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bret? >> bret: peter doocy, thank you.ead of new york city's jail system resigned today after a scathing report found that he and 20 other senior level employees regularly abused take home vehicle privileges. joseph ponte was hired to reform the city's rikers island jail for decades and inspector's report found month used his city issued suv for 90 days out-of-state trips last year mostly to his home in maine. stocks were mixed today. the dow lost 23. the s&p 4. the dow 5. for the week the dow lost half. the s&p 500 was down a third. the nasdaq was up a third. the u.s. and china have reached a trade deal that is being billed as a first step toward bigger agreements towards the world's top two economies. it lifts the chinese ban on imported american beef. china will be able to send cooked paltry to the u.s. -- poe u.s. have greatest access to bank card market. american delegates will attend a conference in beijing starting sunday showcasing china's infrastructure and trade plans with arab, africa and europe. let's get react

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bret? >> bret: doug, thank you. in charge of homeland security says the terror threat is much worse than most people realize. secretary john kelly told steve doocy and the "fox & friends" crew this morning there is a lot going on. >> i was telling steve on the way in here if he knew what i know about terrorism, he would never leave the house in the morning. >> bret: comforting. kelly calls the terror threat around the world everywhere, con stand, and nonstop. did the fbi violate its own rules on surveillance of american citizens? thousands of them? a story you haven't seen many places but we continue our reporting this week. details from james rosen next. ♪ ♪ ♪ did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back? say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet that's over 6 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. say hello to internet speeds up to 250 mbps. and add phone and tv for only $34.90 more a month. call toda

. >> bret: we are following a trio of breaking stories. an estimate out from the congressional budget office on what the house health care reform bill would cost and how many people it would cover. shocking new evidence tonight that the obama administration knowingly violated the constitution by conducting illegal search -- searches against americans for years. new information tonight about a tear or network about the deadly bombing in manchester, england. rick leventhal has the latest. >> good evening. u.s. defense officials are telling fox news that the alleged bomber salman abedi spent three weeks in libya before returning to england days before the attack. associated press releasing a photo of abedi walking in a shopping center last friday carrying a bag with a tag on it believed propelled the bomb on monday night. there was another raid tonight on a home just outside of manchester where police took a woman into custody believed to be connected to abedi's terror cell. heavily armed british officers raided an apartment building in centr

>> bret: this is a fox news alert. i am bret baier coming to you live tonight from riata saudi arabia. president trump has a big mission on his first foreign trip, reestablishing american leadership, repair relations with allies were cool to his predecessor, and make concrete steps toward an elusive peace deal. he is also trying to rally the saudis and the gulf states to stand together against terrorism and extremism and to stand up against a common foe, iran. the president left riyadh 15 hours ago for another historic leg of the trip. we begin our coverage with chief white house correspondent john roberts traveling with the president in jerusalem tonight. hello, john. >> good evening. so far, the president's first foreign trip, this went to the middle east, has been a success, citing new economic and military cooperation deals, recruiting help in the war on terror, stoking optimism of a mideast peace deal. about the only departure happened earlier today here in jerusalem. it was one of those unscripted moments, a shou

i am bret baier. you are watching a special edition of special report. tonight, another night with a breaking news story that has enveloped washington. trump administration is denying report first put out by "the new york times" than president asked then fbi director james comey to end the bureau's investigation involving michael flynn. and contacts with the russians. we have fox team covered. our reporters burning the midnight oil. catherine herridge joins us. james rosen with a case of double standards with intelligence sharing. mike emanuel on capitol hill with reaction from lawmakers. we start with the busy white house and john roberts. good evening. >> good evening to you. white house is disputing report in "the new york times" tonight that back in february in a private meeting in the oval office, the president asked then fbi director james comey to drop the investigation into lieutenant general michael flynn, former national security advisor. according to a note that was reportedly written by comey about the meeting, president trump allegedly said

bret? >> bret: doug, thank you.n charge of homeland security says the terror threat is much worse than most people realize. secretary john kelly told steve doocy and the "fox & friends" crew this morning there is a lot going on. >> i was telling steve on the way in here if he knew what i know about terrorism, he would never leave the house in the morning. >> bret: comforting. kelly calls the terror threat around the world everywhere, con stand, and nonstop. did the fbi violate its own rules on surveillance of american citizens? thousands of them? a story you haven't seen many places but we continue our reporting this week. details from james rosen next. ♪ ♪ you wouldn't want your painter to quit part way, i think you missed a spot. so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day? aleve, live whole not part. you want this color over the whole house? what makesheart healthysalad the becalifornia walnuts.r? the best simple veggie dish ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple dinner

bret. >> bret: mike emanuel live on the hill. thanks. one of the people who has been commenting about the investigation, he was doing his own investigation, a piece of this, that u.s. attorney in new york, new york. bharara, and he has just tweeted out, "having known him for years, i believe special counsel mueller is a very good thing. he is one of the best independent and no-nonsense." we are back with our panel. it seems that reaction is kind of overwhelming and the context here is that it does change the dynamic of this investigation. >> absolutely. this is kind of a calming moment, everybody has been frothing at the mouth on capitol hill, trying to figure out what to do. republicans have been super upset, externally as well as behind the scenes, talking to us, staying potentially is a time to talk about a president pence. >> i go back to the cia leak case, the last time we have that, i turned into a fiasco. the bush administration. president bush was questioned for more than an hour by the prosecutor, and that case, i'm sure preside

i am bret baier. the reality tv star billionaire businessman who made "you are fired" a catchphrase used it this afternoon and what is turning out to be one of his most controversial moves yet. president trump's dismissal of james comey has rocked washington. democrats tried to link the action to the investigation of a possible connection between the trump campaign and the russians before the elections. demands for a special prosecutor are louder tonight and democrats are jumping to watergate comparisons. john roberts starts us off from the north lawn. >> good evening. fbi director was fired for usurping the authority of then attorney general loretta lynch, but he announced the results of the investigation into hillary clinton's emails last july. the president's opponents were quick to make the firing about him and not the fbi director. there were handshakes from his police escort on the tarmac in los angeles as james comey boarded the fbi jet for the final time. while it was the president who fired c

i am bret baier. while much of political washington on both sides of the aisle is applauding the decision to name former fbi chief robert mueller as special counsel for the trump-russia investigation, president trump is defiant. twice today he's called it a witch hunt and painting it as sour grapes. a sour grapes mood by democrats who blew last fall's election, insisting it is past time to get this passed and unify the country to get big things done. chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight from the north lawn. >> good evening. president trump said he is close to naming a new fbi director, and white house sources tell fox news the leading candidate is the former connecticut senator joe lieberman. a lot of republicans believe lieberman would get universal confirmation in the senate, but at least two democratic senators, claire mccaskill and patrick leahy say it would be a mistake someone to that position was a political background. still, nominating lieberman may help turn aro

. >> bret: as tensions increase with north korea, the u.s. military is once again testing a missile capable of sending a nuclear payload across the world. the unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile blasted off and delivered a single reentry vehicle to target 4200 miles away in the pacific ocean. it's the second such launch from the central california based in the last seven days. north korea is confirming its holding another american citizen for allegedly plotting against the communist country. 58-year-old accounting instructor at pyongyang university of science and technology. he was stopped as he and his wife trying to get on a flight to china. north korea has not given a reason for the arrest. kim is the third american currently in north korean custody. tonight, senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot talks with a north korean defector. >> one of the best-known defectors from north korea and at 37, one of the most outspoken about the controlling north korean regime of kim jong-un. >> controlling people. to >> after fleeing nor

take it away, bret. >> bret: this is a fox news alert. i am bret baier in washington. moments ago, breaking news that no one saw coming today. we learned president trump has fired fbi director james comey. this comes just moments after the bureau issued a correction to a statement comey made to congress last week about the hillary clinton email investigation, and it is the latest chapter in what has been an extremely rocky tenure for the nation's top law-enforcement official. the news breaking 15 minutes ago, coming from the white house for that's where we had. she white house correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight. this is obviously earth shattering. >> to say no one saw it coming would be an understatement. clearly the attorney general and deputy attorney general and the president knew about it. fbi director learned about it a short time ago, and bret, this goes back to last year which is really the most surprising part of it. writing a memorandum for the attorney general, the deputy attorney general rob rosenstein said as you and i have discusse discussed,

i'm bret baier. the reverberations from tuesday's surprise firing of fbi director james comey have political washington in the kind of frenzy rarely seen even the most pressure packed times. president trump is defending himself, saying comey was not doing a good job. vice president mike pence is sticking up for his boss, calling the dismissal of the right at the right time. congressional democrats, some of whom have called for comey's head following the clinton email investigation or demanding a special prosecutor. john roberts joins us from the north lawn. >> good evening. in this tangled web of claims and counterclaims, one thing that we did learn today that was new, the firing of james comey had more to do with what president trump was thinking that we were first legibly. 24 hours after firing james comey, the white house today dramatically shifted the narrative. initially officials insisted they deputy attorney general made the recommendation in recent days. today the deputy press secretary said

. >> bret: this is a fox news alert. i am bret baier in washington. we have another pack show. breaking news on several fronts. head of the fbi on capitol hill today provided new context to his decisions about how we handled the clinton email and russia investigations pre-election. his testimony also led to new questions about former attorney general loretta lynch. and her role. and he pushed back on some presidential speculation. the controversial spending bill that had republicans rising up for what was in and not in the bill has now passed the house and heads of the u.s. senate. the biggest news today, new progress toward a health care reform bill that republicans seem to be rallying around tonight and a vote that may be coming as soon as tomorrow. we will show you what's changed in the last several hours. mike emanuel starts us off. >> good evening. after weeks of struggling to come up with enough support, republicans were say there's no real momentum. house majority leader kevin mccarthy says they're getting very close and some predict a vote could come as soon as tomorrow

i am bret baier. president trump may be setting the stage for an all-out war with senate democrats over the next budget. democrats have been gloating over shutting down much of the president's agenda in the most recent budget bill. the president says the government shutdown in september might be a good thing. essentially to shake things up here in washington. all this comes as congressional republicans battle with themselves again over health care. another vote looming if they have a vote. john roberts starts us off from the north lawn. >> the president prides himself on being the master negotiator and he is clearly incensed of charges from his own party that he got ruled by democrats on the spending bill. >> that's some big people behind me. >> with the champion air force falcons football team behind him, president trump dismissed complaints he caved to democrats on the spending bill. he got military spending and more. >> we brought lawmakers together from both sides of the aisle to deliver a budget

bret, back to you. >> bret: breaking news we have adam schiff, the democrat on the house intelligence committee. he is speaking on capitol hill. >> conversations with him on any of the russian investigation. i also think we ought to ask for the notes that were taken contemporaneously or shortly after those meetings, and of course if there are any tapes, as the president alleged, those should also be obtained by the congress. if necessary, i think we should subpoena them. but hopefully we can obtain any of these materials voluntarily. on the heels of an allegation that the president himself acknowledged that he brought up in the context of what the director would stay on as director, whether he was the subject of investigation. in the context of reports by the director or associates of the director that he was asked essentially for a loyalty test of the president. and now with allegations that the president urged him to essentially drop the investigation of michael flynn. enough is enough. congress needs to get to the bottom of this. we did have an opportunity to inquire further about

. >> bret: this is a fox news alerts. i am bret baier. president trump begins his second 100 days. he's making is on many fronts tonight. a wide range of interviews, he has had the following. he is considering trying to break up some big banks. he's also considering a hike in the gasoline tax to support infrastructure spending. the president spoke with paul ryan over the weekend said he believes the vote on a new health care bill will happen this week. plus president trump raised some eyebrows when he said he would be willing to meet one-on-one with north korean dictator kim jong-un. under certain conditions. and that no one is safe from the north korean threat, not even here. we have fox team coverage tonight. john roberts at the white house with the latest on the effort to repeal and replace obamacare. benjamin hall in london as the world waits for another nuclear test from the communist regime. brit hume looks at the politics here at home. we begin with rich edson at the state department. >> good evening. it is the strategy of urgency. that's the approach to confronting an incre

it's important the administration moves quickly. >> bret: mr. speaker, you know it's not just democrats who are raising a lot of concerns about this and about the timing of it. it's also republicans. this is senator burr, chair of the senate intel committee. >> the timing and the reasons for this decision made little sense to me. i don't think i've heard anything since last night that would clarify that in any way. the reasoning, dealing with an election issue from last year. if that was the impetus behind it, it should have been done on inauguration day. not in maine. >> bret: your reaction. >> welcome i think the president lost patience and i think people in the justice department lost confidence in director comey himself, and i think the president was looking at a situation where you had seen her justice department officials losing confidence in me does not want to see the fbi disarray. he wants to see the fbi up and running and moving well, i think director comey kind of become -- became an issue. it is within the president's authority and r

i am bret baier. former justice department lawyer fired by president trump says she tried to warn the incoming administration about general michael flynn as national security advisor, saying he could possibly be blackmailed by the russians. she told her story today for the first time on capitol hill. president trump issued a statement before sally yates took the stand and tried to deflect lehmann to yates and president obama. how the information was leaked, who leaked it, the unmasking of names and the question about collusion, all covered today in the hearings. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge was at the hearing. good evening. >> thank you, the hearing wrapped 15 minutes ago with the former acting attorney general testifying that she warned the white house counsel multiple times about flynn and the potential for blackmail. >> felt like it was critical we get the information to the white house. >> testifying before a senate committee, obama administration appointees sally yates brok

i am bret baier. president trump said it was his decision and his alone to get rid of the top man at the fbi. we are learning new details tonight about the president's thinking when he pulled the trigger on director james comey earlier this week. this comes as the new man at the top of the fbi, at least for the moment, did his best to get his political separation between the bureau and white house. fox team coverage. catherine herridge tells us more of what fbi acting director mccabe told lawmakers. we start off today with chief white house correspondent john roberts. >> good evening. the timeline of james comey's firing has changed significantly since we learned about it on tuesday. we are learning how upset the president really was with his former fbi director. in an interview with nbc news, president trump ripped the former fbi director up one side and down the other. >> he is a showboat, sb 28. the fbi has been in turmoil. everybody knows that. take a look at the fbi a year ago, it was in virtual

i am bret baier. the reality tv star billionaire businessman who made "you are fired" a catchphrase used it this afternoon and what is turning out to be one of his most controversial moves yet. president trump's dismissal of james comey has rocked washington. democrats tried to link the action to the investigation of a possible connection between the trump campaign and the russians before the elections. demands for a special prosecutor are louder tonight and democrats are jumping to watergate comparisons. john roberts starts us off from the north lawn. >> good evening. fbi director was fired for usurping the authority of then attorney general loretta lynch, but he announced the results of the investigation into hillary clinton's emails last july. the president's opponents were quick to make the firing about him and not the fbi director. there were handshakes from his police escort on the tarmac in los angeles as james comey boarded the fbi jet for the final time. while it was the president who fired c

president. >> bret: strong letter to follow. >> that's the restrained version of my reaction. >> bretank you, panel. what would you do on your 96th birthday? one w ..e w >> tonight, how would you spend your 96th birthday? to have an answer? pearl harbor survivor delton walling's celebrated his 96th birthday by jumping out of a plane. world war ii veteran, no stranger to skydiving but says he's putting away his chute after this latest jump because you never know what might happen in life end. while they want to spend more time traveling and getting motivational speeches. we thank you sir for your service and happy birthday. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight and that is it for the special report. fair, balanced, and unafraid. the story hosted by martha maccallum starts right now. >> anybody ever make a request to unmask the conversation between the russian ambassador and mister flynn? >> i can't answer a question like that. >> it is may 9th, grilled on the hill, sally eight and james clapper on the hot seat, collusion allegations, in washington. >> gruesome new details in a

i am bret baier. the man known for "the art of the deal" tried to seal the deal with nato allies, creating awkward moments. president trump wants them to pay what they promised, to pay for their defense. the president got an ear full from britton's prime minister. and then he took action. kevin corke starts us off. >> good evening. the president is asking the justice department to look into the leak by u.s. intelligence officials apparently to "the new york times" and that drew something that i think it would find fairly unprecedented, refusing to share information with u.s. intelligence officials as it relates specifically to the devastating terror attack that took place in manchester pray this is the latest fallout that threatened to overshadow the president's first visit to the nato summit. i have been all smiles during the photo at the nato summit in brussels but the seemingly sunny disposition of the leaders appeared to mask clouds of discord. especially after u.s. intelligence agencies were accu

i am bret baier. you are watching a special edition of special report. tonight, another night with a breaking news story that has enveloped washington. trump administration is denying report first put out by "the new york times" than president asked then fbi director james comey to end the bureau's investigation involving michael flynn. and contacts with the russians. we have fox team covered. our reporters burning the midnight oil. catherine herridge joins us. james rosen with a case of double standards with intelligence sharing. mike emanuel on capitol hill with reaction from lawmakers. we start with the busy white house and john roberts. good evening. >> good evening to you. white house is disputing report in "the new york times" tonight that back in february in a private meeting in the oval office, the president asked then fbi director james comey to drop the investigation into lieutenant general michael flynn, former national security advisor. according to a note that was reportedly written by comey about the meeting, president trump allegedly said

[laughter] >> bret: what was your tweet? you can't talk about the omb. >> the fun fact, in the dakotas you can say whatever you want about the cbo but you better have your will prepare it if you're going to talk about the omb. >> if he wins can the house refused to seat him? no. he's over 25 years old. he will have won the election peered he's an american citizen, and he's a resident of the state from which he comes. they can discipline once he is seated, but if they do that, they open up a can of worms because a lot of them did some things before they were in the house they didn't get on "special report" and t hey don't want to be disciplined. >> better be ready for reporters asking him more questions. >> bret: i have four tvs in my office, watching other cable networks. a lot of time spent on, this is president trump's issue because he opened this door about how he treats the press. >> absolutely not. i think there's obviously a lot of stress, political stress occurring nationwide, but this is gianforte's responsibility. h

bret baier. >> bret: this is a fox news alert. welcome to washington, i am bret baier. breaking news on the house intelligence committee's investigation into the unmasking of american swept up in government surveillance. there are two tracks to the investigation into what the term campaign did or didn't do, and also with the obama administration did or did not do with surveillance. breaking tonight, new details on the second tract. chief washington correspondent james rosen is here with details. good evening. >> fox news has confirmed that the fbi and cia and national security agency were all served today with subpoenas issued by the house intelligence committee. sources said each of these subpoenas referenced unmasking and each named as figures of interest three senior obama-era officials. susan rice was identified by multiple news organizations last month as someone who requested that names of trump associates that had appeared in coded form and classified intelligence reports be identified for her, or unmasked. rice denied wrongdoing at the time and told us today tha

he also once headed the tsa. >> bret: thank you. the latest on the russian investigations and the connection to presidential advisor and son-in-law jared kushner. what we know and what we don't know. here's the chief intelligence correspondent. >> a source spoke to jared kushner tells fox news that the meeting with the russian ambassador focussed on syria. as part of the transition role engaging with foreign delegation, the source said kushner wanted to do a call to furtherund their complaints. kushner said it was the russian who raised the issue of using a secure line for the call. emphasizing it was about syria and not a back channel. the white house spokesman was pressed on the issue. >> how is it appropriate for a private citizen to condoubt any signed of negotiation with a foreign official? >> i will refer you to the comments that the secretary said about how they can be important to diplomacy. >> anonymously sources told the "washington post" that kushner wanted to set up a back channel using russian facilities to make them fo

. >> bret: >> is the so-called fen effect making cops lives and yours more dangerous? this is "special report." ♪ good evening, i'm chris wallace, infrared buyer. we begin tonight with a challenging and dangerous time for law enforcement. in a new report, the fbi says national data shows officers are pulling back and response to new scrutiny and criticism of policing. and that means you and your family may not get the protection you need. correspondent kristin fisher explains what some call the ferguson effect. >> a 17-year veteran of the chicago police department says she knew she should have pulled her gun on a man high on pcp that was beating her, but she chose not to because she didn't want her family or the department to face the media firestorm that would have come next. that is the example used in a new study by the fbi to highlight the growing trend it calls the depolicing. according to the report, after the death of michael brown and the intense media scrutiny that followed, departments and individual officers have increasingly made the conscious decision to s

they don't pay me to ask questions, bret. i have a theory -- that this is a reaction against comey, over his helping hillary, you could argue the opposite that comey got trump elected because by noy bringing up charges against hillary, she would not -- if he had brought up charges, they would have replaced her with a viable candidate. you might have a president biden or a president winfrey instead of president trump. >> or bernie. >> they allowed the leastid popular candidate in history to go up against president trump.o is that a "yes" or "no" in theory? >> that's a dangerous question. she blames herself, in part james comey, and not only the first letter but the second letter that comes out and says there's nothing to the anthony weiner emails that are in the laptop, the clinton camp believed that fired up trump voters even more saying see, we told you. it was all establishment in the bag. what is also ironic is that some of these very senators, putting out these scathing statements tonight are the same ones that called for

they don't pay me to ask questions, bret. i have a theory -- that this is a reaction against comey, over his helping hillary, you could argue the opposite that comey got trump elected because by not bringing up charges against hillary, she would not -- if he had brought up charges, they would have replaced her with a viable candidate. you might have a president biden or a president winfrey in terms of president trump. >> or bernie. >> they allowed the least popular candidate in history to go up against president trump. is that a "yes" or "no" in theory? >> that's a dangerous question. she blames herself in part james comey and not only the first letter but the second letter that comes out and says there'sy weiner emails that are in the laptop, the clinton camp believed that fired up trump voters even more saying see, we told you. it was all establishment in the bag. what is also ironic is that some of these very senators, putting out these scathing statements tonight or are the same ones tt called for call me to step down whe

bret: saudis pledged to buy $350 billion of u.s.ary equipment and weapons over ten years and more than $160 billion of saudi investment in u.s. companies this year. president trump's first foreign stop has been filled with pageantry a soft contrast that was never greeted by the king and chilly relationship largely over his administration's dealings with iran. this trip the saudis are dancing in step. later president trump known for use of twitter to speech to stamp out extremism using social media. the trip was planned long ago but senior aides say they could not have asked for more in the first stop than the saudis warm embrace which is something else to talk about back home, chris. chris: bret baier reporting from rriyadh. joining us now from saudi arabia rex tillerson. president trump is urging for battle between good and evil and opening a center against extremism today, muslim leaders are pledging to cut off funding to radicals but the big question i have is, is this just talk or are there are some real teeth here, concrete mea

good to see you, bret. when john mccain says watergate people listen.ut on the other hand watergate started out with a crime. there has been no crime here yet except for leaking, very serious leaking some say is on par with treason. >> david, you're right. why you saw senator mccain walk that back, starting to feel with all the coverage that it was becoming a big event. the problem is that the coverage at some points is pretty breathless. we don't have the, there there yet. we are expecting jim comey to testify on capitol hill, perhaps as early as next week. there is some thought he might even appear wednesday. but that hasn't been locked in by the house oversight committee. jason chaffetz. and, you don't have the actual memos as of yet. david: right. >> we have reporting of the memos. and what exactly the context was. david: yeah. >> i think you're right, a deep breath at this moment is probably pretty good. "the times" is standing by the story. they say the memo exists, or sources they have say it exists. assuming that the memo exists some democrats a

want to bring bret back in here now.approved the idea of joining all these other countries, i think 68 in the fight against isis in syria and iraq principally because we know with open borders in europe you can travel from brussels and go to syria. and come back. and then go to paris and carry out a deadly attack. you can go from brussels into syria and come back and carry out a deadly attack at the airport in brussels as well and as we digest the information from this manchester massacre, we know he was in libya just a few days ago. open borders are fine but if you cannot control who is coming and who is going and if your lack of surveillance leads to massacres like we saw monday night, the leaders of these countries have a lot to answer for. >> if you think that we are concerned as a country, as a population, about terrorism, think about living in the heart of europe where the refugee and migrant population has increased exponentially after the syria situation. and you've seen more of these radical islamic events, terr

. >> bret: this is a fox news alert. bret baier will be reporting from the border between saudi arabia and yemen in a few moments, but we begin with the latest on that horrific bombing in manchester. lights afternoon, the british government raised the threat level and deployed armed forces to help with internal security. i had about potential attack. last night, it left 22 people dead, 59 people wounded, many of the victims chiller. they were all attending a concert by pop singer ariana grande. we have the latest from u.s. intelligence agencies on the attack. john roberts, traveling with president trump. we begin with our senior correspondent who is on the ground in manchester and going. good evening, rick. >> >> 24 hours after the deadly bombing, no screaming kids, no parents frantically searching for their loved ones, but there is a big police presence here, and the forces here on orders from the prime minister who is clearly concerned about another terrorist attack. >> throughout the day, it has been revealed that it

thank you, bret, for the very nice introduction., truly honored to be here as a guest, the deputy crown prince who invited here today and where is he, somewhere in the audience. thank you so much for the incredible hospitality. i've long been told about the samous middle eastern hospitality and we've experienced that over the last two days. it's been a remarkable experience, a remarkable journey, we want to extend our gratitude from the administration, my whole family, my father to king salman to the deputy crown pins and the crowned prince and everybody here today. [applause] , thank you. >> social media is an incredibly powerful tool. it empowers the people particularly the next generation, your generation. your generation is one of entrepreneurs. i spent a lot of time today meeting with some of the great saudi entrepreneurs, it was a privilege and honor, i learned so much from hearing about the unique opportunities and challenges that face them every day, but i've also seen the entrepreneurial spirit here at saudi very much at wo

bret baier is host of special report on the fox news channel. great to see you again, bret baier. let's talk about some of the winners and losers. who claims victory, republicans or democrats? bret: no matter your ideology or party you are with, this spending bill is not a profile in courage. this is essentially funding almost exactly like it was. it is not changing for the trump administration, and who claims victory? i think democrats can claim more victories than republicans namely that they kept funding planned parenthood, they did not see the cuts that were called for in the epa, the corporation of public broadcasting, big bird is fine, the national endowment of the arts. all of the things that were controversial in the budget blue print, they didn't come to pass. while there is more border security and more money for defense, it's much less than the trump administration wanted and it does not pay for the wall. kennedy: this a little bit more money for military spending. and part of that is from the enthusiasm that democrats showed when the president authorized those tom hawk