much. more israeli hostages are to be released after an extension with hamas. remains to be seen if the americans will be part of the next group to be let go. >> sandra: welcome everyone, sandra smith in new york, "america reports". concern growing for the americans now in harm's way for nearly two months after several of the freed hostages describe being held in inhumane conditions with some adding they witnessed hamas physically torturing hostages. >> john: and while the fighting may be paused for the moment in the gaza strip, hamas is claiming responsibility for a deadly attack at a bus stop in jerusalem today. palestinian gunmen pulled up in a vehicle and killed three israelis and wounded at least six others. attack happening as secretary of state antony blinken arrived to meet with israeli and palestinian leadership. we are expecting to hear shortly from blinken about those meetings and whether he pushed for extended truce and more hostages to be released. >> sandra: as we await that, we have complete coverage, begins now. south carolina republican senator lindsey graham is standing by whether the extended ceasefire is making it harder for israel to restart the war against hamas. but first greg palkot live in tel aviv. what are you hearing about this latest host release, what do you know? >> sandra, what we know is it is now underway, but still, there's a lot of questions about what has happened in the past and what will be coke up in the future. now, remember, after 16 hostages were freed last night, the ceasefire was extended yet another 24 hours, the israeli military now confirms the red cross has transferred two israelis to their forces near the gaza strip. they'll be taken to too air base, brought to care and families. israel says it expects additional hostages to be released in the coming hours. the two freed hostages are identified as 21-year-old mia shem, full of joy with a huge heart, taken from the music festival. her boyfriend is still being held. and a 40-year-old, she is a lawyer, said with varied interests, she was kidnapped from a kibbutz near gaza. and you are right, no word yet on whether any other israeli americans will be included in this transfer. last night we saw the release of 49-year-old leah, sadly, just in the past hour or so, it was announced by her kibbutz that her israeli husband thought to be captive was actually killed by hamas. and all this amid the terror attack at a bus stop in jerusalem this morning. three were killed, half a dozen injured. two men armed with m-16 automatic rifle and pistol pulled up, opened fire, they were then killed by off duty israeli soldiers and a civilian nearby, hamas claiming responsibility. as, yes, the u.s. back in the region, secretary of state antony blinken meeting with prime minister netanyahu and other officials, including palestinian authority president abbas, he says he wants to prolong the ceasefire to get more captives out and more aid in. with you final note, we heard from a top official from a children's hospital taking care of many young hostages freed, described unimaginable and surreal accounts the kids are telling of the past weeks in captivity, but he also spoke about their strength to overcome the horror. a lot of bravery all around. back to you. >> sandra: thank god for that part. thank you very much. >> john: bring in south carolina republican senator lindsey graham, hope you had a good thanksgiving with the family. so, hostage releases are a good thing. but every day that this ceasefire is extended makes it more and more difficult for israel to resume military operations. >> yeah this is a strategy by hamas to drag it out. the americans, hope and pray they will get out but the last to go. as every day drags on, mounting pressure for israel to restrict operations. another day to convince the american people israel has gone too far but what will eventually happen. a point where the war resumes and i would say this, without the destruction of hamas, israel will never know peace and the palestinians will never have a bright future. if you tried to construct a new governoring group in gaza united with the west bank palestinian controlled, if you don't destroy hamas they will kill everybody. they did this before. so the palestinians need hamas destroyed, israel needs hamas destroyed, and every decent person in the world should wish for the destruction of hamas. >> john: you mentioned the american hostages. cia director william burns was in doha, qatar, trying to strike some sort of a deal to get them released. we don't know what would be in the negotiations. but u.s. policy dictates you don't give quid pro quo. the u.s. government will make no concessions to individuals or groups holding private u.s. citizens hostage. deny the benefit of ransom, prisoner release, policy changes or other acts of concession. i mean, when you take a look at prisoner swaps in the past, iran, for example, seems to have been a quid pro quo. >> $6 billion to get people out of iranian custody. >> what do you do to adhere to the policy and try to get the people out? >> i think we are in a binds here. we have allowed hamas to build up too strong. iran's behind all of this. iran doesn't feel threatened by using their proxies against israel or american forces. so what i would do is up the pressure on iran. i would go to the source of the problem. any more attacks on our troops in syria and iraq, i would hit iranian targets inside iran. the one thing we are not doing is going to the source of the problem, the iranians. >> dan henninger wrote an op-ed suggests hamas has gained the advantage here by using the hostages as leverage to get a ceasefire. he writes hamas looks likely to survive without personal accountability for the 1200 killed october 7th. instead the burden will fall on israel to ascent to talks with hamas, whose goal remains removing the rest of israel's more than 9 million people. as you pointed out, senator, if hamas survives, is israel ever going to have peace? >> i like dan, he's a smart guy, he's wrong. i have talked to everybody in their government, he's under enormous pressure in israel, to stop the truces, go after hamas now. i support to try to get as many people released as possible but the idea that israel would not destroy hamas after october 7th is implausible. the idea that hamas still stands after this makes it impossible to give a better life to the palestinians. to the biden administration, quit handcuffing israel, quit trying to restrict their ability to destroy hamas as soon as possible. after world war ii, we destroyed tokyo and berlin. we didn't think twice about destroying the capital cities of our enemy. so, if you told us after 9/11 you need to enter into a ceasefire with al-qaeda, we would have laughed you out of the room or probably done a lot worse. so, october 7th was 30 9/11s for israel. in six weeks the world would call on israel to have a ceasefire with the people who slaughtered 1200 of their citizens is hard for me to get my head around. here is what i do know. israeli people are not going to allow hamas to get away this. i'm not going to allow american political systems to restrict ability of israel to defend itself. i will oppose any conditions on israeli aid. >> john: one more quick questions speaking of aid, the supplemental, now in the senate. aid for israel, aid for ukraine, also money for border security. ten democratic senators are circulating a letter they don't want the border security money in there, put it up on the screen so folks know who they are. you are suggested greg abbott, the governor of texas should stop sending migrants to new york city, and instead to the ten states of the senators there on the screen. >> i think i'll going to visit texas soon. we have had on average this week, 8500 people show up at the border, yesterday was 9300. i think it gets worse as they see the end of biden's term not knowing if trump is going to make it or not, trump may come back. a run on the border and not about money. we need policy changes. we need to change the parole law and the asylum law that's a magnet. so the ten senators, what i would say. you don't know what it's like to live with a broken border. the people in texas have gone through hell and a lot of misery. the democratic position is to remain in texas. if i were governor abbott, i would take these ten senators, and i would send thousands of illegal immigrants to their states to let them understand what it's like to live with a broken border. they are opposing legislation to stop this problem. they are not suffering the consequences of the problem. they need to experience the problem and at the end of the day until you can make the problem real, a lot of people will have this attitude. my hope is governor abbott will show the people in rhode island and connecticut and oregon, the people would signed the letter, what it's like to have your community overrun with people who are not here legally. >> john: we'll be watching for that visit to texas. appreciate it. sandra. >> sandra: thank you. house lawmakers meanwhile holding a hearing on the federal government's alleged role in social media censorship. it comes after fox obtained brand-new internal documents from google showing the biden administration working with youtube workers to crack down on matters related to covid and vaccine misinformation. hillary vaughan is live on capitol hill. tell us about it. >> sandra, internal email show youtube was not immune to the pressure campaign to get social media companies to help them control the covid vaccine narrative online. their efforts were not just focused on false information but also on favorable or skeptical vaccine content. anti-vax, the white house wanted to take it down period. rob flaherty asked youtube about claims it was pushing content next to "breaking bad" videos, flaherty said i think we had a pretty extensive back and forth to the degree you are recommending vaccination contact. emphatic you were not, this seems to indicate that you are. this is the tweet that triggered the white house. anti-vak content, rand paul talking about covid vaccines and video with rfk, jr. and a youtube employee claimed the white house might do the drop in demand for big tech companies not doing this. the role in tech and vaccine hesitancy, under a spotlight, as the supply of the vaccine will outpace demand. youtube employees were concerned the situation with the white house could spiral out of control if they did not convince them that they were doing enough to crack down on unfavorable vaccine content that did not break their community guidelines. we don't know what youtube was afraid would happen or what they were worried the white house might do. youtube spokesperson telling us this statement for our story, while we receive input from governments around the world we apply our policies independently, transparently and consistently regardless of the speaker or the political views expressed. we also reached out to the who us for comment about all of this, and we have not heard back yet. sandra. >> sandra: hillary vaughan on that, that is something. thank you. john, that is something the american public has certainly shown interest in wanting to learn more about exactly what was happening behind the scenes and how that information was relayed to the public. >> john: yeah, the intersection of the administration, the white house and big tech seems to be a frequent occurrence and one that is apparently growing. independent information is very, very important in our democracy and for the government to potentially be meddling in that is troubling. >> sandra: a big deal. >> john: we are awaiting, speaking of government information, a white house briefing with update on how the u.s. plans to bring home roughly 8 to 9 americans still held hostage inside gaza. national security council's john kirby will be joining us karine 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and new york, let me read, homelessness reached unprecedented levels, because of unaffordable housing and arrival of asylum seekers. atlanta, many reported ongoing difficulties to cover basic household expenses. in chicago, experiencing ongoing high demand for services, especially food pantries, a good one, low and moderate income consumers were piecing it together to meet the needs for winter clothing in anticipation of housing -- >> sandra: incredible. >> from yesterday, the federal reserve. so i mean, this is what real people are feeling in real life and on the economy, president biden gets a 30%. >> sandra: you noted it, you said this to me at the commercial break, they are saying everything is great, you are telling me the reality of the situation and because it's so different that's why the polls look like this. the new gallup poll on biden's economic approval. it has fallen, charles, to 32%,' running for another term. >> 32% are college educated folks who own stocks, own bonds, and have really great jobs. right? they live in a different world but they do probably constitute 95% of his administration, 95% of the economy, 95% of the tv folks who regurgitate this junk. you delve into it, you break it apart. i'm talking about people who regurgitate what president biden just said earlier, you know, we know, listen, i would like to dive into this stuff. you don't have to -- people watching this show don't have to dive into this, they are living it. they know it. >> sandra: i learn something every time you join us here, charles. >> john: go home smarter every day. another group of hostages could be freed after israel and hamas agreed to a last-minute ceasefire deal. jerusalem post is up next, what went down behind the scenes and whether it's giving hamas the upper hand. >> sandra: looking forward to that. email shows a bank investigator warning about "unusual and erratic activity" in hunter biden's account. did some of that money go directly to president biden? >> president biden said that he knew nothing about his son's business dealings. we know that that's not true. he then said he wasn't involved in his son's business dealings. we know that that's not true. s the beat of life. if you have heart failure, entrust your heart to entresto, a medicine specifically designed for he