night. >> bret: jesse, i will wait around for the sloth. >> jesse: you will wait a long time. >> bret: good evening. welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. breaking tonight, new attacks on u.s. forces in syria by iranian-backed terrorists. that is after the latest u.s. retaliatory strike on sunday. that now brings the total number of attacks on u.s. troops in the middle east to more than 50 since mid october. tonight, the fighting between israeli troops and hamas terrorists is centered around gaza's largest hospital. while fighting increases in northern israel as well against hezbollah fighters, correspondent alex hogan is in northern israel tonight with the latest. good evening, alex. >> good evening, bret. day 38 of the wariments idf releasing this photo. israeli soldiers say they managed to capture the parliamentary building in gaza city and raised the israeli flag. meanwhile here in the northern part of the country it is an entirely different situation. >> escalation on israel's northern front. prime minister benjamin netanyahu warning hezbollah it is playing with fire. >> fire will be answered with much stronger fire. >> the israeli military in northern israel, this was just a field of crops, now it is being used as idf base targeting hezbollah sites on the other side of the hilt behind me. that is lebanon where hezbollah says it will continue to ramp up efforts putting pressure on israel. >> the idf is responding with its fighter jets striking military sites in lebanon after attacks on sunday injured more than 20 israeli soldiers and civilians. this is the deadliest conflict here with hezbollah since 2006. >> they developed warfare since last war. >> israel's defense minister is not mincing words. >> we can do to brat what we bee done to gaza. >> in gaza disorder weapons stashed at sea and on the ground. forces have reached the gates of gaza's main hospital where they claim hamas has built tunnels. the strong hold is considered key to taking control of northern gaza. but the fighting here means inside the al shifa hospital power has been cut out for days. the israeli military says it brought fuel but hamas refused it. workers say more than 30 patients have died, including three nicu babies. the u.n. warned the gaza health system is collapsing and even if civilians making to shelters there is an entirely different threat looming. >> more dangerous is the risk of water born diseases as people continue not having access to sufficient water. >> and as the fighting continues on the footsteps of the al shifa hospital, the israeli military is calling on hamas to surrender the tunnels and bases under ground. those are still something that hamas denies exist. bret? >> bret: alex hogan in northern israel. thank you. president biden, m meantime tryg to persuade israel to use caution around civilian targets in gaza while stopping short of calling for a pleet complete cease-fire before the hostages held by hamas are released. quite a bit of the president's week will be devoted to his upcoming meeting with his counterpart from china in san francisco. correspondent mark meredith reports tonight from the white house. >> we're in contact with the israelis. >> president biden says the u.s. is eager to ensure hospitals in gaza are not targets as israel hammers hamas in an effort toe save both israeli and american hostages. >> i remain somewhat hopeful. hospital must be protected. >> late today, president biden welcomed indonesia's leader to the white house. the two chatted ahead of a high stakes sitdown meeting with china's president on wednesday. >> today we are talking about taking our relationship to launching the highest possible level of cooperation. >> the president will spend much of this week talking about u.s.-asian affairs. tomorrow he travels to san francisco to host apec the asian pacific economic cooperation summit. 21 leaders including xi jinping will be in attendance it. will be the first time biden and xi have met since a massive chinese spy balloon traveled across the u.s. before being shot down off the coast of south carolina: i will say that president biden took steps to take down that balloon once it was safe to do so. and out of potential harm's way to civilians. >> you want china to apologize? >> again, i'm the going to let president biden speak to president xi. >> the white house says it's eager to build a better relationship with china. critics argue wednesday's meeting will do little to chang u.s. china relations. >> joe biden hasn't shown to be a verying strong leader on the world stage and i am afraid that he is going to be overmatched with xi jinping. >> there is a lot agenda for this meeting with the chinese president. the white house hopes to reestablish military operations with the chinese to prevent any escalations of any conflicts or actions in the future. also eager to talk about fentanyl trying to stop those drugs from reaching u.s. soil. san francisco, that city is essentially cleaning up. removing homeless people, removing graffiti there are a lot of residents in san francisco wondering why this wasn't done years ago or even in recent months. >> bret, you are right. >> this is a video of the cleanup already underway throughout the city for the last several weeks. a beautification process like you said removing graffiti, putting up security barriers, the governor of california said he is not trying to hide anything. he admits this is a beautification process underway. >> i know folks say they are just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming into town. that's true. i'm so excited about showing this off to 21 fancy foreign leaders from around the world. >> san francisco is expecting about 20,000 people to show up and we have also got reports, bret, of a foreign news crew robbed at gunpoint yesterday while the cleanup is happening crime is still a major issue. >> bret: may need apec summit every year. thank you. justices on the u.s. supreme court have agreed to a modified code of ethics. the voluntary measure is already not satisfying democratic critics of the court. correspondent david spunt has details tonight. good evening, david. >> hello, bret. the justices insist they have abided by ethics standards for years, though they have been under increasing political pressure to adopt a formal code of ethics. before today, the justices were the only federal judges in the system that did not abide by a specific code. part of the new code focuses on finances, reading, a justice may accept reasonable compensation and reimpris reimbursement if te of the payments does not give the appearance of influencing the justice's official duties or otherwise appear improper. now, friends of justice clarence thomas came to his defense earlier this year news broke when he failed to disclose financial ties including his acceptance of vacations from conservative donor harlan crow. justice sonia sotomayor also found herself in a bit of trouble after a report revealed her staff pressured schools to purchase her books in large quantities before she came to speak. several justices, including the chief justice, have recently publicly supported reforms and justice elena kagan even suggested congress should step in if the courts failed to do so. watch. >we are not imperial. can congress do various things to regulate the supreme court? i think the answer is yes. >> already some criticism coming from congress over this new code. there are several mentions in the document about the appearance of influence or the appearance of impropriety. but something missing specifically, bret, from the document who has the financial say if a justice doesn't follow the code. bret? >> bret: david spunt, thank you. the defense is presenting its case in the civil fraud trial against former president donald trump. his adult children, and their associates. donald trump jr. testified in court today, taking the stand. senior correspondent eric shawn is outside the courthouse in manhattan tonight. good evening, eric. >> good evening, bret. >> one could not be faulted if you forgot you were at a fraud trial today. at times seemed more like a real estate seminar as donald trump jr. boasted and outlined the successes of the trump organization development projects and said the problems with the valuations, he blamed that on the accountants. the trump defense opened up with a former president's oldest son talking about the charges against the trump organization, his father, and brother eric. those charges that the trump organization illegally inflated real estate values by up to $2 billion to get better rates on bank loans and insurance terms. n. court he outlined the history of his family in real estate, going back to his grandfather developing hotels in the uconn. he said his father is a genius when it comes to real estate. but his father's actions increased values and the brand has increased values in all of its developments because of the trump name. he called his father a genius. praising his dad saying, quote: he san artist of real estate. he sees things that other people don't. my father has been very good at in his career finding value. the sexiness, he said, in a real estate project. this is a bench, not a jury trial, so the penalties will be up to judge arthur engoron who has already ruled that the trump organization is, quote: libel for persistent fraud. after he testified, donald jr. came out and, again, attacked the attorney general, letitia james, the democratic who is bringing this case and said any problems in the valuations were based on the legal and accounting firms. >> i rely on them to do accounting but i'm supposed to know more than them. by this logic, insurance companies are going to start suing patients for listening to their doctors. right? do you understand? am i supposed to know more? oh, don jr. doesn't know anything about -- i'm not an accountant. i'm a business guy. we're in new york. it's bull [bleep] is what it is. >> we're in new york at the end of the trial asked about the future of the trump organization he said that's up to what happens in november meaning the presidential election next year, bret. >> bret: some of former president trump's comments during his veterans day speech about his political enemies raised a lot of eyebrows in washington around the country and created some historical comparisons. >> yes. those comments have caused outrage from some when the president, the former are president likened political opponents to verminna. speech in clermont, new hampshire and on truth social he said quote we will rout out communist, narcissists, radical left thugs live like vir minute and threat to this country as he said was from within. some historians and others are likening that to the language of dick tartsdz and authoritarians, basically saying that language is straight out of adolf hitler and the nazis in response to even chung who is the president's former president's spokesman says such a comparison is, quote: ridiculous. he says that these people who are criticizing thformer president are, quote: snowflakes and suffer from trump derangement syndrome. bret? >> bret: okay, eric. thank you. stocks were mixed ahead of a key inflation report today. dow gained 55. the s&p 500 was off 4. the nasdaq lost 30. up next, the clock is ticking. we will have the very latest on another possible government shutdown. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates arnold the country are covering tonight. fox 5 in atlanta as police used tear gas and flash bang grenades to break up a march seeking to halt construction of that police and firefighter training center in atlanta. a wedge of marchers pushed into a line of officers in right gear on a road outside the training center's site. officers pushed back and responded with tear gas. fox 5 in las vegas as a high school student dies after being severely beaten by a group outside the school. 17-year-old jonathan lewis died from his injuries less than two weeks after that attack. his father says police plan to charge several students with murder. and this is a live look at dallas from fox 4. one of the big stories there tonight. major league baseball announces the world series champion texas rakers will host the chicago cubs in the mlb season opening game thursday, march 28th globe life field in arlington, texas. not that far away. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ big baseball player ♪ back in high school ♪ he could throw that speed ball fire fire ♪ making love like a fool, boy ♪ when he totally kills it at his improv class's graduation performance. knees will be slapped. suds will be sprayed. people won't know what hurts more: their cheeks, or their sides. that's why he's already keeping himself in-shape and razor sharp today with health tips and wellness tools from aarp. to help make sure his health lives as long as he does. because the younger you are, the more you need aarp. why didn't we do this last year? 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>> bret: chad pergram live on capitol hill. chad, thanks. ♪ >> bret: tonight a stunning and hhigh profile crime crisis right here in the nation's capital. a secret service agent protecting president biden's granddaughter opened fire last night after three people tried to break into one of their unmarked vehicles. trying to car jack a secret service vehicle. it happened last night in washington's georgetown neighborhood. correspondent alexandria hoff has details. good evening, alex. >> good evening, bret. georgetown is considered one of d.c.'s elite neighborhoods but it is not isolated from the growing number of crimes targeting vehicles. the first family not isolated from it either secret service vehicle was parked and unoccupied weightings the president's granddaughter. she is hunter biden's eldest daughter. agents encountered possibly three individuals breaking a window on the government vehicle stating, quote: during this encounter, a federal agent discharged a service weapon and it is believed no one was struck. the offenders immediately fled the scene in a red vehicle. there was no threat to any protects. we don't know yet the suspect's ultimate intentions but it fits into a troublesome pattern so far this year there been 6700 thefts from auto offenses. in addition interest have been 863 carjackings. that's 104% increase from the same time frame last year. guns were used in 74% of the crimes. 66% of the 143 people arrested for carjackings were juveniles. >> while we understand that we're not going to arrest our way out of this violence we know young people need have consequences and boundaries. >> to reduce the risk of becoming a victim, d.c. police are advising drivers to avoid traveling alone to leave enough room to maneuver around other cars when stopped and to drive in the center lane, making it harder for potential carjackers to approach the car. just this morning a federal government vehicle was stolen in an armed carjacking northeast d.c. bret? 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