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>> emily, we will pick it up from there. god bless those dogs. the death toll rising, a historic flash flood devastates kentucky. at least 11 people are dead as search and rescue efforts continue. the region bracing for winter storms. >> six elected to bring heavy snowfall, which could impact cleanup and recovery efforts. they've already been more than 1,000 rescues. a live report an update for you on this a bit later on this hour. first, this. >> president trump teasing a potential high-stakes meeting with russian president vladimir putin. it's all part of his effort for peace talks between russia and ukraine. i'm john roberts in washington. it is presidents' day for a lot of folks, but just monday for the rest of us. >> get to start another week with you, john. on sandra smith in new york, this is "america reports." both russia and the u.s. have sent representatives to saudi arabia for opening talks, but ukraine says it was not invited, and won't accept any deals made without its input.

>> we are going to get expert analysis on what will take to end the war with the former white house national security chief of staff. >> first, jacqui heinrich is reporting live from west palm beach for us at this hour. what is the latest from there? hi, jacqui. >> hey, sandra. the president's which includes marco rubio, national security advisor mike waltz, and stephen kraft, is set to sit down with the russians tomorrow in saudi arabia. ahead of that meeting, the russians foreign ministry set a hard line, which is no territorial concessions as part of any peace deal. it follows the recurring presidents morning to president trump that putin does not want peace. >> what i can tell you is i know of no better negotiator in american politics than president trump. i think president trump will know quickly whether this is a real thing or an effort to buy time, but i don't want to prejudge that, i don't want to

foreclose the opportunity to end a conflict that has already cost the lives of hundreds of thousands. >> president trump disagreed with president zelenskyy that they want to pause and fighting to establish its war footing and disagreed that russia would wage war on nato if u.s. support shrinks, but germany is reportedly getting concerned, this morning rolling out sending peacekeeping troops to ukraine without full u.s. involvement. europe has been clamoring for a seat at the negotiating table after the defense secretary pete hegseth spooked allies by nixing the prospect of nato membership for ukraine, and broadcasting that the u.s. would not send peacekeeping troops in what many lawmakers and diplomats viewed as an unforced show of hands, speaking out of turn. vp vance worked to soften the claims in munich, saying nothing is off the table, but ukraine is unsettled that president trump first reached out to russia to get the ball rolling. >> i will never accept any decisions between united states and russia or ukraine, never. thankful for all of this, but

there's no leader in the world who kim make a deal with putin without us about us. >> asked them to be involved in these conversations. what will his goal be? >> he will be involved, yes. >> the president says he will be involved, and that this is just the beginning of a long conversation. meantime, president zelenskyy has refused to sign on to a deal that would continue u.s. military support in exchange for access to ukraine's rare earth minerals. ukraine holding out because they want firm security guarantees from the u.s. and others if that war were to end. >> a lot to take in. jacqui heinrich reporting live from west palm beach for us. thank you. >> let's bring in alex gray, former chief of staff, white house national security council under the first trump administration. you heard latimer zelinski there in jacqui heinrich's piece saying he's not font -- you heard president zelenskyy

there in jacqui heinrich's piece saying he's not fond of the idea of sitting down unilaterally with russia without ukraine's involvement. he is worried about the u.s. and russia coming to some sort of framework of negotiation without his input. is he right to be concerned? >> i don't think he is. ultimately, ukraine is going to be involved. it's their country, their work, but ultimately, this is why -- we are in this position, john, because we have to have some sort of framework that gets the united states out of involving -- some permanent security guarantee. present trumpets trying to get us out of a distracting conflict that doesn't serve our interests, and get us to the existential challenge which i think is china. he has to start by getting everyone to the table and building a framework. >> here was the white house response from michael waltz, national security advisor. >> president trump's rethink the entire dynamic. that has some people uncomfortable, but i think zelenskyy would be wise to enter

into this agreement with united states. there is no better way to secure them going forward. >> all right, so he is saying zelenskyy should get on board, "this is your best way out," but russia is setting the table and setting expectations, saying no territorial concessions, which i would take to mean not just crimea, but whatever territory is taken during this war in the last three years. >> we would expect putin to say that before we entered negotiations. secretary rubio was right. president trump is the best negotiator we have had in the oval office. he will know very quickly is this serious, what is this? this is why it's important we have these talks, build a framework, get to the table, and quickly we will know what's realistic and what's not. ultimately, we have to keep in mind the goal is to end this conflict and get the united states out of the permanent commitments to the part of the world that's not our core national interest. >> so as the talks begin in

earnest tomorrow, i think all the participants arrive there today. europe is holding talks on what many -- stabilization or military force in ukraine potentially outside of nato would look like. and as jackie was saying, germany is saying that if the u.s. isn't going to be part of it, "we might not be either." >> this is an excuse. the germans have no military capacity to do basically anything. and either do a significant chunk for western european nato allies. this is typical european putting the burden on the united states for decades -- they have said that they want to play a bigger role in world affairs and european affairs. president trump has put the onus and say "spend what you need to on defense, do the things you need to defend your own neighborhood," and we are seeing they are refusing to do that. i think we have to take everything they say with a grain of salt and we have to be prepared to take very seriously we are leaving, we are going to focus on our core national interests, which are our

hemisphere and asia, and they are going to have to step up and do more to contribute to their own the security. >> ukraine is one thing, rubio -- secretary of state, to literally perpetually be on the road. was in israel were he met prime minister benjamin netanyahu. they both take aim at iran, that if there will be peace in the middle east iran has to be reined in. listen to what rubio said. >> every act of violence, behind every destabilizing activity, behind everything that threatens peace and stability for the millions of people who call region home is iran. >> what is the united states going to do about iran? trump has said "i don't want confrontation," but without confrontation, could put the screws to them economically i guess with sanctions, but they are pretty adept at surviving, even with those, but does he have to step it up? >> in term of one, maximum pressure brought the iranian regime basically to its knees.

we saw domestic opposition rising up. we built a coalition through the abraham accords of israel and these gulf arab states opposed to iran's imperialism. there is a playbook we can follow again to put them back into a position of weakness. present binders to the opposite and signaled he wanted to have another nuclear agreement within days of becoming president in 2021. we need to go back to the successful framework that donald trump implemented in his first term. >> right. we will see if that has influence, if he gets that done. proxy groups in the middle east, which are really made a major impediment to peace there. great to chat with you. kicking things off for the day. >> now, live look in washington, as anti-doge protesters are on the capital. these are part of the movements to "uphold the constitution," and "end the executive overreach." in the latest move, elon musk's

doge says it's looking to audit the irs. fox news' hillary vaughn live on the home for us. doesn't that sound interesting? >> hi. the people who are concerned that doge is getting access to sensitive information at the irs are really concerned that people who are working on behalf of doge are getting access. people at the irs have access to this sensitive information every day to do their jobs. the white house insists that anyone viewing anything sensitive or classified or private has the clearance and appropriate approval to do so. a white house official says that the direct access to at the irs called the integrated data retrieval system, which includes visual access to taxpayer accounts, is needed for doge to audit the irs, something irs workers do every day to americans. the irs also is not immune from doge downsizing. ap reports they will lay off thousands of irs workers who have been in the probation.

make of their employment, with cuts happening as soon as next week. >> people work hard to pay their taxes every day. they are hurting. they see wasteful government spending. we need to have government in the sunshine. we need to have spending in the sunshine. >> in addition to finding fraud, doge is discovering lost taxpayer cash. helping the department of housing and urban development relocate $1.9 billion that had gone missing hunter biden. that is -- money that the treasury can use for other things. doge has been digging into social security. elon musk assuming there's about 60 million more social security numbers issue they americans, saying this might be the biggest fraud in history, but democrats saying doge is exaggerating this fraud they are finding. >> these are by and large performative, theatric measures. they will pick these one-off cases and the sagebrush policy, what an entire department or agency represents. which is not true.

>> doge also found was over 4 million people in the social security database who have an age over 140 years old. the oldest person alive right now is 116 years old, so this could be a smoking gun for fraud, sandra, or is elon musk jokes, maybe vampires are real. >> hillary vaughn on the hill for us on that. thank you. coming up, white house deputy chief of staff for policy steven miller will be joining us on that. and as you can imagine, a whole lot more. >> maybe zombies. senate democrats installing fbi director nominate kash patel's confirmation vote. how they've already wasted hundreds of hours delaying president trump's cabinet picks. coming up next, plus this. >> we stand ready to help, but we can't agree to cuts that will literally harm and maybe kill american workers and families. american workers, our constituents, both republican

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democrats can delay, but it does not change the end result. >> we are delaying and taking up as much time as we are allowed to in terms of the senate, so trying to push on that front and engage, using the hearings to try and expose some of the challenges that we see, as well as the worries we have. >> senate rules allow the minority to stretch things out for a day or two on each nominee. democrats would likely mandate a procedural vote just to take another procedural vote to get a confirmation vote on the nomination of kash patel to become fbi director. republicans take the pushback in stride. >> i know they're trying to stall and obstruct, but it's important to note that the american people, on november 5th, voted to see change. they want transparency and accountability.

they want the end of two tears of justice. >> one nominee who faces opposition from democrats, linda mcmahon, for secretary of education. democrats find it curious to vote on a nominee when the president wants to abolish that particular department. >> i'm voting hell no. [applause] and i'm going to do everything i can is this most of the committee and speeds to the senate floor to expose what the real agenda is here. >> a confirmation hearing for -- on wednesday pick some republicans believe that she is too pro-labor. the senate votes tomorrow night to confirm howard lutnick as secretary of commerce. >> thank you. >> we know that u.s. debt is rapidly mounting, but democrats continue to push against president trump's plans to cut government spending, vowing to

fight those cuts, which could ultimately shutdown the government. with spring in this foundation senior fellow steve mauro and robert wolf. i hate to get a back a back and forth -- and whether the government will shut down. we talked about this last week. it seems like we are there again, but how do you ask point democrats so against the concept of looking or we can cut wasteful, unnecessary spending? what is the problem with that? >> i don't think they are against cutting wasteful spending. i think we should look at the way bill clinton did it in 1993. working with republicans, working with congress in a very methodical way. if you look at back then, they cut hundreds of thousands of federal work jobs. they could over $100 billion in federal work spending. that's the way to do it. a methodical way. i don't have an issue with doge, but they have to work in a methodical way with congress and the white house, a very transparent way. it's interesting that steve, my

buddy who was a fiscal conservative -- 25% of all debt in the history of the republic, under the trump administration. the idea that they want to be fiscally responsive, they are putting out a budget that will add $3 trillion to the deficit. i think if anyone is all over the place, it's the g.o.p. >> i will let steve respond. >> i like that. speak of the tax cut was a huge victory for the american people. i don't understand why people like elizabeth warren, chuckie schumer, so many others are against looking under the hood and seeing how much money is being spent. you have a $7 trillion budget. it was $1 trillion when i first came to washington 40 years ago. you just raised the perfect example of $1.9 billion that was

"misplaced" by the housing and urban development administration. how do you lose track of $1.9 billion? that's been happening throughout the government. if you believe, as rubber gloves, if you believe in good government, and we all want good governments. we want to make sure people have enough food to eat, we want to make sure there's not homeless people, make sure that our veterans are taken care of, that we have a strong defense. if you believe in that, why would you defend the waste and inefficiency which we know because doge has told us is in the hundreds of billions of dollars? why don't they get on board? >> they are too busy playing the blame game.

>> and like the fact that donald trump is -- shouldn't government down as they speak. >> they have been shutting the government down by freezing fronts. >> is there a missed opportunity here for your party to come together and say "look, this is good. we are starting to identify ways we can cut spending, save the average american taxpayer and family hard-earned dollars." >> i absolutely support that. but let's be clear: i've never been supportive of using the debt ceiling to shut down the government. we know that the last time the government shutdown was under president trump in 2018, and he blinked, it was on to border security. it was for 35 days. you can go back to all the videotapes of the last decade. i've never used that idea as a tool. i always think the full faith of the federal government is one of the most important and valuable tools we have. this idea of threatening the debt ceiling -- pass bills as nonsense. i would be supportive of reading the debt ceiling disco getting

rid of the debt ceiling and a methodical way. >> camera on steve while you say that. [laughter] >> you cannot give the governments in unlimited credit card. i think that's a terrible idea. look, the numbers just came out last week. this year, the budget deficit is running somewhere in the neighborhood of $200 billion ahead of where it was last year. this is a road to bankruptcy. if we don't stop us, we are going over a financial a cliff. everybody knows it. we need doge, all these kinds of measures to eliminate the inefficient government so we can do things government should do. >> the cbo is estimating $380 billion deficit for the first four months of 2025. wow. >> unbelievable. >> who is president right now? who is president with that headline? >> are you saying it should be cured? in the next matter of days? >> weeks. >> so i want to shutdown the

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tennessee. some of the spots that have been so badly had the last couple of days. unfortunately, more tough weather is on the way. >> all right, wishing the best for folks out there. thanks. adam klotz for us. >> fierce pushback against cbs host margaret brennan for claiming nazi germany weaponized free speech. or during an interview over the week and was sect -- her comment coming during an interview over the weekend with secretary of state marco rubio. >> was in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a. he met with the head of a political party that has a far right views, and some historic ties to extreme groups. the context of that was changing the tone of it. and you know that, that the censorship -- >> i have to disagree. >> that the censorship was specifically about the right. >> i have to disagree. free speech was not used to

conduct a. they was conducted by an authoritarian nazi regime that was genocidal because they hated jews, minorities, they had a list of those they hated the primarily the jews. there was no free speech in nazi germany. >> if there was none. and no opposition. they were the only party that govern the country, so it's not an accurate reflection of history. he corrected that host. there has been an incredible response online to that exchange. as you can imagine, j.d. vance weighed in. a crazy exchange. asking the question if the media thinks the holocaust was caused by free speech. >> i'm not sure what road she was going down, but certainly -- >> yes. we have asked cbs for a comment because there has not been a change to her social. sheet has simply posted on x. here is the full transcript for the interview. we will see where that goes. we have a requested comments from cbs.

>> rubio is correct -- no doubt about that. all right. a a watchdog group says the hhs office of refugee -- handed out billions to assist migrants during the biden administration which helped pay -- let's bring in the former acting eyes director, former dhs deputy assistant secretary, and former federal prosecutor. we are learning so much about this immigration situation. as the days progress in the trump administration. listen to this from tom homan. he said in the last 24 hours, the u.s. border patrol has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire southwestern border. that stone from a high of 11,000 today under bed. i started as a border patrol agent 1984, and i don't remember the numbers being that low. president trump promised to

secure the border and he is delivering." this is a stunning change in just three weeks. >> i was going to say that word. the numbers are stunning. i knew they would be effective. i had every reason to think so. i didn't think it would be this fast. the lowest numbers ever. i want to cites nothing but it's close to nothing. >> closer than 11,000. >> and that was standard. $5,000 - 10,000 dollars -- 5,000 -10000 migrants a day under the last administration. and $22 billion is just a drop in the bucket as far as how much taxpayers spend on illegal immigration per year. >> marc thiessen was making this point. will talk about it with paul perez, head of the border patrol unit. joe biden told us time and time again that he had done all he could, that it was up to congress to fix this through comprehensive immigration reform, they needed a big fix for the border, building and congress. said without that there's

nothing else he can do. trump didn't ask congress for anything. he didn't spend a dime more than was in the budget already, and yet the numbers are down by 98%. all his talk from biden about not being able to do anything as the president of the united states, what do you make of that? >> approves a lot of us are right, this was intentional to begin with. they wanted as many illegal aliens in the country as they could possibly get, and then they will throw their hands up and say "now, we will secure the border, but we need comprehensive immigration reform," which everyone knows is a euphemism for amnesty for all the people here. we are seeing that play out now, where the democrats are fighting so hard to even keep illegal alien criminals in the country. it shows they were not trying, they were not serious, they were not honest with the american people, and it really was unconscionable what they are doing, because they put the american people and our social security at risk, plus it costs the american taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. >> the border patrol agents have been under siege for a long

time, and now we are learning that there is a possible security risk associated with the body cameras. this on the foxnews.com. after social media post -- threats from 100 yards away. apparently the bike hams -- technology, detectable by some mobile app. the body cameras apparently hooked to trigger explosive devices. people across the country trying to round up criminal illegal aliens, this could pose a potential risk. >> scary. there will be an increased risk. part of the aggressive enforcement is the people that don't want to be deported, these drug cartels in particular losing billions of dollars based on the trump administration. everly illegal alien was spending somewhere between 7000 to $9,000 to come into the country. the drug cartels are losing t

that. i think there's more to cut off the cameras. safety of our agents is the highest priority. >> no question that this is hitting the cartels in the pocketbook big time. gone from $11,000 a day, $5,000 a day until my $229. that is a big hit. thank you for coming in. we mentioned a moment ago that we are going to be talking with paul perez, president of the national border patrol council in our next our. we will talk to him about what the situation of a seven border looks like, next -- apsley seven border border looks like, next. >> going to take that back for you. i'm going nowhere. >> i'm going nowhere said new york city's mayor. calls grow for him to resign. this republican new york city councilwoman will react just ahead. >> plus, elon musk and doge taking aim at the irs. what they are planning to do,, and the pushback they are getting for it. stephen miller joining us, coming up next from the white house.

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white house deputy chief of staff -- policy, stephen miller joining us. good to have you back to tell us about this. what are the plans to do so if those records are obtained? >> as we know, there is a massive amount of fraud in this country. you have, for example, foreign nationals who come into the united states. they use fake social security numbers, fake identities, to steal billions in taxpayer benefits. there is no way to know until doge gets full access exactly how much money where talking about, but over ten years normal budget window, you could be talking about saving over $1 trillion by claiming down on massive fraud, our tax and entitlement systems, including those by organized fraud and theft rings. a very important point in all of this is to understand that doge are subordinate staffers of the federal government, political appointees just like me, like anybody else in the white house.

we are not talking about an outside private entity, we are talking about the existing federal staff of the federal government performing their statutory duty. >> of course, the opposition is raising concerns that they are getting access to this irs data, looking into the private records of taxpayers. can you give assurances to people who faithfully pay their taxes in this country? that they went -- come across a personal private records of americans? >> i can give excellent 100% assurance, complete and total insurance on that point. we are talking about performing a basic antifraud review to ensure people are not engaging in large-scale theft. we pay billions of dollars a year, child tax credit payments

to illegal aliens, billions with a b. these are systematic, programmatic reforms we are talking about here. as far as the secrecy of tax records, the irs has been weaponized at the career level against the american people for years now. is it one of the most invasive arms of the federal gover government -- engaging and capriciously based audits, taxpayers for political reasons. we are restoring neutrality, ethics, security controls at i irs. upgrading i.t. systems and software so our taxpayer information cannot be stolen by foreign governments. >> when it comes to -- maybe we are getting to in the weeds but i think you have to -- when you look at the integrated data

retrieval system, i guess this is where some red flags are going up for personal information. this would give the tax agency employees access to irs accounts. you can correct me if i'm wrong, but when they then have access to personal identification numbers and bank information? >> note, but what we are talking about is at the programmatic level being able to analyze and assess for signs and symptoms of fraud that would evolve and establish criminal organizations and establish fraud rings. looking at how i.t. systems are failing to detect and interdict this fraud. if you were to just eliminate fraud alone in our tax and entitlement systems, you are talking trillions of dollars in long-term savings. we need to protect the integrity of the systems that americans rely on.

right now, they don't get a tiny fraction of the criminal fraud that takes place that's ripping off and abusing american taxpayers. the notion we would trust the same bureaucracy that a scene this abuse for decades without installing basic political controls -- when we are talking about doge, who are we talking about? we are talking about staff that serves the president of the united states, is appointed by the president, or -- and reports to the white house picked up the highest level of accountability that you can possibly have come as opposed to some career civil servant who is, up until now, completely immune from any form of accountability. you remember when president trump's private tax information was leaked and weaponized.

politicization the irs has been a huge problem. do you remember the huge scandal going back to michael was learned at the irs, weaponizing the tax system against small conservative nonprofits. i give you my word, john, the only thing that's happening here is restoring neutrality, ethics, accountability to the irs to make sure that the payment level, the systems level, that we can identify signs and warning systems that large-scale fraud is taking place, the unfair politicization is taking place, unfair targeting is taking place, and that we have faith and confidence in the irs and no dollars are being stolen from the american people. >> we look forward to transparency on that front. this today -- that she was not going to issue a ruling on whether or not the white house can continue to have access to the federal payments system. she may come up with a decision

sometime in the next 24 hours, but at the moment, she didn't seem to buy the state's argument that this violated their rights, saying that she didn't see anything that had to do with "imminent harm, because goats which is what the states were arguing. she said "if you're going to demolish a building" or something like that -- but she didn't see that. does that give you an indication of how this ruling might go? >> well, i don't want to declare early victory in that case. because of course, this is a judge that has historically been quite hostile, but i think we want to focus on the underlying issue here above all else. this is about restoring democracy. in the executive branch of government, power is either vested in the present who was elected by the whole american people. that is known as the vesting clause, article two of the constitution. "the executive power shall be vested in a -- or an expected bureaucracy."

the question i would put severe as it is do you as an american voter want the power to go to the voting booth, elect a president, and have that present on your behalf reform the federal government and drain the swamp? or do you want permanent unelected lifetime bureaucrats who were never on the ballot who can never be voted out of office to hold the executive power? we know what the founding fathers believed, what system they set up. we talk about the president and his staff being able to access government computers to prevent fraud and abuse to prevent waste and corruption. we talk about enforcing the system our founders created come over this executive power, -- the president and the people he appoints. >> it's fair to say that we have seen other administrations, democrat and republican, try to tackle this wasteful spending. they just didn't get anywhere. we are seeing actions. >> not until now. >> great to have you on the

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reseeding? >> it has gone down several inches, but still very dangerous. many of these residents are without power. look at our live drone shot. you can see many of the homes are completely surrounded by water. even those where the water has not entered the actual structure, there is no electricity, and with freezing temperatures this week, authorities warrant it will be uncomfortable and unsafe if you stay behind. local officials say they are used to dealing with floods a couple times each year, but this was different. >> once it started flowing over our levees, everything pumping out -- so we had to shut the pumps down and that was over. so it's not that i have ever been here seeing it this bad. >> president trump has approved an emergency declaration for kentucky, where the storm has killed at least 11 people, including a 7-year-old girl riding a vehicle that was swept off of a roadway by flood waters saturday night.

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