downtown detroit former president donald trump has just taken the stage. he was soon to speak at a conservative conference there good evening i am jon scott and this is the fox report. this is the former president second event today on the motor city spoke earlier at a round table announce a new campaign coalition called black americans for trout. four years ago trump was a state of michigan to joe biden by 150,000 votes. it might be close this november. that is fox news poll has trumped up by three points in michigan. madison all worth is alive it huntington place in detroit with the latest for us. >> hey john, we are inside 180 church for its first start for the president turns detroit today spoke to churchgoers, community members and received multiple standing ovations as he spoke to the voters here in this church i want to tell you some of the things he talked about that got him a standing ovation he got loud applause when he said he would keep a gender ideology away and out of americans he said he knew black community's desire stronger police presence that was a lot of applause he also talked about how he would be closing the borders. trump heavily heavily courted the black vote during his speech. take a listen. >> we have done more for and i say this and i sat probably a more for the black population than any president since abraham lincoln. that is a big statement. [applause] and it could get it joe biden has nothing for you except talk it's only talk. it's all talk. >> the worst president for black people. >> now president trump is just down the way also in detroit talking at turning point convention there making a lot of stops and is very key state of michigan michigan in 2020 that flipped and blew the campaign working hard to convince michigan voters they should vote for donald trump this november. and it could happen as you noted polling is going in the president's favor and one of the changes we have seen with this most recent visit today is that trump decided to come to detroit and his other three visits he's made to the state's guide to suburban areas the decision to come to a historically blue city and talk to voters what is normally considered a blue town that got him a lot of bragging points with voters both decided and undecided. take a listen. >> president trump i am so humbled that you would be here. president obama never came. president joe biden went to the big double ncp dinner but never came to the hood so thank you. >> we know what president trump is onstage again talking to more voters here in detroit. one thing he mentioned while on stage in the church is that he talked about his bp list someone on stage with them and we know byron is on the shortlist of vps president trump that he thanks he would make a great vp we do know he is on the list we've also been told trump will make the bp announcement closer to the convention he definitely was not shy about it tonight. jon: madison and detroit thank you. the former president has taken the stage and is speaking in detroit right now. let's listen in for a few minutes. >> we are leaving your estate by a lot. warren and davidson, warren thank you. thank you very much. right woman who was very quiet, very shy but very professional marjorie taylor green. [cheering] great person she is a great person. michael cloud, thank you my own congressman michael cloud and former congressman someone who almost one new york which they said wasn't impossible. what a campaign to ears late frankly because today it is different the illegal migrants have taken over new york today it is different but what a job he did former congressman lee zeldin. leah, wherever you are. delete, thank you. also a person who is really a terrific person i got to know her well congressperson in tulsi gabbard thank you. thank you. you all know my son don is out there working, he is such a good boy and kimberly i heard her speak they gave some good ones. thank you kimberly, thank you don. and man it really special very important to think the most important man in the room for what we are doing, rnc chairman michael whatley watley is doingt job. michigan gop chair i wanted him from day one i said you've got to do it, you've got to do it it was a great and successful politician i took him as ambassador pete a fantastic guy. head of the gop. good job. we have nebraska gop chairman here to eric underwood. eric, thank you very much. thank you eric for being here. we have a man is a very successful show, everybody watches it. i watch it is often as i can and he is a smart guys actually going to have a big heart i won't tell people that i will route his reputation steve bannon, where is steve? where is he? thank you steve, he is great. he is a smart cookie another smart cookie is roger stone. roger great guy. former secretary ben carson did a fantastic job. [cheering] everybody loves him. i love him. a man who is very popular in these circles a big star he's become a bigger and bigger star ted nugent thank you for being here wherever you may be. wherever you may be, thank you very much. thank you very much. with the help of everyone here today we are going to win the state of michigan this november. we are going to fire crooked joe biden. we're going to evict the biden family from the white house and we are going to make america great again. have you heard that expression? [cheering] less than four years ago our border was secure. inflation was nowhere to be seen we did not have inflation the world was at peace america it was stronger and more respected than ever before it was never as respected as it was just four years ago now under crooked joe biden the worst president in the history of the country the world is in flames. our border is over run. inflation is raging, europe is in chaos the middle east is exploding. iran is emboldened. china is on the march the worst most incompetent person to ever lead this country is dragging us toward world war three. other than that i think is doing a good job or do we agree? other than that is doing a fine job. he is the worst under biden, illegal aliens are better off. terrorists are better off china is a better off. the cartels are better off. but the american people were far better off under a gentleman named president donald j trump have you heard of him? [cheering] and in particular and remember this wait a minute, mike lindell please stand up okay? i just saw him. stand up. forget about his pillows is the greatest purchaser of advertising in the history of america. if you could find my ads i would be blanketing the airways with that thank you might, we love it mike in particular michigan was better off with a trump by a lot. you are doing great. companies are moving back in the car companies were not moving out and you were not under a mandate to build all electric cars which are all going to be made in china is just a question of a few years for decades before he took office joe biden and his cronies in washington got rich by selling off michigan jobs and selling out detroit's for that is what they did that is why your car business is so far down. we used to have one 100% of the car business and now you are down to probably 30% by comparison to what it was. crooked joe back to enough at theworst trade deal we ever had. china's entry into the wto another disaster. transpacific partnership you wanted that so badly would've totally destroyed the state. the paris climate accord where we put up a trillion dollars and nobody else puts up anything. one of the most unfair deals it sounds good but was a disaster. every other globalist has asked to suck the life, wealth, blood out of our country that is what it was doing but after decades of joe biden putting america last, michigan finally got a president who put america first that is what happened. that is what happened. jon: former president donald trump raising some cheers as he speaks to the turning point action convention in detroit he is hoping to win michigan this time around he lost it to joe biden four years ago fox news polling shows he is up in michigan over the current president we will see what happens come november 5. other news this our eight idf soldiers were killed this morning an explosion in southern gaza israel is conducting exit ground offensive israel defense forces sharing a photo of captain he's among the soldiers killed explosive reportedly hit their armored vehicle which is part of a convoy returning from an overnight mission. it is the deadliest attack on idf forces since january. lucas of tomlinson's life at the white house with more on that. ask john, the captain was just 23 years old and a deputy company commander as you mentioned that he was one of eight is really defense forces soldiers killed when their armored vehicle hit a roadside bomb in rafah he was off to a member of the druze in faith that's an offshoot of islam. the head of the community in israel out the statement tonight saying quote the kid beauty pays once again a very heavy price in this war. captain, ms. member be blessed car which was a long list of fallen hope sacrifice their lives for the security of the state since the outbreak of the war. over 100 hostages remain in hamas captivity in rafah including five americans is growing pressure on the biden administration to do more to get the american hostages released or rescued using u.s. forces if necessary. dozens of world leaders including g-7 leaders attend ukraine peace summit in switzerland, president biden opted to attend a big fundraiser in los angeles tonight setting is vice president to switch instead be present biden flew overnight from italy arriving this morning in los angeles here is getting off air force one along his daughter ashley the long flight to california it likely giving biden time to prep for this debate with donald trump in less than two weeks the headliners at tonight's fundraiser in los angeles hollywood heavyweights including george clooney, julia roberts, former president barack obama and jimmy kimmel by the way clooney's wife her father fox's told $20 million has been collected over a perhaps a more at the doors been billed as the largest democratic fundraiser in history that is more the big call from radio city music hall back in march obama was at that one as well. while in normandy, paris and in the question about present biden's mental acuity were part of the discussions behind the scenes and in the media. questions of followed world leaders to switzerland there's a british prime prime minister fg that question earlier. >> department of how to describe present biden's mental acuity in your meetings? in case our viewers miss that the britain's prime minister did not respond to that question about president biden's mental acuity. jon: it is perhaps understandable. lucas tomlinson at the white house, lucas thank you. the deaths of those eight idf soldiers, cease-fire talks continue and yemen iran backed jet eight ramp up attacks on u.s. ships a s is pretty retired general jack keane fox news senior strategic analyst former army vice chief of staff chairman at the institute for the study of war. we read about these trent eight attacks every day i was frankly astounded to read this is the largest attack on the u.s. navy essentially since world war ii. >> yes it is quite remarkable. we are numb by the fact of these things are actually taking place. the reality is that 77 cargo ships have been hit. one has been sunk there is another one right now whose crew is off of it it's taking on water. there's been 80 attacks on u.s. and allies warships in the region during this timeframe. fortunately none of those have been hit we have had some real close calls not the least of which was a ballistic missile that the houthi fired at one of our destroyers came within seconds of actually hitting the ship it was defeated by an air defense missile system on that ship. so obviously this is dangerous. the reality is they have had to decide the impact they wanted and that is they have shut down much of the container shipping some 90% going through the red sea and the suez canal. cargo shipping 67%. the tankers carrying fuel over 50% that means two weeks to go around the horn of africa. thousands and thousands of nautical miles and millions of dollars added to it. i cannot imagine what the insurance rates are at now as a result of all of this. but yes the houthi have accomplished their mission that is the reality of it. and here's the frustrating part. i know f for a fact the centcom commander has wanted to do more than just fire at the houthi who were firing at us. he wants to take a limited action against iranians conventional military capability and iran mainly the irg forces is much as reagan did. he is recommended over 100 targets to the administration. the fact is that none of those have been accepted. many of us look at this if you want to stop the houthi you have to convince iran you have to get deterrence back on the table and they will shut them down. >> the houthi used to right around in pickup trucks shooting ak-47s now the got drones and icbms of the kind that nearly hit one of our ships as you pointed out. >> yes they have hundreds and hundreds of drones. thousands of rockets and missiles. as you pointed out a number of ballistic missiles to be short. look what they have done with hezbollah it has somewhere between 130 and 150,000 rockets and missiles. where do they come from? all of them come from iran. just as all the rockets, missiles, drones that the houthi have. remember it's the iranians that incentivize the houthi to topple the regime in yemen which was a regime friendly to the united states into our allies in the region. we had an embassy that you shut down but we have special operations base that is shut down as a result of all of that. the iranians are behind all of this. they are the conductor of the orchestra we failed to confront them the way we should. jon: why is the administration seemingly afraid to take on iran or deal out some pain? >> the administration is under the misguided view that if we talk to the iranians and work diplomatically we can achieve some kind of breakthrough. this is been going on for almost four years now. no breakthrough. just a few weeks ago a member of the national security council in the white house and the state department was conducting classified briefings, clandestine and other words with the iranians. again to try to make some kind of a deal most observers know full well the only way to stop the iranians from their beloved maligned behavior you have to be willing to confront them, not talk to them. talking is worn out by now. this administration has is not e to that conclusion. jon: retired army general jack keane thank you. >> great talking with you john, thank you. jon: house republicans are not letting it go the justice department said it will not prosecute attorney general merrick garland after the house voted to hold the ag in contempt. speaker mike johnson said he wants to take the matter to court. tennessee republican tim sits on the house oversight committee his thoughts on all of this, next. ♪ behr behr behr behrrr behr behr behr ♪ ♪ behrrr behr behr behr behr ♪ ♪ behr behr behr behr behrrrrr ♪ whether you're doing it yourself or hiring a pro, ♪ behr behr behr behrrrrr ♪ today let's paint. ♪ behr behr behr behrrrr ♪ no, no. exclusively at the home depot. ♪ ♪ ♪ chewy, a citi client, uses citi's financial expertise to help drive its growth and keep its supply chain moving, so more pet parents can get everything they need... right when they need it. keeping more pets, and families, happy. ♪ for the love of moving our clients forward. for the love of progress. introducing new advil targeted relief. the only topical pain reliever with 4 powerful pain-fighting ingredients that start working on contact to target tough pain at the source. for up to 8 hours of powerful relief. new advil targeted relief. jon: speaker of the house mike johnson says is ready to go to court after the justice department said it will not prosecute or press charges against attorney general merrick garland for contempt of congress bfred house republicans and nearly voted to punish garland for refusing to hand over audiotapes of president biden's interview with then special counsel robert her. madeleine rivera has more on the speakers legal threat. >> republicans had expected the justice department want to prosecute attorney general merrick garland this comes after the house voted on wednesday at nearly along party lines to hold garland in contempt for refusing to hand over audio recordings of a president biden's interview a special counselor robert hur in a special document case mike johnson says i will be certifying the contempt report to the u.s. attorneys are for the district of columbia. we also must enforce a subpoena of attorney general garland. johnson caused by demonstration of a two-tiered justice system. the d.o.j. is essentially saying it's hands are tied at the presidents of executive privilege over the tapes. setting along with sending policy the department says it determined did not constitute a crime. therefore a citation for the grand jury or any other action to prosecute guard the justice department is handed the transcript of the recordings. the department has declined to press the others attorney jennifer house contempt citations. most recently in 2019 former attorney general bill barr eric holder became the first ag to be held in contempt of congress. both cases trump in a bomb exerted that executive privilege over certain records sought by the house oversight committee. jon: madeleine rivera and washington thank you. for more on this let's bring in tennessee congressman tim a member of the house oversight committee. any surprise the biden department of justice does not want to prosecute or press charges against mr. biden's attorney general? >> absolutely not. this is very predictable. they have been a weaponize against the american people. you have pro-life protesters are being ambushed at night to buy t teams and directed by the department you have got mom's who were not liking and pornography is being shared with their kids. they have the audacity to question that in the justice department causing domestic terrorist. them and clearly weaponize against the american public and the justice department everyone wants a call at the swamp it's just a sewer. it all flows in and nothing flows out. merrick garland court should be held in contempt i think the justice department do anything? heck no they won't. they are gutless and a tool of this white house which is corruption which is beyond belief. >> height trump aids. while peter is serving a sentence for contempt of congress steve bannon is supposed to report to jail in july for contempt of congress. the biden administration should not have any problem prosecuting them. what is different about what they did or their cases from at what the attorney general is charging? >> that is even worse by that is a bogus committee created by nancy pelosi within the spe speaker -- she wanted to make the republican appointments, which she did kinsinger and liz cheney you all know how that turned out it was just a production produced by a major network as a matter of fact. the whole thing is a bogus locking up my buddy steve bannon to me is the complete miscarriage of justice be a lot of people do not like and for other things but the reality is not showing up for a bogus committee is a miscarriage of justice. matt gaetz has a proposal with the speaker right now that i believe has merit pay it he is a lawyer and of course speaker johnson is a constitutional lawyer and i believe is going to be some things coming out on that very shortly. and i would hope so. this is a complete overreach by the justice department. frank