marc thiessen thanks so much. >> like a volunteer flag. >> brian: marc, fascinating time.ns and seeing you on the channel. good job. 25 minutes before the top of the hour. also on the president's agenda. national girls and women in sports day. and president trump is making good on his promise to fight for fairness and have women play against women when it comes to sports. can you imagine? ♪ >> janice: good morning. everyone, watching unfolding ice storm across the central u.s. where we have reports of ice on the roadways in kansas city. this is going to be ongoing throughout the day today and into tomorrow as this area of plosh crosses the great lakes, the ohio valley in towards the northeast. where we are going to get a mix of rain, freezing rain, and snow for millions of folks all up and down the i 95 corridor. there is your forecast today. that developing storm system. by the way, another one behind it, this weekend, effecting the same areas. we're also dealing with heavy rain long the coast, mountain snow for california. worried about the mudslide threat and we also ha

marc thiessen points out in a column, president trump is not the first one to shut down usaid.re was another president that wanted to do it named bill clinton, the secretary of state chris wilton ruled a couple of agencies at the state department. and marc thiessen rights 15 page single-spaced memo, the state department declared the current organizational structures and activities of the department and other foreign affair agencies increasingly redundant, bloated, and unresponsive to policymakers. not much has changed in 30 years, martha. >> no, warren christopher was on to this and that was back when it was okay to look under the hood of federal spending and often discussed by administrations on both sides. this horse is so far out of the barn. to watch how viciously democrats are trying to maintain -- imagine maxine waters this morning screaming outside of the department of education, which has spent $1 trillion since inception in its mission when it began less to squeeze the gap, the students on the lower end to catch up and be closer to the students on the higher end. does

reb rebuilding los angeles with newsom pushing trump for more federal aid, not sitting well with marc thiessen who joined us earlier. >> trump should say until you change your policy, not a dime for california. over a million people have left since the pandemic because of policy and gavin newsom are saying those million people who left need to pay taxes to rebuild california. instead mof spending billions, maybe clear reservoirs and brush. >> carley: army corps of engineer have begun second phase of removal in communities hit by the eaton fire. those are headlines. check in with janice dean for fox weather forecast. janice all decked out. >> janice: i will tell you about it, we have to do the weather first. was the groundhog right? if the northeast, i would say yes. ice storm across midwest, central u.s., mid-atlantic and northeast. i am concerned with icing on the road and power lines, it will be a mess later today and tomorrow. a quick you have mooer. f foxweather.com has details. another storm behind this one, this weekend affecting the same area. i am concerned with icing and could see bur

marc thiessen posted no idea why they lost.ty problems in trump's second term and one democratic congresswoman says the party has no co-herent message. a party struggling to decide what issues to prioritize and how to confront the trump administration. here is a quote. as democrats face the reality of president trump's second term they share a fundamental belief. this moment calls for an inspirational message from their party. they just can't decide what exactly that should be. power panel now. david christopher coffman "new york post" columnist and editor and jose, former democratic press secretary. jose, i start with you. mr. martin now heading up the d.n.c. how will he change things for your party? tell us about him. >> look, he is a pretty moderate democrat. he knows the operations of the dnc and knows how to run state parties. that matters. one thing is the messaging at the national level but the messaging at the state level is much more important. in the messaging or in the speeches that he gave right after his election h

. >> bret: i will say, matt, that marc thiessen pointed out that putting usaid under secretary of state of state warren christopher under president bill clinton. it's not to say that all the foreign aid is going to disappear. it's that secretary rubio is going to scrub what is real and what is not. >> i think that's exactly right. i do think that's such an important framing. not so much that foreign aid is bad. foreign aid should serve to uplift countries that need and it restore peace in the world. it shouldn't be about exporting a social agenda. that's so much of what we have seen of the expenditures from usaid. one of the most troubling expenditures from usaid is things like fundamental support to hamas and what the inspector general from afghanistan raised about essentially american tax dollars help reconstitute the taliban in afghanistan. if an organization has accidently funded terrorism, it should be paused. and it should be reconfigured to get out the waste, corruption, and abuse that we have seen from a lot of these programs. >> bret: all right. >> so lawmakers are trying to co

canadian company which has identified the minerals to the tune of $26 trillion and myself and marc thiessenpost we can take american taxpayers dollars off the table by using russian frozen assets and to using the rare-earth minerals as collateral for loans that clearly the ukrainians will be able to get back. president trump wants availability to invest in these as well all of that is possible going forward and begins to change the political dynamic intercountry in terms of continuing to provide assistance to ukraine financially, secondly it's unlikely we're going to make any real progress in negotiation until russia and ukraine sit down and talk to each other certainly general kellogg is talking to each in setting the condition for those negotiations. once a negotiation start hopefully will be able to make real progress. putin has yet to make up his mind the helicopter the negotiating table and president trump want to put pressure on him. maria: really interesting, there is iran developing nuclear missiles debate enter based on north korean designs that can reach europe, the resistance of

when as marc thiessen writes today with perspective. warren christopher, secretary of state under bill clinton was the first to say these guys are out of control. let's fold them into the state department. al gore was going to do it but got massive pushback from usaid okay we will fold. senator joni ernst said what are you spending your money on. you look as though you are not going for american causes. you are going for anti-american causes. they threatened her. they told her to back off. as peggy noonan writes she says of all the agencies being battered around this one the first one we'll recall the period in history u.s. agencies for international development some of whose line items spending devoted to cultural imperialism. you have seen the list. usaiddei musical in ireland and everything we just saw. when you look at what they're pushing in the world you think they are not fighting anti-american feelings. they are causing anti-american feelings. >> lawrence: ainsley, i'm stunned that they have allowed the republicans now to be the