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♪ if. ♪ charlie: the 7 a.m. hour of "fox & friends" weekend starting with this: all eyes on the vatican this morning where pope francis remains in critical condition. of we have the latest. rachel: plus, the white house says we could see a peace deal between ukraine and russia as soon as this week. trump eyes a meeting with two of europe's most powerful leaders. conservative and, of course, wrapped up a phone call right there with the leader of canada. meantime, elon musk is giving federal workers a weekend ultimatum. you have to explain what you accomplished last week or quit. the second hour of "fox & friends" weekend starts right now. [no audio] rachel: good morning. we're going to start off this 7:00 hour with a fox news alert are. the vatican updating us on pope

francis' health this morning saying he had a restful night, but he remains in critical condition after a suffering a respiratory crisis on saturday. kevin: correspondent stephanie bennett live in london with the latest. hi, stephanie. >> reporter: yeah, i think everybody is taking this hour by hour at the moment. last night's statement, the vatican said that pope francis has -- his health was deteriorating over that a last 24 hours and, again, his health is in critical condition. but they said the pope is not out of danger and experienced an asthma a-like respiratory crisis of prolonged intensity which required the administration of high now oxygen is. they also ahe needed blood transfusions because of a low platelet count associated with anemia, but he remains alert and and at the moment the prognosis remains guarded. the vatican said he had a tranquil night as the pope rested. of course, he will not be

leading sub prayer -- sunday prayers fact second week in a row, but instead pope francis asked people to pray for him. and he also wanted to thank doctors, health care workers and those sending messages from around the world. pope francis is was admitted to the hospital back on february 14th diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs along with bacterial, viral and fun gal -- gunningal infections -- fungal infections. the pope lost part of one lung as a young man and has suffered from pneumonia in the past. doctors have warned the main threat would be the onset of sepsis, but as a of friday's update, they have said there's no evidence of that. this morning the bishop said they should make prayers for francis stronger and more intense, and if tonight there will also be a special mass for sunday evening to pray for the pope as well. now, doctors is have repeatedly said that at 88 years old he is a very fragile patient. again, taking things hour by

hour. and later today we should be getting a further update. back to you guys. charlie: thank you, stephanie. kevin: thank you, stephanie. i've covered stories like this, we all have have, over the years and you never want to overspeculate. but i think sometimes you have to be mindful of what they're sending out in terms of messaging. rachel: yeah, absolutely. the vatican has a potential language they speak that's very cryptic, and you have to sort of read between the rhines -- the lines. what's interesting in this case is there's not a lot of reading between the lines which tellses me things have to be quite dire. it was interesting seeing these images earlier, look at this image here. we saw an earlier image of him very early in his pontiff, and, i mean, the change in him is quite significant. the inflammation, the bloating. he's very clearly been sick for quite a while. but i think, you know, we can all say that this thing is imminent, and many people around the world, as you mentioned,

kevin, you know, 1.5 billion catholics around the world, catholicism is the largest denomination here in the united states, people praying for him and people praying for the pope because, remember, the pope and in a a very long line of successions of popes beginning with st. peter himself. and so, you know, whether you agree with the pope or not, if of us have had our disagreements and concerns about the direction that he took the church and what what has happened to the church under his pontiff candidate, nonetheless, we must if love him and pray for him and have mercy on him especially in this hour. charlie: it really is an awesome thing to to think about. he's, what, the 230th pope in 233rd pope, something like that? when you think about the history just of our country and we're talking about the 47th president, it's a pretty -- and, of course, these guys, many of them serve far longer thanker you know, four or eight years. so, you know, the idea that you've had over 200 popes since

st. peter, it's a pretty humbling thing to think about. rachel: yeah. on this rock i hall build my church. we -- i shall build myture temperature we take that that seriously as roman if catholics. people are looking at not just what's going to happen perhaps over the next few hours or days with pope francis is, but also we think about the future of the church because within a few weeks of his passing will be the conclave, has its own implications. charlie: and another sort of humbling thing to think about is every single one of those popes touched the pope before them. and so when you are blessed by the sitting pope, you're blessed by something who was blessed by somebody to who who was blessed by somebody that goes all the a way back to st. peter, all the way back to christ. pretty amaze paing. rachel: sure is. there's a lot of stuff happening in our country as well. feels like a renaissance of sorts, some would say a revolution. charlie: a chainsaul revolution

are. rachel: it's the lumberjack era. i think sean duffy will be happy to hear that. elon musk did take a chainsaw on stage, i believe given to him by javier milei, the president of argentina, who took a chainsaw to the bureaucracy in her country -- charlie: and people were gasping, just horrified by this. like it was inappropriate or something many. rachel: yeah. no, i mean, it's a new era. the chain item saw, of course, is a reflection of the cuts that are going on in government. some people really rattled by it, other people cheering it on. donald trump says elon musk is doing a great job. listen. >> i signed an order creating the department of9 government efficiency, you probably haven't heard of it. [cheers and applause] which is now waging war on government waste, fraud and abuse. and elon is doing a great job. [applause] he's doing a great job. we want to make government

smaller, more efficient. we want the keep the best peoplt people, and we're not going to keep the worst people. charlie: not only that, he said he thought that elon musk needs to be more aggressive. he's not doing -- he needs a bigger chainsaw. kevin: yeah. , and in fact, elon responded to that. if you didn't see this, it's from, and. he said, consistent with president trump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an e-mail requesting to understand what they got done last week. failure to respond -- i love this part -- failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. how about that that? well, from kash patel, the fbi may be looking at manager similar. rachel: well, here's what's happening. elon musk is sending this out, clearly not with the consent of some of the secretaries. kevin: right. rachel: and so kash patel wantee

in and he said to his, to the people in his department, i've got your back the all you good agents out there. and he said, whoa, whoa, he said the fbi personnel -- and this, by the way, was obtained by abc news. he sent this out to his people, his department. he said fbi personnel may have received an e-mail requesting information. the fbi, through the office of the director, is in charge of all of our review processes and will conduct reviews in accordance with fbi procedures. when and if further information is required, we will coordinate the responses. for now, please pause any responses, thank you, kash patel. charlie: of course, the swamp immediately jumped on that and assumed this was some huge rift within the administration. i think it's more like sort of typical growing pains where you have a bunch of very serious people on a mission to do big with things. obviously, kash patel has his

vision for how he thinks the fbi should be run. he has dispatched a number of agents out of washington, d.c. out to office as around the country to hopefully go after actual crimes instead of going after political witch hunts in washington, d.c.. kevin: speak about catholic churches -- rachel: oh, go ahead. kevin: trying to figure out who's a threat to democracy. rachel: yes. i think growing pain is the a good way to say it. they're trying to to feel out like, you know, kash patel's in charge charge of an agency, a department. an e-mail goes out, he doesn't know about it, and there's a little bit of like, okay, we've got to figure out what the balance is, and i think that's what you're seeing. one thing you're not seeing any argument over is the need to have federal employees come back into the office. this is something every cabinet secretary has seen, many of these agencies over 90% of the employees are, you know, have are not been in the building since covid.

and they were never if asked to come back. and so, you know, there's dust bunnies in the corners -- [laughter] and -- kevin: tumble weeds. rachel: kelly loeffler did an interesting thing instead of just talking about it, she said, let me show you. charlie: radical transparency. rachel: yeah. empty office as. kevin: wow. rachel: you know, i started to think about this idea of no one coming to work. and, by the way, donald trump ordered them back to work. every agency ask is department head has said you got to come back to work. and some people are is have decided to resign and not come back into the -- not remain in the government because of it. there's a plot of work if home in the private sector. and some of it works very beautifully, by the way. you're able to access people from around the country, right? your pool of workers is not limited. you can cut down on spaces, you know, on the mortgages and the rents that you're paying for your building. here's the difference.

when you're in a private sector job and you're working from home, you can be fired if you don't do your job. the difference is these people are working from home and literally, i think it's 99% of anyone who, you know, has been, you know, called to be fired has ever, you know, they don't get fired. informs in fact, there was a -- in fact, there was a major case where they thought these federal employees watching porn at work, and they couldn't fire them because the federal union rules are such that that -- i think that's the difference. it's not necessarily that you can't work from home. if you're with unfireable, i've got to have a better handle on what you're doing. conservative absolutely. charlie: and who do these people work for? either they work for us or they a don't. if they can't be made to come back to work because the person elected asked them to, they don't work nurse anymore. we just pay their salaries. rachel: right. charlie: another fox news alert.

the white house says a peace deal in ukraine could come as soon as this week as the president continues high stakes discussions with leaders from around the world. kevin: correspondent madeleine rivera has details are from if d.c. for us this morning. hi, maddie. >> reporter: good morning. french president emmanuel macron and u.k. prime minister keir starmer are head thatting to d.c. this week with. they maintain europe and ukraine must be involved in the peace talks. ma a caron is expected the tell the president tomorrow, you cannot be weak in the face of president putin, it's not you and it's not in your interests. starmer is set to visit on thursday. canadian prime minister justin trudeau and president trump also a addressed the war during a phone call yesterday. a readout from the white house about the conversation statements prime minister trudeau echoed president trump's desire e to see an end to the war and acknowledged that president trump is only world leader who can push through a just and lasting peace. but there are concerns in europe that the president could be rushing into a deal that would

give russia the upper hand. the president has been critical of ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, and yesterday the white house when again pushed for an agreement that would grant the u.s. access to ukraine's rare minerals as compensation for the military and financial aid the u.s. has given ukraine. >> i'm dealing with president zelenskyy. i'm dealing with president putin. i'm trying to get the the money back that -- or secured because, you know, europe has given $100 billion. the united states has given $350 billion. because we had a stupid, incompetent president and administration. 350. but here's worse. europe gave it in the form of a loan. they get their money back. we gave it in the form of nothing. >> reporter: but the rare minerals agreement would not be a guarantee of future aid for the war, and ukraine wants security guarantees before any talks with russia.

charlie, rachel and kevin. kevin: thank you, maddie. charlie: you know, i mean, the has been going on for too long. it may be time for a disrupter in chief, something to change the dynamics there. rachel: i don't think we can underestimate just how amazing this is. within a month of this administration taking power, we are this week, perhaps, going to to see a peace deal and the end to endless amountses of money going out to ukraine that we haven't been able to keep track of, to which there's no transparency, but also the lives. 40 no one talks about it, a million russian if ukraine -- and ukraine young men, mostly young men, gone through the meat grinder. charlie was talking about some of the drone stuff that's online about it -- charlie: actual snuff videos. and people cheer them on because their team is killing this guy. it's just, it's just

unspeakable. rachel: it truly is. so it's a new day. kevin: yep. a very big week ahead and a big week for doge. don't forget that. i'll tell you more about that a later. meantime, your headlines this to morning we have a fox news alert getting us started this hour. the two virginia police officers hot and killed late friday night have now been identified as 30-year-old christopher reese and 25-year-old officer cameron gurbin. the chief of virginia beach's police department says it happened during a routine traffic stop. >> almost immediately there was a tussle between the officers and this individual. while that tussle was occurring, this individual pulledded a a pistol from his pocket and immediately hot both vbpd officers. kevin: unspeakable. now, the suspect, in case you're wondering, was eventually found dead nearby from from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

happening right now, millions of german citizens are hitting the polls today in a highly anticipated election that's being watched closely by folks in europe and here in the states. the race has been drawing global attention for the rise of the conservative afd party in germany which has been making consistent gains, i think it's fair to say, over the past year and even received vocal support from the head of doge, elon musk, a few weeks ago. polls there are set to close just a few hours from now. meanwhile, over in london, this is an interesting story. one club is attracting young adults who want to, wait for it, ditch their phones for a 2-hour digital detox night. the event hosted by the offline club in london forces members to lock their phones away in a box before, you know, attending certain events allowing people to form social connections face to to face. and there's more. according to u.k.'s telecoms

regulator, the average young adult there spends more than pour hours a day on hair phone -- four hours a day on their phone. those are your headlines as i guiltily put away my phone right now. i think i'm online at least that much. what do you think of that? rachel: we're all guilty of that. l i think this is young people saying they want to find true love, and they're sick of doing it on their a phones. charlie, you sent this story. i find it so heartening that it's young -- it's the not, like, parents telling their kids to to get off their phone. it's young people saying i want to escape this digital world. charlie: and you imagine how wonderfully awkward it is for all of those people -- [laughter] so suddenly be sitting there in a diner and saying, well, do you come here often? [laughter] all these stupid lines you have to come up with in order to strike the up a conversation? which is ridiculous and as awkward and stupid as they are, it's better than looking at the stupid phone! and clicking outen, like, tinder

or whatever it is. kevin: my joey impression, how you to doing? -- how you doing? [laughter] charlie: i bet that works. kevin: not so much anymore. rachel: we did a story last week on people going to home depot to meet people, young women thinking they want to find a handy guy. charlie: i think lisa's still there. [laughter] rachel: he's still at home depot. conservative i love that. rachel: yeah. it's heartening to know a this kids are figuring it out. kevin: love is in the air. speaking of fixing things, president trump taking a bit of a victory lap over at a cpac if as he, yep, promises to clean up d.c. >> the fraudsters, liars, cheaters, globalists and deep state bureaucrats are being sent packing.

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victories including a full transparency is with the press, holding multiple press conferences a week and rarely, perhaps to his detriment, refusing questions. rachel: this as a new poll says nearly 70% of americans say it's the media they don't trust to cover the president fairly and accurately. kevin: and there may be a bit of wisdom behind that that. speaking of, we welcome fox news contributor ben domenech to share wisdom this sunday is morning. listening, i think, and you and i have had many conversations, i feel like the president is doing us all a great service, ben, by being as transparent as he has been. and while i acknowledge, charlie may be right, sometimes maybe to his detriment, broadly speaking, i think it's a win for all of us. what do you think? >> well, i think it's a sea change from what we saw over the last four years, and good morning to you all. i think that it's a welcome change, a shift away from the kind of things that were being hidden under the biden administration including by the president himself and and those

closest around him about his own physical condition but also about the different moves that the administration was making. i think that a one of the things we need to appreciate about this moment though is that the president is moving fast for a reason. he's doing the things that he needs if to do in term it's of the administration, the administrative state, on foreign policy because he believes these things have to be leaned into in the beginning of his administration. he doesn't have the kind of time as someone in their second term to just wait around on a lot of this stuff. and and so the expectation that this first year, even this first six months he needs to lean into that momentum and use it to his political benefit. rachel: i saw pam bondi last night on lara are trump's new show on saturday night -- lara trump's, and she said it's only been a month, it feels like it's been who two years. [laughter] so everybody's having to keep up to the pace of trump. everyone in the cabinet is having to do all of this is quickly for the reasons that that you say. i think social security so

interesting -- so interesting because, gwen, i wonder -- ben, i wonder if this is going the change the way other administration, it's setting the tone for future generations. it's going to the look like you're standing still if you're not moving at this pace. >> you saw the usa/canada game where they had three fights in the first nine seconds -- [laughter] it's kind of like that, actually. one thing i will say, rachel, for america's bureaucrats it doesn't just feel like four weeks, it doesn't feel like four months, it feels like a decade because the reality for for them is that the reason that you see all these homes getting listed in northern virginia and in maryland is because people are taking these buyout deals, they're getting out of this administration if because they are bureaucrats who can't justify their continued existence. the idea of someone having to justify their existence is not something that has existed within the federal government for a very long time. what would you say you do here? that's not something that they're used to answering. so i hope whoever's on vacation

in the maldives this week has their data plan if set up, because they're going the need to send is an e-mail to tell all the folks who have been looking at what they're doing, you know, what did you do during this sometime? obviously, we're in the who let the doge out period of in this administration -- [laughter] and they're moving very quickly. but they're doing it for a reason, and and that reason is that this has been a going on for far too long. waste, fraud, abuse, the bureaucracy getting away with so many things, and they want to wrap it up as a quickly as possible. charlie: do you foresee this sort of whirlwind force of nature that we're seeing out of the white house is going to be enough the get rekins -- republicans on capitol hill to get in line and get some of these accomplishments through congress that need to go through congress? >> look, i think it's a been a real kick in the pants for them, carly, and i think it's one -- charlie, and i think it's one that was long needed. the congress has talked about a going after these things, and they haven't done it for a lot

of reasons. now i think they actually can see this does need to be something that is done quickly in order for it to work, and i think that the really of support that he -- the level of support he has on capitol hill is a complete sea change from 2017 which is a very good thing for this agenda. rachel: all right. ben domenech, thanks for joining us. charlie: thanks so much. >> good to be with you. charlie: israel mulls over the phase two of its ceasefire deal with hamas as the father of the last living american held by the terror group is waiting to reunite with his son. we'll talk to that dad next. if

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murdered by hamas terrorists. new jersey native e can alexander was kidnapped by hamas during the october 7th attack, and with the phase two ceasefire deal in the works, his family is frantically, desperately seeking answers about him. eda narcs n's -- edan's father joins us now. you and i have had a conversation, and i think i shared not just with you, but with our viewers this unfortunate circumstance which is this: on the one hand, you want to be hopeful, i get that. on the other hand, you're probably experiencing a level of righteous indignation that makes it difficult to keep things together. how are you feeling in this morning as we look possibly for a phase two deal that might bring your son home? >>ed good morning, kevin. thank you for having me again. actually, we hopeful, and we have some hurdles. we couldn't expect anything more from this organization.

the rural peace foundation. right now it's a time to rise above politics and swallow whatever they have to sell to us and keep forward with the deal. kevin: you know, it's interesting because we get a chance here in the states to hear from a president who is deeply committed to not just ending hostilities, but also making a new pathway forward perhaps with the people of gaza but, more importantly, committed to bringing home the hostages. let me share what president trump had to say about this at cpac. i want to get your reaction on the other side. >> also with us are family members of some individuals who are still hostages, and we will not rest until all of the hostages have been returned back home. kevin: we will not rest until all the a hostages have been brought back home. powerful words from the leader of the free world. >> he's speaking with a tall

moral clarity on this issue as an american president should. we sure that he doesn't want to restart this war. he speaks publicly and privately about a ending this war. but right now it is time to reshuffle the cards and start all over again to negotiate for the second phase. kevin: let me ask you as we look at pictures of your beautiful family and your good looking son, what message do you have for other families who are in an unfortunate predicament and situation like you? what guidance can you give them to peaceably get through a circumstance like this, adi? >> you have to stay strong. we had signs of life from our son like most of the families at this point remaining living hostages which is 22 of them. you have to today strong. finish -- stay strong. our kids are strong. mainly young men.

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♪ rachel: a new study could help explain if why some people have experienced negative side effects after a receiving the covid vaccine. a team at yale analyzing people suffering from, quote, post-vaccination syndrome. and it appears to have identified marker s that could lead to answers on the source of their symptoms. briann helped write the study, and she joins us now. it's so wonderful to have you on. i've been thinking in my head that this might be the the biggest story that no to one's talking about. why don't you tell us about this study and what you've uncovered. >> you know, i really appreciate that sentiment because that's

exactly how the people involved in the study feel as well. we're long overdue to be talking about the elephant in the room -- rachel: yes. >> -- which is some people do have some problems with the covid sack vaccine. it's not something that happens to everyone, but for those people that do have have a problem, it's there 100%, right? so this study is very useful because instead of just having these symptoms that patients keep going into the doctors' office afters complaining about a brain fog, neuroif rob think, fatigue, hair loss, autoimmune conditions that are new, now there's actually some blood marker s that are showing this is a physiological concern. one of the most important findings of the study is that your immune system is changed so much so just after vaccination that you have a higher occurrence of reactivating latent viruses like mono.

also people are suffering from what is called t-cell exhaustion. that also happens from long covid as well, but in this case it's a concern because this is not something that should be happening after a rack city nation. t-cells -- vaccination. t-cells are usedded for cancer fighting. and the if third finding was that the spike protein instead of remaining in the arm, in the deltoid and being removed from the body within a matter of 2-5 days, they have found that in some people the spike if protein remains circulating in the body for up to 700 days. rachel: so, again, a lot of people being told when they go to the doctor if they don't feel well or they believe they've had a vaccine injury were told that this was all in their head. if and so this study is really important not just for the medical community, but for those people who have been told that this what was happening to them was imaginary. you mentioned the t-cell drop.

i've known a bit about t-cell drops. i had a very close friend who died of aids a, and i remember very much hearing about a his t-cell count dropping. you also said that t-cells were cancer-fright fighting cells -- cancer-fighting cells. we've heard since the vaccinations of a term i've never heard before which was turbo-cancers. was that this related to in this? is this what they're saying online, they're calling it the aids a or vaccination aids? can you clear that part of it up for us? >> yeah. that's, you know, part of what with we do at react 19.org is we advocate for people that have been harmed by the covid vaccines in general. and because of this, we've been able to amass 36,000 people that have been harmed by the covid vaccines which leads us to have a little bit of an inside advantage of what actually is going on with the vaccines. there certainly is a rise in the rate of cancers especially in young people. whether that that has to be yet

established that it's coming if from vaccination or if it's coming from the spike protein itself, from the virus, till has to be established. -- still has to be established. the l.a. times' owner is an oncologist, and he is really interested in watching the, you know, information that's coming from this study and others like it because it's leading to the answers that he really wants to have unearthed. also for very-aids, i to do -- v-aids a, i do believe this is an online term that's not exactly going to help anybody understand what's going on in their body. this study really is just preliminary. it's showing that there are some agoations to the immune system that can happen, and really what we're needing is more funding to be able to quantify this small study to show more of what's going on. rachel: yeah. no question about it. by the way, that l.a. times owner oncologist says he's

seeing cancers in children that were just unheard of prior to 2020 the and the vaccine coming out. so somebody who i think a lot of people respect in terms of his medical profession. i think the work you did is very important, brianne. i'm really, i guess, grateful that that you've done this because i think that what you need is more research, and you've opened the door to that. there was a lot of taboo about talking about this, and now with rfk jr. at hhs is, hopefully there will be some support for studies and to continue looking at this. thank you so much for joining us and for giving us more insight into your work. it's fascinating. >> thanks so much for having me. rachel: of course. coven? kevin: rachel, great stuff. appreciate that. let's share a couple of headlines. 45 minutes after the hour now if. newly sworn-in fbi director kash patel has also been tapped to to

run the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. according to sources, confirming to fox news digital, mr. patel will become the acting director of the atf after the previous director left the position at the end of the biden administrations. meantime, after more than a decade an engineering company is now agreeing to pay $53 million to settle all remaining lawsuits related to the flint, michigan, water crisis. the company continues to deny blame for the lead contamination that happened there, but it says this is the best possible resolution to avoid decades more of litigation. the funds will be disbursed to about 26,000 residents of that area, and they are certainly deserving. those are your headlines. we want the head out to my good friend, rick reichmuth what's up, brother in.

rick: i tell you what, things are looking so much better this week. take a look at the maps. temperature wise, a lot better than 24 hours ago almost for everybody. and precipitation wise, things are pretty calm. we have some rain across the immediate gulf coast, it's hot going to the cause any flooding or anything like that that. but out across the west, want to show you what happens over the next seven is days. i like to do this on sunday just so you can get an idea. most of our problems are going to be in the areas of oregon, washington and much of the northern rockies. we're going to have a lot of rain, a lot of snow. central part of the country, you're going to be dry. much of the east coast, very calm which is great news. and even better news over the next number of days, temperatures are going to climb above average for almost the entire country, and that is great news for us. it's been so cold, it's going the feel great. kevin: going to head over to amarillo, texas, it looks like. in the 70s there. cbs's margaret brennan facing more backlash lash after she

told secretary marco rubio the holocaust was linked to freeway speech. that's coming up in shar eye -- charlie's news round-up.

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♪ charlie: it's time for my news round-up where we discuss some of the biggest stories from the week, and we've got the true news expert, kevin corke, with

us -- [laughter] we'll start with cbs, face the nation, margaret brennan facing backlash after she told secretary rubio the holocaust was linked to free speech. >> -- standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide. >> free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. the genocide was conducted by an authoritarian nazi regime. char a char so, kevin -- charlie: so, kevin, even by, likeeded the's media standards that was kind of a doozy. >> listen, aye worked with margaret for a long time, i know a lot of people don't like her right now, but i will say this: she is a very, very hard working individual. she'd like to have that one back, health just be honest about it. but might be owes' not -- marco rubio's not a guy you want to mess around with. boy, did he set her straight on that one. charlie: yes. he sure did. turning to this, border czar tom man reports 229 illegal

encounters for an entire day across the entire southwest border as we learn shelters are actually shutting down according to border czar tom homan on x, he says in the last 24 hours u.s. border poll has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire border. that is down from the a high of over 11,000 under joe biden. kevin: wow. charlie: have you ever seen a more dramatic change based on the results of an election and a change in policy? kevin: never. and remember this too, the biden administrations was sort of strident when they would say, charlie, you know, we're doing all we can, we're working within the levers of government. this is demonstration number one. absolute proof that you achieve what you emphasize. it's happening under this administration, and that guy right there is about as a candid as they come. and i love what they're trying to do, they're trying to make it safer for everyone here in the

u.s., and they are getting the job done right now. shar choor shar anything that you want to fix, you must measure. and it's not just the the encounters at the border, it's also arrests. in the period between january 20th and february 8th, 11,000 total arrests. during that that same period, 4900, 5,000 arrests during the same period under joe biden. that's' 137% increase. kevin: and let me just add this too. when people think about what they're attempting to do, what they're mostly trying to do, charlie, is they're absolutely trying to make a difference. it's easy to say the right thing when it comes to border security, but it makes, i think, americans trust you more when they can actually point the what you're trying to do and they can see evidence. and what you just shared is clear cut evidence they're making it happen. charlie: also clear cut evidence is that the trump administration is changeing -- taking a chainsaw to government waste. doge finds $2 billion in

taxpayer funds earmarked for a stacey abrams-linked group that was supposedly some sort of environmental group, and elon musk graces cpac's teenage with a chainsaw. -- stage. he comes out on president, argentine president my lay gives him the chainsaw that was enyead with his own campaign slogan which was long live liberty, dammit. [laughter] nobody didn't see that picture of elon musk on the stage. kevin: you know what was fun about it, and i actually happened to be watching it when it happened. two things stand out. number one, make it something people can relate to. make it visual. if i say to you we're folk to be out there cooking, i want you out there with a can skillet, with the char coil briquettes saying we're about to make this happen. what they a really did by having that chainsaw out there is, again, remind the american people and and anybody paying attention, we mean business when we say we're going to cut and we're going to to cut and we're going to get that that money

back in the hands of americans. charlie: it's a win both on the policy level but also on a political level and another example of where the policy -- i mean, it's like lightning watching this add administration enact the policies that a got it elected. kevin: absolutely right. charlie: thank you, kevin corke, for joining us. kevin: my pleasure, my friend. charlie: great to have a true news hound on our round-up. [laughter] okay. pope francis giving a public message if as he'ses in critical condition battling a respiratory crisis. we'll is have the latest next.

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>> you are looking live at vatican city, it is about 8:00 here in the morning on the east coast we're continuing to watch what's happening abroad as it relates to the