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it's thursday. january 16th. and this is "fox & friends." israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu delaying the vote on that cease-fire deal with hamas. we are live in israel with just a few moments on where that deal stands. >> president biden says farewell in his final address, but not without giving this warning. >> i'm equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech industrial complex that can pose real dangers for our country. >> steve: that sounds scary. we will tell you whattens moo. plus confirmation hearings roll on for trump nominees later today after attorney general nominee pat bondi wen went tow e with democrats and they seldom let her speak. >> brian: second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. >> lawrence: buckle up, the fox news alert. middle east on edge after israel's prime minister apparently delays his cabinet

from voting on the potential cease-fire deal between israel and hamas. >> steve: all right. our chief foreign correspondent trey yingst has the latest from the streets of tel aviv. trey, it sounds like the prime minister has said to his government you have got reject hamas' last-minute extortion attempts. it sounds like there was a deal and now hamas wants to change the goal post. >> yeah, guys, good morning. today we received a statement from the israeli prime minister's office saying that hamas was going back on some of the agreements. now, the office provided no additional details and hamas said in a statement of their own that they are committed to implementing the agreement that was reached overnight. the entire region is waiting for the implementation of this cease-fire agreement that is supposed to go into effect on sunday. today a vote was scheduled to take place in the israeli cabinet. to ratify the deal. followed by a 4 #-hour period that would allow for objections in the israeli supreme court. now, diplomatic conversations

are continuing at a very high level urging stability in the deal. a statement released by the prime minister's office overnight said, quote: prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke this evening with u.s. president-elect donald trump and thanked him for his assistance in advancing the release of the hostages and for helping israel bring an end to the suffering of dozens of hostages and their families. inside gaza, palestinian civilians welcomed the agreement after living. >> morgan: than 15 months of war. though overnight israeli airstrikes resumed against gaza killing dozens of palestinianen i can't say. >> last night's atmosphere was filled with joy. everyone was happy. everyone was looking forward to this for nearly a year. thank god he sent us this and the people rejoice. >> you saw the celebrations in gaza and in israel overnight. so many civilians wanting this conflict to end. but there are not only these concerns of disagreements between israel and hamas, but really important things we have to discuss about the current

political environment here in israel. today, the israeli finance minister basically released a statement saying that his coalition would leave the government if this deal went forward. so the israeli prime minister is under a lot of internal pressure to try to keep his government together and get this deal passed. guys? >> brian: so the jrs post comes out and says looks like hamas is changing the deal. and we understand a principallian source london based qatari newspaper netanyahu said i want you to add soldiers to the release of hostages. add their names to those getting out. those are usually the last ones to get out in this situation. i know nothing is usual about this. what are you more likely to believe? >> yeah, absolutely. look, in phase 2 of the agreement is when the male hostages were supposed to be released from gaza. the reality on the ground is that this is not a simple situation. because it is not just about the agreement between israel and hamas.

it's also about the prime minister holding his government together here in israel. and you have ministers like smoltz rich and. basically saying that he this leave the government if this does not result in the release of hostages resuming the war inside gaza. that's not the agreement on the table. the prime minister is speaking with his cabinet and saying, look, we will continue to fight and try to eradicate hamas inside the gaza strip and at the negotiating table israelis signed on ultimately end the war that lines up from what you heard from president biden and president-elect trump overnight. again, when you look at the domestic politics here, it is as they would describe in israel there is a word for mess called baligon. >> >> lawrence: i know in the war you had the opportunity to reach out to hamas and they were lie talking and denied things that were happening. have you had opportunity to hear from them ever since the deal was struck?

>> >> yeah. i spoke with a senior hamas official overnight. and provided me with a copy of the agreement. and we got some more details into what this is going to look like. this official in this document basically outlined what is going to take place in the very first part of phase one in this agreement. and it gives you a sense of just how many palestinian prisoners are going to be released for these hostages. according to the document that fox news received, the first nine hostages are going to be exchanged for 110 palestinian prisoners that currently have life sentences in israelis prisons. these are people in some cases that are convicted of terrorism charges. of murder, and they will be released as part of the deal. that is why this is not a widely popular deal across israel. but the israelis are in a bit of a catch-22. they want to get theirs who tanks out of gaza that have been held for nearly 500 days by hamas since the october 7th massacre. but they understand they are going to pay a very high price in doing so. >> ainsley: just doesn't seem fair, does it.

the nine hostages that will be released. i know there are seven americans that are there. four believed dead. two of the three that are allegedly alive are part of those nine. what about the children? we have had so many conversations with senior officials on and off the record but the relation is in this first phase we know that 33 hostages are set to be released from hamas captivity, exchanged for hundreds of palestinian prisoners. we don't know who among that group is live and who is dead. seven u.s. citizens being held sniz gaza. believed that four of them are dead. reports indicate two will be among the first groups to come out of the gaza strip alive again the details of this agreement aren't clear to the israeli leadership that's been negotiating this. if this does get signed and goes into effect by this weekend, we could sees a early as sunday

some of these live hostages coming out of gaza. israeli media reports among the first group will actually be some of the female observers young 19 and 20-year-old female soldiers dragged into gaza on october 7th and who ho are believed to be alive trey if you get any more breaking news alert us. >> ainsley: is that the countdown for how many days behind you, tray? >> yeah. it is. you can see this lock behind me. 467 days. i'm just going to have my cameraman zoom in here. this is hostage square in tel aviv. sits across the street from israel's version of the pentagon. and people come here, sometimes they demonstrate and sometimes they pray and sometimes they protest. but they have the same message. they look at that clock and say the families here in israel have been waiting for nearly 500 days to be reunited with their loved ones. they also look back to the november 2023 cease-fire deal that was around 50 days into this conflict. understanding that almost 10

times the amount of time the current hostages have been held by hamas often in the tunnels beneath the gaza strip. >> lawrence: trey yingst, thanks so much. so last night president biden addressing america from the oval office for the final time with a grim tone for the future of the country. >> ainsley: senior white house correspondent peter doocy joins us now. hey, peter. >> peter: good morning. this is a president, joe biden, who wants to be able to say i told you so. the audience for his scripted remarks last night was less people watching in prime time and more of gamble that the things he was talking about will come true. >> i want to warn the country of some things that give me grave concern. and this is a dangerous -- that's the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a few y ultra wealthy people. the dangerous consequences, if their abuse of power is left unchecked, today, an oligarchy is taking shape in america of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally

threatens our entire democracy. >> peter: that criticism doesn't really fit with everything else that he said. because the president was also talking about ai and how important he thinks it is for the future of ai to be controlled by americans and not the chinese. so, he wants us to trust tech ceos potentially dangerous ai but he does not want us to trust them with anything else. back to you. >> steve: all right. by the way, we were just talking a little bit about the israeli-hamas deal. and joe biden essentially is taking a victory lamb over it. and we were talking to marc thiessen a little while ago about how for the most part joe biden is taking all the credit. but, people in the white house, in the national security apparatus are actually giving donald trump's team credit for helping move the ball. >> and we kind of had whiplash yesterday because over at the state department, the spokesperson there who was getting into the nitty gritty

details about what exactly changed and what happened for this deal to get done the spokesman at the biden state department says the trump team deserves credit. then we come over to the white house and the president's spokesperson was talking about this state spokesman matt miller like she had no idea who he was and why he would be saying this. literally she said i don't know who this person is. >> ainsley: oh my god. >> peter: i heard trey very astutely pointing out last hour, president biden wants to let the whole world know that what was agreed to yesterday is the same framework that he put out last may. that's great. it's been sitting there since last may. what changed? there are reports like in the "times of israel" that one meeting with steve witkoff and the negotiators in doha accomplished more than the months worth of biden negotiations and, you know. president biden in his brief remarks about this in the afternoon was talking about how he has 50 years of international

relations experience. and he has got all these experienced diplomats. that's great. there was a person, steve witkoff with a real estate background who went in for just a few meetings and then it gets done. >> steve: right. >> peter: it's a little bit different than just the way that it's being described here. but, president biden has got the bully pulpit until monday at noon. so he can kind of say whatever he wants. >> ainsley: steve witkoff has been so instrumental. matt miller his quote he talked about when it comes to the involvement of president-elect's team it has been absolutely critical in getting this deal over the line. >> brian: thanks, peter. soap opera power going behind the scenes. kjp and admiral kirby seem to be sparring. she has a huge problem with him. obviously she is very insecure. any time the war happened ukraine got invaded you see things go crazy in the middle east you need somebody with international experience. that's why he was looked at as an asset.

evidently he couldn't call on own reporters. she would always be there to introduce him. yesterday when this happens. kirby is there in person and she is not. but according to jacqui heinrich. kjp's decision to block kirby from the briefing waited virtual background to get news about the cease-fire did not go over well among the staff who described it as ending on a north coast ego. the administration source told fox it's one thing to block kirby from going to the briefing room. but it's another not to even do the homework to be able to answer the question on the most pressing issue of news that had in months. kirby had the answers but she had to be there. even though she says and knows nothing. >> steve: she didn't know matt miller. what state department guy? >> lawrence: each when i disagree with kirby you can't deny is he effective communicator. he has the goods on what is happening. >> steve: he knows what's going on. >> lawrence: this has been reported throughout the administration. many people thought he should have got the job. he was more competent for the job but they gave it to her. you sees a you say rightly the

insecurity there. >> brian: every time she is going out not knowing. not her message it's as if she doesn't get briefed. she doesn't do the reading. jen psaki did the reading. when she talked i almost thought she was setting policy. it was almost like reversal. joe biden listened to jen psaki. that's where you are heading or that's what you should be saying. with kjp it's not a matter of preferences. >> lawrence: hard to follow. >> brian: you got to help with the story. move the story forward. >> steve: i think the answers are in the big book of answers but she simply doesn't read it. >> ainsley: she relied so much on that. >> steve: as peter was talking about. did he a farewell speech. usually it's one of those things where look at all the stuff we got accomplished. all the money, you are living a better life. good luck with the next guy, essentially. but, one thing that really caught everybody's eye was, you know, for decades, the democrats could count on certain constituencies. and over the last, i don't know, two, three election cycles. they have been able to count on

silicon valley to help them out. well, now, as you know, as we have detailed, elon musk is unofficial part of donald trump's cabinet, mark zuckerberg, tim apple as he was referred to is going to be at the inauguration along with sam altman. silicon valley is lining up now behind or at least cozying up to donald trump. that is driving joe biden, who used to count on them, crazy. he referred to them, not by name. he referred to them as the tech industrial complex from the resolute desk last night. watch. >> farewell address president eisenhower spoke of the dangers of the military industrial complex. he warned us then about and i quote: the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power. i'm equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech industrial complex that can pose real dangers for our country as well. americans are being buried under

avalanche of misinformation and disinformation. social media is giving up on fact-checking. the truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit. we must hold the social platforms accountable. to protect our children. our families. and very democracy from the abuse of power. >> lawrence: i mean, i just think this is a stupid move. big tech who has been in the pockets of the democratic party for years they they set out one election siege because things are going bad with the country. now you want to make them an? they helped you out the last time. what about apologizing to the american people when you said that the laptop was disinformation. you knew your son was an addict. you knew he was posting things. you knew about it. and they covered for you. what about the apology to the american people on that? but they cover for you and you still bash these people?

>> ainsley: i feel like there is so much bitterness i agree with you, steve. but usually a president would talk about his accomplishments, not a warning of their fears. >> steve: watch your back. >> ainsley: exactly. warned of extreme wealth and power and influence. angry at tech individuals for not supporting him anymore. they were doing what they told d them to do. they did what he told them to do. it came out later when mark zuckerberg spoke to congress and said he was telling us to do this and we were following along. >> brian: george soros putting das in to allow criminals to run in city streets tech executives working for nothing and want to come in and stay ahead of china in the purest form in ai and crypto-currency. they want nod part of crypto-currency. they brought david sacks came in and said i will be the czar. a bunch of people to interview on crypto and ai. i know what is going on and saw

the extreme repression and how hands on and how the biden people were picking winners and losers when this came to this business. they said to themselves i got the handcuffs on. it can't happen. there is a fear. if donald trump did everything elon musk wanted him to, that's a worry. sure. but he is already showing you he is not. they there are not going to be electric car subsidy for tesla. i don't know if you know this, sam altman and elon musk are -- they are suing each other. guess who is sitting together at the inaugural and guess who went to mar-a-lago? zuckerberg was going to get in the octagon with elon musk. he was invited to mar-a-lago and has since outly spoken he is hosting a cocktail party at the inaugural. is he not giving in. he is acknowledging their power while saying i'm not -- he is 78 years old. he does not know the latest on crypto and he does not know where we are heading with ai. he does know he can put people in charge that do. we can make sure they are

hopefully, ethically grounded. because, we need to and patriot in doing this. you don't have to make the rich the enemy, the successful bad, make them feel bad that they're not giving. >> ainsley: think about how many people they employ. how many companies do they have? when you think about amazon, think about tesla, all of these big companies and corporations. >> brian: spacex. >> lawrence: it has nothing to do with the viewpoint of these guys. the only reason why biden is upset because they are not on his team anymore. >> ainsley: he is out now. >> lawrence: exactly. they were totally fine with all these people, as you noted, brian, were cutting checks to not just the president, but also the democratic candidates. but suddenly they start re-evaluating things and just having a conversation. there has been no promises made. no promises made. inaugural committee but all the companies and all the people do that. that's just respect of the presidency. they do one donation. and they have conversations with the president-elect and suddenly

now we need to re-evaluate these people. >> steve: well, donald trump is smart. because he realizes those people in big tech represent the future. >> lawrence: yeah. >> steve: donald trump is all in on making the future for the country better. get those guys on his side. they don't all have to get along. but he can hear what they say and he is the decider. >> ainsley: very exciting it. all starts on monday. >> steve: it does. >> ainsley: on the left have come over and shifted because they have seen what donald trump can do for our country versus what joe biden did. >> brian: remember, whitney houston sang about it. the children are our future and a little bit later i will end the show with that song. i will sing that song. >> lawrence: never did i think brian kilmeade. >> ainsley: really? i don't remember that. >> lawrence: the children are our future. >> ainsley: that wasn't whitney she was maybe one of them. >> brian: toba would you may it okay we are getting word. >> ainsley: pardon me i apologize.

brian, you were right. >> brian: i believe in the children. the children are our future. later i will sing that song. >> ainsley: now to another fox news alert. thousands -- serious story. thousands of firefighters are still battling those flames in and around los angeles making significant gains on containing them. >> steve: the problem is over 12,000 buildings and homes have already been destroyed and officials fear it could get worse if those strong winds return next week while the fires are still going on. lanes lanes check in with janice dean for fox weather forecast. good morning, j.d. >> janice: looks like we could see santa ana winds next week. warning people in advance. still got fires burning. palisades fire 23,000 plus acres burning at 21% contained. the eaton fire 45% con feigned. by the way, this is the worst fire in southern california in terms of how many structures have burned and the most costly. here is the setup that we have had. the offshore winds going through those valleys and canyons, speeding things up. heeding things up. and that's why we have had

incredible damage and also hard to contain 60 miles per hour. this week on shore flow. humidity comes up. winds go down. but then as we go through next week, monday through wednesday. can you see that the relative humidity goals down and that means the fire danger goes up. will we see the really strong winds? that's still to be determined. we'll certainly keep you up to date. the potential is there. now, our next storm system out of the rockies, that's going to be bring some pretty bad weather across the south including ice and snow. warm this area of low pressure, does it impact us across the northeast early next week? i will tell you the air will be the coldest so far this season. it is going to be very cold for the inauguration. so there is temperature into the teens on monday afternoon. it will not be the coldest, however. the coldest was back in 1985 at 7 degrees. but the wind chill is going to be pretty significant. so just fyi.

big week next week. dry line. >> brian: that was fdr, right? >> janice: this was ronald reagan. yes, thats a rain. i was talking about cold. >> steve: and, in fact, they canceled the outdoor activities for reagan. >> janice: wow. they brought it inside? >> steve: they did it inside the white house. >> brian: i will not be playing outside. >> steve: actually we will be. >> ainsley: we will be outside. we will have to take hand warmers. >> lawrence: you guys are going to have heaters but i will be out there with the people. >> steve: but the people will be warm. >> lawrence: will they? >> steve: i'm sure they will. they will greet you warmly. >> ainsley: all right. well thank you to all the generosity of all of our viewers and fox news employees for the red cross campaign which raised more than $3 million to date for the california wildfires relief effort. this is in addition to the initial $1 million that fox corporation has donated. >> steve: if you have seen the images and want to donate to the american red cross, go to that

website on your screen. go.fox/red cross or open up your phone, open up your camera and cat scan the qr code as soon as it sees it a little yellow dot will pop up, push that, can you donate some money to help those folks. >> brian: all right. carley you have the other breaking news while we were talking. >> carley: i certainly do. starting with a fox news alert. a deputy in texas was dead after shot in the line of duty on wednesday. vargas a member of the county sheriff's office for 17 years. weighs killed while trying to serve a suspect with outstanding warrant. the suspect shot and killed by police after hours long manhunt ended with him inside a dumpster near the shooting scene. a new york city judge handing down 31 count drug trafficking indictment against three venezuelan migrants including a suspected high ranking member of the violent tren de aragua gang. they are accused of trafficking illegal weapons across the city including ghost guns, police say all three men arrived in the

u.s. in late 2023. and since arrested multiple times. the suspected tda member is being held without bail while the other two are being held on $200,000 bond. the department of transportation is taking action against both southwest and frontier airlines over chronic fight delays. filing a lawsuit against multi pelt delayed flights and disrupting passengers' travel while frontier airlines was fined $650,000 in civil penalties, southwest says they are, quote: disappointed by the suit while frontier has yet to comment on their punishment. and jeff bezos' blue origin space company sending first rocket into orbit early this morning. the rocket taking off from inaugural flight cape canaveral space force station in florida. the company hopes to land reusable first stage booster on a barge in the atlantic on the

first try but appears to have lost that booster but still it took off into space, guys. those are your headlines. >> boldly go. thank you, carley. >> carley: where no man has gone before. >> steve: today, this thursday, is day two of the senate confirmation hearings for pam bondi. it's going to kick off at exactly two hours and two minutes from right now. we have a preview. >> brian: she does not have to be there though. today attorney general nominee -- nominee -- >> steve: that's next.?" ♪ i'm thinking company wide power nap. [ employees snoring ] anything can change the world of work. from hr to payroll, adp designs for the next anything. if you're living with dry amd, you may be at risk for developing geographic atrophy, or ga. ga can be unpredictable—and progress rapidly—leading to irreversible vision loss. now there's something you can do to... ♪ ( slow. it. down.) ♪ ♪ ( get it goin' slower.)♪

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♪ >> ainsley: a fox news review of los angeles fire department's budget revealing millions of dollars in cuts by mayor karen bass might have had a direct impact on their ability to contain the flames. william la jeunesse is live in pacific palisades and joins us now. good morning, william. >> william: good morning, ainsley. you know, we are on sunset boulevard in the middle of the palisades village. this was a major commercial building. obviously it has been destroyed. the two major fires those are largely out but the finger pointing is just beginning, right? somebody is going to get scapegoated in this fire and right now the leading candidates are the governor for water and wildfire management issues. also, you have the mayor for her budget and the fire chief for her priorities. while most agree that nothing would have stopped this fire

there are some longstanding issues that hampered the response. >> many of our rigs that are sitting at our supply and maintenance because we don't have the resources to fix them. >> that's l.a.'s fire chief last year begging. >> morgan: mechanics, while? the palisades fire broke out every available firefighter showed up yet many had no pumper truck, engine or vehicle to use. >> we have million dollars rigs sitting at the yard with no mechanics to fix them. >> many are here the maintenance yard. >> up to one in six l.a. fire trucks are broken down. unavailable because the department has no money to fix them. >> there has been a 55% overall increase for calls for service. >> compared to other major cities, lafd is grossly under staffed. far below recommended levels. >> we are -- have fewer sworn firefighters today than we had in 2010. >> a huge drain on fire resources, the homeless. last year lafd responded to

1,000 fires and 52,000 medical calls. >> if we cut one position. if we close one station. if we close one resource, the residents of los angeles, are going to pay the ultimate sacrifice and someone will die. >> while next year's budget calls for more mechanics and replacement vehicles the department wants another 5 million for ev charging stations and almost 2 million for diversity and inclusion plan. >> we are at that breaking point where firefighters can no longer do more with less. >> so we spoke to multiple firefighters who said basically that aging fleet, no mechanics, not going to be fully operational and that of course was exposed in this fire secondly they told us they had no idea that that major reservoir, right, small lake, that fed the tanks that fed the hydrants was dry or was empty, if you will, and that would have

allowed them to hire more private water tinders in the case that the hydrants were going to be dry. lawrence? >> lawrence: what a mess. no leadership there. thanks, william. fema march through hurricane helene victims in western pennsylvania. state leaders like our next guest say doesens of residents being of fema provided rooms and nowhere to go. north carolina senator ted budd joins us now. senator, i was down there in north carolina with you when this first happened. tell us exactly why fema or the hotels are kicking these residents out. >> lawrence, thanks for your coverage of western north carolina. thanks for being there. the greatest fear of those in western north carolina is being forgottible. like a storm or california happens, again that's tragic. for me western north carolina and individuals, fema needs to communicate.

they were going to kick people out on december 11th right in the middle of a snow storm we said hey, hold up. let's keep these people in for a little longer got it to the 14th just a couple more days. that's not long enough. finally they pushed it into the trump administration and got us until january 25th. and so, we're very glad for that but then people are still getting kicked out. so we got on the phone with fema late at night. we started going through line by line. and we started asking people give us your specifics, give us your fema case number. what's the actual case? we got these people back into their housing, look, if you know somebody, if you are in western north carolina, if you have family or friends there and nobody somebody that's been kicked out unfairly let us know. senator tillis is working on this. fox pat harrigan we are all working on this as a team to get people the resources that they need. this is what fema needs to do. they need to be there for real instances like western north carolina. trump can't get here fast enough. we know his administration is going to make some great changes

and they are going to communicate better. they are going to have a much better operation for fema. because it desperately needs it. >> lawrence: you know, senator, i have been talking with folks though keep saying i know you guys are covering l.a. and wildfires and we can walk and chew gum at the same time. don't forget about us. what are the people on the ground telling you? because we are looking at some of the numbers and the households under fema housing assistance program almost at 5,000 remain in holgts, there is 3,000 people that are eligible for an extension. >> they are. and we want to get people back into their actual home as quickly as possible. some of these people haven't had the inspections they have needed please be in touch with us budd at senate.gov or reach out to senator tillis' office. senator chuck edwards is doing a great job. let us know the specifics of what is going on. it is so varied, if you are in a coastal area can you get up on 200-foot tower and see what needs to be fixed. this is very different. it varies valley by valley.

river by river. some of these places they are not coming back because of the river is in a different place than it was. it was a geo event. it was a thousand year flood. look, when you look at california, lawrence, you know that that is something that could have been prevented with good policy. but you had a governor who was distracted and had bad policy. you had a local mayor who was out of the country multiple times when she promised not to be. this could have been dealt with western north carolina is a thousand year event. it's going to take years. when sean duffy was in the hearing yesterday as secretary of transportation nominee and, again, he is going to do a great job. we asked if he would come to western north carolina. he says he wants that to be his first visit. some of these folks can't get back to their home because there is no bridges, there is no road. we have got to work on that and get that rebuilt as quickly as possible. >> lawrence: senator we won't forget we continue to ask questions because your folks definitely deserve answers and resources as well. senator, thank you so much for joining the program this morning. >> thank you. >> trump's bold plan to boost

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revenue agency to collect income from foreign tariffs. trump explaining on truth social, quote: through soft and pathetically weak trade agreement the american economy has delivered growth and prosperity to the world while taxing ourselves. we will begin charging those that make money off of us with trade and then they will start paying their fair share. what is their fair share? let's dial in trump economic adviser stephen moore. steven, good morning to you. >> hi, steve. >> steve: so, if trump is talking about a new external revenue service and ers. obviously that's a bright green light signal that he intends to do something about tariffs or at the very least it's a gigantic negotiating tool. >> i think a little bit both, steve. first of all, let's back up and remember what joe biden did. he spent billions and billions of dollars hiring, remember,

this steve, tens of thousands of new irs agents harassing american citizens. and boo by the way targeting conservatives. i know this firsthand because i was targeted by the irs because of my conservative views and by the way after spending thousands and thousands of dollars on tax lawyers, i finally was found that i did pay my taxes but it cost me a lot of money. so, now what trump is saying okay, let's focus on the billions of dollars that are not being collected in tariffs and duties by foreign countries and foreign governments. now, i'm not a big, steve. i'm a free trade guy. but if we're going to have the tarie should allocate more money to getting these countries and companies overseas paying the taxes they owe us rather than harassing american citizens. >> steve: right there. have been some estimates, if trump had a universal tariff plan over, i think the next 10 years or so. $2 trillion would be raised if

the tariff was 10%. 3.3 trillion would be raised if it is a 20% tariff. and this is through and that is through 2034. what's interesting right now right now the federal government does collect tariff money from foreign governments. the u.s. border patrol -- border protection does collect -- it goes directly into the general fund. last year, 2023 they collected $80 billion. but, trump is looking at that number going we can get more than that. if you are going to be having tariffs, you should make sure that everyone is paying their fair share. but i want to just make one point clear though we in washington do not have a revenue problem. we have all-time record high revenues coming in the u.s. government. the problem is that we are spending more money than ever before, we're up to $7 trillion budget. numbers just came out last week

from the congressional budget office showing that he would running $200 billion this year ahead of where we were last year because of the incredible spending. so i want the focus, when the trump team comes in. to slash this government spending and get it under control. and then grow the economy, steve. when you grow -- you know this. we talked about this for years. grow the economy, and you are going to have more tax revenues. i think that's the trump agenda. >> steve: exit point though a number of people go oh, are they creating a new government bureaucracy because that's just going to gum up the works and be costly. >> no. we're going to take those thousands and thousands of extra irs agents and have them go after the foreign countries and companies not american citizens. >> steve: all right. so simple. stephen, thank you very much for joining us today. talking tariffs. >> thank you, steve. >> steve: we are going to step aside. breaking news out of israel coming up. and look at the guests in the 8:00 hour of "fox & friends."

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