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rachel: good morning, everybody. that was your national anthem, and we were all just oohing and ahhing over the pictures -- jason: yes, the flag with the snow in the background? i saw ron desantis and his wife and kids out in front with a snowman in florida, it was crazy. rachel: we're going to get started by but, by the way, i never shared photos of the inauguration with you guys, in the next hour or two -- charlie: but we saw plenty of them. your family was the most photogenic family -- [laughter] rachel: i think valentina if took the cake there, but we'll try and share some of those,

because we're still sort of basking in the inauguration. there's a lot of news to get to. charlie: trump is celebrating after getting two key members sworn into office. rachel: that's right. but three more are up for their own hearings. jason: madeleine rivera is in washington with the details. good morning, madeleine. walk us through what's happening. >> reporter: you got it. pete hegseth was sworn in as a defense secretary and kristi noem as homeland security secretary. hegseth was surrounded by his family for the ceremony. he thanked vice president j.d. vance for casting the tie-breaking vote on friday after all democrats and three republicans, senators more cows city, collins and mitch mcconnell rejected him. >> we will bring peace through strength. and the three principles are what we will bring to that pentagon. restore the warrior ethos in everything that we do, rebuild

our military and reestablish deterrence. we don't want to fight wars. >> reporter: after a scheduling conflict, south dakota governor kristi noem was sworn in at the home of justice clarence thomas. noem posted this void owe -- rather, photo of the ceremony on x. and seven democratic senators joined republicans to -- here's trump praising the confirmations. >> by the way, pete hegseth got approved. [cheers and applause] if kristi noem just got approved, governor. she's going to keep it -- [cheers and applause] if she's tough. she's a tough one. she's a tough one. and she's going to do a great job. >> reporter: there are more confirmation if hearings scheduled for this week. the first hearing for health and human services nominee robert f. kennedy jr. will be held on wednesday, fbi director nominee and director of national intelligence nominee tulsi gabbard scheduled to appear before their respective

committees on thursday. all three face an uphill battle, but a patel has called for changes at the fbi. charlie, rachel and jason. rachel: thank you, madeleine. not up there, sean duffy if on tuesday. i believe they're going the vote for him. at least i've been told by some good sources. charlie: out of committee, on the floor. rachel: on the floor. charlie: nice. rachel: but interesting, pete hegseth, congratulations. he's out. some of the senators who didn't society for him voted for rachel levine. it's just kind of invisible if you -- incredible if you think about it. if you remember rachel levine from hhs, he thinks he's a woman, i guess. jason: yeah. they voted for fauci, they voted for a lot of these people. their support is just mystifying to me because i think they made a great case.

also john ratcliffe, excited to have him at the cia director. he's out. in that position he immediately releases a report that i found fascinating and i know we're going to talk about later. rachel: yeah. it did come out of the lab. jason: yeah. [laughter] and that was the cia you should biden. rachel: i didn't need to be in the cia to get that one. [laughter] charlie: yeah, exactly. they have a firm grass. of the obvious. rachel: yeah. charlie: but it is kind of interesting because with, of course, everybody's talking about rfk, tulsi gabbard and kash patel being sort of the biggest boulders to get up the hill. but, of course, appreciate last week people were talking about pete pete leg and kristi noem. they -- pete hegseth. they both turned in tremendous performances during their hearings and did everything they needed to get through. they're going to be great hearings. i can't wait. rachel: well, it's interesting too because you have bobby kennedy and tulsi gabbard who

are also democrats concern. charlie: exactly. rachel: so what do they do with that, and what exactly is it that they don't like about these guys? in the case of bobby, they don't like that he's up against big pharma and big corporations. and tulsi gabbard, you know, she's someone who's willing to give peace a chance. i guess that's not a democrat value anymore. jason: can we just call out daniel driscoll? i am giving him a solid shout-out on thursday, secretary of the army, when you put up your eighth grade picture, i don't know him, but he's going strong with that picture. rachel: he's definitely the doogie house hauser of the army -- [laughter] charlie: he just walked in from splitting system firewood, and he's glad to be there. jason: yeah. be the best eighth grade secretary of the army that we've ever had. with all drew respect -- due

respect. charlie: seriously. i kind of admire that. getting the glam shot is not what -- jason: if you were nominated, there's no way you're clipping on tie -- charlie: i'd be wearing shorts. no, i admire that. that's called having your priorities straight right there. jason: i'm all in with daniel. rachel: somebody who has their priorities straight is donald trump. so during the biden administration, biden decided there weren't enough irs agents -- [laughter] and so he devoted millions and millions of dollars to hire, what, 900 or 80,000 more of them, charlie? was it 80,000 more? charlie: yeah. rachel: donald trump said let's just send them to the border. i.c.e. enforcement update, 1,417 arrests so far. 1,243 detainors lodged. so her making some headway on -- already making system headway on

the border. charlie: this is called big picture thinking, cans what you get with donald trump. we don't need all these new irs agents. let's send them9 to the border, and since they already have guns, they can protect the border -- rachel: i didn't know irs had guns until he hired -- what? jason: here's the problem, they've put them into these administrative issues filling out paperwork. if you've got to fill out paperwork, where better to go than to an irs agent? put the border agents back on the border. i think it's great. those if numbers we were just talking about, that's since thursday. remember, donald trump hasn't been in office even one week yet, and look at all the action that he's having. i love -- at first, i was, like, wait, the irs at the border? >> but now it makes a lot of sense. rachel: yeah, i was like, let's just fire them. but i love what you're saying. have them do the paperwork.

get them to do the paperwork, let the border patrol take the gun and get down to the border and do what they're supposed -- charlie: and, of course, they're catching the worst of the worse including three tren de aragua members whose names i'm not even going to begin -- rachel: i'll take it from here, charlie. charlie: you handle it. rachel: [speaking spanish] if an unnamed 36-year-old -- car shar i could have gotten the last one. rachel: unnamed venezuelan. charlie: i would have nailed that. rachel: you nailed it. these are trend day a rag what. no one on the left are or the right should be able to argue with getting these gang members out. and if as we've had joseph cue meyer with on many times, an expert in latin american security, saying these are not normal gang members. this is -- they are state-sponsored, they're extremely violent. he says even more violent than

ms-13. imagine that the. and they've been pouring in as donald trump said since they've emptied these prisons on purpose in venezuela. and so they're getting these guys out. jason: yeah. america is safer by extracting these people. and go ahead bless the men and and women in uniform who are risking their lives to go in and take these people out. you've got to to assume they're heavily armed and they don't want to leave. yesterday we looked at a video of a guy who was just irate and and, you know what? keep after it. rachel: donald trump actually talk talked about these gang members leaving our country yesterday in las vegas. listen. >> throughout this week the heroes of i.c.e. have been hunting down and arresting hundreds of illegal aliens -- [cheers and applause] and it's immediateexpulsion including those with charges of

convictions for rape, child sexual assault, terrorism and even murder. members of the savage venezuelan prison gang known as trend day rag georgia -- tren de aragua, you know what gang? this is not a mice group of people. they form in prison and then they dumped them into our country. they're as bad as the america s-13 gangs that we have gotten thousandsthousands the of them out. charlie: it's so diabolical, they will purposefully get arrested and go into prisons so that they can recruit new members in the prison and serve time. it's one thing for gangs to do drugs, but when you're doing straight up human smuggling, straight up human slavery, it's a whole different level -- rachel: child -- they are running the child sex trafficking as well. charlie: yep. rachel: so no one's going to to miss them. and good for donald trump for prioritizing deportations and getting really heinous bad guys out. charlie: and willing to find them anywhere.

it doesn't matter. like, the biden administration had all these rules where you weren't allowed to go to get them, and it makes no sense. and trump is like, nope, we're going to get them where we are.. -- where they are. turning now the your headlines. secretary of state marco rubio is demanding details threatening taliban leadership last night posting on x, quote, if this is true, we will immediately place a very big bounty on their top leaders, maybe even bigger hand the one he had -- we had on bin lad aren. the two remaining hostages were not part of the the earlier hostage swap this week that saw the terrorist group hand over two american prisoners. house speaker mike mike johnson inviting president trump to address a joint session of congress in a few weeks marking his first opportunity to deliver remarks to lawmakers since being sworn into office. in the letter johnson's asking the president to the join both

chambers of congress on march 4th. trump has not yet confirmed whether he will attend. on the football, seven-time super bowl winner and fox nfl analyst tom brady giving his prediction for today's mfc championship between the eagles and the commanders -- nfc. >> we'll see how the injuries in the eagles' secondary, if mitchell can play, how that affects them. certainly, the eagles are the favorite for a reason. they've had an incredible season, so if the eagles play well, you know, i the they've moving on -- i think they're moving on. charlie: brady will be in philly today to call the game as the two teams fight for the chance to go to super bowl lix in new orleans. coverage today begins at3 p.m. eastern on fox. and those are your headlines. rachel: all right, guys. well, there's a lot of annoying things that people do when they bo to work, and there has been a study revealing all the a

annoying habits that with who -- coworkers do that make their other coworkers upset. but get this, one of them is not being late. apparently that's just part of work life -- charlie: yeah. that's also called just being on time. that's, like, your job -- jason: all decency -- rachel: but they're saying that's not nowing -- a annoying. charlie: annoying was never the problem with that. the problem is you're supposed to be on time at work. rachel: that's true. does that count for latin women? [laughter] i'm not late to this job. this is a morning job. charlie: you're never late. rachel: but everything else in my life -- charles: -- charlie: in fact, if you want manager done, ask rachel to do it. rachel: but there are other has beens that they say are more annoying than showing up late. here they are. not cleaning up after yourself. gossipping. use of inappropriate language.

charlie: good one. rachel: being late to a meeting and not responding to messages. which one do you guys think is the most annoying of those up there? charlie: you have to pick your moments for vulgarity. [laughter] jason: i hate it when people clip their fingernails at work and i can hear it. rachel: i've never heard that. where'd that happen -- jason: it happens on airplanes and it happens at work. i don't want to hear you clip your fingernails. and if that thing goes shooting off somewhere -- charlie: you were in congress for how long? that's the most annoying thing? jason: oh, i got a lot longer list than that, i can tell you that. it's disgusting. charlie: i agree. jason: they aren't just pet peeves -- charlie: but that's not the a work thing. jason: i hate it when someone tells me they're going to do stuff and then they walk out of the room and they take the polar opposite position. rachel: right.

because they know heir going to be there longer than you. [laughter] they're there longer than the member. they don't have to do what you say and they can't be fired. charlie: this is my argument against term limits. if you -- i want term limits on the bureaucrats. jason: amen. charlie: not on the members. we can always vote them out, but you can't get rid of the swamp. they're there forever. rachel: do you return your messages? charlie: why? rachel: i'm just asking because that was on the list. not returning messages. charlie: what kind of messages? i haven't set up, i haven't set up my voicemail yet. jason: oh, i don't -- charlie: i've only had my if phone -- jason: i hate voicemail. if you call me, you don't need to tell me that you called me. i can see my phone rang, and if i want to call you back, i will call you back. i don't need to to spend 30

seconds saying, i called you, call me back. charlie: i'm generally good about responding. if somebody sends me something that's really important and i want to think about it and give them a thoughtful response and look back eight months later -- rachel: yeah. if you don't respond right away -- charlie: yeah. rachel: all right. well, conspiracy theory no longer. we mentioned it earlier, jason talked about it. the cia now leaning, i should say, towards covid coming from a lab. let me get this right. of there was a lab that was studying covid, and we were supposed to believe the leak did not come from that lab -- jason: and it was from wuhan. all the places in china. it happened to be the one mace they had a lab. shocking. charlie: the cia's all over it. rachel: we're going to break down that report coming up next. stay with us. with so much more than vitamin c. be ready to fight back with emergen-c and for on-the-go immune support

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♪ rachel: kristi noem sworn in as the next dhs secretary, and pete hegseth as secretary of defense after a very busy weekend. charlie: and it's a busy week ahead with two of the most high stakes hearings on the intel front as dni pick tulsi gabbard and fbi director nominee kash patel both have their hearings on thursday. jason: so what can we expect?

former assistant fbi director chris swecker joins us now. chris, we got system big hearings coming up -- some big hearings coming up and system big appointments. off the a good start with john ratcliffe and pete hegseth. i mean, it's off to a good start, but we've got some big ones like kash patel. >> yeah. and i tell ya, talking to current fbi people and my colleagues who have recently retired and retired in the last, say, ten years or so, they are starving for good leadership. they've been, a lot of the agents have been keeping their heads low just doing their job which is what they should do, but they need the proactive dynamic leader, you know, one who is apolitical and is going to get them back to the core mission of arresting bad guys, conducting intelligence operations and preventing terrorist attacks on our u.s. soil. we've had four years of open borders. so much has happened, and

there's so much remediation that has to take place because of that. it's complicated their mission so much. rachel: do you think kash patel gets in, and also once he does or if he because, it's been a cesspool in the fbi. you talk about people wanting to get back to the mission, is it possible to see change there where you have such entrenched really deep state? >> yeah, i mean, the fbi is 38,000 people. they've got 400 offices around the country, 60 foreign offices. they handle the biggest laboratory in the world, and their training academy, etc., it's a very complicated organization. they handle a criminal and an intelligence mission, so i think what kash is going to have to do at the hearings is demonstrate competency in those areas, that he knows how the intelligence world meshes with the criminal world, how, you know, the multimission of the fbi and how to motivate and, again, get the core, the rank and file back to

the core mission without breaking the agency. because, you know, anybody can come many and just destroy, you know, tear things down. what you need to do is build it bag up. you can weed out the bad apples, you can get rid of the idealogues and the nonthe performers, get -- nonperformers, get rid of them quickly, but then quickly get back to the mission of the fbi. that's his task. charlie: so, you know, obviously, there are a lot of problems in our intelligence agencies, and you saw the report out that the cia has just finally arrived at the idea that maybe covid came from a lab leak. it's a little bit, for a novice like those of us watching this, we're kind of amazed by this. it's kind of, like, welcome to the heart. where have you been? >> yeah. again, that transparency, that's one of the things i'm looking forward to most, is let's find out what happened, you know? if how things were handled from a misinformation -- talk about misinformation standpoint, and

tata makes sure it never happens again. you know, shine the light are on all of that and let the american people know the truth. and then from there, then we can make sure, again, that it just doesn't repeat itself, that these agencies get back to what they're supposed to be doing and not all this collateral stuff on dei and other things that have nothing to do with the mission of the agency. that's, i think that's one of the single cry tier ca ya a for the leadership -- criteria for the leadership that donald trump has picked, sort of laser focused back on the mission and make sure that the good men and women are supported. rachel: so much of the misinformation around that lab leak though, chris, was coming directly from fauci who's now been pardoned. >> right. rachel: he purposefully, deliberately misled the entire country because he knew he was complicit in it. he helped fund that, you know, through his buddies' been

buddy's little lab, ecohealth alliance. hopefully, we'll get to the bottom of it. i'm just worried that no one will be held accountable because so many people now have pardons. chris swecker, thanks for joining us. charlie: thanks, chris. >> thank you. rachel: all right. planned parenthood getting millions in federal funds. can the trump administration fund pro-life centers the same way? that's text -- that's next.

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charlie: flood watches now in effect in southern california as the area is set to receive its first significant rain paul in months. officials are concerned over the potential of mudslides and dangerous debris flow where the burn scars remain from the deadly wild firsts. let's check in with chief meteorologist rick reichmuth for our fox weather forecast. rick. rick: hey, charlie, it is true, there is a chance for mud flow

and debris slides, but it's not anything that is so problematic. we need the moisture, we're going to take it. i'll shoal you more in a second. i want to talk about the. s because it's been so incredibly cold down across the south with the snow, almost 9 inches in new orleans which blew away your records. pensacola, same story. all of that snow now beginning the melt. current temperatures at 5 in -- 55 in new orleans. the warmup is going to begin. we're also a watching rain there. this is southern california, rain starting to come in overnight. san diego, up towards l.a.. higher elevation will turn into snow, and that's great news. that's with it today, into tomorrow. then we have the first bit of rain that a we're going to see, this is rain, not snow this time, that that might cause localized flooding throughout the day. but i will tell you, take a quick look at what comes this week. we've got a lot of moisture in the southern tier of the u.s., and this is great news. more rain, more snow, the the four corners states getting

moisture. wednesday, thursday across parts of the deep south looking at a flooding event potentially starting there. all right, rachel, over to you. rachel: all right. thank you, ricky. the vice president, j.d. vance, addressed the pro-life movement friday in washington. watch. >> i can't tell you the number of friends and other aa gain dances i've had -- acquaintances i've had who facing a pregnancy or the prospect react not with joy, but with concern. they wonder how can they afford it, what will it mean for their education, their career, their relationship or their family? and it is the task of our government to make it easier for young moms and dads to afford to have kids, to bring them into the world. rachel: alternatives is a pro-life pregnancy center trying to do just that, and their work many indiana and pennsylvania is even funded through the state government. their president and ceo joins us now. kevin, welcome. >> hi, rachel. how are you doing?

rachel: so great to have you. before we get into sort of the national topic, why don't you just let our viewers understand what real alternatives does for women who find themselves, uni, really scared because they're pregnant and they think they can't afford it or get through this period of time. >> sure. i think, you know, we started this about 30 years ago with funding through the pennsylvania government. it was bipartisan. it was governor robert casey and state rep joe pitts, and they put monies together to provide a statewide pregnancy and parenting support program so women didn't feel they needed to have an abortion. and and that's what we've been doing. and, of course, governor casey said years ago our business so to fight the poison of hopelessness with love. and and that's absolutely what we've been doing. when a woman comes to us, our centers are there to help her, listen to her and meet her and

help her through the obstacles she's finding. your audience may not if know, about 45 of all pregnancies -- 45 of all pregnancies in americe unexpected. and we've had studies done in the late '80s and early '90s that women have had an abortion who said if one person, just one person would have helped them during the unexpected pregnancy and afterwards, they wouldn't with have had the abortion. in addition, the amount of pressure to have an abortion has grown tremendously. when we first started tracking it in pennsylvania, at most it was the 9%. our last year of operations in pennsylvania, it was 20 president -- 20%. in indiana, a wonderful program, comprehensive program, our clients are telling us, about 15% of our clients that we serve are telling us they're being pressured. so between being alone and being pressured by others, there's not much choice --

rachel: right. >> -- involved in this situation. and what our programs do with social service agencies, pregnancy support centers and maternity homes is help them from the moment they find out they're pregnant to 24 months after the birth of the baby. and our outcomes are tremendous. rachel: yeah, it's amazing. there was state funding in pennsylvania. as you said, it was started by governor casey, the last of the to-life democrat governors. shapiro has taken away that funding. indiana a funds real alternatives. but the question i have, and we don't have a lot of time, kevin, but i want to get to it. we fund planned parenthood as a nation to the tune of $450 million. could we put money like that towards pregnancy centers? if that could be done through hhs or whatever. talk to me about what that would look like and what that would mean to women who with, as a you said, 80% say i would have had the baby if i'd had a little bit of support. >> sure. it's not only a good idea, rachel, but we've done that.

in fact, we're coming up on half a million clients served in our pennsylvania, indiana, michigan program. the texas program we helped start is over half a million. is as of today, one million if women have been served in unexpected pregnancies and have been provided life-affirming services. now, it's a mix of state block grants of federal tan of money and -- tanf money and state revenue. i'd like to see direct federal funding to create state programs. 13 states have banned abortion, 7 states have restricted it. we have 30 states where it's legal. the unexpected pregnancies still aren't being handled. rachel: yeah. >> we're still not reaping women. this is an america first administration? let's put women first. rachel: absolutely. >> let's put unexpected pregnancies first. and this is a can-do administration. you know, real alternatives, our motto, there are no problems, there's only solutions. when i hear administration talk

about life, i feel the same thing. i think that's absolutely something they should look into. rachel: yeah. whether you're pro-choice or pro-life, who can oppose helping women in the situation like this from the moment they find out until 24 months? no woman in america should feel hopeless, as you said, with a pregnancy because, as you know, those babies always bring joy. and j.d. vance said, we want more babies. kevin, thank you so much. real alternatives is a great mold, and hopefully people who are watching who have an influence on our federal policy will take a look at it and we can get this throughout the country. kevin, tanks for joining us. >> thanks so much, rachel. let's do this. rachel: i agree, let's do this. from your mouth to maybe bobby kennedy's ears. all right, secretary of state rubio set to visit panama in week as trump sets his sights on a key trade route. >> oh, no, we're going to have

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♪ jason: just one day after the release of four israeli hostages, israel is claiming hamas has violated the ceasefire deal by failing to provide a hostage status report.

trey yingst joins us live from tel aviv with the latest. trey. >> reporter: yeah, hey, jason, good morning. after the release of four israeli hostages, hamas has failed to provide a list of other hostages that are supposed to be released in phase one of this deal. that was one of the key demands for israel, and it puts the entire agreement in jeopardy. one name stands out, a young woman who was going to be exchanged over the weekend but wasn't on the list. in response, israel reportedly stopped palestinians from returning to the northern gaza, something they were going to be allowed to do as part of to seesfire. yesterday, the idf fired warning hots at a group of civilians -- shots at the a group of civilians to the north. >> translator: since 4:00 until now, we have been wait waiting for them to open the checkpoint. god willing, we will return to our homeland. god willing, may everyone return to their homes, their land and their lives. >> reporter: well, or to seesfire deal remains -- the

ceasefire deal remains on headache key ground. shaky ground, a move that was taken under president biden the freeze bombs due to the civilian casualty rate many gaza. now, these explosives could be used if a war resume assumes between israel and hamas or israel and hezbollah. rachel, charlie? rachel: thank you, trey. well, in his first foreign trip, secretary of state the marco rubio is set to visit panama this week after trump called to take back the panama if canal. so what has led to this? charlie: let's break down the history behind it. back june 19th, 1902, that's when the u.s. congress authorized the government to build the panama canal. the happens after hundreds of years of everybody from the french to the push wanting to figure out -- to the spanish wanting to figure out a horse cut that kept you from having to go all the way around america to come up. they realized that this was this

would be a massive money saver and time saver. rachel: that's right. and so in1904, february of 19044, panama grants the united states government control over the canal for $10 million if. charlie: and that includes, they had -- the u.s. then had to buy property along both sides of what is now the canal in may 1904, paid $40 million for this additional property. rachel: from the french, right? charlie: from the french. who failed to get this thing done. rachel: that's right. and this was a massive project. it's hard to imagine how they did this. 55,000 people were employed, an estimated 5,600 americans died of injury and disease. i guess malaria was rampant if at that time. charlie: yeah. and, obviously, there were massive studies at the time to try to figure out what are the huge advancements for curing, figuring out how to cure ma a lair ya to prevent malaria was done at this project because

there were so many deaths. panama canal is finally officially opened in 1914 after the u.s., it took engineering, u.s. money, u.s. diplomacy to figure et al. out. rachel: anticipator. and then in 1979 in what trump calls the biggest mistake ever by jimmy carter, the panama canal was handed over to the panama. charlie: which is kind of especially interesting, and i just learned this last night trying to study opportunity on this, in the campaign for president, jimmy carter actually promised he would never give control of the panama canal away. but on december 31st, 1999, the u.s. surrendered control over to panama. rachel: that's right. october 22nd, by the way, my business, in 2006 a massive expansion of the canal was approved by the panamanian voters. charlie: hay did that for your birthday. rachel: yeah. shar a char that was your 3rd birthday. you were 3 years old, i guess. rachel: and so here we are now

right here. so between, just so you understand how many, you know, vessels get through there, 13,000 to 14,000 ships pass through the canal each year. it's about 5% of world maritime trade. massive. charlie: and, of course, it's not just maritime trade, it's also military, for military strategy, it's important to the united states. the number one user of the canal. 40% of all container ships traverse through there annually carrying $270 billion in cargo. rachel: but we're still the number one user of that canal. but there are other users, and they include chile, and china and japan and south korea. and that brings us to some of the problems that we have. charlie: so much of the controversies about, that trump is talking about has to deal with the hong kong-based conglomerate that manages two of the ports along the canal. but i would argue that there's a much bigger argument that trump making here right now, and you thought about this, rachel, a

lot. which is the enormous chinese, increased chinese influence in south and central america. and donald trump is saying, stop. let -- we want, this is our hemisphere, we want to take control of it. and it's a really genius move by him to sort of flip the script on the chinese and all of those governments down there that have been kind of playing footsie with china even though they're in the american hemisphere. rachel: yeah are. essentially, china has bought off a lot of the elites and government officials all over latin america. this is a very significant, you know, hong kong, it says hong kong, but it's china-influenced. china, of course as you know, their corporations are heavily influenced with the ccp, and there's always sort of dual purposes. it's never just commercial. it's commercial, military and there are strategic priorities. so is that's a big problem. significant that marco rubio chose to go here first --

charlie: so significant. rachel: -- and pay attention to the western hem fear for the first time in a long time. charlie: and another example of where donald trump is willing to look at things completely differently and flip the script on everyone. rachel: all right. charlie: coming up, tackling the big game in style. all the tailgate must-haves for your end of season party including hot dogs. ♪ ♪ n a personal loan unlock your ambitions? oh yeah. borrow up to a hundred thousand dollars to consolidate bad debt and save money for your next goal. take a swing at your kitchen reno... meant that literally. or design your actual dream wedding. consolidate bad debt and fund all your ambitions with a sofi personal loan. go to sofi.com to view your rate. sofi. get your money right.

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longer: so from our heaters to to our grills to our lights, everything's powered by this guy. and, of course, with all the inclement weather, i'm a big battery-power guy. ecoflow -- rick: did you get snow this week? >> yes. twice in atlanta. what is going on? now, look at this, marta is enjoying a canned beverage with no lid on it because draft top, check this guy out. for any party, for any tailgate, this little device you just squeeze it on top. rotate it. look at this. it pulls the entire lid off. so if you -- rachel: why do people want that? >> when you with drink, you can only taste what you can smell. a typical can blocks it off. so this allows you to really enjoy it. no if sharp edges, many no bloating. really, really cool. again, the lid just comes off just like that. really, really nice. get these on amazon or draft top.

they also are the can clips which you can add a little bit of mixology -- rachel: i was just going to say, you could add vodka. >> all right and, last up, nothing ruins a tailgate like having to clean up a ton. this is a precision laser-cut guard that goes on any of your cooktops, and all you have to do is put where your model number, they're going to send you the thing. it's easy, heat resistant, put it in the dishwasher. they also cover up all of your stuff. so, again, enjoy partying -- jason: visit chipwade.com. charlie: awesome. rick: more chip later on, and we will be right back. more "fox & friends".

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