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00:00Columbia University has agreed to some changes in policy in an attempt to get federal funding
00:04back after the Trump administration pulled hundreds of millions of dollars from the Ivy
00:08League school over a string of violent anti-Semitic protests.
00:13This is a former student who has become one of the faces of the pro-Palestinian protests
00:17appeared in court Friday.
00:19The Vatican announcing that Pope Francis will make his first appearance in more than five
00:24weeks tomorrow as the 88-year-old pontiff recovers from a bout of pneumonia.
00:30And former heavyweight boxing champion and beloved entrepreneur George Foreman has passed
00:34away at age 76.
00:36More ahead on the life and legacy of an American icon.
00:41Welcome to Fox News Live.
00:42I'm Mike Emanuel in Washington.
00:43Much more coming up on those stories this hour.
00:46But we begin with a Fox News alert.
00:51The Trump administration touting its nationwide crackdown of the infamous Trende Aragua gang.
00:56This includes the first arrest of a suspected member under the recently invoked Alien Enemies
01:02Act.
01:03Christina Coleman joins me now with more.
01:05Hello, Christina.
01:06Hi, Mike.
01:07Yes.
01:08Take a listen to what the acting ICE director said yesterday about the arrest of dozens
01:12of Trende Aragua gang members.
01:15I'm proud to say in the past 48 hours, ICE, along with our local partners and our other
01:22fellow federal agencies, have arrested more than 68 TDA gang members, terrorists in the
01:31United States.
01:33And one of those arrests includes this man.
01:35ICE identified him as a Venezuelan national.
01:37They say he is a TDA gang member involved in human trafficking.
01:42Local authorities say this is the first arrest in the country of a TDA gang member with the
01:47use of the Alien Enemies Act.
01:49Prior to President Trump, the 1798 statute had only been invoked three times.
01:55The Trump administration is now using the centuries old law to deport members of the
02:00notorious Trende Aragua gang.
02:02In the proclamation announcing their use of the Alien Enemies Act, they said, quote, over
02:07the years, Venezuelan national and local authorities have ceded ever greater control over their
02:12territories to transnational criminal organizations, including TDA.
02:17The result is a hybrid criminal state that is perpetrating an invasion of and predatory
02:22incursion into the United States and which poses a substantial danger to the U.S.
02:28Take a listen.
02:30Some TDA terrorist rap sheets near criminal history histories are extremely extensive.
02:35Many of these members are cold blooded killers, rapists, thieves, drug traffickers, weapons
02:42traffickers and human traffickers.
02:45They're accused of the most heinous crimes committed inside our neighborhoods and communities.
02:50Also in the Washington, D.C. area, federal authorities say Border Patrol, in coordination
02:54with the FBI and Homeland Security, conducted an operation targeting suspected gang members
02:59involved in ongoing criminal activity.
03:02And get this.
03:03They ended up arresting 14 TDA gang members and a member of the MS-13 gang.
03:09Mike.
03:10Big story.
03:11Christina Coleman starting us off live, Christina.
03:13Thanks very much.
03:14Meanwhile, an illegal immigrant who was released under the Biden administration is now facing
03:19murder charges for allegedly strangling a Georgia mother of five.
03:24The killing drawing parallels to Lake and Riley, who was also brutally murdered by an
03:28illegal migrant in the state last year.
03:31Dana Marie McNichol joins me now with more.
03:33Hello, Dana Marie.
03:34Hi, Michael.
03:35This all happened in a suburb outside of Atlanta.
03:38Neighbors, they are in shock, grieving a 52-year-old mother.
03:43The arrest warrant shows us and gives us an idea of this gruesome murder.
03:47Now, police say 21-year-old David Hector Rivas Agastume, here illegally from Honduras, attacked
03:55Camila Williams on the night of March 12th.
03:58Now, investigators say he allegedly put her in a chokehold, killing her.
04:03Her body was later discovered in bushes near a neighborhood yard.
04:07For two days, Cobb County police combed through the area for evidence, but many questions
04:12remain, most notably whether the suspect and victim knew each other and what may have led
04:17to this seemingly random attack.
04:21In this case, it appears as though Ms. Williams was consciously aware that someone was following
04:29her.
04:30As a result of that, if you have those feelings, I urge you also to report it to local law
04:38enforcement in hopes that they can also help you out.
04:43Federal authorities confirmed that Rivas entered the U.S. illegally in 2021.
04:48He was arrested by Border Patrol, but was released with a court date.
04:52In July of 2023, a judge ordered his deportation, but Rivas ignored that order and remained
04:59in the U.S. until his arrest for murder this week.
05:02ICE has lodged an immigration detainer on him with the Cobb County Jail, where Rivas
05:06is being held on no bond, according to jail records.
05:10And this tragic parallels to the murder of Laken Riley, a young girl who was murdered
05:15in Georgia as well by an illegal migrant, also caught and released by the Biden administration.
05:21Mike, both women were found dead in the woods.
05:25Heartbreaking.
05:26Dana Marie McNichol, thanks very much.
05:30President Trump is at his golf club in the great state of New Jersey today before attending
05:33the NCAA Wrestling Championships tonight.
05:36It comes as he wrestles with a major legal challenge to his mass deportation plan.
05:42Lucas Tomlinson's live on the North Lawn with more.
05:44Hello, Lucas.
05:45Good afternoon, Mike.
05:46And federal judge James Boasberg continues to remain skeptical about President Trump
05:51using that wartime powers act that dates back to when John Adams was president to deport
05:55those alleged Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador.
05:58Judge Boasberg says he remains skeptical and calls the Trump administration's actions problematic.
06:04He also asked the following question in court, asking, quote, Why was this proclamation signed
06:10in the dark?
06:11And then these people rushed onto planes.
06:13The only reason do that is if you know it's a problem and you want to get them out before
06:17suits are filed.
06:19Here's Peter Ducey following up with the president about the judge yesterday.
06:23It doesn't sound like this judge who the DOJ is arguing with today about the deportation
06:30place.
06:31He wants to know why the proclamation was signed in the dark, his words and why people
06:36were rushed onto planes.
06:39Because we want to get criminals out of our country, number one, and I don't know when
06:42it was signed because I didn't sign it.
06:44Other people handled it.
06:45But Marco Rubio has done a great job and he wanted him out.
06:49And we go along with that.
06:51We want to get criminals out of our country.
06:54One federal prosecutor speaking to Fox in the last hour also sounded a little skeptical.
07:00This seems like a little bit of a legal stretch to me to say we're at war with Venezuela and
07:05therefore we have a right to detain or deport individuals from Venezuela.
07:11I think that's something that most lawyers and judges would take an issue with and really
07:16have to look into more.
07:19Something else that irks the president, Mike, and many Americans across the country, Tesla
07:23dealerships being vandalized.
07:24The president threatening serious punishments to anyone caught doing it.
07:28President Trump's attorney general, Pam Bondi, says three people have been arrested and charged
07:32in connection with this vandalism at the Tesla dealerships.
07:35Also, we just heard from the Venezuelan government a few minutes ago, Mike, saying they would
07:40begin repatriation flights to bring some of these migrants and these alleged terrorists
07:46back to Venezuela, saying, quote, a short domestic terror, calling domestic terrorism
07:53and saying the flights were to be to rescue our kidnapped brothers in El Salvador.
07:57Mike, interesting development.
07:58Lucas Tomlinson live on the North Lawn.
08:00Lucas, thanks a lot.
08:03For more on this, let's bring in former federal prosecutor Katie Cherkasky.
08:06Katie, welcome.
08:09We heard about Judge Boasberg there and Lucas's set up.
08:12Judge Boasberg says he has five questions for the DOJ.
08:15Let's put them on the screen.
08:17What time did the plane take off?
08:19What time did it leave U.S. airspace?
08:21What time did it land in which foreign country?
08:24What time are individuals subject solely to the proclamation transferred out of the U.S.
08:29custody?
08:30How many people were aboard solely on the basis of proclamation?
08:34What is your assessment, Katie?
08:36Well, I think that this judge is way far off of where he needs to be in terms of analyzing
08:42the government's actions and the president's actions under the Alien Enemies Act.
08:46The president of the United States has the ultimate authority to decide what to do in
08:51the interest of the safety and security of American citizens.
08:54And the use of this act has been looked at by the Supreme Court before.
08:58And essentially, the only real question that a trial court should be able to ask is whether
09:03the people who were deported are actually part of this specific group that was designated
09:10to be removed from this country.
09:11Other than that, the actions of the president under this act are not reviewable by courts
09:16per the Supreme Court.
09:18Judge Boasberg clearly frustrated with the Trump DOJ saying, quote, the government is
09:24not being forthcoming, but I will get to the bottom of if they complied with my order and
09:29who violated the order and what the consequences are.
09:33What about that aspect of the showdown?
09:35Well, it's certainly very interesting because the judge has the case before him.
09:40He's issuing orders.
09:41He really can't do much to enforce an order against the president himself.
09:45And obviously, this this order under the Alien Enemies Act comes from President Trump directly
09:50as he's authorized to do.
09:52And in terms of the judge suggesting that this interpretation is so far a stream from
09:57where the history suggests, that's absolutely not true.
10:01The act allows for the president to remove people in a designated group here.
10:05It's trendy at Aragua.
10:06It's not just any Venezuelan citizen who are engaged in an incursion or invasion of U.S.
10:12territory at the involvement of another government.
10:15And the regime in Venezuela is deeply infiltrated by members of this gang.
10:20So to me, it's very clear even just on the face of the act itself.
10:25President Trump is clearly frustrated by federal judges stepping in to block some of his actions.
10:30We want to show the audience the list of injunctions having an impact on presidential
10:35policies, 127 total since 1963.
10:39In more recent years, Obama, 12, the first Trump administration, 64, Biden, 14, Trump
10:46in February 2025 alone, 15.
10:50Do conservatives have a point here, Katie?
10:53Well, I think they absolutely do.
10:55And I think at the end of the day, if the president's making a decision that is in the
10:58interest of the safety and security of our citizens, I think that there needs to be great
11:03deference to that.
11:04And that is what his authority is as the chief law enforcement officer of this country.
11:09And so certainly I think that the undermining of his agenda in these broad brush ways is
11:13highly unusual and very inappropriate.
11:16We've seen a number of violent attacks on Tesla's.
11:19The FBI is investigating it, trying to get to the bottom of it.
11:22Here's President Trump on that.
11:25I looked at those showrooms burning and those cars, not one or two, like seven, eight, 10
11:31burning, exploding all over the place.
11:34These are terrorists.
11:35You didn't have that on January 6th.
11:37I can tell you you didn't have anything like that on January 6th.
11:40Does the FBI need to make a number of high profile arrests to stop it?
11:44Well, I think they definitely need to look into the coordination behind these attacks.
11:49The individuals who have engaged in them have said they were politically motivated and there
11:54have been people who have been charged.
11:55But certainly the idea that you can protest through violent and criminal activity is just
12:00not the case.
12:01That's not what the First Amendment protects.
12:02It's not a protest at that point.
12:03And it's gone into the criminal realm for sure.
12:06Are you confident that federal investigators will get to the bottom of it?
12:10Well, I certainly think that there needs to be a thorough investigation.
12:14And I would believe that they would be very interested in looking into this and the coordination
12:18behind it, because it's very dangerous and obviously widespread at this point.
12:21Former federal prosecutor Katie Cherkasky, thank you so much for your time and your analysis
12:25today.
12:27Joining me now, GOP Florida Congresswoman Cat Kamek for more on President Trump's legal
12:33battles.
12:34Congresswoman, welcome.
12:35Thanks so much for having me.
12:37So let's start with the Trende Aragua gang arrests.
12:40Many of them, a number of them coming in the great state of Florida.
12:44What's your reaction to them?
12:46I think exactly what President Trump is doing is what needs to be done.
12:50There should be zero tolerance for these types of illegal, violent criminals to remain
12:56free in our country.
12:58And any step that the president and his borders are, the Secretary of Homeland Security need
13:03to take in order to remove them from our communities is absolutely necessary and should be done.
13:08And I think it's ridiculous that we have activist judges that are trying to stand in the way
13:13of cleaning up our streets.
13:15This is absurd.
13:16We now have Democrats saying that they would rather keep violent gang criminals and cartel
13:21members out on the streets rather than allow President Trump to use his executive authority.
13:26To pick up on your point, there's clearly some GOP frustration with these judges stepping
13:30in and blocking some of President Trump's actions.
13:33Here's Senator Josh Hawley on that.
13:39These courts are doing these district courts is wrong.
13:41It is unconstitutional.
13:43I want to be real clear to me.
13:45This isn't about Congress taking away power courts currently have.
13:48This is about Congress reforming and stopping the abuse.
13:52They do not have the authority to go out and to say, Mr. President, you can't do this.
13:58Congress can make that clear.
14:00We need to do it right this second.
14:03Do you share those concerns?
14:05Absolutely.
14:06And I would add to my colleague in the Senate, his remarks that not only do we have the authority
14:13to reform it, but we have a constitutional duty.
14:16It was clearly outlined in the Constitution that the only court is the Supreme Court and
14:20the inferior courts are subject to the oversight of Congress.
14:24Alexander Hamilton talked about this in Federalist 81.
14:27We have an absolute right to step in and, of course, impeach these activist judges,
14:33which we haven't done since, I think, 1804.
14:36But we haven't taken any serious action towards judicial activism as a whole since 1911.
14:43This is long, long overdue.
14:45And there's other things that we can do to remedy this situation, because impeachment
14:49is going to be a bit of a bear for the margins that we have in the House and Senate.
14:55But that aside, we could institute three-judge panels.
14:58We could enforce injunction bonds if people feel so strongly about this.
15:03They need to put their money where their mouth is.
15:05Or we could just institute a national ban on these types of injunctions with these district courts.
15:11So a couple of things that Congress can do and should do.
15:16In the Fox poll, there is some clear discomfort with President Trump using executive action.
15:21Let's put that on the screen to show the audience.
15:2468 percent concerned, 31 percent not concerned.
15:28Similar to the polling on President Obama going around Congress back in 2014.
15:33What about that, Congresswoman?
15:35Listen, I think we all, irrespective of whether we're Republicans or Democrats, it doesn't matter.
15:42As Americans, we want the process to be done the right way.
15:45Now, we are up against a time clock, which is why President Trump is exercising his rightful
15:50authority as the executive to take action.
15:53Now, we have a mandate through both the Electoral College and the popular vote to execute on his agenda.
15:59We have to codify that.
16:00So that's on Congress for us to follow up behind the president and codify all of these
16:05actions that he's taking.
16:07I think that will put to bed a lot of these issues.
16:10But again, I say to folks who have issues with it, they were awfully quiet during the
16:14Obama years.
16:15They were awfully quiet during the last four years when we even had the Supreme Court slapping
16:19down then President Biden's student loan forgiveness that the Supreme Court, the highest court
16:26in the land, said was unconstitutional.
16:28He went forward with it anyway.
16:30And the same people who were yelling and screaming about President Trump didn't have a thing
16:34to say then.
16:35So it really comes down to us just saying, listen, if the president is going to take
16:39executive action, Congress needs to follow up and codify it.
16:42We need to get back to work and make sure we're doing just that.
16:46Congresswoman Kat Kamek of the great state of Florida, thank you so much for your time
16:49on this Saturday.
16:50Have a wonderful weekend.
16:51Absolutely.
16:52Go Gators.
16:53Thanks.
16:54Columbia University has agreed to meeting some of the Trump administration's demands
16:59after it pulled hundreds of millions of dollars from the school over a string of violent anti-Semitic
17:04protests.
17:05C.B. Cotton is there with the latest.
17:08Hello, C.B.
17:09Hi, Michael.
17:11Protest organizers here at Columbia University are angry and calling for a campus walkout
17:16on Monday over concessions being made by the elite school as it tries to get 400 million
17:22in federal funds restored.
17:24Now, Mike, the Trump administration yanked those dollars over allegations of anti-Semitism
17:29during campus protest.
17:31U.S. officials also vowing to go after those connected to the anti-Israel demonstrations.
17:37Secretary of State Marco Rubio writing on X late last night, quote, We will continue
17:42to cancel the visas of those whose presence or activities have potentially serious adverse
17:47foreign policy consequences for our country.
17:50Rubio's warning is actively playing out.
17:53But Darcon Suri, an Indian citizen studying and teaching at Georgetown University, was
17:57arrested by ICE this week and told he had violated the terms of his academic visa.
18:02DHS told Fox Suri was actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting anti-Semitism on
18:08social media.
18:09The New York Times reports Suri denied the allegations via an attorney.
18:14And then there is the case of Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia student activist and green
18:18card holder the government is trying to deport under a rarely used statute that allows for
18:23removing non-citizens who pose, quote, potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences
18:29for the United States.
18:31The Trump administration says Khalil handed out pro Hamas propaganda during campus protest.
18:36But Khalil's attorney says their client is being punished and targeted for speaking out
18:41for Palestinians.
18:42Former acting ICE director Jonathan Fahey believes the Trump administration is indeed
18:47going after cases that pose a national security risk.
18:52When you're promoting violence, promoting terrorism, that's where the line will be drawn.
18:56I expect they will continue this line until everyone has either been removed or people's,
19:01you know, fall in line and don't promote terrorist organizations on campuses.
19:07As for college campuses, many are now on high alert after what's taken place here at Columbia.
19:13Columbia has agreed to ban masks, empower police to make arrests and rein in a controversial
19:20academic department.
19:21Mike.
19:23CB Cotton live outside Columbia University, CB.
19:25Thanks very much.
19:28Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders will be back together
19:32for their fighting oligarchy tour again today.
19:35This is some Democrats aren't buying their progressive pitch and dismissing talk of a
19:39so-called Democrat Tea Party movement.
19:42That's next.
19:46Was involved in an overnight shooting that left three dead and more than a dozen others
19:51injured.
19:52Officials say it happened at a popular park in Las Cruces around 10 p.m.
19:56No arrests have been made, but investigators are following several credible leads.
20:03Investigators north of Los Angeles say illegal homemade fireworks turned this home into a
20:07bomb waiting to explode.
20:10Crews were able to save a man and four dogs from the fiery scene Thursday.
20:14Neighbors were evacuated and the next day firefighters conducted a controlled burn to
20:18burn off the rest of the volatile chemicals.
20:24Happening today, AOC and Bernie Sanders will rally in Arizona as they continue their anti-Trump
20:29resistance tour.
20:30This comes as the Democratic Party debates how it should take on the Trump agenda.
20:35Madeline Rivera is live outside the Capitol with more.
20:38Hello, Maddie.
20:39Hi, good afternoon, Mike.
20:40Well, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders are targeting working
20:44class voters on this Western swing.
20:47And they hope that their message promising to take on billionaires will resonate with
20:51a group of voters who swung towards Republicans in the November 2024 election.
20:55But they are also taking aim at Democrats who they say are not doing enough to fight
20:59back against the Trump administration.
21:03Our job, though, is not just to play defensive.
21:08We've got to get on the offensive as well.
21:11That means having a vision of where we as the wealthiest nation on Earth, the longest
21:17standing democracy on the planet, where do we want to go?
21:22Sanders tells the New York Times he wants the tour to encourage more people to run as
21:26independents like himself.
21:28Indeed, the Democrat brand is facing a beating.
21:30A Fox News poll shows only about 30 percent of voters approve of Democrats in Congress,
21:35down 23 points since this poll was last taken in October 2023.
21:40The downturn driven partly by fellow Democrats whose frustrations for the party were palpable
21:45in town halls this week.
21:46The anger over Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's decision to pass the GOP funding
21:50bill last week loomed large.
21:53Some constituents warning of trouble for incumbents in 2026.
21:58Democrats should win in 2026, but those Democrats may need to be the people who beat incumbents
22:03in primaries for being too passive now.
22:07But as a sign of how divided Democrats are, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman criticizes
22:11AOC's approach in this expo, saying, fight harder, a stunt that would have harmed millions
22:16and plunged us into chaos.
22:18We kept our government open, deal with it.
22:21And Michigan Senator Elisa Slotkin says she just can't be an activist in her purple state,
22:26saying that she must be a lot more practical.
22:28Mike, back to you.
22:29Maddie Rivera reporting live outside the Capitol.
22:31Maddie, thanks very much.
22:32You got it.
22:34Boxing legend George Foreman has died.
22:37The former heavyweight champion was part of some of the biggest moments in boxing history
22:40from fighting Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle to his upset win over Michael Moore
22:45when he was 45.
22:47He became the oldest man ever to win the heavyweight title.
22:51Later in life, he had great success as an entrepreneur, selling more than 100 million
22:56of his George Foreman grills.
22:58Jim Gray of Fox Sports remembering George Foreman this morning.
23:03He reinvented himself.
23:04This hasn't happened.
23:05People usually don't go from being villains to being people who are embraced.
23:10And that was one of the great things about George.
23:12For many, many years, he was not likable and people did not want to be around him.
23:18And then he changed everything.
23:20And he took control of his life.
23:23He found it through God and through his faith.
23:26And he found it through people.
23:28George Foreman was seven.
23:30Pope Francis plans to make his first public appearance in five weeks amid a lengthy stay
23:34at a Rome hospital.
23:35The 88-year-old pontiff has been battling a bout of double pneumonia and has not been
23:40seen aside from a photo released last week.
23:43But the Vatican says that tomorrow the pope will come to the window of his hospital and
23:47offer a greeting and a brief blessing.
23:52Flights have resumed at London's Heathrow Airport after a power outage caused by a fire
23:57yesterday shut down travel in and out of Europe's busiest hub.
24:01Stephanie Bennett is live from Heathrow with the latest.
24:04Hello, Stephanie.
24:05Hey, Mike.
24:06Yeah, extra flights have been added to help deal with this backlog.
24:11But airlines are warning that its impacts could last for several more days to come.
24:15Now, right here behind me, it's obviously been very busy this morning into this afternoon.
24:20Planes from around the world coming and going.
24:22Now, Heathrow has come under intense criticism, though, for how one of three of its substations
24:29caught fire and managed to cause all of this chaos.
24:32Now, the North Hyde electrical substation, that's about three miles away from here, and
24:35it took several hours to control the fire.
24:39Flights were grounded for most of Friday and nearby homes also had to evacuate.
24:43The London Fire Brigade has said the fire is thought to be non-suspicious.
24:4710 Downing Street has said there are questions to be answered.
24:50Meanwhile, this afternoon, the U.K.'s energy secretary has said that the government has
24:54ordered an urgent investigation into this power outage.
24:58Its impacts are felt around the globe, as Heathrow is Europe's busiest airport, as you
25:02mentioned, and there were more than 1,300 flights impacted yesterday alone, causing
25:07issues for more than 290,000 passengers.
25:11Many flights, they were diverted across England and even Europe, passengers instead landing
25:15in the Netherlands, Ireland, France and Germany, just to name a few.
25:19The National Grid, along with the chief executive of Heathrow Airport, have both apologized,
25:23describing the situation as unprecedented.
25:26And the question now being asked is how to avoid this happening again in the future.
25:29And of course, the costs will likely be in the millions for airlines.
25:33Even as things are moving today, some flights are still seeing delays.
25:36I don't know how to get home.
25:41This was my first big vacation with my kids.
25:45My husband died.
25:46And it's for the ending now this, so it's just, I just want to go home.
25:54The Heathrow officials say there are extra staff as well, hundreds of them at the airport
25:58today to keep things moving.
26:00But as always, check with your airlines before heading to the airports.
26:03Mike.
26:04Good advice.
26:05Stephanie Bennett, live at Heathrow.
26:06Stephanie, thanks very much.
26:11The Israeli military striking dozens of Hezbollah rocket launchers in a command center in Lebanon.
26:16This in response to rockets that were launched at Israel this morning.
26:19Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Secretary Israel Katz instructed the IDF to
26:25act forcefully against the terror targets.
26:27Netanyahu reaffirming that Israel will not allow any harm to its citizens and sovereignty.
26:40For more, let's bring in today's foreign policy panel, former ambassador at large and Atlantic
26:43Council senior fellow Nathan Sales and former deputy of Defense Department of Defense Deputy
26:48Press Secretary Sabrina Singh.
26:50Welcome to both of you.
26:51Thanks, Mike.
26:52So let's start in the Middle East.
26:54We were hoping to go to phase two, right?
26:57And it was difficult.
26:58And now it appears to be a mess.
26:59Ambassador, what is your assessment right now?
27:01Well, it looks like Hamas has chosen war for the past month.
27:05After phase one of the deal expired, Hamas and Israel, with some help from the United
27:11States and other mediators, have been trying to extend the ceasefire.
27:16Israel has been asking for Hamas to continue to release hostages.
27:19Hamas has dug in its feet.
27:20It looks like that Israel's patience has run out.
27:23And so Israel has calculated that military pressure is what it's going to take to get
27:28Hamas back to the negotiating table.
27:30Their theory is that's the only reason Hamas was prepared to negotiate in the first place.
27:35They've been using the past month to regroup in Gaza.
27:39And I think Israel's thinking, all right, if it worked before, we're going to have to
27:42use the hard medicine to get them back to the table now.
27:45Sabrina, up until January 20th, this was one of your headaches.
27:48Your assessment of where we are in the Middle East right now?
27:51Look, it took a really long time to get to phase one of this ceasefire deal.
27:55I mean, it took from May 2024 to January 2025 to put the ceasefire into place.
27:59And when that ceasefire was in place, we saw hostages being able to return and come home.
28:04That's what we need to see again.
28:05Hamas walked away from the table and they need to come back.
28:09What I'm curious to see is how this administration is going to put pressure on Hamas and also
28:14Israel to come back, because phase one was so important.
28:17And we need to see an extension so we can continue to see those hostages come home.
28:21But while these airstrikes are going on, what's happening is that also puts at risk those
28:25hostages.
28:26And you've seen some of these hostages put out statements that these airstrikes put their
28:30lives at risk.
28:31And of course, it puts innocent Palestinian lives at risk.
28:34So we need both sides to come back to the table.
28:36Ultimately, phase two, as we were talking, that's going to be the hardest part to execute
28:40on.
28:41So let's get this extension back in place.
28:43To Ukraine, where there may be some hopeful signs, there's at least conversations going
28:47on about potentially a deal there.
28:50Your assessment of that, Mr. Ambassador?
28:51Well, Mike, I think we have seen over the past week that Vladimir Putin is the obstacle
28:57to peace.
28:58You know, I think there was some real concern in the White House over the past month as
29:02to whether or not Ukraine was prepared to make some tough choices in order to get peace
29:08realized.
29:10Ukraine said yes.
29:11And when Vladimir Putin was given the option, the opportunity to agree to a partial ceasefire,
29:17his response was to escalate his attacks on Ukrainian civilians, including energy infrastructure.
29:22So I think it's clear now that we need to judge Putin not based on what he says.
29:27He's a trained spy.
29:29This is a man who lied for a living and he didn't give that up when he became president
29:32of Russia.
29:33Don't judge him based on what he says.
29:35Judge him based on what he does.
29:36And what he's doing is continuing to dig in for a long fight against not just Ukraine,
29:42but against the West generally.
29:43All right.
29:44I want to play for you what President Trump's saying about the situation.
29:46I'll get you to react to it.
29:50We have immense technical expertise in the United States to run those plants.
29:54I don't think that requires boots on the ground.
29:56But I'll leave the foreign policy to President Trump and Secretary Rubio.
30:00I know they are working tirelessly.
30:02How do we bring peace to Ukraine?
30:04How do we get this fighting to stop, which takes both sides to lay down their arms?
30:08But if it if it was helpful to achieve that end, have the U.S. run nuclear power plants
30:12in Ukraine?
30:13No problem.
30:14We can do that.
30:15I've dealt very well with both gentlemen, and we have I think we have the confines of
30:22a deal.
30:23I hope we have the confines of a deal.
30:24I believe we're going to pretty soon have a full ceasefire and then we're going to have
30:27a contract and the contracts being negotiated, the contract in terms of dividing up the lands,
30:33et cetera, et cetera.
30:34It's being negotiated as we speak.
30:36Sabrina, how do you assess Russia, Ukraine at this stage?
30:40Look, this is the same president that said on day one he was going to have peace and
30:44there was going to be peace in the Middle East, peace in Ukraine.
30:46And I think what he's finding is that is a lot harder said than done.
30:50You know, when it comes to Russia and Ukraine, the same unconditional ceasefire was put in
30:55part in front of both parties.
30:56And Ukraine agreed to what the ambassador was saying and Russia did not.
31:00And they've escalated their attacks on, you know, around Zaporizhia.
31:03There's a critical power plant.
31:04We're seeing those attacks continue every single day.
31:07So it's very clear that Putin is not serious about peace.
31:11And I think this administration just needs to be able to come to terms with that.
31:14What we need to do is strengthen our alliances within NATO.
31:17We need to continue to send military support and equipment to Ukraine so they can continue
31:23this fight in taking back their sovereign territory.
31:25All right.
31:26Sabrina Singh, Ambassador Nathan Sales.
31:28Thanks very much.
31:31Coming up, how states will take charge of education following President Trump's order
31:36to dismantle the Department of Education.
31:39That story is next.