Fox News Sunday host previews coverage of Texas Senate race and Ukraine Starlink debate

Fox News anchor Shannon Bream with Fox News Sunday joining us right now. Good morning to you. Great to see you. Good morning. Happy Friday. Good to see you. Happy Friday weekend inside. So we've got President Trump pivoting. He was supposed to be going to Waco next week, but instead head to Corpus Christi. I'm not sure it really matters where he is, which city, because he clearly is focused just on Texas as a whole with this big push trying to get Ken Paxton in this Texas Senate seat. I mean, it's clear that Texas is huge on his mind, definitely on his mind. What, like fourth time for him to visit here ahead of these midterms? What do you make of that? He loves you guys. He loves the hospitality and the food and all the great things that people down there in Texas. Yeah, it critically shows us that the White House is concerned about that seat. If Democrats can flip seats like Texas, like Kansas, I mean, they really could take control of the Senate. And that is gonna be a nightmare for the president in a lot of ways. If it actually happens, getting judges confirmed, including a Supreme Court justice if you needed to do that, gets infinitely harder if Democrats are controlling the Senate. Our latest poll has got this at a dead heat now, 49-49. So the president knows turnout is key. It's tougher for both parties to do this during the midterm elections where there's not a presidential race at the top of the ticket. Right. But the president knows as he continues to go to these red states he's got to get his base to show up yeah and we have more registered voters this turn right now well they show up and vote who knows but more registered voters than we've ever had in this state before for an election so that's that's pretty impressive uh let's talk about this new development about about Ukraine and Russia that war um it really is putting the u.s in the middle of it because this whole Starlink Starship Starshield whatever they're saying apparently it wasn't working for Ukraine and i mean they use that for battlefield coordination drone operations emergency communication it's like your internet being down but you know obviously on a huge much larger scale it wasn't working it's still not clear why but president trump calls elon musk and now it's been restored i think that's raising some questions it is and you've heard all kinds of denials and also explanations that Starlink is different from from Starshield, they would be different contracts, different people would be calling the shots. But Wall Street Journal has been reporting that Elon Musk made some type of decision that made less capability available for Ukraine at some point. And listen, Russia thought they would be done with Ukraine in a weekend, and here we are years into this. And because of new technologies like drones, Ukraine has really been able to fight back against this much bigger bully in the region in a way that almost nobody expected they'd be able to do but it requires them to be able to use things like this cutting edge technology. The president says it is fully functional and up and running. Secretary Rubio says it's fully functional and running. But we have the broader problem of this thing feeling very intractable. So Putin, Zelensky, White House officials and envoys say that they are trying to get talks together in a trilateral fashion to actually get this thing done. But we still don't see the off ramps to actually ending this. No, definitely not. You guys have a lot to talk about this weekend, several guests stepping up. We do. So we've got House Speaker Mike Johnson with us exclusively. He says that despite all the polls and prognostications out there that Republicans have a path to holding on to the House. So we'll try to drill down on that with him. We've also got Democrat Mitch Landrieu, former governor and mayor in New Orleans. He's a Democrat who probably seems very centrist by today's standards. And he's sniffing around about a 2028 run. What does he think about this big tent? really progressive radical ideas within the party, things like getting rid of borders and jails. And does he think that faction of the party belongs in the Democrats tent? We'll see. All right. Lots to cover. Looking forward to it. Fox News Sunday, Shannon Bream airs right here, Sunday, 8 o'clock in the morning. We'll see you then, Shannon. Thanks.