that this front may escalate even further or turn into a full war. the enemy must calculate carefully. >> please understand the clock is ticking. my grandmother has no time. >> we are absolutely focused on getting hostages back. humanitarian pause could help that effort. >> is this the most complicated time of your presidency so far? >> thank you so much. thank you. >> nothing to it? >> john: secretary of state antony blinken back in israel to meet with that country's war cabinet as fears grow president biden may soon turn his back against israel's fight to defeat hamas. all this as just moments ago a rocket lands near foreign journalists in southern israel. trey yingst among them. john roberts in washington. so starts a friday afternoon. >> sandra: sandra smith in new york. in his third visit to israel since the start of the war, blinken telling reporters the u.s. stands in solidarity with israel's right to defend itself. also urged prime minister benjamin netanyahu to halt his ground invasion for humanitarian pause. >> john: netanyahu affirming there will be no pause or ceasefire until hamas releases the hundreds of israeli hostages held captive. >> sandra: and focus to the northern front with lebanon, hezbollah leader spoke to supporters for the first time since the war began. in moments, hear from governor ron desantis and how he would address the threat from hamas if elected president. >> john: fox team coverage from around the globe over the next two hours and breaking news from the war in the middle east. >> sandra: begin with trey yingst, he is live with breaking news on the ground in southern israel for us at this hour. trey, what is the very latest from where you are? >> yeah, hey, sandra, good afternoon. 28 days into this war, hamas and islamic jihad have maintained the ability to fire on major population centers. i want to show you what it was like last hour as a rocket landed just feet from a group of journalists. >> guys, we are just -- we can hear direct impact, a rocket just slammed into the building right next to where we are at. you can see soldiers just arrived on the scene. we saw something coming off the gaza strip, sirens sounded, you have about ten seconds to get to cover here. a little out of breath because we ran straight to cover. something slipped past the israel missile defense system and slammed into the ground. we are not sure what sort of damage was done to the building, i'll let these reporters get out of the way. that's shrapnel and it cut through a car. if it can cut through a car, it can certainly injure and kill people and looks as if it was a mortar. that's -- the damage is significant, i mean, this is a direct hit, that was not intercepted. >> ended up being a small rocket, found the point of impact and the shrapnel spread out, damaging the building but not injuring or killing any of the journalists nearby. i want to show you one piece of that shrapnel here we picked up off the ground. you could imagine it could do serious damage to a person and any building in this area, and a credit to our security team member sean who ran out right after the rocket hit to make sure our colleagues in the industry were not injured. >> sandra: can you put this in the context of the president of the united states, joe biden, urging for this pause for the incursion by israel into gaza so more hostages can get out? >> yeah, sandra, ia great point. you have the biden administration calling for a pause in the fighting, but the rocket fire still continues into southern israel. and there are hamas and islamic jihad fighters inside the strip ambushing the thousands of israeli troops looking to push deeper into the strip to ultimately destroy hamas. so it's easy for hamas to call for a ceasefire after they slaughtered 1400 people. that's what we hear from the israelis. they say there is going to be no ceasefire until our hostages come home, and the words of the israelis here. they are just simply throwing the idea of the ceasefire in the trash. they say there will be no ceasefire, there are 241 people held by hamas inside gaza. the rocket fire continues into southern and central israel as do the ambushes against israeli forces. >> sandra: we will check back in with you shortly. please stay safe. see you again soon. >> john: president biden headed to maine with the first lady to meet with the survivors and families of the victims of last weeks is shooting massacre. at the same time, the president continues his push for a humanitarian pause in gaza. but his administration is resisting official calls for a ceasefire. comes as a new quinnipiac poll shows 84% of voters are worried the united states will be drawn into the conflict in the middle east. david spunt live at the white house for us this afternoon. david. >> hey, john. the president just took off from the south lawn a few moments ago. today is one of those days the commander in chief will serve as the consoler in chief. he met with the leaders of the western hemisphere and asked about gaza. >> message to americans -- [indiscernible] >> the language is very specific here, john. the president and the white house not calling for a ceasefire. he wants a pause, a humanitarian pause so americans can get out of gaza safely. his critics say really what's the difference, including several democrats in congress. white house view. >> a temporary pause, localized, to get aid in and get our people out is a good thing for the people of gaza, good thing for the americans being held hostages, and it's not going to stop israel from defending itself. the security assistance we are providing continues to flow and a temporary pause does not mean a general ceasefire where the war is over, it means pause, only temporary, for a specific purpose. >> right now at least 79 americans have made it out of gaza, john, many others remain stranded. the white house wants this humanitarian pause to get americans out. then the fighting can continue and john, critics are concerned that if there is some sort of pause, then perhaps it will give gaza an advantage, it would give hamas an advantage to perhaps rearm and you see this poll, you brought it up, 43% are very concerned about the united states potentially being drawn in this conflict in the middle east. john. >> john: david spunt for us, 1600 pennsylvania, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: secretary of state antony blinken confirming at least 35 americans have died in israel. a total of 79 u.s. citizens have made it out of gaza, but hundreds more are still trapped. senior national correspondent rich edson is live. >> good afternoon, sandra. secretary of state offered few details about his immediatings and the result of them were with the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, and members of the israeli war cabinet. blinken did say in a press conference after his meetings with those officials that he discussed concrete steps to limit civilian casualties and tangible steps to boost humanitarian aid entering gaza. the secretary says when he sees young palestinian children pulled from the wreckage of buildings, he sees his own children but put it largely on hamas for using palestinians as human shields and says hamas does not care one iota for the welfare of the palestinian people. and blinken says the world must remember the events in israel from less than a month ago. >> it is striking and in some ways shocking that the brutality of the slaughter has receded so quickly in the memories of so many. but not in israel. and not in america. >> on this trip it's up blinken to ask israel for the humanitarian pause to briefly pause its military operations, allow hostages to leave gaza, humanitarian assistance to get in. netanyahu followed his meeting saying israel refuses to halt fighting unless hamas releases hostages and that israel will not allow fuel into gaza. blinken says israel has raised appropriate concerns about hamas, hoarding and siphoning fuel into northern gaza. 100 aid trucks a day are going into gaza and says gaza needs more than that. more americans are scheduled to leave gaza today and in the coming days. part of that agreement the united states brokered with egypt and qatar. on top of that, the secretary will be continuing his travel throughout the region going next to amman, jordan. >> sandra: rich, thank you. >> john: israeli forces say they have taken out a top hamas battalion commander and destroy more hamas tunnels in gaza. it remains to be seen how the troops will fare in the dense streets in the days ahead. general, great to be with you. thanks for joining us. i want to put up on the screen here a map of gaza, northern gaza from general jack keane institute for the study of war. you can see three major israeli defense force battalions have taken up positions basically surrounding gaza city. the one on the top left of the screen appears to be in proximity to al-shifa hospital, believed to be the headquarters of hamas. word from the idf yesterday, general, was that hamas defenses are crumbling but they have yet to get into the city proper. what lies ahead in the days and potentially weeks ahead? >> yeah, hey, john. great to be with you. thank you. that map is illustration, cutting off lines of communication, logistics lines. three dimensional battlefield with high rises, ground level rubble and 200 feet deep tunnels so they are very methodical about this, and trying to strangle the hamas headquarters by cutting off things like fuel and the internet and so forth. and then continuing to encircle them and make them fight in multiple directions and tactically move block to block, clear everything, and as netanyahu said, destroy hamas. that is their goal. so this talk of a ceasefire or operational pause is nonsense. >> john: let me get into that for a second. this is something that the white house at all levels is pushing, john kirby yesterday said it would be a series of temporary pauses, as many as would be necessary to complete whatever mission that the united states was trying to accomplish, or maybe even israel, i don't know from that standpoint when it comes to getting aid in. here is how tal heinrich, spokesperson for prime minister benjamin netanyahu responded to a question about the pause this morning on "america's newsroom." >> we will not have ceasefire, we will not have a ceasefire that serves hamas's goals to rearm and regroup and attack us again and perpetrate another massacre. >> john: if you had a pause of just a few hours, maybe a day, as i think the president and the white house team has been talking about, would that significantly affect military operations for the idf? >> yeah, john, every minute that you pause, that's another minute that hamas has to dig in, resupply, reorganize, you know, so if you are not on offense, you are on defense. if you are not getting ahead, you are getting behind. all of those phrases apply here and they have momentum. in a macro sense, it's very much like the strategic pressure, maximum pressure that we had on iran and this administration eliminated that pressure that gave iran the maneuver to do the support they are doing thesis -- these islamic groups. block by block and continue to just crush and defeat hamas and i think, i don't expect the administration thinks that israel is going to agree to any kind of pause. i think this is all caving domestic politics. they understand michigan, virginia, pennsylvania, north carolina, all battleground states have significant muslim populations, trying have it both ways. >> john: michigan in particular. >> sandra: eric trump returning to the stand wrapping his testimony in the trial against his father and the family business. we are expecting the former president will take the stand first thing monday morning. nate foy is live outside the courthouse here in lower manhattan. what did eric say while leaving the courthouse today, nate? >> well, sandra, eric wrapped up his testimony at about 11:30 and while leaving the courthouse he focused on new york attorney general letitia james, claiming she's using this trial targeting his family and he claims it's a political move for her. listen here. >> she's come after my father ruthlessly. every single day a trump is in this court, guess what, she shows up, it's her press moment and they dragged don and i into it as collateral damage. if you can line up as many trumps as you can, she can send fundraiser emails to her donor base i'm going after trump. >> sandra, attorney general james maintains the trumps fraudulently overvalued properties for financial gain but the trumps say the properties are more valuable than the prices listed in financial statements. eric testified he played a small role, but never his day-to-day properties. they both said they signed statements of financial condition but trusted their accountants to prepare those statements. ivanka trump will testify next wednesday. a state court denied her request to avoid taking the stand. she'll be the last to take the stand. and writing our country is under the highest threat ever and yet all the doj and fbi want to do is go after donald trump and his family. sad. the trial will continue on monday when former president trump himself is set to take the stand. back to you. >> sandra: nate foy, thank you, live in new york city. >> shame. shame. shame. >> john: outrage growing after a video shows a jewish student being harassed by pro palestinian students at harvard university. how the school is responding as jewish students across the united states continue to fear for their safety on their own campuses. >> sandra: plus, florida governor ron desantis rolling out his own middle east policy providing assistance in israel, for israel in the war against hamas. the move has some saying he's neglecting his state and acting as commander in chief instead. so, is this a winning strategy for him? we'll ask him personally. he'll join us in a 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>> yeah, you know, when the attacks happened i knew that this was going to impact florida. we have a very strong relationship with israel. a lot of affinities with our people and theirs, a lot of cross pollination. we have a big israeli american population and found after a day or two is that people stranded, not getting help from the state department or the embassy in jerusalem, i did an executive order in florida and scrambled planes and brought back mostly floridians but not all, other americans were stranded, so we brought back, rescuing over 700 people back to florida and my wife and i were there greeting the first plane, 271 total people but 91 children. so that brings it home that you had families with young children, i had one mother point to her, looked like a 5 or 6-year-old daughter and say to me for the last two nights she said mommy, i can't have the rockets anymore, i need florida, have to get back to florida. and when the planes went back to pick up more people, they brought donated supplies, medical supplies, also things that were donated like kevlar and helmets and things that can be useful as israel defends itself in this war. >> john: when i flew out of israel a couple weeks ago, governor, i took an el al flight to miami and the nature of the population was driven home, a lot of people were very happy to be going back to the united states, a lot of people happy for our coverage of the war. but when it comes down to the idea of military equipment, your critics have said wait a second, this is a job for the federal government. one thing to send kevlar and helmets over there, have you procured weapons or ammunition to be sent there? >> so, what we did, it was not anything the state of florida, so we had people in our state, private citizens who wanted to purchase and donate that type of equipment, ammunition and weapons, and largely for the first responders who typically aren't armed but given hamas is attacking first responders so they felt there was a need. now, we did not make that transport but we worked with actually el al and was able to get that stuff over. that's not anything that florida had, those were all donated pieces of equipment, where philanthropists purchased and probably put a lot of money out for that and then we helped engineer the transport but did not actually transport ourselves. >> sandra: what do you say to those who are accusing you, the head of the democratic party in your party, nikki freed, says you are an absentee governor, acting more like the commander in chief than the governor of florida, saying biden is the commander and chief of the military, not ron desantis, and the same person saying it's a gross breach of norms and potential violation of federal law with the weapons, what do you say to those criticisms? >> we had floridians in distress. i looked to see the hostages held by hamas, we know there are many americans, had we not acted when we did, there may be more americans held hostage. we rescued people who were in distress. my job as governor is looked after the safety and welfare of people in this state. just so happened that very close ally of not only the united states but florida was attacked viciously, and that left a lot of our people in a breach. and they were in a difficult spot. so i think leadership is, if there's a void you step up and fill the void. that's what we did, we did it appropriately, everything we did was working in concert with the government of israel, and i know there are hundreds and hundreds of people that are in florida now that are thankful that we stepped up and led. >> john: anti-israeli sentiments, antisemitism, anti-american sentiments rise, fbi director testified before congress said he is concerned terrorism could raise its ugly head again on american shores. listen to what he said. >> we also cannot and do not discount the possibility that hamas or another foreign terrorist organization may exploit the current conflict to conduct attacks here on our own soil. >> john: we all know well the situation with the southern border and the fact that almost two and a half million people came across it, 900,000 released in the united states, at least 500,000 got-aways. if you were president, what would you be doing about that threat that the fbi director just articulated? >> i would deport those people immediately. do you not think after these last two and a half years our enemies have not taken advantage of the border? of course they have, you guys showed on the graphic i saw all the people on the terrorist watch list in the last year is unbelievable. we would have never allowed that in the aftermath of 9/11. iranians have come, russia, china, so i would be aggressive at sending people back. obviously stopping the invasion further, but it is a threat to terrorism what's happened there. what i would also say, though, and you pointed out, some of these demonstrations. you know, i went to -- i joke, i'm one of the few people that got through harvard and yale and came out more conservative than when i went in, they are known to be left. but students in the aftermath of attack, when the blood was not dry on israeli citizens went out and celebrated. we have seen that. so there is a sickness in these institutions. i've said any foreign student on a visa who is making common cause with hamas, i would cancel the visa and send them home and we have to look inside about how it got to this point in this country where you can go out there and proudly advocate for a second holocaust, it's totally unacceptable. >> sandra: governor, check in on the campaign, ask you how things are going. as an nbc news headline reads trump is aiming to take over desantis base of power in the florida gop. it writes about the republican party in your state that you built is now turning donald trump's way. this is your republican colleague in the senate in florida, rick scott. he says this. i know most of the candidates running for president. make no mistake. every single one of them would be a better president than joe biden. republican voters are making their voices heard loud and clear. they want to return to the leadership of donald trump. to that you say what? >> i must have missed where those voters have actually voted yet. isn't it odd we have not had one contest and there's people that are having a rush to short circuit the people's voice. people have not been able to speak, one of the reasons why we are here in iowa and now in my 85th county out of 99, i'll be the only candidates that does all 99 counties, i can tell you, obviously the former president has support but there's a lot of people that have not made up their mind. there are people leaning to him now who are not -- have not made a final decision and so you are going to start to see as we get in the next couple months and into the new year, you are going to see people make some decisions about ok, what's the pathway for the republican party going forward, and with me they get somebody who will fight for them, which is important, but will also win. win the election but win the fights and then lead this country to a comeback, that's what we did in florida, we were able to create huge success, we are continuing, they just had the figures this week. we led again in migration, 2022, massive numbers of people are flocking because of what we have been able to do. that's the type of leadership to work nationally, and the model republicans need to gravitate toward if we want to win. >> john: you are almost on the full grassley tour of all 99 counties in iowa, but trump is 27 points ahead at 43. you are now tied with nikki haley at 16. the next contest, new hampshire, trump is ahead 30. he's at 49, you are at 10, and south carolina, trump ahead by 31 points, 53, haley 22, you are at 11. i know that nobody has voted yet in the first contests, but that ground rush as you know if you've jumped out of an airplane is coming up fast toward that first iowa caucus. time is running out here. >> well, you looked at the iowa caucus polls the last few times. whoever is winning in the polls did not win the iowa caucus. so, this thing is very dynamic, it just is getting underway where people are starting to pay attention. donald trump is the most famous person in politics, a great name i.d., a lot of media coverage. as a default you can understand that. a lot of voters up for grabs and we are going to make it happen and the hard work we have put in going to a lot of the rural counties, it's not something that would necessarily show up in polls. that's something that shows up on caucus night when people bring friends and family and come out and are willing to go through very cold temperatures to stand for what, 2, 3 hours potentially through a caucus, and listen to the speeches and do all that. so, that's what we are doing. we are doing what it takes to win. and we are going to get the job done, notwithstanding whatever polls this far out would say. >> sandra: governor, we'll let you get back to what you are doing. final question, when you look at the lead still that donald trump has in the polls, people look at you and say what is a realistic pathway for you to become the nominee. what is it, what's going to change in the next few months? how do you do it? >> well, look, if you want to take that one poll, we see it a little bit different than that, but that poll said that i have the highest percentage of iowans that it would consider voting for me, even higher than trump and i have the highest favorability on anybody running, including donald trump. so, that's a big reservoir of good will that we can pull from by working to make the case about why we should be the 47th president of the united states. you know, these things are dynamic. i get there is definite an interest and narrative saying people shouldn't be able to vote -- i think people in the early states think it's off base as well. >> john: favorability does reflect intensity and intensity is what it's all about. thank you for joining us, appreciate it. >> appreciate it. >> john: see you soon. we are going to go to mike tobin, who is in southern israel right now. the news in the last hour is that there was an explosion outside of the al-shifa hospital in gaza city, which is taken to be the headquarters for hamas. hamas was saying that an ambulance was hit, several people were killed, many others are injured. mike tobin, break it down for us. we know that hamas likes to play things for their biggest dramatic impact. what do we know about that explosion and who might have been a casualty of it. >> well, this story has already caught fire on social media and it's out on the arab channels, and just as you said, explosion in front of the al-shifa hospital, involving a couple of ambulances. claim right now, 15 people are dead. however, defense source in the israeli defense forces is saying what that ambulance was was, in fact, a mobile unit being used by hamas. he said it was filled with fighters, he used the word terrorists but said they are using the ambulances as mobile units and you talk about how much they play the p.r. game. they fight from the ambulance and the counter fire comes back in they can say look, they are shooting at the ambulance. and the p.r. game is inflammatory, a couple weeks ago when there was a strike outside of a hospital in the gaza strip, that caught fire long before anyone learned the facts. israel is saying it was being used as a mobile unit and that's why it was targeted, john. >> john: mike tobin in southern israel with the latest on that. mike, thank you. >> sandra: anti-israel protestors shouting at a jewish student on the harvard campus. one example of antisemitism surging at college campuses coast to coast. charlie hurt on how tiktok may be playing a role in the rise of antisemitism. but first, c.b. cotton has the latest on what's happening at the universities. is harvard doing anything about this and those students? >> sandra, i can tell you campus police are investigating but an fbi is ongoing. still, there are more calls for accountability. this week more than two dozen major law firms sending this letter to deans of elite law schools sharing concern of antisemitism and warning students won't be recruited from places where it's tolerated. now, this letter coming on the heels of a video surfacing this week which appears to show a harvard jewish student cornered on campus during a pro palestinian rally. you can see him surrounded by more than half a dozen demonstrators holding carves blocking his view and movements while shouting shame over and over. the student paperis says it started when the jewish student began filming people. the dean of harvard's business school calling the confrontation troubling. the harvard president last month deannounced antisemitism on campus during a shabbat dinner and advisory board. they say jewish americans feel defeated. >> i think that jews in this country, in this moment, are feeling deep anguish, deep anguish at this attack by a terrorist entity on october 7th. but also deep anguish about the moral failure that has happened in this country. the inability to call out this savagery and butchery for what it is, extremist act that needs to be condemned. >> you'll remember more than 30 student groups at harvard faced swift backlash after releasing a joint statement placing sole blame on israel for the surprise hamas attack. sandra. >> sandra: something we are watching very closely. c.b., thank you. >> john: for more on this, charlie hurt, opinion editor for washington times and fox news contributor. let's rerun the video at harvard and also a pov from the jewish student as well, but harvard is running into problems. says one of the students is an editor at the harvard law review and should be booted from the campus, how are the students not immediately suspended, how would harvard respond if the student were black, latino, or lgbtq ia, how does this man remain editor of the harvard law review. ackman says he is pro palestinian, as well as pro israel, he's anti-terrorist. what kind of problem do the ivy league colleges have on their hands if this is going on? >> it's a real problem, john, obviously, and interesting the degree to which the universities has been exposed by all of this, because what you have -- the only way around this, the only way you fix a problem like this is you have to have people not just bill ackman, but you have to have university leaders and it's not just now, not just in the heat of a raging debate like this, but at all times to stand up and take a principled position about the way you have debates and you have to set the parameters of the debates where you have people talking about things that are real, and that things that are true. and you know, we talk about like social media these days is where a lot of people get their information from, and that's a whole pandora's box, obviously, the brave new world, total, and some good things about that and also some really bad things and the example where there was a report on facebook that went out showing that the idf claimed responsibility for bombing the hospital in israel, which in gaza, which did not happen, completely false, and the post was not real. well, in a moment like that, you have to be able to rely on serious people like the media to adjudicate it and say no, this is what happened. but what did we get out of the "new york times"? the "new york times" reported the same thing, and it was just as false and so what you have to have in this sort of brave new world is universities and the "new york times" to do what we at fox news and the "washington times" we kill ourselves to try to get right every single day. you have to have people who are telling the truth so that people who can believe what you are telling, and if you just have the social media and just have universities saying oh, well, whatever anybody says could be the truth. well, this is what happens. >> john: i was in our jerusalem bureau when the explosion happened at the hospital there in gaza, and so many people were said were killed by hamas, and reaction by the bureau, before we report anything about this, we can say there was an explosion but let's find out some of what happened, and i went on the air and said we know the idf has drones over the area, 24/7, intelligence gathering abilities. before we say one word about who might have been responsible for this, let's listen to all sides and try to figure this out. but one of the problems is, and you alluded to this, a lot of the gen zers are using tiktok as their major source of information. more young women of gen z use tiktok than use google to find out information and so much of that information that's on tiktok is tainted. >> yeah, and of course, that can be depressing to us, but it's a fact of life, and that's where, you know, i think again, the responsibility comes in for, say, the "new york times," or other news people or even since we are talking about tiktok, let's talk about celebrities. celebrities who have huge followings should take a responsibility and we are seeing some of them, you know, with comedian amy schumer, who is a staunch defender of israel, who is obviously realizes the problem here. they need to stand up and say wait a minute, this stuff is not true. you can't be, you know, it can't be -- everybody can't be -- you can't treat all information as equal if you have that responsibility of a large following and you want like good things to end up happening and i love your example of you being in the bureau there, it's because you are a news guy. there is an explosion that goes off, and first of all, explosion went off but second, i don't believe anybody. i think everybody is lying, i'm going to get the facts and in too many cases, whether it's universities or "new york times" or celebrities on tiktok, they just go with the emotion and like eh, whatever, and they don't care or they are too invested in their world view that they don't recognize the enormous damage that is being done to our country and the world because of that. >> john: hamas said one thing and then mark regev came on and said we don't intentionally target hospitals, ok, maybe this was an accident, and as the information came in over the hours and days ensuing, we learn more and more about the possible origin of this. charlie, always great to spend time with you. have a good weekend. >> great to see you. >> sandra: and good to see charlie. divide between democrats over the israel hamas war growing on capitol hill. will politics get in the way of america supporting its strongest ally in the middle east? 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>> sandra, the job creation is at a record high. let's just look at some basic facts. since the president has come into office almost 14 million jobs created. 70% of those are jobs that were recovered -- >> sandra: i try not to interrupt, but created a very interesting word. can you tell me what specific policy under this president created those jobs? >> yes, i actually can. the american rescue plan, which put in money into infrastructure and into helping people stay employed and small businesses, the infrastructure bill which has led to a boom in construction jobs, chip -- and i'm acknowledging -- sandra -- >> sandra: a lot of that was a rebound from the covid pandemic. >> 70% of the jobs were recovered from the covid pandemic. i'm acknowledging that. but recovered in two years because of the america rescue plan. give the president credit for the crea augs of new jobs and the recovery and the policy of the american rescue plan, chips act, infrastructure, inflation reduction act. 4% unemployment used to be considered full employment in this country. the inflation in this country at 3.7% is less than inflation anywhere else in the world. >> sandra: ok, a lot i want to get to. i don't mean to interrupt. my question was how would you characterize the economy today? >> i think the job creation is strong but still have prices that are too high. the issue of prices is we need, rents are too high, childcare is too high. let's look at what this president has done. he capped the price of insulin. we want to cap more prescription drugs. where are the republicans. this president wanted to make sure that we build more housing and made sure that rents were coming down. republicans opposed it. this president wants to make the costs come down on childcare, republicans opposed it. so this president understands that costs are too high and i guess that's a question, sandra, a choice in this election. no one -- it's not enough to say prices are too high, yes, prices are too high, inflation is too high. the republican plan, by their own admission, is we want tax breaks for the wealthy. the democratic plan is we want to cut the cost of childcare, medicare -- >> sandra: i just asked you, is this a great economy, a bad economy? >> i'm saying job creation is strong. and i am, job creation is strong but prices are too high. >> sandra: ok, so you acknowledged that, i got it. the president likes to talk about wages, and he and his administration say wages are up. well, we pulled from the brain room real wage growth when you account for the high prices you say you are concerned about. real average hourly earnings since this president took office are down, down 3.16%. and while you are touting the policies that you say contributed to job creation in this country, at the same time we are seeing a federal reserve that's having to hike interest rates to unprecedented levels to try to tackle the inflation from all that government involvement and spending. u.s. interest rates, you look at the u.s. mortgage rate in the country, the highest it's been since 2002. wells fargo is talking about an impending housing recession in this country. so, while the administration still seems to tell people that things are going great with the american economy, i was simply asking how you would characterize the economy today. >> like i said, the job creation is strong but we need more wage growth. the reason wages is stuck is because of the policies for the last 40 years, offshored our production, manufacturing, hollowed out the working class and this was because of the tax breaks to millionaires that reagan, bush and trump had and basically sending jobs to china and mexico. this president is saying let's bring those jobs back, bring manufacturing back. sean fane got record wage increases because of unions on the uaw strike. the question is, do we need more to increase wages, yes, but don't need more trickle down economics that only helps the rich. >> sandra: ok. i'll leave that there. meanwhile, hillary vaughn took to capitol hill to ask democrats those that would not support this resolution to condemn antisemitism, which is on the rise across this country, especially on college campuses. why there were some who would not support it. listen. >> congresswoman, could i ask you quickly, why couldn't you condemn antisemitism? >> i do, i do every day. every single day. >> why didn't you vote for the resolution to condemn antisemitism on college campuses. >> i didn't agree with the resolution, we are fighting to end antisemitism in all its forms. >> why can't you condemn antisemitism on college campuses? >> i condemn it and islamophobia and hate repeatedly. >> sandra: 22 total house democrats who have called for a ceasefire, you are not one of them, but why did some of your clo -- colleagues have a problem with this from the october 7th attack? >> i voted for the resolution to condemn antisemitism, and i stand against it in any form or islamophobia. some people thought it was a free speech issue. thomas massey, he thought the resolution was overbroad implicating the first amendment and i disagreed with that, i voted for the resolution, but my sense is some people voted on first amendment principles. >> sandra: congressman, you are always a good sport. thank you for joining us. appreciate your time today. >> appreciate it. >> john: he is a good sport. fighting in gaza, idf says it has killed a top hamas commander and attacks against the infrastructure are successful. just ahead, hear from an idf spokesperson on the unique challenges that israel faces trying to take out hamas. >> sandra: police it's almost a month since the terrorist group attacked, but brutality goes back decades. history of hamas. this is a hot flash. but this is a not flash. ♪ i got a good feeling ♪ there's big news for women going through menopause. veozah - a prescription treatment for moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms - the medical name for hot flashes and night sweats. with hormone-free veozah, you can have fewer hot flashes, and more not flashes. veozah is proven to reduce the number and severity of hot flashes, day and night. for some women, it can start working in as early as one week. don't use veozah if you have cirrhosis, severe kidney problems, kidney failure, or take cyp1a2 inhibitors. increased liver blood test values may occur. your doctor will check them before and during treatment. most common side effects include stomach pain, diarrhea, difficulty sleeping, back pain, and hot flashes. ♪ i got a good feeling ♪ ask your doctor about hormone-free veozah and enjoy more not flashes. this is spring semester at fairfield-suisun unified. they switched to google tools for education because there's never been a reported ransomware attack on a chromebook. now they're focused on learning knowing that their data is secure. 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