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He won when he was playing for alabama in 1982. >> thats it for us. "special report" is next. >> bret: president-elect trumps pick for attorney general says he is not a racist. and he will not be a "yes" man for his boss. this is "special report" ." good evening. coming to live from fox news world headquarters. welcome to a special two hour episode of "special report." i am bret baier. we begin in washington with the first confirmation hearings for prospective members of president-elect donald t...

Establishment republicans, how good or bad in the middle his relationship will be. another choice that has unnerved a lot of the washington establishment and a lot of people in the middle east is david friedman the presidents choice to be ambassador to israel. hes a bankruptcy lawyer. known trump for years. hes a critic of the two state solution saying he doesnt see it as viable. he wants to move the embassy asap from tel aviv to jerusalem which is against years of u.s. policy which says the fat...

To day, tweet to tweet may be impressive. the timing of these individual tweets may be driven largely by what he is respondsing to in the media. there does seem to be an overall strategy. a multilayered strategy. the it is interestingly contradictory. it is to force media to pay attention to what he wants to us pay attention to. to shift the gaze of the media to stories he doesnt want to focus on. and it is a way to reach around the media and talk directly to his constituency in a way that is of...

With this election that is sitting in front of us right now? how do you finalize that decision? >> its hard, and i want to acknowledge that its challenging. i as a person of faith in my tradition, we care deeply about the values of life and the -- abortion is one of these hot button issues, but the challenge is is most people dont know that during the obama administration the abortion rate went down in all categories except those at the very economic bottom. what weve learned through all the stu...

Its happening again. and conservatives say theyre doing something to stop illegal immigration. they wont let it come to a vote. your thoughts. >> but chris. you left out one important line of history about the passage of the bill the president enacting. a key event during that period was the defeat of eric cantor in the republican primary in virginia. ive heard all kinds of explanations on why that happened. they say he didnt go home often enough and pay attention to his district, but the percep...

Crisis, different circumstances but they held our embassy personnel more than 400 days. and this was resolved in one day. which is a success. >> thanks for your insight. president obama focused on selling optimism to a nervous nation. >> if we want a better politics it is not enough just do change a congressman or change a senator are even change a president. we have to change the system to reflect our better severalourel. >> president obama also touched on hot button issues. cnns michelle kosin...

Of gains as a result of that but the question was always how far would that take him and i think its an okay knowledgement that he has to fight for the nomination and there are challenges in front of him and i think this ad went to his two hot button issues to try and both win new supporters but also arouse his bases and come to the polls. >> they are not just pushing that cruz, for example, is going to keep the country safe. they are pushing the idea that rubio would not or vice versa. they are...

Isnt going to hurt him. who it does hurt is everyone else in the establishment lane in new hampshire, chris christie, marco rubio, john kasich. it muddles the field there even more. if jeb bush rises, they sink, donald trump doesnt move. >> calling donald trump a bully, surprise. shocking. hang on. youll get another chance after this. john, thanks for dropping by. i know you have to get up and anchor the morning show. >> its a lot of pressure. >> we appreciate it. and everyone else stick with wi...

Told their family members but no onefeld like they could do. women disclosing to boyfriends, fathers and mothers, yet no one felt like they could go to the police because it was the police doing it. for me this is the trifecta, this is the kind of case where you have all these hot-button issues. campus sexual assault reform going on. anti-police brutality protests happening all over the nation, yet this gets lost in that kind of vortex of violence that black women are so vulnerable to. >> i thin...

Who loses? and will immigration be the hot button issues that decides this race to the white house? fox fire brand michelle malcolm weighs in on that. is free speech under fire on college campuses across america. i will talk to frank bruni. we have a lot going on tonight. i want to start with the race for the white house and donald trump saying something pretty surprising. athena jones joins me. he was just on fox news and talked about his competition at the debate. lets listen to it. >> i thi...