refusing to fast track the immunity claim surrounding one donald j. trump, rejecting for now a timeline of special counsel jack smith if was pushing. so where is all of this going? we ll ask former attorney general bill barr because he s here. but first, to the holiday hustle. everybody s a little anxious, people are worried about after last year s travel experience, this year s travel experience. might as well get some. gifts for my wife. be patient. that s it. that a s all you can be. you can t be mad at anybody. i was [inaudible] i ll be glad when i make it through it. [laughter] i just want to get to my, i just want to get home. neil: well, hopefully they will get home. fox on top of travelers on the run and last minute hoppers on the hunt. ho, ho, no, and away we go. neil: welcome, everybody. glad to have you. merry christmas. and we re on top of the hunt for gifts and the hunt to be just get out of town. at lot easier said than done. a lot of procrastinato
[god bless america] kayleigh: hello, everybody. in honor of memorial day and fleet week quantico marine corps band performs the star-spangled banner on fox square with service members in attendance. we want to thank tunnel 2 towers on fox square. they are beautiful. we thank them for this. joey jones, what an honor to be here with you today on this memorial day. todd piro. we have had some amazing guests earlier. gold star families. incredible. todd: whenever you hear god bless america gives you chills. i don t care if it s on car radio or out there listening to the band. especially on a day like today. kayleigh: joey and i spoke about the president s own and i had the honor of seeing the marine corps band play at the white house. they are incredible quantico corps band. joey: marine corps is the smallest service, least funded. often looked at as little brother of the navy. that is not true. marine corps and navy are equal branches in the department of the
extreme maga republican effort to default on our debt, crash the economy. i m worried about the consequences of us not coming to terms and raising the debt ceiling. at this point, it s economic terrorism. my communications to them are, stand firm. there s no reason not to. stand firm. you have a white house that is not serious. republicans want to drive us over the cliff of default. it s idiotic for anybody to consider anything other than what we had. we will ride it out. neil: does that sound like progress? we ll see. both sides far apart as lawmakers race to cut a deal we re told a week away. this as fitch, the big ratings agency warns that a credit down grade could be in the cards and maybe soon regardless of how this works out. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so much to get to. let s get to it with chad pergram on capitol hill on where things stand right now. hi, chad. good afternoon. the move by fitch and the ratings arm of morning start caught the att
neil: the rare sound of sirens blairing in jerusalem today. hamas terrorists fire up missiles in to israel. the war still on despite pressure on israel to start cooling things off. now the israeli military said that they mistakingly shot and killed three hostages held by hamas. could this only increase that pressure? welcome, ever. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it to peter doocy at the white house where tensions are getting higher now between our serves and israel if you re to believe the revelations including within the walls of the white house itself. hi, peter. yes, that is because white house officials would like to see this conflict end at some point, but they don t want to tell israel that they have to stop going after hamas. white house officials all the way up to the president know that israel right now is in a position where they risk losing international support for their cause. so we re hearing from the national security adviser in israel and who has been there
i m neil cavuto. glad to have you. i want to thank sandra smith and charles payne filling in. i m happy to be back. let s go to ashley webster on the timing of this announcement and how it is going to be released to the public. ashley? yeah, interesting developments. good afternoon to you, neil. fox news confirming that ron desantis will declare for president tomorrow evening. guess what? he s going to do it on twitter. listen to elon musk saying it. yes, i will be interviewing ron desantis. he has quite an announcement to make. and will be the first time something like this is happening on social media with real time questions and answers, not scripted. yeah, just a little different. the event, by the way, scheduled to take place at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. he s expected to file all the necessary paperwork with the federal election commission as well as that will officially kickoff the desantis campaign for president. musk has said in the past that he likes the governor