>> judge jeanine: do you have music to go with this? >> greg: i wish. dana? >> dana: labrador retriever named roger supposed to become a drug sniffing dog he failed because he was overly friendly. he had a career change. true calling in life a search and rescue dog in the aftermath of taiwan's earthquake last week he helped find stranded people under the rubble. is he a huge celebrity hero you go, dog. gut there you go. >> judge jeanine: that's great. we applaud other people and dogs but not brian stelter. >> greg: no, no. >> greg: that's it for us. have a great night. >> brian: you go boys and girls. thanks, greg. [laughter] >> bret: good evening, welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. breaking tonight, we're following a number of big stories tonight. the markets sink following a troubling inflation report. we'll bring you that former president donald trump says arizona has it wrong on the issue of abortion. meantime house republicans

revolt on fisa as the house speaker's future hangs in the balance, just a few votes. but we begin at the white house where president biden is still predicting an interest rate cut and defending his administration's role fighting inflation. at the same time, the president is trying to circle the wagons in the pacific against china. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret. once enemies now allies closer than ever. the united states and japan announced more than 70 defense cooperation agreements among other collaborations in a not so subtle message to china, increasingly aggressive in the south pacific and the taiwan strait. >> president biden preemptively cooling blowback from beijing. >> and our alliance we have with japan is a purely defense in nature. it's not aimed at any one nation or a threat to the region. the japanese state visit comes one day before a trilateral meeting with the philippines

under increasing pressure in the south china sea over beijing's claims to shipping lanes. in a news conference, biden pressed to answer two domestic challenges with high cost of gas and rent, pushing up inflation by .04% last month. dampening prospects of interest rates cuts by the federal reserve. >> i do stand by my prediction before the year is out there will be a rate cut. this may delay it a month or. so i'm not sure of that we don't know what the fed is going to do for certain. but, look, we have dramatically reduced inflation from 9% down to close to 3%. >> but inflation was 1.4% when biden took office and all prices are up nearly 19% since that date. the news souring chances americans will feel better about the economy ahead of the election. biden's critics sounding off. >> whatever happened to the independence of the fed? whatever happened to monetary policy targeting prices and not simply targeting political outcomes? >> biden is keeping the focus on what he thinks will matter the most, abortion.

blaming trump for arizona's supreme court decision reviving 160-year-old near total abortion ban. >> elect me. i am in the 20th century. 21st century. not back then. >> pinning angst over wavering support for ukraine on republicans under trump's influence. >> the war in ukraine comes by the house leader allowing a vote. there is overwhelming support for ukraine among the majority of democrats and republicans. there should be a vote now. >> jacqui: house speaker mike johnson has floated the idea of ukraine aid in exchange for biden lifting his freeze on new exports of liquified natural gas. the ban is apparently something that japan is concerned about, too. the prime minister reportedly discussing it in a business round table yesterday. today biden dodged our question on if he would reconsider his ban but said there's no ban to japan. bret? >> bret: jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn, jacqui, thanks. today's inflation report sent

stococks tumbling the dow lost 422. it was down even more than that midday. the s&p 500 was down 49. the nasdaq fell 136. brit hume on all of this in a bit. former president donald trump is in florida tonight for a fundraiser. earlier today the former president was in georgia where he said president biden has abandoned israel he called his successor a criminal done more damage than the 10 worst presidents. abortion is still a major focus for him right now after questions about arizona and florida. correspondent mark meredith is in atlanta tonight. >> can i have 30 milkshakes? >> former president trump's first stop in georgia chick-fil-a where he urged atlanta's black community to back him. >> i have done more for the black community than any other president since abraham lincoln. >> trump, who lost georgia in 2020, is back in the state to raise money. but tonight it's his views on abortion making headlines. trump says he thinks arizona

should change its abortion laws after the state supreme court ruled 1 1800 era laws banning te procedure. >> did arizona go too far. >> yes. they did. it will be straightened out. as you know it's all about states' rights that will be straightened out. i'm m hat the governor and everybody else are going to bring it back into reason that will be taken care of i think very quickly. >> arizona's democratic governor says the ruling has created both chaos and confusion. >> the near total civil war era ban that continues to hang over our heads only serves to create more chaos for doctors and women in our state. >> state issue instead of pushing any federal standard. >> at the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people. >> the biden campaign firing back today claiming trump will, quote: use every tool at his disposal to ban abortion nationwide. the latest fox polling shows voters are more concerned about the economy and immigration over abortion. today's news that consumer

prices jumped another 3.5% from a year ago higher than economists expected allowed trump to lob another attack on president biden. >> the inflation is out of control. and now it's out of control again. >> the trump campaign is hoping to raise $15 million from the fundraiser here in atlanta that's wrapped up and the one tonight down in orlando. speaking of florida, fox has learned that florida governor ron desantis, who was trump's rival just a few weeks ago, is also willing to help the trump campaign raise money between now and the general election. no word when that fundraiser may take place, bret, but it certainly would be an interesting change of events. bret? >> bret: mark meredith in atlanta, mark, thanks. a new york appeals court has rejected another attempt to try to delay former president trump's criminal trial. for a third straight day. the former president's lawyers argued the trial should be put off indefinitely as they attempt to remove judge juan with her chan and challenge several of his rulings.

the decision means the first of the former president's criminal trials will start as scheduled april 15th. former president trump has pled not guilty to charges alleging he falsified business records to hide payments in connection with a scheme to suppress damaging stories abt him and adult film star during his 2016 presidential campaign. the former trump real estate executive allen weisselberg has been sentenced to five months in jail for lying under oath. the 76-year-old weisselberg pleaded guilty last month to two counts of perjury. he was accused of lying during testimony in the civil lawsuit against his former boss. by new york's attorney general. republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene is continuing her efforts to possibly remove house speaker mike johnson from office. the two met today on capitol hill amid increasing discontent among the g.o.p. caucus. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie tells us what happened there live from capitol

hill. good evening, aishah. >> aishah: bret, good evening to you. a lot has happened in the last few hours on capitol hill. house republicans just coming outs of a closed door conference meeting amid growing frustration amongst members about how this conference is functioning or not functioning. for example, today, house speaker mike johnson tried to reauthorize fisa authorities today despite the fact that former president trump told house republicans to kill the surveillance bill. well, 19 conservatives blocked a procedural vote stalling it. it's another setback for the speaker as he tries to hold onto the gavel. today, as you mentioned, he met with georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene for the first time since she filed that. green says the meeting became passionate at times. she said her message to the speaker was that funding ukraine and passing fisa without more reforms is out of step with the rest of the conference. she also rebuffed his offer to make her part of his kitchen cabinet and advisory role.

and she says that she told johnson to stop being the democrat's speaker b says she did not walk away with any promises from him. >> there's no deal. didn't walk out with a deal? >> no, we didn't walk out with a deal. we have to have changed behavior that supports the policies that the american people are supporting under president trump. it's not about whether you like president trump or not. it's the republican party, republican voters are supporting his policies. >> ironically, bret, johnson is headed to mar-a-lago on friday for an election event with former president trump. unclear though if is he going to lobby the former president to save him but the image alone standing next to him can give him a boost. speaker johnson does need a big victory and he needs it soon. he already delayed sending those articles of impeachment for dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas, delayed that to next week. by the way, mayorkas was on the hill today asking for more funding for the border after being impeached for the job he

has done on the border. bret? >> bret: aishah hasnie live on the hill. thanks. president biden is considering a request from australia to end the effort to prosecute wikileaks founder julian assange. he has been indicted on 17 espionage charges for publishing classified documents on his website nearly 15 years ago. u.s. prosecutors say that put lives at risk. assange supporters say the actions should be protected by the first amendment. ♪ >> bret: president bididen says the handling of the hamas war by israel's prime minister has, quote: been a mistake. he is calling for prime minister benjamin netanyahu to reach a cease-fire now. correspondent trey yingst is in tel aviv tonight. >> trey: while agreements on the path forward in gaza remain, president biden spoke wednesday about his demands for israeli israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> the fact of the matter is

that -- bibi and i had a long discussion. he a agreed to do several things that related to number one, getting more aid, both food and medicine into gaza. and reducing significantly the attempts -- the civilian casualties. >> in his first remarks since calling netanyahu's plans to enter the gazan city of rafah a mistake. biden also insisted that hamas accept an american proposal put forward during cease-fire talks in cairo that could pause the war and see up to 40 hostages released. efforts to broker a cease-fire are ongoing this week in egypt with teams from israel, hamas, and the united states present. though reports indicate continued disagreements on the framework of a deal. despite the ongoing talks, israel is continuing their air campaign against gaza, killing six relatives of hamas leader its mel today in a strike. while aid to the enclave has ramped up in recent days with

more than 1,000 trucks entering gaza this week. distribution of supplies is still a key issue. leading to hunger among the civilian population. >> i lost my children, i lost myself. how can this be for me. as you can see we are hungry. no food or drink. what has become of our lives? developments come as israel remains on high alert with officials threatening the jewish state amid concerns that vaughn could retaliate following a strike earlier this month in syria that killed two top iranian generals. bret? >> bret: trey yingst in tel aviv. trey, thanks. up next, brit hume on inflation report too hot for the markets and reaction to it. first, beyond our borders tonight. at least three people are dead and four are missing after a massive explosion at hydro electric plant in northern italy. that blast happened tuesday as maintenance workers conducted testing. a turbine exploded causing a fire and flooding the floor with

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♪ >> bret: at least three people shot in philadelphia during an event to celebrate the end of ramadan. police say two groups began firing at each other as people fled the scene. officers took at least five suspects into custody, recovered four weapons. one suspect, a 15-year-old boy was shot by police. officers are investigating the cause of the entire incident. >> we have the best economy in the world. we got to make it better. we really do have the best economy in the world. >> the inflation is out of control and now it's out of

control again. they brought down the rate so fast because they want to get elected and [inaudible] >> bret: well, inflation remains high. well above the federal reserve's target for cutting interest rates. in fact, the cpi, consumer price index came out today. year over year, overall 3.5, core at 3.8%. let's talk about the economy and the politics surrounding it with fox news chief political analyst brit hume. you know, brit. the president today in the afternoon said that we, the administration, and the country better situated than when he took office. but, if you look at the chart of inflation when he took office, started at 1.4% and now is at 3.5%. obviously more than double and he did bring it down but it's still hot. >> brit: well, let's remember this about what happens when you bring the rate of inflation down, what that means is not

that prices are going lower, they are not. they are just rising at a slower rate. so you had this huge run-up in prices that occurred fairly early in the administration after some truly massive spending during the biden administration on top of massive spending that had been done back during when covid was raging and the economy was shutdown. and the result was what was inevitably going to be, was inflation. we got this huge run-up, eye-popping numbers of inflation. and everybody felt it. and people are still feeling it because these prices are so much higher now for all kinds of things, nearly everything than they were when president biden took offers. and they are still rising. and the president points to the numbers about having brought inflation down. yes, that happened. about the jobs numbers, which are high, they are. about the growth in the economy, it's there. but as long as people are looking at the things they buy day in and day out and other things they may need to buy and

cars and washing machines and the reps of it and the prices are way, way higher than they can still remember, they are going to feel that and they are not going to like it and they don't. >> bret: brit, the president's statement about that inflation report, he said this: i have a plan to lower cost for housing by building and renovating more than 2 million homes and i'm calling on corporations, including grocery retailers to use record profits to reduce prices. what about that? >> brit: well, the problem is you can't talk the inflation rate down. it just doesn't work. i remember back during the ford administration people were walking around wearing -- they had outburst of inflation during that period, and they put out win buttons w-i-n-on them whip inflation now. they don't work. things like that don't work. what is needside spending restraint at a time when spending is continuing to rise rapidly, most of it much of it i should say borrowed money.

we're this is not this is not a course thats can sustained. the president is now paying the price for all the spending that he was in favor of, including something called the inflation reduction acted, which was no such thing. it was a green energy promotion measure. and i don't see this getting better for him either economically or politically by the end of this year when the election comes around. >> bret: the ford administration had to spend to get those win buttons, brit, as always, thank you. [laughter] >> brit: you bet. >> bret: up next, one democrat and one republican, we seek common ground on a number of issues. here is what some of the fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox 43 in norfolk, virginia as assistant principal is facing criminal charges in the case where a 6-year-old shot his first grade teacher. special grand jury determined ebony parker showed reckless disregard for students on the day of the shooting. fox 13 in seattle where the trial begins foror a man accused of killing his wife and his children.d's two youngest

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>> we linked our request to our strategy and, again, i think we had to make some tough choices. >> none of you believe going below 3% of g.d.p. is good for the department of defense. i know that i know it's hard. the president clearly thinks it is. he cuts the budget every year. got to make your job really tough. >> bret: welcome back to "special report." it's time now for our "common commonground seeing actual of te senators on that committee joining us tonight. two members of the senate armed services committee democrat joe manchin of west virginia and republican you just heard there dan sullivan of alaska. senators, thanks for being here. >> great to be here, bret. >> bret: the reason we played that you are talking about the supplemental and you said in that questioning it should be called the fighting authoritarian aggression or the defense industrial base enhancement act besides something called ukraine aid because you're fearful that it's going to run into trouble. >> well, i'm fearful it's been mischaracterized which it has

been. it's not really a ukraine aid bill, bret. it is really focused on our ability to produce weapons for our own country. 60% of this bill goes directly into the industrial base of america, which is dramatically at throw if id in terms of our ability to produce weapons i toe chairman of the joint chiefs hey give it to the correct description, which is this is about defending ourselves our industrial base atrophied. get us back where we need to produce weapons for america. >> this is something you seek common ground. >> this is not a democrat or republican division that we should be having. okay. because as dan, he basically described it very accurately. we benefit. the united states of america and our defense department benefits by.

this and we're able to help our allies, also. so it's a win-win. to make it a political situation where you have got to pick one or the other or you are for or against is so wrong. and i appreciate dan when he basically on the military, which understands it is well if not better than most any of us on that committee, gets it. because he is part of it. and basically puts it that way. can't we rise up for our country and not worry about our politics? >> bret: in this is about $6 billion to build subs. >> everything. you are not hearing that though. until dan spoke about that, we were in a committee. i was setting there listening, when he spoke about that, to put it the way he did, you don't hear that you don't hear the administration talking about it that way. you don't hear politics on both sides, democrats and republicans are opposed. and if we can get both sides to start looking at it what is best for our country? what is going to help our military. how can we defend ourself drawn in. >> you may have seen the secretary of the navy just put out a report yesterday saying that every ship building program

in america, including subs is years behind. and the chinese are cranking out 10 to 12 high end navy ships every year. we got to get our act together. >> bret: i want to talk to both of you about something that is happening now, and that is the middle east situation with the israel-hamas war. and this administration's talking about it. the president had an interview, talked -- said one thing. he said something else today. take a listen. >> i think what is he doing is a mistake. what i am calling for is for the israelis to just call for a cease-fire, allow for the next six to eight weeks total access to all food and medicine going into the country. and this ties to the hostages. there are a number of hostages that are being held by -- by the hamas. >> bret: so today the president talked about hamas and talked about the hostages. hasn't been talking about that. there is some confusion about

administration policy vis-a-vis israel and what they're doing. obviously concerns, senator manchin about civilian casualties there. what are your thoughts? >> i have been very clear. i said this. how would you expect israel or any other country barbarically attacked the way they were to say at least give us back our hostages. give us our citizens back. we'll sit down. maybe we can work through. this we are going to wipe out hamas one way or another with the least amount of income infliction on the innocent civilians. it's horrible they are caught in between. i have tried to describe what i understand. when civil rised countries go to war because of disputes, there is basically the rules of war. when we use our military machinery, our military might to protect our citizens. when terrorist organizations go to war or conflict, they use their innocent citizens to protect their war efforts. that's what you are dealing with. and you have to understand that to ask them to stand down and allow hamas to reload without getting anything in return? and i said i would be the first

one that would encourage let's basically we got our hostages all back. set down, let's work through. this get the arab and the egyptians and the arab muslim countries to basically come into that part of the world. but to ask them not to get anything in return except stand down and allow them to reload and making sure that we can identify and making sure that the aid that's being needed from food and necessities as far as medical, is getting to the right people that need it and not the military that's going to take it and use it. hamas is basically stripped that country of all the necessities that they have needed to have any quality of life. >> bret: we should say hamas rejected the latest offer didn't include hostages. they rejected that cease-fire offer already. meantime iran, there are some indications that they may be getting ready, senator sullivan, to attack israel directly cent come commander is heading there tomorrow. it is a tender box.

>> one thing joe would agree with me on another area of common ground we need to recognize that we need to do much more in terms of our policy both military and nonmilitary policy to deter iran. think about it. iran funds and trains the houthis, hamas, hezbollah, you don't have any of those terrorist proxies without iran. and we have not done nearly enough to deter them. one of the things that i have been saying, i was in a bipartisan meeting with the president of the united states, said, mr. president, we have to do much more to bring the sanctions back with regard to the oil and gas regime of the iranians. at the end of the trump administration, iran had $4 billion in foreign reserves because of the tough sanctions. right now biden administration has let the sanctions off the hook. they have $75 billion in foreign reserves. guess what they are doing? they're funding all these proxies. we need those kind of policies are bipartisan hit them hard again with oil and gas sanctions. i'm sure joe manchin agrees with

that these are the kind of things we need to do in addition to being strong militarily. >> bret: i want to talk about l and g in a second. just weapons received, taken from the houthis, small arms, by the thousands. have now been captured and sent to ukraine, which is just an interesting development. >> thank god. thank god. >> bret: we played a soundbite from senator sullivan at the beginning. i want to play one from you. this is from the senate energy committee. >> the white house has gone out of its way to signal that the policies of political intended to get votes on election year. it's all about politics, not economics. again and again the white house has shown it is so concerned with indulging radical climate ache at this vits it is willing to play politics with energy security and with that of our allies. >> this is about the ellayna lg pause.secretary of energy grm important to take a beat and with all the changes that have happened what's in the public interest which is what the natural gas act requires to us

take into consideration. >> the natural gas act tells you to get the facts. do your background. do your study, do your work. tell us exactly what our reserve base is. tell us what our demands are going to be in our country for our economy. make sure that we do not endure any pain whatsoever by allowing too much gas to go out. i understand all of that. they did none of that. first of all, we have 14 billioy going out. okay? we have replaced about 20 to 30 to 40% of the russian energy that was coming in to our allies and friends in eu. so, with that, we have another 12 billion coming online within the next year or two now up to 26 billion cubic feet. another 22 billion cubic feet in the queue. if all of that comes to fruition that's 48 cubic feet. >> of leg quid natural gas. >> liquid natural gas in the markets. i don't know if that's not enough, too much, all i can tell you anyone that says you have to have the pause lowest prices of

natural gas in america today after we no l and g going out in 2016. we're up to 14 billion cubic feet a day and people are saying oh if we let this go out on the market it's going to increase the prices in america. they have gone down. we have got to supply. let's get the facts and then make a decision. this was a political driven statement that was made. >> bret: if the house came back and tied l and g, get rid of the pause, the ban. >> pause the pause. >> do something else would the consider that are the votes break the lng. >> part of the supplemental. >> absolutely it would. a lot of my democratic colleagues joe manchin has been brave enough to talk about it publicly. a lot of my colleagues, certainly the republicans but also the democrats know this is a huge political mistake, the pause. >> if the house does it, i would recommend to speaker johnson, okay. i would say, speaker, if you're going to give that's language, which i think it needs to be done, do it with the intentions of getting the facts.

making sure that we do the study. make sure we understand what our reserve capacity. >> bret: but is he right. the democrats privately, not publicly like you are, are agree with you? a lot of them? >> oh, i say a majority. i think a majority. i do. >> because they are seeing what is happening with our allies and -- >> -- what is happening right now. do you know how long it's taken us to get jorgensen head of the eu energy committee she basically advises and i have been talking for years. need da, you need to get more long-term contracts from european counter parts so we can get longer term projects. get your prices down. finally convinced them. she called me. >> bret: now what? >> we convinced them and not sure if going to give it to us or not. that's not the case. what i'm say something if mike johnson does that and says okay we want to pause the pause until we get the facts. let's do the study. if he puts the study in there, i will guarantee the majority of democrats will all go along. >> bret: this is what common ground is about. >> it's the way it should be. i want you to know this is my

friend. okay? we don't always agree. >> not always. >> we can agree to disagree and work out our differences and come up with an agreement. that's what it is supposed to be. >> national security and american energy, by the way, helping alaska develop its resources. i got a great ally in joe manchin, too, that's important. >> bret: thank you. spread the word up there. >> we're doing it. >> bret: see all the "common ground" segments on my podcast "common ground." find that an wanted all-star panel podcast under the bret baier podcasts, fox news podcasts, spotify or wherever you download podcasts. see the discussion on the fox news youtube page. >> bret: up next, the panel on president biden's policy on israel, iran, inflation and the presidential campaign. plus, an update on the latest challenge to the house speaker. ♪ hrrrr ♪ ♪ hr behr behr ♪ ♪ behr behr behr behr behrrrr ♪ ♪ behr behr behr behrrrr behr behr behr ♪ ♪ behr behr behr behr behrrrr ♪ what is going on next - ♪ behr behr behr behrrr behr behr behr ♪

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♪ >> this week we'll be reauthorizing fisa, we are enacting sweeping changes over 506 reforms. these reforms would actually kill the abuses that allow president trump's campaign to be spied on. >> it's pretty clear and obvious and being whispered among the conference mike johnson does not have the support of the conference. he is in there urging members to reauthorize fisa. and i don't think he has the votes for it right now is what i'm gathering.

>> bret: marjorie taylor greene not saying when she is going to bring out the motion to vacate but clearly hinting it may be coming. that is the motion by which speaker mccarthy was taken out of that position. could happen to speaker johnson as well. you mention fisa there. "wall street journal" editorial board fisa compromise worth passing. congress is trying to reauthorize the foreign intelligence surveillance act this week doing it right is crucial for national security. fisa 702 lets the government monitor communications of foreigners overseas. republicans shouldn't want responsibility for crippling u.s. surveillance among the world's pro-liveiating threats. if 702 collapses the house won't hesitate to blame the g.o.p. if there is a terrorist attack. start with the panel. bring them in guy benson political editor town hall.com. host of the guy benson show on fox news would. charles hurt. axios political report stef kite. the threat to speaker johnson is real. >> it definitely is and marjorie taylor greene reiterated today

that she is seriously considering trying to oust him; that she's watching very closely how he handles feis fisa as well if he does move forward with putting some kind of ukraine aid on the floor. and, you know, johnson certainly is in a tough situation right now. there is still a question of whether marjorie taylor greene has the same amount of support for an effort to oust johnson that she had in ousting mccarthy. of course, many republicans don't want to go through the chaos that was, you know, the election following mccarthy's ouster. we're in the middle of an election year. it's not clear that republicans are quite angry enough yet to do this all over again. but, she is certainly willing to go there if she needs. to say. >> brian: she was an ally of mccarthy. the other 8 were not. they bounced him. is this kind of like you threaten? they don't have an answer to what happens at the back end of it again. >> right. the dog catching the car, again. it hasn't gone well for the republicans. is this house majority stronger

or better off now than it was months ago? or under a speaker mccarthy? i don't think so. it's literally diminished. people dropping like flies. they have achieved almost nothing. i suspect that if this gets to be a threat, and i think a lot of republicans want absolutely no part of another speaker fight in the middle of an election year. knockdown, drag out, sign of dysfunction with this particular back bench member from georgia who gets a lot of attention, one phone call might be able to straighten that out there is a sensory former president who has enormous sway over her. i'm not sure he wants that mess in his election year. >> bret: speaker johnson is going down to mar-a-lago to meet with former president trump. did he, the former president did weigh in about concerns about fisa. you know, this is the "wall street journal" editorial board. it doesn't always track, obviously, with maga world, charlie, but what -- what about that piece of legislation? >> but it is -- it does highlight the, i think, a shift,

you know, after 9/11, you know, republicans gave a lot of, you know, benefit of the doubt on the surveillance measures in an effort to go after terrorism. and what we saw was the government abused a lot of them. and abused them not only in smaller ways but, obviously abused them in the effort to go after donald trump during an election. it took -- you know, it took three elections to get so that we would use these powers to go after a political opponent at the height of an election which is, of course, what donald trump is talking about there. it's a very good point. i think it also reflects a shift for a lot of rank and file republicans who are willing to go along with this notion that you know what, actually, our civil liberties probably are important to protect. we should find other ways to combat terrorism like, i don't know, closing the border. >> bret: which is a big deal and one that we talk about a lot. i want to talk about israel and hamas. what the president is saying

about that. the administration policy, and is it shifting day to day? take a listen. >> we've also discussed developments in the middle east, including our shared support for a cease-fire and the hostage deal. our commitment to israel's security against these threats from iran and its proxies is ironclad. >> biden has totally lost control of the israel situation. he has abandoned israel. any jewish person that votes for a democrat or votes for biden should have their head examined. >> bret: guy, former president obviously making his feelings clear. but the biden administration how he has talked about it the univision interview a day and a half ago and today was different. >> a few weeks ago the biden administration declined to veto at the u.n. a security council resolution that seemed to decouple or did decouple the hostages situation from a cease-fire and biden could have

blocked it. he chose not to. and the israelis were very upset about that and many israel supporters in this country were, too. the administration said no, that's not our policy. we didn't block it but we don't support it. but then with the univision interview biden seemed to do exactly that a day and a half ago. and then today the hostages seemingly were back in that press conference with the japanese prime minister. does the president know exactly what his policy is on this? i'm not sure. >> bret: stef, there is in the democratic party concern about getting weapons to israel. in fact, it's growing, it seems, in those ranks. >> it certainly has. we have heard recently from senator coons, for example, a close ally of president biden, who said he thought that maybe it was time to have discussions on further aid we send to israel. we certainly have seen president biden and his administration try to walk a very narrow line right now. they are trying to say that, yes, we still support israel while also acknowledging that there is a large and growing

number of members in the democratic party who are concerned with israel's actions. sometimes this looks like attacking netanyahu, in particular, sometimes it looks like asking for conditions on aid, and we are certainly seeing that right now. i don't know whether it's contradictory, but they are certainly trying to navigated a difficult political situation. >> bret: charlie, as i pointed out with the senators, hamas has turned down the latest cease-fire, they didn't have anything with hostages. didn't have to turn over anything with hostages and still turned it down. iran looks like it's doing something and there is all kinds of intelligence reports worried about iran attack on israel. >> they have had a free hand ever since joe biden went into the white house. so why wouldn' make -- take advantage of that. it is, again, talking about the sort of shifting among republicans, you know, they are desperate to keep ukraine and israel funding tied together. and one reason is because if you put them on the floor separately, ukraine probably very likely would fail.

if you put israel funding on the floor and i get it, there are people that are -- have their reservations about it in congress now. but i guarantee you, i would be willing to bet that if you put funding for israel on the floor, it would pass. >> bret: it's interesting. both of those senators talk about all the other things in that supplemental that we don't often talk about. so, panel, thanks so much. up next, you won't want to miss this. a special day for an american icon. i'm out of breath, and often out of the picture. but this is my story. ( ♪ ) and with once-daily trelegy, it can still be beautiful. because with 3 medicines in 1 inhaler, trelegy keeps my airways open for a full 24 hours and prevents future flare-ups. trelegy also improves lung function, so i can breathe more freely all day and night.

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>> bret: it's a special day as we told you earliery. president biden is aiming to strengthen ties with japan. once a bitter enemy during world war ii. and now a priceless ally against an aggressive china. in tonight's special day segment a long overdue honor for a national symbol. the world war ii character rosie the riveter is recognized for her service to the country. here is senior congressional correspondent chad pergram. >> rosy ♪ rosy work okay assem by mr. line. >> she is making history ♪ working the victory ♪ r rossi the riverfront. >> few endure like rosie the riveter. >> the muscular bandana we celebrate that in you there is nothing we can't do. >> 6 million women pressed into service. >> they were housewives. they were mothers.

turned war heroes. >> they weren't in the military. they welded in shipyards. assembled b-17s. and built bombs. while american men fought overseas. >> here 1800 women are employed and they have to be mechanics, war aviation production gets the feminine touch. >> these are the invisible warriors here on the home front. >> on the same day president biden greeted the leader of america's world war ii adversary, japan at the white house. lawmakers bestowed their highest civilian honor on 24 surviving rosies the congressional gold medal. # 8-year-old mae krier of bucks county, pennsylvania is one of the oldest rosies still living. >> up until 1941 it was a man's world. they didn't know how capable we were, did they. >> you might say in brooklyn the rosies got it going on. >> krier left the capitol crowd with sage advice. >> my last thought is remember

these four little words "we can do it." [cheers and applause] >> and in the case of the rosies not only can they do it but they did it ♪ senator jones who was in the know ♪ shouted these words on the radio >> there's something to do with red, white, and blue ♪ about roirst. rosie the riveter on thehill ch. >> bret: that's fantastic. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. we can do it. "the ingraham angle" starts now. ♪ >> laura: good evening, everyone, i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. radical protesters confronting senator josh hawley, it's all caught on camera. he is here to tell his side of the story. what a mess.