pro palestinian protest is in the process of getting underway. demonstrators are demanding an immediate cease fire. israel says not until hamas releases all hostages in gaza. the latest with alexis mcadams in manhattan where the pro terses could be building. jeff paul in southern israel with the fighting is growing and jacqui heinrich at the white house where the pressure is mounting. all of that and gary senise on never forgetting. these days something he's giving more homes, lots of homes. "your world" is now. >> welcome. i'm neil cavuto. happy friday for you. another protest friday and a good many parts of the country. alexis mc aadams has more. >> another friday night, another protest in new york city. a pro palestinian protest. i'll walk you closer to the crowd. we're at columbus circle. we're seeing lots of flags here and most of people's faces are covered. we talked with a few protesters. most are not happy with the united states. helping is real. college campuses remain the epicenter of the duelling protests. so columbia university in new york making news today and taking some action. suspending two student groups, both students for justice in palestine and jewish voice for peace after the school says that the groups culminated an unauthorized event thursday afternoon. despite warnings and including threatening rhetoric and intimidation, which has been going on for several weeks. now we go to big crowds in bryant park. this happening in the last 24 hours. pro palestinian protesters not happy with the president of the united states. watch. >> we're tired of it. enough of the war mongering and the politicians. it's time for them to like cut it. cut it. we pay taxes for you to fix potholes, not to munger wars. enough is enough. >> this area, you can see as well, the big crowds, neil. lots of nypd officers that say they're going to remain on high alert. one of the issues is the planners don't tell the nypd where they're going to go, how long this is going to go on for. we've seen them block traffic. they shut down parts of a bridge. that led to major issues for officers. they're going to stay on stand by and continue to talk to people to see why they're here and what they stand for, neil. >> neil: thanks, alexis. she's just right around the block here. meantime, we want to take you to southern israel, what's going on there. they are now continuing to target hamas forces. so when you hear a lot about these four-hour daily pauses, that does not mean a pause in all of the fighting. let's get the latest from jeff paul in sderot. jeff? >> the fighting is going late in to the night along the israel gaza border. we've been standing here in sderot for the last couple hours. you can sear the booms of the outgoing artillery as israeli forces continue to hit their targets in northern gaza. this is what the it looks like a short time ago. you can see the flares lighting up the sky. most of the intense fighting in an around gaza city's main hospital, the shifa hold, an important strong hold used by hamas. the idf targeted the area as they moved deeper in to the dense neighborhoods of northern gaza. the heavy fighting is yet again forcing thousands more to pack up what they can and flee south. 80,000 civilians moved south today utilizing the six-hour evacuation corridor on gaza's main highway. israeli defense minister explained today why they're so focused on striking near the shifa hospital. >> those terrorists that are staying in the basements, underneath the shifa hospital tonight can hear the thundering sound of tank chains. the bulldozer that pounds the ground, they can hear it underground. they hear it and tremble with fear. >> neil, we should mention despite the humanitarian pauses that started today officially, there's still rockets being fired from gaza all over israel. today when we were at our hotel in tel aviv, the whole place got the warning. you could hear the sirens and heard the iron dome working. it's coming from both sides. >> neil: thanks, my friend. be safe. great reporting, jeff. to jacqui heinrich at the white house. they're getting heat on how they're handling all of this right now. what's the latest? >> neil, the white house was eager to announce that israel had embraced the president i push for humanitarian pauses. they're happening daily for a window of about four to five hours with an announcement. at least three hours in advance of it happening to let civilians get to higher ground. they see this as a win for biden. he's been taking a lot of criticism for backing israel as it seems to root out hamas. despite the pro palestinian protests that have been rising up across this country. and lately, we have seen the administration admitting more distance between the u.s. and its ally than before. >> did you ask him to pause for three days? >> yes. i've asked for a longer pause. >> biden did not elaborate on what he meant by even longer than three days. netanyahu told fox that is off the table anyway. >> the fighting continues against the hamas enemy, the hamas terrorists. but specific locations for a given period of a few hours here or there, we want to facilitate a safe passage of civilian against way from the fighting. our goal is to fight the terrorists, not the civilians. >> white house officials say they're not in support of a general cease fire and agree it would only help hamas. protesters are getting louder. yesterday someone interrupted the president's remarks. that person calling for a cease fire. vice president harris said today innocent civilians have been killed on both sides and had this message for the protesters. >> what i hope is that we can engage in conversation and discourse in a way that understands this is not binary. >> the big news today from the white house is not just about the middle east. it's about china. announcing that president biden will meet with chinese president xi jinping in san francisco at the apex summit next week. the u.s. is going to ask china to intervene and try to get iran to stop any efforts to widen this war, neil. >> neil: thanks very much. let's go to dan hoffman, the former cia chief in moscow watching this. you heard the back and forth on the wisdom of this four-hour daily pause in fighting. it could be interrupted at any time. what do you think of it? >> well, i think it just reflects the challenge for israeli defense forces. hamas deliberately embeds their fighters in civilian neighborhoods. look at that shifa hospital. it's a hamas command center. the tunnels, found tunnels beneath children's room in residential homes. that's the challenge that the israelis face, that hamas deliberately induces these sorts of attacks and doesn't draw a distinction. in fact, puts their innocent palestinian brethren in harms way. that's the narrative that hamas wants and sadly many across the world including in our own country are vulnerable to accepting that. >> neil: i'm wondering what you think of how the rest of the world is responding to this? we know that vladimir putin is paying extra attention to his forces in ukraine, maybe saying that they will continue to fight the good fight. but maybe recognizing an opportunity here where our attention is opportunity to israel, not at the expense of ukraine but maybe that's what vladimir putin is hoping. what do you think? >> yeah, i think absolutely vladimir putin and xi jinping see the united states stretched dealing with the war in ukraine, dealing with the war in gaza and having to detear the chinese aggression against taiwan. russia is at the center of this. they're relying on iran for crohn's. they've given iran a lot. they're planning to give hezbollah air defense and their shipping off their hydrocarbons to china. the only -- one of the only markets remaining to them. so the war in ukraine i think is very much intertwined with what we're seeing in the middle east. i think the challenge for the biden administration is to manage all three challenges simultaneously. >> when we talk about the middle east, i want your thoughts on what happens after this battle with hamas is done sooner rather than later. israel has said that they have to watch over the region, have a long-term role in deciding its future. note everyone is keen on that. i know israel isn't necessarily keen on qatar being among the countries along with egypt that might decide the new gaza, whatever form it takes. they don't like the fact that qatar has so many hamas big wigs living the good life in that country. what do you make of this? >> i'll tell you, when i served in iraq often times we would say today was a pretty bad day but tomorrow will be a little worse. its awfully hard to be optimistic about anything. the near term goals for israel and for us writ large, defeat hamas. save as many hostages as possible and try to defer a wider war with iran. lingering over that is the post conflict reconstruction plan. we learned that lesson from iraq where we failed to do that and we face add sunni insurgency. in order to drive a wedge between innocent palestinian civilians and the hamas terrorists, you have to offer palestinians good governance and economic opportunity. israel cannot be at the center of this. it has to be the region, egypt and jordan taking a leading role with saudi arabia. i think qatar could play a role and a very good role. but israel should not be responsible for occupies gaza in the post conflict reconstruction phase. general votel says the war phase could take weeks to months. we have some time. but israel would do well to start the planning process now. >> neil: thanks, dan. before we go to a quick break, the dow was sprinting ahead. all the averages were. what looked like could be a down week turned in to an up week for the major averages. up 1 to 2%. don't get ahead of ourselves. this was based on declining energy prices, normally good news. maybe there's fear in the markets here that they're signal as global slow down in activity. not always the case but did rain on the buying parade. we'll have that more tomorrow when we pick apart the markets and why they're dealing with this war in israel so well. maybe they don't see it repeating after the yom kippur wore. another attack on u.s. forces. i'm losing count on how many there's been. not nearly as many u.s. responses to those attacks after this. 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>> took a measure of mr. biden andmoving forward, neil. keep in mind when president trump struck soleimani in baghdad international, the message was clear. he was serious about this. he would do something more dangerous for the iranian regime in given the opportunity. the strikes against a warehouse at night don't really send much of a message. it's a tepid response. you have to put pain on that regime if in fact you're going to get them to pull back on hezbollah, houthis and hamas. you won't get any help from president xi, neil. the reality is, he's getting three million barrel as day from iran. he's not going to turn a back on that. much less is he going to do the same thing with putin and ukraine. so what we have to recognize our leverage is limited at this point. we can hope for the best. our soldiers deserve much better than what they're getting. >> neil: colonel, much is made of the fact that we're not happy with what we're seeing out of iran. to your point, most of the world seems to be ignoring it. the reality is that you can make a pretty good argument that hamas is getting the better part of this p.r. war on all of these pro palestinian rallies, for example, that conflate the two are happening, this big one in new york ten blocks from where i sit, colonel. so that makes them think that we've got the world on our side. what do you make of that? >> yeah, i'm not sure given that you have pro palestinian professors and students that are really using what they have learned in some radical classes as well as the potential, neil, because we've had an open southern border of sleeper cells inside the united states. we've had problems in the past. and of course, we've seen a strike by the likes of iranian proxies as far away as brazil and europe as well. so i'm very concerned about that. yes, you know, it would appear as if we have entities in the united states that are almost acting like proxies for the mullahs and iran. that's very troubling given the liberties that we give our citizens and rightly so. but our soldiers that are sitting as sitting ducks there in iraq and syria, i'm very concerned about if we don't show a very resilient arm -- the secretary said while he's in india moments ago, you know, we have to strike. we have to create a hurt enough to preclude them from continuing this sort of activity. 47 strikes at this point is going to double if we're not careful. >> neil: scary stuff, colonel. have a safe weekend. some other developments we're following, another thing happening more stateside. could be very disruptive. a government shut down. don't dismiss it. it could be days away. aishah hasnie, what's going on? 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happening before hamas had came there to cover capitol hill. all right. maybe once or twice. we're on the verge of another one, right, aishah? >> sounds like we do this all the time. so i have a little bit of good news here. gop sources are telling fox that house leadership could drop some text this weekend with a potential vote, hoping to vote by tuesday. the question is, what is the text going to look like? what kind of a bill are we talking about? we have no idea because everyone has been very tight-lipped. let's start with the democrats. there's a lot of ideas out there. let's start with the dems. they really have a hard line on what they want. listen to this. >> continuing resolution that is at the fiscal year 2023 levels is the only way forward. because that is the status quo. house democrats are not asking for our policy preferences. we're asking for the status quo to keep the government open. >> okay. they want a clean c.r. at current spending levels. that's pelosi levels and will lose a lot of conservative votes. speaker mike johnson is looking for a continuing resolution that would have different funding for different periods of time, laddered. reaction is varying. some republicans say it has a chance. >> i think it's on the table until the speaker says it's not. i think there's some real belief that something like that could pass. >> there's also this idea that a c.r. with israel aid attached to it. maybe throw in this fiscal committee conservatives like victoria spartz has been asking for. it could take weeks for the senate to pass a bill. leader schumer is all eyes on the house hoping that they move soon. we shall see. neil? >> neil: thanks, aishah. aishah hasnie on a capitol hill. sad news to share with you this day. astronaut frank boreman is dead. nasa confirmed he died in billings montana of a stroke. only a week after the passing of astronaut ken mattingly that flew an apollo 6 team. before there was apollo 11, the first to land on the moon in 1969, there was commander boreman's apollo 8. the first to circle the moon in 1968. during that historic christmas flight, the first time any human could see a distance earth from so far away in space, the world was captivated and so was boreman. he would tell me years later that he practiced so hard for this moment. >> in order to get to the moon, you had to have capability of two weeks in space, you had to rendezvous, you had to be able to do eva, get outside the space craft in a spacesuit and a guided reentry. we practiced all of those missions in gemini. it was an extremely important part of the lunar program. >> but when he saw it and experienced it, even borman acknowledged that he wasn't ready for what he saw. so he took to reading from the book of genesis in a live telecast. >> in the beginning, god created the heaven and the earth. and the earth was without form and void and darkness. >> then borman himself would end the broadcast. >> from the crew of apollo 8, we close with 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bit of a surprising development. it's one thing to leave a candidate and another not to park your money with another candidate. he's not doing. what do you make of it? >> neil, this is an epic fail. this is such a mistake. i mean, as a national fund raiseser, i specialize in super pacts. when i saw this article, there's several articles and really sad to see something like peter leave. it's not because he's a major donor and been a major donor to the gop in recent years, it's because of who he represents. he's a sector that we don't have hardly any, especially in the donor class, that give at that level. so we have really suffered a big loss with this. the second thing of it is, back in 2018, i noticed in one of the articles, it said he was not very happy with some things that were going on in the administration policy-wise. so with that said publicly, don't you think somebody from the rnc, somebody somewhere should reach out because he's such a major giver to see if you could work on that relationship? also, you know, i deal in fund-raising. i have noticed in the years that we've had -- doing fund raisers recently, that fund-raising has become more of a transactional deal. they don't really believe in relationships and building relationships with the donor anymore. wishing him happy birthday. seeing what they're doing and informing them of what they're doing. trump called and asked peter thiel for $10 million over the phone and got upset because he didn't give. if he would have done his research, he would have probably noticed in 2018 he was upset that he had made some other disparaging comments. someone should have prepared that by the time president trump calls and asks for $10 million for peter thiel. the amount of risk and reward he's looking at, also a businessman. he's not getting anything for his money. he doesn't want to give any more money to republican candidates because he's dissatisfied. so somebody should do something about that. >> neil: they're not. one thing i noticed because i follow the money, one of the nerds here, a lot of the rich guys are not giving to a lot of these republican candidates. not certainly in the magnitude that you had seen thiel give. i'm wondering what that says. these are smart guys. they didn't get rich being stupid. if they're holding off or not committing funds to a promising candidate, if they can't find one, does that mean that they doubt there is one or they're not worth spending money on at this point or do you read anything worrisome for republicans in to that? >> i am especially after the debates. i went to the debate. i saw about six of my donors that were at the debate. you know, they like nikki haley, they liked ron desantis. but they don't know what to do. a lot of them are holding their powder dry because you've got someone like trump with a huge margin. so it's almost like there's two parallel races. there's president trump and his high polls and a lot of the donors are still not on the bandwagon with former president trump. they just don't want to get in that racket of raising money for him or giving money. the other thing is, you're looking at the second tier candidates and trying to pick the frontrunner just in case he's ineligible to run. money wasted. once again, the donors, the billionaire class, these guys are not stupid. you have donald trump and his polls. we don't know if he's going to be able to run. then we've got the other debate. we have the other candidates running. so these guys are being asked from donald trump that does have the poll numbers, then they're being asked for the second tier candidates that are all vying for number 1 for their money. so the donors are like i want to make my money count. >> neil: i want to see you make sense of what you're going to do with that money. interesting. it's early. when we come back, gary senise, as you know him as lieutenant dan. it's one thing having to veterans back. it's quite another thing to keep bui 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there were steps along the way, just things that happened years ago. veterans of my family, working with veterans in the 80s in chicago, trying to support them. playing lieutenant dan in the 90s and getting involved with our wounded then. what happened on september 11th turned me towards service to those that were deploying in reaction to that terrible tragedy. and that -- that was a chapter in my book that i told people many times called a turning point. that was a big turning point for me. everything in the 80s and the 90s and the family association with all the veterans and everything, that was teeing me up for something that would happen after september 11th, 2001. then i started raising my hand, going out there and supporting where i could. supporting many military and first responder charities. and then i just started my own. that was launched in 2011 and we've been at it for -- we're in our 13th year now. have a big staff. we're operating all over the world. doing things all over the country. we're about to give away our 89th specially adaptive smart technology home to one of our wounded vets in the san diego area. we go to las vegas for our annual salute to the troops event. in partnership with american airlines tomorrow on veterans day. a lots going on at the gary sinise foundation. >> neil: i heard one of your people say in an interview, we'd be nowhere without gary. of course, you would never say that. she did. this side that you bring the audiences there, you bring the support there. it's a lot of hard work. obviously you're doing it for a good purpose and a lot of these families appreciate that. but it's almost like a limitless de demand. just to keep up with those that suffered so much. >> i think there will always be a demand and a necessity to support the men and women that serve our country. we should all do our part to make sure that we know they're appreciated. some have given quite a bit. some have lost loved ones. we have what happened in afghanistan. we have many afghanistan veterans struggling with that. so we're trying to provide mental wellness services to address those needs. obviously a big housing problem with homeless veterans out there. we have veterans transitioning out of the military in to the civilian sector. those transitions can quit often be very difficult and challenging. we want to be a bridge for that. a bridge for these families. we also want to make sure that they know how appreciated they are. i have vietnam veterans in our family. this guess back to the veterans that didn't get the services and support that they deserve when they came home. i remember that as a youngster. after september 11th, 2001, we started deploying. i just wanted to try to reach out and touch as many as i could to make sure that they knew something like me was paying attention. knew what they were doing. here we are on veterans day remembering our veterans, honoring our veterans. for me, you know, every day is a day to make sure that they know they're appreciated. >> neil: you do that in spades. the backdrop for this is this war going on in israel. there's a lot of concern about attacks on american troops. largely in syria. i think there's been a little more than 50 of them. so there's always the potential that there's future soldiers that will be involved in that. what is their mood when you talk to them? you cover all age groups. i get that. what is their mood now? you talked about the feeling after the vietnam war. but how do you sense it now? >> well, when you go to the military bases and dealing with people that are current active duty, they're doing their jobs. that's what they're doing. they are part of the military. they're doing their jobs. they get their orders from their commanders and they go out and serve the mission. so i found -- find they're no less committed to doing that now than ever. if you sign up for the military, you want to be there. we have an all voluntary military. they sign up to do it. we don't have a draft. so i found people are still committed. i know there's a recruitment problem. that is something that they continue to address in all of the services. our job at the gary sinise foundation is to provide support for our veterans, first responders, military. everything that we can to uplift them and make sure that they know there's a grateful nation out there. i wrote a book years ago in 2019, called grateful american a journey from self to surface. it tracts how the acting workman festing itself in to giving back. i think -- i mean, there's multiple charities, multiple causes that one can pick. but having veterans in my own family and remembering all too well what it was like for the vietnam veterans when they came home from wore. when we deployed to afghanistan and iraq, i thought that was a played we could deploy any efforts and try to make a difference. that's what we do at the gary sinise foundation. tomorrow we gave away our 89th home that i've been involved with since i started raising money to build homes for our wounded. >> neil: i think of all of these values and everything you espouse right now. those on the left like you in hollywood, those in the right like you. you don't let politics enter into it. you're one of the few in that community that transcends that. is that by design or do you think that you are more important things to worry about than who likes you? >> well, you know, i mean we all want to be liked. >> neil: too late for me. i read my e-mail. >> you've given up. >> it is what it is. >> no, i just try to do what i think is right. let the chips fall. i think it's right to make sure that the men and women that serve our country and our communities know that we appreciate them. somebody that is running in to a fire to try to save somebody or try to pull somebody out of a burning car or try to defend our nation here, overseas, they deserve to know the country is paying attention. we appreciate the difficulties and challenges that our military families can go through. we have an event where we take over 1,000 children who have lost a parent in military service to disney world for a four or five-day event in december. we're taking 350 families of fallen first responders there this december as well. we just want these families to know that their sacrifices don't go unnoticed, they're not forgotten and we want to do everything we can to help them through it. >> neil: i love the line that we once raised to me. this is what i do. it's not what i do. it's who i am. the proof is in the pudding. again, all year round. not just on veterans day or veteran day weekend. to continue that theme tomorrow, lee greenwood will join me on my live show at 10:00 a.m. he's releasing a musical documentary. join me with a sneak peek at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. be sure to check it out. ♪ (christina) with verizon business unlimited, i get 5g, truly unlimited data, and unlimited hotspot data. so, no matter what, i'm 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