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peace still is as the war entera fourth year. >> zelenskyy has done a terrible job. a dictator without elections, zelenskyy better move fast or is not going to have a country left. shannon: a war of words sparking new uncertainty on negotiations to end russia's war on ukraine. as a president shakes at pentagon leadership are facing the nation's highest ranked military officer. defense secretary pete hegseth joins us exclusively on this and plans to cut thousands of civilian jobs in the pentagon bureaucracy. then. >> this is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. >> doge sweeping cuts to federal spending. claiming more than $55 billion in savings. elon musk says some of that money could end up as a refund check in your mailbox. we discuss the political impacts exclusive with the public on congressman jim jordan and jim himes the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. >> i will give a very strong

warning if you do not comply with the law, you are next too. >> legal battles heat up over the trump administration scores of executive orders. from sanctuary cities, to federal layoffs. how the battle over executive power might play off in our nation's highest courts. i'll write now on "fox news sunday." ♪ works hello from foxnews in washington up at we begin with a look at some of today's top headlines for the vatican says pope francis spent a restful night after experiencing a respiratory crisis saturday. the 88-year-old pontiff has been struggling with double pneumonia and a lung infection. it will take you live to roma for an update on that later this hour. germans are going to the polls today to does decide whether to keep chancellor olaf scholz social democratic party in power or take a righ right hand turn a high-stakes close election. french president macon and

british prime minister are headed to washington this week to meet with president trump. macron and starmer are working out a plan to deploy up to 30,000 european peacekeepers in ukraine if the peace deal between kyiv and moscow can be reached. in a moment reaction from that and much more from defense secretary pete hegseth. but first another busy week for the trump administration. lucas tomlinson's tracking at the white house. >> president trump is here at the white house after addressing a throng of supporters at cpac to mark his first month back in office. >> usa. >> enthusiastic crowd of supporters greeted president donald trump outside the nation's capitol. trump told them his predecessor left him a mess. >> joe is the worst. everything single thing he touched turned to [bleep]. >> trump tout's accomplishments and promised to do more brick works of fraudsters, liars, cheaters, global some deep state bureaucrats are be sent packing.

the illegal alien criminals are being sent home. we are draining the swamp and restoring a government by the people progress aiding trump elon musk department of efficiency tearing through government agencies, searching for waste, fraud, and abuse. but apparently not fast enough for the president who posted ahead of his speech, elon is doing a great job. but, i would like to see them get more aggressive. it must responded, will do, mr. president fired up this post a few minutes into trump speech. all federal employees were shortly receive an e-mail requesting to understand what they got done last week. failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. friday night trump part of the u.s. military's top officer air force general seat cute brown the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. in his play seat number nominated lieutenant journal dan caine who first met trump in iraq in 2018 work trump claims

caine said the islamic state could be destroyed in a week. defense secretary pete hegseth barred the top navy officer and the air force number two officer as well as a top military lawyers for the army, navy, and air force. pete hegseth visited: pull in a model ally in europe. at cpac: president met with trump head of the speech. >> i did trust president donald trump. i trust his ambitions and i did trutrustee is going to bring efficient and lasting peace to ukraine. waxman asked to be trusted vladimir putin replied former kgb officer. thank you, lucas. alex hogan in kyiv two and the russia ukraine four. hello alex ricketts hi shannon, a political firestorm said u.s.,

if crane relations into a tailspin this week on the heels of u.s. russia talks aimed at bringing the war to the end. >> president donald trump blasted zelenskyy as a dictator. zelenskyy accused trump of living in disinformation bubble. predecessor petro poroshenko said ukraine should strike a calm tone. >> is president trump an easy communicator? no, not at all but we should understand and learn how to speak with him. but, if you find another way, that would also be fantastic. >> can you tell me how you assess the current diplomatic tension between ukraine and elon musk right now? >> unacceptable. does ukraine win with this contradiction? no. by the way will the united states with win with this contradiction? no. what is one person who is

beneficial of this contradiction. yes his name is put in projects ever expanding military cemetery is a reminder of the cost of w war. at the grave of one soldier loved one marked what would've been his 38th birthday at like so many families here that are divided on what a peace deal now would cost them. >> it is not up to us to stop the war. if we do, then what did my husband, the father of my child die for? >> whatever this is come and this war so more people do not die >> president trump says he's working on that in a deal to gain access to ukraine's natural resources. >> we are asking for rare earth, oil, anything we get. we are pretty close to a deal would better be close to a deal. because that has been a horrible situation. >> the deal would share the revenue of ukraine's earth

minerals by compensating the u.s. for the military support. shannon: are alex hogan reported from ukraine thank adjourn this now defense secretary pete hegseth welcome to "fox news sunday." >> hi shannon. thirty-six tomorrow marks three years the start of the war. russia is planning to declare victory tomorrow for their propagandists who say they're going to share messages essentially they abandoned ukraine how does the u.s. and will encounter that messaging if that's a victory lap russia tries to take? what's what her putting contract attempt to take the victory laps he was throughout is the president's focus on one thing and one thing only then to stopping the killing on the destruction across ukraine and ensuring an enduring peace. so, both sides are going to make a lot of claims the present has very directly engaged both sides in real-time. there's bilateral negotiations with russia which, by the late no one else has been able to do but joe biden was never able to bring russia to the table for actual peace talks. only donald trump is the only men in the world who has been able to do he's engaging

directly with ukraine there there's going to be bumps in the running conversations when you're seeking historic peace. and ultimately our role is to do just that and president trump is doing that. i do not need to get into the characterization, we know who invaded who we understand the stakes of this game. america, more than any other country in the world has invested in helping ukraine defend itself but not sign for peace and that is what the president is dedicated to. shannon: there is some reticence to say who invaded puma who was responsible for this there are questions about reports a g7 statement the u.s. opposed calling russia the aggressor in that statement. also warring resolutions that u.s. wanted to essentially water down what ukraine is trying to offer this up at the wall street from the reports. the ukrainian draft pins the worst because on russia and calls for a peaceful solution this year built around a rush or withdraw from the ukrainian territory. the u.s. resolution makes no reference to started the war it makes no specific demands of the

kremlin. your former colleague my current colleague brian kilmeade press the president numerous times in this he finally said russia taxi. what is it seen there is hesitancy to say that? >> my question is this all of that finger-pointing and broke h plus jake mason peace more likely? that's what the president is asking. he wants peace. if that's acacia going to stare down the russian and vladimir putin who they have chosen to negotiate and have earnest conversations about difficult things. about security guarantees, about 2014 borders, with those look like. the same thing with ukraine. constructively and productively. standing here and saying you are good, you are bad, you're a dictator, you are not meant dictator, you invaded, you didn't is not useful it's not productive. president trump is not getting on brought into that in unnecessary ways and as a result were closer to be sooner than ever before. i've been privy to these conversations. great progress is being made. we should come to the table this

economic partnership is an important thing for the future of his country and we hope you will very soon. shannon: fair to say it russia attacked unprovoked into ukraine three years ago tomorrow because it's fair to say different company to situation. shannon: we will leave it there you have said previously put in is a maniac you called him a war criminal. how would you describe them today? click the assignment we are negotiating with to end a conflict. what i said as a private citizen has no bearing on what, a secretary of defense, my job is as far as he characterization of a resume. i need to make sure troops already have to make sure i'd give advice to the present and future military the posture in europe i am not driving these negotiation, mike waltz, secretary state, vice president of directly involved in these discussions, we are going to get to peace but with the defense secretary things up vladimir putin is more or less irrelevant i want peace print out the killing to stop. i'm going to play my role in donald trump is leading it we are closer today than ever before. shannon: does have a role in the

world stage and say this is a bad person? this is a dictator and aggressor drdrink responsibly to say that? looks we've done that plenty of times. it is not a crazy statement to say there was an incursion into ukraine there is an invasion into ukraine. it was previously ministration to set a minor incursion. and then welcomed vladimir putin took that as a signal of weakness and entered. the other thing to step back on ukraine that is really important, every part of this discussion for president trump is from position of strength. the perception from vladimir putin that donald trump is strong and means what he says has driven them and the grain into the table with an opportunity for peace. we're something weak about this. was obama and biden's allowed the russians to make -- retake land take territory and be aggressors donald trump never has it's going to be peace that will be also be able to do. shannon: a couple try to come together moment and the conflict but a second with the u.s. and

ukraine potentially about rare earth minerals, security guarantees we may provide them in that scenario. there is that there's also foreign leaders in france in the uk coming this week to the white house. alex talked about potentially putting together 30,000 strong force of peacekeepers. is there any scenario whether it's the rare earth minerals agreement, whether it's the force the europeans went to stand up, any scenario which u.s. troops are on the ground and ukraine? >> no. let me be very clear about that. u.s. troops will not be on the ground in ukraine. the economic partnership is important. in apartment commitment ukraine. my message and brussels, which are ruffled some feathers and that is okay. my point there was to inject realism into the conversation was hey, on the continent europe should lead plates very encouraging to see european leaders say were are prepared to step in and ukraine and help provide security guarantees. we welcome that and we hope they step up and do that. shannon: starting friday night big change in the pentagon and

personal, leadership and assignments. excuse me senator reed who is, as you know a veteran parties a ranking member on senate armed services committee wrote this. a clear message is being sent to military leaders. failure to demonstrate personal and political loyalty to trump could result in retribution even after decades of honorable service. goes on to says military officers must remain free to get give their best military advice without fear of reprisal. is there room and military leadership for those of loyalty to president trump but those who may feel like that could be in conflict at some point to the constitution? >> is a total m ms. characterization from center to read as has been most of the hyperbole and press around this by their civilian control of the military but nothing about this is unprecedented. the president deserves to pick his key national security and military advisory team. there are lots of presidents who have made it changes from fdr to eisenhower to h.w. bush, to barack obama.

or who dismissed hundreds of military during his term. there were 63 and four star general's that were moving to different positions over on friday night of 1603 and four star generals. this is a reflection of the president wanting the right people around him to execute the national security approach. i have a lot of respect i got to know him over the month present honorable man. not the right man for the moment and also the president made that call and dan raising caine i look forward to working with them he will give straightforward advice, as he did to president trump on the defeat of isis but no one else said it could be done in a matter of weeks. caine said it could and it happened. the president respects leaders who untied hands of war fighters in a very dangerous world i think dan caine is the man to meet the moment. shannon: have got to ask for this remote list of people that were all would be cleaned out is there a list? is there any be left on the

list? >> there is no list, shannon. i've heard that very room or print we have a very keen i towards military leadership. and their willingness to follow lawful orders. this is all about defending the constitution. joe biden gave lawful orders a lot of them are really bad and it is unfortunate how they eroded our military ideological covid mandates president trump's given another set of lawful orders and they will be followed. they are not followed, all these orders are keeping with the constitution and norms inside the military if they are not followed those officers will follow find the door and that is not a tough calculation. we feel really good about the direction of pe the pentagon isd under president trump were going to focus on or fighting, and be the most transparent pentagon evokes a scene in a long time which is why i explain these things on a regular basis. shannon: on friday night you said you're looking for replacements essentially for judge advocates general for several of the branches for people who may not know, they give advice to the military what

is lawful and what isn't but not surprisingly there's been some backlash to those who are worried about their removal one georgia law professors and trump also find the army, navy and air force jags is somewhat more chilling than the firing the four stars is what you do when you're planning to break the law you get rid of many lawyers who might try to slow you down, your response? >> i don't know who rosa is it what are hyperbole is all about. ultimately we want lawyers who gives sound constitutional advice do not exist to try to be roadblocks to anything that happens in their spots what we know they're called tjx inside the military tradition of the men elected by each other are chosen by each other which is exactly how works often of the chairman as well. a small group of insulated officers who perpetuate the status quo will the status quo is not works very well the pentagon it is time for fresh blood so we are going to open up those positions to a broader set and a merit-based process of on

the best lawyers possible to lead the army, the air force in the navy there's nothing about purging there's nothing illegal we have made clear from the beginning the military will be a political with the fidelity of the constitution prepared to close to destroy your enemies when thinkable not unit noted yet those are three start billets traditionally given to start billets over time there's been lots of inflation in the ranks over time. we are going to return those to two star we are going to shrink the size of our headquarter units the inflation of military general. we won world war ii seven four-star generals for one and 63 four-star generals and has it created better outcomes or not? we are challenging a lot of assumptions at the pentagon to streamline what we do so we get as many resources as possible. shannon: we know the pentagon is not ever pass one of its audits is next on your list of your asking for because i could talk to a whole hour for it which gives iran, israel, china so please come back and do it again soon break with those do it,

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of people. i want to see a cease-fire and i want to get the wheat deal done. shannon: growing tensions between president trump ukrainian president zelensky casting uncertainty over cease-fire negotiations. a speedy end to the war in ukraine was of course a key campaign promise of the president. he is working on it for december the syndicate former bush national security official michael allen, three harvest fox news contributor former state department spokesperson the hill national political reporter julia manchester and cal thomas indicated columnists. welcome to everyone good to see on the sunday morning. let's start with ukraine, axioms had a very interesting deep dive into the background saying they were a number of things that really upset the trump administration paid vice president vance, secretary rubio, many of them they going to say zelensky grew to a custom to former president biden's open ended support for ukraine's war effort. they quoted an official involved in negotiations" we created a monster with zelensky.

>> yes, think zelensky mishandled this. is not the right way to deal with president trump to say things in the public sphere most of these conversations need to be behind closed doors. zelensky should be excited that president trump is interested in the critical minerals a deal. that would give trump a way to justify past u.s. spending and perhaps future spending. because what president trump ultimately wants is for the killing to stop. that will not happen it will not be durable peace without security assurances and part of that has to be some u.s. weapons going forward. not on the order as it was in the byte administration. more balance with the europeans but you need the u.s. as part of it. if trump feels like we can get repaid for that, that is a good thing. may seem oily exploits hated but ultimately it will help ukraine. >> both the president and zelensky are inching closer to this deal paid for it to

president trump's point europe got guarantees and what they paid into this, we didn't. my friend over here michael allen outlined a very irrational approach to what is happening in ukraine today. the problem is that donald trump is not just talking about a deal but he sang ukraine started the war. he is defending vladimir putin. i do not mean to sound hyperbolic here but donald trump and jd vance just on this one issue have done more in the last week to destroy america's credibility in the world to up and the post-world war ii values we have promoted to side with the vladimir putin over ukraine and ukraine is not perfect michael is right zelensky did not play this perfectly does not how to deal trump clearly. donald trump fairly personally does not like ukraine he has this affinity for putin which i've never been able to fully understand the things he is saying a month ago were unthinkable.

not just for democrats but for marco rubio, or mike waltz for many of the people on the republicans in the trump administration to side with the russia over ukraine in this moment is a sea change. the europeans are terrified. they think we have abandoned them. this is an american foreign policy we've never seen in our modern history it is up ending everything around the world people just do not trust will be there for friends anymore. shannon: to the point about who attacked home, brian kilmeade pressed president trump at his appeal he did say rush attacked. but clearly, the telegraphing recently as i wonder how much of it is for public consumption? he is in negotiations with putin right now. cooks one of the problems as we do not know what the endgame is here. no one is talked about victory. putin has said he has no intention of giving up any of the land he has occupied and evil people don't normally tell the truth. and i think he should be

regarded as telling the truth in this instance but what is the endgame? is it pushing russia back they've lost over 100,000 lives. it does not matter and italians date or is it ceding some kind of territory and giving potent permission to start grabbing more territory? he said the greatest disaster in russian history it was the collapse of communism. and he said he wants to reclaim latvia and estonia and these other former soviet republics. we have to take that seriously it has to be part of the formulation for standing against him so he is not aggressive against other nations of the region. shannon: and julia, that is been one of the concerns if it's not result in with the clearly draws a line for putin there is the worry among european allies he may try this again with other broader territories. >> i think a poll i did yesterday i was at sea peck covering the president pay right before he spoke at sea bakke met with the polish president who earlier that week or the day before actually, went on x very

publicly and made an appeal to zelensky after speaking privately with zelensky. we need to lower their rhetoric when we talk with president trump. poland as a country have its leader who is a conservative populist, very good friend or ally of president trump politically. but, at the same time has a vested interest in having u.s. and nato troops. they are definitely coming from the president's telling. shannon: we have a lot of domestic stuff to discuss in case you did not know for this plenty going on that front, do not go far panel. you're looking live with the president's messaging on ukraine stirs strong reaction on both sides of the aisle. youyou can hear from house judiciary chairman jim jordan at the top democrat on house intel committee. they are both alive and are next. i just fell to my knees and i just said, god, you have to take this. and that was one of the first time in a few months that i opened up

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>> i am trying to get the money back or secured because europe has given $100 billion. the united states has given $350 billion. europe gave it as a form of a loan. they get their money back. we gave it in the form of nothing. shannon: president trump at the conservative political action conference in the d.c. area yesterday. talking about his efforts to sign a deal guaranteeing mineral rights from ukraine, some security guarantees apparently part of that conversation. so let's get the bipartisan reaction house judiciary chairman jim jordan coming up. but we begin congressman jim himes democrat in connecticut

ranking member on house intel committee. congressman, g good to have you with us. >> thank you for having me. consistent with what the president was talking about we discuss this with the panel a couple of minutes ago. should the u.s. have some kind of guarantee or return on the billions of taxpayer dollars that have been given to that complex? >> shannon, i have two problems with that concept. one, it just looks like an episode of the sopranos. give us your minerals or we are not going to help you fight a bloodied butcher. is this really what we want the greatest country in history to be known for? for some mafia thing? we have always stood with the good guys. we stayed with churchill against hitler's world when one was sent with the good guys. even will have gotten it wrong, in vietnam we are standing with the good guys against viacom. iraq were going after saddam hussein but now this present is standing with the bad guy could he sing zelensky is a problem when zelensky is very few resources as tried to stand up for democracy against a totalitarian butcher.

what really worries me, shannon, what you think president xi is thinking? president xi would accept every single morning thinking is today the day i go into taiwan? and he says look at that. donald trump stands with the authoritarian invaders. not with the people being invaded. and now you are talking about the real possibility that american troops get involved in something that was facilitated by the mafia -like activities at donald trump. shannon: a couple of things there first of all secretary of defense just told us when i asked her point blank any chance any u.s. troops get involved on the ground he's had absolutely not. so, will hold them to that promise in the statement is made very clearly here. also the issue of the launch or characterize it as feeling very mafia like. but, would you characterize that as well with the deals the european leaders made that do give them guarantees? >> look, shana, i would hope the moment for reconstruction comes in ukraine, and it will come that it will be remembered that the united states stepped up to

help you cane defeat russia. by the way, and the secretary of defense site we've been handing them aid, we've been handing them aid. no, we have not it took a year for republicans in congress to get ukraine the aid they needed to fight off the russians. in that year the russians killed thousands of ukrainians that did not need to die. the united states congress was a dithering over whether we should help again, the good guy here but the facts are just plain wrong. but when ukraine is rebuilt i would hope we would get significant slice of that business. but shannon, we've never done this before we never went to winston churchill and say less you give us half of london to build hotels were not going to help you against hitler. the people dying fighting enzyme what will zelensky say? is losing thousands of people a week he's not even invited by donald trump to the peace conference? again out ask you to think about what the folks in taiwan are thinking about this right now. i was in taiwan i would be oh my

god, the country that supposed to my protector has now going to side with china when they come knocking at our door. it's basically meant that put us on our foreign policy will talk about more on this show will be talk about taiwan and china printed issue in the middle east since we are on foreign policy, want to talk about was when on israel but more hostages released. now it got into the second phase and third phase of negotiating what is essentially a very fragile cease-fire there. music has his head in the two state solution dyed with ariel and bibas meeting nine month old and a 4-year-old boy whose bodies were paraded through the streets as they were returned to israel. where do we go from here in the middle east? >> as it happens, i just spent a week in israel had about two hours with the prime minister. i think the two state solution dyed not with the murder, the brutal murder of these hostages. it's been on life support for very long time hamas attacks the brutal attack by hunter plus

days ago. that probably ended that here is the thing i don't know is can happen the next week or so or two weeks but my guess is israel will go back in. be the prime minister and see how to end this i think i'll go back and after hamas. what does worry me though it were the two state solution is dead there needs to be some solution. the art are enraged by talk to a lot of them. they are in range. israel will never be secure as long as they're living in a very small sliver of land with the millions of enraged. to set aside who is right who is wrong is not a recipe for stability. i do hope the prime minister and the israeli leadership can get together with the policy and leadership, not hamas the palestinian authority and say let's start making some progress to take down the level of a rage and therefore the violence and gear out the solution.

>> arab leaders let to come up with their own plan for what will hopefully be progress in the region moving forward. domestically before you go we'll talk about there's a lot of pushback will talk to chairman jordan about this come about doge and the cuts and the in ths and all kinds of things. there's been a lot of consternation with the president's use of executive power for ms. parks that an executive branch. but if he says the federal says this, it's beef is not with the executive power is trump's voters. they go on to say president biden clearly continually tried to overturn the parameters of a presidential power pretty repeatedly sought to shift student death to the taxpayer even though the supreme court ruled against him pretty open the border in violation of a constitutional violation to enforce the law but they go on to say democrats real grievance is with last november's borders who overwhelmingly rejected democrats distorted dystopian view of what america should be per talk about all the time the show here but voter analysis showed us people wanted major

upheaval. so, is your issue with the voters more so than the president questioned him there been times the democrats were fine with using executive power and rather broadly. >> look, every president gets turned back by the supreme corporate every president does yyour right to point out biden was turned back on the student loan things you don't biden said? he said no problem i will abide by the court. as you know, president trump tweeted. shannon: wait, waio not wdoskate past that. he actually went out and did a number of other programs they gave out billions in student loan forgiveness. >> right that were not deemed illegal. he did what he wanted to do in the court said you can't do it this way, he did it another way in the court ultimately said was a legal way to do it. you may not like student loan forgiveness, that's fine it's a policy position for the point is there's never any question about whether he was going to abide by the law president trump and contra said if i'm doing what's good for the country at his have the law is and he's done a lot more than by the dead. my pro promise that will trump

voters. my problem is of the democrat i'll be the first want to tell you that the federal government, the bureaucracy can actually use a diet. but the way doge is that it were its indiscriminate link on in and particularly focused on firing and young people who are often the most energetic, the most determined to make a difference. there are two things american is forgetting right now although i would toe, asked jim jordan about what republicans are hearing in the town hall meetings right now. the people in this town hall meetings are realizing the federal bureaucracy actually keeps the plane flying, keeps and viruses out of our meet. there's ever a pandemic is going to be the cdc they rely on to keep us safe. we just go in with the buzz of a chain saw it use up musk waving around, that is a real problem. by the way, shannon, what about inflation? the reason people give them a republican collects a hard time is because donald trump said i'm taking inflation down. inflation has gone up and that is a problem. shannon: we are month and i will talk about all those things with congressman jordan. so congressman himes thank you for your time.

we'll pick up their congressman jordan. this issue -- like there's a lot there. [laughter] we will start on doge. here's part of what is going on with elon musk imposes these massive firings are back from their sync dismissals have been so chaotic and rushed, termination letters often listed wrong start dates, wrong jobs, or lack the agency name. as a form letter had not been properly filled out. some notified their own bosses they had been fired. is there some wisdom and slowing down? and being more scalpel white? >> think american voters likely in intensity and focus they've seen from 30 some days of this administration. going about doing the things i told voters they're going to do for doing the things that they were elected to what was the polling is all just recently 70% of americans think president trump is doing what he said he's going to do. imagine that. it ran for office, put your name on the belt said i'm going to do this one of things he said is going to do is get rid of the waste, fraud, abuse the stupid

spending going on in the federal government. and said democrats attacking the guy who is exposing the stupid spending, how about helping us get rid of the stupid spending? most americans that yes, that makes sense to me particularly when they see some of the crazy things with their being used for i point to sesame street and iraq, burke, ernie, big bird and baghdad tv not the best use of money when you look at the debt we have been running. shannon: do you worry that goodwill the american people yes i nietzsche's going out of my tax dollars and no, i'm not okay with a lot of the stuff. federal workers have not been the most empathetic characters for a lot of americans but others are and share their stories and entire offices are wiped out. people are crying. they're completely unnerved and have no idea how their agencies are going to run. >> shannon, i grab this headlight national parks in chaos after "washington post" story but here's the first paragraph california national park and trump menstruation fire the only locksmith on staff your next sentence he was fired, his

ssoul employee with keys and institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms. that's the best you can do? the real question is how did visitors get locked in restrooms? this is how ridiculous some of this is but maybe there been mistakes made but i think the intensity and the focus on getting rid of the wasteful spending, but what unlocked people who somehow get locked into a restaurant and national park is ridiculous for the arguments using for the left are pretty darn crazy when you think about we are spending money for the crazy things of trans- comic opera in wherever. i mean come on. shannon: they are with you and they hear that but they start to see things like elon musk putting out a tweet saying everyone is getting an e-mail you've got to respond with five things you got done last week, copy or manager or were going to count if you do not respond run wereunkruncompany's resignation. that's probably not legal in the first place. >> is pretty common for you can

name the five things you did last week i was in israel last week i know we met with the prime minister, we met with some opposition promote the speaker we toured the kibbutz were burnt terrible things happened where the kids were taken and killed. we went up to the north and saw we had all kinds and that i could name five things i did not to mention the other things i did relative to things back here with our responsibilities as a member of congress. anyone can name five but if you are federal worker working remote you should be able to name those things to i don't think that's a big deal but people are saying you should not do those kind of things you can name the five things too. >> i can but i'm not a federal worker don't know who's going to feed their all his responses maybe it's the manager whose copy i don't know i wonder how many people it's probably just another round of losses we've already got about 80 we are tracking with regards to recent policy and want to get to form pulse of the was well. was we are waiting for negotiations come together on this rare earth minerals deal you heard your colleagues congressman himes saying it feels like some kind of mafia

situation like we are extorting people to try to get them to come to the table and agree to what we want them to agree too. reuters has this u.s. negotiators impressing keeper access ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to elon musk vital start link a satellite system were they going to sit provides crucial internet connectivity to war-torn ukraine and its military is that something should be threatening? >> i do not know if that is the case what i do know is president trump is clear he was and the war you want to stop the kil killing. president trump has a unique way of negotiating it's a way that typically gets results. you can look at the scituate situation of canada mexico what he threatened and they suddenly decided are going to help you with securing the border. you can look at israel in his first. reporter: campaign on putting the embassy in jerusalem. when he gets in office all the people the state of art think there's more than you and i and all people across the country this people the state department said to the president you really should not do that this would

every other president than when they campaign president trump center told the american people going to do it, we are going to do it and he did. i would argue that laid the foundation for abraham accords and all he got accomplished with israel and the middle east. he does not always operate in the most conventional way when it comes to negotiating. but the results speak for themselves he understands a billions of dollars tax person given to ukraine. and by the way what is the goal then what's our objective all along was it to get them out of the eastern region of ukraine? was it to get that cry me a question of june how long russia said crimea? next month it will be 11 years it took it under obama is that the goal? no one could define the goal but money just kept flowing and president trump said this has to end he's working on doing that. doing that in a way think is beneficial to ukraine and certainly beneficial to the american taxpayer. >> here domestically you've got to get together on the deal. the house version speaker johnson has negotiate for the

next decade calls or $880 billion in cuts to medicaid that's an effort to counterbalance a portion of the tax cuts. that scares people when they hear that. where do we get eight and $80 million? >> the focus has been clear, the present has been clear, waste, fraud, abuse or going to be looked at. we are going to look to find that. we are not looking to make cuts to medicaid. but certainly work requirements or something is common sense you arare an able-bodied adult you'e getting the benefit from the government that should be some requirement you do work or volunteer work or something. we have that in other parts of our government payment systems where people are getting aid from the taxpayer think that makes sense. look, our plan is pretty basic. cut taxes, cut some spending, help the national defense and secure the border exactly what we told the voters we were going to dubai that is what is in her plan the budget resolution will allow us to accomplish that. i hope it's going to pass this week. shannon: the math is going to be

tough not on the budget but the votes as well will be watching bthe chairman thank you for coming to see you. elon musk efforts to take a chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy continue to ruffle feathers here in washington is asthe president urges him to stp it up. the panel is back, next.

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>> i understand maine's main here, the government of maine? >> right here. >> you not going to comply with it? [inaudible] what we are the federal law. you better do it. you better do it you're not going to get federal funding at all if you don't. ember weighed the population even let somewhat liberal, although i did very well there, your population does not want men playing in women sport so you better comply. you better comply other ways are

not getting any federal funding. good elsey in court i look forward to that, that should be a really easy one. shannon: i've never had a lunch that awkward but president trump maine governor janet mills getting into war of words of the president's executive order preventing transgender athletes from completing a many women sports programs and it maine's position on that differs. we are back with the panel. julia, their sound investigation were told by the department of saying to mate if you are getting federal funds you've got to comply with the way we see this loss. that is no biologically born males competing in women's sports which maine continues to allow progress continues to allow but we'll see a big legal fight brewing. potentially not of not only between maine and the administration but may be other states that are trying to push back on this mandate. it's interesting to see how governor mills is handling president trump in this way. looking across to the other democratic governors even california governor gavin newson i understands in a different situation when he met with

president trump he was essentially a lobbying for wildfire aid in that regard. but, it seems like she is taking much more an aggressive stance and ain a number of these other democrat governors, pushing for these legal fights is something to watch there. shannon: of all these legal fights kimberly strassel writes of the wall street journal that the trump administration is testing a lot of boundaries. the doing things and with a numr going straight to court vigorous debate over structure of government ought to be a feature of every administration but what should worry us is not the mr. trump is doing this but that are drowsy political system considers it an anomaly. washington does not love it. >> increasingly americans across the country don't love it either. we have seen videos from that town halls this week about people deeply red districts screaming at their members of congress. shannon: and guard told us to be clear they're not republican standing up to be upset. >> look, we all lived through the obama's first midterm in the

same town hall but elon musk has fiisfired tens of thousands of government workers while every date personally is getting $8 million of government funding. their firing people working on bird flu, safety officers after all these plane crashes 1000 veterans affairs employees including disabled military vets. so, i get people do not like waste, fraud, abuse this is not about making it more efficient. they're putting out this it had a ton of errors and it. making public servants across the country not just in washington, seemed dishonorable, turning that into a dishonorable profession is cruel. waking up at 2:00 a.m. that make $50000 a year in nebraska. not knowing if they will be able to feed their children because they get an eel at e-mail from elon musk. this is not about efficiency but this is a vendetta. this is/and burn i think it will have electoral consequences across the country. first in virginia this of all

when there is a governors race. how many of these people are getting fired who live in virginia? not to miss a personal aspect of it. shannon: where the long-term implications? >> i favor more compassion and this i think maria is right. a lot of people dedicated themselves in a federal job for many, many years for they have mortgages to pay and they have car payments, groceries, they are human beings after all. so a little more compassion would go well. this is something that has needed to be done for a long time. and a surgery sometime hurts, cutting government will as well but two quick quotes thomas jefferson the course of history shows as government grows, liberty decreases. calvin coolidge 100 years ago or 30 at the president, unless the people through unified action rise arising take charge of ther government they will find their government is taken charge of them. a couple great quotes and that go along with what's going on in washington right now. >> this might explain why the democrats are in the wilderness right now.

they are not sure and the main governor is trying to fend some things the american people clearly rejected. others are trying to defend the federal government leviathan which crowds out economic growth because it is so big and large. i would be worried also about unintended consequences but by and large i think the american people support this. the only cautionary note i would say is the president's pollster tony put out a memo on valentine's day thank personal economic issues, especially the cost of living including groceries is what the voters care about. shannon: those are still painfully high it has been one month how policy plays out from here. thank you panel very much. we'll see you next sunday. work today pope francis is still struggling at battling the severe respiratory infection rate jeff paul is live at the end is hospital in rome for the pope is being treated. we will take you there live for an update next. ♪

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>> yes, he has been updated, and we're praying for the pope p. our thoughts and prayers are with him. shannon: white house responding to reports of pope francis' worsening condition yesterday. you're look at live at vatican

city. fox news national correspondent jeff paul is live outside the hospital in rome. hello, jeff. >> reporter: yeah, shannon. and there's truly a somber feeling here many rome where the pope is is currently recovering. we've seen all sorts of people showing up up to to the medical center to pray for the pope's recovery especially after hearing the vatican describe his health as in critical condition. but even with that being said, we know the pope is awake. he is receiving oxygen, but he is breathing on his own, and he's doing well enough to post on social media writing this on x a short time ago, basically thanking people for their closeness and their prayers that are coming if from all over the world. now, the 88-year-old has been receiving high flows of oxygen to help him breathe after a suffering from a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis. pope francis has also received blood transfusion. the the pope was admitted february 14 and has been getting treatment for double pneumonia and a complex lung infection.

it's worth pointing out throughout his more than week stay at the hop to, pope francis has been fully conscious. he's been working, eating and reading, and those gathering at the hospital and at st. peter's square, they feel t it's for important to make that trip. >> i came here for the pope, and it's a symbolic time. i think that all the prayers and the support that that he can get, we must, we must support the pope if at this moment. >> reporter: now, we are expecting another update on pope francis a few hours if from now here if in rome where we'll get some sort of update from the vatican, but it is a sort of good sign that that he is eating and alert. shannon? shannon: jeff paul, thank you very much. that's it for us today, we'll see you next "fox news sunday. ". ♪ jon: an international flight from new york diverted to italy after a bomb threat. good afternoon, i'm jon scott, and this is "the fox report."

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