That could threaten u. S. Forces in the middle east. The patriot battery is an air Defense Missile with roughly 100 missiles they can shoot them Ballistic Missiles and aircraft. The pentagon also announced tonight that its moving an amphibious war ship from europe, the uss arlington, which transports u. S. Marines, and these vehicles, and rotary aircraft to support Amphibious Assault or expeditionary warfare missions. The arlington is replacing another u. S. Warship in a swap. They will join the uss Abraham LincolnCarrier Strike group and the u. S. Air force bomber task force. In a written Statement Released by the pentagon, the department of defense continues to closely monitor of the iranian regime, the military and proxies, adding the United States does not seek conflict with iran, but we are punctured and ready to defend u. S. Forces and interests in the region. Bret . Jennifer, thank you. The breaking details, well come back with more information. There is still no deal today between the u. S. And china on the new trade policy. President trump raised the stakes overnight, increasing tariffs on 200 billion of chinese imports. China is promising to retaliate. All of this comes as negotiators suspend their talks for at least now aimed at reaching a compromise that could end and escalating trade dispute between the two most powerful espondent Administration Officials tell fox news that the word talks are currently scheduled between the United States and china, but there is still optimism that a deal can eventually be reached. The 11th round of trade talks between the u. S. And china came and went with no hint of an agreement. President trump indicating that the talks will continue. The president tweeting, over the course of the past two days, the United States and chanda have held construction of conversations on the status of the trade relationship between both countries. The relationship between president xi and myself remains a strong one and conversations into the future will continue. After china indicated it was taking back some core items of a deal it had already agreed to, President Trump lit a fire under the chinese leadership. This morning, raising tariffs under 200 billion in chinese goods to 10 to 25 , tariffs the president said may or may not be removed depending on what happens with prospective future negotiations. Chinas chief negotiator, the adding the talks will continue, but he criticized President Trumps use of tariffs to put the squeeze on china. China believes raising tariffs in the Current Situation is not a solution to the proble problem. But harmful to china, United States, and the whole world. President trump also upped the ante this morning, tweeting that the process has begun to replace additional tariffs at 25 on the remaining 325 billion in chinese goods. That would be the largest in tariffs yet, a big stick to wield. Support for the president s pair tariff strategy is mixed, a hog farm in illinois says he stands to lose a lot from chinas retaliation. It prolongs what we hope would be a short, brief trade war that now looks indefinite. It will directly impact all of agriculture. Not just farmers, but all of agriculture is bottom line. Some democratic lawmakers say that america cannot allow the status quo to continue. We dont have a Playing Field in this country and we need fair trade policies, frankly its been hurting the american worker. President trump has promised to use money derived from u. S. Tariffs to buy u. S. Agricultural goods and send them to countries in need, but Many Companies probusiness Group Americans for prosperity urging the president to choose another path in a statement saying that countless families, factory workers, and farmers are feeling the financial strain caused by continued trade escalation. Not coming out today in favor of tariffs, the u. S. Chamber of congress stood with the president to renegotiate the u. S. China trade relationship. But, saying its deeply disturbed with indications that china is backing away from progress already made. Bret . Bret john roberts 11 the north lawn. John, thanks for the data recovered from theater 58 points down to finish i had 114. The s p 500 was up 19. The nasdaq gained six. The dow and s p 500 lost more than two percentage points. The nasdaq was down three the government recorded a 103 billion surplus in april. Revenues jumped to an alltime high. But even with a flood of tax receipts, the deficit so far this year is running 37. 7 higher than a year ago the administration expects this years deficit to be 1. 1. Dollars. The house ways and Means Committee has issued subpoenas to treasury secretary steven mnuchin. Internal reference over the refusal to provide six years of tax returns for President Trump. The president so far refusing to comment. This is another fox news alert breaking just minutes ago, the Justice Department is accusing a Founding Member of the 1990s hiphop group the the alleged crimes took place during the 2012 president ial campaign. A four count indictment accuses brock as though also known as joe lowe to make and conceal millions of dollars of former comic form can to give Campaign Contributions to a u. S. President ial candidate who is identified only as candidate a. Also a desire to attend events at the white house. What appears to be a reference to the obama white house. The indictment says that he directed the transfer of almost 22 million into the election effort. Just breaking. Try to get more info on those indictments. Former fbi director james comey is suggesting the President Trump might be indicted once hes no like a president. President trump is more than suggesting that comey is the worst bureau chief in history. Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge tells us what it all means tonight. Weve got lots of evidence of obstruction of justice. In the then towel on the hall, the former fbi director says that President Trump may be prosecuted after he leaves office. I engage in a long battle to give us answers . Collect this information, preserve it for the future. Challenge william barr and his deputy Rod Rosenstein on twitter, the president called comeys fbi tenure when he oversaw investigations of both president ial campaigns a disgrace, and went further in a recent fox interview. How did this whole investigation start . Is there a timeline and when well see these russian records declassified . Yes, im going to be allowing declassification pretty soon. Michael lee horwitz is investigating those records, including a surveillance warrant for a Trump Campaign 80. The applications and renewals relied in part of the democrat funded antitrump dossier authored by former british spy christopher steele. The court was not especially cold of the dnc and Clinton Campaign connections, the fbis former top lawyer says that the bureau provided the court with sufficient warning. The Information Set on the check can take footnote was consistent with the type of investigation and the way we phrase things to basically be the red light on top of the document. Another challenge to the warrants integrity, newly released records three Senate Republicans now question a Senior State Department official warned of the fbi about his apparent political motivation. Senators grassley and graham note that should the Opposition Research firms usually fusion gps that they were deeply involved. Steele and others they should come to lay before the election. The democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says negotiations continue but special Counsel Robert Mueller will not testify next week and the resolution of talking the attorney general wont happen either, bret. Bret in election years, former Vice President joe biden continues to lead the National Polling for democrats in the primary and the trump team is already taking steps to try and undermine the biden campaign. Senior Political Correspondent mike emanuel shows us how to night. Its a crowded field, but joe biden is riding high in the critical first primary state of New Hampshire. In the latest poll from on this university, has doubled the support of Bernie Sanders with people to a distant third looks like its going to be crazy sleepy joe over crazy bernie. Tribal attorney Rudy Giuliani is heading to ukraine by officialse to fire a top prosecutor you in order to take the heat in a proe into the company on whose board bidens son was seated. All i want the Ukrainian Government to do is investigate and do not let these people buffalo you. Thats what they are trying to do. I guarantee you joe biden will not get to election day without this being investigated. President trump waited on the issue during a recent fox news interview. Im hearing its a major scandal, major issue. Bad things happen and well see what that is. For biden, it appears the anita hill issue isnt going away even though bidens apologize for how she was treated during Justice Thomas confirmation hearings. The hill accused biden of impeding the start of the metoo movement, and if he held a hearing that the members understood the serious the cultural shift we saw in 2017 after hashtagmetomyto so far, this is not filing on. Im sure hell have to talk to voters about it. But beto orourke is going after a fellow candidate, that bookers guide licensing is excessive. I do not think we need a step for every single firearm to every single order. That may be too far. Orourke and booker are tied with 2 in the latest poll. So beto might be betting that taken control does not play well in the state with a model, live free or die hard. Bret things secretary of state mike pompeo will meet with his russian counterpart and vladimir put in the midrising tensions with venezuela and north korea. Next weeks visit is the opportunity to take with the russian government in the next level. This is the most senior level meeting that the u. S. Will have with the russian government in ten months since President Trump met russian president Vladimir Putin last year in helsinki. Secretary of state mike pompeo scheduled to travel next week to moscow and on to sochi to meet with the russian president and foreign minister sergey lavrov. Theyll discuss election interference, iran, venezuela, and arms control critic terry pompeo meant earlier this week in finland and artech council meeting. The secretary said he told lavrov that venezuelas deserve said the russian president is not looking at all to get involved in venezuela. Russia supports the maduro regime and senior trump it officials have warned russians to get out of venezuela, especially its military. Bret live with the state department. Rich, thanks. We are learning more about the missile test conducted this week by north korea. They are thought to be aimed at pressuring the u. S. Into backing off from crippling economic sanctions over the regimes nuclear program. Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent greg palkot has the latest tonight. The newest of the Missile Launches by north korea under the watchful eye of kim jong un. Three were fired yesterday and to go at the same time were launched last saturday. They are considered Ballistic Missiles, pyongyang could be at the risk of more u. S. Sanctions. Such missiles are a clear violation of the u. N. Security Council Resolution and we find it regrettable. Analysts say after analyzing the imagery, the missiles are solid fuel ready at a moments notice, mobile so that we moved around in slow flying so they evade missile defenses. At least modeled after a current russian shortrange missile, a hand for president putins recent summit with kim. Has russian fingerprints all over it. Maybe russians didnt build it, but the technology couldve come from russia. These potential Nuclear Tipped Missiles could be to south korea. It could hit seoul in a minute, american soldiers, along with citizens, could be at risk. Its a continuous attempt by kim jong un to gain leverage to return to the talks. Steve biggins stepped up diplomacy in the seoul. President moon jaein called the Missile Launch is provocative but says he hopes he can meet with kim again to get u. S. north korean talks back on track. North korean state media says kim jong un saying peace and prosperity for his country are only guaranteed by strong physical force. Strong words. Bret . Bret thank you. Up next, giving junkies and safe place to shoot up. For a while, that look like that would happen here in the u. S. We will tell you why that has not. First, what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. Fox 32 in chicago as the judge transfers a case over whether to appoint special prosecutor in the just Jussie Smollett case. The case involves a conduct who dropped charges against the actor accused of staging a hate crime involving supporters of President Trump. A u. S. Marine dies and six others injured when a vehicle rolls over during a Training Exercise in Camp Pendleton for three weeks ago, a marine was killed and two others injured in a rollover on a training accident in the base as well. And a live look at Salt Lake City from our affiliate fox 13. One of the big story today, actors, historians, members of the public celebrate the 150th anniversary of the golden spike, marking the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad. The completed railroad shortened crosscountry travel for as long as six months to about ten days. Transforming the way the country have the business, shipping, and commerce. That is tonights live look outside the beltway from special report. Well be right back. We humans are strange creatures. Other species avoid pain and struggle. We actually. Seek it out. Other species do difficult things because they have to. We do difficult things. Because we like to. We think its. Fun. Introducing the allnew 2019 ford ranger built for the strangest of all creatures. But we all know were paying too much for it. Enter xfinity mobile. Americas best lte, with the most wifi hotspots combined for the first time. When youre near an xfinity hotspot youre connected to wifi, saving on data. When youre not, you pay for data one gig at a time. Use a little, pay a little. Use a lot, just switch to unlimited. Its a new kind of network. Call, visit or go to xfinitymobile. Com. Bret into nights whatever happened to sequence, safe legal sites to inject drugs. It seem like many cities will join those overseas and posting such sites. Correspondent dan springer tells us why that is not happen. After years of steady increases in the number of people dying from opioid, Overdose Deaths finally started to level off. It still expected 48,000 americans finally demiglace their fight opiate addiction last year. Socalled Safe Injection Sites allowing them to shoot under supervision, they are in europe and australia. Elected leaders in seattle, san francisco, new york and philadelphia voted to open the Safe Injection Sites in their cities, but those plans have hit a law, wall, the federal government its unlawful to house a facility where you are distribute in and seeing people use or facilitating drug use. While president obamas Justice Department silent on the issue, President Trump has come out swinging. The u. S. Attorney sued philadelphia to stop and injection sight. The city council backed down when told it would face criminal charges. The city and the county already appropriate monies to open this safe consumption space for the first year. This is a Public Health crisis. It demands a Public Health solution. Then california governor jerry brown vetoed a bill that wouldve set one up in san francisco. And all of the cities around seattle voted to keep them out. Every city is focused on growing their economy, making sure they can provide jobs for it when you will have injection sites somewhere in downtown . Do you think its business is g to open up . Absolutely not. Or location for a safe injection sight. Sort of a governmentfunded shooting gallery on wheels. But that idea stalled after the feds promise crackdown. President trump approach is more treatment and going after drug traffickers. Bret . Bret dan, thank you. Former Army Intelligence released after a twomonth stay for refusing to testify to a grand jury grand jury investigating wikileaks. But she might be back in jail soon. Manning was released only because the grand jurys term expired. Shes already received another subpoena demanding her her testimony to a grand jury next week. The taliban has launched a assault in northwestern afghanistan, killing 15 security personnel there. Its the latest in a series of deadly attacks targeting the companys beleaguered security forces. As strange as it sounds, the attack happens as taliban officials are reporting progress and peace talks with the u. S. Up next, why breaking up facebook might not be the smart thing to do. I comparison shop for everything. Big stuff. Little stuff. Everything. I even comparison shop loans right here. I shopped and compared for my mortgage and saved 20,000. Booyah your brain changes as you get older. But prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Termites, were on the move. 24 7. Roger. Hey rick, all good . Oh yeah, were good. Were good. Termites never stop trying to get in, we never stop working to keep them out. Terminix. Defenders of home. Sleep number 360 smart bed. It senses your movement and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. Save 1,000 on the new queen sleep number 360 special Edition Smart bed, only 1,799. Only for a limited time. Bret last night we told you that one of the cofounders of Facebook Says the social media giants should be broken up. Tonight, correspondent Gillian Turner tells us why breaking up may be dangerous to do when it comes to big tech. Ironically this is the one problem that Mark Zuckerberg cannot solve. Facebook cofounder chris hughes adding more fuel to the hashtag breakupfacebook movement. Break up the company, and set the standard. Theres a flip side to breaking up americas Big Tech Companies. Serious National Security consequences. They could lose their competitive edge. China could quickly outpace the United States. Lawmakers representing Silicon Valley agree. I dont want the leaders of the 21st century to be alibaba, tencent, or baidou. They are will Artificial Intelligence and 5g wireless. The competition President Trump is determined to win. Secure 5g networks would absolutely be a vital link in americas prosperity and National Security in the 21st century. Advances in these technologies dont come cheap. They require years of research, tremendous manpower, billions of dollars in investment, and access to fast rows of data, something only Large Companies like facebook, google, and amazon can afford. Even facebooks critics to share also National Security concerns, that become so dominant. Lawmakers seem a regulation is a better alternative to breaking up. They didnt break up microsoft, but they prevented these companies from having anticompetitive privilege or buying some of their competitors. Lawmakers tell fox news of the u. S. Needs more thorough nuance regulatory policies that rain facebook in, but also continue to lead before some americans, breaking up big tech may really be just too hard. Bret . Bret thank you. A company that changes ways millions of people go around has gone public. Shares of uber has begun trading. The numbers are staggering considering the company has lost about 9 billion and could be years away from turning a profi profit. Susan lee of the Fox Business Network has our story. The largest american ipo since facebooks debuts seven years ago, ridesharing giant uber has now roughly the size as century old general electric. But with one big difference. Uber has never made a profit. I would call it the uber belly flop. Not a good way to enter the market. But its not the case of death. One other important factor in ubers future . Drivers being classified as contractors and not employees as ubers drivers in the biggest cities went on strike asking for higher pay and more benefits. As a grapples to protect the safety of its writers and drivers, uber unveiling new Safety Measures including reminders to check drivers by serious photos, license plates, vehicle models after a College Student was murdered when she got into a car that she mistook for her uber ride. One dramatic detail, the reemergence of cofounder travis kalanick, kicked out as ceo in 2017 after Numerous Companies candles, including allegations of my sovereignty and Sexual Harassment by the executive team. Kept a distance from the official proceedings. With the disappointing debut, uber has a lot to prove to which shareholders including ability to grow in the future but to actually make money. Bret . Bret susan, thank you. No deal. Trade talks with china and for now without an agreement, new action about iran. Will get reaction from the panel when we come back. Just listen. vo theres so much we want to show her. We needed a car that would last long enough to see it all. avo subaru outback. Ninety eight percent are still on the road after 10 years. Come on mom, lets go mmm, exactly ug Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance, so you only pay for what you need. Nice but uh, whats up with your partner . 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Its hurting china. Bret those talks ended today without a deal, it seems. So far, no definite time that they are going to continue with china. The president tweeting numerous times about this, saying that weve lost 500 billion a year for many years on crazy trade with china. No more. Terrace will bring in far more wealth into our country that even a phenomenal deal of the traditional kind, also much easier and quicker to do, our farmers will do quicker, faster, starving nations can be helped, waivers on some products will be granted or go to new sources. Tweeted a few more times along those lines but lets bring in our panel. Byron york, chief Political Correspondent of the washington examiner. Mollie hemingway, Senior Analyst at the federalist, and jeff mason, White House Correspondent for reuters. Well start with you, whats the sense at the white house about these talks . Thats a good question, bret. That sense is that we did not get where we thought we are going to get at least over a week ago. Not too long ago, the secretary of the treasury Steve Mnuchin and larry kudlow were saying that a deal was close, they were getting towards the final lap. There was a big setback a week ago when china pulled back on some of its commitments within the Draft Agreement, nearly 150 page Draft Agreement theyve been working on. That, of course, was met with a lot of dissatisfaction by ustr, trade representative Robert Wright hauser, and the rest of the team. That because the president to increase tariffs and the talks ended today without a deal. Likely to continue on talks, but at the same time, likely to have those tariffs continue, which means a longer trade war. Heres number four and number five tweets today. Over the course of the past few days, china has held constructive conversations on the status of trade relationship between both countries, the relationship between president xi and myself. In the meantime, the United States has imposed tariffs on china which may or may not be removed depending on what happens with respect to future negotiations. So how does this play and where does this come out . Obviously farmers and a lot of people are feeling some pain already. Will they feel more, do you think . They very well could be it seems to me that both sides have been feeling each other out and probably is calculating a little bit. If there has been as much as we thought there was on issues like purchases from the United States, forced technology transfers, intellectual property taft, things like that. If there has been that much and the chinese backed away from it, they made a bad bath and now theyve been hit with these tariffs and they need to retaliate. How many years have we been hearing about these abuses from china and trump has taken a strong position if you heard debbie dingell, also heard charles schumer. Has some significant democratic support on this but it seems to me that hes going to stay where he is. It definitely hurts farmers here, but it hurts china. Senator kennedy you heard him saying to say that the only way to win a trade war is to not to fight it for that sort of assumes that you are totally fine with the trade situation as it is currently, that china can have high tariffs and these barriers to entry in their markets, it can do intellectual property theft and theres nothing we can do about it, or at least you cannot do the stick approach, you can only do the carrot approach. We have tried the carrot approach for decades, it is not resulted in a better situation as far as an American Companies entering the Chinese Market and so what are you going to do . We were told a year ago that we are going to see dramatic increases in consumer pricing, this is going to be just terrific for the economy. We are in a very good economy right now, a year later we can look and see that Consumer Prices have not gone up that much. Inflation is holding, gdp doing well, job market is great, wages are great for the United States. China is hurting a little bit so it would be curious, well have to see if they are feeling pressure to come back. I want to turn to iran, the latest threats, and more action on the u. S. Park moving more forces into the region. This is the president on yesterday, thursday talking about answering questions about iran. We have information you dont want to know about that were very threatening and we just want to have we have to have Great Security for this country and a lot of other places. Are you risking a military confrontation, sir . I mean, always i would told want to say no, we have the most powerful ships in the world, they are loaded up, we dont want to have to do anything. Bret the navy putting out this video of the uss lincoln, the Carrier Strike a group, making its way through the suez canal. This is not usual. The navy doesnt always put a video of their ships going through the suez canal on the way to the persian gulf. And now we have more information ramping up pressure, prepositioning missiles that could threaten u. S. Forces across the middle east, a Patriot Missile battery going into the region as well as another warship. Jeff, it seems like these threats they are trying to deal with directly with the move of forces. Thats right. Some of those threats could include threats against oil tankers, that area of the world is where a huge chunk of worlds energy, oil and tankers move through the rest of the world, thats one thing the United States is wanting to protect there. Iran, by the way, have called this report fake intelligence. Bret the u. S. Pulled out four Patriot Missile batteries late last year, now they are sending one back in, byron. The biggest point is they are showing everyone what they are doing. They are being very, very visible about it and now today sending more men, more equipment there. Its just a measure of how seriously we take this. Apparently intelligence, there were plans for the iranians to either attack American Forces somewhere in the middle east or have some sort of drawn attack or there have been all sorts of speculation about what was. Its pretty clear we think its really, really serious. Bret also israel is an ally in the get threats from iran all the time. Big reason why we are there. Iran is a threatening country and its good to have a show for us and remind people of the dangers of going against american interest. Its also important that people be a little skeptical of what we are hearing right now. It doesnt seem to be in irans interest to launch an attack on the United States. We say that they are moving their missiles around, but its important to remember theyve had missiles in their country for a long time and so the provocative nature of some of what we are doing or how we are highlighting it is just kind of curious, particular given that our sanctions against them are kind of going well. I think the United States needs to remember about being clear what it seeks from iran and how what we are doing well accomplish that. Bret thats a good point. Do we really have a sense of u. S. Policy towards iran other than having pulled out of the nuclear deal . Thats a big chunk of the u. S. Policy. I mean to him thats one of the things the president is most proud of, having reversed that decision made under president barack obama and taking the United States out of that. Sanctions are part of the policy now and starting to get some u. S. 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Bret Rudy Giuliani, the president s attorneys saying hes looking at the situation in ukraine. Back with the panel. Mollie, what about this, is this on the up and up . What happened . This was an issue several years ago when the son of the Vice President joined the board of this Energy Company in ukraine. Another american joined the board who was a john kerry beidler, also somewhat contentious. Also dont like it always kind of weird that the son of the Vice President was given this position and the media didnt seem to be terribly interested in it at the time but ukraine has become a much more interesting country to look too. They have already admitted to some light meddling against donald trump in the 26 election and a lot of players in the russian hoax go back to ukraine. I think we might see more attention paid to that country. Is biden starting to feel the heat from being a front runner, not just from primary contenders but from the white house . The white house sees him and the one to attack and this area in ukraine is the way they want to go after him. I think it elevates him on some level, the president tweeting about him as well suggest is not only biden going after the president in the ignoring the fact that he still has a primary to win, but its the president going after him at his new potential likely opponent. The fact is joe biden is having a good moment right now. Looking at that monmouth pull out of New Hampshire . There was a school of thought that joe biden would fall immediately in the polls medially upon entering the race, his best day in the race will be the first day in the race and the absolute opposite has happened, he has a 25point lead, and a 33point lead over elizabeth warren. Doesnt tell you where hes going to be in the future, but this has been a good rollout for joe biden. Bret well see if the attack start putting up ahead of the first debate in june. Lets go to facebook, the cause for them to be broken up. People have started competitors to facebook over the past few years. And facebook either acquires them when they are too small or copies the technology outright. And regulating them so they dont exploit privacy laws so they dont buy up competitors and copy competitors, want to make sure they do not have future mergers so they dont become big and stifling. Breaking up is tough to do . Breaking up might not be good for facebook, but this is where we discuss politics of other social Media Companies in the way theyve been shutting down conservative speech makes them less liked by conservative people, also by liberals. Im interested to see how this plays out on the campaign trail but thats a major policy decision to say whether or not you want Big Tech Companies to be split up. I just want to notice that the ap is moving a wire that says the u. S. Because preparation to impose tariffs on the remaining 300 billion in chinas imports that dont already phase import taxes. That could affect a lot of things. Okay. Lets do winners and losers. Jeff, first to you. My winter is patrick shanahan, the acting defense secretary got the nod to get the gig in full time. On the flip side, john bolton had a rough week. The policy in venezuela hes aborting is not going as quickly as he would like in the president said yesterday publicly that he sometimes needed to temper his National Security advisor. Mollie im a winner or lo . Abb is a wonderful blessing , a wonderful winner of the week. The loser would be senator richard burr. Hes the head of the senate intel community, who has largely not done anything in terms of oversight with the russia hoax, except for having a staff member who is in prison for lying about sleeping with one of and reported. Decided to subpoena donald trump jr. Months after there was no rush occlusion. The winner is President Trump who is experiencing a boon at the polls. Job approval 45. 1 , the highest its been since february 20th 2017. In the and the loser is like refuting. Who figures himself as an athlete. You know, all those guys mysteriously died shortly after. Hes a loser for me. Bret i could watch that a lot of times. I guarantee you it was not covered in moscow. I think it was totally blacked out. He should probably stick to meddling in elections. Bret he was kidding about the people being dead, okay . Panel, thanks. We made it around the horn. When we come back, notable quotables. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum were on the move. Hey rick, all good . Oh yeah, were good. Were good. Terminix. Defenders of home. Hi. Maria ramirez mom maria Maria Ramirez. Mcdonalds is committing 150 Million Dollars in tuition assistance, education, and career advising programs. 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My heart goes out not just to the victims, but there are those who want to be classified as victims that are feeling it this morning right now. Im going to go down fighting if i was going to go down. Sent some messages on friday to make sure it was clear to iran that we recognize the threat. We still have every intention of negotiating evolution resolution with north korea. Constitutional crisis, case closed. The facebook we found that today is not the facebook we founded in 2004. Im not sure the president thinks beyond his next suite. Buttigieg buttigieg. Yeah, we can win this. My son is a very good person. I would put him back in the circus. The freak show in the house. [laughter] thats very nice, thank you. It would be useful to see his tax returns. Do you care about stroms tax do you care about trumps tax returns . I dont care about anybodys tax returns. Red is his power move down my color bret thats it. Thank you for inviting us in your home tonight. Fair, balanced, still unafraid. The story starts right now. Martha . Martha hello there, bret. Breaking tonight, china and the United States are in a faceoff, a battle for the ages. When the next war comes between superpowers, its likely to be over money and technology. Whoever controls 5g is going to have an enormous strategic advantage in the future. Thats the issue of cyber. And then, we hope not, just a military option. But the first change is likely what we are playing out right now for a good evening, everybody, i am martha maccallum, and this is the story. This is a description of a book called chinas victory vision of victory. We may say we never saw