begin with, you had the disastrous pull-out from afghanistan and, you know, these other things that have not done well. and the result is what you might expect. republicans are up it s unusual for republicans to outnumber democrats self-identified democrats in this country. it seems to set a difficult bret: long time to november, but this for republicans is something they have to think pretty highly of. brit: looking ahead to the midterms, these are the kind of numbers you want to see and hope will last at least until the fall if you are a republican. bret: brit, as always, thank you. brit: thank you, bret. bret: up next, social media two power houses accused of rigging the digital ad market. we will bring you that story. first here is what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. at least seven tornadoes cause damage across southwest florida downing trees. they blocked roadways and strong winds ripped several mobile homes from their foundations
bernie sanders agenda, to turn america into a socialist country regardless of what he may have been years ago when he was in the senate. that s what he signed up for. and they have hit a brick wall. the reason they have hit a brick wall they don t have the votes to do it. the american people are not in favor of it. if i were the president i would listen to the american people and i would pivot and try to become the moderate i said i would be and if he does that bret, there are many republicans, including myself, who are willing to talk to him with about making progress for the country like we did on infrastructure and like we did in the senate on the china bill. bret: yeah. i want to ask you about your party and do you think that former president donald trump will be a help to you in the midterm elections? i think the midterm election almost certainly is going to be a referendum on the party in power. this is an entirely democratic government. democratic president, house, and
never experienced before. i think all this needs to be done before the invasion because once they are in there, it s very, very difficult to get them out. bret: senator, some people are calling proactively as tee terence measure on russia before they go in. prior to the president s clarification today, obviously a lot of people concerned about yesterday s news conference, but the administration s position has been behind the scenes they don t want to escalate things, not to do something before russia acts. your response to that? well, the russians have escalated this. they have created this whole crisis. they are testing us to see whether we will do anything of consequence to keep them from gobbling up part of another sovereign country. that hasn t happened since world war ii. i don t think vladimir putin understands subtly. and i think job number one is to make sure the ukrainians have
100 miles from the capitol kyiv. too close for comfort. nightmare scenario we could actually have bombs and rockets fired on kyiv. which is why secretary of state blinken continues his rounds of desperate diplomacy. today in berlin meeting and german and european officials trying to put a global spin on the growing tension in the region. it s bigger than a conflict between two countries. it s bigger than russia and nato. it s a crisis with global consequences. the u.s. continues to apply pressure. sanctioning four ukrainians for waging a russian influence effort inside the country. okaying baltic countries to send weaponry to the ukrainian military. for its part russia denies it has any intention of. menacing global problems. we are convinced that the goal of this campaign is to create a cover for their own large scale provocation which may have tragic consequences for global security. as ukrainian troops continue to clash with russian-backed
afghan combat interpreter arrives at his new home here in the u.s. we will bring you that plus the friday lightning round with the panel. winners and losers. we have it all for you. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that s it for this special report, fair, balanced and still unafraid. fox news primetime hosted by pete hegseth starts right now. pete: you are not one of them, you know. thank you, bret. appreciate it. all right, good evening, america. it s 7:00 p.m. on the east coast and 6:00 p.m. in god s country which means it s time for fox news primetime. i m pete hegseth. today we witnessed a political clean-up effort unseen in american history. the aftermath of say the deep water horizon oil spill, metaphorically speaking by the way, pails in comparison to what happened this morning in terms of political clean-up.