confirmed in that time are actually hostages? >> less than 10. >> that's not a number. i want a number from you. >> less than 10. >> why can't you give a number? >> i've given you an answer. what is your next question? >> you've given an answer. you've not been responsive. let the record show. the other question has to do with israeli warnings. the israelis have said their objective and they've been very explicit about it is to destroy hamas. from you and other administration officials, we hear the objective is to ensure that hamas can never terrorize israel again. those are two different objectives are. you having a problem with the israelis in terms of a clear communication here of their objectives or have their objectives appeared to change over time? >> no and no. >> how does -- does the united states support the goal of destroying hamas? >> we support what israel is trying to do to protect citizens from the threat of hamas. james, you know this. we're not on the ground fighting in this war. there's no intent to do that. these are israel military operations. they get to decide what their aims and strategy are. they get to decide their tactics and how they go after hamas. we're doing everything we can to support them including providing our perspectives and asking them hard questions about their ames and strategies. the kind of questions we'd ask ourselves. the question you'd ask me is better put to the real defense forces. >> thanks, admiral. >> just because of the events happening on the south lawn, we don't have much time. zeke? >> [question inaudible] what is the white house position on that? would the president sign an israel only supplemental request or is the president insisting that they move together? >> i want a lay-down here, this is incredibly important. when you think about hamas and putin, they represent different threats. both want to ally an enabling democracy. we've been clear about that. we can't afford to led that happen. that's what we've been clear about. making sure both israel and ukraine succeed in their fights for democracy against terrorism, it's vital. vital to america's own national security. so we must help innocent civilians devastated by putin's war in ukraine and a conflict between israel and hamas and providing life-saving assistance. there's a bipartisan consensus. we've seen it. we've seen that consensus in the senate. you have heard me say how the director of omb and our office of alleged affairs have been giving briefings in a bipartisan way to members of both the senate and the house. it is important. you know, we see a strong majority of republicans and democrats in the house and the senate as i just mentioned who both have been vocal on the record. i listed out a bunch of house members a few house members and senators in quoting them and saying what they have said on the record in supporting both ukraine and israel supplemental -- urgent national security needs. that's what we want to see. there's no reason, no reason why that should not happen. there's no reason why we as america, the united states of america, cannot make sure that israel and also ukraine has the funding that they need. >> is the president open to considering spending offsets for that money? >> i certainly will not get into hypotheticals from here. what i can say -- >> the house republicans are calling -- >> i understand that. i hear you. what we've been clear about, we want to see both move forward. we want to see both of the re-quests of the supplementals in the national security, it's vital. vital as those two countries are feiging for their democracies. >> any offsets is that at the table? >> these are emergency funding requests. we've been clear about that. like other emergency funding that congress has passed with bipartisan support. they do not require offsets. they don't -- they are emergency requests. >> [question inaudible] >> i'm telling you that they don't require offsets. these are emergency requests. nancy. >> thanks. i want to ask you about the new executive actions that the administration is taking place in response to anti-semitic threats. i saw the list. the doj involved, homeland security involved. given the sky rocketing number of threats with, is all of that going to be enough? >> so look. we've been very clear. the president has been very, very focused not just now but since the beginning of his administration on dealing with -- and unequivocate when we talk about hated and not being room for hate against jews or muslims. this is something that the president has been certainly steadfast on. look, the announcement that we make, we made, we'll have doj and other agencies certainly be a part of this, have conversations with the campuses and universities and to see what else -- this is the beginning -- to so what else -- there's other things that are needed. this is how the president is showing how important this is, how critical this is and how we have to take this seriously. just to list out a couple things. the second gentleman today, as well as the education secretary, miguel cardona and other people from the administration will discussactions to counter the uptick in reported instances of anti-semitism. so they have those conversations with the conference of. of major american jewish organizations. that's important. we'll continue to have other conversations here on the senior level as well later this week. you have secretary cardona to attend a site visit at university and hold a roundtable with jewish students. the department of education has conducted site visits in san francisco, st. louis and in maine to address and learn more about the anti-semitism at college campuses. we'll continue to hear directly from the jewish organizations. i said at the top, if folks have concern, i've listed out how they should be able to flag those concerns for us. so we believe what we announced just today is incredibly important. it's the first step. there is no place for anti-semitism. there's no place for it. >> does the white house believe that college administrators are doing enough to deal with this problem? >> that is for them to speak to. what we have been very equivocal about, anti-semitism has no place in this country. there's no hate -- there's no place or no room for hate. we've been clear about that. i'll refer you to them for them to speak to what they're doing on campuses. >> you may not have information ant it yet, but there was an individual arrested for making anti-semitic threats against a u.s. senator. do you have any information -- >> this that's the first time i'm hearing of it. we'll condemn any form of hate, including hate against the muslim community, islam phobia we've been clear about that. we'll denounce any form of hate. we'll continue to do that from here. that's the first i'm heard of that. >> doesn't biden think the anti-israeli protesters are extremists in this country? >> what i can say is what we've been clear about this when it comes to anti-semitism. there's no place. we have to make sure that we speak about it very loud and be very clear about that. remember, what the president decided -- when the president decided to run for president is what he saw in charlottesville in 2017. he saw neo-nazis marching down the streets of charlottesville, with vial anti-semitic hatred. he was very clear then and he's very clear now. he's taken actions against this over the past two years. he continues to be clear. there's no place for this type of violence and this kind of rhetoric. >> we hear you guys talk about extremists all the time. it's usually about maga extremists what about the protesters making jewish students -- are they extremists? >> i've been very, very clear. we're calling out any form of hate, any form of hate. it is not acceptable. it shouldn't not be acceptable here. we're going to continue to call that out and let me be very clear, this is a continues to have that fight in his office. when he repealed trump's muslim ban, that's something that this president did. he also established an interpolicy committee to counter islamophobia, anti-semitism and related forms of bias and discrimination. we have taken this very seriously. >> doesn't biden look at the anti-israel protests and think it's nice to see that the country's youth are so involved or does he think the next generation is doing it? >> here's the thing. there's no place for hate in america. >> i'm asking what he thinks. >> i'm telling you. there's no place for hate in america. we condemn any anti-semitic threat in the strongest terms. you heard me say at the top, i gave a message to students feeling under threat right now. you know, we're tracking these threats very slowsly. we're there for them. no student should have to be able to go to class. live on campus in fear. these incidents, these reported anti-semitic indenses shouldn'ts be. we have to condemn them. we have to. >> can you tell us more about the president's meeting -- >> martha: all right. the white house wrapping their briefing there. we hearing from karine jean-pierre taking questions from reporters including peter doocy asking are those anti-israel protesters are they extremists. she didn't answer that question. she did go on to confirm the president and the white house stance on their support for israel and against all anti-semitism that we are seeing pop up in this country coast to coast. she confirmed that senior administration firms are going to be meeting with jewish leaders and universities to discuss what is happening on college campuses in america right now. also john kirby, the nsc coordinator that also briefed in that room a short time ago talking about the incident at the airport in russia when a plane was landing from tel aviv. it was rushed with people chanting kill the jews. he called ate chilling demonstration of hate, bigotry and i intimidation. he also said he doesn't think a cease fire is for now. a lot of information out of the white house. all of this is happening as you're looking at the night sky at the israel gaza border. it's 10:12 p.m. there. israeli to forces are pushing deeper in gaza. so where is this all heading? welcome. i'm sandra smith in for neil cavuto. this is "your world." first, let's get to mike tobin on the southern -- in southern israel for us on ground forces getting a kidnapped israeli soldier out. what are we learning about how that played out? >> a remarkable be development. the private is back with her family after having been kidnapped october 7. what we know, it was actions of the elite real forces on the ground. we have no idea how she was rescued, but she's been checked out by doctors around reunited with her family tonight. prime minister ben minute netanyahu is resisting all calls for a cease fire. he said now is a time for war and saying civilized nations should be supporting israel. >> the united states would not agree to a cease far after the bombing of pearl harbor or after the attacks of 9-11. israel will not agree to a cease fire after the horrific attacks of october 7th. >> israeli forces are on three sides of the sprawling population center of gaza and the surrounding neighborhoods and pushing in the israeli forces tell us that they have made contacts with pockets of hamas resistance. israeli forces have been in the gaza strip and now there a fourth night. you can hear behind me, the cannons are thundering away in support of them. >> sandra: thanks, mike. i ran accusing israeli -- israel of crossing redlines. how should the u.s. respond? with us, lieutenant general jerry boykin. thanks. welcome to you. first off, what about iran accusing israel of crossing these red lines? how should we be responding to that? >> first of all, that is preposterous. they know that it is. i think the only people that impressed with it are the other terrorists in that part of the world. how should we deal with that? we've got carriers in the battle space now. it's a pretty good indication if we are provoked, we can respond with a lot of heavy metal. i think what we should do is basically ignore that kind of thing. even though they are also potentially a nuclear weapon holder, i think we should just ignore what they are saying right now. not pay attention to it. >> sandra: let me ask you about the status of this war and what we just heard from john kirby and karine jean-pierre on israel making every effort to avoid civilian casualties in this war. we're efforting more and more humanitarian aid in to gaza. we continue to get updates on that. as far as john kirby a moment ago, he said we do not believe a cease fire is the right answer right now. how do you see things proceeding in the coming hours and days as we have seen the night skylighting up there over gaza? >> yeah, sandra. there will be a major push for some kind of concessions that ultimately could lead to a cease fire. the israelis are not going to declare a cease fire. they're not going to cooperate on a any discussion on a cease fire unless there's some kind of concessions. if they do, obviously they are not going to bet what they want out of it. it's also probably going to create a situation that they have to deal with that is making this current environment more hostile. >> sandra: as far as what is happening in the response that we're seeing all over the world to this war, sir, what do you say when you hear that discussion happening in the white house? you can see the airport in russia with those landing from tel aviv rushed with people chanting kill the jews. in acts of violence. the white house calling that a demonstration of hate, bigotry and intimidation. what do you think as you see that happening as this war rages on? >> first of all, those are the same terms that i'd use. it's pure hatred. i'm sorry to see that i'm sorry the world hadn't come to a point where we can understood and accept that the jews are people, too. they've been chosen for many things. most of which has beenthey've been chosen for extension on more than one occasion. i think in america -- let me speak for a second on that -- any school that is taking government money that has people out on that campus protesting the fact that the jews are defending their homeland, which is only the homeland that they have, i think we ought to take their money. we ought to take every penny that they have and not let them get away with that. when this is all over with, i think that they should be held accountable. i hope someone is taking names right now. they should be held accountable. that school is irpossible if they don't get rid of those people and make a point and showing world that we're serious about standing with an ally of israel. >> sandra: really interesting to hear that, general. i'm looking at my notes from benjamin netanyahu. he spoke about two hours ago. he was out with a firm message to the world. he and his defense secretary says we will achieve victory. he said this won't be short or easy. he said the future of our civilization is at stage. he said it's us our hamas. we have to fight the barbarians because they're willing to fight us. he then called it, general a turning point for leaders and nations and said we will fight, we have to fight for hope and promise. i want your reaction to the prime minister's words. >> i think at least partially what he's saying is you have to make a choice. you have to choose. you have to choose between good and evil. he used that term. i think he's saying you have to decide whether you're on the side of what is right or you're going to be on the side of what's wrong. good versus evil. >> sandra: general, thanks for joining us. thank you so much. >> yes, sir. thank you. >> sandra: demonstrations against israel continuing on the heels of large protests. we'll have the very latest. first, fresh moves to decouple u.s. aid from ukraine and israel coming. aishah hasnie has more. >> house republicans just dropped the text of their stand-alone israel aid package. it will run in troubles not only with democrats but with some conservatives. i'll explain next. holiday shopping got easier on affordable décor and more. you know you can get these all at once, right dad? 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>> we're going to be releasing that shortly. my desire in the first draft is to take some of the money set assign for the billing and bulking up the irs. they have $67 well in that found and trying to 14.necessary for this immediate and urgent need. we'll deal with the rest later. >> some house conservatives may not be interested in this. before the text came out, thomas massey posted on x that he's a hard no even with cuts because he says today when congress says their new spending is paid for with cuts, what they really money is they're replacing spending on a project that is not paid for with new spending. so if johnson can get this done without colleagues like massy, he will face a bitter battle with the democrat-controlled senate where you have not just senate democrats but also gop leader mitch mcconnell and nearly half hoff all senate republicans that support tying ukraine aid to israel aid saying the conflicts are all connected. >> we're facing threat as cross the board. we have to make sure that a supplemental package will address those threats building up our own munitions programs that we need as a country, being able to provide for our allies and being able to especially to control our own border. >> sandra, the fight we're start in earnest wednesday. that's when the house returns back in action. sandra? >> sandra: thanks, aishah. let's get to it with house freedom caucus chairman, scott perry. where do you stand on this? >> well, i think it's a really great first effort. let's remember how this start. hamas' unprovoked attack to israel. israel is responding. they're asking for our help. we want to help israel. we all do. most republicans and democrats absolutely want to do that. we also have to acknowledge our own financial crisis here in america, the speaker has rightfully picked a place where we don't need to be spending money, no one in america says you can fix all america's problems or israel's problems if we just hire more irs agents. he's going to make the senate democrats and republicans and some republicans in the house and of course house democrats choose between the irs or supporting our greatest ally against an unprovoked terror attack on their soil. it's an easy choice h