bret? >> bret: john, thank you. you information tonight about the infamous trump tower meeting between the presidents son, donald trump jr., and some of his father's campaign ads as well as a russian lawyer who supposedly had damaging information about hillary clinton, or it was thought so at the time. peter doocy is on capitol hill with the latest. >> donald trump jr. is that he kept his dad in the dark in june culling with potential dirt on hillary clinton. they asked, why wasn't i told about this meeting? no he didn't. did you find that audit? no, because he wasn't aware of it. the meeting almost didn't happen. rob goldstone told congress, i believed it was a bad idea and we shouldn't do it and i gave the reason for that being, i'm a music publicist. politics i knew nothing about. once the meeting started, things unfolded like this, according to a u.n. citizen of georgian descent who works for a group run by a russian oligarchs. mr. trump asked if they got anything on hillary, to which he responded, why don't you

this is "special report." >> ♪ >> ♪ >> bret: i am bret baier.sident trump said his proposal to cut prescription drug prices is to derail the special interest gravy train encouraged by obamacare. the rich middlemen won't be rich anywhere. john roberts starts us off with the president's pill plan. >> this is a day that the major drug companies have been dreading for a couple of years. president trump promiseed to put the screws to the big pharmaceutical and began that today. in a week with foreign policy, president trump turned to domestic policies to make good on a campaign promise to lower prescription drugs costs. >> my administration is launching the most sweeping action in history to lower the price of prescription drugs for the american people. >> his plan is to attack the problem on multiple fronts. encourage innovation. the white house claims the u.s. shoulders an unfair burden of drug development costs as other nations force pharmaceutical companies to discount prices. john kelly said a big problem for illegal immigration is many people c

bret? >> bret: eric, thank you.senate democratic leader harry reid is said to be in good spirits tonight after surgery to remove a tumor from his pancreas. reid's family say doctors caught the problem early during routine screening. the 78-year-old senator will undergo chemotherapy and his prognosis for recovery is good. president trump makes good on another campaign promise. moving the u.s. embassy in israel to jerusalem. we'll talk about the move, the reaction and what comes next when the panel joins me after a quick break. ♪ ♪ prepare for your demise, mr. billingsley! do your worst, doctor. i will. but first, a little presentation. hijacking earth's geothermal energy supply. phase 1. choosing the right drill bit. as long as evil villains reveal their plans, you can count on geico saving folks money. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. ♪ >> jerusalem is the seat of israel's government. today we follow through on this recognition and open our embassy in the historic and sacred l

bret? >> bret: casey stegall, live in santa fe.we have seen all too many times, including tonight in texas, police across the nation and the world are facing more seemingly violent and sophisticated attacked by better armed and more resourceful attackers. one way they are dealing with this is with some equipment that some people say is too effectiv effective. senior correspondent rick leventhal looks at this conundrum tonight from pittsfield, massachusetts. >> reporter: you may not know what a bearcat is what you have probably seen one. deployed by swat and a tactical teams responding to violent protests and barricade situations, or to save people trapped in floods and mudslides. police department across the country have been stocking up on the arm and trucks, taking advantage of a federal program enacted in the 90s allowing law enforcement access to this type of equipment. a program temporarily suspended by president obama, reinstated by president trump. >> if you want to give them the best equipment that can to protect themselves

bret. >> bret: story on that a little bit later. john, there is some reporting tonight that the white house is considering opening up the meeting to possibly democrats as well. classified intelligence briefin briefing. may be pushing it down from thursday. >> chuck schumer has been stating in the last 24 hours that he thinks they should be handled by the so-called gang of eight leadership in congress. there had not been any move toward that but if this report is correct, there could be some move. that would be in addition to chairman nunes and german gaudi pair will run some traps on it then get back to you soon as we can. >> bret: john roberts reporting from the white house. thanks. major developments made concerning presidential advisor and son-in-law jared kushner. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is in washington to tell us. good evening. >> good evening. fox news confirmed through multiple sources of the president son-in-law jared kushner recently received his full security clearance. late today his lawyer sa

bret? >> bret: ellison barber live in cleveland. we will have results and updates throughout the night here. up next, president trump withdraws the u.s. from the iran nuclear deal. we get reaction from the panel as they react to how the world is reacting, when we come back. , plus 21 vitamins and minerals including calcium and vitamin d, to help your family be their best. carnation breakfast essentials®. i'm still giving it my best even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i'm up for that. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. so what's next? seeing these guys. don't stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. don't take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding

bret. >> bret: the archdiocese of st.and minneapolis has agreed to a $210 million settlement with 450 victims of clergy sexual abuse. that is according to a victim's attorney. the money will go into a fund to pay survivors. the deal is part of the church plan for victim reorganization. at the archdiocese is 1 of 15 across the country to file for bankruptcy seeking production by sexual abuse of clergy members. gasoline prices for the summer are easing abates right now. that is because the u.s. is said to be in the driver's seat when it comes to energy coming forward. alesia kunio tells us now how from denver. >> with the price at a pump at a seven year high, some may question the gupta lament president when he says. >> we are strong on enemy. essentially now energy independent. >> analyst say the president is cracked. good news is on the horizon. >> it is fair to say that the overall policies on deregulation by this administration have been constructive. >> for decades the organization of petroleum exporting countries or o

i'm bret baier. we are coming to you tonight from the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california. more on why i am here a bit later in the show. we begin on the other coast however, as president trump meets with three of his top national security officials after calling for a major investigation into reports the fbi had a plant, an informant, spy, whatever you want to call it, and his presidential campaign in 2016. president trump especially wants to find out what his predecessor president obama knew about it. judging by his tweets, the 45th president clearly considers this part of a big conspiracy. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge starts us off tonight with the investigation. >> in a statement late today the white house press secretary said there is an agreement for the chief of staff john kelly to immediately bring together law enforcement and intelligence agencies with congressional leaders so that lawmakers can view the highly classified records they requeste

i'm bret baier. we are coming to you tonight from the richard nixon presidential library in yorba linda california. part of a two week tour. what could be a major step backward in the effort to eliminate the threat of north korea's nuclear weapons program. president trump says there's a good chance next month's planned summit with kim jong un will not happen on schedule. the president indicating today the meeting will either be on his terms or it won't happen at all. and it could very well be delayed as a possibility. chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off from the north lawn tonight with where the summits prospects are. good evening. >> good evening. in the oval office today, president trump said the chances of a summit between him and north korean leader kim jong un is basically a coin flip. 50/50, the president said. the white house is still making plans. president trump has repeatedly stated that the summit with kim jong un may happen. it may not happen. we will see. in the ov

bret? >> bret: mike emanuel on the hill.he senate has confirmed the president's pick to run the central intelligence agency. senators approved gina haspell by 854-45 vote this afternoon. six democrats voted in favor of haspell and two republicans voted against her. her nomination had been contested by some senators, unnerved by her role in the 9/11 enhanced program. how the impeachment process against the republican governor could hamstring g.o.p. candidates possibly in the november midterm. we will have a report, when we come back. there's nothing small about your business. with dell small business technology advisors you get the one-on-one partnership you need to grow your business. the dell vostro 15 laptop. contact a dell advisor today. i'm your phone,istle text alert. stuck down here between your seat and your console, playing a little hide-n-seek. cold... warmer... warmer... ah boiling. jackpot. and if you've got cut-rate car insurance, you could be picking up these charges yourself. so get allstate, where agents help

bret? >> bret: the president's nominee to run the cia is issuing her strongest statement yet about the agency's role in the enhanced interrogation program following 9/11. gina haspell now says it should have never taken place. the comments, in a letter to senators as the trump administration works to try to shore up support for her confirmation, amid an intensifying public debate over torture. at this time, tonight, it appears that haspell has the votes to be confirmed. a committee vote is set for tomorrow. in the meantime, another of the presidents picks to a key national security position appears to be against the president's decision to reverse course on tough penalties against the major chinese telecom company. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has that tonight from capitol hill. >> the president's nominee to track her terrorist and communist threats singled out high risk. >> would you recommend anyone in any position that a sensitive weather and commerce or government

>> bret: i don't know.e're on our third cycle of this story, which is -- >> melissa: and there's bigger things going on. >> and my mother is fighting cancer. if anybody said anything like that, i would wait to punch them in the mouth. country justice. >> melissa: and i leave you. >> and i wouldn't want to be in the post. >> melissa: voters head to the polls. why democrats are worried the odds of a blue wave could be dwindling and what the results could say about the president's influence ahead of the mid-term. hey! we didn't have a homeowners claim last year so allstate is giving us money back on our bill. well, that seems fair. we didn't use it. wish we got money back on gym memberships. get money back hilarious. with claim-free rewards. switching to allstate is worth it. not in this house.? 'cause that's no ordinary family. that's your family. which is why you didn't grab just any cheese. you picked up new kraft expertly paired cheddar and swiss for eggs. beat that! kraft. family greatly. >> tech: don't w

[cheers and applause] >> bret: mr.risey, you are running as an insurgent republican, a political outsider. but you worked on capitol hill. and as a big-money lobbyist in d.c., so how are you not a creature of the swamp? >> i think it is very clear of all of the candidates on the stage, i am actually the only one with a conservative record of results. and when so many people here on the stage either abandon the state or they were on the barack obama team, i was literally by myself suing barack obama because he threatened our way of life here in west virginia. he came after our coal jobs. i was the only one to stand up. i fought against barack obama. we took him all the way up to the u.s. supreme court and beat him 5-4, that was not an easy thing to do. we built a 27 state coalition to do that. we went after obama's illegal amnesty. these guys were in active in all of these fights when west virginia needed a proven conservative fighter to change the abortion laws in our state. neither of these guys were around. they woul

hey, bret. i don't have anything funny. >> bret: president trump prepares to welcome home three prisoners held in north korea. iranian lawmakers burned the u.s. flag enchanted death to america after the decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal. and the president's pick to run the cia said she will never restart enhanced interrogations. this is special report. >> bret: welcome to washington, i'm bret baier. president trump is right now so bring a foreign policy when, setting the table, table for what he hopes will be an even bigger one. three americans detained in north korea are on their way home tonight and they are returning with secretary of state mike pompeo who's surprised trip to meet with kim jong un has also produced a specific date and place for his summit with the american leader. rich is starting us from the state department. >> secretary of state mike pompeo is returning from the united states with much more of the summit between president trump and kim jong un planned. he's also r

bret baier is at the white hous white house. >> this is brett bret baier ate white house. but first a pair of breaking stories. two prominent people publicly on the conservative side of the political spectrum, he may say, are out of jobs tonight. comedian roseanne barr who plays a character with her chump sympathies has lost her highly rated tv show following a tweet that many people considered racist and almost all, including abc, considered over the line. and at missouri republican governor eric greitens, once considered a rising star in the g.o.p. has just resigned this afternoon i made an impeachment effort sparked by a pair of scandals that we have been covering here on special report for weeks. first, to our midwest newsroom, and governor greitens was mired in political scandal, and it was an active special session in the missouri house to consider whether greitens was going to be the first governor in missouri's history to teach impeachment proceedings. he was also facing a trial and now a short while ago the governor formally announced his resignation. however, the

. >> greg: never miss an episode of the five, get ready, get set, here comes bret baier. >> bret: president trump releases three americans in north korea as the breakthrough of the d loop back -- breakthrough process. and are the robots coming? white house has concerns about artificial intelligence, where is that coming? this is "special report." ♪ good evening and welcome to washington, i am bret baier paired right now three americans held prisoner in north korea for more than era back on u.s. soil. they arrived early this morning along with the secretary of state mike pompeo after what appears to be a hugely successful -- bloom at a trip to the hermit kingdom. and we know where and when kim jong un will meet with president trump. all of this happens against the backdrop of increasing hostilities between another potential nuclear nemesis, iran and our ally israel. we have team coverage, benjamin hall in jerusalem with iran and we begin with john roberts on the major movement of north korea. good evening. >> as he was boarding air force one on his way to a campaign rally this afternoon, pre

bret. >> bret: thank you. taking on the trump administration over the environmental protection agency's plan to toss obama era vehicle admission standards. the state attorney general's filing a lawsuit challenging the epa's suggestion that they are too stringent. 16 states are joining california in that lawsuit. on the markets today, roller coaster day on wall street, the dow is down 64 after being down more than 350 points earlier in the day. the s&p 500 gained seven, the nasdaq jumped 64. not even on the job for a week, but already knew secretary of state mike pompeo is promising to help the state department get their "swagger back." how does he plan to do that? >> mike pompeo's first day at state department headquarters, addressing the employees he will lead executing american foreign policy. >> the united states diplomatic corps needs to be in every corner and every stretch of the world. executing missions on behalf of this country. >> this is a typical address for an incoming secretary of state. unusual t

i'm bret baier. president trump is once again expressing buyers remorse over the selection of his attorney general. the president tweeted he wishes he would have picked someone other than jeff sessions. it is over russia's recusal of the probe. they send their dumb number one diplomat into a very important meeting in new york. john roberts joins us from the north one. >> reporter: just moments ago the secretary of state mike pompeo issued a tweet saying, looking forward to meeting in new york. we are committed to the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the korean peninsula. they are proceeding as if it is in place for june 12th. president trump met with secretary of state mike pompeo today. a strategy session ahead of pompeo's meetings in new york with north korean vice president kim jong-chul, a prelude to the possible summit with kim jong u kim jong un. >> we are continuing to prepare for the meeting between the president and the north korean leader. as the president says, if

bret and i will be covering for you that evening.ose states carried by president trump in 2016. so here in west virginia, the fox news power rankings say it is a toss-up between democrats and republicans and tonight, this race really just got a whole lot more interesting. >> i have the conservative west virginia values. if you look at the congressman, he actually has been very liberal if you go obamacare, checkbox, he supported. hillary, he went and rallied for hillary. nancy pelosi, john carey. planned parenthood just a couple weeks ago. you should be ashamed of yourself for that outrageous boat killing the unborn. >> joe manchin is on the chuck schumer team. he's sitting there with elizabeth warren, with bernie sanders. he's got a 70, 80% voting record with them. that's not west virginia. i welcome the opportunity to take on joe manchin this november and replace him and bring a much-needed republican vote to the united states senate. >> isn't it true that you lived in nevada? you pay taxes in nevada and in fact your probation offic

bret: yes. you don't know what's going to happen.o the logistics of following and covering a president. we were scheduled to go to singapore and planning ahead to how that was going to work and the travel and the shows. covering this summit to be. so as it fell apart, do you cancel the ticket, do you not, do you hold on. right now we are in limbo and we'll see. >> you know, when the president threatens to pull out of nafta and he doesn't. he says he's going to withdraw his troops in syria then he pulls back. you have a group of commentators and analysts who say he's strategic and others say he's erratic. bret: we could be both. we don't know what's driving some of those decisions. it's clear that foreign governments look at him as unpredictable. in some cases that plays to their benefit, the u.s. in other cases it does not. it disturbs allies and causes problems. unpredictable is clear. why is not. howie: when ronald reagan was proposing the nuclear freeze, reagan says what did 20 years patience get us. it sounds like donald trump. b

bret, welcome. about the parallels. >> there is a lot of parallels in the moments, the challenges. very different personalities. reagan used a lot of bold language that washington foreign policy establishment kind of had a problem within the day. thought it was too aggressive. in that case, donald trump's tweets are similar and that way. we will see if donald trump follows the guidelines of the summits and how he would get up from the table if it didn't work. the book is here. it came out this week. i saw you all talking about the book and how jesse is so prolific in his reading. so i brought the young readers edition, which also comes out at the same time. >> jesse: thank you very much. there is pictures in the middle. i >> juan: you know you can color in the back. >> jesse: much better than the gutfeld monologues. >> greg: hey. is this the creepiest thing? it almost looks like you because it's -- but because it's not you, it's freaky. i take it everywhere. >> i have had three companies say they wa

bret. >> thank you, john. north core ' says they have delivered on a promise to destroy it's main nuclear weapons testing facility. this is on news of the u.s. with drawing from the summit in singapore. we are in seoul tonight. >> north korea claimed they dismantled their nuclear test site. brought a group to watch the explosion. i wouldn't say it was spectacular but there are no international experts to confirm the claims. then a few hours later the cancellation, for now at least, by president trump of the planned summit in singapore with kim jong-un. the south korean president with president trump said perplexed by the news. he said denuclearization can't be delayed or abandoned. moon has moved to bring the crisis to a dimly mat i can resolution including his own summit last month with kim ki km jong-un on the pugh mz. >> south korea has reached out publicly. >> regional observes are hoping out hope. for now at least they say they're talking at each other. >> this is a huge bump in the road. i suppose we wil

he did,s a bret baier say -- he did, as bret baier say, leave a door open at the end. if i'm the europeans now i'm thinking wow, that was a strong statement. i'm not sure where we go from here. the united states is going to turn up the volume. >> dana: karl rove, the political implications of this are that the president is saying look, i ran on this, i talked about it from the beginning. he said that the cash given to iran was an embarrassment to him as a citizen and should be embarrassment to all citizens of the united states and said a constructive deal could have been done in the last administration but it was not so he is going to, he signed the paper, walking away from the deal that president obama made. your thoughts today? >> well, i think mike pointed to the right thing which is what comes next? the president has in the past alluded to several fundamental problems with the iranian deal. the most important of all it allows them to continue to enrism, that it -- enrich, out doesn't give us just in time, at-will investigations of any suspected facility inside the

bret, i want to go to you.udge said when mueller's team we won't indict the president because we will standby this justice department advisory opinion that you can't indict a sitting president. napolitano said this was a 1999 opinion. it was not binding. if mueller wanted to change his approach on that, he could. which i found interesting. >> that was a fascinating part of the interview. rudy is hanging on to that, that the team told him about that the indictment and staying to the guidelines from back in the clinton years. his answer suggested they are getting ready for a fight. whether it's legitimate and how they could fight it if they don't want the president to sit down with the guidelines they set up. >> laura: sal, you heard him at the end. let them put on the table what they have. we don't think the ground are legitimate and we will take them to court on these issues. he said we will rip it apart and rip them apart. one up'smanship on the threat. what about the substance of the point on the subpoena? >>

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>> bret, this has been a period of extraordinary accomplishment. the notion that this congress hasn't done anything is utter nonsense, disproved by the facts. this has been the most productive year in a half in the time i have been in the senate. i'm now in my third decade. particularly for those who want to see the country right of center. whether it's supreme court, court of regulations, tax reform. just this week alone we passed a veteran's choice act. a major significant piece of legislation. the record of this congress is quite spectacular. we will add more achievements throughout the summer. fully intend to by taking up the farm bill, the national defense authorization act, and functioning on appropriation bills which the democrats grounded to a halt last year. we don't think that will happen this year. >> i wasn't suggesting you had nothing done. i was suggesting how much more could get done in the additional time if you choose to do that. if the house discharges position on daca succeed would you take that up? >> my thoughts on immigration.

i'm telling bret baier.e's going to be flattered. >> i do watch it. >> tucker: you think there may have been some chicanery behind thee scenes? >> i don't know. >> tucker: question two. this is a multiple-choice question. wait for the choice before answering.g. the olympic committee this week announced the city of los angeles would soon host the summer games. when was the last time l.a. hosted the olympics? was in 1980, was it 1984, was it 1988? >> 1984.t >> tucker: 1984. >> it before i was born but i feel like i know. >> tucker: we'll see if you are right. tape.go to the >> it was the l.a. summer games of '84 that electrified the country. the torch was lit at the l.a. coliseum, but it was carl lewis who set the crowd on fire. >> tucker: i'm impressed because 1984 to you was like the first world war to me. it was prehistory. but you do it anyway. >> i feel like i heard a lot about -- was that the one that bruce jenner was in?ke >> tucker: i'm not going there. question three, last month president trump invite

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bret baier joins us tonight.cker: doug brinkley, one of the most famous, may be the most famous reagan historian calls this "one of the best and most essential books ever written about ronald reagan." i'm impressed. >> and i didn't even pay him. >> tucker: it's amazing. three days. you sort of boiled down the pivotal moment to three days.ng what three days? >> it's the three days of the fourth summit between reagan and gorbachev where reagan goes to moscow and he meets with gorbachev. they are finalizing the nuclear arms treaty, but he also gives an uncovered and overlooked for the most part speech to moscow state university students and takes q&a from them. we used the three days to jump back and look at how reagan getf to this point and really leads to the seminal moment of the cold war coming to an end, the wall coming down, and communism really taking a hit. the whole world was changed soon after that. >> tucker: what did reagan know about communism or the soviet union that others missed? >> from the very beg

. >> bret: we will get brit hume's perspective on all of tonight's top stories when we

com/bret baier. >> the house minority leader is not backing down. nancy employee pelosi says she n for house speaker if democrats win in the fall. that news is not sitting well with some in her own party. mike emanuel now with a look at her plans to stay on doing more harm than good. >> pelosi told the boston globe, we will win. i will run for speaker. i feel confident about it, and my friends do too. i have no intention of walking away from the table. sources say they are taking the pelosi comments and working on ads like this one. >> there is no play in the republican side that worked again, tieing john to pelosi. >> in georgia and some parts, they are running against nancy pelosi, and it's working. >> thank you for continuing to fail as your party's leader. >> pelosi raised $16.1 million first quarter. rank and file members like seth molten say democrats should be looking forward. i think there is a strong desire out there in america for new leadership in washington. not just getting rid of republicans, but new leadership in the democratic party.

bret baier. now i will let you go. >> okay. >> dana: president trump just leaving capitol hill after a policy meeting with republican senators where the haspel nomination came up as we were just saying. josh holmes is the former chief of staff to senator mitch mcconnell and we have the founder of storyline and co-host of political persuasion podcast, which i enjoy. josh, let me start with you. senator donnelly from indiana, a democratic in a red state with a tough re-election ahead of him. he was a senator that they were going to target about the haspel nomination. he decided earlier this week, i guess maybe yesterday because that was monday, that he is going to be for her. >> yeah. well, there are a lot of senate democrats that find themselves up in 2018 or trying to cover their tracks here from the voting record over the last five years. so they are breaking with chuck schumer and the party line on nominations like this. frankly, i'm surprised that the nomination is controversial in the first p

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>> bret: thank you very much.>> kimberly: better spent with you. >> bret: president trump goes after what he calls the criminal deep state over allegations of a spy in this 2016 campaign. will north korea go through with promises to dismantle its nuclear test site? one-on-one with a republican hopes to flip the california governor's seat. is "special report" ." good evening. i'm bret baier. coming to you tonight from los angeles. we'll talk about the dynamic politics here in california and speak with the top republican in the governor's race so far in just a few minutes. first night, president trump going after the russia collusion investigation again. he says the fbi has been caught in a

hey, bret.anything funny. >> bret: president trump prepares to welcome home three prisoners held in north korea. iranian lawmakers burned the u.s. flag enchanted death to america after the decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal. and the president's pick to run the cia said she will never restart enhanced interrogations. this is special report. >> bret: welcome to washington, i'm bret baier. president trump is right now so bring a foreign policy when, setting the table, table for what he hopes will be an

you look at this situation and i asked bret baier about this earlier. we are getting an idea of a trump doctrine. what do you say? >> the trump doctrine has been formulating since day one in office. he started out with kim jong un dropping missiles within six inches of japan and now he is begging for peace and declaring denuclearization. the hostages coming home is a part of that progression. and it is an important one. look how quickly and swiftly pompeo now made two trips to north korea with. >> harris: zac? >> it's fantastic we get the hostages, the americans coming home but i agree with cory gardner on your show previously that the kim regime is a master of propaganda and they are signaling to the world they are ready to deal. this ups the pressure on the trump administration to close that deal. i think that they have made things a little difficult for themselves. >> harris: why? >> given their violation of the iran agreement for two reasons. >> harris: whoa, whoa, whoa. violation of iran? why put it that way? we pulled out of a deal. >> iran was co

this is "special report." >> ♪ >> ♪ >> bret: i am bret baier.osal to cut prescription drug prices is to derail the special interest gravy train encouraged by obamacare. the rich middlemen won't be rich anywhere. john roberts starts us off with the president's pill

for more on this and, of course, the news of roseanne show being canceled bret baier. the anchor of "special report." before i ask about roseanne, you wrote a book about the summits and the president often says, "we'll see what happens." i think kim jong un figured he is willing to walk away. maybe i should make it right. but we shouldn't expect that the one summit could solve everything. i think setting the expectations early is really important here. >> no, that is exactly right. there are a lot of things that have to be worked out. here secretary pompeo described on capitol hill and elsewhere a lot of work has been done to lay groundwork for this if it goes forward on june 12 in singapore. but to think it would all wrap up there comes down to the denation of -- definition of "denuclearize." what does it mean to each party, to the u.s. and north korea? how do you get there from here? what inspections regime do you set up? how does it work? there is a lot of details there. raz -- as you know the devil is in the details. the likelihood that this goes forward is high no

bret, jonah, have a great weekend.oring bill: american flags by the nearly quarter million grave markers at arlington national cemetery, a holiday tradition here when we profile a man who created special program to make every day a memorial day for fallen heros. once again, he is our power player to have week. ♪ >> when you're playing it's only 24 notes but it's so meaningful to that family. >> tom day is talking about playing at the funerals of military veterans and he should know. ♪ ♪ >> he's the founder and president of an organization called bugals across america. >> how many have you done? >> 200,000. >> really? gave right to funeral can military honors including two uniformed officers to present flag and the problem was the military only had 500 beuglars, boom box or electronic device inside a buegal. tom day who played in the marines in the 50's didn't like it. >> i call it stolen dignity that these veterans can't get life tabs when we are out there ready to perform live taps. >> he started the organization recr

this is "special report" ♪ >> bret: good evening, i'm bret baier.n american school. and word from authorities, it could have been much worse. tonight, the place is in the houston suburb of santa fe. the numbers, tended and ten injured, one suspect capture

bret -- bret baier. we'll see you tonight on special report.k: meanwhile u.s. marines taking the fight to the taliban in afghanistan. we have drone video showing a mobile rocket launcher destroying a high-level taliban command compound in helmand province killing more than 50 taliban leaders from across afghanistan. >> they tracked 450 -- 50 of them and struck them with rockets killing dozens of the enemy leaders. so where does this leave us at the end of that action? afghan forces in control of farrah and many of the leaders are being pulled out of the rubble. >> rick: when did this big strike take place? >> last week. u.s. marines fired rocket guided artillery in the high-level taliban meeting. it was one of the largest strikes in the past year. >> helmand has been the financial en again of the insurgency. they draw 60% of their revenue from narcotics. by killing leaders we'll have a disruptive effect. it has a significant local significance in terms of the fight in southern afghanistan. >> last month the u.s. military launched the second hig

bill: here is the president, bret, he doesn't need a name tag here.er] bill: here is the president on thursday. >> our very strong sanctions by far the strongest sanctions ever imposed and maximum pressure campaign will continue. bill: my point to senator coons without the president leading on this, without james mattis with the military aspect of it and without the chinese agreeing to crack down on trade, we are not even talking about a summit with north korea? >> that's right, some of the more aggressive language and some of the speeches get you to the point where possibly north korea changed its attitude, but i think the china part was the lynchpin and it's 3 dimensional chess here, you're talking trade with china, you're talking the sanctions against north korea and all of that is pressure campaign. it continues if they don't sit down. i think they do sit down but i agree with jonah, north korea's inherent existence is because of the weapons, something dramatically would have to change to change that scenario. bill: i wonder what the calculus -- a

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comey is lying on not only to bret baier bear. but on meet the press. he denied that the agents said that flynn was telling the truth. was comey lying in front of the intelligence committee or last sunday or bret baier bear or the american public. no one is reporting judge tillis. and rosenstein, or isn't he recused. now rod rosenstein, he is a witness in the case. and then we know rod rosenstein signed off on the fisan issue and now rod rosenstein here, it seems to me, he's in trouble. and that he needs to go next. >> he's in huge trouble and he needs to go next. if you talk to anybody with common sense. >> sean: but back dating permission to raid manafort's home. >> man dating permission and if you look at the report and what was unredakted version on page 53 and 54. you will see that mccabe, it appears was trying to put pressure on the fbi agents. i have reported that all along. when they came back and said flynn did not lie, we don't believe any detection and he was not lying and a lot of reportses that i was receiving that mccabe was putting pressu

he's tough and fair, his name is bret baier. some transitions are better than others. president trump says good riddance to the iran nuclear deal as he announces the president is withdrawing. congress considers the request to cut 15 billion in unused funds, and a champion of the "me, too" movement faces his own account allegations. good evening, i'm bret baier, coming to you live from the white house as the administration deals right now with reaction to president trump's announcement a few hours ago here that the u.s. is withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal.

i'm bret baier. to you tonight from the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california. more on why i am here a bit later in the show.