Bret good evening. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, were covering two big stories. Both happening on capitol hill right now. House Speaker Mike Johnson rolls the dice on a foreign aid package with his own speakership on the line. But, first, the exceedingly rare event of an Impeachment Trial for a merv the president s cabinet never got off the ground today in the u. S. Senate it. Took a little more than three hours for the democrats in the senate to end the proceeding before it began against Homeland Security secretary alejandro mayorkas. Raising a lot of questions about constitutional process and politics. Senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram starts us off tonight live from capitol hill to show us what happened. Good evening, chad. Bret, Senate Democrats stuck together to end the trial before it even began. They did not vote to dismiss the articles of impeachment. They voted along party lines to rule the articles Ou Out Of Sync with the constitution. Raise a point of article impeachment article 1 does not raise conduct that arises to the level of high crime or misdemeanor as required under article 2 section 4 of the United States constitution and is, therefore, unconstitutional. The house alleged that mayorkas broke the law and violated the public trust. Republicans rage that democrats terminated the trial before House Prosecutors presented their arguments. What we have witnessed today is truly historic. This has never occurred. We have now set a precedent that effectively very arguably effectively immunizes from impeachment making a false statement to congress. The 20second Impeachment Trial in American History was not only abbreviated but if it becomes the first impeachment proceeding to end without Rendering Final Judgment against the accused. Even democrats who sometimes align with the g. O. P. Wanted a fast conclusion. I want to thank the republicans for bringing the Jerry Springer show over to the senate. You know, we all know its over. Any time i can spend less time in a suit and listening to bad performance art, i support that. The g. O. P. Tried to extend the trial but democrats blocked them; however, republicans want todays outcome to echo at the polls in november. Bret . Bret chad, we talked at the top about house Speaker Mike Johnson, pushing this foreign aid package. Where do we stand with that tonight . Well, house Speaker Mike Johnson released text of his multi bill plan today that he is up votes on saturday. But democrats are not committing to johnsons plan. He has not asked the democratic support. We are in regular communication as is always the case every week that were in session. Were not in a position to determine how exactly were going to proceed. Now the package aid ukraine Marjorie Taylor greene is threatening to oust johnson if He Funds Ukraine and bret this just came in here mike johnson said, quote let the chips fall where they may. Back to you. Bret chad pergram live on the hill. Well talk more about this with the panel. Chad, thanks. Lets bring in brit hume. Brit, good evening. Start with the impeachment of secretary mayorkas. There was no debate, no hearing, no evidence presented, no trial. And after Senate Majority leaderboard Chuck SchumersMajority Vote killed, this claiming the articles from the house were unconstitutional, there were questions about the actual process to kill it and how thats constitutional. Brit well, its a political buy in a political process in the end, bret. There is quasijudicial forms and rules apply when articles of impeachment have been sent to the senate by the house. But, in the end all comes down to the same thing it always does. Who has the vote . It requires two thirds of the senate to convict. Which means you have got to have huge bipartisan agreement that what was alleged and established was, in fact, a high crime or misdemeanor along the lines of treason and bribery, which are the two cited by the constitution in order to hope to get a conviction. I dont think this one was ever going to rise that level. Nor have i thought that, bret, to be honest with you about the impeachments brought against bill clinton and later against donald trump. Impeachment has been cheapened. And this is a further example of it and is probably in the long run a good thing that it got shut down although it is obviously unsatisfying to people who want to hear mayorkas failure in office to be heard by the public. But, look. This is a case of mal administration. Which is of someone not doing their job properly. The Framers Of The Constitution specifically ruled out. They discussed it and ruled it out as a basis for impeachment and conviction. Bret yeah. The framers did spend a lot of time in that Constitutional Convention, specifically on not only the president but on the process of impeachment which is really interesting as you look at how this went down in a Majority Vote today. I want to turn to Speaker Johnson hanging on here but pushing this foreign aid package forward. What do you think about that big picture . Brit well, i think he deserves a lot of credit for taking the view that these three things that are basically what is he looking at here need to be done. We need to support ukraine abandoning an ally after the abandonment in afghanistan and other ways that we backed off would be dangerous for this country, particularly in terms of the Deterrent Effect that our military and our posture has around the world its up popular with a lot of republicans. The fact that he is bringing this up is probably a very large majority in the whole house to pass it but it would be with you know, a huge input from the democrats. And some republicans cant stand that. And it could cost him his job. But he is Going Forward with it. And i think he deserves credit for trying. Takes guts to do that, and it might, indeed, cost him his job. Bret brit, as always, thank you. There was another big antiisrael protest today at a major american university. Todays demonstration at columbia comes amid significant dissatisfaction by many jewish students there over the schools leadership. Senior National Correspondent rich edson has details tonight. At Columbia University hundreds of students built Gaza Solidarity on campus. Demanding a end to columbias genocide. Missed this demonstration. She was in washington testifying in congress about her administrations record addressing antisemitism. I am personally committed to doing everything can i to confront it directly is. Some jewish columbia students disagree and traveled to washington to watch the testimony. I have absolutely no confidence at this point based on that testimony that this will be managed in a proper way. She was on International Trip when she was invited to appear before this panel in december. Thats when the then president s of harvard, upenn and mit refused to unequivocally say calls for the genocide of jews called conduct. Columbia administration brought a different answer to the same question. Does calling for the genocide of jews violate columbias code of conduct . Dr. Shafee. Yes it does. The university has suspended students, restricted protests and investigated faculty members. One of them, Professor Joseph masad who celebrated the octoben israel. Shah fechuch says masad is still on the faculty though she is unclear if he is currently teaching. At the start of the Hearing Masad was listed as chair of the academic review commit. Is he now labeled as outgoing chair. Will you make the commitment to remove him as chair . [sigh] i think that would be i think yes. Let me come back with yes. Committee chairwoman virginia fox says she is prepared to bring Columbia UniversityLeadership Back before the committee if she doesnt see more tangible progress from the university addressing antisemitism. We asked fox if were going to see more University President s testify before that committee. She says she hasnt decided yet. Bret . Bret rich edson live on capitol hill. Rich, thanks. Stocks were off today amid disappointing earnings and Interest Rates worry still lingering. The dow lost 46. The s p 500 was down 29. The nasdaq fell 182 today. Bret Breaking News from the southern border. Customs and Border PatrolAuthorities Say there has been a huge surge of chinese nationals crossing into the u. S. Through the u. S. Border with mexico and it hasnt stopped in recent weeks. Senior correspondent mike tobin is in el paso, texas tonight with this data. Good evening, mike. Mike good evening, bret. Here in the El Paso Sector, we have seen a recent spike with illegal crossings but its that dramatic spike, dramatic increase of chinese nationals crossing the border illegally that is drawing National Security concerns. Now, Border Patrol says they have apprehended some 24,296 chinese nationals crossing illegally. 85 of them are single adults. The catch is were only six months into the fiscal year and the number of chinese nationals apprehended has already acceded the total from fiscal year 2023. If you compare those numbers to fiscal year 21, the start of the biden administration, there were 324, so the number of chinese nationals marching into the u. S. Has increased by more than 7,000 . While we still have while we have seen the chinese migrants crossing primarily in california, senator Susan Collins of maine has been directing attention to chinese nationals showing up in her state and starting marijuana growing operation. Why is china sending its citizens sneaking them into the country to open illegal Marijuana Operations in rural maine communities . At the border the Texas National guard has installed anticlimb barriers. People are coming from the mexican side with bolt cutters to get through the razor wire and fencing. We watched this morning as family with children on their backs found a hole in the barrier and made a break for the wall. Fox news cram are a in new mexico got a shot of Border Patrol catching up to rauner and taking him down by force. Earlier this month, an aide to democratic senator Catherine Cortez masto was killed in a car wreck. The driver of the other vehicle was an 18yearold honduran in the United States illegally. Bret . Mike, quickly, this number, the 24,000 chinese says apprehended but it tracks with how cpb has been talking about the release of that number of people into the u. S. We dont have an exact number of that, do we . You certainly have a large number of gotaways here in the El Paso Sector alone over the last fiscal year. There was almost 50,000 gotaways. So that indicates there are great number of people who have not been tracked getting into the u. S. , bret. Bret okay. Continue to look at the numbers. Mike, thanks. Up next, the u. S. Military leaders talk about israels possible retaliation against iran and what made the fallout may be. And, later, our exclusive interview with israels ambassador to the u. S. First, heres what some of our Fox Affiliates around the country are covering tonight. Fox 5 in new york where the nba has banned Toronto Raptors player porter for life. An investigation found he shared confidential information with Sports Gamblers and bet on games. The league Determined Porter gave a known sports better information about his Health Status prior to a march 20th game. Porter took himself out of that game after less than three minutes. Fox 11 in los angeles says a Muslim Student who is a university of Southern California valedictorian has been banned from giving a speech at the schools graduation ceremony. Came after proisrael group accused her of protestor promoting antisemitic writings. She is alleged to have shared content that calls for the abolishment of the state of israel. She says she was surprised by the universitys decision and that she has been subjected to a campaign of, quote racist hatred. And this is a live look at philadelphia from fox 29, our affiliate there one of the big stories there tonight. A philadelphia man is being called a hero tonight after saving two people from a burning home. A woman was struggling to pull another man from that building. Oscar rivera climbed onto the roof and pulled them both to safety. Thats tonights live look outside the beltway from special report. Well be right back. 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Fox news digital has learned the senators attorneys want him to be tried separately from his wife because of his intention to introduce evidence that would imply she is guilty. The couple have both pleaded not guilty to bribery and Obstruction Of Justice charges. A House OversightCommittee Meeting that was supposed to be about chinese Political Warfare evolved into a very Testy Exchange today between the chairman and the Ranking Member over how President Biden has made his money. Youve been talking about for more than a year but they dont show anything. Its okay as Tony Bobulinski to say for china to bribe joe bidens family with 9 million. If joe biden took a 9 million bribe from china why arent you impeaching him for that . Who says we are not. This is a hearing on china and yall have a obsession with russia and trump. Its disturbing. China and trump or russia and trump. You need therapy, mr. Raskin. No, no. You need therapy. Bret we could have kept playing that soundbite. We will continue to follow that meantime microsoft Officials SayRussian Online campaigns aimed at influencing u. S. President ial elections have increased over the past 45 days. This election obviously upcoming. The company adds the current activity is slower than seen in past elections. Researchers at the Tech Giant Say russia linked accounts are disseminating divisive content aimed at u. S. Audiences including criticizing americans support of ukraine and its war with moscow. Bret the world is still waiting for a possible israeli response to last weekends attack from iran. Today, the president s Defense Secretary and top