rick perry is going to be here. that's it for "the five." pro-life supporters trying to win a major battle in the abortion war by cutting off the supply lines of planned parenthood. this is "special report." good evening. welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. pro-life supporters will gather here in washington tomorrow and in dozens of other cities throughout the country. they're supporting new efforts by lawmakers to cut taxpayer funding of planned parenthood following the release of undercover videos alleging the group is selling aborted fetal body parts. we have tonight's top story. >> reporter: gop lawmakers are launching multiple efforts to strip planned parenthood of

federal funding in the wake of two undercover videos showing planned parenthood affiliated doctors discussing the transfer of organs and body parts f aborted fetuses. >> do people want their taxpayer dollars going to this kind of procedure? >> reporter: senate republicans appear split on how to move forward. senator mike lee hoped to offer a desponding measure as an amendment to the highway funding bill during a rare sunday session but was not permit to do so because of senate procedural rules. a stand-alone measure will have a much tougher time. >> we'll never come up for a vote or two. if it does come up under a vote it will come up under a 60 vote threshold designed to fail. >> reporter: in her first

interview, planned parenthood president said her organization has done nothing illegal and wants the group behind the videos to be investigated. >> the folks behind this in fact are part of the most militant wing of the anti-abortion movement who has been behind the bombing of clinics, the murdering of doctors in their homes. >> reporter: california attorney general camilla harris committed to looking into the group behind the videos to determine whether it has violated any state laws after a request from democratic lawmakers. >> let's have an investigation of those people who are trying to ensnare planned parenthood in a controversy that doesn't exist. >> reporter: over the last decade planned parenthood has received more than $4 billion in state and federal funding. to see how many you have contributed as a taxpayer go to

foxnews.com. more than 230,000 of you visited our online story and the calculator. voted by a margin of 79 to 17% against funding for planned parenthood. >> thank you. what do you think? do you think a bill to cut planned parenthood funding could actually become law? let me know at facebook or on twitter. republicans are at each other's throats tonight over a little-known government agency that is sparking a severe outbreak of intraparty finger waving and name calling. conservatives want to dump it permanently, saying it's an example of crony capitalism. pro-republicans want to save it.

peter doocy is on capitol hill tonight. >> reporter: democrats and republicans came together this weekend to extend of the life of the import-export bank. mitch mcdonnell promised ted cruz that the issue wouldn't even come up. >> i cannot believe he would tell a flat out lie. >> reporter: many conservatives see the xm bank as corporate welfare. if was loaning to american companies doing business overseas it is with his own party's leadership and he's not saying he's sorry for calling mcconnell a liar. >> i'm simply stating the facts, that he made the following promise and his conduct was directly contrary to that. >> reporter: but the senior senator from texas doesn't get where senator cruz is coming from. mcconnell says there was nothing secret about this vote. >> i have said repeatedly and

i've said publicly for months that the xm supporters from both parties should be allowed a vote. >> reporter: covert or not, the longest serving republican senator o rin hatch wants cruz to cut it out with the name calling. >> we serve the people not our own egos. >> reporter: today republicans briefly turned their attention away from each other and onto abusive unions. >> the coercion tactics and the peer pressure and the misinformation the scare tactics that my union, that i deal with, they resort to those things. >> reporter: republicans consider intimidation a big problem with big labor, so this new bill would require secret ballot elections and give union members a right to say they don't want their money going to a political cause they don't like but union backers the gop is just trying to turn on a new

revenue stream in time for 2016. >> democrats have been supported for years by working people and the unions. this is why republicans want to bring this up. >> reporter: that employee rights act has a pretty good chance of passing the house and the senate, but bill with the export-import amendment won't get a chance. house leaders will not touch it. they don't think there's enough time to. thank you. well, that one particular bit of verbal republican on republican violence involves a president candidate who before spoke out against that thing. >> hi bret. the first thing you need to know about ted cruz's assault on mitch mcconnell is it's not about ted cruz and mitch mcconnell. it's about ted cruz and donald

trump. he entered the race as the renegade hero the man who would call out his party's leadership. serious money early on but it never really took off. then along comes donald trump. he did it while attacking his fellow republicans with abandon. when trump was attacked cruz refused to criticize trump. he said it is because thou shall not speak ill of any fellow republican. scripture teaches that if someone visits evil upon you, you should repay them in kindness end quote. that's from first peter, chapter 3. ted cruz called mitch mcconnell a liar.

it may have shown cruz to be an obvious hypocrite, but for one day he trumped trump and that means mission accomplished. >> a lot of people glaze over when you talk about the nuance and the mechanism of passing bills and amendments all kinds of things on capitol hill. but what cruz and trump have tapped into is palpable. it's visceral. this anger about washington. >> it is indeed and it is echoed reflected, in the standing that trump and to a much lesser extent cruz have achieved in the presidential polls. and republicans have a problem. that wing of the party, the deeply anti-establishment wing the disillusioned wing is significantly large enough that if they're not back in the fold by, you know the fall election next year, the elections -- the republicans chance of winning the election may be out the window and we may have another

four or eight years of a democratic in the white house, which is why republican leaders are acting so scared. it's because they are. >> thank you. the house and senate are on a collision course over a highway funding bill with a friday deadline approaching. authority for federal highway aid payments to the states will expire at midnight on friday without action. the senator version authorized $350 billion for six years, although only three of those years are paid for. house majority leader kevin mccarthy today ruled out taking up the senate bill which includes that xm bank. bipartisanship was a lot yezeryez er easier back in the day is what dole said. >> any bill that had real substance was bipartisan.

it was going to last. i mean bipartisan, where you've got democrats and republicans who are committed to doing the right thing. you can't beat bipartisanship and compromise is not a bad word. >> dole says he does see some hope for a little bit more bipartisanship in the future. up next even some of the media are turning on hillary clinton over her e-mail scandal. we'll explain. first, let's here from what some of our fox affiliates are covering around the country tonight. following the search for two florida tarrant countyeenagers who disappeared friday while boating on the ocean. their boat was found capsized. the evacuation of campgrounds near a central california wildfire that has chewed more than two square miles of dried timber timber. 450 structures are threatened. it is one of nine blazes burning

throughout the state. this is a live look at laguardia airport. the big story there tonight governor andrew cuomo introduces a plan to redesign and rebuild the queen's facility. vice president biden called the airport a third-world

president obama is firing back at republican attacks over his iran deal. presidential candidate mike huckabee is refusing to back down by comparing the president's agreement to the holocaust. correspondent kevin cork is traveling with the president and reports tonight from ethiopia.

>> reporter: at today's news conference president obama was expected to focus on counterterrorism but he turned his attention to comments made by republicans. >> the particular comments of mr. huckabee are i think part of just a general pattern that we've seen that is -- would be considered ridiculous if it weren't so sad. >> reporter: the comments to which the president referred were made by mike huckabee who said this. >> he's so naive he would trust the iranians and he would take the israelis and basically march them to the door of the oven. >> reporter: the 2016 primaries quickly approaching, wading into political waters has become increasingly common for the

president, but doing so while promoteing bilateral cooperation ethiopia was unexpected. >> the last time the world did not take seriously threats that someone was going to kill massive amounts of jews we ended up seeing 6 million jews murdered. >> reporter: with more than a dozen gop candidates vying for the white house, harsh criticism of the president is seen as a way to get political points. >> we're creating a culture that's not conducive to good policy or good politics. the american people deserve better. >> reporter: in contrast to the political infighting in washington deadly conflict remains an all too real way of life in africa. >> we're doing things we can do uniquely but does not require us putting boots on the ground. that's the model that we're

talking about. >> reporter: also today, the president met with the leaders of uganda and ooet ethiopia. the president will make history again becoming the first american president to address the african union. >> thanks. a massive truck bomb killed 15 people in somalia just next door to ethiopia. it raises fears that islamic ex extremeists al shabaab rebels are ex escalating their violence. the u.s. and turkey are said to be closing in an a plan to evict isis terrorists on the border. it is part of a renewed cooperative effort in the region

tied to a recent visit by the president's new defense chief. we traveled with secretary ash carter and spoke with him about what's happening. >> reporter: if a reminder was needed that iraq remains dangerous, a missile sounded loudly in the cockpit carrying secretary of defense ash carter in baghdad last thursday. carter shrugged it off. happens all the time he said. a bigger risk may be finding a lasting piece in iraq once isis is defeated. >> we will win, but the important thing is to win in a way that sticks. >> reporter: that problem was demonstrated friday when turkey announced that the u.s. may use its air base to launch strikes against isis. >> this is something that we're going to have to wait and see how it develops. i really can't go into details at this time. >> reporter: his prudence became evident the next day when turkey launched attacks against the

pkk. turkey considers it a terrorist group. sunday >> this is a complicated part of the world in which there are lots of different communities even within the kurdish community. that's why nobody can win and laud it over everybody else. there has to be inclusive governance. >> reporter: shipments of ugs.s. weapons are arriving to fighters in a timely fashion. >> i talked with our commanders here. they have not recommended us taking that step. >> reporter: domestic critics like senator john mccain have admonished those for not recommending them. carter is well respected among middle east allies as a long-time pentagon hand.

>> there are few people who know just how good your contribution has been to the security of our country. >> reporter: carter's career taken in fool is more hawkish. he recommended a preemptive strike in the late 1990s. in 2008 he advocated applying military pressure against iran. and last week at many stops in that region he said the military option against iran is very much alive. >> thank you. gender and memory about possible opponents apparently posing a challenge for hillary clinton. we'll tell you about it in the grapevine.

hillary clinton didn't even have to think about it before criticizing republicans for not having any women in the presidential campaign. just one obvious problem with that line of reasoning, obviously. >> this is not complicated, folks. those guys on the other side, and by the way they are all guys -- sorry, there's one woman. i forgot. >> it is worth noting clinton is the only female candidate on the democratic side. twitter reacted quickly. the same number of women running

on the democratic side. dems presidential field also all guys and one woman. plus all white. all that sexism blather and the democrats have the same number of candidates. city officials in reno nevada, are falling all over themselves today over the removal of the american flag over city hall in favor of an lgbt flag. the flags were supposed to fly together sunday. reno mayor posted on social media, quote, i did not order that the american flag be taken down. i have asked that the flag be put back immediately. the american flag was up by late evening. finally, a dangerous and expensive selfie. a san diego man tried to take a self-portrait with a rattlesnake, but the snake had other ideas. >> my eyes were off to the side.

>> doctors depleted the supply of anti-venom from two different hospitals treating him. all he has to show for the encounter is a $150,000 hospital bill. this is a fox news alert. the head of the house committee monitoring the irs is not giving up on his mission to hold someone accountable for the tax agency's targeting of conservative groups based on ideology. a news conference held a few moments ago on capitol hill. mike emanuel is here with the story. >> good evening. in a new 30-page letter to president obama, a house chairman and his gop colleagues are calling for the irs commissioner to be removed from his job. he says the commissioner has obstructed investigations including a failure to produce up to 24,000 e-mails relevant to the irs probe. >> it is time for the president

to remove the irs commissioner. it is imperative that this committee pursue all constitutional remedies that may include contempt and it even include impeachment of the commissioner. >> the house oversight committee just released this video saying there must be accountable for the irs targeting of conservative groups. it dated back to may 2013. nonprofits seeking tax exempt status were receiving extra scrutiny. last week president obama suggested the biggest problem at the irs was not having enough money to go after tax cheats. >> the real scandal around the irs right now is it has been so poorly funded that they can't go after these -- they cannot go after these folks. >> a huge hurdle for congressional investigators have been former agency official lois

lerner refusing to answer questions from lawmakers after saying she hasn't done anything wrong. >> i have not broken any laws. i have not violated any irs rules and regulation and i have not provided false information. >> kevin mccarthy blasted irs officials for being smug. mccarthy is not ruling out contempt of congress impeachment resolutions, or criminal referrals in the house for irs officials. the irs insists the agency and the commissioner has been cooperative and truthful. a settlement between fiat chrysler and the government will cost the automaker a record $105 million fine and it must offer to buy back more than a half million trucks and other vehicles. it's ram pickups have defective steers parts that can cause the

driver to lose control. there's also a problem with the fuel tanks in older jeep models. squabbling among republicans in the senate planned parenthood funding, and the import-exp

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with decorum and with the nature of this body traditionally as the world's greatest deliberative body to speak the truth. speaking the truth about actions is entirely consistent with civility. >> well senator ted cruz on the senate floor sunday. he said friday that the senate majority leader was a liar because he told him the export-import bill the bank bill, would not come up. it did come up as a part of the highway bill over the weekend. mcconnell then responded. >> i've said repeatedly and i've said publicly for months that the xm supporters from both parties should be allowed a vote. i also said publicly that the highway bill would be an obvious place to have that vote. so mr. president, when there is overwhelming bipartisan support for an idea even if i oppose

it it doesn't require some special deal to see a vote occur on that measure. >> well this isn't as much about the import-export bank which some conservatives say is corporate welfare, pro-business republicans say it helps businesses doing business overseas and helps the economy. it is more about republican on republicans going after each other on the senate floor. let's bring in our panel. george will juan williams, and charles krauthammer. well, it was something to watch. george? >> republican base is frustrated. i understand it. it's to be sympathized with but it's mistaken fundamentally. you have the butchers of planned parenthood. you can't do anything about them. you have the xm bank that you think is crony capitalism. why can't anything get done? the paradox is this is something

getting done in washington. there's the highway bill, the xm bank extension, and the trade authorization. they have large overlapping but different constituencies. you vote for this i'll vote for that. you do this i'll do that. this is actually washington functioning. it is not producing the results that conservatives want not producing the results i want but it is washington working as it is designed to work. >> but the people at home who voted in senate republicans and house republicans say we don't get it. why is this not working on a conservative basis? why can't they defund planned parenthood? why can't they you know do x, y, and z? >> two things the xm bank survives for the same reason weapons survive. every congressional district and senate has a beneficiary of the xm bank.

planned parenthood is going to get a vote on defunding that. the problem is there aren't enough votes too do it. it's going to be voted on and sail right on. >> why? >> i think that last point is very important. yes, in the 2014 races, you saw republicans gain the senate majority and mitch mcconnell put in place, but nobody gave him 60 votes. he can not just run roughshod over washington. let's move away from the inner workings. most folks would say we're back to so much madness. that's washington. i hate washington. let's just look at the reality here which is ted cruz acting in the spirit of benefitting his presidential campaign and not in terms of getting anything done in washington. i think our senior political analysts earlier on your show said this is about ted cruz and donald trump. this is not about ted cruz and mitch mcconnell and it is

certainly not about any of the bills that are on the floor in the senate this summer. >> i will say he was calling his own leadership in washington a cartel well before donald trump surged in the polls. >> ted cruz is the donald trump before donald trump. >> that's up to you. >> with the base. >> he's said these kind of outrageous things. it's now to the point where you heard hatch say stand up and say, you know what as a republican i think this is wrong. >> charles? >> ted cruz also wants to be trump after trump because his calculation is that trump is not going to go all the way and his supporters are going to want to turn to one of the few presidential candidates who has not attacked trump particularly over the mccain thing. i think brit hume is entirely

right. these are the grounds that cruz invoked of not wanting to attack another republican and then within a few hours, or days to get on the floor of the senate and to call your own party's leader a liar, that's about cruz. as to the substance of what cruz is arguing, i think he's entirely right. i think the xm bank ought to die. it's already dead. it should not be resurrected. as to the politics of it i think it will remain dead because the house has a fix for the highway bill a fix which doesn't include the xm bank. the house is going on home on thursday and the highway bill is going to expire on friday. the senate is going to have to enact the house bill or the highway stuff is going to die, so i think xm will remain dead for a while, but it doesn't change the politics. >> what about cruz's point on the floor, that speaking truth is civility and decorum and what

is the ground truth of what mitch mcconnell told him about this deal? >> look i don't think that decorum is the right way to approach what cruz did. if, as cruz says mcconnell looked him in the eye and 54 other republican senators you'd expect a bunch of those 54 to say that that's exactly what happened. i haven't really heard any yet, so there's a question about where the truth is here and right now, i think it's up in the air. >> as we look at the average of polls on the president, you can see cruz down there at 5.7% george. trump still surging in a very different year with 16 candidates. >> we're going to see if there's a bump for cruz as he took on mitch mcconnell as a way of getting on fox news debate in

cleveland. that's what this was about. i understand that. this is one of the unintended consequences of having 16 people in the field so far, so far. next up, hike huckabee lights a fire using a holocaust analogy to slam president obama's deal with

this president's foreign policy is the most feckless in american history. he is so naive he would trust the iranians and he would take the israelis and basically march them to the door of the oven. >> the particular comments of mr. huckabee are, i

think, part of just a general pattern that we have seen that is -- would be considered ridiculous if it weren't so sad. >> president obama reacting to mike huckabee's criticism on iran. on the hour before us, governor huckabee was on the five where he did not back down he doubled down. >> i will not apologize and i will not recant because the word holocaust was invoked by the iranian government. the iranian government -- we're not talking about a blogger here. we are talking about the iranian government has repeatedly said that it's going to be easier to take the jews out because they are all concentrated in israel. we won't have to go all over the world and hunt them. when people in a government position continue to say they are going to kill you i think somebody ought to walk up and take that seriously. >> okay. we're back with the panel. charles? >> look, two points. as a general principle the holocaust is such an act of

incan descent infathommable. huckabee had which obama was marching the israelis to the door of the oven had the implication it wasn't intended but it could be interpreted that obama is doing it deliberately. you can argue he doesn't understand the gravity, et cetera. i think in that sense those are not the words he should have used. none the less, the idea that somehow there is something utterly impermissible about invoking the holocaust in this case because it's some kind of wild analogy, this is a reality. the iranians are obsessed with the holocaust. a few years ago they had a cartoon contest to ridicule the holocaust because they contend it never occurred. yet, the former president the moderate, has described israel as a one-bomb country, meaning small compact, small population

can be wiped out with a small nuclear weapon. vaughn has made clear its intent to wipe israel off the map. now it's acquiring the means of doing that i think it's extremely important to recognize the uniqueness of this deal because israel, all the neighbors of iran are scared and afraid of the deal and worried about it israel is the only country on earth openly threatened with annihilation. no other country on earth is. so, this is a real possibility it's not as if the iranians are not going to drop the bomb tomorrow. the israelis would have to live under that threat forever if this deal is enacted and iran acquires the bomb. >> juan, your favorite g.o.p. candidate senator ted cruz, says he emphatically stands with governor huckabee and prime minister netanyahu on this issue and using that phrase. >> i just think it's reprehensible. i think it's shocking that people feel that they have the need to raise up such

historical atrocity and suggest that the president of the united states even if these -- he is from the opposing party is trying to commit such an act again. charles and i disagree about the nuclear deal, and, you know we can disagree forever. but i don't think anybody would argue that this is not about the substance of the issue. this is about presidential politics and mike huckabee trying to get his numbers up to get in the fox debate. >> well, his numbers are up. again, looking at that poll, he is fifth in that real clear politics average of polls. jeb bush on huckabee today said i think we need to tone down the rhetoric for sure. i have to israel not as many times as mike huckabee as i respect but the use of that kind of language is wrong. this is not the way we are going to win elections. that's not how we are going to solve problems. it's unfortunate remark. i'm not sure why he felt compelled to say it. >> he should not have said

the part as charles says about the president leading jews to the door of the oven. that said, huckabee is right that rhetoric should be taken seriously. sometimes especially when it is the particular candor of the dictator. in 1939, as europe fell into war, hitler said that if the jews at the at the trait a world war it will mean the destruction of the european jury. and it did. so taking this rhetoric seriously matters. and for those of us, and i count myself as one of these who say, look, the deal is a terrible deal but iran is going to get a nuclear weapon or we better start thinking how to deter them, one of the problems is gauging the fanaticism of the antisemitism of their regime. as hitler demonstrated, he would sacrifice everything, including pushing back the russians on the eastern front to holocaust. >> that is it for the panel. stay tuned to see what happens when one news anchor has an interesting explanation for success.

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