Jerry cellular. Have a good weekend, guys. Tyrus need a photo. Bret good evening, welcome to special report. Im bret baier. Antiisrael protest go on at Columbia University one day after more than 100 were arrested there. Well bring you there. Silence from the white house following israels overnight strike against iran. Go to the region and the white house for that and whatever happened to the investigation into the 2021 pipe bombs. The democratic and republican headquarters. Lawmakers facing deadlines for key legislation and the Republican House speaker needs help from rival democrats to keep the process on track and his job intact chad pergram starts us off tonight on capitol hill. Bret, the house passed a test vote to tee up the aid package for a vote tomorrow. But it was also a test for House Speaker mike johnson. Democrats may be willing to help the speaker keep his job. The resolution is adopted. In a scene not witnessed since 1964 on civil rights, the Minority Party helped the ma
call it a day, obviously, after the last attack on saturday night, but the israelis weren t going to put up with that. i m hopeful that s where we are. american and israeli officials had very limited reaction to the strikes overnight. but, secretary of state antony blinken reiterated that the united states stands behind its key middle east partner. we are also committed to de-escalating, to trying to bring this tension to a close. the event allowed iran to claim victory and israel. effectively de-escalating for now. trey yingst in tel aviv. thank you. up next more voices from the left are urging r.f.k. jr. to drop his presidential campaign. protest at columbia university. first, beyond our borders tonight. ukraine says it shot down a russian strategic bomber as
the pentagon says for unknown reasons the plane was forced to ditch in the ocean. both engines failed at low altitude. why is president biden saying he was shot down. there is no evidence of that why is he saying that his uncle was eaten by cannibals. that s a bad way to governmental he lost his life. it s not look, we should not make jokes about this. peter: president biden has told that story about his uncle twice in a week now. we nor closer to learning where exactly he is getting any of that from because did he not stop to talk to us on his way to marine one for a weekend away in wilmington. bret? bret: okay. peter doocy live on the north lawn. peter, thanks. bret: there is a sense tonight that the fighting between israel and iran may be over for now. last night s strikes against iran by israel are being characterized as strategic and limited. correspondent trey yingst is in tel aviv tonight.
[chanting. iranian protesters take to the streets of tehran on friday morning. many holding signs that say down with israel. the zionist regime should know that if it makes a mistake, this time it will be punished harder and most severely. demonstrations erupted hours after an israeli strike targeted iran s province. home to the that tantaros nuclear facility. a plant used to enrich uranium. the apparent retaliation to iranian attack against israel over the weekend. was meant to send a message to iran that israel can reach out and touch close to nuclear facilities. a well-placed military source told fox news. reports indicate an air base was hit about israeli missiles as iranian military leadership claimed, without evidence, that explosions heard in the area were caused by successful air defense interceptions. i think the iranians will likely call it a day. no cruise missile attack no. ballistic missile attack. and, you know, they wanted to
more than half a day after israel s strikes against iran, the white house had nothing. i m just going to be really mindful. look, i m going to, again, be super mindful. i just want to be mindful here. peter: monday officials wanted to wait and see. if israel retaliates against iran. will the u.s. support that. to answer bluntly i m not going to get into hypotheticals. it s no longer hypothetical but, still, no comment. the official lawn that we re not going to talk about this, that is the line. that is the choice. i think that this reflects the tension in the u.s. relationship with israel. white house officials are also now defending president biden s claim about his uncle bazzi who dyed in world war 2-6r7b8ghegot shot down in new . they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals, for real in that part of guinea. there is no official record backing up that claim. second lieutenant am brothers jay finnegan was a war hero.