bret and i have exchanged a couple, yeah. i might do a blog where i just read them.immy kimmel, he had a tweet -- >> maybe to a rap. a good rap every. >> so what's the measure of success? because this was a high profile interview, which she makes news, whether you elicit information, whether ought out without embarrassing yourself? what's the standard that you apply? >> i think the news part is what we're striving for. and i think she did that on a number of different fronts. and the irs, the separation between hillary clinton and the administration was really astounding. i think some of greta's questions on a host of topics, the marine in mexico. when i asked her about the economy, right track, wrong track, and there's clearly this fine walk that hillary clinton is doing to be attractive to the left, but also distance herself from this administration. it's having problems. >> and i think another challenge for us is we work first. we had to be clever and find new ways to ask things because a lot of people who follow these interviews follow a lot of them. so we wanted

bret baier, anchor of special report. our fox news bret hume. i want to start on that with you bret baier, because the way the democrats are looking at this is there goes those crazy republicans again, infighting, civil war, don't know who they are, continue putting these crazy tea party candidates. all we've heard about, dave brat he's not a crazy candidate he's an academic who didn't like cantor's stance on immigration but the way it will be painted by the left they went with the extremist. >> sure. the releases are flowing out from the democrats and that's to be expected. they see this as a major scalp because they can say that this is the rise of the tea party. laura makes an interesting point about the issue of immigration period, one that we've been talking about and that this is a fervent, really important issue especially for conservatives across the board and if laura is on the phone i would love to ask her. when i was talking about low turn out and reign, clearly this is a small primary as compared to a big turn out for a general elect

bret baier, anchor of special report. our fox news bret hume. i want to start on that with you bret baier, because the way the democrats are looking at this is there goes those crazy republicans again, infighting, civil war, don't know who they are, continue putting these crazy tea party candidates. all we've heard about, dave brat he's not a crazy candidate he's an academic who didn't like cantor's stance on immigration but the way it will be by the left they went with the extremist. >> sure. the releases are flowing out from the democrats and that's to be expected. they see this as a major scalp because they can say that this is the rise of the tea party. laura makes an interesting point about the issue of immigration period, one that we've been talking about and that this is a fervent, really important issue especially for conservatives across the board and if laura is on the phone i would love to ask her. when i was talking about low turn out and reign, clearly this is a small primary as compared to a big turn out for a general election. it

bret baier, anchor of special report. our fox news bret hume. i want to start on that with you bret baier, because the way the democrats are looking at this is there goes those crazy republicans again, infighting, civil war, don't know who they are, continue putting these crazy tea party candidates. all we've heard about, dave brat he's not a crazy candidate he's an academic who didn't like cantor's stance on immigration but the way it will be painted by the left they went with the extremist. >> sure. the releases are flowing out from the democrats and that's to be expected. they see this as a major scalp because they can say that this is the rise of the tea party. laura makes an interesting point about the issue of immigration period, one that we've been talking about and that this is a fervent, really important issue especially for conservatives across the board and if laura is on the phone i would love to ask her. when i was talking about low turn out and reign, clearly this is a small primary as compared to a big turn out for a general elect

bret baier, anchor of special report. our fox news bret hume. i want to start on that with you bret baier, because the way the democrats are looking at this is there goes those crazy republicans again, infighting, civil war, don't know who they are, continue putting these crazy tea party candidates. all we've heard about, dave brat he's not a crazy candidate he's an academic who didn't like cantor's stance on immigration but the way it will be painted by the left they went with the extremist. >> sure. the releases are flowing out from the democrats and that's to be expected. they see this as a major scalp because they can say that this is the rise of the tea party. laura makes an interesting point about the issue of immigration period, one that we've been talking about and that this is a fervent, really important issue especially for conservatives across the board and if laura is on the phone i would love to ask her. when i was talking about low turn out and reign, clearly this is a small primary as compared to a big turn out for a general elect

ahead, bret and greta weigh in on how they approached the interview. but first, some liberal pundits want to hoot the -- off the stage. we'll debate that, next. thank you daddy for defending our country. >>> as the media debate about what to do about the major cities in iraq, there are cheerleaders for war. not everyone wants to hear from them. >> those idiots were ostracized, never heard from again because of how -- i'm kidding. and in this current crisis, the nud news media has rushed to get the band back together again. >> some anchors have been giving the pro war pundites and former bush officials a very hard time. >> apologies would be in order at this point from the new york conservatives who banged the war drums so disastrously, bill. >> hog wash. >> but time and time again, history has proven that you got it wrong, as well, in iraq sir. you said there was no doubt saddam husain had weapons of mass destruction. you said we would be greeted as liberators. what do us to those who said you were so wrong about the expense of so many? >> i fundamenta

up next, a conversation with bret baier about his awful ordeal. what it's like to watch your newborn baby cling to life. ke >>> bret baier was riding high at fox news when he and his wife, amy, had a baby only to learn that a defective heart could kill him at any moment. young paul had two open heart surgeries and a stomach operation in his first year. and the pain and the pressure on his parents was of course crushing. and bret recounts that ordeal in a new book. >> is it hard to watch, sweetheart, when you see everything that went on? you're okay? >> mm-hmm. >> and you did that race and everything? >> mm-hmm. when you see them? >> thank you for my life. >> bret's book is called "special heart: a journey of faith, hope, and love." i spoke with the anchor of special report right here in studio 1. >> bret, welcome. >> thank you. >> how hard was it relive the agony in the writing of this book? >> it was tough. i didn't think it was going to be as tough as it was. and getting back into some of these e-mails and some of these smoemts was pret moments

i'm shannon breen in for bret baier. president obama is making no apologies tonight for the prisoner exchange that freed an american soldier, but released what's being called a taliban dream team of terrorists. his defiance is not stopping the outcry over a deal many say should never have been done. jennifer griffin at the pentagon lifts a curtain on the sergeant. mike emanuel over how the deal was struck. we begin with ed henry who was with the president in war saw, poland. >> reporter: the president is here to reassure that the situation in ukraine is okay but he's dealing with a problem at home. his handling of foreign policy dipped to a low of 41% amid yet another crises. with questions back home mounting about whether president obama broke the law with the taliban prisoner swap, he used a news conference in poland to start pushing back hard. >> the united states has always had a pretty sacred rule, and that is we don't leave our men or women in uniform behind. >> reporter: well, the president said that rule applies

bret baier, welcome. >> thank you.ere. >> how hard is it to relive the agony of what happened in the writing of this book? >> it was tough. i didn't think it was going to be as tough as it was. and getting back into some of these e-mails and some of these moments was pretty emotional. and then as i was writing this book, we found out that paul, our son had to have a third open heart surgery. so the final chapter is the third open heart surgery. so getting into that and while i was finishing the book is -- >> it's largely a book about what happened in the past also became a duke about dealing with currently yet another surgery. but every page, it's a very personal book. any hesitation about going public with so much pain and personal story? at a time by your own admission your family is under great strain and you were not at your best. >> we had long discussions, my wife and i about this. and we came to the conclusion that by putting this out there, it possibly could help other families. and not just if they have a kid

you, bret, or amy or anybody who is reading this where bret writes i looked at amy and she had suren her eyes. i moved closer and held her hand as dr. martin continued to speak in a very calm but serious voice he said your baby has heart disease. heart disease can be simple or it can be complex. your son has a complex heart disease. he has a very complicated case. and your thought, amy, when you heard that? your life must have fallen apart. >> i felt like he was talking to someone else. i didn't think it could be our child he was talking about. because just the day before, he said that our child was perfect from head to toe. and i just didn't seem like it was possible. i mean, we went from like the highest of highs to all of a sudden the lowest of lows. it was absolutely devastating it was sort of like this out of body experience. it was almost hard to digest. >> it was just really mind blowing. >> everything froze. >> we this 24 hours of bliss with this new edition, this new baby and that just got erased by that moment. it was kind of like a nuclear bomb went off in that hospital r

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good evening, i'm bret baier. president who gets bipartisan criticism for not working with congress all the time, today talked with top lawmakers about iraq. this comes as a new poll shows more and more americans are wondering aloud if the obama presidency is over. more than half, 54%, think he cannot lead and get the job done the rest of his term. >>> and ms. breaking news of the use of u.s. air power in the gulf with correspondent ed henry. >> reporter: it's getting more tense in the persian gulf tonight with u.s. military using f/a-18 fighter jets launched off the "u.s.s. carrier george w. bush" are meant to sent extremists on the ground. amid the uncertainty in iraq, president obama huddled today with congressional leaders as the white house said the president may choose to not take any action. >> he's not ruling out and never does the use of military force in instances like this. that's not ruling in, or saying there's a certain use of military force. >> reporter: republicans teed off on reports suggesting th

if you're thad cochran tonight what your thinking, bret baier? >> i think you're thinking you have a real uphill climb because this, i think, all would argue that this energizes a tea party that perhaps wasn't -- they were energized but not to this extent. to be able to take out a house majority leader i think thad cochran who is now in a run off with chris mcdaniel in mississippi will have a real uphill battle to hold on to that seat. >> bret baier, special report each week night, 6:00 eastern here on fox. thank you. check out his book it's in bookstores every where. joining us now with much more, chief political correspondent carl cameron fox news contributor, tucker carlson. carl, earlier you brought up this sea coast trip that eric cantor had taken, the comes of senator mitch mcconnell and even john boehner joking around. there's a dismissive attitude and combative attitude towards tea party members in the republican party. >> eric cantor went down to florida and sponsored by a group called the republican main street partnership which was ess

if you're thad cochran tonight what your thinking, bret baier?ink you're thinking you have a real uphill climb because this, i think, all would argue that this energizes a tea party that perhaps wasn't -- they were energized but not to this extent. to be able to take out a house majority leader i think thad cochran who is now in a run off with chris mcdaniel in mississippi will have a real uphill battle to hold on to that seat. >> bret baier, special report each week night, 6:00 eastern here on fox. thank you. check out his book it's in bookstores every where. joining us now with much more, chief political correspondent carl cameron fox news contributor, tucker carlson. carl, earlier you brought up this sea coast trip that eric cantor had taken, the comes of senator mitch mcconnell and even john boehner joking around. there's a dismissive attitude and combative attitude towards tea party members in the republican party. >> eric cantor went down to florida and sponsored by a group called the republican main street partnership which was essentially

baier. >> bret, in your new book, you tell about a little girl. >> this week our guest is bret baier, anchor of "special report with bret baier" on the fox news channel and author of "special heart" chronicling the life and near death struggles of his son, paul, who was born with a rare and severe heart defect. >> bret baier in your new book called "special heart" you tell a story about a little girl named maggie. what is it? >> my son, paul, was in the hospital at childrens national. we were waiting to have his open heart surgery. he had been diagnosed with general heart defects and had to have the surgery otherwise he would die. part of waiting was being in the hospital and realizing all of the other families are there. you are kind of in the trenches with them. maggie's family. maggie had been through nine surgeries in nine months. we were really feeling for them. we were in that waiting room every day and walked past maggie's bed on the way to paul. on the day of paul's surgery we came in and maggie's family wasn't there. she passed away the night before. it was really, really ha

." >> good evening, i'm bret baier, coming to you live from fox news world headquarters in new york. the reactions to the release of the only known american prisoner of war in afghanistan could not be more opposite tonight. on one hand, a family and a hometown prepares to welcome home a son. on the other, criticism over the terms of the prisoner swap, the enormous price tag and what it could mean for other american military personnel down the road. national security correspondent jennifer griffin begins our coverage tonight from the pentagon. >> sergeant bowe bergdahl remains under care in landstuhl, germany. >> bowe has been gone so long it's going to be very difficult to come back. it's like a diver going on a deep on a dive. if he comes up too fast, it could kill him. >> the five taliban leaders released from gitmo looked row bust. among them are two deputy taliban defense commanders and another commander who should be tried for war crimes. >> there's deep concerns for these individuals who are the top hardest of the hard liners of being released and having the opportunity to reen

if you're thad cochran tonight what your thinking, bret baier? think you're thinking you have a real uphill climb because this, i think, all would argue that this energizes a tea party that perhaps wasn't -- they were energized but not to this extent. to be able to take out a house majority leader i think thad cochran who is now in a run off with chris mcdaniel in mississippi will have a real uphill battle to hold on to that seat. >> bret baier, special report each week night, 6:00 eastern here on fox. thank you. check out his book it's in bookstores every where. joining us now with much more, chief political correspondent carl cameron fox news contributor, tucker carlson. carl, earlier you brought up this sea coast trip that eric cantor had taken, the comes of senator mitch mcconnell and even john boehner joking around. there's a dismissive attitude and combative attitude towards tea party members in the republican party. >> eric cantor went down to florida and sponsored by a group called the republican main street partnership which was essentia

it was a very hollow tenure. >> kim, do you agree with bret?> i do. >> my question is, how does she distance herself from obama's record, if that record continues to deteriorate, and particularly on foreign policy, where she served for four years. if we see continuing spreading, global disorder, which we may, how does she separate herself from that? >> i don't think she does, and this is why i do disagree with bret. the situation here is very different from 2008. we were just coming off a republican president. you had a democratic audience that was very eager to get a democrat into the white house. now you've got an unpopular president, as you say. she's going to have to figure out how to distance herself while at the same time doing the miraculous feat of supporting some main democratic priorities that barack obama put into place. and moreover, you just feel every time the clintons come out -- and you're seeing this in the polls, this sort of clinton fatigue that they get out and it's just -- even democrats wonder if they really want to go bac

bret baier bret baie bret baier bret baier. >>> we do not know yet where the just captured suspect in the benghazi terror attacks will be held. guantanamo bay might be a possibility. there are several spots there since the trade of the taliban leaders for the p.o.w. the wbig question is who is lef? >> reporter: the high value detention camp at guantanamo bay is like a who's who of the terrorist world. there's the alleged master planner that killed seven. and the operations chief for the al qaeda network and indonesia's equivalent of osama bin laden. with eight high value detainees already in the military trial system, the chief said they were important to court. >> it is an important source for incapacitating and punishing terrorists and those who violate long stand standing armed confl. >> reporter: many may be prosecuted at guantanamo and this week, the man alleged to go between afghanistan and taliban. and the obama administration has brought no detainees to the camp. >> they think if they bring one or two detainees to the island and get a lawyer and access to the court, that's inc

good evening, i'm bret baier. islamist extremists are rising up with a vengeance in iraq tonight, two years after the u.s. withdrew its troops from the war-torn country. described by some as a more radical version of al qaeda, these extremists are on the move to baghdad. now the iraqis are asking for help from the u.s. again. we have fox team coverage. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon looking at the options of for the u.s. in iraq. we begin with chief white house correspondent ed hen ary on the extremely sensitive subject of new involvement on an old battlefield. good evening, ed. >> reporter: good evening. as iraq is heading closer to implodement, the vice president called the iraqty prime minister, pledges the u.s. is going to step up security support for iraq but exactly what form that will take is unclear. iraq was on the verge of a full-scale meltdown with thousands of iraqis fleeing mos mosul. the group's goal may be building az an islamic state to launch another 9/11. >> i don't know twha the president i

he did not, bret. i have known several presidents quite well, including my husband, and i worked closely with president george w. bush and the white house then after 9/11 and i served with president obama. i disagree with all three of those presidents on certain things. can i tell that you right now. but i also believe each has tried to do what he thought was best for the country. and i would only be seriously disappointed in any president if i thought that in some way he was either ignoring or undermining the national interest. and, i never saw that in any of those three men. even though as i say i disagreed with all of them on something. >> in an interview with cbs. you are asked about politics and a viable woman if it's not you you replied politics is so unpredictable whoever runs has to recognize that the american system is probably the most difficult, even brutal in the world. >> yeah. yeah. >> have you been to more than 100 countries. most brutal? >> not in a beat you up sort of sense. but in an

we will debrief bret. then miller on iraq and the world cup.o those reports. sfx: car unlock beep. vo: david's heart attack didn't come with a warning. today his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. if you've had a heart attack be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ she can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ my mom works at ge. [ male announcer ] it's one of the most amazing things we build and it doesn't even fly. we build it in classrooms and exhibit halls, mentoring tomorrow's innovators. we build it raising roofs, preserving habitats and serving america's veterans. every day, thousands of boeing volunteers help make their communities the best they can be. building something better for all of us. ♪ >>> personal story segment tonight. bret baier and hillary greta van susteren int

joining me now bret baier, anchor of "special report."is stirewalt, our fox news digital politics editor and brit hume and campaign carl cameron is here as well. look at that lineup. look at those guys. those are four handsome gentlemen right there ready take that us through this. let me start with you, brit. we haven't heard from you yet on this. i want to get your take on the hugeness of this loss for acre cantor. >> first of all, the margin is amazing. i mean, we are looking at now with not everything fully counted in excess of 10 percentage points. this from a guy who had practically no money. he was way, way overspent as has been pointed out by somebody way better known who had not been thought to be in any serious political trouble. of the con generational wisdom on this has begun to form it goes this way. this is bad news long term for the republicans and great news for democrats. and here's why. because it is argued by some, that immigration reform will now never pass with republicans who will be, you know, very much chastened by

. >>> good evening, i'm bret baier. coming to you tonight live from chicago. we'll go in depth on a couple of big political races here in the land of lincoln a little later. but first the growing war over the prisoner swap that sent an american soldier back home from a taliban-controlled part of afghanistan. it is polarizing the american public. 45% approve in our new foxes new poll of this move. 47% disapprove. we have fox team coverage tonight on the soldier for five taliban leaders deal. we begin at the pentagon tonight with national security correspondent jennifer griffin and reaction to the taliban video of bowe bergdahl's hand over. >> it's not unusual for the taliban to videotape moments such as this and turn them into propaganda for their followers, painting this exchange as a victory. >> sergeant bowe bergdahl blinks rapidly as his captor approaches his vehicle. his eyes appear to be adjusting so sunlight, suggesting he was blind folded moments before. the 17-minute video shows taliban holding a white flag as they approach helicopter. as they turn to

special reporter bret baier has a new book out today called "special heart."uccesses and good fortune but then the story takes a challenging turn. hours after brett and his wife welcomeded their first child into the world doctors had some alarming news for them and what a journey it has been since that day nearly seven years ago. joining me now, my friend and election night co-anchor, bret baier. great to have you here. i remember it very well because you and amy had paul. you sent out the typical e-mail welcoming in the world and shortly thereafter we received an e-mail, my husband and i dated july 1, 2007 not as we expected. thank you all for your kind words and good wishes after the last e-mail. now we would like to ask you for something else. your prayers. >> yeah. that was tough. tough time. we had the moment where we had this blissful 24 hours with paul. and parents know that. when you meet your new addition and a nurse noticed he was turning pale. they took him for tests. they thought it was a bacterial infection. they called in a cardiologist. he diagn

he did not, bret.known several presidents quite well, including my husband, and i worked closely with president george w. bush and the white house then after 9/11 and i served with president obama. i disagree with all three of those presidents on certain things. can i tell that you right now. but i also believe each has tried to do what he thought was best for the country. and i would only be seriously disappointed in any president if i thought that in some way he was either ignoring or undermining the national interest. and, i never saw that in any of those three men. even though as i say i disagreed with all of them on something. >> in an interview with cbs. you are asked about politics and a viable woman if it's not you you replied politics is so unpredictable whoever runs has to recognize that the american system is probably the most difficult, even brutal in the world. >> yeah. yeah. >> have you been to more than 100 countries. most brutal? >> not in a beat you up sort of sense. but in an absolute

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bret, the president will address the nation in a few moments from now.you expect him to say? what can he say? >> well, you know it is interesting to see. i think we'll find out whether the administration is going to step up with airstrikes inside of iraq. the going bet is that they won't. but, this is getting to a point where you are having potentially a failed state in iraq as these, it is not just terrorists. these are organized battalions of radicalized extremists, islamic radicals. they have co-opted some of the sunnis, the baath party, who has really been pushed out of prime minister mall laakky's government in iraq. there is uproar in the sunni community. they have signed up with this effort by this group, isis, that is almost, they are, more radical than al qaeda. uma, describing some of those pictures on the roads. there are amazing stories. muslims not conservative enough, sharia law compliant enough getting killed by this group along the way. mosul, tikrit, few smaller towns, 30 miles outside of baghdad, with obviously the goal to take over the

bret? >> casey cistegall in dallas, thank you. >>> how live anthrax got lools at the most secure research facility. female announcer: don't miss sleep train's 4th of july sale. save $300 on beautyrest and posturepedic. plus, pay no interest for 36 months on tempur-pedic and icomfort. sleep train's 4th of july sale is on now. ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>> it turns out the nation's most secure research facilities were not secure enough to keep the lid on deadly bacteria. cnn national correspondent john roberts has the alarming details tonight from atlanta. good evening, john. >> reporter: alarming to say the least, bret. it is shocking and concerning when the people who dedicate their lives to protecting us from deadly diseases get exposed themselves. the centers for disease control in atlanta said there was a mistake at the three laboratories, a lab similar to the one you're looking at in these pictures, the lab was preparing samples of anthrax bacteria to send to laboratorie

i'm bret baier. the search for truth about what happened to emails concerning the irs targeting of conservative groups today touched on the subject of legality. republicans have long claimed the irs violated the law. and as chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuel tells me even though federal workers say they may have crossed the line in disappearance.

i'm bret baier in washington. now we will send it back to new york and the o'reilly factor. >>> factor follow up segment tonight. the great american retreat of 2014. no question the u.s.a. is losing influence abroad. here at home border chaos still shaking the economy and a number of major problems. fair to say america is in decline at least at present. charles krauthammer addressed that last night. >> there is a big difference between decline as a condition and decline as a choice. what we have with obama is a president choosing decline. we have a president who doesn't believe in american exceptionism, exceptionalism and america's greatness he has chosen for america to retreat from the middle east and not lift a finger places like ukraine. basically to make us one nation among others.

lou: bret, thanks a lot. all the best. >> appreciate it.ou: bret baier, the book, "special heart," indeed. quite a few special hearts in that family. the proceeds go of course to the family's favorite concern and charity right now. and that's pediatric medicine and -- what are some of the groups that you're donateing? >> various nonprofits, every dollar will go to the pediatric research and treatment. there's a ton of stuff going on. lou: bret baier and his family helping and you can too to make sure that stuff keeps going on. time for comments. social media authors receive a copy of my new book "border war." co written with jim born, asking whether president obama should have released five radical islamist terrorists for sergeant bergdahl. john tweeted us, obama released five terrorists for one deserter. what has he done for a good marine in mexico? >>> frank in new jersey asks, would it be reasonable for americans to be offended by obama's lack of interest and action with a marine in prison in mexico being abused? >>> and richard in india

." >> good evening, i'm bret bear. it's better harder and harder with anyone to have anything on either side of the aisle to have anything nice to say about the entire deal. the fact is compounded by media reports of just how lavishly those taliban figures are living right now. chief white house correspondent reports it's making life tough on an em battled restless president. president obama slipped out of the white house unannounced to grab a cup of tea at a starbucks. republicans and some democrats are not backing off from questions about the release of bowe bergdahl. the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee, mike rogers questioning whether the president abused his executive power and paid too high a price giving up five taliban commanders in the prisoner swap. >> we have made a serious, serious geo political mistake. >> the democratic chair of the senate intelligence committee, dianne feinstein also questions why the administration failed to secure a broader agreement with the taliban? which put t

i had a good time working with bret baier too. that was really fun.>> the o'reilly factor is on. tonight: >> regardless of how long it takes, we will will find you. and i want to make sure that everybody around the world hears that message very clearly. >> u.s. special forces grab one of the alleged ringleaders of the benghazi killings in libya. he is now on his way to america. meantime, the al qaeda atrocities mount in iraq. what will president obama do? charles krauthammer, john stossel, and i will analyze. >> talk about the border patrol too biz jr. changing diapers and not going after dope peddlers and illegal immigrants. >> border crisis getting more intense as tens of thousands of foreign children

and our "power player of the weed," bret baier on his son's amazing story of survivasurviva right now on "fox news sunday." and hello again from fox news in washington. we'll get to hillary clinton's new book and what it means for 2016 in a moment. but first, some breaking news. the lone american pow of the afghanistan conflict is now in germany. after almost five years in captivity. the taliban turned over army sergeant bowe bergdahl in exchange for five high level afghan detainees being held at guantanamo bay. let's bring in fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin. >> chris, right now sergeant bergdahl is being seen by specialists in landstuhl, germany. he has not spoken to his parents. intelligence are trying to glean anything they can about his time with the taliban. >> he wasn't forgotten by his country because the united states of america does not ever leave our men and women in uniform behind. >> only very, very few people knew about this operation. we did not want to jeopardize any leaks. >> bergdahl broke down whether he was on the helicopter being flown to

news , "q & a" with fox anchor and author bret baier. then another chance to see the discussion about the defense and foreign policy goals of president obama. >> for over 35 years, c-span brings public affairs events to washington putting you in the news and offering complete gavel-to-gavel coverage of the house. we're c-span created by the cable industry 35 years ago and brought to you as a >> this week on q&a, our guest s bret baier. >> bret, in your new book, you tell about a little girl.

bret. >> ed henry live early saturday morning in normandy. an amazing day. >>> new reaction tonight to last night's fox exclusive on what happened to sergeant bowe bergdahl during his time enemy captivity. chief washington correspondent james rosen broke the story. he has new information tonight and reports the american soldier is said to be making progress physically. >> reporter: military positions at langstuhl regional medical center in germany said the former prisoner is improving daily. sergeant bergdahl is receiving more complete medical exams, the hospital said in an statement. an inherent and critical part of the reib at this grags process is a decompression period that has been established to mawxs return health and welfare. >> they did not factually challenge documents produced by fox news on early in the week. the firms highly detained report named the commanders who held bergdahl. document his escape in 2010 and his imprisonment in a metal cell. >> i see no evidence to support the notion that are outlined in those private company'

good evening, i'm bret baier.dent who gets bipartisan criticism for not working with congress all the time, today talked with top lawmakers about iraq. this comes as a new poll shows more and more americans are wondering aloud if the obama presidency is over. more than half, 54%, think

we'll be watching, bret. starts at 6:45 eastern time.. >> set you alarm on your smart phone. team usa making history at the world cup. blowing past ghana. 32 seconds into the match driving the crowd wild in brazil and here at home. this is a team that knocked the us out of the tournament in 2006 and 2010. he is the first american to score in three world cups. ghana scored late in the game coming back but the game winner was a header from john brooks who is of german and american descent and getting the victory 2-1. vice president biden missed the goal but caught up with him for this photo. next they will take on portugual and they are playing one man down. that game is on sunday and just a little clarification. he said the coach of the united states team said they couldn't win. he didn't any games but they will not win the world cup. >> i think sunday 6 eastern and the following thursday at 12 noon. i think we will win the whole thing. we are well on our way. >> would you like to bet on that? i can win back the money i lost last time. >>

dear, bret, hi, dear, how are you today? i hope all is well with you. my name is miss linda.i just went through your profile in this site. my dear, i am interested in knowing more about you. waiting to hear from you soon. this is pretty cool. i was excited about it, you know what i mean? especially in africa. so i looked it up in the encyclopedia, because i didn't know where dakar was, in africa. so it was pretty cool. the hardest part about doing time, of course i miss my kids, my little niece i never met. so that kills you. but when they call mail, and go out there on the railing, and you stand up there and see all your brothers and friends getting mail, over and over and over, and you're just standing up there, as bad as you want it, it ain't going to come. so here we are. >> while bulmer looks ahead to the possibility of finding love, inmates eric glass and erik coleman look back to the past. and what they've lost. >> just looking at our kids, how much they've grown and everything. reminiscing over the family, how much stuff we've missed. >> it hurts, it hurts. certain pa

bret will be here tonight. >> goldberg on the. who americans love and who they loathe. >> al sharpton. i think he is sneaky, conniving. just don't trust him. >> caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪. >>> i'm bill o'reilly, thanks for watching us. net another controversy in the white house. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. it truly amazing -- i have never seen almost every week there is another intense situation raising questions about presidential leadership. last week it was the v.a. this week, a trade with the taliban to get an american soldier released from captivity. 28-year-old sergeant bowe bergdahl was captured by the taliban in afghanistan on june 30th, 2009. apparently he slipped out of his camp and the terrorists grabbed him. over the weekend the president made a deal with the taliban to have the sergeant released immediately. in return, five top taliban terrorists were held who were held in guantanamo were flown to the gulf station of qatar. taliban

. >> this week our guest is bret baier, anchor of "special report with bret baier" on the fox news channel and author of "special heart" chronicling the life and near death struggles of his son, paul, who was born with a rare and severe heart defect. >> bret baier in your new book called "special heart" you tell a story about a little girl named maggie. what is it? >> my son, paul, was in the hospital at childrens national. we were waiting to have his open heart surgery. he had been diagnosed with general heart defects and had to have the surgery otherwise he would die. part of waiting was being in the hospital and realizing all of

night on c-span -- >> this week our guest is bret baier, anchor of "special report with bret baier" onthe fox news channel and author of "special heart" chronicling the life and near death struggles of his son, paul, who was born with a rare and severe heart defect. >> bret baier in your new book called "special heart" you tell a story abo a