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Thanks to IP. Learn more at PHRMA.org slash IPWorksWonders. I'm Jackie Heinrich in for Shannon Bream. President Trump doubles down on his vision for a new era in foreign policy. I'm getting from the standpoint about a ceasefire and ultimately a deal, some pretty good vibes coming out of Russia. Trump says he's holding out hope for a speedy end to the war in Ukraine.

as Vladimir Putin lays out strict conditions and more demands. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz joins us live back from peace talks in Saudi Arabia.

Then... And to be honest with you, Canada only works as a state. We don't need anything they have. This is a very serious threat. You don't mess up with a country's sovereignty. Trump's tariffs tick off America's neighbor to the north, sparking steep losses for U.S. markets. Canadian Ambassador Kirsten Hillman joins us exclusively on what the trade war means for economic ties. And Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno on why he says the short-term pain is worth the long-term gain. ♪

And as bad as passing the CR is allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option. Is it time for new leadership in the Senate? Next question. Chuck Schumer backs a GOP bill his party hates to block Elon Musk. Congressman Jake Hockencloss on the fight for the future of his party. Plus.

Tensions over pro-Palestinian student protests spill over into New York's Trump Tower. We'll ask our Sunday panel about the debate over political speech, visas and green cards. All right now on Fox News Sunday.

And hello from Fox News in Washington. A look at the headlines. Severe weather is threatening the southeast today with potential tornadoes, damaging winds, large hail and flash flooding from northern Florida up to Washington, D.C. That storm has already killed more than 30 people in the Midwest and south, with dozens more injured.

A SpaceX capsule successfully docked at the International Space Station early this morning, bringing four new crew members. NASA plans to have four astronauts return to Earth within days, including Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore, who've had to stay at the station for months.

And President Trump launched large-scale military strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen Saturday, which could last for weeks, according to the Pentagon. The Iran-backed rebels have been attacking ships in the Red Sea since shortly after Hamas attacked Israel in October of 2023. In a moment, we'll get reaction from National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. But first, let's turn to Fox News correspondent Matt Finn covering the president in West Palm Beach, Florida. Hey, Matt.

Hi, Jackie. The president says the Houthis have carried out relentless terror strikes against the United States, including attacking a U.S. warship in the Red Sea over a dozen times. The president says, quote, hell will rain down unless these Houthi strikes stop.

President Trump landing in Palm Beach Friday evening with Elon Musk and little ex after Republicans got their spending bill passed, narrowly avoiding a government shutdown with the 54 to 46 vote in the Senate. Sixty six House Democrats signing this letter opposing the Republican CR bill, reading in part.

Rewrite to express our strong opposition to the passage of a partisan continuing resolution that potentially legitimizes President Trump and the Republicans party dismantling of government. The spending bill highlighting the fracture within the Democratic Party. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and nine other Democrats voted to stop filibuster advancing the Republicans budget. Allowing Donald Trump to take even more power via a government shutdown.

is a far worse option. President Trump praising the New York senator. I appreciate Senator Schumer, and I think he did the right thing. Really, I'm very impressed by that. President Trump giving a historic hour-long speech at the Department of Justice Friday, where he emphasized his tariffs on Canada and Mexico are in part because of fentanyl coming across both borders. Unbelievable results have been seen in the last few weeks.

unbelievable results. They weren't happy about it. On the possibility of a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, the president's special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, returning from Moscow without a deal. But President Trump writing, we had very good and productive discussions with President Vladimir Putin of Russia yesterday, and there is a very good chance that this horrible, bloody war can finally come to an end. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. We continue to recognize this is a difficult and complex situation.

It will not be easy. It will not be simple. But we certainly feel like we're at least some steps closer to ending this war and bringing peace. But most Democrats say they don't see peace on the horizon. Who wants a war?

And we knew that. And Trump has blown it because he's appeasing Putin. Earlier in the week, following successful peace talks in Saudi Arabia, Ukraine agreed to a 30-day ceasefire. Ukrainian President Zelensky's office says the prospect is now in Moscow's hands. And President Trump has now nominated longtime defense advisor General Keith Kellogg to be special envoy to Ukraine. Jackie. Matt Finn reporting from West Palm Beach, Florida. Matt, thank you.

Joining us now is National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. Thank you so much for being here, sir. Thank you. So yesterday, Mike, leaders from 25 countries convened on a call and they concluded that Putin's statements this week showed that he is not serious about peace in Ukraine. But the Trump administration is still expressing cautious optimism. In fact, nobody has plainly stated that Putin rejected the U.S. ceasefire proposal. Take a listen here.

I think the question is, are we actually moving towards a ceasefire or is this a delay tactic? I'm not going to answer that because I can't characterize that for you right now. I think we'll know sooner rather than later. So it's been a few days now. What is the answer? Is this a delay tactic or are we moving toward a ceasefire? Well, Jackie, look at where we were just a few months ago, where we essentially had no prospect of peace. You're literally losing hundreds of thousands of people on the front lines.

billions of dollars, uh, and just a meat grinder of, of men and material. Uh, and yeah, look, we, we've gone from that to as the NATO secretary general said in the oval office to president Trump this week, Mr. President, you've broken that log jam. Uh, you now have both sides not talking about if this war is going to end, we're negotiating how the war is going to end. And that's tremendous progress in Saudi Arabia just this week. Uh,

After, I think what we would all agree was a very difficult and unfortunate Oval Office session with President Zelensky, we now have the Ukrainians saying, yes, we will agree to stop the fighting. You have President Putin saying, we will also look at a ceasefire, but there's some things we want to discuss.

Meanwhile, we're talking to the Europeans. I had all of my counterparts, British, French and German counterparts in Washington on Friday. And we are taking a hard look at what it's going to take to not only stop

have an immediate end to the fighting, but then broader issues like moving trade again on the Black Sea, stopping the aerial attacks on infrastructure, and then the broader deal and what components that will be to have a permanent end to this war. That's only in just a few months.

It's going to be hard. It's going to be complex. But President Trump is driving the process forward. Well, it sounds to me like the administration doesn't have the answer yet. It doesn't know whether Russia is delaying or not.

The U.S. said the ball is in Russia's court. Is it still in Russia's court? No, but Jackie, you did not. Look, you had President Putin go to a press conference before he sat down with Special Envoy Witkoff. And it was not a no. It was here are some things and we're going to talk about some things that that.

They need to see and they're very focused on how this whole thing ends. And we are very focused on making it permanent going forward, not this kind of fits and starts that we've seen in the past. So none of that was on the table under the last administration. It was just as long as it takes, as much as it takes. And this endless conflict that we don't see is in anyone's interest and certainly not in the interest of global peace.

A European intelligence service uncovered a document that was prepared for the Kremlin the same week the president's team met with the Russians in Saudi Arabia. According to the Washington Post, it details much of what we've already seen play out, basically telling Russia how to stall while it continues to dismantle the Ukrainian state.

It, quote, lays out ways in which Russia could boost its negotiating position by exacerbating tensions between the U.S. and both China and the European Union by proposing U.S. access to Russian minerals, including territories it occupies in Ukraine. It also goes into how Putin should reject peacekeepers, propose demilitarized zones along the border. How do you know President Trump isn't being played right now by Putin?

Well, look, you know, that's almost laughable. I'll take President Trump in dealing with the likes of Xi, of Kim Jong-un, with Putin and others. Certainly,

ahead of his predecessor. And really, as both President Putin and Zelensky said on our first call just a few weeks ago, only President Trump could drive this to an end. Only President Trump could bring this war to... Look...

Jackie, we know who we're dealing with. We know who we're dealing with on all sides. And and we are going to engage in diplomacy. We are engaging in diplomacy. And that will involve both carrots and sticks to get both sides to the table, but to also resolve this in a way that is permanent and enduring. Speaking of the carrots and sticks, the president has threatened sanctions. Are we going to see those this week?

Oh, I'm not going to get ahead of the president or those decisions. But he has put that out there on the table. And he has also put a broader and different bilateral relationship with Russia on the table. And so I think a fundamental question for the Russians, do they want to keep grinding forward? What's the situation going to look like as they lose massive amounts of men and material on this issue?

essentially what is World War I-style trench warfare at this point, or do they want to evolve the relationship and get back to stability and growth for their economy and their people? That's what's the decision that's laying before them.

But the process of engaging in diplomacy on both sides, I just find incredulous that the Trump administration is being criticized for when the alternative was endless war and endless death and destruction. Sir, he punished Zelensky when they wouldn't agree to an unconditional ceasefire, you know, withholding military aid and intelligence sharing. And a lot of people are asking, is the president going to punish Putin, too?

All options are on the table, Jackie. Absolutely. But I think that's a bit of a spin in the sense that President Zelensky had an opportunity to bind our economies together for the foreseeable future. The U.S. and Ukrainian people

in terms of growing the pie in their economy and their natural resources, and in a way that would completely redefine our assistance. That was an opportunity that was missed that day. But look at where we were after the Saudi talks this week. We've gotten both sides back to the table, and we're driving the other side as well.

I want to move to the airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen. Officials called this an opening salvo for the attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. But it followed the president reaching out to the Ayatollah, basically trying to restart talks on their nuclear program. Netanyahu has been pushing for the U.S. and Israel to do a joint operation.

operation on Iran's nuclear facilities. And the Ayatollah rejected the president's request for talks. Is that kind of a joint operation under consideration now? Well, let's talk about the situation that we inherited in the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.

We have not had a U.S. warship transit that area in over four months. We haven't had a U.S. flagged commercial vessel in over a year. Seventy percent of global shipping has been diverted from two of the world's most strategic waterways, adding cost and complexity to global commerce.

THAT'S WHAT WE INHERITED. THE PRESIDENT HAS DECIDED THAT'S COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO WHAT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION DID IN TERMS OF THIS KIND OF PIN PRICK BACK AND FORTH. WE HIT THE HouthI LEADERSHIP, KILLING SEVERAL OF THEIR KEY LEADERS LAST NIGHT, THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE, THE MISSILES. THIS IS ESSENTIALLY AL QAEDA WITH SOPHISTICATED IRANIAN-BACKED AIR DEFENSES AND ANTI-SHIP CRUISE MISSILES AND DRONES.

the entire global economy. President Trump showed leadership and we just hit them with overwhelming force and put Iran on notice that enough is enough with its backing of the terrorists and providing them the most sophisticated weapons that have attacked our warships dozens and dozens of times. All of that,

alongside an offer of diplomacy in terms of all options are on the table for their nuclear program. We're out of time, but I want to get very quickly one last question. Israel, the U.S., rejected an offer from Hamas for what they called a disingenuous offer on hostage release. How long does Hamas have to release all remaining hostages before Israel resumes its campaign in Gaza?

Not long. You know, that was a bogus offer. It was just another stab in the heart to those poor families. But I will say that

The last administration, 15 months, could not get to a ceasefire. We now have 31 hostages that are alive because we did drive, again, both sides of the negotiating table and got those people out. President Trump's determined to get them all out. But Hamas cannot and will not be allowed to rule Gaza into the future. We will keep watching for it. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, thank you so much for your time, sir. Always a pleasure speaking with you. Thank you.

President Trump's tariffs and escalating rhetoric causing major tensions with our northern neighbor. Kirsten Hillman, Canada's ambassador to the U.S., joins us next on a potential path forward for our two nations.

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Cain. That's oracle.com slash C-A-I-N. To be honest with you, Canada only works as a state. We don't need anything they have. This would be the most incredible country visually. If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it between Canada and the U.S., just a straight artificial line.

President Trump doubled down this week on talk of Canada becoming the 51st state as the trade war with our northern neighbor shows no signs of slowing down. That's despite Ontario Premier Doug Ford traveling to Washington to meet with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

Joining me now to discuss the tensions, Canadian Ambassador to the U.S., Kirsten Hillman. Ambassador, thank you for being here. Thanks so much for having me. Appreciate it. So Canada's got a new prime minister, former central banker Mark Carney. But new leadership does not seem to be changing the president's tune about making Canada the 51st state. He said it again, as you just heard this week, sitting next to NATO's secretary general. Does Carney take that seriously? Is that why these two leaders haven't connected yet?

I think we take seriously our sovereignty. We take seriously the will of Canadians. And over 91% of Canadians are not interested in a discussion around joining the U.S. So I think he takes that seriously. And that's not a slight to the president. And that's not a slight to the American people. It's an expression of our own patriotism and our own sense of who we are as a country. So I think Prime Minister...

Carney will be looking to speak with the president as soon as possible and looking to forge a good and solid relationship. Have they...

reached out from either side yet? We've reached out, yeah, and we're looking forward to having that, you know, having them connect. Okay. Your foreign minister, though, appears to be quite alarmed, saying that Trump's tariffs are a tool to annex Canada by economic force. She referred to Canada as the canary in the coal mine and reportedly said at the G7 this week, if the U.S. can do this to us, their closest friend, then nobody is safe.

The New York Times also reported this month that Canada's finance minister was spooked by a call from Howard Lutnick claiming that President Trump had come to realize that the relationship between the United States and Canada was governed by a slew of agreements and treaties that were easy to abandon. Mr. Trump was interested in doing just that. That's just one report.

But are you under the impression that any other aspect of the U.S.-Canada relationship is on the rocks right now besides trade?

I am not. I think that what we need to be doing, and I know that Prime Minister Carney wants to do, is to establish a serious and professional conversation around the president's goals with respect to trade. We had a meeting with Commerce Secretary Lutnick and USTR Greer this week or this past week, and we understood from them his whole global agenda in this respect. And we talked about how

Canada can fit into that. So that's the conversation we want to have. Serious conversation, respectful conversation. The new prime minister respects what President Trump's trying to do. He's trying to supercharge the U.S. economy for American people. And that's what he's also trying to do for Canada. So they have a lot in common. I think they, you know, it'll be important to proceed with that discussion in a professional, measured way. You're

Your defense minister said yesterday that Carney asked him to review Canada's purchase of 88 F-35 American fighter jets. That was the biggest investment in the Canadian Air Force in 30 years, $19 billion Canadian dollars. Is military cooperation between these two countries through NORAD in question, or is Canada just looking for a new best friend?

Well, I think we're always looking for many friends. I think that the world is a dangerous place. Your previous interview just with Mr. Waltz shows that it's a very complicated and dangerous place. So we want to have all of the strongest alliances that we can. We are your neighbor. We protect this continent together. We protect Canada's really very serious about all of the investments we're making in protecting the Arctic.

So that is a homeland is a huge priority for us. And our homeland is your homeland. But beyond that, obviously, there are many other allies that we want to be working with as well. You were in a meeting this week with Secretary Letnick and the U.S. trade representative. Did you walk away from that meeting with the impression that Canada can do anything to avoid the reciprocal tariffs the president's going to impose on all countries on April 2nd? I think that they were.

clear to tell us that on April 2nd, there will be announcements that will affect the whole world, including Canada. That was clear. And we took that opportunity to talk about how Canada fits into the fairness agenda for the United States. We are your biggest customer. We buy more from you than any other country on the planet. We have a deficit in manufactured goods trade in all sorts of areas of trade where Americans are building things.

And that is hopefully a relationship that can continue in a really productive way. So we talked a lot about that.

Is Canada working to adjust its tariff rates right now? The president's also looking to use these reciprocal tariffs to drive new agreements on everything from exchange rates to subsidies. So what's in the works from the Canadian side? I think we're going to wait and see what the U.S. president does, what President Trump does. We have an arrangement, the USMCA, that governs our trade. It was negotiated by President Trump. That is the arrangement that

that we felt was fairly effective and he clearly wants a new one. And so we'll have to look at all of the different possibilities there for Canada because in these kinds of negotiations, both sides will come to the table with things that they'd like to see different.

New deals obviously take time. And that time could have a bigger impact on the Canadian economy than the U.S. economy. The New York Times reports economists believe the tariffs imposed so far, Canada's retaliation against U.S. imports, and the overall atmosphere of volatility and uncertainty could tip Canada into a recession this year.

What's Canada doing right now to avoid a recession? Well, so just as I say, our new prime minister, that's his core focus, is the Canadian economy, strengthening the resilience of the Canadian economy and being able to make it through these more turbulent times in a way that is as good as possible for Canadians. So that includes...

a lot of domestic investment. That includes looking at our energy proposition. That includes looking at diversification of our trading relationships. There's a lot of different things that we'll be looking at here just to make sure that we're doing the best for Canadians.

Carney doesn't hold a seat in Parliament. His party holds a minority in the House of Commons. He's going to have to call an election, federal election, very soon here. Liberals have made gains in recent weeks, but according to recent polling in Canada, the Conservatives are still favored. Carney's tenure basically could be very short. Is that having any impact right now on talks to rebalance the trade relationship?

You know, fundamentally, Canadian interests are what they are regardless of who is governing our country. And if you listen to the leadership, political leadership in Canada across the spectrum, very similar messages are being conveyed. One, Canada is a strong and proud independent nation. Two, Canada is going to focus on making sure that it's strong in its own economy, that it's taking care of, you know, our own business.

And then making sure that we have an effective and productive and successful relationship with our neighbor and biggest trading partner. There are nuances in how those messages are conveyed. There are differences in priority in other areas. But on the Canada-U.S. relationship and our economic relationship, I think you're going to hear pretty much the same thing across the board. We still have hockey, right? We still have hockey. I would like to mention the win.

But we still have hockey. And honestly, that game was incredible. The best players in the world all together on the ice. It was a remarkable moment. Ambassador Kirsten Hillman, thank you for being here. Appreciate your time. Thanks so much for having me. Thank you. You are looking live at Capitol Hill. Lawmakers passing a GOP funding bill to avert a government shutdown with the help of 10 Democrats. We get reaction from both sides of the aisle. Congressman Jake Auchincloss and Republican Senator Bernie Moreno joining us next.

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A shutdown would be a gift. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer defying the wishes of many Democrats this week with his decision to join with Republicans to pass a government funding deal. Joining me now, Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Jake Auchincloss. Thank you, Congressman, for being here this morning.

Good morning, Jackie. Thanks for having me on. Good morning. So Schumer said a shutdown would have been a gift to Trump because he owns the chaos in government and in the economy right now. He also warned that a shutdown could enable Trump to further dismantle the workforce, letting him decide which workers are and are not essential. But you urged Schumer in a letter to block this bill over Doge cuts and Elon Musk.

If you wanted to save federal workers jobs, how could you justify putting them on indefinite leave?

I think Democrats need to demonstrate to the American people at every opportunity that we have, and there are rare opportunities in the minority, how we would govern if we were given power. And voting for a bill that further empowers Trump to tank the economy and threaten our allies and take away benefits from veterans is not a good way of doing that. But certainly the Senate minority leader is right that Trump owns the chaos in Washington right now. And that chaos is teetering a good economy into a recession.

American consumers right now have the highest inflation expectations in years. You've got airline CEOs talking about decreased bookings, which is an early indicator of economic health. And nonpartisan experts are pointing out that his tariffs are going to raise costs on Americans by $2,000 every year. That's food, that's home and car insurance, that's clothing. This is a very expensive reality show out of Washington, D.C. right now for the average American.

Well, it comes down to whether lawmakers had the stomach for a shutdown. And it seems like obviously in the Senate, ultimately they did not. But what also became apparent is that Democrats might have failed to produce a caucus wide strategy on this. You know, this funding deadline was looming on the calendar. What happened?

Democrats are in the minority in the House and the Senate. And of course, we are out of the White House. And so after a defeat like that nationally, we're going to be debating internally as a party. I think that's exactly what American voters expect of us. They want us to be pushing forward new ideas, to be debating alternative modes of governance, to be challenging established leaders, because that's what you do when the American voters say that we are choosing the other party.

And I think it would be much more concerning, actually, if Democrats were in lockstep behind the agenda that didn't win a voters' conference in November. At the same time, Republicans have the power in the House, the Senate and the White House, and American voters expect them to be capable stewards of the economy. And that's not what we are seeing right now. What we are seeing is chaos and corruption out of Washington, D.C., an increased federal deficit, despite claims from Doge, and increased costs on consumers. Well, that debate is certainly happening. Yeah.

Pelosi urged Senate Democrats to vote against their leader. And then Hakeem Jeffries did not defend Schumer when it was all over. Listen to this. Is it time for new leadership in the Senate? Next question. Have you lost confidence in him? The fact that you guys see this so differently. Next question. Some of your colleagues are reportedly urging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to primary Schumer over this. Should she?

I'm less interested in candidates and people and more interested in ideas. Democrats need big and bold ideas about how we're going to lower costs for Americans by building more housing, by taking on the health insurance corporations. We need big ideas about how we're going to end the corruption in Washington, D.C., that's been on full display for the last three months. We need big ideas about peeling the bark off the social media corporations that are profiting by attention fracking our kids and by dividing us. I

generational tension, debate over ideas is all healthy within the Democratic Party right now. What is unhealthy is when Republicans march in lockstep behind a commander in chief who seems to think that the biggest problem in the world right now is Canada. That lockstep is what a lot of people are used to. Democrats are usually very aligned with their messaging. Politico said that Jeffrey's snubbing Schumer was the disheart around the Capitol and in Democratic circles around the country, a distraction for Democrats that is yanking the headlines away from Trump's tough

polling and a spiraling stock market. So the debate will continue, obviously, on whether Jeffries hurt the party by not defending Schumer. What's your belief? Jackie, I think I

I think Americans are not that tuned in to what Beltway politicians are talking about at press conferences. I think they're very tuned in to what the dollar general CEO is saying when he says that his consumers are only able to afford the bare essentials right now. This economy is inflationary right now.

We are seeing spikes in home insurance, in car insurance, in utility bills, in food bills, in the cost to buy a new automobile. And you know what the Republicans' response to this is? Their response to this is, well, get ready for a rocky ride. And by the way, we're going to give tax cuts to the top 20 percent of earners in this country and pay for it by taking away health care from people who need health care, by taking away health care from kids who need it for primary care, from seniors who need it from at-home care, from people struggling with opioid use issues.

disorder. This is not going to scrub with the American people. And Republicans are responding by avoiding town halls so they don't have to take the tough questions. But your party right now does not have a unified message or messenger. And there's obviously the debate we're talking about is whether

which direction the party goes in. You know, AOC called on Senate Democrats to use the filibuster to block this funding bill. A little bit ironic after she called to abolish the filibuster over abortion in 2022. In fact, 30 Senate Democrats who voted or who used the filibuster rather on Friday to block this funding bill previously voted to override the filibuster. Seven more campaigned to abolish it.

You know, you previously called to abolish the filibuster over gun control and abortion, but you were urging your Senate colleagues to use it this week. So should the Democratic Party of the future keep the filibuster or not? I think that's a debate for the Democratic Party of the future. And we're going to need lots of these kinds of debates about how we lower costs, about how we protect Social Security in the face of onslaughts to privatize it by Elon Musk and Donald Trump and Senator Rick Scott out of Florida.

I think you are offering the premise that somehow debate within the Democratic Party is a bad or unhealthy thing, and I'm embracing it. I think that this party needs generational debate, debate about the issues. We have been too much in the lockstep in the past. What is a problem for Americans is when the party that has the levers of power in the House and the Senate and the White House doesn't seem to have anybody with the courage to tell the dear leader that, hey...

You might be mistaking Russia and Canada. They're both big northern cold countries, but one of them's an enemy and one of them's an ally. He doesn't seem to get that. We are out of time, unfortunately. Congressman Jake Auchincloss, thank you very much for joining us. Appreciate it. Good to be with you.

Joining me now, Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno. Thank you so much, Senator, for being here. I want to take a turn to some other topics that we didn't cover with the congressman. This week, the markets went haywire after the president didn't rule out the possibility of a recession, even though the commerce secretary declared there would not be one. The vice president said this on Thursday.

Well, look, I think you never can predict the future, but I think the economy, the fundamentals of the economy are actually quite strong right now. And we'll see how this unfolds. Are you comfortable with the president forging ahead with these tariffs, even if it plunges the economy into a recession? Well, I don't think it's going to plunge the economy into a recession. You saw the new inflation report, lowest inflation in five years. I think our trade relationships having been reset is a really good thing for Ohio and for the Midwest, which is

fair and reciprocal trade, making more products here in America, giving Americans better, higher paying jobs, ending the scourge of fentanyl that caused 110,000 Americans to die. So I think the best years of this country are ahead of us and are ahead of us very soon. Well, some of your Republican colleagues are not comfortable with the president's approach. Here's what Senator Rand Paul said.

The tariff wars are a big mistake and not good for my state. From bourbon distillers to car manufacturers to the makers of fences to the builders of homes to our farmers. Nobody in Kentucky is coming up to me and saying, please put tariffs on things.

Your state is home to nearly 100,000 auto industry workers. General Motors, Stellantis, Honda all have factories there. But you made your living through a chain of Cleveland area car dealerships. Are you concerned about the tariffs impacts on the auto industry?

Yeah, the impact is going to be very, very positive. We sell about 4 million cars in America that are made in Mexico and Canada. Those cars were once made in Ohio, in Michigan, in Wisconsin, in Indiana. We need to bring that manufacturing back. I love Rand. I think he's a great guy on fiscal issues, but he's dead wrong on where the auto industry sits. The UAW is firmly behind tariffs. The auto industry understands that localizing production is important.

These are the jobs that make communities thrive. These are good, high-paying jobs. We need them in the Midwest.

Well, there are some warning signs that that boost in American production might not happen at all. S&P Global is forecasting a massive production halt for the auto industry with the probability of an extended disruption at 50 percent. It reads, with tariffs now imposed on Canada and Mexico, we expect significant disruption in the region. S&P Global Mobility sees potential for North American production to drop by up to 20,000 units per day within a week.

We now expect that the tariff posture messaging and coverage to 2025 will be erratic, placing automakers and suppliers mid or long term vehicle and facility planning in virtual gridlock. That does not sound like a manufacturing boom.

Well, you know, look, these experts are funded by lobbyists who have an agenda. Look, it's very simple. I talk to car company CEOs from all over the world every single solitary week. And the consistent message is we're going to build more in America. Now, they ask for more time.

But at the end of the day, I haven't heard one CEO that isn't planning to add manufacturing capacity. In fact, here in Cleveland, Cleveland Cliffs just announced an incentive for their employees, a thousand dollar bonus to buy American made cars. They're making massive investments throughout their entire footprint. We're going to see an automotive manufacturing renaissance in this country that's been long overdue.

Well, even Tesla has apparently sent a letter to the trade representative asking to examine the president's policies, saying it could harm Tesla. It reads, Tesla encourages USTR to consider the downstream impacts. Even with aggressive localization of the supply chain, certain parts and components are difficult or impossible to source in the United States. And that's Elon Musk's company. Is the president going to listen to Elon Musk?

Well, I think that, first of all, President Trump listens to a lot of people and ultimately he makes the decision. That's what's different now than it was four years ago. Joe Biden was out counting chickens in the backyard. Look, the reality is this. This is about how much time do these companies need to bring their production back to the U.S.?

Given the right time frame and the right rules of the road, which we're going to set for them, you're going to see that boom here. By the way, it's important for national security. We need to make more things here in America. We can't be a services-only economy. President Trump understands that. That's what we're going to get to. And finally, speaking of Tesla, the president bought one this week in an attempt to boost its stock after it plunged about 38 percent amid Musk's doge cuts. Here's what he said. Listen to this.

OK, we don't have that sound there. But, sir, there was a basically display at the White House there. He surveyed some cars. It was happening as, you know, Americans for a 1K accounts were facing some struggles because of this tariff war happening right now. Was that an appropriate thing for the president to do there? Was it sensitive to the moment that we are in buying a car using the White House as a backdrop for that?

Well, first of all, he's promoting American-made products. I applaud him for doing that. He's not the first president to do that. Most presidents have done something like it in the past. Joe Biden did it in his term and excluded Tesla. I think at the end of the day, you have Democrats now being anti-EV. So maybe we get some balance now because they were only EV. Look, the reality is this. President Trump is a president that's going to reindustrialize this country, bring back our might of the Midwest, and that's why he's so popular in states like mine.

I guess we'll have to find out if AOC still has her Tesla or not. Senator Bernie Moreno, thank you very much for being here. Appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you. More than 100 protesters take over the lobby at Trump Tower in Manhattan.

The backlash after ICE agents arrested a ringleader from Columbia University's anti-Israel protests. This as the president pays a visit to the Department of Justice vowing to restore law and order. We'll bring in the Sunday panel to discuss the top domestic headlines of the week next.

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Protesters were arrested at Trump Tower for a sit-in demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian green card holder, arrested by ICE this week over his involvement with protests at Columbia University. He's not been charged with any crimes, but the administration is making an example out of him.

It is time now for our Sunday group. Wall Street Journal reporter Olivia Beavers, former Pentagon press secretary during the Biden administration, Sabrina Singh, Matt Gorman, former senior advisor to Senator Tim Scott and Bloomberg White House and politics editor Mario Parker. Thanks, guys, for being here. Appreciate it. Good morning. Good morning. Matt, I want to go to you first. Mahmoud Khalil not been charged with any crimes, obviously played a very big role, though, in the Columbia protests.

His wife is now eight months pregnant as he faces deportation, and he is a green card holder. He's not on a student visa. Did the administration choose too sympathetic of a person potentially to make an example out of? I don't think he's sympathetic at all. Look, a green card is not a right. It is a privilege. And in the terms of a green card, it says you are not allowed to espouse or endorse

terrorist activity or encourage anybody else. So he clearly did that, taking over Colombia, anti-Semitic behavior, praising Hamas on October 7th. It's cut and dry. And look, just because Joe Biden and the Democrats didn't adhere to these guidelines for years doesn't mean they didn't exist. If Democrats are not dying this till God bless them, good luck. Mic drop. Sabrina, you know, the president says Khalil's arrest is the first of many more to come. Here's how the secretary of state explained it.

We should expect more visas will be revoked as we identify people that we should never have allowed in because they lied to us. When they said they were coming here to be students, they didn't say they were coming here to occupy university buildings and vandalize them and tear them apart and hold campuses hostage. If they had told us that, we would never have given them a student visa. Now that they've done it, we will revoke those visas. How do Democrats see this issue? To Matt's point, it might be an uphill battle to fight that.

Yeah, I'm going to agree with some of what Matt said. I mean, Hamas is a terrorist organization. I stood up at the podium at the Pentagon many times and said that. I think it's also important to remember that this is a country that was founded on the ideals of free speech. And I think what is needed is due process. You, in fact, said that he's not charged with a crime. Yes, he is on a green card, but he still has the right to due process. And if it and if the courts find that, look, he did violate his, you know, his green card, then.

then action needs to be taken. But I still think it's important that we're talking about free speech or we're espousing those values right here at this table. You know, it has to be up to the courts to decide his fate as well. Mario, I want to move to the president's visit to DOJ this week. Here's a little snippet of what he said. We will expel the rogue actors and corrupt forces from our government. We will expose and very much expose their egregious crimes and severe misconduct.

So some Democrats kind of went ballistic over this visit, saying he's using the tool. DOJ is a tool for personal vengeance. But even Jake Tapper admitted on CNN that the president has some legitimate grievances about the lawfare that has been used against him. Are Democrats walking into any sort of a trap, raising interference concerns?

In some ways they are. The president, look, it was a little bit outside the norm, but also this entire last four or five years has been outside the norm. In some ways he went to the DOJ, he spiked the football and sports parlance. But just looking at Democrats, I mean, at this point they're just flailing, looking for some type of argument they can stick. So they are in some ways backing themselves into a corner here on this one.

The president referred to himself in that speech as the country's chief law enforcement officer. It's a title that's often reserved for the attorney general. Do you see any issue with that? Maybe not the title that he's using. I definitely think that it's raising questions about impartiality. It's very uncommon for a president to be going to the Justice Department. We saw it with Obama when he was talking about surveillance. We've seen it in the past. But here there is a little bit of a fentanyl speech, but impartial.

combined with a political where he's saying we're going to de-weaponize the Justice Department, but also go after the people that he thinks were coming after him. So there is some weaponization. It's just against the people that he has a vendetta against and he thought had a vendetta against him. I got to let you respond to that, Matt.

Well, look, first of all, I think it's high time that a lot of these white shoe law firms that he was going afterwards believed that the law was only a suggestion. I think that was a good thing. And this is what he campaigned on, Mario's point. This is not a surprise. I mean, he's talked about restoring trust, reducing the opposition of government, and holding those accountable to what he views as lawfare. The crimes part of his speech also is what drew me to it, right? He realized that's an issue that resonates. He took a section out talking about how, you know, essentially you need to put U.S. attorneys that follow and enforce the law. I took note of that as well.

Sabrina, final word with just 30 seconds to go. You know, the president Biden stayed away from the Justice Department, but a lot of the president Trump supporters say that he very much had a hand in in it.

Yeah, look, I understand the criticism here, but the reality is that what the Biden administration did is what previous administrations have done, which is allow the impartiality of the justice system. That is very important. That's not what we saw. We saw a campaign rally earlier this week at DOJ. That's all the time we have, guys. Thank you so much, panel. We will see you here next Sunday.

Well, it's been three years since our own Benjamin Hall was severely injured while reporting on Ukraine. And now he's out with a brand new book on life, resilience and the power of the human spirit. Our Sunday special next.

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Friday marked three years since our own Benjamin Hall was critically injured while reporting on the front lines in Ukraine. Now, as the U.S. pushes for a ceasefire, I sat down with him to discuss his remarkable journey to recovery, which he documents in the new book, Resolute, and whether there's any hope for peace in this embattled region. It's our Sunday special.

I think we have to live in a world that is constantly optimistic and we have to imagine that peace can be reached at some point. I think if you spoke to Russia and you spoke to Ukraine, they both want very different things and it's going to be impossible to meet in the middle. I think to meet in the middle, they need someone to really push them to do so. President Trump is trying to do that at the moment and we hope that that will reach a conclusion. But I understand the scars of war pretty well, but I also know that you can get through them.

I always found when I covered conflict, you see the pain and the suffering and the disaster, but you see side by side, you see courage and kindness and resilience.

Speaking of that, you had a beautiful letter that you wrote to your then unborn child that is mentioned in your book. You wrote, you were born into a beautiful world, but a world that is divided. But it's even more important that you understand these divisions are not the whole story. I've seen how reaching out to others and building communities and forging bonds through faith and love are the true defining traits of human beings and not the hatred and divisions and despair that can derail us.

I have learned so much since my injuries, but among, probably the thing I learned most is that we are stronger when we go through difficult things. You mustn't let difficult things like tragedy or chaos knock you down forever. You must use them to get stronger and to rebuild yourself.

And so I write this letter to my daughter in the book, and I try to lay out of the world ahead of her how she should handle the world and use my own experiences for the last few years to explain that. You've learned so many powerful lessons, obviously, that you never asked to learn. And that Russian missile attack that almost cost you your life really led you to find the power of the human spirit. But you wrote that you never expected to find yourself stronger on the other side of that

traumatic event. How do you help people tap into that inner power? What is your North Star? You know, in the book, I write about some of the really difficult dark moments. And the reason I wanted to write about those and look, sometimes they still come back. You know, it's never easy.

But what I have learned is that even in the difficult moments, I know that if I find a way through them and that I can always find a way through them, there will be something good on the other side. And that trust in resilience, that I think is the most important thing. Know full well that we are all survival machines, that inside all of us, there's that ability to get through the worst. And that helps. There you go. Get it, get it. Learn how to adapt. And

And I think adaptation is one of the most important things. I encountered so many walls that I didn't think I could get through. So I found another way to do things. There are many things I can't do at home. There are many things in my life that I can't do in the same way. There are many ways I can't play with my children in the same way or my prosthetics. But that's fine. I found other ways of doing those things. I found other ways of living my life. And so things that are taken away from you can easily be replaced by other things. Don't let the bad things hold you down. Let the positive things lift you up.

I have experienced the highs and lows of the world and life, and I think that I no longer take it for granted. I have to talk about Pierre and Sasha, our team who died that day. And I now think that I must live every day better for them because they're not here. So we will work for them. Pierre and Sasha are always in our hearts and you're an inspiration to all of us. And we're so grateful to have you here. Benjamin Hall. Thank you. Thanks, Jackie.

Resolute is available Tuesday wherever books are sold. That's it for today. Thank you for joining us. I'm Jackie Heinrich. Shannon Bream will be back next Fox News Sunday.

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