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kellyanne conway in tonight for sean. after spending the first month in office working at a record pace, the new trump administration is showing no signs of slowing down. yesterday, dodge revealed that schools across the country spent nearly $200 billion in covid relief funds on expenses that had almost no impact on students. this included egregious spending on hotel rooms at caesars palace in las vegas and an ice cream truck, according to reports. president trump is planning to take control of the us postal service. this follows years of massive financial losses. meanwhile, interior secretary doug burgum says his department is completely embracing the doj's effort. and earlier this evening, president trump signed two new memoranda one protecting american companies from overseas extortion and another restricting chinese

investments in strategic areas. here, president trump also addressed reporters in the room during the signing. take a look. >> well, we want to have a post office that works well and doesn't lose massive amounts of money. and we're thinking about doing that, and it will be a form of a merger, but it will remain the postal service. and i think it will operate a lot better than it has been over the years. it's been a 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's a merger or just using some of the very talented people that we have elsewhere, so it doesn't lose so much, it's losing a tremendous amount of money. who do you work for? >> i work for abc news, sir. who? abc news. >> no wonder. let me just tell you. let me just tell you that i have today the highest poll numbers i've ever had. i have

today the highest poll numbers of any republican president ever. we haven't even checked the democrats. but that's what i was just told. and they like the job that we're doing. one of the reasons i loved cash and wanted to put him in is because of the respect the agents had for him. i think he's going to be. i think he'll go down as the best ever at that position. >> trump continues to shake up washington, firing the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, cq brown, tonight. joining us now with reaction to another busy news day, fox news contributor kim strassel, former white house chief of staff mark meadows and former u.s. senator and ambassador scott brown. kim, you write for the wall street journal. the wall street journal has been out there talking about trump's economic agenda, his tariffs, doge, all of it. let's focus today on what the president is doing with the u.s. postal service, because so much of what doge is ferreting out are things that we suspected to be true, but didn't really have the receipts. the failures of

the u.s. postal service are right in front of us. what do you think could happen to it? and what would we do with the savings from the billions of dollars that's been lost to the u.s. postal service? if, say, the president privatizes it? well. >> there's kind of two questions here, kellyanne. one is. can he take it over and put it in? the reports say that he wants to fold it into the commerce department. i put that question in the same category of his earlier memo this week, going after independent agencies, attempting to make sure that some of these big, sprawling alphabet soup departments are finally getting some supervision from the white house instead of reporting to congress. so that's one thing. the second thing is, what do you then do with it so that it doesn't lose so much money? and one small hurdle there is that some of the post office's mission is actually spelled out in federal law, for instance, that it has to deliver the mail, that it has to do it six days a week. the merger thing

is really interesting. could you have some sort of tie up with a private company so that, in essence, the postal service is still fulfilling those missions, but doing so with a privatized entity at its side? i think there's a lot of really interesting things that we haven't really delved into that could work and be interesting and make this a better situation. >> and mark meadows, you were the final chief of staff of donald trump's first term, and i keep hearing people saying, it's so much better this time. there's a lot more space and grace for president trump to do what he wants to do. as you know, that whole last year was dominated by covid and then social unrest. but i think that the seedlings were planted then and then the four years of the disastrous biden harris record, where president trump and his team can just come in and rip out so much of those crazy programs and all the expenditures. but why don't you tell us, as chief of staff to president trump, what it was like to be on the inside when he was trying to ferret out the waste, fraud and abuse work

with congress and the departments in doing that? >> well. >> obviously, kellyanne, you and i got to see that up close and personal. i think probably the biggest thing for, for me is just the speed at which he's doing it this time. not only are the people around him actually encouraging it, but the american people are seeing it. now, part of that is, i think we have to see how bad the last four years actually were under the previous administration. but i think the other part of that is, is this is an untethered, tethered, actually, president right now, who knows that he's got a mandate from the american people to actually make a difference. you mentioned covid. covid was all consuming. but as you mentioned in your in your monologue, some of the moneys that were allocated and supposedly going for students are not going for students. they're actually going for ice cream trucks, as you pointed out. renting a ballpark

stadium, and i might add that that same school district is actually right now looking at a huge deficit and going to lay off teachers. so it shouldn't come as any surprise. but president trump is not only making a big difference, but he's making an impact on main street across america. >> indeed. and scott brown, you served in the united states senate. i hear even some republican senators are bellyaching a little bit about the speed, the volume and velocity with which president trump is working in this first month. i would say buckle up. those of us who have worked closely with him know that this is very typical. but seriously speaking, why doesn't the senate and the house have more measures in place already that make the dollars that they appropriate to so many of these agencies and crazy programs accountable? don't we want don't we want to see accountability and transparency? what's wrong with that? what would you tell your former colleagues in the senate? >> well, first of all, president trump is. >> doing an amazing. >> job and. >> he should just.

>> keep going. >> rip the. >> rip the. >> scab off. >> and get down and expose everything. >> transparency is amazing. and with. >> regard to the. >> post office. >> 2012. >> there was a. >> very serious. >> group of senators and congressmen, of which i was one, to try to fix it and save it. $9.5 billion loss this past fiscal year. it can't be sustained. and yeah, they need to do it. but they've done away with the with with the line item with the earmarks. so as a result of that, it's very difficult for congress or the senate to actually dictate where they want the money to go. so they obviously need to be a little bit more, use the scalpel and actually say, hey, this is what we want this money to go to and not be spent. and usually it goes to the agency. and then they just do with whatever they they want. and that's what we're seeing. and that's why i think it's fantastic what elon and doge is doing. and the fact that the president has the guts, finally to tear these things apart. >> i'm going to spend our remaining minute asking each of you to weigh in on a new fbi director, kash patel. i had the pleasure of working with him in the first term. he is fierce.

he is committed. he's a great patriot. and he has said today that his two major priorities are to consolidate resources and have more field agents out across the nation, and also to restore public trust in the fbi. kim, then mark, then scott. your advice to kash patel? >> well, by the way, i love that he wants to restore confidence in the fbi. one of the big problems here has just been that the prior leadership would not acknowledge its failures and just flat out say, we're sorry. we won't let it happen again. so that's a great beginning. >> absolutely. mark. >> yeah. kash is a great manager. we had the privilege of working with him in the white house. i got to see him up close and personal. my advice to him is stay true to the mission. those two points he had today were were outstanding. and make sure that what happens is the american people start to appreciate the men and women that serve in the fbi. and i think he's committed to that. and he'll do that. >> yeah. and what i say, kellyanne, is amen. you know,

there are a lot of amazing people that work for the fbi. and those aren't the folks that were dealing with the, you know, obviously, the things we all know about. so, yeah, get them out of d.c, get them out to the field offices, let them do their jobs and see how the, you know, the fbi folks on the ground actually do their jobs. i think they've lost touch. some of the senior folks lost touch with what it's like to be a field person again. >> all well said by all three of you. i talked to kash patel earlier this week, and he's very committed to making sure that not everything happens at the fbi in the beltway, and also that we know that the seventh floor of doj, when we got there in 2017, had already been weaponized against president elect and then president trump. it's very difficult to do your job when you have the people working for you already against you. so god bless kash patel and his work. kim. mark scott, thank you so much for joining us tonight. as we said, kash patel officially sworn in as fbi director by attorney general pam bondi. there are some pictures. and afterward, he wasted no time

taking the media to task. he issued a strong warning to anyone seeking to harm the united states of america. watch. >> look. >> i know the media is in here, and if you have a target that targets. >> right here. >> it's not the men and women at the fbi. you've written everything you possibly can about me that's fake, malicious, slanderous, and defamatory. keep it coming. bring it on. but leave the men and women of the fbi out of it. anyone that wishes to do harm to our way of life, and our citizens, here or abroad, will face the full wrath of the department of justice and the federal bureau of investigation. and if you seek to hide in any corner of this country or any corner of this planet, we will put on the world's largest manhunt and we will find you. we will uphold the constitution. we will uphold ourselves to the constitution. the men and women at the fbi. i have your back because you have the backs of the american people. you will have. you will be held to the same high standard. prior to

swearing in, kash patel sent a letter to fbi subordinates outlining his two major priorities for the bureau bolstering its resources and rebuilding trust with the american people. joining us now with reaction, ohio senator bernie marino. san marino is such a thrill to have you on tonight. your reaction to kash patel, and especially this matter that you and i have discussed so many times the weaponization of the fbi against president trump and many of his supporters, his family, and the goal of kash patel to restore confidence that we the people have in our largest law enforcement agency. >> well. >> kelly, and as you know, i am new to politics. i've been in the senate about a month and a half, and i had the great. >> honor of presiding. >> over the senate when. >> i was. >> able to call. >> his confirmation. kash is a great friend. >> he's going to do an amazing job. >> look what. >> makes this. >> country special. >> as. >> you know, is that the rule

of law is absolutely honored. >> joe biden. >> shredded our constitution, shredded confidence in the rule of law. president trump and kash patel are going to get it back. this is already happening. i think the morale is probably 500% higher in the last 24 hours because of kash being in the fbi. >> i totally agree, and i'm sure he cannot dodge the fbi as well in many ways. so speaking of kash patel, i was watching his swearing in earlier, senator moreno, and i'd like to reflect on some of his comments. he said, anybody who thinks the american dream is dead, take a look at me. first generation indian boy. and here i am heading up the largest law enforcement agency. and he took the reporters to task. he basically said, what you and i can also say to the media, which and sean hannity, certainly, which is you tried everything you can. you thrown everything at us, you defamed us. you've gone after our families, you've insulted us, you've insulted our boss. you tried to keep him out of the white house, put him in the big house, and here we are. and i think that kash patel

represents the greatest part of the american dream, which is resilience. and you, your story, your life story is so amazing. i want people to get to know you better. while i'm sitting in this chair tonight for sean, you're united states senator, born in columbia, not maryland, the country the youngest, the youngest of seven came here at age five as an immigrant. and here you are, a united states senator in ohio. tell us what the american dream has meant to you. >> it's meant everything to me and to my family. and the reason i'm here and the reason i'm serving this country in the united states senate is because it's my opportunity to give back to this country. what i find most ironic, kellyanne, is that president trump has been vilified as anti-immigrant, somehow doesn't like immigrants. he's racist. et cetera. all the slander that's been thrown his way, he endorsed me in the primary. he's the reason i got to the united states senate. kash patel was put in place by president trump. he has more diversity, not because he's trying to check boxes, but

because he knows that the most hardworking people who can do the job with the people who are going to get it. he sees no difference between one group or another. he just wants excellence around him. and i'm so proud to be in this, in this seat. i'm so proud to serve the people of ohio, and i'm so honored to be serving at the same time as president trump. >> you defeated sherrod brown, who had been there a long time, and is a great reminder of how much the democratic party has lost touch with union members, voters of color, young people. ohio was a state that barack obama won twice, and it is trump country now, trump country. and then i know vice president vance has been so helpful to you as well. you endorsed him in the primary after you dropped out the last time. you've been helping each other. i think it's really just a sign of the modern republican party. before you go weigh in on what we learned about all this misuse of covid spending by these schools. caesars palace in las vegas, ice cream trucks, mlb stadiums. just

nonsense. tell us, as united states senator, what you can do about that. >> look, we're going to get to the bottom of it. the american people want accountability. they want to know their tax dollars are being used to benefit americans and americans. and what the doj's effort is doing is rooting out fraud, waste and abuse. and we haven't just we've just scratched the surface. kellyanne, we've been there one and a half months. that's it. imagine we're going to find over the next 12 months, we're going to bring back confidence not only in the fbi but in the entire government. and we're going to do it at a record pace. >> senator bernie moreno of the great state of ohio, thank you so much for joining us. under secretary noem's leadership. the dhs continues to take decisive action to stop illegal immigration in an effort to ramp up deportation operations. noam signed a memo this week deputizing 600 state department officials as immigration officers. she also announced this week that she is vacating

the decision by the biden harris administration to extend temporary protected status for illegals from haiti. and according to a new report, the trump administration is replacing the acting head of ice over concerns about the pace of deportations. here are three action. former acting dhs secretary chad wolf. so, chad, you had kristi noem's job under president trump in his first term. you know what's what's at stake here? i'm really surprised to see that the pace, which tom homan just said is about 94% of border crossings down is not fast enough, and that the replacing the acting ice director, what's different now than when we were there. and i think that we got deportations down. but there's so much resistance by the system, by the establishment. what do you think is different now that's enabling the pace to go so quickly? >> well, i think. >> two things. >> primarily, the environment

is different today than it was in 2017. you've had four years of president biden's disastrous border security policy, and the american people want a change. and then two would be just the knowledge base that the trump administration has. they did it for four years. they know what works. they also know what doesn't work. and so what you've seen here, kellyanne, is, is four weeks of unprecedented action. and i see that, you know, they are moving forward on removing repatriations and deportations. doesn't appear as going as fast as they would like, but it is well ahead of obviously, where president biden was and certainly where president trump was in his first term. so i think they're off to a good start. >> temporary protected status i want our viewers to hear from you. given the fact that you're acting dhs secretary, what this is and what it is, not because people say, oh my goodness, you can't take away temporary protection from people who are persecuted or who are harmed. this was in the case of haiti. it was meant to help them many,

many years ago when they were surviving a natural disaster, for example. but it means that you are temporarily protected and don't have a right to be here otherwise. but for that extenuating circumstance. and i saw that 17 countries were in there. it's being abused. another is so can you just explain to us once and for all how it works and how it's being abused? >> well, it's absolutely being abused in the trump team knows this. look, temporary protective status is supposed to be just that temporary in nature. but what previous administrations have done, republican democrats have like has just continued to. extend and extend this designation. so for haiti, for instance, it's been going on for 15 years. and so for 15 years we're saying that the conditions have not improved any from the earthquake that they had back in 2010. and so while you had 57,000 haitians eligible for tps in 2010, you have over

520,000 eligible in 2024. and so what it tells you is there's been a misapplication of the law over the years, and this becomes a magnet for illegal immigration, because whether you're coming from haiti legally or illegally, tps still applies to you. and so it's a magnet to have folks come here illegally hoping that they'll get tps and be able to stay here. and so the trump administration has said, look, we're going back to the kind of the law. we're going to make sure that the application of the law is what's intended. it's temporary. it's not forever. and they're going to they're going to eliminate that magnet for illegal immigration as well. >> and what about secretary noem's action just this week, chad wolf, in deploying 600 folks from the state department to help with the border. >> yeah, this is great, right? this fall, this falls on the heels of authorizing dea, atf, and other law enforcement agents to help ice go out and

do their job, particularly in sanctuary cities where ice can't go to a jail setting where they they would in other cities, but they actually have to go into the neighborhoods. so while you have ice officers going in and tracking down these criminal aliens, you have other law enforcement officers making sure that they're there, watching out for those officers right there, looking behind the house or behind the facility there, making sure that no one is going to interfere with the operation. so you still have law enforcement officers, ice officers doing that immigration mission, but you're having the support of other law enforcement officers and in this case, state department officers helping them, because this is one of president trump's top priorities. and so what you see now, very different than what you saw previously, is this is a whole of government effort. and i think they're going to be very successful. >> and in the remaining seconds, we have whole of government really applies to fentanyl too. i'm so glad president trump has reintroduced that into the american lexicon. he's committed to getting fentanyl out of our country. law enforcement, interdiction,

recovery and treatment, and certainly education and prevention. with the time we have remaining, how successful can this actually be to get fentanyl to stop coming into our communities and our kids veins? >> well, look, if anyone can do it, it's president trump who continues, as you said, to put this on the forefront of one of his many priorities. you didn't hear president biden at all talk about the fentanyl crisis or his solution set to it. he almost ignored it for four years. and what president trump has done with the cartels and designated them as a foreign terrorist organization, he's going at the heart of the problem. so whether it's the human trafficking and the illegal narcotics and the fentanyl that's coming across the border, the cartels are at the heart of it. and president trump knows this and understands that. >> chad wolf, former acting dhs secretary and america first policy institute, thank you so much for all of that insight. coming up, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is calling for revenge after hamas returns the remains of a female hostage. plus, disturbing

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growing. go to shipstation to start your free trial today. >> welcome back to this special edition of hannity. the us and israel are turning up the heat on hamas, after a body sent back was not that of young mother sheri bibas. this was revealed through testing after this latest broken promise from hamas. one us official is warning hamas that they will face, quote, total annihilation. that's adam bullard. if they do not release all the hostages. and in

response, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is calling for revenge. but even worse, israeli officials say that that woman's two young children, ages four years and another only ten months old, were brutally murdered by hamas, not killed in an airstrike as hamas previously claimed. so what happens now? here to weigh in. deputy special envoy for the middle east morgan ortagus and israeli special ops veteran aaron cohen. so, morgan, you have part of the pen on this now and we are all outraged, all freedom loving, humane, moral people are outraged to think that shiri baby's body was so disfigured or she was so brutally murdered that they could not possibly have returned her. and yet we know her four year old and her ten month old babies were brutally murdered. and i'm glad we're showing pictures of them, because people should know that

this all has a consequence. adam bullard, with whom you and i had the privilege of serving in the first term. you're serving with him now? special envoy for hostages. he has called for total annihilation. if hamas doesn't come clean on this. please tell us what's happening tonight. >> well, i. >> think adam. is echoing the. >> threats of the president. >> of the united states. and we've heard. >> of course. >> mike waltz, who's the national security adviser. he said very explicitly that hamas. controlled gaza after all of this. but let's put in for context for your viewers what happened. and this is tough to hear on a friday night, but remember, on october 7th. it wasn't just hamas that came over that day. it was palestinian islamic jihad and other terrorist groups. and then the final wave that came over that day were groups of gazan civilians who took part in in the kidnapings and some of the brutal atrocities that happened that day. so we saw this young woman, you know, it has haunted me, kellyanne, for the past few nights. it's been

hard for me to sleep because i have a young daughter, and i know every jewish mom, every parent out there with young children. you just see the images of this frightened woman who went into gaza, who was dragged there with her babies, came back in coffins. and let's not forget the same civilians that were a part of coming over and bringing these people, these these israeli citizens, back to gaza. these same civilians were cheering in the images that we saw of the coffins of babies being taken back into israeli custody. so that brings me, i think, to the most important point, that you have a depraved society here, a society that has to not only be demilitarized, but has to be de-radicalized. and that's why i think president trump's comments with prime minister bibi netanyahu just a few weeks ago at the white house, the first head of state to visit the white house in trump's second term, it sent president

trump sent a very clear and strong signal about the deradicalisation that has to happen to this population. and if you didn't believe president trump a few weeks ago, look at the image of the crowd clapping and cheering as babies go back in their coffins into israel without their mother. >> so aaron cohen, i'm morgan, of course, points a very poignant and sadly true picture of the state of affairs. we'd like to hear from you. >> so here's where i'm at. >> with this. >> kellyanne, it's good to be on with you. >> hamas. >> as i see it, is the largest terror cartel in the world. we're talking about cartels these days. let's call hamas what it is a terror cartel. explain it. psychological warfare and fear are their main tool. and parading these hostage bodies, putting the wrong body in the bags, parading them around, putting them on the stage. it's designed to manipulate the media and break the grieving families in israel to spread

that fear. but here's the truth. hamas isn't a government. they never were. they put themselves in like a cartel would, and they're the world's largest terror cartel, and they've lived in luxury for years. billionaires using their own people as human shields, and they've laundered billions through fake charities, crypto scams and state sponsors. i'm going to say it. qatar and turkey, who is now housing the final leaders that we haven't killed yet. so what do you do with these criminals? you've got to dismantle them. and i agree with morgan 100%. but here you've got to cut off the cash. freeze these assets, shut down their fake charities, and sanction these enablers. then you've got to finish off the leadership. kelly and hamas leaders aren't politicians. these are war criminals. and they need to be taken out or brought before the courts. then you've got to take hamas gaza back, like she said. it's no no more terrorist state demilitarize completely, deradicalize completely and

remove hamas permanently. and qatar and turkey need to start. they need to start to be looked at more seriously. no more free pass. cut hamas off or pay the price. you just cannot negotiate with this group any more. you need to bankrupt them completely. >> and president trump and secretary of state rubio, obviously, steve witkoff and of course, mike waltz all have weighed in on this recently. vice president vance, i think everybody's of a of a singular mind here. and let us not forget the human cost of hamas terror. we just saw in this beautiful family. god rest their souls. thank you so much for joining me. coming up, stephen miller, deputy white house chief of staff, calls out the media for ignoring biden's obvious cognitive decline. and you will not believe what hollywood liberals appear to agree with stephen miller. we've got the details. as this special edition of hannity continues. stay.

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elected president. that president that appoints staff to then impose that democratic will onto the government. the threat to democracy, indeed, the existential threat to democracy is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one. what president trump is doing is he is removing federal bureaucrats who are defying democracy by failing to implement his lawful orders, which are the will of the whole american people. >> love that government. 101 lesson with stephen miller. you'll never guess who shockingly agrees with him. none other than george clooney, the liberal hollywood actor told the new york times. he believes that biden and his team covered up biden's clearly declining health, and that the media, quote, dropped the ball on trying to root out the truth. here now, with reaction, our project 21 chairman horace cooper and democratic pollster

doug schoen. doug, you don't speak for the democratic party, but i'm sure you've been around the likes of the george clooney's the elite and the effete, who really do have positions on some issues that compel them to want to be involved in politics and, and help public servants, but they just seem so tone deaf to what the rest of the country is thinking. now, what has happened in terms of hollywood's intersection with the democratic party, such that neither seems to have much going on much respect vis a vis the american people these days? >> well, kellyanne, you took the words out of my mouth. i have a lot more respect and interest in what the american people think. and their the popular will than i do for what hollywood elites, whether it be george clooney or anyone else thinks. and as to the substance of what stephen miller said, i don't think i'd put it quite the way he did. but it sure is the case that joe biden was not up to the job, shouldn't have

been there, and most assuredly shouldn't have run for reelection. i think what's gratifying is that it was ultimately the american people who got joe biden to drop out, and it was the american people who rejected the biden harris policies. so there was a democratic election. and i very much am committed to more democratic elections. whatever the result, whether my side or the other side wins. >> and, doug, all the latest polls show the democratic party is having a crisis of confidence vis a vis the american people. they're looking for a new messenger. but i would argue they don't have much of a message. what's your one, two, three advice to the democrats? >> well, first, they should agree with president trump on issues where there is no disagreement. reducing inflation, the cost of living. reducing the size and scope of government taxation. we need tax cuts and we also need border security. i'm for

bipartisan solutions on everything. we democrats can disagree on issues we do disagree on. we did that with bill clinton, and i'd make the argument to my party, rather than trying to defy the popular will, they should understand it and govern or try to govern with it and distinguish themselves where that's appropriate. not not yell, scream and create chaos where none need exist. and show up outside horace with all their silly signs about elon musk and the j6 pardons and all this other stuff they constantly want to run on, which isn't much of a message. horace cooper so this all up for us, because what george clooney is trying to do is get a pass for being complicit and being part of the cover up and the crime of allowing joe biden to stay in as president when he clearly saw him at these fundraisers, clearly knew people who were around him and didn't get to the new york times until his friend barack obama said,

please write an op ed saying joe biden should leave after that debate. but harris george clooney never says what doug schoen says, does he? that, hey, now's the time to put our muskets down and get some bipartisan action on the things that our country really needs? >> you know, there are a couple of big observations to be made about the president biden's obvious mental decline. first is that our founders gave us a first amendment, not because it's great to be a journalist. there's nothing wrong with being a journalist, but they wanted the american people to be informed, to be able to hold their government accountable. the fifth estate dropped the ball entirely because they have become cheerleaders instead of people holding those in power accountable. the second

observation is when you don't have a competent leader and instead the bureaucracy runs the place. they don't know what it means to be politically accountable. they don't run for office. they don't stand up in front of god and everybody and say, this is what we're going to do. i wrote a book called put your back in chains, which outlines the terrible policies that were put forward by the biden administration, obviously by people who didn't understand that these thoughts, these views, these regulations were hated by the american people and harmed them. the media failed us. and our system requires it requires our president to be able to implement policies, and that

those are the policies that we hold him accountable for. >> doug cooper, excellent insights. i mean, the fear of donald trump coming back is, is actually helped him get back. and the way they treated him helped him resurrect. and now he's really pulling out root and branch. so many so many of the bad programs they put in there. thank you very much. coming up, the left continues to try and obstruct president trump's executive orders, especially when it comes to keeping men out of women's sports. trump and the governor of maine got into a heated exchange today at the white house over that very issue. we've got the tape. stay with us. >> g. powers america. every da. as the leading american energy manufacturer, we've never stopped building the technologies that drive today's economy and define the future of energy. we know an abundant, independent and secure energy system starts here at home.

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other israeli hostages, including an elderly man and two toddlers who were positively identified. but the body claimed to be the children's mother. sherry bibas turned out not to be her. on friday, hamas released another body and israel has now confirmed that body is shiri bibas. the mixup caused israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to lash out at hamas, vowing revenge for what he calls a, quote, cruel and malicious violation of the already fragile ceasefire agreement. again, if you are just now joining us, six living israeli hostages, hostages, all men are being released by hamas this morning in two separate locations inside gaza. you're looking live at rafah in southern gaza, where we know at least two now are being handed over. this is part of the final set of hostages to be released as part of the first phase of the cease fire agreement between israel and hamas. now,

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>> so kayleigh, also hhs secretary, believe a couple weeks ago has he's issued vital new guidance to say that there are two genders males and females. now, there are a couple of cnn anchors who have very little chemistry and know even less about biology. they were very upset that this happened, because they say that most scientists, quote unquote, have a more expansive definition of gender. what do you say to that? >> well. >> i think this is trump's superpower, is he always gets his enemies to do exactly what he wants them to do. in the case of maine, he wants a defiant state because he wants to make an example out of that state. and based on the education department's response just this afternoon, hours after that exchange between him and governor mills, he's going to get to do just that. the education department has already launched a civil rights investigation into the state of maine. and be another part of trump's power here is he gets

his opponents to embrace fringe, radical positions that are guaranteed losers. and we say this a lot, kellyanne, but i think it's worth repeating, since the left seems incapable of pulling its head out of the sand to recognize this. this is an 80 over 20 issue. i think of even deep blue states like new mexico, for example, completely democratic controlled, has one of the most radical laws on gender ideology in the entire country. and at the independent women's forum, we just released polling this week that shows that 84% of new mexicans, including 79% of registered democrats in the state, agree that men have no place in women's sports. this is a guaranteed political loser, and it's a guaranteed legal loser as well for democrats. >> yes, these polls on men and women sports are like, is the sky blue and the grass green? yes or no? you're both on college campuses quite a bit. riley, what's going to be the state of the ncaa now? college campus sports. how does this actually play out there?

>> well, the ncaa released a new policy following president trump's executive order. president charlie baker, ncaa president charlie baker made it very clear that he was going to fall in line with this executive order. but of course, the policy that was released has glaring loopholes. it does not define sex. it does not define male and female. it resorts to things like birth certificate as how they classify sex. it still allows men onto women's teams. no matter how you read the policy, there is no oversight. there is no screening in this policy. so i believe we need to continue holding the ncaa feet to the fire. we have the ability to do it now. president trump's executive order was beautifully and thoroughly written. and i believe just in just like in the case of maine, if the ncaa would not will not comply with title nine. and with this executive order, i believe they deserve to lose federal funding as well. >> not just maine, the ncaa. so, kayleigh, president trump did better among 18 to 29 year old young men in the polls in november than any republican president since 1988. do you

think this is the kind of issue that would get more young women to vote for him? >> absolutely. and i say this as a gen-z young adult myself, this is a galvanizing issue for our generation because we've experienced the unfairness directly and we're speaking out about it. >> excellent. thank you so much, kayleigh riley, really appreciate it. stay with us. more of the special edition of hannity right after the break. >> we finally. >> beat medicare. >> he's right. he did beat medicare. he beat it to death. >> joe biden's legacy for seniors. he raided medicare, made premiums skyrocket, and drove up drug costs. worse, the biden pill penalty is already slashing the development of affordable drugs, forcing seniors to pay the price of biden's failed policy. biden broke medicare, but president trump can fix it. call congress and urge them to end the biden pill penalty. >> this is in new york. it's different out here. it's

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