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 th