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much devastation around the world was because of a lab-related incident in wuhan. we'll continue to investigate that moving forward. mike: the cia is now saying this weekend that covid-19 is more likely to have emerged from if a lab leak. in a statement, the cia says it has low confidence in its assessment that this a research-related origin is more likely, and it does note that both scenarios, lab origin and natural origin, remain plausible. welcome back to "fox news live," i'm mike emanuel. president trump is in south florida, dana marie nichol is live there. >> reporter: hey, mike. it has been nonstop for the president hitting three major cities in just with two days. as you mentioned, he's here in doral, taking the time to prepare for a busy week ahead when republican lawmakers will be here to talk strategy on how to move his plan through congress. he was last night in las vegas,

we saw him take a victory lap there thanking his supporters at a campaign-style rally. he promised to fulfill his campaign pledge of no tax on tips for the service industry. he then celebrated by hitting the casino floor where gamblers there, you could hear them chanting, "usa," as he walked through. it was monostop to board air force one. president trump spoke to the press about what's to come in the future. he said he will soon talk with russian president vladimir putin about the war in ukraine. he touched on the future of tiktok and will decide in roughly 30 days, he says, on who will buy the app adding oracle is not in the running right now. he's also hoping jordan and egypt will take more palestinians from the gaza strip, and he defended the firing of 17 inspectors general late friday night. >> this is a very common if

thing to do. some people thought it was unfair or -- [inaudible] it's a very standard thing to be doing. very much like the the u.s. attorneys. >> reporter: and president trump said last night on air force one that israel will now receive certain bombs after paying for them but being on hold by the biden administration. mike? mike: deign ma marie mcnichol, thanks very much. for more on the nat confirmations, with me now is the daschle group senior vice president joe hack and democratic strategist meghan hays. well only to both of you. >> thank you. welcome to both of you. i spoke with senate majority leader john thune yesterday, he talked about the next confirmations. let's play it. >> well, i hope those are both big votes. bessent came out of the senate finance committee, on which i serve, i also serve on the committee where sean duffy came

out. duffy came out unanimously, so i expect that to be a big vote and the same think, frankly, with bessent. he had a good cloture vote today, and it was a good, strong vote. mike: do you anticipate in some of those upcoming nominees? >> i think on a patel and tulsi gabbard, but i think the democrats are missing vital information, and i think there's been some public statements that need to be to explained in some of the hearings. mike: i also spoke with senate majority whip john barrasso after the latest confirmations. let's play him. >> we said president trump would come in with hock and awe, and he has -- shock and awe, and he as made dramatic changes in our nation. i was committed to making sure we could get the president's team, his national security team in place as quick as possible. he's been many in office five days, and we have that team now confirmed. mike: joe, hegseth came down to the wire, but should republicans feel good about getting that national security team in place? >> absolutely. as you know, the senate is in

the personnel if business, and the most precious if commodity is time, and they had no if problem burning time even in valuable positions like the cia director, john ratcliffe, who ultimately ended up getting 74 votes to to democrat strategy seems to be to delay and obstruct, but it does not seem to be accomplishing very much. and so we'll see what happens this week. obviously, scott bessent should be in good shape as should sean duffy. but i do think senate republicans have shown is unity here and will be, continue to move forward in a strong way. mike: you made reference to tulsi gabbard. senator elissa slotkin talked about her confirmation today. >> she hasn't asked to meet with me, but from if what i understand is that she doesn't show the competence, the understanding, depth. she wasn't prepared for her meetings, not to mention the deeply questionable decisions

she's made of cozying up to vladimir putin, flying and cozying up with assad in syria. mike: meghan, is she in trouble. >> i think she's in a lot of trouble. i think when it's been reported by russian media that that you are an asset to them, that is a problem for you. i don't think she's prepared, i don't think she's competent, and she's different than hegseth, and i think that republicans and democrats see serious problems with her. mike: joe, your thoughts on tulsi gabbard. >> yeah. i think she's got some work to do. i think the reports out of meetings with members that she has not necessarily come across as prepare ad as she should be or accurate, she will have an opportunity in the hearing to demonstrate her credibility and her knowledge and her competence, and it's up to her to do that if to earn the support of these members. mike: president trump was in vegas yesterday selling his no tax on tips proposal. let's play that. >> we're going to get it for you. no tax on tips. [cheers and applause]

no tax, no tax! [applause] so if you're a restaurant worker, a server, a valet, a bellhop, a bartender or one of my caddies or any other worker who relies on tipped income, your tips will be 100 percent yours. mike: does that idea have bipartisan support, meghan, as tax reform is certainly going if to be the a big issue this year. >> yeah, i think it does. it was something kamala harris said she would look at doing it as well. why hasn't he already cone it? do an executive order, do it. he doesn't want to actually govern. he likes to campaign, so i'll be interesting to see how the house takes this on. mike: your response, joe? obviously, if he does executive action, that's not permanent. >> yeah, i think he's correct in his approach the try and include this in tax reform. republicans understand tax reform needs to do more than just help businesses large or

small. it needs to help worker, and president bush went to nevada to reinforce that -- and president trump went to nevada to reinforce that. mike: president trump dismissed 17 inspectors general this weekend. big issue? >> i think it's a huge issue. i think you're seeing a lot of bipartisannage that against this as well. you had a lot of republicans say this is illegal, the way they're doing it is illegal. trump acts like he didn't know who was being dismissed, so his lawyers are not either telling him the full truth or being honest, but i do think with republicans coming out against this, this is going to be a problem for him. mike: joe, what's your take? >> senator cotton on your program earlier who raised questions as to the constitutionality of some of these process points which i think is interesting. but i would take a step back and remember why president trump is a approaching this in the way that it is. this is not the his first rodeo. if his first term, he firmly believed democrats thwarted his agenda at every turn. this time he is firing people,

he is reassigning people, he is freezing spending across agencies, freezing regulations. he is making it very clear that there is a new sheriff in town. mike: just six days in. [laughter] joe hack, meghan hayes, thank you both very much. enter thank you. mike: israeli troops will stay in southern lebanon but says the gradual withdrawal process will continue. mike tobin is live in tel aviv to explain. hello, mike. >> reporter: and, mike, with both of cease fires with hamas and hezbollah, they're a both fragile and hang by a thread. let's start in gaza where israel says hamas is in breach of the ceasefire agreement because they were supposed to release female civilians before they released the female soldiers. you saw it yesterday, four female soldiers got out, specifically they talk about one who has not been released, a civilian kidnapped. islamic entry had has been holding her.

they released a statement saying she will be released ahead of the next scheduled round of hostages, but israel has been blocking palestinians from if going back north of the gaza strip. that has caused them to fire warning shots. some injuries are reported in the gaza strip. meantime, president trump made the point that palestinians could move temporarily to egypt and george can while the devastated gaza strip is rebuilt. that idea gets universal rejection from palestinians. >> i think the the add visors of president trump did not explain to him sufficiently that this whole war was about rye thing to ethnically cleanse palestinians and force them the out of their homeland, palestine, to other countries. and palestinians will never accept to be displaced into other places. >> reporter: now, a ceasefire with hezbollah is also threatened because israel has

not pulled out of south lebanon. the deadline to withdraw was today. israel says the lebanese army has failed to take positions in the south of lebanon that would prevent hezbollah from reestablishing, therefore, the idf has said -- stayed, and that has caused clashes. 22 people have been killed in the south of lebanon due to those clashes. mike? mike: mike if tobin in tel aviv, many thanks. north korea vowing, quote, the toughest response to the u.s. and south korean military drills. the announcement comes just days after president trump told fox news he plans to reach out to kim jong un. stephanie bennet is tracking this story for us. stephanie? >> reporter: hey, mike. yeah, this latest launch by north korea suggests that they won't be stopping anytime soon. now, president donald trump says that he plans to reach out to the leader of north korea, and all eyes will be on that, of course. the north korean central news agency said kim jong un oversaw the missile test the on

saturday, describing it as an underwater sea to surface strategic cruise missile that traveled around 932 miles in just over 2 hours before hitting its targets. the term strategic implies the missiles are nuclear-capable, and kim was cited saying north korea's war deterrence capabilities are being perfected more thoroughly and vowed the strengthen its military. many expert perts say kim likely thinks he has bargaining power because of deepening ties with russia. south korea's joint chiefs of staff, however, have said north korea actually launched several cruise missiles toward western waters yesterday, and they're ready to defend themselves. today north korea's foreign ministry criticized the u.s. and vowed the toughest response because of the military alliance and joint drills between south korea and the u.s. they described it as alleged invasion rehearsals although, of course, washington and seoul have repeatedly said their drills are just defensive measures. president donald trump met kim three times during his first term, and during a fox interview

thursday with sean hannity, president trump called kim a smart guy and said he'll reach tout him. >> he happens to be a smart guy. kim jong un is a smart guy -- >> you'll reach out to him again? >> i will. >> reporter: no word yet on when that conversation will happen. mike? mike: stephanie bennet if reporting live, thanks very much. now for the latest on president trump's gaza stance, i'm joined by massachusetts democratic congressman jake auchincloss. congressman, welcome. >> good afternoon, mike. mike: so president trump's calling for cleaning out gaza and sending the palestinians to egypt and jordan. what's your take on that and the latest headlines coming from the middle east? >> cleaning out, that term, it's not debris. these are human beings, 1.5 million human beings including hundreds of thousands of children. and what gaza needs is security, reconstruction and a new path forward for education and economic development. that can be provided by a

transitional government that is palestinian-led, arab-financed, western-backed. it's not going to happen by trying to displace millions of palestinians from gaza and, in fact, that agenda would reignite ideological fervor behind hamas. hamas relishes that type of rhetoric. what hamas fears more than anything -- including israel, by the way -- is alternative, effective governance in gaza that demonstrate thes how bankrupt its nihilistic agenda is. mike: president trump clearly wants greenland for strategic reasons. to you understand why he's seeking that for dealing with the russian threat? >> greenland's position in the arctic circle, its critical mineral resources are strategic, and it is encompassed within the monroe doctrine, both greenland and panama where trump is

obviously -- [audio difficulty] which for 200 years has aid we don't allow foreign powers to meddle in the western hemisphere. i think trump is right to support the monroe doctrine. where he's backwards, mike, is the doctrine is about getting foreign powers out of the western hemisphere. it's not about bullying our allies within the western hemisphere. so if he wants to push back on chinese influence, for example, in panama or south america or if he wants to muscle out chai fron get tough on china. let's have our own a trade and investment deals, let's go to china's backyard in southeast asia and reengage economically with those critical nations. but bullying a nation like panama of 7 million or a place like greenland of a few tens of thousands, it doesn't make us look strong, it makes us look feckless. mike: all right. we'll see where he goes some of those items. the president says he'll make a decision in 30 days on tiktok.

what, in your view, should he do about that? >> he should listen to his national security adviser a year ago, mike waltz, who said at that time that if you think tiktok's pro-hamas propaganda is bad, just wait until china invades taiwan. he said tiktok was poisoning young minds, that it's a threat to our country, that it should be banned. now, i don't know what happened to that mike waltz, but mike waltz should rediscover that truth-telling ability and say it to president trump in the oval office so that the president enforces bipartisan law. mike: with 170 million american customers, does china have leverage on this tiktok issue? >> no, because congress passed a law a this requires tiktok to be divested from bytedance, or else it cannot be a accessed on app stores. this needs to be a one-two punch, mike. first, we've got to push chinese communist power out of our digital town square, and, second, congress and the

president need to take on corporate power in our digital town square whether x, meta, instagram, these places are plundering our attention spans, particularly damaging our kids. and americans deserve to reclaim that town square and have a forum that builds communities, not tribes. mike: president trump's looking to remove 17 inspectors general. i asked your colleague, nancy mace of south carolina, about that. i want to play her comment, and i'll get you to react. >> the i.g.s, the inspect generals, are supposed to be nonpartisan, they're supposed to be rooting out corruption. and what i found in my first four years in office in congress is they did more cover-up. [laughter] than they do anything else. mike: how do you respond, congressman? >> it just wring -- rings hollow because members of congress are going to defend anything donald trump does including pardoning january 6th rioters who assaulted cops. today won't say tasing a cop in the neck if is something that

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mike: the cia showing a major shift in its assessment on where covid originated as it now backs the chinese lab leak theory. madeleinely very that -- rivera has more. >> reporter: hi, mike. there are two main theory, one that the virus came from a market in wuhan, china, and then a lab leak. for years the cia said it did not have enough information to make a final determination, now it assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the covid-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting. the comes after forbear national security adviser jake sullivan ordered in the waning days of the biden administration a new assessment into the virus' origins, and the previous director, bill burns, had asked agency analysts to take a stand one way or the other.

there was no new intelligence the back up the cia's conclusion, instead based on a fresh look into the evidence the agency already had. new c, ia director john ratcliffe ordered the analysis to be declassified. he's long supported the lab leak theory. here he is on "sunday morning futures." >> i think we'll get to the point where every intelligence agency in the united states will agree with the cia's assessment that the most likely outcome was from a lab in wuhan. and we'll get more intelligence as time goes by, and we'll be transparent with the american people about what that intelligence says. >> reporter: ratcliffe says the agency is not pend bending to his views as the findings were completed before his arrival. the cia continue to evaluate credible new intelligence that could change it assessment. mike: maddie, thanks very much. >> reporter: you got it. mike: for more on the shifting stance on the origins of covid-19, let's bring in fox

news' senior medical analyst, dr. marc siegel. of welcome. >> hi, mike. how you doing? mike: now the cia favors the lab leak theory, something senator tom cotton's been saying from the if very beginning. let's play him. >> -- have access to classified intelligence or special scientific knowledge, i just used a little common sense and looked at the facts and understood what chinese communists do. the important thing now is we have to make china pay for unleashing this plague on the world. mike: doctor, was it as simple as common sense? >> yes. because, first of all, tom cotton at the very beginning was marginalized. and he was, he was actually not taken seriously. and we reported on that way at the beginning of the pandemic, mike. and then the issue occurred where more more evidence was looking at this. i looked at it with robert redfield, storm former cdc director, who had a very high level of clearance, and he couldn't tell me everything that

we were looking at because of his temperature secret clearance. i found a document that the dod had from one of their people that that they hired that showed in the summer of 20 the is the there was -- 2019 there was a lot of traffic from the lab to the local hospitals of people getting sick. and those labs had problems with safety. and those labs were experimenting on bat coronavirus. and this coronavirus looks different than previous coronaviruses. and and the how did it suddenly start spreading from human the human? you have the lab, the coronavirus, china shutting everything down and not letting us in to even look at the labs, and we still haven't looked at the labs to see if there's a footprint or fingerprint of ed. so it remains highly suspicious, and i'm so glad that john ratcliffe with a report from the biden administration comes forward and now puts the cia putting their finger on the scale here. they're the most important agency, and that should let us

know more that it probably did come from a lab. and as tom cotton said, we need to know this going forward. we need to know this so that we can prepare for the next pandemic, so we know exactly how to prepare. and if china can't be trusted, which we already know, mike, that has to weigh in, be a factor in this. mike: you made reference to newly-confirmed cia director john ratcliffe. he spoke about making this public with maria bartiromo. let's play it. >> you know, the covid origin's assessment, making that public, president trump needs to have the very best intelligence so what when he's negotiating with president xi, he's able to confront if them with the things that we know. now that it's out there, he'll be able to use that, to leverage that. mike: considering how much covid turned our lives upside down, ruined careers, ruined businesses, doesn't the public have a right to know? >> the public has a right to know. the public had a right to know

in january of 2020. the public has a right to know whether it was already spreading in 2019 which i believe it was. and i want to emphasize something we were faced with in early 2020. we had a virus that wasn't described to us properly. it made us a lot sicker than we were told. we ended up with a lot of blood clots we had to treat, nobody told us that. we needed international cooperation among scientists which is what tony fauci thought we had. but remember, he was trying to suppress one narrative and push the other narrative. and we didn't get what we needed which is when a virus emerges, no matter what country, the entire world needs to know about it. what its risk is, where it came from and what to do about it. and we didn't have that that, and we still don't have that and we need it. mike: health and human services secretary nominee robert f. kennedy jr. is due to meet with two different senate committees in this week in the confirmation process. what are your expectations, doc? >> well, you know, as you know, there's been a lot of attention

paid to people that are detractors of his because of vaccines. coming from the right, there's the issue of abortion. coming from mike pence's group. but i think his is about a changing the food we eat, getting less kids chronically ill, and that will save a ton of hundred for the united states in addition to to saving lives. mike, we're busting at the seams here. medicare is spending about a $800 million -- 800 billion a year and medicaid about 600 billion a year. that's almost a trillion and a half if dollars spent mostly on chronic illnesses. and we have the looked at why we aren't exercising more, why we aren't eating right, why we have all these chemicals and additives in our food that cause us to gain weight and then get chronic diseases i treat. that that's what the main focus of a make america healthy again is. and i think he gets votes on both sides of the aisle for this. i think gets in. mike: is it time for a recess when you consider how out of

shape much of america is and unhealthy we are as a people? if. >> here's a bright one, how about, we give tax incentives for gym memberships? how about we go back to pushing healthy produce the schools? how about we look really carefully about why we have a 45% obesity rate among adults. why we so sedentary? why are we so addicted to the our iphones? get the chemicals out of the food. you can eat pasta in italy. you cannot eat it here without gaining weight. that's the chemicals. mike: you keep that up, you're going to get nominated for a senior government post, dr. marc siegel. thank you for your time and expertise. >> great to see you, mike. mike: president trump rounding out the first week of his second term and already making news on the top issues for voters. we will break it down coming up next. ♪ ♪ uytren's contracture. two — i want to be able to lay my hand flat. three — i want a nonsurgical recovery.

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lively crowd last night in las vegas on his no tax on tips plan before stopping on the casino floor. for more on president trump's economic policy plans for his second term, i'm joined by president and ceo of calamos investments, john kadunis. welcome. the senate is due to confirm scott bessent to be treasury secretary late tomorrow. what are your expectations of his impact is in. >> look, i think the entire policies that trump, president trump is doing is, one word, optimistic. i think growth is a big part of his strategy, and i think he's got a good person there as treasury secretary. mike: no surprise, a big for example for president trump is focusing on energy prices. let's play him and i'll get you to react. >> sure. >> i'd like the see oil prices come down. and when the emergency comes down, that's going to knock out a lot of the inflation. that's going to automatically bring the interest rates down. >> do you expect the fed to

listen to you? >> yeah. if. mike: what would be the impact across the economy if energy prices came down, john? >> look, it's a domino effect. we saw it on the way up, we'll see it on the way down. it affects everything. it's, you know, oil is one of the biggest things in the entire world's economy. now, the prices of a dozen eggs are going to come down. they need to get to the grocery store, people don't understand how important oil and energy is. and that's a big part of the administration's push here for us to get back as a leader many in that that space. that's what we've been talking about a lot in davos and every other place. mike: president trump is also leaning on fed chairman jerome powell to bring down interest rates. how significant is that? >> look, i think that's significant, but i think the fiscal policy that that you'll

see is going to be even more significant coming forward. it's already the directives that trump, president trump has signed that a you're going to see the changes. we've had a lot of monotower policy -- monetary policy, but the fiscal policy that he sets is going to make the changes it's, you know, energy, whether it's involvement in a.i., whether it's involvement in bitcoin. a lot of those are fiscal policies that that will help the economy a lot. mike: let me pick up on a point you just made. the president's vowing make the u.s. the capital of crypto. how big is that? >> i think that's a huge, huge, huge, positive thing for this country, for us to lead in something that's here. it's not going anywhere. look, mike, crypto, especially bitcoin, has been the best performing asset in the last ten years. now, it's volatile and nobody

can, you know, deny that, but it's been a great performer. and we're very much involved in having a exposure to bitcoin in a very risk-managed way. and if that's really, really important in the future, for people to be able to participate in it and not have to worry about so much the volatility. mike: yeah. i was reading up on that. tell us about what you're doing for your customers in relation to crypto. >> mike, last wednesday we launched the first 00% -- 100% bitcoin downside-protected etf, cboj. and the cap rate for that was 11.65. what does that mean? you can participate if up to11.65 of the upside if you hold it for a year, but you get zero the downside. and on february 4th, we're going to give another two series, so you can down as much risk as you

want where there's a 90% protected so you can only lose up to 10% which is approximately that a we're thinking the cap rate's going to be around 28-3 1%. and then at a 800% downside -- 80% downside protection which is 20% protection to the downside, the cap rate could go up as much as 50-55%. so you can participate a lot on the upside while being protected on the downside. and we think now a lot more people will participate in bitcoin given that our history has been risk management and you can now get into the game in a risk-managed way. mike: john, finally on the economy, the folks behind me on capitol hill need to address tax reform at some point this year otherwise it'll hurt everybody in america, basically. how critical is it in terms of the overall economy to get that right? >> it's essential. we need to continue the tax

relief that the trump administration set forward almost eight years ago now and extend that. and then other things that he's been talking about like tax on tips, tax on overtime. those are all great ideas to help the economy and boost it. and people forget, especially capital gains, if you lower capital gains and make it easier, money will come to this country. businesses will purr. and the next following -- will spur. and the next following year, the government will collect more money, not less money, because business will be booming. if. mike: john, friend of the program, thanks very much for your time today. >> thank you, mike. mike: president trump just moments ago announcing retaliatory measures against with colombia after the country rejected deportation flights

from the united states. the measures include a 25% tariff on all goods coming into the united states from colombia and a travel ban on columbian government officials. we -- colombian officials. we will bring you more on developing story as we get it. ♪ ♪ mike: president trump's immigration plan starting the take shape as i.c.e. continues to aggressively pursue criminal migrants and members of violent migrant gangs with the help of dea agents in denver. c.b. cotton joins me now with the latest. >> reporter: hi, mike. certainly a lot of news today. so it was first reported by the "wall street journal" this week that president donald trump expanded immigration enforcement authority to several agencies to include the dea, the atf and the u.s. march a shalls x. so while we wait to see how this growing force will help carry out trump's mass deportation planning dea agents in colorado are now reporting they've made a major bust on the violet

venezuelan gang tren de aragua. the dea rocky mountain division sharing this video on x saying its agents arrested 50 people overnight and announcing that most of these people are in the country ill lisle and -- illegally and connected to tren de aragua. the local abc affiliate says the bust happened at an inliation-only tda party and this was part of a broader dea effort to target the gang. and then there's this, a senior trump administration official tells our colleague bill melugin i.c.e. agents in both nashville, tennessee, and san antonio, texas, this week turned up three men with ties to the gang including an active member. all those men were taken into custody. the senior official also says these three men were previously caught and then released at the border during the biden administration. so during a las vegas rally yesterday, president donald trump suggested this is just the beginning. >> the heroes of i.c.e. have

been hunting down and arresting hundreds of illegal alien can criminals -- [cheers and applause] and it's immediate expulsion including those with charges or convictions for rape, child sexual assault, terrorism and even murder. members of the savage venezuelan prison gang known as trend deeing rag what, all over the place, we'll get 'em out. >> reporter: fox news is watching all of this unfold. our bill melugin was in boston this week when i.c.e. agents arrested eight people all in the country illegally and wanted for a wide range of crimes. we also know military troops began arriving in el paso, texas, and san diego, california, on thursday evening following president trump's decision to declare a national emergency at the southern border. mike. mike: big change of policy. c.b. if cotton, thanks very much. the defense team for

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i think that they obtained this evidence at the crime scene, and that was one of the points at the prosecution made is that there's no expectation of privacy with dna that's left at a crime scene. and there's also no expectation of fives of your relative or your ancestors' dna in data base that is you had no part of. so i think it is less a move out of desperation and more so a move to preserve everything for appeal and for post-conviction appeal, obviously, if he's convicted and also a recognition that they have nothing to lose by doing this. it does not seem like there's any plea if bargaining going on behind the scene. often prosecutors will say here's a deal for you, but if you file a motion and make us do a lot of work, the deal's going to get a lot less favorable. i don't think that's going on the -- on here. this is a death penalty case so not only do they want to protect themselves against a potential ineffective assistance of counsel claim post-conviction, there's also nothing to lose here in trying to prevail on these motions which i do not

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mike: we are learning more about president trump's retaliatory measures against colombia after the country rejected deportation flights from the united states. the measures include a 25% tariff on all goods coming into the united states from colombia and a travel ban on colombian government officials. president trump posting moments ago on truth social, these measures are just the beginning. we will not allow the colombian government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the criminals they forced into the united states. we will keep following this story. ♪ mike: rain is soaking southern california after weeks of dry weather putting the devastated

area at risk of toxic ash runoff, mudslides and flooding. christina coleman is live in the pacific palisades to explain how this affects crews in recovery mode. christina? >> reporter: hi. yeah, you know, the people here, they have already been through so much, and now there is this big concern about mudslides from the rain that is coming down in this area. we got a break from it, but if you go ahead and take a look behind me, those mountains are what people are concerned about, the rain hitting the dry brush there, triggering flooding that could lead to potential mudslides. so many people have been preparing for potential flooding by sandbagging around their homes. take a listen. >> we've suffered this terrible loss of thousands of homes, but thousands of homes did survive and now they're under threat. so our focus right now is to save, help save the homes that that we can. >> reporter: the deadly eaton fire claimed the lives of 17 people and burned more than 14,000 acres of a land, and the palisades fire burned more than

23,00 acres of land and destroyed or damaged more than 7800 structures including many homes and businesses. and now there is concern about this fire-scarred area getting hit with this rain which could, again, trigger mudslides and carry dangerous debris flows the airs -- areas where people are living. the national weather service issueed a flood watch between 4:00 this evening through tomorrow evening. so just trying to keep people safe and careful as they worry about potential flooding in these fire-ravaged areas. a back to you. mick mick christina -- mike: christina colemaning thanks very much. shannon bream has exclusive interviews with senate intelligence committee chair tom cotton from if arkansas and a member of the senate homeland security committee, richard blumenthal, democrat of connecticut. that's coming up on "fox news sunday" right after this show, stay tuned or set your dvr. we have some new developments in the u.s. relationship with colombia, after rejecting some nights

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