election before the really big election, we can say another issue is really, really giving the economy a run for its money. or lack of money or whatever. we're talking about abortion. consider abortion rights supporters winning a key ohio ballot measure. a democratic governor campaigning on reproductive rights holding on to win in kentucky. and a democrat picking up a seat on the pennsylvania supreme court after pledging to uphold abortion rights. the biggest of all of them, democrats taking full control of the virginia state house, presumably blocking republicaning from passing new abortion restrictions in a blow to governor youngkin. so you see what's going on? wonder why many democrats see hopeful signing for next year. not because they'll be focusing on the economy but precisely because they will not. abortion is a winning issue for them. we're all over it on "your world" starting now. welcome. i'm neil cavuto. one election changed every one's mind about what will be consequential and substantial in the next big election. of course, all of this as republican presidential candidates, the five you see there, get ready to debate in what is their third such debate of this go-around. and the sobering lessons they'll likely try to bring up from what happened last night and what it could mean a year from now. let's go to aishah hasnie with the reset going on in miami. aishah? >> hey, good afternoon to you, neil. you're right. all of these candidates have to be ready to tackle abortion head on. we are hearing that ambassador nikki haley is ready to take it on. we know in previous debates that she has seen a bump in polling when she's talked about this. this could be a big opportunity for her later tonight. here's where they all kind of stand where it comes to abortion. haley is focusing on a national consensus. we know governor ron desantis support as 15-week ban. tim scott is at 15 weeks. i'm told scott is not phased by what happened last night. governor chris christie says abortion should be left to the states. vivek ramaswamy says the gop needs to have a better messaging strategy. listen to this. >> i support voters and states making these choices. whatever the results are, you'll have great variation across the country in terms of what people want. >> i don't think it should be a sign that the republican party should abandon a pro life position. they need to graduate in not only how we take about this issue but putting substance in what it means to be pro life. if we frame this issue correctly, this need not be some sort of final sign that we take. >> now, neil, when you talk to folks here in miami, abortion is not at all what they're talking about. they're telling me they're worried about the economy, the border and national security. many of them favor former president trump. this comes as a new cnn polling shows trump is beating biden by four points if the election was held today. team desantis and haley are dumps on trump this morning for the disappointing gop results last night. haley calling trump a loser for his endorsed candidate losing the kentucky governor's race and team biden is expected, of course, in miami as well with some counter programming of their own. they'll try to contrast what they call these extreme maga policies, neil. the dnc just put up some spanish language billboards around the area around south florida. a mobile billboard will be circling the venue later tonight, neil. >> neil: thanks, aishah. let's go to jacqui heinrich at the white house and how they're suggesting a possible escape route from the economy and now to abortion. a far more friendlier issue for the democrats. test test. applying the term to this conflict. rashida tlaib's use of that phrase, the white house denouncing her use of that phrase, but they would not go so far as to say that censure was appropriate. but the state department condemned the state department condemned that very phrase a couple weeks ago. it reads revelling in the murder of rape and civilians, calling for the destruction of israel. such hatred makes peace harder to achieve. that was from president biden's special envoy to combat anti-semitism. an official statement on the u.s. state department web site that was not quite fully mirrored today from the podium, neil. >> thanks, jacqui. i want to go to amy, the messenger chief white house correspondent. we're still trying to digest the significance of last night's vote. abortion was key and influential in almost all of them. i'm just wondering now who that changes or could change the dynamic? it was an issue that tripped up republicans last year in the mid-terms, tripped some of them up this go-around. not in mississippi was re-elected. i wonder how you see this play out as an issue in 2024. >> i'm hearing from a lot of democrats that feel, you know, the biden campaign has been here doing a lot of counter programming here in miami where i am. i'm hearing from a lot of democrats that this should be the main issue that they talk about, not the economy, not anything else. they should focus and hone in on this. they're getting -- the biden campaign is hearing from the democrats that they should learn when has happened. it's an issue that moves voters, democratic voters, people concerned not voting or staying on the sidelines that they will get these people activated. so i think you'll be seeing much more of this, especially coming from the democrats, making this more of an issue and maybe hearing more from the president himself and not just kamala harris. i think that the white house was leaving that to her for awhile. a lot of people want to hear from the president himself on this issue. >> neil: you mentioned the president. i was hearing one democratic consultant on one of the news networks, i watch them all to know what's going on and one said this gives the president a pass or relief on he's too old for the job and the revolt going on in the party. i don't know if that is a bit extreme. the question ask can it last. what do you think? >> i don't know. i'm hearing from a lot of democrats that are a little worried about the polls. they feel like they're real. biden campaign is obviously saying -- the campaign manager saying this is too -- it's not predictive of the next year. we're feeling good about where we are. a lot of democrats feel completely differently. i think that that is -- you're going to see them sort of try to do more, try to talk more about the economy. they haven't sold it well. they know they haven't sold it well. you're going to hear more of this coming up from them. they haven't done a good job selling the president's agenda and what he has been doing. there's a lot of voters that feel that they were better off four years ago under president trump. >> neil: so things could change. amy parnes, always good talking to you. thanks. ivanka trump on the witness stand testifying in her father's fraud trial against the family's business. she comported herself well. there's some ironies why she had to testify at all. nate foy has more right now from the courthouse. during her directed examination today, ivanka answered questions about her role at the trump organization as a former executive securing loans for various properties, some transactions dating as far back . >> shows will attempt the distance herself from the company. the facts will reveal that in fact she was very much involved. we uncovered the scheme and she benefitted from it personally. >> neil, the former president laid out his defense on truth social writing no victims, no defaults, conservative financial statements. 100% disclaimer clause. corrupt attorney general, trump-hating judge equals no case. ivanka is the final witness. lawyers for former president donald trump will present their own witnesses in making his defense. neil? >> neil: thanks, nate. i want to switch to other side of manhattan here to get a peek what's going on outside the united nations. more protests on behalf '0the palestinians. we're keeping an eye on it. we saw it in the greater five boroughs outside. we're also keeping an eye on israel itself. from mike tobin, maybe a deal to get hostages out as long as israel is open to doing something else. therein lies the potential rub. mike tobin. >> inside the gaza strip, the israeli forces are closing down the hamas tunnel network. details coming up. ♪ unnecessary action hero! ♪ -missing punches? -unnecessary! -check reversals? -unnecessary! -time sheet corrections? -unnecessary! -unentered sick time? -unnecessary! -go! -unnecessary! -go! -unnecessary! -when you can take this phone, you'll be ready. -make the unnecessary, unnecessary. let your employees do their own payroll. - bye, bye cough. - later chest congestion. hello 12 hours of relief. 12 hours!! not coughing? hashtag still not coughing?! mucinex dm gives you 12 hours of relief from chest congestion and any type of cough, day or night. mucinex dm. it's comeback season. dear moms and dads, what you have achieved here today is going to help us and our futures. it is why we're coming up on stage to collect your diplomas. mom, love you always. vo: when you graduate, they graduate. visit finishyourdiploma.org to find free and supportive (car engine revs) adult education centers near you. (engine accelerating) (texting clicks) (tires squeal) (glass shattering) (loose gravel clanking) >> neil: all right. a pause for hostages? that's the back and forth on the debate about getting a temporary pause in military activity on the part of the israelis in gaza. mike tobin has been looking at that and more and joining us from southern israel. mike? >> neil, three way talks between the u.s., israel and qataris. we're talking about a three-day pause. if you remember, prime minister netanyahue says he's open to brief pieces but nothing like a cease fire inless it involved return of hostages. meantime, a substantial israeli force inside of the gaza fence. the primary job is finding the tunnels. they find them in schools, hospitals and even in a children's amusement park. and the palestinians exodus is taking place every day as a humanitarian corridor opens up. people leaving with whatever belongings that they can take. they're trying to get south and away from the heaviest of the fighting. the problem is when they get to the south, the aid camps are overflowing right now. there's no where for them to stay and not enough food for them. i talked with a member of the unity government, benny gant. he talked about the day after the war in gaza. he said we will sit down, review an alternative mechanism for gaza. i don't know what it will be but i do know what cannot be there, an active presence of hamas with governance and military capabilities. 106 aid trucks entered the gaza strip today through the rafah crossing. aid agencies say it's a trickle compared to the need and no fuel allowed in. >> thanks, mike. a very brave young man. take a look outside the united nations. we have competing rallies for palestinians, some for israelis. peaceful so far. general jack keane here is with us. general, first on these protests that happen. pick a city and a major western nation. they're all over the map. they are all out there. do you think these protests, especially the ones that are pro palestinian because it's lopsidedly in favor of palestinian rallies, that it's a sign that hamas, not to conflate the two is winning the p.r. rally? >> it's indisputable. hamas's focus on killing civilians this time versus idf, which they did do, but it wasn't their focus, and the viciousness and savagery of that attack was designed to get a significant israeli violent response. they welcome that response and they held people in the area of that response to drive these casualties up. so what they're getting is worldwide international condemnation of israel. check mark. that's what they wanted and they're getting it. they also want geo political isolation of israel. some of that is happening to a certain degree but not widespread. i think they want to end the normalization that was taking place with the arab states, two of them, two other muslim states. they want to undermine that and maybe as a result of what is taking place with the palestinians, that would dissolve and they want to stop saudi arabia from normalizing with israel. if that happens, every arab nation in the middle east and muslim nation will fall in to play. that is absolutely what iran doesn't want. hamas is their instrument here. >> neil: it has frozen all of the activity. so at the very least, hamas succeeded in doing that. there was a deep dive in to the strategy of hamas in today's "new york times." the premise was why would they do something so crazy like this horrific butchering attack on 1,400 israelis when they knew full well in advance the response would be ten fold, the world protest. essentially the premise came away that hamas leaders believe that the palestinian cause was being lost and slipping away. only violence could revive it. what did you make of that? >> i think that's accurate. look, they're counting on the international condemnation. they got that. this is so diabolical and sinister on their part. we have people elected by a population, the gazan people, been in power 16 years. the principle aspect of governing the people is to protect them. but they want them to be casualties. they make certain that they are. they got 300 miles of tunnel complexes. they have no bunkers or tunnel complexes for the population there they're there to protect. they serve the population up as human shields wanting those women and children to be killed incidentally to the operations that the israelis are conducts. >> neil: do they think the shock effect of seeing something like this wouldn't register or being denied is ever happening? >> the shock effect of women and children being killed in gaza is widespread around the world and israelis are being held accountable for it. they recognize as soon a that started to take place, people's memories are short. they've forget the butchery of what took place and after all, what is being played out on international global network is palestinians being killed every single day. day in, day out, day in, day out. >> neil: do a lot of people understand the region? that's why sky. we know for almost two decades now israel has had no control over gaza. that has been hamas. it's their baby. you don't like how things are going over there, you can't blame israel. they ceded that to hamas. they have a duly elected representative. the fact is that is the facts. but yet, israel getting blamed for the treatment of palestinians. >> neil, you put your finger -- that's why the arabs are fed up with this. they disagree with hamas. their a terrorist organization. they displayed their savagery. you can't make a political process when you have one aspect of this movement that wants to destroy the state of israel. the arab nations want to recognize israel and have a positive relationship with it. two arab nation there's in jerusalem that came out against hamas. this is the uae and bahrain. the king of saudi arabia is moving in that direction. look, here's the sad thing the people in the streets don't appreciate. if we get rid of hamas and the hostage taking is there to prevent that from ever happening, these people are not stupid who took the hostages. they have never done that on this kind of a scale. they want to protect themselves using the hostages. if they can get rid of hamas, i'm convinced that life for palestinians will improve, civil society will improve, economic uplifting of their society. the oppression from hamas will stop on top. and take about israel. they repress these people. they don't give them the basic benefits of a normal life for cryin out loud. so i don't want to pollyanish about it. let's fix this once and for all the hamas goes away. if they come in to play here geo politically, that will be helpful. >> neil: thanks, general. we'll be pursuing this with mike waltz of what role we should have. before we go to him after this quick break, i do want to show you some tape that has come in of ivanka trump leaving the courthouse now in new york. dealing with the civil trial of her father 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loiter for 27 hours over 25,000 feet. neil? >> neil: the houthis are financed not just in part by iran. >> absolutely. iran has been backing the houthis as part of that civil war in yemen. the u.s. has been engaged in yemen going after al-quaida. but now the surveillance drones in the air, they most likely are watching to see if the houthis are planning in attacks or firing any missiles towards israel because that could significantly escalate the conflict. >> neil: thanks, jennifer griffin. congressman mike waltz. if we had any doubt about direct or indirect rule by iran, we just got the latest proof. what do you think? >> well, there's no doubt, neil. all roads lead back to iran, period. how do you think the houthis got the sophisticated air defense system to shoot down one of our top of the line drones? they got it from iran. with this administration and until they reverse on their iran policy and until they go back to maximum pressure and dry up their resources, iran is going to continue to fund these malitias, whether it's in syria, hamas, houthis or hezbollah to enact to the ring of fire strategy which comes from the ayat ayatollah, exterminate israel and control energy. this is what people need to fully understand. the israeli intelligence agency just announced in cooperate with brazilian security services, they just stopped a terror plot in brazil. so not only are we seeing in the middle east, we're seeing it in brazil and our southern border is wide open and the fbi director is stating that we are at our highest state of threat and potential terror attack in recent memory. >> neil: meantime, there's been 40 such attacks on u.s. soldiers over the last three weeks or so. this incident is another manifestation of that. do you think that iran counts on the fact that we'll not have a strong response? in other words, we usually go after intermediaries or shoot a tent in the desert and leave it at that. the iranians think we don't a dare escalate this to strike on iran because that invites fears of world war iii and the u.s. doesn't want to do that so we're going to keep doing what we do. >> it's not what i think, neil. they're just going on what they've seen in the last two years. you talk about the number of strikes on our bases just in the last month. the commander -- our military commander of all middle east forces testified earlier this year that there had been 70 in the last two years, all of which went unresponded to. look, you cannot take an appeasement approach with the iranians. you cannot say if we just give a little, they'll come to the table and behave responsibly. no. they see that weakness as opportunity. they see this administration's fear of escalation as an opportunity to be more aggressive. that actually invites more instability. sometimes you have to escalate to deescalate. that's exactly what the trump administration, president trump, secretary pompeo did when they took out soleimani and this provocation stopped. deterrence was restored. until we impose costs on iran itself, whether they're financial or otherwise, this type of aggression is going to continue. they will trade proxy casualties -- >> neil: i don't mean to interrupt you, congressman, but you just -- when you said that and sure enough, you predicted it. it's happened again. now we're getting word that armed drone targets in northern iraq have been hit. we don't know the degree, but reuters is citing two security sources that say that armed drone targets were hit. this will be the 41st such attack in three weeks. on we go. what do you think? >> until you imposes costs on iran, this will continue. they'd trade proxy casualties all day long. it's a good deal for iran. that's a dynamic we have to change. >> neil: i didn't want to pass that on. sorry to interrupt. imagine being a family that lost a key member killed on october 7th and others that are still hostages and you're hearing the ramp up of this type of violence. we're going to 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time. i know you've been making this mission to get the word out. you're talking about i guess you're uncle and your aunt and her status. their son was killed in this attack. the rest -- >> murdered. >> neil: and they were taken hostage. now can you explain a separate cousin has since died? >> yeah. i'll tell you. >> neil: go ahead. >> my uncle and his wife, they are both 78 years old. they leave in kibbutz which is 1 1/2 miles from the gaza border for almost 60 years. they have a small family. a daughter and a son. their son still lived in that kibbutz. he was single, he was 50 years old. and karen, their daughter, left the kibbutz like a few years ago. she liveded with her partner in another town in the center of israel with her only sane, their own grandson, which just turned 9 on the 23rd of october. on that weekend, it was a holiday. the long weekend in israel. karen and dohad just came to visit grandma and grandpa. they found themselves in that horrible saturday morning. >> neil: how did you find out about it? >> as you said before, for almost 20 year, there are missiles all over that area. >> neil: how did you find out about the attack? >> so we got used to sometimes they had missiles and we text them and say everything is okay. life goes back to normal. on that saturday morning, we woke up with missiles all over israel. so with the beginning, we didn't ask them how are they. you know, it was unique that the missiles were all over israel. so only at about -- the whole family tried to contact. karen text her partner that she doesn't want her son to be scared, so they're not watching the news on tv. he's playing with his ipad. my aunt's sister called her at 9:58. she was whispering, we can't talk since the terrorists entered the kibbutz. >> neil: so they broke in. >> yeah. that was it. later on we know that their phones and the smart watch was geo located in gaza. >> neil: their son was killed. >> no, no no. they have in picture, you can see how my cousin. he was single. he was -- >> neil: he was the one. >> he was the one. so we didn't know anything during that saturday. >> just that the others were taken hostage. we thought there was no electricity, no internet. but then i started to understand someone called the israeli tv. he told a similar story that his wife and two daughters, 2 and 4, were also visited the grand parents. he saw on the hamas video, he recognizes his wife and his parents in law and his two daughters that they were taken. so he did find my iphone. it was -- he saw that it was -- you can see it from the window from my uncle and aunt's house. so i realized that probably they were taken as well. on saturday night, we had to -- we spoke with someone from the kibbutz that told us that they're not on the list of the people that survived. they're not on the list of the people -- >> neil: so you don't know. have you heard anything from them? >> the last time we heard anything is october 7th, this is the last we know. we later found out their phones were located in gaza at 11:00 a.m. on that saturday. since then, we were in the dark. the red cross doesn't visit any of the hostages. 239 hostages. nobody knows what their situation is. if they're alive or not, if they're getting treated with medicine, food or water. nobody knows anything. >> neil: who was the last one that either of you spoke to? >> it wasn't us. >> neil: i understand. whoever was on the 7th and there's no word on the others since. now you know that there's reports of 240, maybe more hostages under hamas control. and there's a move afoot to cool it on the bombing. prime minister netanyahu accepts hostages. that's the only time he would stop to get hostages. what do you think of that? >> we think that all hostages should be released unconditionally and immediately. because this is a crime against humanity. >> neil: are you afraid hamas will space this out? >> obviously. hamas took that many hostages so they would have this time to maneuver and play those mind games and strategic plays. but this is just a continuous of their atrocities. every day they're held there is another day of a crime against humanity. >> 30 kids from the age of 10 months. he was nine month when he was. till the age of 15. 30 kids. some of them were evidence of the murder of their parents. they shot the parents and they kidnapped the 4-year-old -- >> neil: how do you feel? we've been following these protests around the world. most are in support of the palestinians. they're not so bold in a lot of cases to say we support hamas, but they -- the ones that are orchestrating a lot of those rallies don't believe october 7th happened. how do you explain that? >> neil: if they say it didn't happen, where is our family? simplest as possible. like you said, hamas filmed their atrocities by themselves. >> neil: i was roy's killing? >> no. >> neil: how do you know he's dead? >> there's a body. >> on monday morning, one of the evidence of the kibbutz said on monday morning that he saw his body in front of his house. he's -- i send you the video. his house was burned to ashing. we couldn't find their dna to identify his body. >> neil: how did they decide who lived and who died? who became a victim versus hostage? >> just i think in random. they had maps of every kibbutz. they know where a security person lives and where there's more people, where there's kids so they could go there and kill as many as possible. >> neil: did you guys see the strategy that hamas was using here? there was a "new york times" story on this. they thought they would get bloody here to make a statement and to put the fear of god out there. they said that they believed the palestinian cause was slipping away as an issue and only violence could revive it. so the whole purpose of these attacks if we're to believe this was to jolt the world in to action an attention of palestinians. >> they don't care about palestinians. i know that for sure. first of all, they shot even the palestinians that were -- >> there were some palestinians in israel with the festival this happened. they shot palestinians as well. they shot muslims. they shot christians. >> neil: what do you think is hamas' end game? >> i don't think they have one. >> they just hate. >> they want to exterminate all jewish people and exterminate israel as they said bluntly. to the open, as many times as possible. the world hasn't understood it enough apparently. now they -- the goal is to demolish hamas. i think that the number 1 goal should be first to release all of the hostages. this is just a cynical game that they're playing. they're saying we want cease fire only if -- sorry. we will release hostages only if you have a cease fire. >> on october 6, there was a cease fire. the day before. >> neil: we'll watch it closely. i know this has been wrenching. i cannot imagine it. you're on a mission, a mission from god. >> but one important thing. >> neil: please, finish. >> there are hostages like my uncle, for example. he's not in good condition. he hardly walks. he walks with a cane. he hardly sees. he has problem with his eyes. he wears glasses. we don't know if he gets his medicine. the youngest is ten months old. the oldest is 85 years old. from that kibbutz, there's 78 hostages out of population of 400. >> neil: just amazing. keep us posted. we'd love to have you back. see how this story ends. hopefully happily. >> thanks very much. >> neil: more after this. sam wh, everyday products, designed smarter. genius! like 2.5% cash back on purchases of $5,000 or more, so sam can make smart ideas, a brilliant reality! chase for business. make more of what's yours. we really don't want people to think of feeding food like ours is spoiling their dogs. good, real food is simple. it looks like food, it smells like food, it's what dogs are supposed to be eating. no living being should ever eat processed food for every single meal of their life. it's amazing to me how many people write in 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militia groups that received backing from iran may try to go after more of our groups in the region, we have tens of thousands of troops not just in syria, iraq, iran, all over the region. one of the reasons we all support israel's efforts to eliminate the hamas leadership. we do think they need to do this with some care because the chance and possibility of this widening to a regional war is enormous, one of the reasons why i was proud, happy finally to see prime minister netanyahu's that he was to try to rein in some of the settler violence that is taking place in the west bank, where innocent palestinians are getting killed because the last thing israel needs at this point is for the palestinian security forces, for example, in the west bank to all quit at once, and suddenly you have the israeli defense forces not only deal in gaza, but also on the west bank. this is a very dangerous time, as you know, and i hope most members appreciate it. >> neil: i just wonder if we can appreciate, you know, the wrath of iran here, if it is behind these now, what, 40 or so attacks in the last three weeks. maybe the assumption, senator, is they don't think we will hit them, we might hit their proxies. we have heard the old story, hit a tent in a desert in syria and leave it at that and they know that because they know we are anxious about targeting them directly because that would invite a wider conflict, some say even world war iii. how do you feel about that? do you think we should respond to these attacks going after iran itself? >> i think we have to be very careful and thoughtful who fires the first bullet directly from iranian forces or american forces at each other. bears a huge amount of responsibility. i think the iranians are following very closely not one, but the fact we have two carrier groups in the region. one that is more closely aligned closer to iran and one in the eastern mediterranean. i think they are aware of that show of force. >> neil: do you think they are assuming, we only have a little bit left, do you think they assume we won't go after them directly in this environment? >> neil, i do not believe, they don't think we will safely -- we won't go after them. i do tell you this, though, neil. if we walk away from ukraine and don't honor our commitment there, then i think that gives more signals to iran that, you know, america doesn't keep its word, it doesn't honor its alliances, and anyone that cares about iran or cares about president xi's rise and the ccp's rise in china come if you don't understand the connection that has two putin and ukraine, your funking geopolitics 101. >> neil: center, i know hit with a lot of breaking news of the last we appreciate your understanding. senator mark warner, senate intelligence committee chairman. there is so much we don't know, so much we do. the war everyone doesn't want to widen keep suddenly trying to widen. we will try to stand top of it. 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