going. paul: all right. dan. >> i'm giving a hit the barnard college which, believe it or not, expelled two students for invading a class room on the history of israel last month and handing out anti-semitic literature. we have to give a miss as a well though to the students who then proceeded to invade a building and protest the the expulsion of the students. cools like barnard should keep kicking out students like this and make room for students who actually want to be, believe it or not, students. paul: and learn something. all right. that's it for this week's show. thanks to my panel and to all of you for watching. i am a paul gigot. hope to see you right here next week. ♪ ♪ jon: more trouble in america's skies. flames erupt from the if engine of a fedex cargo plane after a bird strike forcing the jet to

the land shortly after a takeoff. good afternoon, i'm jon scott, and this is "the fox report." ♪ jon: two other big stories we're monitoring right now, the growing mystery in the deaths of legendary actor gene hackman and his wife. authorities say they did not die from carbon monoxide poisoning, but they suspect no foul play. plus this -- >> he's got to say i want to make peace. he doesn't have to stand there and say about putin this, putin that and all negative things. if he's got to the say i want to make peace. i don't want to fight a war any longer. jon: the meeting that sent shock waves around the world. president trump and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy in a fiery exchange at the white house yesterday. the two leaders were supposed to sign an agreement on ukraine's valuable area earth minerals, but zelenskyy left empty handed

after the undprenltsed public dispute. today he's in london meeting with european leaders. senator pete ricketts of the foreign relations committee is standing by with his reaction, but first, lucas tomlinson live in west palm beach traveling with the president. lucas. >> reporter: well, good afternoon, jon. one day after that a contentious meeting in the oval office a, president trump has a arrived here in palm if beach, his winter white house, where he stuck a tee in the ground and plaid a round of golf earlier, he has a fund raiser later tonight. and president zelenskyy is if london meeting britain's prime minister who spoke earlier. >> let me just say that you're very, very welcome here in downing street. and as you heard from the cheers on the treats outside, you have full backing of the united kingdom. and we stand with you and ukraine for as a long as it may take. >> reporter: so a little warmer

reception for ukraine's president in london today, very different than the one she haved in washington yesterday. -- he received in washington. nobody if had seen an oval office meeting quite like that, at least caught on camera. it all fell off the rails about 40 minutes into the meeting. >> you don't have the cards right now. with us, you start having cards -- >> i'm not plague cards. i'm very serious is, mr. president. >> you're gambling with the lives of millions of people. you're gambling with world war iii. you're gambling with world war iii. >> reporter: zelenskyy left the white house a short time later on trump's orders. the planned press conference and lunch canceled, the mineral rights deal not signed. later on "special report" with bret baier, zelenskyy said he wants security -- wanted security guarantees include colluded. some were expecting an apology. zelenskyy did the not offer one. >> i'm not hearing the thought that you owe the president

president an a apology. >> no. i respect president and i respect american people. and if -- i don't know if -- i think that we have to be very open and very honest, and i'm not sure that we did something bad. >> reporter: democrats say zelenskyy was set up in that oval office meeting. senator chris murphy called it an ambush made to appease russian president vladimir putin. many democrats are angry, many republicans are jumping to the president's defense. jon? jon: on a separate note, lucas, president trump made an announcement on the border. tell us about that. >> reporter: that's right, jon. just a few minutes ago president trump posting to truth social some new border apprehension numbers which are the lowest ever monthly total in american history. the president putting out on truth social there was 8,326 border patrol apprehensions, just for context, jon, sometimes there is more than 8,000 illegal

aliens apprehended in a single day under the biden administration. jon? jon: quite a change. lucas tomlinson, thanks. for more on the stunning blow-up between presidents trump and zelenskyy, let's bring in nebraska if republican senator pete products who sits on the foreign -- pete ricketts who sits on the foreign relations committee. that meeting went on for 50 minutes or so and really the first half hour was all pretty cordial and seemed pretty normal. but then it went off the rails. what do you think happened are there? -- there? >> my observation, i obviously wasn't there, but from reading the reports the plan if was for zelenskyy the sign a mineral rights deal which would further strengthen the relationship between the united states and ukraine. and when he brought up the topic of putin, he basically threw the whole conversation off track. president trump is trying to create a place, a negotiating space for both ukraine and

russia. and at the end of the day, there's only one person who can probably make that happen, and it's president trump who can bring together both ukraine and russia. and by trying to force or gold the president into saying -- goad the president into saying something about president putin, that's going to make it hard to get rush to to the negotiating -- russia to the negotiating table. i think where we need to go from here is try to to get back on track for the negotiations specifically just about the minerals, really keep to that as a part of a step by step process to bring this war to an end. as i said, there's one person who can get both ukraine and russia to the table, that's donald trump. jon: you're on the foreign relations committee. when the president said he, zelenskyy, is gambling with world war iii, i mean, he was invaded, and president trump admits he was invaded, and president trump also says had he, trump, been in office at the time, he doesn't think putin would have invaded. so what's zelenskyy supposed to do?

>> well, i don't think there's anybody in this country who thinks if president trump had been in office that putin would have invaded. nobody thinks putin's invading ukraine while trump is many in office. so i think what we have to do is, again, get back to where do we want to go from here. do you want to have peace? you may hate putin, and certainly the ukrainians have every reason for that. but there's not going to be peace unless it's at the negotiating table. the ukrainians are to -- only going the sign a deal they feel they can live with. president trump is trying to create the space to get both sides to the negotiating table because he authentically wants to end the war. he wants to stop the dying. and what we need to do to get that back on track now is to have this minerals deal get started again and to focus on getting that done and then take it step by step til we can get to a place where both sides are at the negotiating table. and the fact of the a matter is, after three years we've had no progress to get either side to

the table. president trump is the first person who's even making progress in this area by talking to both sides to be able to get that. president trump needs an opportunity to be able to work his process. he's done lots of deals in the past, he knows how to get them done. he needs to be able to get the sides to the table to finally carry this thing out. jon: last question on this topic, do you think that the blow-up in some way empowers vladimir putin, puts anymore if a better -- him in a a better position? >> at the end of the day, what has to happen is both sides have to come to the table. they're not going to to sign a deal unless both sides are can live with it. but we're not even at the negotiating table right now, so we have to get to the negotiableing table. and what -- negotiating table. zelenskyy ought to get back to working towards that mineral rights deal because that's good finish ukraine, it's good for us. we need those minerals. that's a positive step in the right direction. that's what everybody should focus on. what we need if to do is allow president trump to be able to

play this process out because he's the only person that can get both russia a and ukraine to that negotiating table. jon: speak of negotiations, let's talk about what the -- speaking of negotiations, let's talk about what the doge people are doing in washington. there's been a lot of blowback between what the apparatus are trying to do to the federal work force and maybe the federal deficit. what's your take on what's happened so far, and are they going too far? >> we had a briefing with elon musk on thursday for the senate doge caucus, and i gotta say, it is refreshing to have somebody who actually has a business approach and common sense asking basic questions about how we run our federal government and taking the steps to get it back in line. the things we heard from elon musk about what was happening about how we spend our money and so forth are really stunning. for example, we have an agency where there's 13,000 people, they had 37,000 software licenses. clearly, there's lots of opportunities for us to be able

to rein in the waste and the spending. he's got a goal of having a run rate of a trillion dollars cost for fiscal year '26. as a former governor and a business person, i thought the stuff that a they were doing is great. elon admitted they're going to make mistakes, they'll try and fix them as quickly as possible, but this is necessary for us to to right-size our government and make sure that we're doing an effective job in delivering services and being good stewards of the taxpayer dollars. jon: so is you'd like see them keep on cutting. >> absolutely. and one of the things i think there's a misperception out this there that now they're doing these things on their own. it's absolutely not true. everybody that's been hired is a government employee, they go through all the same background checks that everybody else does, and these doge folks make strong recommendations, but itly it's up to the -- ultimately, it's up to the secretary to decide what to do and carry those out. now that a our republican senate has confirmed 20, i think, of president trump's 22 nominees which is the fastest it's been done, i think, in 25 years,

we've got people in place, i expect this is something that's going to be ongoing. going to take a while to get it done, but there's a lot of work being able to make this work right, and i'm very excited about the opportunity. jon: nebraska senator pete ricketts, thank you. >> thanks. >> ukraine first being compensated because they are the one to have lose a lot of their fellow citizen is and being destroyed by these attacks. again, all of those were paid for can be compensated, but not by ukraine with, by russia because it was the one to aggress. [inaudible] a lot of money, and this is the responsibility of russia was the aggressor is russia. >> it can't be peace that rewards the aggressor. history must be on the side of the peacemaker, not the invader. >> we will never if accept just ceasefire. it will not work without security guarantees. security guarantees, maybe president is right about these document and all, but this document is not enough.

jon: those three european leaders flocked to the white house this week where the war in ukraine and how to end it was top of the agenda. and after the heated encounter between ukraine's leader and president trump yesterday, some of those leaders are standing with the embattled nation. u.k. prime minister if keir starmer's office a issued a statement reaffirming, quote, unwavering support for ukraine. one european diplomat claimed the showdown made it clear the free world needs a new leader. here to weigh in is dr. rebecca grant, national security analyst and military analyst as well and a senior fellow if at the lexington student. give us your -- institute. give us your take, dr. grant, on what went off the rails and why in that meeting at the white house. >> here's what i think happened, zelenskyy has been the star, the warrior, the wartime leader, but now he came to washington with a plan if to negotiate. he made a terrible mistake. and at this point zelenskyy has to let president trump be the

quarterback. trump is the one who is still the world leader. he will step in. he has a plan for peace and, quite honestly, zelenskyy owes it to nato to patch things up with trump. he owes it to great britain that's given him weapons, he owes it to ifland which gave ukraine half their -- poland -- which gave ukraine half their tanks. zelenskyy really owes it to nato to get back in president trump's good graces, and european security hangs in the balance. jon: but let me throw out an abouty, imperfect as it might be. if mexico attacked the united states and took back new mexico and parts of texas, would we be willing after three years to just let 'em keep it? >> oh, you know, i'm with you there. it is so to do difficult. but the fact is -- so difficult. but the fact is the biden administration if did a horrible job in the conduct of this war, and so both zelenskyy, trump, all the a rest of us, nobody wants to be in this place. but putin would love to see nato

fractured. putin's master in china who's behind all of in this this would love to see dents in nato as well. so right now is the time to look to european security, and i think there's a good arc of a deal here that begins with the mineral deal, and zelenskyy and ukraine need to get back on that so we can get down to the security guarantees. and, hey, we've got to get putin to the negotiating table still. jon: but with these, with the add a mitt dance of the scanned knave january cups -- scanned knave if january countries, isn't nato stronger? >> yes, nato is stronger, but we don't want to lose that here in the last moment as european capitals are very worried about what a putin can do. russia still building 1500 tanks a year, they flew 4 nuclear bombers earlier this week. and so the concern about european security is real. if there's a break-up over ukraine and the u.s. and aty min wigs of nato, we're going to

lose that. and china is going to swoop in, get ukraine's minerals and do more in europe as well. there's a much bigger game here, and we can't afford to have this breach between trump and zelenskyy. jon: when i read about the russian losses both in terms of personnel -- and i know men and soldiers don't matter to vladimir putin, but he's lost most of his black sea fleet, including a submarine, to the a nation that a doesn't even have a navy. it doesn't seem like russia is going to be able to hold out forever on this invasion of ukraine. >> you're so right about the black sea, and ukraine has done a great if job there with help from the if u.s. and nato so that crimea a and that port is really not useful to them anymore. russia cannot sail around the black sea, and we're starting to bottle them up in the wallettics as well. -- in the baltics. but the fact is putin still has a taste for war. it's tragic but it's true. and that's why keeping the european security together is so

important and, no, europe cannot do it without the u.s. they need us for everything from f-35 to missile defense. nato has to be together. jon: when france and poland were invaded by the nazis, the u.s. responded. in that case we sent in, you know, our troops. right now we're only sending military material. you know, why, why say to russia that, hey, you can keep what you've got or,, you know, you can sign just some kind of a peace deal? >> you know, i hate it as a well. i would like to see every single russian out of ukraine. i think what they've done is illegal and illegitimate. but i think to try to portray where president trump is, he sees that unless there's a lot more military commitment, it's not possible to push those lines around very much. you know, or we'll see. so he's made it pretty clear what he wants to do. and so the question now, i don't like it either in a way, is how do we keep european security strong. and that means keeping that nato alliance strong. jon: all right.

dr. rebecca grant, good to have you on. thank you. >> thank you. ♪ jon: a scary scene in the skies over new jersey, a bird strike starts a fire in the engine of a fedex plane if just after it took off. you can see the flames engulfing the entire turbine on the right side of the plane. c.b. cotton live in new york city with more. c.b. >> reporter: hi, jon. any emergency in the sky is terrible news for the pilots, and the ones in the cockpit of this cargo plane did exactly what a they were supposed to do according to transportation secretary sean duffy. the bird strike forcing the cargo plane to make an emergency landing at newark airport in new jersey morning. video here shows the fedex cargo plane letting off a big plume of smoke as a fire appears from its right engine. eyewitnesses heard a loud explosion too. another video shows the fedex cargo plane if thankfully landing safely while its engine is still in flames. thankfully, no reported

injuries, and the plane touched down at i 8:07 a.m. eastern this morning. it is unclear how many people were onboard at the time. air traffic was briefly halted as a precaution at the airport, but operations have since picked back up. fedex told fox the flight was on its way to indianapolis when the bird with strike occurred. the company releasing a statement saying in part, quote, fedex 3609 from newark to indianapolis experienced a bird strike during takeoff. our crew declared an emergency and returned safely to newark. we are thankful for the quick actions of our crew and first responders. transportation secretary sean duffy also weighing in on x to write that that these bird strikes are not uncommon. he says over 19,000 happened in 2023 and 4-6% of these strikes result in aircraft damage. he also praised the pilots of this cargo plane writing on x, quote: video from the incident if shows the quick-thinking pilots returning the plane to land safely while the engine is

on fire. my thanks and admiration go out to them for their professionalism and execution under extreme pressure. but we know this scare comes on the heels of three fatal plane crashes at the start of the year and other close calls in the sky leaving people on high alert. transportation secretary duffy pointed to pilot error as a playing a role in the majority of recent plane if crashes during an interview with nbc news just this week. jon. jon: all right. c.b. cotton in new york, glad that plane is back on the ground safely. thanks, c.b. a fox news alert, former new york governor andrew cuomo officially somewheres the race to be new york city's next mayor. enters the race. he's been laying the groundwork for months after a sexual harassment forced him the resign as governor back in 2021. despite a large field of primary to opponents, his late bid threatens to upend the race.

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jon: in new mexico investigators say it's likely oscar-winning actor gene is hackman was dead several days before his body was found in his new mexico home. police are still working the confirm details on the deaths of hackman and his wife. they've officially ruled out carbon monoxide poisoning as of yesterday. matt finn live in santa fe with the latest. matt. >> reporter: hey, jon. this is the after a fluent, gated neighborhood if of gene hackman and his wife. this is about a 10-minute drive from downtown santa fe, and once you get to the entrance here, you have another couple minutes until you would get into their home. so so it was clear they wanted to be secluded, they wanted privacy, and ultimately, that is what they had because authorities now say the couple was likely dead in the their

home for about 9 or 10 days until they were discovered on wednesday. now, the running theory this week was that perhaps they died if from carbon monoxide, especially after one of gene's daughters said she suspected toxic fumes. but yesterday the sheriff here said the a pathologist has ruled out carbon monoxide and if is now pointing to evidence obtained from hackman's pacemaker as an indication of when he may have died. >> both individuals tested negative for carbon monoxide. an initial interrogation was conducted of mr. hackman's pacemaker. his last event was recorded on february 17th, 2025. i was advised that a more thorough investigation will be completed. >> reporter: and so so more data that might come from the pacemaker. now, gene was found on the floor in his mud room, sunglasses and a cane nearby.

the responding officer says it seems like he suddenly fell, but the sheriff here is so far insist ising that there have been no external injuries found on gene or his wife. authorities say gene's wife betsy was found on the floor in the bathroom, scattered pills on the countertop. a ward reveals the pills recovered were thigh he -- tylenol, tie ride and high blood pressure medications -- thyroid. in addition, a dog was found dead this in a kennel nearby, two other dogs lived. also gene's business partner who placed the 911 call is responding writing: gene hackman, thank you for lending a hand on projects over the years. i could not believe at the time i was actually working side by side with a legend. thank you for treating my sons and employees so well and as equals. betsy hackman, thank you for years of friendship, generosity, opportunity and trust. thank you for your love for dogs including my own, for all the ad advice and consoling. the sheriff says gene and his wife did not have cameras inside

or outside of their home here. that certainly would have helped this investigation. and years ago in an interview is, gene said he had a stress test done, it vealed that his heart was not doing well x. and that at that point he decided to leave hollywood, come here to the mountains in new mexico for peace and quiet, and it seems like they pretty much had that for the remaining parts of their lives up until their final minutes. jon? jon: matt finn in santa fe, thanks. for more on this let's bring in retired nypd inspector and fox news contributor paul mauro. paul, the authorities are saying foul play is not suspectedded. now -- suspected. in police language, does that include suicide? >> well, it certainly could. but that said, you have to treat this as a potential criminal matter until you can determine that it is not, right? so so of course as everybody has been saying, the autopsy and the toxicology reports which are

going to be finalized probably some weeks out from now are going to to be very, very significant here in determining what happened. but in the interim, you're going to do all the a things you would do were this a homicide investigation, and that's going to include a lot of digital work that not hearing a lot about. they're going to be looking at the wi-fi to see when the phones that the two of them apparently had stopped being active. you're going to look at things like is there an alexa in the house, is there the anything else that these days there are, the internet of thing, refrigerators will literally tell you time to order milk. well, is there visual information that that says the last time the refrigerator was opened, things like that. you're trying to determine with as much specificity as possible went their lives ended x. that's going to allow you to focus your investigation to see was there anybody else there. jon: yeah. strange that, you know, the authorities say it's not a carbon monoxide case, so the house wasn't filled with a poisonous gas, at least not that

one. and yet the two people who lived there and and at least one of their dogs died. i mean, it's just baffling. >> yeah, it's really an unusual circumstance. and aside from the fact that mrc figure, you know, the circumstances are engendering a lot of interest here. there are theories that could cover all of these things. at this point, you know, it's probably not worth speculating because the fact februaries are amorphous, and and so -- facts are amorphous. i would be focusing on the police work, the interviews, trying to see see is there anybody that could have benefited by this? you want to see that, you also want the see their financials. okay, if it looks like they died nine days ago, ten days before the discovery of the bodies, was somebody using an atm card of theirs five days ago? is there somebody taking out a mortgage in their name, was there a large withdrawal? there are things you can do to see if there is activity here

relative to their deaths that could indicate a motive. i, just for the sake of argument here, i think the police are starting to sort of signal that they think there wasn't something nefarious here. that's the read that i'm getting. but that said, you have to treat it way. and, you know, there's been a lot made of the fact that the police used the word suspicious in the search warrant application. let me pour a little water on that, because you needed that a indication of potential something having happened that is suspicious in order to get the search warrant. so the fact that they said conditions that are suspicious really just means they wanted to get a search warrant because the house was not in hackman's name. so just out of an abundance of caution, they got a search warrant so they could search the whole house. that's all that meant. but it looks like the police who appear to have their arms around this, by the way, santa fe seems to be doing a good job from what i can see here. i think they're signaling as of now before the tox comes back, they're leaning towards

something natural and not an intruder. jon: i was about to ask about that. gene hackman was 95 years old. his wife, who was not a large woman, was 65 years old, so if there were an intruder who wanted to clap a hand over their mouths or something, it wouldn't have been all that difficult. it surprises me a little bit that police have been able to rule out foul play given that the bodies were lying there for quite some time. >> yeah. again, i don't know that they're completely ruling it out. they seem to be, as i said, sort of suggesting that maybe it's not nefarious, but they're not going to make any equivocal statements until they really feel like theynow what happened. we know there's no cameras in the house according to matt's reporting. but remember, it's a gated community. a gated community almost certainly is going to have ingress and egress cameras at the gate, right? so once they get a more narrow window of time of death, they're going to start scraping at that a stuff is. look at the video, any digital stuff they can get relative the to cell towers, did an alien

phone -- a phone that shouldn't be there -- hit the wi-fi and this little bit of discrepancy between what it says in the search warrant about the door being ajar and open and the maintenance worker who called9 11 who with says the door was locked -- 911, and i can't get in. both of them do seem to be talking about the front door. could be nothing, but these are things you're going to tease out until we know a lot better, and it is going to be a waiting game until we get back that tox report to see if the pills or a different gas maybe relative to the space heater has some bearing on what's occurred. jon: yeah. it's a mystery worthy the of a hollywood movie at the pointful paul mauro, thanks. >> thank you, jon. jon: president trump announcing record low illegal border crossings last month, but his administration is complaining about two obstacles to its mass deportation plans, leaks on immigration raids underway and sanctuary cities in this country. we'll get into that a next. ♪

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♪ jon: if you're just joining us, here are some of to today's top headlines. in washington, d.c. house republicans are reportedly looking to scrub the district's black lives matter plaza is. if it was dedicated after the death of george floyd back in 2020 with black lives matter painted on the asphalt in 50-foot-tall, 2-block-long letters. house oversight chair james comer calls it an example of, quote, partisan abuse. in illinois a jury finds a 73-year-old landlord guilty of exphurd hate crimes for stabbing a 6-year-old palestinian-american boy to death with two years ago. the landlord also stabbed the boy's mother more than a dozen times. she survived. prosecutors say the man was targeting muslim tenants taffe the october 7th hamas attack on israel. and in new york city, mexican cartel leader rafael

quintero pleading not guilty to a slew of charges, including the murder of a dea agent. he's one of 29 cartel members mexico extradited to the u.s. this week to face american justice. ♪ ♪ jon sirens and bullhorns blared at i.c.e. agents do during a recent deportation operation by i.c.e. officers in los angeles. activists were trying to warn illegal immigrants so they could avoid arrest. critics are calling this dangerous and demanding justice, and the justice department hold the perpetrators accountable. christina coleman live in los angeles with that controversy. christina. >> reporter: hi, jon. yeah, that's right, some activists in the l.a. area are trying to warn migrants when i.c.e. is around with bullhorns and sirens the try and prevent them from getting deportedded.

take a listen. >> we're here at target in alhambra. [background sounds] we have confirmed i.c.e. agent sightings. how many families do you plan to destroy today? >> reporter: now, that was video of a member of group called the community self-defense coalition are. she says the group is working with dozens of organizations across the los angeles area. >> if we see that, like, i.c.e. agents or hsi, if they're, like, knocking on doors, we just remind people of their rights. and their rights are to not speak, to not open the door and to ask for a warrant. we make noise, and the nose just alerts -- the noise just alerts people that there's something going on outside. [background sounds] this is our megaphone providing noise to alert the community. >> reporter: she is just one of a number of activists across the country alerting locals when i.c.e. agents are around as the

trump administration continues its deportation efforts as a part of its huge crackdown on migrant crime, illegal immigration, drug smuggling and cartel violence. last night if former acting dhs secretary chad wolf told sean hannity that when people leak information about i.c.e. operations or disrupt them, they're putting the lives of both law enforcement and people within the community in danger. >> when law enforcement goes out to do an opportunity, they largely depend on that that element of surprise is so that the, you know, the targets of that operation don't cause them harm. i think, you know, the justice department and others need to take a hard look at this and hold some of those individuals accountability and make an example out of them. >> reporter: now, despite efforts to disrupt i.c.e. operations, the trump administration has made a ton of progress on its ambitious deportation agenda. since president trump took office to february 8th, arrests of aliens with criminal histories have soared by nearly

100% compared to the very same time period last year during the biden administration. quite the turn-around, jon. jon: yeah, that's for sure. christina coleman reporting. christina, thank you. >> it's amusing to see so much effort going into hyping up the hearing. there are important topics that we need to talk about, and and i hope we'll get the chance to share the facts and the truth as well. jon: that's boston mayor michelle wu ahead of her testimony on capitol hill next week. she will join other mayors of so-called sang chew a ware cities testifying before congress about those policies that prevent local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. finish let's bring in elizabeth ricci, adjunct immigration law professor at florida state university. thanks very much, elizabeth, for being with us in this afternoon. this debate over immigration

policy is heating up, obviously, and it seems like people like michelle wu think that having a sanctuary city a good -- is a good idea and within the bounds of the law in in this country. how do you see it? >> well, it is a good idea in her context. she'll tell you that crime is lower in boston compared to non-sanctuary cities of about the same size, and it is legal. the supreme court has held that. the 1997 case of prince basisically -- basically said that states and local officials cannot be forced to enforce federal policy, that that interferes with the principles of anti-common deering that are -- commandeering that are part of the tenth amendment. so it is legal, and we cosee that crime is lower if her city and similar cities that are also sanctuary cities. jon: that seems like a pretty

broad statement. you look at a place like los angeles or chicago, those are sanctuary cities, and crime is rampant there. >> it's not about whether crime is rampant if, it's a comparison to non-sanctuary cities to sanctuary cities of the aim size. that's what i'm saying. i think you're mixing upal apples and oranges here. what i'm saying is that boston, which is a sanctuary city, has a lower crime rate than similarly-sized cities that are not sanctuary cities. jon: okay. but what is the value of not having your police departments and other, or you know, local law enforcement not having them cooperate with federal immigration authorities? >> well, let's be clear, it's not about not cooperating. what a sanctuary means, or in boston's case under the boston trust act, it means that local or city police will not detain

someone solely on the basis of their immigration status and will not share certain information with i.c.e. it's not a blanket non-cooperation policy. and the reason that, at least in boston's case, is that doing so actually promotes public safety. people will not report crime if they think that doing is so is going to result in their being put in deportation or their family and friends being put in deportation. so is the reasoning is actually a public safety reason. and it shows that that that does create trust with law enforcement where people know that they can report crime, they can be witnesses. and you and i are less safe if our neighbors are not reporting crime. jon: but this isn't all about boston. there are cities in which criminal illegal aliens are locked up and then not reported the i.c.e -- to i.c.e. who could then detain them and expel them

from the country. they're not reported because they are sanctuary cities, isn't that wrong? >> well, it -- i'm not here to say whats right or wrong, i'm here to tell you what the law is. and like i seder, urn the 1997 -- said is, under the 1997 supreme court case of prince, local governments are not required to enforce federal law. we're not saying that crimes won't be prosecuted, we're saying that local governments aren't going to use local resources to do federal duties. jon: all right. well, it's a -- the argument goes on. we'll see who wins over the next few years. elizabeth ricci, thanks very much. >> thank you. ♪ jon: we have an update on pope francis' health after a recent setback in his two-week battle with pneumonia. we'll take you hive to rome next. ♪ ♪ finish

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jon: the vatican says pope francis is in stable condition and resting after a peaceful friday night, but earlier yesterday there was a scare as he marked two weeks in a rome hospital battling a complex lung infection. jeff paul live in rome with more. jeff. >> reporter: yeah, jon. and the vatican saying that the pope is now stable after just the day before he had experienced an isolated respiratory crisis is. he's still using hamasing from time to time to help in his recovery, but officials at the vatican saying he felt well puff to even resume some physical therapy. previously, pope francis experienced what is known as a bronco-spaz if. that is when the their that connects the lungs to the windpipe tightened. pope francis received

non-invasive ventilation, basically hamasing that covered his nose and mouth to help with his breathing. the pope doesn't have a fever, and his white blood cell count isn't elevated. he is eating and they haven't had my other spaz if. s as of yet. he'll be spending his 16th night here at yes melly hospital if oklahoma -- yes melly hospital in rome. >> we want to pray for pope was we know pope now is sick is. is so is only the prayer, we ca. so we need pope. >> reporter: so far the pope has now experienced two medical crises in the span of about a week. is and just given his elderly age a, he's 88 years old, and his past lounge issues, doctors continue to tell the vatican that his recovery will be touch and go. jon? jon: all right. we will continue to monitor that situation. jeff paul in rome, thanks. and and we'll be right back. n

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presidents trump and certificate zelenskyy at -- zelenskyy at the white house. i'm jon scott is, and this is a brand new hour of "the fox report. ". ♪ jon: three big stories we are watching this hour. another scare in the skies. flames were shooting from the if engine of a for example fedex cargo plane after it hit a bird near one of the nation's busiest airport as this morning. the plane safely made an emergency landing. the ceasefire between israel and maas hamas now in danger of falling apart after the terror group rejected an extension of the first phase. and ukrainian president zelenskyy under growing pressure to mend if his relationship with president trump after yesterday's shouting match the oval office. that's where we begin this hour with lucas tomlinson, he's live many if west palm beach where the president is now. lucas. >> reporter: good afternoon, jon. both world leaders have gone to their respective corners, if you

will. president trump down here to palm beach and what a he calls the winter white house. ukrainian president volodymyr certificate eleven say's in london meeting with britain's prime minister where he received a much nicer reception -- zelenskyy. >> let me just say that you're very, very welcome here in downing street. and as you've heard from the cheers on the streets outside, you have full backing across the united kingdom. and we stand with you and ukraine for as long as it may take. >> reporter: jon, that looked a lot different, that meeting in 10 downing street looked push different than what took place the oval office a just a day ago. that meeting went off the rails about 40 minutes into it after some nice words from president trump. >> you don't have the cards right now. with us, you start having cards. >> i'm not playing cards can. i'm very serious, mr. president. >> you're gambling with the lives of millions of people.

you gambling with world war iii. >> [inaudible] >> you're gambling with world war iii. >> reporter: zelenskyy left the white house a short to time later on trump's orders. the planned press conference and lunch canceled, the mineral rights deal remains unsigned. later on "special report" with bret baier, zelenskyy said he wanted security guarantees. zelenskyy did not offer an apology, jon. >> i'm not hearing from you, mr. president, a thought that you owe the president an apology. >> no, i respect president and i respect american people. and if, i don't know if -- i think that we have to be very open and very honest, and i'm not sure that we did something bad. >> reporter: many democrats think zelenskyy was set up in that to oval office meeting with with president trump. and, jon, just a few moments ago we heard from president trump on his truth social announcing new

border apprehension numbers on the southern border, about 82300 for the entire first month -- 8300, which is an all-time low. just for context, jon, there were many days during the biden administration where more than 8300 imlegal aliens were apprehended. officials are crediting those thousands of american soldiers and marines sent to to the border to link up9 with the border patrol. jon: lucas tomlinson in west palm beach, thank you. a big cargo plane forced to make an emergency landing after a bird strike set fire to one of its engines. just the latest in if a series of mid-air scares in america's skies going back to january. c.b. cotton has the latest on this particular incident. >> reporter: hi, jon. fedex says its cargo flight had a departed from newark airport in new jersey this morning and was on its way to indianapolis when one of the plane's jenins -- engines caught fire,

forcing the cargo plane to turn back to new jersey. video shows the fedex cargo plane letting off a big plume of smoke as fire appears from if that right engine. eyewitnesses said they heard a loud explosion, a boom too. another video shows the fedex cargo plane if landing safely while its engine is still in flames. you know, the good news is that there were no reported injuries, and the plane safely touched down at around 8:07 this morning local are time. it is the unclear how many people were onboard. air traffic was even briefly halted as a precaution at the operate a, but operations have since bigged back up. -- picked back up. transportation secretary sean duffy weighing in on x to write these bird strikes are not too uncommon. over 19,000 happened in 2023, and 4-6% of these strikes result in damage to planes. he also praised the pilots of this fedex plane writing on x, quote, video9 from the

incident shows the quick-thinking pilots returning the plane to land safely while the engine is on fire. my if thanks and admiration go out to them for their professional aism and execution under extreme pressure. but this scare, as you mentioned, comes on the heels of three fatal a plane crashes at the start of the year and other close calls in the sky. i mean, we remember this from the chicago. this has all left people on high alert. so secretary duffy pointed to pilot error as playing a role in the majority of the recent plane crashes, and he said this during an interview with nbc news just this week. jon? jon: c.b.9 cotton reporting from our newsroom, thanks. new mexico authorities appear to remain baffled by the deaths of oscar-winning actor gene hackman and his wife in their home. officials say the couple tested negative for carbon monoxide if poisoning, and the santa fe county sheriff says there were no obvious signs of foul play.

matt finn is live in santa fay with the latest on -- santa fe with the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: behind me is the entrance to the gated, affluent committee where gene and his wife betsy lived for years. this is about ten minutes outside of downtown santa fe. and once you get inside these gate, you have a short drive to gene hackman's home. so it was very clear that they wanted privacy. we just talked to a neighbor who said they were extremely private. they have a very large gate. he estimated about 8 feet outside of their property. they wanted to be emote -- remote, they wanted peace and quiet, and that's exactly what they got, jon, because authorities say the couple was likely dead in their home for about eight, nine, ten days before they were discovered on wednesday. the running theory this week was carbon monoxide, but yesterday the santa fe county sheriff says the a pathologist says, no, no carbon monoxide in the house or in their bodies.

so now they're looking at gene hackman's pacemaker that shows an event happened on february 17th which is an indication of when he may have died. gene was found on the floor in his mid mud room, sunglasses and a cane nearby. the responding officer here said it seemed like he had suddenly fallen, but the pathologist says gene and his wife did not have external injuries. authorities say gene's wife betsy was found on the floor in the bathroom, scattered pills on the countertop. a warrant reveals the pills taken were tylenol, a thyroid and high blood pressure medication usually not associated with overdoses. in addition, a dog was found dead in a kennel or cage near the wife. two other dogs who were able to roam free, they lived. and also gene's personal contractor who was a friend as well, he placed the 911 call. he's responding writing: gene hackman, thank you for lending a handen projects over the years.

i could not believe i was working side by side with the legend. thank you for tell -- treating my employees and sons as whale. thank you for your love for dogs including my own. thank you for all the advice and consoling. if now back live out here, authorities say that gene and his wife did not have a camera inside of their property or outside. obviously, that video would have helped. and years ago in an interview, gene said he had a stress test done, that his heart was not strong, and so at that point he decided to lever hollywood to move here to the secluded mountains in new mexico. jon? jon: matt finn, the investigation if continues. thanks, matt. so authorities are left scratching their heads after learning carbon monoxide was not a factor in the deaths of gene hackman and his wife. the santa fe sheriff's office says the autopsy will be crucial to learning exactly what happened. >> so one of the challenges is

trying to determine that timeline are. i think the event of the pacemaker gives us an idea with, but again, we're going to sift through the cell phone records, go through the planner. we're contacting workers, maintenance workers, family members, security. jon: forensic pathologist and fox news contributor dr. michael baden jones us -- joins us now about this most unusual case. doctor, the authorities say there are no to obvious signs of foul play -- no obvious signs. to external trauma if to either individual. the drugs that were found scattered on the counter are not the kind that one would take if one wanted to end one's life, at least not as far as i've been told. what do you see going on here, and what would you ask for next in this investigation? >> well, from what the sheriff has said, that he had a pace ifmaker that was -- pacemaker

that was found at autopsy and that that reading the pacemaker can be done shows that the he had an event, a cardiac event about nine days before. that event would have been a cardiac arrest caused by an abnormal pulse rate. the pacemaker keeps track of the pulse, and when it gets down too low, it discharges. and that's all all in the records. so the autopsy showed he didn't have any if injury. there was no carbon monoxide. and he had what most -- the most common cause of death in this country is severe heart disease. coronary artery disease and high blood pressure perhaps from what's been leased. so, and that would cause him having cardiac arrest in the mud room to collapse right there. his wife was found in the bathroom. they haven't released the

information about her findings except that she did not have carbon monoxide in her. and that what appears to be, you know, from the scene and from what's been said is that she found her husband in the mud if room, went -- mud room, went -- very excited, went to the bathroom to get the high blood pressure medication and fell down, pulling a room heater down with her and spilling the pills on the floor is what the scene sounds like from what the sheriff has released so far and that she may have struck her head on the way down and have some internal injury to the brain that doesn't show up on the outside or bleeding on the inside of the brain or that she may also at 65 have had severe heart disease and excitement can

cause, trigger to the cardiac rhythm causing death under those circumstances. i think the first, the striking her head would be more common. jon vice president so you're saying this could be the unusual, i suppose, case of death essentially by natural a causes -- >> that isn't clear -- jon: -- among a married couple. >> yes. and the dog, what was perplexing to me initially was the death of the dog also which i thought was free in the house, and that's why i think the carbon monoxide if was a very good thought, because they're breathing the same air. but it turns out from what they say that the dog was constrained in his cage or kennel and would have died from just dehydration, lack of water during the 9-day period that he couldn't get out of the kennel. jon: wow. so it could just all be a, well, a terrible accident, i guess you would say, in the case of his

wife and really in his case as well. >> well, the circumstances on who he was, he was beloved by so many, are what makes it so so unusual because heart disease and collapsing and dying, the pace maker is common in the united states. but the circumstances of the two of them isolated by themselves, and that may have been the reason that 911 wasn't called, for example, while his wife was trying to get him some medication and fell. jon: wow. dr. michael baden, you always enlighten us on things like this. we appreciate it. thanks. >> thank you, jon. >> it won't be easy, but i know we can turn the city around. and i believe i can help. and that is why i announced my

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to president trump and i'm, with all a respect that he wants to finish this war, but nobody wants to finish more than we because we in ukraine, we are in this war. we are in this battle and battle for freedom for our lives still. jon: ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy with bret baier last night if hours after his oval office shouting match with president trump and vice president vance. the head of nato is now urging zelenskyy to try to set things right telling him, quote, i think you have to find a way to restore your relationship can with donald trump and the american administration. we really have to respect what president trump has done so far for ukraine. let's bring in victoria coates, he is the vice president of the heritage foundation's national security and foreign policy institute. thanks, victoria, for being here. is it on, as the nato leader has suggested, is it on zelenskyy's shoulders to try to fix this

situation? >> well, good to be with you, and thank you for having me on. yes, i think it, quite frankly, is. you know, the secretary-general is not a natural ally necessary of president trump, but he recognizes the simple reality that the united states is the nuclear umbrella over europe. they are -- we are the ones who provide that the security, and without it there's not much europe's going to be able to do against the world's largest nuclear power which is russia. is that is the reality that i think president zelenskyy forgot yesterday, that this is a bigger situation than just ukraine and that president trump is an indispensable and necessary partner to europe. and just really quickly, i would point out he had two excellent engagements with european heads of state last week. this was in no way evident,, nor is it president trump's fault. jon: you heard president trump telling him he doesn't hold any cards k and perhaps that is true.

but the ukrainians have done an amazing job of fighting off this assault, this invasion from a much bigger adversary over the last three year, have they a not? >> oh, they have. and i think president trump was very careful the say several times, including yesterday during this exchange, that no one can doubt the bravery of the ukrainian people and that he admires them greatly. i think that is also a fact. and in this case though, he has said repeatedly that he doesn't think we should be fighting this war down to the last ukrainian, which is how the biden administration prosecuted it over or the last three years, giving ukraine just enough not the lose but not enough the win. and i think president trump thinks that approach has failed. i would say that none of the americans that reelected president trump in november voted for an expanded, greater american involvement in the war in ukraine. and he is making good on what he campaigned on, which president zelenskyy should have noun --

known, which is ending the war and win ending the killing. jon: yeah. he wants to end the war, president trump does. obviously, president zelenskyy does too. but is it a case of peace at any price? i mean, what if the donbas and crimea permanently go to the russians? is that, in your view, is that worthwhile peace deal? >> no, absolutely not. and i don't think that's what president trump has proposed at all. i think we should go back to this minerals, natural resources deal that was on the table yesterday. that is what should have been signed because what that that does is it gives the united states vested interests in ukraine. it's why the ukrainians wanted that deal six, seven years ago, because they wanted the united states to have assets in the country which will give putin pause. and that's what we need to do. we need to deter him from doing this again. so direct american engagement, economic in this case, is one way to do it. another way, which mark rutte also knows quite well, is

expanded european if investment in their own defenses. they did not start doing that three years ago when the war began. they're just talking about doing it now in this kind of enthusiasm for zelenskyy that has broken out since the events of yesterday. so that wouldn't even be up and running for a couple more years. if they were serious about their security, they would have done in this three years ago if not sooner, and they would at that point have something very serious to deter putin with. jon: president trump is taking some heat from other world leaders including in this case the european union foreign policy chief who says the free world needs a new leader. ukraine is europe, we stand by ukraine, we step up our support to ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the aggressor. today it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. of it's up to us, europeans, to take this challenge. do you dispute any of that? >> yes, i do.

[laughter] callas is a friend of mine, the former president of estonia. i think those were very poorly chosen comments, probably said in the heat of the moment because this is just unrealistic. and, you know, president trump is this best friend to europe. we are very close partners, and we want to to continue debate. but my question to president kallas would be if you have such enthusiasm for ukraine and ukraine is europe, well, why aren't they in the european union, of whom which you are now the top diplomatsome why aren't you advocating to give them the currency of the euro currency it and european market? that seems, to me, a much more logical thing. it's purely economic that you would do rather than nato membership which could enlarge the war. i'd be very interesting in her answer to that question. jon: interesting take. victoria coates from the heritage center, thank you. >> thank you. jon: the pentagon today confirms

an airstrike killed the senior leader of an al-qaeda affiliate in northern syria with. u.s. central command releasing this footage of the strike which happened last sunday. u.s. airstrikes have killed several leaders of the terror group in syria a this year following the downfall of the as a sad regime back in december -- assad regime back in december. so hamas is rejecting israel's offer to to extend phase one of their ceasefire agreement which is supposed to to expire today. the terror group is demanding that talks begin on the second phase which potentially could include israel's complete withdrawal from gaza. stephanie bennet has more from london. stephanie. >> reporter: hey, jon, yeah. under the deal's terms, fighting should not resume while these negotiations are underway for phase two. now, of course, during the initial six-week phase one hamas released 25 living hostages and returned the bodies of 8 others to israel in exchange for nearly 2,000 palestinian prisoners.

thousands returned to northern gaza, aid increased and some israeli forces withdrew. phase two is supposed to create a more permanent if end to this war, see all israeli troops withdraw if see the remaining hostages returned. officials from israel, qatar, egypt and the u.s. have been involved in negotiations in cairo. us ceil -- israel proposed extending the ceasefire to get more hostages back without withdrawing troops, but hamas is accuse israel of delaying the second phase. other challenges, of course, israel has said hamas cannot be involved in govern,ing after the war while hamas if has indicated it could be willing to hand over power, israeli officials say they will do whatever it takes to free the hostages. >> if there will be no understanding and there will be no clear path to move if forward and to build a new vision for the region without hamas, we will keep the option for resuming our military operation. >> reporter: meanwhile, many palestinians marked the first

day of ramadan with fasting and more worries. the third and final phase of the ceasefire if agreement would include reconstruction of gaza. >> translator: most people's homes have been destroyed. some people can't afford to shop for ram a can. but our hope in god is great -- ramadan. god does not forget the bless anyone with his grace. >> reporter: the u.n. secretary-general will head to cairo next week for more discussions on reconstruction of gaza. jon, back to you. jon: stephanie bennet from london, thanks. well, cautious optimism from the rat can as pope francis continues to -- vatican as pope francis continues to battle pneumonia. the latest update on his condition, next. plus, the united states is hosting a global conference of the world's toppal aer gists and and imknew ifnologists this weekend. we'll speak to one professor about a new model the treat babies who have peanut if allergies. ♪

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jon: the vatican says pope francis is stable and resting after another setback in the hospital yesterday. his prognosis remains guarded. jeff paul live in rome with more. jeff. >> reporter: yeah, jon, and the vatican saying the pope is now stable after the day before they had said he experienced a respiratory crisis. he is is still using a mask from time to time to help with his recovery, but the pope was well enough, according to vatican officials today, to resume some physical therapy. now, previously pope francis had experienced what is known as a broncho spasm. in the pope's case, it led to some vomiting and some inhalation of that vomit. pope francis received non-invasive ventilation, basically a mask that covered his nose and mouth, to help with his breathing. today the vatican says the pope doesn't have a fever, and his white blood cell count isn't

elevated, and they haven't seen any if sort of signs of a repeat of the spasms. he'll be spending his 16th night at gemelli hospital in rome, and that is where the faithful have continued to gather each night if pulling for the pope's recovery. >> we want to pray for pope because we know pope now is sick is. so only the prayer we can, we hope focus the heal that. so we need pope. >> reporter: now, the pope has four experienced two of these medical crises in the span of about a week, and just given his age -- 88 years old -- and his past respiratory issues, the vatican saying his recovery is still very much touch and go. jon? jeff: -- jon: jeff paul, thank you. the murdoch children's research institute is rolling out a new model that could transform how peanut allergies are treated in kids and babies. that includes hunter chapman who

had an allergic reaction at just six months old. he's part of the ground breaking treatment program that that tries to build peanut until answer in infants. professor kirsten parrot is the group leader at the murdoch children's institute ask is part of this whole program. thanks very much for being with us today. >> thanks for having me. jon: this is exciting stuff. the in australia, what, more than 3% of children have them? >> that that's absolutely right. peanut allergies are a massive problem globally. but in australia where we actually have the highest rates of childhood food allergy in the world with 10% of infants having peanut if contributing a significant proportion, we're doing something now to tackle this problem. jon: your program is shing some positive results. what is it exactly that you're doing that hasn't been tried

before? >> yeah. well, at the murdoch children's institute we host australia's a peak allergy research program which is called the national allergy center of excellence. and that's the nace, partnered with ten hospitals around australia in this world-first national model where we're actually treating babies with peanut allergy using peanut oral immunotherapy. the nice thing about it can -- jon: go ahead. >> i'll explain it a bit more. yeah, i was just going the say the nice thing about it is that we're doing it in standard care, routine care. so this is not a clinical trial. it's enabling access for children, infants with peanut if allergy right across australia at those ten centers to actually obtain treatment. and the treatment involves oral inf immunotherapy so the children have a daily dose of peanut powder which is given at a home and built up very

gradually under these careful, monitored program with the hope that we'll be able to change the trajectory of allergic disease for these children. ultimately aim, obviously, is we can get more children off to school without that life-threatening, risk of life-threatening reaction. jon: i know you start with infants, essentially. do you have to or is it your belief that you have to get this program startedded many very young children? i mean, if you wait until they're 10 or 12, does it become too late? if. >> well, i wouldn't necessarily say too late at that age, but the results of the clinical trials have shown that the early infant if immune system is really adaptable x. that's why our program's called the adapt program, because we're hoping to harness the adapt adaptability of the program, timing to develop a tolerance to the a allergen. and so that's why we're starting at this very young age. but with we hope9 if the program

is successful, we will be able to to roll it out to older age groups. but importantly, the regional centers so that more children can have access to this and also also for more allergens. we need to assess the program for its safety and how effective it is and how it's able to improve the quality of life, importantly, not just for the child, but the family and the health system. so this approach is starting at the infant if age a, and we hope to expand. jon: obviously, there are parents in the united states here and all over the world who are probably hanging on your every word because they'd like to get the peanut if allergy out of their child. how long until it's available, this program, outside australia, do you think? >> yes. well, there is treatment available for peanuttal aerie and other foodal aeries in the u.s. at center centers right --

certain centers right now. but often this is at great cost for families x. what's exciting about the conference here in san diego is that that we're learning about lots of great treatments for foodal allergy not just in clinical trials, but at the discovery stage. and there is just so much excitement, i think, right now it's palpable. you can feel it. we're going to have multiple options for children and for adults with food allergy to treat. and it won't be one-size-fits-all, it will be the right treatment for the right person at the right time. and that needs careful shared decision making between the person and their treating physician. but it's an exciting time. jon: yeah. that is some terrific news, and i'm sure you're giving a lot of people hope. professor, thanks very much. >> thank you. jon: well, the murdoch children's research institute offers this treatment program and other resources for free. you can help transform the lives of children by donating.

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alhambra. we have confirmed i.c.e. agent sightings. how many families do you plan to destroy today? >> reporter: that was video of a member of a group called the community self-defense coalition. she says they do patrols to alert folks if they see i.c.e. around. he says the coalition is working with dozens of organizations across the los angeles area. >> we're not here to protect, you know, criminals or whatever the narrative is that's out there. this is really, really, really about these beautiful people who are very scared right now. we make noise, and the noise just alerts, like, people in the area that there's something going on outside. this is our audio megaphone right now providing noise to alert the community. >> reporter: she is just one of a number of activists nationwide alerting locals when i.c.e. a agents are around. as the trump administration continues its deportation efforts as part of its huge crackdown on migrant crime,

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carrying out eight gangland killings for the lieu case si crime family. >> you're allowed to corrupt cops, that's fine. but you're really not supposed to use them to do your dirty work, which is what the bonanno family supposedly did. >> reporter: a former mobster who has written a trilogy history of the american mafia says in this case the roles between law enforcement and la cosa a nostra seem reversed. >> i was blown away when i saw this guy is running around, a detective, and he's in the pocket if of the mob for 150, and he's working with two louses got pinched for doing drugs, ratted him out, and if he's the one that stands up. >> reporter: rosario was charged with eight a other co-defendants. everyone but the former detective pled if guilty. back to to you in the studio. jon: all right. eric shawn, thanks very much.

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jon: elon musk is defending the cuts made by doge this in a 3-hour interview with podcaster joe rogan. madeleine rivera has more. >> reporter: in an interview that spanned about three hours, elon musk defended the work of doge saying the inefficiency within the federal government is worse than he thought. while he says some projects that appear to be, quote, legitimate have to be funded, he took aim at a usaid and nongovernmental organizations, calling the last err a scam. this week more usaid workers cleared their desks as the trump administration moves to dismantle the agency. >> the fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy. the empathy exploit. >> reporter: doge is the subject of a number of lawsuits. some concerning its access, authority and transparency. a federal judge is now ordering trump officials connected to doge to testify in court over its efforts to reshape the

government. musk says they provide recommendations to different departments. >> these are cuts that doge recommends to the department, ask usually these recommendations are followed. >> reporter: musk says since its creation, doge has saved taxpayers billions of dollars, but some of the biggest items in the federal budget include federal programs like medicare and social security which musk slammed. >> social security is the biggest ponzi scheme of all time. there are fewer babies being born, so you have more people who are retired and get -- that live for a long time and is get retirement payments. >> reporter: president trump, though, maintains he won't touch social security, medicare and medicaid, an issue that remains at the forefront in congress as republicans work on a bill that they hope will cut spending and enact the president's agenda. jon? jon: madeleine rivera from washington, thank you. if. two police officers are being called heroes after saving a baby from a fire. that dramatic footage is next. ♪ ♪

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