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weeks. just getting started. i think officially it's day 31 on the calendar. it is a month. >> dana: depends on which month. >> bill: right. that's great. >> dana: not this month. >> bill: that's a great point. >> dana: actually a good point. one of those days. >> bill: i'm william hemmer. >> dana: he is also in trouble. dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." we'll have a great show as you can tell. president trump is not slowing down in his push to reshape washington. here is what he did yesterday. sign an order cutting off all federal funding for illegal im granulitis. accelerated his push to end russia's invasion of ukraine. >> bill: a plan would turn a portion of the money saved by doge into checks for taxpayer. the president talked about it last night on air force one and said this. >> proposing eventually giving money to americans based on what doge is finding.

do you have any thoughts on that >> president trump: i love it. 20% dividend so to speak for the money that we're saving by going after the waste, fraud, and abuse and all the other things that are happening. i think it's a great idea. could be a lot of money. 20%. we would give back a lot of money to the taxpayers. also given an incentive for the taxpayer to go out and report things to us where we can save money. >> bill: okay. senate republican conference james langford get his reaction and things he has on his mind. mark meredith reports from the news the north lawn at the white house. good morning. >> good morning to you both. the president as he said is thrilled with the idea of saving taxpayer money, paying down debt and potentially giving money back to taxpayers. at this point no final decision is made. something still up for discussion. republicans up on the hill cheering the latest spending cuts. democrats warn they could risk american's public safety.

financial future as well as the future of government agencies overall. today i.r.s. expected to issue an number of pink slips, 6,000 people expected to be cut as tax season gets under way. president issued an executive order wednesday cutting spending helping migrants now in the u.s. illegally. >> you cannot continue to waste american taxpayer dollars on giving it to illegal immigrants as the president has announced he will no longer do and taking money from americans, spending it frivolously and not being accountable for where the money has gone. >> the department of housing and urban government is making cut. time to show the american people this is not business as usual. >> today we are announcing we cut $4 million in d.e.i. contracts here at hud which were supposed to be for culture transformation and mindset

thinking and subscription services. >> democrats warning this could be im pablths. we heard a letter from senator murphy. community and economic development projects, disaster recovery efforts and housing across the country will be delayed and come to a grinding halt. epa administrator lee zeldin is tracking down billion else of dollars misspent or put in accounts. nonprofit with ties to former georgia candidate stacey abrams. it says the epa is looking to where some $2 billion ended up. writing they have been looking into whether or not the money received a green energy grant despite the fact it was founded in late 2023 and never manageed anywhere near the grants dollars filing you're.

abrams says she is no fan of the doge cuts. we'll see if the organization responds. and see if the president talks about what it is like as he marks one month in office today. >> bill: nice to sigh, sir. >> dana: james langford joins us now. on the money that went to stacey abrams group and supposedly misspent. can congress get that money back? >> it becomes a challenge. you tell me if we can get enough democrats to join us in the senate to do that. the president can do that with oversight saying how will we make sure this is done? the department of justice can say it was fraudulently done and work to claw it back. it is interesting to me to watch. early days in the biden administration they were creating d.e.i. programs and requiring all agencies to find green new deal ways to engage and he was cutting off oil and gas production on all federal

lands. flip the script four years later. cutting government size and opening up american energy. dramatic difference between side-by-side in the first month. >> bill: musk is the lead blocker on this play. here he was with sean last night solving the deficit, if possible. >> this is a very important point. if we don't resolve the defici we're paying debt. it has to be solved or no medicare, no social security or nothing. america will go bankrupt if this is not done. that's why i'm here. >> they are saying $2 trillion. i don't know where they get the number. others say 1 trillion. then you give $4 hundred billion back to the taxpayer, 5,000 per household. if you try to save money, does

all that add up for you? >> first priority is get the debt down. everyone wants free checks in the mail, no doubt about that. we have got to be able to solve the debt and deficit issues. elon is correct in that we're going to continue to have high inflation and not be able to spend on the things critical fours, infrastructure, healthcare, education, national defense if we continue to run this debt. people talking about power around the world. china continues to be able to influence other countries where we are not able to engage in some of those areas, even foreign policy because we deal with debt and deficit. we have to borrow money from china to pay our own bills. that's a weak nation's future, not a strong nation's future. let's fix that. >> dana: one of the things you've done is come up with senator langford's top five federal fumbles. tell me more about it. i have a feeling it has to do

with sports references. i'm not sure i can follow appropriately. let me turn it over to you. i know what a broken playbook is? >> a broken playbook is simple. you are trying to deal with disaster relief and figure out how to solve some of the problems we have. right now if you look at that spaghetti map that's up there now, i can't see it. if you look at that, there are 30 different agencies that actually oversee disaster. president trump has said we need to return control back to the states. if you are a small community in a disaster, you have to contact 30 different agencies, have 30 different processes just to do disaster relief because of the complexity of federal government. fema, small business administration and on and on. that can't be. it is wasteful and single authority and if at all possible be the states the single point of authority closest to the actual disaster. >> bill: i like the blown coverage and letting china run up the score.

one more topic. executive order signed by the president yesterday saying illegals won't be eligible for any more federal dollars. bill clinton tried to run this play in the late 1990s changing welfare. is it different now? will it work? how much will you save? >> there are a couple of things. reference to bill clinton is good. they reduced the federal workforce a quarter million people. everybody is screaming about president trump, they weren't screaming when bill clinton did it to reduce the federal workforce as well. same issues here. get benefits. they need to go to people legally present here, american citizens, not people illegally present. i don't see a line of people saying i want my tax dollars to go to someone who broke our law and illegally came into the country rather than going to schools and other things here.

>> dana: the polling coming back in the last month shows that is absolutely what they still believe. we'll see if the democrats try to defend this and how that turns out. great to have you on. thanks for being on the show. >> bill: good luck with your program and see how it goes. last hour we have part two of sean's interview with musk asking him how long he plans to work in government. good question. >> i would say if the ship of america sinks we're going down with it. this idea people can escape to some other place is false. if the central pillar of western civilization falls, the whole roof comes crashing down and there is no escape. >> do you anticipate you will be here four years? >> i will be as helpful as long as i can be helpful. >> bill: doge has given itself a deadline of july 2026 which is four months before the mid-terms, too. so that's the deadline that has been given for its own directive

and see how that works. tech support is the t-shirt. >> dana: i want my own tech support. a somber procession this morning. you know need to know about this. the bodies of four hostages murdered by hamas have been returned to israel. it included an israeli mother and two very young children. their family has become a symbol of the hostage struggle in the face of hamas terrorism. greg palkot is live from tel aviv with more. >> dana, you are absolutely right. a sad and somber day here in israel as the first of the deceased israeli hostages are released in phase one of the current cease-fire agreement. highest profile the family of 32-year-old mother and wife and her two sons, a 4-year-old and a nine month old. the youngest hostages held. the father was captured but released alive earlier this

month. hamas claims without evidence the family was killed in an israeli air strike. for the nation, their plight embodied all of the hostages suffering. the remains of 83-year-old man was also transferred. he was a retired journalist and perhaps most ironically, dana, important peace activist aiding palestinians in gaza with, for example, their medical needs. after another propaganda display in gaza by hamas including a stage, posters, militants, crowd, the coffins containing the bodies were brought by the red cross to an idf military location where they were draped with israeli flags and small funeral service was offered. then the convoy of vehicles headed north towards tel aviv with well-wishers lining the road offering their own personal recognition of the sacrifices made. the remains are now at a forensic center not far from

where we are for final confirmation. well-wishers are there, too. israeli prime minister netanyahu said this would be a shocking day for the country. israeli president asked for forgiveness on behalf of israel to the hostages and the families. dana, six living hostages are set to be released on saturday. four more deceased hostages will be handed over next week. still talks regarding phase two of the agreement with a promise of many more hostages to be released, which was set to begin next month, have not even really started. it will be a long haul and a lot of sadness here. back to you, dana. >> dana: greg palkot, thank you for bringing us up to date. >> president trump can lead this war to a conclusion when no one else has been able to. in fact, the last administration didn't even really try. now president trump is doing what he should as a leader and

pushing hard diplomacy with strength and leadership. >> bill: a question this morning is whether or not this relationship is hitting the rocks and hitting it hard. escalating tensions between the u.s. and ukraine on the future. what you need to understand from dan hoffman. he will explain in a moment. >> dana: vice president j.d. vance set to kick off c pac and deliver remarks at the top of the hour and bring them to you live. >> bill: inflation picking up last month. the brand-new commerce secretary is howard lutnick and we'll ask him today how he plans to tackle the issue. >> if you cut back on the deficit you have an amazing situation for people because you get revenue and drop interest rates. people's mortgage payments go down, credit card and car payments go down.

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>> dana: tensions are spilling out in public between u.s. and ukraine. they differ from peace talks and ending the war with russia to how it started in the first place. rich edson is live at the state department with more. >> good morning. this is all ahead of the u.s. special envoy for ukraine's meeting today with ukrainian president zelenskyy. retired general keith kellogg. presidential envoy for ukraine and russia, is in kiev today. working to find a path to end the war that russia launched against ukraine three years ago now. there kellogg said he understood ukraine's need for security guarantees. this week trump ripped into zelenskyy suggesting he was to blame for the war and dictator for suspending elections. >> president trump: he refuses

to have elections. how can you be high with every city being demolished. hard to be. somebody said his polls are good. give me a break. >> with russia's attack on ukraine the country is under martial law. it would be difficult to hold them under russian assault. he cited poll saying he whats the support of majority of ukrainians. >> unfortunately, president trump with great respect for him as a leader of the people, which we respect very much the american people who constantly support us. unfortunately lives in this disinformation space. >> this week secretary of state marco rubio, michael waltz and mideast envoy steve witkoff met senior russian officials in saudi arabia. working to end the war and broaden u.s./russia ties that began deteriorating more than a decade ago before russia first

october paid ukraine an territory in the east. >> bill: dan hoffman, former c.i.a. chief of station. good morning to you. you studied putin for a long time. here is what a poll found among american voters. do you think the u.s. should trust putin? 81% say no. what would you do -- relationship developing in interesting ways. what would you do if you were still at the c.i.a.? >> listen, i spent the bulk of my c.i.a. career recruiting spies and stealing secrets to see the world through vladimir putin's eyes. i have no doubt the greatest value that director ratcliffe can provide to president trump and his team is to do just that. what i think is really important to emphasize is that putin is waging war on ukraine, the enemy is at the gates of europe and that risks casting a shadow over the $1 trillion of trade we do with europe. in the larger sense putin is also in great conflict with the

united states. putin and when is cronies refer to the united states as russia's main enemy because we're the city on a hill with democracy and freedom and liberty. everything enshrined in our constitution and bill of rights, that's opposite to vladimir putin. if any of it existed in russia, he would be in jail or worse for him. and so what putin is trying to do is not only strike a deal where he could someday top el ukraine's government and future that remains his goal. but also to make the united states appear weak on the world stage so he can take advantage of us not just in europe but africa and the middle east as well. >> dana: i have been thinking in the early days of russia invading ukraine where the biden people yes, we'll help you and then they slow walked so much of the weaponry that could have helped them do that. >> they did. the biden administration's

slogan was as long as it takes. that harkens back to forever wars in iraq and afghanistan. we don't want to go for that. russia was targeting ukrainian hospitals, maternity wards, schools, neighborhoods. remember the massacre there. it was morally and ethically wrong for the biden administration to slow roll providing ukraine all of the military equipment that they needed. they gave them enough to stay in the fight but not enough to win and not enough to convince putin to stop this barbaric invasion. that's really a failure of the biden administration. i don't think history will be kind to them on that score. >> bill: michael waltz was on earlier and what he is saying about ukraine policy now. >> this notion that ukrainians haven't been consulted. i have to push back on that. i have been talking to his national security advisor on a

regular basis. we just mentioned the meetings both secretary of state and vice president vance have had with him. special envoy keith kellogg is out there right now. so we have had plenty of engagement and dialogue in order to drive this deal home. >> bill: i think kellogg might have a lot of answers right now. i understand the front line is 600 miles long. i don't know how you police that. do you see where a deal can be made at this time? >> i think there is the potential for a deal. it will be extremely complicated. vladimir putin is already setting out pre-conditions. no nato troops in ukraine. i'm not sure how you get to that point. you are right. it is a long border and we'll need an international peacekeeping force. the goal here is to deter future russian aggression. i would suggest to folks to look

back at soviet history. they imposed their will and sphere of influence on eastern europe. that's what vladimir putin wants to do and why he invaded georgia and why he invaded ukraine and as his eyes on the baltic states and poland as well. key for our intelligence community to continue to get his plans and intentions and europe to step up defense spending and commitment to ukraine. they have provided 100 billion assistance, the same amount we have. but europe is going to be responsible for largely for keeping the peace here. i think that -- the current conflict, the current challenges we're facing with europe is that we're negotiating or starting to negotiate the terms of a cease-fire. the terms of a deal which europe is going to of to fulfill. which ukraine will have to fulfill. that's the tension we're seeing bubbling to the surface. >> dana: thanks so much for joining us today as this is a

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adams was booed by protestors. a growing number of elect et official eaves are calling for him to step down. he says he will not unless it's clear he can no longer run new york city effectively. >> if ever i reach the point i don't have the capacity to handle the city that i love under crisis and not crisis i would not stay in this job. i would leave. >> you would resign? >> yes. >> there are new reports that former new york governor cuomo is preparing to challenge adams and launch his own run for mayor. cuomo has been leading in the polls in new york city. the democratic primary is june so that deadline is coming up. >> bill: nice to see you, eric shawn in new york. >> dana: want to bring in kerry urbahn. bove said this. you have a record indisputed

there was no quid pro quo. this should be resolved as soon as possible. will it be? >> i don't think the judge has a choice here. a meeting of the minds between d.o.j. and mayor adams on terms of the agreement. dismissing the case without prejudice, which means that mayor adams can be reindicted at a future date. they acknowledged that. i don't think it will be an issue since i didn't commit any crimes. at this point the judge has to sign off on it. if he were to go further it would be going into the minds of the prosecutors, which would be an interference in the executive branch function. >> dana: it might look messy but be what it is and what they have to do. governor hochul was pressed on the question about possibly removing adams and who is running new york city. watch here. >> who is really in charge of new york city's government right now? >> mayor adams the elected mayor of new york stechlt i'm the

governor of new york. new york is a subdivision of the state of new york. i have responsibility to make sure services are provided to 8.3 people that i also represent. i'm not concerned about that. there is a path forward to stabilize the city and its government. >> dana: yesterday congresswoman malliotakis defended adams. hochul is rushing to remove him because he is working with the trump administration to rid our city of criminals and gangs. why is the governor going to such great lengths to protect criminals who have preyed on new yorkers. we come back to the issue of the illegal immigration problem becauseing internal politics here. >> i think people have a fundamental misunderstanding how d.o.j. headquarters work. people are upset about the dismissing of this case. a reasonable debate. people can talk whether it was warranted or not. not unreasonable given the facts. d.o.j. has said they think the

case is weak. prosecutors in these u.s. attorneys offices look at cases and situations whether something is technically wrong or not. that's their job. main justice headquarters looks at that but also takes into a whole host of other considerations like political climate, landscape. ask themselves is the juice worth the squeeze? i think they look at the situation saying even if there is a case to be brought against mayor adams it isn't worth it given how we could partner with him in new york city. the attorney general chief of staff said look, public corruption cases don't do well at the supreme court. we don't really want to roll the dice and devote manpower to something that might not get across the finish line. >> dana: whistleblower protections. does trump have the right to

dismiss them or the office of special council guy say you need cause? >> i love this case. it presents a fascinating constitutional question. can congress force restrictions a president to retain someone he or she doesn't want to? something the supreme court has addressed before twice where they have indicated look, if you have a singular agency, important executive agency, congress putting restrictions on the president's ability to remove them is not constitutional. here those restrictions are. malfeasance. inefficiency and other things. two issues going on here. one supreme court temporarily has to look at whether a judge can unilaterally issue an order forcing this man to stay in his position as the case is litigated. it is virtually unheard of for a judge to exercise that kind of power. that's what is happening right now. the supreme court first has to take a look at is that fine given the fact that seems to be

really an overstep? secondly at some point they will have to address the constitutionality of whether congress can restrict a president's ability in this area. i think it's an interesting case and set the tone for a lot of other firings. >> dana: you have your legal nerd hat on. >> i love this case. >> dana: come back and explain it to us when we get the ruling. >> sounds good. >> provided the economy gross faster than the money supply, which means you stop the government overspending and waste and the useful goods and services exceeds the increase in the money supply you have no inflation. you also drop the interest payments that people pay. >> bill: that's musk's solution to all the spending. late last night at 7:30 doge posted something on its website that got our attention. they think there are $55 billion now. you get to trillion it's 12

zeros. this is what they sent last evening. all relief funds sent to schools across america during covid totaled $2 hundred billion and starting to look at this now and finding the expenses to be somewhat interesting. for example, hotel rooms in las vegas, $86,000. not sure what it was for. they are looking into that right now. another charge almost $4 hundred thousand rent out a major league baseball stadium. not sure where that idea germinated. swimming pool passes, $60,000. a new rule for the $4 billion left a new rule, all grantees must provide receipts before every purchase funding is released. you have to say where the money will go before you get it. that's the new rule. going to walk over here and chat with dana quick. you remember ten years ago there was a symbol for government spending. the symbol was a shrimp on a

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>> president trump: i'll be announcing tariffs off cars, semi conductors, chips, drugs and pharmaceuticals and lumber. we'll no longer allow other countries to plunder our nation. if they tariff us, we'll tariff them at the exact same rate. >> bill: the brand-new commerce secretary has a big job. his name is howard lutnick set to implement trump's trade policies. it is nonsense saying tariffs

will make inflation worse. commerce secretary howard lutnick, congratulations to you, sir. now approved and officially on the job. well done. let's start with the tough stuff, okay? inflation, ticked higher in january. you guys weren't in charge. i'm curious how much rope do you think you have on this issue? how long can it go before you really have to bring it down? >> so i don't think it is a problem at all. because we're reducing the budget deficit you will see interest rates come down. because we're making moves like the constitution pipeline on the east coast of the united states. imagine governor hochul has been blocking a pipeline that will half the price of natural gas to new york and all of new england. so as those things come down, you are going to feel interest rates coming down. we'll pump more oil.

the price of energy coming down. constitutional pipeline brings down the price of gas. all these things drive down and counter any sort of inflation that's out there. you are going to see a much better economy. >> bill: as a new yorker you have to get past the new york governor, apparently. not so easy. >> i think the president is going to go right through. i think we will either make a deal with governor hochul or ride right over her. >> bill: we'll see how that goes. i thought you told jesse something interesting last night. were you the one who went to austin and recruited elon for the job on doge? >> it was brownsville, texas. on october 14th i flew down. see it on my twitter feed. i flew to brownsville, texas and sat for two hours and i suggested the concept of doge to him. we created doge.

i got the go ahead from the president on october 7th when we spent the day together. i got the go ahead from the president. we needed doge to make elon laugh. that was his coin we need to make him laugh. >> bill: you talked about $4 trillion in entitlements. we have big computers that can take a look at that. why was it -- who came up with a trillion dollars? the reason i ask that is because elon was talking about 2 trillion in january and now 1 trillion. was the number pulled from the sky or was it deduced in a rational way? >> all right. so first off let's go through. i want to make clear we do not need to cut a single dollar from someone in social security or someone in medicare or government who actually deserves the money. not a single dollar. any democrat who says the

alternative is nonsense. what we are going to attack is the waste, fraud, and abuse. so think of it now. the idea -- it is funny, it came from madison square garden. the deal was between me and elon that elon was going to cut $1 trillion from our expenses and that we, i was going to drive revenue growth of a trillion dollars from tariffs, from oil and from getting rid of all the tax scams which we can talk about. there are so many tax scams against the united states of america it would make your head spin. that would earn us a trillion dollars not cutting a single person's benefits. not cutting a single person's deserved. we're the richest country on earth and we can give people social security. what we can't have a -- there are 6 million people who say they are over 100 years old receiving social security benefits. they are all dead.

either eating cheerios makes you live a long time. >> bill: good dna. a couple things here. how much concern do you have the tariff policy you are pursuing could cause a recession? >> i don't see it at all. imagine this. the world has that value added tax. when we try to sell products to their countries they have 20% tax. china has the biggest tariffs in the world. india the second biggest in the world. these countries don't have inflation. the idea is it won't cause inflation or recession. what we're going to do as the president said reciprocal tariffs. either you bring yours down or we'll bring ours up. if we go to their level, it will earn us $7 hundred billion a year to be equal to everybody else. there goes our deficit and interest rates come smashing

down and the whole economy explodes higher and i don't think people understand yet how great america is. we are the greatest country on earth and we've been playing with half a deck, one hand tied behind our back holding our leg, whatever analogy you want to use, the greatness of america will be unleashed with donald trump and this economy is going to explode because energy prices will come down, interest rates are going to come down. your mortgage costs will come down. we aren't going to cut anybody's benefits. we are just going to stop paying dead people social security. give me a break. you shouldn't leave it to your grandchild. >> bill: trump picked an energetic man for this job. don't be a stranger. we have much to tackle and much to get to. hope you come back soon, okay? thank you, sir. howard lutnick, commerce secretary. thank you. all right. >> dana: vice president jd vance

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down. we see people trickle in. we have a little time. this will not be vance's first time speaking at the annual conference. he has been a regular since his senate run in 2022. his standing has elevated in that time. known as a critical voice, a key voice in helping president trump push forward some of these nominees and push forward much of the priorities, agenda that the two had run on. this conversation today will be more of a conversation, not so much a speech from the podium. the vice president is going to be speaking about the administration's successes so far in the first month under this administration. such as securing the homeland, deporting violent illegal immigrants. unleashing american energy and fueling the economy, protecting american workers and promoting domestic manufacturing and reestablishing american strength at home and abrought. other speakers will include pam bondi, energy secretary chris wright, house speaker mike

johnson and florida senator rick scott. when president trump spoke at cpac this time last year he was not yet the official nominee saying this about his eventual predecessor. >> our country is being destroyed and the only thing standing between you and its obliteration is me. >> we can now confirm that president trump will be closing out this conference with remarks on saturday. he first made remarks at cpac in 2011. saturday it will be his 13th time. >> bill: a lot to watch and we shall wait for the vice president. when it happens we'll take it live. nice to see you there at cpac. >> dana: fox news alert for you here. trump administration pulls out another sledgehammer cracking down on illegal immigration. he signed an executive order to ban federal taxpayer funding of benefits for illegal immigrants. welcome to a new hour of