house judiciary committee pressing him on his five-year investigation into hunter biden and his overseas business interests and we'll have more on that straight ahead. but first. election day in america. you might not have one but there are elections happening in several states and several high-stakes races we're watching including virginia where every state, senate and house seat is up for grabs. republicans are looking to take full control of the legislature and implement a conservative agenda fully. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. a busy hour. >> bill: yes, it is. i'm bill hemmer, good morning at home. we're watching a number of other critical contests. voters in ohio will decide whether or not the right to abortion should be enshrined in the state constitution. a high-stakes gubernatorial race in kentucky. governor beshear the democrat is fighting to keep his seat there. >> dana: virginia is being seen as a big test for governor youngkin. he tries to flip the state back to red. >> we see a real chance to get virginia into overdrive in a state that was lost just 24 months ago, all blue, has taken a right turn. we have to finish the work today by holding the house and flipping the senate. [cheers and applause] . >> bill: we have live coverage now. bret baier joins us with analysis in a moment on a democratic party that appears to be in disarray. first bryan llenas is in miami where presidential candidates are looking ahead to 2024 already. here we go. bryan, good morning to you as we begin a new hour. hello. >> bill and dana, good morning. the trump campaign says iowa governor kim reynolds endorsement of ron desantis quote won't make a difference comparing it to a hail mary pass at the end of a game. last night at a rally in des moines, iowa reynolds endorsed desandt and took a shot at former president trump. >> we need someone to put this country first and not himself. someone who most importantly can win. and that person is ron desantis. [cheers and applause] >> reynolds says she does not think trump can win a general election. she says the last time she spoke to trump was when he called asking her for an endorsement. the former president has a 27-point lead in iowa according to the latest demoines register poll. desantis and haley are tied for second. >> i think much more fluidity than what some of the national media wants to do. i think the people on the ground here see that there is a lot of people who just have not made a final decision. >> haley has risen as a real challenger in the fox news power rankings. in a new memo this morning the desantis campaign is specifically calling on haley drop out of the race calling them spoilers that will increase the odds trump wins the nomination. other candidates are really targeting her as well ahead of wednesday's debate in miami. senator tim scott calling her too moderate. vivek ramaswamy says haley will start world war iii. the biden/harris campaign is having a press conference on maga extremism coming after the new polls show that trump would easily beat biden in a rematch in 2024 and fresh calls from democrats for biden to not run for re-election. >> bill: thanks, bryan. a lot to chew on there. thanks in miami. >> dana: let's look at the democrat side of things. headlines sounding alarm bells over president biden's re-election chances. it reads joe biden is in trouble. let's bring in bret baier, anchor of "special report." what's the buzz in washington, d.c. about the biden campaign chances? >> good morning. it's five alarm fire in democratic circles. it is not just a whisper, it is now a full on conversation that is happening and it's not just "the new york times" poll, other polls have tracked that. inside "the new york times" poll is tough numbers for the president. one african-americans, black community going to the former president head-to-head to 22%. that's a big number for any republican. and then you look at who thinks president biden is too old? 77%. >> bill: that's daunting. you wonder what the fed does over the next 12 months? if there is a chance in the next quarter they start lowering rates, maybe the stock market gets more juice and the economic picture changes over the next six months. le. when you look at the numbers economy double digit for republicans. a year out from the 2022 mid-terms when every major outlet predicted a grim forecast for president biden. the red wave wasn't a giant tsunami. you can gauge by the amount of media reports that gave it the treatment prior to the vote. so now you've got this question. >> today will tell us something. today will tell us something because of the abortion stuff. >> bill: karl was with us last hour. we were trying to figure out if biden steps away, what does kamala harris do? it's not like you are just interchanging one candidate for another. this would be another tsunami, if you allow me, within the democratic party. i don't know how you see that. >> first of all on the first point, we'll find out today if the abortion question is really going to be as powerful as it was in 2022. that's one thing that some of these states that comes up, ohio, virginia because of glenn youngkin and what he wants to do with 15 weeks. but to your bigger question, what is the path for president biden and vice president kamala harris? if you are talking about a full change, that has to happen fairly quickly, otherwise you have to have a brokered convention, democrats have the mechanics to do that. they have super delegates and a lot more behind the scenes organization than republicans do on that front. you are talking about a major, major sea change happening in just a few months. >> dana: "new york times" poll showed trump leading in 5 of 6 battleground states and even though i know that biden campaign says our fundamentals are strong and obama was this far behind, when you have someone like david axelrod, who was obama's senior advisor. in a lot of ways people imagine he probably still in some ways speaks for obama. not directly necessarily but if you are a democrat and you see david axelrod saying that, it has to give you pause. i wonder about that in terms of their ability to fundraise? >> yeah, listen, david axelrod has been critical of joe biden before. he was critical of him when he was vice president. he was critical of him when he was in the debates. one time calling him mr. magoo but he speaks from a place of prominence inside obama land. when he says that, it means something. i think you are seeing more and more democratic pundits saying something similar. when you have somebody say there is no path forward for president biden, i think that's a little aggressive right now where we are. but they are in trouble and they know it and they will start really trying to dig out. >> bill: one last point, bret. the biden family goes to nantucket every thanksgiving when they have the family conversation about the future. i think for the sake of this conversation, i believe biden is going to run. that's my feeling today and i want to get a gut reaction from you on that. >> i think i agree with you, bill. if i had to do my own day at the casino i would put 70/30 on biden running. the fear is in his mind that he is the only one that can beat donald trump and he believes if he steps aside someone further to the left maybe comes into that spot. i don't know. >> dana: i'm giggling a little bit because i have a wager with jess watters on the five about thanksgiving, the bidens and the week after. >> bill: everyone is playing casino. >> dana: more to be discussed. see you on "the five" as well. >> bill: thank you, bret. [gunfire] >> bill: that right there is some of the latest action in the gaza strip. this hour israeli forces getting ready to enter gaza city in gaza after encircling the capital. they rooted out an extensive network of underground tunnels. mike tobin brings us more information as the sun sets. >> one of the remarkable things we see is rocket fire coming out of gaza happens on a schedule. it happens right at the top of the hour. we just saw that as we hit the 5:00 hour here, barrage went north in the direction of tel aviv. here we are one month into the war, is lease are engaged in come bass. gaza city itself is surrounded. the kind of combat we're seeing is that the israelis are taking ott structures sometimes with explosives or heavy equipment. the big shovels and d-nine bulldozers. weapons they're seizing range from rockets to guns and something we haven't seen in action for a while, some 400 bomb belts. the bombs for the suicide bombers. meantime in the town behind me, the soldiers are locating tunnels. the entrances of the tunnels oftentimes protected by houses, israelis will take out the house and blow up the entrance to the tunnels. you have hundreds of thousands i guess i should say of palestinian civilians trying to evacuate from the north of gaza strip to the south of the gaza strip. 2,000 on sunday, 5,000 yesterday. something remarkable we saw today. they emerged from homes waving the white flag of surrender as they went south using donkey carts or on foot. they have tales passing dead bodies on the road. israeli armor and passing live fire. when they get to towns in the middle of the gaza strip below the evacuation line, the u.n. agency that deals with the palestinians says their shelters are overwhelmed now with more than a half million people staying in shelters. the evacuees are left to sleep on the street. bill. back to you. >> bill: thanks. southern israel. we're now on day one of the second month of this war. thank you, mike. nice to sigh. dana. >> dana: back in this country. in indianapolis a woman rammed her car into what she thought was a jewish school. she drove into a building used by an anti-semitic group. casey steel has more. >> she is scheduled to make her first court appearance tomorrow. she has been charged with criminal recklessness after she allegedly backed her vehicle if into what she thought was a jewish school last friday because of signage on the exterior that included a star of david. turns out the building is used by an extreme sect of the black hebrew israelites which the southern poverty law center identifies as a hate group. the anti-defamation league says they are anti-israel and anti-semitic. they told police she was watching coverage of the israel/hamas war on television and decided to plan an attack on the building. court documents show the woman openly and verbally admitted to committing the hate crime on her courtesy phone call from jail. there were people inside the building at the time of the crash but no injuries. the indianapolis jewish community relations council released a statement which reads in part i'm quoting here, although a jewish facility was not targeted solely due to an ironic misidentification, this is another reminder to maintain security protocols, remain vigilant of suspicious activity, and to report same promptly to the appropriate authorities. police there in indianapolis have asked the f.b.i. to assist with the investigation. dana. >> dana: casey stiegel, thank you. >> our system is being exploited by cartels and people from around the world are answering ads that are on tiktok and messaging services saying i can get you into the united states if you pay me enough money. >> bill: that's a scary thought. oklahoma senator james langford there. security concerns growing over a shocking surge in known gotaways at the southern border. could terrorists be among them? >> dana: former president trump takes the stand in the sieve fraud lawsuit against him in new york 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judge, why not take it to a jury? based on new york law, make sure i got this right, a consumer protection statute that denies the right to a jury, correct? that's why it's before a judge, is that correct? you don't need to applaud. >> that's accurate. >> bill: if that's the case and you this i the judge already pre-ordained his verdict before -- >> we don't think, we know. >> bill: even before witnesses took the stand you'll be found guilty on behalf of the judge. what happens on appeal? do you go before another judge or is that the point by which you could have a seated jury in a city that voted 8-1 democrats? >> there are so many things to unpack. number one if we had a jury who is to say it would matter in new york. i've tried cases for the president in new york in front of juries and it doesn't matter. you are right, we don't have the option. it is equitable relief. another reason we didn't have the option, this liability was pre-determined through a motion before the trial. he found us summarily liable said we committed fraud, the trump organization and defendants committed fraud on their statement of financial condition because they were too low. in many instances they were undervalued. it didn't matter. this judge didn't hear an expert or nothing. what we're doing is making a record. there is no question whatever happens here liability has been found. we are in a damages trial and a waste of money. he likes the show. we can see, letitia likes the camera. >> letitia games is the attorney general in new york. >> unfortunately. we're continuing our record and take it on appeal to a bench of panel of judges. and the appellate division i would like to think is more fair. >> bill: a bank of judges. is that 3, 6, 9, what is it? >> usually three, the panel changes. >> dana: so how quickly could that happen? >> we've been in the appellate division and won there on some instances. ivanka trump testifying tomorrow is technically not in this case and the judge was told that the statute of limitations needed to be a reasonable statute of limitation else but he is ignoring it and allowing evidence in from as far back as 2011, imagine. there is a real disregard for authority here and a real primary focus on politics. that's what we're seeing in the courtroom. >> bill: so there was -- we read the transcript. we were live on the air yesterday. i found it fascinating the back and forth and what the former president said is you ruled me to be a fraud before you even met me or heard my story. the judge said at one point i'm not here to hear what he has to say. how do you use that effectively when you get before the next bank of judges? >> i won't give you our strategy. when i said to him you need to let my client finish speaking he was cutting him off every time there was good testimony and testimony that explained how ridiculous this is. you have to understand, real estate is not simple. real estate is complicated. this is the real estate icon. who is bigger than donald trump? and you sit there and trying to challenge him it is not going to work. he will explain it to you. he didn't like the explanations. he was cutting him off. i said your honor, you knowed to let him speak. let my client speak and the judge said i'm not here to hear him speak. okay, it's on the record. as a lawyer you have strategy and you take things, those i'll keep to myself. we'll proceed as we should. >> dana: listening to one of our employees here who was in the courtroom yesterday and she used to work at d.o.j. one of the things she said that is pretty unusual letitia james is in the courtroom sitting in the back as if there is nothing else on her docket she needs to worry about. >> that's accurate. she is only there more importantly and more tellingly on the days there is heavy press. she doesn't come to court every day. she is frankly never put a statement on the record in court. i'm not really sure if she practices. but she definitely manages her p.r. and not very well if i may say. that's what she is doing. >> bill: ivanka trump is on the stand tomorrow and your turn by the end of the week. >> courts are closed friday for veterans day. thursday we'll be making our motions relating to some biases we've seen in the courtroom. some biases we've seen and haven't been able -- >> bill: how much of your hand will you show next week or will you save it for the appeal? >> i think thursday we'll show a lot. we have to make a record. a big motion day where we'll outline how there is no case and how there should be a mistrial and directed verdict and moving on from there we'll be able to put our case in chief on. everybody needs to remember this has been just their case and we haven't been cross examining thoroughly or doing any questions of the witnesses because we look forward to putting our case on. that will be -- >> bill: the next case is after this. >> carroll, january 6th. we have so many. >> bill: we'll get a flow chart together. >> don't worry, i have one. >> dana: great to have you. >> thanks. >> dana: house judiciary committee darrell issa spoke to us about special counsel david weiss answering questions in a closed-door interview about his investigation into hunter which has taken five years. david spunt live in d.c. with the latest. hi, david. >> hi, i asked him if he had comment in the hallway. he smiled and ignored as he walked into the room. this is unprecedented to see a special counsel neck deep in an investigation involving a sitting president's son to sit before members of congress and answer questions. for house republicans, this in some way could be considered a super bowl looking to get him for weeks. we saw weiss inside the building. he had no comment. they can ask him anything about the five-year probe into hunter biden. don't expect him to answer many of those questions. in fact, the purpose of the visit today is to only talk about his authority and the authority he has claimed to have over the probe from the start. i.r.s. whistleblower shapley testified that weiss complained he was being told he could not charge the president's son in washington, d.c. and california because of politics. weiss has said that's not true and is expected to do the same today. eight others told congress the same. a spokesperson for weiss telling fox news mr. weiss is prepared to take this unprecedented step of testifying before the conclusion of his investigation to make clear that he has had and continues to have full authority over his investigation and to bring charges in any jurisdiction. dana, d.o.j. officials told house republicans they had one opportunity to interview david weiss. they could do it in public or private. they chose to interview him behind closed doors for a transcribed interview and that's what we see today. several d.o.j. sources say top brass preferred weiss to testify in public in front of cameras. why? that way there is no spin and public can see that weiss and attorney general have nothing to hide. this coming from d.o.j. in addition to the gun charges making their way through federal court involving david weiss says he plans to file tax crime charges against the president's son in either washington, d.c. or california where he currently lives. >> dana: david spunt, thanks for the update. >> bill: also on capitol hill this remarkable moment is now unfolding. the speaker of the house mike johnson out of louisiana. he is introducing four family members who have hostages in gaza being held by hamas. we want to drop in here and listen. >> they are inseparable and young people traveling the world. they were abducted from their homes. i would ask them to come forward and we'll start with you. if you want to speak for a moment we invite you to do so. >> i'm doris. i am an american citizen. i was actually born in queens, new york. just say a few words about my son. i can go on and on but guy is 26 years old, very sensitive boy, humble, a musician with a great future. works with the best, famous rock bands in israel as a sound technician and back liner. i will take you back to that day. it was actually a holiday and i haven't seen guy for a long time since he always works on weekends but since it was a holiday, he came over, i made him a nice dinner, which he hardly ate because he was on phones. he was going to the festival. guy is like the glue of the tribe, all the friends were always at home, music and he was doing all his calls and they drove five packed cars to the south to this peace festival. and i was happy because, you know, he works so hard so he is entitled to fun. and all was fine. the following morning there was a siren. i just went to the safe room, which is actually guy's room, crawled in his bed, didn't even open up the news and -- but still i couldn't go back to sleep so i called him. and he answers. he is like hyped. i'm thinking it is from the party, early in the morning, and i asked him did the forces evacuate you because there was a siren? he says we were evacuated. we evacuated ourselves. okay. and i asked him okay, where are you driving and he says i don't know yet. i said what do you mean you don't know yet? he said i know exactly where i'm coming. i'm coming home. i said why are you coming home in the morning? he lives in tel aviv. it is another half hour drive to my home so he says i'm coming to the soup that i didn't eat yesterday. which is also odd but i don't care. come, drive safely. then i get another call from his father, he is hysterical and he is yelling and saying do you know where guy is? i said i know where guy is. he is coming home and will be here in a half hour. he says no, he just called and he is in a terror attack. and his best friend is killed. that's what he said on the phone. and he tries to put me on the conference call and i hook up and we hear shots in the background. he actually called an emergency call since he was shot in the arm and he wasn't able to stop the bleeding. and he was trying to say his last words. he actually said i want to say my last words. we aren't going to survive it. nobody survived it. everybody is killed. and his father is just saying don't talk. if you can find dead bodies, try and just crawl under a dead body so they don't notice and so he says no, it is an open area. his father doesn't let him speak. he says don't talk, don't let them hear you. and i tried to, you know, tell him guy, i love you. don't worry, nothing is going to happen. i will call now. i am going to send somebody now to get you. and that's what i did. i hung up and i regret that, since i didn't hear from him since. his father drove immediately to that place but it was already closed by the police. no entry. and the next few hours were like crazy, nobody knew anything. this continues on for the next few days, nobody knows anything. it is like we don't know if he is killed, if -- nobody even knew about it's only the next day that it spread out that there were hostages. for a week or so i was just waiting to get a message that he was identified. but we didn't get that. you know, lucky me. what we did get was on i think it was al-jazeera of a hamas guy with -- saying that guy was killed by israeli bombing. that's the point i break down, of course. but i actually get an imme immediate call from the military and they came over and they say look, don't pay attention to these whatever, whatever the hamas says, but the good news is that he is a hostage. and this goes on. this goes on, these mind games. i get a call not even a week ago somebody calling me saying this is a confidential call, you cannot say anything about this call. we are now taking care of guy's case. he is going to be put on the top of the list and he is going to be freed. you need to send me all his info, his passport, his i.d., whatever you have, tattoos, whatever, and i just, you know, send anything i can and then there is another siren and i run to the safe room and it was like crazy. i didn't know what to do but i did call the military, my connection and she says -- i don't tell her because i'm afraid that his chances, they did play with my mind and i was saying look, i can't tell you about the call. they told me it is confidential. i can't tell you. so she convinces me just to give the phone number of this lady that called and yeah, it's mind games. and it is just going on and on. i'm here because it's been 30 days, every day is like eternity to me and i can't wait any longer because i know that he was shot. i know -- i don't know anything. maybe everything is -- we don't have a list of the hostages. we don't know their condition. i don't have anything. so i need your help basically. i'm part of your people, you are part of israel, and america has been like the best allies and i am so proud of being an american, being an israeli as well. but i do need you now because there is nothing helping me now. i pray, which i didn't do before, but just please help me. one other thing if i can. i just forgot. this is guy. okay? his best friend is a hostage, too. his best friend. that's it. thank you for the opportunity. >> thank you. we pray for both of them and thank you for sharing your story. would you two like to speak? >> hello, everyone. thank you for having us. my name this is my brother. we used to live in kibbutz for 30 years and i live with my wife and my 3-year-old daughter. my parents live in the same kibbutz. a couple houses from me. they live in part of the kibbutz and our brother was kidnapped from his house in the same kibbutz. that saturday my wife wake me up to the sound of the alarms and the missiles. as we were off to the safe room i managed to grab my birthday cake of my daughter and some water. and we lock our selves in the safe room. they are in the kibbutz and they called them up to take the guns and fight and in that point we realized we were under attack. so i left the safe room. i told my wife to be with my daughter and i told her that i will guard the door. as soon as we locked the safe room we start to get messages from all around the kibbutz that terrorists go inside houses and start killing people. families, babies. around 10:00, my younger brother wrote me a message that the terrorists went inside his house. he send me a heart emoji and that's the last time we spoke. for the rest of the time in the safe room we've been in an absolute nightmare. i can't stress and you can't imagine what it feels like to be in the safe room with your seven month pregnant wife, with your 2-year-old daughter, when you hear all your friends being slaughtered inside their beds. when you hear all the terrorists going inside the kibbutz, inside civilians' houses and wiped out fam families. we are a family business, he was a great guy. we do everything together, the three of us. we miss him a lot. but now this is a call for action. there have been 32 days now and hamas -- let me remind you -- they butchered our families. they raped our women. they beheaded our babies. and they burned us alive. this is an organization that take and kidnapped children, 9-month-old, 3-year-old children. they kidnapped elderly women and men that are sick. this barbarian organization kidnapped 240 plus civilians. and every day now it's -- you never know what they can do to them. i want to thank everyone here for having us, for the american government that helps us. but it is not enough. we need help now. we don't know what is their condition. this is a call for action and this is a wake-up call not only for israel, not only for the jewish community, this is a wake-up call for all of you here, all of america, all of europe. you are next. you are next. and we should do everything that we can to stop these atrocities to come ever again. we need to remember the 7th of october and do whatever we can to stop this. thank you again. >> the family's time is very short but i wanted to ask if you would like to speak briefly and share your story as well. welcome. >> hello, everyone. i'm leon and october on 7th my life stopped when my two younger brothers were kidnapped. i am also from a kibbutz on the border of the gaza strip. my whole family is living there. my father, my mother, my second brother and my twin brothers. they were in a certain age that all their life was ahead of them, 26, without any obligation. they worked, that he partied, that i cheered for their favorite football team and traveled around the world as a family, with friends. and on october 7th they were kidnapped from their own beds in the safe rooms. sorry. this is difficult. we are pleading with you, the world, to help us, to speak with hamas. we have no clue what has happened to them. we only know that they are in gaza. we don't know if they are injured, if they are together, if they are still alive. for 31 days, for a whole month, my community was butchered. we've been to more funerals in a week than i've been in my entire life. ten days after the october 7th the military came to us and told us that both of them are kidnapped. it has been too long, too long for us to not know anything. to not hear anything. to know that the red cross hasn't entered the sick, the injured, that the western world hasn't heard anything from the terrorist organization hamas, who act like isis. i want to thank you all for having us here, for giving us a voice to speak to you and to the american people, to the congress. it is appreciated. we need action, we need action now. thank you. >> thank you. well, we want to thank these families again for their courage and their willingness to share your harrowing stories and i will say again and reiterate once more we will stand against these atrocities and stand with israel and each of you and your families. we will be praying for you and we will be taking action. that's what we will do here and what's called for. your time is short and have to leave. i want to thank the american center for law and justice for facilitating the visit today. you have a tight itinerary. you will step off the stage if you will. we are going to hear next from corey mills, who is one of our newest members of the house republican conference and someone who has been directly engaged in rescue efforts over there and i will let him tell you about his experience because it is just as harrowing. corey. >> thank you so much. as you just heard from the very powerful testimony of the families of those who have been taken hostage on october 7th, the bar barbarism that took place. i'm a father. i can't imagine the amount of pain and grief that many of these families are facing and very much like we won't forget america's 9/11, nor should we ever forget israel's october 7th. i want to thank house gop leadership and the team for everything that you guys are doing and we will continue our prayers this morning for those families. i would also like to recognize the brave families and for all here dealing with this today. i'm praying for your loved ones' safe return. we won't forget and we won't give up. just a few weeks ago on october 7th a horrible event occurred and i knew it was time to take action. as speaker mike johnson and leadership talked about the time for talk is over and the time for action is now. october 11th i went into a parent country, if you will, and started conducting ground evacuations. during that time frame ways able to successfully get 32 americans out on the first day, personally and 45 out the second day. going through areas of the west bank, through jerusalem, nazareth, and other areas to consolidations and making continual efforts to try to pull americans out trapped, stranded or left behind by the biden administration. i'm honored to have been able to get more than 200 people out of israel including a plane that we negotiated and worked with with mercury one and glen beck we were able to get 159 more passengers out a week ago. we must not forget about those still stranded including the innocent hostages that hamas still has in their control. the bottom line is that joe biden time and time again has proven he is not prioritizing the well-being of the american people at home or abroad. we saw it during the botched afghan withdrawal of 2021 where i actually went over with a team of mine to conduct the overland rescue of a mother and three children born and raised in texas. we're seeing this across the middle east and across the world. both times a team of former special operations meme pearls p s a result of joe biden's administration's failures to do so. while i was on the ground in israel i heard horror stories from americans with no support from the state department and many cases when they would request support they would receive an electronic form and no further follow up. 2 1/2 weeks after we got people out from israel, now the state department is trying to contact them to determine their whereabouts. they were faced with extremely limited options for travel. receiving no correspondence dpr the embassy itself. under joe biden's failed foreign policy agenda we have made hamas terrorist organizations bold and left key allies vulnerable in their positions today. it has now been a month since hamas terrorists took innocent american hostages and yet we have no resolution and no plan or strategy by the administration. to the families that were here with us today i want to say that i'm praying for the safe return of your loved ones and we'll continue to work with my colleagues in the gop leadership to hold biden's administration account ashley for failure to protect americans in afghanistan and israel. we won't stop putting pressure to bring innocent americans home to reunite with their loved ones. thank you all for covering this. god bless you. god bless this leadership. god bless this great country. i will turn it over to our great whip mr. tom emmer. >> thank you, corey. one month ago today the world watched as hamas terrorists committed the worst massacre of jewish people since holocaust. burned babies alive and took hundreds of civilians hostage including women, children and elderly. the stories we've heard from that day are heartbreaking and haunting. but we must not forget them. today we have the honor of being joined by several families having been joined by several families who had their own loved ones taken hostage by hamas. they bravely share their stories so we won't forget and the world won't forget what kind of barbaric evil israel is fighting against. to the families here with us i want you to know that house republicans are with you and we join you in calling for the safe return of your family members and all hostages from gaza. and everyone else listening, let me be very clear. the state of israel has a right to exist and to defend its people. and israel is completely justified in its mission to eradicate hamas once and for all. so long as republicans are in the majority, this house will proudly stand with israel and now i turn it over to our great majority leader steve scalise. >> thank you, it is heartbreaking when you listen to the stories of doris, of so many others. last friday we had some other family members of those who were slaughtered on the 7th, those who still have hostages that are taken in gaza. and all they want is their family members back. this republican majority will continue to stand with israel and their right to defend themselves, to eliminate hamas, and to get the hostages back. this is not a time to be talking about cease fires, pauses, hamas gave that up on the 7th when they went into villages and slaughtered people. when they attacked music festival, peaceful music festivals, mowing down people, taking more hostages, including american citizens, too. and so this is a war. it's a war that the people of israel are resolved to confront. it's a war that we here in the united states are going to stand with israel every step of the way to make sure these families get the relief they need to get their family members back, hopefully pray to god their family members are still alive. and we are going to continue saying those prayers but we are also going to be there every step of the way with them as well. so our resolve has never been stronger. we need to stand with israel. we need to stand up against the anti-semitism that we continue to see. >> bill: remarkable things we've just watched here. so emotional. we expected it to be that way and it has been, wow. tough stuff. >> dana: families of hostages gathering with house republicans who basically making the case for aid and support for israel. they are not the only ones, of course, that have loved ones that are being held. we're working right now to get -- i believe we have alannah with us, her family is being held in gaza, we believe it's in gaza. they are being kidnapped. they are held hostage for over a month. thank you for being with us today. you have six family members being held? >> i do, yes, six of them. three of them are children. so my cousin sean and another cousin, a husband and the twin girls and 3-year-old and danielle's 5-year-old daughter. >> dana: share with viewers how you found out they were kidnapped. >> we knew they were missing on october 7th because my cousin had sent voice notes to our family and we lost contact. but we found out at first by seeing a tiktok video we saw them in the video, some of them. eventually a couple days later the idf confirmed for us that they were hostages in gaza. >> dana: have you had any proof of life or welfare? do you know anything about their condition? >> we don't know anything about their condition. the only proof of life that we have seen is in a propaganda video that hamas released. >> dana: and how do you get through the days? one of the mothers of a hostage who just spoke in front of the congress at that congressional gathering said every day feels like an eternity and she was proud to be an american, she was born in queens and living in israel. she hasn't heard anything about her son. she was afraid he was shot and so she doesn't know his condition and i wonder for you how do you get through the days when they must seem extremely long with no news. >> it's been a whole month now. it feels like an eternity and feels like it has been a year. every daytime is of the essence. i personally am getting through it and coping by advocating for my family. doing broadcasts like this. speaking out on behalf of my family. i spoke at the u.n. i can't imagine doing anything else but taking action to bring them back and ask people to help us demand of their immediate release of all the hostages. >> dana: we stand with you, thank you for bringing us your story. those girls are beautiful. those children. and i'm sure that you miss them very much. let's stay in touch and hope for the best. >> thank you so much. >> bill: remarkable stuff. 241 hostages being held in gaza. >> dana: remarkable how many are children. >> bill: we assume them to be alive but you don't know. what the mother said talking to her son at the music festival she said i hung up and i regret that. the other gentleman that talked about his own family members who said you are next. and -- >> dana: meaning here in the united states. >> bill: or throughout europe. >> dana: if you don't act. >> bill: if you don't act and put it down you are next. really strong stuff. >> dana: the debate the congress unfolding. the republican party said as long as there is a republican majority, they will stand with israel and the aid to come. thank you for being with us for those two hours. it was good one. see you tomorrow. see you on "the five" as well. harris faulkner is up next. >> harris: and we have just seen suffering and heartache continuing since the october 7th