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now, as we speak, and hopefully we can get a cease-fire from russia. >> john: president trump putting the ball in russia's court to bring a halt to the devastating three year long war in ukraine. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into our number two. i'm john roberts. good to be with you. >> jacqui: things for having me. and jacqui heinrich. i'm jacqui heinrich. sandra is out today. a framework of a deal yesterday, restoring military aid and intelligence sharing in the process. hot off those negotiations in saudi arabia, secretary of state marco rubio heading to canada for the g7 foreign ministers meeting. but first national correspondent bryan llenas is in canada ahead of that g7 meeting. hey, bryan. >> hey, jacqui, good afternoon. secretary of state marco rubio on the way to the g7 foreign ministers meeting hosted here in canada. this is amid talks of potential breakthrough in the

ukraine-russia war. secretary rubio is traveling from saudi arabia where both the u.s. and ukraine agreed to a a 30-day cease-fire proposal that is now being presented to russia. president trump has expressed optimism that there will be meetings today and optimism that russia could agree to a cease-fire in a matter of days and he and putin could eventually be talking. u.s. envoy to the middle east steve witkoff is traveling to russia this week. rubio says the ball is now in russia's court to accept a cease-fire so that a negotiation can begin to end the war. >> we are going to bring it to them directly. we are going to say ukraine is prepared to stop all battlefield activity and begin the immediate process of negotiating an end to the war and we will see what the response is. if we know there is a progress in a real chance of peace.

the responses no, it would be highly unfortunate and make their intentions clear. >> now one big sticking point is the presence of peacekeeping troops in ukraine as a precondition to end the war. expect that to be a big topic here at the g7 meeting. europe is for this, led by the u.k. and france, but russia says under no conditions will they excepted presence of nato troops in ukraine. rubio said the details can be sorted out after a cease-fire is signed. >> there's different ways to construct a deterrent on the ground that prevents another war from starting in the future. we are not going to go in with any sort of preconceived notion. the bottom line is he needs to be something that makes ukraine feel as if they can deter and prevent a future invasion. >> now canada is hosting the g7 foreign ministers meeting. it is impossible to ignore the icy relations now between the u.s. and canada.

rubio says there will be no discussion at these meetings about taking over canada as the 51st state of the united states. he says instead they will be talking about things they agree on and work together. we will see if the canadians are on board with that. jacqui? >> jacqui: bryan llenas for us in charlevoix peered. >> john: snow in charlevoix would be emblematic of the icy relationships between the two countries. press secretary karoline leavitt. i want to get to ukraine in just a moment but first of all, caroline, good news on the inflation front, a surprising report that during his first full month of his presidency inflation dropped 2.8%, month over month, the president also pointed out a moment to go the taoiseach of ireland micheal martin egg prices down 30% in recent days and oil sits right now at about $67 a barrel. and that is something that consumers really care about.

>> that's right, john, and it is a promise that president trump is keeping to the american people. this administration is wholeheartedly focused every single day on driving down costs for the american people through massive deregulatory efforts and of course by unleashing american energy dominance, which we know will end the inflation nightmare created by the previous administration and this cpi report today is welcome news, and it is not what the so-called experts or mainstream media predicted. they continue to cast doubt on president trump and his economic agenda, even though he has a proven record of it working in his first term, and if you look at that report today, inflation has gone down, the core inflation index is the lowest it has been in four years, gas prices have fallen, airline fares fallen and today we saw two massive companies announce new investments in manufacturing in the united states of america. the japanese. company announced a new

manufacturing, new jobs in wisconsin. all of these companies are realizing that the united states of america is the best place to do business, the lowest taxes in the world, that is what they will have under this president. >> jacqui: karoline, speaking of oil, four years, since 2022, the treasury department has been issuing this waiver, russian general license 8l that allows other countries to continue to buy russian oil using the u.s. dollar, the u.s. payment system. biden's waiver expired at midnight last night. did the president renew it? because if he didn't, it could send oil prices up by $5 a barrel. >> well, i don't know whether the president did or not. from my understanding he hasn't, jacqui, but i can definitely double check. when it comes to russia, the president's team continues to be in correspondence with the russians. in fact, our national security advisor mike waltz had a call

with his russian counterpart today in pursuit of ending this war and striking a peace deal with russia and with ukraine. we had great progress on that front yesterday, with the secretary of state and our national security advisor having those peace talks in saudi arabia. the ukrainians have finally agreed to a cease-fire and have agreed to a long-term peace plan, and we expect, we hope, and we urge the russians to do the same. >> john: up until recent days the president was being criticized for abandoning ukraine, signing with putin, now a cease-fire appears to be potentially within grasp. what is the over and under at the white house as to whether or not putin bites on this? >> we certainly hope that he does, and again our team has been working diligently on negotiating a peace plan that works for both sides to finally end this war, and in any good

plan, and a good deal, both sides are going to be a little bit happy about some things and maybe others, that is how you negotiate a deal and that is what secretary of state rubio and our national secured advisor working hard on yesterday and saudi arabia. this is about long-term peace and stability. look at the termite's progress that has been made by president trump and this incredible team. i mean, before president trump came into office, there was zero chance of a peace deal. nobody was even talking about that. the only talk about this war and the united states was about sending more blank checks from the american taxpayer who are incredibly tired of funding this effort, so it is only because of the leadership of president trump and his peace through strength approach, which the american people and the whole world did see on display in front of the cameras and that oval office meeting with zelenskyy that we are now at a place, we are on the tenth yard line of peace in this nearly three year long war, thousands of people have died, and president trump is working hard

to end the bloodshed and now it is up to the russians to agree to this plan. >> jacqui: karoline, you mentioned that mike waltz had a phone call with his counterpart and i was hoping you could shed some light on a bloomberg report that just crossed. it says that russian officials hadn't discussed with the u.s. the agreement that was agreed to in saudi arabia, and that they find that framework unacc unacceptable, saying they will need to ask for their own conditions before agreeing to any sort of a truce. russia has made a series of demands including ukraine should become a neutral nation, seed the territory it is already occupying, reduce the size of its military. this is sort of predictable from russia. what was the response plan from the u.s. side if this was the answer that came out? >> well, i won't comment on that report which was based on anonymous sources, nor will i get ahead of these negotiations

with russia, again, our team is actively engaged. mr. wycoff, steve witkoff, special envoy, making his way to moscow to urge the russians to sign onto this negotiation and we hope they will. >> john: let's move onto tariffs because where we had good news on the economy with inflation going down, a lot of people think that tariffs ari ticking time bomb and canada just announced it is going to levy another $21 billion in retaliatory tariffs on the united states. a lot of that is going to be sports gear. consumers, as well. could it possibly be, karoline, when these tariffs start to bite, the progress we saw in terms of lowering inflation, goes the other way in the months to come? >> well, this administration is walking and chewing gum at the same time. the president is effectively utilizing tariffs. not just as a negotiating tool -- tactics, but actually implement amab as we saw with the 25% tariff on steel and

aluminum to bolster those industries here in the united states, to advance our national security interests, to create good-paying jobs here at home and you have actually seen this deal in aluminum industries being good for manufacturing, revenue, and workers, most importantly. the president will continue to effectively utilize tariffs while again driving down the cost-of-living in this country. both things can happen at the same time. just look at president trump's first term as an example. when he left office, inflation was a low 1.4%. it was only driven up because the biden administration spent money recklessly and drove up the cost of energy which president trump and his entire administration are focused on driving down. or look at the massive deregulation that this administration has slashed. in fact, according to a report from the national economic council, we have already saved the american people $180 billion because of the regulations that we have already slashed and we

have only been here for 52 days. don't bet against president trump. anybody who watched him in his first term should know that. >> jacqui: karoline, one follow-up on this because the american automotive policy council has put out a statement sort of pushing back on this. revoking the extension, the significant cost for automakers, suppliers, and consumers. steel and aluminum tariffs could have big impacts. is it time for the president to do an oval office address, may be, and try to explain to people it might be bad for a little wild but it is in fact worth it. >> the president has been incredibly clear, jacqui, where he stands on the vision for america. he wants to restore this great country is a manufacturing super power of the world and we have the ability to do it because we have the best market and workers and plenty of resources right

here at home. what we need are these companies in these ceos to recognize that, to trust in president trump command to move their business here. and many of them already are. we have seen nearly $3 trillion in investment .2 this country, and as a result of the steel and aluminum tariffs i mentioned earlier, a japanese beer company moving its production to the great state of wisconsin so they can save themselves from this 25% tariff when they are making their beer cans. that is going to result in good-paying jobs right in the united states of america and now people no longer have to pay that 25% tariff and they are going to have some of the lowest taxes in the world when congress passes president trump's big tax agenda tax cuts later this year. again president trump is a businessman, he is a dealmaker, and he believes that the united states of america and our workforce and the rest of the world should do the same. >> john: nothing like a role with a firecracker, i say. the president had four models, i

thought he would have chosen the cybertruck because it is very strong and big and beefy, the kind of thing i thought i would see him drive. there he is with elon musk. it seems really interesting to me that tesla used to be the darling particularly leftist environmental groups, it was the car that was going to save the environment, and now you've got these left-wing environmental groups. they are defacing the cars. they are destroying property at tesla dealerships. and the car didn't change. i mean, a lot of people look at this and say this is just blatant hypocrisy. >> it sure is, john, the only reason democrats have changed their minds on tesla is because elon musk changed his mind on donald trump. that's the bottom line. i know auc, for instance, used to drive a tesla. i'm not sure if she still does. if she does it is because she knows it is a great

american-made product and that is why president trump was proud to review some of those models at the white house yesterday. he ultimately went with the red sports model, it's actually sitting at west exec right here at the white house now but as you said the president purchased the cybertruck for his granddaughter, which is a very nice gesture, and an american-made vehicle, and that is what the president supports most. >> jacqui: we will look forward to that vanity plate truth happening as the president said yesterday. maybe they will put out some good behind-the-scenes footage. thanks, karoline. >> john: good to spend time with you. >> good to see you. >> john: see a good soon. >> jacqui: college student missing in paradise for neely a week now getting the fbi involved. we are alive in the dominican republic coming up. >> john: plus a milestone for the trump administration's immigration crackdown. but wait until you hear what i.c.e. accuses the biden administration of doing.uddy that is coming up next. is year?

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immigration violators. now when it comes to how many of these illegal aliens have been deported, dhs and i.c.e. leaders did not share those numbers yet with us. they did discuss one of the major issues they are having right now, detention sectors at full capacity right now and they are maxed out but yesterday the house passed a spending bill and in that bill $10 billion would go toward helping i.c.e. with things like creating space for these detention facilities so they can actually keep illegal aliens in custody and not have to release them because of a lack of space, john. >> john: all right, brooke taylor with the latest peered brooke, thank you so much. now this. ♪ ♪ [chanting] >> jacqui: look at that. protesters in new york city demanding the release of anti-israel activist mahmoud khalil, who remains detained in louisiana after today's hearing. kerri urbahn on next steps in

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♪ ♪ >> mahmoud is our family. mahmoud is our brother. >> we are showing right now we are going to be here no matter what and we are never going to back down. >> they are feeling threatened not by palestinian flags, not by keffiyahs, or encampments, but by the presence our campus. >> john: making their support clear for anti-israel activist mahmoud khalil. a columbia graduate student detained in louisiana as the judge weighs arguments in this case come all of this as sources tell fox news that khalil is

being investigated as a potential national security threat. let's bring in kerri urbahn, fox news legal editor. so the statute is that he could be deported if he resents a potential serious foreign policy consequence for the united states. can they make that stick? >> i think so. i think the government has a strong case given how broad the statute is an discre discretionary. someone who is doing something or even physically present in a way that is a problem for all -- i think the government can make a case as to why this individual is just that. think about it, he is this negotiator, and i have been thinking a lot about this, what is he negotiating for? he is not an american. he is at an american university trying to pressure this american university into adopting a pro-hamas posture which is completely antithetical -- completely antithetical to our approach to our number one ally

in the middle east the u.s., and it is part of those activities, the posture i'm talking about, the partnership in tel aviv, any ties to businesses that make money off israel or israeli businesses. he did so with other students in some ways that were unlawful including trespassing, vandalism, you don't have to commit a crime for the secretary of state to determine you are deportable or not. >> jacqui: the president said this is the first of many to come, how can that be carried out? and how do you avoid what might become a legal pitfall, something like surveillance, how do you watch for this and round up those people and make it many more to come? >> i think he said that to send a message more than anything. they are using this guy as an example. they are showing they are serious. that if you are a visa holder or a lawful permanent resident, you are still not an american

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she has set her perspective on this pretty strongly which is why the steve up chief of staff to attorney general pam bondi filed a complaint because of thy she conducted herself in the courtroom. you come out of the gate and say there are at least 30 different genders and the government's argument is that there only two, you are really inserting yourself i think into the argument itself. the other thing she did that i thought was particularly unprofessional, which they said in their complaint, was she used one of the doj lawyers as a prop to illustrate her point about discrimination, making him sit down, stand up, go out of the room. that's demeaning. i've never heard of a judge doing such a thing. and it really undercuts the impartiality that they are supposed to be projecting and that they are bound by by the judicial code of conduct. whether the chief judge does anything with the complaint, i don't know, but i think the doj was well within their rights to file this complaint based on how

she has been conducting herself. one more thing, too, she went into this whole line of questioning about what would jesus say, what would jesus do? how do you answer that as a doj attorney? at one point she said with "one more thing" say wtf? and that's pretty offensive, i think, to people who are christians and the like and it really just undercuts her own credibility and impartiality in the matter. >> jacqui: a kind of consequences could she face? >> great question. they can investigate and see if it is a pattern and practice in the courtroom and maybe find she has committed misconduct and chastise her. i don't necessarily see this going far, but certainly a judge never wants to be called out in this way, and if this is to go further, we will see. i thought the complaints in the complaint were pretty valid. >> john: it would certainly be grounds for a reversible appeal, i would think. >> they can talk about the judge's conduct as far as they

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>> jacqui: paradise turned nightmare as the search intensifies for a u.s. college student who vanished nearly away could go peered we will get reaction from nicole parker in just a few moments but first nate foy is live in the water off the coast of punta cana. you are in the search area right now. what is happening around you? >> well, jacqui, as i explained yesterday there really is no defined search area, you see people on vacation interspersed with workers trying to find any evidence to lead to sudiksha konanki. take a look, pretty far away at this point but i will ask my cameraman doug to zoom in super far in the distance. that is a boat of dominican armed forces and they came to us just before we went live to make sure that we are very careful where we are because there are scuba divers in the water as

there were yesterday. drones in the air, helicopters in the air, as well. then i'll ask my photographer, doug, to whip the camera around towards the shore where i mentioned a lot of people just on vacation. this is still spring break time, so a lot of college students are here. you see a group taking pictures on the beach. just to the right of them, you see those red flags. that is something you only see at this particular resort. to the left and the right, we see yellow flags. those red flags are up because of the dangerous conditions here at the beach. it doesn't look particularly dangerous where we are right now, but we are told that after tragic events like we have seen here in the past week, the red flag goes up to warn people of exactly what has happened and what could happen. now the real republican resort is what you are looking at right now and they are coming out and clarifying some reports about a power outage that happened the night that konanki disappeared, so take a look at

the last images we have seen where she is known to be alive. one hotel guest said because of the power outage that many rooms didn't have air conditioning so some people went to the pool or the beach to cool off. there were also concerns about digital evidence being compromised because of a lack of power but riu republica now says "the lobby area remains power march 5th and march 6th," when konanki went missing. recorded quality images that day and night. now the search is now on day six, with more than 300 agents investigating the beach. the dominican national police say they have not stopped for a second and will continue to follow all evidence. they are also speaking to all witnesses now several times to corroborate all information and learn exactly what happened.

>> [speaking another language] >> interpreter: hotel administration personnel are being reinterviewed. people who were interviewed previously. >> so police are also gathering digital evidence, and one of the concerns was people couldn't charge their phones because of that power outage. if that is the case and that impacted the phone records and the ability to communicate during the hours that konanki went missing, that is something the dominican national police say the investigation will review. reveal. back to you. >> jacqui: one quick follow-up, what are you hearing from investigators about how long they plan to stay out on the water? >> they won't tell us much, jacqui. we are with people who live here and typically they tell us that the police are much more cooperative than they are currently being with us. in fact we are told we need to get out of here as soon as the slap shot is finished. i guess the short answer would be until there is some sort of closure because konanki's parents are here, and in the

absence of a body being found or, pray to god, she is found alive, that is still possible at this point, but until some answers are found, they are going to keep looking. so, that's where we stand. >> jacqui: we will keep praying for that family and for everyone looking for her, and we will let you go so they can resume their work. nate foy come appreciate it. >> john: for more on the process of the investigation, let's bring in nicole parker. what do you think of the search so far? they do seem to have a substantial number of people, law-enforcement and others out there from the dominican republic. the fbi is in on it, but at the same time as nate was just showing come of the beach is open and people are out there swimming. if she was swept out to sea, as the guy who was with her claims, i mean, at this point they are s probably not much left of her remains. >> that's an interesting question. my prayers go out to her family

and her and let's hope for a positive outcome, but again as an investigator, there is also a very realistic side to this. the dominican national police come i have no doubt they are putting forward all efforts. as a former fbi special agents, i can tell you fbi miami's squad is likely assisting. the legal attache for the fbi out of santo domingo, they are outstanding. outstanding that are on the ground locally come fbi representatives and agents who are all hands on deck. i guarantee fbi pittsburgh, fbi omaha, all of these various offices are going to be involved. i think what is most important to know in my opinion as an investigator is who she was last seen with. and that is this gentleman who is from iowa, who is known to be a wrestler, a football player, who had been staying at the same resort that she had been staying at. her phone and her wallet were found, and to me, that is actually a bad sign. it's good for investigators, but

she didn't have that with her. they are going to be combing through all of that information. i would like to know every thing about this gentleman. was he known to her before the trip? i understand they met at the resorts. what was their relationship? they were seen on video surveillance hand-in-hand or cuddling with one another. the fact they were last seen and everyone else had returned back to the hotel, they were left out on the beach, and the fact that the investigators didn't speak to him, he has been cooperative up until this point, but there are three different versions of his story, and that concerns me. >> john: as you see them there, this was the last images of her, at least that we know of at this point where they seem to be walking arm in arm out to the beach. not much is wrong other than the fact it is apparent it is 4:15 in the morning and what is she doing out there on the beach at 4:15 in the morning? some idea the rooms were hot because air-conditioning was off and everybody wanted to go down to the beach to cool off. but this idea that she left her phone and wallet, that could

comport with the idea that she went swimming. you wouldn't take it with you. the waves were heavy. he said he got bounced around a lot. might open up the idea of a rip current potentially opening up and taking her out to see. they do seem to have very few leads at this point. >> right, and again i do know a friend who has stayed at that resort. she is from the dominican republic and went back to visit recently. she said there is known to be strong rip currents in that area. different outcomes, she could have drowned, could have been an accident or follow play, but the investigators i have no doubt we'll get to the bottom of this. >> john: nicole parker, good to catch up with you, thanks for your take on this. >> thank you. >> john: jackie? >> jacqui: heart disease, cancer, infertility, and that is not all peered could microplastics be creating a superbug?ge dr. mahsa tehrani on that coming up next.d. ore. and when the stock market crashes and it does from time to time, our clients are protected against losses.

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♪ ♪ >> jacqui: microplastics known to cause a series of health issues and new research suggests they might also be fueling anti-am biotic resistant drugs. mass attorney mike dr. mahsa tehrani. thank you for being here. scary stuff. can you explain just how this might be happening and whether

there is any way people can avoid it these days? >> absolutely. microplastics are horrible for the hour health and they are all over the environment and growing, watch lots of exposures because chronic health problems, immune system problems, endocrine problems, infertility issues, so a lot of research is shedding light on exactly what these microplastics are doing to human health, and now we have this study where they took some e. coli bacteria and put them on two plates, one with glass and one was microplastics, and they put a bunch of antibiotics on top of these plates and they saw that the plate that was the microplastic plate, the bacteria lived on forever, and were not killed by these antibiotics. so this tells us that microplastics also harbor this environment of antibiotic resistance which is awful because they have about 5 million deaths annually due te days, so we need to figure out what to do and what is driving it. so far we thought it was because

we were overprescribing antibiotics or patients were misusing them, but now we see microplastics have a role. yes, there are ways that we should limit our exposure, and i would argue probably the best way to reduce our exposure to microplastics is by simply reducing plastic water bottles that we drink out of. by taking -- exactly those. >> jacqui: stop it, john. >> john: this little one right here? >> exactly. we have to find reasonable alternatives. stainless steel is good, aluminum is good. but if we do this one thing, we reduce our exposure by 90% which is huge. another way we should do this in is these plastic containers, food can containers. i challenge all restaurant chains to get rid of their take-out boxes. we need better combustible, paper-based materials. as food containers peered never heat anything in the microwave in plastic because you are going to release millions of particles into your food.

one last one, my favorite, cinnamon tea bags, they are horrible, not just sentiment, but tea bags in general peered every tea bag you dunk in your cup of tea releases 11 billion microparticles. you got to replace that. >> john: each one of us has about a spoonful of this stuff in our brains. let me ask you about something else, and this is the state of utah is going to be banning fluoride in drinking water. rfk jr. said this about fluoride, he said fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fragments, iq loss, neurodevelopmental disorders and thyroid disease and also thought to be in not effective in terms of cavities but it's interesting only 2 of 29 counties in utah that use fluoride and the county with the lowest rate of dental decay does not use fluoride. what do you think? >> yeah, fluoride, there is no doubt, it has prevented tooth decay for the past few decades. it has been an amazing edition. there is actually a study that came out last year that polled

13067 studies and looked at as a little closer and found that before 1975, yes, there was an absolute beneficial impact of adding fluoride to the water, but around 1975 is when fluoride was actually added to toothpaste, so these beneficial effect smart that marked anymore. the question here is due the potential risks of adding fluoride to our water testify the benefits? and this becomes a little dicey. the big concern is about the risk of cancer. there are a lot of studies that have looked about whether adding fluoride increases the risk of cancer, and the answer is we don't know. they are ambiguous. we don't know. but what we do have clear data about is the higher the fluoride exposure, the lower our children's iq, and this is mixed with this fact we are not all subject to the same fluoride levels. the epa says adults should get s 2 milligrams per liter, the u.s. health protected -- protective health services says we need to

get 0.7 milligrams per liter. so there is this discrepancy of how much to get, and we get a lot of exogenous sources from tea, from pesticides, dental products, so i think what has to happen is before making any huge public health changes, we need to have better science, but in the meantime, if studies want to follow the footsteps of utah, we need to provide state-funded programs to get dental care. dental care, free toothpaste to patients, and hopefully the risk of tooth decay. >> john: the debate will go on. >> jacqui: you can't eat or drink anything these days. >> john: imagine that. >> jacqui: will be right back. thank you. >> john: take the little plastic water bottle. e, it's like you're with us every step of the way. ♪ (man) cooool. ♪

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florida. are they going to be coming back? >> the weather certainly cooperating, the face, the rocket with the space x poised atop it. it is set to set 4 fresh crewmembers to the international space station. that will allow star liner test pilots to return aboard a separate spacex capsule that launched to the iss in september carrying to mark crewmembers and to mark empty seats. ahead of the departure sunny handed over command to a russian colleague. >> i promise you we are actively trying to find the passage back to the place we were before. >> reporter: it started as an eight-day flight test tube to boeings new star liner spacecraft developing thruster problems on the way up to the space station. boeing determine the issue could be managed safely for the return flight but nasa decided not to risk it and brought star liner

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