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anthony edwards unbelievable. he is 64 scored over 6'9" john collins for the shot. immediately went viral. crazy. landing not as disgraceful. he dislocated his finger but well worth it. taped up, # 2 points, 8 assists in the game. >> >> greg: he can walk now? >> jessica: what? >> greg: is he clearly walking. >> dislokd finger. no i'm saying he was walking. >> yeah, i thought. >> can i go? please, dana. >> jesse: attention job seekers, about to graduate you don't know what you want to do u.k. looking for five people in port lock roy. including some of the count the number of penguins in the area. either run the gift shop or count penguins. i think this might be a good thing for somebody to do for your gap year. >> jesse: county penguins lick their eyeballs, bret? >> bret: all right, jesse. hey, congrats on the book. i will see you later in the
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show. >> jesse: see you soon. >> bret: good evening, breaking tonight we are following several major stories the biden administration is taking major criticisms over its withdrawal of u.s. forces from afghanistan in 2021. it's all coming out in a fiery hearing on capitol hill. we'll take you there. first up though, a new ruling from the u.s. supreme court on the border crisis. justices just ruled 6-3 that texas can arrest migrants suspected of crossing into the country illegally and send them back home. it's a significant setback for the president's policies. correspondent david spunt starts us off tonight live from the justice department. good evening, david. >> hello, bret. this order from the u.s. supreme court as divisive as the issue of immigration enforcement itself. it is a classic fight between the federal government and local government when it documents law enforcement. and, right now, texas is winning the legal battle. let's take a live look at our fox news drone camera on the
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border right now in texas looking over at the border into mexico. with this order, any police officer in texas can now arrest and have deported someone for entering the country illegally. reuters recently reporting that mexico officials say that they will not accept those migrants that are kicked out of texas. the high court previously blocked texas officials from enforcing the new texas law twice while it makes its way through the legal system. governor greg abbott writing though this afternoon in a 6-3 decision scotus meaning the supreme court allows texas to begin enforcing senate bill 4 that allows the arrest of illegal immigrants. we still have to have hearings in the fifth circuit federal court of appeals but this is clearly a positive development. the case is expected to be in front of the supreme court for a ruling on the merits of the controversial law itself. the order exposed the usual rift among the justices. the six conservative justices voting in favor of texas with three liberals including ketanji brown jackson voting against
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justice sotomayor calling the texas law a novel scheme that invites further chaos and crisis. the white house weighing in karine jean-pierre says we fundamentally disagree with the supreme court's order allowing texas harmful and unconstitutional law to go into effect. s.b. 4 will not only make communities in texas less safe, it will also burden law enforcement and sow chaos and confusion at our southern border. the next step as governor abbott said this will go to a federal appeals court. ultimately could drive migrants from texas to other border states. bret? >> bret: david spunt, thank you. david, some of the other supreme court news today involves former president donald trump. >> bret, that's exactly right. the supreme court received a formal written notice from president donald trump's legal team about why he wants to take his case of presidential immunity before the the justices. he believes he should be immune from prosecution from special counsel jack smith, arguing that
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his alleged actions to overturn the 2020 election results happened while he was president of the united states. since that happened while he was in office he can't be charged. the judge will hear owner arguments on this case april 25th. a little bit more than a month. it could push the actual case in washington, d.c. perhaps after the election or, perhaps, cancel it all together. bret? >> bret: we'll follow it all. david, thanks. now to, as we mentioned at the top of the show, a difficult and contentious reexamination of president biden's u.s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan. top military officials express regret over the disastrous at times fiery house hearing. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie has the story from capitol hill. >> there's zero doubt in my mind there were mistakes made. >> generals mark milley and frank mackenzie back on capitol hill this time as private citizens blasting the biden
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administration for the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan. >> if there's fault, it lies in a policy decision that placed the joint force in the situation. >> the general telling lawmakers afghanistan would not would not have collapsed had white house followed pentagon assessment to keep u.s. troops on the ground. >> the afghanistan government and afghanistan security forces would not have collapsed in august of '21 had we maintained that posture. >> they also blame the state department for ordering an evacuation too late. >> the fundamental mistake, fundamental flaw was the timing of the state department. >> and that was too little too late. >> it was my judgment that it was far too little far too late. >> few democrats who attended the hearing say the failure lies in 20 years of american policy. including that of former president trump. and they wondered why the generals even showed up today. >> so there is not really anything new that was learned today because you've testified do it before. >> i will leave that to you all
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to determine. >> some loved ones of the 13 u.s. service members who died during the attack at abby gate were also in the room like steve nikoui who was arrested for shouting during president biden's state of the union address. >> those charges get cropped? >> i have no idea, no. no charges got dropped. >> you are still facing charges? >> yeah. >> really? and nobody from the administration has tried to intervene or help? >> democrat congresswoman debbie dingell side stepping whether congress should intervene. >> i don't know, you guys. i got to go. >> republican michael waltz says lawmakers will do everything to get those charges dropped. >> working with the sergeant at arms, the capitol police. >> and fox did reach out to the state department today for reaction to today's testimony. we have not heard back just yet. bret, there was another moment during the hearing here that got some unwanted attention for republicans. chairman michael mccall caught on a hot mic basically using foul language to try and wrap up
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congressman darrell issa's comments. watch this. >> gentlemen's time has expired. ms. miller-meeks recognized. >> i didn't realize. >> keeping five minute rule. >> i thought it was done. i thought it was a closing act, chairman. >> go [bleep] yourself. >> i don't believe he realized he was -- the mic was hot at that moment. issa's team telling fox tonight no big deal he has been called far worse and by colleague he doesn't like. mccaul spokesperson is telling me the chairman was gaveling the time, darrell issa's comments. chairman mccall himself writes this: it was a long day and i lost my temper that is uncharacteristic of belief and i apologized to mr. issa who i consider a friend. so both sides trying to move on from that moment. bret? >> bret: got to keep it to five minutes. aishah hasnie live on the hill, aishah, thanks. president biden has begun a three state western campaign
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swing. he just wrapped up speaking to an audience in las vegas about lowering costs for american families. >> white house correspondent peter doocy has details tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. >> peter: good evening, bret. this is the kind of campaign day you usually don't see until much later in the cycle. three events spread out over two swing states on the west coast as president biden and his team hope to improvpoll numbers that were supposed to spike after the state of the union but didn't. >> last week donald trump and i clinched the nominations. we're going to beat him again. [cheers and applause] >> to do so he has work to do with latino voters in swing states arizona and nevada. >> this county and this state is really, really, really critical. [applause] >> a recent "new york times" siena college poll finds president biden trailing trump with hispanic voters by 6 points. >> there are a number of latino communities that have benefited significantly from the student
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loan relief. we know that latino communities have also benefited tremendously from the cap on insulin. >> but biden's communications director admits that to beat trump, i think it's going to take a relentless effort on behalf of this campaign to reach the voters. so far they have done that by promoting both biden's words and trump's words. >> the point is it's about values. what -- what do we value? who are we? i mean, who are we for? what are we trying to get done? folks, you know, trump wants to undo everything we have done. >> peter: the president is hoping to showcase the investment his campaign is making in nevada, but nobody said opening a new campaign office is easy. >> so, folks, look, i'm going on too long. i apologize. [laughter] >> that must be my traveling staff.
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[laughter] >> peter: the president's remarks later on in las vegas were about things that he is doing to lower costs. the challenge for him and his team is going to be convincing people who don't feel like costs are coming down. that they actually are. bret? >> bret: peter doocy live on the north lawn. peter, thanks. former president donald trump says the bond of more than $450 million set by that judge in his civil fraud case is unconstitutional, unamerican, unprecedented, and, quote, practically impossible. by law, the state attorney general can begin seizing trump properties next week if the former president cannot come up with the money. senior correspondent eric shawn has the latest tonight from outside trump tower in new york. >> we have great company but they want to take it away. they would like to take the cash away so i can't use it on the campaign. >> donald trump has to come up with $454 million by monday. or he could lose parts of his real estate empire. trump must post half a million
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dollars bond to satisfy the judgment set by judge arthur engoron who found that trump i will legally overvalued his real estate assets to get betteloan rates. trump is asking appeals court to pause the judgment for now or accept a lower bond of $100 million. but new york state attorney general letitia james, who brought the case, can freeze his bank accounts and seize some of his real estate properties like trump tower if it does not come up with the money. her office says, quote: there is significant risk that absent a full bond or deposit, defendants will attempt to evade enforcement of the judgment or make enforcement more difficult. the president has sparked another controversy. >> i think that the democrats have been very, very opposed to jewish people, that's true and to israel. >> in remarks in a podcast about jewish democratic voters. he said, quote: now any jewish person that votes for democrats hates their religion. they hate everything about israel and they should be ashamed of themselves. president biden's campaign shot
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back by saying, quote: the only person who should be ashamed here is donald trump. donald trump openly demeans jewish americans. americans are sick of his hateful resentment, personal attacks, and extreme agenda. >> the white house also weighed in saying, quote: there is no justification for spreading toxic, false statements that threaten fellow citizens. none. bret? >> bret: eric shawn outside trump tower. eric, thanks. former trump white house official peter navarro is now an inmate at a federal prison in florida. navarro reported to the facility today. he was found guilty of misdemeanor charges for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the capitol riot of january 6th, 2021. he was sentenced to four months. on his way in to vote in florida's primary today, former president trump commented on the imprisonment. >> i think it's a shame. i think it's a disgrace.
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it's a disgrace to our nation what they did to him. >> bret: navarro has maintained he could not cooperate with the committee because former president trump had invoked executive privilege as president. lower courts have rejected that argument finding navarro could not prove the president actually invoked it. stocks surged today ahead of the federal reserve's next interest rate decisio the dow jumping 320. the s&p 500 was up 29 for a new record close. the nasdaq gained 63. up next, the latest on u.s. efforts to get stranded americans out of haiti. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 31 in denver as colorado lawmakers discuss what they're calling an assault weapons ban. it's one of several new bills focused on access to guns. the bill defines the term assault weapon and prohibits a person from manufacturing, buying, and selling them. a measure similar to this one failed at the colorado capital last year.
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fox carolina in greenville as clemson university files a lawsuit against the atlantic coast conference. the acc owns the broadcast rights to home games played through 2036, even if the institution ends its member in the acc. there is also $140 million penalty. this is a live look at chicago. one of the big stories there from fox 32 our affiliate, lollapalooza reveals 2024 lineup. headliners for the four day music extravaganza in chicago's park sza, tyler the crater, blink 82 and the killers. this year's festival will run from august 1st through the 4th. more than 170 acts scheduled to play across eight stages. i know dana perino really likes sza that's it for "special report," we'll be right back. ♪
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♪ >> bret: we're learning new details tonight about efforts to get trapped americans out of haiti as that island nation experiences civil and political turmoil. correspondent gillian turner is
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at the state department tonight. >> we are exploring options for american citizens to depart haiti from port-au-prince. >> the state department facing intense pressure from americans stranded in haiti says they are now looking for a way to evacuate u.s. citizens via helicopter. as officials scramble to put those planes in place, members of congress have begun taking matters into their own hands. republican cory mills says his office has rescued 23 americans. >> you have got this deputy spokesman saying it's their top priority for the safety and security but it's not. it is not their top priority. if it was, they would have actually been starting flights out of cap-haitien. >> the state department responding with this warning. >> operations like these that are sort of done deviating from formal state department operations, um, they can be high risk, um, we're talking about a country that's been a level four do not travel country since 2020. >> some u.s. citizens unwilling
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to risk waiting or fleeing haiti on foot. >> dominican immigration officials tell fox at least 359 americans have left haiti through this border crossing since march 1st. it's a six hour drive from haiti's gang controlled capital the state department warning americans to travel at their own risk and keep a low profile. >> even today's congressional hearing on the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan, the fate of those americans hoping to get out of haiti very much on lawmakers' minds. >> i hope, mr. chairman, we can soon get a classified briefing on the situation going on there. >> well, the biden administration's last evacuation of americans out of haiti was now more than three days ago. there were no evacuations of americans today. but the state department tells us they hope and there is a possibility that those helicopter rescue mission could say kick off begin since this week, bret. >> bret: gillian turner live at the state department. >> gillian, thanks. ♪ ♪
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>> bret: in america's crime crisis tonight, a new type of thievery becoming popular in this country from a foreign source. police say robbers with fake ids use technology to ransack homes of the wealthy. national correspondent william la jeunesse has details tonight from los angeles. >> there are photographs of over 400 individuals who have been arrested in the united states from chele. >> police call it burglaries tourism and some blame the biden administration. >> i literally cannot comprehend why the united states government is trying to protect chileans who are coming in and breaking into homes. >> 2 2 2014 capito 2014 chele, g criminals to border planes there to rob homes here. >> we have significant increase in burglaries from organized groups that are outside this country. >> police caught this group near philadelphia with masks, gloves,
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pry bars and a saw. in north carolina, these four faced 200 charges of breaking. in glendale, california, police arrested these suspects for multiple burglaries. in baltimore police connected this group to break-ins in maryland, north carolina, alabama, and oklahoma. according to authorities, they all have one thing in common. they entered the trust chile as tourists. >> the south american groups are abusing the visa waiver program and sending criminals to burglarize my constituents. >> using fake ids to rent cars and lodging, police say existing databases offer little help. and, if daughter, many d.a.s don't prosecute and sheriffs can't or won't call ice. >> not only are they robbing us blind and burglarizing our homes, but then they are not held to answer for their crimes. >> the state department could revoke chile's waiver visa status but says that's not nessary. police del us it is because the
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country doesn't share criminal information as required. d.a. spitzer is suing the biden administration to find out why. bret? >> bret: william, thank you. up next, we'll go live to phoenix to find out what's on the line during today's arizona primary. take a look at the other primaries as well. first, beyond our borders tonight, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he told president biden a ground invasion of rafah in gaza is necessary to topple hamas. biden administration officials have warned they would not support an operation in rafah without the israelis presenting a credible plan to ensure the safety of palestinian civilians. hong kong lawmakers unanimously approve a new national security law granting the government new power to quash dissent. the move is widely seen as the latest step in a sweeping political crackdown triggered by pro-democracy protests in 2019. and this is a live look at paris. one of the big stories there
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several states holding elections florida, illinois, kansas and ohio. there is a three-way battle for the republican senate nomination in ohio to take on democrat incumbent senator her rod brown. and in illinois, a fierce race
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between democrats attempting to succeed controversial cook county states attorney kim foxx who is not running for a third term. voters in arizona are participating in that state's presidential preference election today. then candidate biden defeated then president trump by a razor thin margin in the 2020 general election. senior correspondent alicia acuna is in phoenix with a look right now. >> both the current president and the former have won the state of arizona. each needs it again. both have an uphill climb. biden flipped this critical battleground in 2020 by fewer than 11,000 votes. this time around, the arizona landscape includes a border and housing market crisis. recent fox news polling found arizonans top three issues are the economy, election integrity and immigration. registered voters trust trump over biden in two out of the three. in a hypothetical matchup trump beats biden by four points with a margin of error plus or minus
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three points. the former president has challenges too. since trump won here in 2016, the g.o.p. has lost both senate seats and the governor's mansion. registered republicans out number democrats in arizona. a third of arizona's electorate is independent. anyone who hopes to win statewide needs them. that includes the two leading candidates for the u.s. senate seat being vacated by independent kyrsten sinema which may be why democratic congressman congressman reuben geauga go a once self-prescribed true progressive voice also visited the border this week. >> it's past time extremists controlled the narrative around the border. they have shown they would rather score political points then to have a solution. >> and trump endorsed republican candidate kari lake, who lost her bid for governor in 2022 now says she welcomes folks from all parties. >> we're all human. we make mistakes occasionally. dais well. i'm not perfect and i never want to hurt anyone's feelings. but, you know, politics is a rough and tumble game and
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sometimes things are said. >> >> president biden is scheduled to land here in phoenix in the next couple of hours. is he going to meet with members of the latino community. he needs their support because polls show it's slipping. bret? >> bret: alicia, thank you. the centers for disease control and prevention is issuing an alert to public health officials warning that the number of u.s. measles cases entirety of the 2023. the cdc confirms 458 cases across 17 jurisdictions, it says most cases reported this year have been among children age 12 months and older who have not yet received the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine. house republicans are pressing ahead with an effort to ban what's called diversity, equity and inclusion policies in medical schools. new legislation would eliminate all federal funding to institutions with such mandates. correspondent griff jenkins tells us why tonight. >> dei is dangerous everywhere
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but it's most dangerous in medical school. >> a warning from doctors and lawmakers on capitol hill who argue medical students are learning diversity, equity and inclusion politics or dei at the expense of life-saving care. >> precious classroom and clinical time is now devoted to such issues as climate change, homelessness, policing and other social issues. the idealogues behind this trend den they don't wanted doctors they want lobbyists in white coats. >> u penn dean and chairman of do no harm group supports a new bill unveiled today by a group of house republicans. >> prescription pads and scalp scalpels now being weaponized. >> surge of 35 years representative greg murphy seeks to cut off all medical funding to medical schools and accrediting institutions with race-based mandates in dei practices. >> the in past students were admitted based upon merit, excellence and appear study.
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sadly enough those days are changing. what it comes down to patient care, dei can lead to harmful, if not deadly consequences incorporating did their missions process. doctor says that denies what matters most to the patients. >> they don't want a level playing field. they. the best people caring for them. >> as for where the bill may or may not be headed, it's unclear at this point if it can garner bipartisan support in the house or a co-sponsor in the senate. bret? >> bret: all right, griff. thank you. up next, jesse watters talks about the news of the day plus his new book. it's called "get it together." later, the panel on the presidential race and the afghanistan fallout. ♪ ♪
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>> regardless much the fact that ancestors were oppressed you can't see that when you look at me. >> phil mickelson was oppressed. >> i don't know that is. >> by tiger woods. how senators are there? 12? >> has a poor person ever offered you a job. >> you say poor person i immediately think homeless. >> jesse: do you think i could be a model.
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>> yeah, you can. >> slow down. should i drink before or after i arrive? >> what kind of drink are you talking. >> do you guys have cosmos here. >> do you're parents know you are cutting school. >> yes. >> they must be proud of you. >> i'm watters, and this is my world. [cheers] >> bret: well, we have seen "watters' world" for years. now is he a big anchor and he has got a book out today "get it together, troubling tales from the liberal fringe. and in it he writes about this book. it's different. he says interviewing wild characters on the street only gets you so deep. i set out looking to interview out of the mainstream americans, debate them. just to listen to their life stories. what i found is that their maverick ideology was rooted in personal struggle. a big factor in a person's policy preference or political identity, formative experiences in their youth. joining us aforementioned host of "jesse watters primetime" jesse. congratulations on the book.
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>> jesse: thank you very much, bret. i appreciate it. >> bret: so, give me the elevator pitch. i mean, listening to that introduction, you are listening to these folks and you kind of examine them, almost. >> jesse: at age 45 i realized i should start listening. i'm a late bloomer. and so i sat down with maybe two dozen of the most fringe people we could find. and they confessed their life stories to me i listen for hours and hours and hours as they told me their deepest and darkest secrets. we spoke to ecosexuals, people who want to empty prisons, statue top top lers, to toad. people who called me a white racist because they were a black supremacist. i talked to stalinists. i talked to women who bring emotional support squirrels on to airplanes.
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a voodoo priestess. everybody that we could find that was on the liberal fringe figured out they are irrational people with personality disorders who haven't fully thought through their ideo ideologys, they are people with problems and projecting on the rest of society. i don't have a problem. society has a problem. and if we can fix society, then i'll feel better and we don't need a revolution in this country to solve people's personal issues. we just need people to get it together. >> bret: there you go. in you kind of summarize the whole thing in these interviews. you say the common denominator is the father. the father who was absent. or an abusive or alcoholic father. most chaos comes from dysfunctional or disappearing dads. i mean, you think that this is a
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common denominator in what you are seeing in these interviews? >> it is the common denominator, almost as cross the board it. has nothing to do with wealth, class, some woman grew up in a very wealthy southern california family. she ended up becoming a stripper at 16, doing crystal meth and working in the sex industry. so, these people either a barstool father or father who was never in their life. they have now reached a point where no one was giving them discipline. no one was showing them there are boundaries. so they grow up with daddy issues. or issues with authority and are projecting these issues onto the rest of society. maybe no one told them to get it together as a child. now society has to tell them to get it together. but society doesn't like saying get it together because saying get it together is judgmental and we don't want to stigmatize people. we're too nice for that and i have repeated the phrase "get it
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together" not to drum into people's head subliminally that they need to go buy the book on amazon it's called "get it together." but these are phrases that society has just forgotten. my mother used to tell me, look me in the eye. if i was out of line, jesse, "get it together." i knew what that meant. and i shaped up. if i can shape up, bret, anybody can. >> bret: yeah. you know, you are hitting on something here. it's almost 18.5 million children across america live without a father. that's one in four. that's the census bureau coming up with those numbers. you know, you talk about people's formative years. how did you get to your thinking, politically, policy-wise, how did you get to this? >> jesse: i voted up with parents who voted for mondale, dukakis and literally think trump is going to be a dictator on day one. but, as i was 18, 19 in college, i had a few drinks and i was
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watching c-span late at night and i realize the republicans, they were in the senate chamber were saying the exact same things about limited government and personal responsibility that the founding fathers were saying. and then i listened to limbaugh. read a book by ann coulter and started watching "the o'reilly factor" and this was it. it drove my parents crazy. literally drove my mom crazy, i would make her listen to limbaugh on car rides and she would have fits of road rage and almost drive into shrubbery. but i survived. some of the thanksgivings were awkward. here i am now on "the five" and "jesse watters primetime." i think i turned out okay. >> bret: i think so, too. the book is "get it together." all the subliminal talk, i think it's working. i'm sure it's going to be a big success. jesse, thanks a lot, man. >> jesse: thank you very much, bret. >> bret: up next be the panel on the presidential race and today's hearing about the afghanistan withdrawal. later, "tuesday x-tras." ♪
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>> across the country fo folks e filed record number of business applications since i took office. the fastest growth of latino owned businesses in more than a decade. >> there has never been a president that's done such harm to a country as this president. he's the worst president we have ever had. >> trump is slightly ahead in all or nearly all of the swing states, which presents a real challenge for biden. i think it explains why he is
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out west trying to shore up his base with diverse voters. tim pawlenty talks as the president heads out west. is he making several stops in southwestern swing states that is that what is he talking about. biden harris campaign pushes launch for latino voters. recent polls indicate long time advantage with latinos, the fastest growing segment of the u.s. pop lace is diminishing. biden's campaign knows that the president will need to maintain latino typical support levels to winning coalition from 2020. let's bring in our panel. guy benson, political editor at town hall.com. host of the guy benson show on fox news radio. francesca chambers and former white house press secretary ari fleischer. guy, it seems like this is another red alert for democrats in the biden campaign with the latino numbers not in one poll but in several polls showing
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that they are upside down and supporting former president trump. >> if they could write this off as an outlier, that's what they would be saying for the cameras, and that's what they would be acting like internally. they know it's not an outlier. they know this is polling trend as you mentioned, bret, which is why this president is spending time, that for example in nevada. not a place that he wants to be in all likelihood in terms of electoral map. and a big piece of this appears to be trying to pander to and reach out to and win back some support from latino voters. i mean, fair enough, it's a key voting block and a growing you been in a lot of these states. but there is also the conflict where latinos actually agree with republicans and trump on a number of issues. we have seen that biden and his team are going to lead into the abortion question this limitless abortion on demand policy. that's not really going to fly very well with a lot of hispanic catholic voters for instance. so they are trying to cobble back together successful for them in 2020. and they are discovering from
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their perspective not too late hopefully that this is going to be a real challenge. >> yeah. francesca important to point out latino hispanic voters voting block all kinds of differences. to guy's point even on immigration there is a shift here and just today with the supreme court, "the washington post" writes it this way. supreme court clears the way for texas to enforce immigration law for now. sb 4 makes it state crime for migrants to illegallyward border deport undocumented individuals. the litigation over state law is the latest court battle between the biden administration and republican leaders in texas over the proper role of states and immigration enforcement. even on that issue it seems that the former president is better positioned at least where those border states and even hispanic latino voters are. >> president biden will be headed to texas later this week. that's more of a fundraising swing that he will be on when he is in texas. but to guy's point, just looking
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at this from a 30,000-foot level while the biden campaign says it sees multiple pathways to re-election. multiple pathways to 270, you look at these battle ground states, and president biden is running into issues with michigan with the uncommitted vote as we have been talking about, is he running into issues in states like nevada even though there is support for unions there. but also with the latino vote. today he was talking about housing costs while he was in nevada. that's been a prominent driver of inflation. and inflation is one of the key things that we see voters saying in poll after poll very concerned about. he has been pushing a housing plan on his trip there. that the biden campaign heading to these battleground states, one of the benefits he has post state of the union is the power of the presidency and he can travel to these states and do both campaign events as well as official events. >> bret: yeah. ari, going after segments of voters now because of the war israel hamas, an effort to go after jewish american voters,
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and some of the things the former president has said raised some eyebrows, take a listen. >> i think that the democrats have been very, very opposed to jewish people, that's true. and to israel. all you have to do is look at schumer what he did with israel is a disgrace and i think israel will probably not forget it very soon. >> former president's comments were utterly disgusting. to say you hate israel or your religion because you have one political view over the other is sick. it's hateful. it is unadulterated anti-semitism. >> this mes from an interview he did with sebastian gorka in which he said quote you see those palestinian marches even i'm amazed how many people are in those marches and guys like schuyler it's votes. i think it's votes more than anything else because he was always pro israel. anti-israel now. an jewish person that votes for democrats hates their religion. they hate everything about israel and they should be ashamed of themselves. obviously, that statement got a
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lot of reaction from democrats, including schumer. >> you know, donald trump, as he has a habit of doing, puts things in the most blunt, tough form you can ever say them. but this has been a long-standing debate inside the jewish community. and let me just set the table. when george h.w. bush ran for president in 1992 and lost, he got only 11% of the jewish vote as a republican. george h.w. bush. donald trump almost tripled it. he got 30% of the jewish vote. the jewish vote increasingly trending republican. it still is a democratic block but it's trending republican. and there's long been a debate inside jewish circles the more religious just jews definitely are more conservative. the justifies who never go to synagogue are definitely more liberal.l. that's true of all religions, bret. in the fox news poll of 2020, it showed that among those who go to church every week, donald trump won by 24 points. among those who never go to church, joe biden won by 28 points. so, the more religious you are,
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the more you tend to be conservative and vote republican, that is the bigger point donald trump was making. and when it comes to the israel and gaza, certainly for people who are jewish, if israel is your first concern, you tend to vote republican. if abortion is your first concern or fear of christian conservatives is your first concern, you tend to vote democrat. this is a long understanding issue. trump puts indelicately. trump is basically right on the bigger issue. >> bret: all right, last thing. we saw the fiery hearing, guy, on the house about afghanistan and the withdrawal in 2021. just in the past few minutes the state department has responded putting out a statement responding to this hearing saying the state department remains immensely proud of the work done under incredibly difficult circumstance tolls ensure the relocation of u.s. citizens, lawful permanent residents and afghans throughout the withdrawal and the period that followed. obviously they are going to say something like that. but it was a brutal hearing.
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>> immensely proud very similar to extraordinary success. we left thousands of americans and even more u.s. allies behind. that is nothing to be proud of. that is not a success they can put out whatever statement they want. >> bret: won't be the end of this issue and probably come up a lot on the campaign trail. panel, thanks so much. ♪ ♪ >> bret: time for tue "tuesday x-tras." larry asked who do you have winning march madness bracket. uconn, arizona, houston and purdue. and in the finals i have got purdue over uconn. that's it. that's the secret sauce. next up, marilou clark wonders how do you maintain your sense of fairness and objectivity in such divisive times? well, marilou, thank you for that. listen first and try to ask tough but fair questions to both sides. lastly, gary glowsy says i
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bought the same glasses as you. and i have never looked cooler. where do you get your ties? thanks, gary. it's just these glasses, i don't know i do need them to read up close. the ties most are from brooks brothers but a bunch of different ties. tomorrow on "special report" come ground segment with senators tim kaine and ted cruz on bipartisan legislation to combat illicit drugs such as thank and fentanyl. we are continuing to do that common ground bringing republicans and democrats together talking about things they are working on. remember if you can't catch us live set your dvr 3:00 p.m. in the west and 6:00 p.m. in the east. that's it for this "special report." fair, balanced and still unafraid. "the ingraham angle" starts now. >> laura: i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. while the presal