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
early vote and vote by mail are top priorities. in an effort to turn out record numbers of voters. but former president trump himself just last week in pennsylvania attacked mail-in voting. the only way to vote early in the nation s largest battle ground state. remember we won pennsylvania. we were up by like hundreds of thousands of votes. and then all of a sudden, voila and we know what happened. trump won pennsylvania in 2016 but lost to president biden in 2020 by just 81,000 votes. now g.o.p. groups like the win-again pac are trying to convince republicans to vote by mail. we re getting outvoted in what is essentially the early vote by margins of 3 to 1, sometimes more. pennsylvania is one of six battleground states where this new ad will run in newspapers from environmentalists urging robert f. kennedy jr. to end his independent presidential campaign. it reads earth to r.f.k. jr.: honor our planet, drop out. the ad claims kennedy will spoil the election for president biden
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.
make the u.s. more reliant on foreign resources. bret: president biden s campaign is trying to gain points focusing on former president donald trump s mental fitness. this comes as his team fights back against public doubts about president biden s cognitive abilities. there is also increasing concern by democrats about the third party challenge from robert f. kennedy jr. and disagreement among republicans about early voting. all of that correspondent bryan llenas shows us tonight from philadelphia. the trump campaign and the republican national committee launching a new election integrity program they call monumental. committing to deploy over 100,000 volunteers and, quote: aggressive attorneys across every battleground state. in an effort they say to ensure transparency and fairness in the 2024 elections. in a memo last month, the rnc said that encouraging voters 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.