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♪ >> brian: all right. here we go. glad you are there. we are here. it's 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. >> it is thursday, february 13th. and this is "fox & friends." another day, another possible deal. president trump says talks to end russia's war in ukraine will begin immediately. can he get it done? we're going to ask kellyanne. conway. >> steve: d.e.a. agents arresting 100 people in a massive series of raids in colorado, including some with gang ties. wait until you hear biden investor public schools are now suing the trump administration. >> ainsley: plus congresswoman aoc wants migrants to know how

to avoid ice agents. >> they either want to deceive you into thinking that they are nice or they lie so that you come to believe that they do have a right to enter. >> ainsley: the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. >> president trump's america first agenda front and center on the world stage today as top members of his administration are in europe, letting other leaders know where our priorities are, where they are going to be for the next four years. >> brian: lucas tomlinson is live at nato headquarters in brussels right now. lucas, you have had an exciting trip, what's on at that point? >> well, brian, defense secretary pete hegseth has returned here to nato headquarters in brussels, urging nato allies to produce more weapons to stand up to russia. earlier met with the nato secretary general who said that russia makes more weapons in three months than the entire nato alliance makes in one year.

now, yesterday, hegseth had some blunt words for nato as well. he said it was an unrealistic goal to have ukraine return to pre2024 borders. of course, ukraine is not in nato. and he said that there are no plans to put ukraine in nato. and, of course, russia still controls about 20% of ukraine and hegseth says it's unrealistic to get those borders back to pre2024 borders. now, hegseth not the only senior member of the trump administration in europe as you mentioned, ainsley, vice president vance in paris following global ai conference. now on a flight munich leading the american delegation to try to end russia's war on ukraine. yesterday president trump spoke to both the presidents of russia and ukraine and echoed what the defense secretary pete hegseth said here in brussels it was unrealistic for ukraine to retake land captured by russia and said ukraine will not be joining nato. here is trump on those phone calls. >> we had a great call. and it lasted for a long time, over an hour this morning.

i also had with president zelenskyy a very good call after that. and i think we are on the way to getting peace. i think president putin wants peace. and president zelenskyy wants peace. and i want peace. i just want to see people stop getting killed. >> so, again, the word from the white house and the pentagon is unrealistic for ukraine to retake those borders from before 2014. that area controlled by russia now. the phone calls took place on the same day trump's director of national intelligence was sworn. in tulsi gabbard, no democrats voted for brian, not even bernie sanders, and tulsi gabbard also met with india's prime minister ahead of his meeting with president trump later today at the white house. and here at nato headquarters, guys, the defense secretary peghtd will be addressing the press later. having a press conference, that's a few hours from now, guys? >> brian: one of the messages you got to spend more on defense. on average, nato members, europe mostly, 1.7% of their income.

of their g.d.p. i was shocked with the current taken into account russians spend 42%, unsustainable. that's more than all of europe. >> they are on a war time economy now, brian. and as we heard from the defense minister, the defense secretary of nato russia makes more weapons in three months more than all of nato in a year. before coming on with you guys, i spoke to finland's defense minister, he wants nato to spend much more on weapons because he is concerned if a peace agreement is agreed to, he fears that it's going to give russia more time to rearm. conscripting charges and attack a nato member five years from now. there is certainly a sense of urgency at nato headquarters. united states has different priorities now. it's not what is going on in europe. it's china and the u.s. southern border, guys. >> ainsley: tell us about the negotiations, i heard pete hegseth say the borders are

going to have to change. something we are going to have to live with. people obviously upset that russia has invaded ukraine and moved in and taken some of their territory. he said to negotiate some of those borders, we are just going to have to deal with some of the changes. >> lucas: well, ainsley, what many officials are saying in nato it's reality on the ground. frontlines in ukraine have not changed much in over two years. they are very static. russia will take a small village in eastern ukraine, and, of course, destroy the entire place, you know, tens of thousands of ukrainians have been killed. millions have fled the country, but the concern here is that to get to a durable peace, you have to make a deal with the russians. the concern is, of course, will vladimir putin honor any agreement. he has not done it in the past, ainsley. >> steve: lucas, one final thing, and we're looking forward to pete hegseth's press conference because he made a lot of news yesterday. essentially he said that europe was going to essentially have to take care of their own security, they said. they have to take ownership of

conventional security for europe. and that's why they are suggesting now, rather than 2%, every nato nation needs to cough up 5%. and that would put them more on a war footing. but, here's my question for you. pete also said that the united states is prioritizing deterring war with china in the pacific. so, is that where the pentagon is going to aim in suddenly it's going to be let's worry about that big body of water between us and california and china? there is no question, steve, the priority of the trump administration is to focus on the southern border as well as china. people want to see the united states navy get more warships, more submarines in the water. if you look at the u.s. navy they should have 66 attack boats in the water. there is only 48. 40% of those down for maintenance at any time. again, the concern here is that nato members need to step up, take care of their own security and do a lot more. >> brian: whole socialist economy doesn't lend a whole

economy into defense. that's got to change. lucas, thank you so much. >> steve: because we can't do it forever discussions they said put nato troops separating. if you attack those troops it wouldn't be like attacking a nato. who wouldment to sit between ukraine and russia 1506789 troops would be americans that's the worry. meanwhile, the department of government efficiency, also known as doge securing two big wins in courts with one judge restoring donald trump's federal buyout program for employees. >> brian: 75,000 seem to want to take it. another access to federal funds under certain conditions peter doocy joins us live from the white house with all the details. hey, peter. >> white house officials think they have now shrunken the federal workforce by about 3%. because 75,000 workers took the

so-called fork in the road buyout and a judge in massachusetts is telling unions suing to stop it. they don't have the standing. the quote is the unions do not have the required directed stake in the fork directive, this is not sufficient, second, the court looks subject -- lacks subject matter jurisdiction to consider the plaintiff's pleaded claims. more good news for the doge team at the white house came from a federal judge in rhode island who ruled that the white house can cut or freeze federal funding as long as they are following existing rules and regulation. >> they are taking massive amounts of money and spending it on items. i went through a list of 200 expenditures that were made. and i found three that looked like they were reasonable. i want to commend elon because he has done a fantastic -- he doesn't need this. he is abused by you people every

day. hhe has found more things than anybody could find. i think he hats credibility to do it. i know he dose only one on his schedule we can see is side by side india's prime minister. so, if the president's plan holds, then mr. modi is going to get a crash course in waste, fraud and abuse from the u.s. federal government back to you. >> brian: peter, modi is coming to deal. he understands tariffs coming his way. he wants to get ahead of it. he understands an imbalance between the countries. do you get the sense is that what your read is that he is going to come to avoid some tariffs? >> peter: we'll see. i know that it is very uncommon for modi to engage with the press at all. we were kind of surprised to see that there was an open press event for 5:10 this evening on the schedule. but, assuming that it holds, and they both show, then it will be

something that nobody in the world sees very often because, again, he just really does not engage very much. >> steve: so if it's at 5:10, does that mean the cast of "the five" only has to work 50 -- 10 minutes today and 50 minutes of the press conference? >> i'm sure trump and modi will catch the a block and wait for the break and come out then. steve as we all do. thank you peter. >> ainsley: peter said they have already shrunken the workforce 10%. do they have any plans to shrink it further? they have offered all federal workers to take that buyout. >> steve: the deadline they said initially it was going to be at midnight tonight. they said yesterday, when they said hey, the judge gave us the green light on this, they said it is now closed. 75,000 people apparently took that deal. might have been more, you know, had it been codified because it still could wind up in court again. >> brian: 10 minutes after the hour. talk more about what is going to happen today. yesterday was incredible. doge had their first

subcommittee hearing chaired by marjorie taylor greene. all you heard was yelling and ranting about elon musk and the billionaire bros and nothing about what he was cutting. and nothing about what the ultimate objective was to get rid of fraud and abuse in our system and try to get the deficit down, which is taking more from our income and our country than any other exbenefit temperature, including defense. but today is going to be the house foreign affairs committee, to hold hearings on the usaid. and they're going to have to justify what they are doing spending it on. the 600 to 10,000 and fold it into the state department. >> steve: we just talked to former administrator and he was in an eye-opening interview because he said that a lot of the stuff that's getting the headlines, of course, was actually money state department and things like that he said and

this makes a lot of sense, when the doge team goes in and is he say okay. let me see your books and they start looking at stuff. what this guy said what they should do some of the doge representatives should go out in the field and see how they are spending the money. they will realize usaid actually has some value. i do know somebody who has been in the room at one of the government agencies that we have not discuss dollars, whether the doge guys came in and essentially what they say is simply, okay, tell us what you do. and let us see your books. and so then they will figure out from that little conversation, how much they need. but to his point, it makes a lot of sense go see what people need. >> brian: do we need a dei musical in ireland? >> ainsley: exactly. elon musk has been working his tail off. seen the pictures of him sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor. world summit in dubai. this was earlier today. watch this. >> we really have here rule of

the bureaucracy as opposed to the roughly the people democracy. we want to restore rule of the people. and so what that means is reducing the size of the federal government. basically reducing regulation, you know, there's a tremendous amount of overregulation that's happened over time. >> i think we do need to delete entire agencies as opposed to leave part of them behind. if you leave part of them behind, it's easy -- kind of like leaving a weed -- if you don't remove the roots of the weed, then it's easy for the weed to grow back. >> brian: you just look at some of the things, the questionable usaid expenditures and you have been through it and roll it gender diversity support in bangladesh, lgbtq group parades, assisting migrants in columbia. zerbeian gay groups. evs for vietnam. evs do this and vietnam does

this. okay. but when it comes down to what we're spending money on. you can have an adviser go over there to the state department, writing checks, i think those days are done. until we can find a way to do what bill clinton and newt gingrich did. and that gets our deficit down to zero. i know foreign aid small amount and i'm all for it and most of us are all for it. this seems frivolous. this is a political agenda. that is what i think that you see at the dnc. this is what they would support. >> ainsley: you hear elon musk want to wipe out some. thinks it's a good idea to wipe out. so federal agency. department of education one of those. linda mcmahon will take questions from the senators before her confirmation before she is -- for her nomination before she is confirmed. she is most likely going to focus on what shield do to help dedissolve that department. school choice and address the poor k through 12 achievement. the president said we are number 40 in the world but yet number

one cost per pupil to pay for them to get an education. >> steve: indeed. that is one of the things that donald trump ran on. he said if elected i'm going to try to do my best to get rid of the department of education, send the power back to the people in the states and the localities, also, the number one and number two issue. he ran on the economy and he ran on the border. and so far, once again, we're seeing dramatic images of a lot of exactly what he promised. ice agents are going across the country and they are sweeping up criminal ailing yens. and there's an operation over the last couple weeks in denver, it's called return to sender, operation return to sender. it included those 10 people and some of them were arrested at that edge at lowery apartment building in aurora. and they were all illegal migrants. and some of the worst drug criminals in the united states have been rounded up over the

last two and a half weeks. >> ainsley: yep. and the dea agent that interviewed with the local fox station there said they are working with the fbi. they are working with ice. they are working with hsi. these are all federal law enforcement and they have been told by the administration you have to work together now. and so he said. >> steve: good. >> >> ainsley: he said we are collaborate celebrating in ways we never have before. we are taking the information in dea's tank and ice's tank and hhs tank and putting it all together. collaborating in ways we have never seen before in my entire career. this was a big problem. remember, under joe biden the agencies would come on and complain that they can't work together? they can't share databases? >> brian: remember, he was taking away the ice agents. weighs diminishing them. shrinking them down. telling them basically not to use. they and for a while, ice was looked at as the bad guys. now we are not. the collaboration is certainly heartening.

at denver public schools they are taking action to sue the president's administration to block raids at schools. but the problem with raids at schools is it's needed it's because you have gang members, many of which we have seen here 16, 17, 18 years old that go to school. by the way they need all types of extra training and course because they don't understand the language which takes away from their kids and they will grab them. they are not going after the kids of parents who have been here 25 years. that's going to be something different. i think it's going to be a conversation with reform. but the denver public schools say the dps is hindering fulfilling educational services to the students refraining from attending dps schools they fear enforcement actions occurring keep them on the ground. so they're not going to school. kids aren't learning because they are afra i had of being detained. >> steve: right. >> ainsley: ains students are terrified and parents they want to see their schools as a safe place but they should be terrified if they're a gang

member. they should be scared of being arrested and sent back to their country. >> brian: if you are here illegally it's an issue. >> steve: what they're arguing as they go ahead and sue the federal government is we are supposed to provide an education. we can't do it if the kids can't get on the buses and can't go to the school for fear of being deported. that's their argument. we had on "fox & friends" sunday, tom homan talking a little bit about any sort of migration efforts and ice efforts at schools and this is what he had to say when people asked him about that. >> there is no sanctuary for a significant public safety threat or a national security threat. so, we have information on ms-13 gang member that's wanted for a brutal crime. and is he sitting in class at a high school, we will go in with local authorities and arrest that gang member. we are not sweeping the school. we are not raiding the school. we are going to arrest one person. every law enforcement agency has that ability. ice should be no different. this is about protecting the

communities. again, a message that there's no sanctuary -- there is no safe haven for violent criminal or national security threat. >> brian: do you realize, too, how important that is to get that word out? because the people and families that are going to be coming here i will go to aurora, i will go to denver and live a great life. it's not going to be worth it. because america is enforcing immigration rules. two years now from now be a conversation about people who are here. be a conversation about massive influx of work visas for people that are doing valuable jobs that americans are not doing. don't want. system already set up in place. i think there is going to be a conversation in a couple of years about the h h 1 visas. stanford and stay here get education to make america better. that's what elon musk has talked about. but for the next couple of years, you are going to hear about the wall. you are going to hear about enforcement. because you can't move forward on any reform unless you have

security. >> ainsley: keep in mind these are criminals. the dea said they were trafficking fentanyl pills other drugs and weapons. going to be less criminals for the drug trafficking organizations like the sinaloa and the jalissa cartels to poison off the streets of california. >> where the venezuelaens are going back to venezuela. first time in a year. you get the bad guys and put them in shackles and send them right back. maduro is taking them back. >> steve: ultimately come down to one of those court decisions. ultimately, it's who has the authority to keep america safe. we have heard in the past, it's the federal government. that was during the biden years. suddenly donald trump's administration is in charge of migration and it looks a lot different there. is a criminal element here in sanctuary spots. what's a judge going to go the mayor is oh, what are you

talking about left those apartment complexes empty. good people can't go inside and gangsters has left. >> ainsley: so much has happened already first two weeks. hand it over to carley for headlines. >> carley: sticking with this topic listen to the details here. ice agents in boston arresting illegal migrant from guatemala now charged with several counts of aggravated and forcible rape of a child. detainer ignored by a local court in 2022 despite him being a previously convicted criminal. he now remains in ice custody. an agent saying, quote: he is exactly the type of alien we are targeting with our, quote: worst first policy. he posed a significant danger and we will not tolerate such a threat to our community. >> a fox news alert here. a driver plowing into a large group of demonstrators in munich, germany, a few hours ago hurting 20 people. local outlets report that at

least two of those injuries are considered very serious. eyewitnesses believe the driver's actions seemed intentional. although no official word from police at this time. the incident comes just a day ahead of the munich security conference where vice president j.d. vance is scheduled to be meeting with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. a busy day ahead on capitol hill. in just a few hours, r.f.k. jr. is facing a senate confirmation vote for health and human services secretary nomination. meanwhile kash patel's nomination for fbi director could be voted out of committee. patel is expected to massively overhaul the bureau including firing agents and top leaders. a confirmation hearing is happening today for linda mcmahon, trump's pick for education secretary and it comes as trump is signaling plans to dismantle her department. in her opening statements she is promising to, quote. protect the rights of parents to direct the moral education of their children. and if you are visiting our nation's capital in d.c. you can soon stop by the white house. melania trump says she is,

quote: excited to reopen white house tours to the public after they were put on pause as her husband's transitions into the oval office. the first lady says quote: this opportunity is unique among nations around the globe a tradition we are honored to continue for the hundreds of thousands of visitors who come each year, tours resume on february 25th and must be submitted through a member of congress. those your headlines, guys. >> brian: will she give the tour? >> steve: no. >> carley: they hire people for that steve stheef they have tour guides. >> ainsley: i wonder if they will pop in. donald trump used to do that at weddings. >> carley: imagine being the bride and seeing the president? >> steve: if you ask your member for tour of the white house also ask them for a tour of the capitol because it's really cool. >> ainslcool. >> carley: i thought you were going to say the c cafeteria. >> steve: good and expensive. >> ainsley: did you see the white house and the smithsonian. >> carley: did i, amazing.

>> brian: never made it to washington as a child. >> ainsley: go in the summertime because it's so cold. i remember waiting for the washington monument. we waited outside for like an hour. mom and dad put long johns on us. and i was so cold. crying. they are like no, we are waiting. >> steve: it wasn't your summer vacation? >> ainsley: no. we were there in the winter. dad was a basketball coach. they had games there or something. >> steve: great. >> brian: washington had the cap toll stopped for a while ran out of financing and civil war happened rebuilt it ran out of the quarry. >> steve: limestone. >> brian: when you walked through you could see the change on the inside. >> steve: same thing with the washington monument. >> brian: that's what i was saying. >> ainsley: space ice cream? >> steve: freeze dried. >> brian: more on that later i guess. >> steve: it's delicious. >> brian: another day, another possible deal talks to end russia's talks can he get it

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that's a vicious war. >> people didn't really know what president putin's thoughts were. but i think i can say with great confidence he wants to see it ended, also. >> brian: there you go. another campaign promise comes into focus as president trump says negotiations to end the war in ukraine will begin immediately. fox news contributor, senior white house counselor kellyanne conway is heading to the munich security conference. she joins us now where a lot is likely to get done. kellyanne, how important was that 90 minute call with vladimir putin yesterday? >> brian, it was incredibly important because, remember, president biden never talked to putin for years. they have admitted that at the white house. you can't negotiate a just and peaceful result in a war next monday a week from monday will have been three years in the making. i want to level set this way. president trump was very transparent and forthcoming about the contents of that call with vladimir putin. he has also been very transparent and forthcoming with his calls and meetings with

volodymyr zelenskyy. the president of ukraine. and trump, we all know him as a great negotiator and dealmaker, but he very recently said he wants his legacy to be a unifier and peacemaker. he is well on his way to doing that brian, for three and a half years, marc fogel was in russia. the biden people couldn't get him out. it took donald trump 22 days to get him out. and he credited vladimir putin and his folks yesterday with helping to bring the hostage home. i think all of this is a catalyst for ending this war. look, we talked about pete hegseth at nato. we talked about the fact that vice president vance, secretary of state rubio, ric grenell, the special envoy, keith kellogg the special envoy john ratcliffe going to be over in munich and meeting with zelenskyy. guess what? yesterday, the secretary of treasury, scott bessent was in kyiv and ukraine talking about rare minerals and metals. president trump is also fanning out his officials across the globe to even talk about the rebuild. what happens on the back end

after we have a peaceful just end to this war. he wants america to be part of that rebuild. >> brian: how do you feel about a lot of the parameters of the deal being laid out by the secretary of defense and do you believe they are on the same page as the executive branch? >> oh, i know he is. i know that secretary hegseth is speaking on behalf of the president. he is saying this is not mint 3.0. look that up, folks. he is have very clear-headed in echoing what president trump has said before, which is it's a shame but ukraine will have to give up land for peace. they will not be an immediate member of nato. so everybody has been, again, very transparent, truthful and forthcoming about some of these larger parameters and president zelenskyy himself in interviews since he has met with president trump, on the sidelines of notre dame, of course, also right before the election, and they have talked since, he has been very forthcoming, too, that he knows ukraine is probably not going to be able to go back to

its original borders. but, i think that the secretary hegseth and president trump and others make a very important point to remind us, millions of lives have been lost. and this has to end. president trump is the first president in decades, brian, who have presided over no new wars, he has inherited two big ones, if you don't count the one at the border he inherited two big ones and already working on them in earnest and pushing back on iran. all of this is on the chess board. i just lo the fact that he has his team fanned out. i will tell you, i talked to -- i had continuer with diplomats last night. the ai conference in press where vice president vance was. donald trump the talk in the town. dab bows the day donald trump the talk of the down. pawn nic conference trump the talk of the town. they want to know what america is doing as the leader of the free world. they are very curious about that where tariffs, doge, ukraine, middle east, ukraine, maybe -- maybe donald trump will meet with vladimir putin in saudi arabia that could be in the offing. i think everybody should feel

very hopeful that a war that's gone on for three years is going to come to a peaceful end. and america will have access to those rare earth minerals as well. >> brian: i just feel like for the first time, you are one of the few people in the administration. they are all great. but i only felt as though there was a handful that we're really speaking what donald trump was thinking and you were one of them. now i feel like they all are. they feel like they're the same page. they bought. in the rest of the world picks up that, too. that their conversations are exactly the one that donald trump wants them to have. kellyanne, thanks so much. and good luck in munich. >> thank you, brian. thank you. >> brian: $20 million to research reparations. no kidding. don't you know america voted to slash spending? >> donald trump and his co-president, elon musk and their enablers in congress and the courts are working overtime to strip away our rights. ♪

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>> janice: good morning, everyone. we are watching the south where we had severe weather yesterday, last evening. tornadoes over parts of the gulf coast states. and then that storm system across the northeast, we have got a mixture of rain and freezing rain and sleet, especially as you go up towards new england. our next storm system is going to move into the west coast and we could see the potential for heavy rain and mountain snow. and all of that energy is going to travel across the u.s. and give us our next winter storm system for the central u.s. and east coast over the weekend. fox weather.com keep you up to date on all of the conditions i just reported on. steve doocy, i'm going to toss it back inside to you. >> steve: thank you very much. janice, come back in the building. it's cold out there. meanwhile, 77 million americans elected president trump, as you know, that was his total to

slash government spending and eliminate dei, among other things. and yet some democrats are reintroducing a bill that would cost taxpayers $20 million to study and propose reparations. >> donald trump and co-president elon musk and his nationals in enablers incongress stripping ag our rights attacking the diversified, equity and inclusion initiatives. >> >> white supremacy is rampant in country. look at the current administration and our own legislative body. >> steve: here with reaction to those comments, fox news political analyst and caldwell institute founder gianno caldwell. hey, gianno, good morning. >> good morning, thank you for having me, steve. >> steve: you look at the public opinion polls. people like the idea of eliminating government waste and expenditures. particularly things that might not go place its. do we not get that asking for

$20 million to examine something that they have looked at for decades is not going to work? >> right. i mean, liberally there has been deal after deal that's been examinations, history books, americans are very well history. and a history of slavery. but we got to keep in mind, steve, what this is the scam. democratic playbook to reintroduce slavery in the minds of african-americans to get folks emotionally charged, to get headlines, and certainly when there is a vote for it if there were a vote for it to say these republicans are racist they voted against it. that's all it's meant to do look no further than california last year. california has had the majority democrats running the legislative bodies there since 1996. they had an opportunity to do something about reparations, if you will, but then they held it from the governor to prevent him from signing it because that's what they wanted it was only meant to be a scam not a serious topic, steve. >> steve: it was a talking

point. ultimately, when you look at this and people look in and they see those members of congress talking about that thing i think it gives people a hope hey, you know what? those people are fighting for me, it's never going to happen, is it? >> i think people realize that the democrats have provided no hope. and it's been a hopeless situation with them getting anything done. and certainly if you want to put some money anywhere, put money in charter schools. that helps communities of all races, all colors. that uplifts people. education is the key. training can the sea. is the key.put people in automos those things work and uplift families. that's not what their interest is. it's power, domination and continuing the democratic party can have some footstool with the american people but it's not working. that's why you saw so many african-americans and people of all stripes vote for donald trump in 2024.

>> steve: ultimately, i'm sure one of the brick walls they will run into if they actually did another one of these studies would be like, okay, it's an idea but who would we give the money to and how would they prove that never entitled to money and then the amount of money would be, i would imagine, unimaginable. exactly right, steve. like i said, this is a nonstory in my view. when i see stories like this i don't even click on them anymore. because i know what their attempts are. it's not a serious discussion. >> steve: all right. well ours was with you gianno. thank you very much for joining us live. >> thank you so much and i have an event at mar-a-lago february 22nd. i was in the oval office last week with president trump. i personally invited him. i want to encourage our viewers to go to caldwell institute.org and get tickets. thank you, steve. >> steve: you are the guy who runs the caldwell institute so you would know.

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>> ainsley: congresswoman aoc, alexandria ocasio-cortez resisting president trump's deportation agenda, coordinating a seminar, a webinar offering tips to avoid ice agents in her district. >> ice agents will go to homes early in the morning to make arrests. they will stop people on the street or in public places, which could include a public area of a workplace. >> they either want to deceive you into thinking that they are not ice or they lie so that you come to believe that they do have a right to enter. >> so, if you are stopped on the street by an officer, you don't know if it's ice. you don't know if it's your local police, the first thing you have a right to do is ask am i free to go? am i being detained? and if the answer is yes, then you can leave. >> ainsley: but tell that to the voters. just outside of her district,

protesting a mega shelter for migrants, scheduled to open up later this month. joining us now is chairman of the new york young republicans club's bronx caucus christopher reeve. welcome to fox. thanks for coming on. >> thank you for having me. >> ainsley: we wanted to have you on. have you done these protests. what your response when you hear what is happening in your district? you are in aoc's congressional district. this was a webinar. she didn't even show up for it first of all. she could have done it from her bedroom because it's on zoom. >> yes. >> ainsley: what's your response to that. >> first of all being that she wasn't there is a good testament how little she actually cares about her constituents. you know, it's one thing to give people advice on how to evade the law, certainly what she is doing. but it's another thing to do that and then not show up to the webinar that you are supposedly, you know, all about. so, to aoc, i would say talk to your constituents because i have been through these neighborhoods

i have talked nobody wants it there. two protests, one demonstration and the more we have these things the more people show up and i think that should be a good indicator to how people feel about it. >> you grew up in the bronx, what made you become a republican? >> actually, it was -- i was a trump supporter from the moment he came down the golden elevator. but i think what really, you know, the -- what really kind of sprung board me off of this was seeing him in crotona park. i was right in the front row i thought that would be the beginning of some sort of momentum in the bronx republican revolution. and it didn't happen. i decided to take it upon myself to get more involved with the local conservative party. and now here i am. >> and have you had these protests. some of the signs, bronx first, red wave is greater than the migrant wave. people are out there holding these signs. they don't want this. mega migrant shelter in the

bronx. it's 2200 beds. >> yes. >> ainsley: what are people specifically saying to you. >> my wife is the one who actually made those signs. congratulations to her for helping me out here. >> ainsley: oh, good. i'm sorry what was your question? >> ainsley: what are people saying about the migrant shelter. >> people are already saying we are depleted of most resources having 2200 men's only migrant shelter only going to continue that deletion. that on top of the fact men's only migrant shelter a few blocks away from a women's migrant shelter that's in the same neighborhood. so, most of the people that i talk to, regarding this in the neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods, they are concerned for the crime of it and they are concerned for the resource aspect of it. because these people need help themselves. you know, to a certain extent i'm sympathetic to this, you know. i come from a family of immigrants also came here the legal way. and but, you know, we can't help anybody else unless we help ourselves first. i think that's a major message that aoc and these far left

radicals need to hear. >> ainsley: i was amazed when i saw the stats the number of people in new york city it that voted for donald trump when you break it down to the different counties in manhattan he got 11% more votes this time around. kings county which is in brooklyn 13%. richmond 15%. queens 22%. and in your area in the bronx 22% more. we saw him visiting the firefighters. we saw him going to the not hair salons but the barber shops in your area. you heard him speak in that area. why do you think people in this area, liberal blue state or city i should say liked him more this time around? >> i think for the four years that we endured under biden, the desire to preserve one's nation and, you know, put patriotism above all sort of was criticized it's like the opposite of the platform that these democrats are, you know, fighting for.

and i think for the people of the bronx, in particular. it goes to show that they're being ignored further, you know. and the longer that we continue to put eithers first and, you know, sort of sideline american citizens, the easier it's going to get for trump to get support from the burrows. i think his re-election sort of gave new life to the america first philosophy my goal of the new york young republican bronx conference is to transfer into the boroughs, staten island first queens first what have you. yeah. >> ainsley: christopher, thank you for all of your work. great to have see you and have you on? >> thank you. >> ainsley: trump says he wants the education department closed what we are expecting to hear from his pick this morning. ♪

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