we ll see. thank you. good evening. i m bret baier. a huge damage award in the rudy giuliani election worker defamation case. we ll tell you how much the plaintiffs are supposed to receive. the top democrat in the senate says congress is getting stonewalled over ufos. we ll bring you that story. and we look at whether hydroelectric dams are having a dangerous effect on the salmon population. but first breaking tonight, president biden s national security chief says the u.s. and israel are discussing a timetable for scaling back intense combat operations in the war with hamas. jake sullivan speaking again today with israeli leaders and with the palestinian president. these meetings come as we learn of a huge tragedy in northern gaza. our correspondent starts us off tonight live from jerusalem. good evening, nate. bret, israel continues facing pockets of the resistance? the northern gaza strip. israeli soldiers encountered three hostages, but they believed they were hamas t
republicans refusing to crack down. aid for ukraine and israel. as i said, if we believe something is important, we should stay in get the job done. the house heads home for the holidays but the senate sticks around to try to reach a deal on the supplemental spending request. republicans dug in on border security as custom and border protection officers are worn to look out for the explosive devices. the department sending its homeland security secretary to the help. taking the president himself telling the cabinet and staff to get this done. we will discuss the state of negotiations with the republican senator of texas and california democratic congressman. then, hunter biden makes a brief appearance at the capital. for six years, i have been the target of the unrelenting trump attack. here is my answer, i am here. skips out on his subpoena. we will ask our legal panel what options are weighing as the president son faces another indictment. and, one month until t
republicans refusing to crack down. aid for ukraine and israel. as i said, if we believe something is important, we should stay in get the job done. the house heads home for the holidays but the senate sticks around to try to reach a deal on the supplemental spending request. republicans dug in on border security as custom and border protection officers are worn to look out for the explosive devices. the department sending its homeland security secretary to the help. taking the president himself telling the cabinet and staff to get this done. we will discuss the state of negotiations with the republican senator of texas and california democratic congressman. then, hunter biden makes a brief appearance at the capital. for six years, i have been the target of the unrelenting trump attack. here is my answer, i am here. skips out on his subpoena. we will ask our legal panel what options are weighing as the president son faces another indictment. and, one month until t
to get to it. you can tell me in the hall later. as mentioned tom hanks is our special guest tonight. the oscar winner who campaigned for biden and obama is here tonight. he has a new book. we re going to get into a lot more. that s tonight. we begin right now with this. you know the sound. new election votes in america. voters just went to the polls in four states and some results have some of the republicans shook again, and we all remember the fizzle of the 2022 midterms. now democrats won in several more key states, including ousting republican mayor in a conservative city in florida. last night florida democrats scored their biggest election victory in years. a stunner in jacksonville, florida, the most populous city. a democrat has flipped the mayor s office. this is really important a democrat won the mayoral seat in jacksonville, florida. it s all new. they re calling that republican loss there in the largest city in florida a stunner because the desant
the texas border. then, democrats ask republicans finally come to the table to talk debt ceiling and e try to prevent economic catastrophe. but as the high profile meeting with the president gets postponed, are they making any progress behind closed doors? we explicitly asked speaker mccarthy, would he take default off the table. he refused. but i think what we really need is a partner that s willing to work together. shannon: this morning we have two members of the house oversight committee, republican byron donalds of florida and democrat ro khanna of california, to discuss the border, the debt ceiling standoff and the latest on the house republicans investigation into foreign payments made to members of the biden family. then, florida governor ron desantis draws crowds in multiple cities in iowa. it may be that florida s the iowa of the southeast. shannon: we ll can our sunday panel whether he can loosen the former president s grip on the polls in this critical