late news, fox news at night. and breaking tonight, former secretary of state henry kissinger, one of the most influential american diplomats of his era has died at the age of 100. we'll take a look back at his life, his remarkable political career and lasting legacy. that will happen in moments. meantime in israel, the pause in fighting could end in the next few minutes as negotiations come down to the wire. but today a dozen more hostages were released and, for the first time, we are hearing from them about the horrors they endured. >> we covered ourselves with a sheet. that's all we had. not everyone had a sheet. the boys slept under the benches, the chairs, on the ground, because we wanted them next to us. >> trace: and when you think about what the hostages went through and are still going through, think about what's happening in one of california's largest cities where the city council just voted not to condemn hamas. >> they've not been beheading and rareness israel murdered their own people on october 7th sooth christina coleman is live with more on breaking developments. good evening. >> reporter: good evening. really disturbing to hear people talk like that. they voted crew and in muscle to call for a permanent ceasefire in the war and roted 6-2 to reject a resolution to condemn hamas after some residence in that city passionately defended the terrorist organization. take a listen to what some of them said. >> it's the genocide of palestinians, was happening to a white population a ceasefire would have already been in effect. >> i believe that jewish people are being misleft by the simplistic stereo type that flults the vilification of hamas. >> reporter: the city council votes on the matter have no legal authority on the war but on the pr front all the passionate defending of this murderous group is certainly getting backlash. >> the ignorance and hatred is completely astounding. it's important now, approaching almost two months since october 7th. we need to consecrate this as a fact that october 7th was a genocide against jewish people, against the israeli people. >> reporter: and about 100 students, about 100 students at teaneck high school in new jersey also staged a walkout in support of palestinian that led to counter protests outside of the school. frfrjts the river to the sea palestinian will be sea. this is a phrase a lot of people are threatened by and, you know, it's free speech. >> it's very hard when people are accusing israel of things, saying that they're anti zionist and saying that's not anti-semitism yet every jew is feeling this anti-semitism in the states and around the world. >> reporter: adults also joined the protest, people were fired up. no reports of violence trace. >> trace: christina thank you. more insight now into the hell on earth endured by those held captive by hamas by an israeli government spokesman who spoke with the resisttives of one of the freed hostages. watch this. >> she only speaks in is when percent because she was conditioned not to make a noise. she thought that she had been held hostage for a whole career. her face is gaunt. >> trace: yeah. let's where i in the ferrand of the digital holocaust museum left people forget elizabeth pipko along with washington ties reporter attorney alex swayer. i want to play more sounds of these oakland residents defending hamas and i'll get your response. watch. >> calling hamas a terrorist organization is ridiculous, racist and plays into genocidal prop beganeding a that is flooding our media and we should combat. >> asking with this context to condemn hamas is very anti arab racist. >> question, did anyone else notice that those who oppose this resolution are old white supremacists. >> there have been a lot of atrocity propaganda claims from beheaded babies to mass rape. >> trace: elizabeth this is why you started your foundation so people wouldn't forget. so either they forgot or just never learned in the first place. >> reporter: contactually. trace, i don't know maybe i'm knee eve, you tell me, i didn't see this coming. it's been only a couple weeks since october 7th and we are seeing people whether we should condemn hamas or apparently support them and somehow debate the events of octoberenth as we did not see them broadcast around television around the world. this is stupid at best incredibly dangerous at worst and it doesn't help anyone. and that's what people are missing. if you want peace for the palestinian people, if that is your hope, denying the fact that is rally people on october 7th were burned alive, tortured and raped, does not get you any closer for that goal. >> trace: yeah. it really is baffling. the orange county registrar wrote the following here. the oaklyn city council rather than serve as the adults in the room chose to side with the left wing terrorist a positively gist rejecting it by 6-2. if the city one wonders if they can be trusted to figure out anything. clearly they can't be. the vote wasn't 5-3 or 4-4. the vote, alex, was 6-2. >> this is true. and even erroneous statements like hamas not being a terrorist organization when we know it was designated as such since 1997 under both republican and democratic administrations, as a larks i have to say, those statements can still be made, right? as abhorrent as they might be, as wrong as they might be, these people still have their first amendment protection. what we saw at the oakland city council meeting was i guess that free speech right. very different than what we saw with the pro palestinian protesters who interrupted the macy's thanksgiving day parade last week. and we saw arrests follow that. >> trace: you're right. >> obviously when you have breaking of the law, vandalism, disorderly conduct, that's when you lose your first amendment protections. >> trace: yeah. you talk about first amendment and you're exactly right but you wonder if you're going to use your first amendment rights should you not know from where you speak? this is a protester outside of teaneck new jersey high school talking about from the river to the sea. watch. >> it's a message. it's a message from the river to the sea palestinian will be free. this is a phrase that a lot of people are threatened by and, you know, it's free speech, from the river to the sea, palestinian will be free. this is why they're here, right? so that the students are not allowed to protest and say that? i don't know why people are so threatened by that phrase. but, you know, it's free speech and this is what we believe, that palestinian will be free. >> trace: just, they have no idea what they're talking about elizabeth. that's the quan direction have no idea. >> truly no idea. look, we've said it time and time again when a jewish person says something's anti-semitic please believe us. from the river to the sea we know what this means, it's a call to exterminate everyone living in israel and a call for genocide which they say they're against and jews around the world are suffering from these calls from people who truly have no idea what they're screaming about. >> trace: i have ten seconds, wrap us up alex. >> i will adjust jump in and say there was a local report that i saw that earlier had said the school had endorsed a walkout or it was sponsored, i think they had to walk that back and say they had nothing to do with it. if a school was sponsoring speech like this it would be problematic. >> trace: thank you pavement here by the way is a firsthand account from former hostage rudy firsthand of the evil perpetrated by hamas translated from hebrew. watch this. >> i was together with my daughter and grandson in a closed and crowded place with each other. i realized, if we are alive, whoever they wanted to murder they did, they also murdered my son. >> trace: let's get to nate foy on the ground in northern israel. >> reporter: another american hostage is free from hamas. 49 year old israeli-american leon is among the ten israelis back home, along with the who begged president biden for help. and two israeli russians released by hamas as a gesture to president vladimir putin. all for the freedom of 30 palestinian prisoners. the joy of hostages coming home comes with the horror of learning what they experienced. >> little emily's hands father thomas has told media she only speaks in is when percent because she was conditioned not to make a noise. he sees the terror in her eyes. >> reporter: one woman says hamas terrorists beat her 12-year-old nephew and forced him to watch videos of the october 7th attacks. others lost as much as 15% of their body weight in weeks. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken arrives in israel tomorrow as negotiators work to release the more than 130 remaining hostages, including at least seven americans. and deliver badly-needed aid into gaza. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said his country's long-term goal remains the same, to eradicate hamas. >> there's no which we are not going back to fighting until the end. this is my policy. the entire cabinet stands behind it. the entire government stands behind it. the soldiers stand behind it. the people stand behind it. this is exactly what we will do. >> reporter: trace, tonight the israeli cabinet is meeting to discuss a proposal that would extend the current ceasefire by two days and continue the release of israeli hostages in exchange for palestinian re repliesners. if a deal is not reached they said they are ready to push deeper into gaza immediately. trace. >> trace: nate foy live for us in the ground in northern israel thank you. former green beret who trained with defense force derrick anderson. great to have you on here. so the fighting could really begin at in i moment here but clearly the biden administration is pushing israel toll -- to go easy. what are your thoughts on that. >> i think the biden administration should probably see the looks on some of these hostages faces as they're being released from hamas. you know, trace, it's really interesting to see what hamas's pr campaign and narrative is right now. if you look at the hamas soldiers as they're transferring the hostages from their advance over to the red cross vans they're in their june force with their bandanas on and have their faces cord, which i argue why don't you uncover your faces. show the world who you are. you look at the faces on these hostages as they're being transferred over, we've seen some hostages that just have these grim faces staring the hamas terrorists down. we see some pushing their hands away. we see some of the hamas terrorists trying to carry the elderly out. that is the narrative they're trying to push right now and as we start to get the recounts of all these hostages day by day, we're starting to see some of the terrible things that these hamas terrorists did to them while they were in cap strived in the meantime you have the battle raging on between the houthis the rebels and other iranian proxies. sound bite of former secretary of state mike pompeo on the administration backing off on calling the houthis a terrorist organization. watch. >> i can't imagine why the administration, literally hours after they came into office, undid what i had done and say they weren't terrorists it was counter factual and frankly we see counter productive, they're back at it taking risks and killing people again. >> trace: they fit the definition of a terrorist organization here derrick. >> yeah, i mean at the end of the day these are the same organizations the houthis have been firing rockets. we've seen weakness on behalf of the biden administration. it's ridiculous. and again this goes down to national security and how we are projecting weakness throughout the world right now. if we continue to project weakness we're going to see these kinds of acts, trace i think we're rust what 70-plus attacks on american installations since october 7th sfliet so at least one to two attacks per day and the only recourse from the biden administration is a few attacks here and there and from all accounts on buildings and installations that have no value. so what we're seeing is we're seeing a weak hand by the birch kind of like having a bully. if a bully pushes you every day and you don't do anything back the bully is emboldened to continue. >> trace: they're shooting bullets and we're throwing rocks. derrick great to have you on. >> exactly right. >> trace: 47 days until the iowa caucuses and again today gop candidate vivek ramaswamy made several appearances in the hawkeye state. meantime nikki haley who is seeing her numbers rise spent the day in new hampshire and massachusetts. marianne rafferty is live with a 2024 update. marianne good evening. >> reporter: yeah, good evening trace. the gop field shrugs it out in the early states, team biden hoping to combat trending terms like silent depression by enlisting tik tokers even though it's banned at the white house. cartoonists at the washington post are taking aim at the messages strategy as new numbers say families are spending over $11,000 more this year than in january 2021 just to buy necessities. >> it doesn't take a ceo of the white house to do this somebody in the existing stint would not have gotten the job done. if they did it wouldn't go to where we are. >> i would vote for trump over kamala harris any day of the week because at least we know we would be protected. it is an awful choice, right? that's why if you just vote for me we'll take care of the whole thing. >> reporter: as vivek ramaswamy hopes to gain ground in iowa, nikki haley in new hampshire, they certainly have their eye on independent voters after a new gaple poll found only 27% approve of the job president biden is doing trace. >> trace: that's a low number when you're running for reelection. marianne, thank you. ♪ >> meantime the fox news at night common sense department is both fascinated and infuriated by today's meeting between dhs secretary mayorkas and the border patrol horseback agents who were falsely accused in 2021 of whipping haitian migrants. sources tell fox news that during the emotional meeting the agents were able to vent about how the false accusations changed their lives, personally and professionally. and when the agents were done speaking, secretary mayorkas, their boss, the man who leads their department, did not apologize. common sense would like to remind you that these agents were not just maligned anvil feud by their peers and the public, they were attacked by president biden who wrongly accused them of, quote, strapping by grants. the president also said the agents, quote, will pay. and on the same day the president defamed the agents, mayorkas was told by the dhs assistant secretary of public relations that the photographer, who documented the incident with the haitian migrants, did not see any whipping. and yet two hours later, mayorkas stood next to the white house press secretary and publicly pummeled his own agents calling the photo horrifying and racist. common sense often heard that bad leaders lack trust and transparency. the worst leaders are lieers. unapologetic liars. let's bring in fox news contributor steve hilton with more on this. i just want to get your take on this steve. it's amazing you had mayorkas going before -- these are his people he clearly there you under the bus and refused to say he got it wrong wouldn't do it. >> thank you trace for reminding us of what happened, this is a despicable among many low points this has to be one of the worst. it wasn't just mayorkas, kamala harris using extremely hostile language, vicious language against these people, totally false. and this is from the people who lecture us endlessly about misinformation and disinformation all the rest. they knew this was false but they said it anyway because it suits their narrative and it deflects from the real crime here, which is their utter failure on the boarder. >> you're exactly right. meantime moving on to bidenomics, because he's still pushing it the new york times writes this a deputy campaign manager from biden administration was working with content creators on tik tok in an effort to amplify a positive affirmative message about the economy. a few political campaign posts promoting president biden's jobs records racked up thousands of likes but the silent depression posts garnered hundreds of thousands of likes a sign of how much negativity is wing out. it's not negativity, it's the way it is. everything is sky high. >> this is hilarity. put aside the creepiness to use tik tok this way and paying influencers and all the rest. put that aside. they seem to think from this kind of action and what they constantly say in the white house that this whole economics thing is just a messaging problem. it's not a messaging problem, it's a problem, an actual problem, caused by their policies, the massive overspending that caused inflation that means that real earnings are lower than they were at the beginning. people are actually worse off. and then you put on top of that the interest rate increases that have to be put in there to combat the inflation, and now they're worse off all over again if you have a mortgage or any other thing dependent on interest rates you're worse off. that's the problem and no messaging is going to improve it >> trace: sandwich and iced tea 20 bucks. little over 20 bucks. >> you have expensive taste. >> trace: it wasn't a fancy sandwich place. nikki haley said this on fox today. wachlt. >> imi don't play for second, we are second place we have one more fellow to catch up to momentum is growing. >> trace: i have 30 seconds she's resonating but still they're all so far behind. >> yeah because basically all these people, they just totally misunderstand and underestimate the loyalty of the trump voters. he's got that loyalty. they seem to think this is some kind of game of math that, you know, if she's second and desantis drops out all his votes go to her. no. they love trump and that's what these people are up against. >> trace: it's amazing, as if he gets indicted maybe one more timele' go away. steve hilton great to see you. >> thank you. >> trace: coming up one of the most admired american diplomats of the 20th century henry kissinger passed away at the age of 100 years old. we'll look at his life and legacy we'll talk to two people who not only knew him well but studied his foreign policy and many have done exactly that. next. 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