she went to ghana and thought she could get away but that. >> lawrence: i don't think it will happen.e honored with marine corps for action on new york subway and it will be a service and sacrifice award. tell us about it. >> daniel penny did what most people would not have the nerve to do. he stood up and when prosecuted, i think the joe illegally, by ada who has political operative and at the cafe hopeless thinking about taking anyone out, it should be the d.a. when he did was he not only saved the lives of people on the train, he stood up and was prosecuted for two years. thank goodness and by the way, his two attorneys penny and razor honored at this event in massachusetts. he change the culture of the city and not only changed a lot in terms of people standing up and say, "we can't defend each other and we can be good samaritans." i did something called subway justice where i talk about daniel penny and what he did and we compared it to bernie katz years ago. both tried in the same courthouse some 40 years later. god bless daniel penny for what he did and he should be a hero and

meanwhile she's trying to defend yourself when the fires broke out she was on a trip to ghana now shego it didn't reach that level to say something terrible can happen and maybe you shouldn't go on a trip. i don't know i think that's one of the things that we need to look at. investigations are taking place. one internal to the city that's a fire commission and the governor contracted with the fire safety research institute. >> she said she's trying to work on regaining the confidence of residents of los angeles but i'm not sure how you gain the confidence whenever caruso whose foundation is getting people new homes fully funded three homes will have a place to live she's not doing that. >> what kind of an explanation is that i was not told and never got to me. i spoke with rick caruso he was on the program last week and he said the warnings were loud and often it was a clear commentary saying the fires are coming and we will have a bad situation before she left for ghana now she said were investigating that she is investigating why nobody told her not to go to ghana. >> this is a fai

why were you in ghana in the first place. what business does the la mayor have in ghana?py with what doge is doing because they're uncovering waste, fraud and abuse, and i would say that the mayor of la going to a celebration during fire season is a good example of waste, fraud and abuse. california is a poster child for it. good luck with your image, la mayor karen bass, when you've got democrats and celebrities coming out against you, boy, that's when you know it's bad. stuart: tomi lahren, you're all right, we'll leave it at that. i've got to get to this. the epa recently discovered the biden administration awarded $2 billion to a climate group with ties to the former georgia gubernatorial candidate stacey abrams. lauren: and she was a staunch supporter of president biden the entire time. in the name of climate group is power forward communities. annual revenue, $100. they got a $2 billion money from the epa. the current epa administrator lee zeldin says it's part of biden epa $20 billion gold bar scheme, which rushed billions in green funding out the door in biden's f

we need to research institute to tell us why she should not have gone to ghana? the decision to go to ghana because the biden administration wanted her to go to the inauguration of the president there. investigation closed. 16,000 homes have been burnt, 57,000 acres, and that pch is still closed. investigation about her trip. we should be for u.s. over that -- furious -- you've seen the come apart over those d.o.g.e. cuts. now jfk -- a new complaint. >> d.o.g.e. in the white house shot down the jfk library. you would never know that we sent a man to the moon if the library was not open. it's time to speak out and resist what's happening. >> laura: why does he talk like this? werenski cap and everyone will think i'm smart or cool. have we not retired the dirty ski cap look? is that still something? i thought that in a man bond were out. >> apparently in some sectors they are still in but here's the kicker. the library is back open. it was closed for one day because you would never note jfk sentiment to the moon, forget the published books about the kennedys but it

. >> she went to ghana on this trip and had to come back from that trip.s like this until now, one month after the fires, so clearly she is changing her communication strategy and hopefully she starts talking more because she has been quiet. >> trace: final thoughts on this caroline? >> i completely forgot about the fact that she went to ghana not only that, she came home and reporters were doing their job asking her if she had a message to the people and not one word. >> trace: big mistakes all around, thank you both. meantime in hannity's interview with trump and elon musk, elon musk mentioned the way to save taxpayer monies through competence. what do you think? has he been true to these values so far? let us know! we are back with a nightcap crew including you! next. (♪) i had the worst dream last night. you were in a car crash and the kids and i were on our own. that's awful, hon. my brother was saying he got life insurance from ethos. and he got $2 million in coverage, all online. life insurance made easy. check your price today at ethos.com. enjoy y

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. >> what was the thought process behind going to ghana? >> me tell you a couple of things.use called and asked me if i would represent the president, i said yes, it was going to be a short trip. over a weekend, two business days. we need to look at everything about the preparation and all that for the fires, because i think when we evaluate that, we will find that although there were warnings that i frankly wasn't aware of, although there were warnings, i think our preparation wasn't what it typically is. >> what do you mean there were warnings you weren't aware of? i know we were talking about it on the news. a lot of people were talking about the problems, warning this would be huge. >> when i talk about it with the fire chief, what she said it is we have warnings of santa ana windows a lot, but predicting this -- and you saw, it was from the city, the county. that level of preparation really didn't happen. it didn't reach that level to me to say something terrible could happen, and maybe you shouldn't have gone on the trip. i don't know. i think it's one of the things we

they know that there is no value for them in a $100,000 de i survey in ghana.y know that there is not value for them spending $520 million to pay esg consultant to teach people in africa about diamond change. also, what is extremely telling to all of us is the amount of grant recipients who are not asking for waivers. they know that the gig is up and do not even want to try and justify what it is that they have been doing. the way that they were grafting off of americans who are going to work in each and every day. what is not surprising is that my colleagues have tried to lie to american people saying that people are dying. we have for that argument before again and again. my colleagues have said about 10 times at least in this hearing that there is an elderly lady in thailand who died because they could not get her the oxygen she needed because america cut off aid. let's tell the truth about what really happened. the ngl who was providing oxygen international rescue known as irc, their ceo has a salary of about $1.2 million a year. that iso the theft, the lar

patients in africa and school girls in of ghana, stan and security partners and ukraine are all immediately losing the u. s. assistance that they have grown to depend upon a democratic members of congress who joined the congress, told me that this is harmful, not only to those people around the world, but to american interest as well. and what people in america have to understand it's doing damage to us. here it's our health. a bowl is breaking out again. that's a threat to us here we start with cold. how much more do we have to know about a pin demick and the threats of the how much, what do we have to know? people are worried about immigration migration. how much this goes to solve those problems. and just basic. sure humanity, people are starving right now. now, as far as what can be done about it, this has never happened before. so there is no resistance playbook. democrats in congress are vowing a court battle, and they say they may use upcoming votes on the budget as the leverage. meanwhile, the aid workers and their supporters say there is no time to waste as more damage is being inf

mayor bass, who was also criticized for being on a trip to ghana when the fires broke out, blamed chief crowley for not warning her about the extreme fire danger. >> every time there was a weather emergency or even a hint of a weather emergency, the chief has called me directly. she has my cell phone. she knows she can call me 24/7. that did not happen this time. >> reporter: but in the aftermath of the fires, it was crowley who criticized the city's funding of the fire department. >> did they fail you? >> yes. >> reporter: and david, crowley has decided to exercise her right to stay at the department but at a lower rank. we have reached out to her for comment but haven't heard back yet. david? >> david: kayna whitworth in los angeles. >>> tonight, one month into president trump's term, tonight the heated moments in states across this country. voters packing town halls face-to-face with republican members of congress. what americans are saying about the president and about elon musk. and the new "washington post" poll late this week on the key issue of this election, prices and the econ

in the 19 ninety's and to war ravaged countries including sudan, bosnia and jeff ghana state, as well as natural disasters owns among the most significant and successful humanitarian programs administered in large part by u. s. a. d. is the president's emergency plan for aids, really, or pep? far the brainchild of president george w bush. it manages prevention treatment and health care system strengthening with a major focus on sub saharan africa. since 2003, the program is estimated to save 25000000 people from dying of h i. v. aids. on friday, a worker was seen covering up the us a the emblem at its headquarters in washington, with black plastic tape, rob reynolds, l. g 0 of donald trump assigned that executive or cutting or aid and assistance to south africa. and you, this week he threatened to cut off funding and response to a land reform at which he claims constitutes discrimination against the nations white minority, south africa, boston new last month designed to address racial inequality is in the land ownership. the date back to the apartheid era president serve on post says

we know that there were lives told about of ghana. stan, i'm on a rack and i ran and as an american citizen, i can tell you for a long time, there's been just trust about the military industrial complex. it isn't just ukraine, but this proxy war against russia. ukraine was actually started, i think as far back as obama. so i think when you follow the money, you want to go all the way back to the obama administration and equipment foundation. you want to start there and then move forward because you're going to see a lot um as you recall victoria newland but her cookies. she didn't just have cookies . she had millions of dollars in her suitcases. i'm sure. and allegedly, she was quite involved with the regime change in 2014, one of donald trump's big pledges was he was going to end the war in 24 hours. obviously that's not happening. we now hearing that it's likely to be 100 days. this is coming out from keith kellogg. do you think that don't move from is really aiming to bring peace to ukraine and if so, how do you think that's going to go down without military industrial complex is hugely

actually i felt a spiritual calling to come to ghana. i wasn't has any at the time. and i had a friend who was here and i was like, i'm coming to new poetry and photography book and i need a partner. can you connect me with a reliable man who can assist me? and that reliable man became as soon to be has been reliable. we have a daughter together, i gave birth here and got it. and that's also a thing like when i gave birth here, people were like, why didn't you go back to the us to give birth? and i'm like, this is an ancestral moment for me and my lineage. i'm the 1st and my family to come back of the 1st and my whole when even when i went back home, they were asking me questions about africa. none of them have ever come have a we have even decided to live and now i have my, my brother and my sister are come in. i got my auntie and cousin company. now their minds are also opening up as well. when you think about going to the us, you don't realize if you go that you give birth, who was helping you. everybody is working, you won't get your auntie to come and help you w

mayor karen bass is investigating the decision she made to head to ghana days before the l.a.also wants people to open her brain to find out why she is so. [ bleeps ] stupid. >>> delta is reporting offering passengers on the toronto flight that flipped outside down during landing, $30,000. your is the first passenger accepting the money. >>> researcher say flushing a public toilet releases a cloud of airborne bacteria that can reach deep into your lungs. crazy. who has ever actually flushed a public toilet. >>> and finally, would be goldberg says they should cut funding to space ask because the government already has nasa. by that logic we should cut the view because we already have animal planet. let's do some stuff. we all know the story of robin hood. stole from the rich and gave to the pour. him and his band of merry men hung out in the woods wearing tights and eating apples. like the summer i spent with rfk. but another gave a funny accent wants to do the whole robin hood thing in america. musk is considering a dividend. refund checks funded by the money they are saving u

found tom hoover who played 3 years in the nba back in the 1960's de anza high school in richmond, ghanaot to pitch a computer game to these players. that's the nba's in >> and all-stars. see, and they will never get a chance to get to a game. so we decided to come to them and bring them program that we've been doing. we've insist this program. esports is everybody plays the game, but they don't know how to put the game together. goes on to the hood and that's what we have to intend on doing. it really gets them to work as a team which you play basketball. you don't play so it's a team and it kind of thinking outside the box a little bit, which i love that allows them to go on tap into their imagination. >> do all kind of different things. so we actually love this program. >> very, very cool with the game in camp was also put on by game heads, which is a nonprofit out of oakland kron four's. sara stinson is going to be highlighting their work in our black history. special. >> on top of all-star weekend, this weekend to make a getting to the parade a little bit easier. you should take adv

have a bucket list of travel and absolutely want to go to africa i want to go to africa and go to ghana through the don't ever no return it is important for spiral kind of way to know that my ancestors went through that door and literally turned i wanted to go through the door of no return. and who made it and we survive. >> i guess mine is simpler i want to see the northern light and want a grandchild that is far away i'm already seven 7 my daughter has no interest at all that but i'm interested in my grandkids i was 50 before had we adopted our daughter from an older parent and we have friends with grandchildren and great grandchildren at the end of the day, if if i go to bed happy and consent and have a connection with friends and family and joy know i've done the best i could that's my milestone. >> jimmy you mentioned wanting to go to guatemalan in a - i came back in 2020 and 6 weeks later we were in lock down and thank god i went to guatemalan in a and discovered so many things the feeling of seeing people that look like me and have been to beautify music and clothing and just the

and went to ghana even though there were many warnings about fires coming to los angeles. >> it was goingess days. although there were warnings that i wasn't aware of, although there were warnings i think our preparation it wasn't what it typically is. >> what you mean there were warnings you weren't aware of. >> it didn't reach that level to me to say something terrible can happen and maybe you shouldn't have gone on the trip. i think that's one of the things we need to look at. >> she had to have known that this is the question that was going to be the question. there's the timeline that shows all of the warnings. >> if the new york giants can get out quarterback neck and pass the ball as well as she can pass the buck... you knew this was coming, he left anyway. when they launch an investigation it's an effort to avoid accountability, it's embarrassing. >> can she survived his? >> it will be very difficult. there are lots of liberals out there who are having remorse about this whole thing and wanted the apology and the empathy from the get-go. people will look at that interview on the t

mayor bass is admitting it was a mistake for her to go to ghana. you're a californian.ship changes in california, or are voters finally waking up to the fact that democrats cannot lead? >> well, look, i've been running an organization called fix california for the haas four years registering conservatives that have been sitting on the sidelines, people frustrated and ap a nettic. and over the last four years because of donald trump we've seen a lot of people in california get really excited. so i think the fires, the crisis, the constantly pockily city from gavin newsom and the one-party control in sacramento, people are getting really angry with it. i think there's a real chance to do something different. remember, los angeles county is not only the largest county california expect largest city in california -- and the largest city in california, but it's the large county in america. if you flip los angeles county, you not only flip california, you could change the whole presidential map just by flipping los angeles county. that's what we've been concentrating on for t

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she was asked by the white house to attend an inauguration for ghana's president. >> the white houseyes. it was going to be a very, very short trip. >> what do you mean? there were warnings you weren't aware of? because i know we were talking about it on the news. a lot of people were talking about the problems. >> it didn't reach that level to me to say something terrible could happen. and maybe you shouldn't have gone on the trip. >> mayor bass returned to los angeles the day after the palisades fire started. she says the l.a. fire chief did not warn her in advance of dangerous fire conditions. she plans to find out why those normal preparations weren't made. >> all right, back here at home, let's turn things over to steve paulson here at 8.39 in the weather center tracking your local forecast. >> i am indeed, this tenuous rope of a system is making its move. i think it's already gone through mendocino county. it's in lake napa county. also sonoma down into marin and south of that, there probably won't be much, but a 10th of an inch might cover it for some. but i know casadero russ

. >> sarah, it is cold here in ghana sierra. but i'll tell you, it is a chilly night.e get the frost advisories freeze warnings, all of that's in effect overnight tonight into tomorrow morning. but you know what? all the recent snow has really improved the snow pack across the sierra. now we're actually above average in the northern sierra still work at some deficits for the central and southern sierra. but we're getting there right. and we have more snow in the forecast. ski report, some heavenly. they're very happy. the skiers are delighted as we have not only 57 inches at the summit, but 7 inches of new snow. and so it goes resort after resort palisades reporting. lots trails lifts open and 17 inches of new snow. so it's fabulous. daytime temperatures across across lake tahoe. chilly enough to keep that snow from melting. so in the 30's to low 40's and yes, what the sierra forecast shows a lot of sunshine for tomorrow and the next and the next day. and then things will start to change even as a change here in the bay area. bay bridge on this side. well, again, it's

she next to africa and is in ghana is the first first lady to speak to a foreign which no one really knows and does a number of other global ambassador trips. then to your other point, china in 1972, this is a huge deal. president nixon with the help henry kissinger, they kind of help reestablish relations between communist china and our country. pat, by the way, has to fight to go on this trip, she says, i'm putting my name on the list because haldeman, the chief of staff, who i'm sure we'll talk about, did not really want pat to go or anywhere in to go on this trip. and pat as she does forcefully with haldeman now and then says, i will be going on this trip. and she goes and she is a huge hit with her panda diplomacy. so we talked about this earlier. so in one of the many dinners, the 12 course dinners they have with sal and ly, the chinese premier, she sees a tin of a cylindrical painted tin cigarets that has pandas on it. and she says, oh, i love meaning the pandas. and he says the premier says, well give you some. and she thought he meant just cigarets, but he means a pair of pa

apparently started an investigation into why she claims no one told her not to go on that infamous trip to ghanaad of the deadly firestorm. watch. >> it was going to be very, very short trip. over a weekend and two business days. although there were warnings that i frankly wasn't aware of, although there were warnings, i think our preparation it wasn't what it typical is. >> what dliewm are warnings you weren't aware of. i know we were talking about it on the news. >> it didn't reach that level to me to say something terrible could happen and maybe you shouldn't have gone on the trip. >> why did it happen? >> i don't know. that's one of the things we need to look at. >> the fire department is responding sternly to the mayor's claims she was not warned say the department fumbled all standard operating procedures quote prior to the palisades fire the lafd eghild separate media advisories, conducted multiple live and recorded media interviews about the predicted extreme fire weather and notified city officials about the upcoming weather event. the historic fires burned down entire neighborhoods for

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last time we checked in ghana, disabled vehicle on the san mateo. we past 40 minutes. they got off the bridge. now we're down 30's are still slow. still definitely give yourself some extra time. 15 along richmond center fell and the golden gate bridge about 35 minutes darya. james, back to you. >> 31 thanks. a letter team coverage continuing of the weather. it definitely looks yucky out there dangerous, >> but will tran has a of helping you got like guide you and make it look not so miserable. like almost kind of fun with some get out there live to belmont. good morning. well, >> why was thinking? because we use our phones it so much that, you know, i have to prepare for reporting in the rain. here's a pro tip. just get a sandwich bag. put your phone in it. it works. don't worry about you can still tap and move things around and save yourself a bill. i think it's too wet. so that's my pro tip. and another tip i want to pass along. leave your house a lot earlier because the damage already done. let me step out of the way and show you what's going on. here's southbound o

and you've to got karen bass out if in ghana for god nose why., so that's why they need this federal money, because they don't know how to manage a budget. rachel: right. they all are in the red there. it's a good point. donald trump also i blowing people's minds by renaming things, especially things that in this case, something that obama named. he took the name mckinley, made it denali, and now donald trump has put it back to mckinley. charlie, i mean, i don't really care about what the name is, but it's just sort of like what donald trump does, right? charlie: yeah. only b -- obviously, mount mckinley is the highest peak in the united states, named for president mckinley. one reason that i think president mckinley was sort of an expansionist and loved tariffs -- rachel: oh, now it's all coming together. charlie: so president trump really, really likes all of this. he also, of course, died by assassination which they failed to manage to pull off with donald trump. it's another one of these ways that -- first of all, he's undoing something that

coming down across parts of the bay area right now moving across san francisco in towards the east bay ghana have our full forecast in just a few minutes. today, 10% tariffs went on imports from goods from china, potentially driving up the cost on a range of consumer goods like cell phones, computers, furniture and clothing. now, china has threatened its own retaliatory tariffs that could take effect on monday. after months of backlash from community members, a safeway store in the fillmore district in san francisco is going to close on friday. yesterday. san francisco leaders heard from concerned residents who say a lot of people rely on the safeway. it's the only full-service grocery store in the neighborhood. they say much of the community is low income and closing the store will have drastic consequences. safeway which owns the property was not present at the meeting. >> also rain and the bay means fresh snow in the mountains. we'll take a look at current we'll take a look at current conditions. i guess what i'm looking for from you is, i mean, i know how the fire affected me, and there'

mayor karen bass says she's investigating the decision she made to head to ghana days before the l.a. fires. she also wants doctors to open her brain to find out why she's so stupid. delta is reporting offering passengers on the toronto flight that flipped upside down during landing $30,000. here's the first passenger accepting the money. >> oh my god. >> researchers say that flushing a public toilet releases a cloud of airborne bacteria that can reach deep into your lungs. i know, crazy. i mean, who has ever actually flushed the public toilet? and finally, whoopi goldberg says doge should cut funding to spacex because the government already has nasa. by that logic, we should also cut the view, since we already have animal planet. all right. thank you. let's do some stuff. so we all know the story of robin hood stole from the rich, gave to the poor. he and his band of merry men hung out in the woods eating apples and wearing tights. it was just like that summer i spent hiking with rfk. but now another guy with a funny accent wants to do the whole robin hood thing right here in america

of ukraine for their resources that the west has typically done in the congo or done throughout in ghanantry. they're doing it now. >> well, and they're and. >> they're doing it without apology. right. vladimir putin, when he first. invaded ukraine this time around, because he's been doing this for taking pizza pieces of ukraine for a while this time around, said, oh, this is all because ukraine. >> dared to. >> join or try to join nato. and it's this united states and all these european countries. who think they won the cold war. >> how dare they. >> think they won the cold war? right. >> so this. >> is this is just this. existential thing in. putin's mind. >> that. >> it's him against the west. so then to see. >> what we used. >> to. >> call. >> the leader of the free world, the united states, sitting at a table with saudi arabia, you know, an autocratic regime, a monarchy and putin like that. these are the countries that now the united states is sitting with, pushing. >> our allies aside. >> right. >> pushing that. >> entire history, that post-world war two history. >> pushing all of

enslaved individuals from ghana fought against their enslavingment on the island of st. john -- enslavement on the island of st. john and became the first organized armed resistance in the western hemisphere against enslavement. they held that island for almost a year until the danes working with the spaniards, the french and the british were able to overthrow them. the organizers of that rebellion chose collective suicide rather than go back to slavery. in 1848, on the island of st. croix, those enslaved organized themselves, rose up and took their freedom. our freedom was not given to us by any individual or any government. we took it for ourselves. that is the legacy from which i come. and as a daughter of the virgin islands, i will continue that fight. the virgin islands has held five constitutional conventions since its acquisition by the united states in 1917. yet no constitutional drafts have been approved since 1977. you know, personally i believe some of the issues that we put in our constitution are issues that were never resolved by denmark when we became part

bridges coaches and builds identity by taking youth and adult chaperons on life changing journeys to ghana africa. his work extends far beyond this initiative he has spearheaded programs like genesis academy a journey to self-discovery youth career academy blow up girls group body engineer fitness community essential relief and neighborhoods united each of these programs reflects his deep commitment to mentoring guiding and supporting over 300 youth and their families particularly in the bayview. officer jay's impact is immeasurable. he is a mentor, a role model and a beacon of hope for countless young people thriving to see beyond their circumstance choices and reach their full potential. his dedication to fostering self-discovery, career development and community engagement is a testament to his belief in the power of transformation and collective progress as we celebrate black history month we recognize offer jay's officer jj as a modern day changemaker someone who is not only shaping the present but laying the foundation for a future where every young person has the opportunity to rise

have a bucket list of travel and absolutely want to go to africa i want to go to africa and go to ghanan't ever no return it is important for spiral kind of way to know that my ancestors went through that door and literally turned i wanted to go through the door of no return. and who made it and we survive. >> i guess mine is simpler i want to see the northern light and want a grandchild that is far away i'm already seven 7 my daughter has no interest at all that but i'm interested in my grandkids i was 50 before had we adopted our daughter from an older parent and we have friends with grandchildren and great grandchildren at the end of the day, if if i go to bed happy and consent and have a connection with friends and family and joy know i've done the best i could that's my milestone. >> jimmy you mentioned wanting to go to guatemalan in a - i came back in 2020 and 6 weeks later we were in lock down and thank god i went to guatemalan in a and discovered so many things the feeling of seeing people that look like me and have been to beautify music and clothing and just the sense of purpo

imagine the kind of person who takes the foreign service exam, and then says i want to work in ghana, i want to work in ecuador on behalf of this country. those are legit patriots, and they get deployed wherever they get deployed -- sent. i shouldn't say deployed. they try to dig in, their kid is going to the american school in whatever city, and it's challenging, but exciting. it's important. then they just get an e-mail saying, we're recalling you, and there's no choice. that's not an efficient way to do anything. that's just arson. mr. murphy: and they dressed that up for like two days, suggesting they were reviewing usaid for fishen sis -- efficiencies. for one day they said they were folding it into the state department because it would be more efficiently run inside the state department. that was never the plan, right? we just sort of have to call out the fabrication, right? the plan clearly from the start was to eliminate usaid, and they pretended, willfully pretended for a handful of days that the agenda was efficiency, when the agenda was in fact the wholesale elimination of

you have successful developing states like ghana and kenya.se middle class, new middle classes are ungrateful. they have more demands of government. there's nothing more unstable than an emerging. >> middle class. >> and so chaos is a factor, you know, in on many different levels around. >> the world. >> the new book, wasteland a world in permanent crisis, is on sale right now. bestselling author robert kaplan, thank you so much for coming on the show this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> take care. and ceo of own together, lauren leder, as always, thank you very much for being on this morning. still ahead, we'll play for you. defense secretary pete hegseth s new comments on ukraine's future as president trump floats potential ceasefire talks between russia and ukraine. plus, we'll get insight on the latest inflation data and how it could impact interest rates, as well as president trump's tariffs. morning joe is back in just a moment. >> introducing a revolution in pain relief. absorbing junior pro. the strongest numbing pain relie

a woman from ghana recently won the right to stay in britain after staging a marriage ceremony in ghanahat neither she nor her husband attended. francisca boateng won her immigration appeal after her union with a german man was deemed to be long enough to allow her to stay in the uk, even though they didn't attend the actual marriage ceremony. and a cuban woman, you might have read this in the newspapers, came to the uk on a visa to join her boyfriend, who had already died, despite having two appeals rejected after claiming she deserved indefinite leave to remain as a bereaved partner. the case rumbles on and the woman remains here in britain. and look, i know i'm sounding like a broken record, but you really need to know about this. just one more truly shocking case for you that dropped today. a paedophile from zimbabwe will be allowed to stay in britain because he would face hostility if he was dropped. sorry if he was deported back to his home country. an immigration tribunal judge blocked his deportation by the home office because it would breach his rights under article three of th