here i am in a suit. go figure. for the life of me i can't understand how this is still a debate between allegedly. bling men competing against biological women is an. this issue was the most underrated issue of the 2024 campaign. remember when the trump campaign bought air time during highly rated nfl games showing harris supporting sex changes for those here illegally in prison. that helped donald trump win the popular vote in swing states. that's something that people with common sense actually support. here we are, todd, go figure. >> todd: bill maher said it best. he is not even a parent. people that are parents don't like being put second in the raising of their child. and it makes no sense why the left thought that was a good idea in the first place. joe concha, leave it there don't forget to set your dvr 5:00 a.m. every morning. "fox & friends" now. ♪

>> ainsley: good monday morning to you 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. february 24th. and this is "fox & friends." french president macron meeting with our president today on the 3rd anniversary of russia's war in ukraine. could a deal come this week? >> brian: yup. plus more than 1600 usaid workers on leave overnight. moving into those offices. >> lawrence: these offices won't look so bear anymore federal employees being told to return to work today. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> all right. happening today, president trump hosting french president immanuel macron to discuss ukraine as today marks three years since russia invaded ukraine. keep in mind they will have a press conference afterwards. we'll get a lot of good questions there. >> ainsley: hard to believe it's been three years. madeleine rivera here with all the details for us.

maddie? >> madeleine: good morning. the white house is projecting a lot of optimism they can quickly reach a deal end the war in ukraine. deal undercut ukraine and give russia upper hand. added sense of urgency with russia and the u.s. reportedly set to hold talks again this week. the europeans disappointed they were not part of the conversation between the u.s. and russia last week. so french president immanuel macron is expected to tell the president today we are committed to ensuring that peace returns to ukraine in a just, solid and lasting manner and that the security of europeans is strengthened through all upcoming negotiations. and u.k. prime minister deer starmer set to visit dealer on thursday the trump team sees conversation with russia as a starting point. pushing parties like france and the u.k. to come up with ideas to stop this conflict. the president is frustrated with not only what he sees revenue

from minerals for conversation for aid. >> get our money back. it's not fair. >> [applause] >> it's just not fair. and we will see. but i think we're pretty close to a deal and we better be close to a deal because that has been a horrible situation. >> today ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is praising the heroism of the ukrainians on the third anniversary of the war. he wants better terms on the minerals deal he wants security guarantees. he said he would be yesterday to give up pilip? exchange for membership. pete hegseth has said ukraine joining nato is an aoun he will rice stick prospect. lawrence, ainsley and brian. thank you so much, maddie. talks of rare minerals deal with the u.s. is obviously continuing as she said. the reason it would be good to

would keep america close to ukraine. give ukraine enough money to rebuild their communities and nato is off the table at this point. that's a line in the sand for russia. they are saying don't even go near that parts of ukraine are now occupied, 80% with russians. and so it looks like those regions would still go to russia. not back to ukraine. >> lawrence: brian, you made this agreement with me. but, i don't think it's helpful that zelenskyy continues to negotiate in public saying things if nato tow is on the table again i would leave the presidency. i don't think that's a way to get the president's attention. i don't think it's not helpful for the negotiation right there irunderstand what he is going through. his country was invaded. may have world on the stable before donald trump. i don't think it works when you have a president trying to get a

deal. >> brian: he made two mistakes last week. disinformation. the other one was to say i don't want this deal and he embarrassed the deal sent treasury secretary over. perilous. hop on a train for two hours. came back said no deal instead of countering it. three years you are living in a bunker, not seeing your family. you notice your friends and family are dying in real time. have you lost 75,000 people and had 100,000 casualties, it could wear on you. but, in the big picture, keith kellogg, the general who is the envoy there, left saying that zelenskyy told kellogg is he convinced now he will do a minerals deal. so at some point, it's going to be great. because stake in the game. russia is going to ingameday the border of ukraine with american presence. plus, we actually need the minerals because china is cutting us off. >> ainsley: we need the money. >> brian: because of technology and military we need the money. it's good for that country.

a country says yeah i would bailed out $183 billion by the u.s. but we worked out a deal. we used some of our rare earth for their rare defense and expertise. i think it builds up the psyche of a country. the other thing is, component of this is israel is beginning -- excuse me, the g-7 is beginning to step up. there is going to be a conference call today at #:00 a.m. macron at 1:00. thursday u.k. prime minister who seems to be the one that trump likes most. so, all of a sudden they have to turn around to their country and say guys, we are looking at a budget. i can't afford all the social media spending because the u.s. is pulling back. now we got to put 2% back. >> ainsley: why is zelenskyy saying he will step down. >> brian: it was a question. >> ainsley: is he getting tired? >> brian: a question. if in turn for stepping down you got peace, would you do it? he goes of course. he said to your point, he said, too. if you want to give me nato status. if i'm the problem.

give the country nato status. >> lawrence: it's off the table. i don't know why he is bringing up the. >> brian: it was a responsible question. lawrence. >> lawrence: the question though is, brian, is this about them coming together, is that real this time? because, if you talk to marco rubio, he said that him, as well as the vice president, met with zelenskyy and talked about the minerals deal and zelenskyy goes publicly and says they don't have a deal. is it true this time after you told the vice president and the secretary of state that you were going to go back to your parliament and did you go publicly and say it's not true? >> ainsley: there will be a deal. he's going to have to take it. michael waltz our national security adviser was on fox and he talked about this peace deal. he said in just a short amount of time president trump has us, everyone, the ukrainians, the russians, the europeans talking about it now and debating, which is true. only president trump could drive that shift in conversation. and we have to acknowledge that it's happened.

>> brian: on friday, when i interviewed the president. i said to him zelenskyy called you would you take his call he? said of course, i'm not playing games. this is what happens. in a couple of days, another thing on the table. special nation status with nato. qatar has it and other nations. special status. strategy sessions. but not a full member. that's what sweden had for a while and finland and nor way had. people should back out as tempting it is play by play what happened what did they just say? i think we will be a different place by friday. i do. i don't think we are getting away the store to vladimir putin. what he can is came in fresh. he said how do we get this started again? >> lawrence: pete hegseth said donald trump is the only person who nellation with putin watch. >> bilateral negotiations with russia, which by the way, no one else has been able to do. joe biden was never able to bring russia to the table for actual peace talks. only donald trump. he is the only man in the world

able to do it. also engaging directly with ukraine. there is going to be bumps in the road in these conversations when you are seeking historic peace. and ultimately, our role is to do just that and president trump is doing that. >> ainsley: in other news, too. 161600 usaid workers placed on leave that happened overnight. elon he posted on x on saturday. he said consistent with president trump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. so everyone got this email that said what did you do last week? please reply to this email with approximately five bullet points of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. please do not send any classified information links or attachments, deadline is monday at midnight. will. >> lawrence: i get the feeling that the united states government is not used to working like the private sector. it's like there is no goals set.

people coming in to work when they want to. people are not showing up to work. working from home. there is no standards, there is no goals, i think when you have this guy who is a businessman who ran successful companies coming in and laying down the gauntlet, serve panicking because they are not use dod it. >> brian: they definitely got pushback from kash patel. >> lawrence: defense department, too. >> brian: as well as tulsi gabbard. ignore the email. i'm getting my feet in front belief. if you didn't do five things or did do five things. keep me out of that part of the accountability with the federal government. a little destabilizing, i get it. i think they could be more organized when they did it. that's the way he did things. everything he does, sometimes in the middle of the night he will show up and find out who is at twitter. when the place was empty, he would start firing people. and start elevating somebody, a

22-year-old to a manager because he happened to be there at the time. he can be a little haphazard but his ultimate goal is right. make people accountable. make them responsible. >> ainsley: make them productive. i also aentry with senator john care tis when he said yesterday. i like what he is doing but it will be great to show what of a little more grace and compassion. a lot of people, for example, in butler, pennsylvania, who were working in that salt mine thats is town. that salt mine houses paperwork for security. that's got to be re-evaluated. a lot of those people show up to work every day and have great pride in it. from washington you wouldn't know that you are pennsylvania. flip side wait too long. everybody is going to say don't fire me. don't gut this. >> lawrence: i think what elon has been indicating he leaves some people are collecting a check not doing a job. >> brian: no question. >> lawrence: if it was to solicit a response -- is there a

human there? like, at least i know if you're responding to the email that you're not a bottom. and, again, i think we continue to say there is going to be some bumps in the root. maybe a government so out of control you need someone to really shake it a little bit. and i think as we go. as the months progress. i think you will get more compassion. >> a lot of people have responded so far. and is he taking it on a case by case. usaid were going to slash 2,000 jobs. now keeping the critical workers and leadership. 1600 jobs not the 2,000. the white house shared what they accomplished over the last week it's been a lot. they signed an eo, an executive order to expand access to ivf. ended taxpayer benefits for migrants. a 94% drop in illegal border crossings. apple, y'all this is new this morning, has pledged a u.s. major investment, 500 billion in the u.s., that's 50% higher than

they pledged? n. 2018, ensures that maine does not allow girls in locker rooms and girls sports. >> lawrence: did you see that exchange over the weekend where i think it was actually friday where the president looks at the governor and says i hear that you're not going to comply with the order from the federal government that says that men can't play in women's sports? and she goes i'm going to follow federal law. he goes well we are the federal law. and she says we'll see you in court. the president goes good luck. and in the next election because your political future is over. you see with bill maher and that pod save america. they are still advocating for men going against women. and i don't understand when the country is reflecting this why keep pushing this? just give it up. >> brian: i love the idea of this happening in front of us, governor of maine here? yeah, what are you doing? that's the way you act like in businesses. >> lawrence: i love. this. >> brian: when president trump brings it all out in front.

schumer and nancy pelosi in office. >> ainsley: bill maher said as democrat you will continue to lose elections. >> lawrence: it's true. >> ainsley: you want to continue to die on this? this is what you are worried about? america is worried about the opposite, fairness for women. >> brian: when tulsi gabbard and kash patel stand up to elon musk i don't think that's a bad thing. >> lawrence: it's not. >> brian: instead of the phone call. he guys, you kash patel, don't worry about the fbi. doesn't say elon was wrong. these are real conversations, so the transparency is appreciated. >> lawrence: also it goes to the point of them wanting to work with elon musk. but their intelligence agencies as well. they don't want people saying hey, you got the malicious compliance as well. people sending elon musk intelligence, saying i was told to do this to try to take their legs out of them. i think it was smart by them. >> ainsley: other big news, the pope, 14 minutes after the top of the hour.

get to this. a fox news alert. the vatican says pope francis is awake and resting after early kidney failure was defected in the 88-year-old yesterday. >> lawrence: chief religion correspondent lauren green is live in rome with the latest. good morning, lauren. >> lauren: good morning, lawrence. the pope is in critical condition which means he is not out of the woods yet. according to the cat van the pope rested well. he had a good night. he went to mass yesterday. still receiving oxygen. blood values increasing because of blood transfusion, kidneys -- he is nearing kidney insufficiency, that's another word we are trying to figure out what they mean by that according to a statement from the vatican the prognosis is guarded. lapse night prayers for the pope at st. john basilica in rome, several hundred people came to pray at the paypal facility including two young people from notre dame university studying abroad in rome and reflected the

pope's outreach. >> the way that the pope interacts with the young people is so induring in the way that he does it and i think as the younger generation we are not always used to that especially in the catholic faith and. >> lawrence: doctors aggressivery treat the pope immune system compromise. touch and go because of ladies and gentlemen and pre-existing lung disease. the sepsis serious infection of the blood can occur as a complication of pneumonia, which he has, double pneumonia. and backen in the states new york's archbishop parade for the pope's recovery but also the gravity of what the catholic church is facing the holy father's health is quite fragile and could be nearing the end. the pope has been moved by the

outpour of affection and support. he said in a tweet that, thank you, for the prayers of comfort that i have received from all over the world and tonight there will be a special rosary mass for the pope at st. peters basilica. back to you. >> ainsley: okay, lauren, thank you so much. we will talk to dr. siegel about this coming up at 6:50 to talk about kidney function and what this means for his future. president trump's middle east envoy steve witkoff says he will be heading back there this week for more peace talks. witkoff is seeking phase one of the israel hamas hostage release and cease-fire deal. he said, quote: we have to get an extension of phase one. so i will be going into the region this week. probably wednesday to negotiate that. an american airlines flight heading to india from new york city was diverted to rome after a bomb threat was reportedly made. italian fighter jets escorting that plane and its nearly 200 people and 15 crew members on

board as it made its way to rome. >> the captain came on and said that there was diversion due to a security issue and that we would be diverting to rome. >> ainsley: passengers aboard say the pilot made the announcement three hours prior to scheduled landing time in new delhi. the airlines said the threat was proved to be non-credible after inspection. happening today, it is the deadline for a handful of federal employees to return to the office for work. departments with deadlines today include the interior department. epa, and small business administration. it comes roughly a month after president trump signed that executive order, aiming to get rid of all the remote work arrangements within the federal government. and a new study confirming what many children have claimed all along that parents do, in fact, play favorites. researchers say factors like gender, birth order and a child's temperament can serve as an influence. >> exactly the kind of thing

that makes you think you guys love me more than you love her. >> oh my god does she really that i that? >> well, can you blame her? >> i don't know. i suppose we may have favored you unconsciously. i were a medical marvel. >> ainsley: the study says parents tend to favor younger siblings often without realizing it. those your headlines. >> ainsley: brian you are the one on the curvy couch with three kids. >> brian: absolutely not. circumstantial. i was accused by my siblings of being the favorite. the only reason i had a tactic. don't cause trouble. do your homework, show up on time. don't cause trouble. you never get yelled at. well, tell you the truth i'm playing almost the perfect game i was a good kid. my other brother was a bit of a challenge. my younger brother. i caused the left waves. i had no upside. i'm a very medium person. at one point like they would look like the best because

they -- my brother is this great athlete, and then my younger brother can fix anything and figure out anything. and he does all this crazy stuff. so, he would, of course, go in the spotlight. i would just be a slid 6. >> average served you well. >> brian: it served me well. i wasn't failing anything but, you know, i wasn't getting, you know, i wasn't getting valedictorian. >> lawrence: parents definitely have favorites. >> ainsley: did they favor i you. >> lawrence: 100 percent. i did more. they caused more grief. >> brian: you were more productive. >> lawrence: also harder on me as well. i think i'm my mom's favorite and i think my sister is my dad's favorite. >> ainsley: poor brother. >> lawrence: and he is the middle child. she is the baby and only girl. so she is my dad's favorite. that's dads and little girls thing my mom is favorite because i help out mom more. that's the way it should be. i think you should earn being

the favorite of your parents. >> brian: i would say you are wrong. i think they like you all -- love you all equally. >> lawrence: love and like is totally different. you have to love your child. you don't have to like them. >> ainsley: i heard someone say once it depends on the day. some days your child favorite the next day another depending on the circumstances. >> brian: i heard you mumbling >> chris: chris l.j. got it right. i love you but i don't have to like you. >> brian: i have a three-way dead heat and can you put me in a lie detector test. >> lawrence: it no way. but you have to say as the dad you have to say you definitely have a favorite and you don't want to commit it. i guarantee if you ask your children they will say the same thing. >> brian: they will all say somebody elms was the favorite. i'm telling you now, go to the instant replay. i can play back the judgment is

in. it is all equal. >> ainsley: my grandfather when he passed away we were all like i was his favorite. and all of us sended up sayi en. >> brian: do you have a favorite and will you name the child name favorite child. >> lawrence: we will announce it. >> brian: germany's election results are catching a lot of attention all the way over in the united states. we will tell you why you should care. because this was stunning. and happened just hours ago. >> ainsley: and cuts are coming for the pentagon. we will tell you what's on the chopping block today. ♪ ...thinking of redoing our kitchen. ...we are finally updating our kitchen. for all those people who never seem to get around to it... —...a breakfast nook. —chase has financial guidance. let's see how you can start saving... —really? —really? at home or in-person. that's guidance from chase. mucinex nightshift starts working at bed time to fight your worst night-time symptoms.

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as afd finished in second with nearly 21% of the vote. but it turns out the christian conservatives don't want to work with afd. i'm not sure why. the results of germany continuing a growing trend of conservative victories in europe. france, australia and portugal green new agenda destroyed their economy. to today marks the start of the war in ukraine. early preparations underway for a face-to-face summit between president trump and vladimir putin. a russian official saying peace talks would be on the table as well as a, quote: move towards normalizing relations between our countries. joining us now fox news contributor joey jones. how do you feel about that? are you okay with the president meeting with russia and not with ukraine oat the same time? >> i think if that's the path to peace and that's the path that president trump picked. i voted for president trump and i voted for him while he was on the campaign trail saying he is going to get an end to this war.

not that he is going to make sure ukraine wins this war and every element of it. i don't like the idea of russia gaining ground or gaining anything. but, we take a step back. ukraine isn't in this war if the u.s.a. united states doesn't support it. american people spoke very loudly they are not willing to support it the same way. i applaud the president like i had a lot of reservations about turning gaza into mara gaza. i applause the president end the war taking lives every single day. >> brian: i don't think if you have a monitor there take a look at the maps before the invasion that ukraine eye russia did unprovoked to afterwards. they lost about 20% of their land. they are in a virtual stalemate. one of the proposals has an international force on that border. some say would include u.s. troops. secretary hegseth says no way. how do you feel? >> joey: honestly, brian, my complete honest opinion is we haven't proven to the american people we can win against a bunch of guys in flip flops and

aks. i don't think we are in the economic or position with our marital to embark into what would be another world war and putting ourselves that much closer to it. i hate that that's the answer that and that should not be the situation. i hope we are about to talk about how that is going to change. that's how i feel right now today. >> policy is the reason why there wasn't more success in both those countries. the way you i goose fought. the way you adapted to the battlefield is something they are going to be writing about in military hits industry books if you ask me. over the weekend, it became clear there is going to be major changes at the pentagon. there is new chairman of the joint chiefs of staff cq brown is now out. chief of navy is now out. three top lawyer officers jag officers were also fired. from the military war fighter perspective, how do you feel about this? how does it effect the men and women in uniform? >> yeah. just real quick. those were wars that we won every battle but lost the war. only politicians can do that military doesn't do that.

>> brian: exactly. >> joey: on this topic of what is happening in the pentagon right now. take into account the people who run our military they run the colleges they go to. i don't mean the academies but they run those two but the war colleges. entire professional development is inside a bubble. they are learning from their mentors. the idea for creativity and change doesn't come often. and i think that's exactly what president trump wants. picking this specific chairman joint chiefs of staff. this is someone who has been as successful running businesses in this country as he was running military units and successful in both. i think that's annual asset. it's yet to see how it's going to turn out. i know the cq brown, specifically the president had differences with, so did pete hegseth. and that's why he is not there anymore. talk about the jag core. we were talking about this earlier you and i in the break that we have a culture of timid. we have a culture in our listen, waging war.

bad guy and taking risk. certainly a segment of that ultimately when we look at what is happening with our military, we have to learn how to win again, the best example is the marine corps. the marine corps commandant comes in and gets rid of stlearl and tanks and some of the helicopters. he changes how sniper school works. sets our ma marine corps up to n in the pacific. whether or not that's a good idea, almost every four star retired general wrote letters complaining about it. but it's that type of thinking that puts us in a good position. that's the kind of thinking that needs to be heard. >> brian: i want you to hear what sergeant hegseth said about the firings. watch. >> there is civilian control of the military. 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 changes from fdr to eisenhower to hw bush to barack obama. who fired or dismissed hundreds

of militaries during his term. there is nothing about purging. nothing about illegal. we have made clear from the beginning, shannon, the military will be apolitical with a fidelity of the constitution. >> brian: i wanted you to comment quick on that, joey. >> joey: i think we would be naive to think we are getting rid of people president trump doesn't like. that's part of it, that's his prerogative. i hope that pete hegseth's words ring true this is 100 percent about war fighter and winning the war. not winning the queengs. not to say we are going to break it but not be afraid of it. >> brian: no one more antimilitary than president biden. he had deep disdain for the military brass. this president is picking his people but is pro-pentagon. thank you so much, joey. great insight as usual. >> joey: thanks. >> brian: you got it. 33 minutes after the hour. what did you accomplish last week? elon musk wants federal employees to answer that very question or risk being fired.

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that's what elon musk wants federal employees to answer tonight. several agencies including the defense and state department have instructed employees not to respond. a significant number of people who are supposed to be working for the government are doing so little work they are not checking their emails at all. in some cases we believe nonexistent people or the identities of dead people are being used. here to react is stacy on the right. stacy washington, good morning, my friend. >> good morning, lawrence. thank you. >> lawrence: elon is saying some may be bots, they may be dead. is he using this to kind of gauge who is real and who is not real is this a good idea? >> it's a fabulous idea. the american people voted for president trump to go in and bring his entire team in and make government smaller and more efficient for us. we should be getting what we paying for. first quarter of the year spent paying taxes every year.

record tax collection every year. it's amazing to me that people would need to justify what they're doing. it should be evident that you are working. right? i never had a job where my boss had to say send me five bullet points and show we what you have done that week. my work was evident. i was interfacing with them. talking, having conversation. if it wasn't the in person work situation, they always knew what i was up to. he has a right to verify works who he had say they are over # 0% driving in washington, d.c. right now as we are speaking because they have been off since the pandemic while the rest of us have been in the office. i think this is the right thing for him to do. it is a demonstration of promises made, promises kept. >> lawrence: stacey, you got ahead of me. >> this is the perfect. those who ignore elon musk's return to work received over a month warning. this week those who still return to fail to office will be placed on administrative leave. that's state from the doge guy

himself. >> you know, lawrence, i think the other thing that we are not really paying attention to is that history repeats. president trump is actually following the steps of his predecessor. president trump clinton drew down over 3 # 0,000 employees to make government more efficient. and president obama actually said he wanted to do things like combine the atf and fbi in one agency. there were a lot of time lining efforts during his term that they never got to. this is not a vicious thing. it's actually something that has to happen. they are called res and risks in the private sector. we will all subject to them. should not be able to live a life and have a salary and have assurances private citizens cannot have. the other part for over 47% of them said they would resist president trump's agenda. that means they have enough time on their hands to resist, lawrence. i have never had a job where doing politics on the side could be a primary function of the work that i was doing. be paid for it, right? we all have metrics that we have

to hit and these people need to come into reality. >> lawrence: what do you think the american people feel about this? i would love to do other stories. everywhere i go, i hear people talking about doge. and i think there's a lot of outrage in the country about the waste, fraud and abuse. what you are you hearing? >> the same thing. in our house literally i will yell they are at it again. i went into a deep dive on doge on my radio program i love websites that she organ charts and how much money is being spent average wage for a government employee average time in service 10 years. average wage 93,000. there is so much to learn on that website. instead of f fear-mongering. i wish the media would do a little bit better of a job calming the fears of people who might be afraid. most federal employees, lawrence, have bachelor's degrees. these are not people who will be unemployed for long. i just wish they had -- taken advantage of that buyout offer much more lush than senior level

executives. they don't get 8 months of severance. most of them get six months. lawrence, it's every day in america. adventure opportunity. i choose to see this not in a negative light. voting for them to do what they're doing. kind of refreshing. >> lawrence: haven't seen that in a while politician runs on something. talking about the richest man in the world. it's not like he needs anything. stacy washington. >> sleeping on the floor, yeah. >> lawrence: thanks, stacey. >> thanks, lawrence. >> lawrence: the trump administration is facing another lawsuit. and you might not guess where this one is coming from, next. ♪

♪ >> ainsley: this is a fox news alert. pope francis remains in the hospital for a tenth day as he continues battling double pneumonia and early stages of kidney issues. the latest update from the vatican this morning says the night went well, the pope has slept and is resting here to react is dr. marc siegel. hey, dr. siegel. >> hey, good morning, ainsley. >> lawrence: good morning. what are your concerns here? >> you know, it's hard to speculate because i'm hearing the reports coming from the vatican, but they are being very particular in the wording they are choosing. i see some silver linings here.

when they say he is on high flow oxygen. that's going in through the nose. and that's not as aggressive as if he had positive pressure or if he were on a ventilator. neither of those are occurring. which probably means he doesn't have sepsis, that it hasn't spread beyond his lucks. he rested peacefully overnight is another positive thing. do you not sleep peacefully if you are getting worse. now, i want to clarify something that i believe hasn't been reported correctly in the media. they say the word kidney failure and everybody out there says oh no bilateral pneumonia, now kidney failure, he's done. >> actually what the vatican said mild kidney insufficiency. meaning he probably didn't get enough blood flow or volume to the kidneys and there was a slight effect which they're reversing. i don't look at it the same way as someone who has many years working in the icu.

i don't find that alarming. i want our viewers to know that that's easily corrected and also that they gave him blood is a way to correct things. but, again, he is 88 years old. he lost part of his lung many years ago. got bilateral pneumonia. you know, everybody knows he is in a very fragile state. we can't really predict the future. but, every night that he is stable is another night is he likely responding to antibiotics. >> ainsley: my mother did have kidney failure needed a transplant too sick to have that she had to go on dialysis her kidneys 15% functioning. does this mean eventually he will have kidney failure or can he make a full recovery? your mother was wonderful i remember her relevant. >> ainsley: thank you. you helped her a lot. >> that's exactly what i don't think he has i don't care what

i'm hearing monitoring that closely. she had much worse severe kidney problems. he has what they call mild insufficiency. that should be correctable. and should be very stable. if i see it getting worse. they are going to use different words than they are using. they are using very mild words. again, i don't like that belatelets were low. i don't like that he needed blood. i don't like that he has double pneumonia. but the fact alert and interacting and sleeping all night is good signs. >> ainsley: one third do experience sepsis and that's the big concern. you are saying he you are not concerned about that you don't think he will develop sepsis since is he getting oxygen? >> i don't know. as you said it's one third he hasn't apparently developed it yet, ainsley, that's a good sign. you tend to see it earlier on. he has been without it. the other thing that i got to

add is prayer here, i believe and you believe is going to play a really important role in his chances of recovery. that's on the table. it plays an important role. >> ainsley: absolutely. we are all praying for him. thank you so much, dr. siegel. >> great to see you, ainsley. have a good morning. >> ainsley: thank you. let's hand it over to brian for headlines. >> brian: thanks, ainsley. >> ainsley: oh. >> brian: it would be better for the show if i showed the distance between us but i have to be honest. eric adams is suing the trump administration for $80 million after we withdrew the biden era funding used for migrant shelters. the city comptroller saying after my office discovered that elon musk and doge goon squad really stole $08 million out of the city's coffers we successfully pressured mayor adams to allow the city's lawyers to sue the federal government to get our money back. nice talk, isn't it? and happening today, vivek ramaswamy expected to launch a bid for governor of ohio.

he is set to kick off the campaign in his hometown of cincinnati. same as bill hemmer. is he aiming to repraise republican governor mike dewine who term limited the race's presumed frontrunner then jon husted dropped out to take a senate appointment. ramaswamy after he the department of doge and suspended bid for the white house. how about this? former mlb. >> rod drilling half not shot of bucknell's basketball game against army to win the student $10,000. now, watch. [cheers] >> he scores. $10,000. >> brian: we have to get the circumstances, lexy, our chief of staff going to buck nell.

a beautiful school in the middle of nowhere. how did a rod end up at this school? >> ainsley: come on over, lawrence. look, that's my man right there. not only does he play baseball well. he plays basketball well. >> brian: he just bottom the timberwolves. >> lawrence: can i just say i have never seen ainsley be star struck. but when she saw a rod. >> brian: look what he is doing for children. >> ainsley: i know. $10,000. >> lawrence: a man of many talents. >> brian: i assume the whole thing was -- chris, can you come over? >> ainsley: family affair. >> brian: hits the shot at halftime and goes in, the kid gets $10,000. that's like a win-win. >> he can write a check right now. >> ainsley: guys, don't you think he's cute? >> lawrence: no, we don't. a. >> chris: my life. >> brian: jlo. >> brian: who is doing this? >> ainsley: what producers? brian can't handle reading.

okay. lawrence and i have got. this all right, lawrence. >> lawrence: trump national security adviser. >> ainsley: michael waltz worked around the clock this weekend. >> lawrence: on the russia ukraine peace deal he is here to tell you all about this. >> ainsley: plus -- that's your line, brian. >> brian: plus other people embracing the maga movement one influencer telling us why it works. >> ainsley: all right. we'll keep you brian. did you well ♪ it's odd how in an instant things can transform. slipping out of balance into freefall. i'm glad i found stability amidst it all. gold. standing the test of time. nexium 24hr prevents heartburn acid before it begins.

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