bret. >> bret: howard, thanks. once a big-time attorney at this afternoon michael avenatti represented by public defender. the first of not one but two coarraignments he faced today on charges ranging from fraud to extortion. of course, jackie has the story from new york. when asked how he with plea, the attorney michael avenatti looked calm and indignant telling the judge on each count 100% not guilty. after back-to-back arraignments, he appeared to blame his troubles on the president. >> for over 20 years, i have represented david's -- david versus goliath across this nation in many core else's just like this. i am now facing the fight of my life against the ultimate goliath. the trump administration. >> jackie: new york prosecutors laid out their case and two coindictments from identity theft to extortion. the first describing rob peter to pay pole scheme with adulterous stormy daniels. he took money from the book deal payment, spent it, hound of the publisher for the next payment to reimburse what he had taken.

." >> bret: are you okay? >> greg: no. >> bret: president trump downplays the war while signaling more tariffs on chinese goods. the attorney general appoints a u.s. attorney to look into the origins of the investigation, arkansas a republican senator is here to discuss countering the growing threats from iran plus breaking news about donald trump jr. this is be 21. ♪ good evening and welcome to washington i am bret baier. president trump is downplaying the tariff battle between the united states and china calling and nothing more than a squabble between friends. the common words, is the u.s. lists $300 billion more in chinese goods. we begin tonight as we often do with the cheap white horse corresponded john roberts on the north lawn. the president trade rhetoric's and actions. >> he has long complained about the imbalance between united states and china, but he has been able to leverage it into a they need us more than we need them strategy and he believes that because of that china will eventually come arou

bret?bret: god tgood to hear. kevin corke live on the north lawn. nuclear negotiations with the u.s. will not resume unless the trump administration backs off demands for disarmament. in a statement a foreign ministry spokesman for north korea accused the administration of deliberately causing february's collapse of talks between president trump and north korean leader kim jong un with unilateral and impossible demands. the trump administration says the talks broke down because of north korea demands. north korean demands for sanctions relief in exchange for a partial surrender of its nuclear capabilities. american sanctions are working to crip tell iranian backed militias. that's the word from the state department tonight where officials shared newly declassified intelligence exclusively with fox news. this as pentagon officials announced more u.s. troops are headed to the middle east in what they call a response to iranian aggression. we have fox team coverage. luklucas tomlinson from the

hello, bret. >> bret: hello, jesse. thank you. president trump says he will not negotiate with congress after democrats accuse him of a coverup and talk impeachment. investigators failed to determine whether virginia's democrat governor was photographed in black face more than 30 years ago. we will tell you where it goes from there. why is one of the most high profile terrorists ever captured by the u.s. being released from prison early? this is "special report." ♪ good evening, welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. president trump says congress cannot concentrate on policy while on sellsed with politics of getting him out of office. the president short circuited a planning negotiation with lawmakers over infrastructure following a meeting of democrats on whether to begin impeachment proceedings. house speaker nancy pelosi says the president is engaged in a coverup. today's events have left even veteran political watchers stunned here in washington. chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight. busy day at t

hey, bret. >> bret: hey, dana. the clock ticks down as negotiations try to hammer out a landmark trade deal right now. the administration tries to turn the tables on democrats on the russian collusion investigation, and president trump expresses doubts following the second weapons lodge of the week. this is "special report." good evening. welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. we are a matter of hours from in positions of new tariffs of $200 billion worth of chinese imports on what could be a dangerous next step in the trade disputes between the worlds biggest economies. the u.s. and global markets watching closely to the afternoon talks what could be the most anticipated in washington tonight while the president continues to talk tough. chief white house correspondent john roberts tonight live from the north lawn very good evening, john. >> bret, good evening to you. what happens in the next 24 hours could be the difference between a new trade relationship between united states and china and an all-out trade war.

. >> bret: thank you. this is a fox news alert. i am bret baier. another no-show from the trump administration prompts an emergency meeting, impeachment. that is our top story tonight. the refusal of the former white house counsel don mcgann who will appear at a hearing is putting new pressure on nancy pelosi to pull the trigger on efforts to remove president trump from office. advocated by several on capitol hill. john roberts at the white house with a closer look at the administration to defy committee requests. we start off with doug mckelway on capitol hill and what democrats and the house are doing about all of this. >> house speaker nancy pelosi announced this afternoon that she will call a special meeting of the house democrats tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. to discuss the possible impeachment proceedings against the president of the united states. it's a clear sign that she is feeling some pressure from her colleagues. >> there were two no-shows today, don mcgann and no bucket of kentucky fried chicken. the latter, a sign that democrats may have dis

set your dvr, never miss an episode of "the five" ," "specil report" up next with bret baier. >> bret: this is a fox news alert, i am bret baier in washington, stepping up the calls for impeaching the president of the united states after robert mueller makes his first and only public statement about the russian investigation, more than two years in the making. the now former special counsel, mueller says charging president trump with a crime was not an option, because of the opinions that say that a president cannot be indicted in office. the statement that contradicts william barr's congressional testimony about what mueller told him about his conclusions. mueller also stated what is in the report that if you had confidence, the president clearly did not commit a crime, and the report would have said so. the president legal team quickly called this exoneration legal standard backwards. president trump tweeted today that this case is closed. correspondent kevin corke, and reaction from the white house, peter doocy looking at the growing call for impeachment proceedings to begin from d

bret. >> bret: lisa outside of the school, thank you. general motors is negotiating the sale of lordstown, ohio, that builds electric trucks. the automaker confirms, cincinnati based work for school. to sell that facility. gm plans to invest $700,000,000.03 ohio factories to create 450 jobs all first announced by president trump on twitter. here in milwaukee, wisconsin, we are minutes away from town hall democratic presidential candidate amy klobuchar. as christian fisher explains the minnesota senator toeing the line between being moderate and progressive. >> in a presidential primary or moderate sounds like a dirty word. senator amy klobuchar staking out the middle lane while saying she's in the left. >> i'm considering progressive and that means i get things done. >> the far left said she's not progressive enough but it is that kind of criticism that can help her in a state like wisconsin which president trump won by seven tenths of a percent. klobuchar to reach the voters that made the difference in 2016 at tonight's town hall. >> on

lindh can't let it go. >> bret: thanks. up next, a plan to send thousands of more american troops into the middle east, will that materialize? in honolulu, as forecasters say hawaii could experience more storms than usual during this year's hurricane season. if the national oceanic and atmospheric administration expects five to eight named tropical cyclones in the region from june 1st through the end of november. in seattle, washington democratic governor and presidential candidate jay inslee signs a measure into law adopting sanctuary rules restricting law enforcement investigation of immigration status. the rules make washington the third state on the west coast to adopt such policies after california and oregon. this is a live look at phoenix from fox ten, the u.s. census bureau says phoenix is the fastest growing city in the country. phoenix has 25,000 new residents between 2017 and 2018 topped the list, it makes phoenix the fifth most populous city in the country with about 1.7 million residents. that is two nights liv

bret? >> bret: dan, thank you. former army intelligence released after a two-month stay for refusing to testify to a grand jury grand jury investigating wikileaks. but she might be back in jail soon. manning was released only because the grand jury's term expired. she's already received another subpoena demanding her her testimony to a grand jury next week. the taliban has launched a assault in northwestern afghanistan, killing 15 security personnel there. it's the latest in a series of deadly attacks targeting the company's beleaguered security forces. as strange as it sounds, the attack happens as taliban officials are reporting progress and peace talks with the u.s. up next, why breaking up facebook might not be the smart thing to do. i comparison shop for everything. big stuff. little stuff. everything. i even comparison shop loans - right here. i shopped and compared for my mortgage and saved $20,000. booyah! your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally disco

bret. >> bret: phil keating in miami, phil, thanks.es with 2020 candidates will be knowing how to deal with foreign powers like venezuela. but out of nearly two dozen democratic candidates, to any of them have the foreign policy job to run against the president's first policy? jennifer griffin with a closer look tonight >> my relationship with kim jong un is a good one. and opened deeply dialogue went very well. >> jennifer: america first commit protectionist populism designed to president trump's words make america great again. democrats wanting in 2020 or defining their foreign policy credentials against the so-called trump doctrine. >> i would not be closing up dictators like vladimir putin and kim jong un. >> he has turned his back on our allies, on our friends. >> we cannot conduct their foreign policy through tweet. >> jennifer: out of 23 declared candidates only congressman seth moulton and mayor pete buttigieg are military veterans who served in iraq and afghanistan. >> we have to ask ourselves whether this administration is ca

. >> bret: i am bret baier from washington, a rough day for your 401(k). retaliating for the latest round of the trade war, chinese officials say that they will boost tariffs on $60 billion worth of u.s. goods heading back against president trump's tariff hike on friday. the president's warning today that china will be hurt if they do not agree to a deal. with investors unnerved by the potential for economic damage on all sides, stocks sank across the globe today. the wall street to look at, the china connected stocks led to the tumble. the dow off to the worst start since may 1970. i'm sorry, from 1970, losing 617 points. the s&p 500 dropping 70, the nasdaq finish down 270. almost 3.5%. we have fox team coverage, susan lee the fox business network, and what could lie ahead. a senior political analyst here to look at the passport for the white house paid we begin with a chief white white house correspondent john roberts where the president sounds hopeful about the economy. >> the president week the chinese just a little bit more this afternoon, the trade o

. >> bret: this is a fox news alert. i'm bret baier in washington. we have two fox news exclusive. bill hemmer traveling with the attorney general in el salvador. has william barr's first interview in that role, barr has questions about the origins of the russian investigation and is now bowing to get to the bottom of it. we will get to that in the moment. first, or other exclusive. and then the an interview with the brother of michael flynn back in the news after a federal judge ordered parts of the mueller report to be unredacted and made public in the criminal case against michael flynn. it's the first time the federal judge has ordered the justice department to make public portions of the report the agency had kept secret. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been following this case from the beginning and has this intervie interview. >> confirmation of the fbi in vacation of my flynn , evidence of a long-running effort to trap his brother, the federal judge orders the release of more secret documents. new special counsel record show former national security

i am bret baier.he attorney general throws a job the special counsel's way of suggesting robert mueller could have and should have reached a decision on obstruction in russia investigation. from william barr comes one day after mueller declared that the special counsel team would have declared that the president did not commit a crime if they had had that confidence. the exchanges 24 hours apart coming as president trump walked back a tweet about russia and the now former special counsel before heading out of town. while democrats head towards tricky territory and the push for impeachment. the president is promising new dramatic action about the southern border. chief white house correspondent john roberts joins us live from the north lawn with a plethora of presidential headlines pretty good evening. >> just another typical day, bret. president trump has been out of washington most of the day, a commencement speaker at the u.s. air force academy today, but keeping up the fight against the latest poli

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you will be happy that we are turning it over to bret. >> bret: thanks, dana, this is "special report," i am bret baier, trade negotiators are preparing for a crucial meeting thursday with the chinese delegation. that is still coming to the surprise of some despite president trump's threat of tough new tariffs. yesterday you saw the global markets take a major hit, well, they did today too, but unlike yesterday, wall street did not bounce back, most of the way back, the dow was down as much as 607 points before closing off 473 today. the nasdaq plunged 160. john roberts is here with me tonight on the north lawn with this top story. it is a big one. >> good evening to you, and president trump thinks his biggest asset and trying to get a deal with china is the strength of the u.s. economy. entering the leverage that strength to get a deal across the finish line. giving the industrial average of $100 billion haircut. >> for the second day in a row, the market swooned over fears that the u.s.-china trade deal is getting further away, not closer. president trump threatening to raise tariff

this is "special report." >> ♪ >> ♪ >> bret: good evening. i am bret baier.sident trump promised a big announcement in the on-going battle on illegal immigrants at the southern border. he planned to slap tariffs on mexican goods until the country steps up its assistance at the southern border. that stunned mexico's president and even wall street. the dow sunk and the s&p 500 slid 37 and the nasdaq was off 115. may was the worst month. the dow and s&p 500 dropped 6.5%. the nasdaq was off 8%. despite the uproar, the president push comes on a week when the border wall agents nabbed more than 1,000 illegal immigrants. the largest at one time. we begin with kevin cork at the white house. >> an administration official told me the president was incensed after he saw that video that showed hundreds of foreign nationals just streaming across our southern border this week. that's when the tough talk about illegal immigrants shifted to tariffs threat. president trump is threatening to slap new tariffs on all goods coming from mexico unless its government stems the flow

welcome to washington, i am bret baier. president trump's newest ratings are in and they are up in both approval and disapproval. fox news poll show 46% of voters approve of the president's job performance and the last month, 53% disapprove of it. the closer look at his handling of border security and immigration shows a similar split with the approval of his handling of both of those issues in the 40s, more than half of voters disapprove. cut all of that change tomorrow? we are hours away from hearing president tremblay out his immigration plan and a speech from the rose garden and already supporters and critics are weighing in on the details of that plan. chief white house correspondent john roberts on the north long. good evening. >> president trump wants to dramatically reshape the face of illegal immigration in the united states moving from the current family based system to a merit-based system. the white house as it would like to get a deal with democrats on immigration before the election, but this plan reads more l

bret, martha. >> bret: kristen, thank you.bviously hillary clinton is not running this time but 21 other democrats are so far. which brings us to the next question from christina, christina. >> hi, amy. i have been following you for a very long time. but also the state of minnesota, the issues that are you are facing, what are you doing to encompass this? >> amy: i'm here. let's start with that. and what i love about a presidential campaign is you can get out there and meet people and talk to people. they get to know you. that is how i run all my campaigns. that is actually how i govern. and i go not where it's most comfortable but uncomfortable. when i look back a note for the record, hillary clinton would be a very good president. so let's start with that. [applause] >> i think the last few years and some of the national campaigns that the midwest had forgotten. my husband is here, and he is 1 of 6 boys. he grew up actually for the first years of his life in a trailer home. they would go on one vacation. every summer they wo

." >> bret: i never know what the lead and will be. breaking at this hour, where that attorney general bill bauer will not testify to the house judiciary committee tomorrow. hugh has objected to a plan by democrats to let community staffers do some of the questioning there. we are being told by sources from the panel and at the justice department at bar will not show up. that's just one of several major stories at this hour. we will also go live shortly to caracas, venezuela, where the opposition leader has called for and overthrow the government there and hope to produce what he called the largest protest demonstration in the country's history today, and we will bring you there. here in washington in the meantime, this law enforcement official counterbalanced his way through a contentious senate hearing we have fox team coverage. john roberts is at the white house with efforts to keep other countries out of venezuela's business and congress out of the presidents. steve harrigan's live in caracas with that power struggle and extending

and this is congress asking questions. >> bill: that's a great point, bret.indsey graham was asked how the hearing is going so far. he said it's good. that point about don mcgahn in the white house now pushing back on these subpoenas -- it appears that the white house right now is geared up for a fight. they don't want don mcgahn to sit in front of the hearing for six, seven, eight hours. democrats, likewise. they would like to capture that tv moment and propel the story to another place, and that really seems to be what we are facing right now. what we are up against. >> well, some democrats want that. and there are others who want to run for president and talk about the issues. so there's the push and pull there. bret brings up the executive privilege point, and i think it's very important. before i talk about that, can i also say that, bret, when you brought up the point in the questioning of when did mueller know that he was going to conclude that there was no collusion? it reminds me of the previous special counsel investigation during the bush administr

set your dvrs, never miss an episode of "the five," "special report" is up next, hey bret. >> bret: heylert. we are coming to you tonight from milwaukee, wisconsin, where in 30 minutes, martha maccallum and i will host a town hall meeting with minnesota senator amy klobuchar. we will take a look at the candor of deceit and the report in a few minutes as you look at the stage they are, but first just moments ago house judiciary committee jerry nadler said the united states is now in a constitutional crisis because the attorney general refuses to comply with congressional subpoenas. this comes immediately after the house judiciary committee voted this afternoon along party lines to hold william barr in

bret baeir is standing by. let's begin with catherine herridge with more on the big picture. >> reporter: good afternoon. since mueller's statement, we've been pouring through the prepared text trying to parse some of the worsed. mueller was very pointed on a number of issues. he said if the president had not committed a crime when it came to obstruction, they would have said so. then went on about something about the legal office memo, this says a sitting president cannot be prosecuted for a crime. today mueller indicated that was a major stumbling block in his investigation. >> under longstanding department policy, a present president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is unconstitutional. even if the charge is kept under seal and hidden from public view, that, too, is prohibited. the special counsel's office is part of the department of justice and by regulation, it was bound by that department policy. charging the president with a crime was, therefore, not an option we could

bret if you could stand by. >> bill: tom dupree is with us as well.e just heard from bob mueller. >> i think it was typical bob mueller. i think that he is obviously a sober man of few words and the one message that i took away again and again is that he spoke through his report. he does not intend to go beyond that. he made explicitly clear if he were someday to be brought to congress or public forum he wouldn't say anything that was already in the report. i think what was also interesting although he is careful not to go beyond what he said in his report he was very careful and thoughtful about highlighting certain passages in the report. i think as a way of drawing public attention to some conclusions that may have gotten lost in all the political back and forth. >> bill: such as what? >> for example. one of the things he talked about was the statement in the report that if they had had evidence ex cull pateing the president she would have said it. they didn't say it. he deliberately put a spotlight on that and deliberately put a spotlight on the b

the significance of this with special report's bret baier. what do you think, bret? >> a big news day. obviously as you said, the assange thing would lead most days, this is the president in this bail out to farmers, $16 billion. that is significant. it's up to $28 billion over the last two of these bailouts. you know, it's not republican ideology to be for this kind of thing. but the farmers are hurting big time as a result of the china tariffs. in this news conference, the president said that china is paying for the $16 billion. that's like mexico is paying for the wall. you know, it's tangential. it's importers take it on the chin with increased tariffs. one specific industry is getting the bailout. i'm going to have sonny purdue on the show tonight and ask him about this. there's some concerns that chuck grassley from iowa, that this is misplaced and may affect the market in the wrong way. >> neil: it was bouncy today. it's interesting. when we talk about tariffs, in the end, you and i pay them, the american consumers. businesses and all can try to prevent passin

. >> bret told the neighbors to be on the lookout. around 7:30 bret's wife spotted the man in the video walking on the street. neighbors stopped the man. >> these are my friends and neighbors, i wasn't going to take the chance of seeing him go away. >> i know nothing about it. >> i tried to talk to the man, he said it wasn't him. the police took the man away. >> there's no reason for this. we don't know who he is. we've never talked to him. >> all night the community members have been dropping off donations for the family. they are not able to salvage much other than the clothes on their back. the firefighters saved some of the photos from the wall. the landlord put a family up in a hotel for two weeks and trying to figure out what charges if any the homeless man faces tonight. >>> no to san francisco the medical examine ever investigating the discovery of homes in the mission district. today the evidence was removed. the coroner has not determined if the bones are human. >>> oakland police are asking for happen in locating this man.

>> melissa: bret, the attack is on. it gives mueller. meanwhile, he stood up there and kind of tried to say, "it's been great being here, i'm riding off into the sunset now. i'm not testifying any longer. i don't want to say anything more. i'm not even going to answer questions here. i'm going to go on with my life." what are the odds of that? >> actually, i think they were pretty good. because he definitively said that even if he is called to testify -- in other words, given a subpoena or compelled to testify -- that he is not going to say anything beyond what is in the 400 plus pages of his report. in other words, saying the work stands for itself. if you're going to go down that road and democrats agree to call him and that's what they get, is the report text, i don't know how fruitful or time-consuming that might be. >> melissa: that's what this was kind of supposed to be, and that's what attorney general barr's summation was supposed to sort of be. "here is the hitchhikers guide to this report." but yet the way the two of them both

we're going to have to see the discrepancy between the two. >> shepard: thanks, bret. "special report" is on at 6:00 eastern. we mentioned jerry nadler. he read from a prepared text today. in other words, the words that he was giving us were not off the cuff. he was asked questions and then he read from a prepared text. so this was the exact message that they wanted out. he said that because robert mueller could not pursue criminal charges under that olc or office of legal counsel decision, it's now up to congress. >> the constitution points to congress to take action to hold the president accountable. that's exactly what we'll do. the president's response to repeatedly lying to the american people and ignore all congressional subpoenas is immoral and unlawful. no one is above the law and we will hold the president accountable. >> shepard: yet most republicans say publicly at least that robert mueller's statements should go as the final word. it's time to put the two-year investigation to bed. peter doocy reporting live from washington. peter? >> shep, mueller said he

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"the special report" is up next, bret. >> bret: this is a fox news alert, and i am bret baier.jor disaster after more storms and deadly tornadoes ripped through the area overnight. at one point leaving 5 million people in ohio without power. that is just ohio. 52 tornadoes believed to have hit a crossed eight states monday. the 11th straight day of tornadoes being reported somewhere in the u.s. it is not just the funnel clouds, but flooding. every single county and oklahoma is under a state of emergency tonight due to the weather. many of those people are not out of the woods yet. fox team coverage tonight here with michael tobin in ohio with

several candidates step forward the contest is likely to be defined by the candidates positions on bret's it former foreign secretary and leading bricks it campaign that boris johnson is favorite to win all right you're up to date they are the latest headlines from us here about is there i'll be back in about half an hour that's off the inside story today stay with us. britain's prime minister to resume resigns out a not getting support for her deal to leave the european union and her successor unite parliament and the country and what will a change of u.k. leadership mean old brags that this is inside story. hello welcome to the program. brags it brought a prime minister to resume to power and it was ultimately the issue that forced her out debate on britain's departure from the european union exposed deep divisions in the country and may face intense pressure to step down after parliament repeatedly but jacques to her withdrawal deal with the e.u. on friday she announced she will resign on june the 7th subic attack a prime minister until her governing conservative party elects a new lea

now you for august bret's at passy ahead in the u.k. the ruling conservatives routed after failing to take britain out of the european union. and japan's charm offensive ahead of a tricky trade talks donald trump becomes the 1st foreign leader to meet the new and. pranav hito plus. i'm a blessing in penny album reporting on this country's efforts to get that precious stone artifacts taken in the colonial era. though early results show the pro europe centrists of long dominated the european parliament have suffered significant losses in one of the most contentious elections in history but it's not just the euro skeptics far right you've gained at their expense in a vote that seen the biggest turnout in 2 decades the center right european people's party and the socialists and democrats together they have the most seats but it's not enough for a majority but they do have 2 potential allies is made their own gains the liberals have based business did their numbers and so have the greens they have become the 2nd largest force in germany and

he set up neil gorsuch, and then we fought our way through a highly controversial confirmation of bret kavanaugh, but it is not just changing the supreme court that we did. we also were changing the circuit courts. one step below the supreme court. >> sean: senator, thank you for being with us.

. >> bret: ladies and gentlemen, from a senator in the global chart. thank you for being here. this has been a great show. >> martha: "the story" is starting up on the balcony right now. so stick around after the break. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ the way you triumph over adversity. and live your lives. that's why we redesigned humira. we wanted to make the experience better for you. now there's less pain immediately following injection. we've reduced the size of the needle and removed the citrate buffers. and it has the same effectiveness you know and trust. humira citrate-free is here. a little change can make a big difference. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infections, including tuberculosis, and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common and if you've had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don't sta

chris wallace, bret baier, ken starr and others. what bill barr will say at the end of the statement. the exercise of responding and reacting to the report is a matter for the american people and the political process. with regard to the department of justice, barr has concluded the mueller matter is done as long as he is the attorney general. >> sandra: that conversation didn't set up what is expected to be fireworks in that hearing room moments from now i don't know what would. another big story we're watching. chaos in venezuela as the opposition leader there juan guaido calls for even more protests today. the trump administration saying all options are on the table. congressman michael mccaul just met with secretary of state mike pompeo and he will tell us what he learned next. r. now i take metamucil every day. it naturally traps and removes the waste that weighs me down. so i feel... lighter. try metamucil and begin to feel what lighter feels like.. introducing new metamucil premium blend, sweetened with stevia and made with a

and evolutionary biology at the university of arizona i welcome you all i'd like to start with you bret schaeffer's in gainesville florida a million species that's an extra ordinary number the u.n. says that it's going to need a global commitment to try to either reverse that or at the very least try and slow it down it's a global commitment we haven't had so far is it too late i think that's a really important question to ask. yeah one million species is a large number it's not insurmountable we have. existing agreements in place so we have. this biodiversity ecosystem servants panel is there to monitor the state of nature but we have sustainable development goals we have a variety of un agreements already in place that if taken seriously could could make a difference and take the step in the right direction i think that's crucial is now let's bring in john wayne's head those agreements need to be taken seriously but it doesn't seem to me that they are being taken seriously is that true do you think. it would be nice if everyone was on work for the paris climate accord one of the most

the vast majority of them want a hard and vision that bret's it than that which mrs may offered and if we can we will probably see a large number of them both at the practicality however the conservative party is also hemorrhaging support in other areas of the country where jeremy corbyn and labor what the liberal democrats are doing much better and this is what i think is the perfect storm facing the conservatives on the one hand there who spoke for nigel farage in the bracket party because they are unable to look to deliver a meeting but on the other hand what we may see in the next election of the liberal democrats retaking seats they lost to the conservatives in 2050 and also labor taking seats from the conservatives beyond london in parts of the southeast because ultimately whoever takes over has very little room for maneuver on britain's political map jonathan i think the labor party of the same time is looking closely at the situation and waiting to see who is going to take over as prime minister do you think that germany carbon is definitely going to come out more assertive abo

hello, bret. >> bret: hello, jesse. thank you.ot negotiate with congress after democrats accuse him of a coverup and talk impeachment. investigators failed to determine whether virginia's democrat governor was photographed in black face more than 30 years ago. we will tell you where it goes from there. why is one of the most high profile terrorists ever captured by the u.s. being released from prison early? this is "special report." ♪ good evening, welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. president trump says congress cannot concentrate on policy while on sellsed with politics of getting him out of office. the president short circuited a planning negotiation with lawmakers over infrastructure

hey, bret. >> bret: hey, dana.s try to hammer out a landmark trade deal right now. the administration tries to turn the tables on democrats on the russian collusion investigation, and president trump expresses doubts following the second weapons lodge of the week. this is "special report." good evening. welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. we are a matter of hours from in positions of new tariffs of $200 billion worth of chinese imports on what could be a dangerous next step in the trade

this is "special report." ♪ ♪ >> bret: good evening.nd lawmakers have left washington, but the fight over the russia investigation definitely remains. president trump is promising to show americans how what he calls the russia hoax got started. directing his attorney general to declassify information on surveillance

i'm bret baier in washington. we have two fox news exclusive. in el salvador. has william barr's first interview in that role, barr has questions about the origins of the russian investigation and is now bowing to get to the bottom of it. we will get to that in the moment. first, or other exclusive. and then the an interview with the brother of michael flynn back in the news after a federal judge ordered parts of the mueller report to be unredacted and made public in the criminal case against michael flynn. it's the first time the federal judge has ordered the justice department to make public portions of

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referendum on the country's membership in the european union that's as may pushes for votes on her bret's of agreements which lawmakers have already rejected 3 times. and austrians formula one greats niki lauda has died at the age of 70 out of $13.00 world titles famously survived a terrific crash of 1976 german grand prix. you're watching d.w. news live from berlin stay tuned i'll be back shortly to walk you through the day's top stories including the case. there as of next on the day don't forget you can get all the latest news and information on our website www dot com thanks for watching today is next. closely. listen carefully. to see. this too didn't. discover the. subscribe to the documentary on you tube. some time in the 26th. my great granddaughter. what would the world be like in your lifetime and around half a century. when i was born there were. you will share the planet with 9000000000. your world be around 2 degrees more. evidently sea level rise by at least one year in this century. we're going to have some climate impacts mature greater than what we see already. it's reall

the country has been divided just throughout the winter when the flight about bret's it has been roaring and raging here in westminster trees may bringing the bricks and deal with the e.u. 3 times and losing in 3 times and palm and kerry in sort of turning against each other and tearing each other apart and that same. sort of sentiment is really prevail in the country because people aren't really talking to each other anymore they are more of us only shouting at each other across the divide from heartbreaks to cheers and who want nothing but breaks it and call the other side the really moaners instead of remaining it's because they keep mooning about bret's it because they don't want it and the remainder just keep reasoning and they never ever reach or impressed and he off the brakes to cheers so the 2 tribes have really sort of completed their. totally divided they can come together any more and this will be shown in the selection too but you know one thing that's really influencing the vote we have to say the feeling which is growing really across europe that if the tensions are too fa

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can can can potentially protect liberal democracies from the surge of the far right and focusing on bret'sof course it does seem a bit absurd that nearly 3 years after this country voted to leave the e.u. here we are holding european elections i mean we hear a lot of the topics immigration as you mentioned earlier the economy the u.k. not part of the eurozone but such an enormous inequality that we see is only in here how would you differentiate a perhaps you think they're similar the populist movements that we have seen in europe with the brakes a phenomenon that we've seen here which of course almost predates all of the big surges in europe well 1st the world is this is the only country where those anti european forces have significant support for leaving the european union what you see across populist movements in the rest of the e.u. is this remain unreformed so i project salvini reform from within it. only in this you still want to leave oh absolutely and that's change and change very nicely in france as well a marine le pen changed her message during the presidential campaign because

. >> what will help you, bret, what will help? >> free trade. that's the first thing we need.y countries. we worked -- we've worked on the trade with china. another good buyer of our soybeans is canada and mexico. we need those trade deals. we need the japanese trade deal that they were over here a week ago and talked -- started to talk. we need a trade deal with the philippines. that's the thing that we need, we want free trade. >> you need free trade. >> that's what we do is raise a great crop that's wanted all over the world. but we need to be able to sell it. >> i want to play something for you and listen and get your response to this. this is arkansas senator tom cotton what he said this morning about sacrifices being made by farmers. here it is. >> there will be some sacrifice on the part of americans, i grant you that, but i also would say that that sacrifice is pretty minimal compared to the sacrifices our soldiers make overseas, our fallen heroes laid to rest in arlington make. if we remain the world's largest economy and dominant superpower in the short term, i say i