they put them in the caravans and they came and their shivers you were standing they were sent by those countries and then they will be met very harshly with sanctions. >> this new facility up and running? >> it will be up pretty quickly. a lot of the structure is already there. >> you say and competence may have played a role, were you aware of any performance issues or disciplinary actions taken against anybody working the tower or flying the plane of? >> no. i hope that is not the case in this case but certainly over the years that has been the case. but it is the case with respect to close calls and the case with respect to circling for hours on end. plains circle a lot and they circle because the people bringing them down is people that have to be very, very smart and it is not based on anything other than the brain are. we need the smartest people, we need them both psychologically smart and brilliant period.

we will have them in our control towers are. we are going to have the most competent people in the country and are controller towers. not any other reason. >> you said you envision sending the 80 something thousand irs agents hired under biden to the border. what role do you see them playing? >> they use different people but we will send to more and we will give the border patrol some help. now if you look they have taken in the lowest number since my administration the numbers are very low. and at that level we do not need so much help. if they come they are not going to make it in and they will be shipped out. >> mr. president, the king of jordan... have both said they won't take displaced people from gaza since -- like you suggested is there anything you can do to make them do that? tariffs against those countries for example? >> they will do it. they will do it. >> what makes you say that?

>> they are going to do it, okay? we do a lot for them and they would do it. >> mr. president, you have offered over 2 million federal workers the option to resign immediately. there are 50,000 faa employees, does this tragedy give you reason to reconsider that option of resignations? because it is concerns about staffing issues? >> if people are not coming to work if they are not going to come into the office and report as per the data that you know what it is everybody knows what the date is it is very well documented than they are going to be terminated. >> you were not concerned that if many people take that offer, there could be shortages? >> they will be replaced with very competent people. they have a lot of competent people in this country. >> have you spoken to any families of the victims of the plane crash? >> i don't want to comment on that. i have a plan to visit the site because you tell me what is the site? >> first responders down there? >> i don't have a plan to do

that but i will be meeting with some people meeting with the family member obviously. >> do you believe that there are five votes? >> five what? >> supreme court. >> what position? >> supreme court position. >> i think so. birthright citizenship was when you look back when this was passed in may, that was meant for the children of slaves. this was not meant for the whole world to come and apologized to the united states of america. everybody coming again and totally unqualified people. with perhaps unqualified children. this was not meant for that. this was meant what it was originally done was the children of slaves and that was a very good and noble thing to do and i'm in favor of that 100%. but it was not meant for the entire world to occupy the united states. >> require constitutional

amendment a? >> president trump: i think we will end up winning that court and the supreme court i think we will win that case and look forward to winning get. this has been going on at that level we are the only country in the world that does this. there is no other country at this level, no other country in the world that doesn't it is crazy. >> mr. president, 64 people lost their lives last night if you aren't confident that dei had any role why bring it up? >> president trump: all i am talking about is competence and we want in that particular position, we have to have the most competent people in our country because we are talking about lives. it may or may not have had to do but i do not like the fact that the helicopter was at the exact same level as the airplane. the helicopter should have been a thousand feet or 500 feet above it or something below it.

the plane was at three to 400 feat. the plane should have been stopped because the helicopter could have stopped. the plane can't be stopped. but it was a long track they called it a track. it was the same track that every other plane used for many years. it was going down and landing. on the helicopter got in its way. if the helicopter was higher or lower or stopped are turning left or turning right at a quicker time i mean a turn, but it turned when it was too late. a tragic, a tragic story. i don't know, do you blame it on the traffic controller as well? in addition to the pilots? maybe the pilots felt they should have seen it i would've thought they should have seen it because it was a plane loaded up with lights and everybody you can see it from kennedy center. you can see it very easily asleep -- easily. all i want is the most competent people in our country to be an air traffic control. it is very important very

important position. air traffic controllers may be in particular they have to be brilliant with computers, brilliant with graphics, they have to be psychologically really, really smart and there are a lot of people that would not be able to do that. >> tariffs on canada and mexico 25% that is coming on saturday? >> president trump: that is coming on the first. saturday. >> no oil tax? >> president trump: i did not say that you said that. we may or may not we will make that determination probably tonight on oil. because they send us we will see it depends on what the prices. if the oil is properly priced, if they treat us properly, we can say look, mexico and canada have never been good to us on trade they have treated us fairly unfairly in trade. we will be able to make that up very quickly. because we do not need the products that they have we have all the oil that you need.

we have all of the trees you need meaning the lumber, we have more than almost anybody. in those two categories and oil we have more than anybody. we do not need anybody's trees we have to free up some of the areas that we have we have great lumber in this country, free them up environmentally which i can do very quickly. we do not need what they have. for us he would be subsidizing canada to the tune of $175 billion a year, and subsidizing mexico to the tune of $250 billion, $350 billion a year and mexico's method of china sending it in its product. with china i'm also thinking about something because they are sending fentanyl into our country and because of that they are causing us hundreds of thousands of death. so china will end up paying a tariff also for that and we are in the process of doing that. we will make that determination what it is going to be. but china has to stop sending fentanyl into our country and

killing our people. >> israeli media has reported that conversations between... white house and... u.s. may be about two... troops in syria. how do you make the decision? >> president trump: i do not know who said that. but we will make a determination on that. we are not involved in syria syria is its own mess. they have enough messes over there they don't need us involved. >> staff at the control tower... >> president trump: that is part of competence right there. they should not have that happen. right there is when i am talking about. competence would be you will not have this but if you had the right people you would not need as many people either. >> do you know if there was a shortage last night or not? >> president trump: i don't know you were telling me. >> you said last night you have not spoken to putin about this win was the last time you spoke about him and has the president responded to your ask

to... pressure ukraine. >> president trump: i won't comment on either of them but we are doing very well with regard to both. >> reports that she might ask of you in order to get that help pressure to disavow potential taiwan independence. is that something you would ever do? >> president trump: we never discussed it. >> you said earlier we would get more details about the victims that the plane hit. can you give more on that now. >> president trump: i have a lot of details but it is something that will be released to you what the appropriate time. i have the full details. >> a lot of young people potentially? >> president trump: young people, old people, great athletes, great skaters, very sad situation for numerous countries. thank you very much, everybody. >> you just watched

president trump answer questions wide ranging unscripted questions from the press while signing more executive orders. he also discussed in that conversation with the press the border, fentanyl, tariffs on mexico and canada and the range of other issues. he also addressed the tragic plane crash in d.c. right now recovery efforts continue as america faces its first major airline disaster in 15 years. a military helicopter colliding with commercial aircraft over d.c. last night. everybody is presumed dead. we will show you video from the moment of impact. a warning, it can be tough to watch. we see the explosion as the black hawk helicopter hits the american flight 5342. president trump addressing the american people earlier today. >> this was a dark and excruciating night in our nation's capital and in our nation's history, and the tragedy of terrible proportions, as one nation we grieve for

every precious soul that has been taken from us so suddenly. and we are a country of really we are in morning. >> will: we will have a live update in a minute. but amid the breaking news we have also been watching three very important confirmation hearings this afternoon. fbi nominee kash patel, director of national intelligence nominee, and day to four ahs nominee robert of canadian jr. >> do you think america is safer because president trump issued these pardons to 1600 of these criminal defendants many of whom violently assaulted our police and the capital. >> senator, america will be safe when we do not have 200,000 drug overdoses in... years. >> if president trump orders you to withhold the appropriate funds from the inspector general, will you refuse that a legal order? >> i do not believe for a second president trump would ask me to

do something that would break the law. >> if confirmed, in terms of making america healthy again, will you stand up to the white house and essay know, we cannot throw millions of children off of health... , millions of elderly people out of nursing homes, we cannot cut medicaid to give tax cuts to billionaires? >> president trump has made no indication to me that he intends to throw millions of people out of nursing homes or deprive people of their health care, senator. a health care system is broken it is not working. you have been working on it your entire career. as americans get less and less healthier. >> will: reasonable answers. more from those hearings coming up. but first, we start with the investigation into the tragic plane crash in d.c. joining us from reagan national airport. >> well, this has moved entirely into a recovery mission and the worst aircraft really in a

generation. 67 lives to be lost. standing here at the airport of reagan where flights have resumed we can stare out of a window at the end of runway 53. it is chilling to see planes taking off and looking at the site where this tragedy happened just before 9:00. let's take a look we have an animated map for viewers to understand. you saw just before 9:00 american airline flight 5432 approaching from the south just moments before landing finally at runway 33. and coming out of the north heading south of the army black hawk helicopter colliding there over the atomic river just outside the window where we are staring. the ntsb held a press conference in a little bit and we will talk more as we get updates. one of the things they talk about is the unique environment we have with these helicopters, military operating around commercial airlines. defence secretary hegseth

talking about the dod investigation as well. listen. >> there was some sort of elevation issue that we have immediately begun investigating at the dod and army level. army cid is on the ground investigating. top-tier aviation assets and said the dod are investigating to get to the bottom of it so it does not happen again because it is absolutely unacceptable. >> secretary hegseth says this crew, three members, were very experienced, and doing a routine mission although obviously with the ntsb wants a most right now are those flight data reporters or lack boxes it appears they have not been found yet. >> we have not recovered the flight dr. recorders yet. they are there, they are underwater, this is not unusual for the ntsb we have many times recovered a flight data recorders in the water.

>> what will really be interesting you just heard moments ago president trump talking, about the altitude, the height that the helicopter and the regional jet were traveling and why perhaps the house -- the helicopter did not see the jet. ntsb saying they will quote, take as long as it takes to get to the answers to find out what happens, why it happens, and how they can make sure it never happens again. also we are learning a lot of the tragic personal details of the crew aboard that helicopter and on that jets. the mother of two, a father of two, and 14 members of the u.s. skating team to include also to russian skating coaches of which we -- were participating in the olympics. a lot of questions we will bring you more as we get it. >> will: no surprise excellent coverage, griff jenkins. on that note absolutely phenomenal coverage on the fox

network from generalists like trace gallagher and many others. i want to pick off on where they left off on many of their questions starting last night. we bring and dr. jeff edwards a former u.s. navy a six and an aircraft navigator -- accident investigator for more than six years. and elevation issue. from what i have understood this is an extremely busy corridor along the potomac river alongside reagan national airport. but the helicopter, from what i understood, should have been flying somewhere under 200 feet and they could have observed with visual flight rules at that point on they would have been looking for something. perhaps the inbounds american flight but there is no elevation issue. does that mean they were somewhere north of that ceiling 300, 400 feet? >> that is correct. the fir report specifies and below 200 feat. it also shows on the chart they

should have been closer to the river bank. >> will: they were already outside of the zone where they were under vf are, visual restriction rules. they were higher elevated than that sealing. then there is talk about night vision goggles. i don't think we know with certainty whether or not the pilots of the helicopter where wearing night vision goggles but everybody is suggesting that would have restricted their ability to see everything around them, at least their peripheral vision. >> night vision goggles they do not know yet. but night vision goggles have two issues they restrict the field of view i.e. the arc in which the pilots can see left and right, and awful -- also they tend to bloom because you have a lot of background lighting from the lights and the towers on the ground. so it really does not work well in that situation. >> will: i want to ask you one more thing about using vision as

a way of spotting potential aircraft collisions. from what i understand, i do not know it is a directly head-on collision, the two aircraft, the american flight, and the black hawk helicopter, seem to be heading towards each other which even in daylight what i have been led to understand is difficult. it is hard to see something, you need context, you need something crossing near the visual plane is that correct as well. so you have the net problem, night vision goggle problems, and now something stationary in front of you headed straight towards you. >> correct. it is called the term is relative motion. so the human eye is a relatively good at picking up an object that crosses in front of you it is not that good at identifying an object that is fixed right in front of you that is moving. we see this in everyday life we just do not understand it really well. the pilots understand it better because they are trying to find a moving object out there and

separate it from a stationary object. in this case not only do you have that phenomena you have the background lighting that confuses the pilots as to the question of whether or not that is an airplane or that is a blinking light on a tower or a building. >> will: really quickly dr. edwards one last question and also the question of whether or not a third plane played a factor into what the helicopter pilots may have been looking at. air traffic control suggested original flight but there was one taking off as well from reagan. do you see anything to that? they might have been looking kind of like taking off instead of a flight and boundary line get reagan? >> that is not uncommon. that has happened to me, ms. identifying an aircraft that has been pointed out to you when you see another one in close proximity and you think the one that you have been instructed to follow is actually not the one you are looking at so it becomes a problem. the big problem here for the agency's administration is what are we going to do going forward to prevent this from happening again at? because we have already put in

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>> will: president trump's pick for fbi director kash patel

front and center on capitol hill today. backed by most republicans who expect he will come in and make major changes. he said he would, and democrats they are not happy about that. >> could you just answer the question, if he said that the fbi headquarters where they investigate cyber crime and terrorism, sat down as open as the deep state as a museum. did he say the headquarters should be shut down? >> mr. chair. >> i deserve an answer. >> false accusation, grotesque mischaracterizations, the only thing this body is doing is defeating the credibility of the men and women at the fbi. i stood with them here in this country in every theater of war we have i was on the ground and surface of this nation. any accusations leveled against me, that i would somehow put political bias before the constitution are grotesquely unfair and i will have you reminded that i have been endorsed by over 300,000 law enforcement officers to become the next director of the fbi. let's ask them.

>> will: kash patel also detailing threats he has personally faced since his january 6th testimony. >> have you ever been subject to racism as an individual? >> unfortunately, senator, yes. i don't want to get into those details with my family here. >> let's get into a few of them. tell me about it. >> if you look at the record from january 6th where i testified before that committee, because of my personal information being released by congress, i was subjected to a direct and significant threat on my life. i put that information in the record. i had to move it. but that is nothing compared to what the men and women in law enforcement face every day and that is why they have my support. >> will: my next gas is somebody -- test is somebody who knows kash patel very well. kash was his lead stuff investigator for the white house intelligence committee in what ultimately became the russian

collusion hoax. what do you think about the way that kash testified today but what you heard from the united states editor? >> it depends which one. i thought that kash patel took tough questions which of the senate has a right to ask those tough questions and the american people got to see and learn a lot about kash and just background. everybody that has worked with him closely knows that he does an excellent job at investigating which by the way that is what the fbi needs to get back to doing, investigating going after criminals. i would say that adam schiff, the american people lost him in the united states house of representatives, that was again for the house of representatives. i think the democratic senators are now realizing that the circus has come to them. i thought adam schiff was an embarrassment like he normally is. he clearly has an ax to grind with the kash patel because it

was kash and our team that made a mockery of the sky year after year for lying to the american people and the audacity that he has it to go down additional conspiracy theory routes to tarnish kash's reputation after he already participated, as kash sat there in his testimony, he was the one responsible for leaking kash's information out to. kash became a target. >> will: let's do this let's share with the audience perhaps an illustration of what you're talking about when it comes to senator adam schiff. watch. >> you are being considered for director of the fbi. hear you didn't know it diligence to find out whether the people you were associating with the united states in song were convicted of attacking police officers. is that who we want running the fbi? i want you to turn around the capitol police officers behind you. turnaround. take a look.

>> i'm looking at you you were talking to me. >> i want you to look at them if you can, have the courage to look them in the eye, mr. patel, and tell them you are proud of what you did. tell them you are proud you raised the money off of people that assaulted their colleagues, that pepper sprayed them. that beat them with polls, tell them you are proud of what you did mr. patel. they are right there they are guarding your today tell them how proud you are. >> that is an objective light and you know it. and i never ever ever excepted violence against law enforcement. >> i'm looking at you you were looking at me. kash is intense. there is a question, believe it or not, there was a question buried in that rant by adam schiff. the question is is that who we want running the fbi? i will ask you who, what qualities, and what goals and purposes need to be executed and who we want to run the fbi? >> definitely needs to take a

change in a different direction from where it has been. i think it was stated many times the fbi is at an all-time low today in terms of the american people's confidence level in them. so i think kash brings a level of understanding both being on the prosecution side, where he prosecuted terrorists, he served in the house of representatives as a lead investigator for us, with and also went on and served in the administration. people forget early in his career he was on the other side and he defended criminals. he knew what it was like when the fbi or the doj or others overstep their bounds. i think what you saw today with the example i was saying, what a circus that adam schiff brings to the united states senate. there was another example of it where he himself is sitting there lying about kash patel when he knows the reason he does not like kash patel is because for years kash uncovered adam schiff's lies and now he was

exposing them there today. just the fact that with adam schiff to be able to say that kash was making money i mean that is outrageous. kash patel had a nonprofit that was generating money to help people in need. including people in uniform. so adam schiff knows this is a lie. look, i think it won't take long before the united states senate, the democrat senators included, you can see it there today, that they are going to get sick of adam schiff and they will be sad that he entered the u.s. senate. >> will: you mentioned the lack of trust in the fbi is that an all-time low. we have that number that was brought up today by kash patel. 41%. the number of american people that today have faith, confidence in the fbi. hopefully that can be restored with kash patel. thinking so much for being with us today. >> thanks. >> will: one hour.

that is about it. one hour, maybe two. sean duffy was on the job before that tragic accident last night in d.c. two and a half days for secretary of defense pete hegseth, highlighting the necessity to get president trump cabinet picks confirmed immediately. so in that vein, kash patel was not the only big hearing today. >> you may here lies and smearing of my loyalty and my love for my country. those who oppose my domination imply i am loyal to something or someone other than god, my own conscious, and the constitution of the united states. >> will: that was president terms pick for director of national intelligence tulsi gabbard. and her opening statement defending that she is loyal, as evidenced by her service to her country. senator say they have concerned surrounded curfews on edward snowden, fisa, or her me -- meeting with bashar assad.

>> as you know there has been speculation in the press that you met with hezbollah, a terrorist organization affiliated with iran. have you ever knowingly met with any members, leaders, are affiliates of hezbollah? >> no, and it is an absurd accusation. i should note years before the fall of the bashar assad regime but today we have an islamist extremist who is now in charge of syria as i said who danced on the streets to celebrate the 9/11 attack. >> will: her hearing move to a close classified setting after a public hearing earlier. my next guest is a former navy seal and one of the members of the intelligence committee who signed a letter urging senators to confirm tulsi gabbard. eric prince joins me now. let's start i think with a bit

of defense. i do not think it is the right place to have this conversation. still, we will lay down the runway. tulsi's patriotism seemed to be questioned by -- question by united states senators after i believe 22 years of service they have questions about her allegiance to the united states of america. >> look, these are the same people that have never lifted a finger to actually serve their country going to a difficult, dangerous place and put their neck on the line. the most dangerous thing they do is walk down the halls of the senate office building. it is ridiculous to. tulsi is to be lauded for questioning the nonsense of the deep state and that is why the deep state pushes back in every way that it can including with its paid and bought four spokespeople here in the senate to try and block her. there needs to be accountability of our intelligence community. and competence has been hiding behind classification for too long and tulsi needs to be

confirmed. >> will: i have seen others point out that tulsi's personal experience with the intelligence community picks are the perfect candidate she knows the power of intelligence through her military service. she also knows the power of intelligence when it can be used in a weaponized matter because it has been used against her. she has been placed on a no-fly list and so forth. having somebody who has experienced both sides of that adds for a really unique perspective. >> pete hegseth will make a great... because he has had to live with the bad decisions made by armchair generals and politicians back in washington. tulsi gabbard will make a great d&i because she has to live with bad intelligence and bloated bureaucracy making decisions including putting her on a no-fly list. it is in saying that people are throwing stones at heard they are all living in a very big

glass house. >> will: last question for you, eric, you are part of a group of people who have been part of what we would call the intelligence community who support tulsi gabbard for dni. there were others like those on the... list to have not had their classified status revoked by president trump who famously said hunter biden's laptop was russian disinformation, they did not seem to support tulsi gabbard. what is the difference between you and people like you that support her, and those people of the intelligence community? >> people like me are sick of the incompetence and the nonsense that has become the hallmark of our intelligence community. of the political it -- politicization, and the overreach. of people call tulsi gabbard on qualified should look at... who was obama and biden's a dni person. the only thing she was qualified for she was a liar -- lawyer and she used to have a coffee house

with a radical poetry night on tuesdays. that is the radical nonsense the democrats put forward to these positions. putting tulsi forward as a veteran who understands intelligence, the need to clean up analysis,, and the nonsense that has become what it is she must be confirmed. >> will: not unlike the confirmation hearing for pete hegseth. i did notice today over her right right shoulder tulsi gabbard had navy seals in support of her and that gallery today. here is another one. eric prince somebody who might know member of the intelligence community blackwater, friend of the will cain show. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> will: let's go back to the tragic plane collision in d.c. we learn more about the victims. (nervous laugh) okay, um, good points. top line? this is a quality, comprehensive exam. come again? you asked me to topline it for you. okay.

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>> will: it is a sad day for our country. we are learning more about recovery efforts on the victims killed in the tragic collision in d.c. in fact mark meredith joins me now from the scene. hello. >> good evening to you. as you can imagine investigators have a very long night ahead of them as they continued to piece together exactly what happened. but all of washington has been react to get realtime ever since this crash occurred around 8:47 last night. we have heard from president trump multiple times

today including within the last hour as was was in the oval office announcing his and making it official. you will have acting had at the faa as well as a new executive order focused on aviation safety. but it was interesting, the president was talking about what he thinks of the crash investigation so far. if at some of the comments he made and seems to indicate he believes that the military... involved that... might be more to blame with what happened to midair in the collision. here is what president trump had to say moments ago. >> the helicopter should have been a thousand feet or 500 feet above it or something below it. the plane was that three, 400 feat. or the plane should have been stopped because the helicopter could have stopped. the plane cannot be stopped. >> the ntsb was asked about this today whether or not they have any indication early on at least would be responsible and they said it is simply too early to know for certain. and they went away for a preliminary report to come out which will take about a month or

so and they are still in the process of trying to recover the black boxes of board to see rj as well as they helicopter involved. we know that the military offering it's full of resources as well. officials today are stressing they don't want to jump to any conclusions because they have been rumblings about whether or not the air traffic controllers staffing the reagan tower last night were at the adequate levels or not. again the ntsb is saying on camera that they believe it was way too early to jump to any of those conclusions. >> we have not reviewed any specific reports about the controllers at the time at least from the leadership team. or investigators continued to provide that information. personnel records and files, where they were at, whether they were fatigued, all of that information will be part of that investigative process. >> and we know that this is still a recovery operation underway. we do not see necessarily the same amount of emergency vehicles we did last night, we know this will be something that will take several days and we also know that reagan airport

has been adapting with more than 500 flights canceled just today. certainly a backlog of people trying to get in and out. your traffickers zoomed around 11:00 a.m. and like we will see more traffic pick up tomorrow. we are also learning in a realtime just the human tragedy of this disaster including a victim, wendy joe schaefer. she was a mother of two, two boys, ages three and one. her husband's friends with one of my colleagues, bill, the report are based in l.a. he sent some of these photos. it shows just how heartbreaking it is for this one family and so many stories like that. of course the 64 people aboard the american airlines regional jet and three u.s. service members. one snapshot. family that is currently grieving. we will continue to learn more about the victims as we learn about the investigation. >> will: i saw bill post that. thank you for sharing that. one of the unfortunately many sad stories we are learning out of the plane crash in d.c.

let's bring in... editor katie brady. senator, i know you have young children, i have young children. reports that many people on this plane were athletes, young athletes, figure skaters, were part of the many lost. every life is important but i'm sure it is easy for you as well as many others to put ourselves in these situations on think about what was lost. >> you said it that is said. as a mom when you see something like this happen your heart just breaks. because you know there are people's children on this flight, moms on this flight, there are people that will no longer be able to share their lives with their loved ones as a result of this. so our hearts and prayers are with that these victims families are. and obviously i have full confidence that president trump, along with the sean duffy, will work with partners to get to the bottom of this but at the end of the day we know nothing fills the void that is left here.

asked that flight in and -- i fly in and out of the city every week, to your point my daughter came in and joined me a few weeks ago. flew in on a nighttime flight herself. it is gut-wrenching to think about what these families are going through and let them know that we, and america, firmly stand with them. as president trump so believe that these individuals are being embraced by our good lord and savior jesus christ. >> will: senator, we heard directly from the president, we also heard from secretary of defense and secretary of... vice president we will refocus deliver federal institutions and making sure we hire the best of the best for every job. prison a trump was just asked about this when signing executive orders. he was asked you don't know -- not know if dei played a role so why are you bringing up dei? watch what happens. >> and competence might have played a role we will let you know that but we want the most competent people we do not care what race they are.

we want the most competent people especially in those positions. talking about extremely complex things and if they do not have a great brain, a great power of the brain, they won't be very good at what they do and bad things will happen. >> will: senator, i would think we don't know if dei played a role in this incident, we do know that human a redated, and dei is a policy that exacerbates human error. we need to cut out anything that maximizes the potential for human error. >> look, we have talked about this over and over again. president trump will keep america safe. he will do everything in his power to make sure that our citizens, no matter where they live, no matter where they are, that their safety and security comes first. that makes -- means making sure we have the best people in positions to do that. whether it is our courageous law enforcement officers, whether it is the men and women who are working at the faa, whether it is men and women in uniform, we want to make sure

that the people said to protect our citizens are the best trained and equipped and ready to do so. so that is what this is the boats. you will continue to see president trump fulfill his promises from the campaign trail those of the things we will be putting first of. putting americans at first, into a mirror -- common sense policies, common sense. this means we will take a look at everything across the board and making sure we are doing what is best for americans to succeed. i am thrilled with president trump leadership as he mention, j.d. vance leadership, i know that will only continue the longer they are here in office. >> will: i know you were there today during the confirmation hearings for kash patel so we will keep an eye on all of these cabinet nominees. thank you so much for being with us today. >> thank you i appreciate this. we will get kash across the finish line. >> will: rfk jr., speaking of the nominees, he was back in the hot seat for a second day, and one senator says he is not so sure right now.

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♪ ♪ >> when i was a 10-year-old boy, my uncle was in the white house, the chronic disease among american children was 2%. today it is 66%. the cost of chronic disease to our country when my uncle was president, zero. there were not even treatments for chronic disease at that t time. today the cause is $4.45 trillion. it is bankrupting our country. >> will: president trump's pick to run the health and human services department robert f. kennedy jr. testifying for the second straight day but he doesn't appear to have the support he needs completely yet. >> a worthy movement to improve the health of americans or to undermine it, always asking for more evidence and never accepting the evidence that is

there. i looked at the article, and it seems to have some issues, i will just put that to the side. that is why i have been struggling with your nomination. >> will: kelly means cofounded true med, which aims to make health care simple, accessible, affordable, strongly supports rfk jr., and he joins me now. you just heard that from republican senator bill cassidy. he is not sure if he supports rfk. >> let's just cut to the chase. there is a real fork in the road for american health right now, and that road goes through senator cassidy. he is going to be a crucial vote here. and i know senator cassidy. he wants the best for american patients. he is a doctor, and he cares about trust in public out institutions, and while i want to speak directly to him, i have been with bobby kennedy, close by his side, bobby kennedy is not coming into hhs to assert his opinion into the science, that is what has gotten us to the lack of trust in science.

he is hell-bent on getting trust back in the scientific authorities. right now, the american academy of pediatrics, the science says that ozempic should be the first line of defense for obese 12-year-olds. the cdc is saying the covid vaccine should be for every single 6-month-old. we have the fda saying that artificial food colors that are banned in every other country are safe. we have time after time after time co-opted science where the pharmaceutical industry is the largest funder of scientific researcher, the largest funder of politicians, the largest funder of regulatory agencies. bobby kennedy is not responsible for the lack of trust in science and the movement can work with the senate and work with senator cassidy, with the singular goal of fulfilling president trump's mandate which bobby kennedy is so viscerally committed to to get conflict out of scientific agencies and

science and return the nih to gold star academic research so the american people and senators can make informed decisions about the best public health initiatives for our country. and as we know there is a disaster right now happening in american health. >> will: well, calley, i was listening to rfk today, he brought up ozempic and you just brought up ozempic, fascinating, he talked about its potential, so popular and so expensive and if it were covered under medicare and medicaid it could bankrupt those two programs. and i was fascinated by that because i've also read how expensive it is in america versus other countries. take a look at this. ozempic is a most $1,000 a month in america, where per month out of cost -- out-of-pocket costs in germany, it is $59. it makes you really wonder about this company, how they are making money off the backs of americans, the role that plays in all politics, and it makes me wonder what someone like you has to say to bill cassidy to say rfk is our opportunity to do something different.

i am down to one minute, calley. >> yeah, bill, what i would say to senator cassidy is that we have an obesity crisis in america. 50% of teens are over obese. there is a medicare ruling providing that ozempic should be the first line of defense, not food or exercise, is the result of corruption. the american medical association which makes medical codes right now cisgender affirming care is appropriate for 2-year-olds. we have co-opted scientific institutions peered bobby kennedy is here to trust for the american people in science. >> will: be watching to see if these senators hear your words. calley means, thank you so much. that is going to do it for us today, thanks for being with us, we get to the heart of the matter from the heart of america. up next, "the five." ♪ ♪ >> dana: hello