Futures. Im maria bartiromo. Breaking news as the u. S. Responds to irans aggression. Iran launching a direct attack on israel, over 300 missiles and drones launched with israels iron dome knocking down 9 of the attacks, inter 99 of the attacks before they arrived in israel. Coming up, the speaker of the house, mike johnson, on the next stepses as a lawmakers expect to the vote on a Security Package for israel and ukraine this week. The speaker is here exclusively on israel, ukraine and the u. S. Border. Then, former director of National IntelligenceJohn Ratcliffe on the dangerous global backdrop under President Joe Biden. Plus, senator rand paul is here on the response in the senate and the covid coverup. Why 15 federal agencies were aware of Gain Of Function Research being done at the wuhan lab in china before covid leaked and spread across the world killing millions. Plus, tomorrow is tax day in america. House ways and Means Committee chairman jason smith on why the irs is auditing the middle class. Plus, the heat is on President Trump with Jury Selection beginning tomorrow for a trump trial in new york. Professor Jonathan Turley with analysis of two different applications of the law. Its all right here, right now on Sunday Morning futures. If. If. If. Maria and we begin this Sunday Morning with Breaking News out of The Middle East following irans unprecedented hourslong attack last night on israel. Iran launched hundreds of drones, ballistic and Cruise Missiles forward israel with toward israel with israels military saying its air a Defense System fended off 99 of those attacks. The pentagon says American Military forces assisted in the defense of israel, or intercepting dozens of missiles and drones originating in iran, iraq are, syria and yemen. Iran claims the attack is in retaliation for a suspected israeli airstrike nearly two weeks ago on an iranian diplomatic building in syria which killed two top generals. Meanwhile, President Biden signed off on renewing a waver for tehran, allowing the ayatollah to continue to have access to 10 billion in frozen funds. Joining me now with reaction is the speaker of the house, congressman mike johnson. Mr. Speaker, thanks very much for being here this morning. Hey, maria. Great to be with you, as always. Maria how does this change your plans this week in terms of voting on an aid a package for israel . Well, weve understood the urgency of this from the very beginning. I mean, a few days after i became speaker way back in october, we passed our israel support package. Its been sitting on Chuck Schumers desk ever since because we included a payfor, as you remember. What a concept. We took from the irs expansion slush fund to pay for the pry priority. We tried it again about a month and a half ago, a clean israel many democrats, 166 as i remember in the house voted against. Why . Because President Joe Biden said he would veto that. So the House Republicans and the Republican Party understand the necessity of standing with israel. Were going to try again this week, and the details of that package are being put together right now. Were looking at the options on all these supplemental issues. Maria the former president , President Trump has talked about the possibility of turning aid for ukraine into a loan. Is that what youre considering . Yes. You know, or i had a great visit with him on friday, and he and i have 1 100 united on these big agenda items. Hes introduced the Loan Lease Concept which is an important one that i think has a lot of consensus as well as these other ideas, the poe repo act, which is seizing the assets of corrupt Russian Oligarchs to help pay for this resistance. I think these are ideas that i think can get consensus. Well send our participation well put something together and send it to the senate and get these obligations completed. Maria are you expecting the Biden Administration to respond to irans aggression . Well see what happens. Look, i do think that we showed resolve last night, thankfully. Many of us were concerned about that, just standing with our ally israel. Its critically important to do that. We took down most of those drones and missiles, as you noted, and our other allies stepped up as well. Whats important right now is we stand with israel. We should not be dictating what their policy is, we certainly shouldnt do what Chuck Schumer did, suggesting they should have new elections. Theyre fighting for their existence, and its never been more important for us to be there with them. Were resolved to do that. Maria understood. This weekend you were with President Trump. The former president had a public show of support for you and your agenda. Heres President Trump with you on friday. Lets take a listen. Its not, not an easy situation for any speaker. I think hes doing a very good job. Hes doing about as good as youre going to do, and im sure that marjorie understands that. Maria and, of course, hes referring to Marjorie Taylor greene who has threatened to come up with the motion to vacate because shes upset that the republicans have yet to secure the border. Heres the georgia congresswoman with me two weeks ago here. If Speaker Johnson really wanted to secure the border like he promised all of us he would and promised the American People, then he would have told Chuck Schumer we will not pass any Government Funding bills until our border, our border and funding bills have the h. R. 2 in it or the laken riley act. Or at least some measures within them. But with he didnt. He completely failed in that. Maria mr. Speaker, why bring a bill to the floor to send money to ukraine without having secured the border . So, maria, what marjorie fails to notice is that we have been fighting on the border. We fight on it every day. We passed our comprehensive border Security Package, h. R. 2, at the very beginning of this congress. Its been sitting on Chuck Schumers desk. We passed these acts out of the house, and they get stopped in the senate. See, the open borders democrats control the senate and the white house, obviously. So weve not been able to have a Law Making Exercise to meet that critical objective. But were fighting every day. Thats why weve been demanding that President Biden use his Executive Authority to seal that a border. President trump reiterated that demand at our Press Conference together on friday. We need the white house to step up. In the meantime, congress has to fulfill its obligations. If we had shut the government down, maria, in that appropriations process, that would have been on us. Remember, the white house controls the pain thats inflected on the American People when the government shuts down. Imagine tsa agents not being paid and flights being canceled for americans, Border Patrol agents not being paid and those open borders, the responsibility being shifted to us. Imagine troops not being paid at this dangerous time. That simply wasnt an option for us. It would have reflected badly on us and would not have been helpful in our mission to grow, keep and grow the house majority, win back the senate and the white house for President Trump so that we can save this country. Thats whats at stake right now. The party is 100 united on that agenda. Maria so is there any path to securing the border under joe biden . Well, thats the thing, he has section 212 authority under federal law. He has seven or eight different options, existing authority to do, frankly, what President Trump did. President trump got control of that border because he was a strong leader. So weve been demanding the white house in all of these negotiations, do your job, secure the border. Maria, you and i both know 9 million encounters potentially at the southern border since joe biden took office, 2 million gotaways, 340 plus is suspects on the Terrorist Watch List. The actual number we believe is probably 16 million illegals have come into this country, and they did it intentionally. Its unacceptable. The republicans in the house, the Republican Party, President Trump all of us are lockstep united, fighting for border security. Its the number one priority for the American People because our own National Security begins at the border. Were going to fight for it every single day. Maria did you speak with President Trump privately about what Marjorie Taylor greene is doing . I spent hours with the president on friday. He and i talked frequently, many times, usually in a week we have a long relationship. Hes 100 with me, and he said well get this job done. Thats a distraction. What marjories done with the motion to vacate is not helpful for our party, for our mission to save the country. Because if we dont go the house mate, keep the house majority, win the senate and win back the white house for President Trump, were going to lose the republic. You know, maria, we often say the next election cycles the most important one in our lifetime . Everyone knows this is for all the marbles, the American People are fed if up. President bidens open borders, with his inflation, The Cost Of Living and the Out Of Control spending, the weakness on The World Stage and the weaponization of the government, we have to stop it. What we need to do right now, and we will be are, our party needs to stay united. We need to go out and tell the American People how well be different. Not just what were against, what were for for, how were going to turn this country around. Im absolutely bullish, i think were going to do that. More speaker, is President Trump also with you on fisa . They spyed on his campaign. He posted do not reauthorize fisa. I want to get your take on this surveillance tool because you said, you changed your mind on attaching an amendment which included a warrant needed to spy on american citizens. You said you changed your mind after getting a classified briefing. Can you tell us what changedded your mind in terms of an amendment where you need a warrant to spy on americans . Yeah. The president and i agree on the necessity of the uses of fisa. Remember, thats how we kill terrorists, stop Terrorist Plots on u. S. Soil. Thats why we havent had another 9 11 since that terrible tragedy. President trump used it, and he reauthorized it in 2018 for 6 years. We changed the bill to fit his requirements and ours, and that is that it would expire now two years from now, in the middle of his next administration, so hes the one that gets to determine if its working well. Its a critical tool to stop terrorism. The whole point of the law is that we surveil foreign persons, foreign terrorists. But the reason the Warrant Requirement is not helpful9 and the reason that people we love and respect like mike pompeo and John Ratcliffe and. Devin nunes who have been in the Intelligence Community and are our guy, are conservatives who came out of the Judiciary Committee, a couple of them, they said you cant put the want on this. Quick scenarios, this is important for people to understand, maria. If were surveilling a aist in The Middle East and the terrorist sends an email to john smith in anytown, usa, and the email says the components will be delivered this afternoon for further assembly and delivery to the High School Stadium during the game, okay, i think every american would want the analyst who saw that email if that foreign terrorist to do a query of the other communications between those two persons. That is not unlawful, and that must continue. If that analyst had to get a warrant before that, it would add a huge time delay. The courts are not set up to be able to handle all that volume, and americans may die. We want to look at a those emails and find out, my goodness, which High School Stadium, is this a bomb and what are the components . We have to continue to that to save american lives. That is not searches on american citizens. If they were going to search john smith, they would have to go get a warrant. Maria right. This is lawfully collected data under section 702 and must continue. Maria real quick before you go, you talked with President Trump on friday about insuring a transparent and safe election. You talked about the save act with where you want to insure that illegals are not voting in this election. Do you have any evidence that the democrats are pushing for illegals to vote in this election . Well, listen, some of them have admitted it to us even on record in Judiciary Committee hearings that they want illegals to vote. Theyve allowed it in some municipal elections. What congress has control over is federal elections. We have to do everything single thing we can to secure that our elections are free and fair. And one thing we need to do, and this is what were about, the house are republicans are about to enter legislation into the record that will insure that no illegal can vote in a federal election. You have to prove youre a is citizen instead of, as the law currently statement ises, just checking a box to say it. Maria, we have so many illegals in the country that could tilt the election. If just 1 in 100 illegals decided to vote in an election, it could swing congressional races and it might even swing president ial races. So we have to do Everything Possible to make sure that this election is secure. Its the number one priority of the American People. Maria mr. Speaker, thanks very much for being here this morning. We so appreciate your time. Thank you. Appreciate it. Maria all right. House Speaker Mike Johnson joining us. Now joining me is the chairman of the house ways and Means Committee, congressman jason smith. Mr. Chairman, thanks very much for for joining us. Your reaction. You know, what iran did last night just just is the direct result, maria, of bidens policies and bidens rhetoric over the bidens rhetoric over the haas several years as president. Last several years as president. And that gave iran the opportunity that they felt if like they could go in and attack one of our greatest allies, israel. Maria yeah. The enabling iran to generate billions of dollars many if oil has created in oil has created something of a rich country once again. Under President Trump i dont think they actually had the wherewithal to do this. Under President Trump he imposed the strict standards of the sanctions on the iranians and allowed them where they didnt grow billions of dollars in profits in oil exports. But unfortunately, the Biden Administration has are reversed course on that, and they have been very lax on those sanctions allowing the iranians to grow in more power, more economic growth. And now theyre attacking their neighbors. Maria let me switch gears, mr. Chairman. Tomorrow, of course, is tax day. D right before april 15th we see this watchdog report that the irs has been targeting people who are making under 200,000 for their audits. Can you tell us why the irs is targeting those people making 200,000 or less in terms of audits, the majority of audits, 63 . Maria, we have been trying to sound this alarm for some time. It all started with the Inflation Reduction Act where the Biden Administration asked for an additional 80 billion to supercharge the irs, the hire 87,000 new agents. And guess what . Based on scorekeepers in congress, it is projected that that 87,000 new auditors, 70 of those audits will be on people making less than 75,000 a year. But gues