specifically on that topic. now, this is expected to be a record breaking year for air travel. tsa says to get to the airport early. >> to avoid all the, you know, the long lines and everything, so that's why. >> it would help if more people did that, right? >> it would help, yep. >> i think with the amount of people that do travel, it's good to just give yourself some leeway. >> and sandra, as always, check with your airlines for any updates and good luck out there. sandra. >> sandra: good luck out there. that's the message, right? looks ok for now there in denver. we hope it stays that way. it is going to get busy as it always does. alicia, thank you so much and great to see you as we kick off a new hour, college campuses under the microscope. the federal government investigating more than a half dozen schools after a series of alleged antisemitic incidents. welcome, everyone, sandra smith in new york and john, we are closer and closer to the weekend, but a lot still to get to here. >> john: a lot still to get to, a busy second hour here. john roberts in washington. "america reports" hour two starts now. one of those schools is where you are, sandra, new york city. columbia university, pro palestinian protests have become a weekly occurrence. >> sandra: jewish students telling fox digital they cannot wait to graduate and are scared to go to class. many more students are protesting the school's decision to suspend two pro palestinian student groups for violating columbia's policy. >> columbia university has an immense history of fighting for anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements and the banning is a dangerous precedent to set. >> completely unjustified, a blatant attack on free speech. >> i don't know why we would support their voices and not some others. >> john: molly line in boston with the latest on this. molly. >> john, facing what they call alarming nationwide rise and reports of antisemitism, as well as anti-muslim discrimination, the u.s. education department is taking what they call aggressive action, opening investigations at seven schools across the country, happening through the office for civil rights. so far, mays district, lafayette, cornell, columbia, wellesley, cooper union for the advancement of science and art, five allege antisemitic harassment, and two allege anti-muslim harassment. miguel cardona says the list will grow. >> there's a line, children need to be safe. they need to be protected and we as educators need to do everything in our power to make sure that they feel safe in their own skin. she shouldn't have to hide who they are to learn on campus. >> cornell and columbia are not commenting. university of pennsylvania says the school is cooperating fully and taking comprehensive action to respond to antisemitism. the wellesley incident involves an email sent to residents by dorm leadership declaring there should be no space, no consideration and no support for zionism in the wellesley college community. wellesley claims the school responded quickly to the incident while making clear antisemitism has no place at wellesley. not on the list, harvard, the fallout of students blaming israel for the hamas attacks continues. as alumni and donors slammed the president for not doing enough, she has announced the advisory board to combat antisemitism and condemned the phrase from the river to the sea. now more than 100 harvard faculty have sent a letter to president gay bowing to pressure from wealthy donors. >> john: molly, thank you. >> sandra: donna weintraub, board member of the jewish federation of northern new jersey. welcome to the program today. you and i were having a chat a moment ago about just how big this moment is, and i'll ask you about that. while bringing larry summers voice into all of this, a very important voice in this moment, saying it's a moment of moral and mortal peril in the world and in university communities like his own. he says this, those most directly charged with confronting prejudice, offices diversity, equity, and inclusion, have failed to stand with the jewish students. some have taken positions widely viewed as antisemitic. this is an unbelievable moment in this country. these kids are on campus, they feel threatened, scared to even go to class. your thoughts. >> it's not anything new, that's one of my thoughts. this is something that america has woken up to. this is something that people are starting to see on a volcanic eruption of what's happening for jewish students on campus but not new, it has been slow burn, a marathon for the past ten years. >> sandra: you just feel horrible for the students that are living through this moment that larry summers called a cancer of antisemitism. it is spreading. colleges have to take a stand. this is the education secretary under this president, cardona, on another network this morning talking about the spreading of hate on our college campuses. >> the level of intensity is really high and i think we need to match it with a level of response that meets the moment. we need to be listening to the students, let them know that they will be safe in the schools, we are not going to tolerate hate or threats on campus. >> sandra: the level of intensity is really high, we have to meet it with a level of response that meets the moment. are we doing that? >> i don't believe that we are and i also believe that he made mention, too, we have to believe our students, listen to the students. forgive me, listen to the students. the jewish community on campus seems to be the one community that is not listened to on most university campuses across the country. students have explained what their triggers are, explained what certain slogans mean and they are told time and time again that it's not so, and that that's not what that means. we are the one community that does not get to identify for ourselves what antisemitism sounds like to us, what the triggers are for our community, and administrators across this country at universities and colleges alike, liberal and not liberal, large school, small school have turned a blind eye to it, or deaf ears for many of these institutions who heard about it years ago in smaller numbers but certainly jewish students have been vocal at least the past decade. >> sandra: we are talking about solutions and how do we come out of this moment. an israeli activist pulling funding for the anti-israel student groups, listen. >> how can it be the college fees and taxpayer dollars are funding hate groups that cheers on the burning alive of jewish families. every college in this country should ban sjp and never let them back. we would not fund kkk chapters in the colleges, we should not fund these either. >> sandra: eli lake was on the program last hour and said something really important about being skeptical of involving the federal government in free speech issues in this moment. listen. >> i think that there are dangers of involving the federal government in this kind of question because the definition of antisemitism at times can be nebulous. maybe the best tool right now is what we have already seen, wealthy alumni, student groups themselves taking on some of these people. >> sandra: talking to you on the set right now, i'm sure the viewers can see how deeply personal this is and emotional you are about it. how do we get out of this moment? >> for one, it's not for me to say how we get out of this moment. but i think that university administrators need a take a long hard look at themselves and wonder why it is that antisemitism has erupted on campus more so than anywhere else. it's not to say that it's not terrible, i myself was yelled at on a train in d.c. the other day, this is not something that's unheard of. but it's erupting on college campus. not every campus, certain campuses are having a better time of it, and i hate to say a better time of it, but certainly that where it's not as bad, but we can start there. >> sandra: the probing of the schools the education department will new take on, will this help? >> nobody checking and balancing what the professors are teaching in a classroom. a jewish student that sits in a classroom has to listen to the professor give their perspective of something as opposed to the facts on the ground. not only hurts them in terms of their identity being attacked, but it also impacts them as a student on campus, and impacts them as an academic on campus. if you don't feel safe in your classroom. i spent 15 years on a board of education in the town i live. every student deserves safe for their full self to bring themselves to academics. they are hindered to do the best they can do as a student on campus. >> sandra: appreciate you joining us live on set, donna, we will catch back up with you again soon. >> thank you for having me. >> john: israeli defense force says soldiers have destroyed an islamic jihad stronghold in gaza where the terror group was making and storing weapons. israelis also found hamas mortar shells inside a kindergarten, they say. jeff paul, what's it like where you are there tonight, jeff? >> john, from what we are seeing and hearing here on the ground in southern israel, this war is only intensifying. a short while ago, rockets were fired from gaza into tel aviv and standing out here, the sounds of that outgoing artillery that gaza is firing into gaza is a constant. so it's safe to say that israeli forces are tightening their grip in and around northern israel. the idf saying they are moving deeper into gaza where they destroyed islamic jihad training facility. and also continued the search of the al-shifa hospital, where they say a tunnel was found in the hospital complex, in addition to the guns and military equipment they said israeli soldiers discovered. idf found two bodies of hostages taken by hamas on october 7th. the body of 65-year-old judit weiss and the body of a 19-year-old soldier was also recovered. its only putting more pressure on the israeli government to make a deal for the release of hostages. families of israelis taken hostage continued the march from tell aviv. >> seven of my family members were kidnapped in gaza. my mother, my sister, my sister husband and their children, 8 and 3 years old. how can you put a price on a 3-year-old girl? we need them back now at any price. >> inside gaza, humanitarian crisis is only deepening. phone and internet service remains cut off for a second day and because of that, the u.n. said it could not bring in aid without a line of communication. food and clean water is becoming more scarce and so is medical aid. and while israel announced that it will allow two tanker trucks of fuel to enter daily, it will not be enough and might only get worse, john, as israel hints they might be moving the battle from the north to the south saying they will go wherever hamas goes, john. >> john: they just dropped leaflets in khan younis telling them to get out. >> sandra: officials investigating the death of jewish protestor paul kessler, the district attorney explained why prosecutors have not charged the suspect with a hate crime. >> looking at the statements, as well as the words that accompany the act, we cannot at this time meet the elements of a hate crime. but nevertheless, we will continue to explore and investigate that offense. >> sandra: involuntary manslaughter and battery against the 50-year-old college professor include special circumstances. >> john: ron desantis taking heat from an unlikely source, a conservative group that defends free speech. his push to boot students may close a line, the issue not going away for presidential candidates. we will talk to shannon bream about that in the minutes ahead. >> sandra: families who lost loved ones on 9/11 are trying to make sense of a new trend, digital influencers pushing osama bin laden's hate-filled letter to america. we will speak to two people who lost loved ones on that. >> for someone on tiktok to suggest it's america's fault or that bin laden, who killed thousands of innocent americans was right, is absolutely disgusting. 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"new york post" sums it up, world gone mad men, calling it a shocking new low. but more americans are getting news or what they think is news of platforms like tiktok. >> tiktok is the new google, where they get their information. >> that was the education secretary. so, with these videos flying around, how are september 11th families feeling about it all? let's bring in bret eagleson, 15 years old when his father was killed on 9/11, and terri strata lost her husband in the attacks. let me play one of these influencers, so-called influencers and what they said after finding this letter online and reading it. listen here. >> when i tell you tiktok is going to save this generation, the amount of things we have learned on this app in the past month alone that other people in other generations, they don't understand, they don't get it. tiktok is undoing all of that. >> i need everyone to stop what they are doing right now and read, literally two pages, read letter to america and come back here and let me know what you think. i feel i'm going through an existential crisis. >> john: it's not two pages, it's ten the way i printed it out, terri, what do you think of young people in america looking at what happened on 9/11 and bin laden's alleged justification for it and saying you have to go out, you have to read this. >> well, i find it appalling. i mean, it's hard to find words to describe just how upsetting this is to the entire 9/11 community to see these young people out there, you know, but the truth is, they are very misinformed and they are uneducated and ignorant on the subject. and the reason all of this is as far as i can tell from living through this nightmare for the past 20 years is that we have had spineless, and i mean spineless leaders in the white house and in the state department that choose to protect the kingdom of saudi arabia over the american people knowing the truth, and we have to remember that the truth is what will always be our best weapon, you know, against history repeating itself, and as long as we have government, our government officials that continue to protect the truth from being told, which is that the kingdom funded this terrorist attack, they funded al-qaeda, which spread this radical islamism, that this young group of people that were born before 9/11 are so unaware of because it's not taught in our schools, and the parents aren't aware of it and everybody should know, and our government needs to make some really strong changes really fast before this gets even worse than it is. >> john: bret, i printed out the letter and reread it to see if i missed a revelation the young people on tiktok have come across, and the one thing i was struck by is that this young woman who said you have to read this letter might have missed the part where bin laden basically says all civilians in the united states are fair game for terrorist attacks. >> yeah, i mean -- this is unbelievable. there are not enough horrible words to describe, not enough dangerous words to describe what is happening right now in america. this is an existential threat to this country. if we are going to have kids of that generation, children on tiktok trying to in some way whitewash what happened on 9/11 by justifying people like osama bin laden and it all starts in the education system and you know, kudos to certain governors, ron desantis went out of his way to make sure legislation passed that 9/11 is taught in the schools. in the country it's not a mandate or a requirement that 9/11 is taught as part of the curriculum. we need to reeducate america and to the tiktokers that are saying inflammatory remarks, you should all know that hamas and al-qaeda and people that you are supporting and giving credibility to would not hesitate one second to kill you or kidnap you and your family and hold you ransom simply based on the color of your skin or your gender identity or your nationalality or your religion. >> john: as i pointed out a second ago, that is spelled out here in this letter from bin laden. the wall street journal editorial board, you mentioned education, observed this about what's going on on tiktok. said it should be a cause for contemplation on university campuses that some young americans in 2023 could apparently read osama bin laden's justifications for 9/11 and see a reflection of what they have been taught about "settler colonialism." terri, do you worry about what's being taught on college campuses across america, particularly when we see this troubling rise in antisemitism? >> oh, absolutely, i am extremely concerned about it and upset by all of it. i'm as concerned about what's being taught as much as i'm concerned about what's not being taught and that is the radical spread, the radical islamism that was spread across the world, you know, when the kingdom of saudi arabia decided to put billions of dollars into spreading it around the world and to radicalize people. 15 of the 19 hijackers were saudi nationals. osama bin laden was a saudi national. if we don't teach the absolute truth of 9/11, and if we are silenced, we have a lawsuit pending in lower manhattan and they are trying to be dismissed from the case because they don't want the truth to be told and again, without a president that will confront the kingdom, without a state department that will stop hiding the truth, you know, i hate to say that we are doomed, but again, it's not so much always what's being taught, it's also what's not being taught and our legislators have the power, they have legislation, they can enact and until tom cotton of arkansas releases his hold on this ensuring justice for families, victims of families of terrorism act, we cannot move forward. and he needs to stand with the americans and stop protecting the kingdom of saudi arabia and so does the american president and so does our state department. >> john: something else we'll be watching with the arkansas senator. quick last question to you, bret. the tiktok influencer whose video we played, lynette atkins, said she did not put that up there and share this letter in order to promote any kind of form of hate or violence against anyone. she also says she doesn't agree with the extremism in it, she didn't know it existed, she said she was not told the whole story, she was three years old when 9/11 happened. what would you say to had your if you had the opportunity? >> and that is exactly the problem. kids today are not being taught what happened on 9/11, not being taught about the declassified documents that we have, thanks to president biden for declassifying traunches of fbi documents, no institutional education going on, there is no -- and it's the children born after 9/11 have no knowledge of the true story of 9/11. neither does most of america, and to the influence and tiktok, i want to say one final thing, is that i challenge any one of them to go into the streets of gaza or to go into places like saudi arabia and riyadh and try to assert their same liberties of free speech that they have here that might father died for by saving other people, that 3,000 innocent americans died, countless thousands, tens of thousands of servicemen from gone over seas to protect that right and challenge them to go to riyadh or gaza and see what happens when they try to use the free speech they have such luxury here. if america is such a bad and toxic place, you know, you can always leave. >> john: yep, one of the things bin laden points to the united states had the audacity to write its own code of justice and own laws and not follow sharia law. food for thought there. thank you for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> sandra: john, fox news alert as we head back to apec 2023, and the president's visit on the west coast, live in san francisco right now, the roundtable that is about to happen, president joe biden is hosting apec leaders at this moment. he has not sat down in the room yet. just a moment ago we did see xi of china walk into the room and has taken his seat. antony blinken also has sat down. we have not seen president biden just yet. this was expected 2:00 eastern time, so about 20 minutes past then. the president will host apec leaders on the retreat while there. officially be transferring apec chair, we are told, to the president of peru at the convention center there live in san francisco. >> john: you know, i've been to many of these apec conferences, i've never seen one where things start on time. apparently we just got the two-minute warning the president will be there soon, but obviously the highlight of this summit, and sometimes apec summits have their moments, i remember being in hanoi after the danang summit, president trump met with the president of vietnam, an interesting moment and the big moment at this apec conference was the meeting on wednesday between president biden and president xi and the fact that the u.s. and china had come to some agreements, military to military contacts, renewing those, which is very important and a pledge from china to crack down on the production of fentanyl precursors, we'll see if china makes good on that, because there are so many critics who say it's in china's interest to keep the instability associated with fentanyl addiction and death going, here comes the president. >> sandra: and he's going to take a seat there. we are told we should have some audio, we are never sure until it's underway. he met with his mexican counterpart on the sidelines of this forum. listen here as the president has taken his seat in san francisco. >> hello, everyone. we are going to extend this conference another five days. if that's ok. welcome to the final apec leaders session. over the last few days we have worked together and i think that's not hyperbole, they have worked together to find ways to build an inclusive, sustainable asian pacific, and talked about the progress that requires partnership. together, together we laid out the work we'll be undertaking to avert the worst impacts of the climb crisis, u.s. companies have announced more than $500 billion investments in apec economies to build new sub sea cables, decarbonizing energy grids and complete the largest u.s. airline expansion into the south pacific in our history. alongside 13 of our apec partners, also made historic progress yesterday when the indo-pacific economic framework, the first of its kinds, agreement to strengthen supply chains, accelerate our clean energy transition and combat corruption. as we begin our discussion today, i want to highlight a few areas that i believe we can do even more in my view. first, inclusive growth. when everyone in the economy has a chance to contribute -- >> sandra: so we took his remarks off the top there, they will now launch into a discussion we are told, clearly the president is going down the route of climate change at the moment, but there will be a lot on the docket there, we are news as it is ongoing through the hour, john. >> john: i should have mentioned the big moment at the apec conference in danang in 2017, vietnam, informal contact with obama and putin, did not have formal meetings, that came the following year in helsinki. but the conferences can have their moments. sometimes they are not very interesting but this one clearly was, and particularly how well they cleaned up the streets of san francisco, sandra. >> sandra: wasn't that just a miracle how it happened so fast. fascinating discussion. did not want to take away from the guest you had on before, fascinating discussion on that message spreading viral on tiktok and the 9/11 families getting their reaction, john. >> john: and clearly, you know, these young folks who read this bin laden letter did not have the benefit of the context of history when they were reading it either. just, it reads like a terrorist screen justifying the unjustifiable. the wall street journal now reporting that president biden will likely avoid charges in the investigation into his handling of classified documents. according to the journal, the special counsel handling the case is not expected to file criminal charges. david spunt live at the justice department. is this the end of it, david? >> john, right now we are told by a source familiar with the probe it is not done, it's still very much underway and special counsel robert herr appointed by merrick garland is expected to complete a report that could be considered a scathing report criticizing people for the handling of the documents, but president biden likely not to face charges. we know they were found at a center, and his garage, hunter may not escape the wrath of another special counsel. david weiss using a grand jury in california to investigate the first son, it's not a surprise, we have known for several months now that weiss was looking at california as a venue because he said so himself in a court filing back in august. cnn was first to report not only is there a california grand jury, but hunter's uncle, james biden, the president's brother has received a subpoena in that probe. hunter has lived in the l.a. area for several years, may be charged with taxes. weiss says he will likely refile tax charges after the plea deal fell apart in a public way in july in wilmington, delaware, and tax experts tell attorneys it's likely it will be charged in california, because that's in the statute of limitations. when he lived in d.c., that was 2014, 2015, 2016, some are outside at this i want po. back to you. >> john: we will keep watching it all, we have you doing it for us. david, thank you. >> we are building an economy from the middle out and the bottom up. acknowledge a disconnect between the numbers and how people feel about their place in the world right now. >> president biden touting bidenomics, new polling showing 69% of voters disapprove of his handling of inflation. 65% are unhappy with his job on the economy. brian and jackie, great to have you here. in the speech he acknowledged that people are not feeling what apparently they should be feeling about the effect of his economic policies. what is going on? >> keeps coming down to messaging. the messaging, we don't have that right. we don't know how to talk about it. this is a crazy economy because on the one hand, people are spending and why are people spending so much. the other hand, they know how they are doing the spending. they are borrowing to do it. giving up on things like buying a house and so when you are spending but you know you are kind of spending away your future, i don't think it feels very good to people and that's what drives some of these poll numbers that just don't seem to improve for the president. >> when i look at this, i think about inflation and people saying inflation is cooling, inflation is getting better, the markets obviously are looking at the numbers and that rates may be cut next year, but the rate of inflation is going down so price increases are not happening as fast, sandra, but the prices are up. >> sandra: they never came down. never came down. >> and that's the problem. when you go to the grocery store, go to a restaurant or vacation, that's where you feel it the most and nobody's wages ever went up in lockstep with that. i don't know if with a changing of the guard you can get those prices to come back down. you might have to grow the economy and get those wages up so people feel they are more wealthy or feel like they have -- >> sandra: i have an answer to that question. look at how much a magazine costs, 50 years ago, when they go up, they never come down. the rate at which they go up does slow down, but does not mean it's going to come down. a sampling of americans on their spending habits. >> if i see something and i want it, i just get it while we are young and able to do so. might as well spend the money. >> nice $200 pair of boots because why not. live life. we don't know if you are here tomorrow. >> so many more things to spend your money on, so i think that people don't think twice about it anymore. >> sandra: how do i know things did not get so tough they moved in with mom and dad and now have all the -- >> it could be one reason why they have the extra money but also a cultural shift and so i'm watching that and my eyes kind of popped because young people today are looking at things entirely different. we were thinking about saving for a down payment, and our futures and paying back our loans, they are not because the government is going to give you a hand out to pay your loans. mortgage rates are too high, and that's how this is all being designed right now. >> sandra: change in psychology. >> change in psychology. so people are living paycheck to paycheck, day-to-day, and they think it's good enough. we are losing sight what the american dream was or is, if that girl would ask parents i'm guessing they are boomers, but the young kids today, i can't believe i just said that, they look at it all differently. >> it's the yo-lo mentality, and somebody will bail me out, but right now i want what i want. it's driving the economy but it cannot work for the long-term and that's what scares people. they know the thing we are doing right now does not work the long-term, a question is how long does this short-term last. >> sandra: americans pessimistic about the economy, regardless of anything that has happened, they don't feel good about it when asked signs of the economy started to turn the corner and the worst is over or not, 67% said no, i don't. keep tt in mind as we inch closer and closer to election day. >> it's a big number. >> sandra: we want people to look forward to the future. >> plan for it, too, right. do something about it now. >> absolutely. save, no one wants to do that. >> sandra: imagine that. you don't hear that word very often. >> save. so out of fashion, so out of fashion. >> sandra: ok. thank you so much to both of you. appreciate it. john. >> john: fox news alert, news in the case of disgraced lawyer alex murdaugh. a plea agreement in the updated financial crimes case. dana marie, what does the plea entail? >> we started the day thinking the conversation in court would be around jury issues, potential delay or change of venue, but the plea agreement the center of attention. so this morning when court started, all parties gathered quickly went into recess for roughly three hours. during that time, we learned both sides were in intense negotiation to come to an agreement regarding a plea deal for his state financial crimes. charges were read, including money laundering, forgery, criminal conspiracy and breach of trust. they did agree, 27 years in a state prison with 85% time served. >> would you like for me to accept the guilty plea and impose a negotiated sentence? >> yes, sir, i would. >> and judge newman says the hearing will take place on november 28th, that sentencing will take place for that subsequent hearing november 28th. >> john: new to the fox news team, from my wife's hometown of san diego, welcome to you. good to have you with us. >> thank you so much, john. >> john: we'll see lots of you in the future. sandra. >> sandra: and good stuff, glad to have her on. the progressive squad to be facing more backlash over anti-israel stances in the form of primary challengers. that reporting for you next. >> john: plus 2024 hopeful nikki haley using the latest tiktok controversy of user sympathizing with osama bin laden to renew a push to ban the platform. the white house is reportedly taking a different approach. fox news sunday anchor shannon bream on tiktok and the race to the white house just ahead. ♪ ♪ i got the power of 3. i lowered my a1c, cv risk, and lost some weight. in studies, the majority of people reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. i'm under 7. ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascular events such as stroke, heart attack, or death in adults also with known 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>> remember when during the trump administration they talked about bans or executive orders or things related to tiktok and like no, no, no, we are going to lose all the young people, every teenager will be mad at you about this. we have to have the conversations and think through where you are going. again, it's an issue of is the ccp controlling in some way tiktok, the ownership of it, i had senator mark warner here on fox news last sunday, i have talked to him multiple times about tiktok, and a bipartisan way to force it to be changed or limit it. montana, they have a state law to ban the use of tiktok in montana. it's now tied up in the courts. >> john: u.s. military official tells fox news there have been three new attacks on u.s. forces in the middle east in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 61 since october 17th. white house insists we are going to hit them, a deterrent, it's not working. do they need to throw more weight here. >> do you do something kinetic. there are people calling for more physical, you know, strikes with relation to iran. but others are saying there are kinds of financial levers that we are not using. talk about oil sanctions. we are not strictly enforcing those. tens of billions flow into iran coffers. other ways to go after them. >> john: letting them sell missiles. >> if you feel the kinetic way is not the way to go. we have former secretary of state mike pompeo to talk about these things. >> john: you think he'll have something to say? >> and democratic senator chris coons to talk about the things, how we deal with this, iran is a big issue and again, funding because you know, you have the supplemental from the white house, they want to tie everything together and it's stalling aid to israel. >> john: i had an interesting conversation with coons about the attacks and retaliation and brought up bush when he said i'm not going to fire a $200 missile. >> i remember the camel. >> john: he was not on board with that metaphor. see you sunday, thanks. sandra. >> sandra: we remember. thanks to shannon. breaking moments ago, new york democrat congressman dan goldman, his brooklyn office on the screen has been vandalized. it happened all this morning, a photo showing the office spray painted with free palestine and other statements. goldman's communication director says harassing, intimidating and outright the staff of a jewish elected official is dangerous and unacceptable. nypd tells his staffers similar graffiti was spotted nearby. all right. meanwhile, the october 7th surprise attack on israel from hamas has motivated young jews across the country to take a stand. hundreds of americans are volunteering to go to israel and fight for the idf. senior correspondent casey stegall is telling the story. how many from the u.s. are volunteering? >> sandra, believe it or not, more than 1,000 from about 20 different states. we want to introduce you to 1, 19-year-old megan daniels, she was born and raised here in texas, a high school cheerleader, but when she graduated she did not want to head off to college like a lot of her friends, she had dreams of going to israel and joining the israeli defense forces. megan was finishing up her basic training when the attacks of october 7th happened, and now she's working as a support soldier in the midst of this historic war. >> very proud of her, she's very determined, she's very focused, she's very dedicated to, you know, israel, her people and of course helping fight for the free world as she sees it. >> these volunteers are called lone soldiers. once they are in israel, many don't speak the language or have a support system in place. so a non-profit group based here in the u.s. called friends of the idf help support their missions. housing, food, mental health care, fidf was formed in 1981 by a group of holocaust survivors to help soldiers who are tasked with protecting israel and jews worldwide. >> and their kids coming out of this experience will be the most incredible citizens, will be the most incredible human beings because they will have sacrificed for something which is holy, just, moral. >> megan's parents tell me they hoped to spend thanksgiving with their daughter. those plans have changed. now looking forward to a big family reunion hopefully soon. sandra. >> sandra: casey stegall, thank you. reporting live from dallas. >> john: before we go, we have this coming up, taylor swift fans have found a whole new reason to love travis kelce. we'll tell you why, coming up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ we're building a better postal service. for more on-time deliveries. and easier, affordable ways to ship. so you can deliver even more holiday joy. the united states postal service. delivering for america. right now get a free footlong at subway. like the new deli heroes. buy one footlong in the app, get one free. it's a pretty big deal. kinda like me. order in the subway app today. with the freestyle libre 2 system, know your glucose level and where it's headed. no fingersticks needed. manage your diabetes with more confidence. freestyle libre 2. try it for free at freestylelibre.us they say seeing is believing, but with stearns & foster, that's only part of the story. we handcraft every stearns & foster using the finest materials, like indulgent memory foam, and ultra-conforming intellicoils, for a beautiful mattress and indescribable comfort every single night. stearns & foster. what comfort should be. for a limited time, bring home incredible comfort with savings up to $800 on select adjustable mattress sets. learn more at stearnsandfoster.com. >> john: well with taylor swift creating all of this attention around travis kelce who didn't have much of a career before the two of them hooked up, taylor swift fans are doing a deep dive on travis kelce sharing his decade old tweets. some say they like the football star more news because his past musings are down right wholesome. kelce posting things like i just gave a squirrel a piece of bread and it smashed all of it. had no idea that they ate bread like that. he posts about eating a lot. and then this one about focusing on his goals in the future. listen to this. this could be a lyric from a taylor swift song. the moon looks crazy tonight. i'm a chiller out here for a little and visual ice my success and vibe to the scenery. you put that to music, sandra, that could work. >> sandra: i'm sorry. it's so funny. i actually -- i said this morning. i wish them the best. i hope they get married and live happily ever after. >> john: so when people see them, people will go there goes the next great american dynasty. >> sandra: happy friday, everybody. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. 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