bret? >> connor powell, thank you. >>> up next, the nevada rancher who made the feds blink is now making republicans gasp. >>> kxpi in idaho falls with the aftermath of yesterday's explosion and fire at a natural gas processing plant in southwest wisconsin. about 95 residents of the town remained evacuated as of this morning. ktmj in topeka, kansas, and it drew complaints from students and parents about seating availability. so the first lady will speak at a senior recognition day instead. >>> and this is a live look at new york from our affiliate fox 5. the big story there tonight is a ten-game suspension for yankees pitcher michael pineda. ejected for having a foreign substance on his neck. they discreetly use pine tar to enhance the grip. umpires have looked the other way in some cases, but it's the second time in two weeks he's appeared to flaunt the use of the substance. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway. we'll be right back. nobody ever stomped their foot and asked for le

bret? >> much more to this story. jim, thank you. >>> even if you get in to see a doctor at an outpatient clinic you have a good chance of being misdiagnosed. that is the conclusion of a study in the journal -- it says 5% of you or 12 million people nationwide will not be diagnosed properly. half of those cases have the potential to result in serious harm. >>> a u.s. president desperately trying to avoid military conflict and european partners seemingly afraid of the gas spigot being turned off have used the leverage of economic sanctions to strike a deal that for now is supposed to keep russian troops out of ukraine. we have fox team coverage tonight. leland witt ard is live in east ukraine with a look at whoo's happening on the ground. but we begin with wendall goler with an agreeing that seemed unlikely at this time last night. >> reporter: good evening. you're right, 24 hours ago folks here were sfignaling that an agreement on ukraine was way long shot. they're skill except cal whether

i'm bret baier. the former cia official in the crosshairs of republicans investigating the benghazi attacks says he never deliberately misled anyone. mike morrell also pushed back on the notion that he made his e t edits to the now infamous talks points based on a desire to protect president obama and hillary clinton. but what he said today on capitol hill raises new questions about why eye witness and cia accounts from the ground were overlooked or discounted. chief intelligent correspondent catherine herridge has highlights from today's contentious hearing. >> the former deputy cia director michael morrell's appearance, his first public testimony on the talking points was filled with awkward explanation, frustration, and pointed accusations. >> you made significant substantive changes for the white house, whether it was on behalf, we don't know. but we know you are the one who made those changes. >> ma'am, if you look at the record, what you will see is the changes i made were fully consistent with

bret? >> it appears the president had bigger plans than the rose garden for that sign-up announcement. >> reporter: it's interesting because buzzfeed has a story out tonight that the white house asked the broadcast networks, abc, cbs, nbc, fox broadcast for primetime on tuesday night to tout 7 million sign ups being passed, but buzzfeed reports it was turned down by the broadcast network. we should point out there's no formal vote among all the broadcast networks. they make their own individual decisions. those conversations with the white house are off the record. why would the networks have said no? buzzfeed points out primetime is very lucktive and normally those speeches are reserved for sort of a national emergency. in this case the president ended up going into the rose garden for that pep rally, more of a rah-rah speech that might have seemed a little more political. >> and the white house hasn't weighed in? >> reporter: white house has not weighed in on this yet. republicans on the

i'm bret baier. a group of democratic senators begged president obama to make up his mind about the keystone scel pipeline project in coming days, the state department has decided to extend the so-called government comment period. meaning the president will likely not decide about the project until after the november election. while environmentalists quickly

bret. >> mike, thank you. speaking of keeping the pressure on, senate republicans renewed their call for even an wider probe into the benghazi terror attacks that killed four americans. democrats meanwhile say enough is enough. chief intelligence correspondent kathryn hair raj has tont's report. >> benghazi talking points was not only inaccurate but misleading. >> mike morel's testimony last week was not remotely credible. >> along with then u.n. ambassador susan rice, they say -- morel testified that he moved quickly. >> i corrected the record as soon as i found out. how many people in this town do that? >> senators disagreed. and morel should have owned up on the spot because he personally cut 50% of the text and when the cia called after the senators meeting, they say there was no mention of morel's personal involvement. >> mr. morel told us that the fbi did the talking points and then later in his view corrected the record. obviously, he didn't correct the record. >> morel now works for a d.c. company with

bret, can you give us the latest from your end? >> yeah, we've got a pretty serious situation involves from the tupelo area all the way south at the moment with several supercell thunderstorms that are producing tornadoes, as you guys have been made aware of, such as the one that hit tupelo a few moments ago. >> bret, do we have a sense of whether there are -- when tornadoes hit, there's obvious a period of time during which an area is under watch. do we have a sense of how long the watch period may last in this part of the state? >> really, it looks like especially the area east of i-55 and mississippi, and north of interstate 20 are under the gun, as well as western alabama. it looks like they'll be completely under the gun for the next several hours. >> bret adar, storm chaser, thanks for the update. please stay safe. >>> coming up, bill o'reilly reminds america about his strange obsession with jay z and beyonce. this time he things a married mother is promoting teen pregnancy in the african-american communities. details are nex

bret baier every other year gets to ask him tough questions. that was more of a shot at the main street media. >> he was not really that challenged and they wanted to build up sort of these nontraditional forms of media and by the way, i think to take another curveball into this is that the president is entitled to do interviews "the daily show" every once in a while. there are a lot of different ways people get news and reach people. but to suggest that's the most substantive toughest interview, either we're -- in general we're not being tough enough. >> i went on "the daily show, but the president never did. >> you went on "the daily show. >> i think bret baier's interview that he did with the president was one of the best because it was noticeably. he was agitated. you can tell the president has a tough interviewer, he got so thin skinned, it was so difficult for bret to get the answers to the question. how can, ed, you've spoken up about the lack of transparency at this white house, but you were very vocal about it when they wouldn't let th

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i'm bret baier in washington. senior pentagon officials say russian aircraft have entered ukrainian airspace several times in the last 24 hours. the u.s. is now urging russia to deescalate the situation here. this as the u.s. and european union prepare to leavy new sanctions on russia. we're also joints chiefs chairman has been in contact with his russian counterpart. >> ed henry is traveling with the president in seoul, south korea. >> while, president obama is on south korean soil just over a hundred miles away, north korea is threatening to unleash a fourth test of a nuclear weapon. a tense situation that mr. obama called a threat against the united states. >> it's important for us to look at additional ways to apply pressure on north korea, further sanctions that have even more bite. >> this trip, though, has been marked by questions about whether the president backs up tough talk on the world stage. so he was careful to stress there's no magic bullet to deal with north korea, a principle that appears to apply

." >>> good evening, i'm bret baier. president obama is relying once again on his go-no foreign policy move, economic sanctions to try to get russia to play nice in ukraine. the president is going after high tech exports to russia's defense industry as well as wealthy individuals close to president vladimir putin. this comes as masked militants with automatic weapons seized another city hall building and police station in eastern ukraine. while the mayor of the nation's second largest city was shot in the back and said to be in critical condition. the president's critic say his fp foreign policy is barely surviving. >> reporter: wrapping up a week long trip to asia dominated by his handing of the crisis in ukraine, plus the fallout from the red line in syria, president obama launched a vigorous defense against his critics. he used a baseball analogy. >> that may not always be sexy. may not always attract a lot of attention accident it doesn't make for good argument on sunday morning shows, but its errors. you hit sinleds

. >> good evening, i'm bret baier, the census bureau is change the way it talk to you about health care. republicans are concerned it could make negative comparisons about obamacare unprovable because they would bavl be comparing apples and orange. the administration and its supporters say this is much ado about not much. chief national correspondent jim engel has the story tonight. >> reporter: word that the census department is changing the questions it asks about insurance coverage raises alarms in political circles? >> they want to see biggest number of newly insured people according to the census but it will be misleading because they have change the question. >> it's a way to muddy the water so when we see there are tens of millions of people who are uninsured the administration can throw its hands in the air and say, oh, well, we changed the formula. >> white house officials acknowledge the concern but argue it's unwarranted. >> i know any kind of change around health care raises a lot of questions, and makes people anxious. there's a lot of undue confusion around this particular

we're going to have that in a minute, bret. but i want to just go back for a moment and talk about how this e-mail actually became declassified. do you know? it sounds like to me it was a mistake that this ben rhodes e-mail -- a mistake by the administration that somehow it became declassified? >> wait a second, why was it classified in the first place? >> right. >> this is a briefing about a call for susan rice, a communications call, how she's going to talk about things on the five sunday talk shows. now, why is this classified in the first place? if it had nothing to do with benghazi? benghazi is the thing everybody's asking about, yet this e-mail if it had nothing to do with benghazi, why is it classified? so then it's declassified at some point. i assume before the committee asks for these e-mails. it's redacted, so they don't know who sent it or who got it by the time the committee gets it. but it finally gets fully released when judicial watch files a lawsuit and the judge says, you have to release it. >> by the way, we'

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it's tax day. >> this is bret michaels. i have not been to bed yet.friends". >>> i just had a chance to talk to bret michaels in the hall, which is odd because guests a lot of times after they're on -- >> were you talk being tax day? >> not really. but he said he practices free cologne. >> when he came in, he had a certain perfume about him and he said that's -- >> he created it. it's rose and thorns. >> yeah. >> he'll be sending us over a complimentary bottle. i think we have to share it with the crew. >> they'll smell nice. >> for tax purposes, that's what we're going to say. we got it and shared it. it's april 15. we've got ron standing by. he's answering your questions in the green room. there he is right there. call him -- >> call him on the internet. >> with any questions you have. >> a lot of people have questions about their taxes. they've seen what happened to the tea party, conservative groups. they're wondering, could i possibly be targeted? will i get audited? there is news out about the top democrat in congress investigating what's gone o

this is "special report." >>> good evening, i'm bret baier, we begin in a part of the world that growssidents obama and putin talked on the phone late today about ukraine. pro russian mobs now controlled ukrainian government buildings in at least nine cities. ukraine is threatening to use force to get them out. while on the border, thousands of

bret baier here on the fox news channel. we heard about it in the presidential election year.ut this is a midterm election and a bit of a different animal. called war on women? >> i think both parties are going after women voters. democrats are reviving the argument they made in 2010. you point back to the presidential election. president obama carried unmarried women by 36 points and mitt romney carried married women by seppoints. democrats so the treasure trough getting out unmarried women who skew democratic in the midterm, it would be a huge thing for them. some of these races, you would be surprised to hear they are going social issues so fast. mark udall in colorado immediately going to contraception and birth control and abortion issues instead of talking about the economy. >> we have a clip of that ad, from senator mark udall of colorado. we'll play it now. >> it comes down to respect for women and our lives. and so congressman gardener's history is disturb any. it makes abortion a felony. and gardener even championed an eight year crusade to outlaw birth control here

as you said, bret.at in term of the larger picture, i think you have to worry about waco, ruby ridge, when people start showing up with guns, and saying they are willing to take on the federal government. >> now, there's another element to this and that's the land adjacent to this is being used for dry lake solar zone and there are some critics who point to senator harry reid and his connection to all of this. the new director of the bureau of land management as a former policy adviser to senator reed. they say that his son rory is a lobbyist for a chinese energy giant and the tortoise was removed from that land to make way for the solar panels, yet when it came to the grazing, tortoise wasn't moved. >> good find out -- go found out how the senator wind up so reach and his son is indeed a lobby t lobbyist. this is a rich feel for study. i don't know if it's directly connected to the bundys or not. >> the government's issue with the bundy's not paying grazing feed predates the reeds project. it's an inte

i'm bret baier. just days after a group of democratic senators begged president obama to make up his mind about the keystone scel pipeline project in coming days, the state department has decided to extend the so-called government comment period. meaning the president will likely not decide about the project until after the november election. while environmentalists quickly praised move, fox tells us it many as republicans and democrats using words like ridiculous, shameful, and irresponsible. >> a five-year long wait just got longer and the fate of the pipeline along with 800,000 barrel of crude will remain unknown indefinitely. the state department blames a month old court case saying this afternoon, agencies need additional time based on the uncertainty creates by the ongoing litigation in the nebraska supreme court which could ultimately affect the pipeline route in that state. key stone could eventually support about 42 rrks,000 jobs, so republicans in states that it would pass through are not h

i'm bret baier. welcome to washington. the obama white house is scrambling tonight to explain the email we told you last night concerning what appeared to be the administration's planned response to the benghazi terror attacks, additional instructions for then u.n. ambassador sun rice. the official story today the email is not about benghazi at all, and that started quite a show down today in the white house briefing room. >> reporter: the white house claimed the controversial email from senior presidential ben rhodes called prep call with susan was not about the murder of four americans. >> it was explicitly not about benghazi. it was about the over all-situation in the region. >> for the first time white house press secretary jay carney insisted there was two sets of talking point, one prepared by cia and the other prepared by rhodes about unrest in the region. to bolster his case, he referenced fox news. >> anti u.s. protests are spreading across the arab world. >> but it conflicts with the record. the rhodes email was

let's see what bret baier thinks about this. good morning to you, bret.ason to love that day. >> tax day and the final day for enrollment. it was because they want today get anyone in line or had trouble with the website or glitches a final day. what the insurance companies need was a final day. they didn't need this enrollment period because they have to recalculate their period and having the 15th bow be the date allows them to look at the pool overall and make the determination for premiums in 2015. >> it will be interesting to see how they line up because the insurance executives say we will have a hard number how many people enrolleded in this program, right? >> yeah, they will know for sure. and they will also know the demographics and how many young, heathier people are in the mix and they will know how many people had insurance before, some of the numbers we have been trying to get from the ad m administration from the beginning. >> what do you think of the other party? the ad mministration requested prime time for cut in and say the 7 million num

bret baier, anchor of special report joins us more. what is going on here?a violation of the hatch act that prohibited federal employees from talking about politics on the job. they are dealt with a couple over the years. the first was over a phone line and they were cheering for obama and the reelection and one spelling out obama and another saying republicans will take women back 40 year and if you vote for republicans the rich get richer and the poor get more poor. this was recorded. and there is going to be disciplinary action for the employees. this comes in the broader context of getting ready for another vote against lois lerner for not answering questions on the targeting of the conservative groups. >> we have a quote from the letter that went to the dallas irs office and it says it is alleged that employees have worn partis partisan stickers and buttons and screen savers that showed support for president obama. it strikes me, in the context of lois lerner, that whether or not there was an overall feeling in the agency we know who we are supporting a

i'm bret baier. like an athlete snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, president obama is celebrating what is being presented as a big last-second win for his health care law. the administration now puts the obamacare sign-up number at 7.1 million. a short time ago, the president basked in the spotlight, mocked and chastised his critics and declared the debate over repealing the law over. ed henry has tonight's top story. >> president obama made clear today he now has more than 7 million reasons and counting to celebrate. >> the affordable care act hasn't completely fixed our long broken health care system, but this law has made our health care system a lot better. a lot better. >> it was a pep rally as much as a victory lap, as democrats patted themselves on the back, and the president slammed republicans and urged the media to move along from the negative stories. >> the press, just, i want you to anticipate there will be some moment when the website's down and i know it will be on all your fro

thanks, bret. >> see you. >>> we have some chilling home surveillance video of a creepy burglar.well, there he is. hovering over a sleeping baby in a crib. really? thankfully, he leaves the nursery, only ends up getting away with 60 bucks in cash. police now asking for the public's help to find that guy than casey steagall live for us in dallas. casey, ironically, this family actually has an alarm system but what happened? >> yeah, gretchen, it's exactly the case, but there's just one problem here. they forgot to turn it on that night before they went to bed. so this crook got in and out through an unlocked window, completely undetected. but the surveillance cameras inside the house that they had set up were rolling, and it shows the intruder casually strolling around the house with a flashlight checking out the goods, swiping a laptop. of course the most eerie part of what you're seeing is that the intruder went into a toddler's room and watched the 2-year-old boy sleep. look at that. now, the boy is okay. but clearly, this has neighbors there quite shaken. >> it makes me not fe

with palestinian a >> the effort may be object the verge of collapse, wall street foreign affairs bretns joins us with more. are the talks dead now? >> the peace process never dies. it does sort of go away for a while and i suspect had that is precisely what will happen now. i mean, it was predictable, paul from the beginning. that these peace talks were going to fail, you have an nation that is looking at a neighborhood that is unstable. they don't know what the future will be in any of the neighbors, and a palestinian authority that is divided between hamas and the palestinian president who is internally weak and so is taking a harder and harder diplomatic line. >> what does it mean that the palestinians are have now gone to the u.n., is this an opening for more violence? >> it's one of the facts of incredible violence, the palestinian areas, except for gaza has been relatively peaceful. what he is trying to do, he is trying to bypass direct negotiations with israel, he is trying to credit a symbolic state and harass israel in legal ways. put global diplomatic pressure on israel to c

. >> more than 20 students were hurt yesterday in the knife attack at franklin regional high and bret met the 16-year-old alex hribal once or twice but didn't know him. hribal is charged as an assault with attempted homicide and aggravated assault. >>> in south africa the chief prosecutor in the murder trial of oscar pistorius accused the athlete of egotistical straight day and it was a tough cross-examination. oscar pistorius said he loved reeva steenkamp and thought he was protecting her when he thought through the bathroom door what he thought was an intruder. >> i didn't intend to point her. i believed somebody was in there. when i heard a noise, i fired my weapon. >> the prosecutor called the pit bull trying to build a case that he shot her in a rage following an argument on valentine's day last year. >> and a $250,000 reward in the case of a shooting attack from pg&e at the substation? san jose. you can see the sparks were flying for a few minutes. someone who was highly trained fired on the substation in the middle of the night. the utility company announced $250,000 reward for

devices and san jose and san francisco and dublin have already taken action to regulate electronic brets -- cigarettes. >> there is a new recall over a baby monitors because the batteries can overheat, rupture, and start a fire. 22 cases have been reported. there have been smoke and minor property damage. a dozen models are affected. they are sold at babies are us and other retailors. >> 22 time olympic medalist michael phelps is returning to competition after being out a year and a half in arizona today. he will only compete in one event, 100 meter butterfly. he is 28 and says his passion for swimming is bringing him back. >> i am having fun. bob and i can do anything we put our mind to and that is what we have done. i am looking forward to whatever the tour takes me. >> he resumed trading in the fall but asked if it leads to another trip to the olympics and rio de janeiro in 2016 he would not commit. >> he is exciting to ambassador. >> it doesn't feel like swimming weather for us now but by this welcome, it could be a different story. >> next week it could be temperatures nearly 90 wit

bret stephens joins us with more. are these talks dead now? >> the middle east peace process never actually dies, but it does sort of go away for a while. i suspect that is what's going to happen now. it was predictable from the very beginning these peace talks were going to fail. you have an israel looking at a neighborhood that is very unstable. they don't know what the future will be in egypt, jordan, lebanon, syria, any neighbors. a palestinian authority that is hopelessly divided between hamas, a terrorist organization in gaza sworn to israel's destruction, and fatah under mahmoud abbas the palestinian president, who is internally weak and taking a harder diplomatic line. >> what does it mean the palestinians have now gone to the u.n.? are we looking at an opening for more violence between the palestinians and israel? >> it's one curious fact in these last two years of incredible violence in egypt, syria and elsewhere the palestinian areas except for gaza have been relatively peaceful. what abbas is trying to do is trying to bypass direct

that means we turn now to bret baier, the host of "special report."y cow, the big 5-0. >> i know. and i'm going to see you this weekend. we have a christmas party to celebrate. >> in april. >> right. >> for tax purposes. >> exactly. you're going to talk about mickey rooney and then what are you talking about tonight on "special report"? >> we're going to talk about the president signing two executive orders tomorrow about trying to put forward the issue of equal pay for women. these executive orders deal with contractors, federal contractors. so we're talking about a quarter of the u.s. work force, and basically it's about transparency, that would require these federal contractors to list with the labor department sex and race for salaries and also prevent retaliation against -- >> is it a little embarrassing when it turns out the women at the white house, working for the white house also are not getting paid as much as men? >> yeah, you've got a couple of polls out there, staffs about the white house and how it breaks down. it breaks down executive b

one teacher pulled panicked students into a classroom to protect them from the attacker. 17-year-old bret hurt is still recovering in the hospital from a stab wound to the back and a t uise to his lung. >> what was going through my mind? will i survive or will... or will i die? >> reporter: hribel's attorney tells us he was home the entire night before the attack. in fact, he was in the same room with the rest of his family. r olde he also has a brother who is one year older who attends se same school. >> pelley: vinita, thank you. there was a scathing report today from the u.s. justice department accusing the police department in albuquerque, new mexico, of excessive force. a shooting was recorded by the police themselves and anna werner has included that in her report. >> reporter: this albuquerque police video was recorded last month. >> get on the ground! >> reporter: it captured the fatal shooting of james boyd, a man who was homeless and orffered from mental illness. police said he had a knife. it's one of the cases reviewed by joslin samuels' civil rights team at the justice depart

bret baier is here. into the scene's argument. why would anyone order online for ingredients and recipes and then cook it all of battle? he played with peyton manning and tom brady. who is the best order back? my fears about internet access in the sky. taking some very ball fights this christmas to new zealand and australia. do not sit next to me with a cell phone, please. ♪ stuart: check the big board please. strong sales at the casino operator. $24 for mgm. up 6% as of now. they offer nice products just in the price range of middle america. 20%. down goes the stock with it. goodyear tire. disappoints. nicole: the tire business was affected by the cold winter. they talked about the winter in north america. it is the biggest u.s. tire maker. maybe this move. today is a little bit overdone. they expects operating income to grow between 10% and 15% in the year 2014. do not let these numbers be a complete indicator for their growth potential for the year. stuart: thank you. the dow is up about 90 points. president obama quietly annou

bret baier joins us. there is breaking news this morning.s is the mayor of the second largest city in ukraine, shot in the back. he's in surgery right now in critical condition. this is a situation that is getting more tense as we talk about it each day. today also comes with the u.s. and the e.u. moving forward with additional sanctions against russia. these sanctions are going to be targeted to a number of other people, individuals around vladimir putin. they won't target putin himself as of yet. it also goes ever high-tech exports and defense exports from russia. the question is will it make an impact? is it making an impact? so far there is not evidence that it is as you hear about these shootings and more troops along the border. the administration thinks over time it's going to hit russia where it hurts. >> we see that eight unarmed observers who do this normal process were captured and they want to be exchanged by these russian supporters for other people on their side. so we'll see where that goes. on top of that, the sanctions could

." >>> good evening, i'm shannon bream, in for bret baier.al now for president obama, on top of problems like the terror attack on libya and iran's nukes, today what appears to be a chemical strike in syria and more trouble with russia and ukraine, all of that has the president's supporters blasting his foreign policy. one "new york times" comment tater is taking a big

." >>> good evening, i'm bret baier.ce again with violence directed at our most precious resource, children. a student went on a stabbing spree today at a suburban pittsburgh high school, about two dozen were hurt. the suspect was captured, but this attack happened not with guns, but with knives. national correspondent steve san taken is in m

washington, is now called children's national hospital had a fund-raiser and it was coe hosted by our own bret whose son had been through multiple operations through the children's hospital. he and his wife and ambassador and his wife from the arab emirates raised over $10.7 million for the hospital. it's -- they are going to have a book coming out this fall. >> great family. dana. >> you are going to love this one more thing, kimberly. because one of my favorite people in the whole world is preston. he's got america's cow. i just want to tell you all you girls. >> it's against the law. >> it's not against the law. let me tell you he's the most eligible bachelor, kimberly. >> i can see why. making out with cows. the man is a per vert. >> no, i mean, he's obviously very affectionate and cows love him. what's not to like, you know what i'm saying? >> we don't know if the cows love him. the cows may be terrified. >> and he pays his grazing fees, i hear. >> that's true, he does. >> here's what we found out on average of 2012, talking about war on women, the democrats say the republicans have a war

i'm bret baier in washington.icials say russian aircraft have entered ukrainian airspace several times in the last 24 hours. the u.s. is now urging russia to deescalate the situation here. this as the u.s. and european union prepare to leavy new sanctions on russia. we're also joints chiefs chairman has been in contact with his russian counterpart. >> ed henry is traveling with the president in seoul, south korea. >> while, president obama

. >> good evening, i'm bret baier, the census bureau is change the way it talk to you about health carened it could make negative comparisons about obamacare unprovable because they would bavl be comparing apples and orange. the administration and its supporters say this is much ado about not much. chief national correspondent jim engel has

i'm bret baier. desperate for a winning campaign issue are throwing out several options these days. one of them, equal pay for women. is one focus of president obama's attention this week. chief white house correspondent with more. >> as president obama moved today to officially shift the focus of the

." >>> good ending -- evening i'm shannon bream in for bret bear.a administration aides were concerned with protecting the president's image. seven weeks before the election, the new revelations go to the heart of the administration. >> an email sent three days after the benghazi

bret baier is here. thank you for joining us. the stakes on the ground, prorushiab fighters in eastern ukraine are starting to kill the police officers and go after the territory, has the invasion begun? >> it is already reports from the associated press said heavy gun four in a airport in eastern ukraine. russian separatist and masked men who are not wearing uniforms but they are directly tied they believe to russia have taken over government buildings in nine different cities and the ukranians are pushing back and there is already confrontation. this is a source situation. i don't think that you can overstate where we are here. it is elevating by the day and the tension is building and you have the russian freedom prime saying that this country is on the brink of civil war and using america as kind of the push back. he's saying that because america was america was involved ukraine can not elect its o g. he's saying a government should be a chiefed without imposters and nationalist and without tanks or secret visits by the direc

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke with bret baier about what this might mean going forwardis a blow to israel and peace. it is a terrible blow to the palestinian people because they must choose whether they want to go forward or backward. yesterday the palestinian took a huge step back from peace. >> they began talking nine months ago. he still believes peace can be salvaged mentd>> the middle of the country bracing for severe storms. >> everything from hail to tornadoes is possible. >> we are looking at a lot of activity expected across the center of the country. on saturday that does include states like texas, oklahoma, kansas and even nebraska. what we are looking at is the multi day severe weather outbreak of the season. large hail, damaging winds stronger than 68 miles an hour. on sunday the storm prediction center has highlighted the states of arkansas, eastern parts of oklahoma and eastern texas. the area shaded in red that is where we could be looking at tornadoes that could stay on the ground for a long amount of time and are dangerous. from eastern nebraska, illin

i'm shannon bream in for bret baier.p cop today outlined a plan to get more people out of prison. attorney general eric holder says thousands of inmates will soon be eligible for clemency. while the president characterizes this as righting a wrong, some seem a more cynical mova

." >>> good end, i'm shannon bream in for bret baier.the nations highest court has decided voters have a right to change the state constitution and prohibit factoring race or gender into hiring or college admission decisions. the case originated in michigan but it could have ramifications all overt country. >> i think today is a wonderful victory for the voters of

." >> good evening, i'm shannon bream in for bret baier. is april 15th, the deadline to get your income tax returns filed. this week, congressional republicans continue their efforts to ftd out who was behind the systemic targeting of conservative ups groups by the irs and what they have in mind could be much more serious than an audit. correspondent doug m

." >>> good end, i'm shannon bream in for bret baier. the nations highest court has decided voters have a right to change the state constitution and prohibit factoring race or gender into hiring or college admission decisions. the case originated in michigan but it could have ramifications all overt country. >> i think today is a wonderful victory for the voters of michigan. >> today, six justices joined together to uphold a decision by decision. riding for the manlt, justice anthony kennedy said there is no authority in the constitution or found in the court's precedence for setting aside the framework for allowing voters to use the lawful political process to make a decision. freedom braces the right to indeed the duty to engage in rational civic discourse in order to determine how best to form a couldn't sense to shape the nation and its people. these first amend dynamics would be disserve if this court were to say that the question were here at issue beyond the capacity of the voters to debate and then to determine. backers of the mi

i'm bret baier. welcome to washington.scrambling tonight to explain the email we told you last night concerning what appeared to be the administration's planned response to the benghazi terror attacks, additional instructions for then u.n. ambassador sun rice. the official story today the email is not about benghazi

bret baier, host of special report, good to see you. >> see you, gregg.he interview that kathleen sebelius gave in march tell a different story? we'll ask our media panel to weigh in on that coming up this hour. jenna: more sticker shock over premiums as a new survey of insurance brokers shows health insurance premiums have skyrocketed by more than 50%. national correspondent is live in d.c. with more. >> a recent survey of 148 insurance brokers shows obamacare sending premiums rising at a faster cliff than in recent memory. listen. >> so this was the largest percentage increase in any quarter since they've been doing the survey but a 12%, 11% increase puts it at the upper end of any increase we've seen for decades. >> that's the national average in a morgan stanley survey but the rates in some states are soaring. >> specific states is delaware at 100% increase, pennsylvania 28% increase. california had a 53% increase in their premiums. >> survey said the reason was obamacare. >> there are certain regulations, certain benefits that had to be in there. bec

professor bret wells, professor reuven avi-yonah. we appreciate both of you being with us this morning and look forward to your testimony. we appreciate you sharing your legal expertise. pursuant to rule six, all witnesses who testify before the subcommittee are required to be sworn. so i would ask you to both stand and raise your right hand. do you swear the testimony you you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? we will be using a timing system and one minute before there red light comes on you will see the light change from green to yellow and that will give you an opportunity to conclude your remarks. we will appreciate you limiting your oral testimony to seven minutes. we will have you go first mr. wells. >> very good. i am bret wells and an assistant professor of law at the houston law center. i have over 20 years of experience and i have published repeatedly on the topic of international taxation. i would like to thank senator levin and mccain for inviting me to testify

." >>> good ending -- evening i'm shannon bream in for bret bear. there is no evidence that obama administration aides were concerned with protecting the president's image. seven weeks before the election, the new revelations go to the heart of the administration. >> an email sent three days after the benghazi attack leads directly to the white house and suggests the senior adviser to president obama played a essential role preparing former u.n. ambassador susan rice for the sunday talk shows where she blamed an anti muslim video for the deaths of four americans. among the pages of documents is an email from ben rhodes. with subject line prep call with susan. rhodes writes to a dozen members of the administration's inner circle, including key players, such as spokesman jay carney, to underscore that these proceed refts are rooted in an internet video and not a failed policy. the document reads like a pr strategy. not an effort to provide the best available intelligence to the american people. >> the goal of the house was to do one thing primarily wa