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00:00It's 7 a.m. on the East Coast and it's Thursday, March the 20th, and this is Fox and Friends.

00:04Another promise kept. President Trump expected to sign an executive order today

00:08abolishing the Department of Education, sending power back to the states,

00:12standby states. And Democrats are hoping a successful American company actually goes

00:18belly up. Wait until you see what Elon Musk's response to a man who could have been vice

00:24president is. I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day.

00:32225 and dropping. Plus, four farmers on one mission to find true love. The stars of Fox's

00:43new season of Farmer Wants a Wife are here in the Big Apple. Awesome. In New York City.

00:50The second hour of Fox and Friends starts right now. And remember,

00:53mornings are better with your friends. Get dressed.

00:58So a hearing is set for the anti-Israeli activist Mahmoud Khalil in Louisiana tomorrow over his

01:05deportation. Now it comes as the judge rules to move his separate detainment case to New Jersey.

01:11Todd Pyro is here with the latest. Hey, Todd. Good to see all four of you again. Former Columbia

01:15University grad student Mahmoud Khalil's removal hearing has been moved to tomorrow in Louisiana

01:20to determine if he can be legally deported. Now, this is separate from a federal judge's

01:25decision yesterday to transfer his detention hearing to New Jersey, not Louisiana,

01:30where he is currently being held. The law citing the judge citing a law that required the case be

01:35held in the same jurisdiction where Khalil was first held, which is, of course, New Jersey.

01:42The judge also denying the Trump administration's request to dismiss Khalil's challenge to his

01:47arrest. Trump doubling down on his decision to remove Khalil. Well, Khalil's not exactly

01:54an easy one either because some judge glommed on to him. But the Democrats lost big because

02:00of the stupidity of their backing these 90 percent negative things from their standpoint.

02:06People that hate Israel want to destroy it. People that are murderers, people that are

02:11horrible. Khalil releasing a letter from an ICE detention center in Louisiana, quote,

02:17The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent.

02:22Visa holders, green card carriers and citizens alike will all be targeted for their political

02:28beliefs. In the weeks ahead, students, advocates and elected officials must unite to defend the

02:32right to protest. End quote. Khalil is a lawful permanent resident, a.k.a. a green card holder

02:38who helped lead Columbia University's anti-Israel protests last spring. He was arrested by federal

02:43immigration authorities earlier this month. He's expected to remain in Louisiana until that New

02:49Jersey judge weighs in. Back over to you. So, Todd, the administration now is going to make

02:55the case in New Jersey rather than here in New York state. But originally, according to this

03:00court filing, they wanted the whole case moved to Louisiana, which would have been more friendly,

03:05they feel, to the Trump administration. So there's two things at play here. One,

03:08there's the politics. And obviously, Louisiana feels more like a red state, let's say,

03:14than New York or New Jersey. And up here, you're more inclined in the Third Circuit to have when

03:19this case is ultimately appealed up and up and up. You're more inclined to have far left judges.

03:24And this goes to the judge fair, law fair discussion that we've been having. But there's

03:28also something else going on here. And is the fact where is the guy? So much of the law is

03:35determined based upon where the property is, or in this case, where the human is. The human is in

03:40Louisiana. And so the Trump administration has a solid case to say, look, this whole thing should

03:46be in Louisiana because he's currently there now. Obviously, this New Jersey or this New York judge

03:52said New Jersey's the proper place. We'll see if that gets appealed going forward.

03:57Yeah, the whole hope is thanks. The whole hope is that not only will Khalil be thrown out,

04:02but it's got to be so many others. And keep in mind, the key would be get linking him

04:07not to the Palestinian movement. That's one thing, but to Hamas. And when his group was

04:11handing out pictures of Sinwar, who led the October 7th attacks, and his and his brother

04:16is now leading the what's left of Hamas. And when you hand out pictures of Nasrallah,

04:22who led the Hezbollah attacks that started the day after January 7th,

04:25those are terrorist groups looked at by America. So they're going to try to link to a guy that

04:31comes off very cerebral. He's calm, but he's leaving a movement that is out of control.

04:38Brian, I get the point of showing the work, but I think it is an overreach of the court

04:45to say they have any authority over the green card or visa process. It's strictly the executive

04:51branch. So are you telling me now, if this is what the court is now doing, that the court has

04:56to approve every visa or green card going forward? If someone gets denied their green card or visa

05:03going forward, they can challenge it in court? That's not the way we do business in this country

05:07right now. It has always been the executive branch. It has always been the Secretary of State

05:12or CBP through this, you know, borders and customs that have handled this process.

05:18By doing this now, you're going to set a precedent now that everyone that gets denied now

05:24is going to want the courts to get involved. We've never done it that way. So I just think

05:28it's a slippery slope. Well, the administration, the administration has broad latitude over who

05:33they do deport in this case, just like the next case we're going to talk about in a little while

05:39about what is going on. It has to do with, you know, with those five Venezuelans who were on

05:44that airplane, supposedly. It has to do with whether or not they get due process. It's all

05:49about due process. So if they're going, they say they didn't get due process. Does this guy get

05:54due process? Ultimately, it was Marco Rubio as Secretary of State who's ordering another country.

05:58Well, this goes back to the common sense idea that Donald Trump helped Donald Trump win the

06:03election. Have we forgotten about 9-11? Those terrorists were in our country. They were

06:08training in our country and they killed thousands of Americans. So when you come to our country on

06:12a green card, you're a guest in our country and you are sympathizing with a terrorist organization

06:18passing out pamphlets that continue to spew their hate. And remember, this organization says they

06:24want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. They hate America. Why would we allow that

06:29individual to stay here? It's a question of national security at this point. All right.

06:32So let's talk about what else is happening at Columbia University. It was about a year ago.

06:36We watched the unrest and anti-Semitism rage on that campus. The cops were not permitted

06:41and less called on to go onto the campus until they actually took over Hamilton Hall. They were

06:47on the outside. But we watched the unrest. Lawrence, you covered it up there on a regular

06:51basis. Nobody was stamping down on anti-Semitism. In fact, in the communication that since emerged,

06:56Chuck Schumer was talking to the president saying, don't even meet with Republicans.

07:01Don't even bring up the anti-Semitism. Just let it fester. Well, that changed when the house flipped

07:06and they got those presidents to come in and try to defend their unholy alliance

07:10with these terrorist groups and anti-Semitism raging on those campuses. And now this new with

07:16the new administration comes a new policy. You continue with this anti-Semitism and the unrest.

07:21You lose 400 million dollars. In fact, I'm going to do that. So with Columbia about to lose 400

07:26million dollars, they were told, do these nine things if you want it back. Nine things have to

07:32be complied by unless you lose 400 million dollars. And I thought some things were pretty substantial.

07:37Number one, no masks. Who doesn't want that? Number two, disciplinary proceedings would have

07:41of those people from last year. They were followed through on that. But the most intriguing is what

07:46they're doing with the with the Middle East and South Asian departments. They know the faculty

07:53no longer has control of the curriculum. Turn it over to an outside source, because obviously you're

08:00teaching kids things that are anti-American that are causing some of this anti-Semitism.

08:05We led with Mahmoud Khalil. He was the one that was doing all the negotiation for this stuff,

08:10right? He didn't want any of this to take place. So now the president, she was negotiating with

08:15him at first, but now she's negotiating with the administration. This is what she's saying

08:19right now. Legitimate questions about our practices and progress can be asked and we

08:23will answer them. We will also continue, as is our responsibility, as we have done throughout

08:29our history to engage in constructive dialogue with our federal regulators, including on the

08:34work we're doing to address anti-Semitism, harassment and discrimination. The tangible

08:39progress we are making in the intensity of our commitment to this ongoing work. They're only

08:45doing this, though, because of the money they want. They have no interest to fix this before

08:50when they were blocking Jews from going to class, when they kidnapped janitors in the building.

08:55They did nothing right. And so, you know, it's one thing to just from the bully public yell at

09:02at a school, OK, you guys better do this. Nothing happened until Trump pulled the plug on 400

09:07million dollars. Same thing, Ainsley, I believe you were talking a little while ago about how

09:12175 million dollars at UPenn has been frozen because Donald Trump froze it because that school

09:18did not ban as it has been, you know, a change with an executive order, did not ban trans athletes

09:27from competing in women's sports. They don't do that. They're going to stop the money, obviously

09:31saying stop it is one thing. But actually pulling the plug gets action because now

09:36Colombia apparently is going to cave to those nine things. Yeah, that's right. All right.

09:39So Tesla protesters are planning something called their biggest day of action. And this is going to

09:45be on March 29th. These are the flyers that are going around now aiming for 500 demonstrations

09:51at Tesla showrooms all around the world. And here in America, we have 277 Tesla locations

09:56and superchargers in the U.S. So they're going after those facilities

10:00because they hate Elon Musk so much. So this is an hour in an hour. This is anything that

10:05we've got and that is leading this effort when it comes to electric vehicles and the technology

10:09as well as Elon Musk. So if you're going to target the number one person that's doing this,

10:14the issue must have been solved. Right. Of course not. They don't believe it either.

10:19They didn't believe what they said before. Or if someone's politics or who they voted for

10:23doesn't align with them, then all of a sudden he's an enemy to the country now.

10:28But here's the thing. The collateral damage are the American driving public because,

10:32OK, so they want to take Elon's Tesla stock. He only owns 13 percent of Tesla, but he's got

10:39hundreds of billions of dollars, as we know. Ultimately, it's going to impact a lot of people,

10:44not only who own that stock and have seen it lose about 40 percent in the last couple of months,

10:50but also the driving public. Yesterday, we told you about that Web site that we've

10:54heard about, read about in The New York Post, where they're they're targeting everybody who

10:59owns a Tesla. What they're trying to do is shame people into not buying any more cars.

11:04And if you drive them on public streets, the worry is, is some crazy person going to come

11:10up and say something at me or vandalize my car or hurt me? That's that's a genuine worry.

11:15I was talking to a guy who owns a Tesla yesterday late afternoon and he said,

11:20you know, I'm just left in the garage. I'm afraid to drive. I'm scared to drive it.

11:24Yeah. So Tim Walz, you know, ran for vice president with Kamala Harris. He was on stage

11:30and he's applauding the collapse of an American company, a company that makes the most American

11:36made car. Watch this. They've got that little stock app. I added Tesla to it to give me a

11:42little boost during the day to twenty five and dropping. So if you own one, we're not blaming

11:51you. You can you can take dental floss and pull the Tesla thing off. So what is he doing? He's

11:58encouraging people to take action, physical action against a fantastic company, because Elon Musk

12:06is trying to lean out the federal government. That's what he's trying to do, not enrich himself.

12:11He's actually putting his six, seven businesses on hold, stepping away to help out the country.

12:16You don't like what he does. You have a chance to vote in a year and a half. But these guys

12:20actually think that that's going to resonate and help their cause. He's telling people pop off the

12:26T and Tesla when you drive. And he's also not discouraging what we're seeing with those

12:32these explosions, those myriad of attacks around the country. And Jimmy Kimmel's doing the same

12:36thing, mocking Elon Musk. You know, you saw that last night. I think this is and we're going to

12:43talk to Joe Lonsdale, one of his good friends from Silicon Valley, about what is actually going on

12:48here. We use David Sachs going to get the message now is if he does something that they don't like

12:52with cryptocurrency, are they going to come after PayPal? So what are you trying to do?

12:57So Tim Walz, when he says, if you need a little boost during the day, check out Tesla stock.

13:02Elon Musk's response. Look at this. He says, sometimes when I need a little boost,

13:07I look at the J.D. Vance portrait in the White House and thank the Lord.

13:11Yeah, funny stuff. Thank the Lord is right, because can you imagine the disaster we would

13:16have in this country right now if they got everything they want? They lied the entire

13:20election, didn't focus on adversary people. And still you see this polling every single day

13:26and they continue to lose people and they double down. It's insane. Some of my friends that have

13:31been lifelong Democrats are now supporting the president just on simple stuff, just simple stuff

13:36is just like, you know what? The criminal state just should not be in our country.

13:41Don't you think it's interesting that they're afraid to tackle Trump?

13:44They're like their conference calls are like, OK, we can't touch Trump, but we can get the

13:48people around him. Right. The old thing was, right. If we can't throw out the president,

13:52let's go after his family. Tried to get him. And Elon Musk,

13:56given the fact that he's working with Doge, is collateral damage to

14:00Donald Trump because he's approximate to him. Well, they can keep acting like this and keep

14:04losing elections. Fifteen minutes after the top of the hour, a judge extending the deadline for

14:08the Trump administration to turn over information related to the deportation flights of migrant

14:13gang members to El Salvador. This comes as the president stands firm in his efforts to make

14:19America safe again. Alexandria Hoff to just lie for the White House. Alexandria.

14:24Hey, good morning to you. The judge wrote yesterday that these questions that are due

14:27by the government to be answered today must be answered to determine if it intentionally defied

14:32court orders and if so, quote, what the consequences should be. So, again,

14:36these questions, there are five of them. They are due by noon today. They pertain to the timing of

14:40weekend flights, these deportation flights and the status of those on board. Some of these questions

14:45were already answered by the DOJ earlier this week, apparently not to the judge's liking or

14:49satisfaction. But they did claim the DOJ that no order was defied because the two flights containing

14:55two hundred and sixty one alleged gang members expelled using the Alien Enemies Act took off

14:59hours before the judge issued a written order halting the deportations. This judge has no right

15:06to ask those questions. You have one unelected federal judge trying to control foreign policies,

15:14trying to control the Alien Enemies Act, which they have no business presiding over. And there

15:21are two hundred and sixty one reasons why Americans are safer now. That's because those people are out

15:27of this country. The major crux of this case, the question being, do those people deserve due

15:33process in this country? And Judge Boasberg, he did allow the DOJ to invoke the state secrets

15:38doctrine designed to protect national security for any of those five questions that officials

15:42feel they are unwilling to answer. The White House says the president is going to continue to

15:46press on in court. What option does he have to ensure that his agenda continues to move forward

15:53while this is ongoing and that the judges appear to be trying to just block and delay and impede?

15:58Well, you're right. They are trying to block, delay and impede. This is lawfare. The president

16:03is no stranger to it. We will continue to use the full weight of the White House counsel's

16:09office and the president's team of lawyers to fight this in court because we know we will win,

16:13even if we have to go all the way to the Supreme Court. So while this is happening, the search is

16:17on for two illegal immigrants who escaped from a Denver detention center this week. It happened

16:22during an apparent power outage. ICE claims this. It's interesting. Quote, local authorities were

16:27notified immediately and declined to assist with the search. ICE also notified additional state

16:32and federal law enforcement partners. The aliens are still at large and the search is ongoing.

16:37Guys, they are still missing as of this morning. I'll send it back to you.

16:40That's right. So, Alex, there's going to be this hearing at noon again today where the judge just

16:45wants the government to tell him in private what time did these planes take off? Because we know

16:53there are a bunch of flight data websites that actually have given the times. We know the time.

16:59I think he just wants the government on the record to see if they tell him and if they tell him

17:05the same number. Yeah. And you know, he's gotten kind of nitpicky with this. He wants

17:10these exact details. The government has maintained this was hours after, hours before this written

17:17order came down. He wants to know airspace times, though. What time did these two flights in

17:21particular leave airspace, U.S. airspace? All right. Thanks so much. Can we not just skip over

17:26the fact that local cops were told not to help when you've got a fugitive in Aurora? First of

17:32all, I think it's important to know that Trinidad or their base is in that area. So you've got

17:38dangerous fugitives on the loose and local cops, not rank and file. They would want to do their

17:44job. But the leadership told them not to cooperate to help get this fugitive power outage at the

17:50detention center at the facility at nine thirty p.m. and it calls the door to the soccer facility

17:56to unlock. So two of them walked off the property. They didn't realize that the guards until twelve

18:01thirty in the morning, hours later when they did a headcount. So ICE notifies the authorities in

18:07that area and the authorities declined to assist them. Unbelievable. So let's talk about what the

18:13judges are doing to try to stop the president, too. So we heard about those flights that they

18:18asked to turn around, says it's too late. I don't know enough gas to turn a jet fuel to turn around

18:23and come back anyway. So we just want more flights to go. We got any more than 261. We got the worst

18:28of the worst. And El Salvador knows how to lock them up and make them actually pay for their time.

18:33And plus, Venezuela mysteriously has decided not to take their their their criminals back.

18:39So the only thing that they can do to this president is stop him, it seems, with judges.

18:44And look at the injunctions since 1963. You have Obama with with 12. You have Biden with 14.

18:51Trump 15 last time. And now you have 64 in the first term. Do you think we were supposed to be

18:58a country where the district court judges determines our foreign foreign and domestic policies,

19:03district court judges that are political animals? I mean, look at this one judge. This one judge

19:08was an activist. This judge era was an activist for Joe Biden in 2020. Got the appointment there,

19:15actually raised money for Barack Obama and is also give money to Act Blue.

19:20She's deciding if transgenders can be in the military. Really? What about Judge Chunkin,

19:26who is desperate to put to find Trump guilty in Washington, D.C.? She's stopping his agenda,

19:32too. Right. Well, as we told you yesterday, Axios has a story that details why there are

19:37all these court cases right now. And a lot of it has to do with the fact that the administration

19:41wants clarity from the Supreme Court. And the only way to get that is to start at the district level

19:46or the federal level. Next thing you know, the Supreme Court starts with the original challenge

19:50by the challenge, every single executive action that he takes. I mean, stuff that

19:55we were just talking about the story with Mahmoud. We know that the executive branch has control of

20:01all visas and green cards. The fact that a court is involved in this is nonsense.

20:06They want the Supreme Court to actually define stuff because there's a lot of gray in it.

20:10They want it black and white. Well, they want to do it. They actually I don't think they want

20:13a challenge. They think they're accepting the challenge because they have no choice.

20:17But if they have a choice, they would go and exit. Khalil would be in Gaza or Syria. That's

20:22why these judges, these judgeships are so important. When you have 64 injunctions over

20:28Donald Trump's entire last four years compared to Barack Obama at 12 and Biden at 14.

20:34And already in the month of February, last month, 15 injunctions against Donald Trump.

20:39Good time to be a lawyer. It's a better time to be a news anchor because you get three of them.

20:45I concur, which I think could be a legal term. All right, let's get some more news,

20:49shall we? Let's start with this. There may be another delay as Joshua Reby tries to return home.

20:55Local reports say the key witness in the case of the US college student who went missing in

20:59the Dominican Republic is stuck in Puerto Rico, where he had a planned stopover on his way back

21:05to the United States. The reports say he did not have an exit stamp from the D.R. in his passport

21:11leading to this holdup. A judge in the Dominican Republic declared he was free to

21:16return home just yesterday. So more to come on that. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu delivering her

21:22state of the city address last night where she struck a defiant tone against, quote,

21:27tyranny amid her battle with the Trump administration over Boston's sanctuary city

21:32status. We are a city where the Irish coffee is strong and our opinions are stronger.

21:39We may not always agree or see eye to eye, but at the end of the day, we are a family. No one

21:45tells Boston how to take care of our own, not kings and not presidents who think they are kings.

21:53The comments come a few weeks after the mayor testified at a House Oversight Committee hearing

21:58defending their sanctuary city policies. President Trump giving Laura Ingram an exclusive tour of the

22:05the White House and the Oval Office, even showing off his new display

22:09of one of our country's most treasured documents.

22:14This is the Declaration of Independence, and it's very cool.

22:23They're great. Just what up yesterday? Think Joe Biden would do this? I don't think so.

22:28Do you think he'd think of it? Do you think he knows what it is?

22:32Trump telling Ingram the Declaration of Independence had to be covered by that

22:36curtain in the Oval Office to protect it from light. And those are your headlines,

22:41guys. A little bit of science news in there as well. Yeah. And I think that's because when you

22:45go to the National Archives, it's so dark in there because of the light. Yeah. And I don't think Laura

22:50knew what was behind. Isn't that so cool? I know it was really cool. Yeah. President got all the

22:58presidents up there. That was a fantastic segment yesterday, that tour that they did. It really was.

23:03Did you hear him talk about the gold paint? Yeah. They haven't been able to figure out the gold

23:07paint. The man knows his lines. So he brought in gold stuff. That's right. All right. Twenty

23:12four minutes after the top of the hour, shutting the Education Department's doors for good.

23:16Former Education Secretary Bill Bennett says it's going to be tough. He knows what that means.

23:20That'll be next. So today, President Trump pushing forward with his plan to abolish the

23:27Department of Education completely when he signs an executive order making it official.

23:32President Reagan was the first to call for this. Fox News contributor Bill Bennett served

23:37as Reagan's education secretary. And he joins us now. Good morning, Bill. Hey, good morning.

23:43Good morning, Lawrence. How are you? So good, brother. So this is a few things that are going

23:47to come out in this executive order. He's going to direct the education secretary to facilitate

23:53closures of departments. He's going to return education authority to the states, continue to

23:58ensure effective, uninterrupted delivery of services and programs and benefits. And he's

24:04going to prevent programs from receiving funds from advancing D.I. or gender ideology. Is this

24:10a good thing? Yeah, it's a good thing in terms of far reaching. I think what he's doing in higher ed

24:16may have a greater impact overall, but we'll see. There's a question as to whether he can

24:21send a lot of this back to the states, which is one of the main things they're doing without

24:27congressional authority. These programs were created by the states, by the legislatures, I mean,

24:33federal legislature. And he may need their approval. But I would actually go one better,

24:38one tougher than the president. Instead of just sending it back to the states,

24:42send it back to the people. I mean, do you really want to give 15 percent of your grants to the

24:47state of California since they do with this whatever you want? I don't think so. Why not

24:52send it directly to the people and let them in the form of scholarships or grants or vouchers,

24:58whatever you want to call them? I use it to take it to the school of their choice.

25:02That's what I think I'd recommend. Additionally, Lawrence, if I may, you notice in all these

25:08discussions, we're always talking about the scores and math and reading. One of the ways we do that

25:15is through the National Center for Education Statistics, which houses the NAEP, the National

25:21Assessment of Educational Progress. That's the place where we have the barometer that measures

25:27what our kids are learning. Don't throw that baby out with the bathwater, please.

25:32Yeah, you were talking about those test scores. So let's get into some of that.

25:35Yeah, sure.

25:36Nine percent of fourth graders are below basic level.

25:39Seventy percent of eighth graders are below the basic levels of math.

25:43Sixty one percent of fourth graders are below the basic level and 78 percent of eighth graders

25:48are below the basic level. I mean, this is a national tragedy and I don't think it's a funding

25:55issue. No, it's not. It's a national catastrophe. We have to raise our standards. So when you send

26:02this money back to the states, where do the people if you do send it to the people, you're

26:07not going to have a problem with a Gavin Newsom. Parents are for the most part, large part,

26:13are going to pick the right schools and they're going to up the standards.

26:16Look what's happening around the country. Parents are starting these classical academies.

26:21That's right.

26:21Schools that want to teach the right things about character as well as to love the country and

26:27math and reading. And the reading, of course, is critical by the third grade.

26:31The scores you cited, Lawrence, it's interesting, are pretty much the same as they were in 1979

26:39before the department was established. So we've gone about we've spent all this money and we're

26:46pretty much back where we were in 79. So there's a better way to do it. The states are good,

26:52but the states are better, but the people are best.

26:55Yeah, it's so true. I mean, I'm not sitting here on Fox and Friends. If my town of Garland, Texas,

27:01didn't have choice of schools. But you're right. It has to be with the parents because

27:06look at Illinois. They're trying to take the power away from the parents there.

27:11It's a fascinating conversation, Bill. Thank you so much.

27:14You betcha. Thank you, Lawrence.

27:17You got it. So Trump getting high marks in the latest Fox News poll,

27:20but all eyes are still on the economy. The positive signs were close to recovery.

27:27Plus, Trump's mission to make America the crypto capital of the world continues.

27:32We'll tell you how.

27:58and parts of New England. Not out of the question to get snow this time of year,

28:02but still kind of a bummer because we want some spring. We have our next system moving into the

28:07West. Heavy rain for them and some mountain snow and the fire weather outlook for parts of the

28:11plains today, Friday, Saturday is elevated. OK, so just keep that in mind. And then we have the

28:16severe threat as we head into Sunday. Some of the same spots that were hit with tornadoes last

28:21weekend. We could see a repeat of that through Dallas, Louisiana, parts of Arkansas and Mississippi.

28:27And then the fire weather tracker, that's something we're going to have to watch as well,

28:30because conditions are going to remain favorable for wildfire danger. Foxweather.com, of course,

28:35for all of your latest details. Steve, I think I need an umbrella, so I'm going to come in right

28:40now. You're the weather person. You should know. I should, but I didn't prepare. It's OK. Run

28:46indoors. Here I come. All right. Then she's off. Meanwhile, a brand new Fox News poll has President

28:52Trump's approval rating at forty nine percent, which matches his first term's all time high.

28:58But some people say they are still very concerned about the economy and inflation.

29:03Now, who else is the co-host of The Big Money Show? Taylor Riggins joins us right now. Good

29:07morning to you, Taylor. Good morning. So he gets good grades on what he's doing so far.

29:12Yeah. But, you know, every once in a while, even though a lot of people aren't in the stock market

29:17per se, they know that impacts everything in the stock market has been all over the place.

29:21Yes, it has been. Actually, we'll give the administration a lot more credit during Trump

29:261.0. It seemed like he was tweeting about the stock market every day. I think Trump and Scott

29:32Besson have done a great job at messaging in Trump 2.0 that they're watching the 10 year yield

29:37because that if that comes down, they are saying that's what brings down the cost of your credit

29:43card, your auto loan, your mortgage, all of that stuff. And so that's a much better gauge.

29:48It's always great when the stock market's at record highs, but the market is not the economy.

29:53Much better to focus on the long term economic stability than the day to day stock market.

29:57Right. And if we could put that graphic back up for just a moment, Taylor,

30:01very clearly. And that's that's the reason he got elected. Inflation and the border

30:06and immigration is down there. I think a lot of people feel like he's already handling that.

30:12But it's just the economy impacts all of us. Yes. Now, April 2nd is going to be a big day.

30:20Yeah, because he's putting a lot of his chips on April 2nd. Yeah. You know, liberation day,

30:26liberation day in America. I think the on off tariffs have been confusing to many,

30:32including the market, as you alluded to. I think business leaders and David Solomon over at

30:39Goldman Sachs said this business leaders understand tariffs. They understand what

30:43reciprocal tariffs means. If Europe is charging me 10 percent for a car and I'm charging them

30:48two and a half percent for a car, we can all go to 10. We can all come to two and a half or we

30:53can all go to zero, which is the perfect world for free capital markets. Reciprocity makes sense.

30:59I think up until now, when we've been doing if it's fentanyl, if it's border, if it's

31:06you, we don't like you. You know, that's what's been confusing. So I think April 2nd is very

31:11important because that's going to be reciprocal. I want to see them lay out chart by chart,

31:15which country is charging us what. And then we can all negotiate lower and see.

31:21That's the key word negotiate, because when he slaps a 25 percent tariff on some country,

31:26you know, name the country, that's a big number. Ultimately, as we know, with negotiations. All

31:32right. I'll give you 25 percent. All right. I'll I'll take 10. Yeah, I'll take five. Ultimately.

31:37And we saw that with Europe where they actually came down to two and a half percent on the cars

31:41the way we do instead of us going up to 10. So in a perfect world, again, we all go to zero,

31:46right, because we all believe in just free trade and open market. So we'll have to see

31:50again April 2nd if it's a negotiation tool, if other countries start to work with us and if we

31:55start to really rethink about this. But it could be volatile until then. I always I just don't

32:01check the stock market. I just invest in the long run and we'll check it 10 years from now.

32:06OK, listen, I check egg prices because I bought a dozen yesterday and they came way down.

32:11Good. OK, so wholesale prices are down, but we want to make sure retail prices come down,

32:15too, for eggs. Bring down bacon a little more. Yeah, I'm just saying. All right. Taylor,

32:20we'll be watching you today at noon. All right. Meanwhile, it is the most successful

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