peter: in your court, u.s. district court of eastern district of new york is known as the mafia court. why is that? judge block: because, you know, we have jurisdiction over most of these cases. most of these folks were sort of born and raised in howard beach, part of queens, part of the eastern district of new york district -- distribution and a lot of them live in staten island and the murders and criminal activities came about in brooklyn, mostly, in the eastern district of new york and i think the bodies were buried here so we have jurisdiction over most of the mafia cases because of their connection they have to their residences and living patterns in the eastern district of new york, which consists of brooklyn, staten island, queens, and two long island counties suffolk and nassau county. so it's divided into 94 districts and it is basically a population oriented dynamic. in new york we have four of the 96 district court's. we have the eastern district, which i just mentioned, the southern district is man

peter: in your court, u.s. district court of eastern district of new york is known as the mafia court. why is that? judge block: because, you know, we have jurisdiction over most of these cases. most of these folks were sort of born and raised in howard beach, part of queens, part of the eastern district of new york district -- distribution and a lot of them live in staten island and the murders and criminal activities came about in brooklyn, mostly, in the eastern district of new york and i think the bodies were buried here so we have jurisdiction over most of the mafia cases because of their connection they have to their residences and living patterns in the eastern district of new york, which consists of brooklyn, staten island, queens, and two long island counties suffolk and nassau county. so it's divided into 94 districts and it is basically a population oriented dynamic. in new york we have four of the 96 district court's. we have the eastern district, which i just mentioned, the southern district is man

peter: how many words do you get per week? peggy: 1230. [laughter] peter: seriously? peggy: yes.nd i cut a column out of that. i am very conscious of it. but it is because i am in the saturday paper, which is more relaxed, gives you certain -- slightly more room. peter: what do you think of the placement and the saturday journal? peggy: i love it. it's in the wall street journal so you have those readers but you have them on saturday morning when everyone is relaxed and having a cup of coffee. i've been around so long people have my email address which i still have in they write to me and give me their opinion. peter: can you be anonymous on the streets of new york? peggy: yes, often. although it is the best of both worlds. movie fame is the mega fame you cannot escape. television fame is a mega fame. if you are a writer and a newspaper or magazine and you show up sometimes on talk shows, people will often recognize you but it is not like seeing movie stars and no one bothers you. and the people who do come up and say hello are normally just longtime readers and you have fabulous

peter: let's go back to 1978.e have some video we want to show with president carter, prime minister begin and anwar sadat. >> whenever there was a danger that human energy would fail or patience would be exhausted or good will would run out, and there were many such moments, these two leaders and their abel devisors in all delegations found the resources within them to keep the chances for peace alive. >> the signing of the framework for the comprehensive peace settlement has a significance far beyond the event. it signals the emergens of a new peace initiative with the american nation in the heart of the entire process. >> we will still have problems to solve. camp david proved had in any problem can be solved if there is good will and understanding and some -- some wisdom. stuart: let me give you a perspective on this. jimmy carter drafted -- no president in american history has ever done that kind of personal diplomacy. 22 separate peace agreements over 1 days. 22 personally. going from sadat and begin and the

peter: let's go back to 1978.e have some video we want to show with president carter, prime minister begin and anwar sadat. >> whenever there was a danger that human energy would fail or patience would be exhausted or good will would run out, and there were many such moments, these two leaders and their abel devisors in all delegations found the resources within them to keep the chances for peace alive. >> the signing of the framework for the comprehensive peace settlement has a significance far beyond the event. it signals the emergens of a new peace initiative with the american nation in the heart of the entire process. >> we will still have problems to solve. camp david proved had in any problem can be solved if there is good will and understanding and some -- some wisdom. stuart: let me give you a perspective on this. jimmy carter drafted -- no president in american history has ever done that kind of personal diplomacy. 22 separate peace agreements over 1 days. 22 personally. going from sadat and begin and the

peter bows there for us.fire the tower block down. prime minister. the charred remains of the tower block have stood message the top of grenfell " for ever grenfell tower reads "for ever in our and there are in. eur heefte“fifiefied there fiefe " fi " that in. eer heefte“fiefiee there ere " fi " that wanted to remain as a some that wanted to remain as a permanent memorial to the 72 people who lost their lives. it is the government's to dismantle it has met n v met with z met with some i met with some dismay. been met with some dismay. grenfell united, who represents many..- of grenfell united, who represents many.-- of those grenfell united, who represents many..- of those who died the tire. sage the tire. says ignoring the in the fire, says ignoring the voices of the bereaved is untargieabie. 7 77 7w7i7ll7be7a7 7 77o7fang7e|77.7 7 there will be a lot of anger. there will be a lot of anger. there is no doubt that. a zpeoélg7777777777 51:27: i . . . . 7777�*p7eople7thi7nk777777 7 77 77 7777�*p7eople7thi7nk7it7777 7 77

peter: i don't know jimmy. i know of jimmy. peggy: how? peter: well, he's quite well known.e's pretty well known. in some circles. just wanted to make that connection. what was your first political job? peggy: writing in the speech writing department for ronald reagan. i had never had -- peter: how do you go from fairley dickinson waitressing to the speech writing department of the white house? peggy: graduated college in 1974. knew i was a writer. but didn't know where i would ever fit in as a writer. i loved reading newspaper columns so i went to new york newspapers and said, hi, can i be a writer? i'll start anywhere but i'd really like to be a columnist. and they laughed and they said, honey, new york is where you end up if you've done well. new york is not really where you start out. and i thought, oh around this time i had just graduated college. a friend of mine wrote me a note from boston. she had just lost her roommate, that's data point one. data point two, after college, the way i was making my living was as a temporary secretary. there were such -- i don't know i

peter: how did it develop? louis: i trace the development of the mafia in volume one of the book of the trilogy which came about in sicily and i wanted to get deep into the socioeconomic routes of the mafia, where it began and to the best of my recollection a lot of historians say it comes from the middle ages and i have no evidence to support that. the best of his and i found was after the unification of italy in the 1860's, sicily was engulfed into the new nation of italy when the peninsula, which had been comprised of city states florence, venice, tuscany, becomes a unified italy and sicily is sucked into it and at some point, sicily felt italy was another overlord, they had already been ruled by the spanish, they had been ruled by throughout history different, the vandals, the french, the austrians. they felt that italy was just another overlord, basically ruling them, and they rebelled against this rule from italy. originally the government was based in children and then rome and the mafia started to emerg

peter -- [video clip] peter: this particular action is a drug war and what we've seen is a lot of clutching when this was announced but we've seen immediate results from mexico and canada. the mexicans have been very cooperative and senator -- excuse me, secretary of state marco rubio, love the guy, just -- and i want to talk about the broader trade team in a minute if you wouldn't mind. but he has done a very good job along with steven miller and personnel at d.h.s. going through a checklist of things we need from mexico. so we're making progress on that front hence the 30-day extension. prime minister trudeau, his initial reaction was kind of the similar reaction we got back during the first term is ok, we're going to tariff you if you tariff us and we'll go up that ladder and i think he looked at the problem and looked at what mexico is willing to do and came to understand this is a drug war and not a trade war. what the president is concerned about -- got the news yesterday, he was on the call. the president, part of the deal, we're getting a fentanyl czar and billions spent on this and

i'm peter lavelle . the russians and the americans have made it clear they want to normalize relations after the disastrous biden years. at this point, both appear committed to ending the conflict in ukraine. the europeans and the ukrainians are not at the table. neither are and the seat, the cross knocking the prospects for peace. i'm joined by my guess, got rid of in del mar. he's a former intelligence officer and united nations weapons inspector, and besides that we have peter because of the key is a professor of history at american university as well as co author with oliver stone, the untold history of the united states. and in berlin. we crossed the euro, she is a professor of political science as well as co director of the european democracy lab or across stock rules and effect. that means you can jump anytime you want. and i always appreciate, you know, it's god, you know, i'm, i don't really want to delve into the chat or on, on twitter. it is so nauseating, it is so beyond the point, it's all t

peter: u.s. not know what my government is going to be doing over the next year, but a huge piece of it is the u.s. skin in the game. a security guarantee that we would, as a minimum, backstop the europeans who are supporting , if you will, no desire to be in combat or anything like that. the ukrainians, if there is some so-called deal that gets at these issues of resources and everything else like that. the united states is critical to this. the russians will look at it that way. they see the united states also, god forbid, as an article 5 nuclear guarantor. what they want to do is fracture nato and break our relationship with europe on the military side. >> it was interesting to see donald trump say in the cabinet meeting earlier that if there were u.s. companies, u.s. personnel in ukraine as the result of a mineral steel, that would be a sort of guarantee. one question i want to ask you, and i do not think it has been explored much yet, is what are your contacts in the u.s. military thinking o

i hope that he has the vision to do exactly what peter said. i tend to doubt it, but that's what we can look forward to possibly. okay, in, in berlin, what are the europeans gonna stop talking about values and talk instead start talking about politics and geo politics? i mean, i, it's so exhausting. listening to these people. they don't, they never say anything crowd look, we have to have a meeting in paris. well, they decided to have another meeting after that meeting to plan another meeting. i mean, it's hard to take europe seriously. really. they can even seriously consider their own interests. well, you're asking the wrong person because i'm also hoping that they stop very soon talking moral and tomorrow's and instead of interest. yeah. but going back to the natal issue of the transatlantic relations being smashed. i mean, this is precisely the point. i totally agree with scott and was pete that we have a sort of really a breathtaking moment here to manage. and obviously as a european, we talk serenity. there is a question about where we li

ok, peter millett, former uk ambassador— work. 0k, peter millett, former uk ambassador to _ work. 0k,you 7 thank you much a libya, thank you very much a to us. were talking to us. while we were speaking peter millett you talking to us. while we were spe looking peter millett you talking to us. while we were spe looking at eter millett you talking to us. while we were spe looking at live millett you talking to us. while we were spe looking at live pictures )u are looking at live pictures from gaza. it is the refugee are looking at live pictures from located is the refugee of camp located in the middle of the strip and it is one of the gaza strip and it is one of the gaza strip and it is one of the live shots this is south of gaza. the rafah the south of gaza. the rafah between gaza and egypt crossino between gaza and eoyotss —~—— , we have been crossino between gaza and eoyots , , we have been watching crossino between gaza and eoyotss —~—— , we have been watching day and we have been watching day after day many lorries going in and bringing aid and and out, bringing aid and supplies i

peter: how did you find clara brown's story?haron: clara brown was somebody i came upon when i was reading newspaper accounts of other things that were happening during the colorado gold and silver rush. her name was mentioned in the newspaper. they referred to her as a former negro slave, that is how they referred to her in the newspaper, and yet here she was doing all this investing and owning all of these properties. i stumbled upon her name and begin doing some more digging. peter: in the chapter about bleeding kansas in the 1850's you open that section with this sentence. "many, many bad things in america lead back to my least favorite president, andrew jackson." sharon: he is my least favorite president. most people do have a least favorite president if you study history. there are many bad things that lead back to andrew jackson. it is almost six degrees of kevin bacon. that game where you can connect somebody to kevin bacon within six moves. it is almost like that. you can connect a lot of things back to andrew jackson i

peter. yes, this is clearly, there is a breach of fundamental breach at the bridge and in many ways that's as welcome and europe has been playing a subordinate role. your has victoria, along with us initiatives throughout the cold war and now in the post cold war. so this is a, a welcome moment. i'm not quite as optimistic as scott is about either the enduring impact or the positive attributes of this. i have a much more negative view of trump and scott says, add a new order could be much more along the lines of what musk with this fascist alludes and embrace the a f day or. busy or what the bands and the heck staff have been saying that i do support trumps initiatives when it comes to cutting nuclear weapons. i do support trump's initiative when it comes to reconciling the relationship with russia. i mean, i'm very, very glad to see this and support in strongly on this. and i think it is changing the global architecture, a fundamental change of a sort that we haven't seen, you know, the, wh

peter doocy live from the white house with the latest. >> peter: good morning, this is like in-person version of asking federal workers for five things they did last week. the president is having cabinet secretaries come in for the first time and he used a ton of political capital to get people he wanted to went for senate vote through. it is time to get to work and president trump wants to make sure everybody knows unlike the last cabinet meeting at the white house a few months ago, he will be in charge, the first lady will not. >> what are you expecting at the cabinet meeting tomorrow? >> the cabinet meeting, i'll preside, unlike biden, i'll preside over my own cabinet meeting. >> peter: tomorrow uk prime minister keir starmer will sit with president trump. then next day we expect return of zelenskyy to iron out details of the agreement where u.s. would get access to rare earth minerals and protect the parts of ukraine where rare earth minerals are located. >> is zelenskyy coming to meet with you? is mineral deal sorted out? >> i hear he's coming on and i understand it is a very big

peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schiff. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. mr. sheehy. ms. slotkin. ms. smith. mr. sullivan. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. senators voting in the affirmative -- alsobrooks, baldwin, bennet, blumenthal, blunt rochester, booker, cantwell, fetterman, gallego, gillibrand, hassan, heinrich, hickenlooper, hirono, kaine, kim, king, klobuchar, lujan, markey, merkley, murphy, murray, ossoff, peters, reed, rosen, sanders, schatz, schiff, schumer, shaheen, van hollen, warren, wyden. senators voting in the negative -- banks, barrasso, blackburn, budd, cotton, cramer, crapo, cruz, curtis, daines, ernst, fischer, graham, grassley, hoeven, husted, hyde-smith, johnson, justice, lankford, leigh, mccormick, moody, moran, moreno, mullin, paul, ricketts, risch, rounds, scott of florida, scott of south carolina, sheehy, thune, ti

peter doocy joins us live from the white house with more. peter?peter: good morning, and they are getting a long table in the cabinet room ready for all these cabinet secretaries to come take their seat alongside president trump and elon musk. the guy who is looking in their agencies at stuff to cut and president trump wants everybody to know ahead of time that today's meeting will be different than the last one we saw here at the white house where the point person for the on camera part was dr. joe biden. >> what are you expecting at the cabinet meeting tomorrow? >> it will be a cabinet meeting. and i will preside -- unlike biden, i will preside over my own cabinet meeting. [laughter] >> peter: tomorrow, the u.k. prime minister kier starmer will sit with president trump to figure out what kind of peace keepers can move toward ukraine when the fighting stops there if russia is saying they are not going to let anybody from nato countries do it and president trump says no u.s. troops are going to do it. and then the next day, friday, we do expect a r

peter part of ne if 7 the peter part of the 5:5 7 the peter part of the day.

that is not peter arrivin: white house. that is not peter _ arriving on - white house.s�* has“; is; the if your fies�*i�*élss�*s�* as“; is; the egg your screen, eehi'e�*seh eh“: eh the éht your screen, that is the of your screen, that is the eagles returning to with the super philadelphia with the super bowl trophy soaring as we bowl trophy soaring high as we hope mandelson will do indeed hope mandelson will do when to washington. will leave those he will leave those pictures free to watch. peter see tt°.ng it; ttlong way ' " tonght'yth" ”7 ' ht ttlotngtway to go ' " tonght'yththohtthtm7 ' ' " tlongtwatytotgotwitthtthitst ' house -- white houses the one person saying he is an —— one person saying he is an moron. he said, i am absolute moron. he said, i am not a new liberal or a wilkie m i am -er market i am - if market lam -ifheiset i am - if he is what is best thing in his the best thing in his armoury. it is basically his political is very adaptable as mandelson is very adaptable as he heard — mandelson is very adaptable as he heard in his start he he heard 'h hie? sta

i you, peter. go ahead, please. yes, _ you, peter. go ahead, please. yes. red — you, peter.about that? i want our military to _ you talk about that? i want our military to be _ you talk about that? i want our military to be the _ i l military to be the strongest. i also _ spending - also don't mind spending so much — also don't mind spending so much money— also don't mind spending so much money on _ also don't mind spending so much money on the - much money on the military we much money on the military - we build _ much money on the military - we build it - much money on the military - we build it here. i much money on the militaryl - we build it here. it's because we build it here. it's made — because we build it here. it's made i the _ because we build it here. it's made l the us, _ because we build it here. it's made l the us, all- because we build it here. it's made l the us, all made - because we build it here. it's made l the us, all made ini because we build it here. it's i made l the us, all made in the made in the us, all made in the usa _ made in the us, all made i

peter's basii in rome who are pope on the steps of st peter's basii in rome gathered, 1o are pope onn the steps of st peter's basii in rome gathered, a couple ear—e he. n——e eerleee e we. age w .. dozen and also of dozen cardinals, and also priest and parishioners from all over rome and visitors to city came to pray the city came together to pray for the pope. it's worth wzo w w ww w20 years ago remembering 20 years ago when pope paul ii became very popejohn paul ii became very ill, also with a respiratory illness, and was hospitalised. i think many people are remembering as they pray for m pope horn pope how they prayed that this—pope—how they prayed that 20 years ago, he became ill very suddenly. in very ill very suddenly. in fact, the rosemary fact, during the rosemary evening prayers, john paul eeefilfieeraeere efibelfififi feel died. ieifi'fifiéfaeife efiéelfififi feel died. many people are very ii died. many people are very aware that despite the fact that pope francis is a little better, that things can change very quickly is why yglfy quickly and that is why coming together, they are comi

peter: back in august, mr.errante, then-candidate trump made this announcement with robert kennedy junior by his side. >> in honor of bobby, i am announcing tonight that upon my election, i'll establish a new independent presidential commission on assassination attempts. and they will be tasked with releasing all of the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination of president john f. kennedy. i tell you, i have never had more people ask me, please sir, release the documents on the kennedy assassination. and we're gonna do that. peter: louis ferrante, what hasn't been released, and what do you think we will learn? mr. ferrante: there is a lot that has not been released. and i'm skeptical has to how much we will glean from the final document dump. and i say that because i think it is a stride in the right direction, that we will get something. and that's a big deal. however -- and there is a huge however here, peter. they've had 60 years, the national archives has been holding stuff, the fbi, the cia has

good evening, peter. >> peter: dad, if you want to scroint secret service there is a guard shack.> steve: peter, they got my picture on the wall. >> peter: that's true actually, i think. president trump is back here at the white house. he didn't get back until after midnight about 12:30. when he did, he told the reporters who were hanging around that they are going to have a meeting at the white house today about reciprocal steel tariffs on canada and mexico. and his argument is that they are charging us more than we charge them more you announced tariffs on canada and mexico. got action on both of them border security and drug intradeduction. >> a lot of interaction. >> is that good enough. >> no. >> bret: more needed in 30 days. >> something has to happen. it's not sustainable. and i'm changing it. >> bret: prime minister said a group of canadian businessmen a private meeting. he said that your wish for canada to be the 51st state is a, quote: real thing. is it a real thing? >> yeah, it is. i think canada would be much better off being a 51st state because we lose $200 billion a

peter, thank you very much. >> carley: thanks, peter. >> steve: peter did mention the number of migrants at our southern border is absolutely dwindling. when you take a look at the number of migrants encountered on sunday, just about 300. the average day in december during the biden administration was 8,000. now, here's what's different about it. under the trump administration, we got another graphic, you know, they have ended catch and we lease. and so, during the first two weeks of the trump administration, only 461 were released into the united states. that means 94% were not released. whereas when you look at the joe biden number, it was 5,000 a day. and 70% of them were released into the country. i want to know who those 303 people are. hey, it's essentially a brick wall now. don't bother. >> lawrence: part of the reason why the numbers are so low is because they are not even allowed to cross. for example, you used to have a lot of migrant come across the border and just surrender to border patrol. >> steve: they would have to ask are you seeking asylum. >> lawrence: some of them we

peter part of ne if 7 the peter part of the f 7 the peter part of the day.y sneaks» , oi expect for the rest of the wetter. for your i the being place. winning men's team pursuit at the 2008 and 2012 games. it's been i think been i was a kid, i been since i was a kid, i dreamt of just in figsfi'f a been since i was a kid, i dreamt of just of in figsfi'f a been since i was a kid, i dreamt of just of olympics £335 a been since i was a kid, i dreamt of just of olympics £335 is part of the qlympics and—winning—is as well pert of the qtympics end—winning—ie as well but achieve was yeah, naturally. -|m m- =|5—:= is in its official, i ended, after 951i? gap and j 115; e— we. e e; iarjdi .., fee e and on ., 7,7. e 7; iwjlil .., 7337 7— 77. 7 77 iwjlil 7787 7357 that year. i think the tour is a really my life, really that rr i 5's, really that you 7 if. iii—ii 77 you would be the born in to it? 7511”itifsij’gziftrviéi/z77 " “im’ri'ffiféifgiftlisfi, "pal/é” �*anda �*and 3:75.77 i yeah. crazy sport and cycling and cycling is and now there :ycling is and now though �* the m

good evening,. >> peter: peter good evening, bret.ran is of particular interest for president trump and prime minister netanyahu at the private meeting that they are currently still continuing ahead of this press conference. they are running a little bit late. before president trump signed this memo to apply maximum pressure, maximum u.s. government pressure to the iranian government, he was saying that he hesitated a little bit because he thought it was going to be so hard on the people of iran and we had a chance to ask him about why, for him specifically, it would be so hard. >> peter: unhappy to sign it if it's iran and their proxies who threaten to retaliate against you, and your team by killing you guys or taking out soleimani. >> well, they haven't done that and that would be a terrible thing for them to do not because of me. if they did that, they would be obliterated. that would be the end. i have left instructions if they do it, they get obliterated. there won't be anything left. and they shouldn't be able to do it. >> peter

trump's senior trader manufacturing adviser, that's peter-and- navarro, peter will take -- peter navarroand peter will take it all on after this. ♪ do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy - even a term policy - for an immediate cash payment. call coventry direct to learn more. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized we needed a way to supplement our income. our friend sold their policy to help pay their medical bills, and that got me thinking. maybe selling our policy could help with our retirement. i'm skeptical, so i did some research and called coventry direct. they explained life insurance is a valuable asset that can be sold. we learned we could sell all of our policy, or keep part of it with no future payments. who knew? we sold our policy. now we can relax and enjoy our retirement as we had planned. if you have $100,000 or more of life insurance, you may qualify to sell your policy. don't cancel or let your policy lapse without finding out what it's worth. visit coventrydirect.com to find out if y

peter baker is back with us. so, peter, give us some more background on neil jacobs.had that role, of course, in the sharpiegate scandal. >> right. >> well, during the hurricane, dorian, the president at the time, trump predicted that it might hit. >> alabama and a local meteorologist working for noaa. in alabama put out a tweet saying. >> no, don't worry about it. it's not going to hit alabama. >> just trying to. >> do his job. try not to panic. >> the public. >> but trump took that very badly, very offended that anybody would dare to contradict him. and he held up the map that you're seeing there. and you can see on the left side of that map. >> a dark. >> black line around the, you know. >> the possible path. >> of the hurricane showing it. possibly hitting in alabama. that line. >> was. >> drawn with a sharpie by the president, not by scientists who were predicting. its actual. >> path because he was trying. >> to demonstrate. >> that he was right and the scientists were wrong. and neil jacobs, who was then the acting head of noaa, backed him up, put out a stateme

[peter] it's not so bad, though. the new phone. i don't care if it takes all day. don't you have work? eh, i wouldn't mind missing work. there's a secretary looking for reassurance about her overly short haircut. i saw it in a magazine. i needed a fresh start. stop pretending to stare at your phones and just say you hate it. sir, i am trying to read. [stewie] ah, the writer credits have begun. i'm gonna give personal facts about each of the names that pops up. mom, will you tie my shoes? [stewie] smokes on the no-smoking balcony. weird church guy. instagrams cowboy hats at 3:00 a.m. pushed his wife at a party. oh, my god, cherry's the best. we love her. hi, cherry. we love you! kids, time to gather up our old cords and chargers that no longer work and throw them in the garbage. we can't do that. don't you know a lot of discarded electronics end up in the ocean and kill sea turtles? well, then let's cut out the middleman. [grunting] i'm sorry. there's a new phone. [peter] that was cool. i got to go to fiji for that. t

peter: have you forgiven yourself? reginald: no. no. peter: you mentioned, at the beginning of the conversation, that you were sober for 20 months. had alcohol been a problem for you? reginald: yeah. i mean, yes. and i think it is because -- i did not even drink in prison. that is the sad thing about it. i went to prison and i told myself i wouldn't use drugs, i wouldn't smoke. i said i'm going to live as cleanly as i possibly could. and i came home and found myself drinking away the sorrows of prison. and it was only -- jason reynolds wrote a book and my son read it and there was a father in the book it was an alcoholic and there was a gun involved in my son was afraid i was going to die, and he was crying about the book. it took me years after this moment but i never forgot the moment. and i remember, one night, i had finished drinking some whiskey, was writing, and i fell asleep and had a dream i left a glass of whiskey on the table and an open bottle, and in the morning i ran down the steps and didn't see the bottle or the glass, so

and as peter said, it's also very nearly 3 times more. some area code has actually given. no, i mean that level and it's almost for a 2nd on the number. i think it's interesting to give a sense of perspective and this, this goes to your point. um, donald trump says he spent 3, the us spent $350000000000.00 on ukraine, but the us congress actually appropriated a $170.00 for a 100 of which went directly to aiding the ukranian government. so a 174, i think is the, is the number we actually know from the us administration. it has spent on uh, countering russia in the war. and ukraine by no means orders. this has, has actually reached ukraine yet. um, as, as, as i understand a 120 is what has actually come to ukraine. so false. in any case, i mean the point is but what trump is asking for is not to move in america days and you know, it was not so low and it was a, it was a against a which was seen to be a in america's own security. in for us, so this, you know, this approach is highly of it just so much. now that said, perhaps something can be negotiated, which is more reasonab

good evening, peter. >> peter: good evening, bret. a few things breaking in the last 90 minutes or so. president trump signed an executive order promising cut red tape ivf. controversial memo promising all the waste, fraud and abuse his team finds will be freely available to the public. but the big headline is he said he is probably going to meet with putin by the end of this month to talk about the end of the ukraine war. >> a half-baked negotiator could have settled this years ago. >> peter: direct u.s. and russian negotiations about ukraine are not sitting well with ukraine's volodymyr zelenskyy. >> we are completely honest and open. that's why i don't want any coincidences. that's why i don't want to go to saudi arabia. >> peter: president trump not sympathetic to zelenskyy's complaint. >> but today we heard we weren't invited you have been there for three years. >> trump insists it's not personal. i like him personally, he's fine. but i don't care about personally. i care about getting the job done. >> russia's lead negotiator sa

. >> emily: peter doocy is live at the white house with the details. peter?er: good morning, the effort to make the government more efficient has fallen down a mine shaft. 230 feet below boyers, pennsylvania in butler county where millions of manila envelopes represent the pain-stakingly slow federal retirement process most number that can retire in a month is 10,000. why is that on paper. manually calculated, written down on a piece of paper them goes down a mine. yeah a limestone mine where we store all the retirement paper paperwork. >> peter: this is it looks like a place to ride out a explosion. they very slowly process the papers by hand. a sinkhole of bureaucracy. so far president trump is pleased with efforts to make things more efficient and he says he is not worried about potential conflicts of interest for musk. >> we thought that we would not let him do that segment or look in that area, if we thought there was a lack of transparency or a conflict of interest. and, we watched that, also. it's a big businessman. he is a successful guy. that's why w

doocy joins us with the latest. >> peter: the doge effort continues.t from elon musk, 5:03 a.m. says doge team discovered fema sent 59 million last week to luxury hotels in new york city to house illegal migrants, this violated the law and gross insubordination to the president's executive orders. a claw-back demand will be made to recoop the funds as president trump gives vote of confidence to the world's richest man. >> you trust him? >> trust elon? he's not gaining anything, i told him do that. i will tell him soon like maybe in 24 hours to go check department of education, he's goin going to find same thing. then go check miller ta, will find hundreds of billions of fraud and abuse. >> peter: and more on the ugov poll you were talking about, 69% are saying this president is tough, 63% says e energetic and effective. he did not say stay at the super bowl and got here last night. back to you. >> steve: do we know why the president left? early probably a security thing, right? >> peter: he did leave early, pretty much in line with schedule we had for