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a familiar voice. breaking tonight president trump's press secretary will make a decision on whether to attack iran within two weeks. is he said to be asking questions of his advisers about so-called bunker busting bombs and their possible use against iranian nuclear facilities. the conflict now entering a new phase earlier today when iran's bombing of a hospital got a lot of reaction. >> today the press secretary revealed iran already has all of the components it needs to build a nuclear weapon. all it would take is an order from the supreme leader and then that process takes about two weeks to complete. the same amount of time that the president is allowing for a decision one way or the other on u.s. military intervention. >> i have a message directly from the president and i quote:

based on the fact there is a substantial chance of negotiation, that may or may not take place with iran in the near future, i will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks president trump allowing room for diplomacy before making a call the white house makes clear his decision does not hinge on any question on whether the u.s. military could eliminate the site at fordow with bunker busting bombs. official telling fox no options have been taken off the table after reports of mixed assessments on bunker buster efficacy at the pentagon and report in the guardian the only sure fire option tackle nuke was not being considered. heading to geneva for a meeting on friday. >> i'm not going to get into a hypothetical. as you heard from the president yesterday they had expressed interest in doing so. >> chinese president xi jinpinged meiated the parties involved in the conflicted, especially israel, should halt military operations as soon as possible. the white house leaving

questions on that for the president to answer. >> there is a lot 6 pressure on him to finish the job with force. how is he balancing the concern that if he doesn't choose to do that, that it would send a message to xi jinping about the u.s. commitment to taiwan. >> the president is balancing at love viewpoints. and he is listening, not just to other world leaders but to his advisers and to people here in the country and the american people, too. and i think that's what makes this president such a great leader is his ability to listen. >> meantime democrats joining a pressure campaign to try to stop intervention. >> i do not believe iran could k. have a bomb. the question is how do we deny that bomb for the long term. i believe military strikes may get us a year, three years. it's not the solution. >> the white house confirmed that any deal with iran would prohibit enrichment of uranium and preclude iran from ever getting a nuclear weapon. the press secretary said today that iran can and should make

this deal or they will face grave consequences. bret? >> bret: jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn, jacqui, thank you. israel, meantime, is vowing retaliation after that iranian strike on a major hospital. one knesset member calls an extreme war crime. the defense minister in israel says the ayatollah in iran cannot continue to exist. iran claims it was targeting an intelligence facility inside israel. chief foreign correspondent trey yingst live again tonight in tel aviv. good evening, trey. >> yeah, bret, good evening. tonight israel is prepared for more incoming missile fire from iran. we do know reports indicate just 65% of the missiles overnight were intercepted with multiple impacts recorded in civilian areas. including at a hospital. here's what the scene was like when we arrived at that medical facility. >> here at the soroka hospital in southern israel can you see

the damage caused by these iranian ballistic missiles. doctors here say it's a miracle no one was killed in the blast. >> not have bret. >> trey: israel's prime minister arrived on the scene later promising a strong response to the strike and answering questions about the possibility of american involvement in the war. >> president trump will do what is best for america. i trust his judgment. he is a tremendous friend. a tremendous world leader and tremendous friend of israel and the jewish people. and we will do what we have to do and we are doing it. >> trey: netanyahu's remarks come as we are learning more about an israeli maneuver on the first night of the war that took out iran's top nuclear scientist. the spy craft, combined with airstrikes, dubbed operation narnia went after 30 iranian commanders and at least 14 nuclear scientists using classified intelligence gathered over a period of months. the head of israel's intelligence director at solomuny bender spoke about his

team's ongoing efforts to win the war. >> >> we need to hunt them down wherever they flee. succeeding in turn iran, as i said early from some distant place, 1500 kill meters from here into an army that we know how to deal with, with the sense of it being a first circle threat. >> israeli strikes are expected to ramp up tonight as the israelis go after iran's top leadership, including the country's supreme leader. israel's defense minister tonight says he will have a price to pay. bret? >> bret: trey yingst live in tel aviv. trey, thanks. let's get some information now tonight about the so-called bunker busting bombs. cheer national security correspondent jennifer griffin is at the pentagon tonight with that story. good evening, jennifer. yerch. >> jennifer: good evening, bret. at the pentagon there is little doubt where the gbu 457 massive ordnance penetrator or mop could destroy fordow nuclear facility buried 300 feet underground inside a mountain. >> shown here during a test in

2018, developed by the air force, specifically to address iran and north korea's underground nuclear sites, the mop can penetrate 200 feet underground. further, if two missiles are dropped via g.p.s. positioning into the same hole. >> does it have the capacity if it's employed the correct way to have the effect inside the mission space? absolutely. >> retired navy captain todd saw hill oversaw the defense department's targeting operations. adding five centcom commanders and the chairman on the joint chiefs on weapons like the mop. >> can you use a multiple hit scenario multiple impacts in the same point. create a large creator. spoil will be thrown out and allows a pathway for the next munition to go in even deeper and farther so that successive hits on the same point will allow increased penetration and lethality. >> all eyes on the air force base in missouri home to the b 2 stealth bomber.

only with the to strike this buried program with this b-2 bombers fly at 50,000 feet carrying two massive 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs. there are two entrances to fordow. >> if they wanted to go after the portal entrances, it's likely that they would use 2 b 2s for each portal entrance so it could drop two bombs per portal. >> they fly with significant air escort 30 hour round trip from whiteman that requires a massive air refueling bridge. that's why the pentagon ordered dozens of refuelers to europe. >> iran still has missiles that can reach u.s. bases and ships and has vowed to respond if the u.s. strikes. bret? >> bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jennifer, thank you. >> bret: bret we have new fox polling about the deportation issue. 70% of registered voters say illegal immigrants who come to

the country help. 56% favor deporting imlegal immigrants, 40% oppose. 40% approve of the job by immigrations and custom enforcement. 52% disapprove in this survey. 83% of republicans surveyed approve of ice's performance, 84% of democrats disapprove. showing that split. tonight though an amazing fox news exclusive about the latest effects of the biden-border policy. our crew was embedded with federal agents as they arrested a convicted murderer from el salvador. that's just the beginning of this story. here is correspondent bill melugin reporting from los angeles. >> all right. >> bill: only fox news was with ice in los angeles. as they moved in to take down a high priority aggravated felon. his name is alexander, and dhs says he is salvadorian illegal

alien and gang member with convictions in l.a. county for murder and attempted murder. >> he has had deportation order since february 2024. and had been living freely in los angeles county. a sanctuary jurisdiction. now that this convicted murders coming to ice facility be booked, take fingerprints and biometrics. he will be placed in a cell. >> as we were reporting next what would happen with him he interrupted us to say he shouldn't be deported because he has a special form of relief called cat. >> ice says you have a deportation order since february of 2024. >> no, i just got cat on december the 18th of last year. by the bia. you can call my lawyer. >> it turns out his claim is true. ice wasn't aware at the time of his arrest, but, in the final days of the biden administration, on december 18th, the bia, or board of immigration appeals under the biden justice department granted

him a relief known as d cat meaning deferred removal under the convention against torture it. means he can't be deported to el salvador becaue fears being killed orator temperatured. >> bill: are you a convicted murderer, sir? >> i am free. >> are you a convicted murderer? ?and, bret, we learned that ice had to briefly release this man from their custody. then they quickly rearrested him the very next day. he remains in their custody. ice sent a statement to fox news about this saying that this criminal alien should have never been roaming the streets of los angeles in the first place. they went on to say that this biden era decision to protect him from deportation to his home country is, quote: highly unusual. ice tells us this guy is going to stay in heir custody right now why they try to find another country they can deport him to other than el salvador. we did reach out to his immigration attorney multiple times over the last couple of days asking specifically who is this guy afraid of?

who does he think is going to torture him but that attorney never responded to us. bret? >> bret: that is an amazing story. bill melugin in los angeles. bill, thank you. u.s. stock markets were closed today for the juneteenth federal holiday. american captured by hamas during the 2023 massacre. we will bring you that first, "beyond our borders" tonight, taiwan's president orders defense and secretary units to step up monitoring and intelligence efforts in response to china's new military activities. taiwan and japan have been tracking the movement of two chinese aircraft carriers conducting simultaneous operations in the pacific for the first time. hurricane eric makes landful in southern mexico. the hurricane has maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour. the storm was downgraded slightly before coming ashore from a powerful category 4 to a category 3. and this is a live look at

seoul, south korea, courtesy ofeth cam. one of the big stories there tonight south korea's last circus marks its centennial. 200 artists,ing a ache co-crow bats and other staff in the 1960s. much has changed. now it performs in a big top just south of seoul. officials say their business is still doing relatively well. just some of the other stories "beyond our borders" tonight. we'll be right back. ♪ you will find me ♪ time after time

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during the october massacre. >> for israeli american edan alexander, this homecoming follows nearly 600 days in hamas captivity. >> it's really a right day when everything else is very difficult and very tough. >> edan's long time rabbi tells fox fox news today is surreal. >> i'm going to hug and just my tear also just come out. nothing more. there is nothing more you need to say. >> edan left new jersey volunteering to serve in the israel defense forces. now he returns a grown man with a harrowing story of survival in the face of terror. >> we don't even know how much torture he went. he didn't even tell us a little of it. >> hamas terrorists took edan and 250 others hostage during its october 7th attack.

edan's parents pushed hard for his freedom. the trump administration negotiated his release last month. >> the president. >> really honored and your parents are incredible. your mother was pushing me around a little bit. she was putting a lot of pressure on me. >> like a good mom. like a jewish mom. >> thousands celebrated his release back home as edan began his recovery from brutal conditions. >> 6-foot something tall and the lowest he was 121 pounds. so it was -- it was a disaster. but he is much, much better now. >> bret, many people here today call edan's homecoming a miracle. it's something that they prayed about every single day after he was taken hostage by hamas. as for what comes next. edan's rabbi tells fox that he looks forward to returning to somewhat of a more private and normal life and spending time with his family. bret? >> bret: nate, thank you.

tonight, another example of how artificial intelligence may already be effecting your life. even if you know nothing about ai. it turns out the energy required by this evolving technology could mean higher cooling bills, this summer. here is fox business correspondent madison alworth. >> data centers, the backbone of ai use a lot of energy, and their energy demands are growing at the same time we are seeing higher temperatures, electricity shortages and an aging electric grid. according to government estimate, electricity bills will be 4% higher this summer than last. that's above the 2.4% inflation rate and the national energy director association thinks the number is even higher. closer to a 7% increase in cost. making this potentially the most expensive summer to stay cool in 12 years. energy economists say if nothing is done to address data center energy costs, the problem will

only get worse. >> their consumption puts more pressure on the grid. and some people have argued that their rates are not appropriate. they should be higher. because if they are not sufficient to cover their cost of electricity, then consumers pay more. >> and some consumers are already paying a lot more. in illinois customers are seeig electricity bills rise by 50%. in pennsylvania, ppl customers are paying 16% more. as of this month. in maryland, electric bills are climbing 15 to $18 a month. all states that have data centers. the energy department is forecasting that data center energy demands will triple by 2028. states are insent advising companies to come in and build data centers in their areas, but experts say that that needs to be paired with energy development. bret? >> bret: madison, thank you. new details about just how bad

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>> bret: most of the religion sistered voters surveyed in the latest fox news poll say the biden white house was not being honest and transparent about the president's mental health.

68% feel that way. 29% disagree. 52% of democrats agree with that assessment. 81% of republicans and 75% of independents feel that way as well. 52% of registered voters feel it is important to investigate the biden administration's use of the auto pen, half think congress should investigate who was making key decisions. 44% favor a probe into whether the president's decline was being covered up. we have new information tonight about the state of the democratic party, one report says officials may have to borrow money just to stay afloat. big donors are pulling back. and party leadership is under growing pressure. here is correspondent mark meredith. >> democratic party chairman ken martin has only had his job for four months. but party insiders tell the "new york times" his tenure is creating chaos and a cash crunch. the "times" writing the dnc's financial situation has grown so

bleak the top officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying the bills. martin admits donors are frustrated after last november's big losses yet democratic strategists tell fox it's not all doom and gloom. today, texas congresswoman jazmine crockett told the view she believes her party's next leader may be an outsider. >> if we the people say we are the donor class. >> that's right. >> then we can make anything happen with our 5 and $10. >> barack obama. [cheers] >> this week former president obama reemerged telling a connecticut crowd progressives must stay in the fight. >> we are going to have to then decide what our commitments are. it will be uncomfortable for a time. >> new york city mayoral candidate brad lander seemed to want to pick a fight over immigration as he was arrested this week for allegedly assaulting law enforcement officers who were trying to detain a migrant. so far no charges have been filed. >> i have questions for the

secretary. >> the incident coming a week after california senator alex padilla was detained for interrupting homeland security secretary kristi noem's news ghnewsconference. they quickly moved to fund raise off the moment. >> bernie sanders is urging democrats to speak out this weekend. is he touring the south. making stops in louisiana, texas, and oklahoma, encouraging voters to revolt against the trump administration. bret? >> bret: marc, thank you. ♪ tonight, many people around the country are celebrating juneteenth commemorating the emancipation of slaves across the u.s. cities are holding events. joe biden is attending a church in gaflts stolen one where the order ending slavery in texas was read on this date in 1865. two years after president

abraham lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation. religion correspondent lauren green is in times square tonight with the story. good evening, lauren. >> hey, g good evening, bret. hardly anything more american than times square. uniquely american celebration mark the end of race-based slavery in america. this year it's bound in both festivities and politics. >> happy juneteenth, everyone. >> lauren: on times square broadway stars gave a free concert in honor of the day. >> i feel incredibly blessed to be here, to be able to celebrate juneteenth with the broadway league in times square with other artists and honoring my ancestors. >> lauren: in fort worth, texas thousands showed up for the annual walk for freedom while in new hampshire a jubilant rededication of african burial grounds.

political winds shifted under the second trump administration with some companies pulling back on what is called brand activism. while some juneteenth celebrations across the nation have been canceled or scaled back. the federal holiday marks june 19th, 1865, almost two and a half years after president lincoln declared the slaves free in the emancipation proclamation. union soldiers arrived in gafltion stolen bay, texas where a union general proclaimed last to hear the news all slaves are free. you know, juneteenth is sometimes called america's second independence day. while the fourth of july birthed the nation ending slavery made all citizens truly equal. back to you. >> bret: lauren green live in times square, thank you. up next the panel on what to make of the president's two week window for diplomacy when it qums to iran. first what some of our fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox 38 in corpus christi, texas a spacex rocket being tested in texas explodes.

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the president is saying he will make a decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks. very clear and direct. >> president trump will do what is best for america. i trust his judgment. we're both committed to making sure that iran will not have a

nuclear weapon. >> it is a national security interest of the united states for iran not to have a bomb. but i don't believe that will be achieved by the united states getting dragged in to a war. >> iran poses a threat not only to israel, but also to the united states of america. and it must stop. >> bret: the question is whether president trump makes that decision for the townhouse get in, to possibly take out the nuclear facilities, politico writes it this way inside trump's thinking on iran, the president is leaning firmly toward military action to take out iran's nuclear facilities but insists he won't make a final call until the very last moment. it's worth remembering, too, what we have learned from trump's on-off tariff moves that this president likes to build up extreme leverage before suddenly moving to cut a deal. his press secretary said this about the intelligence today. >> let's be very clear. iran has all that it needs to achieve a nuclear weapon.

all they need is a decision from the supreme leader to do that. and it would take a couple of weeks to complete the production of that weapon, which would, of course, pose an existential threat not just to israel but to the united states and to the entire world. a couple of weeks according to the white house on that run up. hugh hewitt, meridith mcgraw white house reporter for the "wall street journal" and mark halperin editor and chief of two way. hugh, what do you make of this back and forth but israel is obviously on the move inside -- inside iran. and there is a decision on the u.s. side. >> a decision, i think, that is probably donald trump, bret, biggest decision of his life. the most important decision he has ever made. he likes to end wars. i think he would end a war with a strike on fordow and other facilities deeply buried under ground. i ended the war can isis. he ended the war with the houthis, he likes to end wars and bring peace.

this regime in iran though has to be brought low before they begin the negotiate in good faith. they have spent 50 years or 46 to be specific lying to the world about who they are and what they intend to do. they are responsible for the death of about a thousand american military members. both in iraq and in lebanon and in saudi arabia. so, it's an evil regime. donald trump has its measure. and is he practicing master ambiguity about when and if he is going to strike. >> bret: meredith, the strike by iran into israel targeting -- well, they said they were targeting intelligence facility but the missile hit a hospital. and the prime minister went there to see the aftermath and to see all of the people who were injured by that bombing vowing to strike back inside iran. we don't know what that looks like. but, likely be significant. >> i mean, striking a hospital,

you know, it goes beyond the pale, we are at this critical moment for president trump. this was a shift in tone, i think, from him today saying that he would take two weeks to make a decision but he has been consistent in that it's unacceptable for iran to have a nuclear weapon and we know from officials that while he wants this to be a diplomat i can negotiation in the end all options are on the table for him. and as we heard from the press secretary earlier today, they're going to be waiting to see what comes out of that meeting with european allies. and iran's foreign minister tomorrow. but, you know, i think as hugh pointed out and you pointed out too, bret, part of how trump operates is being a little ambiguous and keeping people guessing. and i think what we saw today from the white house is part of that. >> bret: during this time, marc,

it's tough to be a leader because all of these little nuggets of information come out. they're analyzed seven times by all of us about what it really means, reading the tea leaves. axios says trump presses aides on whether bunker buster plan to bomb iran will work. he wants to make sure such an attack is really needed. wouldn't drag the u.s. into a prolonged war in the middle east and most of all would actually achieve the objective of destroying iran's nuclear program. if you look at these bunker busters, the depth, the gdu 57. the pentagon says it can do the job. it may have to be done a couple of times to the same facility and general jack keane says there really aren't good alternatives to this. >> second term president who is as confident. >> conduct a ground raid, you know, secure the facility and then blow it up and try to get out of there without taking a lot of casualties is a lot of risk associated with that. you could also take down the ventilation system and deny that

obviously ventilation to people working there. so there are alternatives. none of them are quite as good. >> bret: sorry about that, marc h a little soundbite, there go ahead. >> i agree with so much meredith and hugh said i agree with you biggest decision of his life not his second term not his presidency but his life. i agree with meredith about the ambiguity. here is ambiguity. no one has ever used this weapon in this way. and it's been studied by the pentagon for decades but we don't know and he doesn't know. he likes ambiguity for others. he doesn't like it for himself. and i think the president has done what his predecessors could not do. he has leverage over iran. unprecedented. since this became a problem. since the shah was deposed. he has got it in part because the proxies are weakened in part because israel has laid down a massive predicate controlling the airspace, he has done it through his own actions and now he is not in any rush as they said today at the white house, wait and see how this plays out and basically say to iran, you

can do this the hard way by negotiating essentially a surrender or the harder way through u.s. military action. >> bret: yeah, unconditional surrender, hugh, it's tough to see that the iran supreme leader or iranian officials are going to go down that road. who knows. the two weeks really perked everybody, ears in washington when karoline leavitt said that from the white house press briefing room. >> it is sort of classic donald trump to give himself a lot of run way. it could happen tonight, bret. i really do believe this president has been saying the same thing for 15 years. i know he has been saying it for 10 years. when he came down the escalator, when he was citizen trump 10 years ago this week, he had three things on his mind, the wall, trade with china, and iran. he said iran is trying to take over the middle east, and it's the worst deal ever, and they cannot have a nuke. he said the same thing for 10 years. so, if he struck iran tonight, i would not be surprised.

if he wanted to the wait to see how iivelgtive the israeli attacks were, i would not be surprised. he is the master of this moment. and it is a big, big moment. >> bret: meredith, there is this peace in the "the washington post" about who has his ear when it comes to advising. they have like a tier one advisers which includes j.d. vance, the chairman of the joint chiefs, marco rubio, john ratcliffe, the cia director. the white house is denying that there is an inner circle, these claims had no basis in reality. there is a clear attempt toe sow distrust among the president's cabinet. secretary hegseth and gabbard trusted members of the president's national security team that's karoline leavitt. is there a sense that there is one side that has more influence? >> well, i do think, you know from, covering president trump for many years now, he really likes to pick the brain of everybody around him. and really try to survey all of

his advisers and, you know, take in as much different points of view as he can. i think, you know, we are seeing even within the republican party a debate going on about how involved the u.s. should be and even within the administration, we know that there are a lot of different opinions about, you know, the level of involvement that the u.s. should have. >> yeah. all right, panel, stand by if you would. up next, new fox polls on immigration, the biden investigations and then we take you to a place, the best place, maybe, to fly a kite right now go. fly a kite. ♪

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>> president trump's powerful efforts to secure our homeland are working with illegal entries being overwhelmingly halted the trump administration is dramatically ramping up efforts to arrest and deport all of the millions of criminal illegal aliens that joe biden let into our country. >> it's so screwed up that we have a president wants to boot everybody out and going to have major impacts because the workforce isn't going to be there. >> bret: quite something when you get the borders numbers on the border down to zero. we're back with the panel. mark, it is a perception thing, depends on how you look at this and how you see deportations.

very, very high in that first administration. you know, it's a lot of loud response to this. >> well, we all remember the no king protest against barack obama's deportations. no, we don't because there weren't any. the left tolerated that look, i think just as president trump promised to deal with iran's nuclear program. this is unambiguous promise. i think most people agree with dealing with the border is good. when we get to the issue of people who came here illegally but part of their communities and work in our economy. that's a tough one. and that's a tough one, i will say it's a tough one for me. can i see both side of this. if i were polled on that question, i'm not sure how i would answer it, it would probably depend on how the pollster phrased it. >> yeah, exactly, hugh. one of those polls the view of deporting illegal immigrants favor 56% oppose 46%. to that point, you know, how you

feel about it to mark's point, you know, it's the people that came over during the biden years, the open doors in recent months, in recent years, before that, how long. there is all kinds of questions. >> i am with mark. a border hawk and regulation dove. i lived in california almost 30 years. migrants are a feature, not a bug. people have been there for a very long time. i think donald trump, by the way, he has told me on the air on my program he is open to taking care of the dreamers. i think he is open to taking care of everyone who is in the country and living a good, solid productive life because that helps american productivity. i noted that karoline leavitt said criminal again today. the emphasis has been and i think it should remain on criminal migrants who came in during the biden flood and it was a flood. and, unless and until sanctuary cities cooperated with ice, we're not going to get those criminals without also getting

the hard-working migrant who has been here for 25 years. it's a tragedy, but i think most americans have this same mixed feeling that mark and i have. >> bret: all right. meredith, it's juneteenth, we have this video from juneteenth at the white house that went viral of president biden, if you remember that. that raised a lot of questions and talked about his mental cognitive abilities kind of staring into the light there. there is now this senate hearing dealing with all of this. who knew what, when, take a listen. >> tell the truth and run or do you have a greater obligation to your boss? >> well, luckily i didn't have that problem. >> apparently armchair diagnosing former president biden is more important than the issues of grave concern. >> the ceremonial song hail to the chief was effectively replaced with hail to the pen.

>> bret: talking about the auto pen there. there is a poll question in our poll about do you previous white house was it transparent about biden's mental fitness, 68 percent said no. you can see using the auto pen, making key decisions covering up his decline. thoughts on this and where it's going? >> well, i think one thing that was worth pointing out in that poll is that there is a difference between people wanting to know about how president biden's mental decline may have impacted decision-making, may have impacted the use of the auto pen versus the cover-up. and i thought that was sort of an interesting data point in there. but, you know, we continue to hear new reporting come out from new books, new revelations about what was going on behind the scenes. and in the senate hearing, republicans are trying to get to the bottom of it, but, democrats did not seem to be on the same page with it.

but, it does seem there is public interest in knowing how all of that really could have impacted any decision-making that was going on at the white house. >> bret: especially when it came to the auto pen. mark, final word. >> mark: some people call it an attempted cover-up. i call it failed cover-up. we all saw it happen there should be bipartisan commitment to investigate how it impacted how the country was governed by someone who was commander-in-chief and pardoned people and did all sorts of things. the suspicions about the auto pen might be true. they might not. but we should know. >> bret: hugh, have you obviously talked about this on your radio show. >> i have. i want to know about judges who picked them and i want to know about the pardons, who put them in front of the president because his infirmity has been obvious for years. he was not making those choices. i look forward to scrutiny from the highest levels until we get the answers. >> bret: okay. panel, thanks so much.

♪ >> bret: finally tonight, a special day. >> we biggest in the world. may be up to 5 or 6,000 kite flyers coming here to fly their kites every year. >> bret: just go fly a kite. the sky brimming with color and creativity as the world's largest kite festival kicked off on the danish island of fanu. as you heard there, maybe 5,000, 6,000 people flocking to this picturesque island to let their kites take to the sky. the event celebrates 40th anniversary this year and will run through sunday. that's a lot of kites there. on the danish island. tomorrow on "special report," the trump administration studies east palestine, ohio railroad disaster. put out the results of this study and make some recommendations when it comes to

the health implications they find in east palestine. remember, if you can't catch us live, set your dvr, 6 :00 p.m. in the east. 3:00 p.m. in the west coast. follow me on instagram and x at bret baier for exclusive behind the scenes content. thank you for inviting us into your home tonight, that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. we have got you covered all things israel and iran, trey yingst and his team on the ground always. "the ingraham angle" is now. >> kayleigh: i'm kayleigh mcenany in for laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle." thank you for watching. we begin with a fox news alert. the white house saying president trump will make a decision within the next two weeks on whether the united states will take military action against ir