57 years that he has been gone now. we used to ride bicycles together. it would be amazing just to understand what his thinking was today in relationship to our nation and world. >> lawrence: yeah, a powerful man. great legacy he has left behind and yesterday was his birthday. obviously on monday is martin luther king day. we can't forget about your mother as well and the impact she had. behind every strong man is a strong women. thanks so much for joining the program. we appreciate you. >> thank you. >> lawrence: all right. we've had a busy week and we're following the latest on the deal between israel and hamas. a lot of breaking news with that. we'll see you tomorrow. thank you for joining the program today. dana and bill take over our coverage from here. >> bill: good deal, thank you, lawrence. watching the movements from overseas. you have this landmark hostage deal that's in limbo in a

significant way. israel says what is holding it up is a problem with hamas and changing conditions and there is more to that, too. good morning. i'm bill hemmer as we try to piece this story together for you. hello. how are you doing? >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." a pretty busy start to the year and it continues with this. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is blaming hamas for what he calls a last-minute crisis. he says his cabinet will not meet to approve the cease-fire until the terror group backs down. >> it was brokered by the u.s. and qatar. over the course of weeks and months hamas would release 100 hostages still in custody. israel believes up to half of them are already dead. >> dana: israel would release 1,000 palestinian prisoners. we'll explain more about that ratio in a moment. the deal includes a halt to fighting and full withdrawal from gaza. >> bill: here is the thing. hamas says it won't release all

the hostages until israel gets out. israel says it will not stop until hamas is destroyed. >> dana: hanging in the balance are three american hostages. two are scheduled to be released in the first phase of the deal starting on sunday. despite the uncertainty, the white house this morning says it is all still happening. >> there is a deal and we're confident we'll be able to start implementing it on sunday. there are some implementing details that still need to be ironed out. we're working with the israelis on that very hard right now but confident we'll get there. >> bill: let's go to it. trey yingst up for hours, terrific reporting. where are we now, trey? where do things stand? >> good morning. today we received a statement from the office of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying hamas went back on some parts of the agreement. that office provided no additional details. hamas officials say they're still looking at the deal on the

table that was accepted overnight. the entire region waiting right now to watch and see if this cease-fire will be implemented on sunday. today a vote was scheduled to take place in the israeli cabinet to ratify the deal. followed by a 48 hour period that would allow for objections in the israeli supreme court. diplomatic conversations are continuing at a high level urging stability in the agreement. statement released by the prime minister's office oversnit said 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 the dozens of hostages and their families. inside gaza palestinian civilians welcomed the agreement after living through more than 15 months of war. though overnight israeli air strikes resummed against gaza killing dozens of palestinians. we also got a new statement overnight from the defact owe leader of hamas who said this about the deal. >> what happened on october 7th,

a miracle, a military achievement and security achievement carried out will remain a source of pride for our people and our resistance that will be passed down from generation to generation. after it struck a fatal blow to the enemy. >> this is an important statement to look at because hamas is claiming victory in this 15-month conflict. that increases political pressure on the israeli prime minister and it raises questions about what they are going to do with these hundreds of palestinian prisoners that are set to be released as part of this deal. >> bill: thank you. back to you when there are headlines and there will be some. we'll wait on it then. thank you, trey yingst, tel aviv. >> president biden: i want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. this is a dangerous con -- concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people. a dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. >> dana: president reagan spoke

of the u.s. as a shining city upon a hill in his farewell address. president biden struck a far grimer tone in his speech last night. darker vision for the future and it comes as fox polling shows biden's leaving office near his lowest approval numbers. favorability doing a 180 from when he entered office. what is more a majority say trump's win was a rejection of the biden-harris administration. senior white house correspondent peter doocy joins us with more. i expected a different speech but we got what we got. >> i did, too, dana. and it goes to show over the last half decade or so this president has evolved from no malarkey to no tech oligarchy. >> president biden: today an oligarchy is taking shape in america of extreme power and influence that threatens our entire democracy. we've seen it before. more than a century ago. but the american people stood up to the robber barrons back then.

>> the president was happy to have wealthy tech types on his side when they were supporting him even working years ago to censor donald trump. they are a problem for biden now that many are making nice with donald trump. even the ones he concedes are critical to controlling the future of artificial intelligence so that china can't. >> president biden: 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 the protect our children, our families, and the very democracy from the abuse of power. >> the president expressed gratitude for his partner kamala harris but shared parting shots with lawmakers staying in d.c. possibly even nancy pelosi and donald trump. >> president biden: we need to ban members of congress from trading stock while they're in the congress. we need to amend the

constitution to make clear that no president, no president is immune from crimes that he or she commits while in office. >> the president's remarks were not written to say mission accomplished. instead they were written to say this country has a lot of problems lurking just beneath the surface and it is up to you to deal with it. dana. >> dana: all right, peter doocy there at the white house. >> bill: bring in karl rove to talk about this. good morning to you. i don't know if it felt like malaise to you. maybe a little bit in there. here are the final numbers our poll fox favorable 40%, cnn same day different poll favorable 33%. what is your take now? >> well, i thought it was a dreadful farewell address from the president. if these things were all so important and facing a problem of the rich are not paying enough and have too much power what did you do about it during the last four years? all these things that he

forecast, you think we need to amend the constitution? why do you mention it in the last week that you are in office? if you are worried about social media and the impact on our children, why didn't you make it a priority when you came into office rather than mentioning as you go out? i was particularly taken aback by the demagoguery he had about the rich not paying their fair share. think about this. 1%, the top 1% of earners in america pay 40% of the income tax revenue we have. the top 5% pay 61%. the top 10% pay 72% of all the money that we get from the income tax. the bottom 50%, half of the people in america who are working and paying income tax pay 3%. and the bottom 75% pay 30% and the top 25% 70%. mr. president, would you please stop attacking people who have been successful in their life. some 1% are on that list for one

year. they sold the business. they sold the family farm, they pop up into the 1%. and again, if this is such a problem, if this is the big threat to america, why didn't you do anything about it and make a priority for the last four years? >> zbl all the billionaires were giving them money for the campaign. >> dana: one of them he said we have to get dark money out of politics. last week he gave george sorrows the medal of freedom at the white house. talk about arabella advisors. there is dark money on the left hand side of the column. look at the gallup poll. americans have seen very little progress, federal debt, immigration, taxes. one thing about the economy. this was happening during the campaign and i could not believe they were trying to get away with it. biden did it again last night when they talk about the economy and bringing back jobs, they never mention covid. they just say we had all this

record explosive job growth and aren't we amazing and great? the entire premise of his presidency was based on the fact he would get everything back to normal after covid. i think it is unbelievable they try to get away with saying that all the job growth came because of their great innovation. >> look, the masses are not ass. the american people understood he had a dreadful record of the economy and the claims he was making during the course of the last year and the last year of campaigning were inaccurate. think about this. the last quarter of 2020, the economy was growing faster than in the final quarter of 2024. we had inflation was less. it was just over 1%. less than the last quarter of 2020 when donald trump was in office versus the last quarter that joe biden is. and the jobs were growing faster in the final quarter of donald trump's administration than growing in the final quarter of joe biden's administration.

so that doesn't take into account the problems with the border that exploded on his watch, the weakness that america demonstrated around the world and the withdrawal from afghanistan and disaster in kabul and consumer confidence is growing today because he is going out. so yeah, it was -- this has been pitiful. it is an appropriate end to a dreadful administration and god bless joe biden and bless him in his final years of life in private sector but good riddance, frankly. >> bill: felt like a bag of coal. last topic here. "washington post", very long interview with jill biden. a lot of details in there. some still holes need to be filled in. a key line about her relationship with nancy pelosi. it has been on my mind a lot lately and we were friends for 50 years. it was disappointing. she is talking about june and july for the transition for biden to get out and harris to

be elevated. how do you think that final chapter is written, karl? >> well, with all due respect to dr. jill biden, this shows how out of touch she and her husband and her sister-in-law, who guided joe biden's political career for so many years, how out of touch they were. they thought he could win. they did not want to withdraw from the race. they thought that debate in june was a one-night bad story and they could get through it. they had no idea that the american people saw that night the worst of our fears that he was fundamentally not up to the job and they are so concerned about their own place and the enjoyment of the white house and camp david and so forth that they didn't understand this was bad for the country. that it was bad for their own party and her for now to be angry at nancy pelosi for saying he is not up to it and he will lose and he will tear down our party is ridiculous. the right thing for him to have

done was to have gotten out immediately after the debate and maybe not to have run at all. because he was not up to it. we knew it. >> dana: the last thing i will say i want to make a comment. when i read that piece i thought okay, you could be friends with someone for 50 years but at the end of that 50 year friendship if you say nancy, you should really jump off this bridge, we'll follow you. that's what they were asking all the democrats to do. asking everyone to jump off the bridge. >> yep. don't believe what happened on june 24th -- june 27th, he is up to the job. nobody believed that. it was time for him to go and they're wrong to blame nancy pelosi for it. >> bill: the game of politics on d.c. you came in hot. see you soon. let's get to california right now. another fox news alert on the fires. the department's budget. the fire department's budget revealing cuts by the mayor may have had a direct impact on the response. what the details might tell us

today. >> dana: on the hill a senate hearing on the border crisis. what it could reveal about the looming immigration crackdown. >> israeli hostage deal remains in jeopardy. there could be many unknowns. why the white house is still sounding confident. >> one is hezbollah cannot support anymore hamas. but the big change is president trump's threat. everywhere but the seat. the seat is leather. alan, we get it. you love your bike. we do, too. that's why we're america's number-one motorcycle insurer. but do you have to wedge it into everything? what? i don't do that. this reminds me of my bike. the wolf was about the size of my new motorcycle. have you seen it, by the way? happy birthday, grandma! really? look how the brushstrokes follow the line of the gas tank. -hey! -hey! brought my plus-one.

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>> i think that the pressure that the trump administration has been putting on all a p players is significant. the first phase of the deal it is pretty clearist will happen.

my concern is the second phase which is a bit unknown. >> bill: american father waiting for the fate of his own son. some of the american hostages being held by hamas raising a lot of concerns whether or not the deal can go through. i'll show you what we're looking at here in the region. refresh our memory. the area of israel where the attacks from october 7th came from inside of gaza. egypt to the south and west critical and i'll point to that in a moment to getting some sort of deal that might be lasting. yellow markings around gaza city and all the tunnels where it is possible a lot of these hostages. those who survived are still being held and even if they are deceased perhaps bodies are being stored unfortunately in those tunnels. this is what we believe some of the details are and it is going to blow your mind. this is the way the middle east works now when we come to israeli relations with some of its neighbors.

israel releases 30 palestinian prisoners for every civilian hostage being held. maybe that's 30, maybe that's 50. the maximum number is 98, could be 100. we really don't know a firm number. israel releases 50 palestinian for every female soldier now being held in captivity in gaza. get this, 110 prisoners now held in israeli jails who are facing life sentences would be a part of this arraignment. they would be released as well. back to the map. keep this idea right here between egypt and the crossing into gaza in mind. rafah is a dusty desert town but a lot of movement that goes back and forth across this border, not just people but also if you want to keep gaza secure in the future, israel has to prevent the weapons from going underneath tunnels that come from sinai in egypt into the southern part of the gaza strip.

a lot going on. >> dana: we want to bring a former white house former policy advisor. good to have you and has the call me back podcast which we recommend to everybody. we want to cover two basic things. the first being the breaking news and the second being how you think about this deal good or bad deal and let you explain. on the breaking news on this sort of pause, what do we know and how long do you think it might take? >> i am cautiously optimistic that the last-minute hiccups will get worked out. the two issues, one, pressure within netanyahu's government from one of the ministers he is trying to keep on board in support of the deal. there is pressure from him that after the first phase of the cease-fire, the 42 days israel will resume the war. i expect israel to resume the form in some form after the 42 days. i think hamas will do something to provoke israel but it sounds

like the finance minister wants a firm commitment that that will be the case and i think it puts netanyahu in a difficult position. secondly, under the terms of the deal, bill just walked through the palestinian prisoners. the numbers that will be released from israeli prisons. israel is say yes and no and take names out. i think the breakdown now between hamas and israel over israel is not letting some of the bad actors out. i expect these things will get resolved. often at the 11th hour before implementation. we are supposed to see three hostages released sunday. three female israelis. i think things are pretty on track. i expect maybe gets delayed a day or two but not much more. >> bill: let's go through it. jackui heinrich questioned the president late yesterday afternoon. roll this first. watch. >> who takes credit for this,

mr. president, you or trump? >> is that a joke? oh. thank you. >> bill: okay. state department matt miller. giving some credit to the incoming administration. watch. >> when it comes to the involvement of president-elect trump's team it has been critical in getting this deal over the line. >> bill: incoming president fired off a social post yesterday afternoon. it essentially claimed victory. far too early. maybe steve witkoff is doing great things between these two sides. it seemed yesterday and today that all sides were well over their skis in optimism. >> well, there are two issues here. one is are they overly optimistic that a deal will be implemented? without these hiccups that we're experiencing now. that's one issue. the second issue is even if it is me meanted is it actually a

good deal? good or bad deal? my view is it's not a good deal. but that doesn't mean israel should not do it. what i mean by that is any deal -- you walked through those numbers and i'm immersed in these numbers. seeing them on the screens in the setup you did makes my stomach turn. the idea that israel has to release all these prisoners from israeli -- some of these people have real blood on their hands. in order to get back israeli civilians taken hostages in a modern day massacre, does it do anything but incentivize future terrorism and send the message kidnapped jews take israelis hostage and you reap enormous reward. that's the fear. that said, i think that israel has experienced over the last few months -- i didn't feel this way february, march, april or may. i do believe now israel, based

on taking out sinwar the leadership and taking out most of hezbollah, the pressure it has applied military pressure to iran basically weakened some seriously degraded a lot of iran's air defenses, assad regime and houthis on defense in yemen. israel is in the best geopolitical position it has been in its history since the six day war. never seen anything like it. is israel taking some risk in doing this deal? yes. if they ever take a risk now out of a position of strength, not weakness. i can't emphasize enough israel has a universal conscription. most israelis serve. these israelis that have been asked to serve, those that are in their military years 18, 19, 20 are reservists, mid 20s to mid 30s plucked out of their daily lives as teachers, construction workers and tech entrepreneurs and they have

children and spouses at home and they've been sent off to fight for a couple hundred days. the wear and tear on the israeli public is enormous. to say we aren't going to get these hostages back, we have no plan to get these hostages back? i just think it is unrealistic. if israel has a shot at getting some of them back, they've got to go for it even if it requires taking a little bit of risk. >> dana: dan, thank you so much for being with us. his call me back podcast is excellent on all of this if you want more detail. get this, as details of the deal got there is backlash around karine jean-pierre. in addition to blocking john kirby from speaking we have our senior white house correspondent jackui heinrich reporting that karine jean-pierre delayed news of the are he lease of those two american hostages by over an hour. i can understand wanting to say goodbye at the briefing room.

the news comes first and especially american hostages should come first. that tension between karine jean-pierre and john kirby, they deny it in public but it is obviously there. maybe we'll read about it in a book one day. >> bill: calendar says three or four days from now to get a deal done before the incoming new administration on monday. speaking on that, this is on the line right now. >> i have a warm spot in my heart for tiktok. i won youth by 34 points. there are those that say that tiktok had something to do with that. >> bill: is time ticking down and running down for tiktok? can it be revived under new ownership? set to be shut down on sunday. thousands of others in thousand tammy's home is gone and family scattered. she joins us to share her story and their challenges, like so many, are endless. ntrol and talk

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>> bill: 9:3three. in 27 minutes out of florida we expect the governor, ron desantis, the make what will be a critical announcement here. we're waiting for news on that. he will talk about the open senate seat vacated by marco rubio. by all accounts rubio did very well in his hearing yesterday. he will in all likelihood be the next secretary of state of state and desantis has a big decision to make with two members of the house in florida who are also going into the trump administration. stand by. we'll have it for you when it happens. >> dana: politics never dull. fox news review found los angeles mayor karen bass cut more than 17 million from the fire department's budget. the fir chief warned the cuts would compromise the department's ability to respond to emergencies like the devastating wildfires that have killed at least 25 people. william la jeunesse is live in pacific palisades with the details. hopefully you can sort this out.

you can read lots of different things. it was cut, it wasn't. it was, it wasn't. what do you say it was? >> well, i'll say examination is important. looking for the scapegoat. governor, mayor and fire chief. while everyone agrees nothing could have stopped this fire, it did expose 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 for more mechanics. the palisades fire broke out every available firefighter showed up. yet many had no pumper truck, engine or vehicle to use. >> we have million dollar rigs sitting at the yard with no mechanics to fix them. >> many are here, the maintenance yard where 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 understaffed, far below recommended levels. >> we have fewer sworn firefighters today than we had in 2010. >> a huge drain on fire resources, the homeless. last year lafd responded to 14,000 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. >> next year's budget calls for more mechanics and replacement vehicles the department wants another $5 million for ev charging stations and 2 million for diversity and inclusion plan. >> we're at that breaking point where firefighters can no longer do more with less. >> we also learned that the department wants 227

firefighters specifically to address the homeless issue. also we learned the fire department had no idea that large reservoir, small lake was dry, not available for those hydrants. otherwise the firefighters say they could have hired tenders to help them out in the short term. >> dana: that's one of the most galling things about it all as the sun comes up in california. thank you. >> bill: city leaders debate the budget. the people affected are trying to figure out where to go from here and there are many of them. 12,000 structures destroyed including our next guest's home in altadena. tammy said she and her husband had to evacuate in the middle of the night as the eaton fire closed in and family is scattered across california. read the headline from the "l. a. times."enter you are going through this like thousands of others, eaton fire upends the education of thousands of students. talked to a colleague in

california yesterday people going from pacific palisades to manhattan beach for school. it is quite the challenge. this is what you told our producers, number one, my daughters are staying with my ex-husband in south pasadena. they still have to go to school. my mom is with my brother, number three, my two dogs are in pennsylvania mona and you and your husband are with your best friend in corona. >> yes. >> how are you doing it? >> i know. not well. i'm trying my best to stay strong and my children are staying strong for me and it has just been a triangle of going to pasadena and pomona to see my moms and dogs and coming back to corona in two hour traffic. i want to be reunited with my children and get us back on track. it has been devastating. it is hard to see every item that you've accumulated, every

memory just in ash after 46 years. it has been a nightmare. i'm just in a complete nightmare you can't wake up from. >> bill: you are just one family, that stuns me. >> i know. >> bill: what do you need? how can america help you? >> as of right now, we have gotten amazing donations of clothes and toiletries. we don't have much of. i have gift cards. i can't store much because i'm in one room at a friend's house. i'm grateful my daughters have stuff at their dad's. other than that everything is gone. it is all gone. if you think about completely starting over again with nothing, not even a pot or a pan and it's crazy. so everything does help. community has been so supportive and awesome but it is just sad

this actually had to happen. i can't even believe this happened to not just me but thousands of other families. >> bill: think about where you were two weeks ago. what you wouldn't give to go back in time. one last point here for you. you say the rent right now is just as much as your mortgage. >> yes. >> bill: another challenge. >> that's true. right. we can't afford to do both. i don't know -- i can't just stay with my friends forever until this all clears up. so i don't know what we are going to do. we're waiting to get back up to the house with an adjuster to find out what we can do and we are just in the unknown. we are just lost. it is so brutal, you know, to hear you might still have to pay a mortgage or hoa fees and all this stuff so you don't incur late fees on top of that and it is just crazy. i don't know how we'll survive it if i'm being honest with you. >> bill: maybe your appearance

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>> bill: trump administration taking shape as we speak. watching it all week. a new round of cabinet nominees on the hill this morning for confirmation hearings. some start in moments and we shall watch them together. david spunt is live on the hill. he is first up today. got some fiery moments from the a.g. nominee pam bondi from yesterday. let's start. >> good morning to you. no question some big moments yesterday. pam bondi will not be here on capitol hill behind me today. a panel of five people will be in this room and just about 20 minutes or so talking about her character and credentials as senators grill them on questions. if she is confirmed, she will be the nation' top law enforcement officer and took questions from both sides of the aisle about the perceived weaponization, political weaponization of the justice department. >> the partisanship. weaponization will be gone. america will have one tier of justice for all.

>> democrats peppered her with questions about her relationship with president trump. republicans argued the close friendship is not abnormal. >> you're friends with president trump, are you? >> yes, i spoke to him this morning. >> i find other worldly this suggestion by some of my colleagues that that's somehow disqualifying for you. have you ever -- have you ever seen a president of the united states appoint his enemies to his cabinet? >> she gained national attention five years ago when she became president trump's impeachment lawyer during his first trial in the senate. as attorney general she insisted she will represent the american people, not the white house. >> what would you do if your career d.o.j. prosecutors came to you with a case to prosecute grounded in the facts and law but the white house directs you to drop the case?

>> senator, if i thought that would happen, i would not be sitting here today. that will not happen. will not happen. >> she says her priority is getting the justice department back to the basics fighting drugs, fentanyl, also human trafficking and violent crime. she is expected to be confirmed. the big question is about kash patel, the f.b.i. nominee. she feels many questions about him yesterday but said senators need to ask him those questions. his hearing has yet to be scheduled bill. >> bill: all right, david. stand by. we shall. david spunt in d.c. >> dana: my next guest is testifying at pam bondi's confirmation hearing. a democrat and friend of hers and someone who worked with her for a long time. what do you plan on teeing up today when you testify? >> good to be with you. i will talk about my personal story with pam bondi. i ran in the same race for attorney again flail 2010. she likes to say first she beat

me and then hired me. that gives me too much credit. i didn't make it to the general election. the democrat who beat me lost to pam bondi. even though i had endorse had the democrat she hired me as her drug czar and shut down pill mills and save lives from oxycodone abuse. that's a big part of her message that she has been saying is that she is focused on problem solving, policy, not politics. she has a track record of reaching across party lines. my message is that and also my message to democrats back at home has been to pick your battles. this is the best nominee that you could ever expect to come from donald trump for the position of attorney general if you are on my side of the aisle. >> dana: a lot of the democrats in her hearing went back to this concern that they have that president trump or other people at the white house will pressure pam bondi to do certain things at the justice department. how do you think she would handle that pressure? she says it wouldn't happen

anyway. how do you know how she handles pressure? >> when she appointed me she had pressure from her party not to do that. one party leader put a finger in her face and yelled and her and she put the finger back in his face. she will be good to her team. if she is asked to do something that she believes is illegal i don't believe she will do it. she will probably investigate the investigators but we have seen that before with bill barr and john durham. pam bondi won't stray far from what we've seen before and do some important things. go after the fentanyl crisis and do something about the surge in anti-semitism especially on college campuses. these are things i totally agree with her on. >> dana: my last question for you is for a lot of people who feel like there is so much polarization maybe in their own personal life or work and families have a hard time finding common ground with someone with different political points of view.

you are rooted in the law. any other foundation you think could help bridge gaps between people who might be far apart? >> if you talk to democrats in the legislature when pam bondi was attorney general they will say she was able to work with them. she didn't demonize them and looked at them as people who tried to have the same mission of doing good things for the people of florida. in fact, even her general election opponent -- she had a good relationship to this day. people who run against each other became friends afterwards. she is a good person even if we have political difference. this character ki tour of her is a person who is a loyalist to trump and do whatever the boss tells her to do? >> no. she is her own person and she will follow the law and when we disagree with her at least we know she is all about following the evidence and the law. >> dana: dave, i hope we see you

again. tell your parents that everybody here at america's newsroom and fox news say hello. >> they're definitely watching. thank you. >> dana: take care. >> good stuff. a few moments from now ron desantis the florida governor will speak about the open florida senate seat left by marco rubio, will we get a face and name? we'll know in minutes. stay tuned. idra was made for th, so relief is lasting. xiidra treats the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. don't use if allergic to xiidra and seek medical help if needed. common side effects include eye irritation, discomfort, blurred vision, and unusual taste sensation. don't touch container tip to your eye or any surface. before using xiidra, remove contact lenses and wait fifteen minutes before re-inserting. dry eye over and over? it's time for xiidra.

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>> is interesting faces on monday. so-called tiktok refugees are leaving the app in droves we're told. some of the alternatives include red note, which is one of china's most popular and highly censored apps. other is lemonate on by bytedance. lydia lou is trying to follow it. >> the so-called tiktok refugees is what they call themselves are searching for a new social media home. let's focus on this one right here. red note. hundreds of thousands of them are flocking to this chinese-owned social media app. it soared to the most popular downloaded free app in apple's app store. more than 700,000 new users joined in just two days. you may wonder why red note and why not instagram or facebook owned by meta? red note is similar to tiktok. easy search function and nappy

videos. another reason distrust of american social media. here is one so-called tiktok refugee. watch here. >> because meta , facebook, instagram they could have made it more enjoyable. they could have worked on the algorithm and not censored as much to feel polarizing in so many ways. i feel like people are doing everything they can to avoid going to those existing apps because not just the freedom they felt on tiktok. >> just how long this flight to red note lasts or really bill is permitted is questionable. there are tech analysts pointing out all the information gathered by red note flows directly into the hands of china. the house select committee on china has a skeptical eye on red note. >> bill: it is whack-a-mole out there. lydia hu, fox business. >> dana: i'm good at that game. >> we couldn't be more pleased

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