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Tuesday, March 24th, 2026.

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ICE agents are now deployed at some of our nation's busiest airports,

as a partial government shutdown means increasing callouts by TSA agents

and long security lines.

When you have these long lines to go through security,

the people waiting in those lines are quite vulnerable and would be considered a soft target,

which makes it even more important for getting ICE to make sure people are moving through quickly

and there's not this vulnerability.

I'm Dave Anthony.

Can the U.S. conflict with Iran lead to an uprising and a regime change?

They have a lot to overcome there.

The Iranian people don't have any guns.

They've all been taken away or confiscated if they had them.

The regime has them, and they're willing to mow down tens of thousands of people

with machine guns and then bury them in unmarked graves

and then send the families the bill for the bullets.

And I'm Guy Benson.

I've got the final word on The Fox News rundown.

President Trump deployed ICE agents to several airports Monday

to help with long security lines due to the partial government shutdown,

impacting Homeland Security funding.

Now, you know, I'm a big believer that they should be able to wear masks

when they go and hunt down murderous criminals and others.

But for purposes of the airport,

I've requested that they take off the mask.

I don't like it for the airport.

And I believe they are willing to do that.

Borders are, Tom Homan told Fox News Sunday,

what ICE can do to backfill TSA?

Like you have exit lanes where people leave the airport.

Now people try to enter those exit lanes.

That's a security breach.

Well, an ICE agent can maintain those exits and that allows a TSA officer

to go back to screening to move people through quicker.

You know, I can check identification before people enter the screening area.

Monday Homeland Security said the TSA call-out rate was near 12 percent

Sunday that amounts to nearly 3500 employees.

The acting assistant Homeland Security Secretary said lack of pay

was impacting agent's ability to pay for gas,

childcare, food and rent.

The airport's hardest hit were in Atlanta, Baltimore, New Orleans, Iowa

and JFK in New York.

But ICE agents were being deployed to Houston, Newark, Chicago, Detroit

and several other airports as well.

House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries told CNN State of the Union this past Sunday.

The last thing that the American people need are for untrained ICE agents

to be deployed at airports all across the country,

potentially to brutalize or in some instances kill them.

We've already seen how ICE conducts itself.

President Trump said from Memphis Monday that if they need to send in additional

reinforcements to help TSA, they will.

We will bring out the National Guard and, you know, where we need it

to help out at the airports.

But we're not going to let this happen.

It's extortion by the Democrats.

They're holding up money that's already been approved.

Democrats are demanding reforms to ICE in exchange for funding DHS.

But in the meantime, well, dozens of ICE agents at multiple airports

help alleviate some of these extensive lines.

I think they're going to help in particularly in the short term.

And the reason why is a lot of what TSA does, you know,

is just very manpower intensive.

Jonathan Fahes, a former federal prosecutor and former acting director of ICE.

So they're having, you know, call out rates significantly higher than they normally have.

So they'll be able to fill in some of the gaps and they won't be necessarily

doing the screening and things of that nature.

They'll be able, as Tom Homan said on some of the Sunday shows,

they'll be, you know, be able to monitor exits, maybe check IDs and things of that nature.

So adding the additional manpower will certainly make a big difference.

But I think in the longer term, the concern is, as time goes by in these TSA agents,

remember, are now coming up on their third mischeck on Friday.

So more and more of them are going to be not only like calling out,

but some of them are just going to be quitting altogether.

It's something that short term could help, but long term there's going to have to be more done.

And if the shutdown isn't ended, I think President Trump talked about that.

I think the next step is bringing in a national guard for additional manpower to take care of things.

How quickly do you think people could expect to see an impact here?

Should this be, should this be relatively immediate?

If ICE agents are deployed and they're manning an exit,

does that agent who would normally be manning an exit now goes screen

and we have more lines opened up? Should it be, you know, pretty quick?

I would think within the couple of days it will be.

I think what they announced, I mean, they're hitting almost all of the major airports.

But the first day of doing anything probably is not going to be the most efficient way

when people are getting put into place.

But my guess is by Wednesday, they'll start seeing a difference,

meaning the passengers will start seeing a difference in the length of time in the lines

and things of that nature.

Another important part of bringing additional law enforcement into this is,

you know, all the reason we have TSA is for security, you know, after 9-11.

So it's important to have a strong law and for having heightened sort of terrorist alerts or threats

from Iran and other places.

So I think that part of it is also important to have additional law enforcement

in the airports until things get back on track.

You know, with this many TSA agents calling out and even quitting, as you've noted,

how safe do you think it is to fly, especially since, as you just kind of noted,

we have government officials telling us there are possible sleeper cells and bad actors in our country

is a lack of airport security viewed as a weak point or a vulnerability to exploit.

Well, I guess sort of two questions within one.

One, I think currently we are as safe as we've been before in terms of their ability to screen people

because none of that has stopped.

I think the second part of your question that's actually the really important point is,

you know, terrorists are going to look at, you know, vulnerable areas where they can attack

and harm the most people in the easiest way.

And if something looks like an impenetrable, you know, building or airport or something,

they're not even going to try it.

And that's the best, when you have good security, it prevents people from even trying something bad.

What's interesting is Chad Wolf pointed out,

the area when you have these long lines to go through security,

the people waiting in those lines are quite vulnerable and would be considered a soft target

because no one has to go through security to be in those lines.

So if somebody wanted to do them harm, that's a really vulnerable area,

which makes it even more important for getting ice or other things involved

to make sure people are moving through quickly and there's not this vulnerability.

Jonathan, should we conclude anything about ice operations due to this deployment?

Like, is there less need for these agents in communities to conduct operations?

Or is it not a big enough number?

I don't think they're not needed in the communities,

but I think this is a higher priority right now for security at the airports.

And I think that, you know, there's certainly a lot of people for them to go out and arrest

because I think the number of people even have already been ordered to be deported by a judge

but haven't been deported is something like 1.6 million people.

So there's a lot of work for them to do, but I think it was just a matter of priorities

and national security, the ability for, you know, we can't shut down our whole airline system

and things of that nature basically made it a higher priority.

And I don't think it's going to be that many agents taking off,

at least initially taking off sort of the ice immigration duties,

but as time progresses, you could see more of them being necessary.

You know, Tom Homan said in negotiations on ending this DHS shutdown

that they have made progress, but it's not over.

He said a lot of things have been adjusted, especially when it comes to operations.

Body cameras are being deployed. I understand ice agents' names will be visible to some extent.

What of the Democrats demands though do you think are the hold up?

I think the non-starters are the masking issue because the agents wearing masks

are doing this for their own safety and their safety.

They're families because there's a high risk.

They have been agents that have been docks before and it's a high priority for President Trump

as well as Tom Homan to keep the agents on the ground safe.

So I think that's a non-starter for the administration.

The other one is this, you hear a lot about this call for judicial warrants,

which I think is sort of a slight of hand that the Democrats are playing here

because the warrants that ice uses, these are warrants that are administrative warrants

that are valid arrest warrants issued by the executive branch

and that's what the federal code says that's where they should be issued.

So when these Democrat politicians get up and say judicial warrants,

it seems reasonable to go to a judge.

The problem with that is judges don't even have the concept of courts of limited jurisdiction.

Judges don't even have the authority to issue these arrest warrants for people

that are here illegally to have them removed.

So it's sort of a, it's a false argument and it's designed to deceive the American people

and to de-legitimize the warrants that ice uses to arrest and deport people.

So that's also going to be a non-starter.

I think the body-to-can issue, you know, if the Democrats were really looking to compromise,

they had a big issue with Christy Nome, apparently, she's now gone.

They talked about body-cams. The administration is giving body-cams.

They talked about where arrests are taking place.

The administration has said their priorities are not going to be in schools and certain areas,

which never have been, but they at least, you know, they agreed to it again.

So, you know, at some point the Democrats have to make a compromise on their own

or I think it just becomes apparent.

The real issue, which is my view, is all of their complaints are mere pretext

because they don't want illegal aliens being deported.

And if that's where they're coming from, there's really not a lot of common ground there.

That's an interesting point.

The Republicans have made concessions, like in late February,

Leader Thune said that Republicans had made many agreements,

including this agreement to tailor missions to criminal illegal aliens.

We know Tom Homan has said that no one's off the hook.

Like if they encounter you and you're an undocumented person, you can be detained.

But does that mean things are more targeted?

I mean, that was the big ask, right?

Well, I think things had been targeted,

but I think there's more reassurance of that.

And I think there's more of an emphasis on the targeting.

And I think what the administration is going to do going forward,

which one of the things they've been quite successful with that hasn't gotten,

at least in my view, enough attention.

They have these incentives for people to self-deport.

They, I think, raise the amount of money that they will pay people to self-deport to 20.

I think it's $2600 if I'm not mistaken.

So those have been very effective.

I think two million people have taken advantage of that.

And I would think going forward, the administration will focus on the criminals

and focus on the people that have already been ordered removed by an immigration judge,

which again, that's about 1.6 million people if I'm not mistaken.

And then incentivize the other people to self-deport

and also find ways to take away benefits from people here illegally

so to get them to do on their own.

And I think if you follow that strategy, everyone would be safer.

People know that they're going to eventually get caught and removed

so they might as well take the financial benefit.

And also when people are targeted, you know, criminally,

if they're out there, out there on the streets versus in the jail,

if they're with other illegal aliens when they're arrested,

ICE has a responsibility to arrest those people too and remove them as well.

Back to the airport, House Minority Leader Jeffries had made some comments

about ICE being a possibly violent force at the airports,

sort of reminding everybody about what happened in Minneapolis.

How do you respond to that?

And what would you tell people about when they see ICE at the airport?

What that means?

Well, one, I don't think people take him particularly seriously out.

However, some people, the swampers centers that do,

it's very harmful to consistently defame law enforcement.

And that's been the democratic strategy and it hasn't just been since Minneapolis.

Remember, JB Pritzker at the very beginning of the administration was basically telling President Trump

that they come here to arrest people.

You can't take my people. Tim Walls was calling ICE agents Nazis at a, you know,

graduation speech will before anything happened in Minneapolis.

But I would tell people that they're listening.

ICE agents are going to do their job and do it professionally.

And if they're job at this juncture is to help make airline travel safer.

That's what they're going to be pursuing.

They're not going to have an ulterior motive.

However, if they come across illegal conduct while they're doing these jobs,

they have a responsibility also to enforce that law.

But I think what Speaker Jeffries is doing and a few of these other Democrats,

it's just very irresponsible.

And it actually puts the agents in more danger because some people, in fact,

do listen to it, although I think it's a small percentage.

And then it puts the public in more danger because if there's a greater chance of conflict,

there's a greater chance of people being harmed overall.

But the ICE agents are not going to go in there to separate families or anything else,

but they have a responsibility in this instance to keep airline travel safe.

And then if they, you know, they observe violations of the law,

they also have to enforce the law as well.

Jonathan Vay, thank you so much for joining us on your expertise.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

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Could Operation Epic Fury end soon?

They want very much to make a deal.

We'd like to make a deal too.

President Trump says his special envoy Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner

have been having productive negotiations with Iran.

So much so.

He extended a deadline for Iran to stop blocking oil shipping in the Strait of Hormuzraels.

The U.S. will take out the Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure.

And if it goes well, we're going to end up with settling this.

Otherwise, we'll just keep bombing our little hearts out.

As for what the president wants in a deal with Iran to end this conflict.

No nuclear bomb, no nuclear weapon, not even close to it.

Low key in the missiles.

We want to see peace in the Middle East.

And though the U.S. and Israel have killed some Iranian government and military leaders,

the president did not mention regime change as a goal when talking to reporters yesterday.

Regime change, I think, to the mind of President Trump is entirely different than the regime change

of the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Brian Hook is a former special representative for Iran and senior policy adviser to the Secretary of State

in the first Trump administration.

I think the president is trying to avoid occupation.

And he is trying to also avoid total chaos in Iran to where it looks like Libya or Sudan or Syria.

I think he wants an outcome where he has a responsible counter party that he can do a deal with.

And that would be a deal that would, of course, benefit America, but it would also benefit the Iranian people

because the government in place would not be squandering all of its natural wealth and resources

on a nuclear weapon, on missiles, proxies, and terrorism around the globe.

I don't think President Trump needs regime change in order to accomplish those objectives around

nukes, missiles, and proxies. But what he has lacked is having somebody across the negotiating table

who is willing to not just buy time, get sanctions relief, and continue terrorizing and killing Americans.

And this is a regime. It's been a half century.

In that 47 years, this is a regime that has killed over 1,000 Americans.

And you see how they're behaving now. And imagine how they would behave if they possessed a nuclear weapon.

So the president is right. The Iranian regime presents an intolerable risk to the security of the United States.

And I think he deserves a lot of credit for taking a principled position on this and not kicking the can down the road

or getting into a bad deal like President Obama did with Iran nuclear deal.

Talk about the nuclear deal a little bit later on, because you were there when the U.S. changed it and got out of it

in the first Trump administration. But on to counterparty, how could there be a counterparty?

I mean, Iran is run by the Ayatollah's right, and there's the Supreme Council.

And now the new Supreme Leader, Hamunae's son, we don't know much about him or how healthy he is.

But how can there be somebody else that the president feels comfortable negotiating with?

It would not surprise me if the Iranian regime, some element of it, reached out to the president's team to Steve Whitkopf and Jared Kushner,

because they're in a very bad place. This regime is in a very, very bad place.

And they may want to come to the table. They sat with Jared and Steve and Oman and Geneva, and they just played games with them.

And so maybe they're in a better frame of mind.

You, in your role in the first Trump administration as special representative for Iran, you know what it's like to deal with that regime.

At the time, the U.S. pulled out of that nuclear agreement that President Obama entered the U.S. in with our allies.

Certainly you had talks with Iran. You've dealt with their current foreign minister.

So what's it like to try to work something out with them?

It's not easy. President Trump was fond of saying that the Iranian regime has never won a war and never lost a negotiation.

They're incredibly good at the negotiating table. They usually use it to buy time so that they can keep terrorizing Americans in the Middle East and our partners.

And I don't think anyone is going to be able to talk the Iranian regime out of its nuclear weapon, and it's pursuit of it.

And so, but President Trump's willing to give them a chance.

And I think Steve Whitkov has explained to them, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.

And they're used to like Obama and Biden, and they're used to like being drip-fed concessions, and it's just not how President Trump works.

By giving them the extra time, though, to try to work out a deal, is that his version of concession?

No, I think it would only look that way if he stopped the military campaign, which he's not.

And so, my experience with the president is he always wants to try to resolve things peacefully.

He hates war.

This Iranian regime has been playing cat and mouse with the world since the 90s on its nuclear weapons program.

Joe Kent, last week, resigned as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

And he has claimed that there was no immediate threat from Iran to the United States.

And we were pressured into this by Israel. The president has pushed back on that certainly.

And so, have members of his administration.

There are some on the right, though, who agree with Joe Kent. What's your take?

Well, the Iranian regime has been an endless war with the United States since 1979.

Our media likes to say, oh, where's the imminent threat?

I mean, between their missiles, they have that they had the largest missile inventory in the Middle East.

Iran largely created Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis and Palestine Islamic Chihad.

These are all organizations that Iran midwifed and they organized, trained, equipped, and fund them.

And those terrorist organizations are the ones that have been killing hundreds and hundreds of Americans and critically injuring thousands.

And so, you know, I just think another 47 years of this would be very bad for the United States.

And it could be even deadlier for the Iranian people as the government continues to warn against protests following the deadly crackdown in January on an uprising.

When there were demonstrations in the streets against the regime's oppression.

And Iran is taking this a step further.

Last week, three young men who are arrested and convicted in those protests were hanged.

Reports have come out indicating that the three were tortured and then set up for these crimes and forced to confess before they were executed in public.

Amongst them was 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Muhammadi, a famous young athlete who has become a symbol of the uprisings.

That's Fox's Benjamin Hall as Human Rights Groups report.

More Iranians convicted or facing trial from those protests could be put to death to send a message to keep in line.

It's just tragic what this regime does to its own people.

I'm sure a lot of your listeners, you know, remember Tiananmen Square.

Yeah, China.

Okay, Iran killed triple the number that the Chinese did in Tiananmen Square.

They did that a few months ago, the protest.

So Tiananmen Square, the Chinese killed about 10,000 people.

The Iranians killed 32,000 people.

And so I don't know when the Iranian people are going to get a representative government.

But two-thirds of them are born after the revolution.

And it just doesn't mean anything to them.

I think they want an Iran that is at peace with its neighbors that isn't pursuing a nuclear weapon and has a vibrant, diversified economy like what they see across the Persian Gulf in a lot of countries over there.

But people aren't going to want to come out and do any more protesting if they fear they're either going to get shot or arrested or hanged.

I agree. I agree.

I think there's a huge imbalance there in force.

The Iranian people don't have any guns. They've all been taken away or confiscated if they had them.

The regime has them and they're willing to mow down tens of thousands of people with machine guns and then bury them in unmarked graves and then send the families the bill for the bullets.

So it's a very dark and repressive regime.

It's hard to know. There were one, you know, there were five million people that took to the streets.

And so that's a pretty high number.

And it's during this conflict, the US government has looked after the safety of the Iranian people and has said,

well, while we're in this military phase, it's probably not safe to go out.

And I'm not sure if the signal is given for them to come out.

Will they take back their country? I don't think anybody knows.

Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel, according to the New York Times report over the weekend, is frustrated that he had been promised that they were going to be able to in this conflict,

persuade the Iranian people to come out in force and take over their government.

And I guess the frustration is what if the conflict ends and that hasn't happened?

Well, that's always a possibility in this scenario.

You look for the thing to watch for is whether you have institutional defections.

Do you see people in the IRGC and in the Beseech and in the state security services switching sides, inciting with the American, I'm sorry, inciting with the Iranian people?

If you start to see cracks like that, that would be a very hopeful sign.

If you see protests and various provinces that escalate and actually in that province overthrow the local government, that would be a sign that things are moving, you know, in a new direction.

But it's very hard to do that without weapons. It's been done before, but it takes a lot of bravery.

And I will say probably the bravest people in Iran or the women, they've been protesting against a lot of the practices of the regime for a long time.

The regime was responded by killing innocent women, but that's kind of how they behave. It's dark.

You dealt with Iran for years as the special representative in the Trump administration the first time around.

Do you think we're closer than we've been in a long time in actual change in Iran?

Look, change could come suddenly and it could also come over some years.

It may be the case that if Iran is functionally demilitarized, that they will over time kind of take back their regime, take back the government.

So it could happen suddenly. It could take place over years, but I do think I'm not sure time is on the side of the regime.

Whether that's short term, medium or long term is, I mean, no one is omniscient. Nobody has a crystal ball on these things.

But it's you would like the Iranian people to have a truly representative government.

Brian Hook, former special representative for Iran and senior policy adviser to the Secretary of State in the first Trump administration.

Thank you so much for joining us.

My pleasure. Thanks for having me.

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