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>> steve: good morning, everybody, 7:00 in new york city, where it currently is 20 degrees. >> ainsley: we got snow yesterday. it was really pretty. >> steve: now really cold. going to warm things up we have a fox news alert. all new right now this hour. meta is announcing major changes to its censorship policy. the company's chief global affairs officer is here in the studio. is he going to join us in a moment on meta's renewed focus on free speech. >> brian: very close to coming to the couch according to reports. >> a flurry of new actions as president biden is on the way out. now is he transferring 11 detainees suspected of having ties on al-qaeda out of get mow to start a new life. >> ainsley: so they can go and get married. play soccer. and serving her country infantry in the military and as miss america. two roles, one lady, air force

second lt. madison marsh reflects on the pat year doing double duty. >> lawrence: i can't wait for that the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now and, remember, mornings are better with friends. ♪ all right. buckle up. we have a fox news alert. moments ago meta the parent company of facebook and instagram announcing they are changing their policies to focus on free speech. ceo mark zuckerberg saying this. >> we're going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms. more specifically, we're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar to x. starting in the u.s. >> ainsley: wow, this is a big deal. changes include ending third party fact-checking program and lifting restrictions on topics such as immigration and gender identity. >> brian: is there anything more important to talk about. met can a used automated systems to scan for violations but found

they resulted in too much censorship. so, from now on, they are focus on tackling illegal and severe violations like terrorism. fraud, to name a few. >> steve: and joining us right now to name one "fox & friends" exclusive met taps chief global affairs officer joel kaplan joins us live around the couch. welcome. >> great to be on the couch with "fox & friends." >> ainsley: great to have you here. >> steve: you are announcing these big changes as of two minutes ago. if you are making big changes, does that mean you were doing something wrong before? >> look, this is a great opportunity for us to reset the balance in favor of free expression as mark says in that video what we are doing today is getting back to our roots and free expression, there is a number of changes we are making. but if i could just highlight three, first is as we heard, we are eliminating the third party fact-checking system. well-intentioned at the outset. just too much political bias in what they choose to fact-check

and how we are scrapping it entirely. >> brian: who. >> fact-checkers. independent fact-checkers too biased. what we will do is adopt a system like x has of community notes. just rely on our own community of users to provide people more information about what they are seeing and we think that's going to work. >> ainsley: give us an example if the headline is donald trump won the presidency, then anyone in the community can write notes underneath it? >> yeah. great question. somebody can write a note and then the way it works is different people on the platform can sort of vote on that note and if you get people who usually disagree, who all say yeah, that sounds right, then that note gets put on the post and people see it. x has been doing it for a while. we think it's working really well and we are going to adopt that system. >> brian: what are the other ones? >> thank you. the second one is about the rules that govern content on our platform they have just become too restrictive overtime about

what can say including sensitive topics you mention. people want to discuss and debate. immigration, trans issues, gender. we want to make it so that bottom line if you can say it on tv you can say it on the floor of congress. you certainly ought to be able to say it on facebook or instagram without fear of rules. we are going to change how we enforce the rules. we are going to make it so that there is way less over enforcement and way fewer mistakes that actually make the vast majority of censorship that people experience on platforms big changes in service getting back of preexpression. >> the beg question where are the changes coming from. i mean, it's hard not to notice there has been a change in mark zuckerberg, have you seen him as, you know, respectfully the nerdy kid, change over to the jujitsu. put on lean muscles, his viewpoints have changed.

his when he does speak, meeting with trump, taking a different stance on certain things. are these changes coming from him or from what the public is saying? in question things happening at meta are coming from mark. also no question that there has been a change over the last few years. we saw a lot of societal and political pressure real opportunities now. a new administration and a new president coming in who are big defenders of free expression. that makes a difference. one of the things we have experienced is that whether you have a u.s. president administration that is pushing for censorship it makes it open season for other governments around the world that don't even have the protections of the first amendment to really put pressure on u.s. companies. we are going to work with president trump push back on that kind of thing around the world. >> joel, why now? i know you said a change. did you feel restricted last

four years first time in your business interest to express this quest for freedom? >> well, there is no question that there is an opportunity here with a new president taking office as i said who really believes in free expression and that's just going to give us the space to get back to those values, that mark has talked about -- mark gave a big speech six years ago at georgetown about free expression, about these values. unfortunately there has been a lot of political and societal pressure here and around the world that have pushed away from those values. we got a real opportunity to re-set. get back to them and provide a space for free expression. >> ainsley: how were they putting pressure? were they calling when they didn't like a post? what did they say? take it down? >> yeah. so mark talked about this in a letter he sent to the house judiciary committee a few months ago that sort of outlined the way in which we got a lot of pressure around covid, in particular, to take down more content. even things like humor and satire about the pandemic and about vaccines.

so, you know, we did experience that kind of pressure. the decisions we made ultimately were our own. but there is a real opportunity here, with president trump coming into office, with his commitment to free expression for us to get back to those values. and really provide space for people to have the kind of discourse and debate they want to have. >> brian: would you do what x did and that sun leash independent journalists like matt taibbi and bari weiss and michael shellenberg forensically go through repressing shielding and sadow banning, would that be a cleansing process? house judiciary committee and congressman jordan the last few years and he put out a really thorough report on the experience that we and other companies have had. honestly, we are pretty focused on the future and the opportunity we have right now with the changes we are making today. to really open up the space for debate and expression. >> lawrence: is the idea to get out of politics totally?

and focus on just the enterprise of the free market, people debating things or is it for mark zuckerberg to become like an elon musk and be influential as work with the next administration on or about a little bit of both? i don't know. >> mark is always going to be mark zuckerberg. there is a real opportunity to work with the new administration both on free expression and american leadership. president trump is really focused on making sure we maintain leadership on tech knowling nothing, ai are super important to our industry and we look forward working with the administration to advance those goals. >> steve: when you talk about content moderation at love people watching right now says it sounds better if they are not taking instructions from the federal government. the joe biden administration saying this is wrong people like the idea they are going to have

a say where can you add the community notes going forward. but, ultimately. is this one of the things you are doing as a company to make sure meta and the other social media companies are not regulated by washington. that's the last thing you guys want washington first amendment. right thing for individual users to have the ability to decide themselves what to say. there is bad stuff that people do online like they do in the real world and we want to make sure we don't have that so we are still going to be enforcing against terrorism and drug sales and child sexual exploitation. things everybody agrees has no business being on our platform. >> ainsley: what about bullying all those young girls. remember mark was on the hill and he was -- he was kind enough to turn around and apologize to the families but all those families have lost their kids from bullying. i have a 9-year-old. so i'm starting to get concerned because eventually when she is

in high school or even after she will be face you had with these situations. what do you say to those families? >> i'm a parent of two teenagers. >> ainsley: gosh, you are in it. >> these are issues that i take really seriously and that a lot of my colleagues who are also parents of meta and those who aren't parents take really seriously. we got to make sure teens are protected online. we launched a few months ago a product called teen accounts. that really puts parents in the driver's seat makes it so they can see what their kids can see and do online contact them. built in default settings and then if you are under 16 you can't change theory settings on instagram innovation something we are hopeful -- >> ainsley: how do the parents find that setting on the phone before they give it to their child? >> so we will send notifications basically to the parents to let them know that this opportunity

exists. and the kid can't sign up for facebook or excuse me for instagram bought being put into a teen account and then their parent gets a notice and says hey, your kid is trying to sign up if you want to change any of the setting can you do it here. >> brian: you have to reestablish trust. people remember the zucker bucks key areas in 2020 that were deciding what state -- what candidate was going to win what state. and one of the reasons you were trial to do that making this announce 789 here. other thing is making your board their agenda doesn't matter maybe the 2020 agenda. what have you done? >> we made a big announcement yesterday, put three new great border members on including dana white, the president and ceo of ufc marketing genius, will super

excited to have him other border members deep business experience we have have put on the boar mark has been great getting different perspectives making sure we cold front waterfront of ideas and perspectives that we want to make sure are getting fed into the process. >> lawrence: can you tell the audience and the world it not a temporary stance? what i mean by that is this just because you have got donald trump in there for four years? are you guys going to continue this after his presidency or is this just a temporary thing for the moment? >> this is an opportunity for us to get back to the values that mark founded the company on this. runs deep for mark. it's a great opportunity to rebalance and to get back to free expression. >> steve: when you say rebalance. you know, historically, the big tech companies and social media companies have leaned to the left. you know that. is this dragging it closer to

the center? i mean with dana white, obviously, a trump ally as part of the board? is the company becoming more central, rather than leaning to one side or the other? >> i think the way to look at it is we are a platform for all people and all ideas. >> steve: some people don't feel that certain and haven't felt historically that certain social media companies were hospitable to their points of view. >> no question. that's what i meant by rebalance. we want to make sure that they understand that their views are welcome and that we are providing a space for them to cot come on to our platforms. expression themselves or engage in the important i of the day or not important issues of the day but what they want to talk about and share. we want to make sure they feel welcomed and rebuild trust that's part of what we are doing today. >> brian: something else in the front of the supreme court future of tiktok. american control. you decided to make this

announcement. how does it relate to what tiktok could possibly do? >> so, look. we like competition. we think it makes us better. i know there are concerns that congress has expressed and that the president and congress and the courts are working through with tiktok. we're going to stay focused on what we're doing and how we make our platform as open and welcoming a place as possible for all points of view. >> brian: do you think it should be banned? >> that's something i'm going to leave to the president and courts and congress. we are focused, again, focused on what we can do to make our platforms the best they can be. >> brian: if elon musk didn't buy x and expose what he exposed and put community notes, what did he in buying this and doing what he did, introspection that facebook is showing right now. >> elon has played incredibly important role in moving the debate and getting people focused on free expression. that's been really constructive and productive. and weaver just glad that we have got the opportunity now to make these kind of changes.

and to get back to our roots and free expression. >> ainsley: maybe all social media companies can learn a lot about this. you all were the original. mark was one of the originals, at least, and so you all have had to see all the changes and what works and what doesn't work and what americans really want. so thank you for your honesty. thank you for doing. this and all these customers. >> brian: australia has banned social media up until you are 16 years old. how do you feel about that? >> we think the right way to do it is to trust parents. that's what we're doing with the teen accounts that i mentioned. and, obviously, we have got to work with governments and follow the laws that they pass. but i think there is a better way and that's to put parents in charge. they know what is best for their teens and their kids. and that's what we're trying to do. ainsley: what is your biggest customer? what age group? >> that's a good question. we have got 3.2 billion people using our services. so we really have people across all ages. and we want to make sure we are serving them all and letting

them express themselves. a way especially with teens where they are still kept safe. >> brian: talk to david sacks about this coming in as the ai czar? >> we have talked to david. we're really excited about that -- about that post. we think he is going to do great things. he really understands the industry. he really understands crypto and ai and we can't wait to start working with him. >> steve: well, joel, thank you very much for stopping by the couch and making a big announcement today. good luck. >> absolutely. thank you all for having me. >> brian: a fair and balanced social media world. thank you so much. >> ainsley: nice to meet you. >> you too. staph. >> steve: carley you have news on the other side. >> carley: particular a away. in just hours, the illegal immigrant accused of setting a sleeping woman on fire in a new york city subway then watching her burn to death is due in court to be formally charged with murder and arson. prosecutors say security cameras captured the gwatney mall len migrant fanning the flames. he was removed from the u.s. in

2018 before illegally reentering the country and making his way to new york city. if convicted, he faces life in prison without the possibility of parole. mcdonald's is the latest major company to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion policies. the country's largest fast food chain no longer set specific rules diversity in senior positions. it will end representation goals and pause external dei surveys. the golden arches will stop a program that encourages suppliers to come up with their own diversity training. mcdonald's joins a long and growing list of companies putting an end to dei practices. and president-elect trump is doubling down on his goal to buy greenland, saying in part, quote: i'm hearing that the people of greenland are maga. greenland is an incredible place and people benefit tremendously if and when it becomes part of our nation make greenland great again. and today his son, donald trump jr., will actually be heading there to the country of greenland but a source tells fox

news digital he will not be meeting with any government official or political figure. and those are your headlines, guys, back over to you. >> brian: i notice some of the quotes from greenland resident said buy us. we are tired of denmark taking all our minerals. all right. so let's do it, guys. >> steve: it's the greenland new deal. >> ainsley: shortest distance from north america to europe so strategically it would be wonderful. >> brian: that's why the vikings used it so long. not the minnesota vikings but the real vikings how cold it was. just one strike. more on that later. to a fox news alert. president biden in an 11th hour move announcing at least 11 gitmo detainees capturing the aftermath of 9/11 terror attacks without being transferred out of the u.s. to oman. >> lawrence: senior white house correspondent peter doocy joins us with the details. hey, peter. >> peter: if president biden is trying to deliver on public promise to close the prisoner at guantanamo bay, we're not sure why this transfer was made in

secret 11 yemenese detainees sent to oman rehabilitated at least according to the dod now telling news a statement the united states appreciates the willingness of the government of oman and other partners to support ongoing u.s. efforts focused on responsibly reducing the detainee population and ultimately closing the guantanamo bay facility. of the two, bin laden body guards that were just let go. ahmed al alli still had extremist mindset 2016 according to declassified files. the other one al-sha'by may have been linked to hijacking plot in asia. 11 guys spent 20 years in prison without ever being charged a lawyer for two of them is quoted by the "new york times" as saying they want to live their lives. they want to get married. they want to have kids. they want to get a job and have normal lives. at one point there were about 800 prisoners in gitmo. now it's down to 15.

and recent estimates put the cost at about $13 million per prisoner per year. so even if joe biden fails in his promise to close gitmo for good. emptying it out like this puts a lot of pressure on successors to close it if for no other reason becoming too expensive. breaking news about one of the remaining 15 prisoners, his name is raheem al afghany, according to a "wall street journal" item crossing right now. biden administration has had negotiations in doha, qatar negotiating with the taliban about a possible trade for mr. al afghani for three americans that the biden administration believes are held by the taliban right now. back to you. >> brian: wow, so we might exchange gitmo guys for two of our guys in afghanistan? >> peter: this was a senior al qaeda leader who has been held for years. so this is a big gut check for president biden. how badly does he really want to get the population of gitmo

down? is it worth trading -- releasing a senior al-qaeda leaderboard? >> brian: we know those two leaders that obama went went back to leading the taliban. >> lawrence: battlefield. these guys would do the same thing. thanks, peter. >> ainsley: thank you, peter. >> lawrence: doesn't make any sense at all. it's unbelievable. >> brian: burning the house counsel on down on the way out. >> steve: he has said we never leave people over there maybe that's part of his calculus why is he joining it now. if you joined us at the top of the hour, joel kaplan one of meta's big bosses now came on the program to reveal at 7:00 this morning, mark zuckerberg dropped a 6 or 7 minute videoed talked about the changes meta is making to policies. replace the third party fact-checking program. they have been doing that since 2016. lift restrindses on certain topics. the automated systems will focus on illegal and highly severe

violations. just the big stuff. and the last point removing reduction of political content; in other words, what they're trying to do is try to open it up to more free speech. >> ainsley: yeah. mark zuckerberg has been meeting with donald trump. he said a while back that they were feeling pressure from the biden administration and then they realized they were making a lot of mistakes and they were listening to the administration and not what the people wanted. and they also experienced a lot during covid. with people complaining about what was being posted. what was being taken down just because facebook or meta didn't agree with it. he said we were making too many mistakes. we were frustrating users and ended up being too much content being fact checked. >> niall ferguson from hoover came on here right after donald trump won. and he said silicon valley feels embarrassed that donald trump's campaign used facebook and social media in order to win that election. and they are being blamed. and they are going to get back at them. and by 2020. a lot of people think the zucker

bucks poured into battleground areas key areas turned the election. that caused a lot of distrust and see the oppressive way in which the biden people cracked down on the -- anybody who said something bad about vaccines or anybody anything to do with the coronavirus or where it emanated from which of course is china. now this looks like a major course correction. steve. >> lawrence: there is a moment in the culture. i'm not going to criticize him too much for tardiyness to respond to the culture. i think they deserve a shot. they have already made some changes with the board. i think that's a great step. they gave "fox & friends" and fox news talking about the changes there the question for me is the implementation. is this going to be a temporary thing or will this be a long-lasting thing after the trump administration? he said no have to judge them. >> hongt from jim jordan, bari

weiss. we knew that the hunter biden story was suppressed. we kept reporting that. no one else would. including social media. so, i think these next four years are so important. i like the fact that they are being called out and now they are making changes. >> brian: mark zuckerberg went to joe rogan and said he got a call from the fbi look out for russian disinformation because they knew rudy giuliani had it and was about to expose it. >> steve: and joel addressed directly how content moderation is going to change. clearly, meta is doing this all because it is 13 days until donald trump becomes the president of the united states. meta does not want donald trump coming after them either online or be, you know, with the power of the federal government to make changes because the last thing these social media companies want is regulation. >> jonathan turley on met taps new censorship policy, next. ♪

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wind chills right now mount washington at negative 47. in lawrence kansas, negative 26, fatality city, nebraska negative 19. yes, the cold air is in place setting the stage for the next storm system. also watching high wind alerts, santa ana winds are back. this is going to be a major situation, a very dangerous one, with 90 to 100 mile-per-hour winds going through the valleys and canyons and if there is fire, that is going to spread rapidly and cause at love issues. not only today but wednesday and thursday. but today is the worst of the winds, this is going to be a dire situation. so just make sure you are listening to your local officials in southern california. ainsley, over to you. >> ainsley: okay, thank you, janice. >> janice: yes. >> ainsley: met tax the parent company of facebook and instagram announcing a commitment to free speech online and a shift away from censoring all of us that's why it's been

so difficult the last four years auto when even the u.s. government has censorship going after us and other companies had has emboldened other governments to go even further. now bee have the opportunity to restore free expression and i'm excited to take it. >> ainsley: the company admitting they were pressured into it over the last four years by the biden administration. jonathan turley joins us now. hey, jonathan, thanks for joining us. >> hi, ainsley. >> ainsley: what is your reaction to this and why they are doing this now? >> that's the most interesting aspect of this story. i just wrote a book indispensable right that talks about facebook, meta and the social media companies we all love a redemptive sinner it would be great before it was caught it. does not support the argue. by zuckerberg that they were unwilling partners forced into this by the biden

administration. they resisted calls for many of us for years to join elon musk, reveal, for example, the facebook files, which they resisted they fought at every stage not to be transparent and that filially collapsed now that criticism aside, this is an important moment, musk has been out there taking these slings and arrows throughout this process as the only social media company that went in all -- went full in on free speech. zuckerberg will be a powerful ally. would be a wonderful change. you know, facebook funded a really creepy campaign years ago content moderation, some of us call censorship. it failed in a spectacular fashion it would be great if zuckerberg could join musk and create this powerful alliance for free speech.

>> joel call plan, he is meta's chief global affairs officer. he was on with us. this is what he said i will play a clip and then get your reaction on the other side. >> there's no question that there is an opportunity here for w. a new president taking office, as i said who really believes in free expression. that's going to give us the space to get back to those values that marked has talked about -- mark gave a big speech six years ago at georgetown about free expression about these values. unfortunately there has been a lot of political and societal pressure here and around the world that have pushed away from those values. we got a real opportunity to reset, get back to them. there is a real opportunity here with president trump coming into office with his commitment to free expression for us to get back to those values and really provide space to have the kind of discourse and debate they want to have. >> >> ainsley: will it work, jonathan? >> great interview on fox. it sent a chill up my spine made me wonder what if trump wasn't

elected. >> ainsley: exactly. >> wonder if this was the harris administration? i wrote a column earlier the biden administration was the most anti-free speech administration since john adams. but kamala harris promised to outdo that and you really wonder hearing that interview what they would have done if, in fact, the elections came out differently. the public spoke very loudly and so that's the reason i'm hoping regardless of the motivation, regardless of the fact that it is bee lated we need help. this is the largest anti-free speech movement in the history of our country. i talk about that in the book it's sweeping over europe. free speech is collapsing in europe. this is going to be the line of defense to free speech. we are it. >> ainsley: we are. >> we stop it here or it doesn't get stopped. >> ainsley: look at what is happening in canada in the liberal ideals are not working. >> that's right. >> ainsley: trudeau stepping down and conservatives winning by a landslide. thank you so much, jonathan for

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♪ >> steve: today marks the next step in jimmy carter multi-day state funeral. the services will move from carter's home state of georgia to washington. the 39th president's remains will be moved from the carter center in atlanta, where he had spent the last few days all the way to the u.s. capitol building where carter will lie in state if the capitol rotunda. public visitation will begin tonight at 7:00 eastern time wanted and end thursday ahead of

a service at washington's national cathedral. after that, carter's remains are scheduled to go back to his hometown of plains, georgia for a private burial service. president biden is expected to be in attendance honoring the man who became our longest living president before passing away just over a w week ago at e age of 100. that was jimmy carter. all right. brian, over to you. >> brian: 19 minutes now before the top of the hour. president biden is using final days in office to increase regulation and push his climate agenda announcing a permanent stop to new oil and gas drilling across more than 600, look at the green there 625 million acres of u.s. coastal waters and today, he is expected to sign an order designating two new national monuments in california that would ban drilling and mining areas. yeah, mining. the air rare earth need for green agenda the host of varney and company stuart varney joins

us now. >> stuart: good morning, brian. >> brian: your thoughts, about his maneuvers. >> stuart: biden the sproirl in chief. using last few days to stymie and block what is trump's agenda. so far it is working. is he doing. this remember. he is the same introduced very quietly a ban on natural gas water heaters. he has introduced the idea that federal employees could continue to work from home until 2002 # but wait a second, brian. there is more to come. k.j.p. yesterday said that two weeks left for biden will be jam-packed, jam-packed with what? more rules to stymie trump? and for sure is he going to get as much green spending out the door as he possibly can and that's just go to stymie up the works as we go along. he wants to spend hundreds of billions of dollars and get it spent in the next couple of weeks. he is leaving office as angry

older guy determined to mess up his successor. >> brian: here is what trump said on truth social. biden is doing everything as possible to make the transition as difficult as possible from lawfare such as never seen before to costly ridiculous executive orders on the new green scam and other hoaxes. these orders will be terminated shortly and become a nation of common sense and strength in maga. got do it legislatively doesn't it executive order reversing biden's ban on oil and gas drilling that will be challenged in the courts and probably take some time to work its way through the courts. tha better solution would be to get a legislative unblocking on this ban of oil and gas drilling that might be difficult with a very tiny majority of the republicans in the house. i can't imagine any republican voting against free oil and gas drilling so we'll have to have absolute discipline to get a

lengths lask fix on this ban on oil and gas drilling. i hope they do it. >> brian: right, the thing is, too. it's against what the american people want. >> stuart: sure. we voted for drill, baby drill. >> brian: it's a tantrum. >> stuart: we voted for drill, baby, drill. and you are right it's a tantrum. you saw how he got the other day question about his age. angry. he met more world leaders, et cetera, et cetera. the man is angry. rotten way to leave office. >> brian: japan needs natural gas we had it. we told him not to get it from russia. who is going to sell it then? natural gas sales to western europe. you want them to get off russian natural gas but we don't want to get it to them at a rate in which we can friends and family rate? >> >> stuart: there is more natural gas under american territory than almost anywhere else in the world we know how to get it. we can export it if we could. if he lets us and trump will let

us. we will supply nat gas to the world. >> brian: stuart varney watch you for two hours today. >> stuart: two hours? >> brian: three hours. >> stuart: three hours please. >> brian: i will do simulcast with you on radio. >> stuart: that makes three hours. >> brian: 9 to noon. i love your shoes. good to see you. new congress on the ground running. bernie moreno plans to get immigration bill to trump's desk on day one. ♪

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♪ >> lawrence: so today the illegal immigrant accused of burning a woman alive on a new york city subway will be back in court for an arraignment. this as republicans in the house plan on passing the laken riley act today with hopes it will pass in the senate by the end of the week. newly sworn in ohio senator bernie moreno wants a border bill on president-elect trump's desk on day one. the senator has been kind enough to join us now. senator, thank you so much. congratulations on your win. do you see border security being something that can be accomplished quite quickly? >> absolutely, lawrence. because it's common sense. the reality is you have got end

illegal immigration in this country. we have to secure our border. we have to make it clear to the world that there is only one way to come to america, which is a legal path. and if you are in this country illegally, you are going to be deported and start doing that with criminals and go all the way down the line because at the end of the day the american people voted on november 5th against this idea of open borders and we have to deliver ton that promise. >> lawrence: senator, i know there has been talk about the one big beautiful bill. will that delay the immigration measures from the trump administration or will that portion be taken care of through executive action? >> you know, i'm not concerned about the process. i'm more concerned about the results. the results has got to be a sealed, secure border. a zero tolerance for illegal immigration and a deportation of anybody who is in this country illegally starting with criminals. so, senator thune and speaker johnson will work out the process. i'm confident in both of them that they can do that working, of course, with entrepreneurship. but, at the end of the day, it's the results that i'm concerned

about. that's what the voters wanted. that's what they -- that's why they voted. overwhelmingly for president trump and gave them the mandate to lead. >> lawrence: if the laken riley act passes in the senate this week as many people expect it, does j joe biden sign it. >> i can't imagine that he doesn't. it's pretty insane to think that you wouldn't deport criminal aliens from this country that have committed egregious crimes. but, look, joe biden has shocked us from the moment he took office. he has endangered this country unlike any president in modern history. he will go down as the worst president in american history by far. it's a shame if he really wanted to help america, he would resign today and let president trump take office that would put this country back on track quicker more than anything else. >> lawrence: senator, we got a fox news alert for you. biden administration is going to release 11 gitmo detainees with suspected al qaeda ties, including two alleged former win

laden goad gawrdz. the "wall street journal" is reporting in this u.s. swap, they are in talk detain americans in afghanistan for at least one gitmo detainee. allegedly that was associated with bin laden. what do you think about is that? >> that's outrageous. the withdrawal in afghanistan was totally botched a complete embarrassment to this country. by the by this ramifications for that nobody was fired. nobody was held accountable. >> joe biden like i said earlier has put this country in danger under like any president before here is my message to the american people. president trump is coming on board january 20th. we will set this country on track. the best years of america are ahead of us thanks to what the voters did on november 5th which is we elect donald j. trump and put republicans in charge of the congress. we will deliver for the american people. >> lawrence: i guess the big

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