♪ >> charlie: it's 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. it's tuesday, february 4th and this is "fox & friends." last minute negotiations pull canada and mexico from the brink of tariffs and how trump now plans to take on china today. plus secretary hegseth visits the border for the will first official trip with one clear message. >> we are not going to back down. intimidation is not going to work. and i want to -- the message i have for the troops here across the board is we have their backs. >> lawrence is live in el paso with his exclusive tour of the border alongside the secretary of defense. >> steve: stand by, lawrence. coming to you next. and donald trump finalizing plans to close the department of education. remember, he said that? that would be fulfilling a campaign promise and what it means for students across the

country, perhaps more local control? >> ainsley: the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> charlie: president trump is expected to speak with xi jinping on the phone today after making successful compromises with canada and mexico over his tariff threats. >> ainsley: alexandria hoff is live at the white house with the details for us. >> good morning to you. compromise would be the goal of this conversation between president trump and president xi as a 10% tariff on chinese imports took effect after midnight. the white house is seeking for beijing to do more to curve the flow of fentanyl. they call this issue a drug war not a trade war. here's the president. >> we'll have some good meetings with china. we have meetings planned. and we will see what happens. but that was just an opening salvo. if we can't make a deal with china, then the tariffs will be

very, very substantial. >> china's ministry of finance office stated this the u.s. unilateral tariff increased seriously violates the rules of the world trade organization. not only unhelpful if solving its own problems but damages economic and trade cooperation between china and the u.s. so china for now has promised counter measures, including a 10% tariff on crude oil and 15% tariff on oil and liquified natural gas. this would take effect on the 10th unless a deal is made. i mean, we know that we have seen deals this week. i mean, my goodness, the u.s. -- mexico, excuse me, agreeing to deploy troops to the u.s. border in exchange for a tariff pause there 10,000 troops. those tariffs already have yielded plenty of results. also justin trudeau, canada, the prime minister, he has announced his country would get a 30-day pause from tariffs after agreeing to several different things, ensuring that they have 24-7 eyes on their border.

10,000 frontline personnel there. they want to list cartels as terrorist organizations and joining the u.s. in a joint strike force against organized crime also appointing a fentanyl czar. so concessions have been made by mexico and canada. here is the press secretary on that. >> rightfully so. as the best, proudest country in the world. and president trump is not afraid to say that or to use that for the american people's benefit. that's why you have seen so many countries around the world in just a matter two of weeks cave to president trump's demands. in the past 24 hours, you have canada and mexico agreeing to help secure our southern and northern borders. >> see what will be the outcome of the conversation with president xi today. still waiting on the exact timing for that. send it back to you. >> steve: it would be interesting. thank you very much for the live report. >> ainsley: hopefully come up with some sort of a deal. we do rely on china for imports like our cell phones, computers,

electrical, industrial equipment. >> steve: everything. >> ainsley: sporting goods, clothing, cookware and shoes the top 10 things that rely on them for. >> steve: one of the things about donald trump when he ran for president. he said i'm going to cut costs. yesterday at this time, when it looked like these 25% tariffs were going to go into effect. it's like man, this is going to hit everybody. of course he used that essentially as a gigantic leaver to extract something from canada and mexico. the cover of the "new york post" right now not love thy neighbor, sho' thy neighbor how they quickly caved to trump's tariff threat. obviously, charlie, we were just talking to bill mcgurn from the "wall street journal." what the president is doing is he is playing a gigantic game of chicken. >> charlie: as you pointed out, the united states has the two biggest on the planet economy and military. donald trump is not afraid to

use them whether the military at the border or our economy with the tariffs. and if you have a clear goal of what you want, it's amazing how effective that tool can be in a game of chicken. >> ainsley: when i heard the deal with mexico and canada. i thought okay, they are going to send 10,000 troops to the northern border -- southern border. but how serious are they really going to be? when you read into it, canada has agreed to deploy those 10,000 troops to the border. >> they are spending 1.3 billion for new choppers, technology, personnel to stop the flow of fentanyl and as she was mentioning, they are appointing this fentanyl czar. and they say 24/7 eyes on our border. >> steve: as alexandria pointed out in that report. the administration is not referring to it as a trade war. it's a drug war. so it has to do with fentanyl. so, if in 30 days the flow of fentanyl stops from china, which is going to be the call today, mexico and also canada, maybe things will be different. you know, ultimately, what has

happened and bill mcgurn is about to address this in a sound bite from about an hour ago, the president likes it when things are kind of all over the place. watch. >> yesterday, started out very differently from how it ended. the deal mexico made surprised everyone. and, clearly, prime minister trudeau saw that deal and said i have to do the same for canada. so, i think that the point is all the chaos and noise and disruption we associate with trump's moves are a feature. he counts on that. and he thrives in it. and he knows when it comes to mexico and canada, at least, he has the advantage because they need our economy more than we need theirs. ains absolutely true. >> charlie: obviously have some effects that hurt american

consumers. but they hurts mexican consumers and consumers in canada worse and that's the gamble. it turns out trump was right about it. >> steve: ultimately, if they start massing troops on the southern and northern border that's a good thing. >> ainsley: absolutely. >> steve: but the key is whether or not it will stop the fentanyl in a month. it's been coming on so long and so many people. >> ainsley: i think i know three or four children who have lost their children. >> charlie: everyone knows someone who has been affected by. this the most important thing that's come out of all of this is getting everyone to agree that the drug cartels are terrorists and they have killed more innocent people then any terrorism anywhere. >> steve: all the stuff, the precursors to making fentanyl, all comes from china. so that will be an interesting phone call the president has. >> ainsley: check in with lawrence jones down on our southern border in el paso.

first border visit since his confirmation. and then they also flew on a black hawk with tom homan as well. hey, lawrence. >> hey, good morning, family. i just want to piggyback on y'all's last conversation. this is why the secretary of defense, pete hegseth, was here. you know, a lot of people don't know, but we have a military asset that focuses on the narcotics that impact our country. it was created back in the 1960s by jfk. that's u.s. southern command, right here in fort bliss. that's why the secretary of defense was here. he said that we haven't been using these assets the way we should. it's clear that there is a threat coming across the border as it relates to the drugs. and they are going to get active real fast. here's a little bit of our conversation yesterday. >> no better negotiator at the helm than our commander-in-chief donald trump. knowing how to use economic pressure to get results on the

ground. see how mexico responds with troops and whether or not they actually do stem the flow. all i know is what we can effect. and we are not going to back down. intimidation is not going to work. and i want to -- the message i have for the troops here is across the board is we have their backs. we have your back. we're going to give you the tools necessary to get 100 percent operational control of that border. a lot of people talk about the corruption in mexico can we trust those guys? will they actually be helpful to the mission? >> the first administration, president trump, you know, made mexico put military on the border. very effective. made mexico agree to the remain in mexico program. this is national security. when we secure the border, less people die from fentanyl. less women and children sex trafficked. less people on the terrorist watch cross that border: president trump is going to shut it down. >> lawrence: so some people may

be wondering what the set-up is, why have tom homan, the border czar on one side and the secretary of defense on the other side? the secretary made it very clear, secretary hegseth. he is going to focus on the outlines of the border. going after the enemies there, making sure the border is secure from that aspect. tom homan is going to focus on border patrol, the interior aspect of it as well as with ice hunting the bad guys, the criminal aliens that are inside the country. it's a two pronged approach. then you got marco rubio that is going to be communicating with all those foreign countries to make sure they take their people back and they prevent them from coming to the country in the first place unless they want to do it the legal way. >> steve: that's right. yesterday, marco rubio negotiated a deal with el salvador. now el salvador will be a safe third country. so anybody from, let's say china, china won't take back, we can now send them to el salvador. they said we will take everybody, including members of

ms-13 and tren de aragua as well. so that is going to be very helpful. just think about it. if you are being trafficked across our southern border bye bye a cartel. i have no idea how they are going to get in. if they are, how do you make that pitch? all right. if you get into the country, you could live in san diego or you could live in omaha or whatever. now, the news is, if you get into the country, you might get sent essentially to a mega prison in el salvador or gitmo. >> ainsley: yeah. and lawrence was mentioning tom homan, the interior of our country over the weekend. they nabbed so many people, ice did, the senior trump administration official that talked to fox news digital said agents nabbed over 700 illegal immigrants over the weekend, including more than 500 with convictions or charges. and i was looking through the list. one person, a honduran national arrested in san antonio, texas close to where you are, lawrence. she had a conviction of

aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. another in seattle conviction robbery and delivering meth. one in phoenix, arizona a mexican national with a murder conviction. one in detroit a colombian man convicted of domestic violence and possession of cocaine. >> lawrence: so i just want to give you a tid bit, ainsley because those are the people that are already in the country. >> ainsley: that's right. >> lawrence: prevent them from even being able to make that journey across. banks who used to be the texas border czar. he is the chief of border patrol four star. he had a problem national guard essentially instructing them to push them back. what have you seen during the biden administration, a lot of the migrants would just surrender they already did the app. they knew they would get a notice of appear and be released into the country. pete hegseth, the secretary of defense is adopting that same strategy with the troops on the border now. so people aren't just going to be able to surrender, if they see people trying to break in

the country, they are going to say go back. they will push them back. and if they attack those border agents like a mob, like they do some of these caravans, they will have the pepper bullets as well. like texas used then. so, you're not going to see this surge of people coming across the border anymore. there are people there to meet them when they try to cross the border. >> charlie: of course, that underscores the vital importance of the remain in mexico policy. because, if they never actually cross the border, then it doesn't become a problem -- it doesn't become our problem. >> lawrence: that's exactly right. that is why the troops are on fire right now. they got fire in their belly right now. they get to do their job. by the way, i told you all earlier about i spoke with some of those troops. we are actually going to air some of that. me speaking rank and file. last administration we were predicted from talking with them. we didn't get to hear their

stories. finally the shackles are off of them and they can tell the american people how they feel. >> ainsley: that's great. you said morale is up. brian kilmeade keeps saying. >> lawrence: incredible. >> ainsley: correct me if i am wrong that or border crossings are down 93%. isn't that the statistic he always says, is that it's radio, lawrence? >> steve: it's a big number. >> lawrence: right. they are trying to get the numbers daily so we can have a track. it's around the 90's, ainsley, i think you are corrected. >> ainsley: that's amazing. >> steve: lawrence, when you were in that ride along in that black hawk going from where you are, el paso to the west through new mexico, how big are the existing gaps in the wall? >> lawrence: there are some big gaps. i'm so glad you asked that question. i got talk about the former border czar of texas well who is now the over all the chief of border patrol. i asked him about the money.

>> this is a question that you all guys asked me yesterday in the show. he said essentially they haven't used money from 2020, 21 and 24. so they are going to already start the construction of the border wall. now, it's not going to be enough to complete all of the wall. they are going to need the reconciliation bill to pass. but there's enough money to restart the trump wall that was incomplete. >> charlie: they they been able to get all those pieces back that the. >> lawrence: no. >> charlie: previous president tried selling off? >> lawrence: no they haven't. they were able to stop some of it because a federal judge made them stop selling off the wall in that past administration. but a lot of that stuff was sold. you got remember. we had already paid for that. >> charlie: exactly. >> lawrence: they were so upset with texas. texas offered to buy the rest of that wall that they were selling to reconstructed it ourself. we were going to pay billions of dollars to do it, and the biden administration refused to sell

it to texas. so, there was a lot of just petty behavior from the last administration that made us less safe as a result. >> ainsley: yep. and then your governor had to step in and say we're not selling this wall just to the lowest bidder. we need this wall to stay here and donald trump, of course, took over and hope those, what's left of it will be able to use again. >> charlie: all of it intentional. >> steve: lawrence, mentioned a moment ago tomorrow he will be featured from texas where we, once again, are going to hear from some of the troops. lawrence, great job. >> charlie: great to see you. >> ainsley: thanks, lawrence. >> lawrence: thanks,. >> ainsley: i think i said lowest bidder. you know what i meant. carley, take over. >> carley: reaction from some folks in california thousands of protesters taking to the streets of los angeles for a second straight day to rally against president trump's immigration policies. police eventually issuing an unlawful assembly and disbursal

order and detained dozens of demonstrators as they blocked intersections and caused severe traffic delays into the night. secretary of state marco rubio is now heading to costa rica after visiting el salvador where he revealed his plan for u.s. aid after taking over as the agency's acting director. >> there are things that are happening in usaid that we should not be involved in funding or we have a lot of questions about. they are completely uncooperative so we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control. >> carley: meanwhile doge leader elon musk says the agency responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and assistance is, quote: beyond repair needs pushing to completely shut it down. and speaking of elon, happening earlier this morning the spacex space station in florida that rocket is carrying 21 star link satellites to low earth orbit

and first already returned to earth. >> 4, 3, 2, 1, ignition and liftoff go falcon. >> carley: and away it goes. also the blue origin shepard blue moon launches at 11:00 this morning. new shepard is a fully reusable launch vehicle developed for space tourism. it's expected to change the face of space exploration. i have to smarter when i read headlines i barely note words that come out of my mouth. >> ainsley: you are not alone. >> steve: to gold buy go. >> ainsley: thank you so much. blake lively and justin baldoni's attorneys going after each other in a manhattan federal court yesterday during the first hearing in the highly publicized it ends with us movie case. >> charlie: todd piro joins us with t the details. >> todd: heated in the courtroom yesterday where a pre-trial conference, a fairly mundane

thing do you in every case was held to discuss a potential gag order, case management plan, legal issues and discovery. but, it got really, really testy. blake lively suing justin baldoni accusing him of sexual harassment and for allegedly starting a smear campaign against her. baldoni is counter suing blake and her husband of course ryan reynolds for civil extortion and defamation. both actors deny the claims maids against them. lively's lawsuit michael gottlieb requested a gag order accusing baldoni's attorney making inflammatory comments against the actress' character and motives. freidman though fired back claiming lively's team quote, unquote, started it by working with the "new york times" to publish an article attacking baldoni. baldoni's lawyer claims the actor is devastated financially and emotionally by this legal battle. the judge yesterday urging both sides to follow new york state rules that limit public statements about the case even threatening to move the trial date up if the case continues so

be, quote: litigated in the press. baldoni's attorneys giving out this statement outside the courtroom. watch. >> we're going to move as quickly as we possibly can and prove our innocence in a world where sometimes people judge you before they give you a chance. >> todd: now just days before heading to court baldoni launched a website that klute included a timeline of events and texts and emails involving the actor and blake coordinators and producers. as it currently stands the trial is set to begin in march of 2026. boy, this case has captivated the nation, guys. >> steve: it's going to start in a year? you are going to hear this for a year? >> todd: you are welcome. >> ainsley: unless they settle? >> todd: i can't see them settling if for no other reason they all want to save face. having been in cases like this when i was actually out in l.a., do you know what ultimately ends

up happening in the judge will take on this case. it might not go to a jury and the judge will say each side gets nothing. go your separate ways. the only people that win in the media and the lawyers. >> charlie: the lawyers always win. >> ainsley: i was on the phone. i left work yesterday. and she used to be our executive producer on "fox & friends." now she has a different job at fox. she is texting me during the show and she said i'm so glad you are covering this story. i called her and said explain it to the beginning to the end. it took probably 25 minutes for her to explain the whole story to me. >> charlie: she explained it all on top of her head. >> ainsley: listening to podcasts about it and everything. >> todd: when you identified you are not talking about blake lively here are you? >> ainsley: no, no. one of our friends here at "fox & friends" blake lively regime at "fox & friends." >> ainsley: so convoluted. >> steve: it's complicated. >> ainsley: so long and complicated. yes, you have to hear both sides

of it. >> todd: like i said the movie is called "it ends with us" apparently it doesn't any time soon. >> steve: ends with the judge according to you. >> ainsley: about domestic violence. that's kind of what started all of this. promoting it a flower shop she owns a flower shop. >> steve: you are you going to go into this 20 minute explanation? >> ainsley: no i'm not. >> steve: todd, thank you. people are talking about it. >> ainsley: they are. all the women are, at least. >> steve: meanwhile, people are talking about this. doge going into overdrive as elon musk touts the agency's 120-hour workweek. charles payne, the king of payne, helps us break down some of the biggest cuts to government spending that we know of so far. ♪

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bureau. look how much we were spending. had to cut almost 20 million. department of agricultural, charles? >> charles: 110 million off his office of personnel management. 500 million. u.s. aid. obviously the one in the news right now. over 200 million. >> ainsley: elon shut it down? >> charles: all of these things were designed for good reasons or good intentions. then they become cover. you ever ask yourself where did all these folks who work in these administrations go after the administration is ousted? how do they still live in mansions after they are out of government? >> ainsley: what's the answer? >> charles: a lot is ngos operate things that are funded by u.s. aid. and amazing. as we start to peel the layer of the onion see people i thought this person was a journalist he is getting millions of dollars of from taxpayers for what? >> ainsley: what exactly was this agency created to do? >> charles: created to sort of represent america around the world and help other nations.

>> ainsley: humanitarian efforts? >> charles: who decides what the aid is and who manages it? no accountability for it. you got to shut it down. it's become a beast. it does things that we're not supposed to do. so let's say congress we no longer want to do x, y, z in this country. u.s.a. aid can fund an entity to do the same thing on behalf of special interest. so even though the government is not directly funding it, the taxpayers are still paying for it against the wishes of our congress. it's really outlaw industry. >> ainsley: people are waking up right now getting ready to take their kids go to go to school and go to their jobs. hardworking americans. they work for the tax dollars and we are wasting it on look at this. this is where we are sending money to other countries. serbian lgbtq rights group. they got $1.5 million. electric vehicles for vietnam, 2.5 million. south african transgender hiv research 30 million. uganda lgbtq bleg lgbtq rights group 4 million. egyptian tourism 6 million.

according to eric schmitt our senator $20 million to sesame street shows in iraq. >> charles: alternative agenda. uganda has their own government and people. they may not want us pushing lgbtq in their country. all right? we are trying to force our values and sometimes not even our volumes, sometimes it may be the values of special interest using taxpayer money. it has to stop. you have say how do we get almost 40 trillion now in debt, right? trillion dollars a year just to service the debt. this is what is crushing america. if we want to remain the greatest nation in the world we have to take these sort of haircuts. everybody is saying it's going to be hard. it's not going to be hard it. does mean that a lot of these sort of special interest groups are going to take a hit. they are very powerful. they amazing resources. they control a lot. but they have never met the force of a combination of a president trump and elon musk. they have never had that 1-2 combination before.

>> ainsley: i understand starving children. >> that's who we are as a nation. we have saved a world on a couple of occasions we rebuild the world on a couple of occasions that's what america is. these things have been hijacked. our sympathy for the world. our compassion for the world has been hijacked by special interest doing two things. pushing an agenda. and lining their pockets. it's time to say no. >> ainsley: you are right. marco rubio talked about this. he was meeting with el salvadoren president. he was meeting with maduro, already working hard in a short amount of time. here is what he said calling out usaid. >> they are a global charity that they take the taxpayer money and they spend it as a global charity. irrespective of whether it is in the national interest or not. usaid is not only not cooperative they undermine the work we are doing that country. supporting programs that upset the host government. they are completely uncooperative. so we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control. we are going it fund programs that make america stronger or

safer or more prosperous. we are going to pay for things that make sense for the united states. the united states government is not a charity. it is not a global charity. >> ainsley: what is the goal each day? how much does elon want to cut? >> charles: ultimately $4 billion a day. that's the goal. and it's going -- listen, this is a lot of money. people are lining their pockets there are people out there making hundreds of millions of dollars off of this. it's a real nice cushion. they have friends all the way in the media. friends throughout the corporate world. friends throughout government. it's not an easy thing. it can only in my mind could be achieved by an outsider with the kind of power of an elon musk can't be bought off. canned be intimidated a and no neither county president. the ultimate 1-2 punch for getting to some of this stuff. a tremendous amount of pressure. you will read articles today how dare we deny people around the world? who are we? who have we become? we don't want to help the poor folks out there? of course we do. we don't want to help their leader somewhere with a swiss bank account.

>> ainsley: sesame street in iraq. it's common sense. >> charles: exactly. >> ainsley: goes back to that. >> charles: what secretary rubio said was intriguing, often it goes against the interest of either our interest or even the interest of those governments. it's not even in their interest. >> ainsley: not help them. >> charles: we are trying to instill certain things in some of these countries that they don't want. you know, and this is how we get into wars. this is how we get into -- get involved in things that we should not be involved in. it's time to cut out. i'm glad we started. >> this is a good start. but just a start. >> ainsley: getting things done. thank you so much, charles. you can watch making money weekdays a 2:00 p.m. eastern time fox business. thanks for waking up early with us. look at his shoes. this is amazing. he is the best-dressed you and lawrence jones. thank you so much, charles. and doge makes major cuts. trump is eyeing another shakeup. the future of the education department. that's next. ♪

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♪ >> janice: good morning, everyone. here in new york city we have got a storm on the way. let's take a look at it. we had record highs yesterday across portions of texas and new mexico. look at this. record highs in dallas, and houston and phoenix, san anton yorks austin, las vegas, salt lake city, utah. and that's going to continue today. that warm air by the way is going to collide with an artic cold front and that's going to give us next big mess. rain in the forecast for the west coast as well as some mountain snow. here is the messy weather as we go through wednesday, thursday and friday across portions of the midwest, ohio valley and the northeast. i am concerned about ice, all right? fox weather.com we have that atmospheric river southern california i'm concerned with the burn areas we will continue to monitor that the good news is

they need the rainfall. too much could cause a little bit of flooding, of course. so, again, crazy, i know you have family, steve doocy in texas and the fact that it's almost like summertime there is pretty incredible. >> steve: i was talking to sally yesterday when she was out on a walk she said dad, it's hot here. >> janice: it's crazy. weave got everything but the kitchen sink in the weather department. >> steve: that's right. here it is the 4th day of february. j.d., thank you. >> janice: see you soon. >> steve: another day, another campaign promise set to become a reality as president trump is reportedly preparing an executive order aimed at dismantling the department of education. and many parents, including our next guest say it can't come soon enough as the nation's most recent report card -- we told you about this last week, shows math and reading scores down even more. new record lows. moms for liberty co-founder tiffany justice just attended a white house round table about these executive orders. sjoins us right now.

tiffany good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. the president was very clear about the fact that he cannot believe the failure we are seeing in our public schools. >> steve: we all know that the schools are not working well. and we have heard donald trump say let's just get rid of the department of education. you were there at that round table. you heard from a number of american governors. what were they telling the folks there at the white house they needed to do? >> they were saying that parents want more choice. you know, we have seen on top of academic failure this toxic soup of sel and dei and crt. the president has taken executive action. the governor says give us more power in the states to meet the needs of our communities and help parents to put them in the driver's seat so they can make the best decisions for their kids. >> steve: indeed. now, the headline i just read where he is thinking about dismanned ling the department of education. at least 60 employees were placed on administrative leave which we have seen at other

departments. one interesting thing is it sounds like the governors, at that event you were at, they were talking about how there still needed to be a department of education so they could doll out money to the states and localities. >> one of the things they said was give us the money in block grants so we can use did in the state to be able to meet the needs of our students. the one thing that's very interesting is the fact that the unions are going to be freaking out. you will hear a lot of fear-mongering about closing the department of education what that is going to mean for students. we have academic failure happening. the unions are making billions of dollars off the backs of public school failure. so thank god we have president trump. he is the voice for parents here in washington, d.c. you know, moms don't have a lobby. public school kids don't have a lobby. we are very thankful for him that he is putting kids first in america. >> steve: tiffany, as we saw donald trump with the tariffs in mexico and canada yesterday, is this, perhaps, a negotiation where he says i'm going to close the department of education to

extract something from the unions that you were just talking about? >> you know, the president is going to make that decision and that's up to him. did he speak on the campaign trail a lot about wanting to close the department of education. again, as i said, would very widespread academic failure. anything that he can do to give power to the parents. use every tool in the toolbox as i have said before in order to give power back to the parents, in order to give power back to the states, and out of the federal government. >> steve: indeed. the parents, the teachers, they all need help. maybe this will help. tiffany, thank you very much for joining us live. >> thank you. >> steve: all right. meanwhile, on thursday. i am going to be going to chicken n pickle in kansas. it's in over land park, kansas. because we are going to have big breakfast with friends celebrating the kansas city chiefs we would love to have you stop by kick off at 5:00 a.m.

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>> charlie: happening today president trump and netanyahu will hold a press conference. the israeli prime minister met with trump national security adviser mike waltz and middle east special envoy steve witkoff yesterday. trump's nominee for special presidential for adam boehler joins us now. great to see you, adam. obviously, trump and bibi have an awful lot to talk about. probably the most important thing at the moment is the fact that as we are getting hostages returned, which is fantastic news, the problem is that hamas still has its deadly grip over gaza and elsewhere in the middle east. what are the moving parts that they are going to talk about to figure out how to solve that

problem? >> i think first and foremost. they need to separate out the hostage issue from occupation. sometimes they get intertwined. but the number one priority has to be for the israeli people and quite frankly for us as americans is to get every single hostage out. that's what the president of the united states said. that's what he wants to do. and i want to be clear, there are two americans that are supposed to be released very soon. we have got a soldier that's the second phase. but these are americans. this is somebody that grew up in new jersey, went to high school in new jersey. these are people that we need to get out. so that's first and foremost is to get everybody out. then the second thing they are talking about is what comes next. i think that's very important. >> adam, just real quickly. what do we know and how confident are you in what we think we know about two american hostages. >> i think i know right now they are in a damp, dark place with

water running off the top of it, a tunnel, sufficient case not a lot of movement there. and they might be alive but every day they are there, every day we risk them dying because the conditions are horrible. >> charlie: you think they might be. you don't have high confidence they are still alive. >> more hostages alive so far in the first 33 group that we have seen. the hostage rate the amount of people alive looks pretty good. it's well over 50%. so it's not the worst case scenario. but, every day matters here. i think about alexander whose son is there and sitting there every day and it's a real problem. i'm worried about him. >> charles: in the previous trump administration you were part of the abraham accords, interested in trying to resume

those efforts and in particular trying to help create it a relationship between saudi arabia and israel which, of course is, a massive threat to iran which probably means it's a good idea. how confident are you that that will be something that they will be able to make headway on? >> i'm extremely confident. because at the end of the first administration. i was personally there when mbs, who leads saudi arabia, said that if president biden was positive toward the country, he would sign the abraham accords within six months. i think some of you all remember that was when he didn't shake his hand. and was awkward. he blamed him for a bunch of stuff at the beginning. >> eventually president biden started to be nice to saudi arabia but it was too late. this is a country, saudi arabia, that has been a major ally for us. they have totally reformed so many things. they are not perfect. nobody is perfect. but they have done a lot and msmbs isa good partner for us yl

see it move quickly. >> charlie: nothing tariffs iran and proxies more than the idea of normalized relations between saudi arabia and israel. adam, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> of course. >> charlie: and now to you, carley shimkus. >> carley: that's right. the department of education is investigating five universities including colombia over the anti-israel protest on campuses. portland state university, uc berkeley and the university of minnesota are also being looked into. the doe says the biden administration, quote: toothless resolution agreement did shamefully little to hold those institutions accountable. targets is being sued for allegedly defrauding shareholders by concealing the possible business risk of its dei initiatives. the suit argues target tricked shareholders into unknowingly paying higher prices for stock and supporting the, quote. misuse of investor funds to

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