have a great show, bret. >> bret: we will see ya. following two major stories a massive manhunt by land, water and air underway in maine tonight. the target a u.s. army reservist suspected in the massacre of 18 people wednesday in lewiston. authorities are still urging residents in the area to use extreme caution because he is armed, experienced and very dangerous. we'll have a live update there shortly. but we begin with an expansion of the war in israel. huge explosions tonight rocking gaza. we're also getting new insight about the expected ground invasion of gaza by israeli troops will look like or might look like. israel's defense minister saying it will require destroying a vast network of tunnels and the campaign will be long and difficult. senior correspondent mike tobin is in southern israel again tonight with the latest. good evening, mike. >> mike: good evening, bret. an adviser to prime minister benjamin netanyahu says hamas will pay for the crimes of october 7th. and the expanded fighting we are seeing tonight is the star

. >> bret: good evening i am bret baier. coming to you life from inside the u.s. capital just down the hall from the house chamber. the house essentially frozen and searching for a speaker. the process begins tonight and it has taken on new urgency following the weekend. strikes against israel. we are waiting for a meeting of house republicans scheduled to begin it right around now as to begin to vet the two major candidates for the top political post in the chamber. there could be surprises, including from the man who was just removed from the post. the pressure to settle on a speaker quickly has increased exponentially because without a speaker congress ability to help israel is greatly reduced. we will talk about all of that as this program proceeds. first, the latest from the middle east. the death toll is estimated at more than 1600 on both sides at this hour and that includes at least 11 americans that are said to be more than 130 israeli hostages in gaza and possibly americans held hostage as well. israel is promising to destroy hamas and is blaming iran fo

bret? >> bret: all right, nate, thank you.resident biden meantime moving forward with his student debt forgiveness plan. today he unveiled an additional $9 billion in relief. critics say the move is unconstitutional and will, again, be challenged in court. white house correspondent peter doocy has details. >> this kind of relief is life-changing for individuals and their families. >> 125,000 borrowers just had student loans forgiven at a cost of about $9 billion. >> you can sign up for the save plan at student aid.com/save. >> student aid dash gov -- student aid.gov/save. >> president biden is going it alone because the supreme court ruled his last loan forgiveness was unconstitutional. >> as i said at the time, i believe the court's decision to strike down my student debt relief program was wrong. but i promised i wouldn't give up. >> the president's next issue with congress a threat to war time weapons deliveries. >> were you worried that you won't be able to deliver the aid that the u.s. has promised to ukraine? >> it does

bret, back to you. >> bret: mike, thank you. president biden, as we mentioned, is on trip to the middle east. his visit something further complicated by today's attack in that hospital inside gaza. his schedule is opening up a bit after protest cancellations. white house correspondent peter doocy has details tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. >> peter: bret, just a few minutes ago air force one wheels up towards israel. president biden was then going to continue on to jordan. that stop has now been canceled entirely. a white house official told us as we were coming to air that in light of the days of mourning after that hospital explosion, president biden sent his deepest condolences for the innocent lives lost in the hospital explosion in gaza and apparently he says that he looks forward to consulting in person with these leaders soon. but that means the planned meetings with the jordanian and egyptian leaders are off. the first one to call his meeting with the president off was the palestinian leader mahmou

bret? >> bret: mike tobin live in israel.e, thank you >> we are going images tonight of potential us assistance to israel, f-18 fighter jets with the u.s. s gerald ford carrier strike group in the eastern mediterranean. also tonight an apparent movement on the effort to make sure iran does not have access to that $6 billion of recently unfrozen assets. the issue of iran funding has become a major piece of the israel hamas war. another big concern, the surprise element of saturday's surprise attacks. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has that part of the story tonight live from the north lawn. good evening jacqui. >> reporter: good evening bret. president biden held no public events but he did meet with his national security team as israel right side a ground invasion to rule out hamas with a number of americans still being held hostage. hamas's terror attack on israel also surprised the u.s. the defense secretary says. >> if we had those indications, we would share them with our -- with israel. but, to my knowledge, w

bret? >> bret: alex hogan live in london, alex, thanks. ♪ >> bret: breaking tonight the republican nominee for house speaker lost another vote today. a second setback in as many days leaving several members of the republican caucus to float new ideas while others are urging congressman jim jordan to keep fighting. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram has the latest now from capitol hill. good evening, chad. >> bret, geographic. jim jordan lost ground today. he scored 200 votes yesterday. 199 today. jordan got a few new supporters but four republicans who previously backed jordan voted for someone else today. former house speaker kevin mccarthy thinks jordan should stay in the race. >> i had from november all the way to january to work on winning speaker. jim jordan has less than 48 hours. >> i look, i think for the perspective jim as the nominee, let him work through this. >> mccarthy needed 15 rounds before members elected him. there were six votes for mccarthy today. and even a

bret? >> bret: david, thank you.l of former crypto currency executive accused of cheating thousands of customers out of millions of dollars. fox business correspondent kelly o'grady is live in new york tonight as proceedings for sam bankman-fried get underway. good evening, kelly. >> good evening, bret. jury selection in the case of sam bankman-fried has not finished yet. but the judge shares he expects that to wrap up by midmorning tomorrow at which point opening statements will begin. now, a number of jurors have already been dismissed, based on negative feelings about crypto currency as well as admissions they could not render a fair verdict. remember, the downfall of ftx played out very publicly on social media. once chosen, that jury will take on a case that prosecutors are calling one of the biggest financial frauds in history. bankman-fried is charged with seven counts of fraud, money laundering and conspiracy. if convicted of all, he could spend up to 110 years in jail. the prosecution is expected to hang the

. >> bret: hello, greg. >> greg: hello, bret. >> bret: i liked the show with larry kudlow and charles payne. >> greg: that was a lot of fun last night. >> bret: that was very good. i'm going to have to come back on. >> greg: one day. >> bret: if you will have me. >> greg: of course. >> bret: good evening. i'm bret baier. fighting on the northern border with lebanon is increasing. magnifying concerns a new front in the war may be opening. israeli forces are conducting raids into gaza to look for hostages and assess the situation. meantime president biden will speak to the nation about the israel-hamas war and the situation in ukraine. 8:00 p.m. eastern, can you see that right here on fox. we have fox team coverage. peter doocy is at the white house with a preview of tonight's speech. steve harrigan in beirut with a look at the worldwide demonstrations over the war. greg palkot is watching the fighting along the israel lebanon border. we begin with senior correspondent mike tobin again in southern israel. good evening, mike. >> good evening, bret. while the world watches nervously for t

bret. >> bret: madison, thank you. the biden administration says north korea delivered more than a thousand containers of military equipment and munitions to russia for its ongoing war inside ukraine. white house national security council spokesman john kirby says the u.s. believes kim, north korean leader kim, is seeking sophisticated russian weapons technologies to boost north korea's military and nuclear program in return for those munitions. white house releasing images that it says shows containers loaded onto a russian flagged ship before being moved via train to southwestern russia. >> bret: house republicans have nominated ohio's jim jordan to be the next speaker. it's not final in the total house vote and the secret ballot in the conference came after the previous nominee steve scalise withdraw his name last night. chat pergram is live on capitol hill tonight and tells us it's always about the m math and so r jordy tan's math looks a little short. reporter: gutierrez evening, bret, the house still lack as spea

bret? >> bret: grady, thank you.ypto-currency executive sam bankman-fried took the stand today in his fraud and money laundering trial. he gave his testimony while the jury was not present. fox business correspondent kelly o'grady is outside the courthouse in new york to tell us why. good evening, kelly. >> good evening, bret. another curve ball in the sam bankman-fried fraud trial today. the former crypto king took the stand just not in front of the jury. the judge sent them away for a rare mid trial hearing to determine if f sbf. whether he will be able to use loose standards in the crypto-currency as a defense. the sorry whether bankman-fried can cast blames on ftx lawyers for providing incorrect device. he claimed dan freedberg knew and approved of how al mate da was using ftx funds further he claimed lawyers auto delete messages. confident and calm in his answers. when the prosecution started their examination he began to crumble, taking long pauses and heavily cav yoght his statements. at one point judge admoni

bret? >> bret: mike tobin on the ground in israel. mike, thank you. the israeli military has ordered residents to evacuate almost 30 communities near the lebanese border. hezbollah terrorists continue to exchange fire with israeli troops there. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is at the israel lebanon border tonight. good evening, greg. >> hi, bret. yeah. the israel lebanon border is about three miles behind us through this night we have been watching israeli flares go up. israeli artillery go out and right now a drone overhead. they try to target hezbollah militants next door. skirmishes past week up and down this border hezbollah rockets anti-tank missiles raining down. we have heard the crableg of militant gunfire there have been numerous casualties on both sides of the border. the fear growing that the iranian backed militants could open another frontier. spreadio posted on monday by hezbollah allegedly showing them knocking out israeli surveillance towers hauntedly simi

. >> good evening, i am bret bret baier. officials say they released two american hostages held in gaza in order to "prove to the american people into the world that the claims made by president biden and his fashionable administration or full's and bases. president biden meantime said in a statement, "we have secured their release." the admini calling for others bg held hostage to be released. and natalie renan, chicago area tuesday. right here on special report spoke to the sister here and let's get the latest tonight from lucas tomlinson live in tel aviv, good evening. >> bread, two american hostages are free and back on israeli soil and the first images of mother and 17-year-old child were held captive by hamas over the past two weeks. secretary of state tony blinken speaking in washington about the release. >> we share with their families and the loved ones what they are feeling. but those ten additional americans who remain unaccounted for. >> chicago erev to the ohmic natives travel to celebrate the jewish holidays, t

bret? >> bret: peter, quickly, i mean, how does the white house explain saying have to follow the law, specifically with the border wall because congress set it and then when congress says something about student loans and what they can and cannot do, they don't listen to that? >> peter: they have not explained why some things that a court or the congress challenged they go fight hard and some things like this they do not. it also did not come up at today's briefing why it is that the congress in 2021, when they asked them to reappropriate this money wouldn't do it considering that the congress was led at the time by nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. >> bret: good point. peter doocy on the north lawn, thanks. we are getting a clearer list of the candidate list for speaker of the house. as we told you last night it includes someone already looking to change jobs again. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram how former president trump may actually get involved here. >> good evening, fo

hello, bret. >> bret: hey, judge. listen, do you think the taylor swift,les kelce thing is too much? >> judge jeanine: i think it's great. i love them both. >> bret: thank you. have a united states evening. i'm bret baier. former president trump quiets speculation of his candidacy for house speaker by endorsing ohio congressman jim jordan. the uproar out of virginia liberal arts college transgender athlete on the women's swimming team and how would robert f. kennedy running for president as an independent affect the 2024 election? ♪ >> bret: breaking tonight, president biden is touting an unexpectedly strong jobs report for september. the nation's employers added 336,000 jobs. the largest monthly rise since january. but his critics and even some of his allies are still talking about the stunning reversal on building a southern border wall. there is also strong reaction tonight to a comment by former democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton about people who support the man who defeated her in 2016. white house c

bret? >> bret: okay. peter doocy live on the north lawn, peter, thanks. >> bret: breaking tonight, the united auto workers strike against detroit's three major vehicle manufacturers has been settled. the last of the big three has just come to terms with the union. fox business correspondent grady trimble has the details. good evening, grady. >> good evening, bret. general motors is the third and final automaker to reach a tentative agreement with the uaw, ending the walkouts that dragged on for more than 40 days and by some estimates cost the u.s. economy more than $10 billion. >> now that we have groundbreaking tentative agreement at g.m., we are officially suspending our standup strike against each of the big three. we wholeheartedly believe that our strike squeezed every last dime out of general motors. >> tonight, general motors ceo mary barra says g.m. is pleased to have reached a tentative agreement with the uaw that reflects the contributions of the team while enabling us to continue to invest in o

bret? >> bret: mike, thank you.t getting word from the state department that secretary blinken will travel to israel on friday for meetings with members of the israeli government and then will make other stops in the region. tonight, we give you an in-depth look at measures being taken to protect communities in southern israel. correspondent alex hogan is in ashkelon as the conflict turns normally peaceful communities into war zones. [explosion] >> ashkelon is the last major city along israel's coast before gaza. >> missile fire is the most fired upon city. [is siren] >> more than a thousand fired, even a hospital has taken two direct hits. >> you are fashioning sort of under fire, that's a different kind of word, fork working inside a war zone. we have to be prepared and ready for everything that could come to the hospital. >> with businesses shuttered, the city council is collecting items for those in need and even assembling a unit of armed civilians to protect their own section of the city. >> this is the last l

bret? >> bret: chad, thanks.esident donald trump says he is staying above the house speaker situation, not getting into it. he said he expects it to be resolved eventually. >> the threshold is tough. it's a very tough thing no matter who it is. there's only one person that can do it all the way. do you know who that is? jesus christ. jesus came down and said, i want to be speaker, he could do it. at some point i think we're going to have somebody pretty soon. >> bret: today the former president filed to participate in the new hampshire primary, the first former president to do so. candidates have until friday to register. the panel is next with the latest on the middle east situation and what is happening on the ground. >> hamas wants to wipe israel off the map. that was the purpose of october 7th. to just take life. and it is perfectly possible that there were other geo political goals here. i'm andrea, and this is why i switched to shopify. it gave me so much peace of mind. if we make a change, my site's not go

bret? >> bret: aishah, thank you. meantime, new york democratic congressman jamaal bowman is being investigated for pulling a fire alarm right before the house vote on the funding bill. he says he thought he was opening a door. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is on capitol hill tonight to tell us how that explanation is going over. good evening, chad. >> bret, good evening. jamaal bowman doubled down when asked about tripping the fire alarm. he claims he did not know that pulling the alarm would force the evacuation of the cannon house office building. >> i don't know why this has gotten so much attention. i was literally just in a rush to go vote, man. i take responsibility for what i did, you know, but, like i said, i was in a rush to go vote. >> a witness told fox the alarm was louder than, quote: acdc. republican nicole mawx of new york drafted a resolution to expel bowman. mmalliotakis says he cannot clam ignorance. >> of all people jamaal bowman knows the old fire alarm trick because he was a hig

bret?or israel up in the air as congress struggles to elect a house speaker. let's bring in shannon bream, "fox news sunday" anchor and chief leal correspondent. it's a mess. the 217 number is the magic up in. it's always about the math. right now it does not seem like jim jordan can get there, at least behind the scenes that's what we're hearing. >> and i reached out to folks from different wings of the gop that would align in different ways. i didn't get any sense that they would come to something that they can coalesce around. as aishah said, around 3:10 they'll try to go to the test vote. we had congressman austin scott. he's not a well known guy. doesn't make you think he could be somebody to rally the troops and get to the 2017. he seems ernest about this run. >> yeah, he's from georgia. a seven-term congressman, this is a protest vote. he was a mccarthy supporter. mccarthy was on set with me last night. i asked him different ways if he was pulling himself out of consideration. he sai

. >> have a good show, bret. >> bret: thanks, dana. good evening. i'm bret baier. we are coming from the richard nixon presidential library and museum in yorba linda, california. breaking tonight, we're following several major stories. president biden said israel must be incredibly careful to make sure it is focusing on the people. benjamin netanyahu says his government will decide when and how hard to hit hamas. mean time former president trump and the u.s. fined $10,000 for violating a gag order in his new york civil fraud trial. the democratic congressman who pulled a fire alarm at the capitol before a house vote on spending is now facing a criminal charge. we'll bring you that. we begin on capitol hill with house republicans finally finding their new speaker. mike johnson won this afternoon's vote to secure the office three weeks and one day after kevin mccarthy was ousted. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is at the capitol where there is a new sheriff in town in the house of representatives. >> reporter: bret, good evening. meet mike johnson, th

sandra, bret. >> bret: trey, it's bret and you're doing a fantastic job getting all the information out and covering the depravity and civilian attacks and terrorists and when i go around, people are asking me, how are you doing, how is the crew doing? do you get any sleep? what's that like? reporter: we don't get a lot of sleep. we have a job to do and we're in the middle of history. we have a responsibility to tell this story and make sure people understand what happened here. the massacre against innocent civilians and also make sure people understand what's happening inside gaza. it's part of the reason you heard our reporterring from inside gaza today and a hamas official. we want to make sure people have a full understanding of what is taking place. the largest ground war in the middle east in years and this is just the beginning and you talked earlier and this could be chapter one of a very long and bloody book and we're here to report on the story and make sure people are informed. >> sandra: we thank you for that, trey. you're bringing the stories like no one else can right now

bret. >> bret: dozens of u.s.ing meta platforms and accusing them of contributing to a youth mental health crisis through the addicting nature of social media platforms and 33 states now say the company that operates facebook and misled the public and dangers of the platforms and knowingly endeuced young children and teenagers into addictive and compulsive youth and meta sought to make teens safe. up next, talking with former member of israeli defense forces counter terrorism forces about the situation on the ground and israel's tactical strategy going forward. my a1c was up here; now, it's down with rybelsus®. his a1c? it's down with rybelsus®. my doctor told me rybelsus® lowered a1c better than a leading branded pill and that people taking rybelsus® lost more weight. i got to my a1c goal and lost some weight too. rybelsus® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't take rybelsus® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if allergic to it.

. >> bret: it's a sad day. i'm bret baier. israel says it has regained control of towns near the border with gaza. defense forces pounded hamas targets inside the gaza strip all its might being used. military commanders say strikes on the enemy will be bigger than before and far more severe. the government mobileizing more than 350,000 reservists just over three days. live fox team coverage. matt finn standing by with the latest on u.s. citizens abducted by hamas. greg palkot is live but he is running to a shelter to stay safe from rocket fire near the gaza border. our concern is to stay safe and get our reporters in a position that they can report safely. that is a difficult job, dana, in the middle of something that is changing by the minute and they have launched thousands of rockets from gaza to various sites inside israel, including the international airport within the last couple hours. >> dana: you just reported right before the top of this hour that the president of the united states has spoken again with prime ministe

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bret. >> bret: chad pergram live on capitol hill. in the midst of all of this, this is important because the house can't really operate. it's frozen until you get a speaker. >> dana: maybe the situation and this urgency will force some sort of action so they can get there and not drag it on too long. we shall see. pay attention to it this week. back to israel and one person's family was abducted and they burned down their home and i understand you have 11 members of your family who were kidnapped? >> yes. yes, my husband's family and i live in -- i wasn't in the area when it happened. i was in the desert so i'm here right now. >> dana: i want to be clear, that was not the same music festival where the massacre was, correct? a different one. go on. >> a different one. so we weren't at home but our family wasn't home. my husband's parents, his sister, her husband, two kids, 3-year-old girl, an 8-year-old boy. his cousin that is 12 years old and his aunt and another aunt and uncle. they were all at home. both of their houses were comple

. >> bret: i'm bret baier. this is "america's newsroom." it has been a tough three days. the increase of the depravity we're seeing on the ground has been very tough. you look at what is about ready to happen, it looks like. we could be in for weeks and weeks of this. >> dana: the complexities increase with every hour. you can rest assured they're on top of it. we don't know how it will look a few days from now. >> bret: the israeli death toll from saturday's terror attack by hamas topping 1200. president biden confirming at least 14 americans are among the dead. at least 20 americans are missing. possibly taken hostage by the terrorists of hamas. >> dana: here are four of the americans confirmed missing. they range in age from 19 to 66. their families fear the worst and urging president biden to do everything in his power to bring them home. >> bret: the images out of israel are horrifying. men, women, children found butchered. some burned alive. the u.s. is backing israel in its pledge to eradicate the hamas terrorists responsible. >> dana: trey yengst is reporting live

bret: yeah.ly i went and talked to the saudi crown prince then talked to the israeli prime minister in succession, and both said they were very close to a normalization deal. saudis have now said that's on hold, it's frozenning. but neither side is really saying in the big picture that they're not -- they're going to give up that hope. you would think a lot depends, harold, on what happens inside gaza and how this develops in the coming days. >> let me align myself with brit here again. what you just shared, brit, just think about this, this is a few weeks ago we were all lauding and believing that within reach was an historic agreement between the saudis and the israelis. a part of that conversation was about the palestinians. but what mbs has shared with you can and others is that the threat, deterring iran and isolating iran was a big part of why they wanted this agreement. i think president biden did a fantastic job this evening. could he have done better? sure. should he have speculated abou

. >> bret: i'm bret baier for bill hemmer. complicating israel's response an estimated 150 people taken hostage by hamas. americans are believed to be among them and hamas is threatening to kill them one-by-one for every time israel strikes gaza. >> dana: the families of the missing are calling on president biden to act. some of them as you can see here are about to hold a news conference in tel aviv and we'll take you there live as it happens. >> bret: peter doocy standing by at the white house. we begin with greg palkot reporting live from israel. greg. >> bret, dana, we are a mile and a half away from the gaza trip. the town of sarot, israel says this town is secure. let's bring you up to date with the latest. the story changes by the hour. we have been watching israeli fighter jets cross over countless times. we've been hearing blasts again and again and again inside of gaza. now we have it confirmed that they have hit 250 locations today inside gaza, which they say is an infrastructure for the hamas militants. we see the

"special report" anchor bret baier in studio.s' attack and the retribution is certain to take place? >> bret: first of all i think it definitely got off track by what happened. they expected some kind of violence as things were getting closer. they expected that there was going to be some uproar but they didn't expect. this this is much bigger. much more significant. the first statement that they put out was traditional in supporting the palestinians. i think it evolved over a couple of days. they met the foreign minister met with blinken, talked to him and said that they were concerned about civilian casualties. behind the scenes, i think there is a want that this stays on track in the long term but, obviously, it's pushed off because of what is happening. and i think that you're going to see -- this is going to be the test as israel pushes through gaza to take out hamas. how much saudi arabia and the other countries in the gulf stay together. >> brian: the former u.n. ambassador from israel, danny danon who is deputy defense mi

bret baier, anchor of "special report." bret, thank you very much. >> bret: thank you, jonathan.n we're approaching 7:00 a.m. in gaza city right now. we'll be right back at the top of the hour with continuing coverage of the war in israel here on fox news @ night. despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. rinvoq is not a steroid, topical, or injection. it's one pill, once a day. many taking rinvoq saw clear or almost-clear skin while some saw up to 100% clear skin. and, they felt dramatic and fast itch relief some as early as 2 days. that's rinvoq relief. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. serious infections and blood clots, some fatal, cancers including lymphoma and skin cancer, death, heart attack, stroke, and tears in the stomach or intestines occurred. people 50 and older with at least one heart disease risk factor have higher risks. don't take if allergic to rinvoq, as serious reactions can occur. tell your doctor if you are or may become pregnant. disrupt the itch

evening, i am bret baier . they have nominated steve scalise to be their candidate for house speaker. it's unclear when the whole house vote will be, and if they can get to the numbers. we will get to that in a moment but we can begin with the war i the middle east, israel is said to be. a massive invasion. the death toll now on both side stands at 2300 per the u.s. is 20 to americans have been kille 17 remain unaccounted for a. they could be held hostage for terrorists are holding an estimated 150 hostages as human shields. terrorist continued to file rockets into israel pretty much every hour including a heavy brush today into the southern town. city correspondent mike tobin and his team have been there al day. mike is just along the border tonight in a warning that some of the images and this report may be disturbing. good evening, mike. >> good evening, bret. his army position to invade the gaza strip, israel's prime prim minister issues a threatening statement to hamas. >> every member, they will be destro

bret baier weighing in, giving us the very lateless. thanks, bret. bret: you bet. griff: molly.tes expressing outrage over today's surprise attack in israel while taking shots at president biden over foreign policy. mark meredith is live in cedar rapids, iowa with more on this coming up. >> g.o.p. candidates expressing outrage over today's surprise attack in israel while taking shots at president biden over foreign policy. mark meredith is live in cedar rapids, iowa with more on this. >> the republican candidates are weighing real-time on the deadly and shocking attacks in israel and many of them putting out written statements and a few making comments on camera, including florida governor ron desantis. here is what he had to say campaigning in iowa earlier today. >> joe biden's policies that have gone easy on iran has helped to fill their coffers. israel is now paying the price for those policies. we are going to stand with the state of israel. they need to root out hamas, and we need to stand up to i iran. >> former president trump releasing a blistering saying the hamas attac

bret baier, anchor and executive editor of "special report." so, j.b.r said this, unfortunately the welcome and aid illinois has been providing to the asylum seekers is not matched with support by the federal government, most critically, the federal government lack of intervention and coordination at the border has created an untenable situation for illinois. this headline in the armed forces press looking at massachusetts, army-navy game turning into a cluster, massachusetts cancels hotel room as a right to shelter state prompting this response from desantis, they cannot find anywhere to stay for the game because hotels are housing illegal aliens on the taxpayers dime. what a farce, when i am president the days of putting illegal aliens over america will be over. the president is under a little bit of pressure on this. >> bret: first question, will it make a difference in the election, answer is yes. obviously economy drives the day, crime is important, but the border is seeing this huge shift towards republicans. 30 points in an nbc poll recently that

bret, what do you expect the president will say, you and martha will be leading our coverage. >> bret: we start at 7:55 p.m., good afternoon, john. i think, listen, as peter laid out, he's going to make a request of congress and it's going to be big. hearing the number $100 billion, and it deals with not only support for israel and replenishing the iron dome, but also for ukraine and also for taiwan and also for the border. i mean, that's what officials are laying out behind the scenes here. he is expected to talk about all those things but reflect on the most recent trip to israel and the speeches he's had over recent days as you've heard, offering support and direct linkage to israel. i think, you know, he came away from that trip and they are touting the deliverable of egypt and israel agreeing to some humanitarian aid inside gaza as long as it doesn't get to hamas. we have seen that obviously for a long, long time. and it has always managed to get to hamas. >> john: you know, i was talking with senator john kennedy of louisiana you heard him a second ago earlier on "the falkner fo

good evening, bret. we're probably going to have a vote on jim jordan, his thirdm sut to be speaker tomorrow jor around 11:00. right now, it appears that he does not have the votes. he didw it h gain ground today.' >> in fact, he probably lost ground. grouthe ironic thing when it cos to what president biden is asking for capitol hill was this aid package, the chaos in the house of representativest probably helps why the senate is in control. entativethe senate wants to jam the house of representatives. >> they are more disposed to this aid package here. >> mitch mcconnell, the senate minority leader, met with the secretary of state, antony blinken, today. so if they can get this throughy the senate, get more than 60 votes, overcome a filibustenr ,they can send it to thee hous house. but the house could be delayed e cain considering this package. until they get a speaker. that could be several weeks. >> bret chad pergram live on the hill. chad, thank you. all right, let's go back to th e panel. quick whip

. >> bret, hillary vaughn trying to get rashida tlibe. >> intrepid. >> she was. tlibe refuses to answer, she gives an interview later on. why would it be that hard, if you are going to put the palestinian flag outside of your office, great, explain. instead she turned her back and walked away. >> i don't think there is an answer, if you look at all of the things we are seeing every day coming in from those families, coming in the terrorist on baby, terrorist on families. it's not defensible i think that's why there was no response for 24 hours. i will say that the administration has done a pretty good job. >> yes. >> of kind of responding to this right away and forcefully. usually they've been around the edges, this was forceful. >> i think that, judge, it was clear to me when karine jean-pierre says what she says comes from the boss. >> i don't think there is any question. i join bret in recognizing that the president and his staff so far has made it clear that this is wrong. and do you know, when the president talked just now about silence is complicit, it was

bret. >> bill thank you.from israeli american families who have relatives directly impacted by the hamas attacks. matt finn reports from a pro-israel rally in los angeles. >> we are people with families and we want to be families again. >> americans pleading with president biden and the rally government for the return of family members they say were taken hostage by hamas. >> we do not know the number of hostages. >> 66-year-old adriana nurse from california is a mother of three with 7 grandkids. she says she was on the phone with her children when they heard gunfire my father and si sister were on the phone when the terrorists barnld into her home. >> horrific videos like this emerging showing barefoot women marched in the street by hamas terrorists. ela tells fox news this voted shows her brother being taken hostage by a hamas terrorist. >> in the video can you see her walking with terrorists from hamas putting his hand her neck with a gun the with other hand. this video which i can't watch i'm sorry. >> am

thank you, bret, ever so much. coming up the aforementioned kevin mccarthy gave a blockbuster speech yesterday. i think it is the kind of speech joe biden should have given today. mr. mccarthy joins us next to talk about all of it. i'm kudlow. stick around. we'll be right back straight ahead. ♪. the first time you connected your godaddy website and your store was also the first time you realized... well, we can do anything. cheesecake cookies? the chookie! manage all your sales from one place with a partner that always puts you first. (we did it) start today at godaddy.com at humana, we believe your healthcare should evolve with you, and part of that evolution means choosing the right medicare plan for you. humana can help. hi, my name is sam davis and i'm going to tell you about medicare advantage prescription drug plans that can provide more coverage than original medicare, including prescription drug coverage, all wrapped up into one convenient plan. with original medicare you're covered for hospital stays and d

bret joins me now. weinstein. bret joins me now. i hope. are you there, bret ? hope. there, bret? >> i'm here. it's very good to be with you, neal. good evening, sir. >> good to see you. now, bret, you've spent your career studying, among others, the human species is humankind at a crossroads or indeed on the edge of a precipice right now? >> unquestionably. and i think there's something about the current crisis in the middle east that makes it particularly hard to see. there's one layer of this crisis that is absolutely perfectly clear . the absolutely perfectly clear. the perpetrators of the crime, hamas, is simply guilty of a notorious violation , a notorious violation, a deliberately barbaric attack against people who were absolutely innocent . but the absolutely innocent. but the clarity of that layer is obscuring a higher set of patterns that we must be paying attention to . and i will try to attention to. and i will try to put it in context. you jump in and ask questions. if there necessary . there are two necessary. there are two evolutionary reasons that peop

. - [margaret] bret stephens is a new york times columnist. he is also the former editor in chief of "the jerusalem post" who has written about israel for decades. - this wasn't a plane just going into a building. this was face-to-face, hand to hand. every single one of these atrocities was a one-on-one transaction. - [margaret] with israel at war and monumental consequences for the middle east and beyond, what does pulitzer prize-winning columnist bret stephens say now? - [announcer"firing line" with margaret hoover is made possible in part by robert granieri, vanessa and henry cornell, the fairweather foundation, the tepper foundation, the asness family foundation, the mckenna family foundation, charles r. schwab and by the rosalind p. walter foundation and damon button. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. - bret stephens, welcome to "firing line." - thank you for having me. - hamas' attack resulted in the deadliest day for jews since the holocaust. we are still learning about the horrors that israelis endured. more than a hundred

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bret, thank you. stand by. new york congressman mike lawler, you are planning to stand by the speaker. what do you expect will happen in the minutes ahead? >> well, we are about to vote on the motion to table on the motion to vacate brought forth by matt gaetz, and the only way that matt gaetz can be successful in this is if house democrats support it. he would need the support of aoc, ilhan omar, rashida tlaib, nancy pelosi, adam schiff and the like, and the fact he has aligned himself with these individuals to undermine the house republican majority is disgusting, it's shameful, and it speaks volumes to the fact he has put himself and his personal petty grievances above the american people. >> i think you called matt gaetz a sharlaton the other day. and fox is told there are some republicans that are going to move to try to expell the congressman if he's found guilty in that ethics committee investigation. can you tell us what's happening with that? do you expect that to happen? >> i'm not going to speak to w

i just mentioned that with bret baier.t is really a key point. >> we should learn from history. there's so many things we've learned what happened in ukraine, in afghanistan, leaving americans behind. first, you don't want to leave any american behind mere if -- here, you want to stand shoulder to shoulder with israel. but we should learn from from what happened in israel. you know, you look at this horrific, what we found today, these babies in this kibbutz. i was in that exact kibbutz on february of last year taking a tour with those individuals. they had two walls there. and what we have is an open border. and if you look in 2019, we had caught zero number of people on the fbi terror watch lust. as of is so far this year, 151 coming from 160 different country, from yemen and others. this this is exactly what they're doing. you could is have a sale inside -- cell inside of america right now. do you think iran -- you talked about this. i was with president trump the night we killed soleimani, and i was there. they have ne

focus on that. >> bret: general, thank you and stick around. a live look at the white house.he hour. president biden moments away. this is his second oval office address of his presidency. it will be sfwog see as he deals with just coming back from israel. talks about and the israel response to hamas and war in ukraine. our special coverage of the presidential address continues here on fox.

there's a new speaker, bret. >> it is done. it is amazing. good afternoon, the 56th house speaker, speaker mike johnson, he's been four terms, his fourth term in congress and now some power with louisiana, both the speaker and the majority leader come from that state. interesting to hear speaker johnson start his speech saying that he wanted to have common ground across the aisle on things that they can work on. that is important for democrats on this moment. also important that they are going to start this bipartisan debt together, this group to look at dealing with that. that has echos of simpson bowles and how to deal with the debt over $33 trillion. and a lot of differences between minority leader jeffries and speaker johnson, but this is a moment for republicans this they are going to -- his first challenge is to deal with this one member vacating the speaker rule that is still in the rule, and they are going to have to as a conference get together and take that out to take the threat from having this 22 day process that has exhausted a

are deeply frustrate and upset about the fact that many of the candidates are going to be talking to bret baier on fox news than having a full conference. we expect that things are going to be moving quickly and questions of whether they will get to the floor for house speaker vote, and monday, we expect a republican conference meeting on tuesday and tuesday, a candidate forum, and then wednesday, a conference of who they want for speaker and then when they go to floor for that is remaining. neither have locked down the 218 votes. now does the endorsement help jim jordan or make it tougher for him with the moderates? those are the key questions this morning. >> and you said that moderates are pissed about this televised debate. what is it that they want to see or the sensitivity with how this plays outt? >> yeah, well, john, think about how the house republicans have been dealing with the last week. they starteded with speaker kevin mccarthy monday and they have no longer have a speaker who can govern on the floor, and a lot of frustration that the house republicans need to have a private

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it's going to be a long haul and could get ugly. >> thanks, bret.ee you later tonight on special report. good to have you with us today. we have new video that has just come in of a protest in the west bank after the blast that killed hundreds of people at the hospital over in gaza city. some in the crowd holding palestinian flags, chanting "god is great" and others calling for hamas to annihilate israel. we want to go to the courthouse hear in new york. a lot going on this afternoon, this is the former president, donald trump. let's take a moment to hear what he's talking about. >> i was there a long time, four years. it didn't come close. this happened is shocking. they allowed this to happen is shocking. iran would have never done that to me. they were all settle. they would have had a deal. i would have said two weeks from election, i would have had a deal with iran not to have a nuclear weapon. that would have happened. this is being led by iran. you would have never seen this happen. you wouldn't have seen ukraine happen either. you had someth