continue to learn more on how this is related to d.o.g.e. all of the spending going to new york city hotel rooms to house illegal migrants, when you still have people out in the cold in north carolina, bret, final thought on that? >> $59 million yanks back, department of homeland security secretary kristi noem saying that will be put back to the american people, and that is part of the d.o.g.e. effort. each one of those agencies is going to be opening up its doors to elon musk and his crew. >> john: dhs firing four people involved with those payments to the new york city hotels. bret, great to see you, thanks for spending time with us and i will see you tonight at 6:00. now this. ♪ ♪ >> as you know, this morning the president spoke to president putin of russia. they spoke at length. and the president released a statement following that conversation in great detail. i can also confirm that the

president just recently got off the phone with president zelenskyy of ukraine. they were very good calls. they were very positive, and the administration is wholeheartedly committed to a peace deal to end once and for all the russia-ukraine war. >> john: the white house press secretary karen karoline leavitt briefing on the heels of a call between president trump and russian president putin, centering around the war in ukraine as we await the second u.s. hostage, this time from belarus. just yesterday american marc fogel was released from russia and appeared in the oval office with the president last night peered welcome back to "america reports," john roberts in washington. sandra, wednesday, but i told you this was going to be an incredibly busy week. >> sandra: the news of marc fogel returning home right around this time yesterday, had it on "america reports," john, as we head into another hour, i am sandra smith in new york. president trump saying negotiations to end the war in ukraine will start immediately as the conflict is now entering

a fourth year, right after his call with vladimir putin trump e phone with ukrainian president zelenskyy come all three leaders signaling some optimism after those talks. >> john: the trump administration also hopeful the latest prisoner exchange might signal renewed efforts to end the war. >> sandra: u.s. ambassador to nato kurt volker is here and will join us coming up but first senior correspondent peter doocy is live at the white house for us. peter, what are we learning about this call, these calls, there were multiple. >> sandra, the trump-putin phone call lasted over an hour and resulted for a plan on meeting in munich on friday. vice president vance and secretary of state rubio will meet with ukraine zelenskyy and president trump saying as these peace talks begin he walked the cia director john ratcliffe, nsa mike waltz, and steve witkoff all at the table. >> i myself just spoke to the

president about these calls and he told me to tell all of you they were very good calls, they were very positive, and the administration is wholeheartedly committed to a peace deal to end once and for all the russia-ukraine war. >> trump's telling of the putin call reads, in part, president putin used my very strong campaign model of common sense, we both believed strongly in it and agreed to work together closely including visiting each other's nations. there was some breaking news this morning, one american among three detainees released in belarus. that is from adam boehler, special envoy for hostage affairs who says president trump deserves a lot of credit for rapid releases. the president's deeply involved in all of these conversations. he speaks with the hostages, obviously you know his involvement yesterday, and so it depends on the situation. what answer papen usually is he will empower his team. they will say i want this person

out, we come up with plans and he approves them. >> and everything in the last hour is the most we have heard about ukraine and russia since president trump came back to office peered initially during the campaign and transition we heard about ability, he thoughte ability to end the russia-ukraine war in 24 hours. once keith kellogg got involved we heard maybe it is more of a first 100 days thing. but this is a significant move towards peace. now we will wait and see. sandra? >> sandra: peter doocy live at the white house on a busy afternoon. john? >> john: for more let's bring inter for coal kurt volker, former u.s. investor to nato. from the 30,000-foot level we have been talking about this for an awfully long time. what do you think? >> i think he is determined, he wants to end this war and will do everything possible to do it. he has been saying a lot of

things. we have heard a lot the last three weeks, first three weeks of his presidency, but he has been holding putin a comfortable, saying he is prepared to escalate with sanctions if needed, saying putin is in a weak position and he needs to end it, talking about the terrible loss of life, talking about getting access to minerals from ukraine, talking about a deterrent force of european forces inside ukraine that would prevent future war, there is just a lot that has been put out on the table, and i think this has captured putin's attention and putin is now indicating that he is ready to have some talks, and that is why he accepted trump's phone call and trump has very clearly trying to move this along to get an immediate cease-fire and deterrence of future attacks and shifting more burden to european allies. >> sandra: reading through the trump truth social statement that president trump put out before we learned of the volodymyr zelenskyy phone call, he did preview that would be

happening immediately. begin by calling president zelenskyy of ukraine so he did exactly that. he is starting about starting negotiations immediately as his word. we agreed it to work together very closely including visiting each other's nations. of course that is going to be something to look forward to next. in-person meetings. what would that mean to you and what would you want that to look like? >> well, first off, i think we need to be holding back on that until the war is actually over. i think that is a very big deliverable for vladimir putin, to be welcomed back into polite company after the war crimes that he has committed, so if we are going to do that, it should be at the very end, after he has actually ended this war. i would still have hesitation about that. i know president trump is probably thinking about how do you prevent future wars and stabilize things globally, but at the same time i think this may also be more of a

negotiating time to put out there and see whether it really materializes. >> john: a couple of things defense secretary pete hegseth said today, first of all he said it is unrealistic to think ukraine borders would revert back to pre2014 when russia invaded the crimea region which would be an indication in this negotiation russia would likely get to keep crimea. he also said no way no how would u.s. troops of her be on the ground in ukraine. if there was some sort of security arrangement that would likely involve u.s. troops as part of nato. >> yeah, so on the borders, this is similar to what zelenskyy himself said earlier this year and the end of last year, that it's not realistic. ukraine doesn't have the ability to take back these territories by force. so ukraine would be prepared to have a cease-fire and pursue the return of its territories by other means diplomatic, political, and so forth.

reminds me of the situation in west and east germany that persisted for 40 years. and as far as troops on the ground go, hegseth is very clear, no american troops on the ground, but there would be some kind of european deterrence force there that would prevent russia from attacking again, and that would rely on u.s. enablers and u.s. over the horizon presence, so a backup, if you will. reminds me, remember in the campaign president trump was talking about a nato in a dormant mode, that is to say it is not fighting, it is just ready, and i think that is what this is starting to sound like. >> sandra: ambassador, and was reminded of that moment with pete hegseth on the ground taking that question, we had our team queue it up, here it is. >> any security agreement backed up by european and non-european troops. if these troops are deployed as peacekeepers to ukraine at any point they should be deployed as

part of a nonnato mission and they should not he covered under article five. there also must be robust international oversight of the line of contact. to be clear, as part of any security guarantee, there will not be u.s. troops deployed to ukraine. >> sandra: he was very clear, and that was not the only time he said that while there, ambassador. >> right. no, i agree, no u.s. troops in ukraine. some kind of deterrent force. he said peacekeeping, but we are not in a positioning between ukraine and russia. this is about deterring russia from attacking. you european forces we need some backup but not under article five, and this is just like we have had u.s. or other countries having operations in afghanistan, iraq, syria, against isis, and article five doesn't apply to any of those situations. >> john: all right, well, a lot of questions ahead and

perhaps some heady days in front of us, as well, see if this thing can actually be brought to a close. ambassador, that's her being with us, appreciate it. >> sandra: thank you, ambassador. >> the gravy train for a lot of these folks has been on biscuit wheels, and it is about to run off the debt gum tracks. >> donald trump and elon musk are recklessly and illegally dismantling the federal government. >> you think about what happened in the pandemic, $1 trillion was stolen. 70% of that money and overseas. >> he said there in the oval office yesterday and he admitted that he wasn't lying and using his propaganda machine to do it. >> elon musk is sending his unqualified d.o.g.e. staff to carry out this agenda across all of these agencies. and in some cases actually teenage staffers. they are trying to rob you, and they are probably a minor.

>> john: chaos erupting as democrats came out swinging at a house hearing on "the war on waste" today. the d.o.g.e. sub committing comes one day after president trump made an appearance with elon musk an x in the oval office, signing an executive order expanding d.o.g.e.'s power. let's bring in fox news legal editor kerri urbahn. we want to get to the elements of d.o.g.e. and elon musk in a second, but one of d.o.g.e.'s ancillary actions was on his $59 million that went from fema to hotels in new york city to host illegal migrants. four dhs staffers were fired because of the payment. you got some breaking news on this. >> i talked to a dhs official about this just some time ago and i wanted more information with the payment was four, the dating, the timeline on this, and this official told me but $21 million did go to the hotel and the remainder was for food and security services and the like but it was for december and

january, prior to trump being elected, and so -- >> john: these were retroactive payments. >> for bills from that time. now dhs's frustration with that is they say the official made the payment didn't have the authority to do that and basically was on rubber on autopilot, rubber-stamped it but should have checked first before doling that out. i thought the timing of that was interesting. >> john: if these were payments that were owed from the previous administration, can the government just say no we're not going to pay pay you are are thy obligated? >> going to get interesting legally because kristi noem is talking about. generally speaking over this fight over funding, there are still terms governing contracts, leases, appropriations, and the like, so i think we're going to have to assess each of these cases, you know, on a case-by-case basis, but i was encouraged, john, from a constitutional perspective

today, judge issuing that clarifying order, the federal government can freeze funding, they do not need preclearance from the courts, look terms, they support it, ane reason that i found that to be a relief was because frankly i have been concerned and i said this on their yesterday that we are headed towards a constitutional crisis that the judiciary is making so i thought this was a step in the right direction in restoring that balance of the separation of powers but we will see how this goes going forward. >> john: the democrats are saying it is donald trump precipitating the constitutional crisis and as if you take a look at this, i don't see how you see that other than it is a good talking point, particularly when the president says he is going to abide by court decisions. listen here. >> abide by the courts and then appeal it peered what he has done is slowed down the momentum and gives crooked people more time to cover up the

books. you know if a person is crooked and they get caught other people see that and all of a sudden it becomes harder later on. yeah, the answer is i always abide by the courts, always abide by them, and we will appeal. but appeals take a long time. >> john: so this idea the democrats are screaming from the rooftops but a constitutional crisis would appear to be powerful rhetoric for them but not much more than that. >> i think there needs to be a conversation, a lack of national conversation now about the fact that article three is just as capable of interfering in a coequal branch as article two, and so i think there are pockets these cases fall in. somewhere i think it is just obvious that the judiciary is interfering with legitimate function, day-to-day operations of the executive branch. >> john: you were saying yesterday how many thousand federal judges? >> there are a lot. >> john: the democrats can go

shopping around -- >> forum shopping is a known thing. in these cases it has been clear for anyone who follows the courts that the democrats, and republicans do this, too, but it is a thing, they are looking for friendly jurisdictions and judges to basically stop donald trump's agenda via death by a thousand legal cuts. >> john: not just a friendly judge, a judge that does not like donald trump. >> sandra: mostly democrat appointed judges. hearing tomorrow on usaid and whether the trump administration can offer paid leave to these usaid employees and in effect shut down usaid is a trump-appointed judge and here he said look, i want more briefing on the issue, let's pause this and take a look, so it will be interesting to see what comes out of that hearing tomorrow. >> john: article one, article two, article three, all of these. thank goodness you are here because my head is spinning with all of this stuff. thank you, kerri, appreciate it. >> sandra: next up, i am going to take a walk next door to the fox weather studio to take a look at some dangerous which are

whether that may be heading your way. >> john: plus we were just talking about this, a federal judge defined president trump by ordering the restoration of web pages that were removed due to his executive order. details on that coming up plus this. >> that is a constitutional crisis. that is a crisis for our democracy. >> what we are witnessing is a constitutional crisis. >> to defy court orders brings up a constitutional crisis peered. >> sandra: all right, joining us next on that, judge jeanine is here. she will react to that narrative of a constitutional crisis next. (tom) i'd like to take a moment to address my fellow veterans because i know so many of you have served our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility for a va loan... ...for up to 100% of your home's value. if you need cash for your family, call newday usa. with automatic authority from the va... ...we can say “yes” when banks say “no.” give us a call.

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>> sandra: all right fox weather alert as their winter storms possibly heading your way, lots of rain coming to the northeast but some warm weather

town south is going to cause havoc for some areas in the country, 40 states affected, millions of people which is why we are going to talk to the professionals and take a walk to the fox weather studio next door to ours and can update from meteorologist ian oliver in a live broadcast over there but definitely get an idea of how much snow may be coming your way and a lot of snow forecast of a week ago here is now going to be rain periods. >> just an indicator some totals could be cut down just a bit and some of that dry air works in. we've got sandra arriving. >> sandra: thanks for letting us come in peered what can you tell us about how people all over the country are going to be impacted? >> talking about your hometown. >> sandra: let's do it, chicago. >> snow start, deficit of 15 inches, 3-5 inches of snow in the forecast. this is something we are watching, dry air to the south and west that could cut down on some of that but des moines, milwaukee has a few inches, places snow is big business and

they are down with deficits of more than a foot, iowa has done pretty well with some tallies like knoxville up over half a foot. >> sandra: what do you mean deficit? >> the average. >> sandra: so they are not getting as much as they should this time of year. but they have a lot coming their way. >> yes. >> sandra: make up for it. >> they are going to put a little dent in it. they have had three stinkers in a row, not had an above average winter in about four years, so a rough go. >> sandra: a lot coming to chicago and midwest cities, a lot of snow heading our way will be rain. >> this storm cuts over the great lakes and brings warm air, another mess. we have been stuck with these -- >> sandra: people are complaining about the travel like crazy. >> there will be some ice and snow and a bunch of rain moving to the mid-atlantic and the northeast. we've got somebody right there -- >> sandra: the midwest. >> the chicago river, fox weather correspondent robert ray joins us live now. >> sandra: look at that! >> you have been to chicago a

bunch of times. they have not had a 3-inch snowstorm so far this year. is this the one? >> this is the one, sandra, ian, and everybody. it is not going to be the performer we thought it was going to be, i don't think, but anything goes in chinatown, sandra, you know this, we know how complex these systems, once you think oh, we're going to get a big dump of snow, it all changes. look at this, look at the canyon of buildings and the snow just drifting across the chicago river. it really is quite beautiful. we were just out on the lake and the ice on the shore, pancake ice, as they call it, freezing now, the city of chicago are ready for anything. they have been dropping all of the salt and we are awaiting this, going to continue throughout the afternoon and evening, guys. i don't know, i kind of dig it. i am looking for more.

back to you. >> sandra: i know right where you are standing, on the river, the towers, go way back in chicago days. a lot of snow coming down. >> have not had 3-inch snow, looks like the person behind you, another rare snow, too. >> i think everybody out here is enjoying the snow basically because -- are you enjoying it? >> i am not from, i came. dream big. >> enjoy the snow, sir, i appreciate it peered back to you peered. >> sandra: robert, thank you. >> there you go. it has been a while. before we let you go, i did want to tell you there is a big severe weather threat, the warm side of the storm, just issued tornado watches in louisiana and mississippi, so we will be

watching that on fox weather. >> sandra: both of my hometowns. >> busy, busy. >> sandra: thank you for the update. we will keep and i peered no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing. robert ray knows how to dress, okay. it so much see you. ♪ ♪ >> so if people receive money, they don't complain, obviously, but if people don't receive money, they do complain. and the fraudsters complained the loudest and fastest. so then when you understand that, then it makes sense. >> john: d.o.g.e. and elon musk issuing warnings in government spending as the trump administration cuts costs, why the u.s. is teetering on bankruptcy peered we will bring it down with bank of chicago president austan goolsbee just ahead plus are mask mandates back? new requirements today. is this necessary? we will put that question just ahead.

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>> john: the trump administration border crackdown shows positive signs peered fox news learning the daily gotaways have decreased by 93% during the highest day during biden's term. totals dropped from 1800 per day down to 32. bill melugin is live in los angeles. is the border dead quiet right now, bill? >> john, it really is, so much so to the point where if i were to go down there right now i would probably have trouble finding any crossings, which is obviously not what i am used to peered one of the biggest tests of true border security is how y illegal aliens are staking into the country without apprehension, known as gotaways. we have new data showing the number of gotaways is falling off a cliff during trump's first weeks in office. a senior dhs source tells fox news since february 1st the average daily number of reported gotaways at the southern border has been 132 per day, a 93% drop

since the all-time highs during the biden administration back in fiscal year 2023 when average daily gotaways were over 1,800 every single day. the steep drop in gotaways suggest the trump administration strict approach at the border has an immediate impact, with a senior dhs official telling fox in part quote we have only just begun. policy matters. internal data obtained by fox news reveals nearly 2 million gotaways recorded sneaking into the u.s. during the four years of the biden administration with a record high stunning 670,000 gotaways just in fiscal year 2023 alone. all while we remember the administration was repeatedly claiming that the border was closed and secure. and a reminder gotaways are tracked and counted by cbp via cameras and sensors. border patrols sees them and knows they are there but are unable to apprehend them. dhs officials tell us why 132 a

day is a great start for now, they plan to get that number a whole lot lower in the coming months. john? >> john: well, they seem to have been pretty effective lowering the numbers so far. bill melugin, thank you. now this. >> it is not optional for us to reduce the federal expenses, it is essential. it is essential for america to remain solvent as a country. it is essential for america to have the resources necessary to provide things to its citizens and not just vast amount of d debt. >> sandra: a stark warning from elon musk as they push full steam ahead to slash government spending. democrats still denouncing d.o.g.e. is unlawful but president trump ordering all government agencies to comply with d.o.g.e., let's bring in austan goolsbee and get his thoughts, federal bank of chicago. your thoughts on d.o.g.e., do you support it? >> well, look, it is great to see you again, sandra.

kudos from your old hometown out in chicago. we are buried under snow. the thing about the fed, as you know, we are in the interest-rate business, not in the fiscal policy tax and spending business. anyway, it doesn't make any difference what i or anyone from the fed thinks. the congress and the administration are going to do what they are going to do and those are the conditions. like you said, there is no bad weather, only bad clothing. that is the motto of the fed. that goes into the economic conditions. if they cut government spending substantially and that gives space, let's call it fiscal space, to reduce deficits, if that lowers interest rates, that makes the fed's job easier. >> sandra: amen to that. it is not like they are disconnected, just not in the business of weighing in on d.o.g.e. but surely it affects

what you decide to do every day, right? when it comes to interest rates, the reason why we have seen interest rates go up so much is because of massive federal spending that led to inflation that had to be tamed, therefore interest rates had to go up to get the situation under control. so if d.o.g.e. is effective in cutting government spending and debt, doesn't that, to your point, just make yours and the federal reserve's job easier? >> it could. there are a lot of reasons why inflation went up. there were a lot of supply shocks involved in there, too, the price of oil, the supply chains, things like that. but anything that affects the fed's dual mandate, the law tells us we've got to stabilize prices and maximize employment. anything that helps the economy grow without inflation or reduces the inflation rate makes

our lives easier. i think i agree with you. >> sandra: okay. i want to play what we just heard in the white house briefing room. i heard it and we have to ask austin about that. a reporter outstanding flatten of a question about inflation and got a response from karoline leavitt. >> the fed said it is holding rates steady to try to tamp down further inflation so how would lowering rates help keep inflation in check for the american people? >> sure. first of all on the inflation point we did receive those numbers and they were worse than expected which tells us that the biden administration indeed left us with a mess to deal with. it is far worse than i think anybody anticipated because unfortunately the previous administration was not transparent in where the economy truly was. we know people at this very faux podium told the american people that inflation was transitory and that it would go away. that was not the case. now the last report of the biden administration as revealed today shows that inflation is still

about 4.5% higher over the past three months. this is an indictment on the biden administration's mismanagement of the inflation crisis and their lack of transparency in addressing it. as for tackling inflation and interest rates, the president has made his position on this very clear. he wants interest rates to be lower. he wants inflation to be lower, and he believes that the whole of government economic approach at this administration is taking will result in lower inflation. i have said that from this podium many times, the president had record low inflation rates in his first term. he believes the economy can withstand it, it is a whole of t economic approach and have talked about what we are doing to tackle inflation quite a few times at this podium. >> sandra: i wanted to play that out, austan, because it is important to listen to the details of this administration and how they plan to get those prices down, and it's an interesting point, right, because the president on one hand says he wants to get

interest rates down to make housing more affordable and loans more affordable for the average american. however, if we are still dealing with this inflation problem, if we see rates go lower, doesn't that just exacerbate what is already an inflation problem that is out there? and doesn't seem to have gone away yet? >> partly. it depends on what the causes of the inflation are. there were many factual statements in there. everyone has to agree there is no sense in the inflation numbers today which are concerning though they are just one month, they are not the result of any policy of the new administration peered we have been dealing with inflation that was too high for some years. i joined the fed about two years ago, the inflation rate was already very high, and we at the fed have been spending our time trying to get it down.

>> sandra: austan, it is not working. >> the trade-off, yeah. >> sandra: why isn't it working? inflation seems to only keep going up. >> well, inflation in '23 and going into '24 fell almost as much as it has ever fallen in a single year, and we didn't have a recession. >> sandra: that's fair. >> last january we saw something very similar to what we just saw today, which was this bump up in inflation and then it came down again. i think we have to figure out what the causes of inflation are, and there are tensions. there is a balance between not wanting to reduce growth and harm the economy, versus not wanting it to overheat. if the administration carries out higher growth, higher productivity, again, that makes the fed's job easier. >> sandra: austan, it sounds like you are a fan of the policies we have seen so far from the administration

economically. >> i am for growth and fighting inflation. anything that does that, i am for it. >> sandra: austan, so much more to dig into, i would love to have you back. thank you for enduring the cold, snowy chicago weather to join us. john? >> john: bird flu on the rise across america, but the centers for disease control says it is low risk to humans. we will bring a doctor who believes there are some red flags indicating the possibility that a pandemic could be coming up. stay with us. ory. we handcraft every stearns & foster® using the finest materials, like indulgent memory foam, will

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let's bring in a board-certified rheumatologist. there are so many effects from the bird flu, particularly on egg prices. back in the beginning of december, eggs were $3.93 a gallon, yesterday, sorry, a dozen, now $8.11 a dozen, concerns about dairy cows being infected, whether the milk supply is safe, and 68 cases, 11 states, among human beings with one death, what do you think of all of this? >> first of all i want my egg prices back down again. eggs are so healthy in our diets and now we have to have limitations on buying them. so what i think is there is no cause for an alarm to panic right now but we have to be vigilant. with bird flu, there are a few red flags we have to take into consideration. one is just the geographic distribution, all over the u.s. and the world, not just one or two states. then the duration, it has been going on too long now.

the jump from the birds to mammals is another concern, and the new york case had new mutations, so when you look as a whole, it does concern the potential for a pandemic, so we have to exert some caution. how do we do that? obviously hand washing is so important. i was thinking about petting zoos which we take our kids there, may be avoiding petting zoos for a few weeks or a few months, obviously farmers have to use protective clothing when contact with these animals, and avoiding raw milk, i think unpasteurized milk, unpasteurized cheeses is actually very dangerous, and the flu shot, it is not going to directly prevent bird flu but let's say you get the flu and simultaneously you are coinfected with the bird flu. well what happens as these viruses love to play with one another and they shuffle and what happens is the bird flu

virus will develop the mutations that it needs to spread from human to human. if that happens, that is potentially the start of a pandemic. we want to avoid that. >> john: we so what happened five years ago that made it transmissible to humans. so because of so much respiratory, covid, rsv, the flu, university of pittsburgh medical center serves millions of patients and has reinstated mass mandates mass mandates as of today, take us to the days of covid. is that prudent thing to do? >> john, i certainly don't want to see mask mandates back, but the reality is we are seeing the highest rates of flu cases in the past 15 years and i think in the right setting, judiciously, it makes sense, health centers, emergency rooms and hospitals, pregnant patients, cancer patients, patients with heart

and lung diseases, and these vulnerable patients if they get the infection, than they are at higher risk of developing further complications like pneumonia and icu space. in select populations i think it makes sense peered in my practice i have not implanted it, i do not plan on doing it. i did wear a mask a few weeks ago when i was sick but i'm leaving that is a voluntary decision for patients. >> john: hopefully we will not all be back to wearing masks again. in a setting where you have so many sick people and vulnerable people at the same time, maybe it is a good idea. we will see. dock, great to see you. >> great seeing you, things for having me. >> sandra: democrats keep crying constitutional crisis! the white house is reacting. judge jeanine is here next.

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>> john: today the senate voting to confirm tulsi gabbard as the director of national intelligence. the vote was 52-48 mean the across party lines with the exception of senator mitch mcconnell. white house press secretary karoline leavitt responding. >> i think we are greatly disappointed in any republican who chooses willfully to vote against the president cabinet nominees and picks to lead his america first administratiol

republicans to vote to stays tough and strong, vote for president trump's nominees to continue to work very hard to implement this president's agenda. >> john: and trump nominee rfk jr. advanced to a senate vote and expected to be confirmed as health and human services secretary tomorrow morning. we will be watching that for y you. >> people into believing there is a constitutional crisis taking place here at the white house. i have been hearing those words a lot lately. but in fact the real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch where district court judges in liberal district across the country are abusing their power to unilaterally block president trump's basic executive authority. we believe these judges are acting as judicial activists rather than honest arbiters of the law. quick news flash to these liberal judges who are supporting their obstructionist

efforts. 77 million americans voted to elect this president. we will comply with the law and the courts, but we will also continue to seek every legal remedy to ultimately overturn these radical injunctions and ensure president trump's policies can be enacted. >> sandra: press secretary karoline leavitt at the white house a short time ago dismissing concerns of a constitutional crisis. joining us as judge jeanine, cohost of "the five," great to have you here. she was responding to, for example, these cries from democrats. listen. >> that is a constitutional crisis. that is a crisis for our democracy. >> we've got our toes right on the edge of a constitutional crisis here. >> what we are witnessing is a constitutional crisis. >> sandra: boy was it an interesting moment when karoline leavitt stepped up to the podium, it wasn't a question she took, she addressed that head on in her briefing. >> that's what's great about

karoline leavitt. she is very much like her boss. she is a straight shooter with a smile. look, this man was elected by popular vote, swing states, we know all of that, and 70% of the american people believe that he is following through on his promises. 83% of the american people felt that we need a wholesale change in this country, and now what they are trying to do, the democrats, is there objecting to the fact that he is actually looking at the books of his own administration. i mean so we should just continue to give money out to foreign governments, to foreign nongeos, foreign individuals, a step up for kickbacks and corruption. and we shouldn't ask anything about it. the threat to democracy is now l crisis. first of all none of those people who just spoke i think are qualified to even tell you what a constitutional crisis is. >> sandra: fair enough. >> in the end what we have is a president who is doing a forensic analysis of the books of this country. these are our books.

these are our taxpayer dollars. this is what we give to the government, and you have the audacity, you people, to give it for trans story hour in guatemala or to have an opera in columbia or all of this trans surgeries for kids -- no. >> sandra: judge, amazing reaction to that, and while you are here i'm going to ask you about the karen reed trial because i know you have been covering this for fox nation and have a special, as well. we got word she is set to be retried on all previous charges after this high court decision in massachusetts, she is accused of hitting and killing her boyfriend, john o'keefe, with her car back in january of 2022, what happens here? >> what her defense was trying to say was, you know, the fellow police officers at a party, they ended up beating him up, and she didn't do it, she didn't ram her car in and put it in reverse. what is frustrating about this whole thing is for many months,

i was reading that the jury acqur on murder in the second degree and leaving the scene of an accident. that is not what happened. the highest court of massachusetts said no, this was a jury that was not able to reach a verdict, so the judge decided that he was going -- they were going to retry the case, but they influenced the press so much, they had the press convinced and me that the jury had rendered a verdict on murder 2, but they didn't, so there is no double jeopardy, she gets try to get on murder, leaving the scene, and manslaughter peered. >> sandra: we are going to be right back.se judge jeanine,as thank you so mh peered we will be right back. keep living life, because there are places you'd like to be. (♪) serious side effects include increased ketones in blood or urine and bacterial infection between the anus and genitals, both which may be fatal, severe allergic reactions, dehydration, urinary tract or genital yeast infections, and low blood sugar. stop taking and tell your doctor right away

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>> big day tomorrow. rfk jr. confirmation and then the unknown. >> this is going to be a lot, i'm sure. >> thank you for joining us. >> the story with martha starts right now. >> martha: thank you you guys. good after