is strong. for some. it s lonely and odds are you won t win. any group with less than 50 members. it s hard to join. most of us don t have the desire to run for president. and even if we did have the desire we still wouldn t i offer those caveats because there s a difference between critiquing and criticizing. mhm part of evaluating how someone would perform as president is evaluating how that son performs as a candidate. that is a fair critique. but we should be mindful of how difficult running for the highest offices especially in a challenging time for our country. and then a very toxic political environment. governor ron de santis started his co paint campaign with momentum with energy with excitement. and its fundraising numbers have been impressive. and yet he has not taken off like some believed he would will he regain his footing? will someone else supplant him as the closest challenger? or as former president trump on a glide path to renomination. here with the lates
pete hegseth, and we start tonight out with a fox news alert. the us military has just launched retaliatory attacks against iranian backed militias in iraq and syria. the us central command says over 85 targets were struck. these strikes come just days after three american soldiers were killed in a deadly drone attack on the border in jordan. for the latest, let s bring in international correspondent mike tobin. mike, what do we know? well we know that we ve got the first images coming out of iraq. you just had them up a second ago. al-qa im iraq. this is the very western part of iraq on the border with syria, very near some of the other locations, as you mentioned, some 85 targets were hit in seven different locations, both in iraq and syria. hit by 125 munitions. those seven locations are divided up to four inside of syria. three of them inside of iraq. the us says that the targets were all iranian revolution guard, command and control weapons storage, logistics, support fo
called working area during a routine inspection. it caused a brief evacuation of fire and emergency crews. pointing out that there could be a lot of suspects. where this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many white house west wing i should be even more specific. the west wing visitors come through this particular area when people visit the west wing. there is the area of the west wing where it is highly traveled. and that is what happens when people come through this particular area. it s highly traveled. i m not going to get into specifics. we have west wing tours. this particular past couple of days happen on friday and saturday and sunday. the white house also dodging questions left and right on the cocaine caper. something that is not magnetic into the white house. i totally understand that question. it is under investigation. does the white house support the prosecution of this individual? i m not going to get into hypotheticals. with the pr
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the white house while a hazmat crew came in. president biden and his family were at camp david at the time. bill: meanwhile, at the same time a federal judge issuing a temporary injunction against the administration barring many officials from contacting social media companies like twitter and facebook. they include the surgeon general, hhs secretary and the press secretary karine jean-pierre. dana: former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe is here. let s speak to mark meredith at the white house to give us an update. good morning. president biden welcomed thousands of visitors to the white house last night for the annual fourth of july celebrations. a beautiful night in the nation s capital. today there are growing questions about who and what is coming into the people s house after cocaine was found in the west wing. the secret service said it s investigation is still ongoing. investigators discovered the substance sunday. the building was briefly evacua