US judge orders Trump lawyers to testify under oath about deportation flights
A federal judge on Monday denied the Trump administration’s request to call off a court hearing involving President Donald Trump’s use of a wartime law to deport hundreds of Venezuelan nationals, and whether the White House knowingly violated the court order – an extraordinary effort that came just moments before administration officials were due to testify under oath. The Justice Department’s filing came shortly after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered lawyers to court Monday for a “fact-finding hearing” involving Trump’s use of the 1798 wartime-era Alien Enemies Act, and whether the Trump administration knowingly violated his earlier court order blocking the Trump administration from invoking the law to immediately deport Venezuelan nationals and alleged members of violent gang Tren de Aragua, for 14 days. The law has only been used three times in U.S. history, most recently during World War II. During Monday’s hearing, which lasted about 45 minutes, Judge Boasberg at times appeared frustrated as he pressed government lawyers for more details as to why his Saturday order—which called for the administration to immediately return all planes with expelled migrants, including the Venezuelan nationals and alleged Tren de Aragua gang members—were not brought back to the U.S. “My orders don’t seem to carry much weight,” Jude Boasberg said near the end of the hearing. Both parties are due back in court Friday for a hearing over the Trump administration’s request to vacate the case. WHO IS JAMES BOASBERG, THE US JUDGE AT THE CENTER OF TRUMP’S DEPORTATION EFFORTS? During the hearing, the Trump administration repeatedly declined to provide information to Judge Boasberg about how many flights carrying migrants took off on Saturday, citing national security protections. “Those are operational issues, and I am not at liberty to provide information,” a lawyer for the Trump administration told the court. Judge Boasberg, in response, ordered the Justice Department to provide the court with more information in writing by Tuesday at noon. In granting the emergency order Saturday Boasberg sided with the plaintiffs – Democracy Forward and the ACLU – who had argued that the deportations would likely pose imminent and “irreparable” harm to the migrants under the time proposed. TRUMP POLICY ON BORDER JUMPERS EMPOWERS USE OF ‘MAXIMUM CONSEQUENCES,’ BORDER AGENT TELLS FOX Judge Boasberg also ordered the Trump administration Saturday to immediately halt any planned deportations, and to notify their clients that “any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States,” he said. But the decision apparently came too late to stop a plane filled with more than 200 migrants who were deported to El Salvador. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News in an interview that a plane carrying hundreds of migrants, including more than 130 persons removed under the Alien Enemies Act, had already “left U.S. airspace” by the time the order was handed down. She also suggested the order itself was not “lawful” and noted the Trump administration’s intent to appeal. In response, the ACLU asked the court to order the government to submit declarations, under oath, that the planes had indeed taken off after the court’s order. “Whether or not the planes had cleared U.S. territory, the U.S. retained custody at least until the planes landed and the individuals were turned over to foreign governments,” the ACLU said in their filing. Judge Boasberg, an Obama appointee, at times appeared slightly incredulous that the Trump administration chose to move forward with the deportation of hundreds of migrants to El Salvador, pressing lawyers for the Justice Department over whether they believed there were better options than to comply with the decision he handed down Saturday. “Isn’t then the better course, to return the planes to the United States and figure out what to do, than to say, ‘We don’t care, we’ll do what we want?’” he asked.
Trump announces he will release 80,000 JFK assassination files on Tuesday, going to be ‘very interesting’
President Donald Trump on Monday announced that he would release around 80,000 unredacted files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday. Trump made the announcement while touring the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. “While we’re here, I thought it would be appropriate, we are, tomorrow, announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files. So, people have been waiting for decades for this, and I’ve instructed my people… lots of different people, [director of national intelligence] Tulsi Gabbard, that they must be released tomorrow,” he said. “You got a lot of reading. I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything. I said, ‘just don’t redact, you can’t redact,’” the president said. DEADLINE LOOMS FOR RELEASE OF JFK ASSASSINATION FILES He noted that the files would be “very interesting.” In January, Trump signed an executive order directing the release of federal government documents related to the assassinations of Kennedy, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. TRUMP SIGNS ORDER TO DECLASSIFY FILES ON JFK, RFK AND MLK ASSASSINATIONS Trump had promised to release the previously classified documents during his 2024 campaign after decades of speculation and conspiracy theories about the killings. “Everything will be revealed,” Trump told reporters at the time. During his first term in office, Trump promised to release all the files related to John F. Kennedy, but an undisclosed amount of material remains under wraps more than six decades after Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. The primary suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was killed two days later by Jack Ruby. After appeals from the CIA and FBI, Trump blocked the release of hundreds of records. Trump said at the time the potential harm to U.S. national security, law enforcement or foreign affairs is “of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure.” The JFK assassination has remained a point of interest among the public for decades amid conspiracy theories about the involvement of a second shooter.
Number of injunctions halting Trump policies trounces predecessors by double
Nationwide injunctions ordered against the first Trump administration account for more than half of the total injunctions ordered against the federal government since 1963, data show. Nationwide injunctions are court orders that prevent the federal government from implementing a policy or law that has a cascading effect impacting the entire country, not just the parties involved in the court case. Trump’s first administration faced 64 injunctions out of the total 127 nationwide injunctions issued since 1963. There were 32 injunctions issued against the Bush, Obama and Biden administrations collectively since 2001, meaning the first Trump administration was on the receiving end of double the amount of nationwide injunctions than his two predecessors and successor combined, according to the April 2024 edition of the Harvard Law Review. The Harvard Law Review found there were six injunctions issued against the Bush administration, 12 against the Obama administration and 14 against the Biden administration. TRUMP ASKS SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW BAN ON BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP Trump’s return to the Oval Office in January has brought with it more than 120 lawsuits from activists, government employees and others targeting his executive orders and actions. The lawsuits have resulted in nationwide injunctions in some cases, including 15 in February alone, according to Trump’s acting solicitor general, Sarah Harris. Trump filed an emergency appeal Thursday asking the Supreme Court to narrow three injunctions that were issued to halt Trump’s nullification of birthright citizenship. The emergency appeal requests the injunction only cover individuals directly impacted by the relevant courts. INJUNCTION LIFTED ON TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS SLASHING FEDERAL DEI SUPPORT Harris argued in the emergency appeal that nationwide injunctions have hit “epidemic proportions” under the second Trump administration, noting that the federal government faced 14 universal injunctions in the first three years of the Biden administration compared to 15 leveled against the Trump admin in one month alone. “Years of experience have shown that the Executive Branch cannot properly perform its functions if any judge anywhere can enjoin every presidential action everywhere,” Harris wrote. Officials in the first Trump administration also railed against the flow of injunctions ordered against the 45th president’s policies and laws, including the former chiefs of the Department of Justice. “Courts issued an average of only 1.5 nationwide injunctions per year against the Reagan, Clinton, and George W. Bush administrations, and 2.5 per year against the Obama administration,” former Assistant Attorney General Beth Williams said in February 2019. “In President Trump’s first year in office, however, judges issued a whopping 20 nationwide injunctions – an eightfold increase. This matches the entire eight-year total of such injunctions issued against President Obama during his two terms. We are now at 30, matching the total number of injunctions issued against the first 42 presidents combined.” FEDERAL JUDGE TEMPORARILY STOPS TRUMP ADMIN FROM FIRING 11 INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS ASSIGNED TO DEI PROGRAMS Former Trump administration Attorney General Bill Barr added in remarks later in 2019 that there were “only 27 nationwide injunctions in all of the 20th century” compared to 37, at the time, against the first Trump administration. “Since President Trump took office, federal district courts have issued 37 nationwide injunctions against the Executive Branch. That’s more than one a month. By comparison, during President Obama’s first two years, district courts issued two nationwide injunctions against the Executive Branch, both of which were vacated by the Ninth Circuit. And according to the Department’s best estimates, courts issued only 27 nationwide injunctions in all of the 20th century,” the former AG said in May 2019. TRUMP SCORES BIG LEGAL WIN AGAINST PULITZER PRIZE BOARD MEMBERS AS LAWSUIT MOVES TO DISCOVERY Harvard Law Review found that the judges who issued the injunctions against the first Trump administration were overwhelmingly ordered by judges who were appointed by a Democrat. Democratic-appointed judges ordered 92.2% of the injunctions against the Trump administration, meaning just five of the 64 injunctions were ordered by Republican-appointed judges. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Republican-appointed judges ordered all 14 of the nationwide injunctions against the federal government under the Biden administration. Injunctions under the Bush and Obama eras were much more bipartisan, with 50% of the injunctions in the Bush era issued by Democratic-appointed judges, and Republican-appointed judges ordering 58.3% of the 12 injunctions in the Obama era. Fox News Digital’s Breanne Deppisch contributed to this report.
Trump surrogate Corrin Rankin picked to lead blue state’s GOP: ‘Make California Great Again’
California Republicans, energized by district gains made during the 2024 general election, selected their new party leader, Corrin Rankin, a former surrogate for President Donald Trump, over the weekend at the CAGOP annual convention in Sacramento. She is the first-ever Black woman to hold the position, and she’s pro-MAGA. “It’s time to end the Democrats’ one-party rule and make California great again,” the new CAGOP chair said to delegates after her win on Sunday. In an interview with Fox News Digital on Monday, Rankin said there is “an outcry for commonsense politicians in California” and that the party, which has noticeably been given new life by Trump, is strongly aligned with the president’s national agenda. It’s an uphill battle against the state’s deep-blue Democrat trifecta, but it’s one that Rankin has her eyes set on as she prepares to lead the party under a second Trump term. NEWSOM’S ‘UNFAIR’ REMARK ON GIRLS’ SPORTS BELIES RECORD AS GOVERNOR: ‘ABSOLUTE BULLS—‘ “I’ve worked on every single one of his campaigns for the past 10 years, and I have a great relationship with the Trump administration, and I plan to continue that,” Rankin said. “I want to welcome President Trump. We want to invite him to California. We would like to see him here as many times as we can.” In the 2024 general election, Trump flipped several California counties red that had supported former President Joe Biden in 2020. Those counties include Butte, Fresno, Imperial, Inyo, Lake, Merced, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Joaquin and Stanislaus. “A lot of people are favoring his policies show that through the campaign, a lot of counties flipped from blue to red, and a lot of voters voted for the top of the ticket,” said Rankin, who was the 2016 statewide coalition director for African Americans for Trump. “They voted for President Trump, and that goes across the aisle, people were voting for him.” NEWSOM CALLS BIOLOGICAL MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS ‘DEEPLY UNFAIR’ IN PODCAST WITH CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST Rankin said there’s an “underlying change” occurring in California, as the party is hopeful it can make the state less blue while more voters move to the center. The new GOP chair pointed to the newly elected mayor of San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, who is “a lot more moderate than the former mayor, London Breed,” as an example of that change. “I think that California is moving from the far left and more towards the center, and as the California Republicans, it’s our job to make sure that we are offering solutions, that we’re articulating our policies and our vision and how we want to represent our constituents,” Rankin said. The economy and public safety are going to be two major platform issues for the CAGOP moving forward, Rankin added. California has some of the highest state income and business taxes in the nation, and Republican lawmakers have doubled down in recent years, introducing bills to address affordability and the uptick in crime across the state’s major cities. The Golden State will hold its gubernatorial election in November 2026, with the next governor replacing termed-limited Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom. Rankin said the CAGOP has not favored any candidates yet and is waiting to see the full landscape of candidates who throw their hat in the race. NEWSOM SIGNS $50M ‘TRUMP-PROOFING’ LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE Regarding Trump’s contentious relationship with Newsom, who signed a $50 million package bolstering the state’s legal defense against potential threats from the administration, Rankin said the CAGOP’s role will be contributing to the “ongoing conversation” between state and national politics. “We’re going to make sure that our message is heard and that our message resonates with Californians and [Californians] know and understand the position of California Republicans,” Rankin said. “And I think, at the end of the day, we take a look at Prop. 36 and how it passed overwhelmingly, and that was a Republican-led initiative to make sure that we are fighting back on these Newsom-led soft-on-crime policies; and Californians overwhelmingly voted with us, so we’re going to take that same approach to every single issue.”
Trump’s sights set on Iran after US airstrikes decimate more than 30 Houthi targets
U.S. airstrikes over the weekend took out Houthi drone, missile and air defense systems, but it remains to be seen whether they struck a lethal blow at their main target: the Iranian regime’s resolve. Joint Staff Director for Operations Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich told reporters “dozens of military casualties” had so far been counted, and that he had seen “no credible indications of any civilian casualties.” He added that an initial wave of strikes “hit over 30 targets at multiple locations, degrading a variety of Houthi capabilities.” “These included terrorist training sites, unmanned aerial vehicle infrastructure, weapons manufacturing capabilities, and weapons storage facilities.” US MILITARY SHOOTS DOWN HOUTHI DRONES AS TRUMP’S STRIKES AGAINST TERRORIST GROUP CONTINUE Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed 53 people had been killed, including five children. Attacks began Saturday and continued into Monday. Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell said the message in the strikes was, “If you shoot at American troops there will be consequences.” At the same time, he emphasized, “this is also not an endless offensive. This is not about regime change in the Middle East, this is about putting American interests first.” But President Donald Trump had been clear that while the Houthis were the target of the attacks, Iran would be held responsible for any retaliation. “Any further attack or retaliation by the ‘Houthis’ will be met with great force, and there is no guarantee that that force will stop there. Iran has played ‘the innocent victim’ of rogue terrorists from which they’ve lost control, but they haven’t lost control,” he wrote on Truth Social. “They’re dictating every move, giving them the weapons, supplying them with money and highly sophisticated Military equipment, and even, so-called, ‘Intelligence.’ Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!” IRANIAN GENERAL RESPONDS TO TRUMP THREATS AGAINST HOUTHI REBELS The Houthis announced last week they would ramp up attacks on the Red Sea once more, claiming they were doing so to pressure Israel to allow humanitarian aid to flow back into Gaza. The group had halted strikes in January when the Gaza ceasefire was first announced. Trump last week tried the diplomatic route with Iran, writing a letter to its supreme leader asking for engagement in nuclear talks. But Iran, enraged by Trump’s stated intentions to return to a “maximum pressure” sanctions campaign, said it would not engage with the U.S. Trump has said its strikes will continue “with overwhelming lethal force” until the Houthis are eliminated as a threat. But what elimination would look like – especially if the Houthi attacks persisted – was vague. US NAVY SHIPS REPEL ATTACK FROM HOUTHIS IN GULF OF ADEN Parnell refused to say whether U.S. troops could be deployed to Yemen. “It’s very difficult, if not impossible, for us to talk about force, posture from this podium,” he said. “It’s very important to keep the enemy guessing.” Zineb Riboua, research fellow and program manager of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East, explained that the U.S. strikes aimed to destroy missile and launch sites used to target Red Sea shipping and disrupt supply chains that feed Iranian weaponry to the Houthis. “However, the effectiveness of these operations depends on two key factors: Did they cripple Houthi capabilities? The group has proven resilient, especially if Iran continues to funnel weapons and intelligence support,” Riboua said. The Houthis responded with unsuccessful strikes on the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman. Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed Sunday that over the past 18 months, Houthi fighters had attacked the U.S. Navy “directly” 174 times and had targeted commercial shipping 145 times using “guided precision anti-ship weaponry.” The Houthis in recent years have attacked unarmed Western ships carrying goods through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden – and the U.S. military has responded with strikes that were seemingly limited in scope, not a full-scale declaration of war. The attacks have led to perilous waters along a trade route that typically sees some $1 trillion in goods pass through it, as well as shipments of aid to war-torn Sudan and the Yemeni people. “We are already on day 3 of the military campaign and it has been unrelenting. This is much different than the smaller and more limited strikes during the Biden administration,” said Hudson fellow Rebecca Heinrichs. “The days of pinprick responses where we allow that to occur is over. That’s, I think, a pretty clear statement from the administration as a whole as well,” State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce told reporters Monday of the renewed offensive. Iran sought to distance itself from its proxy forces. Pamilitary Revolutionary Guard Gen. Hossein Salami said Iran “plays no role in setting the national or operational policies” of the groups it allies itself with. But some restraint-minded voices don’t believe the U.S. should be spending its resources to fight the Houthis, who haven’t publicly attacked maritime positions since November. “The people affected, I think, are more European and Chinese than American,” said Ben Friedman, policy director at Defense Priorities. “So it’s not clear to me why the U.S. should be doing this. If the Europeans want to deal with it, fine, but I don’t think everything needs to be our responsibility, especially when they’re not doing much damage [to us].” “He’s doing what should have been done under the Biden administration,” said Gene Moran, former Navy captain and former advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. But at the same time, “We shouldn’t be fooled into thinking we can knock down an ideology with kinetic weapons. We’ve made that mistake time over time, something needs to be done with Iran. “Trump has proven with his relationship with Russia, he can flip the table over a weekend, change the whole conversation. So I would think that Trump would do something very
Houston-area midwife arrested for providing illegal abortions in first criminal case under state ban: Texas AG
A Houston-area midwife has been arrested for allegedly providing illegal abortions, the first such arrest under Texas’ near-total abortion ban. Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, who identified herself as “Dr. Maria” is charged with the illegal performance of an abortion, a second-degree felony, as well as practicing medicine without a license, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced. CLINTON-ERA LAW ‘WEAPONIZED’ BY BIDEN AGAINST PRO-LIFERS MUST GO, PENCE GROUP URGES HOUSE GOP “In Texas, life is sacred,” Paxton said in a statement. “I will always do everything in my power to protect the unborn, defend our state’s pro-life laws, and work to ensure that unlicensed individuals endangering the lives of women by performing illegal abortions are fully prosecuted.” “Texas law protecting life is clear, and we will hold those who violate it accountable,” he added. Rojas allegedly operated a network of clinics in the Houston suburbs of Waller, Cypress and Spring. The clinics “unlawfully employed unlicensed individuals who falsely presented themselves as licensed medical professionals,” Paxton’s office said. FDA CHIEF COUNSEL WHO DEFENDED ABORTION PILL ACCESS UNDER BIDEN RESIGNS TWO DAYS INTO JOB Rojas herself is accused of performing illegal abortions in the clinics, in violation of the Under the Texas Human Life Protection Act of 2021. Abortions are banned in Texas, except in certain circumstances to save the life of a pregnant woman. Texas holds abortion providers, not patients, criminally responsible for illegal procedures, Paxton’s office said. Waller County District Attorney Sean Whittmore referred the case to Paxton’s office. “In Waller County, we respect all life,” Whittmore told Fox News Digital. “We expect people to follow the law in the state of Texas.” Fox News Digital has reached out to the clinics where the alleged abortions were performed. In addition to the arrest, the Healthcare Program Enforcement Division of the Attorney General’s Office filed for a temporary restraining order to shut down the clinics.
‘CLOSING TIME’: White House, Border Patrol troll with deportation meme video
The official White House and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) X accounts trolled critics on Monday by posting a meme video showing deportations to the famed ’90s song “Closing Time,” a longtime staple at closing bars and weddings. “It’s closing time. We are making America safe again,” CBP said in its post. The video, which was posted by the White House as well as U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks and Customs and Border Protection, shows authorities processing shackled illegal immigrants to the tune of “Semisonic” lead singer Dan Wilson singing, “Closing time, you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.” The video then cuts to show agents loading illegals on a plane for deportation as Wilson sings, “I know who I want to take me home,” with the words Border Patrol clearly visible. PRESIDENT TRUMP COMFORTS MOTHER WHOSE SON DIED OF FENTANYL POISONING: ‘UP THERE WATCHING YOU’ Since retaking the Oval Office, President Donald Trump has made securing the border and cracking down on illegal immigration one of his top priorities. In an interview with CBS in late February, Banks said illegal border crossings had plummeted by 94%. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security said last week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had arrested just under 33,000 illegal immigrants. CLICK HERE FOR MORE IMMIGRATION COVERAGE Further, a senior Trump administration official confirmed to Fox News that a total of 261 illegal aliens were deported to El Salvador on Saturday – 137 were via the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, 101 were Venezuelans removed via Title 8, 21 were Salvadoran MS-13 gang members, and two were MS-13 ringleaders and “special cases” for El Salvador, according to the official. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt explained the video during Monday’s White House press briefing, saying it “sums up our immigration policy pretty well: You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.” TOM HOMAN WARNS MAJOR SANCTUARY STATE WILL ‘GET EXACTLY WHAT THEY DON’T WANT’ “The White House and our entire government clearly is leaning into the message of this president and we are unafraid to double down and to take responsibility and ownership of the serious decisions that are being made,” said Leavitt. “The president was elected with an overwhelming mandate to launch the largest, mass deportation campaign in American history. And that’s exactly what he is doing.” She said that over 50 days into the administration, Trump continues to receive “overwhelming public support for the policies that he is enacting.” “So, we are unafraid to message effectively what the president is doing on a daily basis to make our, communities safer,” she explained.
Israeli forces detain and strip-search children in the occupied West Bank
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Palestinians in Gaza suffer extreme hunger under Israeli blockade
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Millions of people in Gaza are facing severe food and water shortages as Israel continues to block aid.
State Department says Ukraine ready to accept 30-day ceasefire deal: ‘Ball is now in Russia’s court’
State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said Monday that “the ball is now in Russia’s court” to accept a U.S.-proposed ceasefire deal that Ukraine agreed to last week. The U.S.-backed proposal, which includes an immediate 30-day ceasefire and guaranteed resumption of U.S. military aid and intelligence to Ukraine, was finalized during diplomatic talks in Saudi Arabia last week. “Ukraine expressed readiness to accept the U.S. proposal to enact an immediate interim 30-day ceasefire to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The ball is now in Russia’s court,” Bruce said during the State Department’s second briefing of Trump’s second term. “Following this historic meeting, Secretary [of State Marco] Rubio traveled to the G7 in Canada, where our partners expressed support for a swift and a durable end to this conflict.” UKRAINE UNVEILS 600-MILE CRUISE MISSILE THAT CAN REACH MOSCOW AMID PEACE TALKS After President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, Putin said during a news conference that he agreed with the truce in principle, noting, “The idea itself is correct, and we certainly support it.” Meanwhile, Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Waltz, said following the meeting that there is “cautious optimism” a ceasefire could be close at hand. While a ceasefire appears imminent, Russia and Ukraine still need to resolve key disagreements before finalizing the deal. RUSSIA WANTS ‘IRONCLAD’ GUARANTEE THAT UKRAINE WILL BE BARRED FROM NATO: OFFICIAL These include negotiations related to Ukraine’s entrance into NATO — which Russia has said is a non-starter — territorial integrity disputes and security guarantees, such as whether NATO peacekeeping troops will be allowed in Ukraine to maintain the ceasefire. Potential prisoner swaps will also need to be ironed out between the two warring nations. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Trump has also signaled that control of certain land and power plants in Ukraine would also be part of the negotiations. While Trump and his team have expressed optimism about the deal, GOP South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds said only “time will tell” whether Putin plans on “deceiving us.”