washington. i'm bret baier. breaking tonight. it is election day in more than 30 states across the country today. handful of those races are being closely watched tonight. possible implications down the road. as polls close. polls close in an hour in virginia and kentucky. we have fox team coverage on all of that a bit later. but, first, one month after the hamas attack on his nation, israel's prime minister is ruling out any cease-fire or pause in the fighting without the release of all hostages. president biden asked benjamin netanyahu to consider what are being called tactical pauses in the fighting, perhaps a three day stop to get humanitarian aid into gaza and try to get hostages out. tonight, we're also hearing from some relatives of american hostages still believed to be held by hamas. and there is more controversy about where president biden stands regarding all of the dissent in this country for israel's actions. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has details tonight lye from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret. today officials would not speak to reports that president biden and top aides have discussed the likelihood that prime minister benjamin netanyahu's political days are numbered. and the u.s., they say, is unequivocally and unwaveringly still behind israel. but we're seeing more distance between the u.s. and its ally than ever before on a few key issues. >> president biden speaking to reports that he pushed israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to embrace a three-day pause in fighting in exchange for the release of 10 to 15 hostages. >> did you ask the prime minister of israel to take a pause. >> i did not ask him i did ask him if he would pause in the past, yesterday. still waiting to hear. >> netanyahu evidently rejecting biden's ask saying there will be no cease-fire or even fuel to gaza until the hostages are released. the prime minister reportedly told biden yesterday he doesn't trust hamas' intentions or believe the negotiating in good faith. and there are more apparent disagreements over israel's plans to keep forces in gaza. >> we do not support reoccupation of gaza and neither does israel. >> that's not what netanyahu said. >> i think israel will for an indefinite period will have the overall security responsibility because we have seen what happens when we don't have it. >> the administration insists there's no daylight between the u.s. and its ally. >> friends don't have to agree on every single nuances and every single word. >> officials are under pressure to deliver clearer messaging. >> i think the entire world is getting mixed messages. anthony blinken standing next to foreign ministers around the region talking about a cease-fire, calling it a pause as though we don't know the difference. >> after families of hostages pleaded for action on capitol hill -- >> this is all of you here all of america, all of europe. you are next. >> the press secretary initially refused to say whether it's wrong that pro-palestinian protesters are tearing down hostage posters across the country. >> i'm just not going to go into specifics on that particular thing. >> prompting this correction on x, quote: tearing down pictures of their loved ones who are being held hostage by hamas is wrong and hurtful. >> and pro-palestinian protesters are targeting major military and government contractors tomorrow in a national day of action, according to a threat advisory that fox news obtained. defense and national security personnel are being told to stay cognizant of their surroundings and avoid demonstrations. the list of places being targeted include lack heed martin, raytheon, boeing, microsoft, amazon, and a few others, bret. >> bret: jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. israel's prime minister says his country will take overall security responsibility for gaza indefinitely after the war ends. raising question marks about what that looks like. meanwhile, israeli troops battle hamas fighters deep inside gaza's largest city. senior correspondent mike tobin is live again in southern israel tonight. good evening, mike. >> mike: good evening, bret. a month since the mass and israel's prrming promises to stay on the offensive until gaza can no longer be a threat to israel. hamas defiantly fires rockets and palestinian civilians pay the price. >> waving the right flag, hundreds of palestinian civilians emerged from their homes in the northern half of the gaza strip on foot for a march south away from israeli forces. in a waist land of scorched earth and rubble the idf takes off what they call command and control structures. some with heavy equipment shows fighters in civilian clothes peppering civilian forces with more tars. slow as they locate tunnels used by hamas. one was found in a children's amusement park, then destroy the entrance. >> for the first time in decades the idf is fighting in the very heart of gaza in the very heart of terror. this is a complex and difficult war and unfortunately it comes at a price. >> one month into the war, israel's prime minister vows to keep the pressure on. >> this enemy will be defeated. gaza will not be a threat to israel again. together, we will win. >> the aggressive combat tariffs loved ones of the hostages held in gaza. they gather at the prime minister's residence and demand their return. >> we must stop all cease-fire and the first thing we must do to bring them back. >> bring back to his family, to his life. to say give all the children, the old people again to be freedom. >> u.n. agencies providing temporary shelter for palestinians are overrun with more than a half million refugees. 2,000 evacuated sunday. another 5,000 on monday. many are left to sleep on the ground. >> look at our situation. is this a life that we are living? we have no food, electricity, or water. we sleep in the corridors without any blankets. it is very cold. this is not a life. >> the idf says the weapons seized from the gaza strip include 427 explosive belts and mechanisms reminiscent of the second palestinian inif i fad da and the suicide bombers. israel hasn't been hit by a suicide bomb in seven years, bret? >> bret: mike tobin live in southern israel, thank you. one of the lawmakers who has been most critical of israel and most supportive of the palestinians is now facing two separate censure resolutions. michigan congresswoman rashida tlaib posted a message that is causing considerable tension. this is just part of the ongoing fishfissure democratic party in israel and anti-semitism. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is on capitol hill tonight. good evening, chad. why is the house seeking to punish tlaib? >> well, rashida tlaib is on a coalition courts with censure. the house plans to punish tlaib, the daughter of palestinian immigrants, for anti-semitic language. she expressed support are for the phrase "from the river to the sea." jews say that calls for destroying israel. >> this type of anti-semitic hate is being promoted by a small group of members in this body. chiefly representative tlaib. we must hold her accountable. >> tlaib defended herself on the house floor. she became emotional, and was consoled by fellow members of the squad. >> palestinian people are not disposable. we are human beings, just like anyone else. >> tlaib says no matter what happens to her, the house can't silent palestinian voices. bret? >> bret: chad, what are democrats saying about congresswoman tlaib? >> well, democrats hope to kill the effort to rebuke tlaib. they oppose her remarks but defended tlaib's right to say offensive things, especially when she parrots hamas talking points. >> they also call for the killing of all jews. so if someone repeats that phrase in america is highly inflammatory. >> why not have the democratic caucus then take some action against her. >> as members of congress, we have outsized platforms that we can individually criticize, commend, say whatever we want about any issue we want to. >> there is another censure on the floor tonight for tlaib. the house votes foam to sanction tlaib. she becomes the 26th member to receive this form of punishment. bret? >> bret: chad pergram live on the hill, thanks. police say an elderly jewish man died from injuries after he was attacked at pro-palestinian rally sunday in california. paul kessler was 69 years old. authorities say it is being treated as a homicide and they add the alleged perpetrator has been cooperating. >> the suspect was identified, willingly remained at the scene, and was interviewed by deputies. the suspect was cooperative and indicated he was involved in an altercation with mr. kessler. investigators have not ruled out the possibility of a hate crime, and this is being investigated as a homicide. >> witnesses say the assailant crossed the street, hit kessler over the head with a megaphone. knocking him to the ground. he died monday of a skull fracture. ♪ >> bret: breaking tonight, the prosecutor who says he is in charge of the hunter biden investigation was on the hot seat himself today on capitol hill. correspondent david spunt has that story. good evening, david. >> bret, good evening. special counsel david weiss spent about six hours behind closed doors. he made history today as the first special counsel in the middle of an active investigation to answer questions before congress, not to mention an investigation involving the sitting president's son. house republicans say in the room that weiss refused to answer many questions about the investigation, but the purpose of the interview today, bret, was to discuss questions about his authority, not investigation details. on this broadcast, back in june, irs whistleblower gary shapley testified and told you that weiss complained he was denied special counsel status and could not charge the president's son in washington, d.c. or california because of politics. weiss refuted that today he said, quote: it's not what i said nor is it what i believed. he also said in his opening statement today, quote: at no time was i blocked or otherwise prevented from pursuing charges or taking steps necessary in the investigation by other united states' attorneys, the tax division or anyone else at the department of justice. republicans insist he was denied special counsel status in 2022. >> he requested it, was not given that request. never had that authority throughout the time and, yet, he pretends that somehow he did have that. >> resources tell fox news house republicans chose to interview weiss behind closed doors. though doj officials and some democrats wanted this to be a public hearing today. >> reason the department of justice would agree and want this to be public is because they are well aware that there was no interference. >> in addition to the federal gun charges against hunter biden, special counsel weiss indicated in a summer filing he plans to charge the first son with tax crimes in either california or washington, d.c. bret? >> bret: david, thank you. stocks climbed on optimism over interest rates. the dow gained 57. the s&p 500 finished ahead 12. the nasdaq rose 121 today. up next, as we said at the beginning of the show, it is election day in 31 states today, a handful of them will be closely watched. tonight as the polls close. about 45 minutes in a couple states. we will look at some of them. first, here is a look at what some of the fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox 11 in los angeles as a fire rips through a hanger at the former marine corps air station tuesday gone. the hanger once housed blimps in world war ii and featured in shows jag, x files and pearl harbor. fox 5 largest culinary. three major resort companies and the union representing 35,000 hospitality workers on the strip. this is a live look at miami, one of the big stories there tonight from wsvn, our affiliate down there. online sports betting has returned to florida. the 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underway for both houses of the state legislature in louisiana, mississippi, as well as the commonwealth of virginia. we will bring you there in a second. there are governors races in kentucky and mississippi. six states are holding a statewide referendum, oklahoma, wisconsin, texas, maine, new york, and ohio. a number of different issues there. voters, as we mentioned in virginia are deciding whether to give republicans full control of the state government for the first time in a decade. part of the g.o.p. evander is the governor's 15 week abortion ban we have fox team coverage bryan llenas in miami gathering ahead of tomorrow night's presidential debate. we start with rich edson reporting tonight from stafford, virginia. rich? >> good evening, bret. governor glenn youngkin is campaigning right up until when polls close about 40 minutes from now. the governor told us at a nearby polling location that he feels pretty good about a republican sweep of the legislature, those he acknowledges that these races are tight. that turnout is large and that it's going to probably come down to just a few hundred votes. >> have you voted yet? >> yeah. >> it's just about a year until the presidential election and voters across the country are heading to the polls to decide legislative elections and ballot initiatives. in virginia a test for governor glenn youngkin and whether he can deliver his party full control of the state legislature. is he highlighting inflation, and public safety. >> do you see this and these issues setting up a national conversation ahead of the presidential election next year? >> well, i expect it does. going into next year i expect the exact same issues will, of course, be so important to virginians and americans because this is what impacts everybody's daily life. >> also part of this campaign, abortion and whether voters here will support republican plans to pass limits after 15 weeks. >> we will make sure that people understand that's when a baby feels pain. >> yes. >> and that's where we can come together as virginians. >> democrats have made gun control, education, and also abortion a centerpiece of this campaign. >> at stake is whether or not virginians on wednesday expect an abortion ban in the state to have their vote counted to make sure they are safe in schools and don't have to fear being shot while they are there. >> abortion is on the ballot directly in ohio. and in a referendum to add a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a right to abortion. >> it just goes much, much too far. it would enshrine in our constitution the right to have an abortion up until birth. >> proponents point out the amendment allows lawmakers to restrict abortion until the fetus can survive out outside the wound. a decision a treating physician would make. >> that issue this summer ohio voters rejected a measure that would have raised the threshold to raise from 50% to 60. >> bret: rich, thank you. ron desantis is in iowa today, trying to capitalize on that endorsement from the state's popular governor, a move that has been criticized by former president donald trump, one of the other candidates, vivek ramaswamy, is in south florida hosting a rally that he says is aimed at preventing world war iii. correspond bryan llenas is in miami the site of the debate. good evening, bryan. brinebryan bryan bret, good eve. so too is the biden harris campaign, tonight they are using a familiar playbook, the abortion issue to attack republicans after new polls show former president trump hand diddly defeating biden in a rematch. >> every republican running wants it ban abortion and force victims of rape or incest to show proof to be able to get access to healthcare. druren remains the frontrunner, according to the latest poll. florida governor ron desantis is stagnant at second place. desantis campaign says iowa governor kim reynolds' endorsement last night is a game changer. today they campaigned together in davenport, iowa. desantis is betting her popularity and vast statewide political operation will lead to a big win. >> do everything we can to get him elected the next president of the united states. >> clearly have the governor help us out is a big boost. we will continue to ride that all the way to the january caucuses. >> in a new memo the desantis campaign argues he is the only viable threat to trump urging all the candidates, specifically former ambassador nikki haley to drop out of the race. haley's campaign responded with a new ad attacking desantis' energy policy. >> ron desantis is against fracking. >> that's not true. >> ban fracking? >> yeah, yeah. >> desantis says he supports fracking outside of florida. vivek ramaswamy is holding a rally here in miami tonight to stop world war iii. rams and desantis have been going after will haley, expect that same kind of attack here at tomorrow night's debate in miami. it's the third debate in which trump will not be featured. he will, instead, be hosting a rally 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tell you that israeli defense forces expanded their control in the north. we have been talking about this effort. they are now inside gaza city and fighting there. they took control of a hamas military strong hold where they found some weapons and intelligence materials in northern gaza. now, in the central region here, you had some israeli jets strike a building near a hospital. that strike caused a secondary explosion from a hamas weapons warehouse nearby. troops also located a series of tunnels in northern gaza in this area right here and they are saying that these tunnels are very extensive in northern gaza. we have talked about how it has more than 300 miles of tunnels and, remember, this entire gaza strip is only 25 miles long. but the tunnels extend underneath. these were found in a residential area. also paratroopers located tunnels near amusement park. as you see the pictures the target discovery operation north of the gaza strip. earlier today, israeli forces reopened an evacuation route. let's try to get out of people out of gaza who is still in gaza trying to get out of the way. it extends all the way down here, all the way through the wadi gaza nature preserve north of a refugee camp. they are trying to get people down here into southern gaza and eventually across the way to egypt, if they can get through that pass in rafah. in the north, they have been -- there have been about 20 different launches into israeli territory from lebanon and a couple of known attacks in these two areas right here along the border where the gunfire has been exchanged as the threat from iran-backed groups really grows throughout the middle east. as far as attacks on u.s. forces, there have now been 40 attacks on u.s. bases in the middle east since october 17th. the pentagon confirming that just a couple of hours a ago. a rocket attack on mission support site euphrates in sierra searsyria. and two attacks at the erbil air base in northern iraq overnight. iran backed islamic resistance in iraq is claiming responsibility for that. for almost all of these attacks and it comes as iran's president plans to attend a summit alongside other arab leaders in saudi arabia. biden officials are warning, looking at this map now, iran's attendance there is concerning. >> our perspective is iran is a destabilizing actor in the region. they support groups like hamas and hezbollah. they are supporting these militia groups that continue to fire rockets at our bases in iraq and syria. and they are also supporting putin's war in ukraine. it's difficult for us to see where iran would have some sort of meaningful, constructive, productive discussion about conflict resolution at this point given they are the arsonist here. >> bret: it is time for our "common ground" segment. tonight, we talk about social media, its influence on public opinion about israel, hamas war. joining us are mike gallagher and new york democratic congress richie torres. thank you both for being here. first of all, 30,000 feet. we have been watching what is happening in israel. and there is there kind of back and forth on capitol hill about some members, how they feel, what they are saying. >> mr. president, the american people are not with you on this one. [chanting from the river to the sea] >> bret: where do you stand where she should be censured or not? >> i intend to vote for the censure. you know, when you utter the phrase "from the river to the sea," you are not simply calling for the creation of a palestinian state, which is fair game, but you are calling for the destruction of israel as a jewish state, which is a line that no member should ever cross. and so it's the right of congress as an institution to vote for a censure that condemns hate speech because it's incompatible as a member of congress constitution. the u.s. israel relationship with one our central values. >> bret: folks not for this say it's against the first amendment she can say what she wants to say. >> my criticism has always been of the israeli government and netanyahu's actions. >> she can certainly say whatever she wants to say and we can choose whether or not to censure that. what i hope is the bipartisan sentiment of the institution which is to support israel to push back on forms of anti-semitism which we are seeing abhorrent displays of anti-semitism here domestically and particularly as israel continues in this very complex task of destroying hamas, completely eliminating its ability to destroy israel it's going to require the american president and the american congress sticking steadfastly by our closest ally in the middle east. >> bret: today we heard from some family members of some of the americans being held hostage it's been 30 days. evidence day is like eternity to me. i can't wait any longer because i know that he was shot. >> had a birthday two weeks ago on october 23rd. he was very lovable and he shouldn't have spent his ninth birth day in captivity. >> bret: congressman torres, tough to listen to that we don't know how many americans are being held or how many americans want to get out. that's a real question mark. >> look, for me, there should be a diplomatic operation to secure the release of the hostages. there should be humanitarian operation to deliver aid to palestinians in the gaza strip. and there should be a military operation to bring hamas to justice so that there is no repeat of october 7th. and none of those objectives are opposing. we should be able to achieve all of them. the highest priority should be to secure the release of those hostages. i find it troubling that more energy has been spent calling on israel to enter into a cease-fire rather than calling on hamas to surrender and release the hostages. >> bret: that is something calling on releasing the hostages. it's stop the attack on palestinians is the phrasing: >> yeah. and i think ritchie brought up the point about cease-fire even as nancy pelosi has recognized as former secretary clinton has recognized, a cease-fire at this point would only stand to benefit hamas. going forward, i also think we need to find ways to put pressure on hamas' primary sponsor, iran, without which hamas would not have weapons, it would not have finances, and if we don't get that, which is our foremost threat in the region, if we don't get our approach to iran right, then we're going to have a trouble making si sense t part of the regions or building on tactical or operational success israel has against hamas and gaza. >> bret: you wrote in free press why do young people support hamas, look at tiktok. you believe that tiktok is forming some opinion here. >> there is the overall problem with social media, which i think political science like jonathan hyde have convincing liquor lated rising rates of mental health, anxiety, depression and suicide. specific problem with tiktok which is that it is controlled by bytedance, a chinese company that is beholden to the chinese communist party. we have to ask ourselves whether we want the dominant media platform in america because a lot of young kids in america get their news from tiktok not just about dance videos. >> bret: not some kids it's a ton of kids. >> it's a massive amount of kids get their news from tiktok. whether we want that company to be potentially controlled by the chinese communist party. >> bret: where are you on that, congressman. >> to me it's a clear national security risk, the fact that we have been the leading news source for the next generation of americans for the most impressionable minds of our society in the hands of our leading foreign adversary historians will remember that catastrophic, it's national self-sabotage. >> bret: a.p. has misinformation flooding social media among the fabrications users have shared false claims that a top israeli commander had been kidnapped. false video imitating a bbc news report and pushed old unrelated clips of russian vladimir putin with inaccurate english captions we will see more and more of. this we have to assume we will. given everything we know about the regime in beijing, the chinese communist party and no one actually on our committee has spoken about the nature of the regime richie torres has. assume use this tool as a weapon of information warfare and, therefore, we need to take steps in the form of either a ban or a for sale to guard against that worst case scenario and control the algorithm is the core of the issue. if we don't have an american company in control of the algorithm the only other option is a ban. >> bret: we often focus on the rifts on capitol hill. china is one of them. there is some common ground on israel hamas up there too. >> not only israel but issues like artificial intelligence strategic challenge of china so consequential it transcends partisanship. i believe republicans and democrats want to do right by country. it's a small subset who poison the well. >> bret: there we go. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> bret: see all the common ground. bret baier podcasts, fox news podcasts.com. spotify or wherever you download podcasts and also see the extended discussion on the fox news youtube page. >> bret: up next, answers about what the 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describing students at, quote, private fancy schools. the 28-year-old who identified as transgender, also uses a homophobic slur writing about, quote, white privileges. hale killed six people, including three 9-year-old children at the covenant school she attended as a child. the picture shows hale's schedule for the attack which includes eating breakfast and checking the school's parking lot for security before opening fire near the southwest entrance. on the morning of the attack, hale describes feeling nervous but excited, writing, quote: can't believe i'm doing this but i'm ready. i hope my victims aren't. my only fear is if anything goes wrong, i'll do my best to prevent any of the sword. god let my wrath take over my anxiety. >> keep pushing. go. >> responding officers shot and killed hale during the attack. nashville police say the pictured writings are not official crime scene images as authorities now work to learn who released them. >> let's make sure that we have an independent review of how these materials, which are under court ordered seal right now could have found their way outside of the legal process. >> in a statement tonight, nashville police say the shooter's 20 journals and suicide note will remain under court seal until a decision is made in the courts. a group of covenant school parents are work wanted. >> nate, thank you. one month into the israel hamas war seems like a good time to try to break down some of the media coverage of this story. here is fox news media analyst host of fox fox news "media buz" howie kurtz. >> good evening, as the media's focus on the israel hamas war increasingly turns to the rising death toll in gaza some are showing signs of tilting toward the terrorist group. consider this nbc news headline man dies after hitting head during israel and palestinian rallies, hitting head as you reported earlier. paul kessler, who is jewish got into a physical battle with a pro-palestinian protester in california and the local medical examiner ruled it a homicide, caused by a blunt force head injury. the headline has since been changed online. abc chief white house correspondent mary bruce tweeted the white house tweeted this morning after passionate protest over the weekend. passionate is an interesting word with the pro-palestinian demonstrations since she included a photo of red painted graffiti on the gates of accusing president biden of genocide. a headline said gaza health ministry, death toll in gaza surpasses 10,000 after four weeks of war. the entire government is run by hamas, which has a record of inflating casualty figures. and pulitzer award-winning journalist quote senior u.s. official nbc story if this goes really bad, we want to be able to point to our past statements, the users u.s. officials are posting memes, statements of concern now so they can point to them later to down play their complicity. there is a pattern of softening language when it comes to anti-semitic, bloodthirsty russian mob was hunting down jews landed from tel aviv. the a.p. headline read, crowd storms russian airport to protest flight from israel. protest. that was changed after an uproar. people who support the palestinians or even the hamas terrorists have every right to peaceful protest. but journalists have a responsibility to explicitly describe their action. bret? >> bret: howie, it's really great and good to focus on that and the way you look through that prism really matters what words are used. >> words are important and their meaning carries a great deal of impact. >> bret: yeah, howie, thanks. up next, the panel with the latest on the war in israel and what's at stake on this election day. later, we will look at election day and what we have coming up tonight. ♪ ♪ but i wonder if you just take a few seconds to pray with me real quick. in the name of the father and son, holy spirit. amen. lord jesus, come to us now. help us to surrender ourselves completely to you. help us to 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"wall street journal" writes netanyahu says israel will control gaza's security indefinitely saying israel would seek to assume overall responsibility for securing gaza in early indication that gaza plans to occupy the strip after the war raising more questions about its exit strategy. let's bring in our panel, fox news senior political analyst juan williams. josh kraushaar of fox news radio political analyst and mollie hemingway, editor and chief at "the federalist." that comment about what post going after hamas looks like has just raised a lot of eyebrows, caused a lot of concern, mollie. and obviously has the administration pushing for more humanitarian pauses. >> yeah. when you heard kirby say that they didn't support necessarily israel occupying gaza after the conflict is over, first off, i'm not entirely sure that the united states is in a position to lecture other people how to handle things after how they handled afghanistan and winning that war. there is also this issue that the biden administration claims that hamas is not the true representative of the palestinian people. if they believe that, then they certainly have to believe that there has to be a chance here for the palestinians to get some sense of order absent hamas or islamic jihad. and that is not going to happen unless you exert sole control. >> there is this focus on this pause and the humanitarian aid going in and effort to gets who tanks out not demand that hostages come out first. i mean it seems like the rhetoric is a little different. >> my attention is not on the rhetoric but what is actually going on. i don't think there is any doubt the united states is heavily invested in trying to get those hostages released. i think secretary of state blinken is not only invested in negotiations over the hostage release, trying to get qatar, jordan to act in such a way as to intermediary with hamas to get those hostages out. leap in this conversation what happens once this war stops. they might have disagreement about pause vs. cease-fire and all of that i don't think anyone doubts this has got to come to an end. the question is what comes next. i think what we have seen so far is that there is now an effort to get the palestinian authority, mahmoud abbas, and to get egypt, jordan and others. >> bret: saudi arabia. >> exactly. to support the palestinian authority being a governing structure in gaza because you can't expect hamas and i think it's too much to ask of israel. >> bret: josh, i'm going to turn to politics. because it is election day, 31 states today. what do you look for tonight? there is a few states that we're really looking at the two governor's races kentucky and mississippi and obviously what is happening in virginia. >> one of the issues is a test over abortion and whether republicans can overcome some of the challenges they face by taking a very staunch pro-life position and in virginia, governor glenn youngkin is hoping that republicans can run on a 15-week abortion ban, that's pretty much been the party line in these virginia state legislative elections, and if republicans can hold the state house, maybe even win the state senate, that would be the message. that would be sort of the middle ground that republicans are looking for on the issue of abortion. kentucky the issue of abortion, also, an issue in a state where they have some of the tightest abortion regulations and the governor running for re-election in that race. andy beshear has been attacking his republican opponent for supporting two strict measures even in a very conservative state. >> bret: obviously that had a big effect on the '22 election, that issue alone. every media organization has their things that they look for. politico said these five things. it's abortion still a big winner for democrats? is joe biden an electoral drag for democrats. will black voters turn out? are republicans actually voting early? and are the suburbs still swinging? mollie, what are you looking at. >> it's going to be hard to get good answers to these questions because we don't have that many races happening tonight. that is what everybody is looking for. one issue on abortion that i think republicans have to pay attention, to right now democrats have invested so much in terms of how much they are willing to spend on issue that and how much they are willing to talk about it, and you are still seeing republicans kind of reluctant to engage. these races might be something of a toss-up tonight. but they should definitely learn the lesson that you have to engage. you have to make the case it's actually politically popular to have some protections for unborn children that is a majority position but they have to say it. >> bret: 15 weeks that's where a lot of european countries are, actually. juan? >> i think it's no question abortion is the big issue. it's kind of post the dobbs decision. democrats have been over-performing at the polls. we saw this in '22. >> we have seen it in kansas, wisconsin, on referendum and support -- state supreme court issues. but the question does it continue? because democrats as mollie was saying issue in virginia what you have seen effort by republicans and the governor to focus more on education crime as a counter to the fact that abortion has become a dominant issue in our politics. >> bret: okay. we'll watch it. panel, thank you so much. speaking of watching it, i will be on jesse's show 8:00. we will see some early results. polls close at 7:00 in a couple of these states and then i will be on later in the night to get more results tomorrow on "special report." we will have all of the results from the off year elections. remember, if you can't catch us live, set your dvr, 6:00 in the east, 3:00 p.m. on the west coast. thank you for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. it's been a busy week so far. and what is did, tuesday? okay. 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