come on, south korea. you are better than that jessica? >> jessica: so a georgia cyclist had the creative solution for all the flat tires he setting. the atlanta magnet man and attached a thousand dollars worth of magnets bike trailer to gather nails, screws and other metal debris. huge online presidents where residents alert him to part of the city need his help. 410 tons of metal off the street. local scrap metal artists to re-purpose. he thinks that's an invention. >> dana: you go weirdo. >> jesse: that makes us miss you go girl. that's how bad that was. please, more you go girl. >> jessica: fine i had a you go girl idea. >> jesse: tomorrow. >> bret: congrats on the book:

good evening, welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. breaking tonight, some sad news. former connecticut senator vice presidential nominee and 2,000 presidential election jerome has died. lieberman first joined the u.s. senate in 1989. he was mostly viewed as a centrist democrat. most recently lieberman was the founding chairman of the no labels movement fronting the effort to try to get a third party unity ticket on the 2024 presidential ballot. late-breaking news today. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram on the hill with this breaking news. reaction coming in fast. good evening, chad. >> bret, good evening. jerome's family says he died in new york from complications after a fall. he was 82 years old. lieberman entered the senate in 1989, defeating republican local weeker. he ran as al gore's vice presidential candidate during the disputed election of 2,000.

lieberman was jewish and was just on fox recently. he spoke out against the comments about israel by senate majority leader chuck schumer. >> i think really it was a case of high elected official in the u.s. taking advantage of friend. you friend you wouldn't do this with a cawcialg ally or certainly an enemy. to call out one of our closest allies of the world, israel, democracy, when it's at war and tell its people they should thump their prime minister, wow, talk about crossing a red line. that was a diplomatic red line that i have never in all my years seen crossed. it's just -- it is outrageous. >> but, despite being gore's running mate in 2000, he fell out of favor with democrats. lieberman lost the democratic primary to ned lamont in 2006. but he ran as an independent,

lieberman won reflection asen independent but he then endorsed g.o.p. arizona senator john mccain for president in 2008. he also spoke at the republican convention in saint paul. now, democrats tinkered with throwing him out of the democratic caucus but allowed him to remain in as an independent and as a committee chairman. bret? >> bret: chad pergram live on the hill. chad, thanks. connecticut senator chris murphy just putting out a tweet moments ago. connecticut is shocked by senator lieberman's sudden passing. in an era of political carbon copies, jerome was a singularity. one of one. he fought and won for what he believed was right and for the state he endured. my thoughts are with his wife and entire family. let's bring in fox news political analyst brit hume and anchor of "fox news sunday" shannon bream. brit, it's hard to characterize

jerome any other way than an independent clearly was the democratic nominee in 2000, the shift # years later dramatically to support republican nominee and his friend john mccain was something we hadn't really seen in politics. >> no. we hadn't for a long time and certainly haven't seep anything like that since. >> jerome, i joe lieberman. he loved his state and it loved him. it isn't easy to get elected to a body as an independent. he did that in connecticut and he was beloved there stayed in office before he was elected to the senate. he was very much a true moderate. a centrist. always on the lookout for ways to work with the other party. that sets him apart today and,

of course he has been active since out of office. no labels movement which a lot of democrats didn't approve of. he was a very hard to dislike. gentle in his manner. friendly in his demeanor. always with a smile he knew many members of the press and always was able to call them by name. people liked him and well they should have. i always thought very highly of joe lieberman i'm very sad to hear he died. i guess it was from the after-effects of a fall. anyway, my condolences to all in his family. he will certainly be missed. >> bret: he really will. i knew him well, too. i just talked to him at the alfalfa dinner here in washington, d.c. recently. he and his wife hadassah who we send our condolences too. he was the first jewish candidate on the national ticket of any major party. obviously the democratic nominee.

but john mccain said later that he really did consider naming him the vice presidential nominee for that year in 2008. >> yeah. and he had in 2,000, when they lost the case that ultimately went to the supreme court, he was one of those within that campaign at that point in such a prominent position saying we should file as many lawsuits as we think are legitimate. we should fight for this. and he talks about at the time he was told you are a young man. you are going to have a long career. don't blow it up with this fight here. in so many different places he showed up as the first in many places. i'm totally agreeing, you would as well, with brit, that he was one of the kindest people who ever come through washington. i saw him not long ago coming into the train station no. big entourage traveling by himself doing his thing. kind and stopping to talk. about the supreme court, he accepted what happened there in 2000, at some point you have to shut us down for the good of the country. so many interactions with that place. he argued a case in the 1980s, lost 8-1.

was able to laugh about it later. in the 90's with president bill clinton numerous list as a potential nominee to sit as a justice himself on the supreme court. in 2020 i cass struck by his dissent of out just a nominee. he was a very faithful nominee. he did not like that she was being attacked on the basis of religion and he came to her faith. >> bret: chad pergram still with us on capitol hill. so faithful he would walk to the capital on saturdays if there was something to be voted on on those days in respect of his religion. chad, interacting with joe lieberman on the hill, i'm sure as as it was to many reporters, an easy thing because he got long with at 4r06 people. >> i think brit had it right there talking about how gentle he was. always knew who everybody was and always made time to talk to you in the hall and make sure he would do an interview on camera if necessary. you are right about practicing in shabbat there. i remember there was something that came up in the 2000

election or recount or something of that some sort. he actually walked. he could not take a car. he walked from his house downtown because, again, you know shabbat, you are not supposed to partake in those types of things. i thought that was striking. i remember him working with susan collins, the republican senator from maine on a piece of legislation after 9/11 and how they were like texting one another and emailing one another from the kennedy center during a performance. that's how they got the bill done. another thing that i remember about him, too and you talk about t this breadth of knowlede that he had and also serving in the senate, he was somebody who was so well-liked on both sides of the aisle. you talk about him, you know, maybe being a vice presidential candidate for two parties. i mean, i think that was remarkable. i remember that day in 2008, when they thought about kicking him out of the democratic caucus after the 2008 election. the reason they kept him is because everybody trusted joe lieberman and they liked him as a senator and knew he was a

serious legislator. >> bret: brit, as we close up these thoughts and we will have more with the panel a little bit later, the question is whether there be other joe liebermans in washington? can someone like that in the centrist mode surface again as we remember his life and legacy? >> brit: this is not an atmosphere to be that person. joe lieberman had a remarkable personality. he was a generally genial man very serious about policy. he was no slouch. he was no demagogue. he was honorable. and i think he was -- he was sort of a shining light in a way in an atmosphere of such bruising partisanship that grips both houses of the congress now and in our politics in general. so, yeah, he was a man set apart. i don't see his like right now. but, people come along and times change and the at more fear

could be different. sooner or later it. will maybe another joe lieberman will come along. we could all hope for that. >> bret: thank you. joe lieberman dead at the age of 82. more with the panel, later. ♪ breaking tonight, other news, we have brand new fox news polls on the current state of the presidential election. in a hypothetical five-way ballot test, which includes robert f. kennedy jr., cornel west, and jill stein, all candidates, form are president donald trump is narrowly favored over president biden with a 5-point edge that 5-point difference also carries over to our head-to-head match up or man to man. on their favorable ratings. independent candidate robert f. kennedy jr. tops trump and biden with 47%-45% and 39% respectively. officials at the white house are taking notice of the kennedy threat. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich following all of that live from the north lawn.

good evening, jacqui. >> jacqui: good evening, bret. team biden knows this is going to be a close election. they feel confident in a faceoff with trump. but a new messaging tragedy shows how nervous they are about their chances in a three-way race. >> he is an extremist. he is not in the mainstream of this country. >> jacqui: robert f. kennedy jr. is polling better than any independent since ross perot in 1992. democrats are reliving their nightmares in 2016. you don't need significant support to throw an election to donald trump. we saw this play out in 2016 where jill stein, you know, got 50,000 votes and hillary clinton lost by 10,000 votes in michigan. >> the strategy now paint contend as a stalking horse for trump claiming a financial connection. >> the truth is that he was drafted into this race by donald trump's top supporters. and is being financed in this race by trump's largest donor. that isn't merely a coincidence. >> he is likely interested in

trying to get donald trump elected. maybe that's what this is about. >> trump rejects the tion writing r.f.k. jr. is the most radical candidate in the race by far. but, he doesn't deny r.f.k.'s candidacy is helpful, adding i guess this would mean he is going to be taking votes from crooked joe biden which would be a great service to america. i love that he is running. biden may need all the help he can get. a new fox news poll shows 38% of voters listed nothing as his greatest accomplishment as president. another 6 percent said not being trump. and biden's support has been sliding among key voting blocks. he still leads trump with black voters 71% to 26%. but that's down from a 65 point advantage before the 2020 election. >> the black vote will be there for joe biden in this election. the first person appoint a black woman as vice president. first person to appoint a plaque woman to the united states supreme court. >> this month the dnc filed another complaint with the fec allege ago pro-kennedy super pac

broke federal laws by failing to disclose loans. they previously filed a complaint alleging the pac improperly collected session temperatures to get kennedy on the ballot. they are hoping if the legal play doesn't work out the messaging play will. bret? >> bret: jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. thank you. the ntsb say they will analyze the data recorder recovered from the ship that crashed into the francis scott key bridge in baltimore. officials hope the device will help them peace together exactly what went wrong. and we have just learned the bodies of two men were recovered from the waters below. again, six believed dead in that accident. correspondent griff jenkins is on the baltimore harbor with the layest. good evening, griff. >> griff: good evening, bret. and that's right. right behind us we watched as a recovery crews worked tirelessly to recover two of those six construction workers. the bodies now brought back to bring closure to those families.

and we also got a closer look at the magnitude of the challenge here. trying to understand the final moments when that ship brought down the iconic bridge. at 1:04 a.m., loaded with nearly 5,000 shipping containers, the singapore-flagged vessel named dolly deports baltimore's port headed for sri lanka. 20 minutes later the dolly appears to suffer a power loss black out as goes out. >> loss of steering, communications, loss of your bridge equipment. so, there really is a few things that are scarier. >> griff: a minute later the lights flicker back on and black smoke appears to rise from the ship. sources say this is emergency power trying to kick in but propulsion and control is not regained. >> they aren't sufficient for powering the propeller so it's not really enough to stop the ship and do anything in those confined waters. >> griff: 60 seconds after that,

the lights go dark again. industry insiders tell "the washington post" that the harbor pilots on board ordered the ship's rudder hard to the left anchor deployed effort to slow the ship and change its course. 1:27 a.m. the dolly collides into one of the bridge's main support pillars and within seconds major spans of the historic landmark fall into the patapsco river. >> the harbor pilots warned maryland transportation authorities the bridge was in danger and giving them about 90 seconds to shut down traffic at both ends. 24 hours after the collapse, ntsb arrives on scene, boards the dolly and takes possession of the data recorder. >> it records everything from speed to location of the vessel. >> army co corps of engineers supporting recovering operations says it will take time to clear the channel. >> more survey work do for the concrete and twisted steel on the bottom of the channel.

>> griff: and in a few hours, we hope to hear from the ntsb in a press conference to learn hopefully more details about the contents of that data recorder. bret? >> bret: griff jenkins on baltimore harbor. thanks. please join jesse watters tonight as he will bring you that live news conference from the ntsb on the cargo bridge collision on the francis scott key bridge in baltimore. the dow surged 478 today. the s&p 500 added 45 for a new record close. the nasdaq gained 84. up next, with billions of dollars on the line, residents of a small michigan town say they are not only battling local leaders but communist china, too. and, later, a suspected illegal firearms trade in the u.s. arming mexican cartels at the southern border. we will bring you that. ♪ ♪ of the kia sorento x-pro

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>> bret: small corner of america is now the epicenter of a billion dollars battle residents of a michigan town are fighting an energy firm with close ties to the chinese communist party. over a massive electric vehicle battery plant it plans to build.

correspondent garrett tenney has our report from green charter township. >> we're not only at war with communist china. we feel like we are at war with elected officials. >> the small township of green charter, michigan is fighting to block a multi billion dollars battery plant that would bring 3200 good-paying jobs to their economically struggling community. because of the company's ties to china. >> the lithium issue. the environmental issues, the ccp issues. this is not a good fit for our community. >> the u.s.-based company gotion is a subsidiary of gotion high tech one of the largest electric vehicle suppliers in china and whose leaders have close ties to the chinese communist party. >> horns beeping] >> slashed out when the board signed agreement with the company last fall. voters recalled the entire board electing new mani membership wia mandate gotion stop coming into the community. suing the township for breach of

contract and maintains the ccp has no presence in the u.s. subsidiary. >> there are currently 269 companies in the state of michigan with chinese ties. that's a big number. they employ 32,500 people. none of them have a ccp devastatiodivisiongotion will b. >> ties to the ccp have raised alarms in washington and within the intelligence community as well. former cia director leon pa they in a recently issued this warning about the project. >> they will establish a manufacturing unit. they will establish whatever they can. and then they will use that for their own intelligence purposes. >> despite those national security concerns, michigan governor gretchen whitmer's office says she still supports the project and stands by the $700 million in incentives the state offered to get the company here. bret? >> bret: garrett, thank you. the federal trade commission is investigating tiktok over its data and security practices. in its probe, the ftc is looking

into whether tiktok violated a portion of federal law unfair and deceptive business practices by denying businesses in china had access to u.s. user data. that's according to a person close to the investigation. social media company is already fighting against a federal bill that could ban the platform in the u.s.ment if it does not break ties with its beijing-based parent company bytedance that bill is currently stalled in the u.s. senate. up next, hunter biden's attorney is in court seeking the dismissal of hunter's federal tax case. we'll take you there and we will have the latest. first, beyond our borders tonight. an israeli airstrike on a center linked to a lebanese sunni muslim group killed seven of its members triggering a rocket attack lebanon killing one person in israel. strike comes after a day of attacks between israel and hezbollah along the lebanon-israel border. >> this is a live look at rome, one of the big stories there

tonight, pope francis appears in better health ahead of a busy easter week schedule. the 87-year-old pontiff's frail appearance has been a growing source of concern in recent weeks. today the pope read out full texts for his weekly audience rather than delegating them to an aide as he has done in recent weeks and made a few off-the-cuff remarks. looks in good spirits. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. we'll be right back. ♪ it's a new day ♪ it's a new life ♪ for me ♪ and i'm feeling good ♪ ♪ lord, you know what's on our hearts. you know where we struggle. you know where we need to be pushed. help us give it all to you. the good, the bad. help us turn to you in everything. amen. you should join me in more prayer on hallow. stay prayed up.

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this began two and a half hours ago. it's still going on. hunter biden's attorney abbe lowell trying to provide the federal judge with eight reasons why this case should be thrown out. what the judge does is another story. we expect this to go on for a little bit tonight. abbe lowell hunter biden's lead attorney in the courtroom making those arguments. we got him arriving about an hour before court began he told the judge one penetrating fact of this case is after five years of investigating then u.s. attorney david weiss, who is now special counsel, believed a plea agreement was appropriate. weiss and his office drafted one. it was announced last june. local says then david weiss changed his tune after bowing to public and political pressure. ripping up the plea deal last night and reneging on a promise that was made. hunter biden waived his appearance not in the courtroom right now. he lives here in los angeles. this is why he was charged here. leo wise an attorney with special counsel weiss' office says his office is under attack being singled out as, quote, rank partisans, given the

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>> several colombian nationals recently arrested attempting to cross in el paso. border patrol agents say the men have gang affiliations and extensive criminal histories ranging from murder to kidnapping. >> the cartels know which way they are guiding their people to go to. wherever the pressure is, they just avert their people to another area. >> doj says last week five people were arrested across south texas for allegedly trafficking guns across the southern border to a mexican drug cartel. in a statement, officials say stopping the trafficking of high caliber and military grade firearms to mexico is a top priority for the justice department. lawmakers, however, contend the crisis won't end until tougher penalties are enforced. >> there is inexhaustible supply of folks come here. if we the folks come here across the border illegally we will get more and more. >> next week the fifth circuit of appeals will hold a hearing

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♪ >> president obama and president clinton strongly support president biden's leadership and, obviously, his agenda. all three have agree overwhelmingly on the issues that this president has been fighting for for the past three years. >> leading democrat strategists are deeply concerned. they've got a problem and they know it. how they are going to get out of it is going to be interesting to see. >> bret: there is concern in the democratic party. our new polls, they are a, you know, a flash point, a moment in time but they do show the head to head, the former president

leading president biden by five points that same five point margin if you expand to it to a five way race with robert kennedy jr. and cornel west and jill stein. former president biden fearing biden loss to trump is on the phone to strategize. mr. obama is making calls to his own jeffrey zients the white house chief of staff and aides to strategize and lay advice. this level of engagement illustrates support for mr. biden and one of his senior aides characterize as mr. obama's grave concern that mr. biden could lose to former president donald j. trump. with that, let's wring in our panel katie pavlich news editor at town hall.com. byron york political correspondent washington examiner and axios political reporter stef kite. byron, we have been talking about this level of concern about r.f.k. jr. but it's coming into kind of

context as you see more and more of these polls matching our fox news poll tonight. >> and it was striking when we polled a two-way race and trump is five points ahead of joe biden. and then we polled a five way race and trump is five points ahead of joe biden. it just didn't change. i think one of the things that we haven't paid maybe enough attention to is joe biden's job approval rating is stuck in a very low range. his approval rating now is 41%. it has bounced around in a very narrow range between 40 and 43% since the summer of 2022. it's not going anywhere. people seem to have made up their minds what they think about joe biden. and unless it gets up to 50, he is not going to win because you can look back at presidents who got reelected. bill clinton, george w. bush, barack obama, their approval ratings pushed up above 50% before they won re-election. >> bret: stef, some other interesting things in this poll, this is extremely important to the 2024 vote what these voters

think about. economy now at 61%. that's a bit of a shift. we saw immigration at the top in recent weeks. there you say election integrity 53%. immigration at 48%. when you get to immigration, trusted to do a better job on immigration, can you see the upside down nature of this poll where the former president is at 57% to trusted to do a better job. biden at 39%. you know, when you see cartels dressed in camo on the border and you see the video of all the people coming through, you see how immigration really effects some of those numbers. >> i mean, we have seen immigration and the border issue really rise as a top concern for voters, not just along the border as has been the case in the past, but voters across the country. and this has been, you know, president biden's worst issue for a long time and they have really struggled to find a message that works for them. they have recently been able to go on offense a little bit with the failure of the bipartisan

border deal. they feel like they have been able to go on attack towards republicans over the border issue. but they are still not seeing the movement in the polls. voters clearly aren't fully buying into that i think it will be interesting to see whether we see this administration take more aggressive approaches on the border. i have reported that they are considering pretty significant executive action still to kind of show that they're taking this issue seriously but right now it continues to be a vulnerability. >> bret: abortion, ivf, playing a role. democrat running on abortion and ivf access wins the special election in alabama. marilyn lands flipped the deep red state 25. underscoring the political potency of reproductive rights. i don't know if that's a canary in the coal mine it is interesting in alabama. look at our poll, katie, best describes the issues view on abortion always legal, 35%,mostly legal 24%. there you see the breakdown.

>> well, when it comes to the issue of abortion, it's not the top thing that most americans are going to the polls to vote on but it is something that gets democrats very excited about going to vote for joe biden. and, also, down ballot candidates for the democrats. and it's an issue that republicans have had a very hard time getting over democrats painting them as extremists two years ago when the roe decision was sent back to the states for them to handle the issue of abortion. they were painted as extreme on all the issues when the polling then and as recently as six months ago show the majority of americans support abortion bans at 15 weeks. that is no longer the case, according to this polling. and because the number of republican candidates have decided not to address this issue head on and hoping it can just go away and push it back to as a states argument, now we are seeing it come up in the presidential race as something donald trump is talking about and certainly something that the vice president has been on the trail trying to push as something to get their base voters out. >> bret: here is the former president and the current president on possibility of debates this cycle.

>> when you have the final republican, the final democrat, you have the two people you have to debate regardless of polls. >> how many debates would you commit to. >> as many as necessary. i would like to do it starting now. i don't think he is going to debate though. i really don't think so. >> mr. president, will you commit to a debate with former president trump? >> it depends on his behavior. >> bret: depends on his behavior. if you look at our poll out tonight, the importance of a biden-trump debate or debates 64% see extremely or very important. there you see the breakdown of democrats. republicans, obviously, think it's very much more important at 71%. byron. >> i think people might be saying that because that's the way it's always been. we have seen donald trump prove that you didn't really need them. you didn't need to take part in a debate to win the republican primary. so is it super important in a general election? you have to remember the rnc before trump became the nominee was really angry with the

commission on presidential debates. was going to pull out of the whole thing. demanding some sort of entirely new structure. so now with president biden, obviously, leaving himself a big out if trump does something he doesn't like then he won't take part in the debate. trump thinks it's to advantage now. i think if he felt it was too his disadvantage he wouldn't take part. i really really doubt we are going to see a debate between joe biden and donald trump. >> bret: i don't know. i'm not sure, stef. i think if the biden administration is going to say and the biden campaign is going to say that their man is ready for anything. at least one time probably have to stand next to the opponent. >> yeah. i agree. i think there is going to be immense pressure on biden to actually say yes to a debate with trump. you know, i think you look at the state of the union address where he came on strong, they want to repeat that. >> bret: all right. panel, stand by if you would. up next the panel returns on the life and legacy of senator joe lieberman. later unsuspecting group of sorority sisters become life

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>> bret: do you think barring this effort, senator, that you could get on all of the ballots? >> let's face it, most of the people in our country are angry at both political parties and they don't want to have to make another choice again between presidents trump and biden. >> bret: your thoughts on where things stand right now. >> you know, this is very

american. and i want to say there is a good side to it, which is, in america, where rule of law country. >> bret: senator joe lieberman on our show talking about elections and his no labels effort. he died today after complications from a fall, according to his family. getting reactions pouring in from both sides of the aisle. his dear friend senator lindsey graham from south carolina, a republican saying i just heard my dear friend joe lieberman's passing. as i'm just now leaving israel, so many emotions, this is devastatingly sad. i feel fortunate to have been in his presence, traveling the world in support of america's interests as we saw it. the good news, he is in the hands of the loving god. the bad news, john mccain is giving him an earful about how screwed up things are. rest in peace, my dear friend, from the last amigo. joe manchin, democrat from west virginia, flirted with the no labels ticket. i always had the deepest

admiration and respect for senator joe lieberman and i was proud to call him my colleague and dear friend. senator lieberman always put our country first by working across the aisle to enact sensible, bipartisan solutions including the creation of the department of homeland security. and we have a statement from president george -- former president george bush. joe was as fine an american as they come and one of the most decent people i met during my time in washington. we also pray that joe's example of decency guides our nation's leaders now and into the future. we're back with the panel. byron, thoughts? >> well, one, it's a surprise and terribly sad surprise. i think his real legacy is his being a champion of bipartisanship which is in a pretty bad way right now. it was interesting to see lindsey graham call himself the last amigo. he and lieberman and graham and john mccain hung out so much.

made so many foreign trips that they were known as the three amigos. mccain really did want to put lieberman on his ticket in 2008. was convinced by a lot of republicans that the base wouldn't like it and that in our system it really doesn't work when the president and vice president are a different political parties. but, lieberman kept to this bipartisan ideal and now, you know, with no labels they have had trouble finding a candidate. you know, the democrats are mad at him because they think they are undermining biden. and it's -- the whole cause of bipartisan with the departure of manchin and sinema and everything else, is just in a pretty bad way now. >> bret: yeah. stef, we should point out no labels is on 1 state ballots already. r.f.k. jr. is only on one officially so far. that will increase. interesting to see where no label goes. on the life and legacy of joe lieberman. he was the centrist figure really rare and maybe getting

edges ticket breed in washington. >> exactly. he was a rare centrist voice. and we do continue to see the loss of these more moderate voices in government. we repeatedly see these more moderate senators and house members leave congress and we have seen this no labels effort, which initially had a lot of excitement around it, seem to kind of struggle to find any real footing. it's clear that the vast majority of americans are unhappy with both parties, neither candidate right now is really -- has very high approval ratings. we are seeing it really struggle to have anyone lead that centrist movement, lead anyone towards, you know, this more bipartisan effort. this is another voice there that we are losing. >> bret: i talked about this with brit, katy, to go from vice presidential nominee on the democratic ticket in 2000, and then 8 years later deliver a speech at the republican national convention for john mccain, was quite something. >> well, he -- people say is he a centrist. he was a very principled man. he published a book in 2012 the

gift of rest. his faith led him to do the best he could for his country. people ask the question about how could he be -- have all these friendships with these people talking to him in terms ever policy but not having angry disagreements with him and how to move forward with that he talked a lot about that in his book. i took away from reading it that he really believed if he could focus on his faith without exception. you heard him walking b back and forth from the capital home in georgetown in the rain with secured cards asking if he wanted a ride. he always said no. people respected he stalk his principles even if wasn't fitting into a particular political party. that's why you are seeing people rally around his family and people say they are heart broken that he is gone. >> bret: our thoughts with hadassah, his wife. he was forward leaning when it came to america with its foot forward overseas. and advocated for that really up

until the end. stepped into even talking about senator chuck schumer's speech about israel on the senate floor. >> absolutely. and that is another issue with the aftermath of the iraq war that led to a lot of political splintering. first inside the democratic party and then later with the rise of trump inside the republican party. one last thing about it is, you know, when we talk about al gore having come within 537 votes of being president, lieberman became within 537 votes of being vice president. and, you know, al gore seemed to kind of flip out afterwards and joe lieberman really stayed on a very even-tempered path and continued what he was doing for the rest of his life very admirable model. >> bret: joe lieberman, 82, panel, thanks. ♪ is >> bret: finally tonight, a special day. >> he kind of like pulled over super fast. turned to go down this hill to

this, like, boat ramp area. and we just see like this white minivan submerged under water. >> bret: five students on spring break in the university of georgia being hailed as heroes after jumping into action to help a mother and her two kids from sinking in a minivan. the sorority sisters came acrossed submerged car as you just heard while on a girl's trip to savannah. one of the women clark jones used cpr skills she learned in lifeguard training to save a 4-year-old boy who was trapped under water. kudos to you. that's one heck of a spring break. tomorrow on "special report," president biden, former president trump head to new york for very different reasons. we'll bring that to you. remember, if you can't catch us live, set your dvr 6:00 p.m. in the east, 3:00 p.m. in the west coast. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balance and unafraid. here's laura. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> laura: good evening, everyone. i'm laura ingraham. this is "t