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city officials expected to give an update moments from now. we will cover it. we've got fox team coverage of this devastating crash with nate foy and madison scarpino. this as the probe into a d.c. air collision is still underway and questions are mounting on how our air traffic control system is operating. republican senator mark wane musclen on -- markwayne mullin on what he is asking about that this morning. i'm david asman, this is "fox news live." first to philadelphia where officials are scouring for evidence from a deadly medevac crash. nate foy is there. nate, what's the latest? >> reporter: hey, david. it is all hands on deck to try to figure out how this plane crash happened. the entire flight if lasting under a minute. the plane plunging out of the sky to the ground like a rocket. now as you mentioned, philadelphia police are set the hold a news conference soon. it was supposed to originally

happen at 9, got pushedded back to 10, and now we're hearing they're still late with the 10:00 start time. so expect to hear, hopefully, more about the conditions of the people who were outside that jet last night. we know at least six people onboard were killed, and and we know that six people who were nearby if were taken to temple university hospital, three of them released, three of them who are till there said to be in fair condition. so we will be asking about collateral damage and about a how many people were hurt. take a look at this aerial footage this morning as the sun comes up. you can see the extent of the debris, the wreckage which is quite a large perimeter. an oxygen tank was found a quarter of a mile away. this is a state, local and federal investigation. the ntsb, finishing aa and a a tf -- faa and atf are all here. and state authorities, of course, also doing their part. awhat -- i want to show you what

looked like for people on the ground. take a look at in this. [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] >> reporter: just petrifying. people, as you can see, david, just didn't have any time to react. again, the entire flight lasting 30 seconds, about. the plane took off from northeast philadelphia airport, crashed into a crowded neighborhood. and a lot of the jet fuel soaked a lot of the row homes in the area for about 3-4 blocks. cars and homes were immediately set on fire, and firefighters went through and, thankfully, were able to successfully pull a lot of people out of those homes, hopefully from philadelphia police soon we'll learn a bit more about those efforts and how that went. but investigators are working to determine if this was a mistake

by the pilot, a mechanical a issue or possibly being else. take a look at next video showing the immediate aftermath as you see the fire still burning and the debrie scattered amongst -- debris scattedderred amongst the jet fuel-soaked homes. take a listen to this witness who was nearby describing what happened. >> i just seen the plane is getting lower and lower and lore. it hit the house. when it hit the house, it hit a couple cars, boom! into the plaza a, the dunkin' donuts, i never seen nothing like that a day in my life. >> reporter: so the company involved, david, is jet rescue air a ambulance, and you see right here an oxygen tank that was onboard, again, found a quarter of a mile away from the impact site, showing you really the power that this jet struck the ground with. and the if company actually has somewhat of a troubling history.

we're learning this morning, david, that they had another crash back in 2023 in mexico where the pilot overshot the runway. five people died in that crash. so, again, right now the latest here, we are waiting for a news conference from if philadelphia police where we are hoping to learn more about the conditions of the people who were unfortunate enough to be around the crash site when that this jet hit the ground yesterday. david: that debris field is just extraordinary. i haven't seen that before. i've never seen such a wide debris field. thank you for that, nate. appreciate it. to madison scarpino now with what we know about the victims in this crash. madison. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, david. with we know that all a six people onboard that ambulance plane were from mexico. it was the a pilot, a co-pilot, a doctor can, a paramedic, a little girl patient and her mother. and that's all according to the jet rescue air ambulance spokesperson who says the crew

onboard was highly trained. now, shriner's hospital confirms it was treating the little girl for life-threatening illness. if you're unfamiliar with shriner's, it's kind of like stt children's hospital where kids get free treatment for specialized health care needs. that's why the little girl and her mother were in philadelphia. she was finally done with treatment and, we're told, so excited to go back home to mexico, so a heartbreaking situation for the family that, earthly, has already been -- evidently, already been through so much with that little girl's illness. as far as people on the ground near the crash site, we have not heard yet of any deaths. temple university hospital confirmed six people were taken there with injuries, three released and three others in fair condition, we're told, which is great news considering the dramatic, horrifying aftermath of the plane crash. multiple fires, medical debris scattered around the streets.

people even saw this oxygen tank from the plane that you're seeing on your screen right now. and folks who live in the area are understandably in shock. listen. >> i feel sad. this is my neighborhood. i've been living in this neighborhood a long time and very sad, you know in there's crashes going on everywhere, you know in i didn't expect this was going to be happening many our neighborhood. >> reporter: so a lot of people impacted by this horrific crash which peens a lot of family members have to be notified, unfortunately. not expecting to learn more about a identities until that happens but, again, expecting an update from officials here any minute. back to you, david. david: thank you very much. an eyewitness account now. philadelphia resident lindy lee joins us now. lindy, describe what you saw and heard last night. >> david, thank you so much for having me. my dad and i were actually on separate paths, and he got closer to the blast zone. and he shared footage with me that we're not able to share

because it's so deeply traumatizing and graphic. after seeing it, i frankly wanted to vomit, it's gruesome. i wasn't able to get in because with i was heading that way, and the police were asking us to turn around. all i saw was the fireball. i actually didn't know it was a plane crash initially because i just saw the aftermath x i had to scroll through my phone and ask people around me what exactly happened. it wasn't abundantly clear to me upon impact what was the cause of the fireball. it was just a scene from hell. it was just is gruesome, and we are just shellshockedded. i haven't slept. it's just been -- i can't imagine what the families are going through right now. david: it's just a nightmare for everybody involved, even just the eyewitnesses, let alone the people who were actually injured or hurt by this or even worse. did you see anybody that was hurt on the ground? >> yes, actually. people who were struck by randoy

were struck by, but it looks like they were hit by something. i think a lot of the debris was scattered over a huge fast area. i even saw someone say that they were hit by something coming in through a restaurant window, like a part of the plane if hit one of the guests in a restaurant a quarter of a mile away. david: incredible. >> just think about the radius. it was very significant. and my family owns a church on the same street. we were going to do a program for kids today, but there's no way we're going to have kids in that area today especially, you know, given all the degree -- debris scattered around. david: by the way, this is a very special community i'm told by other people. folks saying how much the community gets together. did you see that action in, at the time this was happening, people joining in and trying to do everything they could to help? >> thank you for saying that, yeah. i love philadelphia. i've been here all my life, and you really hit on it.

you know, we've already been incredibly united over past couple of week withs because of all the eagles' mania. but last night we were able to embody that love and compassion for each other to unprecedented degree. there was so much kindness and love among strangers, people that we haven't even met. and it just shows that we truly embody the city of brotherly love. david: well, thank god for that, lindy. our hearts go out to you. it's going to be tough times over the next couple of weeks, and we wish you all the best. thank you for being here. >> thank you so much, david. david: absolutely are. how does a crash like this happen? let's go to former nasa crash investigator ken christianson. ken, thank you for being here. i don't know if you saw that debris field that lindy was just talking about. i think we can show video of it, if you can rerack that. it's extraordinary. i've never seen a larger debris field. that tells you, i would imagine, that this thing just came straight down, the plane, right

in. >> right. aircraft crash investigation world we call that high angle, high velocity impact. so the plane is just hitting, basically, like you said, straight down and then the plane will break apart. hence, the fireball. so you have an ig in addition source, you have fuel, so when it impacts, you have that huge fireball. it looks like from the video footage that this plane was on fire prior to hitting the ground. so what in the crash investigation world we'd be looking at is was there power on the aircraft. if there was catastrophic turbine failure or the turbine just came apart, then that can penetrate the tail section of the aircraft which would inhibit elevated control, and that would make sense for why the plane was almost, it was pointed straight down. they had no elevated control to control their up and down movement. david: well, what could cause a

fire as it was, as it was ascending trying to reach -- i mean, could that be a bird strike or what? >> you know, birds aren't really flying at night. you could have a catastrophic turbine failure, just a part in the engine that fails, and the -- and so you're on takeoff power, you're climbing out, and when that engine fails, you're pouring fuel into that and that's where you get the fire from. so the pilots were probably struggling with trying to push the nose of the airplane down, maintain directional control and also deal with the fire. probably got an indication in the cockpit. however, they're dealing with that that, but if the turbine actually came apart and penetrated the tail section, it's a t-tail aircraft, and they were not able to control the tail condition, then -- or the position of the tail, then they

lost control of the aircraft, and they were just along for the ride at that point. david: well, i'm assuming that because when you look at that debris field and there's virtually nothing recognizable about the plane there, that it'd be almost impossible to find a black box to give you more details, no? >> you know, black boxes are pretty robust. it's in the tail section, and so it can survive impacts like this. it's designed exactly for that. but this is very unfortunate. these do not happen very often. if you remember back when a southwest jet, the left engine came apart and a piece of that turbine blade came through the window and actually killed a a passenger. these not unheard of globally, but they're in the ones or twos per ten years. david: yeah. and finally, ken, we've got to wrap, but have you seen this

kind of thing happen before with a learjet? is there something about a learjet that is common to this kind of crash? >> no. the learjet is just very short coupled, is so you've got to pay attention to angle of the tack. you don't want to stall the aircraft on departure or approach, but each airplane that you fly in has its own set of parameters, where you can go, where you can't go, and most p pilots are all prosecutional a pilots know those parameters and do not deploy those. david: ken christensen, great to see you. appreciate it. well, investigators still searching for answers in that other tragedy inair a crash this week, the one in d.c. what are they learning this morning? and as sies rolls out -- i.c.e. rolls out more raids this week, new details on president trump's plans to send migrants to guantanamo bay.

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david: new details this morning in the investigation into the d.c. air collision that killed 67 people this week. officials recovering the black boxes from both the plane and the helicopter involved in the crash. grady trimble is at reagan national airport for details.

hi, grady. >> reporter: good morning, david. and the helicopter's black box is going to be critical because if, in fact, that helicopter was flying too high as has been reported and as president trump has stated, then investigators should be able to use it to determine its altitude at the time of that horrific mid-air a collision. we know that right now the ntsb has started recovering debris from the potomac river. it's bringing in barges from virginia beach to help with that process. the agency will then be able to use those pieces of debris to reconstruct the two aircraft. it's also started interviewing the air a traffic controllers who were working at the time of the crash. >> what i can say is in this incident it should not have happened. if manager fails, a backup should catch it -- if something fails, a backup should catch it. multiple layers of redundancy. it's been a very long time since we've had a major aviation

innocent in the united states. >> reporter: the ntsb is not responding to president trump's comments that dei hiring played a role in the crash. but last night the president doubled down on blaming the previous administration. >> when you look at the way they ran things, in fact, if you look, we hired one of the first things i told them to do, i said get talented people in those, many those beautiful towers overlooking runways. you better get 'em in there fast because we don't have people in there qualified. >> reporter: d.c. fire is still working to remove bodies from the potomac river. as of yesterday evening, they tell us they've removed 41 which would mean 26 remain. we also know that more than 100 family members of victims are in town seeking answers. transportation secretary sean duffy is, for the time being, restricting air a space over the poe demack river near the airport to -- topo mack river to

the helicopters with some exceptions, and that will remain the case million the ntsb releases its interim report in about 30 days or so. david? david: grady, thank you very much. the faa reportedly saying air traffic control staffing at the time of the crash was, quote, not normal. do staffing shortages within the agency pose if more flight risks? to retired commercial and military pilot, kit darby. thank you forking being here. before we get into that issue of air traffic controllers, it does seem pretty clear that the plane coming in was right where the plane was supposed to be coming into the airport, that the problem was with the helicopter, and the helicopter's altitude. am i wong on that in -- wrong on that? >> well, at this point the airplane was lined up properly, flying a normal procedure. it's a little bit off the track and he was straight into one runway, circling to land to the

another. that puts him over an area of the city with lights behind him making him difficult to identify and difficult to predict what he's going to do next. he's in a dynamic situation, turning and descending for the runway, making it difficult for the helicopter to evaluate. david: now, kit, of course you must have heard the president talking about dei programs creating staffing shortages at airports around the country. it does appear, however, that in d.c. sort of backing up what the president was saying is that there was one traffic controller doing the job of two people. that's the word that's coming out. have you seen these staffing shortages around the nation recently? >> well, that's actually not uncommon when traffic is low in the evening, frequently combine ground and tower. in this case, we've combined two tower functions. the shortage is nationwide. we're short 3500 air traffic controllers. this airport's supposed to have 30, they've got about 20. so they're down 33%.

one issue here is not only were they combining location, which would not be that unusual, but they also had helicopters and airplanes on different frequency ises, and and they couldn't hear each other, so their awareness of the threat was reduced. david: now, we have a lawsuit, this is a class action lawsuit of about a thousand people. it's been in the courts for a long time now or at least it was filed a long time ago. i believe originally dating from the time of the obama administration if where these 1,000 applicants for jobs as a atcs, air a traffic controllers, claimed that they can't get the job not because they weren't qualified, but because they had the wrong skin color. so there have been complaints about this, and we know that the obama administration if instituted a new testing routine that they thought would better favor the kind of people that they wanted in. that was pulled back by the trump -- first trump administration, but then reinstituted with biden administration. so this back and forth must be

if very disconcerting to applicants for air traffic controllers, no? >> well, i'm not an air a traffic controller. i have a few friends that are. you know, it doesn't appear that we have any real information about the effects of these programs on recruiting. i believe all the positions that have been posted have been filled. we're not getting enough in. we've got a lot in right now, over a thousand who are going to train a lot. but at the time -- and these are well-paid positions and very stressful. it's a real recruiting nightmare. david: it is, indeed. and i guess they're going to just have to provide more benefits in order to get more applicants to come in for the job because marley after this -- particularly after this and if you see what's happening with suspicions about whether air traffic controllers made a mistake that led to the accident. st going to be very, very hard to step up their recruiting, but we need them. that's clear. kit darby, thank you so much.

appreciate you being here. >> morning. thank you. david: so is congress going to step in and launch their own probes into these air disasters? oklahoma senator markwayne mullin is next. and a little later, three more israeli hostages reunited with their families today including an american. will the ceasefire deal hold and bring more hostages home in that's coming up. still needs me. but sometimes i can't help due to burning and stabbing pain in my hands, so i use nervive. nervive's clinical dose of ala reduces nerve discomfort in as little as seven days. now i can help again feel the difference with nervive. at university of phoenix, we're earning career-relevant skills with every 5-to-6 week course. and updating our professional profiles in weeks, not years as we pursue our bachelor's and master's degrees. earn career-relevant skills in weeks, not years. at university of phoenix.

david: the new trump administration working to get answers after the two air disasters this week. the lucas tomlinson in west palm beach, florida, with the latest on this. hi, lucas. >> reporter: good morning from if west palm beach, david. president trump reacting to this latest crash in philadelphia last night taking to truth social. i'll read you his post. it says, quote, so sad to see the plane go down in philadelphia, pennsylvania. more innocent souls lost. our people are totally engaged. first responders are already

being given credit for doing a great job. more to follow, god bless you all. now, last night trump arrived here at palm beach international, his first trip in his winter white house since being sworn into office for a second time. before leaving the white house, he spoke to reporters about the timing of the investigation into that mid-air collision wednesday night involving the army black hawk helicopter and american airlines flight 5342. >> i think they'll do an investigation and it'll probably come out the way said it. i like to put it up front. i'm so tired of listening to things happen to our country and then people say we'll do an investigation and three years later they come out with a report that nobody looks at. >> reporter: as we a heard from grady, divers continue to comb the wreckage in the icy waters of the potomac. on thursday, less than 24 hours after the collision, trump said dei could have played a role as well as pilot error inside the cockpit of that black hawk. >> the people in the helicopter should have seen where they were

going. i can't imagine people with 20/20 vision not seeing, you know, what's happening up there. again, they shouldn't have been at the same height. you're to going in reverse corrections or sideways directions. obviously, you want to be at different heights. >> reporter: president trump's motorcade has just arrived at trump international golf club in west palm beach. it looks like he's about to stick a tee in the ground and play a round of golf, david. david: thank you very much, lucas. so will the senate launch their own probes into these air disasters? republican oklahoma senator markwayne mullin is with me now. i don't know if you heard the president speaking just moments ago a, senator, but he was talking about how these studies come and go and they get put into the archives, and they're never heard from again. is that too cynical a view of a congressional investigation of what's been happening here? >> i actually think he's spot on, david. here's the advantage we have

now, we have sean duffy, secretary duffy, that's going on the leading this investigation. i believe congress will probably defer to him at this point because we know we can trust this administration, we know we can trust secretary duffy, and we'll be briefed on this next week. once that briefing takes place, he'll tell us what his procedures are, what he's going to be doing moving down the road and then report back to us. i think it's premature to say we're going to do our own investigation. most of the time when we do our own investigation is when the administration isn't forth if coming with information, and we have to do it ourselves. many in this case, we, like i said fortunately, david, we have an administration we can trust, we have a president we can trust. and unless something comes up that forces us to move forward, we'll probably let them move and then take appropriate channels we need to to react either through legislation, through certain rulemaking or bringing in the faa themselves can and helping change the procedures. david: of course, that hasn't stopped members from the previous administration chiming

in about the president's concerns with dei programs that that may have led to staffing shortages. pete buttigieg, who was former transportation secretary, chimed in saying the president's remarks were despicable and then said that we doesn't lose e any air traffic controllers under his watch. well, the records dent show that. it does seem to be -- >> right. david: -- understaffed. and a lot to of the understaffing may have to do with the changing of prerogatives for the positions. >> well, david, where the faa towers get trained is right here inside oklahoma. in oklahoma city. that's their training hub. i will tell you, we were having a hard time filling the classes because of dei, because of the diversity, equality and inclusion that they required us to have. you couldn't fill the role. that's just simply saying need the best and brightest individuals, and we're going to hire you specifically on merit. we're going to train you specifically on merit instead of these classes being 100% full, we were at 80% or 70%. and and it wasn't from the lack

of individuals applying for it, except each class had a ratio that they had to have on it. so president trump is absolutely correct. when you're not hiring people based on merit and expertise, you're hiring them based on diversity, equity and inclusion, then that that has a huge -- or equality, i mean, that has a huge problem moving forward for us. to we have the make sure that we follow exactly what a president trump is doing. and, by the way, he's a successful business guy. he didn't get successful by not putting the right people in place. if we get the right people in place, our government runs smoother. and that's what he's saying here. of is pete buttigieg carries no credible. the only reason why he was there was probably because of dei the begin with. president trump is putting the right people in place to get us on track. david: i want to switch gears to the nomination process because these are times when you really need a full staff of the executive office, and you don't have it yet. we had a couple of security picks, excuse me, we had tulsi

gabbard and kash patel speaking before senate week. this week. different views of who did better than whom. i think kash patel fought back harder and tulsi gabbard, there's still some republicans that have problems with her. both of those people, tulsi and kash, are talking about how we need to are reform our intelligence process, our post-9/11 intelligence process, which has become too political. they share that vision. no matter who's in power in our intel community with the trump administration, is that going to be the number one duty, to try the take the politics -- because too much of that intel was used to go after political enemies. >> absolutely. tu city and kash -- tulsi and kash are dear friends of mine. tulsi, i literally call her my sister. ka, sh, i have enjoyed getting to know over the recent years. here's my thing about a

intelligence is that we aren't getting the information we need in congress. they have not been honest and forthcoming with us. they play more on politics. there isn't -- there hasn't been a briefing that i've received in the last four years that i didn't hear all about on news before we actually was down in the scif. if we're able to remove the politics and get those individuals in the field mission focused and put those that are in the office mission focused and get away from the politics, get it away from politicizing it but simply do their job, then we as americans will be so much farther ahead. our allies can depend on us, we can depend on us, and the american people can start trusting the government to what degree they choose to again. kash and tulsi will restore that. there is no question, our intelligence agencies have been politicized by the biden administration, and it's been going on for far too long. david: well, it happens fingerprint. -- from time to time. it happened with the nixon

administration and certainly when donald trump first came into office for his first term. >> that's true. david: senator, great to see to you. appreciate it. >> david, thanks for having me on. david: absolutely. well, three more israeli hostages released by hamas today including a dual u.s. citizen. where does that ceasefire deal stand as more families are hoping to reunite with their loved ones? many are still left behind. and i.c.e. making more arrests this week as president trump says guantanamo bay is preparing to house tens of thousands of, quote, illegal criminal migrants. details on that straight ahead.

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david: three more israeli hostages including one dual u.s. citizen reunite ared with -- reunited with their families today. trey yingst is in tel aviv with the very latest. trey. >> reporter: hey, david, good morning. there was another hostage released today that saw three additional people released from if gaza. american citizen keith siegel was released by himself at the port of gaza city. we do know keith was taken with his wife who was released during the first ceasefire. keith's senator, ted budd, reacted to the release saying this -- >> until now, keith was captive, but now the nightmare is over and keith is tree. -- free. so i want to thank president

trump for his work to get these hostages released and back home to their loves ones. but there's more work to do, can we're going to continue in that work. >> reporter: another man was also freed from southern gaza in the city of khan yunis if along with another whose wife and two young children were also kidnapped the on the 7th and october. his wife and children haven't been seen since. israel had threatened hamas with the release of prisoners if hostages were paraded through a crowd again. the exchange took place for 183 palestinian prisoners. the acting u.s. head of mission reacted to the release of the hostages saying, quote, today i join aviva, her children, grandchildren and the entire siegel family in breathing a huge sigh of relief that fellow american keith is home after 48 agonizing days -- -- 484 days in captivity. we won't rest until all the

hostages come home. an empathetic, timely and human message from america's top diplomat in israel. david? david: trey, very quickly, i want to talk about one non-american, yarden bibas was released, his wife and two kids are left behind. do we know anything about whether they are safe or not in. >> reporter: we don't have any public information on whether or not they are safe. we do know that previously as the war was at its peak, hamas released a saint saying they had been killed -- a statement saying they had been killed during the can conflict. there was also a hostage video of yarden released where with he reacted to a hamas telling him this horrific news. we've not been able to independently confirm that information, but we do know the israelis are investigating and expect the get more information as we head into the final phases of this initial part of the ceasefire agreement. we do expect to learn the fate of those two young children and

their mother in the weeks ahead. ca david yeah. shows you what the captors are made of, the barbarians that took these people. thank you, trey, for that. thank you for that report. meanwhile, back here in the united states i.c.e. making more arrests the week as president trump says his administration if is preparing to detain 30,000 criminal illegal migrants at guantanamo bay. is this the the kind of officials down at the border want to see? let's ask kinney county texas sheriff brad coe. sheriff, good to see you. thanks for being a here. do you support -- these are violent criminals. these are not just people that overstayed their visa. these are violent concerns. do bay still funking, still open -- functioning, put them there. david: tell me how things have changed. it's only been a couple of weeks since the trump administration's been in power. have you noticed a change since then? a has it just been continuing from the end of the biden administration? what's it like now compared to

way it was a year ago? >> well, in my county things have slowed way downing almost to pre-biden numbers. i'm working on the numbers right now for january stats, and we've had zero human mugging encounters, zero criminal trespassing encounter, zero pursuits. during the biden administration we were having 2-3 pursuits a year. last year for 2023 we did 255 pursuits. so far since even before the election, i think that the people knew that trump was winning to win, and the traffic started in you are area to drop. so it's a good thing. david: and, you know, the border agents, i was talking to a lot of them over the past couple of years, they were doing so much paperwork, they didn't have time to get out in the field with folks like ourself -- yourself, local police and authorities and track down these people. are they, do they seem to be more freed if up now to help you track down the people you want to get out of your neighborhood? >> oh, definitely. of course, that's the

government, you have to have paperwork to do the paperwork. but the morale seems to be up. we're seeing more of them on the highway. i interact with them on a daily basis. i see them parked on the side of the road, i stop and visit. their morale is up, our morale is up, and the people of kinney county feel much better overall. david: that's great news. finally, unaccompanied children. tom homan has been talking about this as his number one priority. the hhs, health and human services, lost track of about 300,000 of these kids, many of whom are assumed to have been trafficked one way or another. either way, bad. but have you seen less of the unaccompanied children than you were before? >> well, we're -- kinney county, we saw very, very fun accompanied children -- few unaccompanied children. that's usually closer to laredo, eagle pass, mcallen. the bigger cities seem to have that problem more than we do.

we're still a border county, but we saw very little of it. a. david: glad things are improving in a very positive way. sheriff, thank you so much for being here. appreciate it. have a good weekend. >> thank you. david: coming up, president trump's new tariffs kicking in. will that have prices ticking up here at home? and two air disasters within two case. -- days. new details on the nos investigations coming up. to soothe her with ease. puffs plus lotion is gentle on sensitive skin and locks in moisture to provide soothing relief. a nose in need deserves puffs indeed. america's #1 lotion tissue.

david: well, president trump delivering on his tariff threat today. canada, mexico and china slapped with stiff tariffs that some analysts warn could send prices up again. economist steve moore with me now on that, and i want to get on that in just a second, but we have some breaking news here. i'm i'm sorry for hitting you with it unknown, but the head of the consumer financial protection bureau has been fired. now, a lot of questions about whether that institution, which is essentially a creation of liz warren and some of her buddies in the senate, whether it should exist at all. do you think this is the first step in getting rid of that that bureau? if. >> well, david, thank you. you're making my day. [laughter] because we've been -- i only complained, mr. president, what took so long? she was one of the lead troublemakers in the biden administration.

any business whether it was a credit card company or a bank or a technology the company or a 7/eleven was, you know, a accused of price gouging. and so she was incredibly anti-business. and if anti-worker, i would say, so i'm so glad that she's gone. now, that question youd asked me about whether the cpbb is even constitutional a, i don't know. i'm not a constitutional a lawyer, but i'm just so pleased the hear that she is gone. david: all right. we'll get to that issue later. let's talk about the tariffs. what do you think overall of the tariffs in are they, overall, a good or a bad thing? >> well, david, you've known me a long time. you know i'm instinctively a free trade guy. cade david yes. >> but what trump is doing here, i want to make sure people understand the purpose of this latest round of tariffs. we have the leading cause of death of young people in america today is drug overdoses and problems with fentanyl and heroin and all these drugs that are being imported into the

country from the drug cartels from mexico. i'm not exactly sure why he's doing after -- going after canada, because most of those drugs are coming over the southern border. but even as a free trade guy, if we can use these tariffs to save lives in america which i think will happen because i do think mexico will start being more cooperative many in taking on the drug cartels and saving potentially thousands of lives, that's kind of my quick take on this. david: yeah. >> and i do think at the end of the day, david, i think mexico is going to be cooperative here. david: well, there could be some economic trip wires for what happens here. you look at the auto industry industry, you see that 55%, 55% of all the parts that are needed by u.s. car companies come if are if either canada or mexico or a combination of the two. so at least in the auto industry there will be repercussions in food x i'm not just talking about avocados, i'm talking

about a lot. 43% of all the food we import comes from canada and mexico. so there could be some economic repercussions here, no? >> you are absolutely right. and, by the way, tariffs are taxes, right? and i don't like taxes. david: it's true. >> i don't think most americans like taxes either. the point you're making is really important, but i would add to what you just said. you know, a lot of what comes in from canada is oil from alberta, and a lot of that oil is refined in the midwest. and so one of the things i'd be nervous about is the gas prices especially in midwestern cities and states could go up as a result of this tariff. so there are negative economic -- reper -- repercussions. but again, if trump can prevail here, you saw what happened, david, in colombia, right? david: yeah. it was pretty quick alaska. >> yeah. so i think that's going to happen here again. pretty quick action.

i believe, and i didn't see the final details, but is there also a china component to these tariffs? i believe so. david: there is. it's smaller though. it's a smaller percentage. very quickly though, i want to talk about something that's not going to cost any money, that' extending the tax cuts. we have an extra a $1.5 trillion as a result of lowering tax rates, more economic activity, brought in $1.5 trillion more than we were getting. very quickly, when will we see that tax cuts, the 2017 cuts, extended. you've only got ten seconds. >> you're exactly right, the tax cuts paid for themselves, they did not cause revenue. they caused an economic boom. trump says he wants to get it done by mel memorial day. -- day. what i'm hearing is it's going to be by july with or august. but they assure me, david, we are going to get this tax cut extended. david: we've got to leave it at that. steve, great to see you. thank you very much. coming up, an update from mexican officials on the

philadelphia medevac crash carrying mexican nationals as we await a if presser from city officials. also three more israeli hostages reunited with their families as the ceasefire deal holds at least for now. what becomes of the whole region? general jack keane coming up when "fox news live" continues. try pepto bismol. unlike some products, pepto coats and soothes your digestive system, to provide fast 5-symptom relief. stock up on pepto today. ...