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cheryl: good morning, i'm cheryl casone, in for maria bartiromo. it is monday, february 17th, your top stories at 6:00 a.m. eastern time. today working on the path to peace, secretary of state marco rubio meeting with benjamin netanyahu as a u.s. delegation heads to saudi arabia to talk with ukraine on ending the war with russia. maria spoke with middle east envoy steve witkoff about all of this and more. we've got it. in washington, doge is on a mission, the government cost cutting agency getting key access to government agencies with a plan to audit gold in fort knox. we'll get into it. take a look at markets, the futures market will be open until 1:00 p.m. eastern time today, it is president's day. futures now, trading starts tomorrow, right now looks like a good start to the year and the day tomorrow. markets so far for the year, we have been seeing a lot of green.

take a look at all of these numbers, here are the markets for the year so far. as you can see, the dow, nasdaq and s&p have had pretty solid gains, especially the dow, up almost 5%. key housing data out this week, a look at the real estate market in washington, d.c. as the doge agency makes more federal cuts and then taking a look at european markets, of course those markets are open today and as you can see we've got green across the screen, asia overnight markets mostly higher, fractional moves there. president trump's border agenda is put into action, illegal migrant arrests skyrocketing across the country as border czar tom homan cracks down. hear what he told maria about the pushback he is facing in sanctuary cities. and joining the conversation all morning long, michael lee strategy founder, michael lee, and boundary stone partners senior vice president, emily dominic. "mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪

cher cheryl: and it is time for the hot topic of the hour. the trump administration putting the focus on foreign policy as phase two of cease fire talks between israel and hamas is now underway and israeli delegation is in cairo, egypt this morning for the talks. envoy steve witkoff joined maria yesterday with a look at what phase two of the cease fire deal entails. maria: tomorrow is the 500th day the hostages have been in

captivity. will there be a phase two? have the terms been drawn up there? >> phase two is a little more complicated than phase one but phase two is absolutely going to begin. and we are -- we had very, very productive and constructive calls this morning about the sequencing of phase two, setting forth positions on both sides so we can understand where -- level set where we are today. phase two includes 19 idf soldiers, we believe all of them are alive and some others too as well. it includes edon alexander who we have been press forge becausr because he's an american and israeli citizen as well. phase two contemplates an end to the war and contemplates hamas not being involved in the government and being gone from gaza so we've got to square those two things. cheryl: secretary of state marco rubio meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in jerusalem yesterday, both discussing the threat of iran in the region.

>> secretary rubio and i had a very productive discussion with our staffs on a number of issues. none of them are more important than iran. israel and america stand soldier to soldier in countering the threat of iran. we believe the ayatollahs must not have nuclear weapons and we also agree that iran's aggression in the region has to be rolled back. over the last 16 months, israel has dealt a mighty blow to iran's terror access and under the strong leadership of president trump, and with your unflinching support, i have no doubt that we can and will finish the job. >> the common theme in all of these challenges is iran. it is the single greatest source of instability in the region and there can never be a nuclear iran. a nuclear iran, that could then hold itself immune from pressure and from action. that can never happen.

the president's been clear about that as well. cheryl: netanyahu had strong words about the release of all the hostages taken by hamas. >> president trump and i are working in full cooperation and coordination between us. we have a common strategy and we can't always share the details of this strategy with the public including when the gates of hell will be opened as they surely will if all our hostages are not released until the last one of them. cheryl: emily there's a couple things we heard, first off about iran which i want to get to in a second with you but first when it comes to hamas and phase two, which is the end of the war and what we're talking about now if we can get there, is that this has to include hamas not being involved at all in the government in any way, shape or form but they've got to be gone from gaza. i don't get the sense that hamas is gone from gaza yet. pretty clear on that.

>> i think that's absolutely true. if we've seen anything over the last few weeks it's that president trump and secretary rubio mean what they say and we should expect them to follow through on the kind of thinks they're expecting when at the negotiating table. so instead of seeing a position where we had a president that wouldn't articulate a u.s. position on the hostages other than we want to work with you to try to get them to come home, now we're seeing progress because people are willing to say hey, look, this is a line in the sand and we're unwilling to step back from it. cheryl: real quick on iran. that seems to be the bigger issue. every terrorist group, all these proxies carrying out attacks around the region, that is iran and is that sanctions? is that negotiations? what does that look like with this new administration and iran? >> i think it's the full range here. we saw this in president trump's first presidency where they enacted sanctions, they took military action when appropriate against particular leaders who were involved in the funding and training of terrorist groups like hamas and they didn't

frankly mince any words when it came to saying what was acceptable from iran. we heard that from netanyahu in the press conference we watched and i think we'll continue to hear 2 that from the leaders in the trump administration. cheryl: finish the job, that was the quote. i want to move on to this other issue. president trump says the meeting between himself and russia's vladimir putin is going to happen. there's no date set yet but u.s. officials meeting with russian officials tomorrow in saudi arabia. steve witkoff also told maria where ukraine stands in these negotiations. >> well, i think ukraine is part of the talks. the president had their president, zelenskyy, on the phone this past week. i appropriate am pretty sure f our cabinet people, including bess sent, mike walz, john ratcliffe, the secretary of

state, marco rubio meeting with various ukrainian people at the munich security conference, i don't think this is about excluding anybody. in fact, it's about including everybody. cheryl: ukraine president zelenskyy said no deal is possible without ukraine being at the table. watch this. >> i will never accept any decision between the united states and russia about ukraine. never. and our people, never. and our adults and children and everybody. it's a war in ukraine against us and it's our human losses. i'm thankful for all the supports between usa and in usa, ukraine sport, bipartisan support, we're thankful for all of this but there is no leader in the world who can really make a deal with putin without us about us. cheryl: there's an emergency meeting that's been called today in paris with european leaders

and that's the fallout from jd vance's appearance before them last week. >> the same people that overthrew the ukrainian government in 2014 to install a pro-western friendly leader that really antagonized russia to go in and take crimea were the same people in the biden administration and when have you a policy of regime change in russia it makes it very difficult to sit down at the table and get a legitimate peace deal and talk as adults and i think the trump administration, their foreign policy is foreign policy realism and so what president donald trump has said over and over again, we lost a million and-a-half troops between russia and ukraine this war. who knows how many civilians, how much damage from the fallout. let's just make it so. let's stop the bleeding and figure it out from there and with that goal in mind that's much more achieveable than overthrowing vladimir putin or

going back to the 201 bore 2014d borders. mar.cheryl: the politics is wht i'm talking about. keith kellogg, former general keith kellogg, he said saturday that kyiv at some point they'll get involved in the peace talks and as they should and that's what zelenskyy wase saying on meet the press but the europeans he's saying are not going to be involved. how does it work if you have only the u.s., russia, and zelenskyy but you don't have europe involved or maybe you don't need europe involved. i don't know. >> great question. and if europeans want a place at the table they should be the ones funding ukraine, not the american taxpayer. right. cheryl: of their defense? >> yes. so it's -- i mean, this is a mess and i think zelenskyy is saying whatever he thinks he needs to to get more money. cheryl: interesting. there's been question marks

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cheryl: so futures are going to trade until 1:00 p.m. eastern time today, markets are closed today for president's day but stocks green across the board, so far this year we've had a very strong start to the year.

there are your futures. so again, we'll see how we open up tomorrow but looking good so far and of course for the year we've seen at least above 4% for the dow so far, s&p is almost 4%, nasdaq is pushing 4%. by the way, a new ugov survey finds that 47% of americans trust president trump's ability to manage the economy, 43% trust him with foreign trade. i want to bring in strive asset management ceo and chief investment officer matt cole and matt, i want to get your reaction first to that market performance this year and then the fact that that survey tells us that so far the president's getting high marks for how he is managing the economy. >> yeah, good morning, cheryl. thanks for having me. it's not surprising to me to see the markets react strongly and i think a lot of it is on optimism of what the trump presidency is going to bring to markets over the next four years and object vowsly markets are forward-looking and it's not surprising to see the average american consumer really trusts

not just trump but the actual administration that trump's putting in. he's putting in business people and sometimes you see some of the critics of trump criticize him and they'll criticize him for a one day negotiation over tariffs and markets will react negatively but ultimately what you're seeing is businessmen negotiating. that might be messy in the short-term but for the long run it's really, really positive for the american economy and financial markets. cheryl: mike lee, jump in there. >> look, i have zero concerns over the tariff conversation. i think there are obviously some speed bumps, inflation is still hotter than we would like, rates are higher than we like and we had an ugly retail sales numbers this week, what does that mean going forward. but overall the belief is things are going to get better and we have a pro-commerce, pro-prosperity administration versus one focused on social

justice, environmental goals and ancillary, almost like tooth fairy, unicorn, big foot type goals, other than making sure the lives of americans across the board get better and the stock market does well and there's just a success sort of mindset going forward. cheryl: you know, also too, matt, the president has seined sent this memo and this is part of the overall change we're seeing in the country. trump sent a memo to the department of homeland security, orders immediate halt to work connected to climate change. several u.s. companies are calling on the european union to delay or even end esg rules saying that's a barrier to trade. companies should be free to ignore the regulations and i point to a conversation we had in the last block about kind of this relationship between the united states and europe where is let's just say evolving right now. matt, your reaction? >> one of the interesting things

that i've learned over the last couple years, strive takes pretty activist positions across corporate america and we've been engaging with companies, telling them not to constrain themselves by esg regulations and the most common response we get back is it's actually not just the u.s. but it's actually the eu that's putting in place these restrictions for our companies ant not just for our companies on our business in the eu, but actually our business in america as well and so one of the things when i talk to regulators in the u.s. what i say is you do not want the eu to be regulating american companies so i think it's a great sign that companies are actually taking the step to say we need to eu to relax regulations as well and i'm glad to hear that the trump administration is also taking a hammer to these restrictive policies. cheryl: you know, that kind of goes hand in hand with what we've seen with donald trump and the tariffs and the reciprocal tariff eo which he just signed because that really does target

europe who has been attacking our technology companies just to be clear for decades. let's take a look at crypto right now and these crypto prices. bitcoin is at 96,000 and change. ethereum, 2700. and then there's light coin. what is your outlook for crip to this year? we obviously have an administration that's pro-crypto and wants to see this technology emerge. >> i expect this year to be an extremely positive year for the crypto markets. my prediction is it will be the year of the bitcoin treasury company. i say that because when you look at what's happened to corporations and the amount of cash they sit on, the amount of stock buybacks they do, my prediction is they'll find and at least one company in every sector and we're going to be actually engaging with companies to make this happen, that they'll put themselves on the bitcoin standard like a micro strategy to say that unless we can deploy capital and earn a higher rate of return than

owning bitcoin, then we're actually going to put our cash towards bitcoin and that will ultimately fuel even higher bitcoin prices. cheryl: matt cole, thank you for joining us today. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. cheryl: we've got a lot more coming up this morning. doge digging up another $1.9 billion in taxpayer funds, claiming it was misplaced by the biden administration. new jersey congressman jeff van drew here to react next. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪

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cheryl: the department of government efficiency eyeing paper checks posting on x that getting rid of them would save at least $750 million per year. doge says they saved $600 million after laying off 3600 probationary health and human services employees. they are retaining 4,000

workers. this move happening after a judge rejected a request to stop the agency from accessing records from the department's of labor, hhs and consumer financial protection bureau, another judge extended an order blocking doge from accessing treasury department systems, doge requiring $1.9 million of hud money displaced did comby den administration. they posted old video of joe biden and barack obama saying the u.s. needs to cut government waste. watch this. >> the american people are entitled to transparency. >> we can't sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer dollars on programs that have outlived usefulness or exist solely because of the power of politician, lobbyists or interest groups. it should be easy to get rid of pointless waste and stupid spending that doesn't benefit anybody. >> we hope to instill an entire

new culture that our administration and every succeeding administration will in fact pursue. cheryl: joining me is new jersey congressman, member of the house doge conference, jeff van drew. your reaction. it's all good and nice to talk about waste in government and ways that the u.s. government can be more fiscally responsible but a lot of times when it comes to making those cuts it's. hait stopsbecause many decide if you want to cut it in your state but don't cut a program in my state. >> here is the deal. we're not even talking about good programs that help americans. i've even said we need to juice a scalpel, not a sledgehammer. this is nonsense. our past presidents, the words were meaningless, i mean, words without actions don't accomplish anything so when you look where money was spent, i mean, do we really need gender sensitivity training for journalists in sri lanka? do we really need to send people

from ukraine fashion experts from dw ukraine to paris for fashion shows. do we need to send money to serbia for gender sensitivity in the workplace. do we need to send condoms to the taliban? these are factual things. i think you can take care of people in their states, you can take care and make sure medicare and medicaid and social security and our veterans and our military and the list goes on can be adequately funded and taken care of. don't waste all of this money on all this nonsense and it's worse than nonsense. i don't want to say the words on national television around the world. that's the bottom line. we're taking away from good americans who are breaking their back, working one and two jobs, sometimes more every week that are working hard just to spend money on -- i don't even know what to call i it's more than waste. it's just counterintuitive. you couldn't believe it. you know, the last thing i want

to say here is i wish everybody could sit with me in the doge caucus, sit with me even in my judiciary committee and hear and see how we've spent money and what our focus has been. it's unbelievable. even if you are a democrat, you should be nauseated by this. cheryl: look, but democrats aren't doing that. they're trying to come up with whatever they can to complain and yell. you know, senator tim kaine was on a program yesterday, complaining about cuts to a va facility in his state but i'm glad you brought up medicare and medicaid because truly for meaningful cuts to happen i know that the 2 trillion is the doge caucus' goal and that's elon musk's must goal and that's great because we have $36 trillion in debt. isn't it true that it's going to have to be medicare, medicaid, aren't those the programs that are really going to need be addressed for true cuts to happen? >> so these are all true cuts that are going on.

there's more cuts that can be made. let me be clear. this is like -- you could say a cruise ship or an aircraft carrier. this engine, this deficit, debt engine that's been going on for years, we're not going to turn it around on a dime. i've personally spoken to president trump numerous times about this. he doesn't want to hurt hospitals or good people. remember, medicaid, yeah, there are some people on medicaid that just don't want to work and are able-bodied and that we have to clean up and that we have to clear up. but medicaid is also for hard working people, really who have jobs -- i can name people that are working six days a week, some of them seven days a week in jobs that just don't pay a lot of money and their health insurance comes through that. i will not support taking people off of their health insurance, that's a mistake, fill solveicly and it's a mistake for the republican party. we can save the money, we can do

the right thing, get rid of the waste but don't hurt american nem the --people in the process. it doesn't have to be one or the other. we can do both. cheryl: one of my favorite lines from elon musk was did you know there's 150-year-old people getting social security checks. there's somebody out there that's 150 years old, fascinating. the waste and the fraud i think is the biggest issue here. but let's talk about immigration right now because these arrests from immigration and customs enforcement officials has been skyrocketing so far this year. doesn't of homeland security data shows that over one week arrests were up 137%, arrests of suspected gang members, 105%, arrest of aliens with criminal history, up 100%. tom homan told maria yesterday that things are underway and he's going to keep going. watch this. maria: the arrests are up and yet you still get pushback from sanctuary cities. how significant is the pushback

and is it stopping you from doing your job? >> well, it's absolutely not going to stop us. it's go -- it makes the job more difficult. it mate the job more dangerous. we're more than twice the numbers joe biden had a year ago to today, the vast majority are public safety threats. am i happy? no, i want more. last count we had over 600,000 illegal aliens with criminal convictions walking the streets of the country. cheryl: congressman, your reaction? >> i don't know why there's a debate about this. again, i can't understand, you know, my colleagues across the aisle even having a conversation about this. let's just talk about those illegals that were either on the terror watch list or members of criminal gangs have been convicted or charged with crimes in their country of origin or in the united states of america. and essentially they won't admit it but the bottom line is i'm on

the immigration subcommittee and judiciary, we've gone through this. i wish every american could sit there and see and hear and watch what's been going on. they are arguing to allow criminals and really bad people not only to be free in the united states of america, not only to be illegal in the united states of america, but to be subsidized for their housing, for their clothing, for their travel with debit cards. you've got to be kidding me. this is so wrong. again, american people are working so hard to make a living and we're spending this money on this crap. cheryl: congressman jeff van drew, thank you for joining us on this presidents day, really appreciate it, sir. coming up, the trump administration working to achieve peace in the middle east as steve witkoff tells maria phase two of the deal should begin soon. we've got former pentagon official and former navy captain brett sadler here on president

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cheryl: secretary of state marco rubio in israel over the weekend to meet with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he reiterated hamas must be destroyed while discussing president trump's plans for gaza. maria spoke with middle east envoy steve witkoff on sunday morning futures on the future of the region. >> phase two is more complicated than phase one. but phase two is absolutely going to begin. i've actually had calls this morning, i can tell you, with prime minister netanyahu, with prime minister mohammed from qatar and as well with director hassan from egypt, the director of intelligence and we had very, very productive and constructive calls this morning about the

sequencing of phase two, setting forth positions on both sides so we can understand where -- level set where we are today and then continuing talks this week at a location to be determined so that we can figure out how we get to the end of phase two successfully. cheryl: so on saturday hamas released three more hostages as israel released hundreds of palestinian prisoners as part of the exchange, some of the prisoners reportedly linked to suicide bombings. joining me now is heritage foundation center for national security, former navy cam, bretn brett sadler. this news is coming from the idf that they targeted and killed a hamas leader in lebanon, a high value target according to the idf. i want to goat your reaction to that breaking news and then your response to what we've seen over the weekend as far as the releases but also the negotiations. >> absolutely. first, the attack.

israel and hamas are still fighting a war and the ultimate objective still remains and this is also very much aligned with u.s. interests and that's the eventual destruction or prevention of hamas in being in any type of rogue position of power or influence in the west bank and most importantly in the gaza strip before the pal still palestinians can move forward a better future. as far as negotiations, let's be clear about this. these were never intended to put a permanent end to the fighting but to get those illegally held hostages back home. cheryl: so the question now is is how the negotiations are going to go. it's been made very clear in particular by prime minister netanyahu that the future of gaza there could be no hamas, they cannot be in the region but they also cannot have any ties to the government whatsoever. but hamas is in qatar to

negotiate and this is egypt and this issaquah tar -- is qatar, they're in saudi arabia to negotiate. i'm not sure egypt, lebanon or qatar is going to facilitate hamas being completely removed. that doesn't seem to be in their best interest politically. correct me if i'm wrong. >> i think that's about right. there's a reason why these countries, these other arab countries have not welcomed the palestinians back into their country. there's a sad history of groups like hamas but even palestinian liberation organization not coming as good guests into these he other countries and it's caused a lot of problems so they're not really welcomed. at the same time, i think all the parties in the region want to see a better future for the palestinian people and now increasingly an acknowledgement of israel's right to exist, most notably by saudi arabia as we look to things transpiring hopefully in the near future, the abraham accords but these negotiations while it may seem

odd that two parties are still fighting each other in a war that they can also have negotiations an it's important point out thatin and russia have -- that ukraine and russia have been exchanging prisonerses throughout the war in february of 2022. it's not unusual but it seems ironic. cheryl: before we move on to the topic of iran, i want to get that in with you, but you've got secretary of state rubio, national security advisor, michael walz and special envoy steve witkoff who was on with maria yesterday on her program, these three, what do you think the best case outcome is for these three because they're heavily involved in these talks? >> well, no, there's pressure being applied by all of them i think to a singular goal. assure that no return of hamas or iran backed proxy in gaza as we move forward to a better developmental future and prosperity option for the palestinians, preferably in the long-term back in gaza and this is from statements from the president and of course the

three actors that you mentioned that are applying pressure through diplomatic, back channels at the highest channels representing the white house and of course also very important is the military threat. there's an aircraft carrier strike group in the eastern mediterranean. there's also a lot of other forces that could be brought to bear so when president trump threatened that the hostage release program needs to get back on track before noontime saturday deadline, indict have -- it didhave an impact. cheryl: donald trump's remarks did have an impact on what we saw over the weekend. hamas honored their side of the agreement. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is vowing to counter iran's aggression. he said this during his meeting with u.s. secretary of state rubio yesterday. watch this. >> i want to tell you that it's very lined clear here and everywhere else, today secretary rubio and i had a very

productive discussion with our staffs on a number of issues. none of them are more important than iran. israel and america stand shoulder to shoulder encountering the threat of iran, we agree the ayatollahs must not have nuclear weapons. we agree that iran's aggression in the region has to be rolled back. over the last 16 months israel has dealt a mighty blow to iran's terror access. under the strong leadership of president trump and with your unflinching support, i have no doubt that we can and will finish the job. cheryl: brett, your thoughts? >> the time now is to press the attack on rolling back iran's nefarious influence across the middle east. they've been the dark hand behind all of the violence that we've seen, the insurrections, the disstabilizing activities across the region and they also were providing the weapons that were being used to shoot at our aircraft and ships in the red sea impacting global trade. so there is no lasting solution

to the middle east or for peace in the middle east without dealing with the current regime's nefarious and terroristic influences across the region so press the assault, time to apply pressure because iran is on their back foot because they over-reached in october 7th attacks. cheryl: that is something that the trump administration has already discussed is the issue of iran and i guess we'll get there soon. brett sadler, thank you for being here. really appreciate it. >> thank you. cheryl: we've got a lot more coming up this morning. liberal donors are pulling back their money as president trump shakes things up in washington. got those details coming up. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪

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cheryl: well, at least nine people are dead in kentucky this morning after heavy rains caused dangerous flooding throughout the south. gerri willis has those details. >> that's right. at least nine people are dead including a mother and her child after severe flash flooding in kentucky. cars were seen submerged and entire roads wiped out. thousands of residents in kentucky and tennessee remain stranded as rescuers raced to reach them. in atlanta, one person is dead

from a falling tree branch during storm winds. severe weather knocked out power to tens of thousands of folks on top of all this, a polar vortex now pushing in bringing dangerously low temperatures to the midwest. officials warning travelers to stay off the roads as snow and ice create treacherous conditions from colorado to michigan. and a feel good story here. president trump receiving a hero's welcome at the daytona 500 yesterday. air force one flying low over the speedway as fans cheered and drivers watched from the pit road. trump took a lap around the track in the beast, that's his big suv. he even spoke with drivers over their head sets at one point. watch. >> this is your favorite president. i'm a big fan. i am a really big fan of you people, how do this, i don't know. but i just want you to be safe. you're talented people and you're great people and great americans. have a good day. have a lot of fun and i'll see

you later. >> unbelievable. william byron went on to win his second strait daytona 500 race. and this. luigi mangione is speaking out for the first time since his arrest for killing united healthcare ceo brian thompson, his statement published on a website launched by this legal team. he thanks this supporters from around the globe, saying this support transcended political, racial and even class divisions. the 26-year-old is facing multiple criminal charges in new york, pennsylvania, and federal court in connection to the murder. and finally, democrats seemingly in free fall and their finances are reflecting that. liberal donors are reportedly holding back their money and according to some democrats are turning their support to president trump instead. they blame a lack of vision and potential retaliation against trump. this coming as republicans are said to be running circles around democrats online and on

social media. department of government efficiency's x account has more than 4 million followers after it launched earlier this year, compare that to the dnc's rapid response account which barely has 121,000 followers and it's not just doge. president trump and his allies are dominating podcasts, social media, alternative media outlets while democrats are still struggling to connect with voters and i just have to say this about that. here at fox business we always follow the money, that's what we do. right? and i think people who run companies and make big donations they require success. so when kamala harris spent 1.5 billion in 15 weeks trying to get the presidency and it didn't work, they say these a failure and they don't -- cheryl: they're not helping their cause now, gerri. whathakim jeffries was on a suny show and every question about his party, where they were going, it was a nonanswer, it was a word salad. get out of the word salad,

democrats and maybe you'll figure it out. >> what is their platform? if you can't say clearly off the top of your tongue you know it's nothing spectacular. look, they were lying to their donors the entire time for the campaign. kamala's internal polling, she never led. they never let anybody know about that. they let media do propaganda. i don't know that donald trump has completely broken the democrat party but i think he has for now. >> i think democrats lost the throwed what matters to regular americans and it's something we saw challenging them through the campaign and it's challenging them now in their scattered response to what they're saying from president trump. we saw polls over the weekend where president trump is leading on the economy, leading on taxes and solving these problems for the american people but the american people have questions about his stones on social stanl issues, around the environment

and there's a huge opportunity for democrats there but they're not taking it so trump continues to win and dominate the narrative by saying i'm better for the environment, i'm better on trade, better on social issues you care about and if democrats can't put forward a platform how will they be able to -- cheryl: how much did kamala harris blow through with her campaign. >> 1.5 million, 15 weeks. that was not successful. what's drag interesting to me is they're saying democrats aren't on the right platforms. they're not on tiktok. they're on msnbc. the reality is, it's the message these selling. cheryl: we'll see you in the next hour. let's get a look at the forecast across america. fox weather meteorologist marissa torres joins us now. the weekend weather has been horrible. we've got more coming. >> a wild, deadly weekend coming out of the tennessee valley, getting lambr hammered h well over a forecast rain. it's not rain for the areas just

targeted. this is the next winter storm. we've been watching the storm for the past week or so, trending further south. this is a story for the central plains pushing into the mid sis medicine at this valley, -- mid-mississippi valley and the mid-atlantic. one of the reasons we're going to have snow is because of the arctic air. another situation of polar vortex, deep arctic air settling all the way south. you have areas in the northern plains this morning through the dakotas that are waking up with wind chills around 40, 45 below zero, talking about wind chills that could hit 60 below by the time we get to the middle part of the week. we see that cold air, this bitterly cold, potentially record breaking cold head to the south by tomorrow and into thursday. friday, you could have areas near the gulf coast that are also dealing with subzero wind chills so i'm really worried about the cold, cheryl but also tracking this next storm. cheryl: people need to take precautions, otherwise lives could be lost unfortunately. marissa, thank you so much.

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