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thrifty treasures antiques and more cost three grand and only to fly away, weighs a hundred pounds, a giant inflatable duck >> jesse: came in tyrus's bathtub. >> greg: nicely done. that's in frank mute michigan. >> dana: judge >> judge jeanine: fashion goes to the dogs literally. check out these adorable pooches rocking the red carpet at the pet gala at the american kennel club museum of the dog week this week. museum of the dog. each canine donned couture similar to what celebrities wore at the met gala. the furry fashionista outfits will be housed at the museum of the dog for the month of junement very cute. >> dana: fashion's really gone to the dogs. >> jesse: i loved this morning on news. >> dana: that's it for us everyone. have a great night. >> greg: you have a great night >> bret: you have a great night everybody. good evening welcome to
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washington, i'm bret baier, the biden administration goes after ticketmaster and live nation over concert ticket prices. the senate votes on the previously scrapped bipartisan boarder bill, we'll bring you there. and new information about last week's arrest of the top golfer in the world, some new video. but breaking tonight, we are awaiting former president donald trump's appearance at a rally as you see there live in the south bronx. the former president in a new york state of mind campaigning in the traditionally deep blue state. we will bring you there live when it happens. but first up tonight, two big stories with big questions involving national security at two major u.s. military installations. one, an attempted breach at quantico marine corps base in virginia. the other, a dangerous situation outside of a major special operations hub in north carolina. they raised questions, not only about the safety and security of some of the nation's most elite warriors and their families, but
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also about the investigation itself into what are now several incidents there. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin begins our exclusive coverage tonight live from the pentagon. good evening jennifer. >> good evening, bret. tonight we have new information on a mysterious shooting in carthage north carolina that may have national security implications. it occurred may 3rd at 8:15 p.m. following a call about a suspected trespasser near a special forces soldier's property north of fort liberty formally fort bragg not far from a training outpost used by our most elite special operations units. here's what we know so far. two men who spoke broken english were found near the soldier's home. the family alleges the suspected intruder, 35-year-old man of chicago was taking photos of their children. when confronted near a power line in a wooded part of the property, an altercation ensued and daria was shot several times
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at close range. a second man was in a vehicle some distance from the incident. he was questioned by authorities and then released. the moore county sheriff's office is leading the investigation t army criminal investigation division is also investigating. the fbi told fox, quote, our law enforcement partners at the moore county sheriff's office contacted with fbi after a shooting death until carthage. a special agent mufti with investigators and provided a linguist to assist with the language barrier for interviews. us special operation soldiers around the country have experienced strange interactions in recent years that they say involves suspicious surveillance of them and their families. many believe that u.s. military bases have become an increasing target of foreign probes. the shooting incident two weeks ago in carthage has been -- could have been a case of mistaken identity.
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the two cechens had no personal identification, they did have two cell phones with rugs language context on them and camera equipment. they were not wearing any uniforms for the power company that reportedly employed them. sheriff ronnie fields said dare i can'ts was working as a subcontractor for utilities one at the time of his death. investigators are still working to verify his official employment and immigration status. sources tell fox that power company employment is a cover for status, action, that u.s. intelligence agents use for surveillance of foreign targets overseas. in a separate incident, 18 months ago, moore county experienced another mysterious shooting attack that targeted two electrical distribution substations. damage from the shooting attack left up to 40,000 residential and business customers without power in north carolina for nearly two weeks. the power outage primarily affected communities heavily
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populated by u.s. special operations families. less than two weeks prior to the moore county substation incident, the fbi sent a report to private industry warning of an increase in reported threats to electric infrastructure from people who e spouse racially or ethically motivated violent extremist ideology. the fbi took over that investigation which remains unsolved. dariaf's family meanwhile launched a change.org petition which has already received more than 11,000 signatures adding, quote, ramsan left riley gaineses not realizing the greatest injustice against him would have happen in a free country where he should have received protection. but members of the community are asking why two rugs speaking were taking photos near an elite army special forces resident at 8:15 p.m. friday night ten minutes before sunset and why
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the fbi is not the lead in the investigation. the fbi tells fox news the bureau has not opened a counter intelligence investigation and that quote, the local investigation has not uncovered evidence of a physical crime, adding, the fbi is in regular contact with the sheriff's office investigators and are prepared to investigate if a federal matter comes to light. bret? >> bret: more questions to be answered through this we'll continue to ask them jennifer griffin at the pentagon jennifer thank you >> also learning new information about the individuals involved at an attempted breach at another us military base. it's a story we first brought you here on special report. now there are more questions about the few answers that have been received so far. correspondent griff jenkins has details on this, about what we know this evening outside quantico. good evening, griff. >> good evening, bret. it's been 20 days since two jordanian nationals now in ice custody awaiting removal proceedings attempted to breach marine corps base quantico right
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here you see behind me. dhs sources tell fox news neither have a criminal history and no terror related motives have come to light but there are growing questions about who these men are what their relationship is and why they were trying to access the base. officials know their identities but will not release them citing privacy concerns. fox has confirmed one of the jordanians crouched the border last month and was released with a notice to appear at a future immigration hearing. the other was an f1 student visa overstay both were illegally present in the u.s. the pair told officers they were working for an amazon subcontractor but amazon tells fox they have no records of them working on amazon's staclot earlier the chair man of the committee launched a probe sending a letter to dhs dod and fbi. >> wavs the truck what was their intent, those kind of things and we would like to know the specific names of the individuals and how they got
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into the country. we want the details of where they crossed exactly, when they crossed exactly. who saw them and what procedures were either broken or, you know, why they were released. >> on the senate side, senator lindsay gram of the your judiciary committee sent a similar letter to dhsecretary mayorkas, his office tells me they have not yet getten a response and our repeated inquiries have yet to be responded to bret. >> bret: griff jenkins outside quantico griff thanks. today the republican national committee set a scathing letter to the u.s. secret service regarding concerns over the party's upcoming convention in milwaukee. they are worried widespread protests could impact both convention business and attendees and about security around the convention. the concern appears to be centered on where those protesters will be allowed to set up t letter adds the party has also had a hard time getting a response from the secret service about its concerns. >> it's the first time i've seen
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in a long, long time the threats from home-grown violent extremists, that is jihadist violent streamist domestic violent streamist foreign sponsored tersations and state sponsored terror organizations all being elevated at one time. since october 7th that threat has gone to another whole level. >> bret: fbi director christopher wray talking about threats a couple months ago on capitol hill. joining us to digest it former chief of station dan hoffman. dan, good evening. these are unrelated stories, as far as we can tell, but they do have a feel to them around bases. and how do you take these two different stories that we presented tonight? >> yeah, these resist highly suspicious incidents here, and what we've got is what appears to be at least foreign nationals, highly focused on u.s. military installations, quantico and fort liberty. and the fact that the chechens
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and jordanians were where they were conducting what it looks to me to be recognizance before maybe an attack would be planned, i think that's of grave concern. i'm surprised the fbi hasn't taken over the investigation of the chechens. they need to be there and interrogating them directly themselves. we need fbi counter intelligence experts to determine whether there's a network supporting these chechens and background when they arrived in the united states they don't speak good english so we need rugs speaking agents on the ground doing their job. >> bret: we were puzzled by that too and went to the fbi numerous times and those investigations continue on the local level down there. meantime, on the quantico, it has bubbled up. if you look at the headlines, virginia governor demands answers after immigrants in box truck branch quantico a military hit at quantico breach by jordanians for two weeks. congress investigate jordanians
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trying to sneak onto military base. these things in this environment take on a different level of importance. >> they do. and, regarding the jordanians i have no doubt that the fbi and the cia are involved, because we'll be working with our jordanian counterparts overseas in running these names through their vetting to determine whether they have any nefarious background. what i would emphasize is we're in infinite response which is not where you want to be. you want to have them before they materialize and harm can be done. we have a porous border and these sorts of individuals are making their way across our border and then infiltrating our sensitive military sites. we're playing defense where we shouldn't be and that's the challenge our state, local and federal law enforcement face. >> bret: really quickly down at fort liberty you wouldn't be surprised to know that the thought among the community there, some of our most elite forces, is they do this for a living, they see this kind of
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thing, and they believe they know what it is. >> yeah. this is what they do. they know what pre attack phase looks like and two chechens that don't have business around a military basis a concern to me. and the concern is they were not operating alone they're part of a wider network that funds them and provides resources and we need to uncover that if it exits. >> bret: dan hoffman thank you. president biden hosting the leader of kenya today at the white house they held a joint news conference earlier and will attend a state dinner tonight. correspondent jacqui heinrich has details live from the north lawn good evening jacqui. >> good evening bret, against the backdrop of my junior asking us troops to withdraw and souring relations with ethiopia and south africa kenya's being looked at as the next democratic strong hold to advance us interests with a new military partnership and also an economic partnership. the first african country to
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receive chip sack funding. >> i'm proud to announce we're working with congress to designate kenya, a major non-nato ally. >> the news, a not so subtle effort to counter russian and china's on the min really rich and stable couldn't net. kenya combatting terrorism is a leading tech market drawing 90% of its power from renewable energy. primed for u.s. private investment and security goals like diversifying supply chains away from china. biden's pitch democracy delivers. >> i am confident that our engagements have laid a solid foundation for us to continue the work. >> biden's press conference delivered little domestic news again stating its opposition to icc charges against israeli leaders against war crimes in china. >> we don't think there's a difference between what israel and hamas do. >> ironically kenya's president's lawyer a decade ago defending him before the icc for
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allegedly orchestrating violence after his own election. the u.s. supported his prosecution but the case later fell apart and today he shared a platform with the american president who dodged questions on the border. before blaming the gop for tanking a border bill that failed once before and today voted on again with zero changes didn't even garner support of all the democrats. >> how can this be seen as anything other than a cynical attempt to try to show americans that democrats care about the border. >> i don't understand how that would be cynical when it sounds like senator schumer's trying to do his job and move forward a piece of legislation that had bipartisan support. >> biden said in a statement, congressional republicans do not care about securing the border or fixing america's broken immigration system and added that doing nothing is not an option. but there is no indication he will use his own executive authority to that very end, bret. >> jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn jackie thank you
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>> stocks tumbled on inflation worries today. the dow dropped 606 the s&p 500 off 39 the nasdaq fell 66. well, sometimes it can get dangerous in the business of covering politics. today our fox capitol hill crew had to fight off an umbrella being used by a congressional staffer to obstruct an attempted interview. quite something you don't see every day. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram shows us umbrella gate tonight. good evening chad. >> bret good evening. progressives oppose a possible invitation for israeli leader benjamin netanyahu to address a joint meeting of congress. a sunny day in dc. but an aide walking with squad member rashida take lead deployed an umbrella to block the sun slight of questions. >> what happens if netanyahu comes -- ms. tlaib, what happens if netanyahu comes to speak? is that a mistake by the speaker to extend this request? what do you think of the
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democratic leaders agree to that request as well? would you attend? would you protest in any form? >> i don't know, inviting a war criminal to congress is a sham. it's shameful. >> say that again? we got blocked. say that again please. >> hit me with an umbrella. >> we did not hit you. >> we have it on video guys. >> other squad members were more willing to express their reservations about a possible speech. >> one of the most disturbing things i think congress can do is to have netanyahu come. >> what does it say if democratic leaders agree to the speaker's request. senator schumer is talking about this, hakeem jeffries is also. does that speak poorly of them if they speak of this. >> i don't think any leader should allow this to happen. >> however the house's top democrats says the party's divisions are overstated. >> the republicans have repeatedly tried to make israel a partisan political issue. it's not but puppies and rainbows on the house democratic
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caucus side. >> house speaker mike johnson is still trying to work out an invitation with netanyahu for democrats. bret. >> bret: chet the house vote dad to block washington, dc from allowing non-citizens from voting? >> well, congress serves as a super city council, it can override dc's local laws and here is the vote, 262 to 143. 52 democrats vote wind the gop. republicans accused democrats of trying to let people vote who are not allowed. now, the house also prepped a bill today that mandates that people show id to vote in federal elections. bret. >> bret: so just to be clear, 143 democrats voted to allow illegal immigrants or non-citizens to vote in dc. >> that's right. >> bret: okay. >> it is, in fact, about the math. >> bret: all right. thanks chet. up next why the biden administration is going after ticketmaster and you're looking live at former president trump's
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fox correspondent grady has news. >> good evening bret the justice department wants to break up live nation and ticketmaster. the doj along with 30 states attorney general filed an antitrust lawsuit against both companies today. it claims fans pay higher prices because of their control over ticketing for live events, ownership of concert venues and management of hundreds of artists. attorney general merrick garland say companies have threatened and retaliated against venues that work with rival promoters and ticketers and locked performers into exclusive agreements. >> the result is fans pay more in fees artists have fewer opportunities to play concerts,
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smaller promoters get squeezed out and venues have fewer real choices for ticketing services. >> in response, the companies getting sued say it's absurd to claim that live nation and ticketmaster are wielding monopoly power. this lawsuit they say won't reduce ticket prices or service fees. they add that ticketmaster's market share has declined since 2010. now, there's been bad blood between ticketmaster and concert goers for years. during the first days of sales for taylor sieve's eras tour two years ago the web site crashed fans were so outraged it led to a congressional hearing. by the way live nation's stock fell more than seven three-quarters % in trading there. >> bret: i thought what you did with bad blood. >> i could have done more, not out of the woods. >> bret: another story, bad day for boeing stock today, too. what happened again today. >> it was. they were drag on the dow today. shares were down more than 7.5%. and what's happening is, boeing is bleeding more cash than it
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initially expected it would. burned through almost $4 billion in the first quarter of the year. the plane maker says it's on track to take a similar or worse hit this quarter. the company is dealing with supply change challenges and also had to slow down production trying to root out safety problems. you remember the door plug blowdown in january and this week the faa says about 300 triple seven plays in the us had an electrical problem in their fuel tanks so more trouble for boeing. bret: definitely. grady thank you as always. the u.s. supreme court has preserved a south carolina voting map that will likely keep republicans in control of a key congressional district there. the court's 6-3 conservative majority rejected claims the voting for the seat held by nancy mace discriminated against voters. they say they properly applied partisan politics not race when redrawing the growing district
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around charleston >> meantime the federal communications commission has issued a $6 million fine against a democratic political consultant who sent artificial intelligence generated robocalls mimicking president biden's voice to voters ahead of new hampshire's presidential primary. steve kramer has admitted to orchestrating a message that used a voice similar to the president's falsely suggesting that voting in the primary would preclude voters from casting a ballot in november. kramer is facing 13 felony charges and 11 misdemeanor charges. we're going to take you back live to the south bronx and i think the former president is stepping on stage here as you see all of the -- this is a common picture with all of these iphones taking the video as the former president takes the stage. again, this is in the bronx in new york, deeply blue traditionally. in fact, president lost it by about 70 points the last
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election. but he's got a decent crowd there. we don't have official numbers yet and he is getting ready to deliver a speech that he says he wants to make new york a possibility for, for november, and possibly make this a case, even though he's spending most his time in new york inside a courtroom. as you know the closing arguments are supposed to go, start tuesday, and the jury could get the case by the middle of next week. let's listen in. former president donald trump as he takes the stage here in the south bronx. [chanting: usa! usa!] >> well, hello everybody, thank you very much. this is some turnout. this is some turnout! and i want to thank new york's finest. they just brought a lot of
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additions. we have people, thousands of people outside that can't even get in, but they'll get in eventually. we appreciate it. new york's finest. hello new york city and hello to all of the incredible tough, strong, hard-working american patriots right here in the bronx. [cheers and applause] >> who would think? who would think? i'm thrilled to be back in the city i grew up in, the city i spent my life in, the city i helped build and the city that we all love, new york city. and i'm here tonight to declare that we are going to turn new york city around, and we are going to turn it around very, very quickly. [cheers and applause]. >> we're going to bring safety back to our streets. we're going to bring success back to our schools. we're going to bring prosperity back to every neighborhood and every borough of the greatest city in our land. we're going to reduce taxes.
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we're going to bring businesses, and big taxpayers back to new york. got to bring 'em back. got to bring 'em back. and we're going to make new york bigger, better, and more beautiful than ever before, and that includes right here in the bronx, and it's going to be done and funded starting on januth directly from our great and beautiful white house. is that okay? [cheers and applause]. >> for my whole life, i always thought that this city is a monumental testament to the power of the american spirit and the american dream. when new york started as a small, rugged dutch trading post near the tip of manhattan in 1624, what you see around you is nothing more than wilderness and marsh. but by the muscle and backbone and genius of the people of new york, we built this city into the towering forest of iron,
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aluminum, concrete and steele. we made this city and state into the capitol of global commerce. we turned our home town into the bustling center of a confident, glamorous, american culture, and we inspired the entire world. we inspired the world. [cheers and applause]. >> no matter where you went on this planet, everyone knew that when you said, i'm a new yorker, it meant you had smarts, you had grit, you had energy, and above all else, you had heart. big, big, beautiful heart. everybody wanted to be here. new york was where you came to make it big. you want to make it big, you had to be in new york. but sadly this is now a city in decline.
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all my life i've seen new york through good times and bad through boom times and crime waves through market crashes and terrorist attacks, but i've never seen it quite like this. we have filthy encampments of drugged out homeless people living in our places that we've spent so much time with children, where they used to play. we have lunatics killing innocent bystanders by pushing them [audio disruption] >> it's a sad thing. don't worry, it gets positive. don't worry. it gets so positive. remember, we're going to win. we're all winners. we're going to win so big we're going to make it bigger and better than ever before. remember that. [cheers and applause] >> so don't worry. by the time the other six or seven thousand people get in it will be very positive.
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our sub ways are squallered and unsafe the ceiling tiles are falling down and they look worse than a third world country. the medians of our highways are crumbling our sidewalks are littered with garbage bottles and trash, but worst of all the discarded needles of people desperately in need of help and mobs of migrants fighting our police officers and giving america the middle finger. but we are not going to let this continue. we are not going to abandon our hope and our pride. this city has given us so much and now it is time that we are going to give it back. together we are going to make new york city great again and simultaneously we are going to make america great again.
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[chanting: usa! usa! ] . >> thank you. i have come tonight to talk about solving problems. the simple fact is joe biden is not getting the job done for the bronx. he's not getting the job done for new york. and he's not getting the job done for america. he is incompetent ladies and gentlemen. he is grossly incompetent. i will get the job done as i did for four years, and i will get it done fast. [cheers and applause] and remember this, if a new yorker can't save this country, no one can. [cheers and applause] >> no one can. get me the snake, please. the snake.
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[chanting: trump trump trump trump] >> thank you everybody. what a crowd. this is something. you know, we wanted to keep it small because, who knew. this is like a lovefest. lovefest. it's a lovefest. we love you. thank you darling. thank you. wow. [we want trump! we want trump! we want trump]. >> who said we're not going to win new york? we're going to win new york so big. you know, if we win new york, we win the whole thing. wouldn't it be nice? wouldn't it be nice? we take back our country and we'll do a job like nobody's
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ever done before. and what we did for four years was incredible but we also learned a lot. we're going to get in there very fast with the right people, great people, people that are tested and true. years ago there was an ice-skating rink, the wallman rink in the middle of central park. you know that story. that had been under construction for more than ten years. they couldn't get it open. it was a renovation, they couldn't get it done. mayor koch was at its wit's end. they couldn't get it finished. they couldn't get it built. they couldn't get it open. people wanted to skate before their children turned old. almost $20 million was spent over a long period of time. it was an embarrassment to this city. every day they would be laying the copper pipe and every night that same pipe would be stolen, and then they'd start all over again the next day and it would be stolen. this went on weeks and weeks and months and months. they poured the concrete in
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small patches in wrong directions and at different heights and they took their advice from a refrigerator company from miami where it's 95 degrees out. it was a total mess. they just didn't know what they were doing. and i saw this and i wanted my children to be the able to ice-skate before they didn't care about ice-skating. i looked down on the rink and i said, what is going on? years and years. so i volunteered and i took over the project and did a good job. and when i took it over i said that, if it costs more than $2 million i would pay for it, the entire amount. but it cost far less. the first thing i did was call the montreal canadiens hockey team in canada, right? isn't that better than a refrigerator company from miami? they didn't know what we were talking about. but the montreal canadiens knew
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and they were really nice i'll never forget how nice they were and they told me you don't want to use copper tubing and gas because the gas is very delicate and it leaks. it's very fragile. it just doesn't work. you want to use rubber hose. i said i like that, that's a lot cheaper, water and salt. the salt makes it so the water doesn't freeze. it's called brine you're going to pour that over the concrete it's going to work, not going to leak, it's cheaper, faster and works all the time. and when we opened there were no leaks, there were no problems whatsoever. anyway i started the project, laid the rubber hose mixd the water and the salt beautifully together. i was down there when they were doing it. i said you've got to do it right. and covered the entire rink with concrete in 4--literally, you had to see this scene. concrete trucks operated by the teamsters. do we have any teamsters here?
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[ [cheers and applause]. >> you have to make sure that o'brien he's a good man. he endorses trump? i think he's going to actually. but the teamsters stretched all the way, you had trucks stretching all the way from the wallman rink say at 60th street back to harlem one continuous pour a day and a half of pouring concrete one contiguous a giant surface. as you know the rink was completed in just three months for far less than the $2 million projected. the biggest expense was actually the demolition that is the demolishing everything that was built so incorrectly so badly over a ten year period. the biggest cost was demolition, taking it all down and starting it all over. we opened with a ceremony with all olympic gold medal winners including the great peggy flemming, dorothy hamill scott hamilton and all the others, it was a beautiful night, beautiful weather.
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i'll never forget the evening, it was beautiful. my parents were there, now they're looking down on us, they say wow, that's my son. can you imagine? that's my son. [cheers and applause]. >> can you imagine, he's being tried in a court with a crooked judge. can you believe this? [boos] >> and highly conflicted judge at that. but everybody was there, and it was really something to behold. it was an incredible experience, and one of the great experiences of my life in new york. we opened it. it's been successful and suck s susful ever since. we would like to say it's common sense. the republican party is the party of common sense. you don't go to miami when you want to make ice you go to canada when you want to make ice or go right down the road in the bronx to ferry point. everybody know about ferry point
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another disaster a development where the city had spent over 29 years, almost $300 million trying to develop it into a luxury golf resort, resort, anything, they'll take anything. they were spending money, you know, strucks were going here, dumping, getting filled up, moving it here, dumping, getting filled up with the same stuff. this went on for years, back and forth, the same stuff. they were feather bedding. they were doing lots of bad things. but really they didn't know how to get it done. they had no idea how much money they were spending. and when asked how much they spent, they said, we just don't know. been going on for years, decades. they were unable to do it. and at the time the mayor, michael bloomberg, said -- [boos] >> no, it's all right. it's okay. no, michael bloomberg was the mayor and he called me he said i have to get this done before i finish my term. it was very important to him. he was embarrassed by it,
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everybody was embarrassed. went through -- went through mayor koch went through a lot of different mayors. almost 30 years, remember that. in all fairness he said i want to get this done and you're the one that can do it, you're the only one that can do it. and i said and i will do it, and i will get it done and we got it done before he finished his term which was great. but there were no other biders to my knowledge and took over the project spending only my money to build it and i called all the contractors together. these were tough people. these were tough, hard people. many of you were probably contractors on that site. and i said, look, fellows, you guys have made a fortune on this thing for years and years against the city. it's time we get together and build it, let's get it built. let's do it right and let's get the hell out of here. we owe it to the city. and they worked so hard, the roughest toughest contractors in new york. they had spirit like you've never seen before. and it was magnificently
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designed by the great jack nicklaus who told me, i don't want to make any more money, they paid me enough. they all got -- everybody god paid a fortune. jack said, i don't want money, i just want to see it get built for the people of new york and that's what we did. but everybody, just like jack, they said very similar things. guys were rough and tough and they made a lot of money but you think they'd want to make more but they didn't. they just wanted to get it built. and in just a little more than a year, this was going on for 30 years including, think of it, just a magnificent thing to watch. you had to watch these people work, just the opposite of what took place for the first 29 years. but we had a magnificent world-class golf course that many of you have played now and it's rated as one of the best public courses in the country. and then, a short while later, we built a beautiful clubhouse, one of the prettiest i've seen, built it, completed, the project
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was absolutely beautiful. it opened to great fanfare and great success. and you want to hear the end result though? should i? [yeah] >> should i go off teleprompter and tell you the end result? [yeah]. >> do you think biden goes off teleprompter? i don't think so. he's no good on teleprompter. no, but, okay, so i did this beautiful job and then we had a dispute over january 6th. we had a dispute. and they said january 6th, we want to terminate his agreement with the city. i had a long-term agreement with the city. and they sent me a notice of termination. i said, wait a minute. i just spent 20, $25 million building it, built this magnificent clubhouse, it's in full operation. it took you 29 years, you were spending hundreds of millions of dollars you couldn't get it done and the neighborhood came to court totally for me. the bronx neighborhood. it's in the bronx, on the east
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river in the bronx. and we went to court. the city sued to break my agreement that they had just made, and hi done such a great job for 'em. and it was accolades everywhere, golf magazine, all of the big magazines were saying what a great job. they terminated my agreement. and i went to court and i will tell you, i had a very good experience. we had a supreme court justice named debra james and i have to give her credit, i didn't know her, never met her. debra james, an african american woman who came to my defense. we explained it, and the city explained it. they said we want to terminate it. they had no reason. and we said what we just said, and she looked at them and she said, in effect, how dare you. this man came in, he put up his own money, he did an incredible job, you were building it for 29 years. how dare you ask for this to be terminated. how unfair is that?
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debra james, a great supreme court justice. that's all i can tell you. and we won the case. but it's not easy doing business in new york, i'll tell you. not easy. so i just appreciated that. i had to tell that story. and, as you know, then i renovated grand central terminal. i built the grand hyatt hotel on 42nd and park avenue and as part of that, i renovated the beautiful grand central terminal, did a really good job of that. and then i was very much responsible for the construction of of the jacob javits convention center where hillary clinton was going to have herbig evening [boos] >> that was not good. remember, we had the glass ceiling, you know, we built glass ceiling she said we're going to break the glass ceilings, didn't work out. [chanting: lock her up, lock her up].
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>> you know, i'll tell you the a little secret that i don't think i've ever -- i hated the concept. i say we have to get on with our country. we have to win against russia, we have to win against china, north korea, all the different countries we're at lagger heads with. but as long as you have a smart president, you're going to win those battles. we were winning all those battles. even with the fake russia russia russia scam. but you hated that. and you see what they want to do to us, to me, to us. and they come along and they don't mind because joe biden is the worst president in the history of our country, has no sense. doesn't know what he's doing. grossly incompetent, and our country's going to hell. but we're going to turn it around and we're going to turn it around fast. because above all else, and i say this, and i believe this new yorkers, you are different. you do know that. you know that when i called for this rally, we said, let's just
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have a meeting, don't call it a rally and so many people showed up i said, leak it or not, this is a rally. as far as the eye can see. you have to see the lines outside, they're going for miles. but when we saw it and we saw the love, because i called up this morning, do the people like me or do they hate me? they said they don't like you, sir, they love you. thank you. so i appreciate it. and i love you, too. but above all else -- [chanting: we love trump! we love trump]. >> boy, look at all the cameras back there. that's amazing. that's the fake news, yeah. you know, they'll say tonight,
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donald trump spoke to a very small crowd of people in the bronx. it was a very hostile crowd, very hostile. they hated him very much. no. no, sometimes they're okay. you know, i agreed to do a debate with crooked joe biden on cnn with fake tapper. and i think they'll be fair. does anybody think they'll be fair? [no] >> that's all right. when they said here's your story, you can have a debate on cnn with fake tapper as the primary host and i said, i'll do it. 'cause you know what they thought they'd say cnn and say various people on the show various anchors headed up by fake tapper and i would say i don't want to do it and then joe
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biden would say i offered to debate he didn't want to do it. so they offered a debate. i'll take it. we haven't even told you what the debate is all about. then today they said we would like to set up tables where you sit down. i said i don't want to sit down for a debate. let's go. at some point -- so we're not sitting down. we're going to be standing up for the debate. and here's what you know. if crooked joe biden makes it through the debate, which i think he will, they're going to say it was one of the great debate performances in history. one of the great debate performances. there we are. and we're on every network tonight. i don't know what's going on. we're on fox. we're on all of them. so have a lot of fun but we're on all of them. so they understood before anyone how big this would be. and you've got to see what's back there coming in. [chanting: four more years!
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four more years]. >> but above all, new yorkers have something called common sense, and we do have common sense. an old fashioned american common sense is exactly what i intend to bring back to the white house just like we had for four years. you know, we had four of the greatest years in the history of our country. we rebuilt the military, we cut taxes. the biggest tax cut in history, the biggest regulation cut in history. we defeated isis. we defeated isis and we did it, it took me two months. we have an incredible military and we're not allowed to show. they had afghanistan, the worst pullout, the most embarrassing day in the history of our country. it's probably the reason, a piece of it, why russia went into ukraine. they said these prepeel incompetent. so russia going into ukraine would have never happened.
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none of this stuff that you see would have happened. israel would have never happened, the attack on october 7th. and you wouldn't have had inflation. as soon as i get back into the oval office, i am going to pick up the phone and i'm going to call your mayor and your governor and i'm going to say, this is president trump and i want to come back and help. look, you have a democrat governor, you have a democrat mayor, and we are going to work with them and we're going to get this state and this city at a level that has never -- it's never seen before frankly. i think we can do that, too. we're going to be helping them a lot. much more than anybody would expect. it doesn't matter where they're democrats or republicans, because this is about our city and our country and it's really about the people. and in this case, the people of new york city, new york state. we're going to make you very, very happy. and biden can't do it. he doesn't know he's alive. you know, see all the stairs
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here, stair, stair, two of them behind me one in the middle when he's finished with his 2.5 minute -- do you ever watch his speech they last for about a minute and a half. when he's finished with his speech, he can never find the stairs. he can never find the stairs. and when he does it's not a pretty picture either. thank goodness for secret service, they come up and they guide him off. no, this is not what we need. when you see president xi of china or kim jong un unof north korea or putin they're at the top of their game and they can't believe this is happening to the united states. we have lost respect all over the world. we were the most respected country in the world four years ago. we were respected more than our country was ever respected four years ago and now we're being laughed at. we're leak a joke. and that's not going to happen.
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that's not going to happen. we're going to do whatever it takes to fix our roads, bridges and highways. we're going to take back our parks, not just for children, but for everybody. we're going to renovate new york's subway system so it no longer looks like it hasn't been cleaned since 1932 but rather it will be the most beautiful transit system anywhere in the world. i don't know if you know it, it's by far the biggest infrastructure, subway infrastructure in the world and we're going to make it by far the biggest and now we're going to make it by far the best. we're going to make it beautiful again. and a lot of it is topical. you know, the expensive work, people don't understand because they're not in construction. it's topical work. it's topical. it's built. the expensive, the hard, the labor, the money, the big stuff is done. we're going to make it beautiful, we're going to make it good. and, most importantly, we're going to let new york's finest
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do its job. the transit cops do their job. we're going to make it safe, most importantly. and importantly for the people that are before me today, we are going to make life in new york affordable again. it's gotten totally out of control. the minute crooked joe biden shuffles out the door, i will rapidly rebuild the greatest economy in the history of the world. look, we had the greatest economy in history. everybody here, whether you have a small business or you had a job, you were getting more than you ever made, and we had no inflation. we had no -- 1.4%. considered none. considered better than none because frankly none in its own way is a bad thing also. we had a perfect number, 1.4%. it doesn't matter where you're black or brown or white or whatever the hell color you are, it doesn't matter. we are all americans and we're
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going to pull together as americans. [cheers and applause] [chanting: usa! usa! usa]. >> we all want better opportunity. i'm not just going to promise it, i'm going to deliver it as i did just a short while ago. think of it. you know, when i went down to washington, i was only there 17 times, i never stayed over, i didn't know that society. and we had great people. look at what we did with economic development, with the rebuilding of our military, with the tax cuts. we had great people. but we also had some people that i wouldn't have used if i had my choice. now i know everybody. i know the smart ones, i know the dumb ones, i know the killers, i know the weak ones. i know 'em all. and you're going to see. but everyone was better off, we had the greatest economy in history. everybody was better off under a
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man named president donald j. trump. have you ever heard of him? have you heard of him? [cheers and applause] >> we had gasoline down to $1.87 a gallon and actually times when it was much lower than that. we had a record-low poverty rate for black americans and hispanic americans. we had the lowest. we had the best poverty rate in terms of the positive number ever in our history for black americans and hispanic americans. we lifted 6.6 million people out of poverty. nothing like that has ever happened in our country. and the real middle class income rose over $6,000 a year. think of that. under biden it's a disaster. real middle class income has fallen over $2,000 a year. that's a lot. that's a difference of $8,000 real earnings of african americans are down 5.6%. african americans are getting slaughtered.
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hispanic americans are getting slaughtered, and these millions and millions of people that are coming into our country, the biggest impact and the biggest negative impact is against our black population and our hispanic population shore, are losing their jobs, losing their housing, losing everything they can loss. they're the ones affected most by what's happening. not only the fact that you've lost the use of your schools your parks and your hospitals, joe biden's inflation -- [chanting: build the wall! build the wall]. >> bret: former president trump big rally in south bronx as you see ticking off not only all he's done in new york but all he did as president. the 45th president of the united states. again, this in the bronx, in new york. we talked to some folks in the bronx about this visit a little bit earlier. >> this is an opportunity i've never heard of a republican
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going to the bronx. democrats have been dropping the ball. >> it was better under donald trump. i can tell you that the bronx has been through many changes. >> people are going to have some love and hate. some people do love him, but better than joe biden. >> all my life i've been a democrat. they think that they own us. and donald trump is giving the most opportunity. >> bret: all right. so the rally's continuing streaming online on fox news, you'll see it at the top of the seven. we want to bring in our panel fox news media buzz howard kurtz washington post columnist mark and usa today white house correspondent francesca chambers. mark your thoughts on what he's saying how he's saying it the fact he's here period. >> this is so incredibly smart what he's doing. first of all could joe biden pull that crowd in the south bronx right now? i doubt it. second of all he's doing what he intoes do to win. to win drument can't simply depend on his base he needs to
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not feed his base he has to expand his base he has to reach out to disaffected biden voters and third going after vulnerability of black and hispanic voters you heard him say black and hispanic voters are getting slaughtered in this economy. joe biden is worried that you saw that with his speech to the naacp morehouse college and trump is going after them. >> bret: francesca the bronx results in 2020 in new york biden won 60-37 in the bronx 84.4 to 15.9. you don't feel that in this crowd. >> and so if you look at recent polling by the way, biden is ahead in new york by nine percentage points. last time a republican won the state of new york was ronald reagan so one point trump said if i win new york i'll win the whole entire thing. that is probably true. that is probably true. but to the point that you were making about some of the points that he's hitting there. he mentioned that biden he thought was incompetent, shuffling up the stairs, things like that.
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>> bret: howie, swing state polls, he's still holding leads but what about this move? >> very smart move to go to the south bronx. that symbol of urban decay. he's not going to win the bronx or new york city or new york state but sends a message to minority voters that he cares about their problems. he's a guy who gets it and now everybody talking about should he have gone, liberals are criticizing it that's how he drives the news cycle making him the center of attention. >> bret: panel we squeezed you in there, live rally still happening. we'll bring it to you live here on fox. that thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for special report, fair balanced and still unafraid. the ingraham angle is next. we'll take you back to the rally as we head out. ♪ >> policy is called remain in mexico. nobody can come into our country and then you're going to have catch and release into mexico. >> i'm laura ingraham this