thanks, greg. greg: you got it. bret: good evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, the u.s. strikes back hitting iran-backed proxies carrying out a series of airstrikes today in eastern syria. this, as houthi militants have shot down an american reaper drone off the coast of yemen. that follows dozens of recent attacks we have been telling you about against facilities housing u.s. troops. this is increasing. another pushback by the u.s. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin is at the pentagon tonight with the latest. good evening, jennifer. jenngood evening bret. new airstrikes against iranian targets in northeastern syria. we now have a statement from defense secretary lloyd austin, quote: today at president biden s direction, u.s. military forces conducted a self-defense strike on a facility in eastern syria used by iran s islamic revolutionary guard corps. the irgc, and affiliated groups. this strike was conducted by two u.s. f-15s against a weapons
and what they think must be done to protect muslims and choose here, as well as what they think about what s going on in israel. i ve made my positions clear. i want to hear from them. so it s gonna be an interesting conversation, since i have both of them on to express their views. this is gonna be good. i ll be watching, rev. take it away. thank you. thank you, simone. and good evening, and welcome to politicsnation. tonight s lead, election count down. , election count down today marks exactly one year until the 2024 election, a new polling from the new york times paints a grim picture for president biden s reelection prospects. donald trump, the twice impeached, repeatedly indicted former president s pulling ahead of biden in five of six key battleground states. even as he heads back to court tomorrow in his new york fraud trial. i ll talk to biden s campaigns, communications director ahead. but first, there s also an election on tuesday, with abortion on the ball
americans have arrived on the egyptian side of the crossing so far today. ambulances have been lining up to pick up wounded palestinians who are also being allowed to leave. all of these people have been trapped in the war zone as israeli ground troops close in on gaza city and airstrikes rain down. this is the latest video from the idf of israeli soldiers, tanks pushing deeper into gaza. hamas defensive lines are collapsing and militants are retreating into central gaza. this is the devastation from the second airstrike in two days on gaza s largest refugee camp. the idf says it was targeting hamas command center but the united nations human rights office is warning the high number of civilian casualties from the strikes on densely populated jabalia refuge camp could amount to war crimes. president biden is now saying he supports humanitarian pause to save hostages held by hamas in gaza including americans. at a campaign fundraiser last night a protester interrupted bid
east coast, 8:00 in los angeles and this is america s late news, fox news at night. breaking tonight, a middle school student running for commissioner of school spirit and patriotism was apparently told his speech could not have any reference to patriotism. we will have reaction. california lawmakers think the answer to skyrocketing retail theft is to put an employee at each self check out machine. kind of defeats the purpose. and a former new jersey gym owner arrested for staying open during covid just won a huge legal battle. but we begin with donald trump s fate now being in the hands of 12 anonymous new yorkers and after deliberating five hours and sending two cryptic notes, the jury was excused back the courtroom confused. nate foy is live outside the courthouse in new york with more on this. good evening. reporter: good evening trace. you mention the jury deliberated nearly five hours today and at the end of court they sent two notes. one has to do with revisiting tes
lawrence: buckle up, the gang is back together, 7:00 a.m. on the east coast and it s wednesday, may the 29th, and this is fox & friends. the presumed democratic ticket heads to pennsylvania to launch black voters for president biden and vice president harris while charlamagne tha god tells me their message is uninspiring. i don t want to hear about the problems. i want to hear from you, the solutions. i would have talked with them, not to them. i want to have a conversation with them. and i want to see what they re really frustrated about. ainsley: he was talking about the morehouse commencement speech. plus, fox news alert. it all comes down to this. trump s judgment looms as the jury expected to begin deliberating just hours from now. so what happens if trump is convicted? could he really face jail time? trey gowdy joins us from outside of the courthouse straight ahead. steve: all right. and judge judy dropping the gavel on gen z s workplace behavior. a bunc