>> lawrence: buckle up,ats 8:00 a.m. on thursday, january 23rd. out west two wildfires burn across los angeles county. one scorching 10,000 acres. and thousands are out of their homes. >> ainsley: promises made, promises kept. president trump won't let anyone staen in his way on the border agenda. >> president trump: anybody that like our country, democrats allow that to upon ha, you are either stupid or hate our country. >> steve: lara trump will join us as her father-in-law gets back to work at 1600 pennsylvania. >> brian: and j.d. vance speechless as he enters the oval office for the first time in his life. >> this is j.d. vance first time to step into the oval office.

>> this is incredible. >> brian: so many firsts. >> steve: speaker of the house was his camera guy. >> brian: a little over qualified. final hour of "fox and friends" starts now. get dressed. pentagon deployed 1500 troops to secure u.s. mexico border. >> lawrence: and ice moving at warp speed arresting illegal immigrants for crimes. >> ainsley: and griff jenkins has more. >> griff: promises made, promises kept. consequences delivered. crackdown has begun. president trump could deploy more troops to the abo border. they will protect border with military know tras port planes for flights. marine official telling fox news, our respond will be

imme immediate, we are going in, if cartel shoots at us, we will not waste any time. the 1500 soldiers and marines represent 60% increase from the 2500 there. ice officers have been hitting the streets launching early-morning raids, targeting 700,000 criminal illegal aliens that have been roaming free, protected in sanctuary cities like boston. trump sat down with "hannity" and had this to say. >> talk venezuela, big abuser. >> iran and congo? >> president trump: more than

south america. >> griff: countries like venezuela where tren de aragua come from, they don't take citizens back, but president trump told me, he said, they'll take them back or face economic consequences. guys. >> steve: up to 10,000 troops will be heading down within the next period of days or weeks to the southern border. "washington post" has juicy details saying border patrol will block migrants on the ground if they pass through countries where communicable diseases are. they will say, you can't come in, you might have something. they will try to claim "asylum," only two people in federal government will allow them to be released into the country, one is mike banks, new chief of

border patrol and his deputy. only two people. that know means the flow will stop immediately. >> griff: it sure will. what you are talking about, we have seen for the past four years, the notice to appear. they just release them when they don't have a place to put them because so many were coming. it is the asylum, migrant protection protocol reins stated meaning you have to go back to the country you just came from, meaning mexico, to wait for your asylum to play out. under immigration and nationality act from 1965, 212f gives broad authority to block and deny anyone coming across trying to claim asylum on u.s. soil and that is crux of what "washington post" and others are talking about. if you bolster and sup element

your force with active duty u.s. military troops, you can stop the gap in places like california, arizona and elsewhere, where you don't have the texas dps with razor wire and extra force, reinforce blocking entry. that will play out in the future. >> ainsley: what about the wall? has he said anything about starting to build again? >> griff: already seeing the states like texas saying we're ready to start moving now. there was already effort underway to get back some of the materials that were being auctioned off. we will probably see white house or president trump in the near the future talk about what pieces of wall and where they can put them. it is a complex problem, not like you can build a wall in a line. rest assured border patrol chief

mike banks has his people looking at areas to get wall up as fast as possible. >> brian: guys you talked to, what do they say is big diff difference this week? have they seen dramatic drop? >> griff: great question. they say they have been taken off the leash and they are motivated like never before to try to go out. one border patrol official told me yesterday, consequences are being delivered, they are finally doing it. >> steve: they are off the leash, new leash on life. awesome. thanks. >> brian: here is president trump on what was going on prior to him getting into office. >> president trump: i always say to people, i like to understand, business deal, understand other side, why do they want something and you figure it out. usually an answer, almost always. why does somebody want open

borders, why would anybody that likes our country, democrats? allow that to happen? i watch them on television, they are trying to justify it. you can't justify it. only reason, two reasons, you are stupid and i don't think they are stupid, anybody that cheats that much and that well is not stupid. you are either stupid or you hate the country, only two reasons. >> sean: sanctuary cities are aiding and abetting lawbreaking. they will get federal funds. >> president trump: a lot of people in communities don't want them. >> would you cut off their money? >> president trump: i might have to do that. >> lawrence: that is where big fight will be. military is on the way, they will get resources to secure the border. there will be a stop when it comes to people coming across. you have to apply for asylum or

remain in mexico, the app has been shut off. but you have people still here, 10 million under last administration and some states and cities will harbor these people. i predict donald trump will go after them and you got a doj now that is on his side and wants to follow the law, it will be litigated throughout. >> steve: i talked to somebody at doj last night. they have taken people in a different department and assigned them to take a look at people in sanctuary cities, officials. if they are hampering what the president is trying to do, figure a way to prosecute those local officials. this is new. ashley moody was the attorney general of great state of florida last week, this week she is u.s. senator. there is some resistance to new

policies. >> kudos to the trump administration for coming out with executive orders. it will go very far in trying to round up so many serious criminals that were released at the direction of the biden administration. it rein state program that allow locals and state officials to cooperate with government, sets up homeland security and encourages it. its doj lawyers and agents, if people get in your way when task forces try to round them up, we're not standing for it, that is criminal violation of obstruction of federal investigation is a serious felony, you can bring criminal charges. they have set up litigators to go after governments and folks

si sieve civil ly. >> brian: remember donald trump would say sanctuary city status is revoked and money would have to be restored if judge says it should be restored. that is some of the battle. my hope is city council members are not hopeless ly left and ca read the room and understand the american people don't want illegal aliens here, especially criminals. >> ainsley: donald trump was asked about sanctuary cities and he said only way to get rid of them is to cut off their money. we saw images of illegals being arrested, within 33 hour span arrested 460 people. there are probably more arrested throughout the day yesterday.

these are illegals that have criminal history, some are accused of sexual assault, domestic violence, drugs and weapons charges. tom homan said one had raped a child. i wish this had happened before laken riley was killed, and joslyn nungaray. 460 arrests could have mean we spared 460 families from pain. >> steve: laken riley act will be signed today or tomorrow. under that, people in the country illegally, they have notice to appear, which they think is get out of jail free card. some of the violations are low level like shoplifting and stuff like that. if they get caught under this directive and this bill, they can get sent home immediately.

>> lawrence: one last component. you get notices to appear, sometimes three years out. you have to get immigration judges confirmed to litigate cases, present evidence and if they don't qualify for asylum, but if you have people sitting in limbo, that will slow down the process. >> brian: first thing is no new cases, starting yesterday. nobody is coming through. 12 after the hour. >> steve: talking to ashley moody and she said several senate committees are considering more of donald trump's cabinet picks later this morning. >> brian: mark meredith will update the confirmation process and will they work this weekend? >> mark: we have seen democratic

senators issue stall tactics so it is likely senate will work into the weekend to get people confirmed in key posts. >> democrats have begun stalling president trump's nominees. it doesn't seem to matter who it is. right now, senator from connecticut is holding up a vote on john ratcliffe, nominated for director of central intelligence agency. intelligence committee favorably reported mr. john ratcliffe nomination on bipartisan vote. >> mark: we are expecting movement on key posts including department of veteran affairs, epa, three key jobs. and waiting to see a final vote on pete hegseth, trump's pick to lead the pentagon. it may happen late tomorrow evening. three republican senators are considered likely no votes, may

be up to vice president j.d. vance to break the tie. and hearing scheduled for r.f.k. jr.hearing set for wednesday. he'll face tough questions on his views on vaccines and abortion. hearing same day that kash patel, trump's pick to lead the fbi will appear before the senate judiciary committee. hearings are scheduled, it is more slow and steady at this point. >> brian: what is conventional wisdom, murphy doing this on his own or doing what schumer wants him to? john ratcliffe got right out of committee, he is not controversial, why are they holding him up? do they want to work this weekend? what are they trying to accomplish? >> mark: i can't imagine anybody wanting to work over the weekend. i would imagine the idea is to get public attention on some nominees and we've seen that with hearings scheduled.

idea, they can push forward quickly, maybe public does not realize what is happening, for democrats idea mights be to allow drip by drip to come out here. they may not be able to change the final result. >> lawrence: they want to get more dirt on nominees to delay the process before the final vote. >> mark: there is talk that there are national security implications and people are not in key posts as soon as possible. >> brian: we need a cia director, we would agree on that. >> lawrence: i don't understand how you cannot confirm john ratcliffe for -- to manage this agency when he managed all intelligent agencies before. >> brian: he will get it. >> lawrence: why delay it? he's done the job before, get him -- >> ainsley: r.f.k. jr. has been making rounds meeting with republican and democratic senators and telling them he has

said openly he is pro-choice, during private meetings he says he will support mr. trump's policies and is expected to be grilled on his >> jvaccine skepticism and ag policy, i think they want him on record saying i will support donald trump policies. >> brian: thousands of firefighters battling two more wildfire in los angeles county. >> ainsley: brush fire tore through 40 acres along the 405 freeway east of where palisades fire is burning. bel air and brentwood eva evacuations have -- >> steve: >> lawrence: 54,000 people in the area are under evacuation order and warning. check in with senior

meteorologist janice dean for the fox weather forecast. >> janice: third week we have wildfires burning. latest is hughes fire, it broke out yesterday afternoon and spread. we have thousands of firefighters on the scene. you can see images. we are expecting winds to start to gust this afternoon. wind gusts now 27, 24 miles per hour. yesterday when the fire broke out, winds were maybe 20 to 25 miles per hour, conditions are very dry and it will not take much to spread wildfires. wind gust for saddle peek -- peak, that is not helpful for firefighters. friday things will be elevated but toward the weekend, we have rain in the forecast. we have to get through today and

tomorrow and fire weather danger is ongoing and then we'll see moisture moving in from the pacific bringing up humidity. we want to see rain to help fire fighters, however, rain over burn areas will not be absorbed and we could have mudslides and r rockslides. we have to talk about this, incredible snow storm over texas, louisiana, mississippi, georgia, up toward carolinas, temperatures very cold. snow is not going anywhere and we hit records, all-time snowiest for new orleans, s snowiest days, we're seeing more snow in the south than in chicago and new york. so that is something we'll watch because temperatures will remain cold, that snow still on the ground. people cannot travel. i'm concerned with power outages, next few days will be

below freezing and we don't have a lot of snow removal equipment here. the fires and snow across the gulf, we'll monitor that at foxweather.com. >> brian: they have nothing. new orleans, they shut everything down for a week. that would be upstate new york, not even a delay of opening school. >> janice: big concern. we saw fun pictures of kids that have never seen snow before. we have a few days before temperatures get above freezing and i think thises start to melt. >> steve: out west, looking at the l.a. times, the attorney general is charging l.a. real estate agents with price gouging because after the wildfires, if you got a job in l.a., you need to be around there and people need a place to live to work. >> janice: ripple effect. terrible things coming from wildfires, we have to get them contained. >> brian: 9000 homes left.

>> ainsley: we interviewed a woman who said she would have to travel an hour and 15 minutes to get her child to school in brentwood and now they had a evacuation order and there is a fire in the area and kids might have to you have moo again. >> janice: terrible, three weeks we've had this dangerous situation on and off and the fires are not contained, especially the latest one yesterday afternoon. >> brian: thanks. 10 before bottom of the hour, carley shimkus has breaking news. >> carley: i do. fox news alert say seven san antonio police officers were shot last night by barricaded suspect. police got a call from a family member worried the suspect would take his own life. he opened fire on responders. the suspect was found dead by swat officers. four officers sent to the

hospital, no word on the status of the other three. 11:00 a.m. eastern time, president trump will give a virtual speech to switzerland. insider said the president will take questions from boos business executives. house speaker mike johnson sharing this video showing vice president j.d. vance awe-struck reaction after entering the oval office for the very first time. >> this is j.d. vance first time to step into the oval office. >> it is incredible. >> this is credible. >> carley: cute story here. marine who danced with vance is sharing how the vp broke the ice. staff sergeant martinez told the post vance joked, i hope you don't step on my feet. that moment made her feel more

relaxed and proved vice president has marine corps humor. each branch sent up a member to da dance. what an honor for that person. >> brian: very old school. >> lawrence: armed services ball, did you see the marine twirl melania around and what a stud, he looked back at the president. >> steve: he's his boss. >> ainsley: how did they choose those individuals, to be able to say you danced with president or melania. >> steve: brian, that will never be something you will check off. >> brian: true, i looked at my b bucket list, nothing with dancing. i never met a dance floor that did me any good. could we see a cancer vaccine as trump securing big investments in ai? we're asking someone working on

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let's say you're deep in a show or a game or the game. on a train, at home, at work. okay, maybe not at work. point is at xfinity. we're constantly engineering new ways to get the entertainment you love to you faster and easier than ever. that's what i do. is that love island? >> brian: president trump unveiling 500 billion ai infrastructure project tech leaders say will advance healthcare. >> we're going to undergo a radical trans formation with something called meta humans.

if you could activate version of brian that would go out and shop, banking, anything of this nature, you will free up your time to do more important things. your doctor will talk to you soon about a new platform that google created called amy. they have done research and ability to uncover rare ilness and disease is at a very high level now. doctors will be using that as tool to help them diagnose. >> brian: so interesting. ceo and founder of biotech company called cellus life science, which is close to a leukemia vaccine. you were here before ai, this was the focus of your company. what was your way of attacking cancer? >> we started the program 10 or 12 years ago, we wanted to do in

leukemia specifically to find the right target and found it in the fetal state, responsible for kidney formation. we are born and it disappears and causes cancer. we have to find the right target. if you think of a key lock approach. you have a lock and 100 keys, you have to try every key to unlock the door. we have to go through the process with our work. what we do, identify the target and there is epitopes, molecules on cancer cell and we prime white blood cells, t-cells to go in and kill cancer cells. it took a lot of time. we identified the right ap approach. fast-forward, we're in a position where we have done clinical studies, half of our

patients after five years did not relapse or considered cured. we have shown survival benefit and we prime the immune system and that is the key thing. our bodies, marvelously engineered, we prime the immune system to identify the cancer cells. if and when cancer cells come back, they can laser focus attack and kill cells. >> brian: when you get ai, how does this help you? you have to train ai to help you. we are in age of ai, how does it help cure cancer? >> i think it will be revolutionary decade in medicine and clinical research. ai comes into play is where it is going to allow us to do things expeditiously. if you have a patient with cancer, we can use ai to do a

sequencing and with results create specific vaccine or treatment or say this treatment will work. >> brian: from what you know, i know impossible to say for certain, how quick until we are actually curing cancer? >> i think in our case, literally on the cusp for leukemia vaccine, this year we'll have final data very soon. overall, certainly next three or four years we'll see first personalized vaccine. on the ai piece, it is important to understand that if you put garbage into this algorithm, you get garbage out. it will take a lot of effort by medical people. >> brian: like you are teaching ai to be great because you have to put all this stuff in. thank you, appreciate what you are doing, everyone is watching and everyone wants you to be

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news to report. the hughes fire is now burning into wilderness area, the state park behind me and the lake, you see embers burning. those are things firefighters are dealing with now. if winds pick up embers from areas like that can fly up to a few miles, three miles is thought to be distance embers can reach. that could get them into residential areas. as of now, firefighters appear to have this huge fire under control and burning into n nonresidential areas. it was not the same yesterday when tens of thousands of people were under evacuation orders as far south as santa clarita,

terrifying moment for people who have seen the destruction in palisades and eaton fires. there was another fire that broke out last night here in the early hours of the morning, east coast time. that was in the sepulveda area, that is close to the famed getty center and threatened very high-end homes in the bel air neighborhood of los angeles. forward progress of that fire has been stopped. the bottom line this morning, we appear to have good news on the two major fires that have been burning, but having said that, we're under red flag warning. firefighters are not letting down their guard in any way, shape or form. given destruction we saw two weeks ago in the palisades and a a ata altadena area.

president trump will be coming to the area friday. we are waiting to hear if he will meet with california governor gavin newsom. that would be their first face-to-face meeting since inauguration, if it happens. president trump told "hannity" he was not sure if he would meet the governor, the two men have different views on how the fires should have been dealt about, it will be interesting to watch president trump as he tours the damage tomorrow. bottom line, good news this morning, firefighters seem to have a grip on the two fires that broke out yesterday. back to you. >> brian: is there enough water and are the out of state f firefighters still around to help out? >> jonathan: yeah.

second question first, yes, a lot of out of state firefighters are here. the question of water, hughes fire and sepulveda fire near getty center, were textbook operation by firefighters. they seem to have a lot of aircraft in the air, fixed wing and helicopters doing the water drop, they are key in initial fight against fires. they did have plenty of water available yesterday and they really knocked them down efficiently. hughes spread over huge area of brush in the region. they were able to defend homes and here in castaic, maybe a couple structures burned but as far as i'm aware not a single family home burned during the

scorching yesterday. >> steve: that is remarkable. jonathan hunt live from castaic, 5:42 pacific time. >> ainsley: check in with carley for headlines. >> carley: start in idaho. bryan kohberger is back in court trying to get the judge to throw out nearly all evidence against him including dna evidence. bryan kohberger is pleading not guilty to four counts of murder in deadly stabings of four university of idaho students back in 2022. and the white house announcing it is dropping covid vaccine requirement for legal immigrants, protocol implemented in 2021 required those entering legally to show evidence of va x status, that did not pertain to those claiming asylum. riley gains is thanking trump

saying, three years of being black maled my husband held for chance at a green card. he has removed unjust barriers that kept families like mine in limbo. i remember that, threw them for a loop. no longer a problem. stay in the country. >> brian: thanks. president trumps our country has a lot of problems, but they can be fixed. >> president trump: with time, effort, money, unfortunately, they are all solvable. we can get our country back. if we didn't win this race, i believe our country would have been lost forever. >> ainsley: lara trump on her father-in-law's white house return, that is next.

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>> ainsley: forget the first 100 days, more like first 100 hours. president trump is back at work and feeling optimistic about the future. >> president trump: with time, money, we can get our country back. if we didn't win this race, i believe our country would have been lost forever. >> ainsley: lara trump will have a front-row seat to watch it all. good morning.

>> lara: good morning, ainsley. >> ainsley: you looked beautiful at inauguration. you worked tirelessly for the republican party. all the court cases, indictment, mug shot, impeachment, two assassination attempts, what was it like to see him last night in the oval office? >> lara: amazing, it has all been amazing. thank you to the more than people for making this a reality. so many things that you heard my father-in-law talk about with sean are things american people have been begging to have someone address. you have seen such movement. not even first 100 days, more like first 48 hours. you have seen criminals rounded up, which should have happened a long time ago. you have seen designation of foreign terrorist organization

applied to international drug cartels. s&p 500 reaching a high. ai which will revolutionize the medical industry. we will bring manufacture of vehicles back to the united states. these are things american people wanted to see happen and my father-in-law is wasting no time, he wants to hit the ground running and that is what we've seen happen. >> ainsley: part of two sean hannity with the president on "hannity" 9:00 p.m. eastern time. peter doocy said mr. president, open the drawer, is there a letter? thank you for reminding me. opens it up and decided to release contents of the letter. joe biden wrote, i wish you and your family all the best, may god bless you and guide you as

he has blessed and guided our beloved country, signed joe biden with january 20, 2025, what is your reaction? >> lara: it was a nice note, nice to see happen. it was probably hard for joe biden to write those words. this has probably been a tough time he got booted as nominee for democrats. we saw that six months ago. it is probably been a very tough time for him. that said, i think that this is something we expect to see happen. we have peaceful transfer of power. you want to wish american people and country success and that means success for the president. we appreciate that. i think it was nice to see happen and i hope we see more of that, more bipartisanship in the future, we'll take it. >> ainsley: we will, yesterday was their 20th wedding anniversary. wish the president and first

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>> lawrence: nfl ledge and player nick lowery traveled to israel to tony richardson to meet with the families of hostages still held by hamas and push their release. nick joins us now for more on their trip. thank you for joining the program. tell us about this trip. what did you learn? >> i learned that if you really want to understand the realities for jews in israel you need to go there. if you want to see the reality

for arab/israelis as well who had 12 of their ten and 11-year-old soccer players blown up by a hezbollah you realize they are full citizens. it's a beautiful place and where else does israel have to go? >> lawrence: what's the common misconception about this conflict? >> i think israel is committed to the dignity of all human beings. and i think if it was possible, which is not likely, but if it's possible for gaza to find people that respect and honor the role of parents raising their children in a world where they can grow up to be children and into healthy adults, all parents love their children, we think. that's what the world is that we need to build. that's what we'll need in gaza

to build a new place for them. >> lawrence: 30 seconds. what does america need to know about these hostages and your trip? >> i think we need to keep pressing for the hostages to come back with help of president trump to make it very clear the value that they represent for us. these are families that have been tortured with thinking every day what could be happening to their kids. i'll speak for one couple and their family what i've been through and i pray nama comes back alive in the next few days. >> lawrence: thank you for going to israel and joining the show this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> lawrence: thank you so much for joining fox and friends.