andy mccarthy is with us now and good morning to you. he can win and where do you think he loses? >> well, i think the best thing he could have doan don in teeing up this fight is have the big spending fight over usaid. thomas jefferson and john marshall didn't agree about a lot and didn't like each other particularly but both agreed the president had authority over foreign relations. the president sets priorities including spending priorities for the conduct of american foreign affairs. so i think if you want to have a fight over what spending and resources the chief executive needs and have the president's power over that affirmed, i think that was the place to pick the fight on foreign relations. >> bill: let's rattle off a few things. a lot of activity over the weekend. jd vance said this on x. if a judge tried to tell a general thousand conduct a military operation, it would be illegal. if a judge tried to command the a.g. to use her discretion as a prosecutor that's illegal. amy klobuchar, senator from minnesota did just that. >> y

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what andy mccarthy said surprised movement he said he thinks trump has standing on all of this.d be a fight. could go on for a time. i always trust him. >> dana: we want to show you this. secretary of transportation sean duffy is visiting clyde, north carolina to the west of asheville, north carolina, still reeling and trying to build back after hurricane helene. this was a place where a lot of people lost their homes, lost their school and immediately upon taking office president trump said we will not let these people be forgotten so kristi noem was there. first of all the president went, vance went to the place in virginia and you have kristi noem visiting there last week and now secretary of transportation sean duffy trying to figure out how to deal with i-40. >> bill: vance went to palestine, ohio. they said they wouldn't forget about them. so far that's the case. trump administration now stepping up its showdown with the f.b.i. it is now accusing the bureau of leaking plans for an immigration crackdown in los angeles carried out by ice. david spunt working that story for u

making it seem like an fbi firing purge is imminent and fbi freakout is expected, but my colleague, andy mccarthypurpose of this agreement so to clarify the former memo which is to say that the doj is only interested in investigating the top decision makers in january 6th cases whereas the previous memo made it seem like any of the 37,000 fbi employees could be subject to a criminal probe on january 6 cases. and that's not what this agreement says -- howard: interesting. that's not the way it's been reported. lucy city, the if fbi goes after serious bad guys. we're talking about major criminals, public corruption, and trump wants to go after these agents in the media obviously siding with the agents no matter how many it turns out to be. >> i don't think that the media is siding with the agents, i think that the media with, many many members of the media are reporting on the fact that the trump justice department is doing a thing that really is cause for concern including pushing out a questionnaire nationwide to suss out which agents were assigned to take part in investigations including the jan