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What declassified election security claims will President Trump reveal tonight?
This is a Fox News alert focusing on election security. I'm Lisa Lucera. That's what the White House says President Trump will focus on in tonight's speech set to begin in moments.
The president plans to reveal newly declassified intelligence assessments about vulnerabilities to election systems during 2020.
It will shock you if you have an honest eye listening to the president tonight and everything he is saying will be backed by facts and by evidence.
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitz says President Trump will also remark on intensifying attacks on Iran and the economy.
Fox's Jared Halpern at the White House. On the Senate floor earlier today, Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer predicted tonight's speech would not break any new ground.
Trump won't expose anything of substance about 2020. He'll just echo the same stale... baseless, pathetic lies he's repeated for six years.
How are lawmakers and the White House reacting to claims about the 2020 election?
Schumer said this speech is about laying groundwork to undermine the 2026 election. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security says it's found thousands of non-citizens on voter rolls in four states, though California Governor Gavin Newsom in a statement said California law is clear. You must be a U.S. citizen to vote in state and federal elections. Fighting between the U.S. and Iran intensifying with the U.S. military targeting a key hub to controlling the Strait of Hormuz that could isolate the Revolutionary Guard. Meanwhile, Bahrain and Kuwait facing Iranian fire. Both countries host U.S. forces and have been facing repeated rounds of fire in the past few days. Two people confirmed dead in massive flooding in South Texas.
We want to do everything we possibly can to protect our lives.
Governor Craig Abbott, who says there have been more than 200 water rescues, more rain is expected through tomorrow. Taco Bell has taken immediate action, it says, to voluntarily remove potentially impacted lettuce that could be linked to a stomach bug outbreak. America's listening to Fox News.
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A Trump cabinet member tells a personal story about threats made on his life at a State Department event focusing on political terrorism.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besant told officials from dozens of countries at the event about an attempt on his life that happened just two hours after being sworn into his position.
So any of you who want to report that this is a fiction and does not exist... be there for the sentencing this August.
The Justice Department says 24-year-old Ryan English of Massachusetts pleaded guilty in March to charges related to the attempted assassination of Besant. Police say English admitted to having Molotov cocktails and traveling to Washington, D.C. with the intention of killing a government official. His sentencing is set for August 14th. Tonya J. Powers, Fox News.
President Trump's teleprompter operators on unpaid leave after reports that he used his inside knowledge to make bets about the president's speeches on the online prediction market, Calchi. Gabriel Perez is accused of using his inside knowledge to win more than $100,000, betting on what the president would say in addresses like the State of the Union. Perez has been operating President Trump's teleprompter since 2016. Minnesota YMCA campers are rescued after being stranded by Canadian wildfires.
It was two groups of YMCA campers, all teens, that got stranded north of the border in a remote area as wildfires raged, preventing the campers from being able to evacuate.
it took one call and over the night all their forces were activated to go and rescue Minnesota campers from Hawaii. And that speaks volumes to our neighbors from Canada, our friends who've always been there, and I am just incredibly grateful.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz also declaring a peacetime emergency this week and has mobilized the state National Guard over multiple wildfires that have broken out on the southern side of the Minnesota-Canada border.
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