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>> democratic lawmakers attempted to storm the department of education in washington this morning, but were denied entry into the building. the stunt comes as president trump is considering abolishing the department. watch. >> we are coming in. we are coming in. we are coming in. who are you? >> you are not coming in. do you have business here? >> yes. [crosstalk] >> what are you doing here? >> get out of the way. >> were you told to stand your? >> never asked who we were. [crosstalk] >> there is no business? >> no thieves and thugs out here. >> are they -- to shoot us? >> this will go down in history. the man who blocked the doors of the department of -- see you. the department of education. >> we are not a threat to security. we are members of congress.

>> this is an outrage. >> what are you going to do? beat us up if you go in? >> those numbers of congress, earning their salary as usual. this is a "outnumbered" emily compagno. joining me is martha maccallum, anchor and executive editor of "ty storey" and coanchor of fox news election coverage. host of "american dream home" and fox business. dr. nicole saphier, fox news contributor fox news contributor and board-certified physician. and griff jenkins, fox news national correspondent. griff, exciting morning. i think it was contained to the democratic party that pretty much accomplished nothing other than showing us that they want to do stunts for a living. >> but that's not true, emily parrott maxine waters proved she can't open a door. didn't have them storming the department of education today. for context, 50-80 democrats led by congressman mark takano sent

a letterman yesterday to the acting secretary of education saying "we want a meeting." they didn't get a response, so they decided to show up and stormed the door. 11 out a form, i would say. at the end of the day, it is certainly an instant that shows that the democrats were reaching a certain level of desperation. between holding press conferences, attacking everything the trump administration is trying to do, to not trying to put the focus -- and i feel bad for the poor staffer maxine waters is saying "at the history show this man won't let me in." give me a break. >> my question also is where was the storming of the d.o.e. when we started learning how abysmal test scores are? how poorly educated our children are? where's the outrage over the product of our school systems? we can pop up on the screen exactly those numbers. that's why we are looking to overhaul the department of education. for fourth and eighth grade, scores are down 4 and 8 points from 2019 to last year,

respectively, and reading scores for the same grades are down 5 points. >> it's a great question. one thing we learned this morning and this week is that maxine waters loves to go places and yell at people. very loudly. i am not sure what has been accompanied by that. remember when she said to go to restaurants, get in people's faces, anyone who worked for the trump administration. that was her goal: go yell in their faces. that's what she's doing. that being said, the department of education was created in 1980. its focus was to make sure that kids on the lower end of the education spectrum caught up. the gap is now wider than it was a 1980. without happens during covid. they received a huge f on their report card. they have literally failed at their mission, which was to prove the education level of america's students -- as betsy devos wrote today, she tried to fix it for 4 years, said the -- so deeply entrenched that it will never happen, and frankly,

american students will be better off without it. >> because isn't that the point? the point of the doa was to improve and ensure quality education, so if that has failed, why shouldn't the democrats be open to an overhaul that puts, at its center -- instead of the bureaucracy -- actually student performance. the more money we have pumped in, the more abysmally test scores and performance has been on the student level. i don't quite know what they want to protect. >> i think we saw with the 2024 election that democrats will not move off of their talking points, because they don't want to admit that they were wrong. maxine waters is not the only one who's been yelling. there were parents in 2020 and 2021 going to school board meetings. they were yelling as well. they were saying "our children's education is getting worse." they were labeled domestic terrorists. it's irresponsible for us to say all these test scores are just because of what happened during covid. we saw the chronic absenteeism, we saw -- and we are going to play catch up for years to come,

but the widening of the performance gap happens before covid. we were starting to see that from the highest to lowest performance starting at 2013. it really widened in 2018. one of the things we have to call into question is some of the curriculum changes to insert social issues. a lot of the race-based curricula. they went away from the fundamentals and are talking about social issues. we have to get away from this. president trump campaigned on he was getting rid of the d.o.e., or at least he was going to look into it and shake it up. there is no surprise this is happening. shame on them for saying we shouldn't be doing something for the d.o.e. they have failed our children miserably. >> the cdc came out years ago, and the subsequent media around at. the titles were "the kids are not okay." to martha's point and your point, the bottom rung of the kids that are underperforming, it's gotten worse.

where were those lawmakers during covid when the parents were -- the money that we are spending at the d.o.e. is the whole point of why they trump administration wants to change this. send back to the states. these salaries are coming at the state level. that's the truth there's something you know well. making a half million dollars. teachers don't make that, but the states dig in and -- let them fix their own education problems. by the way, they were given $190 billion during the covid pandemic that was allocated by congress to get kids caught up after the pandemic because they were falling so behind, and it hasn't happened. it is a waste of money. this goes to the broader picture of what we are seeing in the u.s. government. the d.o.e. is a perfect example of why things need to change, and that report card needs to be looked at over and over and thrown in the faces of these democratic lawmakers who look

ridiculous. if that's all they have, i'm sad for them and for my democratic friends, if this is how you think you're going to fix things. this isn't the way. >> i think you put your finger on something important. the long head of the american federation of teachers -- the most powerful democratic leaning teachers union. the storming of the building -- the lawmakers all upset. that's because something is threatened. what is threatened? the slush fund going to the teachers union that's made them powerful, but where was the accountability to blame them for the original failures martha brought up? >> dear member that randi weingarten travel to ukraine to help them recover from the pandemic and warfare in their educational systems, yet here we are, and it's been a complete failure for the american children? she was probably being flown on taxpayers dollars for her role to teach other countries how to -- a robust education system. >> and talk about the universities pick the department

of education also -- look at what has happened to the nation's universities since october 7th and these protests have happened. all the other departments -- >> they are not results oriented. there is no countability. parents should be outraged, and they should be happy to toss the apple cart right over and see if they have a better result. >> when i was in middle school, so 100 years ago, i was part of the school district where it went bankrupt, so halfway through the school year all of a sudden we were going to go home and not have the rest of the year. obviously, that crisis was averted. we had to switch to the west -- school district because the loans were under rusd, so to get more money means to switch names. the labyrinth goes back decades. and it's under that bureaucratic bloat. for anything to change for the betterment of children, indeed, the applecart has to be tossed. >> give parents control over the tax dollars. more per student than most develop missions over the world, but not getting the result.

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>> democratic lawmakers during protesters on capitol hill this week to meltdown of the trump administration's efforts to cut wasteful government spending at usaid, and they specifically took aim at doge director elon musk. >> not going to shut down the senate. we are at work. >> five elon musk. elon musk took control of our country's financial -- >> what we not going to do is stand around while they hold this belief. we are going to be in your face. we are going to be under [bleep]. >> we will see you in the courts, in congress, in the streets. elon musk is a nazi nepo baby. >> nobody elected your [bleep]. this is not elon musk's country. >> got to fight back. you've got to be on the streets tomorrow. >> to billy intertec executive and his team are facing public

threats -- >> the doge executive and his team are facing public threats. his staffers on x -- saying they are "wanted dead or alive." a u.s. attorney telling "the boston globe" the post is being investigated. musk fired back on x. "noted." before adding "he has committed a crime." let's go back to the purpose of doge before we talk about this, the physical threats against these staffers, who are trying to do the work assigned to them. the transportation secretary -- he and elon musk have already spoken and said "let's upgrade the air traffic control systems within the towers across this country," in the wake of the crash over the potomac or 67 people died. they have a problem with that? you want to upgrade the technology of the nation's airports? >> which is highly outdated. we learned that will with the crash in washington. that's just an example. the larger picture that is so

fascinating, there is a rich hypocrisy that the democrats are becoming profanity-laden, unhinged over an unelected advisor -- for president trump that is looking at waste across the entire federal government which we have known for decades is bloated, and engages in wasteful spending. yet, these are democrats that -- an unelected volunteer to the president looking at it as on the unelected bureaucrats -- across the federal government, squandered billions of taxpayer dollars. the question is are there actual democrat voters out there that support gross, incompetent, wasteful spending. transgender opera in columbia, other examples. no doubt that usaid has priorities and has perhaps spent money on things that are important, but from the time trump left when they spent about $20 billion on usaid to the final year provided, it was

$40 billion. why when the democrats want to at least take a look at the data? >> what's interesting is if you go back to the clinton years and presidency, secretary of state -- want to eliminate usaid because of the misappropriations of funding. it got shot down. it never happened, but what they wanted to do at the time -- the particular secretary of state one to bring it back to the state department. now that's what we are talking about doing once again, but this is why the bureaucracy, that behemoth in washington is able to stop and squash any time you try to have fiscal responsibility. speak of late adolph protest -- [laughter] -- >> the protest -- [laughter] when you are bloody murder screaming about hanging onto every last bit of the bureaucracy that exists that got us to a place where we are $36 trillion in debt.

does anybody think -- republican, democrat -- that this is what the founders had in mind for this country? does anyone think -- it is so outrageous to me. they are so freaked out by the simple question of people who are on read-only mode just looking at the books. any american corporation -- if you are a public corporation, your books are open. your shareholders are investors in your company. the analogy is that we as taxpayers are investors. we have put our own stock into the united states america. we deserve to see how everything is functioning. that's what musk is doing. they tried to so many times in congress. they cannot do it to themselves. they have failed every time. even good intentions. tom coburn pointed out the same garbage and waste. he got nowhere, sadly, despite his best efforts. >> this is just crossing.

the u.s. attorney in washingtowashington, d.c., -- going to be the beginning an inquiry into people stealing government property or threatening u.s. doge staff after referrals from elon musk and steve davis. action is already being taken to protect these people, whose photos have now been outed on social media. >> that is an appropriate stewardship of our tax dollars. here's what's different this time around, and this is why it's going to work. the collective dismantling of the bureaucratic bloat can only do it when you do it -- can only work when you do it all at once. the open look's -- for so long. there are voices in the dark that have been crying out this entire time. showing transparent windows into the books so we can see our tax dollars. everything in one fell swoop is happening, and that's why it's working. i can't understand, by all of those democratic leaders, to your point, are talking about the use of our money. it's our money that pays their salaries, and that pads the

coffers of this government. why shouldn't we have insight into it? by the way, those need to be the campaign ads for every single person running against those incumbents in a year and a half. they dug their own grave they are. >> to martha's point earlier, maxine waters has been under a lot -- in the last couple of days. but also, zeroing in on usaid, they are not saying get rid of the entire thing: they are saying get rid of the bloat. usa does things like, i don't know, fund hiv research and prevention in africa. they are saying we are not going to take that away: we are going to give the core mission. we're going to keep the core mission and get rid of everything else. >> i have a lot of colleagues who are really upset right now. they are concerned that funding for the research that they are doing is going to be cut off. we do a lot of valuable research in the cancer community. i keep telling people, you just have to give it a pause right now. i think doge is probably one of the greatest things to happen in u.s. history, but change is

hard. i can empathize with these democrats right now. it's really hard, and in hospital systems, we have to do these huge electronic medical transfers. that makes me want to retire and quit my job. [laughter] it is so hard and so much work, but it doesn't mean it's not for the greater good of things. while i think a part of them just wants to keep control of the money, it's hard to accept change. elon musk with doge, i truly believe, are doing great things. they will wait out the waste and make sure that what deserves funding should get funding. i say this with caution: elon musk is tweeting or ex-ing account is talking about how some of his doge employees have been doxxed. they need to do appropriate vetting. at least one of those that have been doxxed has been flagrantly racist on social media, and i do believe we need to make sure that -- they made space might be good with a calculator, but they need to be good people too if they are working on this. >> more to come on the story. senator john fetterman blasted

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> senator john fetterman giving his own democratic party a blunt reality check, as they still appear to be ignoring the lessons of the november election. watch this. >> i think the primary currency was shaming and scolding and talking down to the people, and telling them "i know better than you," or "you are adults," or "you are a br oh," or "you are

ignorant." how can you be this dumb? i can't imagine it. by the way, "they are fascists, how could you vote for that?" when you are in a state like pennsylvania. i love people that voted for trump. they are not fascists. they don't support insurrection and those things. if you go to an extreme and you become a boutique kind of a proposition, you are going to lose the argument, the new leadership of the dnc, the vice chair. abolish ice. and other things, saying defund the police and those things. i'm concerned that we really haven't paid attention on what happened, and have we looked up at the scoreboard and -- by the way, we have lost. >> i think the john fetterman experience, where everyone who has covered his story -- it's

one of the most humbling wake-up calls that has happened. there was a time where i think only his wife thought he was capable, post-stroke, of becoming a united states senator, but he has become one of the strongest truth speakers in the united states senate right now, and i think he has to be someone who is considered a leader right now, emily, as they look for leadership that they do not have at all. they should be listening to john federman. pennsylvania, one of the biggest and most important swing states of the election. >> the democratic party should listen to him for that very reason. the irony is as he is calling out the extremist view that has fishhook to the rest of the party, way left -- the reason why they lost the middle, the reason why the common sense policies of the g.o.p. rang so soundly during the election. he is now the extremist view, my point is. he is now the voice of "don't listen to him. what is he saying?" here's the thing: every day that

passes that we talk about this, where the postmortem is ignored by that party, where there isn't some type of aggressive searcher who can be the new leader and the new voice who doesn't have such a checkered, horrible past, or extremist votes on their record. that is one day less than they have in this lead up to the midterms. not to conflate topics, but we talked about this a little bit last segment in a commercial break, that it is incumbent upon the g.o.p. to be as watertight as possible to make sure the t's are crossed, i's are dotted, that we are -- in the courts in messaging and policy so it's a twofer, with them shooting themselves in the foot in the g.o.p. standing strong for the midterms. >> the preparation for trump team came in with his astonishing. i have never seen a transition that was more ready to go, and -- executing more on every day than we see in. we will see where it goes but it's been extraordinary. as the white male on this couch -- a. [laughter] i want to play the sound bite from another part of the

federman interview. let's watch. >> how to democrats win back white men like yourself? >> i don't know, and truthfully, i'm not sure if that's possible, to be honest. i think that's been seriously eroding for a wild. it's like men's the problem, men are to blame, or their masculinity is toxic. and once we've turns their back on that demographic, it's going to be difficult to rebuild and replace that. >> replacing -- >> i think he is spot on. and to be fair to john fetterman, even as a reporter on capitol hill, from the day he arrived to washington that has been willing to talk to fox news reporters in the hallways, to engage on any topic. >> grabbing rfk jr. in the hallway -- >> and i say that because he's getting a rep that he is a turncoat democrat, he is catering to trump. john fetterman has always been like that. i want to get on the record. as far as what he is saying

about getting white men back, he is dead right. the problem, the postmortem that you mentioned was that the voters cared about border security, but economic prosperity, about a strong military defense in an age of terrifying world conflicts going on in ukraine, the middle east, and elsewhere. what happened when white males, men start talking about it? "we don't care about that, we care about the social experiment said men are bad." tell the democratic party goes to the priorities that those voters care about -- what have progress in terms of those numbers. >> young men called toxic, speaking of the work -- which he now labels democrats with -- they have experience a renaissance in the last few years, as they have become trump voters, celebrating their strength as young men, and i'm talking about white men, latino men, black men,

across-the-board, underage 30, went 6 for 10 for trump. >> i am raising three of these white men. it's obviously huge issue with me. federman himself. first of all, the evolution and recovery of him mentally, physically, even politically has been incredible to watch, and i'm so happy for. i really appreciative -- i'm so happy for him. i've really appreciated listening to him, the last year specifically. he said the 2024 election was a gut check for democrats, and "the washington post" article today or yesterday came out where they were interviewing historic democrats who voted for trump this year, and they essentially said "they lost us with the drag shows and some of the school curriculum and the tampons and boys bathrooms, the men in women's sports." student loan payback for academics and professionals who make well under $600. none of this made sense to people. they lost them. i don't know what they are going to do to kind of swing the pendulum back, because they went

so far left. they haven't learned their lesson. you can see right now, they are still not humming back where they should be. >> this is an extraordinary moment we are witnessing, just in the way this is playing all out historically, to have a president win after being out for 4 years, so that in itself is extraordinary, but i don't doubt that there is a bill clinton or a barack obama, someone who probably is not on the scene yet, who was looking at all of this and saying "i can get this right. i know how to win this party back." >> if democrats have any hope of recovering from their dredging in november of 2024, they are going to have to do that deep dive. federman, i think it's unfortunate how he's being treated type people like msnbc. they've gone after him for "oh, no, he put positive comments about trump in greenland. he met donald trump at mar-a-lago, oh, my gosh." he joined a truth social. at the end of the day, john fetterman understands where

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[camera shutters] >> to what extent did you discuss north korea today, sir? >> that will always be a topic, especially with japan. we will be discussing north korea and many other things. we will be spending pretty much the day, but that's always a topic. >> have you changed your mind

about the sale of u.s. steel? >> no, i think we're going to be discussing that today. i will have some pretty good information on that. you might want to go with -- [speaking japanese] >> are tariffs on option of the deficit doesn't get to -- >> yes. >> [speaking japanese] >> mr. president, can you discuss your plan for a reciprocal trade it? you signing a dash on that today? >> i will be announcing that next week, reciprocal trade appeared so that we are treated evenly with other countries. we don't want any less. i will be announcing that next week. and many other things not having to do with trading, but many other things. i will be talking about reciprocal trade appeared pretty simple.

it affects everybody. reciprocal. we will be talking about the next week. >> [speaking japanese] >> what are your thoughts on that? >> [speaking japanese] >> this is the second world leader president trump is meeting with. he met with benjamin netanyahu over recent days, prime minister of israel. this is a very important ally, and we are told the prime minister has spent a lot of time preparing for the meeting. will there be any trade restrictions on japan is one of the issues people will be watching very closely in this.

also, shinzo abe, the former prime minister, was assassinated after he left office, and was a close friend of president trump's. this new prime minister is looking to create that warm relationship with his ally, president trump, here in the united states. this is going to be an interesting back and forth. let's listen. >> president trump: it will be very easy for japan. we have a fantastic relationship. i don't think we will have any problem. they want fairness also. >> [speaking japanese] >> mr. president, do you have a reaction to the new "time" magazine cover that has elon musk sitting behind your resolute desk? >> [speaking japanese] >> president trump: 's "time" magazine still in business? i didn't even know that.

[laughter] elon is doing a great job. he is finding tremendous fraud, corruption, and waste. you see it with usaid, but you are going to see it even more so with other agencies, other parts of government. he's got a staff that is fantastic. he's wanted to be able to do this for a long time. everybody else knew it was existence, but i think never so much when you look at usaid. it's a fraud, the whole thing is a fraud. very little being put to good use. every single line that i look at, in terms of events and transactions is either corrupt or ridiculous. we are going to be doing that throughout government. i think we are going to be very close to balancing budgets for the first time in many years. think we are going to be very close to, in addition to money coming in from tariffs,

et cetera, he is doing a good job. i'm very happy with him. >> elon musk -- for us to ask him some questions? will you put elon musk up on the podium for us to ask them questions? >> oh sure. he's not shy. elon is not shy. >> any further deliberations on gaza? >> no deliberations. it's been perceived with the united states would view it as a real estate transaction, where we will be an investor in that part of the world. no rush to do anything. we wouldn't need anybody there. supplied and given to us by israel. in terms of security -- we are not talking about boots on the ground or anything like that, but the fact that we are there, that we have an investment there. a long way to creating peace. we don't want to see every buddy move back and then move out in ten years. this has been going on for 50

years, much more than that. we just want to see stability. that would be having us out, that particular piece in that particular location i think would show great stability and will lead great stability of the area for very little money, very little price. we won't need soldiers. that will be taken care of by others. investments are being taken care of by others also. by virtually no investment whatsoever, it would bring stability to the area, and others can invest in it later on, but we are in no rush on it, absolutely no rush. >> president trump, do you believe deep sea, the national security threat -- and collaborating on ai? deep-sea: do you believe it is a national security threat -- go deep seek: do you believe it is a national security threat? >> no. i think it is a beneficial technology, if it is correct, what's going on now, that --

less expensive, the ai will be a lot less expensive than a good thing. i view that is a good development, not about development. >> mr. president, on auto specifically, will you try -- tariff autos. are you trying to do it in second administration? >> president trump: auto tariff? that's always on the table. it's a very big deal. we are, we have cases where we don't supply autos, and other countries do. we have to equalize it. we have to stabilize and equalize it. >> will you have vice president vance meet with president zelenskyy? >> i will probably be meeting with president zelenskyy -- >> president trump: i will probably be meeting with president zelenskyy next week and president putin. i would like to see that were end for one primary reason: they are killing so many people, losing millions of people on a battlefield, in this case mostly the battlefield. you have eight or 900,000

russian soldiers dead or badly wounded, and same thing with ukraine. you have probably 700,000 with ukraine. the numbers they gave her a little bit lower than that, but i believe those numbers are -- i would like to see it, and just on a human basis, it's terrible what's going on. they have open fields with no protection. the only thing a bullock and hit as a human body, and the human body dies as soon as it gets hit. i would like to see that end. it's a ridiculous work. it never would've started if i were president. that war would never have started -- vladimir putin would never have started that were. and you wouldn't have had october 7th if i was present either. that mess would not have started. but no, i would like to help out. one of the things we are looking at with president zelenskyy is having the security of their

assets underground, rare earth, and other things, but primarily rare earth. really, we want security. as you know, europe is putting up much less money than us. nato, europe. call it whatever you want. we are at probably 300000000000-plus, and probably, the real number is $100 billion. that is a lot of money, but it's $200 billion less than us. they need it more than us. we are asking them to equalize and get even, but we are also asking president zelenskyy for the security of -- we are putting all this money up, and saying where does it stop? we want to see it end. but we are going to be asking for the security, and with already told him, an equal amount of something -- the american taxpayers in

for $300 billion. biden never negotiated. he never told europe to put in more money, and it got out of hand, just like nato -- we were paying almost 100% of nato what when i first came in, everybody was taking advantage of the good old united states, but not anymore. and now, if you speak to the secretary general of nato, who was very nice one here two weeks ago, said "what trumped it was amazing. he got everybody to pay." to do that, you have to ask, and biden never asked. we are in for probably close to $200 billion more than europe, and yet, obviously, it affects europe more than us. we would like them to equalize, to have to go more. from our standpoint, we want security and the money we are putting up. >> with them next week, sir? >> president trump: he may meet next year. >> coming here?

>> president trump: i'm not going there. >> do you plan to meet with president putin, or just plain to -- >> we -- >> president trump: we have always had a good relationship. present put in and i have always had a good relationship. that's why it's so sad this happened. this never would've happened if i were president. it's so sad to see it happen. so many dead people. by the way, so many cities are demolished. you talk about gaza. take a look at ukraine. so many of those cities or demolition sites, demolished. so sad. it should have never happened. all those beautiful golden domes, but much more important, all those beautiful people are dead and it never should have happened. thank you very much, everybody. >> lets go. thank you, let's exit. >> oval office discussion as president trump has welcomed the prime minister of japan, ishiba, to the white house. they will be discussing trade issues for sure. he saw that the conversation when the press started asking questions quickly went to gaza and ukraine.

president trump saying that really, it would be an economic effort in gaza to see it rebuilt, and that others would take the economic responsibility, said "we won't need soldiers on the ground" in the process of trying to oversee a rebuilding of gaza, which certainly needs to happen. what is your reaction to what you heard and there? >> i heard news. every time he has a follow-up, there is news made, and he takes questions on everything. what's fascinating to me, martha, as i was in mar-a-lago december 16th, when this softbank ceo, their son, pledged $100 billion in u.s. investment, particularly nai. while gaza and elon musk -- getting up to the podium, which as a reporter i'm looking forward to it to ask him questions -- there is a lot of news there -- the image of trying to forge a relationship with this new japanese prime minister, because of course as you pointed out, had they had such a close

relationship with shinzo abe -- ishiba was elected in october, so it is a new relationship. you look at a trade -- $100 billion from softbank. who knows what else is on the table. we have a $69 billion trade deficit last year were japan. you know trump cares about trade deficits. i think there was a lot happening there. also notable, vice president vance and secretary hexa sitting on the couch next to him. >> absolutely. there was a purchase of 135 f-35s -- to the united states. we know that president trump likes to see defense for the allies. and the trade issue. >> there was news also on u.s. steel and -- you heard the president reiterate it. remember, the ceo of u.s. steel was at the white house yesterday. you have got a japanese prime minister right now. the big push is to figure out a way to get that deal to go through. that's a $14.9 million deal. what i have heard was because the stock -- >> acquisition of u.s. steel by

this japanese company. the stock had been moving higher up until that moment of the news conference, because trader plurals are believing -- and there's a couple of news reports -- that trump is considering saying yes. i'm glad you're caught up with a fighter jet issue. the feeling is that what the japanese are trying to do now is -- military equipment. we will talk about the trade deficit, but how can we figure out how to make this transaction go through? u.s. steel once it, nippon still wants it. there's a lawsuit over it because of the rejection by the trump administration, so there is a lot of money on the line right now, martha. >> and discussion about ukraine, possible means between -- j.d. vance was brought up, and then president trump said he also expects to speak to president zelenskyy. >> if i may add color to the issue of japan, i want to point out that japan has been the largest foreign investor in the united states in the past five years.

it was interesting to me coming into this meeting how seriously the prime minister took the meeting with trump. he said he took every preparation possible and met with shinzo abe's widow, in terms of preparing for this, and said his highest priority was as you mentioned earlier the personal relationship. i know that multinational companies, japan is the highest employer of americans in ten states and the second largest in six. we have a phenomenal economic relationship with japan that i don't think it's highlighted often, and to top of the list was the security issues of north korea and japan, and on our end, the semiconductors of ai. having these allies come together is emblematic of the first asiatic leader we have on our soil in this is the japanese print minister, and how important that relationship is economically. >> just mentioned he met with shinzo abe's widow, and met with these softbank ceo's son, and

wanted to find out what it would be like. at that meeting in december, he pledged $100 billion. trump trump in real time in front of the press said "you want to double it, right?" [laughter] up to the microphone like "we will try." >> no comment. >> wanted to know what it's going to be like dealing with him, and i assumed he was told "he's a dealmaker, be ready." >> one of the most fascinating things is china, so obviously, the relationship of japan -- so important, our relationship with china -- but you see president trump trying to increase our footprint around the world, places that stymie china in terms of their efforts to make these expansionist moves as well, but this meeting was diplomati -- strategy at its finest. japan is one of the biggest economic allies for the u.s., but it's not just that. economic station which you touched on as well. but he saw the secretary

therefore make a reason: the nuclear ambitions of china, north korea. we have to maintain these alliances, and we have to get a stronghold in the region, which is why president trump is looking at greenland. we are seeing china continue to grow and continue to get a strong footprint when it comes to the military and the threat. all of this is interconnected. i see president trump is not just focusing on one thing: he is looking at things on a big scale, and what can we do to position the united states, to keep united states as strong as we are in the world stage. >> and this is a three-level chest. it's fascinating to watch on a daily basis. enough of that. let's talk about the super bowl. when we come back, we will dig into that. is upon us. it's always exciting in america on super bowl weekend. two-seam's ready to face off on the cusp of greatness: the eagles and chiefs square off on sunday on fox. fox news turns to the big-game expert, tom brady, the super bowl champion joining "fox & friends" to weigh in on

what it takes to achieve greatness. >> i think the reality is there was never a plan b for me. i never had to deal with that. i think they supported me, and i got a belief in myself. he needs people to believe in you, even when you don't always have the most confidence in yourself. if you are surrounded by people that love you, that are there for you when you fail -- the reality is in life, when we try things that are very difficult, we do fail, because they are hard. when they are hard and to overcome them, you learn a lot about yourself. if you can apply those things going forward to accomplish what you want, you are going to gain a lot of self-esteem and self-confidence. i have always felt that trying things that are outside of my comfort zone ended up being the best things in my life. i learned a lot of things for failing that a lot of guys didn't learn through high school and college, because they weren't the best athletes. show because they were the best athletes. these things you have like your

work ethic, discipline, your competitiveness, determination. those are things people call in tangibles. you can measure strength, speed, all the things that are important, but in the end they are not sustainable over the course of a 23 year career. you are always trying to transform yourself into something a little bit more, into a little bit better version of yourself, but when you make it easy on yourself, in the end, you are doing yourself a disservice. you are not challenging yourself to get outside of your comfort zone. if you get outside of your comfort zone, you are going to realize "i'm kind of on my own, but it got people that support me. how do i figure this out?" part of that is to dig a little deeper within yourself and develop a better work ethic, to be a bit more disciplined in what you are doing and be more determined to accomplish it every single day. if you achieve that, in the end, asko if you cheat that, in the end, you treat yourself and will be settling for plan bs entire life. >> that's a great message.

talking that how you work hard, how if you have discipline and really work for something, you can achieve greatness. that's what a meritocracy is all about. we talk about this all the time. >> kennedy contrarian for a second -- >> can idea contrarian for a second? i don't know if i can believe him after the talk rule game and the talk about the officiating -- they are not. on representing the raiders to say that i don't believe it. [laughter] i want to cross-examine the witness. >> we are all wearing red, but it's not necessarily because of the kansas city chiefs, although i believe a lot of people here are rooting for the chiefs. i have a lot of italian family in south philly, so i will be wearing green sunday. this is for go read for women, health. >> a fan. i will be played on live tv, but as a commander's fan, i moved to washington the year after the one at the super bowl in '92. we were terrible for 30 years.

we wants to play philly and the championship we went to play philly in the championship. it was on hospitable they are the way the fans treated us. >> come on. [laughter] >> the definition of greatness is tom brady has more super bowl rings than any single franchise. no team has accomplished it. >> in the end, the calls all even out and the refs do their job. i'm just hoping for a really good game. i am so excited that fox -- >> you and taylor swift. >> okay. [laughter] >> said no one ever. that's not why i'm watching. >> and bringing new orleans. >> i think it's going to be -- bret baier/donald trump. >> me too. >> that's understory. but also, as a cowboys fan, we are just going to move on from this whole thing. [laughter] >> i did like the fact this morning that when they asked him

about when did you know it was time to move on, he talked about making a transition of "i've done a lot of great things in my life took a sign for something new." and now he works for talks. >> did do it a few times. i'm retired, i'm back. and i'm back one more time. [laughter] >> went to the last games. they lost the divisional championships because -- i thought it might be his last just a win this in person. i want the t-shirt that says "i'm rooting for taylor swift's boyfriend's team met. [laughter] >> you would wear that. before the super bowl kicks off on sunday, president trump will sit down for an exclusive interview with our very own bret baier at 3:00 p.m. eastern on fox. you can catch all of the super bowl action on sunday, 1:00 p.m. in fox. you can't watch life, and ♪ ♪