1 150 people, including hollywood executives took place in the screening. compiled by the israel defense forces so journalists and public figures worldwide could view the video and counter the misinformation that's being spread regarding the attacks. the l.a. mayor responded to the fight last night, said we cannot allow current worldwide tension to devolve to this unacceptable violence in our city. this is a time of immense pain and distress for thousands in los angeles. we must stand together. gal gadot, who was born in israel and served two years as a soldier in the idf, has drawn criticism from pro palestine supporters for organizing the l.a. screening of the hamas attack footage and showing her support of israel but she is not backing down. just yesterday gadot posted video of broadway performance singing "bring him home," caption over 240 hostages, including 30 children, held captive by hamas. a prayer from broadway, bring them home. as for the fight outside the museum of tolerance, lapd has not yet said if any arrests were made. >> sandra: christina, thank you. john. >> john: aaron cohen, he end attended the footage last night, founder of cherries, specializes in counter terrorism training for law enforcement. aaron, you were there. this has been screened before, it was screened in tel aviv for journalists, also screened in new york for journalists. gal gadot put on the screening last night. what was the source, trigger point for the altercation? >> well, i think the trigger point is that there was an actual screening of this footage. to bear witness to the atrocities that happened on october 7th at that massacre. and we have seen these, you know, tussles around the world, john, and l.a. was no different last night. you could certainly hear the commotion within the auditorium during the speaking event before the screening, a little bit after the screening, and it was apparent that tempers were heightened. but lapd did a fantastic job. diplomatic security operations for the various ambassadors and consul general of los angeles did a fantastic job, everybody was very safe. but it was expected that there would definitely be some tension outside. >> john: i've read a lot of accounts of the screening, i have not seen the footage myself, but graphic and compelling written account came from a canadian journalist, national post up in canada who wrote this, i watched hamas hack innocents to democrat. the worst part was their glee. streams of blood hacked off arms and legs and an infant missing part of its skull, brain leaking out. i'll never forget the gore but it's the look of it, as if they were the ones cheering at the music festival will haunt me. >> i'm not very squeamish, i've been in the business a long time but affected me, everybody in the room, a very somber feeling. it was a very eerie quiet. i believe it's very important it was shown. clearly some of these hollywood executives in the room, i've been around the hollywood crowd a long time, it was important to see the footage and bear witness to what they saw. it's a different -- it's a different animal to see it, john. but i will say this, the message was received, the glee in the terrorist's eyes were -- was very apparent throughout the footage. the idf did a fantastic job. gal gadot, a national treasure, did a fantastic job organizing the event and it's important for people to see this material. >> john: anti-israeli protestors say it's propaganda, but we need to remind people this was taken from bodycams predominantly that hamas terrorists were wearing so that they could go back to gaza and glorify their heinous terrorist attacks. and it seems a lot of young people are not armed with a whole lot of information about all of this. there was a protest in london the other day, the campaign against antisemitism, talked to a few people at the pro palestinian rally. question was asked a couple of young women, when hamas invaded israel october 7th, what was your initial reaction to that. one young woman says i don't think they did that, did they. and the other one said i think i need to be a bit more clued up on everything that's going on. they admit they need to be clued up, they don't know what happened and yet they are out there blindly criticizing israel for its campaign against hamas. >> that's right, john. there's a lot of uneducated people when it comes to this conflict. clearly they have no idea that the only occupation of gaza has been by hamas since 2007 where they forcefully took control of the strip. this footage is very important. this is the fifth front that israel is fighting in this war, besides hamas in gaza, hezbollah in the north, houthis out of yemen, and iraq, not only israeli assets but against u.s. assets. fifth front is the information war. israel is getting better at it. they realized it's spreading on a more global level and the world needs to understand that israel has been dealing with this level of threat for many, many years and part of my messaging has been to really take audiences back to understand that terrorism goes all the way back to the 60s, that's why special operations units have been formed. israel has been dealing with terrorism for a long time and they are one of the best at dealing with counter terrorism, so this information is critical that the world gets educated and understand the level of threat and it's directed at the west and that this will expound and it's important to get to really educated on exactly what's going on here. this video shows it. >> john: the one thing that israel has come to realize in all of this, it needs to have video of every potentially controversial military move it makes. aaron cohen, thanks for catching up with us. appreciate it. sandra, i sent you the article, i don't know if you got a chance to read it, tweeted it out on twitter or x, but it's heart-wrenching reading that account by sabrina maddow. >> sandra: and you can put it in the same conversation as to whether or not those who are out there advocating at these pro palestinian rallies, whether they truly either have come to terms or understand or have even sat down and educated themselves on what happened. daily mail is running a headline, i need to be more clued up. they went around and spoke to students at these various pro palestinian rallies and protests. they say it revealed how little they knew about the israel-hamas conflict and not aware in some cases the terror group launched that bloody slaughter on october 7th. and that is really something, john. >> john: yeah, it is, no question. >> sandra: israeli forces are pushing back on a three-high humanitarian ceasefire and negotiations are underway. white house says israel has agreed to a four -- has agreed to a four hour pause each day to allow civilians to safely free gaza. trey yingst is joining us live on the ground in southern israel for us at this hour. hi, trey. >> sandra, good afternoon. start with some updates out of the gaza strip. palestinian islamic jihad released two hostage videos showing an elderly israeli woman and young boy, both kidnapped, taken into gaza on october 7th where they have been held ever since. and tonight richard heck, the lieutenant colonel, a spokesman for the israeli military described it best. he said this is psychological terrorism. hamas and islamic jihad are trying to basically bend the arm of israel into getting a ceasefire but we understand that it will be incredibly difficult because israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says they are going to push forward with operations inside gaza until they destroy hamas leadership and get rid of all the weapons inside the strip. they have been operating throughout the day and continue at this hour. i do want t draw your attention to the west bank where the israelis were operating in the city of janine. they say they killed ten militants in different cells that are currently fighting inside the west bank. it gives you a sense of how many fronts the israelis are dealing with as the war enters day 34. and when it comes to the hostages, fox news can report some progress in doha, meeting with the head of mossad and the cia director, official with knowledge of the visit says the talks have been progressing well for a deal over the past few days. fighting inside gaza escalates, we do know israel's facing other fronts, and that includes a drone attack and ballistic missile attack from yemen. they were able to intercept one of those missiles. >> sandra: trey yingst from southern israel. 9:10 local time. see you shortly. >> john: awaiting an update from the pentagon after the u.s. launched retaliatory strikes in syria. we will bring you the breaking news as we get it. >> sandra: israeli forces say they have breached hamas security centers in gaza. retired army lieutenant colonel darren gobb joins us after the break to talk about israel's progress. that's next. >> hamas has had weeks, months, years 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(engine accelerating) (texting clicks) (tires squeal) (glass shattering) (loose gravel clanking) >> sandra: idf engaging with street battles with hamas militants deep inside gaza city, and they say they are near the shifa hospital. idf calling the area the heart of hamas intelligence and operational activity. retired army blackhawk pilot and commander joins us to weigh in, also the co-founder of restore liberty. sir, thank you for being here. good to have you. >> pleasure to join you. >> sandra: this is john kirby this morning on the impact of these pauses on the fighting. listen. >> four-hour pause, for instance, will allow potentially to move humanitarian assistance in to that localized area over that span of time. it could also provide enough of a window to help people get out of harm's way. it could also provide brief windows of opportunity for safe passage for those hostages from where they are being held to safer ground. >> sandra: colonel to you, on that. what do you see as the impact of pauses? >> let's call it what it is, it's a ceasefire and only a four hour ceasefire but it's long enough for hamas and people who would sympathize with them to take advantage of that time period to be able to do more things that would cause more difficult for the israeli defense forces to work. >> sandra: you believe it will help hamas. >> absolutely it will help. i guess when you say the pressure is on from the israeli defense forces on hamas in gaza city, the worst thing you can do now is stop unless you have to for your own reasons. >> sandra: really interesting. yesterday admiral kirby was speaking from the microphone at the white house trying to make clear to the world what they see as the difference between these pauses and a complete ceasefire. this is mike pompeo, he was on this network this morning saying any pause has to include guarantees hostages would be released. listen. >> if it's the case redirecting fires for a few hours or short pause in the attacks would deliver some of these men and women back to their families, sign me up. but a three-day pause with no promise of what you are actually going to get from these guys who will lie to your face, would precisely play to their playbook. >> sandra: do you think that could happen? >> they are going to use any pause to their advantage and i seriously doubt they are going to release the hostages. they are not going to do anything on our terms, but on theirs, that's how they operate. i don't see it happening. >> sandra: colonel, if we take the big picture look at the conflict right now and where there is all going, there are fears it will escalate, and spread in the region, what are your thoughts on that, how long does this go on, what do you believe the end game is and should be? >> well, i think the end game ultimately should be this fighting needs to cease but needs to cease on israel's terms with the destruction of hamas. and hopefully that is where it actually does stop. we do not need this to spread into bringing hezbollah in full force, ten times large as hamas and by doing so, could spread into syria and iran, and who knows where it goes from there. so, in my picture, in my mind, i would like to see this end with israel in control of the gaza strip, as many of the innocent civilians safe as possible, and then hopefully israel is able to take the gaza strip and build it into what it could be into a peaceful and prosperous area. >> sandra: a final question to you on the u.s. response to the iranian proxies and these now 46 attacks on u.s. bases in the middle east. are we responding forcefully enough? i mean, we just -- we just had another round of u.s. strikes. i mean, is this enough to deter these iranian proxies from the threat to our u.s. forces overseas? >> it hasn't been yet and it won't be. it's not even close to enough to deter iran and the mercenary arms of hamas and hezbollah and the houthis in yemen. and the message over the last years is america is operating from a position of weakness and the world has seen that, is taking advantage of it, and what we are showing in our response to our own soldiers getting attacked in iraq and syria and other places, we will continue to operate from a position of weakness. >> sandra: we were at 42 when we launched another round of strikes to fire back, now four iranian proxy attacks on u.s. bases since then. what does that tell us about deterrence for these attacks. appreciate you joining us here on set in new york. >> john: houston police searching for a suspect on the loose after they say he murdered a mother in front of her young son and critics say he should have never been out from behind bars in the first place. >> sandra: plus, john, the u.s. military as where he mentioned carrying out retaliatory airstrikes against iran proxies. what president biden has to say about attacks. delaware senator met with the president and his national security team last night. he will join us what next steps we are taking as a country. >> this is a war, and with all due respect to all international pressure that is put on israel right now, we need to win this war. ♪ war. cler krer my name is josh sanabria and i am the owner at isla veterinary boutique hospital. i was 5...6 years of age and i knew i was going to be a vet. once alexandra called me to let me know that bank of america had approved my loan... it was important to me. we not only just provide the financing piece, we do everything that we can to surround them with the right people. all you need is a perfect, amazing team that will guide you through the right steps to be successful. and that's what bank of america was for me. 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