i'm bret baier. breaking tonight, if you are fully vaccinated, you no longer have to wear a mask for the most part. the centers for disease control made that announcement today. the president making it publicly following plenty of pressure to ease restrictions for vaccinated people. after that, a maskless president biden declared the new guidance a great milestone. while senate minority leader mitch mcconnell declared himself free at last. while there is agreement on both sides over the new guidance, the president's hope for harmony in washington is being overshadowed by multiple crisis immigration conflict in the middle east that's expanding tonight. a maskless white house correspondent peter doocy joins us live from the north lawn. it is liberated in some way, isn't it? just to get this guidance? >> peter: we can take it and toss it on the driveway behind us, bret. walking out here the u.s. marines who take turns guarding the west wing while the president is in the oval office and had black face ma

bret? >> bret: all right. mike.reaking tonight, in fact within the last hour authorities in idaho say a teacher disarmed a sixth grade girl who shot two students and a custodian at an idaho middle school. the jefferson county sheriff says today the victims' injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. police were called to the school after gunfire was heard this morning local time in idaho. students were evacuated to a nearby high school to meet their parents. up next, the return of earmarks and possibly a lot more pork to capitol hill. ♪ >> if someone supports this and they can defend it, then knock yourself out. >> you have to show what your project is. it's not just slip it in. ♪ ♪ uh-oh, sorry... oh... what? i'm an emu! no, buddy! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ when i'm on my hands and knees and i'm digging through the dirt. i feel something in me, like a fire, that's just growing. i feel kinder, when nature is so kind to me. find more ways to grow at miracle-gro.com. ♪♪

bret? >> bret: aishah, thank you. the top american diplomat heading to the middle east to try to reinforce the latest cease-fire between israel and the palestinians, secretary of state tony blinken will meet with representatives of both sides. this comes as fighting intensifies within the president's own party over what to do and what to say. white house correspondent peter doocy has details tonight. >> progressives want president biden to pump the brakes, sending arms to israel. >> that the united states of america has got to be leading the world in bringing people together not simply supplying weapons to kill children in gaza. >> that kind of anti-israel talk could be turning to anti-israel violence according to one former ambassador. >> you know what? , bernie, look in the mirror, because what you are doing right now is exactly what you are accusing the people on the right of doing. >> sanders hoped to stop $735 million worth of weapons for israel. a similar resolution in the house was introduced by members of the

hey, bret. >> bret: dana, thank you. good evening welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. breaking tonight calls for a cease-fire but there does not appear to be an end in sight for israel and hamas terrorists. today the heaviest fighting yet which entered its second week. what remains to be seen is when and how the u.s. will become involved diplomatically, a phone call late this afternoon between president biden and israeli prime minister netanyahu, meantime the top u.s. diplomat is side-stepping a claim the u.s. had intelligence about a media building attacked by israel. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot begins our coverage tonight live from tel aviv. good evening, greg. >> all right, bret. we are getting late word that president biden has spoke once again israeli prime minister netanyahu in a white house statement the president reiterated firm support for israel's right to defend itself against indiscriminate rocket attacks. those rocket attacks have been coming from hamas militant group. neither side in this conflict appears to be backing down. israeli a

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bret? >> bret: more on this with the panel. gillian, thank you. >> gillian: you bet. >> bret: the embattled head of the house republican conference says her party is at a crossroads tonight. wyoming congresswoman liz cheney writes in the "the washington post" op-ed republicans must decide whether they are going to choose truth and the constitution. congressional correspondent chad pergram joins us live from capitol hill where cheney's leadership position is in question tonight. good evening, chad. >> good evening, pretty. liz cheney isn't going quietly in an op-ed out in the "the washington post" cheney says there is good reason to believe president trump's language can provoke violence again. cheney accuses house minority leader kevin mccarthy of changing his story about the riot. cheney says the g.o.p. is at a turning point. liz cheney is crossways with most house republicans. >> i have heard from members concerned about her ability to carry out the job as conference chair. >> the fight over cheney is really a relitigation of

bret. >> bret: thanks. congresswoman liz cheney will join us tomorrow with an interview tomorrow with her reaction to the house vote, her thoughts about the future of the republican party tomorrow on "special report." senate minority leader mitch mcconnell spent some time in the oval office today with congressional leadership in an attempt to find some common ground with president biden. the minority leader of the senate. mcconnell joins us now to discuss. senator, thanks for coming back to "special report." >> yeah. glad to be with you, are bret. >> bret: tell us about that meetings. how do you describe it? what did you take from it. >> no staff in there, just the six of us, the vice president was there. we had a very cordial meeting for about an hour and a half and discussed an issue upon which there is a great chance we could get a bipartisan outcome. that's infrastructure. i did make clear to the president that we're not willing to go back and raise taxes. that is undo the 2017 comprehensive tax reform

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bret. u.s. officials are calling this a wake-up call. the colonial pipeline remains offline tonight but could be back online by the end of the week. u.s. officials are now looking for the group's ties to nation state actors. >> there is evidence that the actors, ransomware is in russia. they have some responsibility to deal with this. >> the white house declared a state of emergency after cyber hackers took control of the colonial pipeline that carries half the fuel supplies to 19 state. u.s. intelligence agencies are now investigating the ransomware attackers links to the kremlin. >> i'm going to be meeting with president putin and so far there is no evidence based on from our intelligence people that russia is involved. >> biden's top cyber security adviser named the group responsible. >> the fbi identified the ransomware as the dark side variant which they have been investigating since october of last year. >> hacker group issued the following statement, quote: we are apolitical. we do n

bret? >> bret: kevin, thanks. this is for the top legal spot and the director of national intelligence. kevin, thanks. it's increasing political pressure tonight on house speaker nancy pelosi to end her mandatory mask policy at the capitol. congressional correspondent chad pergram has specifics from capitol hill. good evening, chad. >> good evening, bret. >> bret: heard today house minority leader kevin mckathy tried to get the thousand drop this mask policy. >> that's right. there is a mask rebellion in the house, bret. mckathy wrote a resolution saying the house mask policy on the floor is contrary to cdc guidance. he said it's, quote, not based on the best available science. some g.o.p. members say the house rule is arbitrary. >> there is not really a real protocol to it. they are just telling us if we are on the floor without a mask they are going to fine us even though the cdc says if you have been vaccinated resume your normal live of life. >> the house is voting to kill mccarthy's resolution. capital attend

bret? >> bret: peter doocy. one more thing. we learned something about the president's son hunter introducing him to international business partners. that was the question in the campaign. do we know anymore? >> >> peter: bret, this allegedly happened in 2015 with a party of 14 here in washington, d.c. the "new york post" has published a series of emails that appear to show the president's son hunter emailing one associate to tell him that this dinner was ostensibly to talk about the world food program. it's not clear what they wound up talking about. so these emails could undercut a claim the president made to me early on in the campaign that he never spoke to his son about his overseas business dealings now that there was apparently this dinner at cafe milano in georgetown with hunter's oversees business partners. bret? >> bret: don't know the status of that investigation, is that right as far as doj is concerned. >> last update investigation into hunter biden's tax affairs being run out

bret? >> bret: bryan llenas in queens, bryan, thanks. work. here is what some fox affiliates are covering. fox 46 in charlotte as a district attorney shooting death of a black man by sheriff's deputies last month was justified. the d.a. there says deputies clearly identified themselves to andrew brown jr. who refused orders to stop and then drove his car directly at one of the officers. fox 5 in new york as andrew giuliani announces a run for governor. is he the son of former new york mayor rudy giuliani. he served as an aid in the trump white house. he has never run for public office. also tonight fox 35 in orlando as florida democratic congresswoman val demings says she will challenge incumbent republican senator marco rubio for that senate seat next year. and this is a life look at chicago from fox 32. one of the big stories there tonight, firefighters rescue a pet parrot from an office building ledge. a fire crew was returning from an emergency medical run sunday when he was flagged down by the owner of the bird. firefighters grabbed

bret? >> bret: good job on the soundbites past and present. peter doocy live on the north lawn. peter, thanks. let's bring in our panel early. harold ford jr., mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist" and bill bennett former education secretary and host of the bill bennett show podcast. bill, start with you. you heard jennifer's report and peter about really what changed to produce this announcement that this investigation is going to move forward today? >> we don't know. we don't know what the president saw. i found interesting in that report, by the way, some aggressiveness on the part of the press. they perhaps heard the siren call of objectivity that there can be aggressive questioning of the biden administration. if so, i hope so. look, we don't know what he heard. we do know there was a vested biden administration in denying the truth of anything donald trump said. i mentioned this the other night. the other thing, of course, is the stonewalling by china from the very begin

bret? >> bret: mike, thank you.ally locked up the g.o.p. nomination for virginia governor. former ceo of the carlyle group. the state party believes he stands a great chance of winning in the fall. democrats will choose their nominee next month in a state run primary. terry mcauliff is the frontrunner in the field of five democratic candidates. medina spirit will be allowed to run in this weekend's preakness stakes despite failing a drug test after the kentucky derby. the attorney for trainer bob baffert said he reached a deal with the maryland jockey club to allow medina spirit and two other baffert train horses in the race as long as they are tested and monitored. baffert also reportedly said in a statement tuesday that medina spirit had been treated prior to the race with an ointment containing the steroid that he was accused of having. baffert is not expected to be at that race. up next, more states declaring states of emergency as consumers start to feel the effects of the cyber hack on one of the biggest pipel

. ♪ >> bret: good evening. i'm bret baier.reaking tonight while president biden and his team deal with major foreign policy challenges from russia and china, we begin this evening with a longstanding problem here at home, the southern border crisis. immigration and border security, the biggest achilles heel for the president and latest fox news poll along with foreign policy actually we have new images tonight from the southern border region as hundreds of illegal immigrants are arrested in just one day. but the effects of that crisis can be seen on the faces of individuals, often young children. correspondent bill melugin shows us tonight from la jolla, texas. good evening, bill. >> bill: bret, good evening to you. this border crisis here really showing no signs of slowing down. just a short time ago i had a chance to talk to a border patrol source who told me that just here in this rio grande valley sector in the last 24 hours they have apprehended more than 1300 illegal immigrants remarkable numbers for one single day. and

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bret? >> bret: mark, thank you.tration official is reaffirming president biden's support for tokyo's plan to hold the olympic games. but a new covid outbreak in japan is present presenting massive complications. state department correspondent rich edson has details tonight from there. good evening, rich. >> good evening, bret. the tokyo olympics opened in less than two months. and the state department is telling americans who avoid japan. issued a travel alert here saying, quote: level four do not travel due to covid-19 related restrictions. the cdc issued a level 4 travel healths in the indicating a very high level of covid-19 in japan. level 4 is the most severe alert the state department issues. japan is in the middle of a covid surge, local governments are under states of emergencies. in cities like osaka reports of overwhelmed hospitals. japan's vaccine rollout is very slow compared to other wealthy countries. but vaccination rates estimated between 2 and 4.5%. the president of this year's olympics says the gam

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there are easier venues had than coming on with bret baier. >> bret: mollie? >> liz cheney seems obsessed with donald trump and she is very passionate about this. i think a lot of republicans are wondering where was that fire in the belly for the last four years when democrats were questioning the 2016 legitimacy, when they were says the election was stolen and that donald trump wasn't legitimate. hillary clinton and former president carter, one out of three house members on the democratic side refused to go trump's inauguration because they said he was illegitimate. it would have been nice, i think a lot of republicans wish that

tonight bret baier talks with republican nominee glenn youngkin. >> bret: thanks, shannon.alth of virginia. republican nominee glenn youngkin, glenn, thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> bret: talk about where you see virginia, what's most important in this race as you get ready to head to a general election likely against terry mcauliff. >> virginia over the course of the last eight years has really trailed our competitive states in economic growth and job creation and meanwhile we have seen our cost of living above national average and higher than our competitive state. during covid i just saw the way that governor north thad matta . recognize that career politicians and yet the same politician yet again aren't really in virginia's best interest and they didn't really perform last time. >> bret: i said terry mcauliff lakely because the primary is three weeks from this past tuesday but he is expected to pull that out. although he is already running political ads aimed at you. take a listen. >> donald trump is a stain on our democracy now glenn youngkin wants

here is bret baier with the author of the book. >> bret: shannon, thank you.nonfiction events in the past is when some new information is dug up in a narrative form, something that we just didn't know about and one of those things is in this new book tiger in the sea. it is bike eric lindner, he joins us now it is about a crash of a plane in 1962. eric, set the table for us. >> thank you very much, bret, for having me on. it was flying over the north atlantic and newfoundland and started air force base in new jersey frankfurt. four engines, it experienced one in 10 million engine problems according to the experts. a ditching was impossible to avoid. it's been called one of the most stirring rescues in history. up 27 hours and then it, poof, it disappeared. literally disappeared the cuban missile crisis hit. people forgot about it. >> bret: the fact that the pilot hands it in these waves in the ocean and then they are rescued, essentially by one flashlight that is scene in the sea, is just remarkable. >> it is like -- remarkable upon remarkable upon remarkable.

bret: all the above. there was no weaknesses in the recorder.higher growth rate in hq1, over 20% year-over-year. those seven-figure deals were made up of more than 4 of our clouds. companies invested in digital customer transportations. we are seeing this in every segment and every market. it is the strongest q1 in our company's history. haidi: where are you seeing the downside when it comes to companies struggling with the virus india resurgence is in japan,, countries still struggling to get a group like brazil. are you seeing the fallout? bret: our hearts go out to india, brazil, and took countries experiencing resurgence in some parts of asia. the pandemic is not over. the recovery is happening in and i even way. san francisco, my hometown, is recovering rapidly and we have a number of employees horribly impacted by these variants. a couple of things. one, despite the unevenness in our recovery, everyone is optimistic about the recovery and growth, as you can see in the investment. it is more important and never that we recognize our busines

appreciate you joining us, bret.ping story in our nation's capital, the second case of a mysterious brain illness now being reported. this one at the entrance to the white house grounds off of the south lawn. feds trying to get to the bottom of it, as questions grow over whether russia could be behind it. former cia chief of station dan hoffman spent decades with the agency and military and state department. he joins us just a moment. first, national security correspondent jennifer griffith's life at the pentagon. you've got some new details, jennifer, about these directed energy microwave tax. >> jennifer: u.s. officials have reported there are now 130 suspected victims being treated for brain injuries, debilitating headaches, and vertigo. there are new indications that the debilitating incidents go as far back as 1996. we've been able to confirm that two individuals working on the nfc during the trump administration believed they were targeted in 2019 and 2020, in the days following the election. one was near the w

bret's for ten revolver, the gun he kept on his safe and used to shoot brian. in bryant's hand, police found a nine millimeter pistol that had been used to kill tammy. near bryan's body was his open gym bag with animal and an empty magazine clip, clearly visible on top. to investigators, it looked like brett parker had fought for his life. shaw a man in self-defense and had just lost his beautiful wife. the big question was why. why would such a good friend turn on them? >> one of the first questions i asked him was, what was his relationship with this man? he said could i talk to in private. and that's when he told me that he was -- >> bret worked a day job as a full-time medical salesman. but on the side he had been a bookie for years. >> everybody knew. that >> did it concern you or was it just -- >> it was small town. that was something that i didn't even think. about >> and brett was not the sopranos baker lake style type of bookie was bright a gentle bookie? >> oh, very, very. everybody says that he delivered his money. brett was a good bookie. >> brett a

not our bret baier.> gillian: first, the president of belarus ordered that commercial passenger plane to land. he stands by europe of hijacking the flight and endangering the lives of hundreds of passengers on board including americans. benjamin hall is tracking this, all the breaking developments from the london news desk. hi, benji. >> hi, gillian. there's huge condemnation for this now. lukashenko took 169 innocent people hostage for seven hours after forcing that plane to the ground to use a mig fighter jet to get the plane on the ground because of a reporter on board. they have instructed the national airlines to avoid belarus completely and closed european airports to belarus' airliners. >> this was a shocking act diverting a flight between two e.u. starts for the purpose of arresting a journalist. >> meanwhile, video of the reporter in court shows that he was missing a tooth and appears to be wearing makeup. lukashenko is propped up by vladimir putin. we found out the biden-putin summit will be he

. >> bret: all right. panel. thank you. nice job. tomorrow on "special report" interview with virginia republican nominee glenn youngkin that's for inviting us into your home tonight fair balanced and unafraid. "fox news primetime" hosted by will cain is with us this week. >> will: i'm with ben domenech i don't know how i compete with bill bennett throwing out latin headlines he is a texas longhorn. welcome to "fox news primetime." ♪ >> will: i am will cain and tonight we're at a pivotal moment in history. a unique moment. it's a moment when the truth begins to come into focus, when it becomes truly undeniable and you know, it's hard to put an exact date on moments like this. what was the day, exactly when we realized that iraq did not in fact have weapons of mass destruction? whatever that day, we are close to the moment where liars for the past year are forced to admit the truth. that the coronavirus, likely, escaped from a chinese lab. today, "the washington post" quote, unquote, fact checker, glenn kessler, you remember him. he w

and just for the record, bret, even though it says thank bret in the prompter, i would have thanked you on my own. >> bret: thank you for that. >> brian: all right. you got it. i will take it from here, bret, thanks so much. good evening, everyone, and welcome to "fox news primetime." bret gave it away i am brian kilmeade we go to the winner's circle to the hot seat. >> can you unequivocally say you have never used an illegal substance ever? >> listen, i have said it for seven years. i have said it for longer than seven years, i have never doped. i have never used steroids. period. >> i will ask you the question, were you guilty of any of these charges. >> no. >> did you do anything wrong. >> no. >> did you do any peds? >> no. >> we did not cheat to win the kentucky derby. >> brian: here we go again another major doping scandal gripping the nation this time the king of sports medina spirit the winner of last week's kentucky derby under investigation after failing a post race drug test. if a second test comes back positive the host could be stripped from the most prestigious title in all

>> bret: that's fine. >> brian: now ate up 8 seconds of my own time. thanks, bret. good evening and welcome to "fox news primetime." all right, bret was right again i am brian kilmeade and we have another huge show for you, devin nunes, mark levin will be here and mask guidance with some guy named tucker carlson so i don't think has a mask. cybercrime pays better than regular crime. the operators of the colonial pipe line reportedly paid the russian hacking group darkside a ransom of nearly $5 million to decrypt the virus that shut down the line that brought distribution in the southeast to a grinding halt. according to bloomberg, colonial paid the russian hackers on friday hours after the ransomware attack began. but the decryption tool was so slow the company had to use its own backups to unlock the pipeline itself. among the people outraged house speaker nancy pelosi. she is not happy about the payoff. >> we don't want people to that there is money in it hackers who can make money off of even if they don't go as far as crippling the entity as with colonial they d

. >> martha: joined by bret baier. you heard president biden moments ago in cleveland going after republicans saying that they're bragging about some of the things they're going to bring home. they're not willing to sign the bill. how is that going? >> i tell you what, there was a lot of prospect of possible bipartisanship as we started this negotiation. infrastructure is something that republicans and democrats usually can get their heads around around figure out how to get to the middle. doesn't seem like it's heading that way right now. everything we're hearing from capitol hill, the white house is someplace that the republicans are not. you heard the president saying he wants to pour more money into this economy. there's a lot of concern about that. what that means for inflation. it's not just republicans talking this. as you mentioned, larry summers, former treasury secretary for president obama, former adviser to democrats on fiscal issues. others saying listen, if you do too much, it's going to super charge this

bret: i am really excited about the bay area.ited about all of our hubs, like seattle, new york, all of the cities will continue to be important hubs for salesforce. as an oakland native, i am never leaving the bay area, i love it. but you bring up a great point. i think we can recruit from more places. when i look at what is flexible work afford for forward leaning companies, can you drive greater quality and representation to your employers, because you don't need to recruit from one metro area, you can recruit from areas with more diverse workforces. can you find more talented people who might not have had the means to move to places like san francisco. i don't look at the expense of san francisco, we are investing in our hq and we are a san francisco company through and through, but i think what we are looking at this as how can we create a more powerful and more inclusive and talented place. i think it's really exciting. emily: it has been speculated that you are the heir apparent to the ceo job at salesforce? is there truth

. >> bret: robert gates not in a barrel. a total disgrace and embarrassment to the country a facebook oversight board has upheld the social media giant's suspension of the former president's account putting the conflict between free enterprise and free speech on the front burner once again. correspondent gillian turner is here with details on this decision and the fallout from it. good evening, gillian. >> gillian: good evening to you, bret. facebook's oversight board verdict is in. president trump will

bret, thank you so much.this is playing in the media, howard kurtz. your reflections on this important day about the media's role in all of this. i've heard anecdotally on other networks, there's like a lot of emotion about the fact that this is over. clearly we all feel that, but there's been a lot of drama surrounding this in a lot of ways. some suitable and some perhaps not. >> well, the headline is it's about time. >> martha: the president is coming out in a minute, by the way. >> and the media turned "the new york times" article accusing the cdc of exaggerating the risk of being outside. now when administration officials are out there, the question is why can't we do this. why is biden always wearing a mask even outside? that contributed some pressure and other experts and became impossible to defend. this should have been done weeks ago. didn't make any sense. i think that the drum beat changed because it was always with trump, always why doesn't he wear a mask. it's like why is biden always wearing a m

if you have any, drop me a line or a tweet at bret baier. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. "fox news primetime" hosted by brian kilmeade this week starts right now. hi, brian. >> brian: bret, great show as usual. let me get started. good evening to everybody. and welcome to "fox news primetime." >> brian: i'm brian kilmeade tonight big show lindsey graham, jeb petraeus, senator marco rubio nancy groce and to close it out jocko will neck. i dare anyone even greg gutfeld to put this show together. pun intended. energy anxiety. the colonial pipeline finally reopened after a cyberattack russian hackers shutting down nearly a week. as a result gas prices skyrocketing. massive fuel shortage in states across the south. one in four stations in north carolina is totally out of gas long lines causings tensions to boil over. for example, some drivers throwing some fists in north carolina, yeah, this reminds me of the 1970s, the national price of gallon of gas topped $3 for the f

bret giroir, guy benson and texas attorney general ken paxton. tonight we have rare footage, rare sound you may have not seen, sound head of the northern profit echo health alliance. he is denying the lab theory pushing supervirus funding research, all of that news is pushing back, trying to deny it. this is theory. that dr. fauci and the nih gave his non-profit money and then non-profit turned around and funded the wuhan lab. we have dr. dacik on tape, we were researching with china coronaviruses for six or seven years. yes, we created a new man-made supervirus not seen in nature inside labs in china. we'll show you this. also 18 scientists from mit, harvard, yale, one who actually worked on superviruses with the wuhan lab say yeah, investigate the covid lab leak theory. so why is cnn pushing back on this, giving a pass to china which has a major incentive to cover up the worst pandemic in recent memory? guess who cnn is now blaming. we're following this. bank ceos got grilled at a senate hearing today but what the senators did not drill into th

if you have one, drop me a tweet at bret baier let me know what you would ask the senate minority leader tomorrow. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report" fair, balanced and unafraid. fox news prime with a guy who starts in the morning and then finishes at night brian kilmeade starts right now. >> brian: thank you 1re67, bret. i will start and finish at 8:00 and hand it over to tucker unless he calls in sick and then i will stick around. good evening, everyone. welcome to "fox news primetime." ♪ >> brian: here we go. bret gave it away i am brian kilmeade tonight we have an exclusive with a first member of congress to finally ask dr. fauci the right questions. >> authorities in the u.s., including yourself unequivocally deny that covid-19 could have escaped a lab. but even dr. xi in wuhan wasn't so sure. will you, in front of this group categorically say that the covid-19 could not have occurred through serial passage in a laboratory? >> i do not have any accounting of what the chinese may have done and i'm fully in favor of any further investiga

hey, bret. >> bret: dana, thank you. good evening welcome to washington. i'm bret baier.ael and hamas terrorists. today the heaviest fighting yet which entered its second week. what remains to be seen is when and how the u.s. will become involved diplomatically, a phone call late this afternoon between president biden and israeli prime minister netanyahu, meantime the top u.s. diplomat is side-stepping a claim the u.s. had intelligence about a media building attacked by israel. senior foreign affairs

i'm bret baier.nters for disease control made that announcement today. the president making it publicly following plenty of pressure to ease restrictions for vaccinated people. after that, a maskless president biden declared the new guidance a great milestone. while senate minority leader mitch mcconnell declared himsel

hi, bret. >> bret: my condolences to jesse. looks good on the book. thanks, greg.serious doubts about how the u.s. will be able to contain and keep track of terror groups in the middle east after american troops leave afghanistan. today featured the first news conference with the defense secretaries and joint chiefs chairman together at the pentagon since the inauguration and president biden's decision to withdrawal those troops from afghanistan. we get details and the news from that event today from lucas

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i'm bret baier.s in san jose, california say an employee opened fire at mass transit rail yard today killing 8 people then himself. no known motive. we will have a live report from there just shortly. also tonight, fox has new polls out. americans say they believe there is more crime across the country right now than a year ago. and, also, in their own neighborhoods. almost three quarters of americans, 73% felt that

i'm bret baier.f george floyd brings with it a stark reminder of the many deadly consequences of that happening. president biden met with floyd's family today at the white house. meanwhile. in minneapolis, shots rang out this morning near the intersection where floyd was killed last year. this is what it looked and sounded like live with an associated press reporter. >> they wanted this bill of comprehensive. [gunfire. >> police reform

it's difficult to say bret really and i'd be lying to you if i said i knew about most of the people who've gone online a bit at least 800000 people have gone online and signed supported that says that the dunce are not mostly so we don't know if the people have gone on 2 or 3 times or if these are actually people who have done it we do know that in the stream room they said the election called spectrum and france there are those who support this and who do question whether or not french president to bend your back wrong has been strong enough in if you like painting some of the radical elements of some religions here in france and whether or not he has done enough to. immigration from people who have subsequently been accused by the carrying out terrorist attacks or supporting terrorist attacks here in france is there anyone in the. positions of power who's taking this threat seriously. you know if i can make i mean this thread that they are worried about is that this is going to whip up a lot more support for the from right ahead of next month's regional elections that they will get big i

i'm bret baier.es" report accuses the cdc of making a huge miscalculation or exaggeration when it comes to outdoor transmission risk. and while the cdc director tried to sort fact from fiction, dr. anthony fauci found himself once again sparring with republican senator rand paul white house correspondent peter doocy followed all the fireworks today from the north lawn. good evening,

here is our storm, bret baier. >> bret: very nicely done. katie is not here. one. good evening, welcome to washington. i'm bret baier, breaking tonight president biden says the government is now focusing on making it easier for people who have been less than eager to be vaccinated than the 150 million americans who have had at least one shot so far. his new strategy is also going to concentrate on people as young as 12 years old once the fda clears that. and people who have found a current process confusing or inconvenient. either way, mixed messages from the administration are still raising some

i'm bret baier.a panicked buying spree all across the country really on the east coast in some cases filling gas cans and even plastic bags with gasoline. shortages across the east coast gas prices shooting up to more than $3 a

i'm bret baier. of sorts of thought from being some experts and scientists who were originally dismissive of the called leaked from a lab theory. this comes as pressure builds on the u.s. government to facilitate major changes to the world health organization in the wake of the pandemic. state department correspondent rich edson starts us off tonight. good evening, rich. >> good evening, bret.

. >> bret: that's pretty cool astronomy carp. >> katie: yeah. >> bret: good evening, welcome to washingtonnd they are investigating whether that group has direct ties to the russian government. the biden administration has also claimed the u.s. border is closed. the southern border but a fox news camera captures dozens of migrants crossing into the u.s. in broad dayton, dozens from venezuela. we will bring you there. we begin tonight overseas with an escalation and tension i

hey, bret. >> bret: i can wait for the armpit. all right. thanks, greg.lowing two major foreign policy stories. president biden is stepping up the pressure on israel to make what is being called a significant deescalation in this conflict with hamas. but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is rejecting that call. first up, the president's decision to waive sanction sanctions on the company behind the controversial russian pipeline project to europe. specifically germany is getting more criticism about that today. even as

i'm bret baier.irus that has obviously raced raged across the planet for more than aer yoosm the escaped from a chinese lab once mocked conspiracy theory gets new coverage tonight. jennifer griffin at the pentagon about concerns about chinese cooperation and finding the truth. we begin with white house correspondent peter doocy and