second round of houses releases including 13 israelis. but still, no americans. ♪ reunited at last with loved ones after several weeks in captivity in gaza. >> today is been a product of a lot of hard work and weeks of personal engagement records a brief cease-fire in place but tension on the ground remain and many more hostages are still under hamas control. >> i want to be clear the war is continuing to coax her in the ground in israel with the latest. less inflation and nation the high cost of the thanksgiving holiday driving home voters a grim outlook on the economy is biden's approval numbers remain stubbornly low. we get white house reaction firm advisors chair jon h. and the tug-of-war over the foreign aid package drags on. we will ask republican senator tom cotton about his parties and calls for more security funding at the southern border. democratic congressman jake auchincloss over the stalemate of the president's call for emergency wartime aid for both israel and ukraine. and. a major victory for the far right in the netherlands. days earlier argentina. voters fed up with their elite political failure to curb inflation, homelessness and uncontrolled migration. we will ask our sunday panel if this could foreshadow how voters here may vote in 2024 all right now on "fox news sunday." ♪. shannon: elephant boxes in washington. hamas had agreed to release and of the group of hostages today. we are standing by. national secured advisor jake sullivan said the white house has quote reason to believe at least one of three americans held will be among them. we are currently in day three of a four-day pause inviting. after delay on saturday the houses are prisoner deal between hamas and israel did get back on track. a total of lease 50 is really hostages will israel says it will release 150 palestinian prisoners. president biden is vowing to keep pressing for the release of all american hostages. we are going to bring in lawmakers from both side of the aisle to discuss what comes next in the israel hamas war. but we begin with trey yingst is alive it's hostage square in tel aviv israel. >> shannon good morning britt overnight for a second straight evening israelis and breathing a sigh of relief. thirteen hostages released as part of a broader cease-fire deal. it was not done without anticipation and uncertainty. the agreement nearly collapsing right before the transfer was set to take place. qatar officials said they were able to negotiate a path forward the ultimate how they hostages s taken by the red cross to egypt's rafah crossing they are met by israeli intelligence officers and brought here to israel. hamas and told foxnews the delay was over a disagreement on aid trucks israel threatened to resume their bombing campaign if hamas backed out of the deal but part of the group last night 12 are taken to the sheba medical center in central israel. central israel. and 21-year-old maya was in more immediate need of medical need after being shot 50 days ago for the videos of families returning and reuniting giving israel hope bringing the total to 26 hostages released as part of the cease-fire deal. another group is expected to be freed tonight. remember they are being exchanged in a three -- one ratio 39 palestinian prisoners were released on saturday evening. the question though today is whether or not the fighting will resume. regional forces on fox news today they believe there could be a possible extension to the cease-fire deal in the days ahead will tell. shannon: trey yingst reporting from his or we thank you and your team again. join now by arkansas republican senator tom cotton. member of the armed service committee great to have you back on "fox news sunday." >> let start with this pause. there are folks who do not think it is been the best idea wall street journal opinion piece over there set a cease-fire deprives israel of military momentum and transfers the initiative to hamas. now that israel has agreed to a short cease-fire the bite administration and they will expect longer cease-fire spread hamas will remain armed and dangerous and gaza will use the cease-fire to regroup. we have gotten dozens of hostages out what you make of it when we go from here? work they do not want to second-guess the government that near unanimous support in their security leadership this was the appropriate step to take print out not going to second-guess the israeli government. seems like president biden puts more pressure on israel than he does on hamas and its hosting guitar. part of the reasons why we got to this point so we had to have a four-day pause is the biden administration has consistently behind the scenes insisted israel government takes steps that are clearly not in israel's instance buried providing fuel into gaza. not just water or food or medicine but fuel which mass will be providing them with ammunition. i'm also very frustrated we have not seen the release of a single american hostage. perhaps there will be one today. apparently hamas is so contemptuous of president biden and american power they feel the imperative to release filipino and tie hostages before they release american hostages that's one small example of the weakness of president biden has projected around the world that has resulted in things like americans been taken hostage or iran attacking americans more than 79 times over the past month with a follow kabul in 2021 progress to the point about american still being held there democratic congressman, mounting and running its president biden in a prime rate with democrat said he thanks we should be using u.s. forces on the ground potentially to get this americans out. here's what he says. >> by now i would've expected american best special forces to perhaps play a hand in extracting them. i think it is absurd, shocking and dismaying six weeks later was sub american hostages held by a terror organization gaza. i am happy for the israelis, do not get me wrong hamas should release all hostages but the fact we have americans sitting in gaza right now held hostage is appalling it should be addressed immediately. >> you have served in uniform oversee what he think about the skuthiscall for using u.s. specl forces to get our folks out? >> was shortly open to that. we have elite special operations forces were specifically trained in hostage rescue. do you think we have to be differential to israeli government and the israeli defense forces about the tactical situation on the ground. but if american military forces are called upon and can provide a viable solution to get out american citizens and the citizens of israel or other nations we have to be open to that. but again it's not just a small special operation units we have trained we have two aircraft carriers in the region we have increased the number of troops and aircraft we have in the region. hamas is so contemptuous of president biden is not yet released american hostages this would never have happened under donald trump or ronald reagan in fact if you will recall jimmy carter had a hostage crisis with iran. hamas is patron for over 400 days it around with lisa's hostages the day ronald reagan took office they were so scared of what ronald reagan might do to them you do not see that, dear for president bite of hamas, ronna frankly anyone around the world. this is to talk about her assets in the region our troops in uniform in the region how worried are you about expanding way don't think the american people of taste for that progress unfortunately it's already expanded towards and so biden took office iran has attacked american positions in the middle east i think that over 150 times for just in the last month is over 70 times he will hit back a few times. but we do hit back it's almost always in empty proxy warehouses or may be proxy forces in iraq and syria. seems like the president wants to go out of his way to avoid eye running casualties. >> what targets would you suggest? >> i would target iranians were operating in iraq and in syria. it also spok's send a clear mese to iran these attacks do not stop and beat it will begin to threaten their assets. ronald reagan when he sank half of iran navy for attack a u.s. army ship. the present talks about fear of escalation brute fear of but fef escalation ensures escalation. as to establish escalation dominance over a terror supporting regime like iran. sean connery's character in the untouchables said to kevin costner's character eliot ness about how to handle the chicago mob that they sent one of yours to the hospital he said one of theirs to the morgue is just not the chicago way that's the way and president biden does not appear to understand them. >> to be get drawn into something they did not want to achieve peace talks they're having the u.s. was involved in as well. but to get militarily involved with their land mass is a different situation. that is another level. >> what ronald reagan did when he sank half of around navy it did not lead to open outright war. in fact it ended the eye ron/iraq war could have been raging for more than eight years because there's so scared of ronald reagan. after donald trump the terrorist mastermind pulled in for the rest of the trump era. the way to stop these attacks is not to be fearful and hesitant and cautious in a response but massive retaliation to make it clear we will not tolerate these attacks on americans otherwise i fear will see a mass casualty attack against american forces in the region. shannon: you know there is a strong sentiment in that region that's blaming the u.s. as well pointing fingers at us. "washington post" is putting lentils in the middle east called washington support for israel's war a reckless position it does not account for the long-term diplomatic security economic effects that alienating a region were rivals they might try not you and i talked about many times are carving deeper inroads, more important they said the war has toppled the united states from its moral high ground. do you worry about the longer-term impacts alienating many in the arab world especially the younger generation who clearly not think u.s. is on the right side of this conflict to kirk's life in the middle east is not a church picnic preach what you need more than anything as iron will and crushing force. what i fear most threatens american interest and stability in the region's american weakness. arab leaders want to be partners with a strong american frankly with the strong israel because the thing they fear most is iran. and it's terror proxies like its paramilitary groups in iraq and syria and hamas or hezbollah or the rebels in yemen which president biden took off the terror list in his early days in office that kind of weakness or weakneaweakness we have seen tos iran is what is going to imperil american interests a interest an the region. not being hesitant or cautious or showing restraint in the face of attacks on american troops and citizens the region. this massacre of israelis on october 7. shannon: you got a lot of head of each comeback from the. fighting fights in ukraine, israel, the border, all that what your hopes? >> last two years biden has shown he seems to care more about ukraine's borders and he cares about america's borders. we republicans care about both we want to secure our border pretty when to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into this country the crime, drugs the potential terrorism and could open this country up too. at the same time you want to help ukraine resist russia's war of unprovoked aggression. so in return for providing additional funding for ukraine we have to have significant substantial reforms to our border policies. specifically asylum and parole the processes that are being abused in our border or a millions of illegal migrants to come to this country over the last three years for cocoa tech to our next guest to see if you can be getting bipartisan progress on that thank you for coming in. german out messages democratic congressman jake auchincloss welcome back to the show sir. >> sent to having me on, shannon. shannon: let's start here you said he sees for us on a good idea until hamas is destroyed by want to talk to about the specific pause but again the wall strewall street journal pis a cease-fire terms allows hamas to extend this a truce by releasing 10 hostages a day as a possibility a permit true smears and hamas start to trade adult mail and military hostages. the group's demands will rise. the u.s. will pressure israel to release hundreds of palestinian terrorists, has the plasma and a good or bad idea in your opinion? what are your concerns with this conflict moving forward? >> there is no such thing as good in the situation when there are still hostages being held in captivity. but there is progress this is progress. hostages are being released. humanitarian aid is coming in for palestinian civilians. the israeli defense forces are able to regroup as they prepare for operations to the south where the hamas leadership that in gaza seems to be it is a testament to the president's strenpresidentsstrength and ignr a cease-fire that would have denied israel the leverage they need to secure this deal. but israel is right this is the middle not the ends. they had two objectives going into this conflict one is to rescue the hostages there still hostages being held captive to it was was to dismantle hamas as still coherent. they need to be prepared to turn south and resume military operations. i think they are going to have support from the american body politic in doing that. i represents ideologically diverse district of a county that voted republican for to have some of the bluest zip codes in the country. three months ago this district wasn't pretty united in opposition to prime minister netanyahu on judicial reform expansion in the west bank but now there is relative consensus israel has a responsibility to defend itself and protected civilians. even while recognizing netanyahu hard right cabin is made things unnecessary difficult with direction the west bank. i think israel should continue and resume the military operations at the expiration of the truce. then the broad american electric will be behind them. shannon: urban conflict senior party over this whole thing for the new yorker has this headline, how israel is splitting the democrats. the democratic coalition wants to seem united in its staunch unquestioning support for the country today. that consensus seems to be cracking. how would you describe what's going on within the party? some that do this is happening y publicly. >> there are outliers for sure. the press has been wise to ignore the calls for cease-fire which were reckless and misguided. but those are speaking to her own clinical ends this broad consensus among democratic policymakers that president biden has been drawing on 50 years of foreign policy experience to walk a narrow tight rope over a wide chasm, quite effectively that is in sharp contrast to the republican party of ukraine. this is the party as we heard from senator cotten likes to invoke on ronald reagan's they are now prepared and leisure of donald trump to hand ukraine at right back over too russia they are deeply divided by the leader of their party. and that is in contrast its most critical. >> but to be fair they have voted for eight again and again in the house and senate republicans. there is a slate within the party which is on yours and the issue of israel we've got senator sanders sank no more blank checks to israel things aid should be conditional. i note you have said you didn't think aid should be conditional regardless of whether it's a democrat or republican administration. you talk about presidents. our polling shows people do not trust him out when it comes to the issue of around specifically and how he is dealing with brand-new poll shows 70% of americans think he has been to accommodating like senator cotton pissed you served in uniform you know about our troops at least 73 of them what should he be doing differently with respect to ironic? >> the first of all this administration has been tough on iran. they have rolled out almost 50 new sets of sanctions that have helped lead to almost 50% inflation in the iranian economy. iran is desperate right now could they advance abraham accords and the thing ironic fears of more than military action by the united states more than economic action from the united states is a political isolation to the abraham accords. that was on a large near-term catalyst for the hamas attack in october 7. they'd miss mission is not been tough on iran. if we were to follow the republican party warpath in the middle east, where we would end up as another failed forever at war. i sought the futility of the expensive war without end game for the last thing america needs is to go back to the muck and blood of conflict in the middle east. the better thing to do the thing i saw when i committed special operations and pat them on trainer al is there is to work by and with fellow democracies as they fight on the front line to support israel as they fight against hamas in gaza to keep that to it one at front war as opposed to opening up other fronts against has blah or excuse me against iran directly to support ukraine to support taiwan as it prepares for increased chinese aggression. the president's standing with democracy he's working by and with allies that is smart military strategy. shannon: there are number of gop senators who reach out to ask why this administration is not using other things at its disposal like sanctions. eight letter to the president back on november 16 they said the world is in the direct result of allowing iran's oil revenues to grow and unfreezing billions of dollars in extraterritorial bank accounts we must prioritize and forcing all economic sanctions. so it raises the question why aren't we and why shouldn't we? >> we are. using a runni my running oil ex. they have forced iran to be selling their oil on the black market where they are not recovering a majority of the total revenue from the sales they've expanded the number of sanctions against individuals more than 400 different entities or individuals in ronnie revolutionary guards for human rights violation and run exports for this administrative economic isolating iran. at the same time they are building greater era cohesion with abraham accords but that'ss a thing iran actually fears much more than a military strike from the united states. that is why hamas launched on october 7 its assault we need to continue to isolate iran from the broader middle east. shannon: you mention the abraham accords multiple times but let me ask you do credit the trump administration with getting this done? >> the trump administration obviously was in power when those got done. netanyahu was the prime mover behind those. but yes, it was a successful initiative president biden's help strength them. what we have seen now instead of logic military sultans every toxic regime in the middle east which would create six new wars bite next weekend. the president has been transacting with companies like qatar to help rescue these hostages. in the middle east you do not have good choices. you have tough policymaking criteria. what the president has done as a resist calls for a cease-fire on the left well resistant calls from escalating into full-blown war on the right. he is walking a central path. shannon: you are correct always insane is no easy choices the middle east. congressman auchincloss we thank you for your time and your time in uniform for us as well thank you. >> good to be with you. shannon: is thanksgiving a bigger minded to americans about the cost of inflation with the turkey dinner coming end with a big price tag. up next will talk to jared bernstein about the current state of the u.s.