>> i'm here talking about drug i take now, a non-stimulant for adhd. huge. for years i had to go on stimulants and man at the peaks and the valleys it put me through really bad. i found something i take at night now. look, what i have to do with my adhd and pressure and anxiety is how can they become my super powers and i can talk about it on shows like this and hope i help other people. >> brian: a lot of players lean on you, too. >> i do a great feature with a.j. brown. mental health is not all the darkest of depression. it is what gets you through a dark tunnel to run through a super bowl tunnel. >> brian: you are one of the featured guests. look forward to your coverage that starts at 1:00. >> ainsley: thanks for your success. >> dana: well, plowing ahead. president trump moving at break

neck speed making some big moves at home and abroad. i'm dana perino and bill is off today. thanks for being here, martha. >> martha: good morning, great to be with you. i'm martha maccallum and this is "america's newsroom." executive orders coming fast and furious. the president could issue one that could gut the department of education that was long discussed since the the first trump administration. all of this part of the doge initiative designed to cut waste and streamline the federal government. >> dana: president trump is making waves on the world stage. yesterday he pulled the u.s. from the u.n. human rights council. authorized a maximum pressure campaign on iran and said this about gaza. >> president trump: the u.s. will take over the gaza strip. it is a hellhole right now and we'll give people a chance to live in a beautiful community that's safe and secure. >> martha: trey yingst in tel

aviv with more on remarks that are clearly getting a lot of reaction in the region. first let's go to lucas tomlinson at the white house with the latest push to gut government. good morning, lucas. >> good morning, martha. president trump has signed 54 executive orders since returning to the white house and as you mentioned the department of education could be next. peter doocy asked the president about this in the oval office yesterday. >> on the education department, why nominate linda mcmahon to be the education department secretary if you will get rid of the education department? >> president trump: i told linda. i hope you do a great job and put yourself out of a job. we spend more per pupil than any other country in the world and we're ranked at the bottom of the list, very badly. i want to let the states run schools. >> trump wants to reduce the size of the federal government through executive orders, buy-outs and layoffs. an official says at least 20,000 government workers have taken

the buy-out offer and that number is rapidly growing ahead of the deadline tomorrow. today the house oversight committee holds a right sizing government hearing and c.i.a. there appears to be changes headed there. "wall street journal" reported the spy agency is freezing job hiring unless the applicants have the right background for the agency's new goals, undermining china. the following message was posted on friday before midnight all usaid higher personnel will be placed on administrative leave except designated personnel for mission critical functions. the vice president vance posting to x last night he thought what elon musk and doge would find is 250 billion in waste. that number is much higher. keep in mind, u.s. government debt is over $36 trillion. martha. >> martha: thank you very much. meanwhile president trump is

taking the rein on ferrans policy. >> president trump: free from the huchl an rights council and ended all support for the u.n. relief and works agency and action to restore our maximum pressure policy on the iranian regime. as far as gaza is concerned we'll do what is necessary. we'll take over that piece and develop it. i see it bringing great stability to that part of the middle east. >> martha: trey yingst joins us live from tel aviv with reaction there. >> good morning, the news overnight echoing across the region when trump said the u.s. would take over gaza and possible u.s. forces entering the strip. to have all palestinians relocated to regional countries like egypt and jordan. both rejected the idea and

overnight saudi arabia pushed back on the concept of forceful displacement and making headlines about iran. >> if it happens to a leader or close to a leader, frankly. if you had other people involved also, you would call for total obliteration of a state that did it. it would include iran. so i'm signing this and a very powerful document. hopefully we won't have to use it. >> trump taking to truth social saying i want iran to be a great and successful country but one that can't have a nuclear weapon. united states working with israel -- i would much prefer peace agreement which will let iran grow and prosper. we should start working on it immediately and have a big medal east celebration when signed and completed. god bless the middle east.

i want to shift back to what trump said about gaza overnight. significant and has serious implications for the ongoing cease-fire conversations. a senior hamas official speaking with fox news this morning said that any manipulation to the current deal could cause it to collapse. >> martha: trey yingst, thank you very much in tel aviv. >> dana: the director of the ronald reagan institute and charlie hurt co-host on "fox & friends" weekend. great to have you both with us. the "new york post" cover. we'll take over gaza and donald trump then given a little history lesson how he sees it. watch. >> president trump: i think the potential in the gaza strip is unbelievable. they have tried the other and they've tried it for decades and decades and decades. it is not going to work. it didn't work. it will never work. you have to learn from history. history has -- you just can't let it keep repeating itself. we have an opportunity to do

something that could be phenomenal. >> dana: reaction ran the gambit. i think one of the things it does is breaks the paradigm and says okay, all right, guys, if the arab world if you won't take care of it maybe we will and maybe it gets them to the table. i don't have insight into the strategy but at least we'll try to change the way we talk about this after decades. roger. >> i agree with you. certainly departing from orthodoxy is president trump's approach. there was a question whether president trump and his second term would choose to lead on the global stage would america retreat. it is clear he is going at the hardest and most difficult issues facing the world. that begins with the gaza strip. i think president trump here is opening up the aperture on the set of solutions that could advance gaza and secure the state of israel and that right now looks like he is setting up to set up some sort of deal that he can cut bringing in regional

partners like jordan, egypt and saudi. thats the framework by turning everything on its head. >> martha: charlie, what is your reaction? all of us were watching this and wow, can you rewind that? did he just say what we think he just said? watching netanyahu respond it was fascinating. what was your take, charlie? >> it really was, martha. if it had been anybody other than donald trump you would have not believed any of it. because we've gotten used to the way donald trump works we're okay, maybe he really is saying all this. i think that when you look back at modern history where you have this intractable problem where every solution -- the middle east is where every good solution goes to die and i think what donald trump is probably thinking is much like roger said, this is a shock to the system and it's a way of sort of getting everybody to forget whatever grievances they just had five minutes ago and get

them to focus on something new that they had never even contemplated before. i think the other thing that is interesting about it is it really -- i love what you were just pointing out about watching benjamin netanyahu's face during these remarks, he didn't look particularly happy about it. in fact, donald trump said we don't want to do this for israel. we want to do it for the middle east. i don't think that benjamin netanyahu particularly likes it. jordan and egypt don particularly like it. iran doesn't like it. probably nobody likes this idea except for donald trump. but that's kind of a useful tool and a way to get people off of the old way of thinking. the final thing that is important here is that by talking about rebuilding gaza into the riviera of the middle east is a way of signaling permanence that donald trump is not going away. you can't wish him away. you can't just sit here and play

all the games that everybody has played in the middle east going back for all of modern history. and expect it to go away. he wants to solve the problem and he will stay here until it gets solved. >> dana: the left said he is calling for genocide of the palestinians. yet i have to disagree with you, charlie. i think netanyahu was very pleased with this and people on the right of him in his domestic political situation that really like this idea and been bringing it up since the 80s. but watch netanyahu here, roger, charlie, this is at the press conference last night. >> you are the greatest friend israel has ever had in the white house. on the first days of your second term you picked up right where you left off. your leadership helped bring our hostages home and boldly confronted the scourge of anti-semitism and stopped funding international organizations like unwra that

support and front terrorists. and today you renewed the maximum pressure campaign against iran. >> dana: that was all in two weeks. roger, it makes you wonder what the biden administrations was doing the last four years. >> netanyahu has been trying to manage the w the biden administration and deal with the actual source of the terrorism, iran. president trump comes in and right away and why i see president netanyahu smiling. it all goes away. prime minister netanyahu heard president trump say i want the hostages home. he will hold hamas accountable in the executive order makes clear the source of the problems in the middle east in gaza stem from iran and the maximum pressure campaign is now against iran, not against israel the way netanyahu and the israelis felt they were dealing with at times during the biden administration. there is a lot here that president netanyahu will be

quite pleased about and handled president trump's idea how to deal with gaza, a lot of details need to play out. as i referenced before, that just opens up the playing field to an entire new set of possibilities. israel has its interests. not clear they actually want u.s. leading in gaza or boots on the ground in gaza. not sure americans want that either. a lot needs to play out in what trump means by taking control of gaza. >> martha: one of the reactions to this was this is a president who wants to remove us from foreign entanglements and now talking about taking over the gaza strip, taking over greenland, panama. the list is growing longer by the day. how do you see that? >> well, i think it is a real problem in terms of sort of making the sale. but the big difference here is unlike going and spending 20 years in afghanistan, for example, the country where great

empires go to die, donald trump makes it very clear he wants something out of all of this. he wants the panama canal back. he wants to own greenland. he wants to own and develop gaza, which is very different. a very different posture. now it may be foolish and may not end up working because of all of the inherent problems with in a place like gaza, but it certainly changes the perspective to a very firm america first perspective and also, as we have all been saying, completely changes the dynamics of the way everybody looks at the problem. >> dana: in the tease he set the cat among the pigeons. always a fun thing to watch. thank you so much both. >> president trump: get some dangerous people out of our country that is very important. >> dana: dramatic change at the southern border.

stunning data showing how president trump's crackdown on illegal immigration is making a big difference. >> president trump: i will close the department of education and move it back to the states and we'll do it fast. >> martha: campaign promise coming closer to reality. president trump putting the finishing touches on giving parents more control over their children's education. >> dana: new orleans ramps up security ahead of the super bowl. how the city plans to keep everyone safe following the attack on bourbon street. >> this is our 11th super bowl and we know the people can come and be confident that they will be safe and have a fun time.

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>> president trump: there is a lot of space to accommodate a lot of people and we'll use it. >> dana: president trump planning to expand guatemala mow bay. the military jet had ten migrants on board and ice agents assigned to guard them at the detention facility. senate republican conference chair tom cotton with reaction coming up. meantime texas is reporting daily encounters at the border are dropping sharply. brooke tailor has the new numbers from dallas. >> hi, these are the lowest numbers we have seen in years. when you compare this to what we saw during biden's final week in office it's more striking. monday texas dps releasing these new numbers. they had 446 encounters across the southern border. just 98 in el paso, 58 in del

rio sector. during biden's final week daily encounters were 1200 to 1400. this decline comes as the first group of mexican national guard troops arrived at the border here. mexico's president has pledged to send a total of 10,000 troops all in exchange for delaying tariffs. removal flights are also ramping up. border patrol took the first military train filled with illegal migrants to india. it marks the longest deportation flight yet using these military c-17s. >> president trump: we're doing very well with respect to other countries really behaving on taking the criminals that they sent into our country and we're getting them out. some of the worst people on earth. >> as security pressures strengthen cartel operations are feeling the heat. just this week dps and border patrol agents arrested this smuggler who they say has cartel

connections trying to transport 50 pounds of narcotics across the rio grande. when asked about whether border patrol agents and other soldiers could be hurt by cartel members because of this added security, border czar tom homan says they have a capability to wipe the cartel off the face of the earth. as to anyone who thinks of doing that i would not try that, he says. >> dana: thank you so much. >> if you will get rid of the education department. >> i told linda, i hope you do a great job and put yourself out of a job. i believe strongly in school choice but in addition to that, i want the states to run schools. >> martha: president trump working on a plan to take apart the department of education and send school control back to the states. something he has talked about for a very long time.

it comes as the nation's report card on math and reading for young students shows a sharp drop from pre-covid in 2019 to today. erika donalds is chair of america first center for opportunity. one of the things that stood out to me when i heard president trump talk about this, he talked about our students. he said they are falling behind and we have to make sure that they catch up. now, that was not the focus of randi weingarten, the teachers union president was asked about dissolving d.o.e. watch this. >> where is the money going? who is taking it? are they trying to take that money that kids get for tax cuts for billionaires? what's going on? that's why we have to see what they are doing. it is illegal to take that money out of children's mouths and give it to billionaires.

>> martha: she says it's illegal and money grab. what do you say? >> well, we know that the department of education has not educated a single child. instead it has wasted trillions of dollars over the last 40 years and the results are staggering. as you said we've seen the lowest student performance in that amount of time. randi weingarten who said during the interview we need to be out educating china doesn't know how to do that leading the largest teachers union in the country for the past 16 years and being one of the major players in the downfall of our education system. what president trump wants to do is shutting down the department is put the power in state's and parents' stands through many different methods that we've been discussing on capitol hill. the education choice for children act being one of them and 529 reform, putting some of this money that's being spent at the federal level on education in the hands of parents that they can make the decisions best for their children.

>> martha: give us a quick take on the education choice act. what does it mean and what is in it? it has traction on capitol hill. do you think it is going to pass? >> yes, the education choice for children act has come as far as any school choice measure. it was passed by the ways and means committee in the house. it does provide a federal tax credit for individuals and corporations, dollar for dollar and those donations to nonprofits can be used to fund scholarships like the ones in florida where parents can use them for tuition, for other homeschool curricula and expenses, online courses, tutoring and other educational services. what we know about what comes from the department of education is it's funding a bureaucracy at multiple levels. not just federal but state compliance as well and the dollars that ultimately reach students, if they ever do, are minimal. when those dollars are put directly to parents many more of those dollars will reach the students that they are supposed to benefit. that's what president trump wants to see and what i believe

linda mcmahon will deliver on. >> martha: teachers unions support for democrat candidates. republicans have been talking for a long time about shrinking or eliminating the d.o.e. you can see the money that has been given to liberal groups or to democrats far dwarfs the amount of money given to republicans on that front. your thoughts on that, erika. >> fortunately even though 67% of democrats surveyed recently support the idea of universal school choice, well over 70% of republicans, it is widely supported by the american people. it is not supported whatsoever by their politicians in the democrat party who are propped up by the teachers union. thankfully president trump has the mandate to do what he promised the american people in expanding school choice through that like we talked about the ecca which may end up in reconciliation. we don't expect to get democrat support for that measure, even

though the people and especially minority populations, are looking for school choice and desperately need it for their children to escape the failing system. >> martha: absolutely. these parents want to have a little more control of where their children go and want their tax dollars to support the choice they make for school for them. we all need to see those numbers change. america can't be sixth, 15th, 28th, whatever ranking we get in reading and math and science. thank you so much. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> any time a person can pay $250 million into a campaign and be given access, full access to the department of treasury at the university of america, we are at war! >> dana: democrats turning their ire against musk. doge sending democrats into a

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>> martha: the senate con forge -- confirming two more people. the senate advanced two controversial nominees, tulsi gabbard and rfk junior for health secretary. both made it through committee votes and set for floor votes next week. [shouting] >> dana: a fiery chant during a rally in d.c. yesterday. democrats uniting in opposition

to elon musk trying everything in their power to block the doge leader in his mission to reform the federal government. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is live on capitol hill. good morning, chad. >> good morning. democrats are relegated to the minority and struggling to figure out a line of attack which will stick against the gop. elon musk is now the democrats' top target alongside president trump. democrats are deploying heated rhetoric. >> elon musk is a nazi nepo baby, a godless, lawless billionaire, elon, this is the american people. this is not your trashy cyber truck that you can just dismantle, pick apart and sell the pieces of. >> pressley is a member of the squad. other democrats implored senate colleagues to lock up every

nomination and slow things down. >> shut down the city. we are at war. any time a person can pay $250 million into a campaign and they be given access, full access to the department of treasury in the united states of america, we are at war! >> so far senate democrats are reluctant to slow walk most of president trump's nominees. in fact, democrats have voted for ten of the 11 nominees confirmed so far. republicans believe the democrats' options are limited. >> democrats are doing what they can as the loyal opposition to slow down the process to a great degree but not to the fullest degree, either. the practical side of them is well, we can either inflict 30 hours of pain on ourselves or get by with 20 or whatever the case might be. >> democrats plan to hold up the confirmation of budget director

nominee russ vought tonight and burning all available debate time until a confirmation vote is ripe tomorrow. dana. >> dana: basically getting to the same results. all right, thank you so much, chad. >> martha: joining us now is charles payne host of making money on fox business. great to have you with us. we just watched the reaction that democrats have to these changes and to asking agencies to open their books. just quickly this is from elon musk responding to senator chuck schumer and others. it says he is mad that doge is dismantling the radical left shadow government in full view of the public. this is our one chance to return power to the people from an unel

unelected bureaucracy. >> it is amazing. i would be embarrassed if i was in congress and every time he read off the kind of money we've wasted. it is just -- none of it was for anything really good. it was -- it was pushing ideology, whatever it is. the numbers are starting to really stack up. i know you saw the report yesterday that 2023 we made 236 billion of improper payments. fraudulent and non-fraudulent. 2.6 trillion in ten years. when we hear we can't downsize the government because it is impossible, certain things you have to pay for, we're finding out that may not be true. the american public, congress is supposed to be stewards of our tax money. they've used it at their own piggy bank to promote their own personal agenda. it was an embarrassing scene yesterday. >> dana: there is this. you'll talk more about this on your show today from axios.

musk's doge crew wants to go all in on a.i. and he has a lot of young people who understand this stuff much better than i ever will. >> i'm sure you saw this wired uncovered did this big story and all the teenagers. they don't know anything about anything except they're brilliant. and young brilliant people have had a way of changing this world whether it's elon musk when he was younger, bill gates or some other folks in tech world. we know in politics really young people. all the folks out there, the guy kfc started when he was 65. what we're talking about here is the ability to go in and do something even greater than a forensic audit. more than finding where all the poor spending has gone because the bureaucracy -- coming out with solutions and that they're

true caretakers of american's money. >> martha: i find interesting the panic response to please open your books for us. they are so panicked at the idea of having these young people who are brilliant, as you point out. when you read some of the things they've accomplished they're very smart and the country was founded and built on a lot of very young, brilliant minds. but the panic at -- you can't look at my books. you saw randi weingarten. where will the money go? >> she is one of the worst culprits. you don't need a 19-year-old genius to tell you that the teachers union have always fought for themselves. we look at the educational budgets over the last 20 years and it is all staffing. all bureaucrats. none of it is teachers. no hiring of real teachers or anything that helps out the teachers, layer upon layer of the administrative state and scores gone down. they've been opposed.

as administrators and teachers, weingarten has been at the center of this. she is a power broker and the unions particularly teachers unions and democratic party but none looking out for taxpayers or our kids. >> dana: for students. you do and we'll see you at 2:00. >> can't wait. this is an amazing time. it is amazing and great to be able to talk about it and live through it. >> dana: it is a big story. >> martha: we're all trying to hang on. thank you, charles. thank you. >> dana: treasury steak temporary vowing to roll back regulations and unleash domestic production. how does he plan to do it? energy secretary chris wright is straight ahead. former president biden signing with a major hollywood talent agency. wait until you see president trump's reaction. ♪

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>> what do you think about joe biden signing on with a talent agency? >> president trump: you've got to be kidding. he signed on with a talent agency? >> he has some entertainment agents now. >> president trump: i think he has bigger problems than that. i really do. i wish him well. we inheristed a mess. this place is a mess. >> martha: president trump's thoughts on the fact that the former president, joe biden, has signed with a very big major hollywood talent agency creative artist agency posted on instagram it also represented biden after his eight-year term as vice president. >> dana: apparently there is a

book in the works. >> martha: no way, so shocked. yeah, they've been working on a book. as president trump says, he has bigger problems than that. we'll see. >> dana: and wishes him well. my next guest is hitting ground running as president trump's new secretary of energy. top priority expanding domestic production. here to talk about it is energy secretary chris wright from colorado. congratulations. i want to put up your day one priorities for everyone to see. you want to especially do the lng export issue. advanced energy addition, not subtraction. grid reliability and permitting. all these things. how much do you think you can get done super quickly to have an impact for the american consumer? >> i think a lot, dana. it is an exciting time. this president ran on a mandate to unleash american energy. not only does that lower costs for americans but brings more

opportunities to america. new jobs for america, new entrepreneurial possibilities for americans. so look, we've got a deep hole. we have gone the wrong direction for four years. things won't happen overnight but i think we'll see tremendous progress in the coming months and years. >> dana: doug burgum. i don't know how much oil and gas matters to the department of interior. you'll work closely together. he revoked biden-era actions right away allowing more acres in the federal waters to be explored. also in anwar in alaska and at the national petroleum reserve trying to do more there. can you match that? >> doug is off to a strong start. i will be trying to catch up with doug. doug was governor of north dakota and that's where the shale revolution moved from natural gas to oil. just absolutely transformed the state of north dakota.

our goal is together to transform the living quality of life and affordability of life in the united states. i think we'll see some exciting things happening in the coming years. in fact, in the coming weeks. >> dana: price of energy surged under president biden. show everybody overall it was up 33% and fuel oil up 47%. gasoline up 34%, electricity up 30%. president trump was elected to help bring down prices. what can we expect here? >> look, electricity prices may be the most alarming. they are rising fast over the last four years with no growth in demand for electricity. now we have a.i., a whole new industry starting in the united states that is growing the demand for electricity. that's on a dangerous trajectory. i think with this president and this administration, we'll grow our capacity to produce electricity, to distribute electricity and stop the price rises. then with continued effort hopefully start to reverse

prices and bring them the other direction. >> dana: listen to president biden back in november of 2023. >> i've seen firsthand what the reports made clear, the devastating toll climate change and its threat to all of us and is the the ultimate threat to humanity. >> dana: i did a lot of work before i was the white house press secretary working with reporters for a republican administration where every day you were called an enemy of the people because of your position on fossil fuel. i think that you are probably going to get the same kind of treatment from that kind of media. how do you respond on climate change? >> i would love to have that dialogue and i've been having that dialogue for 20 years. climate change is a real thing but it is not at all what it is represented to be. nowhere near the world's biggest problem. it is a slow moving problem that the only solution is new and better energy technology. but treating it as a political

football, spending trillions of dollars on less effective energy, that just makes energy more expensive, makes peoples' lives harder and displaces jobs to other countries and states. it's the wrong way to approach this challenge. this president gets it and bringing common sense back to washington. >> dana: last one is about -- i don't think people understand how important the department of energy labs are. just to shine a light on that for me what did you find in your first week on the job looking into the possibilities there and what do you do there? >> we have 17 simply tremendous national labs in the united states. they are the scientific envy of the world. there is new research on fusion energy, which has been talked about for decades. we will see massive progress in the next few years. quantum computing will arrive during this administration. we'll see quantum computing merge with a.i. we'll see tremendous progress.

a lot of it to your point driven by what comes out of the united states as national labs. i'm proud to be on that team. >> dana: i hope you will come back and visit us often on "america's newsroom," we love having you. >> martha: coming up president trump is moving very fast in washington and some moves have sparked controversy. fox news podcast host kennedy and the five's jessica tarlov will weigh in. thousands looking to escape an island in greece as hundreds of earthquakes rattle the greek island. that features our exclusive soundscape mode™... that synchronizes a gentle massage, with relaxing sounds... to help you drift, peacefully, off to sleep. (♪) during our presidents day sale,

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accomplished more in the last few weeks than a lot of administrations have in a few years. we are interested in expanding. in the short period the president issued orders to end the weaponization of the federal government against religious americans. pardon pro-life protestors unjustly imprisoned under the last administration. [applause] and importantly stop the federal censorship used to prevent americans from speaking their conscience and their mind whether it's in their communities or online. [applause] now our administration believes we must stand for religious freedom, not just as a legal principle as important as that is, but as a lived reality. both within our own borders and

especially outside of them. >> dana: that was talking about religious freedom and it is true the pace is incredible. last week the there was a headline exhausted media begs the administration to slow down a little bit. >> martha: the contrast. looking at the schedule for the day. no events on the public schedule to 500 events and three news conferences. >> dana: one of my newsletter, a source said resistance is futile. ride along, everybody. >> martha: there is also this to tell you about. a chaotic scene in santorini as people are racing to evacuate as hundreds of earthquakes shake the greek islands. over 10,000 people have left since the quakes began four days ago. greg palkot live from london with a report on this. hi, greg. >> yeah, the usually peaceful and idyllic island of santorini near greece is seeing a bit of

action. several hundred earthquakes rattled the place as few as getting five on the richter scale. officials decided it was time to get some people out. 10,000 of the 15,000 inhas been ants away on try and steedier land. no damage or injuries but authorities aren't taking chances. schools closed, construction halted, pools empty. the last big quake in the 1950s. hundreds of buildings destroyed. as for the volcanoes they have been mostly quiet. they acted up in the 50s, too. fingers crossed. back to you. >> martha: thank you very much. >> dana: americans voted for change and boy, are they getting it. president trump and his team wasting no time grabbing the reins of power to rework washington. welcome to a new hour of