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>> lawrence: plus. >> brian: doctor. >> lawrence: yeah, he is plus the nation's report card is out. and american students are falling behind even further when it comes to reading and math. >> steve: that's not good. and could mayor pete make his way back into politics after leaving the biden administration? we're tell you where he has moved and what he might do. actually the banner says it all? what am i talking about? never mind. >> brian: second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. and remember, get dressed. >> brian: the trump administration has a new mandate millions of federal workers fell in love with working at home in pj's. return to the office or resign. >> lawrence: i like the emphasis. peter doocy has the buyouts being offered those employees, good morning, peter. >> peter: the feds the new trump team thinks they can save 100 billion taxpayer dollars. they think that many federal government employees are going to reply to an email they got

last night with the word resign. part of that email says, if you resign under this program, you will retain all pay and benefits regardless of your daily workload and will be exempted from all applicable in person work requirements until september 30th, 2025 or earlier if you choose to accelerate your resignation for my reason. back of the napkin math there are 2 million total federal workers. 6% of federal employees work full time in the office. they think 200,000 would take this buyout. that's how they get to $100 billion in savings. the trump team did not single anybody out with the this email last night. everybody got it. but they did single out general mark milley. he had a security detail taken away last night. and he could lose a star in retirement if it is determined that he was undermining the chain of command during the first trump administration a spokesman for the pentagon now says the secretary informed general milley today that he is

revoking the authorization for his security detail and suspending his security clearance as well. the secretary is also directed the dodig to conduct an inquiry to the fact and circumstances surrounding general milley's conduct so that the secretary may determine whether it is appropriate to reopen his military grade review determination. milley's access now limited access to the white house briefing room on the other hand now wide open. >> we welcome independent journalists, pawforts, social media and apply credentials to cover this white house starting today this seat in the front of the room usually occupied by the press secretary's staff will be called the new media seat. >> peter: karoline did her homework. prepared to talk about the issues of the day but everything that her boss had already answered which is probably kind of hard when he is answering

questions off the cuff roughly 10 times a day. back to you. >> brian: peter, isn't the advantage it seems she is with the president all the time so she doesn't to look in a book she know what is he thinks, she knows what he said? >> peter: that helps a lot. also just when the president is making it known so often. >> peter: right. >> peter: what he thinks about stuff. i haven't heard the president talk about this yet. i would have to ask him. i think reporters are running out of questions because they are covering everything it's like go "new york post" and say let's start on the first page, what do you think about this general milley? did you see this thing about the obamas? what do you think about that? that's where we are going to be soon just because he talks a lot. >> ainsley: also the deputy under kay kayleigh mcenany first term. very involved and experience and knows his agenda. >> steve: peter, does fox have

the same chair second over from the right on the front row? >> peter: yes. everything with the seating chart is the same just there are a lot more people standing on the sides. it looked like dozens of people standing on the sides where in as the end of the biden administration not only not people standing on the side but empty seats. only people who lost seats white house staff. there would usually be two aides that the press secretary could kind of look down at and say hey we are going to get them something about this, right? those two seats are now going to be taken by new media outlets yesterday it was axios and breitbart. >> lawrence: what's the temperature in the room? is it more adversarial like it was the first term or is it more probative? >> peter: that's the a great question. yesterday, it seemed like for the reporters in the room and i was not there jacqui heinrich was there. it seemed like for the reporters in the room and for karoline everybody was feeling each other out. they wanted to see how far they could push her with questions and how she would answer. and it's going to take time for

reporters in the room and also for karoline to develop a rhythm but yesterday, i think was just kind of everybody was feeling each other out. >> steve: peter, you said they are going to have white house staffers kind of right there where she is turn and say what do we know about that? that kind of goes back to the first day of the trump administration, you were in the oval office with the president and you asked him a bunch of questions. and one of them was about drones and he turned to susie wiles and said can we get something for them on drones? and yesterday the press -- that's actually how karoline started the press conference? >> peter: good constituent services there. because it was only a week after i asked the president what the deal was with those drones over new jersey that we heard so much about now we hear nothing about. she went out there with a message from the president who did get to the bottom of it or at least got to the bottom of what they can say publicly.

he said these were faa authorized drone flights that then were joined by a bunch of hobbyists putting up their own drones to find out what was going on. not adversarial. that's a huge news story. obviously so much going on. huge news stories but that is a really, really big one. i don't know why the biden administration couldn't have said that. >> ainsley: that's exactly right. we're scratching our heads. why wouldn't he just say that? >> peter: especially because there were military bases in new jersey with the ability to scramble fighter jets and helicopters that were going up there, nobody from the biden white house could call and say hey, these are faa authorized joined by hobbyists, not the enemy, save the gas. >> lawrence: great job, peter. >> steve: now we know. >> ainsley: thank you, peter. >> steve: 7:08 in new york city. from the white house to the capitol, just down the street, where several of the president's cabinet picks, including hhs

nominee bobby kennedy jr. are set to face questions from lawmakers today and some more tomorrow. >> ainsley: lucas tomlinson joins us from inside the room where r.f.k.'s hearing will take place in just a few hours. hey, lucas. >> lucas: good morning, ainsley, good morning, guys. there is already dozens of people lining up, supporters of r.f.k. jr. outside this hearing room where he will face the senate finance committee. i spoke to one right before coming on air with you all and they said they are, frankly, angry about why their children have all these allergies, allergic to peanuts, nuts, you saw the red food die banned just a few weeks ago hearing room to hear what r.f.k. jr. has to say. earlier our colleagues at fox digital obtained exclusively r.f.k. jr.'s opening statement. i will read excerpt for you right now it. reads in part, quote: news reports have claimed that i'm anti-vaccine or anti-industry. well, i am neither. i am pro-safety.

i worked for years to raise awareness mercury and toxic chemicals in fish that didn't make me anti-fish. all my kids are vaccinated and i believe they have a criminal role in healthcare. r.f.k. jr. appeared on this program just before the election. >> we have the sickest children in the world right now it's costing $4.3 trillion a year. it costs zero for chronic disease when my uncle was president. today it's the biggest expense. five times our military budget. it's easy to fix. we have 1,000 yeents ingredients in our foods that are illegal in italy and other countries and europe. and the reason for that is corruption. >> hereby's the lineup on capitol hill today for confirmation hearings including howard lutnick for commerce secretary. r.f.k. jr. for hhs secretary, of course, this is a massive agency, guys, with 90,000 employees and annual budget of roughly 1.7 trillion. that's about twice the size of

the defense budget. let that sink infettermaner bernie sanders they said they might confirm him or they might vote yes? >> right. they did say that. really the biggest negative so far is dick durbin, the

democratic whip he said a firm no. concerned about jfk's past statements about vaccines he made a speech on the senate floor yesterday. of course, bobby kennedy jr. a former democrat could get democratic support a much different hearing this time around as he comes as president trump's nominee to lead hhs. >> steve: thanks, lucas. >> brian: dr. cassidy and the other doctors, so it's going to be -- they are going to ask good questions. substantive hearing. >> ainsley: starts at 10:00 this morning we will be watching. >> steve: we will be watching, indeed. steve. >> lawrence: these races happening all across the country. the administration has been very clear focusing on this violent offenders all across the country when we look at bill big board from ice and the violent criminals they have arrested. it tells a story. you have got one person convicted of rape of a child. you got three counts of aggravated dui. three duis in the country. ms-13 gang member there. you got one individual that was

convicted of sexual abuse and kidnapping. another person convicted of manslaughter assault on a female in a firearm discharge. one person wanted for -- wanted for murder in mexico and, of course a suspect that ties to isis as well. >> those arrested violent criminals are all across the country. yesterday, during our program, we showed you some of the x videos that kristi noem who is the secretary of homeland security went along with during the raids yesterday. five career criminals were swept up and included one guy who was wanted in the dominican republic for a double murder there he was not properly vetted. >> ainsley: beating pregnant girlfriend to death. mother of two. >> steve: they got tren de aragua ringleader, one of the infamous people, you know, that break in at the apartment complex in aurora, colorado

colorado, they picked that guy up here as well. the raidsy in the bronx, manhattan and queens, and there is a story headline is stay out. and the people in the minority communities where these guys are picked up said what took you so long? get them out. we didn't want them here. stay out. >> brian: in the bronx they were cheering. frank tear teen know special agent in charge of the d.e.a. they are so happy to be able to do their jobs and branches of law enforcement listen to him. >> the d.e.a. has prioritized drug investigations violent criminal illegal drug traffickers. this is an example of the work we do day in and day out with the department of homeland security. ice and ero. these arrests indicative of the types of violent offenders walking our streets and the

d.e.a. is committed to working with our partners to remove them to keep our city safe. refocus a recommitment to do more to protect our cities to really go ever at most violent illegal criminal drug traffickers. violent criminals that have violated our immigration laws. this is the top priority for our administration for the d.e.a. for our partners in homeland security, and we will work collaboratively with them day in and day out until we make a difference and hold those people accountable driving violence in our city. >> brian: i hope we can get the video. they were being cheered in the bronx. >> steve: bronx cheer. >> brian: this is a real one we know the bronx cheer the tongue in the side of your mouth. they were clapping. bronx resident 80 get them the hell out of here and get them off our streets so beam don't have to walk in fear take the damn bad ones away. they said they arrested 969, 869 detainers, tom homan is not satisfied. he said we have to pick up the

pace of deportations. big thing on the other channels is he is particular picking up people not criminals. only picking up not criminals klatt tellers. what we are finding is a lot of them have overstayed their visas, they have done something. and he goes to the courts. let the courts do their job. not illegal when i go to take out a murderer. most likely go in their background they are not good guys. >> ainsley: tom homan says he definitely needs the money and is he looking to congress to hopefully pass the reconciliation bill. said they can get more money for the wall for the border for more agents. they continue to get these criminals, these terrible criminals, raping children murdering their pregnant girlfriend, and we're going to have dhs secretary kristi noem, she is going to join us live with an exclusive announcement a little bit later in the show. >> brian: people crossing the border down 63% since they took over. >> steve: huge. i'm surprised it's not 100 they

are not going to get the same welcome wagon they did before. we have reported on this a very long time. and it was just a up can pell years ago. it's the national assessment of educational progress. also known as the nation's report card. what they are looking at is a troubling trend. and we talk about it and you know it. kids in american schools are not keeping pace with kids around the world. look at this. fourth graders, 40% of them across the united states are reading b below the basic level same for math. 40% math performed at proficient or advanced level. and then eighth graders you can see the margin is still very high. and one of the things it said was crazy. chronic absenteeism. kids don't go to school and

apparently their parents are okay with it. social distance you for entire life. choice of schools. not school choice. can you go any school that you want within the school district. you don't have to go just because you are poor to the failing zip code. and how we got there is desegregation. all the black kids had to go to the poor schools so they weren't building up those schools. a federal judge said result of the competition. all of the schools reached the standard level. that's what happened in america today. they moved just for that just so we could have a quality education. kids are going to failing zip codes. they can't read and wright and math scores are terrible because

there is no competition. there is no incentive for the schools to compete with each other. that's why they got to open up the marketplace where i think the public schools as well as these other zip codes will get better once the competition happens. >> ainsley: the left says we don't want school choice then that means the poor schools, the failing schools are not going to get the money. instead those kids are going to take their tax dollars and go to the school of their choice these are not experiments. these are our children. they need to be proficient in math and in reading. so they can get good jobs. look at lawrence's parents. they moved to a good school district. where they had choice. and look at him now. >> brian: yeah. and he actually -- outdressed me today and that bothers me. a lot of the unions vote for democrats. and if you are going to get votes from unions and get donations from unions going to go back teacher's union. today donald trump issue an executive order boosting school choice programs. the order will direct dhs, hhs

to issue guidance about the states getting grants for families, to use for the funds, in order to go to support faith-based schools and private schools. so, there is something on the same page and come from the federal government. >> ainsley: there is good news. the assessment samples fourth and eighth graferredz every two years. right after the pandemic the numbers were bad. they are still bad but they have made some improvements. >> steve: a little. >> ainsley: louisiana and alabama. fourth grade reading and math significant. 14 school districts l.a., new york, atlanta and washington also saw fourth graders average math scores increase. yes, the average math score for eighth graders did not significantly change but i think they did see 2 point increase in reading. >> brian: talk about improvement. somebody who guess better every day? >> lawrence: carley shimkus. >> carley: does that mean i was bad yesterday? is that what it is? >> brian: very negative way to look. >> carley: so sweet. i'm just joking. should we get to some more news? let's do it. hang today suspected gilgo beach

killer returns to court as the district attorney's office faces a key deadline in the case. in just hours the d.a. must decide ton a motion previously filed by the defense urging the court to dismiss certain d.n.a. evidence from rex heuermann's upcoming trial. they argue testing methods used by a california-based company have never been presented in a new york courtroom before. while prosecutors say it is connected to the suspect directly to the victims. happening today, president trump will sign the laken riley act into law. marking the new administration's first legislative win. it will require ice agents to detain illegal immigrants accused of violent crimes and theft. and it also allows migrants who are accused of crimes to be deported before they stand trial. law named ample 22-year-old nursing student laken riley who was killed last year by an illegal immigrant from venezuela. also today, president trump will sign an executive order prohibiting federal funding to k

through 12 schools that teach critical race theory and gender and radical gender ideology. and the post election blues continue for democrats, former vice presidential candidate tim walz is still processing his party's devastating election loss. >> overused term the frog in the boiling water. we have been in the damn pot way too long to the voters i'm with this, too. everybody is fatigued. trust me, i get it. it was pure hell and the disappointment and the frustration and i'm, you know, soul searching what could we have done to make the case. we knew this was coming. we knew the implications and through so much at us that we're fatigued. >> carley: this as the democratic party gets set to elect the next dnc chair on saturday as former president biden's hand picked chair jamie harrison is stepping down and those are your headlines, guys. >> brian: clap on last soundbite. i don't know what he did wrong. i mean, in the telling the truth

over and over again. >> ainsley: kamala did not win one battleground state. >> brian: he did not help. >> lawrence: he was supposed to help. >> brian: they had minnesota already. >> steve: well, of course, the democrats are blaming joe, joe should have gotten out earlier and they picked the wrong people. just a lot of this going on over there. >> ainsley: not in touch with what the american people wanted, obviously. >> steve: a little tone deaf. meanwhile, a couple hours from right now here on fox. r.f.k. jr.'s confirmation hearings going to start. one of the senators who will be in the room there is here with a preview after a brief time-out. >> brian: roger marshall.. ♪ let's get started. bill, where's your mask? i really tried sleeping with it, everybody. but i'm done struggling. now i sleep with inspire. inspire? inspire is a sleep apnea treatment that works inside my body with just the click of this button. a button? no mask? no hose? just sleep. yeah but you need the hose,

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♪ >> ainsley: r.f.k. jr., president trump's pick to head hhs, will sit for his first of two confirmation hearings starting at 10:00 this morning, "fox & friends" has an exclusive look at his opening statement saying, quote: in my advocacy i have disturbed the status quo by asking uncomfortable questions. well, i won't apologize for that we have massive health problems in country that we must face honestly. news reports that claim i'm anti-vax or industry i am neither. i'm pro-safety. founder of the make america

healthy again caucus kansas city roger marshall joins us now. good morning to you, senator and physicians. how are you? >> good morning to you. what a great day. there is already a line wrapped around the building waiting to getting in there to see bobby's hearing and i can't wait to work with him to make america healthy again. >> ainsley: the maha movement is big a lot of moms excited about today and these hearings. what do you need to hear from r.f.k. jr.? >> listen, what i need are those moms to call their senators and support bobby's nomination. >> look, if you agree with bobby kennedy that america is not very healthy right now that 40% of americans have a chronic disease, our children 20% of them are on some type of prescription drug, there is a mental health explosion in our young children, so i think bobby just needs to share his heart. he needs to share with america why this is so important to him. and really just arm some of the false issues out there like you mentioned he is not anti-vax. is he pro-letting parents understand exactly what is in those vaccines, letting that decision between the doctor and

the patient to preserve that very precious relationship. >> ainsley: i know he might have said controversial things in the past. is he shaking this up and bringing attention to an issue that all moms, all parents are worried, about everyone is worried about. even if you are not a parent. this is what he said to rachel campos-duffy on the weekend show. listen to. this almost 1,000 chemicals that are in our food, that are either outright banned in europe or actively discouraged, so you wouldn't be able to any kind of stuff in europe. you ask about why it's so cheap why it's so ubiquitous it's because we subsidize the worst foods subsidize it 100% of our food stamp program is to processed foods. >> ainsley: senator, when you go to europe the food is delicious and so fresh. you don't gain weight new eat a big bowl of pasta. we want that to come to america. what do you expect from -- do you think are there any democrats that will support him? will fetterman support him he

has been he might and so will bernie sanders. >> we will gain those democrats. to the point on food additives. i sat down with the fda food czar and raised these same questions. finally after president trump gets elected they look at red die, they are relying on data from 40 or 50 years ago processed foods from, fresh foods and vegetables. bobby andly work together, dr. oz and president trump's team to help make those nutritious foods more affordable and available to everyone across the country. that's our goal. >> ainsley: i want to get your reaction. president trump is trying to get everyone to come back into the office. no more working from home. he said you can resign. two million americans who work for the federal government. can you resign in february. i will still pay you all the way through september, but you have

to let me know through an email in february. so what's your reaction to that? >> look, only 6% of federal employees are in the office. only 6%. second data point i would give you under joe biden he added 128,000 employees, meanwhile, they made $250 billion of improper payments. so our federal government is incompetent when it comes to appropriations that they send out $250 billion of inappropriate dollars, mostly for medicare and social security. so we need those people to come back to do their job to be accountable. this is exactly why 77 million people voted for donald j. trump. >> ainsley: all right. thank you so much, senator, we will be watching both hearings today. thank you. >> thanks, ainsley. >> ainsley: you are welcome. don't forget to watch outnumbered. this is a shameless plug. so i'm really embarrassed but i will be on there today at noon. i know we will be watching confirmation hearings and we will be talking about that happy to join that wonderful group. you know emily and harris and

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>> janice: good morning, my friends. we have a little bit of a warm-up here in the northeast. we will enjoy it and the midwest, too. so, feeling more like march and april in some spots. take a look at it. remember, we had record cold last week. this time across the gulf coast. but, you see the current temperatures, we do have a front and an area of low pressure that is going to bring the potential for showers, thunderstorms, maybe some severe weather today through friday. snow across the rockies and here's the pattern change that we are going to look forward to if you like the warm air, especially across the south, the southeast, up toward the ohio valley. here is some of the temperatures. so 55 in st. louis, 58 in d.c.

i mean be a far rye from the temperatures we saw and felt last week. here is our next major winter storm again that starts today through friday and why could see the potential for herrige hail, damaging winds, heavy rainfall, maybe an isolated tornado to-to-just have fox weather with you on your phone for those alerts. then we do have a snow storm system moving toward the northeast. if you are traveling this weekend we could potentially see interior section snow and maybe some ice. looking at baton rouge. okay? temperatures in the 70s and last week the daytime high was 37. so just to give you a look back at what we had last week. all right. steve doocy, over to you. i know you like the warmer air, right? >> steve: yep. it's currently 35 degrees here in new york city january i love it. it's balmy. >> steve: indeed. j.d., thank you very much. >> janice: thank you. >> steve: a federal judge has blocked the trump administration funding freeze on grants and federal loans after karoline leavitt expressed concerns over

individual assistance programs. will those checks stop? >> i'm not naming everything that's included but to just to give you a few examples, social security benefits, medicare benefits, food stamps, welfare benefits, assistance that is going it directly to individuals will not be impacted by this pause. and if you are receiving individual assistance from the federal government, you will still continue to receive that; however, it is the responsibility of this president and this administration to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. >> steve: brian brenberg is the co-host of "the big money show" on fox business. he joins us now. brian good morning to you. >> brian: good morning. >> steve: yesterday, we get how the federal government now under donald trump is trying to be more efficient with our dollars. >> brian: yeah. >> steve: yesterday, this announcement there was confusion and states said we can't get the medicaid money and head start money is screwed up. they had to come out again and clarify that is going on. >> brian: they came out and clarified it. what president trump is doing

here is what you would see in any private sector business all the time. it's not just that you want the government to be more efficient. we are running $2 trillion a year deficits. we are in the red big time. so what is he saying is a little bit like zero based budgeting. you come in and say let's look at all of what we spend make sure it's the right thing. in this case is he not saying going to end the spending, figure out what it is and stop doing it until we figure that out. with you, of course, if you don't want the government to spend less money, you freaked out about that. and that's what we saw. >> steve: also, yesterday, it was announced essentially that only 6%, roger marshall, the senator from my home state of kansas just told ainsley, that only 6% of the federal workforce actually goes to the office. and so yesterday they announced okay. we will give you a buyout. if you don't want to come to the office, you don't have to come to the office. just tell us and we will pay you through september. >> gosh, isn't that generous? wouldn't you think if people wouldn't come into the office

you would tell them come into the office or you're gone. so president trump i think is actually being kind of nice here to say we will give you 8 months of severance or benefits whatever they are calling it to just leave and not come into the office permanently. but i think americans are saying we spend so many money and get so little value out of it, we want something radical done. if that means testing the boundaries of what a president can do with spending, maybe that's what we should do. send it to the supreme court. and see if things like the budget empowerment act are actually constitutional. there is a lot of debate about that right now. >> steve: as they try to trim the fat, this is reminiscent of the fact that we have got a new fat trimmer and that is elon musk, two years ago at twitter he sent out a fork in the road, kind of memo where he said, listen, if you don't want to commit to being hard core twitter employee, there is the door. and now twitter is 80% how big it was just a couple years ago. also, there is some breaking news, i just saw from our white

house unit, sound like the president is going to sign an executive order later today that will prohibit federal funding from going to schools that teach critical race theory or gender identity theory. >> i love that i love it because i think a lot of parents would love it, too. what it says is stop spending taxpayer money on things that don't educate our kids and focus on things that actually help them. i mean, you guys talked about the reading and math results. we have got a problem in american education and telling kids that the color of their skin determines whether they can succeed or fail is not the way to help them read and write. so let's get away from that. i hope this executive order comes as quickly as possible. and it goes right through. >> steve: i have got a feeling somewhere in the white house, maybe over in the old executive office building where elon musk's office is, they have quote a great big white -- either a write on board or chalkboard and it's like okay, we just looked through there, we

saved $18 billion. save $26 billion. >> i hope it is walls and walls of chalk boards that save money and reduce dependency on the government. because that's the other piece of this. it's not to send money to people. it's to give them a life where they don't need to depend on the government. that's the conversation we should be having. >> steve: people would just be delighted if the money we sent to washington was not wasted ultimately. >> i think delightside a good word for that. >> steve: he just got started early. but you can watch him for two hours. kicks off at noon fox business with "the big money show." great panel. you got to check it out. i watched yesterday. >> thanks, steve. >> steve: meanwhile, brian, coming up. leading energy manufacturers multi million dollars investment expected to create hundreds of jobs and bring down energy costs in the united states. ashley webster is live at a g.e. barone that plant in greenville, south carolina with the details. you are right on the floor,

ashley on the floor wearing the glasses. makes gas powered turbines, like this one beside me power to half a million u.s. homes and demand for these machines is skyrocketing i spoke to the company's ceo scott you are going to invest more than half a billion dollars where are you going to put that money? watch this? we will spend $600 million investing in u.s. manufacturing. it's going to add over 1500 jobs in the u.s. this is all about the fact that we have gone through multiple decades. ton of load growth or electricity demand growth in the u.s. and that's over. the reality is for u.s. competitiveness for the reindustrialization of u.s. manufacturing for data centers and u.s. competitiveness in the

world we're going to need a lot more electricity. >> a lot more electricity like this as i say. i describe it as a beast. i feel about this tall. i'm an ant compared to this. it's powered by natural gas. something that the u.s. has lots and lots of, which, of course, speaks to energy independence, guys. we know that is music to the ears of president trump. steve, back to you. >> steve: more jobs. the size of an ant. he is ashley webster there in south carolina. [laughter] >> steve: ashley, thank you very much. meanwhile, an open senate seat in the state of michigan sending contenders scrambling. can republicans flip the seat after crump's win in 2024? we will talk to ramsey clark chair michael whatley. he's coming up next so why wait? talk to your doctor.

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how can republicans win that seat? >> by focusing on fundamentals, it's the same thing that president trump showed during the 2024 election cycle. if you listen to the voters, you understand the issues that they care with about and put solution the table that is a winning formula. republicans are going to be doing that in michigan. going to be doing it across the country. when you focus on the voters and their concerns and get out the vote and protect the ballot, that's how we are going to win by going right back to fundamentals. >> lawrence: yeah. so how do you get those voters to he show up? we know and we saw this when tudor ran the last time for governor when trump is on the parking lot, you really get those republicans, necessary independent voters disgruntled democrats to show up. when is he not on the ballot they don't show up. how can you get them to the ballot box when he is not on that ticket? >> yeah. the grass roots program that we put in place in 2024, really focused on turning out low

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