i am bret baier in washington. we have a very special interview for you tonight, the president of egypt, abdel fattah al-sisi. we will talk to him about isis, about troubles in his region, about the way forward in the fight against radical islam, and about his meeting with president trump over recent days. an interview with the president of egypt in moments, but we have a lot of news in washington. i turned to my colleague james rosen in the washington bureau. >> thank you. president trump said the horrific chemical attack against civilians in syria across a redline. what the commander-in-chief did not say is what he'll do about it. the carnage in syria topped the agenda in the talk today with the king of jordan. john roberts has the details. >> good evening to you. over the past couple days, the president has used different words to describe the gas attack in syria. unspeakable, an affront to humanity, unacceptable. the question is, what will he do to respond? president trump today said the image of innocent civil

. >>> fox news' bret baier live on set because it's his set. what his sources are saying about the next military steps to the vegas hotel reeling from a massive fire and charlie breaks it. we're live. let's start the "countdown." good afternoon, everybody. live from d.c. we are open for business and following quite a bit of breaking news at this hour. authorities -- we need to get you updated on this -- combing through the debris trying to figure out what sparked this fire at the bellagio hotel in las vegas last night. it couldn't come at a worse time. portions of the vegas strip had to be shut down at the start of a busy holiday travel weekend. we're going to bring you more updates as we learn them, but so far, the fire is out. we're trying to figure out how it started. >>> in the meantime, asian markets open for business, not liking the saber-rattling at all out of north korea overnight. japan's nikkei closed down. the south korean market the kospi fell .6% and the shanghai in china fell nearly a percentage point, hang seng fell a quarter of

rex tillerson spoke about it earlier with bret baier. >> we are just in the early stages of executing a strategy. it does involve bringing significant pressure in pyongyang. and how we deal with this threat, we have been very clear. we do not see regime change in north korea and we are not seeking a collapse in it. we are not seeking reunification. what we are seeking is the same thing china has said they seek. a full denuclearization of the north korean peninsula. >> voters favor using military action to stop the nuclear weapons program by 53-39 margin. we are going to get to north korea in a minute. chris wallace, i thought we would start with the bigger picture here with washington. in the last ten days, they figured out a way to get on offense and finish out this first 100 days on a higher note. >> i agree. i do that find it funny that the president saying the first 100 days was an artificial deadline and why do we care about it? and he has done more than any president i've ever seen to try to put points on the board. pushing the health care vote, but having said that, there is a

people in washington know bret baier is a caring soul. >> kimberly: loving father and husband, too. ure having you here. >> dana: add it to your resume. >> kimberly: buy his book, too. set your dvrs and never face >> bret: this is a fox news alert, i am bret baier coming to tonight from fox news world headquarters in new york. this is the second hour of our expanded "special report," the last room for a new show up monday at 5:00 p.m. the fox news alert weapon covering over the last hour or so, two u.s. officials confirming that north korea launched a ballistic muscle short time ago. coming as president trump lines of a potential conflict, secretary of state urging the united nations to ratchet up the pressure on the communist state. correspondent rich edson is breaking down the breaking news from the state department tonight. good evening cannot reach. >> only a few

bret baier interviewed the secretary of state. he asked him how long are you willing to wait?ait as long as it's manageable. he said all options are on the table. right now the youth does not want to pursue regime change or military action. but according to the state department it wants to see results in the coming months. this all begins, the key to this according to many at the state department is to get china to fully implement sanctions and crack down on its ally, north korea. charles: north korea launching another missile attempt. we'll be right back. we recently had a heart attack. but we are not victims. we are survivors. we are survivors. we are survivors. and now we take brilinta. for people who've been hospitalized for a heart attack. we take brilinta with a baby aspirin. no more than one hundred milligrams... ...as it affects how well brilinta works. brilinta helps keep platelets from sticking together and forming a clot. in a clinical study brilinta worked better than plavix®. brilinta reduced the chance of another heart attack. or dying from one. don't stop taking

." >> james: good evening, i am james rosen sitting in for bret baier. fox news has confirmed president obama's national security advisor secretly ordered the intelligence community to reveal to her the names of people close to president trump who had been swept up in u.s. surveillance on foreign targets and referenced only by code in classified intelligence reports. revelations amid a bitter struggle in the senate over the supreme court nominee. we have fox team coverage. brit hume assesses the political impact of the wiretap bombshell in the deeper meaning of the gorsuch nomination. mike emanuel has the latest nose count on the senate floor. we begin with chief white house correspondent john roberts and a familiar name from the obama administration surfacing in yet another scandal. >> james, good evening. two weeks ago, chairman of the house intelligence committee announced to the press and president he had uncovered a disturbing trend of intelligence collections on trump officials, some of which was made public. others remain known to administration o

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i am bret baier. top national security advisor under former president obama insists politics did not play a part in her decision to request the identities of americans whose communications were intercepted by intelligence agents. susan rice denies leaking anything. republican lawmakers don't believe her and want her to testify under oath. meanwhile, democrats say issues keep dropping in the russian investigation. chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off from the north lawn. good evening. >> good evening. while democrats tend to defend susan rice, republicans like senator lindsey graham say her track record which includes praising sergeant bowe bergdahl and getting blamed for the benghazi attack mean that when it comes to susan rice, "you have to verify, not trust." former national security advisor susan rice did not deny today she asked for the names of trump campaign and transition officials to be unmasked in intelligence reports. insisting that in general the practice was pretty ro

. >> bret baier, welcome to the program. you had breaking news earlier today. how do you see this unfolding? >> i think the administration has a lot of confidence. between the president and the chinese president. they don't talk about all the things that china is doing. i think they are doing more than we know they are doing. they suggested that maybe they are turning screws on him. that is key for this to go along the track that the administration wants. i think there's a lot of concern that there is tension rising. where the north korea is backed into a corner. and china is the linchpin. >> president trump is working quite nicely, cooperatively with president x i of china. continuing, continuing lack considering the turbulent situation. >> talking about the relationship with china and suggesting the china is in a key position to influence what is going on. it begs my reason because to me, the idea that they are doing more missile testing seems to me to be quite intentionally suggesting that they want to display their military might at this moment and they are

. >> >> bret: this is a fox news alert, i am bret baier coming to you with the second hour of this edition of "special report" from the state department in washington, d.c. and just a moment, we will talk exclusively with secretary of state rex tillerson about the challenges he is facing and administration is facing north korea, iran, around the world, and a host of other issues. i look at the other headlines of today. house republicans are working on a second attempt to replace and repeal obamacare. saying he's not feeling pressure to hold a health care vote by saturday, which is president trump's 100th state in office, but a vote may still happen. from a national security advisor michael flynn was born when he retired from the military about taking for in for for money wit advance approval. that is according to newly released documents. flynn made tens of thousands of dollars working for a turkish businessmen linked to the country's government, congressional investigations continue. two american service members were killed, another injured, during a ground assault yesterday in afghanista

with us now, bret baier, the anger of "special report."is detractors and maybe even more neutral observers say he is potentially going to finish out his first 100 days without any major legislative accomplishments. is that fair? >> we will see. this week is a huge week as you mentioned. a lot of moving parts. you are right, healthcare is pending out there. there will likely be an effort on the healthcare bill again. whether it happens this week or next week, sometime soon, that is with the administration plan is. i just don't know where capitol hill is as far as the specifics. what is interesting is the interaction between the funding of the government and the healthcare bill and how much of this administration and leadership on capitol hill is using both of those in negotiating points for all sides of the republican party. in other words, if you do not get it here, maybe you're going to get something here. the going bet is that a continuing resolution will happen at the end of this week. in other words, punting it whether it is a week or

i am bret baier. this is a special 5:00 eastern edition of "special report." tonight all week, we have you covered from 7:00 seven 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. democrats are threatening to shut down the government. the president campaigned on a promise that mexico would pay for the wall. democrats are accusing president trump of hurting poor americans by having american taxpayers foot the bill. it appears to be the crucial issue as we head toward the possibility of a government shutdown at the funding deadline at the end of the week. we start off with mike emanuel on capitol hill. >> good evening. lawmakers are returning from a recess facing a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week. administration officials seeking to a campaign promise by including money to build a wall on the border >> itill be the democrats that shut the government down to block the funding of the wall. >> senate democratic leader chuck schumer said president trump and his team are putting negotiations at risk and showing signs of desperation. >> he has his first hundred days. health c

let's turn to bret baier in washington.ng with great interest tonight as you spoke with general jack keane, the understanding of the back of my mind that nothing has changed, that the murdering of his own people has been going on for seven years. it seems for the president, that attack made a real impact. it had an impact. >> president trump talked about that, shep. general keane said the different options that he has, a number of them at his fingertips, including the two u.s. naval destroyers, within range, talking about the different options. what this is potentially, if president trump does move forward, is essentially coming to fruition of the redline that president obama drew in 2013. if this happens, that essentially is what it is. now, a lot of focus on president trump and candidate trump, as he tweeted in august, 2013, september, 2013, that president obama should not attack syria and if he did he should get congress' approval first. that will come up definitely, and not only these days, the but the days ahead, if he

prompting skepticism even from straight-laced fox news anchor bret baier. >> if you read this entiret, i'm pretty encouraged by it. i'm excited about this analysis and i'm really actually, frankly, encouraged. >> mr. speaker, if you're encouraged by this cbo report, what's a cbo report you're discouraged by? [ laughter ] >> seth: that's the closest bret baier has ever come to saying, "bye, felicia." [ light laughter ] also, paul ryan, you're encouraged that 24 million people will be thrown off their insurance? is that really the word you want to use or are you thinking of a different e-word? >> excellent. >> seth: there it is. [ laughter ] so how can paul ryan's say he's encouraged by this report? well, he makes several misleading claims. for example, ryan says the report confirms that the bill will lower premiums, which is technically true, but only for young healthy people. older people would see their premiums skyrocket. in fact, the cbo report finds that the average 64-year-old earning $26,500 would see their premiums go up from $1,700 to $14,600 a year. so get ready to start run

contrary to what bret baier said, being present united states, you fill in the way the world, he said god bless the world, i've never heard president say that. this guy was touched deeply, emotionally you see is his job and his parents to try to affect children, this is an amazing week of the president of egypt comes in, the king of jordan comes in, you don't think they were talking through what to do and syria? this is an amazing moment, the chinese premier is here, he is wondering how serious the company is going to be. after dinner, donald trump proves how serious the united states is. the chinese have a whole left to die just when i listen to donald trump talk. lastly, we had eight years of a very articulate community organizer who did not have a clue about how to be president of united states. we now have three months of the guy who knows how to be president and i think you just proved it and the ronald reagan tradition decisive, surgical, effective use of american power to do something to begin to hurt the syrians. if you do this again i'll take out two or three more airfields.

did he with bret baier earlier tonight. this first couple of months, it has been very interesting to see how much he has done and how much she has been able to call attention to. so problems as she did this afternoon on syria. >> sandra: how much change can we actually enact there? >> well that goes to a more fundamental question. the real hard work at the united nations, this is breath takingly boring, but it occurs in windowless rooms after midnight when the ambassadors on the security council are hashing out language post people will never read in security resolution. iconic. chamber. good place to take advantage of to make statements that you want the rest of the world to hear. >> sandra: by the way, you make it so simple for us. i know can you easily go into that rang wage that nobody canhave you heard from tp calling the u.n. an under performer. he referred to it as. >> very diploma diplomatic, i mt say. hsay. >> sandra: he said quote it has huge potential. i spoke with you earlier this week. >> i said the president s

that's what reince priebus told bret baier. how will it fare in the senate where there is a greater degree of opposition and not as high of a majority among republicans to get this done. >> shannon: another topic this morning the president tweeting about nafta. >> bill: firing up the old twitter machine diving into the nafta issue. he tweeted i received calls from the president of mexico and the prime minister of canada asking to renegotiate nafta rather than terminate. i agreed. in the second tweet subject to the fact that if we do not reach a fair deal for all we'll terminate nafta. relationships are good. deal very possible exclamation. he also fired a shot across the bow of democrats. more direct hit against democrats last night. he said quote, the democrats want to shut down the government if we don't bail out puerto rico and give billions to their insurance company for obamacare failure. his response, no. democrats are equally entrenched on giving up those subsidies to obamacare, further raising doubts about the passage o

our correspondents are on scene at mar-a-lago in south florida come at the pentagon, and bret baier in washington with many more on the sidelines. first, we'll take you back to regular programming. tucker carlson begins on fox news channel. it starts right now >> this is a fox news alert, a lot is going on in the country of syria, we are hearing conflicting reports tonight about what exactly that is, today of course there was a chemical attack on civilians in that country and claims from the very beginning has been that attack was waged by the government of bashar al-assad. the president of the united states says his attitude has completely changed as a result of the attack, he is no longer sure that assad should stay in power, there are indications tonight that some sort of military action might be imminent. we are going to bring you that the second we hear anything about it. secretary of state directs to listen said that the u.s. is moving toward removing the president from power. >> we are considering an appropriate response for this chemical weapons attack which violates all previo

." ♪ good evening, welcome to washington, i'm bret baier.his is our one of our special 2-our "special report." you just heard president trump talk about his executive order and making his veterans affairs department more accountable. he is also holding mexico and canada more accountable for the trade deal with the u.s. that went into effect 23 years ago. chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight on the north lawn. >> first of all, this executive order come out one of the big themes of president trump's campaign was talking about how he was going to try to improve the situation for a lot of american veterans cannot believe the american people, not the va itself, but people inside the va had been failing gets known was being held accountable. this executive order he signed today combined with when he signed not too long ago will go a long way toward holding people accountable, getting whistleblowers protection so that the problems at the va, whether it be managers or employees, those problems will be taken care of. ano

there is on one man to ask, bret baier, host of special report. welcome back, bret. bret: even juan williams couldn't get on campus? kennedy: that conservative fire brand juan williams. he's nothing but hatred and animosity toward the oppressed. how panicked are the insurers at the state of flux with these healthcare laws that may or may not go? bret: they rely on the payment from the department of health and human service to the cover the cost of subsidies. you remember 60% of those who enrolled in obamacare qualified for subsidies. and the trump administration threatened if they don't figure out obamacare and a repeal and replace, that they are going to somehow draw back or stop or slow the payment of the subsidies. that has the insurers' hair on fire, and they have met at the white house. basically administration is saying, we are going to try this again. we have, we believe, the votes on the freedom caucus side and the tuesday group which is the moderate republicans, and we think we can get it across the finish line and this is how they plan to fix it. kennedy: w

good evening, welcome to washington, i'm bret baier. there is new concern tonight at that iran may be more involved than we think in a nuclear weapons program despite its agreement with the u.s., and other western nations. chief washington correspondent, james rosen, tells us the information comes from a group that has been right about this kind of thing before. >> they're revealing this for the first time today. >> reporter: using

i'm chris wallace in for bret baier.ouse is ramping up its argument reporters are focusing on the wrong issue in the investigation into links between the trump campaign and russia. the administration points to new information it says shows the obama team spread classified intelligence about the trump transition for political purposes. chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight. good evening, john. >> reporter: chris, good evening to you. this controversy has been dogging the white house for a month

i'm bret baier. reportedly asking journalists together in pyongyang as morning dawns in that country. we are told the likely reason, a parade on the holiday celebrating the birthday of north korea's founder. the question is, what else could be a part of that parade. this comes just today after the u.s. dropped its largest nonnuclear bomb ever on isis terrorists in afghanistan. correspondent kristin fisher is at the compound in florida where the president is spending the holiday weekend. good evening, kristin. >> good evening, bret. publicly, a quiet day for president trump, behind the scenes, he is continuing to weigh all possible options in case north korea conducts more tests this weekend. tomorrow, vice president of mike pence is heading to the frontline of the standoff with north korea. the same day the country will celebrate the birthday of its founding father. it is a day that prompted pyongyang to launch at least two ballistic missiles over the last five years, and this year it is on the verge

i'm bret baier for the second hour of "special report."e have new fox polls on a host of questions tonight. including president trump's job approval rating. on a very busy day in washington. president trump and his administration rolling out his tax reform package. calling it the biggest tax cuts in history. he is also dealing with north korea, china, iran, sanctuary cities here at home. and by the way, the u.s. government funding runs out in 54 hours. all of this comes as the latest fox news poll shows the job approval rating at 45% with 48% disapproving. those numbers are slightly better for him than last month. but fewer people think the

i am bret baier in washington.r you tonight, the president of egypt, abdel fattah al-sisi. we will talk to him about isis, about troubles in his region, about the way forward in the fight against radical islam, and about his meeting with president trump over recent days. an interview with the president of egypt in moments, but we have a lot of news in washington. i turned to my colleague james rosen in the washington bureau. >> thank you. president trump said the horrific chemical attack against civilians in syria across a

. >> bret: this is a fox news alert, i'm bret baier.ent trump considers options for military action in syria. following but seems to be a chemical weapons attack that left dozens dead and scores wounded in rebel-held territory. comes as president trump hosts his chinese counterpart for a summit in california that will deal with another major troublemaker in the world, north korea. fox team coverage tonight, jennifer griffin at the pentagon with what an operation in syria might entail and how fast it might materialize. first, john roberts at mar-a-lago with the

i'm bret baier. reportedly asking journalists together in pyongyang as morning dawns in that country. we are told the likely reason, a parade on the holiday celebrating the birthday of north korea's founder. the question is, what else could be a part of that parade. this comes just today after the u.s. dropped its largest nonnuclear bomb ever on isis terrorists in afghanistan. correspondent kristin fisher is at the compound in florida where the president is spending the holiday weekend. good evening, kristin. >> good evening, bret. publicly, a

i am bret baier.or under former president obama insists politics did not play a part in her decision to request the identities of americans whose communications were intercepted by intelligence agents. susan rice denies leaking anything.

." ♪ good evening, welcome to washington come on bret baier in the second hour of "special report" tonightjudge in san francisco has just come up with in the past couple of hours, imposed an injunction on president trump's executive hour designed to cut funding from sanctuary cities, cities that disregard in some way federal immigration law. that comes on a date when a battle over the border wall continues, democrats have insisted they will shut down the

." >> james: good evening, i am james rosen sitting in for bret baier.d president obama's national security advisor secretly ordered the intelligence community to reveal to her the names of people close to president trump who had been swept up in u.s. surveillance on foreign targets and referenced only by code in classified intelligence reports. revelations amid a bitter struggle in the senate over the

. >> bret: this is an fox news alert, i'm bret baier.n washington, we are following several major stories, starting up with reaction to president trump's military strike on syria. russia has moved a warship into the mediterranean toward the u.s. ships that launched those missiles. the strikes were in retaliation for a syrian chemical weapon strike on rebel-held territory earlier in the week. another huge story tonight, the senate confirms neil gorsuch to the u.s. supreme court, a historic vote following yesterday's nuclear option of eliminating the filibuster. so what is next for a field supreme court bench? and date significant drop drop off and

." >>> good evening, welcome to washington, i'm bret baier.ecial two-hour "special report." we begin with a rare, all hands on deck meeting of the u.s. senate at the white house for a classified briefing. this happens at the same time this will be

i'm bret baier.lance in the face of what appears to be a terror related attack on police officers in paris. one officer was killed and two others seriously wounded today. the attacker was fatally shot by police. french sources say the government had previously been flagged as an extremist. moments ago, we learned that isis is claiming responsibility for the attack.

good evening, welcome to washington, i'm bret baier. is new concern tonight at that iran may be more involved than we think in a nuclear weapons program despite its agreement with the u.s., and other western nations. chief washington correspondent, james rosen, tells us the information comes from a group that has been right about this kind of thing before. >> they're revealing this for the first time today. >> reporter: using

i'm bret baier. president trump is calling for strength and vigilance in the face of what appears to be a terror related attack on police officers in paris. one officer was killed and two others seriously wounded today. the attacker was fatally shot by police. french sources say the government had previously been flagged as an extremist. moments ago, we learned that isis is claiming responsibility for the attack. president trump's comments came during a news conference with italy's prime minister, a news conference heavy on world pressure points include north korea and iran. john roberts tonight. >> the summit was meant to be from the close ties between the two countries and their mutual cooperation to fight the scorch of terror. the need for which was underscored even as the two leaders were talking. >> terrorism and global hot spots were high on the agenda today as president trump met with italy's prime minister paolo gentiloni, learning of the shooting in paris as it was wrapping up. >> it looks l

i'm bret baier. north korea is warning of a nuclear attack against the united states if provoked.e communist nation has made an extreme threat against this country, but it takes on added meaning in the context of the north's nuclear testing. an american carrier strike group is on the way, and after the missile strike against syria, the possibility of military action by the new american president seems more realistic tonight. correspondent kevin corke is monitoring the latest developments from the north lawn. good evening, kevin. >> good evening to you. very interesting toat

i'm bret baier. it's become conventional wisdom that fair or not, if the u.s. government funding is not approved and is forced to shut down, many services, republicans will be blamed. republicans say it's ridiculous but concede it's true. it has happened many times before. with a little more than four days left, both the g.o.p. and democrats are throwing out the first punches in what could be a

i am bret baier. this is a special 5:00 eastern edition of "special report."e have you covered from 7:00 seven 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. democrats are threatening to shut down the government. the president campaigned on a promise that mexico would pay for the wall. democrats are accusing president trump of hurti pr

i'm bret baier.e begin tonight with president trump telling americans he is committed to helping them maintain their personal arsenals while at the same time advising north korea he is also committed to rally the world to force the communist nation to get rid of its arsenal. the president is warning that a major conflict with north korea is possible if it continues down a path toward nuclear weapons deployment. president trump spoke earlier today to the national rifle association's annual convention in atlanta. chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight, as he often does, on the north lawn. >> president trump gave a big thank you to the nra today poured through the endorsement during the election campaign last year. but what is really occupying the president's time is whether he can turn back north korea's nuclear program before it reaches the point of no return. president trump is attempting to turn the screws are north korea in an interview with reuters warning allies that i

." >>> good evening, welcome to washington, i'm bret baier. this is one of our special two-hour "special report." we begin with a rare, all hands on deck meeting of the u.s. senate at the white house for a classified briefing. this happens at the same time this will be online in south korea. the world's most dangerous flab bore hoods, rich edson is at the state department, where the attack to syria -- a u.s. navy ship fires a warning flair in the persian gulf. we start off with john roberts, on what senators heard this afternoon about north korea. good evening, john. >> reporter: bret, good evening. the level of threat coming from north korea and how that threat has changed, compared to regimes in the past. an extraordinary scene, as bus loads of senators arrived in the west executive drive here at the white house, and made their way into a briefing room at the eisenhower executive office building for what was a long briefing on north korea, the briefers, the top advisors on diplomacy, national security, rex tillerson, the secretary of state,

i am bret baier in washington.l interview for you tonight, the president of egypt, abdel fattah al-sisi. we will talk to him about isis, about troubles in his region, about the way forward in the fight against radical islam, and about his meeting with president trump over recent days. an interview with the president of egypt in moments, but we have a lot of news in washington. i turned to my colleague james rosen in the washington bureau. >> thank you. president trump said the horrific chemical attack against civilians in syria across a redl

i am bret baier in washington. government in fresno, california, kills three this afternoon in a shooting rampage reportedly yells although auch barr as police taken down and then tells police he hates white people. police say the suspect, has a history of criminal activity. let's get to this breaking story. night from jonathan hunt. >> bret, it happened on the streets of downtown fresno. three people killed. the victims, the police chief is saying that all were chosen at random. >> immediately upon that individual seeing the officer, he dove onto the ground and was taken into custody. as he was taken into custody, he yelled allahu akbar. >> the imam of the islamic cultural center of fresno says that cory mohammed is not a member of his congregation and he does not recognize him. according to the police, mohammed also called himself a black jesus. the chief said that on his facebook page, they found posts in which he made antigovernment statements and said he did not like white people. all three of the victims in t