i'm bret baier. the verdict is in for the gunman who carried out the deadliest anti-semitic attack in u.s. history. a bipartisan group of lawmakers working together to protect critical u.s. infrastructure in the wake of a major cyberattack. and a house republican again seeks punishment for democratic congressman adam schiff over the trump-russia probe. ♪ ♪ >> bret: tonight in our democracy 24 report better late than never for president biden as he prepares to hit the campaign trail for the first time more than 50 days since announcing his re-election bid. there are renewed concerns among democrats tonight over the president's age, the 2024 primary schedule, and the possibility of a third party candidate derailing his re-election effort. correspondent mark meredith is following it all. he joins us live from the north lawn. good evening, mark. >> bret, good evening to you. president biden told a crowd in connecticut today he is far from finished when it comes to addressing gun violence. also far from c

and bret baier correctly said that. and again, it's also become an article of fate.ther going along with -- i think that's a real telling moment where the republican party is today. >> certainly is, chris citizen welker. >> it just underscores what we're seeing with former president trump's rivals that you're not seeing them going after him. on the indictments that he's facing. i think the question mark is will their tone begin to shift. with the legal problems, by the way, he's talking about his legal problems in these interviews, you have to think if you're his attorneys, that's making them pretty nervous. >> thank you kristin welker and peter baker. >>> the race against time, this is desperate. the search for the missing sub. the terms that the rescue teams are following. and time could be running out. that's next. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. the subway series? it's the perfect menu lineup. just give us a number, we got the rest. number three? the monster. six? the boss. fifteen? titan turkey. number one? the philly. oh, yeah, you probably

bret baier showed he's willing to go right at the former president trump.is reviews afterwards publicly were i made the right decision because i was on the front page of every newspaper the next day as the guy who skipped, and he got to kind of armchair quarterback. i think we can't overlook donald trump's vanities in this situation as well. he sees himself as the former president, all these other candidates are gunning right for him. i think he would skip the debate in august, and politically, unfortunately, though i don't support donald trump, i think it might be the right political decision for the former president to do so. >> what about the other candidates who are still going to be required to pledge their support to the eventual nominee. does that make sense? >> certainly a pledge in this environment does not make peril donald trump. as a party, they use it as a cudgel to keep people in line to suggest if you want to participate in our republican primary, you have to support the republican. the reality is, though, i'm not sure donald trump would answ

when we come back, the media fallout over brett bay -- bret baier's interview with donald te trump. toedom for kids. hungry? thank you, chef. control for parents. nice. one bank for both. chase. make more of what's yours. (tap, tap) listen, your deodorant just has to work. i use secret aluminum free. just swipe and it lasts all day. secret helps eliminate odor, instead of just masking it. and hours later i still smell fresh. secret works. ohhh yesss. howard: in an extraordinary sit-down with my colleague bret baier who's drawn wisconsin partisan praise -- bipart san -- by partisan praise, he sat down with donald trump. >> why did you hire all of them in the first places? >> because i hired 10 to 1 that were fan a -- fantastic. we had a great economy. howard: what really made news was when pressed about classified documents indictment especially after a subpoena was issued. >> i want to go through the boxes and get all my personal things out. i don't want to hand that over to nara yet, and i was very busy, as you've sort of seen. >> you then tell this aide to move to other locations aft

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>> bret baier, to his credit, goes, "iran war plans?" >> yeah. >> trump goes, i had golf shirts, clothing, pants, shoes. bret interrupts and goes, "iran war plans?" ? >> it was a good interview, bret baier. to put that into perperspective trump bounced between defenses there, sometimes saying the documents had been declassified, sometimes saying there were no documents at all, maybe there were some. >> he went from saying, yeah, there are none and that he couldn't declassify them, admitting he can't declassify documents when he's not president. >> yeah. he said government officials could have asked for the documents back, which they did, since 2021, and trump said he was too busy to separate the classified material from his golf shirts, while allegedly ordering a staffer to move boxes to other locations. after the interview aired, fox news chief political analyst brit hume said trump's defense would not hold up in a court of law. watch. >> his answers on the matters of the law seem to me to be diverging on incoherent. he seemed to be sayi

i want to play this exchange with bret baier on fox about the 2020 election. >> first of all, i won in 2020 by a lot. let's get that straight. i won in 2020 -- >> you know that's not -- >> all of the tapes, everything you want to look at, you take a look at truth, they have people stuffing the ballots -- >> mr. president -- >> wait a minute, fbi twitter, the 51 agents, call corrupt stuff, bret. >> i understand that but that's not the election. you lost the 2020 election. >> but you take a look at all of the stuffed ballots. you take a look at all of the things including things like the 51 intelligence agents. >> there were recounts in all of the swing states. there was not significant -- >> tried to get recounts. >> real recounts. widespread corruption, there was not a sense of that. there were lawsuits more than 50 of them by your lawyers. some judges that you appointed. >> look at wisconsin.

the classified documents story -- bret baier, there was not an easy interview. it was tough and donald trump did get angry at times. it was a reminder of how masterful he was on the world stage and what a contrast to today to seeing the secretary of state tony blinken kowtowing to president xi and the chinese. i disagree with monica. i think donald trump failed to answer the question about the suburban women voters. his answer was i have great polls. that's not good enough. he went into a long saga about the stolen 2020 election. no one wants to hear that. we for 2024. those suburban women are disenchanted. >> monica, listen to it sound ever donald trump talking about china and russia. >> for 4 years they didn't invade taiwan. they never talked about. very few discussions it. for 4 years, russia never even thought about it. putin and i had a very good relationship. a business relationship. he knew he could not go into ukraine. i told him strongly you can't do it and he never did. >> monica? >> president trump along with president reagan and nixon before him was

here on "the story" bret baier is here, and jonathan turley joins us as well, and outtakes coming up on "the story," but the breaking news right now, the white house calling a chinese warship cutting off our u.s. naval destroyer in this unbelievable video. they call that unprofessional behavior in the taiwan strait. watch this and see what you think. >> it's pretty close when you are open waters like that. and you can see the head of steam that that chinese vessel had on it as it crossed for one of our destroyers. no call for that. it is unsafe, it is unprofessional. >> martha: john kirby also called the move in a later comment increasingly aggressive, so what does all of this mean. i will talk to former defense secretary mark esper standing by with his thoughts, and eric shawn with the latest news on this in new york. hi, eric. >> hi, martha, showing that they are showing an increase level of aggressiveness against the assets in the pacific. after the chinese warship intercepted a u.s. guided missile destroyer in the taiwan strait, the shocking incident happened on saturday and cros

>> bret baier scoring exclusive interview with donald trump grilling the front runner on everything. >> bret: why did you have this very sensitive document. >> i have every right to have those boxes. >> hello. >> both president biden and governor ron desantis taking their presidential campaigns to california with multiple fund raising events lined up. >> some of our maga republican friends in congress are continuing to try undo all the progress we have already made. >> now joey vaughn. [cheers] >> his first game back. joseph daniel votto. >> did t that beer catch the ba? >> taking a break there set to address the future of artificial intelligence which the white house has said is a top priority for joe biden. >> he will meet with tech entrepreneurs as he ramps up fundraising efforts for his 2024 re-election bid. >> rich edson live at the white house with the latest for us. >> good morning. president biden begins second day in california in san francisco meeting with those artificial intelligence experts as the white house says to seize the opportunities and manage the risks of a.i. te

that's a judgment that will be made in early 2024. >> trace: we just heard the interview with bret baier this to go after trump. here he is with bret going after the former president. watch. >> to all my republican friends out there, i say i'm tired of losing and i know you are too. it's led to the inflation we have had. it's led to not being respected around the world. it's led to an educational system that is removing parents from the system of teaching, helping to teach their children. these are all things that are wrong and the result of donald trump's political failures. >> trace: if you listen to the whole interview, there was a lot of finger pointing at the former president, leslie. >> i'm not trying to be mean and snarky but it's going to come out this way. chris christie is tired of his party losing he shouldn't throw his hat in the ring because he is not going to win and help his party to win. chris christie has the same problem mike pence has and that is donald trump. the reason they are either perceived as loving trump too much or loving trump not enough and which is it. two

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he sat down with bret baier. e had the sensitive documents at mar-a-largo. >> the only way nara could get this stuff back would be please, please, please could we have it back. >> but they asked for it. >> no, they didn't. >> they said they went to doj to subpoena you to get the documents. >> which they have never done before. >> why not just hand them over then? >> because i had boxes. i want to go through the boxes and get my personal things out. i don't want to hand that over to nara yet. i was busy as you've seen. >> but according to the indictment, you tell this aide to move to other locations after telling your lawyers to say you fully complied with the subpoena when you hadn't. >> before i send boxes over, i have to take my things out. >> martha: bret baier, anchor of "special report" joins us by phone on his way in to new york after this interview. bret, what was your take away with the talk with the president having come off of this second indictment? >> good afternoon. i think defiant is definitely part

if it is election time, it is bret baier time and he joins us now. welcome, bret baier. i want to ask you about the growing gop field. first, it seems ron desantis wants to talk about joe biden more than donald trump. some point the candidates will have to contrast themselves with one another, are they not? >> bret: good morning, thanks for being here in your new spot this hour. the former president has spent a lot of money going after governor desantis despite his big lead in the polls. governor desantis has been talking about former president trump. he starts by going after president biden and policies and saying how bad woke policies are and how he's fought that in florida and gets around to subtlety. one sentence in a recent speech in iowa. at the end of the day, leadership is not about entertainment or building a brand, not about virtue signalling, it is about results. he doesn't say the former president's name, he is clearly aiming in that sentence at donald trump and you will see more and more of that and won't be as veiled pretty soon. >> trey: sometimes it is so

indictment over his handling of classified documents during an exclusive sit-down with our own bret baierm over then? >> because i had boxes, i want to go through the boxes and get all my personal things out. i don't want to hand that over to nara yet. but everything was declassified and biden didn't have the right to do that because he wasn't president. nor did mike pence by the way have the right to do that because he wasn't president. >> you're not worried about this case? >> based order the law, zero, zero. >> ashley: fred fleitz is the vice chair of the center for american security at american first policy institute and former chief of staff at the national security council under former president trump and he joins us now. fred, good morning to you the. >> good morning. >> ashley: you served in national security positions for decades, and this indictment does say that the former president could have put our national security at risk. so how do you feel about that response from the former president yesterday? >> well, i'm really appalled at this indictment because mr. trump is being c

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. >> sandra, bret baier in for john roberts. >> he put it on the cord for me, dick, you are the best, man. and when i have questions about anything at all, beyond the judiciary, can i call him for advice. and representative danny davis, danny, you've been a good friend for a long time. [applause] he's always there, and elected officials and members of congress, thank you, thank you for the welcome and welcoming me to chicago. first quarter of the 20th century poet carl sandberg describes chicago as a city of big shoulders. a city of big shoulders. he was describing the big shoulders of the working class american town who were building this city. same time, building the middle class. i'm here in chicago today for the first quarter of the 21st century to talk about the economic vision of the country. economy that grows the economy from the middle out and bottom up instead of the top down. everybody does well. when that happens, everybody does well. [applause] ladder up, and the wealthy do well, we all do well. this vision is a fundamental break of the economic theory that has failed ame

. >> president trump with fox news bret baier first interview since indictment related to classifiedrmer president last night. >> there are 31 documents listed, nuclear capabilities foreign countries military capabilities foreign countries tej breefksz foreign council why hold on after president. >> i don't say i do -- giving them back all of a sudden we've got raided a violation of my you know fourth amount rights raided my home, and came and took things. >> aure not worried about this case. >> based on the law zero. zero. >> your reaction to that? >> um, fascinating because most lawyers would tell clients, don't say anything, but donald trump doesn't respond to, you know, most conventional advice i am not sure it works legally with cases, i was struck in the interview i thought bret baier did great job i was struck being when brett asked him, what are you going to do to get independent voters woman in suburbs you need kind of lost last name he reverted to i won 2020 election i don't think that is a winning message for republicans i don't even think a winning message for donald trum

. >> brian llenas in philly, thank you so much brian >> up next, bret baier looks at how opec nationsre influencing the energy market and what you end up paying at the pump. first here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox five in new york, as federal prosecutors urge an appeals court to uphold the conviction of ghislaine maxwell and her 20-year prison sentence. the former assistant to disgraced late financier jeffrey epstein was convicted of helping him sexually abuse girls. maxwell has accused prosecutors of making her a scapegoat because epstein is dead >> fox 10 in phoenix with a rememberance for the fire fighters who died battling a blaze in northern arizona 10 years ago. the 19 members of the grant it mountain hot shots were overrun by flames in a fox canyon >> and this is a live look at los angeles fox 11, one of the big stories there tonight, the entertainment industry prepares for a possible second major strike. studios are trying to reach a deal with the main actors union. several top actors said they will walk off the job if negotiat

i'm trace gallagher in for bret baier. well, the tragic end to the voyage of the titan submersible sink the extreme tourism industry. several make appeals to the evangelical vote while parental rights facing a major challenge in one u.s. state. ♪ tase. >> trace: but breaking tonight, white house lawyers are denying any political interference in the investigation into crimes by the president's son. so is mr. biden's attorney general. yesterday we told you that two whistleblowers contend hunter biden received preferential treatment. earlier this week we learned the president's son struck a deal with prosecutors that lets him avoid jail time. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight. jacqui, good evening. >> good evening, trace. white house officials say hunter biden, who just accepted a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, was invited to last night's state dinner with the attorney general you because he is the president's son and white house members attend events. officials were very rye sis tant g

trump doubling down when speaking the bret baier. >> i got the guy elected.me to see me let's say weeping because he was dead. he was getting out of the race and looking for jobs probably at law firms or wherever he will look. he was totally dead. he ran a horrible campaign. >> they have put together the multiple time trump complimented desantis as a strong leader. most of the field including tim scott voicing outrage over the justice department's deal with hunter biden. senator scott says if elected he with overhaul the entire department of justice. >> we are going to fire joe biden. and then we are going to fire merrick garland, and fire christopher wray and we are going to restore confidence, integrity, in our department of justice. >> the department of justice was a big issue in 2020. looks like a bigger issue going forth. >> harris: thank you. hunter biden's plea deal triggered a political firestorms on both sides of the aisle. associated press with this headline. democrats downplay hunter biden's plea deal. republicans see opportunity to deflect from tr

i'm bret baier.ter, new jersey. >> the summer home of the 45th president of the united states. the leading candidate in the g.o.p. nomination battle donald j. trump. we will talk to the former president extensively about all issues in just a minute. first, the other headlines today. >> a rescue mission is underway after a vessel used to take tourists to see the underwater wreck of the titanic disappeared in the atlantic ocean around 90. u.s. coast guard and canadian military are searching for the

is what donald trump said under questioning from bret baier, is that admissible under trial?o fox news exception into the federal rules of evidence, and it's not like they were given in an unmirandized way in law enforcement and he was not warned anything could be used against him, and he was volunteering on his own and there was no coercion or anything, and you might have to coerce me to be on that but not donald trump, so i think he has no leg to stand on and this is going to be admitted as against him. >> the plea agreement struck by hunter biden, and the department of justice. we have heard a wide range of reactions from the legal community as to the appropriateness of the charges, you know, and obviously republicans are claiming favoritism here. >> the prosecutor was not aoc or merrick garland, and the guy's name was david weiss, and he was appointed by donald trump and he is well respected and the former career top prosecutor before getting a political appointment by trump to be the chief executing officer from delaware. and then the questions from jim jordan last month

bret baier joins me now with a preview of part 2 of his interview with former president trump. o milwaukee, bret. start off with that. >> yeah, good afternoon. it's going to be -- we'll see who is on the stage. i asked the former president whether he will be on the stage. he hasn't made the final decision yet. his answer is pretty interesting and illuminating. but in this second part tonight of "special report", we talk about the economy, covid, law and order, criminal justice reform and his focus on governor desantis, which is pretty in depth as he goes down that road. >> martha: so let's take a look. we have a quick sound bite. let's watch. >> if voters are concerned about the debt, why should they believe you'll address the debt? >> i love the question. because we had to fix the country. when i took this country over, it was broke. we created a machine. the oil was starting. we were energy independent. we were within four months of energy dominance. we were going to supplying all of the natural gas and oil to europe. bret, we were going to make so much money. now everything w

i mean, bret baier is the one who looked strong last night, not donald trump.ecause this is different. this hasn't happened before. and will the people looking at that interview see the immorality, the lies, the criminal admissions? or will they just see what donald trump is feeding them and has fed them from day one. i don't know. but i'm with you. i'm not confident that there won't be some erosion of his support, especially if we start getting a pile-on. a lot of this depends frankly on how successful the other candidates are. can they peel enough away from him that one of them emerges? or will it be, as i said before, you know, like all of the seven dwarfs and donald trump still squeaks by, maybe not winning iowa or new hampshire but winning enough of the states that he still ends up with a nomination? then we really have a mess on our hands. we've got somebody who's been criminally indicted in one or more jurisdictions, pending trial in three or four different places. it is really -- frankly it's astounding. if you took the script to hollywood, they'd say n

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he is not under oath with bret baier.ardize, damage potential will i the defense? >> it's bad news for donald trump. he is not under oath but that is admissible in court. absolutely. prosecutors can play that clip. and if we look at what he said last night, it's an admission. it's an excuse wrapped up within an admission. if you are a prosecutor you say wonderful. now the following things are admitted and undisputed. he knew the documents were there. we knew that already. here he nice and cleanly sort of admits it. he knew what was in the documents. he went through them with his own hands. he knew they contained classified and national defense information. all of that is potentially in play at a trial. all of that has been admitted. the excuse also just doesn't measure up. he had two and a half years. you don't get the prerogative of casually going through this, especially when there is a subpoena. >> you don't get to say i am to too busy to comply with your subpoena. that doesn't fly, even for a former president. >> i th

. >> i want to not lose sight of an interview that donald trump did last night with bret baier on foxvant to the conversation. suburban women. he asked donald trump about suburban women. listen to his response. >> i usually make up all the difference in the election. and so to the female independent voter in the suburbs who struggled with family financing because of inflation, she's now against biden, disapproves of biden, but wasn't with you in 2020 and so far is a hard no for you in 2024, but what do you say to that -- >> you're not looking at the right polls. >> what do you say to the suburban voter who feels that way to win her back? >> first of all, i won in 2020 by a lot. let's get that straight. i won in 2020. >> you know this -- >> if you look at all of the tapes -- >> and then just look at this number again that david brought us before, approve of a decision to indict trump. the purple 67%, that's independents not just women, but it's independents that matter. >> also, do you just see what happened -- >> in the general election. >> but what did donald trump do with that answe

i hope bret baier was watching that interview, it was great.n the golf merger july 1 11th. the committee wants to hear from pga commissioner jay monaghan, liv golf ceo greg norman and the saudi arabia public investment fund. the committee says this is what it wants to know, to examine how the proproposed deal will work and the risks associated with a foreign government's investment in american cultural institutions and the implications of the planned agreement on professional golf here in the united states. you know, committee hearings are pretty rare, this one only the second one this or year,they typically small the early phase of a longer investigation, so we'll see what happens. meantime, a new quinnipiac poll shows about two-thirds of americans, 65%, approve of investigating this merger. 51% said they disapproved of the morier -- merger itself, and 45% said american sports organizations should not be doing business with a saudi-backed sports organization like liv golf. it gets a lot of debates going, this issue. stu? stuart: it does. i'm v

fox news can now announce that bret baier and martha maccallum will co-moderate the first republican presidential debate in milwaukee, august 23rd, and 9:00 p.m. eastern time here on the fox news channel. and fox business channel will show it, and august 23rd, the first presidential debate. >> john: looking forward to see how many qualify on the stage, and whether or not, the former president more than qualifies decides he is going to go toe to toe with the other candidates there. i think it would be a missed opportunity if he doesn't, and give a free platform to all of those others to articulate their visions for where they would take america. >> sandra: we are moving full speed ahead into 2024, aren't we, john. >> john: we are. we have a long road ahead of us. a fun ride. >> sandra: now this. >> we know there's about 40 hours of breatheable air left based on the initial report. again, that was just the initial report based on 96 hours. >> john: officials from the u.s. coast guard giving an update last hour on the search from the missing titanic submersible, a search so far not wiel

i'm bret baier. we will have part two of my exclusive interview with former president donald trump in just a few minutes. we are following two big stories tonight though. a plea deal for the president's son, hunter, and the you are search for the missing submersible. rescuers racing against time to try to find that vessel before the oxygen supply runs out for the five people on board who are hoping to see the wreckage of the titanic. >> submersible could use up all its air in less than about a day and a half. let's get an update from correspondent molly line in boston. good evening, mollie. >> good evening, bret. the coast guard reported there is no sign of the missing submarine with the five people on board and at this moment an estimated 35 hours of life support left there on board private and military assets are scouring above and below the surface covering thousands of miles. the canadian coast guard playing a major role. remote operating vehicles and diving planes are conducting a grid search. >

today we learned it will be moderated by bret baier and martha maccallum of fox news.ier has -- even though we learned, thanks to that dominion lawsuit, that behind the scenes he tried to get fox news to pull their ultimately correct call for arizona in 2020 because it was, quote, hurting us. and that is the guy who is now going to be moderating the first republican primary debate. last night, bret baier sat down with the front runner, and i have to say, he came well prepared. >> in 2016, you said that i am going to surround myself with only the best and most series people. >> well, i did do that. look, we've had the best economy -- >> this time -- >> you are vice president mike pence is running against. you your ambassador to the united states, nikki haley, is running against you. your former secretary of state, mike pompeo, is not supporting you. your national security adviser, john bolton, is not supporting you. you are tierney general -- and troubled man. you recently called bill barr a got plus paid. your second defense secretary is not supporting you, called you

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bret baier and martha maccallum moments away with analysis, but jonathan serrie is live on the ground at the federal courthouse. what is the scene right now? >> more people are gathering and you can feel the anticipation of the former president about to arrive at the courthouse and we have learned more about the booking procedures. he will be digitally fingerprinted, no ink involved, and instead of taking a new photo of him, they are going to upload an existing photo, but they are still not going to release the existing photo to the media, and at no time will he be placed in any handcuffs. a more streamlined process for this former president of the united states. he tells radio host howie carr he plans to enter a not guilty plea, and in a separate interview with a spanish language outlet he insisted that he has done nothing wrong. watch. >> under the presidential records act i'm allowed to do all of those things you are allowed to keep the documents, you negotiate with the archives and you -- even the archives, by the way, they have red flagged the constitution and the bill of rights

>> lawrence, it is, but what was discussed in the interview with bret baier is truly alarming.t the whistleblower is suggesting with great speaks fist i had the is that they tracked over $8 million going to hunter biden and the prosecutor assigned to the team had approved these charges found they were well based and should be prosecuted. somehow some one lowered it so we ended up with two misdemeanors and no jail time for hubdz. but there's other allegations that came out in this interview that really left you dumbfounded. he talked about how they had 12 witnesses they wanted to confront and to try get statements from and they were tipped offered and of the 12 they on the got one to speak to them. he said they had probable cause there was potentially incriminating material. with this info peddling scheme in a storage a unit. they never were allowed to search that storage uni-it is and also accused the fbi or the doj of tipping off the bidens. these are incredibly serious allegations and the question is what are we going to do about it? the democrats have opposed every effort to

. >> judge jeanine: bret baier has a revealing interview with the irs whistle-blower in the hunter bidengation. >> i had him repeat that because i knew how important that fact wasn't a wonder make sure i understood it. >> y you were there and you remember it crystal clear in your mind. >> not only do i remember it crystal clear t that i documentd it. >> judge jeanine: catch it at 6:00 p.m. coming up next, teen violence is way out of control. a democrat mayor thinks breathing could be the solution. at red land cotton, the bedding start right here on our family's cotton farm in north alabama. the heartland of america. we rely on hard work and honest manufacturing to deliver high quality, heirloom inspired bedding, bath towels and more, all made in the usa. experience the farm to home difference for yourself. go to red land cotton dot com and receive 15% off your order with code fox news. i brought in ensure max protein with 30g of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. uh... here i'll take that. -everyone: woo hoo! ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein, one g

. >> bret: good afternoon, bret baier in for john roberts. lots more reaction, talk to an atlanta tavern owner who lives through the disconnect between the president and the main street every day and his thoughts on what he just heard. and we'll hear from dagen and sean, but new at 2:00, developments on a story in maryland. >> introducing sexual behavior and preference at an early age raises legitimate concern for us parents. >> where is the respect or does inclusion and respect only apply to a specific group. >> for us it's an issue of faith, not hate. our faith is not partisan and our people are not backwards. >> sandra: parents slamming a proposal to keep them from opting their children out of classes and lessons that address sexuality and gender. >> bret: hundreds are demanding a choice whether their kids are taught the lgbtq curriculum. >> sandra: the battle a debate over the first amendment as parents of different faiths argues it attacks their rights to religious freedom. mike emmanuel has the latest. hi, mike. >> sandra, bret, good af

we're joined by jonathan turley and bret baier with us now. bret, let's go to you. news can now confirm that hunter biden has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors on two minor tax crimes and admits to a gun charge that will likely keep him out of jails with court papers filed today. bret, your initial comment reacting t

and as to weiss listen to what the whistleblower gary shapley told our own bret baier tonight. >> i called us attorney david weiss and we need to execute the search warrant. he respondeded that the prosecutors didn't want to. no sooner had gotten off the phone with david weiss had we learned that the prosecutors were informing defense counsel of the storage unit and the evidence that existed there. >> and you believed what was in there was crucial to the case. >> yes, we believed so and but we'll never know now because we weren't allowed to access it. >> laura: never know now. is that really accurate, too? could we learn more? well, the more we peel back this onion the more two themes emerge. one, everything that garland claimed about the supposed independence of the investigation seems tonight to have been a lie. and, two, the suggestion that this was solely a hunter biden problem was and continues to be impossible to believe. joining me now is david schoen form trump impeachment lawyer and form assistant us attorney as well. sol i want to start with you. i want you to examining what look

bret: greg looked guilty in those. bye. good evening from washington. i'm brett baier. second degree manslaughter that from a grand jury in new york city. a marine veteran who applied what turned out to be a fatal chokehold on a homeless man causing a disturbance on a new york city subway train has been indicted today. charged with second degree manslaughter. a grand jury reaching that decision late this afternoon. correspondent bryan llenas is in new york with the latest from this breaking story. good evening,. >> bret, good evening. two sources tell fox news a manhattan grand jury has voted to indict 24-year-old daniel penny in the chokehold death of 30-year-old homeless man jordan neely which means this case will go to trial. penny was indicted ton a second degree manslaughter charge for placing neely in a chokehold killing him on board a new york city subway train on may 1st. the grand jury was not considering his guilt or innocence but, rather, whether there was sufficient evidence and reasonable cause to believe that a crime had been committed here. it took 11 day

i mean, when he tells bret baier things like, no, no, no i just had a pile of newspapers and magazineles. and yet, we then hear him on the tape saying, these are papers the military prepared and gave to me. that puts the lie to donald trump's claims, you know, to fox news or posts on his social media platform. so, you know, the power of this, i would call this sort of a just press play drive. and it reminded me of cases that i handled involving drug conspiracies where we were fortunate enough to be able to go up on a wire, and we had a defendant saying things like, yeah, i'm gonna need ten kilos next friday, when the jurors can sit there. and look at the defendant across the courtroom and hear his own voice, sort of, convicting himself, that is some of the most powerful evidence imaginable. >> all right, glenn, well, you get your wish. we're gonna press play and play that conversation donald trump had with fox news's bret baier about the state just before it went public. watch. >> according to the indictment, you were here in bedminster on july 21st, 2021, after you were no longer pre

let's bring in fox news chief political anchor bret baier. if the american people have not been following this that closely, if they haven't, these numbers, billion, million, trillium, it is dizzying. please explain to us in a very simple way why the president spoke to the country tonight on this issue. speetwo jesse, good evening. he wants to take the political advantage of a bipartisan deal. it is, to be fair, pretty rich for this president, who did not talk to house republicans for 97 days, to say that he was the impetus for this debt ceiling deal to be finished. the reason i got done is because house republicans have the vo votes. they passed a bill and that started a negotiation. he was forced into negotiating. this bill suspends, puts a cap on the debt ceiling for two years, so they basically don't have to do this next year, it goes into 2024. the spending cuts -- in washington, that's not what is happening. it's a limit on the growth. it goes down how much a gross. while they are saying they are cutting back, they're just cutting back

the former president sitting down with bret baier in his first tv interview since the federal indictment criminal thing. in fact, the new york times of all had a story just the other day that the only way they could get this stuff, this back, would be please, please, please, could we have it back. >> and they asked for it. >> because they have no -- >> they didn't ask for it. they said can you give the documents back. >> and we were talking. >> and then they said -- they went to doj to subpoena you. >> which they've never done before. >> why not hand it over then? >> i had boxes. i want to go through the boxes and get my personal things out, golf shirts, clothing, pants, shoes. there were many things. i would say much, much more -- not that i know o not that i know of. but everything was declassified. cheryl: joining me is washington examiner political and investigative reporter, sarah bedford. she is also the steamboat institute fellow. sarah, your reaction to what the former president had to say to our own bret baier last night, in particular bret said, you know, what about like the ir

here he was moments ago in an exclusive interview with fox's bret baier. saying why he needs to be less combative. >> i would like to be less combative, and the press is extremely dishonest. if i am not combative, i can't get my point across, i don't think you can win. regardless me or somebody else, if somebody else got the nomi nomination, these radical main maniacs would come at them at a level never seen and they won't be able to withstand it. our country is sick. it's sick. we have people that will do anything and it's a very sad thing, like the document hoax, they never should have been brought, we are in the middle of a political campaign, and they want to arrest the opponent leading the person that's in theory in charge of government. this stuff shouldn't happen. >> but the media attacks on trump are back firing. look at the numbers, according to harvard harris, 55% view the trump indictment as a political exercise, and 56% say it constitutes election interference. and the media are having a conniption. >> poll from quinnipiac on a biden, trump mat

bret baier watching this with us this afternoon. good to have you with us, bret. i know you're in boston for an event, a senate-related event that we'll talk about. first to chad pergram to set the stage for us here this afternoon as this unfolds live. hi, chad. >> martha, good afternoon. republicans are drilling down on what they see as two tiers of justice. the gop argues that the feds should also charge president biden for how he handled secret documents stored in his garage with his corvette. >> if you're charging one and not charging the other, you raid one house but not the other, that's different. it's not fair. the one thing people will say in america, they believe in the rule of law and it should be fair to everybody. right now it really seems that it's not fair. >> mccarthy said the documents at mr. trump's home were more secure because they were kept in a bathroom which locks. congress has the power of the purse. some republicans hope to penalize the fbi in this year's spending bills for house it handled both investigations. mccarthy says the house will

"special report" anchor, bret baier and i will be monitoring the first debate. not sure how many will be on stage. will it be 9, 10, 12. we'll see who meets the criteria at 9:00 p.m., which we look forward to. the summer goes fast. look forward to that. bret joins me now as we look at these early numbers that we're getting. let's start in new hampshire. it's interesting to watch this. the lilac luncheon. there was some backlash that desantis in terms of his schedule wasn't able to make it. what do you think about that? >> yeah, good afternoon, martha. that is always a danger. when you have a women's luncheon, a political women's luncheon in a state and they value those things and it's a big thing on their calendar every year in a place like new hampshire where meeting and greeting people really is a big deal. it can turn people the wrong way. so there was some people that were turned off by that. we'll see if governor desantis can -- >> martha: do not scorn the women's republican luncheon. it's not a good idea. but he's trying to make up for it. straighten that

. >> dana: bret baier joining us in a moment. first rich edson live in washington. you have an update. good morning, rich. >> good morning. republicans are courting primary voters across the country. governor desantis campaigned in oklahoma where he picked up the governor's endorsement. his first from a sitting governor. >> we have an opportunity to get a big coalition together. i think it's a majority that wants to restore sanity to this country. >> desantis spoke friday at the north carolina gop convention. former president mike pence and former president trump addressed the convention separately saturday. some of trump's challengers have criticized him for complimenting kim jong un. >> they say how dare you get along great with a dictator. he has hundreds of nuclear weapons. it is nice to get along. i'm not saying that from weakness. >> trump also ripped the justice department that indicted him last week. most republican candidates have criticized the d.o.j. others say the former president's conduct is disqualifying. >> we need a commander-in-chief that disregard

i'm bret baier. interview with former president donald trump in just a few minutes. we are following two big stories tonight though. a plea deal for the president's son, hunter, and the you are search for the missing submersible. rescuers racing against time to try to find that vessel before the oxygen supply runs out for

s national debt in an interview with fox news' bret baier last night.was broken and we created a machine and the oil was starting, we were energy independent. i got anwar approved 2 in alask. the first day of the biden administration they terminated the deal. we were going to make so much money. then we got covid, covid, our gift from china and we had to do other things. maria: the gift from china. lee, your thoughts? >> it's just too much. i think the bottom line is this is the candidate or former president that's setting the tone for every conversation about the election. there's nothing that you're talking about that doesn't start and end with donald trump on the republican side. and so when he talks about some of these issues, most people will say they feel better under donald trump from a financial perspective, from a hope perspective, all sorts of things, despite the fact that it was somewhat chaotic. really interesting to watch him. he's leading in the polls still by over 30 points, the collective average. it's almost no matter what he says, no m

barreling toward the caribbean with 40 mile-per-hour winds. >> i would like to be less combative. >> bret baierery sensitive document. >> i have every right to have those boxes. >> hello. >> both president biden and governor ron desantis taking their presidential campaigns to california with multiple fund raising events lined up. >> some of our maga republican friends in congress are continuing to try undo all the progress we have already made. >> now joey vaughn. [cheers] >> his first game back. joseph daniel votto. >> did t that beer catch the ba? >> taking a break there set to address the future of artificial intelligence which the white house has said is a top priority for joe biden. >> he will meet with tech entrepreneurs as he ramps up fundraising efforts for his 2024