all right. dana, thanks. dana: have a great show. bret: gogood evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, we are following two major stories, first former president donald trump is appealing a decision by maine s democratic secretary of state barring him from primary ballot in his role january 6th, 2021 capitol riot. expecting a similar appeal over colorado s decision to remove the decision from that state s ballot. we begin with claudine gay s resignation as the president of harvard university. the departure comes amid several plagiarism accusations criticism over her december congressional testimony where she was unable to say unequivocally calls on campus for the genocide of jews violated the policy. gay is the second person to resign following the testimony along with former upenn president liz magill. mollie lyon has that story from our boston unit tonight. good evening, bret. harvard president claudine gay making it official announcing her decision with heavy hear
newsnight with abby phillip starts right now. israel is testing the limits of what the united states will tolerate. that s tonight on newsnight. good evening. i m abby phillip in washington. and today a not so gentle nudge from the leader of the free world to the only democracy in the middle east. watch where your bombs drop. i want them to be focused on how to save civilian lives, not stop going after hamas, but be more careful. today s warning from the president to his israeli counterpart makes what he told the world less than two months ago seem, frankly, a world away. i come to israel with a single message. you re not alone. you re not alone. as long as the united states stands, and we will stand forever, we ll not let you ever be alone. right now the two nations are no longer in lockstep. biden administration officials have advised israel that their campaign of overwhelming force needs to end and end soon, within weeks. it s not quite an ultimatum. sources
to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight. we are releasing the latest fox news polls tonight at this hour and the news for president biden could not be much more unpleasant this evening. sources say he has been issued about recent poll numbers and these will not help that mood. right now. only 32% of those surveyed are satisfied with how things are going in the country. and just 14% say they have been helped by president biden s economic policies. 14% when it cmtion it it the israel hamentsd war only 33% approve of the president s performance in that foreign policy challenge. we have fox team coverage tonight. jacqui heinrich at the white house with the polling picture but we start with senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot in tel aviv as the president s defense secretary and top military adviser meet with israeli officials. the u.s. continuing, greg, to pressure israel to exercise restraint? gaza. good evening grk greg hi bret, yeah. words of support and ca
yeanjanetyellen says governmentn out of cash june 5th. make payments of $130 billion to medicare, social security and veterans programs in early june. but then the government will only have what she termed, quote: an extremely low level of resources. it was another day without a deal. here we are, night after night after night and the pressure is more, the consequences are greater. we recognize that. we know details are thornier. workman dates for people to receive some federal said a flash point. republicans and democrats will not move. white house very difficult on this issue. and i will tell you, it s critical. it continues to be a very candid conversation about how we re going to move forward if we re going to be able to come together and ultimately get a deal. republicans say they are within the window of getting a deal. anxiety on global capitals who look to washington. at the time of significant uncertainty, we do not self-inflicted injury to those economy al
lifting off just lifted off for palm beach, florida we ll be delivering remarks tonight at mar-a-lago at 8:15 eastern time. the hearing was shocking to many in that they had no case, no surprises. therefore, no case. virtually every legal pundit has said that there is no legal case here. there s nothing done illegally. let s go live to bryan llenas in new york with the latest on this case. what we saw today. bryan? bret, good evening, well video cam cameras were not allod inside the courtroom. our courtroom producer said that the former president trump walked in with a swagger and he had a stern face. and at the end of his arraignment, he glared at manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. the man attempting to put him behind bars. former president trump stone-faced walked in new york criminal court after he was arrested and fingerprinted behind closed doors at the manhattan criminal courthouse. inside the courtroom, photographers captured trump sitting with his attorneys