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
left office. now, you think about investigation, i m gonna bet your mind goes straight to the events of august 8th last year. you would likely think of the fbi s court authorized search of mar-a-lago. and of the 100 plus classified documents that the fbi found on the premises that. but that is not tonight s news. no, tonight s news centers on a period of time, about two months before that. june 2nd, the events of that day may be key to jack smith s case. tonight, the washington post described the events that took place that day as being of particular importance to investigators in the classified documents case. we had previously known that on may 11th of last year, trump s attorneys received a grand jury subpoena seeking all documents bearing classification marking still in trump s possession. then, we knew that almost a month later, june 3rd, an attorney from the department of justice, and three fbi agents met with trump s lawyers at mar-a-lago to collect those documents fro
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hundreds of classified government documents after he left office. now, you think about investigation, i m gonna bet your mind goes straight to the events of august 8th last year. you would likely think of the fbi s court authorized search of mar-a-lago. and of the 100 plus classified documents that the fbi found on the premises that. but that is not tonight s news. no, tonight s news centers on a period of time, about two months before that. june 2nd, the events of that day may be key to jack smith s case. tonight, the washington post described the events that took place that day as being of particular importance to investigators in the classified documents case. we had previously known that on may 11th of last year, trump s attorneys received a grand jury subpoena seeking all documents bearing classification marking still in trump s possession. then, we knew that almost a month later, june 3rd, an attorney from the department of justice, and three fbi agents met with trump s
records show a profound breach of a defendant s word that he would protect information and the security of the united states. the judge in this case david hennessey also went on to talk about who this defendant had hurt by releasing those troves of classified documents online saying who did he put at risk? he could make a list as long as a phone book. soldiers, medical personnel, ukrainian personnel, ukrainian soldiers. we don t know how many people he put at risk. he went on to say that the government has said if you disclose this information, you put the united states at serious risk and the defendant s response was, i don t give a expletive. you could fill in the blank there. and the defense argued that the defendant in this case did not try to flee when he was arrested. he also brought up the defendant s attorney also brought up that his parents had put up their homes as collateral. but the judge, he acknowledged that saying i m aware of all of that, but at the end of