We turn now to another Trump administration proposal that has drawn criticism from lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said today that the Justice Department is scrapping plans to create that $1.8 billion, so-called anti-weaponization fund.

It's a setback for President Trump after Republican senators made clear they did not have the votes to advance a

Homeland Security funding bill unless the White House either scaled back or scrapped the fund entirely.

We're joined now by our congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin. So Lisa, start by walking us through

what the administration is proposing here. What happens to this proposed fund? This is news. We've just been getting this in the last couple of hours from acting Attorney

General Blanche himself, and it is the most clear statement that we or Congress has gotten about

the future of the fund. Listen to what the acting attorney general told Congress, and he said

very clearly this fund is not moving forward.

The reasons for the fund, I think, were, were, it remained as important as they were before,

but we are not moving forward with the fund.

Not moving forward ever.

Correct.

Now, Senate, Republican sources tell me their understanding from the White House is that no money will be dispersed from this.

But of course, this doesn't really answer all the questions we have.

Among them, remember, this comes from a three-part settlement that President Trump partially had with his own administration.

So I want to go through that settlement.

One, that $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is out. What is still in, however, is a retroactive

immunity deal with the IRS for President Trump, his sons, and his businesses, also still

in a formal apology that he expects from the U.S. government. There are still lots of questions,

including the one, the idea that Mr. Blanche today refused to put in writing that the fund is on hold.

He said his word is enough. In addition, we don't know if any money is changing hands,

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