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I'm Shannon Bream. Bipartisan condemnation of deadly political violence as America puts on a major display of military might and tensions in the Middle East reach a boiling point. The U.S. Army celebrates its 250th birthday in Washington. While half a world away, Israel attacks key nuclear and military targets inside Iran. And that country fires back a barrage of missiles, both sides warning there is more to come. The regime doesn't know what hit them.

They don't know what will hit them. It has never been weaker. We'll have the very latest on the administration's efforts to find a diplomatic off-ramp. President Trump heads to Canada to meet with G7 leaders where the Middle East, Ukraine, Russia, and tariffs are set to dominate the talks. Senate Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joins us live from Paris, where she's on a key diplomatic mission with other U.S. lawmakers. And then...

This is really about preserving and protecting families and ensuring that they've got more dollars in their own pocket. The Senate still working to reach a deal on the big, beautiful bill before Independence Day. We'll talk exclusively with Senate Majority Leader John Thune about the key sticking points and.

This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation. I told him to get his act together, but he hasn't been able to do that. The battle between Democrats led by California Governor Gavin Newsom and the White House over law and order on the streets of L.A. following days of violent protests over ICE raids all this week on Fox News Sunday.

Hello from Fox News in Washington, where we begin with a Fox News alert. The massive manhunt continues for 57-year-old Vance Bolter. Authorities say he's the suspect in the assassination of a Minnesota state representative and her husband and the shooting of a state senator and his wife. Fox News correspondent Matt Finn is on the ground in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, with the very latest. Hello, Matt.

Hi, Shannon. I'm standing in front of the home where former Democratic State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed. Police say they answered their front door behind me yesterday and were murdered. And right now, the man suspected of killing the pair and two other people here are still on the run right now.

This morning, the man who police say is suspected of shooting Hortman and her husband dressed like a police officer, even driving what looked like a police SUV. He went to the homes of two prominent Democratic politicians here in Minnesota and shot them and their spouses in the pre-dawn hours yesterday. Investigators say they are on the hunt right now for 57-year-old Vance Bolter for his connection to the shootings.

Bolter was caught on surveillance in Minneapolis wearing a cowboy hat shortly after the killings. The suspect shot and killed the most powerful Democrat and Minnesota's state legislator, former House Speaker Melissa Hortman. The shooter also killed her husband, Mark. He then went to the home of Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and shot Hoffman and his wife, Yvette. They both underwent surgery and survived.

Our Fox affiliate here in Minneapolis is reporting they spoke to the roommates of the suspected shooter. The roommates say Bolter texted them yesterday, writing in part, David and Ron, I love you guys. I've made some choices and you guys don't know anything about this, but I'm going to be gone for a while. I may be dead shortly. Now, the stunning shootings are being condemned by the president, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry and Democratic Governor Tim Walz. This was an act of targeted political violence against

Peaceful discourse is the foundation of our democracy. We don't settle our differences with violence or at gunpoint.

And Shannon, there are a lot of unfolding threads in this breaking story. A local news station is reporting that the wife of the shooter was pulled over yesterday with cash, a weapon and a passport in her car. She has not been detained. Also, the alleged shooter apparently had some of the flyers for the No Kings rally in his car yesterday. Shannon. All right, Matt, we'll keep tracking the story. Thank you very much.

Now to the deadly conflict in the Middle East between Iran and Israel. Tehran continued to fire hundreds of missiles at Israel overnight, with most being intercepted, but some causing damage on the ground. Meanwhile, the Israeli military continuing to strike military and nuclear targets in Iran. In a moment.

We'll talk with Israel's ambassador to the United States, Yakeel Leiter. But first, we begin with team coverage. Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy, who is in Calgary, Canada, ahead of the president's trip to meet G7 leaders. And Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yankst on the ground in Israel. Peter, we start with you.

Shannon, President Trump is going to join us here in Canada later on today for this summit that was expected to be mostly about Russian aggression in Ukraine and the global economy. But now the plan is to shift attention to figure out how G7 leaders should position their countries in the Iran-Israel war.

I can confirm there will be quite a few bilateral meetings between the president and other foreign leaders. The White House is still working very hard to finalize that schedule, and we will provide that for you as soon as we have it.

White House officials briefed us about the trip and told us critical minerals, migrant and drug smuggling, wildfires, and AI were the planned topics of discussion for the leaders invited to the summit. But the president's attention is on Iran. He now says the U.S. had nothing to do with the attack on Iran tonight. If we are attacked in any way, shape, or form from Iran, the full strength and might of the U.S. armed forces will come down on you at levels never seen before. However, we can easily get a deal done between Iran and Israel and

end this bloody conflict. And because the United States is helping Israel defensively as Iranian missiles are launched by the dozen, U.S. interests in the region are preparing for possible Iranian retaliation. So President Trump has a stark new warning issued last night during the U.S. Army's 250th birthday parade.

Time and again America's enemies have learned that if you threaten the American people, our soldiers are coming for you. Your defeat will be certain, your demise will be final, and your downfall will be total and complete. Because our soldiers never give up, never surrender, and never ever quit. They fight, fight, fight, and they win, win, win.

This is going to be the first time President Trump has attended an international summit like this since returning to the White House. And the world is a much different place than it was in his first term. Case in point, you look at the other leaders of the G7. The only one who was here during President Trump's first term is Emmanuel Macron. Otherwise, all new faces. Shannon. All right, Peter Ducey, live in Calgary, Canada. Thank you, Peter. We turn now to Trey Yankst in central Israel. Trey, we know your situation is volatile, but we wanted to check in.

Yes, Shannon, we were just outside. We are at the site of a missile strike overnight in central Israel. And as we were about to talk to you, we got an alert on our phones that there are incoming Iranian ballistic missiles. So there are soldiers and first responders that are currently in a parking garage. They're being given instructions to go a little bit deeper underground. And what she's saying in Hebrew right now is continue on, continue on. They want us to get deeper underground. To give you a sense of the type of people that are here, Shannon,

Many of the people that are sheltering in this garage have been waiting at the site of a missile strike in central Israel to see if their loved ones will be pulled from the debris. We were here earlier today watching rescue crews dig with large equipment, and they had dogs, and they were going, basically just trying to see if they could find any of the bodies or possible survivors under the rubble. I do want to show you some video here from another location as the Israelis are ramping up their strikes.

against the Iranians. Israel's defense minister says those strikes will continue targeting both military facilities and nuclear facilities. Earlier today, we spoke with a former spokesman for the IDF, Deron Spielman. He had this to say about the situation at that missile strike site.

They've been saying for years, Trey, that this is what they're going to do. They're going to destroy and eliminate the Israeli people. This is with a non-nuclear warhead. This entire building coming down, people trapped beneath the rubble. Can we imagine if Iran was able to have a nuke? There's no army bases here. This is the middle of a neighborhood. There's a kindergarten across the street. This is what Israel had to stop.

Trey there, as he is in a situation, we've lost our connection there with Trey, as he has gone further underground to avoid some incoming missiles. Amidst that warning, we're going to take you back to the region a little bit later in the show. But joining us now is Yakeel Leiter, who is the Israeli ambassador to the United States. Mr. Ambassador, welcome. Thank you. Good morning, Shannon. Can you give us a sense of a timeline, an end goal? How will you measure success? When will this mission wrap?

Well, I think we have a very good indication right now of how this needs to be wrapped up. As we talk, Shannon, there are missiles, ballistic missiles being fired from Iran into Israel. We're expecting a hit very soon. And this is very telling about what we're trying to contend with.

The Iranians have a program, a very clear program, a written program to destroy us through nuclear weapons and through massive ballistic missile attacks. And we saw what one ballistic missile can do when it gets through the Iron Dome system, the defensive shield system.

That's their intention, to kill as many people as possible. And this is what our prime minister has been saying for 15 years now. This is what the president of the United States has said repeatedly over the past three or four months. They cannot achieve a nuclear weapon because if they do achieve a path to a nuclear weapon, they're going to use it.

So, of course, the U.S. was in some form of talks going into, we had hoped, a sixth round with Iran regarding their nuclear program. Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat, has said he feels like what Israel has done actually upended that process. I want to read you a little bit of his statement. He said Israel's attack on Iran clearly intended to scuttle the Trump administration's negotiations with Iran,

risks a regional war that will likely be catastrophic for America and is further evidence of how little respect world leaders, including our own allies, have for President Trump. How do you respond to the accusations that Israel has made the situation worse by upending those talks? Well, I mean, it's interesting that Senator Murphy is now coming to the defense of the Trump administration.

Bit of an oddity, I would say. But Senator Murphy, you know, has voted in favor of an arms embargo on Israel while we were at a war for our life.

So I wouldn't be too concerned about his statement about Iran. We were in favor of negotiations throughout. We hoped that Steve Witkoff, the president's envoy, negotiating with Iran would be successful. The point is that they need to have their nuclear weapons program dismantled. That's our endgame. And if it can be done through negotiations,

negotiations that can be done through talks and agreements. That's great. But as we said from the outset, the chance that the mullahs of Iran, I mean, this is a lunatic occult, a death cult that favors mass murder, talks every day about destroying our state.

are not going to agree in the course of negotiations and this is going to have to be done militarily and our sons and daughters are flying those planes now to ensure that the state of Israel survives. Look, the important thing here to understand is that the Jewish people experienced 80 years ago a little guy with a mustache running around Europe saying he was going to annihilate us.

And nobody listened and nobody raised a finger. And we lost one third of our people, six million. And we entered into a Second World War that took the lives of 65 million people. If we let these mullahs run loose with ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons, that's going to happen again. So what we're doing is preventing war, not advancing war.

Well, Ambassador, let me ask you about this, because you've talked about the Fordow site. That needs to be gone. It is deep underground. Axios notes this. Israel lacks the huge bunker busters needed to destroy this facility and the strategic bombers to carry them. The U.S. has both within flying distance of Iran. Any indication to you that the U.S. would be willing to offer those particular weapons and the planes to carry them that you need? Look, that's a decision that the United States government has to take.

We are going to deal with the nuclear program as best we can. We still have a few surprises up our sleeve. I think we've proven that over the past couple of days.

We're determined to get this done. At this point, what we requested from our ally, our greatest ally, the United States, is a defensive posture. They're helping protect our civilians through defensive missile systems. And that's our ask at this point, whether or not they join in the battle to ensure a total dismantlement of Iran's nuclear program is a decision the administration will have to take.

Ambassador, we appreciate your time very much, sir. Thank you for making that for us this morning. Thank you, Shannon. Joining us now, New Hampshire Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen. She's live from Paris, France, where she's part of a bipartisan delegation. She's the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senator, welcome to Fox News Sunday.

Nice to be with you. All right. I want to start there where I left off with the ambassador. This idea that those huge bunker busters that Israel would need to get to these underground facilities, they don't have the bombs, they don't have the planes to carry them. Is that something the U.S. should consider supplying?

Well, I think that's a determination that needs to be made. The reality is that Iran is not a friend of the United States. They have targeted our political leaders. They have fomented terrorism and conflict across the Middle East. Their search for a nuclear weapon is something that we

We have opposed and poses a real threat to countries in the region and to the United States and to Israel, as the ambassador said. But we're

What we know is that they are not going to differentiate between what Israel does and what the United States does, even though we've heard Secretary Rubio say that the United States has not been part of coordinating this attack or supplying weapons. So I think we need some more information about what the potential impacts of any sharing of a bomb buster weapon would be.

would be for Israel and for the United States. And that's information that Congress doesn't currently have. It's not clear what information the administration has around that. So I would hope that we could have more transparency for Congress and for what the implications would mean for American servicemen and women in the region and for Americans. As we know, there are a lot of Americans in Israel who are affected by this as well.

Absolutely. And we're going to talk through with a map so people can see a little bit later in the show just how many interests and base and things that we do have in that region. A lot of this and the timing of it, you know, there can be a debate about that. I talked a little bit earlier about your colleague, Senator Chris Murphy, was not thrilled with this timing. And I know that you've had some reaction to this that is less than positive. So I want to talk through that because Israel seems to indicate they, by their estimation, days, maybe weeks, 30%.

to Iran having a nuclear weapon. They see that, of course, as an existential threat. In writing about this and the reporting that was coming out from the IAEA, which has censored Iran over what they found just in recent days, Brett Stevens writes this over at The New York Times. He says, in plain English, Iran has been deceiving the world for years while gathering the means to build multiple nuclear weapons in a better world

diplomacy would have forestalled and perhaps eliminated the need for Israeli military action. Israel's strike, though, he says, is a display of clarity and courage for which we may all one day be grateful. How are you now feeling about the timing as this plays out? I think all of us agree that Iran should not be allowed to get a nuclear weapon. And it's important to have the IAEA be able to go in and examine what Iran is doing.

I'm disappointed, however, that there wasn't the ability to continue to play out these negotiations to see if we could actually find a negotiated settlement here. And Israel's actions have

foreclose that option, at least in the short term. Yeah, the IAEA, part of their reporting included that Iran has repeatedly sanitized illicit nuclear sites. They say over and over, once a site had been identified or examined, the IAEA would make a request. Iran would destroy the buildings, move containers, and sometimes even scrape the ground. So

Is it worth pursuing those talks? You seem to think right now maybe there's nothing left there. A senior administration official is saying we do hope that the talks would continue. President Trump has seemed to indicate maybe this will bring Iran to the table. But are they a worthy partner for us to continue talks if that window somehow remains open?

Well, we don't know the answer to that yet. But what we do know is that Israel has delayed their ability to get a nuclear weapon. I think that's positive. Now, I would hope that the destruction, the loss of life that we're seeing, both particularly in Israel but also in Iran, could stop and

Hopefully we could reassess and the United States could help bring Iran back to the negotiating table to see if we can't find a diplomatic solution, which I think is always better than war. Yeah. And we had heard President Trump say that leading up to this, that that's what he preferred, too. We know that Israel did give Iran.

notification to the U.S. that this was going to move forward. And apparently the reporting is the administration did not try to stop that. But amidst all this, I want to play a little bit of what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. He wanted to speak directly to the Iranian people. We don't know if they'll hear this message, but here's a little bit of what he said to them. As we achieve our objectives, we're also clearing the path for you to achieve your objective, which is freedom. Israel's fight is not with you.

It's not with you, the brave people of Iran, whom we respect and admire. Our fight is with our common enemy, a murderous regime that both oppresses you and impoverishes you.

Given your deep foreign policy experience, I wonder if you think there's any opportunity for the Iranian people here to cast off this leadership in any way. We think back to the Green Revolution years ago that did not ultimately obviously succeed in that front. But do you think there is a window of opportunity for the people of Iran? I think the people of Iran...

Most of them would like to have freedom. They'd like to have the oppressors removed. But what's not clear is what comes next. And I think that's the question that none of us know the answer to. Yeah. And a lot of this has to do also with these relationships that have been building up with Iran, the connections to Russia and to China. I know you're one of the main backers of this Russian sanctions bill.

We keep saying there are very few things that get to more than 80 senators agreeing on anything. It is a tough package. But knowing that Russia has been so successful in evading other sanctions, this is aimed, obviously, at getting them to the table, ending their war on Ukraine. But as it moves forward and we think about those sanctions packages, how is this one more enforceable, more painful for Russia? What's different about it?

Well, this is a bill, as you pointed out, it's got 82 co-sponsors in the Senate, both Republican and Democrat. And what's different is that it would put in place not only tougher sanctions, but secondary, what we call secondary sanctions. So sanctions on those countries who are doing business with Russia.

India and China with the ghost fleet buying oil from Russia in a way that we think will make it much tougher for Russia. And what we need right now as we're looking at the challenges in Ukraine is we need something to change the dynamic there, something to force Vladimir Putin to the table. So far,

He has been given a free pass, I think, by the Trump administration. We need to put pressure on him. We need to provide the weapons that Ukraine needs to get Putin to the table to come up with a negotiated deal. I want to ask you a really quick personal question before you go. You have announced you're not going to be running again. Your daughter is now running for a different seat, a congressional seat out of New Hampshire. As you leave what feels like a very divided Washington, any advice that you have for your daughter? And does she take it?

Well, I hope she'll take it. My advice is that we've got to do more to work across the aisle to solve the problems that are facing Americans, address the cost of living concerns that Americans have, address the global challenges that we're facing. And we can't do that with one party or the other.

We have to do it by working together. That's what's in America's interest. That's why I'm here in Paris with this bipartisan congressional delegation to the biggest air show in the world, because we know how important the commercial aerospace industry is to the United States and how important it is to our national security. Well, we know you've dedicated years to the state and federal level. So we wish you well and your safe travels there on that bipartisan delegation. Senator, thank you.

Thank you. So President Trump's massive parade celebrating the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary rolling through Washington yesterday, the same day that those no kings protest blanketed the country. Plus this. We have a presence there. And if they attack that presence, they should be prepared for us to respond. Our exclusive sit down with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, his warning to the Iranian regime and whether he can actually make that July 4th deadline for the big, beautiful bill.

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President Trump at the parade honoring the 250th anniversary of the Army last night here in D.C. Let's talk about it with our Sunday group. USA Today White House correspondent Francesca Chambers. Molly Hemingway, Fox News contributor.

Former Biden Deputy Cabinet Secretary Dan Coe and Jeremy Hunt, former U.S. Army Intelligence Captain. Welcome, everyone. OK, so there were a lot of folks celebrating, some protesting yesterday. Let's start about the celebration, because The Washington Times talked to folks out here for the Army celebration. They said families, friends. It was a big, you know, festive event.

They talked to one army leader, platoon leader for howitzer crew stationed in Fort Bragg. He said this, "It's been great to interact with the public. It's been nothing but great support."

It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to celebrate the 250th birthday of the Army. So, Jeremy, happy birthday. I've got to start with you. Thank you. I appreciate that. It was an amazing event. It was great being there. I joined with my wife and just walking around and just seeing everyone from all walks of life just so excited about not only the Army's birthday but just our country. I mean, 250 years of the Army, and we know that the Army is the backbone of this nation, has built history.

so much protected our nation. I was proud to have served for several years as an intel officer. So it was really a neat opportunity seeing this hunger for Americans to come together, to put aside all the nastiness of politics every day and seeing folks who weren't even necessarily from my side of the aisle that were there that were still coming to celebrate our military.

And I think that is what meant something. And I think that and I support President Trump for bringing that together and having the creativity to say, let's have this event. Let's honor our military and let's show America the strength of our army.

So those who didn't think the imagery was a good idea for this president included Peggy Noonan writing over at the Wall Street Journal. It all sounds showy, militaristic and braggadocious, the kind of thing the Soviet Union did in its May Day parades and North Korea still does. We don't do that. We don't have big military parades with shining, gleaming weapons driven through the streets. Molly.

Well, that's not true. We actually have had military parades in our past, and I think a lot of Americans want to see more of that. There is this hunger for, we feel like we've lost something of a patriotic zeal, and people are hungry to get that back. My family was more Marines and Air Force, not Army, but I went with my family, and we loved learning about the history of the U.S. Army. And one of my favorite things they showed us

yesterday was just the gratitude that Americans feel for the Army. And so I think a lot of people try to make it seem like celebrating your military and its successes is some politically divisive thing. But for the vast majority of Americans, they are proud to be American. They do think this is a great country. And they understand that a lot of that rests

First and foremost, with the Army, we wouldn't even have a country without the United States Army. And a lot of people are very happy to celebrate that. You're getting full sign-off, obviously, from Jeremy on that. But, Dan, this is the same time that there were very organized, very well-attended protests across the country, these No Kings protests, a big one in my neighborhood just outside of D.C. So there is definitely that side of this conversation that is happening on the streets, too. Look, I think if this was a president who wanted to honor the military, he wouldn't be proposing 80,000 VA cuts.

Mr. President, who actually cared about the military, he would be freezing $2 billion worth of contracts or having a secretary of defense leaking attack plans on signal. In contrast, we have people from Idaho to Ohio to Arkansas to Massachusetts stand up and say that this country, with due process being taken away, with children being separated from their mothers, is not something we stand for. People will not take this lying down, and this is just the beginning.

I just want to point out here, one of the problems here with this is the messaging from Democrats really is, as you're saying here, we want to defend illegal immigration. We want to abolish ICE. We want to destroy rule of law as it comes to the borders. And then a lot of Americans look at the military as actually not in contrast to that, but that it's something that, again, unifies them.

My grandfather was a captain in the army. I honor the military. I think the reality is we are seeing due process taken away from basic Americans. We are seeing American citizens being deported. These are the things that people should be concerned about, regardless of party. And just to be factual on that issue, if you're referring to some children who left, their parents were here illegally. They were given the chance and wanted to take the children with them. But as American citizens, those kids aren't deported. They can come back.

The husband did object to that, right? And so there was a fight over that for sure. But the mother did want to take the child with her. But Francesca, these are things that this White House has to they've got to learn how to juggle the optics of that. Those conversations while, you know, the streets feel like they are there's some level of unrest.

And President Trump, in his own words, said last night that he wanted to show off a little bit, Shannon. I was actually with the president when he went to Bastille Day in his first term, which is what inspired this military parade for him. And he has expressed recently, repeatedly, frustration that the United States doesn't get credit, in his view, for winning World War II. And he's brought up France and said that the United States also deserves to celebrate. But I think the the

point that you're raising here is that he's also juggling the military parade, as well as this trip that he's about to make to the Group of Seven summit, as well as what's going on right now between Israel and Iran. And we didn't hear from the president yesterday on those issues in a public setting, except over social media.

It was a surprisingly brief speech. I was expecting that there would be something a little bit more long-winded. I would get some ad-libs, you know, usually. Right. I mean, it seemed pretty focused. Okay, so to the G7 point, the New York Times writes this, the leaders of the group of seven nations, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the U.S.,

now have to confront the fallout from another war in the Middle East, increased instability, surging oil prices, and the possibility that Iran will respond with new terror attacks around the world. So, Jeremy, the president is heading to Canada for that today. There was already a lot on the agenda, and it just got a lot more complicated.

That's right. And look, President Trump always shows such strong leadership in these types of environments and on the international stage, I think he really excels in these environments. And I think really the big question mark for me is what do our European partners, our European allies do in this scenario? Are they going to support President Trump as we counter our American adversaries, as we counter China, the rise of China, as we counter Iran and his zero enrichment stance, nuclear enrichment from Iran? Are they going to support that or how are they going to respond? I think

Frankly, a lot of them the last four years under President Biden have just kind of enjoyed having, you know, someone who just kind of tells them what they want to hear and they kind of just, you know, get along all the time. I think under President Trump, we're going to expect some answers and have some serious conversations. I think a lot of Americans welcome that. I think that we can be proud and stand alongside our allies at the same time having those tough conversations. So I'm looking forward to seeing it and seeing how President Trump does here. Tough conversations.

That's a good way to put it, Jeremy. We get a whole lot more with our panel, so don't go far. But up next, my exclusive conversation with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, fresh off his visit to the White House. His plan to get the president's big, beautiful bill over the finish line. Can he do it? Not the same person. We will roll into the 4th of July recess if necessary in order to get this on the president's desk.

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These strikes came as Iran and the U.S. were in negotiations to limit Iran's nuclear capabilities. That 60-day deadline that President Trump had set to make a deal had just passed. So the Israeli operation took out four top military leaders, including the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Air Force.

Iran responding predictably, launching ballistic missiles into civilian areas, we're told. The barrage at times overwhelming the Iron Dome and leaving behind extensive damage. Now, despite the Trump administration urging Iran not to retaliate, Iranian officials have indicated that U.S. bases and interests in the region, well, they still may be targeted.

With the growing instability in the Middle East, the U.S. had pre-positioned assets capable of defending against ballistic missiles in the region and has now ordered more of that into the eastern Mediterranean Sea. I sat down Friday with Senate Majority Leader John Thune in his office on Capitol Hill to discuss all of this escalation in the Middle East and the state of the budget battle.

Let's start domestically. You've got the big, beautiful bill now simmering here in the Senate with a lot of different kinds of objections. CBO, its latest projection it puts out is that the lowest income households will lose $1,600 a year in federal resources and the highest earners will gain $12,000 in federal resources. Democrats are calling a shameful transfer of wealth from working families to the ultra rich. How do you respond? Yeah, I don't know how you can come to that conclusion.

We're increasing the child tax credit, and if the Democrats had their way at the end of the year, these tax, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act wouldn't expire, and you would have the child tax credit cut in half for working families. So we're not only going to keep it from getting cut in half, we're going to increase it. No tax on tips, no tax on overtime. Does that survive? Lower the tax on Social Security recipients. Yes, it will. Those are all things that were the President's priorities, and the House included them.

and their version of the bill. And now we will also have them incorporated into ours. So I don't know how they come to that conclusion. This is going to be very much about middle income taxpayers. And as I said before, if we don't act,

at the end of the year, there will be a $2.6 trillion tax increase on families making less than $400,000 a year and a $600 billion tax increase on small businesses. So this is really about preserving and protecting families and ensuring that they've got more dollars in their own pocket and that they're sending less to Washington.

But there are even those within your party who say they worry about the long-term impact, that it's not going to be good for families, for their kids and for their grandkids because they don't see adequate offsets there and just more contributions to the deficit, which continues to grow. So what do you say to those folks who are within your own party? It may not be a yes vote for you yet. Well, I would say, and I'm a pro-growth conservative, so what you want to get on one hand, Shannon, are pro-growth policies, and that's tax policy, it's regulatory policy, it's energy policy.

that creates greater growth in the economy. When the economy is growing and expanding, people are making money, taking realizations and paying taxes, and government revenue goes up. And then on the other hand, you've got to start bending the cost curve down. And what we've been seeing is the cost going like this, the federal government. And this does bend it down, literally for the first time in decades. This will be the largest spending reduction in history. You're talking over a trillion, a trillion and a half, up to $2 trillion. We'll see where we finally end up in the Senate.

But it will be a major reduction in spending, coupled with reforms to programs to get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse, and then also have on the other side pro-growth policies. You get greater growth in the economy, more revenue here, spend less here, and pretty soon you can start seeing things balance out. But you have to start somewhere, and that's what this bill does. And it is a big problem.

big change from the way that things have been done in Washington for the last several decades. And again, I would argue it's the biggest spending reduction in American history. So let's talk about some of the specific objections you've got members with Republicans on your side who need to work through. So we've got SALT, which is this exemption for people who are in high tax states for their state and local taxes. It's been raised to $40,000 on the House side. When I asked Senator Rick Scott about it last week, he said, absolutely not. It's not going to survive.

We should not be subsidizing Blue State Governor's wasteful spending. So there's a question about how much of it does survive, but you've got House members who say they tweak that and I'm now a no vote. Right.

Well, and again, when people ask me how much of this can you get in there, how much of that can you get in there, it does come down. It's a function of math. And at the end of the day, you've got to get 51 senators and 218 House members to get a bill on the president's desk. So obviously we're very cognizant of the political dynamics that the Speaker is dealing with in the House. That said, in the Senate at least,

there isn't a high level of interest in doing anything on SALT. We believe, as a matter of policy, you don't want to have low-tax states subsidizing high-tax states. So I think at the end of the day, we'll find a landing spot, hopefully that we'll get the votes that we need in the House, a compromise position on the SALT issue, if you will, that will enable us to get the requisite number in both the House and the Senate to get a bill on the President's desk.

So as you try to work all this out, Senator Cruz is among those out there publicly saying, I'm not sure this gets done by July 4th. How does it get done? Will you keep senators here through weekends and holidays? Absolutely. Yeah, it'll get done. We need to get it done. And I think it's a it is a huge priority, obviously, for the president. He campaigned on it. This is an agenda that we are all committed to. And we will we will roll into the 4th of July recess if necessary in order to get this on the president's desk.

Okay, let's talk foreign policy because as you and I are talking, Israel has unleashed a number of strikes. On Iran, there have been return strikes aimed primarily at its nuclear program, nuclear scientists, military leaders, air defenses, all kinds of things. Senator Chris Murphy is pointing the finger at Israel. He says they're essentially blowing up the talks that the U.S. has been having with Iran that President Trump has been cautioning. Let us try to get this deal done.

But he then ultimately points to President Trump because he says, if we hadn't left the Iran nuke deal, they wouldn't have advanced to the point that they are, that Israel feels like they have to act. Well, first off, I think President Trump is all about trying to keep America out of wars and to try and find paths toward peaceful outcomes and peaceful solutions. I think he's tried to do that with Iran. Iran has grown, I think, increasingly defiant of late in these talks and these discussions.

But what this comes down to is action taken by Israel to defend themselves and their people. They view Iran's nuclear capability, as do we, as a non-starter. That is a destabilizing force not only in the region but in the entire world. And what you heard Prime Minister Netanyahu say when he spoke to Congress last year is that the only thing standing between Iran and the United States is Israel.

And that's absolutely true. I mean, they're the little Satan, we're the big Satan. And they want to wipe Israel off the map. And that just isn't something that the Israelis can accept. And so this is their decision to defend themselves and their people. What I would suggest to Iran is that they not target Americans in any of this, because if they do...

They better be prepared because we will respond. What does that mean? Because, you know, what the president campaigned on is getting us out of foreign conflicts and not getting involved in any new ones. But certainly Israel is an ally. We have pledged that we will stand with without equivocation.

But if Iran does go after U.S. bases, is it more than a defensive response for us in that case? Well, I think Iran should be prepared for all of America's might to descend upon them if they go after and target Americans or American bases or installations in the Middle East.

You know, clearly this is the Israelis taking action, trying to take out Iran's nuclear capability, and they view that as an existential threat to their existence. And frankly, they're right about that. But what the U.S.'s response will be triggered by is how Iran responds.

And if they do, as they have been for a long time, start targeting Americans and their proxies in Yemen and in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon have now for decades been creating disruption and chaos and death and destruction in that region of the world. And we have a presence there. And if they attack that presence, they should be prepared for us to respond.

So you were at the white house this week. What would you say is your relationship with the president? He had a lot of praise for you this week. He called you out by name and thinks you're doing a great job. Is the job what you thought it was? How much of, is he a partner in you trying to get things done here? Well, I mean, to get things done around here, he's, he is, uh, I mean, he's the closer, uh,

He has to help when we're trying to pass major legislation, ultimately has tremendous influence in talking not only to senators but to House members and ensuring that we're all operating as a team. Well, we'll watch as you tick towards that July 4th deadline with a very full agenda. In the meantime, happy Father's Day. In the meantime, thanks for making time. Good to see you. Thanks, Shannon. Good to be with you.

So the feud between the White House and California leaders heads to the courts in the wake of President Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard to crack down on anti-ice protests. We're going to break down the legal battle ahead of a key hearing on Tuesday. That's next. This is my daughter, Riley. She's made up her mind.

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And we ended it, and we have in custody some very bad people, some very bad people. We don't want our city to be in fear. And ironically, the fear that is described out of Washington is not what is happening at all. It's not fear of protesters. It's fear of the federal government.

Well, President Trump and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass taking very different views of the federal government's role amid anti-ice protests in the City of Angels. The administration taking heat from critics who say the president has overstepped his authority to mobilize the National Guard without the governor's cooperation. We are back now with the

panel. There's going to be a hearing this week, and whoever loses this battle over the National Guard, I would imagine it comes straight here to the Supreme Court, Molly. It will have to come to the court because either whoever loses will appeal. But there's also just this issue of how the courts have engaged in a bit of a or how there's been a bit of a judicial coup over so many different things that the Trump administration has tried to do. But in this case, we're talking about who's the commander in chief and is it the president or not? And so I think the the

and the White House feel pretty good about their arguments. Well, there's also the question about who's leading the Democrats in the middle of all of this thing. And Governor Gavin Newsom seems willing to step into the breach there. The Wall Street Journal says this. Newsom's pugilistic response to Trump's provocations has gladdened the hearts of Democrats hungry for a crusader. But...

At a time when Newsom has attempted to moderate his image, playing to the Democratic base runs the risk of cementing his profile as a left coast progressive and associating him with images of urban unrest. And look, I think what's interesting about what he's doing is not just what he's saying, but where he is saying it. He had an exclusive on the Midas Touch network with his address to the nation, with two million people seeing that moment.

That might as such as getting 22 million views every two days. He had Brian Tyler Cohen, a YouTuber, into the Emergency Operations Center to do an interview. It just shows that I think he's learning the lessons, candidly, of 2024, that Democrats didn't do enough to communicate more to independent media, which I think is exciting, though, to take a step back.

What I think is a bigger concern here is the Trump administration's response to crisis. Right. We saw in St. Louis that it took five days for FEMA to come to the aid of people at St. Louis. We're seeing an antagonistic relationship between local elected officials and the Trump administration. My big concern is when the first big hurricane comes, will they be there and will they have the back of local officials when lives are on the line?

Well, you seem like you had a response to that. Well, just that I think what we were seeing with the response to the riots in L.A. and the planned riots in other cities, the Trump administration learned from the first Trump administration. When you had massive, coordinated BLM-associated riots that caused $2 billion in damage, I think

A couple dozen people died. Just massive property damage and unrest. And they were really constrained against bringing in any kind of law and order to that situation. And it didn't work out well for the Trump administration. And so now they understand we've seen these coordinated protests. We know they're well-financed. We know they're well-coordinated. And we're not going to let it affect the country the same way those similar riots that happened five years ago. We'll see what the Ninth Circuit says about that this week. In the meantime, staying with Governor Newsom, I want to play something that he said now.

talking about President Trump and their conversation. He is not the same person that I dealt with just four years ago. And he's incapable now of even a train of thought. He's making things. So, Francesca, shades of President Biden with that comment there from Governor Newsom.

So I was talking to a Democrat just this weekend about Gavin Newsom, and he said that he believes that he is now the frontrunner essentially for 2028. You might say that an immigration message like the one that he's pushing might not play well with a general election audience.

But among Democratic base primary voters, they're looking for someone who's going to challenge President Donald Trump. So enter Gavin Newsom in that sense. He's also suing the administration right now over tariffs. And President Trump seems to be relishing in this fight, too, Shannon. He's repeatedly addressed Newsom. And, you know, his his stake in his rallies really works when he has someone who he can play off of. And ever since President Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris have left the

office, you know, he's been really missing that kind of political opponent who we can treat as a foil. Well, Jeremy, they feel like frenemies to me. There are times that they have worked together. You see them on the tarmac in the midst of a crisis, working together, having conversations. That is not now.

No, I mean, well, I think what we're seeing is what's so interesting to me is even what they were saying, you know, it's President Trump's response to the crisis. And they're talking about the crisis itself. I mean, Gavin Newsom is the face of these violence, of the face of all these clashes with law enforcement. And you look at that and the supposed bad guy in all this is President Trump. He's actually restoring order in the situation. I think a lot of Americans are looking at this and they're thinking about 2020 and they're saying never again, never again are we going to have our businesses closed.

burned down. Never again are we going to have small business owners who spent their life building up these businesses that were just totally looted and burned down in 2020. And so now we're seeing someone come and say it's not going to happen again. And unfortunately, Gavin Newsom has made this all about the illegal immigrants that are in the country instead of about the Americans and protecting their way of life. I feel like there's a lot more to say, but you're going to have to go pay-per-view for that.

Panel, thank you very much. We've got to leave it there. So Iran and Israel still trading those deadly strikes for a third day. We're going to take you back live to the region for a report on the ground the very latest. We'll take you there next.

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Sign up for your $1 per month trial at Shopify.com slash special offer. Israel and Iran continuing to trade fire as tensions show no sign of slowing down. Let's go to Alex Hogan live in central Israel with the very latest. Hello, Alex. Hi, Shannon. We are just now getting word after this barrage of drones and missiles that was fired by Iran towards Haifa in Tel Aviv that there have been no direct impacts. This was just moments ago.

Right now we're in a parking garage as soldiers and civilians have gathered here, coming underground to seek shelter as the sirens go off overhead, meaning Tel Aviv once again, even in the middle of the day, has come under attack. Death toll rising to 11 people, including kids killed in Israel and more than 300 wounded after Iran launched waves of attacks overnight. Today, Israel is increasing efforts to hit Iran's energy industry and defense ministry headquarters.

And in a rare move, the IDF made an address in Farsi today, calling on all residents living near reactors in Iran that they should evacuate. Now, back here in Bat Yam, a suburb of Tel Aviv, and the site of one of the direct missile hits in the early hours of this morning, the IDF says this is a perfect example of why it is so important to go to the shelters when those sirens blare, because the people who did survive and the people who did not go to shelters.

did not. Shannon. Alex, thank you very, very much. Before we go, I want to tell you about something special. Next week, Fox News Sunday will be live at the Supreme Court. We're going to discuss all of the top cases the justices are working on as we await the biggest decisions of the term in just days. That's next Sunday. Thank you for joining us today. We'll see you then.

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