, through cairo. this is such deep suspicion on both sides. i think it will go through. i worry that after it has begun, it's so easy for things to go wrong and to be disrupted. the israelis spot a hamas target and arrest him. some hamas guy shoots an israeli soldier. islamic jihad fires. there's so much that can go wrong in this context of enormous suspicion and sending everybody back to shooting each other again. >> yeah. from that perspective, i think that's all the things that could go wrong. what about the possibility that this truce, the longest, i shouldn't call it that. this pause, the longest we've seen in this conflict. is it potentially an opportunity to open a door for a political solution to this crisis? >> i don't know that it is really a door toward a political solution. but i think that it is a pathway to reduce the scale of suffering. i think that israel is resolved to resume the war once this pause is over. i think they are determined to dismantle hamas. that's why it is so hard to do. once we have a cease-fire, then it is really hard to stand dropping bombs again. and i think that's fundamentally right. that'll there will be a lot of pressure, a lot of stories coming out from gaza. and you know, i would like to see as a result, at least, more humanitarian aid coming in. that seems likely. and perhaps when the war does resume, at least more precise targeting of hamas military targets and less leveling of entire neighborhoods. >> you alluded to this. what do you think the world will see once the bombs pause for a few days? and do you think that could have a measurable impact on israel's strategy going forward? >> i think israel is quite nervous about this. understand that when you get aid workers coming in, people recharging their cell phones, sending off picture that's have been accumulated. uti you'll have a lot of stories of what we have heard. this will be those tragedy cubed. stories about kids who had their legs amputated without anesthetic. it will be about, i've been in touch with a scholar in gaza who was with his two children who was eating leaves to survive. i think there will be a lot more stories about that. i think that is going to put pressure on israel. i don't think it will be enough to extend the cease-fire. i think that it might be enough to help shape the way that they conduct operations in southern gaza which seems to be the next big target. >> yeah. all right. we really appreciate you joining us on all of that. >> good to be with you, abby. happy thanksgiving. >> you, too. ahead for us, the nypd arresting a former obama-era official for an islamic phobic rant. plus, fox news erroneously reports an attack at the border and some republicans step in the bad reporting. some breaking news in the 2024 race. tonight it's the undotted i's and uncrossed t's leaving many families in limbo. the final deal between israel and hamas are still not ironed out. that lingering uncertainty means the sooner these hostages are released is now friday. joining me now, the governor sununu. thank you for joining us again. >> you bet. >> on this deal, do you think president biden deserves credit for applying the diplomatic pressure here to get it to the finish line? >> well, look, this is a deal that is being negotiated between the israelis and hamas with a lot of different intermediaries. so far nothing has come of the deal, right? so let's see where this goes. how long the cease-fire actually holds. israel has a mission to wyoming hamas out and they deserve every right to do that. hamas is a brutal terrorist organization and so this is about getting hostages back home safely. i don't think anybody should be worrying about who takes credit for it. the only thing that matters is getting the hostage free. >> do you think that this pause in fighting should be more long lasting? either because it might help for more hostages to be freed or because of the sheer human toll that this has taken on civilians in gaza? >> well, look, if more hostages can be freed with a longer lasting pause and cease-fire, that's a good thing. i think the hostages need to be the top priority. make no mistake about it, if the israeli military feels like the mission is not completed, and the terrorist aspects of hamas still exist, you can fully expect them to go back in there and make sure it gets wiped out. folks seem to forget that israel isn't just surrounded by hamas. they're surrounded by six, seven other countries in that region that would love to see them wiped off the face of the earth. they are constantly under threat. if not by hamas than by other organizations in the area. it is fully understandable that they want to go finish the job that if they feel they haven't finished with hamas, they're going to do it. you have hamas. you have hamas hiding in the tons and the organization that does not care about the palestinian people. they're using their own people as human shields but israel will make sure first and foremost they get the hostages back. they protect their citizens and have every right to do so. >> i want to switch to politics which you are deeply ingrained in as you are in one of the early states here that will go in 2024. just asking you bluntly, are there too many people in this 2024 field right now? >> oh, goodness no. are you kidding in at this point in 2013 there were 13 people in the debates. there are four now in 2024. so no. it's a whole different ball game. the republican party has narrowed the field down as we said we would. you three legitimate candidates going into iowa and likely new hampshire. the three governors of chris, ron, and nikki and they'll be battling it out to see who will be the one to take on trump. wll that gets to a one-on-one race, it is a 50/50 gamble and it is what we want to see. we want the choice. so no. i think every couple weeks, somebody keeps dropping out. we're down to three or four quasi legitimate candidates. and i think that's a tremendous opportunity that wasn't there in 2016 will. >> you know, nothing has changed trump's lead in this race despite the candidates dropping out. isn't it kind of a fever dream that this idea that the 48% or so of republican who's haven't made up their minds in new hampshire will suddenly break for someone not named donald trump? >> well, to your point, they're already breaking for someone not named donald trump. that's the, after the base are already breaking for someone not named trump. you're forgetting that independents can vote in states like new hampshire. i believe they did in michigan as well. that will come into play quite a bit. and aired of this trump voters are willing to move somewhere else. this is the dream of the media. the vast majority of people won't decide who they're voting for until well after thanksgiving and i believe it will be later. i think even into the new year folks will be deciding. the first couple weeks they'll have conversations with their family, their friends, over the holidays and then they'll figure out where they're voting. i think they're looking to crafting aer month specific iowa message for iowa, new hampshire's message for new hampshire. that's about the time it happens. there are not 13 people in this race. there are three or four. and that's a fundamental difference in choice. and i think if, without a doubt, trump is worried about that. he's starting to have to spend money in these states. he knows when it is one-on-one, he's in trouble. >> one other thing i want to ask you about. you spent some time with ron desantis this week. the head of his super pac is now out. he's left that group. the reason this matters is because this super pac had basically taken over a good chunk of what a normal campaign would do. and it seems to signal in addition to the fact that desantis's numbers seem to be moving in the wrong direction. it seems to signal some turmoil in his orbit. does any of that give you pause? >> no. two things. that's a ron desantis super pac thing. ron has a lot of resources. i was on the trail with him and chris and nikki. i went to all their events in the last 48 hours. super pacs tend to have more money. there are typical changes as you move from a more nationalized message to a localized message. to see any sort of shake-up in ron's campaign or super pacs, that's nothing abnormal. >> we've been talking about trump but his comments recently about, you know, vermin and what not, have gotten a lot of scrutiny. this is from peter, a republican who worked in the george w. bush white house. he wrote this in the atlantic today. he said trump is doing two things at once. pushing the narrative that his enemies must be defeated, while dissolving the national inhibitions most people have against hating and harming others. he explicitly says in this piece that trump's rhetoric is fascist. do you think that the former president trump is bending toward fascism? >> when you look at articles like that, that is liberal media doing everything they can to distract -- >> this is a conservative, by the way. there is someone who worked for a republican president. >> there is a national effort to try to distract on the trump stuff or anything any of the republican candidates will say to distract from the massive amount of antisemitism you're seeing out of the democrat party. the massive amount of people calling for a second holocaust. too many people in the media and otherwise not pushing back on that narrative. what we're seeing in our colleges and universities is very real. it is hateful. it is unprecedented. if you told me that you will see this kind of stuff a few years ago, i never would have believed that. so the distraction the try to push away -- >> i take what you're saying about concerns. by the way, a lot of democrats share about what is going on in their party. what is happening on college campuses as it relates to antisemitism. just to clarify, the comments that trump made calling his political opponents vermin. that's what this op-ed, which i should repeat was written by a republican is about. do you think that that is fair game for trump to say? >> absolutely. don't misunderstand me. trump has a whole history here. >> i'm trying to understand. >> equivocating -- trump has a whole history here. it started when he was equivocating white nationalists with there's good people on both sides. everyone knows what the word vermin means in this context, of course. i don't want that to be a distraction. i think we have great candidates on the republican side. i think they're putting up great messaging. >> it's not a distraction. it's not a distraction. he is the front runner. he is polling 20 or 30% ahead of every other person in this race. so it does matter, governor. >> well, yeah, look. it matters in the context of, if trump was the absolute nominee. i don't think he'll be the nominee. i think one of these candidates, i can't even tell hewitt will be. i don't think biden will be on that ticket. i don't think trump will be on that ticket and america will rejoice in both aspects. i appreciate why it is a story but my focus is on galvanizing the republican party. helping these candidates give something to america that everyone can be hopeful and inspired for. i understand that everyone wants to go to the negative side. it is real, tangible, but at the end of the day, my focus on the political aspects is making sure we get a strong winner not named trump in iowa and new hampshire and put this kind of, whether you want to you will today it the white nationalism, the antisemitism, any of that rhetoric which is very real, very harmful. put that in the rear view mirror. >> just to be clear, are you suggesting that that rhetoric is white nationalist, antisemitic? is that what you're suggesting? that rhetoric from trump? >> sure. we've heard that before. i guess, are we surprised? i mean, are we really surprised? >> i'm not surprised. >> that's the way he works. >> the reason i'm asking is because you argue that this was a media fantasy, that we were making up outrage about this. but then proceeded to criticize it. so that's why i wanted to clarify where you stood on this. >> yeah. i think the media uses to it blanket the entire republican party and that's a complete unfair assessment. that's my point. >> we'll leave it there. i think, we'll leave it there but i think you understand this was a question about the front runner of your party and i appreciate you, though, governor sununu, coming on and answering all the questions. thank you. >> you bet. up next, a conversation with the head of the antidefamation league on more antisemitic threats across the country and why he is praising elon musk despite the exowner's checkered history of spreading conspiracies. the power goes out and we still have wifi to do our homework. and that's a good thing? great in my book! who are you? no power? no problem. introducing storm-ready wifi. now you can stay reliably connected through power outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery back-up to keep you online. only from xfinity. home of the xfinity 10g network. tonight in new york, another disturbing incident of antisemitism is under investigation. a synagogue on the upper west side was vandalized after graffiti, including a swastika, was found on the door. it is uncertain when exactly this took place. members of that synagogue staff were those who made the discovery. joining me now is jonathan green ba blatt. great to talk to you tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> i should say, unfortunately, in the wake of a horrible attack like this, an antisemitic attack, we've been talking about this deal that has led to potentially the release of hostages and a temporary cease fire between israel and hamas. do you think there's any hope that perhaps that might take the temperature down? might increase the possibility that this credible surge in antisemitism will level out in this country? >> well, i think that's a great question. a fair question. a very, very hard question. i'm not a geo military strategist. but thinking of getting the hostages home really, really matters, minimizing the loss of life on both sides. this incredibly important. you know, at the same time, i think that the vandalism that happened on the upper west side, the tsunami of tsunami of incidents we've been tracking, 1,400 plus in the 40 days since the initial massacre on october 7th. it's really unprecedented. i do worry about how events in the middle east are triggering attacks on jews at home. acts of violence. we've never seen it so bad. we've never seen it like this where a jewish man was killed in los angeles. people have been assaulted across the country. i saw the prior segment with governor sununu. the issue on college campuses is abhorrent. the level of anxiety is through the roof. >> it really is. we've been talking all week about this. x, formerly known as twitter, is under fire to have an endorsement of the antisemitic replacement theory. major advertisers have, you know, basically left the platform. you came out in defense of musk. why? >> let's step back. indeed, last wednesday, musk retweeted, he responded to a user who posted again this ugly conspiracy theory, blaming jews for immigration, suggesting there was some plot. the oldest antisemitic conspiracy in the books. and again, go back to charlottesville. go back to pittsburgh, to poway. frankly, the shooter in buffalo. many of these people believe this lunatic antisemitic conspiracy theory. and elon responded to it positively, called it the actual truth. and then took a shot at a.d.l. what did i do wednesday night? i criticized him because it was incredibly problematic and dangerous. one of the most prominent citizens on the planet to say there is even a sint scintilla truth. he tweeted out that he would start taking down because it is a violation of service, a decolonization, which with the discussion of college campuses, these are incitements to violence that have been spurred by what's happening in the middle east. i gave him credit where credit was due and i called him out when that was appropriate. i think my job at adl is not to be a congenital critic. not to be some gullible cheerleader. to look at the facts as they happen. to assess them as they happen and call balls and strikes. and that's what we were trying to do. >> i want to lead to from your predecessor who appears to have taken a swipe at you. he tweeted this. no. a acrobatics can justify musk's frequent antisettic theme and provide a major platform for his antisemitism. it's an important point. this is not the first time. we had you on the show about a month ago about a different incident in which he had something that you called ann semitic. so what is your response to the fact go that this is a pattern? >> we've called it out again and again and again when elon has gotten it wrong and we'll give him credit when he got it right. i continue to have hope. you can't do this job of fighting hate if you don't have hope. i try to live by not of cancel culture but culture. i'll try to bring them in and help them get it right. >> do you trust that elon musk is -- this is at the heart of it. he does a couple of things that you like, right? mostly in response to the fact that his advertisers were fleeing. do you trust that there's a fundamental belief that this platform needs to have an actual policy that does not encourage this kind of antisemitism and hate speech across the board? do you trust that? >> well, look, i don't know what his motives are. i don't know if the advertisers are fleeing or not. i don't know what's in his head or even his heart. i have to focus on what actually happens. to an your question, you know, i believe in this ethos of trust by verify. if he tells me he's going to do something, i'm going to hold him accountable. if he gets it wrong, if we don't see him taking down that content, then i'll be the first to call him out. so it is less about do i trust him and it is more about, does he move in the right direction? i want to encourage that if it happens. and then i'll judge him on whether or not there's follow through. that's what we do rather than saying no, never, can't happen. x is too prominent. too big a platform to say we're going to pretend as if it is incor incorrigible. a better, safer, healthier x is better for the jewish community, better for all marginalized communities, better for the world. i hope we can get to that point. >> all right. thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thanks for having me. i appreciate it. happy thanksgiving. >> you, too. that fatal incident today at the canada/u.s. border causing mass panic and leading fox to falsely label this event as terrorism. we'll tell you what happened, next. plus, an exobama administration official arrested on hate crime charges. we'll bring you the details of thisis disturbining case, nenex. s one grocery store will stop at nothing to make sure you save more on the brands you love. starring produce, and...... you... as the super saver, in....bargain bliss bliss, bliss, bliss todd we talked about this. our deals are just so epic. i know, todd. i know. ♪ grocery outlet bargain market tonight we're getting more details about the explosion at a crucial bridge lynch ever linking the u.s. and canada. the fbi saying there is no connection to terrorism in that fiery car crash. that no explosive materials were found at the scene. instead, we're learning that a 2022 bentley two-door coup entered from the u.s. side and quickly accelerated before hitting a curve and going airborne. a resident from western new york was involved in that crash. in the hours before we had a clear picture of what was going on here, it didn't stop one network from linking it to possible terror. >> what i've been told is that this was an attempted terrorist attack. they believe the two people in that car who are now both dead after that large explosion have packed that car full of explosives. as for what types of explosives, we're not sure yet. >> we don't know how long the people who perpetrated this attack have been in this country. did they come into the country legally? did they come across illegally and claim asylum? were they some of the nearly 1 million gotaways who have come into this country? >> remember that most of these terrorist organizations, they're gen-z. if you look at what hamas puts online on tiktok, they're very sophisticated. it could be these people were just inspired. it is pretty easy to figure out how to do this online, unfortunately. >> joining me now for more on this, cnn's oliver darcy. what can you tell us about how long they were reporting this as a terror attack so confidently? and how many people this bad information could have reached? >> yeah. this was irresponsible reporting. this was reckless reporting. by all accounts, it was inaccurate reporting. we now know the governor is saying there was no indication of a terrorist attack. that's not what fox news initially reported and reported for hours. i want to give you a sense of how they reported this early in the afternoon. they sent a push alert to all the mobile phones. people with the mobile app and it said the new york vehicle explosion is an attempted terror attack. they plastered this on the front page of their highly trafficked website. and fox is a very highly rated channel. million of people probably saw this just from fox news alone. and then there is a word of mouth factor so a lot of people were misinformed by this inaccurate report. that's why fox news really owes their audience and everyone else a correction. they have not actually issued a correction. they quietly edited out the huge mistakes in their digital online pieces. the correspondents who did this, she went on air and walked back the reporting while basically blaming her sources, taking no responsibility of her own for this. and that's really what separates, abby, a real credible news organization, one that you can trust, from an outlet that really much credibility these days in reporting facts. when you make a mistake, you're transparent, fox is not doing that. they made a bad mistake and they're really hiding from it. >> and it penetrated even to political figures. people like vivek ram swami. they amplified the claim that this could be terror on social media. that was wrong, too. and it had real impact. >> that was definitely wrong. if you look at vivek's page, all the tweets about the border and possible terror attacks, those are still live on his page. and he's the guy who purports to purport he cares about the truthful why hasn't he clarified this? and fox was talking about islamic terrorism on the air. this was not a small mistake. this was a huge mistake. if it was happening at a serious news organization, if "the new york times" or cnn made this mistake, there would be a huge tauxs people would be suspended or maybe lose their jobs over this. in the right wing information space, there's little accountability for getting a story wrong, even this wrong. >> it just turned out that narrative wasn't true. thank you so much for coming in for us. >> thank you. and a viral video of hate, a former obama official caught on camera haranging a muslim immigrant. he's now under arrest and his legal troubles might not end there. tonight, there has been a hate crime arrest in newark thanks to this viral video. >> i'm looking for signs here that says this guy believes and hamas. >> do you want to buy something? >> i don't. >> why are you here? >> i won't give you a penny of my money. you are a terrorist! you support terrorism. >> no, i don't support anything. >> you support terrorism. >> i am not -- i am just working here. >> you are a terrible person here. >> why do you say this here? >> you killed 4000 palestinian kits. you know why? >> wow, that man who gleefully accosted a food cart vendor, his name is stewart, a former obama national security advisory advisor. he's facing multiple charges connected to these videos. the comments we showed you were pretty terrible on their face. what we aren't showing you, they were even worse. he was haunting this vendor with islamophobic slurs, walking islam and the profit muhammad. this alleged harassment took place over two weeks, two weeks. south of it's confirmed to cnn this is, in fact, him in these videos. he's lost his job at a consulting firm, and drawn condemnation from new york's mayor, and new york's governor as well as the attorney general. next for us, hala versus outs. the rock duo is going to court, but over what? it's anyone's guess. we he search for epic bargains one grocery store will stop at nothing to make sure you save more on the brands you love. starring produce, and...... you... as the super saver, in....bargain bliss bliss, bliss, bliss todd we talked about this. our deals are just so epic. i know, todd. i know. ♪ grocery outlet bargain market ♪ ♪ ♪ one of our worlds greatest partnership scenes to be headed for this kids. hall is