>> bret: i will. thank you. good evening. i'm bret baier. breaking tonight, the u.s. state department says the number of americans looking to leave haiti is approaching one thousand now as violent gangs increase their chokehold on the country. the u.s. evacuated dozens of americans from the haitian capital over the weekend, days after saying they had no active plans to help remove americans from that country. we had fox team conch tonight. correspondent bryan llenas is in the dominican republic where officials are preparing for a major surge in haitian migrants. but we begin with correspondent gillian turner live at the state department with the latest. good evening, gillian. >> hi, bret. an about-face from the state department today. officials here are now working to try to get more americans out of haiti. they also say that nearly a thousand americans now contacting the contempt about getting out. dramatic uptick from just a few hundred people last week. >> this is a fluid situation. the number of individuals who have reached out to us through the crisis intake form is approaching a thousand. and we're continuing to monday tort situation closely, evaluate the demand of u.s. citizens. >> gillian: state department also evacuating 30-plus americans by a charter flight miami after insisting just days prior there were no plans to rescue americans. >> there is active planning for that. >> circumstances on the ground as well as the feasibility much commercial options made it such american citizens. >> the biden administration says it hopes to rescue more americans still over the coming days. >> there is active planning for that there's active analysis of the risks of doing so. an american parents of haitian adoptee children say they have been celebrated during haiti's collapse and the statement department has been unhelpful. >> in times like this when they are saying u.s. citizens, you should leave, we can't. because we can't take our kids. the planes are coming to rescue some americans, but they are not rescuing our legally adopted children. >> well, state department officials tell us they are indeed concerned about american parents being separated from their haitian adopted children. and tomorrow they are speaking with an even meeting with adoption agencies to try to make some progress on this very important issue, bret. >> bret: follow the story. gillian, thank you. ♪ forces agencies to head east to the dominican republic as concerns grows in the united states over the possibility of a mass migration of refugees correspondent bryan llenas shows us from the dr. >> dozen people killed by gangs in violent attacks into upscale neighborhoods. >> this is too much abuse. people of haiti wake up. >> gangs control 80% of haiti's capital city where violence is met with rising looting including critical life-saving unicef humanitarian aid for children more than 5 million haitians are in need of aid for face famine. begin a new government after prime minister aerial henry promised to resign a key demand ever the gang leaders. at the main border creditorsing between haiti and the dominican republic. 20,000 haitians legally cross into the d.r. to sell goods and food, clothes and necessities they simply cannot find back home. >> i don't have a house. i live in a room with six children. raped, kill and kidnap children. >> there are growing concerns about a new haitian migrant exodus. over the last two years the dominican republic has built a 12-foot tall border wall equipped with drones, cameras and watch towers to protect the d.r. from gangs and crime. >> the region of the dominican republic 50 miles of border wall has reduced the theft of livestock, motorcycles, and vehicles by 80% according to the dominican republic. so far 100 miles has been completed and the goal to have a wall run throughout the entire border with haiti. >> the physical wall from the security standpoint it is helping us a lot. >> dominicans continue to deport illegal haitians by the truck load, an effort they say to maintain law and order. >> the market has closed for the day and hachingses are now crossing the border back home. many haitians we spoke to say they support international police force led by kenya to go in and fight those gangs. kenya says that it's ready to lead that force once a new government is in place. bret? >> bret: bryan llenas live in dominican republic. bryan, thank you. president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke today. their first interaction in more than a month as the divide grows between allies over the humanitarian crisis in gaza and the conduct of the war. white house correspondent peter doocy has the latest on that story live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. >> peter: good evening, bret. the israelis are going to send a delegation here to washington in coming days to hear biden administration officials perils of a ground operation in a part of the gaza strip where there are now more than 1 million displaced palestinian. >> you are the best. it's a great honor. >> president biden and benjamin netanyahu had a call today that officials describe as business-like. >> the president didn't make threats. >> peter: but he did stress israel must not begin ground invasion of rafah until a thorough humanitarian plan is in place. >> any time i hear an argument that says in you don't smawsh into rafah you can't defeat hamas i say that is a straw man. >> republican critics believe president biden may be privately aligned with chuck schumer's call to oust netanyahu. >> i think that we have a president. they didn't have the guts to do it himself he had his water boy chuck schumer give that speech. >> white house officials were asked today if netanyahu brought schumer's speech up. >> the prime minister did raise his concerns about a variety of things that have come out in the american press. >> president biden was recently presented with polls according to nbc news showing that his handling of the israel-hamas war is costing him support in swing states upon seeing these shows he began to shout and swear. >> peter: when he does that is he shouting and swearing about netanyahu or about hamas or about his poll numbers? >> this is the when did you stop beating your spouse question because i don't think he ever did that and so you use that as the premise of your question which is when he does that, i have never seen him do that, shout or swear in response to that so from my perspective that particular report is not correct the rest of this week president biden is going to be raising money for his campaign with events in nevada, arizona and texas and campaign officials are telling us they think donald trump's agenda has created enough of a divide among traditional republicans that it gives their side the democrats an opening in the south west bret? >> peter doocy live on the north lawn, peter, thanks. stocks were up today led by technology as artificial intelligence enthusiasm offsets jitters ahead of tomorrow's fed meeting. the dow gained 76, the s&p 500 added 32. the nasdaq was up 130. attorneys for former president donald trump say he is currently unable to get a bond from an insurance company to help cover the nearly half billion dollars judgment against him in his new york business fraud case. the former president is also defending himself over comments he made about a blood bath if he loses the election. remarks now even some of his critics are saying were taken out of context. senior correspondent eric shawn is in new york with that story. >> he does not have the money. former president donald trump cannot come up with enough to secure a $464 million bond needed to satisfy his real estate fraud civil case. trump's lawyers say they have asked 30 insurance companies to back the bond. but no insurance firm will take the risk. if trump cannot come up with the cash in seven days, new york attorney general letitia james who brought the case, can legally start seizing and selling trump's assets unless is he granted stay until his appeals are exhausted. >> well, thank you very much. >> this comes as trump came under fire for saying at a rally saturday that there will be a, quote, blood bath in the country if he is not elected. critics claim he was inciting violence. >> is he even predicting a blood bath. what does that mean? he is going to exact a blood bath? there is something wrong here. >> obviously is he talking about a bloodbath for america. >> so he says his bloodbath comment was referring to the auto industry. now, i don't know if that's how y'all heard it but that's not how it sounded to me. >> but the former president said on truth social he was referring to, quote: our shrinking auto manufacturing business. and the potential loss of jobs if china is allowed to manufacture cars in mexico. >> we're going to put 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across the line. and you are not going to be able to sell those cars. if i get elected, now if i don't get elected it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole -- that's going to the least of it. that's going to be a blood bawlt for the country. >> former president and his allies say his words have been taken out of context. president biden's campaign is already using that clip to try and damage trump. bret? >> bret: eric, thank you. the u.s. supreme court is denying former president trump on former top trump white house adviser peter navarro's effort to stay out of prison. chief justice roberts ruled navarro has to trotter a florida federal penitentiary tomorrow for a four month sentence while he appeals his contempt of congress conviction for defy ago subpoena related to the janujanuary 6th capitol riot. up next primary election new year's eve ohio. we will neat the three republican senate candidates vying for the shot to unseat the democratic call vulnerable. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 30 in jacksonville where police are investigating three separate shootings that led to one person being killed, three others injured sunday night. the shootings caused panic in the city's downtown area as crowds were out celebrating saint patrick's day. fox chattanooga where the united auto workers union files a petition to hold a federally sanctioned vote to unionize the chattanooga volkswagen plant. the factory would be the only non-detroit three automotive assembly plant in the u.s. to be unionized. and this is a live look at minneapolis from fox 9, our affiliate there one of the big stories there tonight, a pair of ruby slippers warn by judy garland in the wizard of oz are returned to their owner nearly 20 years after stole foreign policy the museum late actor's hometown. the collector who owns the iconic foot wear turned them over to auction company which plans to take them on international tour before offering them at auction in december. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back ♪ beyond the yellow brick road ♪ from the #1 rated brand in cordless outdoor power, the ego power+ blower. reaching an incredible 765 cfm, it runs up to 90 minutes on a single charge. exclusively at lowe's, ace and ego authorized dealers. oooh! this is our night! shingles doesn't care. but shingrix protects. only shingrix is proven over 90% effective. shingrix is a vaccine used to prevent shingles in adults 50 years and older. shingrix does not protect everyone and is not for those with severe allergic reactions to its ingredients or to a previous dose. an increased risk of guillain-barré syndrome was observed after getting shingrix. fainting can also happen. the most common side effects are pain, redness, and swelling at the injection site, muscle pain, tiredness, headache, shivering, fever, and upset stomach. ask your doctor or pharmacist about shingrix today. america first. if you believe that the republican party under president trump is the future of the party, a party that puts the interest of america first, then vote for me. >> today, moreno campaigned with maga leaders including ohio senator j.d. vance. over the weekend his campaign scrambled after the associated press reported it found a gay dating profile tied moreno in 2008. intern created it as a joke and that, quote: existed for less than a half day 16 years ago. moreno chief rival matt dolan says is he alternative to the maga crowd. dolan has the support of ohio's republican governor mike dewine. >> civilian in politics is not a weakness. in strength we cannot judge strength anymore by how loud we are. >> moreno and dolan both mull pay millionaires have contributed heavily to their campaigns. frank larose says that makes him an underdog to. >> i can't fund it out of my pocket like both of my opponents can. >> tuesday's winner will face off against sherrod brown who is seeking fourth term. brown is considered vulnerable this year as ohio increasingly trends conserving. >> democrats are not sitting on the sidelines for this race. a pac with ties to senate majority leader chuck schumer recently airing some ads trying to boost moreno in the republican primary hinting democrats may feel more confident in their circumstances in they go up against moreno this fall. we will find out tomorrow who wins, bret? >> bret: mark meredith in a chilly cleveland, thanks. jeff duncan is removing himself from consideration for the no labels movement bipartisan unity ticket for the november presidential election. in a statement, duncan says he wants to work toward, quote: healing and improving the republican party with a g.o.p. 2.0 so we can elect more common sense conservative candidates in the future. no words -- word what no labels will do going forward. california if gavin newsom scrubbed state of the state address today over uncertainty of proposition 1 ballot measure in california. newsom's prized $1.4 billion taxpayer funded plan to overhaul the state's behavioral health system maintain as razor thin lead with 7 million ballots counted the measure is up by roughly 20,000 votes with an estimated 287,000 yet to be tallied. californiaenings against prop 1 are battling to get some mail ballots counted after they were rejected over signature mismatches and other issues. the environmental protection agency is unveiling a comprehensive ban on asbestos, carcinogen used in chlorine beach brake pads and other products. the final rule marks a major expansion of epa regulation under a landmark 2016 law that overhauled regulations governing tens of thousands of toxic chemicals in every day products. exposure to asbestos is linked to more than 40,000 deaths in the u.s. each year. did the biden administration improperly pressure big tech to censor certain posts about covid treatments, election security and other topics? the supreme court is debating that. we will bring you there, next. first, beyond our borders tonight, north korea fires multiple short range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters days after the end of the south korean u.s. military drills in that area. the launches came as secretary of state antony blinken was in seoul for a democracy summit a volcano in iceland is spewing smoke and bright orange lava into the air after erupting on saturday for the fourth time since december. authorities say infrastructure and a nearby fishing town are safe for now but they're urging caution and preparedness. and this is live look at london, one of the big stories there tonight, london's court of appeals says environmental activists accused criminal damage cannot rely on political or philosophical beliefs as a defense. various groups have targeted companies and political parties in britain causing damage to property in order to raise awareness of climate change issues. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. we'll be right back. ♪ch h ♪ woah, a lost card isn't keeping this thrill seeker down. lost her card, not the vibe. the soul searcher, is finding his identity, ct irequest it explorer! she's looking to dive deeper... is breztri gave me better breathing, symptom improvement, and reduced flare—ups. breztri won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. it is not for asthma. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. don't take breztri more than prescribed. breztri may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. call your doctor if worsened breathing, chest t pain, mouth or tongue swelling, problems urinating, vision changes, or eye pain occur. ask your doctor about breztri. dangerous ladders. gutter muck. yuck. no wonder you hate cleaning your gutters. good thing there's leaffilter. our patented filter technology keeps leaves and debris out of your gutters forever. guaranteed. call 833- leaffilter to get started. and get the permanent gutter solution that ends clogs for good. they took the time to answer all of our questions. they really put us at ease. end clogged gutters for good. call 833.leaf.filter, or visit leaffilter.com today. how long have you been tracking the value of our car? 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that was the question as the nine justices debated whether social media companies blocked certain posts by private users. under pressure from the federal government. >> it's got these big clubs available to it. and so it's treating facebook and thesother platforms like they are subordinates. >> a majority of conservative and liberal justices appeared reluctant to limit government contacts with big tech provided it does not cross the constitutional line into coercion or retaliation. >> the government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country. >> the government is not monolithic, either. you can't sort of pick and choose which part of the government you are concerned about. >> some justices question whether president biden's own words in 2021 amounted to coercion against digital platforms about covid vaccines. >> they are killing people. i mean, it really -- look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. and they are killing people. >> missouri and louisiana later sued the biden administration for improperly collaborating with these social media sites to take down disinformation relating to covid. but the scope goes far beyond health policy. >> high court last month, bret, heard a similar digital speech case over state laws and how those laws would restrict big social media companies themselves in moderating user content over claims that they were censoring conservative political views, rulings in both of these cases are due by early summer. bret? >> bret: david spunt outside the court. david, thanks. the supreme court continues to indefinitely block enforcement of a texas law that allows state law enforcement to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the southern border into the united states. so, for now, the law cannot go into effect. texas governor greg abbott says the law is necessary to combat the border crisis. the biden administration asked the supreme court for a temporary pause while the case is being litigated. >> it would be one thing if the government called up tech companies and said you might want to take a look at posts. we have concerns about it. it's another if the government does so by using coercive tactics. that is what raises the first amendment problem that's at the heart of this case. >> problem is that they have willing coconspirators in the social media companies. >> we are going from liberal bice to illiberal bias. >> we are going to favoring one side to trying to suppress the other side. >> well, the supreme court case about free speech and what the government can and cannot do with social media companies. for analysis of that, let's bring in fox news chief political analyst brit hume. brit, good evening. "the washington post" writes it this way. the supreme court likely to reject limits on white house tech contacts. majority of justices across the ideological spectrum expressed concern about hamstringing federal government communications with social media platforms on issues such as public health, national security, and elections. throughout the proceedings, justices grappled with when communications crossed the line into illegal coercion. here is justice jackson about that ketanji brown jackson. >> my biggest concern is that your view has the first amendment hamstringing the government in the most important time periods. i mean, what would you have the government do? i have heard you say a couple times that the government can post its own speech. >> bret: what did you make of the oral argument and some of that exchange? >> well, i was certainly struck to hear justice ketanji brown jackson say that the first amendment under the view that she clearly does not support would hamstring the government in important moments. that's the whole purpose of the first amendment is to hamstring the government. to prevent it from abridging, as the constitution puts it, freedom of speech and these platforms that are in question here are for freedom -- for free speech, and people said all kinds of things about covid, for example, including the government. some of which turned out to be true and some which did not. the theory of our first amendment, bret, as i'm sure you well know is that out of the voices that are heard and people can think about and debate and argue eventually the truth may be found. arrived at. consensus may be formed. the question here is whether what the government did was not merely exercising its free speech rights to encourage platforms to prohibit this or urge that or whatever. it's whether it went across that line into one where it was using its awesome powers to expressed or implied to force compliance with this idea what ought to be said and not said, which would be a clear and certainly a clear violation of the first amendment and ketanji brown jackson seemed bloifl to that likelihood. >> bret: yeah. brit, i want to turn to another topic. speech and blood bath and picking up of that obviously the former president says a lot of things that raise eyebrows. some of them make the left's heads explode. but, this one in particular, what did you make of the use of it and its conch so far? >> well, first of all, the word bloodbath is used in common parlance all the time. and it doesn't necessarily refer to an actual shedding of blood. it refers to some major upheaval, damage being done and the rest of it. and it widely used figuratively in newspapers and magazines and journalists who didn't think that trump should have said this, are full of the use of that word for that reason. when trump says it you take notice and you want to know what he was referring to here and if you look at the context of it it's pretty clear is he not threatening to cause a bloodbath to trigger one or urge one. is he talking about what he thinks will be the consequences of certain policies related to the automobile policy if they're put into effect as president biden seems to want to do. urging a bloodbath or threatening one or so on you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what he was saying and they ran with it. they seem never to learn. it is this attitude that the journalists, too many of them have had, that the emergence public life of donald trump as a political figure and as president constituted a national emergency and it was their job to do everything they can to get him out of public life and keep him out. and they are still trying to do that. that's what gave us the russia collusion if we we as co-was chasing after that dead end. they are still doing it. some of our colleagues, bret, just seem not to learn anything from their own mistakes and this is another one. >> bret: brit, as always, thanks. up next, jennifer griffin speaks with the estonian prime minister on her escalating feud with neighboring russia and vladimir putin. >> well, russia's playbook hasn't changed and that is how they operate and that's why we have to know that there that conventional war going on in ukraine and there is a shadow war going on within our society. 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>> i even showed my breast to prove that i don't eat russians for breakfast. can you be tough enough. we should have been tougher and tougher before so to prevent this from happening. >> your critics do say that you are too confrontational to be nato secretary general for instance. what's your response to that? are you too hawk kish? if we say because of our attitudes towards russia we are prevented from, you know, taking top positions, then we can actually give too much posh to putin to decide how we run our alliances. >> estonia became independent after the soviet union fell apart. you joined nato in 2004. you share 210-mile border with russia. russia's interior minister recently issued a warrant for your arrest. dolls this worry you, especially after what happened to his main opposition alexei navalny. we heard what happened to navalny's chief of staff. he was brutally injured with a hammer attack in neighboring lithuania. are you scared? >> well, russia's playbook hasn't changed. that is how they operate. what they are really good at is uring fuel into the fires that are already existing in our society. we have to be aware. >> joseph stalin sent your mother and her family to the go log to a prison camp when she was just sings months old. she stayed there 10 years. sounds very similar to what russia is doing now taking hundreds of thousands of ukrainian children and deporting them to russia. >> for my country, one fifth of our population was either deported or killed. our language, our culture was suppressed. all these things happened while we had peace. so peace under russian terms does not mean that human suffering will stop. >> if anybody in this room thinks putin will stop with ukraine, i assure you he will not. >> you met with ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy in january. what happens if ukraine does not get the supplemental weapons that are currently stuck in congress? >> if aggression pays off in ukraine, russia wins. ukraine loses. then the security architecture of europe but also wider world is at stake because what we have learned from 1930s is that if aggression pays off somewhere, it serves as an invitation use it else somewhere. >> we know the tensions in south china sea. we know, you know, iran, north korea, so we are gonna have more conflicts around the world because the aggressors, or would be aggressors in the world are carefully taking notes. >> critics say europe is not paying fair share in terms of nato manipunate membership. you have spent g.d.p. on weapons to ukraine. for the u.s. that, would be the equivalent of $378 billion. what are americans not understanding right now in terms of what europe is contributing and why this is so important to europe? >> well, europe is doing a lot. we are doing more in terms of absolute numbers as well. but what we have to talk here about is that, you know, if america thinks it is far away, we are so intertwined. out of 45 states out of 50. the main export and investment partner is your honor. if something happens in europe it will effect your jobs here. jennformer president trump says. >> i will have the horrible war ukraine and russia i will get it done in 24 hours. i know them well. >> what's your response. >> that doesn't mean there's peace. if you negotiate with putin, and then you just give in to putin. i think america has always been the number one country in the world. right now there is a clear clash between the powers of the world. so, if u.s. is not backing ukraine, then russia will win and then russia's friends, china, iran, north korea, are the ones who are actually the leaders of the world. we don't that world. >> french president emmanuel macron recently said all options are on the table to defeat russia, including sending troops to ukraine. would you send troops to ukraine? >> i think what is important is that ukraine must win this war. [explosion] >> but skeptics say that ukraine can't win. what are they missing? >> well, first of all, this is something that russia wants us to believe. that they are lasting longer than the western side. second is that we really have to have a victory as a goal. no war has been won when you don't have a victory as a goal. so, if we already start to think that oh, you know it, doesn't go like this, then we have to be prepared for much more conflicts around the world. if ukraine wins. we don't have to talk about who is next. if ukraine loses, then russia might have a bite of nato and then, as we have article 5, that means all the nato's countries in [inaudible] >> thank you, prime minister. bret, back to you. >> bret: jennifer, thank you very much. up next the panel on the strained relationship between israel and the u.s.s. and reaction to the former president's weekend speech. and later the anniversary of an unsolved american miss industry. 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no one wants innocent civilians injured, except hamas. that's the only group i can think of that wants that. what joe biden needs to do is give his advice privately. because, when you publicly chastise israel. you embolden israel's enemies and for chuck schumer to suggest there should be be regime change in israel is just outrageous. israel by the sway surrounded by enemy privately and not publicly. >> jessica, peter doocy asked about that nbc reporting and kind of the back channel stuff, take a listen. >> peter: when he does that, is he shouting and swearing about netanyahu or about hamas or about his poll numbers? >> this is the when did you stop beating your spouse question because i don't think so he ever did that and so. >> you used that as the premise of your question which is when he does that i have never seen him do that, shout or swear in response to that. so, from my perspective, that particular report is not correct. >> bret: according to the report, other lawmakers in the room did describe it that way. jessica, your take on this? >> i think this biden administration is frankly just fed up in general with these reports that they don't feel are accurate or accurately portraying how president biden feels or how is he conducting his business. i think that's the a separate issue. the other point and i think jake sullivan got to some of this but obviously could have gone further and we will hear more in the coming days is how important it is that president biden on the call with prime minister netanyahu ask that the israelis send an enter agency team to the u.s. to have a discussion about how they can deal with the rafah situation. they do not want a ground invasion. they worry this will make it even worse for innocent civilians on the palestinian side. it didn't sound to me that they were against the idea that israel needs to keep going. that's something president biden feels very strongly about but they apt clear plan laid out. i won't dispute the fact it would be frustrating especially among gen z voters they are having such aggressive response to what is going on in gaza right now. but i don't think the biden administration is being driven by these poll numbers. the election is very far away. do we wish it was all sunshine and roses and everyone was on the same page? 100 percent. but i don't think that's why president biden is doing. this i think that he generally humanitarian tug of what is going on and balance that with his support for israel which has been clear since the day this happened. >> bret: morgan, the fallout from senator chuck schumer's speech is still reverberating in israel and apparently it did come up on this call. >> yeah, as it should. it was unprecedented for us to meddle in another democracy in this manner. i think actually sullivan and others in the administration corrected on sunday on the sunday shows when they said only the israeli people should determine who their leaders are it's interesting that the party of rules and norms keeps breaking rules and norms and another way of doing so. this is not just democracy this is strongest ally and friend in the middle east. what i don't understand is why there are these harsh words for israel yetet conditioning aid fr israel. where are these same policy prescriptions for hamas, for the slack republic of iran who we know is behind this. so it's incredibly frustrating. just as trey pointed out to hear these words towards our friend and our ally that would never get said, for example, towards zelenskyy or towards ukraine. this harsh public criticism is only reserved for the state of israel. and you know why. it's an electoral research. that's the only research why they are doing it. >> yeah. trey, speaking of senator schumer, we went back into the way back machine and went to speeches he gave ahead of the midterms in 18. is one back in let's see may 23rd, talking about gas prices and former -- and then president trump. take a listen. >> whatever meager benefit working families might have seen from trump's tax scam, for the rich is being wiped out by the gas prices that president trump is responsible for. final price of gas under obama $2.36. current price for gas under trump, $2.92. mr. president, you can't blame this on president obama as you try to blame everything on him. >> bret: okay. so, right now the national average gas prices today 3.46. a month ago it was 3.27. a year ago it was $3.44. so, that is not something that senator schumer is talking about now. trey? >> yeah. if you wonder why people in congress have such low public approval rating. i mean, you just saw it, number one don't read your speech, chuck, memorize it if you really believe it. number two, don't be quite so do youduplicitous. if a republican did it was wrong then when a democrat did it should be wrong. that's why people are so frustrated with politics what you just saw and heard. >> bret: all right, jessica, speaking of speeches, the bloodbath comment even snopes came out and said it appears that this was not something that he was talking about. it says the context for the remarks suggest trump was predicting an economic bloodbath for the country not a literal one if he loses the 2024 presidential election. so, quickly, should we make a big deal out of that? >> it's really tough. i feel like every weekend or every time he gives a speech, we have something that we could run with. the truth of the matter is the american people are going to go out and vote on the economy. that's what they want to hear about. we talked about defending democracy, the importance of january 6th. i believe in that wholeheartedly. but i think it is going to be a gas pump election, a grocery store election. democrats have done a lot of good. those prescription drug prices down. the stock market, et cetera. that's where i would focus. people know who donald trump is. it's unfortunate but many still are supporting him despite that. >> bret: all right, panel. thanks so much. i want to take that extra time tomorrow on "special report" believe it or not we have jesse watters he has this book coming out. get it together troubling tales from the liberal fringe. if you can't catch us live set your dvr 6 p.m. on the east 3:00 p.m. on the west coast. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. 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