larry: just don't want to let it pass. president trump announced on truth social today he's sending his treasury secretary scott bessent to ukraine. and i'm sure he's sending him with some instructions to work for peace. we're going to keep an eye on this scott bessent trip. bessent a very smart fella, and none of us can hold a candle to

elizabeth macdonald. liz: and you're a smart fella too. i need to put you in a diabetic coma, larry, but you're the best guy ever, and you still owe me a dinner just kidding. larry great to see you again. larry: thank you. liz: let's get going. welcome to the "evening edit." there's news coming in. i'm elizabeth macdonald. >> doge and i'm going to ask elon to tell you a little bit about it, and some of the things we found which is shocking. billions and billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse. >> it's not optional for us to sit to reduce the federal expenses. it's essential. it's essential for america to remain solvent as a country and it's essential for america to have the resources necessary to provide things to its citizens and not simply be servicing vast amounts of debt. liz: we'll get you the latest on president trump and elon musk speaking out from the oval office, just moments ago. president trump just ordered government workers to work with doge, to downsize the federal

bureaucracy as democrats again protested in the streets, protecting government waste and corruption that you paid for. we're finding it's worse than expected we have the details tonight. also this story. >> tragically, look. we're in a constitutional crisis. >> we're already in a version of a constitutional crisis. >> we may be in the beginning stages of a constitutional crisis. >> new questions of a constitutional crisis. >> this could set up a potential constitutional crisis. >> well then we really do have a constitutional crisis. liz: okay, saying this for six years now. constitutional crisis, for six years. we've got a new fight. speaker johnson is hammering democrats and the media, for again claiming a constitutional crisis, this time over doge. but they are staying silent on the constitutional crisis. democrats and joe biden created circumventing even the u.s. supreme court to do biden's mandates we've got that and gop lawmakers say they have a way around democrats using judges

appointed by obama or biden to block trump. they are saying that's a constitutional crisis too. we've got it. also we're digging into the details on fema workers fired today for miss appropriating taxpayer funds meant to help americans suffering from disasters in order to spend it on illegal aliens. we've got that and we have this for you. >> what we're getting to is the coffin where the vampire sleeps and that's what u.s. aid is. they aren't even saying he's finding insane waste and corruption. liz: joe rogan calls out the corruption and hypocrisy from the far left democrats saying it's insane. polls show americans agree with joe rogan. ceo ned ryun is here to react plus this story. >> i give him an a, i guess for sticking up to the system is what he wanted to go in there and do and he's one of his campaign promises was to make a

more efficient government that we need. liz: we've got more on that cspan caller giving president trump an a grade in his agenda. gop congressman burgess owens will join us with his reaction but first to this news. let's get right to it. grady trimble is standing by live on what just went down with president trump and elon musk in the oval office. grady what's the latest good to see you. reporter: good to see you too, liz. president trump signed an executive order that directs agencies to work with the department of government efficiency to cut staff and limit hiring with the goal of significantly reducing the size of the federal government. the order says agency heads will coordinate with and consult with doge to shrink the size of the federal workforce and limit hiring to essential positions. it also says when the federal hiring freeze expires, agencies will be able to hire no more than one employee for every four employees that leave the federal service, with some exceptions for law enforcement, public safety et cetera.

elon musk, as you noted at the top, liz, and as you see in this video, joined president trump along with his son x, at the signing to defend doge's work. >> if money is spent badly, if your taxpayer dollars are not spent in a sensible manner, then that's not okay. your tax dollars need to be spent wisely on things that matter to the people. these things, it's just common sense. it's not daniel krone yankees ot interest of people. reporter: musk says the process is going to be transparent every step of the way and admits they will make mistakes because they are working so qu quickly but ty will also fix them. >> is there any sort of accountability check and balance in place that would provide any transparency for the american people? >> all of our actions are fully

public, so if you see anything, you say like wait a second, elon, that seems like maybe there's a conflict there. people are going to be shy about saying that. they will say it immediately. >> including you yourself? >> yes. >> he's a successful guy and that's why we want him doing this. we don't want an unsuccessful guy doing this. now, one thing also that elon hasn't really mentioned are the groups of people that are getting some of these payments. they are ridiculous, and we're talking about billions of dollars, so we've already found -- reporter: and liz, trump also criticized the judge who paused his buyout plan for federal workers saying that he's slowing down the momentum of doge, but trump also says he will abide by the courts and then he will appeal. liz? liz: thank you so much grady trimble for helping us out there. now watch this. watch joe rogan. >> what we're getting to is essentially the coffin where the vampire sleeps. that's what you us aid is and y

found the coffin but for the most part what they are doing is they're controlling the entire federal government and they are controlling the mindset of the population, and they're funding all these people that go along with this wacky and they're attacking, openly attacking and trying to censor people who go against them and they're spending your tax dollars to do so. to anybody not commenting on hey you know what? they are finding a lot of unbelievable waste and corruption, like they aren't even saying he's finding insane waste and corruption. so they're losing more and more credibility, so all they can cling to is he has access to people's social security numbers and private information. like, really? is that it? >> who doesn't by the way. >> the whole government does by the way but is he going to do something bad with it? what he's doing is uncovering insane corruption. liz: that's joe rogan saying

elon musk and president trump are uncovering "insane corruption." it's clocking at more than 83 billion bucks and rising and blowing out the u.s. debt now to a record 36 trillion. you've got to pay taxes on this on the interest costs for that and it's now bigger than the gdp of switzerland but instead of fixing this , democrat government workers again protested in the streets of d.c. defending government corruption waste. let's bring in america majority ceo ned ryun. ned? it's good to see you again. what exactly is the democrat plan here because they're polling at historic loans. what's the plan here? >> i'm not sure they have a plan, liz. i couldn't think of a better fight for trump and elon musk to be having right now over the issue of doge. i mean, trump and elon and doge are on the side of the american people and the american taxpayer to be specific and on behalf of unelected bureaucrats who have been caught and it's going on for decades, abusing american

taxpayer funds to fund their own left wing pet projects, and democrats are doubling down on this and i think that it's really, it's a microcosm. i heard rogan's comments about usaid, less than 1% of government spending and this is just scratching the surface. wait until doge gets to the pentagon and some of the other big departments. i think that it's going to be mind blowing for some of the american people who have been told for years, liz, that they are not a priority. we can't fund southern border wall. we can't fund border security, but we can spend tens of billions of dollars every year on other pet projects of left wing idiologs and what elon musk and trump are doing, i think, it's a common sense, it's a triumph of americanism, of how do we prioritize the american people and all these decisions being made and how taxpayer dollars are being spent and there's a ton of insanity in d.c. for years. liz: yeah, and elon musk said, you know, just said he's going to look into, wait for this ,

why federal workers who make like six figure salaries, maybe 150k, why all of a sudden they are worth millions of dollars in net worth maybe tens of millions and he said he's looking into that. they are rattling the cage there and let's get to this. ned, it's against federal law to provide support to terrorists. it's punishable with up to 20 years in jail and fines. it's a crime under the federal law. but we've got this report that usaid paid for the college tuition for al qaeda terrorists to go to colorado state university. he was connected to terror plots against americans, he was killed in a drone strike under obama in 2011 in yemen plus the report usaid aid packages were found in a gun pile for hezbollah and lebanon. >> well its been taking place for years, actually, liz is usaid is spending millions funding groups that have known ties to terrorist groups and also funding groups trying to

undermine the state of israel so this is going on for quite a while. i think that it's now coming to the surface because of doge but under samantha power there are already problems with usaid that became a lawless, rogue agency under samantha power and i think that its even become more egregious over the last four years but the thing i'm hoping liz that doge does. they're showing the effects. this is caused by a very corrupt not representative democracy system, unelected bureaucrats in this massive bureaucracy. i hope they make the case to show the american people that it's the system that is absolutely broken. you're just seeing some of the abuse on the surface of this spending. liz: one report suggests at least 122 million bucks went out of usaid to terror jihad groups in syria, afghanistan and gaza so ned ryun, great to see you now please watch this. >> thank you. >> everybody stand back and let

the cameras see they're calling all of these gun-loading people out on us. they're calling them out on us. look behind this door. who do you see back there? >> the doors will open. >> do they have guns on them? >> yes. >> do they have guns? >> yes. >> are they prepared to shoot us? >> he was pretty cool, standing in front of the department of education. she's only looking for trouble. she's not looking to help people learn. look, tell maxine and all of her friends that we're last in education out of 40 states we're last, number 40. >> we're codifying a lot of the changes and what they uncovered is frankly shocking. there are a lot of expenditures of the federal government that congress is not aware of in spite of our best efforts to do oversight. some of this is hidden so it has taken this level of audit from an outside auditor, that's what doge and elon and the group really is. liz: that's how lawmakers are going to stop activist judges trying to block trump. speaker johnson says they will

move on legislation to enact doge's spending cuts. gop senate majority leader john thune is moving on this too and you heard president trump slamming congresswoman maxine waters for not doing enough to fix america's public schools, children are falling behind. now waste at the education acciddepartment are next on thee chopping block. now we're so talk to utah congressman burgess owens. congressman, great to see you. so what do you make of all of this? maxine waters sounded like sheas been accused of fear mongering and hysteria, like she's attacked with guns when they are protesting doge trying to reign in government waste and corruption. do you think that this is a way to stop democrat activists going to judges biden and obama appointed to block doge and trump by getting legislation to cement this? >> we have to codify it no question about it but keep in mind, maxine waters is the same one whose been silent as our

kids are going down the drain when it comes to education. in her state, because they are against choice, there's 75 cannot read and write and not yet one peep out of maxine waters so we're doing transformative, inter-generational and so thankful after covid people realize we have to change the course and put somebody in charge who loves our country and willing to disrupt what's happening for all these years so yeah, we're in the right place and excited to be a part of it and let's get ready. liz: what do you make of senator chuck schumer getting ridiculed on social media? he launched a tip line to report government waste and corruption. twitter users are saying go investigate yourself. look at the twitter feed here. what do you make of this? go ahead, congressman. >> i'm sorry. well, i'm sorry, i couldn't hear you real good but i'll say this. liz: go ahead. >> ask the question again, i'm sorry. liz: that's okay, chuck schumer launched a tip line for people to report government waste and

abuse. ted cruz and people are saying go investigate yourself but we promised the viewers we wanted to get your reaction to this cspan caller who says you know what? trump is doing a great job. congressman, let's please listen to this. >> okay. >> i give him an a i guess for sticking up to the system. that's what he wanted to go in there and do, and he's one of his campaign promises was to make a lienor, efficient government, we don't get $36 trillion in debt because you're lien and efficient and there's no corruption at all. obviously there's some kind of corruption going on there. otherwise, people wouldn't be pushing back so hard up there. they are used to a certain lifestyle and living and give him a a for closing the border and dealing with the border issues. the previous administration had an f on. liz: so your reaction to what the voter had to say? specifically on corruption, congressman. are you seeing

massive corruption in d.c.? >> well what we're seeing and i guess the democrats are telling us don't believe our lying eyes. what's happening and i'll encourage them to keep digging down and keep the process up because what's happening across our country, republicans and independents and democrats are realizing this party is for them. they aren't used to accountability and for the first time we have somebody saying you will be held accountable. we expect the american people to come first. they are, it's driving them nuts so we're on the right pace and we'll win bigger if they continue. liz: congressman does it feel like things are changing already in washington? >> yeah, i would say the biggest thing is this hope, there's excitement, there's a unity we have not had, i've never felt here because american people expect certain things and we have a leader that has high expectations and he's thinking outside the box and fining out what america first truly looks like so it's exciting here. i just can't wait to continue this process and we have a good, it's only three weeks, liz.

so just get ready. liz: it feels like three-years so much going on. he's doing so much. >> thank you. liz: congressman owens always a pleasure to see you again thanks for taking time to spend with us. good to see you now watch this. >> absolutely. >> we're not giving up on that. >> we work on his kay everyday and we'll do what we can to bring mark home as soon as possible. liz: that was joe biden and his advisors saying they were working to release u.s. school teacher mark fogle, wrongfully detained in russia but russia just released mark after talks with the trump white house. coming up president trump is now saying about a possible peace deal between russia and ukraine. what he's getting in a new deal with ukraine in return for america, giving at least 175 billion bucks in military aid to ukraine. also we have this story for you. >> we ran a presidential

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it brings people together in meaningful ways. liz: welcome back. now to this controversy. fema is accused of wasting taxpayer money on illegal aliens in a border crisis joe biden and his white house blew out to historic proportions. now president trump and acting head of fema put a stop to it. that money will help americans in disasters. fox news nate foy live in new york city with the story. nate good to see you again. reporter: hey, liz, good to see you. so yeah, the funding has been cut off at least the payments have been suspended and already, four fema workers have been fired for sending $59 million to new york city last week to care for illegal migrants in the city. among the people fired, the former chief financial officer of fema, and president donald trump is reacting on

truth social today with some criticism for former president joe biden writing "the biden-run fema has been a disaster. it has been slow and totally ineffective. " elon musk says the payment made to new york city last week contradicts president trump's executive order requiring a fema review. musk also claims that it appears the biden administration cifoned funds from social security to pay for illegals. the department of homeland security says under president trump and secretary noem's leadership dhs will not allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of american people. according to new york city, of the $59 million received, 19 million went to hotels for migrants, 26 million paid for food and security, and 13 million went to the shelter system and migrant services, numbers that elicited this reaction from a north carolina resident impacted by

hurricane helene. >> it is absolutely infuriating to see millions and millions of dollars going to someone that doesn't have a social security number, did not pay taxes, is not an american citizen, getting all of this money to go live in a luxury hotel in new york when people were working with can't even get the bare minimum from fema. it's crazy. reporter: new york city mayor eric adams office tells fox, "we have already spent over $7 billion on this crisis alone" and the previous administration committed only $237 million in funding. now, musk on x promised there be a federal attempt to retrieve that fema payment made last week, but city hall confirms with fox tonight at this point, that effort has not yet started. liz? liz: wow they really are moving nate foy, thank you so much. let's please listen to this. >> we're thinking it's coming from inside, and we know it's

under current investigation and we think we've identified that person. secretary noem is correct on the information we're receiving tends to lead toward the fbi i talked to the deputy attorney general all this weekend. they have opened up a criminal investigation, and they have promised not only this person will lose their job and their pension. they will go to jail. i want double the manpower in those sanctuary cities. we'll have large-scale work site enforcement operation so we'll send more resources. we're not going to stop. we're going to keep coming and keep coming with more, full steam ahead on sanctuary cities. we're coming full bore. liz: porter czar tom homan saying there's a new justice department criminal probe into the government worker leaking and giving criminal illegal aliens the heads up about i.c.e. arrests and deportations they think they found the leaker. plus, they are doubling down with more manpower in sanctuary cities. we've got a lot to discuss with former anding dhs secretary chad

wolf. what was your reaction when you heard all of that? >> yeah, well look this is dangerous stuff. the leaking of operational details, particularly on a law enforcement mission, it's not in consequential and it's not only irresponsible but as tom homan said, it can be criminal, so look. i'm all for trying to find who leaked these operational details and if it's inside dhs, or it's inside the fbi, or a variety of other law enforcement agencies, i think they need to be held accountable. i think it's important to remember. dhs is allowing and asking for atf help, fbi help, dea help and other law enforcement. every time you do that, you open the aperture for folks that know about that operation and then obviously, the opportunities to leak also magnify as well so i think that it's important to find this individual or individuals and hold them accountable. absolutely. liz: we're talking about really serious people, like criminals out of ms-13 and tren de aragua

out of venezuela and transnational criminal gangs doing things like home invasion robberies, murders, kidnapping and rape, including assaults on women and children. so, what do you make of this story? let's turn to this. venezuela's communist leader maduro is sending planes to pick-up hundreds of venezuelans in the us illegally. we have nations in europe, and the middle east arresting people who cross illegally. this is about bringing back the rule of law and we have hispanic leaders and mayors nationwide saying democrats and the media are fear mongering. let's get your reaction to that. what do you make of venezuela sending planes to pick-up illegal aliens? >> well, look. i would say this is what leadership looks like with president trump. we've been told for three and a half to four years that you could not return individuals back to venezuela. you could not return them to other countries around the world because their leaders just simply wouldn't take them, but you have president trump in office for a handful of weeks and he sends rick grinell down there to negotiate and the end

result of that is venezuela is now taking back their foreign nationals as they should be, so this talks about leadership and making sure that you are implementing the rule of law. liz: you break the law, if you cross illegally. thank you, chad wolf. now let's please listen to this. >> democratswhine too much. >> remember that democrat james carvelle slamming his own parties with democrats being out of touch? now he's mad refusing to cut government waste and corruption and democrats like david ale alexrod saying what are they doing, next you'll hear the sound of what's going on but first this. >> god bless elon musk and donald trump and now these judges are acting to prevent the president from doing what he constitutionally has the power and the duty, not just the power, the president has the duty to ensure there's

taxpayer dollars are being used the way the american people sent him to washington to use them. liz: the new fight over whose responsible for this so-called constitutional crisis. trump is turning that into a wrecking ball against democrats. it's about blue city democrat judges obama and biden appointed and trying to stop trump and doge, cutting bloated wasteful government and corruption. joe concha is here, he's going to take it on. please stick with us we'll be right back after the break. >> today you're not allowed to look for theft and fraud and et cetera, and then we won't have much of a country so no judge should be allowed to make that kind of a decision. it's a disgrace.

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liz: welcome back. the backlash growing against judges appointed by bill clinton, joe biden, or barack obama, blocking the trump agenda and doge. this includes the trump buyouts for federal government workers who want to work-from-home and not come back into the office.

let's please take you to alexandria hoff standing by live in washington d.c. great to see you again. reporter: great to see you as well liz. that's right. some accepted this offer didn't want to give up the remote work and many were planning on retiring but their status is in limbo. a federal judge in boston issued a ruling that stops the president's federal buyout program at least for now. the buyout is a downsizing effort that gives federal workers opportunity to resign with pay and benefits continuing through september 30. so far approximately 65,000 federal workers have taken the deal. the lawsuit against it was brought on by unions representing workers claiming that the administration lacks the authority to make such an offer. the president thinks his plan though will prevail. >> i've got elected on making government better, more efficient and smaller and that's what we're doing, and i think it was a very generous buyout actually. reporter: now, another judge in rhode island demanded compliance

with his prior order to immediately unfreeze federal government spending across the government. trump officials paused the funding to look for fraud. the judge had said fraud has to be found first. senator john kennedy said today elon musk's involvement in seeking out fraud only seems to anger the d.c. bubble. >> elon come here and face us. >> elon musk needs to keep his grubby hands, greedy hands off of our government. >> among the blue hairs and the opinion writers in washington, we're losing. we're winning with the american people. reporter: doge efforts to limit spending on overhead costs for nih research was also halted by a federal judge. today elon musk called that decision deeply wrong, liz. liz: always great reporting from you. we appreciate you so much thank you. now listen to this. >> as i said last week, the democratic party is in a completely different place. there's no identified leader of the party. they don't have a clear vision. they seem rudder less, in hopes

of finding themselves they latched on to the new shiny object called the rule of law. it be admirable if they hadn't spent the last four years with their heads buried in the sand while biden trampled over the rule of law with no objection. many democrats cheered that lawlessness. liz: yeah, that was speaker mike johnson slamming democrat hypocrisy, citing the rule of law, citing a constitutional crisis, but joe biden trampled the rule of law like student loan bailouts for supreme court said it was unconstitutional, and preemptive pardons for family and friends. we want to dig into this , let's welcome fox news contributor joe concha, a great writer and author. what's your take on this and the real constitutional crisis? is it activist judges using the powers of the presidency? trump is not allowed to do anything without the permission of judges picked by bill clinton, joe biden, or obama?

>> that doesn't sound very much like democracy to me does it, liz? judge angleburger clearly overreached here. the executive branch this is government 101 stuff by the way. the executive branch has every right to order an audit of government agencies in an effort to cut waste. as president, trump can therefore, as duly elected, delegate those duties to whomever or whatever he has chosen to carry out this order. in this case that's elon musk. that's doge. and jd vance, the vice president, i thought had a perfect comparison, liz. when he said that a judge telling a president that he can't audit an agency in search of waste and corruption is like a judge telling a general, how he should fight a war. there's just no precedent for this and it will be overturned. liz: so we've got let's show how joe biden just basically blasted through the rule of law. we'll show it in a second. congressman eli crane, joe, says he's drafting articles of improvement to remove judge

paul englemeyer from office from blocking doge from reading the payments going out in the treasury payment system. the problem is joe the judge here, he moved on this lawsuit brought by 19 democrat attorney general brought by ag law by ag leticia james but without any trump white house lawyers or gop representatives making their case. they were not even in the courtroom. >> again, that is not what a democracy looks like when you're just making these decisions and saying all right this is how it's going to go. the story here by the way, liz isn't who is doing the audits. it's what they are discovering. we're talking about potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in unneeded or stupid irresponsible or to. >>

for hamas? is that in the best u.s. interest? doesn't the president and trump have the right to say okay, what else are we spending ridiculous money on that may be aiding our enemies but democrats, you see these rallies in d.c. they think unhinged emotion is a policy and volume through screaming like lunatics is a strategy. it absolutely is not. it is not playing well at all on our screens. that's certainly for sure. liz: especially when half our paychecks goes to taxes for things like this. joe esther castillo, you always bring the analysis. we appreciate you so much. now let's please listen to this. >> great to see you, liz. >> we're not giving up on that. >> we work on his case, every single day and we're going to do what we can to try to bring mark home as soon as possible. liz: that was joe biden and the white house biden aid claiming we're working with russia to release wrongfully detained u.s. school teacher mark fogle, but they didn't do it. the trump white house got him out. we've got this news. russia and ukraine possibly are

again talking peace talks. is ukraine talking a territory swap with russia? could a peace deal be coming? gop congresswoman claudia tenney we're excited to talk to the congresswoman, she's so smart and coming up. plus, this year's superbowl commercials. there was one particular type of super bowl commercial that was big under biden and its now gone missing under trump. can you guess which one it is? coming up. we're going to reveal the answer, stephanie hamil ll is here to react. >> hey, liz. >> hey, e-mac how you doing? all right, california and texas are neighbors and the democrats are lined on waste, fraud and abuse. they all want to shut it down. tom mcclintock, chip roy. jackie: we've also got oklahoma senator james langford, giving us the 7th installment of his

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>> what i'm saying is the following. they have tremendously valuable land in terms of rare earth, in terms of oil & gas, in terms of

other things. i want to have our money secured, because we're spending hundreds of billions of dollars and, you know, they may make a feel, they may not make a deal. they may be russian some day or they may not be russian some day but we'll have all this money and i say i want it back, and i told them that i want the equivalent like $500 billion worth of rare earth and they've essentially agreed to do that so at least we don't feel stupid. otherwise we're stupid. i said to them, we have to get something. we can't continue to pay this money. i think we've made tremendous progress in the last week. we're dealing with the russians. we're dealing with ukrainians. i think there's something. liz: okay, president trump said ukraine zelenskyy said yes and agreed to a deal with the trump white house involving america getting half a trillion dollars worth of ukraine's rare earth minerals. this is in exchange for the military aid d.c. is giving ukraine. now that mineral stuff is needed

for technology like cell phones. we want to get to this news. let's bring in congresswoman claudia tenney from house ways and means. congresswoman, we know you're very busy. we appreciate you so much taking time to join us tonight. is there a peace deal in the works between russia and ukraine that can involve a land swap from ukraine to russia? is that in the works? >> well i can't speak to that. that's something the white house and also just something i don't know the details of but i love president trump's negotiating understanding of the way we're looking at foreign aid as something that is strategically important to the united states. we're not going to just hand money out. we're going to make sure that there's an even exchange, that we get something in return for the generosity of the american taxpayers. look at what ukraine has to offer. it's the reason russia wants ukraine back. it is full of wonderful rare earth minerals, titanium, uranium, it's the breadbasket of europe in terms of producing food for the world. its got a lot of resources, oil, gas, all those things we need.

why isn't the united states benefiting from it and i love that president trump is negotiating saying let's get something for this. we're stupid if we don't. really finally great to have someone with common sense in the mix here. liz: yeah, common sense, have you heard of any deal struck like this? we know president trump is sending treasury secretary scott bessent to ukraine to meet with zelenskyy. he's saying the war has got to end and there's a u.s. delegation led by vice president jd vance and trump's special envoy, retired general keith kellogg and they meet at the munich security conference in germany later this week but have you heard a president say you know what? what's in it for america? >> no. actually everything president trump is doing really seems outrageous to some people, especially the democrats who are melting down all over washington, even with the snow falling but this is something that's incredible to see a business person actually negotiating and getting something for the american people. you know, we're the most generous nation on earth. we give for many humanitarian

reasons and others but when it comes time to ending a war, stop spending the money that we're spending that is not accountable in many cases or money that we're not getting something in return. we're not getting peace. we're seeing a brutal war taking place over the course of a couple, two-three-years now. president trump will get something for the american taxpayers that benefit us and help us grow our economy, energy resources, the minerals we need to produce the energy and the resources of the future here in our country. these are important assets that the russians want that we're going to get in exchange for all the money we put into helping ukraine. liz: really interesting. fascinating. congresswoman claudia tenney thanks for helping us outbreaking that down. >> thank you so much. liz: coming up the super bowl commercials. did you notice there was one type of superbowl commercial that was really big under joe biden but has now gone missing under president trump? can you guess which one? stephanie hamill reacts to the answer. we'll reveal it next, we're excited to talk to stephanie again. please stay with us.

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>> holy smokes, look at difference between now versus 8 years ago during first trump term, he is on the positive site of ledger,

it is not just the cbs news poll, we're talking about gallup poll. the f pew poll they have trump in a better position now than 8 years ago. elizabeth: analyst, on president trump's approval rating now surging to record highs. voters like his common sense agenda. all polls have trump moving higher. stay on theme of common sense. commercial, absent in super bowl were commercial for electric cars, joining us now, political commentator stephanie hamill, so good to see you, thank you for joining us, under biden, super bowl ran 13 electric car commercials from 2022 to 2024, you done see one this year, what did you make of it. >> i'm not surprised, bee know team biden had a goal

of getting half of all vehicles made to be battery powered or his hybrid by 2030. it is not resonate, we're seeing a different direction with car companies, they know that trump, they are keeping a close eye on what he is doing his executive orders where he is eliminating the mandate on electric vehicles. i am not a electric vehicle hater, i drive a tesla cyber truck, i love it but idea of forces the electric vehicles down the throats of americans is unpractical. there is just so many things that go with it, high costs of electric vehicle. battery life span that has people concerned we saw two electric vehicle ads from jeep and ram, the ads, still featured their gas powers popular vehicles. elizabeth: hybrids, this is the common sense, go

hybrid. that biden did not do, talk about trump getting rid of biden's green energy crackdown on household appliances like dishwashers and gas stoves and washing machines to make them green trump is bringing it back. >> this is common sense. and you know if we lived in a perfect worm where -- world where we could ride unicorns instead of driving gas cars or get by with other ideas that w biden it that would be find, they are out of touch, people are trying to figure out ways to deal with inflation, pay their bills, get food on table. those are things that people are not concerned about. elizabeth: they don't need another headache from biden's dc that is gone, stephanie hamill you are terrific. thank you for watching "the evening edit," welcome us to your homes, listen to jackie and david. jackie: thank you, liz. elizabeth: you got