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>> any update on when the president is inspected to speak with them? also, any reaction to their 10-15% tariffs? >> i don't have updates on when the call will take place. as you heard from the president yesterday, it's been scheduled and will happen very soon, but the president made it clear with a 10% tariffs on china but he's not going to allow china to continue to source and distribute deadly fentanyl into our country. that was the reason for this tariff. we will read out like we always do. >> xi jinping -- beijing counters trump's 10% tariffs on goods with retaliatory tariffs in the united states. i'm john roberts in washington. begins a tuesday afternoon, sandra. >> sandra: got to be with you. i'm sandra smith in new york, this is "america reports."

president trump pausing those tariffs -- mexico and canada for the next 30 days in return for strengthening shared borders with her neighbors. we will hear from security advisor michael waltz and moments. >> and president trump's joint news conference with benjamin netanyahu of israel. first, peter doocy live at the white house. as president trump -- expected to go 3 for 3 on the trade fr front. >> expected to, maybe not right away. the president's advisors don't seem like they are in as much of a hurry to prove that tariffs on china can work. >> this is not our first rodeo. we have to have institutional memory. you above all people the china

tariffs. zero inflation. let's trust in trump. trust in trump. >> by the first week of march, we could be right back here if the 10,000 troops mexico was sending to their side of the border and the 10,000 frontline personnel canada is sending to their side of the border don't meaningfully reduce the amount of funds and all coming into the united states. while the effort ramps up, opponents believe could help negotiate with beijing. >> if you look at canada and mexico coming in from the cold, realizing they are in an infinite position. he gives trump a way to deal strongly with china which -- to rejoin the 2020 phase phase one trade agreement they broke and deal with the e.u. >> the president and xi jinping don't act on my car still have a lot to catch up on. we expect a trump/xi call at some point, but karoline leavitt said it's not going to be today.

>> it's a little late in the evening i think, even for xi jinping. thank you. >> secretary of state marco rubio who is now also serving as the acting director of the humanitarian agency, usaid, set on with fox news for a wide-ranging exclusive interview during his diplomatic trip to el salvador. senior national correspondent -- rich, rubio had harsh words for usaid leaders. >> he did. secretary of state marco rubio accused usaid leaders of rank insubordination, and that's the reason the administration had to take what he calls dramatic actions. the administration is reviewing american foreign aid. we asked the secretary if dramatic action includes shutting the entire agency. >> i think it's important to separate usaid from -- people are acting like somehow these aid programs are impossible

without this. process oriented. >> the most generous nation on earth at the end make of this process? >> i think we will become about we will be in a way that makes sense, that's in our national interests. >> the administration has shed at their headquarters. democrats call that and the aid suspension illegal. they say halting aid programs even temporally has cost lives, created mass confusion, and leaves a vacuum for american adversaries to fill. rubio said if china wants to fund programs that are not in america's national interests, they can do it. secretary is now in costa rica. there again, he stressed the administration. this 90 day freeze and review. he also called el salvador's offer to house prisoners -- and even american citizens as generous. rubio added that the administration is reviewing if that part is legal, reporting american citizens -- very

significant. >> rich edson, thank you. >> let's continue on by bringing the national security advisor, the president of the united states -- -- thank you for being with us. a jump ball of where we can begin today. between the president and prime minister netanyahu. we see images of the hostage releases. the hostages are surrounded by hamas fighters. hamas is still very much in charge and gaza. they are negotiating with israel. benjamin netanyahu said the future of israel cannot be with hamas in charge in gaza. what is president trump prepared to do in his talks this afternoon to support israel on that front? >> john, president trump is going to continue his support for our great ally, israel.

noah did more for israel than president trump did in his first term. it's not by accident that bibi netanyahu, the prime minister is the first foreign leader that is coming today. we are going to continue to get our hostages out. we just had our first american, keith siegel, come out. we have more to go. brutalized in tunnels below ground. longer than -- the americans were held in 1970 by iran. how do we continue that? how do we deal with -- and that continuing threat? how do we deal with the threat from iran --

and supply lines into hezbollah through syria, and the future of syria to talk about, and then of course, you have the existential threat that iran has been not only to israel but to the united states many years. for decades, even. a lot to discuss today. we will get into the details, but we are thrilled to have prime minister netanyahu here, and president trump -- no one should question president trump's full support for israel's right to defend itself and have a peaceful future. can i just do one more thing? what we ultimately need to get back to is where we were in present trump's first term, which is the abraham accords, and the next round of the abraham accords. and the ongoing -- steve wheatcroft. what they have had with the saudis. and of course, with -- who has worked with us to get these

hostages out. an important point that can't be lost. that's the goal. let's get back to infrastructure, data centers, to these big deals that only president trump can close. we have to clear the way for those big conversations to happen again. >> thank you very much for joining us. good to have you on the program. ahead of this meeting, how would you describe the tone? obviously, there's been significant progress made for the american public. we see these hostages coming home, they are and other places. this is obviously significant progress. how would you describe the tone of this meeting we are about to see? >> the tone is positive in the sense that people are celebrating president trump and his leadership. there are murals in tel aviv and jerusalem of president trump and these images, especially within

israel, of these hostages coming out alive, hugging their families, being reunited. the outpouring -- president trump and his leadership, has really been overwhelming. president netanyahu, his key team are carrying that message. at the same time, we have to be very realistic about the thr threats. iran has been and and continued to be the head of the snake from hezbollah to hamas -- to the militias that attacked our soldiers and onward. we have to craft a path, that we are strategically aligned in how to do that. it is, on the one hand, positive, and thankful to president trump and his leadership, but also continuing to look to him and to this relationship for the strength he

brings, and that our adversaries need it, and better to continue to respect and even fear. >> michael, what you said just there, hamas cannot be allowed to continue to exist. he comes back to the question i asked at the beginning when we started this off, israel is saying that hamas cannot continue to exist. we are saying hamas cannot continue to exist, but under the terms of the cease-fire, hamas continues to exist. what happens after all the hostages are out? if you can get them all out? does president trump, with the new weapons sale to israel, give netanyahu the green light to obliterate thomas? -- obliterate hamas? >> it's more than just threats. that's what the previous demonstration -- trying to draw his false distinctions of "we will not give them these bonds, because our these relevant in downtown gaza" he making a release bombs were relevant? in southern lebanon, -- and as

they attacked international shipping. we will continue to fully back israel's right and capability to defend itself 100%. we are not going to tap the brakes on sales and weapons the israelis have already rightly bought and deserved to be delivered. you sell it with the release president trump ordered. a number of these weapons, munitions, were literally sitting in north carolina. the israelis had already bought them, and president trump said "let them have them. they were attacked on seven fronts." it's not just hamas, but on the existence, these groups have been eliminated. this political chief in downtown tehran. we have ongoing -- the israelis have ongoing operations continuing to degrade them.

>> saudi arabia -- and the uae are seen as possible venues for this trump/pruden summit. according to two russian sources, reuters. can you add to any of this or confirm any of this for us, when this might be happening and where? >> i don't have anything to confirm or break. sandra, i would be careful listening to russian sources. the present has been clear -- >> do you want that meeting to happen? do you want that meeting to happen? >> what's amazing is half the world is reaching out trying to help president trump close this war down and end this more in a just way that prevents future wars. we been getting all kinds of outreach, but i have nothing to confirm or break today. >> let's actually try to get you to break a little more news.

how close is saudi arabia to returning to the table for the abraham accords? >> saudi arabia, mohammad bin salman, mbs, special envoy -- i started to call him investor, but special envoy -- and prime minister netanyahu. we were this close. i think we were ready. when we get a few things cleared up, to move forward again. that's the ultimate goal in the next round. i didn't mean to stumble on steve wycoff's title, but it's special envoy wycoff. doing a great job. >> michael, good to spend time with you. i know it's a very busy day there. thanks for spinning time with us. >> thank you. rfk jr.'s nomination for mike hhs secretary heading to the full senate for of all. will tulsi gabbard's nomination

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♪ ♪ >> president xi did reach out to president trump to speak about this, maybe begin a negotiation. we will see how that call goes, but as of now, the 10% tariff has been in effect, and president trump is going to continue to stand up for the american people. >> president trump could be speaking to chinese president xi as early as this week. could happen anytime soon. what's bring in steve forbes. who knows, it could be happening today. steve, great to have you won. put this in perspective for us. do you see what has happened so far with this trade war? do you see what president trump has been able to achieve as a win? >> what you see is all sides want to negotiate. on mexico and canada, you've got something going right away. on china, the retaliatory tariffs are actually very mild. they didn't bring in soybeans, sensitive in the past. some of these minerals we produce here. the chinese are signaling -- yes we have to respond if you put

something on, but they are also signaling that they are willing to sit down and discuss. whether those discussions lead to something substantive, who knows. the chinese have plenty tools left. they want to see them do a deal. >> up message is xi sending with these retaliatory tariffs on the united states? >> sending "this is the minimum we have to do for face-saving purposes, what we want to sit down." the present will be talking to them in a few days, and the fact that i think he talked to xi after the election. i think it all underscores they want to get something done. >> demand close to president trump in the middle of these deals peter navarro. he joined us on this program yesterday. i asked him what's on the mind of a lot of americans who are being told this will push the prices of things here up. here is the exchange. can you promise this won't eventually lead to an economic hit in the form of higher prices for american people? >> they all said the same thing, we would have inflation and

recession. guess what? we had neither. because of how countries response to tariffs. what's the first thing that happens when we raised tariffs? they lower their prices. you saw no inflation. we saw no recession. we saw prosperity, a golden age. >> he was in the first trump white house, 2016-2020. he is saying what happened to them. they are even trying to improve on that, but using that as a model. do you agree? >> the tariffs being talked about now are far more extensive than what they did in 2018-2019. the other thing is in the first term, they passed a big tax cut in 2017. that's what we hope is going to happen now. the president will focus on the big bit of full tax cut, get there were public ends off and get something big happening. not just renewing 2017 tax cuts, but extending and deepening them, including the cut in the

capital gains tax. if you get that big beautiful tax cut bill through in the next few months, that helps mitigate the damage done by the tariffs. it's a matter of timing and extent of it. >> our good friend larry kudlow, that's been his take. karoline leavitt said something similar at the white house put a couple of days ago, that you have to look at the entire economic approach. the tax cuts, rolling back regulations, and tariffs. if i'm hearing you correctly, it sounds like you agree with kevin o'leary, who was saying basically that is china deal, as we anticipate this phone call with president trump, will look much better than the deals with our neighbors mexico and canada. >> i think the china deal is more complex, requires more negotiation them a weekend of suspending tariffs for 30 days. i'm surprised it's only 10%. i thought 400% would be a good place to start. china is a big problem. i'm not sure this is going to be resolved on a weekend deal.

>> mr. wonderful and his wonderful jacket. you seem to chuckle when he suggested more like 400%, a good place to start. where are you on this? >> i think he is right, 10%, we have been talking about 50-100% shows that on our side, we have thrown down the gauntlet. we are doing so in a way in which we want to negotiate, and the response of xi, same thing. it may take time. it will not be over a weekend, but they are going to try to get something done, perhaps renew and follow through on the deal they did in the first term, china promised $100 billion in products and didn't follow through. how about following through on that? >> i want to finish up, five seconds with the dow. you and i watched the markets for a long time. there was some fear where this would all go. markets reacted to that. it seems they have found some certainty in where this is go going. is that fair to say? >> over the weekend, it looked like there would be a big,

global trade war. on monday, guess what happened? mexico. guess what happened? canada. the chinese reaction, mild, let's sit down and negotiate. the world's not coming to an end to make yet. >> steve forbes, good to have you. >> good to be here. >> this dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires i've ever met or seen or witnessed. >> he only sends rockets into space. democrats in meltdown mode, calling elon musk cuts to usaid a coup. they say it's a slush for spending on things like dei in serbia. our political panel on whether the white house is just enacting the will of the people. >> and, brand-new, white house middle east envoy steve wheatcroft will be joining us -- steve wycoff will be joining us live. we will ask about meetings with

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>> the nomination of the hhs secretary, robert f. kennedy jr., now awaiting a full vote in the senate. footing on dni now many tulsi gabbard this afternoon. senior congressional correspondent -- live keeping track of this on the hill. >> good afternoon. the senate sent one controversial nominee to the floor today. another committee could do the same. the finance committee voted 14-13 to send the nomination of rfk jr. to the floor. bill cassidy of louisiana voted yes, but has reservations about kennedy and vaccines. >> the science is credible. vaccines save lives. they are safe. they do not cause autism.

there are multiple studies that show this. i recognize that many mothers need reassurance that the vaccine the child is receiving is necessary, effective, and most of all safe. >> but just because kennedy's nomination escaped committee does not guarantee confirmation. former senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is skeptical of kennedy's views on vaccines, but today's vote gives the nomination a major boost. all democrats oppose kennedy. >> mr. kennedy's priority was about his view of vaccines. it was not about making health care more affordable and accessible. in response to a very direct and easy open-ended question from senator cassidy, mr. kennedy showed a willful ignorance. >> in less than an hour. the senate intelligence committee votes on the nomination of tulsi gabbard to serve as director of national intelligence. are nomination likely gets out

of committee thanks to supportive indiana republican todd young. next in the queue, a vote to confirm pam bondi as attorney general. >> pam bondi has promised to get the department back to its core mission: prosecuting crime, protecting americans their safety and freedoms. i look forward to confirming her later today. >> the senate voted to confirm doug collins as va secretary today 77-23. there have been bipartisan votes for 9 of the ten nominees confirmed by the senate so far. >> chad, thank you. >> they may try to play dictator in washington, d.c., but he doesn't get to shut down the agency for international development. >> in the last ten days, donald trump has done more to destabilize things across the

planet. we don't have a fourth branch of government called elon musk. that's going to become real clear. >> there is no question that the billionaire class trying to take over our government right now -- >> this is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like. >> democrats staring into the trump administration, particularly elon musk, who put usaid on the chopping block. critics say the agency has become a slush fund that simply wastes taxpayer dollars. let's bring in our panel -- and senate majority leader. and the former director of message planning for the biden white house. here's some of the things that was unveiled when it comes to usaid. $1.5 million to advance dei in serbian workplace businesses. $70,000 for a production of a dei musical in ireland, electric vehicles in vietnam, transgender opera in columbia, transgender comic book in peru, 2000000 for

sex changes for activists in guatemala, 6000000 to fund tourism in egypt. is this making a proven use of taxpayer money? >> no, but i don't necessarily believe this is what all the things are going to. the majority of their budget is for humanitarian needs, things that are also being done in the united states. 50,000 people have lost their jobs. do they need to look at it? of course they do, but if this needs to be cut completely out of the budget -- no. i would also say that congress had oversight, including secretary rubio, before the money was actually spent. every dollar is presented -- >> rubio just got there. >> when he was on the senate foreign relations committee. >> do you think they really read the bill? >> they should. they should. >> speaking of -- >> let me just play this. here is what rubio told -- about usaid. >> they have basically evolved into an agency to believes they are not a u.s. government agency, that they are out there, they take the taxpayer money and

spend it as a global charity irrespective of whether it's a national interest or not. they are supporting programs that upset the host government for whom we are trying to work with on a broader scale. >> he also pointed to rampant insubordination. >> a couple of things. secretary rubio when he was senator rubio had a lot of concerns and problems with some of the usaid spending. the white house is different. they had the opportunity to do something about. i don't know which of the democratic senators -- there isn't. usaid isn't one either. it was created by executive order. it was later reauthorized by congress. notwithstanding what elon musk has said, president trump has not "i'm doing away with it unilaterally." he is well within his powers as president to say "we are going to stop everything. we are going to have a freeze for 90 days here" secretary

rubio announced waivers for some programs. i think that's well within the bounds of their authority. if they go to congress to address some of these specific issues, i think they probably have the votes anyway. that is a consistent position. >> depressed secretary, karoline leavitt, was pressed on this by the press corps yesterday. as wright state put it, she jumped -- this is what she said. >> i don't know about you, but as an american taxpayer, i don't want my dollars going towards this, the american people don't either, and that's exactly what elon musk has been taxed by president trump to do: get the fraud, waste, abuse out of our federal government. >> she just read the same list i did. the point that rubio was making, usaid does invest in similar things. it also invests in a lot of things that as you pointed out a moment ago are not a good use of taxpayer funding. saying that the agency is run and needs to be restructured. if you go in there, and you are still helping foreign governments with usaid appropriately distributed,

what's wrong with that? why the kerfuffle on capitol hill? to they want to waste money? >> there's a lot of reasons why they are doing it so terribly and abruptly, like why can't we do this in a more methodical method? >> because it will never get done. >> that's fine and your opinion, but i don't think that's what the american people think. when you see $2 billion spent on food and u.s. firms and the destruction that will do to communities, even a 90 day pause, 50,000 jobs have been lost in the united states. that will help ripple effects on communities. they should've been doing this more methodically. look at these programs and cut them one by one. if you don't want to $1.5 million in opera, not a good use, but spending money on farms in the united states is a good use of that money. for democrats, i appreciate people saying that they are raising a stink. day are finally starting to show a fight -- they are finally starting to show a fight, something the democratic party needs to be doing. they let the first two weeks of the trump administration go by without saying much, and finally there standing up to fight about

something. i push it there standing up for the american people. >> we have seen trump change direction on freezes in funding in recent days. maybe, he will take the suggestion that there is really good stuff going on here, go through it line by line, not wholesale in a single day. >> there's a lot of stuff that has previously been housed within usaid. this group for example which has a lot of support from republicans. i'm sure that would get a lot of consideration. what you can't have is an agency in the executive branch that, from this administrations perspective, is not only insubordinate but is operating at cross purposes with our foreign policy. donald trump is in charge of american foreign policy. >> and as rubio said, a lot of what usaid is doing is -- >> and they very much have the authority and ability to do that. i think they will get a lot of support for it. >> good to see you. thanks so much. [car horns]

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>> okay, so yes, -- >> hundreds of demonstrators, many with mexican flags, taking to the streets in los angeles to protest president trump's immigration crackdown. fox news contributor steven hilton is joining us now. i could only imagine what you are thinking. please share. >> sandra, it's amazing. list on the idiocy of what we have seen. what you have seen circulating in these protests, you have people blocking the freeways, breaking the law, holding up

signs saying "we are not criminals." yes you are. you are literally engaging in criminal activity, even as you say that. there is a deeper point. you got all the democrat politicians in california lining up behind these protests, reasserting their century city status and all the rest of it. what they are doing is telling californians where they really stand, and who they are for. if you are a regular californian and you are struggling under the highest taxes in the country, the highest electricity costs, highest gas prizes, housing costs, the highest everything. the democrats in charge don't care about you. they just see you as a piggy bank for -- the energy to putting into fight all of this, the white house, it shows you what you really -- they really care about, the people here illegally. that's an insult to every hardworking californian. >> on the screen, we can see this protest in downtown

los angeles. students from the bravo medical magnet school are protesting the immigration crackdown. california democratic party executive direct this about a day without immigrants. "a day without immigrants serves as a powerful reminder of the essential roles of immigrants, what they play in our daily lives. the california democratic party remains committed to protecting and uplifting all communities, recognizing that our state's strength and prosperity are deeply rooted in the contributions of immigrants." without immigrants, there would be no united states of america. we are a nation of immigrants, but the people who are being targeted are in this country illegally, and by and large, have some sort of criminality attached to them. >> of course. what a preposterous thing for this ludicrous person to say. of course. i am an immigrant. i am a legal immigrant. i want to the process. it took years. like millions of other people. immigrants feel this more strongly than others, precisely

because they did the work to make themselves part of this nation in a legal way. i am an american citizen now. the idea that this is about immigrants is totally false, exactly as tom homan and others have been saying. what are they focused on? violence criminals. the worst go first. you now have democrat politicians standing on the side of violence criminals. to say it's about immigrants is ridiculous. >> apparently, businesses are closed, children are skipping school for this day without immigrants protest. teachers in various school districts are reporting empty or near empty classrooms, some businesses closed in solidarity with the protests, we are told, others curtailed operations for lack of staff. they are saying this is only the beginning. one local is quoted in the "l.a. times" article this morning, saying there is so much more coming because there's four

years of term. these are live pictures that we are looking out at this gathering in l.a. >> it's amazing. the democrats have just lost an election. as everyone can see. they went too far left, all consumed by their ideology, instead of focusing on the actual daily needs of regular americans. they have learned nothing from their defeat. they are fanning the flames of division here. they are conflating what's going on. they are completely denying the reality of what we're seeing from the trump administration, which is the focus on violent criminals that any normal person would agree shouldn't be here. instead, they are the ones, the democrats are running around scaring everyone, saying that they are next. it's completely outrageous. >> and at the same time, at the state level, democratic lawmakers are allocating that budget of $50 million to fight back against trump, when that money, it seems to me, could be used for a lot of other things, including fixing all those fire

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