actually, after injuring his leg playing basketball. he appeared in the media area this afternoon on crutches. but will be on the debate stage tonight. correspondent bill melugin is here in milwaukee tonight with the final countdown to the big event. good evening, bill. >> bill: bret, good evening to you. here we go. candidate walk throughs are officially done. all of them are getting ready for tonight in their own unique way. some of them are listening to music, trying to get fired up others are trying to stay relaxed and loose. they know what is on the line tonight. they know it's a huge opportunity, and they are looking to shake up this race. >> north dakota governor doug burgum on crutches in the spin room with a torn achilles tendon. he doesn't plan to let the injury stop him from debating tonight. >> if you are going to lead this country you ought to be able to stand on one leg for two hours. it's not dancing with the stars. i moan, come on. >> meanwhile, vivek ramaswamy hosted a 1776 revolution themed predebate party. there he responded to nikki haley's attacks over his foreign policy ideas by calling the former u.n. ambassador's own record into question. >> if somebody breaks your car for 25 years you don't hand over the keys to the same person. so i view my absence of so-called foreign policy experience as a badge of honor. >> haley will be standing right next to ram exam on the debate stage tonight, and she's doubling down saying ramaswamy has no understanding of threats the u.s. faces including from china telling "the washington post," quote: that's the problem with people who don't understand national security, and he proved that. we can't have a novice going into the white house." but the latest fox news polling shows foreign policy ranks near the bottom on voter's list of key issues. surrogates for florida governor ron desantis say he knows what voters want and he's up to the task. number one person on stage tonight top polling governor ron desantis. when is he pushed, he never backs down from a fight. >> soon there could be more contenders joining the fight. the group no labels continues to float the idea of an independent ticket, saying if both parties play to their bases, fanning the flames of extremism and ignore the common sense majority, then, quote: no labels will have our ballot line ready to offer a unity presidential ticket that can win. bret early yeah today donald trump released a statement called the under card candidates. they said they consider tonight's debate to essentially be an audition for some of these candidates to try to be part of a future second term in the white house for donald trump if he were to be reelected in the future. send it back to you. >> bret: bill melugin in the debate hall. thanks. when it documents debates, president biden is not doing any primary debates and today his campaign would not commit to general election debates. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has that story tonight from lake tahoe traveling with the president, good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret. the biden campaign claims they haven't even had the conversation about whether the president will participate in general election debate and the dnc is not entertaining calls from primary challengers to face off with biden. but the president revealed today that he will be tuning in tonight on fox. >> what's your expectation for the g.o.p. debate tonight? >> i have none. >> president biden will be among those watching as g.o.p. white house hopefuls duke it out and his campaign appears to be playing into the rnc chairwoman's reported warning to trump that his absence could give biden cover to opt out of a face-off with the eventual republican nominee. today declining to commit to general election debates. >> we have not had a conversation about that at all. i'm sure one day we will. but it's not today and i don't have any news on that. >> biden's campaign blanketing milwaukee with billboards. even a plane contrasting biden's policies to what they call the extreme maga agenda. also running a $25 million ad campaign. >> wages are going up around here. what president biden has accomplished is actually helping real people. >> the dnc issuing a rebuttal. >> tonight in n prime time americans will have an opportunity to see in action the most extreme, the most divisive, the most chaotic suite of presidential candidates in history and i don't know if it's going to be a debate but more like a circus. >> team biden is not addressing how it will handle republican criticism of the president's son or congressional investigations into the first family. >> mccarthy wakes up every day praying he still has 218 votes to be speaker of the house. we have really no time to focus on what mccarthy says day by day. >> even as house speaker kevin mccarthy warns an impeachment inquiry could begin as soon as next month. >> if they provide us the documents there wouldn't be a need for impeachment inquiry. >> today the president stepped out for shopping with hunter biden's son in tow. we learned hunter joined in on the family vacation but arrived separately on a commercial flight before the rest of the first family got here, bret. >> bret: jacqui, we are learning something about that travel. unusual for hunter to travel separately? >> well, a little bit, bret. the last time we saw hunter fly with the president was at the beginning of july when he went to camp david on marine one. he had been laying low over the last couple of months as the federal probe into his business dealings continues. that is, though, a change from how it used to be. fox digital tracked secret service records and messages previously reported from hunter's abandoned laptop showing hunter traveled to 13 countries with his father when he was vice president and few instances proposed setting up business meetings and calls while he was participating in that official travel, although had it is unclear if those calls and meetings ever ended up happening, bret. >> bret: jacqui heinrich, traveling with the president in lake tahoe, jacqui, thanks. ♪ >> bret: breaking today, the man who led a short lived rebellian against russian leader vladimir putin was stowed have been one of the passengers aboard a private jet that crashed over russia today. russian state media says wagner group chief you gu pretion was killed. something that was expected by many after the failed mutiny. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin is following the story from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. >> good evening, bret. russian state media was the first to report that prey goes. the news came as little surprise. >> a man known as valentine's day putin's chef because of the billion dollars contracts he obtained catering to the russian military and later set up the vicious mercenary group carried out putin's wishes was killed in a fiery plane crash north of moscow sent his forces on the road to moscow challenging putin's authority and embarrassing the russian leader. the private plane on which prition and nine others were manifested was shot out of the sky by apparent the 62-year-old wagner chief was seen in that video a day earlier recruiting mercenaries to fight in africa. >> we are working, the temperature is 50 degrees celsius above zero. everything is how we like it. wagner is continuing reconnaissance and activities making russia even greater on our continent. we are recruiting real strong men shortly after news of the crash putin commemorating the world war ii battle. >> putin could not travel to south africa to meet president xi of china and prime ministers of india and brazil because of international criminal court warrant for his arrest for war crimes. last month the head of the cia predicted prigozhin's eminent demise. >> putin is the ultimate apostle of payback. i wouldn't be surprised if prigozhin escapes further retribution. the president is right if i were prigozhin i wouldn't fire my food taster. >> president biden vacationing in lake tahoe responding to the news. >> not much happen [inaudible] but i don't know enough to know the answer. i have been working out for the last hour and a half. >> national security council issued the following reaction. if confirmed, no one should be surprised. the disastrous war in ukraine led to a private army marching on moscow and now it would seem to this. bret? >> bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. thank you. some other headlines today. former trump attorney rudy giuliani went to atlanta to turn himself in today on the charges related to his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. giuliani and 17 others were indicted along with former president trump and are required to report for processing by friday. federal judge has denied a motion from former white house chief of staff mark meadows to delay his jail surrender and it is believed the former president will be in atlanta to do that tomorrow. attorneys sidney powell and five others were booked today. meantime, authorities in maui are strongly encouraging the relatives of missing people to give d.n.a. samples in efforts to identify human remains discovered in the ashes of this month's wildfires. up to 1100 names remain on the fbi's tentative list of people unaccounted for there. more than 106 million americans from the upper midwest to the gulf coast are under various heat alerts today. nearly 69 people under excessive heat warnings for minneapolis and chicago to new orleans and the florida panhandle. hot here in milwaukee, too. technology stocks led the way on wall street today. the dow gained 184. the s&p 500 finished ahead 48. the nasdaq jumped 215 today. >> i have never seen an administration use different form of government like this to withhold information since the nixon administration. if the biden administration continues to fight to withhold information, that could really clear all this up. did they take bribes? did they deal in the business? if they hold that up, we would have to move to an impeachment inquiry. >> bret: house speaker kevin mccarthy talking about possible impeachment inquiry. let's bring in fox news chief political analyst brit hume here in milwaukee. brit, you know, as that is going on, good evening. it is interesting to see that this president not only in the polls but in how he is perceived is pretty weak. >> brit: i think he is the weakest democratic party nominee that i can remember. not in the least because people can look at him and see he is feeble. they see he is too old. they think he is too old to be president. probably many did before. but because, you know, he had the afghanistan withdrawal, which i think knocked him down in the public's estimation. he has never been able to recover from that now, on top of that, you have all this other trouble and, of course, the dollar being inflated meant that all the good news that you would normally be able to say about jobs created, they really are jobs restored for not in terms of his public [inaudible] standing. is he in terrible shape which leads me to the thought that his nomination is dependent on one thing, the expectation that trump will be the republican nominee. >> bret: so obviously the former president is not here tonight. a lot of people tried to have a breakout moment on this stage. if one does, what do the democrats and the biden campaign do? >> i don't think there is any doubt that if we get a candidate get a clear breakout moment either here or some time in the near future and appears on its way to overtaking donald trump for the nomination or even come in close enough, the democrats will be frantically looking for somebody else to nominate because i think they think that joe biden can beat donald trump because he did before. i'm not sure they believe that he could beat almost anybody else. >> bret: so, you know, democrats are taking a pretty big interest here in milwaukee. a lot of democrats around. there's a billboard just down the street here about abortion. it says get real, jack, i'm bringing roe back. clearly abortion is a key issue here in wisconsin and a number of different states. >> bret: it is, bret. the republicans having tried for so long to do away with roe v. wade didn't appear to think through where they were all going to land if it actually happened. now, it has. they need a place to go that is not out of sync with the majority in the states and, of course, states are in different places about it. some restrictions, i think fly with the public, broadly speaking. two restrictions don't. they have got to figure out where to go with that they haven't done so yet. >> bret: last thing, the fact that the former president he has said that he not going to do any debates that's what he said in that truth social post. we don't know that to be a fact yet. ronna mcdaniel at the rnc is hoping that is not the case. but does that open the door for the democrats to suddenly -- >> -- yeah. i think that's an interesting observation that joe biden could come to the general election and say well, because donald trump didn't do debates in the primary i don't have to do them in the general? i mean, it sort of sounds good when you first hear it but i don't think it holds up very well. that's not a very good argument for not debating. >> bret: all right, bret. should be interesting tonight. >> brit: thanks, bret. >> bret: thank you. up next, we talk live with said republican national committee chairwoman ronna mcdaniel. first here is what some of our fox affiliates are covering tonight. louisville, police release a body cam video showing the dramatic rescue of a woman who was found chained to the floor of a house after neighbors heard her screeme screams for help. the suspect has been charged with kidnapping and assault. is he said to be the woman's estranged boyfriend. fox 13 in seattle as the judge in the accused student killer bryan kohberger sets key deadlines for prosecutors and the defense. discovery must be completed by september 1st. the trial is expected to start october 2nd. kohberger could face the death penalty there. and this is a live look at philadelphia from fox 29, our affiliate there. one of the big stories there tonight, two puma cubs arrive at the philadelphia zoo. they were flown cross-country after being rescued in washington state. officials say the 21-week old cubs are orphaned after their mother was believed to be shot by a farmer. they are now at the zoo in philadelphia. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ i'm going home ♪ to the place where i belong ♪ and where your love has always been enough for me ♪ i'm patriotic kenny. and, hi, i'm amanda on tiktok. my scooter broke down. i went into a depression. how do you feel about that? 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this is going to be a critical state in wisconsin to win the presidency. they are worried about inflation and crime and they want to hear solutions from our candidates on how are we going to make sure that we can make our paycheck go further? how are we going to pay for gas and groceries? why are we in such a bad situation if you are joe biden and how are you going to address our issues? >> bret: you deal with all of these campaigns, the former president's campaign, all these others, does the dynamic change because he's not here? >> sure. of course. i mean, president trump obviously is a great debater. i think it does change. but it also gives these other candidates a chance to interview themselves. i think a lot of people in the country don't know all of these candidates. so it's going to give them more time on the stage to introduce themselves and talk about their policies. >> bret: wisconsin is so narrow every time, that's why this is here. that's why the rnc is here in the summer. >> correct. in the summer. usually it's not this hot, bret. i'm a midwesterner, i'm from michigan. but wisconsin is key. you cannot win the white house electorally without going through a blue or purple state. we have a migration issue in our party. red voters are going to red states. 300,000 moved to florida last year to texas. which means we are leaving blue and purple states. the pat electorally to the white house runs through the midwest and wisconsin, i think, is going to be key to us winning the white house. >> bret: i find it interesting. i want to play a piece of this political ad, bank your vote. >> you could bank your vote by casting your ballot before election day either early, in person, or by mail. go to bank your vote.com to sign up and commit to voting early. >> that's how we are going it beat the democrats at their own game. >> bret: i mean, that's a big change for you all. >> it's not a big change for the rnc but it is something. >> bret: the party? 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can pence make republicans reconsider? can ramaswamy live up to the hype? that's what the "new york times" says. what does our panel say harold ford jr. co-host of "the five." byron york chief political correspondent of "the washington examiner" and kellyanne former counselor to president trump. all right, kellyanne, do they have it right what are they looking for. >> they are all going to train their fire on desantis because he has been number two to donald trump's distant first for quite a while. and, obviously, his campaign has struggled a little bit. he still has the money. he has a great record in florida. he is 44 years old. there is much he can do tonight to regain that traction and, bret, that excitement. i think tonight for ron desantis the issue is chemistry not math. math and science come later. that's how you win elections. right now he needs to establish that connective tissue. if they try to attack him he can say look you are attacking me because i'm standing between you and joe biden, the nomination of donald trump. pence's best argument is if you want trump-pence policies without trump there is one name that remains. but, he has been struggling, i think, to reclaim his bona fides among maga and for vivek ramaswamy he will have a good night because this is a good forum for him. is he a true outsider, successful businessman. but he has been fumbling a little bit this week and i know fox news has called him out on that. i think tonight the voters have it right. specifics and substance. and lead with solutions, not problems. we all know what the problems are. we want to hear the solutions. >> bret: byron, by the way can we put up the spin room again? that was that room, i referenced it before. it's the red carpet. all those people milling around afterwards, sean hannity will be live there and every candidate has committed to come to the post debate show with sean, so you want to tune in for that. your thoughts on tonight? >> well, desantis has certainly made it clear that he thinks he is going to be the target of a lot of fighting. i do think he has to do well because this conventional wisdom that he is in some sort of tail spin seems to have almost taken hold completely about his campaign. he needs to fight that. on the other hand, donald trump's theory for not being here is that these are a bunch of little people fighting each other for second place. and to the degree that they all go after each other, that's exactly what trump is looking for. and he will say and declare victory if they have spent two hours banging on each other, doing his work for them. >> bret: we don't often have a debate with a candidate with a torn achilles on the way to the debate stage. but, north dakota governor doug burgum tweeted out i played a lot of pick-up games in my day. this isn't the first time one has sent me to the er. i appreciate the well-wishes. he went to the er. he hobbled in here. and he is going to go tonight. maybe a sympathy vote. >> most people knew who he was before tonight. most people still doesn't know who he was he has a story coming into the debate. i thought what you said earlier this morning when you and martha introduced the room to the country that one of the things you're going to try to do is get these candidates off their proverbial off the ramp of the talking points ramp. i think that's where what everybody has said come in here. desantis is really the target here. he has got figure out how do you do less disney bashing, less punishing corporations for talking about their first amendment rights and more how are you going to solve the real problems confronting the country? i think he has the most to gain and to lose, i would agree. ramaswamy interesting also. he is an outsider but at the same time i think most republican voters are going to be listening closely to how do you solve problems, not just get us excited and finally i think nikki haley has a real opportunity tonight and tim scott does, too. i think they have got to figure out that moment. senator scott has got to figure out when that niceness, when the positive, when i can make america not only great again but make us get along again, when can you come with that, i think nikki haley will have a chance to show her foreign policy bona fides, you know better than me, foreign policy that's where you guys will see differing a bit. the country will get a feel for who can be a real leader. >> bret: what do you know that i don't know? just kidding. kellyanne, to that point, nikki haley, obviously the only woman up on that stage. and she is kind of in the mix here. and she has spoken out against some of these guys publicly already. >> sure. well, these elections are not about biology we beat the queen bee herself hillary clinton when a majority of voters were female. fortunately people don't vote according to gender around identity politics. she has something to say. the curious thing about nikki haley she never seems to tell anybody how she got the position of u.s. ambassador to the u.n.? who put her there. she never says donald trump's name. i think is did she were called out on that weren't you just fulfilling his policies? but she is courageous there. for she and tim scott to be so far behind trump in their home state of south carolina is maybe the next place you go focusing including if it gets on winner take all quickly on foreign policy and national security, harold was absolutely correct. some voters we talked to and that's my work, they are talking about national security and foreign policy. if there was one good reason to have joe biden as the president, it would have been he had been vice president for eight years. he had been in washington for 50 years. he can bring respect to the u.s. around the globe. instead, you have got putin who annexed a sovereign nation crimea when biden was vice president. you have him invading a sovereign nation when biden is president. is salivating at israel. have you china salivating at the rest of the world. and you have a vice president in kamala harris who is kind of embarrassed on the national stage again and again. it's a great opening for somebody to say putin is a bully who must be countered. what they want to do in ukraine they should explain. and who would they do the same or different from the american first foreign policy? where do they put daylight between them and president trump? and what would they do different as the current commander-in-chief because his withdrawal of afghanistan two years ago is a stain on this nation. >> bret: that contrast, you know, fighting president biden, running against president biden, byron, you know, how much they do that or the person who is leading the g.o.p. primary? >> this is the -- this is the opportunity to have face-to-face confrontations with the people you have to beat before you get a chance to beat joe biden. so i think it always -- everyone says well, you know, each candidate on the stage would be better than joe biden and we're all united by lots of stuff. but they end up fighting. one last thing about ramaswamy. he is really great talker. he has done a lot of cable tv. recent polls have shown 60-plus percent of americans say they don't know enough about him to have a favorable or unfavorable impression of him. this is a huge opportunity for him. and i think the degree to which he talks about revolution and he had a revolution party here in milwaukee last night, it scares some voters. you know, they don't like the idea of having a revolution. let's make things better but we don't want to blow everything up. >> bret: five and drummers went by us. >> sounds good whatever he has got going out there. the question is what will america want to do. it was interesting to see that one voter you had at the start kellyanne, you talk about president trump. that one voter said he wished president trump would be here. how is president trump perceived after this debate is something that is going to be important, too, to assess. >> bret: all right. more with the panel after the break. and a lookback again a couple debates ago. ♪ >> bret: can you name even one thing that the federal government does now that it should not do at all? 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we know the metrics more rab is down. everywhere you look crisis and chaos. not in a tweet. but at the gas pumps and grocery stores. >> bret: if i was the debate moderator i would give you time but i have to hit byron. listen, the back drop here is that the house whoop r. really considering the impeachment. president biden traveled 13 countries with v.p. dad. can i catch a ride with him. according to fox digital. he goes to 13 countries with his then vice president father now leading the defunct firm rosemont seneca. hunter dropped secret service protection soon after joining the board of ukrainian energy company burisma holdings there will little pieces whether they can stitch together to make that case is will the case. >> kevin mccarter is careful to say this would be impeachment inquiry. we are not going to pass a resolution of the impeachment. this would give us more power to. >> look? >> to look for more evidence. but, there is no doubt that house republicans have pushed this story forward. they have caused people sometimes in the media who absolutely ignored or dismissed the hunter biden story to take it seriously now. >> bret: okay. guys, thanks so much. it's going to be a fun night. >> good luck. >> bret: thank you. >> bret: finally tonight, it's a special day. countdown zone is on. we have been showing the transformation. crews have transformed phi sfiserv. we received encouraging words from milwaukee bucks and phi search forum's president. >> high this is peter feigin milwaukee bucks and fiserv forum. i would like to wish the moderators and the candidates all the best. go bucks. >> bret: go bucks. reaction from the debate. former president trump presents himself in atlanta for processing. remember, if you can't catch us live set your dvr 6:00 p.m. in the east. 3:00 p.m. on the west coast. thanks for inviting us into your home again tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid and, again, "the ingraham angle" starts now and i get to toss to my good friend. >> laura: we never get to talk. i'm so excited to watch tonight. do you get a little nervous a little bit? >> bret: i'm ready i am fired up. we have done a lot of prep work. we will see how it goes. >> laura: i can't wait to watch, bret. we will all be tuned in, thanks so much. i am laura ingraham and this "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. we are just two hours away from the very first debate of the primary season right here on fox news. eight g.o.p. candidates are se