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ains it is exactly 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. thursday, february 20th. this is "fox & friends." millions more slashed. you watched his exclusive announcement housing and urban development secretary scott turner revealing how much he is diverting back to the taxpayer. >> we will cut $4 million in dei focus contracts. this is money that should go to serve the american people. >> lawrence: plus, did you hear this? a capito cachichilean.travis ke. the shocking amount they are accused of stealing. >> brian: and president trump and ukrainian president zelenskyy in a heated back and forth. what does it mean for peace talks? i think it's time.

>> brian: trump national security adviser fresh off a meeting with n. russia and saudi arabia. second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. >> a big day ahead on capitol hill, the senate will vote on kash patel's nomination to be our fbi director. despite major pushback from the democrats. >> brian: right it. doesn't seem to matter though, does it? brooke singman has nor. hey, brook. >> that's right. the full senate is expected done firm fbi nominee kash patel after judiciary committee advanced his nomination yesterday voting 12-10 along party lines moving him one step closer to entering president trump's cabinet. it comes despite pushback from democrats. some of them all the reasons they view patel as unqualified and not trustworthy for the job. something linda mcmahon experienced with lawmakers past support for prounion legislation

an issue that could complicated her nomination. this comes as the help committee is now preparing to vote on the nomination for linda mcmahon for education secretary. that is scheduled to take place later this morning. lori chavez deremer faced tough questions yesterday while appearing before a senate committee about her support for a prounion bill when she was in congress. kash patel's confirmation vote is set for later this afternoon. guys? >> brian: wow, that is going to be great. this will be another so-called controversial pick that gets through people like adam schiff not happy. trump attacked the problems he had with the fbi before kash patel got there i'm not saying he is not going to want to go in and clean house. trump already addressed it. >> lawrence: the fbi sunday the department of justice. you had the interim as well as with pam bondi came in starting to already go after some of the

corruption. so leaking that was going on. target political opponents, i think it's going to take some of the burden off kash patel, the reason they don't like him he was the guy that trey gowdy said unveiled all of the russian collusion hoax. so they're afraid of him. >> he pulled back the curtain and told america about it. donald trump loved it and donald trump wanted him confirmed and he got what he wanted. >> brian: right. i don't think they are going to have a problem once he gets in there if do you your job, i just keep in the back of my mind when he said go be cops. they are some of the finest people. 135,000 of them. a lot of them in my view, made it clear to president trump that they were not for that raid. they were not for some of these investigations. they were not some flipping of his lawyers and went out of his way according to the people i have talked to to say don't lump me in with those other people that clearly had a political agenda. many of which were told you are going on this raid, clean-up is insane. think about this. trump already -- the people in trump world and the right

already think the fbi has a problem with the production and then you raid the former president's house over archives? >> lawrence: brian, i think you made a critical point that i think is sometimes missed in this conversation though. we talk about the top half of the leadership of the fbi. there is rank and file people that did not want to be a part of the -- good people that got bills to pay and they were forced to go on these raids. look at the unity that you see now. when you look at press conferences now kristi noem or with tom homan, you say fbi, doj. >> ainsley: they are working together. >> lawrence: atf, all u.s. marshals working together now because they get to do their job. they get to go after bad guys. >> ainsley: confirmed i will be able to do interviews. he has said, for example, if you are an fbi agent and you were the one that was tapped to go and raid melania's closet or mar-a-lago in general. they will take a case by case basis and see were you following orders or what was it like the decision process as to who was going? >> brian: you shouldn't be fired

because you followed orders. >> lawrence: that's exactly right. >> brian: the weird thing was, i believe the miami division didn't even know. the fbi -- the bureau didn't even know that there was a raid going on. so clearly was a division with the fbi and a lack of communication. >> lawrence: meanwhile, there is a lot of those agents in the miami division that are upset because they were asking for more agents when they were going to serve a warrant. one of their agents got shot and killed. they could get back up agents for. that is they were so happy to get agents back up to go investigate the former president who had secret service protection there. so, a lot of pushback there from those agents. >> brian: senator thune deserves a lot of credit. they are now ahead of barack obama's pace on confirmations. kelly loeffler is going to get through today. lutnick got through. kash patel, the labor secretary. >> lawrence: trump deserves a lot of credit. >> brian: brushback stop with the two bills. i want one big beautiful bill and senator thune said that caught me by surprise. okay. that was a nice diplomatic

answer. >> ainsley: six minutes after the top of the hour. president trump is signing executive order ending all federal taxpayer benefits for illegal immigrants. >> lawrence: mark meredith with live at the white house with more on and this a other cost cutting moves. good morning, mark. >> today marks one month of president trump's second term and while it's been nonstop executive actions. the latest executive order issued overnight should certainly appeal to voters who feel the federal government bending over backwards to help illegal immigrants. the congressional budget office suggests that over the next 10 years, $177 billion was set to be spent on illegal immigrants. under the order issued overnight, our understanding the government would cut out money to spend to encouraging them to get obamacare, money for assistance programs like food stamps, as well as for the children's health insurance. now, the cuts also come amid increase on spending on migrants during the past administration after the surge of people who crossed into the united states. meantime today, the internal revenue service, the irs expected to inform thousands of its workers their service was no

longer needed. there are reports that cuts could impact some 6,000 workers, just as tax season gets underway. >> donald trump announced the external revenue service and his goal is very simple, to abolish -- his goal is to abolish the internal revenue service and let all the outsiders pay. this is someone who is focused on america. let's drive down our waste, fraud, and abuse. that's what donald trump wants to do. balance our budget and cut our taxes. >> we're hearing a lot about those potential tax cuts and what congress is going to have to deal with. hearing from the white house about what they want to do would with the savings. president trump even telling reporters he likes the idea of something like of a dividend, something to give money back to americans. this is still very much in the early stage. trial balloon out there but certainly get a lot of discussion. brian, ainsley, and lawrence, back to you. >> ainsley: i don't think anyone is going to argue with cutting 6,000 people from the irs.

>> lawrence: thanks, lawrence. >> brian: in the process of getting 87,000 over the next 10 years. >> ainsley: 3500 of those 6,000 one division. they say they are not critical with tax filings. >> lawrence: when i used to work on sean's show correspondent pitch meetings. who is the villain of this story? it's the same way here. who is going to be the villain to the american people? donald trump or the irs? most people in the country, i know there are some great professionals professionals out there that just did their job. most americans don't like the irs. who do you think the country is going to rally around when this happens? they are going to rally around the president not the irs. the people that are harassing him on a day-to-day basis. i just think another easy win, democrats will be protesting about this. they will be asking for hearings. and the american people are going to say promises made, promises kept. >> brian: right. i remember in europe, one of the things the reason why italy, for example, struggles is that people don't just enforce paying taxes. they don't pay them. and there is not a lot of enforcement. one thing you got to do is pay

what you have to. whatever it is. because you don't get roads and bridges if you don't pay your taxes; however, being overtaxside a huge issue and harassing people, cracking down and putting them in jail because of it, i just see the "wall street journal" today said that it should not be hard to cut -- to cut the budget. they said that every year there is $100 billion in misspent funds that we should focus on. along with all the other funds that we are hearing about that are going to dead people and things to that nature. but, doge is in the process right now of collecting them. of collecting as much money as possible. the other thing that's going out that is perk percolating going finding out they are fired. people in the energy division yeah, we made a mistake. we need more -- whatever it is nuclear engineers there. >> ainsley: they are getting their emails. irs supposed to get their emails today. they were saying earlier this

will be the end of the week. then i was just reading it's going to be today at some point they will get those emails. no one has ever had liked the tax collector. that's biblical. remember matthew he was a disciple. they liked him after he became a disciple. >> lawrence: chad pergram later on in the show. all these cuts that they're making are not going to be scored when they do this new budget. they are doing all these cuts. even when they wring it back to congress. the cbo is not going to count it in this legislative process which i think is so messed up. if they are cutting, then you should be able to see some type of accounting of that apparently that's not the way the system works. >> brian: here is hud secretary scott turner on what he found at hud as he took the job just two weeks ago. >> and they were announcing that we cut $4 million in dei contracts here at hud, which were supposed to be for culture transformation and mindset --

outward mindset thinking and subscription services. so we want to announce today we are working hard and we will cut $4 million in dei focused contracts. this is money that should go to serve the american people and also time well-spent to serve the people we're called to serve. so, you know, dei here at hud is dead. >> ainsley: brian, did you that interview. it was a great interview. what were they using the money for? how were they implementing -- what were these dei programs? >> number one, you have to set up programs criteria terms of who is going to be able to get some supplement urban funding. ainsley: it it wasn't based on need it. was based on your skin color. >> brian: right. looking at that also, the classes that they are putting for everybody that goes there. the seminars got to take place. the curriculum got to be written. proctors that got to get schooled and trained. that's what added up to it. immediately, you walked in there. says doge was already there. so doge was in when he took the job. and he said we found all this.

goodbye. it's got to go. >> lawrence: do you know what is interesting? i'm so sick and tired of talking about dei. it's just everywhere. isn't that illegal? like you are getting federal money from the federal government and they are giving contract based on race, sexual orientation, or whatever group. like that's illegal, right? >> brian: not if you believe america is a fundamentally racest country. we have all these contracts. i mean, essentially, when we look at the waste and abuse that they have been going through. most of this has been dei stuff. there is other waste going on within the government. it's just fascinating the billions of dollars that they dedicated to this mission. this is where our kids are messed up in the head right now. this is all they are teaching on the college campus right now.

>> 57% approval and cbs poll people under 30. i think a lot of campuses, the groundswell is coming up. to stop being plaintiff nation. the other thing is, if you ever hear joe biden talk about his cabinet. he never would talk about how great his cabinet is he would talk about how diverse it is. joe manchin said to me. i would say joe, he said, joe biden, you have put together the most left wing cabinet ever. he goes they're the most diverse. they're the most left wing. so why did you hire people that aren't like you or how you build yourself? >> ainsley: i wonder what colleges will have to do now. a lot of these colleges have dei classes that kids have to take freshman year. >> brian: they are getting around it. admission wools say no mandate a wink and a nod we will do it anyway. u.k. berkeleys of the world. >> lawrence: outrageous. >> brian: carley shimkus secure

location. >> carley: i sure am celebrated from you guys from a dance distance i will do the news. j.d. vance will deliver remarks at cpac which is being held in maryland the largest annual gathering of conservative leaders and activists and kicks off as the trump administration marks one full month in office. the vice president is expected to highlight the administration's achievement so far. president trump is expected to speak at cpac on saturday. happening today, vice president j.d. vance will address -- let's scroll past this because i already read it. you heard the news and now. this environmental protection agency discovering that $2 billion was awarded by the biden administration to a climate group linked to stacey abrams. a prominent democrat behind the failed run for governor in georgia. the epa says the grant was distributed to the nonprofit in april of 2024. despite the fact that it was founded just months earlier. epa administrator lee zeldin saying, quote: it's extremely

will concerning that the organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion. that's 20 million times the organization's reported revenue. it comes after zeldin announced last week that he found $20 billion in green grants issued by the agency before former president biden left office. and tonight in boston, team u.s.a. goes to battle against canada again as they compete in these final of the four nations faceoff. it is a rematch the saturday's slug fest started with canadians booing our national anthem and ended in victory for the americans. florida panthers star matthew says he is pumped to represent the stars and stripes. >> that's something that we do not take for granted. the opportunity to wear the u.s.a. jersey and we're the luckiest people in the world to be americans and to grow up and live in this country now we have a chance to represent and an

opportunity of the lifetime. >> carley: in the first matchup three fights broke out within the first nine seconds of regulation. they dropped the puck and then the gloves came off and they started fighting and it was hilarious, guys. over to you. >> brian: hilarious unless you are getting punched in the face. >> carley: hockey so part of their job. >> ainsley: always stun to watch. >> ainsley: what happens this time when the national anthem is play played? >> brian: you mean they booed. >> lawrence: we return the favor? >> brian: i hope not. >> i say we return the favor. >> lawrence: we did blow them out. >> ainsley: fans might. drinking beer hoping for a fight. >> lawrence: honestly, americans, it's beneath us, don't do it. it's beneath us. >> ainsley: it's hockey. have you ever been to a hockey game? >> lawrence: don't boo them. >> brian: put it this way. this is the most anticipated hockey game. u.s. hockey game since 1980. so everybody is talking about this game that aren't even big

hockey fans. not only is it rough and tumble but it is the quality is maybe the best ever because these are pros against pros. i will say this. nobody is going to remember the win last week if they lose tonight. >> lawrence: that's true. brian they have to win tonight, if they do boo nine seconds in we will be fighting again and carley will be laughing. >> lawrence: we will be laughing. [laughter] >> lawrence: the u.s. team has invited the president. >> brian: the quotes? southbound like the most patriotic players we have seen in a long time. >> lawrence: this is what we are called being back. >> lawrence: do you think president could go to boston. >> brian: he has own own plane. >> ainsley: many don't have teeth, they lost them all on the ice. love to go to the games, drink beer. you have to wear warm clothes because the ice is cold. even when you are sitting in the stands. everyone wears the jersey. >> brian: it all started with president trump and trudy. trudeau.wherever did you go graa

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♪ >> ainsley: governor kathy hochul suing the trump administration for ending new york city's congestion pricing program. the president says, quote: congestion price something dead. manhattan and all of new york is saved. long live the king. here's the governor. >> new york hasn't labored under a king in over 250 years. we are not. [cheers] we sure as hell are not going to start now. this is an attack on our sovereign identity, our independence from washington. we are not subservient to a king or anyone else out of

washington. >> ainsley: host of the cup coming show my view with lara trump and former rnc co-chair lara trump joins us now. >> good morning. >> ainsley: you used to live in new york you moved because of the high taxes and the way your family was treated here. >> absolutely. >> ainsley: what do you say about congestion tax? >> you talk to new yorkers and this is hurting a lot of people. unsustainable. if you are commuting in the city five days a week paying almost $500 in the course of a month. people can't afford that it's so funny the irony of kathy hochul saying we haven't lived and labor day under a king for 250 years. yet, do you remember why the american revolution started? it's because of high taxes. this is just an extra tax on the people here in new york who already are facing these egregiously high prices. they can't afford it. people are saying all across new york i heard all day yesterday, thank you, president trump for getting rid of this extra tax. >> ainsley: i don't understand why we shouldn't want people to come to new york. she says the congestion tax is going to keep traffic at bay.

but donald trump has said he wants to get rid of the bike lanes here. he doesn't want this congestion tax. and so he said no. you're doing away with this through sean duffy sending her that letter. why wouldn't she want people to come to new york city? that helps our economy? >> right. you go down so many streets in north carolina and there are businesses that are just boarded up now. in the wake of covid, a lot of small businesses, restaurants, had to close in the city. you want more people coming here, you want foot traffic. you want people commuting into the city it is a good thing to have more people coming into new york. you are see a positive response after this. >> do you think donald trump that's the problem democrats are having they have no idea who they are and no ability to fight back great things for our country. their only policies seem to be anything donald trump does, we're going to go the opposite way. i think it's going to continue to hurt them. as the former rnc co-chair we will get hem go ahead and keep

doing that. >> ainsley: seemed to work for the republicans. a different way to see the administration. we pulled some really cute moments of elon musk with his son in the oval office. sometimes is he on his shoulders. we have your daughter carolina at the daytona 500 this past sunday. and we have to show that little clip of her. she is so cute. you have to tell us what was going on. she wanted to wear those little red shows with the little heels. >> they are in the beast. we were all actually in there but of course there is carolina and grandpa. >> too big. you couldn't tell them anything. had to wear ruby red slippers when she went to get out of the car to stand with president trump, she wanted that hat because she wanted to emulate him and look like him. it was a little big for her, too. it's so cute. made the whole picture, actually. >> ainsley: absolutely. j.d. vance's children people are talking about that. getting off the plane when they're traveling overseas. they had all three of them and all in their pajamas with coats on top of them and the tennis

shoes. we can all relate to this. >> we have all been there. you got to do what you have to do being around usha and j.d. and seeing them as parents. they are such good parents. can you see that in this clip here. i think everybody has seen that not only are they traveling often with their kids, they are traveling with their dog as well. i love it. i think this is what the american people want to see. this feels good. and we all know that moment whenever you are having to deal with your kids in overnight flight or tough plane ride. >> i think if you are vice president and you have these young children and you want to travel with them do they home school or just pull them out occasionally? >> i think they are trying to figure out what they're doing. now that they moved obviously to d.c. it's a whole new world. what a great experience to be able to show the world to your children as vice president. it's really amazing. >> ainsley: tell us about your new show right here on fox? >> yes it. starts this saturday at 9:00 p.m. called "my view with lara trump" i have had a front row seat to history. my view and take of some of the

people how see across the headlines and tv screen every day. who are they? and what is their back story? a little bit of insight into these agencies and things really making the big changes in our country right now. so it will be different. i think than anything else we have on fox news. >> ainsley: you will be traveling on the show in d.c. your show will be live there. >> it will be much better, i think, for people to actually be in their spaces where it all happens whenever i'm talking with them. so, yeah, i will be traveling a lot. but i'm very excited. i'm so excited to be back here at fox. >> ainsley: give us an example what we can expect? >> this weekend we are going to highlight some of the women who helped donald trump get elected. who some folks say didn't exist out there like mark cuban, strong, intelligent women, who are in a lot of these are male dominated fields but donald trump has appointed them there. they are during great work. and we're going to highlight some of them and you will get to know them a little more personally. >> ainsley: that's great. they did an excellent job. >> thank you. >> ainsley: this saturday 9:00.

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>> janice: good morning. everyone. it so cold. another day of take a look at it. in new york feeling like single digits. 8. but look at bismarck. negative 26. feels like negative 4 in dallas. another day for new texas where it is just so cold. and here are some of the wind chills, the coldest unknown

location, i'm not sure where that is. but it's cold. negative 40. in montana and nebraska. you get the picture, 100 alerts in terms of cold weather along the gulf coast. some of the snowfall totals across the atlantic a foot in virginia. 9 inches in north carolina. another burst of snow later this afternoon later this afternoon into the evening as the next lohse off the great lakes moves. in not a big deal at all. really. the temperatures are going to remain cold. that's our biggest story. look at monday, my friends. 40s across the northeast and great lakes and the midwest where we are getting into close to 70s in texas. so i think we can get through the next couple of days because there is some hope on the horizon. lawrence, negative something in dallas, again today. >> lawrence: you know i'm pro-snow but i'm over it now. it's done. we got our little flurry now

it's time to move on. >> janice: let's move on. >> lawrence: thanks, j.d. several migrants from capitol migrant chili.the group allegede valuables worth more than $2 million from nfl and nba players. lawrence county, california district attorney todd spitzer joins us now. sir, thank you so much for joining the program. >> happy to be here. thank you, lawrence. >> lawrence: so you have been warning dhs about this. how long have you known about these transnational gang members being in your community? >> well, i have been screaming about this for almost upwards of two years. i even had former speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, my former colleague when we were legislators together in the california asystemmably.

come to california to get briefed. homeland security, state department biggest secret in washington that no one seems to want to do anything about. had hearings last year where we testified about this problem. the fact of the matter is now that high profile athletes and millions of dollars of their property is being stolen, now it seems to be getting a lot of attention this is tourism, burglary. these chilens have been coming here for years. everybody knows about it. and we need to orlando, florida, where disney world is think are coming to orange county where disney land is and they are not here to visit the happiest place on earth they are here to

burglarize the biggest nation and one of the wealthiest nations in the entire world. >> lawrence: you are saying that you want there to be a cancellation or a pause of the visa program and the reason why you are saying this, i think, because when you look at the map of all this activity of this chilean gang, ohio, massachusetts, michigan, california, maryland, and connecticut, and you are saying until we get this under control, until the government helps out, you want a pause. did i get you right? >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, let's be clear, this doesn't mean that chileans can't come into our country. they just can't come in under this visa program. this is a $21 online application, no background check, which is a violation of our -- our agreement with the country of capitol hill. chili. we talking about 350,000

chileans a year. this isn't a small problem. this is an abuse and this is the irony right now with the new administration, which i support. the president has said we are going to deport all these criminals first. my argument is why are we letting the criminals n the first place. we don't know anything about these chileans in violation of our agreement with our country. chili is the only remaining south american country in the program. every other south american country that has participated in the past has been kicked out of the program for sending their criminals to the united states of america. >> lawrence: i got to ask you this, mr. district attorney, you're in a sanctuary state, so, the president through ice, as well as tom homan, the border czar, homeland security secretary kristi noem has said they want all of the criminals

out of your community, your state says that you can't comply with them. are your people in your county going to comply when ice comes and say we want these people and we're going to deport them? >> well, i don't speak on behalf of my sheriff in my county. and i think my sheriff has gone on the record on that particular issue. i can tell you unequivocally that if we have criminals that we have convicted. my office. and they are sitting in our jail, those names are listed on the sheriff's website. and that's a public document that ice can have access to. i absolutely 100 percent support the fact that if we have criminals in our county or anywhere in the united states, they should be deported after they do their sentence immediately. >> lawrence: all right, mr. district attorney, thank you so much for joining the program this morning. >> thank you very much, lawrence. appreciate it. >> lawrence: president trump and ukrainian president zelenskyy in a heated back and forth, and now the vice president is weighing

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>> brian: president trump not mincing words with ukrainian

president zelenskyy as the u.s. tries leading negotiations with russia to end the war. >> the only thing he was really good at was playing joe biden like a fiddle. he played him like a fiddle. that's an expression we use. a dictator without elections. zelenskyy better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. he has got to move. got to move fast. because that war is going in the wrong direction. in the meantime we are successfully. ending the war with russia. >> brian: president zelenskyy firing back calling trump's comments russian disinformation. prompting vice president vance to respond the idea that zelenskyy change the president's mind by bad-mouthing him in public. public media, everyone who knows the president will tell you that is an atrocious way to deal wh this administration. here to react trump national security adviser michael waltz. fresh off your peace mission in ray add. riyadh.

>> brian, there is obviously a lot of frustration here. vice president vance was very frustrated leaving the munich security conference. our secretary of treasuro traveled all the way to kyiv is also frustrated, the president obviously who makes his frustration well-known and that's because we presented the ukrainians really an incredible and historic opportunity to have the united states of america co-invest with ukraine, invest in its economy, invest in its natural resources, and really become a partner in ukraine's future in a way that is sustainable but also would be, i think, the best security guarantee they could ever hope for, much more than another pallet of ammunition. and so to have the united states co-invest, to grow their pie, to allow their economy to flourish over time, and oh, by the way, to have the american taxpayer

recoup the hundreds of billions of dollars as the europeans do, all makes sense. why we're getting this pushback and certainly this kind of as the vice president said bad-mouthing in the press for all the administration has done in his first term as well and all the united states has done for ukraine is just -- it's unacceptable. they need to tone it down. and take a hard look and sign that deal. >> brian: so, do you believe that this is reconcilable? do you believe that this is two people just getting mad at each other or do you think these are two countries going different ways? >> oh, i think. so the president also said how much he loves the ukrainian people and, again, he was the first to arm them back in his first term. we have done a lot, a lot for the security of ukraine. and to say that we're going to change the nature of our aid going forward is, i don't think,

should offend anyone. look, the president is ready to drive this war to an end. he has made that clear over and over again. and just a week ago, brian, he had both president putin on the phone and zelenskyy on the phone, literally within minutes of each other and both were saying only you, president trump, can lead this war to a conclusion when no one else has been able. to say and, in fact, the last administration didn't even really try. so now president trump is doing what he should as a leader and pushing hard diplomacy with strength and leadership and, you know, no one should be surprised about that. >> brian: right. in terms of president zelenskyy. his approval rating is around 54%. and he can't really have elections, while he is at war. in the constitution. it seems as though both sides understood that until yesterday. what do you see your role going forward as early as today, maybe to get the two on the phone?

>> well, look, this notion that ukrainians haven't been consulted have to pushback on that, brian. i have been talking to zero tolerance's national security involve. we just mentioned meetings, secretary of state and vice president vance have had with him. special envoy keith kellogg is out there literally right now. so, we have had plenty of engagement and dialogue in order to drive this deal home, this economic partnership, and move forward towards peace. and, also, for our european friends. look, we have president macron of france coming next week. we have prime minister starmer of the united kingdom coming next week. i spoke with all of their national security advisers, including germany's yesterday. so, we are consulting our allies. we are consulting the ukrainians. there's a term for this in diplomacy it's called shuttle diplomacy. because bringing tonight table at once just hasn't worked in

the past. so, we have engaged one side. we have engaged the other side. and then we are going to have a process moving forward under president trump's direction and leadership. >> brian: as you know, a lot of democrats kind of hit the roof with all this -- with all this back and forth. listen. >> it's been remarkable to watch donald trump line one putin so directly almost as if putin writes his talking points. >> this feels like one, you know, the biggest kind of american surrender since vietnam. >> mental gymnastics that you see republicans undertaking to somehow justify the under justifiable. >> republicans at this point have power to change what trump is doing if they did find their spines and it may be the whole country's job to help them find it. >> brian: and your retort to that? >> you know, i guess all of those democrats were perfectly

fine with seeing hundreds of people literally on a daily, weekly, monthly basis that meat grinder of a war turned into endless war under joe biden who could not define success and basically said as long as it takes, as much as it takes no, matter how many people die, no matter how much death a and destruction. because i haven't heard any one of them actually present a plan to bring this war to an end. president trump has done that and we are going to execute it. >> brian: right. to me this reminds me of lyin' ted and desanctimonious when the president locks horns and gets angry, that's what he does. he also can put his hand out and say let's move forward. that's what this reminds me of. >> and the same ones that are screaming for peace and are screaming for a cease-fire over in gaza, i guess, are screaming for endless war in europe. it's nonsensical. >> this is a common sense plan. they may not like it, but we're going to drive it forward and everybody will stop squawking when the fighting ends.

>> brian: when the russians say we met with you and marco rubio and we got the sense that the u.s. is with us, are they wrong? >> well, i think our interests are aligned in stopping the war. they have different reasons, of course, in the ukrainians. there are still all kinds ever disagreement that we need to pull both sides together but, brian, that was historic first step and it started with that historic phone call that president trump had with putin. and the confidence building measure that we had with the release of marc fogel. remember, that was just a week ago, brian. i don't think time is on anyone's side and we're going to move forward full speed ahead to drive this war to an end. and then we can talk about broader geo strategic relationships and that's the conversation we had with the russians, but it's a first of many to come. >> brian: wouldn't it be great if the russians handed back the 20,000 children they stole from the ukrainian families, renamed

them and handed them out to russians? would they ever agree to give the children back. >> we talked about what we're going to have to do in territory. what we're going to have to do in security guarantees. what we're going to have to do kind of in the future, broader security arrangement. the future of our relationship. and those kinds of exchanges prisoner exchanges, children, what's happened in some of these areas, it's been a devastating war. all of that, you know, should be resolved and we are trying to resolve but for everyone to just though there hands up and say unacceptable. shouldn't surprise anybody in washington, d.c. >> brian: the war has got to come to an end. president trump is the perfect place to do it. hopefully these former friends to had will be future friends again zelenskyy and trump. michael waltz, great job. thank you for getting up with us this morning. >> you got it.

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