>> live look at the white house where we are awaiting president trump to send more executive orders. all of this will add to the 83 eos he has signed it since inauguration day. >> no word on what today's orders are. we will watch and bring the headlines as soon as they happen. >> this is a fox news alert to the state department right now. a live look inside of the room were any moment, spokesperson tammy bruce will be holding her first briefing between ukraine and -- and the state department warning about travel here ahead of spring break. welcome back. "america reports." heading into a second hour. i'm sandra smith in new york. >> turks and caicos to say? >> i'm john roberts in washington, acting director of usaid on capitol hill today it, letting senators -- waste, fraud, abuse so severe that it may even be criminal. according to the agencies ch

chief -- worse than they initially feared. >> a fox news team coverage alex hogan live in israel on a new approach the white house has taken there, but first, the senior national correspondent -- live at the state department for us. what is this peak under the usaid's hood uncovering? >> the details are still outstanding. we are planning on asking about that in a couple minutes when the state department briefing begins. peter morocco is a top usaid official who has been on capitol hill briefing members of congress about this over the past couple of days. sources in the room say morocco told them he uncovered waste, fraud, abuse that was more severe than initially thought that potentially rises to the level of a crime. specifics beyond that are unclear about the allegations, timing of any criminal referral to the department of justice, or rather usaid staff or grant recipients are suspected of wrongdoing. one republican claims there are instances of organizations

receiving billions of dollars that had no previous record -- doing any type of work. >> someone will pay with jail time. it's over and beyond what we really thought. >> they tell "if they were serious about addressing waste, fraud, abuse, they would not have fired the -- hired to investigate waste, fraud, and abuse. republican counterparts overseeing the work of our constituents -- "elected us to do to elon musk and other unelected bureaucrats." they say the details of alleged fraud are highly unclear and he refused to say whether the trump administration will comply with yesterday's supreme court order requiring payments to foreign aid organizations we've already done. they do not comment on their communications or briefings with

capitol hill. >> we will watch for that. thank you very much. >> thank you. president trump even hamas won last morning to release the remaining d -- release the remaining hostages or "it's over for you." the admits ration talking directly with hamas. the former ambassador at large nathan sales with his thoughts, but first, alex hogan is live in tel aviv. how is hamas responding to the presence warning? >> hamas is firing back on president trump's demands to release the hostages, saying instead he needs to pressure the israeli prime minister benjamin israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to continue negotiations for second stage of the ceasefire. for now, israel has halted the deliveries of aid, food, medicine into the strip. the current and first phase of the cease-fire ended last week and after 42 days. president trump posted on's truth social what he called a

final wording, writing "release the hostages now, not later, and a medial he returned to dead bodies of the people you murder to, or it's over for you." the post came after the trump administration conference i held direct negotiations with hamas and -- the move goes against what washington's len standing policy has been of not negotiating with groups. the state department designated hamas as such in 1997. the u.s. special envoy to the middle east spoke about that in the last hour. >> i think it was the responsibility of the special envoy to actually have conversations and see if anything can be achieved. we are not going to sit here, do nothing, tolerate these inhumane conditions. >> president trump yesterday met with some of the recently freed hostages. 59 hostages remain in gaza, 24 of whom are still believed to be alive, including one american.

>> they got us all home here today. week -- to continue their enormous efforts. >> it is important to note how delicate of a moment this is under the current rules of the cease-fire -- the truth will continue if -- the truth will continue if negotiations continue to take place. of the talks stall, it throws everything into limbo. >> from her, let's bring the former ambassador at large and coordinator for counter counterterrorism -- thank you for joining us. we are waiting on the state department briefing following president trump's warning to hamas. please do share with us where you see this going. >> sandra, the president and his administration -- turning up the heat on hamas. it's important to keep in mind they are not just israel's

enemy: it's also america's enemy. at least 43 people, american citizens, were killed by hamas terrorists on october 7th. a hamas terrorist took at least 12 american citizens hostage crickets american on the line as well, not just israel. i'm glad the president is turning up the heat on these terrorists. >> there was a question in the house press briefing room yesterday. i believe it was peter doocy asking "since when do we negotiate with terrorists?" karoline leavitt confirmed conversations have been had with the administration and hamas. in what capacity we don't exactly know. i believe steve witkoff tried to say it was not him having direct conversations with hamas, but adam bohler, and it was recent weeks. we are vague on the details, but is this the way we should be going about it, speaking directly with hamas? >> i think we have to withhold judgment until we know more.

is one thing to talk to terrorists to offer concessions, bend the knee, but another to deliver a blunt warning to them. "let my people go or you are going to face a real storm." we don't know much about what has been said, but judging from how the president has played it before, it seems like this is more of a threat than a concession. >> let's get some of the words in. this is steve witkoff a short time ago in that gaggle on hamas. >> it's time for hamas to start acting in a responsible and reasonable way. we don't think they have been doing that. will see how they are going to react. the president has issued a statement about what is acceptable to him and what is not, and hopefully, we will see good conduct next week, and i will be able to go in and have discussions. >> in this was adam bohler -- during the wrongful detainee flag raising ceremony at state department. >> he made it abundantly clear that taking u.s. citizens, or

any citizens on wrongfully, is not appropriate, and will be answered in the toughest way possible. this president has no qualms about using action. when it's necessary. we will all back him up. >> as we heard them say earlier, "do not test this president." go ahead. >> the president has been clear from day one and before day one that the safe return of americans is his top priority, and making sure that he is protecting americans abroad is his top priority. if hamas wants to roll the dice and see if he's bluffing, be our guest. i don't think they will like the answer they get if that's the game they want to play. >> certainly, we will be looking for what the tone is and how it is set at the state department when tammy bruce takes questions short time from now. i want to move on to this. sounding the alarm on china's nuclear warning. listen here.

oh, this is -- in his own words. the official account of the embassy, the people's republic of china -- says china is ready to go to war with america, any type of war. issues the statement without the capital's approval. "wake up, america." this office we could come up as well in this briefing that we are about to hear more of. >> that's right, sandra. china has been rattling the same for a while. now, they have taken the next step and are expressly threatening war with united states. i think we have to take them seriously. we have to take them at their word china is america's geopolitical adversary. they want to knock america down to size. they want to displace us the world's leading power, so what we need to do if we want peace, we need to prepare for war. we've got to reinvest in our defense. we have to make sure taiwan is protected so that china can't invade. if taiwan falls, china controls

the pacific. it's that simple. we need to work with allies in the region, countries like the philippines, india, japan, korea, australia, all of these partners fear the same thing we do: china that wants to remake the world in its image. together, we can over match china militarily, economically, and technologically. let's work with our friends. >> always good to have you on the program. thank you. >> thank you for your time. >> there is a lot we are about to hear at the state department when tammy bruce starts taking questions. i did mention the state department advisory did go out, an updated one. so many are leaving for spring break. i wonder if this will come up. they are issuing a to travelers. so many americans travel there. exercise increased caution when traveling to turks and caicos islands due to crime. according to the advisory, most of it occurs in certain parts of the islands where police may

have limited investigatory resources. it's quite the warning. they have a long list of precautions you should take if you travel there. >> i've been a number of times -- probably, this different island a number of times. grand turk -- >> prov -- no, the silent. >> it was a number of years ago so things may have changed. the message from the chinese embassy in d.c. about a war. michael pillsbury was on site yesterday. we were chatting. he said exactly the same thing. he said he thinks that was beijing funneling that message through the embassy. may become a plausible deniability so it was not coming from the head of the ccp, but definitely the folks in beijing knew that message was going out. >> got it, so all of this could come up in that state department briefing we will be listening into a short time from now. >> look forward to that and seeing tammy bruce's debut.

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using a chainsaw rather than a more precise to a donald trump sank that there are changes. >> some details from the meeting the president just had. cabinet secretaries and elon musk were also in the room. the report says that they made clear to the secretaries that they are the ones who have authority to make cuts to their staff, their spending -- and is not elon musk's decision. that is in line with everything we have heard so far. absent personal management -- does not directly have the authority to make firings themselves. there has been some confusion when the president in the past has referred to elon musk as the head of doge. the white house has faced questions about who is in charge. we know it is a woman named amy gleason. she is the administrator. as regionally as this week, addressed to a joint session in congress. the president referred to elon musk as the head of doge. some of the plaintiffs in these lawsuits are trying to block elon musk and doge from doing their work, seized on those

comments. the president reiterating to agency secretaries "you are in charge," and telling them they want to meet every two weeks to talk about ways to cut the bloat, cut the fat out of the budget. he says in his post "as the secretaries learn about and understand people working for various departments, they can be very precise about who will remain and who will go. we say the scalpel rather than the hatchet." federal workers who have been waiting for the other shoe to drop, thinking that if they returned to the office, their jobs might be in jeopardy now can take some solace in what the president is saying, that these cuts are going to be thoughtful. we've seen when the white house has announced their thought process in the past, they went through hhs, for example, that they look at the key function of every agency and want to make sure that who they are retaining are critical to the agency's

function. they are getting rid of duplicates of things. >> and this comes in the wake of high-profile mistakes as they were described, such as the national nuclear safety administration, which is part of the department of energy. looks after the nuclear weapons and stockpile. a bunch of them were let go. the numbers vary between 50-300. those folks had to be hired back when it was discovered that they are critical workers. i think in the haste to get a lot of what they thought the fat was trimmed, they cut past the bone and into the marrow. >> and elon musk also said the last time he took questions in the oval office that "we will make some mistakes. you can expect that, but" they're trying to address it when that happens, and in pursuit of his bigger goal quickly. >> jacqui heinrich with the latest at the white house. thank you. sandra? >> live at the state department where tammy bruce is briefing here she is taking questions from reporters. a hot topic right now is usaid.

>> was to say it's not going to happen again. rich, fox news. we all know that. >> thank you. tammy, on this usaid investigation, on capitol hill -- the past couple of days. briefing numbers of congress and updating them on this. requiring deferrals to the department of justice. can you provide any specific examples of illegal wrongdoing, what the department believes is illegal wrongdoing at usaid? >> my first chance to say -- what i cannot comment on, which in general is certainly any possible litigation, the nature of negotiations or contemplations regarding action that the government might take. certainly not only because i

have not been in the room, but because you have got, whether it is diplomatic conversations or issues of determining what one might or might not do. it also goes in the hypotheticals. so i can't answer that. what i can say is that the level of what we have discovered at usaid is troubling enough to where this is the kind of conversation that is perhaps going to have to be had by the american people and even perhaps congress. i think at this point, when we are looking at this kind of issue, that we see through our existing investigations and inquiries, that we've clearly got some problems. we are determined to correct those. where it ends up is going to be something we see in the future, but that's not something i've been involved in. >> conversation with the american people and congress.

how about the department of justice? >> i don't know. i don't know. the seriousness with which this is being addressed is something the american people should be happy about. it's why president trump was elected, was to take action on the things he campaigned on, as many people did. we knew something was wrong and it had to change. this is of course up to the people doing the investigations. whether or not any of that actually manifests. >> thank you. confident -- the situation. >> let me ask. any other questions on the usaid situation to make a bunch of hands. i'm shocked. we will get back to you once we move into the middle east. >> you said this is a pause, but we got answers from the state department saying they cut 92% of the awards. any chance of those coming back? it made it seem like the review

is done. is it done or is the review still -- >> well, when you have a review, is to assess what happened, and then decisions will be made. you've got a review that's 90 days to make an assessment within that framework of what works and what doesn't in. if there were programs that had been cut, the answer would be that they did not serve either american interests or make a safer, more secure -- or more prosperous. those decisions will -- some have been in the process of the review. >> is the review -- >> i think each case may be different, but we know that actions have been taken based on the standards we set. we are moving forward. >> we have heard from groups saying they have had contracts -- >> okay, so the topic so far has been usaid. interesting response so far. it sounds like she will move on to ukraine, getting put foul back potentially for that.

usaid. she says this began with a simple inquiry of usaid. she will look at their books, inquired, they refused and said they are autonomous, "you have no right to come in what's. the intention was not to do it in a manner that you have been watching unfold. there was no cooperation at the beginning. >> i thought it was interesting that she wasn't able to articulate some of the potential criminality usaid that was brought to the attention of folks on capitol hill, because pending litigation -- >> note, a legal victory for the trump administration, as the former head of the office of special counsel decides to drop his court challenge to get his job back and leave. it comes a day after a federal appeals court rules president trump did have the right to fire him. we are talking about -- we will put a picture of him on the screen so everybody knows what he looks like. he said "i am ending my legal

battle, so my time to the special counsel -- it's now over. it was not for me but rather for the ideal that it should be -- wrongdoing, and to be protected from retaliation. he was a biotin appointee and had only been at the job for five years. "what do you think about all of those?" obviously decided to fold his tent and go home, but the courts told him he was on his way out anyways. >> thought maybe he was going to lose at the u.s. supreme court. the other brands of executive agencies -- also litigating their firing. certainly an interesting developments, given the d.c. federal appeals court just signed with the trump administration yesterday, keeping him out of a job while the case was still proceeding on merits. it looked like he didn't want to take his chances on the u.s.

supreme court and here we are. >> i don't know the score card brett rumpel looked like he was winning a bunch of court cases. now it seems like he is on the losing side of things. a judge in rhode island issued a injunction against the trumpet spending freeze, saying they could only freeze with congressional approval. this was a surprise to a lot of people. the supreme court on foreign aid said they have to pay the $2 billion. writing into say "does a single district court judge -- who likely lacks jurisdiction -- have the unchecked power to it -- and probably lose forever $2 billion from taxpayers? the answer should be no, but the majority of this court apparently thinks otherwise." a leader saying "i'm stunned." >> neil gorsuch was part of that. and went so far writing for the four of them to say that the lower court judge who had issued the initial decision was abusing

his decision. accused his colleagues of not doing their duty and blocking that judge. interfering in the trump administration's ability to freeze funding as they review it. the justice in that the sentence did raise the question about -- there are some issues here, repayment for completed work. basically before february the 13th. pick it seemed very sweeping. the whole point of secretary rubio issuing this directive to freeze funding was to make sure it was being paid out for the things it was supposed to be being paid out for. to make sure there was no abuse going on in that process. this is a collision course between the judiciary, judicial branch, executive branch on

issues managing personnel and spending, which are traditionally executive branch functions. >> another loss the president suffered has a lot of people scratching their heads. that was payments to the nih for research, taking into account indirect costs. this was overhead. we heard about a bike in the beginning of february. some of the programs had an overhead cost of optum bank 60%. that means six of every $10 was going to overhead costs. president trump capped at 15 but the court said you can't. a lot of people thought 15% was a steer, but 60% was outrageous. >> i think 15% is reasonable. this is a gift to universities. it's the -- any administration saying to a university. on top of it, -- --

>> staples. it is harder to trace, and the judge's response on the traceability aspect is you can just conduct an audit after the fact. i think to myself how is that good spending? they want the money to go to the research itself with a little bit extra for these. are you going to be able to -- always good to see you. >> for president trump, what could be on the docket today? we will give you details as we learn them, plus this. >> if you don't -- you will be arrested.

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to healthcare. [protests] >> that's more chaos at barnard college. here is a live look at the campus, or anti-israel protests are underway, taking place on the streets of manhattan's upper west side to. our next guest is a student at columbia. spring -- okay. columbia university freshman and end -- jew hatred fellow. what has this been like for you?

>> thank you for having me. this has probably been the worst we have seen campus since the encampment's last spring. the university's response has been deplorable. we have had a wild week with protests starting last week with a sit in in an academic building, and then barnard. >> what do you feel the school's administration could do, more than what they are doing now? >> i think first and foremost, they have to focus on time, place, and manner of these protests. we as the pro-israel, pro-jewish community at columbia have plenty of protests, and nothing to this extent. we know time, place, and manner. that has to be enforced. the next big thing has to be form enforcing it in academic buildings and not allowing it to disrupt studying. this week especially -- they took over the library yesterday. we are in the midst of midterms. it couldn't be more of a disruption to the student body. >> we have got some of your

video that we have been playing on the screen. those were of yesterday's protests. this is a live look of how the protests are building now. this was yesterday when obviously, things did turn violence. what we also know is that barnard student protesters are just riveting hamas pamphlets -- distributing hamas pamphlets. how is the room for this on american college campuses? >> i don't think there should be, and the fact that there is is absurd. the university hasn't done anything, and the fact that no one else seems to be and rates outside of the jewish community is wild. they not only handed out hamas propaganda on campus yesterday, but made a stuffed doll version of the president of barnard and hanged it on the side of the university, as well as a wanted poster for the dean of the school. it's no longer just screaming in the streets: it's now a call for violence. they put pictures of sinwar, who

was the mastermind behind the october 7th attacks in israel, all over campus. things like that are no longer peaceful protests. it's far over the line. >> we just had a picture up of the protesters just riveting photos of these two. i want to play out this sound of noah letterman. he was a student who has been going through this, like you. he joined me earlier. >> the fact that students feel comfortable disrupting classrooms, and when the students from this other classroom were expelled, as they should have been, they take over and occupied bank in -- this is totally unacceptable. and also, protesters yesterday were handing out stickers with faces of -- and they handed out a pamphlet created by the hamas media office called "our narrative." this is blatantly pro-terror. >> he even said when he approaches these protesters who were distributing these items,

that he just said were blatantly pro-terror, that they don't have an x donation for why they are there. he said oftentimes, they don't have knowledge of what it is that they are protesting. do you have a similar expanse? >> i agree with everything noah said this morning. i think one of the biggest issues that comes with that is the fact that these protesters aren't forced to identify themselves, so you see these pro-terror students covering their face with whatever it may b, c can't tell who they are and they are not forced to identify themselves later on. i think that's a big part of the issue. they don't know what they are fighting for. i think a lot of them join because it is the cool thing to do. some people i saw in our school's social media -- that they just wanted to do it to get out of midterms, so it's completely ridiculous. >> we appreciate you joining us. thank you so much and our best to you. keep us posted.

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>> the utterly side of manhattan outside of columbia university. barnard college where protesters are gathering in number and the chants are growing louder as they protest the expulsion of three students after the protests at columbia last year. last night, there was an occupation of the building at barnard. a bomb threat was called in. protesters refused to evacuate the building, so the nypd came in the, swept up nine of them, and have them in custody.

now, the protesters are back at it again, still on the street making a lot of noise. >> this is only going to build. it started around 1:00, organized protests. as we've seen in recent days, it only tends to get bigger, the crowd and number protesters. >> we watch to see if it remains peaceful or if it gets like it was over the weekend. we will be right back. made me feel like i was losing interest in the things i love. then i found a chance to let in the lyte. discover caplyta. unlike some medicines that only treat bipolar i, caplyta is proven to deliver significant symptom relief from both bipolar i and ii depression. and in clinical trials, movement disorders and weight gain were not common. elderly dementia patients have increased risk of death or stroke. caplyta is not approved for dementia-related psychosis. call your doctor about new or sudden mood changes, behaviors, or suicidal thoughts right away. antidepressants may increase these risks.

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let's bring in our next guests. this criticism is officer coming from republicans, but also from democrats. listen to what john fetterman posted on x of wednesday's address -- tuesday's address. he wrote this on wednesday. a cavalcade "of cell phones in unhinged petulance that only makes trump look more presidential and restrained. metaphorical car alarms nobody pays attention to it, and it may not be the winning message." the question i have is who is responsible for the mallet foul

message? who is developing a strategy? >> democrats need to figure that out because we are going into the midterms soon and democrats are going to get primary aid. they aren't coming up with a message and i don't think -- diehard democrats don't think the democratic party is showing up for them. they need to focus on the economy. jobs report number came out. people cannot afford things. democrats need to coalesce around those messages and get ready for midterms. >> i will be gentle. [laughter] i mentioned this and she just about lost it. this tiktok video which came out with an influencer and the number of democratic numbers of congress become a plane into the whole smash brothers or mortal kombat thing. watched this. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

did they do that willingly? >> it looks to natural. personally, as someone who is on social media all day -- they would be great if they understood there was a time and place. during the dnc, this would've been cute, fluffy and fun, but now through these congress -- when your cities are burning, there is a crime surge, people can't afford groceries, and you are showing them your priority is tiktoks, that is not showing your constituents are getting the job done: it is showing them "we are partying while our constituents are suffering." speak let's ask a message expert about this message. >> to your point, they are on tiktok, but they are not talking about what they are going to do for the american people and how they are going to try to combat some of these things happening in congress with the reconciliation bill coming up, and how they are going to fight

on behalf of that. i go back to democrats need to be careful right now. they are going to have primaries coming up in the midterms that i don't think they are expecting because i don't think the democrats -- they don't think anyone is doing anything for them. >> in terms of the message should be, we had -- a democrat all his life who may not be a long for the party. here's what he thinks they should be focusing on. >> i want alternative policies that recognize irregular deal -- more moderate than some of the trump policies. not videos, not science, not demonstrations, not protests, but policy articulation. >> the lacked transparency and an agenda. this is not what when --

social media, the big problem. bobby kennedy jr. said it best. the democratic party "left me." >> ronald reagan said the same thing. [laughter] the truth is -- >> the truth is, these gentlemen that are all switching parties. because they are republican: it's that the democratic party went off the deep end. this morning in the house of congress, was distance donald trump -- people have lot our minds and our waking up to the madness. >> and -- in protest. >> and they became the story, and not the actual things that are happening. >> they seem to have a penchant for doing you so much. appreciate. >> fox news alert: we are about to hear from the pope himself, an update in his own words. that for you, next.

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>> fox news alert. pope francis has recorded an audio message in spanish thinking supporters for their prayers for his recovery. the vatican says the pope is recovering from double pneumonia and is in stable condition today with no new respiratory crises or fever. the audio will be broadcast at the start of the evening rosary prayer in st. peter's square in just a few minutes. we should point out that these are obviously pictures taken before the pope went into the hospital. >> we look forward to that. meanwhile, thousands in daytona this week for the 84th annual bike fest as motorcycle enthusiasts gather for races, music and events throughout the week. ashley is there. great jacket. >> thank you. i put the jacket on and all of a sudden i'm a biker. i've never ridden a bike in my life but i'm inspired to do

that. half a million bikers come here over the ten day period of the daytona bike week and it's really a remarkable thing. i would say here in the harley-davidson area alone they sell anywhere from three to 500 bikes which is remarkable. biking itself is pretty resistant to economic issues although the issue of tariffs is a concern here but they believe things will get worked out before it starts to hurt consumers but you know what, no matter what you drive especially harleys, it's all about community. listen to this. >> harley people, i do this all around the country. everyone is the same. great people, friendly people. easy to talk to and will do anything to help you. if you're going down the interstate and breakdown someone will stop and help you because you have a harley-davidson motorcycle. >> you want to know the prices? anywhere from 15,000 on the low

end up to 50, 60, 70,000 no matter how much you want to customize it. area tempting. i have the jacket on. back to you. >> you have the hair. looking good. you fit right in. [laughter] the key fact, i motorcycles. i just do. >> i've had motorcycles since i was like ten years old and i'm sad to say i have a 20-year-old, 15th anniversary edition fat boy that i'm finally selling because i lost my nerve on the road. i think everyone is out there to kill me and one of these days somebody will. i'm happy to sell it to anybody out there who wants it. >> there you go. thank you for joining us. we look forward to the pope's message. i'm sandis vilmanis. >> i'm john robertson stay tuned for the story. >> we will talk about the price of that later. meantime thank you.