>> john: the trade relationship between the united states and literally every country around the world and see if that playing field needs to be leveled. a lot of back-and-forth going on between the president and the white house press pool. we expect to get that tape sometime in the next little while and we will play it back to you in its entirety when that happens. ♪ ♪ the trump administration working tirelessly on its promise to crack down on illegal immigration and to get criminals off the streets. signs of progress at both the southern and northern borders, but as america's neighbors start to pinch in, sanctuary cities and states across the country are offering stiff resistance. and that is where we begin sp 29 rows into a second hour, i am john roberts in washington. who knew it is going to be busy this week? >> sandra: are never would have guessed it. good to be with you, john,

sandra smith in new york, i.c.e. grappling with leaks warning immigrants about impending raids happening all over the country, and there has been in men's pushback to efforts from some of these democrat lead states. in boston, massachusetts, agents arrested a guatemalan national who was accused of heinous crimes against children but released on bail by local authorities. >> john: stories like that part of why attorney general pam bondi on unveiled a lawsuit against new york state over its approach to immigration. she was joined by an angel mom who made it clear that those policies have dire consequences. >> kayla just turned 20 years old three days before she was murdered. her murderer was only living there for five days. before he viciously strangled her -- >> need toes her, and left her on the floor like trash, and robbed her of $6 peered. >> sandra: trey gowdy is with us, with us in a moment on the

stakes of the ag's lawsuit and an official by each border standing by to tell us how things are looking on the ground. >> john: on the border with the mounties but first let's go to bill melugin with more on that stunning story about that violent guatemalan suspect. bill? >> john, most people out there no matter how progressive would probably draw the line at forcible child rape when it comes to cooperating with i.c.e. but in massachusetts, that is just not the case, take a look, i.c.e. boston announced they arrested this guatemalan illegal aliens charged in massachusetts with three counts of aggravated child rape and three cons of forcible child rape. why was he on the streets? the i.c.e. detainer ignored by the essex county superior court due to sanctuary policy, locals released him into the community on bail without any notice to i.c.e. the statement from i.c.e. boston says he has been charged with horrific crimes against a minor

in our commonwealth. he is exactly the kind of alien we are targeting with our worst first policy. he posed a significant danger to the children of massachusetts, and we will not tolerate such a threat to our community. i.c.e. boston also announced the arrest of this turkish illegal alien charged in massachusetts with assault and battery against an intellectually disabled person and witness intimidation, and i.c.e. says there detainer request on him was also ignored by the sanctuary city of somerville, and he had also been released into the public. elsewhere around the country, i.c.e. seattle arresting this salvadoran illegal immigrant wanted in his home country for aggravated homicide. here in los angeles, i.c.e. arrested this guatemalan illegal immigrant charged with sexual assault and rape with a gun and over in colorado the dea announcing their top ten arrest of illegal immigrants in recent days and putting several affiliated with tren de aragua and others with violent egregious crimes like kidnapping, child sexual assault, and fentanyl

trafficking, and john, that child rape case i talked about in massachusetts, it is not just a one off. last summer on nantucket island i.c.e. arrested four illegal aliens charged with raping or sexually assaulting children on the island. every single one of them had been released from local custody with i.c.e. detainers ignored. then you might remember last march, i embedded with i.c.e. in boston when in a single morning they arrested four illegal aliens come all charged with raping children and again all of them have been released from local custody with i.c.e. detainers ignored. this has just become the norm in massachusetts. we will send it back to you. >> john: nobody seems to be learning a lesson, either. bill melugin for us, thank you. sandra? >> sandra: fox news got the chance to tag along with the canadian royal mountain police. the canadian governor government appointed a fentanyl czar. live out of ontario, canada, on that. you got to speak with this new

czar? >> sandra, there is a lot of breaking news, got to meet the new czar and administer of public safety. in memoranda signed by interpol in washington and counterparts in canada, to go after the venezuelan gang tren de aragua. that is one of the reasons why the new fentanyl czar appointed here in canada has such a tough job. he has to wrangle all of these efforts together to work with his american counterparts and also overt a trade war. there are blackhawks and a huge outlier of manpower, surveillance equipment. the appointment of the first ever fentanyl czar a much broader show of force aiming to appease the american president's demands. >> what would you say to the american president, mr. trump? >> if i had the opportunity i

would say this is a clear demonstration of how seriously canada is taking defense no crisis in this country and how important our relationship is with our american counterparts. >> although fentanyl smuggling from canada into the u.s. is dwarfed by the illegal drug trade across the southern border, the former senior leader with the royal canadian mounted police has an ambitious aim to bring the number down to zero. in october a sophisticated drug super lab was busted in british columbia, canada's intelligence services tracking more than 600 organized crime groups aiming to dismantle transnational criminal networks. criminal cartels as terrorist organizations. >> we are also with the united states creating a new joint strike task force on fentanyl. we are standing up ten teams in canada in conjunction with our american counterparts. this is going to be very helpful as we wrestle this problem to

the ground. >> the message canada is sending is one about collaboration. he heads to washington next week to meet with his american counterparts including border czar tom homan. sandra? >> sandra: fascinating developments. molly line, thank you. >> john: let's bring a national border patrol council vice president and a sheriff. tom homan was suggesting he was getting more cooperation from foreign governments like canada than he is from states like new york. listen to what he said. >> i met with canadian officials. they are doing more to secure the border. canada is now stepping up. president trump has done great things for mexico and canada. president trump is a game changer and he has proven it every day. >> john: you are up there in the sector, new york goes across the vermont border, as well. what do you think about what homan said and the fact that canada seems to finally be kicking in but officials in new york state are saying we are

going to fight you tooth and nail? >> well, i think we are seeing a lot of things happening up here. we have seen an awful lot of change with the volume of apprehensions of illegal migrants. it has dropped off the face of the earth, basically, and i think largely in part because they are concerned, the swift action that has been taken has shaken a lot of them and they know they get apprehended that is going to ruin every hope they have in the future of gaining asylum or being able to become a legitimate citizen of the united states, whereas a couple months ago they were actually coming out of cornfields and out of the woods through the border, waving their arms to be apprehended by border patrol and sheriff deputies, whereas right now that is not happening there. they are going and hiding. the apprehension numbers are significantly down. it is refreshing to see some conversations. i think tom homan and mr. brousseau are going to be a good team together and law enforcement have been in it almost 40 years and i'm excited

to see what is going to come out of these two working together. down on the southern border there has also been a dramatic reduction in the number of people coming across the border, i want to play, senior dhs official talking about -- illegal crossings are down, gotaways down, criminal prosecutions on the rise, daily reports of large groups in mexico, guatemala turning back south and surrendering to authorities, requesting to go home and we have only just begun. policy matters. president biden told us repeatedly, chris, he had basically done all he could and that it was up to congress to do more. what has happened in the last two and a half weeks would seem to suggest that biden was just gaslighting everybody. >> yeah, you know, it's unfortunate. yeah, i don't know -- i don't know who he thought he was fooling. it darn sure wasn't us. we knew what was going on the whole time. you are right, the apprehension numbers have slowed to a crawl.

last night i was working the river and you have the mexican military patrolling their northern border so that slows down a lot of traffic coming our way, so things have changed a great deal and this president has proven he is a man of his word and can get and gave then-president biden the road map to do it. he just failed to do it. >> john: back to new york state and you, david, pam bondi and the department of justice are suing the state of new york, the attorney general letitia james, over the green light law up there. which allows illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses, and kathy hochul is pushing back on all of this, this is what she said in a statement, there is no way i'm letting federal agents or elon musk's shadowy d.o.g.e. office, unfettered access to the dmv system. we expect pam bondi's worthless personal lawsuit -- new york is

not backing down. when you consider that what the border czar and all of the agencies are doing is trying to stop cross-border traffic in a deadly, horribly deadly drug that is killing someone hundred thousand americans every year and tried to deport violent criminals from your state, how does kathy hochul's position comport with what the public is looking for? >> well, i think the general public spoke loud and clear back in november what they want to see, and they are starting to get a little bit of flavor of what they are seeing. it's a shame that we can't have much better communications of the people that deal with this boots on the ground to come up with a good, and resolve that should have occurred years ago, to be quite frank with you. the process that has been taken by opening the floodgates is inhumane, just allowing people to come over willy-nilly without any type of inspection process and the swamps and the freezing cold up here, literally having

feet amputated, is just inhumane and should never have happened. and i look at the cooperation and the success that they have seen to an extent in the southern border, and i am hoping that we can bring things around and at least come up with a common ground to make things better at the northern border, as well. >> john: chris, very quickly, how do you expect things will progress in the days and weeks ahead where you are? >> you know, i think it is going the right direction. i think we will continue in the right direction. i would imagine the i.c.e. apprehensions will start to pick up now they have their feet under them and the crossings will keep slowing as we go along. >> john: no question about that. sheriff and chris, thank you for being with us, really appreciate you. >> thank you. >> thank you for having us. >> sandra: john, it sounds like a pretty meaty news conference and q&a happening at the white house right now.

the pool is reporting what is coming out of that right now. we are going to have that for our viewers. it is going to be played back when we have it and when it concludes we will play that back our viewers. right now we know he is taking questions on trade relationships with various countries including india. he was also asked whether or not we could see prices go up here at home. he did say that prices could go up somewhat in the short term as a result of these tariffs. but overall, he does not sound concerned that consumers will be paying higher prices long-term, he says not necessarily. he is talking about more jobs at home as a result of these tariffs. they have huge economic implications. so when this comes into us, we will play back the president's remarks from the white house as soon as we have them. john? >> john: get your popcorn ready because this oval office pool spray is going to be a director's cut, it will be a

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>> her murderer was able to come across the border knowing that he was flagged and emma as an ms-13 gang member and he had a criminal record in 2020, illicig activity. he came over as an unoccupied alien child, saying that he was afraid of gang activity in his country. health and human services called him a nice boy. >> tammy represents not only herself and her family, but all of the great angel moms around this country who have suffered because of what the biden administration did. >> sandra: highlighting the dangers of an open border as attorney general pam bondi takes action. in a new lawsuit the trump administration accusing new york state and its leaders of failing to comply with the federal crackdown on illegal migrants peered joining us now is trey gowdy. sunday night in america host and former south carolina congressman peered trey, great to see you and thank you so much

for being here. >> yes, ma'am. you, too. >> sandra: do you think you are going to see more of this? >> we saw it in chicago. i hate to break it to both of my friends in new york but kathy hochul is not the president of the united states. she does not set the border policy. she does not set immigration policy. she doesn't decide who comes or leaves or how long you stay. look, new yorkers had a choice between lee zeldin and kathy hochul and they made the wrong choice but the governor of new york, the governor of chicago, has no more business setting immigration or border policy then south carolina does negotiating the treaty with great britain. it is uniquely federal. immigration, naturalization, border are uniquely federal. so yes, ag bondi is correct to sue. congress would also be correct to start cutting off money to new york because new york thinks it gets to play by its own set of rules. kathy hochul doesn't set immigration policy. somebody is going to have to

teach her that lesson. >> sandra: letitia james responded to the lawsuit, trey, saying our state laws including the green light law protects the lives of all new yorkers and keeps our communities safe. i am prepared to defend our laws just as i always have. that is the new york ag. meanwhile this is more from pam bondi yesterday, trey, listen. >> one angel mom is too many and we have angel moms throughout this country who should not be going through this. comply with the law, and if you don't comply with federal law, we will hold you accountable. we did it to illinois, strike one. strike to is new york. and if you are a state not complying with federal law, you are next, get ready. >> sandra: she is standing up for these parents, one of which, the mother of tammy noble -- sorry, tammy nobles is the mother, lost her daughter, she was killed by an illegal immigrant. this was her yesterday during that presser with bondi.

listen. >> i have been sharing her story for over two and a half years to bring change. because this should have not have ever happened to kayla. and it shouldn't be happening to other families being hurt by the border. i am going to continue sharing kayla's story to help save others and to bring awareness of what was happening under the biden-harris administration. >> sandra: i said it before and i will say it again, you have to think these parents who have lost daughters and sons, they feel like they have somebody in their corner, somebody who is standing up for them, trey. >> well, they do. and the rest of the world needs to know that these decisions have real life, or in this case real death consequences. there is no appeal. there is no revote when it comes to losing a child, that child is gone forever. what you see in new york with letitia james and alvin bragg are criminal defense attorneys masquerading as prosecutors.

what you see in pam bondi is what a real prosecutor sounds like. they are going to be tough on the criminals, not on the victims. when i hear the phrase sanctuary city, sandra, it makes me want to think a sanctuary for whom? the sanctuary should be like for her daughter, not illegal gang members want to stay in new york and drive a car. >> sandra: amen to that. you just have to think that based on what we have seen and heard so far and the people who are in power that things will change, trey. >> well, they are going to change or they are going to lose money because they lost the election. new york, again, no offense to either one of my friends that live there, y'all do not set the policy for the united states. the president does, and he is, and pam bondi is not letitia james, we saw that yesterday. >> sandra: that is quite clear to all of those who just listened to both of them on this issue. trey, thank you very much and great to see you.

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suspect to did this? >> hi, sandra. we know this is a 24-year-old according to german officials. he is in asylum-seekers from afghanistan, and he was previously known to police. investigators say it was 10:30 this morning when he drove this white mini cooper into a crowd of people at a union demonstration in munich, germany. police fired at that car before taking him into custody. law enforcement quickly secured the scene, which was scattered with bloody clothes and shoes and a stroller you can see there. 30 people are wounded, including children. this is just the latest in a series of attacks during a heated debate in germany over migration head of the country's election which will take place there this month german chancellor olaf scholz quickly condemned stays violence, saying despite the lack of diplomatic relations with afghanistan under the taliban rule, germany will send a clear message and sent him back. >> interpreter: anyone who commits crimes in germany will not only be severely punished and sent to prison. they must also expect they will not be able to continue their

stay in germany. >> the city of munich is already under high security because of the three-day munich security conference which begins tomorrow and this all took place just about 1 mile from the venue of that event. among the attendees as vice president j.d. vance who touched down in munich earlier today. police are still looking for a motive in this incident today. they say they do not believe the incident is connected to that conference, but all of this also comes on the heels of another tragedy in germany, just several months ago there was another ramming of a vehicle into a crowd, that one taking place in magdeburg at a christmas market. >> sandra: alex hogan reporting out of london for us. alex, thank you. >> john: as we await the oval office playback, president trump about host another major world leader at the white house. india's prime minister narendra modi. this is trump tries to take on a new role of global peacemaker. he is brokering peace at the ukraine-russia conflict while

bringing home imprisoned americans from russia, belarus, and other places. let's bring in former national security advisor robert o'brien, who is also a newly-minted member of president trump's new intelligence advisory board. robert, great to see you again, thanks for joining us. >> great to be with you, john, thank you. >> john: we are still awaiting the playback from the oval office a bit, it has gone on for just over an hour now. one thing president trump said is that putin wants peace in ukraine, and he added, i trust him on this subject. what do you think of that statement? >> well, i think president trump is very much a ronald reagan guy when it comes to foreign policy. he often talks about america first. we asked him what that means, that means peace through strength, and i think trust, trust but verify. i think putin wants peace, excluded from the world economy. they are suffering greatly. and they are losing hundreds of thousands of men in their army, so i'm sure they want peace and

president trump is tough enough and has the relationship with both zelenskyy and with putin to bring peace to fruition. >> john: the president also said there may be a meeting between himself and putin in saudi arabia in the future, said it is too early at this point to book something like that, but maybe a little bit of carrot dangling going on in the oval office, and we don't know if perhaps he spoke to putin about this. is probably likely that he did. he said he would like to see russia come back into the g7, make it the g8 again. that is obviously an enticement for putin, particularly reflecting on what you said about the economy. but would that be rewarding a guy who is really known for some bad behavior? >> well, look, putin is a thug and president trump has called him a thug, called him a tough guy and a strong man, but we've got to get this war settled, and the stick on the war is american

support for ukraine and increased armament and president trump has said ukraine is going to get the arms they need, they are going to have to pay for them and put up collateral for them and protect the american taxpayer. so that is one of the sticks. the other stick is what larry kudlow, your colleague and i have talked about, massive sanctions on russia, that is the stick category. on the carrot category, a lot to offer russians. we can pull back the sanctions, give the russians what they need for their economy to grow again and make russia great again. i think the president would like to see russia reenter the family of nations, pull them away from china, end that alliance between china and russia, and bring russia back into the fold, but to do that, putin has got to come to the table, stop killing people in ukraine, stop the war, but president trump has a lot of tools, and present trump as a dealmaker, as you know, john, he's going to use the sticks, going to use carrots, bringing

russia to the g8, those are all great carrots, but he has some pretty good sticks, as well. >> john: so in terms of how this progresses, the defense secretary pete hegseth has raised some eyebrows in t the yr up when he said it was unlikely ukraine would refer to its return to its pre2014 borders. not involved in any kind of stabilization force peered president trump was asked about that yesterday and here's what he said. >> i know that our new secretary of defense was excellent, pete made a statement today saying it is unlikely or impractical, think probably that is true. no way they would allow that. going on for many, many years, they have been saying that for a long time, that ukraine cannot go into nato. and i'm okay with it. >> john: so that means russia

would get to keep crimea. ukraine would not become a member of nato. to you, what does a peace agreement look like? who gives up what? >> well, look, president trump is a realist and being realistic and pete hegseth is being realistic, john. we know russia is not giving up crimea, it was part of russia for hundreds of years, only transferred to ukraine in 1957 when ukraine was part of the soviet union. russia is not giving that up. they are not giving up some of the land they took. and germany and other european countries have said they don't want ukraine in nato because of article five, because there is ongoing war, we could all get drawn into a war with russia which no one wants and the president doesn't want any american people don't want. having said that, ukraine is going to need security guarantees and my anticipation of a peace deal is russia keeps the land it took in 2014 when they invaded under obama, not under trump, and we probably

have some european boots on the ground, polish armored divi divisions, raf, royal air force, to protect ukraine. they are going to get some security guarantees. i am sure the president wants that. i am sure the russians expect that. i think the president is being realistic about the contours of the agreement, about what russia is realistically going to give back and what the ukraine can expect from security guarantees. they will get guarantees, probably not nato membership. >> john: we will see what unfolds. >> realism. >> john: we will see what unfolds in the days and weeks ahead. robert, thank you so much, appreciate it. >> great being with you john, thank you. >> sandra: we are waiting robert f. kennedy jr. to be sworn in a towel as health and human services secretary, one of president trump's most controvel picks. samerica's health academic epidemic. marc siegel, how would you describe the stay for you?

what impact will he have, dr. siegel? >> sandra, he is a disruptor and a reformer. one of the things he has identified is our obesity epidemic which is 45 american adults, outrageous, and even more shocking, 20% of children, and i have to tell you as a practicing internist, it leads to disease, it leads directly to heart disease, it leads to diabetes, it leads to strokes, it leads to sleep apnea, it leads to cancer, and if we can prevent all of that before it happens by getting control of our weight and exercising more and changing what we eat, we are going to cost a lot less money. it will be a health care system again rather than a sick care system. that is number one on his hit list. number two, probably equally as important, is to look for bloat in these various agencies. what is all of the money going for over a trillion dollars? what is it being spent on? what is actually useful in terms of research? in terms of intervention? and the third thing, also

equally as important, what about public confidence in our health care agencies? took a big hit during the pandemic. the mandates, we know, it is our way or the highway, the word misinformation, all of that took a big hit, so kennedy will be focusing more on transparency, on safety. is ineffective? isn't ineffective? what will work, what won't? big pharma. background as an -- keeping with what president trump is doing in general which is trying to get things changed in terms of what is best for americans. >> sandra: we had on our program on monday, talking about the rfk movement and specifically he was interesting food dye, something a lot of people are talking about. listen. >> these companies need to do better. we know now, i can't blame my parents, i can't blame. generations because we just

didn't know, now we know, imagine if we found out lead was in our pipes and we are not going to worry about it, let's do something about this, and it is an exciting time, let's make this happen. >> sandra: he is an arizona state rep leading this charge and feels passionate about it. will we see food dyes taken out of our grocery stores? >> there is no doubt about it. by the way, i would disagree with him on one thing peered we did know. we took red dye number three out of cosmetics, which you put on your skin, back in 1990. why did it take 29 years to suddenly get it out of food? one more thing, microplastics, we are just finding out, it is in our brains, it is in our hearts. i talked to one of our top cardiologists in the country and he said and he is not alone, he is worried about inflammation in the hearts, leading to heart disease from the microplastics, and a lot of it is an altar processed foods, which kennedy has talked about, so we got to get our food cleaner and lead to less obesity and it taka

lot of changes. we need a healthier diet and a healthier lifestyle. >> sandra: dr. siegel, thank you so much. something a lot of people are talking about, and we will see when that happens shortly, rfk jr. to be sworn in as hhs secretary. thank you so much. all right, john, as we are awaiting another event. >> john: these two things are going to overlap, let me lay it out for folks, having been to so many of these in the oval oval office. the press pool goes in and typically these things are not what we call live online, so they're not broadcast live from the oval office, they are recorded and then the recording is run back out of the oval office in the brady briefing room. it is rewrapped, rebound, everybody is alerted it is coming out, should be within the two-minute warning now, and then it is played back but as this playback is going on we are going to start with q&a, the press will start asking the president questions, it is going to run for about 30 minutes and during that time the rfk jr.

swearingen will likely happen in the oval office and be recorded and redirect for playback so likely get these two things back-to-back even though they didn't happen. >> sandra: may be responding to critics online just saying, air it live! >> john: let me explain that, too, because it is rare for events to be broadcast live out of the oval office. i think something happened live on the first day. we also see oval office addresses live, but it is logistically very cumbersome for the president, oval office operations team, tv crews running cables in and putting up lights and things because that takes time, and it takes time away from the business that the president can do in the oval office, so typically what happens is we just wait outside in the colonnade, we run in the back door of the oval office, set up in about ten seconds, the president does his event, then we run back out to the brady briefing room. tv lights and cables and things would take time to set up and breakdown. >> sandra: we just jinxed it because there is an issue

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you are meeting prime minister modi of india this afternoon. what kind of trade would you like to have with india? >> india traditionally is the highest, just about the highest tariff country, they charge more tariffs. it works out very well. it's a beautiful, simple system, and we don't have to worry about jeep charging too much or too little. but traditionally, india is right at the top of the pack, pretty much. there are a couple of smaller countries that are actually more. but india is a very, very -- they charge tremendous tariffs. i remember when harley-davidson couldn't sell their motorbikes into india because the fact that india, the tax was so high, the tariff was so high, and was forced, i guess they -- a while ago -- a factory in india to avoid paying the tariffs, and

that is what people can do with us, they can build a factory here, a plant or whatever it may be here, and that includes the medical, that includes cars, ships and semiconductors, that includes everything. if you build here you have no tariffs whatsoever. i think that is what is going to happen. i think our country is going to be flooded with jobs. >> reporter: what is the timeline? are prices going to go up? >> not necessarily. but i'll tell you what will go up is jobs. the jobs will go up tremendously. we are going to have great jobs. jobs for everybody. this is something that should have been done many years ago. china did it. china did it at a level probably nobody has ever seen before. if you manufactured a car, you couldn't send it into china, the tariff was so high, so everybody went and they built in china, it was no big secret. so we are going to see. it is going to be tremendous

amounts of jobs. and ultimately, prices will stay the same, go down, but will have a very dynamic. >> reporter: prices go up, mr. president, because of these tariffs, who do you think voters should hold responsible? >> oh, i think what is going to go up is jobs are going to go up and prices could go up somewhat short-term, but prices will also go down, and i think the farmers are going to be helped by this very much because product is being dumped into our country and our farmers are getting hurt very badly by the last administration. the last administration hated our farmers, like at a level that i have never seen before. i think our farmers are going to be helped. jobs are going to be helped, or manufacturers are going to be helped. again, if somebody wants to come in, including the car companies, they want to come in and build car plants, they will do it without tariffs and therefore prices won't go up. there could be some short-term disturbance, but long-term, it's

going to make our country a fortune. >> reporter: so americans should prepare for some short-term pain? >> you said that. i didn't. reporter matt prices will go up? >> nobody knows what will happen other than we know that jobs are going to be read produced at levels we have not seen before. we think interest rates are going to ultimately becoming down because of things that happened, and they go hand-in-hand with the tariffs. but we think that the prices for some things, many things, could be all things will go down. ultimately will go down. >> reporter: there is a period of time for review, 180 days. what is the earliest date that you think tariffs will actually be implanted and executed? >> i would say, maybe i will ask howard to answer that because he is going to be the one that is simple meant to, what you think? >> our studies, we w on april 1, so we'll hand by april 2nd ready to go april 1st, and we will

hand it to the president and make his decisions but but remember if they drop their tariffs, prices for americans ae coming down. our production is going up and our costs are going down. remember it is a two-way street. that is why it is called reciprocal. >> reporter: have you spoken to any american ceos directly about this? >> many. many love it. and they say this is going to be the thing that makes our country really prosperous again, and this is going to be what pace down the $36 trillion in debt and all the other things. this is going to be -- this is an amazing day. i think this is going to be a very big day and a very positive way for our country. yes, please. >> reporter: you have talked about the e.u. before and your concerns about how the e.u. treats -- do you have a number in mind on the european union? do you have an idea where the number will land? >> they have a 20% vat tax, considering similar and the same as a terror, plus they charge

lots of fees. they are doing something else. european union has been very tough on our companies. they sued apple. they sued google. they sued facebook. they sued many other companies. american companies. the kind of numbers are staggering. and the court system over there is not very good to our companies. if you know that apple had to pay, i think $16 billion in a penalty. a court case that was really shocking because most people thought they would have won the court case, people that watched it. so they have been very tough. airlines have called me up and they said could you help us with europe because they are charging us so many different fees. i got a call from the head of american, united, and other airlines saying every time we land a plane, we get just absolutely killed by the european union, and so they haven't been treated -- we think the european union is wonderful. we all love europe.

the countries in europe. but european union has been absolutely brutal on trade. canada has been very bad to us on trade, but now canada is going to have to start paying up, and canada has been tough on the military because they have a very low military cost. they think we are going to protect them with our military, which is unfair. canada is going to be a very interesting situation because, you know, we just don't need their products, and yet they survive off the fact that we do 95% of what they do. and canada is just absolutely, i say it and sometimes people smile and sometimes they say great idea, but canada, their taxes would come down greatly, their security would go up greatly. amazing things happen to canada. and really canada, in this particular -- why would we pay $200 billion a year in subsidies to canada when they are not a

state? you do that for a state, but you don't do that for somebody else's country. so i think canada is going to be a very serious contender to be our 51st state. >> reporter: there was obviously a delay in implementing those tariffs. >> i spoke to governor trudeau on numerous occasions and we will see what happens. it just sets up, the american people would pay much less taxes, perfect military protection -- they don't have any military protection because they essentially -- and you take a look at what is going on out there, you have russian ships, china ships, chinese ships, you have a lot of ships out there, and you know, people are in danger. this is a different world today. it's a different world. they need our protection. yes? >> reporter: you mentioned elon musk and the efforts he is undertaking, authority this week, will he secure a new government contract while he is

working on d.o.g.e.? >> not if there is a conflict. if there is no conflict, what difference does it make? we won't let him do anything having to do with a conflict. >> reporter: are you personally checking to make sure there is no conflict of interest? >> i am. first of all, he wouldn't do it, and second of all, we are not going to let him do anything where there is a conflict of interest. >> reporter: you are no gauche asians with the e.u. , discussions ongoing already, how quickly do you expect to hear back from them about any of these -- >> i can't tell you. the e.u. has been very nasty. they have not treated us properly. we were great to them on nato, essentially similar group of countries. when i came in, they raised their fees, we were paying, in my opinion, almost all of nato, and i had the bad moment with the press, the press said does this mean you will not protect

them? because i said that, the secretary general, as you know, said it was the greatest thing because the money came pouring in, but they don't treat us right on trade, they don't treat us right on the military, either, and you look at ukraine, ukraine, probably $200 billion e than europe, why are we in for more than europe? we are in for more than europe. think of it. or nato, because canada is -- by the way, canada is just about the lowest payer, also, they shouldn't be. they are just about the lowest payer in nato in addition to everything else, so canada has really been taking advantage of -- if they had to pay just something modestly fair they wouldn't be able to succeed as a country. and that is why -- that's why i feel they have to become a st state. >> reporter: is it your expectation that partners will offer major concessions and that

you actually don't end up applying those tariffs? >> no, i think that a lot of them will stay the same, and whatever they pay, i'll pay. we will have a lot of them stay the same. i think some -- look, i heard as an example, e.u., lower their tax on cars down to the exact same amount, they were much higher, they were approximately five times higher. and they lowered them down to the exact tax we are charging. that took place yesterday or the day before, is that a correct statement? >> do you expect any exceptions or waivers? >> i don't expect that, no, this is a simple system. there wouldn't be any. in the case of apple, i gave them a waiver, an exemption, in my first term, because samsung was in south korea and samsung did not have to pay a tax because it was a tax on china and apple mix a lot of their product in china so i did that because it wouldn't have been fair but now this applies

to everybody across the board. there is a much simpler way of doing it, a much better way. >> reporter: you had that major call yesterday with present putin in russia, president sullins he responded today basically saying any agreements they won't except unless -- will ukraine have a seat at the know table for negotiations? >> we have ukraine a lot of people involved. a lot of forks -- a lot of forks in this game. i'll tell you what, this is a very interesting situation. but the ukraine war has to end. the young people are being killed at levels nobody has seen since world war ii, and it's a ridiculous war, and it has to end. we had a good talk with present putin. i had a good talk with president zelenskyy, very good talk. somebody said oh, should have called zelenskyy first, i don't think so, we have to find out whether or not russia wants to make a deal, i know zelenskyy wants to make a deal because he told me that, but i now know

that russia wants to make a d deal. >> reporter: to you ask secretary hegseth to walk back his comments that they will go back to pre-2014 border czar join nato? >> no, i thought his comments were good yesterday, probably good today. they are a little bit softer, perhaps, but i thought his comments were accurate. i don't see any way that a country in russia's position could allow them to join nato. i don't see that happening. and long before president putin, russia was very strong on the fact -- i believe that is the reason the war started, because biden went out and said they could join nato and he shouldn't have said that. as soon as he said that, i said know you you know what? you are going to have a war. i was right about that. this is a war that would've never happened if i were president. i think biden is incompetent.

and when he said they could join nato, i thought that was a very stupid thing to say. it depends if it is a minor incursion. in other words, it's okay if russia does a minor incursion. i thought that was a very foolish thing to say. the other thing that got it started was how badly milley and stupid people and bad generals, how badly they did with afghanistan. i was going to pull out but we were pulling out with dignity and strength, and we were going to take our equipment with us and everything else. what they are doing, what they did with that, i think putin look at that mess and said wow, this is a great time, i'm going to go in. what the americans said, i'm not blaming americans but i will say what they said had a big influence on his deciding to go in. yeah? >> reporter: elon musk met with prime minister modi today, did he do so as an american ceo

or a representative of the u.s. government? >> are you talking about me? >> rep >> reporter: no, elon musk. >> elon, i don't know, they met and i assume he wants to do business in india. but india is a very hard place to do business in because of the tariffs. they have the highest tariffs just about in the world. it's a hard place to do business. no, i would imagine he met possibly because he is running a company. he is doing this -- as something that he is felt strongly about for a long time because he sees what is happening and he sees how the country is really being hurt badly by all of the fraud, waste, and abuse. >> reporter: the ceo meeting with a representative of your government. >> well, he is meeting with me in a little while, so i'm going to asking that question. i'll asking that. yeah? >> reporter: what should we expect, the ceo, what are you thinking