As the war in Gaza drags on, Israel insisting it’s protecting itself amid reports of patients and doctors fleeing hospitals following Israeli bombs, Nebraska Sen. Pete Ricketts this week in a face-off with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, accusing Blinken of, in effect, helping Hamas.

Sen. Pete Ricketts, Nebraska (R): “Hamas hasn’t released a hostage since the end of November, and shockingly this administration starting in December has been ratcheting up the pressure against Israel.”

Antony Blinken, Secretary of State: “When it comes to making sure Israel has everything it needs to defend itself, no one has, no one will do more than President Biden.”

The debate comes as college students across the country demand an end to the fighting.

Yale Graduate: “Like my shirt says, there's no graduation in Gaza right now and so its symbolic for us to do it on our graduation day.”

Meanwhile Blinken and Ricketts find something to agree on, somewhat reluctantly.

Ricketts: “When's the last time you called for a massive surrender?”

Blinken: “Virtually every day.”

Ricketts: “Virtually every day?”

Blinken:  “I have said Senator that the single quickest way to end this is for Hamas to surrender, to give up its weapons, to release the hostages, to stop hiding behind civilians.”

Ricketts: “You're absolutely right this all ends tomorrow, Hamas surrenders and then the civilians would be able to get the aid. There wouldn't be any war. Hamas is using the civilians as human shields a you mentioned, you told yourself about how they're hiding in hospitals.”

But that agreement only goes so far.

Sen. Ricketts: “During World War II we had to go into urban areas to be able to root out the Nazis. When you start putting conditions on our allies on how they have to win these conflicts such as you’re also doing in Ukraine saying hey you can’t go after long-range Russian stuff…bla, bla, bla. When we start doing that our allies around the world wonder if these so-called iron-clad commitments are going to be iron-clad in the future.”

Blinken: “We have one weapon system that we have been holding back pending discussions with Israel about how and where it would be used. Because of the concerns that we've clearly expressed over many months, about the possibility of a full-on military assault on Rafah, a dense urban environment, where using something like a 2,000 pound bomb could have terrible consequences for the civilians.”