kevin: president trump's border czar, tom homan, clashing with

new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez the over a webinar that she hosted that that advised, at least in his view, migrants to evade i.c.e. raids. this as new york city mayor eric adams has vowed to reopen the shuttered i.c.e. office at a rikers island prison in a substantial shift in the big apple's sanctuary city policies. much more on this just ahead. welcome to another hour of "fox news live," i'm kevin congress. the president is at mar-a-lago this weekend, and in the a real surprise here, he is reacting to the release of three more hostages by hamas. this all comes as the world reacts to his plans for peace in ukraine. danamarie mcnicholl is live in west palm beach, florida, with the latest there. >> reporter: hey, kevin. well, new this morning president trump issued a strict ultimatum to the israel demanding he release all hostages by today. here in florida the president spent the morning at a nearby airport looking at a boeing

plane, taking a look at the new hardware and technology. but the main focus of this visit was to spotlight boeing's failure of delivering the new air force one on time. now, the white house says the company's already five years behind schedule with the aircraft now expected to be ready by 2029. well, -- well after president trump's term. at the munich security conference, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy sat down with vice president j.d. vance who emphasized the trump administration's goal of ending the war. >> he will choose our side. and if he will not be in the middle, i think he will, you know, relent. i think he will pressure, and he will push putin to stop the war. >> we want the war to come to a close. we want the killing to stop. but we want to achieve a

durable, lasting peace, not the kind of peace that's going to have eastern europe many conflict just a couple years down the road. >> reporter: now, questions remain how the u.s. will shield ukraine from russian aggression if ukraine could see the continued u.s. military support in exchange for ukrainian rare earth minerals, a resource critical to global technology and defense industries. also in europe this week, defense secretary pete hegseth said ukraine joining nato is not realistic. he later walked back that comment, clarifying that all a negotiations are still -- all negotiations are still on the table. and all eyes are on doge with the latest federal layoffs. just yesterday, health and human services let go thousands of employees. officials, though, claim this was a taxpayer -- this will save taxpayers $600 million. kevin? kevin: dana ifmarie, thank you so much. we appreciate your time this afternoon. ♪

kevin: for if more, let's bring in texas congressman henry cuellar. congressman, always a pleasure to have you and get your wisdom on what's been happening. there is, i think it's fair to say, a bit of consternation about what's happening with respect to i.c.e. raids. and it's the not just in texas, although i think given your experience, it is of great interest to folks in the lone star state. let me share this, this is from michael ego, the dpd chief. he says in part, quote, there's no room for fear in our community. i'm meeting with stakeholders across dallas to reassure them we're here to serve and protect all a dallas residents and are committed to enforcing city od nances and state laws. -- ordinances. your reaction to what he had to say there and whether or not you feel like working with i.c.e. is something that can be done in a way that obviously protects american citizens, getting the migrants who have committed heinous crimes out of the country while also being very

targeted. >> look, i sit on the homeland appropriations, and i've always support adding more border patrol, more i.c.e. agents because they have a very important job. it is important that we position on criminals, focus on anybody that's a risk to the national security, focus on the 1.3 million individuals that have final deportation orders. that is what we need to target on because we want to make sure that it doesn't matter if you're on the border or in d.c. or whenever you might be, we want our -- wherever you with might be. if you're a criminal alien, then you should be targeted. no to ifs, no buts about that. kevin: let me ask you though, and i can be blunt with you. i like you, i've talked to you, i appreciate your service to to this country. people though, congressman, say, what the hell? why didn't they do more of this in the past four years? what do you say to your voters and constituents who wonder why this is only happening now and not over the past several yearsesome. >> well, you know, one of the

things we've got to keep in mind is that i did have a disagreement with the prior administration. i think that they didn't focus enough on stopping immigrants and people that were breaking the laws and making sure that a they were removed. they were just not doing that. they were more interested in processing, managing, quote, managing the migrants coming in. so, therefore, i had a disagreement and, therefore, like i've always said when people were against i.c.e., i stood up for i.c.e. agents. i to do up for border patrol agency -- stood up for border patrol agents. again, they have a critical job, and we need to support those men and women which a lot of them live in my community. i know them. i see them at church, i see them at the store, so we've got to support hem. kevin: let me ask you, get your reaction, that is, to aoc's webinar if teaching, as tom homan has suggested, migrants to evade i.c.e. listen to this, get your reaction on the other side.

>> if you're stopped on the street by an officer, you don't know if it's i.c.e., if it's your local police, the first thing you have the right to do so to ask, am i free to go? am i being detained? and if the answer is yes, then you can reeve. -- leave. >> they either want to deceive you intoing this that they're not i.c.e., or they lie so that a you come to believe that they do have a right to enter. kevin: specifically, that wasn't the congresswoman herself, that was a webinar if produced by her office. is this a good idea, a bad idea? what's your take? if. >> well, look, you know, first of all, i haven't seen the webinar at all, but i can say that if you have a federal official or a local or state official that wants to -- needs to do their job, we've got to make sure that we don't interfere. we do know that there are certain rights out there so, again, i don't know exactly what they were trying to do. but, again, if there's an i.c.e.

agent, there's certain protocols that that i.c.e. agent will follow, and we've got to make sure that we don't interfere with those protocols. conservative. kevin: 15 seconds left. your party could use talents like yours at the presidential level. you running in '28? >> no, no, no p. i'm happy being a member of congress. certainly, want to come back to texas, where we have very warm weather, and i'll take that anymore. beautiful people in texas. kevin: yeah. great food, good people, great weather, indeed. henry cuellar, congressman from the if great state of texas, thank you for your time today. >> thank you thank you so much. kevin: for some gop reaction, let's bring in new york congresswoman nicole malliotakis. it is always a pleasure to have you as well because i know you get what the congressman was just there. he's saying, hey, listen, we have to protect the american people. and the border is not just states like texas and arizona and california.

the border now, frankly, congresswoman, is everywhere. >> that's right. in cities like mine, new york, are certainly seen the brunt of this mass illegal migration that was created by joe biden. we saw how many people, thousands and thousands of people. in fact, thousands have actually committed crimes in new york city. these are individuals that the mayor forced taxpayers to house in luxury hotel rooms in manhattan and across our city, and they ended up commit committing crimes in so many different cases including police officers that were shot. laken riley's murderer was actually caught in new york city for an arrest, was released back with onto the streets. so your point about a i.c.e. going back to rikers island is so critical to make sure that these individuals are turned over to be deported. not to be released back onto to our streets to go to georgia to kill a young, innocent woman like laken riley. so i think this was a good move.

i'm glad that the president and tom homan put pressure if on mayor adams to finally do this, because i've been calling for this for quite some time i. makes it so much easier and safer for our law enforcement to be able to take people right from the jail as opposed to having to go into communities and find them which is much more dangerous and risky for them. kevin: listen, and there is tons of righteous indig nation in communities all over new york. it's one thing to be in your ivory tower and you've got a big, gated community. they're not dealing with these problems the way people on the streets are dealing with them, people who with ride the trains are dealing with them. i couldn't agree with you more. speaking of, here is mayor adams talking about this quad of expanding cooperation -- expanding cooperation to make the citizens of new york safer. listen here. >> rikers island is now having some of the most dangerous people in our city. and by having i.c.e. on rikers island, part of our gang intelligence, using our intel

with nypd, correction officers, we can identify those gangs inside and outside on the street. there was no reason they were removed from rikers island. kevin: no reason not to cooperate, and it appears at least finally the city and the state are cooperating at least in a a tenuous american with federal law enforcement. >> yeah. look, bill de blasio changed these laws back in 2014. kevin: that's right. >> and so we've seen the lack of cooperation, and it's a result to of these left-wing, radical policy. i'm glad that the mayor has finally stepped up here. i think he should have done it four years ago when he paris came n. we also a were able to fight to get mayor de blasio to fight for sex crimes that were committed. the mayor always had the ability for violent offenders to detain and cooperate with i.c.e. he chose not to do that. they denied every single federal detain a ther request that they received under the biden administration, which was only a

handful, about a hundred. but think about it, if the biden administration who let in these criminals, released them on our streets and actually asking for a detainer, that means these are the worst of the worst. so in that situation, the city did have the ability to cooperate under the bill de blasio law, and they sill denied every single detainer request. i'm glad he got the pressure to do the right thing, and let's hope we finally get this city under control. we still have that that radical bail law, we still have sanctuary state policy that prohibits homeland security from accessing the dmv data base, which is ludicrous. so let's hope this is just the first step in the direction necessary to keep our city and to our country safe. kevin: and you to don't want the new yorkers to be disenfranchised by having people who are not even lawfully here vote and thereby change the public policy that impacts american citizens. we could go on for quite some time. there's so many great stories

out of the great state of new york, but we'll have the leave it there. of congresswoman malliotakis, thank you of for your time today. are a great weekend, we appreciate it. >> you two too. thank you. kevin: thank you. dedenew york city, speaking of, mayor eric adams and the u.s. attorney general pam bondi are both on the defensive after the doj elects to punt his corruption case against mayor adams. correspondent lauren green is in new york with more on that. hey a, lauren. >> reporter: hey, kevin. you've been talking about it, and i'm sure you can imagine there's been a lot of political fallout to after the doj moved to dismiss federal corruption charge as against mayor eric adams. u.s. attorney general pam bondi saying the charges against adams were politically motivated in the first place. >> we have a right to protect the weaponmyization -- against weaponization in new york and every state in this country and also national security.

when did they go after him? if when he started criticizing the biden administration. he criticized them for all of their immigration practices. >> reporter: democrats fumed that adams agreed to work with trump's border czar, tom homan, to to open up new york's notorious prison, rikers island, to i.c.e. agents to round up illegal immigrants who are violent criminals. >> getting back to like -- rikers island is a game-changer. >> you know, people want to hijack this narrative and turn the it into a political narrative where we're saying we need to have public safety. i requested the meeting. i reached out to his team and said is we want to sit down. >> reporter: new york city's public advocate, monty williams, blast add adams saying he's working for trump. >> it was about a man who is trying to make some deals and can no longer make decisions that are in the best interests

of the city of new york. we have a deputy to trump's white house. we no longer have a mayor of new york city. >> reporter: now, mayor adams said in a statement that it is not quid pro quo situation is here and that he never offered to trade his authority as mayor to end his federal corruption case. kevin? kevin: great stuff, as always a, my friend lauren green in new york. have a great weekend. thank you, lauren. hamas has freed if three more hostages in exchange for more than 300 palestinian prisoners, all part of the delicate ceasefire deal with israel. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot in tel aviv with the very latest there. hey, greg. >> reporter: hey, kevin. that is the right. three more hostages freed today, but that hostage deal and ceasefire if remains very much a work in progress. among captives freed today, 36-year-old american-israeli sagui, 27-year-old alexander and

46-year-old argentine-born yair horn. after 498 dies cap ative brought from gaza to a nearby military base and then area hospitals, the wife, mother and father of sagui greeted him with exaltation. the three hostages appear at least to be in better shape than those released last week. those released received nixed news. -- mixed news. one learned his father was killed on october 7th, another one who has a brother still being held and dekel-chen was to meet for the first time his new daughter. some 369 palestinian prisoners were released from israeli jails, 36 of them serving life sentences. hamas is looking for more releases and more assurances about gaza. as for that threat by president trump earlier in the week of a deadline today for all the a

hostages to be released or else, trump noted in a post it didn't happen, but he also left any ponce to the israel. as for prime minister benjamin netanyahu, he seems to be settling for the moment, ken, on these three freed, but he and others are working for more to come out in a faster way. he's meeting here in tel aviv with secretary of state rubio tomorrow. back to you. conservative. kevin: thank you, my if friend. still ahead this hour, the premier of ontario, canada, responds to president's tough talk on tariff. also coming up, new details emerging into the investigation -- from the investigation into the devastate investigation into the devastate thin that's next. comfort. save up to $800 on select adjustable mattress sets at stearnsandfoster.com. still congested?

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been released from the ntsb on that mid-air collision in the mission's capital including a suggestion that the crew of the black hawk helicopter may not if have heard key instructions from air traffic control to move if behind the person airlines jet. -- american airlines yet. the investigating agency says the crash may have come about in part because the crew may have had inaccurate altitude readings. correspondent madeleine rivera joins us with more on this. this is not good news. >> reporter: no, not at all, can and the ntsb released perhaps the most details timeline. at 8:43 peen eastern p.m., air traffic control told the genal a jet to -- told the black hawk about the jet approaching the runway, but it appears the black hawk may not have received that that message. the black hawk crew eventually same time air traffic control cleared jet

traffic on another runway, so there are questions over whether the helicopter identified the appropriate jet. the ntsb says the black hawk may not have heard a final transmission telling it to pass behind a a a5342. >> they may have not received pass behind this, because the mikey. they were communicating -- mike key. they were communicating with air a traffic control at the time. >> reporter: the ntsb says the jet increased its pitch which some experts have take as a last minute if attempt to avoid collision. the black hawk pilot and their instructor saw conflicting data that regarding the helicopter's altitude. there's a 200-foot limit for helicopters over that that part of the potomac river. >> theafnlgt we are looking at the possibility of there may be bad data. we're looking at were they seeing something different in the cockpit that a differs from

the fdr data which was radio altimeter. >> reporter: the ntsb says the black hawk crew were likely wearing night visioning goggles as we were doing this flight which was an exam. the ntsb making it clear these are preliminary findings. it could take that up to a full year to figure out and for the ntsb to release its final report. kevin: let me can ask you, someone said sometimes these investigations can, as you pointed out, take months and months. to is it typical, and why would it seem to take that long to figure out what happened? if. >> reporter: it is typical. the ntsb, it usually takes up to year to finish a report. that they've got to figure outal of these different factors and speaking about the night vision goggles that the crew were most likely wearing, one of the things they're going to do is do a study to figure out if the night goggles may have led to some visual impairment. that's something they're looking into among so many other things.

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opportunity chair, erica donalds. ing great to have you with us. this is, for me, it's an interesting conversation because as a family full of educators, i think there at least this in washington appears to be one view of how losing or getting rid of the department of education might go and maybe a broader view, if you will, once you leave the beltway. of met me share the, this is -- let me share this, this is carrie odd reese -- rodriguez, get your reaction to what a she has to say about what might happen if the doe goes away. >> eliminating the department of education would have devastating consequences for students, particularly those from underserved communities. without federal oversight like the one i was just talking about, over 100,000 public schools across the country stand to gamble with more than $15 billion of annual support for students with disabilities. kevin: now, chairperson donalds, this is what people say to me,

kevin, don't disrespect the legitimate concerns of parents wore quite worried. and on the other side of that a coin, you'll hear from people, quite frankly, who say, listen, if it ain't broke, you know, don't fix it. but if it's broken, it's time time to change the paradigm. what do you think of her reaction to a possible closing of the department of education many. >> look, the department of education is broken, and it needs major reform which is why president trump has nominated linda mcif may mono, who did an excellent josh, i must say, in her hearing the other day. parent if groups like this one, front groups for the teachers union, are still tilling fear in parents that is -- instilling fear in parents that is unwarranted. anyone who has a special needs children that is receiving dollars from the go government will continue to receive those dollars and will receive more of them when we eliminate the

wasteful bureaucracy at every level. linda mcmahon made it very clear we are not looking to defund these practice. we want to make sure that the waste, fraud and abuse and additional bureaucracy is eliminated so more dollars are actually reaching the students they are supposed the to benefit. conservative and we need performance. [laughter] let's be honest, when you look back at when the department of education was created versus performance now, i i think it egos without saying you've got to do a better job. and if revamping or getting rid of, coming up with something different, maybe block grants, something students can do to to include their own performances, they may be the way to go. what do you think of that? >> you're absolutely right. the past 40 years of government involvement at the federal level have shown us it does not hold schools accountable for better academic performance of our students. both groups are low income students and special needs students have gone down in performance, and the recent nape

scores showed that the overall performance of our students in fourth and eighth grade is absolutely abysmal. what we're doing now in the discuss quo isn't working. what will work is putting more power in the hands of parents to vote with their feet when schools are not working for their children. or giving some of these powers into the hands of states and letting them compete with one another for better academic performance like louisiana has shown to do. we think these two things will continue to improve and reform a system that is in desperate need of it. kevin: in desperate need, is the perfect way to put it. and there are some amazing educational opportunities out there. parochial schools, charter schools, we're talking about using block grants in some circumstances to help the states improve the outcome. and that's something i think we can all agree to. erica donalds, that will wrap i up for our time, but thank you again for your efforts the make education better for all a americans. we appreciate it. >> thank you.

kevin: 88-year-old pope fran if sis remains in a rome hospital, has now canceled all of his vents for the weekend as he continues to battle what is being described as a serious respiratory infection. stephanie bennet has the latest for us. >> reporter: hey, kevin. the vatican says the pope is showing improvements. he had a restful night and slept well. this is just the latest of a string of ail aments and concerns over his health over the last few years especially. now, the vatican said preliminary tests showed pope francis had a respiratory tract infection and was in fair if condition in rome where he is undergoing drug therapy. the 88-year-old was diagnosed with bronchitis on february 6th but till continued his work even hours before being admitted. on friday many say he appeared bloated and pale as he held a handful of daily audiences. over the last few days, pope francis was at times handing off

his speeches for an aide to read aloud saying he was having trouble breathing. passers-by were concerned but hopeful. >> we are very worried. we came to actually see him at the vatican this weekend. we're very worried that he's in the hospital, and we're praying for him that he will get better and recover. >> reporter: and over the years he's trudged through cases of pneumonia and bronchitis before. as a young man, pope francis had part of one lung removed. in 2021, part of his large is intestine was removed, and in 2023 scar tissue was removed and hernia repair. he uses a cane or walker, and he is suffers from if sigh yacht with ca nerve pain. he had an audience with artists in town for the jubilee today and a mass for them on sunday. it's still unclear how long the pope will remain in the hospital, but medical officials have prescribed him complete if

rest. kevin? kevin: stephanie bennett in london, thank you so much. obviously, a lot of of prayers around the globe and in masses all over the country tomorrow. thank you for that. president trump has targeted europe with new tariffs. that's the promise. we're going to tell you all about that and what that might mean for you next. ♪ 7 million us businesses rely on tiktok to compete. within a week of posting, i had over $25,000 in sales. i don't have a million dollars to put towards marketing and branding. tiktok was the way

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folks living from east texas all the way to western georgia while flash if flooding threatens the ohio valley. and if that weren't enough, the system is expected to bring moderate to heavy snowfall to the upper midwest and part of the northeast. -- parts of the northeast. and a new development on the tariff front to report this afternoon. president trump announcing this on truth social or not long ago, he's talking about europe piece value-added tax, or vat. his post says this: whatever countries charge the united states of america, we will charge a them. no more, in less. for purposes of this united states policy, we will. consider countries that use the vat system -- again, value-added tax -- which is far more punitive hand a tariff to be similar of to that of a tariff. hmm. for more on inflation and reciprocal tariffs and the like, let's bring in cpa jean marx. jean, great to have you. it's sort of sometimes happening

in realtime stories write themselves. your reaction to what the president just put out there especially as it relates to the vat in europe. you and i can talk about auto trade, i know that the e.u. is talking about getting more in line at 2.5%, but the vat can be on yous -- onerous, gene. >> just so people know, the vat is nothing more than a sales tax, you know? i live in philadelphia. philadelphia has a sales tax, pennsylvania has a sales tax. in europe it's called a sales tax. and what european countries do, they look at goods that come from overseas like american goods, and they the increase the value-added tax depending if it's coming from somewhere outside of their country. that's all it is. the president's saying, well, that's just not fair. why are we being taxed so much? you mentioned autos, ken. i want to bring -- kevin. i want to to bring up why president trump is so obsessed with reciprocity among tariffs, among, you know, the e.u. in particular and the u.s.

when american car companies are trying to sell their cars into the e.u., they get taxed. they get an extra a tariff of 10% whereas if a european car company is selling their cars in the u.s., the tariff rate is only the 2.5%, you know in so president trump is rightly saying that's not fair. this has been a going on for years, and we need to have, you know, fair and balanced tariffs. if anything, among the two, you know, among the two nations and the two economic groups. that's what is the all coming back, trying the make it a level playing field. kevin: fair and balanced, nicely done. let me sort of build on that as i share some inflation numbers here in the u.s. and i want to talk about some of the concerns, gene, that if we go ahead and we don't get reciprocity, for example or even if we do, inflation may continue to rise. can you help disabuse me of a this concern, or is that likely the happen? >> i've been telling this to my

clients as well, to the people i speak to in my community, kevin. we're at a 3% inflation rate right now, and i do expect it the maintain at least for the next year. and i think there's a lot of inflationary pressures that are a going on. it's not just tariffs. we have a massive national debt that needs to be funded as well, and unless we figure out other ways to cut, you know, mandatory spending, not just what elon musk is doing, you know, we have high rates of interest. interest is taking up almost 17% of the u.s. government's spending,s and money's got to come from somewhere, and most likely it's going to be printed to pay for which'll cause inflation. i'd love everybody to be like, hey, inflation's to going the come under control, but i am not if optimistic about a inflation going down anytime soon. and what else concerns me, when i look at hourly wages of employees, paychex does their small business watch, and hourly wages are increasing 2.7%,

inflation's at 3%. if that a concerns me that that wages respect keeping up with inflation. kevin: listen, i could talk to you all day because we could talk business, we can talk sports. congratulations on -- >> the eagles. [laughter] kevin: congratulations, gene. we appreciate it. gonna have to leave it there. gene marx, thank you -- >> thanks, buddy. take care. [background sounds] kevin: the nascar cup season kicks off tomorrow with the daytona 500. president trump is expected to be at the iconic race making it the second major sport event he's attended in a a week. by the way, coverage of the super bowl of nascar begins at a 1:30 eastern on fox. it should be great. and speaking of great, madison scarpino certainly is that. she joins us with a live look at the day before the big day. hey, madison. >> reporter: hey a, kevin. yeah, first, the super bowl last weekend and now the daytona 5000. it's been a week with some major sport vents for the president.

this would be trump's second appearance if at the great american race as president. he served as the grand marshal for the 6 the end -- 22nd daytona -- 62nd and commanded the drivers to start their engines. no official confirmation on the visit tomorrow from the white house or nascar yet, but many fans are hoping to see the president again. >> it's just nice to know that the president is actually going to all these events and participating with all of the activities that everyone likes to enjoy. i think the fans are going to go wild. [laughter] >> reporter: the nascar cup series season opener is held every year here in daytona beach. it's known as the most rest if juice race in nascar, and this year's purse is more than $30 million. and, kevin, the race was posed to start at 2:30 eastern time tomorrow originally, but it got moved up an hour to 1:30 p.m. eastern time because of the threats of severe weather. so hopefully there's no more

weather delays that will make more disruptions for the drivers and just for the schedule overall a and all the fans as well. i'll send it back to you. kevin: it's going to be a great time. as she points out, coverage begins at 1:30 tom on fox. of course, we'll keep you up-to-date on all the a action here on fox news as well. coming up, the premier of ontario, canada, responds to the president's tariff threats and this notion of becoming the 51s. canada's not going to become the 51st state. doug's going to tell us about that a when we come back.ig ♪ne ♪ it's gentle massage and relaxing sounds... help calm your mind, every night. during our presidents day sale, save up to $500 now on select adjustable mattress sets. (giggling) you go to sandals to get really, really close, (giggling) to the caribbean. we should do this every morning.

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♪ ♪ >> canada's been very bad to us on trade, but now canada's going to have to start paying up. conservative just about 51 minutes after the hour now. president trump renewing tariff threats against our friends to the north in canada, so we

wondered this afternoon a just how are canadian leaders responding in we bring in the premier of ontario, canada, doug ford. and a big thanks to susan li at fox business for helping us get this coordinated. listen, i have to say i know a bit about canada. i happen to know that this has been a strong, incredibly close relationship from a business and cultural perspective. what gives? if what is going on -- [laughter] that has the president so worked up about canada? >> well, first of all, kevin, thanks so much for having me on. i agree with you, susan's an absolute champ. but, you know, we're the two strongest friends, treasured allies anywhere in the world. and i always believe let's build an am-can fortress with our energy and just the sheer economic power of the united states. no one can stop us. china is the problem. canada is not the problem.

they're shipping in cheap parts up through mexico, slapping a made in mexico sticker on, and away it goes costing american and canadian jobs. i'm not in fair of that. i'm in favor of building a fortress, the two strongest, richest, wealthiest, safest two countries in the world. can. kevin: i think you nailed it. but i think one of the problems for the canadian economy is if this does happen and if this is protracted, we could be looking at a very, very serious circumstance for our friends north of the border. and yet i'm hoping that -- and i think most people who follow this are hoping -- that cooler heads may prevail. i'm going to put you in the position of trump whit perrer. -- whisperer. what might canada do to avoid being hammered by tariffs? >> i agree with you. yes, canada's going to get hurt. but a tariff on canada is a tax on americans, it's very simple. we supply 60% of the aluminum

that america uses every single day, comes in from quebec. 50% of the high grade nick if el that america uses comes from ontario -- nickel. not to mention the 4.3 million barrels of oil that we hip down every single day -- ship down every single day. potash that the farmers rely on from saws catch warnings and the area rain yum you rely on comes from saskatchewan. this does not make sense whatsoever is. you take out the energy, the oil, i think there's about a $23 billion surplus that we have with ontario. we do approximately $500 billion of canadian two-way trade split equally down the center. you know with the auto sector, you can't attack the auto sector. they've been working together since 1960. we buy as many vehicles in canada as we ship down there, and the ones we ship down there have 50 american parts can -- kevin: they go back and forth

over the border while they're being made. >> eight times. but you condition can't unscramble an egg. that's what he's trying to do. you've got to make a larger omelette and work together. that's what we need. kevin: listen -- >> we look forward to working. i love the americans. i lived there for 20 years, in chicago and new jersey. canadians love americans, and i know americans love decade item -- canadians. this is unnecessary. kevin: listen, we've got about 30 seconds, give or take, left. i did want you to weigh in on something. i heard the president say, hey, listen, let's talk about this dairy tariff. i know quebecers don't want to get into an argument about which part of canada's more hurt by tariffs or what we can do, but the president makes a really good point here, premier, that you can't have some people charging us 300, for example, on some dairy and not expect the u.s. to hit back. in the brevity of the time we have left, what could you say about that? 30 seconds. >> well, i think it's very important to sit down and

discuss these issues. we came to washington with, i'll be back there on the 20th to have a discussion. listen, listen to what the administration ifen wants, build relationships and if consult back and forth. that's one sector. but there's many other sectors that we could shut down the american economy. canada alone. just imagine if your farmers didn't have the potash or the area -- uranium or the aluminum or the oil. it would come to a screeching halt. there will be layoffs in american plants. there's going to be inflation. we to do $1.3 trillion in trade. st going to to hurt both countries, unfortunately. kevin: let's hope that cooler heads prevail. i would get you to weigh in on poly-ev v. ford, but i'm out of time -- >> we'll see what happens. kevin: premier doug ford, we hope the very best for our countries and at some time many

in our lifetime, we'll -- >> god bless canada and god bless america. i love america. conservative yes, indeed. thank you, doug. appreciate that. that is going to do it for this hour of "fox news live." we appreciate you spending part of your saturday with us. journal editorial report is coming your way next. i'm kevin corke. see you right back here tomorrow at noon eastern. take care. o oost high protein, complete nutrition you need, and the flavor you love. so, here's to now... now available: boost max! ♪ who knows what tomorrow will bring ♪ (dog whines) ♪ but as for me ♪ (knock at door) ♪ i'll wait and see ♪ ♪ and maybe it'll bring my love to me ♪ ♪ who knows ♪ ♪ who knows ♪

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