just enjoying nature. >> harold: before it gets too hot? >> jimmy: baseball games with my son. we hackle harold until we disrupt the quality of play. my son has no idea how much could change how familiar i have bet on the games. baseball, lincoln. >> dana: great point. making lots of great memories last forever which makes summer so so much fun. that's it for us on this memorial day. we will see you back here tomorrow. have great night, everyone. ♪ ♪ and we like cold keg beer ♪ mixing up trucks ♪ dogs ♪ maxwell house in and out of a coffee cup ♪ ♪ we say our prayers say them to the sky ♪ ♪ >> gillian: good evening from

washington. i'm gillian turner in for bret baier. tonight, international outrage after israel admits dozens of civilians were killed in in wrath fall. columbia for whatever happened to segment on pablo escobar infamous cocaine hippos. bret baier with a memorial day special. he digs into efforts to solve some of america's most enduring mysteries locating and identifying service members who remain missing in action. ♪ >> gillian: we begin first with a democracy 24 report. president biden spent his day honoring service members who died in the lining of duty. and tonight we are learning plan to break his silence on former president trump's criminal trial once a verdict is reached. closing arguments in manhattan begin tomorrow. over the weekend, former president trump and robert f. kennedy jr. address the libertarian pottery's convention. hoping for a chance to sway third party voters.

white house correspondent peter doocy has the details from the north lawn tonight. hi, peter. >> peter: good evening, gillian. even though president biden's remarks today were very solemn they fit with the theme over the last couple months that he thinks is going to help him win re-election suggesting that he is the only candidate on the side of democracy. >> every generation has to earn it. fight for it. >> peter: this weekend, that was the point made by another kennedy urging democrats not to vote for cousin r.f.k. jr. >> we have to get everyone out to vote and vote for joe biden and vote for democracy over acongress crazy. >> peter: those buzz words were in the president's prompter today. >> the battle between acrock crazy and democracy. between the greed of a few and the rights of many. >> peter: biden not making a play for libertarian votes but kennedy and donald trump are with appearances at a noisy libertarian connection. >> so what is the purpose of the

libertarian party getting 3 percent? what is the reason to take a chance of having this horrible president destroy our country, which he will do in far less than four years. it's not going to take four years. >> trump's campaign statements have mostly been outside courtrooms this cycle and with closing arguments in his new york criminal trial set to begin tomorrow, the former president's attorneys believe this week's jury instructions from the judge won't be fair. >> i have zero confidence in the fact that this person, who should not be sitting on the bench right now, will do the right thing and give jury instructions that are in an appropriate manner without any persuasion towards the prosecution. >> peter: guilty or not. expect president biden to speak about the verdict from the white house for the first time. politico reports the message will be different for specific rulings but the fundamental points will remain the same that america's legal system worked and 2459 process should be respected. the two men will debate in less than one month. this weekend, president biden struggled to find a line that

landed with a crowd of cadets at west point. >> never forget america is the strongest when we lead not only by our example of our power but by the power of our example. can you clap for that. [applause] >> peter: president biden also made a surprise unannounced stop at halle biden's house in delaware last night. she is beau biden's widow and hunter biden's ex-girlfriend who is also set to testify in hunter biden's gun trial in delaware that begins next week. right now officials are saying presidential visit to her house had nothing to do with that testimony. they say it has to do with the upcoming ninth anniversary of beau biden's passing. gillian? >> gillian: peter doocy live on the north lawn. thank you. >> gillian: well, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says tonight it a, quote, tragic mistake has been made this after

israeli strike targeting two hamas leaders in the southern city of rafah set fire to a tent camp there that was housing displaced palestinians and killed dozens of people, including women and children. correspondent trey yingst has the details tonight from tel aviv. >> a civilian car drives slowly through the streets of rafah. it's a makeshift hears for the make hearse.whereby is the worl? where is the nation? >> overnight israel launched airstrikes against gaza's southern most city of rafah, targeting two senior hamas militants. in the process, they reportedly killed dozens of civilians who were sheltering in tents. the israeli military facing international condemnation has opened a rare probe into the incident. >> details of yesterday's incident are still under an investigation. which we are committed to conducting to the fullest extent. the idf regrets any harm to noncombatants curing this war:

calling on israel to use restraint with the biden administration's national security council saying in a statement quote; following idf strike in rafah last night that killed dozens of innocent palestinians are heart breaking. amid clear disagreements between president biden and israeli prime minister netanyahu how to proceed with the war in gaza. the israeli leader saying this about the incident overnight. >> despite our utmost efforts not to harm noncombatants,s that light there was a tragic failure. >> as the war in gaza approaches the 8 month mark, indirect negotiations between israel and hamas are set to resume this week. gillian? >> gillian: trey yingst in tel aviv for us tonight. thank you. ♪ ♪ >> gillian: u.s. lawmakers visiting taiwan are vowing to boost the island's deterrence against china by providing taiwan's government with all the weapons it needs.

the visit comes just days after beijing surrounded taiwan during massive military exercises. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot has that story. >> just days after the chinese military staged a massive mock invasion of taiwan a bipartisan congressional delegation visited the island despite beijing's on sith session. led by house foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccaul with a message to xi jinping of china which claims taiwan a as its own. >> we need to do everything we can to make it possible for him to see that the risk outweighs the reward. the risks are too high. >> it was the first u.s. visit to taiwan since the inauguration last week of his new president who is grateful sped up u.s. military support. new bill including aid for the self-governed island was passed by congress last month. >> everyone here is an important force in friendship with taiwan to help taiwan strengthen its self-defense capabilities. >> beijing not only conducting

war games, which include fighter jets, equipped with live missiles. but also launching political attacks on the u.s., saying actions like the congressional visit defy washington's one china policy. >> china is firmly opposed to this. and will take measures to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity. >> washington is bound to provide taiwan with a means to defend itself, the biden administration remains ambiguous whether troops would be dispatched if china attacks. another message from the u.s. lawmakers today, whoever wins this yearbook's presidential race will have taiwan's back. >> the united states is fully and completely committed to deterrence, to supporting taiwan militarily, diplomatically, and economically. >> that commitment, perhaps a very good thing. just in the past 24 hours, 21 chinese military aircraft and 11 ships have been spotted operating near taiwan. dangerous waters, gillian? >> gillian: greg palkot in london for us tonight.

thank you. well, the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog says iran has once again increased its stockpile of uranium-enriched near weapons grade level. the confidential report was reviewed by the associated press. reveals iran has more than 300 pounds now of uranium enrichmond up to 60%. a major increase of just over 4t which came in february. uranium enriched 60% purity is just a short technical step away from nuclear weapons grade level. also today iran's acting president, mohammed mock march addressed new parliament. first public speech since last week's helicopter crash that killed its predecessor and seven other officials. iran will hold presidential elections june 28th. ♪ >> gillian: now a fox weather alert. tornadoes fawning thunderstorms that swept the plains killed 21 people across four states. buildings are flattened.

people without power and forecasters warn now that more severe weather is on the way. fox weather correspondent max gorden is in value, texas tonight. hi, max. >> max: hey, gillian. dozens ever people shot shelter shell station behind me. even though the walls collapsed, everyone made it out alive. there were fatalities in this community. seven people confirmed dead. more than 100 injured. the attorney deadliest to hit texas since 2015. among the dead a 2-year-old and 5-year-old. the tornado hit northern texas late saturday night, tearing through rv park destroying more than # hundred homes damaging around 120 others. governor greg abbott pledged his support for storm victims and praised texans for coming to each other's aid in the aftermath. >> take a moment in time tonight to say prayer for everyone who is in harm's way. they need prayers. they need your support. and god willing, we will help them rebuild their lives as

quickly as possible. arkansas expressing his condolences to the lives lost. saturday and sunday. tornadoes that touched along with the victims in north texas. two people died after. 8 storm related deaths were reported in arkansas and four people died in kentucky. the storm sunday morning caused a delay of the indy 500 after lightning was detected in the area, officials paused prerace activities and fans had to leave the grandstands and snake pit. fans were allowed to return a few hours later and the race eventually got underway. these storms are knocked out power to hundreds of thousands across the heartland. more severe weather is expected complicating clean-up efforts. gillian, back to you. >> gillian: max gorden in texas tonight. thank you. coming up next brit hume on the presidential race and tomorrow's closing arguments in president

trump's new york criminal trial. first what some of the fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 25 out of boston where massachusetts suspect is now set to be arraigned tomorrow. multiple charges including assault with the intent to murder, after 6 people were stands in separate attacks,including four girls at a movie theater. the 26-year-old suspect was arrested saturday night after a police pursuit. and this, wsvn in miami as boxing legend mike tyson suffers a medical scare flight from miami to l.a. tyson's reps told the "new york post" he became dizzy and nauseous due to ulcer flare up. this comes after the fight with jake paul is slated for july 20th. a live look at l.a. fox 11. one of the big stories tonight free gas for active duty military veterans two honda locations this huntington beach this memorial day. first 200 people who showed a valid military i.d. got a free

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rights are fundamental to a free society and that joe biden's rampant inflation is a monstrous theft from the american people. >> both president [inaudible] and i know cussed on the bottom up and the middle out. and when that happens everyone does -- not the top down. >> gillian: all right, let's talk about the presidential election. biden's economy with fox news chief political analyst brit hume. brit, thanks for being with us. tonight. bureau of labor statistics reporting now that inflation is up 19.4% overall since biden came to office. this is couple pelled with higher than usual gas prices which everybody is feeling this holiday weekend, a.a.a. reports average today $3.59 is a year we have that tie into the political season with reuters reporting u.s. political independents are drifting closer

to production' sour view of the economy. seems to be a perfect confluence of not great stuff on the economy for president biden brit brit certainly is that way, gillian. it's proof of the power of inflation. after all, we have job growth. we have economic growth. stock market is doing well, broadly speaking. and people think poorly of the economy because of the inflation numbers that you have just cited. and the thing about inflation is it effects everybody, and people -- a lot of people can't afford it and feeling terribly pressured. and even the people that can't afford it don't like it. so, it's a terrible weight on people's feelings about the economy. and, look, it wasn't so long ago that there was basically no inflation. and people remember that. and i think it's going to be awfully hard for the biden campaign and the president to shake the burden that this has placed on them because they --

and along comes trump, you see, and he could point to the period of almost no inflation that was the case during his administration. so it's a very big advantage for him. >> gillian: now, on the other side for former president trump a brief respite the past few days from the criminal proceedings in manhattan. they are picking up again tomorrow. we had alina habba on yesterday. she said what she is tracking now what the defense team is clocking is concern how the jury is going to respond once they receive instructions from the judge. take a listen. >> i have been indicted by the government on 91 different things. and unlike joe biden i don't throw people in jail for disagreeing with me. i don't do that. >> held jurors for five weeks. we have been sitting here. we saw no facts. and the last resort for the prosecution is going to be this judge with political motivations

going to give them instructions on how to decide the fate of a former president and the future president of the united states. >> gillian: do you buy that? >> brit: well, look, i'm not going to got judge's motives. i don't know what the judge's motives are i don't think it can be argued that he has been anything but helpful to the prosecution. and, you know, the way the jury is instructed in this rather complicated novel case will be important and that's the next step we are waiting for here is for him to instruct the jurors on the matters of law. and, you know, legal experts by the dozens have come out and said that this case is built on a house of cards in terms of the legal issues involved in it. it's very complicated. and tenuous, i think, at least i think it's in danger of collapsing. there are lawyers on the jury. that may be of some help to trump if they are honest and no reason to believe they won't be. but, a conviction would -- is

still a distinct possibility. depending in part on the judge's instructions and we will find out then how much damage being able to be labeled a convicted felon will do to president trump. the other thing, of course, we are going to find out, gillian is how much power is left in the issues raised that concern january 6th and mr. trump's post election conduct art 2020 election. democrats are going to try to make feel like january 6th happened in your house. so, between those two issues, there is some potential out there to undo the situation that mr. trump where he seems distinctly ahead in nearly all the key states. not by large margins but by noticeable margins and nearly everywhere. i think that's kind of where we are. >> gillian: certainly in the key swing states. we will all be watching and listening tomorrow when the trial picks back up. thank you for being with us on memorial day brit brie thank you, gillian.

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arrivals into the airport, united airlines tells fox news digital the plane was close to the gate. the passengers normally and thankfully no injuries have been reported. ♪ >> gillian: california businesses are trying to rein in spending ballot initiative. measure being challenged not california supreme court by democratic governor gavin newsom. national correspondent william la jeunesse shows us from los angeles. >> the taxpayer protection act gives voters the right to approve or reject all new taxes. >> california business and taxpayer groups want to stop government overspending. their ballot proposition would require two thirds of voters to approve any city or stated tax increase. >> taxpayer protection october ensures that all new taxes have broad support from californians by empowering voters.

>> but governor gavin newsom, contrary to his so-called campaign for democracy, where he criticized republicans. >> they ignore the will of the people. >> now wants the california supreme court to deny voters a right to vote on their proposition by preemptively killing it before it goes on the ballot. >> this measure constitutes unlawful revision so that it can't appear on the ballot. >> the state argues the proposition would deny government the money it needs from fixing streets to public safety. >> two thirds is a very, very difficult number for any community to be able to achieve. >> supporters say taxpayers are done being steam rolled by sacramento. >> what we have is essentially a two-way street where the legislative power is shared amongst these two groups, the people on the one hand, the legislature on the other. but that the people have the last word. >> the state supreme court must rule in the next few weeks; otherwise, voters in november

could send a message in california they've had enough. >> our opponents are so scared because they know this has a very high likelihood of passage. >> it's rare for courts to intervene before a vote for proposition that is already qualified for the ballot. opponents worry if passed they won't be able to undo the damage they think this presents to city and state government. gillian? >> gillian: all right, william la jeunesse in l.a. tonight, thank you. ♪ >> gillian: decades after drug king pin pablo escobar illegally smuggled four hippos to columbia. the massive creatures the cocaine hippo are multiplying unchecked and wreaking havoc. in tonight's whatever happened to segment griff jenkins explores the effort to maintain that this rapidly population deadliest land mammal.

>> battling invasive species. devastating ecosystem. displacing native animals and injuring dozens of people. >> hippopotamuses did not exist in columbia until the early 1980s when they first arrived here at hacienda anap plus. the famed estate of the once feared narcotrafficker pan lowest do khobar who brought them here as part of his personal zoo. >> escobar was killed in 1993, the hippos remained and started to multiply. >> 150, 160 hippos. >> they have no natural predators in colombia. >> hippo heaven. you have food all year long. water year long. >> animal rights activist got a law passed making it illegal to kill them. without drastic action, 10 years from now experts say colombia's hippo population will be thousands and growing. >> they're environmental problem and hippos are very dangerous

for the elm the plan seems. >> you have to bring water, electricity, people,. >> they are also trying to obtain the contraceptive drug developed by the u.s. agriculture department for wildlife purposes. administered by tranquilizer dart but unfortunately nearly impossible to obtain in colombia. in 2021 usda scientists traveled to colombia and donated some, those doses were quickly used up and they haven't been back since. >> gillian: was that griff jenkins reporting from colombia. catch the full special the drug lord hippos available for streaming on fox nation. coming up next, bret baier is going to take a look at work being done to locate and identify service members who went missing in action.

first, beyond our borders tonight. officials in papua new guinea asking for international help telling the united nations that more than 2,000 people are believed to have been burred alburied alive in last friday's landslide. the scale of the disaster has been difficult for officials because of very dangerous continuing conditions on the ground there and protesters in armenia demanding the resignation of the prime minister by blocking main streets in the capital city and clashing with police as you can see there protests have roiled the country for weeks. parked by the government's return of four border villages to asha by shopping. live look at london. one of the big stories there tonight. dare devils throw coffee to the wind for annual cheese rolling event. cheered by several thousands spectators. scored of reckless racers chased seven pounds of cheese down the

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2.2 million airmen who served in world war ii just 355 were tuskegee airmen. >> as you know it's his toried unit, segregated unit that just did heroic things in world war ii. >> bret: ii lieutenant fred brewer was one of 2 # tuskegee airmen who previously was thought to be missing in action. >> lt. brewer was the second tuskegee airmen who are identified. >> bret: departed in italy alongside 57 other fighters, a sign to escort bombers to reaganenssberg. brewer had attempted to climb above thick cloud cover causing his engine to stall and is thought to have crashed. in 2011, an italian local had built a memorial using the wreckage of second lt. brewer's p 51 mustang named traveling light. researchers were able to match the debris to remains that had been buried a civilian cemetery. >> had that memorial not been

formed, you might not have had these remains. >> correct. >> that's pretty amazing. >> bret: what's the process once you get a tip like that or investigation like that. >> it can range anywhere from a few weeks to sometimes 10, 15 years. these are the hard cases. >> ready. >> bret: in december lt. brewer was properly given a proper burial and laid to rest in hometown of charlotte, north carolina. and this october, on the 8th anniversary of his death a ceremony will be held for brewer in the italian town near where he died. >> bret: how does this process work? >> it really have a fulfillment of a promise made to service members we sent off to combat and did not come home. >> bret: last memorial day a funeral was held for luther story who died defending his comrades. he threw grenades into the truck. during the withdrawal, the company has attacked by such superior numbers it was forced to deploy in a rice field.

realizing that his wounds would hamper his comrade's, he refused to retire to the next position but remained to cover the company's withdrawal. when last seen he was firing every weapon available and fighting off another hostile assault. it's amazing. >> what is even more amazing is, that he got his mother to forge his enlistment papers at the age of 16. entered the army, finds himself in the battle of knock town river. at 19 he does that value lore that, heroic action. thereby allowing his unit to escape the safety. >> bret: corporal story has a unique link to carter. >> he was born in georgia. his parents were share croppers who worked various farms in middle georgia. one of the farms they worked belonged to president carter's father. president carter ins who pit when he was found that luther was coming home got the biggest smile and said i remember that

young man. absolutely incredible. >> bret: active wars make it to identify those in action. as conflicts wind down, investigators still need to work through environmental factors and foreign governments. >> vietnam, laos and cambodia very challenging. acidic soil degrades remains almost destroys them. >> bret: earnest desoto toe flew an f 4 phantom during the vietnam war. >> bret: what more do you do you know about his story. >> he was from san francisco. he was a phenomenal athlete h a partial scholarship to stanford. his parents could not afford stanford so he enlisted in the air force. >> bret: last seen in 1969 plane disappeared while returning from a province. teams conducted aerial search unable to survey the ground as the vietnam war raged on. >> bret: they a field located '95. recovery mission happens in 2021. positive i.d. coming

just last year. how's come it takes so long. >> in the case of colonel desoto toe we have to send teams back either to excavate the site. no one knows the last known location. really it's almost rolling the dice. >> bret: like the csi of finding war heroes and you are piecing together not only the remains but their story and what happened. >> every single one has a unique story to it as you mentioned whether it's lt. brewer, whether it's corporal story or in the case of colonel desoto toe. >> bret: director mckeying says there are still 72,000 soldiers missing from world war ii. 7500 from korea and 1500 from vietnam. of those, roughly 81,000, the agency believes 38,000 will be recoverable. we'll send it back to you. >> that was bret baier with special memorial day report. coming up next. the all-star panel on the state of the presidential race. plus some major foreign policy headaches now for president

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libertarian before, i sure as hell am a libertarian now. >> this is acknowledgment by trump and his campaign that maga followers are not going to get him into the white house. >> gillian: all right. time to bring in our panel. mollie hemingway, editor and chief at "the federalist." fox news senior political analyst juan williams and daniel wittman of politico. thank you all for being here this memorial day, wonderful to see you. dan, so, this the in the end the libertarian party bypassed trump, bypassed r.f.k. jr. as was to be expected they nominated oliver chase. trump, in that same speech this weekend got some boos. do you think it was a mistake for him to go talk to that crowd or worth while in the end. >> definitely worthwhile. there is a lot of libertarians there who don't like some of the big government policies he did

in terms of not reforming social security or medicare. but 11% of americans are libertarian or identify with that ideology. and so he wants to reach those voters, even if it comes at the cost of getting booed which he almost never see because he is always speaking to his maga faithful at those big rally. >> gillian: big news coming up looking ahead is the trump criminal trial is going to resume in new york city. interestingly, president biden we are learning now from politico is planning to break his sort of vow of silence surrounding all things, you know, trump and the criminal charges he is facing. is he going to weigh in. he is going to give some kind of a public statement or address. once verdicts are reached in each of the four criminal trials. white house staff says is he doing this because he wants to convey a message that he is sort of, i don't know, out of the political fray on this or above the politics and what do you make of it. >> yeah. i think it's interesting that he

is going to be speaking on it. and i don't think people think it's not because he is not concerned about politics but probably because he is extremely worried about the politics of democrat lawfare and how that's effecting the general presidential election. so, this new york trial, i think people widely regard as the weakest of the various trials that trump may be going through. but, it's also, you know, might be likely to secure a conviction. people look at this not just because of joe biden is number three at the department of justice was actually one of the prosecutors on this. but also because it's a coordinated campaign from democrats. they really are tying that with biden. is he trying to say his opponent isn't authoritarian but a lot of people look at this lawfare is he you intimately involved with and biden is the authoritarian. is he probably trying to get away from that. >> gillian: what do you think of that? >> key thing president biden is going to have to focus on in a political moment is to say former president trump said he wanted to testify and he didn't testify. and he said that people who

don't testify they are essentially ghtsd. here is he, he has the chance to testify, he doesn't. >> i think that president biden, as his rival for the presidency is going to make a big deal out of that when he comments at the end he says in terms of a verdict. all this talk about the instructions coming from the judge though, it sounds to me like people, you know, and this is typical now with trump is they are saying well, if he doesn't win it was fixed or something was wrong or the judge was biased. it's always this way. you know, yeah, we won the election but it wasn't counted properly or fraudulent votes. i mean, it's a set-up for the same old song. >> reason why people are so concerned about the judge this that trial he has run this trial in such favorable way for the prosecution. a great example of that is he wouldn't let bradley smith testify, a literal former chairman of the federal election commission. while he is also saying that the jury can find him guilty on nebulous election charges never dealt with people are not anticipating that he will give jury instructions any more

fairly than he ran the trial. there is a lot to be upset about with that. >> what is interesting in the 100 fund raising emails that the biden campaign has sent out since the trial started only two of them are about this trial. they don't think that it's a totally sure political winner. they are looking to the debate in a month to reset the race. >> gillian: another sort of big item on trump's plate right now is his v.p. pick. we had nikki haley in israel over the weekend. she is paying homage to visiting sites of the hamas massacre on october 7th, let's take a listen to what she had to say. >> do you hear about hamas? but there is an entire generation of palestinians who are now entrenched with that hamas ideology. remember when it happened i said finish them, they need to finish hamas. don't stop until they finish. >> gillian: well, and that is just what netanyahu and the idf are trying to do moving forward.

they have not moved down from that these airstrikes, dan, over the weekend that have killed two hamas senior leaders, plus a bevy of civilians. we are hearing women and children are included in the body count. seems like netanyahu for the first time sort of, i don't want to say back tracked but admitted that some mistakes were made and they are going to look into what happened. we have not seen this tone from him before in this war. >> we haven't. and it comes as the biden administration has sent a real clear message to israel that they have to have a very limited operation in rafah. they support getting rid of hamas but they know they can't repeat what they've done in the rest of gaza. and they -- the biden administration feels like israel has mostly listened that, they haven't crossed any red lines and that they may not have to hold back more aid even if that would win them some votes in michigan. >> juan: you know, his claim though that somehow you are

defeating hamas, i think it really suffered this week when you saw hamas attack tel aviv in the midst of this. it's not like you can say we are wining out hamas and they will be gone. they are still there even though you now, i guess, we are seven months into this war. >> almost 8, i think. >> and it seems like we are farther, farther, gillian, from a deal to get this war to an end, which i think would be good for everybody, but i'm not sure it's politically good for netanyahu, and it looks like hamas is afraid that the saudis and the israelis would enter into some kind of peace deal that wouldn't be favorable to them. so it's like the two principled players seem to prefer war. >> gillian: you know, there are echos of the lessons learned with the u.s. trying to defeat al-qaeda over the course of 20 years. it is very hard. people can be killed, ideologies tend to remain unchecked. mollie, i want to ask you for reflections on this memorial day before we let you guys go? >> i talked to my father-in-law

bill hemmingway retired lt. colonel in the marine corps about if there was anyone that he specifically wanted to have remembered today. he immediately said a couple names that he graduated with from the class of 195 # u.s. naval academy brown and salagar and a couple men lost their lives under him chavez and jankowski. he particularly mentioned ned ryun survived injuries and came back from vietnam who are risk unable to withstand them over the long haul. he asked that people remember the people succumb to injuries mental or physical many years after they come home. >> gillian: juan, how about you? >> combined joint task force operation inherent resolve held a memorial day ceremony, gillian in baghdad, iraq today to honor three u.s. army soldiers killed in the droinel attack at tower 22 in jordan. you will remember earlier this we're. staff sergeant william rivers. sergeant kennedy sanders and

sergeant breonna moffett killed january 28th a drone attack hit 22 a small outpost in northeastern jordan. >> gillian: all right. panel, thank you so much for joining us. finally. >> gillian: great words from the panel. finally honor the true spirit of memorial day. sites and sounds from ceremonies across the u.s. commemorating the heros who died in the line of duty. ♪ [bells] >> it is day of remembrance for those who gave their all in service to our country, all donning the call of our nation. it is a solemn day for reflecting on the cost of freedom, the families they kiss goodbye, walking proudly into the face of unfathomable danger and ultimately giving all to protect and defend our way of

life. [gun is a liewted] salute] [bagpipes] >> present arms. >> we know that you live with loss everyday and not just memorial day. let us always strive defend the democracy for which they fought and died. [taps] they did their duty and we must, too. >> gillian: tomorrow on "special report," closing arguments begin in former president trump's criminal trial, we will bring you there remember, if you can't catch us live, set your dvr 6:00 p.m. eastern, 3:00 p.m. on the west coast. thanks for watching "special report" on this memorial day. i'm gillian turner in washington. ingraham angle is next. ♪ ♪