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
all right. dana, thanks. dana: have a great show. bret: gogood evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, we are following two major stories, first former president donald trump is appealing a decision by maine s democratic secretary of state barring him from primary ballot in his role january 6th, 2021 capitol riot. expecting a similar appeal over colorado s decision to remove the decision from that state s ballot. we begin with claudine gay s resignation as the president of harvard university. the departure comes amid several plagiarism accusations criticism over her december congressional testimony where she was unable to say unequivocally calls on campus for the genocide of jews violated the policy. gay is the second person to resign following the testimony along with former upenn president liz magill. mollie lyon has that story from our boston unit tonight. good evening, bret. harvard president claudine gay making it official announcing her decision with heavy hear
Last night. Bret that was very good. Im going to have to come back on. Greg one day. Bret if you will have me. Greg of course. Bret good evening. Im bret baier. Fighting on the northern border with lebanon is increasing. Magnifying concerns a new front in the war may be opening. Israeli forces are conducting raids into gaza to look for hostages and assess the situation. Meantime President Biden will speak to the nation about the israelhamas war and the situation in ukraine. 8 00 p. M. Eastern, can you see that right here on fox. We have fox team coverage. Peter doocy is at the white house with a preview of tonights speech. Steve harrigan in beirut with a look at the worldwide demonstrations over the war. Greg palkot is watching the fighting along the israel lebanon border. We begin with Senior Correspondent mike tobin again in southern israel. Good evening, mike. Good evening, bret. While the world watches nervously for the forces to begin the ground offensive troops waiting for orders
Bret im sorry. I couldnt help it. I will tune. In thank you. Good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, former President Donald Trump says the quarter billion dollars civil Fraud Lawsuit against him is a scam. The former president making the comment as he arrived at the Manhattan Courthouse where the trial began. He is accused of deceiving banks and insurers. No one is above the law. During opening statements, the state argued trump and his family routinely filed inflated financial statements. But trumps team disputes that. Arguing value is subjective. And determined by what someone is willing to pay. Trump argues his brand brings additional value. While Attorney General james claims the former president routinely lies about his net worth. This is disgraceful trial. Put forward by Attorney General who is corrupt. Were going to be here for months with a judge already made up his mind. Its ridiculous ruled trump and others including his adult sons eric and don
muskot intro. bret: it is new. thank you, jesse. good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. prosecutors attack what they call a pyramid of deceit in closing arguments in the trial of ftx founder sam bankman-fried. our common ground segment tackles the israel-hamas war. migrant children at the southern border as well. plus, donald trump jr. takes the stand at the civil fraud case against his family. bret: but first, breaking tonight, five american aid workers have been allowed to leave gaza through egypt. the rafah pass. hundreds of other u.s. citizens still waiting to get through. this comes as hamas official says the terror group will repeat its attacks against israel until the nation is destroyed israel is reporting the elimination of another hamas leader. israeli airstrikes pounded the area around the gaza refugee camp for a second day. and there are mounting casualties on both sides inside gaza. we have fox team coverage tonight. jennifer griffin here in