>> ainsley: good morning to you, it's 7:00 a.m. on the east

coast. it's tuesday, february 25th, and this is "fox & friends." and we have our booze on for texas tuesday. >> brian: and it's the 25th. >> ainsley: the 25th! you didn't scream at me. >> brian: i know. >> steve: meanwhile, democrats are trying to block president trump's agenda in congress. can republicans gert done? >> the budget is a scam. >> this budget is a republican betrayal of the middle class. >> brian: exactly statement department spokesman tammy bruce update. >> lawrence: you wouldn't believe this activists in l.a. doxxing ice agents. wait until you hear about this. the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. >> ainsley: we knew this would happen. the democrats are working very hard to block president trump's agenda in congress. including his tax cuts for

americans. as the g.o.p. led house looks to hold a vote on the budget this week. >> steve: could be today. could be tomorrow. madeleine rivera is closer to the action than we are, so she joins us from the bureau with the latest. hey, maddy. >> madeleine: hi, guys. house democrats don't have the blocks to block this budget resolution from moving forward if republicans can stick together. what democrats can do is make sure all their members are present to make sure their caucus is at full strength. that's what house minority leader hakeem jeffries is calling for today. >> every single democrat i believe is going to stand in firm opposition to this g.o.p. tax scam, which is all about rewarding their billionaire donors and wealthy corporations and undermining working class americans. it's all hands on deck. in the congress it's all hands on deck in the courts. >> madeleine: not clear if republicans can smooth divisions into their own conference to advance this framework which calls for $1.5 trillion in spending cuts and more than

$4 trillion in tax cuts. representatives tim burchett, victoria spartz and thomas massie all say they are voting no because they don't think the plan reduces spending enough and there are moderates worried about potential cuts to programs like medicaid. still house speaker mike johnson is optimistic republicans can get through their differences and push this resolution through this week. >> this is a prayer request, just pray this through for us. [laughter] because it is very high stakes. everybody knows that. if you are a small business owner, this is a very challenging time because you don't know what to expect. the markets don't know what to expect. the bond market doesn't know what to expect. putting that clarity in as early as possible is critical. so the way to do that is one big beautiful bill. my calendar has us passing this by probably the first week of april and getting it to the senate so they can do their work on it. >> madeleine: republicans can only afford to lose one or two votes on any given day to pass legislation through along party lines. there is a lot to wash out here,

guys. lawrence, steve, ainsley and brian. >> steve: all right, maddy, thank you very much. >> brian: the big challenge the moderates, victoria spartz, thomas massie. they say we have to make sure medicare is not cut. we have to make sure it's not going to get cut. somehow they have to reassure some of those people that the math works. >> steve: particularly those three right there that we just talked about who are depicted on that graphic. they say that the spending cuts are not deep enough. they want more spending cuts. those three right there. >> ainsley: they want more to make up for the fax cuts. >> steve: exactly. statement, this is a simultaneous operation. you got republicans on capitol hill trying to get together a coalition that can pass this thing. same time you got elon musk, doge incorporated, and what they are trying to do is find some more money so they can say hey, look, we just found 100 bazillion dollars of waste, fraud and abuse and we are going to cut it. that will be able to get some of the republicans across the

finish line that will be like well, if we are going to cut that stuff we can use that money to pass the president's agenda. >> lawrence: the problem with that and i have been going back and got chad pergram about it, when they score the bill the cuts that doge is making is not a part of the score. so, i mean, look, on one hand, i get the spirit of the debate of wanting to cut, but if you don't have the votes, you don't have the votes. and the house is stalling legislation for the senate because they want the bun beautiful bill but you don't have the votes for one beautiful bill, maybe something changes, right now it seems like it's another group of three and tomorrow another group of three people that have some resistance to the bill. >> ainsley: yeah. we will see. the congressional hispanic conference and the moderate republicans are concerned about the changes to medicaid. but, speaker johnson says he will get the votes. he has left voice mails. he met with spartz last night again to talk to her about it. she just wants to make up the difference and cut a little bit more so americans can enjoy the tax cuts and there is no burden.

>> brian: you also have to raise the debt ceiling and link that with l.a. wildfire funding. >> ainsley: and speaker johnson says he wants everyone in america to pray for this so would can get this through. the resolution passed. >> lawrence: i'm with you. >> brian: if you are praying for legislation, that's kind of an interesting. >> lawrence: praying for everything. >> steve: might take divine intervention. >> brian: i don't know. a lot of things pray for. i don't know if that should make the cut list. that's why we have a speaker. god gave us a speaker. >> lawrence: i knew this was going to happen. >> brian: i'm just saying. >> steve: producers are praying we get to the next item. >> ainsley: for the record i prayed for this. the speaker asked us to. the bible says pray for leadership. >> steve: praying for spending cuts? >> ainsley: yes he asked us to. >> brian: even if the cbo doesn't score it. if that's happening should be enough for republicans to understand it's coming. use that for constituents who might have some doubts.

>> steve: they would make that. >> brian: elon musk giving federal workers a second chance to respond to emails demand demanding details of what they lished last week. >> ainsley: this comes as musk's initial deadline to justify their jobs or be fired passed overnight. >> lawrence: senior white house correspondent peter doocy joins us with details. >> the response rate was pretty low to that email considering that the office of personnel management told the people that they manage, federal workers, they did not have to reply to it. it was optional, to send five things that they did last week. so now elon musk is saying, the email request was utterly trivialial as the standard for passing the test was to type some words and press send. yet, so many failed even that test urged on in some cases by their manager. have you ever witnessed such incompetence and contempt for how your taxes are being spent? makes old twitter look good.

didn't think that was possible. this is what is coming next. musk says subject to the discretion of the president, they, federal workers, will be given another chance. failure to respond a second time will result in terms. and musk and president trump are alleging that federal payrolls are not as they seem. >> so what they are doing is trying to find out who is working for the government. are we paying other people that aren't working and, you know, where is the money going? there was a lot of genius in sending it. we are trying to find out if people are working. so we are sending a letter to people please tell us what you did last week. if people don't respond, it's very possible that there is no such person or they are not working. >> peter: the doge team claiming they cut $65 billion in programs and duplicate payments. but to reach their lofty goal of $1 trillion cut, they are going to have to shrink the federal workforce more because not enough people took the buyout

offer, so that is what this is all about. back to you. >> steve: so, peter, given the fact that elon musk is saying you got to do this, and it went out to all the employees, and then various agency heads that said, yeah, don't listen to that, you don't have to do it, is this a power struggle? what's going on? >> it seems like this is something that elon musk has had success with and likes doing at his companies, and we just never really had a window into the way that he managed. this is the way that he manages. even though when they go to a court hearing and a judge asks the justice department representing the white house who is in charge of doge? and they don't say elon musk, they say we don't actually know, it is elon musk just trying to more than anything, it seems, make a point about the way that these bureaucracies are run. and none of those federal agencies have said to their employees don't ever write back. this is the wrong thing, they just want to coordinate their responses, in many cases is

seems like when there is sensitive information or classified stuff or names of sensitive people that they don't want getting out, they are just all going to send back the same thing. people that work at the cia are going to send back the same five things, same at fbi, and same at dni. it seems like that's where this is going. >> ainsley: thank you, peter. the president said make sure there is a body in that position. it's not just a paycheck is going to a girlfriend of a guy who has passed away or something like that. so, he just wants to make sure there is a warm body in that chair. and that's why he said elon said just write something back. >> steve: where is the chair? is the chair at home? >> ainsley: no. they are all back in the office. >> steve: by mid march. >> brian: i thought monday. >> ainsley: monday. kelly loeffler she was in the office last friday saying look at all these empty desks. >> steve: mandate everybody back by mid march it varies as we have seen it varies from agency

to agency. >> lawrence: no matter when they are coming back, i think the question is, isn't it kind of egregious that we don't know where some of the employees are around we don't know if someone is working? a private business would never be able to function this way. every penny matters. but when you have a blank check, being the federal government, they don't care. and so you may have some people that are dead. you have -- you may have some people that just aren't working or anything. no matter what the reason is, we got to figure out who these people are and if they are alive or not. i think this is a great strategy to doing it. >> brian: i would like to see some of the doge workers, maybe they have press conference. and some handle education. some treasury. some are handling transportation. some are soon going to be handling the pentagon. elon musk, if he wants to chair it, just say these are. so men and women doing some of the investigation. and just work their way through. this is the problem with education. this is what cutting at -- more

than usaid. there are some other things going up there that aren't as blatant as teaching zam beans english that we don't -- we shouldn't be spending money on. >> lawrence: i somewhat disagree, bry. not because i don't want transparency. we are dealing with a -- part of the reason why there is, you know, a communications error about the tone and all that, these aren't those type of people. these are coders. these are tech guys. it's going to be up to the department heads, the people that run these cabinet posts to explain to us exactly what's going on. >> brian: we don't want them targeted either. >> lawrence: exactly. >> steve: to that point sean duffy released these are the five things i did last week. we told you last week that every agency has got a doge team. a doge team leader, an hr person

and there's a lawyer. so i think that ultimately what we have started to see is the various agencies, like sean duffy coming out and saying okay, this is what we are doing to trim waste, fraud, and abuse. when you go agency by agency, that way rather than it just being a wholesale machete right across the top, they can make the argument, okay, this is what we did, and it was targeted and it is saving you money and it's not impacting safety, ultimately. >> ainsley: a lot of people voted for trump because they were tired of the way the federal government and people who didn't like him, people who opposed him were against him and weren't going to vote for him. they were going after him. there was the weaponization of the doj. today a house judiciary subcommittee on oversight at #:00 p.m. they are going to examine what the biden and harris administration did to weaponize american citizens. and their republican opponents. they will also explore how trump is working to restore the rule of law. brian had a great interview chris swecker. y'all were going through the

different alleged weaponization of the doj. >> brian: i heard there was a buzz in the green room while my interview was going on. you were enjoying it. quiet down, quiet down. here's a little of what you guys were so fascinated by. go in and listen, we want to find out if these are legitimate investigations or were they politically motivated. i asked chris swecker one of the people asked to come down. former assistant director of the fbi. he said some of these he wasn't buying into. but this one was. crossfire hurricane absolutely political, russia collusion. what you do is usually investigate russia. not america. >> ainsley: crossfire hurricane the fbi love birds paige and strzok. >> brian: fisa warrants, investigating to what happened delaying the investigation of the biden family. >> ainsley: the laptop? >> brian: absolutely that was part of it. so things they will be covering with other witnesses. here is chris swecker. >> when you look back at the origins of crossfire hurricane and the doj inspector general said this.

it was an unpredicated investigation. that means that there wasn't sufficient facts to open up a full fbi investigation. so that, you know, we know now peter strzok, paige, mccabe, comey, they had a personal animus towards donald trump. that's injecting your own personal opinion in politics into a full fbi investigation that it turns out wasn't predicated. then they went on to lie on fisa applications using that discredited steele dossier. that would have never happened under an fbi that wasn't led by jim comey. i can guarantee you that. >> lawrence: i'm not trying to get retribution against political opponents. i think what the administration wants is to show the american people okay, this is the fbi investigative standards. this is how we investigate. this is what happened with these guys with every single case and this is where it violated policy. and this is what we're going to do going forward to make sure that we get back to the old way we used to investigate people.

you just can't target people because you don't like their politics. and that was clearly happening. >> brian: i asked him about mar-a-lago. mar-a-lago absolutely politically motivated? what makes you think about that. the comeback is classified documents the president wasn't acting quick enough. you don't do it. fbi agents objected and had to go anyway. brings to the next question. if you went on the raid should you be fired? the answer is no. you can't reject what raid you are going on or not. >> steve: although there was that thing where came out where okay, if you were involved, you know, tell me what you were involved in and we will see what happens. what will be great about this hearing that they're going to have is we have heard for years that, you know, things were political in nature. let's have people come in and say okay, this is what happened behind the scenes, and, you know, obviously have got protection for telling the truth and telling everything they know. a lot of them no longer in government so they don't have to worry about their jobs. people want to know what really

happened? >> ainsley: why didn't they go after the blm riots? why didn't they go after the people protesting in front of the justice's houses? why didn't they prosecute the anti-israel campus protesters? those are some questions. they pick and choose who they are going to go after. it always is someone with an r behind their name. >> lawrence: that's right. >> steve: well, let's see, because we all want to know what happened. meanwhile bill melugin had some great reporting out yesterday where it turns out and we were talking about the ice raids across the country. that has really impacted the number of people coming into this country illegally. a lot of them have been in los angeles. now, some anti-ice protesters or troublemakers. >> ainsley: activists. >> steve: essentially put up anti-ice posters. >> lawrence: they're doxxing them. >> steve: the headline says that translates. careful with these faces. we have blurred them out. those are six people who are involved in ice and the raids out in l.a. it gives their name, gives their

address, i think it gives their phone numbers, they are being doxxed, obviously, they are trying to intimidate the good guys into not going after the bad guy. >> lawrence: the question is are we going to allow this to happen in our country? we are going to allow the cartel to win in our own country. put the faces of our cops? you got murderers, racists that have flood the country because biden wanted to open up the border and let 10 million come into the country. now finally when the cops are able to do their job. this is why we have 30 cops on one bus for one guy, because it's not safe. they are putting pictures of their families at risk as a result. they will probably have to pull these cops off duty because they can't do their job and be able to protect their family back home. there has to be legal consequences. i'm just waiting for pam bondi to figure exactly who these activists are and prosecute them. they are aiding and abetting entire criminal enterprise. >> ainsley: ice is saying they are not sure who these people are hanging up these posters.

they are aware. they are investigating. the l.a. fbi is warning people who interfere with fbi could face prosecution. putting targets on the backs of our law enforcement as they shield ms-13, tren de aragua, and other vicious gangs that traffic women and children, kidnap for ransom and poison americans with lee theology drugs. these individuals will be held accountable for obstructing the law and justice. this shouldn't be controversial. >> brian: also some other things that are important to point out that mayor bass, arguably the worst mayor in the country, was trying hard to be number one, and she is half way there. believe in yourself. she also out of her way to say this. no one should live in fear due to their immigration status. los angeles is a stiff immigrants who will continue to stand together except, of course, what bill melugin posted right after. that's the amount of illegal aliens who were arrested for horrific crimes guatemala, 18th street gang member i would fear

him convicted of assault. convicted chinese child pled he had predator. a problem you should fear. drug trafficker. a guatemalan convicted of manslaughter assailant? guatemalan convicted of rape with a gun. that's bass who says these are the people as bill writes that says we should have fear, i believe. this is -- this is an idea the difference between the two parties. one sees illegal immigrants were a melting pot. others see there is a difference between criminals and people who are here illegally. >> lawrence: also goes to the point you see the rap sheet of all those people. you left these people back on the street be common sense just look at the polling data still over 60% of the country deportations. you would think with all these rallies and all that that the time would change. buff the country is aware because these folks aren't staying in the rich neighborhoods as my last guest

said, that ran for city council still in boston. they are stay not guilty poor neighborhoods. they have to experience those criminal aliens in their community. >> steve: ultimately these sanctuary cities are still sanctuary cities for a lot of these bad guys. >> brian: the president says if there is one thing he wants to pick up the pace on immigration it's the criminals. find a way to round up those criminals and the kids by the tens of thousands of kids we can't track. >> ainsley: it's the lowest single apprehension day 15 years. cbp encountered only 200 illegal aliens at our southern border. kristi noem writes thanks to president trump and brave women and women of cbp make america safe again. >> steve: it's working. >> ainsley: acting head of the irs is expected to announce his retirement today right in the heart of tax season. doug o'donnell took over in january and since then the trump administration h slashed thousas of jobs in his agency. president trump has nominated

former missouri congressman billie long to permanently run the agency. the department of education placing the commissioner of the national center for education statistics peggy carr on leave just weeks after a disappointing national report card. the yearly report shows math and reading scores plummeting to two decade lows with a majority of fourth and eighth graders not being able to meet basic standards. passing grades for fourth and eighth graders also plummeting to new lows. carr was appointed under president biden. and those are your headlines. >> brian: well done. better than me yesterday. >> ainsley: what did you do yesterday? >> brian: i didn't have a good newscast yesterday. i filled in. i think you both agree. i did the news at the end and i felt i went too fast. >> lawrence: it was a little sloppy. >> ainsley: you felt you read too quickly? >> steve: always outdo ourselves tomorrow. >> ainsley: he did call dan bongino diane.

>> lawrence: not his best moment. >> steve: suddenly diane bongino if she is listening is he talking about me. >> brian: good cover, steve. i wish you were here yesterday. is peace in israel closer than we think. discussing europe's future in english. >> steve: high stakes deal with ukraine may be on the verge of a breakthrough. >> lawrence: state department spokesperson tammy bruce with exclusive details, next. ♪ let's get started. bill, where's your mask?

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include blame for russia? >> well, you know, this was a resolution to bring about peace. this is not a zero sum game. it's not the end result. this is the beginning of an effort to stop the carnage that everyone agrees this has been a horrible war. there is no winner in this dynamic. there is no reason for it to continue. it destroys humanity. and the world has been involved in large part in either facilitating it or helping it or this is a dynamic where the world has got to say enough is enough. and that's what happened at the u.n. it is a resolution that was very simple, for a change, looking to the u.n. to look at its original charter. which is to maintain and secure peace and stability. i don't know, this might be the first time but besides, of course, its establishment after world war ii. but this is, in fact, the first effort to really make a difference on the russia-ukraine

war. it's an important step. and then we can deal with the nature of what happens after this once we stop the carnage, have peace, and we can have those negotiations and discussions. and we should be proud as americans that we made this happen. president trump made it happen. and marco rubio, the secretary of state, his diplomacy over the last several weeks also made it happen. >> brian: we have a lot of moving parts. >> tammy: we do. >> brian: president trump talking about how zelenskyy and the deal almost done. take a listen. >> i will be meeting with president zelenskyy. he may come in this week or next week to sign the agreement, which would be nice. i would love to meet him. meet at the oval office. they are very close to a final deal, it will be a deal with rare earth and various other things. and he would like to come as i understand it here to sign it. that would be great to me. they then have to get it approved by their counsel or

whoever might approve it but i'm sure that will happen. >> brian: and president putin, do you know what he said yesterday to his people as he looked at three years of war? he said i would like the u.s. to do a rare earth deal with us. and help mine our own rare earth? your thoughts? >> tammy: that's what leadership brings us, right? this is why president trump was selected. this is what the american people want. and imagine, you know, i think this is my fourth week in office. this is for all of us. it's been a month. but this is what americans have wanted. and this is what can happen when you know what people agree on, which is wanting peace and there's a north star that can you rely on to design what that will look like. >> brian: so the other element is, let's say you get the cease-fire that wouldn't be unique. crimea in 2014, and they did a deal. they said no more -- fine breached it and invaded anyway. macron said yesterday, i sat with vladimir putin before the invasion for seven hours. at which time he said he wasn't going to invade and invaded

anyway. have you heard of a sustainable plan take a guy we could never trust and somehow believe that he wouldn't start this war again? >> tammy: i think it speaks, again, to leadership. and if the person you are sitting across from has a history of doing what he says he's going to do, like president trump does, where you have someone who is not kidding around, who doesn't waffle, who doesn't create red lines that then are breached, this is a different element here. the new day is an american leadership that knows what it wants, has men and women at the lead, who know what it is they need to do. and i think that is a framework that is what is going to make this come to fruition, going to tell certain bad actors in the world, in general, that the free ride that they have had for four years is over. that america is once again in the lead and europe now has an opportunity to show the world that it, too, is serious and they can show every other -- whether it's putin or anyone

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♪ >> ainsley: pope francis still in critical condition as he remains in the hospital this morning for an 11th day battling double pneumonia. our chief religion correspondent traveled all the way over there. lauren green is live outside of that medical center in rome with the latest for us. good morning to you lauren. >> lauren: good morning. the news out of the vatican continues to be a little more good than bad. the pope slept well last night well enough to meet with vatican officials for some church business. the doctors say prognosis is still guarded. last night some of those prayers of the people were answered around the world and for hundreds who came out last night for st. peters' square for a reezry visual to pray. they clutched their rosaries and recited the prayers and meditating on the mysteries of

the christian faith that has often brought the miracle of healing. >> for 2,000 years the christian people have been praying for the pope who is in danger or sick. early days father francis admitted, for him an intense prayer rises dollars up to the lord on the part of individual, faithful and christian communities around the world. >> lauren: also at the hospital doctors and nurses offer prayers at the daily mass there pope francis is being treated for severe bronchitis and pneumonia. even the 88-year-old pontiff's condition is improving, there is still concern because of his age, fragility and pre-existing lung disease. prop francis has had several health issues over the last few years. this is the longest hospital stay of his papacy, admitted here february 14th. doctors are taking kind of a wait and see attitude about his condition. but, meanwhile, today, just released, pope francis released his lenten message begins next

week. in it reflects how we are all pilgrims on this life on a journey of faith and hope. ainsley, back to you. >> ainsley: okay. well, we wish him well. we are all praying for him. >> thank you so much, lauren. while they might sit on opposite sides of the aisle john fetterman and d.a. mccormick, pennsylvania senators, putting aside for the good of the state and country. >> what's your priority the both of you and why? what do you want to see. >> protecting the way of life here that's been here since 1875. >> most important thing i agree with the senator is protecting these jobs in the valley. the way of life. the jobs. that is the number one priority that may be seem like small points, it's a big point. this is steel city. this is where it all started. >> ainsley: the interview was part of a new series put on by pittsburgh based columnist salena zito and she joins you now. good morning, celina. >> good morning. thanks for having me.

>> ainsley: you helped us out so much to give us the lay of the land. you covered politics you lived there 65 years. you are doing this series every month you are going to highlight the culture and politics of what is happening in your state. you are going around the state and interviewing different people. this was your first in the series. interviewed two senators, one is a democrat and one is a republican. it was at fetterman's house, which is an old converted car dealership and his dog was there so this was in braddock, pa to give our audience a little bit of background. what i found when i read your article last night, celinena, just the common ground between these two. what can america learn between these two in this interview? >> well, i think what they can learn is, is that it's not always party hates each other and they don't have any common ground on any issues. when it comes to u.s. steel, you see senator fetterman, senator mccormick and president donald trump all on the same page in terms of keeping it american

made, but, also, reinvesting in the community, re -- you know, the u.s. steel plant, you can't be in fetterman's house without being surrounded by it. it's across the street from his house. it's all over the place. and so, and what i have found most interesting about the interview, there was a point where i became a fly on the wall. the two of them definitely have a camaraderie and affection for each other. and that really shined through in that interview. and i interviewed president trump after senator fetterman went down to visit with him, and he just said i find this man incredibly fascinating. i'm ready to work with him. and you see that same sentiment coming from mccormick to fetterman and from fetterman to mccormick. i think that's a really, really great for the state. >> ainsley: i learned in the article that they are willing to work together.

that your state is top egg supplier. maple syrup, snack foods like potato chips. they want to sponsor a bill to use tallow fat for our foods. every american would like that. make affordable housing and houses livable again. andrew carnegie built the steel industry or steel plant right across the street from where fetterman lives back in 1875 you write about. this is what fetterman said about preserving and dave mccormick preserving the steel industry. >> sometimes people just want more time. they want me to pick up a folding chair and -- it's going to get more and more contentious and polarized but i have lost my taste for that kind of pointless, you know, clashing and those things. >> ainsley: what is the latest? because all of this effects americans, steel industry, and exporting liquified natural gas that biden banned. >> the ban has been lifted. president trump lifted that, i

believe, last week. then something that both senators were supportive of. you know, liquid natural gas doesn't just help the energy industry and the people who work around it, but it also helps our farmers. our farmers have on their land for liquified natural gas. those leases oftentimes help pay for their farm activities, whether it's buying a new tractor, hiring new people, so that's really good news, in terms of u.s. steel that's sort of murky, that's sort of up in the air, i talked to president trump two weeks ago. he is working on a deal with nippon steel if i'm pronouncing that wrong i'm sorry. i think there is a lot of moving parts right now. i think the willingness of all three men and the congressional delegation to work together on that in pennsylvania is not only great for the state, but it's really great for those communities that need to survive on those -- off the industry. >> it's a great article, congratulations, thank you so

much. i learned so 67 about fetterman, tattoos displaying deaths of violent deaths. learned a lot about mccormick, gulf war veteran and went do west point and princeton. fetterman you said went to harvard. i did not know that thank you so much, celina. great to see you. you always do a wonderful job. >> thank you so much. thanks for having me. >> ainsley: you are welcome. a shocking turn in the idaho murder case could nearly turn 200 pages of new evidence. make a difference in verdict? we'll talk about it. ♪

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♪ >> adam: i know it's just a teaser but out here on fox square, spring is in the air. it truly is beginning to feel a lot more pleasant out there. still wintry weather we are tracking. dive right into that. and talk about what is happening across the pacific northwest where there is a round of coastal rain. higher elevations still talking about a good amount of snowfall for those folks mixed in with really intense winds anywhere from 60 to 57 miles per hour. this is big weather moving across the pacific northwest. a lot of winds next couple of days. otherwise the story is those mild temperatures. a week ago a lot of folks below freezing. where i'm currently. a lot of folks in the 40's and 50's today.

mid 60's in the middle of the country. lasting the next couple of days. those headlines. toss it back inside to you. >> lawrence: i'm glad it's warming up. thanks, adam. new developments in the idaho murder case. the judge unseeley nearly 200 pages from a closed door hearing. bryan kohberger's hearing genealogy research that helped identify him as a suspect. fox news contributor nypd inspector general paul mauro joins us now. we spent maybe two months in idaho covering this case. finally came to a close. they got the guy that did it. this was always a long shot. this has been settled law. right? >> it is. while it's still a developing area of law. the case law is starting to cut against what the defense contending here. summing up real quick. what they did the police and the fbi. they took that touch d.n.a. and pinged it through the commercial databases that people use to ascertain aspects of their genealogy. where i'm from. where my family is from all that

kind of thing. when do you that. you don't get a specific person. generally what you get is a pool of people that could be related to you. now the detective work starts. go through that pool and find out who in this might go to this potential suspect. that's what they did. the defense was challenging that they were saying bryan kohberger had an exception of privacy in his d.n.a. you shouldn't have done it shouldn't have used it to get the search warrants they used to get his phone movement, his car movement, et cetera. they lost across the board. and right now it looks to me like the defense is running out of runway and we are headed towards a summer trial. >> lawrence: that was like the last try right there. and i think if i remember correctly, the ding with his father that they got the d.n.a. and then linked it toward him. it came -- one of the challenges they made was they thought they had a exception to privacy of the garbage and they found the d.n.a., of course, in the garbage. you got a new special coming up on fox nation.

here's a little bit of it. >> violent threat present to the country. >> we are talking about getting the most despicable, disgusting breed of people out of our city. >> the tren de aragua or tda is no regular street gang. >> the tda has very strong links with the venezuelan regime. criminal government. >> their criminal enterprise reigns through terror and fear. >> lawrence: paul, when did tren de aragua become a problem here in the country? >> realistically, during the mass immigration that we allow through our southern border, essentially what happened was, they were coming in as got-aways but there was the chnv, cuba, haiti, venezuela. we were allowing people to come in on special i have visas, almost like expedited path to citizenship. because there is no vetting,

venezuela doesn't cooperate with us in the least we imported their worst prison gang. and this group punches way above the weight of some of the groups we have sneent past. the short answer is they combine essentially the viciousness of the cartels, with some of the sophistication of terror groups. now, i didn't know half of what i discovered during this program. and i would just urge people to say if you really want to know what we are up against here why a lax border was so bad the hill that we still have to climb at the local, state, and federal level, what tom homan, kristi noem and all those people are facing, you should watch this. even for me it was eye opening to discover that they could be linked and appear to be linked to the venezuelan government. they have middle eastern links. there is a lot more going on with this group than i ever realized and i learned it during this special. >> lawrence: you know, it's interesting. if you are saying that and you led intelligence for new york city, which is next to the u.s. government is the top intelligence agency in the country, if you are saying that,

then people really should watch this, because they are going to learn a lot. blood in america. the tren de aragua invasion is streaming now on fox nation. thanks, brother, appreciate it. so, remember this video of empty federal buildings in washington, d.c., we'll show you what they look like now after trump's return to work order. a big show still ahead on "fox & friends." ♪

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