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[background sounds] ♪ if freedom was a highway, if freedom was a highway ♪ charlie: good morning, and welcome to "fox & friends" weekend on this wonderful sunday of daytona 500. rachel: yeah. charlie: very exciting to be with the two of you. lisa: great to be here. rachel: good morning, charlie. lisa: i've successfully boeing up two two days in a row -- charlie: you actually slept last night? wait until tomorrow night, you'll really sleep. lisa: or tonight actually. rachel: charlie, you're right, it is the daytona 500, and we

have joey live in florida ahead of the big festivities at the daytona 500 -- lisa: there he is. rachel: there he is. our she -- we're set to be there. welcome, joey. looking good over there. joey: hey, guys, good morning. i'm here at the mecca of international motor sports. we're starting the day if this victory lane. there's a lot of cars, about 40 of them, that a want to be here. we've got with chase briscoe starting on the pole, and if you don't know who he is, you will by the end of the day. really fast. rachel: well, chase elliot says it is the special that trump is attending the daytona 500. he says i think willing a sitting president come and be part of one of our biggest days of the year, certainly what i could call our biggest event of the year, it certainly brings a lot of eyes and a different

perspective to what we to do down here for the race. joey, what's the mood like there now that everyone knows that president donald trump is going to be there? joey: listen, i'm going to be honest with you, i'm going to to be completely honest with you, there aren't a lot of fans here right now. [laughter] people are working the race and going through tsa and credit service to get to work. the mood is taking a minute. it's taking a little bit of work. i did get a tsa person to admit they don't know what they're doing. she doesn't realize it, but that worked. outside of that mood if is great. they start hair season9 with the super bowl, and the president's going to be here for it. the super bowl of racing, the daytona 500, and i can't confirm it, but the secret service presence tells me the president's going to be here, and it's going to to be a great day. charlie: so will they let him drive the pace car? >> i don't know. they took the beast out on the track one time. president trump, i think they would probably let him do whatever he wanted to do.

he doesn't want to drive the pace car because he wants to to see them, to wave, maybe he'll tell them to tart their engines. charlie: and at least the pace car has doors, doesn't it? joey: yeah. i think this is a chevrolet track, is probably like a camaro or a corvette. i need the find that out. you're catching me on some information i should have already had. each track has a manufacturer attached to it. it'll be a corvette or a mustang or a camry. rachel: every joey hit will get a little more information. lisa: joey, what are you most if excited about today? joey: what i'm most excited about in this moment is breakfast here in a minute. outside of that, i've got a lot of friends in nascar. i've to -- kind of been away9 from the sport, to see richard childress and richard petty, the two key richards of nascar, we're going to have them, and in just a few minutes, we've got a really cool guess. he comes prosecute if man down under -- from the if land down

under, is it's going to be an amazing morning. rachel: we'll check back in. charlie surprised you with questions, you'll get that information, and we'll make sure to let everyone to watch -- know to watch at 1:30 p.m. our own president will be there watching. i heard that the secretary of transportation will be there as well. so that'll be fun. [laughter] lisa: another. i think we know him, right? joey: don't tell him what i said about a tasker okay in. [laughter] rachel: you're in trouble. charlie: and he didn't get a plus one? if. rachel: he did, he got a plus twosm some of the boys are going. all right. bye, joey. charlie: so we've got -- we're awaiting possible remark mas any minute -- remarks from our new secretary of state, marco rubio, who is in the middle east meeting with bibi netanyahu in jerusalem. if that comes, we'll jump over to that. doge, meanwhile, if in washington, d.c. is roll rolling

along. rachel: sure is. [laughter] using all these car metaphors this morning. charlie: yes, exactly. lisa: should we do that all morning, throughout the today? charlie: it is kind of amazing. tease cars don't -- these cars don't have doors on them. who wants to get in one of these cars in we awe when brian kilmeade tried to get n. he couldn't get out. they had to, like, a haul him out, and he was trying to explain, if you put doors on these things, maybe it would work out better. lisa: i feel that, because i couldn't get out of the bean bag yesterday morning. it was hard. [laughter] rachel: but everybody's freaking out over doge, you're right. on the left. on the right, people are so happy. i've to got texts from friends, charlie and lisa, that that they're like, we're giddy. every morning we wake up, and we can't believe what's happening. lisa: but it almost just makes sense, right? if you look at the desire to cut

federal employees, if any company is over budget, you have to trim your staff, your budge, and a part of that is layoffs. cnn just laid off, i think, 6 of the network's work force. -- 6%. we've got 2.4 million federal employees if you exclude post office personnel9 and the military, so why wouldn't you look there to try the trim some of that pat and try to cut the budget and have a more cost efficient federal work force? rachel: you can also a trim stupid programs. lisa: this you go. charlie: and even a successful company who has a successful quarter, they say, you know, find me 5%, find me 10% in savings. this is so far beyond that. and i know rachel is just dying to start running through the list of things that they are, that we're spending -- that that you, the innocent taxpayer, is spending money -- rachel: did you see $10 million for voluntary medical male circumcisions in mozambique, many?

lisa: but that's important. [laughter] you look at some of this stuff -- rachel: look at this stuff, you guys. lisa: isn't it just also offensive to taxpayers in you look at what this past presidential election was about a, it was about inflation, about a americans not being able to put food on their tables, on putting groceries on credit cards because that's how bad the economy has gotten. and then the government goes and spends money like this. it's just offensive to americans. rachel: charlie, is a lot of this stuff just about destabilizing countries in that's what it looks like to me. some of these don't look like real program, like the prague civil society center, $32 million? that just sounds like regime change or some sort of weird stuff that they're doing that the cia doesn't want to tell us about. charlie: yeah. it's like the $20 million toilet seat in the pentagon, and then you find out it's actually not, it's actually going for regime change somewhere else. here's a good one, $20 million for fiscal federalism in nepal.

we should spend $20 million on teaching federalism to congress in the united states. that would be, like, a step in the right direction. rachel: true. these are just outrageous. but hard for the democrats to defend. this by the way, $47 million to improving learning outcomes in asia when they're kicking off butts in -- [laughter] charlie: yeah. rachel: -- on all the test scores. they're kicking our butts, and we're giving them $47 million to improve their learning outcomes. what about the learning outcomes in and washington, d.c.? those school districts are failing. california shar and whatever this money is going for, whether it's going for stupid programs which it's probably not or washington, d.c. is getting their cut of it. which is why you have democrats in places like virginia and maryland freaking out about the fact that doge is going through it here and cutting some of this spending because they're -- so

many of the people that live this if maryland, southern maryland andnorthern virginia rely on this largess. it's a never if ending -- rachel: right. the ng go are, as you said, largely set up in virginia and maryland, some in new york. and a lot of of this money passes through there. and we have people that are sort of the middlemen of your tax dollars going to mozambique circumcisions and, you know, biodiversity conservation in nepal. lois least but it's the also because they can't govern, right? and these leftist states like california and new york, they all need the money because they can't govern their own states. you rook at california and what we just saw with the fires there, you know, and the fact that they didn't -- a reservoir that was specifically built for the pacific palisades was 'em city -- empty. or you look at what the state legislature was doing brighter this, and if they were doing a potential session of how to check president trump. and you've to got karen bass out if in ghana for god nose why.

they can't govern, so that's why they need this federal money, because they don't know how to manage a budget. rachel: right. they all are in the red there. it's a good point. donald trump also i blowing people's minds by renaming things, especially things that in this case, something that obama named. he took the name mckinley, made it denali, and now donald trump has put it back to mckinley. charlie, i mean, i don't really care about what the name is, but it's just sort of like what donald trump does, right? charlie: yeah. only b -- obviously, mount mckinley is the highest peak in the united states, named for president mckinley. one reason that i think president mckinley was sort of an expansionist and loved tariffs -- rachel: oh, now it's all coming together. charlie: so president trump really, really likes all of this. he also, of course, died by assassination which they failed to manage to pull off with

donald trump. it's another one of these ways that -- first of all, he's undoing something that a barack obama did by renaming montana mckinley -- montana mckinley denali which, to be fair, has a lot of support in alaska a. but it's a get with maid that trump rolls into the process, gets everybody fired up, they're all fighting over this. meanwhile, he's slashing the federal government over here. i think it's brilliant. rachel: this is sort of like a diversionary tactic. it's like what the cartels cowhen they bring over humans and they get the border patrol all tide up processing humans, and meanwhile, over there they're bringing in the drugs expect arms. charlie: exactly. lisa: charlie, he just likes president mcif kinly, right in he was known as the tariff man, he was an expansionist as well, so so he likes laying the marker down, american strength. but if you look at the panama

canal and greenland, those are more foreign policy plays that make a lot of sense. but we also know we changed the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america. look at that. 40 how beautiful is that, rachel? look at that beautiful gulf of america? if. rachel: yeah. when people fly over it now, the pilots will say we're flying over gulf of america. donald trump did that for the first time when he flew over there not long ago and signed the declaration, the executive order, i should say, making it the gulf of america. mexico not act a knowledging it, also the ap not acknowledge it and donald trump saying, well, then you're not going to be in the white house press room if you don't acknowledge the map. if. charlie: and who knows, you know, after we take over greenland or take over canada, maybe we rename it, like, trumpland or -- rachel: yeah. instead of greenland? if. lisa: didn't the associated press share office space with hamas in they were accused of doing back in the day? you have a lot of these -- ray pick your battles.

[laughter] lisa: a lot of these media organizations that have failed to behave as media organizations and have failed to be accurate in their reporting, so maybe delegitimizing them a little bit might if course correct them to a certain dee. i don't know, what do you -- rachel: i think you're right. i think you're right. charlie: they certainly do enough on their own to delegitimize if themself -- lisa: i think they said service accidental -- rachel: so you're saying that the senator of alaska prefers denali? charlie: yeah. and i think most people in alaska i remember at the time, most peopleported the change to de-- people supported the change to denali. but, again, this is not -- we're talking about bigger issues here. we're talking about distracting democrats from the actual fights that actually matter -- lisa: i've not been to arizona, but i worked for senator dan sullivan as part of his team when he got elected, and alaska is a very beautiful state. rachel: yeah, it is beautiful.

lisa: hard to get to but absolutely gorgeous. rachel: states of emergency have been declared as catastrophic if floods crush tennessee, kentucky and virginia on saturday with the national weather service confirming at least two deaths so far. lisa: more than half a million people are without power this morning as the dangerous conditions prompt evacuations across the region. charlie: and on top of the floods, tornado warnings also being issues -- issued in parts of the south. fox news meteorologist adam klotz joins us from the weather center. adam: hey, good morning, guys. it's still going on early this morning. began yesterday, till tracking it across the eastern half of the country. pretty much if all the possible weather alerts, green boxes continue to be flooding across portion of tennessee, kentucky, running up to the ohio river valley. farther south, has where we're looking at the line of thunderstorms, that red icon is a tornado warning currently out there now.

big, severe thunderstorms. if you live on the northern end of this line of storms, you've seen it, it's been more of a wintry weather type of mix. there's ice out there, snow if out there, really cold kind of nasty, raw rain out there. winter weather alerts across this region, there's a blizzard warning currently, visibility's very low mixed in with some of the snow. ice continues to be maybe one of the main if concerns because that's enough the bring down power lines. that's what we've been seeing happen because as the system's moving on through, we're seeing a bunch in the way of are high wind, high wind warnings that are going to stay this if mace throughout the course of the day. unfortunately, as all of this is dragging off, folks behind it have rah realized, boy, it's cold back here. down to the -10-15 degrees, so some real winter weather behind this as well. back over to you. charlie: thank you, adam. turning now to your headlines. right now we are awaiting

remarks from secretary of state marco rubio who's in israel meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and other israeli officials discussing ways to advance the second stage of the the israel-hamas ceasefire if deal, countering iran. this is rubio's first visit to israel as secretary of state. the vatican says pope francis is showing some improvement while being treated at the hospital for a respiratory tract unnext. the pope if -- infection. the pope's public events remain canceled through tomorrow as he's been directed to rest. the pontiff was suffering therebronchitis for more than a week before being hospitalized in rome on friday. newly-released footage shows the moment a 16-year-old boy was rescued from a 50-foot-deep mine half in northern california. take a listen. [inaudible conversations] if we're going to go get you all

checked out. >> come with me, buddy. charlie: officials say the teen and his friends were exploring the shaft when his criming rope -- climbing rope snapped sending him 30 feet to the bottom. luckily, he was rescued without injury. and those are your headlines. if. lisa: -- rachel: you know, that story's so is interesting to me. it's so nice to know there are boys exploring mine halfs. i'm not upset about this at all -- shafts. boyhood still is alive. lisa: kind of like being on the computer games -- rachel: yeah. it's, like, the hardy boys kind of stuff. charlie: what a weird spot we're in that that was all of our reaction immediately. rachel: it was. lisa: my brother and i used to run around in the woods like turtles. rachel: of course. charlie: as tensions continue to heat up between the u.s. and canada, our two national hockey teams went to ballot on the ice last night in montreal where the

conflict seemed to boil over quickly. rachel: multiple fights breaking out just seconds into the game after hearing another canadian crowd boo our national anthem. to these guys are fighting -- so these guys are fighting to defend our anthem? charlie: go, boys. lisa: chanley painter breaks it down for us. >> reporter: team usa meeting their top rival in hostile territory last night mention tensions were at an all-time high right from the jump. just two seconds in, the gloves were off. watch. >> dropping the gloves already! [cheers and applause] brandon hagel right off the hop! >> reporter: that's matthew a ca chuck and brandon hagel coming to blows moments after faceoff, but then matthew's brother wanted in on the action going toe the toe can with canada's sam men maine that wasn't all. only six seconds later a a third

brawl unfolded just nine seconds into this four-nation faceoff tournament game. the penalty boxes filling up quickly. the tempers likely exacerbated before the game when the soldout canada crowd loudly booed throughout our national anthem. ♪ [background sounds] >> reporter: the jeer withs coming in response to president trump's proposed tariffs on goods coming from canada and comments like canada becoming the 51st state. and canada's prime minister, justin trudeau, as governor trudeau. in fact, the prime minister could be seen in the stands of last night's game in team canada's jersey. and while team canada got on the board first, the u.s. ultimately came on top 3-1 with this empty netter to seal the deal. [cheers and applause] >> scores! got his second and a clincher

here for team usa. >> reporter: and with the win, the u.s. has clinched a spot in the one-game final on thursday in boston where they could wind up seeing can that again on that game, guys. go, team usa. rachel: wow, that's amazing. charlie: the best story of the morning. rachel: it is the best. and justin trudeau there -- charlie: governor trudeau -- rachel: governor trudeau watching. so is it an anti-tariff brawl or a proof -- to pro-american national anthem brawl? charlie: it's so humiliating to be a canadian. all they have is manners, and they lost hair man pers last night. they behaved like a bunch of losers. the only thing hay do, hockey is, like, our fifth game. [laughter] it's not even our -- lisa: i grew up going to hockey games with my dad, so i love it. all right, usa a. peace in the middle east -- to transition -- [laughter] team trump ready to put an end to foreign wars. the high stakes talks happening right now.

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malliotakis is urging a federal probe saying the department of justice should investigate how these apps are being utilized for nefarious activity and get cooperation from the companies that operate them. here to react is co-chairman of the northern border security caucus, congressman ryan zinke. congressman, great to see you this morning. thanks for joining us. >> great to be with you. charlie: the southern border gets all the attention, but the amount of border that we have with canada especially in a place like your home state is pretty amazing especially considering what we're starting to see come over that border. finish? >> well, and they're going to go where we're not. if. charlie: right. >> the northern border's had hundreds of crossings from people on the terrorist watch list, as you know. and, you know, it's this massive border. montana alone, you know, it takes 16 hours to to go across montana, and the border is 10 hours of a drive and largely unprotected.

trump has an agreement, of course, we have 10,000 mexican troop, you know, or patrolling the southern border, and we have the royal mounties on the northern border, but still a lot of border and a lot of distance between officers. charlie: so is, obviously, in the last couple of weeks we've gotten some assurances from from canadian officials they're going to rye to take this more seriously -- to to try to take this more seriously. this is a problem you've been dealing with much of your career. do you have any faith that canadian officials are going the step up and actually do anything? >> well, they certainly have the potential. you know, the relationships are a little on ice, 40 to pun if intended -- no pun if intended, but the border, both countries have the take it seriously. there's a lot of things we can do jointly, especially our ports and harbors, but certainly the canadians can do a lot more. and that was a big push from president trump on tariffs. hook, we're not going to take it anymore. we're going to take our borders seriously, we're going to take new york seriously, we're going to the take washington, d.c.,

our capital, seriously, and we're going to return to let's make america great. charlie: meanwhile, secretary of state marco rubio is in jerusalem today, this morning as we speak negotiating with benjamin netanyahu with an effort towards trying to restart the abraham acrosser and and actually -- accords and actually shake things up in the middle east so we don't have the same treacherous storyline repeat itself over and over and and over and over again. how do you -- what's your view of how all of that is going right now? >> well, you know, certainly that's -- let's break the cycle in palestine, gaza strip that's been going on, you know, as long as i've been alive. it's repeated itself. i don't think any of us perceive, you know, gaza golf chub and resort -- club and america having more interest in gaza. [laughter] but we deny see a lot of things coming, and i think the president is correct in saying, look, we've got the stop the

cycle. there has to be a future for the palestinians in gaza, and the future has to be more than what it is just being a part of hamas and a terrorist group. so i agree going forward that that we have to solve that problem long term, but the amount of resources or the decades on gaza strip with not a to lot of, you know, progress made but, hopefully, you know, president trump focused with prime minister if netanyahu will change the score. charlie: well, it really is remarkable, and obviously, you've been along for the entire ride. and it does seem hike the timeout that trump had, that four-year timeout he wasn't sitting around feeling sorry for himself. finish they were, he was sitting around plotting what he was going to do when he got back, and we're seeing it all unfold if right now. so great to see you finish -- >> there are stark differences from being a 45th and a 47th presidency. a 45, we were not well equipped.

we a few there was a swamp, we didn't realize how deep it was. charlie: yep. >> and secondly, you know, coming at 47, look, he's got one term. so he's going full blast -- charlie: going for broke. >> congress needs to step up and learn to sprint at the pace of president trump. if look at what's happened in the first 30 days of his presidency, it is stunning, the things that he's gotten done on the border alone. we have the royal mounties in the north, we have -- patrolling from mexican troops in the south. we have venezuela taking back 300,000. we have el salvador taking back as many people as a we can send them. china is out of the panama canal. we're in negotiations for greenland and we've got gaza. he's just warming up. charlie: right. >> this has been a stunning 30 days. charlie: congressman, thank you so much for joining us. >> pleasure. god bless. charlie: we're revving up for racing's biggest night.

the daytona daytona 500 only on pox, and joey jones is live in florida schiffing into gear with the biggest names -- shift. >>inging into gear with the biggest names in sports. joe by? joey: we're here in daytona, but we've got australian national rugby league legend aaron woods here. he's got something -- show 'em what the surprise is there. look at that on this rugby football that. 's awesome. that's president trump. we've got a really important message for president trump coming back when you check in with us here in just a few minutes. guys, stay tuned for more "fox & friends." ♪ ♪

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rachel: new overnight, despite ukrainian president zelenskyy's calls for a unified european if army, poland's foreign minister says it's not gonna happen. quote, if you understand the

unification of national armies, it will not happen. however, he add, quote, i have been an advocate for the european union to develop its own defense capabilities. the ukrainian president has a called for an e.u. army earlier this week saying it would be the only way to get respect from if washington. vivek ramaswamy officially beginning the process for an expected run as ohio governor. his campaign filed the necessary paperwork with the state's secretary yesterday using the name vivek ramaswamyfor ohio. the potential bid with follows a failed presidential run in 2024 and comes about a month if after his exit from president trump's department of government efficiency. i wouldn't say it was a failed run. we all know his name now. meanwhile, florida governor ron desantis endorsing the idea of abolishing property taxes in his state. the governor posting to, and, quote, we should put the boldest amendment on the ballot that has a chance of getting that 60%. adding that taxing land is,

quote, the more oppressive form of taxation. president trump's son eric quickly supporting the idea resounding on x, quote: this is amazing. and those are your headlines. lisa: we're also revving up for the daytona 500 with coverage starting in just a few hours only on fox. joey jones is live at daytona international speedway, and he's joininged by national rugby league legend aaron woods with a special invitation for president trump. joey. joey: yeah, guys. listen, this guy is a lot of fun. we've had a lot of fun talking. i was telling him about the dallas cowboys, but he's telling me about the australian national rugby league. he said something like it's football for guys that aren't sissies. i'm not really sure what he's talking about that. this is aaron woods. tell us what rugby is. >> it's a sport with no helmets, no pads, a lot of collisions. we go out there, it's continuous. you've got four downs in the

nfl, we've got six downs and kick it. it's a 40-minute half, you get a little break, and then you go 40 minutes again. and whoever's got the most points, you're the winner. joey: don't you love the contrast in accent here? >> no worries. joey: it's kind of like soccer and football to together. it feels like a stamina sport. >> it's all about your passion. you want to look for that collision. it's, you know, we're out here at the daytona. you see how fast these guys are revving these cars. you want the find that contact. that's' what it's all about. the boy withs love it and can't get enough of it. joey: you're actually bringing the sport here to america if las vegas at the end of of the month. i think it starts on the 26th through the 1st when the games are, and we've got a special message for president trump. do you want to introduce it? >> yeah, we do. sort of the champion of australian, the people love president trump, so so we want to get him to the to the game and send an invite to him. we've even got a potential ball.

president trump, we want to get him there. joey: we're going to send it to a video right now with that inliation. >> good morning, mr. president. i know you watch "fox & friends," which is a great program, extremely fair and balanced. mr. president, we want to introduce you to the toughest game on earth, rugby league. in the world's port and entertainment -- sport and entertainment capital, las vegas. we know you love physical, tough contact sports. there's no sport more brutal than rugby league. our players don't wear pads or helmets. as you know, mr. president, the the u.s. has a trade surplus with australia, one of the rare countries. you attending will balance if this out a lit. hope to sew you on saturday, march 1. thank you, mr. president. thank you, "fox & friends." joey: there it is. hopefully, the president will take the invitation and head out to vegas at the end of the week. aaron ooh, thanks so much for

joining us. >> thanks for having us. this is for trump, president trump. joey: got a jersey for him and everything. back to you guys. rachel: joey, is that a first? lisa: rachel's asking if that's a first. joey: if that's a first? interviewing a rugby player in absolutely, i've never even met a rugby player. [laughter] lisa: i'm the translator. i'm not doing a good job. rachel: the invitation to trump via "fox & friends." lisa: there you go. joey: absolutely, yes. absolutely, i think it is. i think it's the first for a big event like this, i'm pretty sure. that's a first. lisa: i mean, he went to the ufc fight at a marred, he went to the super bowl -- >> he knows how to get to vegas. lisa: and people wonder why he's done so well with men. it's not that the hard. thank you both. thanks, joey. we'll check in with you in just a bit. thank you. joey: thanks, guys. lisa: team trump setting the america first agenda in germany.

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and under donald trump's leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square, agree or disagree. rachel: well, as the president trump administration brings maga to munich, china's on a charm offensive. the top envoy met with his european counterparts looking to expand influence in europe. gatestone institute senior fellow and author gordon chang joins us now with more. so, gordon, you're not loving the maga strategy, the vance strategy of chastising the europeans. you say it's driving a wedge between europe and the united states and that china is rushing in to fill that vacuum. go -- explain further your concerns. >> yeah. i'm i very much hiked vice president vance's comments -- liked -- about a europe's democracy. that's very important. and it's very important that the trump administration is getting europe to defend itself.

but, of course, you to do that, that creates friction. that friction was open the door to china. china for more than a decade has had these intensified efforts to pry the european union away from the united states, and china's main point of entry is germany as well as hungary to a lesser extent. and so when you have the foreign minister go talk to schultz and when vance actually nubs schultz, that creates -- snubs hutle, that that creates a very big opening for beijing. rachel: well, what vance also did was met with the opposition party, the alternative to germany party, which i frankly think is great, gordon. there are opposition parties in europe who have been vilified, it would they're the nazi party, i think of the vox party in spain, i'm thicke this party -- thinking about this party. and america, a a, how old support these alternative parties, hoe -- should support these alternative parties because they are trying to embody, i think, more of our

western values. but also he's calling them out on the money. you saw pete hegseth say uncle sam isn't going to be uncle sucker anymore. is so what's the alternative other than being a sucker? >> yeah. i like the ark ft, but the -- aft, but the point here is that on an official basis, the united states should not be meddling in german politics. we don't want them to meddle in ours. we would really be offended if they did, so we should respect their leaders x. if that seems to me to be at the hub of the disagreement. rachel: well, we have ukraine, gordon, and that's meddling in european politics. i have to stop right there because if the secretary of state, marco rubio, giving a joint statement with the israeln netanyahu, we're going to listen in. >> i also a have no doubt that you'll be a voice or clarity and courage on the world stage for the values that we in israel, you in america hold dear, the values of freedom for all those who cherish liberty.

you're already doing that, and i want the tell you that a it's heard -- to tell you that it's heard loud and clear here and everywhere else. today secretary rubio and i had very productive discussion with our staffs on a number of issues. none of them are more important than iran. israel and america stand shoulder to shoulder in countering the threat of iran. we agree9 that the ayatollahs must not have nuclear weapons. and we also agree that iran's aggression in the region as has to be rolled back. over the last 16 months, israel has dealt a mighty blow to the iran's terror axis. under the strong leadership of president trump and with your unflinching support, i have no doubt that we can and will finish the job. we also spoke a great deal about gaza. i thank secretary ruin wrote for president trump's assistance -- rubio for president trump's assistance in helping us secure the release of another three hostages yesterday. these are hostages that that haf

refused to release are only a few days earlier. and if i also thanked him for america's unequivocal backing for israel's policy in gaza in moving forward. i want to assure everyone who's now listening to us president trump and i are working many full cooperation and coordination between us. we have a common strategy, and we can't always share it, the details of this strategy, with the public. including when the gates of hell will be opened as they surely will if all our hostages are not released until the last one of them. israel is determined to achieve all the war objectives we set after of the horrific attack on october 7th, the worst attack on jews since the holocaust. we will eliminate hamas' military capability and its political rule in gaza. we will bring all our hostages home, ask and we will ensure

that gaza never again poses a threat to israel. the unequivocal support of the united states on gaza will help us achieve these objectives faster and and set us on a path for a different future. secretary rubio and i discussed president trump's bold vision for gaza, for gaza's future, how we can work together to ensure that that a future becomes a reality. we also a discussed the situation in sir is ya after the collapse -- syria after the collapse of as a sad's regime, a collapse that was made possible by israel's weakening of iran's terror axis, especially the weakening of hezbollah and the removal of nasrallah. for over a decade before october 7th, israel acted to prevent iran from developing new terror fronts against us in syria with right opposite the golan heights and deeper in syria. and we conducted hundreds of airstrikes, perhaps a thousand, in order to prevent it, and we did. now, if any other force in syria today believes that israel will permit other hostile forces to

use syria as a base of operations against us, they are gravely mistaken. israel will act to prevent any threat from emerging near our border in southwest syria. the secretary and i discussed lebanon as well. israel is committed to the ceasefire understandings that were reached in november. we expect the government of lebanon to be equally committed to their fulfillment. the scenes we saw this weekend if beirut of forces being attacked by hezbollah, this was not encouraging. the two u.n. resolutions that everyone refers to, 1559, 17099 -- 1701, well, they must be fully implemented. hezbollah must be disarmed. and israel would prefer that the lebanese if army do that the job, but no one should doubt that israel will do what it has to do to enforce the understandings of the ceasefire and defend our security. the secretary and i also discussed how the many international institutions that have been hijacked and turned

into anti-american and anti-israeli forums. we see that in the u.n. general assembly, in the u.n. human rights commission where anti-americanism is rampant and more resolutions are passed about israel than any -- the rest of the world combined. and we see it especially in the lawfare that is being waged against america and israel at the icc, the icj and elsewhere. the icc is outrageously libeled israel and issued arrest warrants based on utter lies. like america, israel is not subject to the jurisdiction of the icc and does not accept the court's authority. israel commends president trump and his administration for restoring his executive order against the icc and for moving quickly to sanction icc officials. the secretary and i discussed working together to formulate a common strategy to deal with the threat of law lawfare and neutralize this threat once and if for all. so these are some of the issues that we discussed today.

believe it or not, there were more, many more. we can say that the middle east today has many understoods, many challenges -- many opportunities, many challenges, and we think we can realize the opportunities and also a meet the challenges. and i have no doubt that working together, america and israel will overcome the challenges and seize the opportunities. i have to say that i'm absolutely confident that under president trump's leadership and working together with you, secretary rubio, marco, the best days of our alliance are still yet to to come. welcome to jerusalem. welcome, my friend. >> thank you. thank you, mr. prime minister. it is an honor to be back here. i've been here many times before as an american visiting and then as a member of the united states senate, but now for the first time as secretary of state of the united states, and it's the an honor to be here. it's an honor to serve in this role on behalf of president donald trump who, as you've accurately stated, mr. prime

minister, is a tremendous friend of israel. there's been no stronger ally for israel in the white house than president trump. he's also a man that speaks clearly and unambiguously and makes clear his views on issues. the first he's made clear is, and as you've pointed out, the hostages need to come home, they need to be released. and you work in very close coordination with him, he's working in very close coordination with the prime minister and his government in ensuring that that happens. that the that must happen. it's not optional. and would add that that's a goal we share in common, and it is a something we work on very closely together. the president's also been very bold about his view of what the future for gaza should be. not the same tired ideas of the past, but something that's bold and something that, frankly, took courage and vision in order to outline. and it may have shocked and surprised many, but what cannot continue is the same cycle where we repeat over and over again and wind up in the exact same

place. related to that, the president's been very clear, hamas cannot continue as a military or government force. and, frankly, as long as it stands as a force that can govern or as a force that can administer or as a force that can threaten by use of violence, peace becomes impossible. they must be eliminated, they must be if eradicated. on the broader issues that we discussed as well, is the questions in syria with. and while the fall of assad is certainly promising and important, if syria replacing one destabilizing force for another is not a positive development. and that is something that we will watch very carefully as we seek to craft our own strategy with regards to how to approach the events in syria. in the case of lebanon, our goals are aligned and the same. a strong lebanese state that can take on and disarm hezbollah. the common theme in all of these

challenges is iran. it is the single greatest source of instability in the region. behind every terrorist group, behind every act of violence, behind every destabilizing activity, behind everything that threatens peace and and stability for the millions of people who call this region home is iran. and by iran, i mean the ayatollahs. by iran, i mean its regime. a regime who, by the way, its people don't support. the people of iran are victims of that regime. and so i think it's important to constantly point the that when we talk about hamas many or hezbollah or we talk about violence in the west bank or we talk about destabilization in syria or any of these issues, the militias in iraq, they all have behind them one common theme, iran. and that must be addressed. and there can never be a nuclear iran. a nuclear iran that could then hold itself immune from pressure

and from action. that can never happen. the president's been clear about that as well. and so i close where i ganger by reiterating our strong support for our very close allies and partners here in israel. to the people of this great country for whom we have tremendous love and respect for everything you're facing, is have faced and continue to face. s an extraordinary story the of bravery. a nation founded in the ashes and in the aftermath of a horrifying crime against humanity, stood from its very inception, from the are day of its birth against threats from every angle and every corner and has served as an example to the world of a pluralistic society, a free enterprise democracy and one that, if there were more israels in the middle east, more countries like that, the world would be a safer and a better place. this is what we hope for the region and for our planet.

a nation that's always sought peace but will not allow itself to be intimidated or destroyed by its enemies. and on that front, you can always a count on us. as long as i'm in this position and if president trump is in the white house, so so thank you. >> thank you. >> prime ministers, are you -- [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] charlie: so that was secretary of state marco rubio with israeli prime minister if benjamin netanyahu very much speaking with a unified voice talking about the need to eliminate a hamas both militarily and as a political force. and, of course, heir saying this as -- they're saying this as hamas still holds hostages, innocent hostages. rachel: yeah. we got some back yesterday. i know negotiations are still going on. i'm sure that's sort of the backdrop of a lot of what's

going on between marco rubio and prime minister benjamin netanyahu. lisa: i was cohosting "the big show" here on this network the weekend of the october 7th terror attacks. over 1200 people were murdered. it was horrible to witness happen, you know in you look at what what happened at that a nova musicfestival as well, people being slaughtered, raped next to their dead friends. horrific events. and what was interesting was joe biden, you talk about a lack of leadership with him, he was worried about a presidential election. so he tried to tow the line between israel, between muslims and jews for election purposes. and in the end, it cost him electorally because he actually had a decrease in jewish support in the 2024 election. he had a decrease in the muslim vote in the 2024 election. president trump went on win, or then-candidate trump went to win dear born county, michigan. and as a part of that weak leadership, joe biden did things