lgbtq activism in guatemala. all right? so there is serious waste there. it is run comp completely incompetently. when americans hear what they're sending money on it's got to go. replace it with something much more efficient to put america first. >> todd: do you not believe millions of people will die because we will no longer fund this dei comic book in peru and transgender opera is that what you are saying? >> i asked serrie what is hyperbole and she said bill gates. >> todd: think of more movies joe biden will be you are thinking book and probably right. more fun to think of movies. action hero? >> carley: he has aviator. >> todd: top gun 3 go, quick. >> weekend at bidens. a sequel to weekend at bernies. >> todd: "fox & friends" now. ♪ ♪

>> ainsley: good morning to you. it is 6:00 a.m. here on the east coast. welcome back. >> lawrence: thank you. >> ainsley: did you an excellent job over the weekend and monday and tuesday. lawrence feels good to be back. >> ainsley: this is wednesday and this is "fox & friends." another breaking news day in washington as president trump says he wants the united states of america to take over the gaza strip in the middle east and he wants to rebuild it. we'll tell you how the world is reacting to that announcement. >> brian: meanwhile, the white house is working to save money and shrink the size of the federal government. what's wrong with that? some dems don't seem to be happy. >> fight this in the courts. we have to fight this in the congress. we have to fight this in the streets. >> lawrence: can you believe it in the army is having a record year for recruiting. i had a chance to talk with some of the soldiers at the border who are ready, willing and able to support the mission. >> 24/7, 365.

we do everything that we possibly can to support our dhs partners. >> steve: thethere you go. "fox & friends" for this wednesday starts right now. >> brian: so here we go. president trump announcing a new plan, a plan for the u.s. to take over, at least temporarily, the gaza strip saying we will turn it into the rivera of the middle east. >> ainsley: lucas tomlinson has more on what we know so far. good morning to you, lucas. >> lucas: good morning, guys. standing alongside prime minister benjamin netanyahu the first foreign three-eared visit the white house in president trump's second term president trump says t the united states s going to go into gaza and did not rule out u.s. military involvement. >> the u.s. will take over the gaza strip and we will do a job with it, too. we will own it. and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous, unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. >> mr. president, given what have you said about gaza, is

should the u.s. send troops to help secure the security vacuum? >> as far as gaza is concerned, we'll do what is necessary. >> lucas: netanyahu appeared open to the idea. saudi arabia's foreign ministry it rejects any attempts to displace palestinians from its land. strongly against any forced replacement. allies in the region have previously rejected the idea of relocating the more than 2 million palestinians in gaza. during the news conference our own peter doocy asked netanyahu the following question. >> we have heard joe biden and donald trump take credit for the hostage and cease-fire deal. who do you think deserves more credit? >> i think president trump added great force and powerful leadership to this effort. i appreciate it. he sent a very good emissary. he has helped along.

>> salvo in the oval office before the news conference. own gaza and dismantling all the unexploded ordinance. rebuild it, guys. >> brian: lucas, no doubt they are in a situation where they have to make a decision. netanyahu says there is no way hamas will stay in charge. michael waltz says that the trump administration position is there's no way hamas stays in charge. but, if you have seen the hostage takeover, they are still the number one presence in the area. they are the ones still with the guns. >> lucas: that's right. we saw those hamas soldiers kidded with out with brand new uniforms, weapons. hamas still a force in gaza. also, just a few days ago when trump was talking about leveling tariffs on mexico and canada you saw a big about-face, perhaps. this announcement will get the attention of other allies in the middle east, guys. >> steve: indeed. lucas, thank you very much for the live report from d.c. so, you know, it was such -- it was a jaw-dropper last night. the cover of the "new york post"

is we will take over gaza. you got to wonder where this idea came from. i know jared kushner had told the president a year or two ago. gaza's waterfront property could be very valuable. suggested the move the israelis out and clean it up. donald trump is a developer. he sees the potential. again talking about land that people had fought over decades and it looks like trump and netanyahu discussed it. but they didn't really talk to the other side because as lucas detailed some of the over sides involved like hamas has said no. the no so far that i just was reading about in the "times of israel," egypt is a no. hamas is a no. saudi arabia is a no. and china is a no. and there is an op-ed in the "times of israel" right now that says the gaza plan won't happen but could shake up the region because new ideas are needed. this might spark more viable solutions. that's what donald trump said yesterday. we need new ideas. >> lawrence: i think it's going to force the muslim world to

find a solution as well. i think it's going to give the president a lot of leverage. something has to give. and i don't know if this is the solution. but i tweeted out last night let me just sleep on this. let me just sleep on this. i think so often when the president puts a radical idea out there, to change the conversation around an issue, people just freak out. and that's what the media did last night. >> ainsley: if america looked like gaza, i would consider leaving if, you know, if i had to live in those conditions. >> lawrence: no choice. >> ainsley: every time we show video of it i'm like i can't believe people live like this because we are so blessed and fortunate. >> steve: it's like california, the wildfires. eventually people want to go back. and that's the problem. >> ainsley: it's so gorgeous in california. you do have to risk of the wildfire especially if you are not going to get insurance of it. look at the video of gaza that is no place i would ever want to go or visit. he says he is not specifying where this new land for gazans might be. why not? you don't have to leave, i

guess, if you don't want to. but, if you have the opportunity for economic development and supplied unlimited number of jobs and housing and a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land like he calls it, why wouldn't you consider it? why wouldn't they say thanks for doing this? netanyahu said one thing that i think was interesting. you say things others refuse to say, talking about donald trump. after the jaws drop, people scratch their heads and they say, you know, he's right. >> brian: just doing a little bit of history, you had the palestinians in jordan and they said they created havoc. they threw him out. they are in lebanon. they were creating havoc. they tossed him out. they are in egypt in the 1920s and they basically gave birth to what we now know as al-qaeda. that hamas is a division of that. they got tossed out. so they became israel's problem and we know about the ball for agreement. so now they had in the oslo situation what if we gave you gaza and clinton said we build a bridge, both of them that will be your state. yasser arafat said yeah if i do

that they will kill me because we basically want all of israel. if you want all of israel and you say there is going to be many more october 7ths and you rocket israel every single day, israel just had 1100 innocent people including babies killed in the most horrific way imaginable. why would you say let's just call it a cease-fire and go back because we're going to be on this couch again 18 months later and talk about another devastating attack. >> ainsley: they promised it would happen again. >> brian: we have to revisit all of this. we are so done. it is really two areas. palestinians and iran. everybody else and we will talk qatari foreign minister and special adviser shortly. everybody else is on the page and you can't say it's anti-muslim. president trump says listen i love the middle east. i'm going to be going to saudi arabia and visiting all these countries. it's not anti-palestinian. it's antiterrorists. the rocketing every day has to stop. the democrats don't seem to understand that. listen owe has got eye on real

estate deal gaza coast line hotel. >> understanding of international law. >> this is not admission of a plan. >> this is a complete american imperialism at its roots, at its core. donald trump suggesting that this land in the middle east would be better occupied and overseen by america. i just don't think we can really begin to even comprehend what we are hearing two weeks in from this administration. >> clearly america is now expressing clearly that they want to occupy permanently the ethnic cleansing of palestinians. >> ainsley: not true. no one said that. >> lawrence: that's not what he said. >> ainsley: of course the palestinians if you interviewed them, which many of these left organizations have they are going to say we don't want to leave. but they have to say that they don't have any other options. they're landlocked. no one wants to take them right now unless president trump comes up with a deal. and they are scared of hamas. >> steve: and so far they say

they are not going to leave. ains. >> brian: arab world is going to pay for it. >> steve: saudi arabia said no ties with israel without the creation of a palestinian state. they are a firm no on the idea. although there are -- there are people who are already talking about how it would be a great idea. a lot of people david freidman ambassador for israel during the trump years. he suggested so will we call it mara gaza or gaza lago marco rubio said the united states is ready to make gaza beautiful again. >> brian: tried to build a platform and that didn't work under the last administration to get aid in. >> lawrence: hamas took it. >> brian: ton of money and built tunts. they were supposed to build cities. we gave them a ton of aid. hamas keeps it. and then when it was time for no

choice being held hostage by those people not unlike mind with hamas. they have no choice. they will torture your family if you come back and say you caused all this unrest. so they are almost says slip a note saying get me out of this. >> lawrence: i was going to say if we don't get control of this, this is going to be more terror and that means the u.s. troops are going to eventually have to get involved. and so if you don't want intervention let's put an end to this in some way. i don't know if this is the idea, but i'm willing to have the conversation. >> ainsley: you can't tell me when you look at these images there aren't people that don't want to leave. >> ainsley: there are some but i believe there are a lot that would like to leave.

>> steve: but it's their land. >> brian: went to turkey, europe, everywhere. got on boats and rafts and italy. so, i mean, they left. 2 million people left. you could get people out of gaza when you have no choice. aside trying to kill everybody. so they left. meanwhile, 11 minutes after the hour. talk about good news. >> lawrence: we got good news from the secretary of defense. it looks like the u.s. army recruiting had their most productive december in 15 years. listing 346 soldiers daily into the world's greatest army. i just think it's so powerful. and i had the opportunity to talk to some troops. so much spirit at the border. watch. how does it have the secretary of defense here to greet you personally talk to you, and get you all's concerns. >> i think it's important that the secretary of defense come down and have the leaders of the department come down and kind of eyes on perspective at the tactical level. because, you know, ideas and

orders that come down from top, they don't know how all that impacts the soldiers. but i think it's great for him. especially first trip out to come down and actually get the thoughts of the leaders and the soldiers on the ground and how we can best execute this mission. >> lawrence: tell me about the operation that you guys are going to be doing at the border. what specifically would you be doing. >> soldiers down here manning different detection monitoring locations. really designed border patrol works hand in glove with us to put us in the best positions possible to help support them. so we have soldiers out here 24/7, 365. we do everything that we possibly can to support our dhs partners. >> lawrence: what's your number one mission. >> number one mission is trying to keep the american border safe and trying to detect and defend the border as much as we possibly can. >> ainsley: this happened after president trump was elected. after pete hegseth was nominated. as defense secretary. enlistment going up. 350 soldiers every single day this past december. >> steve: that's great. >> brian: best recruiting number in 12 years according to the

army. the army hit its best number in 15 years overall. america's youth want to serve. just make it something that people feel rewarded for doing. i wants to see those families who do so much for our country. i think 1% serves 350 million. so many our legacies, my grandpa, my father. and they stopped after afghanistan. hopefully they will say son, daughter, if you want to go, in i support you now. >> steve: well, ever since covid the numbers have started to slump. and then we have also got standards. and too many people are obese and also the army has got essentially their own sat test to see whether or not can you get in. they have started doing prep classes which is great. one of the problems is they don't have enough facilities. so, in the last couple of weeks the army announced that they are going to expand basic training at fort leonard wood in missouri and fort sill in oklahoma. another 10,000 per year last

years they hit the number. they wanted 53,000. >> brian: what branch army? >> steve: the army. >> brian: they also lowered their standards, lowered their goal. >> ainsley: what year was afghanistan's withdrawal # 2023? >> brian: 2021. >> ainsley: 2023 the u.s. military missed recruiting goals by 41,000. a lot of this had to do with who the commander-in-chief was. >> brian: did you hear joe biden say i need to you serve. being all you can be. a warrior looking like a warrior in commercials. army put out great ads and hired major companies they stopped doing it. it was like gender equality crap. they also were pushing back on letting them into high schools. you need to tell high school kids i know you are thinking about college. i want you to know what we can offer you. >> lawrence: we got have a pro-american strength type message we got video of america

winning. >> lawrence: someone the first generation of my family not to serve all my grandparents, my father. grandmother, grandfather and it goes on and on and on they discouraged me from joining the military because of how the military had been and they were not focused on certain things. i think the secretary of defense is going to shift that message. and you already see it with the guys on the ground. think are so happy not just with the border patrol but off camera. >> did they tell you which ones can you interview? is he said just go out there and talk with the guys. and the guys were -- they were stunned. i don't think i have approved to talk. and secretary of defense has approved to you talk. tell them what you want to tell them. it's incredible. >> it's not like okay. we have focus group this one guy he has the perfect point of view. ask anybody in the line they are going to say exactly you want to find out how they feel they will tell you how they feel it's

awesome. >> brian: the other big story is what doge is doing to our budget examine examining read only mode with treasury wasting billions of dollars, maybe trillions of dollars in our budget. it's never been looked at and examined. some people have a problem with it. but looking at what elon musk is doing. they estimate they're saving a billion dollars a day on what they have already done. and they over 2 trillion when it's all said and done that was his goal. we heard elon musk say that i think it was at the rally in butler when donald trump returned before the election. so, he is going through and he is doing a lot of cutting he has got apparently the approval of the boss. the president of the united states. but at the same time, a lot of these programs were developed by politicians and if they go away,

politicians don't like them. in particular the democrats not in power right now, here's a little montage of what they have to say about donald trump who is following through on a campaign promise. he said i'm going to get rid of government waste and abuse and all that stuff. he is trying to do it and the democrats don't like it. >> we have to fight this in the courts. we have to fight this in the congress. we have to fight this in the streets. stop the coup, stop the grift. stop elon musk. >> shut down the city! [cheers] we are at war! any time -- any time a person can pay $250 million into a campaign and then be given access, sole access to the department of treasury, we are at war! >> we have convened here in the right place, the treasury department. we have got to tell elon musk nobody elected your [bleep]

>> did anybody vote for a government of billionaires for billionaires? >> no! >> are you ready to stand up and defend our democracy? >> yes. >> what we are in the face of right now is an authoritarian takeover of our country and we say hell no. >> lawrence: people are ridiculous. think about all the crisis that the american people are having. trying to rebuild their own families. you got fires, you got hurricane recovery. they are protesting for more foreign aid. not for the people that actually vote for them. i just think it's just a stupid strategy and it just resists, resists, resists with no message at all. >> ainsley: have they not learned anything? >> lawrence: nothing. >> ainsley: they want to fight for us sending millions and millions of dollars to other countries for stupid things? we spent money obsess me street shows in iraq. $20 million. that's your tax dollar money. look at some of these. 1.5 million for dei in serbia.

70,000 for a dei musical in ireland. i mean, was this quite a production? who pays that? >> steve: no kidding. >> ainsley: 47,000 for trans opera in colombia. 32,000 for trans comic book in peru. you can be whoever you want to be. >> lawrence: i'm not paying for it. >> ainsley: we don't have to work really hard to go pay for your country to have these programs. >> brian: i have been reading really close nothing cutting that is republican. he is cutting the budget of america. they found the biden administration wasted $236 billion in improper payments through 71 federal programs. that's according to the government accountability office. that's not going to happen anymore. musk did an audit of the federal government to cut waste, fraud and abuse. is he doing it. massive sum three quarters of overpayments. just a portion of the $1.8 trillion debt. is he going in there, making everything literally accountable. so he is trying to get everything in order. on us aid senator joni ernst went up and saying you are wasting all your money.

what's going on with this? u.s. aid said you have no right to ask us this. they threatened her. wait a second a sitting senator gets threatened by usaid who didn't want to be questioned on where the money is going. going to fold it into the state department. make it accountable. the state department everyone said was the deep state. it's being gutted. the c.i. a was told tighten your belt. the fbi was told tighten your belt. these aren't republican organizations. it's a country that wants to get its house in order in order to get -- keep more of our money and keep it in america's pockets. >> ainsley: tomorrow is the last day of the buyout. want to quit your job and still get paid through the end of september and a federal worker you can 20,000 have said yes. >> steve: trump was very smart in deciding to go after usaid first because to the point about, you know, we are spending all that money overseas whereas rather he had come out and said okay we are going to cut the department of education and it sounds like they will, they didn't say that first. because then the argument would be you are going to short change

america's kids. >> brian: musk is much bigger than we ever thought. never thought this comprehensive and effective. bringing in minds and engineers from other companies to go there and work for free. >> steve: and he is there for a reason right now. because, before all the cabinet secretaries start. because they said things at this confirmation hearings like i won't cut back the staff and stuff like that. they have got to do it in this transition period before those people actually start. donald trump has got a very ambitious agenda that involves a lot of tax cuts. he wants to continue those. he said yesterday he wants to find a way to pay for no tax on tips no, tax on social security and overtime. and we get letters from all of you every day asking when is he going to do that? those things are expensive. that is why elon musk is there right now. he is trying to find the money. so that republicans who are wobbly on ballooning the deficit okay. look at this. we found the money.

>> ainsley: hand it over to carley for headlines. >> carley: big news here. starting with a fox news alert. the pentagon is reportedly putting a plan together that would pull all u.s. troops out of syria. nbc news reports the dod planning for the full with drawing to happen some pointed next three months and comes less than two months after the fall of the assad regime. also follows president trump telling reporters last week, quote: we're not involved in syria, syria is its own mess. they don't need us involved. happening today, president obama administration is set to be sworn in as the 87th attorney general of the united states. following her senate confirmation vote yesterday. pennsylvania senator john fetterman was the lone democrat who voted for bondi. the director of national intelligence nominee tulsi gabbard and hhs nominee r.f.k. jr. nominations have both cleared committees and will now head to a vote on the senate floor. and in los angeles, hundreds of students walked out of class to join the third day of

anti-deportation protests on tuesday. police say students threw rocks and bottles at officers while waiving mexican flags. at least one adult was arrested for vandalism there. and an arizona officer in right geriotgear. took place in glendale. at least one person was arrested there as well. and did you hear about this eggs will now cost 50 cents more apiece at every waffle house location across the country. and the bird flu is to blame. the outbreak is causing egg shortage here in the u.s. which has led to a big rise in prices. according to the department of agriculture the cost of eggs jumped by more than 8% in december alone. waffle houses they were forced into this decision adding, quote: while we hope these price fluctuations will be short-lived we cannot predict how long this shortage will last, guys. i was just at a small grocery store in new york city yesterday, asked one of the guys who worked there where the eggs are he said we don't sell them anymore. they used to be $45 a create,

now it's over 100. >> steve: i was asking the guy out in new jersey yesterday the big egg producers are only shipping a tiny little amount of eggs to each of the stores because they don't have any because of the bird flu. >> ainsley: how devastating if that's your company that, is how you make your money and bird flu sweeps through your entire farm. get the flu shot. >> steve: bird flu shot? >> ainsley: someone stole like 200,000 eggs off of a truck because they are worth $40,000. >> brian: can we have something else for breakfast for a month? can we get over this? there you go. >> bacon! >> you need protein go with bacon. >> ainsley: waffles, eggs in that. >> brian: carley solved it all. >> steve: have great greek

yogurt. >> brian: where is the tomato paste aisle 4 in the back. how do you memorize all of this it's amazing. >> steve: brian, in a year, how many times are new a grocery store? >> brian: a lot. because i grew up in a grocery store because my dad used to buy the cold cuts to make sand witches for bar. one of us would go with him every single time so we knew everything. get the guy with the ladder to get some exextravagant spaghetti off the top shelf. put it within reach. i never understand why he had to get a ladder to get the spaghetti. >> steve: that is a good question. >> brian: all the cheaper brands. >> brian: my dad irish person pronounce the name. >> steve: where is the bokatini. >> brian: he never said it like that. >> steve: i'm swedish. california governor gavin newsom is set to meet with donald trump prior attempts to trump proof his state. remember when they met a couple weeks ago? what's on his agenda?

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we will own it and be responsible for dismantling all the dangerous, unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. >> mr. president, given what you have said about gaza, should the u.s. send troops to help secure the security vacuum? >> as far as gaza is concerned we will do what is necessary. >> brian: what does that mean? here to react fox news contributor, former speech writer for george w. bush, did a lot of work in the middle east, marc thiessen, what about president trump's idea? >> marc: i don't know exactly what he means but i will tell you this is what i love about donald trump. at his heart is he a developer. he looks at gaza destroyed landscape with nothing but rubble as far as the eye can see. he sees the potential for a new rivera in the middle east. he sees resorts and hotels and prosperity and the people of the middle east should be grateful because right now nobody sees a prosperous future for gaza because hamas is absolutely and utterly brought destruction to that place. donald trump is the only one

laying out a vision for a prosperous gaza that can emerge after this war to destroy hamas is over. and people of the region should be grateful. >> brian: prime minister netanyahu i never saw him look surprised. he looked surprised by the proposal came up behind closed doors. what he is trying to say the status quo doesn't work. hamas said there will be more october 7ths, they are continuing to hold hostages. nothing will change so why would we do this again? and the arab world knows it. not goods to necessarily sign off on this. what would be the exact next step? >> well, you have to eliminate hamas. there can be no future for gaza while hamas is still there as soon as the cease-fire took place, the hamas pulled out of the tunnels and they started threatening october 7th all over again. there's no chance for this vision. trump is holding out a positive vision for the region. and if you want that, the predicate for that is that hamas has to be utterly and completely

destroyed. >> brian: people should get the message that the prime minister can handle the region now. he's not going to be constrained. he is getting the munitions he asked for. confirmed being held back by president biden. next, gavin newsom is leaving california and going to washington, d.c. he wants massive aid for the massive fires that killed 29 and cost them north of $250 billion. what should trump say? >> trump sudden say until you change your policies not a dime for california. i mean, this is a state that over a million people have left the state since the pandemic began because of the disastrous policies and now gavin newsom is coming and saying those million people who left because of my disastrous policies need to rebuild and pay their taxes to rebuild california. you know what? instead of spending billions of dollars trying to stop global warming, fill the reserves, clear the brush billion dollars

in so we don't have to do this again the next time the fires come because of your mismanagement. i love the fact that donald trump is talking about rebuilding gaza and gavin newsom is coming hat in hand to him asking hey, can california get a few dimes too? >> brian: i'm watching the anti-ice protest happening in the streets, the mexican flags el salvadorian flags. governor, as long as i'm seeing these images, not a dime. >> sanctuary states get no money. by the way, i mean, tom homan doesn't need my ideas. everybody has a flag of a foreign country up there. just surround them. and like a de -- self-deportation process. go and check their passports and if they are here illegally, kick them out. >> whatever flag they're holding, they get to go back to that country, they win.

marc thiessen thanks so much. >> like a volunteer flag. >> brian: marc, fascinating time. look forward to seeing your columns and seeing you on the channel. good job. 25 minutes before the top of the hour. also on the president's agenda. national girls and women in sports day. and president trump is making good on his promise to fight for fairness and have women play against women when it comes to sports. can you imagine? ♪

>> janice: good morning. everyone, watching unfolding ice storm across the central u.s. where we have reports of ice on the roadways in kansas city. this is going to be ongoing throughout the day today and into tomorrow as this area of plosh crosses the great lakes, the ohio valley in towards the northeast. where we are going to get a mix of rain, freezing rain, and snow for millions of folks all up and down the i 95 corridor. there is your forecast today. that developing storm system. by the way, another one behind it, this weekend, effecting the same areas. we're also dealing with heavy

rain long the coast, mountain snow for california. worried about the mudslide threat and we also have record warmth across the south that is going to continue for the next couple of days. now, with the groundhog right when he predicted six more weeks of winter, i'm glad you are thinking about that, too. over the weekend i was in punxsutawney and we just dropped a brand new special on groundhog day on fox nation. take a look he. >> there is no shadow. [cheers] >> janice: year after year the tradition continued even as weather forecasting became a bit more high tech. eventually, television news was invented and along with it, weather segments. rather than turning away from the low tech weather predictor, soon it seemed like every local weather reporter in the country was making the yearly trek to the middle of pennsylvania. >> janice: i got to meet phil himself. i talked to the governor of pennsylvania about his love for

ground hog day and also the handler of phil and the president of the groundhog club, the inner circle. it was a great special. i loved recording it. it's on right now. fox nation it's called seeing shadows inside groundhog day with me, janice dean. you know what, ainsley, also national weather person's day. what a great day to celebrate all who forecast the weather, including punxsutawney phil. >> we are so grateful for you, janice. >> janice: i got your daughter a groundhog day hat. >> ainsley: she is going to love it. you got her one last year. you were telling me during the break this one is little different she is going to be so excited she put it in her backpack and wears it all the time. so she will be thrilled. we watched coverage over the weekend. you did a remarkable job. >> janice: thank you. >> ainsley: as a child i grew up watching always february 2nd. especially our children. >> janice: great special to watch with your kids. >> janice: can't wait to see it.

today marks national girls and women in sports kay and to honor female athletes, donald trump will sign an executive order banning biological men from girl's sports in schools and colleges. is he going to do that at 3:00 this afternoon. our next guest will be there for the signing. independent women's forum ambassador and former ncaa athlete paula scanlan joins us now. hey, paula. >> hey. good morning. >> ainsley: good morning. i know you swam at upenn and you swam with lia thomas and you decided in 2023 to start speaking out. the school tried to silence you and suppress your thoughts. you went forward. you were fighting for fairness in women's sports. what does this mean to you after years and years of fighting? >> oh my gosh, this is so exciting, i mean, but the biggest thing that i'm thinking to myself is the fact that we even have to do this and spend time and sign executive order to say something as common sense as men do not belong in women's sports. but this is just the beginning. ultimately this issue will not be over until we get this passed in all three branches of

government. until we see cases won in the supreme court. until we see congress pass this and so we're looking for the senate to hopefully try and pass this into law as well after trump signs his executive order. >> ainsley: i know you have talked to congress. what are the chances of that? >> i don't know. but, honestly, i want them to bring it because we need these senators on the record saying that they do not stand with women. because there is a lot of democrats that are not going to vote for this. we want them on the record saying that they believe men belong in women's sports. i think that is very important. i really do hope that they bring this up in senate and we see how people are going to vote on this. >> ainsley: today is national girls and women sports day celebrating female athletes like yourself. what did that sport do for you? what did swimming do for your life. >> absolutely it. made me everything i am today. taught me time management. taught me how to be part of a team. taught me how to work toward a goal and ha chief. i wouldn't be the person i am right here if i hadn't had

growing up. think of any girl being robbed of that opportunity because a male athlete wants to take her spot or compete in her sport or bump her off the roster that is heart breaking. so important why we all stand up for and this why this executive order is such a win. win for the young girls. not just the ncaa champions but for the middle school athletes. bench warmers girls just breaking into the bought of the roster. >> ainsley: report from the u.n. last year found 7900 medals in women sports have been won by biological males. thank you for coming on. >> the doj is forming a task force to investigate systemic

school professor joins us now. ron, it's been almost a year since we saw each other on the campus of colombia. have things gotten better. commission necessary what is going on. >> this commission is absolutely

necessary. it's a great step. things have gotten better above ground. so the type of riots we just saw went on consistently. riots and violence taken over buildings has calmed down bureau ground, anti-semitism at columbia. anti-west indoctrination continue and increase. task force mullett agency. the department of justice, it's the department of education, other agencies, that's a great, great, in my opinion a great start, a great move. >> lawrence: i know there is indoctrination when it comes to the professors on these college campuses. i reported on it for years at campus reform. but the openness of the anti-anti-semitism that they are displaying adjudicate the students they are linked to. >> some of the professors

driving the systemic systemic racism. same professors directing some of them, the same professors are directing the undergraduate program, the core curriculum. some of them are the ones adjudicating the violators of the regulations. so it's a self-perpetuating system. where the some of these professors hire others to have similar monolithic ideology like them. tenure them. and it per pets united states itself. >> lawrence: are you hopeful this commission with the department of justice is going to help change things? >> i'm very hopeful. i think they are going to look into the systemic still. things go long with that including as i said anti-west indoctrination. a severe bias against our way of life. against freedom. against free marks free markets

the same systems that allow people to teach. >> ron, professor, thank you so much for joining the program. >> thank you for having me. >> lawrence: carley has headlines. >> carley: a manhunt is on after one person killed and five others hurt at a shooting at a warehouse in ohio overnight police identified this man as the suspect and are asking the public's help with bringing him into custody. the shooting happened at a beauty products manufacturer about 15 miles outside of columbus. about 150 people were evacuated from the facility and six were taken to the hospital where one later died. officers believe this was a targeted attack. motive is still unknown the family of a murder victim jumping and attacking a suspect in court. just look at this. this happened in albuquerque, new mexico. suspect and began punching at him before another man joined the fight. a corrections officer was also

hit while trying to break up that brawl. the men are now facing charges of assault and battery on a peace officer. and daniel penny has been hired by power house silicon valley venture capital firm horowitz, the marine veteran will be working. job comes less than two months after he was acquitted in the subway chokehold death of jordan neely. memo sent to employees at the firm yesterday praising penny for his, quote: courage. those are your headlines, lawrence, back upstairs to you my friend. >> lawrence: thanks, carley, appreciate it. we still have a busy two hours, i think, left in the show. more "fox & friends" ahead. ♪ ♪ i just want to fly ♪ put your arms around me baby ♪ put your arms around me, baby ♪ i just want to fly ♪ tiktok to compete. within a week of posting,

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