Im sure sandra remembers it, too. Sandra fox news alert as we top the a new hour. Leticia james campaigned on getting trump and now the clock is ticking. The former president needs to fork over nearly half A Billion Dollars by monday to even be able to appeal his civil fraud suit verdict. Critics say her entire prosecution was personal and political. This is the faulkner focus. Sandra smith in for harris. The president s team says he is unable to secure a bond of that size, enormous mag any tut calling it unprecedented. A practical impossibility and grossly disproportion nall. The former president has asked a court for a pause on mondays due date or accept a portion of the tab, 1 hundred million. Constitutional law attorney Jonathan Turley with this. Basically his position is in order to get a any other judge look at what ive done to you you have to come up with a half billion dollars to appeal. A judge saying well take your house away. Appeal my decision but sell your house in order t
we ll see. thank you. good evening. i m bret baier. a huge damage award in the rudy giuliani election worker defamation case. we ll tell you how much the plaintiffs are supposed to receive. the top democrat in the senate says congress is getting stonewalled over ufos. we ll bring you that story. and we look at whether hydroelectric dams are having a dangerous effect on the salmon population. but first breaking tonight, president biden s national security chief says the u.s. and israel are discussing a timetable for scaling back intense combat operations in the war with hamas. jake sullivan speaking again today with israeli leaders and with the palestinian president. these meetings come as we learn of a huge tragedy in northern gaza. our correspondent starts us off tonight live from jerusalem. good evening, nate. bret, israel continues facing pockets of the resistance? the northern gaza strip. israeli soldiers encountered three hostages, but they believed they were hamas t
julie: more americans coming home, nearly 80 of the u.s. citizens stranded in gaza making it out safely so far. hundreds more, though, are still trapped. the biden administration meantime pushing for what it calls a humanitarian pause, a stop in the fighting to get aid in and out to foreign nationals to get those out. this is the faulkner focus. i m julie banderas. good afternoon. i m in for maris today. blinken met with president netanyahu today. before the meeting he talked about possible pauses as we mentioned and the concerns around them. watch. we believe that each of these efforts would be facilitated by humanitarian pauses. a number of legitimate questions were raised in our discussions today including how to use any period of pause to maximize the fuel humanitarian assistance. how to connect a pause to the release of hostages and secure hamas doesn t use these to their own advantage. julie: senate majority whip dick durbin, the highest ranking democrat to back
and we know that s one of the most powerful clicks. as powerful as progressive pressure would be on a progressive justice. in a similar situation if you had this situation inverted. the clan of conservative judicial scholars and judicial activists, centered on the federalist society and some other quarters of the conservative movement is just as intense, right? you can t been on the supreme court in donald trump s administration. you can t get appointed if you re not on a federalist society list. brett kavanaugh, amy coney barrett owe their positions to the federal society. and to that, the pressure of that group. and so if you re a conservative wanting to lock those people in, what s a better way to do it, than hold them up, for the release of this draft opinion and say, they were there. they were true believers. keep them in those positions. keep them in the majority. well, think about sandra day o connor. think about how she was ville
voting for the 3.5 trillion blueprint to go forward. what you just said is democrats in private supported you and democrats in public opposed you. make sense of that. well, the only way i can make sense of it is that they re getting pressure evidence by the progressives. we know that the president himself instead of spending time rethinking his disastrous withdrawal and arbitrary timeline has been on the phones twisting arms, pressuring members. we know former presidents have been doing the same and nancy pelosi has been doing everything in her power to push through this bernie sanders budget. i think it s fair to say they caved to progressive pressure and again this is just a shameful day. there is dana: i just want to play a sound from two democrats who publicly said what your bill would have done and then they voted against it. watch here. the deadline is when the mission is accomplished and we