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♪ ♪ >> ainsley: 7:00 a.m. on the east coast, monday january 27th. and this is "fox & friends." we start with a fox news alert. breaking overnight. president trump to sign an executive order today reinstating our service members who were discharged for not getting the covid-19 vaccine and he is giving them full back pay just like he promised. >> lawrence: plus team trump takes a victory lap after colombia agrees to accept illegal migrants deportation planes from the u.s. how the president got the deal done. >> brian: and that's not the only win. just seven days in. the trump administration getting the job done. we are going to break it all down, exclamation point. >> steve: that's right. because the second hour of "fox & friends" for this monday starts right now. >> steve: let's kick things off with that fox news alert. there you can see the president. >> brian: look at the stairs is he using. >> steve: i know we haven't seen

those for a while. president trump delivered on yet another campaign promise officially reinstating thousands of u.s. service members who were discharged biden administration because they did not get the covid vaccine they will get their rank back if they enlist go back and back pay. >> senior white house correspondent peter doocy was first on that story and he joins us now. how did you get the big get? >> we can exclusively report on this white house document that lays out the details of an executive order president trump is expected to sign today. and the plan is for him to sign this executive order to reinstate service members who are dismissed for refusing the covid vaccine with full back pay and benefits. more than 8,000 servicemen and women were discharged 2021 and 2023 because they refused to get vaccinated against code. covid. once repealed only 43 people

actually tried to go back. now, everybody that wants to -- that everybody is reinstated will receive their former rank and full back pay with benefits and up to pete hegseth defense department to figure out the exact logistics of how that will work. look at the white house document this morning the trump team in it is blaming these people getting fired for not getting the covid shot as a main reason the pentagon missed recruiting targets by 41,000 recruits in 2023. there is also some language in here about natural immunity being the reach why some of the 8,000 didn't want the covid shot. the president is hoping to use the power of the pen to address what he calls wrongful dismissals. is he down in florida right now figuring out t the way forward with the budget with house republicans at a retreat at his rye sort in dural and we do expect him to sign this at some point before the end of the day.

>> steve: peter, there are a lot of details that have not been explained yet and one of them we were talking about. i thought i knew the answer but then i don't know the answer. if somebody is watching this right now and they were dismissed during this. to get the back pay do they have to go back to the service where they would resume their rank or is that unclear? >> peter: serves just texting with a source about this. and they are telling me that the defense department is going to decide the specifics of the process this orders the dod to give the reinstated back pay. so, basically president trump and defense secretary hegseth are going to have to sit down and figure out contactually what makes the most sense to undo this order from former 70s secretary austin. >> brian: peter, just on the meeting at dural, there is a lot of pressure. this could be divisive but decisive meeting. president trump has got to say there is no margin for error.

hey, congressman massie. all you guys with your own agendas you have to get on board or nothing gets done. >> peter: yeah. because president trump can do a lot as we have seen in this first week with executive orders there is a limit to his power. at some point is he going to need republicans in congress to get it together while they have unified control of the house even with the tiny majorities in the house and the senate to help him out. we heard on friday the president was talking about maybe figuring out a way to tie wildfire relief in california to this budget bill that's going to be stuffed with everything else that he wants than that's a way to ensure democratic support. there is just way no way to know right now if it's even going to work with his own party because, as we saw throughout his first term, he really can't always count on everybody on his side just bindly going with him. >> ainsley: hey, peter, when soldiers had to leave the military because they refused to get the vaccine that's years and

years of back paye. where will our government get the money to pay them back. >> peter: that is going to be an accounting problem that is going to be on secretary hegseth's desk on his first day there at the pentagon today. we are being directed to the dod for questions about that. we will check on that. it is a lot of money. >> ainsley: covid account maybe take it from there? >> steve: ask pete. >> peter: we will check on that. >> steve: let's text him. we all have his numbers. >> brian: i'm not sure. >> ainsley: hold the phone up. >> steve: hold on, secretary hegseth. if you are watching, just do the group chat back. tell us where the money is going to come from. >> brian: in exchange we will tell you what our talking points are. >> steve: is he still on the morning email. >> brian: he probably is. >> steve: no he is not. >> ainsley: congratulations to

pete we haven't been on the couch together. >> brian: period has a great feature on media eight on him a great feature of peter on the bottom. >> ainsley: oh, good. >> brian: talk about your interview with brian mast and how it relates to this. >> steve: indeed. brian mast is delighted that president trump has signed this executive order ordering everybody who wants to get reinstated with previous rank with back pay they can do that. they can do that just have to work on the details. he says game on, this is great great day for patriots and service members my brothers and sisters in arms go back in time not just the military but other government agencies as well watching conservatives saying hey i don't want to take this vaccine washing them out of government and west point and naval academy, air force, coast

guard, merchant marine academies. washing them out next promotion boards first sergeant, sergeant majors or officers. creating a system where the ones giving promotion to the next classes of individuals were all going to be those that didn't say no, i'm not a conservative i'm going what you are doing right now. it's going to be beautiful having these individuals returning putting on uniform sense of pride, stood up for their causes, what they believed in and rewarded for it. returning back to the military what. >> lawrence: what they did to men and women dumb idea. recruiting was down need more men and women in there vaccine hadn't been fully. trial version. appreciate president trump's warp speed but people shouldn't have been required to take. if second thing is i don't think pete hegseth is going to have problems finding money. cutting a lot of problems that don't have anything to do with

the military. >> steve: we put out there facetiously hey pete let us know what is going on. one of the 8,000 people who would be impacted why this. we want to know whether or not you are going to go back to the military if not what you are going to do also your reaction to this. send us an email friends@foxnews.com. this news broke an hour and 8 minutes ago we haven't been able to contact anybody other than brian mast. if you were impacted let us know your plans given what president trump has done. >> ainsley: best guest. because he is army. he was awarded a brongz star and purple heart. fought in afghanistan. >> steve: sponsored a bill. >> ainsley: now is he a congressman. >> brian: every year they are off so many recruits. 41,000 last year. you are mentioned how many people took them up when can you

come in. austin come back in. >> ainsley: out of 8,000, only 43. department of defense missing recruitment targets by around 41,000 in the fiscal year of 2023. so they needed these individuals they're the strongest men and women. they fight for our country. most of them are young most of them are not going to college 18, 1. >> steve: it was one week ago right now. we were on the roof of 101 constitution only one week ago this president was sworn in at noon. so much has happened. we have got over on the big board some of the things maybe over the weekend you missed it. for instance, we were just talking about how the president is going to have a big summit with republicans down at dural. screen left, vice president vance is going to head to virginia today to take a look at hurricane damage. he had -- he appeared on sunday shows yesterday. and he made very clear the

administration's point of view. which is something he is really good at. >> ainsley: yeah. then secretary of state marco rubio, he is -- he helped with the release of the u.s. prisoner in bel be layers. kody leak lab leak period. pete immediately secretary of defense dei is done follow up to make sure it's actually done wrote it up and posted it. hit the ground running. he has to get his deputy and under secretary in quick. he has some acting and there are some things can you do. so many people are the highest ranks possible who have reached out to pete i know spoken to best interest of the pentagon in line not people doing the wrong thing. stuck in the wrong system. and they need to get some

synergy. happened in silicon valley and ai and happened to our weapons system. and got to get out of the same mindset. and they think that pete's the guy to do it. >> lawrence: i'm glad he was confirmed. despite mitch mcconnell who talked about being a team player the whole time. now that he is not in leadership. he didn't vote to confirm pete, which i think is going to be stain on his leadership. pete is already getting to work. you are going to notice in this administration, there are going to be some people that are left left over from the last administration that have going to cut them at their knees. they tried to do that over the dei stuff when it came to tuskegee airmen over the weekend saying that pete wanted to get rid of the tuskegee airmen. first of all that has nothing to do with dei. all those men part of the tuskegee airmen were there because of their merit. that's the whole story about them that they weren't acknowledged for the contribution that they did to the military. he responded immediately on x and said is he getting to the

bottom of it. those stories will be told. that was somebody that was in the old administration that was trying to put stuff out there saying this was dei. there is going to be a lot of that for the rest of the departments as well. when they try to invoke change, and try find these little things to distract. >> ainsley: he worked with katie brit. >> lawrence: it's not a part of that. >> brian: great stories on american military history. >> lawrence: that's right. >> steve: later today president trump will be addressing the senate republicans down at dural try to get everybody on the same page so -- they have already had a running start. but they have to finished deal. >> ainsley: how are they going to vote for the confirmation if they are all down in dural. >> brian: that's the house. they didn't ask the senate to go just the house. >> steve: the other date of note is donald trump is going to give a joint address to congress on march the 4th. so look at -- look for that just to talk a little bit about how much is he able. >> brian: unbelievable. doesn't have to do it. >> steve: it is. so much news is breaking.

we just put on the big board one of the items was john ratcliffe, the brand new cia director. essentially changed what the cia has been saying. now, the cia joins the fbi and the energy department in ids a lab leak as a possible source source for what is going on. he was on with marie yesterday. and had this observation about hey, you know what? we looked at the stuff and this is what we think: >> we have to restore americans' trust in our own institutions like the intelligence community and law enforcement, and so in the case of the cia best foreign intelligence service in the world. after five years to not have a public assessment, to be honest with the american people about where the likely source of a pandemic that killed millions around the world, including a million americans and really impacted all 345 million

americans in some way, i had the opportunity on my first day to maker public an assessment that took place during the biden administration. it can't be accused of being political. it does assess and the cia has assessed that the most likely cause of this pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around the world was because of a lab-related incident in wuhan. it was important for the american people to see an institution like the c.i. a get off the sidelines and be truthful about what our intelligence showed. >> brian: the cia had concluded there was low confidence lab leak. he went in there and said i have a lot of confidence. do you know why? he also he saw a lot when he was dni. and they were ignoring him. just like when they said the laptop was real they ignored him. just like they said the lab leak was real? they ignored him. president trump and senator tom cotton. i interviewed tom cotton the next day when he said this came from a lab leak in china they

said fringe theory from a republican conservative -- from a right wing conservative. it's not -- doesn't have much credence if i can just paraphrase. again that's where it's backed up. ask the question was it intentional or not that's interesting. >> lawrence: of course it was. >> steve: you have got the fbi says with moderate confidence we think lab leak. energy department saying low confidence. the cia says low confidence. the reason they are not 100 percent sure. is because china is completely clamming up. they won't let any international people go in there. >> brian: not the china i know. usually so open. >> steve: you know, if we got the cooperation from china, that would be one thing. but, obviously they are not going to help because, if it's true, they killed 7 million people around the globe, they don't want to claim it. >> lawrence: speaking of cooperation, a lot of these government agencies is going to have to cooperate with doge. the department is going to be with within the executive office of the president. this is what they are saying. >> the department of government

efficiency on x. the doge team is looking for world class talent to work long hours. identify and eliminate waste, fraud and abuse. these are full time salary positions for software engineers, info engineers, financial analyst, h.r. professionals in general. all confident caring people apply here, ainsley. >> ainsley: i clicked on that site. it's pretty easy to apply. name, email and cell phone. three short bullet points showing why you might be equipped. and then what your exceptional ability is, they say. then you just attach your resume. >> steve: that easy. >> ainsley: right in get hub like email address. i looked that up. that's a shared ai. if your business is using this you can put your link there. >> steve: remember about a month ago we were talking about how this was going to be -- doij was looking for good people but you would not get paid. and you would work 80 hours a week. but, you are absolutely right. it is -- what they have done is rebranded a department in the executive wing.

it used to be the u.s. digital service. which was kind of a think tank in the west wing. now it is doge. and you get paid. >> ainsley: salaried position? >> steve: right. >> brian: walter isaac is on the biographer, 2,000 pages going to last 18 months to two years alws talked about what he could do in government. this is a goal of his. question how to work with trump. i think is he going to work well with trump. because they are similar personalities. >> lawrence: they are. the president has a lot of respect for him as well. he has a lot of respect for the president as well. he knows his lane. they there are going to be disagreement. donald trump the president is not going to go with everything that he says. he has people in the white house that disagree with elon and elon disagrees with them. i think it's a beautiful

relationship. elon is smart but he is so out there. >> brian: different modes. if i had more modes i would be a genius looking for another mode. i would just like to add this. that he -- that elon musk and the sam altman brawl, i thought, as soon as trump gets a camera, is he going to blow up elon instead he says yeah these two guys hate each other. i think it shows the 7 # 8-year-old president is like i'm picking my spots. i'm not going to blow up every single time. i thought that was so significant. >> steve: he was saying don't be surprised. >> brian: different focus on the altman -- the chatbot they opened it up together. he says no, we are going to keep it private. and he says you do that, i'm out. so he is like go. so he left. and they became arch enemies. >> steve: sam wanted to make money and elon wanted it to essentially be a public service. and that's why they are suing each other. >> brian: right. all right.

no one is suing carley. >> carley: i knew it. i sure hope not. it would be news to me. when donald trump said that thing about sam altman and elon musk they don't like each other. i don't like people either. and that's fine. >> lawrence: that's so true. >> brian: we know everyone you don't like, mr. president. you tell us. >> carley: he has a whole social media platform to air out those grievances. breaking news in pennsylvania. at least three people were hurt after a car struck a crowd celebrating the eagles win last night in philadelphia. the crash happening late last night. hours after the eagles punched their ticket to the super bowl. police say they have arrested the driver, but the crash does not appear to be intentional. all three victims are thankfully in stable condition. police are looking for answers after an israeli restaurant in brooklyn, new york, was the victim of an anti-semitic vandalism incident over the weekend. new york city mayor eric adams posting these photos to x. showing the restaurant covered in red spray paint. adams saying he was heart broken

when he saw it, vowing to find those responsible as the nypd continues its investigation. the families of four female idf hostages released by hamas over the weekend are thanking president trump for securing their daughter's freedom. >> thank you, president trump for everything you are doing for our hostages. if anyone can bring world peace, it's definitely you. and your -- and we are confident you will do whatever it takes to get us there. >> carley: both sides have confirmed six more hostages will be released later this he can would. schools across the country are planning events to celebrate parents choice in education as this week marks school choice week a new survey from the it foundation finding 60% of u.s. parents considered sending at least one of their children to a different school last year

school choice week runs from now until saturday. those are your headlines, guys. who knew? we did and now you do as well. >> steve: this is another one of those things that donald trump has said if i got another four years. we're going to take a good hard look at it, because it's so infuriating when you spend thousands of your tax dollars and they go to your local school if you would like to be able to transport that money that you put into the local school to something else, a private school or a parochial school, why not? it's your money. >> ainsley: how wonderful would that be. >> lawrence: at its core how many stories have we done kids can't read and write and do math properly. that's a basic function they should know. that's why our rankings continue to go down. maybe it if there is a little bit of competition in the market. we see charter schools, private schools are doing well. give them a shot. >> brian: couple of things, lawrence, as you know, that the unions don't want this. >> lawrence: of course they don't. >> brian: democrats don't want

it. if you were really for minorities in america. oftentimes they are in in the working class communities. schools property taxes fund the schools. if the houses aren't worth a lot, the property taxes aren't great, so, therefore, the teachers get paid less the facilities aren't as good, fields aren't as good. they are stuck there. they don't have money to take tuition, take the $12,000 and whatever it is and be able to put it there. the bottom line the public school would be better if they feel they're losing students. they will want the better teachers. figure out different incentives. >> ainsley: all schools close down and kids will go to different schools that are better. >> steve: during covid catholic schools in the new york city area. those were the only ones that were open. if you wanted your kids in person learning environment you had to move your kid. >> ainsley: a lot of parents would like a catholic education or christian education because they don't have the money to pay for a private school. the government would give you whatever you are putting in your tax base for your children to go to a better school. >> steve: that's what they're doing in washington all week

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♪ >> steve: today on capitol hill the senate will vote to confirm president trump's secretary nominee scott bessent. it comes as the president waste no, sir time pushing his economic agenda, including what to do with nearly 90,000 new irs agents hired during joe biden's administration. >> on day one, i immediately halted the hiring of any new irs agents, you know, they hired. [cheers] >> they hired or tried to hire 88,000 new workers to go after you. and we're in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them or maybe we will move them to the border. >> steve: look at that host of making money charles payne joins us now. what do you think of that idea? >> charles: get them down there something useful. stop going after people doing 600 transactions on venmo, right? the bottom line is it was -- we

need to be focused on staying the preeminent nation in the world not this sort of singing all these irs agents on small businesses. because, essentially that's what it was. and that's -- the way it was sold to the american public that somehow they are going to make the rich, who are already paying no far more than so-called fair share pay even more was always preposterous. >> steve: today the presid pick for treasury secretary comes up. for a vote. it's interesting how many people of different viewpoints he has assembled around his table. i mean, this guy used to manage money for george soros. >> charles: yeah. well, george soros, forgetting about his political leanings, this is the guy that broke the british pound. if you want complete insight to how financial markets work you probably couldn't work for somebody better. the idea he didn't go for the political side of it helps a lot. scos bessent is going to be amazing. watch scott bessent shine we

need him. >> steve: here is he, j.d. vance, talking a little bit. is he queried why haven't prices of eggs and bacon gone down yet? [laughter] >> steve: he said this. >> prices are going to come down but it's going to take a little bit of time, right in the president has been president for all of five days. i think that in those five days he has accomplished more than joe biden did in four years. >> when do consumers goat actually touch and feel a difference in their lives. >> how does bacon get to the grocery store comes on trucks fueled by diesel fuel, if it is more expensive bacon is going t? farmers need lower prices for consumers and that's what we are fighting for. >> charles: it's embarrassing. people who cheered biden created worst inflation in three years want to know why things haven't changed in three days. rough road. take it on the chin.

j.d. vance dumb gotcha type question: >> steve: something i want to ask you about a little bit. talking to you about in the commercial. you were always on the leading edge. tell me why the markets are getting rattled by something from china called deep seek. it came out last week i covered it on my show. it blew up over the weekend. i'm not sure why it didn't blow up last week we're in ai race. whoever wins dominates the world. china came up with version of chatgpt deep seek for a third the price. and all of the sudden. >> steve: different ships. >> they use cheaper chips and methods to get to this savings. there are discussions on whether it's scalable and all this stuff. people are down loading it. people are using it right now. it's so ironic in the midst of tiktok issue now we are going to abandon u.s. narrative with ai and go to a chinese version where essentially we are giving

them more information we give with tiktok but it's a legitimate thing today. the markets are getting hammered. the nasdaq is going to be crushed at the open because it changes a lot. the biggest story in the markets right now. the industrial revolution driven by artificial intelligence. china apparently has cost a tiny fraction of what we have been paying. i don't believe everything i'm hearing about it. but it's making a big impact today. >> steve: is he going to be talking about it over on his show on fox business watch "making money" at 2:00 p.m. this afternoon. thank you very much. the cia now says covid-19 is more likely to have originated from a lab leak. that's a 180 for the cia. dr. siegel on that, next. ♪

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>> carley: we are back with your headline, president trump order to single sex jails and send men to men's prisons. secretary of homeland security to ensure that males are not detained in women's prisons or immigration detention centers. the order also says federal funds should not be used to conform an inmate's appearance. and check this out. incredible rescue in washington state all thanks to an apple watch. officials conducting an helicopter rescue of three skiers who were hurt and immobilized near steven's pass last week after apple watch alert received by nearby sheriff's office. the skiers are believed to have fallen 1,000 feet, at least two of them suffering leg injuries. all three are expected to be okay. thank god. and costco is rolling out new changes to its food court.

swapping out machines to make way for coca-cola products. the ceo says the update will take shape this summer. insider says the chain converted to pepsi products in 2013 as a cost savings measure to keep their hot dogs at $1.50. and those are your headlines and now i'm hungry, ainsley, over to you. >> ainsley: we will have to order some breakfast. thank you so much, carley. >> carley: you are welcome. >> ainsley: cia new analysis the covid-19 virus most likely stuarted from lab leak in wuhan, china. >> the purpose of the cia is to protect americans, to keep us safe from foreign threats and foreign adversaries. but we also need to be truthful with americans. the cia has assessed that the most likely cause of this pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around the world was because of a lab-related incident in wuhan. we will continue to investigate that moving forward. >> ainsley: here with more is fox news senior analyst dr. marc siegel. great to see you. thank you. he is jumping on boards with the

fbi, with the department of defense being transparent about this report from the biden administration. >> this is hugely important and robert redfield, former cdc director when we wrote articles together on this said there is a lot of intelligence here that isn't coming out that i can't tell you about, marc. because i had the top secret clearance. ratcliffe is loved. he was approved and confirmed by 47 votes in the that the. and is he speaking to the american people who want to know what happened here. so that it will help us going forward. and we obviously can't trust china. they obviously put suppression in place right away. they obviously have the world health organization helping them. that lab violated multiple safety problems. i found surveillance footage when i was working on this article that showed that people were going from that hospital -- from that lab to local hospitals into the summer of 2019. way before this was ever reported. we couldn't get boots on the ground. they were working on bat coronavirus there. they were working in conjunction with one of our scientists here. all of this speaks to lab leak

is the most likely cause of this. and it's hugely important that the cia weighs in on that because that's our international agency. and most importantly, ainsley, they are using information that the biden administration had and didn't release. >> ainsley: chinese agency of course they calling call on everyone to respect science and stay away from conspiracy theories. what's your thought on gain of function research? >> the kind of gain of function research we are talking about test virus to see potential to cause human-to-human pandemic is dangerous. worst part about it is it's going on around the world in places we have no control over. that's what we have to get. we have to get an international consortium of scientists, that's tony fauci's. it's very dangerous. 2012. nearly caused a pandemic. it can cause massive problems and lead to the next pandemic. i agree with donald trump on this. we have to not be doing this kind of research.

>> ainsley: now, r.f.k. jr. faces confirmation hearings on wednesday. the hill has an op-ed it says the headline is many so-called experts who owe r.f.k. jr. an apology in four years. he writes church picked kennedy quickly move the needle while saving untold lives nut process. paid a high price. he did not care. i will look to see how many people who smeared kennedy for his courageous beliefs and warnings have sense offered him an apology. that list should be long. your thoughts? >> is he not going to get an apology. i will tell you one thing. is he right in the middle of a really important issue in this country and it's why he is going to get in. we are not healthy here. we are a [sic] society. 45% of adults are obese. 20% of children are obese. do you know what obesity does? it leads to disease. the kind of diseases i treat. high pressure, heart disease. cancer, diabetes. we have to start with the food we eat. you and i were talking about that. you said, you know, i don't know if it will taste good if it's

really fresh because we're addicted to the crap that doesn't taste -- that does taste too good. it looks like it came from mars. so little kid says oooh let me have that cereal that looks like it came from mars it. has empty calories in it and chemicals in it they get addicted to it and don't eat healthy foods. we have to bring back in the direction of farm to fork. our farmers will love that we need to support our farmers and go back to organic food farm to fork without the chemicals. that's what kennedy wants. >> ainsley: what is most important in the maha agenda. red i do already been eliminated. end chronic disease epidemic. transparency on vaccines. eliminate vaccines for big pharma and redirect half of the nih budget to alternative healthcare research. >> that's all important. the goal here is to make people feel better to weigh less to exercise more. i would add to his agenda tax incentives for having a gym memberships.

you join a gym you get a tax incentive. we are very sedentary society. let's get us exergz again. eating right. the obesity epidemic is causing a huge amount of health issues in this country. most importantly, maha will be together with doge, do you know why? how much money are we going to save if we are not sick? >> ainsley: good point. will he be confirmed? >> yeah. for sure. because even there are democrats voting for him. cory booker. fetterman, bernie sanders maybe. is he going to get in. >> ainsley: okay, dr. siegel, thank you. >> great to see you. >> ainsley: los angeles county residents are returning home while others are still waiting on answers on when they can rebuild. we talk to an l.a. resident. next. ♪

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>> janice: we are watching southern california where we got much needed rainfall across california. right there and the good news is we are containing those fires. the heavy rain would cause the potential for mud slides and rock slides. we have some of the interstates shut down because of that. that's something we are going to have to watch. the good news they need the rain and helping to contain those wildfires. the bad news is, of course, we are concerned for flash flooding and the risk of mud slides and rock slides. look at the next 10 days. we're going to go back to dry conditions and hopefully no

santa ana winds. s there is your forecast today. i got some friends with me. where are you from? what's your name. >> new orleans, christie. denise. >> janice: this is a girls trip. >>, it is. >> are you getting into trouble. >> i like that response. >> >> john humphrey. my wife is in the room waiting on coffee. debra. >> janice: are you going to deliver coffee? >> i'm bringing her coffee. >> janice: do you know who might buy coffee for your wife is brian kilmeade. we could ask him right now. brian, will you buy coffee for everyone here on the plaza. >> yes, all four of them. i will get all four of you. don't ask where i'm going to get the money. >> janice: winning. >> brian: build on what janice was just saying and talk about what could be mud slides. some los angeles county residents returning to their homes after the wildfires. others are still frustrated from lack of answers l.a. mayor karen bass. listen to this exchange. >> they are saying they will not be allowed to start for 18 months. >> no. that will not be the case.

>> okay. i just hope you are right. >> can you hold me to it. >> this group said that. >> no. >> if they should be able to do it. they should be able to start tonight. i'm exercising my emergency powers. you have to exercise them, also. >> did i exercise them. >> because i looked you have a very powerful emergency power and can you do everything within 24 hours. >> brian: this is the thing that usually happens behind closed doors and happened in front of the powers. body by jake global jake steinfeld. jake, what did that exchange? how did it echo the frustrations that all of you feel two weeks, three weeks later. >> brian, first of all it's great to be here as always with you. as a resident of the palisades and a homeless resident of the pal size. my house burned down as you know. seeing the president come to town in our firehouse 69, sitting down. with karen bass, it was absolutely amazing to hear his words. we have all been hearing about

18 months we can't get in. the psychologic damage to all of us if you are able to get to see your house. staring at the rubble. continues to wear on you. i could tell you that from my life has always been about don't quit. hearing what the president said about this can be done in a day. get it done in a day. not a week. but a day. where we can get people -- our own people to move the crummy stuff scrape the land visualize what it can be. president trump visualizes success. the sun will come up. and to see him do what he did just at that moment. i get fired up. i was honorary mayor of pacific palisades. i have ideas and plans and i want to help the president oversee what can be done and what will be done to keep people accountable on a daily basis. because right now it's raining here. i still haven't -- we're still not able to get up to our homes.

>> brian: no reason for it, too. you have started 4 to 6 major successful businesses everything from lacrosse first ever personal fitness trainer. have you $550 million in 2024, pacific palisades paid out in taxes. where is that money? you quote the average house is 4.5 million. where is that money? altadena, working class area. where is the money you? can't even fix a reservoir and last night i understand pacific palisades had a town hall and it got out of control because the frustration is overwhelming, maybe you want to put a voice to that. >> brian, all these people are doing is talking, just talking. they are not doing. as an entrepreneur we know how to make things happen. the thing to add about entrepreneurs. you know what you know and you get the right people in place to be able to take action. that's what i love about this new administration. trump's second administration. you see what he is doing. he is getting the right people in place. what i want to do is basically

say and i know the president watches this show every single morning. let me be this rebuild czar palisades, altadena. whatever you want to call it. i want to be able to oversee and help implement the change. not the talk. >> brian: jake, i want to talk about too what could change. see this quote from a democratic strategist to talk about what is changing in california. this is the frustration. for most of the 20th century, california was an entirely republican state. on the list of things he could accomplish, if he decides not to be vengeful is the possibility that he could help accomplish a pretty significant shift in the electoral balance by getting things done for a democratic city and a democratic state. is that true? >> i think it's 100 percent true as you know, buddy, i'm about it's not to me about the red or blue, it's about the red, white, and blue, and i know that this is what this president stands for. it's about making the palisades

altadena and everywhere else that have been catastrophes, we are living in it right now. it's going to happen again. let's figure out ways how to make change. that's what -- this isn't checkers, this is chess. this is psychological now. and my whole life has been about don't quit. stick to the fight. when you are hardest hit. it's when things seem worse that you must not quit. we have to start right this second. >> brian: gotcha. >> and make moves to help people. >> brian: jake, after that you become the czar and become the governor that will be my goal for you. jake steinfeld, thanks so much. keep fighting. >> don't quit. thank you. >> brian: you got it. more "fox & friends" in a moment.

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