Amb Mike Huckabee: I am seething over Mamdani’s October 7 comments

>> Martha: TODAY ISRAEL AND. THE UNITED STATES AND PEOPLE. AROUND THE WORLD MARK THE. HEINOUS SLAUGHTER AND KIDNAPINGS. OF OCTOBER 7TH IN ISRAEL BY. HAMAS TERRORISTS. WHO COULD FORGET THAT MORNING? 6:00 A.M. IN THE MORNING WHEN WE. BEGAN TO AWAKE TO THIS UNREAL. STORY UNFOLDING. 1200 PEOPLE WERE KILLED THAT. DAY, MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN,

BABIES IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL. MORE THAN 14,000 PEOPLE WERE. INJURED AND THEN THERE WERE THE. 251 THAT WERE TAKEN AWAY. I ALWAYS REMEMBER THE YOUNG. WOMAN ON THE BACK OF THE. MOTORCYCLE CRYING AND SCREAMING. AS SHE WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM. ISRAEL. OF THOSE 251 HOSTAGES, ONLY 166. MADE IT BACK HOME ALIVE AND. THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT. THEY ARE BACK WITH THEIR. FAMILIES STILL SUFFERING IN MANY. WAYS, MANY OF THEM, THE RESULTS. OF BEING HELD CAPTIVE IN TUNNELS.

BY HAMAS. TODAY, THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST. MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI SAID OFF A. LOT OF CRITICS WOULD WHAT THEY. SEE AS A HOSTILE STATEMENT AND. HERE'S HOW IT READS. THIS DAY MARKS THREE YEARS SINCE. THE HORRIFIC WAR CRIMES. OF OCTOBER 7TH. ON THAT DAY, HAMAS KILLED MORE. THAN 1100 ISRAELIS AND ABDUCTED. 251 OTHERS. THE SUFFERING DID NOT BEGIN NOR. END THAT DAY. IT INSTEAD CONTINUED THROUGH THE. ISRAELI GOVERNMENT'S DEVASTATING.

ONGOING GENOCIDE IN GAZA. THREE YEARS LATER WE MUST REFUSE. TO ACCEPT A WORLD IN WHICH. OCCUPATION AND APARTHEID. CONTINUE, WHERE WAR CRIMES ARE. MET WITH IMPUNITY AND OUR. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTINUES ITS. COMPLICITY WITH EVERY ARMS. SHIPMENT TO ISRAEL. WITH THAT, WE BRING IN ARKANSAS. GOVERNOR SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS. AND HER FATHER MIKE HUCKABEE, THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL. WHO ARE ABOUT TO HOLD EVENTS. MARKING AND COMMEMORATING THAT. HORRIFIC DAY THREE YEARS AGO.

TODAY. GOOD TO SEE BOTH OF YOU. THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME TODAY. AMBASSADOR HUCKABEE, LET ME. START WITH YOU. YOUR REACTION. WHAT DO YOU SAY TO MAYOR MAMDANI. OF NEW YORK IN RESPONSE? >> I'M SEETHING OVER HIS. COMMENTS. THEY ARE ABSURD AND UTTERLY. FALSE. THERE IS NO GENOCIDE GOING ON IN. GAZA. THERE IS NO APARTHEID AND THERE. IS NO OCCUPATION. THE MAN KNOWS THAT WHAT HE SAYS. IS NOT TRUE. IT WOULD BE THE EQUIVALENT IF ON.

THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF NINE. OVER 11, FOR HIM TO HAVE GOTTEN. UP AND SAID IT WAS TRAGIC THAT. THOSE AIRLINERS FLEW INTO THE. WORLD TRADE CENTER BUT AMERICA. OVERREACTED AND AMERICA TOOK ON. MORE THAN IT SHOULD HAVE AND. AMERICANS SHOULD BE CONDEMNED. FOR REACTING TO THE SLAUGHTER OF. ITS PEOPLE. ISRAEL PROPERLY REACTED TO THE. BUTCHERING OF SO MANY CIVILIANS. INCLUDING WOMEN WHO WERE RAPED. IN FRONT OF THEIR CHILDREN, BEHEADED, ELDERLY WOMEN SET FIRE.

IN FRONT OF THEIR FAMILIES AND. THE IDEA THAT HE WOULD TAKE THIS. OCCASION AND SOMEHOW BLAME. ISRAEL FOR WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN. GAZA, WHEN THEY WERE TRYING TO. SALVAGE THE HOSTAGES, 46. AMERICANS WERE MURDERED THAT DAY. TWO, I AM ASHAMED OF NEW YORK. FOR EVER ELECTING THIS GUY AND I. HOPE THAT SOMEWHERE IN HIS HEART. HE FINDS A KERNEL OF TRUTH WHICH. HE HAS NOT TO DAY.

>> Martha: GOVERNOR HUCKABEE, THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK MET WITH. SOME OF THE FAMILIES AND SOME. WHO WERE AFFECTED BY October. 7th ON THE ISRAELI SIDE, THE. JEWISH AMERICAN SIDE AND THEN. HE'S MEETING WITH PALESTINIAN. GROUPS AS WELL AND THE SCENE. THAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT RIGHT. NOW IS A LIVE PROTEST AT UCLA. AND IT'S ONE OF MANY PROTESTS. AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ARE. SUPPORTIVE OF THE PALESTINIANS, FOR SURE, AND IN A BROADER.

SENSE, IN SOME CASES, OF WHAT. HAMAS DID BUT THIS HAS RESONATED. WITH AMERICANS IN POLLING THAT. WE SEE AND I WANT TO GET YOUR. REACTION TO THIS. AMERICAN SYMPATHIES ON THE. SITUATION, SYMPATHY FOR ISRAELIS. FELL BY 18 POINTS FROM 54% NOW. DOWN AT 36% CURRENTLY WHILE. SYMPATHY FOR PALESTINIANS. INCREASED TEN POINTS FROM 31 TO. 41% IN 2026, THE POLL FOUND THAT. PALESTINIANS NUMERICALLY WERE.

AHEAD FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIS. TREND SO REGARDLESS OF HOW YOU. MIGHT FEEL ABOUT WHAT'S BEING. SAID ABOUT THIS, IT IS HAVING AN. IMPACT ON AMERICAN OPINION. >> I THINK WHAT HE SAID IS SO. BEYOND DISGUSTING AND EVIL TO. SAY IT AT ANY POINT BUT. ESPECIALLY THAT THAT IS THE. STATEMENT THAT HE PUT OUT ON. October 7th A DAY THAT SHOULD. BE ABOUT HONORING AND. REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS AND. FIGHTING FOR THE PROTECTION AND. PUSH BACK AGAINST THE EVIL THAT. TOOK PLACE ON THAT DAY.

THE SAD PART IS THAT YOU ARE. EXACTLY RIGHT. THIS HAS BECOME THE RULE AND NOT. THE EXCEPTION FROM THE DEMOCRAT. PARTY. THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I. FIND SO APPALLING WITH WHAT'S. HAPPENING IN OUR COUNTRY RIGHT. NOW, THAT YOU'VE SEEN THE. RADICAL LEFT BECOME THE TYPICAL. NORM WITHIN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY. THOSE NUMBERS SHOULD NOT BE. HAPPENING BUT IT'S PEOPLE LIKE. THE MAYOR WHO ARE CAUSING A. TOTAL SHIFT. HE SHOULD BE ASHAMED AND. HOPEFULLY NEW YORKERS WILL FIGHT.

BACK AGAINST THE CRAZY COMMENTS. THAT ARE COMING FROM HIM, NOT. JUST TODAY BUT ALL THE TIME AND. THAT PEOPLE WILL VOTE IN. NOVEMBER AGAINST THE CRAZY. RADICAL LEFT THAT WE ARE HEARING. BECOME THE STANDARD TALKING. POINT FOR MAYOR MAMDANI. >> Martha: AMBASSADOR. HUCKABEE, WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME. ABOUT THE CURRENT SITUATION ON. THE GROUND IN GAZA WHICH CLEARLY. NEEDS TO BE REBUILT. UNFORTUNATELY THE PEOPLE OF GAZA. DID ELECT HAMAS LEADERSHIP AND. THAT'S WHAT CAUSED ISRAEL TO.

CLAMP DOWN ON THAT BORDER BUT. WHAT IS THE FUTURE? WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE NOW AND. WHAT CAN ISRAEL DO TO MAKE THAT. A SAFER AREA? >> THE PRESIDENT HAS PUT. TOGETHER A VERY, VERY SOLID. PLAN. HE'S ESTABLISHED THE BOARD OF. PEACE. THIS COULD BE MOVING FORWARD. IT COULD BE MOVING FORWARD. PROGRESSIVELY BUT THE ONLY. REASON THAT THERE IS ANY. SLOW DOWN IS BECAUSE OF HAMAS. THEY AGREED THAT THEY WOULD. DISARM. YOU KNOW HOW MANY BULLETS. THEY'VE GIVEN UP? NONE. HOW MANY BOMBS? NONE. HOW MANY RIFLES AND PISTOLS?

ZERO. THEY'VE GIVEN UP NOTHING. THEY PROMISED THEY WOULD. PRESIDENT TRUMP BROUGHT THEM TO. THE TABLE AND THEN THEY HAVE. IGNORED EVERY BIT OF IT AND THEY. CONTINUE TO FIGHT AND TRY TO. KILL AND KIDNAP ISRAELIS EVEN. WHILE THEY ARE CORNERED IN GAZA. IT'S THE PART OF "THE STORY". THAT I HOPE PEOPLE WILL FULLY. BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND. >> Martha: WE REMEMBER HAMAS. LEADERSHIP WHO WERE ELATED AND. THEY SAID THEY WANTED TO DO IT. AGAIN. SO THAT IS THE MOTIVATION FOR. CONTINUING TO HOLD ON TO THOSE.

ARMS AND AS YOU SAW I ASKED. MAYOR MAMDANI IF HE BELIEVES. THEY SHOULD LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS. AND HE WOULD NOT ANSWER THAT. QUESTION AND I THINK THAT SAYS A. LOT. MY THANKS TO BOTH OF YOU. GREAT TO SEE YOU.