iran took aim at secretary of state antony blinken. according to >> blinken was wrongly blaming iran for the conflict between israel and hamas and says the u.s. is exacerbating the conflict by overly aligning itself with israel. what's happening to u.s. troops overseas. they've been attacked 14 overseas they have been attacked 14 times and sitcom telling two dozen service members killed in iraq and in syria in just one day. and earlier today another rocket fired at u.s. forces in iraq and intercepted and no injuries reported. we go live to jerusalem, trace gallagher is standing by. is there concern tonight in israel that this conflict is destined to grow wider and more dangerous, especially when it comes to the risk to our troops in the region? >> yep, i think it is already there, laura. you are pushing in that direction. you talked about the 14 attacks against u.s. servicemembers and blinken, who is blaming iran, as is the biden administration vowed to defend u.s. forces and you have u.s. forces being wounded and so far no response from the united states. that could change in the days to come. the days to come. it is also important to note israel, we're all still waiting for that ground war, that so far has not begun. but it's not without saying that it is important to note the ground war has not begun. but today they had to defend themselves on four fronts, rockets coming from hamas and hezbollah in lebanon, coming from syria to israel today, as well as hamas divers who were found in the ocean apparently moving toward a southern israel beach. they were killed and the tunnel near the gaza border was blown up. response to that, israel launched 400 airstrikes in 24 hours, killing top hamas. four top hamas leaders in the process and we are now being told that the prime minister netanyahu met today with israeli defense forces, going back to the ground war, he said they are ready. he said the quote is, the next stage is coming. the question around the world is when does the next stage come and the back 2k4r9 up question, does hezbollah get involved from the north and does this become a wider conflict? >> laura: trace gallagher, i know you visited with families who have been displaced and lost family members on october 7. what do they tell you? >> trace: they are now living in a kibbutz. they spent the past two plus weeks going to the hospital, visiting family and friends, some attending funerals. some say they have attended four funials per day. they are worried about their children, there are hundreds of children at this kibbutz and it is difficult to know what to do with them, they do not have enough teachers or coaching, or activities. one told me these kids are going to lose out on one aspect of their life. watch. >> missing out on lessons, what are we going to do with them? how are they going to keep up and finish their grades, their tests? we go back home in a month, how do they go back to clas? they are missing classmates and kids in their grade, some abducted, some killed. how do we deal with that? what do i tell my kids? >> trace: and the psychological aspects, he said his son had to crawl under his school bus and stay there for sometime because air raid sirens has gone off. everybody has been affected by what is going on in israel, laura. >> laura: hamas does not think about the children in gaza, they are all disposable to terrorists, everyone is being hurt by the bar bearity. thank you. negotiating with terrorists is the focus of tonight's angle. we know it's been a longstanding u.s. policy that our government does not negotiate with terrorists making threats or taking hostages. it makes sense, saying otherwise would put invisible bounties on the head of americans traveling or working abroad. u.s. presidents generally maintain this policy. as usual, obama muddied the water, claiming to stick with the old policy. >> i believe u.s. government paying ransom to terrorist risk the americans and fund the terrorism we are trying to stop. -- government, family of hostages or third parties who help the families and when appropriate our government may assist families and private efforts in communications. >> laura: we all understand and try to understand the pain that families of hostages are going through and desperation. but obama's move did nothing to disincentivize hostage takers, if anything, it did the opposite. this move came after obama absurd swap at gitmo for one u.s. u.s. army deserter bo bergdahl. >> we seized that opportunity. in terms of potential threats, the release of the taliban being held in guantanamo was conditioned on the qataris keeping eyes on them and creating structure to monitor their activities. we will be keeping eyes on them. >> laura: oh, yeah, we know how that ended up, one released prisoner is suspected of returning to the battlefield, the qataris were on it, though. more dangerous precedent set with at least 10 americans taken by hamas during the october 7 attacks. rather than being held accountable and quickly for the barbaric murder of civilian and torture of women and children, hamas is using hostages to win propaganda points in the invasion. >> hamas video at the start of this piece, not clear what propaganda purpose they may have been thinking of when they allowed this to be filmed. >> this is the extraordinary moment an 85-year-old israeli grandmother was released by hamas. >> it's okay, let's go. >> in video recorded by the militant group, you can see her shaking the hand of a masked gunman shilom or peace, she said as she walked away. >> laura: hamas got a valuable photo op with the handshake. we all want hostages to be released safely, we risk losing sight of what they have done to innocent israelis by parroting line about the war-time preparedness. >> we know the tunnels have ventilation and air conditioning, there was shampoo and medics, it is stunning, contrast that with what is happening above the ground, there is not water, never mind shampoo. hamas stock piled that underground. >> laura: well, true, but that is not all, hamas did not simply have ac and meds, they were prepared for female hostages. >> everyone surprised by the attack itself, preparation seemed to be a significant piece of the plan. >> when they say prepared for women's needs, they were there prepared, i mean, just go ahead being honest, they had tampons and things, that is a level of preparation for what they were going to do. >> laura: if i didn't know better, i would say cnn is giving hamas a five-star recommendation on trip advisor. >> shampoo and antibiotics, those specifics are most striking. >> laura: what is most striking is how little we learned about terror groups taking hostages. if you give them an inch, they will take a mile and next time they will take more prisoners. we should let israel make their own decision, when the biden people get involved, 9-10 times it goes bad. same white house that gave them $6 billion, only for humanitarian needs. under pressure post-october 7, white house ordered the funds to be put on hold, but not permanently frozen. >> i understand hamas has not accessed it yet, it is for humanitarian purposes. yes or no if iran wanted to access this today, could they? >> i will not speculate one way or the other about future transactions, none of it has been accessed and we are watching every dime, as you would expect we would, watching it very closely. >> laura: this is not the time for amateurs, but that is what america has in charge. at a time when americans are being asked to go further into debt to support biden foreign policy, we need clarity now more than ever. you can't understand how young people get fooled when our own press refuses to define the conflict. bitterness and anger on both sides exist. it claims terrorism and terrorist have become politicized, therefore they are not using those terms to describe specific groups. chalk up another victory for the pro-hamas propagantist who got an,a cyst from the white house podium yesterday. >> what is level of concern about antisemitism going on in israel? >> we have not seen any credible threats, i know there is always questions about credible threats. and so want to make sure that is out there. muslim perceived to be muslim have endured disproportionate number of hate-fuelled attack. >> laura: those comments sparked outrage in the israel community, which led to karine jean-pierre's 180 today. sgll when jews are targeted because of their belief or identity, when israel is singled out because of anti-jewish hatred, that is antisemitism and that is unacceptable. there is no place for antisemitism, full stop, period. this is important to the president, it ask important to me personally and everyone in the administration. >> laura: full stop, period, this is embarrassing. she's been embarrassing from day one, why is anyone surprised here? hard reality is that as long as joe biden is president, america is going to continue as a nation, that just careens from crisis to crisis. our adversaries know this, they will use our misstep to advance their interest and propaganda efforts. without a staff with biden in charge, staff chosen on merit, not on the basis of symbolism or because you are a first, israel should politely tell americans, thanks, but we got this. biden team came into office firmly believing the biggest threat to america was americans who didn't agree with them. the most ruthless person in the entire administration is merrick garland, he is the one fighting us. as far as the others, they are so hapless, they are duping. that is the angle. we have domestic news to get to. ned, biden said israel is making their own decisions, but we know that is not true, don't we? >> there is a reason the ground invasion of gaza has not taken place and i'm afraid it is biden and blinken exerting pressure on netanyahu to hold off on that. the other thing we're seeing play out is incredible weakness. i called them amateur, they are weak amateurs. biden's weakness has brought us to this place. he is giving them money and lifting sanctions to give them tens of billions in oil revenue to fund hamas and hezbollah. the other thing that is apparent in watching this weakness play out in this specific situation and watching those abhorrent comments from the white house yesterday about anti, they are in a spot here at home. rabied left, the democratic base is antiantisemitism and pro-palestinian. you have the 2024 election coming up and if they alienate that rabied left, they will go to cornel west. you lost the white house. weakness put them in an awkward place politically here in this country. >> laura: we'll get into that later on with ed rawlines. mollie, john kirby was out today and asked to grade biden's presidency thus far. >> give him a report card, a plus, balancing a lot of priorities, domestic and foreign and the president is managing well because of his long experience in government issue the wisdom he brings to the job, the relationships he has, he's on top of it all. >> laura: literally no one on the face of the planet believes that, not anyone. >> mollie: no one i have lost more respect for than john kirby, saying things absurd right there. joe biden was clear he opposed every aspect of domestic and foreign policy and he ran on that. we are seeing the fruits of that opposition with president trump, you saw in the middle east, expanding peace with jerusalem and signing of the abraham accords, when soleimani was attacking our troops, we took him out. you saw expanding peace in the region. with biden, we have hostages, americans are going to have to pay for this and it really is, just reminder, he said he opposed foreign policy, we are suffering from that. >> laura: ned, in the house speaker's race, it is interrelated, the house speaker's race, still going on. trump came out against tom emmer, killing his chance of being the next choice and wrote on truth social today, the republican party can't take that chance, it would be a tragic mistake. tom emmer was out in a matter of minutes. >> correct, tom emmer, it is hard to believe tom emmer was nominated to be speaker, he is a puke rhino pushing the vote funded by soros. it is appalling he was nominated. too bad jordan couldn't persuade big spending republicans who want to see the ukraine gravy train continue you hear rumors how someone might strike a deal with democrats, you are definitely a benedict arnold, if you do that. some in fighting that took place in who would be supporting the 2022 midterm led to republicans have be four-seat majority instead of a 20-seat majority. you have swamp creatures and more establishment types fighting, i don't see a way forward. people in the greater world says if there is no speaker, does that mean we will not get spending to sell us out. >> laura: mollie, we are learning moments ago, there may be a deal proposed where it would be co-speakership with jordan and 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protection anywhere near what it is costing us. >> laura: those comments caused a fire storm in 2016. vivek ramaswamy is telling politico that withdraws from nato is reasonable idea and reevaluate united states involvement in the un. vivek ramaswamy saying we should not send money to israel, should provide a diplomatic dome. joining us is vivek ramaswamy. good to see you tonight. tell me what a diplomatic iron dome would look like. >> what hamas did to israel was wrong, morally outrageous and israel has a national right to self-defense, laura, and capability to do it. diplomatic iron dome mean institutions like the un that would criticize israel for concerns of proportionality, drawing false equivalence by those who attack israel. israel has a right to national self-defense, the premise of israel in first place, the project based on the idea of right to self-defense and existence and i stand for that. that is different from saying the u.s. needs to get involved in another no-win war for the u.s. in the middle east. from iraq to afghanistan, we've made these mistakes before. six and a half trillion dollars of our national debt is attributable to those two wars. >> laura: the difference though for israel is our ally. that is different, certainly different from ushg yoo. i'm with you on iraq and afghanistan, i was on the other side early in the iraq conflict, it turned out to be total nightmare for us. in this case, they're our ally and we don't let our allies down and doesn't mean we give people a blank check either, tossing it you hava as remade mistakes in iraq, that is a mistake. >> i want to be precise laura, many in israel don't want the u.s. second-guessing decisions they make. >> laura: that is difference. >> that comes with aid. if the u.s. provides aid, it is up to the u.s. to ask questions, what are objectives in gaza, what comes after hamas in gaza. no aid to israel at least until we have clear answers of what exactly are the objectives of the ground invasion, which i have serious concern about. that is israel's decision to make, not the u.s. or anybody else's to get in the way. if the u.s. is going to fund it, then answer those questions. that is where i'm at and been precise about that. >> laura: i trust israel's judgement on this better than biden and blinken. bret baier had interesting segment with chris koonce and john thune and subject of iran came up. >> iran funded, supplied, trained fighters of hamas and behind the other proxies and need to be striking back and prepared for the prospect this will get harder. >> not responding is not an option, you have the animating force behind evil is iran. message has to be sent, we can't afford not to act. >> laura: seems to be back. >> i do not think war with iran is in the u.s. national interest. my view, laura, you have arab countries issue including saudi arabia, turkey, israel, all of whom have shared interest in middle east to make sure iran does not present a problem. not saying that is stable balance of power, u.s. involvement is not the answering in this long war that will not advance our interest. we have to look at every situation through prism of what advances. my moral obligation is to citizens of this country, that includes standing for our allies. >> laura: we are limited time, sorry to interrupt. you have been spending a lot of money, i'm looking at the campaigns. i think you spent more in the last quarter. donald trump cut back. is it 23 million, something like that and he's cut back on spending. are you getting the return on your own investment? you're the money guy. you getting a big bang for your buck, polling companies and consult antss you hire, how is it paying off? >> we'll find out next year, we're doing this as grassroots campaign. when i started this, nobody in this country knew who i was and donald trump made significant investment to win in 2016. i am spending my own money. the dirty secret in american politics, every politician dances to 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[chanting and screaming] >> committing genocide. >> you are committing genocide. >> laura: just outside of chicago in illinois, home of the state's holocaust museum, we saw shocking demonstrations taking place, that city was site of neo-nazi administrations in the seminole first amendment case. c. those protesting today might wave a different flag, but their target seems to be the same. instead of purely free speech, these ones are engagin they are engaging in straight violence. >> hey, hey, hey. [screaming] >> laura: where is the white house? joining me is the man you saw who was just attacked by pro-palestinian protesters from turning point usa. peter, how are you doing after that? what led to that moment? >> thanks for having me, laura. i'm doing better now, i have bruising on my hand and back and a concussion. what caused that event, i was at a pro-israel event, meeting a co-w co-worker outside of the yeefrn 678 we tried to get back to the pro-israel event, the police denied us entry, we had to walk back through pro-palestinian protesters and at this point, the entire mob saw we were pro-israel and they began following us and saying we were committing genocide and calling us nazis and began kicking my co-workers. we made our way toward the area, the mob grew angrier and i got separated from my co-worker, just myself and this couple and next thing i knew, i was punched in the head, pushed into the bushes and pushed and kicked and hit with a flag pole. a police officer helped me get to safety. the overall situation was scary and this is something we have people who are pro-israel are subjected to. >> laura: seems like the white house or biden or his supporters, they seem to have only focus on one type of protester and use that one type of protester as their vehicle for attacking all conservatives or anybody who voted for trump. they did that brilliantly. you are attacked and other jewish americans and they are calling you a nazi when they clearly seem to be vihe mentally anti-israel, they are just stupid people at this poen. >> they were going to the orthodox jewish man and women in their face, who was older and they were calling them nazis. craziest thing i have seen. this lady was shaking and trying to pull her camera out to record, i said, i'm already recording. all i was worried about was getting out safely. >> laura: you could end up with a brain bleed, like when andy noe was attacked by antifa. given the work you do at turning point, why do you think young people are flocking toward this pro-palestinian cause and hamas at our universities. it is deeply tied to anti-americanism, social media or combination? >> i think a lot is lack of research, i will not tell anyone what to believe, i encourage them to do research and i think a lot of universities and professors supporting bad things happening in israel are reason a lot of students mostly college students are pro-palestinian. we are pro-peace. we are pro-israel, pro-everything, we want everyone to live safely together and love one another, we are all humans and we all bleed. a lot of students don't want to do the research. >> laura: research? peter, you are young. not that they don't want to do the research, they are feeling, nobody is thinking and not interested in thinking. glad you are okay. while biden administration sits back as antisemitism is exploding, jews are taking matters into their own hands and arming up. details next. shipstation saves us so much time it makes it really easy and seamless pick an order print everything you need slap the label on ito the box and it's ready to go our cost for shipping, were cut in half just like that go to shipstation/tv and get 2 months free goli, taste your goals. goli, taste your goals. >> all these protests, and t >> to see people call for genocide of the jews, to see misinformed people thinking hamas is for the palestinian people, it makes me sad and scared. we are seeing patterns we saw before the holocaust. >> laura: same fear is reverberating in the jewish community in the united states and causing them to start packing heat. next guest says in two weeks he's taken 30 jewish americans to the gun range and showed them what to do. second amendment advocate joins me now. we have seen antisemitic violence before in the united states, why do you feel like this time it might be worse and different when it comes to the need for people to get armed? >> well, this is a scale we have never seen before. you see the protests in every state raging across the country and they have upward of 15,000 or 20,000 and sometimes more. that is putting the fear of god into jews across america. >> laura: a lot of friends of mine who happen to be jewish, tend to be democrats, more 18-trump than pro-trump, just grew up culturally more liberal. do you think this is changing perhaps some views on issues like the second amendment or is that a leap? >> i think it is a leap. i think you are going to have liberal jews and this is not a blanket statement on all liberal jews. i think it is more of a certain sect of jews, mainly orthodox jews are gearing up and asking me for training, going to the range, purchasing their first firearm. liberal jews tend to have liberalism size religion before judaism. >> laura: tell me about training you are doing as a second amendment advocate myself and happen to be known to frequent certain gun ranges, tell me how you are conducting the training? >> i'm doing in-class training, introducing people to different firearms, gun safety, safes, doing that aspect, living with guns in the home, especially with children, since a wrote a children's book on gun safety. that and taking them to the range and giving them basic 101, how to grip the gun, proper stance, trigger discipline, all aspect of firearm 101. >> laura: always treat a gun as if it is loaded. thank you. polling shows r.f.k. jr. and cornel west could have a major impact on the race. ed rawlines part of ross perot's bid and he'll tell us what we should know and what we should be aware of, stay there. print. mom, we're gunna be late. i know, sweetie. print! come on, print! out of ink again? i need to print these listings now. i had to print my homework. these tiny, expensive cartridges are costing me a fortune! you still printing with these? shaq? don't get cartridged. switch to the cartridge free epson ecotank. no more spending big bucks on tiny, expensive cartridges. ecotank comes with big bottles of ink. enough to print up to 5,000 pages. look at that. wow. we're switching to ecotank. epson ecotank has big ink tanks for big bottles of ink. these 4 bottles of ink are equivalent to about 80 cartridges. and, setting up ecotank is so easy. snap on the ecofit bottles and the ink fills automatically. no mess. no stress. buy an ecotank printer today, and save up to $80. ecotank comes with up to 2 years of ink in the box. models starting as low as $199.99. people love ecotank. check it out. with our old cartridge printer, i was reluctant to have the kids print in color, because i needed it for my work. i print in color daily. but now with ecotank, everybody can print in color. the kids can do their school projects in color, and i'm able to print for my work. and we don't have to worry about running out of ink. when i was researching printers, i came across the ecotank and found out i could save up to 90% on replacement ink. when i first got the ink bottle, i was shocked at the amount of ink that each one of them carry. i don't have to worry about the price of ink and i get to print as many things as i want. as a busy mom, or i should say cool mom, having ecotank is ink-credible. ecotank is a great value. buy an ecotank printer today and save up to $80. ecotank comes with up to 2 years of ink in the box. models starting as low as $199.99. call or visit ecotank.com now to order yours. just fill and chill! with cirkul, your water is deliciously flavored at the turn of a dial, with zero sugar and zero calories. and cirkul has over 40 flavors, so your water can be as unique as you are. try cirkul. your water, your way. now with even more flavors. available at walmart or drinkcirkul.com. >> laura: pulse of the nation. most think race between biden and donald trump. we cannot lose sight of third-party candidates. independent candidate r.f.k. jr. has not unimpressive 13%. the shock is some support is coming from voters who otherwise would support trump. cornel west is peeling off biden voters, but west is only polling at 4%. joining me now, ed rawlins, manager for ross perot's presidential bid and last great presidential campaign, reagan '84, i still have my t-shirt. great to see you tonight. a lot of polls show narrow margin between trump and biden, could either of these candidate cost one of the election, west or r.f.k. jr.? >> sure, everybody has to be aware, there is polarization in the country and people don't particularly like the parties. the parties are not growing and prospering, people are not registering. you have two candidate running, i think it will be biden and trump, that the country does not necessarily want, either party does not want. biden's numbers are terrible. anybody that takes three, four, 5 percent away can make a big difference. you will not beat them head-to-head, i assume since we run the same election twice and one time trump won by little more than 50,000 votes and second time maybe 100,000 votes, really narrow focus here. >> laura: if you were advising b candidate, start with trump, one of the last great campaign managers,a live in the united states. what would you say to donald trump given external factors coming into play? >> i would tell him to run do his court stuff, perform any way, shape or form he wants to. he has a ton of lawyers that can advise him and campaign on things he did as president, talk about what he accomplished and what is being undone everyday. run a separate campaign from the legal. he's trying to make his legal campaign his campaign, that is not a winning strategy. >> laura: focus on issues, gas, prosperity, low gas prices. gas prices is something not being talked about. >> not being talked about and the border, he did great things on, tried to do great things and that's flared up everywhere and not just new york or california, people worry about that everywhere. my sense is that is an issue to talk about. economic stability, rebuilding military was a big issue. has to separate it. the key thing in our discussion tonight, i've been a fighter all my life, never been a hater. i've never let hate get into my environment, it damages me as opposed to them. there is an old boxer and boxing coach, great advice referee gives you, protect yourself at all times, we have to be on guard today. there are unhappy and angry people around the world and it will only get worse, always be aware of your surroundings and who might endanger you in any way, shape or form. people want to get guns, i don't dissuade that, be well trained how you use them. >> laura: it is crazy out there. everyone should remember that remember john anderson, polling 24%, but election day he got 6% of the vote, that was a big flop. >> well, ross perot in june of the election, he was ahead of bush and clinton, he was 39% and he dropped, he didn't run a good campaign and did not know how to run a campaign. the reality is, i assume kennedy will have some numbers, i don't think they will stay. >> laura: ded, great to see you, the optimistic warrior. up next, jesse watters. >> carley: fox news alert, president biden set to formally answer questions f