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
now we re going to see some action there. so i think that the idea, again, for the american people congress needs to work. a experiment in minority majority coalition government on capitol hill in the congress is a welcomed experiment at a time obviously when there was function. and finally, i think that on the border issue, there was something there. johnson did listen to his supporters, especially those on the extreme right and say okay, we re not going to buy this deal. remember, trump stowed people don t vote for it. otherwise, when you look at ukraine, israel, and even potentially tiktok, i think he has support that is in line with what most americans want to see happen. a congress that is taking care of america s problems. bret: let s turn to the jury in new york. a.p. full jury of 12 people. six alternates seated in trump s hush money trial in new york. the panel which includes
jerry cellular. have a good weekend, guys. tyrus: need a photo. bret: good evening, welcome to special report. i m bret baier. anti-israel protest go on at columbia university one day after more than 100 were arrested there. we ll bring you there. silence from the white house following israel s 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.
bret: this is the best possible product that we can get under these circumstances to take care of these really important obligations. so we look forward to the vote tomorrow. he has fallen right in line with what the swamp, what the uniparty expects from its leadership. it took bipartisan cooperation, led by speaker johnson on the other side of the aisle to get us to a point, finally, where america s national security interests can be considered. bret: it looks like those national security bills, the funding bills are going to go forward this weekend, still watching that on capitol hill. axios writes. this. johnson, speaker johnson gets another rare bailout from democrats on foreign aid. 165 democrats voted with 151 republicans to pass what s known as the rule, a procedural mechanism setting the terms of debate and votes on legislation. republican hardliners have increasingly defected from the