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direct aid to israel, ukraine and taiwan and also aim to ban tik tok in the u.s., the package will need significant help from democrats in order to pass. welcome to fox news live, i'm griff jenkins, hey, alicia, it's going to be a busy day. alicia: it's going to be busy, i'm alicia acuna, hi, griff. we'll look whether marjorie taylor greene will have the move to oust speaker johnson. he says he would continue to do his job and not be deterred by threats. and chad pergram is on capitol hill following it for us. >> good afternoon. all of this is going to go down in the next couple of hours, votes start soon and then questions about johnson's leadership. their 61 billion dollars for ukraine, the most controversial of all. >> the speak of of the house come out in support of ukraine.

history judges us for what we do, this is a critical time on the world stage and the speaker continued, i would rather send bullets to ukraine than american boys. >> the house automatically blends the bills into one package at the end. that makes it easier for the senate to sync up on tuesday. it's possible more democrats might vote for the ukraine bill than members of the g.o.p. >> this war is not economically speaking even a fair fight. the gross domestic product of the european union is nine times that of russia's. their population is three times of that russia's. the european union can do more. if the united states continues to fund this effort. >> and some democrats will oppose aid to israel, they want guardrails on dollars sent to israel because of gaza.

once they vote on foreign aid, wait to see if marjorie taylor greens pops on speaker johnson to get him out. thomas massie wants him out. >> on the border, he's going to shove schumer's bill through the house. and mike johnson has given no reason to put republicans back into authority. >> massie says that he looked at two major spending bills and ignored on fisa. and democrats could help johnson with the bill to help ukraine. >> and chad will be over the next couple of hours and guiding us through this and chad pergram from capitol hill, see you in a bit. griff: chad is our guy. for more on this, let's bring in republican congressman from oklahoma and house homeland security and budget committees, josh brecheen.

you're standing outside of the door of the chamber voting on this. one of 55 republicans who voted against the rule to get us to this point. how do you intend to vote today? >> well, i am greatly concerned about the fact that the unpaid for elements of this. i've submitted an amendment that actually there was a hearing on under the rules complete. we have under the american rescue plan democrats moved forward in 2021, a provision of that called the state and local financial recovery funds and it's something that epic, the organization has highlighted and paul winfrey, who was budget director under trump told my staff only a few days ago, there are still $90 billion of the total price tag of all of this is 95. there's $90 billion within that fund that could be utilized and so, we put an amendment forward saying with the $34 trillion gross national debt and what this fund is being used for, it was supposed to be for covid. well, covid emergency ended last year. griff: right.

>> and this fund has been used by the state of washington to give out $1,000 checks to 340,000 illegal immigrants at a price to go of $340 million. that's just the state of washington. arizona used the funds to provide dance classes for illegal aliens, and some of us who say, you're lacking the ability to pay for this. here is a bright and shiny example of 90 billion that could be utilized to pay for supplementals. griff: that's a great point. that's not what is before you now. when it comes to support for israel, support for ukraine, and the indoe pacific. how do you inpend to vote? where is your conscience on this? >> look, my conscience takes me differentiation between israel, ukraine and taiwan and so, let me focus on ukraine and taiwan for a moment. for taiwan, there's $250 billion that's owed to taiwan by the united states, part of our debt that's held by them and we're going to give them

another $8 billion and their economy is not what ours is. their debt to gdp ratio, you look at the united states, only nine other nations that have a higher debt to gdp ratio than the united states. many of us on the budget commit, economic security is national security. i'm going to be a no on taiwan, no on ukraine. i have a different take on israel, those who blessed themselves in israel will be blessed. a different take on israel. but ukraine and taiwan, you know, i noticed in your clip, talking about europe. americans have put $113 billion into ukraine. and you take in holistic, in summary of all that's been applied by europe they don't match what we singularly put forward there. the question, europe, when are you going to step up and match the united states. griff: that's a great point. so we will have this vote and wondering and waiting to see

whether your colleague marjorie taylor greene will move forward on the motion to vacate. where are you on that? do you anticipate we'll indeed see that today? >> look, that's a question that needs to be asked to those who are talking about that. you need to revisit what happened in the fall and it's also important for the american people-- what we want is a conservative solution. that's what, you know, those of us part of freedom caucus, we want conservative solutions and we believe those are the right solutions. if you go back to what happened in the fall than what you saw was weeks of not having a speaker and i think the american people need to know when you look at the votes last year, of which i'm one of the 20 that forced last january a speaker having to allow individual members to put spending cut amendments on the floor what you'll see, there's about 80 to 100 out of 220 republicans that would consistently vote by voting record we saw all last year, support spending cuts. about 80 to 100 out of 220

republicans so i tell you that number so say, when you look at 220 republicans and 80, you can say by their voting records, show true fiscal discipline on social policy and fiscal policy, a correlation there. you go into a motion to vacate and many of us look and say how in the world would you end up with a more conservative outcome? and i'm reminded of something that i prayerfully have been thinking through a lot of things. there's conversations i'll be having with our speaker, my role is try to be somebody can walk up and say something at the right time and hopefully encourage, you know, a more movement to the right, but i'm thinking that upon as i've been praying about this whole situation, there's a parable in the new testament where jesus talks about a gardner who sees a tree and wondering about the fruit of the tree and clamor to cut it down and his response put some fertilizer on it and in effect give it some time. as i've been praying on this fertilizer effect it, and

having this conversation in private not want to say something on camera i wouldn't say to the speaker. i'll be having conversations with the speaker an and put my arm around him and say something to him. and the fertilizer is the speaker 20 years of a root system devoted to true conservative ideology and i would say as it was said timeless wording. griff: right. >> there's gold in them hills and i'm hoping to bring it to the top. griff: congressman, you have work to do. we've let you go and you may want to share some thoughts with your colleagues, marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar and thomas massie. get to work. >> thank you. alicia: we'll get back to capitol hill in just a moment, meanwhile, president biden is remaining silent on israel's retaliatory strike against iran as tensions remain high in the

region amid calls for deescalation. lucas tomlinson is at the white house with more. >> president biden is in wilmington. we don't expect to hear from him. and didn't hear much from the white house after israel had the strike near the nuclear enrichment facility. >> we do not have any comment on the reports at this time. i'm going to be really mindful. look, i'm going to again be super mindful. i just, i want to be mindful here. >> officials say this was a wink from israel. the strike took place on the birthday of iran's supreme leader showing israel can penetrate the air space and the vaunted russian air defensive system that fired wildly at the drones and missiles. and gave iran an out, deniability. and the white house hoping the temperatures will lower in the middle east and noisier in ukraine if they pass the bill.

writing in the wall street journal, president biden was candid and said, quote, vladimir putin is ramping up onslaught with help from the friends and china is providing russia with microelectronics, and iran is sending hundreds of drones, and hundreds of ballistic missiles. and ukraine facing ammunition shortfalls is losing territory it had regained. and the u.s. is announcing pulling ought 1,000 troops out of the west afternoon can nation and leaving behind a new air base constructed six years ago that cost over $100 million to built and perhaps some of the drone bases and drones will be used in the middle east going forward. >> good to see you. joining us from capitol hill, democratic congresswoman from california and member of house foreign affairs intelligence committee.

congressman, so sorry, my mistake. you just heard congressman from lucas tomlinson's reporting. should the white house share with the american people what went down in iran? >> i'm on the intelligence committee and we're getting briefed on a regular basis. this is a time we want to deescalate things and find an opportunity, a way to maintain the conflict and bring it to an end. alicia: so, let's get to why you're actually at work today because that's what everybody is talking about. you have the four bills and we just heard from the corporation with griff jenkins that he just had with your colleague across the aisle that included in these measures is this tik tok bill, but there's nothing on border security, but we know from multiple polls that voters say this is one of their top concerns. shouldn't that be happening, too? >> look, i'd love for us to vote on a border security bill. the senate sent over a

bipartisan bill. we do have to address the border and as soon as we take care of the supplemental bills we start working on a strong border bill. alicia: let's talk about the motion to vacate. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene now has two other members supporting her effort here. but a vast number of republicans are saying, they don't want to go down this road right now. but that doesn't mean they're exactly thrilled with speaker johnson either. >> he's going to keep his job. do you think that chuck schumer is going to want to lose mike johnson? why would chuck schumer want to lose mike johnson? you could ask yourself that question. alicia: so, congressman, essentially what he's saying is that democrats find speaker johnson useful to their own agenda. what's your response? >> i think that mike johnson has one of the hardest jobs in the country, in the world, trying to bring together

bipartisan legislation. i applaud speaker johnson's courage and it is what the american people want. i hear back, all of them want republicans and democrats working together. well, this is democrats and republicans working together in a bipartisan way to get stuff done and people want to see more of that. kudos to speaker johnson. >> if it comes to it, would you help the speaker keep his job? >> look, i think that speaker johnson as long as he's working in a bipartisan way, working with democrats and republicans, that's what the american people and i probably would support him. >> democrats didn't help kevin mack consider think in the fall when he was facing the same, why-- >> and he didn't ask for help and didn't across the aisle the way that speaker johnson is. make no mistake, speaker johnson is a conservative, conservative values, but in his own words, in divided government you've got to work together. and i think that speaker

johnson has been sincere, been honest in reaching across the aisle and working together and again, this is a bipartisan bill. alicia: this is kind of the problem when you have these coalitions inside of each party in congress. democrats have had to deal with this as well, the squad has made things very difficult for nancy pelosi, oftentimes gumming up the works for her. this is happening on the republican side as well. meanwhile, americans are watching things not get done because of these standoffs that happen on each side of the aisle. what are they supposed to take away from all this. >> i hope they're watching today. because, again, i think it's going to be a strong bipartisan vote. if you can get over 300 members of congress to agree on something and cast it, that's a good thing. i think you're absolutely correct. this is going to be a decade. even if democrats get the majority we're not going to have a 50 seat majority, a five seat majority and a handful of knuckleheads on our side could do the same thing that the

knuckleheads on the republican party are doing. and we've got to work for the american people. alicia: majorities aren't what they used to be. you've got to do what you've got to do. americans will be watching and we'll watch as you continue your work with your colleagues. congressman ami bera, thank you. griff: and the self-named liberated zone this weekend at columbia university, protests and demonstrations continue. jewish students at columbia tell fox news they feel like they're not wanted at the venerable institution. cb cotton is live at columbia with the latest. what's happening, cb? >> good afternoon, we're expecting protesters to show up within the hour in support of the students who are protesting going into day four on the campus of columbia university and just behind the main gates. on friday, we were on the ground of what students were calling, quote, a liberated zone. and student protesters say on

social media they've been told they can stay as long as there are no tents. we saw dozens of sleeping bags, blankets and the students pledged to stay here until the university meets their demands, including divested ties with israel. and more than 100 of their peers, most of the students were issued summons. congresswoman omar's daughter was among those, adding on x, in part, subjecting to change we as a country have a right to speech, assembly and petition enshrined in our constitution and likely to see some big hollywood names at the pro-palestinian demonstrations. oscar winner susan sarandon was outside of one at columbia. most have refuse today talk on

camera. some jewish students say how they feel. >> i left my bag at the dorm, a yellow ribbon on my bag in solidarity with the hostages and a pin that says bring them home. i was walking with that. and past a group of protesters, i heard zionists are not wanted here, terrorist pig, you're a terrorist pig! for what? for wearing a pin that is advocating for the release of hostages, that that makes me a terrorist? >> as the protests continue off campus, we'll be monitoring, back over to you. >> we'll be checking back with you, cb cotton at columbia. >> thanks, griff. new information on gang-affiliated apprehensions at the southern border. u.s. officials issue warnings for one venezuelan gang in particular. that's next. and energy.

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march. she vetoed an effort by the village board members to v investigate her spending, griff. griff: as u.s. cities see an uptick in crime committed by illegal migrants with gang affiliations. border officials are warning against the gang tren de ar aragua. the latest, danamarie. >> yes, we have a stark warning from the chief of border trol about the gang tren de aragua. first in el paso, our fox drone team is above gate 30. it's showing a group of about 50 migrants waiting to be processed. what you're looking at what's happening right now. i do want to highlight numbers accord to go border patrol an average of about 940 daily encounters here in el paso. yesterday they saw just over

1100, with a majority of those people actually crossing in new mexico, which does lack of razor wire enforcement compared to what we see here in texas. agents, they've made over 270 gang apprehensions specifically this week and a person was arrested with tattoos associated with that gang, tren de aragua, according to u.s. border patrol. they're linked to chicago, new york city, where men were involved in a high profile assault on n.y.p.d. officers. in georgia federal prosecutors say the brother of suspected killer of georgia nursing student laken riley also has ties to that gang. >> wherever the venezuelan migrant population has traveled in extensive numbers, tren de aragua has embedded themselves

in these populations as well to continue to migrate with them to take advantage and perhaps explore new criminal economic opportunities elsewhere. >> and an expert with ud el paso says it's unlikely that they'll ever take over and compete with territory of well-established groups in new york or chicago rather continuing the activity like petty crime and the majority of venezuelan migrants are fleeing awful and violent circumstances, trying to start a new life. and it is a narrow population for those looking for criminal activities. i do want to mention that lawmakers have sent a letter to the biden administration something them to make tren de aragua a transnational organizational crime group and make the government able to restrict some of that travel into the u.s., griff. griff: they're a dangerous gang born out of venezuela's most violent prisons and looking at the numbers, danamarie.

out of more than 1100 migrants in the last 24 hours, 487 were venezuelans. the leading demographic coming out of there, many of them released into the country. and danamarie for us out of el paso, thank you. alicia: an update on the disturbing incident friday outside of the new york courthouse where donald trump's hush money trial was taking place. that's next. . help fuel today with boost high protein, complete nutrition you need... ...without the stuff you don't. so, here's to now. boost. when we say it'll be on time, they expect it to be on time. turn shipping to your advantage. keep those expectations with reliable ground shipping. thanks brandon. with usps ground advantage®. ♪ i'm jonathan lawson, here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85

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with the trial. >> we do not believe he is -- this was targeting any particular person or any particular group. we just, right now, are labeling it sort of as a conspiracy theorist. >> this happened as the jury selection was completed. the jury, a software engineer, english teacher and investment banker. six alternates will step in in any of the 12 dropped out. and emotions ran high as some expressed anxiety and others breaking down in tears. and the trial will move forward as they wanted delay to move out of manhattan. that motion was denied. >> the trial starts on monday well above a lot of people thought it wants it to go as fast as possible. that's for his reasons, not for my reasons. >> the judge promised a ruling monday morning before what prosecutors can bring up, if

trump testifies, which he says he'd like to do. and there's the prosecution holding trump in contempt accusing him of violating the gag order multiple times. he's looking to shore up support in the battle ground state he won in a little more than a single percentage point back in 2020. griff: it's unbelievable, you can't overstate the historic trial, the first former president and presidential candidate to go to trial. thank you. alicia: thanks griff, and madden. let's bring in constitutional attorney mark smith. we just heard madeleine rivera reporting. can you tell us about the jury makeup? >> we know that this is not a good jury for donald trump. it's in manhattan. it's impossible to get a good

donald trump jury there. but with that said, it's the best that he can hope for because on this jury you do have some sophisticated people, right? you have some lawyers, you have a couple of bankers and financial professionals, auf software engineer and i think that's important for two reasons. the first is that these people are experienced with confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements and realize it's a routine thing nothing to do with politics in most cases and the other thing, they understand that bookkeeping functions, which is what the case is about, has no idea with executives. the belief that donald trump knows in the bowels of his company, is a bit of a stretch. alicia: even though the jurors have said and said they can be impartial. jonathan turley isn't convinced. >> the problem is you have highly motivated people in new york, and some of them, i think, could very well lie on

the stand and not disclose their bias, the hatred towards trump is that great, that it can overwhelm even an oath taken to speech truthfully. alicia: mark, this is a manhattan jury. >> yeah, exactly right. i think the odds of donald trump having a fair trial here is not high. the good news is, to the extent there's a silver lining, i think this jury is about as good as donald trump could get. with that said, it's not a good jury at the end of the day because it's in manhattan and it's not a shock that you have a manhattan-based judge in a democratic city with this jury. it's not going to be good for donald trump at the end of the day, not going to be fair, but at least he has some jurors on there that he can possibly argue to and maybe make some progress with. alicia: and what about the possibility of a hung jury? >> i think that's a very important thing, that people have not talked enough about, which is if this jury, after six weeks, is not able to come to resolution and they become a

hung jury, i think this judge will insist that the trial be retried again over the summer, which means you'll have another six weeks of president trump in manhattan when he should be out campaigning and fund raising and doing the things you do to run for the white house. yeah, i think if there's a hung jury, yeah, another six weeks of president trump not on the campaign trail and stuck in manhattan, a place he's never going to win, obviously in november. alicia: the possibility of a second trial here in the city, that's amazing. so the former president has had plenty to say as you know this week. here he is on friday after court. >> we just had another hearing and the trial starts on monday, which is long before a lot of people thought the judge-- wants to go as fast as possible. and that's for his reasons, not for my reasons. everything you heard in there, this is a witch hunt by numerous judges, democrat judges. alicia: mark, the former president says he can't get a fair trial here, but the

associated press has some interesting polling on what americans think about this and his other cases. it found about three in 10 americans feel that any of the prosecutors who can-- who have brought charges against trump are treating the former president and fairly, only two in 10 americans are extremely or very confident that the judges and jurors in the cases against him can be fair and impartial. in the last seconds that we have, your final thoughts on that? >> i think the biggest problem here in all of these cases you don't have any victims. usually in a criminal case, alicia, you have someone that's testified i was hit over the head and that guy did it or someone stole my money and that guy did it. here, for example, in this case in manhattan, there's no crime victim on the stand saying i was victimized by donald trump. it's simply not there in this case and that's a big hurdle for the government and i don't think they can possibly win this case outside of new york city or possibly washington d.c. only because of the jury

pool selected there from. alicia: constitutional attorney mark smith, so good to talk to you on this saturday. thank you. griff: well, the balance of power in the u.s. senate could be decided in the keystone state this fall as democratic senator bob casey faces off against republican challenger david mccormick. hey, brian, what can you tell us? >> look, the pennsylvania primary is on tuesday and we're already in general election mode six months from november. and that's because both of the senate candidates are running unopposed. democratic senator bob casy was set to start off a tour of pennsylvania today right here in scranton, his hometown, but he's instead in washington d.c. for the potential foreign aid package vote. meantime, his challenger, republican david mccormick is also campaigning in pennsylvania today. he's eager to tie casey to

president biden, blaming both for inflation and the immigration crisis. they're running adds not on biden, but shrink-flation and greed-flation claiming crisis are to blame for the rising prices. new fox polling, 14% of pennsylvanians feel their family's financial situation is getting ahead. 40% say they're falling behind. in an interview with rick mcquaid who owns four restaurants in the commonwealth says it's really harder out there. >> we've struggled with rising labor rates, rising food costs, liquor costs. it's been a struggle to keep people. we constantly are hiring, training, and you know, it's been a rough ride to struggle to make the same profitability that we enjoyed back in 2019. >> low confidence in the

economy is not the only thing biden and democrats are worried about. there are growing concerns that independent candidate robert f. kennedy, jr. will win over just enough latino, black, and young voters to make biden lose, in fact, environmentalists are taking out an ad in six battle ground states this weekend, including here in pennsylvania, that says earth to rfk, jr., honor our planet, drop out. adding in nothing more than a vanity candidacy, rfk, jr. has chosen to play the role of election spoiler to the benefit of donald trump, the single worst environmental president that the world has had. and no democrat in 1948 has won the white house without pennsylvania and why president biden has visited this commonwealth eight times this year alone, griff. griff: such a great point. bryan llenas live for us in scranton. alicia: griff, tensions remain high despite muted reactions from iran and israel after the

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>> protests breaking out in the streets of tehran after israel's retaliatory strike late this week. so far, at least, both sides silent this weekend. our jeff paul is in tel aviv tracking the latest from the ground. hi, jeff. >> hey, alicia, so far the period of calm between iran and israel is holding at least for now, but tensions throughout the middle east remain very high. when you see what happened in iraq last night, really underscores that feeling. this is the scene in central iraq, where investigators are now looking into what they're describing at an explosion at a base utilized by a coalition of iran allied militias. one person was killed and another eight were injured. the u.s. military official tells fox news it had no involvement. the coalition of militias only says the explosion with an an

attack and no particular source. a day after iran hit iran with a retaliatory strike. iran at the moment appears to be down playing the attack and perhaps signaling it's trying to move on. that's abundantly clear when you hear how they're describing israel's strikes. >> it was our powerful air defense firing at a suspicious object, caused no damage or incident at all. the air defense and proud staff are fully prepared to confront every enemy with militia intentions against islamic iran's land or sky. >> while the situation with iran is seemingly deescalating. they're continuing near the seven month today. a house in a southernmost city of rafah killed nine people six of them estimated to be kids and 1.4 palestinians seeking shelter in rafah, the majority

displaced from other parts of gaza. a city that israel says it intends to enter during the next phase of the war, but the u.s. opposed any israeli troops into gaza and they want plans to shelter those who are innocent. >> jeff paul live from tel aviv. griff: for more on this let's bring in the president of the middle east institute, paul salem. he spent time in the region and knows well what's going on. thank you for being in studio. >> thank you, griff. griff: i want to pick up where jeff paul's reporting left off. and we heard by the town in iran, no damage was done, no damage was done whatsoever, but in what appears to be a limited strategic strike, striking the area where they house the most sensitive nuclear headquarters, what do they make of that?

>> well, i think, and this is good news, we've avoided major escalation in the region. i think a lot of credit of that goes to the united states, both the military defense as well as its active diplomacy to urge israel to have a measured and limited response to the attack that happened on israel last weekend. i think we've avoided a pattern of major escalation. but we've entered a new period when both iran and israel feel free in the sense to attack others, other country's mainland directly and that, you know, that poses serious questions for the future. griff: that's the rubicon we've crossed, first iran striking israel directly and then the reverse happening and so, my question to you, as someone who has spent their life and career studying this, how significant is it that we've crossed this threshold on the escalation ladder. what path are we on now, paul?

>> the other conflict is continuing and might get worse, which is the war in gaza and iran's friends, militias or proxies are conducting and set to continue. that's not deescalating and i think we've bought a bit of reprieve in terms of iranian and israeli attacks, but crossed the rubicon in the new period. i think it will lead to a major arms race between israel and iran and the military aid from the u.s., the package that's now in the house. i think the iranian attack on israel while successfully defended against, it also demonstrated that if iran really intended to cause major harm, it could have sent not 300, but maybe 3,000 or 10,000 and that would have overwhelmed israeli as well as american defenses and israel demonstrated they can get into iran anytime they want. griff: and you've put your finger on the concern of any officials in the pentagon, the

white house and here in the u.s., if they really wanted to hurt them. you heard an hour or so before the strikes happening, the irani foreign minister landed at the u.n. mission and went on another network cnn and said if israel continues in their adventurous errors, however he put it, there would be a maximum level response, definitive and decisive and regretful to them and overhanging all of this is our intelligence that iran's enriching uranium at about 60%, they're getting close. how are you that iran would be using a nuclear weapon? >> i think they're holding for a while. and if they wanted to go for a bomb next year, and i don't

think they're saying now is the time to go for it, because that would have major consequences internationally. what will hold is their reliance on russia and reliance on china will increase ten-fold. i think it's clear to them they need tremendous amount of air defense and air force and much of that probably from russia so the worrisome alliance will get much worse. we also should remember that this recent escalation happened when israel attacked the compound in damascus. what i mean to say by that, iran and israel have been going at it for decades now and since at least in syria, but this was the first time on the iranian perspective that they've overstepped a certain line. griff: right on their shores. >> to come for a while-- >> to put it in context, israel says iran through the proxies and hamas' horrific attack on october 7th escalated. >> absolutely, absolutely. griff: paul salem, thank you

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