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everyone. welcome to "sunday morning futures." i'm maria bartiromo. thanks so much for joining us. today, blowout in the oval office as president trump schools ukrainian leader zelenskyy and finally triggers europe to get involved. >> don't tell us what we're going to feel. we're trying to solve a problem. don't tell us what we're going to feel, because you're in no position to kick tate that. you've got to be -- dictate that. you've got to be more thankful because, let me tell you, you don't have the cards. with us, you have the cards. but without us, you don't have any cards. maria: and the president gets ready to deal a new set of cards to europe, mexico, canada and china this week with new tariffs can coming on tuesday. just ahead, u.s. commerce secretary the howard lutnick on president trump's take no prisoners policies. plus, trump finally gets europe to pay attention with new plans now to deal with war in their backyard and deal with a

stronger united states. former secretary of state mike pompeo on now the new world order. plus, executing the president's agenda, house speaker mike johnson is here on his reconciliation with victory past week and the head of president trump's -- ahead of president trump's address to congress tuesday night. then, sending it back to the states, the nation's governors get set to take on more in trump's slimmed-down federal government. two governor wannabes on the leadership they're looking to bring the bear. vivek ramaswamy in ohio and byron donalds in florida. plus, kash patel and dan bongino getting set to take the gi down to size -- fbi down the size. former house intelligence committee chairman devin nuñes on jim comey's house of cards exposed. it's all right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ maria: we begin this sunday

morning with president bush's strong-arm tack the ticks -- tactics and the targets if his crosshairs. just days after the 47th president's widely-watched smackdown of president zelenskyy in the oval office a, mexico, canada, china and europe move into the president's sights. friday a show of strength and a message to ukraine and to europe. pony if up or america walks -- pony if up or america walks. >> you don't have the cards right now. with us, you start having cards. >> i'm not playing cards. i'm very serious, mr. president finish. >> you're playing cards. you're gambling with the lives of millions of people. you're gambling with world war iii. you're gambling with world war iii. and what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country. >> i'm with respect -- >> -- far more than a lot of people said they should have. if. maria: now, mexico, can and china await -- canada and china

await president trump's upcoming tariffs for their failure the ebb the flow of fentanyl into america. defense secretary pete hegseth has even gone as far as a raising the prospect of u.s. troops on the ground in mexico to take on the deadly drug cartels. but first, president trump will impose a 25% tariff on both mexico and canada and another so 10% tariff on china, taking its planned tariff the china to 20%. all beginning this upcoming tuesday. president trump also planning to to implement reciprocal tariffs on april 2nd on all other duns -- countries deemed by the administration to have been treating the united states unfairly are. among the countries the white house is targeting, india, japan and the european union. with the with the e.u. facing a u.s. ponce beyond just -- response beyond unfair trade, but i to resip proprocandidate

against europe's vat tax and its fees and lawsuits against american companies. joining me now in this" sunday morning futures's exclusive is the nation's commerce secretary, howard lutnick. secretary, thank you of for being here. >> great to be here, mafia. martha: secretary, you were sitting across from the president on friday. before we get to tariffs, i want to get your reaction to what a went down. how us with the in the room -- how was it in the room, and do you believe democrats were egging on zelenskyy to not sign that rare earth minerals deal? >> no. so we were 40 minutes before the cameras came in, 45 minutes before the meltdown. 9 and the fact was zelenskyy never stopped asking for, you know, i will give no concessions. they've got to leave my land. i want reparations of $300 billion. and i want the united states to give me security guarantees while they're at war with russia. and that's why the president called it world war iii.

you're gambling with world war iii. we're not going to give you security guarantees while you're at war with russia. it's just ridiculous. his requests were redick house, they were not -- ridiculous. the president let it go for a while. he was this to make peace. our president is there to make peace as he said, end the death, and zelenskyy was not there to make peace. he was there to strike some sort of make believe bargain that he had in his mind, and eventually that ran its course, and donald trump said i can't take this nonsense anymore and made it crystal clear, he's the peacemaker. zelenskyy's not interested in peace, he should go home and think about it. march more and that's what happened. he was asked to leave. i don't know exactly the language president trump used, but he said get the heck out of here. do you think that zelenskyy had met with democrats before meeting with trump and basically they told him, stay firm, don't do the rare earth minerals deal?

>> i can't imagine that. gosh, i hope not. i mean, that would be, that would be dreadful, you know? the fact is the president just wants the make peace. he tried to make peace. we had a beautiful lunch arranged, we had a signing, tables all set up. this was designed to be beautiful with. right? and instead we had lunch by ourselves without the zelenskyy crowd there because they just did not come for peace, and our president's there, as he said, to end the death and to create peace x. if that's who donald trump is, and he knows allowed to do it. he even said, you know, you have to be reasonable to putin. you can't say, you know, putin's a terrorist and then call the guy out and try to make peace with him. you have to play balanced. donald trump knows how to be mediator, he knows how to ash a trait this, and he needs zelenskyy on site, and zelenskyy needed to hear it directly from the funding mouth of the the united states of america. we're not going to give you money unless you're hear for

peace -- here for peace. maria: and now we've got the tariffs beginning on tuesday against mexico, canada and china. china has already said it's going to retaliate. are you expecting american goods' prices to go higher in the short term given the fact that this looks like a fight here as well? >> well, look, we care about two things, right in the march 4th is about the border, and beth mexico and canada have done a reasonable job on the border. they're both working hard on the border. we've had the lowest crossings ever, ever under donald trump because of his ability to negotiate with canada and mexico. but the fentanyl continues to come into this country and continues to murder our people. expect ingredients are made in china, they're sent to mexico and canada, and then they come and attack our country, and that's got to end. the president's been crystal clear on those two points. they have done a lot, so he's sort of thinking about right now i how exactly he wants to play

it with mexico and canada, and that is a fluid situation is. there are going to be tariffs on tuesday on mexico and canada, exactly what they are we're going to leave that for the president and his team to negotiate and, obviously, i'm talking to him all the a time to discuss what that's going to be on tuesday. but can china pa's got to stop -- china's got to stop making these ingredients. remember, in to 19 -- 2019 the chinese told president trump at that time that they would put the death penalty on anybody who made fentanyl. and today they're giving the maximum subsidy today possibly can to the people a making those ingredients. so the chinese need to stop this murder of americans, and donald trump is the only president who with protects the american people. finish. maria: well, it sounds like president trump knows exactly his customer in china and is dealing with that. but in terms of mexico and canada, what i think i hear is there is some room here, maybe 25 that % tariff doesn't goat --

25% tariff doesn't go into effect, maybe he's able to negotiate it down given that they have shown some willingness to help on the border? >> they've done a -- they've done a very reasonable job on the border. i mean, i spoke to tom homan yesterday, and he was very optimistic about the kind of work that mexico and canada are doing on the border. lowest crossings ever. so in that regard they've done an excellent job, but they just haven't moved on the fentanyl deaths in america, and that's one of those key things protecting the lives of americans. so the president is thinking about it. i think there are going to be tariffs on tuesday on mexico and canada. exactly what they're going to be, i'm going to leave that for the president to decide. he's got great advisers. i'm obviously at the table with him and so are others. he's going to think about it, he's going to put them into place on tuesday, you know, the canadians and mexicans have been talking to him. i think china's set. they either end these subsidy ands they end making these

ingredients for fentanyl, or he's going to put tariffs on there. and if they think they're going to retaliate, remember, he was so much more that they sell to us tan we sell to them. -- than we sell to them it's not even close are. this is not a battle we're ever going to lose, and the president knows it. he does have the cards, and he's going to protect america. maria: secretary, what about others and these reciprocal tariffs in you've been tasked with this job, to study what reciprocal tariffs look like. when you look at europe, are we talking about a tariff much higher than 25% because you're including the vat tax and also all these other things that you've talked about before? it's not just about trade when it comes to europe, is it? >> well, there's two things going on. number one, there's reciprocity, right? they have a vat tax and they have a tariff on cars, so 10% on cars plus -- and all sorts of other products -- plus, they have all these nontariff

barriers where we can't sell our hair dryers there, but they can sell their hair dryers here. this nonsense has got to end. and number two, the president's called out cars, he's called out semiconductors, he's called out pharmaceuticals, copper, steel and aluminum. he is focused on bringing manufacturing back to america, and he's going to make sure it comes back. so we want cars made here. we're going to re-invigorate michigan, we're going to reinvigorate ohio. this president is totally focused on building america back, and we're going to use tariffs to create fairness so to our farmers can finally -- imagine india has 1.4 billion people, and they won't let us sell our agricultural products there. this nonsense has got to end. imagine, modi came to america, and in the kindness of his heart, he cut the kentucky bourbon tariff from 150% all the way down to 100%.

i mean, come on. we need fairness, and we need the strength of donald trump to make the world reasonable to america and stop picking us off. it's over. donald trump's going to end it and make the world trade fairly with america finally. maria: ec tower, before you go real -- secretary, how worried should we be about an economy that is slowing in if all of this this? we saw the gdp last week. there are new worries9 at the wall street journal wrote about, worries mounting that the trump agenda testing the economy's resilience. the lindsay group, can doge induce a recession? are any of these moves worrying you that we're actually going to see see it cut into over the near term negatively in. >> no. no, no. so is let's -- the commerce department runs the a statistics of gdp. you know, the governments historically have messed with gdp. they count government spending as part of gdp.

that lore government spending, it's one thing -- it goes like this: if the government buys a tank, that's gdp. but paying a thousand people to think about buying a tank is not gdp. it is a wasted inefficiency, wasted money, and cutting that while it shows in gdp, we're going to get rid of that, eau you how that is. but remember this, when we balance the budget of the united states of america, interest rates are going do come smashing down. when he produces the energy that is necessary, energy prices are going to come smashing down. maria: okay. >> inflation is going to come smashing down, and our economy is going to explode. this is going to be the best economy anybody's ever seen, and the bet against with it is foolish. maria: and, secretary, real quick on other deals the president is working on, i know you have looked at the panama canal. can you tell us where you are in that and what what it looks like in terms of u.s. interests in the panama canal? >> i mean, imagine this, so we

give the panama -- we spend in current dollars a trillion dollars and 38,000 americans lose their lives to malaria to build the panama canal. jimmy carter gives it to them but says they cannot favor any nation. and then panama if leases both mouths to the chinese. the chinese are building bridges over it so our military and our ships have to go under a chinese bridge. and then if you drive across or you ride if one of these barges across the panama canal and look at a both sides, 70% of every letter and every word chinese. maria: wow. >> they sold out to the chinese. the president is absolutely right. for national security, the panama canal needs to be ours and our protection, and the president's going to protect america, and he's going to present shipping, and he's going to to help do it, so you should expect the panama canal if eventually to come back under our oversight because we need to protect ourselves. and the fact that they sold out

to the chinese is ridiculous. march more okay. secretary, it's great to have you this morning. we so appreciate your time, sir is. thank you. we'll be watching your work. >> love being here, thanks. maria: commerce secretary howard lutnick. thank you, sir. and now the event of the week, president trump is set to speak many front of a joint session of congress tuesday night marking his first major address since his return to the white house. joining me now with a preview is the man himself who who extended the invitation to the president, the speaker of the house, louisiana congressman mike mike johnson. mr. speaker, thank you so much for being here. >> hey, maria. always great to be with you, thanks for having me. maria: before we get to your big victory of the week in the reconciliation package that passed last week in the house, give us your sense of what to expect on tuesday night. >> well, fireworks, you know? in a great way. president trump is coming in a triumphant return to congress to address us as the president once again. and in the first month of office

a, he has accomplished so much that it could fill three hours. i suspect he'll speak in a shorter time frame than that. but, maria, there's so much to relay. normally at this point in a president's term, a new president's term, they would not deliver a state of the union, it would be just simply a joint address as it's entitled. but in this case it actually will be more like a state of the union address because president trump has such a long series of victories, things that he has done, promises he has kept. and it is putting america back on a strong footing, and we can't wait to welcome him back to the chamber. maria: mr. speaker, let me get your take on what the "wall street journal" wrote about this week. powers of trump and congress collide as government shutdown nears. democrats say congress has too much -- has a given too much power to the president on spending and tariffs. your reaction. >> it's nonsense season. the president doing what he said on the campaign trail he would do, and that is restoring america's strength and dominance on the globe. he's doing exactly what he is

able to do with his constitutional tort under our system of government. there's no conflict between the two branches there. the conflict is that the democrats are uncomfortable with all this change. why? because they love big, bloated government spending. they really like the status quo on the world stage. they weren't really all that interested in ending these conflicts around the globe. president trump brings a new strength, and we're entering a new golden era of america, and that's exactly what he was elected to do and exactly what he's going to lead us into. march a. maria: more and last week, of course, you had a victory with the passage of the reconciliation package, but there are questions about what happens next in terms of the senate. the senate has been working on a two-track plan of putting the tax cut and extensions later on in the year. where do you see this going? >> well, i see it going the house's way. i'm the many constant contact with our senate colleagues, and let me be clear, maria, there is no daylight between house and senate republicans. we are all on one big team with

the same mission, and that is to deliver the america first agenda. and that is what we are doing in earnest now. passing the resolution last tuesday night was the first necessary step to kick off that game, it was the starting game. it was the kickoff to a four-quarter football game, and that game begins now it's going to be a lot of hard work the not only extend the trump era tax cuts which we need to do quickly, maria, because we need to give certainty and stability to to business owners, to the markets and taxpayers, but all the other things we promised; securing the border, restoring american energy dominance, cutting red tape and the bureaucracy in the deep state and ensuring peace through strength. all those things will be done in one big, beautiful role, and the house has the lead on it, because that's our role. i think the senate will play along. maria: the journal is writing that opinion is hardening among democrats, that congress must pass measures to compel trump to spend money on the federal programs as designated by lawmakers. >> talk about a separation of

powers. in the negotiations on the fy-25 spending bills here, you know, heading up to the march 14th deadline, we'll have to probably pass a clean c.r. instead of separate approach bills. why? because the democrats in congress were trying to demand that as a condition of appropriations that we somehow tie the hands of the president, limit his authority, you know? put elon musk in a a corner and take him off of his mission. we're not doing that. that's a nonstarter, and democrats know that. i hope they'll be reasonable. we all have a respondent if to keep the government open and operating, and we lins are going to do our job. we're going to pass a clean c.r., and the exciting thing is fy-26, the budgeting, where we will actually be able to incorporate automatic extraordinary savings that doge is uncovering through fraud, waste and abuse, the other revenues that president trump is bringing about because of his policies with the tariffs and otherwise. it's going to be a totally different ball game for fiscal year '26, and we are very

excited to get to that point. maria: wow, that is very exciting. mr. speaker, let me get your take on these tabs edges -- tax extensions because i know you want to make the tax cuts perm inspector. in its current form, you don't have the money to make the tax cuts permanent, do you? so will you, ultimately, have to go with the senate plan to actually push the tax extensions to later on in the year? >> we -- our goal so to make the tax cuts permanent, and we need to do that because it gives stability to people who are trying to make decisions long term. i think we owe that to job creators in the u.s. economy, and i think we can achieve that, maria. the devil's in the details as in every piece of legislation to find out how exactly to enact the savings that will allow us to do that, but i think we'll have of enough room to do it. and if all of our republican colleagues are going to to roll up their sleeves and get to a point of consensus so we can make this happen. we're excited to begin that work in earnest. it starts monday morning, but we've been doing the preparation for more than a year, so i'm absolutely convinced we're going

to accomplish this mission. stuart: maria: and tuesday night we'll see you standing right behind the president along with the vice president next to you. are you expecting the democrats to put on some kind of resistance show on tuesday night in. >> boy, i hope not. i hope they respect the decorum of the institution. it's really important. everybody remembers when nancy pelosi ripped up his state of the union speech, it was just disgusting. it's a bad showing on the world stage. we should respect the president. everyone should stand and give him an ovation for what he's been able to accomplish in the first few weeks. it's incredible, incredible, what the new trump administration is doing, and it's good for all a americans, and everyone will see that very soon is. maria: all right. mr. speaker, we so appreciate your time this morning, and we thank you for your leadership, sir. thank you, sir. >> thank you. great to see you. maria: house speaker mike johnson. join me next sunday for my exclusive sit-down with president trump at the white house as we talk about his agenda for the american people. that's next sunday right here, 10 is a.m. eastern, don't miss

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maria: welcome back. new fbi director kash patel was sworn in this week for the additional role of acting atf chief to oversee the bureau's roughly 5,500 employees that

oversee federal laws pertaining to the firearms, explosives and and arson areas. meanwhile, fox news host dan bongino tapped as deputy director of the fbi to serve as the number two behind kash patel in command of the bureau. joining me now is the man who exposed the trump-russian collusion hoax, former house intelligence chairman and trump media a ceo devin nuñes currently. devin, thanks so much for being here. >> great, thanks, maria. as always a. maria: give us your reaction to kash patel and dan bongino running the fbi. how do you expect things to change, where will the priorities be? >> if you look at both with of these individuals, they were heavily involved in the russia hoax and made it available for the american people. you know, kash, of course, being our lead investigator focused on following the money. so they know about the abuses of the fbi, they know about the abuses of the department of justice. but at the end of the day, the these are both real haw men that

are smart -- law men that i think are going to reinvigorate the fbi. and this is at a time when nobody's talking about this, but they should be. because we had this wide open border for the last four years, there is a counterterrorism problem in this country of which we've never seen. think about it, 200 countries around the globe, and i guarantee you there are people from every single one of those countries of which dozens and dozens of them don't like the united states of america. so i think both director patel and dan bongino are going to have to focus on let's find these bad guys that are in the country, let's make sure we arrest them. i think it's one of the reasons why president trump has said we need to open up gitmo. why? because we have really dangerous criminals that are in here looking to do harm for america. so the fbi has its work cut out for them, but i think both of these individuals will not only do it fairly, but also a reinvigorate the fbi to focus on getting criminals and finding terrorists. maria: do you believe anyone

will be held accountable for the russia collusion hoax that ripped the country apart? >> look, it -- there are still things that need to be declassified. i think the attorney general along with the fbi and john ratcliffe over at the cia will get these documents out. and, look, as the president's chair of the intelligence advisory board, you know, we will enshower that that that happens. and -- ensure. if they want to lean on us to do some of that declassification, we will over time. but the american people want to to close this dark chapter in american history -- maria: yeah. >> -- and really put an end to it. and the way you do that is with sunlight and let these documents out. maria: and, devin, i know before you exposed the trump collusion lie can which went viral across the world, you had done a deep dive on china. and it is china has -- that really is the number one adversary who has been undermining the united states now for decades. what do you want to say about

that common thread that keeps running through all of these stories whether it be ukraine, europe or, in fact, lies about the trump administration? >> yeah. i mean, you look at what happened last week with the zelenskyy meeting, what was lost on everyone is what president trump was trying to do there is talk about rare earth elements and how ukraine can play an important role in that. why are these rare earth minerals important? it's important for a.i., for technology, for all the a things we do at ruth the social every single day -- truth social every single day. you have to have these rare earth minerals and elements. you have to have them for computing power. china has went around the globe over the last 30 years with their belt initiative, and they've hocked up these minerals where they -- lockedded up these minerals. zelenskyy, whether he realized it or not, president trump was trying to say, hey, let us get in there, form an economic partnership. you have got roughly a million dead ukrainians, a million dead

russians, and it's in the interest of putin ago. putin's been playing second fiddle to to xi in china. he's had nowhere else to go because he's been isolated from the rest of world. president trump's trying to get these people back together, get back on the same page, get economic interest, stop the killing and then focus on the biggest problem that's out there which is this juggernaut of china that's been doing this for 30 years with their soft power niche iftive. china's done this, maria, without ever firing a bullet. they're doing it through economic means. maria: wow. >> you had the commerce secretary on talking about this, president trump understands this. hopefully, zelenskyy understands it, our european allies understand it. i think you'll see people get back to the table quickly. hopefully, the killing will stop and people will begin to focus on rebuilding their countries when, i think, people should understand as we pointed out for many, many years that china's the problem here. maria: you think zelenskyy will ultimately sign that rare earth minerals deal? you think he'll come back and sign it? >> either him or somebody else,

but they're going to have to end war and build economic ties with the west. maria: okay, we'll leave it there. devin, thanks so much so. former house intelligence committee chairman and current ceo of trump media, devon nuñes. stay with us, we'll be right back. it's 2:55. i know. is this what he's doing now? as your host, i have some rules. first, no showers longer than 5 minutes. this isn't a spa. no games. no fun. yes, coach. (♪) meanwhile, at a vrbo... when other vacation rentals make you share your turf with a host, try one you have all to yourself.

maria: welcome back. president trump making pair of key endorsements for the 2024 governors' race supporting both congressman byron donalds in his bid to become florida's next governor succeeding ron desantis and vivek ramaswamy in his run to replace mike dewine as ohio governor. both desantis and dewine cannot run again because of term limits. joining me now with more on his run in the buckeye state is the man himself, vivek ramaswamy. vivek is, congratulations toss to you. thanks for being here. it's a timely position because right now you're seeing the federal government kick lots of business back to the statements. what do you want to do? -- to the states. >> you're exactly right about that, maria.

the golden age for america is going to be a golden age for federalism. as donald trump succeeds, and i know he is, we're going to to see education to health care kick down to the states and to the people where they belong. and for my part, i don't want to just lead ohio to be one of the better states in the bid west, and we are one of the better states in the mid if west. i want to lead ohio to be the best state in the nation to generate wealth and if to raise a young family and give your kids a world class education. wait to turn our state is a -- i want to turn our state into a special financial region free of red tape, free of bureaucracy where the american dream is actually the birthright for our children. people talk about the rust belt, maria. i want to lead are us to the platinum belt, the sectors of the future from semiconductors to nuclear energy, to even a.i. and the way i think about this is silicon valley led the way in the american economy for the last ten years. i want to make sure it's the ohio river valley for the next ten years, and that's my vision

for taking this state to the next level. maria: and on education you've talked about merit-based performance, you've also talked about making ohio excellent partly by tapping into the energy potential in ohio. >> yeah. that's right. i mean, people think drill, baby, drill, which is texas -- think texas, which is great, i love texas. but we're thinking about the oil and natural gas underneath our own ground. that in in ways -- in many ways has gone untapped especially with energy demands going up with a a.i. data centers and so on. there is no economic excellence without educational excellence, and you put your finger on that collectly -- correctly, maria. we have to lead the way with merit-based pay for teachers, principals, administrators and superintendent ises in the public schools. yes, i want to take school choice to the next level, i'm a school choice evangelist. i want to go further in ohio. but i also want our public schools to be able to compete with the best of those

alternatives, and that means we have to start paying for performance for the teachers. where the best ones should get paid more for helping our kids excel in reading and writing and math where they're falling behind. but that means we have to cut a lot of the deadweight hanging around that isn't serving our kids well either. and i do think we're going to, hopefully, be able to set a national standard, i'll call it the ohio standard, for the rest of the country not just for school choice where statements like arizona and iowa have done great, but now also taking aim at lifting up the quality of curriculum and excellence in our public schools, get the cell phones out of the classroom, so much more we're going to be able to do. i'm excited, maria. maria: vivek, you also a started doge with elon musk. what is your reaction to all of this criticism from the democrats who are attacking elon as well as the doge idea in general? >> look, the criticism is unsurprising and is, it is also unfounded. the reality of the matter is the

people we elect to run the government should make the laws, not the unelected bureaucrats who have been wielding far too much power in our bureaucracy. president trump is now actually the first president in a very long time who is running the executive branch of government with a mandate that the people of this country gave him. maria: yeah. >> i want to be clear about this, maria a, the mandate the people gave president trump wasn't for incremental change, it was for foundational change to revive the american dream. and i want people to remember it's not just what we're tearing down, it's also what we're building back up which is that american dream in our country. we ought to be proud of it, and i'm incredibly proud of president trump for what east doing. maria: all right, vivek, thanks so much for joining us this morning, vivek ramaswamy. thank you. >> thank you. maria: and now joining us on his run to become the next governor of florida, we welcome back to the program congressman byron donalds. congressman, congratulations to you. you got an endorsement from president trump, officially announcing you are in the run.

what do you want to do in florida? >> well, maria, it's good to be with you. the number one thing we want to do is make sure that we begin the process of getting a stabilized insurance market in florida. insurance costs have been rising in our state. we want to make sure we examine every part of our marketplace and everything going on in our systems around the marketplace so that insurance is stable for floridians and that when storms hit our state, floridians are getting quick responses from the carriers that they pay premiums to so they can get back on their feet. the second big thing, florida will become the financial hub of the world. not just america, but of the world. digital assets has really found a home in miami-dade. we want to build with upon that framework. and one of the things with the state's portfolio i want to be able to do is probably add a bitcoin the to be a piece of the state's financial portfolio. it's really proven if to be a great holder of value and of wealth, and if we incorporate that into our state's balance

sheet, it could be something that will help us weather any potential future storms economically in the future. maria: yeah, that's a great point. already you're starting to see miami and if other areas of florida become a hub for crypto and digital assets. how can you a take that to the next level? >> a couple of things. now, up many d.c. there's some things that we need to change. you might want to talk about the accredited investor rule, look at some other regulatory features out of the s is ec. one of the things that's kind of been talked about in various forms has been can there be a crypto exchange where you can actually tokenize assets, real world assets, stocks, bonds, real estate, etc. these are some of the ideas that are out there. washington's going to have to make some regulatory adjustments for the future of our country, and florida would follow those regulatory changes to embrace that the, to be really a place where wealth and capital continue to come to the sunshine state. and i'd be remiss if i didn't talk about the future of our

state which are our children. we want the make sure -- we already lead the country when coit. s to -- it comes to school choice, but we a want the make sure our kids are now shooting for the stratosphere, that that we're focused on proficiency in math and reading and if writing and reasoning. those are the things that are a going to allow the future of florida, our children, to accomplish their american dream in the sunshine state. maria: yeah. i mean, there's some questions about who's going to regulate digital assets. i spoke with cynthia lummis on friday, and she said, you know, bitcoin is a commodity, and the cftc should be one of the regulators, but you also are the securities and exchange commission. so, i mean, in terms of clarity, that's really what investors need to know, who's overseeing what. >> well, i think to talk about clarity, bitcoin's pretty much a commodity, it would pretty much fall under the cftc. maria: okay. >> personally, i would like a different regulatory environment because digital assets overall,

bitcoin, crypto assets, blockchain technology, this is new stuff. we're not just talking about future contracts with oil or with cattle, etc. this is very different stuff. i would like to see a new regulatory environment, but it we're just going to play it how it is right now, the cftc is the like lay -- likely place for that. and, maria, we have to stop living in the past in the united states when it comes to our regulatory system is. we need to live in the future. this is one of the reasons why donald trump has decided to endorse me for governor. i just want the make sure we take our state to the next level. and to my friend, vivek ramaswamy, i heard his comments, i wish him all the best in ohio, but florida's the best state in the country now -- [laughter] and we're going to remain the best state in the country. maria: congressman, real quick, there's some talk that ron desantis is pushing his wife, casey desantis, to run. if that's the case, you're going to have a primary on your hands, aren't you? >> well, listen, maria,

nothing's easy, but, you know, i remember back in 2018 campaigning for then-congressman desantis who had the support of donald trump, and that worked out great for our state. so in 2025 moving into 2026, i'm really honored to have the same support from president trump. he has a history of making good picks, mara, and i think -- maria, and i think his picks have worked out for the sunshine state. we'll worry about the primaries as other people decide to get in the race or not, but we're going to be focused on floridians, we're going fob focused on the ideas to move our state to the next level. maria: all right, congressman, it's great to see you. byron donalds, of course, this morning in florida. thank you, sir. stay with us -- >> thank you. maria: -- we'll be right back. ♪

maria: welcome back. breaking news this morning, british prime minister starmer reportedly telling president trump the u.k. and france and two two other european nations

will now work with president zelenskyy on a peace plan to bring to the united states over ending the war between russia and ukraine. joining me now is the former secretary of state and fox news contributor, mike pompeo. secretary, good to have you. thanks very much for being here. so that fiery exchange in the white house has triggered europe to finally get involved. your reaction. >> maria, it's great to be with you. look, good for them. better late than never. they should have been at this for years, they should have done this alongside president biden. i hope that their plan demonstrates the resolve that's necessary to get the deterrence, maria, because after all, that's what was lost in the biden administration, right? they didn't deter vladimir putin from attacking europe, and that's what the europeans need to figure out how to get back. they need to do it with president zelenskyy and the ukrainians, and then i'm confident that the united states will be there to support that effort because it matters to the united states to stop the war, stop the killing and make sure that vladimir putin's aggression didn't result in a good outcome

for him because the entire world is watching whether aggression will be rewarded in modern times. maria: secretary, there's a report out of europe that says this norway fuel giant with, a large company in norway, is refusing to fill u.s. submarines after the trump-zelenskyy crash -- clash. it has declared it will no longer help the u.s. navy. your reaction. >> well, that's pretty outrageous. i hope that reporting turns out not to be true. the norwegians, the europeans have deep economic relationships with the united states. the united states' military has worked closely with all of those europeans both inside of nato and biharmly during my time -- bilaterally during my time as a secretary of tate. -- can state. hope that reporting's not true. the navy will need european support as as it moves around the world, and it's doing an awful lot to secure the lives of europeans as well. maria: you've worked on europe, on, obviously, the middle east with the abraham ape accords.

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maria: welcome back. i am back with the former secretary of state, mike pompeo. president trump is trying to do a lot here, connect the dots

given the fact that you worked so much on peace in the middle east with the abraham accords, and now you're looking at efforts to finally bring peace to this ukraine-russia war. >> president trump was handed a difficult hand by president biden, right? if we lost deterrence in the middle east, the chinese became more aggressive, wide open borders and then this conflict in europe. maria, these things are all connected. demonstrating american reof and power, a powerful american economy and delivering outcomes. as he's already done in the middle east which generate more peace and more security for our allies and more risk for our adversary ises. that model, the model that president trump deterred all of these adversaries for four years in his first term, that's the model i'm confident he's headed back to, and that will redound to the benefit of the american people not only from a security bear perspective, but economically as well. maria: yeah x. if we're looking at a everything through a national security lens every day at this point.

secretary, i hope you'll come back soon for a lot more. >> i will. maria: thank you for being here. former secretary of state the mike if pompeo. >> have a good day. maria: and to have you. join me next sun for my exclusive sit-down with president trump at the white house right here. have a great rest of your sunday, and i'll see youne tomorrow o?n "mornings with maria" on fox business. ttom lins this is an amazing value. what? get two pairs of progressives and an eye exam starting at just $159.95 at america's best. ...