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00:00State of the race.
00:01The Trump agenda gets its first temperature check from voters in critical off-year elections
00:05and a renewed sense of urgency grips Washington as the shutdown hits a new milestone.
00:14The Democrats have any, any end date in sight.
00:19Republicans have spent the entire shutdown with their heads in the sand.
00:24America's patience grows thin one month in
00:27as air traffic control shortages spark ground delays coast to coast
00:30and funding lapses spark uncertainty for food aid recipients.
00:34SNAP should not be about politics when we got to feed the people.
00:40And millions of Americans began open Obamacare enrollment this weekend
00:43with premiums spiking as COVID era subsidies end.
00:47All as President Trump calls on Republicans to take bold action.
00:50We'd like to see this taken care of rapidly.
00:53It's common sense. Open up the country.
00:55House Speaker Mike Johnson reacts only on Fox News Sunday.
00:59Then.
01:00Frankly, I did a great service to the world because of tariffs, because of trade.
01:05A make or break week for trade.
01:07The president's sweeping tariffs set to face Supreme Court scrutiny
01:10as he touts progress in easing America's trade war with China.
01:14On the scale of from zero to ten, with ten being the best,
01:18I would say the meeting was at twelve.
01:20Treasury Secretary Scott Besson shares his insights on the stakes for the future of trade relations and
01:25New Jersey is not a red state.
01:30New Jersey is not a purple state.
01:34New Jersey is a blue state.
01:37Our internal polling in 21 said that we had a real shot.
01:40This time, the internal polling says a whole lot better.
01:42A surprise nail biter in the garden state.
01:45Trump backed Jack Cittarelli narrows the gap on Democrat Mikey Sherrill.
01:49As Dems roll out party star power to shore up the most critical races.
01:53And Republicans battle to hang on to the governor's mansion in Virginia.
01:57All right now on Fox News Sunday, Democracy 2025.
02:01Hello from Fox News in Washington with the end of Daylight Saving Time.
02:13For most of you, we're hoping your clocks are up to date.
02:16We began with a look at some of today's top stories.
02:19The L.A. Dodgers celebrating their historic Game 7 World Series win
02:23against the Toronto Blue Jays last night in Canada,
02:26becoming the first team in 25 years to win the series in back-to-back years.
02:30The Dodgers won 5-4 in 11 innings.
02:34The FBI and Massachusetts authorities are searching for two suspects
02:38caught on security cameras after a, quote,
02:40intentional explosion early Saturday morning in a Harvard Medical School building.
02:45No one was injured in the blast.
02:47In the U.K., authorities say two men have been arrested
02:49in a knife attack near Cambridge that's left at least 10 people injured,
02:53some with critical injuries.
02:55Investigators say, quote,
02:56there's nothing to suggest that this is a terrorist incident.
02:59Though counterterrorism police were initially looking into what happened.
03:03President Trump is threatening to use the U.S. military in Nigeria with, quote,
03:07guns a-blazing if the government there does not crack down on the persecution of Christians
03:12by, quote, Islamic terrorists.
03:15In a Truth Social post Saturday, the president says he'll also immediately stop all aid
03:19and assistance to the West African nation if they do not act, quote, fast.
03:24All this comes as we enter day 33 of the government shutdown,
03:27which could become the longest shutdown ever this week.
03:31In a moment, we will bring in House Speaker Mike Johnson.
03:33But first, Alex Hoff joins us from the White House, where, on top of everything else,
03:37we're learning about another U.S. strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug smuggling vessel.
03:42Hello, Alex.
03:43Hello, Shannon.
03:44Yeah, this latest strike was carried out in the Caribbean Sea yesterday.
03:47Three men aboard a small vessel were killed.
03:50The administration has labeled these men as narco-terrorists and says that
03:54intelligence indicated that this group was intending to bring illicit drugs to our shores.
04:00Secretary of War Pete Hegseth sharing this video along with the announcement of what marks
04:05the U.S.'s 15th known strike on suspected drug smugglers at sea.
04:09The post includes a promise, quote,
04:11The department will treat them exactly how we treated al-Qaeda.
04:15We will continue to track them, map them, hunt them, and kill them.
04:18Democrats are seeking more transparency on such actions.
04:22The White House legal counsel says that Congress's war powers do not apply.
04:26This comes as President Trump, on his way to Florida this weekend,
04:29denied reports that he had made a decision to strike military sites inside of Venezuela,
04:34calling those reports false.
04:36Domestically, the president says his administration intends to comply
04:39with the federal judge's Friday order to tap into emergency reserve funds
04:44to temporarily fund the SNAP program.
04:46I'm president. I want to help everybody.
04:47He wrote on Truth Social,
04:49It will be my honor to provide the funding,
04:51just like I did with military and law enforcement pay.
04:54But the president first wants legal clarity.
04:56His administration had argued that the funds tied to an inactive program can't be released.
05:01Democrats say the law is clear.
05:03The courts have been clear, and the morality of it is clear.
05:06The Trump administration needs to release these benefits.
05:10It's called a contingency fund.
05:13And by law, contingency fund can only flow when the underlying fund is flowing.
05:19Nonprofits around the country are attempting to fill the government shutdown void.
05:23In Houston this weekend, NRG Stadium became host to a major food distribution event.
05:28President Trump maintains Senate Democrats could easily resolve the shutdown
05:32by approving the GOP-backed clean funding bill.
05:35With related staffing issues impacting travel, the nation's largest airlines agree.
05:40Let's get a clean CR and get that negotiation done behind closed doors
05:44without the pressure and without putting the American workers and the American economy at risk.
05:47The bill lacks the 60 votes needed to pass under the Senate filibuster rule,
05:52a rule President Trump is pushing hesitant Republicans to get rid of.
05:56He calls it the nuclear option, which is separate from the nuclear testing
06:00the president has ordered to resume, making the announcement on Truth Social.
06:04Could we just actually do foreign policy some way other than by Truth Social posts?
06:12I know exactly what we're doing, where we're doing it, but other countries are doing it,
06:15and if other countries are doing it, we don't.
06:18Now back to SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
06:22The Trump administration has until tomorrow to explain to the federal judge
06:26how exactly the administration is going to be making payments
06:29to approximately 42 million Americans who rely on the program.
06:33Shannon.
06:34All right, Alexandria Hoff from the White House.
06:36Alex, thank you very much.
06:37Joining us now, House Speaker Mike Johnson.
06:39Welcome back to Fox News Sunday.
06:41Glad to be with you, but it's a frustrating day, for sure.
06:43Well, what are we, day 33 now, and there are real-world things that are kicking in this weekend,
06:48impact to real Americans, that have been, some, many have been experiencing missed paychecks,
06:52those kinds of things, a broader impact this weekend.
06:54I want to start here.
06:55The Washington Post says this.
06:57Americans blame Trump and GOP more than Democrats for shutdown, citing their poll.
07:02Independents hold Trump and Republicans responsible for the shutdown by a two-to-one margin.
07:07That's according to this new poll.
07:08So more Americans still think you are to blame than Democrats are.
07:12What's your message to them?
07:13Well, first, take issue with that.
07:15I mean, just 24 hours before that one came out, CNN, of all places, had a big story about
07:19how Republicans are winning the shutdown battle.
07:22But we reject all of this.
07:23This is not about winning a political contest here.
07:27Real people are losing.
07:28The American people are hurting.
07:30Democrats have voted 14 times now, Shannon, to keep the government closed.
07:3314 times they had the opportunity to have SNAP benefits float, to let air traffic controllers
07:38be paid, to take care of all these problems and pay the troops.
07:40And they said no.
07:41And it is a fact that no one can dispute that they shut the government down over restoring
07:46free health care to illegal aliens as part of their $1.5 trillion wild partisan wish list.
07:53They're playing games, and real people are suffering because of it.
07:56But with these numbers in mind, why do you think they will be willing to come back to
08:02the table and negotiate at some point?
08:03They think that they're winning the optics of this.
08:05Well, I don't know how they can believe they're winning, if it were indeed a game to them.
08:09And I think it is, because you have all the unions now coming out against them.
08:13You have the major airlines in the country.
08:14You have every segment of the population and hardworking Americans who will be going without.
08:19You have 42 million recipients of SNAP that are in jeopardy right now.
08:23You have women, infants, and children, because the nutrition program that President Trump
08:27and the White House have heroically funded thus far is running out of money.
08:31And, of course, the troops.
08:32I mean, we've gotten them paid now for two cycles.
08:34But that money is not inexhaustible, and it's running out.
08:37And so increasingly, the American people will be feeling the pain.
08:40And after we pass that threshold of the first of this month, it gets very real for more
08:45and more people.
08:45So the president says it's about getting rid of the filibuster, not something you have to deal
08:49with on the House side.
08:50But he's putting pressure on your Senate colleagues, saying, get rid of this 60-vote.
08:53You can move most things by a majority vote in the House.
08:56Here's part of one of his recent posts.
08:58He says, remember, Republicans, regardless of the Schumer shutdown, the Democrats will
09:02terminate the filibuster the first chance they get.
09:04They'll pack the Supreme Court, pick up two states, and add at least eight electoral votes.
09:09Don't be weak and stupid.
09:11Republicans, you will rue the day that you didn't terminate the filibuster.
09:14Be tough, be smart, and win.
09:17There are some GOP senators indicating at least the tiniest open door to possibly making changes.
09:23What's your advice to the other side of the Hill?
09:25Well, I think there's a lot of Democrats, I mean, a lot of senators, Republican and Democrat,
09:29who have resisted it in the past.
09:31We, on our side, traditionally have resisted that because the worst impulses of the far-left
09:35Democrat Party, they would pack the court.
09:37They would do all the things the president has discussed there.
09:39I think what you're seeing there is a reflection of his anger, his real frustration that the
09:44government is closed.
09:45He is a big-hearted president.
09:47He wants everybody to get their services and the health services for veterans and SNAP
09:52benefits and all the rest.
09:53And he's tried everything he can, and he is now exhausting his ability.
09:57The courts are now saying you can't go any further.
09:59So he's just desperate for the government to open.
10:01He's tried everything he can.
10:02He's tried to negotiate with them.
10:04He's pleaded with them.
10:05And they're still dug their heels in.
10:06So this is a reflection of all of our desperation.
10:09We're angry about it.
10:10I think we should be.
10:11The filibuster has traditionally been a safeguard against those worst impulses.
10:15But we'll see what the Senate does.
10:17Okay.
10:17So, of course, your counterparts, Democrats, do not think he's big-hearted or trying to
10:21help.
10:22They think he's using people as pawns that are desperate and in need of government aid
10:26and paychecks and those kinds of things.
10:29It sounds like the president is willing to try to find a way to get these SNAP benefits
10:33paid out after two federal courts on Friday said you've got to do it.
10:36Axios says this.
10:37They say Trump kept SNAP funded during the 2018-2019 shutdown by using contingency funds.
10:44Representative Salud Carvajal, a member of the House Committee on Ag, told reporters
10:47on Wednesday when it suits them, they have all the funds in the world.
10:50When it doesn't, of course, there's nothing.
10:52So even if the administration figures this out, there's going to be some sort of delay.
10:56Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says Republicans are using seniors and vulnerable.
11:00They're weaponizing hunger.
11:01It's absolutely absurd.
11:03They are accusing the Republicans and the president of doing exactly what they are doing.
11:07Remember, don't get lost in the facts.
11:09Republicans have voted 14 times to open the government.
11:12Democrats have voted 14 times to close it.
11:15Who's playing games here?
11:16We have a clean, simple CR, a continuing resolution.
11:19No partisan gimmicks, tricks at all.
11:21It's 24 pages in length.
11:22It would keep everything going.
11:24The president is bending over backwards to take care of the American people, and it's
11:27the Democrats who are quite literally using the people as leverage.
11:31I can quote you senator after House member on the Democrat side in the last two weeks who
11:34have said the quiet parts out loud.
11:36From White House to Coons to Catherine Clark, the number two Democrat in the House, they've
11:42all said that.
11:43Bernie Sanders, they've all said this is their leverage.
11:46Their leverage for what?
11:47So they can show that they're fighting President Trump to the far left because they're worried
11:52about the Marxist rise in the Democrat Party.
11:54We see it in New York City and elsewhere.
11:56And because they want, they actually want, and they've argued and they've put on paper,
11:59they want illegal aliens to receive taxpayer-funded benefits again.
12:02That is a fact.
12:03They've never changed it.
12:04They've never pulled back from that.
12:05Everybody can see the stark contrast between the two parties right now, and one is fighting
12:09for the people, and that's the Republican Party.
12:11So another thing that happened this weekend is open enrollment began for Obamacare.
12:15People are seeing a change in their premiums, essentially, if these subsidies that are set
12:19to expire at the end of the year are not changed, renewed, handled in some way.
12:23Last time you were here, we talked about Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had some real
12:28frustrations about this.
12:29Where is the Republican plan?
12:31I know you two had talked.
12:32Well, she posted this on X this week.
12:34She says, Johnson said he's got ideas and pages of policy ideas and committees of jurisdiction
12:39are working on it, but he refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on
12:44our own conference call.
12:46Apparently, I have to go into a SCIF, referencing a protected intel sharing type place, to find
12:54out the Republican health care plan.
12:56And there are a lot of exclamation points there.
12:58Yeah.
12:59I don't know what to say about that.
13:00I mean, that's absurd.
13:01Obviously, we're not going to be on a conference call explaining all of our plans and strategies
13:06for health care reform because they're leaked in real time, literally.
13:09When I have a conference call with all my members, it's tweeted out by a journalist.
13:13They're supposed to be private, but they're not.
13:15And so Marjorie knows that.
13:16She knows she can come into my office any day at any hour, and I'll lay out everything for
13:20her.
13:20The committees of jurisdiction, the people who specialize in all of this, have been working
13:25on this around the clock for a long time.
13:26In fact, we published 60 or 70 pages of health care reform ideas in 2019, when I was the chair
13:32of the Republican study committee, the largest caucus in Congress.
13:35Because our ideas have been out there for a long time.
13:37We're formulating the final plan that will bring down premiums.
13:41There's only one party in America that is going to do that.
13:43Remember, the Democrats are the ones that created the system that is failing us.
13:46They created Obamacare.
13:48They said it was going to bring down costs.
13:50It's done exactly the opposite.
13:51Premiums, by some estimates, are up 60 percent since Obamacare was created in 2010.
13:56So it's the Republican Party that is going to bring down the costs, not the Democrats.
14:00They've already proven what they're about.
14:01Okay.
14:01I want to move to a couple of other issues.
14:03One, we've been told overnight there was another strike on a drug-running, alleged drug-running
14:08boat.
14:09There were briefings this week, and there were folks who were listening on the Senate
14:14side.
14:14Democrats weren't even included.
14:15But there was a bipartisan briefing on the House side.
14:18Here's what the top Democrat on House Foreign Affairs Committee Congressman Gregory Meeks said.
14:22He said the briefing was incredible, incredible for how little information was shared, how little
14:26time the briefers stayed to answer questions, and how completely absent any credible legal rationale
14:31was for the administration's unauthorized ongoing expansion of these strikes.
14:35There are reports the Office of Legal Counsel told lawmakers the administration is not bound
14:39by the War Powers Resolution that requires congressional approval for this kind of action.
14:44You're a constitutional lawyer.
14:45Do you think the administration is on solid legal ground with these strikes?
14:49Yeah, a couple of points.
14:49We had a Gang of Eight briefing with the Secretary of State himself about a week and a half ago,
14:54and you had Republicans and Democrats there, the top leaders on both sides in intelligence
14:58and in elected leadership.
15:00We have exquisite intelligence about these strikes, and I can't get into the classified
15:05parts, but that information is well known.
15:07It is very reliable.
15:09And what the president and the administration are doing is protecting the homeland.
15:13That's one of his number one responsibilities.
15:15I like what Secretary Hicks said at the opening.
15:18You had his quote, narco-terrorists will be treated like al-Qaeda.
15:22We have to do that.
15:23They're bringing in huge amounts, tons of illegal narcotics into the country, and it is killing
15:28Americans.
15:29Remember, fentanyl alone was a leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 49 in the
15:33four years of the Biden administration.
15:35We finally have a president who is strong enough to stop that and to protect the people.
15:39And one of these boats, Shannon, could kill potentially tens of thousands of Americans.
15:43This is serious business.
15:45They're taking it seriously, and Congress will continue to have oversight.
15:48We'll have more of these hearings.
15:49But thus far, the intelligence that we have is very reliable.
15:54So you're convinced, even if your Democratic counterparts are skeptical, you're convinced
15:58at this point?
15:59I do know that my Democrat counterparts would come out of any hearing with the administration
16:02and say that it was inadequate, right?
16:04I mean, it's politics.
16:05Okay, I want to ask you, too, about not-yet-seated representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.
16:10There's now a lawsuit about this.
16:11They say there's no dispute about her election or her qualifications, and add this.
16:15Speaker Johnson wishes to delay seating Ms. Grijalva to prevent her from signing a discharge
16:19petition that would force a vote on the release of the Epstein files and or to strengthen
16:24his hand in the ongoing budget and appropriations negotiations.
16:28Why hasn't she been sworn in?
16:29What's your response to the lawsuit?
16:30All this is so ridiculous, and we could take 30 minutes and talk about all this, but
16:33Grijalva, Rep. Let Grijalva, will be sworn in as soon as we get back to regular session.
16:37Remember, it's the Democrats who shut the Congress down, so we can't do that.
16:42Can you not swear her in, though, when you're not operating in regular?
16:45There is a precedent for doing a pro forma session swearing in, but we're not engaging
16:49in regular business right now.
16:51And what I'm doing is following the Pelosi precedent in the past when she was Speaker,
16:56and you had representatives elected during special elections, special situations.
17:00When Congress was on recess or out, she would wait until the regular session to do it.
17:04I'm doing the exact same thing, but the Epstein thing is a complete red herring.
17:08It's a distraction from what's going on right now and them causing harm to the American
17:12people with the shutdown.
17:13The Epstein estate documents are out.
17:15The Epstein files are out.
17:1743,000 pages so far, more on the way.
17:20Subpoenas are being complied with.
17:22The House Oversight Committee, which is filled with some of the biggest guard dogs in Congress
17:27on the right and the left, Republican and Democrat, are dug in deeply.
17:31In the last two weeks, while we've been on shutdown, they've released the flight logs,
17:37the personal financial ledgers, the daily calendars of Epstein himself.
17:41The lawyers are continuing to dig through and release all that.
17:44We're for maximum transparency, always have been.
17:46They're using this for a political issue, and it's patently obvious what's going on here.
17:50All right.
17:50We wish you progress this week in getting this thing wrapped up.
17:54Mr. Speaker, thank you.
17:55Good to be with you.
17:55All right.
17:56Critical week for the president's trade agenda as the legal fight over tariffs heads to the
18:00Supreme Court.
18:01A huge case Wednesday.
18:02Treasury Secretary Scott Besson joins us to preview the case and to recap what did and
18:07didn't get done with China.
18:09Plus, Democrats deploying the party's heaviest hitter as Republicans get too close for comfort
18:14in off-year races.
18:15Will it be enough to take Dems across the finish line?
18:17There is absolutely no evidence Republican policies have made life better for you, the
18:26people of Virginia.
18:34It appears to most reasonable observers that Donald Trump was punked on the world stage
18:40by the Chinese Communist Party.
18:42House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries slamming the president over his negotiations with China
18:47So what did and didn't get accomplished when Presidents Trump and Xi met face-to-face?
18:52Well, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson was there.
18:54Now he's here and joins us with details.
18:56Welcome back, Mr. Secretary.
18:58Hi, Shannon.
18:58Good to see you.
18:59What do you make of his characterization of what happened in China?
19:02Well, I think it's ignorant and I think it's kind of sad he has no idea how ignorant he
19:08is because I was in the room and I can tell you I was there for the president's entire
19:12trip and it was a tour de force.
19:15The president went into Malaysia, signed trade deals, peace deals with Thailand and Cambodia
19:22that everyone in the Asia region wants to be partners with the U.S.
19:27We moved on to Japan.
19:29The president and the new prime minister of Japan had great chemistry.
19:34And then we went into Korea and the meeting with President Xi was one of great respect
19:40and many accomplishments.
19:43OK, so let's talk through some of those.
19:44First of all, there was this understanding or idea that the administration was hoping
19:48China's economy, which has been struggling, would be in a worse position even than it
19:52is.
19:52The Washington Post writing this, China's economy has proved more resilient than Trump officials
19:57anticipated.
19:59Chinese negotiators also demonstrated a willingness to hit back that seemed to surprise members
20:04of the administration, including Besant, who visibly bristled at Beijing's retaliation.
20:09What do they make?
20:10What do you make of their characterization of you?
20:12Highly inaccurate.
20:13And look, we saw that the Chinese manufacturing has been down for seven months in a row.
20:22So let's do the math.
20:24The Liberation Day, April 2nd.
20:26Where are we today?
20:27November 2nd.
20:29Seven months.
20:31Chinese manufacturing has been down every month.
20:33What they've done is the U.S. put up a tariff wall and they have sent their goods to the
20:38rest of the world.
20:39Their trade with Europe is up 10 percent, but it's all discounted.
20:43They've depreciated their currency.
20:46And the Chinese economy, they're in the middle of a real estate crisis.
20:50They're trying to export their way out of it.
20:53And I think what we're going to see is the rest of the world is going to join us in the
20:58tariff wall against China.
21:01The EU recently put up 50 percent tariffs.
21:05So, no, I didn't bristle at all.
21:07What I was surprised was that the Chinese on October 8th tried to put in rare earth controls
21:16on the entire world.
21:18And I said that it was a mistake because it was China versus the world.
21:22And President Trump was the leader of the free world.
21:24And we had those controls postponed for a year.
21:29So let's talk about that.
21:29It's a year postponement.
21:31Do we have the ability to scale up what we need within that year in case a year from now
21:36there are tough negotiations and China decides to threaten to cut us off again?
21:40Well, a couple of things, Shannon.
21:41One was President Trump threatened to put 100 percent additional tariffs on China, which
21:47gave me and our team great negotiating leverage in Kuala Lumpur before the president's meeting
21:54in Korea.
21:55So we had maximum leverage against the Chinese.
22:00And we could threaten the tariffs again.
22:02And we have plenty of things that we can hold back to.
22:05Over the next 12 and 24 months, we're going to be moving at warp speed.
22:09We didn't get here in a year.
22:12This is a problem that has been with us for several decades.
22:16It's never been addressed with these rare earths, the rare earth magnets.
22:20The Chinese have cornered the market.
22:23And unfortunately, at times, they prove to be unreliable partners.
22:26I think and I hope after the agreement and the goodwill between President Xi and President
22:33Trump in Korea that we can depend on them to be more reliable partners and the rest of
22:39the world can depend on them.
22:41But we can't take that chance.
22:43We don't want to decouple with China, but we're going to have to de-risk.
22:47So do we trust them on the issue of fentanyl?
22:49Because there have been promises in the past about their production or control of the production
22:53of the precursors of fentanyl.
22:56I understand there's some agreement this time around.
22:58What are the teeth?
22:59Is it enforceable?
23:00So President Trump in the spring put 20 percent tariffs on China, on fentanyl.
23:09We took half of them off as a show of good faith.
23:13The Chinese have said that they will work on stopping the flow of precursors to North America
23:19that flow into Canada, into Mexico, where they're made into fentanyl, killing hundreds
23:25of thousands of U.S. citizens, ruining families, ruining lives.
23:29And what we're going to do is we're going to set up a very strict quantitative criteria
23:35and we'll revisit it in six or 12 months to see whether they've accomplished it.
23:41And my sense is the tariffs could go up or down.
23:45I hope that the Chinese, for the sake of the American people, will live up to this and we
23:51can see a dramatic drop in fentanyl deaths.
23:53OK, to the point of tariffs, a big test at the Supreme Court this week.
23:57A case on Wednesday will be argued about what is the bulk of the president's tariffs so far.
24:01One of the amicus briefs or front of the court briefs that was filed says this.
24:05The president's exercise of power here is either outside the scope of the power granted
24:10by Congress through IEPA, and that's the emergency powers law that the president used,
24:14or that the law is an unconstitutional delegation of power reserved exclusively to the legislative
24:19branch.
24:19So they argue either the president doesn't have the power to do it, or if Congress gave
24:24him the power, that was an unconstitutional delegation.
24:27You've lost in the lower court so far.
24:29How do you game up Tuesday's or Wednesday's argument?
24:32I'm quite optimistic.
24:33And Shannon, what I can tell you is that because of what the Chinese did on October 8th, threatening
24:40to put export controls on any rare earth products that they produce that had 0.01 percent of
24:48rare earths produced in China, that they were going to try to control those, and the president
24:52was able to push back using his IEPA powers.
24:56If that's not use of an emergency power at an emergency time, I don't know what is.
25:03And then we go back to the spring, this terrible fentanyl crisis.
25:07You know, it's an emergency for what's going on, and we got a solution.
25:11The Chinese, thanks to the tariffs, came to the table.
25:15So I think just those two alone have shown us that the president has used it responsibly.
25:22And then on the third part, with the reciprocal tariffs, there's something called a tipping
25:27point, and these trade deficits that we've had for years, 20, 30 years, especially since
25:35the China shock in the early 2000s, we were close to a breaking point, and the president
25:41did not want us to get there.
25:43You know, imagine if someone had held their hand up in 2006, 2007 and said, we're on the
25:49verge of a housing crisis, where President Trump raised his hand and said, we are on
25:54the verge of a balance of payments crisis, a trade crisis, and I'm going to use IEPA.
26:00That is what emergency powers are for.
26:02Okay, if you lose, something you have to consider.
26:05Bloomberg reports this.
26:07Should that happen, the government could owe the bulk of the $165 billion in customs duties
26:12collected so far this year, this fiscal year, back to the companies that paid them.
26:17So what is the plan if that happens?
26:19Well, again, I think the Bloomberg analysis is wrong, and we'll cross that bridge when
26:24we come to it, because many of the tariffs are also collected under 232s and Section 301s,
26:32which have nothing to do with IEPA.
26:35There are other tariff levers the president can use.
26:38Quickly, the president said he's got an apology from the Canadian prime minister about an anti-tariff
26:42ad that ran there using some old footage of President Reagan.
26:44But he says the trade talks are not back on.
26:47How do they get back on with Canada?
26:49You know, we'll see.
26:51I don't know about you, Shannon, but many of my worst fights have been with family members.
26:57We eventually make up.
26:58But this was very serious.
27:01This prime minister of Ontario, who I imagine is smarting quite a bit from the Blue Jays' loss
27:06last night, spent, I heard, $75 million broadcasting across the U.S. border trying to sway public opinion.
27:16Now, if we're upset about what happens during foreign interference in our elections, this is foreign
27:24interference in U.S. public policy, and I agree with President Trump 100 percent.
27:30A price has got to be paid for this.
27:32So, you know, over time, we'll see what happens.
27:35Well, we'll watch to see if they kiss and make up, as family members often do.
27:40Thank you very much, Secretary.
27:41Good to see you.
27:41Good to see you.
27:43Okay, all eyes are now on those key off-year races Tuesday.
27:46Could they provide an early preview of next year's midterms?
27:49We're going to take you live to our teams on the ground across those critical bellwethers next.
27:57For retirement.
28:19Good to see you.
28:49With just two days until the final votes are cast, our teams are on the ground ahead of
28:56Tuesday's critical off-year races.
28:59We kick things off with Rich Edson in Norfolk, Virginia.
29:01Hey, Rich.
29:03Hey, Shannon.
29:04Both candidates for Virginia governor are bringing out the big names in the closing days of this
29:08campaign.
29:09Former President Barack Obama joined Democrat Abigail Spanberger at a rally here in Norfolk.
29:15Like Spanberger, the former president criticized the current administration over doge layoffs,
29:20health care cuts, and tariffs and the cost of living.
29:24The economy has been really good for some of Trump's billionaire pals and for finance bros.
29:30But for ordinary fans, costs haven't gone down.
29:34Addressing the crowd here ahead of Obama and Spanberger, Democratic Attorney General Candidate
29:41Jay Jones, whose violent text from 2022 upended Virginia politics.
29:48Spanberger has condemned the text but refused to call on Jones to drop out of the race, a
29:52point that Republicans are hammering.
29:54This was a great representation of the far left's embracing of violence.
30:01And I can't believe that Jay Jones was there.
30:03But you know what?
30:04Abigail Spanberger is for him.
30:05Barack Obama is for him.
30:09Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin is out campaigning for Lieutenant Governor Winston Earl Sears to
30:13succeed him.
30:14Polls have generally shown Earl Sears trailing Spanberger, though a tight attorney general race
30:19following news of Jones' texts.
30:21On Thursday, Youngkin and President Trump held a tele-rally for the Virginia GOP ticket.
30:26Earl Sears says Spanberger is no moderate and extreme on issues like green energy and trans
30:31students using the bathrooms of their choice.
30:34Six weeks of early voting just concluded in Virginia yesterday, with early ballot returns
30:39exceeding where they were four years ago for the last governor's race in 2021.
30:44Now over to Hudson County, New Jersey, and my friend and colleague, Mark Meredith.
30:49Rich, good morning to you.
30:52Today is the last day of early voting here in New Jersey.
30:55So we're seeing both the Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates do all they can to
30:59get out the last minute vote in a race many consider to be a potential bellwether ahead of
31:03next November's midterm elections.
31:06Fox polling of this race says that the Democrat unlikely voters, Mikey Sherrill, leading Republican
31:11candidate Jack Cittarelli by seven points.
31:13Polling also showing a huge gender gap in this race, with Sherrill leading by double digits
31:19among likely female voters.
31:21Last night, Sherrill held a rally in Newark.
31:24The headliner, former President Obama.
31:26As Democrats here, I hope voters will send Washington a message about how people are feeling
31:30about the president's second term.
31:33My fight doesn't and can't end at the border of New Jersey.
31:38We've got to take on all those hits coming from Trump and Washington, D.C.
31:47Because right now, the president is running a worldwide extortion racket.
31:52The White House also closely watching what's happening in New Jersey.
31:58Fox learning the president's political operation, spending a lot of money late in this race to
32:02help Republicans.
32:03Cittarelli was the GOP nominee four years ago.
32:06While he lost, he came somewhat close, losing by just roughly three points.
32:10This time, he believes he's got the momentum.
32:13We're doing great.
32:14We have 21 to compare it to.
32:15I really thought I was going to win that race.
32:17You know how close we came.
32:18This one feels very different.
32:20Energy up and down the state is electric.
32:21The reception in the minority communities across the state has been overwhelming positive.
32:28Both campaigns are spending a lot of time and energy talking about the cost of living.
32:32Energy costs here in the Garden State have skyrocketed just this year.
32:36As one expert put it, electricity is the new eggs.
32:39Cost of living, of course, another major issue just across the Hudson in New York City.
32:43For the upcoming mayoral race, Fox's CB Cotton is live in Manhattan with the latest there.
32:47CB.
32:49Hey, Mark.
32:49Well, not only has former President Barack Obama hit the trail in New Jersey and Virginia
32:54this weekend, he also appears to be getting on board with the idea of a shifting Democratic
33:00Party.
33:00The New York Times was the first to report Obama's phone call to New York City Democratic
33:05mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani.
33:08The outlet says Obama praised Mamdani's campaign and offered to be a sounding board in the future.
33:14Remember, Mamdani's campaign spokesperson telling Fox, quote, Zoran Mamdani appreciated President
33:20Obama's words of support and their conversation on the importance of bringing a new kind of
33:26politics to our city.
33:27And the last weekend before Election Day, our latest Fox News poll shows while Mamdani's
33:32lead has narrowed, he's still up double digits over former Governor Andrew Cuomo running as an
33:38independent and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.
33:41Yesterday, Mamdani courted black voters and appeared with civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton,
33:46the 34-year-old who's campaigned on free buses, free child care and city-run grocery stores,
33:52gave a speech accusing President Trump of gutting the SNAP program, Medicare and Medicaid.
33:57Cuomo spent part of yesterday with outgoing mayor Eric Adams, who dropped out in September
34:02with low poll numbers.
34:04Cuomo thinks historic voter turnout will help him seal the deal because he says New Yorkers
34:11are scared of Mamdani's policies.
34:13In recent days, he's tried to make inroads with conservatives and he's urged Sliwa to
34:18exit the race, calling him a spoiler.
34:21But Sliwa says he's not going anywhere and he believes Republicans and those tired of city
34:26elitism are going to stick with him.
34:28According to the city's Board of Elections, more than half a million ballots have been
34:32cast over eight days of in-person early voting here in the Big Apple.
34:38Shannon, back to you.
34:39All right, CB Cotton on the ground in New York City.
34:41Thank you very much, CB.
34:43Time now for our Sunday group.
34:44Francesca Chambers, USA Today White House correspondent.
34:47The Ronald Reagan Institute director, Roger Zakheim.
34:50Juan Williams, Fox News senior political analyst.
34:53And Guy Benson, Fox News contributor and host of The Guy Benson Show.
34:57Welcome to all of you.
34:58You heard CB talking about this shift potentially within the Democrat Party.
35:02Here's something interesting Gallup has got out there.
35:04When you ask Democrats what they view positively and knowing what Mamdani's policy platforms
35:09are, 66% of them have a positive view of socialism.
35:13Just 42% have a positive view of capitalism, Guy.
35:18Yeah, this is a party that is moving dramatically to the left.
35:21Perhaps all the energy in the Democratic Party is on the left flank, for sure, which is why
35:26you have Barack Obama, who I think is very sympathetic to a lot of Mamdani's positions,
35:31cozying up to him.
35:32A lot of these politicians are realizing where people in their base get excited is on the
35:39hard left.
35:40And that's why this government shutdown is happening, quite frankly.
35:42I don't think that Democrats, especially in the U.S. Senate, would be doing this.
35:46There's reporting in the Hill that they would have already voted to reopen the government,
35:50if not for fear of one Democratic source called the guillotine from their base.
35:55They are trying to impress a base on the left wing of their party.
36:00And that, I think, is at least for the medium term, the future of American politics on the
36:04left side of the spectrum.
36:05Well, Semaphore cites this study by a group called Welcome.
36:08It's described as a center-left group.
36:10They say that Democrats are really, by chasing that, causing themselves long-term damage.
36:14They say Democrats have badly weakened their party with left-leaning ideas and rhetoric,
36:18growing only with self-described white liberals while losing ground with other voters.
36:23Seventy percent of voters, according to this study, think the Democratic Party is out of
36:27touch.
36:28Most voters believe the party over-prioritizes issues like protecting the rights of LGBTQ Americans
36:33and fighting climate change while not caring about securing the border or lowering the rate
36:38of crime.
36:39Juan.
36:40Well, I mean, if you look at what we just heard from our Fox correspondents, you see
36:45that moderate Democrats are doing very well out there in Virginia, in New Jersey.
36:52And I think that you are going to see more of that coming.
36:56Now, the issue is, you know, when people look at some of the issues that have been raised
37:01by Democrats, they say, oh, that's really not affecting my life.
37:05I don't like it, or I don't like the fact that they haven't been a stronger opposition
37:09to President Trump.
37:10But I think the key here is that the gravitational force in all American politics to this moment
37:16is President Trump.
37:19And what you see is that people want opposition to Trump.
37:23So Democratic Party doesn't rank very well when you ask about them.
37:27But right now, like, for example, in this morning's Washington Post, you see that the approval
37:32rating for President Trump is pretty low.
37:34I think he's down around 41 percent, 59 percent disapproval.
37:38Gallup has the same numbers.
37:40And with that kind of action and the shutdown the guy was talking about and the judges ruling
37:45on SNAP benefits, the fact that the president's been out of town, that the House has been shut
37:50down, I think people feel like the narrative is what's going on with the Republicans.
37:55Well, Roger, you're shaking your head down.
37:57I think the narrative is what's going on with the Democratic Party.
37:59The gubernatorial races are a sideshow.
38:02It's fundamentally about what the soul of the Democratic Party is, and that's around
38:05Mamdani and how he will fare.
38:07It's about what Reagan called the cult of overwhelming government.
38:11That's what he advances, this mainstream socialism.
38:14And that's just on the discussion about government and the role of government in people's lives
38:18as an assault on freedom.
38:19We haven't gone to the fact that Mamdani talks about globalizing intifada as some sort
38:24of rallying cry for human rights.
38:25This is so far left, it's shocking.
38:28It could happen in one of America's greatest cities, where 10% roughly of the population
38:32are Jews.
38:33I mean, it is off, and the soul of the party is at risk with this man's election.
38:38Well, and Francesca, what do you make of the fact that they, you referenced President
38:42Obama now getting connected with Mamdani in a way that he's saying, you know, it looks
38:47forward to talking with him about policy and future kind of thing.
38:49I mean, the races that are playing out right now are full of potential 2028 contenders.
38:54They're out there, President Obama's out there.
38:57What is the direction of the Democratic Party when it comes to these candidates that are
39:01not exactly centrist?
39:03And I wrote about this over the weekend with all those 2028 hopefuls out on the campaign
39:07trail.
39:08You know, there is a realization taking place in the Democratic Party right now that what
39:12would win in a state like Virginia when you're talking about moderate Democrats is not necessarily
39:17the same message that's either going to win nationally or in a race like the one in New York City.
39:22What's interesting about the New York City race, though, is that it is a test right now
39:26of how radioactive the idea of socialism is within the Democratic Party and as well as
39:32nationally, as well as what could work, Shannon, in 2028.
39:36He is focused a lot on affordability and working class Americans.
39:40When you looked at Bernie Sanders first run and how he did compared to Hillary Clinton to
39:44now you have it's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a potential leading candidate in 2028 out there
39:50on the campaign trail with Bernie Sanders, they do have a choice in front of them in
39:54the Democratic Party.
39:55And we'll learn, I'm sure, more as we head into 2028 what choice they'll make.
39:59OK, so with all of those issues out there, by the way, and the thing I noted, this welcome
40:03study that some aforesighted about where some people think Democrats are off base.
40:09Karine Jean-Pierre, former White House spokesperson out this week, said this to the New Yorker.
40:13She said, I do not feel seen in the party because I think they're throwing the LGBTQ community
40:18under the bus and they're not fighting enough for migrants and immigrants.
40:22So, guys, she thinks they could be doing more progressive work.
40:25Well, the Democrats have shut down the government to, among other things, try to provide free
40:30health care funded by taxpayers to illegal immigrants.
40:33So I'm not exactly sure what she would like to see in terms of more addressing of that issue.
40:38I mean, they had an open border for four years under the administration that she spoke
40:41on behalf of.
40:42And the idea that the Democrats are not pro-LGBTQ enough, I mean, it's delusional.
40:47I think there's a reason why she's getting panned on this book tour, even by her own party.
40:51Well, a party she says now she's leaving.
40:54But please don't leave panel because we have a lot more to talk about.
40:56House Republicans urging the DOJ to probe former President Biden's use of the auto pen
41:01and calling the legitimacy of his executive actions into question.
41:05What it might mean for those 11th hour pardons next.
41:12We'll see you next time.
41:12Bye.
41:13Bye.
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