coming home, we have missed so much we hope you are live. and safe. and we know you are so brave. and strong. and we re glad you made it through this. natalie and julie we love you so much, and we couldn t wait to see you here, we re gonna see hopefully next week and we are going to celebrate, we re gonna have a big party and we re gonna hug you and kiss you. they are the first hostages freed since hamas kidnapped nearly 200 people near the october 7th attack on israel. in a statement president biden said quote, we have not ceased our efforts to secure the release of those still being held. i think the government of qatar, and the government of israel for their partnership in this work. and quote. just outside of gaza, trucks carrying desperately needed humanitarian aid are still waiting to enter. more than 100 trucks are stuck on the egyptian side of the rafah border between egypt and gaza. this comes as an israeli airstrike hit the oldest active church in gaza, killing
bret: have a good one. thanks. good evening. i m bret baier. first of all, an upside down flag outside the home of a u.s. supreme court justice sparks controversy and a response now. political attacks turn personal on capitol hill. we ll bring you there. and the number one golfer in the world is arrested and put in jail outside a major tournament but he still makes his tee time and birdies the first hole. we begin tonight on the presidential campaign trail with the incumbent desperately trying to shore up a key voting base. according to recent polls all across the country, his support from black communities is slipping. and president biden is trying to do something about that. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. president biden s entire week has been spent trying to court black voters. announcing new investments to promote diversity and warning about what he thinks is going
soon as possible. we need to help israel and get the appropriations process movements so the key elements are funded in the right way and get back to our committee work and frankly we need to continue the oversight work that i think is so darn important. jim jordan failed to get through in two votes to become house speaker. taking a run at number three today. struggling to win over two dozen republican hold-outs. it could hold a third vote as early as this morning. we ll follow that live as it happens. first. [explosions] rockets over gaza as israel prepares to pull the trigger on a full scale ground invasion. as we come on the air with tensions high in the region we see smoke rising on the israel/lebanon border. problems to the north as well. i m shannon bream. bill and dana are off. we re here. gillian: i m gillian turner and this is america s newsroom. israel telling troops to be ready for a ground assault on gaza. no timetable on the deployment. israel continues t
yes, i agree. i a very happy wednesday, everybody so every now and then you see something that captures why things everywhere seem to be falling apart these days . you know, not just that i m talking about a theory called chesterton s fence. the rule of chesterton s fans never destroy a fence, change a rule, or do away with a tradition until you understand why it was there in the first place. i would also removing your implants. wow. dead crowd. snyder drew a lot of implants. yeah, but that s good advice on par with don t where you eat. which is why joe biden no longer has lunch in the oval office. you don t deserve that joke. but g.k. chesterton rule goes to the heart of all this chaos. many social constructs that have held things together really come down to fences, metaphorical and literal fences and rules backed by western values that help preserve order and make for a good life. it wasn t perfect, but was a hell of a lot better than the alternatives offered by dict
cease-fire in the gaza strip as congress turns up the heat on the nation s elite universities of anti-semitism on campus. free, free palestine. president of a major u.s. university resigns and two others are under fire. calling for the genocide of jews violates harvard code of conduct, correct? what do depends on the context for quick does not depend on the context the answer is yes. politicians on both sides of the oil or outra or outrage but. you cannot un- see. when you see it, it haunts you. like a no other image you could ever see on a movie screen progress human rights and women s groups are sank mostly silent over evidence hamas terrorist use rate as a weapon of war against israeli women. do we believe the hamas spokesperson that said rape is forbidden or do we believe the women? whose bodies tell us how they spent the last minutes of their lives? works will discuss across the country s al qaeda republican nancy mace. president biden signals he s ready to