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equality, and a celebration of how far they have come. women's history month. >> gillian: fast forward to today, nearly 30 years later and some women are recording they are frustrated they now feel they are being asked to take a back seat to transgender women. from one of the best known brands to historic institutions, there is a push afoot to redefine biological women. >> john: welcome back as "america reports" rolls into hour number two, i'm john roberts, and nice to see you this friday afternoon. >> gillian: gillian turner in for sandra. women's history month getting underway, no escaping the controversy whether you are at the smithsonian museum or want to grab a chocolate bar. >> john: a world gone so woke, an nba team is even apologizing for the offense of suggesting without women we wouldn't have

babies. it's just biology. we'll get brian kilmeade's take on all of this. race for the white house is heating up as republicans gather at two duelling conferences highlighting the growing battle in the gop over the future direction of the party. >> gillian: in just the last hour, presidential hopeful nikki haley took the stage at cpac, saying they need a new generation of leaders if they want to take back power in washington. >> china thinks the american era has passed, so do our enemies but they're wrong. america is not past our prime, it's just that our politicians are past theirs. >> 1 of 2 candidates speaking at cpac and the club for growth. mike pence is set to take the stage this hour but ted cruz argued for his own brand of

conservativism. >> if you have switches in the conference, you can be certain leadership will switch as all get-out. if you have a bunch of flame throwers at the conference, leadership is miraculously going to discover the willingness to fight. >> gillian: latest reaction, what can you tell us, mark? >> gillian, good afternoon. right after nikki haley, we heard from the former secretary of state mike pompeo. i don't want to say a softer tone, necessarily, but a more measured speech, talked about education, he talked about covid lockdowns and the national debt, all issues this audience would be interested in. this conference is known for bringing out conservatives and also a chance to bring out grassroots activists that could be necessary in any political fight, heading into the next presidential contest. you mentioned former u.n.

ambassador nikki haley, she got a standing ovation when she got on stage and when she left. a brief clip of what she had to say. >> liberals attack me because they don't like who i am or what i say. i'm running for president to stop america's downward spiral toward socialism and end the self-loathing that has taken over our country. i'm running for president to renew an america that's strong and proud, not weak and woke. >> a little bit later this afternoon, hearing from vivek ramaswamy, and then tomorrow night, donald trump. also notable names not here in national harbor, maryland, including the governor of florida, ron desantis, many people suspect will be running in 2024, he has stops in iowa a

week from now, and this conference certainly a very pro trump crowd. i would imagine he'll do well in the straw poll results announced before he takes the stage tomorrow night. >> gillian: mark meredith at national harbor at cpac. john. >> john: some democrats are livid with president biden's recent policy moves. announced yesterday he will not veto a republican-led effort to scrap one of d.c.s controversial crime policies. chad pergram, what's the latest on all this? >> good afternoon, john. president biden believes liberals in washington, d.c. veered too far to the left with revisions to the city's criminal code. congressional republicans aim to supersede what the d.c. council approved. >> soft on crime this incompetent, members of congress cannot go about their daily lives without being attacked,

when families cannot come to visit our capitol in safety, then it's about time the federal government provides some adult supervision. >> congress can intervene because washington is a federal enclave. president biden thought the new code went easy on criminals. the president's move makes some fellow democrats mad. >> it's a great disappointment to me. when he saw that there were democrats lining up with republicans on the disapproval resolution, despite his support for statehood, the president decided that he would not veto the measure. >> d.c. mayor vetoed the council's bill but the council overrode the veto. division at the local level. >> we are very focused on making

sure that the city is safe and we continue to want senators to support d.c.'s autonomy but also to work with the council on getting policies that make sense for us. >> this is the first big win by the gop against a liberal agenda. it also gives moderate senate democrats the chance to vote in favor of rebuking the d.c. city council. john. >> john: chad pergram for us on capitol hill with the latest on that. thank you. karl rove, former white house deputy chief of staff and fox news contributor for more on all of this. so, what do you think is going on here, karl? joe biden take a look at what happens to lori lightfoot in chicago and said to himself, being soft on crime is not a way to re-election. >> well, i think that's true, and yeah, i think he also said i'm going to save the democrats from themselves by saying i'm not going to veto this override issue and he was smart to do it. he will upset the left of his party temporarily but he will

save traditional democrats from having to explain away this nutty measure by the d.c. city council that would have removed penalties on some crimes and dramatically lessened them on a wide range of them. smart on his part and they don't want this issue back in their face in 2024 any more than it's already going to be. >> john: he seemed to try to have it both ways when he tweeted about it. said i support d.c. statehood and home rule but don't support some of the changes d.c. council put forward over the objections, such as lowering penalties for carjackings. alexandria ocasio-cortez took that and ran, said this ain't it, d.c. has a right to govern itself. if the president supports d.c. statehood he should govern like it. plenty of places pass laws the president may disagree with, he should respect as he does elsewhere. the situation in d.c. is unique in that there are not other

jurisdictions where the federal government with override something the city council puts forward. but if you have the opportunity to save a city from itself, should you not take it? >> well, he obviously decided that's exactly what he was going to do, but it's a sign of how nutty the democratic party has come that aoc is defending the measure of the district of columbia, dramatically cut penalties, for example for carjackings, and as i say, the president of the united states was trying to save his own party from itself and probably did a great service here. but he will in the short run face some things from history like from aoc. >> john: the split in the republican party, duelling events, cpac, and then palm

beach, curious as why you think desantis is avoiding cpac. >> well, cpac has turned into a trump fest, and there will be a straw poll, ironically enough completed and the announcement made just before the former president takes the stage. so if you are ron desantis and you are doing well in some early state polls and people are talking you up as the alternative to trump, why walk into an audience overwhelmingly trump and provide fodder for people to say he came, gave the best performance, but lost the straw poll, a sign that his challenge to president trump is not very strong. so plenty of opportunities to get your name out. the same time that he is avoiding going there, he is attending gigantic, and i mean gigantic lincoln day dinners in dallas and houston and in orange county, california. the one in houston is a record turnout. they have never had as many

0 a head, and in dallas, they are getting close to a million dollars dinner at $250 a head. so it's a sign of what strength he has in the hinterlands, better there than what is in essence the trump fan club, what cpac has turned into. >> john: and he'll be on the straw poll, but hey, i wasn't there, what did you expect. >> i didn't go and a reason why i didn't go. it was already baked, the fix was in, so to speak. >> john: all right. karl, great to see you. hope you have a good weekend down there. >> you, too, john. thank you. >> john: it is interesting, though, because i got a lot of this on my twitter feed, a lot of people support president trump who do not like nikki haley. will never vote for haley, yet she goes to cpac, as karl pointed out is a trump fest and

she gets a standing ovation. so she's got the hoozphah to do that. >> and you talk to other trump administration officials, people who worked for trump either at the white house or the departments and agencies, people who were politically appointed by him, they by and large, this is an informal poll, i took myself, they by and large like and support her too, not necessarily over the former president but i have not had anybody say a word against her that i've spoken to. >> john: some didn't like what she said about trump in the wake of january 6th and prior to the 2016 election as well. interesting to see how it develops over the next few months. >> gillian: we'll be watching. >> john: and you'll be watching along with us. >> gillian: there is this, you might have thought it was over but looks like the fight over gas stoves might be back on. the white house is denying still any plans for a ban, but some

new action by congressional democrats is adding fuel to the fire. plus, also some backlash in the sports world. >> only one that came. >> they birth everybody. >> all women are great because they are all queens. >> john: the toronto raptors apologizing for the women's history video, anything but a slam dunk. brian kilmeade here to react to that and other women's history fouls have gotten folks riled up. brian is coming up next right after he puts on a tie. rices, lower your monthly payments with the 3 c's. pay down your credit cards. pay off your car loan. consolidate your debt with a va home loan from newday. i brought in ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. uhhhh...

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>> john: the white house says ban gas stoves? not on the table.

so, why are fellow democrats meeting behind closed doors with people who want to do just that? that's the question that some people are asking on capitol hill where fox business's grady trimble is. what are these meetings and why do they want to turn off the burner? >> hey, john, house democrats hosted the founder of the group called rewiring america at the issues conference. stated goal of that group to electrify everything, including stoves. pushing induction stoves instead of gas, telling us the inflation reduction act can help bring down the cost of those stoves when rebates are available later this year. rewiring america argues gas stoves are worse for the environment than electric and potentially harmful. to that end, the consumer product safety commission which kicked off the gas stove debate to begin with is asking the stove to weigh in on the potential dangers of them, that

could lead to new regulations. already the department of energy is getting public input on a first-ever efficiency regulation. half of all gas stove models sold in the united states wouldn't comply with the proposal, so republicans in congress are fighting back. >> it's gas stoves today, it's going to be all of the other gas equipment in a home tomorrow, by extension, they are going after anything that has fossil fuel. radical environmentallists trying to reshape our economy in a way that is not practicable. >> two states most likely to use gas for home cooking, california and new jersey. two states, john, whose governors and leaders in general purport to be the most climate

conscious. >> john: are you a gas or electric? >> gillian: i have a gas stove in my house. i don't have a personal fish to fry in this fight. but i will say -- >> john: a gas stove would be a good way to do that. >> gillian: i was doing some reading -- what alarms me is less about the environment, more about the fact that gas stoves can be particularly harmful to certain groups of people, like kids with allergies to certain things, i didn't know about that. >> john: that's what the argument -- that's what the argument was, was that it's bad for kids with asthma. >> gillian: and some other things. >> john: why most gas stoves have a range hood to suck the fumes out. >> gillian: to take care of that a little bit. does everybody have a hood, i don't know. but maybe you should get one. >> john: you are supposed to have one. >> gillian: that's my pro advice. also this, john. the smithsonian is working on a

new museum to celebrate women who have helped they say build america. it's facing some massive pushback for the plan to feature transgender women. the director says the approach comes from a desire to be inclusive, brian kilmeade, host of one nation, and other things, if i named them that would be the whole segment. as i understand it, the museum has not been green lighted, smithsonian has raised enough money to do it and now they want to seek congressional approval. >> brian: i'm the perfect one to answer this question. so i'm so glad you asked me. first off, you need a hood i think to have an oven, pretty sure. and talk to a restaurant owner and tell them they can't have gas ovens, good luck with that, he will hit you with a pan. smithsonian, can women have their own section, if they have their own section they should

have some criteria. i don't think transgender women in the women smithsonian is something people know when they donate to build it and dedicate it is what they had in mind. so, congratulations. welcome to 2023. where women honored by other women is a controversial thing because women, i thought maybe you want to create some criteria, have to be born a woman, but i guess it's something for a higher being. good luck on the smithsonian. and great things to see, you could also see archie bunker's chair from "all in the family," and mike's desk from "the brady bunch," i'll follow the story throughout the weekend. >> gillian: this is interesting. hersheys will have a trans woman on the candy wrapper, sparking backlash, and even from women and men who support transgender

people. it's generating backlash because a museum like a candy bar wrapper has limited real estate and every time you make a decision who to include, you are making a decision about who to exclude. so, women are being passed over in order to feature transgender women. they say that's the issue. >> ok, a couple of things come to mind. if you want to celebrate the chiefs winning the super bowl, you don't ask the eagles to come. it's time for the chiefs to celebrate, as good, as great as the eagles are, the super bowl winners, the kansas city chiefs, it's kansas city chiefs day. so me it's women's day. if you want to honor women, are there women to represent women for hershey's chocolate. if you choose as a board member or president or executive to say i have a perfect way to salute women, let's have a transgender woman, see how chocolate sales go. ultimately that will be the decision and i'll also, john, if

you want to weigh in, too, no reason for you to run away from this segment. something we could all benefit from. >> gillian: we tried to bring him in, he's not up to it. >> john: he's out of the studio. >> gillian: he's not even here, i have not seen him 15 minutes. >> brian: i heard the shower going. >> gillian: and the toronto raptors panned for this ad. and then they apologized. >> they birth everybody. >> all women are great because they are all queens. >> gillian: that was part of the ad, let's pull up the apology. all right. they say we are an organization that prides itself on doing the right thing when it comes to inclusion and representation and we made a mistake tuesday. sincerest apologies to players, staff and fans. we'll work to do better today and every day after.

so this is different than the other issues, this is it actually erasing women and women's contributions to society. in my opinion. >> brian: supreme court justice -- i know it's a canadian team but an american league. supreme court justice could not name what a woman is and neither can the raptors, they are not alone. so, to me that was one of the most funny things i've seen in my life. looked like a hostage video by some raptors players, the short end of the stick. they said come up with something about a woman that is not going to offend anyone. well, thanks for birthing me, tip -- tip your waitresses. let's treat 'em all like queens, i don't know. please, let this end. and i love they say it's a mistake. i don't know, i dropped the tissues, but when you load copy into a prompter you get the lighting guy in, ask the guys with uniforms and read the copy, you can't say it was a mistake. you could say the backlash made

me feel as though it was a mistake, so this, john roberts -- john, funniest -- >> gillian: he tried to weasel his way out of it. >> john: i pointed out the other day, and may or may not bear relation to this, but it's always people who were born male who are clamoring to get into women's sports. it's not that many women clamoring to get into men's sports and you are not hearing this idea -- we had the swimmer from kentucky, riley on, on this. saying that you are not hearing a lot about men fighting to make sure that men's sports has a level playing field for men to compete in. it's always about women. and it's transgender women getting into a women's section of the smithsonian. it's not the other way around. so this seems very much to be a 1-way street. >> brian: also i always thought this -- >> john: did i escape that with

my career intact? >> brian: yeah, mine isn't, clearly, so this will be my last show. thank you. i thought if you do the print shoot, take out the nose ring but i'm a little old fashioned. number two, it's a big issue. you have three women's players on the women's national team who says they have no problem with transgender players playing in the world cup. i just hope you are ok with losing to a team full of transgender women because that's what will happen. because to me, you need the courage to stand up and women need the courage to stand up and say can i please have the playing field, the court, can i please have this day, this month, myself. transgender, great. whatever you need to do. nothing against them. but can women have their day? their team, their time. that's all i say. >> gillian: can we be acknowledged for bearing children? >> brian: yes, and -- >> gillian: i guess the answer

is no. >> brian: the raptors thanked you for birthing them. >> gillian: then they took it back, said that was a mistake. >> john: i think it's time to get into some really controversial territory. what's coming up on one nation. >> not this, transgender stuff. robert o'brien tackles fentanyl and talk to michael waltz about the controversial d.c. crime bill where they decided they are not for crime, and democrats stood up for that. we are also going to have a great debate about toxic masculinity, the second gentleman is not really for it, bryan will be on, and why are people not signing up for the mill military. starts at 9:01 eastern time. don't go out at 8:00.

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the first hearing they held. that committee is going to cover intelligence, agriculture, the economy and a whole host of areas where china is trying to have an edge over the united states. kevin mccarthy says i want to empower the president if we are united in the house, its gives the president a stronger hand. gives him a backbone. one of the biggest problems with china, we have never spoken with one voice. this comes as the white house faces questions about when and how the president will respond to china after a department of emergency report concluded wuhan lab sparked the pandemic. and some are undecided. >> nobody is letting anything slide. that's why the president wants the intelligence community to work so hard to hopefully get to some answers that we can rely on. right now there's no consensus. >> still critics say there are areas where biden should apply pressure right now, like with

stemming the flow of chinese fentanyl across the southern border and ensuring that china does not provide lethal aid to russia in the war on ukraine. >> biden administration could say look, if you take the step of providing lethal aid to putin and russia and ukraine, and force us to any number of things, with respect to taiwan, you know, accelerate the delivery of $19 billion in outstanding military contracts. >> biden said after he ordered the chinese spy balloon shot down, he expects to have a conversation with xi jinping pretty soon but that has not happened so far. today he is meeting with the german chancellor and how to deal with china and treat china amid russia's war in ukraine is a top topic of their conversation, gillian. >> gillian: jacqui heinrich on the north lawn, thank you very much. >> john: lieutenant general keith kellogg, former national security adviser to mike pence

and fox news contributor. increased warnings about china to the pentagon, increasingly aggressive china is trying to shape the international rules based system to suit its preferences. this is a generational challenge and the department will rise to meet it. earlier this week the former national security adviser to george bush was on saying the china of today is so different than it was back then, back then it wanted to work on its economy, it wanted to be a member of the global economy, now it's got global domination on its mind and we have to rise to that challenge. >> yeah, john. i would go back to the national security strategy the biden administration and look at it. they called china a competitor, not an adversary. france is a competitor, ok. they are an adversary, call them out. like the russians are an adversary and we need to do that, and see what president xi has been saying, go back to 2018 when he spoke at the national

defense university for china and said that the western style and the eastern style are not going to meet, and that's the reason why you see xi pushing very hard. he's going not just for regional dominance but global dominance. you see with the military and the economics. in the trump administration of a the first two years, after the covid thing hit we believe strongly even at that time was, came out of the lab, maybe inadvertent but out of the lab, we had to talk about decoupling from china. a trade deficit over $300 billion a year, you are basically funding china and their military and bring industries back to the united states. a four-year plan in place i know president trump put out to bring that back, and we need to do that because if we don't believe that china is truly an adversary, we are making a huge mistake. >> gillian: that's a great point. i was going to ask you, you know, and you know this better

than anyone, if you decouple from china and declare and call them an adversary, you have to break american dependence on chinese manufacturing across all sectors, or else you will leave american consumers high and dry. >> that's right. you can't do it like tomorrow, it's going to take, you know, a few years to do it but in a phased fashion. when i was in the white house with president trump and the team there, we talked about how to do this, decouple and bring it back. >> gillian: and you think it could happen in as little as four years? >> we had steve, the secretary of the treasury and said you can't do it overnight but over four years bring them back to the united states, and put tariffs on china and put pressure on them, but take your time to do it. but you can doit. it's doable, but we did not sustain what we currently have with our trade deficit. it's not going to work and the chinese know that. >> john: and everything that

china is doing is funded by american consumers. >> their military is. >> john: the indo-pacific commander says we need to ramp up the u.s. counter to china, everything needs to go faster. everyone needs a sense of urgency, that's what it's going to take to prevent a conflict. analysts say china needs to know if it tries to go after taiwan it's going to be like trying to swallow a porcupine. needs to move quickly, china is not waiting. >> it goes down to will, i mean -- i think we are in a period of time that i don't remember actually in my lifetime of threats, both the russian threat and the chinese threat simultaneously, and the iran threat as well moving towards a nuclear weapon and it comes down to presidential and leadership will to make those decisions. and part of that is calling them what they really are is an

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>> john: newly released court documents reveal what police found in idaho. here to weigh-in is pat diaz, retired miami homicide detective, now a private investigator. pat, this was under seal since the end of december. now open. i want to take think in two parts. first from his home a cell top, laptop, pocketknife a glock .22 with three empty magazines and articles of clothing. what do you think police have here? >> they have a treasure trove with the laptop and cell phone. that will be digital information that he may try to delete from

his computer, everything in there, the hard drive will save it. the fbi has the capability of going in there and picking up what he has. there's never anything deleted. with the cell phone,s that another imprint that they'll find, his pictures. even though it's in the cloud, they can get into the phone and can be a treasure trove of evidence against them that they need. >> evidence taken from the car seems to be geared toward looking for dna or other items that might have transferred from the home to his vehicle. they took a door panel, seat cushions, visors and the gas pell -- pedal, various articles of clothing. you think a crime scene that was as bloody as that scene was and a hasty exit in the car as police allege, something is going to get transferred, whether it's blood evidence or

something else from that home into that car. >> exactly. a theory is that you can bleach it out. there's always going to be -- i'll give you an example. there was a dog on the scene. if they find dog hair, university of california berkeley has the best dna for dog hairs. they'll be able to match that dog hair to the dog on the scene. so they're looking for evidence that you can't see that may be in the car. that was a great move by them to take everything in there. you never know what you'll find in the microscope. >> real quick. the nick hearing is at the end of june. trial won't be for months after that. what are investigators going to do between now and then? >> well what they're doing now, the biggest thing, the digital imprint of the phone. they need to get that information out of his phone. the dna from the vehicle and everything else that they got takes some time to work. they have plenty of time to get

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