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they slowed traffic cleveland on i 90 to a stand still. and you know what? they are just raising awareness. are there still glue factories? is that an urban legend? >> judge jeanine: i love horses. >> dana: this is a family show we don't discuss. >> jesse: another titillating excerpt get it together tales from the liberal fringe let me wet your appetite. hector says his mom used to have trouble sleeping. saw a shaman. threw up a scorpion sleeps like a baby. get it together march 19th. >> dana: jessica? >> jessica: no time for me but i will go first tomorrow. that's my announcement. >> dana: don't miss a very special episode of "jesse watters primetime" tonight. you are not going going to want to miss it. greg. that does it for us, happy monday, bret. >> dana: feels like tuesday. >> bret: see you tomorrow. you go girl.
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thanks. good evening. i'm bret baier. the southern border crisis hits new york city to the tune of billions of taxpayer dollars. how chinese nationals are taking over the illegal marijuana business in many parts of the u.s. we will bring that you story. and we will talk with the republican who is leading the polling heading into tomorrow's california senate primary election. ♪ but, first tonight, breaking, a major victory for former president donald trump and his attempt to return to the white house. the u.s. supreme court has unanimously ruled the state of colorado cannot remove him from its primary ballot. the former president calling that a big win for america. this comes just hours before the super tuesday primaries and as president biden prepares for a crucial state of the union address thursday night. we have live fox team coverage tonight, brit hume with political analysis. peter doocy is at the white house with the current president preparing for the state of the union and trying to jump start his campaign.
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aishah hasnie in west palm beach, florida as the former president anticipates what his campaign calls a delegate avalanche to come. but fox news chief legal correspondent anchor of "fox news sunday" shannon bream starts us off tonight with a big rule from the u.s. supreme court. good evening, shannon. >> shannon: good evening, bret. well, the court has numerous cases and issues now pending. they could have a significant impact on the trump campaign in this heated election year. but, for today, a 9-0 decision that keeps the former president on all state ballots heading into super tuesday. >> i think it's a very big day for america. >> while the supreme court did rule 9-0 that states do not have the power under the 14th amendment to strip candidates from their ballots, link simply responsibility for enforcing section 3 from federal officers officers and candidates rests with congress and not the states, there was an internal division on full display in the concurrence signed on to by justices sotomayor, kagan and
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jackson. the three felt the court went too far arguing that the bottom line question was where the other justices should have stopped. rather than in a more expansive ruling on the issue. quote: although we agree that colorado cannot enforce section 3, we protest the majority's effort to use this case to define the limits of federal enforcement of that provision. justice barrett filed her own concurrence as well saying now is not the time to amplify disagreement. and noting the court came together to settle a politically charged issue in the middle of a volatile presidential election. barrett writing: our differences are far less important than our unanimity. all nine justices agree on the outcome of this case. that is the message americans should take home. in the wake of today's decision, maine's secretary of state announced her decision against trump is being withdrawn and votes cast for him tomorrow will count. colorado's secretary of state says she will follow the
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justices as well though she thinks the court has, quote: issued bad decisions on democracy. while trump had lavish praise for the justices today, he is likely facing a much tougher argument when the court hears him immunity claims in late april. >> the president should haven't that on his mind and he has to have a free and clear mind when he makes very big decisions. >> but, before he get back to the supreme court in late april, the former president will have to weigh through a so-called hush money case in new york. that case set to start on the 25th. >> bret: okay. shannon, thank you. the supreme court victory gives former president trump even more momentum heading into tomorrow's super tuesday primaries. as questions continue about what's next for former governor, former ambassador nikki haley. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie has that part of the story tonight from west palm beach, florida. >> the poll numbers are very
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good. we are beating president biden in almost every follow. >> former president trump writing a high into super tuesday with an historic supreme court ruling and favorable new fox news polls. trump now leads president biden by 2 points in a head-to-head poll. although former south carolina governor nikki haley has a more comfortable 8 point lead outside the margin of error. >> i will defeat donald trump fair and square. but i want him on that ballot. >> haley reacting to the supreme court ruling from the campaign trail today, she is focusing on states with open primaries and high percentages of college educated and sur but ban voters. she just grabbed her first primary win in the district of columbia on sunday accuses as that sizes non-maga supporters. they is about him. i'm a conservative republican. i always have been and i always will be. i'm not going to do a third
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party. that's not anything i'm interested in. >> team trump says the former president is expanding his reach, even in key democratic demographics. fox news polling shows trump now beats biden amongst young voters under 30. growing support from 33% in 2020 to 51% today. he is also nearly neck and neck amongst hispanics, has near record support amongst female suburban voters and now carries 28% of black voters, 7 times as many from four years ago. >> and i got a lot of friends that are african-american that are voting for trump. >> and tonight, bret, the trump campaign tells me that they are expecting the former president to walk away from super tuesday with more than 1,000 delegates, lois close to 1100, which means they anticipate that he 8 clinch this nomination a week from tomorrow. bret? >> bret: aishah hasnie in west palm beach, florida. aishah, thanks. please join us for our super
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tuesday coverage. begins tomorrow 7:00 p.m. eastern time right here on fox news channel right after "special report." president biden is said to be preparing for his state of the union address. that's thursday. it comes aamid increasing questions about his mental fitness, his age and growing dissatisfaction, as you just saw with his policies in new polls. white house correspondent peter doocy joins us tonight with details live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. >> peter: bret, as white house officials try to figure out how to put president biden in front of big crowds of key groups without getting interrupted by somebody screaming about a cease-fire, today he skipped a meeting that he almost never misses, the annual international fire firefighters union meeting here in washington sending the vice president instead. >> many of you have known joe biden a long time and many of you have known me a long time will. >> peter: the uphill climbs 5 points "new york times" siena college poll losing ground with
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key groups including those who he vote for him in 2020. we consistently as democrats overperformed polls. >> rare outth print outlet losers who are losers are never graceful. i just think that he will do anything to try to win if and when i win, i think he'll contest it no matter what the result is advisers see thursday's state of the union as a chance to reach voters who don't pay close attention with the white house comms director saying we are fanning out aggressively not only thursday but in the weeks ahead to reach americans where they receive the news with the president's message about who's side he's on if the president really wants to wow a big audience, he should drop out. according to the "new york times" columnist maureen dowd who wishes the president would say i was serious, folks, when i called myself a bridge to a new generation, a transitional figure. i'll release my delegates this summer at the chicago convention to vote to the candidate they feel can carry our banner into the future. that would be historic but the
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speech could make history for different reasons. >> he also needs to show urgency and advocacy and action moving forward here. got a good chance this week at the state of the union speech, which i think is going to be more important for president running for re-election than any i can remember. >> peter: so democrats on the outside setting expectations extremely high as democrats here in the west wing are starting to lower the bar a little bit about ratings. writing in a memo they think in this fractured communications landscape that fewer americans are going to consume the state of the union live. bret? >> bret: peter doocy live on the north lawn, peter, thanks. >> while most states were thrilled to have me, there were some that didn't and they didn't want that for political reasons. they didn't want that because of poll numbers. because the poll numbers are very good. >> the country is hostage to
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someone who engaged in insurrection and noticed nothing the court said today, denied the claim that donald trump did just that. they leave that question open. allowing voters to get basically snookered into giving that sort of person power is not an adequate remedy. >> bret: well, the former president hasn't been charged. he hasn't been convicted of insurrection. let's bring in fox news chief political analyst brit hume. that was lawrence tribe, obviously, writ, celebrating the 9-0 supreme court ruling. your thoughts? >> brit: it seems to me that the court of a menu of options on which to base a decision to put trump back on the ballot there. and because they did that on am other states as well which have transcribed to disqualify him. the 9-0 decision, based on the fact that the idea that the
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state does not have the authority to rule on federal elections in this way was enough to get nine votes as i mentioned. and, you know, we heard about the concurrences, which did object to the fact that they took it further and obviously that was thought to be an effort to head off challenges to trump if he were to be reelected to the court would then have to deal with it's a big moment for this country. i remember when we first heard about this, bret, going on together and talking about this. i didn't think there was any way the court was going to let stand a ruling that somebody could be disqualified from a ballot based on charges they have never ever been lodged against him let alone had he been convicted of. it's a decision that i think it lands us in the right place and it's probably a good thing for the country that it was 9-0. >> bret: yeah. meantime, these poll numbers are, you know, sometimes we overobsess on polls this far out of a general election. but, when they start to produce
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a trend, this is the approval number in the new fox poll for the president. he is now underwater, approved 42%, disapprove 58%. can you see where it has ticked down from september of 2021. sending over out alarm bells, here is political science professor david cohen. >> got challenges that joe biden has with his own party, his own base, are the biggest challenges is he facing in this election. no president has ever won re-election in the modern era since polling began with an approval rating under 50%. >> bret: that is a challenge as this campaign is dealing with not only all the talk about age and his mental fitness and as he gets ready for a state of the union on thursday. >> brit: these are pretty daunting numbers as a political scientist just noted. and that seems to have happened is, it isn't that trump's level of approval or standing with the
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voters has gone up so much as it is that biden's has come down so sharply. so he is in a deep hole here. and trying to dig out of it is -- will be difficult, especially in light of the fact that part of it is based on the fact that people have lost confidence in biden and considerable measure because of his age and obvious infirmity. and, you know, that's not the kind of thing that gets better. he may be able as people who are getting on here sometimes can to summon a good night on the state of the union address and make effective of his speech from the teleprompter which every president uses, but, whether that will shake the confidence will reshape the lost confidence that he has gotten, people have in him i think is very much in doubt. not to mention the fact that, you know, the other issues that have dogged him. i think people lost faith in him when he pulled out of average. they lost faith in him over inflation and effects of inflation still very much felt even though the growth has subsided considerably.
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this is a very daunting prospect. they will try very hard to make people think yeah, but the other guy, donald trump is worse. they may succeed in that they certainly did in 2020. whether they can do it this time around i think is a much bigger challenge for biden than he faced four years ago. >> bret: we haven't talked about the border numbers and those are upside down as well. brit, as always, thank you. stocks were down ahead of new economic data and testimony from the federal reserve. the dow lost 98. the s&p 500 was off 6. the nasdaq dropped 67. up next, the enormous expense of the southern border crisis. many miles away from the border in new york. we'll bring you there. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 2 in san francisco as a major highway closed and ski resorts shut down because of a powerful blismtz sections of interstate 80 to the west and north of lake tahoe were impassable by blowing snow piling up in the lanes there forecasters warn more heavy snow is on the way for the northern
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california. fox 4 in dallas, as wildfires in the texas panhandle force another town to evacuate over the weekend. the largest wildfire in state history is still only 15% contained. strong weekend winds continue to spread those flames. >> and this is a live look at lincoln financial field in philadelphia, fox 29. our affiliate there one of the big stories there tonight, eagles center jason kelce says is he retiring after 13 seasons. kelsey was drafted by philadelphia in the sixth round ever the 2011 nfl draft. he went on to play the second most games in eagles history. most experts believe the brother of kansas city chiefs travis kelce will eventually be heading to the nfl hall of fame. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ and i say hello ♪ hello, hello ♪ i don't know why you say goodbye ♪ i say hello
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♪ >> bret: breaking tonight, in just the past few minutes the u.s. supreme court has just stayed enforcement of a texas law giving state officials broad powers to arrest, prosecute, and order the removal of illegal
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immigrants. earlier today the federal appeals court ruled that law could take effect while the case is being litigated. it stayed the ruling for a week to give the biden administration time to appeal, which it did. now the supreme court has added its voice staying that ruling we'll see how that goes. the border crisis is hitting new yorkers in the wallet. city taxpayers have already paid $2.3 billion to house, feed, and care for illegal immigrants. correspondent bryan llenas shows us from new york just how expensive all of that is becoming. >> since july, new york city has spent close to a billion dollars of taxpayer money on housing migrants. it cost $400 a night to house one migrant family in hotels around the city like the roosevelt. last summer, new york state offered to help by launching a $25 million migrant relocation program paying an entire year's rent for every migrant family
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that out of the city. the program has relocated just 178 families. short of the goal to help 1250. another 460 are waiting to be moved. and nearly 15,000 other migrant families relying on new york city funded housing for thener future. part of the problem is new york city's suburban communities don't want them. >> you asked for it. you are a sanctuary city. we are not. >> rockland county executive ed d.a. sday says the costs are to. >> we don't have the ability to do it. after that one year, who is going to be responsible for the massive cost that are going to be part of this? >> today, just four of the state's 62 counties are accepting these migrant relocations, advocates say migrants don't want to leaf the city afraid they won't find work. >> people are afraid to leave to go to an area that very few people speak spanish. they are afraid to be upaccepted. they are afraid of their kids
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are going to be in a space where they don't know how they are going to be integrated. >> to qualify for relocation program, migrant families have had to apply for asylum and be on track for work authorization. new york city has tried to eliminate these state requirements unsuccessfully thus far because they want more migrants to be able to get relocated out of this city. the migrant crisis here is set to cost taxpayers $10.5 billion through 2025. bret? >> bret: bryan llenas in new york, bryan, thanks. >> bret: tonight we show you the significant increase in chinese run illegal marijuana growing operations. national correspondent william la jeunesse has an exclusive he's takes us on a raid with los angeles county sheriff's deputies as they go after several chinese-backed
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facilities. [pounding] >> from maine to california, law enforcement says chinese nationals in many areas are taking over the illegal pot business. >> we have seen tremendous explosion of chinese folks coming in and buying land and then growing illegal marijuana. >> in california, near the oregon border, up to 8,000 plastic covered grow houses dot the landscape. the money police trace back to china. the labor, to grow the pot, illegal chinese immigrants who cross the mexican border. >> 75% or more are undocumented individuals that we are running into and in the last few years, those numbers have increased dramatically. >> major pot cases, multi layered and time consuming have little appeal to prosecutors. especially when the profits go overseas. and when arrests are made. low level farm workers living in shacks and they are typical out the next day. >> the primary problem in
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california is the laws are just so lax and there's just not a lot of repercussion. >> same is true in maine and washington state where police identified 749 grow sites associated with chinese interests. and oklahoma, where police say 2,000 pot farms are chinese owned or operated including one raided last week. >> we have seen quite an increase in the amount of chinese-asian-owned asian operated marijuana cultivation sites in l.a. county. >> friday three chinese operated warehouses in l.a. this site had 4,000 marijuana plants at today's yield somewhere around 2 million to $3 million. >> 50 congressman republican and democrat have asked the justice department for a briefing on how the chinese government and communist party may be involved. bret? >> bret: william, thank you. up next a republican could make some noise in the california senate primary tomorrow. we will talk with steve garvey. and, later, iranian backed
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♪ >> bret: welcome back to "special report." the presidential race not the only major issue on the ballots tomorrow. in california, for example, the senate seat once belonging to the late dianne feinstein is in play. republican steve garvey is one of the contenders in this deep blue state he joins us tonight. steve, thanks for being here. >> it's an honor to be with you, thanks. >> bret: first of all, you are obviously a baseball icon there in california. why are you doing this? you know, bret, september 1st of 1969 i came to los angeles. dodgers called me up and i put a dodger uniform on for the first time and my dreams came true. dodger bat boy at the age of 7 spring training sitting next to jackie robinson and camp nella
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and if a ril low. on that september 1st, i got a chance to join the team and 20 years later i had this great career, great players, championships, great managers. but in between i had fallen in love with california. and that's why i'm running now. i love this state. i love its people. i woke up 8 months ago and turned the tv on and i could see a dysfunctional washington. i could see the country elm pleading from within career politicians, snarkiness, people running for power and not poor the people. and i thought to myself, let's run for the u.s. senate. i tapped my wife on the shoulder and she turned over and i said what do you think, honey? and she looked at me and she said don't you think you are a little young? i said well as the old reagan statement i think i can overcome my youth and inexperience. it's been quite a journey. we announced just under five months ago. we made great strides. i put a great team together. you know, i'm a team builder and i'm a uniter. i have been talking to the
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people of california about their lives, about issues that matter to them. and i travel around the state, i have looked at them in the eye and i have said tell me about your life. in 10, 15 minutes an outpouring of emotion because this isn't the california that they came to. where they wanted to start a family and build businesses. and they are disappointed, they disillusioned. back then it was the heart beat of america. now, it's just a murmur. >> bret: yeah. the media who cover this, i have been paying attention though this race from afar. and i think they are kind of surprised at how you are doing. you have got these headlines steve garvey has barely campaigned in california. he is surging anyway. "l.a. times" steve garvey in statistical tie in first place with adam schiff. while two democratic senate hopefuls are boosting rivals in california "the washington post." if you look at the latest polls you are up in this group and you have to finish in the top 2 and then there is a general election. do you think a republican can
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win in the senate in california? >> bret, i didn't get into this race not win. i'm a common sense compassionate consensus builder. this vibrant california needs somebody who they know and they can trust will go back to washington and go to bat for them every day. i said i would be a one term senator. and in that one term i think i can get a lot done. people say oh you would be a lame duck. i said but i will go back and go to each one of those 99 senators there. stick out my hand and say i want to work with you for the best interest of your state and my state and this country. >> we do this thing called common ground we bring republicans and democrats on to talk about what they're working on as opposed to what they're battling over there are actually a lot of things up on capitol hill that they are working on, but there are tough issues in california, the "l.a. times" covering early in your campaign wrote this: the former professional baseball player campaigned this winter appear at homeless shelter? san diego taking a tour of skid
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row. he purpose of the trip to get up to speed on this issue. i haven't been at this very long so give me a little bit of leeway here. given that, do you think you have some thoughts about solutions of the homeless problem and some of the biggest problems facing big cities in california? >> i do bret. you know, people go to steve garvey.com, they will see policy. and a deeper dive. you got remember, the people i'm running against have failed policy. they have stood by policies that ruretting had the people of california and hurting this country. when i went to the border down in san diego. and walked with the u.s. border patrol saw people flooding across. and saw terrorist cartels that are vetting these people. people are dying. this is unconscionable, bret. we should secure the border. let's get back to a process of coming to this country legally by going to embassies and countries where they start.
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the real war is this border and the infiltration of 10 to 12 million illegal migrants who are straining our economy. here in california, hard-working tax-paying people are paying for welfare for the illegal immigrants. we're spending twice as much than the department of education spent on our children. it takes three good tax paying people to pay for the illegal immigrants. i mean, this is america. this should be a free market capitalism. it should be amaker to come crazy. and, yes, we should allow immigrants in. at this point in our country under this leadership, bret, around the world we are being strained. not only well qualified but well supported police. this country, this once vibrant
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country, people asking what's wrong with america. and what i want to do is go to the senate, and start to fix things. and let's get this country where it should be. and, as a senator, respecting the constitution. and as a senator from california, representing the people. we, the people, the voice of the people needs to tell washington what they want. and i expect to be their voice in this coming election. >> bret: well, steve garvey, we are going to cover your at bat tomorrow for super tuesday out of california, and, thanks for coming on. >> bret, thank you so much. god bless. >> bret: just a moat, we did invite the other leading candidates in the california senate race to join us here on "special report." up next, the u.s. military drops humanitarian relief into gaza. we will show you how that went. and later, the u.s. supreme court clears the way for former president donald trump and his legal challenge far from over. that, and politics with the
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♪ >> bret: former trump organization chief financial officer allen weisselberg is pleading guilty to a misdemeanor
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charge, pled guilty to the purge in connection with to former president trump's civil fraud trial. >> weisselberg is expected to be sentenced to five months in jail. he will be released until his formal sentencing, which is scheduled for april 10th. massachusetts air national guard member jack terk pleaded guilty to carrying out one of the most serious breaches. teixeira was charged with leaking documents on social media platform. he entered his plea in a boston courtroom. the plea deal calls for him to serve at least 11 years in prison. >> bret: a red alert sound was heard in southern israel as smoke rose over the gaza strip. latest action in the israel-hamas war that began last october when terrorists killed 1200 people, took 250 hostages. cease-fire negotiations are
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continuing at this hour in egypt. meantime, senior u.s. defense officials say this weekend's air drops of relief supplies into gaza were the first of many. how is that all being received across the region? chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin reports tonight from the pentagon. >> americans c-130 transport planes dropped 38,000 meals ready to eat along the beaches of southwest gaza. aerial deliver comes after palestinians were killed during aid delivery. can trucks were stormed hungry crowds and israeli military opened fire amidst the stampede. >> there must be an immediate cease-fire. this will get the hostages out and get a significant amount of aid in. >> the vice president spokes again before meeting israeli prime minister benny gant. >> israel has a right to defend itself. far too many palestinian
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civilians, innocent civilians have been killed. we need to get more aid in. we need to get the hostages out that remains our position. >> miles of humanitarian aid trucks are lined up on the border with gaza, waiting to go in. but face delays by the israeli government who control the borders and egypt and hamas. 2.3 million palestinians are facing hunger with many parents foregoing meals to feed their children one meal a day. some by mixing bird and animal feed with flour to make bread. >> air drops are really only ever used as an absolute last resort. logistically very complicated and very expensive as well. >> meanwhile in the red sea, a belize flagged ship the ruby martha was carrying 21,000 metric tons of fertilizer finally sunk saturday after being hit by a houthi antiship missile on february 18th. >> leak poses an ecological disaster for the red sea and its coral reefs tonight we are learning bret about three undersea data cables in the red sea that have been cut as a
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result of ongoing houthi attacks. this is effecting internet and telecommunications around the world with 25% of all data traffic crossing the red sea being effected,. >> live at the pentagon. >> bret: up next the panel on super tuesday. the legal and political road map and president biden's poll numbers as of late. first, beyond our borders tonight. french lawmakers overwhelmingly approve a bill to enshrine abortion rights in france's constitution. the measure was approved in a 780 to 72 vote in the palace of versailles. abortion has wide support in france across most of the political spectrum and has been legal since 1975. but here is the key point. elective abortions in france are limited to 14 weeks. and this is a live look at london. one of the big stories there tonight. british police say they have recovered a ferrari stolen from
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austrian formula one driver gerhard burger in italy almost three decades ago. it was one of two sports cars taken while the drivers were competing in the san marino grand prix in april of 1995. neither was ever found until london's metropolitan police force was tipped off by the manufacturer in january that a ferrari in the process of being sold to a u.s. buyer by a u.k. broker had been flagged as a stolen vehicle. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight, we'll be right back. ♪ ♪
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or insulin may cause low blood sugar. ♪ jardiance is really swell ♪ ♪ the little pill ♪ ♪ with a big story to tell! ♪ ♪ >> voters can take the person out of the race very quickly 3 justices on the court spoke with one voice and said enough. we should take some solace and encouragement from that. >> i do believe that states should be able under our constitution to bar oath-breaking insurrectionist. it will be up to the american voters to save our democracy in november. >> bret: the supreme court justices 9-0 than news vote on colorado particular kicking off the former president in the ballot there in her opinion, justice amy coney barrett. says the unanimous outcome is what americans should take from.
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this the court has settled a politically charged issue in the volatile season of a presidential election. particularly in this circumstance writings on the court should turn the national temperature down, not up. all nine justices agree on the outcome of this case. that is the message americans should take home. >> okay. let's start there with our panel guy benson political editor at town hall.com and host of the fox news fox news radio. olivia beavers and trey gowdy former congressman from south carolina. trey, what do you think of this ruling? what it means? and what it means for the former president? >> well, the colorado secretary of state did what no one else in the world, i don't think, can do, which is create a unified u.s. supreme court 9-0. although the opinions were a little bit fractured. the result was just as president trump said, beat me with ballots but don't beat me with prosecutors and ballot bans. >> and i thought his press
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conference, bret, struck a very general election tone. the primary is over. i mean, he is going to be the nominee. it's time to talk like that and i thought he did today. >> bret: here is andy mccarthy, olivia on what the supreme court may have been trying to signal as well. >> i think the democrats are very much banking on court action to -- to hurt trump's campaign, maybe fatally. and i think the supreme court is saying, you know, we don't want to be involved in this come after election day when somebody comes to us and asks us to disqualify him. >> bret: to be fair, a lot of democrats up on capitol hill, olivia, have said no, you got to fight it in the ballot box. >> certainly, you know, i think it's pretty interesting and telling when we are looking at reactions, republicans were applauding the supreme court decision. and democrats were pretty quiet. there were some who were basically hitting the supreme
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court decision even though as you noted earlier they were all on the same page, jeffries came out with cryptic message the democratic leader saying we look forward to fighting this at the ballot boxes and urged people to vote, essentially. so, i think that's how democrats are basically playing it. >> bret: tomorrow, super tuesday, republican delegates up for grabs, 15 states as well as american samoa. you have got a lot of delegates out there in the map. can't clinch mathematically the former president can't, but nikki haley was on martha's show today and martha valiantly tried to get a road map ahead. take a listen. >> is it fair to say that you will be making some kind of decision on wednesday? >> our goal has always been to stay competitive. and as long as we're competitive we are going to keep on running through the tape. >> what does staying competitive. how do you key fine that come wednesday morning? >> well, usually it's the media that defines what is
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competitive. i will tell you there are internal numbers we are going to look for. i'm not going to share those today but our goal is just to be competitive. >> bret: guy, what do you think this all means and how long does this go on. >> tomorrow is the delegate deluge of super tuesday. and former president trump is widely expected to win dramatically some of these states are winner take all. is he going to just suck up a huge number of these delegates. she can pick off some here or there. but, i think martha was asking the correct questions today, what are these metrics for success? what does success actually look like? what does competitive mean? i understand that haley is keeping those cards pretty close to the vest for the moment. i think she will answer to her campaign, to her donors at some point how long can this go on. but she was being a bit cagey about it. i would expect that on wednesday maybe something would change if tomorrow goes as expected. but, who knows? i mean, she is stuck with this.
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and she just pulled off a primary win in d.c. over the weekend. so they might point to that for a little bit of momentum but the momentum could very much go away tomorrow. >> bret: meantime, trey, the general election is taking shape. and it will be the longest general election we have ever seen, likely. the polling has really been tough for the biden campaign. this "new york times," siena poll inside -- besides the top line numbers -- inside the poll here is democratic primary voters think biden should be or not be the 2024 nominee. democrats, yes, 46%. no 45%. then you look at this question: too old to be an effective president? yes. is he too old. 73% for biden. and then it's 42% for trump. these poll numbers are increasingly becoming an issue. i mean, it's a trend. it's not one poll. it's not an outlier. it's a lot of different polls.
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>> yeah, kind of makes you wonder how long democrats let him be the nominee. they want to beat trump. so what to joe biden 60-years of service. bret, the relates is sometimes in life once people get to know you they like you better. sometimes once they get to know you, they don't like you at all. and people know joe biden. he just -- he is not -- he doesn't have the likability that other democrat potential candidates could have. i wouldn't be surprised if he is the nominee in november. they are not going to let him lose to someone who currently has 90 felony counts against him. they are not going to let that out. >> bret: to "60 minutes'" credit, olivia, here is the former border chief raúl ortiz. >> i have never had one conversation with the president or the vice president for that matter. and so i was the chief of the border patrol, i commanded
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21,000 people, that's a problem. >> bret: he never talked to him. and then you look at these polls about the border situation, the situation is an emergency, 78%. this becomes a -- just key issue. not only tomorrow but all throughout this campaign. >> it certainly seems it's going to be a knock against him optically. this is one of the issues biden has been trailing donald trump. he hasn't been talking to someone who has been very much on the front lines of his border. that's not a great look for him. >> bret: yeah. and the other poll, increasing group since 2019 saying border is a problem, guy. look at this. democrats plus 27. those are big, big numbers. >> president biden over two border visits has seen zero illegal immigrants and now we know he spoke to his border patrol chief zero times. that speaks volumes. >> bret: all right. panel, thanks so much. ♪
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>> bret: and finally tonight, a special day. >> this girl this is but we have got find out. i'm taking a rest in between. i'm going to take her down. >> bret: stevi is a dog who was reunited with her owner after being rescued from 1,000 feet up an hawaiian mountain. sergio discovered stevi on the edge of a mountain cliff during a training rub. >> found the dog down the mountain found the owner local pig hunter. took off on a pig trail. there you go reunited. tomorrow on "special report" full coverage. super tuesday races. please join us for the special coverage begin 7:00 p.m. eastern time. we got you covered. as always, fair, balanced and unafraid. "the ingraham angle" starts now. ♪ ♪ >> laura: good evening, everyone. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraha