i'm bret baier. breaking tonight, growing concerns that president biden may not be adequately responding to increasing attacks on u.s. forces in the middle east from groups sponsored by iran. iranian proxy groups, another incident today. that makes 47 since mid october. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin starts us off tonight live from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. >> good evening, bret. today another attempted attack on u.s. troops. a kamikaze drone targeted a u.s. outpost in syria. iran and its proxy forces could not seem to be getting the administration's message to stop trying to kill u.s. troops. >> the pinpoint attack by a pair of american f-15 warplanes on iranian weapon storage facility in eastern syria wednesday has not slowed the rockets and drones fired by iranian proxies. today, u.s. troops shot down a drone headings toward their base, the fifth attack since the u.s. airstrikes. defense secretary lloyd austin issued another warning to iran while visiting india. >> rest assured that we will strike at a time and place of our choosing. and these attacks against our people must stop. if they don't stop, again, we'ro what's necessary to protect our people. >> but, still, no response from the u.s. military to the iranian backed houthis who shot down a $32 million american reaper drone off the coast of yemen this week, causing it to crash into the red sea. >> president biden is too obsessed with escalation control at the expense of effective deterrence. he is going to have a world of hurt on his hands very soon. when one of these explosive laden drones actually gets through some of our missile defenses around our air bases in iraq and actually kills a number of u.s. servicemen and women. >> the uss eisenhower and carrier strike group passed through the strait near yemen this week after crossing the suez canal on route to the persian gulf. today, in california, for the first time ever, the air force flight tested its six generation state of the art fighter jet named for the sneaky do little raiders who surprised the japanese during world war ii. the b-21 is capable of manned as well as ai controlled autonomous missions carrying conventional and nuclear weapons and a message of deterrence. >> now that the uss eisenhower has passed through the strait and is less vulnerable to attack from yemen, it may be in a better position to be used to send a deterrent message. remember, in the past week, the american aircraft carrier strike group had to pass through two narrow straits. the u.s. has always said it would l. respond at a time and place of its choosing. bret? brett bre jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. thank you. the night sky over gaza has been illuminated with explosions as israeli forces continue their offensive inside. and there are discussions now about what happens after that war is over. correspondent alex hogan is in northern israel tonight. [shouting] [explosion] >> the idf pressing deeper in gaza city day 35 of the war. this cache of rocket launchers shipping containers part of thousands of weapons seized so far. the idf has struck 15,000 targets in gaza. while the israeli prime minister met with other leaders in southern israel, he insists they only want to secure israel and eliminate hamas. >> we don't seek to govern gaza. we don't seek to occupy it. >> palestinian president mahmoud abbas says the palestinian authority is redding to step in when the fighting stops. for now, israel says it has opened a second humanitarian corridor and tens of thousands have left. >> these steps will save lives, far too many palestinians have been killed. far too many have suffered these past weeks. >> still, there is not enough space in shelters. it is so crowded some palestinians are choosing to return to destroyed homes. >> if there is a hell on earth today, its name is northern gaza. >> and in northern israel, hezbollah's cross border attacks from lebanon wounded several israeli soldiers. that's where the idf also detected three foreign drones. apart from soldiers, cities are ghost towns, farmers are some of the few to stay. >> it's a very big responsibility for the you have to feed the cows, you have to give them medical assistance. they don't get it -- >> they have to eat. who will give them to eat? >> french president emmanuel macron said that he supports israel's right to defend itself. but that women and babies are dying in these daily bombings. well, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu firing back tonight arguing that israel only entered the war because of hamas, which he claims continues to use civilians as human shields. bret? >> bret: alex hogan in northern israel. alex, thanks. let's bring in retired army lt. general keith kellogg served as national security adviser to mike pence in the last administration. general, thanks for coming on. i want to start by these attacks on u.s. bases. you know, you put up the map. the dots are increasing. it is starting to get crowded here. and you've talked before about you think maybe it's too timid, the response so far. >> yeah, bret. thanks for having me tonight. it really is. and the comments that were made earlier are very, very important. because, when you look at where the assaults are happening right now, almost 1/3 of those are going into al-asad air base which is in iraq. that's a very large base but it's also well-occupied base by american troops and forces that are there. that's a real vulnerable spot. and, when you look at f-16 replies or f-15 replies on storage depots, it really doesn't send a hard message. a comment was made just a minute ago about an escalation letter. the way you solve it and the way we solve it and we believed it was important to do so, you have to what i would call super escalate. you have to take it to a position of an escalation that the other side goes oh, god, where are we going to go next? this is really getting out of control. we need to stop. we're not there. it's tit-for-tat. that never solves any issue with an aggressor or adversary. and my experience has been over the course of the military career and also career in government, that you have to respond very forcefully. we have the capacity, bret. and we have the ability to do that, we just haven't had the will to do it. and that's what we need to do is take some strong action. >> bret: we have been very fortunate so far as you look at the -- the posture in the middle east that continues to increase in the military positioning there. we have been very fortunate about so far wounded u.s. service members 56 body wounds. 25 traumatic brain injuries. but these are attacks. these are full on attacks that could be fatal if they succeed. >> well, yeah. and the weapons they are using are pretty significant weapons systems that they have had. the drones and rockets that they are using. my concern, bret, is when you lose one or two or three or four or five americans. the american people are going to say what took you so long to do something. the other problem you run is when you have a lack of escalation or a lack of control of that over time, it emboldens the other side. they really don't care. and i think they have reached a point now that they say americans are really not going to respond hard. and when we do we will roll through it. you need to stop it early. you need to stop the fighting early. >> bret: general, veterans day this weekend. thank you for your service. what do you say to young people, inspiring them to maybe serve? it's a tense, violent world out there. what would you say? >> yeah. i would say that, look, with veterans day and those that are serving and have served before, there is an idea -- there is an ideal. there is a concept. there's a nation. this is a wonderful nation. and they should want to serve this nation. it's selfless service. go and give of yourself for something greater than yourself. and when you go into the military, what i liked about it, is that you actually became part of a team and you understood what this nation was all about. that's what i would tell the young men and women out there. go into it. try it out. see what's happening out there. there are some issues we have got to solve in the military right now with a lot of woke policies. but, overall, this is a nation worth defending. the young men and women of america need to step into that gap that is left by veterans before them. it's great place to be. >> bret: thank you, general, again, happy veterans day. >> thanks, bret. thanks for having me. >> bret: president biden will meet with chinese leader xi jinping next week in san francisco. it comes as some within the administration sense an opening chilly relationship between the two countries an opportunity for the townhouse project strength. that's the sense from the inside. the president's detractors not that convinced. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has our story tonight. >> the white house announcing a high stakes sitdown with chinese president xi jinping next week in san francisco after months of diplomacy to frost frothy relations, biden's have. >> they have conversations about the weather and talk about the environment and how they are going to work together on that. he is not going to call them out on anything else. that's why president xi is willing to meet with them. they are not scared of joe biden. >> biden are raise several issues including military-to-military communities. also election influence operations ahead of the taiwanese operations. fentanyl, artificial intelligence, and wars in the middle east and ukraine. but the administration is forecasting a quieter approach, rooted in the belief that china's economy is in much worse shape than they led on and saying china is alarmed at the relative strength of the u.s. economy and also deepening alliances with regional partners. biden, in september -- >> i think china has a difficult economic problem right now for a whole range of reasons. i don't think it's going to cause china to invade taiwan. smanks the opposite. probably doesn't have the same capacity that it had before. >> china is broadcasting its participation in the summit as a chance to tell the world it is open for business. the foreign ministry saying today president xi jinping's trip to apec, upon invitation, reflects the great importance china attaches to asian-pacific cooperation. >> president biden wants to stabilize u.s.-china relations, maintain the status quo in the taiwan strait and get china's help stopping iran from widening the war in the middle east. republican white house hopefuls are calling for a harder line, especially on china's military aggression, economic coercion and espionage, bret? >> bret: jacqui, president biden's own campaign facing a possible violation. what is that about? >> yeah, bret. it stems from this letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials to discredit the hunter biden laptop story. america first legal, which is an organization run by a former trump white house official filed a complaint with the federal election commission calling this an unreported in kind contribution in an effort to influence the 2020 election. neither the biden campaign nor the dnc responded to fox digital's request for comment, bret. >> bret: jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. jacqui, thank you. stocks were up today led by big tech. the dow jumped 391. s&p 568, the nasdaq surged 277. good day on the market. for the week the dow finished two thirds of a percentage point. the nasdaq was up two and a third this week. up next, the search for illegal immigrant wanted for a heinous crime in south america. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 5 in atlanta as thousands of activists from 80 cities gather to protest the public safety training center demonstrations against what is called cop city has been going on for two years now. ktmf in montana frank boreman dies at his home in billings. he and his crew circled the moon 10 times in 1968. paved the way for the lunar landing the next year. he went on to become the president of eastern airlines. frank boreman was 95. this is a look at los angeles. one of the big stories there tonight fox 11. sizza is the lead con attender for the 66th grammy award. she tops the field with nine nominations including record of the year, song of the year and best r and b performance. taylor swift one of several artists with six nominations. the awards will be given out in february. that is tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report," we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ when migraine strikes you're faced with a choice. ride it out with the tradeoffs of treating? 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[chanting] >> migrants in southern mexico chant president biden's name as their caravan makes its way to the u.s.-southern border. that's where border patrol is already overwhelmed and concerns are mounting about the biden administration's mass catch and release policies. >> in boston, ice announced it arrested an illegal immigrant wanted in brazil for killing a child. border patrol had previously arrested the man in may 2021 after he crossed into arizona illegally. but, he was released into the u.s. and failed to report. ice found him living in plymouth, massachusetts, more than two years later. meanwhile, new texas dps video shows the trooper suspecting a suspected human smuggler and known gang member. >> is that somebody hiding back there? >> no, sir. >> as the solo trooper detains him, illegal immigrants begin bailing out of the vehicle and try to escape into the brush. one after another and when the trooper pops the trunk he finds unaccompanied children from mexico. ages 9 and 7. >> are you okay? the children were being smuggled to california when the trooper rescued them. and in san diego county, new video shows migrants camped out off of interstate 8 after crossing illegally and starting fires in dry, windy conditions in high risk burn areas during california's peak wildfire season. and, bret, cbp reports making a massive fentanyl bust in calexico, california that's where their officers seized 185 pounds of fentanyl pills hidden in a smuggler's car. the street value of more than $8 million. it's enough lethal doses to kill millions of people. we will send it back to you. >> bret: bill melugin along the border. bill, thank you. president biden's point man on immigration is facing a new and potentially more serious challenge tonight. an impeachment effort is underway against homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie tells us why this time may be different from capitol hill. >> homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is under fire again. >> good morning, mr. secretary. >> good morning, how are you? >> only this time the republican controlled house may actually impeach him. >> no more strongly worded letters, committee hearings, no more clips on the press. we have to do something about it. >> georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene filed a privileged resolution thursday to force an impeachment vote after two constituents from her district died in a high speed crash caused by suspected human smugglers. >> i hope that he gets impeached. he should be impeached. >> a lawmaker could file a motion to table the vote but fox is told that's not likely to happen and that the resolution could be taken up as early as monday. if it passes, the house would automatically send articles of impeachment to the senate, making history. a cabinet secretary hasn't been impeached in over 140 years. >> it's all messaging. it's all placating her extreme base. i don't think anyone takes her seriously anymore. >> house democrats are pushing back. such a vote is also difficult for moderate republicans who advocate for due process. the house homeland security committee is already months into an investigation. at least one republican griping to fox that green's resolution is a waste of floor time when a government shutdown is just a week away. >> we have got real work to do. we will vote against it and move on. >> bret, all of this has caught the attention of the department of homeland security. a spokesman writing this in part while the house majority has wasted months trying to score points of baseless attacks secretary mayorkas doing his job and working to keep americans safe. once again dhs calling on congress to get back to work and pass some immigration reform bret? >> aishah hasnie live on capitol hill. aishah, thanks. up next, another major protest against the israel-hamas war currently underway in new york city. we will take you there live. plus, what employees at google are doing about their company's. ♪ i'm sarah escherich, i'm the life enrichment director at independence village, the senior living community in waukee, iowa. everybody here really, really make you feel like family and that they love you. our goal with tiktok was to enrich the lives of our residents and just to be able to show people what senior living can be like. i think i am a tiktok grandma. my kids think i am. i mean, we're the ones that are being entertained. time goes faster when you're having fun. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ [bell ringing] and doug says, “you can customize and save hundreds on car insurance with liberty mutual.” he hits his mark —center stage— and is crushed by a baby grand piano. are you replacing me? with this guy? customize and save with liberty bibberty. he doesn't even have a mustache! oh, look! a bibu. 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>> i know that they have tried. netanyahu has declined. i think the ball is in israel's court. broker a deal hamas wants to. >> that's some of the things we were hearing from some of the protesters here. but college campuses, right? remain the epicenter of the dueling protest. now columbia university in new york city taking action tonight. the school suspending two students groups, including students for justice in palestine, and jewish voice for peace. the school telling fox news in part this suspension means that two groups will not be eligible to hold events on campus or receive any university funding here. and, over at the university of pennsylvania, they have had a wide range of issues. anti-semitic slogans displayed on campus buildings there and the school facing a civil rights complaint. students accusing the ivy league university of being a magnet for anti-smythes. the university president says the schooling is gonna take some action here. across the country those protests spill out onto the city streets on a weekly basis. pro-palestinian protesters tell us that president biden's support for israel is gonna change their vote. watch this. >> people are seeing him be complicit in this and to support, you know, support israel militarily like with our tax dollars. so, yeah. definitely going to change how people vote. >> and that rally will continue here. the nypd remains on high alert. can you see them kind of mixed in with the crowds there, bret. they are used to this from these weekend protests. the nypd doesn't know what route they are going to take. just the other day they ended up walking for miles and blocking the manhattan bridge, bret? >> bret: okay. we'll watch it, alexis, thank you. a pro-israel rally will take place tuesday on the national mall in washington. it's being sponsored by the jewish federations of north america. organizers are expecting between 40,000 and 60,000 participants there. unrest in big tech. some employees at google are upset over the company's business relationship with israel. tonight, fox business correspondent kelley o'grady tells us the demands they are now making from los angeles. good evening, kelly. >> google now facing internal pressure as employees take sides in the israel-hamas war. in an open letter, muslim palestinian, arab and anti-zionist jewish employees are accusing leadership of targeting individuals that sympathize were palestinians. staffers even allege executives have been tracking their activity in an attempt to get them fired. they write, quote: our collective grief is exacerbated by campaigns of hate, abuse and retaliation inside google. the impunity by which google executives have allowed this behavior to continue speaks to the culture ha has developed. sources share with fox business that hate speech towards both palestinians and israelis had been censored internally. we are hearing growing concern from usual staffer about that growing sentiment. the letter also demands google stop doing business with the israeli government and calls for the end of a $1.2 billion contract. google pushed back on the charge, sharing this with fox. quote: our work is not directed at highly sensitive or classified military work loads relevant to weapons or intelligent services. now, amazon has also faced similar backlash for involvement in same contract. buff the two are not alone. tiktok is facing scrutiny for the rampant anti-semitism on the platform. republican lawmakers are reuping their call to ban the app., arguing the company is brainwashing americans into sim a pa theismaning with hamas. elon musk is also enduring backlash after offering the star link internet service in gaza. while musk admitted feeling pressured into the move israeli officials warn hamas could use the service to facilitate terrorist activity. the billionaire recently made more waves when he suggested the way to end the conflict is for israel to engage in conspicuous acts of kindness towards hamas, a unique suggestion, bret. >> bret: kelly, thank you. violence against jews and muslims prompting the justice department. officials there to consider special designations for those cases. correspondent david spunt is here to tell us what that means. good evening, david. >> bret, good evening, top doj officials are weighing potential rate crime charges in numerous high profile cases as they continue to see a rise in attacks on both jews and muslims across the country. statistics from just new york city show a 214% year over year increase in crimes against jews. in southern california, there are active discussions to classify the death of this man, 69-year-old paul kessler as a hate crime. the jewish man was killed just days ago after confrontation at duling israel and palestinian protests. he fell back on the ground, sustaining head injuries and eventually died. his death is being investigated as a homicide; however, no arrest yet. police need more evidence. we also know, bret, that the murder of a 6-year-old palestinian boy in america -- in illinois last month is considered a hate crime. earlier this week in arizona, man was arrested for an email threatening to kill a local rabbi and kill, quote: every other jew i can find. these, on your screen, are just some of the crimes against jews and muslims the department is investigating. attorney general merrick garland met just a few days ago with both leaders from the muslim community and jewish community after multiple violent incidents across the country. fbi director christopher wray also on hand for at least one of those meetings where he recently warned the jewish community is uniquely targeted by most terrorist organization across the spectrum. watch this. >> when you look at a group that makes up 2.4% roughly of the american population, it should be jarring to everyone that that seam population accounts for something like 60% of all religious-based hate crimes. and so they need our help. >> bret, the fbi director says he is concerned about possible loan wolf or copycat attacks against jews here in the united states. bret? >> bret: all right, david, thank you. former president george w. bush today hosted his annual warrior 100-kilometer mountain bike ride. is he calling on americans to stay positive on this veterans day weekend. fox's own dr. marc siegel was there asking president bush about how the ride honors the nation's heroes. >> rather than sitting around and feeling sorry for themselves, they decided in this case to use mountain biking as a way to recover. not only helping recover physically. it's helping them to recover psychologically. >> bret: if you would like to honor the veterans in your life and help fight veteran homelessness this holiday make camo your cause. donate or make a purchase scanning the qr code on your screen go onto honor.u.s. vets.org/forward. fox pledges to match eligible donations. panel on the forces in the middle east and the latest in the war in israel. ♪ ♪ can start your day with nature made. the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand. she found it. the feeling of finding the psoriasis treatment she's been looking for. sotyktu is the first-of-its-kind, once-daily pill for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis for the chance at clear or almost clear skin. it's like the feeling of finding your back... is back. or finding psoriasis can't deny the splendor of these thighs. once-daily sotyktu is proven to get more people clearer skin than the leading pill. don't take if you're allergic to sotyktu; serious reactions can occur. sotyktu can lower your ability to fight infections including tb. serious infections, cancers including lymphoma, muscle problems, and changes in certain labs have occurred. tell your doctor if you have an infection, liver or kidney problems, high triglycerides, or had a vaccine or plan to. sotyktu is a tyk2 inhibitor. tyk2 is part of the jak family. it's not known if sotyktu has the same risks as jak inhibitors. find what plaque psoriasis has been hiding. ask your dermatologist about sotyktu for clearer skin. so clearly you. sotyktu. i'm andrea, and this is why i switched to shopify. it gave me so much peace of mind. if we make a change, my site's not going to go down. and just knowing that i have a platform that we can rely on, that is gold to us. start your free trial today. after switching to the farmer's dog we noticed so many improvements in remi's health. his allergies were going away and he just had amazing energy. it looks like nutritious food, and it is. i'm investing in my dog's health and happiness. get started at longlivedogs.com pain hits fast. so get relief fast. only tylenol rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast for fast pain relief. and now, get max strength topical pain relief precisely where you need it. with new tylenol precise. [chanting] >> i think the protests that you are seeing, i'm sure it includes some naive people but there are a lot of people know exactly what they are saying. they are lining up with isis, al-qaeda, with these murders, with these baby murderers, with these rapists and mute later, head choppers. >> . world has moved on straight away. there has been so little sympathy for the people of israel who suffered this atrocity. only with the case of israel and the jewish people does this occur this protest goes on in new york. "the washington post" notes hundreds of journalists sign a letter protesting coverage of israel, most strikely argues journalists should use words like apartheid. ethnic cleansing and genocide to describe israel's treatment of palestinians. quote: my hope for this letter is to push back on the culture of fear around this issue, 2022 pulitzer prize finalist and member at the "boston globe" think twice about the lang they use. marc thiessen. leslie marshall, democratic strategist and josh kraushaar a fox news radio political analyst. mark, what about that letter and the words people use apartheid, genocide. and douglas murray said forgetting about october 7th. >> first of all there apartheid either in israel or gaza. gaza has been governed by the elected leaders of the palestinian people who chose hamas to be their leaders. and their elected leaders decided to launch an attack on israel on october 7th? israel is now responding. the idea that somehow the media has been biased in israel's favor is kind of laughable. this is the opposite. they have been taking hamas propaganda about casualties and other things like that and israel needs to -- if we want to have peace in this region, we got to -- they have got to destroy hamas. >> bret: leslie? >> >> so much to unpack here. love you, marc, but going to completely disagreement i don't know if the word apartheid is appropriate definitely when you control the combings and going of an individual on an entire population, you talk about voting. let's look at the statistics is stagily, half the population of voting age. less than half of that voted. less than half of that voted for hamas. they actually didn't even win the election. they just took power. water, electricity, supplied by israel. 60, according to israel -- israeli sources, hamas have been killed. over 4,000 according to u.n. and the doctors. not just the palestinians or hamas giving those figures. over 4,000 children who have been killed over 1200. >> because of who? because of who? >> among the rubble. those children are not being bombed by hamas. >> they are being bombed because hamas is keeping them as human shields, leslie. >> israel does not target children on purpose. >> use them as human shields is to hold them up. israel. >> that's what they are doing. >> all of the doctors have said there are no tunnels under shifa hospital. they have been beneath the hospital there are people hiding. >> they are hiding weapons in schools, they are hiding weapons in hospitals. they are hiding weapons in mosques. they are taking hostages and using them as human shields. israel does not intentionally targeted civilians. if anything, they send leaflets to warn them to get out of the way. they create human humanitarian corridors to let them leave. hamas goes and slaughters children and slices their heads off in their homes. this is not moral equivalence. >> marc, where do the people go after the leaflets are dropped? that's the reality and that's from. >> southern gaza. >> humanitarian sources. >> and who is stopping them? >> not just the united states. >> who is stopping them from going? >> where do they go within gaza. >> hamas, egypt. >> hamas is arguably two washington, d.c.s together and we are taking josh's time and bret's time entirely. >> bret: no. that's okay. i wanted to let you go because you were bouncing back and forth and those are the arguments that are made on both sides of this issue. i want to once again go back into the archives and get something from our late colleague charles krauthammer about israel and he said many things that really factor in today. take a listen. >> it has never once in his history, unlike any of the arab states that america has saved, ever asked for american help in all of its wars it fought alone. what the israelis are asking. what a lot of americans are asking, including the majority of republicans is, real sanctions and give the israelites the right, the green light to go and defend themselves. they have never asked for americans to go to war on their behalf. and they are not asking that today. >> bret: and they are not asking that today either. bending over backwards, to point out. to do to to help help civilians in gaza it obviously less' point, it's not that quick uglier before it gets finished. >> well, israel is fighting a war for its very survival. i mean, they can't survive with a terrorist state after, you know, with hamas on its border continuing to threaten innocent civilians. the butchery and slaughter that took place on october 7th he defense, well define principle. you know, and the united states has a long history in recent years of going after isis. of going after al-qaeda. and civilian casualties. they have never gotten the same backlash. there is worldwide acknowledgment that you are allowed to fight against terrorists and fight against hamas which is a united states designated terrorist organization. you know, i think it's interesting, sort of on the ground, israel seems to be doing a lot better than some of the naysayers and skeptics believed at the beginning of the operation you are seeing them close in on some of the terrorist infrastructure from hamas. there's a lot of fierce fighting taking place this evening, central headquarters of hamas near that al shifa hospital. israel is actually there has been a lot of clearly denunciations from certain -- there has been a lot of international pressure. but the white house has given israel the time it's needed to take out sophisticated tunneling from hamas and israel has done quite a good job. i think a lot of. 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"wall street journal" writes it this way. democratic senator manchin won't run for re-election of west virginia. a group has formed to urge retiring republican senator mitt romney of utah, also 76 and manchin to run for president and vice president respectively as a unity ticket next year backed by no labels. the draft romney manchin committee plans to make formal announcement next we're according to members of the effort. weaver bag with the panel. josh, will that fly. >> on one hand nikki haley is right the prospect of a trump biden rematch pits two of the most unpopular politicians against each other and in that environment there is going to be room for at least one third party candidate if not more than one that could get some traction. on the other hand, bret, i just don't see like joe manchin and mitt romney. these are 70-year-old lifetime politicians who, yes, they are moderate. yes, they offer some degree of centrism and they both have a lot of experience, but i don't know if that's what independent voters are looking for. they are angry and dissolutioned and they are looking for outers and people disrupt the political system. yeah, there is a constituency for joe manchin and romney among good government types but i really think that not only would they not win but probably risk tipping the votes taking more votes away from joe biden and probably hand the election to somebody like donald trump. >> bret: you know, in the meantime, marc, you have the u.s. credit rating the outlook regulated by mood december. >> stable to negative this weeks. not exactly sending a message of confidence to the voters that you trust us to run the country chaos in the house probably what happened last tuesday. unity ticket, no labels ticket could actually have an unusual impact this year because the problem is that because so many people, overwhelming majority don't want a trump-biden rematch, but, if you are a republican you are not going to vote for biden. he is the worst president of your lifetime. if you are a democrat you are not going to vote for donald trump under any circumstance. you have a lot of people don't want this rematch but they have no safe harbor to go to. if you had -- i don't think mitt romney is the right person because he is a never trumper. real unity ticket ebb joe manchin a centrist and real republican vice presidential nominee or even switch that, i think that would create a safe harbor that a lot of voters might go to. it's unusual, it's a long shot, but it could happen. >> bret: you never know. this is election is going to be something to watch on all different fronts. we're going to call a audible and highlight a veteran of your choice. go quickly around the horn. leslie. >> i would like to highlight my dad who fought in the korean war and navy marshall fletcher i miss him very much. sadly he died at a young age. >> bret: josh? >> yeah. i wanted to pay contribute to three of my grandparents david kraushaar hauer, solesberg all served in europe world war ii. part of the greatest revolution that freed the world from fascism. >> bret: mark? >> highlighting my mother who fought in the warsaw uprising, captured by the germans when warsaw fell. taken to pow camp liberated by patton's army. made her way to america and made a citizen. proudest american you ever met. >> bret: thank you, panel have a great weekend. ♪ >> bret: you know the sound, that means it's friday. it is friday. time for noble quotables. >> we are very can bid about seeing an uptick in attacks. >> you can hear that gunfire in the distance. >> taking a little longer than i had hoped. >> taken a little longer than i had hoped. >> mr. president, the american people are not with you on this one. >> from the river to the sea. >> means extermination of american people. >> it is glaring hypocrisy. >> voters said, look, the government should not be telling a woman what to do with her body. >> hurts too much to laugh and i'm too old to cry. >> this is a race in many ways about crazy vs. normal. >> we have become a party of losers. >> he is at 4%. he needs a headline. >> i w heels they are not for a fashion statement they are for ammunition. >> they might try to dress it up in boots or high heels or red tie. but it's all the same. >> i think it went very well. >> he ramables. >> he hurled insults. >> this is a scam. >> refusing to treat. >> thank you. this closes the [bleep] door. you okay? >> i want the press to know that wasn't me. 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