U.S. Braces for Winter Storm; Trilateral Meeting with Russia, Ukraine | NTD Evening News (Jan. 23)

Welcome to NTD Evening News. Our top story tonight, a massive winter storm is threatening millions across the U. S. The storms bring heavy snow, dangerous ice and life threatening cold states of emergency are now in effect as officials warn conditions could quickly turn deadly. Christina Corona reports a sweeping reset of global power and U. S. Spending President Trump launching a new international peace body negotiating over Greenland and slashing tens of billions in green energy loans. Jack Bradley has what's behind the moves. The United States joins Russia and Ukraine for the first trilateral talks on the war in Ukraine. One of the key topics is which country will get certain territory in Ukraine. Jason Perry reports. Ice authorities provide the full story of a case involving a child seen in custody this week in Minnesota. Jason Blair reports and House lawmakers avert a partial government shut down, passing the final funding bills. Some Democrats facing scrutiny from their left flank for helping Republicans from the D. H. S. And ice Molina Weiss Cup reports. This is NTD Evening News live from our global headquarters in New York City. Here's Tiffany Meyer. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. Abundancy officials across the country are bracing for a major winter storm expected to bring heavy snow, ice and dangerous cold to large portions of the U. S. More than a dozen states have already declared emergencies ahead of the storm's arrival entities. Christina Corona tells us more. A massive winter storm is expected to hit much of the U. S. Bringing heavy snow, ice and dangerously cold temperatures. Over 200 million people are under winter weather warnings from New Mexico to New England, prompting multiple states to declare emergencies. The storm begins Friday, and officials warned the bitter cold could be as dangerous as the snow in New York. Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a state of emergency as temperatures plunge. Temperatures across New York are plummeting by tomorrow night will be spent experiencing some of the most dangerous cold we've seen in years. And if you're heading up to the north country or living that beautiful part of our state, you better bundle up. You'll be experiencing minus 42 minus 50 degree wind chills. Forecasters say snow totals are climbing with up to 18 inches possible in parts of New York. Utility crews across the state are on standby in case power is knocked out. In Washington D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is urging people to seek shelter as dangerously cold conditions move in. This city has also requested assistance from the D. C. National Guard to help first responders navigate the storm. Further south, officials are preparing roadways and urging residents to have emergency kits ready as the winter storm approaches. The N. C. D. O. T. He has already put down 2.8 million gallons of brine to pre treat the roads and is ready to salt the roads and plow them once the storm begins. The state emergency response team has shipped pallets of meals and drinking water around the state in preparation. Make sure you have ready with enough non perishable food, water and medications for three days. Ensure you have warm clothing and blankets, have flashlights and batteries. Forecasters warn the storm could down trees and power lines causing outages and dangerous travel. Hundreds of flights have already been delayed or canceled nationwide with major disruptions in Dallas, Atlanta, Washington D. C. And New York. Christina Corona N. T. D. News. Ice says that an abandoned child has been reunited with his father. According to ice, the father initially left the child in a car while attempting to evade arrest. N. T. D. Correspondent Jason Blair. How's the story? That false media narrative that was pushed out yesterday was well, it was false. It remains with his family. High senior official Marcos Charles gives the timeline for the case of a child that was seen in ice custody on Wednesday. Charles says that agents were targeting an illegal immigrant. They found the suspect in his vehicle with his child. Adios fled from law enforcement on foot, abandoning his child in the middle of winter in a vehicle. Charles says that agents got the child some food and eventually took him to a residence where family members of the child live. Tragically, when we approached the door of his residence, the people inside refused to take him in and open the door. There have been reports that ice was targeting the child and used him to try to get family members to open the door at the house. And one lawmaker alleged that the child was being used as bait to try to get the father a five year old boy. They took him and used him to lure his father out. And now they've detained them both. However, Charles says that agents had already apprehended the father and that they were trying to unite the child with family after the father had abandoned it. The D. H. S. Says that the father eventually asked to have the child put back under his care and now they are being well cared for to family residential center. Ice uses family residential centers to house detained family members during immigration proceedings. The child is in the least restrictive setting with a family member. I don't think it gets any better than that. The child could be without his parents somewhere, perhaps in social services care somewhere. And that's what we see oftentimes by Children that are trafficked across the border is heartbreaking. C. B. P. Commander Greg Bovino also compared the situation to what would happen if an american parent is arrested by police. Many american citizens are separated when they're arrested, say by Minneapolis Police Department or any other police department. They are separated from their Children. Vice President J. D. Vance also commented on the situation during his visit to Minneapolis. Are they supposed to let a five year old child freeze to death? Are they not supposed to arrest an illegal alien in the United States of America? If the argument is that you can't arrest people who have violated our laws because they have Children, then every single parent is going to be completely given immunity from ever being the subject of law enforcement. That doesn't make any sense. Jason Blair and T. D. News. The House Oversight Committee is expanding its probe into alleged welfare fraud in Minnesota. Chairman James Comer today saying he is seeking more documents. Commerce asking Minnesota Legislative Auditor Judy Randall to hand over documents related to reviews conducted on the state's Department of Human Services. The chairman also asked the temporary commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services sharing Gandhi appear for a transcribed interview on January 30th. The Oversight Committee launched its investigation in December last year. Since then, Comer has called on Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to provide documents, communications and records about the alleged fraud. The chairman has also asked Walz in Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to testify publicly on February 10th. We will keep you updated with the latest from the House investigation. House lawmakers avert a partial government shutdown. Some Democrats voted with Republicans to fund the D. H. S. Without reforms to ice despite pushback from their party's leadership and the progressive left entities. Moyna Weiss Cup has the details. The A's are 2 20 and the nays are 207. The bill is passed without objection to motion to reconsider. Lawmakers racing the clock once again to avoid a partial government shutdown. On thursday, the House overwhelmingly approved a package of spending bills to fund education, defense, labor, health, transportation and housing. Republicans will have finally replaced the last of any biden era spending levels with trump era spending levels and policies. We've spent less. We've saved more taxpayer dollars. We've codified efforts to remove waste and fraud and abuse. The speaker has fought to return the chamber to regular order in allocating tax dollars instead of forcing members to vote on a massive package all at once without time for review. This is the most significant progress towards restoring regular order in this institution in many years and everybody here knows that while a separate vote to fund the D. H. S. Barely passed due to democrat pushback over ramped up ice operations. Ice is out of control. House democrat leaders led a majority of democrats to reject funding for the D. H. S. I should be abolished and it should be and something should be reconstituted. So we have immigration enforcement. President trump on thursday defended his immigration enforcement efforts predicting that senate democrats may again force another partial government shutdown. The shutdown cost us a lot and I think they'll probably do it again. That's my feeling. We'll see what else people coming in from the congo prisons in the congo prisons in venezuela prisons from all over the world. Let them come into our country and that you know we've done an incredible job. We closed up the southern border. Now the senate will need to approve the funding bills before the january 30th deadline. Senate minority leader chuck Schumer would not say whether he'd push for senate democrats to reject D. H. S. Funding when the bills come up for a vote next week. Reporting from Washington D. C. Molina Weiss cup in T. D. News. The trump administration is rolling out major policy shifts internationally and at home from the newly created board of peace to canceling billions in biden era climate funding entities. Washington correspondent Jack Bradley joins us. Good evening jack. What is the latest on this? Good evening Tiffany. Well the trump administration's canceling $30 billion in green loans and revising another $53 billion here. These changes and eliminations come after its review of loan obligations issued under the biden administration. Details weren't provided on which programs are impacted here, but the administration has already canceled over $9 billion in solar and wind projects, replacing those with natural gas and nuclear plants. Now those domestic moves comes as President trump is also reshaping U. S. Policy on the world stage, launching a new board of peace, negotiating over Greenland and and pressing for a new vision of global security. Take a look. It's gonna be a great board. That'll be a board, I think, like no other president trump rolling out of Davos, Switzerland after forming a new international body, the board of peace, one that could reshape global diplomacy and defense. Trump says it might eventually replace the United Nations, pitching the board as a force to enforce ceasefires, starting with Gaza. People that are living so poorly are gonna be living so well and many countries already committing to fund the alliance. Some of the countries have already put up a billion. Some of the countries have already put up much more than that. I mean, that's a lot of money, but it's nothing compared to the value of peace. But trump uninvited Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney from serving on the board of peace after he said this great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons. Tariffs is leverage. Financial infrastructure is coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. Trump wrote on truth social on Friday. Canada is against the Golden Dome being built over Greenland, even though the Golden Dome would protect Canada. Instead, they voted in favor of doing business with China, who will eat them up within the first year. It comes after Carney's recent trip to China, where he met with top Chinese Communist Party officials establishing a trade framework. Canada and China now have the opportunity to work more closely together to strengthen the world's multilateral institutions. Carney said at Davos that the world order is going to change. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. With regard to Greenland, Trump says that he's working out a plan with NATO allies for the U. S. To acquire 100% of it forever. The time limit is infinity, meaning there is no time limit. It's forever. There's no price. You know, there's no purchase. He says Greenland is key to his proposal for the Golden Dome missile defense system designed to intercept long range missiles that would travel over the Arctic from Russia or China. We're building a Golden Dome. You see the way it works. That is so much better for us and for Europe to have that piece of ice covered by the Golden. NATO Secretary General saying it's about security. He's the leader of the free world. If he is worried about something, hey, we'd better listen. We have China, which is not an Arctic country, but which is more and more active there in that region. While the leaders of some European nations are still on the fence about this, Ukrainian President Zelensky says Europe looks lost trying to convince the U. S. President to change, but he will not change. President Trump loves who he is, and he says he loves Europe, but he will not listen to this kind of Europe. Greenland's prime minister says he's ready to negotiate. We are ready to discuss a lot of things, and we are ready to negotiate a better partnership and so on. A lot of movement on the Greenland aspect, but back to the Board of Peace. Its charter has not yet been released, but it's a bold initiative for sure. That's raising questions about how successful of a diplomatic breakthrough it can become and whether it will eventually replace the United Nations, as Trump has suggested. Tiffany. All right, Jack, thanks for those updates. Delegations from the United States, Russia and Ukraine held the first trilateral talks on the war in Ukraine. One of the major sticking points to reaching a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is which country will get certain territory in Ukraine entities. Jason Perry has the details. The United Arab Emirates on Friday hosted what is known as the first trilateral talks on the war in Ukraine. Delegations from Russia, Ukraine and the United States met in Abu Dhabi to negotiate a possible into the war that's been going on for almost four years now. The U. A. E. S. President was seen sitting with President Trump's son in law, Jared Kushner, U. S. Envoy Steve Whitkoff, Ukraine's secretary of the National Security and Defense Council and Russia's head of the main directorate of the general staff of the Russian armed forces. And a major part of the negotiations is over a piece of land in eastern Ukraine, which has been a key sticking point in efforts to reach an agreement to end the war. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this. Russia's position is well known. Ukraine and its armed forces must leave the territory of Donbass and be withdrawn from there. This is a very important condition. However, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has refused to give up land that Russia has not been able to capture in four years of fighting. It is necessary that not only Ukraine wants to end this war and achieve complete security, but that a similar desire somehow arises in Russia as well. Zelensky also said he was willing to withdraw troops from eastern Ukraine if Russia does the same and the area becomes a demilitarized zone monitored by international forces. Meanwhile, in Ukraine, the country's top energy executive said he hoped for a so called energy ceasefire that would stop Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, which has left, according to the EU, over a million people without power. Russia says it's targeting military and energy infrastructure used in the interest of Ukraine's armed forces. And Poland has begun sending hundreds of generators to Ukraine to help provide electricity to residents who have been facing freezing temperatures. Meanwhile, France released video on Friday showing troops intercepting a ship in the Mediterranean Sea. The ship is suspected of being a Russian Shadow Fleet tanker selling under a false flag and is now under investigation. Russia has been known to use such vessels to avoid sanctions, and it continues to sell millions of barrels of oil to countries such as India and China. Jason Perry, MTD News. U.S. allies have begun to emulate the Trump administration's new approach to foreign policy in Latin America, Europe and with regards to the threat of the CCP in China. Our Washington correspondent Luis Martinez has the details. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was critical of European leaders during this week's World Economic Forum in Davos for not following President Trump's leadership when facing regional authoritarian threats. Europe loves to discuss the future, but avoids taking action. Why can't President Trump stop tankers from the shadow fleet and seize oil? But Europe doesn't. So Russian oil must be stopped and confiscated and sold for Europe's benefit. Hours later, French authorities announced the seizure of an oil tanker that had been sanctioned by the E. U. In the Mediterranean. With the help of British intelligence, French authorities boarded the oil tanker the Grinch, which is suspected to be part of Russia's shadow fleet. It uses toe illegally sell oil around 50% of Russia's oil sales go to China. President Trump is right. Other leaders in NATO are right. We know that China and Russia are increasingly active in the Arctic. You have to do more there. We have to protect the Arctic against Russian and Chinese influence. Ecuador, a U. S. Ally in South America, announced this week it would impose 30% tariffs on Colombian goods in response to Colombia's refusal to cooperate with regards to counter narcotic border security. Under Gustavo Petro, Colombia has broken new records in annual productions of cocaine. It is a demonstration of what Ecuador is telling us, speaking for Colombia that we are becoming more effective in the fight against drug traffickers, because if the drug traffickers go there, I don't want them to go there. But they go there because they don't want to be here. The Iranian regime, who has admitted to killing over 5000 civilians during recent protests, showed off military drone technology and threatened Israel. We're watching Iran. We're watching Iran. You know, we have a lot of ships going that direction. Just in case we have a big flotilla going in that direction, and we'll see what happens. It's a big force. We have a big force going toward Iran. I'd rather not see anything happen, but we're watching them very closely. It remains to be seen if the U. S. Will begin to see sanctioned oil tankers linked to Iran in the Middle East. But it is clear that U. S. Allies have taken note that President Trump's foreign policy of peace through strength is yielding results. Reporting from Washington, D. C. Luis Eduardo Martinez and T. D. News. As protests spread across Iran and the regime tightened its grip with internet blackouts and deadly force. What truly drives the Islamic Republic tonight? Entity Steve Lance sits down with a Shahrzad Ghani, publisher of the Epoch Times Persian edition to break down Iran's unrest, the regime's Marxist Islamist roots and China's role in backing the repression. Here's a preview. The Islamic Republic is trying to have control over all the strategic resources, just as in Marxism. And they're saying that you shouldn't let go of these strategic resources because I cannot make them private. It should be all in the control of the state. Islamic Republic is doing the same thing. Like, let's say, talking about oil and gas, pharmaceutical electricity, all these heavy industry. They're all in the hands of the Islamic Republic. Even insurance, like the things have banking, everything, all this important, like key sectors are being fully controlled by the states, which is very much Marxism elements. Catch the full conversation on one on one with Steve Lance tonight at seven p.m. Eastern. Coming up, the FBI arrest former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding director Kash Patel, explaining the former athletes drug trafficking organization in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Officer testifies today in the Luigi Mangione murder case. He's helping the judge to decide whether or not to throw out evidence, including a gun and ammunition. Arlene Richards. How's the details? And thousands came together for the 53rd March for Life in Washington, D. C. Chris Bob has highlights from Vice President J. D. Vance's remarks at the event after the break. Welcome back. I'm Tiffany Meyer. The FBI has arrested former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding. He's accused of running an international drug trafficking organization as a member of the Sinaloa cartel. He went from an Olympic snowboarder to the largest narco trafficker in modern times. He is a modern day El Chapo. He is a modern day Pablo Escobar, and he thought he could evade justice. But these brave men and women put together a prosecution package, put together investigative package, put together an operation strategy. And here we are today bringing him to justice for trafficking hundreds of kilos of cocaine and also for the murder of innocent civilians. This individual and his organization in the Sinaloa cartel poured narcotics into the streets of North America and killed too many of our youth and corrupted too many of our citizens. And that ends today. FBI Director Kash Patel said Wedding was captured last night in Mexico City with the help of Mexican authorities. The bureau said Wedding's crime ring routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into California via Mexico and distributed the drug throughout the U. S. And Canada. The FBI placed him on its 10 most wanted list last year. His arrest marks the sixth individual on that list to be captured in the past year. Wedding was also charged in 2024 with attempted murder and other charges related to his alleged crime ring. According to court documents, the former athlete began his drug trafficking operation in 2008. He spent two years in jail before being let out in 2011. Authorities believe Wedding was hiding in Mexico for over a decade with the help of the Sinaloa cartel. Wedding is now in U. S. Custody and will make his first court appearance on Monday. A hearing today in the case against Luigi Mangione, who is accused of gunning down United Healthcare CEO. A federal judge allowed testimony from an Altoona Pennsylvania police officer on how personal property is secured after a public arrest entities. Arlene Richards has more details. A New York federal judge on Friday in the case against Luigi Mangione, the 27 year old man accused of killing a United Healthcare CEO listened to testimony from an Altoona Pennsylvania police officer. District Judge Margaret Garnett, after changing a previous ruling, allowed the officer to explain department procedures for securing, safeguarding and inventorying the personal property of a person who has been arrested in public. Mangione's defense is hoping to have evidence found in his backpack tossed from the case before a potential federal death penalty trial. They have argued that the search of his belongings happened without a warrant. Prosecutors say police did nothing wrong and maintain that the evidence would have eventually been found since the bag was with Mangione when he was arrested. Altoona police arrested Mangione at a McDonald's restaurant in December 2024, five days after the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Customers at the restaurant alerted the manager that Mangione might be the man seen in a surveillance photo. Several Altoona officers testified during a three week hearing in state court, where Mangione is also seeking to exclude key evidence found in the backpack, including ammunition and a gun. The state court judge will rule on the evidence in May. Mangione has pleaded not guilty in both cases. In a separate effort, the defense is asking that the top federal charges against Mangione be thrown out due to alleged violations of his constitutional rights. Those charges include stalking and assault with a deadly weapon. Removing those charges would block prosecutors from seeking the death penalty. Mangione is scheduled to be in court again on January 30th for a status conference. Garnett said Friday that jury selection would begin on September 8th. Scheduling of the rest of the trial, including opening statements and testimony, is contingent on whether she allows prosecutors to seek the death penalty. It's one of several issues the judges weighing Arlene Richards and T. D. News in Washington D. C. Today, the 53rd March for Life brought thousands together to highlight you pro life policy steps by the Trump administration entities. Chris Bob has the story. Thousands gathered in the nation's capital on Friday for the annual March for Life, the largest pro life event in the United States. The president of the March for Life, Jenny Bradley Lictor, opened the rally by thanking the Trump administration for ending fetal tissue research and investigating government loans to affiliates of Planned Parenthood. I spoke with marchers who were eager to see more action. It's just actually just yesterday said that they're stopping the funding for aborted baby fetal cells. So this is great progress. We have to continue to speak for the truth and can help guide hearts to that truth. I've always said, you know, certainly the legislation is important. Young people are realizing that some of the things that have happened in my lifetime are just not of God, not of the truth. And they're they're tired of the corruption. They're tired of the false messages. They're looking for truth at the rally. Vice President J. D. Vance announced the expansion of the so called Mexico City policy, a U. S. Policy that restricts funding to foreign NGOs that provide or promote abortions. We're gonna start blocking every international geo that performs or promotes abortion abroad from receiving a dollar of U. S. Money. Now we're expanding this policy to protect life to combat D. I. And the radical gender ideologies that prey on our Children. The policy covers $30 billion in foreign aid. Recipients must certify that they don't perform or promote abortion and avoid discriminatory or gender ideology policies. From the stage, the vice president acknowledged that the goal of March for life has not yet been met. We have made tremendous strides over the last year, and we're gonna continue to make strides over the next three years to come. But I'm a realist. I know that there is still much road ahead to travel together. Take heart, take heart and how far we've come. But don't lose sight of why we marched. The March for life has been held annually in Washington, D. C. Since 1974 with the goal of making abortion unthinkable from Washington, D. C. Chris Bob entity news coming up. Just how much do America's allies rely on the U. S. For defense? Retired U. S. Navy Captain Brent Salver joins us to react to the wedge that China is driving between the U. S. And Canada after the break. Welcome back. I'm Tiffany Meyer. As we mentioned earlier, President Trump is putting Canada on notice for drawing closer to communist China and a post on truth social. Today, President Trump accuses Canada of opposing his plan to build a missile defense system over Greenland. The president says, quote, they voted in favor of doing business with China, who will eat them up within the first year. This comes after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited the communist regime last week and came back with a trade deal. Canada has agreed to allow up to 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into the Canadian market with the most favored nation tariff rate of 6.1%. And at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, Carney said Canada is ready to participate in forging a quote new world order, urging other middle powers to join his efforts and joining us now to discuss these latest national security developments is retired U. S. Navy Captain Brent Saddler. He's a senior research fellow for Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology at the Heritage Foundation as well as a former Pentagon official. Brent, thank you so much for joining us as always. Now our neighbor to the north is getting the cold shoulder as President Trump withdraws Mark Carney's invitation to join the board of peace and Commerce Secretary Hard Lutnick warning the U. S. M. C. A. Could see major changes with Carney's China deal. How are you reading U. S. Canada relations in this China wedge? Could we see a splintering away of one of the U. S. S. Closest allies? Well, the short answer is no. And thanks for having me on tonight. There's so much culturally, historically and economically that binds the two countries together. Two close neighbors that this political tip right now, which I think is, I think, well founded on Trump's side to be taking the Canadians to task for. But the short answer is, I think the two relations, the two economies will continue to be very well integrated. Of course, there will be some differences and some well past due adjustments made on trade. And I think we'll find a way to address our shared security interest to the north. Now, also under discussion, the Golden Dome, President Trump saying Carney should be grateful as the Golden Dome over Greenland would also protect Canada. Talk to us about the role of Greenland in nuclear defense. Well, first, it's important to note that the Canadians are part of NORAD, and there's been a need to update the sensors and up there to the north, and many of them are in Canada. They would also play a role in serving as the backbone for a new system called Golden Dome, of course, and the Canadians have not been very, I guess, proactive on the expenses and the update of that system. So hopefully we'll see a change of heart. Again, it's a common defense, but the Golden Dome and specifically Greenland's part of this dispense or the sensor line is key because many of the great circle, the shortest route for a ballistic missile coming from missile sites in Russia, but also China and Iran pass over or close enough to Greenland that sensors there and perhaps even interceptors will play a critical role in the future defense of the North Atlantic and specifically the United States. But this is also a NATO security issue. And going deeper into the Arctic region, I want to roll a clip of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte first. We need to defend the Arctic. We know that the sea lanes are opening up. We know that China and Russia are increasingly active in the Arctic. There are eight countries bordering on the Arctic. Seven are a member of NATO. That's Finland and Sweden and Norway and Denmark, Iceland, Canada and the US. And there's only one country bordering on the Arctic outside NATO, and that's Russia. And I would argue there is a ninth country, which is China, which is increasingly active in the Arctic region. So President Trump and other leaders are right. We have to do more there. We have to protect the Arctic against Russian and Chinese influence. How significant is the support from Rutte for President Trump here? I mean, the reality is the United States is the largest and the most relevant military power in all of the NATO alliance, because for decades, many of those Western European countries, the larger economies in Europe and the NATO alliance, have not been paying nor maintaining inadequate military defense. They've been so-called free riding, and the consequences, they were not ready for when Putin invaded Ukraine in February of 2022. So Rutte, I think, is echoing the reality and is trying to channel and certainly maintain US support in a healthy way. But the reality is the math, the strategic realities, bear out President Trump's assertions. So it makes sense that he would echo President Trump's point. Now, to your point, Rutte also credited Trump for pushing NATO countries to increase their defense spending. Let's actually watch a clip of that If President Trump would not have been reelected as President of the United States, no way it would never have happened. So again, I'm not popular with you now because I'm defending Donald Trump. But I really believe he can be happy that he is there because he has forced us in Europe to step up to face the consequences that we have to take care of more of our To your earlier point, how integral is the US for ensuring the defense of other countries? Well, with regards to Russia, the only military power inside NATO that the Russians really respect and base their strategic calculations on is that of which the United States, where is our military? What is our White House saying that we're going to do and use that military force? So that's a reality, and it's the threat based reality. Of course, increasingly, European countries are having to view China as a threat. We see if we'll have any real meaningful military and security actions taken. It's part of the reason why we have a dust up with the Danes in Greenland to be serious. And now, in terms of bolstering defense, President Trump is criticizing the U. S. Weapons industry. Actually, here's a clip of him with Fox News on that. I asked one of the gentlemen, What are you making? So I make $24 million. How come it takes me five years to get your particular thing that they make? So I put a cap on that for a period of time for a period of time. I said, You have to build more plants when we order when we need tomahawks. I want him within 24 hours when we need any kind of a patriot or whatever I want. I want to have it quickly. I don't want to be waiting three years for it. What kind of it? Why do you think it takes this long to build weapons? There's lots of excuses given. The simplest is that Congress and too many White Houses have sent confusing signals on the profit seeking of these industries. They're publicly traded. Can't fault them for this. We are a free market economy, so it's really beholden on the White House in Congress to change the incentive structure structures and something that's being argued for at least for shipbuilding. I think it applies to missions like tomahawks and certainly heavyweight torpedoes is to change the incentive structure in such that if industries reinvest their profits into growing their industrial capacity, hiring more workers than that actually can be tax deferred or tax free with full 100% expensing associated. But right now that's not the case. The benefits are balancing or paying stock buybacks and dividend payouts and also large bonuses seem to be the order of the day to keep the shareholders happy. You need to shift. The audience is not the shareholders in Wall Street. It's actually the American people in the military personnel in uniform that need to be taken top pride of preference for these decisions in industry. And Brent, zooming out here, what are you watching for in terms of China attempting to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its allies? Same play, different audience or arena. This is the same thing they've been trying for many decades. It shouldn't, it doesn't surprise the China watchers and those familiar with their activities. Clearly the Chinese, I think, see in Greenland and they saw an opportunity. I think that's, I think the door is closed. Thankfully for how the Western European countries in the last day are to have changed their tack and are welcoming, you know, doing more in defense in Greenland. Chagos and Diego Garcia right now is the current state of play. Of course the Prime Minister in London has pulled back the offer to hand over, effectively hand over, this very strategically important chain of islands and atolls and where the U.S. has Diego Garcia, a very strategically important base, would have been easy pickings for the Chinese. So this entropic kind of a splintering and trying to pull partners away from each other and use their own legal systems and politics against them, it's gonna continue. And that's just the state of being that we need to get adjusted to and actually play the game back on the Chinese, quite frankly. Well, Captain Brent Sattler, as always, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Have a good night. Should President Trump send a strong message to allied nations if they're aligning with the Chinese Communist Party? Antony Sam Wong was out on the National Mall in D.C. to hear from the people. Do you think President Trump should put our allies on notice when they're aligning closer to nations that don't align with our values, like China? Yeah, I absolutely do. I mean, if they're gonna be our friends, our allies, then we need to make sure that they're with us for real and not just in name. If he bows down to everybody, then everyone's gonna start taking advantage of us again. And I think he needs to go ahead and let everyone know that he means business. I think he's already put everybody on notice that he'll do what has to be done to protect this country and to continue to grow our country stronger. We're stronger, I feel, at some point in the end now, because he's willing to go in and do what needs to be done and tell people to knock it off. I think in a respectful manner, yes, put some pressure on. History has taught us that we can't trust certain countries. And so I think, yes, we need to try and stand united and put pressure on countries that are allies. Do you think President Trump and the Trump administration should take a tough line on China? I think we absolutely should. I think the Venezuela move was, although I don't necessarily like invading another country or, you know, deposing a leader from another country, like, but, you know, there's ramifications that go far beyond. It's a 4D chess move. Yeah, I don't think that's been the best interest for us for a long time. They've made that pretty well known. Somebody needs to do something. We're obviously the most powerful country. We have the ability to do it. I think we've got to think long term, and we've got to think of protecting our nation and with the capabilities of nuclear warfare and the advancement in all kinds of technology that could be destructive to our country. I think it is wise to try and expand our protection border. Coming up, new chat bot loss could make it safer for minors in Washington State. Lawmakers proposed new standards after reports of A.I. chat bot linked deaths. David Lamb speaks with the CEO of an information sharing nonprofit. And in the NFL, it's conference championship weekend as four teams battle for the Super Bowl. Dave Martin joins us to discuss when we come back. Come back. I'm Tiffany Meyer. After recent reports about chat bot linked suicides, lawmakers are proposing more safeguards on artificial intelligence apps. The latest proposals come from Washington State entities. David Lamb has more from an information sharing nonprofit, the Alliance for Secure A.I. Brendan Steinhauser, CEO of the Alliance for Secure A.I., says his organization is concerned about the possibility of artificial general intelligence, which in theory would be able to think. So we worry about that being an agent, an agent that could replace human beings, and it could be something that governments use to control their populations. This comes as Washington state lawmakers are considering whether to strengthen laws on A.I. chat bots amid concerns over youth mental health issues. Lawmakers were alarmed after reports and lawsuits about people allegedly committing suicide after extended interactions with chat bots. Brendan, some of these proposals are for implementing a reminder every three hours, telling users that they're chatting with a non-human and also not allowing minors to be shown explicit content. What's your reaction to this? Yeah, I think first we would like to see the big tech companies impose kind of their own policies and procedures that prevent these harms. But unfortunately, they haven't really done that. They're moving so fast in the so-called A.I. race that safety has really taken a backseat to profit. We're really concerned about that. And I think there is a role for states to pass legislation that would protect kids and young people from the harms of A.I. If passed, the Washington law would apply to chat bots such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Character.ai starting in January 2027. Steinhauser said A.I. is a useful tool for narrow purposes like solving math problems and advancing science and medicine. He's also concerned about national security when it comes to exporting A.I. chips. On January 13th, the U.S. loosened restrictions on selling advanced A.I. chips to China, allowing the export of previously banned NVIDIA and AMD chips to China. We as an American government don't get that policy right, that the CCP is going to become more powerful, not less. So I think that export controls are a really important issue right now. David Lam, NTD News. And now for your sports news, we're joined by NTD's Dave Martin. Dave, we've got some NFL and tennis to discuss, but let's start in college football as Indiana star quarterback Fernando Mendoza is announcing his plans to enter the upcoming NFL draft. Where is he expected to get picked? I mean, the first round is pretty much almost for sure he's going to go there. Maybe even the first overall pick. I mean, that's how highly he's thought of. And of course, quarterback, it's the most important position on the field. You have to have one to succeed, a good one to succeed in the NFL. Now, a lot can happen between now and the draft, which will be in May. But Mendoza won the Heisman Trophy Award last year. He just led the Hoosiers to a national championship, which almost no one thought was possible two years ago. Now, plus the team that has the first overall pick, that's the Las Vegas Raiders. They might be in the market for a new quarterback. We'll see how their offseason goes. Now, they currently have former Pro Bowl Geno Smith at quarterback. He did not have a Pro Bowl season this year. And now that he's 35, you know, the consensus is sometimes you may want to start over with someone younger. I mean, that's what Green Bay did with both Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre bringing in a first round pick. Really, everyone does. I will caution, though, that last year at this time, Colorado quarterback Shador Sanders was expected to be a first round pick. He fell all the way to the fifth round. So sometimes we're wrong. All right. Well, shifting gears to tennis, we have an interesting development at the Australian Open as a 40-year-old former champion there is into the third round. Yes. Dan Vavrenka, who won the Australian Open back in 2014. He's into the third round after a five-set win yesterday. He is the first 40-year-old men's player to make it this far since 1978. That's when a 44-year-old Ken Rosewall did it incredibly. Now, it's not going to be easy for Vavrenka to advance, though. Tonight, he's going to play early, early tomorrow morning at 1 a.m. Eastern time. He's going to play ninth-ranked American Taylor Fritz. It's going to be very difficult for him to win there. Now, overall, though, on the men's side, there's been very few upsets so far. Nine of the top ranked players have advanced to the third round. That includes seventh-ranked American Ben Sheldon. He also plays tonight, 10-30 Eastern time. Now, meanwhile, on the women's side, nine of the top 10 seeds are into the third round as well. Three of those are American women. You've got ninth-ranked Madison Keyes, sixth-ranked Jessica Pagula, and fourth-ranked Amanda Anisimova. All three are in action tonight. Two of them are playing, actually, right now. Not against each other, though. Okay. Well, looking at this weekend's NFL playoffs, we have a pair of conference championship games on Sunday. Who are your picks to win? My two picks to win? Patriots and Seahawks. Now, let's break this down here. First game is New England at Denver. Now, if Broncos quarterback Bo Nix is healthy, I would pick them. Unfortunately for Denver, he got injured on the next-to-last play of last week's game, fractured his ankle. He is out for the rest of the playoffs. His backup, Jared Stidham, has not attempted a pass in an NFL game since 2023. Now, he is a good passer, but he does not have the running speed that Bo Nix has that really makes him a dual-threat quarterback. And without that, I really think the Broncos are going to struggle more on offense. So I'm going to take Drake May and the Patriots in the first game. In the NFC title game, it's the Rams versus the Seahawks. This is a very tough pick. Now, these are division foes. They already played twice this season. The first game, the Rams won by two points. The second game, they ended up losing by one point. So both games are very close. I really feel, though, like Sam Darnold and the Patriots, kind of on the mission. Now, Darnold was with Minnesota last year. He struggled in the playoffs. I think he really seems resolved to erase that. Plus, the Seahawks have a very, very tough defense. Very tough at home. And this is going to be played in Seattle. So Sunday, the schedule is like this. New England is at Denver at 3 p.m. Eastern time. Then at 6.30, LA Rams are at Seattle. Got all that, Tiff? Well, I know you'll be busy. So as always, thanks for joining us. Thank you, Tiff. And that's all for today's news. Thanks for tuning in. I'm Tiffany Meyer. Good night.