the also rans claiming small victories, even though they each got walloped by the inevitable nominee donald trump, apparently put in place by god, because as one iowan put it, god picks unusual people. also tonight, michigan governor and biden campaign cochair gretchen whitmer joins me to discuss the democrats view of the republican race and whether president biden has a michigan problem. plus, the war on dr. king s memory. there is more to his legacy than just that one speech that republicans often misuse for their own political aims. we begin tonight with iowa s choice. today the winner of that state s republican presidential caucuses, donald trump, spent a significant part of the day after not in new hampshire as presidential history would suggest, but in a manhattan courthouse for the beginning of a trial to determine how much he has to pay in damages to a woman he was find liable for sexually abusing and defaming. let s just establish that straight away. donald
already cast their ballots by mail. by the time fetterman and oz finally meet face the face early voting will have been going on for more than a month. it comes as fetterman faces growing attention for not releasing medical records after a stroke in may. brit hume making some interesting points last night with bret on special report. he has agreed to one. he will be pressed to agree to more, whichever way it goes, there is a risk forfeiterman that he will get in the debate and not do very well because he is not well and the other side the expectations for him in any debate will be very low and media will see to that. dana: the anchor of special report and chief political anchor bret baier. you have that and response from the oz campaign. let s get your thoughts. oz said after being hit with massive criticism from state and national editorials for ducking fetterman agreed to one debate. he insisted be delayed until two weeks remain in the campaign to keep voters in the dar
kamala harris, critics say has done nothing to solve the problem. john roberts in washington. happy fridayie. sandra: two bus loads of migrants arriving on the vice president s doorstep from the texas del rio sector, in direct response to her claims over the weekend that the border is secure. meanwhile, trouble in paradise. border crisis making its way to the ritzy island of martha s vineyard, two planes of migrants were dropped off there yesterday. desantis citing massachusetts status an a sanctuary state to send them there. the white house to face questions moments from now on all of this. highlights from that as theyp ha. but griff jenkins, he is live at the naval observatory talking to the migrants as they step off the busses, so griff, what have they been telling you? well, they are saying something very different, sandra, than what vice president harris said. now governor abbott has been sending nearly 200 busses of nearly 8,000 migrants to d.c. since april but
which presidential candidates kick their campaigns into full year. well, the start of this election year summer it s unlike anything wave seen before. in onewa week president biden a former president trump will face-off in the earliest election debate in modern history. the biden campaign made a deliberate choice to challenge trump to an early debate to force voters to reckon with the reality of the choice they re goingof have to make sooner ratr than later. today we got new details about how that debate is going to play out. independent candidate robert f. kennedy jr. officially failing to qualify. biden will be standing at the podium on the right of the television screen while trump will have the podium on the left, the same configuration as the two debates held four years ago. donald trump got to choose the order of thedo closing statemen. he chose to go last, giving him the final word. we also got new details how the two candidates plan to prepare for the debate. tonight
people are coming here. the takedown of one of the human smuggling rings in the u.s. including in states like mississippi, alabama, louisiana, and texas. take a listen. we are here to announce the unsealing of indictment charge eight defendants for smuggling. impacting our border communities. joint task force encountered thousands of migrants smuggled across the border since 2018 involving border patrol says are some of the most dangerous conditions they ve ever borne witness to. migrants stuffed inside wooden cargo crates and piled onto flatbed trucks before being transported across the border. others in suitcases and emptied out water tanks. the takedown comes as the biden