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this event this hour before addressing the crowd soon after. meanwhile, six israeli hostages have been released as phase one of a fragile ceasefire comes to an end setting up an unclear future as to when phase two will soon begin. welcome to "fox news live," i'm mike emanuel. first, let's go live to national harbor, maryland, where lucas tomlinson is at the cpac conference awaiting president trump's arrival. lucas? >> reporter: good afternoon, mike. it was a friday night massacre at the pentagon after president trump sacked the u.s. military's top officer, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, air force general c.q. brown, that that's the principal military adviser to the president. he's replacing him with retired general dan cain, an f-16 driver, nearly 3,000 hours in those vipers. brown also an f-16 pilot.

a lot of pushback about this from congress. seth moulton, former marine corps infantry officer, talking about the firings in addition to general brown, the navy's top officer, also the military's top lawyers. moulton tweeting: dick today or -- dictators or wannabe kings fire those who don't believe believe with their views. it's the definition of politicizing our military, and we should expect to see loyalty oaths not to the constitution and worse coming soon. vice president j.d. vance firing back at moulton saying, quote, a little history lesson saying truman fired macarthur, obama fired mcchrystal a, banana republic according to this very thoughtful congressman, a little sarcasm can. it's not just changes in the military but also apparently with doge, encouraging elon

musked to do even more posting this morning, elon is doing a great job, but i would like to see him be a little more aggressive. remember, we have a country the save and, ultimately, to make greater than ever before. elon saying, will co -- will do, mr. president. another executive order barring illegal immigrants from receiving federal benefits, also mike speaker mike johnson telling cpac yesterday he wants billions to a pay down the national debt because it's at $36 trillion. now, you mentioned president trump's meeting with to poland's president. no doubt talk about russia's war on ukraine. that'll take a place before president trump takes the stage. here was trump yesterday about ending russia's war in ukraine. >> president putin and president

zelenskyy are going to have to get together because, you know what? we want to top killing -- stop killing millions of people. i want to get the deal done. i think we have a chance to get the deal done. i had to make sure that a russia a wanted to do it. >> reporter: or so is president trump set to address this packed cpac audience right here outside the nation's capital. he will be meeting with poland's president duda before addressing the crowd here at cpac, so we with await the president of the united states, mike. mike: lucas tomlinson leading us off hour, thanks very much. ♪ the trump administration's ramping up its fight to protect female athletes as it launches a title ix investigation into the state of maine after the president sparred with maine governor janet mills over that tate's transgender sports participation if policy. madeleine rivera is here with more.

hi, maddie. >> reporter: good afternoon. the hhs is investigating maine's department of education for potentially violating title ix. it comes after this exchange yesterday from governor mills and president trump. >> are you not going to comply with it? >> i'm complying with tate and federal laws. >> well, i'm -- we are the federal law. well, you better do it, because you're not going to get any federal funding, if you don't. and, by the way, your population even though it's somewhat liberal, a although i did very well there, your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. you better comply, otherwise you're not getting any federal funding. >> see you in court. >> reporter: maine's department of education says it's abiding by the state's human rights act which prevents discrimination-based gender identity. the trump administration argue as federal law supersedes state law. hanging in the balance is potentially about $200 million

in federal funds that maine's education department is reportedly set to receive this fiscal year with, but governor mills says there's a lot more at stake. she says this is not just about who can compete on the athletic field, this is about whether a president can force compliance with his will without regard for the i rule of law that governs our nation. we could be seeing another lawsuit filed against the trump administration in the coming days, mike. mike: maddiely very are rah live here in d.c., thanks a lot. >> reporter: you got it. ♪ mike: for more on this and the gop's push to enact a president trump's agenda, let's bring in indiana a republican governor hawke mike braun. governor, welcome. >> good to be back. mike: good to to see you. so you've been in town with the nation's governors, you're having dinner at the white house tonight. what are system of your key take peaaways after hearing from president trump in. >> by the way, i heard that real close between him and the governor from maine -- [laughter] she had to be bold to take that on that a little discussion.

i've been wanting to do in this in terms of right-sizing the federal government. talked about it along with a few other real fiscal keys in the senate, can and it's such -- conservatives in the senate, and it's the such a pleasure to see it now finally taking place. all i can tell you is if you think borrowing 30 cent on every dollar that to you spend, a lot of it right out the tailpipe, it was 20 cents back six and a half if years ago when i got here -- mike: right. >> $2 trillion you're borrowing annually, that's a bad business plan. and this, hopefully, will just be the start of it. guys line rand paul if i would put the penny if plan out there. i even put a budget on the floor if that that we could balance over ten years, a third in my own party wouldn't vote for it due to the defense end of it. if something's got to to give, because we all run efficient operations, balance our budgets across the 50 states. no other place gets by with it. and even though you're the

reserve currency, printing press is in the basement, now spending as much on defense as a we are on interest, medicare trust fund goes broke in four years. thank goodness they're shaking the system to start the taking waste and fraud out. and i guess if you're there against eliminating waste and fraud, what a does that a tell the american voter? i think the dems are way off on that. mike: president trump suggests the success of you and your fellow republican governors is tied to him. let's play it. >> it's -- we're going to to fight very hard, because the better i do, the better you do. it makes your race as a lot are easier if we keep doing well. we're going to do well. mike: what about that pitch? >> no doubt about it. medicaid, for instance, that's the program being one of two with medicare that a drives our structural deficits. that's a cost sharing between here and the states. they're borrowing money in the sense that we're depleting all these trust the funds involved

with, like, medicare and is so forth, and we're running again those 30% deficits. so if we fix it here, it's going to help the states. and, by the way, most of what we're doing in the federal government talking about education, there's a tenth amendment. the only thing that that a we were required to do is defend the country. and we don't even do that that well through a bloated defense department. i love to to see hegseth and trump talking about cutting back there. we've always a got rolled in the past because all the a democrats do the deal with the defense hawks. all of government needs the start living within its means. we set the example in the defense sec is to have. we can get -- sector. we can get the others that worship government like their growth business in line as a well, but it needs to start. mike: if as you know, president trump's keen on going after a illegal immigration. i know your state's very red, but you do have a few little liberal pockets.

how's it going in indiana? >> so i did an executive order soon after -- maybe even preceded when trump was talking about wanting to ferret out at least the worst first, people that a came in illegally and then broke the law this in an egregious fashion. again, who would be against that? i think the ones defending it are many that james carville, i think, cabinet when you're for 20% when 80% of the rest of the country is against it. so we're going to make sure that we do our share to help there. and then as we secure the border and look what's happened already, you can't get to any other issues involving illegal immigration. and the northern border needs to be secured as well. mike: governor mike braun of the great state of indiana, have fun at the white house and please come back. >> we'll do it again. mike: hamas freeing six more israeli hostages as part of the

ceasefire deal, but israel's reportedly delaying the release of hundreds of palestinian prisoner as it weighs next steps in this delicate truce. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live in tel aviv with the latest details. >> reporter: hi, mike. yeah, the last living hostages planned for release in phase one of the israel-hamas ceasefire agreement are now out. first emerging from captivity, 40-year-old tal shoham, plus 39-year-old avera, he was held after crossing into gaza ten years ago. militants putting on a propaganda display before the handover to the red cross. next, three israelis in their 20s, eliya a, omer and omer, grabbed at the music if festival on that same fateful day. all looked thinner and showed system signs of illness endured.

as well as 36-year-old hishan al-sayed having also been held captive for a decade. choppered to a hospital nearby here and reunited with close family. one of the young younger hostages say ising he fancied a burger. said to be exchanged for these after that security meeting tonight, over 600 palestinian prisoners. across israel, people celebrated amid sadness. four more deceased hostages planned to be released in the coming week, after that some 60 alive and dead will still be held by hamas. as the body of shiri bibas, the mother of two young son, symbols of the hostage horror, hard has been handed back by hamas. an unknown woman had been brought back with the children earlier. the bibas family saying today shiri was returned home.

mike, in the decisive second phase of the ceasefire if agreement, it was supposed to begin next weekend. there has been little negotiation about that. if much is at stake, many lives in the balance. back to you. mike: those hostage homecoming videos do not need any translation. greg palkot the tel aviv, thanks very much. ♪ ♪ if. mike: meanwhile, tough negotiations on the ukraine-russia warfront as president trump works to bring that conflict to an end. special envoy general keith kellogg is on his way back after a positive meetings with president zelenskyy. alex hogan is live in kyiv following the details. hello, alex. >> reporter: hi, mike. lieutenant keith kellogg left last night if after meeting with volodymyr zelenskyy, and kellogg called the ukrainian president, quote, the embattled and courageous leader of a country at war, strike a different tone

after trump called zelenskyy a dictator, and zelenskyy said trump was living in a russian disinformation bubble. following this week's diplomatic shift and u.s.st negotiations with russia -- u.s. negotiations with russia, ukraine still the country most interested in peace. >> because we want to you are is strive, we want our kids to live in a peaceful country, right? however, we know that a if it's not made right, the war will return, russia will return, and we know that we're attacked because we have been in this so-called ceasefire since 2014. look where it got us. >> reporter: ukrainians this weekend lit candles to grieve for fallen soldiers. monday will mark three years since russia's full invasion. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: every day more and more people are i dying young, very young people, children. >> translator: i think a ceasefire will happen, but the question is for how long will it last. will the war start again?

>> reporter: we're also following the deal that would involve ukraine's rare earth minerals to compensate the u.s. for its military support. sources tell fox that the ukrainians have sent that agreement back to the u.s. with some changes. so we'll continue to follow that. mike? mike: alex hogan live in kyiv, thanks a lot are. major update on the fate of the menendez brothers from the newly-elected los angeles district attorney. that story's next. ♪ ♪ are so much more than clients. they're conquerors and champions, and what matters most to them matters most to us. it's no wonder we have a 4.9 out of five client satisfaction rating. ameriprise financial.

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three separate criminal cases related to the murder of united health care ceo brian thompson. the chilling shooting of the husband and father captured on video. but supporters online and outside the courthouse believe the case is about fighting the health care try. >> i support that what he did, he put a stand on, like, fighting corrupt companies, insurance companies. >> i think that you have to also consider the deaths of all the people who died from if having their claims denied as negligent homicide at the bare minimum if not murder. >> reporter: luigi walked into friday's hearing with a bulletproof vest and winked at supporters. the hearing only lasted 10 minutes as the defense and prosecution gave an update on evidence in the case. prosecutors say they've turned over more than 800 gigabytes to to include surveillance video, police body cam footage and dna testing, but mangione if's defense attorney also shared a

series of grievances with the young saying she didn't have enough -- with the judge saying she didn't have enough access because her client is locked up in federal jail. she said mangione's right to a fair trial was being infringed upon as he sat in court shackled and handcuffed. she also claimed his constitutional rights may have been violated during police searches. but her final note came outside the courthouse with this -- if. >> but one last thing is luigi really wanted to thank the supporters for being here, ask we all appreciate it very much. thank you so much. >> reporter: so his defense attorney also said it was shocking to watch a current hbo documentary where the mayor and the nypd chief of detectives are featured talking about the evidence that she claims the defense has not seen. mangione has a previously pleaded not guilty in the state case where he faces a max if penalty of life in prison without parole. a trial date for the state case

has not yet been set, but mangione is due back in court for federal charges in mid if march. for the federal case, he could face the death penalty. mike. mike: c. be. cotton live in new york city, thanks a lot. los angeles district attorney nathan hochman is urging a judge to reject the menendez brothers' request for a new trial as he questions the credibility of the evidence. christina coleman is live with the latest. hi, christina. >> reporter: hi, mike. the defense attorney filed a petition in may of 2023 seeking a new trial for erik and lyle we 9/11 december. their -- menendez, saying it corroborates their sexual abuse claim and should be considered by the court. the lawyer says it includes a 1988 letter that erik sent to his cousin just months before the brothers killed their parents. eric said he had been sexually abused by his father. they say new evidence also includes allegations made by another man who said he had been

assaulted by their dad, sexually assaulted by their father, but yesterday los angeles county d.a. a nathan hochman if announced his office opposes the motion filed for a new trial noting his doubt on the credibility of some of this new information. he also addressed the sexual abuse claims. >> but, unfortunately, they are both unable to do so so. marta is in memory care, but she spent decades supporting lyle and erik. sadly, we lost andy shortly before his 30th birthday. and we miss him every day. both marta and andy deeply loved lyle and erik. they both believed in justice, but they also believed in second chances and forgiveness. it has been 35 years since this happened a, and we feel enough penance has been paid. it is time for them to be released and for all of us to move on and continue heal aing as a family. again, if you want to help,

please join us at justice for lyle and erik.org -- >> reporter: what you just heard and are seeing there is one of the relatives of erik and lyle menendez. at least 22 of hair a living relatives have been advocating for their release. the family, they have -- they're part of an initiative advocating to get the brothers out of jail. they released a scathing statement in response to the t.a.'s remarks. -- d.a.'s remarks. quote: we are profoundly disappointed by the remarks in which he effectively discredited the trauma they experienced. to suggest that years of abuse couldn't have led to the tragedy in 1989 is not only outrageous, but also a dangerous. abuse does not exist in a advantage saw yule, it leaves lasting scars, rewires the brain and traps victims in cycles of fear and trauma. so that is the statement9 that the family released yesterday. now, erik and lyle are, they have served pa years of -- 35 years of their life sentence so far for killing their mother and father. erik and lyle have a

resentencing hearing scheduled for next month, and based off the time they've already served, this could lead to their release. the d.a. will discuss the release of the brothers in two and a half weeks, but that that new evidence yesterday saying he the does not believes it is credible. we will see what happens next. mike? mike: we will follow it. christina coleman, thanks very much. for more on this, let's bring in fox news contributor and former nypd inspector paul mauro. paul, welcome. >> thank you. mike: so is luigi mangione was in court yesterday. the guy is charged with murder, and yet groupies turned out. what do you make of this case? >> yeah, he really seems to have become a repository for a lot of different progressive causes that appeal to certain segments of our society, particularly those who are not only anti-insurance agencies, but anti-capitalist. and so, you know, there's no shortage of groups like that

here in new york city, so it is a convenient cause for them. and so a lot of them are turning up trying to to voice support, but it works for the defense here because, remember, this is the jury pool. and is you only immediate one in order -- need one in order to hang a jury or maybe force a long, long determination as to how this thing can urn the out. and so one of these things, one of the things that's going on here undeniably is some of this is playing out in the media, regrettably. mike: mangione's attorneys expressing frustration with the justice county. let's play that. >> the department of justice has refused to allow him to be in state custody despite the fact that they've all agreed that the state court is going to go first. now, this is problematic for several reasons. number one, the federal government is still considering whether to execute luigi and considering whether to seek the

death penalty. mike: is that a legitimate concern or just desperation? >> i would argue that a it's a little bit of both because this is a very unusual circumstance. i don't recalling ever seeing the federal government coming in and going for an indictment which hasn't happened yet federally but will. they have a complaint lodged. i've never seep them do that and then say but we'll step off and, state, you can go forward. truth of the matter is you can't have two simultaneous trials. you're not going to have two things going on here. at a one point one of them is going to have to take a backseat. and if while the state case appears right now to be the one that's going to go first, i think there's a good chance that may change, and i think that the feds are going to assert their jurisdiction here. and i think you very well may see all of this go into federal court. but this defense has has a little bit of a case here in that he's being held in federal lock-up, but he's being right

now adjudicated in the state courts, excuse me. so it's a little bit of a strange situation is. it's going to get legally very thorny. there are different standards of evidence, etc., and at some point one of them is going to have to take a backseat. mike: paul hour mauro, thanks for your analysis today. >> thank you. mike: new details from the vat wan on the pope's health. that'sall- next. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ super helpful. ♪♪ [ cheering ] what are invoices? progressive makes it easy to see if you can save money with a commercial auto quote online so you can get back to all your other to-dos. absolutely not. get a quote at progressivecommercial.com.

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mike: the vatican says pope francis experienced an as pa-like respiratory crisis this morning and his condition is worse than yesterday. he remains in the hospital in critical condition, and his progress know sis, we are told, remains guarded. stephanie bennet is tracking the latest. hello, stephanie. >> reporter: hey, mike. yeah, thicks are changing i -- things are changing by the minute. earlier this morning the vatican saying he slept well and then this information within the last few minutes. the vatican said the pope's condition has worsened, his prognosis remains guarded.

they went on to say that pope francis is in critical condition, suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis this morning. he's had blood transfusions because of low platelet counts but remains alert. yesterday the medical team had a big press conference saying he is not out of danger, but his condition is not life-threatening but warned at a 88 years old, he's a percentage skill patient, and his recovery will take time. doctors have warned that the main threat would be the onset of sepsis, as of yesterday, that is, they said there was no evidence of that. in the meantime, dozens are gathering to pray outside as we speak. pope francis was admitted to the hospital on february the 14th after a case of bronchitis worsened. doctors later diagnosed the onset of knew -- knew -- pneumonia in both lungs. they have prescribed rest and antibiotics along with supplement ons general when he

needs it. millions if obviously concerned about the pope's increasingly frail health, and it's raised speculation over a possible resignation. this is what the vatican had to say yesterday. >> of course he has a condition that means one patient of 88 years old with chronic lung disease and you have some infection, it is critical. but he's fine now. >> reporter: and as you can see, things change by the minute. yesterday saying just there as you saw that he's fine now, getting this new information just now. but, again, we're going to keep our eyes close on this and see what the hours have to to come. back to you with, mike. mike: stephanie bennet reporting live, thanks very much. let's bring in dr. marc siegel. doctor, welcome. >> mike, good to be with you. mike: so, 88-year-olds old with a complex lung infection, and they're saying that he's doing worse today than he was yesterday. he's been in the hospital a

week. i realize you have not treated the appropriation i want to be fair to you, but what are your concerns as a medical professional? >> well, you said the first one, that he's 88 years old, that he doesn't likely have a lot of lung reserve. he has a history of a piece of his lung being taken out which means that he has scar aing on the lung which could make recovery a little more complicated. then the infection that he has has spread to both lungs but, of course, as the reporter just said, the good news is that it hasn't gone beyond the lungs to become sepsis. if it enters into the bloodstream, that's even more life threatening. the fact, mike, that he's had some kind of asthmatic reaction today is not unusual. if you have an extensive infection if, your lungs are react a tiff. they become reactive, and you could easily have something like that occur. you would try to treat it generally with bronco die laters. i don't know whether he would tolerate steroids and and,

obviously, i don't know whether he's been given that. but this is a very common complication in this kind of situation especially since he has underlying bronchitis and problems with the upper airways as well. i think -- i could see that he would be able to be stabilized in this situation though especially if he's on the right antibiotics and treatments. mike: when you talk about an 88-year-old patient who's been in the hospital, clearly the pope's getting world class health care, but are you concerned about him being there that long and potential for more infections and perhaps getting worse? >> and that's a really good point because hospital-borne infections tend to be more resistant, and we're having a lot of problems with that in this country and around the world right now. that's something heir going to be monitoring for closely. they've got to continually check to see what bacteria or viruses or fungi that he actually has and make paing sure that the antibiotic as cover it.

mike, they usually use broad spectrum if antibiotics in this case for exactly that reason, so i would predict if that he's probably being well covered in terms of antimicrobials. mike: considering a setback today, are you concerned about the next 24 hours, the next 48 hours? if what are you thinking, doctor? >> i'm hiking the next 12 hours because the response that you see, we're going to hear over the next several hours whether they brought him out of that or not. tata will predict where he is. they've a got to bring him back to a wayline where he's not -- baseline where he's not having those reactive air aways, and they should be able to do that very quickly. i'm looking closely at the next 12 the hours. mike: and finally, considering he's had a history of lung issues, is this not surprising to him? >> none of this is surprising to me because of the fact that his lungs are scarred from previous infection. which is a knew discuss for further infection.

this is common and he already has predisposition because of his bronchitises that he has. chronic bronchitis, got a piece of the lung missing, very, very likely that he would get pneumonia like this. it looks like they're jumping on it and really trying to bring hill -- him out of it, so i aal am not in any way ifs midwestic despite the -- pessimistic despite the complications. we're hoping and praying for him, thanks, mike. mike: amen. coming up, following president trump heading to cpac. the political package is next. >> -- so for four years i wake up every day pissed off. that changed november 5th. [applause] if -- now i wake up every day excited because i work --

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but, by and large, the president has great purview over where a lot of this money goes. now, some of this is going to be litigated -- [inaudible conversations] i'll pause whenever you want, and you can go and yell all you want, but i can't understand 10 people, let aalone 100 people at once. >> that was rich mccormack from georgia facing the wrath of his constituents over doge government cuts at a town hall this week as doge eyes more reductions. for more, let's bring in today's political panel, former george w. bush white house official ashley davis and precision strategies' vice president rich lieu chetty. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. mike: so president trump was asked about some of the pushback that we've seen in some of these red districts. let's play him. >> they like the job that that we're doing. they like the job that elon's doing. he's doing something that a lot of people wouldn't have the courage to do. we want to streamline our country, we want to streamline -- do you know why? because we want our country to survive and thrive. and and we're finding billions

and billions of dollars of waste, fraud and abuse. billions. mike: ashley, will tense town halls in safe districts get republican lawmakers' attention? >> well, i think what's happening right here that's not being reported from what i'm told is the people that are protesting are actually people that would never vote for the member of congress as a republican. mike: okay. >> and this is going to continue to be a cons rate thed effort by the democrats -- concentrated -- and i would do the same thing if i were them where they're going to start planting people around the country at these various town hall meetings. listen, the president ranker this was one of his main pillars, and he ran on cutting the federal government and all of the waste, and that's what they're doing. st the uncomfortable. people don't like it. some people don't like it, some people really like it, but it has to happen, and it's happening fast and furious, for sure. mike: rich, considering the republican majority in the house is about this big, do you expect that republicans will be carefully tracking the polling

to make a sure that they don't go too far away from people in their own districts? >> i think doge is going to go as far as republican members of congress allow it to. the images that we saw are really reminding a lot of us of the tea party summer of 2009. the problem in how doge has approached this, it has been fast and furious. they've made a lot of mistakes along the way. they laid off workers that were responsible for nuclear security, and then they reversed that once they realized what what today had done. they cut off aid to 9/11 if first responders, the heroes who ran into the twin towers on that a day, who are still dealing with health problems today, and today reversed that once they realized what they have done. they've made mistakes along the way. they've had to correct those mistakes, and i feel people in these districts, people showing up at town halls, they're not democratic plants. they're ordinary americans who are scared about what elon musk, someone who was not elected to any office in this country, is doing in pursuit of this agenda.

mike: all right. then there's an interesting comment from a texas congresswoman, a democrat, on the issue of tariffs. let's play her. >> canada has really been the one to call it out. the fact that i'm rooting for canada and mexico a lot is really wild, but they are really the ones that are speaking truth the power right now. they can see what a it is, and they were, like, we are not messing with this crazy regime from mar-a-lago and basically calling them thugs. that's' whats it is. mike: rooting for mexico and canada, ash ily? >> i think this is her more talking more anti-trump than anything. one thing you've seen since the president has gotten elected and what he's trying to do is make americans be proud that they're american again, and i just think comments like that are just not helpful. i think, obviously, she probably despises what the president's doing, and that's her reaction. mike: you're a former comms guy on the hill. is that a democrat going off script? >> i think that's a democrat speaking to the concerns of her

constituents. when i was on the hill, i was part of the team that crafted the mid if term message in 2018, and we got back to to basics. that's what democrats need to do now, focus on jobs, wages and costs. there's a new poll out this morning if from president trump's own pollster saying that the majority, 61% of swing voters in congressional districts, are worried about their own personal financial situation. we have to remember the president throughout this campaign, he promised throughout this campaign that on day one he was going to come in and lower costs so fast, it would make your head spin. he hasn't delivered on that a month if in. inflation is still too hot. the stock market is down from the day he took office. folks are waiting to see results from this administration, and democrats should be speaking to that. mike: then there's elon musk on the search for government waste. of let's play him. >> you know, waste is pretty much -- people ask how can you find waste like in d.c. i'm like, look, it's like being

in a room, you know, and there's and the floor are all targets. you're going to shoot in any direction -- [laughter] you can't miss, you know? mike: ashley, while it makes folks in d.c. nervous, does that connect with people across the country? >> yes. and you have to remember his audience. obviously, that was something that was going to to go live, but his awed a audience is a very conservative group that, obviously, the president's speaking to shortly. but he knows his audience. obviously, he had the chainsaw too which you didn't show. but we have the biggest federal government in the world, bigger than china, russia. and something needs to happen. it's not sustainable. finish and, again, it's going to be very uncomfortable, but it has to be done. mike: final word, rich? >> i think we're going to see that chainsaw in a whole lot of democratic ads this cycle. people want the government to be more efficient. of course we want that to happen. they like that the government

does things in their district. they like when it repairs roads, provides police and firefighters new resources. -- with new resources. what we've seen at town halls, people pushing back, you're going to continue to see that as long as doge keeps coming along. mike: rich, ashley, thanks very much. president trump has arrived at national harbor. there you see marine one. doge has its sights set on the irs. what that means for tax season coming up. ♪ ♪ think that's long enough. that's why our food comes in personalized portions. because a dog at a healthy weight could live a longer, happier life. i brought in ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks! —uh. —here i'll take that. [cheering] ensure max protein, 30 grams protein, 1 gram sugar and a protein blend to feed muscles up to 7 hours. ♪

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mike: we are awaiting remarks from president trump who just arrived at cpac. he is slated to speak there next hour. he's going to meet with the to polish president first, and in about a an hour or so is, we expect president trump will address a spirited crowd at the cpac convention, a place where he has always done very well over the years. there you can see the beast pulling away from marine one and heading towards the convention center there in national harbor where president trump will address the cpac convention. ♪ ♪ mike: meanwhile, president trump and elon musk's doge laying siege to the irs as it boots thousands from the federal agency. democrats warn that job cuts could lead to major tax return

delays. for more on this, let's bring in fox news contributor liz peek. liz, welcome. >> thanks, mike. hanks for having me. mike: great to have you. so so layoffs heading into tax season, at least some democrats are quite concerned about it. let's play that. >> for every dollar that's spent by the irs, they collect $12 the back -- $12 the back from the wealthiest americans who are engaging many in fraud. is so that's about as good a return on investment as anything in the history of capitalism. and he wants to undermine if it. mike: what is your assessment about cuts at the irs is, liz? >> first of all, mike, there are 83,000 people who work at the irs. they're talking about laying off maybe 5,000. excuse me. most of whom are provisional, first-year employees, so frankly, i don't think it'll

have anything to do with the irs' ability the manage if tax -- manage the tax season. as far as the comment if about return on investment, that a has been totally debunked. some people claim that there isn't even a one to one return on investment for increasing irs audits. and also a it should be noted that a great money -- many of the irs audits are actually performed on people who make under $50,000 a year with. -- $150,000 a year. the democrats committed when they pushed for an increase in the irs budget that people earning urn $400,000 would be protected. excuse me. there's no indication at all that those protections are in place, mike. so is i think, first of all, what the irs really needs is the technology upgrade. and that, of course, is part of the doge effort, is to bring new technology. some of the technologies that the irs is dependent on go back

to 1959. they're totally obsolete. so if you want more than 30% or so of your calls being actually answered by the the irs, that was of the number in 2023 even after a big boost in the budget, you really need to bring on the doge team or tech support or whatever and get some new technology in place. it isn't a question of thousands of people. mike: you made reference to doge. some people are talking about sending checks to taxpayers, others have suggested like speaker johnson that with the debt $36 trillion and growing, that's where it should the go. your thoughts. >> i think it's a terrific idea and here's why. if you get the american people on the side of doge, and nothing would do that better than sending out a check in the mail representing some of the savings to ab tax tapers -- to taxpayers that that doge has uncovered, then all of america would be

onboard with finding waste and fraud in the american federal budget. pike mike okay. >> $6 trillion, mike, is a lot of places to look for waste and fraud. mike: liz, i'm sorry, we're up against the clock -- >> i think it's a very good idea. mike: -- thanks so much for your analysis is today. that's all for this hour of "fox newsfore live." newsfore live." i'll be back tomorrow at noon eastern. i'm mike emanuel. see ya. one a day is formulated with key nutrients to support whole body health. one a day. science that matters. here's to getting better with a .. help fuel today with boost high protein, complete nutrition you need, and the flavor you love. so, here's to now... now available: boost max!