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ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy at the white house tomorrow on friday as peace talks continue between russia and ukraine. president trump's special envoy steve witkoff is here to tell us the very latest. >> lawrence: plus, i was in the room for president trump's first cabinet meeting and i got in a question about federal agents, federal ice agents being doxxed by a progressive activist in los angeles. >> a lot of those activists are acting illegally, and we will give that to our attorney general and she will take a look at that very strongly. >> ainsley: and r.f.k. jr. getting his first major wins a hhs secretary. we will tell you what it is. the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now and remember, your mornings are better with friends. >> ainsley: today former united states workers go back into the office to collect their personal

belongs. >> lawrence: meanwhile supreme court john roberts putting a pause regarding frozen foreign aid funding. >> steve: rich edson live on the north lawn of the white house with details. rich, it sounds like office of personnel management has made it very clear, forget about the probationary employees it sounds like large scale firings are just around the corner. >> that's right. this going to be further into this now as the agency is outlining even more cuts and agencies are going to have to come up with that starting with usaid right now in about 30 minutes staff will get 15 minutes to go into the office box up their desks and leave the building. this as the administration is cutting usaid staff, reviewing and terminating agency contracts and folding the american aid organization into the state department. there are already lawsuits last night john roberts temporarily

side with the administration and determined usaid could hold off paying about 2 billion-dollar for aid work already completed. the full court is expected to weigh in on that soon. but there are more lawsuits and more expected as the president is looking to deeply cut into the federal workforce. the devil rays is directing agencies to develop plans by march 13th for large scale layoffs, a month later, agencies are expected to outline how they will consolidate offices or even relocate some out of the washington, d.c. area. as the president is pressing government workers to respond to that doge request to list their accomplishments. >> i would like to add that those million people that haven't responded to elon, they are on the bubble i wouldn't say that we are thrilled about it. maybe we are paying people that don't exist, don't forget, this group just got here maybe they

have other jobs or moved and not where this are supposed to. >> the if the then signed an executive order requiring that government agencies plubly release information regarding government travel expenses and payments where possible. steve, ainsley, lawrence, back to you. >> steve: so, rich, with these large scale layoffs that sound like are a couple of weeks away, they haven't really given any target numbers of how small they would like to reduce the workforce. they are just trying to find extra money with redundant services, making things more efficient. and that's going to be complicated. >> very complicated. what this process is they have asked agencies to come back with their plans on how they can reduce each of their workforces. they cited the epa saying they are going to reduce 65% of workforce as an example but it doesn't necessarily say every agency has got to be cut by 65%. this is a process that's moving very quickly given the history

of this. but it's up to the agencies now to come up with how they are going to reduce their staff and that's process is due in just a few weeks. >> steve: one other side note, given the fact i noticed this is kind of a feature story, but it impacts so many people. the number of homes, currently being listed on real estate agri gators like zillow and realtor.com, the number of homes now for sale in the washington, d.c. area is skyrocketing because so many people have either lost their jobs or thinking about leaving. >> ainsley: i haven't seen that i think my housing value is okay from what i checked. i don't know. >> steve: good. >> ainsley: if you are not happy and looking for something else, there's a lot out there, apparently. good information. >> lawrence: thanks, rich. >> ainsley: elon musk in the cabinet meeting is getting a lot of death threats. they are stacking up. but he said it's worth it because if not our government is going to go bankrupt.

america will go bankrupt. remember when he asked send me an email of the five things that you have done and accomplished over the last week. send it to your boss, too. he said it's actually a pulse check. anyone could do this. you just jot down five things on an email. it's really because i want to see who is not responding and if there are really live body people. >> lawrence: they are creating all these codes using ai to detect different things within the government, to figure out what is going on. they are looking at the spending. but they are also looking at the productivity as well. and so the sense i get the way they were trying to explain it was that was just to see if there was a person there then they can conduct more analysis after that. we heard in that cabinet meeting another email coming very soon they didn't say what it was. elon musk is supposed to send somebody out to solicit a response. i had the opportunity to talk to the president a big story we keep hearing about. the number one issue for him was

the border. now, apparently, activists are doxxing our federal agent. i asked the president about that. this is what he had to say. >> mr. president, your number one issue was the border. we just got new information they're doxxing our federal agents. they are putting their personal information out there, these activists. and they are disrupting the operations so you got tren de aragua running all over. what are we going to do about the activists? >> a lot of those activists are acting illegal i. and we will give that to our attorney general and she'll take a look at that very strongly. but we also having a tremendous support from border patrol, from ice, the ice agencies have been unbelievable. border patrol, their leadership at border patrol has been incredible. we set records on the least number of illegal aliens coming in, migrants coming into our country that we had -- that we have had in more than 50 years. remember, they were coming in from jails and prisons and mental institutions.

and insane asylums and they were gang members and drug dealers. i want that to be really understood. we want people in our country but they have come in legally. >> ainsley: tremendous job getting illegals off the streets. tom homan has been a part of that look at the numbers. in the last month, they have nabbed 20,000 illegals in all of joe biden's last. he 33,000. that's 627% increase in monthly arrests under donald trump. >> lawrence: just incredible. >> steve: clearly what he is doing is effective because with the raids and stuff like that, we just put up that dox o -- the agent's pictured from out in california. the people who run the cartels, the people who are out there, they don't like the fact that their business model is getting screwed up by donald trump. and so that's why they put in that and essentially it says beware of these faces.

and it's got their phone number. i think it's got their addresses. clearly, the message is, if you are trying to take us out, we're trying to take you out. >> lawrence: exactly right. >> steve: don't do it. these are the people following the law. they are following instruction from donald trump, who, as you said, it was his number one issue. the border. and so, it shouldn't be a surprise that people are going after them. >> lawrence: steve, one of the cool things about getting to interact with the president when you ask him these questions, the cabinet members and the administration, you get an immediate response from them. right when i left the press conference, i got a message from a senior justice department official saying they know exactly hot activists are. they know their connection to the other groups. and we should be hearing about action very soon. we'll stand by for that. >> ainsley: tom homan said on monday ice agents nabbed 11 migrants in one area. they were child rapists, gang bangers and killers.

>> steve: a couple weeks ago we were talking about how they were planning some department of homeland security was planning some raids. and at the last minute, suddenly, they go there and somebody had leaked information to the press. >> lawrence: in aurora. >> steve: we heard from kristi noem a few days ago they have learned hot leakers are. sounds like she wasn't referring to anybody in any other agency. sounds like somebody internally in one of the departments that she oversees. >> ainsley: really? >> steve: so they know who the leakers are. she said those people will be fired. >> ainsley: in aurora we thought it was someone from the press. larynx. >> lawrence: they gave it to the press. >> steve: if you got that information as a member of the press, a lot of people would run with that. if you release that endanger the members of our law enforcement. they sit on it. >> lawrence: that's what i did. i had the information about the

raid obviously my connection with law enforcement. i just didn't think it was smart to broadcast the locations of these raids just to give some context. for that o aurora raid that was planned there, they have to fly in over 200 federal agents for that because they have all of these targets. they end up catching like two or three people that day because they had been tipped off. so, not only was it a major failure when it comes to the amount of money that it costs for a raid like that, because we are talking about a joint task force, you have multiple swat teams that have to do that, but, also, the criminals got away. they are somewhere else in some other state or city. it's not smart to broadcast that from my personal opinion. >> ainsley: last night -- did you have something else? >> steve: so you have got the raid. you have got the deportation flights. and then you have got the other thing a great deterrent, if you come into this country and criminal alien. you might wind up at gitmo. >> ainsley: that's right. pete hegseth used to serve at

gitmo. he has devoted a few years of his life to serve our country and he was assigned to gitmo. those where they are housing the suspected terrorists from 9/11. laura ingraham went down with pete hegseth in the southeastern part of cuba. they toured it and she aired a little bit of that last night. here's a clip. >> i think the message is clear. if you break the law, if you are a criminal, you could find your way at guantanamo bay. you don't want to be at guantanamo bay. which is where we house al-qaeda after 9/11. they're professionals, they do their jobs. it's not easy. it's not an easy time. it's a maximum security prison. these are top notch, top tier facilities run by professionals where they bend over backwards to make sure that medical, dental, healthcare, food, religious accommodations, language accommodations all exist. no, you're not going to have universal freedom at guantanamo bay. it's a prison. but they get all the time that

they need as a temporary place to send them home. this is about temporarily holding high profile, high threat individuals who then we send home. >> lawrence: favorite part about the package was at one point laura asked him about sheik mohammed who was was a part of 9/11 in some capacity. but laura asked him, you know, did you have the opportunity to go see him? and how is he doing? and pete was like, the secretary of defense was like yeah, i did see him. and i really don't care how is he doing. and he said this is one of the one things that he agreed with lloyd austin that this guy should be getting the death penalty. >> steve: we have heard for years about in the very beginning when they started shipping the al-qaeda members to gitmo, we heard about how all of the conditions were. and then you see it, and pete is absolutely right. it is a high security maximum

security prison. you see all that concertina wire there and chain linked fences and that other stuff. laura did a walk around in some of the actual corridors where the people stay. it is really nice. >> lawrence: it is. >> steve: i know there are probably people who are in other parts of the world going i would love to live there. but, keep in mind, it is a high security prison you are there being ships some place else. probably home if your government will take you. >> ainsley: last week 200 illegal migrants flown to venezuela back to venezuela from gitmo. so we have been sending people there. there was actually a flight that came in when laura was there. you can see it in the background when she was being interviewed. the president's goal is he wants to house 30,000 migrants there. and that has been a challenge. tom homan talked about the challenge of not only sanctuary cities and the leaks out there.

but also the space for detention. >> laura: i think the great thing that we are starting to hear. of course, you see the border. it is the most secured border we have ever seen in this country's history right now. have you got the military. have you got border patrol that are finally able to do their job. all the military assets in the air. but now the president is starting to shift the conversation now to the legal pathway. and i think, you know, for all the criticism that he has received about he doesn't want people coming to this country, now it looks like the administration is starting to unveil their plan for people to do this the legal way. >> steve: well, and to that point about the way the -- when you come into the united states, how you are approached, keep in mind, just last week we had only 200 apprehensions on our southern border. the lowest number in something like 15 years. and the reason is, they have from the installed the entire wall yet. they don't really need at this point. because, as soon as -- during

joe biden, you come across the border, you look for the border patrol, you say hey, i'm over here. i give myself up. i want asylum. and then they take you in. now it's completely different. hey, i want asylum. you go head south right there. the whole approaches meantime quarter after the hour. this is startling news and fox news alert. if you are just getting up we are just learning this morning as of midnight last night legendary actor, two-time oscar winner gene hackman and his wife were found dead yesterday in their new mexico home. >> lawrence: todd piro joins us with what we know so far? >> todd: shocking news to wake up to. gene hackman and his wife betsy found dead along with their dog found unresponsive yesterday in their home in santa fe, new

mexico. although the sheriff's office says there is no 3450ed indication of foul play. they have not provided a cause of death or details as to when the couple might have died. prior to his storied acting career he served five years in the marine corps in late 40's and early 50's. he had been living in the santa fe and essentially retired from acting for the past two decades after starring in dozens of films including the french connection, mississippi burning, unforgiven, and one of the most famous sports movies of all time, hoosiers. >> what's the matter with you? [cheers] >> i'll make it. >> buddy, get the ball to jimmy top of the key. let's go. >> tributes starting to pour in acclaimed director copeland saying the loss of a great

artist always cause for morning mourning. gene hackman great in work and complexity. he just turned 95 last month. we will continue to bring you more details on his death as the investigation unfolds. >> lawrence: sad. >> steve: thank you, todd. a sad ending to a legendary career. and our whole lives, gene hackman. >> lawrence: one of my favorite movies. >> steve: unforgiven is great clinton eastwood. he was one of the best actors of all time on the planet. >> ainsley: he talked about the struggle of being on the road so much when you are acting and away from your family. ex-wife they had three children together. those children are 65, 62, and 59. >> steve: ainsley, i know you were talking to dr. baden a little while ago. while the police say no immediate independent occasion of foul play, it sounds like the doctor would think that it was probably some sort of

accidental, perhaps, carbon monoxide poisoning. it could have been a car running in the garage or something like that. whatever it is, it's a sad ending to -- and remember when he was in superman? >> ainsley: he was in hoosier, the firm. the bird cage. >> lawrence: he was in so many. >> steve: simon adventure. >> ainsley: a long list, a long resume. >> lawrence: incredible. >> steve: as soon as they figure out what happened we will let you know. >> lawrence: do you know who else has a long resume carley shimkus. >> carley: i was looking at that resume of gene hackman 100 credits to his name. >> steve: young frankenstein. >> carley: the list is endless. in hollywood an actor's actor. in my house a comedian's comedian. he was funny. high praise. dozen of anti-israel protesters taking over a building at

barnard college in new york city overnight. a barnard spokesperson says the protesters physically assaulted a college employee, sending them to the hospital. they were rallying against the expulsion of two students who stormed a columbia university classroom last month. threw around fliers with hate speech on them. the mob yesterday of protesters blocking students from getting into class. >> well, they can't come in. >> you cater to them. you got to get them out. we all have to go class. >> carley: the school's president is calling this unacceptable. those protesters though have promised to return to the front gates of barnard this afternoon. we will be watching. new overnight, new york city's empire state building lighting up orange in honor of the bibas family. 32-year-old shiri and her sons 4-year-old aerial and 10 3407b8d 10-month-old kfir.

orange in honor of the boy's hair color. empire in the state that were lit to honor them. many land marks around the world were also lit, including berlin's brandenburg gate. yesterday thousands turned out in central israel to attend their funeral procession they were laid to rest in the kibbutz. frump says is he terminating chevron's oil agreement. he says venezuela has failed to take in violent illegal immigrants from the united states. meanwhile, secretary of state marco rubio calling out venezuelan dictator nicholas maduro while discussing the threats of the socialist regime in an exclusive interview with brian. >> venezuela has a regime which is what controls that territory of venezuela, has an obligation. under the law, under international law, under recognized covenants of every law to accept their foreign nationals who are unlawfully and illegally in another country. >> maduro should go in your omind. >> i continue to believe is he a

horrible dictator instilling all kind. >> are you demanding he least. >> he is the same threat today two years ago, three years ago, four years ago. that has to be dealt with. >> carley: brian's full interview with the secretary of state can be found online at foxnews.com. check this out a military dad from ohio surprising his sons at school yesterday after returning from 11 month deployment in the middle east. watch this. >> honored to welcome home their father delma charter. [applause] >> happy to see me? >> yes. >> i'm happy to see you guys. good to see you. >> wow, well, after that emotional reunion, the principal gave the two boys the day off to spend time with their dad. who doesn't love that instant chills, guys, when you watch that footage. look at his face. >> lawrence: every time. >> carley: what a reunion. we love that family. >> the little one ran and

jumped. >> carley: the boys need their daddy's. >> glad she gave them the day off. that's so sweet. thank you, carley. >> lawrence: so cool. >> carley: i watched the funeral. >> lawrence: didn't that just break you? >> carley: their dad spoke and translated in english on my instagram feed. and every -- i kept scrolling last night. and everything was about them and their family. it's really heart breaking. >> steve: all right. meanwhile, let's talk about another troubled spot. is peace in ukraine within reach? >> ainsley: trump envoy steve witkoff says zelenskyy's visit to the white house tomorrow could change everything especially after putin's latest move. ♪

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to. >> what concessions would you like to see. >> i'm not going to tell you that right now i can tell you nato you can forget about. i think that's probably the reason the whole thing started. >> lawrence: president trump's special envoy to the middle east, steve witkoff joins us now. steve, thanks so much for getting up this morning. >> my pleasure, lawrence, we saw each other yesterday. good to see you this morning. >> lawrence: my sources are telling me the deal is pretty much don't. they got the language complete. can you confirm that? >> well, i certainly hope so. we have been negotiating it for close to two weeks i think it's a good sign that president zelenskyy will be here tomorrow. the president is eager to get this behind us and move on to get a peace deal done between ukraine and russia. >> lawrence: steve, how are you handling this right now? because you are a businessman.

and the president has thrown you into the middle of an issue of our time i'm told you and putin have cordle conversation back and forth but you are also dealing with zelenskyy as well. how are you able to negotiate such a peace agreement? >> well, lawrence, you know, some of this is just about correcting miscommunication and misperception. and that's good teal deal the president says and i take my direction from him figuring out the deal that works for everybody. a good deal is a deal that has that characteristic so that's what we are here to do. we are here to put parties together that haven't talked in the past. when i met with president putin he actually said to me he hadn't heard from anyone in the biden

administration for three and a half years. you're not going to effective communication is a part of this. and that's what we do what do we get out of this. rare minerals. i know this is a return on our investment that we already invested into the war. but, after we get that investment back, there is still going to be some funds for us as a country. i know the president says he wants to pay off the debt. but what do we get out of this? >> well, the mineral rights in ukraine are quite extensive. but, by the way, they are quite extensive in russia and i think they will be plenty of opportunities for the united states with russia when this peace deal gets finished. >> lawrence: do you think you are going to get that i'm sorry to interrupt, steve, but do you think they are going to get some mineral rights in russia as w well? >> >> i think there will be plenty of economic cooperation, opportunities between the two

countries. yes. >> lawrence: so you think how we are going to be able to guarantee peace between these two countries, look, i don't want you to negotiate on live television, is that if we have a vested interest in russia from an economic standpoint, we have a vested interest in ukraine, that somehow we're the middle ground there? don't touch our investments that are in these countries? that's the way this negotiation is going right now? >> >> i'm not so sure about that, lawrence, here's the way i see it. cooperation leads to good communication leads to good cooperation. leads to long term partnerships. we are here to encourage that. with regard to the mineral rights law, mineral rights agreement, president trump came into office and lo and behold what did he find out? he found out we had contributed significantly more than the europeans to this war effort. but the europeans had loan

agreements to pay them back. he just didn't that was fair. so this mineral rights agreement is much about us getting paid back, not differently than the europeans have negotiated. so, it begins with that concept. >> lawrence: steve, let's switch gears we have seen what hamas has been doing and then to send the bodies of those two boys back and send the wrong body, i think purposefully of their mother back. they finally got the bodies back. going to this second face. aphase.still in phase one. what are you going to secure this time when you go back to the middle east? >> well, phase 1 was an accomplishment in and of itself. and it wouldn't have happened but for donald trump's election. >> lawrence: true. >> just no doubt about that, lawrence. it was languishing, th discussions, that they had been going on for the better part of a year.

and, of course, his election, his motto of peace through strength, it resonates in the region, that's what really jump started everything. what happened from the bibas kids is intolerable. i have met the family, they are devastated by it to find out that their loved ones have died and the way they died is just a horrible conclusion to it all. so we have got to. >> lawrence: i'm short on time, steve, i get the impression from the with the that he is getting impatient that hamas keeping going back on their word. he doesn't like kids dying. he gets very annoyed by that i worry that this is getting ready to escalate a little bit from the president. >> i can tell you is intolerant towards terrorists. that's a fact. he has a red line to people who

do heinous things like this. so, if the question is is he intolerant? that's for sure. his direction is that we need to find a solution for this. there's no room for hamas in gaza, in the west bank, you can see from their actions. they have earned that right to be there. that's the president's position. and we follow that direction. >> lawrence: steve, we appreciate you coming on this morning, giving us some time. you have created a name for yourself with these negotiations. i hope you will come back and share it with us after you come back from the middle east. thank you so much, sir. >> thank you, lawrence. have a great day. >> lawrence: you too. so, stake and shake is flipping the script on fast food with a bold change to their french fry recipe. why it has r.f.k. job celebrating it, that's next.

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steve 20 minutes before the top of the hour. check in with britta with the "foxcast." >> a few sprinkles. we have a few friends joining us. miss is i and kim, what state are you all from. >> florida. >> florida? >> um-huh. >> enjoy the mild weather for new york standard. and it really has been a mild stretch here. we had temperatures that will be in the 40's and 50's across the northeast today. down to the south in florida, we have 70s, not too habe. 81 degrees in miami. now, here in the northeast, as i mentioned, we have a couple sprinkles this morning. click moving clipper system. rain for the 95 corridor. a little bit of snow for the mountains in northern new england. take a look at saturday and sunday. if you live in the great lakes

and northeast. the warm spring fling is going to cool down. steve a big heads up for next week tuesday into wednesday could be a tornado outbreak across the south got you covered here on fox weather. >> steve: perfect. britta, thank you very much. say hello to the folks from florida. >> i will, steve, take care. >> steve: you bet. a major fast food giant is giving hhs secretary r.f.k. jr. one of his first victories on the make america healthy again or maha agenda. steak and shake says all locations will be, quote, r.f.k.ed as they swap vegetable oil for a healthier beef tallow to cook their iconic shoe string fries. steak and shake chief officer joins us now from texas. daniel, you are really shaking it up with this beef tallow thing. was this at the behest of bobby kennedy jr. or have you been thinking about this for a while?

>> we have actually been thinking about this for a while. our owner, my boss when he wasa little boy went to belgium and had fries. they were the bests he ever had. beef tallow. why should they have better fries than americans. steak n shake american brand we can't have anybody beat us have the best fries. we wanted to switch, i guess, years ago but they couldn't get a chemical free, additive free, all natural pure beef tallow because they put beef foaming agents. he tells me we have to do all beef tallow all national no preserves. do it and do it everywhere. so we did. we have r.f.k.ed our fries. >> steve: indeed. all your locations by march 1st are going to from french fries in beef tallow. i know r.f.k. jr. not a fan of seed oils but ultimately it comes down, to as you know,

daniel, it comes down to the taste. so, does it taste as good as, you know, one of those other fries that we have grown accustomed to? >> they are so much better. we are actually famous for as you mentioned for our shoe string fries. and these fries cooked in the same fry cooked in beef tallow is crispy and golden brown and absolutely delicious. you will love them when you try them. you won't be go back. it's the authentic way. it's the original way. >> steve: you guys are home of the original steak burger. i took forward to trying that out. what about vegetarians? they are going to skip your fries because they are cooked in beef tallow oil. >> yes. well, we love our vegetarians. we have the best milkshakes, zag got rated number one milkshake at steak and shake. part of being a classic american brand we have been around 90 years selling steak burgers famous for steak burgers and

fries we understand they have the freedom to choose. we are an american brand we believe in freedom and they have the freedom to choose what is best for them no problem. we think we can all get along have a milkshake and enjoy the beef tallow fries and the steak burgers. they will enjoy that. >> steve: business question. isn't it more expensive to do this to make the process a little cleaner ultimately it's going to cost you a little more money, right? >> we are not worried about. that our focus is on quality. quality journey for a while. increasing the quality of neferght restaurant. that's a secondary consideration. americans deserve the best. we're going to give them the best, and we are very excited about it. you even get a stem on the cherry of your milkshake. when you go to get your milkshake real whipped cream. 100 percent real whipped cream on your shake and when you get your cherry on top we didn't cut

the 3 cents to get a stemless cherry. >> steve: i was looking at your oreo red velvet milkshake. it looks to die for. they have been r.f.k.ed, the fries have. daniel edwards there at stake and shake in san antonio. daniel, thank you very much. and good luck to you. >> thanks, sir. bye-bye. >> steve: can't wait to try it. all right. a quarter before the top of the hour. we will switch gears; a texas rancher is dead killed by what authorities said is a cartel planted explosive. his son said this isn't just crime, it's terrorism. and joins us next to share his father's story.

>> ainsley: texas officials confirming a cartel linked explosive killed two people. just 120 miles south of the u.s.-mexico border down in mexico. as rival cartels fight for territory in the region. one of the victims was 74-year-old cattle rancher from brownsville, texas, who owned property on both sides of the border. and his son is a u.s. army veteran, his name is romero and he joins us now. ramiro, i'm so sorry for your loss. tell us what happened to your

dad. >> yes, ma'am, my father retired about 15 years ago from here in the united states. brownsville, texas. throughout the years he had purchased mexico, the state he was born. in he back there. he had both a little ranch, a cattle ranch and also some more land that he harvest. on friday, january 31st. after being here in the states for about a week or so. he returned to his ranch finally left here in brownsville, finally made it to a small town where the people live. made it there around roughly, maybe like around 1:00. at 2:30 i get the call that something had happened. they wouldn't tell me what had happened. tried to get in communication with the people down there, the family i have down there. and they had mentioned that he

ieds. i don't know about ieds they told me a land mine of some sort and he was trapped in his vehicle four of my family members or friends went over to the ied site. it was struck on the driver's side. they were able to flip it over to its tires and take my dad outside. but he was already dead. my brothers and i, we acted. we went down there as fast as we could take about hour and a half to get down there with traffic. we are about 20 minutes out of the town when i got the call that he had passed away. we picked up his body and brought him back brownsville, texas. we had a funeral there for about two days because he had his family members in mexico, and then on tuesday we over to the u.s. in brownsville and buried

him. >> ainsley: ramiro i'm so sorry. i knowed you served our country 20 year army veteran. served in afghanistan and iraq. you earned a purple heart being injured in an ied explosion. you expect this in the middle east but not on your dad's ranch. why are the cartels doing this. >> i believe they are fighting territory, ma'am, to be honest with you. but my dad started his ranch about 20 years ago. , 20 years ago when he started his ranch. in 2010 cartels, that's when the violence started. the violence has always been there. the people are -- i don't want to say they are used to it, but it's like when i was in iraq some people were used to the terrorist attacks over there in iraq and afghanistan. so, the people get used to these kind of actions. but, the ieds and drones, that is something new. i believe the issued a warning on january 27th. so, we actually did not have

enough time to react to these threats because -- because my dad died on january 31st. it's something new the cartels are using to defend territory. >> ainsley: do you consider this a terrorist attack? >> my personal opinion, ma'am, yes. my i spoke to family members before, iraq and afghanistan. these are the same tactics that the terrorist group were using in iraq. >> ainsley: you don't expect that to happen on this side of the world. what can our government do. what county mexican government do. what are you asking from donald trump to prevent this? >> ma'am, right now, with president trump new policy, i believe there is some changes coming up. i believe that the supreme court that the u.s. can give the mexican government by providing, you know, and not only intel but

support with troops, training their troops, because i see as one sided war right now. i believe that the cartels have more sophisticated equipment than the mexican army has. and also the training. they need some training on how to combat terrorism. >> ainsley: well, i know your father lost his life, his friend was sitting in the front seat, lost his life as well. and the friend's wife was in the back seat. and suffered injuries and was hospitalized. god bless you. thank you so much, ramiro, thank you so much for your service to our country. >> thank you, ma'am. i appreciate that. >> ainsley: you're welcome. more "fox & friends" coming up. patients who have sensitive teeth but also want whiter teeth they have to make

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