>> kind of clever. >> a bunch of shows in texas at the fall. >> opri. we've been members of the grand old opry for 60 years. >> steve: how many times between the three of you have you hated each other's guts and pledged i will never work with them again? >> just this morning. >> we said as soon as we get through with this show it's over. >> 6:00 a.m. >> i've never said that. we get along extremely well, we're very fortunate. >> we don't always agree. >> contrarian over there. >> ainsley: personality. you are the funny one? >> no. he is the strange one. >> here is the key to that. i bet y'all don't hang out all the time, right? >> steve: times up. gatlin brothers, >> bill: dozens of wildfires erupting in a part of the

country we don't normally think about for fires like this. look at the flames from sunday ripping across parts of north carolina and south carolina especially in the area of myrtle beach. windy and dry conditions threatening homes and prompting evacuations, cruise are making some progress, we're told. this is very much an uphill battle. we're live in the fire zone in south carolina coming up here on monday. first, however, tomorrow night will be a big deal. make sure you scratch out a few hours for this one, okay? word from the president as he gears up for first address to a joint session of congress and we'll learn more about his plans for ending the war in ukraine. good morning, hope you had a good weekend. we're still digesting friday afternoon and push on to understand it. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." great to be with everybody. ukrainian president zelenskyy now says he is ready to sign a minerals deal with the u.s.

left the white house friday without signing it after his meeting with president trump turned south. >> bill: the deal would give the u.s. access to valuable ukrainian resources. president trump says it is one important step toward piece and still the top line goal. >> president trump recognizes the urgent need to end this war after three long bloody years. it's proven he is the only person who can do this. >> our president is there to make peace as he said end the death. zelenskyy was not there to make peace. >> the most tragic part of this president trump's idea for this economic arraignment was to further intertwine the american people and ukrainian people. >> you have the greatest deterrent in the oval office in president trump and you need to trust his ability to deter russia's aggression. >> dana: national security advisor michael waltz is here next. let's go to jackui heinrich at the white house.

>> good morning. president zelenskyy said late last night departing london he is ready to sign the minerals deal. the treasury secretary thought he would get a signature when he went to ukraine. vance thought he would get one in munich. white house ready to hold a signing ceremony that never happened after the oval office spat on friday. so maybe take that with a grain of salt. after european leaders met with zelenskyy this weekend they said you have ukraine's back but need the u.s. and zelenskyy said this. >> we are not making any steps back. this is our policy. to be consistent regardless of what happened before, we are constructive. if we agreed that it will be signed from our side we're ready to sign. i think the u.s. will be ready as well. maybe they need time to analyze some things. >> bill: mixed reaction to what we saw play out on friday in the

oval office. when things went off the rails have blasted the president but those who watched the whole video have pointed out just how many times zelenskyy antagonized the administration trying to renegotiate a done deal and leverage it for post war security guarantees. marco rubio says no point in talking security if you can't first get peace. zelenskyy showed he wasn't ready for that. >> that's what zelenskyy did unfortunately. he found every opportunity to try to ukraine plain on every issue. when the vice president says the goal here is diplomacy, he immediately jumps in and challenges the vice president. what kind of diplomacy? we all understand putin will not be an easy negotiator in this regard. we get that. we have to start the process to see if something is even possible. >> president trump left the invitation open saying zelenskyy can return when he is ready to talk seriously what it will take to achieve peace and telling him to be grateful. u.s. support has enabled zelenskyy to talk so tough.

according to the "new york times" the president meets with top aides today to discuss suspending or canceling u.s. military aid to ukraine. but that comes with some risk if it involves any aid that has already been appropriated by congress. that's an open question. >> dana: thanks for kicking us off. >> bill: we want to find what the american people are thinking. the numbers i'm about to show you and goes back a ways, sometimes six weeks, two years, is that the political parties really see this story in a very different way. this is our polling from six weeks ago. how concerned are you about russia's invasion? this here i think is quite telling. extremely or have. 2/3 of the american people. democrats 73, republicans less at 54. gallup. this is in the last couple of weeks now. u.s. support of ukraine limited time frame or as long as it takes?

so republicans are 2/3 for limited time frame. democrats are 2/3 for as long as it takes. two more frames i'll show you a telling graph, i think, about the current conflict. how do you feel about ending the war in ukraine? do you support reclaiming territory to end it quickly? a split here. 58 to 40%. these are the lines i think that tell a story. in red is republican, blue is democrat. here is the question. should it end as quickly as possible? this republican line here goes to 74%. democrat line goes to 35%. but clearly there is a difference of opinion here. republicans and democrats, independents in the middle at 47%. all that said, if you watch the shows on sunday they are adamant that zelenskyy has to do the deal and then we can put the pressure on putin. watch here. >> either he needs to come to his senses and come back to the

table in gratitude, or someone else needs to lead the country to do that. >> i don't agree. i'm not interested in calling on the rest ignition of other world leaders. i didn't like it when schumer asked for netanyahu to be removed. i don't like it when other members ask for zelenskyy to be removed, either. it would spiral ukraine into chaos right now. >> dana: michael waltz is here. friday happened and now looking forward i'm curious how you would describe what does president trump think success looks like at the end of this conversation with zelenskyy and does it include zelenskyy in the end? >> well, thanks, dana. here is what success looks like. you heard president trump say it repeatedly in that just really truly ridiculous unacceptable session. right behind me in the white house. success looks like president zelenskyy sitting down and talking the terms of peace.

talking about what he needs to see, ukraine needs to see to get to a partial cease-fire, permanent cease-fire and end to this war. what became so evident to us in that session was he is not ready to talk peace at all. here is the problem. time is not on his side. time is not on the side of just forever continuing this conflict. the american people's patience is not unlimited. wallets are not unlimited and our stockpiles in munitions are not unlimited that we need for all kinds of contingencies around the world. the time to talk is now. and what we're hearing in terms of alternatives, whether it's the democrats or leaders aruined the world, is essentially continuing this grinding world war i-style french warfare that's a meat grinder of people, munitions, and national treasure. the president campaigned on ending this war. he was elected to end this war. he will be the peacemaker in

chief. but it was really confounding to us that zelenskyy could have left the white house friday having the u.s. and ukraine bound together economically for a generation. you have the british talking about troops on the ground in a security guarantee, the french talking about troops on the ground and security guarantee. we had the nato secretary general talk to the president just before the zelenskyy meeting. so this was no ambush. this was an opportunity and a moment and i think president zelenskyy truly did his country a real disservice by not having a positive outcome friday. we'll see where things are going forward. >> bill: let's put the pieces together for our audience here. scott bessent said on cbs that zelenskyy got the sequence out of order. a lot of things happening in europe over the weekend. let's start. the u.k. prime minister suggests keep the aid flowing to kiev. include ukraine at the

bargaining table and arm ukraine to deter a further invasion. macron says let's get a deal for a truce for one month. the head of the e.u. said it's time to rearm europe. the british prime minister chimed in with this. boots on the ground was the quote. watch. >> the u.k. is prepared to back this with boots on the ground and planes in the air. the support piece in our continent and to succeed. this effort must have strong u.s. backing. we're at a crossroads in history today. this is not a moment for more talk. it is time to act. time to step up and lead. and to unite around a new plan for a just and enduring peace. >> bill: if all that is on the table here, and zelenskyy comes back to sign this deal and he said this over the weekend. there hasn't been a day we haven't felt gratitude. gratitude for the preservation of indepens dense. it is based on what partners are

doing for us and their own security. if you can align all this up, sir, you then put the pressure on putin to find out whether or not he is ready for peace. does the white house believe he is at this moment? >> well, all of those things have to be tested, bill. but what we don't have right now is president zelenskyy saying i am ready to take the steps necessary and have the conversations necessary and make the compromises necessary to end the fighting, go to a cease-fire. some permutation of, one month, two weeks, stopping long-range strikes on both sides on each others energy infrastructure. all of those things are on the table. they were on the table before last friday as well. and what we essentially heard was he is not ready to talk about it, as though grinding this war forward for the years to come is truly an option.

it is not. so we're ready to have those conversations. we had it with the russians in riyadh, we're ready to have it with the ukrainians and ingauge in shuttle diplomacy. we need to hear that piece from zelenskyy publicly. >> dana: last question from me. at the end of this if there is a deal that's signed, a minerals deal, does president trump believe it will actually be with zelenskyy or another leader? >> well, i think what happened friday really put that up in the air. is zelenskyy ready personally, politically, to move his country towards an end to the fighting? and can he and will he make the compromises necessary? you heard the president. both sides are going to have to make compromises. i think a lot of people can see what those roughly will be in terms of security guarantee for some type of territorial

concessions. those broad outlines are evident. do both sides have the will to sit down and drive this towards peace. that's president trump's objective and elected to do and what we're ready to do and trying to do right now. >> bill: you said friday put that up in the air. if zelenskyy doesn't lead ukraine, who does? >> well look, we won't get into, you know, speculating on these issues in public. what we need to hear from president zelenskyy is that he has regret for what happened. he is ready to sign this minerals deal and ready to engage in peace talks. i think that's what best for the american and ukrainian people and russia and the world to restore stability. president trump is ready to end this war and a process to do that that we've laid out. it was no accident we had key european leaders saying they are

ready to step up and provide those security guarantees. the president even said with some type of american support to be negotiated. so we're ready to enter into those negotiations. is president zelenskyy? and we'll test both sides in terms of their willingness to compromise to get this deal done. >> dana: president trump knows how to surprise. any possibility that this gets resolved and he announces it tomorrow night at his joint address to congress? >> well, we would certainly like to see that. we were planning to address -- to announce this minerals deal that it would have been signed friday and was a very positive step forward for all sides. and importantly for the american taxpayer who has given so much of their hard-earned treasure so that ukraine could defend itself. that was the plan. we'll see what happens in the next 48 hours. we're certainly looking to move forward in a positive way. >> bill: really appreciate your

time. we're watching by the hour. thanks for coming on. >> dana: president trump is getting ready to deliver his first address to congress writing tomorrow night will be big, i will tell it like it is. of course we would expect that. fox news will bring you live coverage of the joint address of congress. our coverage against at 9:00 p.m. eastern and i will see you there. >> bill: an interesting night. one we won't forget. we have breaking news from overseas happening right now. speeding car has done it yet again plowing into a crowd in a german city. there are casualties. was this an accident or something much more sinister? we do not have a beat just yet on who was behind the wheel of that car. we work for that out of manheim, germany as we speak. there is also this. >> we've known how to do it all along. having the support of an administration and secretary to get these numbers down. >> dana: dramatic turn around on the southwest border in the early days of the trump administration. illegal entries have a new

record low. >> bill: stampede i rapting at the national cheerleading competition in dallas, texas. what led to the chaos and panic that followed?

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>> it's dangerous enough making these arrests yet when you leak it and give criminals a heads-up they're coming, it could jeopardize lives and that is illegal and we will not tolerate it in the f.b.i., in any department within the united states government. >> dana: it keeps happening. activists leaking plans of planned ice raids and giving illegal immigrants tips how to avoid capture. attorney general bondi warns the d.o.j. is aggressively going after anyone involved. much more straight ahead. as the violent tren de aragua gang is recognized as a national security threat agents tell us their repeated warnings are finely sinking in. officials from the f.b.i. and c.b.p. and brooke is live in dallas. >> we sat down with agents, border patrol agents in el paso and also the f.b.i. this group of people were the

first to really identify, discover tren de aragua as a gang, then sound the alarm to the rest of the country. we wanted to talk to them. no one knows tren de aragua like them. we just got back from el paso. new video here of what the border looks like. you could see not a lot going on. illegal border crossings are at the lowest in years. at the end of 2022 in the el paso sector, border patrol agents noticed a surge of venezuelan. that peaked in 2023 with more than 71,000 venezuelans crossing the border just in the el paso sector according to the cbp. agents started realizing they had a real problem with criminals taking advantage of this flow and soon they identified the violent tda gang. with no support from venezuela border patrol agents said they had to start from scratch and partnered with the el paso f.b.i. and together they learned about tda, identifying them

through tattoos and certain patterns. >> it is not ms-13 on steroids. it is a complete by different animal. folks need to understand that tren de aragua has no limits or boundaries and there is no stopping them. >> their goal is to make money whether it's through drugs, human trafficking, extortion, robbery, anything is on the table for them. >> i asked what took so long for the public to hear about this gang and for a new administration to now recognize this as a national public safety threat? they say it was an uphill battle to get others to not only listen to them but even believe them. >> that's what really sounded the alarm when we started seeing them in middle america. >> el paso border patrol and f.b.i. says the tda is constantly on the move.

they infiltrate cities. they take over these cities and they build up their networks and then they find the most vulnerable populations and exploit them, dana. >> dana: thank you so much. >> bill: president trump is applauding the sharp drop in illegal crossings since he took office posting this over the weekend. the border is closed to all illegal immigrants. anyone who tries to illegally enter the usa will face significant criminal penalties and immediate deportation. cbp data shows the number of encounters plummeted. lowest level in 25 years last month. paul perez is the president of the national border patrol council. year by year, you had 8300. look where you were a year ago. 189,000 for the same month one year ago. all right. this is no accident. what do you think is the factor that did this? >> well, number one, the policy

changes that president trump put into effect right away ending catch and release and making sure that there are criminal penalties for anybody that is entering the country illegally was a big step. putting our agents out on the line for them to be able to detect, deter and patrol the areas we weren't able to patrol before has been a big factor and big change. >> bill: your boss talking about what the last administration was doing. watch here? >> the u.s. border patrol has always known how to secure the border. the last administration didn't want to listen to the border patrol. no doubt in any mind the previous administration created a border crisis intentionally. they knew what they could do to fix it. just follow the blueprints laid down in the previous administration. they chose to open the border. >> bill: wonder what on the mexican side of the border how much of a difference that is making right now with the pressure on the cartels? we're talking about 3,000 more active duty troops. are they needed and necessary?

>> yes, they are. until we get to the 10,000 agents and until congress gives him the ability to get 10,000 agents on the border we need the reinforcements from the d.o.d. and we've integrated well with them and they're doing a fantastic job on the border helping us to secure it. definitely need them and we welcome them. >> bill: wonder what the numbers will look like for march and april? paul perez, have a good day at work today. you've earned it. >> appreciate it, bill. >> dana: state of emergency in south carolina. multiple wildfires erupting. we'll have the latest on the ground. plus is failed vice president tim walz setting his sights on a another office? i will own up to being a knucklehead at times. hey, father. you joining lent again this year?

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can happen especially since the winds have died down over the last few days. >> dana: dangerous situation in south carolina. multiple wildfires erupting there prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency. one of the biggest is raging near myrtle beach where we find jonathan serrie. good morning. >> good morning. in addition to that state of emergency, there is a statewide ban on outdoor burning. the governor explaining on social media if you are caught burning trash or other things outside, you will go to jail. 163 wildfires being battled over the past seven days. these fires responsible for burning nearly 5500 acres. most of the fires have been contained but here in this county on the coast the covington fire is only 30% contained. >> smoke is a big problem this morning when it mixes with fog. super fog.

it makes the visibility really difficult. it is troublesome from a safety standpoint and unable to see what you are doing and restricts our air resources. if they can't see where they are to drop they can't drop water. >> this video shot by a resident shows the intensity of the flames and the carolina forest community in the county. the flames were kept from spreading to homes in the area and no one was injured. >> it has been surreal. they keep popping up these little things do. you don't know if they will come to your house or the next neighbor's house. it is just the thought i just -- i just really -- it scares me. >> dana, as we were driving to our live location this morning, you have the smoke mixing with that fog, very poor visibility. the fog has now lifted and the smoke. you can still smell it. the air quality is diminished

here. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: so you have a second email that is now check inbox going out to government workers asking them to list five things they did last week. part of the ongoing doge directive. elon musk told joe rogue an that cutting waste is like shooting fish in a barrel. >> so -- >> what did you expect when you went in? did you expect it to be like this? >> i did not think it would be as bad as this. if it was a real-run ship, efficient, it would be hard to improve. it is not efficient so therefore it is actually relatively easy to improve. it's not rocket science. >> bill: kayleigh mcenany, harold ford, junior. they talked for three hours, by the way. three hours. here is one more from musk defending the doge cuts with joe rogue an.

>> a bunch of the things that doge is fixing were identified by the government accountability office many years ago. the fact that there is 20 million people who are marked as alive in the social security database. it is more than i think they first identified that in 2018. >> bill: are they moving too fast, harold? is it starting to show how partisan this issue can be? democrats defending government. republicans say we don't need that to help us live a decent life? what do you think? >> good morning. i don't think democrats are defending it. i think what democrats are probably most upset about is the speed and scale and they think some of it may be haphazard. certain people laid off they have had to bring back. let me step back. i'm a believer you need to find

a way to make government more efficient. about the need for that. there is a separate conversation about also what are we doing to reduce the debt? you have had efforts like this before. mitch daniels who served under president bush, who led the omb, tried to figure out ways to reform the procurement process, reduce spending, get some of the duplications out. i hope that is what mr. mucks is more focused on. i wouldn't be distracted by some of the wayward voices in the democratic party opposing this. just like wayward voices in the republican party. 70% of what he is doing is the right thing. i hope and wish that some in the party on the republican side would be more interested what president trump says common sense cuts. medicare, a lot of fraud. defense department a lot of waste and abuse. get there. give me big numbers as the great mitch daniels said this morning was reported, do more and talk

less. if you do that -- >> bill: eventually they get there. >> dana: it seems that there is a process point maybe that some people are frustrated with the process. the end result that most people pay attention to are saying even if trump is doing what he said he was going to do, and they are also concerned, though, about prices that they are paying at the grocery store. those two things can happen at the same time. >> yes. they have to tackle both of them. on the issue of doge if you look at the poll, 3/4 of the americans say they want some sort of entity to cut down on waste. 60% say doge is finding fraud and abuse. i think that doge needs to talk more. here is what i mean by that. harold, i hear what you are saying. democrats say he needs to take a scalpel. never a good look to let people go and then bring them back. he needs to talk more and share what he is doing to cut through

the noise. in principle people support the mission. i was trying to look through doge's twitter feed. they have gone down to the level of licensing. when you have to get a license to use microsoft word or some sort of software product found millions of dollars of unused at sba, 1,000 slack accounts they purchased and only using ten. they are using a scalpel. talk more about that. it is very effective. >> bill: interesting detail. another detail. tim walz wants another crack at it. asked about "the new yorker" whether or not he would run for president. he said well, i had a friend tell me never turn down a job you haven't been offered. if i think i could offer something i would certainly consider that. i'm also not arrogant enough there is a lot of people who can do this. smart pool? >> everybody wants to ruin should run. points made by both kala and dana made, president trump won the race not because he talked about doge but the prices of cars and the prices of insurance

and food. three to six months from today if we don't see sizeable downward pressure on those prices. the president has said if this is joe biden's economy. maybe they'll figure out to blame it on d.e.i. if the prices don't come down and we're on is though tim walz and a lot of people will run for president. whether he has a great shot, i don't know. he will have to get a better message than six months ago. >> dana: he says these things to try to remain a little relevant and invited to do interviews. otherwise people will forget. >> definitely. a group of centrist democrats put together a report how to fix the democratic party. much of it is spot on. sound like the republican party to be honest. one of the things they say is to get rid of these far-left groups that are having huge influences over the party. the man you are looking at is the ultimate progressive.

someone who i was very critical of on the kamala harris ticket. she should have gone with a shapiro. this is not the way the party needs to go. if you want to win over the centrist votes you have to find a centrist votes. tim walz is not it. >> bill: thanks to both of you. rahm emmanuel is talking. >> dana: he is copying harold ford junior. >> i owe you dinner from the super bowl. >> bill: i appreciate that. i can't cheer for the chiefs. you can. during lent you can get the savings on that bill, okay? don't miss hannity later tonight. sean sits down for jd vance. his first interview since that friday oval office meeting 9:00 eastern only here on the fox news channel. check that out. now this. [shouting] >> dana: trump justice department anunesing a task

force to investigate anti-semitism on college campuses. will there finally be accountability? leo terrell on that. the growing mystery surrounding the deaths of gene hackman and his wife, betsy. where investigators are now turning their attention.

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jewish students. if they fail to do so we'll take their money, take all the federal funding away from them. we'll sue them under title vii and title vi and make sure every jewish american student on campus is protected. more importantly not only are we talking with the campuses, we're talking about these cities. the district attorneys and mayors, do their job and file hate crime charges. that's not free speech. these are criminals harassing and core meanting jewish americans. that will stop. if the district attorney don't do it the u.s. attorneys office will file hate crime charges. >> dana: in your experience so far in your investigation, are these usually students that are on campus that are part is -- instigating or is it from outside forces? >> i will be honest. it's outside forces.

professional protestors with outside funding. we'll block that funding and go after those individuals who are organizing these protests. this is planned from the outside, dana, i will tell you right now we have not only a department of justice involved. we have the f.b.i. involved. we have homeland security involved. we have health and human services involved. it is a coalition designed by pam bondi pursuant to president trump executive order. >> dana: let me ask you are these schools welcomeing of this? do they need the justice department to help get this under control? >> absolutely. they have a free ride for four years. the joe biden/merrick garland administration looked the other way. donald trump and pam bondi we are looking at these campuses and telling them get their acts straightened up and tell them that in the ten campuses, something else. lawsuits going down the pipeline

before the end of this week and next week we'll sue these universities that are not on the list that are basically committing the crime. we want to deter this, dana. jewish american students should be treated like everyone else. i submit to you the following. if these were black american students being harassed like that massive lawsuits. this wouldn't happen. jewish americans need to be protected. >> dana: read to you from a potential teacher. she wrote this in the free press. until last week i was seriously teaching at columbia at a visiting professor. to serve as a prop or fig leaf would be folly and putting myself and students at risk. by next fall, do you believe that professors, students and their parents who care about them, of course, would not be so much at risk under this new task force? >> let me tell every jewish

american student in that faculty. that teacher wants to teach. help is on the way. we're working at warp speed because we have been told by pam bondi and president trump use every tool in the tool box. this upcoming fall semester they will be able to go to school, go to campuses and not be harassed. we'll stop it, dana and stop it immediately. that's one of the reasons why i welcome the job within the department of justice. >> dana: maybe you are surprised but i imagine you have support amongst the rank and file at the justice department for this. >> let me tell you now pam bondi has given us the green light. there is a change in attitude. we want to do the right thing. i will tell you that this is throughout the entire trump administration. the marching order is treat everyone the same. no preferred treatment and jewish students want to go to school and get a quality education and we'll make sure it

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pacemaker might be includes unraveling the reasons for his death. what we're learning now. matt finn, hello. >> gene and his wife betsy lived up the street on a large property inside of an exclusive gated community. it was clear they valued their privacy. the sheriff here in sante fe has ruled out carbon monoxide. what is next in the investigation? we're aware of two other critical focal points. first gene's pacemaker that registered its last event february 17th. the day he likely passed away. that pacemaker could provide more critical health data to doctors and investigators. also police took a lot of evidence from the home here in sante fe including two green cell phones, tylenol, thyroid and high pressure medications and 2025 monthly planner. cell phones are a key focus. >> we will look and try to gain

access to the cell phones. we'll be analyzing cell phone data, phone calls, text messages, events, photos in the cell phone to try to piece a timeline together. >> a friend of hackman in sante fe tells fox the actor was extremely fit well into his 90s biking and doing pilates but slowed down during the pandemic. >> after covid, he was more reclusive protecting his immune system and everything else. i really am puzzled by the whole thing. there is a lot of different reports coming out. it is kind of a tragic mystery. >> toxicology reports will be a huge piece of evidence in this case. it could take weeks or months, bill. >> bill: the mystery continues. sante fe, new mexico, thanks. dana. >> dana: fox news alert. new route rage over