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00:00Good Sunday morning everyone. Welcome to Sunday Morning Futures. I'm Maria Bartiromo. Thanks so
00:09much for joining us this morning. President Trump and President Zelensky at the Vatican
00:14in the first face-to-face since the Oval Office blow up as provocations loom from Communist China
00:22now tightening its grip on rare earth minerals that the United States needs for the military.
00:28Coming up, China, Russia and Iran with National Security Advisor Michael Waltz as President
00:35Trump gets set to mark his first 100 days in office this week. Plus a war on Europe's doorstep
00:43now for three years running. NATO Ambassador Matt Whitaker on the prospects for allies
00:48as President Trump crystallizes plans for tariffs and NATO members prepare to pay up for their own
00:55defense. Then federal judges hauled off in handcuffs as the DOJ collides with resistance from judges
01:04trying to stop the Trump agenda. No one is above the law, John. No one is above the law in this
01:11country. And if you are destroying evidence, if you are obstructing justice when you have victims
01:19sitting in a courtroom of domestic violence and you're escorting a criminal defendant out a back
01:25door, it will not be tolerated. And it is a crime in the United States of America. Doesn't matter who
01:31you are, you're going to be prosecuted. Former gubernatorial candidate Carrie Lake on the DOJ
01:38moving to take down the resistance. Plus, when will it end? President Trump strips funding for Ivy
01:46Leagues as anti-Israel sentiment escalates on college campuses. Former HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson and the
01:53Drill Down podcast host Peter Schweitzer on the activists, the investigations and the money going
01:59away for universities. All of this as Congress returns to Washington tomorrow morning from Easter
02:06recess and Democrats struggle to keep up with President Trump's fast moving agenda as another
02:12leading Democrat bolts the party in Florida. Florida Congressman and gubernatorial hopeful Byron
02:18Donald's on the state of affairs today. It's all right here right now on Sunday morning futures.
02:32And we begin this Sunday morning with President Trump on the world stage after almost 100 days in
02:38office and just one day after his one-on-one with Ukrainian President Zelensky at the Vatican.
02:45Speculation now is surging as to when the president will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping
02:51as the economic soft war between the US and China escalates. The latest provocation this month after
02:59China took over a disputed reef in the South China Sea just miles away from the Philippines most important
03:06military installation. With the Chinese Coast Guard unfurling the Chinese flag and declaring
03:12sovereignty over Sandy Kaye in the Spratly Islands. All of this as a back and forth over tariffs between
03:19the United States and China deepens. After Trump initially seemed to back off of his 145 percent
03:27tariff on imports of Chinese goods and China responded with a 125 percent tariff on American goods. The Wall
03:35Wall Street Journal reporting that the CCP will not begin negotiating with the United States until
03:40Trump's 145 percent tariff is lifted saying they are prepared to fight to the end. China also this month halting the
03:49export of seven rare earth minerals that the United States needs to make everything from semiconductors to
03:55electric vehicles to military products while threatening its allies not to export any military related
04:03products to America. China telling South Korea not to export products that are contained with rare earth
04:10minerals from China to the US defense companies or face sanctions from China. Major shipping company
04:18Hupag Lloyd already has said its customers have canceled 30 percent of orders from China to the US. While
04:26Boeing said China has returned several planes and is refusing to accept 50 planes that have already been
04:32ordered. President Trump says now is the time to hit the Chinese economy while it is in a weakened state. Here's
04:39the president this week on the impact of his 145 percent tariff. It basically means China's not doing any
04:48business with us essentially because it's a very high number so when you add that to the price of a
04:53product you know a lot of those products aren't going to sell but China's not doing any business they
04:58were doing they were doing uh 1.1 trillion dollars think of that 1.1 trillion dollars you know what that is
05:08and uh it was just very unfair to us and we were doing very little relatively very little with them it was
05:14a one-sided very one-sided. Joining me now with more in this Sunday Morning Futures exclusive is
05:20National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. Michael it's good to have you this morning. Welcome.
05:28Thanks Maria uh good to be with you. Well we've got a lot to get to. Let's first start with that
05:32meeting at the Vatican. What progress was done between President Trump and President Zelensky at the Vatican?
05:38Well Maria let's just take a breath here and and take a step back how iconic uh that setting that scene
05:51that meeting uh is going to go down in the history books uh for President Trump to be a president of
05:58peace uh to be talking peace and diplomacy in the Vatican of all places uh just before we were able to
06:07walk out uh and uh the president sat with world leaders people of all faiths hundreds of thousands
06:16uh in the crowd and the thing he was determined to do uh was to talk to Zelensky face to face uh
06:23and talk about how we're going to get the largest land war in Europe uh to an end both sides have to
06:30want that uh he's expressed his frustration with both sides but yet his determination uh and if you go back
06:36to you know we're a hundred days in Maria just a hundred days ago Biden and his team had no end in
06:43sight this was an endless war this was a meat grinder of men and material and national treasure that uh that
06:51really he had never defined victory and President Trump is determined to use diplomacy uh to bring this
06:58war to an end to talk to both sides and just in a hundred days we've had multiple rounds uh led by
07:05Secretary of State Rubio by Ambassador Steve Witkoff in Saudi Arabia and now uh in the Vatican and it was
07:13just truly special to stand there with other world leaders looking on uh as that President Trump led
07:18the way yes another iconic shot and another iconic meeting for sure that President Trump led do you
07:25believe that Zelensky understands he's likely not going to get uh more land back
07:35well there's been a number of discussions of territory of uh you know of what they need to make
07:41sure that this war uh never continues that it is permanent uh we've talked to our European partners who
07:47you saw the images of uh both Starmer from the United Kingdom and Macron from France that Europe
07:54has to step up I know that uh you have Ambassador Whitaker our new NATO ambassador who's fantastic coming
08:02on on talking about how the Europeans need to take the lead uh in the future all of those things are
08:10key parts of the discussion with both Zelensky and with Putin uh and next is to drive both sides to the
08:16table but they both have to want it uh and the president has expressed his frustrations uh and you know
08:22whether both sides genuinely want to end this war uh but he is determined to have the United States of
08:29America in him and I'll just say this the current leader of NATO who was here this week said only
08:35President Trump could break the deadlock that we saw a hundred days ago under the Biden administration
08:40and he's done just that starting with his call with both Putin and Zelensky just a few months ago and of
08:46course President Trump tweeted or posted this as well he writes in a post yesterday uh there was
08:53no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas cities and towns over the last few
08:58days it makes me think that maybe he does not want to stop the war he's just tapping me along and has
09:03to be dealt with differently how will the president deal with Putin differently
09:07well you saw and uh also uh in that truth Maria that he talked about potential action on banking
09:17potential action on the oil and gas sector uh but he's determined to use both carrots and sticks uh to
09:24get both sides to the table in direct talks talking about those items that that we discussed uh to drive
09:31this to a permanent end with European led security uh uh security architecture let me move on because
09:36we've got a lot to cover and i do want to get your take you just talked about the possibility of using
09:41banking against Russia i want to get your take on what you're willing to do regarding china the united
09:49states obviously has taken a tough stance against communist china and the latest provocation is china has
09:55seized the disputed reef in the south china sea that's on top of the propaganda on top of the surveillance
10:02on top of the undermining from communist china will you pull any financial or economic levers including
10:09yanking stocks from u.s exchanges that are chinese companies that are tied to the chinese military
10:18well marie i'm not going to get ahead of our uh our amazing economic team led by secretary besant
10:24uh ambassador greer uh lutnik and and others uh but look here's what the president's determined to do
10:31and i'm looking at this from a national security standpoint we have to bring our supply chains
10:36home we saw even cheap items like mass gowns and gloves uh if they're made abroad and not made here
10:42become a national security issue we have to uh have clean supply chains for our military uh equipment
10:50we everything from manufacturing to shipbuilding uh which he just had a fantastic uh executive order on
10:57to critical minerals as you mentioned uh to chips ai quantum if we can't have them here in the united
11:04states which is absolutely the press uh preference we have to have access uh through our allies or even
11:10right here in our western hemisphere uh that is a key element rebuilding our military under pete hegseth
11:17secretary hegseth focused on meritocracy and lethality is a key element and then of course uh working
11:23with our allies and it's no accident that president trump had prime minister modi of india had prime
11:30minister ashiba of japan and made calls to the prime minister of australia uh and south korea all of
11:37those pieces are key elements uh of uh our uh competition with china that president trump knows
11:44we have to win through our markets and we have to win through our strong economy that's how you avoid
11:50any conflict is the ukraine rare earth minerals deal gonna get done oh the ukraine deal the ukraine
11:55deal is going to get done the negotiators were working hard over the weekend uh that that is first
12:01and foremost on both secretary beset and the president's mind it's going to get done maria
12:07president's determined to make it make it so mike let me just ask you about pete hegseth and the defense
12:13department can you do this in in what appears to be a chaotic uh weakened defense department uh pete
12:20hegseth of course our defense secretary has been threatening uh polygraph tests he's been firing uh
12:28people who we thought were his allies what is the state of affairs of the defense department right now
12:33maria i introduced secretary hegseth that is hearing i've known him for years uh you know
12:43you know what uh let me tell you about the soldiers sailors marines that every day come up to me come
12:51up to him uh we just had wounded warriors in the office with the president that say thank god for
12:57secretary hegseth thank god for president trump as commander in chief just a hundred days ago we were
13:02more worried about dei and climate change nonsense now we're focused on lethality and winning that's
13:09been in just over three months to change and what we owe is the best equipment that is on time on budget
13:17uh and lethal to those uh to those soldiers and sailors i'll tell you a pentagon that was chaotic
13:23was one that had a defense secretary that disappeared for two weeks uh just last year and nobody knew about
13:30it pete is leading from the front he is leading the charge and he has no tolerance for leaking how
13:35do you replace how do you replace all those people so fast this is a media narrative that we are going
13:40to power through what's that how's he going to replace all of those people so fast
13:46maria there's 20 000 people in the pentagon uh there is a record number amount of generals uh and the
13:52other piece there is accountability uh we have had uh several general officers that weren't getting the job
13:59done and admirals uh get fired and get replaced including our great new chairman uh raisin kane who
14:06i just talked to last night uh that's what that pentagon needs no one ever gets fired there's never a sense
14:13of accountability uh now there is uh and whether it is whether it's leaks or not getting the job done
14:20or failures okay uh in terms of procurement acquisition now you have a leader that's in
14:26charge and and i couldn't be prouder of pete hexa i know that you have talked about china being the
14:32long-term threat but short-term it's iran isn't it well let's you know let's look at what the president
14:41has said he has been crystal clear no nukes uh and he prefers a deal and he prefers a middle east that was
14:49that we saw in his first term getting back to the abraham accord so border secure uh getting the
14:55middle east back to peace ending the largest land war in europe uh and competing uh with china in a
15:01very strong and tough way that's what we're seeing in the first hundred days all of that getting done
15:07uh and it's been an honor uh to be a part of it yeah i mean we know that last month three people
15:12tried to cross the border versus four thousand a year ago 99 reduction exactly we know that that is
15:20the president's taking on the cartels and kicking in the first 100 days it's great to see you this
15:26morning sir thank you national security advisor michael waltz thank you sir and now this
15:33the total commitment of the u.s to nato a total commitment to the famous article five and attack
15:38on one is an attack on all but also clearly a commitment that we have to speed up the spending
15:44in europe do more ourselves so that for the us it is possible for them to spend more time and resources
15:51on the inner pacific which i think is logical that's nato secretary general mark root at the white house
15:59thursday on the need for europe to spend more on defense as the u.s is bolstering its defense in the
16:05pacific against that growing threat of china this as president trump simultaneously tries to broker
16:11a peace deal between ukraine and russia with russian president vladimir putin meeting with
16:16u.s special envoy steve whitkoff in moscow on friday joining me now with the very latest on the
16:21negotiations is u.s ambassador tornado matt you matthew whitaker uh ambassador it's great to see you
16:28this morning thank you so much for being here give us your sense of progress from our nato members
16:34since you've taken this job yeah well good morning maria it's great to be with you uh today well i
16:42think our european allies and canada understand that they need to do a lot more uh than they have
16:48since they committed to two percent spending of their gdp on defense and defense related activities
16:56but you know the message now is that's not enough we have a dangerous world you mentioned iran you know
17:01china uh russia is obviously uh threatening uh our european allies especially and so there's there's
17:09a it's a big dangerous world and we all need to take advantage of this once in a lifetime moment where
17:15donald trump is leading uh these alliances to make sure that they are ready to address all of these
17:21threats and uh you know i'm proud to work for him and to deliver this message here in brussels
17:27and across the nato alliance that we need to spend more money that money needs to be dedicated to
17:33lethality war fighting we need to get rid of all the the nonsense uh that we've seen kind of infiltrate
17:40uh our defense uh complex and you know we're just we're moving out as fast as we can heading to a
17:46summit uh at the end of june in the hague that i think is going to be really historical and when you
17:52say it will be historic what are you expecting in hague i mean right now the president is balancing
17:59pushing these members to do the right thing and increase uh their spending on defense while also
18:05instituting economic tariffs so how is that playing into everything
18:12well maria you know that those two things are actually related you know the the underspending
18:17on defense coupled with uh the disadvantageous trade situation where europe has run a trade
18:25surplus with the united states of 250 billion dollars just below the 300 billion that china
18:31has run every year and so that is unsustainable and and you know our european allies have to
18:36understand the reality of the situation you know we want fair free trade that works for the american
18:42people that's you know if you look at donald trump's america first agenda that i campaigned all over
18:46the united states for uh in 2016 2020 and 2024 you know that is something that delivers for the
18:53american worker and the american family and so you know i think uh our nato allies completely understand
18:58what what is at stake what they need to do and they also understand that the american people uh are an
19:04ally that we we stand for freedom uh and liberty all over this globe and we fully expect uh that at the
19:12end of june we will sign a historic uh declaration uh with president trump there uh leading the way
19:18and so it's it's an exciting time but you know there's a lot of hard work and we're rolling up our
19:22sleeves to do it president trump told me that he has already saved the united states five billion dollars
19:30a day that it was costing us five billion a day in tariffs and now it is at flat uh at a at a flat level
19:40that is an incredible number that the president told me about i want to get your take on what
19:45you're expecting to be the first deal with regarding tariffs
19:51yeah well i mean if if you know anything about donald trump he is the consummate deal maker he
19:56wrote the book on it and what you're seeing is he is trying to take these um you know and prioritize
20:02those that are willing to make a deal those that are willing to lower down
20:06and reduce and eliminate the barriers to american products being uh exported from the united states
20:12to our to our allies and our trading partners and so i mean i i think they it is right now at the white
20:17house i was just there on friday with the president it looks like they are fully uh working on all of
20:23these deals simultaneously but prioritizing the most important ones first ambassador it's great to have
20:29you this morning thanks so much for your leadership we'll continue to check back with you
20:34u.s ambassador tornado thank you thank you sir quick brag and then the new resistance to president trump
20:41federal judges blocking his executive orders across the country u.s agency for global media senior
20:47advisor carrie lake on the roadblocks the administration is facing in court to enacting
20:52the will of the american voter she's next stay with us
20:55to the resistance this week federal judges across the country issued preliminary injunctions
21:05against a number of president trump's executive orders trying to stop the president from withholding
21:10federal funds from sanctuary cities requiring proof of u.s citizenship to register to vote in federal
21:16elections cutting funding to public schools that maintain dei programs with efforts to restore
21:23voice of america the taxpayer funded media network journey now with more on the impact the judicial
21:28branch is having on president trump's agenda is u.s agency for global media senior advisor and former
21:34gubernatorial candidate carrie lake carrie thanks very much for being here
21:40good to be with you this morning i'll mention one the april 18th court case requesting an injunction
21:46against trump's april 2nd liberation day tariffs was denied uh the next court date is may 13th
21:52how would you assess these federal judges trying to stop president trump's agenda
21:59well they're they're completely out of control i mean they're they're basically usurping the power
22:03of the president and i've got a district judge who's coming after us and telling us how to run an
22:08agency the president has article two powers to run the executive branch of this government and we're
22:14seeing a whole handful of judges trying to stop that and and really subvert the will of the people
22:19in our situation over at u.s agency for global media we're trying to modernize it and we're trying
22:25to shrink it down a little bit because of the bloat there and the federal judge is basically saying
22:29you can't do that you have to hire everybody back and we hadn't even fired anybody we put people on
22:34leave so we could assess and and shrink this agency down and the beautiful thing about president
22:40trump is he wants to come in and bring this government under control it's gotten way too big and
22:45now we've got a bunch of judges saying no president trump you can't do that the people voted for
22:50president trump and they're trying to subvert the will of the people here i don't think it'll work in
22:55the end i believe that eventually these cases will move higher up and and president trump will be
23:00victorious but unfortunately it's the delay that's preventing the work from being done you know we
23:06don't want to get rid of voice of america we want to save what's salvageable and maybe get rid of an
23:11agency and move things like voice of america office of cuba broadcasting over to the department
23:16of state where frankly the last time when they were under department of state they were effective
23:21now they have not become effective they've gotten too big and the president wants to actually shrink
23:26things down and get things a little more under control well it's not just the federal funding it's
23:31also tariffs i mean next week we've got multiple tariff deadlines including the implementation of the 25
23:37tariff on global auto parts the closing of the china hong kong dominus loophole the office of
23:43management budget assessment of the america first trade policy are you expecting these cases to go to
23:49the supreme court it's going to have to go there and i wish we could just skip right over and get to
23:56the supreme court and get this taken care of because in many of these cases you've got soros linked
24:03attorneys who are just trying to make some money and delay the president's agenda and you've got
24:09judges who you know in many cases may be compromised we're seeing some of this around the country
24:14why are they doing this and so i think it will eventually get to the supreme court my concern and
24:19i believe the concern of the american people is the delay and the time that is ticking away keeping
24:24president trump keeping people like me that he's brought in and hired to do our job and it's very
24:29concerning that judges are behaving this way i would rather follow the constitution than a judge who's
24:35got an agenda well the democrats are pushing back saying that the fbi arresting that wisconsin judge
24:43accusing her obstructing uh immigration officials is one step too far i mean to watch judges in in
24:51handcuffs has lots of people up in arms your reaction to what took place in wisconsin
24:56well if you break the law you end up being charged if you break the law you end up in handcuffs and it
25:04appears that this judge broke the law and you know we're making sure that the law is uh is applied here
25:11doesn't matter if you're a judge if you're a regular everyday person and so i i think if she broke the
25:16law of what what is said about uh what happened what transpired and that courthouse is true then she
25:21deserves to be frankly in in handcuffs and arrested and you know she will get her due process and we'll
25:27figure out what happened but you we we've got to get these people who are here illegally i'm from the
25:32state of arizona we've got to get these people who are here illegally out of this country it's appalling
25:38that a judge would try to harbor or protect an illegal immigrant that is in the process of uh actually
25:44being uh the the victim that he abused allegedly abused was right there in the courtroom and she's
25:52trying to protect the abuser and the illegal immigrant it's just um it's unbelievable what's
25:57happening in this country right now and this is just an attempt in my opinion to stop president trump
26:02and his america first agenda that the people overwhelmingly voted for thankfully the president
26:08has brought in some really good fighters to dc people who don't want to become permanent creatures
26:13that they're i'm just as happy to doge myself out of a job and and go on and help president trump
26:19in another way but he's brought in people who want to get the job done and these judges are trying
26:24to stop us from getting the job done in the end we will prevail it's going to take a little bit of
26:29time and it's unfortunate that these judges don't care more about america and the will of the people
26:34particularly since the border is likely the most important uh success story in the first 100 days
26:41that's for sure as well as reigning in inflation carrie thanks very much we'll keep following your
26:45work u.s agency for global media senior advisor carrie lake thank you so much quick break and then
26:52president trump takes on anti-semitism cutting off federal money to elite institutions who fail to end
26:58anti-semitism dr ben carson and peter schweitzer are here on why ivy league universities are allowing
27:04anti-israel and anti-american sentiment to foster on campus stay with us
27:14still don't get it the faculty doesn't get it these radical far left students doesn't get it but
27:19the fact that president trump not only is he revoking the visas for the pro hamas uh foreign agitators
27:25and anti-semitism on campus he's also withholding those federal dollars these universities are not
27:30entitled to those federal dollars they have to ensure that they are protecting jewish students
27:35on campus so again we are just seeing a failure within higher education welcome back that was new
27:43york congresswoman elise stefanek with me here on trump administration's crackdown on ivy league
27:49universities that are failing to stop anti-israel sentiment on wednesday harvard university filed a
27:55lawsuit against the white house over the administration's freezing of 2.2 billion dollars
28:01in federal research money with another cut planned of 1 billion dollars for its failure to clamp down
28:07on anti-semitism even though harvard's president has acknowledged that the university has a major
28:13problem on campus joining me now is former hud secretary dr ben carson and the president of the
28:18government accountability institute peter schweitzer gentlemen great to have you thank you so much for
28:23being here dr carson kicking things off with you why can't we stop anti-semitism in america well you
28:31know a lot of people think that this is of recent origin but this has been going on for a long time
28:36if you go back and look at the congressional record january the 10 1963 congressman herlong
28:42listed 45 of the goals of communism in america one of them was to gain control of our school systems
28:49and teacher unions so you can indoctrinate the kids so now we're seeing the fruit of that indoctrination
28:56the marxist understand this very well that's why vladimir lenin said give me your children to teach
29:01for four years and the seed that i sow will never be uprooted and it's so essential that the trump
29:07administration recognized this which they clearly do and act against it you know he's asked all the
29:13federal agencies within the next 60 days to list all the tools that they have to fight anti-semitism
29:21and to put them into action we have to be vigorous in this fight because it's very serious well one of
29:27the issues here peter is that foreign nations some of them adversarial have sent so much money to
29:34american universities tell us about the flow of funds
29:37yeah no you're exactly right maria and here's the thing they require by federal law the national
29:45education act to disclose large donations from overseas the problem is sometimes they simply don't
29:51report them or they perfect purposely hide them so for example uh if you are qatar and you want to fund
29:59american universities and you set up a foundation in canada and you send those donations to an american
30:05university the university lists it as a canadian donation not as a donation from qatar that's in
30:12fact what happened with lee kasheng the chinese billionaire who is linked to the ccp he donates
30:19millions to the university of california at berkeley but it's not listed as a chinese donation it's listed
30:25as a canadian donation and what we know maria based on what fundraisers in the university setting will
30:32tell you is that these foreign donations unlike a lot of the american donors have strings attached
30:38to those donations they don't want just buildings named after them they want to influence the curriculum
30:44and what our young people are talking in terms of what dr carson was saying earlier that's exactly
30:50right and isn't it true that there are some universities right now that are trying to hide the
30:56fact that they've gotten so much money from china what is china getting in return is this how china
31:02has been able to steal all of that intellectual property over the last several decades
31:09well i think yes it is um go ahead peter
31:15yeah no i think uh there's no question about it it's not only technology theft it's affecting this
31:20atmosphere on campus i wrote in my book red-handed about the situation at yale uh you have joe sai
31:27the the co-founder the current chairman of alibaba who's donated hundreds of millions of dollars to
31:33yale's yale university by the way those donations are listed as being from the uh from guernsey which
31:39is a tax shelter off the uk coast they're not even listed by yale as chinese donations and when you talk
31:45to people who are of uighur background
32:15to people who are of uighur background
32:33so
32:45Let's go.