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>> thanks. good afternoon, everybody. i'm bret baier in for martha maccallum. welcome to a special edition of "the story." breaking reports of a new attack on a container ship in the red sea after the u.s. retaliates against iran-backed hezbollah strikes on american troops in iraq injuring three of our service members. one of them critically. the attacks against u.s. forces in the region piling up. we're at more than 100 since the start of the war. u.s. officials for weeks now have been warning the situation could spiral in to escalation. congressman michael waltz says our response h...

On getting something going. there hasn't been any visible results not yet. elise lab by the, your analysis? >> i agree with all of that. but if you listen to what he said on the whole jerusalem issue, there isn't that much there there. this is already in u.s. law. what does the u.s. get for this? he gets to be able to tell his base. but it's kind of untethered to what we've been talking about in thames of peace talks. jared kushner, jason greenblatt is also on the peace team have been traveling through the region and gaining the trust and the confidence of the parties in terms of moving someth...

United states a kilo of heroin was going for about $70,000. the amount of money come sboog this country if the heroin from the organization was 10 to 12% which is standard, it was 860 plus million dollars in one year. just unbelievable amounts of money. police and politicians and really anyone associated with the judicial system in afghanistan was vulnerable to his money and his threats. >> it's all extraordinary. really eye opening and clearly in large part as we saw in the small little snippet there. it helped fuel terrorism and vice versa. i wish we had so much more time. we're going to be ...

Correctly. in 2009 the department of homeland security warned our country about the rising threat of white supremacists and white nationalist groups involved in domestic terrorism. since president trump was voted into office, we've seen an uptick in cases in terms of hate crimes against people of color, including muslims. what's really fascinating is that mr. trump can go halfway across the world to saudi arabia and speak to a group of autocrats against international terrorism or about international terrorism in which some of their governments have helped fuel terrorism, and then he also says ...

>> reporter: the ground zero mosque has whipped up national debate. fueled in part by misinformation and fear mongering. but anti-muslim feelings have been simmering. since last year this video was viewed more than 12 million times. >> the world is changing, it's time to wake up. >> reporter: islam has become a political wedge issue with politicians like newt gingrich comparing muslims to nazis. >> nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the holocaust museum in washington. there's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the world trade center. >> in fact, a duke university stud...