>> jesse: not at hooters. >> bret: but the wings are great. gogood evening. i'm bret baier. two days to go and hillary clinton is offering advice to deal with former president trump this week's debate. government investigators issue a report on the train derailment in east palestine, ohio. "common ground" segment deals with bipartisan solution to food cost, water woes and security issues. ♪ but, first, breaking tonight former president donald trump is now free to comment on certain aspects of his new york criminal trial in which he was convicted on 34 felony counts. the judge in that case has just modified former president trump's gag order. ahead of the july 11th sentencing in that case. this comes on the third day of efforts by the former president's legal team to get rid of the classified documents case against him in florida. national correspondent jeff paul is following that effort in fort pierce, florida tonight. good evening, jeff. >> yeah, good evening. bret. and special counsel jack smith was back in court today as trump's defense team pushed judge aileen cannon to throw out the evidence that was collected at mar-a-lago during that search back in 2022. but most of the day, at least a good portion of that early hearing, judge aileen cannon spent a lot of time questioning trump's defense team and really almost seemed skeptic at times of her argument. now they say basically the search of mar-a-lago was unlawful on two main points. they say there was crucial information that wasn't given to the judge who signed off on the original search warrant and we're now getting new images out of court documents showing what agents found during that search. trump's defense also argued the search itself was impermissibly large and that fbi agents didn't have a clear grasp of what they were looking for at mar-a-lago. they accused fbi agents of taking pictures of rooms that were not permitted to be in like the first lady's room. but judge cannon challenged paper is something that can be found anywhere in the house. jack smith's team argued the search warrant covered the entire property because they knew the classified documents were there and that those documents had already been moved at least once. now on previous hearings trump's defense argued jack smith's unconstitutional. trump had said things that put both law enforcement and fbi witnesses at risk however today we are learning that the gag order in new york hush money trial has been partially lifted. merchan allow it speak freely will the trial as long as it doesn't involve court members or court staff or any of their family members. any of these series have happened over the last couple of days. the judge in case doesn't normally rule from the bench. so you can expect some sort of written order to be released in the coming days, bret? >> bret: jeff paul in florida, jeff, thanks. ♪ as mentioned, we are a little more than two days away from the first scheduled debate of the presidential election cycle. and it's a big one. president biden continues his preparation at camp david, the latest polling indicates the presumptive republican nominee, former president trump is leading in several key battleground states. advantages that could, if the election were held today, give him enough electoral votes to win. senior white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has details tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret. today the trump campaign said president biden will probably be filled with adderall during the debate. alleging he was also on it at the state of the union. they also suggested that biden might get a boost from cnn's moderators. meantime, biden's allies put out word that trump's claims cannot be trusted or even fact checked in real time. evidence that both sides are leary the other might have a good night. >> team trump appears to recognize the pitfalls of setting a low bar for biden. >> many in the media are already prepared to give joe biden a participation trophy, if he can simply stand upright for 90 minutes. we know that joe biden, that after taking an entire week off, is he going to be ready for this. >> biden allies also setting exceptions that trump might have a good night. trump's form he debate opponent hillary clinton writing in a "new york times" op-ed mr. biden starts with a disadvantage. being president isn't just a day job it's everything everywhere all at once job. historically that has led to weaker first debate performances for the incumbent. clinton predicts voters season unhappiness about the economy. offering a counter point from moody's analytic particulars boost strategy may focus less on reason fighting his claim than character. >> is he focused on revenge and hes into plan to help the middle class. >> republicans seeing that as proof of biden's vulnerability. >> it doesn't surprise me that biden is changing strategy because bicycle bidenomics has n disaster. >> no fan of the current or former president predicts a biden loss this november two unforced errors. >> one $1.6 trillion creating inflation and the other basically. >> team biden's response amounts to a warning that trump would be worse. >> more voters think that trump did a better job in office than biden. does that concern you? >> it does. i do think that people have amnesia. they won't want to see tax increases that a trump economy will bring. >> the biden campaign has been leaning into messaging that trump is a convicted felon but such a line during the debate could draw a personal counter punch now that the president's son also shares that title. today hunter's license was suspended in washington, d.c. following guilty verdict on gun charges. bret? >> bret: jacqui heinrich in the north lawn, thanks. tonight we continue to look at the major issues likely to play a major role in thursday night's debated. democrats hope abortion will mobilize the president's base to show up in november. former president trump is seen by many as either the hero or the villain in overturning roe v. wade two years ago. here is congressional correspondent aishah hasnie. >> donald trump and the extremist republicans are coming for access to abortion. and it is up to us to stop them! >> president biden's surrogates are attacking republicans across battleground states over abortion. hoping to mobilize voters as they did in 2022. >> this is going to be one of the most deisaac issues in the campaigns. >> democrats claim former president trump and republicans want a nationwide abortion ban. republicans allege the left supports abortion up until the moment of birth. the issue is sure to be a flash point at the first presidential debate since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. someone who debated trump in 2016, former secretary of state hillary clinton warned in the "new york times" this week mr. trump will most likely say he wants to leave abortion to the states. he hopes that sounds moderate. but it really means he is endorsing the most extreme abortion bans already imposed by many states. >> i want to see president trump ask biden when is abortion not appropriate? the day before birth? the week before? the month before? really point out a lot of extreme measures out there. >> critics say the doesn't move the needle as much as biden would like. >> many of the swing states he need to drum up support in have already made their decision about abortion in their own statewide ballots. plus, new fox news polling shows abortion ranks sixth in issues voters consider extremely important. ranking far more urgent for democrats than independence. >> and some speculation today. that trump could announce his vp pick this week but the trump campaign swiftly pouring cold water on that. although the former president did say his vice president will be at the debate with him, bret, and we know that doug burgum will be there in atlanta. >> bret: we will see who else is there as well. aishah, thank you. >> killing us. >> stocks were mixed today the dow lost 2 # 9 the s&p 500 gained 21. the nasdaq jumped 221 today. ♪ breaking tonight, a cyber attack targeting the automobile industry is having a major impact on vehicle dealerships tonight. and it is continuing. the perpetrators are reportedly demanding tens of millions of dollars in ransom. and that's creating serious problems for the industry. fox business correspondent kelly saberi is joining us tonight from chicago. good evening, kelly. >> hi, bret. cbk global a dealer management system says it's the victim of a ransom attack and impacting nearly 15,000 auto dealerships around the country. their software is used for different tasks that's car repair orders financing customer records with. so biggest automakers, g.m., ford, mercedes binns and bmw relying on cdk. the company has not revealed what it knows about the hackers, this is typical for company in negotiation. bloomberg reports through unnamed source that the group is based somewhere in eastern europe. they are demanding tens of millions of dollars to relinquish their hold on their systems. most recently, the company told their customers it anticipates restoration won't be resolved until at least sunday june 30th, in a statement, they said, quote: our sales and customer success teams are conducting one-to-one outreach with dealers in their territories to provide alternative ways to support their sales and service efforts in the interim. john crane is one of those customers i spoken to. principal at hawk auto group. they have locations around the country. >> we process over 5,000 parts, invoice as day at our group. so, that's not being done by hand. and, you know, it's a little more time and a little more work. but, you know, we have enough guys who have been around long enough. anybody with gray hair knows how to do the math and we get it right. >> the systems went down early in the morning on june 19th, and some services were restored later that day, but then the company was hit with a second attack. the company now facing litigation over the possibility of personal information being compromised. this goes to show no one is safe from ransomware attacks. even a company as big at cdk claims 2.6% of all u.s. gross domestic sprucket transacted through their software. >> bret: i talked to auto workers trying to do work arounds. disastrous train derailment in east borderline, ohio. what happens next? first here is what some of our fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox 9 in minneapolis as the partial failure of a dam in south central minnesota has officials monitoring that situation very carefully. monday high water flows breached the dam destroying a substation. rapidan low risk dam and post exsass iser is baited the failure if there is a danger we will monitor it. rapids cleaning up after a break of a rock rapids river. one of the facilities that kim reynolds toured monday. she is promising to get state and federal help to city and counties as soon as possible. >> this is a live look at fort lauderdale. one of the big stories there tonight from wsvn, florida panthers fans, celebrate the team's first stanley cup championship, quite a game of the panthers defeating the edmonton oilers game 7 monday night. franchise's first championship in 30 year history that championship parade will be held snund fort lauderdale, congratulations than thursday. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ how do you keep your teeth so white with all the coffee you drink? 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>> bret: garrett tenney in east palestine, garrett, thanks. ♪ >> bret: defense secretary lloyd austin is pleading with israel's government to avoid escalation its conflicts with terrorists. austin meeting with israel's defense minister today as fighting along the northern border with lebanon increases. correspondent trey yingst is in tel aviv tonight. >> smoke billows from southern lebanon. after an israeli strikes. hours later, hezbollah drones are launched into northern israel. it's another day of cross border fire and another day closer to a larger war. >> if there will not be an arrangement through diplomatic means, everyone understands that there must be an arrangement through other means. >> israeli officials are becoming increasingly inpatient with hezbollah's continued rocket, mortar and drone attacks into their country. a staggering 5,000 such strikes have killed killed nearly two dozen israelis according to the foundation defense of democracies. gallant met this morning counterpart. secretary of defense lloyd austin to discuss a path forward for countering the iran-backed group with american support. >> the united states will always support israel's trite defend itself. and the united states will always ensure that israel has what it needs to defend itself. >> austin's words don't directly align with the policy of the biden administration. which has abandoned emergency procedures no, i do not accelerate weapons shipments of israel. when similar actions were taken from weapons deliveries to ukraine it left the country low on ammunition and fighting at a disadvantage. israeli leadership worries it could suffer similar fate against iran and largest proxy. >> the greatest threat to the future of the world and the future of our region is iran. and time is running out. >> while israel braces for the possibility of war with hezbollah, the israeli supreme court ruled today that ultra orthodox citizens will now be required to serve in the military. bret? 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