thanks. good afternoon, everybody. i m bret baier in for martha maccallum. welcome to a special edition of the story. breaking reports of a new attack on a container ship in the red sea after the u.s. retaliates against iran-backed hezbollah strikes on american troops in iraq injuring three of our service members. one of them critically. the attacks against u.s. forces in the region piling up. we re at more than 100 since the start of the war. u.s. officials for weeks now have been warning the situation could spiral in to escalation. congressman michael waltz says our response has not been nearly strong enough. first to trey yingst reporting live from tel aviv. good afternoon, trey. brett, good afternoon. overnight president biden ordered the u.s. military to strike a series of targeting belongs to militants in iraq. according to u.s. central command, three separate strikes took place and destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of hezbollah militant
republican challenger herschel walker, they are fighting for every last vote in the georgia senate race. meanwhile republican candidate blake masters and mark kelly, crisscrossing arizona in the tight senate race there and up in new hampshire, senator maggie hassan is trying to hold off surge from republican challenger from buldoc. team coverage all across the campaign trial across the country. let s start down south. early voting is shattering records and that s a hot race. hi, there, eric. good afternoon to you. nobody in georgia and i mean nobody wants to see this race go to a runoff, they are sick of election season so they want there to be a winner on tuesday. the only way to avoid a runoff is voters to go out and vote. that s why you are seeing big crowd and big names in the last few days on the trail here. we are expecting former ambassador to take stage in georgia any minute now. long-term contracts controlled the senate two years ago by flipping georgia so this is
garage? look, and i think i ve been clear about this. we answered questions on this at this podium. you ve heard as phil said the president talked about this. he said that he didn t know. he said that he was surprised. he said that he takes classified information and documents very, very seriously. martha: that very seriously being put under the microscope in terms of the actual behavior connected to it. the president s aides are waiting to learn if there are any more unearthed documents that might be coming down the pipe. the questions shift to what else is revealed in this story about the biden family. basically there s three big questions. not necessarily in this order. so one of them that s been coming up are documents where hunter biden has suggested in different applications that this is his home, the home in wilmington. is it his primary residence? if so, who has been going there while these documents were sitting in the garage. that s one line of questioning here.
everybody in new york city was waiting to hear what was going to happen with this case. manhattan da s office says after they reviewed the video and reviewed witnesses and people that called 911, they won t be presenting this case to a grand jury. the mayor of new york supports the decision. i believe after the da s review, he made the right decision. earlier this month, jose alba was charged with second degree murder after police say he killed a man in a bodega in new york city. alba was in jail when this video was released. you can see 35-year-old austin simon around the bodega and attacked the 61-year-old store clerk. alba is shoved in to the wall and grabbed him by the collar. moments later, alba grabs a knife and stabs him to death. this all started after simon s girlfriend tried to buy her daughter a snack with her ebt card that was declined. in the motion, the manhattan d.a. said if alba reasonably believed that alba was attempting to commit a burglary of an occupi
him. he planned to smuggle that team across the southern border, which has been very open. we see the flow across it every single day, to charge people to help him get across that border. he was arrested. this man was charged in federal court in columbus just moments ago. house homeland security ranking member john katko will come on in just a moment. but first to gillian turner as the details come in. good afternoon. hi, martha. the suspect has been arrested as you mentioned. he s appearing in federal court in columbus, ohio where he s being indicted. we just got a statement from the u.s. attorney s office there. it says an iraqi citizen has been charged with an immigration crime and aiding and abetting to murder former president george w. bush. he was entered the united states on a visitor visa and in march of 2021, he filed a claim for citizenship which is pending review. we re learning that he traveled to dallas for a surveillance minutes. he shot video of the former pr