expecting more protests to get underway a few hours from now. that sets the scene for our second hour, welcome back as "america reports" rolls on. i'm john roberts, good to be with you today. >> gillian: good to be with you, john. interestingly, john, i have to tell you, the protests have spread here, too. covering the state department, walked out, was greeted by 100 protestors who were very rowdy, yelling as officials as they came out of the building, shame on you, even at the nation's capital. and students walked out of classrooms to show solidarity for palestinians. and anti-israel is spreading to others, and calling for a national day of walkouts and the white house is facing criticism from the other side that he is not curtailing hate speech. >> john: hillary vaughn with more there, but first alexis mcadams kicks things off live in new york city, quite a protest yesterday. >> hi, john, that's what we have seen. starts with a few dozen and then expands to hundreds and move across the city, mostly blocking traffic and calling on the united states to stop helping israel. it's going to happen again tonight, here i am right now in columbus circle in new york city. this is just some of what we are seeing in columbus circle in manhattan, that's a heavy presence of nypd officers on stand by as pro palestinian protestors call for a ceasefire tonight. watch. >> run, run, you can't hide. we charge you with genocide. >> why do you start bombing if you are concerned about the hostages, why was bombing started day one and then nonstop. >> in some of the protests, they have led to arrests across the country. check this out. ♪ i will build this world from love ♪ ♪ ♪ an a student arrested at brown university after students walked out in handcuffs. 20 arrested after a five-hour long sit-in. the group demanding the ivy league school divest from companies who have ties to the jewish state and listing them out on instagram handles. and tulane, even physical fights during duelling protests on their campus, leaving one jewish student with a serious injury, i guess a broken nose, according to some reports. more than 40% of the students at the school are jewish, many say they don't feel safe and university of pennsylvania, antisemitic slogans on campus buildings, facing a civil rights complaint, accusing the prestigious university for being a magnet for antisemitism, and leading to issues there, and the university president responding saying they are going to take action, saying this in part, projecting hateful messages on our campus is not a debate, it's cowardice and no place at pen. it comes after a lot of the jewish students felt there was too much silence, now some statements from the president, nypd will remain on high alert and waiting to see the protestors show up here in new york in the next couple of hours. >> john: when powerful alumni vote -- >> gillian: we have anti-israeli protestors accusing the biden administration for failing to stop the ground war, the white house is also facing backlash from the other side, people say officials are not doing nearly enough to combat rising antisemitism. hillary vaughn is live from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. what are you hearing from inside those walls over there today? >> hi, gillian. the white house is calling out and rejecting a specific phrase that has popped up at the protests, from the river to the sea, they are saying that phrase is antisemitic and they reject it. >> when it comes to the phrase that was used from river to the sea, it is divisive, it is hurtful to -- many find it hurtful and also many find it anti-semitic. >> congresswoman tlaib censured is embracing it, she says it's a call for freedom, human rights and peaceful co existence, and not death, destruction or hate. but from the river to the sea is a chant we have heard at the protests and israel is very aware of what exactly that phrase means and calls for and they do not see it as a call for freedom for them. >> from the river to the sea means there's no israel. what this congresswoman is calling for is genocide, elimination of the jewish state. >> three biden administration officials also told axios they were shaken up by the protests right here outside the white house gates that left bloody handprints behind and were very surprised by a lot of the silence from their democratic colleagues about it. gillian. >> gillian: hillary vaughn, thank you. john. >> john: bring in dave rubin, host of the rubin report, one thing to have a rally in support of somebody, but so many are permeated with antisemitism and saw in california, a jewish man died in an altercation at a protest. >> yeah, let me be clear, john. i speak for myself, not for fox. rashida tlaib is a hamas supporter, and elimination of jews, and kill 2 million arab muslims and christians and other, just fine for her and for many of these people protesting. they are also calling for the end of the occupation, which they claim began in 1948, that means they want to bring the british empire back, i suppose we could go back 250 years and bring back the ottoman empire, there was not a state of palestine. look, this is the rabid genocide movement of our time. it is just true, it's hard to say, but it is just true there is nothing israel can do other than lay over and die that would take care of the hamas caucus, cory bush, tlaib, or those people on the streets. there was no occupation of gaza the day before all of this on october 6th, not one jew lived there, not one israeli lived there, hitler would have loved the place. every year or so they would lob rockets over and israel responded to the rockets. they went in, killed 15,000 people, barbaric, horrific torture, still have 200 people, they have 12 americans at least, why is nobody in america calling for unconditional release of american hostages, if you don't at least care about the israelis. look, the enemy is in our borders. we all know it and until we all level up and figure out how we are going to fight this properly it is just going to get worse and worse. we have video, it's the white house, they have video of who desecrated the white house and put the paint on the walls. why haven't they done anything about this. new york city, where i used to live, when they are going after cop cars and painting free gaza all over the cop cars, do they not have video of those people? we have facial recognition software and everything else. we have every tool to deal with this. do we have the political will is what this is all about. >> john: vandalism is getting a pass these days, it would seem. and a lot of rallies, a lot of people who conflate the palestinians and hamas. a protest in london, people were openly supporting hamas, calling them freedom fighters, and then one organization did some interviews with people there and didn't seem to be a whole lot of knowledge about what hamas is really all about. listen to this sound bite here. >> hamas invaded israel the 7th of october. your initial reaction. >> i think so. i -- honestly, i think i need to be a bit more conclude up on everything that's going up. >> john: i'm at the rally but i don't know what the heck is going on and need to get clued up on it. what does that tell you? >> well, it tells you the rallies are a strange conflation. you have the people in line cognitively with rashida tlaib and then the intersectional leftist, the remnants of blm, and it was a complete fraudulent organization that never sent a black kid to college or opened a black business, they have just ripped the mask off literally and they are a pro hamas organization. the college kids, notice there are not families out there, not generally speaking middle aged well dressed people who seem like functional members of societies, it's young single people who have their brains mashed by tiktok and by modern academia, and have no idea. you don't think the jews have something to do with israel, how about learn the story of hanukkah, you know where jesus was called, from judea. >> john: i don't imagine the people at the rallies have seen the video footage that israel put together, unedited video that was taken mostly by hamas of the october 7th attacks. >> they simply would not care. wouldn't care. >> john: this description from sabrina, a reporter from the national post would watched this, she said i watched hamas hack innocents to death. glee. literal streams of blood, hacked off arms and legs and infant missing part of its skull and brain leaking out. i'll never forget the goal. but the look of pride in the terrorists' eyes cheering for the cameras as if they were the ones partying at the music festival that will haunt me. how can a normally functioning human being not look at that and say what an un-godly act of terror and why would you support the people behind it? >> john, in the 1930s, they hid it. they were filming it for their own records but hiding it from the rest of the world, had the rest of the world known more quickly they might have stopped it. hamas reason, cause for existence, to try to kill as many people as possible, not only israeli, though, but also palestinian because as we know they use palestinians as human shields and shoot from kindergartens and from mosques and u.n. facilities and everywhere else. they want utter mayhem and destruction. nothing the israelis can do other than die that would make the people happy. history of the jews, a lot of people get killed in the history of the jews but they are still here and that's what hamas will ultimately find out at the end of this thing, unfortunately. but i would say to the average american watching this and maybe does not care about the middle east or particularly care one way or another about jews, just fine and everything else. if you think the people marching in times square and d.c. and brussels and paris, london, etc., if you think they will be done, they will magically be done with their quest once they eliminate the jews, no, that will be the beginning of the quest because the real quest is to take out america, it is to take out every western civilization. if they can disconnect the jews from the ancient land of israel, what do you think they are going to think about america and our 250-year-old history? you don't have to ask you or, just listen to them. >> dave rubin, good to get your thoughts. troubling though they might be. appreciate it. thank you. >> gillian: the nypd is investigating two separate attacks as hate crimes. the first took place on monday, a woman in new york made anti-islamic statements at a man in a park allegedly and threw her cell phone and coffee at him. the other incident happened yesterday when a woman confronted two people who she saw tearing down kidnapped israeli posters. those two women attacked her, one of them even ripping a star of david necklace off of her neck. >> john: it's stunning the degree to which this is escalating in america and the idea of ripping down the posters of the hostages, to a large degree little children are held, held since october 7th, old people, 85 years old. >> gillian: as a secular jew, that act strikes me as antisemitism, like anti-humanity move there. i mean, somebody who doesn't value the sanctity of human life. you don't think those people deserve to have their lives given back to them? 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>> yeah, we think this is obviously all happening in northern gaza. it's really hard to tell. we are hearing the booms, not seeing them from our advantage point. but they are fairly close. probably just outside of gaza city where a lot of that main fighting is happening right now, john. >> john: and in terms of al if i sha hospital, the israeli defense force, the defense minister gallant and others have been talking about hamas using it as a headquarters. and we now for more than a week have been suggesting that that would seem to be a predicate for launching a full on direct assault against a hospital which likely would draw a lot of reaction from the international community. do you have any idea what israel might be planning in terms of trying to root out hamas when they are living underneath a hospital? >> yeah, i mean, i think it's a very delicate balance. obviously a hospital is someplace that people go to, when they are injured and that's obviously a lot of people are being injured and hurt, innocent civilians caught in the crossfire of all this. i think that's why israel is pushing so many people, so many of these civilians not involved in hamas to take advantage of these humanitarian corridors. john, we are learning that they have actually opened up another road, a coastal highway because the demand is so high right now. 80,000 people just today alone, tens of thousands earlier this week, and we don't expect that number to slow down any time soon. >> john: we do know, jeff, too, as we watch these incredible pictures over gaza, that hamas, according to reports from gaza, were preventing people from moving south. they were encouraging them to stay in their homes which obviously would up the casualty count when you talk about collateral damage from bombing runs. is this an indication now that maybe hamas does not have the control over the population it did a few days ago? >> well, i think, john, just like you would with your family, if things were blowing up around you or you were seeing your friends or family being killed, i think you would make decisions in that moment that need to be done to take care of your family and as you see those images of those scores of people carrying the white flags and leaving, you see a lot of families, kids, a lot of men and women making that tough decision to just grab a bag, grab whenever they can. life is so precious. any allegiance or fear of another group goes out the window when you are literally trying to survive. >> john: jeff paul, just outside gaza for us, jeff, keep up the good work, thank you. appreciate it. >> frustrated with prime minister netanyahu that he has not listened more to some of the things you have asked him to do? >> it's taking a little longer than i hoped. >> it's taking a little longer than i hoped, i had hoped we could do it very fast. but battle conditions on the ground, safety of our forces, hostages we want to get out and the humanitarian corridors we want to effect. >> gillian: president biden said a cause in fighting should have come sooner, he and netanyahu disagree over a call for a ceasefire. victoria coates, let's start with this area of disagreement or they now agree they are implementing four hour long pauses along certain corridors in gaza. seems the israelis did come to that somewhat reluctantly. is it a major concession that they have agreed to i am -- implement those. >> i think it's unfortunate the administration is so blatantly prioritizing the well-being of the palestinians over the israelis and americans either killed or held hostage. the role of the united states is to advocates strongly for their return. we should h