in burrow's neighborhood. burrow said it is not just about what was taken. >> i feel like my privacy has been violated in more ways than one. and way more is already out there than i would want out there and that i care to share. >> the nfl issued a security alert telling agents leitz an organized criminal ring was targeting their houses because they knew when they would be out of town. they could watch them at tv. both mahomes and kelsey had their homes burglarized a month earlier. no arrest in kansas city so far. >> bill: multiple investigations, tourist bug lars. they come to the u.s. on a tourist visa. >> for being in new york how many crimes have happened link evidence to migrant gangs and the same thing.

we didn't know so much about the chilean gang. >> the expensive bag might have been a tip-off. >> dana: president trump taking help on the international stage as well going through dangerous hazards as they work to set america on a course for global greatness. welcome to oh a new hour of "america's newsroom." >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. global greatness. secretary of state marco rubio putting the world on notice his first day on the job yesterday working to implement president trump's agenda signaling a major shift at the state department putting american interests and the promotion of peace through strength as the center of u.s. foreign policy. >> we want to be at the centerpiece, at the core of how we formulate foreign policy because we'll have the best ideas of any agency and because we will execute it better and faster and more effectively than any other agency in our government. >> dana: president trump's

special enjoy to the middle east steve witkoff is joining us in a moment. rich edson at the state department with more on big changes for u.s. diplomacy. >> america first here is back at the state department. secretary of state marco rubio is laying out what exactly that means for american diplomats and the rest of the world. within hours of swearing in rubio sent a cable to employees around the world detailing the first steps of president trump's foreign policy overhaul. eliminating d.e.i. from the state department. insuring only the american flag flies at diplomatic facilities and doing away with climate change policies. rubio tell graphed the new approach yesterday when he introduced himself in person here at the state department's headquarters. >> there is no other agency in our government i would rather lead because of the talent that's collected here in this room and those watching around the world. that will be our mission and i hope we will be able to do it together. there will be changes. the changes are not meant to be

destructive. >> he also writes the state department will no longer undertake any activities that facilitate or encourage mass migration. our diplomatic relations with prioritize securing america's border stopping illegal and destabilizing migration and negotiating the repatriation of illegal immigrants. rube owe's first meeting with with the quad designed to counter china. after the meeting, the group released a statement saying they strongly oppose any unilateral actions that seek to change the status quo by force or coercion seen as targeted at one country, china. back to you. >> dana: rich edson, thank you so much. >> president trump: the hostages are starting to come back. if i weren't here they wouldn't be back ever. they say six months ago you would have had 11 more living hostages.

think of that. six months ago. but biden couldn't get it done. it was only the imposition that i put on as a deadline that got it done, but it is a very sad situation. it should have never happened. >> dana: president trump yesterday discussing the deal to release the hostages held by hamas in gaza and the difficult steps still ahead to get them all out and make sure the cease-fire is permanent. joining us now is president trump's special envoy to the middle east steve witkoff. a key player in the negotiations between israel and hamas. thank you for being on the show and willing to serve the country. hamas told "the new york times" we're prepared for a dialogue with america and achieving understandings on everything. how do you see that? >> well, i think it's good if it's accurate. we were able to demonstrate that president trump's policies peace through strength work. everybody listens and getting

those three people out, that was a big deal. four more coming out i believe this weekend. and it is a testament to how the world perceives president trump's presidency. >> bill: when you met with these leaders, whether it was in qatar or jerusalem, how did you deliver that message that convinced them that you mean business? >> well, bill, i said you've got to look at the tweet, look at the truth, look at what he said. the words speak for it cismd he expects a hostage release. remember, we were working -- we had nothing to do with the mathematics behind the prisoner release and hostage release. that was set probably, i don't know, 11, 12 months ago in the so-called may 27th protocol agreed to by hamas, by the israelis and monitored by the

united states under the biden administration. so that set the mathematics around how many palestinians in israeli jails would be released for each hostage coming out. our job was to speed up the process. it felt like it had bogged down. and so that was the job and we were able to get it done and it doesn't happen without the president. >> bill: it is on track for the moment and we'll see what happens next phase two and on and on and on. i was watching you at the end of the inauguration in the rotunda on capitol hill. when now the former president was walking out you stopped, grabbed his hands and had some words with him. what did you say that you want our audience to understand about your message at that moment? >> i said thank you. i said thank you for allowing me to work on this peace deal. it was important and i wanted to thank him for that. >> bill: what did he say?

>> he said thank you. >> bill: simple enough. >> dana: could you project -- i know you don't like to speculate. could you project six months ahead or so? one of the key pieces of the deal as i understand from friends supportive of the israelis in a way it was a terrible deal but one they should take because of the situation that they found themselves in. and the key was israel did not have to declare an end to the war. president trump if you could play this, call for number one. he says he is not confident it will hold. watch. >> how confident are you, mr. president, that you can keep the cease-fire in gaza and conclude the three stages of the deal? >> president trump: it's not our war, it is their war. i'm not confident. i think they are very weakened on the other side. i looked at a picture of gaza. gaza is like a massive demolition site. that place is really -- it's

really got to be rebuilt in a different way. >> dana: how do you characterize whether the cease-fire will hold? >> well, i don't disagree with the president. i think that the implementation of it is probably more difficult than the execution of the deal. the execution was a big step. that was the condition precedent. we had to get it done and we did, thank god. and now we've got to implement. i'm going to be going over to israel. i'm going to be a part of an inspection team at the corridor and philadelphia corridor where you have outside overseers sort of making sure that people are safe and people who are entering are not armed and no one has bad motivations. but we have to make sure that the implementation goes well. if it goes well we'll get into

phase two and we'll get a lot more live bodies out. i think that's what the president's directive to me and everybody else working in the american government on this, that's his directive and that's what we are going to do. >> bill: our audience may not be that familiar with you but they will get to know you very soon. we really appreciate you coming on today. these are very important issues. your relationship with donald trump appears to me to be forged over the years and known each other a long time through new york real estate and the game of golf. you were with him in palm beach the day the second assassination just about took place. with regard to the future in the middle east, do you see soon a handshake deal between israel and saudi arabia that gets that peace deal back on track that would then pull in other arab countries in the region? >> well, you know, bill, it has been out in the news that there

has been talk of a normalization deal. i think that normalization is an amazing opportunity for the region. it is basically the beginning of the end of war. and the beginning of the end of war means that the entire region becomes investable. it becomes financeable. banks don't have to underwrite whether the houthis, hezbollah or hamas will fire a missile and take down a hyper scale data center. so i think that normalization is huge for the state of israel and huge for the region and hopefully it happens. my own opinion is a condition precedent to normalization was a cease-fire. we needed to get people believing again. first we needed the hopeful moment. i would like to think we have achieved that and we'll build on that. then on top of that, we needed to show people that we could

stop the violence and we could have conversation and dialogue. so this is the beginning of that. hopefully everything over there can be settled in that way. if it's possible, everyone will become a believer. >> bill: one more from me. how many countries do you think would be on board? >> i think you could get everybody on board in that region, i really do. i think there is a new sense of leadership over there. qatar, look at what qatar was enormously helpful in this. shaikh mohammed, his communication skills with hamas were indispensible here. the uae is already a part of it. egypt was very, very helpful to us in these endeavors. i think we can -- we have the opportunity to get everybody bought into a better future for

the region. more opportunity, more hope. i think we have -- this is an inflection point. >> dana: steve witkoff, thank you for joining us today. we appreciate it and hope to see you again. new this morning the justice department ordering investigations into jurisdictions that defy president trump's immigration crackdown. how that could play out. >> president trump meeting with republicans on the path forward. james langford was in the meeting yesterday what to expect in the days and weeks to come. >> dana: federal d.e.i. offices facing a 5:00 p.m. deadline to shut their doors and president trump is not stopping there. >> president trump: i will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. we'll forge a society that is color blind and merit-based.

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>> president trump, did president biden leave you a letter? >> president trump: he may have. wait. don't they leave it in the desk? i don't know. oh. >> was it there? >> president trump: thank you, peter, it could have been years before we found it. >> bill: it's like finding treasury guess, right? finding it early. president trump with that letter from the former president biden in the oval office. on monday evening says he read it and shared some insights with the white house press on it. >> president trump: it was a very nice letter. i could show it. it was a nice letter. it was a little bit of an inspirational-type letter, joy, do a good job. important, very important.

how important the job is. i think i should let people see it because it with as a positive for him in writing it. i appreciated the letter. >> bill: a lot of times we don't get the contents. it is up to them to tell us. that's like the white house tradition as you've told me. >> dana: yeah. president 41 as he said to bill clinton. don't let the turkeys get you down. >> bill: the tradition goes back to reagan when he left h.w. bush a note in january of 1989. it has carried on ever since and we got a little insight into what president biden had to say. >> dana: nice moment indeed. underway on capitol hill a confirmation hearing for the director of office and management an budget nominee russell vought as frustrations are going over democrat delays of key positions. thune threatening to stay in session over the weekend. he said we can do it the easy way or hard way. aishah hosni is live on capitol

hill. america is on a first name basis with you, aishah. will it be the easy or hard way? >> sounds like it will be the hard way. it means that the process takes a little bit longer. it will still get done. it will just be one after another drip, drip, drip not what the trump white house wants. this is what happened last night where things got tense on the senate floor. senator chris murphy of connecticut objected to a time agreement for cia director nominee john ratcliffe who was voted out of committee in a bipartisan manner and basically forcing republicans to abide by the 30-hour debate rule. once you do that what happens it's a domino effect. you tie up the senate floor time for any other nominee, too. intel chair tom cotton steamed on the senate floor. >> i don't really understand the ob object to -- how we'll -- john

ratcliffe has integrity. >> democrats are attacking pete hegseth once again after his former sister-in-law submitted new allegations yesterday of alcohol abuse and claims that he made his second ex-wife fear for her safety. both hegseth and the ex-wife have denied those claims. president trump in that oval office meeting yesterday with senate leadership did bring up recess appointments. it doesn't seem like we're there just yet. but again, this is drip, drip, drip now. the third day in an only one nominee confirmed. >> dana: i bet they'll be working all weekend. >> i was with the president at the white house for three hours today with leader thune and other leaders from the conference here. we're all united on this agenda, sean. we know we have to deliver on the american first agenda. we will.

>> bill: republicans on the hill united front. leaders of the party meeting with trump yesterday at the white house mapping out a plan to usher in his legislative agenda. vice chair of the senate republican policy committee james langford among those who met with the president yesterday. senator, good morning to you. thank you for being here. we'll put a roll or a scroll. 27 executive orders already signed. i don't know how much of this came up yesterday. one of your colleagues suggested that yesterday's meeting was more of a rah, rah speech after the executive orders were signed. how did you see and hear it? >> gathering with leadership to talk about get on the same page and make sure we're heading the same direction. there wasn't a lot of policy specifics we walked through. more process and everybody looking at each other saying we're all headed the right direction and it's go. the first day the president signing executive orders on closing down the border.

first day the senate is actually passing legislation on increasing enforcement of interior enforcement. the president should have that on his desk by friday. we're working in coordination on some of these things. we have to get through a lot of these nominations. >> bill: when he came into the overflow room on monday after the state of the union address and the speaker of the house was there, he said hey, you know, it's tight and as you well know there is little room for error. >> right. >> bill: how possible is it to go sideways for some time? >> it is possible. we have a lot of opinions and attitudes. you talk about republicans, they don't think alike. oklahoma republicans don't think like republicans from northeast. they should all think like oklahoma republicans but we all think differently. we represent different parts of the country and different perspectives. that's the nature of having a congress together. at the end of the day we have to find the common ground and say let's move forward on these ideas whether it's taxes, closing down the border or

whether economic policy, energy policy. those things are all important to us. let's get moving. >> bill: one, big, beautiful bill or break it up? >> more likely one big beautiful bills. we have 12 appropriation bills that aren't done from last year, the 12 spending budget bills from this year. a debt ceiling vote. tax policy, energy policy, additional funding for the border. while we talk about one big beautiful bill americans will see multiple different bills that are actually going to come out for a season here. >> bill: last question here. what this incoming administration wanted to do is get the nominees out there and get them through. you just heard aishah hosni's report on chris murphy slowing things down on the democratic side and here is what john thune said about that for republicans. >> do we want to vote on these folks on tuesday or vote on them on friday, saturday and sunday? that's what we'll do.

this can be easy or hard. >> bill: which one is it, easy or hard? >> well, either way it goes democrats will be in charge of that depending how far they slow us down. we're in charge of bringing it to the floor and the time allocated to it is set by rules. 30 hours for a cabinet officials. two hours for everyone else. we're early in the process now. a lot of 30 hour debate for cabinet officials cranking through these but we'll get pete hegseth and kristi noem done this week and john ratcliffe done this week. those will get done. they are national security related individuals and make sure that before the end of this week is done they all get done and we'll stay here as long as it takes to get them done. >> bill: that's three big ones. thank you for coming on today. >> dana: mike johnson speaker of the house at his weekly press conference. let's listen in.

[no audio] >> what the president is trying to do right now is a reset. i don't second guess his decisions on that. he is using his executive authority. desperate times call for desperate measures. our role is to look through legislatively which things we need to address. the wide open border has created an great human catastrophe that we'll be dealing with for decades. the president is very serious about addressing that and so are the american people. look at the "new york times" poll, 87 pers percent of americans say we should deport illegal aliens who are criminals and dangerous to american citizens. this is again common sense. i think the people are behind the president and his agenda and his priorities and he will make those decisions and do our part and work together closely to address that.

it was shocking. it was shocking what president biden did on the way out pardoning his family for more than a decade of whatever activity, any non-violent offenses. it was breathtaking to us. anything like that has never been anticipated. look at the tape. four years ago when it was just implied that president trump might do something similar, they w were angry. roll the tape. they all said it would be crazy, unconscionable and now cheering it along. to us it is disgusting and it probably proves the point, the suspicion that, you know, they call it is biden crime family. if they weren't the crime family why do they need pardons, right? a lot of attention will be paid to this and i think it is appropriate and we'll be looking at it us a well. back in the corner, yes, sir.

[inaudible question] >> yes. you are going to see our legislative agenda roll out. laser focused now on appropriationss and reconciliation process and we have two years, actually four years because we'll grow the majority in the mid-term election in 2026. you will see all of this. we're working very closely, close coordination with the white house. this is an america first agenda that takes both those branches of government to work in tandem. he is kick starting what will be our legislative agenda and you will begin to see that. the laken riley act is a perfect example. the president will have it on his desk for signature. the first of many bills addressing these great problems. thank you all for being here. >> dana: that was speaker johnson. do a weekly press conference. this is the first one since

president trump has been in office. answered a few questions including on the biden pardons and whether there will be follow than investigations. there will be he indicated. we have all of that. >> bill: we'll be looking at it he said. david spunt watching this as well as the justice department orders federal prosecutors to investigate local officials blocking trump's immigration enforcement as the border czar tom homan said the action is already underway. let's get to that. can i pause you a moment here? what did you think of speaker johnson's answer on the biden pardons just there? it was interesting to hear him talk about that. i'm not sure what the house could possibly do at this point, although it is possible the oversight committee could potentially investigate based on what those pardons are. but as far as any type of legal action at the justice department what not there is not much that be can done. >> bill: the transition back to the original story on immigration. what do you have on that, david? >> this is a three-page memo

from the president trump's former defense attorney and now acting associate attorney general, acting deputy attorney general at the department of justice and will be the associate attorney general soon and put out a three page memo telling all 93 u.s. attorneys across the country to make sure that the d.o.j. is implementing president trump's immigration policies when it comes to removing illegal immigrants. this is significant. we knew the justice department would be making a change to help carry out some of these immigration orders but it says if local officials do not cooperate, d.o.j. needs to report them and take action. it reads that u.s. attorneys are instructed to implement the agenda when it comes to stopping the flow of illegal immigration and investigate, bill, any local entity that does not cooperate with d.o.j. officials. they removed top officials from the department's immigration court system section. this memo is part of the larger

strategy. also this comes just a day after at least 22 states are suing following the president's executive order on birthright citizenship. the bottom line, d.o.j. is heavily going to be involved in the immigration sector. >> this is an extreme and unprecedented act. this executive order is an assault on the rule of law. it attacks a right that is core to our nation's earliest days. >> now we wait for pam bondi to come in as attorney general. the committee, judiciary committee will vote on her next week. then go to the full senate floor and kash patel the f.b.i. director expected to implement the agenda. he has his hearing one week from today on capitol hill. she is a week or so out from being confirmed if confirmed and he could be early to mid february to get him into position if he is indeed confirmed. >> bill: next wednesday for kash

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>> president trump: i think we have a good situation now. i would be if he wanted to buy it. >> you want to get h 1shgs b? >> i like both sides of the argument. >> what about the tariffs. >> probably february 1st. >> are you planning to travel to the middle east? any time they want i will meet.

i would like to see it end. >> i think it -- >> dana: lightning round. he takes questions. the extended back and forth ushering in a new era of access. do you have snow in georgia joey jones? >> we did not have it in north georgia where i live. i got all the cold weather and none of the pretty snow. >> dana: we'll hope for some snow for your lovely daughter and the dog. want to ask you about this if you look at the difference between biden press conferences by year of the presidency i mean -- i'm not -- we haven't added it up but joey in the last two days president trump has taken more questions than all of those combined. >> it is not even the amount of press conferences. i would rather go question by

question. the unfettered, unpre-determined questions of you shout it out and i'll answer it. that's rare. i don't think we saw anything like that from president biden. didn't have someone just off stage left telling president trump he needed to hurry up and go. it was a conversation between president trump and the press. twice now. he has been in office for two days. it really is something special. i was on will cain and he asked me what i thought the most important thing on inauguration day was. the hour he sat there signing executive orders and taking questions. they were about january 6th, about things like the billionaires surrounding him. he has an answer. he has an honest answer. >> dana: as a former white house press secretary it was something great. the press is hungry. they are starving. you have to do a little care and feeding of the press and all of a sudden they were at the all you can eat trump buffet of questions and answers. wanted to ask you about this.

one of the executive orders is to close all d.e.i. offices in federal government buildings and agencies by 5:00 p.m. today by "the five" today. here is chairman carr of the fcc "fox & friends." >> people would be shocked if they knew how much d.e.i. is imbedded in agencies. we were spending millions of dollars promoting it. now we're getting things turned around focusing on our core mission of connect being americans. >> dana: it is not like president trump said we'll study this issue for a while and see how it goes. it is over at 5:00 p.m. today. joey. >> yeah, i think society has done its case study on this already. long before president trump was elected into office in november, big corporations and big brands and media were starting to close their own d.e.i. offices. they saw they weren't fruitful or creating discrimination problems of their own. trump administration has

listened to the american people and why they're doing it. before d.e.i. there was e.o. equal opportunity. a lot of these will transition back to equal opportunity offices where if someone is discriminated against they can have a place to go rather than d.e.i. where you are doing pro-active discrimination to take up for those that might have been discriminated against it is way too much. >> dana: have a great day. talk to you soon. >> bill: later tonight do not miss this. sean is going to have an exclusive interview with president trump from the oval office now. airs at 9:00 eastern time. catch it all right here on fox news channel and they'll make news together when it goes down. all right. president trump unveiling a massive artificial intelligent project for america. why the tech giants are praising the move and joining the move with a multi-billion dollar investment.

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>> in the name of our god i ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. there are gay, lesbians and transgender children in democratic, republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives. >> bill: those remarks made during the national prayer service yesterday prompting

black lash for bringing politics to the pulpit. president trump reacting moments later. >> what did you think of the service? >> president trump: what do you think? did you like it? did you find it exciting? not too exciting. i didn't think it was a good service, no. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> president trump: they can do much better. >> bill: martha maccallum was watching it. marathon martha. >> everybody, it was a great week. >> bill: he responded this morning. some-called bishop who spoke at the national prayer service tuesday morning was a radical left hard line trump hater who brought her church into politics in an ungracious way. she and her church owe the public and apology. >> i thought it was massively inappropriate. as a catholic, i am not used to seeing pastors or bishop in this case speak to politically in

church. it is not something that is done in my church. so i found it very inappropriate. this is an opportunity to bring the country together on the cusp of a new era and she has said before she had nothing left to say to president trump in the first term. so i think that it was really a gotcha moment on her part that i find very uncharitable and not what i expect to see in church. >> dana: one reason this church has a lot of division. a lot of people decided to leave and a lot of people like it. president announced the huge tech event investment, using this word twice now. $5 hundred billion. sam altman is head of open a.i. chatgpt. >> let me talk to you about what

it means for a.i. and the future for the u.s. investment. >> we can create a.i. in the united states of america. if a different president it might not have been possible. >> dana: biden could have had something like this and president trump is taking the opportunity to very much advance the ball down the field. >> martha: it is shocking to watch how quickly something like that can change. we have heard and we'll see some of these flashback sound bites from president biden him talking about the importance of a.i. what did he do about it? everyone has felt and so few of us understand how this is going to work but its capabilities are unbelievable. what it is already capable of doing in medicine is astonishing. we must harness technology, american ingenuity behind this. this is a national security issue as much as it is a technological opportunity. and this was done like that.

so i'm curious to know what kinds of tax incentives all these companies will get for making a major investment. the president made it clear when that kind of investment happens there will be benefits for those companies. all of this was potentially possible under the biden administration back when the firms were much more in sync with wanting when im to win. >> bill: maybe too many regulations. >> 100%. >> bill: sam altman was talking about questions and trump and kamala harris trump and he said trump gets you need the infrastructure in order to have the electricity required to drive these big computers. the other thing he talked about a lot was if we don't do it, china will beat us to it. >> that is already happening. the chinese effort around a.i. is enormous. this is a battle. it's like a space race, like a nuclear arms competition. it is an absolutely fundamental

foundational issue now that we win this a.i. race. i think that there are a few things that are more important on where the country goes. you have seen the altman and musk battles over this in the pass about the ethical side of all of it. we need to wrap our arms around it but can't do it unless we have the capability and understanding what it can do. >> dana: it is hard to determine three hours ahead and until 3:00 p.m. with you. >> we'll follow the action, executive orders. listening to the battle going on in congress. last night on sean hannity's town hall we'll also look awhated to the sit down in the oval office that sean the having with the president tonight. we're taking it as it comes. which is pretty quick. >> dana: great to have you. thanks for being here. reading, writing and math but no phones. how one high school is leading the way keeping them out of the classroom. and i'm from flowery branch, georgia.

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>> harris: the white house keeping the promise to take d.e.i. out of the government. by 5:00 p.m. eastern today all workers of d.e.i. dedicated offices will be on paid leave until those departments are gone. national prayer service turns into a liberal lecture for all america to watch. big push back on the message from the pulpit. "the faulkner focus" is top of the hour. >> bill: see you in a couple of minutes. some schools across the country working to keep kids off cell phone during class to make sure they stay engaged. for some it's working. cb cotton is outside ramsey high school in new jersey where a new program is being implemented to do just that. >> good morning. it is cold out here. students are locking up their phones, texting a lot less and talking to each other more in the halls of ramsey high school. what high schoolers arrived this morning they use these

magnetically sealed pouches to lock their phone away for the school day to help create a distraction-free learning environment. when students leave for lunch or dismissal they get back their smartphones. phil murphy called for a statewide k-12 ban on cell phones putting ramsey high school a step ahead. the locked pouches were rolled out a few weeks ago but positive signs already. >> i notice on improvement with my grades in school for class work that we would do during the last 20 minutes of the class or something like that. i wasn't rushing to get it done to go on my phone. >> kids are more engaged in the lessons. a sense of calmness in the classrooms and the school. >> new york governor announced a plan calling for no smartphones on school grounds. schools would develop their own policy and a way for parents to contact their kids. some parents are against cell phone bans and think their children need to have a phone in

an emergency. advocacy groups say if there is a crisis students need to follow adult instructions and not be on a phone. >> bill: thanks, nice to see you in the snow out there. stay warm, all right? thank you. >> dana: it the cold out there. i know parents do want to be in touch but not on school property mean you couldn't put them in the bags. new jersey has a better idea it looks like. we'll see. >> i have young sister doing this. she is teaching and they leave them outside and she thinks it is great. >> dana: i did an interview with kevin mccarthy and went longer than the original 20 minutes. he has also thoughts how much they can get done in congress and how difficult it will be but also the challenges and opportunities ahead. check it out. i will see you on five tiefsh harris faulkner is next. >> harris: fox news