the airstrikes are restarting, the cease-fire is unraveling and now families aboard that 100 hostages left asking what happens now? ♪ >> welcome, everybody. happy to have you. i am neil cavuto and this is your world. a lot of confusion in the middle east right now particularly over a possible which is absolutely stopped. it's not going to be brought back. the indications are from israel it has no desire to bring that pause back. where in this holding pattern with these hostages and particularly their families wondering what happens to make the way more. >> idf operations continue in gaza tonight and it has been a busy day of fighting across the country. multiple countries. gaza, as well as israel and then here on the northern front in lebanon we have seen some fighting as well. the idf has hit to hundred terrorist targets within gaza. hamas terrorists have launched targets at southern and central israel. including missile at tel aviv that were intercepted by the iron dome. that's what we saw here on the northern front when hezbollah terrorist wants to rockets across the border. we caught it on video. take a look at this. >> for about an hour after this we heard outgoing artillery going into israel. look at this next video. israeli jets also struck a terrorist cell in not far from where we are, the villages here are evacuated in the idf chief of staff said they will improve the security situation here in the north before residents come back here. look at the next video from gaza this morning when it became clear that the cease-fire had ended. multiple areas of gaza hit including in the south. the idf had dropped leaflets warning palestinians in gaza to move to evacuation zones, but you can see in this video come up many of them did not. there is extensive damage to properties and certainly a lot of people injured and killed as well. meanwhile, with this tree as ending, that means that the hostages are no longer coming back to israel as we have seen for the past seven days. over 130 hostages remain in gaza. unfortunately, we are learning about the deaths of six people who were kidnapped and taken into gaza back on october 7th. we know at least 15 women are still in hamas captivity. we're still waiting to learn about the four entire mental baby who possibly had been handed off to another terrorist group. so the goal is to eradicate hamas. that is what israel has said their goal is and what we are watching happen today. i'm back out your life. negotiations continue with negotiators from the u.s. as well as qatar and egypt to hopefully try to strike nutri as to have another pause in the fighting. by what we've seen today, it doesn't appear that that is close. >> nieil: you in your group be safe, my friend. we are getting news from bernie sanders, he is no fan of this resumption criticizing benjamin that yahoo sang the resumption of the bombing is beyond the pale, 2 million people are now in south gaza, many have fled earlier fighting in that region in the north. the pause must be extended to get more humanitarian need in mr hostages and more hostages out. i want to get reaction. ambassador, it is good to have you. what do you make of what senator sanders as saying criticizing benjamin netanyahu for resuming the bombing? >> it's outrageous i think for, santos is maybe not correct connected to reality. we are in a war for our own survival and we are determined to go all the way. you should remember we are fighting a terrorist organization. they are still keeping babies, women, and more than 100 hostages in gaza. we will do everything we need to bring them all back. we are going all the way. with all respect to bernie sanders, we are going all the way against hamas the same way that the u.s. felt against against al qaeda and isis. we will defeat them with or without bernie sanders. >> neil: the secretary of state has been in a meeting with some higher-ups in israel and more or less sending a message from the white house to cool it, that israel shouldn't over do the response. it wasn't received well i'm told, but there is enormous pressure when it comes to responding to the terrorist that you experience back on october 7th. do you feel are you are losing even u.s. support? >> at first, we are respecting the support received from president biden, but sometimes i ask myself what exactly the administration expects from us? on one hand they tell us you don't have much time, but on the other hand they state you have to make sure that there are no civilian casualties. and then only today we heard the request to ask civilians to move out of the south part of gaza. you can't accomplish all of that and win the war. we have to move south and we will allow the commission to get out of those cities, but it will take time. we expect our allies to give us the time necessary to do what we have to do. when you fight against al qaeda after 9/11, nobody told the u.s. that you have no more time. we expect the same from the u.s. i know the american people who get will give us the time and the support we need, they pray for us, they stand with us, and we intend to continue with the mission. >> neil: ambassador, we are learning that the secretary was a little bit more blunt than that and we are getting this out of the times of israel in which it says that israel, this is coming from the secretary of state, must change the way it's fighting, must set up safe zones. massive loss of human life in north gaza cannot be repeated in this house. you are obviously dealing with a calamity that happen on october 7th, you are not responsible for that, israel is not responsible for that, but you have no growing pressure now from the white house to cool it, are you ready to say and is the government ready to say on this united states of america we must say no because it will be a first for israel. >> i think what we are seeing now that we have because of the work about the u.s. will stand with us with the goal of defeating hamas, but maybe we don't see eye to eye about how to achieve the goal. we believe the only way to achieve it is by using power and getting to those places where home hamas is hiding and kill them. i don't know how we can achieve the goal without doing it. to your question, neil, the answer as yes. if we will have no choice, we will do what is good for israel. we have done this in the past. i will remind you when we attacked a nuclear reactor and erect, the u.s. was against us back then in the 80s when we attacked the nuclear reactor in syria, the u.s. was against us. i hope we will not get to that point, but we are determined and we are united. this time it's either we win the war against hamas are basically we send a message to our enemies that we are not strong anymore and we cannot allow that. >> neil: there are concerns at these meetings, always behind closed doors, got pretty nasty especially one that he had with one of your cabinet ministers and the like. they apparently responded, ambassador, that israel knows how to prosecute this campaign and that the idea follows the laws of war and has taken steps to avoid civilian casualties. the message we are getting help from the white house through anthony blinken if the stories are to be believed, is that they don't believe you. to get no one should doubt the morality of the idf, we have voted in the past, we have continued to prove it as we fight evil today in gaza along with the motion to move envy compared to any other military operation. even if you compare it to the american operations, we take precautions that we haven't seen from any other military. even when that western allies, they acted differently so we do try to minimize the civilian casualties, but hamas is hiding behind them so we won't be able to avoid all civilian casualties. we will do our best to limit the number of civilian casualties. >> neil: very enlightening to have you. the thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> neil: the is the issue of iran financing a lot of the stuff and how to deal with that. jennifer griffin is at the ronald reagan presidential library where this issue as issue one. jennifer? >> there was about a week with no attacks by iranian proxy forces on u.s. troops in iraq in syria. that ended wednesday with a rocket attack on the u.s. base in eastern syria. no u.s. troops were injured, and there was no damage to the base, but the resumption of attacks may force the u.s. military to respond. just to days ago we shot up a iranian made drone fired from yemen. 38 years ago, ronald reagan during his 1985 states of the union reached out to congress in the world's democracies with an olive branch and the promise. >> i want to work with you to support the democratic forces who struggle is tied to our own security. >> this year's reagan national defense forum now in its tenth year begins tomorrow. it will be streamed online and include panel discussions with the head of the navy marine corps air force and cyber command. the defense and commerce secretaries commit the new chairman of the joint chiefs, and the admiral and the general leading u.s. southern command. the focus this year will be on china, ai, and new technologies that will position the u.s. military in its race with china. this year's reagan national national defense survey found notably that most americans actually do want the u.s. to remain engaged in the world providing military support to ukraine, israel, and taiwan. this survey found that 73 percent of americans are concerned about a potential invasion of taiwan, 59 percent support military aid to ukraine, 47 percent to the u.s. is not doing enough to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon. three quarters let worry about china surpassing the u.s. as the world's top superpower, 77 percent favor increasing military spending. nearly too thirds think it is wrong to block military promotions to protest pentagon social policies. they say they would encourage military service, a third would discourage it. 70 percent of americans are not aware of a major new security agreement between the u.s., australia, and britain known as to develop advanced defense technologies like nuclear subs. eight and ten are worried about the u.s. falling behind china technology lead. all of this will be at the heart of the discussions of the tenth and we will be here alive all day tomorrow with panels discussing all of these important issues. trend when you mentioned at the outset these attacks on u.s. soldiers, presumably orchestrated or at least tied to iran. i find it may be a tad more than coincidental that they largely ceased in the last week we had this sensation and activities. this temporary truce. what are people saying about that? >> the pentagon will save these attacks on forces on the bases in iraq and syria are not linked to what is happening in israel and gaza. you have to note that the timing of when those iranian forces stopped firing rockets and drones at the u.s. bases in iraq in serious coincided with the hostage releases and the prisoner releases by israel. that started up again when the hostage releases stopped and israel went back into gaza. >> jennifer, thank you. jennifer griffin, in california at the reagan presidential library. you've heard about the crime wave particularly in big cities and particularly in philadelphia where they're trying to do something about it that seems a little bit novel and that is not allowing you to have your face cover it or wear any face coverings. it is meant to stop those who storm into stores and elsewhere wearing just those coverings. i will explain more after this. whenever you're hungry, there's a deal on the subway app. buy one footlong, get one 50% off in the subway app today. now that's a deal worth celebrating. man, what are you doing?! get it before it's gone on the subway app. ♪ only at vanguard, you're more than just an investor, you're an owner. our financial planning tools and advice can help you prepare for today's longer retirement. hi mom. that's the value of ownership. 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>> we keep scratching our heads and they keep trying to reinvent the wheel when it comes to policing. just bridges get back to good old-fashioned leasing. stop the crimes. true, you cannot identify them sometimes when they have the mask on, so the mask as a start, but let's look at the other side of this. now they have a two and a $50 fine, they're going to say i'm not paying it. then they're going to go to $2,000 and they're going to say i'm not going to pay it. the judge will say you didn't pay this fine, but you know what, you don't have to be kept in because you don't qualify or you qualify for the nobel committee you do qualify so they release them again. it's official cycle that keeps going around. i don't know why they don't go back and start supporting the police and say enough is enough, we need to support the businesses, the people in the community, and we need to support the police. let them get out there make the arrest and let the arrest stick. >> neil: this is interesting in a variety of ways. if you're not going to allow people to wear face coverings, it's winter and is going to be cold in and a lot of people are. our police then busy handing out tickets to people wearing face coverings and then ticketing those who wish to know when ill versus those who absolutely do? >> it's funny you say that, it is winter time so you're going to have a guy or a woman go into work and they're wearing a mask, when it's very cold outside. are you going to stop them and say you're on public transportation, you can't wear it, as he have to take it off when you're in the train station or on the bus or something for they should've spoke to police about this before any enforcement. not only that let the police get some info. when you only have the info from a city council reluctant to do anything with the police to begin with, that's where the major problem lies. in new york city they don't back the police. they up. they do everything the opposite way. including indemnification which we spoke about many times. let's go back to good old-fashioned leasing. we'll see the crime rates go down you'll see them stop doing these massive invasions of stores and committing the crimes that are driving business right at us. to get you know, what have you here. it's a little apples and oranges, but crime isn't the only thing that cities are dealing with committee's protest that pop up out of nowhere pro- palestinian mostly in new york we've had a number of them, one not too far from where i sit right now, and that is stretching police pretty much across the board here at a time in this city where were looking at cutting back on police. what you think of it all? >> absolutely. we're going to be down to numbers we've never seen before in the nypd down to almost 28,000 which is extremely low numbers so we are forced to do law enforcement in the city. you know, they are leaving out a key component to these protest. the right to peaceably protest. there is nothing peaceful about people breaking windows, accosting people in the streets, so you have to make zones, just like the christmas tree the other night, you make a zone. you can protest, but outside the zone. it doesn't stop the protesting, it just tells them where they can protest. people want to see these writings and everything, so it's going to be a challenge for the nypd. >> joe, i hope we talk again, but if not i hope you have a merry safe christmas you and your family, thank you, joe. >> thank you, my friend. >> neil: it's not only donald trump who's been criticizing i was governor, of course she is supporting rhonda santos, but he has extended it to another key state. we'll ask him what's behind after this. 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