00:00This big peace deal is to end the war that started on October 7th, two years ago.
00:06Breaking news, two years later, one of the alleged attackers was arrested in, of all places, Louisiana.
00:12We have Louisiana's own House Speaker Mike Johnson.
00:14Speaker Johnson, did you have any idea that Louisiana could be harboring a Hamas attacker?
00:21I had no idea. It's alarming to all of us, but I'm certainly glad that we have an administration
00:26who is prioritizing rounding up these dangerous people, and it's a great relief to a lot of folks down there.
00:32This suspected terrorist was not secretly involved with terror groups.
00:36He was posting about terror groups on his social media, but nobody here in the U.S. looked,
00:40and he got a visa after the October 7th attacks.
00:43How many terrorists got in, ballpark, under the Biden administration because nobody checked their social media?
00:51No, it's a very important question, and a problem that we were pointing out during the four years
00:56of the Biden nightmare. They had a wide open border. As many as, by some estimates,
01:0020 million illegal aliens came across that border, and many of them obviously not intending good
01:06things for our country. So we know that terrorists got across the border, and I don't think anybody
01:10on planet Earth can discern exactly how many will be living with the threat and the ramifications
01:16of that open border probably for the rest of our lives, Peter. But I'm grateful again for an administration
01:21that is prioritizing the removal of dangerous people. ICE is out. They've targeted, and they've
01:26gone after and prioritized the dangerous, hardened criminal elements that are out there, and of
01:30course, terrorists. And this is the latest example. Another exhibit that elections really do have
01:36consequences, and President Trump is back in charge, and the American people, by the way, made that the
01:40number one issue in the election last November. So we're following through on those promises.
01:44Overnight, there was some new fighting in Gaza. It sounds like Hamas violated the ceasefire,
01:51and Israel responded. It's a very delicate ceasefire. President Trump wants Hamas to disarm.
01:57Why aren't they disarming?
02:00I wish we could answer that question. The entire world is prevailing upon Hamas to put the weapons
02:06down and stop the onslaught. They are the ones impeding the progress there. This everlasting peace that
02:13President Trump says that we are on the verge of achieving. But you have to have willing partners
02:17on the other side. Hamas has proven over and over they cannot be trusted. They obviously have a
02:21murderous, dangerous ideology. Their sole purpose is to exterminate Israel and Jews and Americans,
02:28by the way. And the only way for the people of Gaza to have peace is for the bad guys to stop
02:34doing this. They, you know, they agreed, we thought, to do it. So we'll have to see how this plays out
02:40in the coming hours and days. And we have a new clip of the president's closers with this peace deal.
02:45Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff talking about how it sounds like Israel almost blew the whole peace
02:51process by targeting Hamas inside Qatar because Qatar was the key middleman. Listen to this.
02:56Now, I had heard that the president, that he was furious. I think he felt like the Israelis
03:05were getting a little bit out of control in what they were doing and that it was time to,
03:12it was time to be very strong and stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term
03:20interests. And so based on that, Speaker Johnson, can President Trump trust the Israelis to
03:26follow through now? Oh, I think so. I mean, what you're seeing on play out on the world stage is
03:33a return of peace through strength. Sorry. And President Trump is the one that has brought
03:37that back. And he's, he's able and willing to have strong conversations, not with just with our
03:42adversaries, but with our friends as well. And he speaks directly. And he spoke directly to
03:47Prime Minister Netanyahu. They have a long relationship and one of trust. And he told them enough is enough.
03:52And I think that was a precipitating factor in getting us to this incredible point
03:56that we are now a truly historic peace deal that just by sheer force of his personality,
04:01President Trump was able to push through. And I think he greatly deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
04:06In fact, Speaker Ohana of the Knesset and I have joined forces to try to collect as many signatures
04:12as we can from other speakers and leaders of parliaments around the free world to join us
04:16in co-nominating President Trump for the next Nobel Peace Prize. There's no one's more deserving than that.
04:22And there was some more breaking news this weekend. George Santos got sprung by
04:27the president. Two years ago, you let the House Speaker Johnson have a vote of conscience
04:32to expel Santos. What do you think about President Trump commuting his sentence?
04:39Well, the Constitution gives the President of the United States the full power of pardon and
04:44and clemency and commutation. He chose to do that here. You know, I hope George Santos will make the
04:51most of this second chance at life. As a Christian, I believe in redemption. I believe in second chances.
04:56The president saw it that way. He said very transparently, he explained his rationale to the
05:01American people. Not everybody would like that or agree with it, but he's very transparent in that way.
05:06Contrast that, Peter, with what Joe Biden did. You know, he used the auto pen to just just grant pardons to just huge
05:14categories of violent and hardened criminals. And then the only thing he signed by his own pen.
05:19Actually, we think literally maybe the only thing he signed in four years in his own hand was the pardons of his own
05:24family. And he didn't explain any of that any of that because it can't be rationalized in any
05:28thoughtful way. President Trump is showing a stark contrast on this as he has in so many other things.
05:32So I hope, again, George, George Santos will make the most of this.
05:36And this morning, Mr. Santos told Fox and Friends he is not ruling out a congressional bid in the future.
05:41If he won and you were still the speaker, would you welcome him back in the conference?
05:47Well, of course, I mean, that's our system. I mean, if the people duly elect a representative,
05:51then we will welcome them into the body. I mean, that'd be the job of the speaker.
05:55I was opposed to the expulsion of George Santos initially because he had not yet been,
05:59prosecuted. He had just been allegations made against him. But look, again, if we're going to
06:05be intellectually consistent and we're going to follow scripture, if someone's turned their life
06:09around and they want to do the right thing, then we should be open to that.
06:12I want to ask you about this. The Department of Education is now trying to lay off 465 people
06:18because they say they have to. There is a shutdown going on. President Trump has been trying to shut
06:23down the Department of Education since his first week in office. Is the administration using the
06:29shutdown now to permanently shut down parts of the government?
06:35Well, I don't know. You have to ask the administration and the Office of Management and
06:38Budget. I will tell you that the president takes no pleasure in this. I know this, Peter,
06:42because when we were in the Oval Office before the shutdown began in mid-September,
06:46he pleaded with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries not to go down this road because he knew that
06:51good, faithful, hardworking American citizens would suffer great harm because of this. And you see that.
06:56The paychecks for troops, while we got it done middle of this month because of the president's
07:01heroic efforts, that is not guaranteed going forward. He found a temporary pot of money to
07:06pay the troops, but it's going to run out. And you have Border Patrol and TSA agents and air
07:10traffic controllers and all the rest, veteran services, health services, nutrition services to
07:14mothers and infants. The Democrats have now voted 11 times to block all of that, to shut down the
07:20government. And they have no good reason for doing so. Chuck Schumer is doing it for political cover.
07:23President Trump is governing. And they've been dealt this situation, dealt this hand by Chuck
07:29Schumer. And they have to make the most of it. They have to triage federal spending because Schumer
07:33and the Democrats turned off the revenue streams. That's just a reality of where we are.
07:37And just for a lot of people who have been paying close attention all week,
07:41President Trump negotiated a big peace deal. At the same time, Democrats and Republicans cannot
07:46negotiate an end to this shutdown. It's the 19th day.
07:50Why is it that it seems like it is easier to talk to Hamas than Hakeem Jeffries?
07:57It's a great, great question. Hakeem Jeffries has the same problem that Chuck Schumer has right
08:02now. They're both New Yorkers. There is a rise of Marxism in the Democratic Party,
08:06and both of them are going to have challengers in their next election. So they have to show a fight.
08:10So they picked one on this short gap funding measure, the CR, that Chuck Schumer himself championed just
08:17in March, seven months ago, the same exact thing. The only difference is they're trying to cover
08:21their own backsides politically. And it is shameful to us. When people say, why aren't
08:25you negotiating with them? Peter, I don't have anything to negotiate. I sent them a totally
08:29clean CR. It had zero Republican policy priorities attached to it. It's merely maintaining the status
08:35quo, keeping the lights on so that we can continue all of our work and get government appropriations
08:40finished up. They denied that. And they've now voted 11 times to block paychecks for troops.
08:46And what they filed at the counterproposal, let's never forget, is absolute madness. They want to
08:50spend instead a trillion and a half new dollars. They want to give health care back to illegal aliens
08:56paid for by taxpayer dollars to a tune of about $200 billion. They want to claw back the money that
09:01we set aside for rural hospitals. And they want to spend on all sorts of wasteful nonsense around the
09:06globe. They want all that to come back. We can't do it. They know we're not going to do that. And so
09:11it's not a good faith effort on their part. Well, even when the government is shut down,
09:15the Speaker of the House is a busy guy. So thank you very much for joining us on the Sunday briefing.
09:19Hope to have you back. Great to see you, my friend. And congrats on the new show.
09:24Hey, everyone. I'm Emily Campagno. Catch me and my co-hosts Harris Faulkner and Kayleigh McEnany on
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