try. this video is a little embarrassing to give myself grace they say the machine was a little too tall for me and it is, if fact, very hard. no matter what your role is here it is important to them in the sense they take a lot of pride in their work whether it's the lacing or this turning because for them a lot of them being browns fans, cleveland has never been to a super bowl before. ada is represented in every super bowl no matter what. i'll send it back to you. >> martha: good try. good college try there. >> bill: you will be there all day. you can still try. queue is music. chiefs and eagles sunday, february 9th. a week and a half here on fox and we're getting ready for it. brady will be in the booth. it will be big with kevin burkhardt. chiefs are favored by a point and a half.

martha and i will make a wager for a dollar. new hour begins now. >> president trump: this has been a very exciting and will be a very exciting new chapter. there is nothing we cannot achieve as long as the republican party remains united. and in january, 2027, we'll have a larger republican house, a larger republican senate, and our country will be richer, safer, stronger, prouder, greater, freer than ever before. >> bill: president trump rallying republicans to come together, stay together and advance his agenda and make the most of their washington trifecta. it is tenuous. dana has the day off today. i'm bill hemmer. >> martha: you are stuck with me. i'm martha maccallum and it is great to be here with bill this morning on "america's newsroom." so the party showing off a unified front at the house gop

annual retreat as the focus turns to capitalizing on american imagine or -- republican majorities in congress which is very important and often does not yield what they want it to. this time they are determined to not let that happen. driving the president's agenda, legislative priorities through capitol hill. house republican conference chair mcclain doubled down on what they expect last hour. watch this. >> everyone is really excited, very united to deliver on the mandate that the american people gave us. no one is going to get 100% of what they want. not even me, right? but we are going to be put in a better spot and we will put the american people in a better spot. >> bill: aishah hosni is in doral, florida with the latest on what happened last night and what the message is today. aishah, good morning to you. hello. >> bill and martha, good morning to you. president trump last night acknowledged he doesn't have the

wide margin in the house. he can't afford to lose three or four republicans or less than that. unfortunately, not every republican in the house gop conference is here at this unifying annual retreat. in fact, i was just told that only about 170 out of the 218 are here in miami and they are missing critical figures like chip roy who as you know demanded cuts and off sets. he is not here and neither is congressman andy biggs. this was the first time that president trump addressed the full gop conference in person since becoming the president and he laid out his agenda, his goals to expand his tax cuts, pass border security and energy legislation. also raise the debt ceiling. he told the gop not to get bogged down in how many bills it would take to get it done. right now the house freedom caucus continues to push forward two separate bills with tax cuts

pushed to the latter bill. republicans are saying they'll pass whatever come up with. >> all the committees are doing their work. it unlocks the process and our job is to make sure every one of our members has ownership of this process. >> bill, i will talk with chip roy in a little bit to figure out why he is not here, why he didn't choose to be here and what he thinks about all of this as they are trying to unify this conference again. can't lose really any republicans. >> bill: his answers will be interesting. aishah hosni thanks on that live in doral, enjoy the weather. >> martha: let's bring in jason chaffetz and joe concha. sounds like about half showed up for this conference and they have a very slim margin. how is this looking? >> 48 members who didn't show up. what i learned in congress is it's very much a team sport.

it is sort of like being on the cincinnati bengals, bill. it is rah, rah in the locker room. they get on the field and somebody starts their own plays. the best coach in donald trump. when he calls a play you better get in line. just one goes sideways and you can't get there. you have the salt crew. people that want to raise spending, some that want to cut spent. people that want all these special thing. the one thing they're fearful of is donald trump. color me concerned because i don't know that they can all get together. >> bill: trump is singing your same song. he says you have to stick together. kevin mccarthy saying the same thing. >> that concern is justified. this time is a lot different from 2017 as 2025. 2017 donald trump entered with the house and with the senate and his first year was basically chaos, infighting internally

within his team. the people in charge of the house and of the senate were not on the same page as trump. this time around it feels different with mike johnson and john thune. the fact that donald trump won the popular vote and won every swing state there is more of a feel of a mandate and susie wiles. her mandate is do not air these grievances in public. if you have some things we do it internally. don't put it out on social media to get cable news hits. forget d.e.i. it is taxes, energy and immigration. you get those three things done you have to compromise on some other things but that's what trump wants. >> martha: it seems to me these people if they don't get in line are going to get primaried quickly. they are all running again. no one wants to be pinned with the person who did not allow the trump agenda to go through with this kind of momentum. >> better have that conversation with the freedom caucus and some

members that would much rather become instagram stars out there. the salt crew, the people who want to deal with state and local taxes. i think there is maybe some wiggle room there. i'm telling you, they couldn't even get everybody to show up to the meeting. let alone how will you get on the same page? donald trump wants one big beautiful bill. maybe it parses into two. >> meet me in minnesota. you had a chance to go somewhere warm for three days. >> bill: i like the quote from the man from oklahoma. trump made politics fun again. you had a good time. his point about the freedom caucus is very well taken. >> it should be well taken. the fun part is true. when you have an incoming president who is dancing ymca with a sword in his hand that's fun. overall this cabinet is so young and vibrant when compared to -- when you have pete hegseth or

pam bondi, go figure. i had no idea she was 59 years old. marco rubio, tulsi gabbard. a young, vibrant, energetic cabinet coming in. democrats look like a old party. >> martha: let's talk about democrats for a moment. mr. fetterman went on "the view" and they weren't too happy that he went to visit president trump and they were less happy with what he thought of him. watch this. >> overall it was a positive experience. i mean, he was kind, he was cordial. it wasn't in any kind of theater. it wasn't trying to get your picture taken to put something on social media. it was just a conversation. a straight up conversation and i have a rule. i'm going to engage and have a conversation that's anyone playing it straight and that's doing my job again. >> martha: how did that go over? >> how refreshing. john fetterman is the voice of

reason on the democratic side of the aisle. all the democrats campaigned on we'll bring the country together. joe biden, we'll unite the country. then you have somebody say i'm willing to have the discussion and donald trump goes to southern california, invites all the democrats to sit around there and they didn't say much to donald trump because when the cameras are rolling and it is open guess what? they're closed lips. behind the scenes this is not who they are. >> like 1995 when you listen to john fetterman. bill fetterman takes a shellacking and loses the house. he could have done two things. run to the left and played resistance like we see tomorrow democrats and allies in the media do or john fetter man, listen and consider compromising. newt gingrich and bill clinton. budget surpluses, the welfare reform. americans want more of what john fetterman is describing. >> bill: he said he would make a

pretty terrible republican. >> martha: the problem for president trump isn't in the senate. it's in the house. so that is -- maybe he can influence folks over there. >> bill: thank you. >> i can't wait to hear this bet. in the meantime we have a hearing on the panama canal happening on the hill. senator ted cruz out of texas is chairing this giving an opening statement just moments ago. here is how that went. >> we're here today to examine a monument to american ingenuity, the panama canal. senator moreno suggested we open the hearing by playing van halen and panama, we may not do that, but between the american construction of the panama canal, the french effort to built a canal and america's triumphant completion of that

canal, the major infrastructure projects across panama cost more than 35,000 lives. for the final decade of work on the panama canal the united states spent nearly $4 hundred million, equivalent to more than $15 billion today. the panama canal proved a truly invaluable asset. sparing both cargo ships and warships the long journey around south america. when president carter gave it away to panama, americans were puzzled, confused and many outraged. with the passage of time, many have lost sight of the canal's importance both to national security and to the u.s. economy. not president trump. when he demanded fair treatment for american ships and goods,

many in the media scoffed. but the panama canal was not just given away. president carter struck a bargain. he made a treaty and president trump is making a serious and substantive argument that treaty is being violated right now. this committee has jurisdiction under the senate rules over the panama canal and today we'll examine evidence of potential violations. president trump has highlighted two key issues. number one, the danger of china exploiting or blocking passage through the canal. and number two, the exorbitant costs for transit. chinese companies are now building a bridge across the canal at a slow pace so as to take nearly a decade. and chinese companies control container ports at either end. the partially completed bridge gives china the ability to block the canal without warning. and the ports give china ready

observation posts to time that action. this situation, i believe, poses acute risks to u.s. national security. meanwhile, the high fees for canal transit disproportionately affect americans. u.s. cargo accounts for nearly 3/four of canal trance its. u.s. navy vessels pay additional fees that apply only to warships. canal profits regularly exceed $3 billion. this money comes from both american taxpayers and consumers in the form of higher costs for goods. american tourists aboard cruises, particularly those on the caribbean are captive to any fees panama chooses to levy for canall trance its. >> bill: hearing continues at the moment. share what his opening remarks were. don't know how the issue will go but it appears that the decision

lies in panama but it is a tug-of-war between washington and beijing. certainly something to watch. we shall. that was interesting. >> martha: the tug-of-war between washington and beijing over this opening and big profit center. lots of change going on. google announcing they'll update the maps app to use gulf of america and mount mckinley again. this after president trump signed an executive order renaming the gulf of mexico and alaska's what was currently called denali mountain. a lot of people millsed the denali part. some thought it was still called mount mckinley. this is a significant change to google maps. >> bill: i'll see if gulf of america is on here. it is taking a while to load up here. i'll try to get an answer shortly. here we go.

no, here it is. i guess i need the update on my phone. 14 past now. a lot of news in the tech world because of this. you have a stunning rise of a chinese a.i. app wreaking havoc on u.s. stocks. how the tech sector is trying to get a read on what is a real threat and what is not. >> martha: drone videos showing alleged cartel gunmen suspected at firing at american border agents. the details on that and what it says about the larger battle to regain control of our southern border. >> bill: you have the trump administration facing blowback in its efforts to dismantle d.e.i. in government. how it is playing out across the federal government and the pentagon especially in a moment. >> what happened is we sacrificed try diversity of thought and we created a new culture of exclusion of certain

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>> president trump: the release of deepseek a.i. from a chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser focused on competing to win. we have the greatest scientists in the world. we always have the ideas. we're always first. >> bill: all right. here is how we were going on the nasdaq. tech heavy, more than 50% of the stocks are in technology on the nasdaq. we're cruising along here. felt pretty good until yesterday and we saw this, man. that is a significant nose-dive for the tech sector. a trillion dollars on paper but the biggest one clearly nvidia at almost $6 hundred billion.

on paper having recovery today and see how it goes. nvidia has done so well over the past three years, too. if you are investing in it you have done well yourself. this is the number one app all day yesterday at the app store for apple. it was deepseek. people wanted to know about it and explore it for themselves. it was number one. see if it stays there today. last thing year in terms of context, all right? you look at the top ten losses on paper over the past two or three years, eight of the ten were nvidia, the two exceptions were meta in february of 2022 and amazon 2022 in april of that year. this is a stunner. it's about $3 hundred billion versus 600 billion. almost double on paper the largest loss. cruise over here and we'll get perspective whether or not it is -- how much we need to pay attention to it. we have a friend with us. >> martha: brian brenberg

co-host of the big money show. everybody is trying to dig into this story, what is your take on it? >> deepseek is the new thing in a space that loves new things. so it is not surprising it had a big market effect. what everybody is crazy about is the fact it can do what all the other a.i. chatbots can do at a tenth of the cost in computing power. if that's true it could up end the whole space. we are oh he talking about hundreds of millions on chips. we've been talking about nuclear facilities strapped to these a.i. data centers to power them. if deepseek is doing what they say they are doing, it will change all the economics of that. but deepseek needs to be doing what it says it is doing. this is a chinese company, data out of china isn't always reliable. let's just got net ahead of ourselves for a second. >> martha: they didn't have a

lot of people with covid either, if i remember. >> a lot of spaces you have to check the data. >> bill: they are using older nvidia chips and the other thing is they copied open a.i. so they can do a measure of what open a.i. is doing but can't do everything open ai is doing and they did it for cheaper. >> they piggy backed on open a.i. and what they have built and they use older chips. the other thing they do is they train their models just a little bit differently. so one way i heard it explained instead of having a librarian read every book in the library it finds the experts in the areas you are querying and takes less power to get the thing going. they are trying something different. no question about it. but the question is can it hit the upper ends of like a chatgpt can do. eventually they'll figure it

out. the economics suggests a.i. will get cheaper and more powerful. deepseek may have taken a leapfrog move here. >> martha: you think about the original calculators and computers and that's the track we're on here. one of my questions is about security. everybody downloading deepseek across the country now and talk to tiktok and its danger and now bill showed us the number one app. >> you know, if you download the app what you will find out the data you are inputting into it is being stored in china. you have to ask yourself do you want to take that bargain? this is a chinese company. we know that chinese communists, any time they want can say open the thing up. let's see what's inside. so, you know, there is a desire to embrace the new thing but man, whether it's tiktok or this, you have to temper it with some wisdom about where it is coming from.

i think donald trump got it exactly right. >> bill: let's get to some of that. if you ask the question what happened during the 1989 tin man square protest, if you ask about the uighurs or anything like that it goes on and on like this. david sax is on at 3:00. he said deepseek r1 shows the race is competitive and rapt to rescind the biden executive order. he writes i'm confident in the u.s. but we can't be complacent. >> when it says it is beyond my scope, what that means is it's beyond what the chinese communists allow the scope to be. that's a thing saying it is controlled by the party. that's very important.

now to get to donald trump, the way he responded to this yesterday was we've got to compete. david sacks says we have to compete. two really important components of that. one is you can't regulate a.i. with government approvals for everything. we'll lose the race. if other thing is you can't take your antitrust people and sick them on every company innovating in this space. thankfully the present administration has rolled back both those things that biden was trying to do and it gives us a great shot at competing. >> martha: government controlling a.i. won't help us compete. >> bill: good luck with the new show. >> martha: president trump scoring an early foreign policy week during his first week on the job and the white house says they are just getting started. senator bill hagerty joins us next. new polls show mexican are fed

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>> bill: it is not just a problem in america. new polling shows people in mexico are fed up with the surge of illegal immigration. from los angeles william la jeunesse is looking at that today and william, what did you find out south of the border? >> well, bill, mexico is tired of being a doormat. no longer is it just a pass-through for central americans. they have weekly caravans in the south. massive migrant camps in mexico city, overrun shelters in the north. multiple polls mexicans are saying no. >> it is a huge problem in our neighborhood. the noise, the contamination, the garbage, the violence. >> hugo sanchez is fed up with illegal immigration in mexico.

they defecate and urinate in public, she hopes president trump will help mexico close its southern border. >> he may have some influence with our government so together they can solve the problem. we can't continue like this. >> francisco calls the migrant influx an invasion. we don't know these people where they come from, if they have a criminal record. most are unemployed because they don't do anything. >> 70% of mexicans call illegal immigration excessive and 40% want to limit or stop it all together. this venezuelan my grant says they aren't all bad. they are waiting for asylum interviews. >> it is not good to enter any country illegally but the app isn't working. >> mexico buses many migrants back to guantanamo as there is a change in public opinion. >> many of these people -- the

government has to resolve this. >> more national guard on the southern border. mexico is building massive shelters, on the border states to receive returning migrants, mexican nationals separated by sex and age. they are given free transportation home. the non-mexicans are told to return to their country and not getting any breaks if they stay. >> bill: you'll follow it in l.a. >> president trump: we'll put tariffs on outside countries and outside people that really mean us harm. china is a tremendous tariff maker and india and brazil and so many countries. and so we aren't going to let that happen any longer. we'll put america first.

>> martha: president trump reaching into the tariff tool box to notch some foreign policy wins on his first week back. senator bill hagerty joins me now. your reaction to these tariff moves. how do you think they're working so far and what comes next? >> well, martha, i think we have to put this all into context. if you think about the tariff situation worldwide, united states has been treated unfairly for years. president trump has constantly and consistently talked about reciprocity going back to world war ii. created favorable terms of trade for nations in europe and japan whose economies were devastated it. we should have time limited that. the united states has the lowest tariffs of any major economy. other countries are taking advantage of us. president trump sees this and access to our economy is a privilege, not a right. you is a you what happened in columbia. he knows how to use leverage and knows how to let them know he is

not going to tolerate bad behavior. if countries like columbia don't want to cooperate they won't have access to our markets. >> martha: a foreign policy 101 case we watched with columbia how quickly the turn around happens when there is a financial axe held above your head. i want to ask you about the developments in pausing foreign aid that we heard about from the state department and what that is going to look like. a re-evaluation on a country by country basis. how much do we give you and why and should we, right? >> these are all very legitimate and reasonable questions to ask, martha. a lot of pearl clutching in washington now. back in 2016, 2017 the state department acted as quickly as they could to shovel money out the door to ngos, u.n. and agencies that don't have the u.s. best interests at heart. entirely appropriate that secretary rubio put a because on all this. i sent a letter to every agency

head in the united states government line and verse how they would violate u.s. law if they were to reprogram funds at the very end. we'll get a report on all that here in the next couple of weeks. i think this is something that is entirely legitimate. something that should happen. we need to make certain that taxpayer monies are being used for things that advance america's interest. >> martha: the doge philosophy across the board. an examination long overdue. let me ask you about the hearings for crucial members coming up that cabinet. rfk, jr. and kash patel. the hegseth nomination was confirm. collins, murcowski and mcconnell all voted against. then you had tillis waivering at the end which has raised a lot of questions how the rest of these will go. what do you see? >> i feel very good how the nominees are moving through the

process. you think about senator thune. he has been extremely diligent in terms of setting up to process to get the nominees voted in as possible. democrats have done what they can to slow us down but thune has done a tear the i have i can job moving we're at a pace. i feel good on our nominees. pete hegseth had everything thrown at him and navigated the process well. as people got to know him and hear from him they had a smart individual very capable. i expect the same from the other nominees. >> martha: what would you say to those who might be on the fence about tulsi gabbard? >> president trump is entitled to his nominees. i think you've got a tremendous number of challenges our nation is facing right now. president trump opened a very large tent as he came into office and he selected people that he thinks will help him achieve his goals and achieve the promises he made to the american public. i think on balance republican

should certainly defer to president trump. everybody is entitled to your own opinion. people vote in different ways than me but on the wholly think people should give president trump the benefit of the doubt. >> martha: thanks. >> are you here to see me? >> no, silly. >> you got into harvard law? >> like it's hard? >> bill: not hard for the character but going the trial is different for whitherspoon. she now thought her fictional law -- she was voted jury forewoman. >> why did you pick me?

>> you went to law school. [laughter] >> i was like this is really upsetting. i definitely did not go to law school. i didn't finish college. i started realizing people don't know much about the law. >> bill: maybe her too, right? so she played the role very well and she was -- she saw her just rewards. >> martha: very smart. good foreperson. she did graduate -- i saw the movie. she was a lawyer. she have got a big acting career and why she didn't finish college. border patrol agents trading gunfire with suspected cartel members at the southern border and it was all caught on video. texas dps lieutenant here to tell us what happened.

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>> bill: you know the border danger is a constant presence for those risking their lives to keep us safe at home. border patrol agents coming under fire from suspected cartel members in this drone video amid the trump's administration crackdown against illegals. lieutenant chris a is here toda.

what happened with these cartels and shots fired? let's start there. take us through. >> what you see on the video there is one of the most active, violent border regions on the southern border rift now. you have border patrol agents patrolling that area yesterday and they came under fire by these armed gunmen that you see in the video there from mexico. the agents were able to return fire and thankfully none of the agents were hurt. they were able to seek cover and when we responded with our state resources and troopers, drone operators and texas military soldiers and able to keep a close eye on that gunmen. one of the challenging parts of that event we had the mexican military on the mexican side that responded as well and these four armed gunmen actually left mexico and sought refuge on a piece of land right in the middle of u.s. and mexico in the

middle of the river. right now we're trying to determine if that piece of land belongs to mexico or the u.s. if it does belong to the u.s. then we'll consult with the commission and see if we can acquire that land like we did in 2023 last year. able to acquire 170 acre piece of land that same area as well and take away that piece of land as refuge for the cartels and secure it. we want to provide as much resources and provide as much safety for law enforcement on the border as possible. >> bill: let me share numbers with audience. just a couple days ago over the weekend the biden numbers were pretty high during those days and the apprehensions 24, 25, 26 is in the hundreds. 582, 731. i don't know what you chalk it up to and a change in administration. when he declared the cartels a foreign terrorist organization what was the impact of that

declaration? >> first off real quick on the numbers. last year 2024 in texas we had numbers down over 87% because of our efforts and add the administration and more aggressive stance on border securities nine sectors have been under 1,000 since january 20th. a significant decrease in illegal border crossing between points of entry. more pressure on the cartels we'll see intimidation tactics escalate. it impacts profits. human smuggling or decrease number of border crossings it will impact the cartel and their profit and why we expect to see more of this escalation from the cartels. now that we have a federal partner and more resources especially at the military level, we can dedicate and have a more aggressive stance toward the cartels. >> >> bill: governor abbott is sending more resources. texas held the line against the biden administration's crisis

and refusal protect americans. finally we have a federal government working to end this crisis. abbott is sending 400 more soldiers. he will send c-130s, big cargo planes there and helicopters. for those at home watching, what's the atmosphere like and how have things been different? >> a complete 180 from one day to the next. more arrest being made. more support at the federal level that we didn't have the last four years. everything we did in texas and what governor abbott has been challenged every step of the way by our own federal government when it came to infrastructure and criminal arrests. now that we can go out and focus more on the trans national criminal activity and criminal risks gives us much more leverage and working together with federal partners we're

determined and committed we can secure the border and provide more public safety for the entire country. again when governor abbott has been doing for the last four years and deploying more soldiers now and gps special agents to work with homeland security operations will provide a much more robust border security effort. >> bill: i'm out of time. thank you for yours. one quick question. is the wall -- is any part of the wall back under construction right now do you know? >> it is. it is. we know the federal government is constructing border wall and we continue to do it in texas. that and working together we'll see more of that infrastructure taking place right now. >> bill: thank you for your time. a lot to get to. thanks for coming back with us today. appreciate it. good luck. >> thank you, appreciate it. >> martha: colorado company attempting to break the sound barrier in its bid to put supersonic passenger planes back into the skies. plus from the skies to outer space, what an astronaut is finding so hard to do after being stuck in orbit for so very

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>> harris: president trump handing out pink slips to some justice department lawyers and democrats are furious about it. plus high stakes confirmation hearings this week for trump's most controversial cabinet choices, rfk, jr., kash patel, tulsi gabbard. residents in one state can turn their neighbors in for saying clutch your pearls, offensive things. free speech, anybody? congresswoman kat cammack, ben domenech and ben ferguson. "the faulkner focus" next. >> bill: the astronaut cindy williams is still there and not

home yet. >> martha: the patience required. >> bill: we'll give her a gold medal when she comes home. she is telling high schoolers what it is like being stuck in space without a plan to be there. watch. >> i've been up here long enough now trying to remember what it is like to walk. because i haven't walked, i haven't sat down, i haven't laid down. you don't have to. you can just close your eyes and float where you are right here and it is pretty incredible. >> bill: just to bring you up to speed here. sunni and her partner supposed to be in space for ten days on board the starliner for boeing. they were forced to stay on the international space station for seven months now. they are expected to come home in the coming months. there is no date. there is no date certain, martha. you hang in there, we're pulling for you. >> martha: oh my gosh. fox news getting an exclusive

look as a colorado-based aerospace company inches closer to launching a supersonic flight. we're live in mojave, california with more. hi, grady. >> big test flight today. the plane is on the runway, engines started and 30 minutes or so that plane you see down the runway from me will come back around here and take off and try to hit supersonic speed. this would be the first time ever that a private company has developed a supersonic plane without the help of a government. the ceo says the plan is to take the information that they learn from this flight and apply it to future flights to eventually develop a commercial supersonic jetliner. take a lesson. >> next week we'll fly again and the exciting thing happens. everybody who works on it and we

start evidence on the airliner making it a reality for all of us. this is the only country on earth where a small team can decide they want to do something and go do it. >> just to put things in into perspective. flying at the speed of sound is twice the speed of jet liners today. you could get from new york to london in about three hours and 45 minutes. the goal is to get there commercially. have people flying on these planes in about five years' time. it all starts with this major test flight today. martha. >> martha: that's very exciting. three hours and 45 minutes? >> bill: what's old is new again. i'm taking the eagles, can i jump the horse here? >> martha: okay. i don't want to wear an eagles shirt. that's what happened last time. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: a fox news alert. president donald trump is keeping one of his key cpa