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liz: that was a great show. hehenry kissinger said trump isa phenomenon foreign countries have never seen before. larry: i'm going to find that, thank you. you're the smartest, liz. liz: no, you. thank you, larry, we've got news coming in welcome to the "evening edit" i'm elizabeth macdonald. >> why is elon musk and his hackers trying to access that system? >> chairwoman greene literally showed a pic in our oversight congressional hearing so i thought i'd bring one as well. now this of course, we know, is president elon musk. >> they are going after the fda, the cdc, the fbi agents and talking about getting rid of fema so let me tell you something. >> the time has expired. the time has expired.

liz: everything you just heard was either off base, off the wall and wrong. democrats at today's doge hearing wildly doubling down, defending massive government waste. it's about cutting that. tonight are the politicians screaming the loudest? the ones most invested in government waste and corruption. it's keeping your tax record highs and choosing bureaucracy over democracy, and as we've got democrats out with, they don't have any policy ideas, they are blocking a and attacking presidt trump but he's out with stunning statecraft, moving on peace between russia and ukraine, peace in the mid-east at the u.s. border. tonight president trump's va secretary doug collins we're honored he's back with us to react and also digging into this story. >> if the president of the united states says, you know what? i don't care what the courts say. there are a series of remedies that the court can order if someone is in contempt including jailing them. >> by defying that order, any

particular person has been in contempt and could put people in jail. liz: remarkably idiotic. really incompetent analysis there with anti-democracy dems talking about jailing trump officials a move voters already rejected. congressman chip roy is here fired up ready to react plus watch this. far left congresswoman ionna pressdley sa ys the quiet part outloud that yes democrats do want to censor any american who disagrees with them. we take that on, also we've got this story. >> talking about the fema money abused from migrants, fema money for migrants is okay now? >> i'm not saying it's okay. don't put words in my mouth. >> will you stop that process? liz: okay, cover the kid's ears. cnn anderson cooper was losing his debate on musk and doge, and fema so he personally attacked governor crist sununu.

tonight i'll show you what he said and what cooper did not tell viewers that the congressional committees and investigators already reported the government literally is wasting trillions of your tax dollars over the last generation. plus you won't believe what fema's own government watchdog just revealed about mismanagement and waste at fema. coming up congressman greg stuebe we're excite today talk to him but first let's get to this. the trump white house declaring war on government waste as keeping your taxes, inflation, and things like mortgage rates at record highs. the doge sub-committee held an explosive hearing on downsizing the federal government. let's take you now to hillary vaughn standing by live at the white house with the details. hillary you had quite a day. reporter: hi, good evening, liz. democrats have really gone off-script. they've moved on from calling what doge is doing a constitutional crisis to using four letter words.

>> donald trump and elon musk. >> [applause] >> do you think that calling elon musk is an effective messaging? >> well he is. reporter: republicans say democrats are going explicit, because they can't explain all of the taxpayer money that's being spent on frivolous things. >> i would hate to be in the democratic party right now because you're in a really bad bind. you're having to defend all of this crazy spending. all of this crazy waste, so how do you do it? you attack the messenger. oh, elon musk. right? he's rich. he must be evil. reporter: musk isn't just cutting fraud and waste. he's trying to revamp the government. he found and paler work for federal workers retiring is stored in an actual mine deep in the hills of pennsylvania.

the process so slow, there's a limb utilitied number of people who can retire at any time and sometimes, the mine shaft elevator breaks down, and that means no one can retire that day. >> i believe this is in pennsylvania, where the federal employee retirement system is being processed. did anybody know this was even happening in our country before elon musk talked about it in the oval office yesterday? reporter: liz president trump this evening says he could be putting new tariffs in place as early as tonight or tomorrow morning. the concept is simple. whatever other countries are charging us, we will charge them. he thinks that that's a fair place to start. liz? liz: nobody does it like hillary vaughn. great reporting, solid journalism. thank you so much hillary. now please watch this. >> does this mean the federal government in some states are giving out billions of dollars to individuals without verifying who they are or whether they meet program eligibility requirements? >> yes, ma'am that's correct.

>> that's outrageous. do states have enough incentive to prevent fraud and to recover improper payments? >> no. and in fact, states are hesitant to spend their state dollars to protect federal dollars. >> would greater investment in program integrity efforts yield a positive return for taxpayers? >> yes. it could easily be self-funding. >> we're trying to save this country and your pensions and your bank accounts and i want to remind my democratic friends at a point in which you once had the majority of the american people on your side, this is what your party believed in. >> i've read it and where it says the president should, the president will. >> the day i took office, one of the commitments that i made to the american people was that we would do a better job here in washington in rooting out wasteful spending. >> i think it speaks for itself. my time has expired. liz: revelations, low and behold that was the doge hearing today.

republicans pointing out about the need to cut bloated government waste. again, u.s. debt is at 36 trillion and rising. one witness testified the government is blindly handing out billions of dollars. you had republican congressman pointing out doge is doing exactly what bill clinton, al gore and obama did. also breaking right now, the hysteria continues. democrats right now protesting at the education department. protesting against trump's pick for secretary linda mcmahon there and any cuts to that bloated bureaucracy. joining us we're excited to have back on the u.s. secretary of veteran affairs doug collins. secretary collins, it's great to see you again congratulations. we're happy for you. what do you make of all of this? so why are democrats planting a flag and protecting government corruption and waste when even al gore said cut a quarter million, 250,000 jobs during the clinton white house. trump is doing what al gore wanted, reinventing government. >> yeah, liz, it's good to be back with you and i'm glad to be in a position i'm in.

it is amazing. i've been on the hill for eight years and congress and back in the administration and the trump administration has hit the ground running so hard. going after things that everybody talks about, liz. this is the funny part. it seems to be why are democrats now defending the very things that the americans just voted them out on? it just doesn't make sense. people in america do not understand why we're wasteful spending. why we're putting out money to do things that frankly, both sides will acknowledge. i know back stage so to speak. democrats will acknowledge that there's waste and fraud going on, but when it comes to their base, their base of unions and base of employees, their base of federal workers whatever they think their base is, they're trying to play to the sad part about it is people are seeing straight through it and from an administration perspective, we're going to look for ways to do mission one at the va, to help veterans. liz: we're hearing there could be protests at the va tomorrow to give you a heads up.

>> god bless america. liz: you'll be ready, i'd imagine. you know, here is the thing. democrats are complaining about a bunch of doge i.t. guys finding literally hundreds of billions of dollars in government waste that senator chuck schumer, he says yeah, they want to take a meat axe to it. he's been in d.c. since reagan. we had a quote from glenn reynolds and with trillions of dollars passing through the federal government, of course it's going to be people, crooks trying to take off money. he said a cynic might speculate the people screaming the loudest about doge's audits are the people most invested in the corruption and waste. would you agree with that? >> i think what you got to look at here is it's amazing to me that these programs that have been built up in washington d.c. become personal in a way liz. i think maybe to think about this , they believe after we've built this up we need to keep it because in some ways, it's like they have government is supposed to be the answer for everything. what i don't understand here and look, we have a va employee whose our doge liason doing

great work and looking at contracts like paying $178,000 a year for a politico newsletter when by the way if you want to see the press talk about each other get the political news one for free everyday. that's what the we do here at the va. so these are the kind of things working and so for people to say that they are upset by people coming in and looking for efficiencies, that's about like blaming the plumber who comes in your house and says by way if you want to lower your water bill i'll fix this leak and then you blame the plumber for the high cost. we need to fix the leak. we need to fix the process and make sure we're doing what we're supposed to be doing because it's taxpayer dollars paying this , taxpayer dollars that fund what we do and it's for our veterans here at the va. liz: sure is. secretary doug collins we appreciate you so much. joining us tonight good to talk to you again, now please listen to this. >> if the president of the united states says, you know what? i don't care what the courts say. i'm going to do whatever the hell i want.

that's essentially the end of the rule of law. >> then what's next? if they do defy a court order. >> the first thing you'd do be to go back to the court and hold the administration or the individuals who are not complying in contempt and there are a series of remedies that the court can order if someone is in contempt including jailing them. >> by defying that order, any particular person has been in contempt and he could put people in jail. >> the fact that the democrats are filing lawsuit after lawsuit to impede the efforts of president trump, to right our fiscal ship is unforgivable. liz: okay, that's democrats and pundits on cnn. they are already talking about jailing trump officials, because they really don't have a counter argument to what's going on. let's get from house budget reaction from congressman chip roy. congressman, what do you make of what you just heard? doge is a legitimate government unit that's part of

the executive branch and answers to the president. >> first of all doge was inserted into a part of the white house that was created by barack obama. let's remember that. that is an entity that existed under president obama. now they are going and finding all these ridiculous expenditures like $32,000 for a transgender comic book in peru and somehow, democrats are losing their mind that they think it's bad we're finding that stuff. of course the president has not just the authority but the duty to go find these ridiculous expenditures, and to highlight them for the american people to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse, and importantly on this legal nonsense. let's remember that it was the biden administration that uunilaterally ignored the courts and the law when they then decided to forgive $250 billion worth of student loans. never mind what that does to the electrician, the plumber, the person whose paid off their loans so let's talk what they have done to ignore courts. here what the president is rightly doing is seeking

the truth. i think this will all fail when it moves up the chain in courts. right now they are in the liberal jurisdictions in d.c. and the first circuit. the fact is of course the president can go down the hall and figure out whether your social security number is unfortunately being used by 100 other people. of course they can do that. so, we'll witness this in the courts in the end and regardless it is jd vance was right when he said, you know, you can't have the judges insert themselves and undermine a core constitutional function of the chief executive. liz: that's interesting because you just hit the nail on the head what the debate is about. it's about activist judges. they do not have the right to compel any executive branch to spend our tax dollars how they see fit. you had u.s. attorney general pam bondi slamming these unelectedded judges trying to control government spending when there's a clear separation of powers. if they have a problem with policy take it to the supreme court. let's listen to trump press secretary karoline leavitt on this. watch. >> many outlets in this room have been fear mongering

the american people into believing there is a constitutional crisis taking place here at the white house. i've been hearing those words a lot lately. but in fact, the real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch where district court judges in liberal districts across the country are abusing their power to unilaterally block president trump's basic executive authority. we believe these judges are acting as judicial activists rather than honest arbiters of the law. quick news flash to these liberal judges who are supporting their obstruction efforts. 77 million americans voted to elect this president. we will comply with the law in the courts but also continue to seek every legal remedy to ultimately overturn these radical injunctions and ensure president trump's policies can be enacted. liz: before we get your reaction, show the reuters poll. congressman, 61% of americans want doge to downsize

the government and a new pugh poll has trump at record high approvals. what did you make of press secretary karoline leavitt and what she said. >> first of all she's doing a fantastic job. she nailed it. what i hope is congress will backup the president by actually converting his executive order into law, converting them into action through the reconciliation process, and backing the president up by for example, maybe making changes to the now very much abused administrative procedures act that the courts are abusing, but the president is right. he should stay the course. he has a constitutional right and duty to defend our tax dollars. we can do recisions, and the president is not forced to spend every single dollar. he can do it the way he sees fit as the chief executive. appreciate it very much. liz: congressman rip roy, always interesting. thank you so much, great to see you again. now please listen to this. >> we are all willing to work with anyone who is serious about do the work of censoring

the american people and advancing progress. but they are not serious. liz: censoring americans, did you hear that? far left squad member ionna presley bullying intimidating yes democrats want to censor americans who disagree with democrats on doge. does it feel like we're back under joe biden or in covid-19 lack downs? coming up you'll hear more of the shocking sound. also tonight, this. >> we've got a supreme court that is actively undermining our democracy. >> i believe the biden administration should ignore this ruling. >> president biden, other leaders should ignore the ruling. liz: remember that? democrats wanted to destroy the supreme court. ignore what it said and any court if they ruled against democrats, but now democrats are all for the courts if they can use the courts to bash and block trump. tonight, jason rantz is here to react to the full hypocritical sound and president trump scoring wins amid democratic

hysteria and out with diplomacy and statecraft. peace talks between russia's putin and ukraine zelenskyy to end another one of biden's forever wars that we spent tens of billions of dollars on. tonight we've got an update on those talks senator marsha blackburn, honored and excited to talk to senator blackburn here with her reaction but first this. >> talking about the fema money used for migrants? fema money for migrants, that's okay now? >> i'm not saying it's okay. don't put words in my mouth. will you stop that process? liz: okay, the breaking point there, anderson cooper losing his cool after being pressed and debated on fema, wasting taxpayer money. we've got what fema's own watchdog the gao already reported that didn't make it into that segment. coming up from house ways and means congressman greg stuebe is here is react to the full sound. please stick with us we'll be back in two. >> this report tells us how to

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>> musk gave seven specific examples off the top of his head of where the corruption and fraud were. i know you didn't play the clips. he was talking about a contractor with a three-month contract paid for 20 years. he's talking about welfare benefits being paid to someone that was technically 150 years old. that's what they are saying. but where is the proof? >> but you're not going to be satisfied until he shows up with 10,000 pages. >> he's giving very specific things, but he's not actually giving any evidence of that. >> it's all going to come because what they also said was if we have to go to congress we'll go to congress. >> but some of the details that have come out like the $59 million spent on luxury hotels, it's actually not -- >> talking about the fema money for migrants? that's okay now? >> no i'm not saying it's okay. don't put words in my mouth. >> so will you stop that process? >> what i'm saying is the portray all by him is just not factually accurate. liz: well it looks like it is kind of accurate. that was cnn anderson cooper

losing a debate but personally attacking former new hampshire governor chris sununu for basically winning the debate on doge and waste. joining us now, home house ways and means we're so excited and honored to have back on congressman greg stuebe. great to have you on again. when you saw that what was your take when you heard this because by the way we should point out dhs secretary kristi noem did say they clawed back the 59 million bucks that fema spent on hotels for illegal aliens. so what's your take? >> well it's crazy to watch the democrats demonize the fact we're taking money away that's being spent on all these atrocious programs and thankfully we have a president whose only been there a few weeks and just in a short period of time is able to identify $59 million going to luxury hotels in new york that's being spent on illegal immigrants when fema and states like my state, you had fema skipping over trump supporters, so i'm just glad we have leaders in place that are actually looking at these things

and if they want congressional oversight then let's do it. let's bring it all in and bring all the information but to just say they are lying is, they aren't saying it's wrong. they are just saying they are lying and it's crazy to watch the back and forth. liz: you know what's interesting. anderson cooper appeared to not have the information that fema's watchdog, the homeland security inspector general just reported fema mismanaged and wasted nearly $10 billion in covid funds handing out billions of tax dollars without proper vetting. the ig said that could have been put to better use for other disasters and also the gao, congressman, you've been working on this. its already reported trillions of dollars in miss spent over payments out of medicare, medicaid and social security. this is keeping everybody's taxes high and inflation high. >> well i could tell you from a district that was ravaged by several hurricanes this past year i still have people with tarps on their roof in their district. they could have used some of that $10 billion in my district to repair their homes and

get money from fema for their homes and their businesses being flooded, so for the americans to see this type of activity that was going on, this is exactly why they elected president trump. that's why he won all the swing states and why he has a mandate from the american people to do exactly what he's doing. go after the waste, fraud and abuse. when i first got elected to congress we were 20 trillion indebt and we're 36 trillion indebt to $3.5 trillion deficits a year. we have to get this spending under control. liz: you know, got to do it. let's play this sound for you, congressman. so the far left is attacking anyone who disagrees with them, who says anybody who says yeah, you've got to cut waste. anybody who supports doge. let's listen to congresswoman presley who says we want to censor you if you don't agree with us. let's get your reaction to this , watch. >> let me tell you something. i'll take a bit here and speak on behalf of my colleagues. i think i can say we are all willing to work with anyone

serious about doing the work on censoring the american people and advancing progress. but they are not serious. liz: she said it right off the bat. she said i'll take some offense here and be annoying. so, what do you make of her saying we want to censor the american people if they disagree with them. >> republicans aren't for censoring, we're for freedom and you've seen the transparency that the trump administration has brought through these different information and investigations and this the tip of the iceberg of all of the atrocities we'll see of our government spending go gone amu. liz: it's about changing the left extremism so out of touch for the american people. final word. isn't that it? >> what's interesting is you don't hear any of them say any of this is good spending. you just hear them talk about and try to demonize and fear monger that elon musk has access to this information. liz: interesting, congressman

greg stuebe thank you so much for taking time. >> thank you. liz: now watch this. >> returning to ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective. the united states does not believe that nato membership for ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement. liz: okay that's defense secretary pete hegseth. look at this. all the attacks on president trump. he just scored a major win. look at the diplomacy. peace talks with russia's putin and ukraine zelenskyy? starting with possibly this friday? unending biden's forever war? he's only been in office three weeks, look whose here, senator marsha blackburn. so honored to have the senator back on. also this tonight. >> republican friends and elected officials and special interests and the supreme court blocked us and sued us but that didn't -- >> booo. >> that didn't stop us. liz: that was joe biden, remember that openly bragging

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you taking the time here to help us out with this story. can you tell us what's going on now? reporter: we're here in brussels the nato headquarters traveling with defense secretary pete hegseth, liz, and he carried president trump's message here to nato in a very blunt style, saying that nato needs to spend more than defense and the war in ukraine needs to end and that ukraine will not be joining nato and this is also something president trump was just asked in the oval office a very short time ago. >> just to be clear if you see any future in where ukraine returns to its pre orders? >> i think pete said today that's unlikely. it certainly would seem to be unlikely. they took a lot of land, and they fought for that land and they lost a lot of soldiers but it would just seem to be and i'm not making an opinion on it but i've read a lot on it and a lot of people think it's unlikely. some of it will come back. some of that land will

come back. reporter: now shortly after walking the door at nato headquarters this morning, liz hegseth fired off this tweet. our commitment is clear. nato must be a stronger more lethal force, not a diplomatic club. time for allies to meet the moment and a message hegseth reinforced when he met his british and german counterparts. both nations, the trump administration, wants to spend more on defense. the british spent about 2.5, liz. there was also a previously unscheduled meeting at nato headquarters. hegseth met the ukrainian counter part and only made public when the ukrainians posted this photo. hegseth said any european peace keeper should deploy to enforce this peace deal and what's notable liz is he said they will not be protected by the nato alliance. >> instead, any security guarantee must be backed by capable european and non-european troops.

if these troops are deployed as peace keepers to ukraine at any point they should be deployed as part of a non-nato mission and they should not be covered under article v. reporter: article v, being part of the nato attack on one is attack on all. now, president zelenskyy in ukraine says any european peace keepers that deploy to the united states excuse me, to ukraine without u.s. forces and the united states is a non-starter and thinks it won't be successful but the pentagon says if american troops were to go to ukraine, you need about 100,000. hegseth says here in nato, that is not happening, no u.s. troops are going to ukraine, liz. liz: lucas tomlinson, thank you so much. we know it's pushing midnight there. we appreciate you. he's traveling with the pentagon chief pete hegseth. >> 24 hour business we're in, liz. liz: that's right thanks again. joining us now from senator judiciary and senate finance we're excited to have back on senator marsha blackburn from the great state of tennessee.

senator? possible peace talks between russia and ukraine. what do you make of this? >> what i think we're seeing happen is president donald trump said he was going to bring an end to this , and nobody wants vladimir putin to win and what they want is to see an end to this with thousands of lives being lost in ukraine and in russia, and getting these two to the table to negotiate is going to take a dealmaker like president donald trump. he is exercising that ability. he has secretary hegseth there, and i certainly expect that you will see him pull them to the table, that you will see peace in that region, and that there will be an end to all of this conflict. liz: senator, i mean, we've spent tens of billions of

dollars, right? and a lot of blood and lives lost. president trump really wants peace there. he's doing this in just three weeks time. it's interesting to see this happening after four years of president biden. i mean, president trump, playing hardball with europe. did that get russia to the table? because "the talks" are going to begin this friday. jd vance, the vice president, secretary of state marco rubio lead a delegation in munich this friday for potential peace talks. is playing hard ball with europe get russia to the table? >> i think that vladimir putin knows that donald trump is not a squish. that donald trump will exercise strength in all situations, and, you know, here's the difference, liz. you could be feared or you can be liked. joe biden wanted to appease people and be liked, but donald trump is feared, because people know when he tells you he is going to do something, he is going to follow through on that,

and he said, if you elect me, we are going to bring an end to this russia-ukraine war, and that is exactly what he is doing. liz: promises made, promises kept, senator marathons, great marsha blackburn.>> we're in al 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 setup a potential constitutional crisis. >> well then we really do have a constitutional crisis. liz: democrats and the media have been using that phrase for six years, calling everything a constitutional crisis. coming up, we've got the sound of when democrats openly advocating going after the supreme court. defying the supreme court. i guess it wasn't a crisis when that happened. radio host jason rantz is here to react also trump attorney

general speaking out pam bondi about the border. tudor dixon is here to react to the news but first, dagen and david webb. they got a hot show coming up on the bottom line. >> oh, boy do we ever. patrick david as democrats go wild down to the doge subcommittee hearing, and a lot of news coming out this afternoon about ukraine and russia, not just release and exchange of prisoners, but an actual potential deal. boy there's a lot coming up. kevin cramer, the senator will join us to talk about that. dagen: congressman lance gooden on a hearing on getting rid of or dismantling the censorship industrial complex. that's harder than cutting spending and tomi lahren on not only clawing back fema funds, but let's talk about pam bondi suing those sanctuary cities. you've got that too. >> love that. dagen: top of the hour. do list t

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>> right now, we have a supreme court that has basically jumped the guardrails. we've got a supreme court that is actively undermining our democracy. my view right now is the courts are where we are hanging on to

our constitutional structure. they still have the power to hold everybody else in this country in contempt if they do not follow lawfully issued court orders. >> i believe the biden administration should ignore this ruling. >> there are some members of congress who have suggested that president biden and other leaders should ignore the ruling. i certainly understand the sentiment. liz: really? just constitutional x-ray constt was democrat elizabeth warren flip flopping. then you heard from aoc and jen psaki waging a war on the legitimate radicals it of the u.s. supreme court. let's welcome jason rantz. what's your take on this? so they want to stop everything that trump is trying to do, so they want the court to do it but when the courts don't go their way, they attack the courts. >> yeah, this has always been

their mo. a really good strategy of knowing the left wing media just amplifies their message without calling them hypocrites for the positions they are taking. they will have you believe that donald trump is a threat to democracy and we're in a constitutional crisis, because he's questioning lower courts that are ordering these sweeping rulings. these injunctions against federal policy, which effectively allows democrats to go court shopping, to get one that will finally go along with them, and stop trump's agenda. it's a smart strategy in the sense that so far, it seems to be working at least in part, but i think in the long-term, it's just going to blow up in their face. they might be ultimately just pausing some of what trump wants to do, but ultimately he's going to get his way because he is constitutionally in the right here. liz: yeah, u.s. ag pam bondi says they look at everything they decide. they are supposed to be settling discrete, specific matters. not setting policy. i mean, president trump has

article ii constitutional powers to cut waste. let's turn to this. remember when former president joe biden openly bragged about going up against the supreme court defying it to do his unconstitutional student loan bail out the court ruled was wrong. watch joe biden here. >> tens of millions of people's debt was literally about to get canceled, but then some of my republican friends and elected officials and special interest sued us and the supreme court blocked us, but that didn't -- >> booo. liz: why didn't the media and democrats call that a constitutional crisis then? >> because they supported joe biden and supported his legislation. they supported the agenda and so they see themselves as publicists for democrats and they see themselves as attack dogs for the democratic party against republicans. they have been doing z

liz: jason rantz always terrific to listen to you. now please listen to this. >> we're a nation that says if you want to flee and you're fleeing depression you should come. >> i've got a message to the millions of illegal aliens that joe biden released in our country in violation of federal law you better start packing

now. >> [applause] >> you're damn right. >> [applause] >> because you're going home. liz: what a difference it makes to have trump border czar tom homan in charge. reports coming in, illegal alien crossings have dropped nearly 95% versus under joe biden. he let in literally murders, rapists and kidnappers who terrorized, killed and assaulted americans. trump attorney general pam bondi breaking news, she's just announcing she will sue new york state. new york state is going to get sued for prioritizing illegal aliens over its citizens and being a sanctuary state. tudor dixon is here to react on the breaking news after this. stick around theres more to come. >> you look at the russian interior force is about three times higher than it was a year ago today, three times higher is good but i'm not satisfied. there's more criminal aliens that need to be arrested, hundreds of thousands sanctuary

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have filed charges against the state of new york. we have filed charges against kathy hochul, we have filed charges length lee concern against lee tissue that james. elizabeth: the u.s. attorney general is slapping, getting the justice department to go after new york governor hochul, attorney general letitia james for blocking i.c.e. who have been trying to arrest illegal criminals in new york city and state. let's welcome to the show the host of the tudor dixon podcast, tudor dixon. this is this is a bombshell. your reaction. >> this is it is what donald trump said he would do when he was campaigning, he would get rid of sanctuary cities, and pam bondi is going out there, and she's going to yet it done. and this is important because, remember, the american people voted for president trump. they did not vote for sanctuary cities, to be unsafe or to have risk in their own neighborhoods and, frankly, criminals that are

protected in their neighborhoods. elizabeth: you know, so people -- we live here in new york city. by the way, trump border czar tom homan is going to the meet with mayor eric adams tomorrow. we have seen heinous and violent prison gang members including tren de aragua here in new york city. they're all over times square. knifings ask gone up, murders have gone up. we've seen the data. police have been swamped here in new york city, tudor. and this is been home invasion, there's been robberies, this is been sexual assaults of women and children. we had a family in mid island on long island, i hate to say it, this is graphic, their daughter was dismemberedded, hatcheted to death by an ms-13 gang member, so is new york has been really suffering under this. what do you make of what you just heard? >> i think this is shame on the mainstream media for not reporting on this earlier because thank goodness there's fox and fox business out there that's willing to say this is the truth. now we have pam bondi out there

who is willing to say this is truth, this is what american women are facing, this is what children are facing, this is what families are dealing with in this unsafe america that has become violent because of the policies of of the radical left and now they will be stopped. breath elizabeth tudor dixon, we appreciate you pick up on that breaking news. again, pam bondi going after governor hochul and and letitia james over sanctuary status here. a quick programming negotiates our very own edward lawrence is traveling with treasury secretary scott bessent in ukraine. he's going to meet with ukrainian president zelenskyy to push to end the war with russia. edward's going to be reporting the latest updates tomorrow. i'm elizabeth mac donald -- macdonald. thanks for welcoming us into your homes. now it's time to send it over to "the bottom line. "dagen and david, a lot of breaking news. you take it away. dagen: thanks, e e-mac. ♪