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. ♪ ♪

>> will: it is 4:00 in washington so of course that means there is a lot going on at the white house. more executive orders and the executive office today. also announcing a title ix investigation into the main department of education. dealing with the issue of boys and girls sports. and a video from inside these events we will bring them to you. 4:30 swearing-in ceremony for our new fbi director kash patel and bring that to you live when it happens. but right now i want to pick up on a story that started yesterday. a truly remarkable event taking place on a x and that is the trump teams error of diplomacy open for all of us to see completely transparent. never seen anything quite like it before. vice president j.d. vance took 2x to explain

it an open and transparent environment why he stood by president trump's russia ukraine negotiations. he took some time to respond and call out critics. it is a long thread and it does not lend itself to television. i think it is so remarkable and important i would love to walk you through it today so i hope you bear with me. quite a bit of text but worth digesting. first of the vice president wrote, as far as i can tell accusations of quote, appeasement, hinge on a few arguments. the first is a criticism that we are even talking to the russians. the president believes to conduct diplomacy you actually have to speak to people. seconds, the vice president laid out, the idea we have given the russians everything they want to. the vice president acknowledged reality. and he asked of the rest of the world to acknowledge reality. where we stand today in this war. that leads him to his third point. if we pass another aid

package to ukraine it would not mean that ukraine would suddenly roll its way to moscow. raise navalny's from the dead and installed a democratic and free leader of russia. all of these are false arguments. the vice president then addressed rug information being pumped up into the public. he wrote, on the specifics of the negotiation i'm not confirming details publicly for obvious reasons but much of what i have seen leaked out ranges from entirely bogus to missing critical information. goals for negotiation it. we will telegraph our posture to make people feel better. many of the subjective criticisms and out to pearl clutching a don't ultimately matter. criticisms of ukrainian leadership you are welcome to disagree with these critiques of trump do not bear on the war or his negotiation in the war.

there is a lot to digest. let's do so with the author of seven things you can't say about china it is senator tom cotton. good to see you here today. >> hello. >> will: you heard me lay out and i'm sure you saw some of the arguments the vice president made on exit defending the trump administration. i'm curious what you think it is remarkable for us to all see the thought process, not behind the scenes but open for everyone. when you think about the substance of what was said by vp vance? >> well i thought j.d. vance made some good points there. one point in particular as you read this news by the hour i have been working with the president now for almost 10 years going back to his first campaign and watching because the media and the democrats react to him i think it is a very fair to say you should not credit report for coming from unnamed sources the media. this other part of the negotiations.

use the present time to have the negotiations to see if he can do what he campaigned on which is ending the war. and to get in a way that advances america's interests and frankly ukraine's as well. the president has long said like president zelenskyy we want a lasting durable truce. sovereign independence for ukraine. maybe most important we want to ensure there will not be a third invasion in the future by russia of ukraine the way the last two invasions happened on the watch of the last two democratic presidents. trying to begin may take some creative thinking. i think that is what it will take to restore peace in europe. >> will: senator, what i find fascinating is that the two camps seem to have been broken into categories like follows. first there is a camp that argues perhaps

talking to the russians put certainly acknowledging the lay of the land and the war is a sense of appeasement. the other side i think is the argument being laid out by j.d. vance you have to start with acknowledging reality. this is the reality of the war today. we can't pretend that the united states pretends to shovel money into ukraine that that will all of a sudden roll back the lines that existed before the war. it seems to me, senator, reality versus a camp that is convinced you can win and push back russia and accuses everyone else of appeasement. >> you have to take into account the reality of where things stand today. it is a mess we all inherited from joe biden. it was joe biden's weakness particularly in afghanistan that tempted vladimir putin to do what he has always wanted to do which is invade ukraine and then joe biden puts he

floated around for three years and put ukraine on the back foot. it is clear now in retrospect that joe biden strategy, if you can call it that, was to those just wait until after the election. ukraine bad for world peace but that is the reality we have to account for. as far as negotiations go i would remind everyone that ronald reagan for instance sat down four times in three years. soviet dictator they exchanged over 40 letters. ronald reagan even said they developed a bond that a friendship. of course if you want to have a negotiated end to war the only other way to end it is to end it on the battlefield and that does not seem to have been have been happening anytime soon. maybe it will be shuttle diplomacy. richard nixon and henry kissinger conducted in the 1960s in the middle east but you have to have

negotiations if you won't have a fixture on the battlefield and that does not seem to be coming anytime soon. >> will: on this note senator you guys have a doctor 340 billion-dollar budget blueprint for donald trump's agenda. i want to clarify one thing in this package people have wondered whether or not it would be continued frantic of ukraine in the senate's budget proposal. >> there is not. any of these budget proposals you don't even get that many details. i think that perception may have happened because i believe the house had about $100 billion for defense are bell had $150,000,000,000.40 frankly, there is not reflecting money for ukraine but rather what we think is necessary to rebuild our military after joe biden's neglect. how many submarines we will buy or how many

bombers we will buy that will be the next step after we ride the underlying bills. our party priority in the congress rebuild military, security border, and unleash american energy production. >> will: i wanted to ask about something said the other night i found out it was fascinating. it goes on jesse watters show and it was two nights ago and she said something fascinating. that the ultimate goal of donald trump is to do away with the irs. to get rid of it. i'm curious about that smile i'm curious about your reaction. is that a realistic goal of the trump administration? >> they smile as everybody sitting down in february and thinking about their taxes i think they would be happy with that as the president goes. he wants to have an external revenue service

because of the tariff revenue we will have. no question the irs has grown too big and bloated and that is not just by inertia that is by design. they're big budgets under the divide in eire under tens thousands of irs agents. millionaires and billionaires that is to harass small businesses and hardworking americans. the administration is taking steps to roll back some of the early hires at the irs and i look forward to cutting everybody's taxes and the budget soon. less power and influence in your lives and keeping more money in your paycheck each week. >> will: sounds great. so it is doing well with the irs if that is an unaccomplished -- accomplish a vocal periods new book seven things you cannot say about china is out now. i encourage you to check that out. thank you, senator. >> thanks.

>> will: comments out of the white house just moments ago at these low ranking of howard lutnick as newcomer secretary. notably he is thinking about merging the postal service with the commerce department. we will bring that to you when we have video. a quick look at the corner of wall and brought if you can stomach it -- it. all three stock average is lower. coding the media accountable is where we go next. elon musk roll in the administration getting more criticism from the left. yesterday stephen miller he took those critics had on. >> many of the people in this room for four years of filter covered the fact that joe biden was incompetent. many people in this room have used a talking point that elon musk is not elected failed to understand how understand how government works wi. oui, oui, oui. right this way... now we're talking.

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♪ ♪ >> will: the bigger the waste of the bigger the meltdown democrats on the media still going after elon musk. pushing one of their talking points that elon musk was not elected to. white house deputy chief stephen miller in a remarkable piece of sound you are able to hear took that assertion had on her. >> it is true that many of the people in this room for four years of failed to cover the fact that joe biden was mentally incompetent and was not running the country. it is also true that many people in this room who have used this talking point that elon musk was not elected failed to understand how government works. so i'm glad for the opportunity for a brief civics lesson. a president is elected by the whole american people. what president trump is doing is he is removing

federal bureaucrats who are defining democracy by failing to implement his lawful orders which are at the well the whole american people. >> will: who better to discuss this with then somebody who used to stand at that podium. former white house press secretary who joins us now. great to see you here today. that was an edited version of what stephen miller had to say. he went on and he said look, the president is elected by the people, the president has the power to higher people to work under him. and the people who are being fired are the bureaucrats that live and work in washington regardless of administration and defied the president's democratically elected orders to. they are the threat to. the bureaucracy, not elon musk to democracy. >> he went on and my favorite part of it where he cited the article and the cause of the constitution that

oppose the unified executive theory in which everybody in the executive branch works for or reports to the president . it wasn't constitutional and front to listen to. i get such a kick out of democrats use the elon musk was not elected so he can't do these things. how many decades have the agencies been full of consulting firms whether it is the lloyd or mckenzie or you name it. these agencies have always hired outsiders to come and still full of these outsiders to come in some advice and what to do to spend money what not to spend money on so now they have the best of them all elon musk. there is nothing wrong with what elon musk is doing it is consistent with what government has been doing accept the purpose of it now has been to get rid of government not at the government. i'm all for it. >> will: you have been in washington, d.c. i am curious you have worked there you have seen this. tell me about what he is talking about. everybody watching we get it because there is

a permanent washington of bureaucrats that inhabit every department in every branch of the federal government. and like i said administration after administration. tell me about that entire class of the federal government to that in this case is so unique know we not going to execute or we will push back on and execute orders. >> first of all the environmental protection agency was very much... george w. bush you by comparison is a very mild republican to donald trump. it when george bush was in office the epa bureaucrats would regularly link to the process stories to hurt george bush's agenda because it was not the one that the bureaucrats wanted to have carried out. they defied the epa administrator. person political point on top of the administration. and they just a thought because the bureaucrats were in charge of protecting the environment they would do it the way they thought was pressed. not the way the administration told them was fast.

people at the national security council because the phone calls, classified information with foreign leaders. and now they wonder why donald trump doesn't trust them? so many of these people are getting what they are getting now because what they did to donald trump during is a first year first-term and they think they should be able to go on and do this with impunity and the press will always protect them because that is where their sources. those are their leakers. so the last thing the press wants is for those people to be fired. donald trump on high ground reshaping the bureaucracy to respond to the imperatives that the president wants to put through. if there are statutory blockades we will deal with those but he is tremendously well. >> will: that was going to be an -- my next question. you stood behind the podium you dealt directly with the media. what is their vested interest?

why are they so dedicated to protecting the bureaucracy. they used bureaucracy as the definition of the american government. the definition of america. i think they see the government is our it is not the flag it is the government that defines america. so they sit there and they defended this bureaucracy but you were making an interesting point. in part because that is the source of the information. >> there is an alliance between the media and the liberals in the bureaucracy that is because they have a like-minded view of how to improve the world to. they believe the only way to improve the world is through government action to fight climate change to addressed injustice and society. you need big government you need action you need spending you need to government to take over. there is the other philosophy and that is the private sector much better able to limit -- eliminate poverty and move people from low income to middle income and middle income to hire. that philosophy says that the government out of the way.

truck philosophy, a conservative philosophy, meat against the democratic industrial media bureaucratic complex and that has what has been running washington on autopilot for decades. the media protects those people who link to them on behalf of big government and that is what donald trump is up against. >> will: i have like one minute until we are going to have president trump in just a minute from the white house so that is about how much time we have. i'm just curious as i have you here you see this administration, you see karoline leavitt, you see pete hegseth at the fence, you see j.d. vance on the way they respond to the media and to the narrative. and they aggressively push back they don't accept premises. you guys were aggressive as well but does it feel different now. i mean it feels like a rejection it is never difference. it is never defense it is never accepting the premise. >> it is night and day

difference now. i used to stand at that podium and say i don't accept the premise of your question but the problem i had it was the only premise in town. there was no social media there was no conservative outlet there was no podcast that did not exist you only had the mainstream media. than this white house and it has been the case for 10 to 15 years this white house now has alternative media they can go to. the american people get their news from so many other sources not just the mainstream media anymore. >> will: great stuff thank you so much for being with us today. we move on now because how would not work sworn in as commerce secretary just moments ago let's listen to what he and the president had to say. >> president trump: one of the most experienced and talented business leaders of our time and amazing job on wall street and far beyond. more importantly a patriot who loves our country and has shown tremendous courage and strength throughout his career. howard began at the famed for -- fitzgerald and 23 and by the age of

29 he rose to become the president and ceo. and one of the hardest firms on wall street. much like myself howard should not be here today september 11th 2001 his company was at its absolute height doing unbelievable dominating wall street with stocks and bonds and training from its headquarters on the hundred first to the 105th floor. the world trade center, the north tower of the world trade center. and every day howard got up and went to work early. he would always go in and go to work early and he would be there 6:00 in the morning. as you know they hit was around 8:45 or something like that so he would have been there almost every day because his wife was a very angry at him. because he would not deliver his child to school. she said you never take two is the child let me

see who is the child. you saved your father's life it. you saved your father's life. should hold that against you will leave him more than the other kids, right? so he took he took what is your first name. kyle. he took hyo- congratulations. and i stop. but he took kyle one day to school after years he finally said okay i will do with and that is the only time. so he was actually riding down the west side highway and saw the plane hit and amazing the rest is history. your brother was in there as well, raid? just terrible. a big story and every single cantor fitzgerald's employee at work that day lost their lives which is almost 100% of the company. and howard lost more than 650 friends because they were all friends at a really well unified it just highly respected company a lot of talent in that company.

but the employees loved ones including his brother and best friend and most people would have been defeated. they would have probably gone on to not too much. but howard rebuilt the company step by step and does he did it he gave a tremendous amount of the prophets and other things it to the families of his colleagues who were killed in the world trade center on that horrible day. and it showed some think about how word that is really incredible periods resilience very few people could have done even thought of doing it but his resilience and tenacity earned him the respect and admiration of everybody in the financial world but more importantly howard understands from personal experience while we put america first. we love our families we love our fellow citizens we love our country so much. he really loves his country. i would not have done it if i did not think so. so many friends in new york and wall street and elsewhere.

he has just really he is a relationship person. and they are always the best and he is the best at it. a secretary of commerce howard will work tirelessly to protect our workers and our wealth and our economy into the strongest in the history of the world to. he rebuilt the company it actually became much bigger and much stronger than the original company which is almost impossible to do. it became hotter than even the original fitzgerald. but he will be unmatched as an emissary working to get jobs and his favorite word i will move him down to fourth favorite. firsters family got not necessarily that order by the way. put god first. you know why? because we don't want to take any chances that is why. i did that once i said i put tariff as my favorite word. the fake news went out they really got i will

tell you they said what about god, family, relationship a couple words. i said you are right. so i made it now my fourth favorite word and i think our you will go along with me number 4. he really understand something about business and we have been called by so many companies. apple going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the country because of what we are doing. many, many companies too many to even mention. they are coming roaring back in to this country. and it will take maybe a little time but not that much time. see things you have never seen before and the level you have never seen before and w word will lead to that judge and help oversee the tariff and trade agenda along with many other things. we will soon impose reciprocal tariffs because that means they charge us we charge them. very simple our country such as india or china

or any of them whatever they charge we want to be fair. reciprocal meaning they charge us and we charge them. getting ready to do it until covid-19 had. the greatest economy and the history of the world and we were just getting started. the tariff going to be very interesting. i think you will see jobs and money flowing into the country like never has been seen before this week. reduce inflation unlace energy bring down costs bring back manufacturing. bring back roads and innovation. flourished and opportunity to skyrocket we will skyrocket like people have not seen it. it is going to be a really big think i would not feel the same confidence if i did not have this man on my left. even though he spent a little bit of his time in life as a democrat from new york i am okay with it because i knew what he was doing in his democrat days and that is okay. i just want to say that he is going to help very

strongly make america wildly again make america great again and nobody that can do the job better so mr. secretary of commerce, i welcome you aboard. there is nothing you can do so because this. no deal you can do that is bigger. go back in to business because it seems like small potatoes. no matter how big it is including cantor fitzgerald is all small potatoes compared to what we are doing right now. thank you very much and thank you very much in particular. >> first i would like to thank you, president trump. it is the greatest honor to work for you to be with you to carry your name your leadership and you were flagged throughout the world to. the press has no idea who the gentleman to my

left is. they portray him and all sorts of ways but i know him as the smartest, most thoughtful, and most intuitive person i have ever met. and it is a really it is amazing to be in this room and to work for him i have to my right to my friend j.d. vance who was kind enough even to introduce me to the senate and you gave me the greatest compliment he called me a good duty. so i haven't really the most wonderful family i have my wife alice and we have been married for 30 years. and i was when i come home because i come home late at night i walk in the door and i yelled hello, greatest wife. she is an amazing girl. my four children kyle, will you know has saved my life so you know this will cost me dearly. my son brandon, my daughter casey, my son ryan, and my sister edie, my two brothers an end rick, my sister

latvia. this is as beautiful a day as you can have. the opportunity that they trump administration will bring to america is so extraordinary people think the golden age is a statement. it is like saying maga make america great again this is the greatest country on earth. it is such a great country that we can take care of our citizens and give them the social security. take care of everyone and give them their medicaid but we are going to get rid of so much waste, fraud, and abuse. we want to hurt anybody but we will get rid of it and then we are going to grow this economy in a way that people have never seen and under the trump administration my goal, and i'm happy to were it on my shoulders, as we will balance the budget of united states of america. because donald trump understands global business. it is the first time you put in that chair at the

greatest businessman in the united states of america. i just for one have to tell you i cannot be more proud to serve my great friend and the greatest president in america donald j trump. [applause] >> so now we get to swear how word in. we need the actual sign of commission first. mr. president? signed the commission first. [laughter] i can't swear him in until you signed the commission. yes, sir. >> president trump: your ready. or you share? last time you can change your mind. >> this room look so beautiful. >> president trump: it does. how do you like the new

look? the desk is a different desk it is 1 of 7 but the resolute desk is being renovated and refurbished after many, many years of service. it will be back in four weeks. in case anybody missed it. a lot of people do. okay, how word. you're in. [applause] [applause] >> now, come next to your beautiful wife and your beautiful family here put your hand on the bible raise your right hand and repeat after me. i howard lutnick. >> i howard lutnick. >> do solemnly swear. >> do solemnly swear. >> i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. >> i will support and defend the constitution

of the united states. >> against all enemies foreign and domestic. >> that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. >> that i will bear truth, faith, and allegiance to the same. >> that i take this obligation freely. >> i will take this obligation freely. >> without a and any mental reservation. >> without any mental reservation. >> or purpose of evasion. and i will well and faithfully discharge. >> i will well and faithfully discharge. >> the duties of the office of which i'm about to enter. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. secretary. [applause] >> there are reports that you are considering emerging the united states united states postal service with the commerce department. can you elaborate on something? >> president trump: we want to have a post office that works

well and doesn't lose massive amounts of money. and we are thinking about doing that and it will be a form of the merger. it will remain the postal service. i think it will operate a lot better than it has been over the years. just a tremendous loser for this country tremendous amounts of money are being lost and we think we can do something that will be very good. and keep it a very similar way but whether it is a merger or just using some of the very talented people that we have elsewhere so it does not lose so much it is losing a tremendous amount of money. >> members of congress and read it districts... pushback and town halls. the immigration and the economy. but these... say they are angry and frustrated they don't like the work of elon musk and these other actions. when you say to that? >> president trump: how do you work for? >> abc news. >> president trump: no wonder.

let me just tell you that i have today the highest phone numbers i have ever had. and today the highest phone numbers of any republican president ever. we haven't even checked the democrats but that is what i was just told to. and they like the job we are doing. they like the job that elon musk is doing he is doing something a lot of people will not have the courage to do. we want to streamline our country want to streamline because we want our country to survive and thrive. and we are finding billions and billions of dollars of waste, fraud and abuse billions numbers like you would never believe and we haven't even started yet. people are thrilled to. they can even believe it is happening. waste, fraud, and abuse is at a level that nobody has ever seen it. a level and all you have to do is look at the social security look at some of the things look at the way the money is going look at the

attorney general looking at the something environmental protection. $20 billion. and it is out. i think the people are very happy yes. >> can i ask you about this week the secretary has spent four hours with the european union of trade representative it. european union has signaled they will lower tariffs through a trade deal with the united states. >> president trump: the european union wants to come back they have treated us very badly on the european union wants to lower their tariffs because paying a fortune interest we could not tell our phone there are products there they would not take anything now all of a sudden they are being very nice. very low levels they want to bring their car which was extremely high at the 2.5% which is what we charge. that is reciprocal. i think it is a big start on that right

direction with the european union. >> president zelenskyy of ukraine... do you think president putin of russia is also a dictator? >> president trump: i think president putin and president zelenskyy will get together because you know what? we want to stop killing ink -- killing of millions of people. you saw the pictures i saw the battlefield from satellite. soldiers are being killed by the thousands. as we speak they are being killed. that is why i want to see a cease-fire and i want to get the deal done. a chance to get the deal done. russia wanted to do it. would never have happened if i was president but it did happen. so i got stuck with it and i want to stop people from being killed. it does not affect the united states very much it is on the other side of the ocean. it does affect europe. we are in for

300 million they are in for 100 billion. and you know europe is also doing it in the form of a loan it. but i didn't just give the money there was no loan there was no security there was no anything. so we will either sign or there will be a lot of problems with them. getting security because we have to do that we are spending treasure they are spending their blood to. and very brave in every way you can imagine. but we are spent the car treasure on some on a country that is very far away. and it is okay. but we have to be treated the same as europe is being treated. europe gets their money back europe is basically giving the think because they get it back to the form of a loan and it is a guarantee a loan to. we don't get our money back and we are losing i mean we don't want to do that anymore so we are signing an agreement hopefully in the next fairly short period of time that will assure us that we will get four or $500 billion back. 300 billion. no one under thing --

one other thing. we think it has to equalize. it has a big effect in europe because we have a big beautiful ocean in between her. but it does affect and divide and should never have gotten us into this mess. we had an incompetent president to got us into a mess but we will get you out of it. the same thing in the middle east we will have some good news in the middle east. what happened yesterday the site of those babies was not acceptable. nobody has seen anything like it. you were going to moscow on may ninth. >> president trump: no. i'm not. >> could ask you why kash patel is going to be sworn and soon as your fbi director talked with about your reaction to him getting sworn in and the fact that many agents across the country are concerned that they will be fired en masse for simply doing their jobs.

>> president trump: i think the agents are very happy about kash i think the agents led the charge. one of the reasons i ft kash and want to put them in is because of the respect the agents had for him. i think he will go down as the best ever at that position and it turned out very easy to get approved. turned out to be very smooth. i don't know if you will be the room very shortly. saying the right things. [applause] i can't speak badly about him i better be careful. i will say this about kash and howard understands this one of the reasons i wanted him is because the agents love the sky. they respect this guy and this is what they wanted to. even somebody like... who is a very good guide but don't don't as somewhat as a moderate person he came out and

he came out with a statement that was so incredible he said kash is an incredible person people don't realize it. when he said that there was no doubt left. somebody that is respected and on the moderate side. and i will tell you i think kash will go down as may be the best ever when it is all said and done. thank you. >> can you speak a little bit more about your meeting with tim cook you said he was going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars specific projects he sparked -- spoke about? >> president trump: start building and he does not want to pay tariffs. and he will start building. with very big numbers you have to speak to him i assume they will announce it at some point you saw yesterday i met with him at length and the appaloosa coming here with tremendous dollars. they will be spending a lot of money in the united states more than they have ever spent by a factor of probably 10. >> reporting that...

digital service taxes? >> president trump: what are you doing? reading? can you say it without having to read it? >> my question. sure. reporting your acceptance to sign tariffs on taxes is there any idea how high you might go. >> president trump: we woke up -- keep doing their digital what other countries is doing us is terrible with digital so we will be announcing signing it may be today. >> what you put the secretary in charge of the postal service? >> president trump: good business instinct which is what we need and he will be looking at that and we think we can turn it around. but it is the postal service. leading the postal service. but losing so much money with the postal service and we don't want to lose that kind of buddies of the check -- the secretary and some others you had that kind of talent will be looking at.

>> how close are you to striking a... >> president trump: i think we are pretty clothes. i think they wanted we feel good about it. it is significant that its a big deal. but they wanted and it keeps us in the country and they are very happy about it. we get our money back. they should have been signed by biden but biden didn't know too much about what he was doing. the war should never have happened number 1. when it did happen it could have been settled the first week or two weeks after that it got bad. it should have been settled and it could have been settled very easily at the beginning. now it is tough to get it settled. >> germany. >> president trump: germany i wish them luck. we got our own problems.

>> will: you just saw a president trump at the swearing-in ceremony for commerce secretary howard lutnick and making a lot of news on the russia ukraine war. he said to putin and zelenskyy need to work together and that we are getting closer to signing a mineral steel with ukraine and that he is not going to moscow on may ninth refuting reports. and as mentioned earlier thinking about merging the postal service with the commerce department. lisa boothe and fox news digital columnist david marcus here to turn me now. a look to both of you. with us into the president. >> hello. >> will: hello how are you, lisa? one of the smartest and most intuitive men he had ever met. howard lutnick said j.d. vance called him a good dude. highest of compliments. it is a high compliment, is it not?

>> absolutely. i'm watching this every day and i have spent a lot of time last month on the road in north carolina. i cannot stress enough the importance of this radical transparency. letting the zone yes, it leaves the democrats flat-footed. they don't know what to do they are confused. what trump the administration have managed to do is to get out there and say here is what we are actually doing before the democrats were able to mislead and scare the american people, most of the time they have been able to do that it is incredibly effective and i think that is what you see the president as popular as he is right now. >> will: a really good point you could do all of the stuff of the cover of darkness you could do it without anybody seeing they are watching you and then taking questions afterwards about it. it is radically transparent. lisa, one of the things that let an excited newcomer secretary howard lutnick said, he made it his biggest priority he said we will

balance the budget i will take it as my personal project to balance the budget. >> i want to go down on the record i don't want to be considered a good dude as a woman. >> will: i don't know what the female equivalent of that complement us. it is a high compliment i don't know what the female equivalent of a good dude's. >> especially now that we are past of the transgender stuff. we are sticking to men are men women are women. and i think the reason why they might get that done with a balanced budget as we finally have an administration that has the will to do it right. they have the will to reduce spending they have the will to reform government. previously was so much at republicans they talk about cutting spending but it is like we have to protect this program. we can't cut that. there are no sacred cows when it comes to spending or even cutting potential whole

agencies. i think what president trump is doing particularly with howard lutnick being confirmed and sworn in here he is surrounding himself with tough and competent individuals are. he had to rebuild after 9/11. this is a billionaire businessman from donald trump with a shared mission on things like the golden age of america rebuilding the economy and another positive aspect to this you look at the record pace that has been noted these confirmations and look at senator john thune doing these questions how can he wrangle a 53 seat majority? how what we do in this new world? obviously he is doing great. good news for the trump administration considering we are running up into the clock. >> will: something that stood out to me i will go to you first on this, lisa. a question from the press you said here is

the question to president trump. you said zelenskyy is a dictator. do you think vladimir putin is a dictator? you will notice in the answer that donald trump did not answer the question. and it struck me. so the reason why in my estimation of what is going on is that donald trump knows that vladimir putin is a necessary to negotiating a peace process and the best way to go about that negotiation is not to insult vladimir putin here at the outset. you could ask therefore why would you do that to zelenskyy? because he is not as integral to the peace discussions because this is a whole western contingent of people but you can start negotiation, i would think, taking the press as fate whether or not you think of him as a dictator by and talked to kim if you are pursuing peace. >> i think that is right. i think president trump looks of the world from a realistic standpoint. he does not have rose-coloured glasses when he looks at the world to. he sees all these

different pieces and i think he is looking at this were in ukraine and this war in europe and he is asking himself is this winnable for ukraine to. this is a point a lot of people have been making from the onset of the war and the amount of money we have invested we have given ukraine when you look at the fact that russia just has more people they have a larger army as well they have more resources and more people to lay down on the battlefield. the question is is this war even winnable for ukraine. and then if it is not what is the point of all of this. and he also made the point that this would not have happened if he had been in office under the biden administration and that is the case. we sought russia infested in crimea under president obama and now invaded ukraine again under biden. >> will: david, in the corner of our seat -- screen we can see the audience is watching the swearing-in ceremony which maybe sin for kash patel who just walked into the room. i want to get your reaction, david,

donald trump that he may be the best fbi director ever. >> 10 minutes after donald trump announced kash patel i got on the phone with my editor and i said greg we will trash the skype a look at the fbi. >> will: if i could interrupt you. we will drop in a listening to the swearing-in ceremony with kash patel and pam bondi. >> i solemnly swear. >> i solemnly swear. >> i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. >> against all enemies foreign and domestic. >> against all enemies foreign and domestic. >> truth and allegiance to the... >> truth and allegiance to the same. >> i... obligation freely. >> freely.

>> without any... representation or purpose... and well and faithfully. >> and well and faithfully. >> discharge the duty of the office of... >> discharge duty of the officer... >> so help me god. >> so help me god. [applause] [applause] >> first and foremost we were just with president trump and i want to thank him i know he is not here in the room right now but what a ride we have been on what courageous warrior and leader he has been. and the faith and trust he is put in me to lead the fbi is the greatest

honor i will ever have in my life. and to general bondi that sounds pretty freaking cool. pam, you are my sister, my mentor, my friend, my boss, and the confidence you have placed in me i would never violate that trust. the men and women of the fbi under your leadership through... constitution. so thank you for trusting me. [applause] this is f crazy. you don't get here alone i'm here because of god i'm here because of my family i'm here because of my friends. you are literally in this room because you made it happen. my sister nissan, my nephew flew in from london just to be here, my beautiful girlfriend alexis is here.

my aunts and uncles are here they have come from all over the country. i am living the american dream. i think anybody who thinks the american dream is dead look right here. first-generation indian kid who was about to leave the law enforcement community of the greatest nation on god's green earth. that can't happen anywhere else. to the senators and the men and women of the united states house of representatives you have placed an enormous trust in me and enormous leap of faith. one that i did not know i could possibly earn back but i will spend every second of this job doing so. the fact to place the confidence you did in me has inspired me to reach new heights at this job. i promise you the following there will be accountability within the fbi and outside the fbi and we will do it

with rigourous constitutional oversight starting this weekend. this is great. we all used to live in the same freaking house. i don't have any prepared remarks i wish i could go around the room and you know tell the story about how each and every one if you have magically touched my life to put me in this position. what a roller coaster ride it has been. i do know this we are in this room together because you guys have a love of country that is truly inspirational. it leads everywhere we go. you look around this room you sea civil servants you see warriors, you see attorneys, you see great husbands and fathers and mothers and wives and we are fighting for the same thing. our children this guy. there is no greater mission. i wish i had more words to thank every single

one of you. a look at every single one of you you look at stories you can't tell. more importantly the ones you can do. pam and i were just talking in the back like do you believe this? first administration together now we are here she is attorney general and director of the fbi. this is insane. i don't really fully believe it yet. i hope to but. i'm just not here without you guys. look at another media as an here and if you have a target the target is right here. it is not the men and women at the fbi. you have written everything you possibly can about me that is fake, malicious, slanderous, inflammatory, keep it coming and forget on believe the men and woman of the fbi out of

it. they deserve better. [applause] if you think there will be a two-tier system of justice not with attorney general bondi. singular justice for all americans on there will be accountability. on the reason that this motion is so important is simply the following. 100,000 people last year ... 100,000 people died of ccp fentanyl overdosed on heroin. 17,000 homicides, violent crime is out of control. we cannot have the united states of america where that is acceptable. where somebody dies every 30 minutes. or somebody ods every seven, or somebody is... every six. that cannot be allowed to continue. and it will not be allowed to continue. our national security mission is equally important. anybody that wishes to

do harm to our way of life and our citizens here or abroad while the face the full wrath of the department of justice on the federal bureau of investigation. and if you seek to hide in any quarter of this country or any corner of this planet we will put on the world's largest manhunt and we will find you and we will decide your end state, not you. we will uphold the constitution, we will upload ourselves to the constitution. the men and woman at the fbi i have your back because you have the backs of the american people. you will be held to the same high standard. any deviation from that standard will not be tolerated at this federal bureau of investigation. the man and woman of the fbi to make us safe. deserve better. >> will: thanks for joining us we get to the heart of the matter from the heart of america. we now turn you over to "the five". >> hello,