>> you're right. the idea the president was elected. the moment he remembers the most in november is his own child entered into the faith. he talked about balancing that act of, you know, his wife is not a catholic. he is a convert to catholicism. he sort of walked through his own steps in catholicism not getting used to the idea we're obligated to go to church every sunday. but -- and i love that he talked about that unity, bringing us back to unity within all of us. if you are catholic and you are a conservative catholic, you understand exactly what he is talking about. there is a lot of differences but ultimately we're christians. >> ainsley: absolutely. god bless america. we'll watch you all this weekend. >> bill: thank you, ainsley, good morning and this is a significant day in the march to a potential peace deal in

ukraine. zelenskyy is in washington meeting with president trump. those two expected to sign a deal that could put ukraine on a path to ending this war and linking washington and kiev in a new relationship for years to come. good morning, everybody, on this friday. dana has the day off today. i'm bill hemmer live in new york. hello to my colleague in washing washington, d.c. >> aishah: i'm aishah hosni in for dana today. the deal would see ukraine hand over some natural resources as a payback for u.s. military aid. the pentagon says the u.s. has spent more than $65 billion helping ukraine defend itself from russia. president trump calls this deal a really important step towards ending the three-year long war. >> president trump: we'll be signing a very important agreement for both sides because it is going to get us into that country. we'll be working there and have

a lot of people working there and so in that sense it is very good. it's a back stop, you could say. i don't think anybody will play around if we are there with a lot of workers having to do with rare earths and other things, which we need for our country. and we appreciate it very much. i look forward to seeing him. >> aishah: let's get the latest from the white house from lucas tomlinson. >> ukrainian zelenskyy arrives at the white house in two hours. he is the third world leader to visit with president trump at the white house this week. yesterday alongside britain's prime minister, president trump says he trusts russi president vladimir putin to end this war. >> president trump: i think he will keep his word. i think -- i've spoken to him and known him for a long time now. france wants to be there. the president has said he wants to have soldiers there. i don't think we'll be necessary. i don't think there will be any

problem with keeping the deal with the security. >> the mineral rights deal expected to be signed includes a joint venture between the u.s. and ukraine to extract minerals out of the ground. the united states will be given a 50% share. the u.k. signaled a willingness to send peacekeeping forces to ukraine the russian diplomat says it is a non-starter. britain's prime minister said the u.k. will spend more in defense but all of europe must ramp up defense spending to send a message to putin. >> the deal must be a lasting deal. it has to be something that endures. for that to happen, there needs to be a real sense from putin that he can't breach that deal. that's why i've said on a number of occasions i think that the european countries, including the united kingdom, need to play a full part in that. >> nato secretary general says russia makes more weapons and ammunition in three months than

the entire nato alliance makes in a year. aishah. >> aishah: lucas tomlinson, thank you. >> bill: byron donalds, want to get your thoughts on ukraine. seth moulton, democrat from massachusetts says trump is going about this entirely wrong way. here is his view on that. watch here. >> imagine if someone came and burned down your house and they caught that person and said no, you won't pay for it. you will pay for rebuilding your house. some other guy burned it down. that's what trump is doing when he is extracting this mineral deal out of ukraine. it is immoral, unpatriotic and unamerican. without security guarantees, get ready, eastern europe. you'll be next. >> bill: he is paving the road for world war iii. he said a lot. what do you think about it? >> what he said was ridiculous.

the united states has been in there to support ukraine in this war. we spent more than 200 billion doing it. we didn't burn down the ukrainian house. that's what the war did with russia. all we're saying is we need to be paid back for us assisting you and maintaining as much of your country as possible. this war needs to come in an end. furthermore if seth moulton and democrats are doing such a great job why does it take donald trump to bring the conflict to a close? nobody believed joe biden was strong enough to negotiate a deal between putin and zelenskyy and democrats didn't do anything to say that american has a fiscal responsibility to its sits stens and united states first and foremost. president trump is keeping his word on bringing this conflict to a close. that's what he said he would do and he is doing it. then also making sure that the american taxpayer is being repaid for the treasure that we

spent in support of ukraine. that's a good thing for the united states. by the way, it's also sending a strong message to the europeans it is now time for them to step up and do more to defend their sovereignty and their national interests in europe. >> bill: scott bessent, treasury secretary, says the deal is done. we'll see and hear from both men big press conference today at 1:00. we'll carry that live today. another topic on doge. 65 billion is the number we've been given. "politico" said doge is raising the potential for a government shutdown. what is your view on that? is that where we're headed? >> if that happens, that's because the democrats do not want to do the necessary work of getting waste and inefficiency out of our government. let's think about this for a moment. you have hakeem jeffries, chuck charm and democrat members of the senate and house saying if there are doge cuts that we now know of ridiculous spending

items not in the national interest they'll shut down the government? listen, if that's what they want to do, republicans need to move forward and support the doge and have those cuts. we're not going to be held hostage by democrats wanting to protect their pet projects that are ideologically driven that do not support the american people or the interests of our nation. last thing i would say to the democrats who are saber rattling threatening a shutdown. donald trump is president of the united states. he has a political mandate. he has an agenda that he ran on. now if the democrats want to defy the will of the people to protect their pet projects they will realize quickly that they won't have anybody on the republican side of the aisle that will work with them just to keep the government open. we have to get the waste out. we'll be committed to do that. we should follow those doge cuts and make sure they are in the spending deal coming up in a couple of weeks. >> bill: maybe the hottest story in washington, d.c. right now. your political future has you running for governor in florida.

i will try to ask the question a different way here. do you have expect republican competition in that primary for that job? >> i do. i would love for things to be easy but nothing is ever easy especially in politics or life. it is very early. we'll see what happens. i'm just happy to have the support of president trump. glad to have his endorsement and his faith in me. my job now is going to the people of florida not just earning their vote but earning their endorsement. i will work hard at that while also making sure we get the president's agenda done on capitol hill. >> bill: desantis thinks his wife would be good for the job, too. it will be interesting. bret will sit down with president zelenskyy tonight at 6:00 eastern time right here. you will only see it on the fox news channel. check out bret tonight on

special report. >> aishah: we learn a little more information this morning about those shocking deaths of actor gene hackman and his wife, betsy. authorities are calling it suspicious. their bodies were reportedly showing signs of mummification. jonathan hunt is live in los angeles with what this means for this case and where does it go? jonathan. >> aishah, good morning to you. there are still so many unanswered questions here. what we've heard from the sante fe county sheriff's office so far has frankly only served to make the situation more confusing. >> no immediate sign of foul play. haven't ruled that out yet. this is an investigation. table. keeping everything on the >> the bodies of 95-year-old gene hackman and his 65-year-old wife betsy were first discovered by workers who were visiting the property and called 911. >> are they moving at all? >> no, they're not moving.

just send somebody up here really quick. >> according to an affidavit filed by the sheriff's office the first deputies on the scene discovered hackman's body in a mud room showing signs of falling fallen signedly and wife in a bathroom showing similar signs of a sudden fall. she was also close to an opened prescription bottle and scattered pills. one of the couple's dogs was dead in the same bathroom in a closet according to the affidavit. the sheriff later called it a kennel. there were no obvious signs of carbon monoxide or gas poisoning and bodies were partly mummified having lane undiscovered for days, possibly weeks. >> i think the autopsy will be key and toxicology. it could take a while. i ask that people be patient. >> hackman's family released a statement acknowledging that millions of people around the world loved and admired hackman's work for having,

quote, to us he was always just dad or grandpa. we expect a press conference with the sheriff's department later today and aishah possibly some preliminary medical fi findings at that point. that will be key to find out what killed this legend. >> aishah: it is a mystery. thank you. [shouting] >> bill: there were back at it again yesterday. anti-israel protestors on a major college campus. hamas sympathizers vowing to make life miserable yet again. will the school do anything to head that off this time around? a judge ruling against mass firings at federal agencies. will congress step in and make doge's changes law of the land? and quote, it was a firing squad. that's how the former white house press secretary karine jean-pierre for the first time

now describes the democrats turning on her former boss joe biden. >> just to clarify, other democrats coming out against biden. >> yep. i had never seen anything like that. that was if you are asking me the thing that i saw in those three weeks, that was shocking. shocking.

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>> aishah: former los angeles fire chief kristin crowley is appealing her dismissal. democratic mayor karen bass fired her last friday following backlash over the handling of january's deadly wildfires. crawley's appeal will need support from ten of the 15 city council members. >> bill: the anti-israel protestors, activists at barnard

college in new york city are keeping up the chaos. this is affiliated with columbia university remember from last spring vowing to resume disruption of campus activities, protesting against the expulsion of two pro-hamas students who stormed a classroom about a month ago. back on campus alexis mcadams picks up the story on the upper west side. alexis, good morning. >> good morning. the sun is shining and weather is breaking in new york city. the protestors say they are just warming up, too. more protests on tap in the come days as they handed over a long list of demands to the university saying they aren't going to stop marching and causing trouble here until they get what they want. we'll see what happens there. for the kids that did make it through the gates and get to class where they paid so much money for an ivy league education, they also had some problems, too, once they got in class. watch this. [drumbeating]

>> the protests come after students were expelled from columbia university and bang on classroom windows, kicked out after they ran into a history of modern israel class. those two students last month and threw anti-semitic flyers around. the protestors say they'll continue and protests will continue, too, marching until they get what they want and until the students are reinstated. they sent a teacher out to try to negotiate with masked students who wouldn't show their faces. they won't stop until the school difficult vests from israel. >> meet with representatives from your group. she wants the people that she meets with to be unmasked and uncovered. >> not happy about those rules put in place. nypd made three arrests, the group clashed with poll east with the governor at city college of new york after the

protests, though were coming because they were going to have this situation happen where the hochul had said a palestinian studies class would have to be canceled to be sure anti-semitic things weren't in the classroom. she didn't show up. mike johnson saying enough is enough. pro-hamas mobs have no place on college campuses, barnard and columbia must put an end to the chaos on campus. students wonder what's going on. why is the school negotiating with these kids? the negotiators told us yesterday the school is not arguing or going with them in good faith, bill. >> bill: more to come on this. you were there last time. here we go again thanks. 20 past the hour. back to aishah in d.c. >> dana: former white house press secretary karine jean-pierre is slamming her own part, democrats, for abandoning joe biden after his disastrous debate performance. listen to this.

>> personally, i think what was the toughest thing to see in the three weeks was -- there was a disconnect for me. what was happening with leadership in the democratic party and how it was truly, as my former colleague communications director ben said, it was a firing squad. i had never seen anything like it before. >> aishah: joining us now is katie pavlich. editor at town hall.com. katie, gosh, first of all, i can't believe that we're still talking about joe biden when we have so much other stuff to talk about with this new administration. i want to play one more byte from karine. it shows you this sort of bubble that this administration was living in that was totally disconnected from the real world. watch. >> i had never seen a party do that in the way that they did.

and it was hurtful and sad to see that happening. a firing squad around a person who i believe was a true patriot, a person who i believe did everything that he can for this country. i was shocked by what i was seeing. >> she is talking a lot about how everybody else hurt him. went after him and painful to watch. there is no talk about whether he was fit for office, whether the american people are being hurt by keeping him in office. >> the joe biden saga, whether it was for years the media covering up his decline, attacking other journalists who dared to question and point out that he was never available to the press, that the report from robert hur who did the special counsel investigation saying he wasn't charged with a series of felonies because of his poor memory. all these things that were very

clear that were covered up until we got to that debate. in the time between the end of june last year and when he dropped out of the race at the end of july, we're into the weird no man's land. the white house press secretary karine jean-pierre was the one out if front trying to answer all these questions about his fitness, about how he was going to stay in the race. all of a sudden joe biden is pushed out and we're all told as americans that it was on his own terms. he voluntarily left the race. we will be hearing to your point about talking about this situation for a long time because it did a number of things to the democratic party. it shattered their credibility among their own base. democrats in the party were very upset that they had gone through the primary process and the primary votes had been thrown out and a new nominee was installed after joe biden left the campaign. but also with the american people. let's not forget they are still making this argument on the left that democrats are the ones for

protecting democracy. yet in this case as karine jean-pierre points out, they just decided that they no longer wanted him to be a nominee because they thought he would lose to donald trump and then harris went on to lose to him and they just threw all that out the window for the sake of the elites like nancy pelosi, george clooney and barack obama deciding how the party would move forward. you'll hear a lot of this. karine jean-pierre is one of many people who saw all this behind the scenes. a couple of book deals, too, depending how many deals are made about what they are allowed to talk about. >> aishah: why are we talking about this now and why still defending this administration? maybe a former self-preservation for the future. we'll see where she lands. that's all the time we have. have you back on soon. have a good weekend. >> have a good weekend. >> bill: aishah, it is early and happening now at the white house. breaking news here on the fox news channel.

we have just confirmed that president donald trump will sign an executive order that will make english the official language of the united states. in our nearly 250 year history we've never had an official language ever. the executive order expected to be signed sometime today. bill clinton made a move back in the 90s. the mandate that he signed will be rescinded. in other words, what he did in the 1990s is that he did not require agencies that worked for the government to provide english only. they had to provide more options for those who needed different languages upon which they spoke. donald trump is going to change that. we'll see whether or not he sends it to the hill, congress, maker speaker johnson or john thune jumps on it to sign it into law. many times they said if you don't codify it, it doesn't last. today the executive order should come down from the oval office.

we got that and this now from new mexico, watch here. >> it's not normal to find two people deceased in their residence. that's concerning. the autopsy will tell us a lot. any evidence that we collect. >> bill: this investigation, it's early. just underway into the deaths of actor gene hackman and wife betsy. what police have found so far at the scene. paul mauro in a moment. outrage in texas after an accused cop killer is let on the streets and the danger the public faces next. >> this is just abhorrent. this judge has chosen to provide rights for these animals that gunned down a deputy and just disregarded the safety of all the citizens of the county.

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face a judge in brooklyn today. he was extradited to the u.s. from mexico along with 28 other cartel members. he is the co-founder of one of latin america's most powerful drug cartels accused ever torturing and killing a dea agent in 1985 and on the ten most wanted list. they face charges related to drug trafficking and murder. >> development that is. authorities releasing a 911 call. audio from the maintenance worker who discovered the bodies of gene hackman and his wife. part of that 911 call now.

>> bill: pretty remarkable and dramatic as well. trying to piece together what we can thus far. downtown sante fe. if you were to drive it's about five miles to the area known as hyde park northeast of sante fe. this is a state park and old sunset trail is a straight where hackman and his wife lived. beautiful place overlooking the valley there. from the associated press from yesterday. go over on the wall. tell you what we think we know so far. start with wednesday when deputies got there and some of the 911 call you picked up. that's from the maintenance worker. he said the house was locked, right? the deputies enter the home,

front door is ajar, no forced entry is what they've said so far. her body is found on the floor. there are pills nearby as well and a space heater as well. maybe that plays, we don't know. maybe something happened there as well. that's part of the investigation. the dog was found german shepard nearby in a closet near the wife's body. hackman was found in a mud room and deputies talk about the possibility of a sudden fall because his cane was found here his body. entrances were locked. maintenance workers said they do work at the house but no con fact for a period of two weeks. as for fire and gas, no carbon monoxide or gas leak detected. that has not been ruled out based on this investigation. death considered suspicious. we noted that yesterday. this is the big one. autopsy, toxicology results are pending. if they're completed they

haven't been made public. a big part of the investigation, paul mauro is here now. let me play a clip about the possibility of gas inside that home from the sheriff in sante fe. >> not ruling it out. what i did state was there was no obvious sign or indication of foul play. i think the autopsy. it is not normal to find two people deceased in the residence. it is concerning. there was also a dog in a kennel also found deceased. >> bill: put on your investigator hat, paul. where do you start? >> one discrepancy is the reporting about the front door. some speculation because the police said the door was ajar, maintenance worker said the door was locked and maintenance workers might have been talking about a different door, back door or something. clearly now it is shown from the

911 call they were talking about the same door, the front door. the maintenance worker says he can partially see the woman's body. right there, there is a discrepancy we have to square. the cops say the door was open and ajar. maintenance workers say closed and locked. strange. that said, let me just make sure that everybody understands that the fact that the cops have deemed this suspicious, we shouldn't read too much into that. let's just withhold judgment. they did that relative to the search warrant. if you reed through the affidavit closely it comes to light it doesn't look like the hackmans owned the house. it was leased in someone else's name. the cops defaulted along with the d.a. to being safe. get a search warrant, someone else owns the house so we can go through the whole place to make sure anything we get we got in a legal way so we don't have any problems down the line. they did that. calling it suspicious in the affidavit. let's see what develops from the

toxicology and autopsy. >> bill: how long do the tests take? >> there are tiers to that. they'll look for more obvious things. but then chemical testing etc. it can take some time. it does depend very often on volume, what is going on in the jurisdiction at the time. something as high profile as they they may push it further. we have to see. they will look for any presence not only of a gas indication here but monoxide or something relative to the space heater. you see that sometimes. space heaters give off fumes but also this thing with the pills. that can't be ignored. i don't want to get graphic. any cop who responded to suicide scenes. i'm not saying that is what happened here. that scenario common to see pills scattered about. the presence of those pills and any other pills that they find at the scene. >> bill: let me squeeze in one

more question here. they own two other dogs and they were found alive. i don't know what they were doing for two weeks, barking, food, water, what the case was. there will be an autopsy on the german shepherd found in the closet as well i would assume. >> speculation did the dog get to the pills or something like that. sounds like the dog was locked. i hate to say it. there is a good chance the dog may have starved to death and you have the other two dogs if the doors were open had the egress to get outside. we don't know if there was food, etc. i don't know what to make of the dogs. we can speculate here. but i would withhold judgment regarding that. a lot of facts still to come. you have to look at the whole compound, you have to look for tire tracks, footprints that shouldn't be there. you have to look at the financials. is there a motive in this thing? you have to look at digital. look at computers. did somebody google something about committing suicide. these are the things they'll be doing.

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>> aishah: elon musk met with senate republicans in the doge caucus at the white house

yesterday. they were briefed on efforts to root out waste and fraud in the government. senator marra blackburn was in the room. she is there to fill us in at what happened. thank you for joining us on friday. take us inside room. what did he say to you and did some of your colleagues ask him questions about the process? we know some of them are i guess facing some concerns from constituents back home. >> it was such an exciting meeting, but also a very informational meeting. the doge team is doing great work and the american people can follow it at doge.gov or they can follow it on the x account. the good thing it is all transparent. and what you are going to see doge do is move towards cutting $4 billion a day. identifying those cuts and then, of course, aishah, what we can

do is bring that under the federal budget process where we eliminate that spending through appropriations when we get to that. and also through rescissions. the good thing is this is going to allow us to downsize the federal government, to cut, to move forward with president trump's agenda and to remove every bit of fat. elon thinks that we can remove 15 to 20% of government expense this year. and then if we continue on from that, this is going to be great. it will save the taxpayer money. it is going to get inflation under control. it is going to help get this economy back on track. and get our country back on track. >> aishah: you mentioned appropriations, speaker johnson brought up putting in some of the doge cuts into a cr. is that not possible in the

senate? >> i am hopeful. we'll look at every way we possibly can to codify these cuts and bring it in through the budget process and remove this spending. it is imperative that we cut every ounce of fat out. you know they are finding $4 billion a day we can continue with that. the savings will be better, inflation comes down, interest rates come down. >> aishah: let me get to this, too. you have been talking with pam bondi is bunch this week and such an important topic to you in terms of transparency are these epstein files. i have to ask you about this. they were released yesterday. the white house made a big deal out of it. had these binders with information from the d.o.j. they handed it over to all the social media influencers who went online and shared the information but then it turned out to be what some are calling a nothing burger. some republicans, like

representative luna in the house, said this is not what we or the american people asked for and a complete disappointment. senator, what happened here? >> a.g. bondi and director patel are hard at work getting the epstein files. as you know, this is an issue i had and first talked about in 2019. we have on this. it is imperative we break apart these human trafficking rings and sex trafficking rings. jeffrey epstein was a part of this, we know. this is not about sensationalism or celebrities. it is not about gossip, this is about justice for 254 victims we know of so far and for thousands of women and girls around the globe that have been pushed into sex trafficking. women and children pushed into

human trafficking. what we saw yesterday is information on -- that will lead us to the file that was used in the court document. this is information from the f.b.i. search. we need that. we now know to go look for that and ask for those specifics of computers. we also have -- there are i.r.s. records we need, video footage we need. they are trying to find where this is housed in the f.b.i. and get it over to bondi. it will be a process. >> aishah: okay, thank you for joining us. >> bill: five months after hurricane helene western north carolina has a long way to go. one family now using what remains of their business to help build small shelters for those who will never go back. madison scarpino is live in

north carolina about 12 miles east of asheville. madison, good morning there. >> good morning, bill. hurricane helene wiped out this whole lot but now being used to help change victims' lives. once home to a local auto body shop that was in business for 18 years owned by a husband and wife and when they returned to their shop after the hurricane, it was demolished. >> everything was a complete loss. we did not receive a single penny for our business. we are still paying mortgage on dirt. >> she said she loss over $2.5 million business and denied small business loans multiple times. the couple has been working odd jobs to make ends meet. now she is passionate about helping other helene victims and using the destroyed property for good. with the help of another volunteer she organized building and giving out tiny homes for families who lost everything and

being build. they've built over 100. the goal was ten. >> part of the reason why we built the structures we did is i don't want to leave here. i don't want the community to leave. if we ever do get to build our business back, who are we building it back for if we don't have a community here to build for? >> still a long way to go with recovery. we're seeing some improvements. part of i-40 destroyed by helene that was closed for five months is set to reopen tomorrow, bill. >> bill: madison, thanks, good to have you on that story in western north carolina. thanks. >> aishah: the world is watching the white house right now as president trump is about to host ukrainian president zelenskyy. any moment. we have our eyes, cameras right there in front of the oval office. that's next.

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president trump, though not a catholic himself, has been an incredibly good president for catholics in the united states of america. >> bill: that was last hour. jd vance, the vice president, the first catholic vice president talking about religious liberty during the national catholic prayer breakfast. remarks happening as a new pew research study shows fewer americans identify as christian but the trend could be leveling off. want to bring in david ingle heart. the pastor of king's church in new york city in the land of the sun in phoenix, arizona today. thanks for coming on, david. good morning to you. jd vance's message in munich two weeks ago hit on some of these same themes about free speech and making sure religious liberty is protected, etc. what did you think of him this morning first, let's start there? >> i thought vance was incredible this morning. the greek work meekness means strength under control. the picture is a war horse

that's perfectly submissive and perfectly oh bed eent to see a masculine and humble vice president. when we have leadership it brings strength to catholics and christians around the world. he started the speech the trump administration is planning on implementing peace around the world. the fundamental role of a government to bring peace. i thought he was intelligent. humble, strong, i loved it. >> judeo-christian country it's okay to talk about god and faith and what moves you and what does not. check this out from pew. what we're finding here. the decline for christianity was on a slow little roller until let's argue over the past year, let's say, pew says it either stabilized or ticking up a little bit. you look at that and see what? do you see much moving there?

>> you know, i see significant movement there. if you look at the trends that we saw throughout europe. we saw continued decline and then it became precipitous. we're seeing a turn around. you can see it by looking at culture and conversions with people like russell brandt. nick -- nichole shanahan we saw her conversion the christianity. we're seeing people convert. i think we see more than what is shown on that graph, which is the decrease may be pausing. i think there is a resurgence happening right now. that is tied to the administration, tied to trump saying we will bring god back into america. it is tied to strength and this golden age. i think we're really in the very, very beginning stages of seeing national revival, which

is change. change of behavior, change of direction, and there is no time like now for people to get back to church, to capitalize on this moment. we didn't know seven years ago that bitcoin would go through the roof. i think that's what is happening with faith in america right now and people need to go back to church. jd vance said it this morning. he said he is going at 95% rate back to church. if americans can get back to church, we are going to see massive revival across the nation. >> bill: by the trend, right? ash wednesday is only five days away. we'll be in lenten season before we know it. have a great time in arizona. thank you for coming on and god bless you. thank you, sir. >> great being here. >> bill: d.e.i. is on the chopping block. american schools are on deadline today to end diversity programs or risk losing federal funding. brand-new hour begins at 10:00 in