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00:00He was reporting this today, that Russian President Putin must meet with Zelensky

00:05before he can secure a bilateral with President Trump, a bilateral meeting.

00:10That's according to a White House official to Politico.

00:14Now, the president in the Oval Office was asked about this,

00:17whether or not the White House is putting that precondition

00:20on any meeting between Trump and Putin.

00:23This is how he responded.

00:25Is your deadline still standing for Vladimir Putin to agree with ceasefire tomorrow?

00:30Or is that fluid now?

00:31It's going to be up to him.

00:32We're going to see what he has to say.

00:34It's going to be up to him.

00:35Very disappointed.

00:36Yeah.

00:36Do you have to meet with, does Putin have to meet with Zelensky in order

00:41and before you and Putin have to meet?

00:43No, no.

00:45So you're willing to, that's actually important because the president,

00:47President Putin said this morning he was pretty dismissive of this idea of meeting with President Zelensky.

00:52President Putin was.

00:53I don't know.

00:53I didn't hear it.

00:54If you need to meet with him, he doesn't have to agree to meet with Zelensky.

00:57Is that what you're saying?

00:58No, he doesn't.

00:58No, no.

00:59So when do you think that means?

01:00They would like to meet with me and I'll do whatever I can to stop the killing.

01:04So last month they lost 14,000 people killed last month.

01:11Every week is 4,000 or 5,000 people.

01:14So I don't like long waits.

01:18I think it's a shame.

01:19And they're mostly soldiers.

01:20They're Ukrainian and Russian soldiers.

01:22And some people from the cities where, you know, missiles are lobbed in and you'll lose 35, 40 people a night, which is terrible.

01:30But no, mostly it's soldiers.

01:32And you're talking about, on average, 20,000 a month.

01:3820,000 people are dying a month.

01:40Young, generally young people, soldiers.

01:43We're going to speak in about soldiers.

01:45We'll see you over for Purple Green.

01:47Thank you, Russ.

01:48Thank you, Russ.

01:49Thank you, Russ.

01:50Okay, so you heard him there with a simple no when asked whether or not the White House was putting that precondition on any type of Trump-Putin meeting, saying Putin and Zelensky would have to meet first, Trump saying no.

02:03All right, in the meantime here, let's take a quick commercial break.

02:05A few more top headlines left to get to in this hour, including, remember, we're on 2026 watch here.

02:11Our eyes looking ahead to the midterm elections.

02:14And we're speaking with the candidates.

02:16We'll have a conversation for you out of South Carolina when we come back.

04:26Welcome back to Live Now from Fox.

04:28I am Andy Mack, the congresswoman that calls herself Trump in high heels, announcing it, making it official that she has a bid for governor of South Carolina.

04:40She's been a strong ally of South Carolina.

04:42She's been a strong ally of the president during his second term.

04:44And Mace is already busy on the campaign trail saying, it's official, I'm running for governor of South Carolina.

04:48Our time is now South Carolina first, always.

04:52She said God's not done with South Carolina and neither am I.

04:56We're joined right back.

04:58We're joined right now by the representative Nancy Mace.

05:00Nancy, thank you so much for joining us.

05:02We're coming off to a hot start in terms of this bid.

05:04But a lot of people are asking, why now?

05:08Well, we have a huge opportunity in 2026 in the midterm elections to install America first governors all across the country, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Ohio.

05:19We have really great candidates.

05:20And I want to bring that same energy that I brought to the U.S. House of Representatives and Congress to the great state of South Carolina, to everyone in the state of South Carolina.

05:29That kind of energy, that kind of work ethic and deliver for the president and deliver for the people of South Carolina.

05:35Yeah, it's obviously an exciting time.

05:37You had your first real town hall on Wednesday in Myrtle Beach.

05:42How has been the support?

05:43What's the outpouring from the community in South Carolina been like so far?

05:49Well, it's been overwhelming, actually.

05:51And in Myrtle Beach this week, it was standing room only.

05:55We were literally sweating.

05:57There were so many people inside the room for our first town hall.

06:00We're calling it the mother of all town halls because Democrats like to say we don't have town halls as Republicans.

06:05And we actually have a lot of them.

06:06But we had so many people, hundreds of people turn out last night.

06:09We're overwhelmed by the support.

06:11We appreciate it.

06:12We're getting around the state.

06:13We'll be in Rock Hill in the coming days and then Greenville, Spartanburg, all around the state.

06:19We're leading, actually, in all of the polls in South Carolina as well.

06:23And the financial support has been really tremendous these first few days.

06:27And everyone talks about your current role as a congresswoman there serving for that first district in South Carolina.

06:34But your background is so very interesting.

06:36And, of course, you kind of lean into it as well.

06:38Let's talk about your first job, that being at the Waffle House.

06:42How much do you how much did that really shape you as a person and now leading up to this moment?

06:48Well, Andy, I actually I dropped out of high school at the age of 17.

06:52And my parents, my dad's a retired general.

06:54My mom's a retired school teacher.

06:56And they said, if you're going to stop going to work, you have to stop.

06:59If you're going to stop going to school, you have to start going to work.

07:02And I took that job as a waitress at a Waffle House on the side of the interstate at the age of 17.

07:07And I realized maybe I'd made a grave mistake and I wanted to get my high school diploma.

07:11I wanted to graduate and go on and do more things.

07:14And I would end up a few years after that becoming the first woman to graduate from the Citadel, the military college of South Carolina.

07:21And then when I was elected to Congress in 2020, I actually became the first Republican woman ever elected to Congress from the state of South Carolina.

07:29So I've been working really hard all of my life.

07:31I've never been given anything.

07:33And I'll be working very hard around the clock to earn the support of voters throughout South Carolina.

07:38And if folks want to just chip in a dollar, they can go to nancymace.org and do that right now.

07:43Sign up. Join us.

07:44Yeah. And everyone's journey is a little bit different.

07:47Do you think that endears you to people to know your upbringing, know what you had to go through?

07:53Well, I went to the school of hard knocks, right?

07:57I'm street smart.

07:58I may not have gotten the highest academic degree than some PhD or somebody like that, but I'm just like everybody else.

08:06I have the same pain, the same fear, the same strengths.

08:09And so I want people to know I'm just a normal person.

08:12I'm just a girl from Goose Creek who made it to the U.S. House of Representatives.

08:17It's pretty remarkable.

08:18I pinch myself a lot, but it's also why I'm so passionate.

08:22There's so much opportunity, especially in South Carolina, to improve our education system, to cut taxes for hardworking South Carolinians, to bring law and order as someone who has survived deep trauma over the last couple of years, to be part of that broken system and see that, be a victim of that broken system.

08:39I know where the pressure points are, the pain points are for South Carolinians, and I know how to fix the problems that we're facing, and I can't wait to get to work.

08:46And potentially from the Waffle House to the governor's mansion.

08:49On day one, what are the priorities you're going to have if you do win this race, this bid for governor?

08:55Well, first of all, it's law and order.

08:58We've had rogue sheriffs here in South Carolina, even though we're a red state.

09:02We had a sanctuary sheriff the last four years who was letting out illegal aliens onto the streets of South Carolina who were rapists, murderers, and pedophiles.

09:11Myself, along with some local elected leaders, stood up and got her fired from her job unelected last year in November.

09:18And when that happened, there was no statewide elected official, no statewide leader that stood up and stood with us to get her ousted from her seat.

09:25If I were governor, I wouldn't fund any sanctuary sheriff at any time.

09:28We have an education system that's failing South Carolinians, and I want to make sure that kids that are certified in the trades get a high school diploma through that trade.

09:36If they're not going on to college, it's going to trade for the best, trained for the best job they can have.

09:41And of course, law and order, immigration, education, and protecting women and kids.

09:46We've got taxpayer-funded colleges and schools in South Carolina that don't recognize, that can't define a woman, that don't recognize male and female, that have 15 genders.

09:56And I'm not going to fund colleges and universities if they do that.

10:00And obviously, your policies, you have echoed some of the policies of the president.

10:04Of course, they say he's America first there on social media.

10:07You're saying South Carolina first in part of your slogan there in your bid for governor.

10:12And we've documented over and over again just how you've been such a strong ally for President Trump.

10:17Yesterday in Myrtle Beach, you talked about how you helped Mike Johnson, the speaker, the person in place there for that.

10:24What else can you do to potentially get an endorsement from the president?

10:29Well, I'm working very hard.

10:30No one will work harder than I will to earn his trust, to earn his support, and to earn his endorsement.

10:36But when he was shot, I was the one that brought a motion, a privileged motion on the House floor to impeach the Secret Service director.

10:44And she resigned 12 hours later.

10:46I was the one that took that beating in the George Stephanopoulos ABC News interview that Donald Trump won, that $15 million defamation suit on.

10:54I was defending him as a rape survivor because I know that Donald Trump protects women, just like Republican men, they protect women.

11:01And he's been there protecting us and our rights from day one.

11:06And he's been a great president.

11:07He's making history.

11:08And I want people to know that I'm going to take that same energy, the same policies, I'm going to bring them to everybody across the state of South Carolina.

11:15And I'm going to put South Carolina first.

11:18And if you do earn this bid and win the race for governor, obviously, you won't be on Capitol Hill as much in this role as a congresswoman.

11:26Do you think it will change your relationship with the president at all?

11:29Do you think it will change your relationship with other lawmakers at the federal level?

11:33Well, I hope that, you know, I have even more relationships than I had the day before that, right?

11:38And so it's a game of addition and bringing people together.

11:41But there's no one I've been more inspired by than Donald Trump.

11:44And I saw him negotiate with the holdouts, the last few holdouts in the speaker's race, him and Mike Johnson working together.

11:49But really, the president took the lead.

11:51He's been the one man in the room in the Republican Party who's been able to bring together MAGA, been able to bring together traditional Republicans and some libertarians, but different wings and factions of the Republican Party.

12:03He's the one person who's been able to unite us all.

12:06And I think that's something that we could all learn from that as we're implementing MAGA across the country.

12:11But learning how he's united our entire party.

12:14He's brought women over, blacks.

12:16He's brought over Hispanics.

12:18He's brought over so many people with different mindsets and different policy ideas.

12:23He's brought us all together.

12:24He did that.

12:25And one of my last questions before I let you go, Nancy, because we talk about this and all the success, all the different motions, the bills that you put forward on Capitol Hill in Congress.

12:35What kind of conversations did you have?

12:37What kind of thoughts did you have when you're talking about running for governor?

12:40Because you carved out a successful lane in Congress, now moving on to this.

12:45Was it hard for you?

12:46Because I know there's a lot more to get done.

12:49Certainly.

12:50But when I first ran for Congress, I said I would limit, I would term limit myself.

12:54I believe in term limits.

12:55I've signed every term limit pledged on a ban.

12:57And I said I would only do three terms when I ran for Congress.

13:00And so I'm timed out.

13:02And it's time to pass the torch.

13:04I took my district when I won in 2020 by one point.

13:07Last year, I won by 18.

13:09And it wasn't due to redistricting.

13:10It was due to the hard work I put into this district and into this state to make it a more Republican-leaning district.

13:17And those are issues that I use to protect women, to protect children, to protect victims.

13:22It really resonates down here in the Lowcountry.

13:24We're very much an independent spirit, conservative, but we're also very independent-minded.

13:28And I brought that spirit to my district, and I want to bring that same spirit to the rest of the state of South Carolina.

13:35All right, Congresswoman, thank you so much for joining us here on Live Now from Fox.

13:38I appreciate your time.

13:39Best of luck in your bid for governor there in the Palmetto State.

13:42Thank you, and God bless.

13:44And back out live there to Columbia, South Carolina, the state capitol.

13:49So, we always want to talk about the key stakeholders, the people who are in the arena, who make it happen, and ask them all the questions.

13:57So, that's what we did there with Congresswoman Mace.

14:00All right, we are approaching the top of a new hour.

14:02It's about done for me up here, live at least, but don't you worry.

14:06My colleague here in the Live Now newsroom, Austin Westphal, he has you covered for the next several hours.

14:11He joins me with a preview of what's in store.

14:13Austin, what is in store?

14:15I've got to say, it feels so good to be away from that Arizona heat that you guys have at Live Now in Phoenix, here in D.C. at the White House.

14:21Aw, you just broke the...

14:23Now they can tell that it's just a monitor behind me.

14:25Okay, Andrew, what have we got going on?

14:27We've got Hal Kemper coming up.

14:28We've got Dr. Alon Burstein coming up.

14:30With Hal, we're going to be talking about Russia.

14:32With Alon, we're going to be talking about the Middle East.

14:34Of course, we've been talking about all day, the main headlines as far as Russia goes.

14:39We're looking ahead for a Putin-Trump meeting in the coming days.

14:43So, what are they going to discuss?

14:45Where is it going to be held?

14:47These are all questions we're going to be getting into with Hal.

14:50Does Zelensky need to be present at a meeting like this in order to get a ceasefire done?

14:56Will Putin and Zelensky need to come face to face eventually before that can happen?

15:01These are things we're going to be discussing with Hal.

15:03After Hal, Alon is going to be joining me.

15:05It's been a very, very busy news day as far as the Gaza war goes.

15:10Just within the past hour or so, we learned that the Israeli cabinet has approved the measure to basically take control of Gaza City.

15:22Right now, you're looking at a live vantage point at the Gaza skyline.

15:26It's our normal shot that we look at.

15:28I've been watching this feed throughout the day.

15:30We have been seeing military activity in real time.

15:33I do see intermittent blasts taking place throughout the day still.

15:37I haven't seen any in the past half hour or so though, but I did catch one about two hours ago.

15:41So, what are the implications of the IDF taking control of Gaza City?

15:46Where does this go from here and what does this mean for the so-called day after plan that we've been discussing since October 7th of 2023?

15:53So many questions to get into.

15:55We're going to do two lengthy segments with Hal Kemper and Alon.

15:58That's going to be coming up in the next hour, Andrew.

16:01I was looking through the National Day calendar today, man.

16:04I noticed that it was...

16:06You're already laughing.

16:07I noticed it was National Lighthouse Day today.

16:10Okay.

16:11I love me a lighthouse.

16:12I was doing some research on lighthouses.

16:15I've got to ask you a question.

16:17I'm pretty sure this is going to make you mad, but I'm going to ask you anyway.

16:20Okay.

16:21I was looking up, there's a website that is all about lighthouses.

16:26It had lighthouse facts on it.

16:28I pulled this.

16:30What state do you think has the most lighthouses in the country, Andrew?

16:35I'm going to have to say Michigan.

16:37Good job.

16:38Yeah, that's right.

16:39Did you know that?

16:40I did know that because over the 4th of July holiday, my twin brother and I, we went on a road trip in northern Michigan and we stopped at some of the lighthouses.

16:48We hit like four or five lighthouses.

16:50It was beautiful.

16:51You would think it was a coastal state that would have the most lighthouses.

16:55But indeed, there's tons and tons of lighthouses built around the Great Lakes.

16:58Michigan by far has the most Maine.

17:00I think it was like 150 that I read that Michigan has.

17:03The next closest is Maine with like 80.

17:05Wow.

17:06So you guys are kicking butt when it comes to building lighthouses.

17:09That's all I got for you today, man.

17:10All right.

17:11So Westfall, we'll get out to you very, very shortly here.

17:13But in the meantime here during our transition, keeping with some more of these top political headlines,

17:19in 2025, our next one takes us to New York City.

17:23Live picture there over the Big Apple.

17:25Well, there was a piece in the New York Times just yesterday going as follows, saying this.

17:30That President Trump may have moved out of New York City, but he has privately discussed whether to intercede in its fractious race for mayor to try to stop Zoran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee.

17:41That's according to eight people briefed on the discussions.

17:44The reporting goes on that in recent weeks, Trump has quizzed a Republican congressman and New York businessman about who in the crowded field of candidates has the best chance of beating Mamdani.

17:56Is it Eric Adams, the incumbent?

17:59Is it former Governor Andrew Cuomo here?

18:02So had to get that on your radar.

18:04And Cuomo was asked about whether or not he's been in touch with President Trump.

18:09Morgan McKay, our colleague there, she covers all things New York politics for Fox 5 New York.

18:14She has this tweet at Cuomo's event today.

18:17Cuomo's event today.