congressman brian fitzpatrick, served in ukraine, cochair of the problem solvers caucus. he's also the cochair of the ukraine caucus. it was so moving to hear from our front lines. i believe that him and congressman dan crenshaw where the first two members of congress i am aware of who went to ukraine after the illegal russian invasion. they went in their own capacity. i don't know how much they informed the embassy or not, but they were there. they got into ukraine and have been stalwarts for this fight for freedom. we will hear more about that. in the case of congressman dan crenshaw, i remember him running for congress the first time. he literally ran. i believe he ran the entire way across his district in texas and is still running and getting good stuff done. i commend his podcasts which unpacks a lot of issues and i believed i shared with our moderator one of those. over to you, sir. [laughter] >> how could i forget? congressman jason crow is the reason why i am here. he introduced me to benedict, the msc ceo. it was the former cochair of the four country caucus. he

. >> coming up next, a panel of bipartisan members of congress including gop representative brian fitzpatrick and democratic representative chrissy houlahan discussed working across the aisle, continued support for ukraine, and elon musk's department of government efficiency. politico held this discussion at the munich security conference. >> thank you for joining us. many of you have been here. i'm rye barcott, the ceo of w ith honor, fighting polarization in the united states congress. we do that by supporting veterans and servant leaders that are focused on being bipartisan and a time that is very difficult to do. what we found in the past seven years of this

brian fitzpatrick, from covering the hill, african pennsylvania, used to be an fbi agent, gave cbs atement i want to read here. he says he wants to emphasize to the administration, line level street agents have little to no control over the office to which they're sent, the cases to which they're assigned and leads which they're asked to cover. like the military they go where they are told and perform the investigative duties their chain of command orders them to do. i know you know this, but that is a republican explaining the basic function of how law enforcement works. it sounds like there's going to be pushback on the potential of these firings. >> yes, indeed. it's been reported by multiple media outlets that the acting director pushed back very hard and loudly against the doj request and reportedly he may have been threatened with termination himself. both the acting director and acting assistant director would be on that list. they both worked january 6 related cases or trump related cases. we have a potential standoff that's here, but yes, line agents did nothing outside of t

pennsylvania congressman brian fitzpatrick posting on x. we will use every lever and every vote at our disposal, regardless of the personal or political consequences. ukrainian leaders are frustrated after being excluded from talks between u.s. and russian diplomats earlier this week. but the white house insists kyiv will be part of the peace process. >> i used to be a divorce lawyer. you get the antagonistic couples in the room at the end, not the beginning. >> the trump administration is also pressuring zelensky to accept a rare earth mineral deal with the u.s. as repayment for billions in american aid. in washington, rebecca castor, fox news. >> all right, so starting as soon as today, the internal revenue service becomes the latest target of federal layoffs. in a dramatic reshaping of the government by the trump administration. sources say irs they could lose thousands of workers right at the start of tax season. according to the new york times, approximately 6000 people at the agency will lose their jobs out of about 100,000 staffers.

joining us are new york democratic congressman tom suozzi and pennsylvania republican congressman brian fitzpatrickthe house problem solvers caucus. thank you both for being here. you are from a district that kamala harris won in 2024. you are from a district that donald trump won in 2024. as a democrat, you wrote this op-ed in january saying let's try something different in how we deal with trump. every word he has ever spoken has been criticized. yet, he just won again. people are exhausted by the endless finger pointing and nitpicking and daily battle for political advantage. we talked about that. how do you see it shaping up at this point. >> the natural inclination take a punch at me i will take a punch at you. we have had enough in our country with everybody attacking each other. it's not easy right now because the president is doing a lot of stuff right now. coming at us like a fire hose. >> he wool not waste a single moment on delivering to our promises to the people. >> and people are concerned. they don't really know what happens going on. but, one of the things that brian and i have focu

pennsylvania congressman brian fitzpatrick posting on x. we will use every lever and every vote at our disposal, regardless of the personal or political consequences. ukrainian leaders are frustrated after being excluded from talks between u.s. and russian diplomats earlier this week. but the white house insists he will be part of the peace process. >> i used to be a divorce lawyer. you get the antagonistic couples in the room at the end, not the beginning. >> the trump administration is also pressuring zelensky to accept a rare earth mineral deal with the u.s. as repayment for billions in american aid. in washington. rebecca castor, fox news. >> starting as soon as today, the internal revenue service becomes the latest target of federal layoffs. in a dramatic reshaping of the government by the trump administration. sources say the irs could lose thousands of workers right at the start of tax season. according to the new york times, some 6000 people at the agency will lose their jobs. that's out of about 100,000 staffers. similar to layoffs

it includes representatives like brian fitzpatrick and don bacon, who both have a military backgroundmselves. and then there's senator thom tillis, who's generally an ally of president trump. take a listen to how he described this. >> whoever believes that there is any space for vladimir putin and the future of a stable globe, better go to ukraine. they better go to europe. they better invest the time to understand that this man is a cancer and the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime. vladimir putin is a liar, a murderer and a man responsible for ordering the systematic torture, kidnaping and rape of innocent civilians. believe me. >> now, that's not exactly a consensus opinion within the party. ali. there are others, like senator jim banks and josh hawley, who are effectively siding with trump on the on this the way he's trying to handle the war in russia and ukraine. this is where the rubber ultimately is going to meet the road. this is congress. the question is not are they going to put out some tweets and statements. it's will they act? will they use their article one powe

in just a few minutes ago, we heard from brian fitzpatrick, a republican member of congress, someone who is actually in office right now. and he wrote this extensive, long, long tweet so people could see, i think, his thinking on this. and to explain it, you know, it'd be too long for me to read all of it here. but what he says is there's an outcome determinative number of members in the u.s. congress, from bh parties and in both chambers who are ready, willing and able to do whatever it takes to prevent communist dictator vladimir putin from being rewarded for this illegal invasion. it just goes on here. we're starting to see republicans get angry about the language that the president is using. shermichael will we see more stand up? >> it depends. >> i think pence and haley aren't. >> really a factor. >> as it pertains to trump. if we begin to see john more members in the house and in the senate sort of come forward and say, mr. president, i think we should reassess our long term strategy here. i think that may have some impact. >> i agree. >> with the president that we don't want t