>> 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.

>> bill: ice is rounding up criminal migrants and fox is getting a firsthand look. it is intriguing stuff. it's underway and we'll show you how it is going as we say good morning on thursday in new york. i'm bill hemmer. hello. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." so they are wasting no time. ice is making nearly 500 arrests in the span of 33 hours. the "new york post" cover, the ice man comes. president trump signing more executive orders including one designed to block illegal crossings and told sean hannity that joe biden's failed policies forced him to take swift action. >> why would somebody say that open borders are good? where jails and mental institutions and gang members off the streets from the toughest cities in the world are being brought to the united states of america and emptied out into our country? why would anybody that even likes -- you don't have to love our country, you have to like

it. why would anybody that likes our country, the democrats, allow that to happen? and even now, they're trying to justify it. you can't justify it. >> bill: the ice raids taking place in many parts of the country including the sanctuary city of boston. that's where bill melugin went on an exclusive ride along with ice. bill joins us to tell us what he found and what he saw. bill, good morning. >> good morning to you as well. in the early days of this new trump administration, ice officials tell me they are taking what they call a worst first approach meaning they will target the worst of the worst criminal alien offenders first. we were given exclusive access to join the elite ice team right here in boston as they go into sanctuary juris dick shuns and enforce immigration law. >> good morning, everyone. >> a frigid five degrees in the pre-dawn hours just outside of boston where this team of elite

ice officers is briefing on their targets for the day. >> we'll target extremely violent offenders today. >> within moments the officers are on the move with eyes on their first target. >> looks like we have movement. target vehicle coming up. >> they quickly take him into custody. an ms-13 gang member wanted in el salvador for aggravated murder and an interpol red notice out for his arrest. >> we're targeting very violent threats to our community. >> i'm not going back to haiti. >> this illegal alien from haiti. ice says he is a gang member with 17 criminal convictions in recent years. >> biden forever. thank obama for everything he did for me. >> ice boston quickly takes down its next targets including this illegal alien from brazil who has an interpol red notice for armed robbery. this salvadoran illegal alien

charged with rape and released. and this dominican illegal alien charged with heroin trafficking. officers arrested this guatemala guatemalan ms-13 gang member released from local custody the day before. their detainer request was ignored because of sanctuary policies. in a sign of shifting priorities with the new trump administration, this man, who was in the same apartment as the target, was also arrested after ice determined he is also in the u.s. illegally. this is what ice calls collateral. >> you guys got your main target now but you got somebody else. what just happened? >> target was released by a sanctuary jurisdiction not honoring a detainer, that person was released back into the community and when we went to find him he is with somebody else who was previously removed from the united states. so he will go today, too. >> that's exactly what border

czar tom homan has warned would happen. >> when we find the bad guy he is probably with others. others in the united states illegally. they may not be a criminal priority but we aren't walking away from them. >> they will continue to go into sanctuary jurisdictions and do their jobs. >> today was a good day. we took several public safety threats out of our community. a lot were released by sanctuary policies but we're here to tell the commonwealth and the rest of the country that we will find them whether they are released or not. >> guys, shortly after we finished filming ice boston said they arrested two mortar gets in other parts of town away from cameras. one is a previously-deported honduran illegal alien arrested for raping a woman while putting a gun in her mouth. the other target is a haitian man who flew into the united states in 2023 as part of president biden's controversial

migrant flights mass parole program. they picked him up yesterday because he has been arrested locally for sexual assault. we'll send it back to you. >> dana: bill melugin. it was fascinating to watch all of that. i was saying to bill, this is terrible for joe biden and the legacy that he tried to leave behind. question from me. how soon will they be leaving the country? does it take a long time? >> it depends what country they're from. if they're from cooperating countries like el salvador, guatemala, it can be quick within days or weeks. if it's countries harder to deport, countries that don't cooperate with the u.s. as much go into a process of months. the trump administration is changing policies with expedited removal. bottom line is people at home don't need to understand the policies. the trump administration will work as fast as they can to get all the people you saw on camera out of the country as fast as possible. also going to use their state department now led by marco

rubio to put pressure on countries that don't cooperate with the u.s. as much when it comes to deportations. >> bill: two points of clarification here. seems a lot of these crimes are associated with sex crimes. i'm looking at the list a bit earlier today. i don't know if that is generally the case or not. second, if boston is a sanctuary city how are they allowed to do this? we were told there would be resistance. >> boston doesn't have to cooperate with ice but nothing they can do to stop ice from coming into their city and enforcing the law and what happened yesterday and the point ice makes to us. look, they don't have to cooperate with detainer requests, they don't have to tell our officers when they are releasing somebody from jail. but we will do our job. we have our intel guys in the field. we have people with eyes all over the place and we'll snatch those guys. they can make ice's job more difficult, longer and more dangerous but it won't stop ice from doing the job. bottom line is ice says it is safer for everybody involved if

locals would hand these guys over in jail once arrested but they don't. they let them out onto the streets and don't tell ice about it. ice has to spend a lot of resources gathering intel finding these guys and thening out into the community to do arrests which could be dangerous. you saw the combative haitian man and in the case of that one ms-13 member his friend got snagged. they were looking for the ms-13 guy. they picked him up. ice found him and the guy in the apartment and found out he was an illegal alien as well and now he will be deported, too. >> dana: thank you so much. more to come on that. trump's immigration crackdown hitting other democrat-led cities. agents are targeting migrants with horrific criminal histories. in new york city alleged ms-13 gang member and one arrested for child pornography. one in san francisco with a

previous sex crime conviction as well. you see the pattern again, bill. law enforcement in blue cities are vowing to resist the crackdown. new york attorney general james saying this. new york will not be bullied into breaking the law in order to fulfill a campaign promise. we'll not sit idly by and allow the constitution to be undermined. philadelphia district attorney crass demur adding arrests and prosecutions are based on probable cause not on whether you agree or disagree with a political position. >> mandatory evacuation order is in effect. this is the los angeles county sheriff's department. mandatory evacuation orders in effect. >> bill: thousands evacuating as a new fire scorches northern los angeles county, the hughes fire swelling up to more than 10,000 acres. now there is a smaller firing

erupting along the busy 405 freeway near the neighborhood of bel air. jonathan hunt has a latest in castaic, california. where are we now before the sun comes up? >> bill, we're at the end of what has been another terrifying 24 hours for tens of thousands of residents. we have a little bit of good news this morning. the hughes fire, the biggest that you mentioned, 10,000 acres so far burned, seems to be dissipating now. as you look across what is castaic lake in front of us you can see the far side some of those embers still burning but it is now firefighters got it burning into what is essentially a wilderness area away from the tens of thousands of homes that they did have concerns about yesterday. so it was not the case through most of yesterday as those flames raged through this area

forcing all of those people to evacuate and everybody taking evacuation orders now very seriously in the wake of what we've seen in the l.a. area over the last couple of weeks, of course. but yes, good news this morning, also the other fire you mentioned, the sepulveda fire, that was near the iconic getty center. also near some very high-and homes in the bel air area of los angeles. but forward progress on that fire has also been stopped. in both cases the use of air assets, aircraft and helicopters dropping fire retardant and water were key. the winds were strong but not strong enough to keep the aircraft grounded. that was the big difference two weeks ago in the palisades fire where we ended up seeing so much destruction, of course, and indeed in altadena east of l.a. where they could not get the aircraft up in the air as well. president trump, of course, bill, is due to visit california

tomorrow, friday, and take a look at the destruction. there will, of course, be a lot of questions, political questions, as he argues with governor -- california governor newsom about what could and perhaps should have been done to be better prepared for those kind of fires. whether the two men, the governor and the president will meet tomorrow, we don't know yet. president trump told sean hannity just yesterday he didn't even know if he was going to meet governor newsom when he comes here. it will be a fascinating visit and fascinating to hear what the president has to say about california's preparations for these fires. the good news again this morning, bill, firefighters did once again an incredible job yesterday and through the overnight hours and seem to have the upper hand on both of these most recent fires, bill. >> bill: wow. >> dana: jonathan hunt, thank you so much. >> bill: let's hope for a good

forecast into friday and the weekend. get a handle on it. at the moment several of president trump's cabinet nominees are back on the hill for more confirmation hearings including lee zeldin to head the epa. we'll watch and bring you updates as they come to us today. >> dana: the trump administration preparing an executive order on gain-of-function research and how the medical community is reacting this morning. >> bill: if you made breakfast the price of eggs skyrocketed. what the white house should do about it. talk to maria bartiromo live in davos where the president is about to give a virtual address. what will he say and how will that be received? don't go away.

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>> bill: first 100 days rolling on now. president trump sitting down exclusively with our sean hannity for his first one-on-one interview in the oval office since going back to the white house giving us a glimpse of his first days back there in washington. >> let's talk about the moment you walked back in this office, this desk, this room, your carpet, how did you feel? >> president trump: it was a lot of work and as you know, i felt that we shouldn't have had to necessarily be here. >> it was after the 2020 election. the question you asked me maybe in the end it will be better if i came back in four years. >> president trump: it's turning out to be bigger. i think one thing is happening is people are learning that they can't govern and that their policies are terrible. >> you are inheriting a lot of problems. a lot of things that scare me.

>> president trump: they are all solvable problems. they are all solvable. >> not easy. >> president trump: with time, effort, money, unfortunately but they are all solvable problems. we can get our country back. >> bill: turns out to be bigger. i think we can probably marinate on that comment there that he gives. >> dana: i think history might show that. they come back, know exactly what they want to do. people saw what happened under biden. biden leaves so unpopular and with all these problems that sean hannity mentioned that are on the plate and then you see how we led our show with bill melugin saying american people said immigration was one of their top issues and we're not even through the first full week of the presidency and they're already taking -- >> bill: i assume he had a list of problems and trump said they are all solvable. great video of jd vance being led into the oval office for the first time ever. quite a moment for him.

cool to see. >> dana: we'll follow that and more trump to come on this front. global business and political leaders on the edge of their seats as they await president trump's speech this morning in just over an hour trump will give a remote address before the world economic forum and this comes as he threatens major economic policy changes including tariffs. fox business's maria bartiromo joins us live from davos, switzerland. watching your coverage and the lead-up to today's speech, tell us about the vibes there in davos. >> well, good morning to you, dana. look, there are two main topics being discussed here in davos. number one, president trump. everyone is talking about new leadership in america and the incoming policies that we are going to see president trump execute. in fact, i spoke with the president of microsoft earlier, brad smith. he said they now have executive order envy in europe because

they don't have executive orders and they all want to adopt trump's policies of deregulation in particular. so european leaders are looking at what's going on in america and president trump's leadership and they want to adopt similar strategies to get their economy moving. many people told me they have never seen the kind of optimism that they see today in america. you know that president trump has announced $1.1 trillion of new investment in america in the first four days. 600 billion from the saudis and a $500 billion star gate project around artificial intelligence, a.i. the two topics being discussed in davos, number one, president trump. number two, a.i. with the major $5 hundred billion project. they are talking about deregulation, extending the tax cuts. tapping into energy potential in america. people want to invest in america

and i've never seen this kind of optimism before. >> dana: is it possible that donald trump will talk today about tariffs and jamie dimon said something like this about it. watch. >> people -- inflationary and non-inflationary. if it's a little inflationary but good for national security so be it. get over it. national security trumps over inflation. >> dana: you hear that as well. >> that's exactly what i'm talking about. everybody is coming around to president trump. jamie dimon wasn't always a big fan. now he is defending trump's policies in every interview he does. why? because he understands the impact that deregulation will have. that's why you are seeing such interest in america and investment in america. yes, people talk about tariffs as something to watch, perhaps a worry. the "wall street journal" wrote a lot about that. also a feeling that trump's policies are actually

anti-inflationary. deregulation is actually anti-inflationary. as you know, the president uses tariffs something of a weapon. he uses it as leverage. he wants china to stop the fentanyl coming into america. he will tariff china until the fentanyl stops. he wants to be treated fairly. the europeans do not buy our cars. they do not buy our agriculture. he wants a fair and reciprocal trade situation and put tariffs on to make it. he uses tariffs as leverage. i'm not worried about tariffs. >> dana: over the last few years since i've been doing "america's newsroom" and had a chance to learn from you you talk a lot about food prices. put them up for everybody to see. food prices under president biden were way up and one of the big factors in the election. now we see even eggs are still going up and year-over-year up 36.8%. part of that has to do with the bird flu. when can people expect to see some relief on this front? >> well, it will happen sooner

than you think. you are right, it does have to do with the potential shortage of eggs right now because of that bird flu. we all know why inflation skyrocketed. $7 trillion in spending sent inflation skyrocketing up to 9.1%. it has come down since then but still talking about all the numbers you have there in the double digits. the plan, president trump will tap into the energy capacity in america. he talks about it drill, baby, drill all the time. what does it mean? more oil onto the global market pushes prices down. oil prices, supply and demand. get oil prices down, that reins in inflation. at some point you'll see all the prices come down because the cost of transportation will be down because the cost of oil is going to come down. that's the plan president trump is going to execute.

i suspect we will see inflation get better in the coming months. >> dana: maria bartiromo, have fun over there. be safe, come back and see you when you return. thank you. >> thank you so much, dana. see you then. >> dana: have a good day. >> bill: enjoy. new wildfire erupting in los angeles forcing thousands to evacuate their homes yet again. so we'll watch this and bring you there live and get you the latest in a moment. democrats putting up roadblocks delaying the confirmation of trump's nominees. are they violating the will of the american voter? >> trump won the election, won the popular and electoral votes and needs to put his team together. the democrats are just obstructing. ating odor and killing 99.9% of viruses and bacteria in the air. scent can't sanitize. lysol can.

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>> bill: more action from d.c. 9:30 in new york. congress sending the laken riley act to president trump's desk poised to be the first bill he will sign into law for his second term.

the house passed it yesterday 263-156. a lot of democrats voted for it. the bill directs ice to detain illegals accused of theft and empowers states to sue dhs for harm caused by illegal immigration and permits deportation of illegals who harm others or assault police officers. laken riley was murdered by an illegal immigrant on the university of georgia campus in athens. >> dana: lawmakers are getting ready to vote some nominees out of committee. doug collins, lee zeldin, and doug burgum, former governor of north dakota for interior secretary coming as democrats drag their feet on other nominations namely john

ratcliffe as cia director and pete hegseth as defense secretary. as delays continue president trump isn't ruling out recess appointments to fill vital positions. aishah hosni is tracking this on capitol hill. two days ago senator thune said we can do it the hard way or the easy way. looks like the hard way? >> recess appointments are still on the table according to president trump's closest allies here on capitol hill. but we aren't there just yet. senators aren't too keen on that. here is what's going on on the senate floor right now. so democrats are jamming up activity on the senate floor by forcing that 30-hour debate rule for trump's nominees. senator chris murphy invoked it for john ratcliffe and it is strange because he got a bipartisan vote in his committee. ratcliffe was supposed to get his confirmation vote yesterday. it will happen today instead. if democrats continue with this delay tactic for each and every

single nominee, well, sit back and get comfortable. this will take a while. the senate floor is like a one-track train station. the next train cannot arrive in f the first one hasn't left. pete hegseth wouldn't get a vote until late friday night. kristi noem sometime sunday. president trump could try to trigger the recess appointments but it comes with a cost. number one, it will blow up the senate's longstanding advise and consent process. nobody wants to see that. recess appointments are temporary. senators are just not about it. >> the problem is the recess we have to be recessed for ten days and if we do put them into recess, they cannot get paid and they are only temporary until the next congress starts. not ideal but a possibility. >> one more quick thing on the hegseth nomination. when the vote happens keep your eyes on three gop senators, mcconnell, collins and

murcowski, sources are telling us those three could possibly vote no on him which would mean that vice president jd vance would have to come back here to capitol hill and break the tie. dana. >> dana: that's how it works and aishah hosni, thank you. >> bill: how long do we stay in the slow lane? axios hans nichols. good morning to you. you have been all over this story. listen to senator james langford out of oklahoma. >> we will get pete hegseth done this week and kristi noem done this week and john ratcliffe the head of the c.i.a. done this week. those are national security related individuals. we are going to 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 be able to get them done. >> bill: he said that with conviction and ratcliffe came out of committee 14-three. what comes next? >> it's the definition of what is a week. the senator's definition of the

week is sunday, he might be right. general way of think about this is republicans think they have the votes. they aren't entirely certain but think they have the votes at least on most of the nominees. tulsi gabbard is the one question mark that republicans have. they don't want to spend the time so they have the votes and it is a question of how much clock you want to eat up. it gets us back to the arcane senate procedures on you have to have an intervening day, 30 hours of debate. the 30 hours of debate can be cut to 15 if republicans go quickly and use their time and don't do any delaying and stalling. the general feeling among senior senators and senior trump transition officials that ratcliffe is a lay-up and hegseth gets through with the caveat you have jd vance waiting on the sidelines and he could be called up this weekend to break the tie. >> bill: kamala harris did that for four years. that was the beat, right? >> yeah. for kamala harris it restricted

her. remember, democrats margins were smaller. especially in the first two years and then 50/50 and then 51/49. for kamala harris it restrained her ability to do what vice presidents do. travel the world instead of the president and go to funerals and state events. generally stand as a stand-in for the president. so yes, kamala harris had to be on a short leash. even just to be close to the senate. for vance it probably only matters with the first round of nominations and then for the next four years -- depending how the senate goes in the mid-terms he will be -- >> bill: what is the net effect of that on trump's ambitions and his agenda? if his folks are slowed down is the agenda slowed down yes or no? >> probably not. it is probably more annoyance. as aishah was hinting at there is the threat of a recess appointment. it is just annoyance.

jd vance may have his weekend blown up but not alter the trajectory of the trump presidency. not so great for the vance kids if they expect pancake saturday morning in the new home up there. in general, this is sort of procedural and eating up clock, not debilitating the agenda. >> bill: they don't like to work weekends. we'll see how that goes down. thank you, sir. we're watching it. thank you for coming on. >> dana: another big story in america. a blizzard blasting the gulf coast paralyzing travel and burying the south under record breaking snow. powerful winter storm is sweeping from texas to florida and the carolinas. thermometer is struggling to climb above freezing. states are reporting death from highway crashes and stranded cars. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: so this is know joke.

philadelphia eagles selling cartons of dirty snow against the los angeles rams sunday. the eagles won and sending them to the nfc championship. the pints went for $50 and snow sold out in less than three hours. >> bill: that's some fans, right? >> dana: i don't understand. what will you do with that? don't drink it. >> put it on the shelf. in the south however it is serious stuff. we were talking last night about interstate 10 that runs across the panhandle into alabama. they still today as of this morning have several -- 200 miles of i-ten remain closed. that means the ice is still down there. they can't get it to melt. temperatures aren't rising high enough. makes it very uncomfortable for folks for now. >> dana: difficult for them to get around. they don't have equipment. we'll pay attention. >> bill: awaiting a court hearing for bryon kohberger

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>> bill: breaking news on the hill want to share it with you. house republicans at the microphone introducing a bill today that will limit birthright citizenship. now, there has already been a legal challenge to this idea from numerous states this week. the president is committed to

making an issue of this so we'll see where it goes and wanted to share that action from the hill. happening right now. 15 minutes now before the hour. >> president trump: we have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made and panama's promise to us has been broken. the purpose of our deal and the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated. >> bill: secretary of state marco rubio will travel to panama as early as next week. going to be his first trip as the nation's top diplomat. president trump threatening to take back the canal claiming it is being operated by china. president of panama says that, however, is a false claim. so we'll watch this story and watch the new secretary of state. >> dana: he will be traveling the world. fascinating to watch. u.n. is sounding the alarm on iran. the organization's nuclear watchdog says tehran is pressing the gas pedal on its enrichment

of uranium. dan, what do we need to know about this? >> well, what we're seeing from iran are conflicting messages. their vice president has been very conciliatory and denying that iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon. iran's actions be lie those public statements. iran is a nuclear threshold state. one to two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon. what i see from iran right now is just the leverage of being a nuclear threshold state. they want negotiations. i don't think they want a wider war that they would precipitate if they pursued a nuclear weapon in the weakened state that iran finds themselves in after israel decimated proxies hamas and hezbollah and air defenses. as long as iran hasn't pursued the nuclear weapon they have leverage to enter into negotiations with the trump administration. >> dana: if they are feeling weak wouldn't it make sense to accelerate uranium enrichment so

they could have more leverage? >> absolutely. that's what they are doing. they will go right up to the point of having a nuclear weapon because they desperately need relief for their failing economy, their currency is in freefall. they want to strike a deal but the concern for the united states and our allies is if we do strike a deal it will give iran more money to resupply their proxy terrorists, the houthis, hezbollah and hamas. so we have to be concerned about that as well. this is going to test the incoming trump administration. they have a lot of just dangerous threats to our national security left over from the previous administration, the shortest fuse, terrorism as we saw on new year's day but this one is a significant one and the administration wants to expand the abraham accords which likely would not be possible in the event of a wider war. >> dana: let's move to russia and ukraine war. president trump putting this out last night on truth social.

i am going to do to russia whose economy is failing and president putin is big favor. settle now and stop this ridiculous war. it will only get worse. if we don't make a deal soon i have no other choice but to put high levels of taxes, tariffs on sanctions and anything be sold by russia to the united states and various other participating countries. u.s. imports from russia about 14.4 billion in 2022. down to 2.8 billion in 2024. so he is telling putin, you better make a deal or there will be some problems. >> yeah, i think the president is preparing the battle space albeit diplomatically in this case. the fact that our imports from russia have severely decreased is important but it is important that those imports could very well go right back up to $29 billion which is what they were in 2021 if we eliminated the sanctions. that's what the president is saying.

the war has been incredibly costly to russia, hundreds of thousands of casualties and a brain drain of over a million russians who have fled the country. putin will be a tough negotiator. he wants to strike a good deal and insure that ukraine has no ability to defend themselves or protect their sovereignty from the united states perspective the last thing we want is for ukraine to fall under russian dominance and for putin's shadow to be cast over europe and threaten the trillion dollars worth of trade we enjoy with europe. another one that will test the administration's ability to strike the art of the deal to protect our national security interests. >> dana: we need to keep an eye on retired general kellogg who our audience knows well. he is there to try to figure all of this out. >> godspeed, general kellogg. this is going to be a tough one. he has had an incredible career going back to serving in vietnam. he has got a great team behind him and we'll see him engage in

discussion and negotiation. this is going to take some time. the trump administration has said don't expect anything for as much as 100 days and that's a good amount of time for general kellogg to get up to speed and to start making an impact. >> dana: dan hoffman, thank you so much. have a great day. we'll be in touch. >> thank you. you, too. >> it's tragic. i was looking at all the houses that burnt down and i almost -- it was tragic. i had to stop here and i had to see if anyone needed help because to have your house burn down like that is just sad. >> bill: that was just yesterday. you have two new fires scorching l.a. while the residents real from the recent devastation we're live back on the ground in a matter of minutes there in california. plus the next trump/musk challenge is the planet mars. is this the start of the next space race? ♪

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>> today my grandpa becomes president of the united states again. let's go. [cheers and applause] >> dana: first granddaughter revealing behind the scenes footage of the inauguration. a special girl. she posts regularly about her family and the president. when she spoke in july she called him just a normal grandpa. she is cheerful and fun to watch. president trump naming a new director for the secret service. sean curran was served on trump's personal security detail and became well-known because of this. one of the agents who rushed onto the stage and shielded trump during the assassination attempt against him in butler, pennsylvania last july.

former secret service director cheatle resigned and now a new leadership will be if place. >> bill: all eyes on space race. it's back. this time to the red planet. president trump setting his sights on mars. elon musk is pushing for this. griff jenkins live in d.c. with more on what is expected next. nice to see you. good morning. >> the race is onto the red planet. china is determined to beat us, as the old saying goes if there is a will there is a way and president trump highlighted that in his inaugural speech. watch. >> president trump: we'll pursue our man fest destiny into the stars launching american astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet mars. ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation. and right now our nation is more ambitious than any other. >> this comes as china announces plans to launch a mission to become the first nation to

collect and return samples from mars by 2028. that's ahead of nasa projections who acknowledged its own mission is over budget and behind schedule with a launch date after 2030. aerospace experts say the u.s. may have a private sector advantage that china don't. >> if we look at what elon musk said spacex will start sending starship rockets to mars in 2026. an opportunity to be a force multiplier with what spacex is doing and allow nasa and u.s. government to take advantage of something that spacex is already planning to do. >> pulling this mission off before china won't be easy or cheap and require a significant redirection of effort and resources by nasa to accomplish it. it would be a history-making defining achievement for america if they do. >> bill: sure would. something to watch. we probably watch it live on tv. the way musk has gone.

thanks, griff, live in washington. nice to see you. >> dana: president trump is stirring things up in washington and doing it fast. cutting through years of biden bureaucracy through dramatically reshape the federal government moving at warp speed to keep his campaign promises. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: good morning. quite a week. >> dana: you don't get to be shown where the bathroom is. straight to work. >> bill: bill hemmer, good morning at home. president trump unleashing a tidal wave of executive orders. a lot at stake because of it. trump says it will take time, money and effort to fix many of the problems inherited from president biden. but he believes they can all be solved >> dana: in his first sit-down interview trump told hannity he got back to the white house just in the nick of time. >> it was the second time in history somebody didn't have consecutive terms. >> president trump: they say it's historically bigger. i don't know about that. but i can say it showed us a couple of things. it showed us