>> harris: fox news alert. only one american has been released by hamas terrorists. the white house hopes americans will be included on what we're told to expect today, a new list of people to be freed by hamas terrorists. we are in the final hours of that extended six-day cease-fire in the israeli/hamas war. i'm harris falkier and you are in "the faulkner focus." israel says it has the list of the hostages set to be released today and notified their families. and they will try to extend the cease-fire as long as the terrorists keep releasing at least ten hostages per day. we know that the hostage taking serial killers, hamas, have released 12 hostages, ten israelis and two foreign nationals just yesterday. so today would make the sixth time that they would move to release people. to date, 85 of the 240 hamas initially kidnapped have gone free. israeli american 4-year-old abigail edan who i mentioned moments ago, has been released from the hospital now two days after she was returned to israel. the horror she endured are indescribable. she saw hamas savages kill her mom. she ran to her dad who shielded her with his own body and terrorists shot through him. she was able to escape out from under her father's body to safety but then further taken by the terrorists. one young u.s. israeli citizen was at the music festival when hamas attacked. his arm blown off by a grenade before he was loaded into a truck at gun point. his mother has not stopped fighting for his safe return. >> i hope that more and more hostages are released. i worry about my son, who i know was in critical condition, is now permanently for the rest of his life without a limb, and, you know, i'm concerned for his health. i just am a mom and i want my only son to come home to me. i will take him with one arm. >> harris: we pray for them all. nate foye, you are just in northern israel, not far from lebanon. we've seen some activity in recent weeks from there. what's happening? >> well, harris, i can tell you that mother you just heard from is not alone. 140 -- over 140 hostages remain in gaza. israel reportedly has a list of 12 hostages that are set to be freed in a sixth exchange tonight. we're waiting on those hostages to be transferred over to the red cross. reportedly in this list it includes ten israeli women as well as two women who hold duly citizenship in israel and russia. believed to be a gesture by hamas to vladimir putin. remains to be seen in any americans are in the newest batch of hostages set to be freed. it comes after a fifth exchange last night. look at this video. this group included nine israeli women as old as 84 and 1 israeli girl, a 17-year-old who was released in exchange for 30 hamas prisoners. two foreign workers were also released from gaza, a doctor at the medical center said some of the hostages had injuries but all in stable condition. we have new video of an israeli/russian man reuniting with his family. hamas is mainly releasing women and children but this was also considered another gesture to putin. meanwhile, two more u.s. military flights are set to land in egypt this week for a total of three flights carrying humanitarian aid bound for gaza. u.s. officials are again in qatar working to extend the temporary cease-fire to secure the release of more hostages and delivery of more aid to gaza. as negotiations play out, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu applied more pressure on hamas with this message moments ago. >> there is no way we're not going back to fighting until the end. this is my policy. the entire government stands we behind it. the soldiers stand behind it, the people stand behind it. this is exactly what we will do. >> tonight an israeli official says the only way that israel will agree to a longer pause in the fighting is if all women and children are released from gaza. we'll see if that's a negotiating position or if that, in fact, holds true. negotiations are also including talks about possibly releasing israeli men, even idf soldiers. so far israel has had to release three palestinian prisoners for every israeli woman or child hostage. we'll send it back to you. >> harris: i had mentioned where you are and i don't know how close you are to the border with lebanon but there was a point early in the war where there was a lot of concern about the rockets that were coming over into northern israel. is that still a problem? >> harris, yesterday lebanese media reported an israeli shell landed in southern lebanon. no further escalation. idf wouldn't comment on it and they didn't confirm that it happened. the idf chief of staff visited northern israel yesterday and where we are, harris, we're very close to the border. this village has been evacuated. the idf chief said that when people come back to this village and others like it, they will have a much improved security situation compared to what they had on october 7th. >> harris: you are talking about securing an area that potentially could become a second front in the war and all that they are doing to keep that from happening. it has quieted at least a little bit. nate foye, great reporting as always. thank you very much. lieutenant colonel gobb blackhawk helicopter pilot and executive director of restore liberty. great to have you every time we can get you. colonel, as you hear about these hostage releases, the one thing that pops to my mind from nate's reporting outside of the good news of the people being released are the two gestures that hamas has made to putin of russia with two of the hostages released. one who is a man and i guess holding duly citizenship with russia. what's the point of that with terrorists? >> yeah, harris, thank you. always good to join you. every time i see something happen around israel with either hamas or even hezbollah and houthi rebels. if you were to tug on the thread you'll find it running through tehran and some way to moscow. this is kind of an acknowledgement of the fact that putin and moscow working with tehran and other allies are all involved in this. this is just an acknowledgement of that fact. i think many of us know but it is a change of it -- it changes when you see that acknowledgement through their actions. >> harris: yeah. we know that the hostages were taken as human shields and now pawns and politics that perhaps we're not focused on with regard to russia. >> absolutely. i think that's one of the risks with this conflict in general is we're so focused on israel we forget there is still things going on in ukraine and ties that are across in this geopolitical spectrum between russia, iran, china and many other things we still have to keep our eye on in the u.s. we can't forget that in the midst of all this but like you said, too, we also need to make sure we do celebrate the reunion of these families at the same time. >> harris: this has been hard, though. there is so much propaganda around all of this. delay, delay, delay, we'll give this list and that list. there was a time when jews were being put on lists during the holocaust. when i heard those words who is on the list it shakes my soul. i know this is for a good purpose, but the fact that we're waiting for a list to come out is also disturbing. hamas, they seem to be professional at this. >> they are professionals at this for many decades. in fact, one of their guiding principles is that war is deceit. any time that they are doing something, including treaties, hostages exchanges and things like that, they are doing it for their own strategic advantage. they are not ever going to do it for humanitarian purposes or actual care for the people. that is something we have to account for. we may not like it, but it is a fact of life when you are part of an organization that is a terrorist group that is raised this way. >> harris: i want to talk with you about something that popped. the city council of oakland voted for a permanent cease-fire in gaza and rejected a proposal to condemn hamas terrorists. the event atrackeded dueling rallies, no violence. one speaker compared israel to a wife beater who complains when the wife fights back. others described israel as genocidal, colonial. watch this. >> condemn hamas without condemning the apartheid state of israel is basically encouraging genocide. >> we could have easily put forth a resolution condemning the countless crimes committed by the zionist entity. >> harris: your reaction. >> well first of all, my reaction is oakland has plenty of problems they need to address in their own city and this is not a concern of theirs ultimately along with the other cities doing this. fortunately the resolutions have no merit when it comes to dictating any actions by israel in the first place. israel needs to keep fighting along the public relations war but they need to win the bigger war first, the eradication of hamas. that's the only cease-fire they should except is they should stop fighting when hamas has been eliminated and need to stay focused on that. these kinds of resolutions in cities around the u.s. are exposing the radicalization of the left wing and others not only in campuses but now we're seeing in city councils and county governments around the united states and that's unfortunate to see. we shouldn't be restricting their speech in any way, shape or form but this isn't in any way productive towards israel or even those who would be suffering under and during this attack on gaza that israel has the right to conduct in the first place. >> harris: you have fought for this country and fought for the right for free speech and i continue to ask, they talk so much about hating israel, they don't talk about loving the people that they say they want to help, the palestinians. i don't understand how any of what they are doing is helping them. colonel, thank you very much. the far left squad's general unity over the israel/hamas war seems to be crumbling a bit among the democrats, a split 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extreme maga policies. the evidence voters aren't buying keeps pouring in. his approval on key issues such as the economy, middle east and foreign affairs are deeply underwater for him. he also tied his record low approval rating for a third time with just 37%. republicans say biden has no one to blame but himself. >> the majority of the american people no longer have faith in the american dream. >> we've now absolutely emptied our strategic petroleum reserve. >> bidenomics is failing miserably. foreign policy the failing miserably and southern border is failing miserably. >> joe biden, the president, can't fix his problem. the number one problem is his age. >> american people are starting to understand looking at the polling of who is making these decisions and all these decisions are going against the american people. >> harris: the most dramatic biden's approval with independent voters is at a all time low of 27%. "the new york times" saying this about biden's weakness with young voters. young voters are by far the likelyest to say it is too old to be an effective president. many upset about his handling of the israel/hamas war. sure michael singleton and mark penn. great to have you both. first of all, 27% of anything would deem it not effective if you were taken aspirin or something. this is really, really negative for a current president inside now a year from election day. >> most certainly is. if you look at most recent elections, harris, we have never had a president that has performed so poorly with independent voters that went on to win re-election. this should signal real problems for the biden administration as well as democrats generally speaking. you have just talked about the state of the economy and the way the president is handling foreign affairs. let's also keep in mind the immigration problem where you have many americans, including black americans in cities like new york and chicago, that are saying wait a minute here, why are we redirecting resources for americans to people who aren't u.s. citizens? there is a real problem on the president's hands. he seems incapable of handling it. >> harris: mark, i don't want to lean too hard on his age. the one poll of young voters, that what they would poll to because they are oppositional in that way to the president. i've been 29, many, many, many times. so let's just focus on this bidenomics message. does he think americans are too stupid to know what they really are experiencing and that he can talk them out of it? >> well, some far he has had little success at that at convincing people that low inflation, lower inflation that has been coming down, low unemployment is a good economy because the voters have been focusing on the general rise of prices over the last year and a half. >> harris: they are still rising but rising slower. >> that's right. >> harris: but still right. >> absolutely. he has been unsuccessful. but a year in economic terms is a long time if inflation keeps coming down. i don't expect he will move any voters on that today but he won't give up on it, that's for sure. >> harris: he has less than a year. december on friday. it looks like vice president kamala harris has a new job. latino voter outreach upping her efforts to connect with those voters heading into 2024 as biden has support. that slipped. she will try to make up that difference. a recent poll averaging six battleground states show 42% of hispanic voters in swing states support trump compared to 50% for joe biden. that's a major drop for president biden who saw 65% support in 2020 compared with trump's 32% then. so what's flipped the switch in this particular voting block? >> i think the latino community, just like a african-american community and the white american community, asian american community are looking at economic instability and inaccessible housing market. for most americans, the american dream is really a dream. you have to be dreaming to believe it because what we expected 25 or 30 years ago in terms of building a nuclear family, putting your kid through college and living in a safe community is not the reality for any american regardless of ethnicity or racial background. people are looking for someone else to move the needle forward for them. i will say this quickly. people may have criticisms of donald trump and many to list. look at the state of the economy under trump and people are saying the economy was booming four years ago but not booming today. maybe we should give the former president a second opportunity. >> harris: the israel/hamas war may be exposing a deep rift among members of the far left democrats and yesterday six members of that group voted in favor of two pro-israel resolutions. none of them supported an earlier similar resolution. maybe the politics or at least the pressure there is moving. but there were two notable divides from the far left members of the democrats in yesterday's vote. congresswoman corey bush did not vote at all for either resolution. it wasn't that she wasn't available apparently. maybe she will put out a different statement. rashida tlaib voted in favor of condemning hamas's attack but didn't support a resolution for israel's right to exist. she explained her present vote in the statement. israel does not have a right to carry out illegal occupation and apartheid which will never lead to a just and lasting peace. this resolution is a one-sided attempt to rewrite history and the he erasing of palestinians. >> 412 to 1 in favor of that resolution. i was heartened by that. no surprise to me that two members of the squad. it was a little surprise that it was reduced to two members of the squad came out against this simple resolution recognizing the right of israel to exist. the one opponent was actually a republican. but i think we should all take heart that it did pass 412-1. look at the enormous support and yes, there are a couple of people who don't support it. we know that. >> harris: what would you say to rashida tlaib right now, mark? >> i would say i disagree with you. israel has a right to exist. 75-year-old country and there are thousands of years of history and that it is time -- it is unfortunate that college campuses don't understand what obviously 412 members of congress do. that this is the jewish people's homeland and it has a right to exist. >> it's the only country in that part of the world that lives up to our ideals in terms of democracy, in terms of freedom and justice. and right now we're dealing with various countries from russia to china that do not have the u.s.'s worldview. we need as many allies as we possibly can so i think standing for israel is in the u.s.'s interest but in our strategic interest to do so. >> harris: i don't know if you caught earlier this hour hamas is flexing to russia by releasing two dual citizens of israeli/russian descent. we need all the allies we can get. jewish students and parents are seriously reconsidering