>> judge jeanine: i thought you had been an eyewitness. >> bret: thanks, judge. coming you tonight from the fox news los angeles bureau. the tiktok time bomb, the house passes legislation that could ban the wildly popular social media app., if it doesn't divest from chinese ownership. so what now will the senate do? treasury secretary janet yellen tells fox news in an exclusive interview she regrets saying inflation was transitory. and major turbulence for boeing. the airplane maker experiences the latest in a series of mechanical problems. what that company is doing to try to fix the situation. ♪ but, first, breaking tonight, it's official. next stop the party's conventions in the 2024 presidential race. both current president joe biden and former president donald trump mathematically clinched their party's nominations with easy primary season wins last night. right now, we have new fox polling we're releasing at this moment from two swing states. the former president leads in two swing states he lost in 2020. former president trump holding a 49-45 lead over president biden in arizona. and advantage is 2 points, 49-47 in the crucial swing state of pennsylvania. we have fox team conch of the presidential race tonight. jacqui heinrich at the white house with the president's first public comments since wrapping the nomination up. first up correspondent bill melugin outside the trump compound in west palm beach, florida this evening. good evening. bill. >> bill: bret, good evening to you. both president biden and former president donald trump have now locked in enough delegates to be their party's respective nominees and they are not wasting any time getting out on the campaign trail. president biden in wisconsin today while donald trump is going to be in ohio this weekend and he is urging his supporters do not get complacent. >> we're not going to take time to celebrate. we'll celebrate in 8 months when the election is over. [cheers] >> bill: former president donald trump has officially passed the delegate threshold to be the presumptive republican nominee. putting him on track to face president biden again. in the first presidential rematch since 1956. and republicans are rallying. >> last week i endorsed president trump. we need real leadership in this nation. and we can't have another four years of joe biden. we know that. >> but democrats are emboldened with the dnc saying, in part, trump's out-of-touch ultra maga agenda already cost him one election and his attempts to double down on the same unpopular policies will make him a loser yet again this november. but new fox news polling in two key battleground states shows this is going to be neck and neck. in the border state of arizona, biden leads hispanics by 6 points, within the margin of error. amongst women biden only leads by 2 points. in pennsylvania, trump leads biden by double digits in handling of both the economy and the border. but, in a poll that includes independent robert f. kennedy jr., both trump and biden see their support drop with kennedy getting 9 to 10%. r.f.k. jr. he said on fox tuesday that this is now a, quote: three person race and urged both biden and trump to debate. >> my intention is to hurt both of them. both of them would actually win the prize for the least popular candidate in the history of a major political party. >> bill: and, bret, r.f.k. jr. has said that he has decided on his running mate. he is going to announce who that person is in oakland, california on march 26th. two of the names he has thrown out there as for consideration nfl quarterback aaron rodgers, currently on the new york jets and former minnesota governor jesse ventura. we will wait to see what happens on march 26th. we will send it back to you. >> bret: one of those would be tough for jets fans but we will see. bill melugin in west palm beach. thanks. growing concerns tonight among democrats that president biden is losing ground amongst some of his key support groups. you saw some of that in his polls. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has that part of the story tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret. in swing state, wisconsin, president biden is working on his appeal to voting blocks where he is losing ground. tonight he assailed republicans for voting against investments that helps black and latino families and biden said his own involvement in the civil rights movement is what motivated him to run for office in the first office in the first place. >> today making decisions to transform your lives for decades to come. >> boys and girls club in milwaukee millions in funding $3.3 billion pot for 40 states aimed at building green spaces, sidewalks, bridges and bike lanes to correct racial injustice. >> historic investment, infrastructure, especially highway construction, cut too many americans off from opportunity, dividing and demolishing communities perpetrating racial injustices. president is committing to writing those wrongs and reconnecting those communities. >> documents as democrats watch a waning advantage among black and hispanic voters where people of color connected to the civil rights movement outpaced by younger generations and the g.o.p. becoming more aligned with the middle class. new fox polls still have biden leading trump among nonwhite voters in swing state, pennsylvania and up 12 points among urban voters in arizona. >> i think the key voting group are going to be the people that dislike both of these candidates when pushed they vote for joe biden. that's the secret sauce. >> but the financial times writes the democrat shrinking nonwhite advantage shouldn't be so surprising calling it quote not so much natural democrats becoming disillusioned but natural republicans realizing they have been voting the wrong parties. deciding the long black and hispanics long identified as democrats but believe in gun rights and small government. senator joe manchin has been pushing biden to move toward the center. >> this is not how you are going to get reelected. staff has pushed him so far left. >> biden stopped by an office in milwaukee where he called trump a loser again. part of a recent strategy to get under his opponent's skin. biden said a lot of you helped me in 2020 to make sure he's a loser and we're going to make sure we do it again. bret? >> bret: jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn, th thanks. the president's son hunter biden declining invitation for open hearing next week. his attorney calls the appearance before a panel impeachment probe a blatant planned event for the media that is an obvious event to throw a hail mary has after the game has ended. three former hunter biden business associates have also been asked to testify. a federal judge has tentatively set a trial date for hunter biden in the case involving the 2018 gun purchase. judge maryellen noreika says she will pencil in the week of june 3rd. the president's son indicted last year for allegedly lying on a federal firearm form when he answered no to a question about having a drug addiction. the trial is expected to last two weeks. hunter biden is also heading to trial at the end of june on tax charges here in california. stocks were mixed today as chip makers tumbled on bond -- and bond yields climbed ahead of inflation data. the dow gained 38. the s&p 500 was off 10. the nasdaq lost 88. ♪ ♪ >> bret: the president's treasury secretary says the trend for inflation is heading in the right direction. but there is still a long way to go. edward lawrence of fox business spoke exclusively with treasury secretary ja janet yellen today. >> treasury secretary janet yellen on a spending tour in elizabeth town, kentucky toured ev battery maker utilizing tax breaks in the inflation reduction act. >> america's growth isn't meaningful if the gains are not shared. >> she sat for exclusive interview covering a range of topics starting with inflation. >> did say that inflation was transitory. do you regret saying that now? >> i regret saying it was transitory. it has come down. but, i think transitory means a few weeks or months to most people. >> in the latest cpi inflation report, overall prices are up 18.5% from the month president biden came into office. >> if you go back and look at month over month, december, january and february showed an increase in inflation. is inflation coming back? >> well, look, inflation is down almost two thirds from the high it reached in 2022. and the trend is clearly a favorable one. >> secretary yellen defending president biden's proposed budget which calls for removing tax rebates and tax increases on corporations as well as billionaires. >> can you tax your way into prosperity? >> well, look, i think deficits we need to be on a fiscally sustainable path. and it's important to bring down deficits. it's also critically important to invest in the economy in ways that will be felt all through america. >> on the controversy over the financial crimes enforcement network or fincen urging banks to search for certain words in credit card transactions she claims it's a suggestion. >> does fincen still routinely ask banks to scan for certain terms? >> it does require them to scan for particular words. but it works with banks and suggests ways in which that may be able to detect. >> does it go fund me? >> i'm certainly not aware of anything. >> now, the treasury department still investigating the legality of the practice and a treasury official tells us that this all started under the trump administration. bret? >> bret: edward lawrence, thanks. >> bret: the house has approved legislation requiring owners of the tiktok social media app. to sever their relationship with china or to be banned in this country. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie has reaction from capitol hill. tells us what the next move is for this measure. >> i want president biden and all the politicians to know this will heavily influence on how i vote from today and for the rest of my life. >> outrage tonight from young people on tiktok. >> the yeas are 352, the nays are 65. >> after the house overwhelmingly passed the bill that could lead to banning the popular app. >> the number we posted today i think makes it impossible for the senate to ignore. >> tiktok slamming lawmakers fast tracking the process saying the bill was jammed through for one reason, it's a ban i do not support a ban on legislation. the. >> gives the platform six months to cut its china ties. the bills passed in the senate remains unclear. mark warner and vice chair marco rubio now endorse the legislation. as does the white house. >> we want to see the senate take swift action. >> majority leader chuck schumer with a lukewarm response saying only that the upper chamber will review the house bill there's also now potential standoff between the two chambers over foreign aid as some senate democrats suggest the house should show more urgency with that bipartisan package. >> is there any concern that they hold this bill hostage in the senate for that bill in the house? 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no one knows for sure at this point. cory mills, the florida congressman organized a helicopter trip on tuesday. he rescued 10 u.s. missionaries. he said the biden administration is offering no help to americans stuck in haiti. >> if americans are abroad and they are in trouble, i'm going to come to their aid. if biden is not willing to do his job, i will do it for him. >> steve: right now the plan is for the townhouse spend $300 million on kenyan peace keepers. the problem though is the kenyans don't want to go. they don't want to go until there is an actual haitian government on the ground in haiti. something which right now doesn't exist. and finally, florida's governor ron desantis has deployed more than 250 members of the national guard and other agencies to the florida keys in what could be massive influx of haitians. bret, back to you. >> bret: steve, thank you. >> bret: secretary of state antony blinken says the u.s. needs to see a plan before israel conducts its promised incursion into rafah in search of hamas terrorists. it is just the latest sign of tension between the two allies over the treatment of palestinians in gaza. correspondent trey yingst has details from tel aviv tonight. >> a 1-year-old palestinian launches a firework before is he shot dead by israeli security forces. three days into the muslim holy month of ramadan. five palestinians have been killed in separate security incidents. >> we are at the very sensitive and challenging time. too many extreme elements tried to incite the atmosphere in the field as well on social media and in other ways. [explosions] >> rising internal tension comes 159 days into the war between israel and hamas. there is a growing rift between what the americans and the israelis think the next phase of the war should look like and how to de-escalate. the biden administration strength operating in gaza's southern most city of wrath fall. israeli officials are urging action. >> so to our friends in the international community, i say this: you cannot say you support israel's right to exist and to defend itself and then oppose israel when it exercises that right. >> with daylight between the positions, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken held a briefing wednesday laying out the current american position. >> given the large number of civilians that are now in rafah, many of them displaced from other parts of gaza about 1.4 million, we need to see a plan that will get civilians out of harm's way, if there is to be a military operation. in rafah. >> in a briefing this afternoon, the israeli military's top spokesperson, explained plans are being developed to evacuate all palestinian civilians from rafah ahead of the expected offensive operation. bret? >> bret: trey, thank you. up next, even though they cannot legally vote, illegal immigrants can still have a significant effect on elections. we will tell you how. first, beyond our borders tonight, ukrainian officials say a russian missile struck -- strike has killed four people and wounded 43, including 12 children. the attack took place tuesday night central ukraine. and president volodymyr zelenskyy's hometown. tonight also russian president vladimir putin is warning he is ready to use nuclear weapons if his country's sovereignty and independence is threatened. an explosion caused by a suspected gas leak rips through a building in northern china. officials say at least two people were killed. 26 others injured. the blast occurring early this morning at a fried chicken shop. and this is a live look as the lisbon, parted gal. one of the big stories there tonight, european union lawmakers give final approval to a law regulating artificial intelligence. the rules are scheduled to take effect later this year. they would require generating ai models, such as chatgpt and mitigate risks and also put cybersecurity measures in place. that law passing the eu. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. we'll be right back. ♪ the first cut is the deepest ♪ baby i know ♪ the first cut is the deepest ♪ st found my way; i made it. and did all i could to prevent recurrence. verzenio reduces the risk of recurrence of hr-positive, her2-negative, node-positive, early breast cancer with a high chance of returning as determined by your doctor when added to hormone therapy. diarrhea is common, may be severe, or cause dehydration or infection. at the first sign, call your doctor, start an anti-diarrheal , and drink fluids. before taking verzenio, tell your doctor about any fever, chills, or other signs of infection. verzenio may cause low white blood cell counts, which may cause serious infection that can lead to death. life-threatening lung inflammation can occur. tell your doctor about any new or worsening trouble breathing, cough, or chest pain. serious liver problems can happen. symptoms include fatigue, appetite loss, stomach pain, and bleeding or bruising. blood clots that can lead to death have occurred. tell your doctor if you have pain or swelling in your arms or legs, shortness of breath, chest pain, and rapid breathing or heart rate, or if you are nursing, pregnant, or plan to be. i'm making my own way forward. talk to your doctor about reducing your risk. ♪(sung) limu emu and doug.♪ hello, ghostbusters. it's doug... ...of doug and limu. we help people customize and save hundreds on car insurance with liberty mutual. anyway, we got a bit of a situation here. uh-huh. uh-huh. mm-hmm. sure, i can hold. only pay for what you need. ♪(sung) liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.♪ ghostbusters: frozen empire. in theaters march 22. your best days of the year start here, at kubota orange days. it's the year's biggest selection of kubota tractors, zero-turn mowers and utility vehicles, including the #1 selling compact tractor in the usa. plus, the year's best deals, like 0% apr for 84 months, or up to $3,300 off select compact tractors. orange goes all day; sale's ending soon. visit your local dealer today. find your nearest dealer at kubotaorangedays.com ( ♪ ) nice to meet ya. my name is david. i've been a pharmacist for 44 years mainly because i just love helping people. as i got older, it was just a natural part of aging, i felt that my memory was beginning to decline and that's when i started looking for something that would help. when i first started taking prevagen, i noticed my memory was so much better. just stuff seemed to come together and fit like a jigsaw puzzle in my mind. prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription. 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>> bret: rich, thanks. up next, from los angeles, we take a look how this state is poised to become the first state in the nation to base electricity rates on income and what that means. plus, big trouble for boeing. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 2 in detroit with jury deliberations in the trial of james crumbly. the father of the teenager who killed four students at a michigan high school in 2021. james crumbly is charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter. his wife has already been found guilty of the same charges. the son, ethan crumbley, was sentenced to life without parole. fox 43 in norfolk as dollar tree announces it will close nearly 1,000 u.s. stores after suffering a significant quarterly loss. the closings will occur over the next several years. as the leases expire. and this is a live look at boston college from chestnut hill, massachusetts. one of the big stories there tonight from wfxt as the sun sets in boston, massachusetts governor mara healey says she will issue pardons for tens of though sands of people convicted of misdemeanor marijuana charges. so cases go back decades. the pardons only take effect if the governor's counselor approves healey's decision. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ choose advil liqui-gels for faster, stronger and longer-lasting relief than tylenol rapid release gels because advil targets pain at the source of inflammation. so for faster pain relief, advil the pain away. 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( ♪ ♪ ) start your day with nature made. the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand. ♪ >> bret: additional troubles for aircraft maker boeing tonight. several incidents have put that company on the defensive. correspondent dan springer has details tonight from seattle, good evening, dan. >> dan: good evening, bret. the barrage of bad news just keeps coming for boeing with a series of mechanical problems and a troubling federal audit. in just the last few days, 50 passengers bound for new zealand were injured in the boeing 737 dream liner they were on suddenly dropped crashing people into the roof of the plane. technical event. one of the passengers said the pilot came back to the cabin and said his instrument panel went black for a second or two and there was nothing he could do. investigators will look into the possibility of a power failure. on monday, united airlines flight headed to san francisco had to return to sydney. passengers saw smoke coming from the landing gear of the boeing 777. a flight leaving san francisco also a 777 had one of its wheels fall off after takeoff. tended up crashing into several cars, parked neither airport and last friday another boeing plane had to make an emergency landing in los angeles. after a hydraulics system failure. all of this follows the january incident when a door plug blew off a 737 max 9 after leaving portland that triggered a safety audit by the federal aviation administration and it found dozens of failures on the part of boeing and its contractors that makes the fuselage. in one case engineers from spirit row aerosystems were seen using a hotel key to check a door seal. boeing fell 33 -- spirit failed 17 of 13. boeing has taking responsibility for door plug blow out and fired the guy a the head of the 737 program. these problems persist and they are in major damage control over these quality concerns. bret? >> bret: we'll follow. this dan springer in seattle. dan, thanks. ♪ ♪ >> bret: well here california may soon become the first state to charge electricity customers based on how much money they earn. national correspondent william la jeunesse is here in los angeles with that story tonight. >> clean energy is just less expensive. >> it's also not cheap to generate electricity from wind to solar than it is from coal and oil. >> renewable energy is not cheaper than natural gas or coal or other types of base load energy. >> that debate is playing out in america's wind and solar capital california where the average electric bill is $261 a month. >> problem with intermittent is that they are not on all the time. >> californians pay 32 cents a kilowatt hour almost twice the national average of 18 cents. >> electricity rates have skyrocketed throughout the state. >> leading the charge, governor gavin newsom, mandating 90% clean electricity by 2035. >> we see fossil-free future. >> clean energy. >> but to pay for the new plants, batteries and transmission lines, the state plans to bill customers not just for the power they use but also based on their income. >> this doesn't make sense. >> this makes it cheaper to consume more electricity. >> households earning more than 70 grand could pay an extra $73 a month on top of their electric bill. >> democrats and governor newsom adopted this policy about two years ago. now there's blow back within their own party, mostly from deep blue coastal areas angry about the surcharge. in fairness. but also now because every state rate payer will have to annually turn over or disclose their tax returns just to pay their electric bill. >> bret: that's amazing. what's the timeline on this? >> the deadline is july 1st, but all these renegade democrats who voted for it two years ago, because of pushback, are trying to repeal the law this year. >> bret: all right. this is one to follow. great to see you. up next from here in los angeles, our panel discusses the latest fox news polls on the presidential election that's now locked. in plus, tiktok's ticking time bomb and later one girl scout is record-setting a lot of cookies being sold.i ♪ was stuck. unresolved depression symptoms were in my way. ♪ >> my predecessor failed the most basic of any duty the president owes the american people. a duty to care. >> if you are a disillusioned democrat, i extend an open hand, an open invitation and i ask you to join us on the noble quest of saving our country. >> it's the easiest pathway for joe biden is to win those three american states the democrats have won six out of the last seven elections. >> there is no greater contrast between donald trump's america vs. joe biden's america and this general election is well underway. >> bret: it is, indeed, the stage is set. the two nominees clinching mathematically last night. wowrge writes it this way. high stakes rematch is set as biden, trump clinch party nominations. having clinched the nominations biden and trump will be running in the first election since 1956 footerring a rematch ensuring a race offer voters a stark choice between candidates very different misdemeanors and agendas. for months there has been little uncertainty about their eventual selection, a pairing of elderly candidates most americans don't want. these are a look at the battleground states that will will likely come down to as we have seen every time. we have new polls out tonight in the state of pennsylvania. as you see our polls showing donald trump with a 2 point advantage over president biden and where that state was on election night 2020. and then in arizona, again, 49-45 for the former president. and there you see the numbers in 2020. with that, let's bring in our panel. fox news at night anchor, trace gallagher, fox news contributor, steve hilton, and leslie marshall, democratic strategist. trace, thanks for the seat in the studio tonight. >> you are welcome, bret. >> you know, it is -- everybody saw it coming. it was going to come. now that it's here, it's going to be the longest general election we have ever seen. it's quite something. >> it is. and you look at the arizona poll that you just put up there and it's fascinating because it's our neighbor state here in california. you look at things and then you look down the poll at the underlying things and it's fascinating to me that this year you see that donald trump is doing very well with women. is he doing very well with hispanics. then you look at the top two issues, he is dominating on the border. is he dominating on the economy in arizona. and those are powerful things for him. i mean, can you look at pennsylvania and many said, look, if biden loses pennsylvania it's over anyway. you chip away at things like arizona and it's a big deal for democrats and they have to be looking at the numbers of hispanics and women thinking uh-oh this is battle we have to get back in. >> bret: that is an alert we have heard from democrats on those demographics. arizona trust more on immigration if you look at this poll 58-38 now the former president over president biden. and you look at where it was in 2020. >> and then in pennsylvania, issues important to voters, the economy, 61%, election integrity 55%. immigration there at 52%. >> look. just look at these numbers now we know like any poll is a snapshot in time. we have seen one week to the next they gain a point on each other and it goes back down. we knew it would be a tight race when we were looking at a potential rematch. you know, as a democrat, i have constantly said that, you know, my party has not paid as much attention and done as much on immigration as they could and that could hurt them in a state like arizona which typically has been red and joe biden flipped. can he do it again? yes. i think it is going to be harder because in arizona, specifically, because of immigration; however, there are some things that benefit joe biden. in arizona, you have a large elderly population. you have a large senior population. and they are tending 65 plus are tending to favor joe biden because it's not just about biden and trump. it's about are republicans going to take my social security? are republicans going to take my medicare. when we shoot over to pennsylvania. in pennsylvania, if i had to go to vegas, i would say is he going to get pennsylvania. and the reason i say that is not just hopeful. when you look at the numbers of women, and i think more women are going to come out and we saw that with ohio. we saw that in the midterms when abortion comes front and center for a lot of states that aren't border states like pennsylvania. >> a small bet. >> bret: a small bet. not everything in? meantime, steve, the third party possibility, robert f. kennedy jr. he is still polling pretty well. this is representative as yous n clause warning about this. >> this election near run thing come down to a few states and couple hundred thousand voters any third candidate with a last name like kennedy pose as significant challenge. democrats are absolutely taking it where he could be. >> look at pennsylvania poll snapshot in time. when you put kennedy in there. goes to tied. now the former president up. a lot of people are saying is he going to take away from president biden. >> that's right. a lot of interest in his vice presidential pick. so you can see that there is something there for both sides to be nervous about what is interesting about the race. many people made the point you have two incumbents effectively running against each other. the thing that actually neither of them really can change is their record. and actually, if you look at the trump record, set against the biden record, trump wins on all the issues, as trace was saying. and so really for trump if he can keep the conversation on the substance, on the issues and on his record these numbers if anything are going to go more and more in his direction. >> also unprecedented he will be in court on the days coming forward. meantime tiktok and piece of legislation passes the house. it is not a ban on tiktok a ban if the company does not divest from chinese ownership. take a listen. >> the bill is not a ban. it forces foreign adversaries, including chinese communists to divest. >> it's an attempt to make tiktok better. >> some us just don't want the president picking which apps we can put on our phones. >> they use geo location data targeting minor children to then force them to call congressional offices, this influence campaign illustrates the need for this bill. >> bret: this is amazing, you know, compilation of strange bed fellows in both against, warning about national security and for fighting for free speech and not coming down on different companies. what's your thought. >> yeah, i mean, listen, i trust the intel people when they say that tiktok is taking all this information, absorbing it, especially from young people, and maybe using it for nefarious deeds with the chinese government. we don't have enough information, my skeptic curiosity as a journalist is what happens if they divest and give it to a new company. what happens to all the information then? where does it go? moreover in this bill, shouldn't we also find out if we're going after the information being gleaned from tiktok should we not find out what is happening from information being gleaned by facebook and by google. that you will stuff, why shouldn't we find out more about that information because they are also using it for, you know, whatever purposes they choose. >> bret: we don't know how the senate is going to handle it but the white house is saying the president would sign it if they desk. biden, the president wants to curb tiktok, biden the candidate embraces its stars and also post campaign stuff on there. >> yeah. i don't think -- there is not a ban on tiktok, right? and this legislation is just strange bed fellow. very rare look, you go even further with tiktok. something very interesting is have you ever seen what tiktok in china is? >> totally different. >> it empowers young people. it builds them up. it's positive, and it's very pro-china. not here in the united states. we have seen the psychological effects and hearing even more. i have two teenagers, believe me. the. >> bret: trust me, i finally got them off. >> you know, what does it do to the brain? what does it do to the attention be span? what does it do to our socialization, the list goes on and on. >> ke kevin o'leary is in the midst. maybe he makes it a great thing like china's. >> look, the thing that is at the heart of this is the point that leslie has just made in the end tiktok is not actually a social media platform in the way that we think of the others. it is a media outlet. because it's controlled by an editor. now, the editorial decisions are implemented through algorithm in technical way but it is controlled by editorial brain and that brain is in beijing and feeding propaganda and disruption into our society. that is the key concern. and so we would never allow. it's illegal for a foreign government, let alone a hostile one to own a u.s. media outlet. the chinese regime couldn't buy fox news or the "new york times." and we shouldn't let them control tiktok, either. >> bret: okay. thanks a lot. good to be here. see you soon. okay. tomorrow on "special report," legendary college football coach nick saban from alabama joins to us talk about college athletes on the payroll. that's an exclusive interview you will see here. remember, if you can't catch us live, set your dvr 3 president e east and 3:00 p.m. on the west coast. that's it for "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. it's been a busy week. only halfway down. 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