congratulations to the rangers. i wish my wife felt the same way. dana: have a great show, bret. bret: see you. secretary of state antony blinken israel to ensure more humanitarian aid to do more to protect palestinian civilians inside gaza or else there will be no partners for peace in his words; however, israeli prime minister benjamin meth is ruling out a temporary seas fire or pause in the gaza strip until hostages held by hamas are released. israeli officials meantime say the country is on high alert for attacks on its border with lebanon. hezbollah s leader gave a first his first public speech since the war started saying his group had entered the battle though he stopped short of saying it is fully engaging in the war. here at home more concern about who is coming across our southern border. a 20-year-old palestinian man in the u.s. illegally is charged now with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. the u.s. attorney s office and the southern dist
kat. i could probably open for brian. brian: that hurts. bret: thank you. good evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, the house has just in the past few minutes approved a $14 billion plus stand alone israel aid package. just happening there on the floor. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is on capitol hill tonight with the very latest. good evening, aishah. bret, good evening to you. this was the first big legislative and political task for the new house speaker mike johnson. and i will tell you that he passed this today in somewhat of a bipartisan fashion because this vote wound up being 226 to 196. they lost two republicans that we were expecting marjorie taylor greene and thomas massie. but they gained a whopping 12 democrats at the final moments of this vote. that is surprising, bret, because there was quite some serious intense whipping going on on the democratic side. not only from leadership, but also the white house. that came after the senate major
muskot intro. bret: it is new. thank you, jesse. good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. prosecutors attack what they call a pyramid of deceit in closing arguments in the trial of ftx founder sam bankman-fried. our common ground segment tackles the israel-hamas war. migrant children at the southern border as well. plus, donald trump jr. takes the stand at the civil fraud case against his family. bret: but first, breaking tonight, five american aid workers have been allowed to leave gaza through egypt. the rafah pass. hundreds of other u.s. citizens still waiting to get through. this comes as hamas official says the terror group will repeat its attacks against israel until the nation is destroyed israel is reporting the elimination of another hamas leader. israeli airstrikes pounded the area around the gaza refugee camp for a second day. and there are mounting casualties on both sides inside gaza. we have fox team coverage tonight. jennifer griffin here in
bret: all right. see you. dana: have great night. bret: good evening from washington. i m bret baier. as the war in israel escalates dire warnings with the people charged with keeping america safe, the director of the fbi says the terror threat against the u.s. is at what he calls a whole other level since the hamas attacks earlier this month. meanwhile, in gaza, an israeli strike has hit a refug camp, israel says that area had been taken over by hamas and the strike killed a senior hamas commander. we have fox team coverage tonight. chad pergram on capitol hill as president biden s top diplomat and defense secretary make their case for more than $100 billion in new aid to israel and ukraine. peter doocy at the white house with increasing pressure on the president by democrats to push for a cease-fire. mike tobin in southern israel with additional details on that refugee camp strike. but we begin with correspondent david spunt on capitol hill and chilling testimony abou
republicans about what should be in any compromise. the devil is always in the details and the two sides are still pretty far apart on some of those details. we have fox team coverage tonight. chad pergram is on capitol hill to tell us what is going on behind the scenes but we begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich live from the north lawn with the biden administration perspective. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. the white house called a lid before 5:00 p.m. with no deal and earlier today the press shop held its last scheduled briefing before tuesday, meaning, as things stand, the american people are set to spend four of the remaining seven days before the economy could go off a cliff without getting questions answered. and some are coming from within the president s party. and they are making progress. i want to be clear that the negotiations we re having with speaker mccarthy is about the outlines of what the budget will look like, not about default. it s