from aid to trade with the use of effective tools managed correctly. i chaired along with congressman adam smith the effective aid caucus and met with members and outside groups to prove efficiency on assistance. this committee has had many hearings dealing with usaid. it is frustrating an agency set up to further our security, prosperity, engage in humanitarian projects and work to prevent the speed. >> steve: you are watching at the hearing on spending. a little action in the room a moment ago. people escorted out. >> brian: it is important. this is a test of the doge program. he said there are programs that work, not all of them are corrupt. >> ainsley: the fear mongering won't work. if it's a lifesaving program they'll keep sending money to that program. >> steve: thank you for joining us. we'll hand it over to "america's newsroom" right now. >> bill: thanks and good morning. fast and furious already.

the cuts keep on coming. president trump slashing spending. doge giving new details what's on the chopping block. i'm bill hemmer live in new york. hello to you. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." we're right out of the gate this morning because right now on capitol hill the house foreign affairs committee is holding a hearing on the u.s. agency for international development usaid. one of the first departments gutted by doge and odds are it will not be the last. >> bill: they are going at it in the hearing now. the doge website now is live and up and running with the tally of federal contracts it's canceling. promising a big update tomorrow what that is we'll find out as it works toward its goal as reducing the size of u.s. government. >> dana: musk has said he and his team have found billions in waste. lee zeldin says his team found

tens of billions in wasted funds. >> shockingly, rough life $20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the biden epa. this scheme was the first of its kind in epa history. it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight. >> bill: more on that in a moment. senator tuberville has thoughts and join us live. peter doocy reports from the white house. let's begin there. north lawn we go. peter, let's start. good morning. >> uh-huh is right, bill. office of personnel management is pleased a federal judge upheld the fork in the rug federal buy-out for the 75,000 people that said they want it. this judge told the unions suing to stop the fork in the road direct live that the unions don't have the required direct stake in the fork corrective. they're challenging a policy that affects others, executive

branch employees. this is not sufficient. >> it is the administration's position that well be vindicated and the president's executive actions that he took were completely within the law. they were constitutional and we look forward to the day where he can continue to implement his agenda. >> another win from another federal judge in rhode island who says presidents can cut or freeze spending as long as they don't break any existing laws or regulations. that judge ruled the existing statute does not bar the president and much of the federal government from exercising their own lawful authorities to withhold funding without the prior approval of the district court. so the doge cost cutting effort continues. the president is teasing a press conference about things being cut and completely dismissive of democratic criticisms of elon musk. >> president trump: i want to commend elon because he has done a -- he doesn't need this. he is abused by you people every

day. he has found more things than anybody could find. he has a credibility to do it. i know he does. >> president trump is going to host the indian prime minister modi here. we expect to see them later this afternoon, early evening. he just posted on truth social in all caps news conference on reciprocal tariffs today at 1:00 p.m., oval office. >> bill: we'll be there. peter live from the north lawn. kash patel likely the head of the next f.b.i. it goes down right now in a senate hearing on the hill. robert kennedy, his confirmation appears imminent. 60 minutes from now linda mcmahon looks like she will get the votes on that. democrats going to go after her hard because of the department of education and what trump is talking about. wants congress to take action to eliminate it.

it is written into legislation and it sticks. this is the doge disruption. they are claiming already they have cut a billion dollars from the u.s. federal government. here is a gander now. last friday you had 15 million on three d.e.i. training grants. monday we showed you on the big board close to a billion dollars in the 89 contracts. another 100 million here if i have my math right. 29d.e.i. training grants on monday and then on wednesday of this week contract to coordinate meetings. 4.6 million. another 3 million other contracts. 1.4 million on contracts that physically observe mailing and clerical operations. all stuff that is knee deep in the weeds how washington works. whether or not this makes a big deal for how we spend money, still remains to be seen. the president claims and so does musk they can knock out a trillion dollars in savings. that's a high mountain to climb.

senator tuberville is here to talk about it now. good morning to you. i want to play a clip from the president yesterday. department of education going to be a big topic today. what he said about that. called it a con job. >> how soon do you want the department of education to be closed >> immediately. it is a big con job. they rank the top 40 countries in the world. we're ranked number 40 but number one in one department. cost per pupil. we spend more per pupil than any other country in the world. if we're ranked 40, something is wrong. right? >> bill: we can throw a dart. we start with education, close to this. what happens. >> well, with president trump going to the super bowl the other day and adamant we get our education back. that's the future of our country. the young people are our number one commodity. you didn't go to a d.e.i. school in cincinnati. your math is pretty good.

we have to get back to reading, writing, math, civics, teaching history to our kids, not indoctrinateing them. i was named the chairman of the education of the american family committee to help this past week and looking forward to having hearings and getting parents back involved in education. my god we've turned it over to the teachers and teachers union. it is out of control. we have to start teaching again. >> dana: one of your colleagues, senator bernie sanders, there was a rally against linda mcmahon the nominee to run the department and had this to say. >> a lot of things coming out of the president's mouth but i will tell you what the fundamental issue is. what these guys, the oligarchs and the billionaires want to do is cut program after program, including education in order to give massive tax breaks to the very richest people in this country. our job is not to destroy public

education, it is to significantly improve it. >> dana: why don't they have a rally about the dismal test scores that we see across our nation? >> exactly, dana. to go back on this bernie sanders has been the chairman of the health, education, labor and pension committee for the past four years. i think we have had one education hearing. they care nothing about education, they want to indoctrinate. we have to get back to doing common sense things where we all understand our kids are so important. more important than anything else we do. >> bill: sir, this is moving all very quickly. there might be what democrats are saying about the cuts, etc. , how it will hurt people in the end. can you understand how there could be a measure of uncertainty for people watching this? if you do, how would you reassure them that the government will still be there for them when needed and necessary. >> well, all you have to do is look at what president trump said in the campaign.

everything will be about the american people. america first. about everything within our borders, not outside our borders. it goes back to education, crime, all the things that are going on in our country we have to get better. yes, there will be some cuts but one thing about it, bill and dana, if we don't cut federal spending we won't have the country that you and i had a chance to grow up in because we'll go bankrupt, which we almost already are. it will get worse and we'll become a socialist country that will depend on all hand-outs that we don't have money for. >> dana: kash patel is the the president's nominee to lead the f.b.i. another hearing happening as we speak just getting started. he should be confirmed by the end of this week for sure. just listen to him. call for five. this is what he said about the f.b.i. back on january 30th. >> there should be no politics in the f.b.i. and having been a victim of the weaponization of law enforcement against me i know what that feels like. if i'm confirmed i will make sure no american feels that

slight of hand ever again. >> dana: what time this week do you believe he will get confirmed after this hearing today? >> well, it will probably be next week we'll have his first vote to get him out of cloture and go into debate for 30 hours. he is the the democrats' worst nightmare. he knows it has been all corrupt. we have to take back our country in terms of our -- of the weaponizeed criminal justice system. we made a good start with pam bondi and tulsi gabbard. at the end of the day it has to be kash patel who is over the country's head police office. kash has been involved in all of it and knows where the bodies are buried. the democrats are scared to death. when he gets in, which he will. he will start shaking it all up. we have good people but he whats to take politics out of the f.b.i. and has to put trust back in the f.b.i. for the american people. right now it is a total disaster up here on the hill and especially in my state of alabama. >> bill: we'll let you get back

to work. there is a lot of work to be done. thank you for your time. now this. >> this is a new doj and taking steps to protect americans. we sued illinois and new york didn't listen. so now you are next. >> dana: trump administration targeting the state of new york over its immigration policies. attorney general pam bondi is taking legal action against state officials for failing to enforce federal law. alexis mcadams is live with more. >> that's right. you heard pam bondi made it simple. this d.o.j. will protect the american people not protect migrants in the country illegally. watch. >> you will be held accountable if you do not follow federal law. it is over, it ends. and we're coming after you.

>> she came out firing announcing the lawsuit against kathy hochul, attorney general james and dmv commissioner schroder. the lawsuit focuses on new york's green light law. it allows all new yorkers who are over the age of 16 to apply for a driver's license regardless of your legal status and also gives that person privacy protection by limiting data that would be shared with immigration agencies. the lawsuit claims this is a frontal assault on the federal immigration laws and federal authorities that administer them. >> law enforcement officers do not have access to their background and if these great men and women pull over someone and don't have access to their background they have no idea who they are dealing with. it puts their lives on the line every single day. >> d.o.j. says it's a dangerous situation as the attorney general james says she will fight back and defend state laws and governor hochul is saying

it's a worthless lawsuit. the current law allow official eaves to access database if they have a judicial warrant. no way i'm letting federal agents or elon musk doge operation get unfettered access to the personal data of any new yorker in the dmv system. the fight continues. back here we're waiting to see an important meeting between border czar tom homan and mayor eric adams. he says he can help him or he will go around him and get out of his way. >> bill: we have an angel mother speaking during the attorney general bondi's announcement. kayla hamilton was murdered by a member of ms-13. she blames president biden's homeland security for not protecting her own daughter. >> homeland security did not do their jobs. they did not check his background.

they just say he was processed him. if they processed him they knew he was a gang member. >> bill: these are just some of the victims of migrant crime, a chilling reminder of the dangers posed by a broken border over the past three plus years and hopefully things are changing. big story out of munich. dozens hurt as a driver plowed into a demonstration. not an accident. what was the motive? we look at that closely. huge security conference taking place there starting tomorrow. we'll get to it. also there is this. watch. >> we are going to march and do anything we need to do to make sure the people of this country understand that it is for them. you get your hands off of our money. >> dana: democrats push back on doge we go inside one of the underground government facilities getting the attention of elon musk. interior secretary doug burgum

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>> bill: breaking news from munich, germany. still developing as we speak. 28 people injured after a driver plowed a car through a workers union protest in munich. children are among the victims. police say this was an attack. the suspect is in custody. police say he is a 24-year-old man from afghanistan. wanted asylum. apparently was on the radar for theft and drug offenses and

maybe set for expulsion. many world leaders are set to attend the munich security conference tomorrow. major headlines from that conference all weekend long. stand by for more on that. back at home now. elon musk he compares it to a flashback from more than a half century ago. an old limestone mine where the federal government processes retirement applications by hand. it is paperwork. musk calling out the underground facility as wasteful and inefficient and nate foye found his way to pennsylvania, due north of pittsburgh by 60 miles. what is happening there? good morning. >> good morning. americans learning a lot about how the federal retirement system works this week after elon musk exposed it. when a federal worker retires, the agency that he or she works for sends their paperwork here to this former limestone mine to be processed by hand.

before that worker receives their entire pension. the limestone used to feed steel mills in western pennsylvania. a lot of people in the community still work here, bill. so far none have been willing to speak with us. look at this video taken from inside the mine. 200 feet undergrounds from the private company called iron mountain the u.s. government leases the space from. it has 330,000 square feet of data center space with armed checkpoints and metal detectors and workers go through a long and tedious process for each federal retirement. >> this mine looks like something out of the 50s because it was started in 1955. it looks like a time warp. >> the head of doge says the mine can only handle around 10,000 retirement applications per month. the real number is less than that. look. the office of personnel management says it processed

7,381 claims per month last year. the agency tells fox news quote opm is evaluating methods to enhance the efficiency of retirement application processor at the pennsylvania facility. our goal is to better serve federal employees and the american people. white house press secretary karoline leavitt says president trump is going to make changes. >> that's why elon musk and president trump brought it to the american people's attention in the oval office. the federal retirement system is being processed deep into the ground and is not computerized. >> back in december, opm received an $18 million investment to modernize the federal retirement process. we're working to learn how that money is being spent. we'll send it back to you. >> bill: butler county, pennsylvania. nate foye, thank you. >> dana: president trump putting a price tag on the amount of waste in the federal government,

$1 trillion. trillion with 12 zeros. >> president trump: we have to make our government smaller, more efficient, more effective and a lot less expensive. and we could find a trillion dollars but we are being hindered by courts where they file in certain courts where it's very hard to win. it is a disgrace. then you have a country that we want to make america great again. very hard to make america great again when you have things like this. >> dana: joining us now is interior secretary doug burgum. congratulations on being confirmed. great to have you on the show. we showed a clip at the beginning of the program that lee zeldin at epa has found tens of billions dollars of waste already. do you anticipate you might find the same at the interior department? >> yes, i do. i have to say off the top great to be back with you and bill. president trump was fantastic being a governor underneath him in my first term back in the first trump administration. he is operating at a next level

right now. the first time around he was courageous. this time he is fearless. the ideas he has driving forward on cutting waste and spending, being with him at a national prayer breakfast, renaming the gulf of america, or negotiating with the prime minister of japan about an 800 mile natural gas pipeline in alaska. everything he is doing is 180 degrees different from the biden administration and he is delivering on all the promises and that's fantastic. one of the promises was he would make government more efficient. i'm a complete supporter of this. when i became governor of north dakota we cut 27% out of the general fund. i know it can be done. we have to give people in government the technology. we ask people to do paperwork instead of computer work. >> dana: have you seen that at d.u.i. as well? >> we're looking everywhere there. the team we're working with doge, the first place we'll look

at within interior is grants and contracts and consultants. if we have to pay consultants to do work, what is our own team doing? this is the thing we'll take a look at. every agency has an opportunity for improvement. in interior we have real work to do. we have all the national parks, 500 million acres of land, 700 million acres of sub service. 1.7 billion of off shore acres and president trump wants to get a return on investment for the american people on our balance sheet. we have to have -- we do have dedicated people ready to get going to make sure we can unleash america's resources, do that in a way where we can protect our most sacred places but also get american energy rolling again. >> dana: i wanted to bring that up. household energy costs have risen, you know this as governor. natural gas is up 4 1/2, electricity up 1%, energy

commodities are down, fuel oil is down. but still people feeling this pinch of inflation. and the other day at the prayer breakfast last week i remember when president trump saw you in the audience and said doug, what are you doing here? find some oil so the american people can get the return on investment and maybe see a drop in prices. you have an elevated position as well not just as secretary but looking across the federal government on energy. when can consumers see some relief? >> i think the numbers on the board the disastrous situation the biden administration left us in. the inflation numbers through january is bidens' number. what he was doing in the last three weeks in office and shoving money out the door and restrict access to american resources. he signed a ban on 625 million acres of off shore. the equivalent of 1-third of the

lower 48. president trump has unbanned that ban. we're busy right now trying to undo the damage that was being done right up until noon on january 20th by the biden administration. >> dana: all right. so that will be on hold. anything that you are looking forward to at your new job that you didn't anticipate that you didn't know was part of your bailiwick? >> very fun to be on air force one with president trump looking out the window at the gulf of america just as he was renaming it. that's one of the things that interior's geographic names. i would also say again one of the things we're looking at on the energy side is electricity. on the day president trump was being sworn in, that was peak demand in the northeast because we were in the cold spell. president trump understands on that day of the 100% of electricity the highest demand this year in the last 12 months was on that day at 5:00 in the morning. we had 98% of that electricity

coming from sources other than wind and solar. zero from solar. it was five in the morning. 2% from wind. we have to get back to producing electricity to win the a.i. arms race and lower electricity costs for consumers. >> dana: that would be my third topic with you. we're out of time. let you get back to your job. thank you so much. >> thank you, dana. >> bill: canadian police said to be cracking down on drug and human trafficking. fox news with an exclusive look at their operations now in the northern border. we'll take you there. a massachusetts town voting to become a sanctuary city for the transgender cause. why the lgbt community says they are concerned for their own safety. >> can you look at me and tell me how many of my friends need to die before you do anything? look at me. >> we're all done here. [bleep] >> we're all done. come on. biberty: it's pronounced "biberty."

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you are looking at a video of a navy fighter jet crashing into the san diego harbor. the incident took place on wednesday. two pilots on board were able to eject and rescued by the coast guard. the pilots are in good condition. no word yet on what caused that crash. >> bill: let's go north of the border. hot issue thus far . canada is ramping up law enforcement operations along the border and appointed a fentanyl czar. fox news with inside look at the royal canadian mounted police and efforts to crack down on trafficking, human and drug trafficking. molly line live in kingston, ontario. what have you learned, molly? >> good morning, bill. canada's new fentanyl czar faces a massive task to rein in a crisis that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives but avert a trade war. additional manpower and

surveillance this is canada as first-ever fentanyl czar aiming to appease the american president's demands to address drug trafficking and security on the u.s./canadian border or face steep tariffs. >> what do you have say to the american president. >> i would say this is a clear demonstration of how serious canada is taking the fentanyl crisis in this country and how important our relationship is with our american counterparts. >> fentanyl smuggling from canada into the u.s. is dwarfed by the trade along the southern border, the senior leader has an ambitious aim. >> getting the number to zero is a goal and should be our goal. busted in -- they are tracking

600 organized crime groups aiming to -- launching a strike force. >> we're moving to list criminal cartels under our criminal code as terrorist organizations. that will change the way that we can deal with money flow, with laundering, following their cash. >> he plans to travel to washington next week with hopes of meeting with his counterparts including border czar tom homan. back to you. >> bill: pretty day there. >> dana: it looks like fake snow but it is not. >> bill: you are in the great white north. thanks, molly. nice to see you there. >> cooperate with the federal government that seeks to erase and minimize and kill you. >> i do not want to be here. it is my day off. i don't want to spend an hour applying glitter on my face so that you will hear and see me.

>> dana: emotions running high at a city council meeting in worcester, massachusetts, they look to become a sanctuary city for transgender people. want to show you a little more of this for everybody at home. watch. >> you say that you are afraid of trump and that's why you don't want the city to be a space -- safe space for trans people? you better prepare for trans people to make this a very unsafe space. >> i'm shaking right now. i don't want to be here. i'm sorry, am i taking too long pleading for my life? >> dana: kennedy. >> what a gift. i didn't think we would see tape like that this morning. sure, my only hope for worcester is the fun drag queens and not the drama queens. watching that city council meeting i know it lasted for

several hours. that must have been absolutely exhausting. it is like i don't want people to look at me. it reminds me of the meghan and harry episode of south park. where is our privacy and they are outside playing drums. neon signs. yeah, go ahead and make it a safe space but a fun space and then, you know, go away. >> bill: it is a cause the left is grabbing onto quickly if you look at the rallies. >> it is silly. they are borrowing from the concept of the sanctuary city which shielding illegal immigrants from law enforcement. federal law enforcement. that has the virtue of being sad i shallous. there is no one trying to drag you into a detention facility because you identify as trans or gone through a therapy. i'm not sure what the claim here is. save for the fact they want to be very dramatic and the at try call and that is the sort of thing that does attract

attention and gets small dollar donations and democratic support but makes no logical sense what they are arguing here. >> dana: does the left want them to be upset? do they want them to think they are under attack? >> yes, they do. all they have left is the emotion and hysteria. they've run out of ideas, unfortunately. so they are fanning these flames and they are very, very entertaining flames but it just goes to show where we are in the world and i think so many people have moved on from manufactured hysteria and they really want government to be pared down and take care of actual problems where they spend too much money. >> bill: in the d.e.i. cut world is this the group of americans who feel they are the vulnerable ones because of that? >> i think they -- i'm sure they feel that way and i'm sure their emotional blackmail that they dole out to all of us comes from

a place of sincerity all be it hysteria. they have succumbed to the paranoid delusion. i will lend them that. but the d.e.i. activist class is under no such delusions. they're manipulating and using a very small population to articulate and to suggest that there is a much broader problem and to elevate their own stature and get their own influence in the halls of political power. that's where the malice comes from. the misuse of these individuals who are laboring under a delusion perhaps through new fault of their own being abused, manipulated and abused to elevate the agenda of others. >> dana: that is cruel to make them think they are victims. >> that's the currency is this is deadly and therefore we have to act as though it is the most dire threat. >> dana: police are not coming after you.

>> they would object to the idea they are actually safe. >> bill: when we led our show this morning you can see by dollar amounts where they are going. it's low hanging fruit for doge to go after these programs that really came into being over the past four to six years i would argue at the most. >> if not a moral panibut a fashion. a small dollar figure. it all helps but we aren't talking about a big pile of money. >> bill: thank you. nice to see you. senate judiciary committee now meeting to talk about the nomination for kash patel. trump's nominee for f.b.i. director as trump notches more victory with cabinet nominees. it looks like everybody will go through. so we'll watch that and this. check it out. that is video showing the moment a passenger train plows into an s.u.v. how the driver made a narrow

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>> dana: right now the senate judiciary commit see meeting to vote on advancing f.b.i. director nominee kash patel to a confirmation vote. david spunt is live with an update for us. >> typically these confirmation hearings to vote people out of committee. mr. patel is not present and last 20 to 30 minutes as a formality. this is scheduled for 2 1/2 hours today to give you an idea of controversy surrounding this nomination. watch. >> mr. patel has spent his whole career fighting for righteous

causes. he has been a public defender, representing the accused against the power of the state. >> we can report what is going on at the f.b.i. and it is frightening. i've talked to agents who have been in service 20 years and more and they've never seen anything like this. >> kash patel wants to make significant changes within the bureau. many current employees say the changes are long overdue. if confirmed he will face tough questions perhaps from within the bureau, 5,000 employees across the country were ordered to fill out a survey regarding their work on january 6th investigations. i spoke with the f.b.i. agents association representing 14,000 active agents across the country saying she wants to work with director patel but concerned about losing 3600 probationary employees, those hired in the last two years as they work on preventing sex trafficking and work counter intelligence and school shooting cases.

>> these are not just in the d.c. area. they're all over the country. to lose some of them harms not just this d.c. area but it harms every city that we have a field office in. which is everywhere. >> mr. patel expected to make it out of committee and expected to be confirmed next week on the full senate floor. >> dana: i have a question. are you outside? >> i am not but i have a new background here. >> dana: that is the best background i have seen and i am applauding you. if you were outside i would say you with brave without a coat. take care. >> bill: it works, a.g. pam bondi suing new york state over sanctuary policies in new york. the post has another headline. u.s. versus ny. bondi accused the state of putting illegal migrants over u.s. citizens. >> we have filed charges against the state of new york. we have filed charges against

kathy hochul. we have filed charges against letitia james. we are taking steps to protect americans, american citizens and angel moms like the mom standing behind me. >> new york has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over american citizens. it stops today. as you know, we sued illinois, new york didn't listen. so now you are next. >> jonathan turley here to sort it out. nice to see you. the election was november 5th. this is what the governor of new york and attorney general in new york said on november 6th, the day after. >> if you trow i to harm new yorkers or roll back their rights i will fight you every step of the way. >> we've been here before. we faced this challenge before. and we used the rule of law to fight back. and we are prepared to fight

back once again. >> bill: they are ready for this. there is a law in new york passed in 2019 called the green light law. it forbids anybody from cooperating with immigration workers including those who work at the dmv. does the state have precedence over the executive branch on this issue or is it the other way around? >> i think the federal government has a strong case here particularly with regard to one of the provisions in that law which is a tip-off provision. under the law, if the federal government makes an inquiry into a suspected illegal alien, that person is then notified by new york and given a heads-up. the feds have said what are you doing? we're making inquiry because we may want to apprehend this person and you are giving them a chance to abscond. that's more than refusing to cooperate with federal enforcement. that's actually frustrating

federal enforcement. so this is going to trigger a ferocious legal battle. the state on its side can argue that this violates what's called the anti-come an deering doctrine. it says the federal government cannot require the state to carry out federal policies or programs. now that's based in state's rights. but this is a very murky area because as you can tell from those sound bites, illinois and new york is actively trying to frustrate federal enforcement. so the federal government is going to court and throwing a flag on this play and saying you are not allowed to do that. this is obstruction on your part. >> bill: it will be prom interest in in illinois, new york and probably california as well. something i'm curious about. what information does a dmv have that would be so critical for an ice agent or somebody from the

federal government? >> well, law enforcement groups objected to the new york law because it strips away the status of the person. we need to know who we're dealing with and if they may want to abscond or flee. they may be violent because of their status and their desire to get away. you are keeping that information from us. the feds are also saying we cooperate on drivers licenses and other forms of identification between the feds and state. now you are saying we can't have access to that data because you don't want us to enforce immigration laws. >> bill: that's one thing that new york does allow, you know, for you to get the papers necessary to drive a car or drive a truck or get to work or whatever you are doing. professor, thank you so much. this will go on for a while and we'll lean on you as we go. thank you, jonathan turley.

>> dana: a busy morning for the trump cabinet hopefuls. in minutes linda mcmahon will face a senate health committee and shortly after the full senate will vote on robert f. kennedy, jr. for health and human services secretary and we'll bring it to you live. president trump pushing for peace. what we're learning about his call with russian president putin.

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