foothills and you get situations like this. >> neil: incredible, and be safe yourself, max gordon on all of that, we will update you on the weather problems not only they are, but in much of the east coast dealing with some snow and potential problems. the fallout from this u.s. bank, the person's the meltdown, could it happen again? we are on it tomorrow. we will see you again. in the meantime, here is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> judge jeanine: hello, everyone, i'm judge jeanine pero along with harold ford jr., jesse watters, dana perino, and brian kill mead, it's 5:00 in new york city, and this is the five. we have a great show for you today, we are going to get to write to our first couple of topics, because we have a very important guest today. benjamin hall will join us later right here at the table to share

his incredible story of survival, nearly a year to the day since a devastating blast from ukraine almost took his life. but first, democrats getting slammed for attacking the twitter files, journalists and an explosive hearing, liberals claim freedom of the press unless it is something that makes them look bad, democrats ripping the reporters who broke the story exposing how twitter worked with the feds to silence free speech. >> elon musk spoon fed you cherry picked information, which generates another right-wing conspiracy theory. is it true that you have profited since you were the recipients of the twitter files? you have made money? >> it is probably a wash honestly. >> no, you have made money you did not have before, correct? >> but i have also spent money i did not have before. >> attention, eyeballs, money,

all of it points to problems with accuracy and credibility. >> judge jeanine: the attacks going even further. dems also try to intimidate and demand to know the source of the twitter files. >> this is not just a matter of data given to these so-called journalists before now. >> i'm not a so-called journalists, i have won the national magazine award, the stone award for independent journalism, and i have written ten books including four "new york times" bestsellers. >> do you consider mr. elon musk to be the direct source of all of this? >> no, now you're trying to get me to say that he is the source. i just can't answer your question. >> if you are telling me you can't answer, because it is your source, then the only logical conclusion is that he is in fact or source. >> you are free to conclude that. >> judge jeanine: it is amazing, dana, instead of thanking them for what we all know was a coordinated effort by the government to influence

social media, cutback freedom of the press for first amendment speech of everyone on social media, they are trying to say that these guys were only into the money and they try to find out the source. i mean, this is stunning. >> dana: whatever happened to the democrats who defended the first amendment and the reporters? during the trump administration there was an army of democrats who would defend the state from any reporter called a bad name. and also there were journalists who were targeted. that was bad. but now you have these too, especially matt tybee. i've seen bad hearing prep before, i've never seen anything this bad. if your witnesses are openly laughing at you because you are so bad at what you do anywhere that i'm prepared and you have no idea what you're talking about, like not even knowing who barry weiss was. it's integral gold to the effort on the twitter files in the congress people did not even know who she was. i think it's a genuine embarrassment for the house democrats, because they have always -- they always think that

they are the younger sevier party, and a congresswoman who does not know what a sub stack is, i mean, that is pretty incredible to me for anybody out there who does not know, i'm not saying that you should no, but the congresswoman who is going to question these guys should know that it's a way that you can write an article that you can post yourself. so you can be your own publisher, but people will often pay you for that, some are free. >> judge jeanine: jesse coming in or what, as those the shield law that protects reporters sources does not even exist. they were demanding it right out in the open, who the sources. and you know, you have to say to yourself, if they are doing this out in the open, in violation of the shield law, what are they doing behind the scenes? >> we know what they are doing behind the scenes, because we exposed it. and they don't care about the corruption, they don't care about the collusion or the censorship, they care that it was reported. they want to know who told you we were corrupt? show me the names! so they are doing this -- they

are defending ant, and that's the sad part. they are not even asking real questions. they are defending the censorship. they are trying to destroy the credibility of these reporters, and any reporter that would dare report negatively on the democratic party, remember, the reporters in d.c. and all over the country report in lockstep with the left. so these are independent journalists who expose left-wing corruption, and they are out under oath, and they are trying to say that they are in it for the money. these guys don't make a lot of money! and debbie wasserman schultz of all people made so much money trading stocks as a member of congress, how dare she accuse someone else of being corrupt? and these guys are liberal reporters. these guys have like aclu credentials. they don't have maga hats on. and they are doing this for power, because remember what was not allowed to be said,

judge come on social media before the election? you cannot say "lab leak" you cannot say "a natural immunity" you cannot say "laptop" and now you can say it and they are panicking. the censorship is the only thing that keeps them in power. they can persuade when policy is unpopular, they just need to hold power tightly. >> judge jeanine: you know, harold, there was a bill that the democrats voted on and it had to do with making sure that they could ban federal officials from policing the content of speech. and the republicans voted to ban federal officials from policing the content of speech. and the democrats voted against it, and their reasoning was that they should be able to make sure that people like russia and china cannot spread disinformation, since when do we say that we can oversee the information?

>> harold: first, i am glad that dana is behind the table, had not seen you in two weeks. it's good to see everybody. two, i don't know that bill, and i would agree that that bill is what you're saying. right, i did not look at the bill of per se, nor do i think that they are trying to ensure that china and russia don't have a way to influence voters or kids, one of the reasons we are going after tiktok it's because we think that china might be behind that. but i don't disagree with the censorship. i'm a believer if you're going to have a hearing, you should be prepared. and if you're going to ask questions to suggest that they should not be wasting their time doing this, then you should have questions that do. and i thought the clips that we showed were not necessarily favorable towards members of my party who were there. i do wish that some of the oversights that does also find its way to perhaps calling the d.a. in and to the alphabet soup of law enforcement to say what are we doing at the border to

prevent fentanyl coming in? what more do you need? what more money do you need? i hope they come to that at some point. oversight hearings are designed when i was in congress to outline where behavior could be better in government. and one particularly unethical or illegal behavior, or it could be spent there. so i'm not bothered by them calling the twitter files, and i do think that this is a respect, because of a guy well-respected. i would be curious as to what made him want to do this and what did he uncover that he thinks was so damaging? i would not ask the questions that were asked. i don't disagree with you. >> judge jeanine: before you answer, do you sometimes wish that the republicans would fight as hard as the democrats do? i mean, everyone knows that what they did was suppress free speech, first amendment, and make sure that that information -- there were meetings with the fbi and dhs, and they could have affected the presidential election. >> brian: my answer is no,

because everything they did was unethical. and if that means fighting hard on ethically, forget it. you have to fight right. every one of the stories coming to think about it nonstop, so i had a chance to meet matt to iub about a month ago when this happen. interview twice since then. and had a chance to research the background, and this was an unbelievable and insulting hearing, and he writes about it today, he said he prepared for it, wrote about it, he said he went there and was kind of nervous and was just going to tell everybody what was going on, because he walked into a treasure trove of information for a journalist, not for republican and democrat, he found out that the fbi paid twitter $3.4 million to take down and respond to everything they needed to do, and they were underplayed by the communication that took place pretty talked about adam schiff having him and his staff call up and ask for things to be taken down. covid, where mass, don't wear a mask. everything is bad, everything is good, it had to be taken down and shaped according to the democratic narrative. and he is willing to talk about it just on the facts he had. instead they want to attack a

guy with great integrity who could not be further from an conservative than real life. in case you did not hear it, michael show a burger voted joe biden. he ran for office. he is somebody that was very much for the green movement prayed he writes this, much of the hubbub yesterday involve the many -- involved this. this is what they were saying, when did elon musk start beating your wife? he said it was a bizarre collection of politicians not understanding some pretty basic things about how to act around a journalist. this was an absolute abomination and embarrassment, and this is the biggest story that nobody is talking about, yesterday was the exposure time, and they did not expose anything. my feeling is that there is more to come. >> judge jeanine: all right. coming up, benjamin hall will join us in studio to tell us about his new book "saved" his incredible journey of survival and much more. don't miss it. but up next, if you thought that kamala harris' call for climate

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who drive more spread pollution into lower income neighborhoods occupied by people of color. with that premise, let's begin with carol ford. i apologize, i must have been driving nla and did not know that i was driving racist-oh why, so i throw myself to you, harold. >> harold: this is absurd. i believe when race is an issue, we ought to pointed up an end address it head on. i don't understand -- i did read this -- >> judge jeanine: don't do that, harold. i'm sorry. >> harold: i can't for the life of me understand why we would belittle this issue, both issues by invoking racism, because we have a climate change issue in our country, we can disagree on the severity of it, we can also have a debate which should come a robust debate about what we should do to help people breathe easier, to help ensure that we are able to compete on a global stage with all of the renewable energy is sources that we produce, but when we invoke this, this

creates a whole nother line of consternation and conversation that is unnecessary. we should stick to the facts about climate change and how what we can be doing us a nation to ensure that oil and gas, we can do it as clean as possible and we are able to transition to an economy over the next ten, 20, 30 years. >> for a country of all races and genders, dana, you had something to add. >> jesse: pollution and smog is different from global warming and greenhouse gas emissions, first of all, so the other thing is the vast majority of people buying these very expensive electric vehicles that have fewer emissions are white people, and that is one of the ways that the administration targeted the subsidies. and that's just the way it is, because those people have a guest more money and they want to spend it on electric vehicles and they know that uncle sam will help out, which means -- that is actually something i would complain about if i were i a minority community. i would say why are you giving subsidies to rich white people for electric vehicles.

that does not make sense, they can afford it. take our taxpayer dollars in order to do it. also when you talk about climate change, there is a growing group of republicans who are willing to engage on this issue and every time they tried, the democrats move the goalpost, say some crazy stuff, and it prevents any real good conversations from happening. >> brian: jesse, do you agree? >> jesse: that dana is defending white people, sure, why not? listen, the chinese are the ones polluting everybody. they are the most racist. statistically, brian! and it's not about race, it's about class. people with the money are the ones that designed the highways that go through poor neighborhoods because it can't put up a big enough fight because they don't have lawyers. that's what it has to do with. kamala is saying there is a lot of common anxiety because we have been forcing kids to stay inside their rooms and look at phones for six years. if you take an animal out of the wild, brian, and put him into the zoo and then released him back to the wild, the animal

will die. that's what we're doing with kids protecting them out, putting them in a dark room alone with a screen and then expecting them to do things. >> brian: she did talk to kamala, and they are so worried about global warming that they don't have kids. i think there is legitimacy behind it. we went through a nuclear war. we went through a nuclear war for 40 years, but kids still had kids. it's been on here is the bottom line, i want to commend kamala for the impactful ground full work that the woman does every day. first of all, all this nonsense even twitter says that the warning label on this claim about people in the inner-city being affected is false, boeing says it is false, everyone says it is false, and by the way, electric vehicles still produce harmful air pollution via, get this, dust from the brake pads and toxic chemicals in the tires. so you know what, everything is bad and deal with it. that was in the packet.

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there. okay, this is what i think. number one, fair market value. it is at the fair market value of what it is at the store or on the street? okay, they have to be clear about this, second thing, can you deduct the car and the gas and the insurance to the getaway, the coconspirators, with other defendants, can you separate the amount of income, and if somebody steals it from them, can they take it as a loss? and finally, clean per day is coming you can go to the prosecutor and admit it, and then you don't have to claim it? >> not you, i'm glad you too and what you disagree with that? >> jesse: i am happy with thmise free money. in my accountant is like, this isn't your money. they did not -- they did a mistake. and i'm like i'm depositing this. so i deposited it. and he is like don't deposit it.

let's ask the irs, how did you get this? and so they sent me an explanation, and my accountant was like they are still wrong. and i'm like, well, i deposited the money. >> judge jeanine: yes, why are you saying this? >> jesse: what's the point? >> judge jeanine: jesse! [laughter] >> jesse: do you believe that? >> harold: do you have a strong opinion? >> dana: i think it is hilarious, the democrats at this main reason they needed to double the size of the rs was for enforcement stopping crime. and they said rich people that were hiding taxes, what we say here? they will go after mom-and-pop, what they did not say is i never thought that they would go after thieves read and it is just preposterous, because if you have that money, shouldn't you be prosecuted at the same time? >> judge jeanine: it is called an omission.

>> harold: they said they are not going to prosecute. >> jesse: call 911 if somebody stole your crack! 's before my feeling about us is it can't be real, i also say, history shows looking back as they take paid taxes more serious than they do actually stealing stuff, right? to me it's a great time to be a criminal to be thinking about it, look at how capone, they could not get them for robbing everyone, but what happened? they got them for not paying taxes paid so if you stole a bike, you stole an suv, a hummer, whatever you stole declare it, and i don't think they will prosecute unless your name is donald trump. >> dana: is a good point. >> harold: in all seriousness, the irs is asking people who have committed a crime to admit to committing a crime and then tell us what you stole, then we will give you a benefit from the taxpayer if you hate taxes? >> jesse: it is the right spirit.

maybe there is a grace period. >> brian: this is the first time filing taxes under this 87,000 -- so look out, all will break loose soon. and they are coming after jesse's money. >> dana: wait until next year when they come after your benbow account. >> judge jeanine: they have already shown their hand. >> harold: up next, a serious note, benjamin hall joins us to share his harrowing account of the missile attack at ukraine and the harrowing boys have brought them to safety. ( ♪ ) the future is here. we've been creating it for more than 100 years, putting the most advanced technology into people's hands. generation after generation. tool after tool. again and again.

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caught in a deadly blast, killing two of our colleagues. benjamin hall survived that attack, and was severely injured, nothing short of a miracle getting him out of that war-torn country and back with his family. benjamin shares his incredible story and new memoir "saved" the war reporter's mission to make it home which hits bookstores on tuesday. great to have you back here in studio, tell us a little bit about that window that you had, you were in this hospital in -- and he had to get out of that country. they targeted the hospital, and about ten things had to go right within an hour to get out of the country. tell us about it. >> benjamin: and at the moment every moment counted, and i thought it was a rupture. and pierce said that they were russians, russian car will save us, and badly injured elsewhere,

and shouted at me at the state department. and who are you, who are you. so i see them in russia, and first of all, going to escape somehow. and to the bed opposite me, and started to move, so i assume he has a gun at me. so i'm in a spy movie. and then somebody walks into the room, and says, hey, been coming want to get out of here? and i said absolutely, let's go. and it was this incredible set up by save our allies, this group, and they put together a team from poland and sent about six people in. and they were trying to find a way to get me out of the cou country. and they realize that could not happen, because we had matchbox matchbox shrapnel in my throat right here. they cannot fly me out, and there were dangers in the plain, low flying airplanes that could not do it either. and so they did not know how to get me out, knew that i had a limited time before i could possibly die and was very badly injured. and then we found out through the u.s. intelligence that the polish prime minister was on the

first covert mission to visit zelenskyy, and his train was inside, and if we could get there in the middle of the night breaking the curfew, then we could go out and evacuate with him, so we bundled into this ambulance and set off with no other cars on the road, and the ukrainians thought we were rushing team coming in. and taken off my own dressing, looking at my wound, because they thought that we were rushing team coming in to hit zelenskyy, so we are trying to fight her way through to the polish prime minister's train, we know it's about to leave soon, and with minutes to spare, leap on the got to the train. carried on in this loose sheet and that was the point at which some of the pain started to kick in part so we manage the train, but i had no pain killers, and solely for the next ten hours on this train was when i had to endure some of the hardest and worst pain, some of the worst mental pain and just keep fighting to get out, keep going. this happened because of an incredible team.

that's what is incredible. >> brian: going through your story coming put together stuff that you did not know what happen, you did not know jennifer griffin was talking to kirby, who said how do i get them out? how do i have contacts to save our allies, and tray gangsta knowing what was happening to you, how to mobilize, and how the story. and putting the book together. and you had to gather what was going on. and what was your reaction to what was going on to get you out? >> above everything else i am honored, what happens was americans saw another american, myself and ukraine, my life was at risk that it was badly injured and said, no matter what we have to come in. we have to go and save him. and they rest their own lives in doing so. in all these people did it together. from the top down, and you know, the military said we can't go into ukraine to get him, but if you can get them to the polish border, we will be waiting to collect him and to bring them to our arms. and that's what happen.

finally i got out and there was a black hawk, second airborne and i was picked up, and that was the point where i knew i was saved. but there are hundreds of people working behind the scenes from the intelligence to u.s. ambassador, to poland, to getting out on what was thankfully air force one, trying to get on that incredible. >> dana: we have heard this amazing story of your daughter appearing to you as you needed to get out of the car, daddy, you need to get out of the car, your girls were very young when this happen, curious about that moment when you are able to see them again and also, i love the story in the book about a tradition you had with these little hedgehogs that you would make videos for them. >> and i thought you might ask, dana, because i brought one of the hedgehogs with me. so here he is. and it does not look like very much, but i traveled across the world for my job, we went everywhere. in one of the things i would do is talk to my girls and i would take these little hedgehogs on the journey with me wherever they went, i would make videos

and send them in. that's what i would show them, but seeing my children again was one of the hardest parts of all of this. and that is because i was really quite afraid that their lives would be damaged as well. and i felt strong and brave and courageous going home, but i did not want their life affected too much. and decided they would not see it in hospital or sit by my bedside for five months when i could not move. i was badly injured. i said let's get this done quickly and we will go home. so when it was coming home, i did not want them to be afraid. and they saw it. which other entities told me happened, other veterans say their children were afraid of them, cannot talk to them. so that moment where i walked in the door and he came around the corner, not knowing how they would really receive me, and they just ran and hugged me on the floor, and when the bomb hits, how will i get home, how will i fight to get home, qualify have two and see my children again, that's how i felt for every day so when i finally saw them, i felt all the hard work and the pain and none

of it matters anymore, because i am home again, i've done it. speak to you fondly write about the relationship you formed were sasha and p are, what should the world know about them and which never forget about them? >> everything else we talk about for all of the heroics and everything else that happened, the bottom here, pierre and sasha did not come home, they are left out there, and the two ukrainians in the car as well, five people are here when you came back, and i think about peer and sasha everything today. i remember pierre, his hardest kindest work, the most genuine person i have ever known. everyone at fox knew that. what i think every day and the way that we have to remember them is by going out and making the best out of every day. doing what you peer would have done which is making the world a better place. speaking to everyone, educating everyone as he did as a cameraman and a journalist. and so we have to remember them, but when you lose people, you

don't mourn forever. you remember them every day, annotate the best things out of them, and you move forward with them and then you make the best out of it. and i think that's what we have to do. >> judge jeanine: you have reported from libya and syria and iraq, how was ukraine difference and what drives you to be a world reporter? >> benjamin: it is different, and some ways the ukrainian war was very different. at a scale we have not seen, an invasion of another country by russia, one of the biggest armies. on another level it was the same as every war i have covered. when it comes to his people are being attacked, their families and villages being destroyed and that's what our job is. it does not matter the geopolitics, my job is to get the story and tell the viewers what is happening. so it was very different, we had a massive army invading, and the other sense it was the same tragedy that you always see. so i think we have to continue to looking at ukraine, seeing what is happening there. and i hope that reporters keep carrying on the story and despite what happened to me, the

role is essential, and i know that obviously the u.s. being involved around the world, influence does that. and we see them engage in many other countries that i want to, libya, syria, afghanistan, iraq, the u.s. has had some involvement and i think it's important that our viewers understand what is happening there. that's not to say whether week want to get involved, but it's important that we know what is happening which is why the role in the job itself is really important. so i encourage everyone who wants to do it, to take it seriously and take precautions, but do it. >> dana: and read the book, there is so many good days as a war correspondent, you are a little risk-taker. >> benjamin: i think is a freelance journalist coming have to go somewhere no one else has gone. if you want to tell about stories coming us to have to see them in the eyes and be there. >> jesse: we will have more stories coming up, this amazing book "saved" we will be right back.

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on "hannity" and the support from ben's family playing an incredible important role in his recovery, his wife alicia and their three beautiful girls are featured in "people" magazine, and some amazing wonderful porter don't have photos of them there. it's pretty amazing how you are meant to go to walter reed and then there was a fire in the intensive care unit which meant they went to the san antonio hospital instead. and they expected you to be there for two years and you said, no. i will get out there sooner than that, you turn 40 while you were there at the hospital, how did you make such a quick recovery? relatively quick. >> benjamin: it was so close call between walter reed, san antonio, and bmc, it was considered the best place because it has the best burn unit, and those were some of my worst injuries, so that was a priority. but look, they all say that the proper recovery is two years. it's not just getting you up and walking, there are a whole lot

of other incidents. and operations that you have to keep having. but i made that decision for my children not to visit me. i made the decision it was not right for them to uplift their lives and live on the military base with me. and spoken to different people, several allies whose head for me that's not the best idea. and we spoke to someone else who said coming have to go and be with them. and so there was this division, should the children come? we decided that they should not and i would do my best everything will day to fight to get home. and that's what i did. and i woke up every single day and i said if i walk five steps yesterday, i walked six today. everything will day, whatever i could do yesterday i'll do some more today prayed we did that nonstop. >> dana: and he were a pain for the doctors sometimes? >> yes, look, accepted early on it was going to be uncomfortable in pain and i knew if i stopped every time it hurt i would only go as far -- you can pipe through these things and keep moving, and that something i have to remember everything will day now. it still hurts everything the day, but if you let that define

who you are and let that define how you feel, then it will ruin you. so i put that to the side and i just enjoy the things that i love. >> judge jeanine: you write about your wife alicia having a strong influence on your war zone reporting, how did that happen? >> benjamin: i mean there was constantly back and forth, she knew it was a job i love. she knew it was important to me. she knew i love doing it and she never told me not to go, but over the years when we had some children, we started to talk about pulling back a bit, we thought maybe my job, my career should move in a different direction. and in fact just before this happened i moved to the state department to cover that per box. the decision was not to do anymore war zones, then ukraine happened the and you know, it drags me back in. and he would a story was. and to change it for a big way. when i first met her eye was covering stories i was traveling everywhere, i was doing was adventurous, and i love doing it and it was exciting, and she taught me to find other levels and stories, and i think real journalist does that, so i will

look about what was happening, started looking at the human element, the people i was missing and telling the stories and i think that she made me a better journalist. she made me a better person. she brought me home. she takes care of me everything will day. she is the hero in this book. it's not me. it's the doctors and the physiologists and everyone who helped. >> brian: and if anybody wants to contribute money to "save our allies" they catch and help in afghanistan and to help put people like you, just to get a perspective on where someone wants to do things like this, it's pretty clear that in your book where you got it from, and it's from your dad. your dad in world war ii witnessed the philippines being taken over by the japanese, macarthur came back, liberated the island and he was able to survive. it always felt like he wanted to get back to america and volunteers to fight in the korean war, and he just talked about that adventure and what he did after, how did that influence who you became? >> my father was eight years old

when the japanese invaded, lived there for four years, his family was killed except for her's father and on the day that the americans came in, he knew that he had to get to the american lines and he was a young boy with her young siblings if he could fight his way through as a child and find the american lives, he would be saved. in that day was saved and was brought by an american g.i. from the buckeye division and he made his way to america. and here was i-75 years later, seven years later being saved around the world by american soldiers again, once i got into poland. and i am family who has been saved again and again by americans, and we open it up, and i was such a proud american because of it, but my whole life was talked about my father's experiences in the war, and a lot of me wanted to understand more and know what he had gone through. i was fascinated by the extremes in human experience and what he went through. early on that's why i went and was fascinated in war. it's the stories i learned from him and it led me to where i am today. >> did you ever of dark moments?

moments of self-doubt, because we are looking at these photos of you just grinning ear to ear and recovery after your body has really been traumatized. >> you know, i believed every single day that if i was feeling bad, if i was having a really difficult day that i would talk to people about it, i would say how hard it was, and then i would put it together and keep moving on. and finding the optimism and things. i am blessed that i've been optimistic throughout this. but there were some tough times, some really difficult times. and i think learning how to get through those has made me a strong person. and i think that you, the other side and he realized deep inside of us inside all of us there is a strength we don't realize it and when you're really pushed to it and you have to fight through something, you will find it. i believe that. if you are struggling one day and you're having difficulties at home, look for that inner strength and tell yourself you can do it. tell yourself you can fight through, there's a lot of strength and you will find it. and i hope in some way what has happened to me can inspire other people. i hope they can think if they are having a difficult time coming you can find a way through. and hundreds of people have been

reaching out to me about their own stories, about what happened to them on social media and elsewhere. and it's a real honor that it get right back to them and say this is what i feel, talk to me some more, let's do it together and if there is anything i can do as i move forward to help other people get through something like i've gone through, then that's what i want to do. that's a big part. >> harold: that is your next book. you have overcome so much, when in the day every day is something that i take away from this, what is next for you? >> benjamin: you have to keep setting goals, one of those goals was to get here, to come back to work and be in a position where i could walk again and see my colleagues. in the next one will be to continue working. i can't wait to keep working. i met so many incredible people along the way that i think i want to start telling some of the stories about them too, inspirational people, people who have done incredible things and i spent my whole career talking about war and disaster and tours, and i think i would quite like to spend a bit of time

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♪ >> judge jeanine: time now for "one more thing" and i go first. a woman by the name of peyton thompson gets her suitcase back. it's totally destroyed. the paneling the wheels are off. she did what anyone would do she depose and complains to the airline is they agree to replace the suitcase. they went overboard and sent her 13 of the same suitcases. now, here's the thing. she was very sweet. she took her favorite and mailed the rest back. now, do you know what i would have done? i would have called them and been on the line an hour and a half trying to get someone and then i would have given up. would you have given up? >> harold: that's the amazing. 12 people missed theirs. i'm glad she sent it back. >> judge jeanine: dana, hit it. >> dana: stories on short as you know why. a fun look at some of your favorite fox personalities started with jesse watters a

couple secrets he spilled. ideal weekend with the family. one thing he couldn't live without johnny belisario. check it out on fox digital. >> judge jeanine: jesse? >> jesse: i'm really opening up. happy anniversary to t roy and day that. you two love birds. enjoy yourself this evening. donald trump or ron desantis? a powerful monologue. >> judge jeanine: all right, brian, hit it. >> brian: perfect seeing segue. got recruited for yale. we went out to that very field. that will be on one nation 8:00 repeated at 11:00. hopefully watch saturday night. you will enjoy it. >> judge jeanine: whether a time is your show at saturday night. >> brian: 8:00 and repeated at 11:00. >> harold: good arm? >> brian: great arm. >> harold: pitcher from idaho broke a step record for angling. she fittedly is from idaho city named salmon broke the record

for 14.13-inch catch on snake river february 25th. fishing is clearly a family affair took the record previously held by her uncle benji. >> judge jeanine: in the genes. that's it for us. see you back here monday. don't forget to buy the book "saved" we love you. here here. >> bret: good evening, welcome to "special report." i'm bret baier. democrats join republicans in calling for records about the origins the coronavirus to be declassified. china's visit wins unprecedent the third term meerng committee jinping will be around to spar with the u.s. at least five more years. more wicked weather for winter weary california. ♪ >> bret: but, first, breaking tonight. the biggest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis and the second largest in u.s. history sends shivers all the way from california to