♪ >> brian: it is 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. it is wednesday, february 5th. this is "fox & friends." an announcement no one saw coming. president trump want the united states of america to rebuild the war torn gaza strip but somebody else pays for it. >> the u.s. will take over the gaza strip and we will do a job with it, too. we'll own it. >> brian: no is that right damage of reaction this morning. we hit our vcr rolling.

>> ainsley: do democrats have any agenda aside from fighting donald trump? [shouting] >> and we will win. we will win. [chanting we will win] >> lawrence: they just lost. [laughter] >> ainsley: a new warning that they better figure out or get comfortable losing elections. >> brian: new generation of democrats. >> steve: we are getting our motor running. we are revving up the daytona 500 which is on fox. turn on the bush light. one racer is shifting gears speeding his way to fox square to bring us his super bowl commercial before you see it on fox this sunday. >> ainsley: buy your busch light. >> lawrence: nice car. the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. so, president trump laying out new plans for the u.s. to take over the gaza strip, saying we could turn it into the rivera of

the middle east. >> steve: lucas tomlinson has probably been to the rivera. he joins us from the white house. trump mentioned it last night and now the world is saying no, you can't do it. >> lucas: that's right, steve, good morning, friends. reaction pouring in from overseas. first, let's begin here at the white house last night. standing alongside israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. president trump shocked the world when he says the u.s. will be going 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 this 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.

>> pouring in from overseas this morning. trump's plan saudi arabia rejects any attempts to displace the palestinians from their land. and the french government saying france reiterates its opposition any forced displacement of palestinian displacement of gaza serious violation of international law. more than 2 million palestinians inside gaza, guys. as far as domestic reaction goes i can tell you uber ride from the bureau here white house 6:00 morocco called trump a master negotiator he said tips have increased since president trump took office. >> steve: so, lucas, how much is an uber. >> brian: that's interesting. do you have a soundbite from him, lucas? iphone? >> guys talking early in the morning,. >> brian: unprompted by the way. >> steve: how much is an uber from the bureau to the white house? >> about $20, steve. >> steve: okay. >> tip on there, too. >> steve: i know.

>> brian: what did you rate him as? did you rate him? >> steve: five stars? >> five stars. >> steve: going to give a soundbite rate him as 5 stars. >> brian: what do you think he rated you as? >> five. i was there on time. i sprinted out there because it was cold. >> brian: lucas, all your military training and background you went to the uber soundbite. so interesting. >> steve: how are you getting home? >> i will take another uber home as well. you don't want to mark around here. >> steve: you don't. >> ainsley: i learn a lot from these uber drivers in new york? >> no kidding. >> ainsley: always. >> should be an uber summit. >> steve: it would be uber interesting. >> brian: get there? >> steve: might take a lyft because they are all on vacation. >> ainsley: thanks, lucas. this was a big deal yesterday because donald trump is saying look at the images of gaza. why would you want to live there? he says we want to make it good and fresh and a beautiful piece of land.

he has talked about moving to another area, moving the palestinians to another area. he reiterated how -- look at this. it's a mess. so he is saying clean this up. let's move some of them to other areas. economic development, supply unlimited number of jobs and housing. and he did repeat his desire tore jordan and egypt to take palestinians. jordan is home to 2 million palestinians. palestinian refugees and also have citizenship in jordan. and egypt has been adamant about refusing most of the gazans. >> lawrence: go ahead. bry. >> brian: money we gave them they are using to build terror tunnels. also said we are no longer going to fund unrwa. why does that matter? they were predominantly working with the u.n. for hamas. turns out one of the hostages said i was kept in an unrwa facility. really? so the u.n. is not in bed with hamas? but they kept the hostages in unrwa senility he goes we are done with it. off the human rights council. we are not funding you guys

anymore. this is exactly what netanyahu was trying to say. the u.n. has turned against us, so when they come in to bring peace, they are actually bringing disorder same thing lebanon. they worked for the lebanese. >> lawrence: i was struck by multiple things from the president. one thing he does not want war. he kept saying it over. he wants the best for all countries. he wants them to work -- even when he signed yesterday in the oval office the maximum pressure campaign against iran i don't want to have to seen. this but this is where we are at. and agree or disagree with the idea that he presented, he was talking about a new day for the palestinian people. and that's one thing. they haven't had hope, all these kids from birth hate another country, hate another people. they need something that can uplift them. i'm not saying this is a solution. but i like the conversation being started. >> see i agree with you,

lawrence. i think this is just the tipping -- this is the conversation starter. because, obviously, the president knows when he says we'll take gaza. he knows the united states can't invade another country last thing he wants to do put boot on the ground in gaza. last term he was talking about he would like to get out of every war in the middle east. i think what he did yesterday by i'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt. i think what he did by saying look, if we take over and reredevelop it, i think that's the first step in a negotiation united states will redevelop it and palestinian also go some place else. now people are going no you can't go doo that. okay, if we don't redevelop it. who will? suddenly it will be like the united states and france and russia or somebody like that. where will the palestinians go? go here, here, or here. i think this was his opening salvo, first idea. a lot of people saying you can't

do it. but maybe they could add to it and come up with something because the way it's working is not working got a golden beeper from benjamin netanyahu. you know what happened with the beepers in hezbollah. signed a law, sat up a task force battle anti-semitism focusing on these colleges. he said someone has got to run gaza it. can't be hamas. the palestinian authority is the you hadder diversion of corruption. also interesting that prime minister netanyahu i will hold off on asking to annex parts of the west bank. saudi arabia said don't do that and he wants relations with saudi arabia. this is give and take and push and pull. is iran going to get a nuclear weapon the answer has to be i don't know and no when it documents iran. >> ainsley: absolutely. the people who live there if you watch any other network we are interviewing people. we are interviewing the palestinians they don't want to

leave. why wouldn't they want more opportunity for their children, for their futures and a beautiful place to live? so i believe they are saying that because they are scared of 4578s is taking all of their aid tunnels with the money people give them to help instead they are using it for themselves. benjamin netanyahu said a great line, talking about donald trump. you say things that others refuse to say and after the jaws drop, people scratch their heads and they say you know he's right. >> israel has never had a better friend than donald trump. >> steve: that was the quote. >> brian: also confirmed that joe biden was holding back weapons and immediately pete hegseth, secretary hegseth unleashed him and said you got what you ordered and paid for. take it. so if you are in the arab world. if you are one -- if you know how bad things are hezbollah and hamas. and after attacking israel, houthi rebels you are next. iran at one point only thing that works for us. this guy likes us better than

the last. likes israel more than the last guy. >> steve: one of the other things that benjamin netanyahu said when he was sitting next to the president in the oval room a camera spray reporters in the back and a camera. that's it right there. peter doocy asked benjamin netanyahu, you know, you got donald trump and joe biden bothing in yaghtd and who do you give credit to netanyahu said trump. at the earlier spray earlier in the day peter was not far from the resolute desk and he said okay, and it was another one of those wide ranging trump interviews with the press. peter said okay, so, mr. president, you are talking about getting rid of the department of education. so, why have you nominated a secretary for the department of education by the name of linda mcmahon who used to run sba? that was the question. here's what the president said. >> i told linda, linda, i hope you do a great job and put

yourself out of a job. i want her to put herself out of a job. education department. so we're ranked number 40 out of 40 schools. right? we're ranked number one in cost per pupil. spend more per pupil than any other country in the world. we are ranked at the bottom of the list. we are ranked very badly. what i want to do is let the states run schools. i believe strongly in school choice but in addition to that, i want the states to run schools. i want linda to put herself out of a job. >> steve: put herself out of a job. >> lawrence: something ha to give. we were talking about the other story where something has to give. something has to give in our education system as well. our kids are not getting smarter. they can't read and write. we showed you last week the national report card. things aren't going well and there it is. thanks, producers. it just shows you things are going wrong. now i agree with bry on this though. i'm not sure i want to give it to the states. give it back to the parents. let the parents have control of it. >> ainsley: look what happened

in virginia. remember when youngkin was running and terry mcauliffe said we don't want the parents in our school and lost the election? the parents want to make the decision. if not they are going to pull kids out and move to another state. it is a little scary when liberal blue states are in charge of our schools. >> steve: listen, getting rid of the department of education goes back to ronald reagan. ronald reagan down in d.c. used to talk about that all the time. ultimately, i think once again, this is another negotiation. donald trump saying let's get rid of the department of education. we talked to somebody yesterday at the round table on friday, she told us that she would like to see essentially the federal government continue to give states block grants. it's got to come from some place. probably the department of education when you look at the department of education last year $240 billion. $108 billion went to student loans. you got to figure donald trump is going to say, you know what?

$180 billion for student loans, i think we can save some money right there. i think it's a negotiation. >> brian: barack obama did that he took it away from the banks. the banks were in a much lower interest rate. i got a sent to loan below the interest rate of the country prime rate. now it's above it. and the parent loans, when if your kid goes out of state to michigan. $70,000. middle class family doesn't usually have $70,000 sitting around. give the kid some money. but we are going to give them a loan and give you an opportunity to take a parent loan. so by the time the kid graduates you have the parent loan and the kid loan so it's hard for the parents even to help out the kid. so we should cut the interest rate if you want to help people and number two, give it back to the banks. get that off the books. >> lawrence: all true. >> brian: joe biden keeps forgiving these loans and that goes into the red for the country. >> lawrence: meanwhile the cost of school is going up as a result of that. >> brian: we got to figure out a way to get to that. >> lawrence: once the feds took

over the loan process is when the price of college started to skyrocket. >> ainsley: what's interesting about those numbers that you gave, i didn't know that we spent that much on loans. you can't get a student loan unless you are going to college, right? we need to put money in elementary schools to teach our kids first how to read and do math. did you see we're not proficient in either one of those' lost a lot of time during covid. first focus on getting to the college level which would be elementary and middle school. >> steve: last week was school choice week in washington, d.c. every parent would love to be in my state. the reason we moved to new jersey when i came up here to work from virginia. is because one of the guys who worked with me at the time said okay, you are going to look at new york state, you are going to look at connecticut. and look at new jersey. he said go to new jersey. i said why? it's new jersey? you know, i bought into those johnny carson jokes. he said because in new jersey,

can you send your kids to a public school. >> all of the doocy kids went to public schools and got a great education. unfortunately, here in new york and a lot of places in connecticut you got send them to a private school. ultimately, parents would love to be able to say i am going to take that private -- or that money that tax money and put it to my kid going to a place that i want it them to go. >> ainsley: a lot of these schools so big. we had 854 people in my freshman class. about 500 and some odd grad. one of my friends. >> brian: did you graduate? >> ainsley: yeah. that happened. certain states and certain areas. but, out on cold spring harbor out on long island. there were like 100 people per class. that's a public school and excellent school. so, i don't know if that needs to come into play. i will point out the elephant in the room with the educator with peter it didn't work. i mean,.

[laughter] know my way to the break i am glad we had this out. >> steve: public school product. >> brian: i'm only kidding. two suspects accused of being involved with several burling gallaries across the country are set to be arraigned in new york city today. >> ainsley: police believe they found a connection between them and string of burglaries we have seen hit pro-athletes recently. todd piro has the story for us. todd? >> todd: good morning to all of four of you. the nypd and nypd two suspects linked to south american crime ring after raiding a business in new york city's dine in district yesterday. those of you who want to know more about geography that is a 7 iron from where we are in the studio right thought. the men are accused of running a pawnshop where they sold expensive stolen goods including jewelry, watches, handbags and sports memorabilia. officials believe they have been conspiring with others to receive and purchase property that was stolen outside of new york for the last five years

authorities seizing large from the shops. conspiracy to receive stolen property. fbi's top agent in new york saying, quote: the defendants' alleged actions incentivized highly organized south american theft groups to continue their me particularless looting scheme against a myriad of affluent residents and businesses across the country. with our law enforcement partners. the fbi will continue to dismantle any criminal activity katyusha katieed to capitalize on victims' losses. one of those suspected reportedly connected to the robbery of bengals quarterback joe burrow's home in ohio. his home was burglarized in december while he was in dallas facing off against the cowboys. here is video of the suspects accused of breaking into his home. police found items that they believe were taken from his house, including a bengals cap and an lsu shirt. both suspects arrested in new york are scheduled to be in a brooklyn courtroom later today. if convicted they face up to 10 years in prison.

so finally, maybe getting some answers. >> steve: todd, you are burying the lead. these arrests were made right there literally 100 feet from where we are sitting. >> todd: you didn't hear me say that? i said you can use a 7 iron from where we are he signature in the studio i said that. >> steve: what does that mean? i say it's 100 feet. >> brian: this is why i'm so glad i didn't go proas a player i would have got my house broken in. >> todd: thank god, brian. >> ainsley: all these gorgeous houses were robbed. they took the loot. sold it here on 47th and then. >> brian: cop cars. >> brian: we good to get out of this neighborhood. >> steve: we are on the edge of the diamond district. the diamond district ends right there. 10 feet away from us. 10 feet away from the couch. >> ainsley: very convenient for us women. we enjoy walking through it. >> brian: real quick, last year

for valentine's day i made a huge mistake. >> lawrence: oh jesus. >> brian: i bought dawn these roses that don't die. they are still alive. don't know what to do with them. flowers are meant to die. so i look at them every day and think to myself does it work for this year? can i just wrap them up again? >> lawrence: only last for a year. >> brian: she feels bad she really wants to throw them out, i'm sure. they are forever -- they are like fossils. >> ainsley: that's what makes them beautiful. >> lawrence: i hate when they die i feel like i waste money. >> steve: this is technology. if you are going to buy a flower that's $25 you want it to live. >> brian: forever? >> steve: for a year. >> brian: the present that never goes away. >> steve: here's what you are saying. okay. i got you that last year. you want it out of the picture. so you can buy it again. >> lawrence: the gift that keeps on giving toba says.

>> ainsley: that's the point. you don't want the flowers to die because they are gorgeous. bine brian can't celebrate valentine's day every day. >> steve: just buy some more. >> ainsley: this is what you were hiding under your desk. remember last year hiding under your desk you told carley and me. i have her gift hidden under the desk and we were asking what it was. what are you going to give her this year? >> carley: can i make a suggestion? do you know what else doesn't die? a diamond from the diamond district. >> steve: that's where i thought you were going. that's what you need to get. dawn, you are welcome. >> steve: diamond district is across the street. flower district is blocks further. >> carley: it's further. saving you time but not money. you mull that over. news to get to, guys. president trump saying he has left instructions on, quote: how to obliterate iran if they attempt to assassinate him that remarks coming after he was asked how close iran is to developing a nuclear weapon.

watch. i think they are close. too close. again go back four years i would have said they had it during this intervening period. but they are pretty close. >> carley: this morning trump followed up on those remarks writing: i want iran to be a great and successful country but one that cannot have a nuclear weapon. reports that the united states working in conjunction with israel is going to blow iran into smithereens are greatly exaggerated. happening today, secretary of state marco rubio will continue his central america tour with meetings in guatemala city before heading to the dominican republic. rubio's court part revealing that pete hegseth will visit the country in april. they are going to meet to discuss ways to combat illegal migration and the flow of drugs and will likely discuss the future of the panama canal. and nba legend michael jordan's son getting into some trouble with the law after allegedly speeding away from police in florida. he was eventually arrested for

drunk driving but tried using his father's famous name to get out of it. >> bro, i'm michael jordan's son. i'm not doing anything wrong. i'm just trying to get home and i made a wrong turn. okay? and clearly, we would just like to get our car off the [bleep] train track. >> marcus jordan has been charged with cocaine possession, resisting arrest and dui property damage or personal injury. and president trump is set to become the first sitting u.s. president to attend the super bowl when he travels to new orleans this weekend. and you will be able to keep an eye out for the president this sunday on fox when the philadelphia eagles take on the kansas city chiefs. coverage begins at 1:00 p.m. eastern time, guys. those are your headlines. the first president to go to the super bowl. >> brian: talk to bret baier at the white house and then.

>> steve: good question whether he will go to new orleans or be taped. >> ainsley: did you see bret and sean's super bowl ad? going to air in the bloopers. really cute. >> brian: try get almost exclusive. >> ainsley: sean had it on his show last night and sent to to me. bloopers on there that will really cute. air during the super bowl. >> steve: one other soundbite yesterday here is peter doocy asking potus about the super bowl. >> president trump. >> let's go. >> super bowl ho is going to win the super bowl? >> i don't want to say but there is a certain quarterback that seems to be a pretty good winner. >> brian: he loves football. remember, he used to own the generals. >> steve: he loves a winner. kansas city chiefs fans, "fox & friends" is having a live super bowl party tomorrow morning in the kansas city area and you are invited. we are going to be at chicken n pickle overland park, kansas. come and chief on the chiefs. just watch or join meal and play pickleball and ping-pong and shuffle board and jin jenga and

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fight for american values on the side of hardworking men and women who just want the country to not forget about them. to make sure that we are center in their lives and focusing again on making the american dream real for all americans. >> ainsley: but the party faces quite the dilemma. with voters seeing democrats

putting social issues ahead of economic problems. so how can they regain america's trust? democratic strategist and pollster doug schoen joins us now. hey, doug. >> good morning. >> hey, ainsley how are you? >> ainsley: what do you think about that do you think the democratic party is dying? >> i don't think it's dying but it sure isn't doing much to reclaim its position or to resuscitate its brand fund mentally i think the party should be cooperating with president trump where the issues is he taking on like immigration have public support. the economy where broad public support. routeings the side of government. you can differ with the president on substance where that is in line with party principles just juxtapose him and just spite him proves to be a recipe for failure in the last election and we're facing the

consequences ainsley of that right now. >> ainsley: doug, let me show you an example. politico has a great article talking about how democrats are miscalculating. this complaining about elon musk and doge. doge is just cutting wasteful spending. and they are saying americans, they don't like it when we are giving our money to foreign countries. we would rather cut that the democrats are up in arms though about what elon musk is doing. watch this. >> we are at war! >> what's hang right now is a hostile takeover of the u.s. government. >> all of those axis cease are cut off so we might actually see somebody get killed. >> i will tell you people are going to die in very large numbers around the world expecting the united states to live up to promises get them medicine and get them help. >> if this would be hang any other country i promise you i would be on the air calling did a coup. >> doug.

>> ainsley: common sense. this progressive message of focusing on the wrong thing on all these social issues versus the economy was a mistake for the democrats. what do you think? >> ainsley, you make a number of points. first, americans want a smaller government. that is undeniable. second, it is entirely appropriate to say to president trump we don't think we need to cut a third of the budget. we don't need to eliminate the number of employees he is talking about with elon musk, talking about reducing. but, there is clear desire to reduce the size of government and internationally the scope of foreign aid is almost certainly too broad. and less targeted to where our friends and allies are looking at the policies and offering alternative visions and alternative policies rather than as you rightly but the it, ainsley, fear-mongering, scaring people and engaging in reckless

hyperbole. >> ainsley: what is your message for ken martin the new dnc chair? >> focus on working people. focus on job creation, education that gist people the opportunity to get training for the jobs that exist. get inflation down and work constructively as bill clinton did with the republicans after the 1994 election. so that there is a con is census of americans supporting goals we all support not supporting the extreme left wing cultural agenda that you put up on the screen that people believe the democrats do support. >> ainsley: doug, i'm listening to maxine waters and chuck schumer and they are just screaming at the podium what do you make of the democrats' message? is it working? >> ainsley with all due respect there isn't a message hate and fear and opposition a message that failed. i think they need to do a

retrospective on the election and come up with a broad centrist agenda that takes the best of what the present administration is doing, offer alternative policies to arguably strengthen those policies, make them more efficient, and more in line with what the american people and particularly working people, people of color, those without high school, college educations want. we will be much better off doing that rather than hate, division, polarization and fear-mongering. >> ainsley: doug, will you stay in the party? >> i'm in the party for now. i lean independent. i hope -- i hope i can come back to the democratic party as i did when bill clinton moved to the center. but these are very much open questions, ainsley. >> ainsley: doug, thank you so much coming on. always great to see you. >> great to see you, thanks. >> ainsley: thank you. 34 minutes after the top of the hour. check in with senior

meteorologist janice dean for fox weather forecast. how is it feeling out there? >> janice: i will tell you about that in just a second. >> talk about the forecast first. looking at the southern tier we are setting records, my friend from the southwest across the south and in towards the southeast. temperatures in the 70s and 80's crazy. then we have the potential for ice storm that is happening across the central u.s. over the ohio valley in towards the mid-atlantic and the northeast. i am concerned with measurable ice on the road ways and on the power lines for millions of folks as we get into tomorrow afternoon. keep that in mind. another storm system behind it on the weekend impacting much of the same cities that you see on the map right there. so he wool continue to keep you up to date. it does feel like winter. six more weeks of winter. we, of course, were in punxsutawney pennsylvania over the weekend for groundhog, day. he predicted six more weeks of winter. and we were shooting a special that is now on fox nation, ainsley, it's called seeing

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steve nassau county new york police department is being granted federal authority to help arrest and deport criminal migrants. ice will now delegate authority to 10 local detectives to help carry out targeted enforcement. we have been hearing about it. now they are getting help in nassau county and the executive there, bruce blakeman joins us now. bruce, good morning to you. >> hey, steve. >> we have heard about how across the country ice is running up against sanctuary cities that will not help them even to this day. why are you helping out the fed? >> well, i said from day one that nassau county would not be a sanctuary it the and as a result "u.s. news and world report" say that we're the safest county in america. we have got a great police department led by commissioner roger gusset who does an outstanding job. we are blessed that president trump is now allowing our federal agents and our local law enforcement to work together to get rid of illegal immigrants

who have committed crimes. it's just common sense. >> steve: sure. i remember, i'm old enough to remember your predecessor, a democrat, she actually evicted ice from the local county jail. and, you know, suddenly things turned around the other way. you are trying to right the ship of state shedding the right direction, right? >> yeah. so we're going to cross designate 10 nassau county who are going to be illegal immigrants that are criminals. they are not going to go on raids, they are not going to go in schools and not go in churches. and that's ridiculous. it's just democratic hype. what they are going to do is pick up criminals and then we have extra jail cells because of cashless bail and other cultural progressive woke policies in our state. we have empty jail cells, so we are going to fill them with illegal migrants who commit crimes. hold them temporarily until ice can permanently detain them or deport them. >> well, you know, and obviously

they are just going after the worst of the worst right now. let's talk a little bit sex change procedures for minors despite president trump signing an executive order outlawing them. right? >> it's just bizarre that our state government would be backing a policy to mutilate children. we are against that in nassau county. this is a common sense place. unlike some of the policies that come from albany and that used to come from washington before president trump was elected. this is a battle we have to fight every day to get back to american values and to get back to common sense. and i don't know why the attorney general would be spending her valuable time suing

people who will not perform this kind of surgery on minors, mutilating their bodies. it's just unbelievable. it's not what state government should be doing. >> steve: and, in fact, the president today is going to be signing an executive order banning biological males from competing in girls sports. so that you will see live on fox. just as they are watching bruce blakeman right now from nassau county. bruce, thank you very much. >> thanks, steve. have a great day. >> steve: you bet. all right. quarter before the top of the hour. carley, let's talk a little bit about those trips to gitmo. >> carley: i'm glad you said that, steve. the first images have been released of illegal immigrants boarding planes to guantanamo bay as part of the trump administration's mass deportation push. and we have learned that the first 10 migrants flown to the base described as the worst of the worst will be guarded by ice officials in the same maximum security facility where terror detainees are held. the president has instructed the

pentagon who have guantanamo to hold illegal aliens at the military base. u.s. postal service suspending incoming packages from china and hong kong until further notice. the move going into effect yesterday after president trump ended a trade provision used by retailers to ship low value packages duty free to the united states. this is expected to effect shipments from online discount outlets cheyenne and t temu the usps says it will not impact letters and flats from hong kong and china. chipotle is down playing any potential impact of the tariffs on mexico threatened by the president. the chain says it doesn't expect major disruptions to its business, even if the 25% tariff happens. chipotle revealing that only about half of its avocados are sourced from mexico and had already begun buying more of its avocados from outside mexico in recent years.

the more you know, steve, those are your headlines, back over to you. >> steve: that burrito looks so good. >> carley: now i'm hungry. >> steve: we will make a call. but, first, we are revving up for the daytona 500 on fox but first nascar's ross chastain has sped to fox square to bring us his super bowl commercial before the big show on sunday. hey, ross. where ya headed? susan: where am i headed? am i just gonna take what the markets gives me?

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>> brian: the 2025 nascar season kicks off with the daytona 500 the week after the super bowl february 16th on fox. >> ainsley: going to be a great two weekends for sports. first, catch our next guest who is gearing up for the big race in this super bowl commercial. it will be this sunday also on fox. >> brian: let's watch. >> cold and smooth survival skills. to avoid going in circles, take note of recognizable landmarks like that. >> what's wrong with going in circles? >> different circles, ross. >> okay. >> head for the mountains. >> funny stuff. the star of that ad nascar driver ross chastain joins us now. what happened to the tent? >> i left it in the woods. busch and i had a great day filming that.

too cold to be in a tent to be honest. >> such a cute commercial. take all day? >> of course it did. that spot took ours. >> ainsley: 20 seconds, 30 seconds, we know the feeling. >> that beer at the end of the day busch light tasted great. >> brian: second year with busch light, right? >> it is. iconic brand been in the sport so long. official car. to pick a watermelon farmer from florida that's right to represent their brand is -- it means the world to me and my family. an it's kind of a payoff of all the work to get here and with track house now we get to represent busch light. >> steve: you were drinking busch light before you got the car? >> brian: were this morning? >> no, no, no. i used to sit at my bar with the buddies and talk about the poster on the wall with the race car. >> steve: this is what my car and jumpsuit is going to look like. >> there were a lot of beers involved. >> brian: normally. >> lawrence: looking for a driver? >> michael al trip was tall. big guy.

>> ainsley: how can you get in this car, brian can you demonstrate? >> no doors. >> lawrence: don't rip your pants again. >> brian: i have my keys left them in the ignition get in quick. >> swing your leg up there, man? >> don't rip your pants. keep going, keep going. >> there you go. is this the actual car you are going to be driving. >> luckily we did it before the daytona 500, which will be on fox because there is no scratches on it. this is the car. >> ainsley: what does that feel like, brian? >> good flexibility. >> neighbor steering wheel? put it right back on? >> brian: do you have sire, do you have xm radio? [laughter] >> ainsley: brian, what does that feel like? >> it feels like human being how do you do this? this is incredible? seat is so low. >> custom loaded just for me. fits knee and nobody else. clearly. >> the only thing the engine,

right? there is no engine? >> no engine in this one yet. >> wait, wait. guys. >> brian: and this is real here? >> yes, that's our switch panel. >> brian: this is like the space shuttle in here. >> ainsley: your shoulders don't fit in. >> lawrence: don't take off with the car. >> when we go to do daytona rear view cameras. >> steve: have you ever, because you are a professional race car driver, have you ever driven so fast you even scared yourself? >> no. the fear for me only comes in when i lose control. >> 200 miles per hour i'm fine. the moment that we break traction. i either spin, get spun, spin somebody and i'm out of control. >> lawrence: what's the fastest? >> 210. luckily we don't have a speedometer. >> lawrence: just 210. >> ainsley: do you before you race? it has to be nerve-racking. >> i believe in yes in the lord keep me safe but also the safety gear to do its job and i trust

my team to build the car to keep me safe. >> brian: stick me in the car and knock me out of the conversation. >> steve: you are on camera. >> come on out. >> lawrence: make sure you catch the daytona 500 february 16th. super bowl this sunday 1:00 p.m. eastern time. >> steve: be watching to see if brian is your co-pilot because he is stuck in the car. come on over here, take a look. there he is. [cheers] [cheers] ♪ ask your doctor about farxiga. he looks down at his queen, and says... (in atrocious french) au revoir mon amour. a bientot let's work on that french, shall we? (♪) au revoir mon amour. a bientot au owwwww bientot au revoir mon amour. a bientot

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