winning first place in the music international began prix in new york city. and he was awarded audience favorite out of 600 competitors. give him a like. give him a follow. you can find him there at sasha and music gentleman jake. i will tweet it so you have more. perrine that on politics. >> jesse: record setting turnout vero beach book signing insane. 11 hours. an 11-hour book signing. >> dana: no way. >> jesse: thousands and thousands of people. skipped lunch. took pictures with everybody. i swear to god. i went to the bathroom twice. was amazing. tonight we have johnny on the beach doing a quiz in palm. richard, judge, i'm very, very sorry. we do have to go. >> richard: it's okay. >> jesse: have a good one. >> bret: good thing you are not cricket. thanks, jesse. good evening, welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. breaking tonight, serious story. three law enforcement officers

have been shot and killed in a u.s. marshal's task force serving a warrant in east charlotte, north carolina. just getting these breaking details. news conference ongoing. correspondent jonathan serrie has been following the latest tonight from atlanta, our southeast newsroom. good evening, jonathan. >> good evening, bret. charlotte mecklenburg police say the scene is now safe for residents. they no longer need to shelter in place. but the shooting is exacted a heavy toll. police in that ongoing news conference confirming just moments: aid officers were shot in this incident and that three law enforcement officers were killed. of the surviving officers one of them is listed in critical condition. of a u.s. marshal's service. but also members of law enforcement agencies. they were attempting to serve a

warrant for a firearms violation. some sort of weapons charge on a resident, when this suspect, allegedly opened fire on them. police say the officers returned fire. killing the suspect found dead at the residence. the shooting continued from inside the home injuring these officers; so the fire fight went on. there was a local resident who spoke with local station wbtv saying that at one point police used his home, including one officer who seemed to be trained as a sharp shooter using one of the windows in his home, exchanging gunfire with that next door home. and then at some point during the chaos, police officers rescued one of the fallen officers, dragging him by his shoulders through this man's home. but he could not tell what the extent of the injuries were.

again, bret, police are still act tialy investigating the situation after the gunfire ended. they found two additional people inside that home. they brought them into the police station and they are questioning them now to see whether they are additional suspects, perhaps additional gunmen or if they were just innocent bystanders who happened to be inside that home. bret? >> bret: okay, jonathan. 8 officers shot. three dead at this point. we'll continue to follow the breaking news. thank you. in other news, a 2:00 p.m. eastern deadline has come and gone for protesting students at columbia university to leave their encampment or face suspension. this comes as anti-semitic demonstrations defy administrators and clash with police on campuses around the nation. one of the spot shots tonight austin, texas. police today have arrested several anti-israel protesters there. one student dragged away by law enforcement officer while

observers recorded videos and yelled at the officers there police issuing a disperse order this afternoon. warning the demonstrators of potential shall. at the white house how president biden's team is dealing with the protest. david spunt at george washington university here in washington with conflicts between police and demonstrators overnight there but we begin with israel alexis mcadams on the columbia campus right now. good evening, alexis. four hours past that deadline the tents over my shoulder here are still set up. so now columbia university telling the media just moments ago that they have now started suspending student protesters who just wouldn't leave this encampment. the protesters demanding though the university deliver on their demands. watch. >> to disperse but it is against the will of the students to disperse. we do not abide by university pressures.

we on the will. divestment, disclosure, amnesty. >> so this is a look from above new york city at the dozens of tents still set up at columbia university. the so-called gaza solidarity encampment still sitting in the middle of campus hours after the university's campus threatened to suspend students who didn't clear out voluntarily saying they would have to sign some paperwork. we have seen some of the tents have kind of gone away there still has been a presence. there were just 100 tents here the other day. embattled president shafik the school would explore internal options to bring the crisis here to a close. we will have to see how that plays out. not just here at columbia but protests continue at. in yu where schools give protesters a deadline of noon according to top officials to hough out that encampment and now say they will take disciplinary action, too. the solidarity coalition says they are in negotiations with senior administration members but still says they're not

afraid of suspension and will not move until their needs are met. back out here live at columbia. see what is going on with encampment. no mention on if they are going to call with the nypd saw what happened with that more than 100 students were arrested for trespassing. so we will have to keep a close eye on that. bret. >> bret: alexis mcadams, thank you. anti-semitic demonstrations across the nation continue to defy administrators and law enforcement try fog make them disperse. the protests turning intense at a school right here in the nation's capital. correspondent david spunt is on the george washington university campus tonight with the latest. good evening, david. >> david: good evening, bret right now a peaceful situation here on gwu's campus. overnight, though, a completely different situation. [chanting] >> a rush of protesters on the george washington university campus. breaking through and removing metal barriers, pushing back police, as a pro-palestinian encampment swelled with more

demonstrators. school officials called it an egregious violation of community trust. despite calls to vacate the yard, no arrests and no forcible relocation yet. entering its 5th day, the demonstrations taking place just half a mile from the white house, have schedule to more than 200 people. fox news spoke to anti-israel protesters living in tents in the school's university yard. >> we have had a really good momentum. all of that being inspired by the people in gaza. >> i think that my jewish identity is really driving me to be here. and judaism we have this idea of to heal the world. to repair the world. >> some students tell fox news they are squared for their safety and their future. >> i'm jewish. i'm israeli. well, this country be safe for my children? and it's not only a jewish problem. it is an american problem. >> nationwide there have been fresh orders from police to

disperse including the university of texas in austin. students have been taken into custody and removed from campus. some dragged by their feet and skirmishes led to dozens of arrests over the weekend. including tulane university in new orleans. and emerson college in boston. but, most of the campus protests have been peaceful. including at emery universities in atlanta. officials are looking at other universities and looking at the situation here to see what to do about commencement in a few weeks. right now it's still on, but after we saw what happened last week with at usc in los angeles, southern california where the commencement there is canceled because of security concerns. bret? >> bret: david spunt here at gwu, david, thanks. the biden administration is being very careful about what it's saying and not saying about the demonstrations. white house correspondent peter doocy has that part of the story live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. >> peter: bret, good evening. officials here say president biden's focus is not on the

campus chaos but rather on ongoing negotiations to free hostages. and they say the president is supportive of the protesters, up to a certain point. >> it is a painful moment. we get that. [chanting divest] >> peter: white house officials sympathize with prefers but won't weigh in on consequences. >> free expression has to be done within the law. >> peter: and with respect for jewish students. >> there's no place for anti-semitism on campuses or any -- anywhere else. >> peter: but it's found a place on campuses to the dismay of some democrats. >> it's not political discourse to tell jews that they should be gassed. >> progressives are hoping to separate anti-semitic comments from legitimate criticism of israel's government. >> the vast majority of the american people are sphussed disgustedwith netanyahu's war mn gaza. >> some jewish students support a genocide in gaza.

>> we should not have to tolerate anti-semitism or bigotry for all jewish students, whether they are pro-genocide or anti-genocide. >> officials are cagey about what president biden has and hasn't seen. >> i can't speak to him catching any of what's happening on tv. >> and the administration is not weighing in one way or another about efforts to clear out encampments. >> as far as police presence, that's up to the colleges and universities. >> if concerned students decide to interrupt commencements that aren't canceled, they will have the white house's blessing. >> americans should have the right to do so, to peacefully protest, whether it's at a commencement or at their school or anywhere in this country. >> peter: president biden talks all the time how involved he was with the civil rights and anti-rhetoric in charlottesville inspired his 2020 campaign. on this issue is he still, mostly silent. bret? >> bret: peter doocy live on the north lawn. peter, thank you. stocks were up today to kick off

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>> bret: well, it appears former president donald trump and former presidential rival, ron desantis, the florida governor, have buried the political hatchet for now. the presumptive republican nominee brights he and the florida governor met over the weekend and will closely work together during the campaign. the two exchanging insults while desantis was running for president, of course. also tonight, increasing concern from both political parties about the disruptive effect of robert f. kennedy jr. and what he could mean for the november election. former president trump attacking kennedy as more liberal than any democrat. alexandria hoff has the campaign news tonight. >> all recent major polling shows a head-to-head matchup

between president biden and former president trump in the margins of error. those numbers shift when survey expands independent cornell west, jill stein and robert f. kennedy jr. trump's leading growing to 9 percentage points with kennedy pulling in 16% support it. still isn't clear whether kennedy would pull more votes away from trump or biden especially in battleground states. the latest fox news polling outs of four states shows that trump supporters find kennedy more favorable than biden supporters do. kennedy's campaign revealed that a major announcement is coming wednesday as former president trump is turning up the heat. writing on truth social: r.f.k. jr. is a democrat plant. and a vote for jr. would essentially be a wastesed protest vote. r.f.k. jr. responded on x calling trump's post unhinged, challenging him to a debate. fox news confirmed that trump and florida governor ron desantis met privately in miami.

sources tell fox desantis agreed to help trump as he tries to close his fundraising gap with president biden. this has reignited both speculation about a possible trump-desantis ticket and questions whether a president and vice president can reside in the same state. while the constitution does not explicitly prohibit it under the 12th amendment, electors from that state cannot vote for both. not ideal in a close election. we saw this in 2,000 had with george w. bush and dick cheney. both lived in texas. cheney sold his house and registered to vote in his previous state of wyoming. bret? >> bret: alex, thanks. let's bring in chief political analyst brit hume. brit, good evening. the headlines were abuse with this meeting. "the washington post," despite icy dynamic trump and desantis meet. axios trump and desantis privately meet after bruising primary fight. a.p. trump and desantis meet to discuss fundraising. what do you make of this for the

campaign and what it means for the trump campaign? >> well, always interesting to see what politicians can bring themselves to do when it's in their political interest to do something. for trump and desantis to get together makes all kinds of sense on paper although it was a pretty bitter campaign against each other with some of the harshest language we have heard being thrown back and forth. particularly from trump toward desantis hook at desantis want point of view. he can't run again. his term ends he will be a man without a job, unless, unless, he could be brought into the trump administration where a guy of his competence and ability might be a welcome addition. i'm not sure trump will see it that way. but, if desantis is helpful to him during this campaign, particularly in fundraising. he might consider that there is a barrier to him being named vice presidential nominee unless they could pull off some kind of stunt where trump moves himself to one of the other residences

and declares himself to be a resident of that state instead of florida. all fun to speculated about and watch. and we'll see what comes of it. >> bret: one would have to leave the state or forfeit those votes and florida is important. i want to play this soundbite from james carville and he is talking about young people who maybe are abandoning the biden campaign pretty pointed. take a listen. >> there will be no government left. there will be no rights left. you are live under theocracy, you will end up -- that's all right [bleep] 26-year-old you don't feel like election is important to me. did not addressing the issues that i care about. my advice to tell these young people to get off your [bleep] ass and go vote because you should vote like your entire future and the entire future of this united states depends on it. because, quite frankly, it does. and that's not an exaggeration.

>> bret: brit, your thoughts? >> brit: oh, yes it's an exaggeration. we have seen what happens through four years of trump. and we saw what happened on january 6th and we didn't come anywhere near close to losing our democracy on that day it was insurrection that didn't last past night fall. this is certain amount of hysteria. what we have here carville is certainly not the only man in america who is frustrated with what he sees happening among these college kids who are preoccupied with israel and gaza and not with the presidential election he may be one of the few mad for that reason. so what he wants them to do is pout aside the thing that they are hysterical about which is, you know, alleged genocide in gaza. and be more concerned about the thing he is hysterical about which is the possibility of a trump re-election.

so, i guess that's what his command is. >> bret: really quickly. a lot of dust-up over this book by south dakota governor kristi noem in which she says that she shot her family's puppy shooting dog cricket, shot and killed it because it was going after livestock. it was writes in the book and defends in the post south dakota law say dogs that kill livestock can be put down. basically walking back this part of her book where she seemed to be touting the tough decision that she made to shoot this dog. >> well, when you think about people having a dog put down and now i have have a experience with a dog we had in our family had to be put down. you do it with a vet does with a shot and dog goes unconscious and not feel anything. not a lot of people i know of have gone out and executed their own dog. a great deal of america will

look at and this a think it's telling. i think it's damaging, bret, i really do. cruelty to animals or shooting your dog strikes people as not normal behavior by they will probably imagine a not normal person the fact that she wanted to say that is telling. >> peculiar. if i'm a political adviser to her and that's not my department. but had i been asked about opinion about it don't put that in your book, whatever you do. shot your dog. >> bret: brit, as always, thank you. >> brit: thanks, bret. >> bret: up next accuses israel of human rights abuses. you don't need to be a citizen to vote in washington, d.c.'s elections. really? chad pergram explains. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> bret: breaking tonight. the biden administration is taking a major step against one of its most important allies, the u.s. is punishing the israeli military for what it calls human rights violations.

state department correspondent gillian turner has specifics tonight. >> gillian: the biden administration is condemning an ally, currently at war. >> we found five israeli units responsible for individual incidents of gross violations of human rights. all of these were incidents much before october 7th and none took place in gaza. >> gillian: the next step according to u.s. law is funding cuts. the state department today refused to share any details about plans when pressed by reporters. >> so i'm not going to get into the specifics of these incidents. it is ongoing process so i'm not going to get more prescriptive or specific on the relevant details. >> the so-called leahy law prohibits the u.s. government from funding foreign myrtle that commit gross human rights violations. fox news has learned the biden administration made this decision in recent days and it's been met with intense pushback from israel's leaders and

critics of president biden's israel policy. >> it demonstrates the absolute moral confusion inside of the biden administration. israel is fighting to defend its own nation. >> the decision is also likely to further inflame anti-u.s. and and israeli sentiment at home and abroad. this news comes as secretary blinken is in saudi arabia discuss the ago potential cease-fire in with bin salman and negotiating for the release of hostages, including an american still in hamas captivity. >> hamas has before it a proposal that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous. i'm hopeful that they will make the right decision. >> gillian: tonight we're learning that the state department's arabic language spokesperson has resigned citing opposition to the biden administration's support for israel in the ongoing war in gaza. this is the third such resignation here at the state department since october 7th. wreath. >> bret: gillian turner live at the state department. thank you. a federal appeals court has ruled west virginia and north carolina's refusal to cover

certain healthcare for transgender people with government sponsored insurance is discriminatory. the richmond based fourth u.s. circuit of appeals ruled 8-6 in the case involving conch of gender affirming care by north carolina stated employee health plan and the conch of gender affirming surgery by west virginia medicaid. the case is likely headed to the u.s. supreme court. forecasters are warning of more severe weather in parts of texas and the lower mississippi valley. but the risk is said to be lower than it was over the weekend when five people were killed in a days' long tornado outbreak in the plains in the midwest. since friday, nearly 130 reports of tornadoes have been tallied by the national weather service from texas to iowa. officials say the risk will increase tuesday, wednesday, and into thursday. as anti-semitic campus protests spread throughout the nation, there are questions about who is behind this. who is paying for all this

activity? correspondent william longness looks for answers tonight from los angeles. [chanting free, free, free palestine] >> who are they and what do they want and where is their money coming frrgets the ford foundation, the rockefeller foundation, all of them have supported anti-israel causes. >> the research center says liberal foundations also support the campaign for palestinian rights. hundreds of thousands coming from the rockefeller fund and george soros open society foundation over the last three years. [chanting] >> the group's own website says the money pays for banner and signs $1,000 a month in salaries for fellows who go campus to campus running anti-israel campaigns. target audience 15 to 35-year-olds committed to abolitionist future. they provide tool kits and look for other students who may share their owen world view. feminists and years black and indigenous people. >> indigs in on our land.

>> the woman who disrupted a private dinner at u.k. berkeley. a man arrested at yale for trespassing. and a university of texas activist detained by police. >> protest groups go by different names. the largest students for justice in palestine received money from a liberal new york foundation called west pac. as student activity fees according to the pro-israel ngo monitor. >> money provided does come in some cases from student fees and students who pay those fees have the absolute right to know where their money is going. >> arizona state allows students to opt out of funding clubs they oppose. these other universities declined to say how much student money goes to pro-palestinian groups. both the soros and rockefeller foundation say their ground making is for peace in the middle east. bret? >> bret: william, thank you. we will continue to follow that meantime, non-citizens here in the nation's capitol will be able to vote in local elections this november. the board of elections recently sent a mayoral to residents

informing them of that right. here is senior congressional correspondent chad pergram. >> not an american citizen, not a problem. when it comes to voting for some offices, in the district of columbia. >> washington, d.c. is using taxpayer dollars to encourage non-citizens to vote in our nation's capital. >> district of columbia residents received this flier announcing that non-citizens residing in d.c. can vote for mayor. attorney general, city council, and the school board. thanks to a new law which even d.c. mayor muriel bowser refused to sign. it became law without her signature. >> this radical change to our election laws upset lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. >> congress serves as a super city council for the district and can intervene. >> what is this really about? it's about kicking around the people of washington, d.c. >> but republicans believe it's about who is eligible to vote. >> i think it's ridiculous that in our nation's capital an

individual who may work say at the russian embassy residing in d.c. for only 30 days. under current law could vote for mayor. >> non-citizens can't cast ballots for president and d.c.'s nonvoting representative in congress. >> at various points, 40 states have permitted non-citizens to vote. >> republicans are making election integrity a tenet of 2024 platform. house speaker mike johnson and former president trump want to impose federal voting guardrails. >> if an individual asserts or states that they're a citizen, they don't have to prove it, they can register that person to vote in a federal election. >> the g.o.p. has a bill daring democrats to support voting for non-citizens but the constitution says local governments control their own elections. bret? >> bret: chad pergram live on the hill. chad, thanks. up next, the panel with the growing rancor over anti-semitic protests on college campuses across the country and what it may mean to politics heading

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>> these need to be active and vocal about the fact they won't tolerate this type of anti-semitism. >> this idea every criticism of israel with anti-semitic is dangerous. >> we should all speak out, right? when protests crosses the line, when it becomes violent or when there is hate speech. >> bret: debate inside the democratic party. some are getting more active now. axios scoop democrats turn up the heat on columbia university, columbia's university board facing new pressure from a group of house democrats to act decisively and end ongoing pro-palestinian encampment on campus or resign. axios has learned calls for columbia officials to resign have largely been confined to the g.o.p. making this larger escalation in democrats' rhetoric on the high profile demonstration. these demonstrations happening all over the place but on columbia's campus there was 2:00 p.m. deadline or else people were to be suspended past that this afternoon. no sense that is ending any time soon. so let's bring in our panel.

harold ford jr. tennessee congressman and co-host of the five. ben domenech. host of the ben domenech podcast on fox news radio. and axios political reporter stef kight. you see a change in some of the democrats' talking points on this from the beginning until now? >> i mean, certainly seeing house democrats actually call for, you know, the stepping down of officials at columbia. it's a huge moment in a shift we have only really heard from republicans up until this point calling for that kind of action. and expecting there to be divide among democrats on the hill when they vote on a resolution against anti-semitism we already know some democrats are not certain they can support the bill as it is. even though there are democrats who have signed on to this motion. so we are continuing to see this issue be really a divisive issue within the democratic party. and they are struggling to figure out how to respond to it. wanting to, you know, protect the right to free speech, the right to protest, wanting to

assure the more progressive wing of their party that they do care about humanitarian concerns in gaza while also standing by israel and saying they are not okay with the anti-semitism. >> bret: civilian deaths and numbers are staggering inside gaza. there's two sides of that argument. but, there is concern. obviously. harold, across the board. but, more and more questions are being asked of democrats. here is senator bernie sanders on pro-genocide tag. >> she said some jewish students are pro-genocide. is that something that you're comfortable with that? >> well, i don't know exact -- look, what i think the essential point that ilhan made is that we do not want to see anti-semitism in this country. and i think the word genocide is something that is being determined by the international court of justice. >> bret: talking there about ilhan omar saying there were pro-genocide students on campus. how do you see this politically? >> good to be with you.

i would say a couple things. i think it's interesting. two of the biggest voices in the senate supporting kids and supporting what's those able to express their views on palestine are chuck schumer and bernie sanders. i think these kids want to do something big and transformative. they think of themselves as agents for big, big change in the country and big, big change in our policy. and they see themselves coming out of a movement of protest. i would remind all of them that the most prolific and persuasive protest in our country has always been peaceful. leaders paved the way for african-americans and americans in the 50's and 60's. kings and john lewises and rose parks. jesse jacksons and andy youngs. they never preached or advocated hate or violence towards those who opposed their views. they only amplified their own. there is a difference for saying you are for a two state solution you are for protecting gazans and for humanitarian aid to be

able to get to people who need it and saying you are hamas. than say are from the river to the sea. they got to do a better job. these universities now i think have introduced formal elements how they act going forward. how do you litigate tenure? you have tenured professors telling kids they should be out here doing these things advocating violence. that's wrong. they should be fired. the admissions process, do you rethink that process. do you rethink how donors are able to be active in these process. and more importantly, what are colleges doing to teach critical thinking? these are all things that will come out of this, in the immediate term, democrat and republican alike should all be urging people not to be violent. say your peace, but don't be violent. >> bret: yeah. then the back drop of this, we just had the william la jeunesse piece, ben. that's the funding of some of this is that is coming from a number of different groups with different purposes behind it. >> look, i agree with harold that they want to achieve something big. and i think that big thing is

the destruction of the nation state of israel. and i think that's something that is intolerable. i think it's something that advocated for on these campuses is creating toxic and dangerous environments for jewish students. i think that there are consequences for that that they are seeing when it comes to funds for these institutions that i believe is just. i want to go back to the fact that we are dealing with in this moment with a situation where this administration has done nothing but micromanage, condemn, come down on israel in lots of ways to try to appeal to their far left and frankly what i believe is to be racist and anti-semitic supporters who exist in certain pockets in america who hate the existence of the state of israel. that we saw most recently with this condemnation from tony blinken when it comes to the idf. you know, my late father-in-law spent a half an hour on the

senate floor warning that tony blinken was a danger to america, to america's allies, that he was unqualified. that he shouldn't be in the position of power. that it was just absolutely rank opportunism and politicking behind the scenes that led him to that point. that he should never have ascended to that position. and now that he has gotten into an even higher position of power, he has shown us what kind of world he has helped created which is chaos for every region, which is undermining every ally that we have and now at this most critical moment undermining israel's belief in their ability to defend themselves and a way that i believe is completely. >> we should point out your late father-in-law is john mccain. >> i'm not being critical of israel. i'm the one on the panel voted in favor of funding along with your late great who was my friend father-in-law. i would only say this. there were -- republicans that

didn't get funding for israel. democrats didn't vote for funding for israel and ukraine this last go around. my only point these kids there is something going on in our society. i don't think thesed kids want to destroy israel. >> no, no. i believe they distinctly disagree with you. if you listen to them and what they're saying they do not believe israel has a right to exist. >> some of them believe that something is going on in our society. i never thought we would be at a time, ben, a united states congress would be dealing with this. and perhaps you are far more prescient than me i never thought we would be at this point. >> bret: the politics of this moment cnn poll approval of biden's handling of israel, hamas war 28% disapprove 71% echos of 1968. it's going to be quite something. >> it is. this was bad issue from the beginning. initially it was just looking within the democratic parties we

had the progressive wing of the democratic party who felt like biden wasn't doing enough. now as he has tried to find middle ground on their, he has only angered another side of his party and conservatives and independents who are supportive of israel are increasingly unhappy with how biden is handling. they hasn't maintained a very clear position and it seems to many people watching that it's back and forth and that biden is just trying to find the political, the easy political angle and, look, this is a complicated issue. and it's going to be difficult to please any one side but there is no question this is going to hurt biden politically this year. >> bret: all right. we have a lot more to talk about on that. obviously. up next the kennedy effect, how the independent candidate could effect the november election. and, later, a somber anniversary. ♪ ♪ an alternative to pills, voltaren is a clinically proven arthritis pain relief gel, which penetrates deep to target the source of pain with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine directly at the source. voltaren, the joy of movement.

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president trump leading. average of recent polls in the swing states, the former president is enup as you bounce state to state. down different arizona, georgia, michigan, nevada, wisconsin, pennsylvania. some of them pennsylvania very tight at .6%. a little senate again at the race. we're back with the panel. if you had to say, ben, right now you heading into the election which team would you want to be. former president trump's team or biden's team. >> no question you wou would wao be on president trump's team. many polls we see people looking back at the four years of the first term of president trump say that they view that as being a more positive experience. by a pretty significant margin than they view the current ten

you're of president biden. because of that by default that's a real problem for this white house. the other thing is white house is focused so much on these issues that seem to be designed to appeal to their existing democratic base, that they are ignoring the vast significant number of voters who have shifted biden camp to the trump camp over the issue of cost of goods and services we have seen time and again come up as a major issue. a major indicator as the economists looked into it was if you have young children, you are more likely to have shifted from biden to trump, to me, that's because you are going to the grocery, you are shopping and aware. >> bret: economy is still driving on all of these polls, harold, when you talk about the independent race of r.f. kennedy jr. he does factor in a lot of these

some of these swing state polls both sides are worried about him. now you have former president trump going after him. he effects these races. >> there's no doubt. look at this. no one is at 50. democrat you got to be concerned about this. you can't say polls matter and then when polls go against you say they don't matter. they do matter. they are not at 50. state by state the national polls, pitch michigan, commonwealth of pennsylvania arizona and nevada. for the haley supporters who didn't seem to flock right away to trump. i can't believe they are gaining confidence after this trial in new york and other things we will see. finally i said all along what gas prices and food prices are memorial day and the fourth of july and what it cost to electronics and buy clothes in august us east coaster early september. start going back to school in battleground states that will be the key. >> bret: calendar, july, august, conventions really memorial day to harold's point is where everybody zooms in. >> we are all paying attention right now.

a lot of american voters are not looked in yet. look, the big thing that's going to matter in november is going to be r.f.k. jr. he will play a important role to play who comes out on top in november. polling consistently in the doubling digits. we have seen if the primaries have taught us anything there is a healthy appetite on both sides of the aisle, in both parties for protest votes hurt biden and more recently trump in the polls. keep an eye on. >> bret: thank you. >> usc in our prayers. >> bret: thank you very much. thank you. >> bret: finally tonight, today's throwback. a some somber one. horrors of the holocaust seen up close, april 29th, 1945 when the 42nd 45th infantry of the 20th division liberated 32,000 prisoners from dachau in germany as american soldiers neared that

camp they discovered railroad cars filled with decomposed bodies and then came the so-called walking skeletons in the camp. some soldiers so horrified by what they witnessed they began sobbing. a sovereign remembrance on this day as protests obviously continue around the country. tomorrow on "special report," we will talk with the new chairman and ranking member of the house select committee on china about the growing threat from that country plus tiktok and foreign policy. last thing to harold's point, a quick thank you to the doctors and nurses at children's national in d.c. once again, they saved my son's paul life. his fifth open heart surgery. surprise one. is he doing well. he is home. thanks for all your prayers and support across the board. we are very grateful. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. here is laura. >> laura: good evening, everyone. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight as always, thanks for diswroing us. a shocking scene in charlotte, north carolina