matthew. we were more than just cascades, we were a family. in time, we will say more, as and when we are able. for now, our thoughts and our love our with matt family, friends, and everyone who loved him around the world. thank you so much for joining us tonight. cnn news night with abby philip is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> war and grief give israel's prime minister a lifeline to power. that's tonight, on news night. ♪ ♪ ♪ and good evening, i'm abby philip in washington, where two things are becoming clear. one, there is no cease fire between israel and hamas on the horizon. and israel's prime minister sees the fog of war as essential to his own political survival. tonight, the idf offered the world a glimpse through the crosshairs. this is a jet providing a new view of its aerial campaign over gaza. the bombs there are punctuation marks to the current reality on the ground. quote, this is a time for war. those are the words that came directly from benjamin netanyahu in a defiant -- speech that was heavy on history and thin on nuance. >> just as the united states would not agree to a cease fire after the bombing of pearl harbor or after the terrorist attack of 9/11, israel will not agree to a cessation of hostilities with hamas after the horrific attacks on october 7th. >> now, netanyahu also calls the current conflict a time for choosing between good and evil, a battle against a new access of terror, and what is also clear is that netanyahu believes that the time for tough questions about who exactly shoulders the responsibility for the intelligence failure that led to october 7th is not now, but later. >> have you at all considered stepping down? >> the only thing they intend to have resign is but to have amos, we are going to resign them to the dustbin of history. that's my goal, that's my responsibility. >> now, before the hamas horror, netanyahu was facing a crisis of confidence from the public, and inside of his own government. the new york times also reports that netanyahu blast aside repeated warnings that his plan to remake the government in pursue an unpopular and controversial judicial reform plan was weakening his country security. now, it all came to a head when he outright skipped what the times reported as a meeting with a senior general was poised to deliver a warning about the threats based on classified intelligence. now, that report from the times prompted an outburst from netanyahu, aimed at his nation's security leaders. he blamed the military for overlooking the hamas threat. he did this at the very same time that that same military is prosecuting a war. now, netanyahu eventually did delete that post after public reprimands, we should say, and he couple the deletion with a rarity, an admission that he was wrong. now, this episode highlights that despite the show of unity after october 7th, but's grip on power may very well be very fragile. and joining me now on the pressure that netanyahu is facing now from the united states government's legendary journalist carl bernstein, he is the author of chasing history, a kid in the newsroom. he famously covered previous middle east wars. coral, there has been a lot of change this weekend, the pace and the tempo of this war, but also the change in public opinion. what is your reporting telling you about how the white house is viewing all of this, what are they saying behind the scenes to their allies in israel about this offensive in gaza? >> people in the white house seem to, the way i have listened to them very carefully in tone, is as important as individual facts sometimes. and their tone changed radically over the weekend from an idea that they had a handle on what's going on, on the dialogue with netanyahu that could be constructive, two great worry. remember the quotation from general petraeus going into iraq but, -- how this ends, and the disaster that war, that netanyahu just cited as evidence of wisdom, but that war was a disaster for the united states. and there is an increasing belief in intel in the united states, in the white house, that this could be a road to disaster. the conduct not of hamas, the butchery of hamas, the conduct is now the state of israel that is being questioned around the world. and this is the white house really worried. >> it's a really interesting aspect of all of this. and netanyahu seemed to address that today by basically saying they have to do what they have to do regardless of that public opinion. it seems the white house is a little bit more concerned. but meanwhile, coral, here in washington, there is a really important debate that is about to be had over funding this conflict, frankly, in israel and also tying it to the conflict in ukraine. the new speaker of the house, mike johnson, says he wants to sever those two ideas, ukraine and israel. how do you think the sands? >> [laughter] as general petraeus said, i don't know how it ends. but what i do know is that the fight for democracy is the great struggle of our age. and that struggle is taking place in ukraine, as in a place like no other, like perhaps what we're seeing now in the middle east. and the idea that somehow we would undermine funding to fight the first land war in europe but, i initiated by a tyrant like putin, who is destabilized the west, that we would somehow undermine this heroic struggle that we finance and it has stopped the russians in their tracks. we're not going to necessarily win the ukrainians but, the idea that we would defund this struggle for democracy, it's preposterous. and at the same time, an indication of where trump america lives today. and i think we need to look at it in terms not just of ukraine, but in terms of democracy, a top russi, which i think represents but, we see represented in a lot of the trump dogma. and we're seeing that dog right now in trump's comments about ukraine funding. and now, the new speaker. >> the new speaker, who his allies refer to as maga mike johnson. carl bernstein, we appreciate you as always for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> and tonight, hope and despair for those families of the nearly 200 hostages still in gaza. a female israeli soldier is now breathing free air after an idf operation inside of gaza to rescue her. it succeeded. these other families though today are getting proof of life as well courtesy of hamas. now, the terror group is releasing this video of three women believed to be hostages. i'm not going to show you that video. cnn isn't going to play the propaganda tool, frankly. but you can see the photos of the three women here. and the u.s. says that israel is making a near impossible task more difficult. american officials now view the more kinetic by the hour bombing campaign as a complication in the desperate effort to bring these hostages home alive. joining me now is one family member awaiting word of her family members fate. maya roman's cousin was taken captive by hamas on october 7th after a daring escape, escape attempt that resulted in her capture. but her husband entered child both were able to get away miraculously. maya, thank you so much for being here. this is such an incredible story when i heard about it. and you just tell us a little bit about what happened to your cousin? >> sure but. my cousin and her family, her husband and her three-year-old daughter were staying in kibbutz be'eri, which is one of the places hit most heavily during the attacks, with her family, his father, mother, and sister. an october 7th, terrorists entered the home. they first took but her mother and sister. we later learned that -- was shot dead outside of the house. we saw on instagram in a video that hamas posted. we don't know what happened to -- since then. and they took -- and goffin in the car. they were in a car with four terrorists and an unarmed driver, driving towards the gaza border. at a certain point, the armed terrorists got out of the car because they saw a certain threat. and -- decided in a split second decision that they were going to make a run for it, and they jumped out of the car, -- was holding goffin, her daughter, running for their lives. and the terrorists were coming after them, they then realize they couldn't escape, so she gave goffin to -- so he could run faster and hide while she hid closer to the terrorists. we know this because -- eventually was able to get back to the kibbutz after hiding with goffin for almost 18 hours with no food, no water, with a three year old child. he walked back to the kibbutz barefoot and was able to reach the military forces and call us and say that the last piece of -- was at that point where they split up. but her brother then went down to the field with military forces looking for her, even though the area was full of terrorists still. and they concluded that she was probably taken again by hamas. >> with all of this that is going on, i mean, it's incredible all that she would've gone through. are you worried now about the impact of the ground invasion, the aerial bombardment on whether she might be able to come out of gaza? >> i mean, we are worried all the time. and you know, it's a very hard to know what is the right tactic. initially, we thought maybe a humanitarian deal was going to happen. there was a lot of talk about it. then there was the release of the two american hostages and then two other hostages. it just seems like what you hear isn't necessarily what's going on. and under the circumstances, i really don't know if a ground offensive is the thing that's going to help us bring them back or not. i really don't have enough information to judge. i feel like what's most important to us and the rest of the families is just to keep this issue of the hostages first and foremost. before everything else, before all this talk about military incursion or what netanyahu said, what we care about are the fact that there are over 200 hostages currently held there that we don't even have proof of life of them, we don't know their condition. today, we heard that -- one of the young women who are presumed to be cannot, taken from the party, her mother was with us because they are german citizens, as well as -- we were on a trip in berlin, advocating for the hostages for a week. and today, we learned that -- was murdered and has been dead this whole time and it's been devastating for us. so this fact that we don't have any information and people just go on to talk about other things, that's what's worrying me the most. >> and you've been in here in washington to keep this momentum alive, with officials here. have those meetings given you any sense of hope de? >> i mean, so far, our meetings here, like our meetings in germany, have been very hopeful in the sense that everyone seems to know that this issue is important, everyone seems to agree that this is a humanitarian issue, this is a democratic issue, these are women and children, and we have a commitment to bring them back. and we are very heartened by president biden's comments when he came to israel. and we hear those things here as well. you never know the time to say these words are very nice, but what about actions, because we really don't know what actions are happening behind the screens. so we have to wait behind the scenes that everything truly is being done. and i do believe that. but i don't know how much further we are going to believe that, because it's been three weeks. in the beginning, -- used to say he hopes that -- birthday comes, along we will celebrate it together. and -- birthday was almost a week ago when we were in berlin, and we were singing happy birthday with 25,000 people at the brandenburg bridge at a rally to support hostages. and it was a very moving. but we can't help but notice that time keeps moving on, and she's still not, here and we still not know what's going on with her. >> maya, i'm so sorry that you're going through this, and i hope that you give my best to your cousins family and her sweet little girl, it was only three years old, and experience such a horrific experience. but thank you from here, and will continue to keep your story and all of these stories in the news that we tell daily. thank you so much, maya. >> thank you so much. >> and up next, bile antisemitic threats put cornell university on high alert. new york's governor was just there, and she joins me next. plus, new tonight, the friends cast breaking their silence on matthew perry's death as we learn about how he was found. >> some truly chilling anti-semitic scenes are unfolding around the world tonight as the israeli military advances in gaza. now, what should have been a routine flight arrival from tel aviv turned into chaos in russia. an antisemitic mob storming a tarmac in dogs than, a section of russia with a high muslim population. now, the crowd was hunting for israelis and for and they were carrying antisemitic assigns as well. over in beverly hills antisemitic graffiti scrawled across the home of a holocaust survivor. that survivor's daughter tells cnn that she didn't even tell her mother at first to avoid upsetting her. please tonight providing more security for jewish students on the campus of cornell university after a series of threats. new york's governor kathy oh cool promising her support at the community of cornell right now. >> if you're going to engage in these harmful actions, hate crimes, breaking our laws, you will be caught and you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. that is the strong message i want to deliver here today. >> i want to bring in new york governor kathy hochul. governor hochul, thank you for being here. first of, all i want to start by asking you about where things stands interferons of finding the people responsible for this. you called them terrorists, really. what can you tell us about the status of that investigation and the suspects. have there been any progress in finding to these people are? >> we have been working very closely with the fbi who were brought in yesterday, working with our own new york state intelligence center where we're analyzing all of these social media posts and trying to identify the culprit here. we will find this person and i did call this individual or individuals terrorists because that exactly what they're trying to do, they are trying to terrorize a group of students who i visited today and they want nothing more than the chance to be left alone, hang out with their friends, go to class like every other college student. and yet, today, as a result of, as they are afraid and that's just wrong, especially in a place like new york. >> what is the state of new york doing to keep these college campuses safe? i understand, obviously, there's concern about free speech rights, but this is clearly veering into violence. is there more that can be done? >> yeah, this has crossed the line. new york state, we all cherish the rights of freedom of speech and the right to assemble. absolutely, that is who we are as a country and also as new yorkers. but a line has been crossed that when you actually describe how someone should be killed in a particular area and it is so abhorrent to me, not just as the leader of the state, but also as a parent. we all remember dropping our kids off at college and this is supposed to be a sanctuary for them, a safe place. to learn about other peoples views and ideas and to share and learn and to emerge for years later as a different, enriched person. now these terrorists are trying to paralyze them and create fear in them. so, with the state of new york already, before this, i announced our campus safety plans because we have seen an increase in antisemitism in particular, but we have no tolerance for any hate crimes, any hate speech. whether it is against muslims or lgbtq community, or racists, or sexists, anti asian crimes, we're standing up strongly against that, but the increase in antisemitism and those cases have gone up dramatically. i've required every single college campus to have a hotline where incidents can be reported. but don't just let them report them, i want to make sure that there is campus police following up and, if necessary, outside police. then a district attorney because when a crime has been committed, as i believe has in this case, there must be prosecutions to be a deterrent and say we are not tolerating this here in the state of new york. >> governor, jonathan greenblatt of the anti-defamation league, he is calling this moment for the united states a category five hurricane of antisemitism coming from the left. do you think that he is right about that? >> i am feeling that here in the state of new york, i'm proud to represent the largest objects population outside of israel where i just was a short while ago to show support for the innocent people who were attacked by terrorists and call for humanitarian gate it into gaza and despair -- he is absolutely correct. when we started before october 7th, the terrorist attack on israel, we have seen an increase in antisemitism and hate crimes committed here in new york up about 300%. so, this was already on the rise. it has been festering and now this has just been unleashed in a way that is just an american and is definitely very much at odds with the values of new yorkers. it's why i am standing up strong saying they'll find no safe harbor here in the state of new york, if you're going to continue to terrorize individuals because of their religious beliefs or where they come from. that is not who we are. >> governor kathy hochul, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> ahead, utterly devastated. the cast of friends breaks their silence over the death of matthew perry. plus, major warning signs missed ahead of the main mass shooting, including a message from the army that the gunman should not have a weapon. >> there is only one banana one left. >> all remind first. >> but i'm so much faster. [laughter] >> give it to me. >> no. >> give it to me. >> okay,, you can have it. [laughter] >> they've been to thanksgivings, marriages, a break, tom selleck, and now, sadly, the cast of friends is going through a tough loss together. the five stars of that hit show breaking their silence tonight following the sudden death of their former costar matthew perry. in a joint statement to cnn they said, we are also utterly devastated by the loss of matthew. we are more than just cast mates, we are family. there is so much to say, but right now we're going to take a moment to degrees and process this unfathomable loss. the los angeles fire department has now released a statement saying that perry was found unconscious in a stand alone jacuzzi. joining me now to discuss this is kristen lopez with your editor at the wrap. kristen the >> statement from the friends cast i mean -- but very heavy with the loss and how difficult it is for them to deal with us. what does a statement say to you about all these years later how close this cast really was and are? >> it is a very well done statement. i think a lot of people, especially last night, or wanting things a lot quicker. they wanted the cast to immediately come out and share their thoughts. i think they have the right to wait as long as they want to talk about this. this was a person that they spent significant portions of their lives with, as the statement says, is more than just a person they worked with. so i appreciate them reaching out to their families and acknowledging this, but they have every right to take their time and process this as people. this is more than just a tv show and i think that it was very well done for them to come out with the statement. they had no reason to, but i think that fans are just looking for connection during this time. they want something to hold on to and i think everybody appreciates such a beautiful statement coming out at this time. >> so many fans, hundreds of them, really, this weekend visited the iconic friends apartment in new york city to honor paris. it is so interesting that this show, you know, you are a millennial here. so many younger fans, younger than you and i, who never watched this show in realtime are now rediscovering it and it has had an impact on them, to. what do you make of the staying power of friends? >> yeah, my little brother's 25 and he loves the show. he has his box set, he still watches it on physical media, he is probably a bigger fan than i was when i watched it when i it was out. people gravitate towards, even though it has flaws, is the relatability factor to it. especially because so many gen zs, they do want that sense of community. a lot of their chosen family are their friends. so i think the show has sat staying power because it connects each generation in a different way. for me, i love the fancy element of it. living in new york city and having friends that were akin to your family and all of the scenarios that they're in are just high concept enough to be fantastical, but it's amazing to see how it has transcended its time period and really is on par with something like i love lucy. it is just timeless. >> it is timeless and matthew perry in so many ways will not be remembered just for that, but what he did in the past few years of his life, living in his truth with honesty that resonated with so many people about his addictions that he struggled with. kristen lopez, thank you for joining us on all of that. >> their new signs that there are red flags that were missed ahead of the main mass shooting. in family member of the victim of that shooting is here to respond to that new information, plus, new campaign slip ups draw attention to a number of donald trump's -- that don't drums wants voters to believe doesn't matter at all. >> so false, thank you very much. [applause] sioux city, let me ask you. >> a nightmare re-run in maine. warning after warning after warning about a mass shooter missed. tonight we're getting new details about what police and the military knew in the months before robert card killed 18 people and what they didn't do about it. now we know that police visited the shooters home weeks before this massacre amid fears that he was going to snap and commit a mass shooting. now, in july, card spent 14 days at a psychiatric hospital after a run in with other soldiers in new york and after his release from the hospital. yet another incident. now, this time, a friend said that the shooter mentioned having guns and threatening to shoot up a military facility in maine. that threat leading pleased to visit cards home on september 16th. at the time, they didn't make contact with him. the next day, the, officer spoke with his brother who warned that card would likely be armed if he did answer the door. now, 38 days later, card carried out a mass shooting at a bowling alley and a bar in lewiston, killing 18 people. i want to bring in auburn city councillor leroy walker senior. he is, importantly, the father of joseph walker, who was among the 18 victims lost, tragically, in this massacre. leroy, thank you so much for joining us. i know that you have heard this from so many, but i cannot imagine that the pain that you and your family are going through. thank you for joining us. i want to just ask you about some of this new reporting that has come out in the last day or so that seems to indicate that this shooter was on the radar of law enforcement. when you hear that, what goes through your mind? >> well, it's really hard to answer that question. i've only heard a small about it because i've tried to stay away from that part of it knowing that my son is dead. we're trying to arrange a funeral, or trying to do a lot of things that have taken much more time than i thought was going to take. but i will give you a little comment on what i think. i have been around law enforcement quite a bit to see how it works and in some cases law enforcement may work pretty well if it has good leaders. i don't think we've got good leaders right now in a lot of the stations. so, because of, that we don't have people that are doing their job as well as they could do it. i know people are going to get mad because i say that, but nobody should miss what i am hearing that they have missed out there, or at least not pay a lot of attention to it. they have seen so much of this murder go around the country that other places have missed the same thing that they are doing here and if they don't learn from the past when are we going to learn? this will go on forever. so, somebody needs to step up and be a lot stronger than what we have for leaders at this point. are many people going to be like me, sitting on pins and needles to get reports from a small army of police and ambulance drivers and whatever else is out there. it took me about 14 hours to be told my son was laying on a floor, dead. there is no need of that, that is another thing that law enforcement has missed, trying to make sure that the loved ones that are alive should at least be notified somehow. excuses, i have a real hard time to live with. that's all i heard the whole time. from the hospital staff, from the police, no matter which place i reached out to, it is out of the state, investigation is under the state doing a sweep. it's under the state, whatever, and whatever. while we sit there crying our eyes out. grand children are doing the same thing, the wise is doing the same thing. that is not acceptable in the state that we live in. they are doing all kinds of other investigations that they missed. somebody is trying to slow things down, cover things up. i don't know how to fix that, but i know it needs to be fixed and there is a leadership that we need to take care of. >> i certainly hear that. it matters for so many reasons coming from you, you are a victim of this tragedy to, but you're also a person who works in the government and you work with people in law enforcement all the time. i wonder, when you hear about this shooter having access to weapons, high powered weapons given the warnings that were made to officials about him, given his hospitalization, given his mental health state, in terms of lessons learned and going forward what do you think should be done? what do you want to see done about a situation like that? >> the other way that we're going to fix some of this is training. it has to be the correct training and that's why you say it starts from the top. if you're going to elect people in office you've got to elect people that have got more brains in the people who are working under them. our leadership lately, around the country, not only here in auburn, maine, or whatever is closest to us, what leadership needs to be the powerhouse that leads and if we don't have it here we need to go somewhere else and get it. trained into her our heads how to train our people. they're going to make excuses of what this man got away with four months because they are going to try to find ways of saying it wasn't their fault. you know and i know with what is coming out, and coming out very slow, kind of like the state works anyways. it will be months before we really know the facts of everything and they're going to say, well, you should be shouting your mouth until the facts are all out. i think we've seen enough facts to know that they totally missed what this man was capable of doing. they should have removed this man's guns immediately. i think the military, are just as much fault as we are. there are the ones that knew exactly what was going through this guy's head because he attempted to say that he was going to go and take care of them two by killing. so who missed the real vote here, i'm not really sure. but it starts at the top of wherever it should have started from and we should have been much smarter than this. seeing what has happened across the whole country, we shouldn't be taking chances with anyone that goes off any deep and or makes a threat. if you threaten the united states president i could be sitting here and say something stupid, they'll probably be knocking on my door tomorrow arresting me. this man went rampant on people's saying that he was going to do this and we still let him run around two or three months later so that he could say i'm going to do a mask killing and he did it. somebody has to be accountable for that. >> i think you're right about that. there is nothing that will bring your son back, leroy, but accountability is at least what erode. leroy walker senior, thank you so much for joining us. and again, i'm so sorry for the loss of you and your family. >> thank you very much. >> and we'll be right back. >> one of donald trump's favorite trolls against president biden is starting to backfire, it seems. biden's age is no doubt a huge concern among voters, but, trump, who is just three years younger, is having some notable slip ups of his own. >> thank you very much and a very big hello to a place where we've done very well. sioux falls, thank you very much, sioux falls. [applause] sioux city, let me ask you. >> yeah, that was someone having to tell trump that he was in sioux city, not to sioux falls. and that is the exact scenario that trump imagined biden would do, mixing up locations. >> where am i, what country is this? egos thank you very much and all name a country and into the wrong country that doesn't. used to do it woods state when he was campaigning. it's great to be in idaho, sir, sir, this is iowa. >> now, in recent weeks, trump has also mixed up with the bushes, he mixed up hungry, turkey, and their leaders. he bragged about beating barack obama in 2016, which obviously he did not do. he praised the intellect of hezbollah, and obviously, if president biden had done any of these things right-wing media would be leading their shows with his gaffes. but now, some of trump's rivals are taking notice. >> he is wedded to the teleprompter. he cannot get off that teleprompter. anytime he does, he says things like don't vote, he's telling people not to vote. really? you lost the popular vote to hillary clinton in 2016. you don't have all the votes you need. and so i think it just shows that this is a different donald trump than in 2015 and 2016. >> joining now is cnn political commentator and -- christian soltis anderson. christian, first of all, -- is becoming a buzz phrase for ron desantis. but putting trump aside for a second, republicans writ large, house republicans, senate republicans, the ones running for president, they want to make this about joe biden's age. about his inability to conduct his job. but they are likely nominee is just three years younger and making gaffes pretty much every day at this point. is that going to work? >> as of right now, republican voters do not yet feel a sense of alarm that donald trump is gravely at risk of losing in this potential rematch against joe biden. they still think that if you put biden in trump together, yes they are both old, yes they are both gaffe prone, but trump would still come out ahead in that head to head matchup. so, what remains to be seen is that as more of these things start piling up does this argument that hasn't worked out, that donald trump is actually a threat to getting republicans back at the white house, if that argument begins to take hold with republican voters, will it do so in time to matter in the primaries? i'm kind of skeptical. >> that is a huge question right now as we are approaching another presidential debate today. also, another big iowa poll from -- showing, not surprisingly, donald trump at the top, although he is not really moved much from where he is been, 42, 43%. but the pro-surprise here is nikki haley gaining about ten points in the past couple of months. that is huge compared to the other candidates who are going in the opposite direction. what was working for her in this race and could some of it also be the generational argument that she's been making all along? >> first of all, it puts tibet the idea that the debates didn't matter. there's a lot of talks about well, if donald trump doesn't attend maybe it's not that big a deal. it's true that it hasn't really affected don't trump's standing at top of the, field but there's been a lot of churn underneath. whether it's somebody like mike pence deciding to drop out, maybe some other candidates get the hint, the problem they're running into is ron desantis has no reason to drop out before iowa. he still running very close with haley there and haley has no reason to drop out before iowa because she is especially looking at new hampshire where she tends to do a little bit better in the polls. trump's lower there. so, as long as both of them are in the, race it's hard to see how anybody but trump get past that 50%. mark >> she showing th could actually make this more of a two-way race between her and trump. >> i think certainly the reason why people stop running for president is because they run out of resources to do so and right now ron desantis, if his campaign has enough money to get him through to iowa, he will certainly stay there. nikki haley on the other hand has also been making a very effective pitch to donors that if you want to take out trump, on the one to do it. so she may have resources to go the distance as well. >> christian soltis anderson, thank you as always. up nexn a momentnt. >> thank you very much for watching news night laura coates live starts right now. hey laura. >> a. abby, so