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more executive orders at the white house on this friday afternoon. 73 have been signed by the president thus far. several of them aimed at bolstering doge's effort to slash government waste. big simple of that very concerned -- concerted effort. watch as elon musk was presented with a chainsaw by argentine president javier millet, who often carried one. watch this exchange. >> preston millet has a gift for me. -- president millet has a gift for me. ♪ ♪ [audience reacts] this is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. >> martha: yeah, we don't see

that everyday. so trump telling the very concept crowd after that that funding waste in the federal government is actually pretty easy. watch. >> how can you find waste in dc? it is like the walls and the roof and the floor all targets. so you can close your eyes and shoot in any direction because you can't miss that you know. so it is pretty wild. you push on things a little bit and you save billions of dollars. >> martha: you save billions of dollars. so joe scarborough at msnbc saying this is not what a lot of trump supporters thought they were going to get. watch. >> this idea that republicans, all republicans want a guide for wielding a and just slash nih budgets, slashing usaid budget.

is not what a lot of republicans voted for donald trump for. >> martha: editor kerri urbahn with a breakdown of all of the big court cases she said that we are facing here with doge privacy issues all across the country but you see the chainsaw man is not giving in is your. white house correspondent peter doocy reporting. thank you, peter. good afternoon. good afternoon, martha. if to track has proved from his doge guys that there is widespread social security fraud contaminants there is a widespread federal financial crime happening. so what do you do if you know that there is a crime happening? you report it. that is just what the president did little while ago, directly to the attorney general. >> we have one person at 360 which is changed because the country is 250.

been 110 years older than the country. you better take a look at this. now the question is, are they getting -- someone may be is getting paid. i have a feeling you are. what a convenient thing. this is so nice. >> for his parker delong musk is laughing off —-dash elon musk is laughing of complaints. >> listen to if i still some social security, i can finally buy nice things. inspectors, a very awkward moment at the white house. the president told the democratic governor janet mills of maine, no more federal funding for maine if they don't comply with the new executive order on an enactment from women's sports. >> we are the federal law. every state -- good, i will see you in court. that should be a really easy

one. and enjoy your life after governor because i don't think you will be in elected politics. >> that is very unusual here at the white house. not what we are used to seeing when governors are invited guests of the present. there are a lot of lawsuits. the attorney general, pam bondi was seated at a table with the new york governor, kathy hochul, who teaches seat. >> martha: peter coyl take it thank you very mitch fick will bring fox news live, editor kerri urbahn great to have you with us. there are so many legal issues. i want to get your thoughts on that exchange. it is very interesting to watch this play out and president trump said to the governor of vermont, good luck fighting this order that you cannot allow transgender sports that you cannot allow boys to play women's sports, you're going to lose your funding, does

that hold up? >> i think ultimately it will. the supreme court has declined to take up the issue of biological men in women's sports. but we are waiting for the decision from the supreme court and whether states can prevent -- and prohibit, rather, finding and the procedures, gender treatment for minors. i do think when they issued that decision, it is going to set the tone and it is going to signal where they will land on these other ones. it is just foolish for the governor of maine and representing the states to identify the white house in this way. the white house has a lot of power and they have grants and funding and so they are fully within their rights to seek you're not going to play ball, then we're not going to give you the money. >> martha: what is interesting is this large question which i know you have into about the power of the executive and this goes back and forth throughout the history really of the

presidency and then trump is trying to corral that power back to the white house that he is saying that he wants an energetic to executive branch that has control over who works in that branch can be hired and fired practices from the wall street journal. trump is trying to asserts control over the entire executive branch of government. his latest order imposes new white house supervision over so-called independent agencies like the security and exchange commission. this would be a constitutional watershed. explain the dynamic at play here. >> there's a lot of talk about president trump expanding the executive branch. i would argue that he is actually restoring the separation of powers because a lot of the cases and the arguments that we are seeing made by the trump administration is simply that and doge got a lot of legal wins over the last seven or eight days. and i would say why they are winning is important because the

plaintiffs who are suing trump administration, they are doing a couple of things. is why the earth failing. they are skipping over the normal process. and so in a lot of these cases, it is, an administrative appeals process. they are just ignoring that. you're going to the courts and the courts don't have proper jurisdiction because for them to interfere in some of these at this stage would be to interfere in the executive branch ability to do their job which is undercutting the separation of powers. the other category as to why these plaintiffs are feeling right now is because they are not demonstrating any harm. they are saying the sky is falling, the sky is falling. we're losing funding and all of the stuff but in order to get a temporary part of an order that you don't like, you've got to demonstrate harm. you've got to point to the fact that, look, the funding is being cut. harm has occurred. and by the way, they are breaking the law with respect to this funding, and they are not doing that. >> martha: i just can't help thinking what you're talking about that, and think about the

real estate case in new york where no one was harmed and that prosecutors filed forward anyway and we are able to get a conviction in that case. i want to ask you about this specific case because it reminds me of what elon musk was saying that no matter where he looked and pushed a little bit he was fighting just massive fraud because as it turns out that the people in charge of these agencies even people within the social security administration, whose job it is, the or land, there like, land, i'm the g'vurot discovery. and yet it is easy for this person to come in and find things that have happened. so here is what is happening at the epa but before president biden left office they pushed out $20 billion in inflation reduction act and everybody remembers, kerri, at the money did not get pushed out. he wanted it is huge built. invented inflation by the estimation of most economists

and the people who are still dealing with it. and they get pushed out. they pushed up to $2 billion to a climate group that stacey abrams oversaw. this is pretty incredible, ke kerri. >> there are a lot of question marks over this one. why did they do it? how did they get it so fast? today there was a human in massachusetts and this one is particularly crazy. the way some people intermediate and the state a.g.'s are painting discussed that the trump administration is cutting funding for public health research. one, in fact, what they are doing is capping these overhead costs. for instance, the federal government gives, sake of $100 to a university for research on parkinson's and the university says, we need $30,000 for these additional overhead costs but they don't have to delineate what those costs are. so the trip every station and

the nih said, we are going to add cap those costs at 15% piece just because these universities are making a killing on these overhead costs, and we don't even know where these are going. it looks like at least from this perspective that it seems like a pretty common sense measure to take. >> martha: yeah, it is so common sense to ask these agencies when you give them money, what is the money for? and if they ask for merck to make sure that they are getting a specific list of exactly where that money is going to go and then comes back later and says, did you spend it for what you said you were going to spend it for? i want to point out point out that this stacey abrams climate group, they had shown revenue of $100 a year before. and then they got 2 billion. >> how do you, from $100 to 2 billion? >> martha: as biden was on his way out of the door. >> does not look good. >> martha: it does not look good. kerri urbahn thank you all so

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door. obviously a lot of security surrounding this 26-year-old, accused of murdering unitedhealthcare ceo bryan thompson in cold blood. very early morning hours new york city. he appeared in court here in new york on a state murder charges and terror charges. terrorism charges, which is murder one in new york city has that terrorism element to it as well. minjee lee triggered a massive manhattan in december after he allegedly -- allegedly turning down thompson outside a hotel a block where we are here at fox news headquarters but he was arrested days later. we all remember this intense manhunt. he was recognized by a mcdonald's employee in altoona, pennsylvania. thank goodness for that person. who was watching the news and thought this guy kind of looks like the young man that they are looking for. he was an ivy league graduate who went dark in the months

before the shooting. his family lost contact with h him. correspondent alexis mcadams is live outside the courthouse here in new york where there is a ton of action this afternoon. hi, alexis. >> , there was action inside of the court room as mangione was wearing a bulletproof vest. there was more action outside of the courthouse today in new york city. i want to pull up what we're seeing right now on the streets of new york city. these are people that have been out here, some of them are based were waiting to show their support for the former ivy league grad who is now a suspected killer. they are calling on him to be set free. some say he did not do it. some say he did it, but did the right thing. asked these people, what are you out here supporting a killer? watch? if this was your dad and he was murdered because of his job, would you want him killed? >> well, if bryan thompson, if i'm honest, if bryan thompson

was my dad, i would have honestly will not care about his funeral. >> reporter: so he was wearing a bulletproof vest. he was in that courtroom, it was just a quick as he walked into there. it was only about 10 minutes that he was inside of this room that does the defense giving an update as the evidence in the case continues. mingione he is accused of killing unitedhealthcare ceo bryan thompson and the shooting was caught on camera. the ceo and dad of two, bryan thompson, was gunned down while he was in new york city for an investor's meeting. what is the motive? police believed minjee lee was met at the healthcare industry. and acchione is now speaking out for the first time since his arrest, thanking his supporters and telling them he reads every letter they send him over at gel pad and she only writing, i am overwhelmed by and grateful for everyone who has written me to share their stories and express their support. that that was posted on his legal team's website also linked to a fundraiser that now has

more than half a million dollars in it. so mingione he is looking at a long list of charges including first-degree murder and terror charges and also possibly the death penalty in that federal case. mingione he pled not guilty to the state charges. he was also having that case in pennsylvania because as you mentioned this was a while. they were looking for him all over new york city. they found him eating a burger according to police out at the mcdonald's in pennsylvania. back at here live, matt acchione is back in custody. he will be back in a court room, or rather, for his federal case next month. but there's a lot going on. it is interesting to talk to the people out here who do support him, no matter what the evidence shows. >> yet, it is mind-boggling. thank you, alexis, outside the courthouse with very interesting group of people supporting luigi mangione. we bring in defense attorney brian claypool. you hear these supporters outside this courthouse and it

really comes down to two things how strong is the evidence against this individual? let's go back because this is a few months back now and remind people what the evidence in this case is that he shot and killed bryan thompson in cold blood. >> yeah, martha, always great to see you. this case is unprecedented. what do i mean by that? they have on videotape mingione he shooting and killing in cold blood bryan thompson. he is on in the video. they have a shell casing that was found right after the gun was shot that matched this, the shell casings that were found in mingione he's possession. they have a manifesto that permits is an admission. you also have bank records that connect mingione he getting an electric bike for example like an hour before the shooting, stocking constant across the street and then killing him. so clearly in a murder case,

martha, do you have this mountain of evidence but most important, that videotape of him killing thompson. how does a defendant gets around that? >> martha: yeah, his defense attorney said this. she is building up the case that he can get a fair trial. he had this enormous perp walk and adams was there. watch this. she is a very well-known defense attorney. >> i'm very concerned about my client's right to a fair trial in this case. he is being prejudiced by statements that are being made by government officials. he was on display for everyone to see in the biggest stage perp walk i have ever seen in my career. it was absolutely unnecessary. >> martha: your thoughts on that, brian, and if someone can get themselves on this jury who is determined to hang this jury by being one of his supporters? >> what is meant for the goose is good for the gander. there's been a lot of publicity

in favor of nic cheeley. we just saw it in the reporter, everyone does some calling him humanitarian, a poster, some close to the courthouse. that benefits him so that nullifies her argument that, oh, wait a minute, eric adams showed up at a hearing. he is portrayed in a bad way. looked at the details -- a for prosecutors is what is called a notification. is when a jury decides a case based on their ideology, based on their personal experiences and beliefs. as opposed to the evidence that is going to be a challenge in this case. jury selection, martha, will be monumental in this case, probably more important than the trial itself. if i'm the prosecutor, i'm asking for what is called individual waldeyer, where you can talk to each a individually. >> yeah, that is going to be important in this case and we all remember elements of what you just discussed in the oj case that played out. brian claypool, thank you very much. >> you bet.

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>> martha: so breaking moments ago, a battle los angeles mayor karen bass says that she has removed the fire chief, kristen crowley, the move coming after the mayor claimed that she "was not aware" of severe part warnings before leaving the city of los angeles, where she went to it on a for four days. national correspondent bill melugin cha-ching all of this. >> hi, martha. there's been a whole bunch of public attention after the palisades fire broke out. it is apparently come to this

climax as you mentioned, the mayor passed and nothing a short time ago, she is firing chief crowley effective merely. we are standing by for a press conference. she did put out a statement which says in part, "we know that 5,000 firefighters that could have been on duty instead sent home on chief crowley's watch. now chief crowley and george had previously said that mayor basch's slashing of millions of dollars would reduce the department's effectiveness and ability to respond to wildfires. mayor bass on her end in recent days had been play chief crowley for not wanting wanting her excuse me about the fire risk before she left for her trip to africa. bass was at bass was at tonawanda palisades fire first broke out. she decided to leave for the trip despite repeated warnings from the national weather service about a major winter storm event approaching, creating extreme risk for wildfires and in the meantime developer beth rousseau, who ran

against mayor passed in 2022 is now reacting that -- to chief crowley's parting. he writes, it is very is putting that mayor bass has decided to fire chief kristin crowley, the decision to ignore the warnings and leave the city, it was hers alone. we're still waiting for mayor bass to have that press conference. she is running about 30 minutes late. in the meantime, the l.a. fire department says they are aware of this announcement and they have no comment in reaction to it. will wait to see what mayor bass has to say. martha, you covered it off the top. she was very well aware that there was an extreme fire risk and a wind storm coming and for some reason she is claiming that she was not aware. she even tweeted about it the day before the fire broke out. >> a question of whether or not she is passing the buck here. we know there was water supply that was not as full as it could be put to me, those efforts and work with the future needs there

in terms of making sure this is not happen again, all. issues for them. so after an all-night for obama, senate republicans passed what they are calling plan b in the effort to carry out potential partners agenda. trump has signaled that he wants the plant at the house is working on. that is the one big beautiful building he wants a huge peach of the left is -- piece of legislation that encapsulates most of everything he wants to get on. the border, military funding and trillions in tax cuts. he told brian kilmeade today that he is satisfied that the progress -- with the progress so far. watch this. >> i think it is a very good to signal, we got the one pill past. it is great unity week we have great unity in the party. the house has -- is great and the senate is great. we have fantastic unity. >> all right, let's bring in the republican senator from missouri. senator, great to have you with

us. give people a sense of what this senate bill looks like and how difficult is it going to be to match it up with the one beautiful bill and why can't there be one beautiful bill? >> well, there can be and we are rooting for that, at the house will have one big beautiful bill. but we are working together. we are trying to provide another option, which is to get some priorities moved up the line. and making sure that we have an iron dome for america. and the as far as senate republicans are concerned, we wanted to get to work. we have been very busy confirming all of president trump's nominees. we want to keep that work ethic in place to move this into forward and i was safe this. whether i served for six years or longer, i have no idea how long i will be in the united states senate. it could be that these two years are the most consequential of any of those years and i think we are approaching that with a sense of urgency.

president trump got this mandate. he won the popular vote but we need to deliver on behalf of the american people. it is an immense opportunity for us and we want to take full advantage of that picture what this is defense secretary pete hegseth on the pentagon because the fence secondary -- spreading is a very important part of this bill. watch this. >> we will come -- to the pentagon and i hope to welcome you into the pentagon bryson and his team, working in collaboration with us. there is -- there are ways to waste, redundancies and head out the need to be addressed. >> martha: senator blumenthal said 8% cut would be dramatic and deleterious and have a damaging effect. you believe there's enough waste in defense spending to make the cuts that need to be cut and make the defense department and the defense of this country better and more efficient even with cuts? >> i think he is talking about reallocation and making sure -- there are all these ridiculous d.e.i. programs that have cost hundreds of millions of dollars

of the eagles goes over the years. i think we should welcome doge to find out where that waste and fraud is. i think it is going to allow our military to be more lethal and be more prepared. so i think this is all good news. >> martha: thank you very much, senator smith. great to have you here today. still ahead, right here on this audit, clay travis and presidential envoy ric grenell, who has been at the table for these negotiations in foreign policy as we keep an eye on the what has, where we expect congress secretary howard lutnick and kash patel to be sworn in momentarily, it. afternoon. we will be right back. ♪ ♪

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to read returned yesterday that was supposed to be -- went through the bus off mother was not hers but that her two young boys were deliberately killed by their kidnappers. >> the terrorists did not shoot the two young boys. they killed them with their bare hands. after words, they committed perfect acts to cover up this atrocities. >> hamas claims the invoice died in an israeli airstrike but they say four findings show otherwise. israel -- the parties said to be that of department was an unidentified woman from gaza but hamas pointing to a possible mixup of the parties think the remains were found in an area that israel had found where others were present. benjamin netanyahu having to not rest until the front whoever was

responsible and they are brought to justice. >> who kidnaps a little boy and a baby and murders democrats monsters that is who. these hamas monsters also said if we refuse to bring back the boys mother. >> all this happening is a very fragile cease-fire agreement continues and we are expecting as many as six living hostages to be released starting tomorrow. >> martha: thank you very much for jav. reporting from landed. so clay travis and robert will on a fiery crash at the white house between president trump and the governor of maine over the battle to protect women's exports in the united states. that is next. >> the ncaa has complied immediately by the way. it is good. but i understand maine -- is maine here, the governor of maine? are you not going to comply with that? will, we are under federal law.

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>> martha: so a tense moment at the white house just a short time ago during a meeting with governors across the united states. president chuck bringing up his recent executive orders. huge moments. just a couple weeks ago. everything is happening so fast. with just a few weeks ago who could take part changed injured athletes from participating in women and girls sports in order to protect girls sports across the country and use of all the girls gathered here. riley gaines champion this. all around the president. then he called out the democrats governor of maine at it. governors meeting at the white house live this afternoon.

that is janet mills. she has been pushing back against the order. trump asked her, are you going to comply? and then this exchange. >> i'm complying with state and federal laws. >> well, we are the federal law. good, i will see you in court. that should be a real easy one. and enjoy your left after governor, because i don't think you will be in elected politics. >> martha: okay, let's bring in clay travis and robert wolf. gentlemen, thank you very much. it is good to have you here. cry, i'm just reading on the bangor daily news that they expect that the trump administration will investigate maine's department of education and a school district over policies allowing transgender students to participate in athletics and title ix investigation which bars gender-based discrimination in

schools. your thoughts as an attorney and some who follows exports and this story, very closely. >> well, first of all, this is brilliant of trump because let's just go to the actual data here, martha. either new york times last month, 79% of americans do not believe that man identifying as women should be able to compete in women's exports. that is a big number. it is hard to get the 79% of americans to agree on anything. but it is even better for trump. 60% of democrats agreed with him as you see him signing this bill 94% of republicans, two out of three democrats, he only lost maine by seven points, martha. this governor is on the wrong side politically. she is wasting taxpayer dollars to fight against trump on an issue that her stay overwhelmingly agrees with trump on. and this is the lesson i think

the democrats should be taking. they have basically decided whatever trump says, they are opposed to. the problem is trump is enacting a lot of common sense legislation that as a said 79% of americans agree on. i can't believe the democrat party perspective is as only two congressmen were willing to sign on in the house that protection of women and girls in sports act, that they believe men should be able to identify as women is a losing political issue, losing morally. trump is 100 percent right. >> martha: and president trump pointed out that he did well in maine and that he did not think that she would be reelected. based on the numbers that he pointed out, robert, let me just play this quickly from jim scarborough last night on "hannity," basically telling democrats, don't sweat some of these issues. let them go. here he is. >> i'm telling the democrats, just sit there, play possum, let

them go, let him go, let him go. phone numbers are those poll numbers are declining. the collapse is already und underway. >> martha: what do you think about the democrat strategy here, and how do you think they should handle it, robert? >> i don't agree with carl. i think trump's popularity has been pretty strong. i think it is like 90% for republicans. i think his favorability rate is in the high 40s but i think we should pick and choose our spots when we really disagree. i think being antitrust is yesterday's news and it is why he won every swing state. i think the democrats are going to stand for something and standing for something is really focused on inflation but i think we should actually help pass the reported deal and i think there's things that we could do together. i think there's a deal that could come between -- come tomorrow between dreamers and border security is part of the democrats should have passed in 2018. i think with respect to what clay is saying, i do think that this is something that the

federal government has already made its statement, the ncaa may its statement. i'm not sure this is that he'll she should be climbing. >> martha: but she is at home, at lunch with the governors at the white house. we have seen embers from i think 48% approval for preston trump. cbs last week at 53%. so that numbers remain to be holding up fairly well, robert wolf, thank you very much, to help you with us. clay travis, great to see you on this friday afternoon picture element, thank you very much. so we got some news coming up. kash patel is moments away from being sworn in as the fbi director of the united states. one of his top supporters, presidential envoy ric grenell joins that is next. ♪ ♪

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to be able to take up these defensive positions which you did on his own. he is a medal of honor recipient from world war ii he passed away in 2022. >> we had been there for two days, lost so many people. is the only flamethrower operator left i was asked could i do something about some of the... my remark was i will try. so he told me to pick for... to help me and i just said they were just marines. two of us marines. sacrificed their lives to protect mind. never knew who they were. that impacted loss is loss you have to accept

those things after a while. >> martha: sunday marks a two years since this iconic moment from the battle of iwo jima when u.s. marines raised the american flag on mount sarah bokhari. the fighting was to go on for weeks after that. clearly an important moment on the fight. we honor all of those who fought and lost their lives and all world war ii heroes for their service and heroes. many of them gathering in arlington this weekend to remember the sacrifices and to make sure that america does not forget the sacrifices of so many men and women in world war ii. kash patel, president trump's picked to lead the fbi which came after the president almost through his entire first term will now have new leadership and he will be sworn in in a moment at the white house. attorney general

pam bondi will do the honors. kash patel has promised an overhaul of the row and says he will put an end to political... senior white house correspondent peter doocy watch all of this from the north lawn for us. >> critical because when president trump talks about all these changes they are making that an early cy of the release from the education department. and to the main governor squaring up i would say see each other in court but maine is defying president trump's new executive order on boys playing and girls sports at the high school level. i have just been given there is a new title line a civil rights

investigation that the trump administration as logic against the main. specifically because this high school a school under its jurisdiction is continuing to allow at least one male student to compete and girls categories. martha? >> martha: she said we will see you in court and he made sure she would not enjoy too long. that is underway. governor mills in vermont. we have seen some dangerous situations that have happened as a result of boys playing can girls sports the laws have changed on that in the united states of america. >> and if you are the main governor and you challenge the president what you think is going to happen? >> martha: exactly. thank you very much. ♪ ♪