Pledging to build the wall she once mocked as a vanity project. I m dana perino. Bret, thank you for being here. Bret: i m bret baier in washington, america s newsroom. Vice president harris is pledging to revive a bipartisan border deal that died in the senate. It requires hundreds of millions for the border wall. Back when she was a senator, harris suggested the project was pointless. We need to president to focus on instead of a wall. That wall ain t going to stop them? no, no, no. Folks, on the subject of trans nation loll gangs, let s be perfectly clear. The president s medieval vanity project won t stop them. This administration has decided to vilify them and trade on them for the sake of this president s medieval vanity project called a wall. He has decided to vilify immigrants and put his whole political strength around a vanity project called a wall which would cost taxpayers of america billions of dollars. By the way, that wall will never get built. Dana: reversal comes as vo
Up the pace on the campaign trail putting a laser focus on the battleground states and the fight for working families. Vice president nominee governor tim walz is about to speak to a firefighters union in boston before heading south to the swing state of georgia and j. D. Vance will be targeting voters in the rust belt today. Welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom i m dana perino. Hemmer is off today. Bret, i have you for another hour. Bret: bret baier in washington. President trump is hitting three of the seven battleground states across the country likely to determine the outcome of this election. Last week he appeared in five of those states. Today his running mate j. D. Vance is meeting and talking to voters in pennsylvania and wisconsin while vice president harris kicks off a twoday bus tour of georgia. Senator vance telling fox yesterday the election could come down to one issue, the economy. I think our pitch to suburban women is straight forward. Are you mad you are paying
Bret: oh, yes. Good evening, welcome to washington. I m bret baier with fewer than 70 days until the presidential election we are releasing new fox polls from key sun belt states and it s anyone s ballgame as you can see right here. Former president donald trump holds a 1 point lead in north carolina. 5049. But, vice president harris, kamala harris is leading by one in arizona, 5049. By two in nevada and georgia, 5048 in each of those states. All of these numbers, obviously, within the margin of error here. These surveys we should point out were conducted after both the democratic national convention and robert f. Kennedy jr. Dropping out and endorsing trump. The harriswalz ticket is barn storming georgia with a bus tour as former president trump prepares to head to michigan and wisconsin. We have fox team conch tonight. Correspondent aishah hasnie is in grand rapids with the latest on what s ahead for the trumpvance campaign. But, we begin with correspondent mark meredith in savanna w
White house pressured the platform to Censor Americans and he says he regrets caving to those demands. Good morning im dana perino. Bill is off today. Good morning, bret. Good to see you. Bret im bret baier and this is americas newsroom. Zuckerberg making that admission in a letter to chairman jim jordan saying the white house pushed facebook to take down posts that included Covid Misinformation even ones defined as humor or satire. Dana when meta denied one of those requests the administration grew frustrated. Back in 2020 when jen psaki was the Press Secretary and said facebook needed to be stronger on policing content. Has facebook been as proactive as the white house would like in terms of its response . I think as i noted yesterday, phil, there is more there are more steps that everyone can take. Facebook responded yesterday after the Press Briefing saying that they removed 18 million pieces of Covid Misinformation. So does the white house find that sufficient . Clearly not becaus
Dana it doesnt. Jim desmond, County Supervisor in san diego. Thank you. Elite Israeli Forces rescued a hostage in Southern Gaza as we bring you that good news this morning. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom im dana perino. Bill is off today. Good morning to you, bret. Bret im bret baier in washington. Todays rescue is the first time in months that a hostage has been rescued alive. He was inside a gaza tunnel. More than 100 hostages are believe to remain captive. Some of them likely dead. The Daring Rescue really is something today. Dana it coincides with a new warning that irans aggression has reached an alltime high. Both sides appear to be stepping back from the brink of war for now. Reality is, bret, neither one of them really wants to fight a war against israel. They are aware israel is strong and the u. S. Is backing israel. It looked to us watching here like israel scored a significant victory over when hezbollah recently. It tells you a lot about the motivations of hezb