were miles ahead up until this. it rattled chip stocks. deep seek claims to have used around 2,000 nvidia chips to train its model compared to the tens of thousands of chips used for u.s. models. there are questions around whether china is underreporting how much money and how much computing power they are using. skepticism that musk also shares and there are down sides to this a.i. model. the latest model won't answer political questions about china or xi and this is like lay similar setup to tiktok. any information used is sent to their servers in china. an important distinction. it is open source. if you have enough power can run the code on their own computer. not as much of an information concern there. the biggest issue with this is the u.s. is so dominant in a.i. and this has completely changed that narrative and it is not only causing the stock market to adjust but also could be really

bad for us in terms of -- >> dana: what about all the major investments we just announced last week. >> yeah, they are claiming they are doing this with a lot less power and energy. a lot of that investment is in the data warehouses is in the energy used for chips and for a.i. >> dana: they could be lying? >> sandra: one, i think the initial reaction they're doing it better and cheaper, right? the markets will take time after this -- they seem to be adjusting the bit. the dow off 74 points. nasdaq down. third thing, interesting to see how trump weighs in. thank you. >> dana: thank you, madison. dramatic results as a massive immigration crackdown gets underway in cities across the united states. enforcing u.s. immigration law and preserve national security. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith in

for bill hemmer this morning. raids taking place nationwide happened all over this weekend and in chicago border czar tom homan personally taking part in ramped-up enforcement efforts in the nation's third-largest city. 956 arrests across the u.s. on sunday alone. illinois governor says he is on board with deporting violent criminal migrants but standing in the way of certain efforts. >> we will stand in the way of an unconstitutional order and stand in the way of them breaking the law in illinois if they are not following federal law. if they show up with warrants to take people away we'll hand them over. we also have a law on the books in illinois that says that our local law enforcement will stand up for those law-abiding, undocumented people in our state. >> dana: people that live in chicago might be surprised there were all of these people living amongst them. >> it was a massive operation yesterday, dana.

border czar tom homan was personally on the ground here and tells fox news yesterday's sting resulted in multiple national security threats being removed from the streets here. homan tells me that includes aggravated sex offenders, convicted murderers, members of the tda gang and other arrests. also on the ground here was a top d.o.j. official acting deputy u.s. attorney general bowe. homan said it helped to have a.t.f. on the ground when they busted a tda member. homan thanks everyone and says chicago's multi-agency operation was the first of its kind in the country.

>> the front page of the "chicago tribune" this morning reads we're terrified referring to the immigration community here and one local tv report said that schools and churches are being targeted. however, tom homan and d.h.s. tells fox news that schools and churches are not being targeted. they say the new trump policy that allows immigration arrests in schools and churches uses common sense and meant to prevent criminals from getting the idea they can seek refuge in a school or church. on the topic of schools on friday, chicago public schools created quite a stir here publicly stating ice agents showed up to an elementary school. the story spread and the governor wrote after a week of republicans sewing fear and chaos the first report of raids in chicago are at an elementary school. it turns out ice agents never showed up to that school. it was secret service who visited to investigate a jove nile who made an alleged threat

against president trump. chicago public schools had to retract its statement and tom homan tells me he consider governor pritzker a liar for repeating the information. >> dana: we'll be in touch. >> sandra: i.r.s. in flux under president trump's second administration after the president floated terminating the 88,000 tax agents hired under former president biden or possibly moving them to the border. fox business white house correspondent edward lawrence live on the north lawn for us this morning. >> president donald trump taking aim now at the i.r.s. which he says was beefed up under the biden administration. the new president saying the biden administration weaponized the i.r.s. against americans making less than $4 hundred thousand a year. i.r.s. under the biden administration struggled to find a way made limited progress in figuring out how to audit less people in the income bracket. increased agents or increases in the numbers of audits.

president trump had an idea what to do with the new workers hired under the biden administration. >> president trump: 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'll move them to the border. >> an inspector general report in 2024 found audits on taxpayers making less than $4 hundred thousand accounted for more than 90 percent of all audits tense 2019 and 2023. democrats brushing over the inspector general report going after the treasury secretary nominee, his firm has been accused of getting around paying $9 hundred thousand in medicare taxes. the case is being litigated and scott bessent denies any wrongdoing. >> the reality is if mr. bessent is confirmed tomorrow, he will go to his office the next day and will be serving in a way

that is not compliant with treasury and the i.r.s. position on this issue of medicare taxes. >> no mention from democrats in the hearing about the i.r.s. squeezing americans. scott bessent could be confirmed looks like maybe wednesday. >> sandra: edward lawrence live at the white house. >> dana: now for my favorite story of the day. columbia's president backing down after blocking two flights with columbians deport evidence from the u.s. after president trump threatened steep tariffs and a travel ban. when all this happened, our friend, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez posted this. to punish columbia trump is about to make every american pay more for coffee. remember, we pay the tariffs not columbia. trump is all about making inflation worse for working class americans, not better. lining the pockets of himself

and the billionaire class. i felt like i don't know her but i would love to have taken her aside and you still don't understand what happened in november. >> she does not. the rest of her party may. she said this is factually untrue. could lead to inflation, tariffs. universe in which people lower prices, other countries lower their prices and the prices could come down because we want access to u.s. market. all kinds of economic arguments in response. when you look at 2028 contenders, those individuals have not been very vocal on the j-six pardons or vocal on the sham accusations against elon musk. they've been muted. i think the rest of the party learned let's step back, take a breath. he is right on immigration. >> sandra: a strong message over the weekend and how facet happened was remarkable and sends a message how more will be handled in the future.

seems like they are only getting started. >> without the doubt. a tit-for-tat with columbia. think of the message it sends to mexico and canada. trump is serious about traore ifs. aides are saying february 1st deadline might do it. what does it say to russia threatened tariffs. >> dana: china won't take their people back. see how that one turns out. jd vance was asked about immigration and the vetting of service people who helped us in afghanistan and then are here. he was asked about this on the sunday show. watch here. >> just like the guy who planned a terrorist attack. he was properly vetted and many people in the media and democratic party said he was properly vetted. clearly he wasn't. i don't want my children to share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted and because i don't want it for my kids, i won't force any other american citizens' kids to do that either. >> it was a particular case, not clear if it was radicalized when

he got here or while living here. >> i don't care. i don't want that person in my country and i think most americans agree with me. >> he is very good at the one-liners. smart of him to take this issue and put it in the context of his neighbor. and extend it to your neighbor. he made that situation very personal. he was very emphatic about it. came across as common sense. when you look at this broadly it was a different circumstance than afghanistan. in santonja they picked up a tren de aragua handgun related to a murder. this individual was given a notice to appear by joe biden and released into the country. a tren de aragua gang member. this is who they are picking up. the administration is smart to put out the images of single adult males. put tom homan in chicago. al allow cameras to follow the ice

rage. >> sandra: it led "politico" to say. country went from invisible president to omnipresent one. he wants the public's attention at all times. >> we went from a president cocooned to one unleashed. if you look at the president biden not having meetings with yellen or austin, couldn't even call the president during afghanistan. they are canceling meeting and compare it to trump. executive office, eo signings. in front of the resolute desk while doing press conferences. such a juxtaposition in six days' time. >> dana: president trump sent to sign an order reinstating soldiers who lost their jobs for refusing the covid vaccine and

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>> dana: welcome back to the show. ramping up the ranks. president trump gearing up to sign an executive order to reinstate service members discharged for not getting the covid-19 vaccine. madeleine rivera joins us with the details and has the news. >> good morning. the white house says this action is long overdue calling the

dismissal of those military members unlawful. it directs pete hegseth to reinstate all current members of the military discharged for rejecting the covid vaccine and request to be reinstated. the order states those who are reinstated will receive their former rank and pull back pay with benefits. the covid vaccine was required for military service members for 15 months from august of 2021 to january 2023. at the time former pentagon press secretary john kirby called the mandate to get the vaccine a readiness issue. more than 8,000 service members were discharged for not getting the covid vaccine. in january 2023 former defense secretary lloyd austin rescinded the mandate and the first time in u.s. history the military reversed a vaccine mandate. only dozens chose to return to the military. republicans have argued the mandate hurt the military's recruiting and retention capabilities. >> it will be beautiful. have these individuals returning

putting on that uniform, the sense of pride for their family that they stood up for their causes, what they believed in and they were rewarded for it. they are returning back to the military. >> last year austin touted the military's retention rates and stated nearly all active and reserve components of the military met their recruiting targets for the 2024 fiscal year. still the military had acknowledged it had missed its recruiting goals by 41,000 people the year before and the mandate was a political headache for the biden administration with some troops suing calling the order illegal. >> dana: thank you. >> you got it. >> if you are in the country illegally you're on the table. it is not okay to violate the laws of this country. every time you enter this country illegally you violated a crime of the united states. it is a crime. if you are in the country illegally you have a problem. i hope those in the country illegally who haven't been ordered removed by a federal

judge should leave. >> sandra: firm message from border czar tom homan throwing down the gauntlet. he was in chicago over the weekend as federal agents began their targeted immigration enforcement operations in the democrat-run city. joining us now is a chicago resident. thank you for coming back on. your reaction to what you saw happening in your city speaking up about this as long as you have over the weekend. >> my reaction has been somewhat excitement but then also, you know, you can't see this happening and not have your heart hurt for some of the people who are going to be deported. that's for the people who are hard working. people coming to this country. those criminals who came here, which is what tom homan is targeting right now, you know, we feel good about the fact they are being taken back to their countries and taken out of our

neighborhoods. we are already dealing with high crime and so it is good to know that someone has our back. i've been listening to our mayor and our governor the last couple of days basically doubling down on not even being willing to assist in helping them to get criminals out of our community. you know, one of the things that you will hear mayor johnson say that crime is down in the city of chicago. i live approximately three blocks from the mayor and my husband was carjacked in front of our house on monday. i don't need to hear people talking to me about how we're being incentive to other people when we're fighting our own issues right here in our community and folks have compiled those with criminals from other places is unacceptable. we're excited about it. >> sandra: the administration has said and heard tom homan

there these initial arrests and deportations are targeted and going after criminals. known criminals and those who have obviously committed illegal acts and have ties to gangs. to your point this is the mayor of your city brandon johnson defiant. listen. >> we are a welcoming city and we're a sanctuary city. we're a sanctuary and welcoming state. that has not changed. because of who won the election. and that's not going to change. any of the measures that the president is looking to execute against working people in the city of chicago, we will defend our city. it is just that simple. >> sandra: are there any chicago residents opposed to this administration coming in and taking out and sending back those who have criminal backgrounds or wanted for criminal acts or even worse have

violent ties to gangs? >> i'm sure that they are not and i'm sure you will hear people say that there are people who are opposed to it. for the majority of the citizens in chicago we aren't opposed to it. let me tell you something. our mayor is intent on protecting people who come from other places. we need our mayor to be intent on protecting people born and raised here and have stake. not that those people don't have stakes in these communities. for those of us fighting tirelessly to bring about change in our communities and told time after time again there is no money and so watch billions being spent on people who are not from here is a problem for most of chicago. and it must be a problem for most of the country because you can tell that in the way that people voted. >> sandra: we hear the frustration and urgency in the voice and numbers back up your concern. the total number of migrants in your city that have come in

through december 18th. the influx topping 51,000. just to give people an idea what the city of chicago has been dealing with and to your point about the spending and how much this is costing the city in just a two-year period just over a two-year period 630 million and i know you have been pointing out all that money being taken away from improving the school situation, the healthcare system, obviously the streets are dealing with a lot of crime. final thought from you. >> final thoughts are, you know, tom homan, you are welcome. i voted for president trump and let me tell you something, i was one of those life long democrats. i started voting at 18. voted in every election, democrat. except this last one because i'm just tired. i'm tired of the same old thing happening from the democratic party. i'm so glad that president trump is now delivering on some of his

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domestic trip as vice president to visit the hurricane damage. president trump went on friday to north carolina. but they are proving they won't forget the people of virginia as well and damascus, virginia is the destination for today as he emotion barks on quite a journey in his young life and you have to love the outfit, sandra, for a day like today. setting the stage for what this young man will do. he will have a lot of assignments. one of them is representing the president and going and coming back to tell him exact will i what is going on and what the people there might need. >> sandra: they have hit the ground running for sure. speaking of which the senate is pushing ahead on confirming president trump's cabinet. vote on scott bessent for thresh tree secretary is teed up for tonight. the road could get rockier as the week goes on. chad pergram has the latest live from capitol hill. what's the update, chad? >> good morning. senate pushed through two of

president trump's nominees over the weekend, another likely scores confirmation tonight. that's treasury secretary nominee scott bessent and perhaps tomorrow transportation secretary pick sean duffy. >> actually we're ahead of schedule. we're going back to what is the obama standard. obama got 12 cabinet nominees through in 15 days. it took trump 43 days to get his first 12 through back in 2017. so we're pushing hard. >> bessent should receive bipartisan support every nominee except defense secretary pete hegseth got votes from democrats. don't expect democrats to support the nomination of tulsi gabbard for director of national intelligence. her hearing is before the intelligence committee later this week. slotkin of michigan is a former c.i.a. officer. >> she doesn't show the competence, the understanding, the depth. she wasn't prepared for her meetings. not to mention the deeply questionable decisions she has

made of cozying up to vladimir putin, flying and cozying up with assad in syria. >> there could be bipartisan -- the same with kennedy, junior. >> we know the danger of this not being able to first of all putting out misinformation and disinformation and profiting from it is a problem. >> rfk junior has two hearings this week. gabbard has a hearing on thursday plus a closed session and another controversial nominee gets a hearing as well. kash patel. this trio will be the hardest to confirm. >> sandra: thank you, chad pergram from capitol hill. >> [inaudible question]

>> dana: rfk junior the nominee to head up hhs department is trying to reassure lawmakers in two hearings this week scheduled for wednesday and thursday. bring them to you live. the chief medical officer of function health and the host of the mind body green podcast. i'm a podcast enthusiast and listen to that one as well. doctor, how well do you know rfk, junior? you are supportive of his nomination. >> i've known bobby for 20 years and deeply understand his thinking and his approach to trying to help america and from my percentective he has tremendous integrity. science is about asking question. some say science is settled and

a sentence you should never say. i think bobby is a man who is looking to transform the health of america. we have 38% of our children who are teenagers who are pre-diabetic, 48th in life expectancy in the world. spent 40% of the costs of all of our healthcare, we really need to fix it and a lot of it is driven by our food system that he talked a lot about. dealing with the causes that we have. dealing with the way we actually do research in this country, funding research that's focused on that is critical. >> dana: i listened to your interview with dr. marty makary and brought up the point about asking questions in science. listen to bill cassidy, >> i agree with him on some things and disagree on others. food safety i think the ultra processed food is a problem. vaccinations he is wrong on.

and so -- so i look forward to had dialogue with him on that. >> dana: what do you understand his position on vaccines to be? >> i agree closely with rfkj junior on this. he has vaccinated all of his children and vaccinated himself. he is not anti-vaccine. he is asking for us to look at the data and the questions and look at it scientifically to assess the effects. we're seeing it with the covid vaccine. pfizer released looking at all the complications of risks and the mrna vaccines coming to light. he is not saying get rid of vaccines. he is saying let's have an honest conversation. covid vaccines were presented as safe and effective. they were partially effective. you don't eliminate the risk of getting the disease. you may have a lower disease burden when you get it and has potential side effects and

complications as we've seen years later. he is just asking. >> dana: some people are concerned about some of the longer standing vaccines. we see a movement >> he isn't getting rid of polo, measles, mumps. he is not getting rid of all that. that's a trope that the opposition puts forth to try to discredit him. he is an anti-vac conspiracy theorist. that is a sentence they put in but they don't listen to his own words and look at what he is really focused on and read his own writings. if you want to know what's going on with him read and listen to what he has written and said and make a decision for yourself, don't listen to what the media says about him. >> dana: doctor, everyone will get a chance and have his hearings this week. he is fortunate to have you in his corner. thank you for coming on the show. >> my pleasure. >> sandra: thousands returning to northern gaza as the

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>> dana: refugees are flooding back into northern gaza and mediateors came to an agreement to release more hostage. trey yingst is here. >> we learned overnight that two hospital acknowledge releases are set to take place this week. one will happen on thursday and

the other one on saturday. now each of these days we'll see three individuals released from hamas captain activity. one of the five female observations soldiers is on the list for first day along with another person taken from the community after the release of four israeli hostages on saturday morning. their mothers thanking president trump for his efforts to bring them home. >> thank you, president trump, for everything you are doing for our hostages. if anyone can bring world peace, it is definitely you. and we are confident you will do whatever it takes to get us there. >> since american and egyptian negotiators were able to come to a deal israel is allowing palestinians civilians to move to northern gaza. something they previously blocked and comments from president trump about resettling

palestinians from gaza in egypt and jordan. officials from both countries rejected from the idea. we know the trump administration was able to usher in an extension of the cease-fire between israel and lebanon. dana. >> dana: we'll wait and see and be with you all the way. thank you. >> sandra: chinese a.i. startup rattling tech stocks this morning. it runs on less powerful chips than its american rivals and costs a whole lot less. the ceo of a group joins us now. make sense of this. you've been watching this all morning. initially a huge sell-off and the news emerged. dow is pretty much unchanged now but it's the nasdaq taking a big hit down 3%. >> a tech tantrum starts the

week. it will pass. the threat is you can do more with less. i think the upside here is there will be great buying opportunities and you will see a lot more innovation in a.i. now we can do it faster. the down side, this really is a big risk, we don't want another tiktok situation where china is controlling a lot of data. we have to think about a better approach from a national security standpoint than just saying china, you can't have our best chips. what they did with deep seek is take an nvidia chip to run at 50% of speeds and figured out a way to do more with less. as always, necessity is the mother of all innovation and china is proving it again. it is time for the big tech companies in the u.s. to step up. most notably most of the down side for meta is most pronounced. here we have mark zuckerberg, who in recent days said he would spent 56 to 65 billion on a.i. is known for incinerating investors' capital and looks like he might be doing the same thing here. meta is the most dangerous

situation out there. >> sandra: we had the big board in the corner and the dow went slightly positive for a few moments. looking at the nasdaq down 2.3ers p percent. big sell-off there. the idea is that we are looking at companies that are pouring millions of dollars into a.i. and being the best at it. this would be sort of a surprise, right? did the markets just not see this coming? >> it is a black swan event. we thought a.i. would be super expensive and need all this power that we didn't have readily available and why you saw nuclear stocks takes off. we have to reset expectations. a natural give and take in the markets and present buying opportunities. by no means is nvidia going out of business. by no means is microsoft, meta , or alphabet going to get out of a.i. they need the change the model. it's a mixture of experts and what deepseek has done.

instead of having the a.i. system running everything they can selectively activate it and turn it on as necessary with savings on cost. only 5.6 million to train the model versus 100 million. ongoing basis to operate the model 75% to 90% cheaper to it doesn't have all that power drain. >> sandra: a lot of nvidia watchers on this program. now the stock is down 13%. there is some movement there. but one day doesn't make a trend. we'll watch it. the headline on deepseek. axios stunning breakthroughs from china's deepseek a.i. alarm u.s. rivals saying it will force a global technology reckoning. why is this freaking out the a.i. world? i suppose that will be a question as we go on. but there is going to be a huge learning curve here with artificial intelligence. final thoughts. >> there is a huge learning curve.

this is open source and everyone can see how it's operating and functioning. guess what? now the big players in the u.s. will be able to replicate this and incorporate the new paradigm on how to run a.i. in their models and before long we'll have much more innovation coming in a.i. that's a up side. >> sandra: we have volatility today. now the dow is down 50%. thank you so much. all right. dana. >> dana: republicans are working to fix the tax code and get rid of taxes on tips. how those impacted most are reacting. we have that next. >> here is the the deal. no tax on tips. many of these workers are some of the very citizens who were hit hard and very hard by the ravages of the biden economy, which was inflation. when i think of biden i think of incompetence and inflation.

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comparing trump's new term with biden's entire presidency. plus immigration, customs and enforcement raids across america have picked up criminal illegals and some sanctuary democrats are dug in on what they are calling the resistance. plus rfk junior's confirmation hearing is scheduled for this week. president trump's choice to lead hhs could be the most vulnerable despite his push to make america healthy again. dr. marc siegel, steve hilton, clay travis, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> it has been clear to me for five years and increasingly clear to many other people and certainly if c.i.a. and f.b.i. and the department of energy and most people just around the world that the by far most likely origin of covid-19 is a lab accident in wuhan. >> dana: considered the stuff of those who dabbled in conspiracy

theories. that's not the case. the c.i.a. taking covid most likely leaked from the a lab. alex, high. >> the c.i.a.'s new position isn't the result of a new administration. this assessment was ordered and completed under president biden. confirmed c.i.a. director john ratcliffe decided on his first day to declassify and release the findings. >> i think 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 shows. at the same time of protecting us from adversaries like china if they caused or contributed to this. >> for years the c.i.a. said it didn't have enough evidence to make a determination on covid's origins. scientists who floated the lab leak theory were cast off by the mainstream. anyone who put out that idea was cast off as conspiracy peddling. the c.i.a. joins the f.b.i. and energy department in favor the

theory. it is not concrete, though. a statement from c.i.a. spokesperson reads in part the c.i.a. assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the covid-19 pandemic is more likely based on the available body of reporting. senator tom cotton was one of the first political big names to support the lab origin theory. >> i didn't have access to special scientific knowledge but used common sense and looked at the facts and understood what chinese communists do. >> investigation will continue into if a possible leak was accidental or intentional. this assessment did not go there and did not involve any new evidence, just fresh eyes on existing intelligence. >> dana: that's for the update, alex. >> sandra: president trump reiterating his promise to ban taxes on tips. republicans in congress are working to make that a reality. danamarie mcnicholl is in miami beach for us talking to some of

the people that this would directly impact, right, danamarie? >> that's right. hi, sandra. talking to servers and bartenders. they asked why president trump didn't include that no tax on tips in his executive order. well, he can't reduce or increase taxes in an executive order. it has to go through legislation. a reason why a no tax on tips act is already in the works. now over the weekend president trump took a victory lap in las vegas thanking his supporters and promising to fulfill his campaign pledge. >> president trump: if you are a restaurant worker, server, valet, bellhop, bartender, one of my caddies or any other worker who relies on tip income, your tips will be 100% yours. >> the no tax on tip act would amend an internal revenue code

allowing employees to claim a deduction of up to $25,000 per year on earned tips. this includes bartenders, restaurant servers, beauty services like barbers, hairstylists, nail care, aesthetics and spa treatments. >> this just another opportunity to give people a tax reduction when they are struggling. they've struggled under biden's inflation. >> florida senator rick scott says the no tax on tips act will be an extension of president trump's tax cuts. it needs to go through the house and senate. he is very optimistic it will pass with significant support. >> this money is actually coming for me for my pocket and help me pay rent or whatever i have to buy. obviously it will help the service as well like customers getting better service, better

attention. >> the national restaurant association supports it saying it would help recruit and retain restaurant employees. >> sandra: something a lot of people are watching. thank you. >> dana: we had quite a show. before we go new york city congratulating the philadelphia eagles punching their ticket to the super bowl. the official account writing, shining an eagles colors in honor of their championship. the eagles are rivals with the new york giants. they haven't been in the super bowl since 2012. they are in a drought. >> sandra: i will say nothing. i go for the chiefs. it is fun. i don't know. is this the wrong building to say this in? >> dana: i sit next to jess watters. thanks for being with me today. see you at 1:00. tom homan your big interview. see you there.

"the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: we begin with the