we're fighting. we're resilient. we are frickin california. i'm not cursing. that is official, not curse. and we will continue to be great. though there might be some challenging times ahead. all right. do you want to sing defying gravity on the way out? i absolutely do not. ag want to thank you very much for the time. appreciate it. thank you very much. that was interesting. we learned a lot. who do now? it's our people. people will live for sure. musical people will appreciate that. broadway bond time. ♪ ♪ >> shannon: i'm shannon bream. donald trump's america first strategy on full display as his foreign policy team takes europe by storm. >> in washington, there's a new sheriff in town. >> shannon: from the president

plans for what to do next in gaza, to bringing in end to the war in ukraine. >> i think president putin wants peace, and president zelenskyy wants peace, and i want peace. >> shannon: we'll talk with national security advisor mike wilds about the president's playbook for solving conflicts across the globe. then... stick is not optional for us to reduce the federal expenses. it's essential. >> everyone knows there is waste in government and should be cut, but d.o.g.e. is using a meat tax. >> shannon: senator majority whip john barrasso and senator mccain join us to talk about d.o.g.e. and the major legislative battles just ahead. plus, i send a panel on the lawsuits targeting security cities, as deportations ramp up. and rev your engines. we are on the ground for daytona 500. all right now on "fox news

sunday." ♪ ♪ hello from fox news in washington. we begin with a look at some of your top headlines. millions of americans dealing with severe weather this weekend have rain, flash flood warnings, power outages, and tornado warnings across the south, and snow and ice in the northeast. secretary of state marco rubio met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in israel today to talk about the fragile cease-fire in gaza following the release of more hostages yesterday, including the dual israeli american citizen. and in munich, ukraine's president asked for more help from european leaders and the possible creation of united european military force, as top foreign policy aids in the trump administration are reportedly set to meet with russian officials in saudi arabia to discuss the framework for ending the war in ukraine. in a moment will ask national

security advisor mike waltz about those talks and whether ukraine will have a seat at the table, but first we've got team coverage today. greg palkot in israel, and danamarie mcnicholl in florida covering the president. we begin with you. >> good morning, shannon. european leaders called an emergency leading to talk about trump's vision for ukraine, potentially shutting them out of peace negotiations. no reaction yet from the president as he heads to the daytona 500 this afternoon. >> i think we are going to be able to do something. i think will be able to make a deal. >> mike. >> reporter: mike waltz, steve witkoff, and marco rubio will meet this week with senior russian officials in saudi arabia. expected to be absent from discussions, ukraine and europe. trump officials have also made it clear they expect european allies in nato to take responsibility for the region, as the u.s. focuses on other priorities such as securing the border and countering china. >> let's be honest, we can't

allow the possibility that america might say no to europe on an issue that threatens it. >> reporter: the secretary general on saturday calling a member countries to step up spending. on the domestic front, trump signed an executive order to reduce the federal workforce. about 10,000 have been laid off. education, agriculture, energy, and veteran affairs among the agencies hit by the lapse. the latest programs on the chopping block, 32 million for a civil society in prague and $29 million for strengthening tl landscape in bigwood s. >> one of the reasons we have massive debt is because he massively increase the size of the federal government. we need to go back to pre-covid era size. >> d.o.g.e., instead of taking a scalpel and a measured approach and looking at fraud, is instead taking a chainsaw to a number of federal governme departments, ak that is getting started.

>> despite some resisting d.o.g.e., it was handed a win. a federal judge ruled that because it is legally defined as an agency it can still access sensitive records. >> danamarie mcnicholl in florida, thank you so much. we turn out to the middle east for secretary rubio is making his first official visit to israel as secretary of state. fox news senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot has that story. hello, greg. >> hi, shannon. that's right, america's top diplomat here in israel trying to jump-start that shaky cease-fire, and the hamas hostage release plan between the militant group and israel. and there may be a bit more. secretary of state marco rubio arrives for meetings with israeli officials, especially prime minister benjamin netanyahu. here are some what they had to say today. >> the hostages need to come home where they need to be released. that must happen. it's not optional. i would add that as a goalie

share share in common. >> the gates of will be opened if all our hostages are not released. until the last one of them. >> the priority is phase one of the deal and making the move to phase two, which would see the rest of the hostages released, but also force israel to give up control inside gaza. over the weekend we saw jubilation as 3x captives including an american where you reunited with their families. overall they appeared in better shape than last week's group but i still miss a lot. the latest release had been threatened by hamas complaining that israel was not delivering enough aid to gaza. president trump's plan to turn the place into a real estate deal still is out there. nearby countries are scrambling for an alternative. still, shannon, the topic that both rubio and netanyahu hit on the hardest. nothing is more important than iran. in the ten

to saudi arabia and the uae and iran no doubt on the agenda. >> shannon: greg palkot live in israel, thank you very much for joining us now, national security advisor mike waltz. welcome to "fox news sunday." >> rep. waltz: thanks, shannon. good to be with you. >> shannon: a lot to cover here. let's talk about this, european leaders putting together what's called an emergency summit in paris tomorrow. even rattled by what they heard from members of the administration in munich. they reported they are not going to have a seat at the table for these opening talks with russia about winding down that war. that's according to special envoy keith kellogg, former general. he said last week that europe has to own this conflict moving forward. so why shouldn't the europeans have a seat at the table at these conversations? >> shannon, let me tell you what we heard this week. we heard president trump engage

president putin of russia, immediately engage president zelenskyy, and here's what the leaders had in common. both of them said in those back-to-back calls that only president trump could get them to the table, only president trump could drive peace, and this notion that our european allies haven't been engaged, president trump also spoke with macron this week. we had a visit with prime minister starmer of the united kingdom coming up, and we had no less than a vice president, secretary of state, secretary of defense, secretary of treasury was in kyi' personally, all engaged wih our allies. they may not like some of the sequencing that is going on in these negotiations, but i have to push back on this or any notion that they are being consulted. they absolutely are.

at the end of the day, though, this is going to be under president trump's leadership that we get this war to an end. >> shannon: so there are talks starting this week. you are reportedly part of that team is going to be in saudi arabia talking with the russians. with our questions about ukraine's world. here's what senator adam schiff says. "the president's inability to even identify ukraine as an equal bargaining powerfter all the blood ukraine has shed is just a shocking surrender of american values and interests." president zelenskyy says he's not going be bound by any deal negotiated between russia and the u.s. are the ukrainians going to have a seat at the table for those talk this week? >> rep. waltz: well, what the secretary of the treasury was talking about two zelenskyy, and then following with secretary rubio and the vice president, was entering into a partnership with the united states. we are talking about growing the pie for the ukrainian economy,

and i can't think of any better security guarantee than being coinvested with president trump and with the american people going forward, and having those investments as a protection in and of itself, number one. number two, the american people deserve to be recouped, deserve to have some type of payback for the billions and they have invested in this war. further, shannon, i can't think of anything that would make the american people more comfortable with future investments then if we were able to be in a partnership and have the american people made whole. i will point out, much of the european aid is actually in the form of a loan that is repaid with interest on russian assets. so president trump is rethinking the entire dynamic here. that has some people uncomfortable. but i think zelenskyy would be very wise to enter into this

agreement with the united states. there is no better way to secure them going forward. further, there was a question of whether putin would come to the table. he has now done so under president trump's leadership, and we are going to continue those talks in the coming weeks at president trump's direction. >> shannon: be given the cost the ukrainian people have paid, why would they not have a direct seat of the table? especially if zelenskyy says whatever you come up with he's not going to feel bound by unless they are actually part of these talks. >> rep. waltz: the ukrainian people have fought valiantly. they have seen entire cities destroyed. the united states and europe have supported this effort, but the united states unquestionably has borne the brunt of that support over the years. but now president trump is clear it needs to come to an end. there are key tenets that will drive these negotiations.

permanent, not a temporary end of the war. this can't be ended on the battlefield. this has turned into a world war i style meat grinder of human beings. i talked about how the structure of our aid has to change, and number four, we are talking about economic integration going forward as the best arbiter of peace. all of those things are key underpinnings, and in terms of long-term military security guarantees, those have to be european-led, i have to tell you, shannon, when a third of nato members are still not contributing the minimum they all committed to a decade ago, i think that leaves a lot of americans questioning the level of their commitment to back the rhetoric that we are seeing. >> shannon: i want to get to a couple of hot spots. before we leave this, can you confirm the stocks are beginning this week in saudi arabia between the u.s. and russia?

>> president trump initiated those talks personally with president putin, and will carry those talks going forward in the coming weeks. he's ready to move quickly to end this conflict. and we will bring everyone together as appropriate, absolutely. >> i want to get to israel, iran, obviously the continued instigator in a lot of what comes to the shores of the people of israel. president trump has told bret baier a couple days ago, he says he loves to make a deal with that bombing them, that that stands in contrast to this report coming from "the washington post" that says israel is likely to bomb iranian nuclear facilities in the next few months. he goes on to say that part of this is based on u.s. intel, that the military intelligence report in "the washington post" still doubt to potential strike options each involving the u.s. providing support in the form of aerial refueling as well as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, said those familiar with the document. to their disagreements about how

much a strike could do to set this back, whether it is weeks, months, years. but it would certainly increase tensions in that region. what would the u.s. involvement be in a strike? can you speak to that report by "the washington post"? >> rep. waltz: shannon, i can speak to him at the president has repeatedly said, and that is that iran can never have a nuclear weapon. that not only would be x essential for israel, i think it would be x essential for the entire world, because it could kick off a nuclear arms race in the middle east. how we get there, i'm not going to get into the details of here, but the president has also expressed a willingness to take whatever action is necessary. all options are on the table. but also to talk to iran, as well, if they want to give up their entire program and not play games, as we have seen iran do in the past and prior negotiations. all options are on the table,

but i will promise you this, president trump is absolutely serious, deadly serious, when he says iran can never have a nuke. and certainly not on president trump's watch. they are an irrational actor that we cannot allow to have their finger on the button. >> shannon: i would like to get to china and so many other things that are on your plate at this moment, so please come back soon. mike waltz, great to have you. >> rep. waltz: thank you. >> shannon: see 12 ramping up federal cuts with tens of thousands of federal workers already on their way out. reaction from senators on both sides of the aisle. coming up live. plessis administration takes its america first message to the world stage. our sunday panel breaks down how our allies are not reacting. that's next. ♪ ♪ (♪)

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>> the threat that i worry the most about vis-a-vis europe is not russia, it's not china, it's not any other external actor. and what i worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the united states of america. >> shannon: vice president j.d. vance making news on the world stage and making some waves this week with his address to the munich security

conference. as european allies get an early look at the new administration's america first foreign policy agenda. time after our sunday group. olivia beavers, west regional reporter. fox news contributor mollie hemingway. juan williams, fox news senior political analyst, and bloomberg senior white house reporter josh wynn growth. welcome to all of you. this is the headline from foreign policy. vance leaves europe gob smacked. j.d. vance delivered a rebuke on immigration and allege censorship to a shocked security conference. josh? feathers were ruffled. >> josh: he wanted to get their attention, and he did indeed do that. there were a couple of factors. one, he talked about freedom of speech and went up against or write to the limit of what has been the consensus in germany around including the party on the far right from being part of these governing groups. so he's got pushback both in the current chancellor as well as

the incoming likely chancellor who thinks he's going near the third rail on that. more broadly, the question. if you read the lines, secretary bessent's trip in particular, in some ways the trump administration is opening the door to ongoing support for ukraine. there are significant terms attached to it if zelenskyy wants to go for it. but that's different than what we heard on the campaign trail we had really distanced himself. they can pick what version they want to look at but the vice president certainly got their attention. >> shannon: he did come and the attention of folks here at home, too. gerry connolly not a fan of the speech. here's what he said. >> it was in a birthing presentation, when the magma be one of the most amazing moments i can remember at the munich security conference from an american official. he showed condescension and ignorance at the same time. >> shannon: mollie? >> mollie: it's interesting to people back to this. it's a different space and we are use to.

we are used to people seeing the same platitudes and saying things for the leaders of europe agree with the leaders of the united states even as things deteriorate globally. and vance is letting it be known, things are different here. he made a really strong defense of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, they need to accept election results, things that he set are just a problem in europe but in our country, as well. government enabled censorship isn't alleged, as a headline he showed earlier. it is quite real and it has affected many people. doing the things you do globally in defense of democracy and on behalf of the people, we need to actually care about what the people want. so i'm not surprised people are reacting negatively to it, but it's because it was that she was almost a reaganesque speech in terms of the big issues are covered in the call for freedom that has been sadly waning in europe in the united states. >> shannon: here is how axios summed up the conference in the weekend. president trump stunned, strangled him and he deleted europe. no amount of trump-proofing

could have prepared europe for the mag-shaped hurricane making transient havoc on america's closest allies. juan? >> juan: to my mind, this was not reaganesque. in my mind, america first is not served by stirring up right-wing nationalism in europe and it's not served by signaling weakness to russia's vladimir putin. to my mind, if you're strengthening a dictator and sparking an outbreak of nationalism, far right nationalism in europe, you don't have to be a student of history to understand that you are really hearkening back to nazis and division. to trump want to be the neville chamberlain of the 21st century, blind to the rise of a dictator who is intent on taking over the country's? don't think he wants that, and yet he is risking that. that is what the german chancellor had to say yesterday.

he is intervening right before a february 3rd election in germany and vance went to visit with the head of that party. this is unbelievable. >> shannon: mollie, i could see itching to respond. >> mollie: we have had this foreign policy in europe where people have enabled a war that has been absolutely catastrophic to the people of ukraine. we see images of the war in gaza all the time and how horrific that is. we haven't gotten a lot of media coverage. there have been a million casualties in ukraine, with no plan for actual success or ending to that work prior to trump coming in and saying we need to stop the carnage, we need to help ukraine rebuild. all of this outsized rhetoric i think is what people are really wanting to move away from. caring about america's interests and saying we cannot be the world's piggy bank anymore, that europe actually has to care about his defense, that's not something that just donald trump has said. you had obama secretary of defense say the same thing

during his presidency, and things just need to finally happen. >> juan: the united states had to go into europe in world war ii to fight the nazis and right-wing extremists. nationalism has a real cost for us as americans. we have to go in and clamp the mess. you just can't say we don't have to pay something. we are in nato, where the largest military force in the world for a reason. >> mollie: america suffering all your financing every war without any strategy for success. that is what has cost america. >> shannon: olivia, i want to bring into the conversation. how this plays abroad and at home, their implications. see three there are, i think president trump was praising vance for his speech. there was some scolding, but also read it as him sending a warning that they are going to be backing a maga populist movement in europe. and he said his new sheriff in town. so i think that was a little bit more as also a warning to our allies abroad that th the speedf

administration will be trying to carve an area where that sort of belief can expand into europe. >> shannon: well, instantly got a lot of attention. we all agree on that point, if not anything else. don't go far. up next, the battle over the budget and a democrat spike to stop d.o.g.e. democrat senator tim kaine and senate majority whip john barrasso on that and what tariffs could mean for your wallet.we they are next. ♪ll, ♪ he beat it to death. joe biden's legacy for seniors? he raided medicare, made premiums skyrocket, and drove up drug costs. worse, the biden pill penalty is already slashing the development of affordable drugs... forcing seniors to pay the price of biden's failed policy. biden broke medicare... but president trump can fix it. call congress and urge them to end the biden pill penalty.

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chevrolet. >> they want a divorce. they want you two to start hating each other. president elon musk, for example. you do know they're doing that to you? >> they are so bad at it. i used to think they were good at it. they are actually bad at it. if they were good at it, i'd never be president. because i think nobody in history has ever gotten more bad publicity than me. i could do the greatest things, i get 90% bad publicity. outside of you and a few of your very good friends, it's like the craziest thing. but you know what i have learned? people are smart, they get it. they really see what's happening. >> yes. >> shannon: president trump and elon musk talking about the unconventional partnership with sean hannity. you can see that will interview tuesday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern on the fox news channel. but right now we are joined by

virginia democrat senator tim kaine. could i be back on the show. you heard the discussion about some people want them to get a divorce. what you put yourself in that category? >> sen. kaine: it's a policy that matters to me, not the bromance. i don't really care about that. the policy is real trouble. i'm all for government efficiency. when i was governor of virginia it was the best managed state in america. when you come in the first thing you do is you fire the inspector general's, those are the people whose job it is to find waste, fraud, and abuse. when you fire them, you send the message that efficiency isn't the goal, doing things to benefit yourself is the goal. >> shannon: do not think these cuts are sending the message that efficiency is the goal? d.o.g.e. has gotten up and running website, they got twitter feeds showing exact contract and things they are finding, and a lot of american people are surprised to find that their tax dollars are going to some of efforts. >> sen. kaine: the message and virginia isn't that efficiency is the goal. the messages that they are

waging a war and veterans, acting willy-nilly layoffs at the va, and since 30% of the federal workforce is a veteran and virginia as a veteran heavy state, that's the way it feels at home. cutting research, cutting health clinics, cutting head start programs. the inspector general firing. the message out of the gate is this is a group of people that want to pad their own pocket. they're going to cut things to try to amass a lot of dollars that they will then used to do tax cuts for the wealthiest. that is the playbook we saw in the first trump term and i think you're seeing it again. >> shannon: oh eight to hear the words of the new elected president. they deserve a government on their side but they don't want a government that wastes money, that costs more and is less. they voted for change, they wanted a literal revolution in the way the government operates, not you and i must deliver. that was bill clinton in 1993 talking to his cabinet pay one of the first things he called for was a reduction of 100,000 federal employees. and he went way beyond that in his eight years. >> sen. kaine: and you know what he did? he worked with congress to do

it. donald trump has two republican houses, and he's got a budget discussion that has to have a resolution by march 14th. why isn't he getting the republican leaders done in the white house and saying, here's what we are going to do? he's making all these cuts without them because he doesn't even think the republican leadership will go along with him. bill clinton did things to shrink the size of government and he did it with congress. there's a difference between that and ignoring congress and filing the law. >> shannon: but the executive branch has a lot of authority and purview over things within the executive branch and decisions about money and how it's dispersed. disbursed. >> sen. kaine: there is this law, the empowerment act, once congress has appropriated dollars for a particular purpose the president is not allowed to say, i don't like that, i'm going to spend this money but not that many. the president needs to follow the law. that's why so far there's a lot of lawsuits that have been successful. they will go through appeals courts, but a lot of the

president's extreme exec of actions that hurt folks are being challenged in court right now. >> shannon: some of them on hold, we will talk about those little later in the show, too. here's reaction to how democrats are pushing back on d.o.g.e. and those efforts. a piece in the hills says this. democrat's religious attacks make it clear which side they are on. spoiler alert, it's not the side of the taxpayer. do you worry about the optics is so much outrage at elon musk and the d.o.g.e. team versus outrage about some of the stuff that they are uncovering? >> sen. kaine: my outrage is about who they're hurting. again, i don't care about the bromance. who cares about the bromance? i don't like letting unelected officials post does yesterday the d.o.g.e. guys posted classified information on their website and had to realize, oh, we didn't realize it was a classified agency. you shouldn't let people rampage through offices that have classified information. again, i view this in virginia from the perspective of, we are

a veteran-heavy state. there's a war on veterans. when they are slashing in the va and when 30% of the federal workforce is veterans compared to like to have a 3% of the civilian workforce, you do indiscriminate cuts, it hurts veterans. >> shannon: do you take any solace in the fact that they have been a number of positions at the va that i've been walled off, not eligible for cuts or buyouts? because they were where there were concerns about that. >> sen. kaine: i do take some solace in that, but there are two veterans clinics waiting to open in virginia, when intense begin when in fredericksburg. they been built. they are in areas where there is a high percentage of veterans. they are opening days are now thrown into question, and when they do open they will be short staffed rather than full staffed because of the actions of the trump of administration. there is no way to treat veterans. >> shannon: let's talk about funding. all. all diskettes wrapped in it, as well, the tiny metal it's coming, federal funding runs out march 14th. a lot of people say in d.c. time we have plenty of time to figure it out, and review due. >> sen. kaine: i don't like it. i'm not wild about that.

we should've done it last year. >> shannon: here are recent headlines. two democratic senators set unscented a party would not rule out forcing the federal government to shut down. the very next day, "usa today" has this headline. dems say they are hoping to shutting down the government paid you've said in the past that shutdowns are not good for the american people. you talked about virginia, military families that are a big part of the commonwealth. he said this, it inflicts unnecessary harm on federal employees, government contractors, and millions of americans who rely on government services. so should a shut down this time around -- and other republicans are in control, should be a threat? >> sen. kaine: and never use it as a threat. i don't like the fact that donald trump is shutting government down as we speak. he says i want to shut down the department of education, shrink usaid staff down to 250 people. that's a shut down and authorized by congress, against the law. i don't like that and i don't think we should be contemplating shut down. the republicans, as you point out, they have all three letters, but in both houses. they figure out a budget deal. we could have done one last

year, but after the november election they said, let's wait until 2025 when we have all the letters and he will do budget deal ourselves. so far you can see there's a lot of confusion between the house republicans and the senate republicans. we know where this is going. it is tax cuts for the wealthiest. that's when you can very soon. he saw that in the budget committee this week. but that having a hard time getting on the same page. >> shannon: they do say that an extension of the tax cuts -- the irs at itself in a nonpartisan way that it benefited every tax bracket. so that the armament from republicans. >> sen. kaine: not equally, but there were benefits. they were overwhelmingly to the wealthiest and big corporations. >> shannon: it's hard to believe it has been a month of the administration. there's a lot that's happened. cbs pulling at their same people describe president trump as tough, energetic, focused, effective rate 70% say he's doing what he promised and he's got the highest approval rating he's ever had. cbs news. with that in mind, let me read you something from ro khanna on the house site. he says, we have to acknowledge

that we spectacularly failed to recognize in the last election that the status quo is broken and americans are feeling anger from the real damage the governing class and sent their lives of the past few decades. these numbers show people so far the majority are happy. >> sen. kaine: the palm exit 62% said he didn't do enough to bring up prices. exit through the roof come there's an article about construction costs going up. i met with farmers in northwestern virginia friday, they are petrified about the tariff effect on agriculture and forestry because they saw it happen when donald trump did government by tariffs in his first term. in virginia people are really worried about mismanagement of the economy and tariffs and prices going up. they are worried about these folks who fired the inspector general's and seem to want to pad their own pockets. they are worried about a tax on education and research. there's a lot of concerns out there. >> shannon: it's good to see you, senator. i was about to have you governor. always good to see you.

we'll get some of those things to senator barrasso next page when you knock on senate majority whip john barrasso of wyoming. senator, welcome back to the show. let's talk about that. senator kaine says this is about tax cuts for people who don't need help as much of your other constituents. >> sen. barrasso: what we have seen since president trump took office of the democrats running around like a chicken little saying the sky is falling, and their filing lawsuit after lawsuit because they want the border to remain open. they want to have boys playing in girls sports, and they want to spend money on things that people think are ridiculous, these transgender comic books, operas, surgery and foreign countries, all these things are wrong. any time president trump does anything, they call it a constitutional crisis. that is swamped talk. president trump ran to drain the swamp, that's what he's doing. he wants to keep money in the american people's pockets. he knows that is the way to keep

prices down, to fight inflation. that's what he's committed to do. that's what republicans are committed to do. you pointed out, shannon, that the democrats have been now screaming to shut down the government, not because they want to help the american people, not because they want to help our men and women in uniform or veterans. they want to do it to obstruct president trump. he would senator, what about what senator kaine pointed out, worries about the va clinics in head start programs and student assistance? if they so much lashing going on, he has a real concern it's being done in a rather indiscriminate manner that is hurting american people. >> sen. barrasso: i think what we have seen from the d.o.g.e. is that there is massive waste and fraud in government spending. we need to make sure that the money is spent wisely and we have seen it has been spent indiscriminately. government is too big. it spends too much. when it does that, that drives up prices on american families. so we need to cut through the waste we see that the democrats

continue to defend. when we talk about research to cure cancer, liberal universities with billions of dollars of endowments get money and 70% of that money for research goes to overhead slush funds. that's wrong, and i think what we are finding with muskets and with d.o.g.e. is that there is waste, fraud, and abuse, this might be the tip of the iceberg. people here in wyoming the book president trump is doing. they think he's heading in the right direction. they know that we have a small government, a more efficient government. it's better for the economy if people at home in america. spewing usaid, their concerns about cuts they, being with a sledgehammer rather than a scalpel. politico says this, critical u.s. food and medical assistance to the world's poorest countries is in getting through. organizations that deliver the aid say they aren't getting paid, by laying off workers and they can't get information from the u.s. agency for international development. i brought this up with

speaker johnson last week. it doesn't sound like whatever the confusion there for critical and life-saving treatments and aid has been ironed out. i've talked to people and some of these agencies. they're not doing anything to do the cultural wars or any of that kind of stuff. they worry about all the stuff that having to lay off. more important, the end consumer, people who see u.s. diplomacy and goodwill worked through these programs that have now disappeared. >> sen. barrasso: i talked to the secretary of state, marco rubio, about this next to mike last week. you know this, the american people are the most giving, generous, caring, compassionate people in the world. for years we have contributed around the world and save millions of lives. usaid has gone rogue. they need to be reined in. anytime we took a look at their funding, what we see is a put ua brick wall pit they been funneling money to things american people to want to go to over the years. some of the favorite liberal causes skin money off the top.

the massive reform at usaid. i think he needs to be put into the secretary of state's office so we can make sure that human needs around the world are met, but these wasteful programs are smoothed away. in addition to this, you look at the united nations and the money we spend there, that has turned into a gender and climate organization. it's in everything. i think of to take a serious look about the money we spend with the united nations, as well. >> shannon: while d.o.g.e. is playing this outcome of their concerns. i want to play something from senator maggie hassan, who echoed a concern that senator kaine brought up. >> if this committee and president trump actually wanted to reduce waste and fraud, they would work together to support and inspectors general. inspectors general are indispensable watchdogs to identify multi-million-dollar overpayments to big corporat corporations, exactly what elon musk claims he wants to root out. >> shannon: inspectors general

are the eyes and ears for u.s. lawmakers about what's going on inside of these agencies. we talk about the 17 or so who were fired, and the claims that it is not done in accordance with the law, the ef passed on capitol hill. are you confident they will be reinstated, that somebody will replace them at least so you have that accountability anymore neutral fashion from these i gs? >> sen. barrasso: the american people deserve accountability and going to get it. the president had a right to do what he has done, and i'm going to continue to support the efforts to have inspector general general's who actually do the work that is needed, not to protect what's happening within some of these agencies. because when you look about this massive amount of government spending that has gone on, and the waste and fraud and abuse, this has happened with those inspector general's in place. i think we need to do job of that. >> shannon: i want to make sure we touch on tariffs bay lendingtree did an analysis of the state that would be hit hardest by the various tariffs the president has proposed. in many of them, this feature

deadline. as might be a period of negotiation. but they found wyoming ranks number eight when it comes to how you be impacted. how concerned are you about the potential impact on your constituents who are already, like all americans, struggling with grocery prices, inflation, that kind of thing? your reaction to the tariffs with that in mind? >> sen. barrasso: i'm in wyoming now, i was at the grocery store yesterday and i talked to people in wyoming every single day. president trump is right in saying that he wants to protect american workers and strengthen our economy. it just about every speech he gave while running for election, he mentioned tariffs, so this should surprise no one. tariffs will hold others accountable. this is about putting america first, and tariffs can be used as a tool and as a threat to make sure that we get the kind of proper treatment from other countries. president trump also said he was going to use tariffs and he's using them right now to secure the border from the north and the south and to prevent illegal

immigrants coming in, as well as to prevent the fentanyl that's killing a thousand people a week in the united states. so the people of wyoming are fully in support of the efforts of president trump to strengthen our economy, strength in america, and put america first. >> shannon: senate majority whip john barrasso, thank you very much for your time. we will see you soon. >> sen. barrasso: thank you, shannon. see when the trap administration taking legal action against sanctuary states at the president now faces dozens of lawsuits over his new policies. plus, gentlemen, start your engines. we will take you live to theging daytona 500, straight ahead. ♪ ♪ ]res build their wealth the same way, you have... the fearless investor. the type a cpa. the boot strapper. the boot maker. hee-ha. but many do have something in common. we all trust schwab with our wealth. thanks to our award-winning service, low costs and transparent advice, every day, over a million multi-millionaires, trust schwab with more than three trillion dollars

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that's something i want to believe. [skateboard sounds] >> everyday people who are here, moving to be documented, if they're going to school, working, paying taxes, should be able to be bride services. children should go to school. >> i think it's sanctuary of criminals. i'm strictly against sanctuary city status because i think it's for criminals. >> shannon: new york city mayor eric adams appearing on "fox & friends" with tom homan this week. is pledging to cooperate with i.c.e. in efforts to apprehend certain dangerous migrants, but

this weekend the cities also planning to take legal action and sue the trap administration about funding. also on friday, federal prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss corruption charges against mayor adams, sparking some doj resignations paid a lot to unpack. back now with the panel. this idea that the trump administration does this is executive order day when it to go after the century cities. here's here's the attorney general pam bondi. >> if you don't comply with federal law, we will hold you accountable. we did it to illinois, strike one. strike two is new york. and if you are a state not complying with federal law, you are next. get ready. >> shannon: olivia come some of this is civil in nature, but their rumblings about possible criminal cases against some of these officials. >> olivia: certainly. we saw some of this action in 2017, but all -- not all those answers have been resolved. some did not reach the supreme court. but it looks like pam bondi, the

attorney general, believes that the supreme court will side with them in this case. it depends how long it takes them and whether they take it up. but we are at a pretty interesting juncture, because the trump administration is showing -- even if they don't win a case, they are showing the going to be very aggressive in going after some of the state like they are with new york. now eric adams is very interesting case because they are reserving the right to go back after him after the 25 mayoral elections. so in that case it is also leaving questions open to whether he might be bending even more to their push on immigration in the state many otherwise previously would. >> shannon: i wonder if the messages getting to california. we have this report from politico, california governor gavin newsom is vowing to veto a democrat led bill that would limit state prison officials cooperation with federal immigration agents to senate president donald trump promises mass deportations. josh, we always have to think about where governor newsom is thinking, not just the immediate future but long term, too.

but he is sort of trying to walk this fine line on this issue. >> josh: there could be shades of 20 2028 per share. putting that aside, this has been telegraphed from before inauguration. tom homan said he be in chicago on day one and day to come and he was. this is going to be a continued friction point. the one thing that remains, simply the scale of deportations that the trump administration is going to pursue. they focused the lens in the last couple of weeks on the most extreme cases, violent cases, making sure they have arrangements with other countries to accept migrants. the question is how broad this goes in scope. moon watching in particular because business groups are watching it. really large numbers of people and curtailing legal migration starts to be an economic impact. right now it's a jump ball. we just don't know. i think is interesting he's been focusing on more of a targeted approach. so we see these high-profile clashes with prominent democrats. ask course i expect to continue

to see that. but how he will go on these deportations, seems like the window shifting a little bit. >> shannon: from deportation to federal workers to d.o.g.e., all of these things, there are numerous court battles. but as written in "the wall street journal," the team has been preparing for this. the president's forces has spent years analyzing what went wrong and devising plans to avoid a repeat, referencing first-term pay she says bottom line to trump legal team is far better prepared than it was eight years ago to defend itself in court. juan, they know some of what they're trying is going to be a legal test case. they putting it out there, flooding the zone, and it looks like lottie's court battles will take some time. >> juan: right, and i think that's to their advantage. but the constitution is clear. it's as if separation of powers and said that the courts are the ultimate arbiter. the courts will decide what is constitutional. and i think what we are seeing from the trump administration is that they are willing to say, we are going to obey the courts eventually, because the concern now in washington is -- we heard

some words from the administration officials about not obeying the courts. they are saying, we will obey the courts, but we are counting on running out the clock. this is festival season. let me use that basketball term. just run out the clock until the courts have to rule, and until then, his executive orders will hold. >> shannon: unless they're on hold by some of these nationwide injunctions and other things judges and entered. >> mollie: some of them are a form of welfare to constrain the executive branch from controlling the executive branch. this is a really interesting constitutional issue. in our constitution we have three branches of government. the legislative county executive, and the judiciary. but in the last 100 years we have built up this fourth complete the unconstitutional branch of government, and unaccountable permanent bureaucracy that is beholden to no one. what the trump administration is trying to do here is say, actually, the only way this works constitutionally as is all these bureaucrats in the executive branch have to answer to the executive authority who is elected by the people.

so this really is a battle for democracy, whether you have accountability for these unelected officials who count in the millions, by the way. millions of federal employees, millions of contractors. >> juan: is in the congress elected by the people and doesn't the congress in fact have some authority in terms of the spending and how money is spent and what these agents -- the oversight of these agencies connect that's my concern. of course the president is elected. we can argue about the mandate or not. but the congress has legitimate function and he is ignoring th them. >> mollie: actually grew this. congress is the article one authority here. but what is not in authorities is unaccountable deep state bureaucracy that has controlled things regardless of who is elected. >> shannon: i want to see which of these gets to the supreme court and how quickly. we'll cover it free once they do. panel, thank you very much. see you next sunday. up next year going to take you south to one of nascar's biggest races of the year, the daytona 500, where president trump is expected to make an appearance today. we will take you there live,

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daytona 500 means the start has been moved up an hour. fox news contributor joey jones is at the racetrack with an inside look for us. before we get to the green flag. hey, joey. >> hey, listen, it's a great day. we've got the sun coming in every now and then, there are some clouds. fox sports know what to do. they moved it up an hour. the television audience, the hundred thousand or more people here are going to get to see a race -- >> shannon: joey, we understand there's going to be a special guest today. what more do we know about that? to go out till you come i'm not quite as it is to have because you have a lot of fans here waiting to hear it, but the word is president trump is going to be here. we had to come to secret service and tsa to get in, so i was a likelihood, the thermostat is pretty hot right now for president trump to be here. we are hearing rumors, he might take to be set on the track, he might tell them to start their engines. we are hearing he might get into one of the race cars and is win the race real quick because all he does his win. but i think ultimately he will

be right around where we are right now saying hello to some folks. like i said come he might even get out on the track. >> shannon: i'd love to do that, too. i operate sometimes as a nascar driver, but i'm nothing like this in the speech liquid hit there. i've been to a number 8 to of races, but to be there is an electric thing. it's him is like your eyes can't believe the speed of what you're seeing with these cars. how are folks feeling leading up to the race today? >> we have talked to several drivers today. it is so funny, because this is one of the races -- basically all the cars go the same speed, so where are you in line and when you get out of line, they draft, so there's a lot of thought that goes into it, but even though the lower funded teams have a chance to win, and every single one of them, they're basically saying, i hope i don't reckon i am there at the end. every driver believes that they are there at the end they have a chance to win. >> shannon: i think my car has a restriction on it, too, sadly. thank you for the inside scoop. good to see you there. be sure to tune in on your local

fox nation for the daytona 500, starting a little bit early because of the weather. 1:30 p.m. eastern. the president will be dropping in at some point. that's it for us today to thank you for joining us. i'm shannon bream. have a great week. we will see you next, on "fox news sunday" ♪ ♪ mmmm... planet oat's so creamy and not watery like- exactly! and unsweetened has 0 grams of sugar. and don't forget, it's an excellent source of calcium. ♪ wow! planet oat really has it all... you guys are so right! no you are. no you are. no you are. yeah, you are. ♪ a new year and a new adventure, with the perfect chevy to take you anywhere.

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