would have the opportunity. it was a once in a lifetime opportunity and i'm just full of surprises in my family for some reason and they all were just really excited. everyone. i was tuned in and just telling everyone, sharing everyone -- to everyone how it was for me. >> lawrence: that's so beautiful. >> ainsley: we're proud of you. >> lawrence: why are you proud to be an american and serve in the armed forces? >> i'm very proud. not a lot of people can do it and i'm excited to know i'm one of the few and proud to be a united states marine, sir. >> lawrence: that's what i'm talking about. thank you, sergeant. >> thank you so much. >> ainsley: so beautiful. they talked about their service in the marines together when they were on stage. >> lawrence: i love the fellow that twirled the first lady. see you all next week. >> dana: it will be the first trip of his second term. president trump about to depart for asheville, north carolina.

he will tour the damage from hurricane helene and then going to head to los angeles where he will view the utter devastation from the outbreak of wildfires. good morning, i'm dana perino. >> good morning, dana. i'm bret baier in for bill hemmer. this is "america's newsroom." today he will be consoler in chief. yesterday he put the world on notice. president trump delivering a virtual address to the world economic forum in davos. top line message. make your products in america or get hammered with tariffs and sending a message to china and russia. here is what he told sean hannity? >> you had a conversation with president xi. we have problems with them. they have territorial ambitions with taiwan, electric -- >> i had a great relationship with him prior to covid and a good relationship with him.

we had a very good relationship. i had a very good relationship with putin also. >> have you spoken to him? >> president trump: i don't want to say. >> good morning, dana and bret. president trump is making it clear he intends to stick to and carry out america first policies and world leaders are scrambling over how to respond. the topic of tariffs have dominated the conversation where world leaders are hoping for a measured approach. trump is critical of an unfair crate relationship with the european union and wants nato members to spend 5% gdp on defense that would require the defense to spend more than $1 trillion a year. he is urging vladimir putin to strike a deal with zelenskyy to end the war in ukraine. >> president trump: zelenskyy, he wants to settle now. he has had enough. he shouldn't have allowed this to happen, either. he is no angel. he shouldn't have allowed this

war to happen. >> trump is hoping china can exert its influence over russia to help stop the fienth. some democrats say trump has a window of opportunity but requires a balancing act. >> there is a window here for president trump to make a real difference for the west, for ukraine, and for the world but the way for him to do that is to communicate with putin his intention to continue robust and unrelenting support for ukraine on the battlefield. >> looking over to the middle east the white house says saudi arabia prince is looking to invest in the u.s. over the next four years. trump wants to push the figure to around $1 trillion and wants them to bring down the price of oil. he said saudi arabia could be his first foreign trip if they cough up the money. >> dana: thank you so much.

we'll have more on this with the keith kellogg, the special envoy to russia and ukraine and we'll talk to him a few minutes from now. >> bret: president trump's pick for defense secretary will know his fate by the end of today. pete hegseth's nomination clearing a key senate hurdle final confirmation vote that could put him in charge of the pentagon. aishah hosni has the latest from capitol hill. >> good morning to you. senate democrats and republicans do not come to a time agreement today we're looking at potentially a 9:00 p.m. vote on pete hegseth's final confirmation and expecting two gop senators to vote no on him because of the vote we saw yesterday. the vote where murcowski and collins voted no. collins is citing lack of experience on this. and murcowski citing lack of experience and past allegations. with just two senators out,

hegseth is expected to get the 51 republican votes he needs. that's without vice president jd vance. yesterday the senate finally confirmed john ratcliffe as president trump's c.i.a. director, 74-25. pretty hefty bipartisan vote there. he was sworn in shortly after. you might be wondering why things are moving so slow. democrats are forcing republicans to sit through a 30 hours of debate for each nom know. republicans say there is no debating going on, just democrats wasting time. at this rate kristi noem won't be taken up until sunday. president trump has brought up using recess appointments but hasn't pulled the trigger yet. >> president trump: i would be willing to use recess appointments. it's up to john. we'll see. john thune is a great senator, knows his stuff inside and out and backwards. i would use recess appointments if he wants to do that. absolutely. the democrats are just delaying.

they always delay. >> more hearings have been put on the senate schedule for some of these more controversial nominees, rfk junior on wednesday and tulsi gabbard and kash patel on thursday. busy time in the senate. >> bret: thanks. >> dana: want to bring in ohio republican senator bernie moreno. you will be working through the weekend and happy to do so to get the things done. president trump has pushed forward quickly on the immigration crackdown. call for number two here, by thursday there were 373 criminal arrests. 165 non-criminal arrests, 16 gang members picked up and 1,000 removals. donald trump said this the other night. >> president trump: you look at people pouring into this country and you know being report evidence you see the major terrorists. you know are now in our country

and they knew this was happening. and they did nothing about it. they had an open borders policy. when you have a country that's taking gang members off the street and dropping them into our country, you know nothing good is going to happen. >> dana: senator, just to put up on the screen. the president's press secretary posted this photograph on x saying the deportation flights have begun. your reaction on the immigration push right out of the gate. >> should never have happened in the first place as president trump said. it is ridiculous that these people were allowed into our country. we'll get them out of here and restore safety and security to our cities. that's what the voters expressed on november 5th and what we'll get done. >> bret: good to see you. you are now the senior senator from ohio and i wanted to ask you about the pushback you are seeing from some officials, state and local officials who say listen, this is -- we're

going to fight this federal action. the chicago mayor is one of them. take a listen. >> we are a welcoming city and sanctuary city. that hasn't changed. because of who won the election. any of the measures that the president is looking to execute against working people in the city of chicago, we will defend our city. it's just that simple. >> bret: sounds like a policy car crash about ready to happen. >> i think he is looking to get the prize as the stupidest, most ineffective mayor in american history. he is there already. he is going for extra credit. at the end of the day he has so many problems in the city. american citizens that live under terrible conditions. he should be advocating for them not illegal criminals. he is out of his mind and hopefully the voters of chicago get rid of him.

>> dana: you introduce theed a bill that focuses on asylum and reforms needed there. put it on the screen for people to see. requiring asylum seekers to file application, refusing access to those who cross illegally amongst other things. tell me a little bit about your options to try to get this done. >> as you know, we have a country that welcomes almost a million people like myself and my family to this country. what asylum does it allows people to skip the line. people who claim asylum when it is not true. they aren't fleeing persecution, they are trying to get a shortcut into the country. we need to stop that and have a legal immigration system that honors people who follow the legal process. so this is truly common sense. i'm hoping we get a lot of democrat support on this bill. >> senator, how fast do you think this immigration deportation is going to happen? if you were to project out forward. obviously dana talked about the

numbers just thursday. where do you think this goes? >> i think we'll get to the probably a goal of a million people by the end of this year, which is critically essential. we have that many already that have deportation orders on top of criminals that we don't know where they are. it will have an effect to block people from wanting to come to this country. we have to get it under controlling. the citizens of america deserve a sovereign country, secure country and that's what we'll give them. >> dana: let me ask you a little bit about the fact having to work through the weekend. chuck schumer said they will slow walk it and john thune said we can do it the hard way or the easy way. ultimately it does seem that everyone will get confirmed, at least the ones passing through committee so far. >> i came from a private sector working 90 to 100 hours a week is normal. chuck schumer, bring it on. if you want your colleagues to spend the weekend here, let's go. there are plenty of things to do in washington, d.c. we'll work through the night.

we'll work 24/7 if we need to. president trump deserves this cabinet and it is up to us to make sure he gets it as soon as possible. a nation rail security imperative. the fact that kristi noem is not in the job terrible. and pete hegseth not in the job is terrible. let's work through the weekend, chuck. >> bill: all right, senator, thanks so much for the time. >> dana: thank you. >> thank you. >> dana: president trump departing any moment to view the storm damage in north carolina. he is also accusing fema of failing the victims. former fema administrator is here to react plus this. >> she would serve you coffee with a smile and help you get a good day started. she was doing amazing at school and her only mistake was to go to bed that night. >> dana: accused murderer bryan kohberger is back in court today. the latest on his team's efforts to throw out nearly all the

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>> bret: crews making progress on the huge firing scorching los angeles county. it rapidly consumed over 10,000 acres since wednesday. evacuation orders for thousands of peoples were lifted or downgraded yesterday. right now we're told it's 36% contained. the danger isn't over yet. firefighters are battling multiple fires throughout

southern california including one near the u.s./mexico border. >> it feels like we're finally being heard for the first time in four months. trump is coming here making it his first stop that he cares and that change is going to happen. >> dana: president trump making his first trip of his term by visiting disaster zones. first stop north carolina to view hurricane recovery efforts and the slow pace and california to survey wildfire damage. trump is criticizing fema's response to the disasters under biden and now wants the agency setting to face a reckoning. jackui heinrich is live with a preview of the president's visit from north carolina. >> good morning. this community is still picking up the pieces as the president comes to visit. businesses all over are in ruins. still rubble everywhere. you can take a look in realtime. more than a million cubic yards of debris have already been collected by officials haven't touched the waterways yet. told this morning by one person

involved in the cleanup there are 2 million cubic yards of vegetation sitting in just one area of a nearby river. a big site for tourism. victims this month got sudden notice their hotel vouchers were expiring and people on the ground here say fema is not approving requests fast enough. >> president trump: i'm stopping in north carolina. first stop. those people were treated very badly by democrats and i'm stopping there and we'll get that thing straightened out. they're still suffering from months ago. >> the president said when week he wants to overhaul fema. according to his former fema administrator the system has been bogged down with bureaucracy. nearly 90 different recovery programs span 30 federal agencies creating delays and confusion at the moments when survivors and communities need swift, clear support. small policy changes are no longer enough. we need reforms that accelerate recovery, eliminate roadblocks

and equip communities to prepare for what lies ahead. conditioning aid on preparedness or shifting more burden to states are two proposals currently in congress after the california fires. trump threatened to withhold help for the state if newsom doesn't amend the water management policies. newsom will greet trump on the tarmac today. >> a lot of relationships in the trump world. a lot of relationships of trust. i communicate with a lot of folks around him. folks that have his ear and influence. so i don't -- this is a side show a lot of this stuff but i know it's a show that probably be the focus of a little bit too much tomorrow when all i care about is what we can do together. >> the aid debate could be a test for trump's dhs pick kristi noem. she was asked by democrats this

week if she would politicize requests for aid if she got such an order from trump. so much more debate ahead on this. back to you. >> dana: glad you are there for us today, thank you. bret. >> bret: the former fema administrator brock long joins us now. good morning. thanks for being here. i want to play a little bit more of president trump's interview with sean hannity specifically on fema funding. take a listen. >> president trump: the democrats don't care about north carolina. what they've done with fema is so bad. fema is a whole other discussion because all it does is complicate everything. fema has not done their job for the last four years. i would rather see the states take care of their own problems. >> bret: what about that suggestion? i know you are thinking about a proposal to possibly restructure the way fema works. >> bret, listen, unfortunately fema is immersed in a terrible

bureaucratic process. response and recovery is way too complex. 90 different recovery programs that local governments have to navigate their way through. they don't under established what they are entitled to and putting it together and use it in a manner to properly respond, recover and rebuild. i think what i would suggest to the president is put together a presidential commission to not only reform -- holistically reform fema but the entire profession of emergency management. the profession has been pi piec piecemealed together. there were several bills to revise fem yachlt it is like strapping new parts to a rusty old bicycle. we need one bill to reform and rebuild the frame. less bureaucratic. empower the governors. i totally agree with that. make fema a supplement to help

state and local governments overcome any capacity gaps that they experience during a disaster. fema should not be 911. never designed to be that. the post katrina emergency reform act made it so and it has never recovered. at the end of the day it is a very difficult disaster. >> bret: he is going to visit, the president is, north carolina still feeling the brunt of hurricane helene and california. if you look at the fema funding just over the past four years, this is x2, you go from 26.4 billion in 2021, to 33 billion and yet congress is going to have to replenish this fund pretty quickly because of all these disasters. >> right. we have to understand how to break this negative response. when i was in office over two years i had to ask congress three times for more funding into the disaster relief fund, that they granted. before we ask for more money we need to fix the system

holistically again. so i think a lot of work has got to be done. we have to stop pointing the finger at fema or the insurance companies for moving out. we have to bring the critical infrastructure and private sector together with congress and president's administration and get a system that can be phased in over time. the other thing is we have to incentivize communities doing the right thing. communities implementing building codes and proper land use planning and insuring infrastructure should be rewarded. how do we give those communities more access to education funds, transportation funds, commerce grants, whatever it may be. so we have to really rethink way we'll be resilient. >> bret: the "l. a. times" has an investigation speaking about trying to fix things on the front end. it says this. officials were warned of failing water systems before the

palisades fire and the fixes never happened. records show l.a. county missed dozens of opportunities for water infrastructure improvements that experts say likely would have helped firefighters during the palisades fire. there is a lot of reckoning to be done out in l.a. area. >> bret, here is the thing. whether it's hurricane helene in north carolina, the l.a. county wildfires taking place, what needs to be done is an exhaustive after action report to understand what led to this catastrophic disaster. whether it's water reservoirs that were not filled up to be ready to fight the fire or maybe it wasn't proper mitigation. whatever it may be, we have to uncover those things but also solve them so they don't continue to be in this repeat cycle over and over again. one of the things we have to do is completely overhaul the public awareness campaigns. the things we've been asking citizens to do over ten or 20

years are not working. i hope the president will put together a commission to redesign the system. >> bret: brock long, former fema administrator. thanks so much for the time. dana. >> dana: president trump handing 2 job of ending the war in ukraine to retired lieutenant general keith kellogg. three star general on the challenges he faces next. partners in defeat. what former vice president is reportedly asking hillary clinton after her crushing loss to donald trump. ♪

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talking to reporters on the way to marine one. let's take a listen. [shouted questions] >> president trump: thank you very much. thank you. i'm going to north carolina. a horrible way it has been allowed to fester. we'll get it fixed up from the hurricane that took place almost four months ago. north carolina has been treated very badly. we're stopping there and going to then go to los angeles and take a look at a fire that should have been put out if they let the water flow. they still haven't let the water flow for whatever reason. i think we'll have an interesting time. many of you are going with us. if you would like to have a ride on the plane we would love to give it to you. i don't know, is he going? i don't know.

i really don't know. if he is going to be there it would be cheaper. i didn't invite him. somebody did. [shouted questions] >> president trump: whatever it is, it is. he is a good man. i don't know what's going to happen. you never know with those things. pete is a good man. i hope he makes it. i hope he makes it. i was very surprised at collins and murcowski that they would do that. mitch is always a no vote, i guess. is mitch a no vote? how about mitch? he what? let's see what happens. [shouted questions] >> president trump: the march for life. we look forward to seeing it. i will be watching it. jd vance, our vice president, is

there and representing us very well. taking place in a little while and other than being a little bit cold it is a beautiful day. [shouted questions] >> president trump: we're all for it. in fact, as you know i just signed a pardon and the pardon where you released 23 people that were unjustly put in doing with pro-life. they will be out shortly. it was disgraceful. [shouted questions] >> i like her very much. let's see what happens. [shouted questions] >> bret: president trump and first lady melania trump. it is cold in d.c. as they head to marine one on the way to north carolina and los angeles and dana, talking about what he

is facing, what he is going to see on this trip as well as the chances for pete hegseth to get confirmed asking the reporters what is the deal with mitch? whether he is a yes or no vote. seems like he has the votes, hegseth does. we'll see tonight. >> dana: interesting to see the first lady is deciding to go on this. i think it is important for those victims of the hurricanes and fires to have her present is going to mean a lot. also just from a communications standpoint i would get very frustrated when joe biden would try to have an availability with the press while the helicopters spinning because you couldn't hear him. trump's voice carries and you can see, bret used to be one of those guys. there is a hunger amongst the press to ask a lot of questions and willing to answer them. >> bret: think about how many questions have been asked and answered over the last three days. more questions asked and answered as you look at air force one here than we saw from president biden probably in

months. >> dana: i think if you added it up for sure you would get to that number. the president will head to north carolina, we'll bring it to you live as he gets a briefing when he gets to asheville, north carolina. and now this. watch. >> president trump: zelenskyy wants to settle. he shouldn't have allowed this to happen, either. he is no angel. putin shouldn't have done it. putin shouldn't have done it. he shouldn't have done it and it has to stop. >> dana: president trump pushing for an end to russia's invasion of ukraine. given my next guest 100 days to broker a deal. retired general keith kellogg, special envoy to russia and ukraine. you had some back and forth between putin's people, zelenskyy, trump trying to figure out could this actually come to an end. you are at the helm, how do you rate the chances? >> hi, dana.

thanks for having me. i think will it come to an end and president trump the only guy who can do it. i talked to him earlier this morning and talked about the strategy going forward and how it will play out. he is absolutely right talking about stopping the killing. stopping the carnage. to give you a couple of examples. the major cities mariupol, a city of 500,000. think of a city like denver or atlanta, 500,000 totally destroyed. hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides. just ukraine alone, they have lost more soldiers in three years than we lost in the entire vietnam war and korean war combined. he understands the carnage and destruction. last september when they were at trump tower with zelenskyy he said it is time. it is time to end it and i think he can do it when he gets the dialogue going. the most important thing everybody needs to understand it won't end kineticly by killing each other.

it will end, he said this yesterday at davos when he made the comment there. the key role of not only diplomacy but economics as well. one example, oil. the price of oil right now is probably when you look at wti the baseline price is about $78 a barrel. russia is getting billions of dollars of money from oil sales. what if you drop that to $4five a barrel, the baseline break even point. that's why he made the comment yesterday when he was speaking to the people in davos. the president comes from it economically and diplomatically talking to the north koreans or chinese and how we finish this off. not done by killing each other. that won't work. >> dana: i want to play one thing from president trump about the meeting with zelenskyy and what he told him. watch here. >> did president zelenskyy tell you that personally? >> president trump: he is ready to negotiate a deal. he would like to stop.

he is somebody that lost a lot of soldiers. >> dana: zelenskyy cares about that. does putin care enough to come to the table? >> well, when he was talking about soldiers, i don't think the russians do. that's how they fight. they fight an attrition fight. this is a nation that was willing to lose 700,000 killed in six months in world war ii and they throw troops at it. the president comes at it differently. he understands the killing has to stop but approaches warfare differently and looks at the economics and peacetime warfare. you can't say stop the killing with putin. candidly that's not their mentality. that's not how they do things. you have to approach it a different way. the president gets into that. unlike biden as long as it takes as much as it takes it was a kinetic fight. all this military equipment and keep killing them. that's an important piece but other pieces just as important. i think the president understands that. i think he will drive that point

and i have great confidence he can bring this to a conclusion. >> dana: one last question. marc thiessen, fox news contributor and "washington post" columnist joined up with general jack keane and they have a piece today saying america must continue to arm ukraine without u.s. taxpayer dollars. one of the suggestions would be to let ukraine use frozen russian assets to buy u.s. weapons. is that on the table? >> well, that is a discussion piece. you have all these options and you want to present the president of the united states with multiple options so he can pick which one he wants to go with. we've always talked about this repeatedly of using russian frozen assets to do that, to buy u.s. arms. that's one piece of the puzzle that needs to be discussed and will be on the table with the president to talk about. but it is not the piece that will solve this. it is an interesting point and worth discussing, dana. >> dana: i'm sure you aren't short of people recommending their own ideas and i'm sure you

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>> dana: we're waiting for hamas to name the next four hostages released tomorrow as part of a cease-fire deal with israel. the first three captives were freed last week. mike tobin has more live from tel aviv. good morning, mike. >> good morning, dana. the second wave of hostages releases is expected to execute tomorrow. therefore at any time now we're expecting hamas to release the identities of who will be released. four female hostages are expected to be released including israeli soldiers. we have a pretty good idea of who to look for tomorrow.

names like this one, a female civilian hostage believed to be alive and is expected to be among those liberated tomorrow. she is held by islamic jihad and not hamas. three were soldiers. three get out tomorrow. leavey stands a good chance. a soldier who become a horrifying images from october 7th captured on video in blood soaked gray sweat pants and manhandled. hamas is supposed to reveal which hostages are alive and who is dead. the hostage releases are coupled with the release of palestinian prisoners from israeli jail around 180 palestinians should be released including people involved in the 2003 bombing of the restaurant in haifa that killed 21 people back in 2003. another deadline we keep an eye on from another cease-fire agreement won't be met. the withdrawal of israeli troops

from the south of lebanon as part of that cease-fire agreement. israel says the lebanese armed forces haven't done their part to secure the south of lebanon and prevent hezbollah from rearming in the south of lebanon. therefore the prime minister's office says the withdrawal there the south of lebanon will be gradual in conjunction with the united states but they won't hit that deadline. >> dana: we'll be watching very carefully. thank you for being there for us. bret. >> bret: president trump accusing two of the biggest american banks of discriminating against conservatives speaking over video to the world economic forum yesterday in davos, switzerland the president calling out bank of america and j.p. morgan chase specifically. >> president trump: i hope you start opening your bank to conservatives. many conservatives complained the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank and that included a place called bank of america. they don't take conservative business. and i don't know if the

regulators mandated that because of biden or what you and jamie and everybody, i hope you will open your banks to conservative. what you are doing is wrong. >> bret: joining us now fox news contributor katie pavlich. the banks quickly put out statements after the whole q & a and the statements. j.p. morgan said we have never and wouldn't close an account for political reasons and chase saying sometimes it results in decisions to exit client relationships and never close account for political reasons and don't have a political litmus test. what about this part and what the president said there? >> well, the president did mention that maybe there was some pressure from the government on these banks to debank customers and the fact is that conservatives and people in silicon valley trying to do crypto start-ups and new things that don't necessarily go with

the leftist media and leftist political ideology have been debanked. jamie dimon did a podcast where he admits look, sometimes we have to debank people but we aren't allowed to say why, which creates all of this suspicion around the question of why this seems to go only in one way when it comes to who is losing their bank accounts. we are talking about high-profile people and everyday americans and when you look at the details of the bank secrecy act and the house judiciary committee and the weaponization committee have looked into it and released extensive reports they look at flagging things like buying christian bibles. whether you purchase things at cable yeahs in a certain time period and newer regulation, a crypto investor, and he says the definition of a politically exposed person is subjective. you are seeing a lot of these

agencies and administrative state and federal government pressuring banks to eliminate bank accounts of people who they disagree with politically like the firearms industry, the crypto industry in silicon valley. >> bret: "wall street journal" writes targeting conservatives by federal regulators. when a government makes a suggestion as an order. banks may have felt compelled to close accounts without reason. the mainstream media obsessed about mr. trump's danger to democracy. by making this a public message to davos, clearly it put it on the front page and these banks responded and it is interesting to see if that produces some kind of change. >> the banks claim that they want regulations to be changed because of the rules and regulations they have around being able to tell people why their accounts were closed, the pressure that comes with closing

accounts. and there seems to be this objective nature coming from the federal regulators where they'll say well, this category is something that we find risky and therefore you need to go in and monitor your customers and if someone is risky in our opinion because of what they believe in, not because they are breaking the law, you need to make sure that you debank them, otherwise we'll subject you to hundreds of millions of dollars in fines. and so on the other side of that you have a number of attorneys general writing letters to these big banks saying you need to change your terms of service and stand up to the feds when they try and violate the privacy of your customers. you have seen a lot of this happening with the f.b.i. as well doing searches without a warrant illegally. hundreds of thousands of searches and the banks that complied with a lot of this citing these regulations because they don't want to pay the price if they are in violation of the law. the issue, one of them out of many, is that the subjective

nature of the product that these companies are selling and what their political affiliations are tend to go one way. the conversation is open now in washington as the president brought it to the global scale. this is an issue that has affected a lot of people for many, many years. >> bret: the entire speech to davos made some headlines and shook things up. katie, as always, thank you. dana. >> dana: president trump embarking on the first trip of his second term first touring a disaster zone in north carolina set to get a briefing from officials there and bring it to you live as soon as it happens. might keep us stuck on the couch. no way. ♪ if you have postmenopausal osteoporosis, and are at high risk for fracture, you can do more than just slow bone loss. you can build new bone in 12 months with evenity®. evenity® is proven to significantly reduce spine fracture risk. she said the evenity® she's taking builds new bone.

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>> bret: president trump signing an executive order killing wind power claiming they're killing whales and birds. bryan llenas has the story from long beach, new york. good morning, bryan. >> bret, good morning.

the new executive order signed by president trump stops all new leases for on shore and off shore wind energy projects on federal lands in the u.s. it also temporarily stops all existing wind projects that have already been green lit off the coast of new jersey, for instance, and here on long island, new york. now the pause will last at least until the department of interior reviews the costs and environmental impacts of wind energy. new jersey congressman jeff van drew who helped author the executive order says this about the review. >> i think it is probably going to be around six months from beginning to end. i think it will be very telling. my hope is that this will end the wind turbine industry in america forever. >> now president trump has criticized wind turbines calling them ugly, unreliable and expensive. president biden gave a billion dollars in government sub see

dees to the danish energy company back in 2023 just to see them pull the plug on two wind projects off the coast of new jersey citing the high costs. critics have raised concerns that wind turbines interfere with military radars, conservationists claim they disrupt fish migration and kill whales. noaa says the whale deaths are unrelated. 10% of america's electricity now comes from wind. >> texas, the oil capital of the world getting 22% of its electricity from the wind. iowa, 60% of its electricity coming from the wind. this has become foundational to the hartland of america. we need to keep moving forward. >> the fate of projects already under construction is uncertain. new york planned on building five wind farms. we'll see if they get there now. bret. >> bret: bryan, thank you. >> we're