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 campaign

promises to end political prosecutions by the justice department. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the acting attorney general james mchenry just dismissed more than one dozen career prosecutors from the justice department. the lawyers being let go worked on former special counsel jack smith's team and worked on both the election interference and classified documents cases against trump. a d.o.j. official says the move is consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government. republican congressman of new jersey jeff van drew >> what did the justice department expect. they were weaponizeed and specifically dealing out justice for thee but not for me. it goes on and on how they misused the department of justice. of course those people shouldn't be there. it should be justice for all, liberal, conservative, republican, democrat, justice is

justice and that's what we'll come back to. >> harris: justice correspondent david spunt with more. >> the fact that these career attorneys were reprimanded by the current d.o.j. not surprising. president trump and allies telegraphed his problems with jack smith and his team of prosecutors. what is a bit surprising these prosecutors were just fired. not reassigned but told to get out of the building immediately. since they are career prosecutors, harris, three afforded civil service protections. usually simply reassigned to another part of d.o.j. that's happened already in other department sections but these people it is about at least 12 we're told. we don't have specific names. we're asked. they were told to leave. not sure if they will sue to get their jobs back. mchenry made these decisions because he didn't think they

could be trusted. democrats on capitol hill are furious writing to acting attorney general mchenry seeking more information about attorney firings talking about rather than embracing these principles you seem intent on returning us to the days of the infamous spoil system the of the 19th century. civil servants were hired based on political loyalty rather than merit. this led to a federal workforce largely unqualified and prioritized scraping and bowing electoral campaigning and raising money for the president over their official duties. we reached out to the department of justice for comment on this specific letter but have yet to hear back. >> harris: we'll press in more. good to see you, david. republican congresswoman kat cammack of florida was in the last congress served on the government weaponization subcommittee. you are the perfect person to talk about this today. first of all just your initial reaction that you are seeing

already. >> well, it's incredible honestly. this is long overdue. these are individuals who violated their oath of office, weaponized the justice system with the end goal being a political outcome, stop trump. these individuals intimidated witnesses, withheld evidence and i think that their firing should just be the beginning. if we're backed into a place where we are a nation of law and order and accountability, there need to be legal consequences for these individuals. that is something that the american people demanded in this election and i think that this is a very good start but we know how deep the weaponization of our federal government goes. it will take a lot of work and a lot of people will be held to account. >> harris: you probably heard me saying yes in part of that. voters i talked with before the election, they may not have named the people involved. they didn't necessarily know jack smith but what they knew was something that some of them had already felt against a

system that they felt was unfair. i thought it was interesting. i don't know if it drove votes but on some voters' minds. what would you say the critics who claim this is retaliation for going after trump? >> listen, i think that if they will go down that path they will have 70 plus million americans standing in their way. it is far more about the righting of the ship and getting back to a place of law and order. equal justice for all. what we saw certainly under the last four years but even prior under obama was a systematic targeting of conservatives across all spheres of government, whether the i.r.s. targeting the i.r.s. going after conservative organizations, or we saw people every day mom and pop organizations, even individuals being censored at the behest of the white house utilizing, the f.b.i. there was countless examples of where conservatives had been targeted through financial

systems and otherwise. so this is a long time coming up upholding the law and getting back to the basics. we will no longer be a system of double standards and who is better politically connected. it is all about truth. that is what donald trump campaigned we're in the midst of promises made, promises kept. >> harris: equal justice for all. he is trying to keep a promise that was made 100 years or more or so ago. let's do it. right now you are, i should say where you are, your fellow house republicans are at trump's doral golf club in florida for your annual policy retreat. here is part of the president's message which he delivered there yesterday. let's watch. >> president trump: the golden age of america has officially begun. i think that's a good thing for us to talk about. the golden age and american dream. the republican party has to stick together. we just can't have people going one, two, three votes and we

don't have that luxury. different if we had a 20 or 30 person majority but we don't. we have to help leadership. >> harris: well, president trump covered many topics including his illegal immigration crackdown, artificial intelligence, tiktok ban and looking to reinstate his tax cuts. he also pushed for a bill or bills, several whatever it took to deliver on his agenda. house speaker mike johnson with this. >> some big decisions will be made in the next few days and align with our senate and colleagues there and move forward on that agenda. the reconciliation process, appropriations we have to wrap up and the other issues that are upon us. so all the republicans are rolling up their sleeves. there is a lot of work being done. a lot of work done behind the scenes to lead us to this point and we're excited to deliver for the american people and we will. >> harris: you see her there, the conference chair lisa mcclain on the right of your screen.

in a new op-ed she writes this. in november 77 million people gave us a clear mandate. they told us they want results, not excuses. in the span of a few weeks house republicans have passed meaningful legislation. these are not symbolic victories but a sign our message is getting through. even among those who long opposed us. our agenda is america's agenda. why would anyone block or be opposed to our agenda, end quote. congresswoman, your reaction. >> listen, if the last week has been any indication, we've seen more winning in seven days than we saw in biden's four years. you could probably tell i'm squinting a little bit and like to say the future is so bright i have to wear shades. it wouldn't work for tv. it is bright out here and not just because of the florida sunshine but what we have in terms of potential ahead of us. we have to be one team, one mission. the president was so right. we have to be united as we march forward on these big ticket items like reconciliation and

for all of viewers at home you'll hear it a lot, reconciliation. a fancy way of saying we're going to put a package together that drains the swamp. the emergency, the border package, the regulatory reform, taking on these big-ticket items with a special procedure that allows us to get it done because lisa mcclain is right, we have to have a no excuses attitude. we need to deliver results. no race to the mount of click more or anger-tanment. things about the finish line. we have to be one team one mission. >> harris: anger-tainment, i like that. i've seen you wear your shades. new commander-in-chief in town and trump is not afraid to take tough questions from the press.

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>> harris: this is what's coming next. series of high stakes hearing to confirm trump cabinet nominees. first up tomorrow health and human services secretary robert f. kennedy, jr. he is expected to face tough questions and past comments on vaccines and weight loss drugs. thursday kash patel for f.b.i. director and tulsi gabbard for the director of national intelligence. critics have gone hard after tulsi gabbard over past statements they claim seem to support russia's war inside ukraine and her 2017 meetings with former syrian dictator bashar all saad. >> if a nominee acts like a complete meat head or starts screaming like he or she is part of a prison riot people will say whoa, we need to take a second look.

short of that i think most, if not all will be confirmed. the one who is most on the bubble, as you know, as well as i do, is tulsi gabbard. >> harris: ben domenech fox news contributor and editor at large of the spectator. i was thinking about this this morning. what remains to be unknown, unseen yet is whether the president would sort of, you know, get ahead of all this and push her through with his words the way he did pete hegseth saying look, this is the person i want, get on board with it. we haven't seen that happen yet. >> i don't think we've seen it happen yet but i think it will happen. one of the things we started to learn about donald trump's approach is he likes to see these different nominees fight for the job and fight for themselves. it is something we obviously saw most dramatically in the bret kavanaugh hearing what you had the situation of a nominee under assault. some people saying he should be pulled including prominent

republicans. president stuck by him and he was ultimately confirmed. you saw something to a lesser degree play out similarly with pete hegseth. i think tulsi gabbard needs to go on thursday and have a solid, impressive performance in front of a committee that will, i think come after her with a bunch of tough questions including from republicans like todd young and susan collins who haven't made their own feelings as clear on the matter. i think ultimately the votes are there for her if she gets to the floor and if she is able to navigate this moment with the kind of class and kind of seriousness that she has brought to bear in the past on the house armed services committee and in her long tenure in the u.s. military. something that makes her uniquely qualified for the dni position given that we have had a run of a number of people who haven't had that kind of military experience. >> harris: i will move on to this. karoline leavitt is the the youngest white house press secretary in history making her debut at the lectern today in the white house briefing room. her first briefing is set for

1:00 p.m. eastern. everybody is getting ready to watch that. president trump is taking question after question after question. boy, we got access. he is giving it to the press. >> president trump: i will be taking questions now from some very distinguished people. i will take a few questions if you want. >> welcome back. >> welcome back to you. >> how are you liking your first week so far, sir? >> it's nice. >> are you planning to travel to the middle east soon? >> do you have any questions, please let me know and if you have a statement to make i would love to have politically if you would like to make a statement. >> harris: well, he tallied 78 questions in a few hours after he was sworn in and that's compared with former president biden six questions answered over the entire first week of his term. look, ben, you heard the one

reporter how are you liking air force one? they have so much access the questions are easy. >> it's such an amusing shift away. it is sad really because we now know, of course, the reason that joe biden was kept at such arms length from the press intentionally because they were hiding his decline and because the staff was afraid of what he would say if he was getting tough questions from anybody, even sympathetic journalists, this president doesn't have anything to hide and willing to talk about anything, including his opinion of air force one. it is back to the old days of having real full access to a president who is no shrinking violet about speaking his mind. for karoline leavitt it makes her job a lot easier. it means she doesn't have to be the face of this administration. she is paired with the president who is an accomplished communicator. i think they would like to hear

from him to such a great degree compared to the four years of hiding the ball. >> harris: they played it with kamala harris coming in at the tail end. we didn't know that much about who she was as vice president or not. look, i know at the spectator and other media outlets, some of the most frustrating words you can hear from a press secretary is i haven't talked about that. the top three breaking news items of the day. one thing i know about karoline leavitt and those around trump is that he is communicating with them and that's important for the american people. >> she is a very young press secretary. people have pointed that out. but i would just say look, i with as the youngest political appointee of the george w. bush administration at the time i went in as a speech writer. i think communications is something that the president likes to have young people front and center. people who know and understand and appreciate the new ways that americans are communicating. we saw that in his approach to podcast interviews and the like

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area because of the heavy cartel activity. meanwhile president trump's illegal immigration crackdown is showing big results already. daily border encounters are down nearly 100% over more than just a year. so it's crept to a stop. he said he would stop people from crossing over and now it has crept to that point, very, very, very low number. new dhs secretary kristi noem is here in new york city today with the latest in a series of major ice raids across the country. so far more than 4,000 arrests in just the past week. these are illegal immigrants in our country committing crimes. violent crimes either known about in their previous country or it's happened here. they have to go. a freshman arizona lawmaker and former biden administration acting ice director with this. >> he has learned a lot from 2017. now he knows exactly what to do. president trump campaigned on this and delivering it. you look at the polling even

democrats are -- >> they can choose to be more aggressive and more must caw lair with their enforcement activity. not to see them doing an interagency support network. it is too much for ice to do on its own and have the d.o.j. collaborate with that. good to see that federal collaboration and work. these are targeted operations. >> harris: let's go to the white house now where correspondent peter doocy is. >> 1,179 ice arrests in a day yesterday. top republicans here in town are pleased that ice can suddenly make so many arrests so quickly. >> they are moving swiftly and quickly and very straight forward on removing all these rapists, murderers, gang members that have come across our southern border. frankly i wish they would be doing it in my home state of minnesota. i have a governor who likes to say we're a sanctuary state.

that is not putting minnesotans first. >> he is talking about minnesota there. the dhs secretary went for a ride along, kristi noem wrote, criminal alien is now in custody chafrngs to ice. dirt bags like this will continue to be removed from our streets. similar raids are ongoing in chicago. >> we're in a difficult situation here in chicago because a lot of the targets we're looking at were previously arrested by local or state authorities and placed holds on many of them and they were released from a facility in into the communities again. >> deportation flights are landing in columbia after president trump warned of a trade war if they couldn't. the president says there is more where that came from. >> president trump: they will take them back fast and if they don't they will pay a very high economic price and we are going to immediately install massive

tariffs and will be placed on them and other sanctions. >> the usual suspects progressive lawmakers in d.c. who complain about just about everything donald trump does are pretty quiet on these raids. at least for now while the targets seem to be mostly hardened criminals. >> harris: this really speaks, peter, to what can happen if you actually let border patrol agents, the great agents that they are, just go out and do their jobs. they could have been doing this all along but they didn't have a way to do that under the biden administration. >> if you are a democratic lawmaker and ice is going through a list that they have apparently had of accused murderers and accused child rapists and going into communities, if you are a progressive are you going to say i would like those people in my district still? it's a tough >> harris: like oh, i didn't know that list existed. power panel now david avella,

and another former dnc press secretary. let's start there and i know we'll talk politics, jose. there really isn't any rebuttal when you pick up hardened criminals, the worst go first. >> that's exactly right. i think if you belong to ms-13 or tren de aragua you should be deported immediately. the worst first as they are calling it i think that is a step in the right direction. the challenge the trump administration will face is can they get enough money from congress to continue to do these operations and two, the biggest challenge i see here is what will happen when you deportal the criminals but what about the 10 million undocumented immigrants part of the american community? what will we do with them? >> harris: a great question. with a bi cam -- they haven't

tackled what jose is talking about. you can't do that by executive action and have it last and it needs to go through congress to deal with those who have come into this country and want to stay and haven't committed crimes other than breaking into the country. >> it is why you see senator thune moving so quickly on immigration issues that have forced now democrats to get on board. particularly those who will be in swing districts. it will be very hard for them to say why did you not want to enforce the laws of the u.s.? donald trump has made it very clear he believes immigration is what got him elected followed by inflation. this is going to be the focus for the next couple months and the question for house democrats and senate democrats is how do you go home and explain to folks you don't want to enforce the very laws that are being broken when these migrants came here? so also why the actions this

weekend to say to countries who have allowed their citizens to come here illegally you have to stop this. you have to be part of this solution for the u.s. >> harris: take back the ones here. you saw what columbia, their president just capitulated and said yeah i will send my presidential plane to come and get them. democrats already are having a hard time when it comes to their party's leadership and identity and they've had to witness trump's fast and furious first week. byron york titled his column disoriented democrats still don't know what hit them. excerpt. if some, perhaps many of the things president trump does are popular, then across the board democratic resistance will serve to make democrats unpopular. some democrats see the problem and want to pick their spots to criticize. others can't help themselves. the party still has to figure out how to address the new president's successes. some democrats want 100% resistance. watch. >> we are going to fight. make no mistake about that.

>> we are going to fight back against donald trump's anti-climate and anti-environment agenda. >> this executive order will be unconstitutional. >> our immigrant community will not become a political fight. >> we will fight back against donald trump's hateful agenda. >> harris: others are taking a different take or have a different take. senator john fetterman here. >> he has been doing essentially what he actually campaigned on. for me there are things i will agree with and disagree with but i'm in the business of finding wins for pennsylvania and the nation and engaging the president i see that as doing my job. i hope maybe you who are watching are tired of just like the venom and hate. i would like more bipartisan kinds of things. you will agree with things and disagree on things and i am going to pick my fights.

i'm not going to -- [applause] >> harris: look, i don't know how many of your party actually jose consider him to be the poster child of reaching across the aisle but they might want to take a cue from him. >> i agree. i think we have to go back to the middle. there are two things we knowed to take into consideration. first there is no question and i agree with john that people voted for security and people voted for the economy, number one. one of the biggest mistakes the democratic party made this time around they started talking about many issues that a majority of americans didn't care about. is the economy, stupid is number one. number two at the end of the day trump needs to recognize 40% of the country didn't vote for donald trump. trump has to also come and work with democrats. >> harris: i think he knows. i think he knows the comeback that he pulled and if he hadn't pulled that comeback the country was continuing to go farther left. >> can i add something quickly?

i'm very happy to see president trump invite democrats like john fetterman to mar-a-lago to talk about the issues. getting things done for the american people. >> harris: your thoughts, david. we didn't see the same from the left. sometimes you have to see your neighbor win before you can say oh, that's how you win? >> very telling this morning that gary peters, senator from michigan announced he would not seek re-election in a swing state. the predicament that democrats across the country have to worry about. americans want to look forward, not backwards. you have the house leader hakeem jeffries doing a press conference on january 6th. that is looking back, not looking forward. american voters will look elsewhere and it is why you see people like gary peters announcing what he did this morning. he have is not running for re-election. >> harris: we haven't talked about this much but this is such an onslaught.

david, come back to you. what is your take on just the quickness that trump has worked with? are there any caveats you might have? >> the american people made clear they wanted action on the border and on inflation. and the president knows he has four years and right now he has two years until the next congressional election. it is time to move. >> harris: all right, gentlemen, great to have you both. thank you. one blue state has a very special hotline. special is one word for it. it is designed for people to tell on their fellow citizens when their feelings are hurt. they are looking for bias but it is all about how it makes them feel. democrats are concerned about the prices that skyrocketed under biden. >> they do not give a [bleep] about the cost of eggs. >> eggs in my district are $9.19. >> a lot of folks struggling to make it to the end of the month.

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>> harris: the u.s. senate is set to hold its first confirmation hearing tomorrow for one of president trump's controversial cabinet choice. robert f. kennedy juniors. the questions will be pointed. research is showing that people may not be able to guess exactly what he will say. they may have a different opinion than reality. senator john kennedy. >> i would like to know more about mr. kennedy's policies with respect to vaccines.

i'm very interested in his perspective with respect to food additives. mr. kennedy is not an unintelligent man. that's clear. i expect him to address all of these issues. >> harris: alexandria hoff in washington, d.c., alex. >> we saw themes of what kennedy has been preaching even recognized by the prior administration on its way out the door. for example, banning the use of red dye three in food. the fda and led in baby foods. he maintained that seed oils are harmful. one of the things he is talking about. fluoride as well. in terms of seed oils, little evidence showing issues with at-home use. some chain restaurants have switched. some ideas are catching on. there is appeal.

kennedy's nomination earned the second highest level of support from registered voters behind only secretary of state marco rubio. on capitol hill senators are on both sides who want clarification from kennedy specifically on vaccines. >> i agree with him on some things and disagree on others. the food safety i think ultra processed food is a problem. vaccinations he is wrong on. >> having an appointee who has cast doubt on the efficacy and safety of vaccines is absolutely the opposite of what we need in that job. >> robert d. kennedy junior is dangerously unqualified and entirely irresponsible in his judgment. >> kennedy insists he is not anti-vaccine but wants more rigorous studies. past comments indicate he is not strictly anti-abortion and because of that a group co-founded by mike pence urged republican senators to ask rfk

the hard questions and do their due diligence. tomorrow will be the first of two hearings. first up is the senate finance committee, hhs oversees the budgets for medicaid and medicare. >> harris: thank you very much. >> prices are going to come down but take a little bit of time, right? the president has been president for all of five days. >> talking about bacon on the campaign trail. >> of course. >> those things when do consumers actually get to touch and feel a difference in their lives >> it comes on trucks fueled by diesel fuel. if the diesel is too expensive the bacon will become more expensive. how do we growing the bacon? farmers need energy to produce it. if if we lower energy prices we'll see lower prices for consumers and what we're trying to fight for. >> harris: not sure what prompted the giggle there but she was giving a lesson, that actor. vance teaching economics 101 explaining, complaining about

inflation, not exactly vanishing instantly. democrats quick to tear into president trump because prices have not gone down. we're eight days into the new administration. >> one glaring thing again in the 200 executive orders we've seen this week is missing any mention -- any mention of lowering the grocery prices for our families, not one word. >> we saw it earlier when president trump pardoned all the january 6th rioters. now independent inspector generals. how is any of this going to lower grocery prices? >> you kept using the words immediately. i will do this immediately when i ran. he said on day one. his failure to even try to move in the direction of lowering costs is a betrayal of the american people. >> harris: the white house had this to say about the president's equestriantive orders. president trump immediately tack action on day one to unplash

american energies to drive down costs for families across the country and the policies that skyrocketed inflation that were rubber stamped by elizabeth warren. ben ferguson is here. great to see you. if anybody was paying attention the way trump planned to attack inflation and prices was to lower the cost of getting those items to you by lowering the cost of energy. >> yeah. you have to laugh at the fact that democrats did not care about prices until january 20th. and then they are like well, everything is expensive. why are you guys making things so expensive. states like california and michigan enacted laws requiring cage-free housing for hence. what happened? the price of eggs went up. they say well, what are you doing on the issue of lowering prices? president walks in and says we

need to have the price of oil go down. natural gas and everything you use to go out there and farm the land in america to lower the prices. they don't actually care. what they are trying to do is score cheap political points and they never cared about this issue. they did bidenomics, the ones that lied about they would fix the economy. they didn't do any of it. what trump said i will bring back jobs to america, secure supply chains and lower the cost of energy to do this so we get lower prices. so the american people i don't think are stupid enough to buy this. it is incredibly cynical of these individuals to go on tv and demand in 12 hours the prices drop when they are the ones that did it. >> harris: they know what biden did on the way out the door. his last few days in office he banned access of oil for this country's oil independence of 625 plus million acres. yeah, that will do it. that was tough.

now you've got president trump with, you know, a handcuffing job going forward and he still is managing to get some things done. we knew that was going to be a problem and you know biden knew. a growing trend. >> trump didn't lie. he told the truth. he just said day one i'm going to move to bring down prices. that's exactly what he has done. he has put in the policies to bring those prices down and they should look at his quotes. >> harris: growing trend among blue states now the free beacon did a deep dive into oregon's phone outline for people who tell on others if they don't like what they are staying. it is a bias response hotline and place for complaints deemed racist. jokes or making fun of cultural traditions, eight states have similar tip lines. washington is set to start up theirs this year. the article says by the end of 2025, 100 million americans will

live in a state they can be reported for protected speech. 1/3 of the nation's population. ben. >> if you want to look at a map of where not to move to look at the map you guys just put up on the screen because they are trying to divide the people and the neighborhoods. i thought we were supposed to live in a country where you can agree to disagree. putting up a flag that is a flag that supports the u.s. government, the american flag, should not be controversial. having a flag that supports israel should not be something people find offensive. having a hotline where you can actually turn in your neighbors, this is what they used to do in germany. this is by the way what they tried to do with covid. remember when they had the hotline you could call in and spy on your neighbors and say i saw them outside for having a birthday party or gathering in a restaurant? this is not free speech. it is the abuse. the fact they're saying the government will pay for you to get counseling if you are

offended. now my tax dollars have to go to an offended neighbor to go to counseling. >> >> harris: people who need counseling being locked up in a lockdown during the pandemic and what we've learned about that since. did they get a check, too, for counseling? that would be a legitimate reason. many people were under the age of 15. a lot of kids. the beacon tested out oregon's hotline with a fictitious call. a reporter identified himself as a muslim concerned about the genocide in gaza saying he felt targeted by an israeli flag on his neighbor's front door. this was the response. >> you said you would log this as a bias incident. >> that's how you are reporting it and honor your request. >> that will go into the state's database or whatever it is of this so that there is a record that this happened? >> correct. as a victim of a biased incident you qualified for mental health

support so if your insurance does not cover mental health support you will be able to get coverage and funding through the department of justice. >> harris: wow. i love the last question. how would i go about that? our team reached out to oregon's department of justice and we have yet to hear back. >> the scariest part about this is the fact that every american could have a government file that is put on them because a neighbor calls a number and says i'm offended and now there is this log book of your quote offenses. that is not the america that i want to live in. i really want to know if politicians will stand up here and protect people so that you don't have some sort of list of offenses in some local community for not breaking the law. >> harris: what you don't want are more lists kept by the government of citizens. ben ferguson. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." "outnumbered" next.

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