they have virtual call centers and things like that. it has been going sideways for about two years. if things are good it could break out here. >> not using it personally. just a stock. then, elizabeth, andrew, great ideas. thank you. check out this week's edition at barron's round table. don't forget to follow us on x. that is all for us. see you next week on barron's round table. ♪ by shoes off. rachel: even head the church. lisa: so much fun with you guys. ♪ maria: good sunday morning, everyone. thank you so much for joining us. welcome to "sunday morning futures." i'm maria bartiromo. today, america back on offense as adversaries, enemies and friends once again fear american

leadership. u.s. special envoy to the middle east steve witkoff here on the hostages released and the two wars that president trump is trying to end, as fireworks erupt at the munich security conference this weekend of after a vice president j.d. vance puts europe on notice. >> the threat that i worry the most about vis-a-vis europe is not russia, it's not china, it's not any other external actor to. and and and what i worry about is the threat from within. the retreat of europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the united states of america. dismissing their concerns or, worse yet, hutting down media, hutting down elections or -- shutting down elections or shutting people out of the political process protects nothing. in fact, it's most sure-fire way to destroy democracy. maria: coming up, american drone maker anduril industries founder

palmer luckey on the technology that is suiting up our soldiers to secure america. and border czar tom homan on taking down the dangerous drug cartels infiltrating the country. plus, president trump announces reciprocal tariffs on trading partners as treasury secretary scott bessent warns not to test trump. >> maria, as we've learned with president trump, you should take him at his word. this is not fear. the april 1st deadline is for a study hat that the commerce department is doing on global tariffs that apply to u.s. products country by country. and also we're not just with look at tariffs, but we're looking at nontariff barriers, the local content, things like that that. and we're also looking at currency manipulation. maria: coming up, house gop conference chairwoman lisa mcclain on executing president trump's agenda. it's all right here, right now

on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ maria: and we begin this sunday morning with president trump's efforts to help end two wars in this, his fourth week in office. and ahead of tomorrow, day 500 of the israeli hostages in captivity in gaza. hamas this weekend released three more israeli hostages including the last living israeli-american after the terrorist group initially said it would postpone the release claiming that israel violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement. the reversal coming after president trump threatened hamas that if all the remaining hostages were not released by 12 the p.m. yesterday, quote, all hell is going to break out. the first phase of the ceasefire between israel and hamas set to end this month with little known about any progress on terms of the second phase. that phase was supposed to bring the the return of all a hostages in exchange for the release of a

total of 1700 palestinian prisoners who committed real crimes as well as israel's withdrawal from gaza and a permanent ceasefire. the bulk of the process progress and the release of the hostages so far happening in just the last three months after a u.s. special end soy to the middle east steve witkoff traveled to israel, egypt, the united air a wrap 'em -- 'em rah race, saudi arabia and qatar to meet with mediators in this conflict. and reports this morning that witkoff is now planning to join other trump officials to begin efforts to to end the war between russia and ukraine with talks expected to take place in saudi arabia this week. joining me now in this "sunday morning futures" exclusive is the u.s. special envoy to the middle east, steve witkoff. steve, thank you so much for all of your efforts, all that you have done, and thank you for joining us right now. >> oh, it's my pleasure, maria. thank you. maria: let me get your take on your plans in saudi arabia.

are you expecting to leave for saudi tonight, and what specifically are you hoping to accomplish? >> well, i want to -- i don't want the talk too much about that specifically, maria, but i am going tonight. i'll be traveling there with the national security adviser, and we'll be having meet beings at the direction of the president. and, hopefully, we'll make some really good progress with regard to the russia-ukraine. maria: is there the anything you can say about a some of of your ally ares alarmed by the fact that that ukraine is --, that that ukraine is not part of the a talks? >> well, i think ukraine is part of the talks. the president had, their president, he zen sky, on the -- zelenskyy, on the phone this past week. i am pretty sure that, you know, a lot of our cabinet people including treasury secretary bessent is, the vice president,

mike waltz, john ratcliffe, our secretary of state, marco rubio, had been meeting with various ukrainian people at the munich security conference. so i don't think this is about a excluding anybody. in fact, it's about a including everybody. maria: and final question on this, do you expect ukraine will have to to give up a significant portion of its land, and do we believe that, if so, putin will be done after this? >> you know, those are, those are details, and ooh i'm not, i'm not dismissive of the details. they're important. but i think the beginning here is trust-building. it's getting everything to understand that this war does not belong continuing, that that the it should end. that's what the president has directed us to do, to negotiate a proper ending of this war. no more death. there's been too much already. that's what he said. and that's the direction k and that's what we're going to do. maria: let me move on to israel. you've done such an incredible

job in terms of getting some of these hostages home. tomorrow is the 500 toth day -- 500th day that the hostages have been in captivity. will there be a phase two? have the terms been drawn up there is? >> well, maria, phase two is a little bit more complicated than phase one. but phase two is absolutely going to begin. i've actually had calls this morning, i can tell you, with prime minister netanyahu, with prime minister muhammad from qatar as well as with director has a san from egypt -- has a san from egypt who is their director of intelligence. and we are -- we had very, very productive and constructive calls this morning about the sequencing of phase two, setting forth positions on both sides so we can understand level set, where we are today, and continuing talks this week at a location to be determined so

that we can figure out how we get to the end of phase two successfully. maria: do you expect phase two to to include the release of all of the hostages? and, steve, how many of those hostages do you believe are still alive? >> well, phase two includes 19 idf soldiers, we believe all of them are alive, and system others too as well. it includes e, the the an al a xander who, of course, we've been pressing for because he is an american and israeli citizen as well. e can alexander. it includes all of these people, it also includes getting families back, the bodies of members of their family who have died so is that they can properly be able to mourn for them today and is in the future. so it includes, it includes all of those people. it just is a little bit more intricate and complicated in terms of how we bring the two sides together on this because

phase two contemplates an end of the war, but it also contemplates hamas in the being involved in the government and being gone from gaza. so we've got to square those two things. maria: steve, you are the first american official to visit gaza. can you hair with us a little of what -- share with us a little of what you have witnessed? it must be mentioned, the fact that, you know, 1700 palestinian prisoners are expected to be released, some of whom have committed serious crimes, tried to commit terrorism on the world, and they're being released. the people who are being released and the hostages in gaza is were going about their lives at a concert. can you tell us a bit about what you witnessed including seeing some of those caves and tunnels? >> sure. well, so, maria, i felt it was important for me to go to gaza. and why? if because phase one, the execution of phase one was an accomplishment. it brought a lot of people

together who thesed to work hard to get -- needed to work hard to get that accomplished. what was always going to be more complicated was the implementation of phase one which meant the necessary lean line, the philadelphia corridor, how people are crossing, how they were going to be -- how security procedures would be instituted. and a small, little blow-up on phase one could have ended all of phase one. so we so far have been able to successfully navigate that. and i felt that there was no way to-and-a-half gate it unless -- navigate it unless somebody was actually on premises in gaza. what i saw there was alarming. it's completely devastated. and that begs the question, should people be allowed in there in those sorts of dangerous conditions. thank god we've had no incidents, but there's 30,000 unexploded shells throughout gaza. and the buildings are all down. it's utter destruction. there's all kinds of issues.

this affects, by the way, phase three which is the theoretical reconstruction of gaza. we're going to have to get to a reconstruction. but the devil will be in the details on the master plan, on how we examine everything subterranean which has been blown up. lots of issues with that. with all of that said, i also saw a film of what happened on october 7th, and that was a horrific film. so i've got some, i've got some context, and that was important for me to have. maria: and given those 30,000 -- i mean, all of the shells that were unexploded, you've said that this area is uninhibit,, and president trump has said that you can't go back there. you would never send your children there knowing that that you got all these potential shells that could explode. as a result, president trump said that the u.s. will own gaza. you know, you had some pushback from from some region alleyeders

there. i guess -- regional leaders there. but from your background as a real estate professional a or, give us your sense of why you believe that is, in fact a viable result. >> well, let me say this, maria. first of all, as usual, the president, the president comes out, says something new and unique, he gets attacked for it. by the way, that happens when new and unique proposals come to the floor. but it also a encouraged a lot of conversation. so now we have the egyptians saying we have a plan. the jordanians are saying we have a plan. and people are actually engaging in really important, cogent discussion about what ought to happen there. the president, first and foremost -- and he's a real estate person by training too, and i went into the business because of him. he inspired me. who wouldn't want to be like donald trump? but the president's position is why are we going to necessarily default to a policy prescription

that has been, where the same policy prescription if has been a implemented for the last four or five decades, and it hasn't worked? maybe we need to explore new policy prescriptions that ultimately end up in a better life for gazans and palestinians. and i think it's as simple as that. and it's very, very sensible. for some reason people have a problem with him saying things like that, but he does it for all the a right reasons. look at the discourse that's now happening today. we're actually engaging in a productive conversation around what is best for gaza and how do we make people's lives better. and i think that's a better program. maria: and, of course, president trump spoke with the king of jordan who did agree to the accept sick children. but the others and largely all of the regional partners said that they really do not want to accept those people who were living in gaza right now. >> well, we've talked to --

look, we've talked -- i think gaza is a really rough place to go back to. i think that families going back there thinking that there's an easy reconstruction process, that they've been -- they've bonn some level deceived. and and i think that's part of president trump's message, that that we don't want people going back there, being injured, being hurt, god forbid being killed because a building falls down on them inadvertently. or, god forbid, a child playing in the streets touches a munition, if and it explodes. and he loses his hands or his arms or any one of these, you know, terrible things that could happen a. that's kind of the point. and i think that the president's solution is how do we address where people, where two million people can go? and i think the obvious answers are in some respects egypt, in some respects jordan, but in some respects other countries

who have called us up and voluntarily said this is a humanitarian effort. we want to help you. we want to participate in this humanitarian effort. and i think that's to be commended. maria: and, of course, president trump has put, once again, maximum pressure on iran. what is the situation in if terms of iran, and how can you make a dent if stop thing iran from -- stopping iran from supporting these proxies like hamas? >> well, that that's the ultimate question, maria. and that's what we've got to answer. all roads lead to the iran in this, in this middle eastern conflict. what happened finish the houthis, the hezbollah, hamas, they're all a, they're all a pop sored by iran, and -- sponsored by iran, and iran is the benefactor. but, of course, the largest issue is the nuclear, and the president has said they will not get a bomb. them getting a bomb is devastating to the region.

it will force every other country in that region to to get a bomb too. we'll have a nuclear arms race, and that simply can't happen. but the president has also said this can be solved diplomatically. and if iran shows an interest if solving it diplomatically, the american government remains open to those discussions. and so i hope that it can be solved diplomatically, because the alternative is not such a good alternative. maria: steve, there was gunfire this morning near gaza. has the ceasefire ended? is there anything we need to be aware of in terms of where we stand today with this ceasefire agreement? >> well, i'm not aware of the gunfire, maria. now that you're telling it to me, i'll ask the question. but i think, i think the ceasefire holding. i think we are in discussions

about a how to finish the next hostage a release, and there'll be an israeli delegation going to east doe -- to either doha or cairo. i think that the ceasefire is holding. trucked have been -- there could have been a circumstance of shooting but, hopefully, it's not big enough to have changed the situation on the ground. i think we're, we're stable and and things are where where they are posedded to be. maria: steve, again, thank you so much for all of your efforts. we'll be watching your work in saudi arabia as a your efforts continue now toward ukraine. we appreciate your time, steve, thank you. >> thank you, maria. maria: all right. steve wit of cough joining us today. -- steve witkoff, special envoy to the middle east. coming up, american muscle. america's military men and women paired with weaponized robotics on the battlefield. american drone maker an april industries' founder palm paer lucky is here. but first, border czar tom homan

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maria: welcome back. stunning new numbers from immigration and customs enforcement showing arrests of illegal immigrants up 137% under the trump administration compared to the same period last year under the biden administration. i.c.e. has arrested nearly 12,000 illegal immigrants from january 20th through february 8th compared to just about 5,000 during the same period last year. arrests of fugitives at large have soared 156% while arrests of suspected gang members has more than doubled. joining me now is border czar tom homan. tom, it's great to have you. thank you so much for being here. the arrests are up and yet you still get pushback from the sanctuary cities. how significant is that pushback, and is it stopping you from doing your job? >> oh, absolutely not gonna stop us. it makes the job more difficult and dangerous. e mine, the numbers that you said, we're more than twice the

numbers as joe biden had a year ago doctortoday, and the vast majority -- from today. am i happy? no, i want more. because at last count we had over 600,000 illegal aliens with criminal convictions walking the streets of this country. so we've got a lot of them the find. a sanctuary city makes it difficult. what's most concerning though, it makes it more dangerous. when we can arrest a bad guy in a county jail, if one officer arrests the guy in the safety and security of the the jail or a prison, but when they're released back into the public which on its face is just ridiculous, it's more dangerous for the i.c.e. officers, for the alien, and it's certainly more dangerous for the communities. when you throw a public safety threat back in the community, it's just dumb. and it puts the communities at great risk of more climb. we want to get into the jail. give us access to the guy that you locked in a jail cell. that's who we want to talk to. maria: i mean, look, you've got alexandria ocasio-cortez doing webinars to explain to illegal

immigrants how to evade i.c.e. arrests, and then she tweeted out after manager you said, you said maybe she's going to be in trouble now, and she says, maybe he can learn to to read the constitution, would be a good place to start. she's continuing her resist efforts against your earths, tom. -- your efforts, tom. >> look, i forgot more about the constitution and immigration enforcement than she'll ever know. i had to educate her during congressional testimony that entering the country illegally is a crime. so is whatever. what she needs to do is read the statutes enacted by congress. title viii united states code 1324, united states -- title viii united states code 1324 and 25, that's what she needs to read. it's a crime to enter this country illegally. not only that, when you harbor and conceal and impede law enforcement, that's a felony. so what she's doing, she says she's educating people of their

constitutional rights. what he's really doing, you and i and the rest of the country know, she's trying to teach them how to evade law enforcement. i just said out of the gate we're concentrating on public safety and national security threats. she's educating those in the country illegally with a significant criminal conviction, don't open the door, don't talk to i.c.e., here's how you evade law enforcement. let's hope she's not educating the next person who gets out and murders a young college student in georgia. these are bad people we're looking for. so she can call it education all she wants, but we all know it's about evading law enforcement. these people have been ordered removed, they have final orders. they're criminals. they're in the country illegally. a judge has ordered them illegally. they become a fugitive. these are the folks she's helping? i've asked the department of justice to look at this. where's the fine line so so we can instruct i.c.e. officers what they can do when people don't open the doors or try to evade their arrest. i simply ask doj, give with me a legal opinion because the

department of justice determines things differently. what is the legal opinion on impedement, and we'll see what happens. maria: how significant are the businesses that the dangerous cartels have started up in america? i'm talking about the human trafficking businesses, the safe houses in several cities in this country and the stash houses as well as the drug cartel business with. how significant has that business become that the drug cartels are running inside america? >> look, the drug cartels are like a a fortune 500 company. some of these drug cartels, they're operating in 43 nations, 43 different countries around the globe. they used to be back in my day when i was an agent, they were responsible for smuggling drugs into the united states, into our major cities and just distributed by local gangs. now they have the footprint in every major city in this nation. they have taken over the distribution channels within the united states. they have a strong foothold here, and that's why we're concentrating on drug cartels

and tda, tren de aragua. i'm not going to be happy until every single one of tren de aragua a is out of this country. along with ms-13. this is why president trump, again, he proves every day why he's the greatest president in my lifetime. he designated them terrorist organizations. they've killed more american than every terrorist organization in the world combined. they're killed thousands of journalists and law enforcement in mexico, thousands of citizens. they're acting like a terrorist organization. they've killed more americans than any terrorist organization, so president trump did the right thing, that'll bring the weight of the world on them. president trump will wipe them off the a face of the earth by the time he's done. maria: and that has allowed you to get tougher on them because he has a deemed them terrorist organizations. >> absolutely. president trump -- look, look what the president's done in just the first month of him being in office. maria: yeah. >> illegal crossings on the border are down 90%.

90% in just a couple of weeks. and what does that that mean, maria? it means more people -- less people are dying crossing the border. less americans are dying from fentanyl if overdoses. less women and children are being sex trafficked, less terrorists are getting in. president trump has taken incredible action on the border. we're already at a high state of security at the southern border. we're arresting twice as many illegal alien criminals as biden did. we're on lightning period of doing what the president promised the american people he would do. maria: tom, thank you for your efforts. we so appreciate your time this morning. >> thanks for having me. maria: border czar tom homan joining us. quick break, and why has the u.s. military been buying and using drones from communist china, and has the u.s. military turned a corner to toward america's tech sector? an april industries' -- anduril industries' founder palm

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? >> we're going the insure it's included in reconciliation money, in the fy-26, all our budgets going forward to to invest in the ability, maria, get this, a novel if idea, the defend our homeland. that's why we're focusing on our southern border and the invasion there, the 100% operational control, and then our sky ises. as president trump is, he's a visionary just like ronald reagan. maria: and that's defense secretary pete hegseth with me here last weekend on his plans to modernize the pentagon. my next guest's company has been part of that technology revolution and and modernization with anduril indus software and drones actively supporting operations with the department of defense and the department of homeland security including at the southern border. joining me now in this "sunday morning futures" exclusive is palmer lucky, the founder of anduril industries, a leading defense technology company in america. palmer, thanks very much for joining us today. >> of course. thanks for having me, maria

with. maria: i want to to get your take the on securing the homeland. let me start at the border where your company, what, is covering some 600 miles of border? tell me what you're doing there and what you've been able to see over the last year and specifically just recently as things have changed with trump's new rules. >> well, i'm a big believer in border security. i think that all the democrats and even some republicans have been looking at it the wrong way. they treat it as if it's this problem that can only be managed or addressed a little bit, but i think as trump's actions are showing, you can really just solve the border. you can lock down the border. we have the technology, we have the people. you just need to bring the will. e do a lot of work with customs and border protection on securing the border. we have since the beginning of our company about eight years ago. it's worth remembering that joe biden ran on a platform saying we don't need medieval solutions like walls, we need more high technology on the border. and then his own white

house-proposed budget every single year zeroed out the technology budge for cbp. to he said we needed more tech, and then he tried to deprive them of it. nonetheless, we've -- mostly through congress appropriating money towards relevant programs -- have been able the cover about 600 miles of the border with technology detect thing hundreds of thousands of crossings. sex trafficking, drug trafficking, money smuggling, gun trafficking, and a lot of drone crossings that are moving fentanyl from mexico into the united states. if. maria: so tell me about a the next step and huh you can continue this, because i know you feel that there is a role from congress that has yet to break. >> well, i mean, there's a lot of things that congress could do to help in addition to what trump's done via executive order and policy change. but one of the biggest, i think, so to equip cbp with counter-drone authority. rye now they can't really do anything to stop the tens of thousands of drones that are crossing into america carrying

drugs and other things every day. they can't do anything to stop the drones that the cartels are using to provide overwatch and show them where u.s. cbp is and where some of our military is so that they can evade them or better even attack them. and you might have read recently also that the cartels, some of them are authorized using armed drones against u.s. cbp and military personnel. 9 so the fact that cbp can track these drones but isn't allowed to shoot them out of the the sky, jam them or hack them, that's manager that congress would have to intervene to make happen. i think it's a a really important part of making sure that we don't just move the border crossing problem from the ground to the sky. maria: another issue that congress has finally begun to recognize and intervene on is buying drones from china. why in the world would we buy drones from dji, a chinese drone maker, and use them in the military? if palmer, if a chinese drone sees something on the ground, does that mean that the

communist party of china can see exactly what's on that drone if it's a chinese drone? >> well, concerns like that are exactly why we need to take control of our own destiny with regard to not just drones, but all of the critical high-tech technology that our military depends on, that our law enforcement depends on, that our critical infrastructure operations depend on. you know, yeah, we buy a lot of chinese drones. but we're buying a lot of chinese computers as well. most of the computers the united states buys even for our most critical military applications are made in china. let me ask you a question, you and your viewers. could you imagine if during the height of the cold war america had been buying all of our computers and command and and control terminals from a russian company headquartered in moscow under kremlin supervision? it would have been completely unthinkable. but because we've been hollowed out by globalism, we've outsourced all ability to make the things that allow us to control our destiny, we're forced boo buying chinese

drones, chinese computers, chinese chips, chinese sensors. we need to make sure we reindustrialize and learn how the produce the things our country needs, or we are going to become even more dependent on china in a world where that is going to be our downfall. maria: i mean, yeah, and, you know, it's not just about saying we won't buy drones from china anymore. it's actually about a removing the dji drones that are already up and running and being used in the military. >> that's right. maria: isn't that right? >> well, it's right. and i think that people, you know, there's a lot of people that say, well, but, palmer, we can't prove that the software is funneling information back home. that's not the point. it's very similar to the security concerns around applications like tiktok. if it's not that they are necessarily directly funneling the data today, it's that they have built a system where it's trivially easy for them to push targeted updates to individual instances of the application to target a more use exercise have

that code never reviewed at a larger level by the platform holders like apple or google. china is a really smart nation. they have a smart intelligence apparatus, a smart military apparatus. they are in many ways more closely integrated with their technology sector than the united states mill share is swe -- military is integrated with our technology sector. the worry is that they could make tata the case trivially easily, and in china, you don't have a choice to not work with the government. at least here it has to go through courts and warrants. in china via civil-military fusion, you have absolutely no right the deny a request with or a command by the military to work with you, use your technology the or take control of your technology. maria: yeah. palmer, you've been -- >> -- you can't address anything these people say. like when a chinese executive says, oh, no, we would never do that. realize that their law says they have to lie to you about that. maria: that's right. there are national security laws

in china that a require whoever you are, whatever company you are to report back to the ccp if, in fact, they want that information of. but, palmer, you've been writing in your blog turning soldiers into superheros. tell us about your products at anduril and huh you can turn war fighters into -- whether it's the goggles in the deal you just did with microsoft or it's the drone software technology. tell us what the technology is that is, in fact, arm aing our soldiers today and what you envision for the future. >> well, as you know, maria, i started my career in the med how abouted display area at my first company, oculus, when i started when i was 19 years old. i sold that to facebook, worked there for a few years before they fired me. but i'm coming back around on that. you're referring to a major army program that microsoft recently traveled to us. if -- transferred to us. it's a vision augmentation program that gives soldiers

superhuman vision, the ability to see at night, the ability to see heat, the ability to see into the radio frequency domain, to see data that's fused from hundreds of sensors all over the battlefield into one common if view so that i can see through buildings and walls, i can see through hills. i can seamlessly command and control large numbers of autonomous if weapons. i can know where all the good guys are and the bad guys are seamlessly in my view. superman doesn't use a bunch of menu, he just looks and sees and does and has total perception and cognition of the world. that's what we're trying to build with ivas. and we've got some really exciting stuff coming on that. maria: amazing. palmer, you've also been working with the pace force. what are your ambitions there -- is the space force. president trump told me that elon musk promised him that we with would go to mars before the end of president trump's term. your thoughts on the opportunities in pace and specifically what you're doing

with the space force. >> we're doing a lot of different things with the space force. and i think big picture people need to realize the space force is not just a service organization that is going to be providing communications or intelligence to other services. it is going to be an a independent service that is a going to become radically more important for our nation's future. i'm not talking about the next five years. think about what does the space force look like 50 years out? if well, we're going to need to preserve all a of the routes between here and the moon, autoinsertion orr to orbit, protect a lot of the asteroids that are near earth that we need to be mining for critical minerals, critical resources that are going to power our infrastructure here on earth but as erik -- also as we expand out into space. we're going to to need to make sure we control low earth orbit, that we hold the he garage points and those don't get handed over to china. we're going to have to build the system that can control and protect access to space and have

freedom of navigation in space the same way we protect freedom of navigation here on the seas at a earth. and so anduril is hoping -- helping to build technology that's going the make that possible. we're working on a lot of interesting artificial intelligence plays, some of which we've been working on for eight years now. and we recently publicly signed a contract with the space force to do some of exactly that that. we already are our a.i. is systems running on orbit as we speak. maria: all right. this is the incredible. so much to talk about. palmer, we appreciate it. and we're watching your work. thank you, sir. >> thank you. maria: anduril industries' founder palmer luckey. quick break, and then president trump puts u.s. trade partners on notice over unfair tariffs on u.s. imports. congresswoman lisa mcclain on executing the president's agenda. that's next. before the spotlight— we struggled to keep the lights on. [young jayson] tatum with the ball. my ambitions were to make it to the league— and get my money right. [young jayson] dribbles up the court.

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they do it over time. so, but i can tell you that these could be very, very substantial if they don't want the take their tariffs down, because we will match them percent for percent, dollar for dollar. maria: and that's treasury secretary scott bessent with me friday on "mornings with maria a" on fox business reiterating the president's plan to impose reciprocal tariffs on any country the white house deems to have been treating the u.s. unfairly. targets include the european would be on, india and japan. congressional republicans are working on advancing president trump's agenda through budget reconciliation as well as a new spending bill to fund government through fiscal year with, facing a deadline of march 14th to avert a shutdown. joining me now is house gop chairwoman, congresswoman lisa mcclain. is the budget resolution in jeopardy? >> i don't believe so is.

look, we've all campaigned on we need to find savings, need to change the way government functions with us being $36 trillion in debt. and what the budget resolution does is merely unlock the ability for us to go into committees to do budget reconciliation, to to make transformational change like the president talked about and implement his full agenda. and i'm confident that house republicans will carry through on that agenda not only for the president, but for the american people as well. maria: are you worried that some of your members will not vote on a budget reconciliation big, beautiful bill without their priorities in terms of s.a.l.t.ing? you've bot some members who want the s.a.l.t. deduction raised, other members who are digging in on coming up with offsets and spending cuts. >> and that's the beauty of

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maria: welcome back. we are back with house gop conference chair lisa mcclain. congresswoman, want to get your

take on doge, the latest incredible amount of money missing, $1.9 billion of hud money was just recovered after being misplaced during the biden administration through a broken process, they claimed. but all of this wavesful spending, you know, sex change operations in guatemala, etc., etc. how did this happen this in. >> it happens because nobody wanted, specifically the democrats didn't want us to see where the money was being spent. if versus president trump in the administration, this is probably the most transparent administration if that we have ever seen is. and that's why you see the democrats losing their mind because we're actually uncovering all of this waves, fraud and abuse. -- waste, fraud and abuse. and they're losing their minds, why? because we're uncovering it. and they're actually advocating for us to continue the wasteful spending. maria: yeah. >> it's just disgraceful, and i can assure you under this presidency with president trump and house republicans, we will not allow that to continue.

maria: meantime, 76% of government spending goes to mandatory programs and interest, interest, a trillion dollars almost, and spending will total $89 trillion over the next decade. tax revenue, $68 trillion. what are you going to do? will you be forced to go into mandatory spending to come up with cuts to pay for the tax cut in. >> that's a great question, and there's a lot of fear mongering right now that's going on. listen, i believe that there are a lot of savings and efficiencies that we can find before we have to touch mandatory spending. but let's not confuse savings with cuts, and let's not confuse if reforms with cuts. our goal is to make sure that we give the money and the programs to the people who need it most. maria: sure. >> i'm hard pressed to believe that government runs so efficiently that there's not any savings that we can find. maria: of course. >> so at the end of the day,

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