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President Trump's take on the first 100 days on Lisa Brady. Fox News just telling reporters he's either done everything or is in the process of doing it. He says the border is in great shape. I would say that was my number one thing. Uh,

The economy would be certainly right up there, and I think it's doing great. We were losing billions and billions of dollars a day with trade. The president says he thinks the U.S. will have a deal with India as talks continue with multiple countries. He also just confirmed an easing of some tariffs for automakers.

saying he didn't want to penalize companies if they had trouble finding parts supplies during what he calls a transition period. He's also offering reassurance about Republican lawmakers coming together on tax cuts and spending cuts. Oh, I think they're going to be all aboard. I think the Republicans are really with us. We have the big, beautiful deal. It's moving along, and I think we're going to have it.

taken care of. I think they'll all be there. President Trump says he had a good call with Amazon chair Jeff Bezos and that Bezos did the right thing. This after reports the company was planning to list tariff charges for certain products. Amazon says that was never an approved plan and is not happening. The president's heading to Michigan for a rally as Democrats slam his first 100 days as disastrous.

American consumers remain concerned with consumer confidence slumping for a fifth straight month in the conference boards index, lowest level since the start of the pandemic, and job openings fell in March to just under 7.2 million vacancies. However, overall layoffs declined by 222,000.

Overall hires held at 5.4 million and total separations were little changed at 5.1 million, suggesting stability in the labor market right before April's tariffs were unveiled. Fox's Jenny Kosola, an hour to the close on Wall Street. The Dow's up 350 points. America is listening to Fox News. Did you hear the new Mega Millions jackpots are going to be higher than ever? How high? Like really high.

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Despite President Trump's optimism about Republican unity in Congress, there is some tension brewing among GOP leaders. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he's having conversations with two New York Republican lawmakers about possibly running for governor of New York. One of them, Elise Stefanik, a member of House GOP leadership, said...

firing back, saying she's had no conversations with the speaker about the race. Speaker Johnson clarified his comments to Fox News. At least one of my closest friends. We haven't specifically talked about

her running for governor. We talk about all these other things and she's coming in to visit with me and it's all good. Stefanik adds she's looking forward to conversations about SALT, a divisive issue among Republicans, which allows those in high-tax states to deduct their state and local taxes from their federal filings. Red State Republicans aren't fans of the government subsidizing high-tax states. Ryan Schmelz, Fox News. A member of ISIS accused of inciting the deadly New Year's terror attack in New Orleans is arrested and facing charges in Iraq.

where officials say their investigation of the unnamed suspect was requested by U.S. authorities. We know back in January, in the days after this, that the FBI said they were looking into the path to radicalization of Samshedine Jabbar. They say they believe it started in 2022 and that in 2023, he traveled abroad to Egypt as well as to Canada. At the time, they were looking into who he met with on those trips. What did he do on those trips?

as well as what contacts he had with folks beyond those two countries. Fox's Garrett Tenage Barr, the main attacker, was a U.S. Army veteran who pledged allegiance to ISIS before the Bourbon Street truck ramming and shooting that killed 14 people before he was killed in a shootout with police. A manhunt after a mass shooting in Sweden. Police say three people were killed by a man who opened fire before a spring celebration and reportedly fled the scene on an electric scooter.

Elisa Brady, Fox News.