Bret good evening. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, were covering two big stories. Both happening on capitol hill right now. House Speaker Mike Johnson rolls the dice on a foreign aid package with his own speakership on the line. But, first, the exceedingly rare event of an Impeachment Trial for a merv the president s cabinet never got off the ground today in the u. S. Senate it. Took a little more than three hours for the democrats in the senate to end the proceeding before it began against Homeland Security secretary alejandro mayorkas. Raising a lot of questions about constitutional process and politics. Senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram starts us off tonight live from capitol hill to show us what happened. Good evening, chad. Bret, Senate Democrats stuck together to end the trial before it even began. They did not vote to dismiss the articles of impeachment. They voted along party lines to rule the articles Ou Out Of Sync with the constitution. Raise a point of articl
Trump faces charges over alleged payments to an Adult Film Actress to cover up an alleged affair. Again, the first time a former president has faced a criminal trial. But, we begin with massive demonstrations across the u. S. Following israels largely successful defense against an iranian attack over the weekend. The Islamic Republic firing more than 300 drones and missiles almost all of them either did not launch or were intercepted with the help of the u. S. And members of the international coalition. President biden calling the effort unprecedented and saying the u. S. Is committed to israels security. And also a ceasefire in its war with hamas. We have Fox Team Conch tonight. Jennifer griffin at the pentagon with details of irans historic attack on the jewish state. Aishah hasnie on capitol hill with the latest on efforts to support israel and Breaking News there. Peter doocy at the white house with Biden Administration response. But we begin with correspondent bill melugin in los
happening at the same time, whether one is a diversionary one or other plans to happen simultaneously. so, whether this was an errant explosion, and the explosions were heading elsewhere, we don t know what the intended targets may have been, if this was not the target they selected. gillian: bill, obviously when you look at a situation like this, it s way too early in the process to talk about motivations, but do you have any sense based on just the geography, the very bare phones facts we have here, the fact this was likely a car bomb, that they were going from the u.s. or trying to go from the u.s. to canada. does that speak to you and your background expertise about what types of terror organizations might be interested in conducting something like this? yeah, it s very difficulty point to kind of come to any of those assumptions. certainly we know that the fbi director wray just over the past few days has reiterated concerns about potential terrorist activities, eman