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i'm john roberts in washington. republican senator susan callan announcing she will not support cash patel, 1 of 4 defections will be needed to sink the defection. republicans are betting 1,000 when it comes to getting president trump's cabinet nominees across the finish line. >> sandra: fox team coverage for you starts right now, former white house white house press secretary ari fleischer is here with his reaction in moments. >> john: let's go to the senior congressional correspondent chad pergram live on capitol hill. what's the status of the cash patel vote right now? >> john, good afternoon. they are voting right now in the senate will confirm cash patel, though question is how many republicans will vote no. g.o.p. named susan collins opposes cash patel, watching lisa mnodemocrats will vote yea. they rallied at fbi headquarters this morning.

>> every republican who votes for him today needs to know that they will own those facts. >> democrats excoriated and lambasted him for wanting to prosecute senior officials including some who served in the first trump administration. >> mr. patel has left a long line of grievances, lashing out at anyone who is not completely aligned with him. he calls democrats "vindictive, evil, ambitious." repeatedly attacks republican senators who don't toe the maga line. >> expect most republicans to back patel and has the backing of the top senators. >> needs to root out politics so the fbi can enforce the law uphold the constitution, and keep americans safe.

>> now and describing her opposition to confirming patel susan collins said "mr. patel's recent profile undermines his ability to serve in the apolitical role of director of the fbi." collin says "patel's recent past is what is high-profile and aggressive political activity." and this vote has been opened just about 10 minutes or so when we think they will wrap it up probably by about 2:20 eastern time. we do expect him to be confirmed. john. >> john: all right, chad pergram keeping a close eye on what is happening in the senate. sandra. >> sandra: let's bring them former press secretary ari fleischer, thank you so much for joining a spirit so give us your thoughts. >> i think that it is remarkable the success that donald trump is having with these nominees. a polarized era where people cannot stand donald trump, the fact that republicans are staying as strongly united as

they have is rare and it is necessary. it is a remarkable thing that he is getting them all through. i thought at least one or two would be defeated. looks like he will have a perfect game. >> sandra: let's bring a martha maccallum, here with us. staying with us through the breaking news out of the white house. and now onto this senate to vote on kash patel for the fbi director following every single detail of this, martha, how do you see this playing out? >> it is pretty remarkable, number 19 and has been an extraordinary run, and i think that the new majority leader deserves a lot of credit for removing all of these through very quickly. i think it is also clear evidence that people do not want to get in the way of the new president. the returning president donald trump. and they are giving him the cabinet he wants, which is as it has been throughout the course of history very, very unusual to reject a presidential cabinet pick or any of these higher-level picks like director of the fbi. it has not happened since john

tower for the first president bush who ran into some roadblocks. but i mean, from what we heard so many in the process sandra, john, that this will be such a rocky road for so many of these individuals is very clear that kash patel has been someone that president trump trusts and has confided in over the course of his political career and wants him to shake things up at the fbi. >> sandra: it is interesting off of that white house press briefing where clearly we saw the members of president trump's team taking what is a victory lap in the first weeks of his presidency. this will be a big part of that. this is a big part of the plan that he has laid out that he needs in place to do and carry out the big promises he made to the american people. >> well, getting your people and places absolutely necessary precursor to getting your actions carried out. it is a big part of it. but nobody at the end of the day is going to remember what a vote was or if you got your people

and/or did not get your people in. they will remember what your people dead and what the president does. so the ultimate test is yet to come for the trump administration. what indeed will kash patel do? will he be able to fight crime and reduce murders throughout the united states, will he depoliticize the fbi? that's the kind of thing that people will be looking for and that he will be judged by. same across the board for all of the cabinet appointees. to his credit he has gotten them all through. as martha pointed out, that actually is traditional to get them all through. it's surprising in this polarized era, but now comes the work. can you get legislation passed it through congress? can you go beyond executive orders? what will you accomplish? that's a big test and the big next for trump. >> sandra: all great points, before we let you go i want to play out this sound of democratic senators slamming patel. this is just from this morning. >> my senate republican

colleagues are willing, willfully ignoring myriad red flags around mr. patel. >> this is someone we cannot trust. this is someone who lacks a character to do this job. someone who lacks the integrity to do this job. >> he has a "yes" man for president trump. already undermining the critical borough he wants to lead. already demonstrating an alarming willingness to do the bidding of a vengeful white house. >> sandra: and we have this photo of only five senators at our presser against kash patel. what does this say about democrats and their path forward and the message that they are sending in these early days of this presidency? >> i'm sorry, but the only reason the democrats have kash patel as the fbi director is because of the democrats. the democrats and donald trump's first term treated him the way that they did, politicizing the fbi and politicizing the justice department to take it to extremes, trying to throw

donald trump off of the ballot as a candidate for reelection. if they did not push the norms and go to the way that he went to indicting the former president trying to indict him, indicting him and trying to put them away in prison on federal charges, donald trump would not have felt the need to take this action. but when the democrats break the norms, what do they expect? so every one of those speeches they gave this morning against kash patel, they should give against themselves for an 18 years ago. if they acted with moderation and a knock on after donald trump, they would not be getting kash patel today. >> sandra: if you could standby with us, and martha, thank you so much for your patience, we will go let you get ready for "the story." if you can stand by, i want to bring one of our reporters and none of developing story we have been watching closely. john. >> john: it was a heart-wrenching moment for everyone in israel. as hamas release the bodies of four murdered hostages.

an israeli mother and/or two children who were the youngest hostages taken from israel back on october 7th 2023. greg palkot is in tel aviv. what as the reaction been in israel to this? >> well, people are saying and they are telling me that this is one of the saddest days of the entire conflict here in the region, and that is saying a lot. it has a lot to do with the bodies of three of those returned as you just noted, john. 32-year-old mother and wife bibas. the husband and father was captured and released alive earlier this month. hamas claims without evidence they were killed in an israeli air strike. for the nation, the plight and bodies the suffering of all of the hostages. another reason for the sadness today, john, the remains also

returned 83-year-old husband, father, grandfather, retired journalists and even a piece activist aiding palestinians in gaza. the day started with a another propaganda display in gaza by hamas, brought by the red cross to an idf military site for a brief service transported in a long convoy with emotional people lining the route up to the is the israeli forensic center near us here and tel aviv for a final examination. in fact, john, at the 83-year-old has now been formally identified as the israeli prime minister's office saying he was murdered by a militant group in gaza. and now declaring revenge will be taken against these murderers for his part. it is really president asking for forgiveness on behalf of israel to the hostages and their families. now, john, there are six living hostages set to be released on

saturday, four more deceased to be handed over next week, and initial talks regarding phase two of their cease-fire agreement with the promise of more hostages to be released that are just beyond and beginning to happen. but today, tonight here in israel, tel aviv and across this nation in the region, a lot of sadness, a very somber moment. back to you. >> john: with good reason. greg palkot and tel aviv, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: absolutely heart-wrenching. let's bring back ari fleischer for his reaction. >> it's barbarism. and if the world wants to see what barbarism looks like, we just saw it parading and celebrating the death of the innocence of children. and if anybody thinks there should be a two state solution that involves hamas, why would anybody on this earth want to have hamas run a state. the only solution is the elimination of hamas. the only path to peace and hope

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message planning megan hayes and gopac chairman david a billow. here's what president trump said the idea of a doge dividend on air force one. listen here. >> i love it. 20 percent to dividends so to speak for the money that we are saving by going after the waste, fraud, and abuse and all of the other things that are happening. >> we are thinking about giving 20% back to the american citizens and 20% down to pay back debt. >> john: 40%, don't know where the other 60 goes, but as stephen miller was mentioning, three things you can do, give it back to people, you said to pay down the debt or put it into the general fund, where should it go? speak of the whole purpose of doge to cut the deficit is to cut the deficit. they will need to focus on their accounting, they said $8 billion, now less than $8 million cut for doge, we shall look back to the bush checks that came out which took $100 billion to cover for people to get $300.600 per household.

so there is a lot of money to give people money back that should be paying down the deficit if donald trump is serious about balancing the budget. >> john: if you took the 55 million they clawed back so far and distributed among every million, it would be $167 per person. a lot of people that's real money, but he is saying 20%. >> think about how many guitars you could buy, john. we are really talking about is who should be spending this money? should we be allowing americans to invest it or spend it to help pay for everyday living and bring inflationary costs down? or should we allow government and have it be the priority spenders. and what the trump administration as saying, let's give it back to americans. now here's the key to all of this. it is also are we going to make sure that tax increases don't come because we don't continue the tax cuts that have been in the first trump administration. and if congress does not keep those tax cuts going, every american is going to see a tax

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day. when it comes to this criticism, should the dems park at? >> they need to be really careful with their rhetoric. this is breathless to be saying this. i don't think you can blame a plane crash on the president whether or not he is making cuts at the faa or not and whether they are justified or not is a different conversation pair this is where democrats need to be very careful and i do not think that you should so people and a fear that fly it's a safe way to travel and this is one of those times where this will hit americans and they need to understand that the government is on the side of safety and democrats are not doing that by fearmongering. >> john: and apparently throwing around rhetoric and says that there are more aircraft incidents in his first month than any other presidency, there is growing media narrative there are more now than in any other presidency than under biden. in the first month, there were 57 aviation incidents in the u.s. compared to 35 under trump. just it's bored or

irresponsible. >> certainly they don't follow the counsel of if you have nothing to say, say nothing at all. they only have bad things to say. spin on the facts on your side, shut up. >> and there is no message, a positive message to come out of the democratic party right now, so they must continue the rhetoric they are doing which is unhelpful to them and ultimately helpful to trump, people look at that and say that's silly. of course a present and is not responsible for an air crash that happens in canada. >> john: if you say something it should have the added benefit of being true. thanks, folks, thank you for hanging around. sandra. >> sandra: all right, 21 minutes past the hour and we have been watching live the senate floor as you can see that vote is ongoing for kash patel for the fbi director. we will keep watching and bringing news from the senate floor as we get it. meanwhile, a lot of talk about a promising cancer vaccine. it is advancing and medical trials, what this means for you

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g.o.p. nos a lisa murkowski of alaska and susan collins of maine. so 51-49. they did not need j.d. vance to break a tie. i should note this is only the second nominee who has gotten more than one g.o.p. no. mitch mcconnell who may be the only no on the republican side a couple of times here. you have to go back to pete hegseth who got three g.o.p. nos collins, markowski, and j.d. vance had to split the vote as the secretary. this establishes the framework for the president's domestic policy agenda as something they will get into and just the next couple of minutes. lindsey graham, the republican senator from south carolina who was the chairman of the budget committee is speaking right now and they will have what they call a vote a rama on the floor where they vote and they vote, and they vote. they will be doing this all night long as they set up this

framework for the president's budget proposal. >> john: c chad pergram for us, many nominees and the dozens. we will see how that goes. sandra. >> sandra: a groundbreaking breast cancer vaccine is getting a lot of attention as it enters the second stage of a trial. we will bring in dr. nicole saphier, and fox news contributor. dr. saphier, great to see you up. we thought of you when we saw this development because it feels like there are a lot of women that are talking about this and it's giving a lot of hope to the future of breast cancer and possibly making it not a thing. how close are we getting to this vaccine? >> well, sandra, absolutely. if you have not been diagnosed with breast cancer yourself, you certainly know someone or peripherally around do you know someone diagnosed with breast cancer. it really is that common. one in eight women get diagnosed in their lifetime and 1 percent are actually in men as well.

when it comes to breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, vaccines are certainly on the horizon, and it is getting all of us very encouraged. there are a couple of vaccines and early clinical stages right now. one specifically out of the cleveland clinic that is looking at finding a way to treat the triple negative breast cancers. that is the most aggressive form of breast cancer. it only compromises about 10-15% of all breast cancer, but it is much more aggressive and has a higher recurrence rate and a higher mortality rate when you hear people talking about those turbo cancers are the cancers in young women, it typically is these triple negative breast cancers. and when you hear people with brca1 or brca2 or other gene mutations that get aggressive mutations it's the triple breast cancer. so it's looking to do several things. can you give the vaccine to someone and i can complement the traditional treatments like chemotherapy and surgery and help treat it? can you give a vaccine after the patient has undergone all of the treatment to try to prevent it

from coming back up? and third, can you give the vaccine to high risk individuals who have not developed breast cancer yet, but try to prevent them from developing breast cancer at all? they are looking at all of these different scenarios. and the cleveland clinic vaccine trial entering stage ii in 2025, they have demonstrated in phase one trials that the vaccine at about 73% of the women it was given it did boost their immunity. it did show an immune response, which is great. phase two trials will be looking at the efficacy. how does it do to the cancer itself and how does it do in preventing the cancer from coming back or developing at all. >> sandra: when you look at the numbers, dr. saphier, to your point, if you have not gone through it yourself, you have someone in your family or friends who have, 270,000 will be diagnosed in the u.s. this year, 42,000 will die from this. specifically right now, and you can correct me if i am wrong, but my understanding is that they are testing this on women

who have the highest chances of recurrence, right? so what you are hearing from women who live with the fear of this cancer coming back, they are just counting down the minutes till this is approved and safe for them to take. >> of the women in the trial, yes, with the triple negative breast cancer it does have a higher risk of recurrence compared to some of the other types of breast cancers, and these women specifically had a more advanced form of breast cancer before undergoing treatment. so they are at an even higher risk of recurrence. so these women while it is still in very early stages and we don't know what the outcome is going to be, it does give them some peace of mind knowing that they are part of something that may help them from potentially getting or having their cancer return. and that's all we can hope for, because once you have a breast cancer diagnosis, the chance of it coming back never goes back to zero. women that live with the anxiety of it coming back every single day. >> sandra: i wanted to quote olivia munn who has very publicly gone through this paired when you get diagnosed

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>> president trump within days of taking office cut border crossings 95%. and to those few who have dared to cross are being either prosecuted or deported. they are either facing significant jail time for trafficking, smuggling, harboring, aiding, impeding, or they are being immediately removed from our soil. >> sandra: that was stephen miller celebrating a drop in border crossings as president trump forges forward with his secure borders. the new calling on agency is to take corrective action. congressman roy will share his thoughts on that. but let's get to griff jenkins reporting out of washington porous. what's been the reaction from border officials to all of this?

>> sandra, it is music to their ears, border officials have been saying that free stuff like federal benefits are a major pull factor driving illegal immigration, there should dis- incentivize that factor. now the order directs all departments and agencies to root out and cut off programs providing benefits to illegal migrants before this order of the congressional budget office estimated benefits for illegal migrants over the next ten years would include tens of billions for obamacare, medicaid, tax credits, food stamps. vice president j.d. vance speaking about this earlier today. >> so many of our issues come back to the border, because if you take 30, 40 million illegal aliens coming take medicare fraud, social security fraud, why are we taking the people social security payments and giving it to illegal aliens? we know that is happening in the united states of america today. we have got to stop it. >> the federation for american immigration reform says taxpayers spend over 180 billion

annually in the manhattan institute and estimates every new illegal immigrant cost $30,000. it also mandates and prevents welfare eligibility, if you recall in 1996 it was president clinton who signed a law to and welfare abuse. that borrowed illegal migrants from receiving a wide range of welfare immigrants, but under the biden administration after they got legally paroled into the u.s., they were qualified aliens and thus eligible for some benefits. that now is expected to end. and you can expect a legal battle coming out of the part of the order that cuts legal funds to sanctuary jurisdictions. >> sandra: think you for the update, griff jenkins, john. >> john: let's bring in texas congressman chip roy, so the move by the president to end federal grants, federal payments to people in this country illegally goes in part like this. the order directs federal departments and agencies to identify all federally funded

programs currently providing financial benefits to illegal aliens and take corrective action and ensures that federal funds to states and localities will not be used to support sanctuary policies or assist illegal immigration. the president has been encouraging people to self deport and do you think that this might encourage them to do so? >> i certainly hope so, and first of all thank you to the president and the administration for taking this important action. it's something that frankly congress should've been more on top of over the last several years. those that have been pushing to defund all of this nonsense. the president has come in and is doing that. a more important part of this executive order is to catalog the ways these benefits are flowing to those here illegally. and importantly, those who were released into the country under the parole policies or under the chnv programs, and the other programs that basically exploit the loophole to say oh, they are not here illegally. they were released into our country. but yes, they were done so by

exploiting what was never meant to be done, now it's not just places like fair, that are estimating a cost, it is the young congressional budget office that would look at $2 billion, the obamacare tax credits, medicaid, chip, and congress often says things like we need to make sure that we are going to take care of these programs in the spending cuts. they won't do it and they want to say let's make the executive orders permanent that the president has done. they have an opportunity to do that right now. congress does with the reconciliation package and what we are doing with the medicaid and all of the programs. we need to get rid of all of the money flowing here illegally as well as to the able-bodied. >> john: i hate to be a foregone conclusion, but it turns out you were reading my mind, because we prepare these graphic so the folks at home can see how much it is costing. and federal money for these

illegal aliens. this is from the congressional budget office. this totals up to $174 billion, fair, the federation for american immigration reform calculates the approximate cost to be $180 billion a year, and then the manhattan institute estimates that each new illegal alien that comes into this country cost taxpayers $135 per year. we throw around billions and trillions, but that adds up to real money. >> does add up to real money, and that same study says that people that come here after they are adults between 18-35, we the taxpayers fund about $350,000 for those individuals and benefits for the duration of their life in this country. this stuff adds up. there are real americans that are hurting that can afford a mortgage or their groceries who are struggling to pay for their health care. and here we are doling out medicaid, chip, medicare, doling

out all of these benefits that obamacare tax credits to people who came here illegally and/or were released illegally by the biden administration. but this is the important part again, when congress is debating through the budget process and reconciliation to get the deficits down, we have to attack these programs to root out all of this money flowing to illegal aliens and able-bodied americans. that program is meant for the seriously disabled are those who are most vulnerable. let's tighten all of that up and save money and fix health care for our country importantly starting with these benefits going to illegal aliens. i think we can do it, but congress has to have the backbone that only the president has shown so far. it's beyond just to finish us off year, all of the illegal aliens are most who have talked to griff jenkins, or bill melugin, they talk about the pull factor of being able to come here to the united states and get benefits and may be a job. do you think this will reduce that factor?

>> absolutely. keep in mind, and that study mentioned about $65 billion of that was federal, but 110 billion was state. we are in texas where we are taking on our schools and our law enforcement officials. if we can cut that off, that will stop the lure, and that's why it's down to 200 a day. the president is leading him a congress needs to back him up and we need to make it permanent and adopt a permanent policy reform. >> john: cross-border traffic in illegal migration is down 96% according to stephen miller at the briefing an hour ago. good to catch up with you. thanks for joining us. we appreciate it. sandra. >> sandra: a federal judge right now is weighing the fate of eric adams and his corruption charges. we will have an update after the break.

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>> john: sources tell fox news that new york governor kathy hocul is planning to add more oversight at the end battled eric adams office. this is a federal judge weighs whether to dismiss corruption charges against the mayor. here with more details, does this mean that the governor is not going to r remove eric adams from office? >> that is exactly what it means. kathy hocul not expected to use her powers of governor to remove

him from city hall. but wills seek some oversight. this from the federal judge dale considering whether to end the criminal case against him. acting deputy attorney general argued that adams fighting the charges of bribery, fraud, and foreign campaign contributions are interfering with his duties as mayor. but critics have been accusing adams and president trump of making a deal, dropping the federal charges in exchange for adams carrying out trump immigration policies. both deny that. this comes as a governor is expected to move to install an independent monitor at city hall and take other measures all wall adams is facing the charges. >> this is a subdivision of the state of new york i also have responsibilities to make sure the services are provided to a .3 million people that i also represent. i'm not concerned about that. there is a path forward to make sure we stabilize this city and its government. >> mr. mayor, can we talk about

the sanctions that the governor has. >> as you can see this afternoon, adams did not respond to shout out question from reporters while a growing number of officials are calling them to quit. he says he will not step down unless he can no longer effectively run the city. >> have i not reach a point that i believe i do not have the capacity to handle the city that i love under crises and noncrises, i would not stay in this job. >> what would you do? >> i would leave. >> you would resign? >> yes! >> expected to have a news conference in over an hour announcing the new measures, this comes by the way as the predecessor governor andrew cuomo, well, they are saying he is getting ready to challenge adams and launch his own run for new york city mayor, and has been leading the way ahead in the polls of the democratic primary, that is coming up in june, john. >> john: could be a hot election. we will be following it, sandra.

>> sandra: 9 minutes to the top of the hour, live at cpac we are looking at the energy secretary chris wright, he is now taken to the stage, now speaking they're alive, phil flynn is going to join us from his point of view, how what this administration is proceeding with the energy promises to the american people. he will join us when we return.

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the wrong priorities right so far, you know, what we see in the department of energy lose their way similar to the international agency they are no longer an energy agency they were starting to become a green energy agency trying to discourage the use of fossil fuels but that's not reality and i'm glad were moving back towards reality. >> john: so the bite and a administration kept insisting the u.s. was producing more oil than it was during the trump administration the energy information agency or administration which seemed to bare it out of attorney 24 we hit a record of 13.4 million barrels per day compared to november 2019 the trump record 12.9 billion social million barrels a day period how much more than 13.4 million barrels per day can trump pump? >> yet if you unleash american energy could be 15 or 18 millior

let's go back to that talking point win they hear that from the biden administration it drives me nuts because all of that oil was drilled in uncompleted wells and inquiries based on wells drilled before he was in office. >> sandra: already think you were jumping on fill flynn. we appreciate your time. and now we have the pleasure to bring in the energy sector chris wright fresh off of the sea pack stage welcome to you think of her joining us. >> thank you for having me thrilled to be here. >> john: sadly only a couple minutes. >> sandra: my question to you is we look back at the campaign and president trump campaign president trump said he would cut electricity bills in half within the first 12 months of taking office. is that a goal that is achievable still since you've now taken the reins of the energy department? >> the president is aggressive and he is angry at what's happened to the american consumers and he wants to drive

down prices not just electricity are heating filling your gas tank buying products he wants to drive inflation down across-the-board peer there is a low-hanging fruit we are going to reduce cost for businesses and encourage their growth and production of energy and products. so we are going to drive things down as much as we can as pat does fast as we can think you will see significant progress in the next 12 months. >> john: and mr. secretary i wanted to ask you a question about staff cuts critics say its moving too fast without giving appropriate looks at who is being cut you had a problem there at the national nuclear security administration where you cut some stuff he had to bring them back you said that was a mistake. are these cuts moving too fast? >> there is huge ownership in the bureaucracy of washington everyone has talked about changing and reforming our government but it's never happened. government just keeps growing. my department the department of

energy head count by 20% during the last administration they were against energy and their goal list of billed obstacles. so we will move aggressively and make changes. most of thank will go well but if you move aggressively he want to make big change its not going to be perfect. certainly i am one of those ones that's been reversed immediately and i'm excited about our opportunities going forward. >> sandra: mr. secretary i have five seconds today the national average is $3.16 for a gallon of gasoline. where will it be by the end of the year? >> i don't know hopefully lower. likely lower. [laughter] >> sandra: okay. hopefully we get you back on for more time as soon as you are available we'd to have you back. >> sounds great thanks for having me. >> sandra: i think you. >> john: thank you appreciate it. >> sandra: glad we got him on despite the presence on the stage thank you for joining assigned centrist. >> john: yes, it went a little longer than we expected i'