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Bret i will. Thank you. Good evening. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, the u. S. State Department Says the number of americans looking to leave haiti is approaching one thousand now as violent gangs increase their chokehold on the country. The u. S. Evacuated dozens of americans from the haitian capital over the weekend, days after saying they had no active plans to help remove americans from that country. We had fox team conch tonight. Correspondent bryan llenas is in the Dominican Republic whe...

A news show featuring the top headlines of the day from pop culture to politics, which are discussed by a rotating panel of four women and one man. A news show featuring the top headlines of the day from pop culture to politics, which are discussed by a rotating panel of four women and one man. Lets go to doug mcelway, live with the news with a. Great to see you. Brittian had long ago come to the conclusion that russia used a nerf agent to poison the two. It was only yesterday that the State Dep...

Incubators from shelling. here is a resident, speaking russian, describing a horrific situation and genocide. >> it is a war. for my city. >> up to 1000 people had been sheltering in a drama theater, trying to avoid that deadly bombardment. despite signs that read "children", in russian, at the back and front of the theater, rusher bomb did it anyways. this morning, there is evidence that the russian celebrated the fact that they were trying to kill children. >> we know from back channel stuff, ...

Senator rand paul had been sent directly to do this. they said no, he came to the white house and said write an introductory letter. i dont know how often thatsnesses. he has traveled all over the world. do you need introductory letters, whats going on there? >> its somewhat of a normal procedure to get a letter of introduction. makes the visit a little more official. it doesnt really mean anything, you dont get a diplomatic passport, you say is that good guy, you might ought to meet with him. t...

Look, this is nothing inconsistent from what we said from day one. >> miguel goldberg and michael isikoff and michael schmidt. jason, things have happened, have been squeedsed. state department, which is a huge deal for the rest of the world, daily briefing where the indonesian press and saudi press, thats been put on the shelf. all of these official modes of communication squeezed. it is all back channel stuff, and then that back channel stuff is easier to booby trap or weaponize and leave peop...

Government. can you give us an explanation as to why the cameras are off. >> can we get this out of the way? can we address the cameras issue. >> yeah, some days we will have them, some days they wont. the president is going to speak today from the rose garden. i want the presidents voice to carry the day. look, this is nothing inconsistent from what we said from day one. >> still with me. joy reid, >> miguel goldberg and michael isikoff and michael schmidt. jason, things have happened, official...

Know about them thats fuelling the investigation. thats important for people to remember. but how do you square that with secretary kelly, the homeland security secretary coming out and saying the back channel stuff with kushner doesnt bother me? >> he works for the president, right? hes a respected man with a long military career. he comes from inside the administration. and listen, youre going to have different views from democrats and republicans, but also within democrats and republicans. yo...

Thats what add flavors. it was a real back channel. >> right. the emirates are viewed as an ally by the state department. you usually give a heads up if youre coming to the united states to have meetings. so people again say why all the hush hush? >> think about the timing of this, too. i mean, you had the controversy over russia with trump was sort of boiling. you knew the obama was taking actions to go after russia and sort of penalize them for some of those things. yet the trump administratio...

>> trite. >> of the united states government. can you at least give us an explanation as to why the cameras are off? >> can we get this out of the way? can we address the cameras issue. >> yeah, some days we will have them, some days they wont. the president is going to speak today from the rose garden. i want the presidents voice to carry the day. look, this is nothing inconsistent from what we said from day one. >> miguel goldberg and michael isikoff and michael schmidt. jason, things have hap...